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History & Philosophy of Science . . . . . 36
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Latin American & Caribbean Studies . . 37
Law & Legal Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Linguistics & Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Literary Theory & Criticism . . . . . . . . . 39
Literature, Poetry & Drama . . . . . . . . . 42
Medieval & Renaissance Studies . . . . . 45
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies . . . . 47
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Natural History & Environmental
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Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Political Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Political Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Cognitive
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AFRICAN-AM ERICAN STU DIES
121247 CROSSING THE
CONTINENT, 1527-1540: The Story
of the First African-American
Explorer of the American South
Goodwin, Robert
Nearly three centuries before Lewis
and Clark's epic trek to the Pacific
coast, an African slave named Esteban
Dorantes became America's first great
explorer and adventurer -- the first
pioneer from the Old World to explore the entirety of the
American South. Drawing on contemporary accounts, longlost records, and research in Spanish archives, here is a
riveting true story of physical endurance, natural calamities, geographical wonders, and strange discoveries.
432pgs. • 2008
• HarperCollins • C • $25.95 / $6.98
111455 FAREWELL TO THE PARTY OF LINCOLN:
Black Politics in the Age of F. D. R.
Weiss, Nancy J.
Examines the dramatic shift of black voters from the
Republican to the Democratic Party in the 1930s, a shift all the
more striking in light of the Democrats' indifference to racial
concerns. Weiss shows that blacks became Democrats in
response to the economic benefits of the New Deal and voted
for Roosevelt in spite of the New Deal's lack of a substantive
record on race. 360pgs. • 1983
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $13.98
075456 THE GOLDEN AGE OF
BLACK NATIONALISM, 1850-1925
Moses, Wilson J.
Covering the period from the Compromise
of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act to the
imprisonment of Marcus Garvey in 1925,
examines the "golden age" of black nationalism as seen in the literature, as well as
the intellectual and institutional history, of
black Americans. 348pgs. • 1988
• Oxford University • P • $39.99 / $19.98
118503 HOKUM: An Anthology of
African-American Humor
Beatty, Paul
A liberating, eccentric, savagely comic
collection of the funniest writing by
black Americans. Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet
Paul Beatty, it features underground
classics, rare grooves, and timeless
summer jams, poetry and prose, juxtaposed with the blues, hip-hop, political speeches, and the
world's funniest radio sermon. 496pgs. • 2006
• Bloomsbury • P • $16.95 / $6.98
127314 CRUDE CONTINENT: The Struggle for Africa's
Oil Prize
Clarke, Duncan
A leading strategist on global oil exploration turns his critical
eye to Africa's oil prize in order to produce this definitive
account of the issues and misconceptions surrounding Africa's
oil and gas game. 720pgs. • 2009
• Profile Books • C • $69.95 / $14.98
060894 DECONSTRUCTING
APARTHEID DISCOURSE
Norval, Aletta J.
The author addresses questions concerning the nature of apartheid and the identities it fostered, revealing both their historical specificity and their implications for
the full development of a democratic postapartheid order. 388pgs. • 1996
• Verso • P • $23.00 / $5.98
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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 / $4.98
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126855 SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY:
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights
in the North
Sugrue, Thomas J.
An epic, revelatory account of the abiding
quest for justice in states from Illinois to
New York, and of how the intense northern
struggle differed from and was inspired by
the fight down South. Sugrue's narrative is
bound to become the standard source on
this essential and overlooked subject. 720pgs. • 2008
• Random House • C • $35.00 / $7.98
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057222 AFRICAN ART IN TRANSIT:
The Production of Value and
Mediation of Knowledge in the African
Art Trade
Steiner, Christopher B.
African art means one thing to the villagers
who create it and use it in ritual and performance, another to Muslim middlemen,
and something else to buyers and collectors. This richly detailed volume explores
the economic networks that transfer art objects from their site
of use and production in Africa to their point of consumption
in galleries and shops in Europe and America. 236pgs. •
1994
• Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $22.98
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106546 THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE
NILE
GREAT ADVENTURERS
Speke, John Hanning
In the 1850s, John Hanning Speke traveled to Lake Victoria
Nyanza, which he was convinced was the source of the Nile. In
these pages he describes the physical hardships and daily
adventures he experienced, and discusses the controversy
sparked by his claim that he had found the source of the great
river. 416pgs. • 2006
• White Star • C • $14.95 / $7.98
130222 LORD LEVERHULME'S
GHOSTS: Colonial Exploitation in
the Congo
Marchal, Jules
In the early years of the 20th century,
the worldwide rubber boom led British
entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the
Belgian Congo, where he set up a private kingdom reliant on forced labor. In
this meticulously researched history,
Marchal exposes the nature of Lord Leverhulme's rule and
the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of
Congo, whose population declined by half. 244pgs. • 2008
• Verso • C • $29.95 / $7.98
070334 TOWARD THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION:
Political Essays
Fanon, Frantz
This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the
period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The
Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon's landmark manifestos on
the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment
necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of
some of Fanon's greatest ideas -- ideas that became so vital to the
leaders of the American civil rights movement. 208pgs. • 1988
• Grove Press • P • $14.95 / $6.98
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116653 THE AGE OF HOMESPUN:
Objects and Stories in the Creation of
an American Myth
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
In an age when even meals are rarely made
from scratch, homespun easily acquires
the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich
investigates -- fourteen domestic items
from preindustrial America -- dispel those
simplified illusions, revealing important
clues to the culture and people who made them. 512pgs. •
2002
• Vintage • P • $18.00 / $6.98
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105035 AMERICA IN OUR TIME: From World War II to
Nixon--What Happened and Why
Hodgson, Godfrey
A history of the turbulent years between the end of World War
II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Hodgson pioneers the idea
that in the 1950s a "liberal consensus" governed American
politics, by which conservatives accepted the liberal domestic
policy of the welfare state, while all but a few liberals shared
the conservative foreign policy of Cold War containment.
590pgs. • 2005
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059115 COERCION, CONTRACT AND
FREE LABOR IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY
Steinfeld, Robert J.
Presents a fundamental reassessment of
the nature of wage labor in the 19th century, focusing on the use of sanctions to
enforce wage labor agreements. Steinfeld
argues that wage workers were not
employees at will but were often bound to
their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which
employers used whenever available to manage their labor
costs and supply. 342pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • P • $37.00 / $9.98
091694 A CONSPIRACY SO IMMENSE: The World of Joe
McCarthy
Oshinsky, David M.
Reveals the internal and external forces that launched
McCarthy on his political career, brought him national prominence, and finally triggered his downfall. More than the life
story of an intensely ambitious man, A Conspiracy So Immense
is a fascinating portrayal of America in the grip of Cold War
fear, anger, suspicion, and betrayal. 624pgs. • 2005
• Oxford University • P • $24.99 / $6.98
081160 THE AMERICAN MANUFACTORY: Art, Labor,
and the World of Things in the Early Republic
Rigal, Laura
Arguing that industrialization and the making of the working
class in the late-18th-century U.S. were integral to nationbuilding, Rigal examines creations and performances of writers, collectors, engineers, inventors, and illustrators who
assembled a "world of things," as American craftsmen became
wage laborers and production was rationalized, mechanized,
and put to new ideological purposes. 268pgs. • 2001
• Princeton • P • $39.95 / $12.98
101072 DEAD CERTAINTIES: Unwarranted
Speculations
Schama, Simon
A brilliant historian reconstructs -- and at times reinvents - two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James
Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849,
that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston Brahmin
whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in
1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. 352pgs. • 1992
• Knopf • P • $18.00 / $7.98
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 • $27.99 / $14.98
114242 DECADE OF NIGHTMARES: The End of the
Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
Jenkins, Philip
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the 1960s give
way to Ronald Reagan and a conservative ascendance?
Drawing on a wide array of sources -- including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows -Jenkins argues that a remarkable confluence of panics, scares,
and a few genuine threats created a climate of fear that led to
a conservative reaction. 344pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • P • $17.95 / $3.98
110409 AMERICA'S THREE REGIMES: A New Political
History
Keller, Morton
An entirely new way to look at our past, our present, and our
future, packed with provocative and original observations
about American public life. Keller groups America's past into
three long regimes: Deferential and Republican, from the
colonial period to the 1820s; Party and Democratic, from the
1830s to the 1930s; and Populist and Bureaucratic, from the
1930s to the present. 336pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $6.98
082911 AMUSING THE
MILLION: Coney Island at the
Turn of the Century
Kasson, John F.
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy
Brooklyn excitement, the echo of
beach-front popular entertainment
before World War I. Kasson examines the historical context in which
Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park
and shows how America's changing social and economic
conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture.
128pgs. • 1978
• Hill & Wang • P • $16.00 / $8.98
120624 DEVIL'S GATE: Brigham
Young and the Great Mormon
Handcart Tragedy
Roberts, David
The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 -the worst disaster in the history of the
Western migrations -- killed five times as
many people as the notorious Donner
Party debacle, yet it remains little known
today. Researching the story in Mormon
archives and elsewhere, David Roberts has compiled both a
powerful indictment of the Mormon leadership and a gripping
story of survival and suffering. 416pgs. • 2008
• Simon & Schuster • C • $26.00 / $7.98
125509 EVANGELIZING THE SOUTH:
A Social History of Church and State in
Early America
Najar, Monica
Touching on the creation of a distinctive
southern culture, the position of women in
the private and public arenas, family life in
the Old South, the relationship between
religion and slavery, and the political culture of the early republic, Najar reveals the
history behind a religious heritage that remains a distinguishing mark of American society. 264pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • C • $60.00 / $9.98
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111795 GOD AND RACE IN AMERICAN
POLITICS: A Short History
Noll, Mark A.
Shows how a common evangelical heritage
both supported Jim Crow discrimination
and contributed powerfully to the black
theology of liberation preached by Martin
Luther King Jr. In probing such connections, Noll takes readers from the 1830
slave revolt of Nat Turner through
Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, from the civil rights
movement of the 1950s and 1960s to "values" voting in recent
presidential elections. 232pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $22.95 / $9.98
049917 HELLFIRE NATION: The Politics of Sin in
American History
Morone, James A.
Framing four centuries of American history as a struggle
between moralizers and social reformers, Morone shows how
moral crusades inspired abolition, woman suffrage, and civil
rights even as they also led Americans to hang witches, enslave
Africans, and ban alcoholic beverages. 575pgs. • 2003
• Yale • C • $40.00 / $15.98
112384 HOME FRONTS: A Wartime
America Reader
Foley, Michael S. & Brendan P. O'Malley,
eds.
Even as American soldiers have fought
overseas, war has profoundly influenced
almost every aspect of society on the home
front. This collection includes wartime letters, song lyrics, poems, editorial cartoons, newspaper articles, leaflets, and
government documents from the Spanish-American War and
World War I to the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the
war in Iraq. 656pgs. • 2008
• New Press • P • $27.95 / $7.98
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 • $27.95 / $18.98
100106 THE KENNEDY IMPRISONMENT: A
Meditation on Power
Wills, Garry
The definitive historical and psychological analysis of the
Kennedy clan. Wills reveals a family that enjoyed public adulation but provided fluctuating leadership, that experienced both
unparalleled fame and odd failures, and whose values
ensnared its men in their own myths of success and masculinity. In the end, Wills reveals that the the Kennedys' crippling
conception of power touched every part of their public and
private lives. 336pgs. • 2002
• Houghton Mifflin • P • $14.95 / $3.98
087634 LARDING THE LEAN
EARTH: Soil and Society in
Nineteenth-Century America
Stoll, Steven
Explores the tempestuous debates that
erupted 50 years after the American revolution between "improvers," who believed
in practices that sustained and bettered
the soil of existing farms, and "emigrants,"
who thought it was wiser and more
"American" to move westward as the soil gave out. Examines
the dozens of journals that gave voice to the improvers' cause.
320pgs. • 2002
• Hill & Wang • C • $30.00 / $6.98
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THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
124418 THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION: A PICTURE
SOURCEBOOK
Grafton, John
A striking collection of more than 400
black-and-white illustrations of the
people and events of the struggle for
independence. Illustrations of every
important battle and historic site are
included, as well as facsimiles of
major documents, currency, broadsides, posters, and maps,
plus portraits of Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, George III,
and other major figures. 160pgs. • 1975
• Dover • P • $16.95 / $6.98
126865 THE FUSILIERS: The Saga of a British
Redcoat Regiment in the American Revolution
Urban, Mark
From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one
British regiment, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British
rule. Their story, one of the few untold sagas of the American
Revolution, sheds light on the war itself and offers surprising, at times unsettling, insights into the way the war was
conducted on both sides. 400pgs. • 2007
• Walker & Company • C • $27.95 / $7.98
117043 THE RADICALISM OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Wood, Gordon S.
In a grand synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a
prize-winning historian depicts the
struggle for independence as much
more than just a break with the mother
country. He gives readers a revolution
that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers. 464pgs.
• 1993
• Vintage • P • $17.95 / $7.98
101111 MORNING IN AMERICA: How Ronald Reagan
Invented the 1980's
Troy, Gil
Highlights the contradictions of Reagan's conservatism, with
its emphasis on wealth and glamour on the one hand and, on
the other, an ascetic streak that recoiled at excess. The Reagan
that emerges is less the captain steering American culture than
a symbol whose strength lay in placing his finger on the pulse
of the American id. 448pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
117302 NEW WORLD FAITHS:
Religion in Colonial America
Butler, Jon
Many people believe that the piety of the
Pilgrims typified early American religion.
However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and
Africans had joined Native Americans,
Puritans, and numerous other Protestants
in the colonies. As Butler shows, the meeting of these diverse groups and their varied
use of music, dance, and ritual produced an unprecedented
evolution of religious practice. 183pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • P • $12.95 / $4.98
091388 OPERATION JEDBURGH: D-Day and
America's First Shadow War
Beavan, Colin
On D-Day, 300 American and Allied soldiers were dropped
behind enemy lines to launch a secret sabotage mission
code-named Jedburgh. Working with the French
Resistance, they launched a stunning guerrilla campaign. In
this compelling narrative, Beavan tells the incredible story
of the daredevils who carried out America's first specialforces mission. 432pgs. • 2006
• Viking • C • $27.95 / $6.98
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129233 THE AGE OF LINCOLN
Burton, Orville Vernon
A fiercely original history of the five
decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Burton
shows how the president's Southern
roots empowered him to conduct a civil
war that redefined freedom as a personal right protected by the rule of law.
432pgs. • 2007
• Hill & Wang • C • $27.00 / $6.98
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130793 BRADY'S CIVIL WAR
Garrison, Webb
A collection of hundreds of the greatest Civil War images
captured by the incomparable Matthew Brady and his staff.
The captions and text by Webb Garrison describes how the
camera was taken to the battlefield to create the world's first
comprehensive photo-documentation of war. 256pgs. •
2008
• Lyons Press • C • $40.00 / $16.98
073500 GENERAL GEORGE E.
PICKETT IN LIFE AND LEGEND
Gordon, Lesley J.
The man who gave his name to the
greatest failed frontal attack in
American military history, Pickett is
among the most famous Confederate
generals of the Civil War. But even today
he remains imperfectly understood, a
figure shrouded in Lost Cause mythology. By investigating the central role played by Pickett's wife
LaSalle in controlling his historical image, Gordon illuminates Pickett's legend as well as his life. 269pgs. • 2002
• Univ of North Carolina • P • $22.00 / $7.98
065309 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Arnold, Isaac N.
An adviser to the 16th president, Arnold attended his inaugurations, heard his great speeches, visited him at the White
House, and on a spring day in 1865 joined the procession
that carried his slain body there. Twenty years later he published his biography giving a detailed sense of Lincoln the
entertaining storyteller, the shrewd politician, the steadfast
visionary. 471pgs. • 1994
• Nebraska • P • $21.95 / $7.98
000956 POLITICS & IDEOLOGY IN
THE AGE OF THE CIVIL WAR:
Integrating the Social, Political &
Intellectual History of the 19th
Century
Foner, Eric
Focuses on politics and ideology to illuminate sectional conflict, the antislavery
movement, and postwar struggles over
land and labor. Foner shows how the
tension between republican ideology and the expansion of
capitalism posed ideological problems for the antislavery
movement and affected subsequent efforts to recast
American society. 250pgs. • 1980
• Oxford University • P • $34.99 / $16.98
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 • $48.00 / $8.98
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075212 A POPULATION HISTORY OF
NORTH AMERICA
Haines, Michael R. & Richard H. Steckel,
eds.
Covering the populations of Canada, the
US, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and
including two essays on the Amerindian
population, this volume takes advantage of
recent progress in demographic history. A
statistical appendix summarizes basic
demographic measures over time. 760pgs. • 2000
• Cambridge • C • $116.00 / $34.98
122262 THE PROTESTANT INTEREST:
New England after Puritanism
Kidd, Thomas S.
During the early 18th century, colonial
New England witnessed the end of
Puritanism and the emergence of a
revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the
1740s. This engrossing book explores the
religious history of New England during
the period and offers new reasons for this change in cultural
identity. 224pgs. • 2004
• Yale • C • $45.00 / $9.98
106813 PROVIDENCE AND THE INVENTION OF THE
UNITED STATES, 1607-1876
Guyatt, Nicholas
Making sense of previously diffuse debates on manifest destiny,
millenarianism, and American mission, this volume surveys
the origins and historical development of the idea that God has
a special plan for America. 352pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $8.98
111858 RELIGION IN AMERICAN POLITICS: A
Short History
Lambert, Frank
From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen
charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a
"Christian nation," to today, religion has always been part of
American politics. Frank Lambert tells this fascinating story
from the time of the founders to the 21st century. 294pgs.
• 2008
• Princeton • C • $24.95 / $7.98
042906 THE ROOTS OF SOUTHERN
POPULISM: Yeoman Farmers and the
Transformation of the Georgia
Upcountry, 1850-1890
Hahn, Steven
In this fresh examination of the rise of
agrarian radicalism in the late 19th-century South, Hahn focuses on social change
and popular consciousness while exploring populism's kinship with other movements such as labor radicalism. 340pgs. • 1985
• Oxford University • P • $60.00 / $19.98
091381 RUNNING ALONE: Presidential Leadership
from JFK to Bush II -- Why It Has Failed and How We
Can Fix It
Burns, James MacGregor
American presidents have become increasingly isolated from
the parties that brought them to power. Drawing on letters,
interviews, and recollections, Burns charts the decline of genuine leadership, offering a vision of what the presidency can
and should be. 288pgs. • 2006
• Basic Books • C • $26.00 / $7.98
023283 THE SECRET WORLD OF
AMERICAN COMMUNISM
Klehr, Harvey, et al.
Examines the hidden world of American
communism with the help of documents
from the archives of the former Soviet
Union. An engrossing narrative places the
documents in their historical context and
explains key figures, organizations, and
events. 348pgs. • 1995
• Yale • C • $60.00 / $7.98
081508 STORIED LAND:
Community and Memory in Monterey
Walton, John
Examines the historical formation and reformation of community in Monterey over
a period of 230 years. Describes the history of the city from its establishment as the
capital of Spanish California in 1770 to its
contemporary life as a center of tourism,
education, environmentalism, and historical preservation. 364pgs. • 2001
• California • C • $50.00 / $7.98
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126241 TEN HILLS FARM: The Forgotten History of
Slavery in the North
Manegold, C. S.
The saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New
England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a 600-acre estate
just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the
Ushers, to the Royalls -- all prominent dynasties tied to the
Native American and Atlantic slave trades. 344pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
025508 WAR AND RESPONSIBILITY: Constitutional
Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath
Ely, John Hart
Examines the role of Congress in the authorization of the
Vietnam War, the conduct of the war, the Cambodian
Incursion, the repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the bombing of Cambodia, and the secret war in Laos. 244pgs. • 1993
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $12.98
ANTH ROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
119766 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF URBAN LANDSCAPES
Mayne, Alan & Tim Murray, eds.
The "stuff" of the new urban archaeology -- broken dinner
plates, nails and plaster samples -- will not quickly find its way
into museum collections. But, properly interpreted, it yields
evidence of lives and communities that have left little in the
way of written records. These case studies define the new field,
which will attract the attention of students and scholars outside archaeology, in particular, historical sociologists and historians. 204pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • C • $110.00 / $29.98
028318 BREAKING THE MAYA CODE
REVISED EDITION
Coe, Michael D.
Michael Coe's classic inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time -- the last great decoding of an
ancient script -- includes an epilogue that brings the reader up
to date in the fast-changing field of Maya decipherment.
304pgs. • 1999
• Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $8.98
111759 COMING OF AGE IN SECOND
LIFE: An Anthropologist Explores the
Virtually Human
Boellstorff, Tom
Millions of people around the world today
spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the
largest of these virtual worlds. Bringing
anthropology into territory never before
studied, this book demonstrates that in
some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual
worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself. 316pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $42.00 / $14.98
110040 FROM STONEHENGE TO SAMARKAND: An
Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing
Fagan, Brian
From the Holy Land to the Silk Road, the Yucatan to Angkor
Wat, and from Herodotus to Hiram Bingham, this anthology follows in the footsteps of the great archaeological travelers as they record their first written impressions. Will
delight anyone fascinated with the landmarks of ancient civilization. 320pgs. • 2006
• Oxford University • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $5.98
080329 THE HUMAN PAST:
World Prehistory and the
Development of Human Societies
Scarre, Chris
A team of leading archaeologists provide a seamless, authoritative account
of human prehistory. The text is accompanied by hundreds of specially commissioned diagrams and photographs,
many in full color, that illustrate key
sites, artifacts, and regions, as well as clear timelines and
maps for each chapter. 784pgs. • 2005
• Thames & Hudson • P • $45.00 / $24.98
126701 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF
SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
Kidder, Alfred Vincent
In a new edition of his classic work in the field of New World
archaeology, Alfred Vincent Kidder presents the first regional
synthesis of Pueblo archaeology. He provides an excellent
guide to the Southwest's historic and prehistoric sites as well
as an early account of the pioneering excavation at Pecos
Pueblo. 400pgs. • 2000
• Yale • C NDJ • $50.00 / $9.98
126033 LIFE AMONG THE ANTHROS AND OTHER
ESSAYS
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 • $29.95 / $14.98
125651 PRIMATES AND PHILOSOPHERS: How Morality
Evolved
De Waal, Frans
In this provocative book, a primatologist argues that modernday 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 • $15.95 / $8.98
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 / $12.98
126247 THE ZODIAC OF PARIS: How an Improbable
Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked
a Modern Debate over Religion and Science
Buchwald, Jed Z. & Diane Greco Josefowicz
Brought to Paris in 1821 and ultimately installed in the Louvre,
the Dendera zodiac -- an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling
adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets -quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians. This fascinating book tells the story of this archeological find and its unlikely role in the disputes over science and
faith in 19th-century France. 376pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $35.00 / $14.98
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028502 AMERICAN ART DECO
Duncan, Alastair
Explores the dynamic tradition of Art
Deco, revealing the range and extent of
the style as manifested in buildings, furniture, textiles, sculpture, and graphic
arts. It assesses the works of such leading practitioners as Paul Manship, Russel
Wright, and Gilbert Rohde. 288pgs. •
1999
• Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $14.98
118032 AMERICAN SHELTER: An Illustrated
Encyclopedia of the American Home
Walker, Lester
An indispensable resource for understanding the American
dwelling, past, present, and future. It clearly describes and
illustrates the evolution of every significant American house
style from the tipi to the architectural innovations of the 1990s.
336pgs. • 1996
• Overlook Press • P • $27.95 / $7.98
130364 ANTONI GAUDI,
1852-1926: Architecture,
Ideology, and Politics
Lahuerta, Juan Jose
A builder by instinct and practice,
Gaudi's artistic sensibilities were
among the most imaginative and
baroque of any modern architect.
This volume analyzes his work
systematically and in detail, from
the Guell Palace to the famous Sagrada Familia. 348pgs. •
2003
• Phaidon Press • C • $75.00 / $32.98
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 • $29.95 / $14.98
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 / $14.98
083202 THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB
Hasbrouck, Wilbert
Presents the personalities and politics of this important group,
as well as a look at the lesser-known figures who were often
responsible for implementing the designs credited to their
more famous employers. Includes drawings, photographs,
and ephemera from the Club, menu designs, posters, exhibition catalogs, and rare portraits of the members. 768pgs. •
2005
• Monacelli • C • $75.00 / $22.98
130295 DESIGNS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES:
Architecture and Aesthetics
Hill, Richard
An examination of the relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Grounding his arguments in the practical issues related to building -- the demands of site, materials, labor force, the nature of a commission -- Hill
expands both our understanding of architecture and our
enjoyment of it. 296pgs. • 1999
• Yale • C • $40.00 / $16.98
029739 THE DETAILS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE,
VOL. 2: 1928 to 1988
Ford, Edward R.
Continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design
and the realities of construction in modern architecture, from
the late 1920s to the present day. Containing new information
on the construction of modern architecture, there are over
500 illustrations explaining technical, aesthetic, and historical
aspects of the building form. 447pgs. • 1998
• MIT • C • $85.00 / $16.98
067561 DEVIL'S WORKSHOP: 25
Years of Jersey Devil Architecture
Piedmont-Palladino, Susan & Mark
Alden Branch
Contains complete project descriptions,
photographs, drawings, and plans on
more than a dozen projects. The essays
provide insight into the design-build
process and its historical context, and
discuss the formal qualities inherent in
the projects. 127pgs. • 1997
• Princeton Architectural • P • $29.95 / $9.98
030743 EVENT-CITIES 2
Tschumi, Bernard
In Event-Cities, Tschumi expanded his architectural concerns
to address the issue of cities and their making. Here he continues this project through new selections from his recent
architectural projects, and suggests that architecture can
accelerate the events of everyday life by providing efficient
organization. 687pgs. • 2000
• MIT • P • $45.00 / $28.98
124396 FORM AND DESIGN IN
CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE
Stratton, Arthur
One hundred handsome illustrations of
magnificent buildings make this book
appealing not only to architects and
architectural historians, but also to anyone with even a casual interest in architecture and design. It explains in simple
terms the ways in which the relationship
of exterior and interior elements creates unity. 288pgs. •
2004
• Dover • P • $24.95 / $8.98
080322 THE HOUSE OF GOD: Church Architecture,
Style and History
Norman, Edward
Through rich historical associations and special emotional
qualities that are largely denied to secular buildings, churches exert a power that crosses national boundaries and even
beliefs. Edward Norman's chronological survey is supported
and enhanced by a brilliantly researched collection of illustrations. The result is a perfect mix between renowned buildings
such as Hagia Sophia and the freshness of the less familiar.
387 illustrations, 80 in color. 312pgs. • 2005
• Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $13.98
066052 INSIDE DESIGN NOW:
National Design Triennial
Lupton, Ellen, et al.
Taking the pulse of American design in
the new millennium, here is a fascinating tour of cutting-edge trends in architecture, interiors, landscape, fashion,
graphics, and new media. The essays
explore the role of the designer in
today's culture, contemporary ideas of
beauty and functionality, and what the future holds in the
realm of design. 208pgs. • 2003
• Princeton Architectural • P • $29.95 / $7.98
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083021 JOSEP LLUIS MATEO:
Projects, Works, Writings
Lluis Mateo, Josep, et al.
One of Spain's most renowned architects, Mateo has had enormous influence
on the international architecture scene.
His projects in Paris, The Hague, and
Amsterdam, as well as newer designs in
Haarlem, Basel, and Castelo Banco, are
all analyzed in depth in this extensively
illustrated volume. 320pgs. • 2003
• Ediciones Poligrafa • C • $100.00 / $46.98
067594 LUIS BARRAGAN'S GARDENS OF EL PEDREGAL
Eggener, Keith L.
Barragan considered El Pedregal his most important project,
and critics have described the houses and gardens there as a
turning point in Mexican architecture. This book examines El
Pedregal's program and form, its representation in photographs and advertising, and its place within contemporary discourses surrounding cultural identity, design and place, and
suburbanization. 161pgs. • 2001
• Princeton Architectural • C • $40.00 / $14.98
118365 MODERN ARCHITECTURE A TO Z
Peter, Gössel, ed.
An unprecedented architecture encyclopedia, with 600 entries
and 5,200 illustrations. The book's A to Z entries cover not
only architects but also groups, movements, and styles from
the 18th to the 21st centuries. Each architect's entry features a
portrait, quote, and short biography as well as a description of
important works, historical context, and general approach;
the illustrations include numerous drawings, photographs,
and floor plans. 1072pgs. • 2007
• Taschen • C • $300.00 / $149.98
123297 THE NATIONAL PARK
ARCHITECTURE SOURCEBOOK
Kaiser, Harvey H.
For more than a century, the National Park
Service, private individuals, and small businesses have constructed a variety of structures on America's national parklands.
Architect and preservation advocate Harvey
H. Kaiser provides an architectural tour of
the remarkable buildings that dot the landscapes of these spectacular mountains, valleys, deserts, and
coastline preserves. 608pgs. • 2008
• Princeton Architectural • P • $40.00 / $16.98
STEVEN
HOLL
041924 ANCHORING:
Selected Projects 1975-1991
THIRD EDITION
Holl, Steven
New York architect Steven
Holl's projects from 1975 to the
present. Among the works featured are Void Space/Hinged
Space Housing, Fukuoka;
School
of
Architecture,
University of Minnesota; Pace Showroom, New York; Stretto
House, Dallas; and the Berkowitz House, Martha's Vineyard.
165pgs. • 1991
• Princeton Architectural • C • $40.00 / $22.98
041890 PARALLAX
Holl, Steven
What makes Steven Holl one of the
most celebrated architects working
today? As we learn here, his success
comes from his sculptural form making, his interest in the poetics of
space, color, and materiality, and his
fascination with scientific phenomena. Holl reveals his working methods
in this, his biggest and most ambitious book yet. 350pgs. •
2000
• Princeton Architectural • P • $45.00 / $26.98
123290 NEW MODERN HOUSE
Jones, Will
Features 40 new buildings where the synergy between the right
designer and the right client resulted in works that surpass
everyone's expectations. The buildings include Rafael Viñoly's
Piano House in New York; Sean Godsell's Peninsula House in
Australia; and Ahadu Abaineh's Tree House in Ethiopia, among
others. 176pgs. • 2005
• Princeton Architectural • P • $40.00 / $12.98
025138 PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE 1-10
Dimitriu, Livio, et al.
Compiles the first ten editions of a unique series written by
young architects, covering such topics as bridges, stairwells,
the alphabetical city, rural and urban house types, and planetary architecture. 400pgs. • 1998
• Princeton Architectural • C • $45.00 / $25.98
080623 PROCEED AND BE BOLD:
Rural Studio after Samuel Mockbee
Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer &
Timothy Hursley
Based on the simple premise that "everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for
the soul," in 1992 Samuel Mockbee
launched the Rural Studio to create
homes and community buildings for the
poor while offering hands-on architectural training for coming generations. This new book explains the
changes the studio has undergone since Mockbee's death, as it
follows the founders injunction to "proceed and be bold."
176pgs. • 2005
• Princeton Architectural • P • $30.00 / $12.98
065871 RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
Woods, Lebbeus
Lebbeus Woods is widely regarded as one of today's most
exciting and original architectural visionaries. This volume
contains projects that address the relationships between architecture and war, political revolution/reaction, and natural disasters. The projects define new approaches to the reconstruction of buildings and urban fabric damaged by unpredictable
forces of both human and natural origin. 168pgs. • 2001
• Princeton Architectural • P • $39.95 / $23.98
123625 SKIN: Surface, Substance and Design
Lupton, Ellen
Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this
provocative and stimulating book shows how enhanced and
simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary
world. It presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture,
and media that expand the limits of what we understand as
surface. 240pgs. • 2007
• Princeton Architectural • P • $27.50 / $9.98
123594 TALL BUILDING: Image of the Skyscraper
Johnson, Scott
A towering physical presence, the skyscraper has come to
embody many of our unexamined notions and secret desires
about wealth, ambition, and dominance. Featuring rarely seen
images and lively text, this volume explores the phenomenon of
the skyscraper, from its legacy of supreme technical achievement to its various artistic interpretations. 280pgs. • 2008
• Princeton Architectural • C • $34.95 / $16.98
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 / $22.98
083220 VITRUVIUS ON ARCHITECTURE
Smith, Thomas Gordon
Smith presents the rules and ideals of Vitruvius in a volume
containing the five books most relevant to contemporary
architecture along with a wealth of visual material: photographs of ancient structures from Greece, Italy, and Turkey;
related sculptures, frescoes, and reliefs; hypothetical re-creations of Vitruvius's lost illustrations; and a series of watercolor plates based on his descriptions. 288pgs. • 2004
• Monacelli • P • $40.00 / $19.98
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111439 AFTER THE END OF ART:
Contemporary Art and the Pale of
History
Danto, Arthur C.
A reformulation of Danto's original insight
that art ended in the 1960s. Covering art
history, pop art, the future of museums,
and people's art, Danto shows how art has
deviated from the narrative course originally defined in the Renaissance. 262pgs.
• 1998
• Princeton • P • $26.95 / $12.98
130072 ALBERT GLEIZES: For and Against the
Twentieth Century
Brooke, Peter
At the center of the public scandal over Cubism that broke out
in Paris in 1911, Gleizes was also one of the first European
avant-garde artists to respond to the scale and vigor of New
York life. This fascinating book reveals Gleizes as a man whose
art and writings remain astonishingly fresh and relevant to the
needs of our own time. 348pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C • $75.00 / $24.98
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 • $37.95 / $18.98
116602 THE ART OF BUDDHISM: An Introduction to Its
History and Meaning
Leidy, Denise Patry
Surveys the marvelous variety of Buddhist art through the ages,
from India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan,
Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Southeast Asia. The more than
200 illustrations encompass architecture and monumental art,
statuary, paintings, calligraphy, fresco, brushwork, and textile
arts. 342pgs. • 2008
• Shambhala • C • $45.00 / $19.98
028685 ART OF THE GOLD
RUSH
Driesbach, Janice T., et al.
A visual narrative of California during
the Gold Rush, vividly catalogs life in
the mining camp and presents the
engrossing mountain vistas and
cityscapes of a region virtually
unknown to those living outside the
territory. Oversized. 148pgs. • 1998
• California • P • $34.95 / $7.98
036031 ART, WAR, AND
REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
1870-1871: Myth, Reportage,
& Reality
Milner, John
During a ferociously violent tenmonth period in 1870 and 1871,
the last Napoleonic empire was
destroyed, France was plunged
into a hopeless war with Prussia,
Paris was besieged, and the revolt of the Paris Commune
was suppressed by a new Republic. This engrossing book
surveys how artists responded to these cataclysmic events
and helped to define the events for the public. 243pgs. •
2000
• Yale • C • $70.00 / $24.98
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123563 ARTISTIC PRINTING: A Collection of
Letterpress Examples, with Specimens of Type,
Ornament, Corners, Borders, Twisters, Wrinklers,
Printer's Devils, and Other Freaks of Fancy
Clouse, Doug & Angela Voulangas
The first comprehensive study devoted to the history of
American artistic printing. The authors explore the style's origins in the British Aesthetic Movement and analyze its distinctive features: idiosyncratic color harmonies, eclectic choice of
type and ornament, compartmentalized compositional strategies. More than 150 examples of period ephemera and specimens of type and ornament are reproduced. 224pgs. • 2009
• Princeton Architectural • P • $40.00 / $22.98
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 / $7.98
028503 THE BRITISH MUSEUM BOOK OF CHINESE ART
Rawson, Jessica, ed.
For more than a thousand years Chinese silks and porcelain
have been coveted and sought by peoples around the world.
This survey describes the origins of these achievements and
sets them in context alongside the other arts of China, including lacquer, cloisonné, and glass. 395pgs. • 1996
• Thames & Hudson • P • $27.50 / $14.98
078623 CÉZANNE AND THE
ETERNAL FEMININE
Andersen, Wayne
Painted in 1878, Cézanne's The Eternal
Feminine has been known by a variety of
titles and has also been altered by an art
dealer who sought to render the painting
more marketable. This study focuses on
the significance of the original state of the
work, seeking to illuminate its mysterious
importance to Cézanne and, more broadly, to the history of art.
266pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • C • $104.00 / $23.98
125229 CONTACTS
Klein, William
A collection of contact sheets, revamped and over-painted,
from one of the most acclaimed photographers and artists of
the last 30 years. The large prints in the book, some of which
have never been published, can be either detached and framed
or kept in their original form in the book. 36pgs. • 2008
• Contrasto • C • $79.00 / $39.98
130365 COSME TURA OF FERRARA: Style, Politics,
and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495
Campbell, Stephen
Cosme Tura was the first great artist from Ferrara, one of the
major artistic centers of Renaissance Italy. This book offers a
new and wide-ranging approach to his life and stylistically
idiosyncratic works, placing both in the context of Ferrara's
religious, political, and intellectual milieu. 220pgs. • 1998
• Yale • C • $85.00 / $34.98
039491 CUBISM AND CULTURE
Antliff, Mark & Patricia Leighten
Reveals the profound formal innovations of Cubism as integrally related to
rapid changes in French society.
Examines the origins of Cubism in
primitivism and its engagement with
issues of race and colonialism as well
as anti-Enlightenment philosophies.
224pgs. • 2001
• Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $6.98
123332 DAS UNIVERSUM KLEE
Scholz, Dieter et al.
With his highly individual yet universal pictorial language, Paul
Klee became one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Encompassing all of his creative phases, this volume features more than 200 works from the artist's visionary and
poetic pictorial worlds, uniquely blending the abstract with the
figural. (Text in German only.) 368pgs. • 2008
• Hatje Cantz • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $39.98
099299 A DEGAS
SKETCHBOOK: An
Album of Pencil Sketches
Degas, Edgar, et al.
In 1995 the Getty Museum
acquired Degas' sketchbook
(ca.
1877).
Reproduced here are 28
pages from the volume,
along with a brilliant essay
that places Degas within the contexts of both the cultivated
salon of the Halèvy family and the larger world of late-19thcentury Paris, which Degas both celebrated and shunned.
120pgs. • 2000
• Getty Trust • C • $39.95 / $14.98
082578 ELIZABETH MURRAY
Storr, Robert
Elizabeth Murray's shaped and constructed canvases, often
topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together
out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in
unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic
Surrealism a space in their own image. This book explores
Murray's relation to artists such as Stuart Davis, Claes
Oldenburg, and Frank Stella. 240pgs. • 2005
• Museum of Modern Art • C • $55.00 / $24.98
130309 AN EYE ON THE MODERN
CENTURY: The Selected Letters of
Henry McBride
Watson, Steven, ed.
McBride, a towering figure in art criticism
from 1913 to the early 1950s, was an
ardent supporter of 20th-century modernism. In this richly annotated collection
of his selected letters -- addressed to such
friends as Gertrude Stein, Carl Van
Vechten, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Marianne
Moore -- McBride engagingly describes many of modernism's
most important events and figures. 384pgs. • 2000
• Yale • C • $60.00 / $19.98
128625 FRANK NITSCHE
Nitsche, Frank
Frank Nitsche is a postmodern abstractionist who produces a
suave fusion of futuristic Constructivism and Abstract
Expressionist urgency. On big canvases, crisp black and white
lines loop, career and crisscross the field, creating complicated, twisting, vaguely architectural structures. 160pgs. • 2008
• Walther Konig • C • $64.00 / $24.98
113129 FRIDA KAHLO:
National Homage 1907-2007
Fuentes, Carlos et al.
