Outstanding Academic Titles, 2015

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Feature
Outstanding Academic
Titles, 2015
E
very year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition
the most signiÿ cant print and electronic works reviewed
in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice’s January issue, this prestigious
list of publications re° ects the best in scholarly titles and attracts
extraordinary attention from the academic library community. ˛ e
2015 feature includes 606 titles in
54 disciplines and subsections.
In awarding O˝˙ ˆ˙anding Academic Title status, the editors apply
several criteria to reviewed titles:
• overall excellence in
presentation and scholarship
General
Abbott, Andrew. Digital paper: a
manual for research and writing
with library and Internet materials. Chicago, 2014. 259p index afp
ISBN 9780226167640, $60.00; ISBN
9780226167787 pbk, $20.00. Feb’15,
52-2854
Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535–1922:
From the Library Company of Philadelphia. Readex. For academic libraries, Readex o˜ ers a one-time tiered
purchase price with an annual maintenance fee. URL:http://www.readex.
com/ Nov’15, 53-1059
Associated Press Collections Online.
Gale, part of Cengage Learning. Contact publisher for pricing. URL:http://
gale.cengage.com/ Aug’15, 52-6187
The John Muir Exhibit, from the Sierra
Club. URL:http://vault.sierraclub.org/
john_muir_exhibit/ Dec’15, 53-1577
Kroll, Paul W. A student’s dictionary of
classical and medieval Chinese, by
Paul W. Kroll with°William G. Boltz et al.
Brill, 2014. 713p index afp (Handbook
of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China, 30)
ISBN 9789004284111, $259.00. Jun’15,
52-5079
• importance relative to other
literature in the ÿ eld
• distinction as a first treatment
of a given subject in book or
electronic form
Mann, Thomas. The Oxford guide to library research. Oxford, 2015. 359p
index afp ISBN 9780199931064 pbk,
$24.95. Oct’15, 53-0556
• originality or uniqueness of treatment
• value to undergraduate students
• importance in building undergraduate library collections
˛ e list cites only bibliographic information. ˛ e number and publication issue of each review are also provided to assist readers wishing
detailed evaluations of the titles.
In publishing the O˝˙ ˆ˙anding Academic Titles feature, Choice
acknowledges and honors the authors, editors, and publishers of these
works for their vital contribution to the scholarly endeavor.
January 2016
REFERENCE
ChoiCe
Milardo, Robert M. Crafting scholarship
in the behavioral and social sciences: writing, reviewing, and editing.
Routledge, 2014. 205p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781138787834, $155.00; ISBN
9781138787841 pbk, $39.95. Jul’15,
52-5643
Narangoa, Li. Historical atlas of northeast Asia, 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, eastern Siberia, by
Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb. Columbia, 2014. 336p bibl index afp ISBN
9780231160704, $150.00. Jun’15, 525083
681
OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLES, 2015
National Museum
of the American
Indian. URL:http://
www.nmai.si.edu/
Nov’15, 53-1060
Oxford Reference. Quick Reference Collection starts at $650.00. Premium
Collection starts at $900.00. Both are
concurrent or unlimited use. One-time
purchase available for over 300 titles.
URL:http://www.oxfordreference.com/
Mar’15, 52-3390
SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE
Publications. Annual academic subscription starts at $1,175.00, and purchase
price is $6,750.00, based on library size.
URL:http://srmo.sagepub.com/cases
Apr’15, 52-3963
Humanities
Architecture: the whole story, ed. by
Denna Jones. Prestel, 2014. 576p index
ISBN 9783791349152, $34.95. Mar’15,
52-3396
The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy, ed. by°Robert Audi with Paul Audi.
3rd ed. Cambridge, 2015. 1,161p index
ISBN 9781107015050, $99.00. Dec’15,
53-1581
Clark, Mark Ross. The Broadway song:
a singer’s guide. Oxford, 2015. 324p
320 indexes afp ISBN 9780199351671,
$99.00;
ISBN 9780199351688 pbk,
$29.95. Dec’15, 53-1582
The Columbia sourcebook of Mormons
in the United States, ed.° by Terryl L.
Givens and Reid L. Neilson. Columbia, 2014. 455p bibl index afp ISBN
9780231149426, $80.00. Jan’15, 52-2297
Johnson, Graham. Franz Schubert: the
complete songs, tr. by Richard Wigmore. Yale, 2014. 3v bibl index ISBN
9780300112672, $300.00. Jun’15, 52-5090
Loeb Classical Library.
Harvard. Annual institutional subscription starts at
$1,150.00; perpetual access is $5,750.00
(with an annual fee after the ÿ rst year).
Other subscription options are available. URL:http://www.loebclassics.com/
Apr’15, 52-3973
Mark Twain Project Online, from the Bancroft Library, University of California at
Berkeley. URL:www.marktwainproject.
org/ Sep’15, 53-0019
Oxford Arabic dictionary: Arabic-English/English-Arabic, ed. by Tressy
Arts. Oxford, 2014. 1,966p ISBN 9780199580330, $99.00. Mar’15, 52-3403
Perseus Digital Library, from Tufts University. URL:http://www.perseus.tufts.
edu/ Jun’15, 52-5096
Whitten-Woodring, Jenifer. Historical
guide to world media freedom: a
country-by-country analysis, by Jenifer Whitten-Woodring and°Douglas Van
Belle. SAGE Publications, 2014. 575p index afp ISBN 9781608717651, $150.00.
Jan’15, 52-2309
Science & Technology
ArXiv, from the Cornell University Library.
URL:http://arxiv.org/ Jun’15, 52-5098
Atlas of crustacean larvae, ed.°by Joel W.
Martin, Jorgen Olesen, and Jens T. Hoeg.
Johns Hopkins, 2014. 370p bibl afp
ISBN 9781421411972, $125.00. Mar’15,
52-3407
Eichenbaum, Rose. The director within:
storytellers of stage and screen, photographs and text by Rose Eichenbaum; ed.
by Aron Hirt-Manheimer. Wesleyan, 2014.
283p bibl index afp ISBN 9780819572899,
$30.00; ISBN 9780819574947 ebook,
$23.99. Apr’15, 52-3966
Encyclopedia of Agriculture and
Food Systems, ed. by Neal K. Van Alfen. 2nd ed.
Elsevier. print book,
$1,516.00; ebook $1,344.00; print
book/ebook, $1,716.00.
URL:http://
www.sciencedirect.com/science/
referenceworks/9780080931395 Feb’15,
52-2875
Encyclopedia of aesthetics, ed. by Michael Kelly. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2014.
6v. bibl index ISBN 9780199747108,
$1,195.00. Feb’15, 52-2864
Encyclopedia of automotive engineering, ed. by° David Crolla et al. Wiley,
2015. 6v bibl afp ISBN 9780470974025,
$2,175.00. Nov’15, 53-1072
682
ChoiCe
Encyclopedia of the solar system, ed.
by Tilman Spohn, Doris Breuer, and Torrence Johnson. 3rd ed. Elsevier, 2014.
1,311p bibl index ISBN 9780124158450,
$180.00; ISBN 9780124160347 ebook,
$180.00. Jul’15, 52-5660
Olmstead, Frederick Law. The last great
projects, 1890-1895, ed. by David
Schuyler, Gregory Kaliss with Je˜ rey
Schlossberg. Johns Hopkins, 2015.
1,067p indexes afp (The papers of
Frederick Law Olmstead, 9)
ISBN
9781421416038, $110.00. Dec’15, 531587
Social & Behavioral Sciences
The American Presidency Project, by
Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley.
URL:http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Aug’15, 52-6202
APA dictionary of psychology, ed. by
Gary R. VandenBos. 2nd ed. American
Psychological Association, 2015. 1,204p
ISBN 9781433819445, $49.95. Oct’15,
53-0577
Ballas, Dimitris. The social atlas of Europe,
by Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling, and
Benjamin Hennig. Policy Press, 2014.
211p bibl ISBN 9781447313533, $45.00.
Mar’15, 52-3416
The Cambridge world prehistory: v.1:
Africa, South and Southeast Asia
and the Pacific; v.2: East Asia and
the Americas; v.3: West and Central
Asia and Europe, ed. by°Colin Renfrew
and°Paul Bahn. Cambridge, 2014. 3v
bibl ISBN 9780521119931, $675.00.
Feb’15, 52-2887
eHRAF Archaeology, from the Human
Relations Area Files, Yale University. Human Relations Area Files. Contact publisher for pricing. URL:http://hraf.yale.edu/
online-databases/ehraf-archaeology/
Oct’15, 53-0579
eHRAF World Cultures, from the Human
Relations Area Files, Yale University.
Human Relations Area Files. Contact
publisher for pricing. URL:http://hraf.
yale.edu/online-databases/ehraf-worldcultures/ Oct’15, 53-0580
January 2016
Encyclopedia
of
t ra n s p o r t at i o n :
social science and
policy, ed. by Mark
Garrett. SAGE Publications, 2014. 4v
bibl index afp ISBN 9781452267791,
$595.00. May’15, 52-4548
Ethnographic Video Online, Volumes
2 and 3. Alexander Street. Annual
academic subscription for v.2 or v.3
is $4,115.00 with discounts available,
scaled to as low as $1,295.00. Perpetual
access for either volume ranges from
$50,000.00 to $12,500.00, with annual
access fees. URL:http://alexanderstreet.
com/ May’15, 52-4549
Geggus, David. The Haitian Revolution: a documentary history, ed.,° tr.,
and° introd. by David Geggus. Hackett, 2014. 212p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780872208667, $45.00; ISBN
9780872208650 pbk, $15.00. Apr’15,
52-3990
Glynn, Tom. Reading publics: New York
City’s public libraries, 1754–1911.
Empire State Editions, 2015. 447p bibl
index ISBN 9780823262649, $35.00.
Nov’15, 53-1078
Indigenous Law Portal: Mapping American Indian Constitutions and Legal Materials, from the Law Library of Congress.
URL:http://www.loc.gov/law/help/
indigenous-law- guide/americas/
north-america/united-states/index.php
Feb’15, 52-2895
Korean history in maps: from prehistory to the twenty-first century,
ed. by Michael D. Shin with Lee Injae
et al. Cambridge, 2014. 196p index
ISBN 9781107098466, $75.00; ISBN
9781107490239 pbk, $27.99. Dec’15,
53-1596
Modern genocide: the definitive resource and document collection, ed.
by Paul R. Bartrop and Steven Leonard
Jacobs. ABC-CLIO, 2015. 4v bibl index afp ISBN 9781610693639, $415.00;
ISBN 9781610693646 ebook, Contact
publisher for price. Jul’15, 52-5673
The Princeton companion to Atlantic
history, ed. by°Joseph C. Miller with°Vincent Brown et al. Princeton, 2014. 532p
684
$65.00. Jun’15, 52-5116
Regan, Richard J. A constitutional history
of the U.S. Supreme Court. Catholic
University of America, 2015. 394p indexes afp ISBN 9780813227214, $24.95.
Dec’15, 53-1602
The SAGE encyclopedia of intercultural
competence, ed.°by Janet M. Bennett.
SAGE Reference, 2015. 2v bibl index
afp ISBN 9781452244280, $375.00.
Nov’15, 53-1087
The SAGE encyclopedia of theory in counseling and psychotherapy, ed. by Edward S. Neukrug. SAGE Reference, 2015.
2v bibl index afp ISBN 9781452274126,
$375.00. Sep’15, 53-0031
The Selected papers of John Jay, ed. by
Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Virginia. One-time
purchase price ranges from $87 to $867,
depending on institution; annual maintenance fee applies. URL:http://www.up
ress.virginia.edu/rotunda/ Jul’15, 52-5679
Shearer, David R. Stalin and the Lubianka:
a documentary history of the political
police and security organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953, by David R. Shearer and Vladimir Khaustov. Yale, 2015.
368p index afp ISBN 9780300171891,
$85.00. May’15, 52-4559
Skard, Torild. Women of power: half a century of female presidents and prime
ministers worldwide. Policy Press, 2014.
585p bibl index ISBN 9781447315780,
$99.00. Mar’15, 52-3436
Women’s rights in the United States:
a comprehensive encyclopedia of
issues, events, and people, ed. by
Ti˜ any K. Wayne and Lois Banner.
ABC-CLIO, 2015. 4v bibl index afp
ISBN 9781610692144, $415.00; ISBN
9781610692151 ebook, contact publisher for pricing. May’15, 52-4561
HUMANITIES
Bivins, Jason C. Spirits rejoice!: jazz and
American religion. Oxford, 2015. 369p
$29.95. Sep’15, 53-0034
ChoiCe
Dillon, Steven. Wolf-women and phantom ladies: female desire in 1940s
US culture. SUNY Press, 2015. 321p
$95.00; ISBN 9781438455815 ebook,
$95.00. Nov’15, 53-1093
Narrative theory unbound: queer and
feminist interventions, ed.° by Robyn
Warhol and Susan S. Lanser. Ohio
State, 2015. 398p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780814212806, $87.95; ISBN
9780814293850 other, $14.95. Nov’15,
53-1095
The Oxford handbook of ecocriticism,
ed. by Greg Garrard. Oxford, 2014. 577p
$150.00. Apr’15, 52-4008
Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Bricktop’s
Paris: African American women in
Paris between the two World Wars.
SUNY Press, 2015. 377p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781438455013, $34.95; ISBN
9781438455020 ebook, $34.95. Jul’15,
52-5690
Warner, Marina. Once upon a time: a short
history of fairy tale. Oxford, 2014.
$18.95. Jul’15, 52-5693
Xu, Bing. Book from the ground: from
point to point. MIT, 2014. 112p ISBN
9780262027083, $24.95. Jan’15, 52-2340
Art & Architecture
Blair, Sheila S. Text and image in medieval Persian art. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. 336p bibl index ISBN
9780748655786, $125.00. Jan’15, 52-2342
Wu Hung. Contemporary Chinese art:
a history, 1970s-2000s. Thames &
Hudson, 2014. 456p bibl index ISBN
9780500239209, $95.00. Jan’15, 522345
Display of art in the Roman palace,
1550-1750, ed. by Gail Feigenbaum
with Francesco Freddolini. Getty Research Institute, 2014. 368p index ISBN
9781606062982, $75.00. Feb’15, 52-2911
Fiber: sculpture, 1960-present, [ed.] by
Jenelle Porter. Prestel, 2014. 256p ISBN
9783791353821, $60.00. Sep’15, 53-0046
January 2016
Fong, Wen C. Art as history: calligraphy
and painting as one. Princeton, 2014.
$95.00. Aug’15, 52-6225
Graham, Patricia J. Japanese design:
art, aesthetics & culture. Tuttle Publishing, 2014. 160p bibl index ISBN
9784805312506, $24.95. Jan’15, 52-2349
Gu˜ ey, Elizabeth E. Posters: a global history. Reaktion Books, 2015. 288p bibl
index ISBN 9781780233710 pbk, $40.00.
Sep’15, 53-0047
Peter Blume: nature and metamorphosis, by Robert Cozzolino with Samantha
Baskind et al. Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, 2015. (Dist. by Pennsylvania) 351p bibl afp ISBN 9780943836423,
$59.95. Jun’15, 52-5132
Schwartz, Alexandra. Come as you are:
art of the 1990s. Montclair Art Museum/California, 2015. 224p bibl ISBN
9780520282889, $44.95. Sep’15, 530050
January 2016
Weber, Nicholas Fox. Josef Albers: minimum media, maximum effect. Fundacion Juan March, 2014. (Dist. by
Distributed Art Publishers) 379p bibl
ISBN 9788415691747, $65.00. Jun’15,
52-5137
Wright, Helena E. The first Smithsonian
collection: the European engravings of George Perkins Marsh and
the role of prints in the U.S. National
Museum.
Smithsonian Institution
Press, 2015. 289p bibl index afp ISBN
9781935623625, $39.95. Oct’15, 530600
Fine Arts
Freund, Amy. Portraiture and politics in
revolutionary France. Pennsylvania
State, 2014. 294p bibl index afp ISBN
9780271061948, $84.95. Mar’15, 523468
Henri Matisse: the cut-outs, ed. by Karl
Buchberg et al. Museum of Modern Art,
ChoiCe
2014. 298p index ISBN 9780870709159,
$60.00;
ISBN 9780870709487 pbk,
$45.00. Apr’15, 52-4024
Hughes, Gordon. Resisting abstraction:
Robert Delaunay and vision in the
face of modernism. Chicago, 2014.
