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Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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Eastern Religion & Philosophy . . . . . . . 26
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European History & Politics . . . . . . . . . 29
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History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Jewish Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Latin American & Caribbean Studies . . .38
Law & Legal Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Gauss, Ulrike, ed.
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AFRICAN-AM ERICAN STU DI ES
125940 GOD'S LONG SUMMER: Stories of Faith and
Civil Rights
Marsh, Charles
In the summer of 1964, as the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, activists across the political spectrum claimed that God was on their side in the struggle. Through the emotionally charged stories of a wide range
of activists, Marsh invites us to consider the movement anew,
as a powerful yet protean religious force driving social action.
312pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $16.98
028240 MALCOLM X SPEAKS: Selected Speeches and
Statements
Breitman, George, ed.
Presents the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last
eight tumultuous months of his life, showing how his vision for
abolishing racial inequality in the US underwent a vast transformation after his break from the Black Muslims. 226pgs. • 1990
◆ • Grove Press • P • $14.00 / $5.98
✪ 114594 PROMISED LAND: The Great Black
Migration and How It Changed America
Lemann, Nicholas
Between 1940 and 1970 five million African-Americans left
the rural South in the great mass migration in our country's
history. With the passion and human observation of a great
novelist, Lemann tells the stories of the men and women
who escaped sharecroppers' shacks for the dubious shelter
of ghetto housing projects. Rich in insight and indignation,
this is a major work of social history. 416pgs. • 1992
◆ • Vintage • P • $16.95 / $6.98
128957 SIMPLE JUSTICE: The History
of Brown V. Board of Education and
Black America's Struggle for Equality
Kluger, Richard
The definitive history of the landmark case
Brown v. Board of Education. Combining
intensive research with original interviews
with surviving participants, Kluger provides
the fullest possible view of the human and
legal drama in the years before 1954, the
cumulative assaults on the white power structure, and the
establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers who were
able to successfully challenge the law. 880pgs. • 2004
▲ • Vintage • P • $27.95 / $7.98
148168 THE WORLD OF THOMAS
JEREMIAH: Charles Town on the Eve
of the American Revolution
Ryan, William Randolph
Profiles the port of Charles Town, South
Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence.
Focusing on the dramatic hanging and
burning of Thomas Jeremiah, a free black
harbor pilot and firefighter accused of
plotting a slave insurrection, William R. Ryan uses a wide array
of letters, naval records, personal and official correspondence, memoirs, and newspapers to examine the world of this
wealthy, slave-holding African American. 280pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $49.95 / $12.98
AFRICAN STU DI ES
049096 AFRICA AND AFRICANS IN THE MAKING OF THE
ATLANTIC WORLD, 1400-1800
SECOND EDITION
Thornton, John
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 • $27.99 / $16.98
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
◆ • Cambridge • P • $58.00 / $34.98
✪ 149553 CLASS, RACE, AND INEQUALITY IN SOUTH
AFRICA
Seekings, Jeremy & Nicoli Nattrass
The distribution of incomes in South Africa, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been
under apartheid. The authors explain why this is so, offering a
detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa
from the mid-20th century to the early 21st. 464pgs. • 2005
◆ • Yale • C • $85.00 / $9.98
✪ 130222 LORD LEVERHULME'S
GHOSTS: Colonial Exploitation in
the Congo
Marchal, Jules
In the early years of the 20th century,
the worldwide rubber boom led British
entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the
Belgian Congo, where he set up a private kingdom reliant on forced labor. In
this meticulously researched history,
Marchal exposes the nature of Lord Leverhulme's rule and
the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of
Congo, whose population declined by half. 244pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • C • $29.95 / $7.98
087374 REVERSING SAIL: A History
of the African Diaspora
Gomez, Michael A.
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 • $26.99 / $15.98
AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS
✪ 043917 ACID DREAMS: The
Complete Social History of LSD: The
CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Lee, Martin A. & Bruce Shlain
The complete social history of LSD and the
counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. From the clandestine operations of the
government to the escapades of Timothy
Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey, Allen
Ginsberg, and many others, provides an
important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a
turbulent period in our history. 345pgs. • 1992
◆ • Grove Press • P • $15.00 / $5.98
✪ 151871 AGE OF GREED: The Triumph of Finance
and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Madrick, Jeff
A vividly told history of how, over the course of 40 years,
greed has come to dominate American political and economic life. As Madrick makes clear, the single-minded pursuit of concentrated wealth has been led driven by a few
individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. 480pgs. •
2011
◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $7.98
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135604 AMERICAN CREATION:
Triumphs and Tragedies in the
Founding of the Republic
Ellis, Joseph J.
An acclaimed historian brings his
unparalleled talents to this riveting
account of the early years of the
Republic. Ellis casts an incisive eye on
the contributions of such luminaries as
Washington, Jefferson, and Madison
and brilliantly analyzes the failures of the founders to adequately solve the problems of slavery and the treatment of
Native Americans. 304pgs. • 2008
◆ • Vintage • P • $14.95 / $5.98
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141845 FOUNDING BROTHERS: The Revolutionary
Generation
Ellis, Joseph J.
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Awardwinning 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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038754 THE AMERICAN 1890S: A
Cultural Reader
Smith, Susan Harris & Melanie Dawson,
eds.
In examining the decade's momentous
political and social developments, the
essays, editorials, and stories in this
anthology reflect a constantly shifting culture at a time of internal turmoil, unprecedented political expansion, and a renaissance of modern ideas and new technologies. 468pgs. • 2000
◆ • Duke • P • $28.95 / $5.98
148580 AMERICAN COLOSSUS: The Triumph of
Capitalism, 1865-1900
Brands, H. W.
In a grand-scale narrative history, Brand captures the decades
when capitalism was at its most unbridled, and when a handful of wealthy businessmen led the transformation of America
from an agrarian economy to a world power. The result is an
unforgettable portrait of the epochal contest between democracy and capitalism, one in which the latter ultimately triumphed. 624pgs. • 2010
◆ • Doubleday • C • $35.00 / $8.98
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $17.98
116670 THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION: And
the Men Who Made It
Hofstadter, Richard
Hofstadter's landmark study of American politics from the
Founding Fathers to FDR, with a Foreword by Christopher
Lasch. 560pgs. • 1989
◆ • Vintage • P • $17.00 / $6.98
115408 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A History
Wood, Gordon S.
How did the great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions
Wood addresses in his magnificent account of the revolution
in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American
republic. 224pgs. • 2003
◆ • Modern Library • P • $13.95 / $5.98
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140721 ANOTHER CITY: Urban Life and Urban
Spaces in the New American Republic
Upton, Dell
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, growing populations placed new demands on every aspect of the urban
landscape -- streets, parks, schools, asylums, cemeteries,
markets, waterfronts, and more. In this exploration of the
early history of urban architecture and design, an architectural historian reveals the fascinating confluence of sociological, cultural, and psychological factors that shaped
American cities in the antebellum years. 416pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $15.98
110900 BEYOND TOLERATION: The
Religious Origins of American
Pluralism
Beneke, Chris
How did early Americans learn to live with
differences in matters of the highest importance to them -- and how did they find ways
to articulate these differences civilly? The
key, Beneke argues, did not lie solely in the
protection of religious freedom. Instead,
he reveals how American culture was transformed to accommodate the religious differences within it. 305pgs. • 2006
◆ • Oxford University • C • $50.00 / $12.98
113343 CHAMPLAIN'S DREAM
Fischer, David Hackett
A sweeping biography of Samuel de Champlain, the visionary
adventurer who founded the first European settlement in
Canada. Drawing on Champlain's own diaries, drawings, and
maps, Fischer shows him to have been a keen observer of a
now-vanished world, an artist and cartographer who published four invaluable books on the life he saw around him.
848pgs. • 2008
◆ • Simon & Schuster • C • $40.00 / $9.98
101110 THE CHINATOWN TRUNK
MYSTERY: Murder, Miscegenation and
Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-ofthe-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
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $14.98
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123018 CLASS CONFLICT, SLAVERY,
AND THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION
Lynd, Staughton
First published in 1967, this volume was
among the first studies to identify the
importance of slavery to the founding of
the American Republic. This new edition
includes a new essay by Robin Einhorn
that examines Lynd's arguments in the
context of subsequent scholarship. 310pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $7.98
122635 INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS
OF AMERICAN RADICALISM
Lynd, Staughton
As far back as the English Revolution,
many openly questioned private property, the sovereignty of the nation-state,
and slavery, and affirmed the common
man's ability to govern. This volume,
the first book to explore this alternative
current of American political thought,
is here accompanied by a historiographical essay by David
Waldstreicher that discusses its lasting importance and contrasts its ideas with the work of Bernard Bailyn and Gordon
Wood. 222pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $12.98
✪ 075414 CIGARETTE WARS: The
Triumph of the Little White Slaver
Tate, Cassandra
A meticulously researched, engagingly
written history of the first anti-cigarette
movement, dating from the Victorian
Age to the Great Depression. At that
time, progressive reformers and religious fundamentalists came together to
curb smoking, but their efforts collapsed during World War I, when millions of soldiers took
up the habit and cigarettes began to be associated with freedom and modernity. 220pgs. • 2000
▲ • Oxford University • P • $40.00 / $19.98
125465 COMMON GROUND: A Turbulent Decade in the
Lives of Three American Families
Lukas, J. Anthony
In a tour de force of reportage -- winner of the Pulitzer Prize,
the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy
Book Award, and the American Book Award -- Lukas brings to
life the school integration crisis in Boston through the stories
of three American families. 688pgs. • 1986
▲ • Vintage • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 147900 COMPETING KINGDOMS: Women,
Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire,
1812-1960
Reeves-Ellington, Barbara, ed.
As the US emerged as a world power to challenge the hegemony of European empires, American women missionaries
strove to create a new Kingdom of God based on American values and institutions. This book examines American women's
activism in a broad transnational context, providing rich intercultural histories about the global expansion of American culture and American Protestantism. 432pgs. • 2010
◆ • Duke • P • $26.95 / $9.98
133717 CONCISE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY
Kazin, Michael, et al.
This essential reference provides authoritative introductions to
some of the most important topics in American history and
politics. It provides comprehensive coverage of both the traditional topics of US political history and the broader forces that
shape American politics, including economics, religion, social
movements, race, class, and gender. 672pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
146221 CROSSROADS OF FREEDOM:
Antietam
McPherson, James M.
A masterful account of the bloodiest single
day in American history, the events that led
up to it, and its aftermath. McPherson brilliantly weaves strands of diplomatic, political, and military history into a compact,
swift-moving narrative that shows why
Antietam was a turning point in our history.
224pgs. • 2004
▲ • Oxford University • P • $15.95 / $6.98
136869 EROTIC CITY: Sexual Revolutions and the
Making of Modern San Francisco
Sides, Josh
Erotic dancers, prostitutes, birth control advocates, pornographers, free lovers, and gay activists transformed San
Francisco's political landscape and its neighborhoods in ways
seldom appreciated. This highly original book explains how
this happened, unearthing long-forgotten stories of the city's
sexual revolutionaries, as well as the legions of longtime San
Franciscans who tried to protect their vision of a moral
metropolis. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $7.98
128527 GETTYSBURG: Memory, Market, and an
American Shrine
Weeks, Jim
Even as schoolchildren learn to revere the place where
Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, Gettysburg's
image generates millions of dollars every year from touring,
souvenirs, re-enactments, films, games, collecting, and the
Internet. Examining Gettysburg's place in American culture,
this book finds that the selling of Gettysburg is older than
the shrine itself. 288pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $12.98
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116653 THE AGE OF HOMESPUN: Objects and Stories
in the Creation of an American Myth
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch,
homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects
Ulrich investigates -- fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America -- dispel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made
them. 512pgs. • 2002
◆ • Vintage • P • $18.00 / $6.98
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101070 GOOD WIVES: Image and
Reality in the Lives of Women in
Northern New England, 1650-1750
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
This groundbreaking work of scholarship by the author of A Midwife's Tale
strips away abstractions to reveal the
hidden face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. It reveals the awesome
burdens of a New England housewife's
domestic life and traces her occasional forays into the world
of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving
her husband, raising (and all too often mourning) her children. 336pgs. • 1991
▲ • Vintage • P • $16.00 / $7.98
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061057 A MIDWIFE'S TALE: The Life of Martha
Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in 18th-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical
practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and
sexual mores of the New England frontier. 444pgs. • 1991
▲ • Vintage • P • $16.95 / $6.98
111795 GOD AND RACE IN AMERICAN POLITICS: A
Short History
Noll, Mark A.
Shows how a common evangelical heritage both supported
Jim Crow discrimination and contributed powerfully to the
black theology of liberation preached by Martin Luther King Jr.
In probing such connections, Noll takes readers from the
1830 slave revolt of Nat Turner through Reconstruction and
the Jim Crow era, from the civil rights movement of the 1950s
and 1960s to "values" voting in recent presidential elections.
232pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $22.95 / $9.98
✪ 152027 THE GOOD PIRATES OF
THE FORGOTTEN BAYOUS: Fighting
to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of
Hurricane Katrina
Wells, Ken
A vivid close-up look at the harrowing
experiences in the backwaters of New
Orleans during and after Katrina.
Focusing on the plight of the intrepid
Robin family, whose members trace
their local roots to before the Revolution, Wells recounts
the landfall of the storm and the tumultuous days hours
afterwards, when the bayou country lay catastrophically
flooded and all but forgotten by outside authorities.
272pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $27.50 / $5.98
138497 HABITS OF EMPIRE: A
History of American Expansion
Nugent, Walter
Since Jefferson's day, Americans have
proudly proclaimed liberty and cherished
democracy even as they have often
behaved imperially. Nugent documents
this expansionist behavior by examining
each of the nation's territorial acquisitions
since the first in 1782, revealing how the
land was acquired, how its previous occupants were removed
or reduced, and how it was settled and stabilized. 416pgs. •
2008
◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $7.98
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✪ 131046 HISPANICS IN THE
UNITED STATES: A Demographic,
Social, and Economic History,
1980-2005
Bergad, Laird W. & Herbert S. Klein
Utilizing census data and other statistical source materials, the authors examine the transformations in the demographic, social, and economic structures of Latino-Americans in the US
since 1980. The result is a detailed socioeconomic portrait
by region and over time that indicates the basic patterns
that have lead to the formation of a complex national
minority group that has become central to US society.
472pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $12.98
✪ 150671 HOW RACE SURVIVED U.S.
HISTORY: From Settlement and
Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
Roediger, David R.
In this absorbing chronicle of the role of
race in US history, Roediger explores how
the idea of race was created and recreated,
from the 1600s to the present day. He
examines how race intersected all that was
dynamic and progressive in US history,
from democracy and economic development to migration and
globalization. 240pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • C • $26.95 / $7.98
149412 IN SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN: An
Archaeology of Early American Life
Deetz, James
Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery can fill in the cracks
between large historical events and depict the intricacies of
daily life. In this completely revised and expanded edition,
Deetz has added new sections that more fully acknowledge
the presence of women and African-Americans in Colonial
America. 304pgs. • 1996
▲ • Doubleday • P • $16.00 / $6.98
MARITIME HISTORY
138468 THE FISHERMAN'S CAUSE: Atlantic
Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American
Revolution
Magra, Christopher P.
In the first book-length examination of the connections
between the commercial fishing industry in colonial
America and the American Revolution, Christopher Magra
considers why colonial fishermen and fish merchants resisted British authority during the imperial crisis and describes
how the fishing industry became mobilized for the war
effort. 254pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • C • $87.00 / $12.98
✪ 137828 JACK TAR'S STORY: The
Autobiographies and Memoirs of
Sailors in Antebellum America
Glenn, Myra C.
Examines the autobiographies and
memoirs of antebellum sailors in order
to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early
republic. It focuses on how mariner
authors remembered and interpreted
various events and experiences, including the War of 1812,
the Haitian Revolution, South America's wars of independence, British impressment, flogging on the high seas, roistering, and religious conversion. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • C • $88.00 / $24.98
✪ 083651 RITES AND PASSAGES: The Experience of
American Whaling, 1830-1870
Creighton, Margaret S.
Drawing on the evidence of ship logs and sailors' letters and
journals, Creighton examines American whalemen during
the industry's peak in the mid 19th century. She places
sailors at the center of a social history of whaling and
explores the ways in which the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. 247pgs. • 1995
◆ • Cambridge • C • $93.00 / $13.98
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✪ 131768 LAW AND THE BORDERS OF BELONGING IN
THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY UNITED STATES
Welke, Barbara Young
For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have
documented inequalities at the heart of American law and
daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category
of "American citizenship." Welke draws on that wealth of historical, legal, and theoretical scholarship to offer a new paradigm of liberal selfhood and citizenship from the founding of
the US through the 1920s. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $7.98
✪ 137156 LAW'S IMAGINED
REPUBLIC: Popular Politics and
Criminal Justice in Revolutionary
America
Wilf, Steven
Drawing on a wealth of material from
criminal cases, Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s
through the 1790s read law: reading one
case against another and often self-consciously comparing transatlantic legal systems as they thought
about how they might construct their own legal system in a
new republic. 254pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $12.98
111814 LINCOLN ON RACE AND SLAVERY
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. & Donald Yacovone, eds.
The man who would be immortalized as "the Great
Emancipator" enjoyed racist humor, harbored grave doubts
about the intellectual capacity of African-Americans, and for
many years advocated the voluntary "colonization" of freed
slaves in Africa and elsewhere. This book -- the first complete
collection of his important writings on both race and slavery - explores these contradictions through Lincoln's own words.
408pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
143337 LOVE AND HATE IN JAMESTOWN: John
Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
Price, David A.
In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to
America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific;
instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives.
Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures in the
saga, from the formidable monarch Powhatan, to the
resourceful but unpopular John Smith, to the spirited
Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith's life. 320pgs. • 2005
◆ • Vintage • P • $16.00 / $6.98
138473 MASS MIGRATION UNDER
SAIL: European Immigration to the
Antebellum United States
Cohn, Raymond L.
This comprehensive analysis centers on
the three most important source countries
-- Ireland, Germany, and Great Britain -- in
the period before the Civil War. It examines
the volume of immigration; where the
immigrants came from within each country; their passage to the US, including estimates of mortality on
the Atlantic crossing; and the economic effects on both the
immigrants and the US. 270pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • C • $97.00 / $19.98
087203 THE MIND OF THE MASTER
CLASS: History and Faith in the
Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth & Eugene D.
Genovese
Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious, the text asks
how they presided over a social system
inflicting gross abuses. Blending classical
and Christian traditions, Southern proslavery intellectuals forged a philosophy of sustaining conservative
principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, translating them into political action. 824pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $20.98
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✪ 027679 THE EARTH SHALL WEEP: A History of
Native America
Wilson, James
Wide-ranging narrative of the Native American struggle for
survival against the tide of invading peoples and cultures,
spanning more than 500 years, incorporating insights from
ethnography, Indian oral tradition, and archaeology.
466pgs. • 1998
▲ • Grove Press • P • $17.00 / $6.98
✪ 106693 EXILES AND PIONEERS:
Eastern Indians in the TransMississippi West
Bowes, John P.
Traces the removal and post-removal
histories of Shawnee, Delaware,
Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians.
Bowes argues that as American expansion limited the geographic scope of
Indian lands, the extension of American
territories and authority raised important questions about
the political status of these Indians as both individuals and
national groups within the growing republic. 272pgs. •
2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $9.98
✪ 093491 A NEW FACE ON THE COUNTRYSIDE:
Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic
Forests, 1500-1800
Silver, Timothy H.
Traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic
ecology, showing how three cultures - Indian, European,
and African - interacted with their changing environment.
Silver pays particular attention to regional variations,
explaining how local geography and settlement patterns
influenced ecological change. 216pgs. • 1990
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $8.98
143602 THE MOVEMENTS OF THE NEW LEFT, 19501975: A Brief History with Documents
Gosse, Van
A documentary history of the movements for fundamental
social change and radical democracy that emerged in the US
from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Using an inclusive
definition of the New Left, Gosse tracks the development and
commonalities of the civil rights and black power movements,
of the peace, antiwar, and student movements, and of feminism and gay liberation. 224pgs. • 2004
▲ • St. Martin's • P • $16.99 / $7.98
026539 NATIONAL MANHOOD: Capitalist Citizenship &
the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
Nelson, Dana D.
Using texts ranging from the Federalist papers to the ethnographic work associated with the Lewis and Clark expedition
to the medical lectures of early gynecologists, Nelson explores
the referential power of white manhood, how and under what
conditions it came to stand for the nation, and how it came to
be a fraternal articulation of a representative and civic identity in the US. 344pgs. • 1998
◆ • Duke • P • $25.95 / $5.98
026095 NEW YORK JEWS AND THE GREAT
DEPRESSION: Uncertain Promise
Wenger, Beth S.
Wenger shows that Jews of the Depression era not only worried about financial stability and their security as a minority
group but also questioned the usefulness of their educational
endeavors and the ability of their communal institutions to
survive. 269pgs. • 1996
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $12.98
141929 ORIGINAL MEANINGS: Politics and Ideas in the
Making of the Constitution
Rakove, Jack N.
What did the US Constitution originally mean and who now
understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the
Constitution from inception to ratification and, tracing its
complex tapestry of ideology and interest and showing how the
document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans. 464pgs. • 1997
▲ • Vintage • P • $17.95 / $7.98
114573 THE PEOPLING OF
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: An
Introduction
Bailyn, Bernard
In this volume, Bailyn lays out the central themes in a formative passage of
our history: the transatlantic transfer of
people from the Old World to the North
American continent, a transfer that
established the foundations of the
American society that was to develop. 192pgs. • 1988
◆ • Vintage • P • $14.95 / $5.98
102104 POLIO: An American Story
Oshinsky, David M.
The winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History narrates the
story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure,
from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin
vaccines and beyond. Oshinsky reveals that polio was never
the raging epidemic portrayed by the media, but in fact a relatively uncommon disease. But in 1950s America -- increasingly suburban, family-oriented, and hygiene-obsessed -- the
specter of polio, like the specter of the atomic bomb, soon
became a cloud of terror over daily life. 368pgs. • 2005
▲ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $7.98
125897 THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH: A First
Historical Assessment
Zelizer, Julian E.
Leading historians offer the first in-depth look at one of the
most controversial US presidencies. Each chapter tackles
some important aspect of Bush's administration -- including
presidential power, law, the war on terror, the Iraq invasion,
economic policy, and religion -- and examines why Bush made
the decisions he did. 398pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $14.98
106813 PROVIDENCE AND THE INVENTION OF THE
UNITED STATES, 1607-1876
Guyatt, Nicholas
Making sense of previously diffuse debates on manifest destiny,
millenarianism, and American mission, this volume surveys
the origins and historical development of the idea that God has
a special plan for America. 352pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $9.98
024456 A RAGE FOR ORDER: BlackWhite Relations in the American South
Since Emancipation
Williamson, Joel
An abridgement of The Crucible of Race,
Williamson's acclaimed reinterpretation of
black-white relations in the South. This
condensation offers a broader audience a
thorough grounding in the essential history and contexts of black-white relations in
the South and beyond. 316pgs. • 1986
◆ • Oxford University • P • $34.99 / $14.98
125974 THE RISE AND FALL OF MODERN AMERICAN
CONSERVATISM: A Short History
Farber, David
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
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $11.98
✪ 149934 SCORPIONS: The
Battles and Triumphs of FDR's
Great Supreme Court Justices
Feldman, Noah
The story of four great justices -- a
Jewish liberal and a former Klansman,
a backcountry lawyer and a self-invented Westerner -- their relationship with
Roosevelt, with each other, and with the
turbulent world of the Great
Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. 528pgs. •
2010
◆ • Twelve • C • $30.00 / $7.98
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✪ 122263 SLAVERY AND THE
COMMERCE POWER: How the
Struggle Against the Interstate Slave
Trade Led to the Civil War
Lightner, David L.
The great cotton boom required human
labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were
torn from their families and sold across
state lines. Shocked by the cruelty of this
practice, abolitionists called upon the federal government to
outlaw interstate commerce in slaves. This groundbreaking
book unravels the complex story of the decades-long debate
and legal battle over federal regulation of the slave trade.
240pgs. • 2006
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $8.98
112304 SLAVERY IN WHITE AND BLACK: Class and
Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
Genovese, Eugene D. & Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Not only did Southern slaveholders and their defenders proclaim that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life
than any laboring class in the world, some argued that the lives
of laborers of all races would be improved by enslavement. In
this book, two acclaimed scholars examine the extent to which
the various social classes of the South were led to accept so
extreme a doctrine. 332pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $9.98
126241 TEN HILLS FARM: The Forgotten History of
Slavery in the North
Manegold, C. S.
The saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New
England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a 600-acre
estate just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to
the Ushers, to the Royalls -- all prominent dynasties tied to
the Native American and Atlantic slave trades. 344pgs. •
2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $12.98
038500 TO END ALL WARS: Woodrow
Wilson and the Quest for a New World
Order
Knock, Thomas J.
Narrates Wilson's epic quest for a new
world order. The account follows Wilson's
thought and diplomacy from his policy
toward revolutionary Mexico, through his
dramatic call for "Peace without Victory" in
World War I, to the Senate's rejection of
the League of Nations. 381pgs. • 1992
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $16.98
117646 TOCQUEVILLE ON AMERICA AFTER 1840:
Letters and Other Writings
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Documents Tocqueville's growing disenchantment with the US
following the publication of the second volume of Democracy
in America in 1840, as he confronted such issues as political
corruption, slavery, expansionism, and the encroachment of
the economic sphere upon the political. 576pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $12.98
THE VIETNAM WAR
114571 A BRIGHT SHINING LIE:
John Paul Vann and America in
Vietnam
Sheehan, Neil
Outspoken and fearless, John Paul
Vann arrived in Vietnam in 1962, full of
confidence in America's might and
right to prevail. In this magisterial
book, which was awarded both the
National Book Award and the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction, Sheehan tells the story of Vann -- "the
one irreplaceable American in Vietnam" -- and of the
tragedy that destroyed that country and the lives of so many
Americans. 896pgs. • 1989
◆ • Vintage • P • $19.95 / $7.98
028078 VIETNAM AND AMERICA: The Most
Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam
War
REVISED & ENLARGED SECOND EDITION
Gettleman, Marvin E., et al., eds.
A complete history of the Vietnam War, documented in
essays by leading experts, original source material, and documented records, illuminates in depth both sides of the history of America's encounter with Vietnam. 560pgs. • 1995
▲ • Grove Press • P • $20.00 / $7.98
025508 WAR AND RESPONSIBILITY: Constitutional
Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath
Ely, John Hart
Examines the role of Congress in the authorization of the
Vietnam War, the conduct of the war, the Cambodian
Incursion, the repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the
bombing of Cambodia, and the secret war in Laos. 244pgs.
• 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $12.98
✪ 152020 WAR BY LAND, SEA, AND AIR: Dwight
Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command
Jablonsky, David
Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to
the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, Jablonsky
explores his efforts to implement a unified command in the US
military -- a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and that played a major role
in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act.
400pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $37.00 / $7.98
✪ 127197 THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES: The Tea
Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
Lepore, Jill
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. 224pgs. •
2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $7.98
ANTH ROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
114151 ANCIENT PEOPLES OF THE
AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
SECOND EDITION
Plog, Stephen
Interweaving the latest archaeological evidence with early first-person accounts,
Stephen Plog explores the rise and mysterious fall of Southwestern cultures. For this
revised edition, he discusses new research
and its implications for our understanding
of the prehistoric Southwest. Includes 150 illustrations.
224pgs. • 2008
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $12.98
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
◆ • Cambridge • P • $59.00 / $29.98
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✪ 150373 BECOMING HUMAN:
Innovation in Prehistoric Material
and Spiritual Culture
Renfrew, Colin & Iain Morley, eds.
In this volume, internationally
renowned scholars explore the relationship between symbolism, spirituality, and humanity in the prehistoric
societies of Europe and traditional
societies elsewhere. The volume is
richly illustrated with 50 halftones and 24 color plates.
324pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • C • $96.00 / $29.98
028318 BREAKING THE MAYA CODE
REVISED EDITION
Coe, Michael D.
Michael Coe's classic inside story of one of
the major intellectual breakthroughs of
our time -- the last great decoding of an
ancient script -- includes an epilogue that
brings the reader up to date in the fastchanging field of Maya decipherment.
304pgs. • 1999
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 152028 DIGGING IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY
LOVE: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
Yamin, Rebecca
Beneath the modern city of Philadelphia lie countless clues
to its history and the lives of residents long forgotten. This
intriguing book explores 18th- and 19th-century
Philadelphia through the findings of archaeological excavations, sharing with readers the excitement of digging into
the past and reconstructing the lives of earlier inhabitants
of the city. 264pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $37.50 / $7.98
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 NDJ • $46.95 / $16.98
105229 LOWLY ORIGIN: Where, When, and Why Our
Ancestors First Stood Up
Kingdon, Jonathan
Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do
many of the things that apes cannot: cross wide open spaces,
manipulate complex tools, communicate with new signal systems, and light fires. This volume uses the latest findings from
ecology, biogeography, and paleontology to lay out a comprehensive account of how four-legged apes became two-legged
hominids. 416pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $14.98
132468 THE PALAEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT OF ASIA
Dennell, Robin
Asia has received far less attention than Africa and Europe in
the search for human origins, but is no longer considered of
marginal importance. This book provides the first analysis and
synthesis of the evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia
before the appearance of modern humans 100,000 years ago.
572pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $57.00 / $25.98
✪ 150438 PREHISTORIC ROCK
ART: Polemics and Progress
Bahn, Paul G.
A richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from
around the world. Summarizing the
recent advances in our understanding
of this extraordinary visual record, it
discusses new discoveries, new
approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. 238pgs.
• 2010
◆ • Cambridge • C • $99.00 / $16.98
063385 SPACE, TIME AND MAN: A
Prehistorian's View
Clark, Grahame
Human understanding of time and space
has been developing since the most primitive societies began to record an awareness
of their history and environment. In this
volume, a distinguished prehistorian
describes that process and its extension
with the emergence of technology, social
organization, and the capacity for abstract thought. 181pgs. •
1994
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
✪ 131112 WRITING ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY
Connah, Graham
In this overview of archaeological authorship -- its diversity, its
challenges, and its methodology -- Connah aims to encourage
archaeologists who write about their subject to think about the
process of writing. Archaeology, he argues, is above all a literary discipline, and archaeologists must be able to communicate effectively. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $12.98
126247 THE ZODIAC OF PARIS: How
an Improbable Controversy over an
Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a
Modern Debate over Religion and
Science
Buchwald, Jed Z. & Diane Greco
Josefowicz
Brought to Paris in 1821 and ultimately
installed in the Louvre, the Dendera zodiac -- an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling
adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets -quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. This fascinating book tells the story of this archeological find and its unlikely role in the disputes over science and
faith in 19th-century France. 376pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $16.98
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139732 AIA GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY
White, Norval & Elliot Willensky
The ultimate guide to the buildings of all five
boroughs, from 19th-century brownstones and
tenements to modern high-rise apartments and
museums. It presents structures that range
from the magnificent to the obscure in more
than 3,000 new photographs, more than 130
new maps, and hundreds of revised entries.
1088pgs. • 2000
◆ • Three Rivers Press • P • $37.50 / $12.98
031149 THE ALPHABETIC
LABYRINTH: The Letters in History
and Imagination
Drucker, Johanna
Drucker examines the many imaginative,
often idiosyncratic ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned
value in political, spiritual, or religious
belief systems over two millennia - as well
as presenting the more general aspects of
the history of lettering, printing and calligraphy. 320pgs. •
1995
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $9.98
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✪ 083196 AMERICAN SIGNS:
Form and Meaning on Route 66
Mahar-Keplinger, Lisa
The roadside sign is an American
icon: a symbol of the golden age of
the open road. Yet signs are complex pieces of design, serving not
only as physical markers but also as
cultural, political, and economic
ones. In this volume, Lisa Mahar
traces the evolution of motel signs on Route 66 in a distinctive visual approach that combines text, images, and
graphics. 272pgs. • 2002
◆ • Monacelli • P • $40.00 / $9.98
041483 ANIMATE FORM
Lynn, Greg
Discusses recent architectural projects designed by his firm
that explore the potential of animation techniques to inform
architectural design, with a CD documenting design processes
through three-dimensional renderings and animation
sequences. 203pgs. • 1999
◆ • Princeton Architectural • C • $40.00 / $14.98
065855 ARCHITECTURE AND FILM
Lamster, Mark, ed.
This examination of the way architecture
and architects have been portrayed on the
screen provides fourteen essays which
analyze selected productions. Their
authors are set designers, architects, and
film producers who use their backgrounds
to analyze the presence and importance of
architectural props in film production.
254pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $24.95 / $11.98
029735 ARCHITECTURE THEORY SINCE 1968
Hays, K. Michael, ed.
Presents the primary texts of architecture theory, explains the
concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and
evaluation, and surveys projects or events that have had major
theoretical repercussions. 808pgs. • 2000
◆ • MIT • P • $51.95 / $32.98
067537 COURTYARD HOUSING IN LOS ANGELES: A
Typological Analysis
Polyzoides, Stefanos, et al.
Study of a model building type, which, for the authors,
"embodies all that is quintessentially Angeleno." They show
how it incorporated the romance of history and Hollywood,
while providing congenial, affordable housing for new
arrivals, low-income families, and the elderly. As architects,
they admire the compact urbanity of courtyard housing in contrast to the cancerous growth of suburbia. 216pgs. • 1992
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $35.00 / $18.98
✪ 152019 DESIGN AND TRUTH
Grudin, Robert
Design holds both psychological and
moral power over us, and these forces
may be manipulated to surprising
effect. In an argument that touches
upon subjects as various as the
Japanese tea ceremony, Italian mannerist painting, and Jefferson's Monticello,
Grudin examines the role of design in
our daily lives, focusing especially on how political and
economic powers impress themselves through the built
environment. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • P • $18.00 / $5.98
140729 GOD'S ARCHITECT: Pugin and the Building of
Romantic Britain
Hill, Rosemary
Born in 1812, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was one of
Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the
most dramatic in architectural history. In the first modern
biography of this extraordinary figure, Rosemary Hill draws
upon unpublished letters and drawings to re-create Pugin's
life and work as architect, propagandist, and Gothic designer,
as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages and his
sudden death at 40. 656pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $12.98
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080322 THE HOUSE OF GOD: Church Architecture,
Style and History
Norman, Edward
Through rich historical associations and special emotional
qualities that are largely denied to secular buildings, churches exert a power that crosses national boundaries and even
beliefs. Edward Norman's chronological survey is supported
and enhanced by a brilliantly researched collection of illustrations. The result is a perfect mix between renowned buildings
such as Hagia Sophia and the freshness of the less familiar.
387 illustrations, 80 in color. 312pgs. • 2005
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $16.98
132182 INTERPRETING THE
RENAISSANCE: Princes, Cities,
Architects
Tafuri, Manfredo
Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994) was
acknowledged as one of Italy's most
influential architectural historians. In
his final work, published here in English
for the first time, he analyzes
Renaissance architecture from a variety
of perspectives, exploring questions that occupied him for
more than 30 years. 568pgs. • 1959
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $19.98
138640 LOST AMERICA VOL. 1: From the Atlantic to
the Mississippi
Greiff, Constance M.
This photographic tour, part of a two-volume set, is a bittersweet tribute to our vanishing architectural landscape.
Its nearly 300 images -- of bridges, courthouses, churches,
homes, and other buildings, many now demolished -honor the past and amount to a clarion call to preserve the
places that define our national sense of identity. 256pgs. •
2010
◆ • Dover • P • $24.95 / $7.98
138639 LOST AMERICA VOL. 2: From the
Mississippi to the Pacific
Greiff, Constance M.
Since this country's westward expansion began, countless
civic buildings, hotels, and other historic structures have
been lost to the wrecking ball. This handsome volume of
more than 300 images chronicles the disappearance of
some of these properties and makes a persuasive case for
the preservation of America's remaining architectural heritage. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Dover • P • $24.95 / $7.98
067594 LUIS BARRAGAN'S GARDENS OF EL PEDREGAL
Eggener, Keith L.
Barragan considered El Pedregal his most important project,
and critics have described the houses and gardens there as a
turning point in Mexican architecture. This book examines El
Pedregal's program and form, its representation in photographs and advertising, and its place within contemporary discourses surrounding cultural identity, design and place, and
suburbanization. 161pgs. • 2001
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $40.00 / $16.98
130414 MAGNIFICENT
BUILDINGS, SPLENDID GARDENS
Coffin, David R.
This volume returns to print some of
the most important works of one of
the first scholars to apply the tools of
art history to garden and landscape
studies. The essays span the wide
range of Coffin's work, from Italian
Renaissance architecture, garden
design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the 17th to early 19th centuries. 320pgs. •
2008
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✪ 052651 MODERN FURNITURE CLASSICS: Postwar to
Post-modernism
Fiell, Charlotte & Peter Fiell
A stunning visual history of furniture design since the end of
the Second World War. Illustrated with more than 140 color
reproductions, all accompanied by detailed descriptions, it
also includes a comprehensive reference section, detailed
designer biographies, a bibliography, a list of retail outlets and
museums, and advice on collecting. 192pgs. • 2001
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $9.98
133937 PHILOSOPHY FOR ARCHITECTS
Mitrovic, Branko
An engaging and easy-to-grasp introduction to philosophical
questions of interest to students of architectural theory. The
topics include Aristotle's theories of "visual imagination" and
their relevance to digital design, the problem of optical correction as explored by Plato, Hegel's theory of zeitgeist, and
Kant's examinations of space and aesthetics. 192pgs. • 2011
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✪ 041908 TAKASAKI MASAHARU: An Architecture of
Cosmology
Masaharu, Takasaki
Many architects in Japan have reacted against the forces of
rationalism that were imported in the post-war era, but no
architect pushes the position as far as Takasaki Masaharu.
He describes his architecture as an "environmental being"
that connects humanity with the cosmos. These philosophies manifest themselves in his use of egg-shaped forms,
diffused light to create mystical interiors, and skewed
columns and planes. 157pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $35.00 / $12.98
021427 THEORY AND DESIGN IN THE
FIRST MACHINE AGE
SECOND EDITION
Banham, Reyner
Traces the formation of attitudes, themes,
and forms characteristic of artists and
architects working primarily in Europe
between 1900 and 1930 as they utilized the
new technology of the first machine age in
their works. 338pgs. • 1999
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066312 THERMAL DELIGHT IN
ARCHITECTURE
Heschong, Lisa
Considerations given to thermal qualities in
the design and construction of buildings
worldwide and throughout history are
examined in an attempt to show the importance of thermal qualities in effective building design. 78pgs. • 1979
◆ • MIT • P • $20.00 / $8.98
ART & ART H ISTORY
141309 THE 80S REVISITED: From the Bischofberger
Collection
Kellein, Thomas, ed.
The Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger assembled one of
the most significant collections of 1980s art, acquiring key
works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Enzo
Cucchi, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel, Philip Taaffe, and Andy
Warhol, among many others. This oversized volume contains
nearly 300 color plates of works by these artists, and provides
a definitive guide to that decade's lively art. 448pgs. • 2010
◆ • DuMont • C • $80.00 / $31.98
052686 AFRICAN ART
WORLD OF ART
Willett, Frank
An illustrated look at the art of the Fang, the BaTeke, and the
BaKota and the aesthetic impact their work had upon the
development of 20th-century Western art, influencing such
artists as Picasso, Derain, and Modigliani. 272pgs. • 2003
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
✪ 114079 ANDY WARHOL:
Shadows and Other Signs
of Life
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., ed.
This exquisitely produced volume examines an essential but
understudied element of
Warhol's work: the shadow.
Beginning with photographic
still lifes of skulls and taxidermied animals, then moving on to male nudes, table settings,
celebrity portraits, and still lifes of hammers, sickles, shoes,
and other ordinary objects, the volume concludes with
Warhol's photographs of actual shadows and a selection of
abstract silkscreens and stenciled works. 118pgs. • 2008
◆ • Walther Konig • C • $69.95 / $21.98
140732 ANDY WARHOL
Danto, Arthur C.
A compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto brings to
bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol's time and shows
us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure -- artist,
political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher -- who
retains permanent residence in our national imagination.
192pgs. • 2009
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✪ 151015 ANTONI TÀPIES: Escriptura material /
Llibres
Enguita Mayo, Nuria, et al
The catalog for an exhibition at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in
Barcelona, this volume concentrates on the artist's use of
paper, words, and books in a multitude of forms. Three essays
discussing the work, full-page prints from Tàpies books from
1949-1998, and a biography complete this monograph.
280pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cle • P • IMPORT / $44.98
050466 THE ART OF MESOAMERICA: From Olmec to
Aztec
WORLD OF ART
Miller, Mary Ellen
Succinctly surveys the artistic achievements of the high
Precolumbian civilizations -- Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan,
Toltec, Aztec -- as well as those of their less well-known contemporaries. Their pyramids and palaces, jades and brightly
colored paintings emerge from these pages as vividly as when
they first astonished Cortés's men. 193 illustrations, 44 in
color. 240pgs. • 2001
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $6.98
✪ 132977 ARTS OF THE CITY VICTORIOUS: Islamic
Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt
Bloom, Jonathan M.
The first book-length study of the art and architecture of the
dynasty that ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909 to
1171. Bloom concentrates on securely dated and localized
examples of Fatimid art and architecture; his discussions
focus on significant examples and are illustrated with more
than 100 photographs, many in color, as well as extensive
notes and a bibliography. 256pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $75.00 / $16.98
142585 ARTWORLD METAPHYSICS
Kraut, Robert
In this volume, Robert Kraut examines such topics as emotional expression, correct interpretation and objectivity in the
context of artworld practice, the relevance of jazz to aesthetic
theory, and the goals of ontology (artworld and otherwise). He
also considers the relation between art and language, the confusions of postmodern relativism, and the relation between
artistic/critical practice and aesthetic theory. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
113668 BALTHUS: Works, Interviews
Bal, Mieke, et al.
Widely considered one of the greatest, and certainly one of
the most mysterious and daring, painters of the 20th century, Balthus collaborated with many of the most influential
members of the modern avant-garde, including Breton,
Picasso, Artaud, Giacometti, Camus, Masson, and Lacan.
His disturbing and often erotically charged paintings
remain enduringly enigmatic. 160pgs. • 2008
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✪ 151009 BALTHUS: Time Suspended: Paintings and
Drawings 1932-1960
Rewald, Sabine, ed.
Balthus's art was a sensuous and poetical admixture of
fairytale, Eros and dreams; in an age of abstraction it was
figurative and employed the techniques of Italian
Quattrocento fresco -- in other words, at no point did his
work fit into any readily defined school or category. This
extraordinary illustrated volume, published on the occasion of the artist's centenary, is devoted to the early masterpieces. 163pgs. • 2007
◆ • Schirmer • C • $79.95 / $32.98
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037503 ART AND EXPERIENCE IN
CLASSICAL GREECE
Pollitt, J. J.
An account of the development of Greek
art in the Classical period which places
particular emphasis on the meaning
and content of Greek sculpture, architecture, and painting, relating formal
development to social and cultural history. 205pgs. • 1972
▲ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $16.98
137994 ART, MYTH, AND RITUAL IN CLASSICAL
GREECE
Barringer, Judith
What do Greek myths mean and how was meaning created
for the ancient viewer? In this volume, Judith Barringer considers the use of myth on monuments at several key sites -Olympia, Athens, Delphi, Bassai, and Trysa -- and shows that
mythological motifs were neither randomly selected nor
purely decorative. 320pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $9.98
035632 THE ARTS IN PREHISTORIC GREECE
PELICAN HISTORY OF ART
Hood, Sinclair
Surveys the artistic expressions of the Aegean peoples during the 5,000 years that preceded the rise of Classical Greek
art. Work produced in the environs of the palaces of
Mycenae and Crete (including the palace of Minos at
Knossos) is fully described and illustrated. 311pgs. • 1994
◆ • Yale • P • $38.00 / $9.98
112798 CLASSICAL GREECE AND
THE BIRTH OF WESTERN ART
Stewart, Andrew
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
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
✪ 149754 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES
Cosmopoulos, Michael B., ed.
Presenting the latest developments in research from an
international group of scholars and scientists, this volume
offers new interpretations of some of the most crucial
aspects of the Parthenon. It considers such topics as the
authorship of the frieze and the reconstruction of its missing sculpture, as well as the sociopolitical context in which
the monument was created and the application of new technologies in Parthenon studies. 232pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $21.98
087270 THE PARTHENON FRIEZE
Neils, Jenifer
An in-depth examination of the frieze. Using other art forms
to illuminate the art and craft of this stupendous monument,
Neils decodes the frieze's visual language, analyzes its conception and design, its style and content, and surveys its
impact on the visual arts. Unique in its wide-ranging
approach, this volume also brings ethical reasoning to bear
on the issue of repatriation and the lingering debate concerning the Elgin Marbles. 316pgs. • 2006
▲ • Cambridge • P • $36.99 / $22.98
✪ 151003 BECKMANN AND AMERICA
Anfam, David
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
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $75.00 / $34.98
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✪ 151016 BEING AND
ESSENCE: The Unknown A. R.
Penck: Works from the Jurgen
Schweinebraden Collection
Schmidt, Johannes, ed.
The catalogue to an exhibition held
at the Staedtische Galerie Dresden,
featuring Penck works from a large
private collection. Included are
nearly 500 illustrations, ranging
from the 1950s, when Penck first began his artistic career, to
1980, when he emigrated from East Germany. 258pgs. • 2008
◆ • Prestel • C • IMPORT / $19.98
041490 BIRD'S EYE VIEWS: Historic Lithographs of
North American Cities
Reps, John W.
Collects over 100 views dating between 1838 and 1908, showing the streets, buildings, churches, bridges, waterways, and
surrounding countryside of North American towns, ranging
from burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns
and mining camps. 115pgs. • 1998
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $70.00 / $29.98
✪ 055711 THE BODY IN PIECES: The
Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity
Nochlin, Linda
By the end of the 18th century, a sense of
anxiety and crisis began to preoccupy
European writers and artists in their relationship to the past and the European intellectual tradition. Nochlin traces how these
developments were expressed in representations of the human figure -- fragmented,
mutilated, or fetishized -- in artists from Neo-Classicism to
Romanticism, modern art, and beyond. 64pgs. • 2001
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $15.95 / $5.98
141792 CARTOGRAPHIES OF TIME: A History of the
Timeline
Rosenberg, Daniel & Anthony Grafton
A colorful illustrated survey of the representations of history in
graphic form from the beginning of the print age to the present. In addition to telling a rich, forgotten story, the book
serves as a kind of grammar of historical representation,
uncovering the ways in which time has been structured, in
both thought and in both images, in the Western tradition.
272pgs. • 2012
▲ • Princeton Architectural • P • $35.00 / $18.98
✪ 151005 CHRIS OFILI
Adjaye, David, et al.
Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike
dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries
African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and hip-hop culture. This beautifully
designed book, the first to examine Ofili's artistic development in depth, surveys his work in watercolor, drawing,
and sculpture. 272pgs. • 2009
◆ • Rizzoli • C • $85.00 / $29.98
✪ 150317 CHRISTOPHER WILMARTH: Light and
Gravity
Madoff, Steven Henry, et al.
Until his death at age 44, Christopher Wilmarth delighted the
world with light-filled sculptures of glass and steel that were
deeply poetic in their moods and extraordinarily rich in their
modernist heritage. This volume offers a critical overview of
the artist's career, examining the sculptor's response not only
to historical masters such as Brancusi, Matisse, and
Giacometti, but also to the art world of his times. 184pgs. •
2004
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119825 CONCEPTUAL REVOLUTIONS IN TWENTIETHCENTURY ART
Galenson, David W.
Twentieth-century artistic innovators -- from Picasso and
Duchamp to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst -- not only created dozens of new forms of art, but also went about their
work in ways that would have been incomprehensible to their
predecessors. This volume combines social scientific methods
with qualitative analysis to produce a fundamentally new interpretation of modern art. 460pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $12.98
082586 THE DADA SEMINARS
Witkovsky, Matthew S.
These essays present Dada as a coherent movement with a set
of operating principles, including the hyperbolic mimicry of
dominant social and linguistic conventions, the performance
of gender and other aspects of identity, the usurpation of the
modes of a new media culture and marketplace, and the recycling of history and memory as blasted in a world traumatized
by war. 308pgs. • 2005
◆ • Distributed Art Publishers • P • $25.00 / $12.98
043219 DRAWING IN EARLY
RENAISSANCE ITALY: Revised
Edition
Ames-Lewis, Francis
In the course of the 15th century, drawing developed from a subsidiary role in
the production of finished paintings to
an art form in its own right. In this beautiful book, Ames-Lewis examines the
works of the major draftsmen of the
century -- Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio,
Carpaccio, and Leonardo -- in order to illuminate the new
types of drawing that evolved. 196pgs. • 2000
◆ • Yale • P • $40.00 / $14.98
✪ 151010 ED RUSCHA: ROAD TESTED
Auping, Michael & Richard Prince
Since his first road trip in 1956, driving from Oklahoma
City to Los Angeles, Ed Ruscha has continued to muse on
America as seen from the road. Consisting of some 75
works spanning the artist's entire career, this volume
reproduces many of his artist's books and paintings, and
also documents his rarely seen 1975 film Miracle. 128pgs.
• 2011
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✪ 151007 FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: Palimpsest
Hollein, Max, ed.
Throughout the sensual relationship that Clemente has cultivated with paper surfaces runs the idea of the palimpsest -- the
manuscript page or parchment, often torn from a book, from
which text has been effaced so that the surface can be re-used.
This volume takes the palimpsest as a metaphor for Clemente's
art, from early works on paper to large-format paintings and
more recent, monumental watercolors. 168pgs. • 2012
◆ • Moderne Kunst Nurnberg • C • $50.00 / $22.98
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 • $59.95 / $39.98
FASHION
052671 COSTUME AND FASHION:
A Concise History
WORLD OF ART
Laver, James, et al.
Covers the landmarks of costume history and the ways in which clothes
have been used to protect, express
identity, and attract or influence others. In a new chapter written for this
edition, Andrew Tucker and Amy de la
Haye discuss the reinvention of the luxury label Gucci, the
rise of Prada, and more. 304pgs. • 2002
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
148122 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD DRESS AND
FASHION
Eicher, Joanne Bubolz
This ten-volume encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work to explore all aspects of dress and fashion
globally, from prehistory to the present. It brings together
the work of over 600 renowned scholars from every part of
the globe. All of the articles have been specially commissioned and particular effort has been made to include
indigenous scholars with in-depth local knowledge.
6000pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $2,095.00 / $299.98
✪ 151012 H. N. WERKMAN:
Het Complete Oeuvre
Van Der Spek, Jikke & Anneke De
Vries Dieuwertje Dekkers
The graphic artist and printer H.
N. Werkman (1882-1945), who
worked in Groningen in the
Netherlands, was one of the most
remarkable innovators in 20thcentury graphic design. This landmark study of his work marks a major contribution to the
already multifaceted picture of Dutch art history in the
interwar period. 480pgs. • 2008
◆ • NAi Publishers • C • IMPORT / $49.98
✪ 141039 HUMANS, NATURE, AND BIRDS: Science Art
from Cave Walls to Computer Screens
Wheye, Darryl & Donald Kennedy
Invites readers to enter a two-floor "virtual gallery" where
more than 60 images of birds reflecting the accomplishments
of human pictorial history are on display. The authors show
how these works can advance our understanding of the ways
nature has been perceived over time, its current vulnerability,
and our responsibility to preserve it. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • P • $22.00 / $7.98
✪ 150677 INVESTIGATING SEX: Surrealist Discussions
Pierre, José, ed.
Transcribes for the first time in English the Paris surrealists'
round-table discussions of 1928 on sexual love. Participants
include Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst,
Man Ray, Antonin Artaud and others. 240pgs. • 2012
◆ • Verso • P • $19.95 / $7.98
145888 JAMES ROSENQUIST: Pop
Art, Politics, and History in the 1960s
Lobel, Michael, et al.
Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop
Art. In the first full-length scholarly examination of Rosenquist's art from that period, Michael Lobel weaves together visual
analysis, archival research, and a consideration of the contexts in which these paintings were produced
to offer bold new readings of a body of work that helped redefine art in the 1960s. 232pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $55.00 / $19.98
140422 JAN VERMEER
Ediciones Polígrafa
Very few paintings, less than forty in all, can be attributed
with certainty to Vermeer, but each one is a perfectly
achieved study of light, color and space. For all his profound originality, Vermeer is very much a part of the Dutch
tradition, combining realism and sobriety with a skillful
rendering of perspective and optical effects. 64pgs. • 2002
◆ • Polígrafa • C • IMPORT / $12.98
113853 JEAN DUBUFFET: Works, Writings and
Interviews
de Costa, Valerie & Fabrice Hergott
Over an extraordinarily productive career from 1942 to 1985,
Dubuffet was drawn to the art of children and madmen, which
he endowed with legitimacy and credibility as Art Brut. As a
prolific writer, and sometimes a cruel polemicist, he left
behind a trove of written work that offers invaluable insights
into his artistic vision. 160pgs. • 2007
▲ • Polígrafa • C • $45.00 / $19.98
113837 JEFF WALL: Works and
Collected Writings
Newman, Michael
For more than 20 years, Jeff Wall's
pioneering work has contributed significantly to placing the medium of
photography in the midst of contemporary art. This substantial monograph collects nearly 150 illustrations
of Wall's works alongside a selection
of his writings. 389pgs. • 2007
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ALBERS:
FORMULATION:
Articulation
Albers, Josef
First issued in 1972 as a
limited edition set of
prints, this culmination
of Albers's life work is
here published in book
form for the first time. The order of the 127 illustrations was
carefully chosen by Albers so that they can be examined and
appreciated for their visual interaction or as beautiful works of
art in their own right. 168pgs. • 2006
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $100.00 / $54.98
✪ 151014 KURT SCHWITTERS
Cardinal, Roger & Gwendolen Webster
This overview of Schwitters's life and work casts new light
on his art, his writings, and his ventures into commercial
art. It also offers a new perspective on the Merzbau, the
monumental interior he referred to as his life's work.
160pgs. • 2011
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • IMPORT / $59.98
123703 THE MAP AS ART: Contemporary Artists
Explore Cartography
Harmon, Katharine A. & Gayle Clemans
Collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by such
artists as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira
Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz. Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary make this an
essential volume for anyone open to exploring new artistic
paths. 256pgs. • 2009
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $45.00 / $22.98
144130 MARCEL DUCHAMP:
Works, Writings, Interviews
Moure, Gloria
Every aspect of Duchamp's oeuvre is of
potentially great interest, and any
Duchamp primer needs to present his
more ephemeral contributions, in
aphorisms, diagrams and conversation,
alongside his visual experiments in
painting and other media. This volume
explores the artist's many-faceted activities, analyzing his work
as an entirety and gathering his key interviews and writings.
160pgs. • 2009
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129423 MICHELANGELO: A Life on Paper
Barkan, Leonard
Throughout his career, Michelangelo not only filled hundreds
of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his
own words. This sumptuous volume brings together more
than 200 stunning, reproductions of these private papers. The
text by Leonard Barkan explains the crucial role the written
word played in the artist's work. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.50 / $26.98
126107 THE MOMENT OF CARAVAGGIO
Fried, Michael
Focusing on the emergence of the full-blown "gallery picture"
in Rome during the last decade of the 16th century and the
first decades of the 17th, Fried sets forth a radically revisionist account of Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait; of the
role of extreme violence in his art; and of the deep structure
of his epoch-defining realism. Extensively illustrated with
nearly 200 color images. 328pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.50 / $28.98
✪ 151004 MONDRIAN DE
STIJL
Janssen, Hans
This volume looks at the full arc of
Mondrian's evolution from his
early works executed in
Neoimpressionist and Luminist
idioms to his arrival at a pure
Neoplastic abstraction, and traces
the Dutch De Stijl movement's
extrapolations of Mondrian's art into a multidisciplinary
utopian design project. 304pgs. • 2011
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✪ 151008 NAKED: The Nude in America
Dijkstra, Bram
With more than 400 color illustrations, this is the most thorough
and wide-reaching survey of the representation of the male and
female nude in American visual culture yet published. It explores
the history of the subject from its earliest manifestations in the
paintings of John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West to the
taboo-shredding imagery of artists such as Alice Neel, Robert
Mapplethorpe, Eric Fischl, and John Currin. 476pgs. • 2010
◆ • Rizzoli • C • $75.00 / $29.98
143018 NEWARK MUSEUM: Selected Works
Venn, Beth F.
Published in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of The
Newark Museum, this fully illustrated book highlights the
holdings of New Jersey's largest museum, which boasts significant collections of Tibetan and African art, Hudson River
landscape paintings, as well as major works of modern art and
contemporary art. 168pgs. • 2010
◆ • Scala Publishers • P • $24.95 / $5.98
✪ 147260 PAINTING HARLEM MODERN: The Art of
Jacob Lawrence
Hills, Patricia
Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of
struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his
work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided
Harlem with its pictorial image. 368pgs. • 2010
◆ • California • C • $55.00 / $19.98
023113 PASSAGES IN MODERN SCULPTURE
Krauss, Rosalind E.
A well-illustrated analysis of major 20th century pieces that led
sculpture from the traditional and figurative to the conceptual
pieces of the 1970s, examining futurism, constructivism, and
sculptural realism in works by Rodin, Brancusi, and Blochner.
308pgs. • 1996
▲ • MIT • P • $34.00 / $19.98
✪ 147261 PICTURING THE CITY: Urban Vision and
the Ashcan School
Zurier, Rebecca
An innovative look at the group of urban realists known as
the Ashcan School. Through her study of six artists -George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George
Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan -- Zurier illuminates
the quest for new forms of realism to describe changes in
urban life, commercial culture, and codes of social conduct in the early 1900s. 418pgs. • 2006
◆ • California • C • $60.00 / $19.98
MINGEI
147390 KINGDOM OF BEAUTY: Mingei and the
Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
Brandt, Kim
The discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals
in the 1920s and '30s was central to the process by which
Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world
power. In tracing the history of mingei, Brandt considers not
only the leaders of the movement but also the network of
provincial intellectuals, craftspeople, marketers, and shoppers who were crucial to its success. 320pgs. • 2007
◆ • Duke • C NDJ • $89.95 / $14.98
140722 SERIZAWA:
Master of Japanese Textile
Design
Earle, Joe, ed.
A major exponent of the
mingei (people's crafts)
movement, Keisuke Serizawa
achieved fame as a textile
designer using traditional
stencil-dyeing techniques.
Often working in large-scale formats such as folding screens
or kimonos, he was designated a Living National Treasure in
1956. This is the first book in English to trace his artistic
biography in detail using the finest examples of his work
from Japanese collections. 144pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • P • $35.00 / $12.98
144002 THE PILGRIM ART: Cultures
of Porcelain in World History
Finlay, Robert
Illuminating one thousand years of history,
this volume explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain
around the globe. Bringing together multiple strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes,
this is a history of an exceptional commodity, one that helped spur the emergence of what is
arguably the first genuinely global culture. 440pgs. • 2010
◆ • California • C • $40.00 / $9.98
✪ 140989 THE PLAINS OF MARS: European War
Prints, 1500-1825 from the Collection of the Sarah
Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Clifton, James & Leslie Scattone
This handsome volume is the first graphic print survey of
the theme of war in the early modern period. Featuring
work by such artists as Dürer, Goya, and Géricault, it presents varied images of soldiers and battles (including specific historical events); production, innovation, and
instruction in arms and armor; as well as representations
of abstract concepts related to war and peace. 254pgs. •
2009
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $24.98
043522 POUSSIN AND FRANCE:
Painting, Humanism and the Politics
of Style
Olson, Todd P.
Perhaps the most famous French painter
of the 17th century, Poussin, lived and
worked for many years in Rome, but
remained deeply engaged with cultural
and political transformations occurring
in France. This original exploration of
Poussin's paintings, their production, and their reception
includes 100 black & white and 25 color illustrations.
316pgs. • 2002
◆ • Yale • C • $75.00 / $29.98
✪ 151013 PRINTED STUFF: Prints, Poster, and
Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonné
1958-1996
Axsom, Richard H., et al.
This definitive catalogue raisonné of the printmaking career
of a leading Pop artist, influential creator of public monuments, and bravura draftsman reproduces more than 250
limited-edition graphics. 454pgs. • 2007
◆ • Hudson Hills Press • C • IMPORT / $29.98
144132 RIBERA
Portús, Javier
Painter and printmaker José Ribera
(1591-1652) was among the earliest
exponents of Caravaggio's "Tenebrism,"
in which stark drama is drawn from
extreme contrasts of light and shadow.
This beautifully printed introduction to
Ribera, by the Chief Curator of Spanish
Baroque Painting at the Prado, opens up
a new approach to the artist's career, focusing on his years in
Rome and Naples. 128pgs. • 2011
◆ • Polígrafa • C • $35.00 / $14.98
✪ 151011 RICHARD PRINCE: Collected Writings
Prince, Richard
The first collection of selected short writings by the American
artist Richard Prince. Written between 1974 and 2009, these
35 pieces of prose explore everything from Franz Kline to
Woodstock, and include revealing musings on the revolutionary approach to photography central to Prince's technique.
208pgs. • 2011
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✪ 117451 SEURAT: And the Making of la Grande
Jatte
Herbert, Robert L.
"Bedlam," "scandal," and "hilarity" were among the epithets used to describe the effect of what is now considered
one of the most remarkable paintings of the 19th century,
when it was first exhibited in 1886. This sumptuous book
provides a fascinating, in-depth examination of the gestation, execution, and influence of Seurat's masterpiece.
280pgs. • 2004
◆ • California • P • $36.95 / $12.98
144001 TASTES AND TEMPTATIONS:
Food and Art in Renaissance Italy
Varriano, John
A feast for both mind and eye, this beautifully illustrated, compellingly readable
book is a rich exploration of the little
examined interplay between art and cuisine during the Italian Renaissance.
Exploring a dazzling array of art works,
and drawing from period recipes and
menus, John Varriano considers the many, often surprising,
ways that cooks and artists drew inspiration from each other's
worlds. 280pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $45.00 / $12.98
048225 TECHNIQUES OF THE OBSERVER: On Vision
and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Crary, Jonathan
Outlines a genealogy of vision that challenges some standard
assumptions about the history of film, photography, and modernist art, arguing against a continuity of Renaissance traditions, and for an abrupt break from classical models early in
the 19th century. A compelling account of the prehistory of
"the society of the spectacle." 171pgs. • 1992
◆ • MIT • P • $23.95 / $13.98
143020 THIS ANGUISHED WORLD OF SHADOWS:
George Rouault's Miserere et Guerre
Flora, Holly
Originally issued in an edition of 450 copies in 1948,
Rouault's Miserere et Guerre is both a landmark of the modern printmaker's art and a vital part of Rouault's oeuvre. This
volume presents all 58 plates from the series, one that has
become extremely rare in an intact state. 192pgs. • 2006
◆ • D. Giles Ltd. • C • $60.00 / $24.98
115486 VELÁZQUEZ
Alcolea I Gil, Santiago
From Goya's time until our own, Velázquez's work has been
recognized not only as an essential precursor of Modern
painting, but also as the pinnacle of 17th-century Spanish
art. This volume offers a richly illustrated overview of the
career of the man whom Manet called "the painter of
painters." 125pgs. • 2007
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114219 WOMEN, ART, AND SOCIETY
WORLD OF ART
Chadwick, Whitney
This acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great
women artists are exceptions to the rule. This expanded edition incorporates recent developments in contemporary art
and analyzes the differences between women's art today and
the seminal feminist work of the 1970s and 1980s. Includes
325 illustrations, 90 in color. 528pgs. • 2007
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $11.98
114376 ZURBARÁN
Gil, Santiago Alcolea
Starker than Velazquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán
is easily among the finest of 17th-century Spanish painters. In this monograph, illustrated with 114 color plates,
Santiago Alcolea provides an overview
of Zurbarán's artistic career, dividing it
into four stylistic phases and revindicating his relevance for our times. 128pgs. • 2008
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144004 APHRODITE'S ISLAND: The European
Discovery of Tahiti
Salmond, Anne
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
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146120 BEYOND THE 'WILD TRIBES':
Understanding Modern Afghanistan and
Its Diaspora
Oeppen, Ceri & Angela Schlenkhoff, eds.
A comprehensive portrait of Afghanistan
and its widely dispersed peoples and cultures. Collapsing the myths and stereotypes
perpetuated by 19th- and 20th-century
European observers, these wide-ranging
essays address everything from the causes
of the country's protracted conflicts to the nature and future of
its musical traditions. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $40.00 / $9.98
✪ 152018 CAMBODIA AFTER THE KHMER ROUGE:
Inside the Politics of Nation Building
Gottesman, Evan & Evan R. Gottesman
This examination of the events and personalities that shaped
Cambodian history during the turbulent period that followed
the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 explains
how the legacy of this period continues to influence events in
Cambodia today. 454pgs. • 2004
◆ • Yale • P • $26.00 / $7.98
123016 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
CHINA
SECOND EDITION
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
Traces the development of Chinese culture from the rise of
Confucianism, Buddhism, and the great imperial dynasties,
to the Mongol, Manchu, and Western intrusions and the
modern communist state. It encompasses arts, culture,
economics, the treatment of women, foreign policy, emigration, and politics. This second edition includes a new
chapter on China's recent opening to the world. 384pgs. •
2010
▲ • Cambridge • P • $49.00 / $25.98
143994 CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY: Atrophy and
Adaptation
Shambaugh, David L.
In this timely study, David Shambaugh assesses the strengths
and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and potential longevity of China's Communist Party. He argues that although the CCP
has been in a protracted state of atrophy, it has undertaken a
number of adaptive measures aimed at reinventing itself and
strengthening its rule. 256pgs. • 2008
◆ • California • C • $50.00 / $12.98
092748 A CONCISE HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA
Metcalf, Barbara D. & Thomas R. Metcalf
From the days of the Mughals, India has been transformed by
its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have
helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes
of the last half century and paved the way for the modern success story. Despite these advances, poverty, social inequality
and religious division still remain. This short history grapples
with questions of caste and religious identity, and of the nature
of the Indian nation. 372pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $12.98
✪ 026750 DOWN TO EARTH: The Territorial Bond in
South China
Faure, David, & Helen F. Siu, eds.
Historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta
from late imperial times through the 1940's argues that local
society was integrated into the Chinese state through constant
redefinition of lineages, territories, and ethnic identities.
278pgs. • 1995
▲ • Stanford • C • $59.95 / $12.98
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116458 THE FATAL SHORE: The
Epic of Australia's Founding
Hughes, Robert
In this prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has
given Australia its true history, Hughes
chronicles the brutal transportation of
men, women and children from
Georgian Britain into a horrific penal
system which was to serve as both the
precursor of the Gulag and the origin of Australia. 752pgs.
• 1988
◆ • Vintage • P • $19.95 / $8.98
078711 A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA
Soucek, Svat
This accessible introduction to Inner Asia traces its history
from the arrival of Islam through the various dynasties to the
Russian conquest. The contemporary focus rests on the seven
countries that make up present-day Eurasia: Uzbekistan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Sinkiang,
and Mongolia. 384pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $24.98
119636 A HISTORY OF MODERN BURMA
Charney, Michael W.
The first general history of modern Burma in more than five
decades, this volume traces the highs and lows from the country's pre-colonial past to the Saffron Revolution of 2007. By
exploring key themes such as the political division between
lowland and highland Burma and monastic opposition to state
control, the author illuminates the forces that have made the
country what it is today. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $14.98
107630 THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF
CHINA (1949-1976)
Strauss, Julia, ed.
The volume looks back to the revolutionary People's Republic
of China of the years between 1949 and 1976 from an explicitly historical perspective, using historical materials such as
memoirs and archives. It takes advantage of the temporal distance and perspective that we gained as well as the range of
previously unexamined primary materials that have become
available in the last ten to 15 years. 251pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $45.00 / $19.98
✪ 150682 KASHMIR: The Case for Freedom
Ali, Tariq, et al.
Leading international voices, including Arundhati Roy, Pankaj
Mishra, and Tariq Ali, condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir
occupation. Covering Kashmir's past and present and the
occupation's causes and consequences, the authors issue a
clarion call for the withdrawal of Indian troops and for
Kashmir's right to self-determination. 192pgs. • 2011
◆ • Verso • P • $14.95 / $4.98
138498 LIVES OF CONFUCIUS:
Civilization's Greatest Sage Through
the Ages
Nylan, Michael and Thomas Wilson
The Chinese social philosopher Confucius
-- "Master Kung" -- emphasized personal
and governmental morality, justice, and
appropriateness in social relationships.
This volume provides fascinating details
about what is known about his life and
describes how his teachings have influenced Chinese, Korean,
Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Harmony • C • $25.00 / $5.98
✪ 085495 THE MYTH OF THE HOLY COW
Jha, Dwijendra Narayan
In a book the government of India has demanded be ritually burned because it challenges obscurantist views on the
sanctity of the cow in Hindu tradition and culture, Jha, a
leading Indian historian, argues that beef played an important part in the cuisine of ancient India, and the evidence he
produces from a variety of religious and secular texts is
compelling. 120pgs. • 2004
◆ • Verso • C • $22.00 / $6.98
128933 THE QUESTION OF HU
Spence, Jonathan D.
The story of John Hu, a lowly but devout
Chinese Catholic who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to
France -- a journey that ended with Hu's
confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a
historical detective work and a gripping
narrative, the book probes the collision of
two cultures with differing definitions of
faith, madness, and moral obligation. 208pgs. • 1989
▲ • Vintage • P • $14.95 / $5.98
✪ 150738 SOMANATHA: The Many Voices of a
History
Thapar, Romila
An explosive account, drawing together and placing in context the many interpretations of a pivotal moment in Indian
history, in which Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the
Hindu temple of Somanatha in 1026. Thapar, the doyenne
of Indian historians, reconstructs what took place by studying Sanskrit inscriptions, biographies of kings and merchants of the period, court epics and popular narratives
that have survived. 288pgs. • 2005
◆ • Verso • C • $25.00 / $7.98
✪ 110128 RECORDS OF THE
HISTORIAN: Chapters from the Shih
Chi of Ssu-Ma Ch'ien
Watson, Burton, trans.
Excerpts from one of the great Chinese historical works, compiled by a court historian who lived from approximately 145 to 90
BC. Thirteen of the 18 chapters cover the
Han period, which was at its peak during
his lifetime, while five additional chapters
chronicle the preceding Chou and Ch'in periods. 356pgs. •
1969
◆ • Columbia • P • $50.00 / $12.98
✪ 150740 THE STRUGGLE FOR TIBET
Lixiong, Wang & Tsering Shakya
Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation
and the theocracy of Tibet. While Wang suggests the complicity of a fear-stricken religion in perpetuating Chinese imperialist rule, Shakya interprets recent Tibetan history as a history of
colonialism, against which the independence movement struggles for autonomous rule. 160pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $17.95 / $5.98
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117431 UNEASY WARRIORS: Gender, Memory, and
Popular Culture in the Japanese Army
Frühstück, Sabine
In the 1950s, Japan established the Self-Defense Forces as a
way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to selfdefense, it is equipped with advanced weapons technology and
the world's third-largest military budget. Sabine Frühstück
draws on interviews, historical research, and analysis to
describe the unusual case of a non-war-making military.
270pgs. • 2007
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CLASSICAL STU DI ES
069776 ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Cummings, Lewis V.
From his first conquest in northern Greece at the age of sixteen, to victories over Macedonia, Egypt, Persia, and Asia,
Alexander possessed almost inhuman energy and hubris that
defied Zeus himself, until his death at the age of thirty-two.
Cummings has compiled an epic history of a man who became
one of the most heralded conquerors of all time. 461pgs. •
2004
▲ • Grove Press • P • $16.00 / $4.98
129473 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: An
Anthology of Texts and Pictures
Pritchard, J. B.
James Pritchard's anthologies of the
ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for
understanding the peoples and cultures of
this important region. With more than 130
reading selections and 300 photographs of
ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this
book combines both of the earlier volumes. 664pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $46.95 / $24.98
050823 THE CAMBRIDGE
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
ANCIENT GREECE
Cartledge, Paul, ed.
Analyzes how ordinary citizens took
part in "the glory that was Greece,"
examining environment and economy;
experiences of workers, soldiers,
slaves, peasants, and women; and
roles of myth, religion, art, culture,
science, and education. Presents the far-reaching legacy of
ancient Greece, seeking to justify Shelley's claim that "we are
all Greeks." 400pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $49.00 / $23.98
041244 CASINA
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 • $37.99 / $22.98
028803 ATHENIAN ECONOMY & SOCIETY: A Banking
Perspective
Cohen, Edward E.
Demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens, challenging the view that bankers were
merely pawnbrokers and money-changers, revealing that 4thcentury Athenian bankers pursued sophisticated transactions.
288pgs. • 1997
▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $22.98
✪ 111617 CHAPMAN'S HOMERIC HYMNS AND
OTHER HOMERICA
Chapman, George
Presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the
Homeric hymns. The hymns, believed to have been written
by followers who emulated Homer's style, are odes to the
gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. The
collection also includes epigrams and poems attributed to
Homer and known as The Lesser Homerica. 228pgs. •
2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $10.98
087966 CAESAR'S LEGACY: Civil War and the
Emergence of the Roman Empire
Osgood, Josiah
Recounts the rise to power of Rome's first emperor,
Augustus, by examining how the bloody civil wars he and
his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women
throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. Osgood
demonstrates how, during this violent period, Romans
came to accept a new form of government and found ways
to celebrate it in their towns and cities. 452pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $43.00 / $22.98
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 • $18.95 / $10.98
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134260 ABYDOS: Egypt's First
Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris
O'Connor, David
The ancient site of Abydos lies
between the towering cliffs of the
Egyptian high desert and the lush
green floodplain of the Nile. As both
the burial place of the first kings of
Egypt and a cult center for Osiris,
god of the dead, this sacred area has
long tantalized archaeologists with incredible finds.
Includes 11 color and 102 black-and-white illustrations.
216pgs. • 2011
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $14.98
065510 CHRONICLE OF THE PHARAOHS
Clayton, Peter A.
Covers all the rulers and dynasties of Egypt in chronological
order, from Narmer, who first united the lands along the
Nile, to Cleopatra some 3,000 years later. The rich illustrative material includes timelines and specially drawn cartouches of each pharaoh with translations of their names.
224pgs. • 1994
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039747 EGYPT, CANAAN, AND ISRAEL IN ANCIENT
TIMES
Redford, Donald B.
Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the
destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, this volume by an eminent Egyptologist explores 3,000 years of uninterrupted
contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai
land-bridge. 488pgs. • 1992
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✪ 106610 EGYPTOLOGY TODAY
Wilkinson, Richard, ed.
In essays by a team of archaeologists, curators, scholars and
conservators, all of whom are actively involved in research
or applied aspects of Egyptology, this book surveys the techniques and methods that are used to increase our understanding of a culture that was as old to the Greeks and
Romans as these cultures are to us. 283pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.00 / $9.98
117489 HELLENISTIC EGYPT:
Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture
Bingen, Jean & Roger S. Bagnall
Brings together for the first time the
writings of the preeminent historian,
papyrologist, and epigraphist Jean
Bingen. In particular, his work on the
Ptolemaic monarchy and economy,
which illustrates how the Greeks and
Egyptians interacted, has transformed
the field and influenced all subsequent work. 305pgs. •
2007
◆ • California • P • $28.95 / $12.98
✪ 149933 HIEROGLYPH DETECTIVE: How to Decode
the Sacred Language of the Ancient Egyptians
Chronicle Books Staff
Egyptian hieroglyphs have long fascinated people, though in
general only specially trained scholars have been able to
unlock their secrets. Renowned Egyptologist Nigel
Strudwick here offers step-by-step instructions on how to
decipher the inscriptions found on ancient Egyptian tombs
and temples. 160pgs. • 2010
◆ • Chronicle Books • P • $16.95 / $5.98
124588 THE ROSETTA STONE
Budge, E. A. Wallis
An Egyptologist's fascinating account of
the discovery of the linguistic keystone
that enabled scholars to decipher the
ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
system. His account covers the work of
Young, Champollion, and other scholars, as well as the implications of the
decipherment for biblical scholarship
and the history of the ancient Near East. Illustrated with 23
photographs. 352pgs. • 1989
◆ • Dover • P • $14.95 / $4.98
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149398 THE DEVIL KNOWS LATIN: Why America Needs
the Classical Tradition
Kopff, E. Christian
A provocative and illuminating examination of contemporary
American culture. Whether discussing the importance of
Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current
trends in literary theory, education, and politics, or applying a
classical perspective to contemporary films, Christian Kopff is
at home and on the mark. 344pgs. • 1998
◆ • ISI Books • C • $24.95 / $6.98
47450 FROM NINEVEH TO NEW
YORK: The Strange Story of the
Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan
Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece
at Canford School
Russell, John Malcolm
Relates the vivid story of Sir Austen Henry
Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria,
and of the subsequent fate of Layard's huge
collection of ancient Assyrian art. With previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare 19thcentury sources, and first-hand accounts, the book sheds new
light on the history and meaning of Assyrian art and on taste,
dealing, and collecting over two centuries. 232pgs. • 1997
◆ • Yale • C • $70.00 / $29.98
088058 THE HELLENISTIC WORLD FROM ALEXANDER
TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST: A Selection of Ancient
Sources in Translation
Austin, M. M.
This enlarged edition of Austin's seminal work provides a
panoramic view of this world through ancient sources. Now
comprising over 300 texts from literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources, presented in original translations and supported by introductory sections, detailed references, chronological tables, maps, illustrations of coins, and a full analytical
index. 656pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $53.00 / $31.98
107320 HOMER'S THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY: A
Biography
Manguel, Alberto
In this graceful and sweeping book, Manguel traces the lineage of the poems from their inception and first recording.
He considers their original purpose -- either as allegory or
as a record of history -- surveys the challenges the pagan
Homer presented to the early Christian world, and maps the
spread of the works around the world and through the centuries. 285pgs. • 2007
▲ • Grove Press • C • $19.95 / $5.98
104391 A NEW HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC
Kennedy, George A.
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
▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $19.98
126248 THE POISON KING: The Life
and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's
Deadliest Enemy
Mayor, Adrienne
A gripping account of one of Rome's most
relentless but least understood foes, the
ruthless king and visionary rebel whose
uncanny ability to elude capture and surge
back after devastating losses unnerved the
Romans, while his mastery of poisons
allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals.
472pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
119644 ROMAN WARFARE
Roth, Jonathan P.
This lively examination of the evolution of Roman ways of war
surveys the history of Rome's fighting forces from their inception in the 7th century BCE to the fall of the Western Empire in
the 5th century CE. Includes 39 halftones and 27 color plates.
328pgs. • 2009
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140893 REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS
1775-1783
Adams, John
This second of two volumes gathering the
writings of one of the towering figures of the
Revolution traces Adams's career from his
leading role in the debate over independence to his tireless efforts to establish the
fledgling government of the US and supply
its army in the field, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe, where he was hailed as "the George
Washington of negotiation." 750pgs. • 2011
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092590 LITTLE WOMEN, LITTLE MEN, JO'S BOYS
Alcott, Louisa May
At once heartwarming and true to life, Louisa May Alcott's novels continue to win over readers both young and old, as they
have for generations. This authoritative single-volume edition
contains all three Little Women books as Alcott wrote them.