The companion volume to the most
complete exhibition ever of the
artist's work, presented in 2007 at
the Palacio de Bellas Artes in
Mexico City. It includes an extended
appreciation by the novelist Carlos
Fuentes, along with a generous
selection from Kahlo's own paintings, drawings, prints, and
ephemera. 399pgs. • 2008
• Editorial RM • C • $65.00 / $26.98
061274 GOTTA HAVE 'EM: Portraits of Women
Crumb, R.
For the first time ever, R. Crumb's drawings of women are collected in one volume, in chronological order, spanning the 38
years since his pen-and-ink beginnings. Together they make
up not only a catalogue raisonné of Crumb's portraits of
women but also a revealing record of a passionate life.
Slipcased limited edition, sealed in shrink-wrap as published.
In limited supply. 224pgs. • 2002
• Greybull Press • C • $55.00 / $39.98
067742 GRAPHIC DESIGN 20TH
CENTURY
Purvis, Alston W.
A pictorial history of the last hundred
years in graphic design. It represents all
the significant designers of the 20th century and the many styles that characterized this rich and tumultuous period: Art
Nouveau, Arts and Craft, the Viennese
Secession, the Russian Avant-Garde,
Punk, New Wave, computer graphics and more. 480pgs. •
2003
• Princeton Architectural • P • $35.00 / $16.98
129921 THE GROVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTHERN
RENAISSANCE ART
Campbell, Gordon
Drawing on unsurpassed scholarship, this three-volume set
deals with all aspects of Northern Renaissance art, ranging
from artists, architecture, and patrons to the cities and centers of production vital to the flourishing of art in this period. It offers fully updated articles and bibliography as well
as more than 500 illustrations, maps, drawings, diagrams,
and color plates. 2328pgs. • 2009
• Oxford University • C • $395.00 / $149.98
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
• Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $17.98
106151 IRISH RURAL INTERIORS IN ART
Kinmonth, Claudia
A fascinating portrayal of Irish rural life from the 18th to
the mid 20th century. Illustrated with more than 250
images, many of which have not been published before, the
book evokes the hardships and celebrations of laborers
and farmers, men and women, the old and the young as
depicted in oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints,
postcards, and cartoons. 320pgs. • 2006
• Yale • C • $80.00 / $24.98
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 / $7.98
113273 JEFF WALL
Wall, Jeff
Wall's large color transparencies
have created a unique, seductive and
complex pictorial universe that
draws from philosophy, literature,
19th-century painting, Neo-Realist
cinema and the traditions of both
Conceptual art and documentary
photography. In addition to color
plates and illuminating details, this exhibition catalogue
includes an essay by Peter Galassi that explores the full range
of Wall's artistic and intellectual interests. 167pgs. • 2007
• Museum of Modern Art • C • $50.00 / $25.98
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125941 JOSEPH CORNELL AND
ASTRONOMY: A Case for the Stars
Hoving, Kirsten
Often regarded as a recluse lost in an
imaginary universe of his own making,
Cornell amassed a library of books and
articles about science and astronomy,
and his study of that material had a
direct impact on his art. This volume
considers hundreds of his works -films, three-dimensional space-object boxes, enigmatic collages, and cosmic ephemera -- that contain references to
astronomical phenomena. 336pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $49.50 / $30.98
130192 MASTER OF DEATH:
The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet,
Illuminator
Camille, Michael
Illustrated with some of the most
striking images of the Middle Ages,
this book is a "history of death in
miniature" as told in hundreds of tiny
pictures produced by 14th-century
manuscript illuminator Pierre Remiet,
whose specialty was the representation of death, old age,
and decay. 296pgs. • 1996
• Yale • C • $70.00 / $29.98
122585 JUAN VAN DER
HAMEN Y LEON: And the
Court of Madrid
Jordan, William B.
Van der Hamen is well known as
a gifted still-life painter of the
Golden Age, but William B.
Jordan shows convincingly that
the artist was much more than
that. He examines the complete
oeuvre of the artist, including portraits, allegories, landscapes, flower paintings, and large-scale works for churches and convents. 312pgs. • 2006
• Yale • C • $70.00 / $32.98
124393 MEDIEVAL AND
RENAISSANCE FASHION: 90 FullColor Plates
Jacquemin, Raphael
Drawn from the Louvre and other prestigious collections, these illustrations
depict French soldiers, German knights,
crowned heads, and common folk in
their finest apparel. Scrupulously
authentic in every detail, these colorful
portraits by a noteworthy 19th-century fashion designer and
historian form a gallery of iconic portraits and an outstanding
resource. 96pgs. • 2007
• Dover • P • $18.95 / $7.98
025003 KANDINSKY - COMPLETE WRITINGS ON ART
Lindsay, Kenneth C. & Peter Vergo, eds.
Taken from his original texts, including selected interviews,
lecture notes, poems, treatises, and essays, written between
1901 and 1943. 924pgs. • 1994
• Da Capo • P • $39.95 / $22.98
073197 A MODERN MOSAIC: Art and Modernism in the
United States
Ludington, Townsend, ed.
Explores the impact of modernism on American culture and
the ways in which modernism remains a key to understanding
American art and society. The essays examine works and their
creators across the whole spectrum of artistic expression: fiction and poetry, painting and sculpture, architecture, dance,
photography, and film. 439pgs. • 2000
• Univ of North Carolina • C • $59.95 / $15.98
033988 KAREL TIEGE/1900-1951: L'Enfant Terrible of
the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde
Dluhosch, Erich & Rostislav Svacha, eds.
A look at a leading figure of the European avant-garde of the
1920s and 1930s, who was first hailed as a progressive, then
denounced for not toeing the party line and forbidden to speak
out or to publish, and who died a broken man. 420pgs. •
1999
• MIT • C • $60.00 / $24.98
125224 THE LUMINOUS IMAGE: Painted Glass
Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560
Husband, Timothy
The profusely illustrated catalog of an exhibition held at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1995. 234pgs. • 1995
• Metropolitan Museum of Art • P • $29.95 / $14.98
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 • $60.00 / $12.98
124824 MARC CHAGALL AND HIS
TIMES: A Documentary Narrative
Harshav, Benjamin
A comprehensive biography of one of the
most prominent artists of the 20th century. It encompasses the 98 years of
Chagall's life across multiple countries
and cultures, his deep roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and
loves, and his involvements with the art
of the Russian Revolution, with Surrealism, Communism,
Zionism, Yiddish literature, and the state of Israel. 1056pgs.
• 2003
• Stanford • P • $43.95 / $6.98
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062781 MODERN WILDLIFE
PAINTING
Hammond, Nicholas
This exploration of the diverse forms of
wildlife art, from photographic hyperrealism to abstraction, discusses differences in the traditions of North America
and Europe and changes in styles and
approaches over time. Illustrated by
paintings or prints that best represent
the various genres. 240pgs. • 1999
• Yale • C • $75.00 / $19.98
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
• Princeton • C • $49.50 / $29.98
039468 MONASTIC
VISIONS: Wall Paintings in the
Monastery of St. Antony at the
Red Sea
Bolman, Elizabeth S., ed.
The Coptic Monastery of St. Antony
at the Red Sea contains a unique
cycle of 13th-century wall paintings, by far the best-preserved
iconographic program of Christian
paintings from medieval Egypt. This beautiful book reproduces the paintings, which have recently been restored, for
the first time. 307pgs. • 2002
• Yale • C • $85.00 / $42.98
125629 THE MUSTARD SEED GARDEN MANUAL OF
PAINTING: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai
Edition
Sze, Mai-Mai, ed.
The first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook,
originally composed in the late 17th century. Mai-mai Sze has
provided an introduction, chronology, and valuable appendix
in which the basic terms of Chinese painting are analyzed and
illustrated by means of their ideograms, and, in many cases,
the older pictorial forms. 648pgs. • 1978
• Princeton • P • $45.00 / $25.98
130293 NATURE'S WORKSHOP:
Renoir's Writings on the Decorative
Arts
Herbert, Robert L.
Revealing Renoir to be both a radical
and a reactionary, one who bitterly
opposed the factory system that stripped
the worker of initiative, Herbert provides
valuable insights into the artist as well as
a comparative study of the decorative
arts in 19th-century France and Britain. 296pgs. • 2000
• Yale • C • $45.00 / $12.98
114206 NINETEENTH CENTURY ART: A Critical History
THIRD EDITION
Eisenman, Stephen F., et al.
This third edition incorporates new chapters on design and
architecture; increased coverage of the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood and Naturalism in Germany; and a new discussion of the Vienna Secession and the challenges to Academic
painting in Russia. Includes 496 illustrations, 193 in color.
484pgs. • 2007
• Thames & Hudson • P • $60.00 / $37.98
031109 OUTSIDER ART:
Spontaneous Alternatives
WORLD OF ART
Rhodes, Colin
Surveys the body of work that has been
produced outside the confines of the
modern art mainstream by a diverse array
of self-taught visionaries, spiritualists,
eccentrics, folk artists, psychiatric
patients, criminals, and others. Includes
188 illustrations, 75 in color. 224pgs. • 2000
• Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $7.98
039423 PAINTING IN
RENAISSANCE FLORENCE, 15001550
Franklin, David
Overturning longstanding assumptions about the way art evolved in
Renaissance Florence, Franklin challenges the reliability and usefulness
of the terms "High Renaissance" and
"Mannerism." He offers instead a
new perspective on the progress and development of art in
Florence, structured around the lives and works of twelve
influential Italian painters. 273pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C • $70.00 / $29.98
038399 THE PAINTING OF MODERN
LIFE: Paris in the Art of Manet and
His Followers
REVISED EDITION
Clark, T. J.
Describes the new style of painting as an
attempt to give form to a Paris undergoing social change and seeks to uncover
whether modern painting celebrated the
consumer-oriented culture of the Paris of
Napoleon III or opened it to critical scrutiny. 338pgs. • 1999
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $17.98
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055908 A PALACE FOR A
KING: The Buen Retiro and the
Court of Philip IV
Brown, Jonathan & John H. Elliott
The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and
pleasure palace built for Philip IV
on the outskirts of Madrid, became
a showcase for the art and culture
of Spain's Golden Age. This volume,
now extensively revised, provides a
pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and
uses of the palace, emphasizing the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. 303pgs. • 2003
• Yale • C • $75.00 / $29.98
118307 PARMIGIANINO
Ekserdjian, David
This beautiful volume, the definitive work on Parmigianino,
focuses on both the public world of his paintings and the private realm of his drawings. It encompasses the latest research
and takes full advantage of recent cleanings and restorations
of the artist's major works. 303pgs. • 2006
• Yale • C • $80.00 / $39.98
130368 THE PICTORIAL ARTS
OF THE WEST, 800-1200
Dodwell, C. R.
Between the 9th and the 13th centuries the Western world witnessed a
flowering of the pictorial arts. In this
book the author provides a guide to
all forms of this art -- from wall and
panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics and embroidery -and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. 494pgs. • 1993
• Yale • C • $95.00 / $39.98
074122 REFRAMING THE RENAISSANCE: Visual
Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650
Farago, Claire J., ed.
In exploring the impact that the extensive cultural exchange
between the Old and the New Worlds had upon artistic practice and discussion of art, a team of art historians re-evaluate
the Eurocentrism of Italian Renaissance art history. They envision how the history of Renaissance art would look if cultural
interaction and the conditions of reception became the primary focus. 394pgs. • 1995
• Yale • C • $75.00 / $29.98
114202 RON MUECK
Gries, Patrick
The stunning and carefully crafted
sculpture of Australian artist Ron Mueck
has catapulted him into the first rank of
the contemporary art world. This book
is a record of his exhibition at the
Fondation Cartier in Paris, for which he
created an ensemble of new sculptures,
two of which are of gargantuan scale.
120pgs. • 2006
• Thames & Hudson • C • OP / $55.98
074129 THE SCULPTURES OF THE PARTHENON:
Aesthetics and the Interpretation
Lagerlöf, Margaretha Rossholm
A complete overview of current knowledge of the ancient
temple's sculptural creations. It considers what the sculptures reveal about the Greek sense of democracy, the nature
of women's lives, and the relationship between human
beings and the gods. 204pgs. • 2000
• Yale • C • $42.00 / $16.98
059259 A SHORTER HISTORY OF GREEK ART
Robertson, Martin
An abridgement of Robertson's two-volume A History of Greek
Art, this heavily illustrated, chronological depiction of the
Greek artistic tradition ranges from its emergence in the early
archaic period through its achievements in the classical age
and on to the Hellenistic period. 256pgs. • 1981
• Cambridge • P • $60.00 / $24.98
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074112 THE SPECTACULAR
BODY: Science, Method, and
Meaning in the Work of Degas
Callen, Anthea
Illuminates the underlying meanings of
Degas's depictions of women in his
series of bathers, dancers, and prostitutes. Argues that the gender politics of
Degas' culture made it inevitable that he
represent masculine desire - and anxieties about masculine identity evoked by such desire - through
an apparently detached masculine scrutiny of the female body.
With 108 b/w and 25 color illus. 244pgs. • 1995
• Yale • C • $80.00 / $19.98
130291 SURREALISM AND THE SPANISH CIVIL
WAR
Greeley, Robin Adele
Can artistic practice offer insight into the cataclysmic debacle of war? Greeley plumbs this provocative question by
scrutinizing the widely varying responses to the Spanish
Civil War in the work of Miró, Dalí, Caballero, Masson, and
Picasso. Richly illustrated. 240pgs. • 2006
• Yale • C • $65.00 / $29.98
125225 TURNING POINT: Oribe
and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century
Japan
Murase, Miyeko, ed.
The ceramic ware known as Oribe
rose to prominence for use in the tea
ceremony during Japan's Momoyama
period (1573-1615). Boldly painted
and displaying playful new shapes,
these dashing pieces matched the
extroverted world of the warlords. In this volume, essays by
leading scholars accompany outstanding examples of these
extraordinary works and examine the contexts in which they
were created. 408pgs. • 2003
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $21.98
130311 THE VISION OF ROME
IN LATE RENAISSANCE FRANCE
McGowan, Margaret M.
Explores how writers, artists, scholars,
and architects perceived Rome as a
physical and symbolic entity and how
they drew upon the classical ruins not
only to reenact past meanings and
achievements but also, more dynamically, to interpret the present in France.
Copiously illustrated. 476pgs. • 2000
• Yale • C • $70.00 / $29.98
114219 WOMEN, ART, AND SOCIETY
WORLD OF ART
Chadwick, Whitney
This acclaimed study challenges the
assumption that great women artists are
exceptions to the rule. This expanded
edition incorporates recent developments in contemporary art and analyzes
the differences between women's art
today and the seminal feminist work of
the 1970s and 1980s. Includes 325 illustrations, 90 in color.
528pgs. • 2007
• Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $10.98
114097 ZEICHNE / DRAW: Arbeiten Aus Seinem Archiv /
Works From His Archive
Immendorff, Jorg
The German painter Jorg Immendorff, who died in 2007, used
his drawings as a way of thinking out ideas. These works -many of them previously undocumented -- contextualize this
under-examined facet of Immendorff's practice. 288pgs. •
2008
• Verlag De Buchhandlung • C • $118.00 / $49.98
ASIAN & PACI FIC STU DI ES
128601 AMERICAN SHOGUN: General MacArthur,
Emperor Hirohito and the Drama of Modern Japan
Harvey, Robert
MacArthur, the American maverick who was elevated to the
level of popular hero and policy maker, and Hirohito, the passive intellectual heir considered a divinity by his people, seem
at the outset the most unlikely enemies in war, let alone partners in peace. Under Harvey's scrutiny, however, these superficial characterizations give way to a much more nuanced narrative as well as a revealing portrait of these extraordinary figures. 432pgs. • 2006
• Overlook Press • C • $35.00 / $7.98
065607 APPRECIATIONS OF
JAPANESE CULTURE
Keene, Donald
This collection of 20 essays focuses on
the rich tradition of Japanese culture. It
illuminates important aspects of Japanese
literature for the general reader and
places each subject within the context of
the tradition as a whole. 342pgs. • 2003
• Kodansha • P • $22.00 / $8.98
047694 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
CHINA
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
Follows the development of Chinese culture from
Confucianism's rise, Buddhism, and the great imperial
dynasties, to the Mongol, Manchu, and Western intrusions
and the modern communist state. Ebrey's scope encompasses arts, culture, economics, society and its treatment of
women, foreign policy, emigration, and politics, including
the 1919 and 1989 uprisings. 352pgs. • 1999
• Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $12.98
127619 CHINA'S NEW
CONFUCIANISM: Politics and Everyday
Life in a Changing Society
Bell, Daniel A.
One of the few Westerners to teach at a
Chinese university draws on his personal
experiences to paint an unexpected portrait of a society undergoing faster and
more sweeping changes than anywhere
else on earth. With a storyteller's eye for
detail, Bell observes the rituals, routines, and tensions of daily
life in China. 280pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $12.98
109702 COMMUNALISM, CASTE AND HINDU
NATIONALISM IN INDIA: Violence in Gujarat
Shani, Ornit
Belligerent Hindu nationalism, accompanied by recurring
communal violence, has become a compelling force in Indian
politics over the last two decades. Using evidence from
Gujarat, Shani argues that the growth of communalism was not
simply a result of Hindu-Muslim antagonisms, but was driven
by intensifying tensions among Hindus, nurtured by changes in
the relations between castes and associated state policies.
230pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $99.99 / $19.98
026750 DOWN TO EARTH: The
Territorial Bond in South China
Faure, David, & Helen F. Siu, eds.
Historical and ethnographic studies of the
Pearl River Delta from late imperial times
through the 1940's argues that local society was integrated into the Chinese state
through constant redefinition of lineages,
territories, and ethnic identities. 278pgs.
• 1995
• Stanford • C • $59.95 / $9.98
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125276 EMPEROR OF CHINA: Self-Portrait of K'anghsi
Spence, Jonathan D.
A remarkable re-creation of the life of the Manchu emperor
K'ang-hsi, assembled from documents that survived his reign.
256pgs. • 1988
• Vintage • P • $15.95 / $6.98
130415 FRONTIERS OF FEAR:
Tigers and People in the Malay
World, 1600-1950
Boomgaard, Peter
For centuries, reports of man-eating
tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and
Singapore have circulated, shrouded in
myth and anecdote. This fascinating
book reveals how human activities
unintentionally created habitats that
attracted these fierce predators and led to increased contact with them. 320pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C • $50.00 / $6.98
036151 HEADHUNTING AND THE SOCIAL
IMAGINATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Hoskins, Janet, ed.
A collection of material on headhunting from several
Southeast Asia societies, examining its cultural contexts, and
relating those contexts to colonial history, violence, and ritual.
The essays trace the changes in the imagery of headhunting,
explaining why contemporary indigenous peoples fear new
predators in the form of government officials, Western missionaries, Japanese businessmen, and tourists. 296pgs. •
1996
• Stanford • C • $65.00 / $7.98
083810 JAPANESE STREET SLANG
Constantine, Peter
The first and only exposé of the raw street vernacular of
contemporary Japan. Here's how they really speak: the hustlers and high rollers, the teens and Tokyo yuppies, the
gangsters and the ladies of the night. Witty mini-essays trace
the fascinating origins of many expressions. 216pgs. •
1992
• Shambhala • P • $14.95 / $4.98
127114 MOUNTAIN OF FAME:
Portraits in Chinese History
Wills, John E.
This unique introduction to Chinese history
and culture examines more than 20 exemplary lives, including those of statesmen,
philosophers, poets, and rulers. What
emerges is a provocative rendering of
China's moral landscape, featuring characters who have resonated in the historical imagination as examples of villainy, heroism, wisdom, spiritual vision, and guile.
424pgs. • 1996
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $12.98
119731 MOURNING IN LATE
IMPERIAL CHINA: Filial Piety and the
State
Kutcher, Norman
To win the approval of China's elites, Qing
China's Manchu leaders developed an
ambitious plan to return Confucianism to
civil society by observing laborious
mourning rituals. Kutcher looks beneath the rhetoric to
demonstrate how the state -- unwilling to make the sacrifices
that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded -actually undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system. 224pgs. • 1999
• Cambridge • C • $110.00 / $34.98
117431 UNEASY WARRIORS: Gender,
Memory, and Popular Culture in the
Japanese Army
Frühstück, Sabine
In the 1950s, Japan established the SelfDefense Forces as a way to bolster Western
defenses against the tide of communism.
Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to self-defense, 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 • $24.95 / $12.98
CLASSICAL STU DI ES
124262 THE ANNALS
Tacitus
The ancient historian wrote this vital chronicle of Imperial
Rome as he witnessed the great civilization's decline. Spanning
the years from AD 14 to 68, it paints incisive psychological
portraits of the era's major figures, from Tiberius to Nero.
416pgs. • 2007
• Dover • P • $12.95 / $4.98
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 / $30.98
125598 BEFORE SEXUALITY: The Construction of
Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World
Halperin, David M. & Winkler, John J., et al., eds.
Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. In
these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and
classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how
norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what
counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time.
552pgs. • 1991
• Princeton • P • $62.50 / $37.98
069064 THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT
HISTORY, VOL. 11: The High Empire,
AD 70-192
SECOND EDITION
Bowman, Alan, et al., eds.
Covers the history of the Roman Empire
from Vespasian to the Antonines. The volume begins with the political and military
history of the period. Developments in the
structure of the empire are then examined,
including the organization and personnel of the central government and province-based institutions and practices.
1246pgs. • 2000
• Cambridge • C • $295.00 / $195.98
119726 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HORACE
Harrison, Stephen, ed.
Horace's work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to
satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he was just as much at
home writing about love and wine as about philosophy and literary criticism. In this volume an international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of
the poet, his work, its themes, and its reception. 400pgs. •
2007
• Cambridge • C • $107.00 / $42.98
130438 CICERO: The Life and Times of Rome's
Greatest Politician
Everitt, Anthony
In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt
examines the great orator and statesman against the background of the scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome.
Revealed through his legendary speeches and through his
letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life in
these pages as a witty and cunning political operator without peer. 400pgs. • 2003
• Random House • P • $17.00 / $6.98
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087018 THE CLASSICAL GREEKS
Grant, Michael
Blowing the dust from time-worn images
of the classical Greeks, Grant delves into
the Golden Age of the Greek city-state,
from 490 to 336 BC, the period between
the first wars against Persia and Carthage
and the ascension of Alexander the Great.
The eminent historian examines this great
multiplication of talents and genius within
its limited period. 352pgs. • 2001
• Phoenix Press • P • $25.00 / $5.98
125523 DEMOCRACY AND
KNOWLEDGE: Innovation and
Learning in Classical Athens
Ober, Josiah
Combining a history of Athens with contemporary theories of collective action and
rational choice, Ober examines Athenian
democracy's unique contribution to the
ancient Greek city-state's remarkable success, and demonstrates the valuable lessons Athenian political practices hold for us today. 368pgs. •
2010
• Princeton • P • $22.95 / $14.98
EGYPT &
THE NEAR EAST
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 / $9.98
039556 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, VOLUME 1: An
Anthology of Texts and Pictures
Pritchard, James B., ed.
This collection of writings from the cultures of Biblical times
supplements the Old Testament in documenting the history
of the ancient Near East. 380pgs. • 1958
• Princeton • P • $37.50 / $17.98
126007 CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT
IRAQ
Foster, Benjamin R. & 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. 288pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • C • $26.95 / $14.98
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
• Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $6.98
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028827 THE EDGES OF THE
EARTH IN ANCIENT THOUGHT:
Geography, Exploration, & Fiction
Romm, James S.
Traces geographical themes in classical
literature from Homer and Herodotus
through the conquests of Alexander the
Great to the Romans, exploring symbolic landscapes, realms of wonders, and
other literary conventions that formed
these texts. 228pgs. • 1994
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $19.98
118553 FAMILIES IN CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC
GREECE: Representations and Realities
Pomeroy, Sarah B.
This highly original and authoritative account of the Greek
family provides the first comprehensive survey of the subject.
Taking account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence, some of
which has only been made recently available, Pomeroy provides an excellent reference for one of the key aspects of
Greek social history. 272pgs. • 1998
• Oxford University • P • $75.00 / $17.98
102079 THE FURTHER ACADEMIC
PAPERS OF SIR HUGH LLOYD-JONES
Lloyd-Jones, Hugh
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones has a worldwide reputation as one of the foremost classical
scholars of his generation. This collection
of papers, which follows on from the two
volumes published in 1990, reflects his
exceptionally wide interests in the fields of
Greek epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy,
Hellenistic literature, religion, and intellectual history.
464pgs. • 2006
• Oxford University • C • $155.00 / $46.98
028312 THE GREEK WORLD: Classical, Byzantine,
and Modern
Browning, Robert, ed.
Essays offer a succinct history from the heroic Bronze Age
and the Persian Wars to the Roman conquest, the Ottoman
Period, and today's modern Greece, with an emphasis on
developments in art, philosophy, and literature. Fully illustrated. 328pgs. • 2000
• Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $14.98
119045 HISTORIES BOOK VIII
ANGUS M. BOWIE, ED.
Herodotus
The Battle of Salamis -- the first great (and unexpected) victory of the Greeks over the Persian forces under Xerxes -- forms
the centerpiece of Book VIII of Herodotus's great work. In this
edition of the Greek-language text, the introduction and commentary pay particular attention to the history and culture of
Achaemenid Persia and the peoples of its empire. 274pgs. •
2007
• Cambridge • C • $105.00 / $49.98
129935 IN PLATONIS PARMENIDEM
COMMENTARIA III
Proclus
The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by
Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important
extant document on the interpretation of this
enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial
influence on all subsequent readings. This
volume contains Books VI and VII and a
complete set of indexes. 440pgs. • 2009
• Oxford University • C • $85.00 / $29.98
104450 INCONSISTENCY IN ROMAN EPIC: Studies in
Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan
O'Hara, James J.
Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient
texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented.
Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors,
O'Hara argues that comparative study of the literary use of
inconsistencies can shed light on major problems in Catullus'
Peleus and Thetis, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Vergil's
Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Lucan's Bellum Civile.
165pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $12.98
126748 LORDS OF THE SEA: The Epic
Story of the Athenian Navy and the
Birth of Democracy
Hale, John R.
One of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world, the Athenian Navy engineered a civilization and empowered the
world's first democracy. Archaeologist
John R. Hale presents the definitive history
of the epic battles, the fearsome ships, and
the men -- from extraordinary leaders to seductive rogues -that established Athenian supremacy at sea. 432pgs. • 2010
• Penguin • P • $17.00 / $5.98
116508 MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS: A Selection
Wills, Garry, trans.
One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, setting a
pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across the
ages. In his translation, Garry Wills deftly captures the elegance and wit of Martial's barbed thrusts. 206pgs. • 2008
• Viking • C • $24.95 / $5.98
109563 THE NARRATOR IN ARCHAIC GREEK AND
HELLENISTIC POETRY
Morrison, Andrew
Examines how the three most significant Hellenistic poets
(Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius) deal with their
poetic inheritance from earlier Greek poetry. It studies how
they build up the main narrative voices of their poems by
engaging with the narrators they found in a wide range of
Archaic poets and genres. 376pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $124.00 / $29.98
102204 THE NATURE OF
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Renault, Mary
King of Macedonia before he was
twenty, Alexander went on to
become the greatest conqueror of
the ancient world, inspiring legends
in his lifetime and after his death.
Mary Renault, who spent years
studying the Hellenistic world, peels
off the layers of wishful thinking to reveal the real
Alexander beneath. Re-examining the crucial episodes in
his life: the murder of his father, Philip, in which he was
implicated, the sacking of Thebes, and his dying wishes,
this volume places him in the rightful context of his times.
240pgs. • 2001
• Penguin • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $6.98
129933 THE OXFORD COMPANION TO
CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Howatson, Margaret
From Achilles's heel to the sword of
Damocles, Western culture teems with
allusions from the rich heritage of classical
literature, and this new Companion, which
replaces Sir Paul Harvey's 1937 edition,
provides the key to these works and to the
ancient Greek and Roman civilizations that
produced them. The breadth and accuracy of this volume will
surely make it the standard reference book of its kind for
years to come. 640pgs. • 1989
• Oxford University • C • $79.99 / $24.98
126248 THE POISON KING: The
Life and Legend of Mithradates,
Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Mayor, Adrienne
A gripping account of one of Rome's
most relentless but least understood
foes, the ruthless king and visionary
rebel whose uncanny ability to elude
capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while
his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination
attempts and eliminate rivals. 472pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
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130178 CHAPMAN'S HOMERIC HYMNS AND OTHER
HOMERICA
Chapman, George
Presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the
Homeric hymns. The hymns, believed to have been written
by followers who emulated Homer's style, are odes to the
gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. The collection also includes epigrams and poems attributed to
Homer and known as The Lesser Homerica. 192pgs. •
2008
• Princeton • C NDJ • $39.95 / $12.98
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DEMETER: Translation,
Commentary, and Interpretive Essays
Foley, Helene P., ed.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth
century B.C.E., is a key to understanding
the psychological and religious world of
ancient Greek women. Helene Foley
presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of this poem, together with selected essays
that illuminate the Hymn's structure and artistry, its role in
the religious life of the ancient world, and its meaning for
the modern world. 320pgs. • 1993
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $14.98
125786 PORTRAIT OF A PRIESTESS: Women and Ritual
in Ancient Greece
Connelly, Joan Breton
The first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the
ancient Greek world. Connelly presents a vivid picture of how
the women lived and worked, and challenges long-held beliefs
to show that priestesses played far more significant public
roles in ancient Greece than previously acknowledged. Richly
illustrated. 464pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
108387 READING HERODOTUS: A
Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of
Herodotus' Histories
Irwin, Elizabeth & Emily Greenwood,
eds.
The first multi-authored collection of
scholarly essays to focus on a single book
of the Histories. Each chapter pursues two
closely related lines of enquiry: first, to
propose an individual thesis about the
political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects
that Herodotus treats, and second, to analyze the connections
between the individual book and the overarching structure of
the narrative. 343pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $127.00 / $39.98
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 • $32.99 / $17.98
119609 ROMAN IMPERIALISM AND
PROVINCIAL ART
Webster, Janet & Sarah Scott, eds.
Although Roman provincial art is often
portrayed as a poor copy of works created
in the imperial capital, the contributors
offer new interpretations of provincial
mosaics, wall-paintings, statues, and jewelry. They explore what these art works
reveal about the nature of life under an
imperial regime. 272pgs. • 2003
• Cambridge • C • $109.00 / $41.98
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TIME OF AUGUSTUS
MacMullen, Ramsay
Why, during the lifetime of Augustus
(63 BC to AD 14), did Roman civilization spread so quickly, influencing art
and architecture, religion, law, local
speech, and city design throughout the
ancient world? MacMullen argues that
this acculturation was due to eager imitation by conquered peoples who were ably served by the
Romans' effective techniques of mass production and standardization. 240pgs. • 2008
• Yale • P • $18.00 / $9.98
130216 SOME TALK OF ALEXANDER: A Journey
through Space and Time in the Greek World
Raphael, Frederic
Do "the classics" still have relevance? Or are they just an outdated repository of class vanity, racial prejudice, and pedantic
obscurantism. In this personal journey through Greek history,
Frederic Raphael springs to the defense of a much-maligned
but bracingly elitist world. Includes more than 100 illustrations. 336pgs. • 2006
• Thames & Hudson • C • $40.00 / $7.98
126830 THUCYDIDES: The
Reinvention of History
Kagan, Donald
Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War has
enthralled readers, historians, and
statesmen alike for two and a half millennia, and has had an enduring influence on those who think about international relations and war, especially in
our own time. Here one of our foremost
classics scholars illuminates the great historian and his
work in the context of his time. 272pgs. • 2009
• Viking • C • $26.95 / $7.98
117493 THUCYDIDES' WAR
NARRATIVE: A Structural Study
Dewald, Carolyn J.
Illuminates a curious aspect of
Thucydides' work: the first ten years of
the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping
the years that follow. Dewald argues
that these changes in style and organization reflect how the historian's own
understanding of the war changed over time. 258pgs. •
2005
• California • C • $55.00 / $16.98
109926 THE WORLD OF ATHENS:
An Introduction to Classical Athenian
Culture
Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Readable and up-to-date description of
all aspects of the history, culture, values,
and achievements of classical Athens.
Designed to provide a complete background for anyone interested in Greek literature or ancient Greece. 448pgs. •
2008
• Cambridge • P • $36.99 / $19.98
107621 XENOPHON ON GOVERNMENT
Gray, Vivienne, ed.
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates
and a philosopher in his own right. This
volume presents an Introduction discussing
Xenophon's views on government in the
context of his general political thought as
well as a commentary on the Greek text of
each work. 242pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $42.99 / $21.98
EASTERN RELIGION
& PH I LOSOPHY
116252 ALCHEMISTS, MEDIUMS, AND
MAGICIANS: Stories of Taoist Mystics
Cleary, Thomas
This collection of sketches, compiled by a
Taoist priest in the 14th century, portrays
more than one hundred remarkable individuals from the 11th century BCE to the
13th century CE. It introduces a broad and
fascinating range of personalities including philosophers and scholars, magicians
and mediums, alchemists and physicians, seers and soothsayers, artists and poets. 304pgs. • 2009
• Shambhala • P • $16.95 / $6.98
117356 THE BUDDHISM OF TIBET
Dalai Lama
Unlike most books by the Dalai Lama, this book consists of
two texts that he himself wrote and two that he chose -- all
aimed at helping Western readers become better grounded
in Buddhism. 219pgs. • 2002
• Snow Lion Publications • P • $15.95 / $6.98
124433 A BUDDHIST READER:
Selections from the Sacred Books
Warren, Henry Clarke
This much-cited scholarly anthology of key
Theravada Buddhist documents originally
appeared in 1896 as part of the renowned
Harvard Oriental Series. An excellent,
accessible presentation of the vast range of
Pâli Buddhist literature, it was among the
first English translations of the direct words
of the Buddha. 544pgs. • 2004
• Dover • P • $21.95 / $7.98
111376 THE CAMPHOR FLAME:
Popular Hinduism and Society in
India
Fuller, C. J.
Popular Hinduism is shaped by the
worship of a multitude of powerful
divine beings -- a proverbial total of
330 million gods and goddesses. The
fluid relationship between these beings
and humans is a central theme of this
rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of contemporary Indian society. 360pgs. • 2004
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
051104 CONQUEST OF VIOLENCE:
The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict
Bondurant, Joan V.
By relating what Gandhi said to how he and
others put his ideas into practice, this
book abstracts the essential elements that
constitute the Gandhian technique of satyagraha. It explores, in terms familiar to the
Western reader, its distinguishing characteristics and implications for social and
political philosophy. 281pgs. • 1988
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
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 / $13.98
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101653 LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS
MEN, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY,
SHORTER FICTION
Agee, James
A passionate literary innovator, uncompromising in his social observation and his
pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee
excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and
screenwriter. This volume collects his fiction along with Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men, the landmark blend of reporting, poetic meditation, and
anguished self-revelation that Agee described as "an effort in
human actuality." A 64-page photo insert reproduces Walker
Evans's now iconic photographs from the expanded 1960 edition. 818pgs. • 2005
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $15.98
092590 LITTLE WOMEN, LITTLE MEN,
JO'S BOYS
Alcott, Louisa May
At once heartwarming and true to life,
Louisa May Alcott's novels continue to win
over readers both young and old, as they
have for generations. This authoritative single-volume edition contains all three Little
Women books as Alcott wrote them. This
volume also includes the original illustrations that accompanied the books' first printings. 1045pgs. •
2005
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
116807 COLLECTED POEMS, 1956-1987
Ashbery, John
Beginning with Some Trees in 1956, John Ashbery has charted
a profoundly original and individual course that has opened
up pathways for subsequent generations of poets. This volume
includes the complete texts of his first twelve books, including
such groundbreaking collections as Rivers and Mountains,
Three Poems, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and Houseboat
Days. 950pgs. • 2008
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $17.98
035824 WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS
Audubon, John James
This comprehensive selection of Audubon's writings and
drawings includes The "Mississippi River Journal," selections
from his "1826 Journal," and 45 entries from the five-volume
Ornithological Biography. An extensive selection of letters
charting Audubon's artistic development, along with two
essays on artistic technique and a brief memoir, round out the
volume. 942pgs. • 1999
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035812 EARLY NOVELS AND
STORIES: Go Tell It on the Mountain;
Giovanni's Room; Another Country;
Going to Meet the Man
Baldwin, James
Includes Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on
the Mountain, which tells the story of a
preacher's son coming of age in 1930's
Harlem; Giovanni's Room, a searching
treatment of the tragic self-delusions of an
expatriate at war with his own homosexuality; Another
Country, a wide-ranging exploration of America's racial and
sexual boundaries; and Going to Meet the Man, which collects
Baldwin's short fiction, including the masterful "Sonny's
Blues." 970pgs. • 1998
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
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
035761 LATER NOVELS: A Lost Lady; The
Professor's House; Death Comes for the Archbishop;
Shadows on the Rock; Lucy Gayheart; Sapphira & the
Slave Girl
Cather, Willa
The six works in this volume - A Lost Lady, The Professor's
House, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the
Rock, Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira and the Slave Girl display a
fascination with the American Southwest, early Canada and
Catholicism, reflecting Cather's search for alternatives to
the grasping civilization that was replacing the spirit of the
early pioneers. 988pgs. • 1990
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035858 NOVELS AND STORIES
1905-1918
Cather, Willa
"Let your fiction grow out of the land
beneath your feet." Willa Cather's
remark describes her own powerfully
imaginative re-creation of the Nebraska
frontier of her youth. This volume
includes Cather's essential masterpieces: the story collection The Troll
Garden, along with the beloved novels O Pioneers!, The
Song of the Lark, and My Antonia. 975pgs. • 1999
• Library of America • P • $13.95 / $6.98
035776 STORIES, POEMS, AND
OTHER WRITINGS
Cather, Willa
Featuring her often anthologized short
stories, the third and final volume of
the most comprehensive and authoritative Cather edition available. Includes
the collections Youth and the Bright
Medusa, Obscure Destinies, and The
Old Beauty and Others, the novellas
Alexander's Bridge and My Mortal Enemy, critical essays,
and her only book of poetry. 1039pgs. • 1992
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035793 STORIES AND EARLY NOVELS:
Pulp Stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell,
My Lovely; The High Window
Chandler, Raymond
Gathered here are the first 3 novels featuring
private eye Philip Marlowe, as well as 13
stories drawn from the pages of the classic
pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime
Detective. 1199pgs. • 1995
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122180 COLLECTED STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS
Cheever, John
Includes the entire Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, The
Stories of John Cheever, as well as selections from his first
book, The Way Some People Live, seven additional stories, and
selected essays. Included are masterpieces such as "The
Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," and "The
Swimmer," as well as lesser-known gems. 1000pgs. • 2009
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
043543 COMPLETE NOVELS AND
STORIES
Chopin, Kate
Chopin's stories of fiercely independent
women, culminating in her masterpiece
The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics and today seem
decades ahead of their time. Now, The
Library of America collects all of Chopin's
novels and stories in one authoritative volume. 1071pgs. •
2002
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
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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
• Library of America • C • $20.00 / $6.98
101667 A. R. AMMONS: Selected
Poems
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Ammons, A. R.
Meditative, comic, emotionally wrenching, steeped in both the natural world
and the life of the mind, the poetry of A.
R. Ammons is at once cosmic in scope
and intimate in its moment-to-moment
transformations. This selection, which
covers the whole range of the poet's career, offers a superb
introduction to the pleasures and surprises of his work.
