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African Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
American Studies & Politics . . . . . . . . . . 3
Anthropology & Archaeology . . . . . . . . 7
Architecture & Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Special Section:
World of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Art & Art History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Asian & Pacific Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Classical Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Library of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Eastern Religion & Philosophy . . . . . . . 28
Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
European History & Politics . . . . . . . . . 30
Film & Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Food & Cooking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Jewish Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Latin American & Caribbean Studies . . 38
Law & Legal Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Linguistics & Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Literary Theory & Criticism . . . . . . . . . 40
Literature, Poetry & Drama . . . . . . . . . 42
Medieval & Renaissance Studies . . . . . 44
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies . . . . 45
Military History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Natural History & Environmental
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Political Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Political Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Psychology & Cognitive Science . . . . . . 61
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Science, Technology & Mathematics . . 66
Sociology & Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Urban Studies & Geography . . . . . . . . . 71
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Gauss, Ulrike, ed.
Presents Picasso’s complete lithographic oeuvre (855 items), mostly
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assembled over more than 3
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AFRICAN-AM ERICAN STU DI ES
125940 GOD'S LONG SUMMER:
Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
Marsh, Charles
In the summer of 1964, as the turmoil of
the civil rights movement reached its peak
in Mississippi, activists across the political
spectrum claimed that God was on their
side in the struggle. Through the emotionally charged stories of a wide range of
activists, Marsh invites us to consider the
movement anew, as a powerful yet protean religious force
driving social action. 312pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $15.98
028240 MALCOLM X SPEAKS:
Selected Speeches and Statements
Breitman, George, ed.
Presents the major speeches made by
Malcolm X during the last eight tumultuous
months of his life, showing how his vision
for abolishing racial inequality in the US
underwent a vast transformation after his
break from the Black Muslims. 226pgs. •
1990
◆ • Grove Press • P • $14.00 / $5.98
104332 THE NEW NEGRO:
Readings on Race, Representation,
and African American Culture,
1892-1938
Gates, Henry Louis & Gene Andrew
Jarrett, eds.
Collects more than 100 essays published
between 1892 and 1938 that examine
issues of race and representation in
African-American culture. These readings -- by writers including W.E.B. Du
Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale
Hurston, and Richard Wright -- discuss the trope of the New
Negro, and the milieu in which this figure existed, from
almost every conceivable angle. 608pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $15.98
113368 REMEMBERING JIM CROW: African Americans
Tell about Life in the Segregated South
Chafe, William H., et al.
The sequel to the award-winning Remembering Slavery, this
groundbreaking book-and-CD set of interviews about the segregation-era South provides an extraordinary opportunity to
read and hear the voices of black southerners who were firsthand witnesses to some of the most heartbreaking and troubling chapters in America's history. 384pgs. • 2008
▲ • New Press • P • $29.95 / $11.98
AFRICAN STU DI ES
049096 AFRICA AND AFRICANS IN
THE MAKING OF THE ATLANTIC
WORLD, 1400-1800
SECOND EDITION
Thornton, John
Focusing on the causes and consequences
of the slave trade in Africa, Europe, and the
New World, Thornton examines the
dynamics that made slaves so invaluable to
the European colonizers. 340pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.00 / $20.98
✪ 044867 AFRICAN
CIVILIZATIONS: An Archaeological
Perspective
SECOND EDITION
Connah, Graham
Re-examines the physical evidence for
developing social complexity in tropical
Africa over the last 4,000 years, focusing on archaeological research into two
key factors -- urbanism and state formation -- in seven main areas of Africa. 356pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • P • $48.00 / $23.98
✪ 111365 A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Everyday
Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
Smith, Daniel Jordan
E-mails proposing an "urgent business relationship" help
make fraud Nigeria's largest source of foreign revenue after
oil, but scams are also a central part of Nigeria's domestic cultural landscape. Smith's probing but sympathetic account illuminates the dilemmas average Nigerians face every day as they
try to get ahead -- or just survive -- in a society riddled with
corruption. 263pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $17.98
098986 A HISTORY OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Collins, Robert O. & James M. Burns
An accessible introduction for both students and general readers. The authors demonstrate how the environment has
shaped the societies and cultures of the region, describe the
rise of states and empires in the classical period, and examine
the slave trade and the European conquest. The concluding
section focuses on contemporary African nations as they gain
independence and search for a new post-colonial identity.
418pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $16.98
153292 PORTRAIT WITH KEYS: The City of
Johannesburg Unlocked
Vladislavic, Ivan
In this dazzling portrait of Johannesburg, Vladislavic observes
the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled
city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. He charts the small, devastating changes along the post-apartheid streets, as walls grow
higher, neighborhoods are gated off, and security becomes the
growth industry. 208pgs. • 2009
◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $14.95 / $4.98
✪ 159591 ZULU: Queen Victoria's Most Famous Little
War
Bartlett, W. B.
The Zulu War is a story rich in the extremes of human experience: gallantry, cowardice, savagery, hubris, and sheer, stark
terror amongst others. This volume examines the conflict
through the eyes of Britain's commander in the field, Lord
Chelmsford, who thought that the outcome would be a foregone conclusion but then found himself faced with one of the
most shocking disasters in British military history. 256pgs. •
2011
◆ • History Press • C • $36.95 / $12.98
AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS
151871 AGE OF GREED: The Triumph of Finance and
the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Madrick, Jeff
A vividly told history of how, over the course of 40 years, greed
has come to dominate American political and economic life.
As Madrick makes clear, the single-minded pursuit of concentrated wealth has been led driven by a few individuals who
have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively
than community concerns. 480pgs. • 2011
◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $7.98
157469 AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR: A Spirited
History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog
Shops
Sismondo, Christine
The rich and fascinating history of an often reviled, yet central
institution in American life. Showing how even the Puritans
valued "a good Beere," Sismondo carries the story through the
20th century and beyond, from the Whiskey Rebellion to the
temperance movement, Prohibition, and repeal, and down to
the present day. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $7.98
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090848 GAY L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws,
Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
Faderman, Lillian & Stuart Timmons
Faderman and Timmons chart the city's gay history, from
missionary encounters with cross-gendered Native
Americans to transvestite frontier women in search of fortune; from the bohemia of early Hollywood to the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and the rise of gay marketing
in the 1990s. 464pgs. • 2006
▲ • Basic Books • C • $27.50 / $7.98
157883 A QUEER HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES
Bronski, Michael
Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and cultural histories, a noted
scholar and activist charts the breadth
of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history from 1492 to the 1990s,
revealing how the LGBT experience has
profoundly shaped our country, culture, and history. 312pgs. • 2011
◆ • Beacon • C • $27.95 / $8.98
148580 AMERICAN COLOSSUS: The Triumph of
Capitalism, 1865-1900
Brands, H. W.
In a grand-scale narrative history, Brand captures the decades
when capitalism was at its most unbridled, and when a handful of wealthy businessmen led the transformation of America
from an agrarian economy to a world power. The result is an
unforgettable portrait of the epochal contest between democracy and capitalism, one in which the latter ultimately triumphed. 624pgs. • 2010
◆ • Doubleday • C • $35.00 / $8.98
050556 AMERICAN CRUCIBLE
(GERSTLE): Race and Nation in the
Twentieth Century
Gerstle, Gary
Is the United States a social melting pot, as
our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are
white and of the "right" ancestry? In this
sweeping look at 20th-century America,
Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and
racial nationalism, arguing that both have profoundly shaped
our society. 454pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
✪160194 AMERICAN GEORGICS: Writings on
Farming, Culture, and the Land
Hagenstein, Edwin C., et al., eds.
In this rich collection of agrarian writing from the past two
centuries, writers from Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur to
Wendell Berry reveal not only the great reach and durability of the American agrarian ideal, but also the ways in
which society has contested and confronted its relationship
to agriculture over the course of generations. 432pgs. •
2011
◆ • Yale • C • $37.00 / $12.98
087672 AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN
PANDEMIC: The Influenza of 1918
Crosby, Alfred W.
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and
1919 claimed 25 million lives worldwide,
yet it is all but forgotten. Crosby recounts
the course of those panic-stricken
months, measures its impact on American
society, and probes the curious loss of
national memory. This edition includes a
new preface discussing recent outbreaks of diseases such as
the Asian flu and SARS. 352pgs. • 2003
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $18.98
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140721 ANOTHER CITY: Urban Life
and Urban Spaces in the New American
Republic
Upton, Dell
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries,
growing populations placed new demands
on every aspect of the urban landscape -streets, parks, schools, asylums, cemeteries, markets, waterfronts, and more. In this
exploration of the early history of urban
architecture and design, an architectural historian reveals the
fascinating confluence of sociological, cultural, and psychological factors that shaped American cities in the antebellum
years. 416pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $14.98
✪ 160067 THE ANTI-COMMUNIST MANIFESTOS:
Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
Fleming, John V.
An examination of the background and influence of four
books that helped shape the course of the Cold War:
Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian
journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night
(1941), by Jan Valtin, a German sailor and labor agitator; I
Chose Freedom (1946), by Victor Kravchenko, a Soviet
engineer; and Witness (1952), by Whittaker Chambers, an
American journalist. 368pgs. • 2009
◆ • W. W. Norton • P • IMPORT / $5.98
158158 THE AWFUL GRACE OF GOD:
Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy,
and the Unsolved Murder of Martin
Luther King Jr.
Wexler, Stuart & Larry Hancock
Chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin
Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation's
most violent right-wing extremists, including figures like Sam Bowers, head of the
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of
Mississippi, responsible for more than 300 separate acts of
violence in that state; J.B. Stoner; and the Rev. Wesley Swift, a
religious demagogue who inspired two generations of violent
extremists. 400pgs. • 2012
◆ • Counterpoint • C • $28.00 / $7.98
✪ 160047 THE BLOOD OF HEROES: The 13-Day
Struggle for the Alamo - And the Sacrifice That Forged a
Nation
Donovan, James
On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army laid siege to
some 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. Populated by
larger-than-life characters, including Davy Crockett, James
Bowie, and William Barret Travis, this exhaustively researched
volume will stand as the definitive account of the epic battle
that ensued. 512pgs. • 2012
◆ • Little, Brown • C • $29.99 / $9.98
NATIVE AMERICA
027679 THE EARTH SHALL WEEP: A History of Native
America
Wilson, James
Wide-ranging narrative of the Native American struggle for
survival against the tide of invading peoples and cultures,
spanning more than 500 years, incorporating insights from
ethnography, Indian oral tradition, and archaeology.
466pgs. • 1998
▲ • Grove Press • P • $17.00 / $6.98
✪ 160205 GERONIMO
Utley, Robert M.
Renowned for ferocity in battle and an
uncanny ability to elude capture, the
Apache fighter Geronimo captured the
public imagination in his own time and
remains a figure of mythic proportions
today. This thoroughly researched biography strips away the myths and rumors
to present an authentic portrait of a
man whose destiny swept him into the fierce storms of history. 376pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $8.98
✪ 132187 BOURGEOIS
NIGHTMARES: Suburbia, 18701930
Fogelson, Robert M.
The quintessential American suburbs,
with their gracious single-family homes,
large green lawns, and leaf-shaded
streets, reflected not only their residents' hopes and dreams but their fears
as well: fear of others, of racial minorities and low-income groups, fear of themselves, fear of the
market, fear of change. Fogelson's fascinating book
explores these fears and the restrictive covenants in which
they were embodied. 272pgs. • 2007
◆ • Yale • P • $22.00 / $7.98
101110 THE CHINATOWN TRUNK MYSTERY: Murder,
Miscegenation and Other Dangerous Encounters in
Turn-of-the-Century New York City
Lui, Mary Ting Yi
In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of 19-year-old
Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the
nation at large. Through the lens of this unsolved murder,
Mary Ting Yi Lui offers a fascinating snapshot of social and
sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. 320pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $17.98
157873 A CITY SO GRAND: The Rise of an American
Metropolis, Boston, 1850-1900
Puleo, Stephen
Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis, achieving national and international prominence
in politics, medicine, education, science, social activism, literature, commerce, and transportation. Stephen Puleo here provides an extraordinary portrait of a half century of progress,
leadership, and influence that turned a New England town into
a world-class city. 320pgs. • 2010
◆ • Beacon • C • $26.95 / $9.98
111317 COLD WAR TRIUMPHALISM: The Misuse of
History after the Fall of Communism
Schrecker, Ellen, ed.
Captures a generation of critical scholarship on America's rise
to global dominance after World War II. At a time when history is increasingly invoked to vindicate the war on terrorism,
neoliberal globalization, and American military ventures, this
book provides a powerful challenge to right-wing mythologizing. 329pgs. • 2006
◆ • New Press • P • $18.95 / $7.98
127620 COLONIZING HAWAI'I: The
Cultural Power of Law
Merry, Sally Engle
Reveals how indigenous Hawaiian law was
displaced by a transplanted AngloAmerican law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept
across the islands. The new law brought
novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically
changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct
of the indigenous people of Hawai'i. 364pgs. • 1999
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $22.98
133717 CONCISE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY
Kazin, Michael, et al.
This essential reference provides authoritative introductions to
some of the most important topics in American history and
politics. It provides comprehensive coverage of both the traditional topics of US political history and the broader forces that
shape American politics, including economics, religion, social
movements, race, class, and gender. 672pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $20.98
✪ 156086 THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Appleman Williams, William
This volume, first published in 1961, reached back to 17thcentury British history to argue that the relationship between
liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with
expansion abroad containing class and race tensions at home.
This 50th-anniversary edition, which includes a new introduction by Greg Grandin, re-introduces this magisterial work to a
new readership. 513pgs. • 2011
◆ • Verso • P • $29.95 / $9.98
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AND THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION
Lynd, Staughton
First published in 1967, this volume was
among the first studies to identify the
importance of slavery to the founding of
the American Republic. This new edition includes a new essay by Robin
Einhorn that examines Lynd's arguments in the context of subsequent scholarship. 310pgs. •
2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $12.98
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122635 INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN
RADICALISM
Lynd, Staughton
As far back as the English Revolution, many openly questioned private property, the sovereignty of the nation-state,
and slavery, and affirmed the common man's ability to govern. This volume, the first book to explore this alternative
current of American political thought, is here accompanied
by a historiographical essay by David Waldstreicher that discusses its lasting importance and contrasts its ideas with the
work of Bernard Bailyn and Gordon Wood. 222pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $9.98
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157876 ENEMIES: A History of the
FBI
Weiner, Tim
In the first definitive history of the FBI's
secret intelligence operations, Weiner
reveals how the bureau's secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have
created a tug-of-war between protecting
national security and infringing upon civil
liberties, in the process straining the very
fabric of a free republic. 560pgs. • 2012
◆ • Random House • C • $30.00 / $7.98
✪ 160032 THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION: How 1965
Transformed America
Patterson, James T.
As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of a tumultuous
era of social and cultural transformation, in which many
black leaders began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest, and the US rushed into a deadly
and divisive war in Vietnam. Here he traces the events of
this transformative year, showing how they dramatically
reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life.
344pgs. • 2012
◆ • Basic Books • C • $28.99 / $7.98
✪ 160027 FIRST FOUNDERS:
American Puritans and Puritanism in
an Atlantic World
Bremer, Francis J.
In this eminently readable collection of
biographies, Bremer brings to life a surprisingly varied and dynamic group of
characters who continue to guide and
influence America today. With its cast of
magistrates, women, clergy, merchants,
and Native Americans, this volume underscores the breadth of
early American experience and the profound transatlantic
roots of the country's forebears. 296pgs. • 2012
◆ • Brandeis • C • $27.95 / $8.98
141845 FOUNDING BROTHERS: The
Revolutionary Generation
Ellis, Joseph J.
In this landmark work of history, the
National Book Award-winning author of
American Sphinx explores how a group of
greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals
-- Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin,
Washington, Adams, and Madison -- confronted the overwhelming challenges
before them to set the course for our nation. 304pgs. • 2002
◆ • Random House • C • IMPORT / $7.98
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157226 FRIES'S REBELLION: The
Enduring Struggle for the American
Revolution
Newman, Paul Douglas
Following the Shays and Whiskey rebellions, Fries's Rebellion was the last in a
trilogy of popular uprisings against federal authority in the early republic. The
first book-length treatment of this significant 18th-century uprising shows
how the participants of the rebellion reengaged
Revolutionary ideals in an enduring struggle to further
democratize their country. 272pgs. • 2004
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $49.95 / $16.98
✪ 160025 GEORGE F. KENNAN: An American Life
Gaddis, John Lewis
Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and
exclusive access to his archives, Gaddis delivers a revelatory
biography of its troubled mastermind. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategic
thinkers came to doubt his own strategy. 800pgs. • 2011
◆ • Penguin • C • $39.95 / $9.98
143460 THE IDEA OF AMERICA:
Reflections on the Birth of the United
States
Wood, Gordon S.
In a series of elegant and illuminating
essays, a renowned historian explores the
ideological origins of the revolution and
the founders' attempts to forge an
American democracy. As Wood reveals,
while the founders hoped to create a virtuous republic of yeoman farmers and disinterested leaders,
they instead gave birth to a sprawling, licentious, and materialistic popular democracy. 400pgs. • 2011
▲ • Penguin • C • $29.95 / $6.98
✪ 105210 IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS: Illegal Aliens and
the Making of Modern America
Ngai, Mae M.
Traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and
society, explaining why and how illegal migration became
the central problem in US immigration policy -- a process
that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the 20th century. 400pgs.
• 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $19.98
✪ 160028 JOHN F. KENNEDY: The
35th President, 1961-1963
Brinkley, Alan
As Alan Brinkley shows, the reality of
Kennedy's achievements was much more
complex than the legend. His brief presidency encountered significant failures,
including the Bay of Pigs fiasco, which cast
its shadow on nearly every national security decision that followed. But Kennedy also
had successes, among them the Cuban Missile Crisis and his
belated but powerful stand against segregation. 224pgs. •
2012
◆ • Henry Holt • C • $23.00 / $5.98
106747 MAKING A NEW DEAL:
Industrial Workers in Chicago, 19191939
NEW EDITION
Cohen, Lizabeth
Examines the process through which ordinary Chicago factory workers became
effective unionists and participants in
national politics. Cohen demonstrates that
although these workers may not have been
"political" in traditional terms, they demonstrated their political loyalties in other ways, overcoming longstanding divisions
in order to mount new kinds of collective action. 494pgs. •
2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $18.98
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156076 THE AMERICAN CRUCIBLE (BLACKBURN):
Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Blackburn, Robin
A vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery
in the Americas. "The best treatment of slavery in the western hemisphere I know of. I think it should establish itself
as a permanent pillar of the literature." -- Eric Hobsbawm
512pgs. • 2011
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✪ 160021 AMERICAN UPRISING:
The Untold Story of America's
Largest Slave Revolt
Rasmussen, Daniel
The long-forgotten history of America's
largest slave uprising, the New Orleans
slave revolt of 1811. In an epic, illuminating narrative, Daniel Rasmussen
offers new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the
earliest grassroots efforts to overcome slavery. 288pgs. •
2011
◆ • HarperCollins • C • $26.99 / $7.98
122263 SLAVERY AND THE COMMERCE POWER: How
the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to
the Civil War
Lightner, David L.
The great cotton boom required human labor to bring new
lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were
torn from their families and sold across state lines. Shocked
by the cruelty of this practice, abolitionists called upon the
federal government to outlaw interstate commerce in slaves.
This groundbreaking book unravels the complex story of the
decades-long debate and legal battle over federal regulation
of the slave trade. 240pgs. • 2006
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $9.98
✪ 160035 THE MEASURE OF
MANHATTAN: The Tumultuous
Career and Surprising Legacy of
John Randel Jr., Cartographer,
Surveyor, Inventor
Holloway, Marguerite
Renowned for his inventiveness as well
as for his bombast and irascibility, John
Randel Jr. was a central figure in
Manhattan's development, but he died
in financial ruin. Telling Randel's engrossing and dramatic
life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and
mapmaking. 384pgs. • 2013
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $7.98
✪ 058000 THE METHODISTS AND REVOLUTIONARY
AMERICA, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical
Culture
Andrews, Dee E.
Placing Methodism's rise in the ideological context of the
American Revolution and the complex social setting of the
greater Middle Atlantic, Dee Andrews argues that this new religion provided an alternative to the exclusionary politics of
Revolutionary America. With its call to missionary preaching,
its enthusiastic revivals, and its prolific religious societies,
Methodism competed with republicanism for a place at the
center of American culture. 365pgs. • 2002
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $21.98
061057 A MIDWIFE'S TALE: The Life
of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary,
1785-1812
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and
healer in 18th-century Maine, this intimate
history illuminates the medical practices,
household economies, religious rivalries,
and sexual mores of the New England frontier. 444pgs. • 1991
◆ • Vintage • P • $16.95 / $7.98
✪ 136943 PROPHESIES OF GODLESSNESS:
Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization
from the Puritans to the Present Day
Mathewes, Charles T. & Christopher McKnight Nichols
Extending from the role of prophesies in Thomas
Jefferson's thought, to the Civil War, through progressivism,
the Scopes Trial, the Cold War and beyond, this volume
demonstrates that expectations about America's future
character and piety are not an accidental feature of
American thought, but have been absolutely essential to the
meaning of the nation itself. 256pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $27.95 / $7.98
087719 QUEST FOR IDENTITY:
America Since 1945
Woods, Randall Bennett
This analytic survey of the American experience from the close of World War II to
the present will help students understand
postwar American history. By means of a
seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses, Woods addresses and
explains the major themes that predominated in each specific period. 608pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $46.99 / $26.98
051197 STANDING SOLDIERS, KNEELING SLAVES: Race,
War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
Savage, Kirk
At the same time that the Civil War challenged the nation to
reexamine the meaning of freedom, Americans began to erect
public monuments as never before. Looking at monuments
built and unbuilt, Savage shows how an old image of black
slavery was perpetuated while a new image of the common
white soldier was launched in public space. 270pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $23.98
✪ 160029 SUBVERSIVES: The FBI's War on Student
Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Rosenfeld, Seth
Traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte
politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical
Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr.
Rosenfeld reveals how the FBI's covert operations helped
ignite an era of protest, undermine the Democrats, and
benefit Reagan personally and politically. 752pgs. • 2012
◆ • Farrar, Straus & Giroux • C • $40.00 / $8.98
✪ 104044 THOMAS JEFFERSON
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS SERIES
Appleby, Joyce
The American Presidents Series, edited by
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Sean
Wilentz, strives to present the grand
panorama of our chief executives in volumes compact enough for the busy reader,
lucid enough for the student and authoritative enough for the scholar. 208pgs. •
2003
◆ • Henry Holt • C • $25.00 / $5.98
157184 VISIONS OF PROGRESS: The
Left-Liberal Tradition in America
Rossinow, Doug
Examines how the cooperation and the
creative tension between left-wing radicals
and liberal reformers advanced many of
the most important political values of the
20th century, including free speech, freedom of conscience, and racial equality.
Rossinow takes the story up to the present,
showing how the progressive connection was lost and explaining the consequences that followed. 336pgs. • 2009
◆ • Pennsylvania • P • $24.95 / $11.98
140620 THE WAR OF 1812: Conflict for a Continent
Stagg, J. C. A.
The events of 1812-1815 were shaped by the larger crisis of
the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the conflict, Professor Stagg focuses on
the war as a continental event, and highlights its centrality to
Canadian nationalism and state development. 240pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $12.98
✪ 126282 THE WILD WEST ON
FIVE BITS A DAY
Tapper, Joan
This rollicking guide to traveling, eating, drinking, and surviving in the Old
West draws on contemporary newspapers, memoirs, diaries, dime novels,
and guidebooks as it invites you to
board a stagecoach, meet Wyatt Earp,
and raise the roof in a cow-town
saloon. 160pgs. • 2010
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $7.98
ANTH ROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
114151 ANCIENT PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAN
SOUTHWEST
SECOND EDITION
Plog, Stephen
Interweaving the latest archaeological evidence with early firstperson accounts, Stephen Plog explores the rise and mysterious fall of Southwestern cultures. For this revised edition, he
discusses new research and its implications for our understanding of the prehistoric Southwest. Includes 150 illustrations. 224pgs. • 2008
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 160026 BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON: How the
Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Fagan, Brian
What drove humans to risk their lives on open water? How
did early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the
stars they steered by? From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to
triremes in the Aegean, from Norse longboats to sealskin
kayaks in Alaska, Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of
humanity's urge to challenge the unknown and seek out
distant shores. 336pgs. • 2012
◆ • Bloomsbury • C • $28.00 / $7.98
✪ 033038 CHRONICLE OF THE GUAYAKI INDIANS
Clastres, Pierre
This narrative of the year Clastres spent with a small
Paraguayan Indian tribe is a precise and detailed record of the
history, ritual, myths, and culture of a unique, and now vanished, people. Translated by Paul Auster. 349pgs. • 1998
◆ • Zone Books • C • $36.95 / $7.98
152028 DIGGING IN THE CITY
OF BROTHERLY LOVE: Stories
from Philadelphia Archaeology
Yamin, Rebecca
Beneath the modern city of
Philadelphia lie countless clues to
its history and the lives of residents
long forgotten. This intriguing book
explores 18th- and 19th-century
Philadelphia through the findings of
archaeological excavations, sharing with readers the excitement of digging into the past and reconstructing the lives of
earlier inhabitants of the city. 264pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $37.50 / $7.98
088725 A HISTORY OF
ARCHAEOLOGICAL THOUGHT
SECOND EDITION
Trigger, Bruce G.
The original edition of this volume was the
first book ever to examine the history of
archaeological thought from medieval
times to the present in world-wide perspective. In this new edition, Trigger both
updates the original work and introduces
new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout within a broad social
and intellectual framework. 720pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $23.98
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126303 BEFORE SCOTLAND: The Story of Scotland
Before History
Moffat, Alistair
This story of early Scotland follows the movement of huntergatherers north, the growth of fishing, and the establishment
of farming. The author also covers cultural evolution in
Scotland, and the roles played by megalith builders, Celts,
Picts, and others. 352pgs. • 2009
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $22.95 / $10.98
✪ 028671 THE CELTS
NEW EDITION
Powell, T. G. E.
Using evidence from history, archaeology, and linguistics, this volume captures
the rich variety of Celtic life, art, and
religion found across the whole of barbarian Europe, from the Balkans to
France, Spain, Ireland, and Great
Britain. Includes 149 illustrations.
232pgs. • 1997
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121308 THE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE CELTIC
WORLD
Haywood, John
Through fifty-four color maps, covering almost 3,000 years
and spanning the whole of Europe, this atlas charts the dramatic history of the Celts from Bronze Age origins to present-day diaspora. Each map is accompanied by explanatory
text and supporting illustrations. 144pgs. • 2009
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $10.98
080785 THE WORLD OF THE CELTS
James, Simon
This illustrated introduction to the world of the Celts charts
their way of life from farming to feasting, their wars, their
gods, and their superb craftsmanship in metal, wood, and
stone. It covers the neglected subject of Celtic life under
Roman rule -- particularly in Gaul and Britain -- and the
Celtic renaissance in Ireland after AD 400. More than 300
illustrations, 59 in color. 192pgs. • 2005
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $9.98
✪ 160209 IN AND OUT OF THE WEST: Reconstructing
Anthropology
Godelier, Maurice
In this volume, Godelier places social anthropology in its historical context, with its origins in the West and more particularly in colonialism. He also argues that it has, nevertheless, to
some extent transcended its origins, achieving a measure of
scientific objectivity and validity that cannot be reduced to the
self-interested concerns of imperial ideology. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • C • IMPORT / $9.98
142186 THE INCAS
Morris, Craig & Adriana von Hagen
The most up-to-date and authoritative
account available of the Incas, covering
their political system, economy, religion, architecture, art, and technology.
The authors explore not just famous
sites such as Machu Picchu but all the
major regional settlements. Includes 49
full-color and 140 black-and-white
illustrations. 256pgs. • 2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $11.98
039492 THE INCAS AND THEIR ANCESTORS: The
Archaeology of Peru
REVISED EDITION
Moseley, Michael E.
Recent excavations have expanded our understanding of
coastal Moche and Nazca societies as well as the ancient
highland states of Huari and Tiwanaku. Including 225
black-and-white illustrations, this volume is the best general introduction to the cultures and civilizations of ancient
Peru. 288pgs. • 2001
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✪ 034528 THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODDESS
Gimbutas, Marija
Illustrated with nearly 2000 symbolic artifacts -- sculptures,
figurines, temple models, frescoes, vases, sacrificial containers -- this magnum opus is at once a "pictorial script" of the
prehistoric Goddess religion and an authoritative work that
takes these ancient cultures from the realm of speculation into
that of documented fact. 388pgs. • 2001
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $27.50 / $14.98
126033 LIFE AMONG THE ANTHROS AND OTHER
ESSAYS
EDITED BY FRED INGLIS
Geertz, Clifford
Clifford Geertz was perhaps the most influential anthropologist
of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to
encompass many facets of contemporary life. In this collection
of pieces from the New York Review of Books, he writes eloquently and arrestingly about such figures as Gandhi,
Foucault, and Genet, and on topics as varied as Islam, globalization, feminism, and the failings of nationalism. 304pgs. •
2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $46.95 / $16.98
✪ 080817 THE MOUNDBUILDERS: Ancient Peoples
of Eastern North America
Milner, George R.
From 3000 BC to the 16th century AD, North American
Indians quarried tons of earth to form thousands of monuments, which vary widely in location, size, and purpose.
This comprehensive survey, incorporating the great strides
that have been made in recent research, describes and
details many of the most impressive mounds, including
Poverty Point, Cahokia, and Moundville. 224pgs. • 2005
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $10.98
MEXICO
087369 ANCIENT MAYA: The Rise and Fall of a
Rainforest Civilization
Demarest, Arthur
Demarest brings the lost civilization of Maya to life by applying a holistic view to the most recently discovered archaeological evidence. His theoretical interpretation simultaneously emphasizes the brilliant rain forest adaptations of the
ancient Maya and the Native American spirituality that permeated all aspects of their daily life. 390pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $21.98
✪ 121084 THE AZTECS
THIRD EDITION
Townsend, Richard
An illustrated portrait of the most famous Mesoamerican
empire, covering such subjects as trade, farming, social
organization, and women's roles, together with information
from recent archaeological excavations and ethnohistoric
studies. 256pgs. • 2009
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $11.98
✪ 129796 THE MAYA
Coe, Michael D.
This eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological
and epigraphic research. Among the finest new discoveries
are the spectacular polychrome murals of Calakmul, which
provide archaeological evidence for the importance of marketplaces in the Classic Maya cities as well as giving a unique
glimpse into Maya daily life. 280pgs. • 2011
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 160167 MEXICO: From the
Olmecs to the Aztecs
SEVENTH EDITION
Coe, Michael D. & Rex Koontz
Long recognized as the most readable
and authoritative introduction to the
region's ancient civilizations, this volume has now been revised to include
new information on the origins of maize
farming, on recent investigations at
Teotihuacan, and on the spectacular new discoveries that
shed light on Mexico's earliest civilization, the Olmec culture. 256pgs. • 2013
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $13.98
125651 PRIMATES AND
PHILOSOPHERS: How Morality
Evolved
De Waal, Frans
In this provocative book, a primatologist
argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural
world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
Science has thus exacerbated our reciprocal habits of blaming nature when we act
badly and labeling the good things we do as "humane."
232pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $8.98
✪ 087168 READING THE PAST: Current Approaches to
Interpretation in Archaeology
Hodder, Ian & Scott Hutson
Fully updated to address new theoretical debate, the authors
argue that archaeologists must utilize a variety of perspectives
to construct meaning from the past. Not down-playing the
importance of hermeneutics, agency and history, the authors
explore developments in post-structuralism, neo-evolutionary
theory, and new theories such as phenomenology. 312pgs. •
2003
◆ • Cambridge • P • $38.00 / $22.98
✪ 133862 THE RECURSIVE MIND: The Origins of
Human Thought, Language and Civilization
Corballis, Michael
Argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is
our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our
thoughts within other thoughts. Drawing on neuroscience,
psychology, animal behavior, anthropology, and archaeology, Corballis demonstrates how recursion led to the emergence of language, enabling us to share our thoughts, plan
with others, and reshape our environment. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $31.95 / $15.98
✪ 154674 THE UNPREDICTABLE SPECIES: What Makes
Humans Unique
Lieberman, Philip
Contending that the human brain evolved in a way that
enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation
and imitation, Lieberman challenges the central claim of evolutionary psychology that we are locked into predictable patterns of behavior that were fixed by genes, and refutes the
claim that language is innate. 272pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $12.98
154391 THE AESTHETICS OF
ARCHITECTURE
SECOND EDITION
Scruton, Roger
A call for a return to first principles in contemporary architectural theory, contending
that the aesthetic of architecture is, in its
very essence, an aesthetic of everyday life. In
a new introduction, Scruton discusses how
his ideas have developed since the book's
original publication, and assesses the continuing relevance of his
argument for the 21st century. 320pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
123275 THE ANTIQUITIES OF ATHENS
Stuart, James & Nicholas Revett
Stuart and Revett's monumental undertaking, based on
measured drawings done on site between 1751 and 1754,
set a new standard for archaeological investigation. By fundamentally challenging prevailing notions about a universal
classical ideal, their work fueled the Greek Revival movement that dominated British, European, and American
architecture and design for over a century. Originally published in four volumes between 1762 and 1816, this masterwork is presented here in its entirety with a new introduction by Frank Salmon. With its many images of buildings, plans, sculpture, friezes, and decorative objects, it
remains the logical starting point for anyone interested in
Athens and its influence on the history of Western architecture. 560pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton Architectural • C • $125.00 / $94.98
125653 ARCHITECTURE: Elements, Materials, Form
Prina, Francesca
With beautiful color photographs on virtually every page, this
book provides an easy-to-use visual grammar of the nearly
infinite variety with which the elements of architecture have
been used in buildings across the ages and around the world,
from Western Europe and Greece to the Americas, the Middle
East, China, Japan, India, and Africa. 408pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $14.98
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108721 ABBOT SUGER ON THE ABBEY
CHURCH OF ST. DENIS AND ITS ART
TREASURES
Panofsky, Erwin
Incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the
time of his death in 1968. Gerda PanofskySoergel has updated the commentary in
the light of new material, and has obtained
some additional photographs. The illustrations include a new ground plan and a new section of the
chevet of the Abbey Church, both drawn under the supervision
of Sumner McKnight Crosby. 315pgs. • 1979
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✪ 028643 ART DECO ARCHITECTURE: Design,
Decoration, & Detail from the Twenties & Thirties
Bayer, Patricia
Art Deco's sheer exuberance ensured its success across the
globe, still in evidence today. This exploration embraces
many different times and places in its visual and verbal
account of the movement's origins, development, and influence. 224pgs. • 1992
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $16.98
109605 BEFORE THE BAUHAUS: Architecture, Politics,
and the German State, 1890-1920
Maciuika, John V.
In this study, which brings together architectural and design
history, political history, social and cultural geography, John
Maciuika substantially revises our understanding of the roots
of the Bauhaus and, by extension, of the historical roots of
20th-century German architecture and design. 391pgs. •
2008
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142040 BOOKSHELF
Johnson, Alex
A celebration of innovation and
inspiration in one of the most
basic of all home designs: the
bookshelf. Featuring bookshelves
shaped like trees, or that hold
books upside down, or that can
even walk, it includes more than
300 color illustrations. 272pgs.
• 2012
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✪ 160485 DEBORAH BERKE
Myers, Tracy
In more than 25 years of practice, Deborah Berke has produced an extraordinary body of work that is grounded in the
conviction that architecture is not an end in itself, but a setting
that is enhanced by its use. This book is the first to explore
Berke's remarkable career as an architect, designer, teacher,
and writer who has forged a strong and evolving aesthetic.
240pgs. • 2008
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153452 ECO-YARDS: Simple Steps to Earth-Friendly
Landscapes
Rama, Laureen
Through sustainable, organic landscaping, both small and
large plots of land can become part of the solution to today's
environmental challenges. This practical, well-illustrated manual provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions on how to plan
and maintain a beautiful, environmentally friendly, low-maintenance yard. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • New Society Publishers • P • $19.95 / $5.98
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HOMES OF THE TWENTIES: 99
Designs from a Competition
Chicago Tribune
In 1927, the Chicago Tribune sponsored a competition for "trained men
of talent, incorporating into the small
home ideas of real worth, types of
rare charm and the best possible
plans for comfort and convenience."
The nearly 100 designs for five- and six-room houses submitted offer fascinating snapshots of American domestic
architecture of the 1920s, including Southern colonials,
Normandy cottages, and more. 112pgs. • 2008
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✪ 124998 A PICTORIAL
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DECORATIVE
IRONWORK: Twelfth Through
Eighteenth Centuries
Hoever, Otto, ed.
More than 450 black-and-white photographs depicting ironwork masterpieces from all over Europe -- doors,
gates, railings, grilles, door knockers, locks, lanterns, candelabra, firedogs, chandeliers, and more. Includes examples from
Notre Dame, Chichester Cathedral, Fredericksborg Castle,
and Versailles, as well as scores of other sites. 352pgs. •
2001
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✪ 098905 THE GLASS STATE: The Technology of the
Spectacle, Paris 1981-1998
Fierro, Annette
Analyzes the transparent monumental buildings built in Paris
between 1981 and 1998 as part of Mitterrand's program of
Grands Projets. In her discussion, Fierro employs a "discourse
of the detail," in which the smallest architectural detail manifests the political, theoretical, and urban contexts of the building's design and construction. 336pgs. • 2006
◆ • MIT • P • $23.95 / $7.98
✪ 160506 SCHLEPPING THROUGH
AMBIVALENCE: Essays on an American
Architectural Condition
Tigerman, Stanley & Emmanuel J. Petit
Since 1964, Chicago architect Stanley
Tigerman has made an indelible mark on
his hometown and on cities across the
globe, with projects ranging from the Five
Polytechnic Institutes in Bangladesh to the
Holocaust Memorial Foundation Museum
in Skokie, Illinois. This collection of essays, most previously
unpublished, includes writings on the history of Chicago
architecture, architectural theory, and commentary on his
contemporaries. 192pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $9.98
✪ 075169 THE HOME HOUSE
PROJECT: The Future of Affordable
Housing
Brown, David J. & Steven Badanes
The SECCA-sponsored open competition in 2003 drew 440 entries from the
U. S. and six other countries, all using
Habitat for Humanity's three- and fourbedroom house plans for the design of
affordable and environmentally friendly
housing. This book documents the 25 prize-winning designs
as well as fifty other selected submissions with 396 color illustrations and accompanying text. 128pgs. • 2005
◆ • MIT • P • $29.95 / $7.98
132182 INTERPRETING THE RENAISSANCE: Princes,
Cities, Architects
Tafuri, Manfredo
Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994) was acknowledged as one of
Italy's most influential architectural historians. In his final
work, published here in English for the first time, he analyzes
Renaissance architecture from a variety of perspectives,
exploring questions that occupied him for more than 30 years.
568pgs. • 1959
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $18.98
157290 MEDICI GARDENS: From
Making to Design
Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani
Drawing from Medici tax returns, inventories, and correspondence, Giannetto examines the transformation of such gardens as
Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, and Fiesole from functional kitchen gardens to symbols of political power and family prestige. She shows
how the Medici gardens were both an
aspect of everyday life and a poetic activity influenced by cultural expectations and societal demands. 328pgs. • 2008
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $59.95 / $21.98
033055 PERSPECTA 32: Resurfacing
Modernism
THE YALE ARCHITECTURAL JOURNAL
Brennan, Annmarie, & Brendan D.
Moran, eds.
The oldest and most distinguished of the
student-edited American architectural
journals, examines contemporary resurfacings represented by the return of many
forms and values associated with mid20th-century modernism. 120pgs. • 2001
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✪ 159580 THE SECRET LIVES OF BUILDINGS: From the
Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen
Stories
Hollis, Edward
In this radical re-imagination of architectural history, Edward
Hollis tells the stories of thirteen buildings. He reveals the hidden histories of the Parthenon and the Alhambra, visits
churches and palaces, and explores the monuments of our
own day, from souvenir chunks of the Berlin Wall to the fiberglass theme parks of Las Vegas. 448pgs. • 2009
◆ • Henry Holt • C • IMPORT / $9.98
157867 THE SWEDISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Scherman, Susanna
Little known outside Sweden, these country houses survive
in surprisingly large numbers, often with their original furniture and decoration intact. This volume captures 20 of
these remarkable and timeless houses, ranging from royal
palaces to farmhouses and dating from the 15th century to
the end of the 19th. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Monacelli • C • $60.00 / $19.98
041502 THEORIZING A NEW AGENDA
FOR ARCHITECTURE: An Anthology of
Architectural Theory 1965-1995
Nesbitt, Kate, ed.
Gathers together influential articles on
architectural theory from the past 30 years,
presenting a dynamic reexamination of the
discipline, and examining architectural
postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction,
and feminism. 606pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $45.00 / $20.98
100322 VISIONS OF HEAVEN:
The Dome in European
Architecture
Stephenson, David
Showcases more than 120 images
of domes from the 2nd to the 20th
century, including the Roman
Pantheon, the Byzantine churches
of Turkey, the great domes of the
Renaissance, the decorative cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo ages, and a 19th-century
synagogue in Hungary. Stephenson's brilliantly calibrated
exposures present the complex geometrical structures as they
have never been seen before. 192pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton Architectural • C • $60.00 / $32.98
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✪ 152966 ABORIGINAL ART
WORLD OF ART
Caruana, Wally
For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists
have built on traditions and worked in a
variety of contexts, from the sacred realm
of ceremony to more public spheres, and
in media that now include painting,
sculpture, engraving, constructions,
weaving, photography, printmaking, and
textile design. For this third revised edition, a new chapter
maps the latest developments across each of Australia's geographical regions. (231 illustrations, 90 in color.) 264pgs. •
2013
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052686 AFRICAN ART
WORLD OF ART
Willett, Frank
An illustrated look at the art of the Fang, the BaTeke, and the
BaKota and the aesthetic impact their work had upon the
development of 20th-century Western art, influencing such
artists as Picasso, Derain, and Modigliani. 272pgs. • 2003
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
080263 AMERICAN
ARCHITECTURE: A Critical History
WORLD OF ART
Handlin, David P.
