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African-American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 3
African Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
American Studies & Politics . . . . . . . . . . 3
Anthropology & Archaeology . . . . . . . . 7
Architecture & Home Design . . . . . . . . . 8
Art & Art History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Classical Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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Library of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Eastern European Studies . . . . . . . . . . 25
Eastern Religion & Philosophy . . . . . . . 26
Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
European History & Politics . . . . . . . . . 29
Film & Media Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Historiography & General History . . . . 34
History & Philosophy of Science . . . . . 36
Jewish Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Latin American & Caribbean Studies . . .38
Linguistics & Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Literary Theory & Criticism . . . . . . . . . 40
Literature, Poetry & Drama . . . . . . . . . 42
Medieval & Renaissance Studies . . . . . 44
Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies . . . . . 45
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Natural History & Environmental
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Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Political Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Political Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Cognitive
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Science, Technology & Mathematics . . 69
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AFRICAN-AM ERICAN STU DI ES
124536 FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINS
Ball, Charles
Providing gripping firsthand details of
southern slavery before the Civil War, Ball
tells how he was treated by planters and
slaveholders, describes the conditions and
treatment of his fellows, and vividly depicts
the perils and suffering of fugitive slaves.
352pgs. • 2003
◆ • Dover • P • $14.95 / $4.98
125940 GOD'S LONG SUMMER:
Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
Marsh, Charles
In the summer of 1964, as the turmoil of
the civil rights movement reached its peak
in Mississippi, activists across the political
spectrum claimed that God was on their
side in the struggle. Through the emotionally charged stories of a wide range of
activists, Marsh invites us to consider the
movement anew, as a powerful yet protean religious force
driving social action. 312pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $16.98
128957 SIMPLE JUSTICE: The History of Brown v.
Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for
Equality
Kluger, Richard
The definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of
Education. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before
1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure, and
the establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers who were
able to successfully challenge the law. 880pgs. • 2004
▲ • Vintage • P • $27.95 / $7.98
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✪ 148168 THE WORLD OF THOMAS JEREMIAH:
Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution
Ryan, William Randolph
Profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during
the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of
Independence. Focusing on the dramatic hanging and
burning of Thomas Jeremiah, a free black harbor pilot and
firefighter accused of plotting a slave insurrection, William
R. Ryan uses a wide array of letters, naval records, personal and official correspondence, memoirs, and newspapers
to examine the world of this wealthy, slave-holding African
American. 280pgs. • 2010
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AFRICAN STU DI ES
049096 AFRICA AND AFRICANS IN
THE MAKING OF THE ATLANTIC
WORLD, 1400-1800
SECOND EDITION
Thornton, John
Focuses on causes and consequences of
the slave trade in Africa, Europe, and the
New World. Examines the dynamics that
made slaves so necessary to the European
colonizers. 340pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $16.98
087440 AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Phillipson, David W.
A lucid and fully illustrated account of African archaeology
from prehistory and the origins of humanity to the age of
European colonization, this volume spans the entire continent
from the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope and
demonstrates the relevance of archaeological research to the
understanding of Africa today. 406pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $58.00 / $34.98
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087374 REVERSING SAIL: A History
of the African Diaspora
Gomez, Michael A.
A concise examination of the migrations
and dispersals of African peoples from
antiquity to the modern era. It explores the
experiences of Africans in the
Mediterranean and Islamic worlds before
1492, as well as their enslavement and
involuntary migration to the New World
empires of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, and
English. 248pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $15.98
✪ 146098 ZULU IDENTITIES: Being Zulu, Past and
Present
Carton, Benedict, et al., eds.
The definitive volume on the Zulu people, history, and culture. Starting from a wide range of perspectives, the contributors examine what it means in today's world to be a
member of South Africa's largest single ethnic group.
688pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $135.00 / $60.98
AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS
✪ 148580 AMERICAN COLOSSUS: The Triumph of
Capitalism, 1865-1900
Brands, H. W.
In a grand-scale narrative history, Brand captures the decades
when capitalism was at its most unbridled, and when a handful of wealthy businessmen led the transformation of America
from an agrarian economy to a world power. The result is an
unforgettable portrait of the epochal contest between democracy and capitalism, one in which the latter ultimately triumphed. 624pgs. • 2010
◆ • Doubleday • C • $35.00 / $8.98
125735 AMERICAN MODERNS: Bohemian New York
and the Creation of a New Century
Stansell, Christine
In the early 20th century, an exuberant brand of gifted men
and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. Stansell eloquently explains
how the city's mixing of old and new worlds, politics and art,
and radicalism and commerce helped shape modern America.
432pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
050556 AMERICAN CRUCIBLE: Race and Nation in the
Twentieth Century
Gerstle, Gary
Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed
warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those
who are white and of the "right" ancestry? In this sweeping
look at 20th-century America, Gary Gerstle traces the forces of
civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both have profoundly shaped our society. 454pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
140721 ANOTHER CITY: Urban Life and Urban Spaces
in the New American Republic
Upton, Dell
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, growing populations
placed new demands on every aspect of the urban landscape - streets, parks, schools, asylums, cemeteries, markets, waterfronts, and more. In this exploration of the early history of
urban architecture and design, an architectural historian
reveals the fascinating confluence of sociological, cultural,
and psychological factors that shaped American cities in the
antebellum years. 416pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $16.98
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✪ 145051 THE LUCKY ONES: One
Family and the Extraordinary
Invention of Chinese America
Ngai, Mae
The story of one Chinese-American
family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a
fascinating picture of how serving in the
role of immigration broker allowed the
family patriarch to both protest and
profit from discrimination, and reveals how the family
became the pioneers of a new middle-class Chinese
America. 360pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
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101110 THE CHINATOWN TRUNK MYSTERY: Murder,
Miscegenation and Other Dangerous Encounters in
Turn-of-the-Century New York City
Lui, Mary Ting Yi
In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of 19-yearold Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and
the nation at large. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, Mary Ting Yi Lui offers a fascinating snapshot of social
and sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. 320pgs. •
2007
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✪ 110900 BEYOND TOLERATION: The Religious
Origins of American Pluralism
Beneke, Chris
How did early Americans learn to live with differences in matters of the highest importance to them -- and how did they find
ways to articulate these differences civilly? The key, Beneke
argues, did not lie solely in the protection of religious freedom. Instead, he reveals how American culture was transformed to accommodate the religious differences within it.
305pgs. • 2006
▲ • Oxford University • C • $50.00 / $12.98
113343 CHAMPLAIN'S DREAM
Fischer, David Hackett
A sweeping biography of Samuel de
Champlain, the visionary adventurer
who founded the first European settlement in Canada. Drawing on
Champlain's own diaries, drawings, and
maps, Fischer shows him to have been a
keen observer of a now-vanished world,
an artist and cartographer who published four invaluable books on the life he saw around him.
848pgs. • 2008
◆ • Simon & Schuster • C • $40.00 / $9.98
133717 CONCISE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY
Kazin, Michael, et al.
This essential reference provides authoritative introductions to
some of the most important topics in American history and
politics. It provides comprehensive coverage of both the traditional topics of US political history and the broader forces that
shape American politics, including economics, religion, social
movements, race, class, and gender. 672pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
144030 THE FORBIDDEN APPLE: A
Century of Sex and Sin in New York
City
Long, Kat
The first comprehensive sexual history of
New York City, this volume encompasses
Victorian-era battles over prostitution; the
women's movement at the turn of the 20th
century; the hedonistic Roaring Twenties;
the rise of Times Square as the city's sexual epicenter in the 1940s and 1950s; the birth of the gay rights
movement in the 1960s; the decadence and porn of the 1970s;
and the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. 260pgs. • 2009
◆ • Ig Publishing • P • $18.95 / $5.98
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143992 GAY L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power
Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
Faderman, Lillian & Stuart Timmons
Charts the city's gay history, from missionary encounters with
cross-gendered Native Americans to transvestite frontier
women in search of fortune; from the bohemia of early
Hollywood to the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and
the rise of gay marketing in the 1990s. 448pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • P • $24.95 / $5.98
125400 HISTORY ON TRIAL: Culture
Wars and the Teachings of the Past
Nash, Gary, Charlotte Crabtree & Ross E.
Dunn
What is our objective in teaching history to
children? Is it the role of schools, textbooks, and museums to instill patriotism?
Examining recent controversies over how
our nation's history should be taught, the
authors provide a timely and thoughtful
account of the ways in which Americans have perceived and
argued about our past. 352pgs. • 2000
◆ • Vintage • P • $15.95 / $6.98
111417 IMAGINED HISTORIES: American Historians
Interpret the Past
Molho, Anthony & Gordon S. Wood, ed.
This volume of essays on the birth and evolution of historiography in America, from its origins in the late 19th century
through the present, includes essays on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, immigration, and
multiculturalism. 512pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $19.98
✪ 148141 KNOW YOUR ENEMY: The
Rise and Fall of America's Soviet
Experts
Engerman, David C.
As World War II ended, Soviet Studies
became a vibrant intellectual enterprise,
studying not just the Soviet threat, but
Soviet society and culture as well as
Russian history and literature. This broad
network, Engerman argues, forever
changed the relationship between the government and academe, connecting the Pentagon with the ivory tower in ways that
still matter today. 469pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $34.95 / $12.98
140423 A LANDSCAPE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND
Harrison, Blake A. & Richard W. Judd, eds.
A wide-ranging, generously illustrated history of New
England's diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The authors trace the roles that work, recreation,
historic preservation, conservation, and environmentalism
have played in shaping the region, and they highlight the
diversity of historical actors who have transformed both its
meaning and its physical form. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • MIT • C • $34.95 / $16.98
111814 LINCOLN ON RACE AND
SLAVERY
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. & Donald
Yacovone, eds.
The man who would be immortalized as
"the Great Emancipator" enjoyed racist
humor, harbored grave doubts about the
intellectual capacity of African-Americans,
and for many years advocated the voluntary
"colonization" of freed slaves in Africa and
elsewhere. This book -- the first complete collection of his
important writings on both race and slavery -- explores these
contradictions through Lincoln's own words. 408pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
143337 LOVE AND HATE IN JAMESTOWN: John
Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
Price, David A.
In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to
America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific;
instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives.
Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures in the
saga, from the formidable monarch Powhatan, to the
resourceful but unpopular John Smith, to the spirited
Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith's life. 320pgs. • 2005
◆ • Vintage • P • $16.00 / $6.98
106747 MAKING A NEW DEAL:
Industrial Workers in Chicago, 19191939
NEW EDITION
Cohen, Lizabeth
Examines the process through which ordinary Chicago factory workers became
effective unionists and participants in
national politics. Cohen demonstrates that
although these workers may not have been
"political" in traditional terms, they demonstrated their political loyalties in other ways, overcoming longstanding divisions
in order to mount new kinds of collective action. 494pgs. •
2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $13.98
145061 MAKING THE AMERICAN SELF: Jonathan
Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Howe, Daniel Walker
Examining works by Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln,
Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others, Howe investigates how
Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the
process of self-invention. He argues that this conscious construction of the autonomous self was in fact essential to
American democracy. 352pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $19.95 / $7.98
138473 MASS MIGRATION UNDER
SAIL: European Immigration to the
Antebellum United States
Cohn, Raymond L.
This comprehensive analysis centers
on the three most important source
countries -- Ireland, Germany, and
Great Britain -- in the period before the
Civil War. It examines the volume of
immigration; where the immigrants
came from within each country; their passage to the US,
including estimates of mortality on the Atlantic crossing;
and the economic effects on both the immigrants and the
US. 270pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • C • $97.00 / $19.98
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124634 THE CIVIL WAR: A Concise History and
Picture Sourcebook
Grafton, John, ed.
More than 175 rare illustrations, selected from Harper's
Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and other
periodicals of the Civil War period, capture such scenes as
the opening shots fired upon Fort Sumter in 1861, the battle of Gettysburg, the fall of Vicksburg, Sherman's destruction of Atlanta, and the Confederate surrender at
Appomattox. 160pgs. • 2003
◆ • Dover • P • $16.95 / $5.98
✪ 146221 CROSSROADS OF
FREEDOM: Antietam
McPherson, James M.
A masterful account of the bloodiest
single day in American history, the
events that led up to it, and its aftermath. McPherson brilliantly weaves
strands of diplomatic, political, and
military history into a compact, swiftmoving narrative that shows why
Antietam was a turning point in our history. 224pgs. • 2004
▲ • Oxford University • P • $15.95 / $6.98
✪ 145064 WHAT THEY FOUGHT FOR 1861-1865
McPherson, James M.
A lively and accessible account of the sentiments of both
Northern and Southern soldiers during the national trauma
of the Civil War. McPherson, the author of Battle Cry of
Freedom, draws on the letters and diaries of nearly 1,000
Union and Confederate soldiers in order to give voice to the
very men who risked their lives on both sides of the conflict.
112pgs. • 1995
◆ • Doubleday • P • $13.95 / $5.98
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✪ 148179 SMOKING
TYPEWRITERS: The Sixties
Underground Press and the Rise of
Alternative Media in America
McMillian, John
Following the lead of papers like the Los
Angeles Free Press, the East Village
Other, and the Berkeley Barb, young
people across the country launched
hundreds of mimeographed pamphlets
and flyers, small press magazines, and underground newspapers. In this volume , McMillian highlights the ways in
which underground newspapers played a vital role in shaping the New Left's decentralized "movement culture."
336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $27.95 / $7.98
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✪ 133234 FREEDOM'S ORATOR: Mario Savio and the
Radical Legacy of the 1960s
Cohen, Robert
The first biography of the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free
Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student
rebellion in American history. Mario Savio risked his life to
register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer
of 1964 and did more than anyone to transfer non-violent
protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for
free speech and academic freedom on American campuses.
544pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $34.95 / $7.98
143602 THE MOVEMENTS OF THE
NEW LEFT, 1950-1975: A Brief
History with Documents
Gosse, Van
A documentary history of the movements for fundamental social change
and radical democracy that emerged in
the US from the 1950s through the early
1970s. Using an inclusive definition of
the New Left, Gosse tracks the development and commonalities of the civil rights and black power
movements, of the peace, antiwar, and student movements,
and of feminism and gay liberation. 224pgs. • 2004
▲ • St. Martin's • P • $16.99 / $7.98
087203 THE MIND OF THE MASTER
CLASS: History and Faith in the
Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth & Eugene D.
Genovese
Presenting many slaveholders as intelligent, honorable and pious, the text asks
how they presided over a social system
inflicting gross abuses. Blending classical
and Christian traditions, Southern proslavery intellectuals forged a philosophy of sustaining conservative
principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, translating them into political action. 824pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $20.98
135713 THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL DECISION:
Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan
Miscamble, Wilson D.
An exploration of the American use of atomic bombs, and the
role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese
Empire in World War II. The book relies on archival research
and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject in
order to fashion an incisive overview that is both fair and
forceful in its judgments. 192pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $12.98
133713 PEDLAR IN DIVINITY: George Whitefield and
the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770
Lambert, Frank
An itinerant British preacher who became a key figure in the
Great Awakening, George Whitefield drew audiences numbering in the tens of thousands to public gatherings in London,
Boston, and Philadelphia. In this fresh interpretation of
Whitefield and his age, Lambert focuses on the marketing
techniques the evangelist borrowed from his contemporaries
in the commercial world. 264pgs. • 2002
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $13.98
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114573 THE PEOPLING OF BRITISH
NORTH AMERICA: An Introduction
Bailyn, Bernard
In this volume, Bailyn lays out the central
themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from
the Old World to the North American continent, a transfer that established the foundations of the American society that was to
develop. 192pgs. • 1988
◆ • Vintage • P • $14.95 / $5.98
125897 THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH: A
First Historical Assessment
Zelizer, Julian E.
Leading historians offer the first in-depth look at one of the
most controversial US presidencies. Each chapter tackles
some important aspect of Bush's administration -- including presidential power, law, the war on terror, the Iraq invasion, economic policy, and religion -- and examines why
Bush made the decisions he did. 398pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $14.98
087719 QUEST FOR IDENTITY: America Since 1945
Woods, Randall Bennett
This analytic survey of the American experience from the close
of World War II to the present will help students understand
postwar American history. By means of a seamless narrative
punctuated with accessible analyses, Woods addresses and
explains the major themes that predominated in each specific
period. 608pgs. • 2005
▲ • Cambridge • P • $46.99 / $26.98
126896 THE RADICAL MIDDLE CLASS: Populist
Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in
Progressive Era Portland, Oregon
Johnston, Robert D.
This volume seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and
even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining the
independent small business sector of Portland, Oregon as a
case study, Robert Johnston shows that although class still
matters in America, it does so only if the politics and culture
of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. 424pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $20.98
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
119495 THE RISE OF THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
Morris, Edmund
The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize
and the National Book Award, this first
volume in Morris's acclaimed three-volume study of TR is, in effect, the biography of seven men -- a naturalist, a writer,
a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier,
and a politician -- who merged at the
age of forty-two to become the youngest President in our
history. 960pgs. • 2001
◆ • Modern Library • P • $18.00 / $5.98
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
▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
125286 THEODORE REX
Morris, Edmund
The story of Theodore Roosevelt's two world-changing terms as
president of the US. As president, TR addressed the problems
of race and labor relations and won the Nobel Peace Prize, but
his most historic achievement remains his creation of a national conservation policy and the preservation of millions of acres
of protected parks and forest. 792pgs. • 2002
◆ • Modern Library • P • $18.00 / $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
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101070 GOOD WIVES: Image and
Reality in the Lives of Women in
Northern New England, 1650-1750
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
This groundbreaking work of scholarship by the author of A Midwife's Tale
strips away abstractions to reveal the
hidden face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. It reveals the awesome
burdens of a New England housewife's
domestic life and traces her occasional forays into the world
of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving
her husband, raising (and all too often mourning) her children. 336pgs. • 1991
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061057 A MIDWIFE'S TALE: The Life of Martha
Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in 18th-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical
practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and
sexual mores of the New England frontier. 444pgs. • 1991
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024456 A RAGE FOR ORDER: Black-White Relations in
the American South Since Emancipation
Williamson, Joel
An abridgement of The Crucible of Race, Williamson's
acclaimed reinterpretation of black-white relations in the
South. This condensation offers a broader audience a thorough grounding in the essential history and contexts of blackwhite relations in the South and beyond. 316pgs. • 1986
◆ • Oxford University • P • $34.99 / $14.98
141700 ROOSEVELT'S LOST ALLIANCES: How Personal
Politics Helped Start the Cold War
Costigliola, Frank
In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was
approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the
personal politics and personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and
Stalin. Costigliola shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition,
and how underlying tensions, after FDR's death, triggered the
Cold War. 544pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $16.98
038477 RUSH FOR RICHES: Gold
Fever and the Making of
California
Holliday, J. S.
In this vivid account of the birth of
modern California, J. S. Holliday
frames the gold rush years within the
larger story of the state's transformation from the quietude of a Mexican
hinterland in the 1840s to the forefront of entrepreneurial capitalism by the 1890s. Includes
nearly 250 illustrations, 100 in full color, including
daguerreotypes, photographs, paintings, lithographs,
sketches, and specially drawn maps. 355pgs. • 1999
◆ • California • P • $39.95 / $7.98
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112304 SLAVERY IN WHITE AND BLACK: Class and
Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
Genovese, Eugene D. & Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Not only did Southern slaveholders and their defenders proclaim that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life
than any laboring class in the world, some argued that the lives
of laborers of all races would be improved by enslavement. In
this book, two acclaimed scholars examine the extent to which
the various social classes of the South were led to accept so
extreme a doctrine. 332pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $9.98
126241 TEN HILLS FARM: The Forgotten History of
Slavery in the North
Manegold, C. S.
The saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New
England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a 600-acre estate
just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers,
to the Royalls -- all prominent dynasties tied to the Native
American and Atlantic slave trades. 344pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $12.98
038500 TO END ALL WARS: Woodrow
Wilson and the Quest for a New World
Order
Knock, Thomas J.
Narrates Wilson's epic quest for a new
world order. The account follows Wilson's
thought and diplomacy from his policy
toward revolutionary Mexico, through his
dramatic call for "Peace without Victory" in
World War I, to the Senate's rejection of
the League of Nations. 381pgs. • 1992
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $15.98
130251 TOWARD THE SETTING SUN: John Ross, the
Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
Hicks, Brian
The plight of the Cherokees lay at the epicenter of nearly all the
key issues facing a young America: western expansion, states'
rights, judicial power, and racial discrimination. As Cherokee
chief in the mid-19th century, John Ross guided the tribe during its most turbulent period, culminating in the Trail of Tears
in which thousands died. 416pgs. • 2011
▲ • Grove Press • C • $26.00 / $6.98
ANTH ROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
114151 ANCIENT PEOPLES OF THE
AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
SECOND EDITION
Plog, Stephen
Interweaving the latest archaeological evidence with early first-person accounts,
Stephen Plog explores the rise and mysterious fall of Southwestern cultures. For
this revised edition, he discusses new
research and its implications for our
understanding of the prehistoric Southwest. Includes 150
illustrations. 224pgs. • 2008
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $12.98
049130 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT GREECE
Whitley, James
An up-to-date synthesis of current research on the material
culture of Archaic and Classical Greece, eras whose rich
and diverse material has provoked admiration and wonder,
but seldom analyzed as a key to understanding Greek civilization. Whitley uses material evidence to address central
historical questions for which literary evidence is often
insufficient. 484pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • P • $59.00 / $29.98
106632 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ETRUSCAN SOCIETY
Izzet, Vedia
Examining a wide range of evidence, including mirrors,
tombs, sanctuaries, houses, and cities, this volume demonstrates the importance of local concerns in the formation of
Etruscan material culture. This approach allows a uniquely
holistic approach to the archaeology of Etruscan society that
has potential implications for investigations in other areas.
320pgs. • 2008
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028318 BREAKING THE MAYA CODE
REVISED EDITION
Coe, Michael D.
Michael Coe's classic inside story of one of
the major intellectual breakthroughs of
our time -- the last great decoding of an
ancient script -- includes an epilogue that
brings the reader up to date in the fastchanging field of Maya decipherment.
304pgs. • 1999
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117456 THE EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC BEYOND
WESTERN EUROPE
Brantingham, P. Jeffrey, et al., eds.
Prominent archaeologists discuss the most recent evidence for
the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the
origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from
archaeological sites and discussions of materials from difficult-tofind sources, the collection urges readers to reconsider the
process of modern human behavioral origins. 310pgs. • 2004
◆ • California • C • $75.00 / $19.98
121308 THE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE CELTIC
WORLD
Haywood, John
Through fifty-four color maps, covering almost 3,000 years
and spanning the whole of Europe, this atlas charts the dramatic history of the Celts from Bronze Age origins to presentday diaspora. Each map is accompanied by explanatory text
and supporting illustrations. 144pgs. • 2009
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $11.98
128535 THE HUNTING APES: Meat
Eating and the Origins of Human
Behavior
Stanford, Craig B.
Argues that the skills developed and
required for the hunting -- and especially the sharing -- of meat spurred the
explosion of human brain size.
Examining the ways meat is shared within both primate and human societies,
Stanford argues that this all-important activity has had profound effects on basic social structures. 262pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $11.98
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 • $45.00 / $16.98
105229 LOWLY ORIGIN: Where, When, and Why Our
Ancestors First Stood Up
Kingdon, Jonathan
Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do
many of the things that apes cannot: cross wide open spaces,
manipulate complex tools, communicate with new signal systems, and light fires. This volume uses the latest findings from
ecology, biogeography, and paleontology to lay out a comprehensive account of how four-legged apes became two-legged
hominids. 416pgs. • 2004
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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
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✪ 132210 WHOSE CULTURE?: The Promise of
Museums and the Debate over Antiquities
Cuno, James, ed.
The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities
has pitted museums against archaeologists and source
countries where ancient artifacts are found. In this volume,
leading figures from universities and museums in the US
and Britain argue that modern nation-states have at best a
dubious connection with the ancient cultures they claim to
represent, and that archaeology has been misused by
nationalistic identity politics. 232pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $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 • $37.50 / $16.98
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108721 ABBOT SUGER ON THE ABBEY
CHURCH OF ST. DENIS AND ITS ART
TREASURES
Panofsky, Erwin
Incorporates the additions and corrections
recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time
of his death in 1968. Gerda PanofskySoergel has updated the commentary in the
light of new material, and has obtained
some additional photographs. The illustrations include a new ground plan and a new section of the
chevet of the Abbey Church, both drawn under the supervision
of Sumner McKnight Crosby. 315pgs. • 1979
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
144127 ALISON & PETER SMITHSON: A Critical
Anthology
Risselada, Max, ed.
Adapting modernist ideals to the needs of postwar reconstruction in Britain, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the
most influential architects of the latter half of the 20th century. This fully illustrated volume collects the most important
essays published on the couple's work, from older texts by
Reyner Banham, Peter Cook, Kenneth Frampton, and Philip
Johnson to more recent pieces by Peter Eisenmann, Christine
Boyer, and Louisa Hutton. 368pgs. • 2011
◆ • Polígrafa • C • $45.00 / $22.98
031149 THE ALPHABETIC
LABYRINTH: The Letters in History
and Imagination
Drucker, Johanna
Drucker examines the many imaginative,
often idiosyncratic ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned
value in political, spiritual, or religious
belief systems over two millennia - as
well as presenting the more general
aspects of the history of lettering, printing and calligraphy.
320pgs. • 1995
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $9.98
133953 ALVAR AALTO HOUSES
Jetsonen, Jari, et al.
Over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years,
Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto designed nearly one
hundred single-family houses. This volume presents a selection of his innovative residences, from small summer homes
and postwar standardized housing to large housing complexes for industrial commissions. 224pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $50.00 / $34.98
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✪ 148487 ÁLVARO SIZA: Modern Redux
Figueiras, Jorge, et al.
The architectural legacy of the European avant-garde of the
1920s and '30s is as alive in Siza's work as the transformations that legacy has undergone since the 1960s; few among
his contemporaries can boast his track record of openness
and adventurousness. This volume assembles 14 of Siza's
most representative projects from the past 10 years.
208pgs. • 2009
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $60.00 / $19.98
041483 ANIMATE FORM
Lynn, Greg
Discusses recent architectural projects
designed by his firm that explore the
potential of animation techniques to
inform architectural design, with a CD
documenting design processes through
three-dimensional renderings and animation sequences. 203pgs. • 1999
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C •
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065855 ARCHITECTURE AND FILM
Lamster, Mark, ed.
This examination of the way architecture and architects have
been portrayed on the screen provides fourteen essays which
analyze selected productions. Their authors are set designers,
architects, and film producers who use their backgrounds to
analyze the presence and importance of architectural props in
film production. 254pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $24.95 / $11.98
123731 THE ARCHITECTURE OF
MODERN ITALY VOL. 1: Volume I:
The Challenge of Tradition, 17501900
Kirk, Terry
This first of two volumes explores the
dynamic between the reverence for Italy's
unparalleled architectural patrimony and
the desire for new means of expression
and technological innovation. From the
neoclassical fantasies of Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the spectacular steel-and-glass gallerias of Milan and Naples, it reveals
an underappreciated history of richness and complexity.
256pgs. • 2005
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029735 ARCHITECTURE THEORY SINCE 1968
Hays, K. Michael, ed.
Presents the primary texts of architecture theory, explains the
concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and
evaluation, and surveys projects or events that have had major
theoretical repercussions. 808pgs. • 2000
◆ • MIT • P • $51.95 / $31.98
143472 CONVERSATIONS WITH PAOLO SOLERI
McCullough, Lissa, ed.
Paolo Soleri's architectural-philosophical thinking sets
forth fundamental reformulations to address the globalizing
world's most urgent environmental, infrastructural, and
socio-ethical problems. Compiled from his most recent
personal notebooks (2004-2009), this work includes an
interview covering the breadth of his architectural and educational career and essays by Marco Felici and Youngsoo
Kim. 96pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $19.95 / $9.98
067537 COURTYARD HOUSING
IN LOS ANGELES: A Typological
Analysis
Polyzoides, Stefanos, et al.
Study of a model building type, which,
for the authors, "embodies all that is
quintessentially Angeleno." They show
how it incorporated the romance of
history and Hollywood, while providing congenial, affordable housing for
new arrivals, low-income families, and the elderly. As architects,
they admire the compact urbanity of courtyard housing in contrast to the cancerous growth of suburbia. 216pgs. • 1992
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $35.00 / $18.98
067567 THE EIFFEL TOWER
Herve, Lucien
A pictorial study of the great structure by acclaimed architectural photographer Lucienne Hervé, who began photographing the tower in the 1930s, and continued shooting it into the
1990s. His ethereal images manage to convey the delicate balance between the tower's elegant ironwork and its sheer physical force. 87pgs. • 2003
◆ • Princeton Architectural • C • $19.95 / $8.98
145890 THE GOTHIC ENTERPRISE: A Guide to
Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
Scott, Robert A.
This engrossing book explores why medieval people built Gothic
cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay
behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used
cathedrals for social and political purposes. Scott also considers
such topics as the role of relics, the quarrying and transporting of
stone, and the incessant conflict that cathedral-building projects
caused within their communities. 307pgs. • 2003
◆ • California • C • $40.00 / $12.98
✪ 111491 A HISTORY OF
BUILDING TYPES
Pevsner, Nikolaus
An essential guide to vital and often
overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the
West. Pevsner describes twenty types
of buildings, ranging from the most
monumental to the least, from the
most ideal to the most utilitarian.
More than 700 illustrations illuminate the text. 352pgs. •
1979
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080322 THE HOUSE OF GOD: Church Architecture,
Style and History
Norman, Edward
Through rich historical associations and special emotional qualities that are largely denied to secular buildings, churches exert
a power that crosses national boundaries and even beliefs.
Edward Norman's chronological survey is supported and
enhanced by a brilliantly researched collection of illustrations.
The result is a perfect mix between renowned buildings such as
Hagia Sophia and the freshness of the less familiar. 387 illustrations, 80 in color. 312pgs. • 2005
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $34.95 / $16.98
✪ 148492 ICONOS DE YTURBE: Arquitectos Mexico
Blanco, Alberto, et al.
Through his projects, José Yturbe has defined the new,
ground aesthetic rules in contemporary architecture: buildings biologically incorporate to their environment, with
bold and balanced lines, great cylinders, crunchy rectangles that toy with curves and seemingly endless lines, creating unique spaces that are generous in their distribution of
space and light. 236pgs. • 2008
◆ • Turner • C • $50.00 / $19.98
144129 JOSEP LLUÍS MATEO
ON BUILDING MATTER AND
FORM
Ursprung, Philip, et al.
Born in 1949, Josep Lluís Mateo
has designed corporate headquarters, housing units, office blocks,
and hotels throughout Western
Europe, and has renovated urban centers in Gerona, Spain
and Castelo Branco, Portugal. This volume looks back at nearly 30 years of Mateo's built structures, as captured by the
architectural photographer Adrià Goula. 184pgs. • 2012
◆ • Polígrafa • C • $60.00 / $29.98
067594 LUIS BARRAGAN'S GARDENS OF EL PEDREGAL
Eggener, Keith L.
Barragan considered El Pedregal his most important project,
and critics have described the houses and gardens there as a
turning point in Mexican architecture. This book examines El
Pedregal's program and form, its representation in photographs and advertising, and its place within contemporary discourses surrounding cultural identity, design and place, and
suburbanization. 161pgs. • 2001
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $40.00 / $16.98
133955 MADE TO MEASURE: The
Architecture of Leers Weinzapfel
Associates
Leers, Andrea, et al.
Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel
Associates has built a reputation for its
ability to meet extraordinary building
challenges with uncommon design
clarity, elegance, and refinement,
while addressing the aesthetic, cultural, and civic power of architecture. This volume, the firm's
first monograph, captures the handcrafted spirit of their work.
176pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $65.00 / $24.98
143547 MATERIAL STRATEGIES: Innovative
Applications in Architecture
Brownell, Blaine
Blaine Brownell's best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have
the potential to transform our built environment. In this volume, Brownell shows architects how creative applications of
these materials achieve such transformations. 160pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton Architectural • P • $24.95 / $13.98
024359 MODERN ARCHITECTURE: A Critical History
WORLD OF ART
Frampton, Kenneth
"A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural
scholarship. Marked throughout by a consistently mature critical intelligence." --Ada Louise Huxtable, The New York Review
of Books 376pgs. • 1992
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $9.98
✪ 148491 THE MOSQUE: Political, Architectural,
and Social Transformations
Erkocu, Ergun & Cihan Bugdaci, eds.
The Netherlands' approximately 800,000 Muslims have
access to almost 500 mosques, and the current debate
about the religious, social, political, and cultural position
of these sites is one that is integral to Dutch society.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book includes
insights from a politician, a theologian, a sociologist, a
philosopher, an anthropologist, and an architectural historian. 192pgs. • 2009
◆ • NAi Publishers • C • $45.00 / $19.98
132399 NEW URBAN HOUSING
French, Hilary
Whether highly visible or merged with
the existing cityscape, a vast proportion of the fabric of any city is made up
of residential space. This volume,
which looks at 36 case studies from 14
countries, introduces some of the most
inventive contemporary projects built
in countries around the world. Fully
illustrated. 192pgs. • 2006
◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $15.98
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141806 READING ARCHITECTURE:
A Visual Lexicon
Hopkins, Owen
An original and accessible take on the
architectural dictionary, this book provides a visual tour of the buildings and
structures around us, naming all the visible architectural features. Unlike other
architectural dictionaries, it doesn't
require the reader to know the name of
a feature in order to look it up. 176pgs. • 2012
▲ • Laurence King • P • $29.95 / $12.98
144134 A STROLL THROUGH MODERNISTA
BARCELONA
Llui, Permanyer
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Barcelona's
Modernista architectural movement, and a background of
favorable social conditions, led to the emergence of the
city's Eixample district, a unique urban project. Following
an itinerary designed to be both instructive and pleasurable, this volume invites the reader to discover, admire, and
savor the best of the Modernista style. 159pgs. • 2009
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021427 THEORY AND DESIGN IN THE FIRST MACHINE
AGE
SECOND EDITION
Banham, Reyner
Traces the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms characteristic of artists and architects working primarily in Europe
between 1900 and 1930 as they utilized the new technology of
the first machine age in their works. 338pgs. • 1999
◆ • MIT • P • $38.00 / $22.98
066312 THERMAL DELIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE
Heschong, Lisa
Considerations given to thermal qualities in the design and
construction of buildings worldwide and throughout history
are examined in an attempt to show the importance of thermal
qualities in effective building design. 78pgs. • 1979
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125993 VINCENT VAN DUYSEN
Crawford, Ilse
Over a period of more than two decades, Belgian architect
Vincent Van Duysen has created a body of work that is at once
sublime and rich, minimal yet tactile. This complete monograph
of his work, including domestic architecture, office and commercial spaces, furniture, and decorative objects, features 250
color and 50 black-and-white illustrations. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $75.00 / $47.98
ART & ART H ISTORY
052686 AFRICAN ART
WORLD OF ART
Willett, Frank
An illustrated look at the art of the Fang, the BaTeke, and the
BaKota and the aesthetic impact their work had upon the
development of 20th-century Western art, influencing such
artists as Picasso, Derain, and Modigliani. 272pgs. • 2003
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
144126 ALBERTO GIACOMETTI: A Retrospective
Wiesinger, Véronique
Perhaps the preeminent sculptor of the 20th century, Alberto
Giacometti radically transformed the modern vision of art with
his attenuated bronze figures whittled to the very brink of existence. This landmark monograph pursues the artist through
the series of formal breakthroughs which led him to an
increasingly succinct statement on existence and the human
figure. 288pgs. • 2012
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143563 ALEX KATZ: An
American Way of Seeing
Chassey, Eric de
Portraying in deadpan style the faces
of New York and its environs, Katz
makes everyday enigmas of people, at
once emptying them of meaning and
bestowing upon them specific characters and specific roles in life. This
volume surveys his output from 1968
onwards, from paintings to cutouts and multi-panel works.