169p index afp ISBN 9780226159065,
$45.00; ISBN 9780226159232 ebook,
contact publisher for price. Jul’15, 525707
Locker, Jesse M. Artemisia Gentileschi: the language of painting. Yale,
2015. 236p bibl index afp ISBN
9780300185119, $65.00. Jul’15, 52-5708
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich. Malevich, ed.° by Achim Borchardt-Hume
with Alexander Bouras et al. Tate Publishing, 2015. 264p bibl index ISBN
9781849761468 pbk, $49.95. Dec’15,
53-1622
Mapping spaces: networks of knowledge
in 17th century landscape painting, ed.
by Ulrike Gehring and Peter Weibel. Hirmer,
685
2015. 504p bibl ISBN
9783777422305,
$75.00. Sep’15, 530056
Mind’s eye: masterworks on paper from
David to Cézanne, ed. by°Olivier Meslay
and William B. Jordan et al. Dallas Museum of Art/Yale, 2014. 240p bibl ISBN
9780300207217, $60.00. Jan’15, 522361
Partridge, Loren. Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600. California, 2015. 347p
bibl index afp ISBN 9780520281806
pbk, $39.95. Sep’15, 53-0057
Rutherglen, Susannah. In a new light:
Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the
desert, by Susannah Rutherglen and
Charlotte Hale. The Frick Collection/D.
Giles, 2014. 232p bibl index ISBN
9781907804397, $55.00. Jul’15, 525711
Sculpture victorious: art in an age of
invention, 1837-1901, ed. by Martina
Droth, Jason Edwards, and Michael Hatt
with Tim Barringer et al. Yale Center for
British Art/Yale, 2014. 448p bibl index
ISBN 9780300208030, $80.00. Mar’15,
52-3471
Sluijter, Eric Jan. Rembrandt’s rivals: history painting in Amsterdam (16301650). J. Benjamins, 2015. 485p bibl
indexes afp (OCULI: studies in the
arts of the low countries, 14) ISBN
9789027249661, $210.00. Sep’15, 530059
Architecture
Mulder, Stephennie. The shrines of the
‘Alids in medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is
and the architecture of coexistence.
Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
$120.00. Feb’15, 52-2928
Wharton, Annabel Jane. Architectural
agents: the delusional, abusive,
addictive lives of buildings. Minnesota, 2015. 288p bib index afp
ISBN 9780816693382, $122.50; ISBN
9780816693399 pbk, $34.95. Nov’15,
53-1121
686
Zimmerman, Claire. Photographic architecture in the twentieth century.
Minnesota, 2014. 393p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780816683345, $103.00; ISBN
9780816683352 pbk, $35.00. Feb’15,
52-2932
Photography
Kelsey, Robin. Photography and the art
of chance. Belknap, Harvard, 2015.
398p index afp ISBN 9780674744004,
$32.95. Nov’15, 53-1122
Silverman, Kaja. The miracle of analogy,
or, the history of photography, part
1. Stanford, 2015. 203p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780804793278, $65.00; ISBN
9780804793995 pbk, $21.95. Jul’15, 525716
Communication
Barrier, Michael. Funnybooks: the improbable glories of the best American
comic books. California, 2014. 407p index afp ISBN 9780520283909, $34.95.
Jul’15, 52-5717
Benson, Thomas W. Posters for peace: visual rhetoric and civic action. Pennsylvania State, 2015. 214p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780271065861, $69.95. Nov’15,
53-1124
Dow, Bonnie J. Watching women’s liberation, 1970: feminism’s pivotal year on
the network news. Illinois, 2014. 239p
$95.00;
ISBN 9780252080166 pbk,
$28.00; ISBN 9780252096488 ebook,
contact publisher for price. May’15, 524596
Hansen, Mark B. N. Feed-forward: on the
future of twenty-first-century media. Chicago, 2015. 307p index afp
ISBN 9780226199696, $82.50; ISBN
9780226199726 pbk, $27.50;
ISBN
9780226199863 ebook, contact publisher for price. Aug’15, 52-6243
Nerone, John. The media and public life:
a history. Polity, 2015. 253p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780745660202, $69.95; ISBN
978074566021 pbk, $24.95. Dec’15, 531638
ChoiCe
Parikka, Jussi. A geology of media. Minnesota, 2015. 206p index afp (Electronic mediations, 46) ISBN 9780816695515,
$87.50;
ISBN 9780816695522 pbk,
$24.95. Nov’15, 53-1126
Plaisance, Patrick Lee. Virtue in media: the moral psychology of excellence in news and public relations.
Routledge, 2015. 233p bibl index
ISBN 9780415707435, $160.00; ISBN
9780415707442 pbk, $49.95. Feb’15,
52-2936
Ponce de Leon, Charles L. That’s the way
it is: a history of television news in
America. Chicago, 2015. 310p index afp ISBN 9780226472454, $30.00.
Dec’15, 53-1641
Language & Literature
Budick, Emily Miller. The subject of Holocaust fiction. Indiana, 2015. 250p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780253016263, $80.00;
ISBN 9780253016300 pbk, $32.00; ISBN
9780253016324 ebook, $31.99. Dec’15,
53-1645
The Cambridge companion to the city
in literature, ed. by° Kevin R. McNamara. Cambridge, 2014. 286p bibl
index ISBN 9781107028036, $80.00;
ISBN 9781107609150 pbk, $29.99; ISBN
9781139989954 ebook, $24.00. Jun’15,
52-5163
Contemporary approaches in literary
trauma theory, ed. by Michelle Balaev.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 177p bibl
index ISBN 9781137365934, $90.00.
Aug’15, 52-6249
Miller, J. Hillis. Communities in fiction.
Fordham, 2014. 333p index ISBN
9780823263110 pbk, $30.00. Sep’15,
53-0083
The Oxford handbook of science fiction, ed.°by Rob Latham. Oxford, 2014.
620p index afp ISBN 9780199838844,
$150.00. Apr’15, 52-4046
Rigby, Kate. Dancing with disaster: environmental histories, narratives, and
ethics for perilous times. Virginia, 2015.
$59.50; ISBN 9780813936901 pbk, $24.50;
January 2016
ISBN 9780813936895
ebook, $24.50. Sep
’15, 53-0086
Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening. Harvard,
2015. 193p bib afp ISBN 9780674744431
pbk, $22.95. Oct’15, 53-0631
Wee, Lionel. The language of organizational styling. Cambridge, 2015.
$95.00; ISBN 9781316191224 ebook,
$76.00. Aug’15, 52-6253
Welge, Jobst. Genealogical fictions:
cultural periphery and historical
change in the modern novel. Johns
Hopkins, 2014. 254p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781421414355, $54.95; ISBN
9781421414362 ebook, $54.95. Aug’15,
52-6254
African & Middle Eastern
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron. Different
shades of green: African literature,
environmental justice, and political
ecology. Virginia, 2014. 214p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813936055, $59.50;
ISBN 9780813936062 pbk, $27.50; ISBN
9780813936079 ebook, $59.50. Apr’15,
52-4048
Garnier, Xavier. The Swahili novel: challenging the idea of ‘minor literature.’
James Currey, 2013. 195p bibl index
ISBN 9781847010797, $90.00. Jan’15,
52-2383
Asian & Oceanian
Hockx, Michel. Internet literature in China. Columbia, 2015. 251p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780231160827, $40.00; ISBN
9780231538534 ebook, $39.99. Jun’15,
52-5171
Meulenbeld, Mark R. E. Demonic warfare:
Daoism, territorial networks, and
the history of a Ming novel. Hawai’i,
9780824838447, $57.00. Sep’15, 530089
Wang, David Der-wei. The lyrical in epic
time: modern Chinese intellectuals
and artists through the 1949 crisis.
688
Columbia, 2015. 508p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780231170468, $60.00; ISBN
9780231538572 ebook, $59.99. Jul’15,
52-5732
Classical
Morgan, Kathryn A. Pindar and the
construction of Syracusan monarchy in the fifth century B.C. Oxford,
2015. 460p bibl indexes afp ISBN
9780199366859, $85.00. Oct’15, 530635
Ovid. The offense of love: Ars Amatoria,
Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2, a verse
translation and introd. by Julia Dyson
Hejduk. Wisconsin, 2014. 268p bibl
$19.95; ISBN 9780299302030 ebook,
$14.95. May’15, 52-4608
Palmer, Ada. Reading Lucretius in the
Renaissance. Harvard, 2014. 372p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780674725577, $39.95.
May’15, 52-4609
Pelling, Christopher. Twelve voices from
Greece and Rome: ancient ideas for
modern times, by Christopher Pelling
and Maria Wyke. Oxford, 2014. 274p
index ISBN 9780199597369, $29.95.
Apr’15, 52-4053
English & American
Beckett, Samuel. The letters of Samuel
Beckett: v.3: 1957–1965, ed. and tr.
by° George Craig with° Martha Dow
Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, and Lois More
Overbeck. Cambridge, 2014. 771p bibl
indexes ISBN 9780521867955, $50.00.
Jun’15, 52-5178
Bentley, G. E., Jr. William Blake in the desolate market. McGill-Queen’s, 2014. 244p
$49.95. Feb’15, 52-2952
Brigham, Ann. American road narratives:
reimagining mobility in literature
and film. Virginia, 2015. 262p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813937243, $65.00;
ISBN 9780813937502 pbk, $29.50; ISBN
9780813937519 ebook, $29.50. Nov’15,
53-1145
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Brontë, Emily. The annotated Wuthering
Heights, ed. by Janet Gezari. Belknap,
Harvard, 2014. 454p bibl afp ISBN 978
0674724693, $35.00. Mar’15, 52-3508
The Cambridge companion to American
gay and lesbian literature, ed. by Scott
Herring. Cambridge, 2015. 248p bibl
index ISBN 9781107046498, $80.00;
ISBN 9781107646186 pbk, $29.99.
Nov’15, 53-1147
The Cambridge companion to women’s
writing in the Romantic period, ed.
by Devoney Looser. Cambridge, 2015.
$90.00;
ISBN 9781107602557 pbk,
$29.99. Sep’15, 53-0099
Christie, William. Dylan Thomas: a literary
life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 228p
$90.00. Oct’15, 53-0640
The Dating of Beowulf: a reassessment,
ed. by Leonard Neidorf. D. S. Brewer,
2014. 250p index afp (Anglo-Saxon
studies, 24)
ISBN 9781843843870,
$99.00. Feb’15, 52-2954
Dawnland voices: an anthology of indigenous writing from New England,
ed. by Siobhan Senier. Nebraska, 2014.
690p bibl afp ISBN 9780803246867
pbk, $35.00. May’15, 52-4617
Dowling, David. Emerson’s protégés:
mentoring and marketing transcendentalism’s future. Yale, 2014. 332p
index afp ISBN 9780300197440, $65.00.
Feb’15, 52-2955
Dowling, Robert M. Eugene O’Neill: a life
in four acts. Yale, 2014. 569p index afp
ISBN 9780300170337, $35.00. Feb’15,
52-2956
Gerhardt, Christine. A place for humility:
Whitman, Dickinson, and the natural
world. Iowa, 2014. 268p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781609382711 pbk, $47.50; ISBN
9781609382919 ebook, $75.00. Feb’15,
52-2960
Harding, Wendy. The myth of emptiness
and the new American literature of
place. Iowa, 2014. 243p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781609382797 pbk, $47.50; ISBN
9781609382926 ebook, $47.50. Feb’15,
52-2961
January 2016
Hughes, Langston. The selected letters of
Langston Hughes, ed.°by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel with Christa
Fratantoro. Knopf, 2015. 442p index
ISBN 9780375413797, $35.00. Jul’15,
52-5746
Hunt, Aeron. Personal business: character and commerce in Victorian literature and culture. Virginia, 2014. 225p
$39.50; ISBN 978081393621 ebook,
$39.50. Apr’15, 52-4065
Hutchison, Hazel. The war that used up
words: American writers and the First
World War. Yale, 2015. 292p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300195026, $45.00.
Aug’15, 52-6265
Moody, A. David. Ezra Pound: poet: v.2:
the epic years. Oxford, 2014. 544p
index ISBN 9780199215584, $35.00.
Jun’15, 52-5200
Richard Wright in a post-racial imaginary, ed. by Alice Mikal Craven and
William E. Dow. Bloomsbury, 2014.
$120.00; ISBN 9781623562328 ebook,
$107.99. Jan’15, 52-2405
Ridiculous critics: Augustan mockery of
critical judgment, ed. by°Philip Smallwood and Min Wild. Bucknell/Rowman
& Littleÿ eld, 2014. 245p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781611486148, $90.00. Apr’15,
52-4075
Kareem, Sarah Tindal. Eighteenth-century
fiction and the reinvention of wonder.
Oxford, 2014. 278p bibl index ISBN
9780199689101, $99.00. Jul’15, 52-5747
Strohm, Paul. Chaucer’s tale: 1386 and
the road to Canterbury. Viking, 2014.
284p index
ISBN 9780670026432,
$28.95; ISBN 9780698170377 ebook,
$14.99. May’15, 52-4632
Lahr, John. Tennessee Williams: mad pilgrimage of the flesh. W. W. Norton,
2014. 765p index ISBN 9780393021240,
$39.95. Mar’15, 52-3518
Teskey, Gordon. The poetry of John Milton. Harvard, 2015. 619p index afp
ISBN 9780674416642, $39.95. Nov’15,
53-1163
Lipking, Lawrence. What Galileo saw:
imagining the scientific revolution.
Cornell, 2014. 314p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780801452970, $35.00. Mar’15,
52-3521
Toward a female genealogy of transcendentalism, ed. by Jana L. Argersinger
and Phyllis Cole. Georgia, 2014. 496p
pbk, $89.95; ISBN 9780820346977
ebook, $39.95. Oct’15, 53-0659
Martin, Justin. Rebel souls: Walt Whitman
and America’s first Bohemians. Da
Capo Press/A Merloyd Lawrence Book,
2014. 339p index ISBN 9780306822261,
$27.99; ISBN 9780306822278 ebook,
contact publisher for price. Feb’15, 522965
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain on potholes
and politics: letters to the editor, ed.
by Gary Scharnhorst. Missouri, 2014.
208p index afp ISBN 9780826220462,
$35.00; ISBN 9780826273390 ebook,
$35.00. Apr’15, 52-4079
Maxwell, William J. F.B. eyes: how J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostreaders framed
African American literature. Princeton, 2015. 367p bibl index afp ISBN
9780691130200, $29.95. Jun’15, 52-5197
Zaretsky, Robert. Boswell’s enlightenment. Belknap, Harvard, 2015. 278p
index afp ISBN 9780674368231, $26.95.
Sep’15, 53-0124
Miles, Barry. Call me Burroughs: a life.
Twelve, 2014. 718p bibl index ISBN
9781455511952, $32.00. Jan’15, 522404
Germanic
Miller, W. Jason. Origins of the dream:
Hughes’s poetry and King’s rhetoric.
University Press of Florida, 2015. 249p
$34.95. Jun’15, 52-5199
January 2016
Barnett, David. Brecht in practice: theatre, theory and performance.
Bloomsbury, 2015. 245p bibl index
ISBN 9781408185032 pbk, $29.95.
Aug’15, 52-6280
Grimm, Jacob. The original folk and fairy
tales of the brothers Grimm, by Ja-
ChoiCe
cob Grimm and
Wilhelm Grimm;
ed. and trans. by
Jack Zipes. Princeton, 2014. 519p index afp ISBN 9780691160597, $35.00.
Apr’15, 52-4082
Miller, William Ian. “Why is your axe
bloody? ”: a reading of Njáls saga.
Oxford, 2014.
334p index
ISBN
9780198704843, $85.00. Jun’15, 52-5212
Romance
Barnard, Mary E. Garcilaso de la Vega and
the material culture of Renaissance
Europe. Toronto, 2014. 226p bibl index afp ISBN 9781442647558, $70.00.