Tells the complex story of American
architecture with lucidity and insight.
Almost from its 17th-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to apparently contradictory
processes - the practical and the
grandiose, which Handlin tracks from its inception to modern
times, with figures including Stern, Meier, Gehry, and
Mockbee. With 264 illustrations. 304pgs. • 2004
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $7.98
✪ 052648 AMERICAN ART SINCE 1945
WORLD OF ART
Joselit, David
Traces the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world. Canonical movements and figures
are discussed at length -- Pollock, Rothko, Krasner,
Oldenburg, Johns, Warhol, Paik, Ruscha, Sherman, Schnabel,
Koons, Barney, and others -- in juxtaposition with lesser
known contemporary artists and practices. 256pgs. • 2003
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
✪ 160151 ART AND
ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO
WORLD OF ART
Oles, James
This new interpretive history of
Mexican art from the Spanish
Conquest to the early decades of the
21st century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject
in 50 years. It ranges widely across
media and genres, offering new readings of painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, and photography. Includes
276 illustrations, 249 in color. 432pgs. • 2013
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $14.98
✪ 080633 ART AND
ARCHITECTURE OF CAMBODIA
WORLD OF ART
Jessup, Helen Ibbitson
A superb, profusely illustrated introduction to the culture, history, and monuments of Cambodia, a country increasingly popular as a tourist destination for
the adventurous traveller. 224pgs. •
2004
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $7.98
031092 ART AND MYTH IN ANCIENT GREECE
WORLD OF ART
Carpenter, T.H.
Uses depictions in vase paintings, engraved gems, and sculptures in stone and bronze that often pre-date references to
myths to form an understanding of the stories of gods and
heroes as understood by the Greeks themselves. 256pgs. •
1991
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $10.98
✪ 028530 ART DECO
WORLD OF ART
Duncan, Alastair
Duncan's comprehensive survey of Art
Deco -- the 20th century's last truly
sumptuous style of decorative art -serves as a history of the movement, an
encyclopedia of its artists and craftsmen,
and a handbook for the enthusiast, student, or collector. 170 illustrations, 50 in
color. 216pgs. • 1997
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 152896 THE ART OF
MESOAMERICA: From Olmec to
Aztec
WORLD OF ART
Miller, Mary Ellen
The fifth edition of this standard work
incorporates new color images and
extensive updates based on the latest
research and discoveries. The revisions
include a rewritten and extended chapter
on Teotihuacan; updated analysis of the links between the
Olmecs and the Maya; a discussion of new discoveries at the
heart of the Aztec capital; and much more. 288pgs. • 2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $12.98
✪ 028536 THE ART OF THE
RENAISSANCE
WORLD OF ART
Murray, Peter, & Linda Murray
Including artists as diverse as Piero
della Francesca, Van Eyck, Durer,
Mantegna and Bellini, as well as the
masters Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo and Raphael, this text
combines superb illustrations of the
artists' work with crucial historical information about the
"rebirth" of arts and letters, illuminating one of the most
important periods of art history. With 251 illustrations.
286pgs. • 1997
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $5.98
052748 ART SINCE 1960
WORLD OF ART
Archer, Michael
Archer's acclaimed book is brought up to date with coverage
of the comprehensive globalization of art since the mid-90s.
With over thirty additional illustrations and new timeline and
bibliography, this is an indispensable source of information on
the evolution of art over the past four decades. 256pgs. •
2002
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
028489 THE ARTS IN SPAIN
WORLD OF ART
Moffit, John F.
From Iberian and Roman beginnings,
this volume traces the development of the
arts in Spain, examining the magnificent
Islamic and Christian foundations at
Córdoba and the Escorial, the idiosyncratic masterworks of El Greco, the
Golden Age of Zurbarán and Velázquez,
the art of Goya, and the innovative works of Picasso, Dalí and
Miró. 240pgs. • 1999
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
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052681 BLACK ART: A Cultural
History (Second Edition)
WORLD OF ART
Powell, Richard J.
The African diaspora has generated a wide
array of artistic achievements, from blues
to reggae, from the paintings of Henry
Ossawa Tanner to the video installations of
Keith Piper. Powell's study concentrates on
the works of art themselves and on how
they use black culture as both subject and context. 272pgs. •
2002
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
124756 FASHION SINCE 1900
WORLD OF ART
de la Haye, Amy & Valerie Mendes
Surveys the key movements and innovations in style for both men and women,
and explores these through the work of
the most original and influential designers. The chapters are organized around
pivotal shifts in style and major world
events, and developments in fashion are
placed within their socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts. 312pgs. • 2010
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $10.98
052696 BRUEGEL
WORLD OF ART
Gibson, Walter S.
Although Pieter Bruegel's pictures have long been celebrated,
the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood figure. Dispelling the notion of Bruegel the simpleton peasant,
the author shows us Bruegel the cultivated artist, rooted in the
rich, bourgeois, brilliant Antwerp of the Flemish Renaissance.
Includes 153 illustrations, 20 in color. 216pgs. • 1985
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $6.98
✪ 039482 GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
WORLD OF ART
Messinger, Lisa Mintz
This comprehensive new book surveys O'Keefe's complete
oeuvre - drawings, watercolors and paintings from all periods
- and explains her life in the context of her artistic output. The
text incorporates current scholarship and benefits from the
recent publication of the artist's catalogue raisonné and is
accompanied by color plates and b&w photographs. 192pgs.
• 2001
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $6.98
✪ 028673 BUDDHIST ART &
ARCHITECTURE
WORLD OF ART
Fisher, Robert E.
Buddhism is the single common thread
uniting the Asian world, from India to
South-East Asia and through Central
Asia to China, Korea and Japan. The
author describes all the Buddhist
schools and cultures and explains their
imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams and Korean folk art
to early Sri Lankan sites and Japanese Zen gardens.
216pgs. • 1993
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
✪ 052674 GRAPHIC DESIGN: A Concise History
WORLD OF ART
Hollis, Richard
From its roots in the printing trade, graphic design has evolved
as a means of identification, information, and promotion to
become a profession and discipline in its own right. This volume, which includes more than 800 illustrations, charts the
interplay of word and image in brochures and magazines,
advertising, corporate identity, TV, and electronic media.
232pgs. • 2001
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
✪ 028480 GREEK ART
WORLD OF ART
Boardman, John
A considerably enlarged and rewritten
version of a work that has served hundreds of thousands in many languages
since the early 1960s, this book provides an authoritative and readable
guide to the history of Greek art.
304pgs. • 1996
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
✪ 024370 CHINESE ART
WORLD OF ART
Tregear, Mary
Heavily illustrated and eminently readable, this volume covers
not only bronzes, jades, calligraphy and painting, but also
Buddhist sculpture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, lacquer,
garden design, and architecture. Includes 162 illustrations, 21
in color. 216pgs. • 1997
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $8.98
052671 COSTUME AND FASHION: A
Concise History
WORLD OF ART
Laver, James, et al.
Covers the landmarks of costume history
and the ways in which clothes have been
used to protect, express identity, and
attract or influence others. In a new
chapter written for this edition, Andrew
Tucker and Amy de la Haye discuss the
reinvention of the luxury label Gucci, the rise of Prada, and
more. 304pgs. • 2002
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
✪ 031071 EDVARD MUNCH
WORLD OF ART
Hodin, J. P.
The initiator of the movement now known as
Expressionism, Munch produced dazzlingly original works
that were initially greeted with indignation and incomprehension. Long before the first theories of psychoanalysis
were formulated, he was the pioneer of an art that discovered and depicted the inner conflicts of modern man.
216pgs. • 1985
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 031132 EGON SCHIELE
WORLD OF ART
Whitford, Frank
Rejected by his family, hounded by society for his interest in
young girls, Schiele expressed through his art a deep and
bewildering loneliness and an obsession with sexuality, death,
and decay. Only 28 when he died, he left behind a body of
work that has sustained both a considerable public reputation
and an enduring myth. 215pgs. • 1996
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $5.98
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✪ 152855 GREEK SCULPTURE: The Archaic Period
WORLD OF ART
Boardman, John
Tracing the development of Archaic Greek sculpture across
styles and regions, this volume features a broad range of
illustrations, including unfamiliar and rarely reproduced
pieces. 252pgs. • 1985
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $19.95 / $9.98
✪ 152858 HISTORY OF FILM
WORLD OF ART
Parkinson, David
In this lively analysis, Parkinson traces
the evolution of the moving image from
the earliest shadow shows to the digital
filmmaking of the 21st century. Covering
the key elements and players that have
contributed to its artistic and technical
development, the book offers a concise
overview of film throughout the world. Includes 176 illustrations, 15 in color. 304pgs. • 2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $7.98
028513 INDIAN ART: A Concise History
WORLD OF ART
Craven, Roy C.
This excellent introduction for the general reader spans some
4,000 years, tracing the rich visual expressions of one of the
world's most ancient cultures. 256pgs. • 1997
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $8.98
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✪ 114770 INTERIOR DESIGN SINCE 1900
WORLD OF ART
Massey, Anne
From the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day, every
style of interior design since 1900 is charted in this wide-ranging survey. This revised and expanded edition is brought into
the 21st century with a new chapter on sustainable design that
focuses on public spaces such as hotels, offices, factories, and
shops. 256pgs. • 2008
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
031094 ISLAMIC ART &
ARCHITECTURE
WORLD OF ART
Hillenbrand, Robert
An authoritative guide to the arts of Islam,
covering 1,000 years of history and a geographic area from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China. Supported by a
glossary of Islamic terms, a timeline, and
maps, the book encompasses architecture, calligraphy, book illumination, painting, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and more. 288pgs. • 1999
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
114091 MODERN ARCHITECTURE:
A Critical History
WORLD OF ART
Frampton, Kenneth
This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the
fourth edition Frampton has added a
major new section that explores the
effects of globalization on architecture
and examines the phenomenon of celebrity architects who are
increasingly active worldwide. 420 illustrations. 424pgs. •
2007
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $10.98
✪ 080526 NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN ART
WORLD OF ART
Penney, David W.
Describes and illustrates prehistoric, historic, and contemporary art by Native Americans in Canada and the US. David
Penney draws on history, oral testimony, and archaeology to
illuminate the context and function of genres as well as individual pieces. Features 187 illustrations, 80 in color. 232pgs.
• 2004
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
031093 JAPANESE ART: Revised
and Expanded Edition
WORLD OF ART
Stanley-Baker, Joan
Stanley-Baker, an authority in Asian art,
addresses readers who are approaching
Japanese art for the first time. She surveys
selected traditions, identifying aspects of
the Japanese spirit and culture that are
developed in the art forms and offering
close looks at many examples. This compact book contains
167 illustrations, 48 in color. 223pgs. • 2000
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
✪ 080527 THE THAMES AND HUDSON DICTIONARY OF
ART TERMS
WORLD OF ART
Lucie-Smith, Edward
With more than 2,000 entries and hundreds of illustrations
and diagrams, in this new edition Lucie-Smith has included
contemporary influential artist groups and tendencies from
Chicano art to gene art, and new terms connected with the use
of computer technology in the art world, from digital image to
pixel. With 400 illustrations. 240pgs. • 2004
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 031082 MAYA ART AND ARCHITECTURE
WORLD OF ART
Miller, Mary Ellen
An introduction to the art of one of the world's most enigmatic ancient civilizations. New archaeological discoveries at
Copan, Tikal, and Palenque are included, and the author
draws on recent decipherments in Maya writing to provide
fresh interpretations of Maya sculpture and ceramics. 240pgs.
• 1999
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
✪ 160105 VIKING ART
WORLD OF ART
Graham-Campbell, James
A new survey covering all the intricate
and beautiful art styles of the so-called
"Viking Age." It ranges in time from the
first major Viking expeditions overseas
around AD 800 to the establishment of
Christianity in Scandinavia some three
hundred years later. Includes 220 illustrations, 156 in color. 208pgs. • 2013
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
ART & ART H ISTORY
141309 THE 80S REVISITED: From the Bischofberger
Collection
Kellein, Thomas, ed.
The Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger assembled one of
the most significant collections of 1980s art, acquiring key
works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Enzo
Cucchi, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel, Philip Taaffe, and Andy
Warhol, among many others. This oversized volume contains
nearly 300 color plates of works by these artists, and provides
a definitive guide to that decade's lively art. 448pgs. • 2010
◆ • DuMont • C • $80.00 / $29.98
140732 ANDY WARHOL
Danto, Arthur C.
A compact, masterful tour of Andy
Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto brings to bear
encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol's time
and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure -- artist, political
activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher -who retains permanent residence in our
national imagination. 192pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $24.00 / $7.98
143375 AMERICA'S OTHER
AUDUBON
Kiser, Joy M.
The story of Genevieve Jones, her
family, and the making of an
extraordinary 19th-century book,
Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs
of Birds of Ohio. Includes archival
photographs of the family and original advertisements and ephemera
from the publication and sale of the book, the 68 original
color plates of nests and eggs, plus selected field notes, a
key to the eggs, and a key to the birds' scientific and current common names. 144pgs. • 2012
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $45.00 / $17.98
038543 ART AND ILLUSION: A Study
in the Psychology of Pictorial
Representation
Gombrich, E. H.
A classic that explores the meeting
ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history
and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of
visual perception information and learning. 466pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $21.98
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✪ 160495 THE ARTIST AND THE
WARRIOR: Military History
Through the Eyes of the Masters
Rabb, Theodore K.
How have artists across the millennia
responded to warfare? In this richly
illustrated and accessibly written
book, Theodore Rabb draws our
attention to masterpieces from the
ancient world to the 20th century -paintings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, engravings, architecture, and photographs -- in order to document the evolving
nature of warfare as artists have perceived it. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $12.98
✪ 160498 THE BAROQUE
WORLD OF FERNANDO
BOTERO
Sillevis, John
Colombian-born Fernando Botero
is renowned for his extravagantly
rounded figures combining the
polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists.
Drawn exclusively from Botero's private collection, the 100
works featured in this book represent the full scope of his
work from a uniquely personal perspective. 283pgs. •
2007
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $28.98
157582 BENEZIT DICTIONARY OF BRITISH GRAPHIC
ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS
Benezit, Emmanuel
This two-volume set offers more than 3,000 entries covering a
range of British graphic artists, from medieval manuscript illuminators to contemporary cartoonists. The entries provide
straightforward, concise narratives of the artists' lives and
careers, and many include bibliographies, auction sale
records, exhibition histories, and museum collection holdings. 1000pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $395.00 / $138.98
✪ 160496 BLAKE AND THE BIBLE
Rowland, Christopher
Whether as an object of criticism or as an
inspiration, the Bible was crucial for
William Blake and for his poetic genius.
This book -- the first substantial study of
the topic in 60 years -- locates Blake within the broad spectrum of Christian biblical
interpretation and explores the ways in
which he engaged with the Bible. 320pgs.
• 2011
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $16.98
✪ 160480 BLESSED AND BEAUTIFUL:
Picturing the Saints
Kiely, Robert
A powerful and searching meditation on
the lives of the saints and the images of
them painted by Renaissance artists in
Italy. It treats saints not as icons of perfection but as human religious figures,
brought to life by great Italian paintings in
dialogue with scripture, legend, and poetry. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $40.00 / $12.98
✪ 028495 BODIES OF MODERNITY:
Figure & Flesh in Fin-De-Siècle France
Garb, Tamar
Offers insights into the representation of
masculinity and femininity in late 19thcentury France, when men and women
were believed to be polar opposites and
were required to express this in the
clothes they wore, the poses they struck,
and the behavior they exhibited. 240pgs.
• 1998
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152874 THE BOOK OF BOOKS: 500 Years of Graphic
Innovation
Lommen, Mathieu, ed.
A richly illustrated visual history of the printed book. The
featured publications include The Nuremberg Chronicle
from 1493; Maria Sibylla Merian's book of insects from
1719; Muybridge's 1887 Animal Locomotion; a photomontage book by John Heartfield published in 1929; and a
1937 edition of The Frogs by Aristophanes, produced by the
Limited Editions Club of New York. Includes nearly 700
color illustrations. 464pgs. • 2012
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $65.00 / $32.98
151005 CHRIS OFILI
Adjaye, David, et al.
Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots
of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant
dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions
and hip-hop culture. This beautifully designed book, the first
to examine Ofili's artistic development in depth, surveys his
work in watercolor, drawing, and sculpture. 272pgs. • 2009
◆ • Rizzoli • C • $85.00 / $29.98
✪ 121318 THE
CLOTHING OF THE
RENAISSANCE WORLD:
Europe Asia Africa The
Americas: Cesare
Vecellio's Habiti Antichi
et Moderni
Rosenthal, Margaret F. &
Ann Rosalind Jones
Cesare Vecellio's guide to
the dress and customs of the world, first published in
Venice in 1590, brought together vivid descriptions and
depictions of the costumes of the different countries of the
world throughout history, and of people of all ranks from
kings to gravediggers, beggars, and orphans. This edition
represents the first time the entire text has been translated
into English accompanied by its original illustrations.
560pgs. • 2008
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $125.00 / $39.98
✪ 152895 COMICS SKETCHBOOKS: The Private World
of Today's Most Creative Talents
Heller, Steven
From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes,
comics are the world's most popular form of illustration. This
volume, which features 700 illustrations in color and blackand-white, offers a look inside the private notebooks of 82 of
the world's most inventive, innovative, and successful comics
artists. 352pgs. • 2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $44.95 / $21.98
141831 CUBA: Art and History
from 1868 to Today
Bondil, Nathalie, ed.
Cuba's artistic tradition is as rich as
its history, though its treasures are
rarely appreciated outside of the
country. This catalog, which accompanied an exhibition at the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, gathers paintings, drawings and photography from
Cuba done over the past century and a half. 368pgs. • 2009
◆ • Prestel • P • $49.95 / $19.98
043219 DRAWING IN EARLY
RENAISSANCE ITALY: Revised
Edition
Ames-Lewis, Francis
In the course of the 15th century, drawing developed from a subsidiary role in
the production of finished paintings to
an art form in its own right. In this beautiful book, Ames-Lewis examines the
works of the major draftsmen of the
century -- Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio,
Carpaccio, and Leonardo -- in order to illuminate the new
types of drawing that evolved. 196pgs. • 2000
◆ • Yale • P • $40.00 / $14.98
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✪ 158654 EL GRECO AND
MODERNISM
Wismer, Beat, ed.
In his disregard for the
Renaissance rulebook of painting,
his sense of dramatic mood, and
his emphasis on emotive color and
form, El Greco provided a crucial
precedent for painters such as Max
Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, and
the members of the Blaue Reiter group. This volume presents more than 40 paintings by El Greco and sets them
alongside the work of the modernists he influenced.
416pgs. • 2012
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $75.00 / $29.98
✪ 160483 EVA HESSE SPECTRES 1960
McKinnon, E. Luanne
In 1960 Eva Hesse created an unusual group of oil paintings
that, when considered in contrast to her sculptural assemblages from 1965 to 1970, foretell her desire to embody emotional states in abstract form. Contrary to existing scholarship,
which suggests that these works represent a form of self-deprecation, this book seeks to consider these "spectre" paintings
as manifestations of a private, haunted interiority in the context of the artist's burgeoning maturity. 88pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $40.00 / $12.98
135814 THE FIRST POP AGE: Painting and Subjectivity
in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter,
and Ruscha
Foster, Hal
A new interpretation of Pop art through the work of five
groundbreaking artists. Beautifully illustrated in color
throughout, the book reveals how the pioneers of Pop held on
to old forms of art while drawing on new subjects matter, and
how they struck an ambiguous attitude toward both high art
and mass culture. 352pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $12.98
✪ 157558 GROUNDWATERS: A
Century of Art by Self-Taught and
Outsider Artists
Russell, Charles
Brings together works by twelve of
the most influential self-taught artists
to emerge during the past century.
Each represents a facet of the outsider art phenomenon, from mental
patients like Adolf Wölfli and Martin
Ramirez, through vernacular masters like Bill Traylor and
Thornton Dial, to artists who seem to be in touch with other
worlds, such as Madge Gill and Henry Darger. 256pgs. • 2011
◆ • Prestel • C • $65.00 / $19.98
✪ 114236 GUSTAV KLIMT:
Drawings and Watercolors
Metzger, Rainer
Presents hundreds of Klimt's drawings
and watercolors in a way that enriches
our knowledge of the artist and
enhances the visual impact of his
work. Klimt's drawings and studies,
and his elegantly direct and dangerously intoxicating preparatory sketches, reveal the underlying impetus for and structure of his
elaborate canvases. Includes 307 color illustrations.
399pgs. • 2006
▲ • Thames & Hudson • C • $31.95 / $16.98
142017 A HUMUMENT: A Treated
Victorian Novel
FIFTH EDITION
Phillips, Tom
In the mid-1960s, artist Tom Phillips took
a forgotten 19th-century novel and began
doctoring and decorating the pages to
create something new. This new edition
incorporates Phillip's latest revisions and
reworkings, and celebrates a 45-year-old
artistic enterprise that is still an active work in progress.
384pgs. • 2012
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157257 FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OF
GLASS
REVISED EDITION
Tait, Hugh
Traces the history of glass from its origins some 5,000 years ago, though the
invention of glass blowing around the
first century BC, to the introduction of
mechanized processes and new styles in
the 19th and 20th centuries. Profusely
illustrated, it highlights the flourishing industries of ancient
Mesopotamia and Egypt, the elegant vessels of the Islamic
Near East, the mastery of Renaissance Venice, and the experiments of modern Europe and America. 256pgs. • 2004
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Cummings, Keith
A fascinating study of the nature of glass and the skills, techniques, and machines that have been developed to exploit its
remarkable and mutable properties. As Cummings demonstrates, glass has evolved from a rare and precious commodity, to a familiar tool of everyday use, to an art form
prized once again. 192pgs. • 2002
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $65.00 / $19.98
✪ 114196 THE HISTORY OF
GREEK VASES: Potters, Painters
and Pictures
Boardman, John
Greek pottery provides a continuous
commentary on all other Greek arts,
even sculpture, and the scenes figured on the vases can be as subtle
and informative as the greatest works
of Greek literature. As Boardman
shows, in no other art of antiquity do we come closer to the
visual experience of the ancient Greeks, or are we able to
observe so clearly their views on life, myth, and even politics. Features 358 illustrations. 320pgs. • 2006
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157288 TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF POTTERY
Cooper, Emmanuel
This lavishly illustrated comprehensive account begins with
the earliest civilizations of the Near East and Middle East and
follows the production of pottery chronologically around
the globe. The final chapters analyze the development of
ceramics as a medium of personal expression by artists and
studio potters during the 20th century. 360pgs. • 2000
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $69.95 / $18.98
114220 ICONS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN
Heller, Steven & Mirko Ilic
Showcasing the most influential designs
and designers from 1900 to the present,
this outstanding collection illustrates
how the best ideas perpetuate themselves
over time, one great concept inspiring
the next. More than one hundred seminal images -- one from each year -- are
shown alongside the works that influenced their creation and the designs that were inspired or
evolved from them. Includes 860 illustrations, 675 in color.
224pgs. • 2008
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✪ 160493 INTERVIEWS WITH
ARTISTS, 1966-2012
Peppiatt, Michael
Curator Michael Peppiatt's close friendships and frequent studio visits with
Dubuffet, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Bacon,
Henry Moore, Balthus, Oldenburg,
Brassai, and Cartier-Bresson, among others, have produced an incredible archive
of interviews, from formal question-andanswer sessions to off-the-cuff conversations. Together, these
interviews provide unique perspectives on art from World War
II to the present. 434pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $40.00 / $7.98
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✪ 087093 AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART
Eldridge, Richard
Eldridge's survey of philosophical theories
of the nature and significance of art draws
on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy, literary theory, and art
criticism. Explores the representational,
expressive, and formal dimensions of art,
and argues that works of art present their
subject matter as creations of enduring cognitive, moral, and
social interest. 296pgs. • 2003
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $16.98
028646 LUCIAN FREUD: Paintings
Hughes, Robert
Once dubbed "the Ingres of existentialism," Lucian Freud has
almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our
time. This volume, with more than 100 superb reproductions
of his greatest paintings, pays tribute to one of the most original and accomplished artists of the 20th century. 135pgs. •
2000
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✪ 117449 MAKING IT NEW: The Art and Style of Sara
and Gerald Murphy
Rothschild, Deborah, ed.
In 1920s Paris a circle of luminaries -- including F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Man
Ray, and Dorothy Parker -- revolved around the figures of
Gerald and Sara Murphy. These essays examine the couple's
influence on a remarkable constellation of artists, and also
explores Gerald's abbreviated career as a painter, his artistic
legacy, and the complex nature of his motivation and vision.
237pgs. • 2007
◆ • California • C • $63.00 / $17.98
123703 THE MAP AS ART:
Contemporary Artists
Explore Cartography
Harmon, Katharine A. &
Gayle Clemans
Collects 360 colorful, maprelated artistic visions by such
artists as Ed Ruscha, Julian
Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson,
Maira Kalman, William
Kentridge, and Vik Muniz. Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary make this an essential volume
for anyone open to exploring new artistic paths. 256pgs. •
2009
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $45.00 / $22.98
129423 MICHELANGELO: A Life on Paper
Barkan, Leonard
Throughout his career, Michelangelo not only filled hundreds
of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his
own words. This sumptuous volume brings together more
than 200 stunning, reproductions of these private papers. The
text by Leonard Barkan explains the crucial role the written
word played in the artist's work. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.50 / $22.98
126107 THE MOMENT OF
CARAVAGGIO
Fried, Michael
Focusing on the emergence of the fullblown "gallery picture" in Rome during
the last decade of the 16th century and
the first decades of the 17th, Fried sets
forth a radically revisionist account of
Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait;
of the role of extreme violence in his art;
and of the deep structure of his epoch-defining realism.
Extensively illustrated with nearly 200 color images. 328pgs.
• 2010
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✪ 160519 NEW TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN
Fawcett-Tang, Roger
This rich source of inspiration for both practicing designers and students covers a wide variety of applications, ranging from books, magazines, and brochures, to signage systems and screen-based typography. 192pgs. • 2007
◆ • Yale • P • $37.00 / $12.98
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105102 OLD MASTERS AND YOUNG GENIUSES: The
Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
Galenson, David W.
This examination of the careers not only of great painters but
also of sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors offers a
profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide
range of evidence, Galenson demonstrates that there are two
fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that
each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery. 233pgs.
• 2007
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114270 ORNAMENT AND THE GROTESQUE: Fantastical
Decoration from Antiquity to Art Nouveau
Zamperini, Alessandra
This magnificently illustrated book, with 250 color illustrations, covers the entire history of the grotesque in European
art, from its Roman origins through the Renaissance to the late
19th century. It illuminates how grotesque decoration was
transformed in the 17th and 18th centuries into arabesque,
chinoiserie, and singeries, and how it led eventually to Art
Nouveau. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $95.00 / $58.98
✪ 104960 PAINTING IN FLORENCE
AND SIENA AFTER THE BLACK DEATH
Meiss, Millard
This rich interweaving of considerations of
connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events is the first extended study of the
history of Florentine and Sienese painting
in the period following the plague of 1348.
212pgs. • 1979
◆ • Princeton • P • $62.95 / $34.98
023113 PASSAGES IN MODERN SCULPTURE
Krauss, Rosalind E.
A well-illustrated analysis of major 20th century pieces that led
sculpture from the traditional and figurative to the conceptual
pieces of the 1970s, examining futurism, constructivism, and
sculptural realism in works by Rodin, Brancusi, and Blochner.
308pgs. • 1996
◆ • MIT • P • $35.95 / $17.98
✪ 154709 THE PHILOSOPHER, THE PRIEST, AND THE
PAINTER: A Portrait of Descartes
Nadler, Steven M.
Through one painted portrait -- and the intersecting lives of a
brilliant philosopher, a Catholic priest, and a gifted painter -Steven Nadler opens a window into Descartes's life and times,
skillfully presenting both an accessible introduction to his
philosophical and scientific ideas, and an illuminating tour of
the volatile political and religious environment of the Dutch
Golden Age. 256pgs. • 2013
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✪ 154665 PICASSO AND TRUTH: From Cubism to
Guernica
Clark, T. J.
This lavishly illustrated volume rescues Picasso from the
celebrity culture that trivializes his accomplishments and
returns us to the tragic vision of his art. Focusing on three
central works -- Guitar and Mandolin on a Table (1924),
The Three Dancers (1925), and The Painter and His Model
(1927) -- it explores Picasso's answer to Nietzsche's belief
that the age-old commitment to truth was imploding in
modern European culture. 344pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $26.98
104540 PICTURES OF NOTHING:
Abstract Art since Pollock
Varnedoe, Kirk
In a series of lectures delivered just
months before his death, Varnedoe
addresses the skeptical attitudes and
misunderstandings that we often
bring to our experience of abstract
art. Resisting grand generalizations,
he makes a deliberate and scholarly
case for abstraction, showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. 297pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $21.98
✪ 080807 READING BUDDHIST
ART
McArthur, Meher
All the principal symbols, objects, and
figures of Buddhist worship are gathered here in a rich, informative, and
easy-to-use book that serves equally
well as an art-lover's reference tool
and as an introduction to the principles
of the religion. Photographs and twocolor line drawings and maps accompany the explanatory
texts throughout. 216pgs. • 2004
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✪ 158658 ROMARE BEARDEN: The Caribbean
Dimension
Price, Sally & Richard Price
Romare Bearden spent much of the last two decades of his
life on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. In this full-color
work, lavishly illustrated with 130 Bearden paintings as
well as many photographs, Sally and Richard Price explore
Bearden's Caribbean experience with an insider's eye.
192pgs. • 2006
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $49.95 / $18.98
157866 SAUL STEINBERG: A Biography
Bair, Deirdre
The definitive biography of one of the New Yorker's most iconic artists. Steinberg's curious talent for creating myths about
himself did not make Bair's job an easy one, but the result is
a stunning portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the
20th century. 752pgs. • 2012
◆ • Doubleday • C • $40.00 / $9.98
✪ 131462 SIGNS OF THE ARTIST: Signatures and SelfExpression in American Paintings
Wilmerding, John
In this beautifully designed and handsomely illustrated book,
an eminent historian of American art explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. He focuses on American
artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of
the canvas but have intentionally placed their signatures within the pictorial space of the painting. 216pgs. • 2003
◆ • Yale • C • $47.00 / $16.98
158253 SOPHIE CRUMB: Evolution of a Crazy Artist
Crumb, A. & R., eds.
Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her
development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting
through dozens of her remarkable sketchbooks, Robert and
Aline Crumb have selected more than 300 paintings and drawings that capture one woman's artistic and psychological maturation. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $5.98
157884 VAN GOGH: The Life
Naifeh, Steven & Gregory White Smith
Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in
Amsterdam, the authors delineate Van Gogh's life with an
astounding vividness and psychological acuity that bring a new
and sympathetic understanding to this unique artistic genius.
They shed new light on Van Gogh's deep immersion in literature and art, his erratic and tumultuous romantic life, and his
bouts of depression and mental illness. 976pgs. • 2011
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✪ 125879 VERMEER AND HIS
MILIEU: A Web of Social History
Montias, John M.
This social history of Vermeer and his
colorful extended family explores a
series of linked worlds: Delft's SmallCattle Market, where his paternal ancestors settled; the milieu of the shady businessmen who recruited Vermeer's
grandfather to counterfeit coins; the
artists, military contractors, and burghers who frequented
Delft's Great Market Square; and the quiet, distinguished
"Papists Corner" where Vermeer retired to practice his art.
472pgs. • 1991
◆ • Princeton • P • $55.00 / $27.98
039574 THE VOICES OF SILENCE
Malraux, André
A comprehensive psychological history
of art from a variety of cultures by one
of the eminent thinkers of the 20th century. Dismissing orthodox classifications, Malraux illuminates all great
periods of art, individual artists, and
particular works, as he explores the
haunting metaphysical problems inherent in the nature of creation. 661pgs. • 1978
◆ • Princeton • P • $55.00 / $30.98
114376 ZURBARÁN
Gil, Santiago Alcolea
Starker than Velazquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán
is easily among the finest of 17th-century Spanish painters. In this monograph, illustrated with 114 color plates,
Santiago Alcolea provides an overview
of Zurbarán's artistic career, dividing it
into four stylistic phases and revindicating his relevance for our times. 128pgs. • 2008
◆ • Polígrafa • C • $34.00 / $12.98
ASIAN & PACI FIC STU DI ES
✪ 160478 BUTTERFLY'S SISTERS:
The Geisha in Western Culture
Kawaguchi, Yoko
In this fascinating and wide-ranging
book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the
Western portrayal of Japanese women,
and geishas in particular, from the mid19th century to the present day. Arguing
that, for the West, Japanese women have
come to embody certain ideas about
feminine sexuality, she analyzes how these ideas have been
expressed in art forms ranging from fiction and opera to
the visual arts and music videos. 336pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $9.98
117802 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MODERN
JAPANESE CULTURE
Sugimoto, Yoshio, ed.
A comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped
modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the
Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first
century, the volume covers topics such as technology, food,
nationalism, and the rise of anime and manga in the visual
arts. 432pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $54.00 / $26.98
123016 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
CHINA
SECOND EDITION
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
Traces the development of Chinese culture from the rise of
Confucianism, Buddhism, and the great imperial dynasties, to
the Mongol, Manchu, and Western intrusions and the modern
communist state. It encompasses arts, culture, economics, the
treatment of women, foreign policy, emigration, and politics.
This second edition includes a new chapter on China's recent
opening to the world. 384pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $28.98
129862 DIARY OF DARKNESS: The
Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi, Kiyosawa
Between 1942 and 1945, the liberal journalist Kiyosawa Kiyoshi maintained, at
great personal risk, a diary of his often
subversive social and political observations
and his personal struggles. Published in
English for the first time, it stands as a perceptive and courageous account of
wartime Japan and the devastation wrought
by total war. 416pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $17.98
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✪ 154372 LOST COLONY: The
Untold Story of China's First Great
Victory over the West
Andrade, Tonio
In the Sino-Dutch War of 1661-62, a
colorful Chinese warlord named
Koxinga defeated the Dutch and captured one of their largest and richest
colonies -- Taiwan. Examining the
strengths and weaknesses of European
and Chinese military techniques during the period, Andrade
provides a balanced new perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature
of war. 448pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
✪ 157440 LOST ENLIGHTENMENT: Central Asia's
Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Starr, S. Frederick
Between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in
trade and economic development, the size and sophistication
of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the
advancement of knowledge. The author chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores
competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise.
686pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.50 / $22.98
085495 THE MYTH OF THE HOLY COW
Jha, Dwijendra Narayan
In a book the government of India demands
be ritually burned because it challenges
obscurantist views on the sanctity of the
cow in Hindu tradition and culture, Jha, a
leading Indian historian, argues that beef
played an important part in the cuisine of
ancient India, and the evidence he produces from a variety of religious and secular texts is compelling. 120pgs. • 2004
◆ • Verso • C • $22.00 / $6.98
143690 PACIFIC WORLDS: A History of Seas,
Peoples, and Cultures
Matsuda, Matt K.
This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the
global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and
the Indian Ocean for millennia. Drawing on Asian,
Oceanian, European, American, ancient, and modern narratives, Matsuda assembles a fascinating Pacific region
from a truly global perspective. 452pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $18.98
110128 RECORDS OF THE HISTORIAN: Chapters from
the Shih Chi of Ssu-Ma Ch'ien
Watson, Burton, trans.
Excerpts from one of the great Chinese historical works, compiled by a court historian who lived from approximately 145 to 90
BC. Thirteen of the 18 chapters cover the Han period, which was
at its peak during his lifetime, while five additional chapters
chronicle the preceding Chou and Ch'in periods. 356pgs. • 1969
◆ • Columbia • P • $50.00 / $16.98
✪ 158661 TERRA INCOGNITA: Mapping the
Antipodes Before 1600
Hiatt, Alfred
The very concept of terra incognita presents a problem:
without knowledge of it, how can land be represented? This
study examines how unknown lands were represented from
late antiquity to 1600 in the form of maps and in a variety
of written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts,
and travel narratives. 232pgs. • 2008
◆ • British Library • C • IMPORT / $29.98
✪ 154943 AN UNCERTAIN GLORY: India and Its
Contradictions
Dreze, Jean & Amartya Sen
Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable
growth remains an important and achievable goal for India. In
this volume two of India's leading economists argue that the
country's main problems lie in the lack of attention paid to the
essential needs of the people, especially of the poor, and often
of women. 448pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
117431 UNEASY WARRIORS: Gender, Memory, and
Popular Culture in the Japanese Army
Frühstück, Sabine
In the 1950s, Japan established the Self-Defense Forces as a
way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to selfdefense, it is equipped with advanced weapons technology and
the world's third-largest military budget. Sabine Frühstück
draws on interviews, historical research, and analysis to
describe the unusual case of a non-war-making military.
270pgs. • 2007
◆ • California • P • $29.95 / $14.98
125540 ZEN AND JAPANESE CULTURE
Suzuki, Daisetz T.
A valuable source for those wishing to understand Zen concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. Suzuki describes
what Zen is, how it evolved, and how its emphasis on primitive
simplicity and self-effacement has helped to shape an aesthetic found throughout Japanese culture. 608pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $13.98
CLASSICAL STU DI ES
133680 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the
Roman Empire
Traina, Giusto
By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal
event, Giusto Traina provides a truly fresh look at a civilization
in the midst of enormous change -- as Christianity takes hold
in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces
fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts
from Rome to Constantinople. 232pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $9.98
✪ 160199 ANCIENT ROME: From
Romulus to Justinian
Martin, Thomas R.
Encompassing the period from Rome's
founding in the eighth century B.C. through
Justinian's rule in the sixth century AD,
Thomas R. Martin offers a distinctive perspective on the Romans and their civilization. He does so by employing Rome's fundamental values as a lens through which to
view both the civilization's extraordinary rise and its spectacular fall. 256pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $9.98
088515 ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL
GREECE: A Selection of Ancient
Sources in Translation
Crawford, Michael H. & David Whitehead
Collects a representative selection of
ancient sources on the history, institutions,
society and economy of the Greek world
from c. 750 to 338 BC — a period that witnessed the evolution of the polis, a form of
political community which combined
aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity
unparalleled before or since. 660pgs. • 1983
◆ • Cambridge • P • $65.00 / $42.98
028803 ATHENIAN ECONOMY &
SOCIETY: A Banking Perspective
Cohen, Edward E.
Demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens,
challenging the view that bankers were
merely pawnbrokers and money-changers,
revealing that 4th-century Athenian
bankers pursued sophisticated transactions. 288pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $24.98
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140894 REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS
1755-1775
Adams, John
Propelled by the power of his pen and the
clarity of his judgment, John Adams became
a major figure in the American Revolution.
This first of two volumes devoted to his writings to 1783 includes the complete newspaper exchange between "Novanglus"
(Adams) and "Massachusettensis" (Loyalist
Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters, many to his "dearest
friend" Abigail. 750pgs. • 2011
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $17.98
153373 COLLECTED STORIES: Winesburg, Ohio / The
Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the
Woods / Uncollected Stories
Anderson, Sherwood
Here, for the first time in a single volume, are all the collections Anderson published during his lifetime, along with a generous selection of stories left uncollected or unpublished at
his death. 928pgs. • 2012
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035797 TRAVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS
Bartram, William
The most significant American nature writer before Thoreau,
Bartram was also a pioneering ethnographer whose works are
a crucial source for the study of the Indian cultures of southeastern America. 701pgs. • 1996
◆ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
107233 NOVELS 1956-1964: Seize the Day; Henderson
the Rain King; Herzog
Bellow, Saul
Passionate, insightful, often funny, and exhibiting a linguistic
richness few writers have equaled, the novels of Saul Bellow
are among the defining achievements of postwar American literature. 793pgs. • 2007
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
116787 POEMS, PROSE AND
LETTERS
Bishop, Elizabeth
Long before a wider public was aware of
Bishop's work, her fellow poets
expressed astonished admiration of her
formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric
flights of imagination. This collection
offers a full-scale presentation of a writer
of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent,
adventurous and perfectionist. 900pgs. • 2008
◆ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
149691 A PRINCESS OF MARS
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold
in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and
forty-eight million miles from Earth -- a castaway on the planet Mars. This centennial edition invites readers to rediscover
the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great
interplanetary romance. 384pgs. • 2012
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035794 LATER NOVELS AND OTHER
WRITINGS: The Lady in the Lake; The
Little Sister; The Long Goodbye;
Playback; Double Indemnity; Essays &
Letters
Chandler, Raymond
In Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story
became a haunting mystery of power and
corruption, set against a lyrical and violent
modern cityscape. The volume presents
The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and
Playback, the last Marlowe novel. Also included is the screenplay for Double Indemnity, along with a selection of essays and
letters. 1076pgs. • 1995
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149369 THE COLLECTED WORKS
Cheever, John
The definitive two-volume slipcased edition of Cheever's
stories and novels. 1973pgs. • 2012
◆ • Library of America • C • $70.00 / $34.98
122181 COMPLETE NOVELS
Cheever, John
In these works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of the ascendant postwar
elite as well as the fallen Yankee aristocrats who stubbornly clung to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former
glory. Includes The Wapshot Chronicle
(winner of the National Book Award)
and its sequel The Wapshot Scandal
(winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); the dark suburban drama Bullet Park; the prison novel Falconer; and
the lyrical ecological fable Oh What a Paradise It Seems.
960pgs. • 2009
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $17.98
035734 THE LEATHERSTOCKING
TALES, VOLUME 1: The Pioneers; The
Last of the Mohicans; The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
The five novels in Cooper's great saga of the
American wilderness form a pageant of the
American frontier, set against the dense
woods, desolate prairies, and transcendent
landscapes of the New World. Cooper's
hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther
into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization
that he inadvertently serves as advance scout, missionary, and
critic. 1347pgs. • 1985
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116783 FIVE NOVELS OF THE 1960S AND 70S
Dick, Philip K.
Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious
rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. This volume
includes Martian Time-Slip (1964); Dr. Bloodmoney, or How
We Got Along After the Bomb (1965); Now Wait for Last Year
(1966); Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974); and A
Scanner Darkly (1977). 1100pgs. • 2008
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053383 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND WRITINGS, 1757-1790
Franklin, Benjamin
The classic Autobiography, Franklin's last word on his greatest
literary creation -- his own invented personality -- is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to the original
manuscript. Also included are political satires, bagatelles,
pamphlets, letters, speeches to the Continental Congress, and
prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanack. 816pgs. • 1997
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035792 COLLECTED POEMS, PROSE AND PLAYS
Frost, Robert
The first authoritative and comprehensive collection of
Frost's writings, bringing together all the major poetry, all
of Frost's dramatic writing, and the most extensive gathering of his prose writings ever published. The core of this
collection is the 1949 "Complete Poems," the last edition
supervised by the poet himself - free of the unauthorized
editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions.
1036pgs. • 1995
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122184 AMERICAN WRITINGS: Some Chinese Ghosts;
Chita; Two Years in the French West Indies; Youma;
Selected Journalism & Letters
Hearn, Lafcadio
A singular figure in American letters, Hearn was born on a
Greek isle to a Greek mother and an English father, and made
his name as a writer in the United States before settling permanently in Japan. Steeped in a decadent style, deeply interested in folk traditions (notably voodoo), has writings display
a keenly observant eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and the
gruesome. 900pgs. • 2009
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✪ 106838 AMERICAN SONNETS: An
Anthology
THE AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Bromwich, David, ed.
Some of the sonnets in this collection -Hart Crane's tribute to Emily Dickinson,
for example, or Emma Lazarus's dedication of Lady Liberty to the world's tired
and poor -- are classics cast in bronze.
Others -- Elizabeth Bishop's short-lined
"Sonnet" or any sonnet typed by Cummings -- are hammers
that shatter the mold. The heart of the book is in the clusters
of sonnets by Longfellow, Very, Tuckerman, Robinson, Frost,
Stickney, Wylie, and Millay. 197pgs. • 2007
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085402 AMERICAN WITS: An Anthology of Light Verse
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Hollander, John, ed.
Irreverent, playful, and inventive, the American light verse of
the past century offers a brimming feast of urbane pleasures.
Bubbling over with engaging parodies, sparkling aphorisms,
and wisecracking asides, the poems gathered here display a
sure-footed handling of the poet's art. 200pgs. • 2003
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122183 POEMS FROM THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
THE AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Moore, Honor, ed.
"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her
life? / The world would split open." These lines by Muriel
Rukeyser epitomize the spirit that animated a generation of
women poets, from the 1960s to the 1980s. This anthology
represents 58 poets, among them Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich,
Anne Sexton, Sonia Sanchez, May Swenson, Alice Walker,
Audre Lorde, Ann Waldman, Sharon Olds, Diane Di Prima,
Lucille Clifton, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles. 200pgs. • 2009
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✪ 085405 POETS OF WORLD WAR II
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Shapiro, Harvey, ed.
An anthology of 120 poems about World War II by 62
American poets, including Louis Simpson, Anthony Hecht,
Kenneth Koch, James Dickey, Howard Nemerov, Richard
Hugo, John Ciardi, and Marianne Moore. 262pgs. • 2003
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136677 NOVELS 1903-1911: The Ambassadors; The
Golden Bowl; The Outcry
James, Henry
This authoritative volume collecting the last three works James
saw to completion before his death. Included as an appendix
is "The Married Son," the chapter James contributed to The
Whole Family, a multi-author novel portraying a dysfunctional
family whose struggles mirror the frustrated collaborative
efforts of the book's contributors. 1197pgs. • 2011
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035730 WRITINGS: Autobiography; A
Summary View of the Rights of British
America; Notes on the State of Virginia;
Addresses, Letters
Jefferson, Thomas
The most comprehensive one-volume
selection of Jefferson's writings ever published. 1600pgs. • 1984
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153363 COLLECTED POEMS
Kerouac, Jack
This landmark edition brings together for
the first time all Kerouac's major poetic
works -- Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of
the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Pomes
All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of
Haikus -- along with a rich assortment of his
uncollected poems, six published here for
the first time. 816pgs. • 2012
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✪ 101661 THE ESSENTIAL
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Brooks, Gwendolyn & Elizabeth Alexander,
ed.
From a life on Chicago's South Side
Gwendolyn Brooks created a forceful and
passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cultural tradition, registering the life of the streets and the
upheavals of the 20th century. Starting with A Street in
Bronzeville (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, this volume traces the full arc of her career. 200pgs. • 2005
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✪ 085411 KENNETH FEARING:
Selected Poems
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Fearing, Kenneth & Robert Polito, ed.
Poet, journalist, and crime novelist,
Fearing wrote poems with the jargon of
advertising, radio broadcasts, tabloid
headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and
pop tunes. This selection highlights the
energy and originality of his prophetic
poetry, with its formal experimenting and singular note of
warning: "We must be prepared for anything, anything, anything." 230pgs. • 2004
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092587 THEODORE ROETHKE:
Selected Poems
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Roethke, Theodore
From the recollections of his youth in
Michigan to the visionary longings of the
poems written just before his death,
Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to
restore wholeness to a self that seemed
irreparably broken. This gathering of
Roethke's works includes several of his poems for children, as
well as a generous sampling from his notebooks. 200pgs. •
2005
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117019 THE LINCOLN ANTHOLOGY: Great Writers
on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now
Holzer, Harold, ed.
Features impressions of Lincoln by Winston Churchill,
Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, U. S. Grant,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Karl
Marx, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Gore
Vidal, Booker T. Washington, H. G. Wells, Walt Whitman,
Garry Wills, and many others. The volume also includes
illustrations and a detailed chronology of Lincoln's life.
800pgs. • 2008
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035770 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1859-1865
Lincoln, Abraham
A collection of writings from 1859 to
1865, including speeches, messages,
proclamations, letters, memoranda,
and fragments. These documents
record the words and deeds -- the
order to resupply Fort Sumter, the
emancipation of the slaves held in the
Confederacy, and proposals to offer the South generous
terms of reconstruction -- through which Lincoln hoped to
defend and preserve the Union. 788pgs. • 1989
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092592 TALES
Lovecraft, H. P.
A 20th-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe
as the master of "weird fiction," H. P.
Lovecraft adapted the conventions of horror
stories and science fiction to express an
intensely personal vision, cosmic in its ramifications and fearsome in its shuddering
view of human destiny. This volume brings
together the very best of Lovecraft's fiction
in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to
longtime fans and to readers new to his work. 850pgs. • 2005
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035738 PIERRE, ISRAEL POTTER,
THE CONFIDENCE-MAN, TALES, AND BILLY BUDD
Melville, Herman
This third volume rounds out Melville's complete fiction
with his dark and brilliant late works. The novels Pierre,
Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man forgo the buoyant
high seas for a keen, bleak vision of life at home in
America. The Piazza Tales and a number of other uncollected stories show Melville's dazzling mastery of many
styles. 1478pgs. • 1985
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035723 REDBURN, WHITE-JACKET,
MOBY-DICK
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick, Melville's masterpiece, is
one of the great epics in all of literature.
Ahab's idolatrous hunt for the white
whale drives the narrative at a relentless
pace, while Ishmael's meditations on
whales and whaling, the sublime indifference of nature, and the grimy physical details of whale-oil extraction provide a reflective counterpoint. This volume also includes Redburn, which relates
a young man's initiation into the sailor's life, and WhiteJacket, a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in
the US Navy. 1436pgs. • 1983
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035714 TYPEE, OMOO, MARDI
Melville, Herman
Typee and Omoo, based on the young
Melville's experiences on a whaling
ship, are exuberant accounts of idyllic
life in Polynesia. They remained his
most popular works well into the 20th
century. Mardi is a mixture of love
story, adventure, and political allegory,
set on a mythical Pacific island, that
looks forward to the complexities of Moby-Dick. 1333pgs.
• 1982
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136580 PREJUDICES: The Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth Series
Mencken, H. L.
In the six volumes of Prejudices (19191927), Mencken attacked what he felt to be
American provincialism and hypocrisy, and
championed writers and thinkers he saw as
harbingers of a new candor and maturity.
Laced with savage humor and delighting in
verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a
one-of-a-kind roller coaster ride over a staggering range of
thematic territory. 656pgs. • 2010
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157757 COLLECTED POEMS 19521993
Merwin, W. S.
The first volume in a definitive two-volume
edition of the poems of the former US Poet
Laureate. Oracular and elegant, Merwin's
poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is
essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of
our mortality. 750pgs. • 2013
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035789 COLLECTED WRITINGS
Paine, Thomas
Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of
Revolution. This volume brings together his best-known works
-- Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The
Age of Reason -- along with a selection of letters, articles and
pamphlets. 906pgs. • 1995
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035732 POETRY AND TALES
Poe, Edgar Allan
This volume displays Poe's range and
accomplished technique, as well as his gift
for revealing the dark possibilities of
human experience. Includes famous stories
such as "The Fall of the House of Usher"
and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"
along with popular poems such as "Annabel
Lee" and lesser-known works, and his
unusual prose-poem "Eureka." 1408pgs. • 1984
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116785 COLLECTED STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS
Porter, Katherine Anne
Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi
Germany and the gothic Old South, Porter's stories of love,
outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning are severe but never
cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than
30, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, "many are unsurpassed in modern fiction." Rounding out this volume is a
selection of Porter's journalism and other short prose.
1068pgs. • 2008
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085418 LETTERS AND SPEECHES
Roosevelt, Theodore
Teddy Roosevelt's letters demonstrate the astonishing range of
his interests and deeds and reveal the personal dimensions of
one of our greatest statesmen. In addition to four of his most
famous speeches, this volume collects 367 letters written
between 1881 and 1919 to correspondents as various as Jacob
Riis, Rudyard Kipling, Upton Sinclair, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 960pgs. • 2004
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THE CIVIL WAR
136675 THE CIVIL WAR (FIRST YEAR): The First Year
of the Conflict Told by Those Who Lived It
Simpson, Brooks D., et al., eds.
Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems,
songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, this
volume gathers more than 120 pieces by more than 60 participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great
historical crisis. Together, the selections provide a powerful
sense of the immediacy, uncertainty, and urgency of events
as the nation was torn asunder. 720pgs. • 2011
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148189 THE CIVIL WAR (SECOND YEAR): The Second
Year Told by Those Who Lived It
Sears, Stephen, ed.
More than 140 messages, proclamations, newspaper stories, letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, and poems by
more than 80 participants and observers, among them
Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George
B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Emily
Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clara
Barton, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong.
936pgs. • 2012
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035772 MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W.
T. SHERMAN
Sherman, William T.
Written with the energetic confidence that
marked his later campaigns, Sherman's
memoirs provide both a vivid firsthand
account of crucial events of the Civil War
and a unique record of the emergence of
its most innovative strategist. 1136pgs. •
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116780 AMERICAN EARTH: Environmental Writing
since Thoreau
McKibben, Bill, ed.
Classics of the environmental imagination -- the essays of
Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo
Leopold's A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson's Silent
Spring -- are set against the inspiring story of an emerging
activist movement, as revealed by newly uncovered reports of
pioneering campaigns for conservation, passages from landmark legal opinions and legislation, and searing protest
speeches. 900pgs. • 2008
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SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
CENTURIES
Shields, David, ed.
The poetry of early America is seen afresh in
this groundbreaking new volume, which
spans from the first years of English settlement in the New World to the death of
George Washington. Gathering the work of
more than 100 poets -- including many
poems never previously anthologized and some published here
for the first time -- it is the most comprehensive collection of its
kind ever assembled. 900pgs. • 2007
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101885 AMERICAN RELIGIOUS POEMS: An Anthology
Bloom, Harold & Jesse Zuba, eds.
From Anne Bradstreet to the Beats, from Native American
chant and Shaker hymnody to Walt Whitman and Emily
Dickinson, religion and spirituality have always been central
to American poetry. This elegant slipcased anthology, spanning
four centuries and more than 200 poets, offers countless
moments of inspiration, solace, meditation, and transcendence. 900pgs. • 2006
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153364 AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION: Five Classic
Novels 1956-58
Wolfe, Gary K., ed.
Five novels from the golden age of modern science fiction.
Includes Robert Heinlein's Double Star, Alfred Bester's The Stars
My Destination, James Blish's A Case of Conscience, Algis
Budrys's Who?, and Fritz Leiber's The Big Time. 950pgs. • 2012
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106833 AMERICAN SPEECHES I: Political Oratory from
the Revolution to the Civil War
Widmer, Ted, ed.
This volume, the first of an unprecedented two-volume collection,
gathers the unabridged texts of 45 eloquent and dramatic speeches delivered by American public figures between 1761 and 1865,
beginning with James Otis's denunciation of unrestrained searches by British customs officials -- hailed by John Adams as the
beginning of the American Revolution -- and ending with
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. 810pgs. • 2006
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157830 NOVELS 2001-2007: The Dying Animal / The
Plot Against America / Exit Ghost
Roth, Philip
Philip Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work
published in a comprehensive edition by The Library of America.
The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels
written in his late sixties and early seventies. 740pgs. • 2013
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106836 WRITINGS: with Other Narratives of Roanoke,
Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America
Smith, Captain John et al.
One of the most colorful figures in American history, the soldier,
explorer, and colonist John Smith was a vivid and prolific chronicler of the beginnings of English settlement in the New World.
This volume brings together seven of his works, along with 16
additional narratives by 13 other writers, that recount firsthand
the tragic, harrowing, and dramatic events of the settlement of
Roanoke and Jamestown. 1200pgs. • 2007
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043709 BASEBALL: A Literary
Anthology
Dawidoff, Nicholas, ed.
A lively mix of stories, memoirs, poems,
news reports, and insider accounts about
all aspects of the great American game,
from its pastoral 19th-century beginnings
to its apotheosis as the undisputed national pastime. 721pgs. • 2002
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140888 HARLEM RENAISSANCE NOVELS: The Library
of America Collection
Zafar, Rafia, ed.
This two-volume set includes Cane by Jean Toomer, Home to
Harlem by Claude McKay, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, Plum Bun
by Jessie Redmon Fauset, The Blacker the Berry by Wallace
Thurman, Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, Black No
More by George Schuyler, The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph
Fisher, and Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps. 1600pgs. • 2011
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085608 REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS, VOL. 1: American
Journalism 1941 to 1963
Library of America Staff
Beginning with A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for
African-Americans to march on Washington and ending with a
retrospective article written by Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting
Civil Rights covers the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation by law in the United States. This two-volume anthology
brings together nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports,
book excerpts, and features by 151 writers. 996pgs. • 2003
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116786 TRUE CRIME: An American Anthology
Schechter, Harold, ed.
From the beginning crime and punishment has been one the
most characteristic themes in American literature. This volume
includes such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce,
Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell,
Truman Capote, and James Ellroy, as well as execution sermons,
murder ballads, early broadsides, trial reports, and tabloid journalism from many eras. 900pgs. • 2008
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043548 WRITING LOS ANGELES: A
Literary Anthology
Ulin, David L., ed.
Presents a panorama of the city, encompassing fiction, poetry, essays, journalism,
and diaries by over 70 writers, bringing to
life entrancing surfaces and unsettling
contradictions, from Chandler's evocation of the murderous moods fed by the
Santa Ana winds to Dunne's affectionate
tribute to "the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical
light." 880pgs. • 2002
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043546 NOVELS 1942-1952
Steinbeck, John
The third volume in this authoritative edition of Steinbeck's
writings shows him continuing to explore new subject matter
and new approaches to storytelling. The Moon Is Down,
Cannery Row, The Pearl, and East of Eden display the versatility and emotional directness that have made Steinbeck one of
America's most enduringly popular writers. 983pgs. • 2001
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106837 TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY AND LATER
NOVELS, 1947-1962
Steinbeck, John
Travels with Charley was Steinbeck's last published book. A
record of his experiences and observations as he drove
around America in a pickup truck, it is filled with engaging,
often humorous description and comes to a powerful climax
in an encounter with racist demonstrators in New Orleans.
Also includes The Wayward Bus, Burning Bright, Sweet
Thursday, and The Winter of Our Discontent. 990pgs. • 2007
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035715 THREE NOVELS: Uncle Tom's
Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown
Folks
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Described by Henry James as "much less a
book than a state of vision," Uncle Tom's
Cabin is one of the most influential works of
fiction in American history. Stowe's moving
Christian epic turned millions of Americans
against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction. 1468pgs.
• 1982
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035741 A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK
RIVERS; WALDEN; THE MAINE WOODS; CAPE COD
Thoreau, Henry David
Thoreau's longer works in one volume, all demonstrating his
subtle interweaving of natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore. The Maine Woods and Cape Cod are
especially valuable portraits of the natural landscapes of
Thoreau's youth that were changing irreversibly even as he
wrote these classic essays. 1114pgs. • 1989
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035721 MISSISSIPPI WRITINGS: Tom Sawyer; Life on
the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Pudd'nhead Wilson
Twain, Mark
Collects in one volume for the first time: Tom Sawyer, Life on the
Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Filled
with comic and melodramatic adventure, these four books evoke
life along the Mississippi, which represented the boundary
between the comforts of civilization and the rough realities, violence, and the freedom of the frontier. 1126pgs. • 1982
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136584 PRELUDE TO A MILLION
YEARS, SONG WITHOUT WORDS,
VERTIGO
EDITED BY ART SPIEGELMAN
Ward, Lynd
Prelude to a Million Years (1933) is a dark
meditation on art, inspiration, and the disparity between the ideal and the real. Song
Without Words (1936), a protest against
the rise of European fascism, asks if ours is
a world still fit for the human soul. Vertigo (1937), Ward's
undisputed masterpiece, is an epic novel on the theme of the
individual caught in the downward spiral of a sinking
American economy. 690pgs. • 2010
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035804 WRITINGS
Washington, George
This one-volume collection -- the most
extensive and authoritative ever published - covers five decades of Washington's astonishingly active life. Bringing together over
440 letters, orders, addresses, and other
documents -- both public and personal -- it
reveals him to have been an energetic,
forceful, and at times eloquent writer.
1149pgs. • 1997
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035815 STORIES, ESSAYS AND MEMOIR: A Curtain of
Green; The Wide Net; The Golden Apples; The Bride of
the Innisfallen; Selected Essays One Writer's Beginnings
Welty, Eudora
Presents all of Welty's collected short stories, with full texts of
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other
Stories, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen.
Two stories from the 1960s, a selection of occasional pieces
and One Writer's Beginnings, Welty's sensitive memoir of her
Jackson childhood round out the collection. 976pgs. • 1998
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107236 LITERARY ESSAYS AND
REVIEWS OF THE 1920S AND '30S:
The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle /
Uncollected Reviews
Wilson, Edmund
Includes The Shores of Light, Wilson's
magisterial assemblage of early reviews,
sketches, stories, memoirs, and other
writings; Axel's Castle, his pioneering
overview of literary modernism; and
previously uncollected reviews, including discussions of H.
L. Mencken, Edith Wharton, and Bernard Shaw. 958pgs. •
2007
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107238 LITERARY ESSAYS AND REVIEWS OF THE
1930S AND 1940S
Wilson, Edmund
The second installment in the Library of America's collection of Wilson presents him at the height of his powers as
critic and scholar. Included are three of his most significant
books: The Triple Thinkers; The Wound and the Bow; and
Classics and Commercials. 1000pgs. • 2007
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✪ 126959 BEARERS OF
MEANING: The Classical
Orders in Antiquity, the Middle
Ages, and the Renaissance
Onians, John
From their first appearance in
ancient Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the
architectural orders -- the columns
and capitals known as Doric,
Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite -- were made to
serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue. In this volume, John Onians provides
a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that
Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders.
368pgs. • 1990
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131952 BIRTH OF THE SYMBOL: Ancient Readers at
the Limits of Their Texts
Struck, Peter
Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic
symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers -- the
allegorists -- were the first to develop the notion. Peter Struck
links their interest in symbolism to the importance of divination and magic in ancient times, and he demonstrates how
important symbolism became to thinking about religion and
philosophy. 312pgs. • 2004
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✪ 087173 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO THE AGE OF
AUGUSTUS
Galinsky, Karl, ed.
The age of Augustus, commonly dated
to 30 BC-AD 14, was a time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and
throughout the Mediterranean world.
Written by a team of specialists from
the US and Europe, the essays in this
volume explore the multi-faceted character of the period
and the interconnections among social, religious, political,
literary, and artistic developments. 432pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $20.98
050823 THE CAMBRIDGE
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
ANCIENT GREECE
Cartledge, Paul, ed.
Analyzes how ordinary citizens took
part in "the glory that was Greece,"
examining environment and economy;
experiences of workers, soldiers,
slaves, peasants, and women; and
roles of myth, religion, art, culture,
science, and education. Presents the far-reaching legacy of
ancient Greece, seeking to justify Shelley's claim that "we are
all Greeks." 400pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $50.00 / $30.98
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Matyszak, Philip
Welcome to Athens in 431 BC! This entertaining guide provides all the information a tourist needs for a journey back
in time to ancient Athens at its pinnacle of greatness. 40
illustrations, 12 in color. 144pgs. • 2008
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DENARII A DAY
Matyszak, Philip
This entertaining guide provides all the
information a tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD
200. Here is advice on what to see on
each of the city's famous seven hills,
what to take to a fancy dinner party
(dining robe, your own napkin, and
indoor shoes) and where to find the best markets and public baths. 43 illustrations, 11 in color. 144pgs. • 2008
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $7.98
114200 CHRONICLE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: The
Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus
Matyszak, Philip
Supported by a wealth of pictorial and archaeological detail,
these personal histories of the luminaries of Rome during its
republican heyday provide an overview of its development and
expansion. The biographies are supplemented by time lines,
data files, and special features that highlight various aspects of
Roman culture and society. Includes 320 illustrations, 110 in
color. 240pgs. • 2008
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $13.98
149398 THE DEVIL KNOWS LATIN: Why America
Needs the Classical Tradition
Kopff, E. Christian
A provocative and illuminating examination of contemporary American culture. Whether discussing the importance
of Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current
trends in literary theory, education, and politics, or applying a classical perspective to contemporary films, Christian
Kopff is at home and on the mark. 344pgs. • 1998
◆ • ISI Books • C • $24.95 / $6.98
✪ 125736 DIONYSIAC POETICS AND
EURIPIDES' BACCHAE
Segal, Charles
In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as
his central figure the god who crosses the
boundaries among god, man, and beast,
between reality and imagination, and
between art and madness. Charles Segal's
reading of the play builds gradually from
concrete details of cult, setting, and
imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. 379pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $57.50 / $28.98
121350 THE ENEMIES OF ROME: From Hannibal to
Attila the Hun
Matyszak, Philip
It was once assumed that Rome carried the torch of civilization into the barbarian darkness, bringing law, architecture,
and literature to conquered peoples. This engrossing book
looks at the growth and decline of Rome from the viewpoint of
the peoples who fought against it, many of whom developed
flourishing civilizations in their own right. 296pgs. • 2009
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $22.95 / $12.98
157877 GHOST ON THE THRONE: The Death of
Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
Romm, James
The galvanizing saga of the men who followed Alexander -and found themselves incapable of preserving his empire. The
result, as Romm shows, was the undoing of a world formerly
united in a single empire into a nightmare of warring nationstates that struggled for domination, and in doing so creating
the template for our own times. 368pgs. • 2011
◆ • Knopf • C • $28.95 / $7.98
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031106 THE GODS OF THE GREEKS
Kerényi, C.
Drawing on a wealth of sources, from
Hesiod to Pausanias and from the Orphic
Hymns to Proclus, Kerényi provides a clear
and scholarly exposition of all the most
important Greek myths. The lively and
highly readable narrative is complemented
by an appendix of detailed references to all
the original texts and a selection of illustrations taken from vase paintings. 304pgs. • 1980
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $8.98
✪ 121304 THE GREAT GOD PAN: The Survival of an
Image
Boardman, John
Among the gods of classical antiquity, Pan -- that distinctive
figure combining the physical characteristics of man and
goat -- is one of the few to have retained a special place in
the imaginations of writers and artists. In this elegant, succinct study, a renowned art historian describes how the
depiction of Pan and his familiar pipes developed and how
it was adapted in later times. 48pgs. • 1998
▲ • Thames & Hudson • C • $16.95 / $7.98
✪ 127740 GREEK AND ROMAN
NECROMANCY
Ogden, Daniel
In classical antiquity, there was much
interest in necromancy -- the consultation
of the dead for divination by sleeping on
tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to
reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging
from the Greek archaic period through the
late Roman empire, this book is the first
comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language. 352pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $24.98
088058 THE HELLENISTIC WORLD FROM ALEXANDER
TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST: A Selection of Ancient
Sources in Translation
Austin, M. M.
This enlarged edition of Austin's seminal work provides a
panoramic view of this world through ancient sources. Now
comprising over 300 texts from literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources, presented in original translations and supported by introductory sections, detailed references, chronological tables, maps, illustrations of coins, and a full analytical
index. 656pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $53.00 / $30.98
✪ 027820 AN INTRODUCTION OF
GREEK AND LATIN
PALEOGEOGRAPHY
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MONOGRAPH
REPRINTS
Thompson, Edward Maunde
The author describes this book as "a
fairly complete account of the history
and progress of Greek and Latin
palaeography, especially in its literary
aspect, from the earliest periods represented by surviving
manuscripts down to the close of the 15th century." The
core of the book is a selection of 250 facsimiles of manuscripts, ranging from Greek cursive papyri to the bookhands of the 15th century. 600pgs. • 2002
◆ • Oxford University • C • $80.00 / $29.98
157287 LANGUAGE AND HISTORY IN
ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE
Ostwald, Martin
Spanning 40 years, this collection of essays
represents the work, both philological and
historical, of a renowned teacher and
scholar of the ancient Greek world. The
thread that runs throughout is Ostwald's
precise explanation, for a modern audience, of some of the crucial concepts
through which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives -and influenced our own. 336pgs. • 2009
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $69.95 / $22.98
142459 LUCK, FATE AND FORTUNE: Antiquity and Its
Legacy
Eidinow, Esther
Exploring some of the key ideas of ancient Greek culture that
resonate with modern conceptions of destiny, Eidinow examines ancient notions of luck as a means of explaining daily
experiences. Focusing on writers such as Homer, Herodotus,
Thucydides and Demosthenes, she shows how concepts of fate
in antiquity changed over time in response to social and political currents. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $24.95 / $5.98
134364 THE LURE OF THE ARENA:
Social Psychology and the Crowd at
the Roman Games
Fagan, Garrett G.
Why do people regularly turn out in large
numbers to watch public rituals of violence like executions, floggings, animalbaiting, and pugilism? Fagan argues that
appreciating the social-psychological
dynamics at work in such events not only
deepens our understanding of the spectator in Roman times
but also suggests something important about ourselves.
374pgs. • 2011
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104391 A NEW HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC
Kennedy, George A.
This extensive revision and abridgment of Kennedy's The Art of
Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World,
and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors provides a
comprehensive history of the subject, one that is destined to be
the standard work in the field. 336pgs. • 1994
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $21.98
ANCIENT
080806 AKHENATEN: Egypt's False
Prophet
Reeves, Nicholas
Presents an entirely new perspective on
the turbulent events of Akhenaten's seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that
Akhenaten cynically used religion for
purely political ends in a calculated
attempt to reassert the authority of the
king, thus concentrating power in his own
hands. Ultimately his revolution failed as political, financial, and
moral corruption overwhelmed the regime. 208pgs. • 2005
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
114231 CHRONICLE OF THE PHARAOHS: The Reignby-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient
Egypt
Clayton, Peter A.
Covers all the rulers and dynasties of Egypt in chronological
order, from Narmer, who first united the lands along the Nile,
to Cleopatra some 3,000 years later. The rich illustrative material includes timelines and specially drawn cartouches of each
pharaoh with translations of their names. 224pgs. • 2006
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $9.98
114757 THE COMPLETE PYRAMIDS: Solving the
Ancient Mysteries
Lehner, Mark
Surveys and describes the pyramids across their 3,000-year
history, explaining the rituals and mythology, the history of
travelers, looters, and archaeologists, and the ways in which
the pyramids were an integral part of the Egyptian state. The
hundreds of illustrations include computer reconstructions
and specially commissioned perspective views of the pyramids
and their interior chambers. 256pgs. • 2008
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $14.98
099122 EGYPT AND THE EGYPTIANS
Brewer, Douglas J. & Emily Teeter
A comprehensive introduction to this most rich and complex of
early societies. From high politics to the concerns of everyday
Egyptians, the book explores every aspect of Egyptian culture and
society, including religion, language, art, architecture, cities, and
mummification. Archaeological and documentary sources are
combined to give the reader a unique and expansive view of a
remarkable ancient culture. 280pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $25.98
157825 ODES FOR VICTORIOUS ATHLETES
TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANNE PIPPIN BURNETT
Pindar
The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments:
the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its
disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and
friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as
entertainment. In this volume, an esteemed classicist presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory
songs. 200pgs. • 2010
◆ • Johns Hopkins • P • $20.00 / $5.98
157824 THE ODES OF HORACE
TRANSLATED BY JEFFREY H. KAIMOWITZ
Horace
A translation of Horace's most widely read collection of
poetry is rendered in modern, metrical English verse.
Kaimowitz has adapted the Roman poet's rich and metrically varied poetry in a way that maintains fidelity to the
tone, timbre, and style of the originals while conforming to
the rules of English prosody. 208pgs. • 2008
◆ • Johns Hopkins • P • $25.00 / $7.98
049629 RELIGIONS OF ROME, VOLUME 2: A
Sourcebook
Beard, Mary, et al.
Presents a range of documents illustrating religious life in the
Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire (both
visual evidence and texts in translation), exploring major
themes and problems of Roman religion (such as sacrifice,
the religious calendar, divination, and prediction). Each document has an introduction, explanatory notes, and bibliography. 416pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $43.00 / $24.98
EGYPT
✪ 142043 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS FOR COMPLETE
BEGINNERS
Manley, Bill
The first guide to reading hieroglyphs that begins with
Egyptian monuments themselves. Assuming no knowledge on
the part of the reader, it shows how to interpret the information on the inscriptions in a step-by-step journey through the
script and language of ancient Egypt. 160pgs. • 2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $7.98
028316 THE EGYPTIANS
THIRD EDITION
Aldred, Cyril
A revision of the classic work covering
the rise and fall over more than three millennia of the power of the divine king,
with new material on the first unification
of Egypt, her early kings, and the Third
Intermediate Period. 224pgs. • 1998
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117489 HELLENISTIC EGYPT: Monarchy, Society,
Economy, Culture
Bingen, Jean & Roger S. Bagnall
Brings together for the first time the writings of the preeminent historian, papyrologist, and epigraphist Jean Bingen. In
particular, his work on the Ptolemaic monarchy and economy,
which illustrates how the Greeks and Egyptians interacted, has
transformed the field and influenced all subsequent work.
305pgs. • 2007
◆ • California • P • $30.95 / $18.98
✪ 031159 THE WORLD OF THE PHARAOHS: A
Complete Guide to Ancient Egypt
Hobson, Christine
Provides both a record of civilization along the Nile and an
account of the growth of Egyptian archaeology from its beginnings. Through the work of pioneer archaeologists -- from
Flinders Petrie at Amarna and Howard Carter in the Valley of
the Kings, to Geoffrey Martin at Saqqara -- all aspects of
Egypt's rich culture are examined, including tombs, temples
and pyramids, hieroglyphs, and mummies. 192pgs. • 1987
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
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133689 THE FIRST FOSSIL HUNTERS: Dinosaurs,
Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Mayor, Adrienne
Contending that many of the fabulous creatures of classical
mythology may have had a basis in fact, Mayor argues that
stories of griffins, titans, and giants were based on ancient
discoveries of the enormous bones of long-extinct species
such as mammoths and mastodons. 400pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $9.98
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Life and Legend of Mithradates,
Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Mayor, Adrienne
A gripping account of one of Rome's
most relentless but least understood
foes, the ruthless king and visionary
rebel whose uncanny ability to elude
capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while
his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination
attempts and eliminate rivals. 480pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $9.98
153431 THE WAR OF THE
PELOPONNESIANS AND THE
ATHENIANS
Thucydides
A foundational text in the history of Western
political thought. This new translation is
particularly sensitive to the risks of
anachronism, and its notes and extensive
reference material provide the historical,
cultural, and linguistic background needed
to engage with the text on its own terms. 754pgs. • 2013
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $21.98
049284 THE WORLD OF ROME: An Introduction to
Roman Culture
Jones, Peter & Keith C. Sidwell, eds.
An invaluable volume for anyone seriously interested in the
ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city -- its rise to
power, what made it great, and why it still engages and challenges us today. Ample quotations from ancient writers and
numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible
introduction to ancient Rome. 423pgs. • 1997
◆ • Cambridge • P • $41.99 / $23.98
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051391 RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT
GREEKS
Price, Simon
In a book about the religious life of the
Greeks from the 8th century BC to the 5th
century AD, examined in the context of a
variety of different cities and periods, Price
surveys local practices and ideas in the
light of general Greek conceptions, relating them, for example, to gender roles and
to cultural and political life. 217pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $20.98
126252 ROMAN BRITAIN: A New
History
De la Bédoyère, Guy
This lively and authoritative account of
Britain as a Roman province sets the
Roman conquest and occupation of the
island within the larger context of
Romano-British society and how it functioned. Beautifully illustrated, the book
includes reconstruction drawings, dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, and a wide array of
images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery, and sculpture.
288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $12.98
140859 ROMAN REPUBLICS
Flower, Harriet I.
While classicists have long recognized that
the Roman Republic changed and evolved
over time, Flower is the first to mount a
serious argument against the idea of
republican continuity. She argues that
there were in fact multiple republics, each
with its own clearly distinguishable
strengths and weaknesses. 224pgs. •
2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $13.98
✪ 115319 SONS OF CAESAR:
Imperial Rome's First Dynasty
Matyszak, Philip
This engaging volume relates the long
history of the Julian and Claudian families amid the social and political
background of the Roman Republic
and early Empire. At the heart of the
account are six men -- Julius Caesar,
Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius,
and Nero -- who seized control of Rome, in the process
transforming it from a democracy into a personal possession. 296pgs. • 2006
▲ • Thames & Hudson • C • $31.95 / $12.98
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129473 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: An Anthology of
Texts and Pictures
Pritchard, J. B.
James Pritchard's anthologies of the ancient Near East have
introduced generations of readers to texts essential for
understanding the peoples and cultures of this important
region. With more than 130 reading selections and 300
photographs of ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this
book combines both of the earlier volumes. 664pgs. •
2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $46.95 / $27.98
133728 CIVILIZATIONS OF
ANCIENT IRAQ
Foster, Benjamin & Karen Polinger
Foster
The story of ancient Mesopotamia from
the earliest settlements to the Arab conquest. With illustrations of important
works of art and architecture in every
chapter, the narrative traces the rise
and fall of successive civilizations and
peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia, from the
Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians,
Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. 312pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $8.98
157248 DICTIONARY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Bienkowski, Piotr & Alan Millard, eds.
In 500 concise and comprehensively indexed entries, this
dictionary describes and explains the major ideas, institutions, places, peoples, and personalities of a region that
shaped the earliest development of Western civilization.
Architecture, literature, economics, labor, religion, and
society are all extensively treated, as are such subjects as
crime, dreams, drunkenness, shipwrecks, and sexual
behavior (and misbehavior). 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Pennsylvania • P • $34.95 / $12.98
047450 FROM NINEVEH TO NEW
YORK: The Strange Story of the
Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan
Museum and the Hidden
Masterpiece at Canford School
Russell, John Malcolm
Relates the vivid story of Sir Austen
Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient
Assyria, and of the subsequent fate of
Layard's huge collection of ancient
Assyrian art. With previously unpublished photographs,
illustrations from rare 19th-century sources, and first-hand
accounts, the book sheds new light on the history and meaning of Assyrian art and on taste, dealing, and collecting over
two centuries. 232pgs. • 1997
◆ • Yale • C • $70.00 / $29.98
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048744 ARTFUL SCIENCE:
Enlightenment Entertainment and the
Eclipse of Visual Education
Stafford, Barbara Maria
In this cross-disciplinary guide to intellectual high and low life of the 18th century,
Stafford makes the case for the pedagogical opportunities inherent in an oral-visual
culture. She draws on an extraordinary
range of historical sources and popular
imagery, exploring from a new perspective the perceptual cognition that she analyzed in her book Body Criticism. 350pgs.
• 1994
◆ • MIT • P • $27.95 / $9.98
092752 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO MODERN
AMERICAN CULTURE
Bigsby, Christopher, ed.
A comprehensive and accessible
overview exploring the social, political,
religious, and economic forces that
have shaped 20th-century America and
its inhabitants. These challenging and
varied essays discuss religious, racial,
sexual, and ethnic minorities, popular culture, the arts, urban
and suburban communities, sports, politics, immigration,
regionalism, and war. 516pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $18.98
✪ 158535 THE COMING OF THE
BODY
Juvin, Hervé
A compelling analysis of how capitalism
has given birth to the new sculpted, engineered, and pleasure-seeking body. Juvin's
central message is a sinister paradox: that
the discredited messianic goal of reinventing humanity, which communism disastrously failed to achieve, is in the process
of being realized by capitalism. 200pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • C • $27.95 / $7.98
038689 CULTURAL MARXISM IN
POSTWAR BRITAIN: History, the New
Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies
Dworkin, Dennis
This intellectual history of British cultural
Marxism traces its development from its
beginnings in postwar Britain, through its
transformations in the 1960s and '70s, to
the emergence of British cultural studies at
Birmingham and the advent of Thatcherism.
Dworkin shows how this tradition represents an implicit and
explicit theoretical effort to resolve the crisis of the postwar
British Left. 322pgs. • 1997
◆ • Duke • P • $25.95 / $5.98
147477 THE EMPIRE'S OLD CLOTHES:
What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and
Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our
Minds
Dorfman, Ariel
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel
Dorfman explores the political and social
implications of works such as the Donald
Duck comics, the Babar children's books,
and Reader's Digest magazine. This edition
includes a new Preface by the author. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Duke • P • $22.95 / $5.98
069367 THE FATEFUL QUESTION OF
CULTURE
Hartman, Geoffrey H.
Engaging a wide range of literature and
criticism, Hartman considers the term
"culture" and its many uses, and calls for
the restoration of literature to its place as
the focus of thinking about culture and for
the renewal of aesthetic education to help
ensure the balance between art, culture,
and politics. 272pgs. • 1998
◆ • Columbia • P • $30.00 / $7.98
085469 FREUD AND THE NONEUROPEAN
Said, Edward
Said's essay is an exploration of the profound implications in Freud's "Moses
and Monotheism" for Middle-East politics today, proposing that Freud's
assumption that Moses was an Egyptian
undermines any simple ascription of a
'pure' identity, and further that identity
itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. 96pgs. • 2004
◆ • Verso • P • $13.00 / $5.98
040493 THE INVENTION OF
PORNOGRAPHY: Obscenity and the
Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800
Hunt, Lynn, ed.
Examines how pornography emerged as a
literary practice and as a category of
knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and
the democratization of culture. 411pgs. •
1993
◆ • Zone Books • C • $44.95 / $9.98
083135 MAPPING SUBALTERN STUDIES AND THE
POSTCOLONIAL
Chaturvedi, Vinayak
Inspired initially by Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the Subaltern Studies project adopted a "history
from below" paradigm to contest "elite" history writing by
Indian nationalists. This volume is the first comprehensive balance-sheet of the project, presenting a collection of the most
important writing from the last two decades and focusing on
the key debates between the main scholars in the field.
320pgs. • 2000
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085524 SCUM MANIFESTO
Solanas, Valerie
Solanas, the woman who shot Andy
Warhol, self-published this book shortly
before her confinement to a mental institution. Impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lunatic, the work has indisputable
prescience, not only as a radical feminist
analysis well ahead of its time, but also as
a stunning testament to the rage of an
abused and destitute woman. 96pgs. • 2005
◆ • Verso • C • $15.00 / $5.98
✪ 130049 A SMALL WORLD:
Smart Houses and the Dream of
the Perfect Day
Heckman, Davin
From the introduction into the home
of electric appliances and industrial
time-management
techniques,
through the postwar advent of television and the space-age "house of
tomorrow," to the contemporary
automated, networked "smart home," this volume considers how domestic technologies that free people to enjoy
leisure time in the home have come to be understood as
necessary parts of everyday life. 224pgs. • 2008
◆ • Duke • P • $22.95 / $5.98
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127035 ASIAN RELIGIONS IN
PRACTICE: An Introduction
Lopez, Donald S., ed.
Accessible, clear, and concise overviews of
the religions of Asia, providing both historical context and insightful analysis of
Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto,
and Bon, as well as many local traditions.
240pgs. • 1999
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $17.98
✪ 158655 FROM THE HEART OF TIBET: The Biography
of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche, the Holder of the
Drikung Kagyu Lineage
Gruber, Elmar R.
The story of a Tibetan Buddhist lineage holder whose life was
interrupted by the Chinese army invasion and the Cultural
Revolution. Eventually leaving Tibet, he assumed the leadership of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, and since then the teachings of this lineage have flourished -- after nearly being lost.
448pgs. • 2010
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149723 AN INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM: Teachings,
History and Practices
SECOND EDITION
Harvey, Peter
A comprehensive introduction to Buddhist traditions as they
have developed in three major cultural areas in Asia, and to
Buddhism as it is now developing in the West. Emphasizing the
diversity found within different traditions, the book aims to
underline the common threads of belief, practice and historical continuities that unify the Buddhist world. 547pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $21.98
048990 AN INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM
Flood, Gavin
A thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism. Traces the
development of Hindu traditions from ancient origins and the
major deities to the modern world, discussing Hinduism as
both a global religion and a form of nationalism. Emphasis is
given to the tantric traditions, Hindu ritual, and Dravidian
influences. 341pgs. • 1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $18.98
✪ 158584 THE PRINCETON
DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM
Buswell, Robert & Donald Lopez
The most comprehensive and
authoritative
dictionary
of
Buddhism ever produced in
English, this volume provides encyclopedic coverage of the most
important terms, concepts, texts,
authors, deities, schools, monasteries, and geographical sites from across the history of
Buddhism. It covers terms from all of the canonical
Buddhist languages and traditions, from Sanskrit, Pali, and
Tibetan to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. 1304pgs. •
2013
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038404 A SOURCE BOOK IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
Chan, Wing-Tsit, trans.