This volume also includes the original illustrations that
accompanied the books' first printings. 1045pgs. • 2005
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116807 COLLECTED POEMS, 1956-1987
Ashbery, John
Beginning with Some Trees in 1956, John Ashbery has charted
a profoundly original and individual course that has opened
up pathways for subsequent generations of poets. This volume
includes the complete texts of his first twelve books, including
such groundbreaking collections as Rivers and Mountains,
Three Poems, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and Houseboat
Days. 950pgs. • 2008
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107233 NOVELS 1956-1964: Seize
the Day; Henderson the Rain King;
Herzog
Bellow, Saul
Passionate, insightful, often funny, and
exhibiting a linguistic richness few writers have equaled, the novels of Saul
Bellow are among the defining achievements of postwar American literature.
793pgs. • 2007
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136577 NOVELS 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet;
Humboldt's Gift; The Dean's December
Bellow, Saul
The third volume of The Library of America edition of Saul
Bellow's complete novels collects three essential works
written in the period of Bellow's greatest literary and popular acclaim. Unsparing but humane, and ranging widely in
their philosophical and cultural concerns, they offer the
indispensable voice of a great American raconteur and
thinker. 1056pgs. • 2010
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116787 POEMS, PROSE AND LETTERS
Bishop, Elizabeth
Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her
fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal
rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. This collection offers a
full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at
once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist.
900pgs. • 2008
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148180 THE COLLECTED WRITINGS
OF JOE BRAINARD
EDITED BY RON PADGETT
Brainard, Joe
An artist and writer associated with the
New York School, Joe Brainard (19421994) has had a wide and growing influence. This volume presents the full range
of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit,
madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. 576pgs. • 2012
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035752 EARLY NOVELS AND STORIES: The Troll
Garden; O Pioneers!; The Song of the Lark; My
Antonia; One of Ours
Cather, Willa
Includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," Cather's
first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O
Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One
of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. 1336pgs. • 1987
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035776 STORIES, POEMS, AND
OTHER WRITINGS
Cather, Willa
Featuring her often anthologized short
stories, the third and final volume of
the most comprehensive and authoritative Cather edition available. Includes
the collections Youth and the Bright
Medusa, Obscure Destinies, and The
Old Beauty and Others, the novellas
Alexander's Bridge and My Mortal Enemy, critical essays,
and her only book of poetry. 1039pgs. • 1992
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122180 COLLECTED STORIES AND
OTHER WRITINGS
Cheever, John
Includes the entire Pulitzer Prize–winning
collection, The Stories of John Cheever, as
well as selections from his first book, The
Way Some People Live, seven additional stories, and selected essays. Included are masterpieces such as "The Enormous Radio,"
"Goodbye, My Brother," and "The
Swimmer," as well as lesser-known gems. 1000pgs. • 2009
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122181 COMPLETE NOVELS
Cheever, John
In these works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of the ascendant postwar
elite as well as the fallen Yankee aristocrats
who stubbornly clung to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory.
Includes The Wapshot Chronicle (winner of
the National Book Award) and its sequel
The Wapshot Scandal (winner of the
William Dean Howells Medal); the dark suburban drama
Bullet Park; the prison novel Falconer; and the lyrical ecological fable Oh What a Paradise It Seems. 960pgs. • 2009
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136675 THE CIVIL WAR: The First Year of the Conflict
Told by Those Who Lived It
Simpson, Brooks D., et al., eds.
Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems,
songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, this
volume gathers more than 120 pieces by more than 60 participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great
historical crisis. Together, the selections provide a powerful
sense of the immediacy, uncertainty, and urgency of events
as the nation was torn asunder. 720pgs. • 2011
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035772 MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W.
T. SHERMAN
Sherman, William T.
Written with the energetic confidence
that marked his later campaigns,
Sherman's memoirs provide both a vivid
firsthand account of crucial events of the
Civil War and a unique record of the
emergence of its most innovative strategist. 1136pgs. • 1990
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✪ 035735 THE LEATHERSTOCKING
TALES, VOLUME 2: The Pathfinder; The
Deerslayer
Cooper, James Fenimore
The five novels in Cooper's great saga of the
American wilderness form a pageant of the
American frontier, set against the dense
woods, desolate prairies, and transcendent
landscapes of the New World. Cooper's
hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther
into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization
that he inadvertently serves as advance scout, missionary, and
critic. 1051pgs. • 1985
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035857 PROSE AND POETRY: Maggie: A Girl of the
Streets; The Red Badge of Courage; Journalism, Poetry,
Tales, & Sketches
Crane, Stephen
Though he died at 28, Stephen Crane was one of the most
innovative and accomplished writers of his generation. Here in
one volume are all his best-known works, including The Red
Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, his journalism,
poetry, and such short story masterpieces as "The Open Boat"
and "The Blue Hotel." 1379pgs. • 1996
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129888 VALIS AND LATER NOVELS
Dick, Philip K.
Four books from the later phase of Dick's
career, when he moved beyond the constraints of generic science fiction, producing the works responsible for his growing
reputation as an American visionary.
Includes A Maze of Death, VALIS, The Divine
Invasion, and The Transmigration of
Timothy Archer. 850pgs. • 2009
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130397 SELECTED JOURNALS, 1820-1842
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
This volume begins with Emerson's first journal entry, on
January 25, 1820, and follows him through his early years
at Harvard College and the Divinity School, his ordination
as a Unitarian minister, his marriage to Ellen Tucker and
her untimely death, his fateful decision to leave the ministry,
and his travels in England and on the Continent. 992pgs. •
2010
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130396 SELECTED JOURNALS, 1841-1877
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior and continued without significant lapse for nearly 60 years,
Emerson's journals were the starting point for virtually
everything in his celebrated essays, lectures, and poems.
This volume and its companion, which covers the years
from 1820-1842, present the most comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's great undertaking ever published. 992pgs. • 2010
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130372 STEPHEN FOSTER AND CO.:
Lyrics of the First Great American
Songwriters
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Foster, Stephen & Ken Emerson, ed.
In this comprehensive new selection, music
historian Ken Emerson introduces and annotates the lyrics to more than 30 of Foster's
best-known songs. Also included are 50
other 19th-century American popular songs
that influenced Foster or that he in turn influenced. 200pgs.
• 2010
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053383 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND WRITINGS, 1757-1790
Franklin, Benjamin
The classic Autobiography, Franklin's last word on his greatest
literary creation -- his own invented personality -- is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to the original
manuscript. Also included are political satires, bagatelles,
pamphlets, letters, speeches to the Continental Congress, and
prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanack. 816pgs. • 1997
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035792 COLLECTED POEMS, PROSE AND PLAYS
Frost, Robert
The first authoritative and comprehensive collection of
Frost's writings, bringing together all the major poetry, all
of Frost's dramatic writing, and the most extensive gathering of his prose writings ever published. The core of this
collection is the 1949 "Complete Poems," the last edition
supervised by the poet himself - free of the unauthorized
editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions.
1036pgs. • 1995
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035717 TALES AND SKETCHES:
Twice-Told Tales; Mosses from an Old
Manse; The Snow Image, & Other
Twice-Told Tales; A Wonder Book for
Girls & Boys; Tanglewood Tales
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
An authoritative edition of all Hawthorne's
tales and sketches in a single comprehensive volume. The stories are arranged in
the order of their periodical publication.
1493pgs. • 1982
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035730 WRITINGS: Autobiography; A Summary View of
the Rights of British America; Notes on the State of
Virginia; Addresses, Letters
Jefferson, Thomas
The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson's
writings ever published. 1600pgs. • 1984
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035779 NOVELS AND STORIES: Deephaven; A Country
Doctor; The Country of the Pointed Firs; Dunnet Landing
Stories; Selected Stories & Sketches
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Set against long Maine winters, hardscrabble farms, and the
sea, Jewett's stories of gruff, capable farmers and seafolk have
a very modern resonance. This comprehensive collection
reveals the full stature of the unjustly neglected writer whom
Willa Cather ranked with Mark Twain and Nathaniel
Hawthorne. 937pgs. • 1994
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116788 WORLD WAR II WRITINGS:
The Road Back to Paris / Mollie and
Other War Pieces / Uncollected War
Journalism / Normandy Revisited
Liebling, A. J.
One of the most gifted and influential
American journalists of the 20th century,
Liebling spent five years reporting the
events and individual stories of World War
II. This volume brings together three books
along with 26 uncollected New Yorker pieces and two excerpts
from his writings on the French Resistance. 1100pgs. • 2008
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035756 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1832-1858
Lincoln, Abraham
This volume, along with Speeches and
Writings 1859-1865, comprises the
most comprehensive selection ever
published. Over 240 speeches, letters,
and drafts take Lincoln from rural
lawyer to U.S. senatorial candidate,
charting his emergence as an antislavery advocate and defender of the Constitution. Includes the
complete Lincoln-Douglas debates. 898pgs. • 1989
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035770 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1859-1865
Lincoln, Abraham
A collection of writings from 1859 to 1865, including
speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, memoranda,
and fragments. These documents record the words and
deeds -- the order to resupply Fort Sumter, the emancipation of the slaves held in the Confederacy, and proposals to
offer the South generous terms of reconstruction -- through
which Lincoln hoped to defend and preserve the Union.
788pgs. • 1989
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035832 POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
No American writer of the 19th century was
more universally enjoyed and admired than
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works
were extraordinary bestsellers for their era,
achieving fame both here and abroad. For
the first time in over 25 years, this comprehensive volume offers a full-scale literary
portrait of America's greatest popular poet.
854pgs. • 2000
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092592 TALES
Lovecraft, H. P.
A 20th-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master
of "weird fiction," H. P. Lovecraft adapted the conventions
of horror stories and science fiction to express an intensely personal vision, cosmic in its ramifications and fearsome
in its shuddering view of human destiny. This volume brings
together the very best of Lovecraft's fiction in a treasury
guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans
and to readers new to his work. 850pgs. • 2005
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129882 WRITINGS
Marshall, John
Collects 200 documents written between 1779 and 1835,
including Marshall's most important judicial opinions, his
influential rulings during the Aaron Burr treason trial, speeches, newspaper essays, and revealing letters to friends, fellow
judges, and his beloved wife. 928pgs. • 2010
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116817 LATER NOVELS AND STORIES
Maxwell, William
The second installment of a two-volume
edition of Maxwell. The Château (1961)
describes the most subtle and bittersweet
encounter of American naiveté and Old
World mystery since Henry James. Also
included: So Long, See You Tomorrow; stories; 40 brief "improvisations"; and the
essay "Nearing Ninety," a moving valediction
to a lifetime of reading and storytelling. 990pgs. • 2008
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035738 PIERRE, ISRAEL POTTER, THE CONFIDENCEMAN, TALES, AND BILLY BUDD
Melville, Herman
This third volume rounds out Melville's complete fiction
with his dark and brilliant late works. The novels Pierre,
Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man forgo the buoyant
high seas for a keen, bleak vision of life at home in
America. The Piazza Tales and a number of other uncollected stories show Melville's dazzling mastery of many
styles. 1478pgs. • 1985
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035723 REDBURN, WHITE-JACKET, MOBY-DICK
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick, Melville's masterpiece, is one of the great epics
in all of literature. Ahab's idolatrous hunt for the white
whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while
Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, the sublime
indifference of nature, and the grimy physical details of
whale-oil extraction provide a reflective counterpoint. This
volume also includes Redburn, which relates a young
man's initiation into the sailor's life, and White-Jacket, a
semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the US
Navy. 1436pgs. • 1983
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035714 TYPEE, OMOO, MARDI
Melville, Herman
Typee and Omoo, based on the young
Melville's experiences on a whaling
ship, are exuberant accounts of idyllic
life in Polynesia. They remained his
most popular works well into the 20th
century. Mardi is a mixture of love story,
adventure, and political allegory, set on
a mythical Pacific island, that looks forward to the complexities of Moby-Dick. 1333pgs. • 1982
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136581 PREJUDICES: The First,
Second, and Third Series
Mencken, H. L.
In the six volumes of Prejudices (19191927), Mencken attacked what he felt to be
American provincialism and hypocrisy, and
championed writers and thinkers he saw as
harbingers of a new candor and maturity.
Laced with savage humor and delighting in
verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a
one-of-a-kind roller coaster ride over a staggering range of
thematic territory. 624pgs. • 2010
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136580 PREJUDICES: The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Series
Mencken, H. L.
656pgs. • 2010
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136678 PREJUDICES: THE COMPLETE SERIES
Mencken, H. L.
Includes the contents of the above two volumes. 1408pgs. •
2010
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149690 COLLECTED PLAYS 1964-1982
EDITED BY TONY KUSHNER
Miller, Arthur
Includes After the Fall (1964); Incident at Vichy (1964);
The Price (1968); The Creation of the World and Other
Business (1972); Up from Paradise (1974); The American
Clock (1974); The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977), as well as
several one-act plays and sketches and other writings.
848pgs. • 2012
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142728 MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE
SIERRA
Muir, John
A description of Muir's spiritual awakening
amid the mountains and valleys of central
California, this volume one of the seminal
texts in the literature of the American environment. This edition includes an introduction by Bill McKibben and related
essays about Yosemite, the Hetch Hetchy
Valley, and other wonders of the Sierra Nevada. 400pgs. •
2011
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035757 COMPLETE PLAYS 1913-1920
O'Neill, Eugene
Contains 29 plays O'Neill wrote between 1913, when he began
his career, and 1920, the year he first achieved Broadway success. Included are Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, Beyond
the Horizon, and more. 1104pgs. • 1988
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035789 COLLECTED WRITINGS
Paine, Thomas
Paine was the impassioned democratic
voice of the Age of Revolution. This volume
brings together his best-known works -Common Sense, The American Crisis,
Rights of Man, The Age of Reason -- along
with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets. 906pgs. • 1995
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116785 COLLECTED
STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS
Porter, Katherine Anne
Set in her native Texas and her beloved
Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, Porter's stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning are
severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than 30,
but as Robert Penn Warren commented,
"many are unsurpassed in modern fiction." Rounding out this
volume is a selection of Porter's journalism and other short
prose. 1068pgs. • 2008
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092587 THEODORE ROETHKE:
Selected Poems
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Roethke, Theodore
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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035799 THE GRAPES OF WRATH AND OTHER
WRITINGS, 1936-1941: The Long Valley; The Grapes
of Wrath; The Log from the Sea of Cortez; The Harvest
Gypsies
Steinbeck, John
Presents The Grapes of Wrath in a newly corrected text
based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys.
The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on
migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the
novel; The Long Valley displays his brilliance with short stories; while The Log from the Sea of Cortez combines science, philosophy, and adventure. 1067pgs. • 1996
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085418 LETTERS AND SPEECHES
Roosevelt, Theodore
Teddy Roosevelt's letters demonstrate the astonishing range
of his interests and deeds and reveal the personal dimensions of one of our greatest statesmen. In addition to four
of his most famous speeches, this volume collects 367 letters written between 1881 and 1919 to correspondents as
various as Jacob Riis, Rudyard Kipling, Upton Sinclair,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
960pgs. • 2004
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043546 NOVELS 1942-1952
Steinbeck, John
The third volume in this authoritative edition of Steinbeck's writings shows him
continuing to explore new subject matter
and new approaches to storytelling. The
Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, The Pearl,
and East of Eden display the versatility
and emotional directness that have made
Steinbeck one of America's most enduringly popular writers. 983pgs. • 2001
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085606 THE ROUGH RIDERS AND
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Roosevelt, Theodore
The Rough Riders is the story of the
First US Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment
Roosevelt led to enduring fame during
the Spanish-American War. In An
Autobiography, Roosevelt recalls his
lifelong fascination with natural history,
his love of hunting and the outdoors,
and his adventures as a cattleman in the Dakota Badlands,
as well as his career in politics as a state legislator, civil
service reformer, police commissioner, assistant secretary
of the navy, governor, and president. 864pgs. • 2004
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106837 TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY
AND LATER NOVELS, 1947-1962
Steinbeck, John
Travels with Charley was Steinbeck's
last published book. A record of his
experiences and observations as he
drove around America in a pickup
truck, it is filled with engaging, often
humorous description and comes to a
powerful climax in an encounter with
racist demonstrators in New Orleans. Also includes The
Wayward Bus, Burning Bright, Sweet Thursday, and The
Winter of Our Discontent. 990pgs. • 2007
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140895 THE AMERICAN TRILOGY
Roth, Philip
Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of
The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works are the three volumes of this acclaimed triptych,
a major milestone in contemporary American literature. It
includes American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist
(1998), and The Human Stain (2000). 1088pgs. • 2011
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035741 A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK
RIVERS; WALDEN; THE MAINE WOODS; CAPE COD
Thoreau, Henry David
Thoreau's longer works in one volume, all demonstrating his
subtle interweaving of natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore. The Maine Woods and Cape Cod are
especially valuable portraits of the natural landscapes of
Thoreau's youth that were changing irreversibly even as he
wrote these classic essays. 1114pgs. • 1989
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101651 NOVELS 1967-1972: When She Was Good /
Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast
Roth, Philip
In this second volume of the definitive edition of Roth's works,
the range and inventiveness of his fiction is dazzlingly displayed: the somber and penetrating realism of When She Was
Good; the daring verbal wit of his comic masterpiece Portnoy's
Complaint; the unrestrained political satire of Our Gang; and
the fantasy of The Breast, featuring the debut of Roth protagonist David Kepesh as he endures a metamorphosis worthy of
Kafka or Gogol. 672pgs. • 2005
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106836 WRITINGS: with Other
Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and
the First English Settlement of America
Smith, Captain John et al.
One of the most colorful figures in
American history, the soldier, explorer, and
colonist John Smith was a vivid and prolific
chronicler of the beginnings of English settlement in the New World. This volume
brings together seven of his works, along
with 16 additional narratives by 13 other writers, that recount
firsthand the tragic, harrowing, and dramatic events of the settlement of Roanoke and Jamestown. 1200pgs. • 2007
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035803 WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS
Thurber, James
The best and most extensive Thurber collection ever assembled, including acknowledged masterpieces: "The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty" and "The Catbird Seat," the
anti-war parable The Last Flower, the satirical Fables for Our Time, the best pieces
from The Owl in the Attic, Let Your Mind
Alone, and My World and Welcome To It,
and others. 1004pgs. • 1996
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131819 HUB FANS BID KID ADIEU: John Updike on
Ted Williams
Updike, John
On September 28, 1960, when Red Sox slugger Ted Williams
stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park, one
of those cheering from the stands was the 28-year-old John
Updike, inspired by the moment to make his lone venture into
the field of sports reporting. This 50th-anniversary commemorative edition of Updike's tribute was prepared by the author
just months before his death. 64pgs. • 2010
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129890 AMERICAN FANTASTIC TALES:
Terror and the Uncanny from the
1940's until Now
Straub, Peter, ed.
The 42 stories in this second volume of
American Fantastic Tales provide an irresistible journey into the phantasmagoric
underside of the American imagination. The
authors represented include Shirley Jackson,
Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Stephen King,
Steven Millhauser, and Michael Chabon. 750pgs. • 2009
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106887 AMERICAN FOOD WRITING: An Anthology with
Classic Recipes
O'Neill, Molly, ed.
A harvest of more than 250 years of American culinary history.
This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic American
foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of watermelon;
Herman Melville on clam chowder; H. L. Mencken on the hot
dog; M. F. K. Fisher in praise of the oyster; Ralph Ellison on the
irresistible appeal of baked yam; and William Styron on Southern
fried chicken. 753pgs. • 2007
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106834 AMERICAN POETRY: THE SEVENTEENTH AND
EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Shields, David, ed.
The poetry of early America is seen afresh in this groundbreaking
new volume, which spans from the first years of English settlement in the New World to the death of George Washington.
Gathering the work of more than 100 poets -- including many
poems never previously anthologized and some published here
for the first time -- it is the most comprehensive collection of its
kind ever assembled. 900pgs. • 2007
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035828 AMERICAN POETRY: THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY VOLUME 1: Henry Adams to Dorothy
Parker
Library of America Staff
The first half of the largest anthology of 20th-century American
poetry ever attempted, including enormous selections of
Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound,
William Carlos Williams, H.D., Marianne Moore and T.S. Eliot.
986pgs. • 2000
▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
035829 AMERICAN POETRY: THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY VOLUME 2: e. e. cummings to May
Swenson
Library of America Staff
Includes large selections from Robert Frost, e.e. cummings,
Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore
Roethke, and Langston Hughes, plus hundreds more.
1007pgs. • 2000
▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
101885 AMERICAN RELIGIOUS POEMS: An Anthology
Bloom, Harold & Jesse Zuba, eds.
From Anne Bradstreet to the Beats, from Native American chant
and Shaker hymnody to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, religion and spirituality have always been central to American poetry. This elegant slipcased anthology, spanning four centuries and
more than 200 poets, offers countless moments of inspiration,
solace, meditation, and transcendence. 900pgs. • 2006
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $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
106833 AMERICAN SPEECHES I: Political Oratory from
the Revolution to the Civil War
Widmer, Ted, ed.
This volume, the first of an unprecedented two-volume collection,
gathers the unabridged texts of 45 eloquent and dramatic speeches delivered by American public figures between 1761 and 1865,
beginning with James Otis's denunciation of unrestrained searches by British customs officials -- hailed by John Adams as the
beginning of the American Revolution -- and ending with
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. 810pgs. • 2006
▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $17.98
085401 AMERICANS IN PARIS: A Literary Anthology
Gopnik, Adam, ed.
Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound
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
◆ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035771 THE DEBATE ON THE
CONSTITUTION PART 2: Federalist
and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles,
and Letters During the Struggle over
Ratification
Bailyn, Bernard, ed.
This unique collection captures firsthand
the energy and eloquence of the stormy ratification struggle. Franklin, Madison,
Jefferson, Washington, Patrick Henry, and
many less well known voices speak with passion and articulateness about issues of personal liberty and public order that continue to resonate today. Along with a detailed chronology and
notes, each volume also includes the full texts of the Declaration
in Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution.
1175pgs. • 1993
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140890 INTO THE BLUE: American Writing on Aviation
and Spaceflight
Corn, Joseph J., ed.
Gathering 60 of the best eyewitness and participant narratives,
from Benjamin Franklin's letters on the first hot air balloons to
Chris Jones's account of being marooned on the International
Space Station. A 32-page insert offers photographs, some of them
previously unpublished. 750pgs. • 2011
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $19.98
035862 REPORTING VIETNAM: American Journalism,
1959-1975
Library of America Staff
Collects the best writing and reportage from the war covering
1959 to 1975 - from the first American deaths to the fall of
Saigon. Along the way, reporters uncover the military blunders,
the political minefields, and the cultural changes spreading from
America to Vietnam, capturing war at its most chaotic, its most
lawless, and its most tragic. 853pgs. • 2000
▲ • Library of America • P • $17.95 / $7.98
116786 TRUE CRIME: An American Anthology
Schechter, Harold, ed.
From the beginning crime and punishment has been one the
most characteristic themes in American literature. This volume
includes such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce,
Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell,
Truman Capote, and James Ellroy, as well as execution sermons,
murder ballads, early broadsides, trial reports, and tabloid journalism from many eras. 900pgs. • 2008
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
043548 WRITING LOS ANGELES: A Literary Anthology
Ulin, David L., ed.
Presents a panorama of the city, encompassing fiction, poetry,
essays, journalism, and diaries by over 70 writers, bringing to life
entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions, from
Chandler's evocation of the murderous moods fed by the Santa
Ana winds to Dunne's affectionate tribute to "the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical light." 880pgs. • 2002
◆ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $17.98
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136582 GOD'S MAN, MADMAN'S DRUM, WILD
PILGRIMAGE
EDITED BY ART SPIEGELMAN
Ward, Lynd
In this, the first of two volumes collecting all of Ward's
woodcut novels, The Library of America brings together his
earliest books, published when the artist was still in his
twenties. The images reproduced in this volume are taken
from prints pulled from the original woodblocks or firstgeneration electrotypes. Art Spiegelman contributes an
introductory essay that defines Ward's towering achievement. 812pgs. • 2010
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $18.98
136584 PRELUDE TO A MILLION YEARS, SONG
WITHOUT WORDS, VERTIGO
EDITED BY ART SPIEGELMAN
Ward, Lynd
Prelude to a Million Years (1933) is a dark meditation on
art, inspiration, and the disparity between the ideal and the
real. Song Without Words (1936), a protest against the rise
of European fascism, asks if ours is a world still fit for the
human soul. Vertigo (1937), Ward's undisputed masterpiece, is an epic novel on the theme of the individual caught
in the downward spiral of a sinking American economy.
690pgs. • 2010
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $17.98
142726 SELECTED WRITINGS
Washington, George
In addition to being the indispensable founder of the American
republic, Washington was a writer of remarkable clarity, energy, force, and eloquence. This selection, introduced by Pulitzer
Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow, includes detailed
notes, an essay on the selection of texts, and a chronology of
Washington's life. 512pgs. • 2011
▲ • Library of America • P • $16.95 / $6.98
035804 WRITINGS
Washington, George
This one-volume collection -- the most
extensive and authoritative ever published - covers five decades of Washington's astonishingly active life. Bringing together over
440 letters, orders, addresses, and other
documents -- both public and personal -- it
reveals him to have been an energetic,
forceful, and at times eloquent writer.
035815 STORIES, ESSAYS AND
MEMOIR: A Curtain of Green; The
Wide Net; The Golden Apples; The
Bride of the Innisfallen; Selected
Essays One Writer's Beginnings
Welty, Eudora
Presents all of Welty's collected short stories, with full texts of A Curtain of Green
and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other
Stories, The Golden Apples, and The Bride
of the Innisfallen. Two stories from the 1960s, a selection of
occasional pieces and One Writer's Beginnings, Welty's sensitive memoir of her Jackson childhood round out the collection. 976pgs. • 1998
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035745 NOVELS: The House of Mirth;
The Reef; The Custom of the Country;
The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith
The four novels in this Library of America
volume show Wharton at the height of her
powers as a social observer and critic,
examining American and European lives
with a vision rich in detail, satire, and
tragedy. In each of them her strong autobiographical impulse is disciplined by her writer's craft and her
unfailing regard for her audience. 1328pgs. • 1986
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035716 COMPLETE POETRY AND COLLECTED PROSE
Whitman, Walt
Contains the first and "deathbed" editions of Leaves of Grass as
well as virtually all of Whitman's prose. 1380pgs. • 1982
▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
107236 LITERARY ESSAYS AND REVIEWS OF THE 1920S
AND '30S: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle /
Uncollected Reviews
Wilson, Edmund
Includes The Shores of Light, Wilson's magisterial assemblage
of early reviews, sketches, stories, memoirs, and other writings; Axel's Castle, his pioneering overview of literary modernism; and previously uncollected reviews, including discussions of H. L. Mencken, Edith Wharton, and Bernard Shaw.
958pgs. • 2007
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1149pgs. • 1997
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✪ 132660 SHE-WOLF: The Story of a Roman Icon
Mazzoni, Cristina
For more than two millennia, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and political accounts, literary treatments, and visual
representations in every medium. In this volume, Mazzoni
examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature from antiquity to contemporary times. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $9.98
079293 WHEELOCK'S LATIN
SIXTH EDITION REVISED
Wheelock, Frederic M.
The bestselling and most highly regarded volume of its kind.
Features 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors, self-tutorial exercises
with an answer key for independent study, an extensive
English-Latin / Latin-English vocabulary section, and a rich
selection of original Latin readings. 510pgs. • 2005
▲ • HarperCollins • P • $21.99 / $6.98
CU LTU RAL STU DIES
092752 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION
TO MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE
Bigsby, Christopher, ed.
A comprehensive and accessible overview
exploring the social, political, religious, and
economic forces that have shaped 20th-century America and its inhabitants. These challenging and varied essays discuss religious,
racial, sexual, and ethnic minorities, popular
culture, the arts, urban and suburban communities, sports,
politics, immigration, regionalism, and war. 516pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $15.98
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✪ 085555 CULTURAL RESISTANCE:
A Reader
Duncombe, Stephen, ed.
This expansive and carefully crafted
reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to defined culture as a
tool of resistance. With illuminating
introductions throughout, it presents a
range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary
debate, providing tools for the reader's own interventions.
400pgs. • 2002
◆ • Verso • P • $22.95 / $7.98
081354 EARLY POSTMODERNISM: Foundational Essays
Bove, Paul A., ed.
Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture,
the journal boundary 2 appeared when literary critical study in
the US was in a period of theory-induced ferment, and
attempted to formulate a critical sense of the postmodern.
Bove, the journal's current editor, has gathered many of the
foundational essays, assembling a basic text in the history of
postmodernism. 336pgs. • 1995
◆ • Duke • C NDJ • $84.95 / $7.98
147477 THE EMPIRE'S OLD
CLOTHES: What the Lone Ranger,
Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes
Do to Our Minds
Dorfman, Ariel
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel
Dorfman explores the political and
social implications of works such as
the Donald Duck comics, the Babar
children's books, and Reader's Digest
magazine. This edition includes a new Preface by the
author. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Duke • P • $22.95 / $6.98
041699 IMPOSSIBLE PURITIES: Blackness, Femininity,
and Victorian Culture
Brody, Jennifer DeVere
Examines the construction of "Englishness" as white, masculine,
and pure and "Americanness" as black, feminine, and impure.
Brody's readings of Victorian novels, plays, paintings, and science
fiction reveal that Victorian culture was bound inextricably to various forms and figures of blackness. 257pgs. • 1998
◆ • Duke • P • $23.95 / $5.98
033528 NATIONS, IDENTITIES, CULTURES
Mudimbe, V. Y., ed.
The contributors to this volume investigate the concepts of
nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the
contexts of exile and as a result of the consolidation of the ethnic and the political. They explore manifestations of these
issues in specific regions of the world. 233pgs. • 1997
◆ • Duke • P • $24.95 / $5.98
087056 PERVERSION AND THE SOCIAL RELATION
Rothenberg, Molly Anne, et al., eds.
Arguing that the concept of perversion, usually stigmatized,
ought rather to be understood as a necessary stage in the
development of all non-psychotic subjects, the essays collected here consider the usefulness of the category of the perverse
for exploring how social relations are formed, maintained,
and transformed. 232pgs. • 2003
◆ • Duke • C NDJ • $89.95 / $12.98
035496 RACIAL CASTRATION: Managing Masculinity in
Asian America
Eng, David L.
Exploring the role of sexuality in racial formation and the
place of race in sexual identity, Eng examines literary, visual,
and filmic images that configure past as well as contemporary
perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer. 290pgs. • 2001
◆ • Duke • C NDJ • $94.95 / $7.98
029910 THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
Debord, Guy
From its publication in the midst of the social upheavals of the
1960s to the present, these volatile theses have decisively
transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism,
and everyday life in the late 20th century. 154pgs. • 1994
◆ • Zone Books • P • $19.95 / $10.98
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 • $21.95 / $5.98
041803 WORKING LIKE A HOMOSEXUAL: Camp,
Capital, Cinema
Tinkcom, Matthew
What does camp have to do with capitalism? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli,
Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters, this volume
responds to these questions, arguing that post-World War II gay
male subcultures have fostered new ways not only of consuming
mass culture but of producing it as well. 226pgs. • 2002
◆ • Duke • P • $24.95 / $5.98
082122 A NATION OF REALTORS: A Cultural History of
the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
Hornstein, Jeffrey M.
How is it that in the 20th century virtually all Americans came
to think of themselves as "middle class"? In this cultural history of real estate brokerage, Jeffrey M. Hornstein argues that
the rise of the realtors as dealers in both domestic space and
in the ideology of home ownership provides tremendous
insight into this critical question. 272pgs. • 2005
◆ • Duke • P • $23.95 / $6.98
059483 THE WORLD TURNED: Essays on Gay History,
Politics, and Culture
D'Emilio, John
A distinguished historian and leading gay-rights activist shows
how gay issues moved from the margins to the center of
national consciousness during the critical decade of the
1990s. He illuminates the historical roots of contemporary
debates over identity politics and explains why the gay community has become, over the last decade, such a visible part of
American life. 262pgs. • 2002
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EASTERN EU ROPEAN STU DI ES
✪ 117111 THE BALKANS: A Short History
Mazower, Mark
Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a
zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and
clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam,
Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on a region whose troubles
have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years. 240pgs. •
2002
◆ • Modern Library • P • $15.00 / $5.98
142630 STALINIST SOCIETY: 1928-1953
Edele, Mark
A fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation
ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to
the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials,
interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs,
and personal diaries, the book offers a non-reductionist
account of social upheaval and social cohesion in a society
marred by violence. 384pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $24.98
✪ 149935 ROMANOV RICHES: Russian Writers and
Artists under the Tsars
Volkov, Solomon
Throughout the Romanov era, Russia's greatest artists and
thinkers, painters and poets, composers and dancers,
served two masters. In this sweeping cultural history of
Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its
downfall in 1917, Solomon Volkov unwinds the tangled
relationship between art and the royal family. 304pgs. •
2011
◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $7.98
104305 TERROR AND DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF
STALIN: The Social Dynamics of Repression
Goldman, Wendy Z.
The first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in
the Great Terror, a period in which millions of people were
arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. Using
new, formerly secret archival sources, Goldman shows how
ordinary people moved in clear stages toward madness and
self-destruction. 274pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $13.98
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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 • $31.95 / $14.98
127023 RELIGIONS OF JAPAN IN PRACTICE
Tanabe, George J., Jr., ed.
Reflecting a range of Japanese religions in their complex,
sometimes conflicting, diversity, this volume collection presents a wide range of documents (legends and miracle tales,
hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons,
reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic
writings), most of which are previously untranslated. 550pgs.
• 1999
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $26.98
✪ 150868 A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM AND
ZEN
Erhard, Franz-Karl, et al.
With more than 1,500 entries and 46 illustrations, this is the
most complete compact reference work of its kind available in
English. It is designed not only for students and meditators but
also as a tool to help familiarize all readers with Buddhist
terms and concepts -- such as chakra, karma, koan, nirvana,
and tantra -- that are encountered with increasing regularity in
a wide range of fields. 296pgs. • 2010
◆ • Shambhala • P • $24.95 / $9.98
✪ 051274 THE TAOIST CLASSICS,
VOLUME 1: The Collected Translations
of Thomas Cleary
Cleary, Thomas
Translated, edited, and introduced by
Thomas Cleary, the leading translator of
Asian spiritual literature, The Taoist
Classics (in four volumes) is the most
comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Taoist texts ever published in
English. 485pgs. • 2003
◆ • Shambhala • P • $34.95 / $14.98
124190 HISTORY OF BUDDHIST
THOUGHT
Thomas, Edward J.
A learned presentation of the development
of Buddhistic teachings over time.
Discusses in detail such topics as the ascetic ideal; the background of Buddhism,
Brahminism, and the Upanishads; karma,
release, and nirvana; the doctrine of the
void; the doctrine of consciousness only;
Buddhism and modern thought; and more. 338pgs. • 2002
◆ • Dover • P • $14.95 / $5.98
✪ 150873 THE WAY OF THE BODHISATTVA
Shantideva
Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the
Bodhisattva is a guide for anyone seeking to cultivate the
mind of enlightenment and the qualities of love, compassion, patience, and generosity. This audio edition, read by
Wulstan Fletcher, offers a new way to encounter the beauty
and profundity of Shantideva's verses. • 2008
◆ • Shambhala • CD • $19.95 / $9.98
041257 AN INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM: Teachings,
History and Practices
Harvey, Peter
A comprehensive introduction to Buddhist traditions as they
have developed in three major cultural areas in Asia, and to
Buddhism as it is now developing in the West. Emphasizing the
diversity found within different traditions, the book aims to
underline the common threads of belief, practice and historical continuities that unify the Buddhist world. 374pgs. • 1990
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $15.98
✪ 150872 THE WAY OF THE WORLD:
Readings in Chinese Philosophy
Cleary, Thomas, ed. & trans.
The dynamic relationship between the
individual and society has been a central
concern of Taoism from its ancient beginnings. This anthology presents a wide
range of texts revealing the processes of
integrating personal spirituality with social
responsibility central to Taoist tradition
across the centuries and throughout the various Taoist
schools. 128pgs. • 2009
◆ • Shambhala • P • $16.95 / $6.98
048990 AN INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM
Flood, Gavin
A thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism. Traces the
development of Hindu traditions from ancient origins and the
major deities to the modern world, discussing Hinduism as
both a global religion and a form of nationalism. Emphasis is
given to the tantric traditions, Hindu ritual, and Dravidian
influences. 341pgs. • 1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98
125677 YOGA: Immortality and Freedom
Eliade, Mircea
In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958,
Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and
practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the
20th century. A new Introduction by David Gordon White provides invaluable insight into Eliade's life and work. 568pgs. •
2009
▲ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $15.98
✪ 045991 KUNDALINI: The
Evolutionary Energy in Man
Krishna, Gopi
Coiled like a snake at the base of the
spine, kundalini is the spiritual force
that lies dormant in every human
being. This is the classic first-person
account of Gopi Krishna, an ordinary
Indian householder who, after years of
unsupervised meditation, suddenly
experienced the awakening of kundalini during his morning practice. 252pgs. • 1997
◆ • Shambhala • P • $18.95 / $6.98
✪ 118661 THE ZEN ART BOOK:
The Art of Enlightenment
Loori, John Daido & Stephen Addiss
When a Zen master puts brush to paper,
the resulting image is a teaching,
intended to stop us in our tracks and to
compel us to consider ultimate truth.
Here, 40 works by renowned masters
such as Hakuin Ekaku and Gibon
Sengai are reproduced along with commentary that illuminates both the art and its teaching. 128pgs.
• 2009
◆ • Shambhala • P • $21.95 / $7.98
✪ 080144 THE PATH OF THE HUMAN BEING: Zen
Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way
Glassman, Bernie & Dennis Genpo Merzel
One of the most highly regarded American Zen teachers demystifies the experience of enlightenment, which is nothing more than
the awakening to the true nature that is ever present in us all.
Through the practice of meditation, one is able to turn the light of
inquiry inward and discover this truth for oneself. 256pgs. • 2005
◆ • Shambhala • P • $16.95 / $6.98
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136579 THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY AND OTHER
WRITINGS, 1952-1967: American Capitalism; The
Great Crash 1929; The Affluent Society; The New
Industrial State
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with an
eloquence that burst the conventions of his discipline and
won a readership none of his fellow economists could
match. This Library of America volume, the first devoted to
an economist, gathers four of his key early works, the
books that established him as one of the leading public
intellectuals of the last century. 1056pgs. • 2010
◆ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
125784 ANIMAL SPIRITS: How
Human Psychology Drives the
Economy, and Why It Matters for
Global Capitalism
Akerlof, George A. & Robert J. Shiller
From blind faith in ever-rising housing
prices to plummeting confidence in capital
markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, two
acclaimed economists challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a
bold new vision that will transform economics and restore
prosperity. 264pgs. • 2009
▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $9.98
134092 BEAUTY PAYS: Why Attractive People are More
Successful
Hamermesh, Daniel
In the first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Hamermesh demonstrates how society favors the beautiful
and how better-looking people experience startling benefits in
all aspects of life. He shows that the attractive are more likely
to be employed, work more productively and profitably,
receive better pay, and have more handsome and more highly
educated spouses. 228pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
104368 THE BOX: How the Shipping
Container Made the World Smaller and
the World Economy Bigger
Levinson, Marc
In April 1956, a refitted tanker carried 58
shipping containers from Newark to
Houston. From that modest beginning,
container shipping developed into a huge
industry that made the boom in global
trade possible. In this fascinating volume,
Levinson shows how the container transformed economic
geography and brought consumers a previously unimaginable
variety of low-cost products from around the globe. 376pgs.
• 2008
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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 • $23.95 / $8.98
135764 THE DARWIN ECONOMY: Liberty,
Competition, and the Common Good
Frank, Robert
A leading economist argues that the failure to recognize that
we live in Darwin's world rather than Adam Smith's is preventing us from seeing that competition alone will not solve
our problems. Far from creating a perfect world, economic competition leads to "arms races" which encourage
behaviors that not only cause enormous harm to the group
but also provide no lasting advantages for individuals.
256pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $9.98
131949 THE ECONOMICS OF ENOUGH: How to Run the
Economy as if the Future Matters
Coyle, Diane
The world's leading economies are facing not just one but
many crises, as climate change threatens major disruptions,
economic inequality has soared to extremes not seen for a
century, and the ongoing global financial meltdown still looms.
In this volume, Coyle examines how we can achieve the financial growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future
for our children, our societies, and our planet. 336pgs. •
2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
✪ 087909 THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY: An Introduction
Varian, Hal R., et al.
An accessible review of economic factors affecting information technology industries. These industries are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs of production, large switching costs for users, and strong network effects. Varian outlines the basic economics of these
industries while Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro describe
the impact of these factors on competition policy. 112pgs.
• 2004
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✪ 044855 THE ECONOMIST'S VIEW
OF THE WORLD: Government,
Markets, and Public Policy
Rhoads, Steven E.
Outlining the importance of a wider
knowledge of microeconomics for
improving the effects and orientation of
public policy, Rhoads explains and assesses the ways in which micro, welfare, and
benefit-cost economists view the world of
public policy. His central focus is the "cross-over" from economic modeling to policy implementation. 331pgs. • 1985
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $9.98
048153 THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR GROWTH:
Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the
Tropics
Easterly, William
Since WW II, economists have tried to help poor countries in
the tropics attain standards of living approaching those of
countries in Europe and North America. None of the attempted remedies has delivered as promised, and Easterly argues
that the problem is not the failure of economics, but the failure to apply economic principles -- in particular the importance of incentives -- to practical policy work. 342pgs. • 2002
▲ • MIT • P • $28.95 / $14.98
051380 EMBEDDED AUTONOMY: States and Industrial
Transformation
Evans, Peter
In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too
often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans
questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why
state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters
in others. 336pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $24.98
111357 ESSAYS ON THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Bernanke, Ben S.
While the Great Depression was an unparalleled disaster,
some economies recovered faster than others. By comparing and contrasting the economic strategies and statistics of
the world's nations as they struggled to survive economically, the essays in this volume present a uniquely coherent
view of the economic causes and worldwide propagation of
the depression. 320pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $15.98
125769 A FAREWELL TO ALMS: A Brief Economic
History of the World
Clark, Gregory
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor?
Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich -- and
why did it make large parts of the world poorer? In this
provocative book, Clark tackles these questions and argues
that culture -- not exploitation, geography, or resources -explains the wealth and poverty of nations. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $9.98
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135560 FAULT LINES: How Hidden
Fractures Still Threaten the World
Economy
Rajan, Raghuram G.
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
142457 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF OUR TIME
Kolb, Robert W.
In 2006, residential real estate prices peaked and started to
fall, setting off a chain of events that eventually threatened the
global economy with disaster. Providing an essential, comprehensive review of the context within which these events unfolded, Kolb argues that in order to understand what happened
one must comprehend the mechanisms by which the housing
industry came into crisis. 424pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $12.98
122919 FINANCIAL MARKET BUBBLES AND CRASHES
Vogel, Harold L.
This volume presents a plausible and accessible descriptive
theory and empirical approach to the analysis of "bubble" and
"crash" conditions. It applies standard econometric methods
to its central conclusion, which is that financial bubbles reflect
urgent short-side rationed demand. 384pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • C • $38.00 / $7.98
125831 FREE TRADE
REIMAGINED: The World Division
of Labor and the Method of
Economics
Unger, Roberto Mangabeira
Argues that the movement of people
and ideas is more important than the
movement of things and money, and
that freedom to change the institutions
defining a market economy is as important as freedom to exchange goods. The book's sustained
criticism of the theory and practice of free trade serves as a
point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic ideas
with which we explain economic activity. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $11.98
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 • $28.95 / $13.98
149410 THE GREAT INFLATION AND
ITS AFTERMATH: The Past and Future
of American Affluence
Samuelson, Robert J.
From 1960 to 1979, inflation rose from
barely more than one percent to nearly
fourteen percent. It was the greatest peacetime inflationary spike in this nation's history, and it had massive repercussions. In
these pages, a distinguished economist
argues that we can't understand today's world -- or prepare
for the future -- without understanding the Great Inflation and
its aftermath. 352pgs. • 2010
▲ • Modern Library • P • $17.00 / $6.98
131665 THE HESITANT HAND: Taming Self-Interest in
the History of Economic Ideas
Medema, Steven
Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head when he
declared that the pursuit of self-interest led, via an invisible
hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole.
Steven Medema examines how subsequent economic thinkers
have challenged or reaffirmed Smith's doctrine, some contending that society needs government to intervene on its
behalf, others arguing that government interference ultimately
benefits neither the market nor society. 248pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $16.98
136991 LIFE OF ADAM SMITH
Ross, Ian Simpson
A revised edition of the only book to give
a full account of Smith's life while also
placing his work into the context of his
life and times. Updated to include new
scholarship which has recently come to
light, this full-scale biography examines
the personality, career, and social and
intellectual circumstances of the
Scottish moral philosopher who is regarded as the founder
of scientific economics. 500pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $50.00 / $16.98
142450 MARKETPLACE OF THE
GODS: How Economics Explains
Religion
Witham, Larry
Two centuries after Adam Smith illuminated the workings of the marketplace, a new
movement among economists and social
scientists is expanding his insights into a
groundbreaking "economics of religion."
Using cutting edge ideas from the behavioral sciences, and a deep knowledge of religious history, this
new approach is making sense not only of past beliefs, but of
religion today. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $7.98
133443 PLIGHT OF THE FORTUNE TELLERS: Why We
Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
Rebonato, Riccardo
Today's financial-risk professionals rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with
financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading, Rebonato argues. He shows how to
restore genuine decision making to our financial planning
using probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $9.98
034353 SECOND THOUGHTS: Myths
& Morals of U. S. Economic History
McCloskey, Donald N., ed.
This collection of essays examines topics in
economic history that bear directly on
present policy debates. The contributors
re-evaluate the issues and events that have
influenced current economic thinking, and
weigh the usefulness of past history as a
way of preparing for the future. 208pgs. •
1995
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126225 WHAT'S LUCK GOT TO DO
WITH IT?: The History, Mathematics,
and Psychology of the Gambler's
Illusion
Mazur, Joseph
Why do so many gamblers risk it all when
they know the odds of winning are against
them? Why do they believe dice are "hot" in
a winning streak? This lively and eye-opening look at the mathematics, history, and
psychology of gambling exposes the hazards of feeling lucky,
and uses the mathematics of predictable outcomes to show
when our chances of winning are actually good. 288pgs. •
2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
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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 • $49.95 / $12.98
140737 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: At Home in Georgian
England
Vickery, Amanda
In this brilliant work, Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian
England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. She
introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion,
bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his
dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms, and servants with only a locking box to
call their own. 368pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $12.98
✪ 048939 BISHOP VON GALEN: German Catholicism
and National Socialism
Griech-Polelle, Beth A.
Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Munster from
1933 until his death in 1946, is renowned for his opposition to Nazism, most notably for his public preaching in
1941 against Hitler's euthanasia project. This provocative
and revisionist biographical study views von Galen from a
different perspective: as a complex figure who moved
between dissent and complicity with the Nazi regime.
259pgs. • 2002
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148104 BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND
CONTINENTAL EUROPE IN THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Similarities,
Connections, Identities
Conway, Stephen
A new perspective on the relationship of
18th-century Britain and Ireland with continental Europe. Conway suggests that if the
British and Irish thought and acted in
national terms, and as part of an Atlantic
and wider imperial world, they were also able, in the appropriate circumstances, to see themselves as Europeans.
384pgs. • 2011
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✪ 150629 BRITAIN'S EMPIRE: Resistance, Repression
and Revolt
Gott, Richard
This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held
belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing
enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Gott
reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual
violence, through which British rule was imposed as a military
operation and maintained as a military dictatorship. 480pgs.
• 2011
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087395 THE BRITISH ISLES: A
History of Four Nations
Kearney, Hugh
A new edition of the classic account of the
British Isles from pre-Roman times to the
present, distinguished by its treatment of
English history as part of a wider "history
of four nations." Kearney narrates the histories of Wales, Ireland and Scotland in
their own terms, surveys the recent historiographical renaissance in these nations, and considers the
implications for "four-nations" history in the context of a new
multiethnic Britain. 380pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $23.98
104342 BUDWEISERS INTO CZECHS AND GERMANS: A
Local History of Bohemian Politics
King, Jeremy
German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Budæjovice belonged to
the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to
Czechoslovakia, to Hitler's Third Reich, and to Czechoslovakia
again. This history of a single town in Bohemia casts new light
on nationalism in Central Europe between the Springtime of
Nations in 1848 and the Cold War. 304pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
043561 THE BUSINESS OF ALCHEMY: Science and
Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
Smith, Pamela H.
Explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and
commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the
Holy Roman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, showing
how religious salvation was transformed into material
increase. 308pgs. • 1994
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $27.98
✪ 150632 CASUALTY FIGURES:
How Five Men Survived the First
World War
Barrett, Michele
This unique investigation of the impact
of the Great War on the soldiers who
survived it examines the lives of five
ordinary soldiers who endured the
horrors of the "war to end all wars,"
both at the front and in the aftermath of
the conflict. Through their stories, Barrett sheds new light
on the nature of the psychological damage of war. 174pgs.
• 2008
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132172 THE CEREMONIAL CITY: History, Memory and
Myth in Renaissance Venice
Fenlon, Iain
Revisits the dramatic events that took place in Venice in the
1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that
claimed one-quarter of the Venetian population. Analyzing
reactions to this dramatic decade, Fenlon throws fresh light on
the city's distinct civic and cultural ethos and uncovers new
aspects of its urban topography, ceremony, and cultural life.
464pgs. • 2008
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✪ 150774 CHAVS: The Demonization of the Working
Class
Jones, Owen
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object
of fear and ridicule, as media and politicians alike dismiss
as feckless, criminalized, and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become
stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how Britain's
working class has gone from "salt of the earth" to "scum of
the earth." 304pgs. • 2011
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✪ 149523 CIVIL SOCIETY AND
EMPIRE: Ireland and Scotland in the
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Livesey, James
Traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society not to England or
France, but to the provincial societies of
Ireland and Scotland in the 18th century.
Livesey shows how civil society was invented as an idea of renewed community for
provincial and defeated elites, and how this innovation
allowed those elites to enjoy liberty without directly participating in the governance of the British Empire. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $9.98
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087175 A CONCISE HISTORY OF
GERMANY
SECOND EDITION
Fulbrook, Mary
The multi-faceted, problematic history of
the German lands has supplied material for
a wide range of debates and differences of
interpretation. The text spans the early
Middle Ages to the present day, synthesizing
a vast array of historical material, as
Fulbrook explores interrelationships between social, political
and cultural factors in the light of recent scholarly controversies. 296pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $14.98
053755 A CONCISE HISTORY OF ITALY: Updated
Edition
Duggan, Christopher
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the late 20th century, this
volume focuses on the difficulties Italy has faced in forging a
nation state. It considers the geographical and cultural obstacles to unity, and surveys the centuries of political fragmentation that Italy's new rulers had to overcome when the country
became unified, more by accident than design, in 1859-61.
324pgs. • 1994
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $14.98
131005 A CONCISE HISTORY OF SPAIN
Phillips, William D., Jr. & Carla Rahn
Phillips
The rich cultural and political life of Spain
has emerged from its complex history, from
the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This
book traces that history from prehistoric
times to the present, focusing particularly
on culture, society, politics, and personalities. 362pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $14.98
110014 CONTAGION AND THE STATE
IN EUROPE, 1830-1930
Baldwin, Peter
Explores the historical reasons for the
divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and
Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to
the threat of diseases such as cholera,
smallpox, and syphilis. The book employs
medical history to illuminate broader
questions of the development of statutory intervention and the
comparative and divergent evolution of the modern state.
581pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $43.00 / $16.98
119162 CROSSING THE RHINE:
Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944
and 1945 -- The Greatest Airborne
Battles in History
Clark, Lloyd
A richly detailed account of the Allied
airborne assaults on the Rhine, the two
most critical offensives in World War
II's western theater after D-Day. In the
first, in September 1944, 35,000 paratroopers were forced to retreat after nine days of intense
fighting; the second, in March 1945, succeeded, and
brought the Allies into heart of the Third Reich. 416pgs. •
2008
◆ • Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $7.98
149405 DONOSO CORTÉS: Cassandra of the Age
Herrara, R.A.
This study of the mercurial life and thought of Donoso Cortés
explores the kaleidoscopic world of 19th-century Europe,
whose political and ideological intrigue so shaped Donoso's
own diplomatic and religious aspirations. Capturing the fluidity of his life, Herrera stresses the religious, social, and political importance of Donoso's thought. 114pgs. • 1995
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142596 EUROPEAN CITIES AND TOWNS: 400-2000
Clark, Peter
This study, which ranges from the fall of the Roman Empire to
the present, examines both regional trends and the widely differing fortunes of individual communities. Embracing northern and eastern Europe as well as the city systems of the
Mediterranean and western Europe, it addresses debates ranging from the nature of urban survival in the post-Roman era to
the position of the European city in a globalizing world.
432pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $17.98
099033 EUROPEAN SEXUALITIES,
1400-1800
Crawford, Katherine
A major survey of the social and cultural
history of sexuality in early modern
Europe. By emphasizing the interrelationship between practices and ideological
change, Crawford illuminates the conditions in which our modern notions of sexuality were developed. This book will be
essential reading for students of early modern European history and the history of sexuality. 258pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $17.98
134829 EVENING'S EMPIRE: A History of the Night
in Early Modern Europe
Koslofsky, Craig
A fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the
night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with
representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early modern Europe. 448pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $19.98
039510 THE HISTORY OF ITALY
Guicciardini, Francesco
In 1537, Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to
three popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador, administrator, and military captain, retired to his villa to
write a history of his times. His Storia d'Italia became the classic history of Italy -- both a brilliant portrayal of the
Renaissance and a penetrating vision into the tragedy and
comedy of human history in general. 457pgs. • 1984
▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $17.98
133891 THE INNER LIFE OF EMPIRES:
An Eighteenth-Century History
Rothschild, Emma
The intimate history of the Johnstone family -- four sisters and seven brothers who
lived in Scotland and around the globe in
the fast-changing 18th century. Piecing
together their voyages, marriages, debts,
and lawsuits, and examining their ideas,
sentiments, and values, Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy,
the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment.
496pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $14.98
135499 IRELAND: A History
Bartlett, Thomas
A magisterial political, social, cultural and economic history of
Ireland from prehistory to the present by one of the country's
leading historians. 642pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $14.98
129392 LUSTMORD: Sexual Murder
in Weimar Germany
Tatar, Maria M.
In a book that confronts our society's
obsession with sexual violence, Maria
Tatar challenges us to consider what is taking place -- both artistically and socially -in the construction and circulation of
scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining such scenes, she produces a riveting
study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual
politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present.
213pgs. • 1997
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134618 THE ANCIEN RÉGIME AND THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION
Tocqueville, Alexis de
This new translation by Arthur Goldhammer of an undisputed
classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Readers will
appreciate Tocqueville's work for its sense of irony and
tragedy, for its deep insights into political psychology, and for
its impassioned defense of liberty. 320pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $19.99 / $10.98
030855 THE EXPECTATION OF
JUSTICE: France 1944-1946
Koreman, Megan
Traces the experiences of three small
French towns during the troubled
months of the Provisional Government
following the Liberation in 1944. As the
first social history of the period from the
perspective of ordinary people,
Koreman's study reveals how citizens of
these towns expected legal, social, and honorary justice, such
as punishment for collaborators, fair food distribution, and
formal commemoration of patriots. 340pgs. • 1999
◆ • Duke • P • $26.95 / $6.98
138496 FOR THE SOUL OF FRANCE: Culture Wars in
the Age of Dreyfus
Brown, Frederick
Describes how France, in the wake of its humiliation in the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, dissolved into two competing cultural factions. On the one hand stood moderates and
proponents of a secular state, and on the other reactionaries
who saw their ideal nation -- militant, Catholic, royalist -embodied by Joan of Arc, and who believed that France had
suffered defeat as punishment for having betrayed its true
faith. 336pgs. • 2010
◆ • Knopf • C • $28.95 / $7.98
✪ 123174 THE GIANT OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION: Danton, a Life
Lawday, David
In the first biography of Danton in more
than 40 years, David Lawday reveals the
larger-than-life figure who joined in
storming the Bastille in 1789 only to be
guillotined five years later at the height of
the Terror. In vivid prose, he leads us
from Danton's humble roots to the peak
of power, where, as the newly appointed Minister of Justice,
Danton struggled to steer the increasingly divided
Revolutionary government. 304pgs. • 2010
▲ • Grove Press • C • $27.50 / $7.98
140360 THE MARNE 1914: The
Opening of World War I and the
Battle That Changed the World
Herwig, Holger H.
A bold new account of the cataclysmic
encounter that prevented a quick
German victory in World War I. With
exclusive information based on newly
unearthed documents, Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany's aggressive "Schlieffen Plan" as a carefully
crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior
coalitions. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Modern Library • P • $17.00 / $6.98
105326 MUSSOLINI AND HIS GENERALS: The Armed
Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940
Gooch, John
The first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the
relationship between the military and foreign policies of
Fascist Italy. Gooch shows that while Mussolini bore ultimate
responsibility for Italy's fateful entry into the Second World
War, his generals and admirals bore a share of the blame for
defeat through policies that all too often rested on irrationality and incompetence. 651pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • C • $50.00 / $12.98
132170 NAPOLEON: The Path to
Power, 1769-1799
Dwyer, Philip
One of the first truly modern politicians,
Napoleon was a master of "spin," who
used the media to project an idealized
image of himself. Dwyer sheds new light
on Napoleon's inner life -- especially his
darker side and his passions -- to reveal a
ruthless, manipulative, driven man whose
character has been disguised by the public image he carefully
fashioned to suit the purposes of his ambition. 672pgs. •
2008
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Stone, Bailey
Synthesizes recent scholarly literature on the diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of 18th-century
and revolutionary France. Stone attributes the outbreak of the
French Revolution, and the violent developments of the subsequent decade, to the combined pressures of international and
domestic politics on national leaders who tried to govern and
modernize France. 300pgs. • 2002
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131019 A REVOLUTION IN TASTE: The Rise of French
Cuisine, 1650-1800
Pinkard, Susan
A history of the new French cooking from its origins in the
1650s through the emergence of cuisine bourgeoise and the
original nouvelle cuisine in the decades before 1789. Pinkard
traces the roots and development of this culinary revolution to
many different historical trends, including changes in material culture, social transformations, medical theory and practice, and the Enlightenment. 334pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $21.99 / $9.98
125926 THE WIND FROM THE EAST: French
Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of
the 1960s
Wolin, Richard
During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers,
and artists were seized with a fascination for Maoism.
Combining an exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s,
Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, motivated
by utopian hopes, reinvigorated the country's civic and cultural life. 400pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $15.98
✪ 150704 NAPOLEON'S CURSED WAR: Spanish Popular
Resistance in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814
Fraser, Ronald
In this definitive account of the Peninsular War, Napoleon's
six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led
to the emperor's devastating defeat against the popular opposition and their British and Portuguese allies. He captures the
reality of "Napoleon's Vietnam" and the suffering, discontent,
and social upheaval that accompanied the fighting. 480pgs. •
2008
◆ • Verso • C • $54.95 / $12.98
135146 THE ORDEAL OF
ELIZABETH MARSH: A Woman in
World History
Colley, Linda
Elizabeth Marsh was conceived in
Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and
Menorca, visited the Cape of Africa and
Rio de Janeiro, explored eastern and
southern India, and was held captive at
the court of the sultan of Morocco. In
this remarkable reconstruction of an 18th-century
woman's extraordinary life, Linda Colley not only tells the
story of one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but
also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.
400pgs. • 2008
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✪ 152013 PALMERSTON: A
Biography
Brown, David Alan
A comprehensive biography of the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865), who
served as foreign secretary for fifteen years
and prime minister for nine, engaged in
struggles with everyone from the Duke of
Wellington to Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert, engineered the defeat of the
Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major role in the
development of liberalism and the Liberal Party. 584pgs. •
2011
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $14.98
✪ 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 18th-century man's deepest responses to this brave
new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it.
352pgs. • 2009
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135484 THE RELIGIOUS ENLIGHTENMENT: Protestants,
Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna
Sorkin, David
Reveals how the major religions of Europe gave rise to movements of renewal and reform that championed such
Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness and natural religion,
toleration and natural law. Sorkin shows how Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism
were influential participants in the 18th century's public
sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations.
360pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $17.98
116156 THE ROADS TO MODERNITY: The British,
French and American Enlightenments
Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations,
Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the
British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David
Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the contributions of the
American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues,
that created a social ethic -- humane, compassionate, and
realistic -- that still resonates strongly today. 304pgs. • 2008
◆ • Vintage • P • IMPORT / $5.98
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 • $30.95 / $17.98
132171 SPAIN, EUROPE AND THE
WIDER WORLD 1500-1800
Elliott, J. H.
Organized around three themes -- early
modern Europe; European overseas
expansion; and the works and historical
context of El Greco, Velázquez, Rubens,
and Van Dyck -- this volume offers a rich
survey of the themes at the heart of Elliott's
interests throughout a career distinguished
by excellence and innovation. 352pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $38.00 / $7.98
049261 STATES AND SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS: A
Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
Skocpol, Theda
Why have social revolutions occurred in some countries but
not in others? How and why have pre-revolutionary regimes
come into crisis? Skocpol's study offers important new theoretical strategies within a comparative historical analysis of the
causes and outcomes of three major instances of social revolution. 448pgs. • 1979
◆ • Cambridge • P • $41.00 / $21.98
✪ 126840 THE TWILIGHT YEARS:
The Paradox of Britain Between the
Wars
Overy, Richard
By the end of World War I, the modern
era's promise of progress was overshadowed in Britain by a looming sense of
decay and death. Overy argues that the
coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain's leading thinkers, who saw in it an
extraordinary test for the survival of civilization, and a way
of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the
future. 544pgs. • 2009
◆ • Viking • C • $35.00 / $5.98
144916 VENICE: History of the Floating City
Ferraro, Joanne M.
A sweeping historical portrait of Venice from its foundations to
the present day. Ferraro considers the city's unique construction within an amphibious environment and identifies the
Asian, European, and North African exchange networks that
have made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean
cultural center. 299pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • C • $28.99 / $14.98
✪ 105424 WHAT WAS HISTORY?: The
Art of History in Early Modern Europe
Grafton, Anthony
From the late 15th century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books
about how to read and evaluate history. In
this book, Grafton examines why so many
of these works were written, why they
attained so much insight -- and why, in the
centuries that followed, most scholars
gradually forgot that they had existed. 319pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.00 / $9.98
FI LM & M EDIA STU DI ES
116091 THE ABCS OF CLASSIC
HOLLYWOOD
Ray, Robert B.
A deceptively simple book that spells
out a fascinating account of the most
powerful storytelling system ever
designed. In a series of entries -- at least
one for every letter of the alphabet -Ray looks closely at four movies from
the period during which the American
studio system reached the peak of its economic and cultural power: Grand Hotel, The Philadelphia Story, The Maltese
Falcon, and Meet Me in St. Louis. 392pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $7.98
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104372 AN ACCENTED CINEMA:
Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking
Naficy, Hamid
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $46.95 / $21.98
107426 ACCESS DENIED: The Practice and Policy of
Global Internet Filtering
Palfrey, John G., et al.
Many countries around the world block or filter web content,
denying access to information they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. This volume documents and analyzes internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first
rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend. 449pgs.
• 2007
◆ • MIT • P • $23.00 / $11.98
117110 THE AGE OF MISSING
INFORMATION
McKibben, Bill
Bill McKibben subjected himself to an
entire day's worth of television on 93 channels in an experiment to verify whether we
are truly better informed than previous
generations. Then, as a counterpoint, he
spent a day on a remote Adirondack mountaintop. As relevant now as it was when
originally written in 1992, this witty and astute book is certain
to change the way you look at television and perceive media as
a whole. 288pgs. • 2006
▲ • Modern Library • P • $16.00 / $5.98
140891 THE AGE OF MOVIES: Selected Writings
Kael, Pauline
Pauline Kael called movies "the most total and encompassing
art form we have," and she made her reviews a platform for
considering both film and the worlds it engages, crafting in the
process a prose style of extraordinary wit, precision, and
improvisatory grace. This volume includes her appraisals of
the films that defined an era, including Breathless, Bonnie and
Clyde, The Leopard, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris,
Nashville, and many others. 750pgs. • 2011
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $19.98
101662 AMERICAN MOVIE CRITICS: From the
Silents until Now
Lopate, Phillip, ed.
A dynamic force in American culture since the early 20th
century, movies have presented several generations of
American writers and reviewers with a fascinating and challenging subject. This volume reveals how those critics rose
to the challenge, and in the process created an extraordinary body of work. Joining the full-time film critics are
many distinguished American authors, including Ralph
Ellison, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, Brendan Gill, and
John Ashbery. 825pgs. • 2006
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
116784 AMERICAN MOVIE CRITICS: An Anthology
from the Silents until Now
Lopate, Phillip, ed.
Contents as above. 784pgs. • 2008
▲ • Library of America • P • $24.95 / $7.98
123052 THE CAMBRIDGE
INTRODUCTION TO MODERN BRITISH
THEATRE
Shepherd, Simon
Introduces the features that have characterized British theatre since 1900. The topics covered include experimental performances under motorways, plays by Stoppard
and Ayckbourn, amateur theatre and virtual spaces, the emergence of the director,
the changing role of writers, and political and community
shows. 268pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
✪ 149450 ENGAGING THE MOVING IMAGE
Carroll, Noel
Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology and analytic
philosophy, Carroll examines a wide range of topics, including
the nature and epistemology of documentary film, the moral
status of television, the concept of film style, the foundations of
film evaluation, the film theory of Siegfried Kracauer, the ideology of the professional western, and films by Sergei
Eisenstein and Yvonne Rainer. 448pgs. • 2003
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $9.98
148127 ETHICS AT THE CINEMA
Jones, Ward E. & Samantha Vice, eds.
A diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of
film engage with the issues raised by a single film of each
contributor's choice. The discussions focus on both classic
and modern films, and cover topics ranging from problems
that are of traditional concern to philosophers, such as
virtue and justice, to problems like sexuality and cultural
identity that are of traditional concern to filmmakers.
352pgs. • 2011
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127078 FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER: A Psychological
History of the German Film
Kracauer, Siegfried
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
110960 GILLES DELEUZE'S TIME-MACHINE
Rodowick, David N.
Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France's most celebrated
20th-century thinkers, his theories of cinema have largely
been ignored by American scholars. Rodowick fills this gap by
presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of
the philosopher's work on film and images. 320pgs. • 1997
◆ • Duke • C NDJ • $84.95 / $9.98
125980 THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN CINEMA: A Guide to
Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century
Brunetta, Gian Piero
The most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published.
Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented for the first time in English, this landmark book traces the
complete history of filmmaking in Italy from its origins in the
silent era through its golden age in the 1940s, 1950s, and
1960s, its subsequent decline, and its resurgence today.
378pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $16.98
040842 THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA
Manovich, Lev
Places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries, discusses its reliance on conventions of old media, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent
space. 354pgs. • 2001
◆ • MIT • P • $29.95 / $14.98
064403 MAE WEST: An Icon in Black and White
Watts, Jill
Portrays West as a trickster, demonstrating that by appropriating the black tradition of double-speak and "signifying," West
also may have hinted at her own African-American ancestry
and the phenomenon of a black woman passing for white.
374pgs. • 2003
▲ • Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $16.98
✪ 150725 RED VELVET SEAT: Women's Writings on
the First Fifty Years of Cinema
Lant, Antonia & Ingrid Periz, eds.
A landmark anthology of women's writing on film. The
sources include fashion and parenting magazines, newspapers and literary journals, memoirs and etiquette guides,
while the contributors range from novelists such as Virginia
Woolf, Colette, and Rebecca West to psychoanalysts, poets,
social reformers, labor organizers, film editors, screen
beauties, and race activists. 872pgs. • 2006
◆ • Verso • P • $39.95 / $12.98
140731 STALINIST CINEMA AND THE PRODUCTION OF
HISTORY: Museum of the Revolution
Dobrenko, Evgeny
Arguing that both Lenin and Stalin valued cinema as the most
effective form of propaganda and "organization of the masses," Dobrenko examines Stalinist historical films and the novels from which they drew. He shows how these works transformed the experience and trauma of the past into a legitimizing historical narrative -- the basis of a new mythology.
272pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $9.98
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132185 ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: A
Life
Brogan, Hugh
A brilliant account of the life of one of the
greatest political thinkers of all time. Alexis
de Tocqueville lost nearly his entire family
during the Terror, and spent most of his
adult life struggling for liberty under in
19th-century France. His Democracy in
America remains, by general consensus,
the best book ever written by a European about the US.
736pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • P • $20.00 / $6.98
088645 BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE
SEA: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American
Maritime World, 1700-1750
Rediker, Marcus
Rediker reconstructs the world of 18th-century AngloAmerican seamen and pirates in order to illuminate larger
social and political issues such as the rise of capitalism, slavery, the genesis of free wage labor, and the growth of an international working class. He follows seamen and ships along
pulsing trade routes, recreates life in the brothels and alehouses along the waterfront, and explores both the natural
disasters and the man-made terrors -- harsh discipline, brutal
floggings, grisly hangings -- that shaped the lives of those who
plied forbidding oceans. 337pgs. • 1989
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $18.98
112185 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
WARFARE: The Triumph of the West
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 • $37.99 / $19.98
044865 CEREMONIES OF POSSESSION
IN EUROPE'S CONQUEST OF THE NEW
WORLD, 1492-1640
Seed, Patricia
Explores the array of ceremonies that the
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and
Dutch performed to enact their taking possession of the New World. The book develops the historic cultural contexts of these
ceremonies, and tackles the implications
of these histories for contemporary nation-states of the postcolonial era. 199pgs. • 1995
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $14.98
104818 EARTHQUAKES IN HUMAN
HISTORY: The Far-Reaching Effects of
Seismic Disruptions
Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle & Donald
Theodore Sanders
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $13.98
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A series of volumes presenting primary documents by some
of history's most incendiary political thinkers.
✪ 150626 THE BOLIVARIAN
REVOLUTION
PRESENTED BY HUGO CHÁVEZ
Bolívar, Simón
Known throughout Latin America as
"the Liberator," Simón Bolívar was one
of the most important leaders in the
wars of independence from Spain. His
galvanizing words remain as relevant
for current political and social struggles as they were in his own day. 160pgs. • 2009
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✪ 150637 A COMMON TREASURY
PRESENTED BY TONY BENN
Winstanley, Gerrard
At the end of the English Civil War,
Gerrard Winstanley and his comrades,
known as Diggers, went to St. George's
Hill, to farm the common land and to
distribute the food for free amongst
themselves. Winstanley's extraordinary
writings, which have remained a huge
influence for many on the Left, are cited as some of the earliest examples of communist thought. 192pgs. • 2011
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✪ 150641 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
PRESENTED BY MICHAEL HARDT
Jefferson, Thomas
Introducing this collection of Jefferson's writings, Michael
Hardt, co-author of the modern classics Empire and
Multitude, makes a powerful case for re-examining the
foundational writings of this American revolutionary in
order to reignite the dialogue that first conceived of a "Land
of the Free." 160pgs. • 2007
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✪ 150643 DOWN WITH COLONIALISM!
PRESENTED BY WALDEN BELLO
Ho Chi Minh
In this edition of the writings of Ho Chi Minh, anti-globalization activist Walden Bello shows why the founder of the
Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam should still be read by anti-imperialists the world
over. 160pgs. • 2007
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✪ 150734 SERMON TO THE
PRINCES
PRESENTED BY WU MING
Müntzer, Thomas
A radical pastor who demanded the
realization of the Kingdom of Heaven
on Earth, Müntzer led the 1524
Peasants' War in Germany, an insurrection that culminated in his brutal execution. Gathered here, along with his
final confession, are some of his rousing sermons attacking
the princes and preaching an early form of communism.
176pgs. • 2010
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087656 ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM: The Biological
Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
NEW EDITION
Crosby, Alfred W.
Revisiting his classic work and again evaluating the ecological
reasons for European expansion, Crosby explains that the
Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones of North America, Australia, and
New Zealand was more a matter of biology than of imperialistic military conquest. 390pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $18.98
✪ 152016 FACTS ARE SUBVERSIVE:
Political Writing from a Decade
Without a Name
Garton Ash, Timothy
This collection of essays displays
Garton Ash's knack for ferreting out
exceptional insights into a troubled
world. Whether writing about how "liberalism" has become a dirty word in
American political discourse, the problems of Muslim assimilation in Europe, Ukraine's Orange
Revolution, or the angry youth of Iran, Garton Ash combines a gimlet eye for detail with deep knowledge of the history of his chosen subjects. 464pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $37.00 / $5.98
133694 HISTORY MAN: The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Inglis, Fred
Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, R. G.
Collingwood (1889-1943) was also a historian, archaeologist,
sailor, artist, and musician. This vivid narrative recounts his
remarkable life, from his happy Lakeland childhood to his
successes at Oxford, his archaeological digs, his solo sailing
adventures in the English Channel, and his sometimes turbulent romantic life. 400pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
131779 IS EATING PEOPLE WRONG?:
Great Legal Cases and How they
Shaped the World
Hutchinson, Allan C.
Explores the consequences of eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the
US, and Australia. The book depicts common law as a dynamic process, and
reveals the diverse and uncoordinated
attempts by courts to adapt the law to
changing conditions and shifting demands. 260pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $12.98
131058 JEWS AND BLACKS IN THE
EARLY MODERN WORLD
Schorsch, Jonathan
Describes how Jews imagined and treated
Africans and their descendants during the
first three centuries of the Atlantic slave
trade and European colonialism. Using
many previously unexamined sources, it
lays out for the first time the scope of
Jewish anti-Blackness in places such as
Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam, and the
Caribbean. 560pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $16.98
✪ 063674 MAKING OF NEW WORLD SLAVERY: From
the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800
Blackburn, Robin
Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from
medieval times to the early modern epoch, Blackburn
argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning
consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of
plantation slavery. 608pgs. • 1998
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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
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✪ 150694 THE MEANING OF THE SECOND WORLD
WAR
Mandel, Ernest
In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict,
Mandel outlines his view that the war was a combination of
several distinct struggles and a battle between rival imperialisms for world hegemony. Examining the role played by
technology, science, logistics, weapons, and propaganda, he
weaves a consideration of the military strategy of the opposing states into his analytical narrative of the war and its
results. 212pgs. • 2011
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Global History of World War II
NEW EDITION
Weinberg, Gerhard L.
Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume remains the first history of WWII to
provide a truly global account of a war
that encompassed six continents.
Starting with the changes that restructured Europe and its colonies following
the WWI, Weinberg sheds new light on every aspect of WWII,
as actions of the Axis, the Allies, and the Neutrals are covered in every theater of the war. 1208pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $19.98
142976 POTTED HISTORY: The
Story of Plants in the Home
Horwood, Catherine
A lively exploration of how, when, and
why our most ubiquitous and beloved
houseplants came to have a place in our
homes and in our hearts. Catherine
Horwood's novel combination of social
history, plant history, and the history of
interior design is accompanied by period
illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources. 208pgs. •
2007
◆ • Frances Lincoln • C • $40.00 / $14.98
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 • $24.95 / $13.98
118896 THE RED FLAG: A History of
Communism
Priestland, David
The epic story of a movement that took root
in dozens of countries across 200 years,
from its birth after the French Revolution to
its ideological maturity in 19th-century
Germany to its rise (and subsequent fall) in
the 20th century. Priestland examines the
motives of thinkers and leaders including
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Che Guevara, Mao, Ho Chi
Minh, Gorbachev, and many others. 560pgs. • 2009
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040658 BIOETHICS: Ancient Themes in Contemporary
Issues
Kuczewski, Mark G. & Ronald M. Polansky, eds.
In a systematic and sustained exploration of the relationship
between classical and biomedical ethics, contemporary
bioethicists and scholars of Greek philosophy bring the profound weight of Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, and the Sophists
to bear on contemporary issues such as managed care,
euthanasia, suicide, and abortion. 304pgs. • 2002
◆ • MIT • P • $27.00 / $13.98
088711 THE CHRONOLOGERS'
QUEST: The Search for the Age of
the Earth
Jackson, Patrick N. Wyse
The debate over the age of the Earth
has pitted physicists and astronomers
against biologists, religious philosophers against geologists. This book
investigates the many methods
employed in the search for the Earth's
age, from Ussher's examination of biblical chronologies,
through the attempts by Comte de Buffon and Kelvin to
determine the length of time for the cooling of the Earth, to
recent investigations into radioactive dating of rocks and
meteorites. 310pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • C • $55.00 / $9.98
051751 ENERGIES: An Illustrated Guide to the
Biosphere and Civilization
Smil, Vaclav
A comprehensive survey of all the forms of energy that shape
our world, from the sun to the human body to microchips, and
explains the science of the energy form as well as its implications for the functioning of the universe, life, or society.
210pgs. • 1999
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040718 THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF THE BODY AND THE
DIVERGENCE OF GREEK AND CHINESE MEDICINE
Kuriyama, Shigeshisa
In this volume Kuriyama ponders the different ways the human
body was envisaged in classical Greek medicine and in ancient
China, asking how the body came to be conceived by two
sophisticated civilizations in such radically divergent ways.
340pgs. • 1999
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✪ 111476 THE FLIGHT FROM
REALITY IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES
Shapiro, Ian
In discipline after discipline, Shapiro
argues, scholars have fallen prey to
inward-looking myopia that results from
and perpetuates a flight from reality. As an
alternative, he makes a compelling case for
problem-driven social research rooted in a
realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of social explanation. 223pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $13.98
034453 IMRE LAKATOS AND THE GUISES OF REASON
Kadvany, John
Shows that within Lakatos's English-language work in the philosophy of science is a historical philosophy rooted in his
Hungarian past. Below the surface of the philosophy of science
and mathematics, Lakatos covertly introduced transformations
of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality. 378pgs. • 2001
◆ • Duke • P • $29.95 / $7.98
030588 MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, AND POSTCLASSICAL
THEORY
Smith, Barbara Herenstein & Arkady Plotnitsky, eds.
A collection of essays dealing with the intersections between
science and mathematics currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist history and sociology of
science, and related work in contemporary philosophy.
279pgs. • 1997
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140390 OBJECTIVITY
Daston, Lorraine & Peter Galison
From the 18th through the early 21st centuries, the images that have revealed the
deepest commitments of the empirical sciences -- from anatomy to crystallography -are those featured in the scientific atlases
that teach practitioners what is worth looking at and how to look at it. In this volume,
Galison and Daston use these atlas images
to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its
rivals. 501pgs. • 2010
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049817 ON TYCHO'S ISLAND: Tycho Brahe, Science,
and Culture in the Sixteenth Century
Christianson, John Robert
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), the premier patron-practitioner of science in 16th-century Europe, established a new
role of scientist as administrator, active reformer, and natural philosopher. This book explores his wide range of
activities, which encompass much more than his reputed
role of astronomer. 361pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $16.98
029727 THE PHILOSOPHY OF
SCIENCE
Boyd, Richard, et al., eds.