Aug’15, 52-6282
Beauvoir, Simone de. Simone de Beauvoir: feminist writings, ed. by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann. Illinois, 2015. 312p index afp
ISBN 9780252039003, $45.00; ISBN
9780252097171 ebook, contact publisher for price. Sep’15, 53-0131
Jackson, K. David. Machado de Assis: a
literary life. Yale, 2015. 336p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300180824, $40.00.
Nov’15, 53-1171
Pasolini, Pier Paolo. The selected poetry
of Pier Paolo Pasolini, ed. and tr. by
Stephen Sartarelli. Bilingual ed. Chicago, 2014. 494p bibl ÿ lmography index afp ISBN 9780226648446, $45.00.
Mar’15, 52-3544
Prévost, Abbé. The Greek girl’s story, tr.
and introd. by Alan J. Singerman. Pennsylvania State, 2014. 231p bibl afp ISBN
9780271063911, $69.95. Jan’15, 522421
Stanton, Domna C. The dynamics of
gender in early modern France:
women writ, women writing. Ashgate, 2014. 255p bibl index afp ISBN
9781472442017, $104.95. Mar’15, 523545
Williams, Raymond Leslie. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life of writing. Texas,
9780292758124, $55.00. Apr’15, 524089
689
Slavic
Light within the
shade: 800 years
of Hungarian poetry, tr. by° Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner. Syracuse, 2014. 278p index afp
ISBN 9780815633624, $24.95; ISBN
9780815652748 ebook, contact publisher for price. Jan’15, 52-2424
Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, ed. and introd. by Gary Saul Morson; tr. by Marian
Schwartz. Yale, 2014. 754p afp ISBN
9780300203943, $35.00. Jun’15, 525223
Performing Arts
DesRochers, Rick. The comic offense from
vaudeville to contemporary comedy:
Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 154p bibl index
ISBN 9781441132321, $100.00; ISBN
9781441160874 pbk, $29.95;
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9781441161932 ebook, $25.99. Jan’15,
52-2426
Gilbert, David. The product of our souls:
ragtime, race, and the birth of the
Manhattan musical marketplace.
North Carolina, 2015. 291p bibl index
afp ISBN 9781469622699, $32.50; ISBN
9781469622705 ebook, $29.99. Oct’15,
53-0669
Simon, Linda. The greatest shows on
earth: a history of the circus. Reaktion Books, 2014. 296p bibl index ISBN
9781780233581, $40.00. May’15, 524647
Film
Armes, Roy. New voices in Arab cinema.
Indiana, 2015. 333p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780253015167, $85.00; ISBN
9780253015228 pbk, $35.00;
ISBN
9780253015280 ebook, $34.99. Aug’15,
52-6290
Bao, Weihong. Fiery cinema: the emergence of an affective medium in
China, 1915–1945.
Minnesota,
2015. 479p ÿ lmography index afp
ISBN 9780816681334, $105.00; ISBN
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9780816681341 pbk, $30.00. Aug’15,
52-6291
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Italian fascism’s empire
cinema. Indiana, 2015. 393p bibl index
ÿ lmography afp ISBN 9780253015525,
$85.00; ISBN 9780253015662 ebook,
$34.99. Sep’15, 53-0136
Herbert, Daniel. Videoland: movie culture at the American video store.
California, 2014. 316p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780520279612, $70.00; ISBN
9780520279636 pbk, $29.95. Feb’15,
52-2996
Jacobson, Brian R. Studios before the
system: architecture, technology,
and the emergence of cinematic
space. Columbia, 2015. 295p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231172806, $90.00;
ISBN 9780231172813 pbk, $30.00; ISBN
9780231539661 ebook, $29.99. Dec’15,
53-1706
Kiss the blood off my hands: on classic film noir, ed.° by Robert Miklitsch.
Illinois, 2014. 242p index afp ISBN
9780252038594, $95.00; ISBN 978025
2080180 pbk, $28.00. Mar’15, 52-3556
Layton, James. The dawn of Technicolor,
1915–1935, by James Layton and David Pierce. George Eastman House,
ISBN 9780935398281, $65.00. Oct’15,
53-0675
MacDonald, Scott. Avant-doc: intersections of documentary and avantgarde cinema. Oxford, 2014. 455p bibl
$35.00. Apr’15, 52-4102
Movies in the age of Obama: the era of
post racial and neo-racist cinema,
ed. by David Garrett Izzo. Rowman
& Littleÿ eld, 2014. 301p index afp
ISBN 9781442241299, $65.00; ISBN
9781442241305 ebook, $64.99. Feb’15,
52-3001
Tsika, Noah A. Nollywood stars: media and migration in West Africa
and the diaspora. Indiana, 2015.
348p bibl ÿ lmography index afp
ISBN 9780253015716, $85.00; ISBN
9780253015808 ebook, $31.99. Oct’15,
53-0678
ChoiCe
Walker, Elsie. Understanding sound
tracks through film theory. Oxford,
ISBN 9780199896325 pbk, $39.95.
Dec’15, 53-1713
Zacks, Je˜ rey M. Flicker: your brain on
movies. Oxford, 2015. 342p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199982875, $27.95.
Jun’15, 52-5238
Music
Brodbeck, David. Defining Deutschtum:
political ideology, German identity,
and music-critical discourse in liberal
Vienna. Oxford, 2014. 365p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199362707, $45.00.
Jun’15, 52-5242
Decker, Todd. Who should sing “Ol’ man
river”?: the lives of an American song.
Oxford, 2015. 241p index afp ISBN
9780199389186, $29.95. Apr’15, 524109
Fosler-Lussier, Danielle. Music in America’s Cold War diplomacy. California,
2015. 329p bibl index afp (California
studies in 20th-century music, 18) ISBN
9780520284135, $65.00. Dec’15, 531714
Gioia, Ted. Love songs: the hidden history. Oxford, 2015. 315p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780199357574, $29.95. Jul’15, 525782
Grant, Roger Mathew. Beating time &
measuring music in the early modern
era. Oxford, 2014. 309p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780199367283, $45.00. May’15,
52-4662
Jensen, Eric Frederick. Debussy. Oxford, 2014. 297p bibl index afp ISBN
9780199730056, $35.00. May’15, 524664
Jones, John Bush. Reinventing Dixie:
Tin Pan Alley’s songs and the creation of the mythic South. Louisiana
State, 2015. 270p bibl indexes afp
ISBN 9780807159446, $45.00; ISBN
Marcus, Greil. The history of rock ‘n’ roll in
ten songs. Yale, 2014. 307p index afp
January 2016
ISBN 9780300187373, $28.00. May’15,
52-4666
Shank, Barry. The political force of
musical beauty. Duke, 2014. 330p
ISBN 9780822356462, $94.95; ISBN
9780822356585 pbk, $25.95. Apr’15,
52-4119
Swa˜ ord, Jan. Beethoven: anguish and
triumph: a biography. Houghton
Mi˝ in Harcourt, 2014. 1,077p index
ISBN 9780618054749, $40.00; ISBN
9780544245587 ebook, $40.00. Apr’15,
52-4120
Symonds, Dominic. We’ll have Manhattan: the early work of Rodgers and
Hart. Oxford, 2015. 332p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199929481, $34.95.
Aug’15, 52-6310
Theater & Dance
Brandstetter, Gabriele. Poetics of dance:
body, image, and space in the his-
January 2016
torical avant-gardes, tr. by°Elena Polzer
with Mark Franko. Oxford, 2015. 432p
pbk, $39.95. Sep’15, 53-0153
Keenan, Siobhan. Acting companies and
their plays in Shakespeare’s London.
Bloomsbury, 2014. 272p bibl index
ISBN 9781408146675, $104.00; ISBN
9781408146637 pbk, $32.95. May’15,
52-4675
Baert, Patrick. The existentialist moment:
the rise of Sartre as a public intellectual. Polity, 2015. 231p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780745685397, $69.95; ISBN
9780745685403 pbk, $24.95. Dec’15,
53-1725
Boonin, David. The non-identity problem and the ethics of future people.
9780199682935, $74.00. Sep’15, 53-0159
Ritchie, Fiona. Women and Shakespeare
in the eighteenth century. Cambridge, 2014. 256p bibl index ISBN
9781107046306, $95.00. Jul’15, 52-5791
Brandom, Robert B. From empiricism to
expressivism: Brandom reads Sellars.
Harvard, 2015. 289p index afp ISBN
9780674187283, $35.00. Oct’15, 53-0700
Philosophy
Brogaard, Berit. On romantic love: simple
truths about a complex emotion. Oxford, 2015. 270p bibl index afp ISBN
9780199370733, $21.95. Jul’15, 52-5796
Agada, Ada. Existence and consolation:
reinventing ontology, gnosis, and
values in African philosophy. Paragon
House, 2015. 368p bibl index afp ISBN
9781557789143 pbk, $24.95. Oct’15,
53-0695
ChoiCe
Chirimuuta, M. Outside color: perceptual science and the puzzle of color in
philosophy. MIT, 2015. 245p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262029087, $40.00.
Dec’15, 53-1728
691
DeYoung, Rebecca
Konyndyk. Vainglory: the forgotten vice.
Eerdmans, 2014. 157p index afp ISBN
9780802871299 pbk, $14.00. Jun’15,
52-5256
Digby, Tom. Love and war: how militarism shapes sexuality and romance.
Columbia, 2014. 226p index afp
ISBN 9780231168403, $65.00; ISBN
9780231168410 pbk, $22.00. Mar’15,
52-3579
Ferrarin, Alfredo. The powers of pure reason: Kant and the idea of cosmic philosophy. Chicago, 2015. 325p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780226243153, $55.00;
ISBN 9780226243290 ebook, contact
publisher for price. Nov’15, 53-1202
Fesmire, Steven. Dewey. Routledge, 2015.
$157.00; ISBN 9780415782753 pbk,
$39.95. Oct’15, 53-0703
Gelley, Alexander. Benjamin’s passages: dreaming, awakening. Fordham, 2015. 210p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780823262564, $85.00; ISBN
9780823262571 pbk, $28.00. Oct’15,
53-0706
Guyer, Paul. A history of modern aesthetics: v.1: The eighteenth century;
v.2: The nineteenth century; v.3: The
twentieth century. Cambridge, 2014.
3v bibl index ISBN 9781107643222,
$335.00. Apr’15, 52-4128
Konstan, David. Beauty: the fortunes
of an ancient Greek idea. Oxford,
9780199927265, $29.95. Jul’15, 52-5802
Levy, Neil. Consciousness and moral responsibility. Oxford, 2014. 157p ISBN
9780198704638, $45.00. Jul’15, 52-5803
Nichols, Shaun. Bound: essays on free
will and responsibility. Oxford, 2015.
$45.00. Oct’15, 53-0710
Rodowick, D.°N. Philosophy’s artful conversation. Harvard, 2014. 320p index afp ISBN 9780674416673, $39.95.
May’15, 52-4696
692
The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, ed. by Pauliina Remes and
Svetla Slaveva-Gri˙ n. Routledge, 2014.
644p bibl indexes ISBN 9781844656264,
$205.00. Feb’15, 52-3026
biblical archetype of patience. South
Carolina, 2015. 287p bibl indexes afp
ISBN 9781611174519, $54.95; ISBN
9781611174526 ebook, $54.95. Jul’15,
52-5814
Schuman, Michael. Confucius: and
the world he created. Basic Books,
9780465025510, $28.99. Sep’15, 530170
Barshinger, David P. Jonathan Edwards and
the Psalms: a redemptive-historical vision of Scripture. Oxford, 2014. 470p
bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780199396757,
$74.00. Jun’15, 52-5274
Sevier, Christopher Scott. Aquinas on
beauty. Lexington Books, 2015. 227p
$85.00; ISBN 9780739184257 ebook,
$84.99. Sep’15, 53-0172
Brown, Peter. The ransom of the soul:
afterlife and wealth in early Western Christianity. Harvard, 2015. 262p
index ISBN 9780674967588, $24.95.
Sep’15, 53-0181
Tallis, Raymond. Summers of discontent:
the purpose of the arts today, by Raymond Tallis with Julian Spalding. Wilmington Square Books, 2014. 190p ISBN
9781908524409 pbk, $14.95. Jun’15,
52-5269
Curtis, Edward E., IV. The call of Bilal: Islam
in the African diaspora. North Carolina, 2014. 227p bibl index afp ISBN
9781469618111 pbk, $27.95. Jun’15,
52-5277
Thompson, Evan. Waking, dreaming, being: self and consciousness in neuroscience, meditation, and philosophy.
ISBN 9780231137096, $32.95; ISBN
9780231538312 ebook, $31.99. Sep’15,
53-0175
Unger, Peter. Empty ideas: a critique of analytic philosophy. Oxford, 2014. 258p
$45.00. Jun’15, 52-5270
Wu, Wayne. Attention. Routledge, 2014.
$155.00; ISBN 9780415532242 pbk,
$37.95. Mar’15, 52-3595
Religion
Arjana, Sophia Rose. Muslims in the Western imagination. Oxford, 2015. 261p
$29.95. Sep’15, 53-0179
Armstrong, Karen. Fields of blood:
religion and the history of violence. Knopf, 2014. 512p bibl index
ISBN 9780307957047, $30.00; ISBN
9780385353106 ebook, contact publisher for price. Apr’15, 52-4142
Balentine, Samuel E. Have you considered
my servant Job? : understanding the
ChoiCe
Davies, Brian. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa
theologiae: a guide and commentary. Oxford, 2014. 454p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780199380626, $99.00; ISBN
9780199380633 pbk, $29.95. Mar’15,
52-3601
Dawson, Jane. John Knox. Yale, 2015. 373p
$45.00. Oct’15, 53-0722
Freyne, Seán. The Jesus movement and
its expansion: meaning and mission.
Eerdmans, 2014. 383p bibl indexes
afp ISBN 9780802867865 pbk, $35.00.
Jan’15, 52-2482
Gyatso, Janet. Being human in a Buddhist world: an intellectual history
of medicine in early modern Tibet.
ISBN 9780231164962, $45.00; ISBN
9780231538329 ebook, $44.99. Sep’15,
53-0188
I found God in me: a womanist biblical
hermeneutics reader, ed.° by Mitzi J.
Smith. Cascade Books, 2015. 312p ISBN
9781625647450 pbk, $36.00. Sep’15,
53-0190
Jackson, Roy. What is Islamic philosophy? Routledge, 2014. 190p bibl index
ISBN 9780415632027, $125.00; ISBN
9780415632034 pbk, $32.95. Jan’15, 522485
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Lawrence,
Bruce
B. Who is Allah?
North
Carolina,
2015. 223p bibl index afp ISBN 9781469620039, $25.00;
ISBN 9781469620046 ebook, $24.99.
Sep’15, 53-0193
The lively experiment: religious toleration in America from Roger Williams to the present, [ed] by Chris
Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda.
Rowman & Littleÿ eld, 2015. 342p index
afp ISBN 9781442248724, $65.00; ISBN
9781442248731 ebook, $64.99. Aug’15,
52-6342
Marenbon, John. Pagans and philosophers:
the problem of paganism from Augustine to Leibniz. Princeton, 2015. 354p
$35.00. Aug’15, 52-6344
Moore, Rebecca. Women in Christian traditions. New York University, 2015. 209p
$65.00;
ISBN 9781479821754 pbk,
$17.00. Oct’15, 53-0731
The Oxford handbook of African American theology, ed. by Katie G. Cannon
and Anthony B. Pinn. Oxford, 2014. 516p
$150.00. May’15, 52-4716
The Oxford handbook of American Islam, ed.°by Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane
I. Smith. Oxford, 2014. 560p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199862634, $150.00.
Nov’15, 53-1235
The Oxford handbook of European
Islam, ed. by Jocelyne Cesari. Oxford, 2015. 869p bibl indexes ISBN
9780199607976, $150.00. Sep’15, 530197
Pluralism and democracy in India: debating the Hindu Right, ed. by°Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum. Oxford, 2015. 384p index afp
ISBN 9780195394825, $99.00; ISBN
9780195395532 pbk, $35.00. Sep’15,
53-0200
Properzi, Mauro. Mormonism and the
emotions: an analysis of LDS scriptural texts. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2015. 269p
694
$85.00; ISBN 9781611477733 ebook,
$84.99. Dec’15, 53-1751
The Rigveda: the earliest religious poetry of India, tr.°by Stephanie W. Jamison
and Joel P. Brereton. Oxford, 2014. 3v
bibl afp ISBN 9780199370184, $399.00.