136pgs. • 2010
◆ • Kerber Verlag • C • $55.00 / $24.98
143564 ALEX KATZ: Prints
Schroder, Klaus Albrecht
This publication provides insight into an often-neglected yet
vital aspect of Katz's work from the early 1950s to the present
day. Pushing at the limits of various printing techniques, Katz
tested out pictorial ideas first conceived for his paintings,
retaining planes of matte color but further simplifying his
forms and dramatically cropping his images. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $60.00 / $29.98
144161 ANTONIO LÓPEZ
Faerna, Jose
Antonio López García is one of those artists, like Bacon and
Balthus, who, in a century dominated by the avant-garde and
its legacy, managed to craft an individualistic style on the margins of prevailing trends. Known for his exquisite explorations
of the mundane -- starkly lit people, buildings, plants and interiors -- he deftly calls attention to these familiar forms, allowing the viewer to pore over their details. 64pgs. • 2008
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038543 ART AND ILLUSION: A Study in the Psychology
of Pictorial Representation
Gombrich, E. H.
A classic that explores the meeting ground between science
and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and
psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day
theories of visual perception information and learning.
466pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $21.98
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132169 ART AND CHINA'S
REVOLUTION
Chiu, Melissa & Zheng Shengtian
The first book to focus on Chinese artwork produced from the 1950s to the
1970s. Bringing together more than
200 extraordinary artworks, including oil paintings, ink scroll paintings,
artist sketchbooks, posters, and
objects from daily life, it sheds new
light on one of the most controversial and critical periods in
history 280pgs. • 2008
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $32.98
145885 THE ART OF
CALLIGRAPHY IN MODERN
CHINA
Barrass, Gordon S.
Long a defining feature of Chinese
culture, calligraphy has emerged
over the past three decades as a visually exciting modern genre, one that
offers fascinating insights into the
people of modern China. This volume focuses on 25 individuals who have been key figures in
this process and who exemplify its main trends, from the
grand tradition to the avant-garde. 288pgs. • 2002
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✪ 148486 ZHU WEI'S ALBUM OF INK PAINTINGS
Zhu Wei
Born in 1966, Zhu Wei is world-renowned as one of China's
most prominent post-Tiananmen artists. Though he also
works in sculpture and printmaking, he is best known as the
leading exponent of the Chinese ink painting tradition,
which he uses to depict contemporary scenes of everyday
life in Beijing with a quietly skeptical political inflection and
an extraordinary lightness of touch. 576pgs. • 2010
◆ • Timezone 8 • P • $60.00 / $16.98
144128 AN ART OF LIMINA: Gary
Hill's Works and Writings
Quasha, George, et al.
Gary Hill's influential work investigates the myriad relationships
between words and electronic images,
exploring the formal conjunctions of
electronic visual and audio elements
with the body and the self. With more
than 900 illustrations, this volume,
written in close connection with the artist, offers an essential
theoretical and scholarly frame for continuing study of his output. 640pgs. • 2009
◆ • Polígrafa • C • $75.00 / $22.98
050466 THE ART OF MESOAMERICA: From Olmec to
Aztec
WORLD OF ART
Miller, Mary Ellen
Succinctly surveys the artistic achievements of the high
Precolumbian civilizations -- Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan,
Toltec, Aztec -- as well as those of their less well-known
contemporaries. Their pyramids and palaces, jades and
brightly colored paintings emerge from these pages as
vividly as when they first astonished Cortes's men. 193 illustrations, 44 in color. 240pgs. • 2001
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $6.98
052690 ART OF THE ANDES: From
Chavin to Inca
WORLD OF ART
Stone-Miller, Rebecca
This wide-ranging survey has established
itself as the best single-volume introduction to Andean art and architecture. It
describes the strikingly varied artistic
achievements of the Chavín, Paracas,
Moche, Chimú, and Inca cultures, among
others. 185 illustrations, 35 in color. 224pgs. • 2002
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $9.98
140536 THE ARTWORK CAUGHT BY THE TAIL: Francis
Picabia and Dada in Paris
Baker, George
A notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and
polemicist, Picabia was one of the most enigmatic forces
behind the enigma that was Dada, and has emerged as the
Dadaist with the greatest postmodern appeal. In the first book
in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada
years, an art historian and critic reimagines Dada through
Picabia's eyes. 496pgs. • 2010
▲ • MIT • P • $27.95 / $12.98
142585 ARTWORLD METAPHYSICS
Kraut, Robert
In this volume, Robert Kraut examines such topics as emotional expression, correct interpretation and objectivity in the
context of artworld practice, the relevance of jazz to aesthetic
theory, and the goals of ontology (artworld and otherwise). He
also considers the relation between art and language, the confusions of postmodern relativism, and the relation between
artistic/critical practice and aesthetic theory. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
134022 BIBLIOGRAPHIC: 100
Classic Graphic Design Books
Godfrey, Jason
Ranging from pioneering type
foundries to the best monographs
from today's leading studios, this
compilation of the best design
books of the last 100 years provides
a unique insight into the evolution
of graphic design in the 20th century. 224pgs. • 2011
▲ • Laurence King • P • $29.95 / $12.98
041490 BIRD'S EYE VIEWS: Historic Lithographs of
North American Cities
Reps, John W.
Collects over 100 views dating between 1838 and 1908, showing the streets, buildings, churches, bridges, waterways, and
surrounding countryside of North American towns, ranging
from burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns
and mining camps. 115pgs. • 1998
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $70.00 / $29.98
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Worsley, Harriet
From the invention of the bias cut and the stiletto heel to
designers like Coco Chanel who changed the way we think
about clothes, this volume chronicles the most influential
fashion innovations that have changed women's wear in the
West from 1900 to the present. 216pgs. • 2011
▲ • Laurence King • P • $29.95 / $13.98
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WORLD OF ART
Laver, James, et al.
Covers the landmarks of costume history and the ways in
which clothes have been used to protect, express identity,
and attract or influence others. In a new chapter written for
this edition, Andrew Tucker and Amy de la Haye discuss the
reinvention of the luxury label Gucci, the rise of Prada, and
more. 304pgs. • 2002
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
✪ 148122 ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF WORLD DRESS AND
FASHION
Eicher, Joanne Bubolz
This ten-volume encyclopedia is
the first comprehensive reference work to explore all aspects
of dress and fashion globally,
from prehistory to the present. It
brings together the work of over 600 renowned scholars
from every part of the globe. All of the articles have been
specially commissioned and particular effort has been made
to include indigenous scholars with in-depth local knowledge. 6,000pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $2,095.00 / $299.98
141792 CARTOGRAPHIES OF
TIME: A History of the Timeline
Rosenberg, Daniel & Anthony
Grafton
A colorful illustrated survey of the representations of history in graphic form
from the beginning of the print age to
the present. In addition to telling a
rich, forgotten story, the book serves as
a kind of grammar of historical representation, uncovering the ways in which time has been structured, in both thought and in both images, in the Western tradition. 272pgs. • 2012
▲ • Princeton Architectural • P • $35.00 / $18.98
112798 CLASSICAL GREECE AND THE BIRTH OF
WESTERN ART
Stewart, Andrew
What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were
its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? Andrew Stewart
examines Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the
fifth and fourth centuries BC in relation to the great political,
social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. 376pgs.
• 2008
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141831 CUBA: Art and History from 1868 to Today
Bondil, Nathalie, ed.
Cuba's artistic tradition is as rich as its history, though its
treasures are rarely appreciated outside of the country. This
catalog, which accompanied an exhibition at the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, gathers paintings, drawings and photography from Cuba done over the past century and a half.
368pgs. • 2009
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✪ 148488 DIETER ROTH: Souvenirs
Conzen, Ina, et al.
Art polymath extraordinaire, Dieter Roth
(1930-1998) maintained a close circle of
artist friends with whom he collaborated,
and to whom he made regular gifts of mail
art and other works that he dubbed
"Souvenirs." This volume collects these
pieces for the first time. 152pgs. • 2011
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043219 DRAWING IN EARLY
RENAISSANCE ITALY: Revised
Edition
Ames-Lewis, Francis
In the course of the 15th century, drawing developed from a subsidiary role in
the production of finished paintings to
an art form in its own right. In this beautiful book, Ames-Lewis examines the
works of the major draftsmen of the
century -- Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio,
Carpaccio, and Leonardo -- in order to illuminate the new
types of drawing that evolved. 196pgs. • 2000
◆ • Yale • P • $40.00 / $14.98
143446 ED RUSCHA: Fifty Years of Painting
Ellroy, James, et al.
Tagged variously as a Conceptualist, Pop artist or latter-day
Surrealist, Ruscha flouts category, or rather incorporates all categories, always surprising and experimenting with both subject
and method. This slipcased retrospective includes a preface by
novelist James Ellroy, essays by Ralph Rugoff, Alexandra Schwartz,
and Ulrich Wilmes, a text by novelist Bruce Wagner, an interview
with the artist by Kristine McKenna, an illustrated chronology, and
an exhibition history. 192pgs. • 2010
◆ • D.A.P. • C • $65.00 / $32.98
143569 EGON SCHIELE: The
Leopold Collection
Leopold, Rudolf
The Leopold Museum in Vienna houses the world's largest permanent collection of Schiele's works. Comprising
works from 1905 to 1918, the year of
the artist's death, this volume features
large-scale reproductions that allow
readers to closely examine his extraordinary use of line and color. 280pgs. • 2009
◆ • Prestel • C • $65.00 / $32.98
✪ 143310 THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN
MUSEUM: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century
Sources
Siegel, Jonah
The change from private collection to public museum was
a crucial cultural development of the 19th century. This
unique compendium of original sources presents a detailed
and dynamic account of the development of the museum
and museum practices during this critical period of transformation. 384pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $39.95 / $12.98
113656 ERWIN BLUMENFELD: Dada Montages, 19161933
Adkins, Helen
During the 1940s and '50s, Blumenfeld made his name as one of
the world's most sought-after fashion photographers; but most
people are unfamiliar with Blumenfeld's early work, the often
bitingly satiric Dada photomontages and collages he produced
between 1916 and 1933. This book, put together by a renowned
expert on the Berlin Dada movement, is the first to provide a
study and a survey of these early works. 224pgs. • 2009
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $60.00 / $29.98
129764 GAUGUIN: Maker of
Myth
Thomson, Belinda, ed.
The vivid, unnaturalistic colors and
bold outlines of Gauguin's paintings
and the strong, semi-abstract quality
of his woodcuts had a profound
effect on the development of 20thcentury art. This volume, which features more than 200 museum-quality
reproductions, shows why Gauguin was one of the most
important artists behind European modernism, even as he
challenged its very tenets. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $55.00 / $27.98
132132 A GENERAL THEORY OF VISUAL CULTURE
Davis, Whitney
What is cultural about vision -- or visual about culture? This
systematic analysis of visuality, drawing on art history, aesthetics, the psychology of perception, the philosophy of reference,
and vision science, as well as visual-cultural studies in history,
sociology, and anthropology. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $57.50 / $40.98
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140009 THE GREAT MIGRATOR: Robert Rauschenberg
and the Global Rise of American Art
Ikegami, Hiroko
Rauschenberg's travels and collaborations established a new kind
of transnational network for the postwar art world, prefiguring
the globalization of art before the era of globalization. Ikegami
focuses on Rauschenberg's stops in four cities: Paris, Venice
(where he became the first American to win the Grand Prize at the
Venice Biennale), Stockholm, and Tokyo. 296pgs. • 2010
◆ • MIT • C • $29.95 / $12.98
143450 GREEN PATRIOT POSTERS
Siegel, Dmitri, et al.
Bringing together the work of graphic designers who promote
sustainability and the fight against climate change, this volume
shows that graphic design doesn't just respond to the zeitgeist
-- it actively shapes it. Sustainably printed in the US, the book
reproduces 50 posters as tear-outs. 128pgs. • 2010
◆ • Metropolis Books • P • $30.00 / $14.98
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 • $415.00 / $129.98
113189 IN PAUL KLEE'S
ENCHANTED GARDEN
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
An amateur naturalist, Klee would often
collect flowers and leaves on walks, to
later identify and store in an herbarium.
With more than 200 color illustrations,
this publication explores the spiritual,
scientific, and aesthetic manifestations of
Klee's engagement with nature, revealing
a complex approach, by turns coolly analytical and completely subjective. 208pgs. • 2008
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $50.00 / $19.98
144133 JACKSON POLLOCK: Works Writings Interviews
Jachet, Nancy
Dead at the age of 44, Pollock nonetheless bequeathed a substantial body of pioneering work that stands as a model of
fearlessness, courageous improvisation, and balletic grace.
This volume presents 120 color reproductions along with
Pollock's few completed writings and unpublished, undated
notes in which he set forth his artistic goals. 160pgs. • 2011
◆ • Polígrafa • C • $45.00 / $21.98
POUSSIN
✪ 050457 NICOLAS POUSSIN:
Friendship and the Love of
Painting
Cropper, Elizabeth & Charles
Dempsey
In this volume, the authors argue that
Poussin's works were structured by
friendships, as well as by his study of
ancient history and archaeology, his
exploration of ancient places, and his
conception of his paintings as gifts rather than commercial
objects. By exploring this background, they reveal how
Poussin introduced into his theory and practice a new concept of the inherent expressiveness of form. 374pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $46.95 / $24.98
043522 POUSSIN AND FRANCE: Painting, Humanism
and the Politics of Style
Olson, Todd P.
Perhaps the most famous French painter of the 17th century, Poussin, lived and worked for many years in Rome, but
remained deeply engaged with cultural and political transformations occurring in France. This original exploration of
Poussin's paintings, their production, and their reception
includes 100 black & white and 25 color illustrations.
316pgs. • 2002
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145888 JAMES ROSENQUIST: Pop
Art, Politics, and History in the 1960s
Lobel, Michael, et al.
Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop
Art. In the first full-length scholarly examination of Rosenquist's art from that period, Michael Lobel weaves together visual
analysis, archival research, and a consideration of the contexts in which these paintings were produced
to offer bold new readings of a body of work that helped redefine art in the 1960s. 232pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $55.00 / $19.98
143558 LYONEL FEININGER: Drawings and
Watercolors from the William S. Lieberman Bequest
to the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Nisbet, Peter
The Busch-Reisinger Museum, home to the Lyonel
Feininger Archive, recently received a bequest of more than
400 Feininger drawings and watercolors, most of them previously unpublished, from the estate of curator and collector William S. Lieberman. This volume showcases the
works in the bequest, which reflect the more intimate and
personal side of the artist's output. 144pgs. • 2011
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $45.00 / $18.98
✪ 140343 JEFF KOONS: ONE BALL TOTAL
EQUILIBRIUM TANK
Archer, Michael
In Koons's 1985 work, a Spalding basketball floats in the center of a glass tank that stands on a four-legged black metal
structure. It has been called one of the defining works of the
1980s -- but also described, by such critics as Rosalind Krauss
and Hal Foster, as "misleading" and "repulsive." In an extended essay, Archer places the work within an art-historical
framework. 120pgs. • 2011
◆ • Afterall Books • P • $16.00 / $8.98
133976 THE MAP AS ART:
Contemporary Artists Explore
Cartography
Harmon, Katharine & Gayle
Clemans
Collects 360 colorful, map-related
artistic visions by such artists as Ed
Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur
Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz.
Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary
make this an essential volume for anyone open to exploring new
artistic paths. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $29.95 / $14.98
✪ 113837 JEFF WALL: Works and
Collected Writings
Newman, Michael
For more than 20 years, Jeff Wall's pioneering work has contributed significantly to placing the medium of photography in the midst of contemporary art.
This substantial monograph collects
nearly 150 illustrations of Wall's works
alongside a selection of his writings.
389pgs. • 2007
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144130 MARCEL DUCHAMP: Works, Writings,
Interviews
Moure, Gloria
Every aspect of Duchamp's oeuvre is of potentially great interest, and any Duchamp primer needs to present his more
ephemeral contributions, in aphorisms, diagrams and conversation, alongside his visual experiments in painting and other
media. This volume explores the artist's many-faceted activities, analyzing his work as an entirety and gathering his key
interviews and writings. 160pgs. • 2009
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140095 JEFF WALL: Picture for Women
Campany, David
Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition
of photography as an art form from the printed page to the
gallery wall. In this illustrated study, David Campany offers
an account of Wall's move from a Conceptual approach to
a reengagement with the idea of a singular (as opposed to
serial) picture. 118pgs. • 2011
◆ • Afterall Books • P • $16.00 / $7.98
140471 MARTHA ROSLER: The Bowery in Two
Inadequate Descriptive Systems
Edwards, Steve
Rosler's 1974-75 project fused the concerns of conceptual art
with those of political documentary in a series of 21 blackand-white photographs, 24 text panels, and three blank panels that documented the social reality of New York's Lower
East Side. Edwards situates the work in relation to debates and
practices of the period, especially conceptual art and the
emergence of the photo-text paradigm. 112pgs. • 2012
◆ • MIT • P • $16.00 / $7.98
✪ 115287 LARI PITTMAN:
Paintings and Works on Paper
Kertess, Klaus & Anthony Vidler
Employing such decorative elements as
scrolls, arrows and patterns, the Los
Angeles-based Pittman expertly directs
our eye through his busy constellations
of fragmented imagery (landscapes,
domestic interiors, roots, flames, rope,
spiderwebs), cobbling together a truly
unique language. This collection of works from 2005 to 2008
features texts by Klaus Kertess and Anthony Vidler. 136pgs. •
2009
◆ • Atle Gerhardsen • C • $60.00 / $24.98
143565 LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY
Pfeiffer, Ingrid & Max Hollein, eds.
A leading proponent of the Bauhaus School who strove to
apply artistic principles to every aspect of daily life, MoholyNagy produced brilliant works in painting, film, photography,
sculpture, set design, and typography. This companion volume
to a retrospective features 170 works from all phases of his
career. 192pgs. • 2009
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141329 LEON KELLY: An American Surrealist
Sawin, Martica, et al.
An important proponent of the same strain of American
Surrealism that produced Arshile Gorky, Pavel Tchelitchew
and Joseph Cornell, the reclusive Kelly (1901-1982) in time
largely faded from public view. This first major monograph of
his work includes superb reproductions of both his painted
and graphic work. 104pgs. • 2009
◆ • Francis M. Naumann Fine Art • C • $60.00 / $19.98
143568 MEL RAMOS: 50 Years of Pop Art
Letze, Otto
Like his fellow Pop painters Andy Warhol and Roy
Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos derives the motifs for his work from
mass media and advertising. In bold and immediately recognizable canvases, he unites consumer goods with idealized
pin-up girls modeled after magazine images dating from the
1950s and 1960s. 280pgs. • 2010
◆ • Hatje Cantz • P • $30.00 / $14.98
129423 MICHELANGELO: A Life
on Paper
Barkan, Leonard
Throughout his career, Michelangelo
not only filled hundreds of sheets of
paper with exquisite drawings,
sketches, and doodles, but also, on
fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words. This sumptuous volume brings together more
than 200 stunning, reproductions of these private papers. The
text by Leonard Barkan explains the crucial role the written
word played in the artist's work. 352pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.50 / $29.98
126107 THE MOMENT OF CARAVAGGIO
Fried, Michael
Focusing on the emergence of the full-blown "gallery picture"
in Rome during the last decade of the 16th century and the
first decades of the 17th, Fried sets forth a radically revisionist account of Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait; of the
role of extreme violence in his art; and of the deep structure
of his epoch-defining realism. Extensively illustrated with
nearly 200 color images. 328pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.50 / $28.98
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052677 MOVEMENTS IN ART SINCE
1945
WORLD OF ART
Lucie-Smith, Edward
This classic account of the history of the
visual arts from the end of World War II
to the new millennium has now been
completely rewritten, revised, expanded,
and updated. This fifth edition includes
nine new chapters that deal with the radical transformations that have taken place in contemporary
art. 304pgs. • 2001
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $9.98
143567 NEO RAUCH: Paintings
Schmidt, Hans-Werner, ed.
Rauch's wonderfully bizarre blend of Social Realism with de
Chirico or Stanley Spencer has come to be seen as a painterly
barometer of post-Communist Europe. Marking Rauch's 50th
birthday and a simultaneous retrospective, this monograph is
the most substantial appraisal of his work published to date.
224pgs. • 2010
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143018 NEWARK MUSEUM: Selected Works
Venn, Beth F.
Published in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of The
Newark Museum, this fully illustrated book highlights the
holdings of New Jersey's largest museum, which boasts significant collections of Tibetan and African art, Hudson River
landscape paintings, as well as major works of modern art
and contemporary art. 168pgs. • 2010
◆ • Scala Publishers • P • $24.95 / $5.98
114393 NO ONE IS INNOCENT:
Punk: Art, Style, Revolt
Miessgang, Thomas
This unique take on the punk
moment is organized around three
cities in which it flourished -- New
York, Berlin and London -- and features album covers, posters, zines and other musical
ephemera. 250pgs. • 2008
◆ • Verlag fur Moderne Kunst • P • $60.00 / $16.98
✪ 148489 ODA JAUNE: First Water
Fleck, Roberta, et al.
Often supplemented by bizarre amorphous thumb-shaped
forms, Jaune's drawings and paintings describe a world in
which the body is turned inside out, and blend the corporeal
with the emotional in disquieting and occasionally gruesome
ways. For this volume the artist has selected 100 works on
paper that focus on the human body. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $85.00 / $24.98
128537 ONLY A PROMISE OF
HAPPINESS: The Place of Beauty in
a World of Art
Nehamas, Alexander
Supporting his arguments with searching studies of art and literature, high
and low, from Thomas Mann's Death in
Venice and Manet's Olympia to television, the author seeks to restore beauty to its place in art, to reestablish the
connections among art, beauty, and desire, and to show that
the values of art, independently of their moral worth, are
equally crucial to the rest of life. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $11.98
083433 PAINTING
SHAKESPEARE: The Artist as
Critic, 1720-1820
Sillars, Stuart
Richly illustrated with more than
one hundred images including a
color-plate section, this is the most
complete critical history of
Shakespeare painting and engraving
for the period. It shows how
painters and engravers produced important interpretations
of Shakespeare's plays at a time when written criticism was
still developing. 356pgs. • 2006
▲ • Cambridge • C • $176.00 / $59.98
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023113 PASSAGES IN MODERN SCULPTURE
Krauss, Rosalind E.
A well-illustrated analysis of major 20th century pieces that led
sculpture from the traditional and figurative to the conceptual
pieces of the 1970s, examining futurism, constructivism, and
sculptural realism in works by Rodin, Brancusi, and Blochner.
308pgs. • 1996
▲ • MIT • P • $34.00 / $19.98
✪ 148157 PHILOSOPHY AND
CONCEPTUAL ART
Schellekens, Elisabeth & Peter Goldie,
eds.
The fourteen analytic philosophers writing
here engage the philosophical questions
raised by conceptual art. They address four
broad questions: what kind of art is conceptual art?, what follows from the fact that
conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value?, what knowledge or understanding can we gain
from conceptual art?, and how ought we to appreciate conceptual art? 312pgs. • 2007
◆ • Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $19.98
143573 PICASSO: La joie de vivre (1945-1948)
Andral, Jean Louis & Pierre Daix
This catalog, published in conjunction with the exhibition of
Palazzo Grassi, comprises a great selection of the most outstanding works from the Musée Picasso of Antibes, a large
number of which have never been shown beyond the museum's walls. These include the murals La Joie de Vivre, 1946,
The Sea Urchin Eater, 1946, and the impressive sculpture
Head of Woman with Chignon, 1932. 304pgs. • 2007
◆ • Skira • C • $55.00 / $24.98
144002 THE PILGRIM ART: Cultures of Porcelain in
World History
Finlay, Robert
Illuminating one thousand years of history, this volume
explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese
porcelain around the globe. Bringing together multiple
strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of an exceptional commodity, one that helped spur the emergence of what is
arguably the first genuinely global culture. 440pgs. • 2010
◆ • California • C • $40.00 / $9.98
✪ 148490 RAINER FETTING: Waters
Cadogan, Desmond
This collection of paintings and photographic studies by the Berlin-based artist
Rainer Fetting captures Malibu surfers,
Santa Monica pelicans, bathers, waders,
and other explicitly or vaguely aquatic
scenes in lush, immediate strokes.
104pgs. • 2008
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136950 THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WORLD: Art
versus Religion
Graham, Gordon
A philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as
sources of meaning in a world dominated by science. Relating
themes in Hegel, Nietzsche, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer,
and Gadamer to topics in contemporary philosophy of the arts,
Graham examines -- and ultimately rejects -- the idea that art,
freed from its service to religion, has the potential to reenchant the world. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $12.98
144132 RIBERA
Portús, Javier
Painter and printmaker José Ribera (15911652) was among the earliest exponents of
Caravaggio's "Tenebrism," in which stark
drama is drawn from extreme contrasts of
light and shadow. This beautifully printed
introduction to Ribera, by the Chief Curator
of Spanish Baroque Painting at the Prado,
opens up a new approach to the artist's
career, focusing on his years in Rome and Naples. 128pgs. •
2011
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128058 ROAD SHOW: Art Cars
and the Museum of the Streets
Dregni, Eric & Ruthann Godollei
This striking photographic tribute
and social history weaves a path
across high and low art, showing
how people around the world are
transforming their vehicles into
stunning folk art, obsessive collections, social commentary, and
visionary performances. From the Wienermobile to a handcarved wooden Ferrari to a giant red stiletto heel, this volume
brings the "museum of the streets" to life. 128pgs. • 2009
◆ • Speck Press • C • $22.95 / $7.98
083586 RUSSIAN MODERNISM BETWEEN EAST AND
WEST: Natal'Ia Goncharova and the Moscow AvantGarde
Sharp, Jane
In the years before the First World War, Russian art addressed
a crisis in self-representation that was a consequence of the
country's dual cultural legacies, Asian and European. This
book reconstructs the efforts of avant-garde artists, primarily
Natal'ia Goncharova and her Muscovite colleagues, to reclaim
Russia's "Eastern" cultural heritage. 408pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • C • $135.00 / $49.98
144001 TASTES AND
TEMPTATIONS: Food and Art in
Renaissance Italy
Varriano, John
A feast for both mind and eye, this
beautifully illustrated, compellingly
readable book is a rich exploration of
the little examined interplay between
art and cuisine during the Italian
Renaissance. Exploring a dazzling
array of art works, and drawing from period recipes and
menus, John Varriano considers the many, often surprising,
ways that cooks and artists drew inspiration from each
other's worlds. 280pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $45.00 / $12.98
141798 THIS MEANS THIS, THIS MEANS THAT: A User's
Guide to Semiotics
Hall, Sean
Reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that
point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. This introduction to
semiotics uses visual examples instead of abstract theory, providing practical examples of how meaning is made in contemporary culture. 192pgs. • 2012
▲ • Laurence King • P • $29.95 / $15.98
142090 THE THOUSAND NIGHTS
AND ONE NIGHT
Pienkowski, Jan & David Walser
This stunningly illustrated selection of
tales from the classic Arabian Nights
features silhouette and color art by
noted children's book illustrator Jan
Pienkowski. Retold by David Walser,
these interpretations charm the contemporary reader with flourishes of
whimsy and insouciance that complement Pienkowski's exquisite compositions. 160pgs. • 2011
◆ • Dover • C • $25.00 / $7.98
115486 VELÁZQUEZ
Alcolea I Gil, Santiago
From Goya's time until our own,
Velázquez's work has been recognized not only as an essential precursor of Modern painting, but also as
the pinnacle of 17th-century Spanish
art. This volume offers a richly illustrated overview of the career of the
man whom Manet called "the painter
of painters." 125pgs. • 2007
◆ • Polígrafa • C • $34.00 / $12.98
132184 THE VEXATIONS OF ART: Velazquez and Others
Alpers, Svetlana
Velázquez is often considered an artist apart, but in this book
Alpers views him in relation to the conditions of painting both
in his time and after. She looks back to predecessors such as
Titian and Rubens and forward to his modern successors,
including Manet. 298pgs. • 2007
◆ • Yale • P • $30.00 / $9.98
134731 VISUAL COMPLEXITY:
Mapping Patterns of Information
Lima, Manuel
Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex
data networks has emerged as one of
the biggest challenges of the 21st century. From representing networks of
friends on Facebook to depicting
interactions among proteins in a
human cell, this volume presents 100 of the most interesting
examples of information visualization by the field's leading
practitioners. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $50.00 / $30.98
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 / $11.98
143393 WOODCUT
Nash Gill, Bryan
Creating large-scale relief prints from
the cross sections of trees,
Connecticut-based artist Bryan Nash
Gill reveals the sublime power locked
inside their arboreal rings. His
exquisitely detailed prints are collected and published here for the first time, with an
Introduction by nature writer Verlyn Klinkenborg and an
interview in which the artist describes his labor-intensive
printmaking process. 128pgs. • 2012
▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $29.95 / $16.98
142639 WRITING THE LIVES OF
PAINTERS: Biography and Artistic
Identity in Britain 1760-1810
Junod, Karen
The development of the art market and the
burgeoning of an exhibition culture, as well
as the foundation of the Royal Academy of
Arts, all contributed to redefining the rank
of artists in society. This volume, which
explores the development of artists' biographies in 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, argues that the
proliferation of biographical forms mirrored the privileging of
artistic originality and difference within an art world that had
yet to generate a coherent "British School" of painting.
264pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $110.00 / $34.98
145891 YOSEMITE: Art of an
American Icon
Scott, Amy
This lavishly illustrated volume presents 200 works of art together with
provocative essays that explore the
rich intersections between art and
nature in this incomparable Sierra
Nevada wilderness. Integrating the
work of Native peoples, it includes
painting, photography, basketry, and other artworks from both
well-known and little-studied artists from the 19th century to
the present. 232pgs. • 2006
◆ • California • C • $65.00 / $24.98
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144004 APHRODITE'S ISLAND: The European
Discovery of Tahiti
Salmond, Anne
A bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the
Pacific island that has figured so powerfully in European imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality
of "savages." Salmond surveys this shared history, furnishing
rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti.
544pgs. • 2010
◆ • California • C • $45.00 / $9.98
✪ 146120 BEYOND THE "WILD
TRIBES": Understanding Modern
Afghanistan and Its Diaspora
Oeppen, Ceri & Angela Schlenkhoff,
eds.
A comprehensive portrait of Afghanistan
and its widely dispersed peoples and
cultures. Collapsing the myths and
stereotypes perpetuated by 19th- and
20th-century European observers, these
wide-ranging essays address everything from the causes of
the country's protracted conflicts to the nature and future
of its musical traditions. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $40.00 / $9.98
123016 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
CHINA
SECOND EDITION
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
Traces the development of Chinese culture from the rise of
Confucianism, Buddhism, and the great imperial dynasties, to
the Mongol, Manchu, and Western intrusions and the modern
communist state. It encompasses arts, culture, economics, the
treatment of women, foreign policy, emigration, and politics.
This second edition includes a new chapter on China's recent
opening to the world. 384pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $49.00 / $24.98
✪ 148112 CHINA: The Pessoptimist Nation
Callahan, William A.
The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world
not only economically, but politically and culturally as well.
Callahan meets this challenge by using new Chinese sources
and innovative analysis to reveal how the Chinese people
understand their new place in the world. 248pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $45.00 / $14.98
143994 CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY:
Atrophy and Adaptation
Shambaugh, David L.
In this timely study, David Shambaugh
assesses the strengths and weaknesses,
durability, adaptability, and potential
longevity of China's Communist Party. He
argues that although the CCP has been in a
protracted state of atrophy, it has undertaken a number of adaptive measures aimed at
reinventing itself and strengthening its rule. 256pgs. • 2008
◆ • California • C • $50.00 / $12.98
131479 A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO MAO
Timothy, Cheek, ed.
A critical evaluation of the life and legacy of China's most
famous -- some would say infamous -- son. The book brings
the scholarship on Mao up to date, and its alternative perspectives equip readers to assess for themselves the nature of
this mercurial figure and his significance in modern Chinese
history. 392pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $16.98
142070 DANGEROUS BEAUTIES AND DUTIFUL
WIVES: Popular Portraits of Women in Japan, 19101925
Brown, Kendall, ed.
This captivating gallery of images drawn from popular magazines, featuring pictures of beautiful women embracing
both noble ideals and modern reality, offers rare glimpses of
Japanese culture during the early 20th century. Assembled by
an expert in Asian art history, it features informative captions
and an extensive preface. 128pgs. • 2011
◆ • Dover • P • $19.95 / $5.98
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146124 DHOW CULTURES AND THE INDIAN OCEAN:
Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam
Sherrif, Abdul
For centuries, traditional Arab sailing vessels operated according
to the principles of free trade, carrying sailors, traders, passengers, and cargo to ports within Africa, India, and the Persian
Gulf. Abdul Sheriff unravels this rich and populous history,
recasting the roots of Islam as they grew within the region, along
with the thrilling story of the dhow. 384pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $50.00 / $12.98
✪ 146126 EMPIRES OF MUD: Wars and Warlords in
Afghanistan
Giustozzi, Antonio
Warlords are charismatic leaders who exploit the weakness of
central authorities in order to gain control of subnational
areas. Nevertheless, warlords do in fact participate in state formation, and this book considers the dynamics of warlordism
in Afghanistan in that light. 320pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $35.00 / $11.98
133700 EMPIRES OF THE SILK
ROAD: A History of Central Eurasia
from the Bronze Age to the Present
Beckwith, Christopher
Describes the rise and fall of the great
Central Eurasian empires, including
those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun,
the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis
Khan and the Mongols. In retelling the
story of the Old World from the perspective of Central Eurasia, Beckwith provides a new
understanding of the internal and external dynamics of the
Central Eurasian states and how they repeatedly revolutionized Eurasian civilization. 504pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $8.98
116458 THE FATAL SHORE: The Epic of Australia's
Founding
Hughes, Robert
In this prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given Australia its true history, Hughes chronicles
the brutal transportation of men, women and children from
Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to
serve as both the precursor of the Gulag and the origin of
Australia. 752pgs. • 1988
◆ • Vintage • P • $19.95 / $8.98
078711 A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA
Soucek, Svat
This accessible introduction to Inner Asia traces its history
from the arrival of Islam through the various dynasties to the
Russian conquest. The contemporary focus rests on the seven
countries that make up present-day Eurasia: Uzbekistan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Sinkiang,
and Mongolia. 384pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $25.98
145889 THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODS IN THE WORLD
OF MEN: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern
India
Pollock, Sheldon I.