200pgs. • 2006
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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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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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085602 WILLIAM CARLOS
WILLIAMS: Selected Poems
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Williams, William Carlos & Robert
Pinsky, ed.
Williams was a daring formal innovator,
one of the band of modernists who
transformed American poetry, and an
intimate, sometimes savagely frank
chronicler of the life and landscape of
his native New Jersey. The selections range from the hardedged experiments of Spring and All to the fluent lyricism of
"Asphodel, That Greeny Flower." 200pgs. • 2004
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035735 THE LEATHERSTOCKING
TALES, VOLUME 2: The Pathfinder; The
Deerslayer
Cooper, James Fenimore
The five novels in Cooper's great saga of the
American wilderness form a pageant of the
American frontier, set against the dense
woods, desolate prairies, and transcendent
landscapes of the New World. Cooper's
hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther
into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization
that he inadvertently serves as advance scout, missionary, and
critic. 1051pgs. • 1985
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035857 PROSE AND POETRY: Maggie: A Girl of the
Streets; The Red Badge of Courage; Journalism, Poetry,
Tales, & Sketches
Crane, Stephen
Though he died at 28, Stephen Crane was one of the most
innovative and accomplished writers of his generation. Here in
one volume are all his best-known works, including The Red
Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, his journalism,
poetry, and such short story masterpieces as "The Open Boat"
and "The Blue Hotel." 1379pgs. • 1996
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085544 NOVELS 1920-1925
Dos Passos, John
Written in the decade before the publication of his famous
U.S.A. trilogy, the three early novels collected in this volume, "One Man's Initiation: 1917", "Three Soldiers", and
"Manhattan Transfer", record the emergence of John Dos
Passos as a bold and accomplished chronicler of the
upheavals occurring in the early 20th century. 880pgs. •
2003
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085542 TRAVEL BOOKS AND OTHER WRITINGS 1916
TO 1941
Dos Passos, John
While emerging as a major American novelist, Dos Passos
traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the
US, witnessing many of the political, social, and cultural
events of the early 20th century. This volume collects the
travel books and essays which he wrote at the same time he
was publishing his fictional masterpieces. 860pgs. • 2003
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035783 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: Narrative
of the Life, My Bondage & My Freedom,
Life & Times
Douglass, Frederick
Frederick Douglass, born a slave, educated
himself, escaped, and went on to become
the most influential black American of the
19th century. His autobiographical narratives stunned the world, and have shocked,
moved, and inspired readers ever since.
Here, complete for the first time in one authoritative volume,
are the three powerful and gripping stories, now recognized as
classics of American writing. 1126pgs. • 1994
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035742 COLLECTED POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The most comprehensive collection ever assembled gathers
every poem Emerson published during his lifetime along
with the best of the unpublished verse from his manuscripts, journals, and notebooks. Includes poems hitherto
available only in specialized scholarly versions, as well as
revealing translations of mystical, sensuous Persian poems
and of Dante's Vita Nuova. 637pgs. • 1994
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035729 ESSAYS AND LECTURES
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
In this volume, the major works of Emerson's most productive period are gathered and presented in their entirety:
Nature: Addresses and Lectures, Essays: First and Second
Series, Representative Men, English Traits, and The Conduct
of Life. Readers only familiar with Emerson's essays will be
surprised and pleased with the mastery of his lectures.
1150pgs. • 1983
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035831 NOVELS AND STORIES
1920-1922: This Side of Paradise;
Flappers and Philosophers; The
Beautiful and Damned; Tales of the
Jazz Age
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Celebrating the energy and naïve optimism
of a generation that believed itself liberated
from the past, Fitzgerald's early works also
sound a plaintive strain, a lament for the
wasted potential of youth. They remain the fullest literary
expression of one of the most fascinating eras in American life.
1082pgs. • 2000
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053383 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND WRITINGS, 1757-1790
Franklin, Benjamin
The classic Autobiography, Franklin's last word on his greatest
literary creation -- his own invented personality -- is presented here in a new edition, completely faithful to the original
manuscript. Also included are political satires, bagatelles,
pamphlets, letters, speeches to the Continental Congress, and
prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanack. 816pgs. • 1997
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035792 COLLECTED POEMS, PROSE
AND PLAYS
Frost, Robert
The first authoritative and comprehensive
collection of Frost's writings, bringing
together all the major poetry, all of Frost's
dramatic writing, and the most extensive
gathering of his prose writings ever published. The core of this collection is the
1949 "Complete Poems," the last edition
supervised by the poet himself - free of the unauthorized editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions. 1036pgs.
• 1995
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035717 TALES AND SKETCHES: Twice-Told Tales;
Mosses from an Old Manse; The Snow Image, & Other
Twice-Told Tales; A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys;
Tanglewood Tales
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
An authoritative edition of all Hawthorne's tales and sketches
in a single comprehensive volume. The stories are arranged in
the order of their periodical publication. 1493pgs. • 1982
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035728 HISTORY, TALES AND SKETCHES: Letters of
Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent; Salmagundi; A History of New
York; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Irving, Washington
A writer of great urbanity and poise, Washington Irving was
America's first internationally acclaimed man of letters. Here
in one volume are the writings that established his reputation
and earned him the admiration of Hawthorne, Poe, Coleridge,
Byron, Scott, and Dickens. 1144pgs. • 1983
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035796 COMPLETE STORIES 18981910
James, Henry
The 31 stories gathered in this volume
are the culmination of James's glorious
final period. Among them are the
extraordinary fantasies "The Great
Good Place" and "The Jolly Corner,"
where haunting hints of the supernatural express undercurrents of yearning
and dislocation; "The Birthplace," a comic tale about the
commercialization of genius; and the masterful "The Beast
in the Jungle," a harrowing account of a man's confrontation with lost opportunities. 950pgs. • 1996
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035744 NOVELS 1881-1886: Washington Square;
The Portrait of a Lady; The Bostonians
James, Henry
Presents three major novels from James's early middle
years. These studies in the exercise of power between the
sexes, classes, and cultures portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession, and mark
James as coming into the height of his talent. 1249pgs. •
1985
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101655 NOVELS 1901-1902
James, Henry
Includes The Sacred Fount (1901), one of James's most
unusual experiments, and The Wings of the Dove (1902),
one of his most beloved masterpieces and the novel that
inaugurated the majestic and intricate "late phase" of his literary career. 726pgs. • 2006
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035777 WRITINGS 1878-1899:
Psychology: Briefer Course; The Will to
Believe; Talks to Teachers; Essays
James, William
The brilliant, engagingly written early
works of the writer and teacher who has
profoundly influenced the way Americans
think. The Will to Believe and Other Essays
in Popular Philosophy argues that each of
us has the right to believe in hypotheses
that are not susceptible to proof and that such beliefs might
actually change the world. Also includes Psychology: Briefer
Course; Talks to Teachers and Students, and nine important
essays. 1212pgs. • 1992
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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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035781 COLLECTED TRAVEL
WRITINGS: The Continent: A Little
Tour in France; Italian Hours;
Other Travels
James, Henry
From Provence and the Loire Valley, to
Rome and Capri, Tuscany and Umbria,
James captures radiant impressions of
the French countryside, the Norman
coast, Florentine masterpieces, and
Venetian color and light. Included are 16 essays, most previously uncollected, on such varied places as Switzerland,
Belgium, and the Pyrenees. 850pgs. • 1993
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085551 WRITINGS
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson's complex career spanned the
worlds of literature, diplomacy, politics,
journalism, and musical theater. This volume includes The Autobiography of an ExColored Man, a groundbreaking and subtle
account of racial passing, along with a generous array of Johnson's essays; a selection
of his topical editorials from the New York
Age; and an offering of his poems and lyrics, including God's
Trombones, his brilliant verse homage to African-American
preaching. 828pgs. • 2004
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035826 COMPLETE STORIES 1864-1874
James, Henry
Brings together James's first 24 published stories. Here are
the first explorations of some of James's most significant
themes: the force of social convention and the compromises it demands; the complex and often ambiguous encounter
between Europe and America; and the energies of human
passion measured against the rigors of artistic discipline.
972pgs. • 1999
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035769 MAIN STREET AND BABBITT
Lewis, Sinclair
Main Street was Lewis's first triumph, a phenomenal event in
American publishing and cultural history. In George F. Babbitt,
the boisterous, vulgar, worried, gadget-loving real-estate man,
he fashioned a new and enduring figure in our literature -- the
total conformist -- and captured the noisy restlessness of
American commercial culture. H. L. Mencken wrote: "I know
of no American novel that more accurately presents the real
America." 898pgs. • 1992
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REPORTING
AM E R I CAN H I STO RY
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 AfricanAmericans 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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035862 REPORTING VIETNAM:
American Journalism, 1959-1975
Library of America Staff
Collects the best writing and reportage
from the war covering 1959 to 1975 from the first American deaths to the fall
of Saigon. Along the way, reporters
uncover the military blunders, the political minefields, and the cultural changes
spreading from America to Vietnam,
capturing war at its most chaotic, its most lawless, and its
most tragic. 853pgs. • 2000
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035863 REPORTING WORLD WAR
II: American Journalism, 1938-1946
Library of America Staff
Drawn from the Library of America's
two-volume hardcover anthology, this
volume captures the unfolding drama
through the work of more than 50
remarkable reporters, whose writings
cover Nazi Germany, the fall of France
and the Tunisian campaign, the London
Blitz, the Italian front, the horrors in the Pacific, and life on
the home front. 874pgs. • 2001
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035791 REPORTING WORLD WAR
II, PART 2: American Journalism
1944-1946
Library of America Staff
This second of two volumes traces the
final 18 months of the war: the campaign in Italy and the Southwest Pacific,
the Normandy invasion, the island battles from Saipan to Iwo Jima, the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, the
fall of Berlin, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Contributors include Ernie Pyle, A. J. Liebling, Martha
Gellhorn, Edward R. Murrow, Bill Mauldin, and John
Hersey. 970pgs. • 1995
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122182 THE SWEET SCIENCE AND OTHER WRITINGS
Liebling, A. J.
One of the most gifted American journalists of the 20th century, Liebling learned his craft as a newspaper reporter
before joining The New Yorker in 1935. This volume collects five books that demonstrate his extraordinary vitality
and versatility as a writer. The title work, a lively and idiosyncratic portrait of boxing in the early 1950s, was named
the best sports book of all time by Sports Illustrated.
1050pgs. • 2008
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116788 WORLD WAR II WRITINGS: The Road Back
to Paris / Mollie and Other War Pieces / Uncollected
War Journalism / Normandy Revisited
Liebling, A. J.
One of the most gifted and influential American journalists
of the 20th century, Liebling spent five years reporting the
events and individual stories of World War II. This volume
brings together three books along with 26 uncollected New
Yorker pieces and two excerpts from his writings on the
French Resistance. 1100pgs. • 2008
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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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035756 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1832-1858
Lincoln, Abraham
This volume, along with Speeches and
Writings 1859-1865, comprises the
most comprehensive selection ever
published. Over 240 speeches, letters,
and drafts take Lincoln from rural
lawyer to U.S. senatorial candidate,
charting his emergence as an antislavery advocate and defender of the Constitution. Includes the
complete Lincoln-Douglas debates. 898pgs. • 1989
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035770 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1859-1865
Lincoln, Abraham
A collection of writings from 1859 to
1865, including speeches, messages,
proclamations, letters, memoranda,
and fragments. These documents
record the words and deeds -- the
order to resupply Fort Sumter, the
emancipation of the slaves held in the
Confederacy, and proposals to offer the South generous
terms of reconstruction -- through which Lincoln hoped to
defend and preserve the Union. 788pgs. • 1989
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035720 NOVELS AND SOCIAL
WRITINGS: The People of the Abyss;
The Road; The Iron Heel; Martin Eden;
John Barleycorn; Essays
London, Jack
The Iron Heel, an astonishing political fantasy, anticipates an America dominated by a
capitalist police state and ripped apart by
urban warfare. Personal experiences lie
behind The People of the Abyss, which
vividly re-creates the slums of East London, and the exhilarating camaraderie of hobo gangs roaming across America in
The Road. John Barleycorn describes in harrowing terms
London's struggles with alcoholism, while the intensely autobiographical novel Martin Eden foreshadows his own death at
age 40. 1192pgs. • 1982
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035832 POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
No American writer of the 19th century was
more universally enjoyed and admired than
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works
were extraordinary bestsellers for their era,
achieving fame both here and abroad. For
the first time in over 25 years, this comprehensive volume offers a full-scale literary
portrait of America's greatest popular poet.
854pgs. • 2000
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116801 EARLY NOVELS AND STORIES
Maxwell, William
With his second book, They Came Like Swallows (1937),
Maxwell found his signature subject matter -- the fragility of
human happiness -- as well as his voice, a quiet, cadenced
Midwestern voice that John Updike has called one of the
wisest and kindest in American fiction. This volume also
includes Bright Center of Heaven; The Folded Leaf; Time
Will Darken It, and nine short stories. 800pgs. • 2008
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116817 LATER NOVELS AND STORIES
Maxwell, William
The second installment of a two-volume edition of Maxwell.
The Château (1961) describes the most subtle and bittersweet encounter of American naiveté and Old World mystery since Henry James. Also included: So Long, See You
Tomorrow; stories; 40 brief "improvisations"; and the essay
"Nearing Ninety," a moving valediction to a lifetime of reading and storytelling. 990pgs. • 2008
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035723 REDBURN, WHITE-JACKET,
MOBY-DICK
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick, Melville's masterpiece, is one
of the great epics in all of literature. Ahab's
idolatrous hunt for the white whale drives
the narrative at a relentless pace, while
Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, the sublime indifference of nature, and
the grimy physical details of whale-oil
extraction provide a reflective counterpoint. This volume also
includes Redburn, which relates a young man's initiation into
the sailor's life, and White-Jacket, a semi-autobiographical
account of experiences in the US Navy. 1436pgs. • 1983
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101656 COLLECTED PLAYS 1944-1961
Miller, Arthur
This inaugural volume of the Library of
America's edition of Miller's plays gathers
the works that established the playwright as
one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era, including All My Sons, Death of a
Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from
the Bridge. The volume also contains the
early drama The Man Who Had All the Luck,
Miller's adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, the
autobiographical one-act A Memory of Two Mondays, and the
novella The Misfits, based on the screenplay Miller wrote for
Marilyn Monroe. 864pgs. • 2006
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035753 NOVELS AND ESSAYS:
Vandover & the Brute; McTeague; The
Octopus; Essays
Norris, Frank
Inspired by the "new novel" developed by
Zola and Flaubert, Norris adapted its methods to American settings, adding his own
taste for exciting action and a fascination
with the emergent sciences of economicsand psychology. 1232pgs. • 1986
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035724 FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN NORTH AMERICA,
VOLUME 1: Pioneers of France; The Jesuits in North
America; LaSalle & the Discovery of the Great West;
The Old Regime in Canada
Parkman, Francis
Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the adventures he
describes. This volume begins with the tragic settlement of
French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts north as explorers
like Samuel de Champlain map the wilderness and wage
savage forest warfare against the Iroquois. Dominating all is
the fiercely indomitable La Salle, whose obsession with colonizing the Mississippi Valley leads to his assassination in a
lonely Texas swamp. 1504pgs. • 1983
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035725 FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN
NORTH AMERICA, VOLUME 2:
Count Frontenac & New France
under Louis XIV; A Half Century of
Conflict; Montcalm & Wolfe
Parkman, Francis
The second volume in the most complete and compact edition of Parkman's
narrative history of the fight for control
of the American continent. Count
Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV, A Half-Century
of Conflict, and Montcalm and Wolfe tell of France and
England's long imperial struggles for power in America,
and their eventual defeats. 1620pgs. • 1983
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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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035841 NOVELS 1944-1962: My Home
Is Far Away; The Locusts Have No King;
The Wicked Pavilion; The Golden Spur
Powell, Dawn
A playful satirist, an unsentimental observer
of failed hopes and misguided longings,
Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare
importance. 969pgs. • 2001
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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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085606 THE ROUGH RIDERS AND
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Roosevelt, Theodore
The Rough Riders is the story of the First
US Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment
Roosevelt led to enduring fame during
the Spanish-American War. In An
Autobiography, Roosevelt recalls his lifelong fascination with natural history, his
love of hunting and the outdoors, and
his adventures as a cattleman in the Dakota Badlands, as
well as his career in politics as a state legislator, civil service reformer, police commissioner, assistant secretary of
the navy, governor, and president. 864pgs. • 2004
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101652 NOVELS AND STORIES 19591962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five
Short Stories / Letting Go
Roth, Philip
Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assaults on political,
cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have
made him one of the essential writers of
our time. This first volume in the definitive
edition of Roth's collected works presents Goodbye, Columbus
and Five Short Stories, the book for which he won the National
Book Award, as well as his first novel, Letting Go. 913pgs. •
2005
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101651 NOVELS 1967-1972: When She Was Good /
Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast
Roth, Philip
In this second volume of the definitive edition of Roth's works,
the range and inventiveness of his fiction is dazzlingly displayed: the somber and penetrating realism of When She Was
Good; the daring verbal wit of his comic masterpiece Portnoy's
Complaint; the unrestrained political satire of Our Gang; and
the fantasy of The Breast, featuring the debut of Roth protagonist David Kepesh as he endures a metamorphosis worthy of
Kafka or Gogol. 672pgs. • 2005
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116782 NOVELS AND OTHER NARRATIVES, 1986-1991
Roth, Philip
This volume in the Library of America's collected Roth
includes The Counterlife; The Facts; Deception; and
Patrimony. 800pgs. • 2008
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106835 ZUCKERMAN BOUND: A
Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985
Roth, Philip
Includes three novels (The Ghost Writer,
Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy
Lesson), as well as the novella The Prague
Orgy. In addition, this volume publishes for
the first time Roth's unproduced television
screenplay for The Prague Orgy, featuring
new characters and scenes that do not
appear in the novella. 645pgs. • 2007
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035772 MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN
Sherman, William T.
Written with the energetic confidence that marked his later
campaigns, Sherman's memoirs provide both a vivid firsthand account of crucial events of the Civil War and a unique
record of the emergence of its most innovative strategist.
1136pgs. • 1990
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C O M P I L AT I O N S
035768 AMERICAN POETRY - THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY VOLUME 1:
Freneau to Whitman
Hollander, John, ed.
This landmark two-volume anthology
gathers over 1,000 poems by nearly 150
poets. Volume 1 includes generous selections from Poe, Emerson, Bryant,
Longfellow, and Whitman; "There is simply nothing else like it in print" -- Helen
Vendler, The New Republic 1098pgs. • 1993
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106834 AMERICAN POETRY: THE SEVENTEENTH AND
EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Shields, David, ed.
The poetry of early America is seen afresh in this groundbreaking new volume, which spans from the first years of
English settlement in the New World to the death of George
Washington. Gathering the work of more than 100 poets -including many poems never previously anthologized and
some published here for the first time -- it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind ever assembled. 900pgs.
• 2007
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035829 AMERICAN POETRY: THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY VOLUME 2:
e. e. cummings to May Swenson
Library of America Staff
Includes large selections from Robert
Frost, e.e. cummings, Wallace Stevens,
Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore
Roethke, and Langston Hughes, plus
hundreds more. 1007pgs. • 2000
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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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035835 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Writings from
the War of Independence
Rhodehamel, John, ed.
Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda,
brings together over 120 pieces by more than 70 participants
to create a unique literary panorama of the War of
Independence. 878pgs. • 2001
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035848 AMERICAN SEA WRITING:
A Literary Anthology
Neill, Peter, ed.
Drawing on literary masterworks and firsthand narratives, travel writing and natural
science, memoir and journalism, this book
captures the full sweep of America's maritime experience. From 17th-century voyagers to ecological dilemmas of the 20th,
from Cotton Mather and Washington Irving
to Peter Matthiessen and Barry Lopez, the collection casts our
national story in a new and revealing light. 671pgs. • 2000
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
035821 AMERICAN SERMONS: The Pilgrims to
Martin Luther King Jr.
Warner, Michael, ed.
The essential medium of the Puritan settlements, the sermon
continued in succeeding centuries to play a vital role - as public ritual, occasion for passion and reflection, and, not least,
popular entertainment. Ranging from the first New England
settlements to mass-media evangelism and the civil rights
movement in the 1960s, these texts reclaim a neglected aspect
of American literature. 950pgs. • 1999
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
106833 AMERICAN SPEECHES I:
Political Oratory from the
Revolution to the Civil War
Widmer, Ted, ed.
This volume, the first of an unprecedented two-volume collection, gathers the
unabridged texts of 45 eloquent and
dramatic speeches delivered by
American public figures between 1761
and 1865, beginning with James Otis's
denunciation of unrestrained searches by British customs
officials -- hailed by John Adams as the beginning of the
American Revolution -- and ending with Lincoln's Second
Inaugural Address. 810pgs. • 2006
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $17.98
035808 WRITINGS 1932-1946:
Stanzas in Meditation; Lectures in
America; The Geographical History of
America; Ida; Brewsie and Willie;
Other Works
Stein, Gertrude
This Library of America volume presents a
full-scale gathering of the achievement of
Gertrude Stein, the most radical innovator
in 20th-century literature. With her fresh,
irreverent approach to syntax and meaning itself, she proposed nothing less than a reinvention of language from the
ground up. 864pgs. • 1998
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
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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101887 AMERICAN SPEECHES II:
Political Oratory from Abraham
Lincoln to Bill Clinton
Widmer, Ted, ed.
Includes Frederick Douglass's brilliant
oration on Abraham Lincoln, Oliver
Wendell Holmes's "touched with fire"
Memorial Day Address, speeches by
William Jennings Bryan, Theodore
Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Also: wartime
speeches by George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower;
Richard Nixon's "Checkers Speech;" Malcolm X's "The
Ballot or the Bullet;" and an extensive selection of speeches by Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, and John F.
Kennedy. 875pgs. • 2006
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
085409 AMERICAN WRITERS AT
HOME
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERICA LENNARD
McClatchey, J. D.
Faulkner traced the complex plots of
his novels on his walls; Hawthorne's
windowpanes served as a constantly
present commonplace book. Melville
imagined his study was the Pequod,
while Welty and Jewett wrote primarily
in their bedrooms. Through 21 intimate portraits of writers
ranging from the early 19th to the mid-20th century, accompanied by superbly evocative photographs, McClatchy and
Lennard reveal where and how some of America's most brilliant writers lived and worked. As McClatchy writes in his
Introduction, "This is not a book about writers, or about houses, or about America. It is a book about where and why and
how American writers made a home for themselves -- a place
to live, yes, but above all a place to work -- in a restless,
rugged country." 224pgs. • 2004
• Library of America • C • $50.00 / $12.98
085401 AMERICANS IN PARIS:
A Literary Anthology
Gopnik, Adam, ed.
Paris has been many things to many
Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of
old world Europe, a hotbed of revolutionary ideologies, and a space in which to
cultivate an openness to life thought
impossible at home. Including stories, letters, memoirs, and reporting, the text distills 3 centuries of writing about what Henry James called "the
most brilliant city in the world." 650pgs. • 2004
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $15.98
035771 THE DEBATE ON THE
CONSTITUTION PART 2: Federalist and
Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and
Letters During the Struggle over
Ratification
Bailyn, Bernard, ed.
This unique collection captures firsthand
the energy and eloquence of the stormy ratification struggle. Franklin, Madison,
Jefferson, Washington, Patrick Henry, and
many less well known voices speak with passion and articulateness about issues of personal liberty and public order that
continue to resonate today. Along with a detailed chronology
and notes, each volume also includes the full texts of the
Declaration in Independence, Articles of Confederation, and
Constitution. 1175pgs. • 1993
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
116786 TRUE CRIME: An American Anthology
Schechter, Harold
From the beginning crime and punishment has been one the
most characteristic themes in American literature. This volume includes such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose
Bierce, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, James Thurber, Joseph
Mitchell, Truman Capote, and James Ellroy, as well as execution sermons, murder ballads, early broadsides, trial reports,
and tabloid journalism from many eras. 900pgs. • 2008
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
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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
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
043547 THE GILDED AGE AND
LATER NOVELS
Twain, Mark
Contains the title novel plus The
American Claimant, Tom Sawyer
Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and No.
44, the Mysterious Stranger, all written
in Twain's later years, between 1873
and 1910. 1053pgs. • 2002
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035836 COLLECTED STORIES,
1891-1910
Wharton, Edith
Opening with her first published story - the
charming "Mrs. Manstey's View," - this first
of two volumes presents Wharton as she
explores the concerns of a lifetime.
Includes "Souls Belated," "The Mission of
Jane," "The Pelican," the Jamesian ghost
story "The Eyes," "The Touchstone," and
"Sanctuary," revealing the dazzling range of Wharton's fictive
imagination. 928pgs. • 2001
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035716 COMPLETE POETRY AND COLLECTED PROSE
Whitman, Walt
Contains the first and "deathbed" editions of Leaves of Grass as
well as virtually all of Whitman's prose. 1380pgs. • 1982
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $15.98
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035739 THE INNOCENTS ABROAD;
ROUGHING IT
Twain, Mark
The Innocents Abroad is one of the
most prominent and influential travel
books ever written about Europe and
the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the
American "New Barbarians" and the
European "Old World" provides much
comic fodder for Mark Twain -- and a
remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition.
Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in
Europe, Twain's lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is
that defines cultural identity. 1027pgs. • 1984
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035804 WRITINGS
Washington, George
This one-volume collection -- the most
extensive and authoritative ever published - covers five decades of Washington's
astonishingly active life. Bringing together
over 440 letters, orders, addresses, and
other documents -- both public and personal -- it reveals him to have been an energetic, forceful, and at times eloquent writer.
1149pgs. • 1997
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035814 COMPLETE NOVELS: The Robber
Bridegroom; Delta Wedding; The Ponder Heart;
Losing Battles; The Optimist's Daughter
Welty, Eudora
Eudora Welty's novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to
the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. In a career
spanning five decades, she chronicled her own Mississippi
with a depth and intensity matched only by Faulkner. This
collection gathers all of Welty's longer fiction in a single
volume for the first time. 1009pgs. • 1998
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
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
• Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
107239 COLLECTED PLAYS AND WRITINGS ON
THEATER
Wilder, Thornton
The most comprehensive one-volume edition of Wilder's work
ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career
as a dramatist. Complementing the selection of plays is an illuminating group of essays that capture Wilder's reflections on
his plays and include a revealing epistolary account of the film
adaptation of Our Town. 800pgs. • 2007
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $17.98
107236 LITERARY ESSAYS AND
REVIEWS OF THE 1920S AND '30S:
The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle /
Uncollected Reviews
Wilson, Edmund
Includes The Shores of Light, Wilson's
magisterial assemblage of early reviews,
sketches, stories, memoirs, and other
writings; Axel's Castle, his pioneering
overview of literary modernism; and
previously uncollected reviews, including discussions of H.
L. Mencken, Edith Wharton, and Bernard Shaw. 958pgs. •
2007
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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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035773 EARLY WORKS: Lawd Today!;
Uncle Tom's Children; Native Son
Wright, Richard
The story of a young black man living in the
crowded slums of Chicago's South Side,
Native Son captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans
with an unprecedented intensity. The text
printed in this volume restores the changes
and cuts that Wright was forced to make by
book club editors who feared offending their readers. Also
included are Wright's first novel, Lawd Today!, published
posthumously in 1963, and his collection of stories, Uncle
Tom's Children. 936pgs. • 1991
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041257 AN INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM: Teachings,
History and Practices
Harvey, Peter
A comprehensive introduction to Buddhist traditions as they
have developed in three major cultural areas in Asia, and to
Buddhism as it is now developing in the West. Emphasizing the
diversity found within different traditions, the book aims to
underline the common threads of belief, practice and historical continuities that unify the Buddhist world. 374pgs. • 1990
• Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $13.98
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 • $45.00 / $24.98
026211 MASTERS OF MEDITATION &
MIRACLES: Lives of the Great Buddhist
Masters of India & Tibet
Thondup, Tulku
Colorful biographies of 35 teachers
belonging to the Longchen Nyingthig lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan
Buddhism. Their stories not only provide
great sources of teachings on meditation,
but will also kindle a spiritual flame in the
hearts of readers. 383pgs. • 1999
• Shambhala • P • $34.95 / $17.98
039506 TANTRA IN PRACTICE
White, David Gordon, ed.
This survey of the entire range of Tantric phenomena reflects
the wide geographical and temporal scope of the practice by
incorporating texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet
dating from the 7th century to the present. 640pgs. • 2000
• Princeton • P • $42.00 / $19.98
080144 THE PATH OF THE HUMAN BEING: Zen
Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way
Glassman, Bernie & Dennis Genpo Merzel
One of the most highly regarded American Zen teachers
demystifies the experience of enlightenment, which is nothing more than the awakening to the true nature that is ever
present in us all. Through the practice of meditation, one is
able to turn the light of inquiry inward and discover this
truth for oneself. 256pgs. • 2005
• Shambhala • P • $16.95 / $5.98
038397 PHILOSOPHIES OF INDIA
CAMPBELL, JOSEPH, ED.
Zimmer, Heinrich
A comprehensive look at the philosophical
systems and complex traditions of India,
includes a discussion of Eastern and
Western thought and the foundations of
Indian philosophy found in Jainism, Yoga,
Buddhism, and Tantra. 687pgs. • 1989
• Princeton • P • $34.95 / $16.98
098860 THE PROPENSITY OF THINGS: Toward a
History of Efficacy in China
Jullien, François
In these pages, a French sinologist uses the Chinese concept of
shi -- meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential -- as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking. He follows the concept from one field to another, including military strategy, politics, the aesthetics of calligraphy, and
literary theory. 320pgs. • 1995
• Zone Books • C • $38.95 / $9.98
024956 THE TAO OF PHYSICS: An
Exploration of the Parallels
between Modern Physics and
Eastern Mysticism
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Capra, Fritjof
A lucid examination of the tenets of
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism,
showing the striking parallels between
modern physics and the mystical
visions of Buddha and Krishna. 366pgs. • 1999
• Shambhala • P • $16.95 / $6.98
039748 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 have helped to shape an aesthetic found throughout Japanese culture. 478pgs. • 1993
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $12.98
117308 ZEN SKIN, ZEN MARROW:
Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please
Stand Up?
Heine, Steven
Since Zen Buddhism first captivated the
attention of the West its essence has been
described as ineffable, holistic, and promoting social harmony. Recently, however,
scholars have begun to examine Zen
through the lenses of historical and cultural criticism, producing a sharp challenge to the traditional
view. Avoiding the polarization between traditionalists and
their critics, Heine suggests ways in which these two perspectives can complement each other. 217pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $9.98
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028155 ADAM SMITH IN HIS TIME & OURS:
Designing the Decent Society
Muller, Jerry Z.
Discusses the foundation for capitalism laid out by Smith that
continues to thrive today and explores Smith's intent, revealing his conviction that modern market society does not regulate itself, but requires intervention. 272pgs. • 1995
• Princeton • P • $37.95 / $16.98
25784 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 / $11.98
125782 CHASING STARS: The Myth of
Talent and the Portability of
Performance
Groysberg, Boris
After examining the careers of more than a
thousand star analysts at Wall Street investment banks, and conducting more than
two hundred frank interviews, Groysberg
comes to a striking conclusion: star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate
and lasting decline in performance. 464pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $35.00 / $12.98
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125773 THE COMPANY OF
STRANGERS: A Natural History of
Economic Life
Seabright, Paul
An original account of the emergence of
the economic institutions that manage not
only markets but also the world's myriad
other affairs. Drawing on insights from
biology, anthropology, history, psychology,
and literature, Seabright explores how our
evolved ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions
like money, markets, and cities to provide the foundation of
social trust. 368pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
092918 ENDLESS NOVELTY: Specialty Production
and American Industrialization, 1865-1925
Scranton, Philip
Recasts the history of industrialization by considering the
impact of trades featuring specialty production. These enterprises, which relied on flexibility, skilled labor, close interactions with clients, suppliers, and rivals, and opportunistic
pricing, have often been overlooked in standard studies of
industrialization, which have emphasized large corporations
and mass-production. 432pgs. • 2000
• Princeton • P • $45.00 / $19.98
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 • $30.95 / $16.98
092902 THE FREE-MARKET INNOVATION
MACHINE: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of
Capitalism
Baumol, William J.
Why has capitalism produced dramatically higher economic growth than other economic systems, past and present?
Why have living standards in countries from America to
Japan risen exponentially? Baumol rejects the conventional
view that capitalism primarily benefits society through price
competition, arguing instead that a systemic compulsion to
deliver new products accounts for the growth of free-market economies. 330pgs. • 2002
• Princeton • C • $60.00 / $5.98
117538 GLOBAL CRISES, GLOBAL
SOLUTIONS
Lomborg, Bjorn, ed.
If we had more money to spend to help the
world's poorest people, where could we
spend it most effectively? Using a common
framework of cost-benefit analysis, a team
of leading economists, including five Nobel
Prize winners, assess the attractiveness of a
wide range of policy options for combating
the world's biggest problems. 710pgs. • 2008
• Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $9.98
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 • $28.95 / $16.98
120007 GOOD VALUE: Reflections on Money,
Morality and an Uncertain World
Green, Stephen
Can a businessperson be both ethical and effective? Stephen
Green, an ordained priest and the chairman of HSBC, traces
the history of the global economy and its financial systems,
and shows that while the marketplace has delivered huge
advantages to humanity, it has also abandoned over a billion
people to extreme poverty, encouraged overconsumption and
debt, and ravaged the environment. 288pgs. • 2010
• Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $5.98
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111349 THE GREAT CONTRACTION 1929-1933
Friedman, Milton & Anna Jacobson Schwartz
One of the most influential books of 20th century economics.
It marshals massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the authors' claim that steady control of the money supply is profoundly important to the management of the nation's
economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. 320pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $12.98
126848 THE GREAT INFLATION AND ITS
AFTERMATH: The Past and Future of American
Affluence
Samuelson, Robert J.
From 1960 to 1979, inflation rose from barely more than
one percent to nearly fourteen percent. It was the greatest
peacetime inflationary spike in this nation's history, and it
had massive repercussions. In these pages, a distinguished
economist argues that we can't understand today's world - or prepare for the future -- without understanding the
Great Inflation and its aftermath. 336pgs. • 2008
• Random House • C • $26.00 / $7.98
111536 HUBBERT'S PEAK: The
Impending World Oil Shortage
Deffeyes, Kenneth
In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim
prediction: world oil production would
reach a peak within a decade. In this
updated edition, he explains the crisis that
few now deny we are headed toward. Using
geology and economics, he shows how
everything from the rising price of groceries to the subprime mortgage crisis has been exacerbated
by the shrinking supply -- and growing price -- of oil. 232pgs.
• 2008
• Princeton • P • $16.95 / $9.98
125939 IDENTITY ECONOMICS: How
Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages,
and Well-Being
Akerlof, George A. & Rachel E. Kranton
Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions -- at work, at
school, and at home. With it, we can better
appreciate why incentives like stock
options work or don't; why some schools
succeed and others don't; and why some
cities and towns don't invest in their futures. 200pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $24.95 / $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 / $8.98
125692 UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF
ECONOMIC CHANGE
North, Douglass C.
A Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of
understanding the process by which economies change. North
argues that economic change depends largely on "adaptive
efficiency," a society's effectiveness in creating institutions that
are productive, stable, fair, and broadly accepted -- and,
importantly, flexible enough to respond to political and economic feedback. 208pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $12.98
125753 WHAT PRICE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND?:
How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul
Frank, Robert H.
An economist and social critic challenges the notion that doing
well is accomplished only at the expense of doing good. Frank
explores exciting new work in economics, psychology, and
biology to argue that honest individuals often succeed -- even
in highly competitive environments -- because their commitment to principle makes them more attractive as trading partners. 224pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $16.95 / $9.98
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125238 THE AGE OF
REVOLUTION: 1749-1848
Hobsbawm, Eric J.
This magisterial installment in
Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history
of the modern world outlines, with
intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance, the death of ancient traditions,
the triumph of new classes, and the
emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies. 368pgs. • 1996
• Vintage • P • $16.95 / $7.98
108168 AGE OF EMPIRE: 1875-1914
Hobsbawm, Eric J.
An analysis of the evolution of European economics, politics,
arts, sciences, and cultural life from the peak of the industrial revolution to the First World War. 448pgs. • 1989
• Knopf • P • $18.00 / $8.98
061111 THE AGE OF EXTREMES: A History of the
World, 1914-1991
Hobsbawm, Eric J.
Between 1914 and 1991, the world was convulsed by two
global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Dividing the century into the Age of
Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and
the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast
array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness,
vibrancy, and insight. 627pgs. • 1996
• Vintage • P • $19.00 / $7.98
124362 THE ART OF WAR
Baron De Jomini, Antoine-Henri
An eyewitness to most of the important battles of the Napoleonic Wars, Jomini served
with both the French and Allied armies. His
firsthand accounts of the conflicts are the
most authoritative ever written, and in both
historic and practical terms, his masterpiece remains a definitive work on strategy
and tactics. 400pgs. • 2007
• Dover • P • $15.95 / $5.98
130069 THE BRITISH SEABORNE EMPIRE
Black, Jeremy
In this masterful analysis of the role of the sea in the history of
the British Empire, Jeremy Black considers how the ocean
affected British exploration, defense, trade, commerce, and
the navy, as well as the attitudes and perceptions of the British
people themselves. 432pgs. • 2004
• Yale • C • $50.00 / $27.98
130217 BROONLAND: The Last
Days of Gordon Brown
Harvie, Christopher
A scathing and witty indictment of the
architect of New Labour, Gordon Brown,
and a caustic portrait of a decade that went
from boom to bust. Chris Harvie shows
how a deregulated, casino economy veered
wildly out of control while public utilities
and industries were privatized and sold off
to the highest bidder. 224pgs. • 2010
• Verso • P • $17.95 / $4.98
GERMANY
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 • $28.99 / $14.98
111533 HELL'S CARTEL: IG Farben and the Making of
Hitler's War Machine
Jeffreys, Diarmuid
At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate
IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the
world. This comprehensive account of the company's rise and
fall traces the enterprise from its 19th-century origins,
through the upheavals of the Great War era, and on to the
company's fateful role in World War II. 496pgs. • 2008
• Henry Holt • C • $32.00 / $7.98
104733 JEWS, GERMANS, AND
ALLIES: Close Encounters in
Occupied Germany
Grossmann, Atina
Drawing on the wealth of diary and memoir literature by the people who lived
through the postwar reconstruction of
Germany, this volume examines how Jews
and Germans defined their own victimization and survival, comprehended the trauma of war and genocide, and struggled to rebuild their lives.
393pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • C • $55.00 / $12.98
038447 THE NAZI PERSECUTION OF THE GYPSIES
Lewy, Guenter
Draws upon thousands of documents from German and
Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and
accurate study to date of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi
regime. 306pgs. • 2001
• Oxford University • P • $39.99 / $16.98
038638 THE NAZI WAR ON CANCER
Proctor, Robert N.