Jun’15, 52-5288
Sutton, Matthew Avery. American apocalypse: a history of modern Evangelicalism. Belknap, Harvard, 2014. 459p
index afp ISBN 9780674048362, $35.00.
Jun’15, 52-5290
Ulrich, Eugene. The Dead Sea Scrolls and
the developmental composition of
the Bible. Brill, 2015. 346p bibl indexes afp (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 169) ISBN 9789004270381,
$149.00. Dec’15, 53-1758
Ness, Roberta B. The creativity crisis: reinventing science to unleash possibility. Oxford, 2015. 287p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780199375387, $29.95. Aug’15,
52-6361
Parsons, Keith. It started with Copernicus:
vital questions about science. Prometheus Books, 2014. 429p ISBN 97816
16149291 pbk, $19.99; ISBN 97816161
49307 ebook, $11.99. Apr’15, 52-4169
Taylor, Dorceta E. Toxic communities: environmental racism, industrial pollution, and residential mobility. New
York University, 2014. 343p bibl index
afp ISBN 9781479861781 pbk, $25.00.
Jan’15, 52-2506
History of Science & Technology
Westphal, Merold. Kierkegaard’s concept
of faith. Eerdmans, 2014. 284p indexes
afp ISBN 9780802868060 pbk, $35.00.
Apr’15, 52-4162
Brown, Brandon R. Planck: driven by vision, broken by war. Oxford, 2015. 258p
$29.95. Oct’15, 53-0752
Williams, Reggie L. Bonhoeffer’s black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance theology and
an ethic of resistance. Baylor, 2014. 184p
$39.95. May’15, 52-4721
Cross, Gary S. Packaged pleasures: how
technology & marketing revolutionized desire, by Gary S. Cross and Robert
N. Proctor. Chicago, 2014. 352p index
afp ISBN 9780226121277, $35.00; ISBN
9780226147383 ebook, $21.00. Apr’15,
52-4173
Wolf, Hubert. Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio:
the true story of a convent in scandal,
tr. by Ruth Martin. Knopf, 2015. 512p
$30.00. Jul’15, 52-5838
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Ferris, Marcie Cohen. The edible South: the
power of food and the making of an
American region. North Carolina, 2014.
$35.00. Mar’15, 52-3625
Carr, Nicholas. The glass cage: automation and us. W. W. Norton, 2014. 276p
index ISBN 9780393240764, $26.95.
Apr’15, 52-4167
Johnson, Steven. How we got to now:
six innovations that made the modern world. Riverhead Books, 2014.
$30.00. Jun’15, 52-5304
Forman, Richard T. T. Urban ecology:
science of cities. Cambridge, 2014.
$120.00; ISBN 9780521188241 pbk,
$60.00; ISBN 9781107776883 ebook,
$48.00. Jul’15, 52-5841
Montanari, Massimo. Medieval tastes:
food, cooking, and the table, tr. by Beth
Archer Brombert. Columbia, 2015. 267p
$35.00; ISBN 9780231539081 ebook,
$34.99. Sep’15, 53-0212
Miller, Arthur I. Colliding worlds: how
cutting-edge science is redefining
contemporary art. W.W. Norton, 2014.
$35.00. Jan’15, 52-2503
Pesic, Peter. Music and the making of
modern science. MIT, 2014. 347p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780262027274, $40.00;
ISBN 9780262324373 ebook, $20.00.
May’15, 52-4729
ChoiCe
January 2016
Secord, James A. Visions of science:
books and readers at the dawn of the
Victorian age. Chicago, 2015. 306p
$30.00. Sep’15, 53-0213
Weisser, Olivia. Ill composed: sickness,
gender, and belief in early modern
England. Yale, 2015. 281p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300200706, $85.00.
Dec’15, 53-1766
Astronautics & Astronomy
Bartusiak, Marcia. Black hole: how an idea
abandoned by Newtonians, hated by
Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved. Yale, 2015. 237p
$27.50. Sep’15, 53-0214
Dean, Margaret Lazarus. Leaving orbit:
notes from the last days of American spaceflight. Graywolf Press, 2015.
317p bibl ISBN 9781555977092 pbk,
$16.00. Nov’15, 53-1254
International Space Station, from NASA.
URL:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
pages/station/main/index.html Sep’15,
53-0217
Taylor, Fredric W. The scientific exploration of Venus. Cambridge, 2014.
$48.00. Jun’15, 52-5316
Webb, Stephen. If the universe is teeming
with aliens … where is everybody? :
seventy-five solutions to the Fermi
paradox and the problem of extraterrestrial life. Springer, 2015. 434p bibl
$29.99; ISBN 9783319132365 ebook,
$19.99. Nov’15, 53-1258
Westfall, John. Celestial shadows: eclipses, transits, and occultations, by
John Westfall and William Sheehan.
Springer, 2015. 713p bibl index afp
(Astrophysics and space science library,
410) ISBN 9781493915347, $179.00;
ISBN 9781493915354 ebook, $139.00.
Jun’15, 52-5317
Biology
Churchill, Frederick B. August Weismann:
development, heredity, and evolution. Harvard, 2015. 700p index afp
ISBN 9780674736894, $49.95. Nov’15,
53-1262
Eldredge, Niles. Eternal ephemera: adaptation and the origin of species,
from the nineteenth century through
punctuated equilibria and beyond.
ISBN 9780231153164, $35.00; ISBN
9780231526753 ebook, $34.99. Sep’15,
53-0227
Fairbanks, Daniel J. Everyone is African:
how science explodes the myth of
race. Prometheus Books, 2015. 191p
bibl index ISBN 9781633880184 pbk,
$18.00. Sep’15, 53-0228
Falkowski, Paul G. Life’s engines: how microbes made Earth habitable. Princeton, 2015. 205p bibl index afp ISBN
9780691155371, $24.95. Nov’15, 531264
Farrell, Justin. The battle for Yellowstone: morality and the sacred roots
of environmental conflict. Princeton, 2015. 291p bibl index afp ISBN
9780691164342, $39.50. Dec’15, 531772
Musil, Robert K. Rachel Carson and her
sisters: extraordinary women who
have shaped America’s environment.
Rutgers, 2014. 309p index afp ISBN
9780813562421, $26.95. Jan’15, 52-2526
Oceans and human health: implications for society and well-being,
ed. by Robert E. Bowen et al. WileyBlackwell, 2014. 304p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781119941316, $99.95; ISBN
9781118828441 ebook, $79.99. Apr’15,
52-4196
Sardet, Christian. Plankton: wonders of
the drifting world, ed. by Rafael D.
Rosengarten and Theodore Rosengarten. Chicago, 2015. 222p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780226188713, $45.00; ISBN
9780226265346 ebook, $27.00. Nov’15,
53-1274
Shilo, Benny. Life’s blueprint: the science and art of embryo creation.
Yale, 2014. 174p bibl index afp ISBN
9780300196634, $35.00. May’15, 524751
Hiscock, Keith. Marine biodiversity conservation: a practical approach.
Earthscan/Routledge, 2014. 289p bibl
index ISBN 9780415723558, $160.00;
ISBN 9780415723565 pbk, $59.95.
Jul’15, 52-5861
Subramaniam, Banu. Ghost stories for Darwin: the science of variation and the
politics of diversity. Illinois, 2014. 280p
$95.00;
ISBN 9780252080241 pbk,
$28.00. Jun’15, 52-5327
Johnston, Elizabeth. The feeling brain:
the biology and psychology of emotions, by Elizabeth Johnston and Leah
Olson. W. W. Norton, 2015. 388p bibl
index ISBN 9780393706659, $27.50.
Dec’15, 53-1773
Wagner, Andreas. Arrival of the fittest:
solving evolution’s greatest puzzle.
Current, 2014. 291p bibl index ISBN
9781591846468, $27.95. Jun’15, 525329
Kampourakis, Kostas. Understanding
evolution. Cambridge, 2014. 253p bibl
index ISBN 9781107034914, $90.00;
ISBN 9781107610200 pbk, $34.99; ISBN
9781139898843 ebook, $28.00. Jul’15,
52-5862
Botany
Lim, Wendell. Cell signaling: principles
and mechanisms, by Wendell Lim,
January 2016
Bruce
Mayer,
and Tony Pawson. Garland,
2014. (Dist. by
Taylor & Francis) 400p index ISBN
9780815342441 pbk, $125.00. Apr’15,
52-4192
ChoiCe
Armstrong, Joseph E. How the Earth turned
green: a brief 3.8-billion-year history
of plants. Chicago, 2014. 563p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226069630, $125.00;
ISBN 9780226069777 pbk, $45.00; ISBN
9780226069807 ebook, contact publisher
for price. Mar’15, 52-3651
695
Everett, Nigel. The
woods of Ireland:
a history, 7001800. Four Courts
Press, 2014. 313p bibl index ISBN
9781846825057, $39.95. Jun’15, 525331
Farmer, Edward E. Leaf defence. Oxford, 2014. 216p bibl index afp ISBN
9780199671441, $59.95. Mar’15, 52-3652
Rice: global networks and new histories, ed. by Francesca Bray et al.
Cambridge, 2015. 421p bibl index
ISBN 9781107044395, $99.00; ISBN
9781316191095 ebook, $79.00. Aug’15,
52-6389
Estes, Richard. The gnu’s world: Serengeti wildebeest ecology and life history. California, 2014. 351p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780520273184, $70.00; ISBN
9780520273191 pbk, $29.95. Jan’15, 522543
Freshwater fishes of North America:
v.1: Petromzontidae to catostomidae,
ed. by°Melvin L. Warren Jr.°and Brooks
M. Burr. Johns Hopkins, 2014. 644pp
$100.00. Jan’15, 52-2544
Gebo, Daniel L. Primate comparative
anatomy. Johns Hopkins, 2014. 187p
$84.95; ISBN 9781421414904 ebook,
$84.95. Jun’15, 52-5341
Stuppy, Wolfgang. Wonders of the plant
kingdom: a microcosm revealed, by
Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, and
Madeline Harley. Chicago, 2015. 146p
$25.00. Sep’15, 53-0244
Lifestyles and feeding biology, ed.°by Martin Thiel and Les Watling. Oxford, 2015.
567p bibl index afp (The natural history
of the Crustacea, 2) ISBN 9780199797028,
$175.00. Dec’15, 53-1790
Swanson, Drew A. A golden weed: tobacco and environment in the Piedmont
South. Yale, 2014. 342 p index afp
ISBN 9780300191165, $45.00. Feb’15,
52-3099
Marzlu˜ , John M. Welcome to subirdia:
sharing our neighborhoods with
wrens, robins, woodpeckers, and
other wildlife. Yale, 2014. 313p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300197075, $30.00.
Apr’15, 52-4212
Thomas, Peter A. Trees: their natural history. Cambridge, 2014. 401p bibl index ISBN 9780521133586 pbk, $42.99;
ISBN 9781139698375 ebook, $34.00.
May’15, 52-4761
Urban forest, trees, and greenspace: a
political ecology perspective, ed.°by L.
Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and
Sadia Butt. Routledge/Earthscan, 2014.
$145.00. Apr’15, 52-4207
Zoology
Chan-ard, Tanya. A field guide to the
reptiles of Thailand, by Tanya Chanard, John W. K. Parr, and Jarujin Nabhitabhata; illustrated by Kritchanan
Petcha-um, Anantapong Poolsawat,
and Worachej Prom-Nu. Oxford/BRT,
Thailand, 2015. 314p bibl indexes afp
ISBN 9780199736492, $125.00; ISBN
9780199736508 pbk, $39.95. Nov’15,
53-1289
696
Moore, Robin. In search of lost frogs: the
campaign to rediscover the world’s
rarest amphibans, [ed.] by Lisa Thomas. Fireˆ y Books, 2014. 256p index
ISBN 9781770854642, $35.00. May’15,
52-4769
O’Connell, Caitlin. Elephant don: the
politics of a pachyderm posse. Chicago, 2015. 261p index afp ISBN
9780226106113, $26.00. Sep’15, 530251
Saÿ na, Carl. Beyond words: what animals
think and feel. H. Holt, 2015. 461p
index ISBN 9780805098884, $32.00.
Nov’15, 53-1295
Sparreboom, Max. Salamanders of the
Old World: the salamanders of Europe,
Asia and northern Africa. KNNV, 2014.
$127.95. Jun’15, 52-5343
Whitehead, Hal. The cultural lives of
whales and dolphins, by Hal Whitehead
and Luke Rendell. Chicago, 2015. 417p
ChoiCe
$35.00; ISBN 9780226187426 ebook,
$21.00. Aug’15, 52-6400
Chemistry
Atkins, Peter. Physical chemistry: a very
short introduction. Oxford, 2014.
128p bibl index ISBN 9780199689095
pbk, $11.95. Jan’15, 52-2550
Campos, Luis A. Radium and the secret
of life. Chicago, 2015. 378p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226238272, $55.00.
Nov’15, 53-1297
Kovács, Lajos. 100 chemical myths:
misconceptions, misunderstandings,
explanations, by Lajos Kovács et al.,
tr. by Gábor Lente and Katalin ˇ sz.
Springer, 2014. 396p bibl index afp
ISBN 9783319084183, $69.99; ISBN
9783319084190 ebook, $49.99. Apr’15,
52-4222
Earth Science
Barnosky, Anthony D. Dodging extinction: power, food, money, and the future of life on Earth. California, 2014.
240p index afp ISBN 9780520274372,
$29.95. May’15, 52-4776
Bourne, Joel K, Jr. The end of plenty: the
race to feed a crowded world. W. W.
Norton, 2015. 408p bibl index ISBN
9780393079531, $27.95. Oct’15, 530790
EOS.org, from the American Geophysical
Union. URL:https:/eos.org/ May’15, 524779
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The sixth extinction:
an unnatural history. H. Holt, 2014.
$28.00;
ISBN 9781250062185 pbk,
$16.00; ISBN 9780805099799 ebook,
$14.99. Jan’15, 52-2561
Nuccitelli, Dana. Climatology versus
pseudoscience: exposing the failed
predictions of global warming skeptics. Praeger, 2015. 212p index afp
ISBN 9781440832017, $48.00; ISBN
9781440832024 ebook, contact publisher for price. Oct’15, 53-0797
January 2016
Pilkey, Orrin H. The last beach, by Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper.
Duke, 2014. 237p bibl index afp ISBN
9780822357988, $69.95. May’15, 52-4784
Rudwick, Martin J. S. Earth’s deep history:
how it was discovered and why it matters. Chicago, 2014. 360p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780226203935, $30.00; ISBN
9780226204093 ebook, $18.00. Apr’15,
52-4230
Taillant, Jorge Daniel. Glaciers: the politics of ice. Oxford, 2015. 334p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199367252, $29.95.
Dec’15, 53-1795
Thewissen, J. G. M. “Hans.” The walking
whales: from land to water in eight
million years, illustrations by Jacqueline Dillard. California, 2015. 245p index afp ISBN 9780520277069, $34.95.
Jul’15, 52-5895
Time and navigation: the untold story
of getting from here to there, by Andrew K. Johnston et al. Smithsonian
Books, 2015. 224p bibl index afp ISBN
9781588344915, $29.95. Nov’15, 531306
Vince, Gaia. Adventures in the
Anthropocene: a journey to the heart
of the planet we made. Milkweed
Editions, 2014. 436p index afp ISBN
9781571313577, $30.00; ISBN 9781571
319289 ebook, $30.00. Oct’15, 53-0799
Engineering
Ending the fossil fuel era, ed.°by Thomas
Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela
L. Martin. MIT, 2015. 374p index afp
ISBN 9780262028806, $56.00; ISBN
9780262527330 pbk, $28.00;
ISBN
9780262327060 ebook, $20.00. Nov’15,
53-1309
Le˝ er, William L. Natural gas liquids: a
nontechnical guide. PennWell, 2014.
214p index ISBN 9781593703240,
$79.00. Apr’15, 52-4234
Prentiss, Mara. Energy revolution: the
physics and the promise of efficient
technology. Belknap, Harvard, 2015.