An exploration of the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit,
India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity.
Drawing striking parallels with the rise of Latin literature and
the Roman empire, and with the vernacular literatures and
nation-states of late-medieval Europe, Pollack asks whether
these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power. 703pgs. • 2006
◆ • California • C • $80.00 / $29.98
141697 LOST COLONY: The Untold Story of China's
First Great Victory over the West
Andrade, Tonio
In the Sino-Dutch War of 1661-62, a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga defeated the Dutch and captured one
of their largest and richest colonies -- Taiwan. Examining
the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, Andrade provides a balanced new perspective on long-held assumptions about
Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war.
456pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $14.98
✪ 148148 MAHABALIPURAM
Nagaswamy, R.
Built in 700 CE by the famous Pallava king
Rajasimha, Mahabalipuram is a unique
monument where art form combines with
religion and legends. This book presents a
comprehensive account of the site and its
monuments, including mandapas (cave
temples), rathas (chariots), open air basreliefs, and structural temples. 108pgs. •
2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $11.95 / $4.98
✪ 146101 RELIGION, CASTE AND POLITICS IN INDIA
Jaffrelot, Christophe
The traditional Nehruvian system is giving way to a less cohesive though more active India, a country that has become what
it is against all odds. Jaffrelot maps this tumultuous journey,
exploring the role of religion, caste, and politics in determining the fabric of a modern democratic state. 480pgs. • 2011
◆ • Columbia • P • $30.00 / $9.98
087844 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF OPIUM
IN CHINA
Yangwen, Zheng
The history of opium in China dates to the
mid-Ming dynasty, when it was initially
used as an aphrodisiac in the imperial
court. Redefining the use of the drug, the
Chinese created a complex culture around
its consumption. This volume, which
traces the story of opium over a span of
500 years, illuminates its introduction and development as a
Chinese cultural institution. 256pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $41.99 / $23.98
✪ 146104 THE TEMPTATIONS OF TYRANNY IN
CENTRAL ASIA
Lewis, David
Lewis's provocative book investigates why the US alliance with
Uzbekistan failed to produce reform and instead ended with
the massacre of hundreds of civilians. It provides the first
detailed account of the 2005 revolution in Kyrgyzstan,
explores political transition in Turkmenistan following the
death of Saparmurat Niyazov, and examines the Islamic militant groups that are believed to be threatening stability in the
Ferghana Basin. 224pgs. • 2008
◆ • Columbia • C • $31.00 / $7.98
117431 UNEASY WARRIORS: Gender, Memory, and
Popular Culture in the Japanese Army
Frühstück, Sabine
In the 1950s, Japan established the Self-Defense Forces as
a way to bolster Western defenses against the tide of communism. Although the SDF's role is supposedly limited to
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 • $27.95 / $12.98
142634 WAR AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL INDIA
Roy, Kaushik, ed.
The essays in this volume examine the complex dialectics
between warfare, the British-Indian war machine, and colonial
society. They explore the social and cultural dimensions of
colonialism and assess the nature of the colonial state. The
concluding section investigates the torturous transition of the
colonial army and state from waging limited warfare to largescale industrial warfare. 408pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $9.98
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134260 ABYDOS: Egypt's First
Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris
O'Connor, David
The ancient site of Abydos lies between
the towering cliffs of the Egyptian high
desert and the lush green floodplain of
the Nile. As both the burial place of the
first kings of Egypt and a cult center for
Osiris, god of the dead, this sacred area
has long tantalized archaeologists with
incredible finds. Includes 11 color and 102 black-and-white
illustrations. 216pgs. • 2011
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $14.98
104302 ANCIENT ROME: A Military and Political
History
MacKay, Christopher S.
A concise, comprehensive political and military history of the
Roman Republic and Empire, from the origins of the city in the
Italian Iron Age, until the deposition of the last emperor in 476
AD. Illustrated with relevant art works from Rome's long history, it offers an up-to-date overview of one of the most
extraordinary civilizations in human history. 395pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $12.98
041244 CASINA
Plautus, Titus Maccius
The Latin text of one of the liveliest of ancient comedies. The
introduction and notes discuss the background of Roman
comedy and make the reader continually aware of the conditions of an actual stage performance. 241pgs. • 1976
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $22.98
✪ 148116 COMMENTARY ON SILIUS ITALICUS,
PUNICA 7
Littlewood, R. Joy
Once stigmatized as "the worst epic ever written," Silius
Italicus' Punica is now the focus of a resurgence of critical
interest and wide-ranging positive reappraisal. This volume, the first full English commentary on one of the books
of the poem, is supported by an extended introduction covering Silius' life, his literary models, the characterization of
his protagonists, his epic style, and the transmission of the
text. 368pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $150.00 / $69.98
028803 ATHENIAN ECONOMY & SOCIETY: A Banking
Perspective
Cohen, Edward E.
Demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens, challenging the view that bankers were
merely pawnbrokers and money-changers, revealing that 4thcentury Athenian bankers pursued sophisticated transactions.
288pgs. • 1997
▲ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $21.98
087847 A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF
NEW TESTAMENT GREEK
Trenchard, Warren C.
An indispensable reference for the entire
vocabulary of the Greek New Testament. It
identifies parts of speech, lists key cognates, indicates the principal parts of each
verb, and offers citations for words that
only occur once in the text. The dictionary
also identifies enclitics, postpositives, and
loan words, and provides numerous cross-references for
irregular forms. 196pgs. • 2003
▲ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $17.98
050823 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
ANCIENT GREECE
Cartledge, Paul, ed.
Analyzes how ordinary citizens took part in "the glory that was
Greece," examining environment and economy; experiences of
workers, soldiers, slaves, peasants, and women; and roles of
myth, religion, art, culture, science, and education. Presents the
far-reaching legacy of ancient Greece, seeking to justify Shelley's
claim that "we are all Greeks." 400pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $47.00 / $23.98
142591 DESIRING CONVERSION: Hermas, Thecla,
Aseneth
Lipsett, B. Diane
In this nuanced literary analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the
intriguing interplay of desire and self-restraint in three ancient
tales of conversion: The Shepherd of Hermas, the Acts of Paul
and Thecla, and Joseph and Aseneth. Lipsett's approach is theoretically versatile, drawing on Foucault, psychoanalytic theorists, and the ancient literary critic Longinus. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $19.98
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Texts and Pictures
Pritchard, J. B.
James Pritchard's anthologies of the ancient Near East have
introduced generations of readers to texts essential for
understanding the peoples and cultures of this important
region. With more than 130 reading selections and 300
photographs of ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this
book combines both of the earlier volumes. 664pgs. •
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ANCIENT IRAQ
Foster, Benjamin & Karen Polinger
Foster
The story of ancient Mesopotamia from
the earliest settlements to the Arab conquest. With illustrations of important
works of art and architecture in every
chapter, the narrative traces the rise
and fall of successive civilizations and
peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia, from the
Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians,
Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. 312pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $10.98
047450 FROM NINEVEH TO NEW YORK: The Strange
Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan
Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford
School
Russell, John Malcolm
Relates the vivid story of Sir Austen Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria, and of the subsequent fate of
Layard's huge collection of ancient Assyrian art. With previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare
19th-century sources, and first-hand accounts, the book
sheds new light on the history and meaning of Assyrian art
and on taste, dealing, and collecting over two centuries.
232pgs. • 1997
◆ • Yale • C • $70.00 / $29.98
078033 THE ELEMENTS OF NEW
TESTAMENT GREEK
Duff, Jeremy
A revision of the popular primer intended
to enable scholars to read the New
Testament in its original language. Each
chapter includes useful questions and
exercises to assist beginners in learning
essential aspects of Greek; 32 different
Greek words commonly occurring in the
New Testament; at least one passage for translation; and hundreds of examples taken directly from the Bible. 354pgs. •
2005
▲ • Cambridge • C • $99.00 / $38.98
✪ 117489 HELLENISTIC EGYPT: Monarchy, Society,
Economy, Culture
Bingen, Jean & Roger S. Bagnall
Brings together for the first time the writings of the preeminent historian, papyrologist, and epigraphist Jean Bingen.
In particular, his work on the Ptolemaic monarchy and
economy, which illustrates how the Greeks and Egyptians
interacted, has transformed the field and influenced all
subsequent work. 305pgs. • 2007
◆ • California • P • $28.95 / $12.98
029131 THE HELLENISTIC
WORLD: Revised Edition
Walbank, F. W.
During the three hundred years after
the death of Alexander the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and
city-states that stretched from the
Adriatic Sea to India. Walbank's lucid
and authoritative history examines
political events, describes the different
social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule,
and traces major developments in the arts, science, and
religion. 288pgs. • 1999
◆ • Harvard • P • $28.00 / $12.98
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088058 THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
FROM ALEXANDER TO THE ROMAN
CONQUEST: A Selection of Ancient
Sources in Translation
Austin, M. M.
This enlarged edition of Austin's seminal work provides a panoramic view of
this world through ancient sources.
Now comprising over 300 texts from literary, epigraphic, and papyrological
sources, presented in original translations and supported
by introductory sections, detailed references, chronological tables, maps, illustrations of coins, and a full analytical
index. 656pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $34.98
104391 A NEW HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC
Kennedy, George A.
This extensive revision and abridgment of Kennedy's The Art of
Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World,
and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors provides a
comprehensive history of the subject, one that is destined to be
the standard work in the field. 336pgs. • 1994
▲ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $19.98
119644 ROMAN WARFARE
Roth, Jonathan P.
This lively examination of the evolution of
Roman ways of war surveys the history of
Rome's fighting forces from their inception
in the 7th century BCE to the fall of the
Western Empire in the 5th century CE.
Includes 39 halftones and 27 color plates.
328pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $21.99 / $12.98
144123 THE SATYRICON
Petronius
William Arrowsmith's translation -- a lively, modern, unexpurgated text -- recaptures all the ribald humor of
Petronius's picaresque satire. It tells the hilarious story of
three impure pilgrims who live by their wits and other
men's purses: an educated rogue, Encolpius; his handsome
serving boy, Giton; and Ascyltus, who lusts after Giton.
192pgs. • 1983
◆ • Meridian • P • $15.00 / $5.98
144188 THE SILVAE OF STATIUS
Nagle, Betty Rose, trans.
This collection of witty and engaging occasional poems, written by Publius Papinius Statius, is noteworthy both for its verbal artistry as well as its importance as social documents of the
Roman world during the reign of Domitian. Betty Rose Nagle's
graceful translation brings the world of Statius alive and making this important literary gem accessible to the modern reader. 256pgs. • 2004
◆ • Indiana • P • $14.95 / $5.98
144044 THEOGONY, WORKS AND
DAYS, SHIELD
Hesiod
Introducing his celebrated translations of
Hesiod's works (including The Shield, an
ancient poem of disputed authorship)
Apostolos Athanassakis positions the Greek
poet simultaneously as a bard with deep
roots in the culture of his native Boeotia
and as the heir to a long tradition of
Hellenic poetry. 192pgs. • 2004
▲ • Johns Hopkins • P • $22.95 / $9.98
142451 VIRGIL'S SCHOOLBOYS: The Poetics of
Pedagogy in Renaissance England
Wallace, Andrew
Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of
instruction, Andrew Wallace examines the relationship
between his serial meditations on teaching in the Eclogues,
Georgics, and Aeneid, and the pedagogical theories and practices that dominated the spaces in which his poems came to be
taught in the grammar schools of Renaissance England.
272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $110.00 / $49.98
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140894 REVOLUTIONARY
WRITINGS 1755-1775
Adams, John
Propelled by the power of his pen and
the clarity of his judgment, John Adams
became a major figure in the American
Revolution. This first of two volumes
devoted to his writings to 1783 includes
the complete newspaper exchange
between "Novanglus" (Adams) and
"Massachusettensis" (Loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as
extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters, many to his "dearest friend" Abigail. 750pgs.
• 2011
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140893 REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS 1775-1783
Adams, John
This second of two volumes gathering the writings of one of
the towering figures of the Revolution traces Adams's
career from his leading role in the debate over independence to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the US and supply its army in the field, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe, where he was hailed as
"the George Washington of negotiation." 750pgs. • 2011
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092590 LITTLE WOMEN, LITTLE MEN, JO'S BOYS
Alcott, Louisa May
At once heartwarming and true to life, Louisa May Alcott's novels continue to win over readers both young and old, as they
have for generations. This authoritative single-volume edition
contains all three Little Women books as Alcott wrote them.
This volume also includes the original illustrations that
accompanied the books' first printings. 1045pgs. • 2005
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✪ 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
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107233 NOVELS 1956-1964: Seize
the Day; Henderson the Rain King;
Herzog
Bellow, Saul
Passionate, insightful, often funny, and
exhibiting a linguistic richness few writers have equaled, the novels of Saul
Bellow are among the defining achievements of postwar American literature.
793pgs. • 2007
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136577 NOVELS 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet;
Humboldt's Gift; The Dean's December
Bellow, Saul
The third volume of The Library of America edition of Saul
Bellow's complete novels collects three essential works
written in the period of Bellow's greatest literary and popular acclaim. Unsparing but humane, and ranging widely in
their philosophical and cultural concerns, they offer the
indispensable voice of a great American raconteur and
thinker. 1056pgs. • 2010
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140896 THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, TALES, AND
MEMOIRS
Bierce, Ambrose
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War,
Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and
most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black
humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of his writings. 896pgs. • 2011
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✪ 148180 THE COLLECTED
WRITINGS OF JOE BRAINARD
EDITED BY RON PADGETT
Brainard, Joe
An artist and writer associated with the
New York School, Joe Brainard (19421994) has had a wide and growing
influence. This volume presents the full
range of Brainard's writing in all its
deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness,
self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. 576pgs.
• 2012
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✪ 148181 TARZAN OF THE APES
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
When Tarzan first appeared in 1912 in the pages of The AllStory magazine, he captured the imaginations of American
readers young and old. His later triumphs in Hollywood, in
comic strips, and on radio and television made him an international pop culture icon. This centennial edition invites readers to rediscover the pulp classic that gave the world the once
and forever Lord of the Jungle. 432pgs. • 2012
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AMERICAN
NOIR
✪ 148182 AMERICAN NOIR: 11 Classic Crime Novels
of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s
Cain, James M., et al.
Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the
pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into
a varied and innovative body of writing. This two-volume
boxed set mines a vein of modern American writing often
neglected in mainstream literary histories, including novels
by Cornell Woolrich, Patricia Highsmith, David Goodis,
Chester Himes, and James M. Cain. (Includes the contents of
Crime Novels I and II below.) 1882pgs. • 2012
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✪ 035810 CRIME NOVELS: American Noir of the
1930s & '40s
Polito, Robert, ed.
A collection of noir classics, including James M. Cain's The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Horace McCoy's They
Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), Edward Anderson's
Thieves Like Us (1937), Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock
(1946), and William Lindsay Gresham's controversial
Nightmare Alley (1946). 990pgs. • 1997
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✪ 035811 CRIME NOVELS:
American Noir of the 1950s
Polito, Robert, ed.
Exploring themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the
disintegrating psyche, this volume gathers the best crime novels of the era, at
once disturbing, poetic, anarchic, and
powerfully evocative of a lost age.
Includes The Killer Inside Me, The
Talented Mr. Ripley, Pick-Up, Down There, and The Real
Cool Killers. 900pgs. • 1997
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✪ 148188 FIVE NOIR NOVELS OF THE 1940S AND
50S
Goodis, David
Goodis (1917-1967) was a Philadelphia-born pulp expressionist who brought a jazzy style to his spare, passionate novels
of mean streets and doomed protagonists. This volume
includes Dark Passage, Nightfall, The Moon in the Gutter, The
Burglar, and Street of No Return. 848pgs. • 2012
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✪ 136675 THE CIVIL WAR: The First Year of the
Conflict Told by Those Who Lived It
Simpson, Brooks D., et al., eds.
Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems,
songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, this
volume gathers more than 120 pieces by more than 60 participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great
historical crisis. Together, the selections provide a powerful
sense of the immediacy, uncertainty, and urgency of events
as the nation was torn asunder. 720pgs. • 2011
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Those Who Lived It
Sears, Stephen, ed.
More than 140 messages, proclamations, newspaper stories, letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, and poems by
more than 80 participants and observers, among them
Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George
B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Emily
Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clara
Barton, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong.
936pgs. • 2012
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035772 MEMOIRS OF GENERAL
W. T. SHERMAN
Sherman, William T.
Written with the energetic confidence
that marked his later campaigns,
Sherman's memoirs provide both a vivid
firsthand account of crucial events of the
Civil War and a unique record of the
emergence of its most innovative strategist. 1136pgs. • 1990
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035752 EARLY NOVELS AND STORIES: The Troll
Garden; O Pioneers!; The Song of the Lark; My Antonia;
One of Ours
Cather, Willa
Includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," Cather's first
work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!,"
"The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours,"
which earned a Pulitzer Prize. 1336pgs. • 1987
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122181 COMPLETE NOVELS
Cheever, John
In these works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of the
ascendant postwar elite as well as the fallen Yankee aristocrats
who stubbornly clung to their shabby gentility as the last vestige of former glory. Includes The Wapshot Chronicle (winner
of the National Book Award) and its sequel The Wapshot
Scandal (winner of the William Dean Howells Medal); the
dark suburban drama Bullet Park; the prison novel Falconer;
and the lyrical ecological fable Oh What a Paradise It Seems.
960pgs. • 2009
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✪ 140898 THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES
Cooper, James Fenimore
A boxed set of the definitive edition of Cooper's great epic of
the American frontier. Presented in their order of composition
and in the most authoritative texts available, the set includes
The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The
Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer. 2126pgs. • 2012
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116783 FIVE NOVELS OF THE 1960S
AND 70S
Dick, Philip K.
Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of
incandescent imagination who made and
unmade world-systems with ferocious
rapidity and unbridled speculative daring.
This volume includes Martian Time-Slip
(1964); Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got
Along After the Bomb (1965); Now Wait for
Last Year (1966); Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974);
and A Scanner Darkly (1977). 1100pgs. • 2008
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130372 STEPHEN FOSTER AND CO.: Lyrics of the First
Great American Songwriters
AMERICAN POETS PROJECT
Foster, Stephen & Ken Emerson, ed.
In this comprehensive new selection, music historian Ken
Emerson introduces and annotates the lyrics to more than 30
of Foster's best-known songs. Also included are 50 other 19thcentury American popular songs that influenced Foster or that
he in turn influenced. 200pgs. • 2010
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053383 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND
WRITINGS, 1757-1790
Franklin, Benjamin
The classic Autobiography, Franklin's last
word on his greatest literary creation -- his
own invented personality -- is presented here
in a new edition, completely faithful to the
original manuscript. Also included are political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, letters,
speeches to the Continental Congress, and
prefaces to Poor Richard's Almanack. 816pgs. • 1997
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035792 COLLECTED POEMS, PROSE AND PLAYS
Frost, Robert
The first authoritative and comprehensive collection of
Frost's writings, bringing together all the major poetry, all
of Frost's dramatic writing, and the most extensive gathering of his prose writings ever published. The core of this
collection is the 1949 "Complete Poems," the last edition
supervised by the poet himself - free of the unauthorized
editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions.
1036pgs. • 1995
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122184 AMERICAN WRITINGS: Some Chinese Ghosts;
Chita; Two Years in the French West Indies; Youma;
Selected Journalism & Letters
Hearn, Lafcadio
A singular figure in American letters, Hearn was born on a
Greek isle to a Greek mother and an English father, and made
his name as a writer in the United States before settling permanently in Japan. Steeped in a decadent style, deeply interested in folk traditions (notably voodoo), has writings display
a keenly observant eye for the offbeat, the sensual, and the
gruesome. 900pgs. • 2009
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035786 FOLKLORE, MEMOIRS, AND OTHER
WRITINGS: Mules & Men; Tell My Horse; Dust Tracks
on a Road; Selected Articles
Hurston, Zora Neale
Contains Mules and Men, the first book of African-American
folklore written by an African-American; Tell My Horse, which
deals with Jamaican obeah and Haitian voodoo in the 1930s;
Hurston's autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, presented
here for the first time as she intended; and 22 essays covering
subjects from religion and music to Jim Crow and American
democracy to Harlem slang, including several pieces available
nowhere else. 1024pgs. • 1995
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035785 NOVELS AND STORIES: Jonah's Gourd Vine;
Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the
Mountain; Seraph on the Suwanee
Hurston, Zora Neale
These groundbreaking works are the reason Zora Neale
Hurston is now recognized as one of the most significant
modern American writers. This volume includes the
acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, along with
Jonah's Gourd Vine; Moses, Man of the Mountain; Seraph
on the Suwanee; and a rich selection of short stories.
1041pgs. • 1995
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✪ 131838 NOVELS AND STORIES: The Lottery / The
Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the
Castle
Jackson, Shirley
Presents the essential works of a writer whose novels and stories that, from the early 1940s through the mid-1960s, wittily
remade the genre of psychological horror for an alienated,
postwar America. Rounding out the volume is the essay
"Biography of a Story," Jackson's acidly funny account of the
public reception of "The Lottery." 832pgs. • 2010
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035730 WRITINGS: Autobiography; A Summary View of
the Rights of British America; Notes on the State of
Virginia; Addresses, Letters
Jefferson, Thomas
The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson's
writings ever published. 1600pgs. • 1984
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035779 NOVELS AND STORIES: Deephaven; A Country
Doctor; The Country of the Pointed Firs; Dunnet Landing
Stories; Selected Stories & Sketches
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Set against long Maine winters, hardscrabble farms, and the
sea, Jewett's stories of gruff, capable farmers and seafolk have
a very modern resonance. This comprehensive collection
reveals the full stature of the unjustly neglected writer whom
Willa Cather ranked with Mark Twain and Nathaniel
Hawthorne. 937pgs. • 1994
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107229 ROAD NOVELS 1957-1960
Kerouac, Jack
The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny
account of a journey through America and
Mexico, On the Road instantly defined a
generation upon its publication in 1957.
This volume also includes The Dharma
Bums (1958); The Subterraneans (1958);
Tristessa (1960); Lonesome Traveler
(1960); and selections from Kerouac's
journals for the years 1949-1954. 864pgs. • 2007
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117019 THE LINCOLN ANTHOLOGY: Great Writers
on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now
Holzer, Harold, ed.
Features impressions of Lincoln by Winston Churchill,
Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, U. S. Grant,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Karl
Marx, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Gore
Vidal, Booker T. Washington, H. G. Wells, Walt Whitman,
Garry Wills, and many others. The volume also includes
illustrations and a detailed chronology of Lincoln's life.
800pgs. • 2008
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035770 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1859-1865
Lincoln, Abraham
A collection of writings from 1859 to 1865, including
speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, memoranda,
and fragments. These documents record the words and
deeds -- the order to resupply Fort Sumter, the emancipation of the slaves held in the Confederacy, and proposals to
offer the South generous terms of reconstruction -- through
which Lincoln hoped to defend and preserve the Union.
788pgs. • 1989
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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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129882 WRITINGS
Marshall, John
Collects 200 documents written between
1779 and 1835, including Marshall's most
important judicial opinions, his influential
rulings during the Aaron Burr treason trial,
speeches, newspaper essays, and revealing
letters to friends, fellow judges, and his
beloved wife. 928pgs. • 2010
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116817 LATER NOVELS AND STORIES
Maxwell, William
The second installment of a two-volume edition of Maxwell. The Château (1961)
describes the most subtle and bittersweet
encounter of American naiveté and Old
World mystery since Henry James. Also
included: So Long, See You Tomorrow; stories; 40 brief "improvisations"; and the
essay "Nearing Ninety," a moving valediction
to a lifetime of reading and storytelling. 990pgs. • 2008
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035714 TYPEE, OMOO, MARDI
Melville, Herman
Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville's experiences
on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of idyllic life in
Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the
20th century. Mardi is a mixture of love story, adventure, and
political allegory, set on a mythical Pacific island, that looks
forward to the complexities of Moby-Dick. 1333pgs. • 1982
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136581 PREJUDICES: The First,
Second, and Third Series
Mencken, H. L.
In the six volumes of Prejudices (19191927), Mencken attacked what he felt to
be American provincialism and hypocrisy,
and championed writers and thinkers he
saw as harbingers of a new candor and
maturity. Laced with savage humor and
delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose
remains a one-of-a-kind roller coaster ride over a staggering
range of thematic territory. 624pgs. • 2010
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136580 PREJUDICES: The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Series
Mencken, H. L.
656pgs. • 2010
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✪ 136678 PREJUDICES: The Complete Series
Mencken, H. L.
Includes the contents of the two volumes above. 1408pgs.
• 2010
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✪ 035805 NATURE WRITINGS: The Story of My
Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The
Mountains of California; Stickeen; Essays
Muir, John
In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political
activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent
spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A
crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and
a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness, he was also
a master of natural description who evoked with unique power
and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of the American
West. 888pgs. • 1997
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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 economics
and psychology. 1232pgs. • 1986
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035789 COLLECTED WRITINGS
Paine, Thomas
Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of
Revolution. This volume brings together his best-known works
-- Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The
Age of Reason -- along with a selection of letters, articles and
pamphlets. 906pgs. • 1995
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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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140895 THE AMERICAN TRILOGY
Roth, Philip
Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume
of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip
Roth's collected works are the three volumes of this
acclaimed triptych, a major milestone in contemporary
American literature. It includes American Pastoral (1997),
I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain
(2000). 1088pgs. • 2011
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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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116780 AMERICAN EARTH:
Environmental Writing since Thoreau
McKibben, Bill, ed.
Classics of the environmental imagination -the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John
Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold's A
Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson's
Silent Spring -- are set against the inspiring
story of an emerging activist movement, as
revealed by newly uncovered reports of pioneering campaigns for conservation, passages from landmark
legal opinions and legislation, and searing protest speeches.
900pgs. • 2008
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129889 AMERICAN FANTASTIC
TALES: Terror and the Uncanny
from Poe to the Pulps
Straub, Peter, ed.
Surveys a century and a half of stories of
trance states, sleepwalking, mesmerism,
obsession, possession, madness, exotic
curses, and evil atmospheres. The
authors range from Henry James, Edith
Wharton, Mary Wilkins Freeman,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ambrose Bierce to H. P.
Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch. 750pgs. •
2009
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129890 AMERICAN FANTASTIC
TALES: Terror and the Uncanny
from the 1940's until Now
Straub, Peter, ed.
The 42 stories in this second volume of
American Fantastic Tales provide an
irresistible journey into the phantasmagoric underside of the American
imagination. The authors represented
include Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury,
John Collier, Stephen King, Steven Millhauser, and Michael
Chabon. 750pgs. • 2009
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106887 AMERICAN FOOD WRITING: An Anthology with
Classic Recipes
O'Neill, Molly, ed.
A harvest of more than 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic
American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of
watermelon; Herman Melville on clam chowder; H. L.
Mencken on the hot dog; M. F. K. Fisher in praise of the oyster; Ralph Ellison on the irresistible appeal of baked yam; and
William Styron on Southern fried chicken. 753pgs. • 2007
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106834 AMERICAN POETRY: THE SEVENTEENTH AND
EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Shields, David, ed.
The poetry of early America is seen afresh in this groundbreaking new volume, which spans from the first years of
English settlement in the New World to the death of George
Washington. Gathering the work of more than 100 poets -including many poems never previously anthologized and
some published here for the first time -- it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind ever assembled. 900pgs. •
2007
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035828 AMERICAN POETRY: THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY VOLUME 1:
Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker
Library of America Staff
The first half of the largest anthology of
20th-century American poetry ever
attempted, including enormous selections of Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein,
Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, William
Carlos Williams, H.D., Marianne Moore
and T.S. Eliot. 986pgs. • 2000
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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
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035799 THE GRAPES OF WRATH AND
OTHER WRITINGS, 1936-1941: The
Long Valley; The Grapes of Wrath; The
Log from the Sea of Cortez; The Harvest
Gypsies
Steinbeck, John
Presents The Grapes of Wrath in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. The Harvest
Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on
migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the
novel; The Long Valley displays his brilliance with short stories; while The Log from the Sea of Cortez combines science,
philosophy, and adventure. 1067pgs. • 1996
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035741 A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK
RIVERS; WALDEN; THE MAINE WOODS; CAPE COD
Thoreau, Henry David
Thoreau's longer works in one volume, all demonstrating his
subtle interweaving of natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore. The Maine Woods and Cape Cod are
especially valuable portraits of the natural landscapes of
Thoreau's youth that were changing irreversibly even as he
wrote these classic essays. 1114pgs. • 1989
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035803 WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS
Thurber, James
The best and most extensive Thurber collection ever assembled, including acknowledged masterpieces: "The Secret Life
of Walter Mitty" and "The Catbird Seat," the anti-war parable
The Last Flower, the satirical Fables for Our Time, the best
pieces from The Owl in the Attic, Let Your Mind Alone, and My
World and Welcome To It, and others. 1004pgs. • 1996
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C O M P I L AT I O N S
106833 AMERICAN SPEECHES I:
Political Oratory from the Revolution to
the Civil War
Widmer, Ted, ed.
This volume, the first of an unprecedented
two-volume collection, gathers the
unabridged texts of 45 eloquent and dramatic speeches delivered by American public figures between 1761 and 1865, beginning with James Otis's denunciation of
unrestrained searches by British customs officials -- hailed by
John Adams as the beginning of the American Revolution -and ending with Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. 810pgs.
• 2006
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140889 AT THE FIGHTS: American
Writers on Boxing
Kimball, George & John Schulian, eds.
A century of the best writing and reportage
about boxing. Among the selections are
Jack London on the immortal Jack
Johnson; H. L. Mencken and Irvin S. Cobb
on Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier;
Richard Wright on Joe Louis vs. Max
Schmeling; James Baldwin and Gay Talese
on the haunted Floyd Patterson; and George Plimpton on
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. 560pgs. • 2011
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE
140899 HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the
1920s
Zafar, Rafia, ed.
In the 1920s and 30s, a new generation of AfricanAmerican writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals burst
through aesthetic conventions with unprecedented openness and daring. This volume, the first of two, includes
Cane by Jean Toomer, Home to Harlem by Claude McKay,
Quicksand by Nella Larsen, Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon
Fauset, and The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman.
800pgs. • 2011
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
140900 HARLEM RENAISSANCE:
Four Novels of the 1930s
Zafar, Rafia, ed.
Featuring authoritative texts and a
chronology, biographies, and notes
reflecting the latest scholarship, this volume includes Not Without Laughter by
Langston Hughes, Black No More by
George Schuyler, The Conjure-Man Dies
by Rudolph Fisher, and Black Thunder
by Arna Bontemps. 800pgs. • 2011
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
140888 HARLEM RENAISSANCE NOVELS: The
Library of America Collection
Zafar, Rafia, ed.
This two-volume set includes the contents of the two volumes above. 1600pgs. • 2011
◆ • Library of America • C • $70.00 / $32.98
035771 THE DEBATE ON THE
CONSTITUTION PART 2: Federalist
and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles,
and Letters During the Struggle over
Ratification
Bailyn, Bernard, ed.
This unique collection captures firsthand
the energy and eloquence of the stormy ratification struggle. Franklin, Madison,
Jefferson, Washington, Patrick Henry, and
many less well-known voices speak with passion and articulateness about issues of personal liberty and public order that
continue to resonate today. Along with a detailed chronology
and notes, each volume also includes the full texts of the
Declaration in Independence, Articles of Confederation, and
Constitution. 1175pgs. • 1993
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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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✪ 140890 INTO THE BLUE: American Writing on
Aviation and Spaceflight
Corn, Joseph J., ed.
Gathering 60 of the best eyewitness and participant narratives,
from Benjamin Franklin's letters on the first hot air balloons
to Chris Jones's account of being marooned on the
International Space Station. A 32-page insert offers photographs, some of them previously unpublished. 750pgs. •
2011
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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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131819 HUB FANS BID KID ADIEU: John Updike on
Ted Williams
Updike, John
On September 28, 1960, when Red Sox slugger Ted Williams
stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park, one
of those cheering from the stands was the 28-year-old John
Updike, inspired by the moment to make his lone venture into
the field of sports reporting. This 50th-anniversary commemorative edition of Updike's tribute was prepared by the author
just months before his death. 64pgs. • 2010
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✪ 148190 NOVELS AND STORIES
1950-1962
Vonnegut, Kurt
Before winning international fame with
Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five,
Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore
paperback and the popular short story.
This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work includes Player Piano,
The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and
several shorter pieces. 864pgs. • 2012
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140892 NOVELS AND STORIES 1963-1973: Cat's
Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater;
Slaughterhouse-Five; Breakfast of Champions; Stories
Vonnegut, Kurt
Capturing Vonnegut in pyrotechnic mid-career, this first
volume of a projected three-volume edition gathers four of
his most acclaimed novels. The volume is rounded out with
three brilliant short stories and revealing autobiographical
accounts of the bombing of Dresden. 848pgs. • 2011
◆ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $17.98
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
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035853 POETRY AND PROSE
Whitman, Walt
Contains the first and "deathbed" editions of Leaves of
Grass, and virtually all of Whitman's prose, with reminiscences of 19th-century New York City, notes on the Civil
War, especially his service in Washington hospitals and
glimpses of President Lincoln, and attacks on the misuses
of national wealth after the war. 1407pgs. • 1996
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107236 LITERARY ESSAYS AND
REVIEWS OF THE 1920S AND '30S: The
Shores of Light / Axel's Castle /
Uncollected Reviews
Wilson, Edmund
Includes The Shores of Light, Wilson's magisterial assemblage of early reviews, sketches, stories, memoirs, and other writings;
Axel's Castle, his pioneering overview of literary modernism; and previously uncollected reviews, including discussions of H. L. Mencken, Edith
Wharton, and Bernard Shaw. 958pgs. • 2007
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136582 GOD'S MAN, MADMAN'S
DRUM, WILD PILGRIMAGE
EDITED BY ART SPIEGELMAN
Ward, Lynd
In this, the first of two volumes collecting all of Ward's woodcut novels,
The Library of America brings together his earliest books, published when
the artist was still in his twenties. The
images reproduced in this volume are
taken from prints pulled from the original woodblocks or
first-generation electrotypes. Art Spiegelman contributes
an introductory essay that defines Ward's towering
achievement. 812pgs. • 2010
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136584 PRELUDE TO A MILLION
YEARS, SONG WITHOUT WORDS,
VERTIGO
EDITED BY ART SPIEGELMAN
Ward, Lynd
Prelude to a Million Years (1933) is a
dark meditation on art, inspiration,
and the disparity between the ideal and
the real. Song Without Words (1936),
a protest against the rise of European
fascism, asks if ours is a world still fit for the human soul.