Covers the most important developments
of the past 60 years, charting the rise and
decline of logical positivism and the gradual emergence of a new consensus concerning the major issues and theoretical
options in the field. 800pgs. • 1997
◆ • MIT • P • $65.00 / $36.98
✪ 150718 THE PURE SOCIETY:
From Darwin to Hitler
Pichot, Andre & David Fernbach
In this timely and trenchant history of
eugenics, one of France's foremost
historians of science excavates the
underside of the Darwinian legacy,
where notions of "race" and heredity
became powerful tools of malign political agendas and instruments of social
oppression. 336pgs. • 2009
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138769 SUBSTANCE AND FUNCTION &
EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Cassirer, Ernst
In this work, Cassirer propounds a system
of thought in which Einstein's theory of relativity is regarded as the natural progression of the motives inherent to mathematics and the physical sciences. It includes
such topics as mechanism and motion;
Mayer's methodology of natural science;
Richter's definite proportions; Einstein's relativity and "reality;" and more. 480pgs. • 2004
◆ • Dover • C • $65.00 / $16.98
111719 VOLTA: Science and Culture
in the Age of Enlightenment
Pancaldi, Giuliano
The story of Alessandro Volta, the brilliant
man whose name is forever attached to
electromotive force. Both an absorbing
biography and a study of scientific and
technological creativity, the book offers
new insights into the legacies of the
Enlightenment while telling the remarkable story of the now-ubiquitous battery. 400pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
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028941 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEVENTEENTHCENTURY VENETIAN RABBI: Leon Modena's Life of
Judah
Cohen, Mark R., ed.
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
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✪ 131342 DAVID BEN-GURION AND THE JEWISH
RENAISSANCE
Aronson, Shlomo
A reappraisal of Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history
from the perspective of the 21st century, in the larger context of the Zionist "renaissance" of which he was a major
exponent. It offers a new analysis of Ben-Gurion's role as a
major player in Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global politics.
476pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • C • $37.99 / $14.98
✪ 043530 GERMANS, JEWS AND THE CLAIMS OF
MODERNITY
Hess, Jonathan M.
Reconstructs a crucial chapter in the history of secular antiSemitism, Hess reveals the connections between anti-Semitism
and visions of modernity, and explores the Jewish responses to
the threat posed by those connections. 258pgs. • 2002
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $14.98
✪ 150673 IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF: Journey of an
Anti-Zionist Jew
Marqusee, Mike
In the course of this deeply personal story, Marqusee refutes
the claims of Israel and Zionism on Jewish loyalty and laments
their impact on the Jewish diaspora. Rather, he argues for a
richer, more multi-dimensional understanding of Jewish history and identity, and reclaims vital political and personal
space for those castigated as "self-haters" by the Jewish establishment. 320pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • P • $19.95 / $6.98
✪ 102244 THE INVENTION OF A NATION: Zionist
Thought and the Making of Modern Israel
Dieckhoff, Alain & Jonathan Derrick
A comprehensive overview of the various ideologies that
constitute Zionism, ranging from Marxist-Zionism to
National Religious Zionism to that of the far-right Abba
Achimeir. The authors make explicit the debt the Zionists
owed to French thinkers and European ideologues, notably
those associated with the French Revolution and the
Enlightenment. 320pgs. • 2003
◆ • Columbia • C • $65.00 / $9.98
✪ 150675 THE INVENTION OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE
Sand, Shlomo
Should we regard the Jewish people,
throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation? In
this historical tour de force that examines
the myths and taboos that have surrounded
Jewish and Israeli history, Shlomo Sand
argues that most Jews actually descend
from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across
the Middle East and Eastern Europe. 400pgs. • 2009
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127733 JAZZ AGE JEWS
Alexander, Michael
By the 1920s, as Jewish immigrants and their children took
their places in American society, many embraced resistance
rather than acculturation, preferring marginal status to assimilation. Alexander argues that Jewish outsider status resulted
not just from anti-Semitism but from the group identity Jewish
immigrants brought with them in the form of a theology of
exile. 264pgs. • 2003
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $16.98
137995 JEWISH IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICAN
CAPITALISM, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class
Lederhendler, Eli
Lederhendler demonstrates that the characteristics for which
Jewish immigrants were commonly known -- industriousness,
"middle-class" domestic habits, and political sympathy for the
working class -- were in fact developed in response to their
new situation in the US. The experience realigned Jewish
social values and provided immigrants with the "social capital"
needed to establish a community quite different from the ones
they came from. 248pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $9.98
117858 JEWS IN ITALY UNDER FASCIST AND NAZI
RULE, 1922-1945
Zimmerman, Joshua D., ed.
Challenging the myth of Italian benevolence during the Fascist
period, the contributors to this volume investigate the treatment of Jews by Italians during the Holocaust, as well as the
roots -- both native and foreign -- of Italian Fascist antiSemitism. 396pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $20.98
✪ 150870 THE KABBALAH READER
Hoffman, Edward
This comprehensive and accessible introduction to the
world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical
thought. It reveals how this supposedly esoteric material is
relevant to a host of contemporary concerns, such as
ethics, emotional health, intuition and creativity, meditation, social relations and leadership, and higher states of
consciousness. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • Shambhala • P • $17.95 / $6.98
✪ 150882 A LIVING LENS:
Photographs of Jewish Life from the
Pages of the Forward
Newhouse, Alana, ed.
This extraordinary volume features classic photographs of the history one has
learned to associate with the Jewish
Daily Forward -- Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor rallies -along with gems no one would expect.
The book features essays by Leon Wieseltier, Roger Kahn, and
Deborah Lipstadt, and an introduction by Pete Hamill. 531
duotone photographs. 352pgs. • 2008
◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $29.95 / $7.98
✪ 150703 THE MYTHS OF LIBERAL ZIONISM
Laor, Yitzhak
In this work, one of Israel's most independent writers dissects the complex attitudes of liberal intellectuals toward
Israel, Zionism, and the "Israeli peace camp." He argues
that through the prism of famous writers like Amos Oz,
David Grossman, and A. B. Yehoshua, the peace camp has
adopted the European vision of "new Zionism," promoting
Israel's desire to be accepted as part of the West and taking
advantage of growing Islamophobia. 128pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • C • $22.95 / $7.98
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 • $27.95 / $14.98
126213 PROPHETS OF THE PAST: Interpreters of
Jewish History
Brenner, Michael
Traces the narratives of Jewish history from the beginnings of
the scholarly study of Jews and Judaism in 19th-century
Germany to eastern European approaches by Simon Dubnow,
the interwar school of Polish-Jewish historians, and the shortlived efforts of Soviet-Jewish historians; to the work of British
and American scholars like Cecil Roth and Salo Baron; and to
Zionist and post-Zionist interpretations. 316pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $16.98
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049454 READING THE HOLOCAUST
Clendinnen, Inga
Explores the experience of the Holocaust
from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view, discusses survivor testimonies, the issue of "resistance" in the
camps, and considers how the Holocaust
has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and
film. 227pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $14.98
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
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
✪ 150741 SUFFERING AS IDENTITY: The Jewish
Paradigm
Benbassa, Esther
Reaching from biblical times to the present, Benbassa's analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism shows how the
representation and ritualization of suffering have shaped the
history of both the Jewish people and their religion. 256pgs.
• 2010
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✪ 151870 TREASURES FROM THE ATTIC: The
Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank's Family
Pressler, Mirjam
Ensconced upstairs in the house of Anne Frank's aunt was
the documented legacy of the Frank family: a vast collection
of more than 6,000 photos, letters, drawings, poems, and
postcards that had been preserved for decades. Together,
these documents weave an indelible, engaging, and endearing portrait of the family that shaped Anne Frank. 416pgs.
• 2011
◆ • Doubleday • C • $28.95 / $5.98
142490 TRIALS OF THE DIASPORA: A History of AntiSemitism in England
Julius, Anthony
This groundbreaking book charts the full history of antiSemitism in England, from the medieval persecutions which
culminated in King Edward I expulsion of the Jews to the wave
of anti-Semitism that emerged in the late 1960s and the 1970s.
It also examines the treatment of Jews in English literature,
from the anonymous medieval ballad "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's
Daughter" through Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, T. S.
Eliot, and beyond. 864pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $50.00 / $12.98
✪ 116224 THE WISDOM OF MAIMONIDES: The Life
and Writings of the Jewish Sage
Hoffman, Edward
An accessible introduction to the life and wisdom of the
famous 12th-century philosopher-physician Moses
Maimonides, whose prolific writings on medical and religious
issues, commentaries on Jewish texts, and writings on Jewish
ethics and law profoundly influenced Judaism. 224pgs. •
2008
◆ • Shambhala • P • $15.95 / $6.98
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081386 AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE
INDIANS: Chronicles of the New World Encounter
Pane, Fray Ramon, et al.
Living among the "Indians" whom Columbus had "discovered"
on the island of Hispaniola, Friar Ramon Pane learned their
language and wrote a record of their lives and beliefs. His
account is the only surviving direct source of information
about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World
inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. 128pgs. •
1999
◆ • Duke • C NDJ • $69.95 / $9.98
059772 BLOOD, INK, AND CULTURE:
Miseries and Splendors of the PostMexican Condition
Bartra, Roger
Pens and swords, words and blows: for
Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the
culture of blood offer two contrasting
approaches to the political transformations
of our time. In this compilation of essays,
Bartra thinks through these transformations by tracing the complex interplay between popular culture, nationalist ideology, civil society, and the state in contemporary Mexico. 249pgs. • 2002
◆ • Duke • P • $25.95 / $6.98
049871 CAETANA SAYS NO: Women's Stories from a
Brazilian Slave Society
Lauderdale Graham, Sandra
These true and dramatic stories of two 19th-century Brazilian
women -- one born a slave, the other from an illustrious
planter family -- show how each in her own way sought to
exercise control over her life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham
casts new light on the larger meanings of slave and free,
female and male, through these compact histories. 183pgs. •
2002
▲ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $14.98
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112305 CHICA DA SILVA: A Brazilian Slave of the
Eighteenth Century
Furtado, Júnia Ferreira
The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom
by employing both social and matrimonial strategies. This
fascinating study illuminates a world where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators, and concubines interacted across complex social and cultural
lines. 360pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $11.98
087099 A CONCISE HISTORY OF MEXICO
SECOND EDITION
Hamnett, Brian R.
The updated edition of this accessible history includes, among
other recent developments, an examination of the administration of Vicente Fox. New sections also reinforce the importance of Mexico's long and disparate history, from the PreColumbian era onwards, in shaping the country as it is today.
400pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $14.98
134299 A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE
CARIBBEAN
Higman, B. W.
A general history of the Caribbean islands
from the beginning of human settlement to
the present. It covers early human migrations, European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the
plantation economy, the revolution in
Haiti, independence movements, the
Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people.
372pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $14.98
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087675 AMBIVALENT CONQUESTS:
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan,
1517-1570
SECOND EDITION
Clendinnen, Inga
An exploration of the turbulent 16thcentury encounter between Spanish
conquistadors and the Yucatecan
Maya. Clendinnen's study, which now
includes a new Preface, is both a specific examination of conversion in a corner of the Spanish
Empire and a work with broader implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance
throughout the colonial world. 264pgs. • 2003
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.00 / $18.98
✪ 131214 THE COST OF COURAGE IN AZTEC
SOCIETY: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and
Culture
Clendinnen, Inga
In the title piece of this collection, Clendinnen reconstructs
the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec
warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that moved the world and
the heavens. Subsequent essays explore the survival of
Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish conquest, and
the multiple paths to the sacred constructed by defeated
populations in 16th-century Mexico. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $13.98
041842 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN
LATIN AMERICA: Law and Society
since Late Colonial Times
Salvatore, Ricardo D., et al., eds.
Treating law as an ambiguous and malleable arena of struggle, the contributors
to this volume -- scholars from North and
Latin America who represent the new
wave in legal history -- demonstrate that
law not only produces and reformulates
culture, but also shapes and is shaped by larger processes of
political, social, economic, and cultural change. 448pgs. •
2001
◆ • Duke • P • $27.95 / $9.98
✪ 150672 HUGO CHÁVEZ: And
the Bolivarian Revolution
Gott, Richard
The late Hugo Chávez undertook the
most wide-ranging transformation of
oil-rich Venezuela in half a century,
dramatically affecting the political climate throughout Latin America. In this
updated edition, Richard Gott reflects
on the achievements of the Bolivarian
revolution and the challenges that lie ahead. 368pgs. •
2011
◆ • Verso • P • $19.95 / $6.98
034408 IDENTITY AND STRUGGLE AT THE MARGINS OF
THE NATION-STATE: The Laboring Peoples of Central
America & the Hispanic Caribbean
Chomsky, Aviva & Aldo Lauria-Santiago, eds.
A collection of new research on the social history of Central
America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late
19th and early 20th centuries. The book demonstrates how the
actions and ideas of rural workers, peasants, migrants, and
women formed an integral part of the growth of the export
economies of the era and examines the impact such groups
had on the shaping of national histories. 404pgs. • 1998
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040742 LATIN AMERICA: POLITICS AND SOCIETY SINCE
1930
Bethell, Leslie, ed.
A thorough account of Latin American political and social
movements, urban labor movements, the military in politics,
and rural mobilizations since 1920. 489pgs. • 1998
▲ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $22.98
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Conquest
Knight, Alan
This first volume in a three-volume work conveys the full
sweep of Mexican history in all its social, economic, and political diversity. Knight captures the rich diversity of
Mesoamerican societies, while locating their development
within a broader, comparative framework of historical change.
The book concludes with the trauma of the conquest, the
destruction of the Aztec empire, and the birth of colonial New
Spain. 254pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $7.98
059550 MUDDIED WATERS: Race, Religion, and Local
History in Colombia, 1846-1948
Appelbaum, Nancy P.
Nineteenth- and 20th-century Colombian elite intellectuals,
Appelbaum contends, mapped race onto their mountainous
topography by defining regions in racial terms. Drawing on
archival and published sources complemented by oral history,
she vividly illustrates the relationship of mythmaking and
racial inequality to regionalism and frontier colonization in
postcolonial Latin America. 300pgs. • 2003
◆ • Duke • P • $25.95 / $6.98
127325 SHATTERED HOPE: The Guatemalan
Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
Gleijeses, Piero
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 • $52.50 / $25.98
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $18.98
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✪ 127442 A CONSTITUTION OF MANY
MINDS: Why the Founding Document
Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before
Sunstein, Cass R.
Will conservatives or liberals succeed in
remaking the court in their own image? In
this volume, an acclaimed legal scholar
proposes a bold new way of interpreting
the Constitution, one that respects its text
and history but also refuses to view the
document as frozen in time. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $9.98
087637 THE DYNAMIC
CONSTITUTION: An Introduction to
American Constitutional Law
Fallon, Richard H.
Fallon introduces non-lawyers to the workings of American constitutional law, writing
with clarity and vigor about leading constitutional doctrines and issues, including the
freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the guarantee of equal protection,
rights to fair procedures, rights to privacy, and rights to sexual autonomy. 358pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $14.98
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149411 GIDEON'S TRUMPET
Lewis, Anthony
The classic account of the landmark
case of James Earl Gideon's fight for
the right to legal counsel. "A warm,
intimate and moving account of a lowly
man's case that became a
Constitutional landmark" -- Paul A.
Freund, Harvard Law School. 288pgs.
• 1989
▲ • Vintage • P • $15.95 / $6.98
141922 MAKE NO LAW: The Sullivan Case and the
First Amendment
Lewis, Anthony
In 1960 a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The
New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by
a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights
protests. The centuries of legal precedent behind the
Sullivan case and the US Supreme Court's historic reversal
of the verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping book.
368pgs. • 1992
▲ • Vintage • P • $16.95 / $6.98
LI NGU ISTICS & LANGUAGES
142484 ADPOSITIONS
Hagège, Claude
As grammatical tools, adpositions mark the relationship
between two parts of a sentence; characteristically one element governs a noun or noun-like word or phrase while the
other functions as a predicate. This pioneering study is based
on an analysis of more than 200 languages across a variety of
regions and language families. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $130.00 / $80.98
109407 THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES
OF ASIA AND THE AMERICAS
Woodard, Roger D., ed.
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 • $52.00 / $16.98
✪ 150875 THE CAMBRIDGE
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE
THIRD EDITION
Crystal, David
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 • C • $108.00 / $22.98
087569 THE CAMBRIDGE OLD ENGLISH READER
Marsden, Richard C. & Andrew P. Orchard
The 56 Old English prose and verse texts included here
cover ground no previous reader has encompassed. The
anthology includes both well-known selections from Bede
and Beowulf and lesser-known pieces such as Medicinal
Remedies from Bald's Leechbook and divinations from
Aelfwine's Prayerbook. Includes judicious annotations, a
reference grammar, and an excellent glossary. 566pgs. •
2004
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087452 EXPLORING LANGUAGE
STRUCTURE: A Student's Guide
Payne, Thomas
A perfect introductory volume for beginning students in linguistics, designed to
prepare them for more advanced courses
in linguistic analysis. The chapters introduce a range of essential topics in syntax
and morphology, such as rules, categories, word classes, grammatical relations, multi-clause constructions, and typology. 390pgs. •
2006
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NOAM
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030685 ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX
Chomsky, Noam
In this work, Chomsky reviews the linguistic theory known
as transformational generative grammar and offers a reformulation that takes into account various deficiencies that
have been uncovered since its original formulation. The
emphasis is on syntax and on the semantic and phonological aspects of language structure. 251pgs. • 1965
◆ • MIT • P • $29.00 / $11.98
024374 LANGUAGE AND
PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE: The
Managua Lectures
Chomsky, Noam
Chomsky's most accessible statement
on the nature, origins, and concerns of
linguistics. The lectures explore four
fundamental questions: What do we
know when we are able to speak and
understand a language? How is this
knowledge acquired? How do we use this knowledge? What
are the physical mechanisms involved in the representation,
acquisition, and use of this knowledge? 205pgs. • 1988
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029784 THE MINIMALIST PROGRAM
Chomsky, Noam
Essays show how the minimalist framework takes Universal
Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with
derivations driven by morphological properties, to which
the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted.
420pgs. • 1995
▲ • MIT • P • $44.00 / $17.98
045516 NEW HORIZONS IN THE
STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND MIND
Chomsky, Noam
An outstanding contribution to the
philosophical study of language and
mind, by one of the most influential
thinkers of our time. Argues that there
is no coherent notion of "language"
external to the human mind, and that
the study of language should take as its
focus the mental construct which constitutes our knowledge
of language. 230pgs. • 2000
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142617 OF MINDS AND LANGUAGE: A Dialogue with
Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo, et al., eds.
A state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like
to know about language, mind, and brain. Chapters by leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language
acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive
psychology, and evolutionary biology are framed by an introduction and conclusion by Noam Chomsky, who places the
biolinguistic enterprise in an historical context and helps
define its agenda for the future. 472pgs. • 2011
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✪ 103782 FROM MOLECULE TO METAPHOR: A Neural
Theory of Language
Feldman, Jerome A.
Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how
our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know
exactly how words are understood or have any methodology
for finding out. Feldman proposes a theory that treats language
not as an abstract symbol system but as a biological ability that
can be studied as a function of the brain. 357pgs. • 2006
◆ • MIT • C • $38.00 / $12.98
087661 THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
THIRD EDITION
Yule, George
Introduces the analysis of the key elements
of language -- sounds, words, structures,
and meanings -- providing a solid foundation in these essential topics. Extensively
revised with sections on contemporary
issues in language study, including language and culture, African American
English, sign language, and slang. 284pgs. • 2005
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $12.98
088135 UNDERSTANDING
MINIMALISM
Hornstein, Norbert, et al.
This introduction to the Minimalist
Program -- the current model of syntactic
theory within generative linguistics developed by Noam Chomsky -- presents its
basic principles and techniques, and contrasts these with previous linguistic models, especially Chomsky's earlier theoretical articulation in Lectures on Government and Binding.
422pgs. • 2005
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128235 WHY DO LANGUAGES CHANGE?
Trask, R. L.
Packed with fascinating examples of changes in language over
time, this entertaining book by a renowned linguist explores
such issues as the origin of words and place names, the differences between British and American English, and the
apparent eccentricities of the English spelling system. 210pgs.
• 2009
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LITERARY TH EORY & CRITICISM
148602 ALL THINGS SHINING: Reading the Western
Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
Dreyfus, Hubert & Sean Dorrance Kelly
Re-envisioning modern spiritual life through their examination of literature, philosophy, and religious testimony, Dreyfus
and Kelly illuminate some of the greatest works of the Western
tradition. Their journey leads from the wonder and openness
of Homer's polytheism to the monotheism of Dante; from the
autonomy of Kant to the multiple worlds of Melville; and, finally, to the spiritual difficulties evoked by modern authors such
as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Gilbert. 272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Free Press • C • $26.00 / $6.98
✪ 152024 THE AMERICAN PLAY:
1787-2000
Robinson, Marc
An exploration of more than two centuries
of plays, styles, and stagings of American
theatre. Mapping the changing cultural
landscape from the late 18th century to the
start of the 21st, it examines how theatre
has and has not changed, and offers close
readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder,
Miller, Albee, and others. 416pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • P • $30.00 / $7.98
✪ 152012 THE ANATOMY OF INFLUENCE: Literature
as a Way of Life
Bloom, Harold
Featuring extended analyses of Bloom's most cherished
poets -- Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane -- as well as
inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning,
Yeats, Ashbery, and others, this volume revisits Bloom's
classic work The Anxiety of Influence to show us what great
literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters.
368pgs. • 2011
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148103 BENEATH THE AMERICAN
RENAISSANCE: The Subversive
Imagination in the Age of Emerson
and Melville
Reynolds, David S.
This acclaimed, magisterial work of criticism and cultural history provides striking, original readings of the major works
of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe,
Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson. This
edition includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that
reveals the book's impact and influence. 656pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $24.95 / $9.98
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054762 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENGLISH
RESTORATION THEATRE
Payne Fisk, Deborah, ed.
Essays examine Restoration theatre from 1660 until 1714, paying
attention to major playwrights such as Dryden, Wycherly and
Congreve and also to more minor works and to plays by the first
professional female dramatists, as they reveal this exciting theatrical era in all of its tumult, energy, and conflict. 322pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $20.98
132572 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JANE
AUSTEN
Copeland, Edward & Juliet McMaster, eds.
This fully updated edition offers clear, accessible coverage
of the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. With seven new essays, it now covers topics
that have become central to recent Austen studies, including gender, sociability, economics, and the increasing number of screen adaptations of the novels. 302pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $14.98
087790 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO JOHN UPDIKE
Olster, Stacey
Addresses the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the controversies his work has
generated. The contributors trace the ways in
which historical and cultural changes in the
second half of the 20th century have shaped
not only Updike's reassessment of America's
heritage, but also his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. 214pgs. •
2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $11.98
098640 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO PHILIP
ROTH
Parrish, Timothy, ed.
The most comprehensive introduction to Roth's work.
Beginning with the urgency of the early fiction and extending
to the vitality of his most recent novels, these newly commissioned essays trace Roth's artistic engagement with questions
about ethnic identity, postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust,
sexuality, and the human psyche itself. 196pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $10.98
119909 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE
LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II
MacKay, Marina, ed.
Examines the accomplished, moving, and challenging body of
work produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and
Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul
Sartre and W. H. Auden. The essays provide a comprehensive
overview of the international literatures of the war, including
works that recorded or reflected the war as it happened as well as
those that sought to make sense of it afterwards. 258pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.00 / $20.98
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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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✪ 150655 FABLES OF AGGRESSION: Wyndham Lewis,
the Modernist as Fascist
Jameson, Fredric
Jameson's controversial reading of one of the great modernists illuminates the often scandalous ideological content
of Lewis's works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation
with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism
that informed his powerful polemics against virtually all the
political and cultural tendencies of his time. 190pgs. •
2008
◆ • Verso • C NDJ • $110.00 / $19.98
✪ 130226 THE MODERNIST
PAPERS
Jameson, Fredric
In this tour de force of analysis and criticism, Jameson examines the modernist
literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. The book includes intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire,
Rimbaud, Wallace Stevens, Joyce,
Proust, and Thomas Mann, among others. 426pgs. • 2007
◆ • Verso • C • $34.95 / $12.98
062502 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ITALIAN
LITERATURE
Brand, Peter & Lino Pertile, eds.
In this comprehensive survey of one of the richest and most
influential literatures of Europe, leading scholars assess the
Italian literary tradition from its earliest origins to the present
day. Translations are provided, along with maps, chronological charts, and up-to-date bibliographies. 699pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $30.98
131524 THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO EDWARD
SAID
McCarthy, Conor
One of the most famous literary critics of the 20th century,
Edward Said was also a noted music critic and a prominent
advocate for the Palestinian cause who redefined the role of
the public intellectual. This volume explores Said's major writings on literature and empire, on intellectuals and literary theory, on music, and on the Israel-Palestine conflict. 170pgs. •
2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $20.99 / $10.98
✪ 111204 COLETTE
Kristeva, Julia
In this sparking commentary on the life and work of the
notorious French novelist, Kristeva provides an elegant and
sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight.
Working from her extensive knowledge of linguistics,
Kristeva focuses particularly on the language Colette used to
"say the unsayable and name the unnameable." 448pgs. •
2004
◆ • Columbia • C • $80.00 / $9.98
111186 A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CAUSALITY: Science,
Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought
Kern, Stephen
Traces how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as
documented by more than 100 novels -- including Crime and
Punishment, An American Tragedy, and Lolita -- Kern devotes
each chapter to a specific causal factor or motive, including
ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. 448pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • C • $58.00 / $9.98
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✪ 069367 THE FATEFUL QUESTION
OF CULTURE
Hartman, Geoffrey H.
Engaging a wide range of literature and
criticism, Hartman considers the term
"culture" and its many uses, and calls for
the restoration of literature to its place as
the focus of thinking about culture and for
the renewal of aesthetic education to help
ensure the balance between art, culture,
and politics. 272pgs. • 1998
◆ • Columbia • P • $28.00 / $7.98
134309 HOW TO READ A SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY TEXT
Giddens, Eugene, ed.
This practical how to guide to the original printed texts of
Shakespeare and his contemporaries provides a detailed
account of how to read these early texts and how they have
been turned into the modern editions we are accustomed to.
It explains how the features of the play text came about, what
the different elements mean, and who created them. 198pgs.
• 2011
▲ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $16.98
032664 IN QUEST OF THE HERO
Rank, Otto, et al.
Collects two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's classic
application of Freudian theory to hero myths, Myth of the Birth
of the Hero; and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero,
in which he applies the myth-ritualist pattern of James Frazer's
The Golden Bough to hero myths. Amplifying these is Alan
Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern
and the Life of Jesus." 223pgs. • 1990
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $10.98
129781 THE INDIGNANT GENERATION: A Narrative
History of African American Writers and Critics, 19341960
Jackson, Lawrence Patrick
The first narrative history of the neglected but essential period
of African-American literature between the Harlem
Renaissance and the civil rights era. Surveying the tumultuous
decades surrounding World War II, Jackson restores the
"indignant" quality to a generation of writers shaped by segregation, the Great Depression, the growth of American communism, and international decolonization. 608pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $19.98
133442 JANE AUSTEN AND THE
ENLIGHTENMENT
Knox-Shaw, Peter
It has long been understood that Austen's
writing and thought were shaped by her
late 18th-century childhood, but astonishingly, this is the first study of the influence
of the Enlightenment on Jane Austen.
Drawing out the Enlightenment principles
and ideas which lie behind much of
Austen's writing, Knox-Shaw presents a new perspective on the
study of Austen's novels. 290pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $16.98
021841 KING LEAR & THE NAKED TRUTH: Rethinking
the Language of Religion & Resistance
Kronenfeld, Judy
Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld questions
the critical assumptions of much of today's most fashionable
Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both
New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests a
theory of language and interpretation that provides essential
historical and linguistic contexts for the key terms and concepts of the play. 383pgs. • 1998
◆ • Duke • P • $28.95 / $7.98
✪ 152114 THE LATE AGE OF PRINT: Everyday Book
Culture from Consumerism to Control
Striphas, Ted
Striphas's provocative analysis offers a counternarrative to
those who either triumphantly declare the end of printed
books or deeply mourn their passing. With wit and brilliant
insight, he isolates the invisible processes through which
books have come to mediate our social interactions and
influence our habits of consumption, integrating themselves into our routines and intellects like never before.
272pgs. • 2009
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029713 MASOCHISM: Coldness &
Cruelty; Venus in Furs
Deleuze, Gilles, & Leopold von SacherMasoch
In Sacher-Masoch's most famous novel,
Venus in Furs, one finds all of the symbols
that have come to characterize the masochistic syndrome -- fetishes, whips, disguises, furclad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, etc. Deleuze's essay, which here
accompanies the novel, seeks to develop and explain SacherMasoch's peculiar way of "desexualizing" love while at the same
time sexualizing the history of humanity. 293pgs. • 1999
◆ • MIT • P • $21.95 / $12.98
✪ 151040 RAYMOND CARVER: A
Writer's Life
Sklenicka, Carol
A biography of a man dubbed "the
Chekhov of middle America" by the Times
of London. Drawing on hundreds of
interviews with people who knew Carver,
as well as prodigious research in
libraries and private collections,
Sklenicka shows how Carver's quintessentially American life fostered the stories that readers have
come to cherish. 592pgs. • 2010
◆ • Scribner • P • $20.00 / $5.98
142612 MODERNISM AND THE ORDINARY
Olson, Liesl
Literary modernism has traditionally been viewed as a movement marked by transcendent epiphanies, episodes of
estrangement, and a privileging of the extraordinary.
Examining works by James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia
Woolf, Henri Bergson, and William James, among others, this
volume upends our perceived notions of the period's literature as it recognizes how pivotal commonplace activities are to
modernist aesthetics. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $16.98
041701 THE VANISHING: Shakespeare, the Subject, and
Early Modern Culture
Pye, Christopher
An innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. Locating the emergence of the modern subject in the
era's transition from feudalism to a modern societal state, Pye
provides interpretations of diverse cultural and literary phenomena, including Shakespeare's tragedies, witchcraft and
demonism, anatomy theaters, and the paintings of
Michelangelo. 199pgs. • 2000
◆ • Duke • P • $22.95 / $5.98
128187 THE NEW CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
SHAKESPEARE
De Grazia, Margreta & Stanley Wells, eds.
In addition to chapters on traditional topics such as
Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts, this
volume provides readings of the plays in the context of genre
as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of
race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on
performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage
and film. 380pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98
042832 WOMAN DEFAMED AND WOMAN DEFENDED:
An Anthology of Medieval Texts
Blamires, Alcuin, ed.
The vast corpus of medieval misogynistic writings, which
range from those of the Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular literature, have had a profound effect on the status of
women in the West. This volume gathers a generous selection
of these writings, but also features a surprising range of early
texts championing women, including material never previously available in translation. 327pgs. • 1992
◆ • Oxford University • P • $68.00 / $14.98
038520 THE NEW PRINCETON
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POETRY AND
POETICS
Preminger, Alex & T. V. Brogan, eds.
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $22.98
142640 YEATS AND VIOLENCE
Wood, Michael
In this close reading of Yeats's poem
"Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen," Wood
investigates the six parts of the poem, connecting them to Yeats's broader poetic
practice, his interest in the occult and his
changing vision of Irish nationalism; to the
work of other poets (Irish, English, Russian
German); and to Irish and European history between the Easter Uprising and the end of the Irish Civil
War. 156pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $40.00 / $14.98
✪ 131157 NORMAN PODHORETZ: A Biography
Jeffers, Thomas L.
The first biography of the longtime editor of the influential
magazine Commentary, who for more than 50 years has been
at the center of debates over the function of religion, ethics,
politics, and the arts in American society. 408pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • C • $37.99 / $7.98
M O N TA I G N E
141741 ON CONAN DOYLE: Or, the Whole Art of
Storytelling
Dirda, Michael
A lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer
Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of the Baker
Street Irregulars -- the most famous of all Sherlockian groups.
Combining memoir and appreciation, this highly engaging
personal introduction to Holmes's creator is also a rare insider's account of the activities and playful scholarship of the
Baker Street group. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $9.98
140339 THE POEM OF A LIFE: A Biography of Louis
Zukofsky
Scroggins, Mark
The first critical biography of a fascinating and crucially
important American modernist poet. It details the curve of his
career, from the early Waste Land-parody "Poem beginning
'The'" to the dense and tantalizing beauties of his last poems,
80 Flowers, and pays special attention to the monumental,
complex, and formally various epic poem on which Zukofsky
labored for almost 50 years. 576pgs. • 2007
◆ • Counterpoint • C • $30.00 / $12.98
146031 MONTAIGNE'S POLITICS:
Authority and Governance in the
Essais
Fontana, Biancamaria
Montaigne is principally known today
as the inventor of the modern essay and
the pioneer of autobiographical selfexploration who retired from politics in
midlife to write his private, philosophical, and apolitical Essais. In fact,
Biancamaria Fontana argues, his retirement from the
Bordeaux parliament in 1570 "could be said to have
marked the beginning, rather than the end, of his public
career." 216pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $42.00 / $24.98
✪ 151874 WHEN I AM PLAYING WITH MY CAT, HOW
DO I KNOW THAT SHE IS NOT PLAYING WITH ME?:
Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life
Frampton, Saul
A celebration of perhaps the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, whose essays went on to
have a huge impact on figures as diverse as Shakespeare,
Emerson, and Orson Welles, and whose thoughts, even
today, offer a guide and unprecedented insight into the simple matter of being alive. 320pgs. • 2011
◆ • Pantheon • C • $26.00 / $7.98
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043942 THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
AND OTHER WRITINGS
De Sade, Marquis
An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration -a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and
Freud -- of the psychology of sex, this is
considered Sade's crowning achievement
and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost
after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it
remained unpublished until 1935. 799pgs. • 1987
▲ • Grove Press • P • $17.95 / $7.98
058419 THE DIVINE COMEDY, PURGATORIO VOL. 2:
(COMMENTARY)
CHARLES S. SINGLETON, TRANS.
Dante Alighieri
This volume of commentary, a companion to Singleton's translation, offers a wide range of information on such subjects as
Dante's vocabulary, his characters, and the historical sources
of incidents in the poem. It provides a clear and profound
analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have long confused many
readers. 872pgs. • 1991
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $22.98
✪ 150625 THE ART OF ASKING YOUR BOSS FOR A
RAISE
Perec, Georges
Never previously published, here is Perec's hilarious
account of an employee who finds himself losing his identity -- and possibly his sanity -- as he tries to survive in the
corporate world. This darkly funny, subversive story is also
a profound examination of the psychology of the worker
and the workplace. 96pgs. • 2011
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139173 THE DYING ANIMAL
Roth, Philip
When an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New
York college becomes involved with a beautiful 24-year-old,
he finds himself being dragged into a quagmire of sexual
jealousy and loss. In chronicling David Kepesh's descent,
Roth traces breathtaking variations on the themes of eros
and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. 176pgs. • 2002
▲ • Random House • P • $14.00 / $5.98
104794 BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA: Biographical
Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The first completely annotated edition one of the classics of
English literature, into which Coleridge poured 20 years of
speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about
the psychology of art. 866pgs. • 1985
◆ • Princeton • P • $59.95 / $29.98
✪ 101829 EARLY 20TH CENTURY
GERMAN FICTION: Alfred Döblin,
Lion Feuchtwanger, Anna Seghers,
and Arnold Zweig
THE GERMAN LIBRARY, VOLUME 67
Stephan, Alexander, ed.
This collection of High Modernism among
Austrian and German writers includes:
Pogrom and a selection from The Case of
Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig; "The
Murder of a Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin
Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin; selections from Jew Suss and
The Oppermans by Lion Feuchtwanger; and a selection from
The Seventh Cross and "Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna
Seghers. 320pgs. • 2003
◆ • Continuum • P • $44.95 / $7.98
104334 CAMUS AT COMBAT: Writing 1944-1947
Camus, Albert, et al.
Presents the writings published in the resistance newspaper
where Camus served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer
between 1944 and 1947. These 165 articles and editorials
show how his thinking evolved from support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a wariness of the radical left alongside his longstanding opposition to the reactionary right. 334pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $11.98
SAMUEL
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✪ 126783 THE COLLECTED
SHORTER PLAYS
Beckett, Samuel
This definitive collection of 25 plays and
playlets includes Krapp's Last Tape,
Embers, Cascando, Play, Eh Joe, Not I,
and Footfalls, as well as his mimes, all
his radio and television plays, his
screenplay for Film, and his adaptation
of Robert Pinget's The Old Tune.
320pgs. • 2010
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✪ 021485 I CAN'T GO ON, I'LL GO ON: A Samuel
Beckett Reader
Beckett, Samuel
Includes Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando,
selections from Murphy, Watt, and Molloy, as well as selections from Beckett's poetry and critical writings. 621pgs. •
1992
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134333 THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT: Volume
2: 1941-1956
Craig, George, et al., eds.
When World War II began, Beckett was a passionately committed but as yet little-known writer. The letters in this volume chart his situation during the war and his crucial move
into the French language, as well as the spread of his international reputation in the postwar years. Includes explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents, and other contextual information. 888pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • C • $50.00 / $19.98
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038417 EUGENE ONEGIN: A Novel in Verse Volume I:
Introduction & Translation
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR, TRANS.
Pushkin, Alexander
Nabokov's bold English-language rendering of Pushkin's masterpiece is itself a work of enduring literary interest, and
reflects a lifelong admiration for Pushkin on the part of one of
the 20th century's most brilliant stylists. This volume includes
the text of Nabokov's translation along with his extensive introduction to the poem. 334pgs. • 1990
▲ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $12.98
✪ 044140 FERNANDO PESSOA &
CO.: Selected Poems
ZENITH, RICHARD, ED. & TRANS.
Pessoa, Fernando
From spare minimalism to a revolutionary exuberance that recalls Leaves of
Grass, Pessoa's writings represented a
radical break with the past and anticipated contemporary literary concerns to
an uncanny degree. The first comprehensive edition of Pessoa's poetry in the English language,
this volume is a tribute to a body of work of extraordinary
depth and poetic precision. 290pgs. • 1998
▲ • Grove Press • P • $15.95 / $6.98
028142 FICCIONES
Borges, Jorge Luis
The 17 pieces in this volume demonstrate
the prodigious powers of imagination,
intelligence, and style of one of the greatest
writers of any century. Borges leads us on
a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and
profoundly resonant realm; we enter the
fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the
iconography of eternal return. 174pgs. • 1994
◆ • Grove Press • P • $14.00 / $5.98
✪ 131580 THE GRANTA BOOK OF
THE IRISH SHORT STORY
Enright, Anne, ed.
A dazzling collection of stories, which
ranges from the classic Irish short story of
Frank O'Connor and Mary Lavin to contemporary writers like Aidan Mathews and
Claire Keegan, via stories by Samuel
Beckett, Colm Toibin, Maeve Brennan, and
Bernard MacLaverty. 480pgs. • 2011
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133837 THE H. D. BOOK
Duncan, Robert
This magisterial work, long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and
poetics by one of America's most influential postwar poets. A
meditation on both the roots of modernism and its manifestation in the work of H. D., Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, William
Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and others, Duncan's wideranging book is notable for its illumination of the role women
played in the creation of literary modernism. 704pgs. • 2011
◆ • California • C • $65.00 / $29.98
✪ 150674 IN SEARCH OF A PAST
Fraser, Ronald
A renowned oral historian gathers the recollections of the servants who worked at
the manor house outside London where he
grew up. Sensitively recorded, the words of
his family's former employees capture the
texture of English "county" life as seen
from below, woven into a background of
their personal lives, their work, and the
social antagonisms they experienced. 192pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • C • $29.95 / $7.98
089682 JUVENILIA
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN
Austen, Jane
Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she
was eleven, to 1793, when she was seventeen. This edition
provides a fresh transcription of Austen's manuscripts, with
comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction, covering the context and publication history of the
juvenilia, a chronology of Austen's life, and an authoritative
textual apparatus. 574pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • C • $172.00 / $29.98
✪ 033130 THE LIBERTINE READER: Eroticism &
Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France
Feher, Michel, ed.