Nazi Germany was also decades ahead of other countries in
promoting health reforms that we today regard as progressive
and socially responsible. Proctor concludes that the Nazis'
forward-looking health activism ultimately came from the
same twisted root as their medical atrocities: the ideal of a
sanitary racial utopia reserved exclusively for pure and healthy
Germans. 380pgs. • 2000
• Princeton • P • $31.95 / $15.98
127008 SEX AFTER FASCISM: Memory and Morality in
Twentieth-Century Germany
Herzog, Dagmar
This history of sexual attitudes and practices in 20th-century
Germany investigates such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation. It also demonstrates
how Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the
memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust. 368pgs. •
2007
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $14.98
039728 SOCIAL OUTSIDERS IN NAZI
GERMANY
Gellately, Robert & Nathan Stoltzfus,
eds.
When the Nazis assumed power in 1933,
they had firm ideas on what they called a
racially pure "community of the people."
In these essays, leading scholars offer rich
histories of the people branded as "social
outsiders" in Nazi Germany: Communists,
Jews, "Gypsies," foreign workers, prostitutes, criminals, and
homosexuals, as well as the homeless, unemployed, and
chronically ill. 332pgs. • 2001
• Princeton • P • $31.95 / $16.98
125556 WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy
Weitz, Eric D.
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 as a mere prelude to the Nazi era.
448pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $20.95 / $12.98
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039576 BLACK '47 AND BEYOND:
The Great Irish Famine in History,
Economy, and Memory
O'Grada, Cormac
Central to Irish and British history,
European demography, and the story of
American immigration, the Great
Famine is presented here from a variety
of new perspectives. Moving away from
the traditional narrative historical
approach to the catastrophe, the book highlights economic
and sociological features of the famine previously neglected
in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. 302pgs. • 2000
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
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History and Memory, 1923-2000
Dolan, Anne
This close examination of the legacy of civil war in Ireland
surveys the methods and rituals of commemoration in both
the public and the private spheres. "A groundbreaking study
and an excellent contribution to Irish historiography" -Journal of Military History 252pgs. • 2003
• Cambridge • C • $110.00 / $21.98
076377 REVOLUTION, COUNTERREVOLUTION AND UNION: Ireland
in the 1790's
Smyth, Jim, ed.
This volume of essays explores United
Irish propaganda and organization, and
looks at the forces of revolution before
and during the 1798 rebellion. Its
scope ranges from high to low politics,
and it covers subjects from literary
propaganda to art history and the history of religion.
245pgs. • 2000
• Cambridge • C • $122.00 / $16.98
130435 CAPTIVES: Britain, Empire, and the
World, 1600-1850
Colley, Linda
A reappraisal of the rise of the largest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of
Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to
conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the
peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean, North America,
India, and Afghanistan. 464pgs. • 2004
• Doubleday • P • $16.95 / $6.98
105130 THE COMING OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Lefebvre, Georges
This landmark work, first published in
1939, details what happened in France
during the first year of the French
Revolution. Placing the "common people"
at the center of his analysis, Lefebvre
emphasizes the class struggles within
France and the significant role they played
in the coming of the Revolution. 280pgs. • 2005
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $15.98
122257 COUNTER-REVOLUTION: The
Second Civil War and Its Origins,
1646-48
Ashton, Robert
The author of the standard history of
England's First Civil War here presents an
exhaustive and definitive study of the origins of the Second Civil War, a period about
which little has been written. This important study examines every aspect of the
beginning of the war in late 1648, and will be a basic source
for students and scholars. 552pgs. • 1995
• Yale • C • $75.00 / $16.98
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028818 THE CRISIS OF THE EARLY
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: Civic Humanism
& Republican Liberty in an Age of
Classicism & Tyranny
Baron, Hans
First published in 1955, covers such topics
as the Florentine war for independence, a
view of Roman history and the Florentine
past, the republic and monarchy in late trecento thought, and the dangers of early
humanist classicism. 584pgs. • 1993
• Princeton • P • $55.00 / $24.98
122258 CROWN, CHURCH AND
EPISCOPATE UNDER LOUIS XIV
Bergin, Joseph
An eloquent account of the French
church under Louis XIV, its relationship
to the crown and other elite institutions,
its critics and congregations. Bergin
investigates the background, recruitment,
and management of the episcopate, illuminating the process of trial and error by
which the king developed a flexible and effective system for
appointing qualified and worthy men as bishops. 544pgs. •
2004
• Yale • C • $70.00 / $16.98
125733 CULTURAL CAPITALS: Early Modern
London and Paris
Newman, Karen
Social theories of modernity generally focus on the 19th
century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Karen Newman demonstrates that
speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic,
and the street, often thought to be historically specific to
19th-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in
early modern London and Paris. 224pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
120623 DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH: Charles V,
Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe,
1520-1536
Reston, James, Jr.
A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash between Europe
and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and
brought Islam to the heart of Europe. With Europe hobbled
and the Turks suffused with restless vigor, the stage was set for
a drama that unfolded from Hungary to Rhodes and ultimately to Vienna, which both sides thought the Turks could win.
432pgs. • 2009
• Penguin • C • $29.95 / $7.98
117146 THE DISCOVERY OF
FRANCE: A Historical Geography,
from the Revolution to the First
World War
Robb, Graham
Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient
tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian
beliefs; French itself was a minority
language. In this fascinating narrative, Robb explains how
the modern nation came to be and how much of France -past and present -- remains to be discovered. 352pgs. •
2007
• W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $8.98
123202 EMPIRES OF THE SEA: The
Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto,
and the Contest for the Center of the
World
Crowley, Roger
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of
the Ottoman Empire, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes,
the opening shot in an epic struggle
between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean. Roger Crowley conjures up a wild
cast of pirates, crusaders, and religious warriors in this tale of
desperate bravery and utter brutality. 366pgs. • 2008
• Random House • C • $30.00 / $8.98
112056 THE END OF THE OLD
ORDER: Napoleon and Europe, 18011805
Kagan, Frederick W.
In this volume, Kagan taps hitherto unused
archival materials from Austria, Prussia,
France, and Russia to examine the history
of the Napoleonic years. His balanced perspective captures the actions of rulers,
ministers, citizens, and subjects, from
prime minister to ambassador, general to common soldier.
774pgs. • 2007
• Da Capo • P • $27.50 / $12.98
112501 THE ENGLISH NATIONAL CHARACTER:
The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony
Blair
Mandler, Peter
What kind of people are the English? What characteristic
traits and behavior distinguish them from other people? In
this comprehensive and lucidly argued book, a leading historian of modern Britain challenges familiar stereotypes
and proposes an entirely new perspective on what it means
to think of oneself as being "English." 348pgs. • 2007
• Yale • C • $37.00 / $9.98
089123 FRANCE AND THE GREAT WAR
Smith, Leonard V., et al.
Audoin-Rouzeau and Becker provide a comprehensive survey
of scholarship on the France's role in the war; their lively and
accessible book blends together diplomatic, military, social,
cultural, and economic history. 222pgs. • 2003
• Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98
130369 FRANCO AND HITLER:
Spain, German, and World War II
Stanley G. Payne
A leading historian of modern Spain
explores the full range of Franco's relationship with Hitler from 1936 to the fall
of the Reich. As Payne brilliantly shows,
relations between these two dictators were
not only a matter of realpolitik; these two
titanic egos engaged in an extraordinary
tragicomedy verging at times on the dark absurdity of a
Beckett or Ionesco play. 328pgs. • 2008
• Yale • C • SPECIAL PRICE / $9.98
122992 THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE COURT, 1483-1589
Knecht, Robert J.
The 16th-century French court has often been seen merely as
a focus of political intrigue and conflict, but it was also a cultural center in which the visual arts, music, literature, and
sport flourished. This book traces the court's evolution over
the course of a century that began gloriously and ended in the
horrors of civil war. 440pgs. • 2008
• Yale • C • $45.00 / $16.98
126010 GARIBALDI: Citizen of the
World
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 • $37.50 / $16.98
115175 GEOGRAPHIES OF ENGLAND: The North-South
Divide, Imagined and Material
Baker, Alan R. H.
To what extent has a North-South divide been a structural feature of England's geography during the last millennium and to
what extent has it been especially associated with, and recognized during, particular periods in the past? These are the central questions addressed in this pioneering exploration of the
history of a fundamentally geographical concept. 230pgs. •
2004
• Cambridge • C • $99.00 / $19.98
122720 THE GREAT SILENCE, 1918-1920: Britain from
the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the
Jazz Age
Nicolson, Juliet
The euphoria of Armistice Day 1918 vaporized at the contemplation of the carnage that the Great War left in its wake, but
from Britain's despair new life emerged. Juliet Nicolson pieces
together colorful personalities, historic moments, and intimate details to create a social history of the two years in which
the British people rediscovered the common bonds that held
them together. 304pgs. • 2010
• Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $7.98
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 • $29.95 / $15.98
024539 LADIES OF THE LEISURE CLASS: The
Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century
Smith, Bonnie G.
Drawn from interviews, archival sources, and personal letters,
demonstrates how industrialization removed women from a
productive middle class life and allowed them to create a new
world of their own, based on domesticity, family, and religion.
303pgs. • 1981
• Princeton • P • $33.95 / $17.98
047454 LONDON 1900: The Imperial Metropolis
Schneer, Jonathan
A rich examination of the powerful city and its relationship
with the far-flung British Empire at the turn of the century,
focusing on the diverse personalities of London and its inhabitants and the many ways the empire impinged on them.
336pgs. • 1999
• Yale • C • $45.00 / $9.98
114599 MACHIAVELLI IN HELL
De Grazia, Sebastian
An intellectual biography that evokes,
with uncanny precision, the great
Florentine thinker's presence. After
providing an engrossing account of
Machiavelli's childhood and the period
following his imprisonment and torture,
the book turns to an examination of The
Prince. The details of Machiavelli's life
weave in and out of the narrative, as we read how his ideas
gather coalesced into a unified vision of humankind and the
world. 512pgs. • 1994
• Vintage • P • $18.95 / $7.98
127766 MACHIAVELLI'S ETHICS
Benner, Erica
Challenges the most entrenched understandings of
Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political
philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over
that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and
that he did not defend the supposedly "Machiavellian" principle that the ends justify the means. 544pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $22.98
127174 MACHIAVELLI'S GOD
Viroli, Maurizio
Machiavelli can appear to readers to be
deeply un-Christian or even antiChristian, a cynic who thought rulers
should use religion only to keep their
subjects in check. Maurizio Viroli
argues that, far from opposing religion,
Machiavelli believed that Christian institutions -- once they had been revitalized
-- would be crucial to republican social and political
renewal. 332pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $45.00 / $27.98
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077785 THE MARGINS OF ORTHODOXY: Heterodox
Writing and Cultural Response, 1660-1750
Lund, Roger D., ed.
The struggle between orthodox Anglicans and the deists, freethinkers and "atheists" who opposed their exclusive claims to
religious and political authority, reveals cultural practices and
ideological assumptions central to an understanding of 18thcentury thought. In these essays, leading scholars show how
the assault on orthodoxy influenced the development of law,
historiography, public policy, philosophy, and the rise of the
novel. 312pgs. • 1995
• Cambridge • C • $95.00 / $29.98
130224 THE MEANING OF
SARKOZY
Badiou, Alain
A leading radical theorist and commentator dissects the Sarkozy phenomenon in
this sharp, focused volume. He argues that
the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President
does not necessarily signal a crucial turning point in French politics, nor should it
require a further rightward move from
competing electoral forces. 117pgs. • 2008
• Verso • C • $24.95 / $7.98
126307 MUNICH 1938: Appeasement and World War II
Faber, David
Drawing on a wealth of original archival material, this sweeping reassessment of the events of 1938 resonates with an insider's feel for the political infighting he uncovers. Packed with
narrative punch and vivid characters, it reveals the secret
negotiations and scandals upon which the world's fate would
rest. 528pgs. • 2009
• Simon & Schuster • C • $30.00 / $7.98
117341 NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA:
A History
Palmer, Alan
The story of Napoleon's most disastrous
military campaign, in which a proud
army of half a million was reduced to a
desperate band of 10,000 survivors.
With narrative immediacy, colorful
detail, analytic skill, and striking insight,
Alan Palmer follows the French forces in
their long, dusty haul from Vilna to Vitebsk to Viasma; from
the frightful slaughter at Borodino to Moscow's deserted,
burning streets; and finally through the horrors of the grueling winter retreat. 320pgs. • 2003
• Running Press • P • $14.00 / $6.98
093001 POWER AND THE NATION IN
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Scales, Len & Oliver Zimmer, eds.
Few would doubt the central importance of
"the nation" in the making and unmaking
of modern political communities. But
when did "the nation" first become a fundamental political factor? These sixteen
essays engage the expertise of modern historians in an attempt to resolve the issue.
402pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • P • $47.99 / $16.98
119751 PRESS CENSORSHIP IN JACOBEAN ENGLAND
Clegg, Cyndia Susan
An examination of how books were produced, read, and
received during the reign of King James I. Clegg contends that
although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press
altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of
censorship under James I varied significantly from Elizabethan
practice. 298pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • C • $121.00 / $34.98
024529 RECASTING BOURGEOIS
EUROPE: Stabilization in France,
Germany, & Italy in the Decade After
World War I
Maier, Charles S.
Examines the interwar years in Europe,
analyzing how political and economic elites
retained their power and how economic
dislocation and domestic turmoil led to the
equalization of society in the decade following the Great War. 650pgs. • 1988
• Princeton • P • $61.00 / $31.98
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117135 THE RENAISSANCE: A
Short History
Johnson, Paul
The Renaissance holds an undying
place in our imagination, its great
heroes still our own, from Michelangelo
and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. In
this masterly work, Johnson explains
the economic, technological, and social
developments that provide a backdrop
to the age's achievements and focuses closely on the lives
and works of its most important figures. 208pgs. • 2002
• Modern Library • P • $15.00 / $6.98
125263 RIVERS OF GOLD: The Rise of the Spanish
Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Thomas, Hugh
Columbus and those who followed him gave Spain an empire
of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open
for other powers to stake their claims. Thomas's magisterial
narrative has all the characteristics of great historical literature: stunning discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.
720pgs. • 2005
• Modern Library • P • $20.00 / $8.98
125285 THE ROADS TO
MODERNITY: The British, French, and
American Enlightenments
Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three
nations, Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David
Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the
contributions of the American Founders. It
is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic
-- humane, compassionate, and realistic -- that still resonates
strongly today. 304pgs. • 2005
• Vintage • P • $16.00 / $6.98
028886 THE SANS-CULOTTES:
The Popular Movement &
Revolutionary Government 17931794
Soboul, Albert
A study of the ideology of the artisans,
master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small
merchants, and domestic servants of
Paris, the revolutionary process during
the period of the Jacobin dictatorship
of Public Safety, and the French Revolution. 279pgs. •
1980
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $18.98
125520 THE SHADOW OF ENLIGHTENMENT: Optical
and Political Transparency in France 1789-1848
Levitt, Theresa
The first book to place revolutionary advances in light and
optics in the cultural context of France in the first half of the
19th century. It follows the work and careers of France's two
chief rivals on the subject of light, Arago and Biot, whose disagreement began on the subject of technical optics but
expanded to encompass politics, religion, education, dinner
companions, astrology, the Egyptian calendar, and colonial
slavery. 304pgs. • 2009
• Oxford University • C • $83.63 / $16.98
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 • $38.99 / $22.98
119559 THOMAS STARKEY AND THE COMMONWEAL:
Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry
VIII
Mayer, Thomas
Thomas Starkey (c. 1495–1538) was the most Italianate
Englishman of his generation. Beginning with his native
Cheshire, this study traces his career through Oxford, Padua,
Paris, Avignon, Padua again, and finally England, where he
spent the last four years of his life trying to fulfill his ambition
to serve the commonweal. 326pgs. • 2002
• Cambridge • P • $61.00 / $21.98
121237 THE TWILIGHT YEARS (Wiser): Paris in the
1930s
Wiser, William
For artists and expatriates, aristocrats and arrivistes, Paris in
the 1930s lost none of its magical allure, as this lavishly illustrated chronicle demonstrates. In his lively narrative, William
Wiser follows Elsa Schiaparelli, T. S. Eliot, Peggy Guggenheim,
the Windsors, Collette, Jean Cocteau, and a host of other colorful celebrities and literary luminaries through the ten years
that ended with the Nazi occupation in 1940. 304pgs. • 2001
• Basic Books • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $5.98
126840 THE TWILIGHT YEARS (Overy): The Paradox of
Britain Between the Wars
Overy, Richard
By the end of World War I, the modern era's promise of
progress was overshadowed in Britain by a looming sense of
decay and death. Overy argues that the coming of World War
II was almost welcomed by Britain's leading thinkers, who saw
in it an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization, and a
way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the
future. 544pgs. • 2009
• Viking • C • $35.00 / $8.98
106657 UNION AND EMPIRE: The
Making of the United Kingdom In
1707
MacInnes, Allan I.
A major new interpretation of the making
of the United Kingdom in 1707 that sets the
Act of Union within a broad European and
colonial context, providing a comprehensive picture of its transoceanic ramifications that ranged from the balance of
power to the balance of trade. 382pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $37.00 / $14.98
130313 UNIVERSITY LIFE IN EIGHTEENTHCENTURY OXFORD
Midgley, Graham
A delightful social history of academic life in 18th-century
Oxford. Crammed with colorful anecdotes and handsomely
illustrated, the book draws on a rich variety of contemporary sources to describe the experiences of students and
dons -- not only their studies, but also their food, drink,
women, sports, music, entertainment, and pastimes.
192pgs. • 1996
• Yale • C • $60.00 / $16.98
088010 WAR AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN
EUROPE: The Great Transformation Revisited
Halperin, Sandra
Traces the persistence of traditional class structures during
the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the
ways in which shaped states and state behavior and generated
conflict. Documenting European conflicts between 1789 and
1914, Halperin links them to the characteristic structures of
industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945.
536pgs. • 2003
• Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $9.98
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101662 AMERICAN MOVIE
CRITICS: From the Silents until
Now
Lopate, Phillip, ed.
A dynamic force in American culture
since the early 20th century, movies
have presented several generations
of American writers and reviewers
with a fascinating and challenging
subject. This volume reveals how
those critics rose to the challenge, and in the process created an extraordinary body of work. Joining the full-time
film critics are many distinguished American authors,
including Ralph Ellison, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin,
Brendan Gill, and John Ashbery. 825pgs. • 2006
• Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
116784 AMERICAN MOVIE CRITICS: An Anthology
from the Silents until Now
Lopate, Phillip, ed.
Contents as above. 784pgs. • 2008
• Library of America • P • $19.95 / $7.98
123251 BREAKING NEWS: How the Associated Press
Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else
Reporters of the Associated Press
The AP is the nation's primary newswire service, relied on by
virtually every serious newspaper and broadcast outlet in the
nation. Through personal accounts, archival materials, interviews, and photographs, this volume shows how the AP
became the world's largest news organization and how it continues to play a vital role in providing the news to the American
and international press. 400pgs. • 2007
• Princeton Architectural • C • $35.00 / $9.98
129453 CHAPLIN AND AMERICAN CULTURE: The
Evolution of a Star Image
Maland, Charles J.
An exploration of the stormy on-and-off love-hate affair
between Charlie Chaplin and the American public. "A fascinating, ambitious and incisive look at American culture and at the
cinematic genius" -- Robin Lippincott, The New York Times
Book Review. 464pgs. • 1991
• Princeton • P • $55.00 / $29.98
126756 DESPITE THE SYSTEM: Orson Welles vs. the
Hollywood Studios
Heylin, Clinton
Orson Welles was himself all too aware, in his later years, that
posterity would construct a neat parabola of decline out of his
career. Clinton Heylin shows brilliantly how Welles nevertheless succeeded in forging a body of work that, whatever its
flaws, is without equal in the history of cinema. 416pgs. •
2006
• Canongate • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $5.98
130453 AN EMPIRE OF THEIR
OWN: How the Jews Invented
Hollywood
Gabler, Neal
To this day, Harry Cohn, Louis B. Mayer,
Jack and Harry Warner, Adolph Zucker,
and their peers are recognized as giants
in the history of Hollywood. Neil Gabler
has written a provocative, original, and
richly entertaining group biography of
the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind
the creation of America's motion picture industry. 512pgs.
• 1989
• Doubleday • P • $17.95 / $7.98
039315 FAST-TALKING DAMES
DiBattista, Maria
Paints vivid portraits of the grandest fast-talking dames of the
era, including Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, and Barbara
Stanwyck, and discusses what their films had to say about
men, happiness, and the power of speech. 357pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C • $40.00 / $8.98
104388 ITALIAN FILM IN THE LIGHT OF
NEOREALISM
Marcus, Millicent
The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, failed
at the box office, and fell well short of its own didactic and aesthetic aspirations. But as Marcus shows, it exerted such a profound influence on postwar Italian cinema that all the best
directors had to come to terms with it. In this volume she considers how Italian cinema has fulfilled, or disappointed, neorealism's promise. 464pgs. • 1987
• Princeton • P • $49.95 / $34.98
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125576 THE JAPANESE FILM:
Art and Industry
EXPANDED EDITION
Anderson, Joseph L. & Donald Richie
Tracing the development of the
Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the
first Kinetoscope was imported)
through the successive golden ages of
film in Japan up to the present day, the
authors examine the accomplishments
and history of the unique art of the Japanese film. 526pgs.
• 1983
• Princeton • P • $47.95 / $23.98
117074 LENI RIEFENSTAHL: A Memoir
Riefenstahl, Leni
One of the 20th century's most controversial women,
Riefenstahl was best known as the director of Triumph of the
Will -- her documentary of a Nazi Party rally -- and Olympia, her
classic account of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In this autobiography, she discusses her motivations, her history, her important
friendships, and, most of all, her art. 669pgs. • 1995
• Picador • P • $22.00 / $5.98
119738 MYTH, MIND AND THE SCREEN:
Understanding the Heroes of Our Time
Izod, John
This systematic attempt to apply Jungian theory to the analysis
of films covers 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Silence of the
Lambs, and The Piano as well as a variety of cultural icons
such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. Through these examples, Izod demonstrates how Jungian theory can bring new
tools to film and media studies. 250pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • C • $95.00 / $14.98
106759 NINETEENTH-CENTURY
AMERICAN FICTION ON SCREEN
Palmer, R. Barton, ed.
The essays collected here provide an upto-date survey of the important films based
on, or inspired by, 19th-century American
fiction, from The Last of the Mohicans, The
Scarlet Letter, and Moby-Dick to Sister
Carrie and The Virginian. 262pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $90.99 / $14.98
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
117487 A HISTORY OF WINE IN
AMERICA, VOLUME 2: From
Prohibition to the Present
Pinney, Thomas
The definitive account of American winemaking, first as it was carried out under
Prohibition, and then as it developed and
spread to all 50 states after repeal.
Pinney's sweeping narrative comprises a
lively cast of characters that includes
politicians, bootleggers, entrepreneurs, growers, scientists,
and visionaries. 532pgs. • 2005
• California • C • $60.00 / $16.98
129246 MEDIEVAL CUISINE OF THE ISLAMIC
WORLD: A Concise History with 174 Recipes
Zaouali, Lilia
In this charming narrative accompanied by recipes, Lilia
Zaouali brings to life Islam's vibrant culinary heritage. She
surveys the gastronomical art -- inspired by Persian, GrecoRoman, and Turkish cooking -- that developed at the
Caliph's sumptuous palaces in ninth-and tenth-century
Baghdad and rapidly spread across the Mediterranean.
224pgs. • 2007
• California • C • $40.00 / $16.98
111809 SWINDLED: The Dark History of Food Fraud,
from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
Wilson, Bee
Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Wilson shows
how swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and even poisoned
our food throughout history. Wilson pays special attention to
19th- and 20th-century America and England and the development of both industrial-scale food adulteration and the scientific ability to combat it. 400pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $29.95 / $12.98
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126315 THE AIRPLANE: How Ideas Gave Us Wings
Spenser, Jay
In this entertaining history of manned flight, Jay Spenser shows
how simple yet powerful ideas overcame the challenges to aviation. He sheds new light on the key moments in history when,
piece by piece, innovators like Otto Lilienthal, Igor Sikorsky,
Louis Bleriot, Hugo Junkers, and Jack Northrop collectively
solved the puzzle of flight. 352pgs. • 2008
• HarperCollins • C • $25.95 / $7.98
104859 ANALOGIES AT WAR: Korea,
Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the
Vietnam Decisions of 1965
Khong, Yuen Foong
From World War I to Operation Desert
Storm, American policymakers have
invoked the "lessons of history" as they
contemplated taking their nation to war.
Relying on interviews with senior officials
and on recently declassified documents,
the author shows how three analogies -- Korea, Munich, and
Dien Bien Phu -- were pivotal in shaping American policy during the Vietnam War. 304pgs. • 1992
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
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105948 THE COMPARATIVE
HISTORIES OF SLAVERY IN BRAZIL,
CUBA, AND THE UNITED STATES
Bergad, Laird W.
The first work to systemically survey slavery in the three nations from comparative
perspectives. Chapters focus on slave narratives, demography, economy, culture,
resistance and rebellions, and the causes
of abolition. 314pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $15.98
115067 THE CULTURE OF DEFEAT: On
National Trauma, Mourning, and
Recovery
Schivelbosch, Wolfgang
Focusing on three seminal cases of military
defeat -- the South after the Civil War, France
in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and
Germany following World War I -Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural responses of vanquished nations to the experience of loss on the battlefield.
406pgs. • 2004
• Granta Books • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $5.98
126834 THE CULTURE OF WAR
van Creveld, Martin L.
As van Creveld shows in this authoritative,
and riveting book, since the beginning of
civilization the culture of war has its own
traditions, laws and customs, rituals, ceremonies, music, art, literature, and monuments. He argues that men and women
today, contrary to the hopes of some,
remain as fascinated by war as they have
been in the past. 512pgs. • 2008
• Ballantine • C • $35.00 / $8.98
130366 THE DISCOVERY OF MANKIND: Atlantic
Encounters in the Age of Columbus
Abulafia, David
From the first encounters with the native inhabitants of the
Canary Islands in 1341 to Cabral's discovery of Brazil in
1500, Europeans struggled to make sense of the existence
of the peoples they met. Using archaeological findings as
well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the
social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations
and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans, and
the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation.
408pgs. • 2008
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $12.98
116659 EASTWARD TO TARTARY: Travels in the
Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
Kaplan, Robert D.
An exploration of an explosive and little-known part of the world
destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan illuminates
the tragic history of this unstable area as he ventures from
Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the
Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of
Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. 384pgs. • 2001
• Random House • P • $14.95 / $6.98
120697 EMPIRES, NATIONS AND WARS
Howard, Michael
Collects Howard's major articles and lectures during his time
as Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of
Oxford between 1980 and 1989. Some reflect on contemporary events, but most are broadly concerned with the historical process which underlies international politics, and the
nature of the insights which historians can bring to the study
of world affairs. 224pgs. • 2007
• History Press • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $9.98
064217 FACES OF HISTORY: Historical Inquiry
from Herodotus to Herder
Kelley, Donald R.
A critical survey of Western historical thought from preclassical times to the late 18th century. Kelley ranges across
many regions and eras, focusing on persistent themes and
methodology and examining how later historians have
viewed their predecessors through the lens of history.
340pgs. • 1998
• Yale • C NDJ • $60.00 / $12.98
126864 FLAT EARTH: The History of
an Infamous Idea
Garwood, Christine
Contrary to popular belief, the idea of a
spherical Earth had been widely accepted
as early as the fourth century BC. Yet
bizarrely, the belief that the world is in fact
flat persists to this day, despite Apollo missions and pictures from space. Ranging
from ancient Greece through Victorian
England to modern-day America, Garwood's account of flateartherism encompasses religion, science, and pseudoscience, as well as a spectacular array of people and places.
448pgs. • 2008
• St. Martin's • C • SPECIAL PRICE / $7.98
114842 GREAT MILITARY LEADERS AND THEIR
CAMPAIGNS
Black, Jeremy
This profusely illustrated overview of the careers and campaigns
of the world's greatest commanders encompasses the entire history of war from the time of Cyrus the Great to the 20th century.
Includes specially commissioned campaign maps, plus a reference section with concise biographies of 250 commanders. 520
illustrations, 420 in color. 304pgs. • 2008
• Thames & Hudson • C • $65.00 / $21.98
083711 MODERNIZING ENGLAND'S PAST: English
Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970
Bentley, Michael
What came before "postmodernism" in historical studies? By
thinking through the assumptions, methods, and cast of mind
of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970,
Michael Bentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers the first full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. 254pgs. • 2006
• Cambridge • C • $95.99 / $29.98
117037 ON THE ORIGINS OF WAR:
And the Preservation of Peace
Kagan, Donald
By lucidly revealing the common threads
that connect the ancient confrontations
between Athens and Sparta and between
Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of the 20th century and the
Cuban Missile Crisis, Kagan reveals new
insights into the nature of war and peace.
624pgs. • 1996
• Anchor Books • P • $18.95 / $7.98
026096 THE PAST IN FRENCH HISTORY
Gildea, Robert
Analyzing the French obsession with -- and desire to escape
from -- their historical legacy, Gildea examines the ways in
which different versions of the past have been manufactured
by competing political communities in order to define their
identity. 418pgs. • 1994
• Yale • C • $65.00 / $12.98
125560 PLOWS, PLAGUES, AND PETROLEUM: How
Humans Took Control of Climate
Ruddiman, William F.
Did human involvement in climate change only begin with
the industrial revolution, as is commonly believed? William
Ruddiman's provocative book argues that humans have
actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years -as a result of the invention of agriculture. 240pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
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 / $12.98
128954 A SHORT HISTORY OF
BYZANTIUM
Norwich, John Julius
In this magisterial adaptation of his
epic three-volume history of
Byzantium, Norwich chronicles the
world's longest-lived Christian empire.
Beginning with Constantine the Great,
who made Christianity the religion of
his realm and then transferred its capital to the city that would bear his name, Norwich follows the
course of eleven centuries of statecraft and warfare, politics
and theology, manners and art. 496pgs. • 1998
• Vintage • P • $19.00 / $8.98
107324 A SPLENDID EXCHANGE: How
Trade Shaped the World
Bernstein, William J.
A sweeping narrative history of world trade
-- from Mesopotamia in 3000 BC to the
current firestorm over globalization -- that
brilliantly explores trade's colorful and
contentious past and provides new insights
into its future. Includes 23 maps and 40
black-and-white illustrations. 467pgs. •
2008
• Grove Press • C • $30.00 / $6.98
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054789 THROWING FIRE: Projectile
Technology through History
Crosby, Alfred W.
Before the dawn of history human beings
mastered fire; they also invented javelins
and bows and arrows. The historic era saw
the invention first of catapults and trebuchets, then of gunpowder, culminating,
in the 20th century, in the most destructive
wars of all time. This unique survey by an
acclaimed historian looks at the role that fire and throwing have
played in the development of our species. 250pgs. • 2002
• Cambridge • C • $40.00 / $5.98
112665 WORLD RAILWAYS OF THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY: A Pictorial History in Victorian Engravings
Harter, Jim
With a gallery of striking and unfamiliar images coupled with
historical text, this volume will delight railroad enthusiasts,
historians, world travelers, and students of Victorian technical
achievement. It includes more than 360 plates of rare wood
engravings from 91 different publications, including such
periodicals as Railroad Gazette, Street Railway Journal,
Harper's Weekly, Illustrated London News, The Engineer, and
l'Illustration. 550pgs. • 2005
• Johns Hopkins • C • $75.00 / $29.98
H ISTORY OF SCIENCE
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 • $45.00 / $22.98
130787 CORRUPTED SCIENCE:
Fraud, Ideology and Politics in
Science
Grant, John
This rogue's gallery of faked creatures,
paleontological trickery, false psychics,
and miracle cures that aren't so miraculous demonstrates how ideology, religion, and politics have imposed themselves on science throughout history,
from the Catholic Church's influence on cosmology to Nazi
racist pseudoscience to the Bush Administration's attempt
to deny climate change. 336pgs. • 2007
• Facts, Figures & Fun • C • $12.95 / $6.98
101795 EINSTEIN: The Life and Times
Clark, Ronald W.
Clark's definitive biography probes behind the phenomenal
intellect to reveal the human side of the physicist who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed.
These pages illuminate the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps,
the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized over atomic weapons, the indifferent Zionist asked to head the Israeli state, and the physicist
who believed in God. 896pgs. • 2007
• HarperCollins • P • $18.99 / $7.98
056163 FRANCIS BACON: The History of a
Character Assassination
Mathews, Nieves
Was Bacon a great man, a founder of modern science and
philosophy? Or was he a cruel, corrupt, and power-hungry
politician who deserved imprisonment and disgrace? In this
penetrating reevaluation, Nieves Mathews rescues Bacon
from a long tradition of abuse and misrepresentation and
reveals how distorted facts can be recast as historical
truths. 591pgs. • 1996
• Yale • C • $75.00 / $22.98
089320 GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS: The
Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
Hawking, Stephen W.
Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25
landmarks spanning 2,500 years and the work of 15 mathematicians, in an anthology allowing readers to peer into the
mind of genius by providing them with excerpts from the original mathematical proofs and results. 1176pgs. • 2005
• Running Press • C • $29.95 / $9.98
088744 HOW THE COLD WAR TRANSFORMED
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: To the Icy Slopes of Logic
Reisch, George
This in-depth treatment of the development of philosophy of
science studies in the US during the Cold War documents the
political vitality of logical empiricism and Otto Neurath's Unity
of Science Movement. It then traces the process of its depoliticization by converging intellectual, cultural, and political
forces in the 1950s. 432pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • P • $36.99 / $6.98
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072340 THE IMMUNE SELF: Theory or Metaphor?
Tauber, Alfred I.
The first extended philosophical critique of immunology, in
which the function of the term "self" that underlies the structure of current immune theory is analyzed. This analysis is
integrated into a broad survey of the major scientific developments in immunology, a discussion of their historical context,
and a review of the conceptual arguments that have molded
this sophisticated modern science. 366pgs. • 1994
• Cambridge • C NDJ • $130.00 / $21.98
060187 ISAAC NEWTON'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
Buchwald, Jed Z. & I. Bernard Cohen, eds.
Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last
half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and
more details of his life and intellectual context have come to
light. This volume singles out two strands in recent research:
the intellectual background to Newton's scientific thought and
aspects -- both specific and general -- of his technical science.
354pgs. • 2000
• MIT • C • $52.00 / $21.98
125544 PHILOSOPHY AFTER
DARWIN: Classic and
Contemporary Readings
Ruse, Michael, ed.
This invaluable anthology and sourcebook traces philosophy's complicated
relationship with Darwin's dangerous
idea, and shows how this relationship
reflects a broad movement toward a
secular, more naturalistic understanding of the human experience. 592pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $39.50 / $19.98
061972 THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD:
Copernicus and Kepler
Hallyn, Fernand
Contending that the scientific imagination is not fundamentally different from a mythic or poetic imagination, Hallyn argues
that the work of Copernicus and Kepler must be examined on
the level of rhetorical structure. 367pgs. • 1990
• Zone Books • C • $44.95 / $12.98
129510 SARA BAARTMAN AND THE HOTTENTOT
VENUS: A Ghost Story and a Biography
Crais, Clifton & Pamela Scully
Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the
Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most
famous women of her day, and also one of the least known.
But who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus?
Based on research and interviews that span three continents, this volume tells the entwined histories of an elusive
life and a famous icon. 248pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $11.98
130626 THE SCIENTISTS: A History of Science Told
Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Gribbin, John
Beginning with the Renaissance, when science replaced mysticism as a means of explaining the workings of the world, this
volume traces the genealogy of Western science. By focusing
on scientific figures themselves -- both amateurs and professionals -- Gribbin provides an anecdotal narrative enlivened
with stories of personal drama, breathtaking successes, and
dismal failures. 672pgs. • 2004
• Modern Library • P • $17.95 / $7.98
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126048 CAPITALISM AND THE JEWS
Muller, Jerry Z.
Drawing on economic, social, political, and
intellectual history from medieval Europe
through contemporary America and Israel,
this volume examines the ways in which
thinking about capitalism and thinking about
the Jews have gone hand in hand in
European thought, and why anti-capitalism
and anti-Semitism have frequently been
linked. 272pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
130312 GERMAN JEWS: A Dual Identity
Mendes-Flohr, Paul R.
Germany's Jews assimilated the cultural values of Germany
but were not assimilated into German society, contends
Mendes-Flohr. No longer unambiguously Jewish, they faced
the pain of fractured identity and divided cultural loyalty.
This thought-provoking book explores the uniquely modern condition of living with multiple cultural identities.
168pgs. • 1999
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $9.98
105160 THE JEWISH CENTURY
Slezkine, Yuri
Slezkine argues that the ancient Jews were,
in effect, among the world's first free
agents. Traditionally belonging to a social
and anthropological category known as
"service nomads," an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods and services, these exemplary ancients are now
model moderns. 438pgs. • 2006
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $17.98
119530 JEWISH IDENTITIES IN
GERMAN POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT,
1890-1933
Otte, Marline
Tracing the challenges, opportunities, and
paradoxes Jewish men and women in
Germany faced in their interactions with
predominantly gentile audiences, Otte
demonstrates how the analysis of popular
entertainment can reveal much about a
period of great social and political turmoil. 317pgs. • 2006
• Cambridge • C • $113.00 / $12.98
124449 JEWS AND ARABS: A Concise
History of Their Social and Cultural
Relations
Goitein, S. D.
An exploration of 3,000 years of relations
between Jews and Arabs. Written in 1954, it
remains relevant through its focus on cultural influences rather than political and
military issues. Topics include Jewish traditions in Islam, Islamic influence on Jewish
philosophy, and Jewish and Islamic mysticism and poetry.
272pgs. • 2005
• Dover • P • $14.95 / $5.98
039458 MEDICINE AND THE
GERMAN JEWS: A History
Efron, John M.
As both physicians and patients,
German Jews exerted a profound influence on the formation of modern medical discourse and practice. This fascinating book investigates the relationship between German Jews and medicine from medieval times until its
demise under the Nazis. 343pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C • $55.00 / $16.98
050545 MESSIANIC MYSTICS
Idel, Moshe
Examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical
experience, arguing that messianism deserves a central place
in Jewish intellectual history and that there are close ties
between messianism and the Kabbalah. 451pgs. • 1998
• Yale • C • $75.00 / $16.98
105183 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN: Jewish Family Life
in Medieval Europe
Baumgarten, Elisheva
Presents a synthetic history of the family -- the most basic
building block of medieval Jewish communities -- in Germany
and northern France during the High Middle Ages.
Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it
also advances recent efforts to write a comparative JewishChristian social history. 275pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • P • $27.95 / $13.98
126854 RESURRECTING HEBREW
Stavans, Ilan
The stirring story of how Hebrew was
rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a
modern nation. The resurrection of
Hebrew raises urgent questions about
the role language plays in Jewish survival, questions that lead Stavans not
merely into the roots of modern
Hebrew but into the origins of Israel itself. 240pgs. • 2008
• Schocken Books • C • $21.00 / $6.98
117133 THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS: 1933-1945
Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
An unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, it encompasses the totality of the Nazi Holocaust,
from the insidious evolution of German anti-Semitism to the
ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution. 512pgs. • 1986
• Bantam • P • $19.00 / $7.98
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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 • $30.00 / $13.98
046081 AZTECS: An Interpretation
Clendinnen, Inga
Recreates the culture of the city of
Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years
as the center of the Aztec empire, combining the experiences and concerns of social
existence in the imperial city with the mannered violence of their ritual killings.