Vertigo (1937), Ward's undisputed masterpiece, is an epic
novel on the theme of the individual caught in the downward
spiral of a sinking American economy. 690pgs. • 2010
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136585 SIX NOVELS IN WOODCUTS
EDITED BY ART SPIEGELMAN
Ward, Lynd
Includes the contents of the above two volumes. • 2010
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035804 WRITINGS
Washington, George
This one-volume collection -- the most
extensive and authoritative ever published - covers five decades of Washington's astonishingly active life. Bringing together over
440 letters, orders, addresses, and other
documents -- both public and personal -- it
reveals him to have been an energetic,
forceful, and at times eloquent writer.
1149pgs. • 1997
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035815 STORIES, ESSAYS AND MEMOIR: A Curtain of
Green; The Wide Net; The Golden Apples; The Bride of
the Innisfallen; Selected Essays One Writer's Beginnings
Welty, Eudora
Presents all of Welty's collected short stories, with full texts of
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other
Stories, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen.
Two stories from the 1960s, a selection of occasional pieces
and One Writer's Beginnings, Welty's sensitive memoir of her
Jackson childhood round out the collection. 976pgs. • 1998
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CU LTU RAL STU DIES
126958 THE AGE OF THE BACHELOR: Creating an
American Subculture
Chudacoff, Howard P.
Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the family, 19thcentury bachelors found solace in the boarding houses,
saloons, pool halls, cafes, clubs, and other institutions that
arose in response to their increasing numbers. This richly
illustrated book is the first to describe a complex subculture
that continues to affect the larger meanings of manhood and
manliness in American society. 352pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
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092752 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO MODERN AMERICAN
CULTURE
Bigsby, Christopher, ed.
A comprehensive and accessible overview
exploring the social, political, religious,
and economic forces that have shaped
20th-century America and its inhabitants.
These challenging and varied essays discuss religious, racial, sexual, and ethnic minorities, popular
culture, the arts, urban and suburban communities, sports,
politics, immigration, regionalism, and war. 516pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $15.98
✪ 133136 LIVING IN THE
EIGHTIES
Troy, Gil & Vincent J. Cannato, eds.
Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a
"Morning in America" that revived
America's
economy,
reoriented
American politics, and restored
Americans' faith in their country. Others
see the decade as a new "Gilded Age,"
selfish, superficial, glitzy, greedy, divisive, and destructive. This multifaceted exploration brings
together a variety of voices from different political persuasions, generations, and vantage points. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $21.95 / $5.98
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142614 A NATION OF OUTSIDERS: How the White
Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar
America
Hale, Grace Elizabeth
At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon
Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley
and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In this vividly written cultural history, Hale sheds light on why so many white middleclass Americans chose to re-imagine themselves as outsiders.
400pgs. • 2011
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029910 THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
Debord, Guy
From its publication in the midst of the social upheavals of the
1960s to the present, these volatile theses have decisively
transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism,
and everyday life in the late 20th century. 154pgs. • 1994
◆ • Zone Books • P • $19.95 / $10.98
EASTERN EU ROPEAN STU DI ES
129396 CULTURES IN FLUX: Lower-Class Values,
Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia
Frank, Stephen P. & Mark D. Steinberg, eds.
The popular culture of Tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic
and troubled world. The essays in this volume consider
such expressions as peasant death rites and religious
beliefs, family relationships and defiant peasant women,
folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, and street hooliganism, as
well as attempts by educated Russians to transform popular
festivities. 224pgs. • 1994
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $14.98
104238 MEDIEVAL RUSSIA, 980-1584
Martin, Janet L. B.
A concise but comprehensive narrative
covering the period from reign of Vladimir
I to the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
Supplementing the original edition with
recently published scholarship, Martin
traces Russia's political evolution from the
loose federation of principalities through
the era of Mongol domination to the development of the Muscovite state. 540pgs. • 2007
▲ • Cambridge • P • $43.00 / $25.98
✪ 146125 ELUSIVE COMPROMISE: A
History of Interwar Yugoslavia
Djokic, Dejan
In this history of the original, interwar
Yugoslavia of 1918-1941, Djokic argues
that this period can be best understood by
analyzing political attempts to reach a SerbCroat compromise. The book places
Yugoslavia in the context of a Europe-wide
struggle between democracy and dictatorship and provides a thorough understanding of the dissolution
of Yugoslavia and other multinational states. 320pgs. • 2007
◆ • Columbia • P • $34.00 / $9.98
142630 STALINIST SOCIETY: 19281953
Edele, Mark
A fresh analytical overview of the complex
social formation ruled over by Stalin and his
henchmen from the late 1920s to the early
1950s. Drawing on declassified archival
materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal
diaries, the book offers a non-reductionist
account of social upheaval and social cohesion in a society
marred by violence. 384pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $24.98
051198 IN THE SHADOW OF REVOLUTION: Life Stories
of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War
Fitzpatrick, Sheila & Yuri Slezkine, eds.
A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of
the 20th century. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these
women document their diverse experience of the upheavals
that reshaped Russia. 443pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $20.98
126226 STALIN'S GENOCIDES
Naimark, Norman
Between the early 1930s and 1953, Joseph
Stalin had more than one million of his
own citizens executed, while millions more
fell victim to forced labor, deportation,
famine, and bloody massacres. In this
chilling account, Naimark explains how
Stalin became a pitiless mass killer and
challenges the widely held notion that his
crimes do not constitute genocide. 168pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 148147 LITTLE SOLDIERS:
How Soviet Children Went to War,
1941-1945
Kucherenko, Olga
During the war against Hitler's
Germany, the Soviet Union raised a
small army of child soldiers, thousands
of whom served with regular and paramilitary formations. Drawing on a wide
variety of newly available sources,
Kucherenko provides insight into these soldiers' combat
motivations and the roles they played in the field, as well as
on their routine experiences and relationships with older
comrades. 280pgs. • 2011
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127035 ASIAN RELIGIONS IN
PRACTICE: An Introduction
Lopez, Donald S., ed.
Accessible, clear, and concise overviews of
the religions of Asia, providing both historical context and insightful analysis of
Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto,
and Bon, as well as many local traditions.
240pgs. • 1999
▲ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $15.98
✪ 130032 A DICTIONARY OF HINDUISM
Johnson, W. J.
This new authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of
Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred
sites, languages, and religious texts. The nearly 2,800 entries
cover everything from Tantra to temples, from bhakti to Divali,
and provide an invaluable source of information for practicing
Hindus or anyone with an interest in Indian religions and culture. 384pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $45.00 / $16.98
✪ 142444 HEART OF BUDDHA, HEART OF CHINA: The
Life and Times of a 20th-Century Chinese Monk
Carter, James
The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles to become one of the most prominent monks in China,
founding numerous temples and schools, and attracting
crowds of students and disciples wherever he went. James
Carter draws on untapped archival materials to provide a book
that is part travelogue, part history, and part biography of this
remarkable man. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $9.98
041257 AN INTRODUCTION TO
BUDDHISM: Teachings, History and
Practices
Harvey, Peter
A comprehensive introduction to
Buddhist traditions as they have developed in three major cultural areas in
Asia, and to Buddhism as it is now
developing in the West. Emphasizing the
diversity found within different traditions, the book aims to underline the common threads of
belief, practice and historical continuities that unify the
Buddhist world. 374pgs. • 1990
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $15.98
041188 AN INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST ETHICS:
Foundations, Values and Issues
Harvey, Peter
Draws on texts of the main Buddhist traditions, and on historical and contemporary accounts of the behavior of
Buddhists, to describe existing Buddhist ethics, to assess
different views within it, and to extend its application into
such topics as war and peace, euthanasia, abortion, the
status of women, and homosexuality. 478pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $18.98
049025 AN INTRODUCTION TO CONFUCIANISM
Yao, Xinzhong
An overview of Confucianism as a philosophical and religious
tradition. It pays attention to Confucianism in both the West
and the East, focusing on the tradition's doctrines, schools, rituals, sacred places, and terminology, but also stressing the
adaptations, transformations, and new thinking taking place in
modern times. 344pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $21.98
048990 AN INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM
Flood, Gavin
A thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism. Traces the
development of Hindu traditions from ancient origins and the
major deities to the modern world, discussing Hinduism as
both a global religion and a form of nationalism. Emphasis is
given to the tantric traditions, Hindu ritual, and Dravidian
influences. 341pgs. • 1996
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98
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✪ 148142 KNOWING BODY,
MOVING MIND: Ritualizing and
Learning at Two Buddhist Centers
Campbell, Patricia Q.
Inspired by theories that suggest that rituals impart new knowledge or understanding, Patricia Campbell examines how
introductory meditation students learn
through formal Buddhist practice. Along
the way, she also explores practitioners'
reasons for enrolling in meditation classes, their interests in
Buddhism, and their responses to formal Buddhist practices
and to ritual in general. 250pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $39.95 / $7.98
038397 PHILOSOPHIES OF INDIA
CAMPBELL, JOSEPH, ED.
Zimmer, Heinrich
This comprehensive look at the philosophical systems and
complex traditions of India includes a discussion of Eastern
and Western thought and examines the foundations of Indian
philosophy found in Jainism, Yoga, Buddhism, and Tantra.
687pgs. • 1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $19.98
136949 REDISCOVERING THE BUDDHA: The Legends
and Their Interpretations
Penner, Hans H.
A new look at the classic stories of the life of the Buddha. Penner's
central thesis is that the "householder" is a necessary element in
Buddhism, and that the giving of gifts, which creates merit and
presupposes the doctrine of karma, mediates the relation
between the householder and the monk. 272pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $9.98
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 • $47.50 / $25.98
038605 A SOURCEBOOK IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli & Charles A. Moore, eds.
In this volume, a standard reference for more than 50 years, a
leading Indian philosopher and an American scholar bring
together enough of the philosophical wisdom of ancient and
modern India to enable students of Indian philosophy with no
familiarity with Sanskrit to become acquainted with India's
profound contributions to world thought. 684pgs. • 1957
◆ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $21.98
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✪ 141812 THE I CHING: A
Biography
Smith, Richard J.
This unparalleled biography of the most
revered book in China's entire cultural
tradition traces the evolution of the I
Ching in China and worldwide, explaining its complex structure, its manifold
uses in different cultures, and its enduring appeal. Smith also looks at how the I
Ching came to be published in dozens of languages, inspiring readers as varied as Leibniz, Jung, Philip K. Dick, Allen
Ginsberg, Hermann Hesse, Bob Dylan, Jorge Luis Borges,
and I. M. Pei. 288pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
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 / $11.98
145079 TAO TE CHING
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Lao Tsu
The philosophy of Lao Tsu is simple: Accept what is in front of
you without wanting the situation to be other than it is. Study
the natural order of things and work with it rather than against
it, for to try to change what is only sets up resistance. This
renowned translation of the Chinese classic makes Lao Tsu's
teaching immediate and alive. 184pgs. • 1997
◆ • Vintage • P • $20.00 / $8.98
125677 YOGA: Immortality and Freedom
Eliade, Mircea
In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958,
Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory
and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas
through the 20th century. A new Introduction by David
Gordon White provides invaluable insight into Eliade's life
and work. 568pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $15.98
128542 YOGA IN MODERN INDIA:
The Body Between Science and
Philosophy
Alter, Joseph S.
An icon of Indian culture and civilization, yoga is widely regarded as being
timeless and unchanging. Based on
extensive ethnographic research and an
analysis of both ancient and modern
texts, this volume challenges this popular view by focusing on the emergence of yoga in modern
India and its dramatically changing form and significance
in the 20th century. 376pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $14.98
ECONOM ICS
135581 AFTER ADAM SMITH: A Century of
Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
Milgate, Murray & Shannon Stimson
By exploring how questions Smith had originally grappled with
were recast as the economy and the principles of political
economy shifted during the 19th century, this book demonstrates that we are as much the heirs of later images of Smith
as we are of Smith himself. 320pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $14.98
125773 THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS: A Natural
History of Economic Life
Seabright, Paul
An original account of the emergence of the economic institutions that manage not only markets but also the world's myriad other affairs. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, history, psychology, and literature, Seabright explores how
our evolved ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions like money, markets, and cities to provide the foundation
of social trust. 368pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $8.98
125784 ANIMAL SPIRITS: How
Human Psychology Drives the
Economy, and Why It Matters for
Global Capitalism
Akerlof, George A. & Robert J. Shiller
From blind faith in ever-rising housing
prices to plummeting confidence in
capital markets, "animal spirits" are
driving financial events worldwide. In
this book, two acclaimed economists
challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess,
and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity. 264pgs. • 2009
▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $9.98
135764 THE DARWIN ECONOMY: Liberty, Competition,
and the Common Good
Frank, Robert
A leading economist argues that the failure to recognize that
we live in Darwin's world rather than Adam Smith's is preventing us from seeing that competition alone will not solve
our problems. Far from creating a perfect world, economic
competition leads to "arms races" which encourage behaviors
that not only cause enormous harm to the group but also provide no lasting advantages for individuals. 256pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $9.98
134092 BEAUTY PAYS: Why Attractive People are More
Successful
Hamermesh, Daniel
In the first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Hamermesh demonstrates how society favors the beautiful
and how better-looking people experience startling benefits in
all aspects of life. He shows that the attractive are more likely
to be employed, work more productively and profitably,
receive better pay, and have more handsome and more highly
educated spouses. 228pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
131949 THE ECONOMICS OF
ENOUGH: How to Run the Economy as
if the Future Matters
Coyle, Diane
The world's leading economies are facing
not just one but many crises, as climate
change threatens major disruptions, economic inequality has soared to extremes
not seen for a century, and the ongoing
global financial meltdown still looms. In
this volume, Coyle examines how we can achieve the financial
growth we need today without sacrificing a decent future for
our children, our societies, and our planet. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
131561 THE BLACK SWAN: The Impact of the Highly
Improbable
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
A "black swan" is an event, positive or negative, that is
deemed improbable but causes massive consequences. In
this groundbreaking book, Taleb shows how Black Swan
events explain almost everything about our world, even
though we are largely blind to them. This second edition
includes a new essay, "On Robustness and Fragility."
480pgs. • 2010
◆ • Modern Library • P • $17.00 / $7.98
104368 THE BOX: How the Shipping Container Made
the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Levinson, Marc
In April 1956, a refitted tanker carried 58 shipping containers
from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the
boom in global trade possible. In this fascinating volume,
Levinson shows how the container transformed economic
geography and brought consumers a previously unimaginable
variety of low-cost products from around the globe. 376pgs.
• 2008
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048153 THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR GROWTH:
Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the
Tropics
Easterly, William
Since WW II, economists have tried to help poor countries in
the tropics attain standards of living approaching those of
countries in Europe and North America. None of the attempted remedies has delivered as promised, and Easterly argues
that the problem is not the failure of economics, but the failure to apply economic principles -- in particular the importance of incentives -- to practical policy work. 342pgs. • 2002
▲ • MIT • P • $28.95 / $14.98
051380 EMBEDDED AUTONOMY: States and Industrial
Transformation
Evans, Peter
In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too
often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans
questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why
state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters
in others. 336pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $24.98
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✪ 148124 THE ENIGMA OF
CAPITAL: And the Crises of
Capitalism
Harvey, David
An impassioned account of how
unchecked neoliberalism produced the
system-wide crisis that now engulfs the
world. Moving deftly between the historical development of global capitalism from the industrial era onward and
the unfolding of the current situation, Harvey concentrates
on how the crisis both devastates workers and creates
openings for challenging the system's legitimacy. 304pgs. •
2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $9.98
111357 ESSAYS ON THE GREAT
DEPRESSION
Bernanke, Ben S.
While the Great Depression was an unparalleled disaster, some economies recovered faster than others. By comparing and
contrasting the economic strategies and
statistics of the world's nations as they
struggled to survive economically, the
essays in this volume present a uniquely
coherent view of the economic causes and worldwide propagation of the depression. 320pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $15.98
125769 A FAREWELL TO ALMS: A Brief Economic
History of the World
Clark, Gregory
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor?
Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich -- and
why did it make large parts of the world poorer? In this
provocative book, Clark tackles these questions and argues
that culture -- not exploitation, geography, or resources -explains the wealth and poverty of nations. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
135560 FAULT LINES: How Hidden Fractures Still
Threaten the World Economy
Rajan, Raghuram G.
One of the few economists to warn of the global financial
crisis before it hit warns that a potentially more devastating
crisis awaits us. He shows how the individual choices that
collectively brought about the economic meltdown were
rational responses to a flawed global financial order in
which the incentives to take on risk are out of step with the
dangers those risks pose. 272pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $8.98
142457 THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF
OUR TIME
Kolb, Robert W.
In 2006, residential real estate prices
peaked and started to fall, setting off a
chain of events that eventually threatened
the global economy with disaster.
Providing an essential, comprehensive
review of the context within which these
events unfolded, Kolb argues that in order
to understand what happened one must comprehend the
mechanisms by which the housing industry came into crisis.
424pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $12.98
125831 FREE TRADE REIMAGINED:
The World Division of Labor and the
Method of Economics
Unger, Roberto Mangabeira
Argues that the movement of people and
ideas is more important than the movement of things and money, and that freedom to change the institutions defining a
market economy is as important as freedom to exchange goods. The book's sustained criticism of the theory and practice of free trade serves
as a point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic
ideas with which we explain economic activity. 240pgs. •
2010
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✪ 148131 GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: A
Handbook of New Perspectives
Deshpande, Ashwini, ed.
Showcasing research by scholars from several developing
countries, this volume suggests multiple alternatives for globalization and development. Addressing a variety of topics, such
as trade regimes, financial fragility, currency convertibility,
monetary policy, labor and employment, the book suggests
policy alternatives outside of mainstream discourse. 320pgs.
• 2011
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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 • $27.95 / $13.98
131665 THE HESITANT HAND: Taming Self-Interest in
the History of Economic Ideas
Medema, Steven
Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head when he
declared that the pursuit of self-interest led, via an invisible
hand, to the greatest possible welfare for society as a whole.
Steven Medema examines how subsequent economic thinkers
have challenged or reaffirmed Smith's doctrine, some contending that society needs government to intervene on its
behalf, others arguing that government interference ultimately
benefits neither the market nor society. 248pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $17.98
✪ 136991 LIFE OF ADAM SMITH
Ross, Ian Simpson
A revised edition of the only book to
give a full account of Smith's life while
also placing his work into the context of
his life and times. Updated to include
new scholarship which has recently
come to light, this full-scale biography
examines the personality, career, and
social and intellectual circumstances of
the Scottish moral philosopher who is regarded as the
founder of scientific economics. 500pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $50.00 / $16.98
125755 LUXURY FEVER: Weighing the Cost of Excess
Frank, Robert H.
The turn of the 21st century witnessed a spectacular rise in
gross consumption. With the super-rich setting the pace,
Americans spent furiously in a desperate attempt to keep up.
In this book, Robert Frank uses scientific evidence to demonstrate how these spending patterns have not made us happier
or healthier. 336pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $8.98
142450 MARKETPLACE OF THE GODS: How Economics
Explains Religion
Witham, Larry
Two centuries after Adam Smith illuminated the workings of
the marketplace, a new movement among economists and
social scientists is expanding his insights into a groundbreaking "economics of religion." Using cutting edge ideas from the
behavioral sciences, and a deep knowledge of religious history, this new approach is making sense not only of past beliefs,
but of religion today. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $7.98
104344 THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE
Galbraith, John Kenneth
With searing wit and incisive commentary, Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in this landmark work,
arguing that the US was no longer a free-enterprise society
but a structured state controlled by the largest companies.
First published in 1967, The New Industrial State continues
to resonate today. This edition contains a new Introduction
by Sean Wilentz. 518pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $14.98
131691 RATIONAL DECISIONS
Binmore, Ken
A wide-ranging exploration of standard
theories of choice and belief under risk
and uncertainty. In arguing that the
Bayesian approach to knowledge is inadequate in a large world, Binmore proposes
an extension to Bayesian decision theory - allowing the idea of a mixed strategy in
game theory to be expanded to a larger set
of what Binmore refers to as "muddled" strategies. 216pgs. •
2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $12.98
105144 THE WINNER'S CURSE: Paradoxes and
Anomalies of Economic Life
Thaler, Richard H.
Demonstrating that markets do not always operate with the
efficiency we impute to them, Thaler presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why
the winners at auctions are often the real losers, why shoppers will save on one appliance only to pass up the identical
savings on another, and why sports fans who wouldn't pay
more than $200 for a Super Bowl ticket wouldn't sell one
they own for less than $400. 240pgs. • 1994
▲ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $14.98
133791 THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT: Eight Centuries of
Financial Folly
Reinhart, Carmen M. & Kenneth S. Rogoff
A comprehensive catalog of government defaults, banking
panics, and inflationary spikes, from medieval currency
debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. The authors
show that while countries do weather their financial storms,
short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur.
512pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
140848 ZOMBIE ECONOMICS: How Dead Ideas Still
Walk among Us
Quiggin, John
The global financial crisis has laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism -- the theory that market-based
solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. John
Quiggin explains how these dead ideas still walk among us,
and why we must find a way to kill them once and for all if we
are to avoid an even bigger financial crisis in the future.
288pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $8.98
EU ROPEAN H ISTORY & POLITICS
142804 ARISTOCRATS: Power, Grace, and Decadence:
Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present
Lawrence, James
For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered
itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the
nation. Lawrence James illuminates the history and culture of
this singular caste, showing how its infatuation with classical
art has forged England's heritage, how its love of sport has
shaped the nation's pastimes and values, and how its scandals
have entertained its public. 448pgs. • 2010
◆ • St. Martin's • C • $32.50 / $7.98
140737 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: At Home in Georgian
England
Vickery, Amanda
In this brilliant work, Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian
England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. She
introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion,
bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his
dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms, and servants with only a locking box to
call their own. 368pgs. • 2009
◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $14.98
CZECHS AND GERMANS
104342 BUDWEISERS INTO CZECHS AND GERMANS:
A Local History of Bohemian Politics
King, Jeremy
German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Budæjovice belonged
to the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to
Czechoslovakia, to Hitler's Third Reich, and to
Czechoslovakia again. This history of a single town in
Bohemia casts new light on nationalism in Central Europe
between the Springtime of Nations in 1848 and the Cold War.
304pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $17.98
✪ 133214 CZECH, GERMAN, AND
NOBLE: Status and National Identity
in Habsburg Bohemia
Krueger, Rita
The aristocrats who helped create,
endow, and nationalize institutions were
a critical component of the public
sphere in Hapsburg Bohemia. This
book examines the intellectual ideas
and political challenges that inspired
patriotic activity among the Bohemian nobility, the infusion
of national identity into public and institutional life, and the
role of the nobility in crafting and supporting national
ideals. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $32.98
✪ 088645 BETWEEN THE DEVIL
AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA:
Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the
Anglo-American Maritime World,
1700-1750
Rediker, Marcus
Rediker reconstructs the world of
18th-century Anglo-American seamen
and pirates in order to illuminate larger social and political issues such as
the rise of capitalism, slavery, the genesis of free wage
labor, and the growth of an international working class. He
follows seamen and ships along pulsing trade routes, recreates life in the brothels and alehouses along the waterfront,
and explores both the natural disasters and the man-made
terrors -- harsh discipline, brutal floggings, grisly hangings
-- that shaped the lives of those who plied forbidding
oceans. 337pgs. • 1989
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $18.98
✪ 148104 BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND CONTINENTAL
EUROPE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Similarities,
Connections, Identities
Conway, Stephen
A new perspective on the relationship of 18th-century Britain
and Ireland with continental Europe. Conway suggests that if
the British and Irish thought and acted in national terms, and
as part of an Atlantic and wider imperial world, they were also
able, in the appropriate circumstances, to see themselves as
Europeans. 384pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $125.00 / $24.98
087395 THE BRITISH ISLES: A
History of Four Nations
Kearney, Hugh
A new edition of the classic account of the
British Isles from pre-Roman times to the
present, distinguished by its treatment of
English history as part of a wider "history
of four nations." Kearney narrates the histories of Wales, Ireland and Scotland in
their own terms, surveys the recent historiographical renaissance in these nations, and considers the
implications for "four-nations" history in the context of a new
multiethnic Britain. 380pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $23.98
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
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134618 THE ANCIEN RÉGIME AND
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Tocqueville, Alexis de
This new translation by Arthur
Goldhammer of an undisputed classic
aims to be both accurate and readable.
Readers will appreciate Tocqueville's
work for its sense of irony and tragedy,
for its deep insights into political psychology, and for its impassioned
defense of liberty. 320pgs. • 2011
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Stone, Bailey
Synthesizes recent scholarly literature on the diplomatic,
political, social, economic, and cultural history of 18th-century and revolutionary France. Stone attributes the outbreak
of the French Revolution, and the violent developments of
the subsequent decade, to the combined pressures of international and domestic politics on national leaders who tried
to govern and modernize France. 300pgs. • 2002
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✪ 148110 CATHOLICISM AND THE ROOTS OF
NAZISM: Religious Identity and National Socialism
Hastings, Derek
Although an antagonistic relationship between the Catholic
Church and Hitler's regime developed later during the
Third Reich, the early Nazi movement was born in Munich,
a city whose population was overwhelmingly Catholic.
Focusing on Munich and the surrounding area, Hastings
shows how Catholics played a central and hitherto overlooked role in the Nazi movement before the 1923 Beerhall
Putsch. 312pgs. • 2011
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✪ 043021 THE CAUSES OF THE
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR: The Ford
Lectures Delivered in the University of
Oxford, 1987-1988
Russell, Conrad
The most in-depth account to date of the
origins of one of the most significant events
in British history. Drawing heavily on
research in printed and unpublished
sources, Russell highlights the constitutional problem of multiple kingdoms within Britain; the religious
problem of competing theologies within and outside a state
church; and the economic problem of the inadequacy of royal
revenue. 236pgs. • 1990
▲ • Oxford University • P • $70.00 / $19.98
✪ 148114 CLASSES, CULTURES, AND POLITICS: Essays
on British History for Ross McKibbin
Griffiths, Clare V. J., et al., eds.
One of the foremost historians of 20th century Britain, Ross
McKibbin broke down the artificial barriers that existed
between "social" and "political" history in order to enrich the
writing of both. The essays in this volume explore his legacy,
in touching on subjects as various as international football to
Liberal internationalism, from the hedonism of the early
Labour party to the relationship between London cabbies and
Thatcherism. 368pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $125.00 / $59.98
072267 COMMON DESTINY:
Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War
in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Knox, MacGregor
Analyzes the origins, dynamics, and
ruinous end of the Italian and German dictatorships. Providing a comparative
overview of the trajectories the two countries followed from unification to national
catastrophe, Knox evaluates Mussolini's
foreign policy and interprets the synthesis of Prusso-German
military tradition and Nazi revolution. 276pgs. • 2000
▲ • Cambridge • C • $58.00 / $9.98
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087175 A CONCISE HISTORY OF GERMANY
SECOND EDITION
Fulbrook, Mary
The multi-faceted, problematic history of the German lands
has supplied material for a wide range of debates and differences of interpretation. The text spans the early Middle Ages to
the present day, synthesizing a vast array of historical material, as Fulbrook explores interrelationships between social,
political and cultural factors in the light of recent scholarly
controversies. 296pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $12.98
053755 A CONCISE HISTORY OF
ITALY: Updated Edition
Duggan, Christopher
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the
late 20th century, this volume focuses on
the difficulties Italy has faced in forging a
nation state. It considers the geographical
and cultural obstacles to unity, and surveys
the centuries of political fragmentation that
Italy's new rulers had to overcome when
the country became unified, more by accident than design, in
1859-61. 324pgs. • 1994
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $14.98
131005 A CONCISE HISTORY OF SPAIN
Phillips, William D., Jr. & Carla Rahn Phillips
The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from
its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from
continual contact with outside influences. This book traces
that history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing
particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities.
362pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $14.98
119162 CROSSING THE RHINE: Breaking into Nazi
Germany 1944 and 1945 -- The Greatest Airborne
Battles in History
Clark, Lloyd
A richly detailed account of the Allied airborne assaults on
the Rhine, the two most critical offensives in World War II's
western theater after D-Day. In the first, in September 1944,
35,000 paratroopers were forced to retreat after nine days
of intense fighting; the second, in March 1945, succeeded,
and brought the Allies into heart of the Third Reich.
416pgs. • 2008
◆ • Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $7.98
✪ 148096 DISRAELI AND THE EASTERN QUESTION
Kovic, Milos
Like all British statesmen of his day, Disraeli was forced to
confront the question of what to do about the political future
of the Balkans and the Levant as the Ottoman Empire began to
implode. Kovic analyses Disraeli's role in the Eastern Crisis, at
the Congress of Berlin, and after, in order to illuminate his attitudes to the Eastern Question and how these affected international relations in the late 19th century. 368pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $115.00 / $39.98
IRELAND
135499 IRELAND: A History
Bartlett, Thomas
A magisterial political, social, cultural and economic history of Ireland from prehistory to the present by one of the
country's leading historians. 642pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $16.98
✪ 127801 THE RISING: Ireland:
Easter 1916
McGarry, Fearghal
Drawn from a recently released archive
of more than 1,700 eyewitness
accounts, this gripping volume tells the
story of the Easter Rising as seen
through the eyes of the rebels themselves, capturing in crisp, unflinching
detail what the nascent Irish revolution
actually felt like. Fearghal McGarry deftly interweaves the
oral history of these rank-and-file revolutionaries into a
comprehensive, yet powerfully affecting narrative. 304pgs.
• 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $12.98
143423 THE ENGLISH AND VIOLENCE SINCE 1750
Emsley, Clive
The garrotters who terrified London in 1862, the Irish Fenians
who carried our terrorist bombings in London, and the gangs
who dominated parts of the East End in the early years of the
20th century all used violence to achieve their ends. This volume surveys the changing patterns of violent behavior, public
and private, in England over the course of 250 years. 320pgs.
• 2007
◆ • Continuum • P • $29.95 / $9.98
142596 EUROPEAN CITIES AND
TOWNS: 400-2000
Clark, Peter
This study, which ranges from the fall of the
Roman Empire to the present, examines
both regional trends and the widely differing fortunes of individual communities.
Embracing northern and eastern Europe as
well as the city systems of the Mediterranean
and western Europe, it addresses debates
ranging from the nature of urban survival in the post-Roman
era to the position of the European city in a globalizing world.
432pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $17.98
099033 EUROPEAN SEXUALITIES, 1400-1800
Crawford, Katherine
A major survey of the social and cultural history of sexuality in
early modern Europe. By emphasizing the interrelationship
between practices and ideological change, Crawford illuminates the conditions in which our modern notions of sexuality were developed. This book will be essential reading for students of early modern European history and the history of sexuality. 258pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $17.98
116542 FOR THE SOUL OF THE
PEOPLE: Protestant Protest Against
Hitler
Barnett, Victoria
The story of the Confessing Church, one
of the rare German organizations that
opposed Nazism from the beginning.
Barnett interviewed more than 60
Germans who were active in the Church,
asking them to reflect on their personal
experiences under Hitler and how they see themselves,
morally and politically, today. 384pgs. • 1998
◆ • Oxford University • P • $70.00 / $23.98
067704 THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: The German
Conquest of France in 1870-1871
Wawro, Geoffrey
A lucid account of the political and diplomatic dimensions of
the war, which redrew Europe's map and announced the
arrival of the German Empire as a world power. The bloody
fighting foreshadowed the mass slaughter of WWI, while
Prussia's lightning victory helped lay the groundwork for that
conflict by stoking German militarism. 327pgs. • 2003
▲ • Cambridge • C • $47.00 / $24.98
132473 GERMAN HISTORIES IN THE AGE OF
REFORMATIONS, 1400–1650
Brady, Thomas A., Jr.
A study of the connections between the political reform of the
Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and
the 16th-century religious reformations, both Protestant and
Catholic. Brady argues that the character of the political
changes prevented both a general reformation of the Church
before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. 496pgs. •
2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $18.98
128138 THE HAMMER OF WITCHES: A Complete
Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum
Mackay, Christopher S.
First published in 1486-7, this famous treatise on witchcraft
remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its
descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the means of exterminating them are invaluable to our understanding of early
modern law, religion, and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed
translation is the only complete English version available, and
the most reliable. 668pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $18.98
146115 A HISTORY OF FINLAND
Meinander, Henrik
Beginning with the country's early history as a member of the Swedish kingdom,
this volume follows it through to its later
years as an autonomous Grand Duchy
within the Russian empire. It concludes
with Finland's gradual transformation
into a conscious nation and its current
success as an independent, modernized
state. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Columbia • C • $37.50 / $17.98
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 • $35.00 / $17.98
✪ 145053 HISTORY ON TRIAL
Lipstadt, Deborah E.
In her acclaimed book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah
Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the
most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." Irving
responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom -where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the
plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself. 400pgs. • 2006
◆ • HarperCollins • P • $14.99 / $6.98
143514 HORSE AND MAN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Edwards, Peter
Horses were used for many purposes in pre-industrial
England: for travel on horseback or in carriages, for haulage,
for pleasure, and for fieldwork. This volume reveals how these
horses were bred and trained, what they ate, what they were
worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of
them. 352pgs. • 2007
◆ • Continuum • C • $90.00 / $22.98
146117 HUNGARY: Between Democracy and
Authoritarianism
Lendvai, Paul
How has Hungary, a country once considered the vanguard of
postcommunist political and economic reforms, become a
chilling example of the new threats now destabilizing democracies across Central Europe? Grounding his study in an intimate knowledge of Hungary's major political figures and political culture, Paul Lendvai provides an unsparing look at these
troubling developments. 288pgs. • 2012
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146118 THE ILLUSION OF FREEDOM:
Scotland under Nationalism
Bellina, Séverine, et al.