341p index afp ISBN 9780674725027,
$29.95. Jul’15, 52-5903
January 2016
Reid, Carlton. Roads were not built
for cars: how cyclists were the first
to push for good roads & became
the pioneers of motoring. Island
Press, 2015. 331p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781610916875, $60.00; ISBN
9781610916899 pbk, $30.00. Oct’15,
53-0800
Lamb, S. D. Pathologist
of
the mind: Adolf Meyer and
the origins of American psychiatry.
Johns Hopkins, 2014. 299p index afp
ISBN 9781421414843, $44.95. Apr’15,
52-4244
Stilgoe, Jack. Experiment Earth: responsible innovation in geoengineering. Routledge/Earthscan, 2015. 222p
$145.00. Oct’15, 53-0803
Ludmerer, Kenneth M. Let me heal: the
opportunity to preserve excellence
in American medicine. Oxford, 2014.
431p index afp ISBN 9780199744541,
$34.95. Apr’15, 52-4245
Health Sciences
Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy. Wolters Kluwer. Contact publisher
for pricing. URL:http://aclandanatomy.
com/ Jun’15, 52-5366
McMillen, Christian W. Discovering tuberculosis: a global history, 1900 to the
present. Yale, 2015. 338p index afp
ISBN 9780300190298, $40.00. Dec’15,
53-1807
Belkin, Gary S. Death before dying: history, medicine, and brain death.
Oxford, 2014. 256p index afp ISBN
9780199898176, $59.95. Feb’15, 523128
Mulla, Sameena. The violence of care:
rape victims, forensic nurses, and
sexual assault intervention. New
afp ISBN 9781479800315, $79.00; ISBN
9781479867219 pbk, $26.00. May’15,
52-4795
Conis, Elena. Vaccine nation: America’s
changing relationship with immunization. Chicago, 2015. 353p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780226923765, $27.50; ISBN
9780226923772 ebook, $18.00. Apr’15,
52-4237
Podolsky, Scott H. The antibiotic era: reform,
resistance, and the pursuit of a rational
therapeutics. Johns Hopkins, 2014. 309p
index afp ISBN 9781421415932, $34.95;
ISBN 9781421415949 ebook, $34.95.
Jul’15, 52-5916
Eig, Jonathan. The birth of the pill:
how four crusaders reinvented sex
and launched a revolution. W.W.
Norton, 2014. 388p bibl index ISBN
9780393073720, $27.95. Mar’15, 523691
Price, Catherine. Vitamania: our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection. Penguin, 2015. 318p index ISBN
9781594205040, $27.95. Sep’15, 53-0284
Hamlin, Christopher. More than hot: a
short history of fever. Johns Hopkins,
2014. 383p index afp ISBN 97814214
15024, $25.95. Mar’15, 52-3692
Jacobs, Charlotte DeCroes. Jonas Salk: a
life. Oxford, 2015. 559p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780199334414, $34.95. Dec’15,
53-1803
Kaufman, Sharon R. Ordinary medicine:
extraordinary treatments, longer
lives, and where to draw the line.
Duke, 2015. 314p bibl index afp ISBN
9780822359029, $94.95. Oct’15, 530811
ChoiCe
Reich, Adam D. Selling our souls: the
commodification of hospital care in
the United States. Princeton, 2014.
233p ISBN 9780691160405, $39.50.
Mar’15, 52-3696
Rowe, Michael. Citizenship and mental
health. Oxford, 2015. 247p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199355389, $45.00.
Aug’15, 52-6437
Information & Computer Science
Börner, Katy. Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map. MIT, 2015. 211p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262028813, $39.95.
Oct’15, 53-0818
697
Hey, Tony. The
computing universe: a journey
through a revolution, by Tony Hey and Gyuri
Pá pay. Cambridge, 2014. 397p
bibl indexes ISBN 9780521766456,
$85.00; ISBN 9780521150187 pbk,
$39.99;
ISBN 9781316121047
ebook, $32.00. Sep’15, 53-0288
Isaacson, Walter. The innovators. Simon
& Schuster, 2014. 542p index ISBN
9781476708690, $35.00. Mar’15, 523705
Kline, Ronald R. The cybernetics moment,
or, why we call our age the Information Age. Johns Hopkins, 2015. 336p
index afp ISBN 9781421416717, $54.95.
Dec’15, 53-1817
Swaine, Michael. Fire in the valley: the
birth and death of the personal computer, by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger. 3rd ed. Pragmatic Bookshelf,
2015. 386p index ISBN 9781937785765
pbk, $34.00. Aug’15, 52-6445
Mathematics
50 visions of mathematics, ed. by Sam
Parc. Oxford, 2014. 198p bibl ISBN
9780198701811, $44.95. Apr’15, 524255
Aharoni, Ron. Mathematics, poetry, and
beauty. World Scientiÿ c, 2015. 261p
index afp ISBN 9789814602938, $84.00;
ISBN 9789814602945 pbk, $36.00.
Aug’15, 52-6446
Bellos, Alex. The grapes of math: how life
reflects numbers and numbers reflect life. Simon & Schuster, 2014. 337p
index ISBN 9781451640090, $25.99.
Jan’15, 52-2591
Jr. Springer, 2014. 517p bibl indexes
afp ISBN 9783319027432, $149.00;
ISBN 9783319027449 ebook, $119.00.
May’15, 52-4809
Harris, Michael. Mathematics without
apologies: portrait of a problematic
vocation. Princeton, 2015. 438p bibl
indexes afp ISBN 9780691154237,
$29.95. Jul’15, 52-5931
Parker, Matt. Things to make and do in
the fourth dimension: a mathematician’s journey through narcissistic
numbers, optimal dating algorithms,
at least two kinds of infinity, and
more. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
453p ISBN 9780374275655, $28.00.
May’15, 52-4813
Rodman, Leiba. Topics in quaternion linear algebra. Princeton, 2014. 363p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780691161853, $79.50.
Mar’15, 52-3713
Romik, Dan. The surprising mathematics
of longest increasing subsequences. Cambridge, 2015. 353p bibl index ISBN 9781107075832, 99.00; ISBN
9781107428829 pbk, $39.99;
ISBN
9781316191606 ebook, $32.00. Dec’15,
53-1823
Physics
Ball, Philip. Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler. Chicago, 2014. 303p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780226204574, $30.00; ISBN
9780226204604 ebook, $18.00. May’15,
52-4816
Gimbel, Steven. Einstein: his space and
times. Yale, 2015. 191p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780300196719, $25.00. Sep’15,
53-0296
Sports & Recreation
Hall, Eric Allen. Arthur Ashe: tennis
and justice in the civil rights era.
Johns Hopkins, 2014. 331p index afp
ISBN 9781421413945, $34.95; ISBN
9781421413952 ebook, $34.95. Nov’15,
53-1339
Martin, Lori Latrice. White sports, black
sports: racial disparities in athletic
programs. Praeger, 2015. 209p bibl
index afp ISBN 9781440800535, $48.00;
publisher for price. Nov’15, 53-1344
Smith, Jay M. Cheated: the UNC scandal, the education of athletes, and
the future of big-time college sports,
by Jay M. Smith and Mary Willingham.
Potomac Books, 2015. 280p index afp
ISBN 9781612347288, $26.95. Sep’15,
53-0302
SOCIAL &
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Atkinson, Paul. For ethnography. SAGE
Publications, 2015. 221p bibl index
ISBN 9781849206075, $120.00; ISBN
9781849206082 pbk, $48.00. Sep’15,
53-0303
Beck, Lois. Nomads in postrevolutionary
Iran: the Qashqa’i in an era of change.
Routledge, 2014. 404p bibl index ISBN
9781138015616, $155.00. Apr’15, 524271
Benjamin, Arthur. The fascinating world
of graph theory, by Arthur Benjamin,
Gary Chartrand, and Ping Zhang. Princeton, 2015. 322p bibl indexes afp ISBN
9780691163819, $29.95. Jul’15, 52-5929
Marcovich, Anne. Toward a new dimension: exploring the nanoscale, by
Anne Marcovich and Terry Shinn. Oxford, 2014. 213p bibl index ISBN
9780198714613, $59.95. Nov’15, 531337
Disrupting the culture of silence: confronting gender inequality and making change in higher education, ed.
by Kristine De Welde and Andi Stepnick.
Stylus Publishing, 2015. 373p bibl index afp ISBN 9781620362174, $95.00;
ISBN 9781620362181 pbk, $34.95; ISBN
9781620362204 ebook, $27.99. May’15,
52-4830
Berry, Kenneth J. A chronicle of permutation statistical methods: 1920-2000,
and beyond, by Kenneth J. Berry, Janis E. Johnston, and Paul W. Mielke,
Smith, A. Mark. From sight to light: the
passage from ancient to modern optics. Chicago, 2015. 457p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780226174761, $45.00; ISBN
Environmental crime and social conflict:
contemporary and emerging issues,
ed. by Avi Brisman, Nigel South, and
Rob White. Ashgate, 2015. 328p bibl
698
ChoiCe
January 2016
index ISBN 9781472422200, $119.00;
ISBN 9781472422224 ebook, $119.00.
Aug’15, 52-6457
Frayling, Christopher. The yellow peril:
Dr. Fu Manchu and the rise of Chinaphobia. Thames & Hudson, 2014. 360p
index ISBN 9780500252079, $35.00.
Feb’15, 52-3165
Greenstein, Mindy. Lighter as we go: virtues, character strengths, and aging,
by Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland.
Oxford, 2014. 285p bibl index afp ISBN
9780199360956, $27.95. Mar’15, 52-3728
Handbook on evolution and society:
toward an evolutionary social science, ed.°by Jonathan H. Turner, Richard Machalek, and Alexandra Maryanski. Paradigm Publishers, 2015. 654p
$195.00. Jul’15, 52-5954
Sussman, Robert Wald. The myth of race:
the troubling persistence of an unscientific idea. Harvard, 2014. 374p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780674417311, $35.00.
Apr’15, 52-4282
Väliaho, Pasi. Biopolitical screens: image, power, and the neoliberal brain.
MIT, 2014. 186p bibl index afp ISBN
9780262027472, $35.00. Feb’15, 523174
Anthropology
Agbe-Davies, Anna S. Tobacco, pipes, and
race in Colonial Virginia: little tubes of
mighty power. Left Coast, 2015. 246p
$94.00;
ISBN 9781611323962 pbk,
$34.95; ISBN 9781611327434 ebook,
$34.95. Aug’15, 52-6464
Herbert Spencer: legacies, ed. by Mark
Francis and Michael W. Taylor. Routledge, 2015. 275p bibl index ISBN
9781844655878, $120.00. Apr’15, 524276
Bettinger, Robert L. Orderly anarchy: sociopolitical evolution in aboriginal
California. California, 2015. 286p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780520283336, $70.00;
ISBN 9780520959194 ebook, $70.00.
Sep’15, 53-0316
Kohlrausch, Martin. Building Europe on
expertise: innovators, organizers,
networkers, by Martin Kohlrausch and
Helmuth Trischler. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 390p ISBN 9780230308053,
$95.00. Mar’15, 52-3731
Chaco revisited: new research on the
prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New
Mexico, ed. by°Carrie C. Heitman and
Stephen Plog. Arizona, 2015. 362p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780816531608, $65.00.
Nov’15, 53-1353
Movements in times of democratic transition, ed. by Bert Klandermans and Cornelis van Stralen. Temple, 2015. 381p
$94.50;
ISBN 9781439911815 pbk,
$34.95; ISBN 9781439911822 ebook,
$34.95. Jul’15, 52-5955
Gusinde, Martin. The lost tribes of Tierra Del Fuego: Selk’nam, Yamana,
Kawšqar, ed. by Christian Barthe and
Xavier Barral with text by Marisol Palma
Behnke, Anne Chapman, and Dominique Legoupil. Thames & Hudson,
2015. 297p bibl ISBN 9780500544464,
$90.00. Sep’15, 53-0319
Rabaka, Reiland. Concepts of Cabralism:
Amilcar Cabral and Africana critical
theory. Lexington Books, 2014. 371p
$100.00; ISBN 9780739192115 ebook,
$99.99. Mar’15, 52-3732
Sacred spaces and contested identities:
space and ritual dynamics in Europe
and Africa, ed. by Paul Post, Philip Nel,
and Walter van Beek. Africa World,
2014. 393p bibl indexes afp ISBN
9781592219551 pbk, $39.95. Apr’15,
52-4281
January 2016
Handbook of anthropology in business, ed. by°Rita M Denny and Patricia
L Sunderland. Left Coast, 2014. 837p index afp ISBN 9781611321715, $139.00;
ISBN 9781611327687 ebook, $55.00.
Jan’15, 52-2623
Jacobson-Tepfer, Esther. The hunter, the
stag, and the mother of animals: image, monument, and landscape in ancient North Asia. Oxford, 2015. 413p
$85.00. Nov’15, 53-1361
ChoiCe
Knipe, David M.
Vedic voices:
intimate narratives of a living
Andhra tradition. Oxford, 2015. 340p
$99.00;
ISBN 9780199397693 pbk,
$35.00. Nov’15, 53-1363
Lancy, David F. The anthropology of
childhood: cherubs, chattel, changelings. Cambridge, 2015. 533p bibl
indexes ISBN 9781107420984, $99.00;
ISBN 9781107420984 pbk, $34.99; ISBN
9781316121610 ebook, $36.00. Sep’15,
53-0320
Materialities of ritual in the black Atlantic, ed. by Akinwumi Ogundiran and
Paula Saunders. Indiana, 2014. 404p
$65.00; ISBN 9780253013910 ebook,
$64.99. Nov’15, 53-1366
Palka, Joel W. Maya pilgrimage to ritual
landscape: insights from archaeology, history, and ethnography. New
Mexico, 2014. 374p bibl index ISBN
9780826354747, $75.00. Jan’15, 522628
Violence and warfare among huntergatherers, ed. by Mark W. Allen and Terry L. Jones. Left Coast, 2014. 391p bibl
index afp ISBN 9781611329391, $84.00;
ISBN 978-1-61132-942-1 ebook, $36.95.
May’15, 52-4850
Business, Management & Labor
Campbell-Kelly, Martin. From mainframes
to smartphones: a history of the international computer industry, by
Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D.
Garcia-Swartz. Harvard, 2015. 240p index afp ISBN 9780674729063, $45.00.
Oct’15, 53-0855
Cli˜ ord, Mark L. The greening of Asia:
the business case for solving Asia’s
environmental emergency.
ISBN 9780231166089, $29.95; ISBN
9780231539203 ebook, $28.99. Sep’15,
53-0324
Cunningham, Lawrence A. Berkshire beyond Buffett: the enduring value of
699
values. Columbia
Business
School,
2014. 307p bibl
index afp ISBN
9780231170048, $29.95. Feb’15, 52-3187
Frank, Miriam. Out in the union: a labor history of queer America.
Temple, 2014. 221p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781439911396, $54.50; ISBN
9781439911419 ebook, $54.50. Jan’15,
52-2636
Hess, Edward D. Learn or die: using science to build a leading-edge learning organization. Columbia Business
School, 2014. 267p bibl index afp ISBN
9780231170246, $29.95. Apr’15, 52-4299
Keating, R. K. Wheel man: Robert M.
Keating, pioneer of bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles. McFarland, 2014. 392p bibl index afp ISBN
9780786479702 pbk, $45.00;
ISBN
9781476616445 ebook, $45.00. May’15,
52-4854
Kellerman, Barbara. Hard times: leadership in America. Stanford, 2014. 387p
index afp ISBN 9780804792356, $27.95;
ISBN 9780804793018 ebook, $27.95.
Mar’15, 52-3748
Loomis, Erik. Out of sight: the long and
disturbing story of corporations outsourcing catastrophe. New Press,
2015. 245p index ISBN 9781620970089,
$25.95. Aug’15, 52-6476
Privacy, big data, and the public good:
frameworks for engagement, ed. by
Julia Lane et al. Cambridge, 2014. 322p
bibl afp ISBN 9781107067356, $85.00;
ISBN 9781107637689 pbk, $29.99; ISBN
9781316094167 ebook, $24.00. Jun’15,
52-5427
Rivera, Lauren A. Pedigree: how elite
students get elite jobs. Princeton,
9780691155623, $35.00. Oct’15, 530864
Schmidt, Eric. Google: how Google
works, by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan
Rosenberg with Alan Eagle. Grand Central Publishing, 2015. 286p index ISBN
9781455582341, $30.00. May’15, 524857
700
Winston, Andrew S. The big pivot: radically practical strategies for a hotter,
scarcer, and more open world. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014. 344p
index afp ISBN 9781422167816, $28.00.