398pgs. • 1995
• Cambridge • P • $31.00 / $15.98
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130223 CUBA: The Revolution in Peril
Habel, Janette
This scrupulous account of the perils faced by the Cuban revolution never forgets the appalling external pressures under
which this small state labors. But it insists that only a bold new
policy of revolutionary democracy offers the prospect of conserving -- and building upon -- the revolution's gains. 280pgs.
• 1991
• Verso • C • $29.95 / $7.98
125277 FROM COLUMBUS TO
CASTRO: The History of the
Caribbean 1492-1969
Williams, Eric
The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is
inseparable from the history of slavery;
which was inseparable, until recently,
from the systematic degradation of
labor in the region. This acclaimed volume is the definitive treatment of a profoundly important
but generally misrepresented area of the world. 608pgs. •
1984
• Vintage • P • $19.00 / $8.98
125614 ON THE WINGS OF TIME:
Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru
MacCormack, Sabine
Examining how missionaries, soldiers,
native lords, and other writers employed
classical concepts to forge new understandings of Peruvian society and history,
the book offers a complete reassessment of
the ways in which colonial Peru made the
classical heritage uniquely its own.
352pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $16.98
104851 THE UNITED STATES AND THE ORIGINS OF
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION: An Empire of Liberty in an
Age of National Liberation
Benjamin, Jules R.
Argues convincingly that modern conflicts between Cuba and
the US stem from a long history of US hegemony and Cuban
resistance. Benjamin shows what difficulties the smaller country encountered because of American efforts first to make it
part of an "empire of liberty" and later to dominate it by economic means. 248pgs. • 1992
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $14.98
LAW & LEGAL STU DIES
124327 THE COLLECTED LEGAL PAPERS
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Distinguished for his learning, judgment, humor, and eloquence, Holmes served as justice of the US Supreme Court for
four decades. This compilation of 26 of his legal papers and
addresses touches upon many spheres of public concern and
reflects the ongoing development of a democratic society.
320pgs. • 2007
• Dover • P • $16.95 / $5.98
087692 THE LAW AND POLICY OF THE WORLD
TRADE ORGANIZATION: Text, Cases and Materials
van den Bossche, Peter
Covers both the institutional and substantive law of the WTO.
While the volume's treatment of the law is often quite detailed,
its main aim is to explain the basic principles and underlying
logic of WTO law and the world trading system. Each chapter
includes a helpful summary as well as exercises focusing on
specific international trade problems. 776pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • P • $89.00 / $29.98
107120 THE RISE OF THE
CONSERVATIVE LEGAL MOVEMENT:
The Battle for Control of the Law
Teles, Steven Michael
Beginning in the 1970s, conservatives
learned that electoral victory did not easily
convert into a reversal of liberal accomplishments, and set their sights on law
schools, professional networks, public
interest groups, and the judiciary. Drawing
from internal documents as well as interviews with key conservative figures, Teles examines the conservative challenge to liberal domination of American legal institutions. 339pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $38.50 / $16.98
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LINGU ISTICS & LANGUAGES
049618 THE CAMBRIDGE
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE
SECOND EDITION
Crystal, David
Incorporates extensive research in areas
such as speech synthesis and recognition,
acoustics, machine translation, natural
language processing, endangered languages, language teaching and World
English. 480pgs. • 1997
• Cambridge • P • $38.99 / $14.98
122218 HANDBOOK OF LOGIC AND
LANGUAGE
Van Benthem, Johan F. & Alice G. Ter
Meulen, eds.
In recent decades, the combined study of
logic and language has gained momentum
with the formulation of Montague semantics and Generative Syntax. The chapters in
this comprehensive survey show both sides
of the interaction: how logical systems are
designed and modified in response to linguistic needs, and
how mathematical theory arises out of this process and affects
subsequent linguistic theory. 1271pgs. • 1997
• MIT • C • $200.00 / $59.98
107544 IRISH ENGLISH: History and Present-Day
Forms
Hickey, Raymond
Traces the development of Irish English from the late middle ages to the present day, revealing how it arose, how it
has developed, and how it continues to change.
Considering issues at all levels of linguistics, it will be
invaluable to historical linguists, sociolinguists, syntacticians and phonologists alike. 504pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $125.99 / $48.98
041154 LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Duranti, Alessandro
Introduces linguistic anthropology as an
interdisciplinary field studying language as
a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Theories and methods discussed in terms of linguistic diversity,
grammar in use, the role of speaking in
social interaction, organization and meaning of conversational structures, and participation as an analytical unit. 398pgs. • 1997
• Cambridge • P • $54.00 / $26.98
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105809 MAORI: A Linguistic Introduction
Harlow, Ray
Maori, the indigenous language of New Zealand, is an endangered, minority language, with an important role in the Maori
community's culture and identity. This comprehensive
overview looks at all aspects of the language: its history, its
dialects, its sounds and grammar, and the efforts being made
to ensure its survival. 241pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $99.00 / $39.98
045516 NEW HORIZONS IN THE
STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND MIND
Chomsky, Noam
An outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by
one of the most influential thinkers of our
time. Argues that there is no coherent
notion of "language" external to the human
mind, and that the study of language
should take as its focus the mental construct which constitutes our knowledge of language. 230pgs.
• 2000
• Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $9.98
049687 ON NATURE AND LANGUAGE
BELLETTI, ADRIANA & LUIGI RAZZI, EDS.
Chomsky, Noam
In this significant landmark in the development of linguistic
theory, Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between
language, mind, and brain, integrating current research in linguistics into the burgeoning field of neuroscience. In a penetrating interview, he provides the clearest and most elegant
introduction to current theory available. 216pgs. • 2002
• Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
126749 OUR MAGNIFICENT
BASTARD TONGUE: The Untold
Story of English
McWhorter, John
Why do we say "I am reading a catalog"
instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we
so often need the word "do" in order to
ask a question? Is the way we speak a
reflection of our cultural values?
Delving into these provocative topics
and more, McWhorter distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. 256pgs. • 2008
• Gotham Books • C • $22.50 / $6.98
087650 PORTUGUESE: A Linguistic
Introduction
Azevedo, Milton M.
This accessible volume introduces the linguistic structure of Portuguese within the
context of its social and historical background. In addition to covering the central
topics of syntax, phonology, morphology,
semantics, and pragmatics, it explores the
development of the language, the spread of
Portuguese in the world, and sociolinguistic issues such as
dialect variation and language planning. 354pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • P • $52.00 / $23.98
087661 THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
THIRD EDITION
Yule, George
Introduces the analysis of the key elements of language -sounds, words, structures, and meanings -- providing a solid
foundation in these essential topics. Extensively revised with
sections on contemporary issues in language study, including
language and culture, African American English, sign language, and slang. 284pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $12.98
106901 THE SYNTAX OF ICELANDIC
Thrainsson, Hoskuldur
Icelandic is a syntactically interesting
language, with aspects of its word order,
clause structure, agreement patterns,
inflection and case system arousing
much theoretical interest and debate in
recent years. This is an informative guide
to the structure of the language, focusing
on those characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research. 563pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $181.00 / $28.98
087112 USING PORTUGUESE: A Guide to Contemporary
Usage
McGovern, Timothy Michael & Ana Sofia Ganho
This guide to Portuguese usage covers both the Brazilian and the
European varieties of Portuguese. It gives special attention to
those areas of vocabulary and grammar which cause most difficulty to English-speakers and also includes a special chapter for
students familiar with Spanish, highlighting key similarities and
differences between the two languages. 274pgs. • 2004
• Cambridge • P • $46.99 / $19.98
LITERARY TH EORY & CRITICISM
130353 AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM: A History
Gura, Philip F.
A comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of
public intellectuals, the men and women who defined
American literature and indelibly marked American reform.
Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these
informed the theological debates that gave rise to practical,
personal, and quixotic attempts to improve, even perfect the
world. 384pgs. • 2008
• Hill & Wang • P • $16.00 / $8.98
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 • $28.95 / $14.98
130303 AUDEN AND CHRISTIANITY
Kirsch, Arthur
The first book to explore in detail how Auden's religious
faith helped him to come to terms with himself as an artist
and as a man, despite his early disinterest in religion and
his homosexuality. It shows also how Auden's Anglican faith
informs, and is often the explicit subject of, his poetry and
prose. 240pgs. • 2005
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $12.98
058389 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO ENGLISH POETRY,
DONNE TO MARVELL
Corns, Thomas N., ed.
Informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. Includes individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick,
Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton,
Crashaw, Vaughan, and Marvell, as well as
essays describing the political and religious contexts, gender
politics, and other general topics. 306pgs. • 1993
• Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $14.98
055042 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO T. S. ELIOT
Moody, A. David, ed.
An international team of scholars assesses
the major aspects and issues of Eliot's life
and thought, placing his writings in historical perspective. Among the issues considered are Eliot's American origins and his
adoption of British citizenship; his position
as a philosopher; his literary, social, and
political criticism; and the evolution of his religious sense. The
volume also includes a review of current Eliot studies.
279pgs. • 1994
• Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $12.98
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087791 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF LITERARY CRITICISM VOL. 4: The
Eighteenth Century
Nisbet, H. B.
A multi-disciplinary study of how the
understanding of literature in the modern
era was shaped by developments in intellectual, cultural and social history. It provides an authoritative historical overview of
all areas of literary studies. 970pgs. •
1997
• Cambridge • P • $60.00 / $19.98
119060 THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO EZRA
POUND
Nadel, Ira B.
This Introduction, designed to help students reading Pound
for the first time, provides a guide to the rich webs of allusion
and stylistic borrowings and innovations in Pound's writing
and explains the huge contribution Pound made to the development of modernism in the early 20th century. 160pgs. •
2007
• Cambridge • C • $83.00 / $17.98
105946 THE CAMBRIDGE
INTRODUCTION TO THE NINETEENTHCENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL
Crane, Gregg D.
The 19th-century American novel was a
highly fluid form, constantly evolving in
response to the turbulent events of the
period and emerging as a key component
in American identity, growth, expansion
and the Civil War. This volume follows the
genre's development from its beginnings in the early republic
to the end of the 19th century. 238pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $11.98
120699 EPIC: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910
Tucker, Herbert F.
Although the epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside
by the novel, the genre was practiced without interruption
across the long 19th century by nearly every prominent
Romantic and Victorian poet. This book is the first to provide
a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the
French Revolution and the First World War. 752pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $16.98
111615 FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE
Weston, Jessie L.
Drawing from J. G. Frazer, who studied ancient nature cults
that associated the physical condition of the king with the
productivity of the land, Weston considers how the legend
of the Holy Grail related to fertility rites. Acknowledged by
T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land,"
Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested
in ancient religion, myth, and Arthurian legend. 256pgs. •
1993
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $12.98
115155 JAMES JOYCE, SEXUALITY
AND SOCIAL PURITY
Mullin, Katherine
Reveals how Joyce responded to censorship and Edwardian ideologies of social
purity by accentuating the "contentious" or
"offensive" elements in such works as
Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man, and Dubliners. Mullin's book, based
on prodigious archival research, offers
crucial insights into the sexual politics of Modernism. 236pgs.
• 2003
• Cambridge • C • $99.00 / $14.98
113739 JOHN EVELYN: Living for Ingenuity
Darley, Gillian
This new biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar, and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), is the first account to make full
use of his huge unpublished archive, deposited at the British
Library in 1995. This crucial material permits an even broader and richer picture of Evelyn, his life, and his friendships
than the one provided by his celebrated diaries. 382pgs. •
2007
• Yale • C • $42.00 / $14.98
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130225 THE LAST RESISTANCE
Rose, Jacqueline
In this bravura exploration of politics and
writing, Jacqueline Rose explores the role
of literature in the Zionist imagination. She
reveals literature in its role as a unique
form of dissidence with the power to
expose the unconscious of nations and to
propose radical alternatives to dominant
pathways and beliefs. 237pgs. • 2007
• Verso • C • $29.95 / $7.98
086381 THE LIST: The Uses and Pleasures of
Cataloguing
Belknap, Robert
A literary critic first examines lists through the centuries -from Sumerian account tablets and Homer's catalogue of
ships to Tom Sawyer's earnings from his fence-painting
scheme - then focuses on lists in the writings of four
American Renaissance authors: Emerson, Whitman,
Melville, and Thoreau. 224pgs. • 2004
• Yale • C • $30.00 / $8.98
130219 LUST FOR LIFE: On the Writings of Kathy
Acker
Scholder, Amy, ed.
With contributions by Nayland Blake, Leslie Dick, Robert
Gluck, Laurence A. Rickels, Barrett Watten, and Peter Wollen,
this is the definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable
work. Together these essays reveal Acker's profound and
innovative project and the ways in which fiction can penetrate
the heart of political and cultural life. 120pgs. • 2006
• Verso • P • $19.95 / $4.98
119003 MEDIEVAL WRITERS AND THEIR WORK:
Middle English Literature, 1100-1500
Burrow, J. A.
In an updated edition of his popular introduction to English
literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of
scholarly developments in the field, most notably by devoting
a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. By placing medieval writers in their historical context, he
explains not only how they wrote, but why. 176pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $12.98
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
125724 BETWEEN RELIGION
AND RATIONALITY: Essays in
Russian Literature and Culture
Frank, Joseph
An acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer
explores aspects of 20th and 21th century Russian culture, literature, and history. Delving into the Russian novel as
well as into conflicts between the religious peasant world and the educated
Russian elite, these essays display the cogent reflections of
one of the most distinguished and versatile critics in the
field. 312pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
126925 DOSTOEVSKY: THE SEEDS OF REVOLT:
1821-1849
Frank, Joseph
The first volume of Frank's acclaimed five-volume biography
follows Dostoevsky from his boyhood in Moscow and the
death of his father through the involvement with radicalism
that led to his exile in Siberia. 424pgs. • 1979
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $11.98
115149 JEWS IN RUSSIAN
LITERATURE AFTER THE OCTOBER
REVOLUTION: Writers and Artists
Between Hope and Apostasy
Sicher, Efraim
This fascinating view of intercultural
and intertextual connections and contrasts examines how writers like Babel,
Mandelstam,
Pasternak,
and
Ehrenburg attempted to resolve the
conflict between their cultural identity and their place in
Revolutionary Russia. 306pgs. • 1995
• Cambridge • C • $147.00 / $49.98
120628 MILTON: Poet, Pamphleteer
and Patriot
Beer, Anna
A fresh and engaging account of the great
poet's life and times. By closely examining
all aspects of Milton's life -- his poetry, his
prose, his Latin writings, his careful editing
of his own biography, the records of his
government work, and the social and political history of England during one of its
most tumultuous periods -- Anna Beer succeeds in bringing a
celebrated and enigmatic writer to vivid life. 480pgs. • 2008
• Bloomsbury • C • SPECIAL PRICE / $12.98
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 • $27.95 / $14.98
130226 THE MODERNIST PAPERS
Jameson, Fredric
In this tour de force of analysis and criticism, Jameson examines the modernist literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. The
book includes intensive discussions of the
work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Wallace
Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann,
among others. 426pgs. • 2007
• Verso • C • $34.95 / $9.98
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 • $46.95 / $22.98
111776 NORTHERN ARTS: The Breakthrough of
Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman
Weinstein, Arnold
A magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional
insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through
the most startling works created by the writers and artists of
Scandinavia over the past two centuries. 544pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $55.00 / $14.98
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 • $14.95 / $9.98
130298 ON TRUST: Art and the Temptations of
Suspicion
Josipovici, Gabriel
Is it possible to create art freely today and yet produce works
that are more than just decorative or commercial? asks
Gabriel Josipovici. The suspicion that art is both frivolous and
deceptive has a relatively short history, he explains, as he
examines works created in "cultures of trust," including
Homer, the Hebrew Bible, Dante, and Shakespeare. 304pgs.
• 1999
• Yale • C • $45.00 / $14.98
120458 PARADISE, DEATH AND
DOOMSDAY IN ANGLO-SAXON
LITERATURE
Kabir, Ananya Jahanara
How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize
the interim between death and Doomsday?
Kabir presents the first investigation into
the Anglo-Saxon belief in the "interim paradise," or paradise as a temporary abode
for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. 222pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • C • $121.00 / $50.98
092912 PATTERNS FOR AMERICA: Modernism & the
Concept of Culture
Hegeman, Susan
Examining the historical uses of the term "culture" in both
academic and popular contexts, Hegeman persuasively
demonstrates how the concept shifted away from its original
anthropological provenance. She connects this with the emergence of a specifically "American culture," as exemplified in
the work of writers like Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer,
Nathanael West, and James Agee. 274pgs. • 1999
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $9.98
086086 PROUST, BECKETT, AND NARRATION
Reid, James H.
This comparison of the narrative techniques of two of the 20th
century's most important writers of prose combines theoretical analysis and text study of Proust's A la recherche du temps
perdu and of Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies,
and The Unnamable. 206pgs. • 2003
• Cambridge • C • $95.00 / $19.98
110962 ROMANTICISM AGAINST THE TIDE OF
MODERNITY
Löwy, Michael & Robert Sayre
Löwy and Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as
a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization. They reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary
diversity of romanticism, and, propose a typology of the
sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers -- from
"restitutionist" to various revolutionary/utopian forms.
336pgs. • 2001
• Duke • C NDJ • $94.95 / $15.98
111807 SHAKESPEARE
Herder, Johann Gottfried
One of the most important works in the
history of literary criticism, this passionate essay pioneered a new, historicist approach to cultural artifacts by
arguing that they should be judged not
by conventions imported from another
time and place, but by the effectiveness
of their response to their own historical and cultural context. 86pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $13.95 / $5.98
119095 SHAKESPEARE AND THE
RISE OF THE EDITOR
Massai, Sonia
Massai challenges the common assumption that the first editor of Shakespeare
was Nicholas Rowe, who published his
edition of Shakespeare's Works in
1709. Including six case studies of a
selection of early printed playbooks,
this book represents the first sustained
attempt to provide a prehistory of the official editorial tradition. 266pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $120.99 / $22.98
119768 SHAKESPEARE ON
MASCULINITY
Wells, Robin Headlam
Engaging with a subject that provokes
bitter public dispute, Headlam Wells
argues that Shakespeare took a skeptical view of the militant-Protestant
cult of heroic masculinity, and that he
turned at the end of his writing career
to a different kind of leader. Plays receiving close readings
include The Tempest, Henry V, Troilus and Cressida,
Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus. 262pgs. • 2000
• Cambridge • C • $99.00 / $16.98
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118538 SHAKESPEARE'S PHILOSOPHY: Discovering
the Meaning Behind the Plays
McGinn, Colin
Focusing on six plays -- A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest -McGinn provides a brilliant analysis of the major philosophical themes embedded in Shakespeare's work, including the possibility of human knowledge and the threat of
skepticism; the nature of the self; the character of causation; the nature of evil; and the power of language to influence the human mind. 230pgs. • 2007
• HarperCollins • P • $13.99 / $5.98
008285 UNDIVINE COMEDY: Detheologizing Dante
Barolini, Teodolinda
Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms,
Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading of the Divine
Comedy. Her approach attempts to break out of the hermeneutic strictures that Dante built into his poem, strictures that have
resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been
overdetermined by the poet. 356pgs. • 1992
• Princeton • P • $46.00 / $16.98
126901 WAR AT A DISTANCE: Romanticism and the
Making of Modern Wartime
Favret, Mary A.
Examining the literature and art produced in Britain during
the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era. She describes
how global military operations affected the British populace,
as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for
decades. 280pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $26.95 / $16.98
130310 WILDE THE IRISHMAN
McCormick, Jerusha H., ed.
In this vigorous study, leading Irish literary and artistic figures examine the surprisingly neglected theme of the
"Irishness" of Oscar Wilde. The book includes critical
essays that explore how Wilde reflected the Irish tradition
as well as creative responses to Wilde by poets, playwrights,
sculptors, a short story writer, and an actor. 224pgs. •
1998
• Yale • C • $50.00 / $9.98
117433 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS: A
Writer's Life
Goodman, Susan & Carl Dawson
William Dean Howells was, among other
things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of
America's finest writers, and an outspoken
opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on
Howells in 50 years, reveals a complex and
painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political
corruption, industrial greed, and imperialism. 520pgs. •
2005
• California • C • $36.95 / $7.98
036245 THE WOMAN'S HAND: Gender and Theory in
Japanese Women's Writing
Schalow, Paul G. & Janet A. Walker, eds.
Defines the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of
women's writing and presents cross-cultural interpretations of
Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. 511pgs. • 1997
• Stanford • C • $84.95 / $22.98
LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA
130795 ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT
Vonnegut, Kurt
A collection of twelve previously unpublished writings on war
and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor
and outraged moral sense, the pieces range from a letter written by Vonnegut to his family in 1945, informing them that
he'd been taken prisoner by the Germans, to his last speech,
delivered after his death by his son Mark, who provides a
warmly personal introduction to the collection. 240pgs. •
2008
• Putnam • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $7.98
125589 THE BEST LAID SCHEMES:
Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert
Burns
Burns, Robert
Newly edited from manuscripts and early
printed texts, this definitive, wide-ranging
collection includes some recently discovered verses and is the only edition to present a substantial selection of Burns's
important prose writings, including letters
and key statements about his art. Features marginal glosses of
Scots, archaic, and obscure words. 312pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
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
100909 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa
Volokhonsky of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel. 824pgs.
• 2002
• Farrar, Straus & Giroux • P • $18.00 / $9.98
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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 • $24.95 / $12.98
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
118892 NAKED LUNCH
50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Burroughs, William S.
A commemorative republication of one of the most important and influential novels of the 20th century. This special
slipcased hardcover edition features a restored text that is
faithful to Burroughs's original composition, an introduction by David Ulin, as well as reproductions of original manuscript pages and drawings. 320pgs. • 2009
• Grove Press • C • $24.00 / $11.98
027680 WORD VIRUS: The
Williams Burroughs Reader
Grauerholz, James & Ira Silverberg,
eds.
Follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious
"routines" to the experimental cut-up
novels to Cities of the Red Night and The
Cat Inside. Accompanied by illuminating biographical essays. 532pgs. •
1998
• Grove Press • P • $16.00 / $6.98
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118510 DIARY OF A BAD YEAR
Coetzee, J. M.
In this brilliant work of fiction by the Nobel Prize–winning
author of Disgrace, Coetzee once again breaks new literary
ground, as he takes on the world of politics and creates an
ingenious literary game that will enthrall readers and surprise them with its emotional power. 240pgs. • 2007
• Viking • C • $24.95 / $6.98
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 • $19.95 / $9.98
125827 CAPE COD
Thoreau, Henry David
This complete, definitive text of the original work, introduced
by poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky, contains some of
Thoreau's most beautiful writing. 256pgs. • 2004
• Princeton • P • $12.95 / $7.98
130177 THE COLLECTED LYRIC
POEMS OF LUÍS 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. Includes more than 280 lyrics
altogether, all rendered in engaging verse
by translator Landeg White. 384pgs. •
2008
• Princeton • C • $57.50 / $12.98
125713 COLLECTED POEMS
BILINGUAL EDITION
Cavafy, C. P.
This revised bilingual edition offers the reader the original
Greek texts facing what are now recognized as the standard
English translations of Cavafy's poetry by Edmund Keeley and
Philip Sherrard. Features the notes of editor George Savidis
and a new foreword by Robert Pinsky. 480pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $22.95 / $9.98
126783 THE COLLECTED SHORTER
PLAYS
Beckett, Samuel
This definitive collection of 25 plays
and playlets includes Krapp's Last Tape,
Embers, Cascando, Play, Eh Joe, Not I,
and Footfalls, as well as his mimes, all
his radio and television plays, his
screenplay for Film, and his adaptation
of Robert Pinget's The Old Tune.
320pgs. • 2010
• Grove Press • P • $15.95 / $7.98
119969 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
W. B. YEATS: VOLUME IV: Early Essays
Yeats, W. B., et al.
Includes the contents of the two most
important collections of Yeats's critical
prose, Ideas of Good and Evil and The
Cutting of an Agate. Among the essays are
considerations of Blake, Shakespeare,
Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an
extended discussion of the Japanese Noh
theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials, this volume offers a corrected text and detailed annotations. 560pgs.
• 2007
• Scribner • C • $50.00 / $12.98
038417 EUGENE ONEGIN: A Novel in
Verse Volume I: Introduction &
Translation
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR, TRANS.
Pushkin, Alexander
Nabokov's bold English-language rendering
of Pushkin's masterpiece is itself a work of
enduring literary interest, and reflects a lifelong admiration for Pushkin on the part of
one of the 20th century's most brilliant stylists. This volume includes the text of Nabokov's translation
along with his extensive introduction to the poem. 334pgs. •
1990
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
130292 FRIENDS AND APOSTLES: The
Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey,
1905-1914
Hale, Keith, ed.
The letters between the English poet Rupert Brooke and his
close friend James Strachey here appear in print for the first
time. The letters reveal much about the lives and interests of
these two gifted young men, the nature of their relationship,
and the activities of many illustrious friends such as Lytton
Strachey, J. M. Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Bertrand Russell.
320pgs. • 1998
• Yale • C • $55.00 / $14.98
122598 FRIENDSHIP: An Expose
Epstein, Joseph
Is it possible to have too many friends? Is
your spouse supposed to be your best friend?
How do you end a friendship that has run its
course? In a wickedly entertaining anatomy of
friendship in its contemporary guises, Joseph
Epstein uncovers the surprising truths about
our favored companions. 288pgs. • 2007
• Houghton Mifflin • P • $14.95 / $4.98
070051 GERMAN SONGS: Popular, Political, Folk, and
Religious
THE GERMAN LIBRARY, VOLUME 53
Pinkert-Saltzer, Inke, ed.
This collection of German songs contains two strains of tradition: the political song and the folk song. The main criterion
for inclusion in this anthology is the popularity a song has
enjoyed, either down through the centuries or more recently,
in German-speaking or non-German-speaking countries. The
addition of scores is another plus, offering an opportunity to
recognize the songs musically. 324pgs. • 1995
• Continuum • P • $35.95 / $7.98
JAPANESE POETRY
051774 LOVE POEMS FROM THE
JAPANESE
SHAMBHALA LIBRARY
Rexroth, Kenneth, trans.
Drawn from classical, medieval, and
modern sources, the poems in this collection are some of the greatest love
poems from the Japanese tradition.
They range in tone from the spiritual
longing of an isolated monk to the erotic ecstasy of a court princess, but share the extraordinary
simplicity and luminosity of language that marks translator
Kenneth Rexroth's verse style. 141pgs. • 2003
• Shambhala • C • $16.95 / $7.98
027805 THE SOUND OF WATER: Haiku by Basho,
Buson, Issa, & Other Poets
Hamill, Sam, trans.
This pocket-sized volume offers more than 200 of the best
haiku written by masters from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, who distill the Zen essence of image, emotion, and
awareness. 125pgs. • 1995
• Shambhala • P • $10.95 / $5.98
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130210 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF FIDEL CASTRO
Fuentes, Norberto
An audacious "biography" of the Cuban
leader told in Castro's own outrageous,
bombastic voice. Akin to Gertrude
Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas or Edmund Morris's Dutch, this
wickedly entertaining, true-to-life masterpiece is as imaginative and outsized
as Castro himself. 592pgs. • 2009
• W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $6.98
028142 FICCIONES
Borges, Jorge Luis
The 17 pieces in this volume demonstrate the prodigious
powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the
greatest writers of any century. Borges leads us on a journey
into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm;
we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and
literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal
return. 174pgs. • 1994
• Grove Press • P • $14.00 / $5.98
043951 FIVE DECADES: Poems,
1925-1970
BILINGUAL EDITION
Neruda, Pablo
This bilingual volume is the definitive
collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda,
the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of
the most profoundly influential poets of
the 20th century. Ben Belitt has drawn
the 138 selections in from all of
Neruda's major works, including Residence on Earth, Canto
General, Elemental Odes, A Hundred Love Sonnets, Black
Island Memorial, World's End, and Skystones. 431pgs. •
1974
• Grove Press • P • $15.00 / $5.98
061115 LIVING TO TELL THE TALE
García Márquez, Gabriel
In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the
Nobel laureate relates the colorful stories of his eccentric
family members; the great influence of his mother and
maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism;
and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer.
484pgs. • 2003
• Knopf • C • $26.95 / $4.98
123956 GHOSTS IN IRISH HOUSES: A Collection of
Ghostly Folk Tales
Reynolds, James
Ranging in era from the 10th century to the 20th, these
ghostly tales mix the eerie, the terrifying, and the madcap.
Enhanced by 30 illustrations of Irish homes and castles, the
22 short stories include "The Headless Rider of Castle
Sheela," "Mrs. O'Moyne and the Fatal Slap," "The Ghostly
Catch," and more. 304pgs. • 2009
• Dover • P • $11.95 / $4.98
103846 THE GOLDEN AGE: Poems of the Spanish
Renaissance
Grossman, Edith, trans.
The Spanish Renaissance -- a period of glory that spanned
from the late 15th century through the 17th century -- comes
to life in this bilingual anthology, edited by acclaimed translator Edith Grossman. Includes works by Jorge Manrique,
Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Góngora, Lope de Vega, and
other luminaries of the age. 201pgs. • 2006
• W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $5.98
049771 GRAMMARS OF CREATION: Originating in the
Gifford Lectures of 1990
Steiner, George
An exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history. Steiner probes deeply into the
driving forces of the human spirit, considers our perceptions
of Western civilization's lengthening afternoon shadows, and
concludes with an eloquent evocation of the endlessness of
beginnings. 344pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C • $39.00 / $9.98
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123921 GREAT SHORT STORIES BY
ENGLISH AND IRISH WOMEN
Ward, Candace, ed.
A collection of stories ranging over two centuries, from Romanticism to Modernism. It
includes George Eliot's Gothic tale "The
Lifted Veil"; "The Mortal Immortal," a
supernatural fable by Frankenstein creator
Mary Shelley; plus scintillating stories by
Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rosa
Mulholland, Elizabeth Bowen, Ella D'Arcy, and others.
288pgs. • 2007
• Dover • P • $12.95 / $4.98
108831 HENRY, KING OF FRANCE
Mann, Heinrich
In this sequel to Young Henry of Navarre, the compelling epic
of Henry IV's reign over France is followed to its tragic conclusion. Written while Mann was in exile from Nazi Germany
and incorporating both a scathing critique of tyranny and a
passionate exhortation for tyranny, the novel recounts the two
decades of chaos and war that culminated in the king's assassination in 1589. 786pgs. • 2004
• Overlook Press • P • $24.95 / $6.98
101917 HOPEFUL MONSTERS: A Novel
Mosley, Nicholas
A pyrotechnically accomplished novel of ideas in which
communism, psychoanalytic theory, uncertainty, and relativity attain visceral emotional force and illuminate the cataclysms of the 20th century. The winner of the Whitbread
Award, it is a tour de force of intellect and eros, in which
Einstein taunts a lecture hall full of Nazis and Ludwig
Wittgenstein is an awkward guest at an English garden
party. 551pgs. • 2000
• Dalkey Archive Press • P • $14.95 / $4.98
113787 THE JEWISH KING LEAR: A
Comedy in America
TRANSLATED BY RUTH GAY
Gordin, Jacob
The Jewish King Lear, written by the
Russian-Jewish writer Jacob Gordin, was
first performed on the New York stage in
1892, during the height of the emigration
of Jews from Eastern Europe to America.
This book presents the original play to the
English-speaking reader for the first time in its history, along
with substantive essays on the play's literary and social context. 171pgs. • 2007
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $7.98
110119 THE LITERATURE OF LESBIANISM: A
Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
Castle, Terry, ed.
From Renaissance love poems to 20th-century novels,
plays, and short stories, this volume collects hundreds of
literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. As
Castle demonstrates, it is hardly the taboo or forbidden
topic we sometimes assume it to be, but has in fact been a
central preoccupation for many of our greatest writers, past
and present. 1110pgs. • 2005
• Columbia • P • $35.00 / $14.98
130211 THE MAKING OF A SONNET:
A Norton Anthology
Boland, Eavan & Edward Hirsch, eds.
An enlightening, celebratory anthology of
the most enduring of poetic forms. Along
with approximately 300 sonnets and a "sonnet workshop," the editors provide an
excursion through the craft and history of
the form, tracing its various adventures and
its extraordinary resurgence in contemporary poetry. 512pgs. • 2008
• W. W. Norton • C • $35.00 / $9.98
069350 MISTRESS AND MAID: Jiaohongji
Meng, Cheng-Shun & Cyril Birch
One of our most acclaimed translators of Chinese drama and
a specialist of Ming period literature translates one of the
greatest Chinese tragedies of the first half of the seventeenth
century, available for the first time in English. 288pgs. • 2001
• Columbia • P • $29.00 / $7.98
049883 THE MONK
Lewis, Matthew G.
The Monk shocked and titillated readers with
its graphic portrayal of lust, sin, and violence
when it was first published in 1796. A true
classic of the Gothic novel, it has left an indelible mark on English literature and has influenced such eminent writers as Byron, Scott,
Poe, Flaubert, Hawthorne, and Emily Brontë.
445pgs. • 1993
• Oxford University • P • $15.00 / $7.98
130218 THE OTHER
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Examining the concept of "the other" through the lens of his
own encounters as a journalist in Africa, Asia and Latin
America, Kapuscinski traces how the West has understood the
non-European from classical times to the present day.
104pgs. • 2008
• Verso • C • $16.95 / $5.98
122603 THE PLOT AGAINST
AMERICA
Roth, Philip
When aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated FDR by a
landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Such is the background
for this startling novel, in which who
recounts what life was like for his
Newark family -- and for a million similar families all over
the country -- during the menacing years of the Lindbergh
presidency. 400pgs. • 2004
• Houghton Mifflin • C • $26.00 / $5.98
124863 POEM STRIP: An Explanation of the Afterlife
Buzzati, Dino
The via Saterna in the middle of Milan doesn't appear on any
map. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, until
one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear. A
groundbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s, this reworking
of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice is a dark and alluring
investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by a
master of the Italian avant-garde. 224pgs. • 2009
• New York Review of Books • P • $14.95 / $5.98
125856 THE POSTHUMAN DADA GUIDE: Tzara and
Lenin Play Chess
Codrescu, Andrei
An impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world, refracted through the imagined 1916 chess game
between Tristan Tzara and V. I. Lenin. Taking the match as
metaphor for two poles of 20th- and 21st-century thought,
politics, and life, Andrei Codrescu has created his own brilliantly Dadaesque guide to Dada and to what it can teach us
about surviving our ultraconnected present and future.
248pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $18.95 / $9.98
130213 REHEATED CABBAGE: Tales of Chemical
Degeneration
Welsh, Irvine
Previously uncollected tales by the author of Trainspotting,
including outrageous early stories and a raucous new novella.
These wildly offbeat stories, most first published in small magazines and out-of-print anthologies, will delight both fans of
and newcomers to Welsh's world. 288pgs. • 2009
• W. W. Norton • P • $14.95 / $4.98
130214 RIPLEY UNDER WATER
Highsmith, Patricia
In this novel, Highsmith's favorite creation -- the smooth,
psychopathic Tom Ripley -- is confronted by a snooping
American couple obsessed with the disappearance of an art
collector who visited Ripley years before. 304pgs. • 2008
• W. W. Norton • P • $13.95 / $5.98
091675 SIEGFRIED SASSOON: A
Life
Egremont, Max
As a young officer, Sassoon showed that
physical courage could exist alongside
humanity and sensibility, as he confronted
the terrible realities of WWI on the battlefield, in verse, and, finally, by announcing
his opposition to the war. His life and work
are brilliantly illuminated in Egremont's
definitive biography. 0pgs. • 2005
• Farrar, Straus & Giroux • C • $35.00 / $11.98
101846 SWEETBITTER LOVE: Poems of Sappho
Barnstone, Willis, trans.
A faithful and lyrical version of Sappho's verse. Barnstone's
translation, with the original Greek on facing pages, includes
a dozen hitherto unintelligible fragments, as well as Sappho's
newly discovered poem from the Cologne papyrus. The translator's essay places the poet in her historic and artistic context.
368pgs. • 2006
• Shambhala • C • $26.95 / $8.98
130299 TOUCH: An Exploration
Josipovici, Gabriel
A brilliant literary thinker muses on touch, sight, and distance,
on connection and communication in life. Gabriel Josipovici
argues that it is possible to feel comfortable in the world and
in our relationships to others only if we value touch over sight
and respect distance yet work to overcome it. 156pgs. • 1996
• Yale • C • $42.00 / $12.98
130215 A TRANQUIL STAR:
Stories
Levi, Primo
These 17 stories, first published
between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate
Levi's extraordinary range, taking the
reader from the primal resistance of a
captured partisan fighter to a middleaged chemist experimenting with a
new paint that wards off evil, to the
lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious
woman in a seaside villa. 176pgs. • 2008
• W. W. Norton • P • $13.95 / $4.98
122508 UNDER KILIMANJARO
Hemingway, Ernest
An adventuresome, comedic, and thoughtful recounting of Hemingway's final safari.
The last of his manuscripts to be published
in its entirety, it reveals a mature, tender,
happy, and reflective Hemingway and
offers a compelling, deliberately paced,
subtle story of a place and time as only the
master's hand could write it. 456pgs. •
2005
• Kent State • C • $34.00 / $5.98
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RENAISSANCE STU DI ES
120693 CAESARIUS OF ARLES: Life, Testament, Letters
Klingshirn, William E., trans.
The documents included in this volume vividly illustrate
Caesarius's career and the social and religious history of
Provence at a time of far-reaching political change, during
which the region was ruled by a series of Visigothic,
Burgundian, Ostrogothic and, ultimately, Frankish kings.
176pgs. • 1994
• Liverpool • P • $25.00 / $11.98
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 • $23.95 / $17.98
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117118 A DISTANT MIRROR: The
Calamitous 14th Century
Tuchman, Barbara W.
The 14th century was a time of crusades
and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and
also a dark time of ferocity and spiritual
agony, in which the world was plunged into
a chaos of war, fear, and pestilence.
Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century,
revealing both the great rhythms of history
and the texture of ordinary domestic life. 704pgs. • 1987
• Ballantine • P • $18.95 / $7.98
111444 FURTA SACRA: Thefts of
Relics in the Central Middle Ages
Geary, Patrick J.
To obtain sacred relics, medieval
monks plundered tombs, avaricious
merchants raided churches, and relicmongers 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
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
119100 THE LATIN CHURCH IN NORMAN ITALY
Loud, G. A.
A detailed examination of the relationship between Norman
rulers, south Italian churchmen and the external influence of
the new "papal monarchy." The book also discusses the
impact of the creation of the new kingdom of Sicily in 1130
and the tensions that arose from the papal schism. 596pgs. •
2007
• Cambridge • C • $137.00 / $39.98
106953 LAY INTELLECTUALS IN THE
CAROLINGIAN WORLD
Wormald, Patrick & Janet L. Nelson, eds.
In this fascinating and wide-ranging volume, leading historians demonstrate that
the learned laity, both women as well as
men, contributed much more as writers
and patrons to early medieval culture
than was previously thought. 263pgs. •
2008
• Cambridge • C • $110.00 / $55.98
038630 THE MAKING OF EUROPE: Conquest,
Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
Bartlett, Robert
From our modern perspective, we tend to think of the Europe
of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered
lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that
Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process
of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer.
432pgs. • 1994
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $20.98
043554 PHANTOMS OF REMEMBRANCE: Memory
and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium
Geary, Patrick J.