Everything one loves to hate -- or hates to love -- about
"French lovers" and their self-styled reputation can be
traced to the 18th-century libertine literature represented
in this anthology. Obsessed with strategies of seduction,
speculating endlessly about the motives and goals of lovers,
the idle aristocrats who populate these novels are exclusively preoccupied with their erotic life. 1322pgs. • 1997
◆ • Zone Books • P • $34.95 / $12.98
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 reallife situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. 127pgs. •
2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $11.98
140726 THE MAINE WOODS
Thoreau, Henry David
A fully annotated gift edition of Thoreau's
journeys through a familiar yet
untouched land. As he explores Mt.
Katahdin, Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash
River, and the East Branch of the
Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own
vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in the wilderness.
384pgs. • 2009
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027655 ORANGES ARE NOT THE
ONLY FRUIT
Winterson, Jeanette
Raised in a devout evangelical family, the
narrator of this sparkling autobiographical novel grows up secure in the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but
as she comes of age, and comes to terms
with her preference for her own sex, the
peculiar balance of her God-fearing
household crumbles. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best
first fiction. 176pgs. • 1997
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Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, this
novel intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people:
Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from
glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, webfooted daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has
gambled away her heart. In Venice's compound of carnival,
chance, and darkness the pair meet their singular destiny.
160pgs. • 1988
▲ • Grove Press • P • $14.95 / $4.98
✪ 044181 SEXING THE CHERRY
Winterson, Jeanette
In a fantastic world that is and is not 17th-century England,
a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is
rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world
like Gulliver, but he finds that the world's most curious oddities come from his own mind. 167pgs. • 1998
▲ • Grove Press • P • $14.95 / $5.98
✪ 142299 WHY BE HAPPY WHEN
YOU COULD BE NORMAL?
Winterson, Jeanette
A memoir by the author of Oranges Are
Not the Only Fruit. Adopted as an
infant, Winterson was raised in an
atmosphere of stern British
Pentecostalism, against which she
eventually rebelled. Here she relates
her childhood, her coming-out as a
lesbian, and her search for her birth mother. 224pgs. •
2012
▲ • Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $7.98
✪ 028076 THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
Bulgakov, Mikhail
This uncensored translation of Bulgakov's posthumously
published masterpiece of black magic and black humor
restores its sliest digs and sharpest jabs at Stalin's regime,
which suppressed the book. This new translation, with its
accuracy and depth, finally does justice to the politically
and verbally outrageous qualities of the original. 402pgs. •
1997
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132097 NEW IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA
Roussel, Raymond
Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem
has gained cult status and admirers who have included Jean
Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch,
and John Ashbery. This bilingual edition presents the original
French text along with Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation, and also includes the illustrations commissioned by
Roussel. 264pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $13.98
148578 THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA
Nabokov, Vladimir
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for
his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made
up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The
Original of Laura. Dmitri Nabokov's decision finally to allow
publication of the fragmentary narrative -- dark yet playful,
preoccupied with mortality -- affords us one last experience of
Nabokov's magnificent creativity. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • Vintage • C • $35.00 / $9.98
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105182 THE PLUM IN THE GOLDEN
VASE OR, CHIN P'ING MEI: The
Gathering, Vol. 1
Roy, David Tod
An unabridged and annotated translation
of the first volume of the anonymous 16thcentury 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 • $45.00 / $25.98
✪ 119131 PORNOGRAFIA: A Novel
Gombrowicz, Witold
This richly imagined tale of violence and carnality set in
wartime Poland is one of Gombrowicz's most highly
regarded works. In the midst of the German occupation,
two aging intellectuals seek respite on a farm in the countryside, but quickly grow bored with their bucolic surroundings -- until they become mesmerized by a pair of
country youths who have grown up alongside each other at
the farm. 176pgs. • 2009
▲ • Grove Press • C • $23.00 / $7.98
131913 THE QUOTABLE THOREAU
Cramer, Jeffrey S., ed.
The most comprehensive and authoritative
collection of Thoreau quotations ever
assembled, this volume gathers more than
2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American author, social reformer,
environmentalist, and self-reliant thinker. It
includes Thoreau's thoughts on topics ranging from sex to solitude, manners to miracles, government to God, and everything in between. 552pgs.
• 2011
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✪ 134069 THE RADICAL JACK LONDON: Writings on
War and Revolution
JONAH RASKIN, ED.
London, Jack
In addition to illuminating London's surprising literary
range, this collection establishes the iconic American
author as both a product of his own era and a significant
voice for ours. In his Introduction, editor Jonah Raskin lays
out the social, economic, and political contexts for
London's polemical writings and shows London to have
been America's leading revolutionary writer at the turn of
the 20th century. 285pgs. • 2008
◆ • California • P • $29.95 / $9.98
✪ 043926 SELECTED POEMS: A Bilingual Edition
BELITT, BEN, ED. & TRANS.
Neruda, Pablo
The winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo
Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the
20th century. This bilingual edition makes available a major
selection of his poems. 320pgs. • 1961
▲ • Grove Press • P • $15.00 / $5.98
142178 SELECTED POEMS / AUSGEWAHLTE GEDICHTE:
A Dual-Language Book
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Featuring both the original German versions and excellent
English translations, this career-spanning selection celebrates
Rilke's best work. It includes verses from Sonnets to Orpheus,
Duino Elegies, Requiem for a Friend, The Book of Hours, and
The Life of the Virgin Mary, plus samples of the poet's earlier
and later works. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Dover • P • $12.95 / $5.98
148579 THREE DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING
Ellison, Ralph
Set in the framework of a deathbed vigil, Ellison's unfinished
second novel is a gripping multigenerational saga centering
around the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting
Senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy"
Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher
who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in
rural Georgia. 1136pgs. • 2010
◆ • Modern Library • C • $50.00 / $9.98
143014 WHILE MORTALS SLEEP: Unpublished Short
Fiction
FOREWORD BY DAVE EGGERS
Vonnegut, Kurt
Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt
Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers. In
these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut's originality
infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars, and
of characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel
and sometimes comically indifferent world. 272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Delacorte • C • $27.00 / $7.98
✪ 150757 WRITING IN AN AGE OF SILENCE
Paretsky, Sara
In this fascinating and personal account, the author of the V. I.
Warshawski crime novels describes a life shaped by the desire
to act. From the feminist movement -- which triggered her
aspirations to write and shaped the character of her female
detective -- to the Patriot Act and the liberties we have lost,
Paretsky describes the struggle of one individual to find a
voice. 138pgs. • 2009
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038897 COMMUNITIES OF VIOLENCE: Persecution of
Minorities in the Middle Ages
Nirenberg, David
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
104764 THE CORRUPTION OF ANGELS: The Great
Inquisition of 1245-1246
Pegg, Mark Gregory
Between May 1, 1245 and August 1, 1246 more than 5,000
people from the Lauragais region of France were questioned about the heresy known as Catharism. Mark
Gregory Pegg examines the sole surviving manuscript of
this great inquisition with unprecedented care, in order to
build a richly textured understanding of social life in southern France in the early 13th century. 238pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $17.98
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024368 FRAGMENTATION AND
REDEMPTION: Essays on Gender and
the Human Body in Medieval Religion
Bynum, Caroline Walker
A series of seven essays spanning the topics of gender, religious relics, sex, mortality, and the miraculous in the middle ages
by one of the most important scholars
working in the field today. 426pgs. • 1992
▲ • MIT • P • $26.95 / $15.98
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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089834 GENDER IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD:
East and West, 300-900
Brubaker, Leslie & Julia M. H. Smith, eds.
Examines the women, men, and eunuchs who lived in the late
Roman, Byzantine, Islamic and western European civilizations.
It emphasizes the integral relationship between masculine and
feminine by exploring costume, attitudes to the body, social
and political institutions, and a wide range of literary genres.
346pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $38.99 / $22.98
142628 SHAPING THE DAY: A History of Timekeeping
in England and Wales, 1300-1800
Glennie, Paul & Nigel Thrift
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world and
we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of
the day. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging
from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie
and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common
sense about time came into being. 472pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $24.98
038630 THE MAKING OF EUROPE:
Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural
Change, 950-1350
Bartlett, Robert
From our modern perspective, we tend to
think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered
lands beyond their borders and forced
European cultural values on other peoples.
This provocative book shows that Europe
in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer. 432pgs. •
1994
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143010 THE VIKINGS: Culture and Conquest
Arnold, Martin
From their base in Scandinavia, Viking warriors and settlers
spread across northern Europe, into Russia, and across the
Atlantic, establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland
and even reaching Vinland, or America. This volume provides a concise and clear survey of who the Vikings were,
what they did, and why they did it. 256pgs. • 2006
◆ • Continuum • C • $32.95 / $12.98
039557 MEDIEVAL CITIES: Their
Origins and the Revival of Trade
Pirenne, Henri
Traces the growth of the medieval city from
the tenth century to the twelfth, challenging
conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of
trade. In addition, Pirenne describes the
clear role the middle class played in the
development of the modern economic system and modern culture. 253pgs. • 1969
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $12.98
059233 WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH SOCIETY
Mate, Mavis E.
A concise and accessible introduction to the issues and
debates surrounding women and their position in medieval
society. It examines the role women played in the economy,
clarifies the legal provisions made for women, and highlights
the importance of class, as well as gender, in determining marriage and opportunities. 126pgs. • 1999
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✪ 132400 WRITING THE MAP OF ANGLO-SAXON
ENGLAND: Essays in Cultural Geography
Howe, Nicholas
Explores how the English, in the centuries before the Norman
Conquest, located themselves both literally and imaginatively
in the world. Howe's elegantly written study focuses on AngloSaxon representations of place as revealed in a wide variety of
texts in Latin and Old English, as well as in diagrams of holy
sites. 296pgs. • 2007
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✪ 152023 1948: A HISTORY OF THE FIRST ARABISRAELI WAR
Morris, Benny
A groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist history
of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Morris
examines both high politics and the nitty-gritty of combat in
the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the
state of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a
humiliation that to this day underlies the continued Arab
antagonism toward Israel. 544pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $32.50 / $9.98
✪ 052313 THE ARAB PREDICAMENT: Arab Political
Thought and Practice since 1967
Ajami, Fouad
In an illuminating study of the constraints and possibilities of
the modern Arab world, Ajami documents political and intellectual responses to the 1967 defeat and surveys the choices
facing the Arab nation-states. 279pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $12.98
149414 THE ARABS: Journeys Beyond
the Mirage
Lamb, David
Lamb, who spent years as a correspondent
in Cairo, explores the Arabs' religious,
political, and cultural views, noting the differences and key similarities between the
many segments of the Arab world. He
explains Arab attitudes and actions toward
the West, including the growth of terrorism, and situates current events in a larger historical backdrop
that goes back more than a thousand years. 368pgs. • 2002
▲ • Vintage • P • $16.95 / $6.98
146121 THE BORDERS OF ISLAM:
Exploring Samuel Huntington's
Faultlines from Al-Andalus to the
Virtual Ummah
Kardas, Tuncay, et al., eds.
In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel
Huntington argued that the borders
between Western and Islamic civilizations
would become the loci of cultural conflict.
Examining the virtual and actual borders of
Islamic civilization, the contributors to this volume argue that
mechanisms far more complex than those described by
Huntington influence many of these regions. 352pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $40.00 / $9.98
125726 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LATE OTTOMAN
EMPIRE
Hanioglu, M. Sukru
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $14.98
128126 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
MUHAMMAD
Brockopp, Jonathan E., ed.
As the Messenger of God, Muhammad stands at the heart of
the Islamic religion, revered by Muslims throughout the
world. This Cambridge Companion offers a collection of
essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the
field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet. 344pgs.
• 2010
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✪ 150642 DEEP MOUNTAIN: Across
the Turkish-Armenian Divide
Temelkuran, Ece
A personal and political journey to the
heart of the conflict between Turkey and
Armenia, by Turkey's most famous female
journalist. Temelkuran weaves together an
absorbing account of the role of national
myths and memories, and how they are
sustained and distorted over time, both
within Turkey and Armenia as well as among the Armenian
diaspora in France and the US. 288pgs. • 2010
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146112 FROM EMPATHY TO DENIAL: Arab Responses
to the Holocaust
Litvak, Meir & Ester Webman
Following the establishment of the state of Israel, Arab attitudes toward the Holocaust became entangled with broader
anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiments. In this volume, based
on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, the
authors track the evolution of perceptions of the Holocaust in
the wake of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948. 416pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $75.00 / $7.98
✪ 106334 A HISTORY OF IRAQ
THIRD EDITION
Tripp, Charles
Since its first appearance in 2000, this volume has become a
classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by
students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. It has now
been updated to cover the recent American invasion, the fall
and capture of Saddam Hussein, and the subsequent descent
into civil strife. 357pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $11.98
041162 A HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SOCIETIES: Second
Edition
Lapidus, Ira M.
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
◆ • Cambridge • P • $60.00 / $26.98
087283 A HISTORY OF MODERN
PALESTINE: One Land, Two Peoples
Pappe, Ilan
Traces the history of Palestine from the
Ottomans in the 19th century, through the
British Mandate, the establishment of the
state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent
wars and conflicts which have dominated
this troubled region. The second edition of
Pappe's book has been updated to include
the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early 21st century. As
in the first edition, it is the men, women and children of
Palestine who are at the center of Pappe's narrative. 384pgs.
• 2006
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $17.98
101102 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC THEOLOGY AND
LAW
Goldziher, Ignaz
Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921) was recognized as one of the
outstanding European Islamicists of his time. Presented here
for the first time in a scholarly and accurate English translation are six lectures written for delivery in America in 1906.
Though the lectures were never given, they were published in
German in 1910 and since then have served as an essential
guide for serious students and scholars of Islam. 320pgs. •
1981
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133695 IRAQ: A Political History from Independence
to Occupation
Dawisha, Adeed
Drawing on a wealth of Arabic and Western sources, an Iraqiborn scholar traces the history of the country from its inception in 1921 to the present day. He demonstrates how Iraq's
ruling elites sought to unify this ethnically diverse and politically explosive society by developing state governance, fostering democratic institutions, and forging a national identity.
408pgs. • 2011
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✪ 150680 ISLAMS AND MODERNITIES
Al-Azmeh, Aziz
For Aziz Al-Azmeh, the Orientalist view of Islam is simply
the mirror-image of the myths propagated by Islamic radicals, and both views share an erroneous and ahistorical
conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Surveying the social origins and intellectual genealogy of
Islam, he rethinks the relationship between Islam and the
West, uncovering a rich actual history of interaction.
234pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $24.95 / $9.98
✪ 150681 ISRAEL AND PALESTINE:
Reflections, Revisions, Refutations
Shlaim, Avi
From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the
failure of the Oslo peace process, from the
1948 War to the 2008 invasion of Gaza,
this volume places current events in historical perspective. It assesses the impact of
key political and intellectual figures,
including Yasir Arafat and Ariel Sharon,
Edward Said and Benny Morris, and explores the many missed
opportunities for peace and progress in the region. 392pgs. •
2009
◆ • Verso • C • $34.95 / $7.98
043966 ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS: A
History of Israel's Intelligence Services
Black, Ian
The first documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, through
Israel's five wars, up to the present. Highly
readable and exhaustively researched, it
provides the most balanced view yet of this
controversial subject. 634pgs. • 1991
◆ • Grove Press • P • $19.95 / $8.98
087375 MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali, ed.
Offers new translations of philosophical writings by Farabi,
Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Rushd
(Averroes). A historical and philosophical introduction sets
the writings in context and traces their preoccupations and
their achievements. 236pgs. • 2005
▲ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $21.98
069749 THE MIDDLE EAST AND
ISLAMIC WORLD READER
Gettleman, Marvin & Stuart Schaar, eds.
With carefully framed essays beginning
each chapter and brief introductory notes
accompanying over seventy readings, the
anthology reveals the multifaceted societies and political systems of the Islamic
world. Selections range from theological
texts illuminating the differences between
Shiite and Sunni Muslims, to diplomatic exchanges and state
papers, to memoirs and literary works, to manifestos of
Islamic radicals. 400pgs. • 2003
▲ • Grove Press • P • $19.95 / $7.98
131570 NO GOD BUT GOD: The
Origins, Evolution, and Future of
Islam
Aslan, Reza
Though it is the fastest-growing religion
in the world, Islam remains shrouded
in ignorance and fear for much of the
West. In this elegantly written account of
a magnificent yet misunderstood faith,
Reza Aslan traces its origins and history
and explores its potential for the future. 352pgs. • 2006
◆ • Modern Library • P • $16.00 / $6.98
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✪ 044145 ONE THOUSAND ROADS TO MECCA: Ten
Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim
Pilgrimage
Wolfe, Michael, ed.
Since its inception in the 7th century, the Hajj has been the
central theme of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the
European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside. These two very
different literary traditions form distinct sides of a spirited
conversation in which Mecca is the common destination and
Islam the common subject of inquiry. 620pgs. • 1997
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✪ 152021 PALESTINE BETRAYED
Karsh, Efraim
The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably
changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise
to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless
armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. In this brave and
groundbreaking book, Efraim Karsh tells the story from both
the Arab and Jewish perspectives. 336pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $35.00 / $8.98
✪ 130227 PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS: From Zionism
to Israel
Mayer, Arno J.
An absorbing, challenging narrative of Zionism and Israel in
the context of world history, incorporating reflections on
founding violence, sovereignty, resistance, terror, and religious politics. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • C • $34.95 / $9.98
131573 READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in
Books
Nafisi, Azar
Every Thursday morning for two years, Azar Nafisi secretly
gathered seven of her most committed female students to read
forbidden Western classics, immersing themselves in the
worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and
Vladimir Nabokov. This extraordinary memoir is a remarkable
exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature. 400pgs. • 2008
◆ • Modern Library • P • $18.00 / $5.98
144003 TALES OF GOD'S FRIENDS:
Islamic Hagiography in Translation
Renard, John
This remarkable collection gathers a
breathtakingly diverse selection of primary
texts from the vast repertoire of Islamic
stories about holy men and women, exemplary for their piety, intimacy with God, and
service to their fellow human beings.
Translated from seventeen languages,
these texts come from the Middle East, North and sub-Saharan
Africa, Central and South Asia, and China and Southeast Asia.
432pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • P • $29.95 / $7.98
✪ 150744 A TIME TO SPEAK OUT:
Independent Jewish Voices on the
Middle East
Karpf, Anne, et al., eds.
With articles on such topics as international law, the Holocaust, varieties of Zionism,
self-hatred, the multiplicity of Jewish identities, and human rights, these essays provide powerful evidence of the vitality of
independent Jewish opinion as well as
demonstrating that criticism of Israel has a crucial role to play
in the continuing history of a Jewish concern for social justice.
306pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • P • $19.95 / $6.98
107170 THE WAR FOR PALESTINE:
Rewriting the History Of 1948
Rogan, Eugene L. & Avi Shlaim, eds.
The most balanced assessment of the different perspectives of the genesis of the
Arab-Israeli conflict. Contributions cover
the creation of the state of Israel, the fragmentation of Palestine, the conflict of the
intervening 60 years and the continuing
historical debate. 285pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $19.98
M USIC
142737 BOB DYLAN REVISITED: 13 Graphic
Interpretations of Bob Dylan's Songs
Murat, Thierry
Mesmerized by the power of Dylan's lyrics and intrigued by the
possibilities of translating his enigmatic personality into art,
13 leading graphic artists banded together to create this
unusual testament to an American musical genius. With
vibrant, unexpected colors and dynamic, cinematic imagery,
this is one of the most provocative interpretations of Dylan's
music in decades. 98pgs. • 2009
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $24.95 / $5.98
135349 THE DANGER OF MUSIC AND OTHER ANTIUTOPIAN ESSAYS
Taruskin, Richard
Collects two decades of Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics, ranging in approach from occasional pieces for newspapers like the New York Times to full-scale critical essays. Hardhitting, provocative, and incisive, these essays consider contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics
and historians in the life of the arts, and the fraught terrain
where ethics and aesthetics intersect. 512pgs. • 2008
◆ • California • C • $50.00 / $14.98
146924 DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON: STATE OF THE
ART: Celebrating over a Century of Musical
Excellence
Louis, Remy, et al.
The Deutsche Grammophon label has come to define excellence in recorded classical music. Extensively illustrated with
many never-before-published archival images, this handsome
slipcased volume includes reproductions of playbills, documents, album covers, and behind-the-scenes photographs of
recording sessions, and is accompanied by two CDs featuring
the firm's most seminal recordings. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Rizzoli • C • $65.00 / $16.98
✪ 152017 FRENCH OPERA: A Short History
Giroud, Vincent
In this comprehensive account of opera in France from its origins to the present, Vincent Giroud looks at the leading composers, from Lully to Messiaen and beyond; at the development of French operatic form and style; at performance, performers, and audience; and at the impact of French opera
beyond France's borders. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $14.98
048894 JACQUES OFFENBACH AND
THE PARIS OF HIS TIME
Kracauer, Siegfried
Kracauer's biography, first published in
1937, is a remarkable work of social and
cultural history that employs the life and
work of Offenbach as a focal point for a
broad and penetrating portrayal of Second
Empire Paris. Kracauer insists that
Offenbach's productions are more than
glittering distractions, and that they made a mockery of the
pomp and pretense Napoleon III's imperial masquerade.
418pgs. • 2002
◆ • Zone Books • C • $36.95 / $8.98
135625 JEAN SIBELIUS AND HIS WORLD
Grimley, Daniel M.
Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas
about modernism, and interrogating notions of landscape and
nature, this volume sheds new light on the critical position
occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition.
352pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
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140044 JOHN CAGE
Robinson, Julia, ed.
Famous for his use of chance and silence in musical works, a
pioneer in electronic music and the nonstandard use of instruments, Cage was one of the most influential composers of the
20th century. This volume traces a trajectory of writings on the
artist, from the first critical reactions to current scholarship.
232pgs. • 2011
◆ • MIT • P • $19.95 / $9.98
✪ 150697 MUSIC QUICKENS TIME
Barenboim, Daniel
In this eloquent book, Israel's most celebrated musician
draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement
with music to argue for its central importance in our everyday lives. While we may sometimes think of personal, social
and political issues as existing independently of each other,
Barenboim shows how music teaches that this is impossible. 184pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $14.95 / $4.98
027338 READING COUNTRY MUSIC:
Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, & HonkyTonk Bars
Tichi, Cecelia, ed.
Bringing together scholars and critics from
many fields, this anthology looks at everything from the inner workings of the country music industry to the iconography of
certain stars to the development of distinctive subgenres. The essays consider the
shift from "hard-core" to "soft-shell" country music; Johnny
Cash as lesbian icon; gender, class, and region in Dolly
Parton's star image; and bluegrass's gothic tradition. 408pgs.
• 1998
◆ • Duke • P • $26.95 / $5.98
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32166 AMAZON EXPEDITIONS: My Quest for the IceAge Equator
Colinvaux, Paul A.
Colinvaux's grand endeavor, begun in the 1960s, was to find
fossil evidence of the ice-age climate and vegetation of the
entire American equator, from Pacific to Atlantic. The story of
how he arrived at a new understanding of the Amazon is at
once an adventure saga, an account of science as it is conducted in the field, and a cautionary tale about the temptation
to treat a favored hypothesis with a reverence that subverts
unbiased research. 384pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $32.50 / $7.98
125751 ANT ENCOUNTERS:
Interaction Networks and Colony
Behavior
Gordon, Deborah
Ant colonies operate without a central control or hierarchy, and no ant directs another. Instead, ants decide what to do based
on the rate, rhythm, and pattern of individual encounters and interactions, resulting
in a dynamic network that coordinates the
functions of the colony. In this volume, Gordon provides a
revealing and accessible look into ant behavior from this complex systems perspective. 184pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
131745 THE CAUSES OF EVOLUTION
Haldane, J. B. S.
One of the founders of the science of population genetics, J. B. S. Haldane was also one
of the greatest practitioners of the art of
explaining science to the layperson. In this
classic work, he not only helped integrate
the sciences of genetics and evolutionary
theory but also provided an accessible
introduction to the genetic basis of evolution by natural selection. 60pgs. • 1990
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $12.98
111744 DARWIN LOVES YOU:
Natural Selection and the ReEnchantment of the World
Levine, George
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.
• 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $7.98
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✪ 135527 DARWIN, GOD, AND THE MEANING OF
LIFE: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines
Everything You Thought You Knew
Stewart-Williams, Steve
If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in
God? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it
imply that life has no ultimate purpose, and that ultimately
nothing is right or wrong? In this fascinating book, Steve
Stewart-Williams addresses these and other fundamental
philosophical questions raised by evolutionary theory and
the new field of evolutionary psychology. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • C • $30.00 / $9.98
ASTROBIOLOGY
136836 ASTROBIOLOGY OF EARTH: The Emergence,
Evolution and Future of Life on a Planet in Turmoil
Gale, Joseph
Astrobiology is a relatively new subject drawing from several fields of science, including astronomy, geology, biology,
and climatology. The central theme of this book is the fortuitous combination of numerous cosmic factors that enabled
the emergence, persistence, and evolution of life on our
own planet. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $60.00 / $12.98
126207 HOW TO FIND A HABITABLE
PLANET
Kasting, James F.
Ever since Carl Sagan predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in
the millions, the question has been
inescapable: is Earth so rare that
advanced life forms like us -- or even the
simplest biological organisms -- are
unique to the universe? Kasting describes
how scientists are testing Sagan's prediction, and demonstrates why Earth may not be so rare after all. 360pgs. •
2009
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✪ 137351 TALKING ABOUT LIFE: Conversations on
Astrobiology
Impey, Chris, ed.
With more than 500 planets now known to exist beyond the
solar system, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing
search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book
explores current ideas about the search for life in the universe. Covering topics from astronomy and planetary science to geology and biology, it will fascinate anyone who has
ever wondered "Are we alone?" 418pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • C • $30.99 / $7.98
109456 DARWINISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Ruse, Michael
An ardent defense of Darwin's theory of evolution. Ruse examines such issues as the origins of life, the fossil record, the
mechanism of natural selection, punctuated equilibrium,
fraud in biological science, and the philosophical and religious implications of Darwinism, notably in a discussion of
Creationism and its offshoot, Intelligent Design Theory.
316pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.00 / $9.98
133215 DARWIN'S LOST WORLD: The
Hidden History of Animal Life
Brasier, Martin
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
◆ • Oxford University • P • $19.95 / $6.98
112315 DINOSAURS: A Concise Natural History
Fastovsky, David E. & David B. Weishampel
This introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists is designed to excite readers about science by using
dinosaurs to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history,
and evolution. It introduces a range of aspects of the natural sciences, including fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology, physiology, life history, and systematics.
394pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $82.00 / $45.98
109443 DINOSAURS AND OTHER MESOZOIC
REPTILES OF CALIFORNIA
Hilton, Richard P.
The first comprehensive account of the dinosaurs and reptiles of land, sea, and sky that lived in California and Baja
California during the Mesozoic era. Vibrantly illustrated
with more than 300 photographs, paintings, and drawings,
it provides geological and environmental details, describes
the significance of the major fossils, and chronicles the
adventures involved in the discovery and description of the
finds. 342pgs. • 2003
◆ • California • C • $50.00 / $7.98
140922 DRAGONFLIES AND
DAMSELFLIES OF THE EAST
Paulson, Dennis
The first fully illustrated guide to all 336
dragonfly and damselfly species of eastern
North America, from the rivers of Manitoba
to the Florida cypress swamps. Species
accounts describe key identification features, distribution, flight season, similar
species, habitat, and natural history.
576pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $18.98
093067 THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE
CHANGE: The Stern Review
Stern, Nicholas
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
◆ • Cambridge • P • $69.00 / $39.98
144822 EVOLUTION AND BELIEF: Confessions of a
Religious Paleontologist
Asher, Robert J.
As both a paleontologist and a religious believer, Robert Asher
constantly confronts the perceived conflict between his occupation and his faith. Recounting discoveries in molecular biology, paleontology, and development, he reveals the remarkable evidence in favor of Darwinian evolution and promotes a
balanced awareness that contributes to our understanding of
biology and Earth history. 324pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • C • $24.99 / $14.98
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125710 BIRDS OF EUROPE
Svensson, Lars & Zetterström Dan
The definitive field guide to the
diverse birdlife found in Europe, now
brought fully up to date with revised
text and maps as well as additional
illustrations. Covers all 772 species
found in Europe, 32 introduced
species or variants, and 118 rare visitors. 448pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $18.98
125714 BIRDS OF PERU
REVISED & UPDATED EDITION
Schulenberg, Thomas S., et al.
The most complete and authoritative field guide to the
diverse, neotropical landscape of Peru. It features every one
of the country's 1,817 bird species in 307 superb, highquality color plates. 664pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $25.98
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FOURTH EDITION
Sinclair, Ian, et al.
This fully revised edition covers all birds found in South
Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe,
and southern Mozambique. It features 213 dazzling color
plates depicting more than 950 species, as well as up-todate distribution maps showing the relative abundance of a
species in the region and indicating its resident or migratory status. 448pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
126882 BIRDS OF THE WEST
INDIES
Arlott, Norman
A complete handbook to identifying all
of the diverse birds in these island territories. The guide's 80 vivid color
plates are accompanied by succinct text
focusing on key field-identification
characteristics, and distribution maps
for all species are conveniently located
at the back of the guide for handy reference. 240pgs. •
2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
104833 HAWKS FROM EVERY ANGLE: How to Identify
Raptors in Flight
Liguori, Jerry
Featuring 339 striking color photos on 68 color plates and
32 black & white photos, this volume presents a host of
meticulously crafted pictures for each of the 19 species it
covers in detail -- the species most common to migration
sites throughout the US and Canada. All aspects of raptor
identification are discussed, including plumage, shape, and
flight style. 129pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
✪ 152025 A PHOTOGRAPHIC
GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF JAPAN
AND NORTH-EAST ASIA
Shimba, Tadao
The first new volume to cover Japanese
avifauna in English in more than 25
years, this guide also encompasses the
birds of neighboring mainland regions
of eastern Asia, including Korea, northeastern China, and eastern Siberia.
More than 520 species are described, illustrated with hundreds of stunning color photographs. 504pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • P • $40.00 / $12.98
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089699 THE EVOLUTION OF
DARWINISM: Selection, Adaptation
and Progress in Evolutionary Biology
Shanahan, Timothy
No other scientific theory has had as great
an impact on our understanding of the
world as Darwinism. Yet the theory has
been the subject of controversy from its
very beginning. This volume focuses on
three issues of debate in Darwin's theory of
evolution -- the nature of selection, the nature and scope of
adaptation, and the question of evolutionary progress.
352pgs. • 2004
▲ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $16.98
111381 EXTINCTION: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended
250 Million Years Ago
Erwin, Douglas H.
Some 250 million years ago, in the greatest biological crisis in
the history of our planet, around 95 percent of all living
species died out. Here, the world's foremost authority on the
subject provides a fascinating overview of the evidence for and
against a whole host of hypotheses concerning this cataclysmic
event that unfolded at the end of the Permian. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $25.95 / $10.98
✪ 149447 FADING OF THE GREENS:
The Decline of Environmental Politics
in the West
Bramwell, Anna
Examines the development of green parties
and ideology since 1945, and the cultural
context in which they developed, in
England, Germany, and the US. Bramwell
shows how Green consciousness became
skewed in political practice, preventing it
from attracting support commensurate with popular feeling.
238pgs. • 1994
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $9.98
143996 THE GREAT CENTRAL VALLEY: California's
Heartland
Haslam, Gerald, et al.
This marvelously evocative book explores in detail the rich
natural and social history of the state's agricultural heartland.
Gerald Haslam's text celebrates the tenacious people of the
Valley, while stunning photographs by Stephen Johnson and
Robert Dawson reveal the immense beauty of the region as
well as the delicate relationship between the land and the people who work it. 264pgs. • 1993
◆ • California • P • $49.95 / $9.98
132058 HERE ON EARTH: A
Natural History of the Planet
Flannery, Tim
A dazzling account of life on our planet, beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang. Drawing on
Charles Darwin's and Alfred Russell
Wallace's theories of evolution and
Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, Flannery
concludes with the fascinating story of
the evolution of our own ancestors out of several early
human species who lived in Africa around two million years
ago. 288pgs. • 2011
▲ • Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $7.98
088601 IGUANAS: Biology and Conservation
Alberts, Allison, et al., eds.
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
◆ • California • C • $65.00 / $24.98
111732 INFECTIOUS DISEASE ECOLOGY: Effects of
Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems
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 • $65.00 / $32.98
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✪ 116580 INTEGRAL ECOLOGY: Uniting Multiple
Perspectives on the Natural World
Esbjorn-Hargens, Sean & Michael E. Zimmerman
With so many distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural
world -- from scientists, economists, ethicists, activists,
philosophers, and others -- how can we come to agreement in
order to solve our toughest environmental problems? This volume unites valuable insights from multiple perspectives into a
comprehensive theoretical framework-- one that can be put to
use right now. 832pgs. • 2009
◆ • Shambhala • C • $60.00 / $19.98
111769 LIFE IN COLD BLOOD
Attenborough, David
Amphibians and reptiles once ruled the
planet, and their descendants exhibit
some of the most colorful variety and
astounding behavior known to the animal
kingdom. In this gorgeously illustrated
book, Attenborough gets up close and
personal with the living descendants of
the first vertebrates ever to colonize the
land, and through them traces the fascinating history of their
pioneering ancestors. 288pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
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 fossilfuel 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 longterm climate forecast. 192pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
CHARLES DARWIN
✪ 109570 THE BEAGLE LETTERS
BURKHARDT, FREDERICK, ED.
Darwin, Charles
Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle is both a gripping adventure story and a turning point in the making of the
modern world. Brought together here in chronological
order, the letters he wrote and received during his trip provide a first-hand account of a voyage of discovery that was as
much personal as intellectual. 544pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • C • $37.00 / $14.98
✪ 150368 CHARLES DARWIN'S
SHORTER PUBLICATIONS, 18291883
van Wyhe, John
Brings together all known shorter
publications and printed items Darwin
wrote during his lifetime, including
his first and his last publications, and
the first publication, with A. R.
Wallace, of the theory of evolution by
natural selection. With more than 70 newly discovered
items, the book is fully edited and annotated and contains
original illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.
556pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • C • $172.00 / $49.98
126097 THE ORIGIN THEN AND NOW: An
Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species
Reznick, David N.
An indispensable primer for anyone seeking to understand
Darwin's Origin of Species and the ways it has shaped the
modern study of evolution. Reznick shows how many of the
work's apparent peculiarities can be explained by the state
of science in 1859, and demonstrates why Darwin's theory
unifies the biological sciences under a single conceptual
framework much as Newton did for physics. 480pgs. •
2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $14.98
✪ 133044 LOST LAND OF THE
DODO: The Ecological History
of Mauritius, Reunion, and
Rodrigues
Cheke, Anthony & Julian P. Hume
The Mascarene Islands of the
Indian Ocean were once home to
an extraordinary range of birds
and reptiles: giant tortoises, parrots, skinks, geckos, burrowing
boas, flightless rails and herons, and, most famously,
dodos. This fascinating book, featuring Julian Hume's
superb color illustrations, provides the first full ecological
history of the islands and its bygone fauna . 480pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $12.98
135555 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE
POINT REYES PENINSULA
Evens, Jules
Extensively illustrated with color photographs, original illustrations, and maps, this
chronicle of one of the most biologically
diverse places in North America also
includes species lists for the reptiles,
amphibians, birds, mammals, common
invertebrates, fish, and plants found on the
peninsula today. An essential companion for anyone who plans
to visit one of California's most unique natural areas. 360pgs.
• 2008
◆ • California • C • $60.00 / $14.98
133684 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SPIDERS
Hillyard, Paul
With more than 100 different families and 40,000 species, spiders are among the most successful creatures on Earth.
Written in an engaging style and featuring more than 100 stunning color photographs, this volume reveals the intriguing
behaviors of these complex creatures, from their web-spinning skills and hunting strategies to their courtship displays
and devoted care for their young. 160pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
122626 TOO SMART FOR OUR OWN GOOD: The
Ecological Predicament of Humankind
Dilworth, Craig
We are destroying our natural environment at a rapidly
increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental
science and history, this book shows how our ecologically disruptive behavior is in rooted in our very nature as a species.
546pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $36.99 / $9.98
125650 TRYING LEVIATHAN: The
Nineteenth-Century New York Court
Case That Put the Whale on Trial
and Challenged the Order of Nature
Burnett, D. Graham
Recovers the strange story of an 1818
court case that pitted the new sciences
of taxonomy against the biblically sanctioned view that the whale was a fish.
The immediate dispute was mundane:
whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state
inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate
in which the very order of nature -- and how we know it -was at stake. 304pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $25.95 / $12.98
✪ 104244 WHAT MAKES BIOLOGY UNIQUE?:
Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific
Discipline
Mayr, Ernst
Mayr, widely considered the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, argues that biology is an autonomous
science rather than a branch of the physical sciences. He
offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought and
explains that Darwin's theory of evolution is actually five separate theories, each with its own history, trajectory and impact.
232pgs. • 2007
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WORLD
Hunter, Luke
The first comprehensive field guide to
all 245 terrestrial species of true carnivores, from the polar bear and big cats
to the tiny least weasel. It features 86
color plates by acclaimed wildlife artist
Priscilla Barrett that depict every
species and numerous subspecies, as
well as some 400 line drawings of skulls and footprints.
240pgs. • 2011
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MacDonald, David W.
The first guide to authoritatively describe all of the more
than 200 mammals encountered in the Old World and
adjoining seas, including such diverse creatures as brown
bears, badgers, bats, hedgehogs, and a host of whales and
dolphins. The book features 64 color plates containing
more than 600 superbly detailed paintings of the animals.
320pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $42.50 / $24.98
✪ 125652 MAMMALS OF NORTH
AMERICA
Kays, Roland & Don E. Wilson
Covering 20 additional species recognized since 2002 and including 13 new
color plates, the fully revised second
edition of this definitive reference illustrates all 462 known mammal species in
the United States and Canada in beautiful
color and accurate detail. 248pgs. •
2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
125774 THE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
MAMMALS
MacDonald, David W., ed.
The definitive one-volume resource, a must-have reference
book for naturalists and a delight for general readers.
Unsurpassed in scope and stunningly illustrated, it covers
every known living species, from aardvarks to zorros.
976pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $23.98
117591 WHY WE DISAGREE ABOUT
CLIMATE CHANGE: Understanding
Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Hulme, Mike
Climate change is not "a problem" waiting
for "a solution"; it is an environmental,
cultural and political phenomenon that is
re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and our place on
Earth. Drawing upon 25 years as a climate
change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides an insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. 432pgs.
• 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
135535 WILDLIFE OF SOUTHERN
AFRICA
Withers, Martin B. & David Hosking
Features full-color photos of more than
400 species of birds, mammals, snakes,
lizards, and insects found in the major
game reserves and national parks of South
Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia,
Zimbabwe, Botswana, and southern
Mozambique. Each species is accompanied by at least one full-color photograph plus a full textual
description. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
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148169 AGENCY AND DEONTIC LOGIC
Horty, John F.
Develops deontic logic -- the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission
-- against the background of a formal theory of agency. Horty incorporates certain
elements of decision theory to set out a new
deontic account of what agents ought to do
under various conditions over extended
periods of time. 208pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $9.98
138446 ANCIENT EPISTEMOLOGY
Gerson, Lloyd
In this exploration of ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from the Presocratics up to the Platonists,
Gerson argues that ancient philosophers generally held a naturalistic view of knowledge as well as of belief. Hence, knowledge was not viewed as a stipulated or semantically determined type of belief but was rather a real or objectively determinable achievement. 190pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $12.98
128464 ANCIENT SCEPTICISM
Thorsrud, Harald
An engaging, rigorous introduction to the
central themes, arguments, and general
concerns of ancient Scepticism, from its
beginnings with Pyrrho of Elis (ca. 360 BC
-ca. 270 BC) to the writings of Sextus
Empiricus in the second century AD.
264pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • P • $28.95 / $9.98
133193 THE BELOVED SELF: Morality
and the Challenge from Egoism
Hills, Alison
Offers detailed discussions of recent interpretations of virtue ethics and especially of
Kant's moral theory. The second and third
parts of the book turn to epistemology, and
include an account of the relationship
between knowledge and action, a new theory of moral understanding, and a discussion of the epistemically rational response to various kinds of
disagreement. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $55.00 / $9.98
JACQUES DERRIDA
✪ 110129 PORTRAIT OF JACQUES DERRIDA AS A
YOUNG JEWISH SAINT
Cixous, Hélène
Who can say "I am Jewish?" What does "Jew" mean? What
especially does it mean for the founder of deconstruction,
scoffer at boundaries and fixed identities, explorer of the
indeterminate and undecidable? In this volume Cixous follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and nonJewishness that play through the life and works of one of the
greatest philosophers. 168pgs. • 2005
◆ • Columbia • P • $26.00 / $7.98
✪ 152022 WHO WAS JACQUES
DERRIDA?: An Intellectual
Biography
Mikics, David
In the first full-scale appraisal of
Derrida's career, his influence, and his
philosophical roots, David Mikics succinctly defines Derrida's vision of philosophy. While pointing out the flaws of
that vision and Derrida's betrayal of
his most adamantly expounded beliefs, Mikics ultimately
concludes that "Derrida was neither so brilliantly right nor
so badly wrong as his enthusiasts and critics, respectively,
claimed." 296pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • P • $24.00 / $7.98
106437 BERNARD WILLIAMS
Thomas, Alan, ed.
The seven essays in this volume examine Williams's work on
moral objectivity, the nature of practical reason, moral emotion, the critique of the "morality system," his assessment of
the ethical thought of the ancient world, and his adoption of
Nietzsche's method of "genealogy." 221pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $7.98
133197 BY PARALLEL REASONING
Bartha, Paul F. A.
A good analogical argument, Bartha states,
must articulate a clear relationship that is
capable of generalization. By elaborating
the connection between analogy and these
broad epistemic principles, he offers a
novel contribution to explaining how
analogies can play an important role in the
confirmation of scientific hypotheses.
376pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $12.98
047943 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO PLATO
Kraut, Richard, ed.
Contains 14 new essays discussing Plato's views about
knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There are also analyses of the intellectual
and social background of his thought, the development of
his philosophy throughout his career, the range of alternative approaches to his work, and the stylometry of his writing. 560pgs. • 1992
▲ • Cambridge • P • $45.00 / $22.98
131081 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SOCRATES
Morrison, Donald
Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence
comes from the writings of his friends -- above all Plato -his enemies, and later writers. Mirroring the wide range of
thinking about Socrates as both character and philosopher,
this volume's contributors represent a range of interpretive
and philosophical traditions. 436pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $17.98
039498 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
ARISTOTLE, VOLUME 1: 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. 1250pgs. • 1984
◆ • Princeton • C • $52.50 / $29.98
038657 CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC
POSTSCRIPTS TO PHILOSOPHICAL
FRAGMENTS, VOLUME 2
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. 345pgs. • 1992
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $18.98
✪ 125973 DELETE: The Virtue of Forgetting in the
Digital Age
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor
The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten, and this has profound implications for us all. The
author traces the important role that forgetting has played
throughout human history, from the ability to make sound
decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of
second chances. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
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DESCARTES
125506 COGITO?: Descartes and Thinking the World
Almog, Joseph
How did "thinking" arise in an otherwise "thoughtless" universe and what does it mean for beings like us to be
thinkers? Almog goes back to the Meditations, and using
Descartes' own a posteriori cognitive methodology -- his
naturalistic, scientific, approach to the study of man -- tries
to answer the question. 144pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $40.00 / $12.98
086233 DESCARTES: A Biography
Clarke, Desmond
Descartes' main contribution to the
history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that
emerged in the 17th century. This is the
first biography in English to address the
full range of his interest in theology,
philosophy, and the sciences, and to
trace his intellectual development through his entire career.
520pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • C • $48.00 / $19.98
✪ 088356 RADICAL CARTESIANISM: The French
Reception of Descartes
Schmaltz, Tad
A study of two of Descartes' most innovative successors,
Robert Desgabets and Pierre-Sylvain Regis. Relating their
work to that of fellow Cartesians such as Malebranche and
Arnauld, the book establishes the role played by Desgabets
and Regis in the theologically and politically charged reception of Descartes in early modern France. 302pgs. • 2002
▲ • Cambridge • C • $114.00 / $16.98
✪ 150621 DIFFERENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY: Dialogue
and Personal Identity
Jacques, Francis
In this investigation of human subjectivity, Francis Jacques
draws upon linguistics, literary criticism, theories of artificial
intelligence, communication theory, psychoanalysis, and theology, and considers works as diverse as Walden and Alice in
Wonderland. He shows that the question of subjectivity, far
from becoming outmoded, remains of central significance for
philosophy and the social sciences. 384pgs. • 1991
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $7.98
041079 ELEMENTS OF THE
PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT
Hegel, G. W. F.
Hegel's last major published work
attempts to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political
theory, and the sociology of the modern
state into the framework of his philosophy
of history. 514pgs. • 1991
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $14.98
135912 ERNST CASSIRER: The Last
Philosopher of Culture
Skidelsky, Edward
The first English-language intellectual
biography of a leading figure on the
Weimar intellectual scene. Skidelsky presents Cassirer, the author of The Philosophy
of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of the
liberal ideal of culture in an increasingly
fragmented world, and as someone who
grappled with the opposing forces of scientific positivism and
romantic vitalism. 304pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
089519 ETHICS AND POLITICS: Selected Essays,
Volume 2
MacIntyre, Alasdair
This selection of MacIntyre's classic essays on ethics and politics focuses primarily on the themes of moral disagreement,
moral dilemmas, political philosophy, and the importance of
truthfulness. The essays range from the importance of Aristotle
and Aquinas to the threat our contemporary economic and
social structures pose to living ethically. 252pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $18.98
148129 THE EVIDENT CONNEXION:
Hume on Personal Identity
Strawson, Galen
A new reading of Hume's "bundle theory" of the self or mind, and of his later
rejection of it. Galen Strawson argues
that the bundle theory does not claim
that there are no subjects of experience, but simply that we have no empirically respectable reason to believe in
the existence of a persisting subject, or a mind that is more
than a series of experiences. 192pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $16.98
IMMANUEL KANT
049280 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO KANT
Guyer, Paul, ed.
The most systematic and comprehensive
account of the full range of Kant's writings, and the first major overview of his
work to be published in more than a
dozen years. An international team of
Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual
revolution in epistemology, metaphysics,
philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion. 496pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $45.00 / $22.98
041085 CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF IMMANUEL KANT
Kant, Immanuel
The most accurate and informative English translation of
Kant's most important work in both the 1781 and 1787 editions. All Kant's handwritten emendations and marginal
notes from his own personal copy reproduced for the first
time in any edition, German or English. 785pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $22.98
✪ 051647 THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
GREGOR, MARY, ET AL., EDS.
Kant, Immanuel
Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy, in which he
deals with the basic principles of rights and of virtues. It
comprises two parts: the "Doctrine of Right," which deals
with the rights that people have or can acquire, and the
"Doctrine of Virtue," which deals with the virtues they ought
to acquire. 278pgs. • 1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $23.99 / $12.98
134683 OBSERVATIONS ON THE
FEELING OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND
SUBLIME AND OTHER WRITINGS
Kant, Immanuel
This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings
from the 1760s, before he developed his
critical philosophy. Those familiar with
Kant's later works will discover a Kant
interested in the "beauty" as well as the
"dignity" of humanity, and in practical concerns as well as
philosophical abstractions. 396pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $15.98
031024 PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF
IMMANUEL KANT
Kant, Immanuel
The first comprehensive English translation of all of Kant's moral and political philosophy writings. As well as the
Groundwork to the Metaphysics of
Morals, the Critique of Practical
Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and
Toward Perpetual Peace, the volume includes shorter essays
and reviews, some of which have never been translated
before. 668pgs. • 1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $47.00 / $29.98
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132087 FROM PROTAGORAS TO
ARISTOTLE: Essays in Ancient Moral
Philosophy
Segvic, Heda
At the time of her death at age forty-five,
Segvic had already established herself as
an important figure in ancient philosophy,
making bold new arguments about the
nature of Socratic intellectualism and the
influences that shaped Aristotle's ideas.
The essays collected here, including some that were intended
to form the backbone of her projected monograph, are those
on which her reputation rests. 216pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $55.00 / $32.98
149400 GABRIEL MARCEL
Cain, Seymour
This accessible introduction to philosopher Gabriel Marcel
(author of Man Against Mass Society) includes a complete bibliography of the French existentialist's works. 128pgs. • 1979
◆ • Gateway • P • IMPORT / $5.98
023878 HEGEL'S INTRODUCTION TO THE LECTURES
ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
T.M. KNOX & A.V. MILLER, TRANS.
Hegel, G. W. F.
A translation of Hegel's lectures on the history of philosophy
based on Hoffmeister's text of 1940 and Michelet's first edition. 193pgs. • 1987
◆ • Oxford University • P • $70.00 / $27.98
✪ 152015 HEIDEGGER: The
Introduction of Nazism into
Philosophy
Faye, Emmanuel
In the most comprehensive examination
to date of Heidegger's Nazism,
Emmanuel Faye draws on previously
unavailable materials to paint a damning
picture of Nazism's influence on the
philosopher's thought and politics. He
revisits Heidegger's masterwork, Being and Time, and concludes that it presents not a philosophy of individual existence but rather a doctrine of radical self-sacrifice, where
individualization is allowed only for the purpose of heroism
in warfare. 464pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • P • $29.00 / $9.98
136736 HISTORY, THE HUMAN, AND THE WORLD
BETWEEN
Radhakrishnan, R.
A philosophical investigation of the human subject and its
simultaneous implication in multiple and often contradictory
ways of knowing. Radhakrishnan argues that human subjectivity is always constituted "between": between subjective and
objective, temporality and historicity, being and knowing, the
ethical and the political, nature and culture, identity and difference. 286pgs. • 2008
◆ • Duke • P • $23.95 / $7.98
133254 HUME'S SKEPTICAL CRISIS:
A Textual Study
Fogelin, Robert J.
In the process of giving an account of the
operations of the human mind, David
Hume discovered that the mechanisms that
create and sustain our beliefs are deeply
unreliable and, in fact, capricious in their
operations. This volume provides a textual
study of the changes in perspective that
emerged as Hume pursued his attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. 192pgs. •
2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $45.00 / $27.98
062419 THE ILLUSION OF CONSCIOUS WILL
Wegner, Daniel M.
Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us?
In this book Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue,
arguing that although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as
a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense
of responsibility and morality. 405pgs. • 2002
◆ • MIT • P • $23.95 / $12.98
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105201 EVIL IN MODERN
THOUGHT: An Alternative History of
Philosophy
Neiman, Susan
Whether expressed in theological or
secular terms, evil confronts philosophy
with fundamental questions. Neiman
argues that these questions impelled
modern philosophy, concluding that
two basic stances run through modern
thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from
Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we do
not. 376pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $11.98
125765 MORAL CLARITY: A Guide for Grown-up
Idealists
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 • $30.95 / $11.98
053486 THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT WE CARE ABOUT:
Philosophical Essays
Frankfurt, Harry G.
A collection of essays dealing with freedom of the will, moral
responsibility, the concept of a person, the structure of the
will, the nature of action, the constitution of the self, and the
theory of personal ideals. Focusing on the distinctive nature of
human freedom, Frankfurt explores fundamental problems of
what it is to be a person and of what one should care about in
life. 190pgs. • 1988
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $17.98
✪ 101827 THE IMPOSSIBLE EXCHANGE
Baudrillard, Jean
In this volume, Baudrillard's investigations into reality and
hyper-reality shift here into a more metaphysical frame. The
world, he suggests, has no equivalence, no double, no representation, no mirror. Without a mirror, there can be no
verification, and without verification, no "reality." 160pgs.
• 2001
◆ • Verso • P • $19.95 / $7.98
104322 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY
Lemos, Noah
Epistemology or the theory of knowledge is
one of the cornerstones of analytic philosophy, and this book provides a clear and
accessible introduction to the subject. It
discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism,
coherentism, reliabilism, and virtue epistemology. 232pgs. •
2007
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $16.98
✪ 076648 JEWISH MESSIANISM AND
THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Kavka, Martin
Kavka challenges the ancient opposition
between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology (the doctrine of nonbeing). His study also offers
new interpretations of important contributors to contemporary Continental philosophy, including Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel
Levinas, and Franz Rosenzweig. 256pgs. • 2004
▲ • Cambridge • C • $97.00 / $24.98
087393 KIERKEGAARD: FEAR AND
TREMBLING
Evans, C. Stephen & Sylvia Walsh, eds.
A new translation of Kierkegaard's challenge to the German universalists and idealists, argued through an exploration of the
story of Abraham and Isaac. Pondering the
many questions the story raises about
belief, moral obligation, and sin,
Kierkegaard concludes that faith is both
paradoxical and irrational, and cannot be understood by reason or in conventional moral terms. 190pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $12.98
087149 THE LOGIC OF REAL ARGUMENTS
Fisher, Alec
This expanded edition explains a distinctive method for analyzing and evaluating arguments. Utilizing a wide variety of
examples, it aims to help students to think critically about the
kind of sustained, theoretical arguments that they commonly
encounter in their studies, including arguments about the natural world, society, policy, and philosophy. 236pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $14.98
048163 LOGIC PRIMER
SECOND EDITION
Allen, Colin & Michael Hand
Presents a self-contained introduction to
logic suitable for majors and non-majors,
and can be covered entirely in a onesemester course. Natural deduction systems of sentential logic and of first-order
logic, truth tables, and the basic ideas of
model theory are presented without superfluous discussion. 191pgs. • 2001
◆ • MIT • P • $27.00 / $14.98
029761 MATTER AND MEMORY
Bergson, Henri
Considered one of his major works, represents one of the
great 20th-century investigations into perception and memory,
movement and time, matter and mind. 284pgs. • 1999
◆ • Zone Books • P • $24.95 / $13.98
126111 MORAL DISQUIET AND HUMAN LIFE
Canto-Sperber, Monique
What did Socrates mean when he said that the unexamined
life is not worth living? Illustrating her discussion with vivid
examples from literature, music, drama, and current
events, the noted French philosopher Monique CantoSperber resumes the most ancient pursuit of philosophy:
the examination of human life itself. 232pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $24.98
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
▲ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
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 • $32.99 / $18.98
148154 OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY,
VOLUME 40: Essays in Memory of Michael Frede
Allen, James, et al., eds.
This volume in an ongoing series of collections of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy is dedicated to the
memory of Michael Frede (1940-2007). 400pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $110.00 / $24.98
138472 PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA: New Essays
Dougherty, M. V., ed.
Best known as the author of the celebrated "Oration on the
Dignity of Man," the 15th-century Renaissance thinker
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola also wrote several other prominent works. In these essays, a distinguished group of scholars
presents the central tropics and texts of Pico's literary output.
238pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • C NDJ • $99.00 / $24.98
143421 PLATO'S REPUBLIC: A
Reader's Guide
Purshouse, Luke
A clear and thorough account of this
key philosophical work. The book sets
Plato's work in context, introduces the
major themes and provides a detailed
discussion of the key sections and passages of the text. Purshouse goes on
explore some of the areas of thought
that the Republic has had an impact on and provides suggestions for further reading. 168pgs. • 2006
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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
◆ • Cambridge • P • $20.00 / $9.98
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
✪ 049116 THE BIRTH OF
TRAGEDY AND OTHER WRITINGS
Nietzsche, Friedrich
One of the seminal philosophical works
of the modern period. The theories
developed in this text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the 20th
century. This edition presents a new
translation by Ronald Speirs and an
introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. 203pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $18.99 / $10.98
SO
032017 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
NIETZSCHE
Magnus, Bernd, & Kathleen M. Higgins, eds.
Provides a chronologically organized introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, essays on the appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a group of essays
exploring the nature of Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation
to the modern and postmodern world. 403pgs. • 1996
▲ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $21.98
087186 NIETZSCHE: THE ANTICHRIST, ECCE HOMO, TWILIGHT OF
THE IDOLS: And Other Writings
Ridley, Aaron, ed.
Combines five of Nietzsche's late works:
The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of
the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and
The Case of Wagner, wherein he takes
on some of his greatest adversaries: traditional religion, contemporary culture,
and his one-time hero, Richard Wagner, with writing simultaneously critical and creative, revealing his alternative
philosophical vision. 338pgs. • 2005
▲ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $14.98
087809 THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
PIPPIN, ROBERT, ED. & ADRIAN DEL CARO, TRANS.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
The philosopher employs a mixture of homilies, parables,
epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the doctrine of eternal return. This new translation captures
Nietzsche's poetic brilliance by restoring the text's original
versification. 316pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $12.98
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SOLIDARITY
Rorty, Richard
Rorty argues that thinkers such as
Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have
enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as
expressions of underlying, ahistorical
human nature, or as realizations of
suprahistorical goals, but Rorty himself
believes that it is literature and not philosophy that can do
this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity.
201pgs. • 1989
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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 • $37.50 / $18.98
142623 POSSIBILITY
Jubien, Michael
In this new analysis of the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity, Michael Jubien discusses several closely related topics, including different purported varieties of possible
worlds, the doctrine of "essentialism," natural kind terms, and
alleged examples of necessity a posteriori. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $27.95 / $12.98
134493 PRACTICAL ETHICS
THIRD EDITION
Singer, Peter
The classic introduction to applied ethics, covering issues
from abortion and euthanasia to discrimination on the
grounds of race or sex and political violence and terrorism.
For this third edition, the author has revised and updated
all the chapters and has added a new chapter addressing
climate change. 334pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $16.98
117465 PRESOCRATICS: Natural Philosophers Before
Socrates
Warren, James
Introduces the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the
sixth to the middle of the fifth century BC. Separate chapters
are devoted to each of the major Presocratic thinkers, including Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras,
Empedocles, Leucippus, and Democritus. 224pgs. • 2007
◆ • California • P • $26.95 / $8.98
058134 A SPINOZA READER: The
Ethics and Other Works
Spinoza, Benedictus de
This collection of Spinoza's works presents the text of his masterwork, the Ethics,
in what is now the standard translation by
Edwin Curley. Also included are selections
from other works chosen by Curley to
make the Ethics easier to understand, and
a substantial Introduction that gives an
overview of Spinoza's life and the main themes of his philosophy. 352pgs. • 1994
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $15.98
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
116116 THOUGHT AND REALITY
Dummett, Michael A. E.
The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality
consist of? Dummett puts forward his controversial view of
reality as indeterminate: there may be no fact of the matter
about whether an object does or does not have a given property. 109pgs. • 2007
◆ • Oxford University • C • $40.00 / $14.98
081384 TIME-FETISHES: The Secret History of Eternal
Recurrence
Lukacher, Ned
Recounts a tradition that runs counter to the dominant tradition
in Western metaphysics, which seeks to purify eternity of its temporal character. From the pre-Socratics to Ovid and Plotinus,
from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and
Derrida, Lukacher traces the tradition of eternal recurrence and
situates it as the grounding thought of Western philosophy and literature. 192pgs. • 1999
◆ • Duke • C NDJ • $79.95 / $9.98
✪ 110146 THE UNIVERSAL: In the Realm of the
Sensible: Beyond Continental Philosophy
Olkowski, Dorothea
Drawing on the work of De Beauvoir, Sartre, and Le Doeuff,
and addressing a range of topics from the Asian sex trade
to late capitalism, quantum gravity, and Merleau-Ponty's
views on cinema, Olkowski stretches the limits of continental philosophy and introduces a new perspective on political structures. 280pgs. • 2007
◆ • Columbia • C • $50.00 / $9.98
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SEARLE
142625 QUANTIFIER VARIANCE AND
REALISM: Essays in Metaontology
Hirsch, Eli
In this collection of essays, Hirsch develops a distinctive language-based argument
against various anti-commonsensical views
that have recently dominated ontology. All
these views go astray, Hirsch says, by failing
to interpret ordinary assertions about existence in a plausibly charitable way.
272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $24.98
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 • $17.95 / $6.98
076912 RECLAIMING TRUTH: Contribution to a
Critique of Cultural Relativism
Norris, Christopher
Truth, Norris reminds us, is very much out of fashion at the
moment - whether at the hands of politicians, media pundits,
or purveyors of postmodern wisdom in cultural and literary
studies. He critiques this fashionable trend of thought and
mounts a specific challenge to cultural relativist doctrines in
epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and political theory. 272pgs. • 1996
◆ • Duke • P • $23.95 / $5.98
033311 THE REDISCOVERY OF
THE MIND
Searle, John R.
Launching a formidable attack on current
orthodoxies in the philosophy of mind,
Searle argues that it is the neglect of consciousness that has resulted in so much
barrenness and sterility in the disciplines
of psychology, philosophy of mind, and
cognitive science. 270pgs. • 1994
◆ • MIT • P • $30.00 / $17.98
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✪ 081158 W. V. QUINE
Orenstein, Alex
Includes analysis of the adaptation of the
language of modern logic to formulate a
criterion of ontological commitment;
Quine's own ontological commitments;
Duhemian-Holistic empiricism and the
attendant rejection of a priori knowledge;
the nature and grounds of logical truth;
Quine's criticisms of such notions as
meaning, synonymy, analyticity, and necessity; and more.
200pgs. • 2002
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $13.98
111568 WHY?: What Happens When People Give
Reasons -- and Why
Tilly, Charles
A distinguished social historian offers a fascinating look at the
way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help
constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read
style, the book explores the manner in which people claim,
establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relations
with others through the reasons they give. 202pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $10.98
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $20.98
PHOTOGRAPHY
143016 365 IMAGES 1914-1918
D'haene, Julus Serafien
In 1919 the publishing company Van
Cortenberg published a series of photographic postcards from the Western Front
under the title "Never Let Us Forget." This
book collects these images, which together provide a unique view of the battlefield
and of daily life in and around the trenches. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Lannoo • C • $40.00 / $12.98
✪ 141009 BROUGHT TO LIGHT: Photography and
the Invisible, 1840-1900
Keller, Corey, ed.
Revisits the era when photography, X-rays, and movies were
new, and when forays into the world beneath the skin or the
realm beyond our everyday vision captivated scientists and
the public alike. The book blends accounts of scientific
experimentation with stories of showmanship to reveal how
developments in technology could enlighten as well as
frighten and amaze. Includes 200 vintage images. 216pgs.
• 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $16.98
✪ 114078 CITTA VISIBILI /
VISIBLE CITIES
Jodice, Mimmo
Celebrating Jodice's architectural
photography, this volume unites
his portraits of eight world capitals to compose a kind of self-portrait. Four of the cities have been
the subjects of previous titles:
Paris: City of Light; Inlands: A
Vision of Boston; São Paulo; and La città invisibile: Nuove
vedute di Napoli; and four are new to print, including Rome,
Moscow, Tokyo, and New York. 140pgs. • 2007
◆ • Charta • C • $60.00 / $22.98
✪ 140723 FRAMING THE
WEST: The Survey
Photographs of Timothy H.
O'Sullivan
Jurovics, Toby, et al.
Trained under Mathew Brady,
O'Sullivan accompanied several
government expeditions to the
West and produced a body of
beautiful photographs that exhibited a forthright and rigorous style formed in response to
the landscapes he encountered. This volume, which features previously unpublished and rarely seen images, offers
a new interpretation of O'Sullivan's work and assesses his
influence on the larger photographic canon. 272pgs. •
2010
▲ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $19.98
114131 HENRI CARTIERBRESSON: The Man, the
Image and the World: A
Retrospective
Arbaizar, Philippe et al.
Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary
photographs were shaped by an
eye and a mind legendary for
their intelligent empathy and for
their unerring ability to get to
the heart of the matter. This definitive oversized collection of
the master's work includes more than 600 illustrations in
color and duotone. 431pgs. • 2006
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $55.00 / $29.98
126258 AN INNER SILENCE: The Portraits of Henri
Cartier-Bresson
Sire, Agnes & Jean-Luc Nancy
Cartier-Bresson was perhaps the most influential image maker
of the 20th century, and his portraits are among his bestknown work. This book features both well-known images and
previously unpublished portraits: Ezra Pound, Martin Luther
King Jr., Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, Susan Sontag, Carl
Jung, William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe, Henri Matisse, and
many more. 160pgs. • 2010
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $19.98
143566 IRAN
Morath, Inge
In 1956, the photographer Inge Morath traveled to the Middle
East for Holiday magazine. Wearing the traditional chador and
travelling mostly alone, she photographed Iran with the keen
vision of an anthropologist, examining religious rituals, costumes, work, sport, music, art, and theater in order to document, as she put it, "the continuity -- or lack of it -- between
past and present." 350pgs. • 2009
◆ • Steidl • C • $59.95 / $24.98
✪ 037941 IWAO YAMAWAKI
Lagerfeld, Karl, ed.
The first monograph on the fascinating visual experiments
of a talented Japanese photographer of the Bauhaus era.
Yamawaki (1898-1987) continuously analyzed the relationship between photography and the design of spaces,
and sought to interpret the connection between human
beings and their architectural environments. Includes 48
duotone plates. 96pgs. • 1999
◆ • Steidl • C • $54.95 / $21.98
✪ 113284 LEE FRIEDLANDER PHOTOGRAPHS
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED LANDSCAPES
Friedlander, Lee
Photographer Lee Friedlander here puts his lens to the work
of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of many of the country's
most iconic public landscapes. Rambling across bridges and
through open meadows and dense undergrowth, Friedlander
locates the pure pleasure in the meticulous stonework and the
mature, weather-beaten trees that attest to the durability of
Olmsted's vision. 89pgs. • 2008
◆ • Distributed Art Publishers • C • $85.00 / $39.98
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✪ 149807 LONDON LIGHT
Lousada, Sarah
In her sixties, Lousada became fascinated by the new medium
of digital photography and the way it enabled her to capture
light, movement and color, and she found a new subject in
London, the city she has lived in and loved all her life. Her
inspired photographs open our eyes to London as we have
never seen it before. 144pgs. • 2010
◆ • Frances Lincoln • C • $45.00 / $9.98
✪ 133832 LOOK AT
ME I LOOK AT
WATER, OR,
PERVERSION OF
REPOSE
Mikhailov, Boris
On his journeys
through
Russia,
Germany and his
Ukrainian homeland,
photographer Boris Mikhailov has equally observed the poor,
the well-to-do, the outcasts and the homeless. In this volume,
his photographs are accompanied by handwritten Russian
commentaries, which together give the impression of a private
album which narrates stories from a chapter in the artist's life.
132pgs. • 2009
◆ • Steidl • C • $50.00 / $19.98
143559 LYONEL FEININGER: Photographs, 19281939
Muir, Laura
Already a successful comic artist and painter, Feininger
took up the camera in 1928 and began to explore a variety
of avant-garde techniques. This book, the first publication
devoted to this little-known body of work, captures fascinating unsettling images of shop window mannequins, nocturnal photographs using double exposures, and other
works. 152pgs. • 2011
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $45.00 / $18.98
✪ 118477 MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO: Photopoetry
Urbajtel, Colette Alvarez, et al.
A powerful tribute to Mexico's most distinguished photographer. Manuel Alvarez Bravo was one of the foremost practitioners of the visual arts in the 20th century. This first major
retrospective of his 80-year career showcases hundreds of
iconic photographs and unveils more than 20 previously
unpublished images. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Chronicle Books • C • $75.00 / $29.98
133942 THE MYTHIC CITY: Photographs of New York
by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940
Albrecht, Donald
One hundred and seventy-five images by the preeminent photographer of the city's golden age. Through Gottscho's lens,
New York became the quintessential modern metropolis, a
round-the-clock city in which night was as charismatic as day.
An introductory essay describes his working methods and philosophy, while placing his work in the broader context of photographic history. 224pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton Architectural • P • $29.95 / $12.98
✪ 149808 NOTTING HILL
Moore, Derry
The story of Notting Hill from its beginning in the Ladbroke
Estate to its current incarnation as one of London's most
cosmopolitan and fashionable neighborhoods. Illustrated
with color photographs throughout. 128pgs. • 2007
◆ • Frances Lincoln • C • $29.95 / $7.98
✪ 151006 PAST PRESENT PERU: Photos, Music, Films
Cohen, John
John Cohen is a photographer, musician and filmmaker who
has cultivated a fifty-year long fascination with the people, cultures and landscapes of Peru. This volume combines photographs, textiles, music, and film in an ambitious book object
that depicts the diversity of Peruvian life including religious
festivals, farming, and pre-Columbian craft traditions dating
back more than 5,000 years. 284pgs. • 2010
◆ • Steidl • C • $175.00 / $49.98
039495 THE SECRET PARIS OF THE 30'S
Brassai
Brassai's photographs reveal a milieu previously known only
through books such as the novels of Henry Miller: the seamy, grimy
yet infinitely exciting reality that tourists still think of when they
seek "Paris by night." These fascinating images are accompanied
by Brassai's own text, in which he describes the extraordinary conditions under which he took his photographs. 192pgs. • 2001
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $14.98
✪ 152138 WHERE MEN HIDE
Twitchell, James B.
A spirited tour of the dark and often dirty places men go to
find comfort, camaraderie, relaxation, and escape. Ross's
striking photographs and Twitchell's lively analysis trace the
evolution of these spaces -- including bars, barbershops,
lodges, pool halls, strip clubs, garages, deer camps -- and
question why they are rapidly disappearing. 264pgs. • 2008
◆ • Columbia • P • $28.00 / $5.98
POLITICAL PH I LOSOPHY
023698 BETWEEN FACTS AND NORMS: Contributions
to a Discourse Theory of Law & Democracy
Habermas, Jurgen
Offers an informed conceptualization of law and basic rights,
a normative account of the rule of law and the constitutional
state, and attempts to bridge normative and empirical
approaches to democracy, and the social context required for
democracy. 631pgs. • 1996
◆ • MIT • P • $46.00 / $25.98
149395 A BRIEF HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
AND STATE CRAFT
Paolucci, Henry
A richly documented but fast-moving account of the political
changes that took place from the time of the Greeks to the dictatorships and democratic institutions of the 20th century.
120pgs. • 2005
◆ • Griffon House • P • $14.95 / $4.98
✪ 150635 CITIZENS TO LORDS: A Social History of
Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the
Middle Ages
Wood, Ellen Meiksins
In this groundbreaking work, Wood traces the development
of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to
the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history. Treating
canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings,
she examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. 245pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • C • $29.95 / $9.98
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149396 CRITICS OF THE
ENLIGHTENMENT: Readings in the
French Counter-Revolutionary
Tradition
Blum, Christopher Olaf
Blum's elegant translations of texts that
have been difficult or impossible to find in
English offer counter-revolutionary
insights about social and cultural matters
of perennial importance, such as the role
of religion, family, and local communities in political society.
350pgs. • 2003
◆ • ISI Books • C • $30.00 / $7.98
110123 DEMOCRACY PAST AND
FUTURE
Rosanvallon, Pierre
One of Europe's leading political thinkers,
Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new
readings of the history, aims, and possibilities of democratic theory and practice,
and provides unique theoretical understandings of key moments in democracy's
trajectory, from the French Revolution and
the struggles for universal suffrage to European unification
and the crises of the present. 294pgs. • 2006
◆ • Columbia • C • $85.00 / $9.98
ISAIAH BERLIN
039731 THE CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY:
Chapters in the History of Ideas
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. 276pgs. • 1991
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $13.98
067097 LETTERS 1928-1946
EDITED BY HENRY HARDY
Berlin, Isaiah
"Cerebral gifts apart, Isaiah Berlin had a
genius for friendship and a huge personal appeal that communicates itself in
print; and Letters, 1928-1946 is compulsive reading merely as a document of
English social and literary history." -- The
New York Times 755pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • C • $58.00 / $12.98
149399 EQUALITY, DECADENCE, AND MODERNITY:
The Collected Essays of Stephen J. Tonsor
Tonsor, Stephen J.
Over the course of the past four decades, Stephen J. Tonsor
has gained a reputation within the conservative intellectual
movement as a trenchant thinker, forceful writer, and witty if
sometimes caustic lecturer. This volume features substantial
excerpts from Tonsor's two booklength unpublished manuscripts, as well as insightful essays on conservative thought and
politics. 350pgs. • 2005
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✪ 150658 THE FIRST
INTERNATIONAL AND AFTER
POLITICAL WRITINGS VOLUME THREE
Marx, Karl
The founding documents of the First
International and polemical pieces attacking the disciples of Proudhon and Bakunin
and the advocates of reformism reveal a
tactical mastery that has influenced revolutionary movements ever since. In a new
introduction, David Harvey sheds light on the evolution of
Marx's notions of democracy and politics. 400pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • P • $19.95 / $7.98
126956 JUSTICE: Rights and Wrongs
Wolterstorff, Nicholas
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
▲ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $14.98
✪ 116190 METAPHYSICS OF THE
PROFANE: The Political Theology
of Walter Benjamin and Gershom
Scholem
Jacobson, Eric
Benjamin and Scholem produced a
dynamic body of thought that has had
a lasting impact on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary criticism. This is the first book to make
available an array of unpublished and untranslated work
from WWI to 1923 concerning messianism, language,
divine justice, and the quest for a philosophy of Judaism.
352pgs. • 2003
◆ • Columbia • P • $32.00 / $7.98
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✪ 152118 NATIONS WITHOUT
NATIONALISM
Kristeva, Julia
In this humanistic plea for tolerance and
commonality,
Kristeva
revisits
Montesquieu's notion of the "esprit
général" -- his conception of the social
body as a guaranteed hierarchy of private
rights. 108pgs. • 1993
◆ • Columbia • C • $40.00 / $9.98
✪ 152119 NOT BEING GOD: A Collaborative
Autobiography
Vattimo, Gianni
In this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker,
political activist, and human being finds its expression on
the page. Turin, the city where he was born, forms the core
of these reminiscences, which are enhanced by fascinating
vignettes of studying under Hans Georg Gadamer, teaching
in the US, serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor
of Habermas and Derrida, and working with the European
Parliament. 200pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $60.00 / $9.98
✪ 150708 ON THE NATION AND THE
JEWISH PEOPLE
Sand, Shlomo & Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual
giants of the second half of the 19th century in France, the man who first opened up
the study of nationalism. In this book,
Shlomo Sand shows the relationship of
Renan's work to that of key 20th-century
thinkers on nationalism, such as Raymond
Aron and Ernest Gellner, and argues for the continued importance of studying Renan. 128pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • P • $14.95 / $4.98
051325 THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES: Vol. 1:
The Spell of Plato
Popper, Karl R.
Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a "vigorous and profound
defence of democracy," Popper's attack on the philosophies of
Plato, Hegel, and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially
engineered political systems. 368pgs. • 1971
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $14.98
✪ 150710 PASSWORDS
Baudrillard, Jean
With the ever-greater mediatization of society, Baudrillard argues, we are witnessing
the virtualization of our world, a disappearance of reality itself, and perhaps the
impossibility of any exchange at all. In this
volume he touches the very heart of the
concerns of the generation that is currently rebelling against the framework of the
consumer society. 92pgs. • 2011
◆ • Verso • P • $15.95 / $6.98
JOHN
LOCKE
053204 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO LOCKE
Chappell, Vere, ed.
Provides a systematic survey of Locke's
philosophy informed by the most
recent scholarship. The essays cover
Locke's theory of ideas, his philosophies of body, mind, language, and religion, his theory of knowledge, his
ethics, and his political philosophy.
Also includes chapters on Locke's life and subsequent influence. 343pgs. • 1994
▲ • Cambridge • P • $47.00 / $24.98
041080 TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
Locke, John
Considered a standard in the field. Contains an analysis of
the whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and
papers, complete with updated bibliography of the two central texts in western political thought. 464pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $17.99 / $9.98
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049854 POLITICAL WRITINGS
ATKINS, E. M. & R. J. DODARO, EDS.
Augustine
A collection of 35 letters and sermons dealing with political
matters. Both practical and principled, the writings treat
many essential themes in Augustine's thought, including the
responsibilities of citizenship, the relationship between the
church and secular authority, religious coercion, and war
and peace. 358pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $16.98
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $24.98
149402 RESTORING THE MEANING OF CONSERVATISM:
Writings from Modern Age
Panichas, George A.
In 1982, Panichas became the editor of Russell Kirk's Modern
Age. Both before and after that date, he has labored in his writing to act as a conservator of traditionalist intellectual, religious, literary, educational, and philosophical values. 350pgs.
• 2008
◆ • ISI Books • C • $28.00 / $7.98
✪ 150732 THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND COMMON SENSE
PRESENTED BY PETER LINEBAUGH
Paine, Thomas
Published to commemorate the bicentennial of Paine's death,
these texts have remained two of the most influential arguments for liberty in political thought. Accompanying them is an
original examination of Paine's thought and legacy by historian Peter Linebaugh. 314pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $14.95 / $4.98
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✪ 150660 FRAGILE ABSOLUTE
Zǐzěk, Slavoj
How is a Marxist to counter today's
onslaught of religious obscurantism?
Declaring that the subversive core of
the Christian legacy is much too precious to be left to the fundamentalists,
Ziˇzěk argues that Christianity and
Marxism should fight together against
the onslaught of the new spiritualism.
184pgs. • 2001
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✪ 150688 LIVING IN THE END TIMES
Zǐzěk, Slavoj
If the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the
world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the
end times? In a major new analysis of our global situation,
Ziˇzěk argues that our collective responses to economic
Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological
denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal. 432pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • C • $29.95 / $12.98
062056 THE PUPPET AND THE
DWARF: The Perverse Core of
Christianity
Zǐzěk, Slavoj
Offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint
of Lacanian psychoanalysis, critically
confronting both predominant versions
of today's spirituality -- New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian
Judaism -- in an effort to redeem the "materialist" kernel of
Christianity. 188pgs. • 2003
◆ • MIT • P • $20.95 / $11.98
POLITICAL SCI ENCE
141919 THE AGE OF AMERICAN
UNREASON
Jacoby, Susan
Surveying an anti-rationalist landscape
extending from pop culture to a pseudointellectual universe of "junk thought,"
Jacoby shows how disdain for logic and
evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public
education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals, and,
above all, a lazy and credulous public. 384pgs. • 2009
▲ • Vintage • P • $16.95 / $6.98
✪ 149475 CITIZENSHIP: The Rise and Fall of a
Modern Concept
Fahrmeir, Andreas
The emergence of the modern nation-state produced a
deceptively simple opposition of citizen versus alien, in
contrast to the complex relationships between individuals
and communities that had existed previously. Fahrmeir
charts the demise of traditional ways of distinguishing
insiders from outsiders; discusses the relation of political
participation, economic privileges, and social rights to legal
citizenship; and considers whether state citizenship
remains a relevant concept today. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $9.98
124116 THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL: Reclaiming
America from the Right
Krugman, Paul
The best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges
America to reclaim the values that made it great. Seeking to
understand both what happened to middle-class America and
what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman weaves
together a nuanced account of three generations of history
with sharp political, social, and economic analysis. 352pgs. •
2007
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149404 THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION: The
Movement That Remade America
Edwards, Lee
Tells the story of how the American conservative movement
became the most important political force in the country and
reshaped American politics. The book focuses on four conservative leaders: Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Ronald
Reagan, and Newt Gingrich. 400pgs. • 1999
◆ • Free Press • C • $27.50 / $5.98
✪ 104853 DEATH BY A THOUSAND
CUTS: The Fight over Taxing Inherited
Wealth
Graetz, Michael J. & Ian Shapiro
How is it that the estate tax, paid by only the
wealthiest two percent of Americans, was
repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan
support? Graetz and Shapiro conducted
wide-ranging interviews with the relevant
players. The result is a unique portrait of
American politics as viewed through the lens of the death tax
repeal saga. 378pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $13.98
129786 HOPE AND MEMORY:
Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Todorov, Tzvetan
A political history and a moral critique of
the 20th century, from one of Europe's
most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying
totalitarianism as the major innovation of
the 20th century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and
democracy and its effects on human life
and consciousness. 376pgs. • 2003
◆ • Princeton • C • $52.50 / $18.98
✪ 085478 IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: Reflections on
the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Anderson, Benedict R. O'G.