A classic text, providing a rich overview of the schools of
Chinese thought, carefully weighing the influences of
Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, and making available a
wide range of primary sources. 856pgs. • 1969
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $28.98
038605 A SOURCEBOOK IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli & Charles A. Moore, eds.
In this volume, a standard reference for more than 50 years, a
leading Indian philosopher and an American scholar bring
together enough of the philosophical wisdom of ancient and
modern India to enable students of Indian philosophy with no
familiarity with Sanskrit to become acquainted with India's
profound contributions to world thought. 684pgs. • 1957
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $24.98
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022670 WHAT THE BUDDHA TAUGHT
Rahula, Walpola Sri
A faithful account of the Buddha's teachings and contains a
selection of illustrative texts from the Duttas and the
Dhammapada, forming an authoritative introduction to the
complexities of the religion. 151pgs. • 1986
◆ • Grove Press • P • $14.95 / $5.98
✪ 028650 THE WORLD OF BUDDHISM
Bechert, Heinz, & Richard Gombrich, ed.
Wide-ranging volume explores the entire 2,500-year history of
Buddhism --examining both its vast influence throughout the
East, and its modern-day revival in the West. 308pgs. • 1998
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $12.98
125677 YOGA: Immortality and Freedom
Eliade, Mircea
In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, Eliade
provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice
from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the 20th century. A new Introduction by David Gordon White provides invaluable
insight into Eliade's life and work. 568pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $17.98
118661 THE ZEN ART BOOK: The
Art of Enlightenment
Loori, John Daido & Stephen Addiss
When a Zen master puts brush to paper,
the resulting image is a teaching, intended to stop us in our tracks and to compel
us to consider ultimate truth. Here, 40
works by renowned masters such as
Hakuin Ekaku and Gibon Sengai are
reproduced along with commentary that
illuminates both the art and its teaching. 128pgs. • 2009
◆ • Shambhala • P • $21.95 / $7.98
✪ 128381 THE ZEN MONASTIC EXPERIENCE:
Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea
Buswell, Robert E.
A scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea draws
on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day
Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the monks, and the teachers and administrators,
Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from
the stereotype prevalent in the West. 288pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $18.98
157015 ZEN QUESTIONS: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit
of Creative Inquiry
Leighton, Taigen Dan
Explores Zazen, the foundational practice of the Zen school, presenting it as an attitude of sustained inquiry that offers an entryway into true repose and joy. Leighton draws on his experience as
a Zen scholar and teacher as well as the poetry of Rumi, Mary
Oliver, Gary Snyder, and others in order to introduce the creativity of Zen awareness and practice. 312pgs. • 2002
◆ • Wisdom Publications • P • $17.95 / $7.98
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✪ 104729 THE I CHING: Or Book of Changes
Baynes, Cary F. & Richard Wilhelm, trans.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both
Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts
of the human mind to place itself within the universe. This is
the renowned Wilhelm / Baynes translation in the Bollingen
Library. 806pgs. • 1967
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
✪ 104771 UNDERSTANDING THE I CHING: The
Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes
Wilhelm, Richard & Hellmut Wilhelm
For translator Richard Wilhelm and his son, Hellmut, the
Book of Changes represented not just a mysterious volume
of oracles but a vital key to humanity's collective unconscious. These lectures, which will reward specialists and aficionados alike, serves as an introduction to the I Ching and
the meaning of its famous hexagrams. 350pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $12.98
ECONOM ICS
136579 THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY AND OTHER
WRITINGS, 1952-1967: American Capitalism; The
Great Crash 1929; The Affluent Society; The New
Industrial State
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with an
eloquence that burst the conventions of his discipline and
won a readership none of his fellow economists could
match. This Library of America volume, the first devoted to
an economist, gathers four of his key early works, the
books that established him as one of the leading public
intellectuals of the last century. 1056pgs. • 2010
◆ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
✪ 158541 AGE SHOCK: How Finance
Is Failing Us
Blackburn, Robin
Explaining why attempts to meet the costs
of an aging society through a proliferation
of financial products are doomed to fail,
Blackburn identifies new sources of pension finance -- including ways of ensuring
that corporations make a real contribution
-- and sketches the shape of a progressive
and responsible pension fund regime, embracing all citizens
and accountable to them. 328pgs. • 2006
◆ • Verso • C • $34.95 / $9.98
125784 ANIMAL SPIRITS: How Human Psychology
Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global
Capitalism
Akerlof, George A. & Robert J. Shiller
From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting
confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving
financial events worldwide. In this book, two acclaimed economists challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this
mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform
economics and restore prosperity. 264pgs. • 2009
▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $9.98
104368 THE BOX: How the Shipping
Container Made the World Smaller and
the World Economy Bigger
Levinson, Marc
In April 1956, a refitted tanker carried 58
shipping containers from Newark to
Houston. From that modest beginning,
container shipping developed into a huge
industry that made the boom in global
trade possible. In this fascinating volume,
Levinson shows how the container transformed economic
geography and brought consumers a previously unimaginable
variety of low-cost products from around the globe. 376pgs.
• 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $8.98
125773 THE COMPANY OF
STRANGERS: A Natural History of
Economic Life
Seabright, Paul
An original account of the emergence of the
economic institutions that manage not only
markets but also the world's myriad other
affairs. Drawing on insights from biology,
anthropology, history, psychology, and literature, Seabright explores how our evolved
ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions like
money, markets, and cities to provide the foundation of social
trust. 368pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $8.98
✪ 160188 THE COST DISEASE: Why Computers Get
Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
Baumol, William J.
Tracing the fast-rising prices of health care and education
in the US and other major industrial nations, Baumol finds
the underlying cause to lie in the very nature of providing
labor-intensive services. Once we understand the "cost disease," he argues, effective responses will become readily
apparent. 272pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $5.98
✪ 139288 THE CREATIVE SOCIETY: And the Price
Americans Paid for It
Galambos, Louis
The first examination of modern America through the eyes of
its emerging ranks of professional experts, including lawyers,
scientists, doctors, administrators, business managers, teachers, policy specialists, and urban planners. Covering the period from the 1890s to the early 21st century, Galambos examines the history that shaped professionals and, in turn, their
role in shaping modern America. 326pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $14.98
135764 THE DARWIN ECONOMY: Liberty, Competition,
and the Common Good
Frank, Robert
A leading economist argues that the failure to recognize that
we live in Darwin's world rather than Adam Smith's is preventing us from seeing that competition alone will not solve
our problems. Far from creating a perfect world, economic
competition leads to "arms races" which encourage behaviors
that not only cause enormous harm to the group but also provide no lasting advantages for individuals. 256pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $9.98
057418 ECONOMICS AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Pearson, Charles S.
Until recently, trade theory and trade policy have neglected
issues of pollution and environmental degradation. This volume investigates whether, and how, environmental resources
such as global climate, genetic diversity, and transboundary
pollution can be managed in an international system of sovereign states. 580pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $68.00 / $19.98
131949 THE ECONOMICS OF
ENOUGH: How to Run the Economy as
if the Future Matters
Coyle, Diane
The world's leading economies are facing
not just one but many crises, as climate
change threatens major disruptions, economic inequality has soared to extremes
not seen for a century, and the ongoing
global financial meltdown still looms. In
this volume, Coyle examines how we can achieve the financial
growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for
our children, our societies, and our planet. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $9.98
111357 ESSAYS ON THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Bernanke, Ben S.
While the Great Depression was an unparalleled disaster,
some economies recovered faster than others. By comparing and contrasting the economic strategies and statistics of
the world's nations as they struggled to survive economically, the essays in this volume present a uniquely coherent
view of the economic causes and worldwide propagation of
the depression. 320pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $16.98
125769 A FAREWELL TO ALMS: A Brief Economic
History of the World
Clark, Gregory
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor?
Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich -- and
why did it make large parts of the world poorer? In this
provocative book, Clark tackles these questions and argues
that culture -- not exploitation, geography, or resources -explains the wealth and poverty of nations. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $9.98
135560 FAULT LINES: How Hidden Fractures Still
Threaten the World Economy
Rajan, Raghuram G.
One of the few economists to warn of the global financial crisis before it hit warns that a potentially more devastating crisis
awaits us. He shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown were rational
responses to a flawed global financial order in which the
incentives to take on risk are out of step with the dangers those
risks pose. 272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $6.98
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125616 GLOBALIZING CAPITAL: A
History of the International Monetary
System
Eichengreen, Barry
Demonstrates that insights into the international monetary system and effective
principles for governing it can result only
if it is seen as a historical phenomenon
extending from the gold standard period
to the interwar period, then to Bretton
Woods, and finally to the post-1973 period of fluctuating currencies. 276pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $20.98
✪ 160204 SIXTY TO ZERO: An Intimate Inside Look
at the People and Cars That Led to GM's Collapse
Taylor, Alex, III
Drawing on more than 30 years' experience as an automotive industry reporter, Taylor reveals the many missteps of
GM and its competitors: a refusal to follow market cues and
consumer trends; a lack of follow-through on major initiatives; and a history of hesitance, inaction, and failure to
learn from mistakes. In the process, he provides lasting lessons for any executive confronting the challenges of a
changing marketplace and global competition. 272pgs. •
2010
◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $5.98
111349 THE GREAT CONTRACTION 1929-1933
Friedman, Milton & Anna Jacobson Schwartz
One of the most influential books of 20th century economics. It marshals massive historical data and sharp analytics
to support the authors' claim that steady control of the
money supply is profoundly important to the management
of the nation's economy, especially in navigating serious
economic fluctuations. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $12.98
✪ 111793 THE SUBPRIME SOLUTION:
How Today's Global Financial Crisis
Happened and What to Do about It
Shiller, Robert J.
The subprime mortgage crisis has wreaked
havoc on the lives of millions of people and
threatened to derail the US economy and
economies around the world. In this
trenchant book, economist Robert Shiller
reveals the roots of the crisis and puts forward bold measures to reverse the damage. 192pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $16.95 / $7.98
✪ 160487 I AM NOT MASTER OF EVENTS: The
Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the
Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
Neal, Larry
Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time were instigated
by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John
Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French
finances; and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and
Thomas Pitt, Jr., Lord Londonderry, his main partner in
England. This book tells the story of these two financial
schemes from the letters and accounts of two leading personalities. 232pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $7.98
157788 MANAGED BY THE MARKETS:
How Finance Re-Shaped America
Davis, Gerald F.
Since the early 1980s, finance and financial considerations have increasingly taken
center stage, dramatically reshaping
American society. This illuminating
account of how finance has replaced manufacturing at the center of the American
economy explains how the new financecentered system works, how we got here, and what challenges
lie ahead. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $21.95 / $5.98
111378 ONE ECONOMICS, MANY RECIPES:
Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Rodrik, Dani
A leading economist argues that neither globalizers nor
antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization
can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored
to local economic and political realities rather than obeying
the dictates of the international globalization establishment.
280pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $25.95 / $11.98
133791 THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT: Eight Centuries of
Financial Folly
Reinhart, Carmen M. & Kenneth S. Rogoff
A comprehensive catalog of government defaults, banking
panics, and inflationary spikes, from medieval currency
debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. The authors
show that while countries do weather their financial storms,
short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur.
512pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $8.98
✪ 160206 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THRIFT?: Why
Americans Don't Save and What to Do about It
Wilcox, Ronald T.
Describes how the "savings crisis" not only adversely influences personal lifestyles over the long term but also how it
threatens to undermine our national wealth and standard of
living. Wilcox examines the many rational and irrational
reasons why people fail to save adequately, explains what
third parties such as corporations and government can do
to help, and shows what steps individuals can take today to
help themselves. 176pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $5.98
140848 ZOMBIE ECONOMICS: How Dead Ideas Still
Walk among Us
Quiggin, John
The global financial crisis has laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism -- the theory that market-based
solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. John
Quiggin explains how these dead ideas still walk among us,
and why we must find a way to kill them once and for all if we
are to avoid an even bigger financial crisis in the future.
288pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
EU ROPEAN H ISTORY & POLITICS
135599 1989: The Struggle to Create
Post-Cold War Europe
Sarotte, Mary Elise
Examining documents, interviews, and
broadcasts from many different locations,
including Moscow, Berlin, Bonn, Paris,
London, and Washington, Sarotte
describes how Germany unified and NATO
expansion began, leaving Russia on the
periphery of the new Europe. She explains
how the aftermath of this fateful series of events, and Russian
resentment of the consequences, continue to shape world politics today. 344pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
✪ 160513 AGAINST WAR AND
EMPIRE: Geneva, Britain, and
France in the Eighteenth Century
Whatmore, Richard
As Britain and France became more
powerful during the 18th century,
republicans strove to ensure Geneva's
survival as an independent state.
Whatmore shows how they grappled
with the ideas of Rousseau, Voltaire,
Bentham, and others in seeking to make modern Europe
safe for small states by vanquishing the threats presented by
war and by empire. 416pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $12.98
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✪ 055905 ANOTHER COUNTRY:
German Intellectuals, Unification and
National Identity
Muller, Jan-Werner
An exploration of the peculiar role of
German intellectuals in defining national
identity since 1945. Muller assesses the
development of German political thought
in the decades after World War II, considers some of the continuing blind spots
among German writers and thinkers, and explains why unification created a crisis for many intellectuals. 310pgs. • 2000
◆ • Yale • C • $47.00 / $7.98
121540 THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTENDOM: The Council
of Constance and the Dawn of Modern Europe
Welsh, Frank
At the dawn of the 15th century, with Christendom under
threat, the Emperor Sigismund summoned the nations of
Europe to a conference, attracting the greatest minds in the
western world as well as innumerable princes, lawyers, and
prostitutes. The event would be one of the major turning
points in European history, heralding the dawn of the
Renaissance and the rise of humanism. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Overlook Press • C • $27.95 / $9.98
104342 BUDWEISERS INTO CZECHS
AND GERMANS: A Local History of
Bohemian Politics
King, Jeremy
German
and
Czech-speaking
Budweis/Budæjovice belonged to the
Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then
to Czechoslovakia, to Hitler's Third Reich,
and to Czechoslovakia again. This history
of a single town in Bohemia casts new light
on nationalism in Central Europe between the Springtime of
Nations in 1848 and the Cold War. 304pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
043561 THE BUSINESS OF ALCHEMY: Science and
Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
Smith, Pamela H.
Explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and
commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the
Holy Roman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, showing
how religious salvation was transformed into material
increase. 308pgs. • 1994
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $27.98
087175 A CONCISE HISTORY OF GERMANY
SECOND EDITION
Fulbrook, Mary
The multi-faceted, problematic history of the German lands
has supplied material for a wide range of debates and differences of interpretation. The text spans the early Middle Ages to
the present day, synthesizing a vast array of historical material, as Fulbrook explores interrelationships between social,
political and cultural factors in the light of recent scholarly
controversies. 296pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $18.98
131005 A CONCISE HISTORY OF
SPAIN
Phillips, William D., Jr. & Carla Rahn
Phillips
The rich cultural and political life of Spain has
emerged from its complex history, from the
diversity of its peoples, and from continual
contact with outside influences. This book
traces that history from prehistoric times to
the present, focusing particularly on culture,
society, politics, and personalities. 362pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $19.98
110014 CONTAGION AND THE STATE IN EUROPE, 18301930
Baldwin, Peter
Explores the historical reasons for the divergence in public
health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and
Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of diseases such as cholera, smallpox, and syphilis. The book
employs medical history to illuminate broader questions of the
development of statutory intervention and the comparative and
divergent evolution of the modern state. 581pgs. • 2005
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ITALY: Updated Edition
Duggan, Christopher
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the
late 20th century, this volume focuses on
the difficulties Italy has faced in forging
a nation state. It considers the geographical and cultural obstacles to unity,
and surveys the centuries of political
fragmentation that Italy's new rulers had
to overcome when the country became unified, more by
accident than design, in 1859-61. 324pgs. • 1994
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Scirocco, Alfonso
The most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive, and
convincing biography yet written of the hero of Italian unification. Scirocco presents Garibaldi as a complex and even
contradictory figure, the pacifist who spent much of his life
fighting; the nationalist who advocated European unification; the republican who served a king; and the man who
refused honors and wealth and spent his last years as a
farmer. 368pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $16.98
039510 THE HISTORY OF ITALY
Guicciardini, Francesco
In 1537, Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to three
popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador,
administrator, and military captain, retired to his villa to write a
history of his times. His Storia d'Italia became the classic history of Italy -- both a brilliant portrayal of the Renaissance and a
penetrating vision into the tragedy and comedy of human history in general. 457pgs. • 1984
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
049084 ITALY: A Short History
SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
Hearder, Harry & Jonathan Morris
A concise but comprehensive account
of Italian history from the Ice Age to the
present, intended for both students of
Italian history and culture and the general reader. Hearder places the main
political developments in Italian history
in their economic and social context,
and shows how these related to the peaks of artistic and cultural endeavor. 288pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $15.98
✪ 160468 WHISPERING CITY: Rome and Its
Histories
Bosworth, R. J. B.
Weaving in the city's quintessential figures (Garibaldi, Pius
XII, Mussolini, Berlusconi) and architectural icons (the
Vatican, St. Peter's Basilica, the Victor Emmanuel
Monument) with those forgotten or unknown, historian
Richard Bosworth draws upon his expertise in Italian pasts
in order to explore the many layers of history found within
the Eternal City. 358pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • C • $37.50 / $12.98
✪ 159570 EDMUND CAMPION: Jesuit
and Martyr
Waugh, Evelyn
In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest
working underground in Protestant
England, was found guilty of treason and
hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
With a novelist's eye for detail, Evelyn
Waugh tells Campion's story, from his success as an Oxford scholar, his travels
around Europe, and his doomed secret mission to England, to
his capture and dramatic trial. 164pgs. • 2012
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✪ 158529 EDWARD CARPENTER:
A Life of Liberty and Love
Rowbotham, Sheila
An advocate of free love, recycling,
nudism, women's suffrage, and prison
reform, Edward Carpenter anticipated
the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Rowbotham's biography situates
Carpenter's life and thought in relation
to the social, aesthetic and intellectual
movements of his day, and explores his friendships with figures such as Walt Whitman, E. M. Forster, Isadora Duncan
and Emma Goldman. 566pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • P • $24.95 / $6.98
134829 EVENING'S EMPIRE: A History of the Night in
Early Modern Europe
Koslofsky, Craig
A fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern
people understood, experienced, and transformed the night.
Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and
art, Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early
modern Europe. 448pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $21.98
✪ 160484 EXORCISM AND
ENLIGHTENMENT: Johann Joseph
Gassner and the Demons of
Eighteenth-Century Germany
Midelfort, H. C. Erik
Concluding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, the
Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner
(1727-1779) employed his apparently
extraordinary powers of exorcism to
heal thousands, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic. This
book delves deeply into the records of the time to explore
Gassner's remarkable exorcising campaign, chronicle the
official efforts to curb him, and reconstruct the sufferings
of the afflicted. 240pgs. • 2005
◆ • Yale • C • $44.00 / $14.98
MACHIAVELLI
155297 THE GARMENTS OF COURT AND PALACE:
Machiavelli and the World That He Made
Bobbitt, Philip
In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores The
Prince in the context of the time. He describes this often
misunderstood work as one half of a masterpiece that, along
with Machiavelli's often neglected Discourses, prophesied
the end of the feudal era and proclaimed the birth of the
Renaissance state. 240pgs. • 2013
▲ • Grove Press • C • $24.00 / $8.98
✪ 160022 MACHIAVELLI: A
Biography
Unger, Miles J.
He has been called cold and calculating,
cynical and immoral. In reality, argues
biographer Miles Unger, he was a
deeply humane writer whose controversial theories were a response to the violence and corruption he saw around
him. A brilliant and witty writer, he was
not only a political theorist but also a poet and the author of
the finest comedy of the Italian Renaissance. 416pgs. •
2011
◆ • Simon & Schuster • C • $28.00 / $7.98
✪ 044872 THE PRINCE
Machiavelli, Nicolo
A major new English edition of one of
the central texts in the history of political thought. Skinner's introduction
examines the intellectual context of the
work and highlights Machiavelli's repudiation of Renaissance moralism and its
classical antecedents. 152pgs. • 1988
◆ • Cambridge • P • $15.99 / $7.98
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111702 HOW RUSSIA SHAPED THE
MODERN WORLD: From Art to AntiSemitism, Ballet to Bolshevism
Marks, Steven G.
Moving from Moscow and St. Petersburg
to Beijing and Berlin, London and
Luanda, Mexico and Mississippi, Marks
conducts an intellectual tour of the
Russian exports that shaped the 20th
century. The result is a richly textured
and stunningly original account of the extent to which
Russia -- as an idea and a producer of ideas -- has contributed to the world we live in. 408pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $17.98
✪ 160050 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: World War to
Civil War 1917-1921
Cornish, Nik
The drama of the October Revolution and the Bolshevik
seizure of power often overshadow the disastrous RussianGerman war that preceded it and the extended, many-sided
civil war between Reds and Whites that followed. Nik
Cornish's vivid photographic history gives equal coverage to
each of these momentous events, showing how the empire
of the Romanovs was transformed into the Soviet Union.
128pgs. • 2012
◆ • Pen & Sword • P • $29.95 / $12.98
✪ 126226 STALIN'S GENOCIDES
Naimark, Norman
Between the early 1930s and 1953,
Joseph Stalin had more than one million of his own citizens executed, while
millions more fell victim to forced
labor, deportation, famine, and bloody
massacres. In this chilling account,
Naimark explains how Stalin became a
pitiless mass killer and challenges the
widely held notion that his crimes do not constitute genocide. 168pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 160031 FOUNDATION: The History
of England from Its Earliest
Beginnings to the Tudors
Ackroyd, Peter
With his extraordinary skill for evoking
time and place and his acute eye for the
telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of
warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign
wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of
how England's early people lived: the
homes they built, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, even
the jokes they told. 496pgs. • 2012
◆ • Thomas Dunne • C • $29.99 / $8.98
157233 HITLER'S FACE: The
Biography of an Image
Schmölders, Claudia
Schmölders demonstrates how the adulation of Hitler's face stands at the conjunction of ideologies in which nationalism was
joined to a belief in the determinative
power of physiognomy. The veneration of
the idealized German face, and the fanatical devotion to Hitler's in particular, was
but one component of a project that also encouraged the identification of supposedly degenerate "Jewish" physical traits.
240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Pennsylvania • P • $24.95 / $8.98
111421 THE HUNGARIANS: A Thousand Years of
Victory in Defeat
Lendvai, Paul
The fascinating story of how the Hungarians, despite a string
of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, have
survived as a nation-state for more than 1,000 years. Lendvai
explains how and why this isolated corner of Europe produced
such a galaxy of great scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs.
608pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $22.98
157784 IN THE SHADOW OF THE
GENERAL: Modern France and the
Myth of de Gaulle
Hazareesingh, Sudhir
Why do the French identify with, celebrate,
and even revere an austere and devout
Catholic who remained closely wedded to
military values throughout his life?
Hazareesingh's revealing examination of
how an individual's life was transformed
into national myth explores how de Gaulle has come to occupy such a privileged position in the French imagination.
288pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $9.98
152475 THE INNER LIFE OF EMPIRES:
An Eighteenth-Century History
Rothschild, Emma
The intimate history of the Johnstone family -- four sisters and seven brothers who
lived in Scotland and around the globe in
the fast-changing 18th century. Piecing
together their voyages, marriages, debts,
and lawsuits, and examining their ideas,
sentiments, and values, Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy,
the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment.
496pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $12.98
115173 INTELLECTUALS AND THE NATION: Collective
Identity in a German Axial Age
Giesen, Bernhard & Nicholas Levis
Proposes a theory of collective and national identity based on
culture and language rather than power and politics. Applying
this to what he calls Germany's "axial age," Giesen shows how
the codes of 19th-century German identity in turn became
those of the divided Germany between 1945 and 1989.
256pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • C • $127.00 / $23.98
141668 KRUPP: A History of the Legendary German
Firm
James, Harold
No company symbolized the best and worst of modern German
history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this
book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its
industrial empire between the early 19th century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one
owned by a nonprofit foundation. 360pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $13.98
✪ 160197 THE LEGACY OF THE SECOND WORLD
WAR
Lukacs, John
Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the
acclaimed historian John Lukacs brilliantly argues for the
war's central place in the history of the 20th century, and
applies his singular expertise toward addressing its most
persistent enigmas. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $26.00 / $7.98
✪ 160479 MAKING WAY FOR GENIUS: The Aspiring
Self in France from the Old Regime to the New
Kete, Kathleen
Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities -Germaine de Staël, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier -- Kathleen
Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in
post-Revolutionary France. She concludes by examining the
still relevant conundrum of the relationship of individual
desires to community needs, which she identifies as a defining
characteristic of the modern world. 256pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $38.00 / $7.98
✪ 160525 MIRACLES AT THE JESUS OAK: Histories of
the Supernatural in Reformation Europe
Harline, Craig
In the musty archive of a Belgian abbey, historian Craig Harline
happened upon a vast collection of documents written in the
17th century by people who claimed to have experienced miracles and wonders. In this volume, he recasts these testimonies into engaging vignettes that open a window onto the
believers, unbelievers, and religious movements of Catholic
Europe in the Age of Reformation. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • P • $22.00 / $6.98
154690 PRAGUE, CAPITAL OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY: A Surrealist History
Sayer, Derek
Ranging across 20th-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant
and surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other
metropolis. 624pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
135484 THE RELIGIOUS
ENLIGHTENMENT: Protestants, Jews,
and Catholics from London to Vienna
Sorkin, David
Reveals how the major religions of Europe
gave rise to movements of renewal and
reform
that
championed
such
Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness
and natural religion, toleration and natural
law. Sorkin shows how Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism
were influential participants in the 18th century's public
sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations.
360pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $19.98
✪ 128563 SANS-CULOTTES: An Eighteenth-Century
Emblem in the French Revolution
Sonenscher, Michael
To explain how an early 18th-century salon society joke
about breeches and urbanity was transformed into a republican emblem, Michael Sonenscher examines contemporary debates about moral philosophy as well as subjects
ranging from music and the origins of government to property and the nature of the human soul. By piecing together
this now forgotten story, he opens up new perspectives on
the Enlightenment and the political history of the French
Revolution. 508pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $55.00 / $32.98
WITCHCRAFT
114263 A HISTORY OF
WITCHCRAFT: Sorcerers, Heretics
and Pagans
Russell, Jeffrey B. & Brooks
Alexander
Drawing comparisons between modern sorcery and that of the ancient
world, the book shows how the
European witch craze of the 16th and
17th centuries developed out of a
combination of ancient sorcery and medieval Christian
heresy, paganism, folklore, scholastic theology, and inquisitorial trials. Includes 110 illustrations. 216pgs. • 2007
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
157271 WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN EUROPE,
VOLUME 1: Biblical & Pagan Societies
Ankarloo, Begnt & Stuart Clark, eds.
Each volume of this ambitious series contains the work of
distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region. Together, the series provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of
Europeans from ancient times to the present day. 152pgs. •
2001
◆ • Pennsylvania • C NDJ • $59.95 / $21.98
✪ 159586 WITCHCRAFT AND
MAGIC IN EUROPE, VOLUME 4: The
Period of the Witch Trials
Ankarloo, Bengt & Stuart Clark, eds.
288pgs. • 2001
◆ • Continuum • P • $55.00 /
$14.98
✪ 159589 WITCHCRAFT AND
MAGIC IN EUROPE, VOLUME 5: The
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Ankarloo, Bengt, et al.
354pgs. • 2001
◆ • Bloomsbury • P • $70.00 / $14.98
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127008 SEX AFTER FASCISM:
Memory and Morality in TwentiethCentury Germany
Herzog, Dagmar
This history of sexual attitudes and practices in 20th-century Germany investigates
such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation. It
also demonstrates how Germans made
sexuality a key site for managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust. 368pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $19.98
✪ 160072 THE SEXUAL HISTORY OF LONDON: From
Roman Londinium to the Swinging City -- Lust, Vice,
and Desire Across the Ages
Arnold, Catharine
As early as the second century AD, London was notorious
for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and
throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken
easy root and flourished. In an accessible, entertaining
style, Catharine Arnold takes us on a journey through the
fleshpots of London from earliest times to present day.
384pgs. • 2012
◆ • St. Martin's • P • IMPORT / $5.98
✪ 160030 THE SHADOW OF A YEAR: The 1641
Rebellion in Irish History and Memory
Gibney, John
The 1641 uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in
Irish history, prompted a decade of war that would culminate
in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. John
Gibney shows how politicians, historians, and polemicists have
represented (and misrepresented) 1641 over the centuries,
making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm in the consciousness of Irish Protestant and
Catholic communities alike. 244pgs. • 2013
◆ • Wisconsin • P • $29.95 / $7.98
050550 SHATTERING SILENCE: Women, Nationalism,
and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland
Aretxaga, Begona
The first feminist ethnography of "the Troubles." Combining
interpretative anthropology and poststructuralist feminist theory, Aretxaga contributes not only to those disciplines but also
to research on ethnic and social conflict by showing the gendered constitution of political violence. 211pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $20.98
044994 SITES OF MEMORY, SITES OF MOURNING: The
Great War in European Cultural History
Winter, Jay
This powerful study of the "collective remembrance" of the
Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical
episodes in the cultural history of the 20th century. Winter
looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in
which communities endeavored to find collective solace after
1918. 320pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $18.98
132171 SPAIN, EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD
1500-1800
Elliott, J. H.
Organized around three themes -- early modern Europe;
European overseas expansion; and the works and historical
context of El Greco, Velázquez, Rubens, and Van Dyck -- this
volume offers a rich survey of the themes at the heart of
Elliott's interests throughout a career distinguished by excellence and innovation. 352pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $38.00 / $7.98
049261 STATES AND SOCIAL
REVOLUTIONS: A Comparative
Analysis of France, Russia, and China
Skocpol, Theda
Why have social revolutions occurred in
some countries but not in others? How and
why have pre-revolutionary regimes come
into crisis? Skocpol's study offers important new theoretical strategies within a
comparative historical analysis of the causes and outcomes of three major instances of social revolution.
448pgs. • 1979
◆ • Cambridge • P • $43.00 / $25.98
157501 THIRD REICH DATABOOK: 1939-45
McNab, Chris
An essential reference guide for anyone interested in the history or demographics of the Third Reich. Broken down by key
subject areas such as the economy, geography, military, religion, politics, law and crime, culture, and racial and social
policy, the book includes comprehensive reference tables, diagrams, maps and charts, presenting all the core subject information in easy-to-follow formats. 192pgs. • 2009
◆ • Amber Books • C • $34.95 / $12.98
✪ 160195 THE WARS OF THE
ROSES
Hicks, Michael
This stimulating new synthesis examines the era's economic, military, and
financial background and explains why
the Wars of the Roses began, why they
kept recurring, and why, eventually,
they ceased. Alongside fresh assessments of key personalities, Hicks sheds
new light on the intervention of foreign powers in English
affairs and on the crucial role of the 15th-century credit
crunch. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $14.98
✪ 157835 WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy
Weitz, Eric
Eric Weitz reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's notable
figures, this comprehensive history views Weimar in its own right
-- and not just as a prelude to the Nazi era. 504pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
FI LM & M EDIA STU DI ES
116091 THE ABCS OF CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD
Ray, Robert B.
A deceptively simple book that spells out a fascinating account of
the most powerful storytelling system ever designed. In a series of
entries -- at least one for every letter of the alphabet --Ray looks
closely at four movies from the period during which the American
studio system reached the peak of its economic and cultural
power: Grand Hotel, The Philadelphia Story, The Maltese Falcon,
and Meet Me in St. Louis. 392pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $7.98
104372 AN ACCENTED CINEMA: Exilic and Diasporic
Filmmaking
Naficy, Hamid
An engaging overview of an important trend, the work of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced filmmakers living in
the West. Treating creativity as a social practice, Naficy demonstrates that these films are in dialogue not only with the home and
host societies but also with audiences, many of whom are also situated astride cultural fault lines. 368pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $46.95 / $25.98
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✪ 055896 THE CINEMA OF HONG KONG
Fu, Poshek & David Desser, eds.
Analyzes one of the most popular and dynamic cinema traditions in film history. With an overview of major directors,
genres and stars, the text examines Hong Kong cinema in
transnational, historical, and artistic contexts. Essay topics
include Hong Kong cinema before and during WWII, its rise
to world prominence, its reception in the U.S., and the
revival of Cantonese cinema. 336pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $43.00 / $21.98
127078 FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER: A Psychological
History of the German Film
Kracauer, Siegfried
Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history
from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, broke new ground
in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the
evolving social and political reality of the time. 432pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
038609 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHAIN SAWS: Gender in
the Modern Horror Film
Clover, Carol J.
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in
sadism, as film theorists and critics often contend? Taking a
contrarian view, Carol Clover argues that horror films operate
mainly by engaging the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero,
who suffers frightful ordeals but rises to vanquish the forces of
oppression. 260pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $20.98
158279 A SHORT HISTORY OF
CAHIERS DU CINÉMA
Bickerton, Emilie
In this unique account of cinema's most
influential journal, Emilie Bickerton
explores the evolution and impact of Cahiers
du Cinéma from its early years to its late-sixties radicalization, its internationalization,
and its response to the television age in the
1970s and '80s. 176pgs. • 2011
◆ • Verso • P • $17.95 / $7.98
FOOD & COOKI NG
106887 AMERICAN FOOD WRITING: An Anthology with
Classic Recipes
O'Neill, Molly, ed.
A harvest of more than 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic
American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of
watermelon; Herman Melville on clam chowder; H. L.
Mencken on the hot dog; M. F. K. Fisher in praise of the oyster; Ralph Ellison on the irresistible appeal of baked yam; and
William Styron on Southern fried chicken. 753pgs. • 2007
▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
✪ 160168 THE TRUE HISTORY OF
CHOCOLATE
THIRD EDITION
Coe, Sophie D. & Michael D. Coe
Draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete, accurate, and entertaining history of one of the
world's most popular foods. This third edition includes new photographs and revisions throughout that reflect the latest
scholarship. A new final chapter on a Guatemalan chocolate
producer brings the volume up-to-date. 280pgs. • 2013
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $22.95 / $10.98
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✪ 158542 BUDA'S WAGON: A Brief History of the Car
Bomb
Davis, Mike
In this provocative history, Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of
state intelligence agencies -- particularly those of the United
States, Israel, India, and Pakistan -- in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. 228pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • P • $16.95 / $4.98
✪ 158653 CARTOGRAPHIA:
Mapping Civilizations
Virga, Vincent
A stunning array of 200 beautiful,
important and fascinating maps
from the cartographic collections of
the Library of Congress. Among the
gems
included
are
the
Waldseemuller Map of the World
from 1507; pages from Ortelius's
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570; rare maps from Africa,
Asia, and Oceania that challenge traditional Western perspectives; and William Faulkner's hand-drawn map of the
fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 272pgs. • 2007
◆ • Little, Brown • C • $60.00 / $19.98
150645 DREAMERS OF A NEW DAY: Women Who
Invented the Twentieth Century
Rowbotham, Sheila
Removing their corsets, forming free unions, living communally, buying ethically, joining trade unions, doing social work
in settlements, American and British women challenged ideas
about sexuality, mothering, housework, the economy, and citizenship. Drawing on a wealth of research, Rowbotham has
written a groundbreaking new history that shows how women
created much of the fabric of modern life. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Verso • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 132196 DREAMS OF PEACE AND FREEDOM:
Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century
Winter, Jay
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao,
and others, the idea of utopia has seemingly become discredited. This original book focuses on some of the 20thcentury's "minor utopias," whose stories, overshadowed by
the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the
future need not be as catastrophic as the past. 272pgs. •
2008
◆ • Yale • P • $20.00 / $7.98
087656 ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM:
The Biological Expansion of Europe,
900-1900
NEW EDITION
Crosby, Alfred W.
Revisiting his classic work and again evaluating the ecological reasons for European
expansion, Crosby explains that the
Europeans' displacement and replacement
of the native peoples in the temperate zones
of North America, Australia, and New Zealand was more a matter of biology than of imperialistic military conquest. 390pgs.
• 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $19.98
116139 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN WORLD:
1750 to the Present
Stearns, Peter N.
Enriched with more than 800 halftones and 50 maps, this
eight-volume reference work provides articles on countries,
regions, and ethnic groups; themes involving social history,
demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought,
education, science and technology, and culture; events such as
major wars; and extensive coverage of the US. 4672pgs. •
2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $1,255.00 / $199.98
✪ 158660 FIGHTING FOR THE
FAITH: The Many Fronts of Crusade
and Jihad 1000-1500 AD
Nicolle, David
Fighting between Christians and Muslims
in the medieval period is often seen in the
narrow context of the battle for the Holy
Land. Other points of conflict tend to be
ignored. But, as David Nicolle shows, religions clashed across the medieval world - in the Mediterranean and the Iberian peninsula, in the Near
East, in Central Asia, India, the Balkans, Anatolia, Russia, the
Baltic and Africa. 224pgs. • 2007
◆ • Pen & Sword • C • IMPORT / $14.98
✪ 160529 THE FUTURE OF HISTORY
Lukacs, John
A renowned historian reflects on his discipline, eloquently
arguing that the writing and teaching of history are literary
rather than scientific, comprising knowledge that is neither
wholly objective nor subjective. History at its best, Lukacs
contends, is personal and participatory. 192pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • P • $16.00 / $4.98
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105214 THE GREAT DIVERGENCE:
China, Europe, and the Making of the
Modern World Economy
Pomeranz, Kenneth
Why did sustained industrial growth begin
in Northwest Europe, despite surprising
similarities between advanced areas of
Europe and East Asia? Pomeranz argues
that Europe's 19th-century divergence
from the Old World owes much to its
access to coal, which substituted for timber, and to the
resources it obtained from its colonies in the New World.
392pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $22.98
157805 HEAVEN ON EARTH: The Varieties of the
Millennial Experience
Landes, Richard Allen
Reveals how movements generally regarded as secular -including the French Revolution, Bolshevism, and Nazism - not only contain key millennialist elements but follow an
apocalyptic curve of enthusiastic launch, disappointment
and (often catastrophic) re-entry into "normal time."
Examining the millennialism behind such recent events as
the emergence of global jihad, Landes challenges the
notion that modern history is largely driven by secular
interests. 520pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $12.98
118871 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The
Making of the Modern World, 1776-1914
Weightman, Gavin
In less than 150 years, a band of scientists and entrepreneurs
transformed a world powered by animals, wind, and water
into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron and powered by steam and fossil fuels. Distilling complex technical
achievements, outlandish figures, and daring adventures into
an accessible narrative, Weightman has created a work of
original, engaging history. 432pgs. • 2009
▲ • Grove Press • C • $27.50 / $7.98
✪ 127702 JOURNEYS TO THE
OTHER SHORE: Muslim and
Western Travelers in Search of
Knowledge
Euben, Roxanne L.
Curiosity about the unknown, the quest
to understand foreign cultures, critical
distance from one's own world, and the
desire to remake the foreign into the
familiar are not the monopoly of any
single civilization or epoch. In these pages we meet not only
Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta; Tocqueville's journeys are
set against a sojourn in 19th-century Paris by the Egyptian
writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi; and
Montesquieu's Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an
East African princess, Sayyida Salme. 328pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $14.98
140838 POWER OVER PEOPLES:
Technology, Environments and Western
Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
Headrick, Daniel R.
An examination of Western imperialism's
complex relationship with technology,
from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa to America's
conflicts in the Middle East today. Headrick
traces the evolution of Western technologies from muskets and galleons to jet planes and smart
bombs, and sheds light on the factors that have led to victory
in some cases and defeat in others. 416pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
118896 THE RED FLAG: A History of Communism
Priestland, David
The epic story of a movement that took root in dozens of countries across 200 years, from its birth after the French
Revolution to its ideological maturity in 19th-century Germany
to its rise (and subsequent fall) in the 20th century. Priestland
examines the motives of thinkers and leaders including Marx,
Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Che Guevara, Mao, Ho Chi Minh,
Gorbachev, and many others. 560pgs. • 2009
▲ • Grove Press • C • $30.00 / $9.98
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088645 BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE
SEA: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the AngloAmerican Maritime World, 1700-1750
Rediker, Marcus
Rediker reconstructs the world of 18th-century AngloAmerican seamen and pirates in order to illuminate larger
social and political issues such as the rise of capitalism,
slavery, the genesis of free wage labor, and the growth of an
international working class. He follows seamen and ships
along pulsing trade routes, recreates life in the brothels and
alehouses along the waterfront, and explores both the natural disasters and the man-made terrors -- harsh discipline,
brutal floggings, grisly hangings -- that shaped the lives of
those who plied forbidding oceans. 337pgs. • 1989
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $20.98
✪ 132863 FROM AFRICA TO
BRAZIL: Culture, Identity, and an
Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830
Hawthorne, Walter
The only book-length examination of
African slavery in Amazonia, this volume identifies with precision the locations in Africa from which the members of this large diaspora hailed. It
proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new cultures or recreated old ones. 113pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $17.98
✪ 160208 THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA: The Hidden
History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Linebaugh, Peter & Marcus Rediker
Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of
the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates,
laborers, market women, and indentured servants had their
own ideas about freedom and equality. Marshaling long-forgotten stories unearthed over a decade of original research,
this volume recounts the role of these forgotten revolutionaries in the making of the modern world. 448pgs. • 2012
◆ • Verso • P • IMPORT / $7.98
✪ 158577 REVOLUTION!: The
Atlantic World Reborn
Bender, Thomas, et al., eds.
Drawing on an international crosssection of experts, this lively, richly
illustrated volume presents the story
of the 18th-century Atlantic revolutions as a part of wider, intertwined
global narrative. The text and
images provide a context for understanding these monumental social upheavals and their lasting influence on contemporary society. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Giles • C • $65.00 / $7.98
125548 SOVEREIGNTY AND REVOLUTION IN THE
IBERIAN ATLANTIC
Adelman, Jeremy
This bold new look at the New World empires of Spain and
Portugal argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the
Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal
from the start. It offers a new understanding of Latin
American and Atlantic history, one that blurs traditional distinctions between the "imperial" and the "colonial."
408pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $20.98
✪ 131147 THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY: A Sociologist
Reconsiders History
Stark, Rodney
The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement
among the poor is a widely accepted notion. In this volume, a
sociologist digs deep into the historical evidence on many
issues -- such as the social background of converts, the mission to the Jews, the status of women in the church, the role of
martyrdom -- to provide a vivid and unconventional account of
early Christianity. 288pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • C NDJ • $65.00 / $21.98
135510 WHY EUROPE GREW RICH AND ASIA DID NOT:
Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850
Parthasarathi, Prasannan
Drawing particularly on the case of India, Parthasarathi shows
that in the 17th and 18th centuries, the advanced regions of
Europe and Asia, both characterized by sophisticated and
growing economies, were more alike than different. Their
subsequent divergence can be attributed to different competitive and ecological pressures that in turn produced varied
state policies and economic outcomes. 384pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $19.98
✪ 132312 YALTA: The Price of Peace
Plokhy, S. M.
Did Yalta pave the way to the Cold War? Did
FDR give too much to Stalin? In this
groundbreaking book, Harvard historian S.
M. Plokhy draws on newly declassified
Soviet documents and unpublished diaries
and letters of the participants to set the
record straight. 480pgs. • 2011
◆ • Penguin • P • $18.00 / $7.98
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157207 THE ART OF BEING JEWISH
IN MODERN TIMES
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara &
Jonathan Karp, eds.
This richly illustrated volume illuminates
how the arts have helped Jews confront the
various challenges of modernity, including
cultural adaptation and self-preservation,
economic diversification, and ritual transformation. The wide-ranging portrayal of
modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the
relationship between creativity and Jewish identity and into the
complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish.
464pgs. • 2007
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $59.95 / $12.98
✪ 087241 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
AMERICAN JUDAISM
Kaplan, Dana Evan, ed.
Written by leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, history, literature, philosophy, art history, sociology,
and musicology, the survey adopts an inclusive perspective
on Jewish religious experience. Three initial chapters cover
the development of Judaism in America from 1654, when
Sephardic Jews first landed in New Amsterdam, until today.
488pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $12.98
118639 EVERYTHING IS GOD: The Radical Path of
Nondual Judaism
Michaelson, Jay
Once considered a radical, mystical idea, the concept and
spiritual practice of nondual Judaism is increasingly influencing mainstream Judaism. This volume explains what nondual
Judaism is and explores its historical roots and philosophical
significance, how it compares to nondualism in other religions, and its impact on the practice of contemporary
Judaism. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • Shambhala • P • $18.95 / $6.98
✪ 065805 GENERATION EXODUS:
The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees
from Nazi Germany
Laqueur, Walter
Offers a unique generational history of the
young people whose lives were irrevocably
shaped by the rise of the Nazis: old enough
to appreciate the loss of their homeland
and the experience of flight, but often
young and flexible enough to survive and
even flourish in new environments, many would go on to make
great contributions to their new countries and to the world.
345pgs. • 2001
◆ • Brandeis • C • $35.00 / $7.98
125911 GREECE: A Jewish History
Fleming, K. E.
For centuries, until more than 80 percent
were killed in the Holocaust, Jewish communities flourished in areas that are now
part of Greece. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language history of
Greek Jews, is the only study to include
material on their diaspora in Israel and the
US. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $19.98
✪ 159533 A HISTORY OF ANCIENT ISRAEL AND JUDAH
Miller, Maxwell J. & John H. Hayes
The history of ancient Israel was far more complex than the
narrative presented in scripture, and its peoples had other
concerns in addition to communion with God. This completely rewritten edition includes substantial bibliographic updating and new illustrations. 562pgs. • 2006
◆ • SCM Press • P • IMPORT / $14.98
✪ 133889 HOW JUDAISM BECAME A RELIGION: An
Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
Batnitzky, Leora
Tracing how the idea of Jewish religion has been defended
and resisted from the 18th century to today, this book discusses many of the major Jewish thinkers of the past three
centuries, including Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Buber,
Theodor Herzl, and Mordecai Kaplan. At the same time, it
touches on modern orthodoxy, the German-Jewish renaissance, Jewish religion after the Holocaust, the birth of
Jewish nationalism, and Jewish religion in America.
224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $14.98
150675 THE INVENTION OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE
Sand, Shlomo
Should we regard the Jewish people,
throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation? In
this historical tour de force that examines
the myths and taboos that have surrounded
Jewish and Israeli history, Shlomo Sand
argues that most Jews actually descend
from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across
the Middle East and Eastern Europe. 400pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • C • $34.95 / $9.98
✪ 160524 JUDAISM: A Way of Being
Gelernter, David
Because Judaism is a way of life rather than a formal system
of thought, it has been difficult for anyone but a practicing
Jew to understand its unique intellectual and spiritual
structure. Written for observant and non-observant Jews
and anyone interested in religion, this book seeks to
answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism
really about? 248pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • P • $20.00 / $7.98
039708 JUDAISM IN PRACTICE: From the Middle Ages
Through the Early Modern Period
Fine, Lawrence, ed.
A sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and
religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual manuals,
legal codes, mystical books, autobiographical writings, folk literature, and liturgical poetry, it testifies to the enormous variety of
practices that characterized Judaism in the twelve hundred years
between 600 and 1800 C.E. 537pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $21.98
150882 A LIVING LENS: Photographs of Jewish Life
from the Pages of the Forward
Newhouse, Alana, ed.
This extraordinary volume features classic photographs of the
history one has learned to associate with the Jewish Daily
Forward -- Lower East Side pushcarts, Yiddish theater, labor
rallies -- along with gems no one would expect. The book features essays by Leon Wieseltier, Roger Kahn, and Deborah
Lipstadt, and an introduction by Pete Hamill. 531 duotone
photographs. 352pgs. • 2008
◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $29.95 / $7.98
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✪ 144063 LIVING WITH ANTISEMITISM: Modern
Jewish Responses
Reinharz, Jehuda, ed.
A collection of 22 essays by distinguished scholars on the Jewish
response to antisemitism worldwide over the past 200 years. The
articles cover such diverse regions as Argentina, the Arab World,
Poland, Germany, and the United States. 510pgs. • 1988
◆ • Brandeis • P • $35.00 / $7.98
✪ 160034 THE MARCEL NETWORK: How One
French Couple Saved 527 Children from the
Holocaust
Coleman, Fred
Risking their own lives and relying on false papers, Syrian
immigrant Moussa Abadi, and his future wife, Odette
Rosenstock, assembled one of the most successful operations of Jewish resistance in Europe. Drawing on a multitude of sources, including interviews with the now grown
children they rescued, Fred Coleman tells the Abadis' full
story for the first time. 256pgs. • 2012
◆ • Potomac Books • C • $27.50 / $5.98
✪ 160477 MOSES MENDELSSOHN: Sage of Modernity
Feiner, Shmuel
The "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)
was the most influential Jewish thinker of the 18th and 19th
centuries. This volume, the first full, human portrait of this fascinating man, provides a vivid sense of Mendelssohn's daily
life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. 248pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $27.50 / $9.98
✪ 104389 NEIGHBORS: The Destruction of the Jewish
Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Gross, Jan T.
One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne
murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all
but seven of the town's Jews. Gross pieces together eyewitness
accounts and other evidence into an engulfing reconstruction
of that horrific July day, one that has been remembered well by
locals but forgotten by history. 216pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • C • $37.50 / $12.98
✪ 154689 NO JOKE: Making Jewish Humor
Wisse, Ruth R.
In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of
the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity -as well as the brilliance of comic writers like Sholem
Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip
Roth. At the same time, she draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being -- and the
price it may exact from its practitioners and audience alike.
296pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
153028 A PLAUSIBLE GOD: Secular
Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology
Silver, Mitchell
Across the monotheistic traditions a liberal conception of God has emerged that is
compatible with a thoroughgoing naturalism; for many, this new God is the only
credible God. Silver here analyzes the theology of three recent Jewish thinkers -Mordechai Kaplan, Michael Lerner, and
Arthur Green -- and compares faith in the new God to disbelief. 200pgs. • 2006
◆ • Fordham • P • $30.00 / $7.98
126095 THE REBBE: The Life and Afterlife of
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Heilman, Samuel C. & Menachem Friedman
From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel
Schneerson built the Lubavitcher movement from a small
Hasidic sect into a powerful force in Jewish life. The authors
paint a vivid portrait of the Rebbe, showing how he reinvented
himself from an aspiring electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic
emissaries could transform the world. 382pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
125781 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE
JEWS
Brenner, Michael
The most learned yet broadly accessible
book available on the subject. Brenner
takes readers from the mythic wanderings
of Moses to the unspeakable atrocities of
the Holocaust; from the Babylonian exile to
the founding of the modern state of Israel;
and from the Sephardic communities
under medieval Islam to the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the
Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn. 472pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
✪ 131450 SPINOZA, LIBERALISM, AND
THE QUESTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY
Smith, Steven B.
Recognized as the first modern Jewish
thinker, Spinoza was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book
reveals him as a politically engaged thinker
who decisively influenced such diverse
movements as the Enlightenment, liberalism,
and political Zionism. 288pgs. • 1997
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $16.98
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087675 AMBIVALENT CONQUESTS:
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 15171570
SECOND EDITION
Clendinnen, Inga
An exploration of the turbulent 16th-century encounter between Spanish conquistadors and the Yucatecan Maya.
Clendinnen's study, which now includes a
new Preface, is both a specific examination
of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work
with broader implications for the understanding of European
domination and native resistance throughout the colonial
world. 264pgs. • 2003
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $19.98
055934 COLONIAL BRAZIL
Bethell, Leslie, ed.
A continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from
the beginning of the 16th to the beginning of the 19th centuries. Covers early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes,
Indian societies, and more. 408pgs. • 1987
◆ • Cambridge • P • $49.00 / $19.98
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✪ 135735 COLONIALISM AND POSTCOLONIAL
DEVELOPMENT: Spanish America in Comparative
Perspective
Mahoney, James
This comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America offers
a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. It
explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain
kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give
rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity
and social well-being. 424pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.00 / $17.98
134299 A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE
CARIBBEAN
Higman, B. W.
A general history of the Caribbean islands
from the beginning of human settlement to
the present. It covers early human migrations, European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the
plantation economy, the revolution in
Haiti, independence movements, the
Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people.
372pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $16.98
✪ 107071 AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF LATIN
AMERICA
Miller, Shawn William
Beginning with Amerindian civilizations and concluding with
the present, this work offers an original synthesis of current
scholarship on the region's environmental history. Viewing
Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of
many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and
modern, have been both more powerful and more vulnerable
than previously thought. 257pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $16.98
✪ 158656 HAVANA: History and Architecture of a
Romantic City
Fox, Lorna S.
Havana bears the traces of every stage of the island's rich history, from its indigenous traditions to the present day. This
exquisite volume presents the architecture and history of
Havana -- parts of which have been declared a UNESCO World
Heritage Site -- through an accessible and engaging text and
specially commissioned color photographs. 320pgs. • 2009
◆ • Monacelli • C • $85.00 / $24.98
✪ 155244 MARX AND FREUD IN
LATIN AMERICA: Politics,
Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times
of Terror
Bosteels, Bruno
Presents ten case studies arguing that art
and literature -- the novel, poetry, theatre,
and film -- more than any militant tract or
theoretical essay, can give us a glimpse into
Marxism and psychoanalysis, not so much
as sciences of history or of the unconscious, respectively, but
rather as two intricately related modes of understanding the
formation of subjectivity. 336pgs. • 2012
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135869 A CONSTITUTION OF MANY
MINDS: Why the Founding Document
Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before
Sunstein, Cass R.
Will conservatives or liberals succeed in
remaking the court in their own image? In
this volume, an acclaimed legal scholar
proposes a bold new way of interpreting
the Constitution, one that respects its text
and history but also refuses to view the
document as frozen in time. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $8.98
✪ 160079 FIVE CHIEFS
Stevens, John Paul
When he resigned in June 2010, Justice John Paul Stevens
was the third-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in
American history. This volume is his personal account of
the workings of the court from his personal experiences
with five chief justices and the controversial cases they
deliberated over, from freedom of speech and affirmative
action to capital punishment and sovereign immunity.
304pgs. • 2012
◆ • Little, Brown • P • IMPORT / $5.98
131779 IS EATING PEOPLE WRONG?:
Great Legal Cases and How they
Shaped the World
Hutchinson, Allan C.
Explores the consequences of eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the
US, and Australia. The book depicts common law as a dynamic process, and reveals
the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by
courts to adapt the law to changing conditions and shifting demands. 260pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $14.98
✪ 160507 PARTLY LAWS COMMON TO ALL MANKIND:
Foreign Law in American Courts
Waldron, Jeremy
Should judges in US courts be permitted to cite foreign laws in
their rulings? In this book Jeremy Waldron explores some
ideas in jurisprudence and legal theory that could underlie the
Supreme Court's occasional recourse to foreign law, especially in constitutional cases. 304pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $9.98
104842 RESTORING THE LOST CONSTITUTION:
The Presumption of Liberty
Barnett, Randy E.
Argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since
the 1930s, the courts have cut holes in the Constitution to
eliminate the parts that protect liberty from the power of government. Barnett offers a way to restore these parts to their
central role, by adopting a "presumption of liberty" to give the
benefit of the doubt to citizens when laws restrict their rightful
exercise of liberty. 384pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
✪ 141475 RULE OF LAW, MISRULE OF MEN
Scarry, Elaine
A passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law
when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation
and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will
of the people, Elaine Scarry offers a fierce defense of the people's role as guarantor of our democracy. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • MIT • C • $14.95 / $5.98
105177 WHY PEOPLE OBEY THE LAW
Tyler, Tom R.
People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they
fear punishment: this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's
classic study. He suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers
would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect
than to try to instill fear of punishment. 299pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
LI NGU ISTICS & LANGUAGES
109407 THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES
OF ASIA AND THE AMERICAS
Woodard, Roger D., ed.
Each chapter in this survey focuses on
an individual language or, in some
instances, a set of closely related varieties. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each one examines the writing
system or systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and
historical context. 263pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $54.00 / $34.98
087198 THE CAMBRIDGE
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
Crystal, David
Fully revised for a new generation of
language-lovers, this second edition is
longer and includes extensive new
material on world English and Internet
English, in addition to completely
updated statistics, further reading suggestions and other references. Crystal has packed the text with
accurate and well-researched facts that have led to its popular
acclaim. 506pgs. • 2003
◆ • Cambridge • P • $60.00 / $28.98
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087569 THE CAMBRIDGE OLD
ENGLISH READER
Marsden, Richard C. & Andrew P.
Orchard
The 56 Old English prose and verse texts
included here cover ground no previous
reader has encompassed. The anthology
includes both well-known selections from
Bede and Beowulf and lesser-known
pieces such as Medicinal Remedies from
Bald's Leechbook and divinations from Aelfwine's
Prayerbook. Includes judicious annotations, a reference
grammar, and an excellent glossary. 566pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $48.00 / $27.98
✪ 140637 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SECOND EDITION
Barber, Charles, et al.
A history of the English language from prehistory to the
present day, dealing with key topics such as grammar, pronunciation, and semantics. The main theoretical and technical concepts of historical linguistics are explained, and
Barber uses classic texts to illustrate the state of the English
language through time. 320pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $20.99 / $11.98
024374 LANGUAGE AND PROBLEMS
OF KNOWLEDGE: The Managua
Lectures
Chomsky, Noam
Chomsky's most accessible statement on
the nature, origins, and concerns of linguistics. The lectures explore four fundamental questions: What do we know when
we are able to speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge acquired?
How do we use this knowledge? What are the physical mechanisms involved in the representation, acquisition, and use of
this knowledge? 205pgs. • 1988
◆ • MIT • P • $27.00 / $12.98
104982 THE LANGUAGES OF CHINA
Ramsey, S. Robert
"A comprehensive and accurate account that places China's
linguistic diversity in a meaningful historical, geographical,
and social context. Ramsey has succeeded admirably in
achieving this end." -- The Journal of Asian Studies 355pgs. •
1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $26.98
029784 THE MINIMALIST PROGRAM
Chomsky, Noam
Essays show how the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with
derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of
languages is also restricted. 420pgs. •
1995
▲ • MIT • P • $44.00 / $19.98
044835 READING MEDIEVAL LATIN
Sidwell, Keith
The only systematic introduction for students to the Latin writing and culture of the period A.D. 550-1200, this anthology of
texts is arranged chronologically and thematically, and
includes introductions, commentaries, and a vocabulary of
nonclassical words and meanings. 398pgs. • 1995
◆ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $26.98
✪ 144686 THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE: Interviews
with James McGilvray
Chomsky, Noam
In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky
discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning a
wide variety of topics, including the nature of language, the
philosophies of language and mind, morality and universality,
science and common sense, and the evolution of language.
328pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $16.98
LITERARY TH EORY & CRITICISM
039701 ANATOMY OF CRITICISM
Frye, Northrop
In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and
rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature
from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary
criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression
through time. 383pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $14.98
✪ 088039 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
POSTMODERNISM
Connor, Steven, ed.
Provides a survey of those aspects of postmodernist ideas and
culture that have had significant effects on contemporary critical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include
postmodernism's relation to modernity and its significance
and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, and modern
cultural studies. 254pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $21.98
158268 DICKENS'S ENGLAND: An A-Z Tour of the
Real and Imagined Locations
Lynch, Tony
This A-Z guidebook to Dickens-related destinations introduces armchair travelers to Mr. Pickwick's Bath, David
Copperfield's Yarmouth, Nicholas Nickelby's Yorkshire,
and, of course, Victorian London. Generously illustrated, it
also covers places associated with Dickens himself, including his birthplace, the site of the blacking factory where he
worked as a child, and his final home in Kent. 208pgs. •
2012
◆ • Batsford • C • $19.95 / $6.98
✪ 020393 EARLY STEVENS: The Nietzschean Intertext
Leggett, B. J.
Concentrating on poems published between 1915 and 1935 but moving occasionally into later poems, as well as letters
and essays - Leggett draws together texts of Stevens and
Nietzsche to produce new and surprising readings of the
poet's early work. 270pgs. • 1992
◆ • Duke • C • $69.95 / $7.98
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✪ 104996 THE HARD FACTS OF THE
GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES
Tatar, Maria
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter
for this intriguing study of Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and
Household Tales. This updated and
expanded second edition includes a new
preface and an appendix containing new translations of six
tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. 360pgs. •
2003
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $16.98
✪ 111585 INVISIBLE LISTENERS:
Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman,
and Ashbery
Vendler, Helen
What impels poets to leap across time and
space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy -- George Herbert
with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in
the future, John Ashbery with the
Renaissance
painter
Francesco
Parmigianino? In these pages, Vendler argues that such poets
must invent the language that will produce, on the page, an
intimacy they lack in life. 95pgs. • 2007
▲ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
154579 KAFKA: The Decisive Years
Stach, Reiner
The acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of
Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with more than 4,000 pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, in order to
re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked
from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. 584pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
SHAKESPEARE
✪ 102983 THE CAMBRIDGE
INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE'S
TRAGEDIES
Dillon, Janette
Beginning with a discussion of tragedy
before Shakespeare and considering
Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically
one by one, this book highlights both the
distinctiveness and the shared concerns
of each play within the broad trajectory
of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.
176pgs. • 2007
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✪ 104990 HAMLET IN PURGATORY
Greenblatt, Stephen
Pursuing a longtime fascination with the
ghost of Hamlet's father, Greenblatt
explores the rise and fall of Purgatory as
both a belief and a lucrative Christian
institution. At once a deeply satisfying
reading of medieval religion, a provocative interpretation of the apparitions that
trouble Shakespeare's tragic heroes, and
an exploration of how a culture can be haunted by its own
spectral leftovers. 352pgs. • 2002
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105141 LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE
Auden, W. H.
In these lectures, we hear Auden alluding
to authors from Homer, Dante, and St.
Augustine to Kierkegaard, Ibsen, and T. S.
Eliot, drawing upon the full range of
European literature and opera, and referring to the day's newspapers and magazines, movies and cartoons. The result is
an extended instance of the "live conversation" that Auden believed criticism ought to be. 488pgs. •
2002
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128187 THE NEW CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
SHAKESPEARE
De Grazia, Margreta & Stanley Wells, eds.
In addition to chapters on traditional topics such as
Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts, this
volume provides readings of the plays in the context of genre
as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of
race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on
performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage
and film. 380pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $15.98
054965 SHAKESPEARE AND THE BOOK
Kastan, David Scott
An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed
from scripts for performance into books, and from entertainment into the centerpieces of the literary canon. Kastan examines the motives of Shakespeare's first publishers, and the radical modification of Shakespeare on the stage in the 18th-century just as scholars were working to establish and restore the
"genuine" texts. 184pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $22.98
153033 SHAKESPEARE AND THE CULTURE OF
CHRISTIANITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Taylor, Dennis & David N. Beauregard, eds.
The question of Shakespeare's Catholic contexts has occupied
many scholars in recent years, and their growing body of work
has been enriched by revisionist accounts of the Reformation
society and culture in which he lived and worked. This innovative book brings together original essays by leading scholars
who examine Shakespeare's works in light of this new scholarship. 477pgs. • 2003
◆ • Fordham • P • $35.00 / $9.98
✪ 121306 SHAKESPEARE'S LONDON ON 5 GROATS A
DAY
Tames, Richard
Shakespearean London can be big and baffling, but don't
worry if you don't know a buskin from a firkin. This factpacked guide provides all the practical advice a tourist needs
to travel back four centuries to explore the booming city.
144pgs. • 2009
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $8.98
154697 KAFKA: The Years of Insight
Stach, Reiner
This volume of the acclaimed and definitive biography of
Franz Kafka tells the story of the writer's final years. Stach's
riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about
Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of Kafka's
personal life, then pulling back for panoramic shots of a
wider world scarred by World War I, disease, and inflation.
816pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
✪ 039808 NABOKOV'S PALE FIRE:
The Magic of Artistic Discovery
Boyd, Brian
A provocative reinterpretation of one of
the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Boyd, the author of the definitive biography of Nabokov, leads the reader step-bystep through the book, gradually revealing the profound relationship between
Nabokov's ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. 303pgs. • 1999
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $16.98
✪ 160473 THE MILTON ENCYCLOPEDIA
Corns, Thomas N., ed.
The articles in this comprehensive reference cover each poem
and prose work by John Milton; the life of Milton and the
members of his family; all events and all contemporary and
historical figures mentioned significantly in his writings; every
book of the Bible in its relation to Milton's own work; printers, booksellers, and publishing history; the critical and editorial traditions; illustrators; and those whose own writing was
shaped by Milton's influence. 424pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $150.00 / $29.98
038520 THE NEW PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
POETRY AND POETICS
Preminger, Alex & T. V. Brogan, eds.
A comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its
subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. This completely revised edition includes new entries
by Camille Paglia, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Elaine Showalter,
Houston Baker, and Andrew Ross, and new coverage of cultural criticism, discourse, feminist poetics, and Chicano poetry. 1383pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $24.98
058164 MIMESIS: The Representation of Reality in
Western Literature
Auerbach, Erich
A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, this exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia
Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read
Western literature. This new expanded edition includes an
introduction by Edward Said as well as a previously untranslated essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics. 616pgs.
• 2002
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
✪ 160502 NOVEL BEGINNINGS: Experiments in
Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
Spacks, Patricia Meyer
A fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English
novel. Treating well-known works like Tom Jones and
Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts such
as Sarah Fielding's The Cry and Jane Barker's A Patch-Work
Screen for the Ladies, the book evokes the excitement of a
multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and
change. 320pgs. • 2006
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $9.98
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✪ 021846 NOVEL GAZING: Queer
Readings in Fiction
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, ed.
The first collection of queer criticism on
the history of the novel, discussing a
diverse array of British, French, and
American novels and exploring queer
worlds of taste, texture, joy, and ennui.
516pgs. • 1997
◆ • Duke • P • $29.95 / $7.98
141741 ON CONAN DOYLE: Or, the Whole Art of
Storytelling
Dirda, Michael
A lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer
Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of the Baker
Street Irregulars -- the most famous of all Sherlockian groups.
Combining memoir and appreciation, this highly engaging
personal introduction to Holmes's creator is also a rare insider's account of the activities and playful scholarship of the
Baker Street group. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $7.98
126215 ON WHITMAN
Williams, C. K.
A personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet
by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction -- or reintroduction -- to the author of Leaves of Grass.
In brief, thematic chapters, Williams explores the innovations,
originality, and sheer genius of the poetry that has become "the
unconscious" of much of the poetry of America and the world.
208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 033524 THE RULING PASSION: British Colonial
Allegory & the Paradox of Homosexual Desire
Lane, Christopher
Examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual
desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the 20th century through readings of sexual and political allegory in the work of Kipling, Forster, and
Beerbohm. 326pgs. • 1995
◆ • Duke • P • $25.95 / $7.98
152130 SOME NECESSARY ANGELS:
Essays on Writing and Politics
Parini, Jay
A distinguished poet and novelist presents
some of his best essays -- both classic and
unpublished works -- on topics ranging
from baseball to Frost and Emerson to the
culture of creative writing. 288pgs. •
2000
◆ • Columbia • P • $29.00 / $7.98
✪ 160190 THINKING IN CIRCLES: An Essay on Ring
Composition
Douglas, Mary
Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as
Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, the literary
technique known as ring composition is too widespread to
have come from a single source. Focusing on ring composition in the Iliad, the Book of Numbers, and Laurence
Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Mary Douglas examines the technique, its principles, and its functions in a cross-cultural
manner. 192pgs. • 2007
◆ • Yale • C • $35.00 / $14.98
LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA
✪ 159992 THE 20TH CENTURY IN POETRY
Hulse, Michael & Simon Rae, eds.
Including poems by Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H.
Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Philip Larkin, T. S. Eliot,
Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, W.
H. Auden, e. e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, John Updike,
Robert Penn Warren, this richly rewarding collection captures
the history of the 20th century within the covers of one monumental volume. 864pgs. • 2012
◆ • Pegasus • C • $35.00 / $9.98
✪ 157385 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, VOLUME
2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain
Papers)
Twain, Mark
The eagerly awaited second volume delves deeper into Twain's
life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and
public worlds. Filled with his characteristic blend of humor
and ire, the narrative ranges effortlessly across the contemporary scene, as he shares his views on writing and speaking, his
preoccupation with money, and his contempt for the politics
and politicians of his day. 407pgs. • 2013
◆ • California • C • $45.00 / $22.98
✪ 130229 THE BLUE MANUSCRIPT
Khemir, Sabiha Al
The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize
for any collector of Islamic treasures. But
does it still exist, and if so, can it be found?
Interspersed with the testimony of the
early medieval calligrapher who created
the Blue Manuscript, Sabiha Al Khemir's
subtle, graceful novel weaves a rich tapestry of love, hope, despair, greed, fear and
betrayal. 307pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • C • $24.95 / $7.98
104334 CAMUS AT COMBAT: Writing 1944-1947
Camus, Albert, et al.
Presents the writings published in the resistance newspaper
where Camus served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer
between 1944 and 1947. These 165 articles and editorials
show how his thinking evolved from support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a wariness of the radical left alongside his longstanding opposition to the reactionary right. 334pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $11.98
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122150 THE CHANGELING
Oe, Kenzaburo
In this novel by the Nobel laureate, Kogito
Choko, a writer in his early sixties, begins
a far-ranging search to understand what
drove his estranged brother-in-law and
friend to suicide. His quest takes him from
the forests of southern Japan to the
washed-out streets of Berlin, where he
confronts the ghosts from both his own
past and that of his lifelong, but departed, friend. 480pgs. •
2010
▲ • Grove Press • C • $26.00 / $6.98
✪ 111679 THE COLLECTED LYRIC POEMS OF
LUIS DE CAMÕES
Camões, Luís de
The first comprehensive collection of the sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems of the author of
the Lusiads, this volume includes more than 280 lyrics, all rendered into engaging verse by translator Landeg White. 384pgs.
• 2008
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044061 COMPLETE WORKS: Volume II: 1959-1963
Pinter, Harold
Includes The Caretaker; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The
Lover; Night School; Trouble in the Works; The Black and
White; Request Stop; Last to Go; Special Offer; and an essay,
"Writing for Myself." 248pgs. • 1990
◆ • Grove Press • P • $14.50 / $5.98
028138 COMPLETE WORKS: Volume III: 1963-1969
Pinter, Harold
The third volume of Grove's collected Pinter features The
Homecoming along with three other plays, six revue
sketches, and a short story. 247pgs. • 1990
▲ • Grove Press • P • $15.00 / $5.98
028073 A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Toole, John Kennedy
Kennedy's Pulitzer-Prize winning and comic tale of Ignatius J.
Reilly as he stumbles through life in the lower depths of New
Orleans and its denizens, where his near-arrest for vagrancy
leads to a number of comic attempts at employment. 405pgs.
• 2002
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✪ 160212 CORKER'S FREEDOM
Berger, John
A powerfully unsettling, mordantly witty
story about the pitfalls of free will. In the
course of a day, the aging owner of an
employment agency is propelled into a fantasy world through his romantic yearnings
and inarticulate dreams, seeking an illusory freedom from the bonds of responsibility. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Verso • P • IMPORT / $5.98
101829 EARLY 20TH CENTURY GERMAN FICTION:
Alfred Döblin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Anna Seghers, and
Arnold Zweig
THE GERMAN LIBRARY, VOLUME 67
Stephan, Alexander, ed.
This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and
German writers includes: Pogrom and a selection from The
Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig; "The Murder of a
Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin Alexanderplatz by
Alfred Doblin; selections from Jew Suss and The Oppermans
by Lion Feuchtwanger; and a selection from The Seventh Cross
and "Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna Seghers. 320pgs.
• 2003
◆ • Continuum • P • $44.95 / $7.98
✪ 158524 FIELD OF HONOUR
TRANSLATED BY GERALD MARTIN
Aub, Max
Never before translated into English,
this is the first volume in Aub's fivenovel cycle known as The Magic
Labyrinth, hailed as one of the finest literary treatments of the Spanish Civil
War. The protagonist is Rafael López
Serrador, whose coming of age in
Barcelona introduces a cast from all walks of city life -Catalan nationalists, anarchists, Falangists, government
ministers, and showgirls. 253pgs. • 2009
◆ • Verso • C • $19.95 / $5.98
158251 THE HUNDRED DAYS
O'Brian, Patrick
In this 19th Aubrey/Maturin novel, Napoleon, escaped from
Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful
phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before
their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the
French armies to triumph at Waterloo. 288pgs. • 1998
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $24.00 / $5.98
✪ 160534 IDA: A Novel
Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein wanted Ida to be known in
two ways: as a novel about a woman in the
age of celebrity culture and as a text with
its own story to tell. With the publication of
this workshop edition of Ida, we have the
novel exactly as it was published in 1941,
and we also have the full record of its creation. 384pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • P • $20.00 / $7.98
✪ 160056 IN THE COMPANY OF RILKE: Why a 20thCentury Visionary Poet Speaks So Eloquently to 21stCentury Readers
Dowrick, Stephanie
Rainer Maria Rilke remains a visionary voice for our own
time, captivating readers not only with his brilliance but also
with his fearlessness about the "deepest things." Drawing on
her deep understanding of Rilke's writings, Stephanie Dowrick
offers an intimate and accessible appreciation of this most
exceptional poet and his transcendent work. 368pgs. • 2011
◆ • Tarcher • P • $24.95 / $5.98
✪ 159993 JOSEPH ANTON:
A Memoir
Rushdie, Salman
How do a writer and his family live with
the threat of murder for more than nine
years? How does he go on working? How
does he fall in and out of love? In this
remarkable memoir, Salman Rushdie provides a first-hand account of one of the
most celebrated battles for freedom of
speech in our time. 656pgs. • 2012
◆ • Modern Library • C • $30.00 / $9.98
✪ 142022 THE LAST COLONIAL: Curious Adventures
and Stories from a Vanishing World
Ondaatje, Christopher
An autobiography in essays by this renowned explorer and
biographer of the British colonial period. The stories tell of
Ondaatje's childhood days in Ceylon, his early life in Canada,
his fascination with inexplicable events and local superstitions,
and his sometimes perilous travels researching biographies of
Ernest Hemingway in Africa, Leonard Woolf in Ceylon, and Sir
Richard Burton in India and Africa. 256pgs. • 2011
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $29.95 / $14.98
✪ 135409 THE LETTERS OF
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, 1907-1922
Spanier, Sandra, et al., eds.
This first volume of all of Hemingway's
surviving letters encompasses his youth,
his experience in World War I, and his
arrival in Paris. The letters reveal a
more
complex
person
than
Hemingway's tough-guy public persona
would suggest: devoted son, affectionate
brother, infatuated lover, adoring husband, spirited friend,
and disciplined writer. 516pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • C • $40.00 / $14.98
✪ 159729 THE LETTERS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
1923-1925: 1923-1925
Spanier, Sandra, et al., eds.
These letters illuminate Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the
1920s, as well as the development of his friendships with
the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos
Passos. Striving to "make it new," he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style,
gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of
his generation. 604pgs. • 2013
◆ • Cambridge • C • $40.00 / $18.98
✪ 154676 LETTERS, 1941-1985
Calvino, Italo
Selected and with an Introduction by
Michael Wood, this is the first collection in
English of the extraordinary letters of one
of the great writers of the 20th century.
Included are some 650 letters filled with
insights about Calvino's writing, about
Italian, American, English, and French literature, and about literary criticism, culture, and politics. 640pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.50 / $21.98
038608 THE LIVES OF ANIMALS
Coetzee, J. M.
A renowned novelist employs fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. In his fable,
presented as a Tanner Lecture at Princeton University, Coetzee
immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand:
a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a
prestigious university. 127pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $11.98
✪ 152496 NEW IMPRESSIONS OF
AFRICA
Roussel, Raymond
Mysterious, unnerving, hilarious, haunting, both rigorously logical and dizzyingly sublime, this weird and wonderful
poem -- admired by Jean Cocteau,
Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault,
Kenneth Koch, and John Ashbery -- is
one of the hidden masterpieces of 20thcentury modernism. This bilingual edition presents the
original French text alongside Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic
translation. 264pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $14.95 / $7.98
✪ 160475 NOTTURNO
D'Annunzio, Gabriele
Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele
D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. In his
remarkable translation, Stephen Sartarelli preserves the antiquated style of D'Annunzio's poetic prose, bringing to contemporary readers the full texture and complexity of a creation
forged out of darkness. 344pgs. • 2012
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158247 ONE HUNDRED NAMES FOR
LOVE: A Memoir
Ackerman, Diane
In this extraordinary memoir, Ackerman
opens a window into the experience of
wordlessness -- the language paralysis
called aphasia. In narrating the recovery of
her husband, Paul West, from a stroke that
reduced his vast vocabulary to a single syllable, she evokes the joy and mystery of the
brain's ability to find and connect words. 336pgs. • 2012
◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $15.95 / $4.98
105182 THE PLUM IN THE GOLDEN VASE OR, CHIN
P'ING MEI: The Gathering, Vol. 1
Roy, David Tod
An unabridged and annotated translation of the first volume of
the anonymous 16th-century Chinese novel, the story of the
domestic life of the corrupt and voracious Hsi-men Ch'ing, his
six wives and concubines. 714pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $28.98
158162 A POCKET HISTORY OF SEX IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY: A Memoir
Vandenburgh, Jane
Born into "a certain kind of family" -- affluent, white,
Protestant -- Jane Vandenburgh came of age when the sexual
revolution was sweeping the cultural landscape, changing our
manners and mores forever. But as she relates in this brilliant
blend of memoir and cultural revelation, what began as an allAmerican life soon spun off and went spectacularly awry.
400pgs. • 2009
◆ • Counterpoint • C • $25.00 / $5.98
✪ 126167 THE POETRY LESSON
Codrescu, Andrei
Neither precisely a novel nor a memoir,
this is a hilarious account of the first day of
a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik" -- one
with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of
entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or
otherwise. In other words, pure Codrescu.
128pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 160077 THE SEA IS MY BROTHER
Kerouac, Jack
In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant
Marine, Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Now,
nearly 70 years later, its long-awaited publication provides
fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. 240pgs. • 2012
◆ • Da Capo • P • IMPORT / $6.98
✪ 160521 SELECTED LYRICS
Gautier, Theophile
Widely esteemed by figures as diverse as
Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert,
Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and T. S. Eliot,
Gautier was one of the 19th century's most
prominent French writers, famous for his
virtuosity, his inventive textures, and his
creed of "Art for art's sake." This generous
sampling not only succeeds in bringing
these poems into English but also renews them in the process
of translation. 552pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • P • $18.00 / $5.98
✪ 160527 THEATRE OF THE AVANT-GARDE, 1950-2000:
A Critical Anthology
Knopf, Robert & Julia Listengarten, eds.
Assembles an international selection of influential avant-garde
plays from the second half of the 20th century. Supplemented
by essays by major theater practitioners, the book approaches
the recent avant-garde as a non-linear, pluralistic phenomenon, includes collaborative constructed scripts, and highlights
the complex dynamic between avant-garde text and performance. 568pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • P • $29.00 / $7.98
✪ 153201 WRITING IN AN AGE OF SILENCE
Paretsky, Sara
In this fascinating and personal account, the author of the V. I.
Warshawski crime novels describes a life shaped by the desire
to act. From the feminist movement -- which triggered her
aspirations to write and shaped the character of her female
detective -- to the Patriot Act and the liberties we have lost,
Paretsky describes the struggle of one individual to find a
voice. 138pgs. • 2007
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M EDI EVAL &
RENAISSANCE STU DI ES
✪ 125725 APPARITIONS IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND
RENAISSANCE SPAIN
Christian, William A., Jr.
Like most other peoples, Spaniards have long wondered about
God and the saints -- what they want from mortals, how they
affect human affairs, even what they look like. The most direct
evidence, from reported face-to-face meetings with the holy
ones, is the subject of this fascinating book. 368pgs. • 1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $62.95 / $26.98
038897 COMMUNITIES OF VIOLENCE: Persecution of
Minorities in the Middle Ages
Nirenberg, David
Focusing on attacks against minorities in 14th-century France
and the Crown of Aragon, Nirenberg argues that these attacks
-- ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews,
Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes -- were often perpetrated not
by irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and
prejudices, but by groups that deliberately manipulated and
reshaped the available discourses on minorities. 301pgs. •
1998
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127002 THE DANGERS OF RITUAL: Between Early
Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory
Buc, Philippe
Tracing the emergence of the concept of ritual from the
Reformation to the mid-20th century, Buc highlights the continuities as well as the profound transformations between the
early medieval understandings of ritual and our own social
scientific models. 312pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $17.98
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✪ 141089 EMPTY BOTTLES OF
GENTILISM: Kingship and the
Divine in Late Antiquity and the
Early Middle Ages (To 1050)
Oakley, Francis
In the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western
political thought, Francis Oakley
explores the roots of secular political
thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European Middle Ages. 320pgs. •
2010
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111444 FURTA SACRA: Thefts of
Relics in the Central Middle Ages
Geary, Patrick J.
To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks
plundered tombs, avaricious merchants
raided churches, and relic-mongers
scoured the Roman catacombs. In this
revised edition, Geary considers the social
and cultural context of these acts, asking
how the relics were perceived and why the
thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians. 248pgs. •
1991
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038630 THE MAKING OF EUROPE:
Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural
Change, 950-1350
Bartlett, Robert
From our modern perspective, we tend to
think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered
lands beyond their borders and forced
European cultural values on other peoples.
This provocative book shows that Europe
in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer. 432pgs. •
1994
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039557 MEDIEVAL CITIES: Their Origins and the
Revival of Trade
Pirenne, Henri
Traces the growth of the medieval city from the tenth century
to the twelfth, challenging conventional wisdom by attributing
the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade. In addition, Pirenne describes the clear role the middle class played
in the development of the modern economic system and modern culture. 253pgs. • 1969
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $12.98
✪ 158657 PAST CONVICTIONS: The Penance of
Louis the Pious and the Decline of the Carolingians
Booker, Courtney M.
Historians have customarily viewed the divestiture and public penance of Charlemagne's son, the Emperor Louis the
Pious, in 833, as the beginning of the end of the Carolingian
dynasty. Exploring how both contemporaries and subsequent generations thought about these events, Booker finds
in ninth-century narratives a close but ephemeral connection between historiography and the generic conventions of
comedy and tragedy. 432pgs. • 2009
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✪ 158659 TEXTS AND TRADITIONS OF MEDIEVAL
PASTORAL CARE: Essays in Honour of Bella Millett
Gunn, Cate & Catherine Innes-Parker, eds.
Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the
Middle Ages. Ranging from the difficulties of localizing AngloSaxon pastoral texts to the reading of women in late-medieval
England, the individual essays in this volume survey the development of these writings and their transformation into the literature of vernacular spirituality. 242pgs. • 2009
◆ • York • C • $90.00 / $24.98
✪ 131884 THE WORLD OF
KING ARTHUR
Snyder, Christopher
A beautifully illustrated and informative survey that explores the world of
Arthur and the impact of the
Arthurian legends on history and the
arts. With its spread-by-spread layout, sidebars, timeline, and directory of Arthurian sites, this is the most
thorough exploration of Arthur's world ever published.
Features 64 color and 198 black-and-white illustrations.
192pgs. • 2011
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✪ 152869 THE WORLD OF THE VIKINGS
Hall, Richard
The complete story of the Vikings from their Scandinavian origins, through the incredible period of raiding, trading, and
settlement known as the Viking Age, to the last surviving Viking
outposts in 15th-century Greenland. Drawing on the latest discoveries and augmenting textual evidence with archaeological
detail, the book includes 330 illustrations, 141 in color.