Mar’15, 52-3752
Knoop, Todd A. Business cycle economics: understanding recessions and
depressions from boom to bust.
Praeger, 2015. 391p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781440831744, $58.00; ISBN
Economics
Kunnie, Julian E. The cost of globalization: dangers to the Earth and its people. McFarland, 2015. 371p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780786496082 pbk, $35.00.
Oct’15, 53-0875
Backwell, Ben. Wind power: the struggle
for control of a new global industry. Routledge, 2015. 152p bibl index
ISBN 9780415729611, $135.00; ISBN
9781138845855 pbk, $53.95. May’15,
52-4863
Davenport-Hines, Richard. Universal man:
the lives of John Maynard Keynes.
Basic Books, 2015. 418p index ISBN
9780465060672, $29.99. Oct’15, 530866
Eichengreen, Barry. Hall of mirrors: the
Great Depression, the great recession, and the uses—and misuses—of
history. Oxford, 2015. 512p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199392001, $29.95.
Jul’15, 52-5985
Eswaran, Mukesh. Why gender matters in
economics. Princeton, 2014. 392p index afp ISBN 9780691121734, $45.00.
Mar’15, 52-3755
The Global debt crisis: haunting U.S.
and European federalism, ed. by
Paul E. Peterson and Daniel J. Nadler.
Brookings, 2014. 241p index afp ISBN
9780815704874, $29.95. Jan’15, 522659
Greco, Albert N. The economics of the
publishing and information industries: the search for yield in a disintermediated world. Routledge, 2014. 319p
$200.00; ISBN 9781138824799 pbk,
$59.95. Aug’15, 52-6488
Helm, Dieter. Natural capital: valuing the
planet. Yale, 2015. 277p bibl index
ISBN 9780300210989, $32.50. Nov’15,
53-1381
Klein, Naomi. This changes everything:
capitalism vs. the climate. Simon &
Schuster, 2015. 566p index ISBN 978
1451697384, $30.00. Nov’15, 53-1383
ChoiCe
Lévêque, François. The economics and uncertainties of nuclear power. Cambridge,
2015. 341p index ISBN 9781107087286,
$129.99. May’15, 52-4872
Lardy, Nicholas R. Markets over Mao: the
rise of private business in China. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2014. 185p bibl index ISBN
9780881326932 pbk, $21.95. Feb’15,
52-3213
Lebowitz, Michael A. The socialist imperative: from Gotha to now. Monthly Review, 2015. 264p bibl index
ISBN 9781583675472, $89.00; ISBN
9781583675465 pbk, $22.00. Dec’15,
53-1856
O’Flaherty, Brendan. The economics
of race in the United States. Harvard, 2015. 478p bibl index afp ISBN
9780674368187, $49.95. Nov’15, 531386
Ó Gráda, Cormac. Eating people is wrong,
and other essays on famine, its past,
and its future. Princeton, 2015. 235p
$35.00. Jul’15, 52-5995
Powell, Benjamin. Out of poverty: sweatshops in the global economy. Cambridge, 2014. 181p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781107029903, $60.00; ISBN
9781107688933 pbk, $29.99;
ISBN
9781139898720 ebook, $24.00. Feb’15,
52-3218
Sachs, Je˜ rey D. The age of sustainable
development. Columbia, 2015. 543p
$120.00; ISBN 9780231173155 pbk,
$34.95; ISBN 9780231539005 ebook,
$33.99. Jul’15, 52-5998
January 2016
Schapiro, Mark. Carbon shock: a tale of
risk and calculus on the front lines
of the disrupted global economy.
Chelsea Green, 2014. 216p index ISBN
9781603585576, $26.00. Jan’15, 52-2666
Taylor, J. Edward. Essentials of development economics, by J. Edward
Taylor and Travis J. Lybbert. 2nd ed.
California, 2015. 422p index afp
ISBN 9780520283169, $75.00; ISBN
9780520283176 pbk, $49.95;
ISBN
9780520959057 ebook, $49.95. Sep’15,
53-0351
Thaler, Richard H. Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics. W. W.
Norton, 2015. 415p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780393080940, $27.95. Sep’15,
53-0352
What Adam Smith knew: moral lessons on capitalism from its greatest
champions and fiercest opponents,
ed.° by James R. Otteson. Encounter
Books, 2014. 279p bibl index afp ISBN
9781594037603 pbk, $16.99. Apr’15,
52-4327
Wight, Jonathan B. Ethics in economics:
an introduction to moral frameworks.
Stanford Economics and Finance, 2015.
275p index afp ISBN 9780804794534,
$27.95. Oct’15, 53-0879
Education
Beghetto, Ronald A. Teaching for creativity in the common core classroom, by Ronald A. Beghetto, James
C. Kaufman, and John Baer. Teachers
College Press, 2014. 128p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780807756164, $86.00; ISBN
9780807756157 pbk, $34.95;
ISBN
9780807773505 ebook, contact publisher for price. Jul’15, 52-6002
Carnes, Mark C. Minds on fire: how roleimmersion games transform college.
9780674735354, $27.95. Aug’15, 526504
Coulter, Bob. No more robots: building kids’ character, competence, and
sense of place. Peter Lang, 2014. 113p
bibl afp ((Re)thinking environmental
education, 2) ISBN 9781433124723,
January 2016
$149.95; ISBN 9781433124716, $39.95.
Jul’15, 52-6004
Fullan, Michael. Big-city school reforms:
lessons from New York, Toronto, and
London, by Michael Fullan and Alan
Boyle. Teachers College Press/Ontario
Principals’ Council, 2014. 178p index
afp ISBN 9780807755198, $66.00; ISBN
9780807755181 pbk, $27.95. Feb’15, 523230
Guinier, Lani. The tyranny of the meritocracy: democratizing higher education
in America. Beacon Press, 2015. 160p
index afp ISBN 9780807006276, $24.95;
ISBN 9780807006283 ebook, $24.95.
Jun’15, 52-5458
Hayashi, Akiko. Teaching embodied:
cultural practice in Japanese preschools, by Akiko Hayashi and Joseph
Tobin. Chicago, 2015. 187p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780226263076, $90.00; ISBN
9780226263106 pbk, $30.00. Dec’15,
53-1864
Horowitz, Merle. Cyberbullying in social
media within educational institutions: featuring student, employee,
and parent information, by Merle
Horowitz and Dorothy M. Bollinger.
Rowman & Littleÿ eld/American Association of School Administrators, 2014.
195p afp ISBN 9781475800098, $35.00;
ISBN 9781475800111 ebook, $34.99.
May’15, 52-4893
Kamenetz, Anya. The test: why our
schools are obsessed with standardized testing—but you don’t have to
be. PublicA˜ airs, 2015. 262p index
ISBN 9781610394413, $25.99. May’15,
52-4894
Mazama, Ama. African Americans and
homeschooling: motivations, opportunities and challenges, by Ama Mazama
and Garvey Musumunu. Routledge, 2015.
144p bibl index (Routledge research in
education, 125) ISBN 9781138807327,
$145.00. May’15, 52-4895
McGill, Michael V. Race to the bottom:
corporate school reform and the future of public education. Teachers
College Press, 2015. 181p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780807756379 pbk, $32.95.
Sep’15, 53-0360
ChoiCe
McNamee, Gillian
Dowley.
The
high-performing preschool:
story acting in Head Start classrooms. Chicago, 2015. 161p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226260815, $65.00;
ISBN 9780226260952 pbk, $22.50.
Nov’15, 53-1399
Mehta, Jal. Allure of order: high hopes,
dashed expectations, and the troubled quest to remake American
schooling. Oxford, 2015. 396p bibl
$24.95. Sep’15, 53-0361
Noddings, Nel. A richer, brighter vision for American high schools.
Cambridge, 2015. 207p bibl index
ISBN 9781107075269, $97.99; ISBN
9781107427914 pbk, $27.99. Oct’15,
53-0886
The Pursuit of racial and ethnic equality in American public schools, ed. by
Kristi L. Bowman. Michigan State, 2015.
452p index ISBN 9781611861808 pbk,
$29.99; ISBN 9781609174675 ebook,
contact publisher for price. Aug’15, 526517
Understanding and teaching U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
history, ed. by°Leila J. Rupp and Susan
K. Freeman. Wisconsin, 2014. 383p index afp ISBN 9780299302443, $29.95;
ISBN 9780299302436 ebook, $19.95.
May’15, 52-4900
History, Geography
& Area Studies
Blom, Philipp. Fracture: life and culture in the West, 1918–1938. Basic Books, 2015. 482p bibl index
ISBN 9780465022496, $32.00; ISBN
Carey, Elaine. Women drug traffickers:
mules, bosses, and organized crime.
New Mexico, 2014. 295p bibl index
ISBN 9780826351982 pbk, $29.95.
May’15, 52-4903
701
Chaliand, Gérard.
A global history
of war: from Assyria to the twenty-first century, trans. by Michèle
Mangin-Woods and David Woods.
California, 2014. 294p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780520283602, $65.00; ISBN
9780520283619 pbk, $29.95;
ISBN
9780520959439 ebook, $29.95. May’15,
52-4905
Cities that shaped the ancient world,
ed. by John Julius Norwich. Thames &
Hudson, 2014. 240p bibl index ISBN
9780500252048, $40.00. Aug’15, 526524
Cobb, Paul M. The race for paradise: an
Islamic history of the crusades. Oxford, 2014. 335p bibl index afp ISBN
9780199358113, $29.95. Sep’15, 530372
The Fin-de-siècle world, ed. by Michael
Saler. Routledge, 2015. 761p bibl index
ISBN 9780415674133, $250.00. Sep’15,
53-0374
Geographies of the Holocaust, ed.° by
Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano with° Erik B. Steiner.
Indiana, 2014. 246p index afp ISBN
9780253012111, $40.00. May’15, 524911
Kent, Neil. The Sámi peoples of the North:
a social and cultural history. Hurst &
Company, 2014. 331p bibl index ISBN
9781849042574, $32.50. Feb’15, 523239
Networks and trans-cultural exchange:
slave trading in the South Atlantic,
1590-1867, ed.° by David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva. Brill,
2014. 278p bibl index afp (Atlantic
world: Europe, Africa and the Americas,
1500-1830, 30) ISBN 9789004280571,
$142.00. Jul’15, 52-6023
The Oxford illustrated history of World
War II, ed. by Richard Overy. Oxford, 2015. 492p bibl index ISBN
9780199605828, $45.00. Nov’15, 531411
Pedersen, Susan. The guardians: the
League of Nations and the crisis of
702
empire. Oxford, 2015. 571p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199730032, $34.95.
Oct’15, 53-0899
Wallace, Geo˜ rey P. R. Life and death in
captivity: the abuse of prisoners during war. Cornell, 2015. 280p bibl index afp ISBN 9780801453434, $39.95.
Dec’15, 53-1878
Schwartz, Seth. The ancient Jews from
Alexander to Muhammad.
Cambridge, 2014.
190p
bibl
index
ISBN 9781107041271, $75.00;
ISBN
9781107669291 pbk, $29.99;
ISBN
9781139950435 ebook, $24.00. Jan’15,
52-2702
Xu, Guoqi. Chinese and Americans: a
shared history. Harvard, 2014. 332p
$39.95. Apr’15, 52-4355
Stevenson, Tom. Julius Caesar and the
transformation of the Roman Republic. Routledge, 2015. 212p bibl indexes
ISBN 9781138808225, $145.00; ISBN
9781138808218 pbk, $44.95. Aug’15,
52-6535
Africa
Asia & Oceania
Feinberg, Harvey M. Our land, our life,
our future: black South African challenges to territorial segregation,
1913–1948. Unisa Press, 2015. 258p
$28.00. Sep’15, 53-0382
Banno, Junji. Japan’s modern history,
1857-1937: a new political narrative,
tr.°by J. A .A. Stockwin. Routledge, 2014.
257p index ISBN 9781138775176,
$140.00. Jun’15, 52-5484
Mann, Gregory. From empires to NGOs
in the West African Sahel: the road
to nongovernmentality. Cambridge,
2014. 281p bibl index (African studies, 129) ISBN 9781107016545, $95.00;
ISBN 9781107602526 pbk, $34.99; ISBN
9781316190609 ebook, $28.00. Jul’15,
52-6030
Monroe, J. Cameron. The precolonial
state in West Africa: building power in
Dahomey. Cambridge, 2014. 265p bibl
index ISBN 9781107040182, $99.00.
Mar’15, 52-3808
Ancient History
The Geography of Strabo, tr. by°by Duane
W. Roller. Cambridge, 2014. 891p bibl
index ISBN 9781107038257, $190.00.
Jan’15, 52-2699
Anson, Edward M. Alexander’s heirs:
the age of the successors. WileyBlackwell, 2014. 224p bibl index ISBN
9781444339628, $99.95. Mar’15, 523809
Keegan, Peter. Graffiti in Antiquity. Routledge, 2014. 329p bibl index ISBN
9781844656073, $100.00. Jan’15, 522701
ChoiCe
Dhulipala, Venkat. Creating a new Medina: state power, Islam, and the quest
for Pakistan in late colonial north India. Cambridge, 2015. 530p bibl index
ISBN 9781107052123, $120.00. Jul’15,
52-6037
Drixler, Fabian. Samurai and the culture of
Japan’s great peace, by Fabian Drixler,
William D. Fleming, and Robert George
Wheeler. Peabody Museum of Natural
History/Yale, 2015. (Dist. by Yale) 124p
pbk, $27.50. Oct’15, 53-0912
Phuntsho, Karma. The history of Bhutan.
Haus Publishing, 2014. 663p bibl index
ISBN 9781908323583, $50.00. Mar’15,
52-3818
Schwieger, Peter. The Dalai Lama and the
Emperor of China: a political history
of the Tibetan institution of reincarnation. Columbia, 2015. 342p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231168526, $50.00;
ISBN 9780231538602 ebook, $49.99.
Sep’15, 53-0399
Viswanath, Rupa. The pariah problem:
caste, religion, and the social in modern India. Columbia, 2014. 396p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780231163064, $60.00;
ISBN 9780231537506, contact publisher
for price. Mar’15, 52-3821
January 2016
Walker, Brett L. A concise history of Japan. Cambridge, 2015. 336p bibl
index ISBN 9781107004184, $85.00;
ISBN 9780521178723 pbk, $29.99; ISBN
9781316235911 ebook, $24.00. Oct’15,
53-0915
Wang, Hui. China from empire to nation-state, tr. by Michael Gibbs Hill.
9780674046955, $29.95. Mar’15, 523822
Wang, Q. Edward. Chopsticks: a cultural
and culinary history. Cambridge, 2015.
$29.99; ISBN 9781316190715 ebook,
$24.00. Aug’15, 52-6546
Central & Eastern Europe
Barnes, Ian. Restless empire: a historical
atlas of Russia. Belknap, Harvard, 2015.
$35.00. Oct’15, 53-0917
Khlevniuk, Oleg V. Stalin: new biography of a dictator, tr. by Nora S. Favorov. Yale, 2015. 392p index afp ISBN
9780300163889, $35.00. Oct’15, 530919
Orthodox Christianity and nationalism
in nineteenth-century southeastern Europe, ed.°by Lucian N. Leustean.
Fordham, 2014. 276p bibl index ISBN
9780823256068, $55.00. Jan’15, 522711
Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan. The golden
age shtetl: a new history of Jewish life
in East Europe. Princeton, 2014. 431p
index afp ISBN 9780691160740, $29.95.
Jan’15, 52-2712
Rabinovitch, Simon. Jewish rights, national rites: nationalism and autonomy in late imperial and revolutionary Russia. Stanford, 2014. 374p index
afp ISBN 9780804792493, $65.00; ISBN
9780804793032 ebook, $65.00. May’15,
52-4934
Smilovitsky, Leonid. Jewish life in Belarus: the final decade of the Stalin
regime (1944-53). Central European
University, 2014. 327p bibl index ISBN
9789633860250, $60.00. May’15, 52-
January 2016
4936
Latin America & the Caribbean
Embattled bodies, embattled places:
war in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
and the Andes, ed. by Andrew K. Scherer and John W. Verano. Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection, 2014.