From women praying for their dead to scribes choosing which
royal families to forget, this volume focuses on the Carolingian
empire to compare how people recalled their familial, institutional, and regional pasts. 248pgs. • 1996
• Princeton • P • $31.95 / $18.98
104967 SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE:
Sexual Abstinence in Medieval
Wedlock
Elliott, Dyan
The early Christian and medieval practice of spiritual marriage, in which husband and wife voluntarily relinquished
sexual activity, played an important role
in the development of the institution of
marriage and in the understanding of
female religiosity. Drawing on hagiography, chronicles, theology, canon law, and pastoral sources, Dyan Elliott traces
the history of spiritual marriage in the West from apostolic
times to the beginning of the 16th century. 390pgs. • 1995
• Princeton • P • $37.50 / $16.98
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122586 THE STONES OF
NAPLES: Church Building in the
Angevin Italy, 1266-1343
Bruzelius, Caroline Astrid
The architectural legacy of the
Angevin kings who ruled southern
Italy from 1266 to 1343 is very little
known today. This groundbreaking
book examines Angevin religious
architecture, bringing to light the
novelty and importance of these buildings while extending
current understanding of the variety of medieval architecture beyond the well-known cathedrals of France and
England. 288pgs. • 2004
• Yale • C • $85.00 / $50.98
THE
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080917 FIGHTING FOR CHRISTENDOM: Holy War
and the Crusades
Tyerman, Christopher
Tyerman picks his way through the many debates and controversies to present a clear and lively discussion of the
Crusades, examining colonialism, cultural exchange, economic exploitation, and the relationship between past and
present. A concluding essay traces the impact of the
Crusades from the Protestant Reformation to the present.
264pgs. • 2005
• Oxford University • C • $26.00 / $7.98
087350 THE FIRST CRUSADE
Runciman, Steven
Runicman's History of the Crusades has
been acclaimed as a classic account of
the centuries-long struggle to redeem
the Holy Land for Christendom. This
abridgment, which covers the initial
wave of the Crusades, makes accessible
to a broader readership one of the most
compelling of historical narratives.
208pgs. • 2004
• Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $9.98
080963 THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE SACK OF
CONSTANTINOPLE
Phillips, Jonathan
On the 800th anniversary of the sack of Constantinople, this
is the story of the epic catastrophe. With texts and speeches
from knights, commoners, monastic chroniclers, courtly
troubadours, and even Pope Innocent III, Phillips demonstrates how any region steeped in religious fanaticism can
succumb to holy war. 400pgs. • 2005
• Penguin • P • $15.00 / $6.98
114570 HOLY WAR: The
Crusades and Their Impact on
Today's World
Armstrong, Karen
In 1095, Pope Urban II summoned
Christians to take up the cross and
reconquer the Holy Land. As Armstrong
demonstrates in this fascinating book,
the Crusades' legacy of religious violence continues today in the Middle
East, where the conflict of Christians, Jews, and Muslims
persists. 628pgs. • 2001
• Anchor Books • P • $18.00 / $7.98
105910 THE LEPER KING AND HIS HEIRS: Baldwin
IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
Hamilton, Bernard
The reign of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1174-85) has traditionally been seen as a period of decline when, because of
the king's illness, power came to be held by a group of advisers who made disastrous policy decisions. This book challenges that view, arguing that the young king in fact presided
over a vigorous and self-confident society. 314pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • P • $61.00 / $38.98
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126943 ARAB NATIONALISM IN THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY: From Triumph to Despair
Dawisha, Adeed
In this richly documented history of the rise and fall of the
Arab nationalist movement, Dawisha criticizes the common
failure to distinguish between the broad cultural phenomenon
of "Arabism" and the political, secular desire for a united Arab
state that defined Arab nationalism. 352pgs. • 2005
• Princeton • P • $28.95 / $18.98
125726 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Hanioglu, M. Sukru
At the turn of the 19th century, the
Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary
ethnic and cultural diversity among the
estimated 30 million people living within its borders. This volume gives scholars and general readers a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent
years marked by enormous social changes. 264pgs. •
2010
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
125599 THE CHURCH IN THE SHADOW OF THE
MOSQUE: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam
Griffith, Sidney H.
Amid contemporary discussions of the "Christian-Muslim
divide," a major historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more
than four hundred years, beginning in the mid-seventh century, half of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under
Muslim rule. This volume is the first book-length discussion in
English of the cultural and intellectual life of these Christian
communities. 248pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $14.98
126057 EGYPT: A Short History
Tignor, R. L.
Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an
ideal introduction and guide to Egypt's long, brilliant, and
complex history for general readers, tourists, and anyone
else who wants a better understanding of this vibrant and
fascinating country. 363pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $29.95 / $16.98
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
• Princeton • P • $30.95 / $15.98
126757 THE FATEFUL TRIANGLE: The
United States, Israel and the
Palestinians
Chomsky, Noam
Since its original publication in 1983,
Fateful Triangle has become a classic in
the fields of political science and Middle
East affairs. Examining America's search
for a "reliable ally" in the Middle East,
Chomsky untangles the intricacies of the
US-Israeli-Palestinian relationship and lays bare the contortions, lies, and misinformation that have been used over the
years to obscure the real agenda. 544pgs. • 2000
• Pluto • P • $22.00 / $7.98
073812 FROM BABEL TO
DRAGOMANS: Interpreting the
Middle East
Lewis, Bernard
Bernard Lewis has been hailed as "the
world's foremost Islamic scholar"
(Wall Street Journal) and as "the doyen
of Middle Eastern studies" (New York
Times). Collected here are writings and
lectures spanning four decades, featuring his reflections on Middle Eastern history and foreign
affairs, the Iranian Revolution, the state of Israel, the writing of history, and more. 456pgs. • 2004
• Oxford University • C • $28.00 / $7.98
106334 A HISTORY OF IRAQ
THIRD EDITION
Tripp, Charles
Since its first appearance in 2000, this volume has become a
classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by
students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. It has now
been updated to cover the recent American invasion, the fall
and capture of Saddam Hussein, and the subsequent descent
into civil strife. 357pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $11.98
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 centre of Pappe's narrative. 384pgs.
• 2006
• Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $15.98
116454 ISLAM: A Short History
Armstrong, Karen
Armstrong begins with the stirring of revelation in a businessman named Muhammad. Examining the Sunni-Shi'ite
schism, the rise of Persian influence, clashes with crusaders and Mongolian conquerors, and the spiritual explorations that traced the route to God, Armstrong brings us to
the present day, putting Islamic fundamentalism into context as part of a worldwide phenomenon. 272pgs. • 2002
• Modern Library • P • $15.95 / $5.98
104849 ISLAMIC HISTORY: A Framework for Inquiry
Humphreys, R. Stephen
Examines problems and methods in Islamic historiography
through a series of chapters exploring broad topics in the
social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa
between AD 600 and 1500. The topics selected range from the
struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the
life of the peasantry. 416pgs. • 1991
• Princeton • P • $39.95 / $23.98
127317 THE LIFE OF SALADIN: Based
on the Works of Baha' Ad-Din Ibn
Shaddad and 'Imad Ad-Din Al-Isfahani
Gibb, Hamilton
Saladin, the Kurdish founder of the Ayyubid
Dynasty, conquered Jerusalem in 1187 and
repelled the Crusaders. Though England's
Richard I later defeated him, his legend has
become enshrined in European as well as
Middle Eastern lore. Sir Hamilton Gibb
produced this short biographical account by drawing from
two chronicles written by well-placed contemporaries of the
fabled leader. 96pgs. • 2006
• Saqi Books • C • $14.95 / $6.98
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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
130227 PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS: From
Zionism to Israel
Mayer, Arno J.
An absorbing, challenging narrative of Zionism and Israel in
the context of world history, incorporating reflections on
founding violence, sovereignty, resistance, terror, and religious politics. 432pgs. • 2008
• Verso • C • $34.95 / $7.98
125549 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
SHAH: Iran from Autocracy to
Religious Rule
Saikal, Amin
Examines the rule of Mohammad Reza
Shah Pahlavi, especially from 1953 to
1979, in the context of his regime's
dependence on the US and his dreams of
transforming Iran into a world power.
Saikal argues that, despite the Shah's early
achievements, his goals and policies were full of inherent contradictions and ultimately failed to achieve their objectives.
328pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $13.98
128609 THE TURKS TODAY
Mango, Andrew
Today Turkey is a rapidly developing country, an emergent market, a medium-sized
regional power with the second strongest
army in NATO. Mango provides an overall
portrait, tracing the republic's development since the death of its founder and
bringing to life the Turkish people and
their vibrant society today. 288pgs. • 2004
• Overlook Press • C • $29.95 / $7.98
M USIC & DANCE
125727 THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
AND THE PERFORMANCE OF
PERSONAL IDENTITY
Knapp, Raymond
The American musical has long provided
an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine
who they are and how they might best
interact with the world around them.
Complementing the author's earlier work,
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity,
this book completes a two-volume thematic history of the
genre. 488pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $14.98
119248 THE CELLO SUITES: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals,
and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Siblin, Eric
Why did Bach compose an ensemble of suites for the cello,
which was considered a lowly instrument in his day? And what
happened to the original manuscript of the suites, which were
all but forgotten until a copy was miraculously rediscovered,
centuries later, by a teenaged Pablo Casals? In this volume,
Siblin pursues the mysteries that continue to haunt this music
nearly 300 years after its composition. 336pgs. • 2009
• Grove Press • C • $24.00 / $8.98
048894 JACQUES OFFENBACH AND THE PARIS OF HIS
TIME
Kracauer, Siegfried
Kracauer's biography, first published in 1937, is a remarkable
work of social and cultural history that employs the life and
work of Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris. Kracauer insists that
Offenbach's productions are more than glittering distractions,
and that they made a mockery of the pomp and pretense
Napoleon III's imperial masquerade. 418pgs. • 2002
• Zone Books • C • $36.95 / $9.98
130305 THE LIED: Mirror of
Late Romanticism
Kravitt, Edward F.
The German lied, a song form that fuses
music and poetry, provides a key to
understanding far-reaching cultural
changes at the turn of the century. As
Kravitt reveals in this definitive study, the
lied became an important vehicle in the
German people's search to rediscover
their national roots. 336pgs. • 1996
• Yale • C • $60.00 / $12.98
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089174 LIKE A ROLLING STONE: Bob Dylan at the
Crossroads
Marcus, Greil
Situates Dylan's masterwork in its full context, capturing the
atmosphere of the recording studio in 1965 as musicians and
technicians clustered around a young Dylan at the height of his
powers. Marcus also shows how the song is rooted in
American places and times, drawing on timeless impulses to
make the song as challenging, disruptive, and restless today as
ever. 304pgs. • 2006
• PublicAffairs • P • $14.00 / $4.98
127301 MORESCHI: And the Voice of the Castrato
Clapton, Nicholas
Known as "the Angel of Rome", Alessandro Moreschi was the
last surviving castrato singer of the Vatican choir, and the only
castrato whose voice was recorded. In this biography, Clapton
addresses the complexities inherent in the subject, showing
that the use of castrati was an integral part of the lineage of
Western music and should not be judged from the perspective
of the 21st century. 224pgs. • 2008
• Haus Publishers • C • $30.00 / $7.98
064200 A PORTRAIT OF MENDELSSOHN
Brown, Clive
A balanced and fascinating picture of the composer and his
work. Rejecting the received view of Mendelssohn as a facile,
lightweight musician, Brown demonstrates that he was in fact
an innovative and highly cerebral composer who exerted a
powerful influence on musical thought into the 20th century.
551pgs. • 2003
• Yale • C • $55.00 / $12.98
127310 SHOSTAKOVICH: His Life and Music
Morton, Brian
The most controversial composer of the Soviet era, Dmitri
Shostakovich wrote symphonies, chamber music, ballets, and
operas. His music, tonal and expressive, was not always in line
with official Soviet tastes. Brian Morton's biography provides a
new appraisal of the composer in the context of the tumultuous century in which he lived. 137pgs. • 2006
• Haus Publishers • C • $24.95 / $12.98
130801 THE WORLD IN SIX SONGS
Levitin, Daniel J.
Elaborating his daring theory of "six songs," Leviton shows
how the brain evolved to play and listen to music for knowledge, friendship, religion, joy, comfort, and love. He shows
how music and dance enabled the social bonding and
friendship necessary for human culture and society to
evolve. 368pgs. • 2008
• Plume • P • SPECIAL PRICE / $6.98
NATU RAL H ISTORY &
ENVIRONM ENTAL STU DIES
119123 ANATOMY OF FLOWERING
PLANTS: An Introduction to Structure
and Development
Rudall, Paula
The third edition of this successful manual
provides a comprehensive introduction to
the anatomy of flowering plants.
Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the book covers all aspects of comparative plant structure and development, in a
series of chapters on the stem, root, leaf, flower, seed, and
fruit. 145pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $47.00 / $14.98
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 • $52.50 / $25.98
124413 BIOPHYSICAL ECOLOGY
Gates, David Murray
In its analytical interpretation of the ecological responses of plants and animals to
their environments, this highly influential
text, published in 1980, draws upon studies of energy exchange, gas exchange, and
chemical kinetics. It will prove of value to
students and environmental researchers
from a variety of fields, particularly ecology, agronomy, forestry, botany, and zoology. 635pgs. • 2003
• Dover • P • $34.95 / $19.98
063899 CACTI: Biology and Uses
Nobel, Park S., ed.
This up-to-date, wide-ranging reference is the first book of its
kind to present comprehensive information on cactus biology,
ecology, and uses in one convenient volume. Compiled by a
well-known cactus biologist, it includes chapters by 35 contributors from around the world on topics ranging from evolution to biotechnology. 280pgs. • 2002
• California • C • $70.00 / $16.98
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
126917 COLLECTIVE ANIMAL
BEHAVIOR
Sumpter, David J. T.
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in
flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build
trails, but how and why do these collective
behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Sumpter reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines their evolution across a range of species. 312pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $39.50 / $26.98
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104784 CORAL REEF FISHES: INDO-PACIFIC AND
CARIBBEAN
Lieske, Ewald & Robert Myers
Expanded and updated to include an additional 44 species,
this is a handy guide to those fishes that are likely to be
observed when visiting or diving on the coral reefs of the
Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific to a depth of 60
meters. Important identification characteristics are highlighted on every color plate. 400pgs. • 2001
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
109456 DARWINISM AND ITS
DISCONTENTS
Ruse, Michael
An ardent defense of Darwin's theory of
evolution. Ruse examines such issues as the
origins of life, the fossil record, the mechanism of natural selection, punctuated equilibrium, fraud in biological science, and
the philosophical and religious implications of Darwinism, notably in a discussion
of Creationism and its offshoot, Intelligent Design Theory.
316pgs. • 2008
• Cambridge • P • $20.99 / $9.98
107389 DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES: A
Biography
Browne, Janet
A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the
Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling
into question the belief in a Creator with its description of
evolution through natural selection. Here Darwin's foremost biographer delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. 174pgs. • 2008
• Grove Press • P • $14.00 / $4.98
104775 DO ANIMALS THINK?
Wynne, Clive D. L.
This provocative book debunks some commonly held notions
about our furry friends, arguing that animals have neither the
"theory-of-mind" capabilities that humans have (that is, they
are not conscious of what others are thinking) nor the capacity for higher-level reasoning. 268pgs. • 2006
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
124336 THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN
AND ANIMALS
Darwin, Charles
Darwin's inquiry into how people and animals display fear,
anger, and pleasure. This highly readable 1872 study was
based on personal observations, most of which were verified
by later scientific surveys. Abounding in anecdotes and literary
quotations, it continues to inform contemporary research.
Illustrated. 416pgs. • 2007
• Dover • P • $16.95 / $5.98
111381 EXTINCTION: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended
250 Million Years Ago
Erwin, Douglas H.
Some 250 million years ago, in the greatest biological crisis in
the history of our planet, around 95 percent of all living
species died out. Here, the world's foremost authority on the
subject provides a fascinating overview of the evidence for and
against a whole host of hypotheses concerning this cataclysmic
event that unfolded at the end of the Permian. 320pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $23.95 / $11.98
105139 FOSSIL LEGENDS OF THE FIRST
AMERICANS
Mayor, Adrienne
Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. Drawing on historical
sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and personal
interviews, this volume represents a major contribution to
our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils
before evolutionary theory developed. 446pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • P • $27.95 / $16.98
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130294 FROM BIOLOGY TO SOCIOPOLITICS:
Conceptual Continuity in Complex Systems
Herrmann, Heinz
A distinguished cell biologist explores how to understand living and other complex systems. In addition to the conventional basis of understanding that rests on abstract general theories, he proposes a new paradigm-conceptual continuity as a
way to resolve problems in such complex systems as human
societies. 272pgs. • 1998
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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 / $23.98
111184 BIRDS OF CHILE
Jaramillo, Alvaro
The essential guide to the birds of Chile, covering all 473
known species breeding in or visiting the country. Includes 97
color plates with succinct text and maps on facing pages for
quick reference and easy identification. 288pgs. • 2003
• Princeton • C • $75.00 / $25.98
126884 BIRDS OF EASTERN
AFRICA
Van Perlo, Ber
The only field guide to include illustrations of every bird species found in
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia,
Eritrea, Somalia, and Yemen's Socotra
Island. It covers 1,487 species depicted
on 96 color plates. 304pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $17.98
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
126936 BIRDS OF EUROPE, RUSSIA, CHINA, AND
JAPAN: Non-Passerines: Loons to Woodpeckers
Arlott, Norman
Includes every non-passerine species and subspecies, in every
adult plumage, illustrated and described by a leading bird
artist with many years of field experience. 256pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
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 / $17.98
125579 BIRDS OF WESTERN
NORTH AMERICA: A Photographic
Guide
Small, Brian E. & Paul Sterry
The best and most lavishly illustrated photographic guide to the birds of western
North America. It covers the entire western half of mainland North America
(excluding Mexico) and the arctic and
subarctic territorial islands of the US and
Canada (excluding Hawaii). 416pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $18.95 / $11.98
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126242 GALAPAGOS:
Islands Born of Fire
De Roy, Tui
Wildlife photographer and
writer Tui De Roy has spent
her life exploring the
Galapagos and recording
their secrets. Here, in spectacular full-color images and
her own words, she shares her intimate knowledge of the
islands and her deep love and respect for the natural wonders
they conceal. 168pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
126306 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN
AND CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA
Peterson, Roger Tory
The best-selling field guide, now with updated range maps,
revised plates and images, and expanded geographical coverage. 450pgs. • 2002
• Houghton Mifflin • P • $19.95 / $7.98
111734 ONE MAN'S OWL
Heinrich, Bernd
The engaging chronicle of how the author and a great horned
owl nicknamed "Bubo" came to know one another over three
summers spent in the Maine woods, and of how Bubo eventually grew into an independent hunter. 240pgs. • 1993
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $11.98
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 / $17.98
125691 THE PRINCETON
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIRDS
Perrins, Christopher, ed.
A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated reference to the world's birds.
Accessibly written by renowned biologists and conservationists, and illustrated in color throughout, the book
provides authoritative and systematic
accounts of every bird family, covering
form and function, distribution, diet, social behavior, breeding
biology, and conservation and status. 656pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
104387 SHOREBIRDS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
AMERICA: The Photographic Guide
Paulson, Dennis R.
A field guide featuring more than 530 photos that illustrate all
shorebirds in their varied plumage. The book also includes
identification tips and ways for distinguishing shorebirds from
similar species, both at rest and in flight. Brief descriptions of
voice, behavior, habitat, and range are given for each species.
384pgs. • 2005
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $20.98
130307 SHRIKES: A Guide to the Shrikes of the
World
Lefranc, Norbert
The first complete guide to the 31 species in three genera of
the family Laniidae. Along with superb illustrations and range
maps to facilitate successful field identification of all the
shrike species, this useful book contains the most recent
information on the entire shrike family. 192pgs. • 1997
• Yale • C • $50.00 / $16.98
111181 WHERE TO WATCH BIRDS IN AUSTRALASIA AND
OCEANIA
Wheatley, Nigel
An invaluable companion for birding trips to this highly varied
region of the world. General introductions to each area are
followed by site details, a list of other wildlife in the vicinity,
and the latest information on where to spot the best birds.
More than 100 maps and 50 line drawings complement the
text. 448pgs. • 1998
• Princeton • C • $55.45 / $24.98
119107 GATING IN CEREBRAL NETWORKS
Steriade, Mircea & Denis Pare
The correct functioning of the mammalian brain depends on
the co-ordinated activity of many different parts -- from cells
to systems. How these component parts interact determines
various behaviors and outcomes. The authors describe how
these interactions work in both normal conditions and in diseased states. 342pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $220.99 / $78.98
125919 GLIMPSES OF CREATURES
IN THEIR PHYSICAL WORLDS
Vogel, Steven
An eye-opening look at how the characteristics of the physical world drive
the designs of animals and plants.
Vogel shows how the forms and activities of animals and plants reflect the
materials available to nature, and
explores the unique constraints and
possibilities provided by fluid flow, structural design, and
environmental forces. 328pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
109449 INTRODUCTION TO CALIFORNIA SPRING
WILDFLOWERS OF THE FOOTHILLS, VALLEYS, AND
COAST
Munz, Philip A., et al.
This popular guidebook has helped thousands of wildflower
enthusiasts to identify the flora of some of the state's loveliest
and most accessible areas, from below the yellow pine belt in
the Sierra Nevada westward to the coast. Thoroughly revised
and updated throughout, it's an ideal companion for outdoor
excursions in California and surrounding regions. 302pgs. •
2004
• California • C • $39.95 / $14.98
111769 LIFE IN COLD BLOOD
Attenborough, David
Amphibians and reptiles once ruled the
planet, and their descendants exhibit
some of the most colorful variety and
astounding behavior known to the animal
kingdom. In this gorgeously illustrated
book, Attenborough gets up close and
personal with the living descendants of
the first vertebrates ever to colonize the
land, and through them traces the fascinating history of their
pioneering ancestors. 288pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
127683 LONG THAW: How Humans
Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years
of Earth's Climate
Archer, David
Shows how just a few centuries of fossilfuel use will cause not only a climate storm
that will last a few hundred years, but dramatic climate changes that will endure for
thousands. By comparing the global warming projection for the next century to natural climate changes of the distant past, and then looking into
the future far beyond the usual scientific and political horizon
of the year 2100, Archer reveals the hard truths of the longterm climate forecast. 192pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $16.95 / $8.98
102222 MAMMALS OF CALIFORNIA
Jameson, E. W. & Hans J. Peeters
From river otters to bobcats, pikas, and
flying squirrels, California boasts a
diverse and intriguing fauna. But observing them in the wild can be difficult.
During the past two decades, the first edition of this popular guide introduced
thousands to California's mammals by
describing techniques for recognizing
their presence, and when possible, methods for watching
them in their natural habitats. This revised edition is an
ideal companion in the field or classroom. 440pgs. • 2004
• California • C • $50.00 / $14.98
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125652 MAMMALS OF NORTH
AMERICA
Kays, Roland & Don E. Wilson
Covering 20 additional species recognized since 2002 and including 13 new
color plates, the fully revised second edition of this definitive reference illustrates
all 462 known mammal species in the
United States and Canada in beautiful
color and accurate detail. 248pgs. •
2009
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
113744 MARSHES: The Disappearing Edens
Burt, William
Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has hauled his large-format camera with
him, seeking to capture on film their unique wild beauty. In
this breathtakingly lovely book, he selects 90 of his most striking photographs, along with his reflections on the marshes on
a rich and vulnerable world. 179pgs. • 2007
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $9.98
117454 MESOZOIC BIRDS: Above
the Heads of Dinosaurs
Chiappe, Luis M. & Lawrence M.
Witmer, eds.
The most authoritative and up-to-date
source on early avian evolution currently available. This unique resource
provides a comprehensive examination
of the known fossil record and is also
an unparalleled guide to the latest
developments in current research. Includes 110 black and
white photographs, 120 line figures. 576pgs. • 2002
• California • C • $100.00 / $28.98
118683 NOW OR NEVER: Why We Must Act Now to End
Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
Flannery, Tim
A forceful call to action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available,
the author of The Weather Makers offers a guided tour of the
environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions. 176pgs. • 2009
• Grove Press • C • $18.00 / $4.98
041183 THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST:
Measuring the Real State of the World
Lomborg, Bjorn
Lomborg offers a fresh perspective to the debate and challenges the view that we are destroying our planet irrevocably
by exploding the widely propagated myth that the state of the
environment continues to spiral downwards beyond our control. He supports his arguments with over 2500 footnotes,
allowing readers to check his sources. 540pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $9.98
125650 TRYING LEVIATHAN: The
Nineteenth-Century New York Court
Case That Put the Whale on Trial and
Challenged the Order of Nature
Burnett, D. Graham
Recovers the strange story of an 1818
court case that pitted the new sciences of
taxonomy against the biblically sanctioned
view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale
oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But
the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which the very
order of nature -- and how we know it -- was at stake. 304pgs.
• 2010
• Princeton • P • $21.95 / $10.98
130179 A WILDLIFE GUIDE TO CHILE:
Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island,
and Juan Fernandez Archipelago
Chester, Sharon
The only comprehensive English-language guide to the
common flora and fauna of Chile and its territories.
Includes 120 full-color plates that allow quick identification of more than 800 species. 400pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $46.95 / $25.98
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105037 WILDLIFE OF THE GALAPAGOS
Fitter, Julian, et al.
Covering more than 200 commonly encountered birds, mammals, reptiles, invertebrates,
and plants, this unique pocket guide reveals
the archipelago's striking beauty through
more than 400 color photographs, maps, and
drawings and well-written, informative text.
256pgs. • 2002
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $12.98
089309 WORLD ATLAS OF BIODIVERSITY: Earth's
Living Resources in the 21st Century
Groombridge, Brian & Martin D. Jenkins
An updated edition including new data, graphics, photos, and
material on food issues and biodiversity, the text addresses the
growing concern for living things and the environment, and
increased appreciation of the links between the state of
ecosystems and the state of humankind, providing an accessible view of key global issues in biodiversity. 256pgs. • 2002
• California • C • $54.95 / $9.98
PH I LOSOPHY
122153 ADDRESSING LEVINAS
Kapust, Antje, et al., eds.
An exploration of the philosopher's relationship to a wide range of intellectual traditions, including theology, philosophy of
culture, Jewish thought, phenomenology,
and the history of philosophy. The contributors also engage Levinas's contribution to
ethics, politics, law, justice, psychoanalysis, and epistemology, among other
themes. 384pgs. • 2005
• Northwestern • P • $32.95 / $12.98
119732 ANTI-MIMESIS FROM PLATO TO HITCHCOCK
Cohen, Tom
Through new readings of writers such as Plato, Bakhtin, Poe,
Whitman, and Conrad, Cohen exposes the limitations of new
historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how the
"materiality of language" challenges representational models
of meaning imposed by the canon. 280pgs. • 1994
• Cambridge • C NDJ • $37.00 / $19.98
078462 BETWEEN LOGIC AND
INTUITION: Essays in Honor of
Charles Parsons
Sher, Gila & Richard Tieszen, eds.
In this "state-of-the-art" conspectus of
major trends in the philosophy of logic
and philosophy of mathematics, a distinguished group of philosophers address
issues at the center of contemporary
debate, including semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes, the set/class distinction, foundations of set
theory, mathematical intuition, and more. 350pgs. • 2000
• Cambridge • C • $105.00 / $21.98
108055 CAUSATION AND EXPLANATION
Campbell, Joseph Keim, et al.
This collection of original essays offers readers a state-of-theart view of current work in these two areas. The essays, by distinguished authors and important rising scholars, will be of
interest to a wide readership, including philosophers, computer scientists, and economists. 480pgs. • 2007
• MIT • C NDJ • $85.00 / $18.98
021352 COLLECTED DIALOGUES
OF PLATO
Plato
This edition of Plato's dialogues and
letters includes editorial notes prefacing each dialogue as well as an introductory essay on Plato's philosophy
and writing. 1743pgs. • 1989
• Princeton • C •
$49.50 / $28.98
126711 A COMPANION TO HEIDEGGER'S
INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS
Polt, Richard F. H., et al.
Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics, first published in
1953, is one of the major documents of 20th-century philosophy. This new companion presents an overview of Heidegger's
text and a variety of perspectives on its interpretation from more
than a dozen highly respected contributors. 360pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C NDJ • $60.00 / $14.98
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127777 CONSCIOUSNESS AND
MENTAL LIFE
Robinson, Daniel N.
In recent decades, a variety of philosophical and psychological issues have been
absorbed into a scientific framework variously identified as "brain science," "cognitive science," and "cognitive neuroscience." In this volume, Robinson questions our present approach to the study of
consciousness and explores the ways in which modern discoveries either mirror or contradict understandings reached
in the past. 264pgs. • 2007
• Columbia • C • $35.00 / $9.98
125507 CONTEXTS: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of
Language
Predelli, Stefano
A defense of the traditional "formal" approach to natural-language semantics. Predelli offers a fundamental reappraisal,
with particular attention to the treatment of indexicality and
other forms of contextual dependence which have been the
focus of much recent controversy. 208pgs. • 2009
• Oxford University • P • $33.95 / $12.98
049005 CONTINGENCY, IRONY, AND SOLIDARITY
Rorty, Richard
Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and
Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals, but Rorty himself believes that it is literature and
not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense
of human solidarity. 201pgs. • 1989
• Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98
ARISTOTLE
031990 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO ARISTOTLE
Barnes, Jonathan, ed.
Offers a clear exposition of the central
philosophical concerns in Aristotle's
work. It covers his writings on logic,
metaphysics, science, psychology,
ethics, politics, rhetoric, and poetics,
and includes a substantial bibliography.
404pgs. • 1995
• Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $16.98
038551 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE,
VOLUME 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
Barnes, Jonathan, ed.
The Oxford Translation, originally published between 1912
and 1954, is universally recognized as the standard English
version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original, slightly emended in light of recent
scholarship. 1256pgs. • 1984
• Princeton • C • $49.50 / $29.98
038398 A NEW ARISTOTLE READER
Ackrill, J. L., ed.
A collection of the major works of Aristotle, drawn from
authoritative scholarly modern translations, laying the
groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal activity, along with commentary and interpretive essays
on the work. 580pgs. • 1987
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
JACQUES DERRIDA
124815 COUNTERPATH: Traveling with Jacques
Derrida
Derrida, Jacques & Catherine Malabou
This readerly text of quotations and commentary demonstrates how Derrida's work, while appearing to be anything
but a travelogue, is nevertheless replete with references to
geographical and topographical locations, and functions as
a kind of counter-Odyssey through meaning, theorizing, and
thematizing notions of arrival, drifting, derivation, and
catastrophe. 352pgs. • 2004
• Stanford • C NDJ • $54.95 / $14.98
124812 WITHOUT ALIBI
Derrida, Jacques
Brings together five pieces written by Derrida as extended
lectures. They are held together by three themes: Derrida's
redefinition of speech acts and the "event" as a particular
kind of performative, the effects of globalization and mechanization, and contemporary professional and institutional
problems. 352pgs. • 2002
• Stanford • C NDJ • $63.00 / $14.98
111466 CUNNING
Herzog, Don
Ever wish you were cleverer, more able to
cut corners without getting caught? With
pointedly mischievous prose, Herzog
explores what it means to be cunning by
drawing on a colorful range of sources:
tales of Odysseus; texts from Machiavelli;
pamphlets from early modern England;
salesmen's newsletters; Christian apologetics; philosophical treatises; detective novels; and more.
197pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $20.95 / $10.98
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 • $31.95 / $15.98
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 • $27.95 / $11.98
129919 FOLLOWING THE RULES:
Practical Reasoning and Deontic
Constraint
Heath, Joseph
For centuries, philosophers have been
puzzled by the fact that people often
respect moral obligations as a matter of
principle, setting aside considerations of
self-interest. Heath offers a naturalistic,
evolutionary argument in favor of the traditional Kantian view that there is an internal connection
between being a rational agent and feeling the force of moral
obligations. 352pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $19.98
026090 HANNAH ARENDT / MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Ettinger, Elzbieta
Details the passionate and secret love affair between two
prominent 20th century philosophers -- one a German Jew, the
other a Nazi -- and how they influenced each other over nearly half a century. 139pgs. • 1995
• Yale • C • $39.00 / $7.98
052409 HANS-GEORG GADAMER:
A Biography
Grondin, Jean
Traces Gadamer's life as an academician and
the development of his ideas in the context of
his times, and sheds light on the writing of
Truth and Method, his magnum opus.
478pgs. • 2003
• Yale • C • $45.00 / $14.98
060849 IN A MATERIALIST WAY:
Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey
Macherey, Pierre
A collection of his philosophical writings discloses the full range of his interventions, testifying to his signal status as one of France's
leading philosophers, ranging over his writings on philosophy and theory and critiques
of the work of major figures in contemporary French thought. 197pgs. • 1998
• Verso • C • $45.00 / $13.98
111084 JOHN RAWLS: His Life and Theory of Justice
Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko & Michelle Kosch
John Rawls's Theory of Justice has had a profound impact
across several disciplines, but Rawlsian theory is not easy
to understand, and his writings can be dense and forbidding. This volume gives a thorough and concise presentation of the main outlines of Rawls's theory, and draws links
between his work and other positions in moral and political philosophy. 248pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $59.98
087149 THE LOGIC OF REAL
ARGUMENTS
Fisher, Alec
This expanded edition explains a distinctive method for analyzing and evaluating
arguments. Utilizing a wide variety of
examples, it aims to help students to think
critically about the kind of sustained, theoretical arguments that they commonly
encounter in their studies, including arguments about the natural world, society, policy, and philosophy.
236pgs. • 2004
• Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $10.98
DESCARTES
111828 DEMONS, DREAMERS, AND MADMEN: The
Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations
Frankfurt, Harry G.
On what basis can reason claim to provide any justification
for the truth of our beliefs? In this landmark work, Frankfurt
provides a compelling analysis of the question, one that not
only lies at the heart of Descartes' Meditations but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy.
264pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
044877 THE PHILOSOPHICAL
WRITINGS OF DESCARTES, VOLUME
ONE
Cottingham, John, et al., trans.
This entirely new translation of the
works of Descartes is intended to
replace the Haldane and Ross edition,
which was first published in 1911. All
material from that edition is translated
here, as well as a number of other texts
that are considered crucial for an understanding of
Cartesian philosophy. 418pgs. • 1985
• Cambridge • P • $41.99 / $19.98
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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 • $42.99 / $16.98
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 • $36.99 / $22.98
051647 THE METAPHYSICS OF
MORALS
GREGOR, MARY, ET AL., EDS.
Kant, Immanuel
Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy, in which he deals with the basic
principles of rights and of virtues. It
comprises two parts: the "Doctrine of
Right," which deals with the rights that
people have or can acquire, and the
"Doctrine of Virtue," which deals with the virtues they ought
to acquire. 278pgs. • 1996
• Cambridge • P • $21.99 / $12.98
057272 AN INTRODUCTION TO KANT'S ETHICS
Sullivan, Roger J.
This is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant's ethics available. It approaches the moral theory via the political philosophy, thus allowing the reader to
appreciate why Kant argued that the legal structure for any
civil society must have a moral basis. Written in non-technical language, this volume should help disseminate Kant's
major ideas to a wider readership. 183pgs. • 1994
• Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $12.98
130181 MADE WITH WORDS: Hobbes on Language,
Mind, and Politics
Pettit, Philip
Hobbes's political views have garnered so much attention that
they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on
reasoning, personhood, and group formation. Yet this work is
of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows, and it critically shaped Hobbes's political philosophy. 192pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $42.00 / $16.98
100227 METAPHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, AND MEANING
VOL. 1: Philosophical Papers
Salmon, Nathan
Brings together Salmon's influential papers (as well as a previously unpublished essay) on topics in the metaphysics of
existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic;
strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and
numerical quantifiers; the philosophical significance of
Godel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and
designation. 434pgs. • 2006
• Oxford University • C • $165.00 / $39.98
125765 MORAL CLARITY: A Guide for Grown-up
Idealists
Neiman, Susan
In this profound and powerful book, Susan Neiman reclaims
the vocabulary of morality -- good and evil, heroism and nobility -- as a lingua franca for the 21st century. In constructing a
framework for taking responsible action, she reaches back to
the 18th century to retrieve values that were esteemed by the
thinkers of the Enlightenment. 480pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
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125511 MORALITY AND SELF-INTEREST
Bloomfield, Paul, ed.
Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral? Can morality and self-interest be understood
independently of each other? In this collection of essays, contributors including Thomas Nagel and Stephen Finlay continue
one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy.
336pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C NDJ • $125.00 / $16.98
049802 MORTAL QUESTIONS
Nagel, Thomas
Beginning by asking questions about humanity's attitudes
towards death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war, and
political power, Nagel pursues a selection of philosophical
problems regarding such topics as personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value. 213pgs. • 1991
• Cambridge • P • $19.99 / $11.98
124820 ON PLATO'S STATESMAN
Castoriadis, Cornelius
This posthumously published book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned
and influential figure in 20th-century thought. A close reading of
Plato's Statesman, it is an exemplary instance of Castoriadis's
pragmatic, pertinent, and discriminating approach to thinking
and reading a great work. 264pgs. • 2002
• Stanford • P • $24.95 / $7.98
125516 OXFORD STUDIES IN METAPHYSICS VOLUME
III
Zimmerman, Dean, ed.
An annual overview of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality,
time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical
questions in neighboring fields, such as philosophy of mind
and philosophy of science. 280pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $14.98
117856 PHILOSOPHY IN A NEW CENTURY: Selected
Essays
Searle, John R.
John Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to
three areas of philosophy: philosophy of mind, philosophy of
language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers
together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these
areas, and will be valuable for all who are interested in
Searle's work. 210pgs. • 2008
• Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $17.98
121425 PHYSICAL REALIZATION
Shoemaker, Sydney
Physicalism requires that the mental properties of a person are
"realized in" the physical properties of that person, and that all
instantiations of properties in macroscopic objects are realized
in microphysical states of affairs. Shoemaker offers an account of
both these sorts of realization, one which allows the realized
properties to be causally efficacious. 160pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $39.95 / $14.98
KARL POPPER
051325 THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES: Vol.
1: The Spell of Plato
Popper, Karl R.
Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a "vigorous and profound
defense of democracy," Popper's attack on the philosophies
of Plato, Hegel, and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of
socially engineered political systems. 368pgs. • 1971
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
111587 THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES: Vol.
2: Hegel and Marx
Popper, Karl R.
432pgs. • 1971
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $14.98
111473 POPPER SELECTIONS
DAVID W. MILLER, ED.
Popper, Karl R.
This sampling of the philosophical writings of Karl Popper
includes discussions of rationalism, knowledge, human
freedom, and the scientific method. 480pgs. • 1985
• Princeton • P • $37.50 / $16.98
074555 PHYSICALISM AND ITS
DISCONTENTS
Gillett, Carl & Barry Loewer, eds.
Physicalism is the philosophical view that
everything in the space-time world is ultimately physical. This collection of new
essays offers a series of "state-of-the-art"
perspectives on this important doctrine
and brings new depth and breadth to the
philosophical debate. 380pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • C • $121.00 / $39.98
125519 THE POSSIBILITY OF KNOWLEDGE
Cassam, Quassim
How is knowledge of the external world possible? How is
knowledge of other minds possible? How is a priori knowledge possible? In this exploration of epistemology, Quassim
Cassam explains why such questions arise and how they
should be answered. 256pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $60.00 / $26.98
SOREN
031992 PRACTICAL ETHICS
SECOND EDITION
Singer, Peter
Focuses on the application of ethics to difficult and controversial social questions,
including equality and discrimination by
race, sex, ability, or species, abortion,
euthanasia, the moral status of animals, and
the obligation to assist others. 395pgs. •
1993
• Cambridge • P • $33.99 / $12.98
117041 PRAGMATISM: A Reader
Menand, Louis
Since its birth was announced in 1898 by William James,
pragmatism has played a vital role in almost every area of
American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges,
educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets. This volume collects the major texts of the school, from William
James and John Dewey to Richard Rorty and Cornel West.