Though the Scottish National Party has
mounted Scotland's biggest challenge to
the British union since its conception,
Gallagher argues that widespread change
would still remain elusive even if the SNP
prevails. His hard-hitting analysis contends
that the party will reinforce the same
authoritarian trends that have disfigured Scottish history and
encouraged emigration for decades. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Columbia • C • $40.00 / $19.98
133891 THE INNER LIFE OF EMPIRES: An
Eighteenth-Century History
Rothschild, Emma
The intimate history of the Johnstone family -- four sisters
and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the
globe in the fast-changing 18th century. Piecing together
their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical
Enlightenment. 496pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $14.98
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132182 INTERPRETING THE
RENAISSANCE: Princes, Cities,
Architects
Tafuri, Manfredo
Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994) was
acknowledged as one of Italy's most
influential architectural historians. In
his final work, published here in English
for the first time, he analyzes
Renaissance architecture from a variety
of perspectives, exploring questions that occupied him for
more than 30 years. 568pgs. • 1959
◆ • Yale • C • $60.00 / $22.98
100220 LIBERAL AND FASCIST ITALY: 1900-1945
Lyttelton, Adrian, ed.
Discusses the social and moral conflicts resulting from modernization, the two world wars and the fascist regime.
Considering the issues from both national and international
standpoints, the contributors consider the political developments and their impact on religion, literature, and the visual
arts. 314pgs. • 2002
▲ • Oxford University • C • $48.00 / $19.98
129392 LUSTMORD: Sexual Murder
in Weimar Germany
Tatar, Maria M.
In a book that confronts our society's
obsession with sexual violence, Maria
Tatar challenges us to consider what is taking place -- both artistically and socially -in the construction and circulation of
scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining such scenes, she produces a riveting
study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual
politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present.
213pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $19.98
140360 THE MARNE 1914: The Opening of World
War I and the Battle That Changed the World
Herwig, Holger H.
A bold new account of the cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents,
Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets
Germany's aggressive "Schlieffen Plan" as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Modern Library • P • $17.00 / $6.98
✪ 146099 NETWORKS OF POWER IN MODERN
GREECE: Essays in Honor of John Campbell
Mazower, Mark, ed.
Written in honor of the classical historian John Campbell,
these multidisciplinary essays challenge conventional ideas of
Greek nationalism and social development and touch upon
broader issues, including the emergence of nation-states, the
relationship between familial and ideological conflict, and the
continued relevance of religion in modern life. 364pgs. •
2008
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143410 A PART OF HISTORY: Aspects
of the British Experience of the First
World War
Howard, Michael, ed.
The contributors to this volume consider
various aspects of the British experience of
the war in the light of recent historiographical trends, and explore how these areas
are likely to be researched and written
about in the future. 256pgs. • 2008
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✪ 148156 PARTIES AND PEOPLE: England, 1914-1951
McKibbin, Ross
A landmark reinterpretation of British politics in the first
decades of universal suffrage. McKibbin argues that the kind of
democracy that emerged in Britain was far from inevitable,
and that although class became one of the principal determinants of political behavior, its influence was often surprisingly
weak. 224pgs. • 2011
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135484 THE RELIGIOUS ENLIGHTENMENT: Protestants,
Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna
Sorkin, David
Reveals how the major religions of Europe gave rise to movements of renewal and reform that championed such
Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness and natural religion,
toleration and natural law. Sorkin shows how Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism
were influential participants in the 18th century's public
sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations.
360pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $17.98
✪ 028880 RESTORATION,
REVOLUTION, REACTION: Economics
& Politics in Germany, 1815-1871
Hamerow, Theodore S.
Examines the dissatisfactions caused by the
transition from agrarianism to industrialism, and shows the severe impact on
German politics of the social adjustments
required to meet the new economic conditions. 347pgs. • 1990
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $24.98
142425 THE RICHES BENEATH OUR FEET: How
Mining Shaped Britain
Coyle, Geoff
Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the
Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC. Geoff Coyle, a former
mining engineer, examines how mining has shaped Britain,
and offers wide-ranging, absorbing stories of the mineral
wealth of Britain and its exploitation, from simple quarrying to the advent of mass production. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $40.00 / $12.98
142437 SEEKING A ROLE: The United Kingdom, 19511970
THE NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLAND
Harrison, Brian
In an unusually wide-ranging, but impressively detailed volume, Harrison approaches this transitional period from unfamiliar directions. He explains how British politicians in the
1950s and 1960s pursued successive roles for Britain: worldwide as champion of freedom, and in Europe as exemplar of
parliamentary government, the multi-racial society, and economic planning. 688pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $39.95 / $21.98
✪ 148163 THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY: Europe 1598-1715
SHORT OXFORD HISTORY OF EUROPE
Bergin, Joseph, ed.
Lying between the two great "peaks" of
the
Reformation
and
the
Enlightenment, the 17th century often
seems not to have a popular identity
itself. The contributors to this volume
address, in turn, economy, society, politics, war, international relations, science, thought and culture, and the role of Europe in the wider world. 280pgs. •
2001
◆ • Oxford University • P • $47.95 / $12.98
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 • $29.95 / $17.98
141893 UNCIVIL SOCIETY: 1989 and the Implosion of
the Communist Establishment
Kotkin, Stephen & Jan T. Gross
Drawing upon two decades of reflection, two leading scholars
revisit the sudden collapse of the Communist governments of
Eastern Europe in 1989. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental
narrative, they employ three case studies -- East Germany,
Romania, and Poland -- to illuminate the economic and social
pressures that led Communist regimes to surrender. 256pgs.
• 2010
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✪ 146105 UTOPIA OR AUSCHWITZ: Germany's 1968
Generation and the Holocaust
0231701373
Kundnani, Hans
Germany's 1968 generation did not merely dream of a better world as some of their revolutionary contemporaries in
other countries did; they felt compelled to act to save
Germany from itself. This volume traces the generation's
political journey from the left-wing terrorism of the 1970s
and the Social Democrats and Greens in the '80s, to political power in the '90s in the form of the first-ever "redgreen" government in Germany. 320pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $27.50 / $14.98
✪ 148167 WALKING THE STREETS OF
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON
Brant, Clare & Susan E. Whyman, eds.
This unique book invites the reader to walk
along the dirty, crowded, and fascinating
streets of 18th-century London in the company of John Gay's poem Trivia: or, the Art of
Walking the Streets of London. Nine leading
experts from the fields of literature, history,
classics, gender, biography, geography, and
costume offer different interpretations of the poem, a lively,
funny, and thought-provoking statement about urban life.
268pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $19.98
FI LM & M EDIA STU DI ES
141774 100 IDEAS THAT
CHANGED FILM
Parkinson, David
This entertaining and perceptive volume chronicles the most influential
ideas that have shaped film since its
inception. Both a concise history and a
fascinating resource, it introduces each
concept by means of informed text and
arresting visuals that pay homage to the
medium's great classics. 216pgs. • 2012
▲ • Laurence King • P • $29.95 / $14.98
104372 AN ACCENTED CINEMA: Exilic and Diasporic
Filmmaking
Naficy, Hamid
An engaging overview of an important trend, the work of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced filmmakers living
in the West. Treating creativity as a social practice, Naficy
demonstrates that these films are in dialogue not only with the
home and host societies but also with audiences, many of
whom are also situated astride cultural fault lines. 368pgs. •
2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $21.98
✪ 107426 ACCESS DENIED: The Practice and Policy of
Global Internet Filtering
Palfrey, John G., et al.
Many countries around the world block or filter web content,
denying access to information they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. This volume documents and analyzes internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first
rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend. 449pgs.
• 2007
◆ • MIT • P • $23.00 / $11.98
✪ 053301 AFRICAN AMERICAN
PERFORMANCE AND THEATRE
HISTORY: A Critical Reader
Elam, Harry J. & David Krasner, eds.
The articles in this volume illustrate how the
social and historical contexts of production
affect performances of blackness, and how
African American cultural, social, and political struggles have been affected by theatrical representations. 367pgs. • 2001
◆ • Oxford University • P • $55.00 / $14.98
140891 THE AGE OF MOVIES: Selected Writings
Kael, Pauline
Pauline Kael called movies "the most total and encompassing
art form we have," and she made her reviews a platform for
considering both film and the worlds it engages, crafting in
the process a prose style of extraordinary wit, precision, and
improvisatory grace. This volume includes her appraisals of
the films that defined an era, including Breathless, Bonnie
and Clyde, The Leopard, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris,
Nashville, and many others. 750pgs. • 2011
◆ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $20.98
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✪ 114118 BAUHAUS THEATRE DESSAU
Neumüllers, Marie
The theater workshop at the Bauhaus was a catalyst in Weimar
and Dessau performing arts. Today, the robust theater component of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's work includes house
productions, guest appearances, productions and workshops,
and successful revivals of the great Bauhaus festivals. 272pgs.
• 2006
◆ • Jovis • P • $35.00 / $14.98
109161 THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO
AMERICAN THEATRE
Wilmeth, Don B., ed.
This profusely illustrated encyclopedic
guide, encompassing more than 2,700
cross-referenced entries, covers all
aspects of the American theatre from its
earliest history to the present. The entries
cover such topics as Asian-American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, performance art, and puppetry, as well as popular forms such as
the circus, burlesque, vaudeville, and tent shows. 757pgs. •
2007
◆ • Cambridge • C • $195.00 / $16.98
✪ 042909 A CINEMA OF
LONELINESS: Penn, Stone, Kubrick,
Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman
THIRD EDITION
Kolker, Robert Phillip
Placing the films of Arthur Penn, Oliver
Stone, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese,
Steven Spielberg, and Robert Altman in
an ideological perspective, Kolker illuminates their relationship to one another and to larger currents in our culture, and emphasizes
the statements their films make about American society as
a whole. 484pgs. • 2000
◆ • Oxford University • P • $24.99 / $9.98
✪ 148127 ETHICS AT THE CINEMA
Jones, Ward E. & Samantha Vice, eds.
A diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of
film engage with the issues raised by a single film of each contributor's choice. The discussions focus on both classic and
modern films, and cover topics ranging from problems that
are of traditional concern to philosophers, such as virtue and
justice, to problems like sexuality and cultural identity that are
of traditional concern to filmmakers. 352pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $27.95 / $9.98
✪ 133229 EYES UPSIDE DOWN:
Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage
of Emerson
Sitney, P. Adams
The fruit of the author's lifelong study of
visionary aspirations in the American avantgarde cinema, this volume analyzes in
detail the work of eleven American avantgarde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics
of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage,
Charles Olson, and Gertrude Stein. 432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $27.95 / $9.98
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127078 FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER:
A Psychological History of the German
Film
Kracauer, Siegfried
Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in
light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue
Angel, broke new ground in exploring the
connections between film aesthetics, the
prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era,
and the evolving social and political reality of the time.
432pgs. • 2004
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
✪ 148575 KILLER KAIJU
MONSTERS: Strange Beasts of
Japanese Film
Vartanian, Ivan
The ultimate tribute to the legendary
monsters of the Japanese golden era
of special effects, beginning with the
granddaddy of them all -- Godzilla.
Featuring graphic full-color illustrations of the most notable kaiju along
with descriptions of their strengths, weaknesses, and special powers, this is the definitive guide to these strange
beasts of Japanese cinema. 144pgs. • 2010
▲ • HarperCollins • C • $27.99 / $6.98
040842 THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA
Manovich, Lev
Places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries, discusses its reliance on conventions of old media, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent
space. 354pgs. • 2001
◆ • MIT • P • $29.95 / $14.98
125371 LIFE: THE MOVIE: How
Entertainment Conquered Reality
Gabler, Neal
A leading cultural critic reveals how our
bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip,
glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of importance -- from news and politics to religion and high culture -- into one
vast public spectacle. "A thoughtful, in
places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life" -- The New
York Times Book Review. 320pgs. • 2000
◆ • Random House • P • $16.95 / $6.98
064403 MAE WEST: An Icon in Black and White
Watts, Jill
Portrays West as a trickster, demonstrating that by appropriating the black tradition of double-speak and "signifying," West
also may have hinted at her own African-American ancestry
and the phenomenon of a black woman passing for white.
374pgs. • 2003
▲ • Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $16.98
144601 THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE
OF MODERN DRAMA
Goldman, Emma
Out of print virtually since its completion
in 1914, Emma Goldman's pioneer work
bridges modern drama and political philosophy, pointing towards a theatre of
social empowerment. The emergence of
this treatise on the theatre after years of
obscurity is certain to arouse a new generation of artists and scholars with its timely and provocative
vision. 192pgs. • 2000
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H ISTORIOGRAPHY &
GEN ERAL H ISTORY
138657 ANNALS OF A FORTRESS:
Twenty-Two Centuries of Siege Warfare
Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel
Written by a famous architect and military
engineer, this accessible, well-researched
book charts the development of fortification and the art of the siege. It chronicles
2,000 years in the life of a fictional castle,
combining the excitement of a novel with
the authenticity of a historical document.
432pgs. • 2007
◆ • Dover • P • $19.95 / $5.98
112185 THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
WARFARE: The Triumph of the West
REVISED EDITION
Parker, Geoffrey
A unique account of Western warfare from antiquity to the
present day. Treats all aspects of the subject: the development
of warfare on land, sea and air; weapons and technology;
strategy and defense; discipline and intelligence; mercenaries
and standing armies; cavalry and infantry; chivalry and
Blitzkrieg; guerilla assault and nuclear arsenals. It ranges in
scope from the Greek victory at Marathon to the jungle warfare of Vietnam and the strategic air attacks of the Gulf War.
432pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $20.98
044865 CEREMONIES OF POSSESSION
IN EUROPE'S CONQUEST OF THE NEW
WORLD, 1492-1640
Seed, Patricia
Explores the array of ceremonies that the
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and
Dutch performed to enact their taking possession of the New World. The book develops the historic cultural contexts of these
ceremonies, and tackles the implications
of these histories for contemporary nation-states of the postcolonial era. 199pgs. • 1995
▲ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $14.98
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✪ 148172 CRITICAL ENTHUSIASM:
Capital Accumulation and the
Transformation of Religious
Passion
Rosenberg, Jordana
The Atlantic world of the long 18th century was characterized by two major,
interrelated phenomena: the onset of
capital accumulation and the infusion
of traditions of radical religious rapture
into Enlightenment discourses. In exploring these crosspollinations, Rosenberg shows that debates around religious radicalism are linked to the advent of capitalism at its
very root: as legal precedent, as financial rhetoric, and as
aesthetic form. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $9.98
087656 ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM: The Biological
Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
NEW EDITION
Crosby, Alfred W.
Revisiting his classic work and again evaluating the ecological
reasons for European expansion, Crosby explains that the
Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones of North America, Australia, and
New Zealand was more a matter of biology than of imperialistic military conquest. 390pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.00 / $18.98
146240 THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1453
Runciman, Steven
The classic account of the fall of Constantinople. To the Turks,
victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the Greeks, the conquest
meant the end of the civilization of Byzantium, and led to the
exodus of scholars stimulating the tremendous expansion of
Greek studies in the European Renaissance. 270pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $16.99 / $10.98
111425 GOD OF BATTLES: Holy Wars of Christianity
and Islam
Partner, Peter
What makes a war "holy," and who decides that it is?
Examining the origins of holy war, and explaining how it
affects the modern world, Peter Partner shows how the ideal
of the crusade, "God's War," came to permeate medieval
Christendom, and how it influenced later Western societies,
especially in their attitudes to colonialism. 364pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $16.98
105214 THE GREAT DIVERGENCE:
China, Europe, and the Making of the
Modern World Economy
Pomeranz, Kenneth
Why did sustained industrial growth begin
in Northwest Europe, despite surprising
similarities between advanced areas of
Europe and East Asia? Pomeranz argues
that Europe's 19th-century divergence
from the Old World owes much to its
access to coal, which substituted for timber, and to the
resources it obtained from its colonies in the New World.
392pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
043966 ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS: A History of Israel's
Intelligence Services
Black, Ian
The first documented, comprehensive history of all three of
Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s,
through Israel's five wars, up to the present. Highly readable
and exhaustively researched, it provides the most balanced
view yet of this controversial subject. 634pgs. • 1991
▲ • Grove Press • P • $19.95 / $7.98
111591 MILITARY POWER:
Explaining Victory and Defeat in
Modern Battle
Biddle, Stephen
In warfare, do states with the largest, best
equipped, IT-rich militaries invariably win?
In this landmark reconception of battle
and war, Stephen Biddle argues that force
employment is central to modern war, and
has become increasingly important since
1900 in a world of ever more lethal weaponry. 337pgs. •
2006
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
142976 POTTED HISTORY: The
Story of Plants in the Home
Horwood, Catherine
A lively exploration of how, when, and
why our most ubiquitous and beloved
houseplants came to have a place in our
homes and in our hearts. Catherine
Horwood's novel combination of social
history, plant history, and the history of
interior design is accompanied by period
illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources. 208pgs. •
2007
◆ • Frances Lincoln • C • $40.00 / $14.98
140838 POWER OVER PEOPLES:
Technology, Environments and Western
Imperialism, 1400 to the Present
Headrick, Daniel R.
An examination of Western imperialism's
complex relationship with technology,
from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa to America's
conflicts in the Middle East today. Headrick
traces the evolution of Western technologies from muskets and galleons to jet planes and smart
bombs, and sheds light on the factors that have led to victory
in some cases and defeat in others. 416pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
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✪ 133347 THE RULE OF EMPIRES:
Those Who Built Them, Those Who
Endured Them, and Why They
Always Fall
Parsons, Timothy
In this sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in
ancient Rome to its most recent
embodiments, Parsons explains what
constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about
our own historical moment. He lays bare the rationalizations of imperial conquerors and their apologists and
exposes the true limits of hard power. 496pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $9.98
✪ 049421 THAT NOBLE DREAM:
The "Objectivity Question" and the
American Historical Profession
Novick, Peter
The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of
American professional historians since the
waning years of the 19th century. Drawing
on both the unpublished correspondence
and the published writings of hundreds of
American historians, Novick shows how the ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over
the last century. 648pgs. • 1988
◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $22.98
143531 TREES: Woodlands and Western Civilization
Hayman, Richard
An account of the profound and intimate human relationship
with trees, from Adam and Eve and the Yggdrasil of Norse
mythology to Robin Hood, Shakespeare's Forest of Arden, and
Henry David Thoreau. 336pgs. • 2007
◆ • Continuum • P • $29.95 / $9.98
134866 WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR
Marlantes, Karl
In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was
dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty Marines
who would live or die by his decisions. In this volume,
Marlantes, the author of Matterhorn, weaves riveting
accounts of his combat experiences with thoughtful analysis, self-examination, and his readings from Homer to the
Mahabharata to Jung. 448pgs. • 2011
▲ • Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $9.98
135510 WHY EUROPE GREW RICH
AND ASIA DID NOT: Global Economic
Divergence, 1600-1850
Parthasarathi, Prasannan
Drawing particularly on the case of India,
Parthasarathi shows that in the 17th and
18th centuries, the advanced regions of
Europe and Asia, both characterized by
sophisticated and growing economies,
were more alike than different. Their subsequent divergence can be attributed to different competitive
and ecological pressures that in turn produced varied state
policies and economic outcomes. 384pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $17.98
087204 A WORLD AT ARMS: A Global
History of World War II
NEW EDITION
Weinberg, Gerhard L.
Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume remains the first history of WWII to
provide a truly global account of a war that
encompassed six continents. Starting with
the changes that restructured Europe and
its colonies following the WWI, Weinberg
sheds new light on every aspect of WWII, as actions of the Axis,
the Allies, and the Neutrals are covered in every theater of the
war. 1208pgs. • 2005
◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $19.98
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✪ 148102 THE ARAMAIC ASTRONOMICAL BOOK
FROM QUMRAN: Text, Translation, and Commentary
Drawnel, Henryk, ed.
Part of the Jewish pseudepigraphic literature of the Second
Temple period, the Aramaic Astronomical Book describes
the movement of the moon in its phases, schematic meteorology, and the movement of the stars in relation to the
seasons of the year. This volume, the first comprehensive
edition, supplies an extensive discussion, palaeographic
description, and a restoration of the fragmentary text,
accompanied by photographic reproductions of the manuscripts. 560pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $350.00 / $99.98
107439 ASTRONOMY OF THE
ANCIENTS
Brecher, Kenneth & Michael Feirtag, eds.
An introduction the observatories, instruments, and explorations of ancient
astronomers. The authors draw upon a
wide range of disciplines -- history, archaeology, technology, even mythology -- in discussing their subjects. 216pgs. • 1981
◆ • MIT • P • $28.00 / $12.98
132570 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GALEN
Hankinson, R. J., ed.
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c.216) was the most influential
medical doctor of later antiquity, and also wrote extensively on
logic and the philosophy of science. This volume offers an
introduction to and overview of his achievement in all the
many disciplines to which he contributed. 472pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $19.98
131063 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SCIENCE
AND RELIGION
Harrison, Peter, ed.
A comprehensive introduction to the relations between science and religion, with contributions from historians, philosophers, scientists and theologians. The essays explore the
impact of religion on the origins and development of science,
religious reactions to Darwinism, and the link between science and secularization. 322pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $12.98
129792 DISCOVERERS OF THE
UNIVERSE: William and Caroline
Herschel
Hoskin, Michael
The story of William Herschel, the brilliant,
fiercely ambitious musician and composer
who became court astronomer to King
George III, and of his sister Caroline, who
assisted him in his observations and
became an accomplished astronomer in
her own right. Hoskin sheds new light on their productive but
complicated relationship, and sets their achievements in the
context of their personal struggles, bitter disappointments,
and astonishing triumphs. 272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
051751 ENERGIES: An Illustrated Guide to the
Biosphere and Civilization
Smil, Vaclav
A comprehensive survey of all the forms of energy that shape
our world, from the sun to the human body to microchips, and
explains the science of the energy form as well as its implications for the functioning of the universe, life, or society.
210pgs. • 1999
◆ • MIT • C • $50.00 / $9.98
040718 THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF THE BODY AND THE
DIVERGENCE OF GREEK AND CHINESE MEDICINE
Kuriyama, Shigeshisa
In this volume Kuriyama ponders the different ways the human
body was envisaged in classical Greek medicine and in ancient
China, asking how the body came to be conceived by two
sophisticated civilizations in such radically divergent ways.
340pgs. • 1999
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133689 THE FIRST FOSSIL HUNTERS: Dinosaurs,
Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Mayor, Adrienne
Contending that many of the fabulous creatures of classical
mythology may have had a basis in fact, Mayor argues that
stories of griffins, titans, and giants were based on ancient
discoveries of the enormous bones of long-extinct species
such as mammoths and mastodons. 400pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $9.98
105152 LEVIATHAN AND THE AIR
PUMP: Hobbes, Boyle, and the
Experimental Life
Shapin, Steven & Simon Schaffer
In the aftermath of the English Civil War,
Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do
experiments. Both Boyle and his archcritic
Thomas Hobbes were looking for ways of
establishing knowledge that did not decay
into ad hominem attacks and political division. Examining this moment of scientific revolution, the
authors show how key scientific givens -- facts, interpretations,
experiment, truth -- were fundamental to a new political order.
456pgs. • 1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $18.98
✪ 148174 NOT EXACTLY: In
Praise of Vagueness
van Deemter, Kees
In this stimulating book, Kees Van
Deemter cuts across various disciplines -- including artificial intelligence, logic, and computer science -to illuminate the nature and importance of vagueness. He shows why
vagueness is both unavoidable and useful, and demonstrates how wrong it often is to think in
terms of black and white, instead of the richly graded spectrum of the world around us. 304pgs. • 2010
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140390 OBJECTIVITY
Daston, Lorraine & Peter Galison
From the 18th through the early 21st centuries, the images
that have revealed the deepest commitments of the empirical
sciences -- from anatomy to crystallography -- are those featured in the scientific atlases that teach practitioners what is
worth looking at and how to look at it. In this volume, Galison
and Daston use these atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. 501pgs. • 2010
◆ • Zone Books • P • $28.95 / $14.98
029727 THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Boyd, Richard, et al., eds.
Covers the most important developments of the past 60 years,
charting the rise and decline of logical positivism and the
gradual emergence of a new consensus concerning the major
issues and theoretical options in the field. 800pgs. • 1997
◆ • MIT • P • $65.00 / $36.98
✪ 148158 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE MATTERS: The
Philosophy of Peter Achinstein
Morgan, Gregory J., ed.
In the first book devoted to Peter Achinstein's influential work
in philosophy of science, twenty distinguished philosophers
address various aspects of Achinstein's influential views on the
nature of scientific evidence, scientific explanation, and scientific realism. 312pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $39.95 / $12.98
138769 SUBSTANCE AND FUNCTION & EINSTEIN'S
THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Cassirer, Ernst
In this work, Cassirer propounds a system of thought in which
Einstein's theory of relativity is regarded as the natural progression of the motives inherent to mathematics and the physical sciences. It includes such topics as mechanism and
motion; Mayer's methodology of natural science; Richter's
definite proportions; Einstein's relativity and "reality;" and
more. 480pgs. • 2004
◆ • Dover • C • $65.00 / $16.98
136969 THE THEORETICAL PRACTICES OF PHYSICS:
Philosophical Essays
Hughes, R. I. G.
Casting the philosopher of science in the role of critic, this
series of eight essays covers such concerns of philosophy and
physics as laws, disunities, models and representation, computer simulation, explanation, and the discourse of physics.
256pgs. • 2010
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111719 VOLTA: Science and Culture in the Age of
Enlightenment
Pancaldi, Giuliano
The story of Alessandro Volta, the brilliant man whose name is
forever attached to electromotive force. Both an absorbing
biography and a study of scientific and technological creativity, the book offers new insights into the legacies of the
Enlightenment while telling the remarkable story of the nowubiquitous battery. 400pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $17.98
J EWISH STU DI ES
142807 ANNE FRANK: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife
Prose, Francine
Anne Frank's diary, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work
of art as an historical record. In this close and sensitive reading, she marvels at the teenaged Frank's skillfully natural narrative voice, at her finely tuned dialogue and ability to turn living people into characters, and considers the rewards and
challenges of teaching one of the world's most read, and
banned, books. 336pgs. • 2009
◆ • HarperCollins • P • $14.99 / $4.98
028941 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VENETIAN
RABBI: Leon Modena's Life of Judah
Cohen, Mark R., ed.
Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major
intellectual figure of the early modern
Italian Jewish community, well-known to
contemporary European Christians as well
as to Jews. This complete translation of his
autobiography provides a wealth of historical material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in
daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a host of other subjects. 308pgs. • 1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
126897 THE BURNT BOOK: Reading
the Talmud
Ouaknin, Marc-Alain
This postmodern reading of the Talmud,
which combines discussions of spirituality and religious practice with influences
from deconstruction, intertextuality, multiple voicing, and eroticism, helps open a
dialogue between Hebrew tradition and
the social sciences. 272pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $19.98
144062 JEWISH DIMENSIONS IN
MODERN VISUAL CULTURE:
Antisemitism, Assimilation,
Affirmation
Long, Rose-Carol Washton, et al., eds.
The cultural and social developments of
modernism have long been associated
with Jews, who were viewed as carriers of
industrialized and cosmopolitan developments that threatened to undermine traditional ways of life. This anthology addresses this issue through
the lens of modernist visual production, including paintings,
posters, sculpture, and architecture. 356pgs. • 2009
◆ • Brandeis • C • $55.00 / $12.98
144063 LIVING WITH ANTISEMITISM: Modern Jewish
Responses
Reinharz, Jehuda, ed.
A collection of 22 essays by distinguished scholars on the
Jewish response to antisemitism worldwide over the past 200
years. The articles cover such diverse regions as Argentina, the
Arab World, Poland, Germany, and the United States. 510pgs.
• 1988
◆ • Brandeis • P • $35.00 / $7.98
140819 MAIMONIDES IN HIS WORLD: Portrait of a
Mediterranean Thinker
Stroumsa, Sarah
While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker,
his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often
described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Stroumsa
challenges this view by revealing him to have wholeheartedly
lived, breathed, and espoused the rich Mediterranean culture
of his time. 248pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $16.98
143997 COSMOPOLITANS: A Social and Cultural
History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area
Rosenbaum, Fred
An illuminating chronicle of Jewish life in the Bay area, told
through an astonishing range of characters and events.
Focusing in rich detail on the first hundred years after the
Gold Rush, the book also takes the story up to the present
day, demonstrating how unusually strong affinities for the
arts and for the struggle for social justice have characterized this community even as it has changed over time.
462pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $50.00 / $9.98
✪ 129247 THE MINSK GHETTO
1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and
Soviet Internationalism
Epstein, Barbara
Vividly chronicles the history of a
Communist-led resistance movement
inside the Minsk ghetto, which,
through its links to its Belarusian
counterpart outside the ghetto and
with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests,
where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans.
376pgs. • 2008
◆ • California • C • $45.00 / $9.98
144061 FOUR CENTURIES OF JEWISH WOMEN'S
SPIRITUALITY: A Sourcebook
Umansky, Ellen M. & Dianne Ashton
Reflecting a wide variety of literary genres, this volume
includes spiritual works (sermons, addresses, ritual blessing,
prayers) as well as letters, sisterhood minutes, and committee
reports that express the spiritual concerns of their authors. In
collecting material for this revised edition, the editors have
drawn upon sources that capture the diversity of Jewish
women of different ages, sexual orientations, social backgrounds, and nationalities. 404pgs. • 2008
◆ • Brandeis • P • $29.95 / $12.98
125934 MITZVAH GIRLS: Bringing Up the Next
Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
Fader, Ayala
The first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North
America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community.
Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy
to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become
women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. 280pgs. • 2009
▲ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $15.98
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144181 MOSES HESS AND MODERN JEWISH IDENTITY
Koltun-Fromm, Ken
Moses Hess, a prominent 19th-century German Jewish intellectual, was at times religious and secular, traditional and
modern, practical and theoretical, socialist and nationalist.
Ken Koltun-Fromm's radical reinterpretation of his writings
shows Hess as a Jew struggling with the meaning of conflicting
commitments and impulses. 192pgs. • 2001
◆ • Indiana • C • $32.95 / $12.98
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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 Jewish-Christian social history. 275pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $18.98
136911 MY BROTHER ESAU IS A HAIRY MAN: Hair and
Identity in Ancient Israel
Niditch, Susan
In ancient Israel, hair signified important features of identity
with respect to gender, ethnicity, and holiness. In this volume,
Susan Niditch seeks a deeper understanding of Israelite culture as expressed, shaped, and reinforced in images of hair,
from Jacob and Esau to the tradition's most famous longhaired hero, Samson. 176pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $45.00 / $16.98
✪ 144873 THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEBREW
SCRIPTURE
Hazony, Yoram
If we want to understand the ideas the Hebrew Scriptures
were written to advance, the author argues, we should read
these texts much as we read the writings of Plato or Hobbes
-- as works of reason or philosophy, composed to assist individuals and nations looking to discover the true and the good
in accordance with man's natural abilities. 286pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $15.98
111471 THE PRICE OF WHITENESS: Jews, Race, and
American Identity
Goldstein, Eric L.
What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with
the categories of black and white? Goldstein traces the often
tumultuous encounters with race experienced by Jews from
the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as
part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms. 307pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $14.98
049454 READING THE HOLOCAUST
Clendinnen, Inga
Explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view, discusses survivor
testimonies, the issue of "resistance" in the camps, and considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction,
and film. 227pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $14.98
✪ 126095 THE REBBE: The Life
and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel
Schneerson
Heilman, Samuel C. & Menachem
Friedman
From the 1950s until his death in 1994,
Menachem Mendel Schneerson built
the Lubavitcher movement from a small
Hasidic sect into a powerful force in
Jewish life. The authors paint a vivid
portrait of the Rebbe, showing how he reinvented himself
from an aspiring electrical engineer into a charismatic
leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic
emissaries could transform the world. 382pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
125781 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWS
Brenner, Michael
The most learned yet broadly accessible book available on the
subject. Brenner takes readers from the mythic wanderings of
Moses to the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust; from the
Babylonian exile to the founding of the modern state of Israel;
and from the Sephardic communities under medieval Islam to
the shtetls of eastern Europe and the Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn. 472pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
143993 STATION IDENTIFICATION: A Cultural History
of Yiddish Radio in the United States
Kelman, Ari Y.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, radio created a virtual place
where Jewish immigrants could listen to voices like theirs and
affirm the sound of their community as it evolved. Breaking
new ground in the study of both American mass media and
immigrant culture, this study examines the culture of Yiddish
radio in the United States during radio's golden age. 304pgs.
• 2009
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142490 TRIALS OF THE DIASPORA: A History of AntiSemitism in England
Julius, Anthony
This groundbreaking book charts the full history of antiSemitism in England, from the medieval persecutions which
culminated in King Edward I expulsion of the Jews to the wave
of anti-Semitism that emerged in the late 1960s and the 1970s.
It also examines the treatment of Jews in English literature,
from the anonymous medieval ballad "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's
Daughter" through Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, T. S.
Eliot, and beyond. 864pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $50.00 / $12.98
LATI N AM ERICAN &
CARI BBEAN STU DI ES
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 / $18.98
134299 A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN
Higman, B. W.
A general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning
of human settlement to the present. It covers early human
migrations, European colonization, the development of slavery
and the slave trade, the plantation economy, the revolution in
Haiti, independence movements, the Cuban Revolution, and
the diaspora of Caribbean people. 372pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $25.99 / $14.98
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040742 LATIN AMERICA: POLITICS AND SOCIETY SINCE
1930
Bethell, Leslie, ed.
A thorough account of Latin American political and social
movements, urban labor movements, the military in politics,
and rural mobilizations since 1920. 489pgs. • 1998
▲ • Cambridge • P • $44.00 / $22.98
127325 SHATTERED HOPE: The Guatemalan
Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
Gleijeses, Piero
The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that
saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this
book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of
that revolution engineered by US intervention. 464pgs. • 1992
▲ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $25.98
125548 SOVEREIGNTY AND REVOLUTION IN THE
IBERIAN ATLANTIC
Adelman, Jeremy
This bold new look at the New World empires of Spain and
Portugal argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the
Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal
from the start. It offers a new understanding of Latin American
and Atlantic history, one that blurs traditional distinctions
between the "imperial" and the "colonial." 408pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $30.95 / $19.98
LI NGU ISTICS & LANGUAGES
109407 THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES
OF ASIA AND THE AMERICAS
Woodard, Roger D., ed.