$65.00. May’15, 52-4940
Gibson, Carrie. Empire’s crossroads: a
history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day. Atlantic Monthly, 2014. 447p bibl index
ISBN 9780802126146, $28.00; ISBN
9780802192356 ebook, $28.00. Apr’15,
52-4369
Grove, David C. Discovering the Olmecs: an unconventional history.
Texas, 2014. 197p bibl index afp ISBN
9780292760813, $55.00. Apr’15, 52-4370
Howard, Philip A. Black labor, white
sugar: Caribbean braceros and their
struggle for power in the Cuban sugar
industry. Louisiana State, 2015. 303p
$47.50; ISBN 9780807159545 ebook,
$47.50. Nov’15, 53-1439
Island at war: Puerto Rico in the crucible of the Second World War, ed.°by
Jorge Rodríguez Beru˜ and Jose L.
Bolívar Fresneda. University Press of
Mississippi, 2015. 272p index afp ISBN
9781628461640, $65.00. Dec’15, 531900
Jaguaribe, Beatriz. Rio de Janeiro: urban
life through the eyes of the city. Routledge, 2014. 249p bibl index afp ISBN
9780415569316, $140.00. May’15, 524941
Middle East & North Africa
Abisaab, Rula Jurdi. The Shi’ites of Lebanon: modernism, communism,
and Hizbullah’s Islamists, by Rula
Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab.
Syracuse, 2014. 350p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780815633723, $49.95; ISBN
ChoiCe
9780815653011
ebook, contact
publisher
for
price.
Aug’15,
52-6554
Cohen, Michael J. Britain’s moment
in Palestine: retrospect and
perspectives, 1917-48. Routledge,
2014. 518p ISBN 9780415729857,
$145.00. Apr’15, 52-4379
Fawaz, Leila Tarazi. A land of aching
hearts: the Middle East in the Great
War. Harvard, 2014. 384p index ISBN
9780674735491, $35.00. Mar’15, 523836
Filiu, Jean-Pierre. Gaza: a history, tr. by
John King. Oxford, 2014. 422p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780190201890, $29.95.
May’15, 52-4945
Gribetz, Jonathan Marc. Defining neighbors: religion, race, and the early
Zionist-Arab encounter.
Princeton, 2014. 287p bibl index afp ISBN
9780691159508, $35.00. Feb’15, 523262
Murray, Williamson. The Iran-Iraq
War: a military and strategic history, by Williamson Murray and Kevin
Woods. Cambridge, 2014. 397 pages
ISBN 9781107673922, $85.00; ISBN
9781107673922 pbk, $29.99;
ISBN
9781139990912 ebook, $24.00. Jun’15,
52-5503
North America
Andrés, Benny J, Jr. Power and control
in the Imperial Valley: nature, agribusiness, and workers on the California borderland, 1900-1940. Texas
A&M, 2015. 229p bibl index afp ISBN
9781623491970, $43.00. May’15, 524951
Baptist, Edward E. The half has never been
told: slavery and the making of American capitalism. Basic Books, 2014.
498p index afp ISBN 9780465002962,
$35.00; ISBN 9780465044702 ebook,
contact publisher for price. Apr’15, 524387
Barnhisel, Greg. Cold War modernists:
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art, literature, and
American cultural
diplomacy. Columbia, 2015. 322p index afp ISBN 9780231162302, $40.00;
ISBN 9780231538626 ebook, $39.99.
Jul’15, 52-6055
Bartoloni-Tuazon, Kathleen. For fear of
an elective king: George Washington
and the presidential title controversy
of 1789. Cornell, 2014. 252p bibl index afp ISBN 9780801452987, $29.95.
Apr’15, 52-4389
Beebe, Rose Marie. Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the transformation of a missionary, by Rose Marie
Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Oklahoma, 2015. 504p bibl index afp (Before gold: California under Spain and
Mexico, 3) ISBN 9780806148687, $39.95.
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Dickon, Chris. Americans at war in
foreign forces: a history, 19141945. McFarland, 2014. 234p bibl
$39.95; ISBN 9781476615370 ebook,
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52-4400
Hudson, Travis. Treasures from Native
California: the legacy of Russian exploration, by Travis Hudson and Craig
D. Bates; ed. by Thomas Blackburn and
John R. Johnson. Left Coast, 2015. 231p
$80.00; ISBN 9781611327533 ebook,
$39.95. Aug’15, 52-6574
Discovering Texas history, ed.°by Bruce A.
Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and
Cary D. Wintz. Oklahoma, 2014. 343p
indexes afp ISBN 9780806146195 pbk,
$24.95. Mar’15, 52-3842
Downs, Gregory P. After Appomattox:
military occupation and the ends of
war. Harvard, 2015. 342p index afp
ISBN 9780674743984, $32.95. Sep’15,
53-0426
Brooks, Maegan Parker. A voice that could
stir an army: Fannie Lou Hamer and
the rhetoric of the black freedom
movement. University Press of Mississippi, 2014. 314p bibl index afp ISBN
9781628460049, $60.00. Jan’15, 522731
Ekberg, Carl J. St. Louis rising: the French
regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, by Carl J. Ekberg and Sharon K.
Person. Illinois, 2015. 326p index afp
ISBN 9780252038976, $95.00; ISBN
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Brown, Nicholas A. Re-collecting Black
Hawk: landscape, memory, and
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Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse.
Pittsburgh, 2015. 279p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780822944379, $39.95. Oct’15,
53-0931
Ellerbe, Jenny. Poverty Point: revealing
the forgotten city, by Jenny Ellerbe
and Diana M. Greenlee. Louisiana
State, 2015. 132p bibl index afp ISBN
9780807160213, $39.95. Sep’15, 530427
Burrough, Bryan. Days of rage: America’s
radical underground, the FBI, and the
forgotten age of revolutionary violence. Penguin Press, 2015. 585p bibl
index ISBN 9781594204296, $29.95.
Nov’15, 53-1445
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. Feminism unfinished: a short, surprising history of
American women’s movements, by
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and
Astrid Henry. Liveright, 2014. 265p bibl
index ISBN 9780871406767, $25.95.
Feb’15, 52-3273
Colonial genocide in Indigenous North
America, ed. by Andrew Woolford, Je˜
Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton. Duke, 2014. 344p bibl index afp
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Foley, Neil. Mexicans in the making of
America. Belknap, Harvard, 2014. 344p
index ISBN 9780674048485, $29.95.
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Foner, Eric. Gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the Underground Railroad. W. W. Norton, 2015. 301p index
ISBN 9780393244076, $26.95. Jul’15,
52-6061
Green, Michael S. Nevada: a history of
the Silver State. Nevada, 2015. 505p
$45.00; ISBN 9780874179736 pbk,
$26.95. Oct’15, 53-0942
Holzer, Harold. Lincoln and the power of
the press: the war for public opinion.
Simon & Schuster, 2014. 733p bibl in-
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Jordan, Brian Matthew. Marching home:
Union veterans and their unending
Civil War. Liveright, 2015. 374p bibl
index ISBN 9780871407818, $28.95.
Jun’15, 52-5521
King, Shannon. Whose Harlem is this,
anyway? : community politics and
grassroots activism during the New
Negro Era. New York University, 2015.
$49.00. Nov’15, 53-1453
La Florida: five hundred years of Hispanic presence, ed. by Viviana Díaz
Balsera and Rachel A. May. University
Press of Florida, 2014. 312p index afp
ISBN 9780813060118, $79.95. May’15,
52-4967
Landis, Michael Todd. Northern men with
Southern loyalties: the Democratic Party and the sectional crisis. Cornell, 2014.
$29.95. May’15, 52-4968
Malcolm X’s Michigan worldview: an exemplar for contemporary black studies, ed. by Rita Kiki Edozie and Curtis
Stokes. Michigan State, 2015. 324p bibl
index ISBN 9781611861624, $39.95.
Oct’15, 53-0955
McComb, David G. The city in Texas: a history. Texas, 2015. 342p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780292767461, $35.00. Jul’15, 526067
A Nation rising: Hawaiian movements
for life, land, and sovereignty, ed.
by Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua, Ikaika
Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika’ala
Wright. Duke, 2014. 399p bibl indexes
afp ISBN 9780822356837, $99.95; ISBN
9780822356950 pbk, $27.95. Mar’15,
52-3851
January 2016
Orleck, Annelise. Rethinking American
women’s activism. Routledge, 2015.
230p index
ISBN 9780415811729,
$130.00; ISBN 9780415811736 pbk,
$34.95. Nov’15, 53-1460
Phillips, George Harwood. Chiefs and
challengers: Indian resistance and
cooperation in southern California,
1769-1906. Oklahoma, 2014. 434p
pbk, $26.95. Feb’15, 52-3288
Smith, Richard Norton. On his own terms:
a life of Nelson Rockefeller. Random
House, 2014. 842p bibl index afp ISBN
9780375505805, $38.00. May’15, 52-4980
Snape, Michael. God and Uncle Sam: religion and America’s armed forces in
World War II. Boydell Press, 2015. 704p
$50.00. Nov’15, 53-1462
Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The ordeal of
the reunion: a new history of Reconstruction. North Carolina, 2014. 517p
$40.00. Mar’15, 52-3860
Texas women: their histories, their
lives, ed.° by Elizabeth Hayes Turner,
Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless.
Georgia, 2015. 526p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780820347449, $89.95; ISBN
9780820347202 pbk, $32.95. Jun’15,
52-5536
Tomchuk, Travis. Transnational radicals:
Italian anarchists in Canada and the
U.S., 1915–1940. University of Manitoba, 2015. 260p bibl index (Studies
in immigration and culture, 13) ISBN
9780887557736 pbk, $31.95. Sep’15,
53-0455
United Kingdom
Doran, Susan. Elizabeth I and her circle.
9780199574957, $39.95. Nov’15, 531474
Elizabeth I and Ireland, ed. by Brendan
Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle.
Cambridge, 2014. 341p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781107040878, $99.00. Jul’15, 526080
Fleet, Christopher. Edinburgh: mapping
the city, by Christopher Fleet and Daniel MacCannell. Birlinn, 2015. 303p bibl
index ISBN 9781780272450, $46.99.
Nov’15, 53-1476
Historians on Chaucer: the ‘General
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ed. by°Stephen H. Rigby with°Alastair J.
Minnis. Oxford, 2015. 503p index ISBN
9780199689545, $99.00. Aug’15, 526596
Penman, Michael. Robert the Bruce: King
of the Scots. Yale, 2014. 443p index afp
ISBN 9780300148725, $45.00. Jan’15,
52-2762
Sutherland, Gillian. In search of the new
woman: middle-class women and work
in Britain, 1870–1914. Cambridge, 2015.
$90.00. Aug’15, 52-6599
Webb, Mike. From Downing Street to the
trenches: first-hand accounts from
the Great War, 1914-1916. Bodleian
Library, 2014. 260p bibl index ISBN
9781851243938, $35.00. Feb’15, 523305
Dickson, David.
Dublin:
the
making of a
capital
city.
Belknap, Harvard, 2014. 718p bibl
index ISBN 9780674744448, $35.00.
May’15, 52-4992
Esdaile, Charles J. Women in the Peninsular War. Oklahoma, 2014. 322p bibl
index afp ISBN 9780806144788, $35.95.
Jan’15, 52-2765
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. The French
army and the First World War. Cambridge, 2014. 469p bibl index ISBN
9781107012356, $85.00; ISBN 9781107
605688 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781316055946
ebook, $24.00. Jun’15, 52-5555
Manz, Stefan. Constructing a German
diaspora: the “Greater German Empire,” 1871-1914. Routledge, 2014.
360p bibl index (Routledge studies in modern European history, 24)
ISBN 9780415892261, $140.00; ISBN
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The Oxford handbook of the French Revolution, ed.°by David Andress. Oxford,
2015. 683p index ISBN 9780199639748,
$165.00. Oct’15, 53-0987
Parker, Geo˜ rey. Imprudent king: a new
life of Philip II. Yale, 2014. 438p bibl
index ISBN 9780300196535, $40.00.
Apr’15, 52-4433
Tucher, Andie. Happily sometimes after:
discovering stories from twelve generations of an American family. Massachusetts, 2014. 302p index afp ISBN
9781625341280 pbk, $24.95. Jun’15,
52-5537
Western Europe
Rosbottom, Ronald C. When Paris went
dark: the City of Light under German occupation, 1940-1944. Little, Brown, 2014. 447p bibl index
ISBN 9780316217446, $28.00; ISBN
9780316217453 ebook, $14.99. Feb’15,
52-3309
Chalmers, Beverley. Birth, sex and abuse:
women’s voices under Nazi rule.
Grosvenor House, 2015. 364p bibl index ISBN 9781781483534 pbk, $25.50.
Nov’15, 53-1481
Spang, Rebecca L. Stuff and money in
the time of the French Revolution.
9780674047037, $39.95. Jun’15, 525558
The War worth fighting: Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and Civil War America, ed. by Stephen D. Engle. University
Press of Florida, 2015. 268p index afp
ISBN 9780813060644, $31.95. Oct’15,
53-0966
Dall’Aglio, Stefano. The duke’s assassin: exile and death of Lorenzino
de’ Medici, tr.° by Donald Weinstein.
Yale, 2015. 300p bibl index afp ISBN
9780300189780, $40.00. Dec’15, 531932
Stovall, Tyler. Transnational France: the
modern history of a universal nation. Westview, 2015. 494p bibl index
ISBN 9780813348117 pbk, $49.00; ISBN
9780813348124 ebook, $33.99. Jul’15,
52-6105
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Political Science
Goldstone, Jack A.
Revolutions: a very
short introduction. Oxford, 2014. 148p
pbk, $11.95. May’15, 52-4999
Comparative Politics
Boraine, Alex. What’s gone wrong?: South
Africa on the brink of failed statehood. New York University, 2014. 166p
$27.00. Jan’15, 52-2772
Brand, Laurie A. Official stories: politics
and national narratives in Egypt and
Algeria. Stanford, 2014. 274p bibl index afp ISBN 9780804789608, $90.00;
ISBN 9780804792165 pbk, $27.95; ISBN
9780804792325 ebook, $27.95. Jul’15,
52-6110
Bratton, Michael. Power politics in Zimbabwe. L. Rienner, 2014. 281p bibl index afp ISBN 9781626370760, $68.00.
Jan’15, 52-2773
Brooks, Andrew. Clothing poverty: the hidden world of fast fashion and secondhand clothes. Zed Books, 2015. 288p
index ISBN 9781783600687, $95.00;
ISBN 9781783600670 pbk, $21.95; ISBN
Dawisha, Karen. Putin’s kleptocracy: who
owns Russia? Simon & Schuster, 2014.
$30.00. Jun’15, 52-5562
Dumper, Michael. Jerusalem unbound:
geography, history, and the future
of the holy city. Columbia, 2014. 339p
$35.00. Mar’15, 52-3883
Gallego, Aina. Unequal political participation worldwide. CIS/Cambridge, 2015.
$95.00; ISBN 9781316190692 ebook,
$76.00. Aug’15, 52-6615
Gunning, Jeroen. Why occupy a square?:
people, protests and movements
in the Egyptian Revolution, by Jeroen Gunning and Ilan Zvi Baron. Ox-
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ford, 2014. 430p bibl index afp ISBN
9780199394982, $30.00. Jun’15, 525563
Hunter, Shireen T. Iran divided: the historical roots of Iranian debates on
identity, culture, and governance in
the twenty-first century. Rowman &
Littleÿ eld, 2014. 296p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781442233188, $80.00; ISBN
9781442233195 pbk, $38.00;
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9781442233201 ebook, $37.99. Aug’15,
52-6618
Johnston, Michael. Corruption, contention, and reform: the power of deep
democratization. Cambridge, 2014.
$90.00;
ISBN 9781107610064 pbk,
$32.99; ISBN 9781107723047 ebook,
$72.00. Feb’15, 52-3316
King, Elisabeth. From classrooms to conflict in Rwanda. Cambridge, 2013.