560pgs. • 1997
• Vintage • P • $18.00 / $7.98
KIERKEGAARD
038472 CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPTS TO
PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS, VOLUME 1
HONG, HOWARD V. & EDNA H. HONG, EDS. & TRANS.
Kierkegaard, Soren
Intended by Kierkegaard to be his concluding work as an
author, these essays deal with what it takes to be a real
Christian and examines the truth of Christianity as an objective
issue. 630pgs. • 1992
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
038657 CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPTS
TO PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS, VOLUME 2
HONG, HOWARD V. & EDNA H. HONG, EDS. & TRANS.
Kierkegaard, Soren
345pgs. • 1992
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
038413 THE CONCEPT OF ANXIETY: A Simple
Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic
Issue of Hereditary Sin
Kierkegaard, Soren
One of Kierkegaard's most honest and personal works, in
which he examines the human understanding of sin, why we
designate certain acts as sinful, and how our perception of
these acts is altered by the fact that we label them as such.
273pgs. • 1981
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $12.98
038637 EITHER/OR, PART 1
KIERKEGAARD'S WRITINGS, VOL. 3
Kierkegaard, Soren
This volume takes the form of the writings of an ironical young
man in order to explore what Kierkegaard regarded as the
"aesthetic" view of life, and contains a miscellany of aphorisms, criticism, and essays including the famous "Seducer's
Diary". 702pgs. • 1987
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
039635 FOR SELF-EXAMINATION / JUDGE FOR
YOURSELF!
Kierkegaard, Soren
For Self-Examination and its companion piece Judge for
Yourself! represent the culmination of Kierkegaard's "second
authorship," which followed his Concluding Unscientific
Postscript. Among the simplest and most readily comprehended of his books, these two works are enhanced when, as the
author requested, they are read aloud. 296pgs. • 1990
• Princeton • P • $28.95 / $14.98
038480 PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS / JOHANNES
CLIMACUS
HONG, HOWARD V. & EDNA H. HONG, EDS. & TRANS.
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 • $29.95 / $16.98
038893 PRACTICE IN CHRISTIANITY
Kierkegaard, Soren
Of the many works he wrote during 1848,
Kierkegaard specified Practice in
Christianity as "the most perfect and
truest thing." In his reflections on such
topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility
of offense, and the exalted Christ, he takes
as his theme the requirement of Christian
ideality in the context of divine grace. 416pgs. • 1991
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
111570 THE SEDUCER'S DIARY
Kierkegaard, Soren
This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume,
Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancée,
Regine Olsen. "In the vast literature of love," observes John
Updike in his Foreword, "The Seducer's Diary is an intricate
curiosity -- a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an
erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a
boast." 232pgs. • 1997
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
038656 THE SICKNESS UNTO
DEATH: A Christian Psychological
Exposition for Upbuilding and
Awakening
HONG, HOWARD V. & EDNA H. HONG, EDS. &
TRANS.
Kierkegaard, Soren
For Kierkegaard, the "sickness unto
death" is despair. Human beings are a
synthesis of spiritual and physical elements, and despair, in this view, is produced by a skewed relation between those elements. 201pgs. • 1983
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $11.98
104337 SOREN KIERKEGAARD: A
Biography
Garff, Joakim & Bruce H. Kirmmse
Kierkegaard's life has been notoriously hard
to study, so complex was the web of fact and
fiction in his work. Garff's seamless blend of
history, philosophy, and psychological
insight is the most comprehensive and penetrating account yet written of the life and
works of the enigmatic Dane who changed
the course of intellectual history. 867pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $17.98
038892 WORKS OF LOVE
Kierkegaard, Soren
An illuminating analysis of the forms and sources of love. Love
as feeling and mood is distinguished from works of love, love
of the lovable from love of the unlovely, preferential love from
love as the royal law, love as mutual egotism from triangular
love, and erotic love from self-giving love. 561pgs. • 1998
• Princeton • P • $34.95 / $18.98
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032017 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO NIETZSCHE
Magnus, Bernd, & Kathleen M. Higgins, eds.
Provides a chronologically organized introduction to and
summary of Nietzsche's published works, essays on the appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a group of
essays exploring the nature of Nietzsche's philosophy and its
relation to the modern and postmodern world. 403pgs. •
1996
• Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $17.98
111509 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
AND THE POLITICS OF THE SOUL: A
Study of Heroic Individualism
Thiele, Leslie Paul
Reading Nietzsche's works as the "political biography of his soul," Thiele examines the great thinker's quest to lead a
heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint,
educator, and solitary. Often portrayed as
the champion of nihilism, Nietzsche here
emerges as a thinker who saw his primary task as the overcoming of nihilism through the struggle of individuation.
256pgs. • 1990
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
041184 HUMAN, ALL TOO 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
• Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $13.98
121421 NIETZSCHE AND MORALITY
Leiter, Brian & Neil Sinhababu, eds.
In eleven new essays, leading philosophers aim both to
advance philosophical understanding of Nietzsche's ethical
views -- his normative and meta-ethics, his moral psychology,
his views on free will and the nature of the self -- and to make
Nietzsche a live participant in contemporary debates in ethics
and cognate fields. 320pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $75.00 / $22.98
103746 PRAGMATISM, CRITIQUE, JUDGMENT: Essays
for Richard J. Bernstein
Benhabib, Seyla and Nancy Fraser, eds.
Countering the highly technical metaphysical and epistemological puzzles of analytic philosophy in the early 1960s,
Bernstein offered a model of philosophy in a democratic society as the work of the engaged public intellectual. These essays
pay tribute to Bernstein and reflect the themes that have
engaged him throughout his career. 399pgs. • 2004
• MIT • C NDJ • $80.00 / $23.98
023082 READINGS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
Ludlow, Peter, ed.
Collection of the most significant works in the philosophy of language. Interweaving the great classics with important papers in
contemporary linguistics theory, illustrates how many of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of language can be addressed
within a naturalistic framework. 1073pgs. • 1997
• MIT • P • $56.00 / $32.98
119779 REALISM AND APPEARANCES: An Essay in
Ontology
Yolton, John W.
Addresses one of the fundamental topics in philosophy: the
relation between appearance and reality. Yolton draws on a
rich mix of historical and contemporary material, ranging
from Locke, Berkeley and Hume to Churchland and
McDowell, to examine this central philosophical preoccupation, which he presents in terms of distinctions between phenomena and causes, causes and meaning, and persons and
man. 172pgs. • 2000
• Cambridge • C • $39.00 / $21.98
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130304 NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER:
A Lesson in Subjugation
Kohler, Joachim & Ronald Taylor
This book presents an absorbing account
of the bizarre relationship between the
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the composer Richard Wagner, and Wagner's mistress -- later his wife -- Cosima. It sheds
intriguing light on Nietzsche's early writings, showing how they were subverted by
the Wagners' pre-fascist ideology. 192pgs. • 1998
• Yale • C • $36.00 / $14.98
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 • $25.99 / $13.98
041189 UNTIMELY MEDITATIONS
BREAZEALE, DANIEL, ED.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
These four early essays are key documents for understanding the development
of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of his later writings. They deal
with such broad topics as the relationship
between popular and genuine culture,
strategies for cultural reform, the task of
philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship
among art, science and life. 276pgs. • 1997
• Cambridge • P • $23.99 / $13.98
130676 THE WILL TO POWER
Nietzsche, Friedrich
This selection from Nietzsche's notebooks, edited by Walter
Kaufmann, presents the philosopher's key writings on
nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge.
608pgs. • 1968
• Vintage • P • $17.95 / $7.98
117309 THE RETREAT OF REASON: A Dilemma in the
Philosophy of Life
Persson, Ingmar
The ancient Greeks thought that a life led in accordance with
reason would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Starting
from this perspective, Persson arrives at conclusions that are
very different; by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to
time, our identity, and our responsibility, he shows that the aim
of living rationally conflicts not only with the aim of leading the
most fulfilling life, but also with the moral aim of promoting
the just distribution of fulfillment for all. 504pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • P • $55.00 / $14.98
119013 SCEPTICISM COMES ALIVE
Frances, Bryan
In this entertaining and provocative book, Bryan Frances presents a new argument template for generating new kinds of radical scepticism, ones that hold even if all the clever anti-sceptical fixes defeat the traditional sceptic. 224pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • P • $39.95 / $12.98
058134 A SPINOZA READER: The
Ethics and Other Works
Spinoza, Benedictus de
This collection of Spinoza's works presents the text of his masterwork, the
Ethics, in what is now the standard
translation by Edwin Curley. Also
included are selections from other
works chosen by Curley to make the
Ethics easier to understand, and a substantial Introduction that gives an overview of Spinoza's life
and the main themes of his philosophy. 352pgs. • 1994
• Princeton • P • $34.95 / $18.98
130228 THE THREAT TO REASON: How the
Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It
Hind, Daniel
Taking to task those prominent intellectuals who have exaggerated the challenges posed by religion and postmodernism,
Hind argues that the real threats to reason spring from our
state and corporate bureaucracies. In recovering the idea of
Enlightenment, he reveals how it can help us achieve a truly
democratic politics. 184pgs. • 2007
• Verso • C • $26.95 / $6.98
129913 WITTGENSTEIN AND ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY:
Essays for P. M. S. Hacker
Glock, Hans-Johann & John Hyman, eds.
Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of
Wittgenstein's work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent
of Wittgensteinian ideas, and a distinguished historian of
the analytic tradition. In this volume, leading philosophers
and Wittgenstein scholars offer specially written essays in
honor of Hacker. 296pgs. • 2009
• Oxford University • C • $85.00 / $29.98
111568 WHY?: What Happens When People Give
Reasons -- and Why
Tilly, Charles
A distinguished social historian offers a fascinating look at the
way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help
constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read
style, the book explores the manner in which people claim,
establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relations
with others through the reasons they give. 202pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $18.95 / $9.98
110870 WITTGENSTEIN'S PRIVATE LANGUAGE:
Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination in Philosophical
Investigations, Sections 243-315
Mulhall, Stephen
Offers a new way of interpreting one of the most famous and
contested texts in modern philosophy: remarks on "private
language" in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
Mulhall sheds new light on a central controversy concerning
Wittgenstein's early work by showing its relevance to a proper
understanding of the later work. 148pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $45.00 / $19.98
PHOTOGRAPHY
123266 ABOVE PARIS: The Aerial Survey of Roger
Henrard
Cohen, Jean-Louis
From 1950 to 1972, pilot and photographer Roger Henrard
captured the city he knew and loved from the seat of a singleengine American army surplus Piper Cub. His remarkable
study of the urban landscape of Paris and its best-known monuments includes more than 350 beautifully printed duotones,
documenting the course of the Seine, the main roads, the stations, and the storied neighborhoods of Paris. 320pgs. • 2006
• Princeton Architectural • C • $50.00 / $19.98
113301 ALBERTO KORDA: A Revolutionary Lens
Vives, Cristina & Mark Sanders
Korda's most famous image is his 1960 portrait of Che
Guevara, which has become the most reproduced image in
the history of photography. It is less well known that, prior to
the 1959 Revolution, Korda was considered the "Avedon of
Cuba," whose work graced the covers of fashion magazines
around the world. This landmark volume covers every aspect
of his extraordinary output, paying particular attention to his
work in fashion, Cuban society and the Revolution. 440pgs.
• 2007
• Steidl • C • $90.00 / $45.98
104542 THE ART OF THE
AMERICAN SNAPSHOT, 1888-1978:
From the Collection of Robert E.
Jackson
Greenough, Sarah & Diane Waggoner
This catalogue of an exhibition at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
reproduces some 250 snapshots drawn
from Robert Jackson's outstanding collection. Organized decade by decade, they
trace the evolution of American snapshot imagery and describes
how technical, social, and cultural factors have affected the look
of photos from different eras. 294pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • C • $55.00 / $28.98
127322 CONVERSATIONS WITH CONTEMPORARY
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Fontcuberta, Joan, et al.
Extensive, in-depth interviews on aesthetics, craft, and culture
with living masters and leading critics from Australia, France,
Italy, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, the US, the UK, and other
countries, including new interviews commissioned especially
for this collection. 288pgs. • 2006
• Umbrage Editions • P • $29.00 / $7.98
033986 GERMAINE KRULL: Photographer of Modernity
Sichel, Kim
A study of the remarkable artist who witnessed the high points
of modernism and recorded some of the major upheavals of
the 20th century and whose work includes avant-garde montages, ironic studies of female nudes, and press propaganda
shots. 363pgs. • 1999
• MIT • C • $68.00 / $19.98
113154 THE NEW WEST:
Landscapes along the
Colorado Front Range
Adams, Robert
Originally published in 1974,
Adams's The New West signaled
a significant break from photography's traditional role in
romanticizing the Western
landscape. This reissue of the
classic publication has been recreated from Adams's original
prints. 120pgs. • 2008
• Aperture • C • $45.00 / $23.98
110044 ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Sontag, Susan
Awarded the National Book Critics' Circle Award for
Criticism (1977), Sontag's "progress of essays about the
meaning and career of photographs" remains a landmark
in the understanding of what photography is, and does.
208pgs. • 2001
• Picador • P • $15.00 / $7.98
113885 PHOTO ART: Photography in the 21st Century
Grosenick, Uta & Thomas Seelig, eds.
Gathering more than 120 image-makers from around the
globe, this luscious compendium comprises an international
art fair between covers, with the work of artists to watch now
and in the future, from established figures to representatives of
the newest generation. 519pgs. • 2008
• Aperture • P • $55.00 / $22.98
113643 PORTRAITS OF POWER
Avedon, Richard
Brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time.
Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well
as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a
five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of
America's best-known photographers. 300pgs. • 2008
• Steidl • C • $60.00 / $46.98
049915 TINA MODOTTI: Between Art and
Revolution
Argenteri, Letizia
A charismatic stage and screen actress. A visionary photographer. A revolutionary with deep commitments to communism.
A woman whose life, loves, and death were controversial. Tina
Modotti (1896-1942) was all of these. This biography portrays
Modotti accurately and fairly, cutting through the distortions of
myth and rumor that surround her. 329pgs. • 2003
• Yale • C • $40.00 / $14.98
049730 UNTITLED: DIANE ARBUS
Arbus, Diane
The third volume of Arbus's work and the only one devoted to
a single project. The photographs -- most of them published
her for the first time -- were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971. 112pgs. • 1995
• Aperture • C • $60.00 / $45.98
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126723 ARGUING ABOUT WAR
Walzer, Michael
Michael Walzer is one of the world's most
eminent philosophers on the subject of
war and ethics. Now, for the first time since
his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three decades ago, this volume brings together his most provocative
arguments about contemporary military
conflicts and the ethical issues they raise.
224pgs. • 2004
• Yale • C • $25.00 / $9.98
104603 IN THE BEGINNING WAS
THE DEED: Realism and Moralism
in Political Argument
Williams, Bernard
This collection of essays, most of which
have been previously unpublished,
addresses many of the core subjects of
political philosophy: justice, liberty, and
equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear
of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself. 200pgs. • 2005
• Princeton • C • $46.00 / $12.98
125504 AUTONOMY AND RIGHTS:
The Moral Foundations of Liberalism
Spector, Horacio
Reconstructs and then criticizes a familiar
approach to the moral foundations of classical liberalism which rests on the maximization of negative freedom, and then
frames an alternative theory centered in the
obligation to protect positive freedom.
200pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • P • $34.00 / $14.98
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 • $23.95 / $9.98
053204 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO LOCKE
Chappell, Vere, ed.
Provides a systematic survey of Locke's philosophy informed
by the most recent scholarship. The essays cover Locke's theory of ideas, his philosophies of body, mind, language, and
religion, his theory of knowledge, his ethics, and his political
philosophy. Also includes chapters on Locke's life and subsequent influence. 343pgs. • 1994
• Cambridge • P • $42.99 / $16.98
049413 MARX: EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS
Marx, Karl
In this selection of Marx's writings that predate the Communist
Manifesto, excerpts from the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of
Right, Points on the State and Bourgeois Society, and other
writings are newly translated and arranged in a sequence that
illuminates the development of his thought, while the
Introduction discusses the intellectual context of his theories.
194pgs. • 1994
• Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $15.98
024669 CIVIC VIRTUES: Rights, Citizenship, &
Republican Liberalism
Dagger, Richard
Demonstrates how republican liberalism proceeds from a fundamental right of autonomy to the recognition of interdependence and on to the cultivation of the civic virtues of the publicspirited citizen. 258pgs. • 1997
• Oxford University • P • $60.00 / $16.98
093142 COSMOPOLITANISM:
Ethics in a World of Strangers
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
In this volume Appiah challenges the
separatist doctrines espoused in books
like Huntington's The Clash of
Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of "cosmopolitanism," a
school of thought that dates to the
Cynics of the fourth century BC, he
traces its influence through the ethical legacies of the
Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the UN's
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 224pgs. • 2007
• W. W. Norton • P • $15.95 / $6.98
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 • $25.95 / $15.98
109564 HOBBES, BRAMHALL AND THE POLITICS OF
LIBERTY AND NECESSITY: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars
and Interregnum
Jackson, Nicholas D.
The first full account of one of the most famous quarrels of the
17th century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes
and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John Bramhall. The
personal clash of Hobbes and Bramhall is connected to the
broader conflict, disorder, violence, dislocation and exile that
characterized those periods. 331pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $127.00 / $29.98
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036086 MILL ON LIBERTY: A Defence
SECOND EDITION
Gray, John
A classic of Mill commentary. New material in this second edition develops radical criticisms of the substance of Millian and
other liberalism, and looks closely at the recent seminal contributions to liberal thought by Raz, Feinberg, Rawls, and
Berlin. 175pgs. • 1996
• Routledge • P • $52.95 / $22.98
053413 THE MORAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS
Shapiro, Ian
A review of the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions,
showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the core values of the Enlightenment. Shapiro
demonstrates that each one contains useful insights that survive
their failures as comprehensive doctrines and that should inform
our thinking about political legitimacy. 289pgs. • 2003
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $12.98
ISAIAH
BERLIN
039827 AGAINST THE CURRENT:
Essays in the History of Ideas
Berlin, Isaiah
In this collection of essays, one of the
great thinkers of the 20th century discusses the importance in the history of
thought of dissenters whose ideas still
challenge conventional wisdom -among them Machiavelli, Vico,
Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel.
419pgs. • 2001
• Princeton • P • $29.95 / $15.98
039847 CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES: Philosophical
Essays
Berlin, Isaiah
This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of
his contributions to philosophy from his early participation
in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later
work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in
political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of
history. 209pgs. • 1999
• Princeton • P • $27.95 / $13.98
126027 NUMBERS RULE: The Vexing
Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato
to the Present
Szpiro, George G.
Since the birth of democracy in ancient
Greece, the simple act of voting has given
rise to mathematical paradoxes that have
puzzled some of the greatest philosophers,
statesmen, and mathematicians. Szpiro
traces the epic quest to create a more perfect democracy and adapt to the demands that each new generation places on our democratic institutions. 248pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $26.95 / $12.98
125697 POLITICS AND THE IMAGINATION
Geuss, Raymond
In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination.
Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo,
Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind.
In this collection of recent essays, including his most overtly
political writing yet, Geuss explores the role of imagination in
politics, particularly how imaginative constructs interact with
political reality. 216pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
039660 PRINCETON READINGS IN
POLITICAL THOUGHT: Essential Texts
since Plato
Cohen, Mitchell & Nicole Fermon, eds.
Presents 44 selections -- key articles, book
excerpts, essays, and speeches -- that have
shaped our understanding of Western society and politics. The selections range from
classical times (Thucydides, Plato,
Aristotle, and Cicero), to the ideas of such
20th-century political philosophers and ideologists as Lenin,
Freud, Malcolm X, Leo Strauss, Nozick, Habermas, and
Foucault. 740pgs. • 1996
• Princeton • P • $45.00 / $25.98
065846 REPUBLICANISM
Viroli, Maurizio
Traces the story of political republicanism from its origins with Aristotle
and in classical Rome to its renaissance with Machiavelli, then to its
great flowering in the 17th and 18th
centuries with Locke, Kant, Rousseau,
Paine, and the Founding Fathers.
Viroli concludes with an impassioned
evocation of the power of the republican ideal today.
144pgs. • 2001
• Farrar, Straus & Giroux • C • $20.00 / $11.98
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
• Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $14.98
104821 STATES OF INJURY: Power and Freedom in Late
Modernity
Brown, Wendy
Looking at how gender and political theories intersect, Brown
argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography
legitimize the state and ultimately harm victims, by portraying
them as so helpless as to require continual governmental protection. 219pgs. • 1995
• Princeton • P • $28.95 / $13.98
107406 THOMAS PAINE'S RIGHTS
OF MAN: A Biography
Hitchens, Christopher
Since its publication, Paine's tract has
been celebrated, criticized, maligned,
suppressed, and co-opted. Christopher
Hitchens, a practiced polemicist himself, marvels at the document's forethought and revels in its contentiousness, even as he demonstrates how
Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the
American republic. 158pgs. • 2007
• Atlantic Monthly • C • $19.95 / $5.98
041080 TWO TREATISES OF
GOVERNMENT
Locke, John
Considered a standard in the field.
Contains an analysis of the whole body of
Locke's publications, writings, and papers,
complete with updated bibliography of the
two central texts in western political
thought. 464pgs. • 2000
• Cambridge • P • $15.99 / $8.98
126709 WAR MACHINE: The Rationalisation of
Slaughter in the Modern Age
Pick, Daniel
Examines Western perceptions of war during and since the
19th-century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, poets, natural scientists, journalists and
soldiers to trace the origins of modern philosophies about the
nature of war and conflict. 300pgs. • 1993
• Yale • C • $70.00 / $16.98
POLITICAL SCI ENCE
128307 BETWEEN CLASS AND MARKET: Postwar
Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies
Western, Bruce
In the US, less than one worker in five is currently in a union,
while in Sweden virtually the entire workforce is unionized.
What explains the enormous variation in unionization and why
has the last decade been so hostile to organized labor? Bruce
Western tackles these questions in his analysis of union organization across 18 capitalist democracies from 1950 to 1990.
256pgs. • 1999
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
104056 BLOOD AND OIL: The
Dangers and Consequences of
America's Growing Dependency on
Imported Petroleum
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE PROJECT
Klare, Michael T.
Traces oil's impact on international
affairs since World War II, revealing its
influence on the Truman, Eisenhower,
Nixon, and Carter doctrines. With clarity and urgency, Klare delineates America's predicament
and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies,
before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.
288pgs. • 2004
• Henry Holt • C • $25.00 / $5.98
126844 BOMB POWER: The Modern
Presidency and the National Security
State
Wills, Garry
A groundbreaking examination of how the
atomic bomb profoundly altered the
nature of American democracy and has left
us in a state of permanent war alert. Wills
persuasively argues that the Manhattan
Project became a model for the covert
operations and overt authority that have defined American
government in the nuclear era. 288pgs. • 2010
• Penguin • C • $27.95 / $7.98
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 / $8.98
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124116 THE CONSCIENCE OF A
LIBERAL: Reclaiming America from
the Right
Krugman, Paul
The best-selling author of The Great
Unraveling challenges America to reclaim
the values that made it great. Seeking to
understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to
achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman
weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of
history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis.
352pgs. • 2007
• W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $5.98
103544 NEMESIS: The Last Days of
the American Republic
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE PROJECT
Johnson, Chalmers
The long-awaited final volume of
Johnson's bestselling Blowback trilogy
confronts the overreaching of the
American empire and the threat it poses
to the republic. Delving into new areas - from plans to militarize outer space to
Constitution-breaking presidential activities -- he offers a
striking vision of the trap into which America's leaders have
led us. 354pgs. • 2007
• Metropolitan Books • C • $26.00 / $5.98
044463 DEMOCRACY'S VALUE
Shapiro, Ian & Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds.
The essays in this volume deal with the nature and value of
democracy, particularly the tensions between it and such
goods as justice, equality, efficiency, and freedom. They analyze the problem of how to establish the boundaries of democratic polities democratically. 201pgs. • 1999
• Cambridge • P • $37.00 / $12.98
124711 THE NEXT GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
STATES: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix
Them
Kettl, Donald F.
In this timely and compelling book, Donald F. Kettl demonstrates how the process of governance has fallen out of sync
with the problems the government is trying to solve. He
explains with precision and clarity how a 21st-century government must function in order to provide real solutions to the
policy problems that face the US. 304pgs. • 2008
• W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $5.98
092092 IMPLICATING EMPIRE:
Globalization and Resistance in the
21st Century
Aronowitz, Stanley, and Heather
Gautney, eds.
Essays by Stanley Aronowitz, Ahmed
Rashid, Tariq Ali, Manning Marable, Cindi
Katz, and others examine aspects of contemporary globalization, including its role
in the Iraq war, its impact on domestic
policies and policy making, and its effects on national security structures. 384pgs. • 2002
• Basic Books • P • $18.95 / $6.98
130221 INCOHERENT EMPIRE
Mann, Michael
Dissecting the military, economic, political, and cultural
resources of the US, Mann concludes that they form an
incoherent empire, one that is a military giant but a political dwarf. An ideological phantom, the US seduces with
promises of freedom, democracy, and material plenty,
while bringing only militarism and stagnation. 278pgs. •
2005
• Verso • P • $18.00 / $6.98
112572 KEEPING DOWN THE BLACK
VOTE: Race and the Demobilization of
American Voters
Piven, Frances Fox, Lorraine C. Minnite
& Margaret Groarke
In this sharply argued book, three of
America's leading experts on party politics
and elections demonstrate that our political system is as focused on stopping some
Americans from voting as it is on getting
them to the polls, that the effort to rig the system is as old as
American political parties themselves, and that race is at the
heart of the game. 281pgs. • 2009
• New Press • C • $26.95 / $5.98
111387 THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL
VOTER: Why Democracies Choose Bad
Policies
Caplan, Bryan
Argues that the greatest obstacle to sound
economic policy is not entrenched special
interests or rampant lobbying but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and
personal biases held by ordinary voters.
Calling into question our most basic
assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that
democracy fails precisely because it does what voters want.
296pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $18.95 / $12.98
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038403 ON WAR: Indexed Edition
HOWARD, MICHAEL & PETER PARET, EDS. & TRANS.
Von Clausewitz, Carl
First published in 1832, this volume 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 • $35.00 / $19.98
125518 POLITICAL THOUGHT AND
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:
Variations on a Realist Theme
Bell, Duncan
Pushed onto the backburner during the
1990s, political realism has in recent years
returned to the center of scholarly debate
in international relations. Straddling international relations and political theory, the
articles in this volume make a significant
contribution to both fields. 288pgs. • 2009
• Oxford University • C • $100.00 / $14.98
125532 RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY IN THE
UNITED STATES: Danger or Opportunity?
Wolfe, Alan et al., eds.
This collection thoughtfully explores the effects of religion
on democracy and contemporary partisan politics. Topics
include how religious diversity affects American democracy, how religion is implicated in America's partisan battles,
and how religion affects ideas about race, ethnicity, and
gender. 456pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
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
104562 WHY NOT KILL THEM ALL?:
The Logic and Prevention of Mass
Political Murder
Chirot, Daniel & Clark McCauley
Goes beyond exploring the motives that
have provided the psychological underpinnings for genocidal killings to offer a historical and comparative taxonomy for
genocidal events. The authors make it clear
that there are no simple solutions, but that
progress is most likely through a combination of international pressure, new institutions and laws, and education. 268pgs.
• 2006
• Princeton • C • $39.95 / $9.98
PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS
& COGN ITIVE SCIENCE
109411 AUTISM AND PERVASIVE
DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Volkmar, Fred R., ed.
Featuring contributions from an international team of leading authorities, this
thoroughly revised and updated edition
reflects the most recent progress in the
understanding of autism and related conditions. Chapters cover current
approaches to definition, diagnosis,
prevalence, neurobiology, and treatment. 343pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $106.00 / $26.98
107773 A HISTORY OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: From the
Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment to the Second World
War
Jahoda, Gustav
The term "social psychology" was first established in the 1860s
but the issues surrounding the subject have evolved over a
much longer period. This book follows the history of the discipline over two and a half centuries, demonstrating the links
between early and current thought. 242pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $38.99 / $12.98
129931 NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Mega, Michael S. & Jeffery L.
Cummings
The long-awaited successor to Jeffrey
Cummings' classic work, Clinical
Neuropsychiatry, published in 1985.
The new title reflects the authors' effort
to link clinical descriptions to the
recent explosion of new information
from neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, genetics, neuropharmacology, neuropathology, and neuroimaging. 432pgs. • 2003
• Oxford University • C • $135.00 / $32.98
130296 ON THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
Cognitive, Phenomenological, and Transpersonal
Perspectives
Hunt, Harry T.
An exploration of theories of consciousness ranging from
ancient Greece to empirical neuropsychology to the experiential traditions of introspection and meditation. 384pgs. •
1995
• Yale • C • $65.00 / $12.98
087279 PERSONALITY TRAITS
Matthews, Gerald, et al.
An essential text for students studying
personality psychology and individual differences. This second edition reviews the
origins of traits in biological and social
processes, and their consequences for
cognition, stress, and physical and mental health, and links theory-driven
research with applications in clinical and
occupational psychology. 518pgs. • 2003
• Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $18.98
119754 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
Moore, Carmella C. & Holly F. Mathews,
eds.
United by a desire to better understand the
relationship of individual experience to
culture, the contributors to this volume
apply a range of contemporary approaches, including person-centered ethnography, activity theory, attachment and object
relations theory, and cultural schema theory. 268pgs. • 2001
• Cambridge • C • $89.00 / $21.98
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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 • $24.95 / $12.98
125702 ASPECTS OF THE MASCULINE
Jung, C. G.
A collection of Jung's most important contributions to the
depth psychology of masculinity, covering not only the psychology of men but the essence of masculinity in both sexes
as well. 200pgs. • 1989
• Princeton • P • $18.95 / $9.98
128487 C. G. JUNG SPEAKING:
Interviews and Encounters
McGuire, William, et al., eds.
A collection of more than 50 interviews
and conversations spanning Jung's lifetime. They range from transcripts of
interviews for radio, television, and film
to memoirs written by those who knew
him. 520pgs. • 1987
• Princeton • P • $32.95 / $14.98
039704 FOUR ARCHETYPES: Mother / Rebirth / Spirit
/ Trickster
Jung, C. G.
Includes "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype,"
"Concerning Rebirth," "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in
Fairytales," and "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure."
173pgs. • 1970
• Princeton • P • $17.95 / $9.98
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 • $29.95 / $14.98
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 • $29.95 / $14.98
104958 PSYCHOLOGY OF
KUNDALINI YOGA: Notes of the
Seminar Given in 1932
Jung, C. G.
Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in
Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological
understanding of Eastern thought and of
the symbolic transformations of inner
experience. 176pgs. • 1999
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $11.98
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074131 FREUD AMONG THE PHILOSOPHERS: The
Psychoanalytic Unconscious and Its Philosophical
Critics
Levy, Donald
Levy examines the most important philosophical arguments
against Freud's idea of the unconscious as articulated by
Wittgenstein, William James, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Adolf
Grünbaum, and argues that these criticisms all depend upon
misunderstandings or lack of awareness of psychoanalytic
ideas. 189pgs. • 1996
• Yale • C • $45.00 / $12.98
130308 FREUD'S DORA: A
Psychoanalytic, Historical, and
Textual Study
Mahony, Patrick J.
In this brilliant re-evaluation of one of
Freud's most famous cases, Patrick J.
Mahony alters the way we view the
woman called "Dora," Freud's handling
of the case, and his editing of the published account. Mahony claims that
Freud's case study is not a model of treatment but an inkblot
test of Freud's misapprehensions about female sexuality and
adolescence. 192pgs. • 1996
• Yale • C • $50.00 / $12.98
105541 PSYCHOLOGICAL WRITINGS AND LETTERS
OF FREUD
THE GERMAN LIBRARY, VOL. 59
Freud, Sigmund & Sander L. Gilman
Includes generous excerpts from "Katharina," "The Method
of Interpreting Dreams," "On Dreams," "Infantile Sexuality,"
"Freud's Psychoanalytic Procedure," "The Uncanny,"
"Psychopathology of Everyday Life," "A Disturbance of
Memory on the Acropolis," "Dreams and Telepathy,"
"Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's Gradiva," "Address to
the Society of B'nai B'rith," and "A Difficulty in the Path of
Psychoanalysis." Also included is a selection of Freud's correspondence, including "Letters to Fleiss." 324pgs. • 1995
• Continuum • C • $95.00 / $14.98
130314 READING FREUD: Explorations and
Entertainments
Gay, Peter
In eight essays that offer insights into Freud's life and thought,
Gay explores topics ranging from Freud and Shakespeare to
Freud's favorite jokes to the names the analyst chose for his
children. Includes Gay's controversial, spoof review of The
Interpretation of Dreams. 240pgs. • 1991
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $9.98
125521 THINKING WITHOUT WORDS
Bermúdez, José Luis
Providing a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought, Bermudez offers a conceptual framework for
treating human infants and non-human animals as genuine
thinkers. The book is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists,
and students of animal behavior. 248pgs. • 2003
• Oxford University • C NDJ • $55.00 / $14.98
105230 WHEN THEY SEVERED EARTH
FROM SKY: How the Human Mind
Shapes Myth
Barber, Elizabeth Wayland & Paul T.
Barber
Our oldest written records date to 5,200
years ago, but we have been speaking and
mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This
absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real
events and observations, preserving information within nonliterate societies, sometimes for millennia. 290pgs. • 2006
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
071638 WINNICOTT: His Life and Work
Rodman, F. Robert
The first full-scale study of the great British psychoanalyst, a
major figure both in psychiatry and as a principle influence on
the leading child development experts of our time. It explores
the roots in Winnicott's personal life of his influential and now
familiar concepts, such as the notion of the "good enough
mother," the "holding environment," and the "transitional
object." 464pgs. • 2003
• Perseus • C • $30.00 / $9.98
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111632 AMOR AND PSYCHE: The Psychic
Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the
Tale by Apuleius
Neumann, Erich
The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from the secondcentury Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most
charming fragments of classical literature. Unfolding the
spiritual and mythical background of the narrative,
Neumann shows how the contest between the mortal maid
Psyche and the great goddess Aphrodite yields surprising
and valuable insights into the psychic life of women.
192pgs. • 1971
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
039846 THE GREAT MOTHER: An
Analysis of the Archetype
Neumann, Erich
Examines how the feminine has been
experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time.
Appearing as goddess and demon, gate
and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky
and containing vessel, the feminine is
seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual consciousness to the ungraspable
matrix symbolized by the Great Mother. 564pgs. • 1991
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
111633 THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
Neumann, Erich
This eloquent book draws on a full range of world mythology to show that individual consciousness undergoes the
same archetypal stages of development as has human consciousness as a whole. Neumann, one of Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right, shows how the stages begin and
end with the symbol of the Uroboros, or tail-eating serpent.
520pgs. • 1995
• Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
RELIGION
038407 AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO: A Biography
NEW EDITION WITH AN EPILOGUE
Brown, Peter
First published 30 years ago and established as the standard
account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching, contains new
material that addresses a recent discovery of a considerable
number of his letters and sermons. 548pgs. • 2000
• California • P • $24.95 / $14.98
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120691 BEDE: On the Tabernacle
Holder, Arthur G.
Contains the first English translation of
Bede's allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as
a symbolic figure of the Christian Church.
Written in the early 720s at the monastery
of Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria, On
the Tabernacle (De tabernaculo) was the
first Christian literary work devoted
entirely to this topic. 224pgs. • 1994
• Liverpool • P • $25.00 / $11.98
126843 THE BEST SPIRITUAL WRITING 2010
Zaleski, Philip, ed.
A collection featuring essays by John Updike and Diane
Ackerman, poems from Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney
and Pulitzer Prize-winner Louise Glück, and personal reflections by Richard Rodriguez and Leon Wieseltier. 272pgs. •
2010
• Penguin • P • $16.00 / $6.98
122010 THE BRIDEGROOM MESSIAH
AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD: Marriage
in the Fourth Gospel
McWhirter, Jocelyn
Many interpreters of the Fourth Gospel
detect allusions to biblical texts about marriage, but none offers a comprehensive
analysis of these proposed allusions or a
convincing explanation for their presence.
Building on the work of earlier scholars,
McWhirter argues that John makes these allusions in order to
develop a metaphor for Jesus and how he relates to his followers. 175pgs. • 2006
• Cambridge • C • $111.00 / $31.98
105441 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF
CHRISTIANITY VOLUME 2: Constantine to c.600
Casiday, Augustine et al., eds.
Surveys the "Golden Age" of patristic Christianity. After
episodes of persecution by the Roman government,
Christianity eventually became the favored religion of the
empire. The articles in this volume discuss the rapid transformation of Christianity during late antiquity, giving specific consideration to artistic, social, literary, philosophical,
political, inter-religious, and cultural aspects. 784pgs. •
2007
• Cambridge • C • $230.00 / $99.98
107499 CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
VOLUME 6: Reform and Expansion 1500-1660
Hsia, R. Po-chia, ed.
Details the history of society, politics, theology, liturgy, religious orders, and art in the lands of Latin Christianity from
the eve of the Protestant Reformation to the height of
Catholic Reform. It also examines the relationship between
Christianity and non-Christian religions both in Europe and
in the non-European world. 749pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $237.00 / $79.98
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 • $18.95 / $11.98
126703 CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON LEGAL
THOUGHT
McConnell, Michael W., et al., eds.
Eminent legal scholars describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and
Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and
the state, and human nature and human striving, revealing not
only the diversity among Christian legal thinkers but also the
richness of the Christian tradition as a source for intellectual
and ethical approaches to legal inquiry. 544pgs. • 2001
• Yale • C NDJ • $60.00 / $14.98
119086 CHRISTIAN WISDOM: Desiring God and
Learning in Love
Ford, David F.
What is Christian wisdom for living in the 21st century? Where
is it to be found? How can it be learnt? In the midst of the
demands and complexities of contemporary life, David Ford
explores a Christian way of desire, wisdom and love. 412pgs.
• 2007
• Cambridge • C NDJ • $205.00 / $44.98
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116631 THE BATTLE FOR GOD: A History of
Fundamentalism
Armstrong, Karen
In an age supposedly governed by reason and technology,
fundamentalism has emerged as a force in every major
world religion. Why? Writing with a broad perspective and a
deep understanding of human spirituality, Armstrong illuminates the spread of militant piety as a phenomenon peculiar
to our moment in history. 480pgs. • 2001
• Ballantine • P • $15.95 / $6.98
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Armstrong, Karen
Discusses the conception, gestation,
life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the
social and political situation in which
oral history became written scripture,
how this scripture was collected, and
how it became accepted as
Christianity's sacred text. She also
explains why, in the 19th century, historical criticism of the
Bible produced more alarm among the faithful than
Darwinism. 302pgs. • 2007
• Atlantic Monthly • C • $21.95 / $5.98
115418 A HISTORY OF GOD: The 4,000-Year
Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Armstrong, Karen
An exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- have
shaped and altered the conception of God. From classical
philosophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the
Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism,
Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one compelling volume.