Anderson's seminal work shows how the European
processes of inventing nationalism were transported to the
Third World through colonialism and adapted by subject
races in Latin America and Asia. 240pgs. • 1991
◆ • Verso • P • $18.00 / $7.98
076979 IT'S ALL FOR SALE: The Control of Global
Resources
Ridgeway, James
Some resources have long been thought of as commodities.
Others, including fresh water, human beings, the sky, and the
oceans, are increasingly treated as such in lucrative markets
around the world. Resource by resource, Ridgeway uncovers
and discloses who owns, buys, and sells what internationally.
272pgs. • 2004
◆ • Duke • P • $23.95 / $5.98
038634 MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK:
Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
Putnam, Robert D.
Why do some democratic governments
succeed and others fail? Focusing on a
unique experiment begun in 1970 when
Italy created new governments for each of
its regions, this volume offers empirical
evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. 258pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $16.98
071254 THE MYTH OF AMERICAN
INDIVIDUALISM: The Protestant
Origins of American Political Thought
Shain, Barry Alan
What did early Americans mean when they
used such basic political concepts as the
public good, liberty, and slavery? By
exploring how these core elements of their
political thought were employed in documents of the time, Shain reveals a shared
understanding based on the underpinnings of a reformed
Protestant communalism. 394pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
✪ 106316 OUTSOURCING SOVEREIGNTY: Why
Privatization of Government Functions Threatens
Democracy and What We Can Do about It
Verkuil, Paul R.
Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to
govern effectively, argues Verkuil. He demonstrates how the
public interest is jeopardized when decisions that should
have been taken by government officials are delegated,
wholly or in part, to private contractors without appropriate oversight. 232pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $13.98
125938 THE POLITICS OF
HAPPINESS: What Government Can
Learn from the New Research on WellBeing
Bok, Derek
One nation, tiny Bhutan, has actually made
"Gross National Happiness" the central
aim of its domestic policy. How might happiness research affect government policy
in the US and beyond? Derek Bok examines how governments could use happiness research in a variety of policy areas to increase well-being and improve the
quality of life for all their citizens. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $9.98
✪ 150720 RACE, NATION, CLASS: Ambiguous Identities
Balibar, Étienne & Immanuel Wallerstein
The authors challenge the commonly held notion of racism as
a continuation of, or throwback to, the xenophobia of past
societies and communities. They analyze it instead as a social
relation indissolubly tied to present social structures -- the
nation-state, the division of labor, and the division between
core and periphery -- which are themselves constantly being
reconstructed. 310pgs. • 2011
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149401 REAPPRAISING THE RIGHT:
The Past and Future of American
Conservatism
Nash, George H.
This re-examination of the roots and
achievements of the contemporary
American Right showcases Nash's brilliant
insights on such conservative luminaries as
Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley Jr.,
Russell Kirk, and Whittaker Chambers, as
well as on less well-known individuals who helped lay the
foundations for modern conservatism. 400pgs. • 2009
◆ • ISI Books • C • $27.95 / $6.98
✪ 088145 THE REHNQUIST LEGACY
Bradley, Craig, ed.
During Rehnquist's 33 years on the
Supreme Court, 19 as Chief Justice, significant developments have defined the
American legal landscape. This book is a
legal biography of Rehnquist and his legacy. It is an intensive examination of his time
as a Supreme Court Justice based on his
Court opinions, primarily in the area of
constitutional law. 414pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $48.00 / $12.98
077096 STATIONS OF THE CROSS:
Adorno and Christian Right Radio
Apostolidis, Paul
Shows how a critical component of the
Christian right's popular culture -evangelical conservative radio -- interacts with the current US political economy. By examining in particular James
Dobson's enormously influential program, Focus on the Family -- its messages, politics, and effects -- Apostolidis reveals the complex nature of contemporary conservative religious culture.
273pgs. • 2000
◆ • Duke • P • $23.95 / $6.98
025584 THEORIES OF WAR AND PEACE
Brown, Michael E., et al., eds.
A collection of essays by leading scholars on contemporary
approaches to understanding war and peace. Includes expositions, analyses, and critiques of some of the more prominent
and enduring explanations of war. 566pgs. • 1998
◆ • MIT • P • $44.00 / $14.98
✪ 150883 THINKING IN AN
EMERGENCY
Scarry, Elaine
In the desire for swift action during an
emergency, citizens and political leaders
often devalue reflection and ignore checks
on government power. Arguing that thinking and rapid action are compatible,
Scarry shows how practices that we dismiss as mere habit and protocol in fact
represent rigorous, effective modes of thought that must be
championed even in times of crisis. 144pgs. • 2011
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $23.95 / $5.98
087202 THE TORTURE DEBATE IN
AMERICA
Greenberg, Karen J., ed.
The definitive book of public record detailing the Bush Administration's policies on
torture and political prisoners. The use of
coercive techniques at Abu Ghraib and
Guantanamo has sparked an intense
debate in America, and the text captures
the arguments put forth by legislators,
human rights activists, and others, raising key moral, legal,
and historical debates on the use of torture. 432pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
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PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS
& COGN ITIVE SCI ENCE
127605 BIPOLAR EXPEDITIONS: Mania and Depression
in American Culture
Martin, Emily
An exploration of the American fascination with mania, as seen
in the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of support
groups, psychiatric rounds, and psychotropic drugs. Martin
reveals how people living under the description of bipolar disorder are often denied the status of being fully human, even
while contemporary America exhibits a powerful affinity for
manic behavior. 384pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $14.98
104447 THE CAMBRIDGE
HANDBOOK OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Zelazo, Philip David, et al.
After decades during which consciousness was considered beyond the scope of
legitimate scientific investigation, the subject has re-emerged as a popular focus of
research. This handbook brings together
leading scholars from around the world
who address the topic of consciousness
from a wide variety of perspectives, from philosophical to
anthropological to neuroscientific. 981pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $89.00 / $40.98
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
◆ • MIT • C • $150.00 / $31.98
067106 COMPLEX WORLDS FROM
SIMPLER NERVOUS SYSTEMS
Prete, Frederick R., ed.
Animals with small, often minuscule, nervous systems -- jumping spiders, bees, praying mantids, and others -- are not the simple "reflex machines" they were once
thought to be. In this volume, leading neuroscientists and animal behaviorists discuss what research on such animals suggests about the general organizing principles of all central
nervous systems, both "simple" and complex. 464pgs. • 2004
◆ • MIT • P • $43.00 / $17.98
108150 THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY: Adaptations
and Innateness
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
Can moral thinking be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? Addressing this controversial question, Richard Joyce finds that the evidence
strongly supports an innate basis to human morality.
583pgs. • 2007
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142413 FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: An
Evolutionary Perspective
Salmon, Catherine & Todd K.
Shackelford, ed.
Kinship ties have been a central focus of
evolutionary biological analyses of social
behavior. This volume brings together leading theorists and researchers from evolutionary psychology and related disciplines
to illustrate the ways in which an evolutionary perspective can inform our study and understanding of
family relationships. 352pgs. • 2007
◆ • Oxford University • C • $55.00 / $12.98
074131 FREUD AMONG THE
PHILOSOPHERS: The
Psychoanalytic Unconscious and Its
Philosophical Critics
Levy, Donald
Levy examines the most important
philosophical arguments against
Freud's idea of the unconscious as
articulated by Wittgenstein, William
James, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Adolf
Grünbaum, and argues that these criticisms all depend upon
misunderstandings or lack of awareness of psychoanalytic
ideas. 189pgs. • 1996
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $12.98
139197 THE FREUD FILES: An
Inquiry into the History of
Psychoanalysis
Shamdasani, Sonu & Mikkel BorchJacobsen
How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position? How did it eclipse
rival psychologies and psychotherapies?
Reconstructing the early controversies
around psychoanalysis, the authors reveal
the extraordinary apparatus by which this would-be science
gained a foothold in contemporary societies. 450pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $11.98
✪ 150661 FREUDIAN SLIP: Psychoanalysis and
Textual Criticism
Timpanaro, Sebastiano
Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of
psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip.
Challenging virtually every account of linguistic error in
Freud's work as arbitrary and constrained, Timpanaro
advances an alternative picture keyed to the dynamics of
"banalization," "disimprovement," and contextual play borrowed from the field of literary criticism. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Verso • P • $15.95 / $6.98
084853 FROM MONKEY BRAIN TO HUMAN BRAIN: A
Fyssen Foundation Symposium
Dehaene, Stanislas, et al.
Despite the overall similarity in their genomes, there are striking differences between human and nonhuman primate
brains. The contributors to this volume employ the latest findings in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience to examine the complex patterns of convergence and
divergence in primate cortical organization and function.
400pgs. • 2005
◆ • MIT • C • $55.00 / $16.98
104809 THE HARMONY OF
ILLUSIONS: Inventing Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder
Young, Allan
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
117379 MAKING MINDS AND MADNESS: From Hysteria
to Depression
Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel
In this powerful critique of theories, such as psychoanalysis
and biomedical psychiatry, that claim to discover facts about
the human psyche while, in reality, producing them, BorchJacobsen argues that most mental "illnesses" are not diseases,
but the product of varying expectations shared by therapists
and patients. 276pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $50.00 / $12.98
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104898 MEMORY: The Key to
Consciousness
Thompson, Richard F. & Stephen A.
Madigan
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $12.98
✪ 150702 MY TEACHING
Lacan, Jacques
Lacan's invaluable guide to his own thought, available in
English for the first time. Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented at the height of his
career, this is a clear, concise introduction to the thought of
the influential psychoanalyst after Freud. 116pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $16.95 / $5.98
021327 NEUROPHILOSOPHY: Toward a Unified Science
of the Mind/Brain
Churchland, Patricia Smith
In this volume contemporary research in the empirical neurosciences and recent research in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science are used to illuminate fundamental questions concerning the relation between abstract cognitive theory and substantive neuroscience. 546pgs. • 2000
◆ • MIT • P • $42.00 / $21.98
111633 THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
Neumann, Erich
This eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology
to show that individual consciousness undergoes the same
archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness
as a whole. Neumann, one of Jung's most creative students and
a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own
right, shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of
the Uroboros, or tail-eating serpent. 520pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $19.98
148153 THE OXFORD HANDBOOK
OF IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS
Grant, Jon E. & Marc N. Potenza, eds.
The term "impulse control disorders"
comprises a range of psychopathological
disorders, including kleptomania, pyromania, trichotillomania, intermittent
explosive disorder, and pathological
gambling. This volume provides
researchers and clinicians with a clear
understanding of the developmental, biological, and phenomenological features of a range of ICDs, as well as detailed
approaches to their assessment and treatment. 600pgs. •
2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $150.00 / $28.98
033124 SOURCES OF POWER: How People Make
Decisions
Klein, Gary
Based on observations of humans acting under such constraints as time pressure, personal responsibility, and shifting
conditions, presents an overview of the naturalistic decision
making process and the strength people bring to difficult
tasks. 330pgs. • 1999
◆ • MIT • P • $30.00 / $16.98
024251 THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE
Vygotsky, Lev
Revised and enlarged edition of a pioneering work from 1934 which has
recently gained recognition in the West
for balancing the claims of the individual
with those of society and culture in thinking about psychology and linguistics.
286pgs. • 2000
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039682 AION: Researches into the
Phenomenology of the Self
Jung, C. G.
The central theme of the volume is the
symbolic representation of the psychic
totality through the concept of the Self,
whose traditional historical equivalent is
the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates
his thesis by an investigation of the
Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he
treats as phenomena of cultural assimilation. 333pgs. •
1978
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105075 THE BASIC WRITINGS OF C. G. JUNG
Jung, C. G.
In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience, Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the spirit. The excerpts here illuminate the concept of the unconscious, the central pillar of his work, and display ample evidence of the spontaneous spiritual and religious activities of
the human mind. 598pgs. • 1991
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $12.98
✪ 127096 CHILDREN'S DREAMS:
Notes from the Seminar Given in
1936-1940
Jung, C. G.
In the 1930s, Jung embarked upon a
bold investigation into childhood
dreams as remembered by adults to
better understand their significance to
the lives of the dreamers. This volume
marks the first publication in English
of these investigations, and fills a critical gap in Jung's collected works. 520pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $12.98
038412 DREAMS
Jung, C. G.
Collects Jung's writings on the psychology of dreams. Includes The Analysis of
Dreams, On the Significance of Number
Dreams, General Aspects of Dream
Psychology, On the Nature of Dreams,
Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation
to Alchemy, and The Practical Use of
Dream-Analysis. 337pgs. • 1974
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
✪ 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
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $11.98
111449 SYNCHRONICITY: An Acausal Connecting
Principle
Jung, C. G.
Jung's parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena. 160pgs. • 1973
◆ • Princeton • P • $14.95 / $8.98
133733 WHAT MAKES US THINK?: A
Neuroscientist and a Philosopher
Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and
the Brain
Changeux, Jean-Pierre & Paul Ricouer
Will understanding our brains help us to
know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? This remarkable exchange
explores the vexed territory between these divergent
approaches and arrives at a deeper, more complex perspective
on human nature. 352pgs. • 2002
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $14.98
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✪ 151876 ABSOLUTE MONARCHS:
A History of the Papacy
Norwich, John Julius
From Innocent I, who in the 5th century successfully negotiated with Alaric
the Goth, to the infamous libertines of
the 10th and 11th centuries, to
Benedict XVI in the 21st, Norwich
recounts in riveting detail the stories of
the most significant popes and what
they meant politically, culturally, and socially, both to Rome
and to the world. 528pgs. • 2011
◆ • Random House • C • $30.00 / $9.98
128157 THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF
CHRISTIANITY
Patte, Daniel, ed.
An authoritative reference guide to all aspects of Christianity
from its origins to the present day. Written by a team of 800
scholars and practitioners from around the world, the volume
reflects the tremendous diversity of Christianity throughout its
long history. 1500pgs. • 2004
▲ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $19.98
135854 AMERICAN RELIGION: Contemporary Trends
Chaves, Mark
Studies show that people do not really go to church as often as
they claim, and it is not always clear what they mean when they
tell pollsters that they pray or believe in God. Drawing on
major surveys undertaken in recent decades, this volume
presents the best and most up-to-date information about key
developments in American religion. 160pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $22.95 / $10.98
148107 CANON LAW: A Comparative
Study with Anglo-American Legal
Theory
Coughlin, John J.
Explores the canon law of the Roman
Catholic Church from a comparative perspective. Coughlin considers antinomian
and legalistic approaches to the rule of law
in light of three specific issues: the sexual
abuse crisis; ownership of church property; and the denial of communion to Catholic public officials.
252pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $75.00 / $24.98
129947 ATLAS OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS
Smart, Ninian & Frederick W. Denny, eds.
The only comprehensive visual guide to the world's religious
traditions. With text by leading experts and lavish photography,
thematic maps, tables, and charts, it ranges from the travels of
the Buddha to the geographical distribution of modern indigenous faiths, providing a full and informative picture of world
religion, both past and present. Includes nearly 200 full-color
maps. 272pgs. • 2007
◆ • Oxford University • C • $120.00 / $29.98
125392 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: A Short History
Küng, Hans
An influential theologian chronicles the Roman Catholic
Church's role as a world power throughout history. He
examines the great schisms -- between East and West, and
Catholic and Protestant -- as well as the evolving role of the
papacy, the stories of the great reforming popes, and the
expansion of a global church infrastructure. 272pgs. •
2003
◆ • Modern Library • P • $14.00 / $5.98
059022 BETWEEN EXALTATION AND INFAMY: Female
Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain
Haliczer, Stephen
Shows how the Church's response to women's mysticism was
welcoming but wary, how the Inquisition took on the task of
winnowing out frauds and imposters, and how mysticism
offered women a way to transcend the control of the maledominated Church. 349pgs. • 2002
▲ • Oxford University • P • $40.00 / $19.98
142329 CAVELL, COMPANIONSHIP,
AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
Dula, Peter
In recent decades, theologians and
philosophers of religion have engaged in a
vigorous debate concerning the status and
nature of ecclesiology. In this groundbreaking study, Dula turns to the work of
philosopher Stanley Cavell, examining the
ways in which Cavell's understanding of
companionship contributes to the debate over church and
community. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $24.98
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128377 ISLAM: A Guide for Jews
and Christians
Peters, F. E.
Approaching Islam through the same
biblical door that Muhammad did, this
book introduces readers with Christian
or Jewish backgrounds to one of the
world's largest, most active, and -- in the
West -- least understood religions.
Peters cogently explains Islam's defining
features -- including the significance of Mecca, the nature of
Muhammad's revelations, and the creation of the Muslim
community -- all in relation to Judeo-Christian tradition.
304pgs. • 2005
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126246 JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM,
VOLUME 2: The Word and the Law and the People of
God
Peters, F. E.
This second volume in a three-volume work discusses the
scriptures of the three faiths in various contexts, exegetical
and legal. 424pgs. • 1990
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039779 JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM,
VOLUME 3: The Works of the Spirit
Peters, F. E.
In this third of a three-volume comparison of the great
Abrahamic religions as seen in their founding texts, Peters
focuses on spirituality and worship and presents material on
monasticism, theology, mysticism, and the "End Time."
408pgs. • 1990
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105506 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN HISTORY: Volume
One
Haight, Roger
Drawing upon the methodology developed in his Dynamics of
Theology and exemplified in Jesus Symbol of God, Haight
undertakes what he calls an historical ecclesiology, or ecclesiology from below. This first of two volumes charts the history
of the church's self-understandings from the origins of the
church in the Jesus movement to the late Middle Ages.
512pgs. • 2004
◆ • Continuum • C • $70.00 / $24.98
125312 THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
Marty, Martin E.
A brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it grew
from a few believers 2,000 years ago to become the world's
largest religion. While giving a broad overview, Marty also
focuses on specific issues, such as how Christianity has
attempted to reconcile its stances on armed conflict, justice,
and dominion with the teachings of Christ. 288pgs. • 2009
◆ • Modern Library • P • $16.00 / $6.98
133853 THE CHURCH OF
SCIENTOLOGY: A History of a New
Religion
Urban, Hugh
Few religious movements have been subject to as much public scrutiny as
Scientology, yet much of what is written
about it is sensationalist and inaccurate. In
this volume, Hugh Urban examines
Scientology's protracted and turbulent
struggle to be recognized as a religion in the postwar
American landscape. 296pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $12.98
148099 EMOTION, IDENTITY, AND
RELIGION: Hope, Reciprocity, and
Otherness
Davies, Douglas J.
Religious traditions often shape deep emotions and give devotees a sense of identity
and hope in the face of conflict, confusion,
pain and grief. Working from anthropological and sociological perspectives, Davies
describes and analyses these dynamic tensions and life opportunities as they are worked out in ritual,
music, theology, and the allure of sacred places. 336pgs. •
2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $110.00 / $21.98
149406 ESSAYS IN THEOLOGY OF CULTURE
Jenson, Robert W.
These 22 essays, loosely held together by the theme of "theology of culture," track Jenson's move toward a more culturally
conservative and catholic (also Catholic) understanding of
God's ways with the world. 236pgs. • 1995
◆ • Eerdman's • P • $25.50 / $5.98
✪ 150869 GENIUS OF THE TRANSCENDENT:
Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme
Bach, Jeff, et al.
Jakob Boehme (1575-1624) was a humble shoemaker in
eastern Germany who, in response to his visionary experiences, wrote a series of theosophical treatises exploring the
nature of God and humanity. Five of Boehme's most essential works are presented here in fresh translations, providing an accessible introduction to one of the most important
Christian mystical writers. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Shambhala • P • $17.95 / $6.98
✪ 116218 THE GNOSTIC BIBLE
BOOK AND AUDIO-CD SET
Barnstone, Willis & Marvin Meyer, eds.
Provides a brief yet thorough introduction to gnostic philosophy, accompanied by an audio program that recreates the
gnostic scriptures as the living oral tradition they were intended to be. (Includes three CDs plus a paperback book.)
224pgs. • 2008
◆ • Shambhala • CD • $19.95 / $9.98
133252 HOLINESS AND MINISTRY: A
Biblical Theology of Ordination
Dozeman, Thomas B.
The World Council of Churches has called
for renewed theological reflection on the
biblical roots of ordination in order to
strengthen the vocational identity of the
ordained and to provide a framework for
ecumenical dialogue. This book, a
response to that call, is grounded in the
assumption that the vocation of ordination requires an understanding of holiness and how it functions in religious experience. 168pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $19.98
✪ 152026 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: The Challenge to
Evangelical Religion
Turner, Frank M.
One of the most controversial religious figures of the 19th
century, John Henry Newman began his career as a priest in
the Church of England but converted to Catholicism and
eventually became a cardinal. Departing from previous
interpretations, Turner demonstrates that Newman's passage to Rome largely resulted from family quarrels, thwarted ambition, the inability to control his followers, and his
desire to live in a community of celibate males. 752pgs. •
2011
◆ • Yale • P • $29.00 / $7.98
✪ 122256 LEIBNIZ ON THE TRINITY AND THE
INCARNATION: Reason and Revelation in the
Seventeenth Century
Antognazza, Maria Rosa & Gerald Parks
Throughout his long intellectual life, Leibniz penned reflections on Christian theology, yet this wealth of material has
never been systematically gathered or studied. This book
addresses an important and central aspect of these neglected
materials -- his writings on two mysteries central to Christian
thought. 348pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $24.98
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✪ 152111 THE IMPLIED SPIDER: Politics and
Theology in Myth
Doniger, Wendy
In this powerful antidote to the paralysis of postcolonial
intellectual life, Doniger shows just how to make sense of,
and learn from, the extraordinary diversity of cultures past
and present. Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the
Hebrew Bible to the Bhagavad Gita, she shows how the
world's myths and sacred stories can provide a way to talk
about experiences shared across time and space. 256pgs.
• 1999
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Campbell, Joseph
Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations
over five millennia, featuring nearly
450 illustrations. Through the medium of visual art, the book explores the
relation of dreams to myth and examines the important differences
between Oriental and Occidental
interpretations of dreams and life. 552pgs. • 1981
▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $22.98
145054 LOSING MOSES ON THE
FREEWAY: The 10 Commandments in
America
Hedges, Chris
A veteran war correspondent who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity
School explores the challenge of living
according to the moral precepts that we
have tried to follow, often unsuccessfully,
for the past 6,000 years. The commandments, he writes, do not save us from evil; instead they save us
from committing it. 224pgs. • 2006
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132401 MOTHER OF GOD: A History of the Virgin Mary
Rubin, Miri
How did the Virgin Mary, of whom very little is said in the
Gospels, become one of the most powerful and complex religious figures in the world? To arrive at the answers to this
question, Miri Rubin investigates the ideas, practices, and
images that developed around the figure of Mary from the earliest decades of Christianity to around the year 1600. 560pgs.
• 2009
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132561 THE MYSTERY OF THE LAST SUPPER:
Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus
Humphreys, Colin J.
Apparent inconsistencies in the gospel accounts of Jesus' final
week have puzzled Bible scholars for centuries. Reconciling
conflicting Gospel accounts and scientific evidence,
Humphreys reveals the exact date of the Last Supper in a definitive new timeline of Holy Week. 258pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $14.98
135744 THE PARTING OF THE SEA:
How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and
Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus
Sivertsen, Barbara
An examination of how natural phenomena
shaped the stories of Exodus, the Sojourn
in the Wilderness, and the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Sivertsen demonstrates
that the Exodus was in fact two separate
exoduses, both triggered by volcanic eruptions, and provides scientific explanations for the ten plagues
and the parting of the Red Sea. 264pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $14.98
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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 • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 039391 THE REFORMATION
OF THE BIBLE / THE BIBLE OF
THE REFORMATION: Das Wort
sie sollen lassen stan
Pelikan, Jaroslav
Even as the Reformation was
inspired and defined by the Bible,
the Bible was reshaped by the intellectual, political, and cultural
forces of the Reformation. Pelikan
explores this fascinating interrelationship, examining both
the role of the Bible in the Reformation and the effect of the
Reformation on the text of the Bible, Biblical studies,
preaching and exegesis, and European culture in general.
197pgs. • 1996
◆ • Yale • C • $70.00 / $24.98
038639 RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES IN
PRACTICE, VOL. 1
McDannell, Colleen, ed.
A rich anthology of primary sources explores faith through
action from Colonial times through the 19th century, from
praying in an early American synagogue to performing
Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation. 512pgs. •
2001
▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $24.98
136733 THE ROBERT BELLAH READER
Bellah, Robert N. & Steven M. Tipton, eds.
For more than four decades, Robert N. Bellah has examined
the role of religion in modern and premodern societies,
attempting to discern how religious meaning is formed and
how it shapes ethical and political practices. This reader
brings together 28 of Bellah's seminal essays, written over a
period of more than 40 years. 568pgs. • 2006
◆ • Duke • P • $32.95 / $7.98
140815 SAVING GOD: Religion after Idolatry
Johnston, Mark
Argues that God needs to be saved not only from the assaults
of atheists but from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself.
Johnston rehabilitates the ideas of the Fall and of salvation
within a naturalistic framework; he then presents a conception
of God that both resists idolatry and is wholly consistent with
the deliverances of the natural sciences. 216pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
125283 SELECTIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS
EDITED BY JOHN DILLENBERGER
Luther, Martin
Luther's fresh understanding of man's relation to God led to a
break with the Church and released the powerful impulses that
carried the Reformation. In this volume, Dr. Dillenberger has
made a representative selection from Luther's extensive writings, and has also provided the reader with a lucid introduction to his thought. 560pgs. • 1958
◆ • Doubleday • P • $17.95 / $5.98
✪ 152014 SEX AND RELIGION IN THE BIBLE
Carmichael, Calum M.
An original and incisive reading of some of the most famous
narratives of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
Ranging from Jacob's encounter with Leah to the marriage
at Cana to Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well,
these readings demonstrate the remarkable subtlety and
sophistication of biblical views on marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $12.98
127032 TERESA OF AVILA AND THE RHETORIC OF
FEMININITY
Weber, Alison
Celebrated as a visionary chronicler of spirituality, Teresa of
Avila (1515-1582) suffered persecution by CounterReformation clergy in Spain. Confronting the historical irony
of Teresa's transformation from a figure of questionable
orthodoxy to a national saint, Weber shows how this teacher
and reformer used exceptional rhetorical skills to defend her
ideas at a time when women were denied participation in theological discourse. 194pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $14.98
126166 A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF ETERNITY
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 / $9.98
SCI ENCE, TECH NOLOGY &
MATH EMATICS
✪ 066909 ALFRED TARSKI: Life and
Logic
Feferman, Anita & Soloman Feferman
Tarski's work on the concepts of truth and
logical consequence are cornerstones of
modern logic, influencing developments in
mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and
computer science. This first full length
biography places him in the intellectual
and historical context of his times and
presents a picture of a personally and professionally passionate man - interlaced with an account of his major scientific
achievements. 432pgs. • 2004
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130386 THE BEST WRITING ON MATHEMATICS 2010
Pitici, Mircea, ed.
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.
Together, these writings offer surprising insights into the
nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today.
440pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
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140952 THE BEST WRITING ON MATHEMATICS 2011
Pitici, Mircea, ed.
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.
Together, these writings offer surprising insights into the
nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today.
414pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
131637 THE CALCULUS OF
FRIENDSHIP: What a Teacher and a
Student Learned about Life while
Corresponding about Math
Strogatz, Steven
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $15.95 / $7.98
086045 THE COSMIC CENTURY: A
History of Astrophysics and
Cosmology
Longair, Malcolm S.
Reviews the historical development of the
key areas of modern astrophysics, linking
the strands together to show how they
have led to the extraordinarily rich
panorama of modern astrophysics and
cosmology. While many of the great discoveries were derived from pioneering observations, the
emphasis is upon the development of theoretical concepts and
how they came to be accepted. 565pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • C • $86.00 / $22.98
133808 DR. EULER'S FABULOUS FORMULA: Cures
Many Mathematical Ills
Nahin, Paul J.
In the 18th century, mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues
to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional
limerick. Paul Nahin shares the fascinating story of this
groundbreaking formula and shows why it still lies at the
heart of complex number theory. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
105228 EIGHT PREPOSTEROUS PROPOSITIONS: From
the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global
Warming
Ehrlich, Robert
Is intelligent design a scientific alternative to evolution? Are
people getting smarter or dumber? In this follow-up to Nine
Crazy Ideas in Science, Ehrlich shows readers how to use the
tools of science to judge the accuracy of strange ideas and the
trustworthiness of ubiquitous "experts." 360pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $10.98
137582 AN ENGINEER'S ALPHABET: Gleanings from
the Softer Side of His Profession
Petroski, Henry
Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller
and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection
of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia, and arcana
relating to the practice, history, culture, and traditions of
his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking, and thinking about engineers and engineering,
and range from brief essays to lists of great engineering
achievements. 368pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • C • $21.99 / $9.98
126086 EULER'S GEM: The
Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of
Topology
Richeson, D. S.
So simple it can be explained to a child,
Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula nevertheless describes the structure of objects
from soccer balls and gemstones to Bucky
Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon
molecules. Using examples and illustrations, Richeson presents the formula's many applications,
such as showing why there is always some windless spot on
earth, and how many crayons are needed to color any map.
332pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $14.98
104874 FEARFUL SYMMETRY: The Search for Beauty in
Modern Physics
Zee, A.
A distinguished physicist reveals how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and
simplicity of nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and
whimsy, the book brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. 356pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $12.98
111450 FEARLESS SYMMETRY: Exposing the Hidden
Patterns of Numbers
Ash, Avner & Robert Gross
Mathematicians solve equations, or try to, but sometimes the
solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to their discovery. Written for a general audience, this is the first popular book to discuss these elegant and
mysterious patterns and the ingenious techniques that mathematicians use to uncover them. 312pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $12.98
105056 FOUR COLORS SUFFICE: How the Map
Problem Was Solved
Wilson, Robin
What is the least possible number of colors needed to fill in
any map so that neighboring counties are always colored
differently? Providing a clear and elegant explanation of the
problem and the proof, Robin Wilson tells how a seemingly innocuous question baffled great minds and stimulated
exciting mathematics with far-flung applications. 280pgs. •
2004
▲ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $9.98
038574 GALACTIC ASTRONOMY
Binney, James & Michael Merrifield
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $90.00 / $44.98
130988 GRAVITY'S FATAL ATTRACTION: Black Holes in
the Universe
Begelman, Mitchell C. & Martin Rees
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the
ground and in space, this book shows how black holes were
discovered and discusses our current understanding of their
role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade, including definitive proof of
a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. 312pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $47.00 / $25.98
125573 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 lessfamiliar aspect of mathematics, Byers reveals that mathematics
is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. 424pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
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 / $14.98
131646 HOW ROUND IS YOUR CIRCLE?: Where
Engineering and Mathematics Meet
Bryant, John & Chris Sangwin
How do you draw a straight line? How do
you determine if a circle is really round?
These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference
between success and failure. This volume
invites readers to explore many of the fundamental questions that working engineers
deal with every day. 352pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
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
◆ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $9.98
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✪ 105126 THE MATHEMATICAL
CENTURY: The 30 Greatest Problems
of the Last 100 Years
Odifreddi, Piergiorgio
The 20th century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics; more
theorems were proved and results found in
a hundred years than in all of previous history. This fascinating and authoritative
overview of the subject focuses, in lively
prose free of technical details, on 30 landmark achievements
in pure and applied mathematics. 204pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $10.98
087275 SPEAKING ABOUT SCIENCE:
A Manual for Creating Clear
Presentations
Morgan, Scott & Barrett Whitener
A manual aimed at students, researchers,
professionals, and clinicians who give presentations at meetings and academic conferences. Features step-by-step instructions for clear and compelling presentations, from structuring a talk and developing PowerPoint slides, through delivery to an audience.
Includes examples of slides and posters. 136pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $17.98
125937 THE MATHEMATICAL
MECHANIC: Using Physical Reasoning
to Solve Problems
Levi, Mark
Everybody knows that mathematics is
indispensable to physics. But how many
people realize that physics can in turn be
used to produce strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? This delightful book
shows how, treating readers to a host of
entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will
amuse and inspire their inner physicist. 196pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $9.98
088301 SUPERFRACTALS
Barnsley, Michael
The long-awaited successor to Fractals Everywhere, which
introduced the power and beauty of Iterated Function Systems
to produce startling and original images of complex structures. In this volume new ideas such as fractal tops and
superIFS are introduced, as well as applications in computer
graphics, bioinformatics, economics, signal processing, and
beyond. 464pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • C • $50.00 / $24.98
053606 SUPERSTRINGS: A Theory of
Everything?
Davies, P. C. W. & J. Brown, eds.
Geared to the layperson, this clear, concise,
non-mathematical explanation of the
"Theory of Everything" and its profound
implications includes transcripts of interviews with most of the physicists involved in
the development of the theory. 234pgs. •
1992
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087730 MINERALS: Their Constitution and Origin
Wenk, Hans-Rudolf & Andrei Bulakh
With color photographs, reference tables, and a glossary of
terms, this volume is an ideal introduction to mineralogy for
undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of geology
and materials science. Intended as a text for a one-semester
course, it covers all aspects of mineralogy in a contemporary,
integrated format. 668pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $100.00 / $55.98
128441 NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF
MATHEMATICS: An Anthology
Tymoczko, Thomas
The traditional debate among philosophers of mathematics is
whether there is an external mathematical reality, or whether
mathematics is the product of the human mind. This provocative book goes beyond foundationalist questions to offer a
"postmodern" assessment of the philosophy of mathematics -one that addresses issues of theoretical importance in terms of
mathematical experience. 448pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $65.00 / $19.98
057868 ON GROWTH AND FORM
Thompson, D'Arcy W. & John T. Bonner
Why do living things and physical phenomena take the forms
they do? Analyzing the mathematical and physical aspects of
biological processes, this historic work, first published in
1917, has become renowned both for the originality of its subject matter and for the poetry of its descriptions. 346pgs. •
1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.00 / $17.98
125853 PYTHAGOREAN
THEOREM: A 4,000 Year History
Maor, Eli
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all
of mathematics. Although attributed to
Pythagoras, it was known to the
Babylonians more than 1,000 years
earlier. In this book, Maor brings to
life many of the characters who have
played a role in the development of the theorem, providing
a fascinating backdrop to perhaps our oldest enduring
mathematical legacy. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $9.98
033982 QUALITATIVE METHODS FOR REASONING
UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Parsons, Simon
Tackling one of the central problems in the development of
artificial intelligence, Parsons advocates the use of qualitative
methods for reasoning with various types of imperfect information. He develops qualitative versions of probability theory,
possibility theory, and the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence
to demonstrate how an eclectic approach might generate
more fruitful solutions. 506pgs. • 2001
◆ • MIT • C • $68.00 / $16.98
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In 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully parachuted
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revealing a landscape of methane monsoons, equatorial sand
seas, and turbulent orange skies. In this popular account, the
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elsewhere. 272pgs. • 2010
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089158 A WALK THROUGH THE
HEAVENS: A Guide to Stars and
Constellations and Their Legends
Heifetz, Milton D. & Wil Tirion
An easy-to-use guide to the constellations of the northern hemisphere. By
following the unique simplified maps,
readers will be able to find and identify
the constellations and the individual
stars within them. Written for the beginner, this is a practical guide to understanding the patterns of
the night sky. 96pgs. • 2004
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125557 WHEN COMPUTERS WERE
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Grier, David Alan
Before PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did
scientific calculations by hand. These
workers -- often women -- were neither
calculating geniuses nor idiot savants
but skilled professionals who, in other
circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. This fascinating volume is the first
in-depth account of this little-known epoch in the history of
science and technology. 424pgs. • 2007
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148134 HAPPINESS AROUND THE WORLD: The
Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires
Graham, Carol
How is happiness affected by poverty? By economic progress?
Is happiness a viable objective for policy? This book attempts
to answer these questions, using research on the determinants
of happiness in countries around the world ranging from Peru
and Russia to the US and Afghanistan. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $9.98
✪ 116663 THE LANGUAGE
POLICE: How Pressure Groups
Restrict What Students Learn
Ravitch, Diane
Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out
racist, sexist, and elitist language in
classroom and library materials. But
according to Diane Ravitch, what began
with the best of intentions has veered
toward bizarre extremes. With forceful arguments and sensible solutions, she offers a powerful corrective to a cultural scandal. 288pgs. • 2004
▲ • Vintage • P • $16.00 / $5.98
136937 THE POLITICS OF TRUTH:
Selected Writings
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOHN H. SUMMERS
Mills. C. Wright
The first collection of Mills's writings to be
published since 1963, this volume contains 23 out-of-print and hard-to-find writings which trace his growth from academic sociologist to an intellectual maestro in
command of a mature style, a dissenter
who sought to inspire the public to oppose the drift toward
permanent war. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $21.95 / $7.98
135362 RADICAL AMBITION: C.
Wright Mills, the Left, and American
Social Thought
Geary, Daniel
Offering an important new understanding
of sociologist, social critic, and political
radical C. Wright Mills and the times in
which he lived, this volume challenges the
caricature of him as a lone rebel critic of
1950s complacency. Instead, it places
Mills within broader trends in American politics, thought, and
culture. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $45.00 / $7.98
050270 THE ROOTS OF EVIL: The
Origins of Genocide and Other Group
Violence
Staub, Ervin
Explores the psychology of group aggression, focusing particularly on genocide.
Staub sketches a conceptual framework
and examines four historical examples: the
Holocaust; the Turkish massacres of
Armenians; the Khmer Rouge purges in
Cambodia; and the disappearances in Argentina. He concludes
with a primer on the necessary conditions through which we
might create civil, peaceful societies. 336pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $22.98
✪ 150736 A SEVENTH MAN
Berger, John & Jean Mohr
Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave
their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In this volume, John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr examine what
it is to be a migrant worker, and reveal how the migrant is not
on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it.
256pgs. • 2010
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✪ 100928 BUILDING SUBURBIA: Green Fields and
Urban Growth, 1820-2000
Hayden, Dolores
This lively history of the contested landscapes where the
majority of Americans now live chronicles two centuries in the
birth and development of America's metropolitan regions.
Encompassing environmental controversies as well as complexities of race, gender, and class, Hayden's fascinating
account will forever alter how we think about the communities
we inhabit. 336pgs. • 2004
◆ • Vintage • P • $18.00 / $6.98
041496 FORM FOLLOWS FINANCE:
Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York
and Chicago
Willis, Carol
Emphasizing the importance of speculative
development and the impact of real estate
cycles on the forms of buildings, Willis
shows how the construction of skyscrapers
in the two cities resulted from local landuse patterns, municipal codes, and zoning.
217pgs. • 1995
▲ • Princeton Architectural • P • $29.95 / $14.98
✪ 150665 A GUIDE TO THE NEW RUINS OF GREAT
BRITAIN
Hatherley, Owen
From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester,
this book maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from
riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers,
and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, it
provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment
in which we live, work, and consume. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • C • $29.95 / $9.98
✪ 150709 ON THE TOWN: One
Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times
Square
Berman, Marshall
Described as "a continuous carnival" and
"the crossroads of the world," Times
Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot
where imagination and veracity intersect.
To Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing,
teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of
his life. In this remarkable book, he takes us on a thrilling
illustrated tour, revealing a landscape both mythic and real.
320pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $18.95 / $5.98
142803 WRESTLING WITH MOSES:
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's
Master Builder and Transformed the
American City
Flint, Anthony
To Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its
winding cobblestone streets and complex
demographic makeup, was everything a
city neighborhood should be, but to the
consummate power broker Robert Moses,
it cried out for "urban renewal." Anthony Flint skillfully
recounts the thrilling David-vs.-Goliath story of their struggle
for the soul of a city, the legacy of which echoes through our
society today. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • Random House • C • $27.00 / $7.98
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