Each chapter in this survey focuses on
an individual language or, in some
instances, a set of closely related varieties. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each one examines the writing
system or systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and
historical context. 263pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $52.00 / $16.98
✪ 142857 BEGAT: The King James Bible and the
English Language
Crystal, David
How can a work published in 1611 have had such a lasting
influence on the language? In this stimulating tour of the
verbal richness and incredible reach of the King James
Bible, Crystal offers fascinating discussions of phrases such
as "The skin of one's teeth" or "Out of the mouth of babes,"
tracing how these memorable lines have found independent life in the work of generations of poets, playwrights,
novelists, politicians, and journalists. 336pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $7.98
087569 THE CAMBRIDGE OLD ENGLISH READER
Marsden, Richard C. & Andrew P. Orchard
The 56 Old English prose and verse texts included here cover
ground no previous reader has encompassed. The anthology
includes both well-known selections from Bede and Beowulf
and lesser-known pieces such as Medicinal Remedies from
Bald's Leechbook and divinations from Aelfwine's
Prayerbook. Includes judicious annotations, a reference
grammar, and an excellent glossary. 566pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $48.00 / $28.98
135483 DUELS AND DUETS: Why Men
and Women Talk So Differently
Locke, John L.
When men talk to men, Locke argues, they
frequently engage in a type of "dueling,"
locking verbal horns with their rivals in a
way that enables them to compete for the
things they need, mainly status and sex. By
contrast, much of women's talk sounds
more like a verbal "duet," a harmonious
way of achieving their goals by sharing intimate thoughts and
feelings in private. 252pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • C • $28.99 / $12.98
087452 EXPLORING LANGUAGE STRUCTURE:
A Student's Guide
Payne, Thomas
A perfect introductory volume for beginning students in linguistics, designed to prepare them for more advanced courses in linguistic analysis. The chapters introduce a range of
essential topics in syntax and morphology, such as rules, categories, word classes, grammatical relations, multi-clause constructions, and typology. 390pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $26.98
142604 HOW TO READ A WORD
Knowles, Elizabeth
What questions can be asked about a word?
And how can they be answered? In this volume, a lexicographer offers guidance on
how to explore the various aspects of
words, with chapters on pronunciation,
spelling, date of first use, etymology,
regional distribution, and meaning, all
spiced with intriguing examples. 208pgs. •
2010
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128262 THE LINGUISTIC LEGACY
OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE:
Colonial Expansion and Language
Change
Clements, J. Clancy
The historical spread of Spanish and
Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists
studying how languages evolve and
change. This volume analyses how the
two languages developed from Latin and tracks their subsequent transformation into non-standard varieties.
276pgs. • 2009
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NOAM
CHOMSKY
030685 ASPECTS OF THE THEORY
OF SYNTAX
Chomsky, Noam
In this work, Chomsky reviews the linguistic theory known as transformational generative grammar and offers a
reformulation that takes into account
various deficiencies that have been
uncovered since its original formulation. The emphasis is on syntax and on
the semantic and phonological aspects of language structure. 251pgs. • 1965
◆ • MIT • P • $29.00 / $11.98
024374 LANGUAGE AND PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE:
The Managua Lectures
Chomsky, Noam
Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins,
and concerns of linguistics. The lectures explore four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to
speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge
acquired? How do we use this knowledge? What are the
physical mechanisms involved in the representation, acquisition, and use of this knowledge? 205pgs. • 1988
◆ • MIT • P • $26.00 / $12.98
029784 THE MINIMALIST PROGRAM
Chomsky, Noam
Essays show how the minimalist framework takes Universal
Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. 420pgs. • 1995
▲ • MIT • P • $44.00 / $17.98
045516 NEW HORIZONS IN THE
STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND MIND
Chomsky, Noam
An outstanding contribution to the
philosophical study of language and
mind, by one of the most influential
thinkers of our time. Argues that there
is no coherent notion of "language"
external to the human mind, and that
the study of language should take as its
focus the mental construct which constitutes our knowledge
of language. 230pgs. • 2000
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142617 OF MINDS AND
LANGUAGE: A Dialogue with Noam
Chomsky in the Basque Country
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo, et al.,
eds.
A state-of-the-art account of what we
know and would like to know about
language, mind, and brain. Chapters by
leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition,
cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology,
and evolutionary biology are framed by an introduction and
conclusion by Noam Chomsky, who places the biolinguistic
enterprise in an historical context and helps define its agenda for the future. 472pgs. • 2011
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✪ 148176 OXFORD CHINESE DESK
DICTIONARY BOOK AND CD-ROM
Manser, Martin H., et al.
A durable, long-lasting reference for both
English-speakers learning Chinese and
Chinese-speakers learning English, this dictionary offers authoritative, up-to-the-minute
coverage, with over 90,000 words and
phrases, and 130,000 translations in a sturdy hardcover edition. The CD also offers
many special features, including character recognition and audio
pronunciations for 22,000 characters. 1136pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $39.95 / $12.98
087661 THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
THIRD EDITION
Yule, George
Introduces the analysis of the key elements of language -sounds, words, structures, and meanings -- providing a solid
foundation in these essential topics. Extensively revised with
sections on contemporary issues in language study, including
language and culture, African American English, sign language, and slang. 284pgs. • 2005
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $12.98
142631 TRUTH-CONDITIONAL PRAGMATICS
Recanati, François
In this volume, Recanati offers a radical alternative to the traditional understanding of the semantics / pragmatics divide.
Through a series of case studies, he shows that what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker
means, and that the speaker's meaning endows words with
senses that depart from the conventional meanings carried by
the words in isolation. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $19.98
128235 WHY DO LANGUAGES
CHANGE?
Trask, R. L.
Packed with fascinating examples of
changes in language over time, this
entertaining book by a renowned linguist explores such issues as the origin
of words and place names, the differences between British and American
English, and the apparent eccentricities of the English spelling system. 210pgs. • 2009
▲ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $20.98
LITERARY TH EORY & CRITICISM
039701 ANATOMY OF CRITICISM
Frye, Northrop
In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and
rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature
from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary
criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression
through time. 383pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $14.98
119440 BECKETT AT 100: Revolving
It All
Moorjani, Angela & Linda Ben-Zvi
To commemorate the centenary of the
birth of Samuel Beckett, this collection
brings together leading international
scholars who rethink traditional readings
and theories, provide new contexts and
associations, and reassess Beckett's
impact on the modern imaginations.
352pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $9.98
✪ 148103 BENEATH THE
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: The
Subversive Imagination in the Age
of Emerson and Melville
Reynolds, David S.
This acclaimed, magisterial work of
criticism and cultural history provides
striking, original readings of the major
works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman,
Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and
Dickinson. This edition includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. 656pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $24.95 / $9.98
112957 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO DON DELILLO
Duvall, John N.
In an age dominated by the image,
DeLillo's fiction encourages the reader to
think historically about such matters as the
Cold War, the assassination of President
Kennedy, threats to the environment, and
terrorism. This Companion charts the
shape of DeLillo's career, his relation to
20th-century aesthetics, and the major themes of his novels,
including White Noise, Libra, and Underworld. 224pgs. •
2008
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✪ 054762 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENGLISH
RESTORATION THEATRE
Payne Fisk, Deborah, ed.
Essays examine Restoration theatre from 1660 until 1714,
paying attention to major playwrights such as Dryden,
Wycherly and Congreve and also to more minor works and to
plays by the first professional female dramatists, as they reveal
this exciting theatrical era in all of its tumult, energy, and conflict. 322pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $20.98
132572 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JANE
AUSTEN
Copeland, Edward & Juliet McMaster, eds.
This fully updated edition offers clear, accessible coverage of
the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context,
with biographical information and suggestions for further
reading. With seven new essays, it now covers topics that have
become central to recent Austen studies, including gender,
sociability, economics, and the increasing number of screen
adaptations of the novels. 302pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $14.98
✪ 098640 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO PHILIP ROTH
Parrish, Timothy, ed.
The most comprehensive introduction
to Roth's work. Beginning with the
urgency of the early fiction and extending to the vitality of his most recent
novels, these newly commissioned
essays trace Roth's artistic engagement
with questions about ethnic identity,
postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust, sexuality, and the
human psyche itself. 196pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $10.98
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 • $31.99 / $14.98
062502 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ITALIAN
LITERATURE
Brand, Peter & Lino Pertile, eds.
In this comprehensive survey of one of the richest and most
influential literatures of Europe, leading scholars assess the
Italian literary tradition from its earliest origins to the present
day. Translations are provided, along with maps, chronological charts, and up-to-date bibliographies. 699pgs. • 1999
▲ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $30.98
111186 A CULTURAL HISTORY OF
CAUSALITY: Science, Murder Novels,
and Systems of Thought
Kern, Stephen
Traces how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed since
1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as
documented by more than 100 novels -including Crime and Punishment, An
American Tragedy, and Lolita -- Kern
devotes each chapter to a specific causal factor or motive,
including ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion,
mind, society, and ideology. 448pgs. • 2004
▲ • Princeton • C • $58.00 / $9.98
✪ 148132 GUILTY CREATURES: Renaissance Poetry
and the Ethics of Authorship
Kezar, Dennis
Examines how Renaissance poets conceived the theme of
killing as a specifically representational and interpretive
form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and
lesser known authors, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attended literary killing,
paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience.
280pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $7.98
104996 THE HARD FACTS OF THE GRIMMS' FAIRY
TALES
Tatar, Maria
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the
darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter
for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's
Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded
second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by
Maria Tatar. 360pgs. • 2003
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
134309 HOW TO READ A
SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY TEXT
Giddens, Eugene, ed.
This practical how to guide to the original
printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries provides a detailed account of
how to read these early texts and how they
have been turned into the modern editions
we are accustomed to. It explains how the
features of the play text came about, what
the different elements mean, and who created them. 198pgs.
• 2011
▲ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $16.98
129781 THE INDIGNANT GENERATION: A Narrative
History of African American Writers and Critics,
1934-1960
Jackson, Lawrence Patrick
The first narrative history of the neglected but essential
period of African-American literature between the Harlem
Renaissance and the civil rights era. Surveying the tumultuous decades surrounding World War II, Jackson restores
the "indignant" quality to a generation of writers shaped by
segregation, the Great Depression, the growth of American
communism, and international decolonization. 608pgs. •
2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $37.50 / $21.98
133442 JANE AUSTEN AND THE
ENLIGHTENMENT
Knox-Shaw, Peter
It has long been understood that Austen's
writing and thought were shaped by her
late 18th-century childhood, but astonishingly, this is the first study of the influence
of the Enlightenment on Jane Austen.
Drawing out the Enlightenment principles
and ideas which lie behind much of
Austen's writing, Knox-Shaw presents a new perspective on the
study of Austen's novels. 290pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $16.98
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✪ 105074 THE GRAIL: From Myth to Christian
Symbol
Loomis, Roger Sherman
In his classic exploration of the obscurities and contradictions in the major versions of this legend, Loomis shows
how the Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into a
Christian symbol with miraculous powers. Loomis bases his
argument on historical examples involving the major motifs
and characters in the legends, beginning with the 12th-century French poem by Chrètien de Troyes. 306pgs. • 1991
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $12.98
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Jung, Emma & Marie-Louise von
Franz
Weaving together narrative and Jungian
interpretation, the authors show how
the legend of the Grail reflects not only
fundamental human problems but also
the dramatic psychic events that form
the background of our Christian culture. 452pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $16.98
✪ 142854 IRISH INFLUENCE ON MEDIEVAL WELSH
LITERATURE
Sims-Williams, Patrick
Could some of the striking similarities between medieval
Irish and Welsh literatures be due to independent influences
or even just to coincidence? Patrick Sims-Williams provides
a new approach to these controversial questions, situating
them in the context of the broader corpus of medieval literature and international folklore. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $125.00 / $42.98
✪ 042832 WOMAN DEFAMED AND
WOMAN DEFENDED: An Anthology
of Medieval Texts
Blamires, Alcuin, ed.
The vast corpus of medieval misogynistic
writings, which range from those of the
Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular literature, have had a profound
effect on the status of women in the West.
This volume gathers a generous selection of these writings, but also features a surprising range of
early texts championing women, including material never
previously available in translation. 327pgs. • 1992
▲ • Oxford University • P • $68.00 / $14.98
083942 KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS HUMAN AND DIVINE:
Vico's New Science and Finnegans Wake
Verene, Donald Phillip
In the first book to examine in full the interconnections
between Vico's new science and Joyce's Finnegans Wake,
Verene demonstrates how passages from Joyce's work offer
keys to Vico's philosophy. Verene presents Vico's philosophical thought as it develops in his major works, with Joyce's
words and insights serving as a guide. 278pgs. • 2003
◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $14.98
✪ 148146 LITERATURE AND POLITICS
IN CROMWELLIAN ENGLAND: John
Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont
Nedham
Worden, Blair
A fresh approach to the literary biography
of the two great poets of the Puritan
Revolution. Blair Worden reconstructs the
political contexts within which Milton and
Marvell wrote, and reassesses the influence
on their work of Oliver Cromwell and of Marchamont
Nedham, the pioneering journalist and close friend of Milton
whose writings are shown to be intimately linked to Marvell's.
456pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
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128560 LYRIC POETRY: The Pain and
Pleasure of Words
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk
Who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and
how is it created? In this volume, Mutlu
Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric
is only a virtual entity, and that lyric poetry
takes its power from the public, emotional
power of language itself. 232pgs. • 2006
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $30.98
143521 MALLARMÉ: The Politics of the Siren
Rancière, Jacques & Steven Corcoran
In this concise and illuminating study, one of the world's most
influential living philosophers examines the life and work of
the celebrated French poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé. He
argues that if Mallarmé's writing is difficult, it is because it
complies with a demanding and delicate poetics grounded in
a historical moment and the role that poetry ought to play in
it. 112pgs. • 2011
◆ • Continuum • C • $19.95 / $9.98
143424 THE MODERNISM HANDBOOK
Tew, Philip, et al.
An invaluable companion to British literary modernism.
272pgs. • 2009
◆ • Continuum • P • $32.95 / $14.98
128187 THE NEW CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE
De Grazia, Margreta & Stanley Wells, eds.
In addition to chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and
the transmission of his texts, this volume
provides readings of the plays in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as
well as stage and film. 380pgs. • 2010
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98
038520 THE NEW PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
POETRY AND POETICS
Preminger, Alex & T. V. Brogan, eds.
A comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its
subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. This completely revised edition includes new entries
by Camille Paglia, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Elaine Showalter,
Houston Baker, and Andrew Ross, and new coverage of cultural criticism, discourse, feminist poetics, and Chicano poetry. 1383pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $22.98
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 • $15.95 / $9.98
141741 ON CONAN DOYLE: Or, the
Whole Art of Storytelling
Dirda, Michael
A lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes
adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic
Michael Dirda is a member of the Baker
Street Irregulars -- the most famous of all
Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir
and appreciation, this highly engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator is
also a rare insider's account of the activities and playful
scholarship of the Baker Street group. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $9.98
125341 PARALLEL LIVES: Five
Victorian Marriages
Rose, Phyllis
In this acclaimed study of the sexual politics of Victorian marriage, Phyllis Rose
examines five Victorian writers -- Thomas
Carlyle, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill,
Charles Dickens, and George Eliot -- who
each wrote about their own married lives
with unusual candor. 336pgs. • 1984
◆ • Vintage • P • $14.95 / $4.98
136934 THE PLEASURES OF BENTHAMISM: Victorian
Literature, Utility, Political Economy
Blake, Kathleen
A fresh look at the often misunderstood traditions of
Utilitarianism and political economy and their influence on
Victorian literature and culture. The volume examines writings
by Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David
Ricardo, James and John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Thomas
Carlyle, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and
Rabindranath Tagore. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $29.98
145887 WALT WHITMAN AND THE CIVIL WAR:
America's Poet During the Lost Years of 1860-1862
Genoways, Ted
Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not
to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at
Fredericksburg. In this penetrating and original book, Ted
Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years, locating
Whitman directly through unpublished letters and neverbefore-seen manuscripts, as well as rare period newspapers
and magazines in which he published. 224pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $40.00 / $12.98
142640 YEATS AND VIOLENCE
Wood, Michael
In this close reading of Yeats's poem
"Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen," Wood
investigates the six parts of the poem, connecting them to Yeats's broader poetic
practice, his interest in the occult and his
changing vision of Irish nationalism; to the
work of other poets (Irish, English, Russian
German); and to Irish and European history between the Easter Uprising and the end of the Irish Civil
War. 156pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $40.00 / $14.98
LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA
104794 BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA:
Biographical Sketches of My Literary
Life and Opinions
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR
COLERIDGE
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The first completely annotated edition one of
the classics of English literature, into which
Coleridge poured 20 years of speculation
about the criticism and uses of poetry and
about the psychology of art. 866pgs. • 1985
◆ • Princeton • P • $57.50 / $29.98
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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 • $25.95 / $11.98
050566 ESSAYS ON ART AND LITERATURE
THE COLLECTED WORKS, VOLUME 3
Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
The wide-ranging, trenchant reflections on art and literature
that Goethe penned throughout his life are crucial to an
understanding of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On
Gothic Architecture," "On the Laocoon," and "Shakespeare: A
Tribute." 268pgs. • 1994
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $16.98
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 • $26.95 / $12.98
✪ 115435 EVELINA
OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
Burney, Fanny
Burney's most enduringly popular novel is a vivid and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in
late 18th-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry
into society, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in a world where social snobbery and sexual aggression
are played out in the public arena. 512pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $12.95 / $4.98
140350 EVERYMAN
Roth, Philip
This candidly intimate yet universal novel of loss, regret, and
stoicism follows the fate of Roth's "Everyman" from his first
shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his
childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of adulthood, and into his old age, as he witnesses the deterioration of his contemporaries and faces his
own physical woes. 192pgs. • 2007
▲ • Vintage • P • $13.95 / $6.98
132040 THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE
AMERICAN SHORT STORY
Ford, Richard, ed.
First published by Granta Books in 1992,
this volume became the definitive anthology
of American short fiction written in the last
half of the 20th century -- an "exemplary
choice" in the words of the Washington
Post -- with stories by writers such as
Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond
Carver (and 40 more) demonstrating how much power can
lurk in the briefest narrative form. 736pgs. • 2011
▲ • Grove Press • P • $19.95 / $6.98
135409 THE LETTERS OF ERNEST
HEMINGWAY, 1907-1922
Spanier, Sandra, et al., eds.
This first volume of all of Hemingway's surviving letters encompasses his youth, his
experience in World War I, and his arrival
in Paris. The letters reveal a more complex
person than Hemingway's tough-guy public persona would suggest: devoted son,
affectionate brother, infatuated lover, adoring husband, spirited friend, and disciplined writer. 516pgs.
• 2011
◆ • Cambridge • C • $40.00 / $19.98
134333 THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT: Volume
2: 1941-1956
Craig, George, et al., eds.
When World War II began, Beckett was a passionately committed but as yet little-known writer. The letters in this volume chart his situation during the war and his crucial move
into the French language, as well as the spread of his international reputation in the postwar years. Includes explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents, and other contextual information. 888pgs. •
2011
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038608 THE LIVES OF ANIMALS
Coetzee, J. M.
A renowned novelist employs fiction to
present a powerfully moving discussion of
animal rights in all their complexity. In his
fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture at
Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us
in a drama reflecting the real-life situation
at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an
emotionally charged issue at a prestigious
university. 127pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $11.98
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
132097 NEW IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA
Roussel, Raymond
Since its publication in 1932, this weird and wonderful poem
has gained cult status and admirers who have included Jean
Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Koch,
and John Ashbery. This bilingual edition presents the original
French text along with Mark Ford's lucid, idiomatic translation, and also includes the illustrations commissioned by
Roussel. 264pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
✪ 133837 THE H. D. BOOK
Duncan, Robert
This magisterial work, long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry
and poetics by one of America's most influential postwar
poets. A meditation on both the roots of modernism and its
manifestation in the work of H. D., Ezra Pound, D. H.
Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Edith Sitwell, and others, Duncan's wide-ranging book is notable for its illumination of the role women played in the creation of literary
modernism. 704pgs. • 2011
◆ • California • C • $65.00 / $29.98
✪ 055121 A NEW-ENGLAND TALE:
Or, Sketches of New-England Character
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
The story of an orphan girl in rural New
England and the trials she faces as she
grows up, this popular 19th-century
women's novel provides a unique look at
the religious and social climate at this crucial period in America's national development. Addressing many of the complex
issues of the time, this is a classic story of a young woman's
moral and material triumphs. 168pgs. • 1995
▲ • Oxford University • P • $29.99 / $6.98
089682 JUVENILIA
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN
Austen, Jane
Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she
was eleven, to 1793, when she was seventeen. This edition
provides a fresh transcription of Austen's manuscripts, with
comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction, covering the context and publication history of the
juvenilia, a chronology of Austen's life, and an authoritative
textual apparatus. 574pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • C • $172.00 / $32.98
105182 THE PLUM IN THE GOLDEN VASE OR, CHIN
P'ING MEI: The Gathering, Vol. 1
Roy, David Tod
An unabridged and annotated translation of the first volume of
the anonymous 16th-century Chinese novel, the story of the
domestic life of the corrupt and voracious Hsi-men Ch'ing, his
six wives and concubines. 714pgs. • 1997
▲ • Princeton • P • $42.00 / $21.98
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131913 THE QUOTABLE THOREAU
Cramer, Jeffrey S., ed.
The most comprehensive and authoritative
collection of Thoreau quotations ever
assembled, this volume gathers more than
2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American author, social reformer,
environmentalist, and self-reliant thinker. It
includes Thoreau's thoughts on topics ranging from sex to solitude, manners to miracles, government to God, and everything in between. 552pgs.
• 2011
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✪ 148579 THREE DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING
Ellison, Ralph
Set in the framework of a deathbed vigil, Ellison's unfinished second novel is a gripping multigenerational saga
centering around the assassination of the controversial,
race-baiting Senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended
to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician
turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a
light-skinned black in rural Georgia. 1136pgs. • 2010
◆ • Modern Library • C • $50.00 / $9.98
044202 THE UBU PLAYS: Ubu Rex,
Ubu Cuckolded, and Ubu Enchained
Jarry, Alfred
Three plays by one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre. Through the lucid
translations of Connelly and Taylor, the violent and loathsome Ubu emerges as Jarry's
dark metaphor for man in the modern age.
As Ubu himself said, "We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we
demolish the ruins as well." 148pgs. • 1997
◆ • Grove Press • P • $15.95 / $9.98
143014 WHILE MORTALS SLEEP: Unpublished Short
Fiction
FOREWORD BY DAVE EGGERS
Vonnegut, Kurt
Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt
Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers. In
these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut's originality
infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars, and
of characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel
and sometimes comically indifferent world. 272pgs. • 2011
◆ • Delacorte • C • $27.00 / $7.98
M EDI EVAL &
RENAISSANCE STU DI ES
038897 COMMUNITIES OF VIOLENCE:
Persecution of Minorities in the
Middle Ages
Nirenberg, David
Focusing on attacks against minorities in
14th-century France and the Crown of
Aragon, Nirenberg argues that these
attacks -- ranging from massacres to verbal
assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and
prostitutes -- were often perpetrated not by
irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and
prejudices, but by groups that deliberately manipulated and
reshaped the available discourses on minorities. 301pgs. •
1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $18.98
104764 THE CORRUPTION OF ANGELS: The Great
Inquisition of 1245-1246
Pegg, Mark Gregory
Between May 1, 1245 and August 1, 1246 more than 5,000
people from the Lauragais region of France were questioned about the heresy known as Catharism. Mark
Gregory Pegg examines the sole surviving manuscript of
this great inquisition with unprecedented care, in order to
build a richly textured understanding of social life in southern France in the early 13th century. 238pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
024368 FRAGMENTATION AND REDEMPTION: Essays
on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
Bynum, Caroline Walker
A series of seven essays spanning the topics of gender, religious relics, sex, mortality, and the miraculous in the middle
ages by one of the most important scholars working in the
field today. 426pgs. • 1992
▲ • MIT • P • $26.95 / $15.98
038481 THE KING'S TWO BODIES: A
Study of Medieval Political Theology
Kantorowicz, Ernst H.
An examination of the historical problem
posed by the "King's two bodies" -- the body
politic and the body natural. By placing the
concept in its proper setting of medieval
thought and political theory, Kantorowicz
demonstrates how early-modern Western
monarchies gradually developed a "political theology." 568pgs. • 1997
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038630 THE MAKING OF EUROPE: Conquest,
Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
Bartlett, Robert
From our modern perspective, we tend to think of the Europe
of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered
lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that
Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process
of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer.
432pgs. • 1994
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039557 MEDIEVAL CITIES: Their
Origins and the Revival of Trade
Pirenne, Henri
Traces the growth of the medieval city from
the tenth century to the twelfth, challenging
conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of
trade. In addition, Pirenne describes the
clear role the middle class played in the
development of the modern economic system and modern culture. 253pgs. • 1969
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $12.98
143422 PRIVACY AND SOLITUDE:
The Medieval Discovery of Personal
Space
Webb, Diana
In the Middle Ages, most people shared
communal living space and lived most
of their lives in the midst of others.
Slowly, however, the wealthy began to
build parts of their houses that were
private and where private activities,
such as reading, could be enjoyed. Diana Webb traces what
this meant both for men and for women in this highly original book. 288pgs. • 2007
◆ • Continuum • C • $100.00 / $16.98
143425 THE VIKINGS: Culture and
Conquest
Arnold, Martin
From their base in Scandinavia, Viking
warriors and settlers spread across northern Europe, into Russia, and across the
Atlantic, establishing settlements in Iceland
and Greenland and even reaching Vinland,
or America. This volume provides a concise and clear survey of who the Vikings
were, what they did, and why they did it. 256pgs. • 2008
◆ • Continuum • P • $27.95 / $9.98
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143989 AHMADINEJAD: The Secret
History of Iran's Radical Leader
Naji, Kasra
As Iran's nuclear program accelerates, all
eyes are on the blacksmith's son who could
have his finger on the trigger. Who is
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What drives him?
Iranian journalist Kasra Naji has spent
years interviewing Ahmadinejad's friends,
family, and colleagues to tell for the first
time the true story of how he came to power. 312pgs. • 2008
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038393 AL-QUR'AN: A Contemporary Translation
Ali, Ahmed
A bilingual edition, forming an elegant and poetic translation
of the Holy Book of Islam in a contemporary and living voice.
It includes notes where necessary, providing the full meaning
of each word and phrase. 572pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $11.98
✪ 135813 BEIRUT
Kassir, Samir
Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this volume is a tour de force that takes the reader from the
ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama
of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French
incarnations. Generously illustrated, it illuminates contemporary issues of modernity and democracy while at the
same time memorably recreating the atmosphere of one of
the world's most picturesque, dynamic, and resilient cities.
650pgs. • 2010
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✪ 146121 THE BORDERS OF ISLAM:
Exploring Samuel Huntington's
Faultlines from Al-Andalus to the
Virtual Ummah
Kardas, Tuncay, et al., eds.
In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel
Huntington argued that the borders
between Western and Islamic civilizations
would become the loci of cultural conflict.
Examining the virtual and actual borders of
Islamic civilization, the contributors to this volume argue that
mechanisms far more complex than those described by
Huntington influence many of these regions. 352pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $40.00 / $9.98
146112 FROM EMPATHY TO DENIAL: Arab Responses
to the Holocaust
Litvak, Meir & Ester Webman
Following the establishment of the state of Israel, Arab attitudes toward the Holocaust became entangled with broader
anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiments. In this volume, based
on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, the
authors track the evolution of perceptions of the Holocaust in
the wake of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948. 416pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $75.00 / $7.98
✪ 146113 FRONTIER OF FAITH:
Islam in the Indo-Afghan
Borderland
Haroon, Sana
An examination of the history of Islam -especially that of local mullahs -- in the
zone straddling the boundary of
Pakistan and Afghanistan. It shows how
the Frontier has become the hinterland
of successive, contradictory jihads in
support of Pashtun ethnicism, anti-colonial nationalism,
Pakistani territorialism, religious revivalism, Afghan antiSoviet resistance, and anti-Americanism. 320pgs. • 2007
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146114 GLOBAL SALAFISM: Islam's New Religious
Movement
Meijer, Roel, ed.
"Salafism" and "jihadi-Salafism" have become significant trends
in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to
reach an understanding -- or even a coherent definition -- of these
movements. Emphasizing the local and global aspirations within
the "Salafist method," this volume highlights Salafism's inherent
ambivalence and complexities. 400pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $37.00 / $9.98
041162 A HISTORY OF ISLAMIC
SOCIETIES: Second Edition
Lapidus, Ira M.
Incorporates the origins and evolution of
Islamic societies and brings into focus the
historical processes that gave shape to the
manifold varieties of contemporary Islam,
and surveys the growing influence of the
Islamist movements within national states.
1000pgs. • 2002
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087283 A HISTORY OF MODERN PALESTINE: One
Land, Two Peoples
Pappe, Ilan
Traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the 19th
century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the
state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts
which have dominated this troubled region. The second edition of Pappe's book has been updated to include the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early 21st century. As in the first
edition, it is the men, women and children of Palestine who
are at the center of Pappe's narrative. 384pgs. • 2006
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $17.98
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TURKS
135767 ATATÜRK: An Intellectual Biography
Hanioglu, M. Sukru
When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of
Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into
a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science - and by the personality cult he created around himself -would reign supreme. This book places Atatürk within the
historical context of the uneasy transition from the late
Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state.
280pgs. • 2011
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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 • $26.95 / $14.98
✪ 142823 FEZZES IN THE RIVER: Identity Politics
and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the
Eve of World War II
Shields, Sarah D.
The new states that were carved out of the multilingual, multiethnic, and multireligious Ottoman Empire were expected
to hew to new forms of affiliation that emphasized previously unimportant differences. In this nuanced narrative, Sarah
D. Shields illuminates how the people of the Sanjak of
Alexandretta -- Arabs, Armenians, Circassians, Kurds, and
Turks -- were forced to choose between Turkish and Arab
identities. 320pgs. • 2011
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✪ 142870 IN THE SHADOW OF
SHARI'AH: Islam, Islamic Law, and
Democracy in Pakistan
Nelson, Matthew J.
Based on an analysis of shari'ah in
Pakistan's largest and most influential
province, this book sets out to prove
that Islam and the democratic ethos
are neither compatible nor incompatible in any permanent or specific sense.
Rather, the two work more or less in concert in relation to
the historically embedded choices of individual Muslims
and their specific approaches to Islamic law. 288pgs. •
2011
◆ • Columbia • C • $75.00 / $12.98
101102 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC THEOLOGY AND
LAW
Goldziher, Ignaz
Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921) was recognized as one of the
outstanding European Islamicists of his time. Presented here
for the first time in a scholarly and accurate English translation are six lectures written for delivery in America in 1906.
Though the lectures were never given, they were published in
German in 1910 and since then have served as an essential
guide for serious students and scholars of Islam. 320pgs. •
1981
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✪ 146106 ISLAM AND THE AHMADIYYA JAMA'AT:
History, Belief, Practice
Valentine, Simon Ross
The first scholarly evaluation of the teachings, beliefs, and
lifestyle of the Ahmaddiya Jama'at, an Islamic reform group
that currently boasts millions of followers worldwide. The
Ahmadis assert that prophets existed after Muhammad, a controversial belief that has led to fierce persecution, especially in
South Asia, where the government has declared the Ahmadis to
be non-Muslims. 256pgs. • 2008
◆ • Columbia • C • $55.00 / $27.98
✪ 146107 ISLAM IN INTERWAR EUROPE
Clayer, Nathalie & Eric Germain, eds.
The essays in this volume discuss the emergence of a distinctly "European" Islam and the fraught interplay between
Islam and politics. They address the richness and significance of debates within Europe's Muslim community, the
attempts by Nazis to foment "jihad," and the operational
strategies of transnational networks in the 1920s and
1930s. 408pgs. • 2008
◆ • Columbia • C • $90.00 / $32.98
✪ 146108 THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN
THE NEW CENTURY: The Organisation
of the Islamic Conference, 1969-2009
Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin
The Organization of the Islamic Conference
is the Muslim world's only intergovernmental body -- the largest such system operating
outside of the UN. Sharing the history of the
OIC with Western readers, this book details
the achievements, successes, and failures of
a singular political body and explains why modernization is so
central to the development of Islamic society. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $65.00 / $14.98
✪ 146109 THE ISMAILIS IN THE
COLONIAL ERA: Modernity, Empire,
and Islam, 1839-1969
Van Grondelle, Marco
Beginning in the early 19th century, the
Nizari Ismailis, once a small sect within
Islam, grew to become a highly organized
temporal and religious movement exerting
far-ranging political and economic influence. Based on extensive archival
research, van Grondelle examines the events that led to the
modernization and successful co-optation of this comparatively minor branch of Shi'a Islam. 176pgs. • 2009
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✪ 146110 THE KINGDOM: Saudi Arabia and the
Challenge of the Twenty-First Century
Huband, Mark & Joshua Craze, eds.
Since its launch in 2006, SaudiDebate.com has become the
foremost independent, English-language Web site to
address issues facing contemporary Saudi Arabians. This
volume brings together a targeted selection of its output,
providing readers with much-needed context for the role of
Saudi Arabia in the world today. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • Columbia • C • $55.00 / $12.98
087375 MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC
PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali, ed.
Offers new translations of philosophical
writings by Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna),
Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Rushd
(Averroes). A historical and philosophical
introduction sets the writings in context
and traces their preoccupations and their
achievements. 236pgs. • 2005
▲ • Cambridge • P • $37.99 / $21.98
✪ 146111 THE MUSLIM REVOLT: A Journey Through
Political Islam
Hardy, Roger
"We pay a high price when we fail to understand Islam," writes
Roger Hardy in this timely guide. Designed for readers of all
backgrounds, it demystifies the phenomenon of Islamism and
the forces that drive it, viewing the movement as the product of
a struggle against Western domination and as a consequence of
the disappointments of modernization. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $26.50 / $9.98
131570 NO GOD BUT GOD: The Origins, Evolution,
and Future of Islam
Aslan, Reza
Though it is the fastest-growing religion in the world, Islam
remains shrouded in ignorance and fear for much of the
West. In this elegantly written account of a magnificent yet
misunderstood faith, Reza Aslan traces its origins and history
and explores its potential for the future. 352pgs. • 2006
◆ • Modern Library • P • $16.00 / $6.98
✪ 146100 POLITICAL ISLAM OBSERVED: Disciplinary
Perspectives
Volpi, Frederic
Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of disciplinary
approaches toward the Islamist phenomenon, this volume
takes the first step towards developing an account based on
post-orientalism, international relations, the sociology of religion, and studies in democratization, multiculturalism, security analysis, and globalization. 244pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $34.50 / $16.98
✪ 146102 RELIGION IN MODERN ISLAMIC DISCOURSE
Tayob, Abdulkader
Focusing on efforts by intellectuals to reconcile Islam with the
forces of modernization, Tayob begins in Egypt and colonial
India, closely reading works on the essence of religion and its
social value, and then explores key contributions on identity,
state, law, and gender. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $55.00 / $12.98
✪ 146103 STRUGGLING WITH HISTORY: Islam and
Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
Kresse, Kai & Edward Simpson, eds.