240pgs. • 2013
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✪ 158579 ARAB REDISCOVERY OF
EUROPE: A Study in Cultural
Encounters
Lughod, Ibrahim Abu
Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798
exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman
Empire to a Europe vastly different from
the one known to the Arabs of the Middle
Ages. First published in 1963, this pioneering work traces the role of the Arab intelligentsia in increasing awareness of Europe and shaping an
image of the West. 200pgs. • 2011
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✪ 158652 THE CALIPH'S SPLENDOR:
Islam and the West in the Golden Age
of Baghdad
Bobrick, Benson
While the West declined following the collapse of the Roman Empire, a new Arab
civilization arose to the east, reaching a
peak in Baghdad under the caliph Harun
al-Rashid. Benson Bobrick eloquently tells
the remarkable story of Harun's rise to
power and his rivalries with the neighboring Byzantines and
the Frankish kingdom of Charlemagne. 304pgs. • 2012
◆ • Simon & Schuster • C • $28.00 / $9.98
✪ 160201 THE BRIDE AND THE DOWRY: Israel,
Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June
1967 War
Raz, Avi
Examining the critical two years following the 1967 war, Raz
dispels the myth of overall Arab intransigence, concluding that
Israel's postwar diplomacy was deliberately ineffective
because its leaders preferred land over peace with its neighbors. 480pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $35.00 / $10.98
✪ 088216 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ARABIC
PHILOSOPHY
Adamson, Peter & Richard C. Taylor, eds.
An introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes) or
groups, especially during the "classical" period from the ninth
to the twelfth centuries. Also includes chapters on later Islamic
thought, and on the connections between Arabic philosophy
and Greek, Jewish, and Latin philosophy. 468pgs. • 2004
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✪ 158581 A BRIEF
INTRODUCTION TO THE ARABIC
ALPHABET
Healey, John & Rex Smith
The Arabic alphabet has a fascinating
history, one that is entwined with the
development of culture and society in
the Middle East. In this volume, which
is illustrated and contains glossaries,
indices, and suggestions for further
reading, the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, a descendant of Phoenician. 116pgs.
• 2009
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128126 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO MUHAMMAD
Brockopp, Jonathan E., ed.
As the Messenger of God, Muhammad
stands at the heart of the Islamic religion,
revered by Muslims throughout the world.
This Cambridge Companion offers a collection of essays by some of the most
accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet.
344pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $17.98
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Hanioglu, M. Sukru
At the turn of the 19th century, the
Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary
ethnic and cultural diversity among the
estimated 30 million people living
within its borders. This volume gives
scholars and general readers a concise
history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent
years marked by enormous social changes. 264pgs. • 2010
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AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Goffman, Daniel
The Ottoman Empire has consistently
been regarded as a place apart, divided
from the West by differences of culture
and religion. In recent decades, new
scholarship has emerged that seeks to
de-exoticize this enduring realm.
Goffman provides a thorough introduction to Ottoman history and institutions from this new standpoint, and presents a claim for the inclusion of the empire
within Europe. 296pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $21.98
✪ 087367 THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1700-1922
Quataert, Donald
A lively, authoritative and accessible introduction, supported
by maps, illustrations and a chronology, which strikes a
comfortable balance among social, economic, and political
history. 236pgs. • 2005
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128106 CONTENDING VISIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST:
The History and Politics of Orientalism
Lockman, Zachary
A broad survey of Western visions of Islam and the Middle
East. Lockman begins with ancient Greek and Roman conceptions of the world, surveys European prejudices about Islam
from the 7th century through the age of European imperialism, and examines current attitudes in the wake of 9/11 and
the deepening American involvement in the region. 342pgs. •
2009
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038631 ENEMY IN THE MIRROR:
Islamic Fundamentalism and the
Limits of Modern Rationalism
Euben, Roxanne L.
A firm grasp of Islamic fundamentalism
has often eluded Western political
observers, many of whom view it in relation to social and economic upheaval or
explain it away as an irrational reaction to
modernity. Here Roxanne Euben makes
new sense of this belief system by revealing it as a critique of
and rebuttal to rationalist discourse and post-Enlightenment
political theories. 239pgs. • 1999
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✪ 160200 THE FORGOTTEN
PALESTINIANS: A History of the
Palestinians in Israel
Pappé, Ilan
An examination of how Israeli
Palestinians have fared under Jewish
rule and what their lives tell us about
both Israel's attitude toward minorities
and Palestinians' attitudes toward the
Jewish state. Drawing upon significant
archival and interview material, it analyzes the Israeli state's
policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights.
336pgs. • 2011
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087097 THE FORMATION OF ISLAM:
Religion and Society in the near East,
600-1800
Berkey, Jonathan P.
Surveys the religious history of the Near
Eastern peoples of antiquity. After examining the religious climate in the Near East,
Berkey investigates Islam's 1st century,
from the accession of the Abbasids to the
rise of the Buyid amirs, and then traces the
emergence of new forms of Islam in the middle period, showing Islam's emergence as part of a prolonged process.
312pgs. • 2002
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041162 A HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SOCIETIES: Second
Edition
Lapidus, Ira M.
Incorporates the origins and evolution of Islamic societies and
brings into focus the historical processes that gave shape to
the manifold varieties of contemporary Islam, and surveys the
growing influence of the Islamist movements within national
states. 1000pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $62.00 / $33.98
087283 A HISTORY OF MODERN
PALESTINE: One Land, Two Peoples
Pappe, Ilan
Traces the history of Palestine from the
Ottomans in the 19th century, through the
British Mandate, the establishment of the
state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent
wars and conflicts which have dominated
this troubled region. The second edition of
Pappe's book has been updated to include
the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early 21st century. As
in the first edition, it is the men, women and children of
Palestine who are at the center of Pappe's narrative. 384pgs.
• 2006
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✪ 149781 ISLAMIC SOCIETIES TO THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY: A Global History
Lapidus, Ira
Describes the transformations of Islamic societies from their
beginning in the 7th century, through their diffusion across the
globe, and into the challenges of the 19th century. It concludes
with the European commercial and imperial interventions that
initiated a new set of transformations in the Islamic world, and
the onset of the modern era. 788pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $23.98
087375 MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali, ed.
Offers new translations of philosophical writings by Farabi,
Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Rushd
(Averroes). A historical and philosophical introduction sets
the writings in context and traces their preoccupations and
their achievements. 236pgs. • 2005
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✪ 158063 THE COMMANDING SELF
Shah, Idries
While complete in itself as an anthology
of hitherto unpublished work, the book
serves to illustrate and amplify Idries
Shah's earlier books on the Sufi Way.
Based on tales, lectures, letters, and
interviews, it offers both an introduction
to Sufi thought and further study for those
already acquainted with Shah's writings.
332pgs. • 1997
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✪ 158067 THE WORLD OF THE SUFI
Shah, Idries
A collection of essays addressing the impact of Sufism in the
modern world. Among the topics discussed are Sufism in
Eastern Religion, Therapy and the Sufi, The Practice of the
Sufi, Current Study Materials, and Humor and the Sufi.
307pgs. • 2004
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✪ 125931 THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST: A Political
History since the First World War
Kamrava, Mehran
This succinct and authoritative overview of the making of the
modern Middle East brings a valuable mix of historical perspectives and contemporary analysis to this troubled and pivotal
region. With its broad thematic sweep and its balanced presentation of contentious issues, it is essential reading for both general
readers and students of the region. 454pgs. • 2005
◆ • California • P • $26.95 / $7.98
105236 THE MUQADDIMAH: An Introduction to
History
Khaldun, Ibn
The most important Islamic history of the premodern world,
this monumental work laid down the foundations of several
fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. 504pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $15.98
✪ 112089 THE MUGHAL EMPERORS: And the
Islamic Dynasties of India, Iran and Central Asia,
1206-1925
Robinson, Francis
A celebration of the Muslim high civilization that flourished
from Iran and Central Asia through Afghanistan to north
and central India. In lively biographical portraits, we see
the Mughal emperors as administrators trying to meet the
challenge of building strong central governments, as military leaders engaged in bloody struggles for succession,
and as enlightened patrons of the arts and sciences. 260
illustrations, 140 in color. 240pgs. • 2007
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125542 PRINCETON READINGS IN
ISLAMIST THOUGHT: Texts and
Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden
Euben, Roxanne Leslie & Muhammad
Qasim Zaman
This anthology of key primary texts provides an unmatched introduction to
Islamist political thought from the early
20th century to the present. It brings into
relief the commonalities in Islamist arguments about gender, democracy, and violence, but also reveals
political and theological disagreements among thinkers who
are often grouped together and dismissed as extremists.
536pgs. • 2009
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157277 MUHAMMAD IS NOT THE FATHER OF ANY OF
YOUR MEN: The Making of the Last Prophet
Powers, David S.
The Islamic claim to supersede Judaism and Christianity is
embodied in the theological assertion that the office of
prophecy is hereditary, but that the line of descent came to an
end with the coming of Muhammad. In this volume, Powers
contends that a series of radical moves were made in the first
two centuries of Islamic history in order to ensure that
Muhammad's position as the Last Prophet would be preserved. 376pgs. • 2009
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $65.00 / $18.98
✪ 158580 THE SHI'A WORLDS AND
IRAN
Mervin, Sabrina, ed.
From Africa to Asia, there are areas that
are home to minority -- and in some cases
majority -- groups of Twelver Shi'a. This
essential work explores the tenuous relations between these groups and Iran while
shedding light on understudied Shi'a communities in the Gulf, Turkey, Afghanistan,
Central Asia, and Senegal. 350pgs. • 2011
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✪ 160046 ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE BATTLE FOR
NORMANDY
Tucker-Jones, Anthony
The remarkable photographs collected in this book document
in graphic detail the role armor played in the Allied struggle to
exploit the D-Day landings and liberate occupied France, as
well as the skill and tenacity of the German Panzer units that
confronted the Allied advance. 144pgs. • 2012
◆ • Pen & Sword • P • $29.95 / $9.98
142276 THE BATTLE OF THE TANKS: Kursk 1943
Clark, Lloyd
On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when
Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk on
the western border of the Soviet Union. With unprecedented
access to the journals and testimonials of the officers, soldiers,
political leaders, and citizens who lived through it, this volume
is the definitive account of an epic showdown that changed the
course of history. 496pgs. • 2011
▲ • Grove Press • C • $30.00 / $9.98
✪ 160045 BRITISH TANKS: The Second World War
Ware, Pat
Using a selection of wartime photographs supported by
photos of preserved vehicles, this book describes the origins of the tank in Britain during the First World War, examines British tank development during the inter-war period,
and describes all of the models that saw service during the
Second World War. 128pgs. • 2012
◆ • Pen & Sword • P • $24.95 / $9.98
112185 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
WARFARE: The Triumph of the West
REVISED EDITION
Parker, Geoffrey
A unique account of Western warfare from antiquity to the present day. Treats all aspects of the subject: the development of warfare on land, sea and air; weapons and technology; strategy and
defense; discipline and intelligence; mercenaries and standing
armies; cavalry and infantry; chivalry and Blitzkrieg; guerilla
assault and nuclear arsenals. It ranges in scope from the Greek
victory at Marathon to the jungle warfare of Vietnam and the
strategic air attacks of the Gulf War. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $22.98
✪ 160033 CHURCHILL AND SEA
POWER
Bell, Christopher M.
Winston Churchill had a longer and
closer relationship with the Royal Navy
than any British statesman in modern
times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea
power has been mired in controversy.
This volume is the first major study of
Churchill's record as a naval strategist and his impact as the
most prominent guardian of Britain's sea power in the
modern era. 432pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $34.95 / $9.98
157497 THE GERMANS IN FLANDERS
1914 -1915
IMAGES OF WAR
Bilton, David
The book documents the German Army's
presence in Flanders from its arrival in
September 1914 until the summer of
1916. The illustrations -- most previously
unpublished -- provide an illustrative
background in both a specific and general form, highlighting life in the front-line as well as rear areas.
176pgs. • 2012
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158270 A HARD WAY TO MAKE A WAR
Gooderson, Ian
The successful Allied invasions of Sicily in June 1943 and the
Italian mainland in September gave them their first toehold in
Europe since 1941; but these achievements came at a cost. Ian
Gooderson here offers a considered analysis that places the
entire campaign in context and shows how battlefield commanders dealt with the military challenges that arose. 352pgs.
• 2009
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138017 THE COMPLETE ROMAN ARMY
Goldsworthy, Adrian
Drawing on archaeology, ancient art, and original documentary sources, this book presents the most convincing
history ever published of the Roman army, examining in
detail not just the early imperial army but also the citizens'
militia of the Republic and the army of the later Empire.
Includes 107 full-color and 147 black-and-white illustrations. 224pgs. • 2011
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STRATEGY: From the Persian Wars
to the Fall of Rome
Hanson, Victor Davis, ed.
Leading scholars explore key facets of
warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in
the Greco-Roman world, from the
Persian Wars to the final defense of the
Roman Empire. The essays demonstrate that the military thinking and
policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern
world. 278pgs. • 2010
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119644 ROMAN WARFARE
Roth, Jonathan P.
This lively examination of the evolution of Roman ways of
war surveys the history of Rome's fighting forces from their
inception in the 7th century BCE to the fall of the Western
Empire in the 5th century CE. Includes 39 halftones and 27
color plates. 328pgs. • 2009
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✪ 153478 KIEV 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy
in the East
Stahel, David
In just four weeks in the summer of 1941, the German
Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four
Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or
capturing three quarters of a million men. Charting the battle's dramatic course and aftermath, David Stahel uncovers
the irreplaceable losses suffered by Germany's panzer
groups despite their battlefield gains, and the implications
these losses posed for the German war effort. 482pgs. •
2013
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111591 MILITARY POWER: Explaining Victory and
Defeat in Modern Battle
Biddle, Stephen
In warfare, do states with the largest, best equipped, IT-rich
militaries invariably win? In this landmark reconception of
battle and war, Stephen Biddle argues that force employment
is central to modern war, and has become increasingly important since 1900 in a world of ever more lethal weaponry.
337pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $18.98
150704 NAPOLEON'S CURSED WAR: Spanish Popular
Resistance in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814
Fraser, Ronald
In this definitive account of the Peninsular War, Napoleon's sixyear war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the
emperor's devastating defeat against the popular opposition and
their British and Portuguese allies. He captures the reality of
"Napoleon's Vietnam" and the suffering, discontent, and social
upheaval that accompanied the fighting. 480pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verso • C • $54.95 / $12.98
✪ 160044 ORDER OF BATTLE: German Luftwaffe in
World War II
McNab, Chris
Germany's air force played a critical role in the its victories in
the early part of World War II, providing the airborne component of the German forces' Blitzkrieg tactics. Organized by
campaign and by key battles within each theater of war, this
volume provides a detailed compendium of information on the
strengths and organizational structures of the Third Reich's air
force. 192pgs. • 2009
◆ • Casemate • C • $19.95 / $9.98
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✪ 130859 RELUCTANT ACCOMPLICE: A Wehrmacht
Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front, 1939-1942
Jarausch, K. H.
The letters of a high-school teacher who served in a reserve
battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia before dying
of typhoid in 1942. The letters, which include chilling
descriptions of the mass deaths of Russian POWs, reveal the
inner conflicts of ordinary Germans who became accomplices in Hitler's merciless war of annihilation, yet sometimes managed to discover a shared humanity with its victims. 412pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $21.98
✪ 160049 ROMMEL'S DESERT
WARRIORS, 1941-1942
Olive, Michael & Robert Edwards
This visual history of Rommel and his
Afrika Korps includes hundreds of photos,
many of them rare and never previously
published. They include photos of men,
tanks and other weapons, uniforms,
desert terrain, and much more. 208pgs.
• 2012
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✪ 155058 SECRET REPORTS ON NAZI GERMANY: The
Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort
Laudani, Raffaele, et al.
During the Second World War, three prominent members of
the Frankfurt School -- Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and
Otto Kirchheimer -- worked as intelligence analysts for the
OSS, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings
together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi
Germany, most of which are published here for the first time.
704pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $21.98
✪ 160052 THE SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR: Rare
Photographs from Wartime Archives
Tucker-Jones, Anthony
This photographic history of the Soviet-Afghan War of 19791989 provides fascinating insight into a grim conflict that prefigured the American-led campaign in that country. By focusing on the Soviet use of heavy weaponry, Anthony Tucker-Jones
shows the imbalance at the heart of a conflict in which the
mechanized, industrial might of a super power was set against
lightly armed partisans. 160pgs. • 2013
◆ • Pen & Sword • P • $29.95 / $9.98
✪ 160051 WELLINGTON'S WARS: The Making of a
Military Genius
Davies, Huw
In this carefully researched -- and controversial -- new
analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career, Davies
argues that Wellington was by no means a man of innate
military talent. He shows that the key to Wellington's military success was, instead, an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war.
336pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $38.00 / $9.98
087204 A WORLD AT ARMS: A Global
History of World War II
NEW EDITION
Weinberg, Gerhard L.
Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume
remains the first history of WWII to provide
a truly global account of a war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the
changes that restructured Europe and its
colonies following the WWI, Weinberg
sheds new light on every aspect of WWII, as actions of the Axis,
the Allies, and the Neutrals are covered in every theater of the
war. 1208pgs. • 2005
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✪ 155701 WORLD WAR II: The Unseen Visual History
The Caen Memorial
This volume draws on a unique and rich trove of historical images
and artifacts of World War II collected in Caen, France. In the
form of a concise historical atlas, replete with full-color maps,
rare color photographs, period artwork, timelines, and reproductions of fascinating letters, documents, and historical objects,
it offers a completely new overview of the most destructive war of
modern times. 192pgs. • 2011
◆ • New Press • C • $35.00 / $9.98
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✪ 125601 BEETHOVEN HERO
Burnham, Scott
Bringing together music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the
philosophy of music, the author explores
the nature and persistence of Beethoven's
heroic style. He suggests that Beethoven's
music projects a sense of self, destiny, and
freedom. 400pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $16.98
157863 FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (19541981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies,
Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes
Sondheim, Stephen
Along with the lyrics for all of Sondheim's musicals from
1954 to 1981, this volume includes never-before-published
songs from each show. He discusses his relationship with
his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and his collaborations
with such extraordinary talents as Leonard Bernstein,
Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, Angela
Lansbury, and Harold Prince. 480pgs. • 2010
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157865 LOOK, I MADE A HAT: Collected Lyrics
(1981-2011) with Attendant Comments,
Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions,
Anecdotes and Miscellany
Sondheim, Stephen
The second volume of Sondheim's collected lyrics. Once
again, he richly annotates his lyrics with invaluable advice
on songwriting, discussions of theater history and the state
of the industry today, and exacting dissections of his work - both successes and failures. 480pgs. • 2011
◆ • Knopf • C • $45.00 / $12.98
✪ 160481 MOZART AND THE NAZIS:
How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural
Icon
Levi, Erik
Despite the apparent incompatibility
between Nazi ideology and Mozart's
humanitarian and cosmopolitan outlook,
the Third Reich tenaciously promoted the
great composer's music to further the
goals of the fascist regime. This revelatory
book draws on period articles, diaries, speeches, and other
archival materials to provide a new understanding of how the
Nazis shamelessly manipulated Mozart for political advantage.
336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $12.98
✪ 160202 MUSIC AND SENTIMENT
Rosen, Charles
How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of
joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from
Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate
emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways. 160pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $24.00 / $7.98
157879 A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PIANO: The
Instrument, the Music, the Musicians - From Mozart
to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
Isacoff, Stuart
In this beautifully illustrated celebration of the piano,
Isacoff reveals how the piano's sound provides the basis for
emotional expression and individual style; he illuminates
the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt,
Schumann, and Debussy; and he delineates how classical
music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely
American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride,
boogie, bebop, and beyond. 384pgs. • 2011
◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $9.98
✪ 156359 RICHARD STRAUSS:
A Musical Life
Holden, Raymond
Renowned today as the gifted composer of
a string of masterworks, Strauss is less
often remembered for his achievement as a
major conductor, but he held important
conducting posts in Munich, Berlin, and
Vienna and influenced generations of
younger conductors. This is the first book
to consider Strauss's career as a conductor in relation to his
life as a composer. 344pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $14.98
✪ 154384 STRAVINSKY AND HIS WORLD
Levitz, Tamara, ed.
Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts,
the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most
important composers of the 20th century. Rare documents -including Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, and
rarely seen French and Russian texts -- supplement the volume, bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and
intense personal relationships. 384pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
✪ 160118 VERVE: The Sound of America
Havers, Richard
The story of jazz, from its earliest days in New Orleans to the
1970s and beyond, told through archival material from
Verve, the genre's most important label. The 1,200 illustrations include reproductions of iconic seven-inch, ten-inch,
and twelve-inch records along with publicity reports, news
clippings, ledger books, telegrams, and contracts. 400pgs.
• 2013
▲ • Thames & Hudson • C • $75.00 / $42.98
✪ 031634 WAGNER'S RING OF THE NIBELUNG:
A Companion
Spencer, Stewart, & Barry Millington, eds.
In this volume, a modern English translation of the libretto is
accompanied by Stewart Spencer's introductory essay and a
series of specially commissioned texts that discuss the cycle's
musical structure, philosophical implications, medieval
sources, and Wagner's own changing attitude to its meaning.
383pgs. • 1993
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $13.98
NATU RAL H ISTORY &
ENVIRON M ENTAL STU DIES
105220 ATLANTIC SHORELINES:
Natural History and Ecology
Bertness, Mark D.
An introduction to the natural history
and ecology of shoreline communities
on the East Coast of North America.
Bertness examines how distinctive
communities of plants and animals are
generated on rocky shores and in salt
marshes, mangroves, and soft sediment beaches. 431pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $62.95 / $39.98
109570 THE BEAGLE LETTERS
BURKHARDT, FREDERICK, ED.
Darwin, Charles
Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS
Beagle is both a gripping adventure
story and a turning point in the making of the modern world. Brought
together here in chronological order,
the letters he wrote and received during his trip provide a first-hand
account of a voyage of discovery that was as much personal as intellectual. 544pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • C • $40.00 / $14.98
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125723 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA
Simpson, Ken & Nicolas Day
A completely revised eighth edition of Australia's bestselling
field guide, with 132 superb full-color plates and more than
900 black-and-white line illustrations. 392pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.50 / $22.98
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125578 BIRDS OF EAST ASIA:
China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and
Russia
Brazil, Mark
A handy single-volume guide to all the
bird species of the region. Features 234
beautiful color plates and more than
950 color maps covering seasonal habitats and migration routes. 528pgs. •
2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $22.98
125710 BIRDS OF EUROPE
Svensson, Lars & Zetterström Dan
The definitive field guide to the diverse birdlife found in
Europe, now brought fully up to date with revised text and
maps as well as additional illustrations. Covers all 772
species found in Europe, 32 introduced species or variants,
and 118 rare visitors. 448pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $17.98
104863 BIRDS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Van Perlo, Ber
The only field guide to illustrate and describe every species
of bird in Central America from Mexico to Panama, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
and Costa Rica. Enhanced by 98 color plates, the guide provides illustrations of all plumages for the adult males and
females as well as the juveniles of each species. 336pgs. •
2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
104833 HAWKS FROM EVERY
ANGLE: How to Identify Raptors
in Flight
Liguori, Jerry
Featuring 339 striking color photos
on 68 color plates and 32 black &
white photos, this volume presents a
host of meticulously crafted pictures
for each of the 19 species it covers
in detail -- the species most common to migration sites throughout the US and Canada. All
aspects of raptor identification are discussed, including
plumage, shape, and flight style. 129pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
127041 PARROTS OF THE WORLD
Forshaw, Joseph Michael
Covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of
parrots. It features 146 superb color plates, as well as
detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key
identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat,
and status. 336pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
024523 THE BOOK OF NATURALISTS: An Anthology of
the Best Natural History
Beebe, William, ed.
Deals with the development and growth of natural history, with
works by Aristotle, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Charles Darwin,
and Julian S. Huxley, among others, reflecting on the love of
animals and plants, evolution, classification, and anatomy.
499pgs. • 1988
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $22.98
087768 CAN A DARWINIAN BE A CHRISTIAN?: The
Relationship between Science and Religion
Ruse, Michael
With a balanced perspective that covers a wide range of topics, Ruse argues that although it is at times difficult for a
Darwinian to embrace Christian belief, it is by no means
inconceivable. At the same time he suggests ways in which a
Christian believer should have no difficulty accepting evolution
in general, and Darwinism in particular. 254pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $9.98
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105091 CATERPILLARS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA:
A Guide to Identification and Natural History
Wagner, David L.
A compact guide to nearly 700 caterpillars east of the
Mississippi, from forest pests to garden guests and economically important species. The guide provides full-page species
accounts -- with images of the adult insects -- for nearly 400
species, plus succinct coverage of distribution and other vital
information. Includes 1,200 color photos and 24 line drawings. 496pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $17.98
✪ 049397 CHARLES DARWIN: The Man and His
Influence
Bowler, Peter J.
A study of Darwin's life and influence combines biography
and cultural history, showing how Darwin's contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of
his thinking we consider of importance today. 250pgs. •
1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $26.98
152101 THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO
AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Merchant, Carolyn
The only major reference work to explore
all the major themes and debates of the
burgeoning field of environmental history.
It provides a context-setting overview of
American environmental history; an encyclopedia of important concepts, people,
agencies, and laws; a chronology of major
events; and an extensive bibliography. 400pgs. • 2005
◆ • Columbia • P • $28.00 / $7.98
157799 THE DANCE OF AIR AND SEA: How Oceans,
Weather, and Life Link Together
Taylor, Arnold H.
How can plankton in the sea just off of Western Europe be
affected by changes in the Gulf Stream 4,000 miles away? How
can the temperature of the Pacific Ocean help predict the
yields of maize in Zimbabwe? In this volume, an oceanographer illuminates the powerful forces driving the world's ecosphere, and reveals how ecosystems in water and on land
respond to changes in weather. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $6.98
112315 DINOSAURS: A Concise Natural History
Fastovsky, David E. & David B. Weishampel
This introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists
is designed to excite readers about science by using dinosaurs
to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history, and evolution.
It introduces a range of aspects of the natural sciences, including fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology, physiology,
life history, and systematics. 394pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $82.00 / $37.98
140922 DRAGONFLIES AND
DAMSELFLIES OF THE EAST
Paulson, Dennis
The first fully illustrated guide to all 336
dragonfly and damselfly species of eastern North America, from the rivers of
Manitoba to the Florida cypress swamps.
Species accounts describe key identification features, distribution, flight season,
similar species, habitat, and natural history. 576pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
157232 THE EMPEROR OF NATURE:
Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His
World
Stroud, Patricia Tyson
Called the father of American descriptive
ornithology, Charles-Lucien Bonaparte -- a
nephew of Napoleon -- compiled the monumental American Ornithology: or, The
Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the
United States. Based extensively on
archival sources, including many unpublished letters still in
the possession of the Bonaparte family, this is the first biography ever written of this fascinating figure. 400pgs. • 2000
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $49.95 / $7.98
✪ 115323 THE GREAT
NATURALISTS
Huxley, Robert
Braving storms, pirates, and disease
in their pursuit of cataloging the natural world, pioneers such as
Alexander von Humboldt, Georges
Cuvier, and Charles Darwin changed
the course of science with their daring expeditions and groundbreaking
discoveries. This tribute to their accomplishments is richly
illustrated with paintings and drawings selected from the
archives and collections of the Natural History Museum,
London, as well as from other sources. 304pgs. • 2007
▲ • Thames & Hudson • C • $39.95 / $12.98
111732 INFECTIOUS DISEASE ECOLOGY: Effects of
Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems
Ostfeld, Richard S., et al.
Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts, this book
develops an integrated framework for understanding where
infectious diseases come from, what ecological factors influence their impact, and how they in turn influence ecosystem
dynamics. 506pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $65.00 / $31.98
✪ 143991 ISLAND: Fact and Theory
in Nature
Lazell, James
Guana, in the British Virgin Islands, is
home to a remarkably diverse assortment
of animal and plant life, including mangroves, flamingos, iguanas, frogs, birds,
snakes, spiders, tortoises, grasshoppers,
and bats. This stimulating book describes
Guana's flora and fauna against the backdrop of islands worldwide and their ecology, evolution, and
conservation. 402pgs. • 2005
◆ • California • C • $57.95 / $7.98
154712 THE KINGDOM OF FUNGI
Petersen, Jens H.
An intimate look at the world's astonishing variety of fungi species, from
cup fungi and lichens to truffles and
tooth fungi, clubs and corals, and jelly
fungi and puffballs. This beautifully
illustrated book features more than
800 stunning color photographs as
well as a concise text that describes the
biology and ecology of fungi, fungal morphology, where fungi
grow, and human interactions with and uses of fungi. 272pgs.
• 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $17.98
023112 A NEOTROPICAL COMPANION:
An Introduction to the Animals, Plants,
and Ecosystems of the New World
Tropics
SECOND EDITION, REVISED & EXPANDED
Kricher, John
A comprehensive introduction to the flora
and fauna of the American tropics. The
book is so complete in its coverage that
general readers and ecotourists alike will
need no other book to help them identify and understand the
plants and animals, from birds to bugs, that they will
encounter in their travels to the New World tropics. 436pgs.
• 1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $22.98
157491 PARASITE REX: Inside the
Bizarre World of Nature's Most
Dangerous Creatures
Zimmer, Carl
Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa
Rica to the parasite-riddled war zone of
southern Sudan, Zimmer introduces an
array of amazing creatures that invade
their hosts, prey on them from within, and
control their behavior. He also vividly
describes parasites that can change DNA, rewire the brain,
make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and
turn hosts into the living dead. 320pgs. • 2001
◆ • Atria • P • $15.99 / $6.98
✪ 158585 THE PRINCETON GUIDE TO EVOLUTION
Losos, Jonathan, et al., eds.
Edited by a team of evolutionary biologists, this volume offers
some 100 clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most
important topics in seven major areas: phylogenetics and the
history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; genes, genomes, and phenotypes; speciation and
macroevolution; evolution of behavior, society, and humans;
and evolution and modern society. Includes more than 100
illustrations (including eight pages in color). 848pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $99.00 / $71.98
154548 PTEROSAURS: Natural History, Evolution,
Anatomy
Witton, Mark P.
This one-of-a-kind book covers the discovery history, paleobiogeography, anatomy, and behaviors of more than 130
species of pterosaur, and also discusses their demise at the
end of the Mesozoic. It features some 200 stunning illustrations, including original paintings and photos of rarely seen
fossils. 304pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $15.98
✪ 160192 SEASONS OF LIFE: The Biological
Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and
Survive
Foster, Russell G. & Leon Kreitzman
In this fascinating book, the authors draw on remarkable
recent scientific advances to explain how seasonal change
affects organisms, and how plants and animals over countless
generations have evolved exquisite sensitivities and adaptations
to the seasons. They conclude with a discussion of the dangers
posed when changes in climate disrupt the seasonal rhythms
on which so many organisms depend. 320pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $28.00 / $7.98
✪ 141729 SPRINGTIME WILDFLOWERS OF THE
NORTHEAST: A Natural History
Gracie, Carol
Featuring more than 500 full-color photos in a stunning largesized format, this book delves deep into the life histories, lore,
and cultural uses of more than 35 harbingers of spring, ranging
from old favorites to lesser-known species. 290pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $17.98
157203 TREES OF PENNSYLVANIA: A Complete
Reference Guide
Rhoads, Ann Fowler, et al.
Written by botanists from the official arboretum of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible field and natural history
guide to the state's tree life. It covers all of Pennsylvania's 195
trees, both native and naturalized; each species is described in
a concise, tabular format that includes the characteristics of
leaves, branches, bark, flowers, and fruits. 416pgs. • 2004
◆ • Pennsylvania • C • $59.95 / $15.98
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✪ 138490 THE COMPLETE
WORLD OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
REVISED EDITION
Stringer, Chris & Peter Andrews
The earliest apes evolved some 20
million years ago, yet Homo sapiens
has existed for a mere 160,000 years.
As this volume reveals, dozens of
species of early ape and human have
lived and died out during that time,
leaving behind their fossilized remains. Includes 180 fullcolor and 252 black-and-white illustrations. 240pgs. •
2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 157438 PRIMATES OF THE WORLD: An Illustrated
Guide
Petter, Jean-Jacques
This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers
nearly 300 species, from the pygmy mouse lemurs of
Madagascar to the mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by
region and spanning every family of primates on Earth, it features 72 color plates, facing-page descriptions of key features
of each family, and 86 color distribution maps. 192pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $16.98
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✪ 117432 WAVE-SWEPT SHORE:
The Rigors of Life on a Rocky
Coast
Koehl, Mimi
With 87 stunning color photographs,
this book tells the story of one stretch
along the Pacific coast, introducing
the mollusks, crabs, grasses, starfish,
kelp, and other animals and plants
that live there, and explaining how
they function and flourish in a harsh environment of waves,
sand, and rocks. 179pgs. • 2006
◆ • California • C • $47.95 / $7.98
117591 WHY WE DISAGREE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE:
Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Hulme, Mike
Climate change is not "a problem" waiting for "a solution"; it
is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is
re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and
our place on Earth. Drawing upon 25 years as a climate
change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides an insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. 432pgs.
• 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $19.98
051930 WILD CHINA
PHOTOS BY NIGEL HICKS
MacKinnon, John
A survey of the natural treasures of China,
from the peaks of Mount Everest to the
world's second lowest point in the Turpan
Basin, from rain forests to the arid deserts.
Includes chapters on each of the country's
major ecological regions illustrated with
400 color photos. 208pgs. • 1996
◆ • MIT • C • $39.95 / $9.98
080315 WHEN LIFE NEARLY DIED: The Greatest Mass
Extinction of All Time
Benton, Michael
At the end of the Permian period, 251 million years ago, 90
percent of life was destroyed, including saber-toothed reptiles
and vast numbers of fish and other marine species. Was the
end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite
or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption? This volume surveys the evidence and provides a tentative verdict. 336pgs. •
2005
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PH I LOSOPHY
104364 AUTHORITY AND
ESTRANGEMENT: An Essay on SelfKnowledge
Moran, Richard
Since Socrates, the problem of self-knowledge has been central to philosophy, but
today the idea of "first-person authority" is
under challenge from a number of directions. In this strikingly original and psychologically nuanced exploration of the
contrasting ideals of relations to oneself and relations to others, Moran argues for a reconception of the first-person and
its claims. 256pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
106437 BERNARD WILLIAMS
Thomas, Alan, ed.
The seven essays in this volume examine Williams's work on
moral objectivity, the nature of practical reason, moral emotion, the critique of the "morality system," his assessment of
the ethical thought of the ancient world, and his adoption of
Nietzsche's method of "genealogy." 221pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $7.98
ARISTOTLE
039498 THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF ARISTOTLE, VOLUME 1: The
Revised Oxford Translation
Barnes, Jonathan, ed.
The Oxford Translation, originally published between 1912 and 1954, is universally recognized as the standard
English version of Aristotle. This
revised edition contains the substance
of the original, slightly emended in light
of recent scholarship. 1250pgs. • 1984
◆ • Princeton • C • $52.50 / $30.98
038551 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE,
VOLUME 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
Barnes, Jonathan, ed.
1256pgs. • 1984
◆ • Princeton • C • $52.50 / $29.98
041127 THE POLITICS AND THE CONSTITUTION OF
ATHENS
REVISED STUDENT EDITION
Aristotle
Provides the necessary materials for a full understanding of
his work as a political scientist, and places it in the context
of his ethical theory and science of nature. 279pgs. • 1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $20.99 / $10.98
125771 THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS: A Story
of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason
Nadler, Steven M.
Why is there sin and suffering in a world created by an allpowerful, all-wise, and infinitely just God? This lively and
engaging book brings to life a 17th-century philosophical
debate that obsessed its participants, captivated European
intellectuals, and continues to inform our ways of thinking
about God, morality, and the world. 320pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $11.98
152466 BLIND SPOTS: Why We Fail to Do What's Right
and What to Do about It
Bazerman, Max H. & Ann E. Tenbrunsel
Two leading business ethicists examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry and the downfall of Bernard
Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in
the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can
bridge the gap between who we are and who we want to be.
208pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $8.98
✪ 145516 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
EXISTENTIALISM
Crowell, Steven, ed.
In this volume of original essays, a team of distinguished
commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Beauvoir and show
how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and
in the philosophy of mind, language, and history. 425pgs.
• 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $18.98
152562 CHRISTIANITY, TRUTH, AND WEAKENING
FAITH: A Dialogue
Vattimo, Gianni & René Girard
A collaboration of two philosophers known for their progressive approach to the debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies. Seeking unity over difference,
Vattimo and Girard turn to Max Weber, Eric Auerbach, and
Marcel Gauchet, among others, in their exploration of truth
and liberty, relativism and faith, and the tensions of a world
filled with new forms of religiously inspired violence. 136pgs.
• 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $20.00 / $7.98
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107095 ON BULLSHIT
Frankfurt, Harry G.
One of the most salient features of our
culture, Frankfurt argues, is that there
is so much bullshit -- a greater enemy
of the truth than mere lies. He explores
how bullshitters seek to convey certain
impressions without being concerned
about the truth, and how they quietly
change the rules governing the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity become irrelevant. 80pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • C • $9.95 / $6.98
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KANT
049280 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO KANT
Guyer, Paul, ed.
The most systematic and comprehensive account of the full
range of Kant's writings, and the first major overview of his
work to be published in more than a dozen years. An international team of Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual
revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the
philosophy of religion. 496pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $45.00 / $22.98
104359 THE REASONS OF LOVE
Frankfurt, Harry G.
One of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that
the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what
one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of
caring, and that the most basic and essential question for a
person to raise about the conduct of his or her life is not
what he or she should care about but what, in fact, he or she
cannot help caring about. 100pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $7.98
041085 CRITIQUE OF PURE
REASON
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF
IMMANUEL KANT
Kant, Immanuel
The most accurate and informative
English translation of Kant's most
important work in both the 1781 and
1787 editions. All Kant's handwritten
emendations and marginal notes from
his own personal copy reproduced for the first time in any
edition, German or English. 785pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $22.98
✪ 159568 CONDITIONS
Badiou, Alain
Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called "end of
philosophy," Badiou proposes a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in
Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are
ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four great
conditions of philosophy: philosophy and poetry, philosophy and mathematics, philosophy and politics, and philosophy and love. 368pgs. • 2009
◆ • Continuum • C • $29.95 / $9.98
047691 GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSICS OF
MORALS
GREGOR, MARY J., ET AL., EDS.
Kant, Immanuel
Ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy. In Kant's words, its aim is
to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. This edition uses Gregor's
translation of the text, with an introduction by Korsgaard
examining and explaining Kant's argument. 120pgs. • 1998
▲ • Cambridge • P • $19.00 / $8.98
✪ 160531 DAVID HUME: The
Philosopher as Historian
Phillipson, Nicholas
In this analysis of Hume's life and works,
from his university days in Edinburgh to
the rapturous reception of his History of
England, Phillipson reveals the gradual
process by which one of the greatest
Western philosophers turned himself into
one of the greatest historians of Britain. In
doing so, he shows us how revolutionary Hume was, and why
his ideas still matter today. 168pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • P • $16.00 / $5.98
✪ 083224 DECONSTRUCTION AND CRITICAL THEORY
Zima, P. V.
This survey of the main schools and theorists of deconstruction traces their philosophical roots and intellectual development. It analyses their contribution to the understanding of literature and ideology, compares their critical value, and
explores the critical reaction to deconstruction and its limitations. 208pgs. • 2002
◆ • Continuum • P • $44.95 / $12.98
✪ 145036 DESCARTES: A
Biography
Clarke, Desmond M.
Descartes' main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct
a philosophy that would be sympathetic
to the new sciences that emerged in the
17th century. This is the first biography
in English to address the full range of
his interest in theology, philosophy, and
the sciences, and to trace his intellectual development
through his entire career. 520pgs. • 2012
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157801 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN LOGIC
Haaparanta, Leila, ed.
A comprehensive history of modern logic from the Middle
Ages through the end of the 20th century. In addition to providing a history of symbolic logic, the contributors also examine developments in the philosophy of logic and philosophical
logic in modern times. 1008pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $150.00 / $59.98
041139 POLITICAL WRITINGS
Kant, Immanuel
Revised edition with three newly translated texts, extended bibliography, and
postscript. General introduction shows
Kant's aim to have been to establish the
philosophical principles on which a
just and lasting world peace could be
based. 311pgs. • 1991
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031024 PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF IMMANUEL KANT
Kant, Immanuel
The first comprehensive English translation of all of Kant's
moral and political philosophy writings. As well as the
Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of
Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and Toward
Perpetual Peace, the volume includes shorter essays and
reviews, some of which have never been translated before.
668pgs. • 1996
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✪ 044908 RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF
MERE REASON: And Other Writings
Kant, Immanuel
This work of major importance in the history of Western
religious thought represents the philosopher's attempt to
spell out the form and content of a type of religion that
would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the
needs of ethical life. 272pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $17.98
041079 ELEMENTS OF THE
PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT
Hegel, G. W. F.
Hegel's last major published work
attempts to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political
theory, and the sociology of the modern
state into the framework of his philosophy
of history. 514pgs. • 1991
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $16.98
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104772 THE ESSENTIAL KIERKEGAARD
Hong, Howard V. & Edna H. Hong, eds.
The most comprehensive anthology of Kierkegaard's works
ever assembled in English. The selections represent every
major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career and
reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology,
and literary criticism that made him one of the most compelling writers of the 19th century. 544pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
087393 KIERKEGAARD: FEAR AND
TREMBLING
Evans, C. Stephen & Sylvia Walsh, eds.
A new translation of Kierkegaard's
challenge to the German universalists
and idealists, argued through an exploration of the story of Abraham and
Isaac. Pondering the many questions
the story raises about belief, moral
obligation, and sin, Kierkegaard concludes that faith is both paradoxical and irrational, and cannot be understood by reason or in conventional moral
terms. 190pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $12.98
038480 PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS / JOHANNES
CLIMACUS
Kierkegaard, Soren
Written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus,
Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with
Greek and modern philosophical thinking, exploring the
implications of venturing beyond the Socratic understanding
of truth. 371pgs. • 1985
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $17.98
✪ 133685 THE EXPANDING
CIRCLE: Ethics, Evolution and
Moral Progress
Singer, Peter
Drawing on philosophy and evolutionary psychology, Singer demonstrates
that human ethics cannot be explained
by biology alone. Rather, it is our capacity for reasoning that makes moral
progress possible. In a new afterword,
the author takes stock of his argument in light of recent
research on the evolution of morality. 232pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $7.98
✪ 147146 FREE WILL AS AN OPEN SCIENTIFIC
PROBLEM
Balaguer, Mark
In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free will and
determinism, Mark Balaguer argues that the philosophical
problem of free will boils down to an scientific question about
the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events. In the
course of his argument, Balaguer provides a naturalistic
defense of the libertarian view of free will. 216pgs. • 2009
◆ • MIT • C • $35.00 / $7.98
✪ 129857 GOODNESS AND ADVICE
Thomson, Judith Jarvis & Amy Gutmann,
ed.