496pgs. • 1994
• Ballantine • P • $17.00 / $6.98
080662 THE CHRISTIAN WORLD: A Social and Cultural
History
Barraclough, Geoffrey, ed.
Interpreting Christianity in its widest sense, the authors
emphasize its social and cultural impact, exploring the religious life of ordinary people as well as the rituals of cardinals
and kings. The book's copious illustrations form an integral
part of the story and bring much that seems remote or obscure
into vivid focus. 328pgs. • 2003
• Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $12.98
119015 THE CONCILIARIST TRADITION:
Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870
Oakley, Francis
A rehabilitation of the tradition of conciliarist constitutionalism which long competed with the high papalist monarchical
vision that was destined to triumph in 1870 at Vatican I and to
become identified with Roman Catholic orthodoxy itself. This
book sets out to reconstruct the half-millennial history of that
vanquished rival tradition. 312pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • P • $50.00 / $22.98
125508 EARLY MODERN CATHOLICISM: An Anthology
of Primary Sources
Miola, Robert S., ed.
This collection makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history,
political thought, devotion, and theology from the 16th and
early 17th centuries. Rather than perpetuate the usual stereotypes and misinformation, it provides a fresh look at Catholic
writings that have long been suppressed, marginalized, and
ignored. 608pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • P • $55.00 / $16.98
119550 ERASMUS, CONTARINI, AND THE RELIGIOUS
REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
Furey, Constance M.
By analyzing the lives, work, and correspondence of Erasmus,
Thomas More, Margaret More Roper, Reginald Pole, Gasparo
Contarini, and Vittoria Colonna, this book demonstrates how
these Catholic men and women of letters created a distinctive
kind of religious community rooted in friendship and spiritualized scholarship. 255pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • C • $79.00 / $39.98
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117025 ADAM, EVE, AND THE SERPENT
Pagels, Elaine
What turned Christianity from a dissident sect that championed the integrity of the individual and the idea of free will
into the bulwark of a new imperial order -- with the central
belief that human beings cannot choose not to sin? In this
masterpiece of historical scholarship, Pagels re-creates the
controversies that racked the early church as it confronted
the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the
story of Genesis. 224pgs. • 1989
• Vintage • P • $13.95 / $5.98
100919 BEYOND BELIEF: The
Secret Gospel of Thomas
Pagels, Elaine
Pagels continues her groundbreaking
examination of the earliest Christian
texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy. Spurred on by new
scholarship from an international
group of researchers, she returns to
her investigation of the "secret" Gospel of Thomas, and
breathes new life into writings once thought heretical.
272pgs. • 2004
• Knopf • P • $13.00 / $5.98
130528 THE ORIGIN OF SATAN: How Christians
Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics
Pagels, Elaine
With magisterial learning and the élan of a born storyteller,
Pagels turns Satan's story into an audacious exploration of
Christianity's shadow side, in which the gospel of love has
given way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt
Christians and non-Christians alike. 240pgs. • 1996
• Vintage • P • $14.00 / $6.98
126837 THE FAITH INSTINCT: How
Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Wade, Nicholas
In this original and controversial book, a
longtime reporter for The New York Times
gathers new evidence showing why religion
became so essential in the course of
human evolution, and how an instinct for
faith has been hardwired into human
nature. Religious behavior, both good and
ill, will remain an indelible component of human nature so
long as human societies need the security and cohesion that
belief provides. 320pgs. • 2009
• Penguin • C • $25.95 / $8.98
127087 FIREWALKING AND RELIGIOUS HEALING:
The Anastenaria of Greece and the American
Firewalking Movement
Danforth, Loring M.
Examines and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine
dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second,
American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology. 352pgs. • 1989
• Princeton • P • $39.95 / $16.98
126846 GOD AND EMPIRE: Jesus
Against Rome, Then and Now
Crossan, John Dominic
The first-century Pax Romana, Crossan
points out, was in fact a "peace" won
through violent military action. Jesus
preached a different kind of peace -- a
peace that surpasses all understanding -and a kingdom that would be not of Caesar
but of God. For Jesus -- and for Paul -peace can only be achieved through justice and fair and equal
treatment of all. 272pgs. • 2007
• HarperCollins • C • $22.95 / $7.98
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117310 GOD AND GRACE OF BODY:
Sacrament in Ordinary
Brown, David
Explores the ways in which the symbolic
associations of the body and what we do
with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. Brown argues
that a church narrowly focused on Christ's
body wracked in pain needs to be reminded that the body as beautiful and sexual has
also played a crucial role not only in other religions but also
in the history of Christianity itself. 448pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $75.00 / $22.98
130300 GOD'S LAST WORDS: Reading the English
Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism
Katz, David S.
An intellectual history of how informed readers read their
Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first
translations in the 16th century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the 20th. David Katz recreates the response of
readers from different eras by examining the "horizon of
expectations" that provided the lens through which they
read. 416pgs. • 2004
• Yale • C • $42.00 / $14.98
074863 HERE I STAND: A Life of
Martin Luther
Bainton, Roland H.
With sound historical scholarship and
penetrating insight, Bainton examines
Luther's widespread influence. He re-creates the spiritual setting of the 16th century, showing Luther's place within it and
influence upon it. Richly illustrated with
more than 100 woodcuts and engravings
from Luther's own time. 336pgs. • 1995
• Penguin • P • $18.00 / $5.98
114588 IN THE BEGINNING:
The Story of the King James Bible
and How It Changed a Nation, a
Language, and a Culture
McGrath, Alister
This fascinating history of a literary and
religious masterpiece explores the
forces that led to the decision to create
an authorized translation, the method of
translation and printing, and the central
role the book has played in the development of modern
English. 352pgs. • 2002
• Anchor Books • P • $15.00 / $6.98
125510 JOHN WYCLIF
Lahey, Stephen Edmund
Often seen as a precursor of the Reformation, Wyclif has only
recently begun to be studied as a philosopher and theologian.
This work draws on recent scholarship situating him in his
milieu, in order to present his thought and writings as a coherent theological position arising from Oxford's "Golden Age" of
theology. 304pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • C NDJ • $99.00 / $24.98
116106 THE KINDNESS OF GOD: Metaphor, Gender,
and Religious Language
Soskice, Janet Martin
Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical
writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? This book from a leading scholar of religious language and feminism opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kinship by discussing its place in the central teachings
of Christian theology. 203pgs. • 2008
• Oxford University • C • $49.95 / $9.98
111598 THE MAKING OF THE MAGDALEN: Preaching
and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
Jansen, Katherine Ludwig
Best known during the Middle Ages as the prostitute who
became a faithful follower of Christ, Mary Magdalen was the
most beloved female saint after the Virgin Mary. This compelling exploration of late medieval religious culture examines
why the Magdalen became so popular, what meanings she
conveyed, and how her story evolved over the centuries.
408pgs. • 2001
• Princeton • P • $31.95 / $17.98
118533 THE PROTESTANT
REFORMATION
Hillerbrand, Hans J.
This collection of important primary
sources pertaining to the Protestant
Reformation of the 16th century offers
lengthy excerpts rather than short snippets,
in order to provide the reader with an
understanding of the broader cogency and
dynamic of each writer's arguments. It
incorporates texts written by women as well as material dealing with popular religion. 320pgs. • 1968
• HarperCollins • P • $15.00 / $5.98
130290 REFLECTIONS ON JESUS AND SOCRATES:
Word and Silence
Gooch, Paul W.
In this deeply personal and provocative meditation, Gooch
focuses on the Jesus of the Gospels and the Socrates of
Plato's dialogues, seeking to understand their fundamental
commitments to philosophy and to God, and drawing parallels and contrasts that invite deeper reflection upon our
own lives and experiences. 320pgs. • 1997
• Yale • C • $60.00 / $14.98
076355 REFORMERS IN THE WINGS: From Geiler Von
Kaysersberg to Theodore Beza
SECOND EDITION
Steinmetz, David Curtis
Offers portraits of 20 secondary theologians of the
Reformation period. In addition to describing a particular theologian, each portrait explores one problem in 16th-century
Christian thought. Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Radical
thinkers are all represented in this volume, which serves as
both an introduction to the field and a handy reference for
scholars. 224pgs. • 2001
• Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $12.98
076234 SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CONVERSION
Wills, Garry
Wills translates the eighth book of Augustine's Confessions. The
structure of the work, the controversies surrounding who was
responsible for Augustine's conversion, and the questions
Augustine raises about the nature of conversion itself are all artfully illuminated in the splendid introduction. 144pgs. • 2004
• Viking • C • $23.95 / $7.98
107524 THE SECULARISATION OF
THE CONFESSIONAL STATE: The
Political Thought of Christian
Thomasius
Hunter, Ian
Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) was a
tireless campaigner against the political
enforcement of religion in the early modern confessional state. In this first booklength study in English of his political
thought, Ian Hunter discusses his work in public and church
law, providing a revealing comparison with the arguments of
John Locke. 232pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $90.00 / $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 • $29.95 / $17.98
124479 SHAMANS AND SHAMANISM
Maddox, John Lee
A classic of the genre, this survey compares the development of the shaman, or medicine man, among tribal societies. It draws from tribal societies around the world from
Australian Aborigines to Zulus, and covers the social position and functions of the shaman, methodology, and the
perils of failure and rewards of success. 352pgs. • 2003
• Dover • P • $14.95 / $4.98
080212 THE UNKNOWN SAYINGS OF JESUS
Meyer, Marvin W.
Collects and translates 200 sayings attributed to Jesus from the
first centuries of the Christian era, none of which have been
published before in English. These aphorisms, which come
from a variety of sources, give a glimpse into some of the
scriptures that were circulating in the canon of the early
Church. 208pgs. • 2005
• Shambhala • P • $19.95 / $2.98
125522 VICTORIAN REFORMATION:
The Fight over Idolatry in the Church
of England, 1840-1860
Janes, Dominic
In early Victorian England some Anglicans
began to use a much more elaborate form
of ritual involving vestments, candles, and
incense. This "Anglo-Catholic" movement
was vehemently opposed by evangelicals
and dissenters, who saw it as the vanguard of "popery." Janes
traces the fierce passions that were unleashed as they found
expression in litigation, in rowdy demonstrations, and even in
violence. 256pgs. • 2009
• Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $12.98
080165 WHERE GOD HAPPENS: Discovering Christ
in One Another, and Other Lessons from the Desert
Fathers
Williams, Rowan
The Archbishop of Canterbury addresses the lives and spiritual practice of the Desert Fathers and Mothers who lived in the
deserts of Egypt in the early centuries of the Common Era.
Through his readings of the lives of the hermits, Williams finds
that holiness "is with the neighbor, the actual here and now
context in which we live." 208pgs. • 2005
• Shambhala • C • $19.95 / $6.98
RUSSIAN & SOVI ET STU DI ES
105341 THE AMERICAN MISSION
AND THE EVIL EMPIRE: The Crusade
for a Free Russia Since 1881
Foglesong, David S.
Tells the fascinating story of American
efforts to liberate and remake Russia since
the 1880s. Foglesong analyzes the involvement of journalists, political activists, propagandists, missionaries, diplomats, engineers, and others in this grand crusade,
paying special attention to the influence of religious beliefs on
Americans' sense of duty to emancipate, convert, or reform
Russia. 352pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $38.99 / $18.98
053286 BUKHARIN AND THE
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION: A
Political Biography, 1888-1938
Cohen, Stephen F.
This classic biography of Nikolai
Bukharin, the Bolshevik revolutionary
turned Soviet politician, carefully traces
his rise and fall, with particular focus
on his influence during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and
the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929. 495pgs. • 1980
• Oxford University • P • $27.00 / $12.98
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036374 THE COLLAPSE OF THE
SOVIET MILITARY
Odom, William E.
A distinguished Army officer and scholar
traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military,
arguing that it had a far greater impact on
Soviet politics and economic development
than was perceived in the West. He draws
on interviews with key actors in the Soviet
Union before, during, and after its collapse
in 1991. 523pgs. • 1998
• Yale • P • $25.00 / $7.98
127291 A CRATE OF VODKA: An Insider View on the 20
Years That Shaped Modern Russia
Kokh, Alfred, et al.
Two spirited polemicists revisit the 20 years following the end
of Soviet communism. Their wide-ranging conversations -touching on sex, demographics, religion, marriage, crime,
government, and politics -- provide an inside account of
Russia's recent history that reads at times like My Dinner with
Andre. 712pgs. • 2009
• Enigma Books • C • $28.00 / $5.98
127502 FARM TO FACTORY: A Reinterpretation of
the Soviet Industrial Revolution
Allen, Robert C.
In a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the
USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of
the 20th century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by
recalculating national consumption and using economic,
demographic, and computer simulation models to address the
central questions of Soviet history. 264pgs. • 2009
• Princeton • P • $27.95 / $18.98
052348 GRAND DELUSION: Stalin
and the German Invasion of Russia
Gorodetsky, Gabriel
Draws on vital new archival material to
unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of
Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic
behavior on the eve of the attack.
Challenging the currently popular view that
Stalin was about to invade Germany when
Hitler made a preemptive strike,
Gorodetsky argues that Stalin was actually negotiating for
peace in order to redress the European balance of power.
408pgs. • 1999
• Yale • C • $60.00 / $12.98
124859 LETTERS FROM RUSSIA
De Custine, Astolphe
The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839
is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of
the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. Custine,
who met with people in all walks of life -- including the Czar
himself -- offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and
Moscow, of life at court and on the street, and of the impoverished Russian countryside. 672pgs. • 2002
• New York Review of Books • P • $24.95 / $9.98
111211 MAPPING ST. PETERSBURG:
Imperial Text and Cityshape
Buckler, Julie A.
Traces the evolution of Russia's onetime
capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a
living cultural system -- a topography
expressed not only by the city's physical
structures but also by the literary texts that
have helped create it. She views the grand
city, the product of Peter the Great's ambitious vision, not only as a geographical entity but also as a network of genres bearing historical and cultural meaning.
384pgs. • 2004
• Princeton • C • $58.00 / $14.98
119077 POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE IN
REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA: A Provincial History
Badcock, Sarah
After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917,
Russia was subject to an eight months' experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of
the experiences and motivations of ordinary people, men and
women, urban and rural, military and civilian. 280pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $127.00 / $32.98
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125490 PETER THE GREAT
Massie, Robert K.
In this biography of one of the most extraordinary men in
history, set against the grandeur of 17th- and 18th-century
Russia and Europe, Massie reveals a man of enormous energy and complexity. 928pgs. • 1981
• Ballantine • P • $21.00 / $8.98
130621 THE ROMANOVS: The
Final Chapter
Massie, Robert K.
In July 1991, nine skeletons were
exhumed from a shallow mass grave
near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles
from the infamous cellar room where
the last tsar and his family had been
murdered 73 years before. But were
these the bones of the Romanovs?
Massie provides answers, describing in suspenseful detail
the dramatic efforts in post-Communist Russia to discover
the truth. 320pgs. • 1996
• Ballantine • P • $15.95 / $6.98
126710 RUSSIAN CONSERVATISM AND ITS CRITICS: A
Study in Political Culture
Pipes, Richard
In the first account of Russia's immemorial commitment to the
theory and practice of autocracy, Pipes considers why Russian
thinkers, statesmen, and publicists have long insisted that the
nation could only prosper under autocratic rule. 240pgs. •
2006
• Yale • C • $35.00 / $9.98
111350 STALIN AND THE SOVIET SCIENCE WARS
Pollock, Ethan
Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written book shows that
Stalin's forays into scholarship can be understood only
within the context of international tensions, institutional
conflicts, and growing uncertainties about the proper relationship between scientific knowledge and the truths dictated by the Party. 288pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $25.95 / $14.98
104478 THANK YOU, COMRADE
STALIN!: Soviet Public Culture from
Revolution to Cold War
Brooks, Jeffrey
In this penetrating historical study, Brooks
draws on years of research into the most
influential and widely circulated Russian
newspapers -- including Pravda, Isvestiia,
and the army paper Red Star -- to explore
the origins, nature, and effects of the
Soviet media's unrelenting idealization of the state, the
Communist Party, and the leader. 344pgs. • 2001
• Princeton • P • $30.95 / $14.98
124876 TO THE FINLAND STATION
Wilson, Edmund
In this landmark work of scholarship, Wilson traces the development of the political and intellectual movements that culminated in the Russian Revolution, from the ideas of early socialists and anarchists like Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, and
Bakunin to the thought of Marx and Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky.
544pgs. • 2003
• New York Review of Books • P • $19.95 / $8.98
130302 VIEWS FROM THE OTHER
SHORE: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov
and Bakhtin
Kelly, Aileen
A prominent scholar here writes about
two kinds of 19th- and 20th-century
Russian intellectuals: those with a passion
for ideology (often the most extreme
form); and those who, inspired by libertarian humanism, developed sophisticated
critiques of ideology. 272pgs. • 1999
• Yale • C • $50.00 / $9.98
SCI ENCE, TECH NOLOGY &
MATH EMATICS
104584 BEYOND UFOS: The Search for Extraterrestrial
Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
Bennett, Jeffrey O.
Describes the startling discoveries being made in the science
of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy,
biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other
planets. 211pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $26.95 / $9.98
123215 A BRIEFER HISTORY OF
TIME
Hawking, Stephen
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a
landmark volume in scientific writing.
This "briefer" version, which both clarifies and expands on the original,
records the latest developments in the
field, from string theory to the search
for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. 176pgs. •
2008
• Bantam • P • $22.00 / $8.98
122604 THE CANON: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful
Basics of Science
Angier, Natalie
A playful, passionate guide to the science -- physics, chemistry,
biology, geology, and astronomy -- that is in action all around
us. With Angier as docent, we learn what is actually happening
when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our
liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse is an
example of evolution at work, and how we're all really made
of stardust. 304pgs. • 2007
• Houghton Mifflin • C • $27.00 / $5.98
108453 DRIVING FORCES IN
PHYSICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC PHENOMENA: A Network
Science Investigation of Social Bonds
and Interactions
Roehner, Bertrand M.
In recent years network science has
become a dynamic and promising discipline; here it is extended to explore social
and historical phenomena. The book
explains how it is possible to bridge the gap between physics
and sociology by exploring how network theory can apply to
both. 254pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $83.00 / $24.98
104875 THE ESSENTIAL JOHN NASH
Kuhn, Harold W. & Sylvia Nasar, eds.
Presents the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not
only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to
pure mathematics -- from Riemannian geometry and partial
differential equations -- in which he commands even
greater acclaim among academics. In an afterword, Nash
describes his current work and discusses an error in one
of his papers. 244pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • P • $22.95 / $13.98
111450 FEARLESS SYMMETRY:
Exposing the Hidden Patterns of
Numbers
Ash, Avner & Robert Gross
Mathematicians solve equations, or try to,
but sometimes the solutions are not as
interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to their discovery. Written
for a general audience, this is the first popular book to discuss these elegant and
mysterious patterns and the ingenious techniques that mathematicians use to uncover them. 312pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $23.95 / $11.98
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111175 FUNDAMENTAL PAPERS IN WAVELET THEORY
Heil, Christopher & David F. Walnut
Traces the prehistory and initial development of wavelet theory, a discipline that has had a profound impact on mathematics, physics, and engineering. The book covers the interchanges between these fields during the last 15 years have led
to advances in applications such as image compression, turbulence, machine vision, radar, and earthquake prediction.
878pgs. • 2006
• Princeton • C NDJ • $120.00 / $18.98
129920 GAUGING WHAT'S REAL: The
Conceptual Foundations of
Contemporary Gauge Theories
Healey, Richard
Gauge theories have provided our most
successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. How, though, do
such representations work? This volume
outlines the representations provided by
gauge theories in both classical and quantum physics. 240pgs. • 2007
• Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $19.98
112809 THE GRANULAR PHYSICS
Mehta, Anita J.
The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development in the late 1980s, when physicists first began to use statistical mechanics to study granular media. This wide-ranging
account lays out the foundations of the statics and dynamics of
granular physics. 318pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $172.00 / $22.98
124616 THE HINDU-ARABIC NUMERALS
Smith, David Eugene & Louis Charles Karpinski
A classic, concise history of the origin and development of
Hindu-Arabic numerals. The authors, two distinguished mathematicians, recount the labors of scholars who studied the
subject in different parts of the world, assess the historical testimony, and draw conclusions based on the surviving evidence.
176pgs. • 2004
• Dover • C • $45.00 / $14.98
125573 HOW MATHEMATICIANS
THINK: Using Ambiguity,
Contradiction, and Paradox to
Create Mathematics
Byers, William
Mathematicians often describe their
most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity,
contradiction, and paradox. In this
unique examination of this less-familiar
aspect of mathematics, Byers reveals that mathematics is a
profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. 424pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $24.95 / $16.98
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
107674 HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY
FROM A LOCAL VIEWPOINT
Keen, Linda & Nikola Lakic
Presents topics in 2-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. The authors develop all the
necessary basic theory, including the concepts of surfaces and covering spaces as
well as uniformization and Fuchsian
groups. Applications to holomorphic
dynamics are discussed including new
results and accessible open problems. 271pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $51.99 / $16.98
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105248 AN IMAGINARY TALE: The
Story of the Square Root of Minus One
Nahin, Paul J.
Relates the 2,000-year-old history of one of
the most elusive numbers in mathematics,
the square root of minus one. Addressing
both scholarly and general readers, Nahin
weaves entertaining historical facts and
mathematical discussions into his tale,
including the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems such as Kepler's
laws of planetary motion. 267pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • P • $17.95 / $9.98
125749 IS PLUTO A PLANET?: A Historical Journey
Through the Solar System
Weintraub, D. A.
The number of possible planets has ranged widely over the
centuries, from five to seventeen. This lively survey ranges
from ancient Greece, where stargazers noted that some
stars wander while others don't; to Copernicus, who made
Earth a planet but rejected the Sun and the Moon; to the
modern discoveries of the asteroid belt, Neptune, Pluto,
and extrasolar planets. 272pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
124977 MECHANICAL APPLIANCES, MECHANICAL
MOVEMENTS AND NOVELTIES OF CONSTRUCTION
Hiscox, Gardner D.
This engrossing visual narrative profiles the specific and
unique properties of hundreds of devices, many still in use
today. Nearly 1,000 detailed illustrations -- including steampowered appliances, spring-powered devices, hydraulic
equipment, and other machinery -- are accompanied by
informative explanations. 400pgs. • 2008
• Dover • P • $16.95 / $5.98
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 / $8.98
124400 OPTIMAL CONTROL: An Introduction to the
Theory and Its Applications
Athans, Michael & Peter L. Falb
Geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate engineering students, this text serves as a bridge to the technical
literature, enabling students to evaluate the implications of
theoretical control work and to judge the merits of papers on
the subject. 896pgs. • 2006
• Dover • P • $44.95 / $12.98
083596 THE PHYSICS AND
CHEMISTRY OF THE INTERSTELLAR
MEDIUM
Tielens, A. G. G. M.
Emphasizing microscopic physical and
chemical processes in space, and their
influence on the macroscopic structure of
the interstellar medium of galaxies, this
book includes the latest developments in
an exciting area of molecular astrophysics, as new space and ground-based observational opportunities have resulted in significant additions to our knowledge
of the molecular universe in recent years. 495pgs. • 2005
• Cambridge • C • $107.00 / $75.98
106635 PLANETARY SYSTEMS AND THE ORIGINS OF
LIFE
Pudritz, Ralph, et al.
Several major breakthroughs in the last decade have helped
contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. This volume
examines how planetary systems formed, how water and the
biomolecules necessary for life were produced, and how life
may have originated and evolved on Earth -- and elsewhere.
315pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $137.00 / $44.98
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089204 THE MEANING OF IT
ALL: Thoughts of A Citizen-Scientist
Feynman, Richard P.
Based on a previously unpublished,
three-part public lecture given at the
University of Washington in 1963, this
volume shows us this other side of
Feynman, as he expounds on the inherent conflict between science and religion, the public's distrust of politicians,
and our fascination with flying saucers, faith healing, and
mental telepathy. 144pgs. • 2005
• Basic Books • P • $13.95 / $5.98
090429 PERFECTLY
REASONABLE DEVIATIONS FROM
THE BEATEN TRACK: The Letters
of Richard P. Feynman
Feynman, Richard P.
A selection of the late physicist's correspondence on a dazzling array of topics
and themes. With missives to and from
scientific luminaries, fans, family, students, crackpots, and everyday people
eager for Feynman's wisdom and counsel, this volume bears
eloquent testimony to the human quest for knowledge at all
levels. 512pgs. • 2006
• Basic Books • P • $15.95 / $6.98
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 / $8.98
109763 QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
OF NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATES
Rammer, Jorgen
Quantum field theory is the application
of quantum mechanics to systems with
infinitely many degrees of freedom. This
volume offers two ways of learning how
to study non-equilibrium states of manybody systems: the mathematical canonical way and an easy intuitive way using
Feynman diagrams. 536pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $97.00 / $36.98
124345 REAL ANALYSIS
Klambauer, Gabriel
Introduces contemporary real analysis with a particular
emphasis on integration theory. It explores the Lebesgue theory of measure and integration of real functions; abstract measure and integration theory as well as topological and metric
spaces. 448pgs. • 2005
• Dover • P • $22.95 / $8.98
086397 SHAPING LIFE: Genes,
Embryos and Evolution
DARWINISM TODAY SERIES
Maynard Smith, John
An account of the revolution in our understanding of developmental biology that has
taken place as scientists apply the ideas and
techniques of genetics and embryology to
the processes of development. In this book,
John Maynard Smith gives an account of the
progress that has been made in this field to our knowledge of
both the development of individuals and the evolution of the
species. 64pgs. • 1999
• Yale • C • $14.00 / $6.98
107834 THE SOLAR TACHOCLINE
Hughes, D. W., et al.
Helioseismology has enabled us to probe
the internal structure and dynamics of the
Sun, including how its rotation varies in
the solar interior. The unexpected discovery of an abrupt transition -- the
tachocline -- between the differentially
rotating convection zone and the uniformly rotating radiative interior has generated considerable interest and raised many fundamental
issues. 382pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • C • $183.00 / $22.98
105192 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 • $19.95 / $9.98
104619 STRING THEORY IN A
NUTSHELL
Kiritsis, Elias
A core model of physics that substitutes
one-dimensional extended "strings" for
zero-dimensional point-like particles,
string theory has been a leading candidate
for a theory that would successfully unify
all fundamental forces of nature, including
gravity. This book, by one of the world's
authorities on the subject, is a comprehensive introduction to
the field. 588pgs. • 2007
• Princeton • C • $75.00 / $32.98
090200 STRUCTURES: Or Why Things Don't Fall
Down
Gordon, J. E.
Ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse, how
dams hold back thousands of gallons of water, or what
guides the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo? Gordon
will ease your anxiety and answer your questions, as he
strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, and
communicates its basic principles in accessible, witty
prose. 424pgs. • 2003
• Da Capo • P • $18.95 / $8.98
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 • $21.95 / $9.98
118515 THE UNCERTAIN ART: Thoughts on a Life in
Medicine
Nuland, Sherwin B.
A collection of essays about the vital mix of expertise, intuition,
sound judgment, and pure chance that plays a part in a doctor's practice and life. Drawing from history, the recent past,
and his own life, Nuland weaves a tapestry of compelling stories in which doctors have had to make life-and-death decisions in the face of uncertainty. 224pgs. • 2008
• Random House • C • $25.00 / $5.98
125847 THE UNIVERSE IN A MIRROR: The Saga of the
Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
Zimmerman, Robert
The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information
about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very
existence of black holes, among other startling discoveries. In
this volume, Robert Zimmerman tells the story of the telescope
and the remarkable visionaries behind its extraordinary
accomplishments. 312pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • P • $19.95 / $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 • $23.95 / $11.98
SOCIOLOGY & EDUCATION
093481 AN ATLAS OF
INTERPERSONAL SITUATIONS
Kelley, Harold H., et al.
Provides a systematic theoretical basis for
understanding the impact of situations on
patterns of social interaction. Structured
around descriptions of 21 of the most
common situations that people encounter
in everyday life, the book aims to provide
readers with the tools needed to understand how those situations influence interpersonal behavior.
518pgs. • 2003
• Cambridge • P • $57.00 / $9.98
105896 THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK
OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOR AND
AGGRESSION
Flannery, Daniel J., et al.
Understanding the origins of violent behavior and aggression, its developmental
course, and its impact on individuals and
societies will allow us to design appropriate preventative interventions and policies.
This handbook is unique in its multidisciplinary focus and its presentation of cutting-edge research by
the leading authors in the field. 817pgs. • 2007
• Cambridge • P • $68.99 / $29.98
125883 THE CASE FOR MAKE BELIEVE: Saving Play in
a Commercialized World
Linn, Susan
In an age when toys come from TV shows and dress-up means
wearing Disney costumes, Linn lays out the inextricable links
between play, creativity, and health -- and shows us how and
why we must reclaim childhood for our children. 272pgs. •
2009
• New Press • P • $17.95 / $3.98
112578 CHINESE AMERICA: The Untold Story of
America's Oldest New Community
Kwong, Peter & Dusanka Miscevic
A magisterial history of the Chinese experience in America.
Drawing on years of original research and firsthand reporting across the US and Asia, it charts 150 years of history
from the Chinese frontiersmen of the Wild West to the hightech transnationals of today's booming Chinese-American
"ethnoburbs." 518pgs. • 2007
• New Press • P • $21.95 / $5.98
112653 CITY KIDS, CITY SCHOOLS: More Reports from
the Front Row
Ayers, William, et al.
In this collection, practicing teachers, poets and scholars,
social critics and journalists, offer unique takes on topics
ranging from culturally relevant teaching and scripted curricula to the criminalization of youth, gentrification, and the
inequities of school funding. 384pgs. • 2008
• New Press • P • $24.95 / $6.98
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104765 CREATIVE DESTRUCTION:
How Globalization Is Changing the
World's Cultures
Cowen, Tyler
Through an array of colorful examples,
Cowen asks what happens when cultures
collide through trade, whether technology
destroys native arts, why (and whether)
Hollywood movies rule the world, and if
national cultures matter at all. Scrutinizing
such manifestations of "indigenous" culture as the steel band
ensembles of Trinidad, Indian handweaving, and music from
Zaire, Cowen finds that they are more vibrant than ever -thanks largely to cross-cultural trade. 192pgs. • 2004
• Princeton • P • $27.95 / $12.98
110746 THE DECLINE OF THE SECULAR UNIVERSITY
Sommerville, C. John
Sommerville argues that the very secularization that was supposed to be a liberating influence on higher education has
resulted in the university's failure to provide leadership in
political, cultural, social, and even scientific arenas. His bracing and provocative arguments are sure to stimulate discussion both inside and outside the academy. 147pgs. • 2006
• Oxford University • C • $25.00 / $5.98
104567 THE FLIGHT FROM REALITY IN THE HUMAN
SCIENCES
Shapiro, Ian
In discipline after discipline, Shapiro argues, scholars have
fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from and
perpetuates a flight from reality. As an alternative, he makes a
compelling case for problem-driven social research rooted in
a realist philosophy of science and an antireductionist view of
social explanation. 240pgs. • 2005
• Princeton • C • $44.00 / $16.98
111845 GLOBALIZATION: A Short History
Osterhammel, Jurgen & Niels P. Petersson
Arguing that the world did not turn "global" overnight, the
authors trace the phenomenon to early modern large-scale
trading, for example, the silk trade, the shipping routes
between the Arabian Peninsula and India, and the caravan
routes of the Near East and North Africa, all of which served
as conduits for people, goods, and ideas. 182pgs. • 2005
• Princeton • C • $35.00 / $12.98
112530 HOW KINDERGARTEN CAME
TO AMERICA: Friedrich Froebel's
Radical Vision of Early Childhood
Education
Von Marenholtz-Bulow, Bertha
This lively portrait of a pioneer of modern
education is a refreshing reminder of the
essential role of play and creative exploration. Froebel's methods provide a muchneeded antidote to the current emphasis
on high-stakes testing and accelerated curricula -- a corruption, as Herbert Kohl argues in his foreword, of the original
concept of kindergartens as children's gardens of learning.
269pgs. • 2007
• New Press • P • $18.95 / $7.98
127795 HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
Riis, Jacob A.
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of
New York's slums at the turn of the 20th century is a classic in
social thought and a monument of early American photography and social activism. 233pgs. • 1971
• Dover • P • $15.95 / $10.98
130230 INEQUALITIES OF THE
WORLD: New Theoretical
Frameworks, Multiple Empirical
Approaches
Therborn, Göran, ed.
Over the last century, global inequality
has developed and continues to develop in unexpected and disturbing patterns. In this important book,
Therborn and his colleagues connect
current world inequality to different national constellations
of class and power as well as to transnational processes.
332pgs. • 2006
• Verso • P • $35.00 / $7.98
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130212 THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS: Reform and
Reaction in the American University
Menand, Louis
Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Menand
argues that its institutional structures and educational philosophy have remained the same for a century, while faculties and
student bodies have radically changed and technology has
drastically transformed the way people produce and disseminate knowledge. 176pgs. • 2010
• W. W. Norton • C • $24.95 / $5.98
130220 MODERN TIMES ANCIENT
HOURS: Working Lives in the TwentyFirst Century
Basso, Pietro
Pietro Basso argues convincingly that the
average working time of wage laborers is
more intense, fast-paced, flexible, and
longer than at any period in recent history.
In a comprehensive survey of all the
Western countries, he demonstrates that
work pressures are increasing, leading to a creeping deterioration in the working lives of millions of people. 280pgs. •
2003
• Verso • C • $27.00 / $7.98
125930 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. 178pgs. • 2010
• Princeton • C • $22.95 / $12.98
130525 ONE NATION, TWO
CULTURES: A Searching
Examination of American Society in
the Aftermath of Our Cultural
Revolution
Himmelfarb, Gertrude
In this exploration of the place of religion, family, and the law in American
life, Himmelfarb argues that whatever
our grievances against government, we
cannot afford to delegitimize it. Proposing remedies for the
moral and cultural disorders of democratic society, she
concludes that it is a tribute to Americans that we remain
one nation despite our differences. 208pgs. • 2001
• Random House • P • $12.00 / $5.98
112421 SHOULD WE BURN BABAR?: Essays on
Children's Literature and the Power of Stories
Kohl, Herbert R.
A new edition of the prizewinning educator's thoughts on the
politics of children's literature, including a new essay written
for this volume. Beginning with the title essay on Babar the elephant, the book includes essays on Pinocchio and the history
of progressive education, and a call for the writing of more
radical children's literature. 224pgs. • 2007
• New Press • P • $14.95 / $4.98
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 • $52.00 / $24.98
113000 WAL-MART: The Face of Twenty-First-Century
Capitalism
Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed.
An ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the US and
world economy. Extensively illustrated with charts and graphs,
it examines such topics as the giant retailer's managerial culture, revolutionary use of technological innovation, and controversial pay and promotional practices. 256pgs. • 2006
• New Press • P • $21.95 / $4.98
TRAVEL
127300 LONDON FRAGMENTS: A
Literary Expedition
Görner, Rüdiger
Explores the literary landscape of
London through ten strolls through
some of its most interesting areas. We
meet Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth
south of the river, find Virginia Woolf
and Lady Ottoline Morell in Bloomsbury,
discover Blake and Trollope in
Westminster, the Carlyles in Chelsea, and encounter Bacon and
Hanif Kureishi in the London suburbs. 254pgs. • 2007
• Haus Publishers • C • $19.95 / $7.98
127307 PORTRAIT OF THE GULF
STREAM: In Praise of Currents
Orsenna, Erik
Passion and concern for the Gulf Stream
motivated Erik Orsenna to travel far and
wide to meet scholars and scientists who
hold the key to the mysteries of this powerful ocean current. Spanning thousands of years of history, this book
weaves between poetry and science to
trace the influence of the current on our climate and culture.
320pgs. • 2008
• Haus Publishers • C • $19.95 / $7.98
127306 ON FOOT TO THE END OF THE WORLD:
Walking the Way of St. James
Freund, René & Janina Joffe
A journey along the road to Santiago, one of Europe s oldest pilgrim trails. This vivid travelogue not only introduces
the reader to the overwhelming natural beauty to be
encountered along the way, but also lets them share in the
author's experience of testing his own physical and psychological limits. 188pgs. • 2006
• Haus Publishers • C • $19.95 / $7.98
127311 SPAIN: Body and Soul
Van Den Brink, H. M.
With historical background and personal memories and associations, van
den Brink sketches a lively description of Spain, its culture and traditions, both in the city and in the countryside. This story focuses on enjoying
various Spanish dishes in both exquisite restaurants and more commonplace settings. 254pgs. • 2006
• Haus Publishers • C • $19.95 / $7.98
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041490 BIRD'S EYE VIEWS:
Historic Lithographs of
North American Cities
Reps, John W.
Collects over 100 views dating
between 1838 and 1908,
showing the streets, buildings,
churches, bridges, waterways,
and surrounding countryside
of North American towns,
ranging from burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns and mining camps. 115pgs. • 1998
• Princeton Architectural • C • $70.00 / $29.98
117476 THE CULTURE BROKER: Franklin D. Murphy
and the Transformation of Los Angeles
Davis, Margaret L.
For decades, Franklin D. Murphy was the dominant figure in
the cultural development of Los Angeles. Channeling more
than one billion dollars into the city's arts and educational
infrastructure, he elevated Los Angeles to a vibrant world-class
city positioned for its role in the new era of global trade and
cross-cultural arts. 490pgs. • 2007
• California • C • $36.95 / $12.98
123384 THE LANDSCAPE URBANISM
READER
Waldheim, Charles, ed.
With populations decentralizing and
cities sprawling ever-outward, 21st-century urban planners are challenged by
the need to organize not just people but
space itself. Hence a new architectural
discourse has emerged: landscape
urbanism. These fourteen essays, written
by leading figures across a range of disciplines, survey the
origins and aspirations of this relatively new field. 288pgs.
• 2006
• Princeton Architectural • P • $34.95 / $20.98
125961 NEW YORK NOCTURNE: The
City after Dark in Literature, Painting,
and Photography, 1850-1950
Sharpe, W. C.
As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted
New Yorkers out into a burgeoning
nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and
dancing. This book traces key literary and
visual metaphors of the nighttime city: a
seductive Babylon in the mid-1850s, a
misty fairyland colonized by an empire of light in the early
20th century, and a skyscraper-studded land of desire that
became a stage for the voyeurism and violence of the 1940s
and 1950s. 456pgs. • 2008
• Princeton • C • $37.50 / $21.98
073298 TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPRAWL: Highways
and the Reshaping of the American Landscape
Gutfreund, Owen D.
An illuminating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Shows how government policies subsidized the spread of
cities and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars
and road building, with little regard for expense, efficiency,
ecological damage, or social equity. 297pgs. • 2004
• Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $5.98
049796 VENICE: Fragile City, 17971997
Plant, Margaret
With its canals, gondolas, and picturesque buildings that seem little changed
since the Renaissance, Venice is a city
that appears to have resisted modernization. This engrossing and strikingly illustrated book presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city in the past two
centuries, showing how it has changed and adapted and how
perceptions of Venice have shaped its reality. 550pgs. • 2002
• Yale • C • $65.00 / $29.98
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