Compares anthropological and historical approaches to the study
of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the conflicted nature of cosmopolitanism. The essays contribute to current debates on the
nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim
societies, and the examination of colonial and postcolonial contexts. 400pgs. • 2008
◆ • Columbia • P • $35.00 / $12.98
144003 TALES OF GOD'S FRIENDS: Islamic
Hagiography in Translation
Renard, John
This remarkable collection gathers a breathtakingly diverse
selection of primary texts from the vast repertoire of Islamic
stories about holy men and women, exemplary for their piety,
intimacy with God, and service to their fellow human beings.
Translated from seventeen languages, these texts come from
the Middle East, North and sub-Saharan Africa, Central and
South Asia, and China and Southeast Asia. 432pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • P • $29.95 / $7.98
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✪ 142737 BOB DYLAN REVISITED:
13 Graphic Interpretations of Bob
Dylan's Songs
Murat, Thierry
Mesmerized by the power of Dylan's
lyrics and intrigued by the possibilities
of translating his enigmatic personality
into art, 13 leading graphic artists banded together to create this unusual testament to an American musical genius.
With vibrant, unexpected colors and dynamic, cinematic
imagery, this is one of the most provocative interpretations of
Dylan's music in decades. 98pgs. • 2009
◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $24.95 / $5.98
✪ 130042 CHANGING THE SCORE: Arias, Prima
Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Poriss, Hilary
This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria
insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music
of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. The
chapters investigate the art of aria insertion during the 19th
century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview
of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with
particular arias. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $45.00 / $14.98
✪ 127153 CHARLES IVES AND HIS WORLD
Burkholder, J. Peter, ed.
In this volume, five new essays by leading scholars examine
Ives's relationships to European music and to American
music, politics, business, and landscape. Also included are
a selection of some 60 letters to and from Ives and his family, and two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during the composer's lifetime. 464pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $16.98
135349 THE DANGER OF MUSIC AND
OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN ESSAYS
Taruskin, Richard
Collects two decades of Taruskin's writing
on the arts and politics, ranging in
approach from occasional pieces for
newspapers like the New York Times to
full-scale critical essays. Hard-hitting,
provocative, and incisive, these essays consider contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the
arts, and the fraught terrain where ethics and aesthetics intersect. 512pgs. • 2008
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146924 DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON: STATE OF THE ART:
Celebrating over a Century of Musical Excellence
Louis, Remy, et al.
The Deutsche Grammophon label has come to define excellence in recorded classical music. Extensively illustrated with
many never-before-published archival images, this handsome
slipcased volume includes reproductions of playbills, documents, album covers, and behind-the-scenes photographs of
recording sessions, and is accompanied by two CDs featuring
the firm's most seminal recordings. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Rizzoli • C • $65.00 / $16.98
✪ 136575 DVORÁK TO DUKE
ELLINGTON: A Conductor Explores
America's Music and Its African
American Roots
Peress, Maurice
An engrossing, elegant portrait of the
Dvorák legacy, America's music, and
the inestimable African-American influence upon it. Peress begins by recounting Dvorák's crucial three year residency as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in
New York, and shows how the composer's students, in particular Will Marion Cook and Rubin Goldmark, would in
time become the teachers of Ellington, Gershwin, and
Copland. 272pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $24.95 / $7.98
048894 JACQUES OFFENBACH AND THE PARIS OF HIS
TIME
Kracauer, Siegfried
Kracauer's biography, first published in 1937, is a remarkable
work of social and cultural history that employs the life and
work of Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris. Kracauer insists that
Offenbach's productions are more than glittering distractions,
and that they made a mockery of the pomp and pretense
Napoleon III's imperial masquerade. 418pgs. • 2002
◆ • Zone Books • C • $36.95 / $8.98
135625 JEAN SIBELIUS AND HIS
WORLD
Grimley, Daniel M.
Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas about modernism, and
interrogating notions of landscape and
nature, this volume sheds new light on the
critical position occupied by Sibelius in the
Western musical tradition. 352pgs. •
2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
✪ 148151 MUSIC AND THE MIND: Essays in Honour of
John Sloboda
Deliege, Irene & Jane Davidson, eds.
John Sloboda's The Musical Mind, published in 1985, made
groundbreaking inroads in raising crucial questions relating
to music's status as a form of human expression, and has
become the seminal text in the field of music psychology. This
volume reviews key areas of current research in the field.
450pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $64.95 / $16.98
✪ 142492 ORPHEUS IN MANHATTAN: William
Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life
Swayne, Steve
The winner of the first Pulitzer Prize in Music, William
Schuman composed music that is rhythmically febrile, harmonically pungent, melodically long-breathed, and timbrally brilliant. This volume offers an astute analysis of his
work, including many unpublished music scores, and
describes Schuman's role at the helm of the Juilliard School
of Music and Lincoln Center. 752pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $39.95 / $9.98
NATU RAL H ISTORY &
ENVIRON M ENTAL STU DIES
125751 ANT ENCOUNTERS: Interaction Networks and
Colony Behavior
Gordon, Deborah
Ant colonies operate without a central control or hierarchy,
and no ant directs another. Instead, ants decide what to do
based on the rate, rhythm, and pattern of individual encounters and interactions, resulting in a dynamic network that
coordinates the functions of the colony. In this volume,
Gordon provides a revealing and accessible look into ant
behavior from this complex systems perspective. 184pgs. •
2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $12.98
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 / $20.98
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135354 AMPHIBIAN DECLINES:
The Conservation Status of
United States Species
Lannoo, Michael J.
This benchmark volume documents
in comprehensive detail the rapid
decline in amphibian populations
and the disturbing developmental
problems that are increasingly
prevalent within many species. It
reinforces what scientists have begun to suspect -- that
amphibians are a lens through which the state of the environment can be viewed more clearly. 1024pgs. • 2005
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✪ 133899 FROGS AND TOADS OF THE WORLD
Mattison, Chris
Stunningly illustrated throughout with 200 color photographs, this one-of-a-kind book traces the evolution and
classification of frogs and toads, providing detailed information about each of the 49 unique families and highlighting distinctive and notable species. 192pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
111769 LIFE IN COLD BLOOD
Attenborough, David
Amphibians and reptiles once ruled the
planet, and their descendants exhibit
some of the most colorful variety and
astounding behavior known to the animal kingdom. In this gorgeously illustrated book, Attenborough gets up close
and personal with the living descendants of the first vertebrates ever to colonize the land, and through them traces the fascinating history of their pioneering ancestors. 288pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
104534 VENOMOUS SNAKES OF THE WORLD
O'Shea, Mark
Combines expertly written descriptions of the world's common and exotic venomous snakes, highlighted by gripping
accounts of the author's adventures with snakes, including
several serious snakebite episodes. Grouping the snakes by
geographic region, the sections are illustrated with stunning
and rare pictures, many of which were taken by the author
himself. 160pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
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 / $16.98
133731 BIRDS OF HAWAII, NEW
ZEALAND, AND THE CENTRAL AND
WEST PACIFIC
van Perlo, Ber
The only comprehensive and handy
pocket guide that illustrates and
describes all the bird species of this
diverse region. Featuring more than
750 species illustrated in vivid and
stunning detail on 95 color plates, it
provides information on key identification features, habitat,
songs, and calls. 256pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
140916 BIRDS OF INDIA: Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives
SECOND EDITION
Grimmett, Richard
The leading field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent
-- now thoroughly revised -- covers 1,375 species, including
all residents, migrants, and vagrants. The 226 color plates -73 of which are new to this edition -- depict every species and
many distinct plumages and races. 528pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.50 / $20.98
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125714 BIRDS OF PERU
REVISED & UPDATED EDITION
Schulenberg, Thomas S., et al.
The most complete and authoritative field guide to the diverse,
neotropical landscape of Peru. It features every one of the
country's 1,817 bird species in 307 superb, high-quality color
plates. 664pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $26.98
135568 BIRDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
FOURTH EDITION
Sinclair, Ian, et al.
This fully revised edition covers all birds
found in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland,
Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique. It features 213 dazzling
color plates depicting more than 950
species, as well as up-to-date distribution
maps showing the relative abundance of a
species in the region and indicating its resident or migratory
status. 448pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
126882 BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES
Arlott, Norman
A complete handbook to identifying all of the diverse birds in
these island territories. The guide's 80 vivid color plates are
accompanied by succinct text focusing on key field-identification characteristics, and distribution maps for all species are
conveniently located at the back of the guide for handy reference. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $14.98
140942 BIRDSCAPES: Birds in
Our Imagination and Experience
Mynott, Jeremy
A unique meditation on the variety of
human responses to birds, from antiquity to today. Mynott's sources range
from the familiar -- Thoreau, Keats,
Darwin, and Audubon -- to the unexpected -- Benjamin Franklin, Giacomo
Puccini, Oscar Wilde, and Monty
Python. Extensively illustrated. 392pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $8.98
135561 CARNIVORES OF THE WORLD
Hunter, Luke
The first comprehensive field guide to all 245 terrestrial
species of true carnivores, from the polar bear and big cats to
the tiny least weasel. It features 86 color plates by acclaimed
wildlife artist Priscilla Barrett that depict every species and
numerous subspecies, as well as some 400 line drawings of
skulls and footprints. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
✪ 125040 CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Evolution in
Action
Carroll, Scott P. & Charles W. Fox, eds.
Aiming to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology, this book
reviews the evolutionary foundations of conservation issues
and unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary
conservation biology. 392pgs. • 2008
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112315 DINOSAURS: A Concise
Natural History
Fastovsky, David E. & David B.
Weishampel
This introduction to the study of
dinosaurs for non-specialists is
designed to excite readers about science by using dinosaurs to illustrate
and discuss geology, natural history,
and evolution. It introduces a range
of aspects of the natural sciences, including fundamental
concepts in evolutionary biology, physiology, life history,
and systematics. 394pgs. • 2009
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140922 DRAGONFLIES AND
DAMSELFLIES OF THE EAST
Paulson, Dennis
The first fully illustrated guide to all 336
dragonfly and damselfly species of eastern
North America, from the rivers of Manitoba
to the Florida cypress swamps. Species
accounts describe key identification features, distribution, flight season, similar
species, habitat, and natural history.
✪ 126945 FIELD GUIDE TO FRESHWATER FISHES OF
CALIFORNIA
REVISED EDITION
McGinnis, Samuel M.
The only field guide to all of California's 130 freshwater fish
species, both native and introduced. Revised and updated
throughout, the guide now features the only complete collection of color illustrations of California freshwater fishes available anywhere. 539pgs. • 2006
◆ • California • P • $27.95 / $9.98
576pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
093067 THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: The
Stern Review
Stern, Nicholas
An independent and comprehensive analysis of the economic
aspects of this crucial issue, compiled by a former Chief
Economist of the World Bank. Will be a starting point for students of the economics and policy implications of climate
change, as well as for economists, scientists, and policy makers involved in all aspects of climate change. 712pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $69.00 / $39.98
141948 THE FUTURE OF LIFE
Wilson, Edward O.
In his most personal and timely book to
date, a renowned naturalist assesses the
precarious state of our environment,
examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time and the natural treasures we are losing. Avoiding doomsday
prophesies, he spells out a specific plan
for action, one that is as economically
sound as it is environmentally necessary. 256pgs. • 2003
◆ • Vintage • P • $15.95 / $6.98
144822 EVOLUTION AND BELIEF: Confessions of a
Religious Paleontologist
Asher, Robert J.
As both a paleontologist and a religious believer, Robert Asher
constantly confronts the perceived conflict between his occupation and his faith. Recounting discoveries in molecular biology, paleontology, and development, he reveals the remarkable evidence in favor of Darwinian evolution and promotes a
balanced awareness that contributes to our understanding of
biology and Earth history. 324pgs. • 2012
◆ • Cambridge • C • $24.99 / $12.98
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 • $39.95 / $21.98
✪ 130028 EVOLUTION AND THE
LEVELS OF SELECTION
Okasha, Samir
Does natural selection act primarily on
individual organisms, on groups, on
genes, or on whole species? Samir
Okasha provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate in evolutionary biology
over the levels of selection, focusing on
conceptual, philosophical and foundational questions. 288pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $39.95 / $14.98
143990 GRASS: In Search of Human Habitat
Truett, Joe C.
In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, a grasslands
ecologist traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural
forces that have reshaped North American rangelands over the
past two centuries. Part autobiography, part philosophical
rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the
deep affinities between humans and our original habitat:
grasslands. 240pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $40.00 / $7.98
105015 THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL COMMUNICATION:
Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems
Searcy, William A. & Stephen Nowicki
Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread
their tails to attract potential mates. But are these animals
sometimes dishonest? The authors address that fascinating yet
perplexing question in this examination of the dependability of
animal signaling systems. 288pgs. • 2005
▲ • Princeton • P • $59.95 / $40.98
143996 THE GREAT CENTRAL VALLEY: California's
Heartland
Haslam, Gerald, et al.
This marvelously evocative book explores in detail the rich
natural and social history of the state's agricultural heartland.
Gerald Haslam's text celebrates the tenacious people of the
Valley, while stunning photographs by Stephen Johnson and
Robert Dawson reveal the immense beauty of the region as
well as the delicate relationship between the land and the people who work it. 264pgs. • 1993
◆ • California • P • $49.95 / $9.98
089699 THE EVOLUTION OF DARWINISM: Selection,
Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology
Shanahan, Timothy
No other scientific theory has had as great an impact on our
understanding of the world as Darwinism. Yet the theory has
been the subject of controversy from its very beginning. This
volume focuses on three issues of debate in Darwin's theory of
evolution -- the nature of selection, the nature and scope of
adaptation, and the question of evolutionary progress.
352pgs. • 2004
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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 • $24.95 / $10.98
104833 HAWKS FROM EVERY
ANGLE: How to Identify Raptors in
Flight
Liguori, Jerry
Featuring 339 striking color photos on
68 color plates and 32 black & white
photos, this volume presents a host of
meticulously crafted pictures for each
of the 19 species it covers in detail -the species most common to migration
sites throughout the US and Canada. All aspects of raptor identification are discussed, including plumage, shape, and flight
style. 129pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
132058 HERE ON EARTH: A Natural History of the
Planet
Flannery, Tim
A dazzling account of life on our planet, beginning at the
moment of creation with the Big Bang. Drawing on Charles
Darwin's and Alfred Russell Wallace's theories of evolution
and Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, Flannery concludes with
the fascinating story of the evolution of our own ancestors
out of several early human species who lived in Africa
around two million years ago. 288pgs. • 2011
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ANCIENT MARINE ECOSYSTEMS: A
Global Perspective
Rick, Torben C. & Jon M. Erlandson, eds.
In eleven case studies from the Americas,
Pacific Islands, North Sea, Caribbean,
Europe, and Africa, leading researchers
working in coastal areas around the
world cover diverse marine ecosystems,
reaching into deep history to discover
how humans interacted with and impacted these aquatic environments and shedding new light on our understanding of
contemporary environmental problems. 336pgs. • 2008
◆ • California • C • $65.00 / $16.98
129460 IN SEARCH OF THE CAUSES
OF EVOLUTION: From Field
Observations to Mechanisms
Grant, Peter
Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years, many of
which have come from the crossover of
disciplines as varied as paleontology,
molecular biology, ecology, and genetics.
This book brings together many of today's
pioneers in evolutionary biology to describe the latest
advances. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $30.98
111732 INFECTIOUS DISEASE ECOLOGY: Effects of
Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems
Ostfeld, Richard S., et al.
Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts, this book
develops an integrated framework for understanding where
infectious diseases come from, what ecological factors influence their impact, and how they in turn influence ecosystem
dynamics. 506pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $62.95 / $36.98
135555 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE POINT REYES
PENINSULA
Evens, Jules
Extensively illustrated with color photographs, original illustrations, and maps, this chronicle of one of the most biologically diverse places in North America also includes species
lists for the reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, common
invertebrates, fish, and plants found on the peninsula today. An
essential companion for anyone who plans to visit one of
California's most unique natural areas. 360pgs. • 2008
◆ • California • C • $60.00 / $14.98
023112 A NEOTROPICAL
COMPANION: An Introduction to the
Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the
New World Tropics
SECOND EDITION, REVISED & EXPANDED
Kricher, John
A comprehensive introduction to the flora
and fauna of the American tropics. The
book is so complete in its coverage that
general readers and ecotourists alike will
need no other book to help them identify and understand the
plants and animals, from birds to bugs, that they will
encounter in their travels to the New World tropics. 436pgs.
• 1989
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
117450 NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA: A Natural History
Sawyer, John O.
The essential starting point for anyone who wants to explore
the biological and geographical richness of Northwestern
California. Sawyer's rich narrative illustrates how the region,
in many ways the least modified portion of the state, is a place
where plants and animals have been shielded from extinction.
247pgs. • 2006
◆ • California • C • $75.00 / $19.98
145892 INTRODUCTION TO CALIFORNIA'S BEACHES
AND COAST
CALIFORNIA NATURAL HISTORY GUIDES
Griggs, Gary
Accompanied by numerous color photographs, diagrams, and
maps, this guide explains why California's Pacific Coast looks
and works the way it does. Gary Griggs explores the dynamic
forces that have created beaches and the coastline through
lively discussions of tectonics, the formation of waves, rain and
wind, changing climates and sea levels, human impacts, and
coastal erosion. 328pgs. • 2010
◆ • California • C • $50.00 / $16.98
✪ 143703 NOT BY DESIGN:
Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker
Reiss, John
Today, some 150 years after Darwin's
On the Origin of Species seemingly laid
it to rest, the argument by design is
seeing a revival. This provocative work
tells how Darwin left the door open for
this revival, even as it argues for a new
conceptual framework that avoids the
problematic teleology inherent in Darwin's formulation of
natural selection. 440pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $65.00 / $19.98
143991 ISLAND: Fact and Theory in Nature
Lazell, James
Guana, in the British Virgin Islands, is home to a remarkably
diverse assortment of animal and plant life, including mangroves, flamingos, iguanas, frogs, birds, snakes, spiders, tortoises, grasshoppers, and bats. This stimulating book
describes Guana's flora and fauna against the backdrop of
islands worldwide and their ecology, evolution, and conservation. 402pgs. • 2005
◆ • California • C • $55.00 / $7.98
143995 OF ROCK AND RIVERS: Seeking a Sense of
Place in the American West
Wohl, Ellen
This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays
paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a
geologist. Ellen Wohl traces her twenty years of living and conducting research in the natural landscapes of the West as she
investigates the conflict between environmental history and
widely held romanticized views of the region. 288pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $35.00 / $7.98
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 fossil-fuel use will cause not only a climate storm that will last a few hundred
years, but dramatic climate changes
that will endure for thousands. By
comparing the global warming projection for the next century to natural climate changes of the
distant past, and then looking into the future far beyond the
usual scientific and political horizon of the year 2100,
Archer reveals the hard truths of the long-term climate
forecast. 192pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $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 • $27.95 / $11.98
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126097 THE ORIGIN THEN AND
NOW: An Interpretive Guide to the
Origin of Species
Reznick, David N.
An indispensable primer for anyone
seeking to understand Darwin's Origin
of Species and the ways it has shaped
the modern study of evolution. Reznick
shows how many of the work's apparent
peculiarities can be explained by the
state of science in 1859, and demonstrates why Darwin's
theory unifies the biological sciences under a single conceptual framework much as Newton did for physics.
480pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $42.00 / $14.98
127041 PARROTS OF THE WORLD
Forshaw, Joseph Michael
Covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots. It features 146
superb color plates, as well as detailed,
facing-page species accounts that describe
key identification features, distribution,
subspeciation, habitat, and status. 336pgs.
• 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
125774 THE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAMMALS
Macdonald, David W., ed.
The definitive one-volume resource, a must-have reference
book for naturalists and a delight for general readers.
Unsurpassed in scope and stunningly illustrated, it covers
every known living species, from aardvarks to zorros. 976pgs.
• 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $22.98
✪ 148161 PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL
EVOLUTION
Bourke, Andrew F. G.
Throughout the history of life, previously
independent units have formed groups
that, in time, have come to resemble individuals in their own right. This book presents a fresh synthesis of the principles of
social evolution that underlie these socalled "major transitions," explaining how
the basic theory underpinning social evolution -- inclusive fitness theory -- is central to understanding each event. 280pgs.
• 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $117.00 / $24.98
133684 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF
SPIDERS
Hillyard, Paul
With more than 100 different families and
40,000 species, spiders are among the
most successful creatures on Earth.
Written in an engaging style and featuring
more than 100 stunning color photographs, this volume reveals the intriguing
behaviors of these complex creatures,
from their web-spinning skills and hunting strategies to their
courtship displays and devoted care for their young. 160pgs.
• 2011
▲ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
127234 REWILDING THE WEST:
Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
Manning, Richard
"The most destructive force in the
American West is its commanding views,
because they foster the illusion that we
command," begins this vivid account of the
American plains. As he tells the story of this
once rich, now mostly empty landscape,
Manning also lays out a grand vision for
ecological restoration that would establish a prairie preserve
larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild bison,
elk, bears, and wolves. 262pgs. • 2009
◆ • California • C • $45.00 / $7.98
✪ 059342 SHARKS, RAYS, AND CHIMAERAS OF
CALIFORNIA
Ebert, David A.
Includes information on habitat and range, natural history,
interactions with humans, and nomenclature. Sixty-nine beautiful color illustrations show each shark, ray, and chimaera;
the accompanying line drawings highlight differences in teeth,
underside of the head, and egg cases. 284pgs. • 2003
◆ • California • P • $21.95 / $7.98
125650 TRYING LEVIATHAN: The NineteenthCentury 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 • $24.95 / $12.98
117591 WHY WE DISAGREE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE:
Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Hulme, Mike
Climate change is not "a problem" waiting for "a solution"; it
is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is
re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and
our place on Earth. Drawing upon 25 years as a climate
change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides an insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. 432pgs.
• 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $12.98
PH I LOSOPHY
✪ 148169 AGENCY AND DEONTIC
LOGIC
Horty, John F.
Develops deontic logic -- the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission
-- against the background of a formal theory of agency. Horty incorporates certain
elements of decision theory to set out a new
deontic account of what agents ought to do
under various conditions over extended
periods of time. 208pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $29.95 / $9.98
057049 BEING NO ONE: The Self-Model Theory of
Subjectivity
Metzinger, Thomas
In this volume, Metzinger argues that there are no such things
as selves: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The
phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing
process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model."
699pgs. • 2003
◆ • MIT • C • $70.00 / $19.98
125771 THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS: A Story
of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason
Nadler, Steven M.
Why is there sin and suffering in a world created by an allpowerful, all-wise, and infinitely just God? This lively and
engaging book brings to life a 17th-century philosophical
debate that obsessed its participants, captivated European
intellectuals, and continues to inform our ways of thinking
about God, morality, and the world. 320pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $9.98
022652 BRAINSTORMS:
Philosophical Essays on Mind and
Psychology
Dennett, Daniel C.
In this collection of 17 essays, Dennett
offers a comprehensive theory of mind,
encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. The essays are
grouped into four sections: Intentional
Explanation and Attributions of Mentality;
The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness
and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.
353pgs. • 1978
◆ • MIT • P • $34.00 / $18.98
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047943 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO PLATO
Kraut, Richard, ed.
Contains 14 new essays discussing
Plato's views about knowledge, reality,
mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There are also analyses
of the intellectual and social background of his thought, the development
of his philosophy throughout his career,
the range of alternative approaches to his work, and the stylometry of his writing. 560pgs. • 1992
▲ • Cambridge • P • $45.00 / $22.98
039498 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE,
VOLUME 1: The Revised Oxford Translation
Barnes, Jonathan, ed.
The Oxford Translation, originally published between 1912
and 1954, is universally recognized as the standard English
version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original, slightly emended in light of recent
scholarship. 1250pgs. • 1984
◆ • Princeton • C • $49.50 / $29.98
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
143421 PLATO'S REPUBLIC: A
Reader's Guide
Purshouse, Luke
A clear and thorough account of this key
philosophical work. The book sets
Plato's work in context, introduces the
major themes and provides a detailed
discussion of the key sections and passages of the text. Purshouse goes on
explore some of the areas of thought
that the Republic has had an impact on and provides suggestions for further reading. 168pgs. • 2006
◆ • Continuum • P • $22.95 / $8.98
091716 PLATO'S SOCRATES
Brickhouse, Thomas C. & Nicholas D.
Smith, eds.
Brickhouse and Smith cast new light on
Plato's early dialogues by providing
novel analyses of many of the doctrines
and practices for which Socrates is best
known. Covers six of the most vexing and
often discussed features of Plato's portrayal of his teacher: methodology, epistemology, psychology, ethics, politics, and religion. 256pgs.
• 1996
◆ • Oxford University • P • $40.00 / $12.98
142621 PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM: The
Ethics of Desire
Sheffield, Frisbee
In this volume, Frisbee Sheffield argues
that the Symposium has been unduly
marginalized by philosophers. Although
the topic -- eros -- and the setting at a
symposium have seemed anomalous,
she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with
the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is
acquired and transmitted. 272pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $45.00 / $18.98
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143345 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THOUGHT: A
Philosophical Guide to Living
Ferry, Luc
From the wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the
Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc
Ferry's instant classic -- a bestseller for eight months in
France -- brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring
teachings of philosophy, including their profound relevance
to modern daily life and their essential role in achieving
happiness and living a meaningful life. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • HarperCollins • P • $14.99 / $5.98
✪ 133197 BY PARALLEL REASONING
Bartha, Paul F. A.
A good analogical argument, Bartha states,
must articulate a clear relationship that is
capable of generalization. By elaborating
the connection between analogy and these
broad epistemic principles, he offers a
novel contribution to explaining how
analogies can play an important role in the
confirmation of scientific hypotheses.
376pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $12.98
031991 THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF
PHILOSOPHY
SECOND EDITION
Audi, Robert, ed.
Written by an international team of almost 400 experts, an
authoritative and comprehensive one-volume dictionary of
philosophy containing over 4,000 entries. 1001pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.00 / $18.98
✪ 148118 CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PROSPECTS OF
PHYSICALISM
Pereboom, Derk
An exploration of how physicalism might best be formulated
and defended against anti-physicalist arguments, this volume
poses and develops two responses to the knowledge and conceivability arguments. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $39.98
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✪ 148129 THE EVIDENT CONNEXION: Hume on
Personal Identity
Strawson, Galen
A new reading of Hume's "bundle theory" of the self or
mind, and of his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson argues
that the bundle theory does not claim that there are no subjects of experience, but simply that we have no empirically
respectable reason to believe in the existence of a persisting
subject, or a mind that is more than a series of experiences.
192pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $16.98
122888 HUME'S A TREATISE OF
HUMAN NATURE: An Introduction
Wright, John P.
In this lucid and thorough introduction,
John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas in the Treatise,
their relation to 18th-century theories of
the imagination and passions, and the
reception they received from Hume's
contemporaries. 336pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $31.99 / $14.98
133254 HUME'S SKEPTICAL
CRISIS: A Textual Study
Fogelin, Robert J.
In the process of giving an account of
the operations of the human mind,
David Hume discovered that the
mechanisms that create and sustain
our beliefs are deeply unreliable and,
in fact, capricious in their operations.
This volume provides a textual study
of the changes in perspective that emerged as Hume pursued his attempt to introduce the experimental method of
reasoning into moral subjects. 192pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $45.00 / $14.98
IMMANUEL KANT
049280 THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO KANT
Guyer, Paul, ed.
The most systematic and comprehensive
account of the full range of Kant's writings,
and the first major overview of his work to
be published in more than a dozen years.
An international team of Kant scholars
explore Kant's conceptual revolution in
epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of
science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the
philosophy of religion. 496pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $45.00 / $22.98
041085 CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF IMMANUEL KANT
Kant, Immanuel
The most accurate and informative English translation of
Kant's most important work in both the 1781 and 1787 editions. All Kant's handwritten emendations and marginal notes
from his own personal copy reproduced for the first time in
any edition, German or English. 785pgs. • 1999
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $22.98
✪ 145033 GROUNDWORK OF THE
METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
Kant, Immanuel
Published in 1785, Kant's Groundwork of
the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most
influential works of moral philosophy
ever written. Kant argues that human
beings are ends in themselves, never to be
employed merely as a means, and that universal and unconditional obligations must be understood as an expression of the
human capacity for autonomy and self-governance. 104pgs. •
2012
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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
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144213 DEMONSTRATION AND
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN WILLIAM
OF OCKHAM: A Translation of Summa
Logicae III-II: de Syllogismo
Demonstrativo, and Selections from
the Prologue to the Ordinatio
Longeway, John Lee
This book makes available for the first time
an English translation of William Ockham's
work on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics,
which contains his theory of scientific demonstration and philosophy of science. It also includes an extensive commentary
and a detailed history of the intellectual background to
Ockham's work in the Latin Middle Ages. 512pgs. • 2007
◆ • Notre Dame • C • $58.00 / $16.98
041079 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT
Hegel, G. W. F.
Hegel's last major published work attempts to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory, and the sociology of the modern state into the framework
of his philosophy of history. 514pgs. • 1991
◆ • Cambridge • P • $26.99 / $14.98
143517 KANT AND THEOLOGY
Bell, Jordan & Pamela Sue Anderson
Due to the vastness and complexity of Kant's philosophical system, contemporary theologians and ethicists often exhibit a
misunderstanding of his central ideas on reason, morality and
religion. Anderson and Bell aim to make Kant accessible again
to new generations of students and to challenge 21st century
academics to return to the study of Enlightenment rationality.
144pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $24.95 / $11.98
134683 OBSERVATIONS ON THE
FEELING OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND
SUBLIME AND OTHER WRITINGS
Kant, Immanuel
This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings
from the 1760s, before he developed his
critical philosophy. Those familiar with
Kant's later works will discover a Kant
interested in the "beauty" as well as the
"dignity" of humanity, and in practical concerns as well as
philosophical abstractions. 396pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $12.98
041139 POLITICAL WRITINGS
Kant, Immanuel
Revised edition with three newly translated texts, extended
bibliography, and postscript. General introduction shows
Kant's aim to have been to establish the philosophical principles on which a just and lasting world peace could be based.
311pgs. • 1991
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031024 PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF
IMMANUEL KANT
Kant, Immanuel
The first comprehensive English translation of all of Kant's moral and political
philosophy writings. As well as the
Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals,
the Critique of Practical Reason, the
Metaphysics of Morals, and Toward
Perpetual Peace, the volume includes shorter essays and
reviews, some of which have never been translated before.
668pgs. • 1996
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142336 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AESTHETICS
Kelly, Michael, ed.
Featuring 600 original articles by
distinguished scholars from many
fields and countries, this four-volume set is a comprehensive survey of
major concepts, thinkers, and
debates about the meaning, uses,
and value of all the arts. Of special interest are in-depth surveys of Western aesthetics and broad coverage of nonWestern traditions and theories of art. 2224pgs. • 1998
◆ • Oxford University • C • $625.00 / $244.98
142595 ENJOYMENT: The Moral
Significance of Styles of Life
Kekes, John
An examination of the indispensable role
enjoyment plays in a good life. Kekes aims to
reorient moral thought from deontological,
contractarian, and consequentialist preoccupations toward a reasonable but pluralistic reflection on what individuals can do to
make their lives better. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
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135912 ERNST CASSIRER: The
Last Philosopher of Culture
Skidelsky, Edward
The first English-language intellectual
biography of a leading figure on the
Weimar intellectual scene. Skidelsky
presents Cassirer, the author of The
Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a
defender of the liberal ideal of culture
in an increasingly fragmented world,
and as someone who grappled with the opposing forces of
scientific positivism and romantic vitalism. 304pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
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 • $32.50 / $11.98
SOREN
038657 CONCLUDING UNSCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPTS TO
PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS, VOLUME 2
HONG, HOWARD V. & EDNA H. HONG, EDS. & TRANS.
Kierkegaard, Soren
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
136854 A CONFUSION OF THE
SPHERES: Kierkegaard and
Wittgenstein on Philosophy and
Religion
Schönbaumsfeld, Genia
Cursory allusions to the relation between
Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common
in the philosophical literature, but there
has been little in the way of serious and
comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Schonbaumsfeld closes this gap
and offers new readings of the conceptions of philosophy and
religious belief each put forth. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $14.98
104772 THE ESSENTIAL
KIERKEGAARD
Hong, Howard V. & Edna H. Hong, eds.
The most comprehensive anthology of
Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in
English. The selections represent every
major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career and reveal the powerful mix
of philosophy, psychology, theology, and
literary criticism that made him one of the
most compelling writers of the 19th century. 544pgs. • 2000
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $17.98
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062419 THE ILLUSION OF CONSCIOUS
WILL
Wegner, Daniel M.
Do we consciously cause our actions, or
do they happen to us? In this book Wegner
offers a novel understanding of the issue,
arguing that although conscious will is an
illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of
responsibility and morality. 405pgs. •
2002
◆ • MIT • P • $23.95 / $12.98
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 examine the truth of
Christianity as an objective issue. 630pgs. • 1992
▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
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ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
T. M. KNOX & A. V. MILLER, TRANS.
Hegel, G. W. F.
A translation of Hegel's lectures on the history of philosophy
based on Hoffmeister's text of 1940 and Michelet's first edition. 193pgs. • 1987
◆ • Oxford University • P • $70.00 / $27.98
038394 FEAR AND TREMBLING / REPETITION:
Kierkegaard's Writings, VI
Kierkegaard, Soren
Kierkegaard discusses the profound implications of the unity
of personhood and of identity within change -- the repetition
that creates the rebirth of God in the heart of man, brings the
eternal into the present, and allows the past to retain its meaning. 420pgs. • 1983
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $14.98
087393 KIERKEGAARD: FEAR AND TREMBLING
Evans, C. Stephen & Sylvia Walsh, eds.
A new translation of Kierkegaard's challenge to the German universalists and idealists, argued through an exploration of the story
of Abraham and Isaac. Pondering the many questions the story
raises about belief, moral obligation, and sin, Kierkegaard concludes that faith is both paradoxical and irrational, and cannot be
understood by reason or in conventional moral terms. 190pgs.