How should we live? What do we owe to
other people? Exploring how we should go
about answering such fundamental questions, the author makes major advances in
moral philosophy, pointing to some deep
problems for influential moral theories
and describing the structure of a new and
much more promising theory. 208pgs. • 2003
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $15.98
135912 ERNST CASSIRER: The Last Philosopher of
Culture
Skidelsky, Edward
The first English-language intellectual biography of a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene. Skidelsky presents Cassirer,
the author of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of
the liberal ideal of culture in an increasingly fragmented world,
and as someone who grappled with the opposing forces of scientific positivism and romantic vitalism. 304pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
✪ 127689 GROUNDLESS BELIEF: An Essay on the
Possibility of Epistemology
Williams, Michael
An all-out attack on what Williams calls "phenomenalism," the
idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or
experiential foundation. Williams examines and rejects the
idea that, unless our beliefs are answerable to a "given" element in experience, objective knowledge will be impossible.
386pgs. • 1999
◆ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $23.98
132893 ETHICS AND ANIMALS: An
Introduction
Gruen, Lori
In this comprehensive introduction to
animal ethics, Lori Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal
relations and a reasoned new perspective
on current key debates in the field. She
explores a range of theoretical positions
and poses challenging questions that
directly encourage readers to develop a defensible position
regarding their own practices. 250pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $17.98
✪ 135584 AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF
CANNIBALISM
Avramescu, Catalin
The cannibal -- perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery
and degradation -- has played a surprisingly important role
in the history of thought. Ranging from antiquity to modern
disputes about such issues as vegetarianism and private
property, this volume is the first book to systematically
examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of
philosophers. 360pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $17.98
127990 ETHICS FOR ADVERSARIES: The Morality of
Roles in Public and Professional Life
Applbaum, Arthur Isak
The adversary professions -- law, business, and government,
among others -- typically claim a moral permission to violate
persons in ways that, if not for the professional role, would be
morally wrong. Applbaum provides a philosophical inquiry
into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful
actions performed by those who occupy what Montaigne
called "necessary offices." 288pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
105201 EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT: An Alternative
History of Philosophy
Neiman, Susan
Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil confronts philosophy with fundamental questions. Neiman argues
that these questions impelled modern philosophy, concluding
that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from
Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make
evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that
morality demands that we do not. 376pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $12.98
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133873 THE JOY OF SECULARISM: 11
Essays for How We Live Now
Levine, George Lewis, ed.
Bringing together distinguished historians,
philosophers, scientists, and writers
including Frans de Waal, Adam Phillips,
and Rebecca Stott, this book shows that
secularism is not a mere denial of religion
but a vision of a natural world that is far
richer and more satisfying than the one
promised by religion. 272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $46.95 / $16.98
036791 THE NATURE OF
RATIONALITY
Nozick, Robert
In an exploration of rationality of decision
and belief, shows how principles function
in daily thinking and in efforts to live
peacefully and productively with one
another, explaining how misconceptions
have resulted in philosophical problems.
226pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $14.98
✪ 158537 THE NECESSITY OF ERRORS
Roberts, John
A groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how
we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from
Plato to Adorno. Errors, Roberts finds, are productive, but not
in any uniform sense or under all circumstances; a theory of
errors needs a dialectics of error. 256pgs. • 2011
◆ • Verso • P • $27.95 / $7.98
040455 ON BEAUTY AND BEING JUST
Scarry, Elaine
Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as
Homer, Plato, Proust, and Iris Murdoch, Scarry writes an
elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in
our intellectual work. She not only defends beauty from
recent political arguments against it but also argues that
beauty continually renews our search for truth and presses
us toward a greater concern for justice. 144pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
049458 OUTLINES OF SCEPTICISM
Sextus Empiricus
The fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, this work is also one of our most
copious sources of information about other
Hellenistic philosophies. The first part contains an elaborate exposition of the
Pyrrhonian variety of scepticism; the second and third parts argue against "dogmatism" in logic, epistemology, science, and
ethics. 248pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $21.98
125909 PESSIMISM: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit
Dienstag, Joshua Foa
In this powerful defense of pessimism's claim that progress is
not an inevitable or enduring feature of human history,
Dienstag persuasively shows that pessimism has been -- and
can again be -- an energizing and even liberating philosophy,
an ethic of radical possibility and not just a criticism of faith.
320pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $15.98
145989 PURSUITS OF WISDOM: Six
Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy
from Socrates to Plotinus
Cooper, John M.
This major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy, which recovers the long Greek
and Roman tradition of philosophy as a
complete way of life and not simply an
intellectual discipline, examines six central philosophies of living: Socratic,
Aristotelian, Stoic, Epicurean, Skeptic, and Platonist. 456pgs.
• 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $19.98
033311 THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND
Searle, John R.
Launching a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the
philosophy of mind, Searle argues that it is the neglect of consciousness that has resulted in so much barrenness and sterility in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy of mind, and
cognitive science. 270pgs. • 1994
▲ • MIT • P • $32.00 / $14.98
051728 SITES OF VISION: The Discursive Construction
of Sight in the History of Philosophy
Levin, David Michael, ed.
Explores the ways in which the rhetoric of philosophy has
formed the nature of vision and how, in turn, the rhetoric of
vision has helped to shape philosophical thought. 498pgs. •
1999
◆ • MIT • P • $42.00 / $7.98
029910 THE SOCIETY OF THE
SPECTACLE
Debord, Guy
From its publication in the midst of the
social upheavals of the 1960s to the
present, these volatile theses have decisively transformed debates on the shape
of modernity, capitalism, and everyday
life in the late 20th century. 154pgs. •
1994
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NIETZSCHE
Magnus, Bernd, & Kathleen M. Higgins, eds.
Provides a chronologically organized introduction to and
summary of Nietzsche's published works, essays on the
appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a
group of essays exploring the nature of Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation to the modern and postmodern world.
403pgs. • 1996
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HUMAN: A Book for Free Spirits
HOLLINGDALE, R. J., TRANS.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in
Hollingdale's distinguished translation,
together with a new historical introduction by Richard Schacht. Nearly all the
themes of his later work are displayed
here, and it remains one of the fundamental works for an
understanding of his thought. 400pgs. • 1996
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087186 NIETZSCHE: THE ANTI-CHRIST, ECCE HOMO,
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS: And Other Writings
Ridley, Aaron, ed.
Combines five of Nietzsche's late works: The Antichrist, Ecce
Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and
The Case of Wagner, wherein he takes on some of his greatest adversaries: traditional religion, contemporary culture,
and his one-time hero, Richard Wagner, with writing simultaneously critical and creative, revealing his alternative
philosophical vision. 338pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $16.98
098751 ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY AND
OTHER WRITINGS
ANSELL-PEARSON, KEITH, ED.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
A revised and updated edition of Nietzsche's most important
polemic on ethics and politics, presenting a critique of
moral values and tracing the historical evolution of concepts
such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law, and justice.
242pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $12.98
087809 THUS SPOKE
ZARATHUSTRA
PIPPIN, ROBERT, ED. & ADRIAN DEL CARO,
TRANS.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
The philosopher employs a mixture of
homilies, parables, epigrams and
dreams to introduce some of his most
striking doctrines, including the
Overman, nihilism, and the doctrine of
eternal return. This new translation captures Nietzsche's
poetic brilliance by restoring the text's original versification.
316pgs. • 2006
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✪ 055237 THE SOURCES OF
NORMATIVITY
Korsgaard, Christine M.
Ethical concepts make claims on us - they
command, oblige, recommend, or guide and we make claims on one another when
we invoke them; but where does their
authority come from? Korsgaard identifies
four accounts proposed by modern
philosophers and shows how each account
developed in response to prior theories. Her discussion is followed by commentary by G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss,
Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams. 273pgs. • 1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $22.98
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and Progress
Rorty, Richard
In this eagerly awaited volume, Rorty continues to defend a
pragmatist view of truth and deny that truth is a goal of
inquiry, engaging with the work of many of today's most
innovative thinkers. Rorty also touches on problems in contemporary feminism and considers issues connected with
human rights and cultural differences. 355pgs. • 1998
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125799 PHILOSOPHY AND THE
MIRROR OF NATURE
Rorty, Richard
In this volume, which hit the philosophical world like a bombshell when it was
first published, Rorty argued that the
questions about truth posed by
Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and modern
epistemologists and philosophers of language were unanswerable and, moreover, were irrelevant to serious social and cultural inquiry.
The book remains a must-read for its insight into what
philosophers can and cannot do to help us understand and
improve the world. 472pgs. • 2008
▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $22.98
156096 THE SPECTACLE OF DISINTEGRATION:
Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century
Wark, McKenzie
In this companion volume to The Beach Beneath the Street, his
acclaimed history of the Situationist International up to the late
1960s, Wark puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance
and their deep critique of modernity. 224pgs. • 2013
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058134 A SPINOZA READER: The Ethics and Other
Works
Spinoza, Benedictus de
This collection of Spinoza's works presents the text of his masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the standard translation by
Edwin Curley. Also included are selections from other works
chosen by Curley to make the Ethics easier to understand, and
a substantial Introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's
life and the main themes of his philosophy. 352pgs. • 1994
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
✪ 087104 STANLEY CAVELL
Eldridge, Richard, ed.
At the core of Cavell's thought is the view that skepticism is
not a theoretical position to be refuted by philosophical
theory but a reflection of the fundamental limits of human
knowledge. This volume is the first attempt to systematically describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work.
260pgs. • 2003
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125695 THERAPY OF DESIRE: Theory
and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
Nussbaum, Martha C.
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of
grappling with issues of daily and urgent
human significance. In this engaging book,
Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers
who were committed to a therapeutic paradigm, including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus,
Chrysippus, and Seneca. 600pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $23.98
152131 THIS INCREDIBLE NEED TO BELIEVE
Kristeva, Julia
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion
and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize,
without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the
agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world
for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative
work, which skillfully upends entrenched ideas about religion
and belief. 136pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $40.00 / $7.98
025671 TIME-FETISHES: The Secret
History of Eternal Recurrence
Lukacher, Ned
Ranging from the pre-Socratics to Ovid,
and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling,
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida,
Lukacher traces the secret tradition of the
idea of eternal recurrence and situates it as
the grounding idea of Western philosophy
and literature. 176pgs. • 1998
◆ • Duke • P • $22.95 / $5.98
✪ 135835 THE VIRTUES OF OUR VICES: A Modest
Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits
Westacott, Emrys
Are there times when it's right to be rude? Can we distinguish between good and bad gossip? Does sick humor do
anyone any good? Philosopher Emrys Westacott takes a
fresh look at important everyday ethical questions and
makes a compelling argument that some of our most common vices often have hidden virtues or serve unappreciated but valuable purposes. 304pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 159590 WITTGENSTEINIAN
FIDEISM?
Nielsen, Kai & D. Z. Phillips
An extended discussion of the relationship
between faith and reason, centered on the
Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion. The
exchanges, from two leading authorities,
are further enhanced by a clarifying introduction from Bela Szabdos and critiques by
Nancy Bauer and Stephen Mulhall.
396pgs. • 2005
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153099 CARVED BY
TIME: Landscapes of
the Southwest
Rajs, Jake
Jake Rajs's portrait of the
Southwest captures the
natural
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Colorado, New Mexico,
Arizona, and Utah. It features such well-known
and heavily visited national parks as Mesa Verde and Black
Canyon in Colorado, Zion and Arches in Utah, the Vermilion
Cliffs in Arizona, and Fort Union National Monument in New
Mexico. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Monacelli • C • $75.00 / $16.98
140723 FRAMING THE WEST:
The Survey Photographs of
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Jurovics, Toby, et al.
Trained under Mathew Brady,
O'Sullivan accompanied several government expeditions to the West and
produced a body of beautiful photographs that exhibited a forthright and
rigorous style formed in response to
the landscapes he encountered. This volume, which features
previously unpublished and rarely seen images, offers a new
interpretation of O'Sullivan's work and assesses his influence
on the larger photographic canon. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $19.98
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114131 HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: The Man, the
Image and the World: A Retrospective
Arbaizar, Philippe et al.
Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary photographs were shaped
by an eye and a mind legendary for their intelligent empathy
and for their unerring ability to get to the heart of the matter. This definitive oversized collection of the master's work
includes more than 600 illustrations in color and duotone.
431pgs. • 2006
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $55.00 / $26.98
✪ 114182 HENRI CARTIERBRESSON
THAMES & HUDSON PHOTOFILE
Brenson, Michael
Handsome and collectable, each volume in the Photofile series contains
some 60 full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a
critical introduction, a chronology and
a bibliography. 144pgs. • 2006
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $15.95 / $7.98
121265 THE PHOTOGRAPH AS CONTEMPORARY ART
WORLD OF ART
Cotton, Charlotte
This new edition brings the story of contemporary art photography up to date with a chapter on artists who emphasize the
physical and material properties of photography, who use photography as just one component in multimedia practice, or
who choose to experiment with new modes of dissemination
for their work. 248pgs. • 2009
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $9.98
✪ 121256 SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
THAMES & HUDSON PHOTOFILE
Caujolle, Christian
Trained as an economist, Salgado has
shown a constant faith in mankind, a
solidarity that never wavers or flinches
in the face of pain, an ability to analyze
extreme situations, and a fierce drive to
affirm what he truly is, a humanist photographer. Includes 63 duotone photographs. 144pgs. • 2006
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $15.95 / $7.98
126258 AN INNER SILENCE: The Portraits of Henri
Cartier-Bresson
Sire, Agnes & Jean-Luc Nancy
Cartier-Bresson was perhaps the most influential image
maker of the 20th century, and his portraits are among his
best-known work. This book features both well-known
images and previously unpublished portraits: Ezra Pound,
Martin Luther King Jr., Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote,
Susan Sontag, Carl Jung, William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe,
Henri Matisse, and many more. 160pgs. • 2010
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $18.98
039495 THE SECRET PARIS OF
THE 30'S
Brassaï
Brassaï's photographs reveal a milieu
previously known only through books
such as the novels of Henry Miller: the
seamy, grimy yet infinitely exciting reality that tourists still think of when they
seek "Paris by night." These fascinating
images are accompanied by Brassai's
own text, in which he describes the extraordinary conditions
under which he took his photographs. 192pgs. • 2001
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $12.98
✪ 160504 JOHN GUTMANN: The
Photographer at Work
Stein, Sally
John Gutmann (1905-1998) captured
images of American culture, celebrating
signs of a vibrant democracy, however
imperfect. Drawing on his archive of
photographs and papers at the Center for
Creative Photography, this volume presents both unfamiliar works and littleknown contexts for his imagery, linking his photography to his
passionate interest in painting and filmmaking, as well as to his
collections of non-Western art and artifacts. 180pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $14.98
✪ 121325 STANDING WITH
STONES: A Photographic Journey
Through Megalithic Britain and
Ireland
Soskin, Rupert
From stone circles and henges to long
barrows and cairns, the ancient inhabitants of Britain and Ireland adapted and
shaped their monuments to all environments, leaving behind tantalizing signs
of their long-forgotten lives. This haunting companion to more
than 100 sites, ranging geographically from Cornwall to the
Scottish isles, includes 248 black-and-white illustrations.
192pgs. • 2009
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $40.00 / $18.98
✪ 144210 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BUILDINGS: On
Photography and Time
Smith, Joel
This visually striking meditation on architecture in photography explores the intersection between these two ways of
embodying the past. Photographs of buildings, Joel Smith
argues, are simultaneously the agents, vehicles, and cargo of
social memory. 104pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • P • $40.00 / $9.98
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104758 THE ETHICS OF IDENTITY
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
To what extent do ethnic, national, religious, and other identities constrain our
freedom, our ability to make an individual
life, and to what extent do they enable our
individuality? In this beautifully written
work, a renowned philosopher develops
an account of ethics that relates moral
obligations to collective allegiances, our
individuality to our multiple identities. 358pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $15.98
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✪ 156117 THE FAITH OF THE FAITHLESS: Experiments
in Political Theology
Critchley, Simon
Building on the philosophical and political framework of
Critchley's Infinitely Demanding, this new book ventures into
questions of faith, love, religion, and violence."A sustained and
fascinating reflection on the place of religion in political discourse." -- New Statesman 302pgs. • 2012
◆ • Verso • C • $24.95 / $7.98
✪ 104365 THE LESSER EVIL: Political Ethics in an Age
of Terror
Ignatieff, Michael
There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls. Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on, offers an
impeccably argued case for how to balance security and liberty in the face of the threat posed by terrorism. 232pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $11.98
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154639 THE CROOKED TIMBER OF
HUMANITY: Chapters in the History
of Ideas
SECOND EDITION
Berlin, Isaiah
In this volume, Berlin reveals the links
between the ideas of the past and the
social and political cataclysms of the
20th century: between the Platonic
belief in absolute Truth and the lure of
authoritarianism; between the reactionary ideologue Joseph
de Maistre and 20th-century fascism; between the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant nationalism that
convulses the modern world. 472pgs. • 2013
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EDITED BY HENRY HARDY
Berlin, Isaiah
"Cerebral gifts apart, Isaiah Berlin had a genius for friendship and a huge personal appeal that communicates itself in
print; and Letters, 1928-1946 is compulsive reading merely
as a document of English social and literary history." -- The
New York Times 755pgs. • 2004
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111354 POLITICAL IDEAS IN THE ROMANTIC AGE:
Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought
Berlin, Isaiah
In this volume, based on a series of lectures delivered at
Bryn Mawr College in 1952, Berlin argues that the political
ideas of the Romantic age are still largely our own -- down
to the language and metaphors they are expressed in. He
vividly expounds the central political ideas of leading
European thinkers in the period 1760-1830, including
Helvetius, Condorcet, Rousseau, Saint-Simon, Hegel,
Schelling, and Fichte. 292pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 119841 LIBERAL BEGINNINGS:
Making a Republic for the Moderns
Kalyvas, Andreas & Ira I. Katznelson
This examination of the origins and
development of the modern liberal tradition in Europe and the US explores the
relationship between republicanism and
liberalism between 1750 and 1830. The
authors consider the writings of six
leading thinkers of the period: Adam
Smith, Adam Ferguson, James Madison, Thomas Paine,
Germaine de Staël, and Benjamin Constant. 200pgs. •
2008
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081361 LUKACS AFTER COMMUNISM: Interviews with
Contemporary Intellectuals
Corredor, Eva L.
Ten lively interviews with a diverse group of international
scholars who address the continued relevance of György
Lukacs's theories to the post-communist era. The interviewer
challenges these theoreticians to reconsider the Lukacsean
legacy and to speculate on the prospects for Marxist theory in
the coming decades. 248pgs. • 1997
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✪ 050919 LUTHER AND CALVIN ON
SECULAR AUTHORITY
Hopfl, Harro, ed.
These works -- new, unabridged translations of Luther's On Secular Authority and
Calvin's On Civil Government -- represent
the authors' attempts to balance their commitments to the maintenance of order in
Church and polity on the one hand, and the
overriding imperative of uncompromising
obedience to the will of God as revealed in Scripture on the
other. 142pgs. • 1993
◆ • Cambridge • P • $23.99 / $14.98
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✪ 160489 THE MORTGAGE OF THE PAST: Reshaping
the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)
Oakley, Francis
Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the
emergence of Western political thought during the Middle
Ages in this second volume. Here, Oakley explores kingship
from the 10th century to the beginning of the 14th, showing
how, under the stresses of religious and cultural development,
kingship became an increasingly secular institution. 344pgs.
• 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $16.98
147833 THE POETICS OF POLITICAL
THINKING
Panagia, Davide
Examining works by thinkers from Thomas
Hobbes to Jacques Rancière, Panagia
shows how they invoke aesthetic concepts
and devices such as metaphor, mimesis,
imagination, beauty, and the sublime. He
argues that it is important to recognize
these forms of representation because they
provide evaluative standards that theorists use in appraising
ideas about justice, politics, and democratic life. 192pgs. •
2006
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039660 PRINCETON READINGS IN POLITICAL
THOUGHT: Essential Texts since Plato
Cohen, Mitchell & Nicole Fermon, eds.
Presents 44 selections -- key articles, book excerpts, essays,
and speeches -- that have shaped our understanding of
Western society and politics. The selections range from classical times (Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero), to the
ideas of such 20th-century political philosophers and ideologists as Lenin, Freud, Malcolm X, Leo Strauss, Nozick,
Habermas, and Foucault. 740pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $25.98
104894 PROVINCIALIZING EUROPE:
Postcolonial Thought and Historical
Difference
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
A reconsideration of the mythical "Europe"
that is often taken, in many histories of
capitalist transition in non-Western countries, to be the original site of modernity.
The very idea of historicizing, the author
argues, carries with it European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty.
301pgs. • 2007
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✪ 160515 SELECTED WRITINGS
Bentham, Jeremy
Philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),
was one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age.
This introduction to his writings presents a representative
selection of texts authoritatively restored by the Bentham
Project, University College London. 560pgs. • 2011
◆ • Yale • P • $22.00 / $7.98
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
049117 THE DISCOURSES AND OTHER EARLY
POLITICAL WRITINGS
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's earlier writings, the publication of which signaled
the power and challenge of Rousseau's thinking. Also includes
Rousseau's replies to critics of his texts. Supplemented by
extensive editorial material. 437pgs. • 1997
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $14.98
✪ 049035 THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
AND OTHER LATER POLITICAL
WRITINGS
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's major later writings, which
profoundly affected the American and
the French Revolutions as well as
Romanticism and Idealism. Volume
contains extensive editorial material.
341pgs. • 1997
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049825 THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
de Montesquieu, Charles
A fully annotated edition of a central text in the history of 18thcentury political thought focuses on Montesquieu's use of
sources. 757pgs. • 1989
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041080 TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
Locke, John
Considered a standard in the field. Contains an analysis of the
whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers,
complete with updated bibliography of the two central texts in
western political thought. 464pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $18.99 / $9.98
✪ 154538 TOCQUEVILLE: The Aristocratic Sources
of Liberty
Jaume, Lucien
Situating Tocqueville within the context of the crisis of
authority in postrevolutionary France, Jaume shows that
Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a
man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but
who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which
he was rooted -- and who believed that it would be necessary to preserve aristocratic values in order to protect liberty under democracy. 360pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $16.98
✪ 158526 UNFINISHED PROJECTS: Decolonization and
the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
Arthur, Paige
A close observer of postwar movements for decolonization
and a supporter of Algeria's struggle for independence, Sartre
put forward an uncompromising and influential view of imperialism. In this major new reading of Sartre's life and work,
Paige Arthur traces the relationship between the philosopher's
decades-long commitment to decolonization and his intellectual positions. 256pgs. • 2010
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POLITICAL SCI ENCE
140740 ALLIES FOR ARMAGEDDON:
The Rise of Christian Zionism
Clark, Victoria
Guided by a literal reading of the prophetic
sections of the Bible, Christian Zionists are
convinced that the world is hurtling toward
a final Battle of Armageddon, and that war
in the Middle East is God's will for the
region. In this timely book, Victoria Clark
explores the 400-year history of this powerful political ideology and surveys the contemporary Christian
Zionist scene in Israel and in the US. 344pgs. • 2007
◆ • Yale • C • $28.00 / $7.98
158159 THE CAPITALISM PAPERS: Fatal Flaws of an
Obsolete System
Mander, Jerry
Exposing the momentous and unsolvable environmental and
social problems it intrinsically produces, Mander argues that
capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic
growth, is an unsustainable absurdity on a finite planet with
limited resources. 256pgs. • 2012
◆ • Counterpoint • C • $26.00 / $5.98
127155 THE CASE FOR BIG GOVERNMENT
Madrick, Jeff
In this eye-opening book, Madrick explains why America benefits when the government actively nourishes economic
growth, and why we should reject free market orthodoxy and
embrace ambitious government-centered programs. He shows
that the big governments of past eras fostered greatness and
prosperity, while weak laissez-faire governments marked periods of corruption and exploitation. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $6.98
158160 DELIRIUM: How the Sexual
Counterrevolution Is Polarizing
America
Cohen, Nancy L.
Reveals how a well-financed, ideologicallydriven shadow movement is seeking to turn
back the clock on matters of gender equality
and sexual freedom. Cohen exposes the surprising role of right-wing women in undermining women's rights and explains how liberal men have been complicit in letting it happen. 356pgs. • 2012
◆ • Counterpoint • C • $27.00 / $5.98
✪ 158536 ERNEST MANDEL: A
Rebel's Dream Deferred
Stutje, Jan Willem
The first biography of one of the leading
revolutionary thinkers of late capitalism.
An "invaluable and stimulating work ... a
clear, concise, and riveting account of one
of the most dynamic political figures in
world history." -- WorkingUSA: The Journal
of Labor and Society 392pgs. • 2009
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111506 THE CRAFT OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY: A
Guide to Method
Trachtenberg, Marc
A practical guide to the historical study of international politics, grounded in the author's more than forty years' experience as a working historian. The focus is on the nuts and
bolts of historical research -- that is, on how to use original
sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. 266pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $19.98
051143 SOCIAL THEORY OF
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
Wendt, Alexander
A cultural theory of international politics,
clarifying the central claims of the constructivist approach and presenting a
structural and idealist worldview that contrasts with the individualism and materialism that underlies most mainstream political thinking. Wendt characterizes the
roles states assume as Hobbesian (enemies), Lockean (rivals),
or Kantian (friends), and demonstrates how these roles shape
state interests and capabilities. 429pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $26.98
136368 GODDESS OF THE MARKET:
Ayn Rand and the American Right
Burns, Jennifer
Worshipped by her fans and denounced by
her enemies, the novelist and philosopher
Ayn Rand shaped the modern conservative
movement from its earliest days. Drawing
on unprecedented access to Rand's private
papers and the original, unedited versions
of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a
groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure,
examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative
political thought. 384pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $27.95 / $7.98
✪ 160211 HOLD EVERYTHING DEAR
Berger, John
Explores the countless personal choices, encounters, illuminations, sacrifices, new desires, griefs and memories
that occur in the course of political resistance to empire
and colonialism. These reflections reveal the political at the
core of human existence, from the relentlessness of daily
life in the West Bank, to the potential force of desire, to the
unflinching gaze of Pasolini's political film. 160pgs. •
2008
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✪ 154920 CHANGE THEY CAN'T BELIEVE IN: The Tea
Party and Reactionary Politics in America
Parker, Christopher S. & Matt A. Baretto
Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they
racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? The authors offer an alternative
argument: that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of
a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled
by a fear that the country is being stolen from "real
Americans." 384pgs. • 2013
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REMAKING OF REPUBLICAN
CONSERVATISM
Skocpol, Theda & Vanessa Williamson
Drawing on grassroots interviews and
visits to local meetings in several
regions, the authors go beyond images
of protesters in Colonial costumes to
provide a nuanced portrait of the Tea
Party. It combines fine-grained portraits
of local Tea Party members and chapters with an overarching analysis of the movement's rise, impact, and likely fate.
224pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $7.98
127197 THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES: The Tea
Party's Revolution and the Battle over American
History
Lepore, Jill
A distinguished historian's wry and bemused look at
American history as seen by the far right, from the "rant
heard round the world" that launched the Tea Party to the
Texas School Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that the United States was established as a
Christian nation. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $7.98
125935 KARL MARX'S THEORY OF
HISTORY: A Defence
Cohen, G. A.
First published in 1978, this book served as
a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement -- analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen reconstructs the theory in
the light of reservations about traditional
historical materialism, and studies the
implications the demise of the Soviet Union
poses for historical materialism. 430pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $46.95 / $23.98
038634 MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK: Civic Traditions
in Modern Italy
Putnam, Robert D.
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others
fail? Focusing on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when
Italy created new governments for each of its regions, this volume offers empirical evidence for the importance of "civic
community" in developing successful institutions. 258pgs. •
1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $22.98
048095 MAKING RACE AND NATION:
A Comparison of the United States,
South Africa and Brazil
Marx, Anthony W.
In this bold, original, and persuasive
book, Marx provocatively links the construction of nations to the construction of
racial identity. Using a comparative historical approach, he shows how efforts to
establish national unity and other institutional impediments have served to shape and often crystallize
categories and divisions of race. 390pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $18.98
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113574 MOYERS ON AMERICA: A
Journalist and His Times
Moyers, Bill
In these pages, the veteran journalist
presents, for the first time, a powerful
statement of his own personal beliefs -political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today's politics, he
delivers perceptive and trenchant insights
into the American experience. 224pgs. • 2004
▲ • New Press • C • $24.95 / $7.98
071254 THE MYTH OF AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM:
The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought
Shain, Barry Alan
What did early Americans mean when they used such basic
political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery? By
exploring how these core elements of their political thought
were employed in documents of the time, Shain reveals a
shared understanding based on the underpinnings of a
reformed Protestant communalism. 394pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
✪ 038403 ON WAR: Indexed Edition
HOWARD, MICHAEL & PETER PARET, EDS. & TRANS.
Von Clausewitz, Carl
First published in 1832, attempts to understand war, both
in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy, and
does not advocate war or recommend specific courses of
action. 732pgs. • 1984
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.50 / $22.98
✪ 154713 POLITICAL BUBBLES:
Financial Crises and the Failure of
American Democracy
McCarty, Nolan, et al.
Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble" -- policy biases that foster
market behaviors leading to financial
instability. Demonstrating how political
bubbles helped create the 2008 financial
crisis, this book shows how such patterns
have occurred repeatedly throughout US history. 368pgs. •
2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
✪ 160207 THE POLITICS OF FOOD SUPPLY: U. S.
Agricultural Policy in the World Economy
Winders, Bill
Explores the interactions of class, market, and state that have
affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy
since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions
within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were
central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production
controls. In addition, the book highlights the roles played by
the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing
national policy. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $9.98
158278 REVOLUTION AT THE
GATES: Selected Writings of Lenin
from 1917
Žižek, Slavoj, ed.
Locating Lenin's 1917 writings in their
historical context, this volume tackles
the key question of whether Lenin can
be reinvented in our era of "cultural
capitalism." He concludes that whatever
the discussion -- the forthcoming crisis
of capitalism, the possibility of a redemptive violence, the
falsity of liberal tolerance -- Lenin's time has come again.
352pgs. • 2011
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125974 THE RISE AND FALL OF MODERN AMERICAN
CONSERVATISM: A Short History
Farber, David
This concise and accessible history provides rare insight into
how conservatives captured the American political imagination by claiming moral superiority, downplaying economic
inequality, and embracing nationalism. It traces the history of
modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its breathtaking resurgence under Ronald Reagan, to
the debacle of the election of Barack Obama. 308pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
✪ 126758 ROGUE STATES: The Rule
of Force in World Affairs
Chomsky, Noam
In this volume Chomsky argues that, contrary to popular perception, the real rogue
states in the world today are not the dictator-led developing countries, but the US and
its allies. He challenges the legal and
humanitarian reasons given to justify intervention in global conflicts. 260pgs. • 2000
▲ • Pluto • P • $22.19 / $7.98
✪ 153196 THE SPIRIT OF
PHILADELPHIA: Social Justice vs. the
Total Market
Supiot, Alain
A new manifesto for global social justice.
Arguing against the return to social
Darwinism and the bureaucratic embrace
of numbers and statistics as ends, Supiot
champions the social democratic spirit,
hoping for its revival in the wake of recent
economic crises. 160pgs. • 2012
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038524 SUBURBAN WARRIORS: The
Origins of the New American Right
McGirr, Lisa
Broadens our understanding of the roots of
popular conservatism by introducing us to
women hosting coffee klatches for Barry
Goldwater; members of anticommunist
reading groups organizing against sex education; new arrivals drawn to Orange
County's mushrooming evangelical
churches; and other elements of the conservative "base."
395pgs. • 2001
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025584 THEORIES OF WAR AND PEACE
Brown, Michael E., et al., eds.
A collection of essays by leading scholars on contemporary
approaches to understanding war and peace. Includes expositions, analyses, and critiques of some of the more prominent
and enduring explanations of war. 566pgs. • 1998
◆ • MIT • P • $44.00 / $14.98
087202 THE TORTURE DEBATE IN AMERICA
Greenberg, Karen J., ed.
The definitive book of public record detailing the Bush
Administration's policies on torture and political prisoners.
The use of coercive techniques at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
has sparked an intense debate in America, and the text captures the arguments put forth by legislators, human rights
activists, and others, raising key moral, legal, and historical
debates on the use of torture. 432pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $15.98
125527 UNEQUAL DEMOCRACY: The Political
Economy of the New Gilded Age
Bartels, Larry M.
A searching analysis of the political causes and consequences of America's growing income gap. The disparity in
income, Bartels shows, is not simply the result of economic forces, but is the product of broad-reaching policy choices in a political system increasingly dominated by partisan
ideologies and the interests of the wealthy. 344pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $11.98
129495 WHY IS THERE NO LABOR PARTY IN THE
UNITED STATES?
Archer, Robin
Tackling one of the great enduring puzzles of American political
development head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why there is no American labor party -- an explanation
that suggests that much of the conventional wisdom about
"American exceptionalism" is untenable. 368pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $18.9
PSYCHOLOGY
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127605 BIPOLAR EXPEDITIONS:
Mania and Depression in American
Culture
Martin, Emily
An exploration of the American fascination
with mania, as seen in the fascinating and
sometimes disturbing worlds of support
groups, psychiatric rounds, and psychotropic drugs. Martin reveals how people living under the description of bipolar
disorder are often denied the status of being fully human, even
while contemporary America exhibits a powerful affinity for
manic behavior. 384pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $17.98
140865 THE BRAIN AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
Thagard, Paul
What is reality and how do we know it? Defending the superiority of evidence-based reasoning over religious faith and
philosophical thought experiments, Thagard argues that our
cognitive and emotional abilities allow us to understand reality, decide effectively, act morally, and pursue the vital needs of
love, work, and play. 296pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
148115 COLLECTED PAPERS, VOLUME
1: Mind and Language, 1972-2010
Stich, Stephen P.
This volume collects essays that Stich has
published in the last 40 years on topics in
the philosophy of mind and the philosophy
of language. They discuss a wide range of
topics, including grammar, innateness, reference, folk psychology, eliminativism,
connectionism, evolutionary psychology,
simulation theory, social construction, and psychopathology.
416pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $70.00 / $29.98
038527 EYE AND BRAIN: The
Psychology of Seeing
FIFTH EDITION
Gregory, Richard L.
An essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Gregory
offers clear explanations of how we see
brightness, movement, color, and objects,
and explores the phenomena of visual illusions to reveal how perception normally
works and why it sometimes fails. 277pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $11.98
125583 FREUD, THE RELUCTANT
PHILOSOPHER
Tauber, Alfred I.
Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist
and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form
of moral inquiry, Alfred Tauber argues that
Freudianism still offers a rich approach to
self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task of philosophy and many of the
abiding ethical values of Western civilization. 336pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $13.98
150702 MY TEACHING
Lacan, Jacques
Lacan's invaluable guide to his own thought, available in
English for the first time. Bringing together three previously
unpublished lectures presented at the height of his career, this
is a clear, concise introduction to the thought of the influential
psychoanalyst after Freud. 116pgs. • 2009
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148153 THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF IMPULSE
CONTROL DISORDERS
Grant, Jon E. & Marc N. Potenza, eds.
The term "impulse control disorders" comprises a range of psychopathological disorders, including kleptomania, pyromania,
trichotillomania, intermittent explosive disorder, and pathological
gambling. This volume provides researchers and clinicians with a
clear understanding of the developmental, biological, and phenomenological features of a range of ICDs, as well as detailed
approaches to their assessment and treatment. 600pgs. • 2011
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158254 THAT'S DISGUSTING: Unraveling the
Mysteries of Repulsion
Herz, Rachel
Disgust originated to prevent us from eating poisonous food,
but this simple safety mechanism has since evolved into a
uniquely human emotion that dictates how we treat others,
shapes our cultural norms, and even has implications for our
mental and physical health. In this volume, Rachel Herz illuminates the science behind disgust, tackling such colorful topics as cannibalism, humor, and pornography. 288pgs. • 2012
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $5.98
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039682 AION: Researches into the
Phenomenology of the Self
Jung, C. G.
The central theme of the volume is the
symbolic representation of the psychic
totality through the concept of the Self,
whose traditional historical equivalent is
the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates
his thesis by an investigation of the
Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he
treats as phenomena of cultural assimilation. 333pgs. • 1978
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $13.98
038421 THE ARCHETYPES AND THE COLLECTIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
Jung, C. G.
Collects Jung's writings on two interrelated concepts that were
fundamental to his psychological system. 451pgs. • 1980
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
105075 THE BASIC WRITINGS OF C. G. JUNG
Jung, C. G.
In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience,
Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the spirit. The
excerpts here illuminate the concept of the unconscious, the
central pillar of his work, and display ample evidence of the
spontaneous spiritual and religious activities of the human
mind. 598pgs. • 1991
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127096 CHILDREN'S DREAMS:
Notes from the Seminar Given in
1936-1940
Jung, C. G.
In the 1930s, Jung embarked upon a bold
investigation into childhood dreams as
remembered by adults to better understand
their significance to the lives of the dreamers. This volume marks the first publication
in English of these investigations, and fills a
critical gap in Jung's collected works. 520pgs. • 2010
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✪ 157296 THE ESSENTIAL JUNG
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY ANTHONY STORR
Jung, C. G.
The essentials of Jung's thought in his own
words. To familiarize readers with the ideas
for which Jung is best known, the psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected
extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint
his original contributions and relate the
development of his thought to his biography.
421pgs. • 2013
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133733 WHAT MAKES US THINK?: A
Neuroscientist and a Philosopher
Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and
the Brain
Changeux, Jean-Pierre & Paul Ricouer
Will understanding our brains help us to
know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? This remarkable exchange
explores the vexed territory between these divergent
approaches and arrives at a deeper, more complex perspective
on human nature. 352pgs. • 2002
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140914 INTRODUCTION TO JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY:
Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given
in 1925
Jung, C. G.
In 1925, Jung presented a series of seminars in which he spoke for
the first time in public about his early spiritualistic experiences, his
encounter with Freud, the genesis of his psychology, and the selfexperimentation he called his "confrontation with the unconscious." The notes from these seminars make up the only reliable
published autobiographical account by Jung and the most important account of the development of his work. 244pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
039705 JUNG ON SYNCHRONICITY AND THE
PARANORMAL
Jung, C. G.
Jung had a lifelong interest in the paranormal that culminated
in his influential theory of synchronicity. Combining extracts
taken from the Collected Works; letters; the autobiographical
Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and transcripts of seminars,
this volume presents his seminal contributions to this controversial field. 177pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $20.95 / $9.98
039684 JUNG ON THE ACTIVE IMAGINATION
Jung, C. G.
All creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama,
poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on
active imagination, a concept he developed between the years
1913 and 1916, following his break with Freud. This volume
offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination,
gathered together for the first time. 198pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $11.98
039580 PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES
Jung, C. G.
One of the most important of Jung's works, rich in material
drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy.
The chapters that give general descriptions of the types and
definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key
documents in analytical psychology. 608pgs. • 1976
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $16.98
039509 PSYCHOLOGY AND ALCHEMY
SECOND EDITION
Jung, C. G.
A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma,
and psychological symbolism. This revised translation
includes a new bibliography and index. 571pgs. • 1980
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
039570 PSYCHOLOGY AND THE OCCULT
HULL, R. F. C., TRANS.
Jung, C. G.
Includes "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called
Occult Phenomena"; "The Psychological Foundations of Belief
in Spirits"; "The Soul and Death"; "Psychology and
Spiritualism"; and other key writings. 167pgs. • 1977
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $11.98
RELIGION
151876 ABSOLUTE MONARCHS: A History of the Papacy
Norwich, John Julius
From Innocent I, who in the 5th century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, to the infamous libertines of the 10th
and 11th centuries, to Benedict XVI in the 21st, Norwich
recounts in riveting detail the stories of the most significant
popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially,
both to Rome and to the world. 528pgs. • 2011
◆ • Random House • C • $30.00 / $9.98
125763 AFTER THE BABY BOOMERS:
How Twenty - And Thirty - Somethings
Are Shaping the Future of American
Religion
Wuthnow, Robert
Interpreting new evidence from scores of
in-depth interviews and surveys, Wuthnow
reveals how the recent growth in evangelicalism is tapering off, and traces how biblical literalism, while still popular, is
becoming less dogmatic and more preoccupied with practical
guidance. 320pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $13.98
135854 AMERICAN RELIGION: Contemporary Trends
Chaves, Mark
Studies show that people do not really go to church as often as
they claim, and it is not always clear what they mean when they
tell pollsters that they pray or believe in God. Drawing on
major surveys undertaken in recent decades, this volume
presents the best and most up-to-date information about key
developments in American religion. 160pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $22.95 / $9.98
✪ 139165 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS
SECOND EDITION
Gill, Robin, ed.
This superb overview examines the scriptural bases of ethics and discusses
Christian ethics in the context of contemporary issues such as war and the arms
trade, social justice, ecology, economics,
medicine, and genetics. This edition boasts
four entirely new chapters, while previous chapters and all
bibliographies have been updated to reflect developments in
the field. 342pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $20.98
✪ 135909 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH MYSTICISM
Fanous, Samuel & Vincent Gillespie, eds.
The widespread view that mystical activity in the Middle
Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite
has led to isolation of the medieval mystics into a separate,
narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this
book shows how individual mystical experiences, such as
those of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, were rooted in, nourished by, and framed by the richly distinctive
spiritual contexts of the period. 340pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
105125 CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM: Judaism, Christianity,
Islam
Peters, F. E.
Traces the three faiths from the sixth century BC, when the
Jews returned to Palestine from exile in Babylonia, to the time
in the Middle Ages when they approached their present form.