$90.00. Jan’15, 52-2779
Lynch, Daniel C. China’s futures: PRC
elites debate economics, politics, and
foreign policy. Stanford, 2015. 328p
$90.00; ISBN 9780804794190 pbk,
$27.95; ISBN 9780804794374 ebook,
contact publisher for price. Sep’15, 530482
Reflections on uneven democracies: the
legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell, ed. by
Daniel Brinks, Marcelo Leiras, and Scott
Mainwaring. Johns Hopkins, 2014. 422p
$69.95;
ISBN 9781421414607 pbk,
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Routledge handbook of European
politics, ed. by José M. Magone.
ISBN 9780415626750, $255.00; ISBN
9781315755830 ebook, contact publisher for price. Dec’15, 53-1951
Routledge handbook of Latin America
in the world, ed.°by Jorge I. Domínguez
and Ana Covarrubias.
Routledge,
9780415842389, $205.00. Jul’15, 526124
ChoiCe
Sniderman, Paul M. Paradoxes of liberal democracy: Islam, Western Europe, and the Danish cartoon crisis,
by Paul M. Sniderman et al. Princeton,
9780691161105, $35.00. Sep’15, 530487
Thomas, Edward. South Sudan: a slow
liberation. Zed Books, 2015. 321p bibl
index ISBN 9781783604043 pbk, $27.95.
Sep’15, 53-0489
Tonge, Jonathan. Comparative peace
processes. Polity, 2014. 228p bibl index ISBN 9780745642895, $69.95; ISBN
9780745642901 pbk, $26.95;
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9780745684154 ebook, $21.99. Jan’15,
52-2785
International Relations
Abbenhuis, Maartje M. An age of neutrals: great power politics, 1815-1914.
Cambridge, 2014. 289p bibl index ISBN
9781107037601, $95.00. Feb’15, 523327
Baum, Matthew A. War and democratic
constraint: how the public influences
foreign policy, by Matthew A. Baum and
Philip B. K. Potter. Princeton, 2015. 258p
$95.00;
ISBN 9780691165233 pbk,
$29.95. Nov’15, 53-1501
Carney, Megan A. The unending hunger:
tracing women and food insecurity
across borders. California, 2015. 253p
$65.00;
ISBN 9780520285477 pbk,
$29.95; ISBN 9780520959675 ebook,
$29.95. Jul’15, 52-6130
Cockburn, Patrick. The Jihadis return: ISIS
and the new Sunni uprising. OR Books,
2015. 144p ISBN 9781939293596 pbk,
$15.00; ISBN 9781939293602 ebook,
$10.00. Feb’15, 52-3332
Copeland, Dale C. Economic interdependence and war. Princeton, 2014. 489p
pbk, $32.95. May’15, 52-5023
Dionigi, Filippo. Hezbollah, Islamist politics, and international society. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 279p bibl in-
January 2016
dex afp ISBN 9781137403018, $105.00.
Sep’15, 53-0495
Field, Thomas C., Jr. From development to
dictatorship: Bolivia and the alliance
for progress in the Kennedy era. Cornell, 2014. 272p bibl index afp ISBN
9780801452604, $45.00. Feb’15, 523334
Henderson, Errol A. African realism? : international relations theory and Africa’s wars in the postcolonial era. Rowman & Littleÿ eld, 2015. 301p bibl index
afp ISBN 9781442239500, $85.00; ISBN
9781442239517 ebook, $84.99. Oct’15,
53-1005
Kaag, John. Drone warfare, by John Kaag
and Sarah Kreps. Polity, 2014. 195p index ISBN 9780745680989, $59.95; ISBN
9780745680996 pbk, $19.95. May’15,
52-5029
Klassen, Jerome. Joining empire: the political economy of the new Canadian
foreign policy. Toronto, 2014. 329p
bibl afp ISBN 9781442646742, $80.00;
ISBN 9781442614604 pbk, $32.95.
Jul’15, 52-6137
LeoGrande, William M. Back channel to
Cuba: the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana, by William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh. North Carolina, 2014. 524p
$35.00. Apr’15, 52-4461
Motomura, Hiroshi. Immigration outside
the law. Oxford, 2014. 338p index afp
ISBN 9780199768431, $29.95. Apr’15,
52-4462
Rosenblatt, Adam. Digging for the disappeared: forensic science after atrocity. Stanford, 2015. 278p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780804788779, $85.00; ISBN
9780804794916 pbk, $24.95. Oct’15,
53-1010
Sovacool, Benjamin K. Global energy
justice: problems, principles, and
practices, by Benjamin K. Sovacool
and Michael H. Dworkin. Cambridge,
2014. 391p index ISBN 9781107041950,
$95.00;
ISBN 9781107665088 pbk,
$36.99; ISBN 9781316056554 ebook,
$76.00. Jun’15, 52-5583
January 2016
Syria from reform to revolt: v.1: Political
economy and international relations,
ed. by Raymond Hinnebusch and°Tina
Zintl. Syracuse, 2015. 348p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780815633778, $49.95; ISBN
Tierney, Dominic. Right way to lose a war:
America in an age of unwinnable conflicts. Little, Brown, 2015. 384p bibl
index ISBN 9780316254885, $28.00.
Nov’15, 53-1514
Tronvoll, Kjetil. African garrison state: human rights and political development
in Eritrea, by Kjetl Tronvoll and Daniel R.
Mekonnen. James Currey, 2014. 212p
$80.00. Mar’15, 52-3906
Wright, Lawrence. Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at
Camp David. Knopf, 2014. 345p bibl
index ISBN 9780385352031, $27.95.
Feb’15, 52-3345
Political Theory
Anker, Elisabeth R. Orgies of feeling:
melodrama and the politics of freedom. Duke, 2014. 338p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780822356868, $94.95. Apr’15,
52-4470
Bargu, Banu. Starve and immolate: the
politics of human weapons. Columbia, 2014. 480p bibl index afp ISBN
9780231163408, $65.00. Aug’15, 526642
Gündoǧdu, Ayten. Rightlessness in an
age of rights: Hannah Arendt and
the contemporary struggles of migrants. Oxford, 2015. 298p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199370412, $99.00;
ISBN 9780199370429 pbk, $29.95.
Jul’15, 52-6148
Helo, Ari. Thomas Jefferson’s ethics
and the politics of human progress:
the morality of a slaveholder. Cambridge, 2014. 282p bibl index ISBN
9781107040786, $95.00. Mar’15, 523910
Keedus, Liisi. The crisis of German historicism: the early political thought
ChoiCe
of Hannah Arendt and Leo
Strauss. Cambridge,
2015.
222p bibl index (Ideas in context, 109)
ISBN 9781107093034, $99.99; ISBN
9781316237311 ebook, $80.00. Nov’15,
53-1517
Melzer, Arthur M. Philosophy between
the lines: the lost history of esoteric
writing. Chicago, 2014. 453p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226175096, $45.00;
publisher for price. Apr’15, 52-4473
Nelson, Eric. The royalist revolution:
monarchy and the American founding. Harvard, 2014. 390p bibl index afp ISBN 9780674735347, $29.95.
Jun’15, 52-5594
Roberts, Neil. Freedom as marronage.
Chicago, 2015. 254p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780226127460, $87.00; ISBN
9780226201047 pbk, $29.00;
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U.S. Politics
Abrajano, Marisa. White backlash: immigration, race, and American politics,
by Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan L. Hajnal.
Princeton, 2015. 241p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780691164434, $29.95. Nov’15,
53-1523
Alvandi, Roham. Nixon, Kissinger, and
the shah: the United States and Iran
in the Cold War. Oxford, 2014. 255p
$55.00. Feb’15, 52-3351
Balogh, Brian. The associational state:
American governance in the twentieth century. Pennsylvania, 2015. 281p
index afp ISBN 9780812247213, $49.95;
ISBN 9780812291377 ebook, $49.95.
Nov’15, 53-1524
Banks, Antoine J. Anger and racial politics: the emotional foundation of racial attitudes in America. Cambridge,
2014. 208p ISBN 9781107049833,
$90.00; ISBN 9781107629271 ebook,
$72.00. Jan’15, 52-2810
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Becker, Jo. Forcing
the spring: inside
the fight for marriage
equality.
Penguin Press, 2014. 470p index ISBN
9781594204449, $29.95. Feb’15, 52-3354
Byrne, Malcolm. Iran-Contra: Reagan’s
scandal and the unchecked abuse of
presidential power. University Press of
Kansas, 2014. 436p bibl index afp ISBN
9780700619917, $34.95. Mar’15, 52-3916
Edwards, Laura F. A legal history of the
Civil War and Reconstruction: a nation of rights. Cambridge, 2015. 212p
bibl index ISBN 9781107008793, $80.00;
ISBN 9781107401341 pbk, $29.99; ISBN
9781316235935 ebook, $24.00. Oct’15,
53-1029
Francis, Megan Ming. Civil rights and
the making of the modern American
state. Cambridge, 2014. 197p bibl
index ISBN 9781107037106, $80.00;
ISBN 9781107697973 pbk, $27.99.
Jan’15, 52-2814
Grossmann, Matthew. Artists of the
possible: governing networks and
American policy change since 1945.
Oxford, 2014. 249p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780199967834, $99.00; ISBN
9780199967841 pbk, $29.95. Feb’15,
52-3358
Hanson, Peter. Too weak to govern: majority party power and appropriations
in the U.S. Senate. Cambridge, 2014.
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ISBN 9781107635876 pbk,
$29.99; ISBN 9781316121511 ebook,
$24.00. Jun’15, 52-5608
Heaney, Michael T. Party in the street: the
antiwar movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11, by Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas. Cambridge, 2015.
$99.99;
ISBN 9781107448803 pbk,
$29.95; ISBN 9781316237106 ebook,
$24.00. Nov’15, 53-1532
Hirt, Sonia A. Zoned in the USA: the origins
and implications of American landuse regulation. Cornell, 2014. 245p
$75.00;
ISBN 9780801479878 pbk,
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Kitrosser, Heidi. Reclaiming accountability:
transparency,
executive
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Kumar, Martha Joynt. Before the oath:
how George W. Bush and Barack
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Johns Hopkins, 2015. 316p bibl index
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9781421416601 ebook, $39.95. Dec’15,
53-1986
Mutch, Robert E. Buying the vote: a history of campaign finance reform. Oxford, 2014. 363p bibl index afp ISBN
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Mutz, Diana C. In-your-face politics:
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Palley, Elizabeth. In our hands: the struggle for U.S. child care policy, by Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah. New
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Smith, Robert C. Polarization and the
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Sep’15, 53-0527
Teachout, Zephyr. Corruption in America:
from Benjamin Franklin’s snuff box to
Citizens United. Harvard, 2014. 376p
$29.95. Aug’15, 52-6663
Thorpe, Rebecca U. The American warfare
state: the domestic politics of military
spending. Chicago, 2014. 245p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226123912, $75.00;
ISBN 9780226124070 pbk, $25.00.
Feb’15, 52-3368
Zaferatos, Nicholas Christos. Planning
the American Indian reservation:
from theory to empowerment.
Syracuse, 2015. 345p bibl index afp
ChoiCe
ISBN 9780815633938, $39.95; ISBN
9780815653189 ebook, contact publisher for price. Dec’15, 53-1993
Psychology
Engel, Susan. The hungry mind: the origins of curiosity in childhood. Harvard, 2015. 220p bibl index afp ISBN
9780674736757, $35.00. Jul’15, 52-6167
Kenny, Dianna T. God, Freud and religion:
the origins of faith, fear and fundamentalism. Routledge, 2015. 223p bibl
index ISBN 9781138791329, $190.00;
ISBN 9781138791336 pbk, $49.95.
Oct’15, 53-1046
Pfa˜ , Donald W. The altruistic brain:
how we are naturally good, by Donald W. Pfa˜ with Sandra Sherman. Oxford, 2015. 295p bibl index afp ISBN
9780199377466, $24.95. Nov’15, 531550
The Psychological construction of emotion, ed. by Lisa Feldman Barrett and
James A. Russell. Guilford, 2015. 479p
$65.00; ISBN 9781462517015 ebook,
$65.00. Dec’15, 53-1998
Staub, Ervin. The roots of goodness and
resistance to evil: inclusive caring,
moral courage, altruism born of suffering, active bystandership, and
heroism. Oxford, 2015. 389p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780195382037, $59.95.
Sep’15, 53-0532
Stoknes, Per Espen. What we think about
when we try not to think about global
warming: toward a new psychology
of climate action. Chelsea Green, 2015.
290p bibl index ISBN 9781603585835
pbk, $24.95. Nov’15, 53-1553
Sociology
Aviram, Hadar. Cheap on crime: recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment.
California, 2015. 252p index afp
ISBN 9780520277304, $75.00; ISBN
9780520277311 pbk, $29.95;
ISBN
9780520960329 ebook, $29.95. Nov’15,
53-1555
January 2016
Bankston, Carl L, III. Immigrant networks
and social capital. Polity, 2014. 210p
bibl index ISBN 9780745662367, $64.95;
ISBN 9780745662374 pbk, $22.95; ISBN
9780745684598 ebook, $18.99. Jan’15,
52-2835
Cooper, Marianne. Cut adrift: families in
insecure times. California, 2014. 296p
$60.00;
ISBN 9780520277670 pbk,
$29.95; ISBN 9780520958456 ebook,
$29.95. May’15, 52-5061
Critical terms for the study of gender,
ed.°by Catharine R. Stimpson and Gilbert
Herdt. Chicago, 2014. 557p bibl index
afp ISBN 9780226774800, $97.50; ISBN
9780226774817 pbk, $32.50. Mar’15,
52-3939
Duncan, Cynthia M. Worlds apart: poverty and politics in rural America.
Yale, 2015. 304p index afp ISBN
9780300196597 pbk, $25.00. Jun’15,
52-5623
Fear of crime in the United States:
causes, consequences, and contradictions, by Jodi Lane et al. Carolina Academic, 2014. 272p bibl index afp ISBN
9781611630664 pbk, $35.00. Jul’15, 526177
Frey, William H. Diversity explosion: how
new radical demographics are remak-
January 2016
ing America. Brookings, 2015. 301p index afp ISBN 9780815723981, $29.95;
ISBN 9780815726494 pbk, $24.00.
May’15, 52-5062
Goodman, David S. G. Class in contemporary China. Polity, 2014. 233p bibl index ISBN 9780745653365, $64.95; ISBN
9780745653372 pbk, $24.95. Apr’15,
52-4501
Halle, David. New York’s new edge: contemporary art, the High Line, and
urban megaprojects on the far West
Side, by David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso.
Chicago, 2015. 461p bibl index afp
ISBN 9780226032405, $45.00. Jun’15,
52-5626
Horowitz, Emily. Protecting our kids? :
how sex offender laws are failing us.
Praeger, 2015. 181p bibl index afp
ISBN 9781440838620, $37.00; ISBN
9781440838637 ebook, contact publisher for price. Nov’15, 53-1562
Je˜ reys, Elaine. Sex in China, by Elaine Jeffreys with Haiqing Yu. Polity, 2015. 232p
$64.95;
ISBN 9780745656144 pbk,
$22.95. Dec’15, 53-2001
Jung, Moon-Kie. Beneath the surface
of white supremacy: denaturalizing
U.S. racisms past and present. Stanford, 2015. 247p bibl index afp ISBN
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9780804789387,
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9780804795197
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publisher for price. Oct’15, 53-1052
Kelly, William R. Criminal justice at the
crossroads: transforming crime and
punishment. Columbia, 2015. 405p
$105.00; ISBN 9780231171373 pbk,
$35.00; ISBN 9780231539227 ebook,
$34.99. Nov’15, 53-1564
McCune, Je˜ rey Q., Jr. Sexual discretion:
black masculinity and the politics of
passing. Chicago, 2014. 202p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226096360, $75.00;
ISBN 9780226096537 pbk, $25.00; ISBN
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The SAGE handbook of feminist theory,
ed. by Mary Evans et al. SAGE Publications, 2014. 650p bibl index ISBN
9781446252413, $150.00. Jan’15, 522845
Sternheimer, Karen. Pop culture panics:
how moral crusaders construct meanings of deviance and delinquency.
ISBN 9780415748056, $140.00; ISBN
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