In this updated edition, he lays out the similarities and differences of the three religious siblings with great clarity and
remarkable objectivity. 237pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $11.98
✪ 159545 CHRISTIANITY: A Global
History
Chidester, David
A monumental history of Christianity from
its beginnings as a persecuted cult to its
present day international diversification. "A
model of condensation without simplification." -- J. M. Coetzee 704pgs. • 2004
◆ • Penguin • P • IMPORT / $9.98
✪ 159550 THE COMPLETE WORKS VOL. I
St. Teresa of Avila
The definitive three-volume edition of St Teresa of Avila's
prose and poetry, in Professor E. Allison Peers's justly celebrated translation. 367pgs. • 2004
◆ • Bloomsbury • P • $75.00 / $19.98
✪ 159559 THE COMPLETE WORKS, VOL. II
St. Teresa of Avila
448pgs. • 2002
◆ • Bloomsbury • P • $75.00 / $19.98
✪ 159563 THE COMPLETE WORKS, VOL. III
St. Teresa of Avila
436pgs. • 2002
◆ • Bloomsbury • P • $70.00 / $19.98
128461 THE DISENCHANTMENT OF
THE WORLD: A Political History of
Religion
Gauchet, Marcel
This new interpretation of Western society
and its relation to religion interprets
Western history as a movement away from
religious society, one that began with
prophetic Judaism, gained momentum in
Christianity, and eventually led to the rise of
the modern political state. 272pgs. • 1999
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
✪ 159569 DISPUTED TRUTH: Memoirs Vol. 2
Küng, Hans
A book of major importance for any student of the 20th-century Church. This second volume covers the period from the
aftermath of the Second Vatican Council to the present day.
576pgs. • 2008
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✪ 156260 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN
BOOK
Klingshirn, William E. & Linda Safran
The essays in this volume examine the
early Christian book from a wide range of
disciplines, including religion, art history,
history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
The topics include theories of the book,
book production and use, books as sacred
objects, and problems of gender, authorship, and authority. 314pgs. • 2008
◆ • Catholic Univ of Amer Pr • P • $29.95 / $9.98
AUGUSTINE
131830 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS:
The Biography of a Book
Wills, Garry
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the
story of the Confessions -- what motivated
Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be
read, and the many ways it has been misread since it was composed. Following
Wills's biography of Augustine and his
translation of the Confessions, this is an
unparalleled introduction to one of the most important
books in the Christian and Western traditions. 176pgs. •
2011
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041155 THE CITY OF GOD AGAINST
THE PAGANS
Augustine
Considered the first major intellectual
achievement of Latin Christianity and
one of the classic texts of Western civilization, this work forms a detailed critique of the political and moral tradition
of Rome and a synthesis of Platonism
and Christianity. 1241pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $23.98
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✪ 141040 EVANGELICAL
DISENCHANTMENT: Nine Portraits
of Faith and Doubt
Hempton, David
Recounts the faith journeys of nine
creative artists, social reformers, and
public intellectuals of the 19th and
20th centuries, including such diverse
figures as George Eliot, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Vincent van Gogh, and James
Baldwin. Within these highly individual stories, Hempton
finds not only clues to the development of these particular
creative men and women but also myriad insights into the
strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world. 256pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $7.98
104973 THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM
Herrin, Judith
In this lucid history of what used to be termed "the Dark Ages,"
Herrin outlines the origins of Europe from the end of late
antiquity to the coronation of Charlemagne. Placing the rise of
the West in its true Mediterranean context, she shows how the
clash between nascent Islam and stubborn Byzantium was pivotal to the development of Christian Europe. 544pgs. • 1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $24.98
150869 GENIUS OF THE
TRANSCENDENT: Mystical Writings of
Jakob Boehme
Bach, Jeff, et al.
Jakob Boehme (1575-1624) was a humble
shoemaker in eastern Germany who, in
response to his visionary experiences,
wrote a series of theosophical treatises
exploring the nature of God and humanity.
Five of Boehme's most essential works are
presented here in fresh translations, providing an accessible
introduction to one of the most important Christian mystical
writers. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Shambhala • P • $17.95 / $6.98
✪ 085472 GOD: An Itinerary
Debray, Regis
Debray's purpose here is to trace the
episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival, shifting
the spotlight away from the theological
foreground and going back, from the Law,
to the Tablets themselves and by scrutinizing Heaven at its most down-to-earth,
focusing not just on what was written, but
on how it was written. 400pgs. • 2004
◆ • Verso • C • $35.00 / $7.98
✪ 114837 GODDESS: Mother of Living Nature
ART & IMAGINATION
Getty, Adele
Describes the role and history of the goddess, the personification of Mother Earth, among the various peoples of the world,
as well as some of the ways artists of different cultures have
depicted her. 96pgs. • 1990
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104369 THE HISTORICAL JESUS IN
CONTEXT
Allison, Dale C., et al., eds.
More than 25 internationally recognized
experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed
new light on the Jesus of history, including
pagan prayers and private inscriptions,
miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables
and fables, divorce decrees and imperial
propaganda. 440pgs. • 2006
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✪ 159571 A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH VOL. 2: The
Church in the World the Church Created - Augustine
to Aquinas
Hughes, Philip
This second volume concentrates on the West from the time
of Constantine's conversion, when the Church was beginning to make a world of its own. It pursues the Church's
history to the end of the 13th century, when a new secular
order was already appearing. 478pgs. • 2012
◆ • Continuum • P • $70.00 / $16.98
✪ 159594 A HISTORY OF THE
CHURCH VOL. 3: The Revolt
Against the Church: Augustine to
Aquinas
Hughes, Philip
This volume covers one of the most
critical periods in the history of the
Church, a period of revolt, of the
"Avignon captivity" and the Great
Schism of the West, of the councils of
Pisa and Constance and Basel, and of philosophers, theologians, and humanists. 576pgs. • 2047
◆ • Continuum • P • $80.00 / $16.98
152111 THE IMPLIED SPIDER: Politics and Theology
in Myth
Doniger, Wendy
In this powerful antidote to the paralysis of postcolonial intellectual life, Doniger shows just how to make sense of, and
learn from, the extraordinary diversity of cultures past and
present. Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the Hebrew Bible
to the Bhagavad Gita, she shows how the world's myths and
sacred stories can provide a way to talk about experiences
shared across time and space. 256pgs. • 1999
◆ • Columbia • P • $27.50 / $7.98
104983 THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers
A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right
deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society. Focusing on the case of Warner vs. Boca Raton, Sullivan
argues that while religious freedom as a political idea was
arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force
for intolerance. 286pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $18.98
✪ 159572 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: From the
Early Church to the Enlightenment
Herring, George
A beautifully crafted and clearly written
introduction to Christianity, focusing on the
interaction between Christianity and the
secular world. Includes maps, timelines,
quotations from primary source material, a
glossary, and suggestions for further reading. 288pgs. • 2006
◆ • Bloomsbury • C • $55.00 / $16.98
152026 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: The Challenge to
Evangelical Religion
Turner, Frank M.
One of the most controversial religious figures of the 19th
century, John Henry Newman began his career as a priest in
the Church of England but converted to Catholicism and
eventually became a cardinal. Departing from previous
interpretations, Turner demonstrates that Newman's passage to Rome largely resulted from family quarrels, thwarted ambition, the inability to control his followers, and his
desire to live in a community of celibate males. 752pgs. •
2011
◆ • Yale • P • $29.00 / $7.98
✪ 160189 THE LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH CHURCH:
Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome
Bernard, G. W.
The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through
the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. In this bold
and provocative book, historian George Bernard examines the
church on its own terms, revealing an institution with vibrant
faith and great energy, but also with weaknesses that its own
leadership worked to overcome. 304pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $19.98
SCRIPTURES
✪ 152666 THE BOOK OF GENESIS: A Biography
Hendel, Ronald
From debates about slavery, gender, and sexuality to the struggles over creationism and evolution, Genesis has shaped our
world and continues to do so today. Biblical scholar Ronald
Hendel here provides a panoramic history of this iconic book,
exploring its impact on Western religion, philosophy, science,
politics, literature, and more. 293pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
141572 THE BOOK OF MORMON: A
Biography
Gutjahr, Paul C.
Examines how a book that has long been
the subject of ridicule -- Mark Twain called
it "chloroform in print" -- has more than
150 million copies in print in more than a
hundred languages. Paul Gutjahr traces
the life of the book as it has formed and
fractured different strains of Mormonism
and transformed religious expression around the world.
280pgs. • 2012
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✪ 160470 THE BOOK OF NUMBERS: A Critique of
Genesis
Carmichael, Calum
A legal scholar shows how each law and each narrative in
Numbers, the least researched book in the Pentateuch,
responds to problems arising in narrative incidents in
Genesis. The book continues Carmichael's process of demonstrating how every law in the Pentateuch is a response to a
problem arising in a biblical narrative, not to an inferred societal situation. 216pgs. • 2012
◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $12.98
✪ 134095 THE COMPLETE WORLD OF THE DEAD SEA
SCROLLS
Davies, Philip R., et al.
With all the scrolls now available in translation, conclusions
can be drawn as to the authorship and origins, their implications for Christianity and Judaism, and their link with the
ancient site of Qumran. This volume draws together all the evidence to present a fully illustrated survey of every major manuscript. Includes 84 color and 132 black-and-white illustrations. 216pgs. • 2011
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $12.98
152667 THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: A Biography
Collins, John J.
Since their discovery in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have
aroused more fascination -- and more controversy -- than perhaps any other archaeological find. This volume tells the story
of the bitter conflicts that have swirled around the scrolls and
sheds light on their true significance for Jewish and Christian
history. 288pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
✪ 160023 FORGED: Writing in the Name of God -- Why
the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Ehrman, Bart D.
This stunning explication of one of the most substantial problems confronting the world of biblical scholarship reveals
which books in the New Testament were not passed down by
Jesus' disciples, but rather forged by other hands. It explains
why this long-hidden scandal is far more significant than many
scholars are willing to admit. 304pgs. • 2011
◆ • HarperCollins • C • $26.99 / $5.98
✪ 133715 MYTH, RELIGION, AND MOTHER RIGHT:
Selected Writings of Johann Jakob Bachofen
Bachofen, Johann J.
The Swiss thinker J. J. Bachofen is most often connected
with his theory of matriarchy, or "mother right," but that
concept is only a small part of his contribution to our
understanding of cultural history. This book includes an
autobiographical essay and selections from An Essay on
Ancient Mortuary Symbolism, Mother Right, and The Myth
of Tanaquil. 368pgs. • 1992
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $22.98
✪ 160510 IN GOD'S SHADOW:
Politics in the Hebrew Bible
Walzer, Michael
In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings
after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to
nuance while engagingly straightforward,
Walzer examines the laws, the histories,
the prophecies, and the wisdom of the
ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority
of kings and priests, and the experience of exile. 256pgs. •
2012
◆ • Yale • C • $28.00 / $7.98
✪ 160472 NAHUM: A New
Translation with Introduction and
Commentary
Christensen, Duane L.
Nahum is a book about God's justice; it
portrays God as strong, unyielding, and
capable of great anger. In this edition, a
renowned biblical scholar offers a
detailed analysis of the Hebrew text and
demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the work. 464pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $12.98
✪ 160471 THE OLD TESTAMENT
PSEUDEPIGRAPHA, VOLUME 2:
Expansions of the Old Testament and
Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical
Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes,
Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic
Works
Charlesworth, James H.
This second of two volumes volume contains expansions of the Old Testament as
well as legends, wisdom and philosophical literature, prayers,
psalms and odes, and fragments of lost Judeo-Hellenistic
works. 1056pgs. • 1985
◆ • Yale • C • $75.00 / $28.98
135744 THE PARTING OF THE SEA: How Volcanoes,
Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus
Sivertsen, Barbara
An examination of how natural phenomena shaped the stories
of Exodus, the Sojourn in the Wilderness, and the Israelite
conquest of Canaan. Sivertsen demonstrates that the Exodus
was in fact two separate exoduses, both triggered by volcanic
eruptions, and provides scientific explanations for the ten
plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. 264pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $13.98
138499 READING JESUS: A Writer's
Encounter with the Gospels
Gordon, Mary
In an effort to understand whether or not
she had "invented a Jesus to fulfill my own
wishes," Mary Gordon determined to read
the Gospels as literature and to study
Jesus as a character. What results is a
vibrantly fresh and personal journey
through the Gospels, as Gordon plumbs
the central mysteries of the Christian faith. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Pantheon • C • $24.95 / $6.98
155365 THE POETICS OF EVIL:
Toward an Aesthetic Theodicy
Tallon, Philip
What role does art play in unravelling the
theological problem of evil? What can aesthetics show us about God's goodness in a
world of iniquity? Philip Tallon constructs
an aesthetic theodicy through a fascinating
examination of Christian aesthetics, ranging
from the writings of Augustine to contemporary philosophy. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $80.00 / $19.98
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✪ 157644 THE POWER OF GOD
Aquinas, Thomas
In the De potentia, Thomas Aquinas considered ten questions related to God's
power to create external things such as the
universe, angels, and human beings. This
new translation offers an abridged version
that retains what is most important when it
comes to following the flow of Aquinas's
thought. 368pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $16.98
148159 PREDESTINATION: The American Career of a
Contentious Doctrine
Thuesen, Peter J.
Argues that far from being only about the age-old riddle of
divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs
and practices -- the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of
purgatory and hell, the extent of God's involvement in human
affairs -- and that it has fueled theological conflicts across
denominations for centuries. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 160191 REASON, FAITH, AND
REVOLUTION: Reflections on the God
Debate
Eagleton, Terry
Offering scant solace for both celebrated
atheists like Richard Dawkins and
Christopher Hitchens and many conventional believers, Eagleton offers a vibrant
account of religion and politics that ranges
from the Holy Spirit to the recent history of
the Middle East and from Thomas Aquinas to the Twin Towers.
200pgs. • 2009
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038639 RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES IN
PRACTICE, VOL. 1
McDannell, Colleen, ed.
A rich anthology of primary sources explores faith through
action from Colonial times through the 19th century, from
praying in an early American synagogue to performing
Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation. 512pgs. •
2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $28.98
039858 RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES IN
PRACTICE, VOL. 2
McDannell, Colleen, ed.
An anthology of primary sources examines religious behavior in America, from praying in Pentecostal churches to
singing Hanukkah songs to debating the ordination of
women, and explores faith through action in the 19th and
20th centuries. 472pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $24.98
104329 SHAMANISM: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Eliade, Mircea
The standard work on the subject. Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the
shaman, a figure who is at once magician and medicine man,
healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. He follows
the practice of shamanism from its inception in Siberia and
Central Asia to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet,
China, and beyond. 648pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
145855 SIN: The Early History of an Idea
Fredriksen, Paula
Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing
range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of
the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, a historian of religion tells the surprising story of early Christian
concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape
ideas about God no less than about humanity. 208pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
145982 THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE: Wealth,
the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in
the West, 350-550 AD
Brown, Peter
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, but by the time Rome fell, the church was becoming rich
beyond measure. This volume is a sweeping intellectual and
social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in
the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's
foremost scholar of late antiquity. 806pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $20.98
✪ 158670 WHY CAN THE DEAD DO SUCH GREAT
THINGS?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to
the Reformation
Bartlett, Robert
This sweepingly ambitious history by a medieval historian tells the
story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation.
Drawing on sources from around the Christian world, Bartlett
examines all of the most important aspects of the saints, including miracles, relics, pilgrimages, shrines, and the saints' role in
the calendar, literature, and art. 816pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $21.98
✪ 160196 WHY NIEBUHR MATTERS
Lemert, Charles
In the middle of the 20th century, having outgrown a theological liberalism, Niebuhr examined the problem of morality in
an immoral society and re-imagined the balance between
rights and freedom for the individual and social justice for the
many. Explaining why interest in Niebuhr is rising, Lemert
shows how his ideas illuminate many of today's most difficult
questions. 272pgs. • 2011
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SCI ENCE, TECH NOLOGY &
MATH EMATICS
145958 ALAN TURING'S SYSTEMS OF
LOGIC: The Princeton Thesis
Appel, Andrew W., ed.
Though less well known than his other
work, Turing's 1938 Princeton PhD thesis, "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals,"
which includes his notion of an oracle
machine, has had a lasting influence on
computer science and mathematics. This
book presents a facsimile of the original
typescript of the thesis along with essays that explain its stillunfolding significance. 160pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
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✪ 110381 BASEBALL'S ALL-TIME BEST HITTERS:
How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
Schell, Michael J.
A professional statistician's engaging analysis of baseball's
all-time best hitters. The book is organized so that the calculations can be skipped by general readers but consulted
by statisticians eager to follow Schell's methods or introduce their students to such basic concepts as mean, histogram, standard deviation, p-value, and regression.
328pgs. • 2005
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130386 THE BEST WRITING ON MATHEMATICS 2010
Pitici, Mircea, ed.
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising
new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, this volume makes available a wide range of articles
not easily found anywhere else -- and you don't need to be a
mathematician to enjoy them. 440pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 127315 A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY IN
THE MIDDLE EAST
Steele, John M.
The Middle East was both the birthplace of astronomy and the
center for its development during the medieval period. This
volume offers fascinating insights into Arab advances in
astronomy and their profound influence on science in the rest
of the world. 140pgs. • 2008
◆ • Saqi Books • P • $11.95 / $5.98
131637 THE CALCULUS OF
FRIENDSHIP: What a Teacher and a
Student Learned about Life while
Corresponding about Math
Strogatz, Steven
The story of an extraordinary connection
between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than 30 years of letters.
Compiled by one of the participants, the volume reveals a unique relationship based
almost entirely on a shared love of calculus. 184pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $15.95 / $6.98
✪ 074541 COSMOLOGY: The Science of the Universe
SECOND EDITION
Harrison, Edward R.
A broad introduction to the science of modern cosmology, with
emphasis on its historical origins. This second edition includes
seven new chapters exploring early scientific cosmology,
Cartesian and Newtonian world systems, cosmology after Newton
and before Einstein, relativity, observational cosmology, and the
inflation and creation of the universe. 578pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • C • $125.00 / $66.98
155323 DECODING REALITY: The Universe as Quantum
Information
Vedral, Vlatko
An examination of the deepest questions about the universe:
where everything comes from, why things are as they are, what
everything is. The most fundamental definition of reality,
Vedral argues, is not matter or energy, but information, and it
is the processing of information that lies at the root of all physical, biological, economic, and social phenomena. 240pgs. •
2012
◆ • Oxford University • P • $18.95 / $5.98
142837 THE END OF DISCOVERY: Are We
Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable?
Stannard, Russell
Highlighting the boundaries of scientific understanding, an
eminent high-energy physicist offers an engaging tour of
some of the deepest questions facing science today. He concludes that eventually -- perhaps in a few decades, perhaps
in a few centuries -- fundamental science will reach the
limit of what it can explain. 232pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $7.98
038574 GALACTIC ASTRONOMY
Binney, James & Michael Merrifield
An illustrated introduction to all astronomical concepts necessary to understand the properties of galaxies, including magnitudes and colors, the theory of stellar and chemical evolution, and the measurement of astronomical distances.
796pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $90.00 / $47.98
154686 THE GOLDEN TICKET: P, NP, and the Search for
the Impossible
Fortnow, Lance
The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in
computer science, if not in all of mathematics. Fortnow provides a nontechnical introduction to the problem, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with
computers and beyond. 192pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $12.98
140901 GOOGLE'S PAGERANK AND BEYOND: The
Science of Search Engine Rankings
Langville, Amy N. & Carl D. Meyer
Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of
search results, even when you query your own name? How do
other web pages always appear at the top? What creates these
powerful rankings? The first book ever about the science of
web page rankings, this volume supplies the answers to these
and many other questions. 240pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
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145683 SLICING PIZZAS,
RACING TURTLES, AND
FURTHER ADVENTURES IN
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Banks, Robert B.
What is the length of the seam on a
baseball? To go from point A to point
B in a downpour of rain, should you
walk slowly, jog moderately, or run
as fast as possible to get least wet? In
this sequel to Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, Banks
presents another collection of puzzles for readers interested
in sharpening their thinking and mathematical skills.
304pgs. • 2012
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AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Banks, Robert B.
How tall can a person grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic?
In this volume, Banks shows how math and simple reasoning together may produce elegant models that explain everything from the federal debt to the proper technique for skijumping. 344pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $8.98
✪ 160041 GRAVITY'S ENGINES:
How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes
Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the
Cosmos
Scharf, Caleb
Often billions of times more massive
than the Sun, black holes lurk in the
inner sanctum of almost every galaxy in
the universe. But as astrophysicist
Caleb Scharf reveals, these chasms in
space-time don't just vacuum up everything that comes
near them; they also spit out huge beams and clouds of
matter, profoundly rearranging the cosmos around them.
272pgs. • 2012
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130988 GRAVITY'S FATAL ATTRACTION: Black Holes
in the Universe
Begelman, Mitchell C. & Martin Rees
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the
ground and in space, this book shows how black holes
were discovered and discusses our current understanding
of their role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade, including
definitive proof of a black hole at the center of the Milky
Way. 312pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $48.00 / $27.98
111607 GUESSTIMATION: Solving the
World's Problems on the Back of a
Cocktail Napkin
Weinstein, Lawrence & John A. Adam
Enables anyone with basic math and science
skills to estimate virtually anything, using
plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. The authors show how easy it is to
derive useful ballpark estimates by breaking
complex problems into simpler, more manageable ones -- and how there can be many paths to the right
answer. 301pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $6.98
131646 HOW ROUND IS YOUR CIRCLE?: Where
Engineering and Mathematics Meet
Bryant, John & Chris Sangwin
How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a
circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even
trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers
can mean the difference between success and failure. This volume invites readers to explore many of the fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day. 352pgs. •
2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
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133808 DR. EULER'S FABULOUS FORMULA: Cures
Many Mathematical Ills
Nahin, Paul J.
In the 18th century, mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues
to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional limerick. Paul Nahin shares the fascinating story of this groundbreaking formula and shows why it still lies at the heart of
complex number theory. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
135779 NUMBER-CRUNCHING:
Taming Unruly Computational
Problems from Mathematical
Physics to Science Fiction
Nahin, Paul J.
Through brilliant math ideas and entertaining stories, Nahin demonstrates how
odd and unusual math problems can be
solved by bringing together basic physics
ideas and today's powerful computers.
Some of the outcomes discussed are so counterintuitive they
will leave readers astonished. 400pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $9.98
105245 WHEN LEAST IS BEST: How Mathematicians
Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small
(or as Large) as Possible
Nahin, Paul J.
What's the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? How can
lost hikers find their way out of a forest? This engaging and witty
volume answers these intriguing questions and more. It shows
how life often works at the extremes -- with values becoming as
small (or as large) as possible -- and how mathematicians over
the centuries have struggled to calculate these problems of
minima and maxima. 372pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $12.98
126207 HOW TO FIND A HABITABLE PLANET
Kasting, James F.
Ever since Carl Sagan predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the question has been
inescapable: is Earth so rare that advanced life forms like us - or even the simplest biological organisms -- are unique to the
universe? Kasting describes how scientists are testing Sagan's
prediction, and demonstrates why Earth may not be so rare
after all. 360pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
157822 HOW TO GUARD AN ART GALLERY AND OTHER
DISCRETE MATHEMATICAL ADVENTURES
Michael, T. S.
What's the maximum number of pizza slices one can get by
making four straight cuts through a circular pizza? How many
people does it take to guard an art gallery? Using examples
from real life and popular culture, T. S. Michael introduces
discrete mathematics, the key to these and many other questions of picking, choosing, and shuffling. 288pgs. • 2009
◆ • Johns Hopkins • C • $25.00 / $7.98
034453 IMRE LAKATOS AND THE GUISES OF REASON
Kadvany, John
Shows that within Lakatos's English-language work in the philosophy of science is a historical philosophy rooted in his
Hungarian past. Below the surface of the philosophy of science
and mathematics, Lakatos covertly introduced transformations
of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality. 378pgs. • 2001
◆ • Duke • P • $29.95 / $7.98
141702 IN PURSUIT OF THE TRAVELING SALESMAN:
Mathematics at the Limit of Computation
Cook, William J.
It's one of the classic conundrums of mathematics: What is the
shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit
each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin?
This volume leads readers on a mathematical excursion, picking up the salesman's trail in the 1800s when an Irish mathematician first defined the problem, and venturing to the furthest limits of today's state-of-the-art attempts to solve it.
272pgs. • 2011
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✪ 111348 IN THE SHADOW OF
THE BOMB: Oppenheimer,
Bethe, and the Moral
Responsibility of the Scientist
Schweber, Silvan S.
Relates how two charismatic,
exceptionally talented physicists -J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A.
Bethe -- came to terms with the
nuclear weapons they helped to
create. By examining how these two men with similar backgrounds but divergent aspirations and characters struggled
with the moral dilemmas they faced, Schweber illuminates
the story of modern physics, the development of atomic
weapons, and the Cold War. 260pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $14.98
033291 INFORMATION DESIGN
Jacobson, Robert, ed.
The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful
as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information
consumers as well as producers. They present various methods that seem to work, such as sense-making and way-finding.
They make recommendations and serve as guides to a still
young but extraordinarily pervasive field. 357pgs. • 2000
▲ • MIT • P • $35.00 / $17.98
✪ 152899 MATHEMATICS: A Beautiful Elsewhere
Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre & Michael Casse
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier,
this book brings together mathematicians and major contemporary artists to brainstorm about how their disciplines intersect. Together they have come up with aesthetically designed
ways to exhibit mathematics and to unveil the beauty and
visionary insights of the discipline. Includes 100 illustrations.
224pgs. • 2012
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $55.00 / $30.98
104839 MATHEMATICS IN NATURE:
Modeling Patterns in the Natural
World
Adam, John A.
From rainbows, river meanders, and shadows to spider webs, honeycombs, and the
markings on animal coats, the visible
world is full of patterns that can be
described mathematically. Examining such
readily observable phenomena, this book
introduces readers to the beauty of nature as revealed by
mathematics and the beauty of mathematics as revealed in
nature. 360pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
✪ 051674 MEANING IN TECHNOLOGY
Pacey, Arnold
Explores how an individual's sense of purpose and meaning in
life can affect the shape and use of technology. Stresses that
there is no hierarchy of meaning in technology. 264pgs. •
1999
◆ • MIT • C • $50.00 / $7.98
125644 THE NATURE OF SPACE AND
TIME
Hawking, Stephen W. & Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose, like Einstein, refuses to
believe that quantum mechanics is a final
theory. Stephen Hawking thinks otherwise,
and argues that general relativity simply cannot account for how the universe began.
Here they explain their positions in a work
based on six lectures and a final debate presented at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
at the University of Cambridge. 160pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $15.95 / $6.98
✪ 087227 NEWTON: Philosophical Writings
Janiak, Andrew, ed.
Examines Newton's philosophical positions and his relations
to canonical figures in early modern philosophy. Janiak's study
includes excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks,
Newton's famous correspondence with Boyle and with Bentley,
and his equally significant correspondence with Leibniz.
190pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $20.98
127690 NONPLUSSED!: Mathematical Proof of
Implausible Ideas
Havil, Julian
Sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes, telling
us that, for example, a losing sports team can become a
winning one by adding worse players than its opponents, or
that the 13th of the month is more likely to be a Friday than
any other day. In this delightfully eclectic collection of paradoxes from many different areas of math, Julian Havil
reveals the math behind these and many other unbelievable
revelations. 216pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
137144 THE ORIGINS OF AIDS
Pepin, Jacques
Inspired by his own experiences working
as an infectious diseases physician in
Africa, Pepin looks back at the events that
triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS. He
shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then
how urbanization, prostitution, and colonial medical campaigns created the conditions that generated the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. 310pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $18.98
✪ 105249 OUR CHANGING
PLANET: The View from Space
Williams, Robin G., et al.
For more than 40 years, satellites have
monitored the state of our planet, providing information on everything from movements in the land and volcanic eruptions
to the growth of cities, deforestation and
the spread of pollutants. This volume
presents a selection of spectacular satellite images along with informed essays on the science behind them
and on the implications of what they reveal. 390pgs. • 2007
▲ • Cambridge • C • $56.00 / $22.98
✪ 160512 PARACELSUS: Medicine, Magic and
Mission at the End of Time
Webster, Charles
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), better known as
Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of
the early Reformation, and an incisive commentator on the
social and religious issues of his day. This elegantly written
book considers Paracelsus's life and works, explores his advocacy for reform of the professions, and describes his expectations for the Christian church of the future. 330pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $40.00 / $14.98
125853 PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM: A 4,000 Year
History
Maor, Eli
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous
statement in all of mathematics. Although attributed to
Pythagoras, it was known to the Babylonians more than 1,000
years earlier. In this book, Maor brings to life many of the
characters who have played a role in the development of the
theorem, providing a fascinating backdrop to perhaps our
oldest enduring mathematical legacy. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $9.98
125958 QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN
A NUTSHELL
Zee, A.
The most accessible and comprehensive
introduction available. This expanded edition features several additional chapters,
as well as an entirely new section describing recent developments in quantum field
theory such as gravitational waves, the
helicity spinor formalism, and the hidden
connection between Yang-Mills theory and Einstein gravity.
576pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $85.00 / $45.98
087275 SPEAKING ABOUT SCIENCE: A Manual for
Creating Clear Presentations
Morgan, Scott & Barrett Whitener
A manual aimed at students, researchers, professionals, and
clinicians who give presentations at meetings and academic
conferences. Features step-by-step instructions for clear and
compelling presentations, from structuring a talk and developing PowerPoint slides, through delivery to an audience.
Includes examples of slides and posters. 136pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $19.98
✪ 160042 SPITTING BLOOD: The History of
Tuberculosis
Bynum, Helen
Explores the history and development of tuberculosis
throughout the world, touching on the various discoveries
that have emerged about the disease over time, and focusing on the experimental approaches of Rene Laennec and
Robert Koch. Bynum also examines the place tuberculosis
holds in the popular imagination and its role in various
forms of the dramatic arts. 368pgs. • 2012
◆ • Oxford University • C • $34.95 / $9.98
105192 THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS
Mankiewicz, Richard
This visually stunning volume takes the reader on an illustrated tour of mathematics across cultures and civilizations, from
the austere beauty of Babylonian clay tablets to the delicate
complexity of computer-generated pictures. The lavishly
reproduced images accompany a text that ranges from the
dawn of Chinese and Indian civilizations to the scientific and
digital revolutions of our day. 192pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $12.98
105065 SUCCESS THROUGH FAILURE:
The Paradox of Design
Petroski, Henry
Design pervades our lives. Everything from
drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a bridge embodies this universal
human activity. But what makes a great
design? In this compelling and wide-ranging book, a distinguished engineer and
author argues that, time and again, we
have built success on a foundation of failure. 235pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $25.95 / $11.98
104992 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical
world, Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here
Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED
(quantum electrodynamics), the part of quantum field theory
that describes the interactions of light with charged particles.
158pgs. • 2006
▲ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $9.98
111763 SUPERSTITION: Belief in the
Age of Science
Park, Robert L.
From uttering a prayer before boarding a
plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, Robert Park asks why people persist
in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill-founded. He
examines supernatural beliefs, from religion and the afterlife to New Age spiritualism and faith-based medical claims, and concludes that science is the only way we have of understanding the world.
240pgs. • 2008
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✪ 105271 QUANTUM COMPUTER SCIENCE: An
Introduction
Mermin, N. David
A concise introduction to quantum computation, developing
the basic elements of this new branch of computational theory without assuming any background in physics. The book is
intended primarily for computer scientists, but will also be of
interest to physicists who want to learn the theory of quantum
computation. 220pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • C • $60.00 / $30.98
154671 TESLA: Inventor of the Electrical Age
Carlson, W. Bernard
Demystifies the legendary inventor by placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time and focusing on his
inventions themselves as well as his celebrity. Drawing on original
documents, Carlson shows how Tesla was an "idealist" inventor
who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or
principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public
through mythmaking and illusion. 520pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
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Tales of Chemistry in Nature
Agosta, William C.
From mating to parenting, foraging to self-defense, plant
and animal activities are accomplished largely by the secretion or exchange of organic chemicals. The fascinating and
fast-developing science that encompasses these diverse
phenomena is introduced here in a series of remarkable
stories accessible to the general reader yet revelatory to
chemists and biologists. 248pgs. • 2002
◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $14.98
✪ 129911 THE ULTIMATE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN
Calaprice, Alice, ed.
An expanded edition of the hugely popular collection of
Einstein quotations. This ultimate edition includes 400 new
quotations, including new sections -- "On and to Children,"
"On Race and Prejudice," and "Einstein's Verses: A Small
Selection" -- as well as a chronology of Einstein's life and
accomplishments, Freeman Dyson's authoritative foreword,
and new commentary by Alice Calaprice. 576pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
✪ 157147 THE UNIVERSE IN ZERO WORDS: The Story
of Mathematics as Told through Equations
Mackenzie, Dana
The history of 24 great and beautiful equations that have
shaped mathematics, science, and society -- from the elementary (1+1=2) to the sophisticated (the Black-Scholes formula for financial derivatives), and from the famous (E=mc2) to
the arcane (Hamilton's quaternion equations). 224pgs. •
2013
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✪ 160043 VISIONS OF INFINITY: The Great
Mathematical Problems
Stewart, Ian
For every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to
perplex and galvanize them. In this fascinating overview of the
most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished
and those that vex them still, Ian Stewart explains why these
problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and
why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole.
352pgs. • 2013
◆ • Basic Books • C • $26.99 / $9.98
SOCIOLOGY & EDUCATION
✪ 158574 ANOTHER PRODUCTION IS
POSSIBLE: Beyond the Capitalist
Canon
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa
In this meticulous examination of new
forms of the conflict between capital and
labor, the author examines alternative
models to capitalist development, through
case studies of collective land management, cooperatives of garbage collectors
and women's agricultural cooperatives. 488pgs. • 2006
◆ • Verso • C • $95.00 / $29.98
✪ 053734 ARTISANS IN EUROPE, 1300-1914
Farr, James R.
Focusing on many aspects of artisan culture, including economic and guild life, this volume discusses social, rebellious,
ceremonial, and leisure experience as well. Women, masters,
journeymen, apprentices, and non-guild workers all receive
substantial treatment, and the text is illuminated with fascinating illustrations. 291pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $21.98
✪ 087660 THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF
SOCIOLOGY
Turner, Bryan S., ed.
An indispensable guide to the vibrant and expanding field of
sociology, featuring more than 600 entries written by leading
European and American academics. Entries range from concise definitions to discursive essays on key subjects, and cover
schools, theories, theorists, debates, and major controversies
in the field. 708pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $47.00 / $26.98
✪ 044847 CAPITALISM AND MODERN SOCIAL
THEORY: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx,
Durkheim and Max Weber
Giddens, Anthony
Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim, and
Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking
to understand these three thinkers. The text contains separate treatments of each writer, as Giddens demonstrates the
internal coherence of their respective contributions to
social theory. A conclusion discusses how Marx can be
compared with the other writers. 261pgs. • 1973
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $19.98
158249 THE COSMOPOLITAN CANOPY: Race and
Civility in Everyday Life
Anderson, Elijah
"Cosmopolitan canopies" are urban islands of civility that exist
in contrast to ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves where segregation is the norm. Anderson's path-breaking study of this
setting provides a new understanding of the complexities of
present-day race relations and reveals the unique opportunities for cross-cultural interaction that such areas offer.
318pgs. • 2011
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $5.98
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111393 THE DIFFERENCE: How the Power of Diversity
Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
Page, Scott E.
Why do teams of people usually find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group
decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers, Page shows,
lie in diversity -- not what we look like outside, but the distinct
tools and abilities each of us has to offer. 456pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $18.98
049523 IN SEARCH OF RESPECT: Selling Crack in El
Barrio
SECOND EDITION
Bourgois, Philippe I.
This classic ethnographic study of social marginalization in
inner city America won acclaim after it was first published in
1995. This new edition adds a new epilogue that updates the
stories of the people readers come to know through this
remarkable window into the dangerous world of the urban
drug trade. 432pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $13.98
158252 JOIN THE CLUB: How Peer
Pressure Can Transform the World
Rosenberg, Tina
Rosenberg's stories of peer power in action
show how it has reduced teen smoking,
made villages in India healthier and more
prosperous, helped minority students get top
grades in calculus, and even led to the fall of
Slobodan Milosevic. She reveals how creative
social entrepreneurs are using peer pressure
to accomplish goals as personal as losing weight and as global as
fighting terrorism. 402pgs. • 2011
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $5.98
140870 NOT FOR PROFIT: Why Democracy Needs the
Humanities
Nussbaum, Martha C.
In this powerful book, a celebrated philosopher makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels
of education. Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to
reduce education to a tool of the gross national product.
Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to become true democratic citizens. 192pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $15.95 / $6.98
116635 POOR PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS: Why They
Succeed, How They Fail
Piven, Frances F. & Richard A. Cloward
Have the poor fared best by participating in electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The
authors assess the relative successes of these two strategies
as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest
movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America.
408pgs. • 1978
◆ • Vintage • P • $13.75 / $7.98
050270 THE ROOTS OF EVIL: The
Origins of Genocide and Other Group
Violence
Staub, Ervin
Explores the psychology of group aggression, focusing particularly on genocide.
Staub sketches a conceptual framework
and examines four historical examples: the
Holocaust; the Turkish massacres of
Armenians; the Khmer Rouge purges in
Cambodia; and the disappearances in Argentina. He concludes
with a primer on the necessary conditions through which we
might create civil, peaceful societies. 336pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $22.98
064504 A SPACE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD: Cultural
Poetics in an "Other" America
Stewart, Kathleen
Vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously
among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers."
To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. 243pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
028894 THE UNDERCLASS DEBATE: Views from History
Katz, Michael B., ed.
The essays in this volume discuss ghetto poverty, the origins of
institutions that serve the urban poor, the crisis in urban education, and the role of income transfers, earnings, and the contributions of family members in overcoming poverty. 507pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $59.95 / $31.98
U RBAN STU DI ES & GEOGRAPHY
✪ 155958 THE AMERICAN DEPARTMENT STORE
TRANSFORMED, 1920-1960
Longstreth, Richard W.
This masterful and innovative history of a celebrated building
type focuses on many of the nation's greatest retail companies
-- Marshall Fields, Lord and Taylor, Gimbel's, Wanamaker's,
and Bullock's, among others -- and the role they played in
defining America's cities. Extensively illustrated, it offers a fundamental understanding of the transformation of Main Streets
nationwide. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $14.98
138440 ON THE HIGH LINE:
Exploring New York's Most Original
Urban Park
LaFarge, Annik
The first illustrated guide to the elevated
park that has transformed an entire
neighborhood of New York City.
Illustrated with some 400 color photos,
the book also features a ten-page foldout
map. 218pgs. • 2012
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $14.98
057667 THE BULLDOZER IN THE
COUNTRYSIDE: Suburban Sprawl and
the Rise of American
Environmentalism
Rome, Adam
The first scholarly work to analyze the successes and failures of efforts to address the
environmental consequences of suburban
growth from 1945 to 1970. For scholars
and students of American history, Rome
offers compelling new insights into two of the great stories of
modern times: mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of
the environmental movement. 316pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $17.98
✪ 024235 PANORAMAS OF PROMISE: Pacific
Northwest Cities and Towns on 19th-Century
Lithographs
Reps, John W.
Highlights the development of cities and towns in the Pacific
Northwest during the era of pioneer settlement. Featured
are a series of panoramic views executed by 19th-century
lithographers, accompanied by a narrative which adds a
new dimension to the historical understanding of urban
development and town planning. Includes 130 black-andwhite and color lithographic views. 92pgs. • 1984
◆ • Washington State • C • $24.95 / $7.98
✪ 160036 A HISTORY OF FUTURE CITIES
Brook, Daniel
A pioneering exploration of four cities -- St. Petersburg,
Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai -- where East meets West and
past becomes future. Understanding today's emerging global
order, Brook argues, requires comprehending the West's profound and conflicted influence on developing-world cities over
the centuries. 480pgs. • 2013
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $8.98
153019 INTERSECTIONS: The Grand Concourse At 100
Bessa, Antonio Sergio, ed.
The Grand Boulevard and Concourse, the Bronx's crown jewel
of urban planning, stretches more than four miles from 138th
Street to the Mosholu Parkway. This volume examines the rich
history of the famous thoroughfare through a fascinating collection of essays, art projects, photographs, and documents.
160pgs. • 2009
◆ • Fordham • C • $50.00 / $9.98
✪ 157396 THE NEW YORK
NOBODY KNOWS: Walking 6,000
Miles in the City
Helmreich, William B.
A lifetime New Yorker who teaches university courses about the city, William
Helmreich decided that the only way to
truly understand New York was to walk
virtually every block of all five boroughs -- an astonishing 6,000 miles.
His encounters along the way -- with hundreds of New
Yorkers from every part of the globe as well as with several
mayors -- are the heart of this captivating and original
book. 466pgs. • 2013
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
✪ 158544 THE PIG AND THE SKYSCRAPER: Chicago, a
History of Our Future
D'Eramo, Marco
Chicago has been the stage for some of modernity's key
episodes: the birth of the skyscraper, the rise of urban sociology, the world's first atomic reactor, the monetarism of the
Chicago School. Examining this postmodern Babel, where the
contradictions of American society are writ large, d'Eramo
bears witness to the revolutionary, subversive power of capitalism in its purest form. 472pgs. • 2002
◆ • Verso • C • $30.00 / $12.98
✪ 036991 THE SHAPING OF
AMERICA, VOLUME 3: A Geographical
Perspective on 500 Years of History:
Transcontinental America, 1850-1915
Meinig, D. W.
In the third volume of an acclaimed series,
D. W. Meinig offers a riveting account of the
expanding country's development from
mid-19th century to the outbreak of World
War I. Beginning with the struggle over
where to build the Pacific railway, the book details the settlement
of the American West, the nation's increasing consolidation, and
America's imperialist efforts in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Includes 40 superb new maps. 457pgs. • 1998
▲ • Yale • P • $32.50 / $9.98
142803 WRESTLING WITH MOSES: How Jane Jacobs
Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed
the American City
Flint, Anthony
To Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and complex demographic makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be, but to the consummate
power broker Robert Moses, it cried out for "urban renewal."
Anthony Flint skillfully recounts the thrilling David-vs.-Goliath
story of their struggle for the soul of a city, the legacy of which
echoes through our society today. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • Random House • C • $27.00 / $7.98
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