• 2006
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✪ 148140 KIERKEGAARD'S CRITIQUE OF CHRISTIAN
NATIONALISM
Backhouse, Stephen
Examines the nationalist theologies of Kierkegaard's contemporaries H.L. Martensen and N.F.S. Grundtvig, to show how
Kierkegaard's thought developed in response to the writings of
these important cultural leaders of the day. As a theological
thinker keenly aware of the unique problems posed by
Christendom, Kierkegaard's critique is timely for any Christian
culture tempted to confuse faith with patriotism or national
affiliation. 272pgs. • 2011
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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 • $35.00 / $15.98
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 • $37.50 / $20.98
053486 THE IMPORTANCE OF
WHAT WE CARE ABOUT:
Philosophical Essays
Frankfurt, Harry G.
A collection of essays dealing with freedom of the will, moral responsibility,
the concept of a person, the structure
of the will, the nature of action, the
constitution of the self, and the theory
of personal ideals. Focusing on the distinctive nature of human freedom, Frankfurt explores fundamental problems of what it is to be a person and of what
one should care about in life. 190pgs. • 1988
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $17.98
104322 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF
KNOWLEDGE
CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY
Lemos, Noah
Epistemology or the theory of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of analytic philosophy, and this book provides a clear
and accessible introduction to the subject. It discusses some
of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism, and virtue epistemology.
232pgs. • 2007
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $16.98
143518 KEY TERMS IN PHILOSOPHY
OF RELIGION
VanArragon, Raymond J.
A comprehensive overview of the most
important terms, concepts, thinkers, and
works in the history of this major area of
philosophical thought. Designed specifically to meet the needs of students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, it's
an ideal reference tool for those coming to
philosophy of religion for the first time. 168pgs. • 2010
◆ • Continuum • P • $19.95 / $9.98
144184 THE LIVES OF THINGS
Scott, Charles E.
A reconsideration of our relationships with ordinary, everyday
things and our capacity to engage them in their particularity.
Scott adopts the Greek notion of phusis, or physicality, as a
way to point out limitations in our usual views of nature and
the body, and as a device to highlight the often overlooked
lives of ordinary things. 200pgs. • 2002
◆ • Indiana • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 133275 THE LOGIC OF LANGUAGE: Language from
Within Volume II
Seuren, Pieter A. M.
In this second volume of a two-volume foundational study of
language, Seuren discusses such diverse issues as the ontology
underlying the semantics of language, speech act theory, intensionality phenomena, the machinery and ecology of language,
sentential and lexical meaning, the natural logic of language
and cognition, and the intrinsically context-sensitive nature of
language, and shows them to be intimately linked. 448pgs. •
2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $32.98
029761 MATTER AND MEMORY
Bergson, Henri
Considered one of his major works, represents one of the
great 20th-century investigations into perception and memory,
movement and time, matter and mind. 284pgs. • 1999
◆ • Zone Books • P • $24.95 / $13.98
139612 THE NATURE OF
NORMATIVITY
Wedgwood, Ralph
Presents a complete theory about the
nature of normative thought -- that is, the
sort of thought that is concerned with what
ought to be the case, or what we ought to
do or think. Wedgwood defends a kind of
realism about the normative, according to
which normative truths or facts are genuinely part of reality. 320pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $39.95 / $18.98
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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
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039829 NIETZSCHE: Philosopher, Psychologist,
Antichrist
FOURTH EDITION
Kaufmann, Walter
The benchmark against which all modern books about
Nietzsche are measured. When it was written in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside
Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi,
and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated
Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as
one of the great achievements of Western philosophy.
532pgs. • 1975
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087186 NIETZSCHE: THE ANTICHRIST, ECCE HOMO, TWILIGHT OF
THE IDOLS: And Other Writings
Ridley, Aaron, ed.
Combines five of Nietzsche's late works:
The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of
the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and
The Case of Wagner, wherein he takes
on some of his greatest adversaries: traditional religion, contemporary culture,
and his one-time hero, Richard Wagner, with writing simultaneously critical and creative, revealing his alternative
philosophical vision. 338pgs. • 2005
▲ • Cambridge • P • $27.99 / $14.98
098751 ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY AND
OTHER WRITINGS
ANSELL-PEARSON, KEITH, ED.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
A revised and updated edition of Nietzsche's most important
polemic on ethics and politics, presenting a critique of
moral values and tracing the historical evolution of concepts
such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law, and justice.
242pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $21.00 / $10.98
087809 THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
PIPPIN, ROBERT, ED. & ADRIAN DEL CARO, TRANS.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
The philosopher employs a mixture of homilies, parables,
epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the doctrine of eternal return. This new translation captures
Nietzsche's poetic brilliance by restoring the text's original
versification. 316pgs. • 2006
◆ • Cambridge • P • $22.99 / $12.98
✪ 036791 THE NATURE OF
RATIONALITY
Nozick, Robert
In an exploration of rationality of decision and belief, shows how principles
function in daily thinking and in efforts
to live peacefully and productively with
one another, explaining how misconceptions have resulted in philosophical
problems. 226pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $17.98
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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
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125799 PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE
Rorty, Richard
In this volume, which hit the philosophical world like a
bombshell when it was first published, Rorty argued that the
questions about truth posed by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and
modern epistemologists and philosophers of language were
unanswerable and, moreover, were irrelevant to serious
social and cultural inquiry. The book remains a must-read
for its insight into what philosophers can and cannot do to
help us understand and improve the world. 472pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
✪ 148175 ON BEING: A Scientist's
Exploration of the Great Questions of
Existence
Atkins, Peter
"The scientific method," writes Atkins, can
shed light on every and any concept, even
those that have troubled humans since the
earliest stirrings of consciousness." Taking
a materialist approach to the great questions of being that have inspired myth and
religion, he seeks, in his words, to "dispel their mystery without diminishing their grandeur." 128pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $19.95 / $5.98
128341 OUT OF EDEN: Adam and Eve and the Problem
of Evil
Kahn, Paul W.
Focusing on the existential roots of evil rather than on the
occasions for its appearance, Kahn argues that evil originates
in man's flight from death. As his interpretations of Genesis
lead him to inquiries into a variety of modern forms of evil -including slavery, torture, and genocide -- he urges us to see
that the opposite of evil is not good, but love: while evil would
master death, love would transcend it. 248pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $13.98
049458 OUTLINES OF SCEPTICISM
Sextus Empiricus
The fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, this work is also one of our most
copious sources of information about other
Hellenistic philosophies. The first part contains an elaborate exposition of the
Pyrrhonian variety of scepticism; the second and third parts argue against "dogmatism" in logic, epistemology, science, and
ethics. 248pgs. • 2000
▲ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $18.98
✪ 148177 THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
Leiter, Brian & Michael Rosen, eds.
The definitive guide to the major themes of the continental
European tradition in philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries. The contributors cover a wide range of philosophical movements, including German Idealism, existentialism,
phenomenology, Marxism, postmodernism, and critical
theory, as well as thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche,
Freud, Heidegger, and Foucault. 824pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $175.00 / $39.98
✪ 148154 OXFORD STUDIES IN
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 40:
Essays in Memory of Michael Frede
Allen, James, et al., eds.
This volume in an ongoing series of collections of original articles on all aspects of
ancient philosophy is dedicated to the
memory of Michael Frede (1940-2007).
400pgs. • 2011
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✪ 148186 OXFORD STUDIES IN
METAPHYSICS: Volume 6
Bennett, Karen & Zimmerman, Dean W., eds.
The premier forum for the best new work in this flourishing
field. The articles range not only over the traditionally central
topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also touch on questions in neighboring fields, such as
philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. 288pgs. •
2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $9.98
142619 PERSONAL AGENCY: The
Metaphysics of Mind and Action
Lowe, E. J.
Proposes a radically libertarian theory of
action which combines aspects of agent
causalism and volitionism. This theory
accords to volitions the status of basic
mental actions, maintaining that these are
spontaneous exercises of the will -- a "twoway" power which rational agents can
freely exercise in the light of reason. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $40.00 / $21.98
138472 PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA: New Essays
Dougherty, M. V., ed.
Best known as the author of the celebrated "Oration on the
Dignity of Man," the 15th-century Renaissance thinker
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola also wrote several other prominent works. In these essays, a distinguished group of scholars
presents the central tropics and texts of Pico's literary output.
238pgs. • 2007
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142623 POSSIBILITY
Jubien, Michael
In this new analysis of the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity, Michael Jubien discusses several closely related topics, including different purported varieties of possible
worlds, the doctrine of "essentialism," natural kind terms, and
alleged examples of necessity a posteriori. 240pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $27.95 / $12.98
131862 THE PRAGMATISM
READER: From Peirce through the
Present
Talisse, Robert & Scott Aikin
This anthology includes works by the
founders of pragmatism, including
Charles Peirce, William James, and John
Dewey, as well as seminal writings by
mid-20th-century pragmatists such as
Sidney Hook, C. I. Lewis, Nelson
Goodman, Rudolf Carnap, Wilfrid Sellars, and W. V. O.
Quine. Each selection is a stand-alone piece -- not an
excerpt or book chapter -- and each is presented fully
unabridged. 496pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
142625 QUANTIFIER VARIANCE AND
REALISM: Essays in Metaontology
Hirsch, Eli
In this collection of essays, Hirsch develops a distinctive language-based argument
against various anti-commonsensical views
that have recently dominated ontology. All
these views go astray, Hirsch says, by failing
to interpret ordinary assertions about existence in a plausibly charitable way.
272pgs. • 2011
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107167 REASONING: Studies of Human Inference and
its Foundations
Adler, Jonathan & Lance Rips, eds.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible, cross-cultural, conversational, and argumentative. The book focuses on
foundational issues, including paradoxes, fallacies, and
debates about the nature of rationality, the traditional modes
of reasoning, as well as counterfactual and causal reasoning.
1072pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $75.00 / $12.98
✪ 119012 REASONS AND THE GOOD
Crisp, Roger
Answers some of the oldest questions in
moral philosophy. Crisp investigates and
explains the very nature of reasons themselves; his account of how we come to know
them combines an intuitionist epistemology
with elements of Pyrrhonist scepticism.
192pgs. • 2008
▲ • Oxford University • P • $32.95 / $12.98
142626 RELATIVISM AND MONADIC TRUTH
Cappelen, Herman & John Hawthorne
Relativism has been making something of a comeback within
mainstream analytic philosophy, a comeback that attempts to
capitalize on some important ideas in foundational semantics.
This volume aims not merely to combat analytic relativism but
also to combat the foundational ideas in semantics that led to
its revival. 160pgs. • 2010
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144182 RESHAPING REASON: Toward a New
Philosophy
McCumber, John
Moving past the tired divide between "analytic" and "continental" camps, John McCumber proposes new directions to unite
a discipline which has become more unfocused and invisible.
He recommends a new set of rational tools to enable philosophers and then puts these tools to work to redefine epistemology, ontology, and ethics. 288pgs. • 2007
◆ • Indiana • P • $19.95 / $6.98
JOHN SEARLE
✪ 148149 MAKING THE SOCIAL
WORLD: The Structure of Human
Civilization
Searle, John
Continuing a line of investigation
begun in his earlier book The
Construction of Social Reality, Searle
identifies the precise role of language
in the creation of all "institutional
facts." He explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create
and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $17.95 / $6.98
033311 THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND
Searle, John R.
Launching a formidable attack on current orthodoxies in the
philosophy of mind, Searles argues that it is the neglect of
consciousness that has resulted in so much barrenness and
sterility in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy of mind,
and cognitive science. 270pgs. • 1994
◆ • MIT • P • $30.00 / $17.98
✪ 148166 VIEWS INTO THE
CHINESE ROOM: New Essays on
Searle and Artificial Intelligence
Preston, John & Mark Bishop, eds.
The most famous challenge to computational cognitive science and AI is John
Searle's "Chinese Room" argument, which
states that although machines can be
devised to respond to input with the same
output as would a mind, machines -- unlike
minds -- lack understanding of the symbols they process. These
19 essays by leading scientists and philosophers assess, renew,
and respond to this crucial challenge. 428pgs. • 2002
◆ • Oxford University • P • $55.00 / $14.98
136962 SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL
LETTERS
Seneca
This selection of Seneca's letters aims to
include those which are of greatest philosophical interest, especially those which
highlight the debates between Stoics and
Platonists or Aristotelians in the first century AD, as well as the issue of how technical
philosophical enquiry is related to the various purposes for which philosophy is practiced. 436pgs. •
2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $40.00 / $16.98
136960 SELF-KNOWING AGENTS
O'Brien, Lucy
Lucy O'Brien argues that a satisfactory account of first-person
reference and self-knowledge needs to concentrate on our
nature as agents. Clearly written, with rigorous discussion of
rival views, this book will be of interest to anyone working in
the philosophy of mind and action. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
105307 SOCRATIC EPISTEMOLOGY:
Explorations of Knowledge-Seeking by
Questioning
Hintikka, Jaakko
While most current work in epistemology
deals with the evaluation and justification
of information already acquired, Jaakko
Hintikka here discusses the more important problem of how knowledge is acquired
in the first place. His model of informationseeking is the Socratic method, which has been generalized
and brought up-to-date through a logical theory of questions
and answers that he has developed. 239pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $28.99 / $14.98
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
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143417 SPINOZA'S "ETHICS":
A Reader's Guide
Cook, J. Thomas
In one of the undisputed masterworks of
early modern philosophy, Spinoza
offered an unorthodox account of God, a
novel version of the mind-body relation,
a systematic theory of the emotions, and
a detailed prescription for human virtue
and blessedness. In this volume, J.
Thomas Cook explains the philosophical background
against which Spinoza's book was written and the key
themes inherent in the text. 184pgs. • 2008
◆ • Continuum • P • $22.95 / $8.98
144191 SPINOZA'S ETHICS
Lord, Beth
The quintessential example of philosophical method, the
Ethics is widely taught in philosophy, literature, history, and
politics. This introduction, designed to be read side by side
with Spinoza's work, offers a range of interpretive possibilities as it prepares students to become conversant with
Spinoza's philosophical method. 176pgs. • 2010
◆ • Indiana • P • $19.95 / $7.98
125695 THERAPY OF DESIRE: Theory and Practice in
Hellenistic Ethics
Nussbaum, Martha C.
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not
as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of
grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance.
In this engaging book, Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers who were committed to a therapeutic paradigm, including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and
Seneca. 600pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
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140353 THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE:
How to Do Your Part to End World
Poverty
Singer, Peter
For the first time in history, eradicating
world poverty is within our reach. Yet
around the world, a billion people
struggle to live each day on less than
many of us pay for bottled water. In this
volume, a noted philosopher uses ethical arguments, illuminating examples, and case studies of
charitable giving to show that our current response to world
poverty is not only insufficient but morally indefensible.
240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Modern Library • P • $15.00 / $5.98
134493 PRACTICAL ETHICS
THIRD EDITION
Singer, Peter
The classic introduction to applied ethics, covering issues
from abortion and euthanasia to discrimination on the
grounds of race or sex and political violence and terrorism.
For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all
the chapters and has added a new chapter addressing climate change. 334pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $14.98
136976 TRULY UNDERSTOOD
Peacocke, Christopher
Peacocke argues that truth and reference
have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than
has hitherto been appreciated. He develops a positive general theory of understanding based on the idea that concepts
are individuated by their fundamental reference rules, which contrasts sharply with
conceptual-role, inferentialist, and pragmatist approaches to
meaning. 360pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
144217 VICO, GENEALOGIST OF MODERNITY
Miner, Robert C.
In this lucid and probing study, Robert C. Miner argues that
Giambattista Vico was the architect of a subversive, genealogical approach to modernity. Through close examination of
Vico's early writings, including his critique of Descartes, Miner
reveals that Vico strove to acknowledge the technical advances
of modernity while unmasking its origins in human pride.
232pgs. • 2002
◆ • Notre Dame • C • $37.50 / $9.98
116116 THOUGHT AND REALITY
Dummett, Michael A. E.
The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality
consist of? Dummett puts forward his controversial view of
reality as indeterminate: there may be no fact of the matter
about whether an object does or does not have a given property. 109pgs. • 2007
◆ • Oxford University • C • $40.00 / $14.98
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 • $22.95 / $10.98
144187 TRANSCENDENCE IN PHILOSOPHY AND
RELIGION
Faulconer, James E.
Do philosophers and theologians conceive of the same thing
when they think and talk about transcendence? Considering
whether it is possible to analyze religious transcendence in a
philosophical manner, Faulconer draws on recent debates in
the philosophy of religion, particularly as reflected in the
work of Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, and Marion. 168pgs. •
2003
◆ • Indiana • P • $19.95 / $6.98
142638 WITTGENSTEIN'S PRIVATE LANGUAGE:
Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination in Philosophical
Investigations, §§ 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. 160pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $25.00 / $9.98
PHOTOGRAPHY
143016 365 IMAGES 1914-1918
D'haene, Julus Serafien
In 1919 the publishing company Van
Cortenberg published a series of photographic postcards from the Western Front
under the title "Never Let Us Forget." This
book collects these images, which together provide a unique view of the battlefield
and of daily life in and around the trenches. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Lannoo • C • $40.00 / $14.98
141311 THE 70S: Photography
and Everyday Life
Wombell, Paul
A groundbreaking consideration of one
decade through the lenses of its greatest photographers, including Allan
Sekula, Cindy Sherman, David
Goldblatt, Douglas Huebler, Hans-Peter
Feldmann, Karen Knorr, Viktor Kolar,
and William Eggleston. The photos are
accompanied by selected texts by Roland Barthes, Susan
Sontag, John Berger, and others. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • La Fabrica • C • $65.00 / $22.98
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143557 CONGO (BELGE)
De Keyzer, Carl
To capture this unique set of historically significant photos, Magnum
photographer Carl De Keyzer spent
more than ten months in the Congo,
often in extremely dangerous conditions. The accompanying text by
David Van Reybrouck outlines the
complexity of the colonial past
shared between Belgium and the Congo. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Lannoo • C • $85.00 / $42.98
143562 DAVID GOLDBLATT:
Photographs: Hasselblad
Award 2006
Knape, Gunilla
When David Goldblatt received
the world-renowned Hasselblad
Award in 2006, he had been
making photographs of the
South African landscape and culture for more than 50 years. His
photographs of architectural structures reveal the ways that
ideology has defined his home country's landscape. 84pgs. •
2007
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $50.00 / $12.98
145501 THE ESSENTIAL HERBERT LIST:
Photographs 1930-1972
Scheler, Max
Herbert List's photography has become part of the classical
canon of 20th-century pictorial art. This monograph captures all the phases of his creativity: the early "fotografia
metafisica"; photographs of Greece that blend antiquity,
Mediterranean light, and Eros in visions of Classical Hellas;
his sensitive homoerotic pictures; the artist portraits of the
1940s to the '60s; and the human interest photography of
his late work. 327pgs. • 2008
◆ • Schirmer • P • $34.95 / $19.98
143572 GROUND
Stevens, Bruno
This series of photographs is the
result of a decade's work in Israel
and Palestine documenting the longstanding conflict between the two
nations. Includes texts by Robert Fisk
and Gideon Levy. 230pgs. • 2011
◆ • Lannoo • C • $85.00 / $32.98
114131 HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: The Man, the
Image and the World: A Retrospective
Arbaizar, Philippe et al.
Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary photographs were shaped by
an eye and a mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and
for their unerring ability to get to the heart of the matter. This
definitive oversized collection of the master's work includes
more than 600 illustrations in color and duotone. 431pgs. •
2006
◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $55.00 / $29.98
143566 IRAN
Morath, Inge
In 1956, the photographer Inge Morath
traveled to the Middle East for Holiday
magazine. Wearing the traditional
chador and travelling mostly alone, she
photographed Iran with the keen vision
of an anthropologist, examining religious rituals, costumes, work, sport,
music, art, and theater in order to document, as she put it, "the continuity -- or lack of it -- between
past and present." 350pgs. • 2009
◆ • Steidl • C • $59.95 / $24.98
143570 A KIND OF INFATUATION
Schuh, Gotthard
In the 1930s, Gotthard Schuh was one of Switzerland's leading
photojournalists, an influence on Robert Frank and many others. Today, he remains among the great unknowns of
European photography. This volume is the first major overview
of his work. 312pgs. • 2009
◆ • Steidl • C • $78.00 / $29.98
143559 LYONEL FEININGER:
Photographs, 1928-1939
Muir, Laura
Already a successful comic artist and
painter, Feininger took up the camera in 1928 and began to explore a
variety of avant-garde techniques.
This book, the first publication
devoted to this little-known body of
work, captures fascinating unsettling
images of shop window mannequins, nocturnal photographs using double exposures, and other works. 152pgs.
• 2011
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $45.00 / $18.98
133942 THE MYTHIC CITY: Photographs of New York
by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940
Albrecht, Donald
One hundred and seventy-five images by the preeminent photographer of the city's golden age. Through Gottscho's lens,
New York became the quintessential modern metropolis, a
round-the-clock city in which night was as charismatic as day.
An introductory essay describes his working methods and philosophy, while placing his work in the broader context of photographic history. 224pgs. • 2011
▲ • Princeton Architectural • P • $29.95 / $12.98
039495 THE SECRET PARIS OF
THE 30'S
Brassai
Brassai's photographs reveal a milieu
previously known only through books
such as the novels of Henry Miller: the
seamy, grimy yet infinitely exciting reality that tourists still think of when they
seek "Paris by night." These fascinating
images are accompanied by Brassai's
own text, in which he describes the extraordinary conditions
under which he took his photographs. 192pgs. • 2001
▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $29.95 / $14.98
141324 THE SILENT AFTERMATH OF SPACE
Marcus, Caleb Cain
For three years, Caleb Cain Marcus photographed what Robert
Frank calls, in his Preface to this volume, "the light of night."
The black-and-white photographs collected here, exposed
from direct light sources and presented in spectacular large
format, explore the silent and haunting experience of walking
alone after dark on the streets of New York City. 48pgs. •
2010
◆ • Damiani • C • $50.00 / $19.98
143571 SOUTH AFRICAN
PHOTOGRAPHY: 1950-2010
Klask, Delia & Ralf-Peter Seippel
Ethnically diverse, and blighted by conflict and violence for decades, South
Africa has supplied photographers with
an abundance of subject matter.
Encompassing the turmoil and transformations of the past 60 years, this publication is divided into three historical
periods: "Apartheid, 1950-1976"; "Struggle, 1976-1994"; and
"Freedom, 1994-2010." 160pgs. • 2011
◆ • Hatje Cantz • C • $60.00 / $19.98
114152 WORKING FROM
MEMORY
Christenberry, William & Susanne
Lange
A collection of stories by the
renowned photographer, painter,
and sculptor William Christenberry.
Based on conversations with author
and critic Susanne Lange, these stories elaborate the artist's memories
of the Deep South, in whose rich literary tradition they are
steeped. Christenberry's own photographs accompany the
tales. 112pgs. • 2008
◆ • Steidl • C • $45.00 / $19.98
LEE FRIEDLANDER
143560 AT WORK
Friedlander, Lee
A collection of portfolios of people going about their daily routines, this volume also documents the output of one of
America's most exceptional and
hard-working photographers in
the course of pursuing his own
long-time occupation. 80pgs. •
2008
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143561 STEMS
Friedlander, Lee
In 1994, grounded by aching knees, the usually peripatetic
Friedlander focused his lens on wild arrays of cut-flower
stems and the optical splendor produced by light refracting
through the glass vases that held them. Published in a lush,
oversize format and printed with a special drytrap process,
this volume captures this unusual saga in the photographer's career. 92pgs. • 2008
◆ • Steidl • C • $85.00 / $36.98
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✪ 146119 BARBAROUS PHILOSOPHERS: Reflections on
the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg
Coker, Christopher
For centuries, intellectuals have struggled to make sense of
war and its presence in human society. Yet Christopher Coker
contends that philosophers are the ones who created the concept of war, largely by defining its rules and establishing an
oppositional dialectic of peace. In this volume, he draws on
the work of philosophers who have tackled war directly and
intensely in their writing. 288pgs. • 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $37.50 / $9.98
023698 BETWEEN FACTS AND
NORMS: Contributions to a Discourse
Theory of Law & Democracy
Habermas, Jurgen
Offers an informed conceptualization of
law and basic rights, a normative account
of the rule of law and the constitutional
state, and attempts to bridge normative and
empirical approaches to democracy, and
the social context required for democracy.
631pgs. • 1996
◆ • MIT • P • $46.00 / $25.98
✪ 148137 IMPOSING VALUES:
Liberalism and Regulation
Arnold, N. Scott
A major question for liberal politics
and liberal political theory concerns
the proper scope of government. This
volume seeks to give an accurate characterization of both modern liberalism
and classical liberalism, explaining
along the way why libertarianism is not
the only form that classical liberalism can take. 504pgs. •
2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
126956 JUSTICE: Rights and Wrongs
Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with
humankind, Wolterstorff not only offers a rich and compelling
philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important
contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between
religious discourse and human rights. He argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers
instead a theistic account. 416pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $14.98
137173 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ANCIENT
GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT
Salkever, Stephen, ed.
A guide to understanding the central texts and problems in
ancient Greek political thought from Homer through the Stoics
and Epicureans. Focusing on texts by Homer, Herodotus,
Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, the contributors examine such perennial issues as rights and virtues,
democracy and the rule of law, and the formation and maintenance of the community. 390pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $20.98
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 • $47.00 / $24.98
✪ 108840 COMMUNITARIANISM AND
INDIVIDUALISM
Avineri, Shlomo & Avner De-Shalit, eds.
Can we understand human behavior without considering
social and cultural attachments held by individuals? Can or
should the state promote an idea of the good? This collection of essays on the nature of the self and its relationship
to society includes contributions by Ronald Dworkin, John
Rawls, Robert Nozick, and others. 256pgs. • 1992
◆ • Oxford University • P • $70.00 / $16.98
049117 THE DISCOURSES AND
OTHER EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's earlier writings, the publication of which signaled the power and challenge of Rousseau's thinking. Also includes
Rousseau's replies to critics of his texts.
Supplemented by extensive editorial material. 437pgs. • 1997
◆ • Cambridge • P • $23.00 / $13.98
131683 THE IDEA OF CIVIL SOCIETY
Seligman, Adam B.
Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of
civil society is being revived to provide an answer to the question of how individuals can pursue their own interests while
preserving the greater good of society. However, as Seligman
shows, the erosion of the beliefs and philosophical assumptions upon which the idea of civil society was founded makes
its revival much more difficult than is generally recognized.
241pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $17.98
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051325 THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS
ENEMIES: Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato
Popper, Karl R.
Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a "vigorous
and profound defence of democracy,"
Popper's attack on the philosophies of
Plato, Hegel, and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and
exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. 368pgs. • 1971
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $14.98
049854 POLITICAL WRITINGS
ATKINS, E. M. & R. J. DODARO, EDS.
Augustine
A collection of 35 letters and sermons
dealing with political matters. Both practical and principled, the writings treat
many essential themes in Augustine's
thought, including the responsibilities of
citizenship, the relationship between the
church and secular authority, religious
coercion, and war and peace. 358pgs. • 2001
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $14.98
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 • $35.00 / $16.98
039731 THE CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY:
Chapters in the History of Ideas
Berlin, Isaiah
In this volume, Berlin reveals the links between the ideas of
the past and the social and political cataclysms of the 20th
century: between the Platonic belief in absolute Truth and
the lure of authoritarianism; between the reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and 20th-century fascism; between
the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant
nationalism that convulses the modern world. 276pgs. •
1991
◆ • Princeton • P • $32.50 / $13.98
✪ 055254 POLITICAL WRITINGS
Aquinas, Thomas
The chosen texts show Aquinas' development of a Christian version of Aristotelian
philosophy, its contrast with the
Augustinian thought that influenced political thinking in previous centuries, and St
Thomas's views on government, constitutions, and the relations between secular
and ecclesiastical power. Property, slavery,
usury, and the celebrated law writings are fully covered.
296pgs. • 2002
◆ • Cambridge • P • $33.00 / $18.98
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 • $49.95 / $24.98
104894 PROVINCIALIZING EUROPE: Postcolonial
Thought and Historical Difference
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
A reconsideration of the mythical "Europe" that is often taken,
in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries, to be the original site of modernity. The very idea of historicizing, the author argues, carries with it European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty.
301pgs. • 2007
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $17.98
✪ 124776 THE RISE OF THE
GLOBAL IMAGINARY: Political
Ideologies from the French
Revolution to the Global War on
Terror
Steger, Manfred B.
Is there really something genuinely new
about today's "isms?" Have we truly
moved past our traditional ideological
landscape? Combining political history,
philosophical interpretation, and good old-fashioned storytelling, this volume traces ideology's remarkable journey
from Count Destutt de Tracy's Enlightenment-era "science
of ideas" to George W. Bush's "imperial globalism."
336pgs. • 2008
▲ • Oxford University • C • $57.95 / $9.98
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DWARF: The Perverse Core of
Christianity
Žižek, Slavoj
Offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint
of Lacanian psychoanalysis, critically
confronting both predominant versions
of today's spirituality -- New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian
Judaism -- in an effort to redeem the "materialist" kernel of
Christianity. 188pgs. • 2003
◆ • MIT • P • $20.95 / $11.98
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CHRIST: Paradox or Dialectic?
Žižek, Slavoj & John Milbank
Žižek has long been interested in the
emancipatory potential offered by
Christian theology, while Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century's greatest ethical challenge, has
pushed his own ontology in more political and materialist directions. Their
debate, collected in this volume, addresses the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful
event -- God becoming human. 320pgs. • 2011
◆ • MIT • P • $13.95 / $7.98
041080 TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
Locke, John
Considered a standard in the field. Contains an analysis of the
whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers,
complete with updated bibliography of the two central texts in
western political thought. 464pgs. • 2000
◆ • Cambridge • P • $17.99 / $9.98
143418 WAR AND ETHICS: A New Just War Theory
Fotion, Nicholas
In this fascinating and informative book, an expert on the
ethics of military action, explores the notion of developing an
ethical theory that guides the behavior of those who are at war.
Examining conflicts such as Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Israel, the
Falklands and Afghanistan, Fotion gives a clear account of just
war theory, presenting it as a useful device to help us make
decisions when war appears on the horizon. 192pgs. • 2008
◆ • Continuum • P • $19.95 / $14.98
POLITICAL SCI ENCE
087206 THE DARK SIDE OF DEMOCRACY: Explaining
Ethnic Cleansing
Mann, Michael
A comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing providing in-depth coverage of occurrences in Armenia, Nazi
Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases
of lesser violence. Presenting a general theory of why serious
conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder, Mann
offers suggestions on avoiding future escalations. 584pgs. •
2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $15.98
081055 DEMOCRACY MATTERS:
Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
West, Cornel
In this volume, West analyzes the arrested
development of democracy both in
America and in the crisis-ridden Middle
East. He argues that, if we are to become
the steward of democratization around the
world, we must first awaken to the long
history of imperialist corruption that has
plagued our own foreign relations. 240pgs. • 2005
▲ • Penguin • C • $15.00 / $5.98
142599 FRICTION: How
Radicalization Happens to Them and
Us
McCauley, Clark R. & Sophia Moskalenko
This accessible book identifies twelve
mechanisms of political radicalization that
can move individuals, groups, and the
masses to increased sympathy and support
for political violence. The wide-ranging
case material is drawn from Russia in the
late 1800s, the US in the 1970s, and the radical Islamic movements that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union. 248pgs.
• 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $35.00 / $7.98
✪ 142330 HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN WELLBEING
Talbott, William J.
In this volume, Talbott contrasts his consequentialist (but
not utilitarian) account of inalienable human rights with
many of the most influential nonconsequentialist accounts
in the philosophical literature, including those of Ronald
Dworkin, Jurgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, Phillip
Pettit, John Rawls, T. M. Scanlon, Amartya Sen, and Judith
Thomson. 448pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $99.00 / $19.98
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038634 MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK:
Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
Putnam, Robert D.
Why do some democratic governments
succeed and others fail? Focusing on a
unique experiment begun in 1970 when
Italy created new governments for each of
its regions, this volume offers empirical
evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. 258pgs. • 1993
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
140826 READING OBAMA: Dreams,
Hope and the American Political
Tradition
Kloppenberg, James
Derided by the Right as dangerous and by
the Left as spineless, Barack Obama confounds many observers. In this volume,
Kloppenberg reveals the sources of
Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit
contemporary partisan categories. 336pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $8.98
048095 MAKING RACE AND NATION: A Comparison of
the United States, South Africa and Brazil
Marx, Anthony W.
In this bold, original, and persuasive book, Marx provocatively links the construction of nations to the construction of racial
identity. Using a comparative historical approach, he shows
how efforts to establish national unity and other institutional
impediments have served to shape and often crystallize categories and divisions of race. 390pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $18.98
025584 THEORIES OF WAR AND
PEACE
Brown, Michael E., et al., eds.
A collection of essays by leading scholars
on contemporary approaches to understanding war and peace. Includes expositions, analyses, and critiques of some of
the more prominent and enduring explanations of war. 566pgs. • 1998
◆ • MIT • P • $44.00 / $14.98
071254 THE MYTH OF AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM:
The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought
Shain, Barry Alan
What did early Americans mean when they used such basic
political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery?
By exploring how these core elements of their political
thought were employed in documents of the time, Shain
reveals a shared understanding based on the underpinnings
of a reformed Protestant communalism. 394pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
129495 WHY IS THERE NO LABOR
PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES?
Archer, Robin
Tackling one of the great enduring puzzles
of American political development headon, Robin Archer puts forward a new
explanation for why there is no American
labor party -- an explanation that suggests
that much of the conventional wisdom
about "American exceptionalism" is
untenable. 368pgs. • 2010
▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $12.98
PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS
& COGN ITIVE SCI ENCE
142442 ATTENTION IS COGNITIVE
UNISON: An Essay in Philosophical
Psychology
Mole, Christopher
Some psychological phenomena can be
explained by identifying and describing the
processes that constitute them; others cannot. In this volume, Christopher Mole gives
a precise account of the metaphysical difference that divides these two categories
and shows that, when current psychologists attempt to explain
attention, they assign it to the wrong one. 224pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $49.95 / $19.98
022473 BEING THERE: Putting Brain, Body & World
Together Again
Clark, Andy
Discusses new tools and techniques used to study the mind
and brain, including robotics, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience, and addresses a broad range of adaptive behaviors,
from cockroach locomotion to higher-level thought. 269pgs.
• 1997
◆ • MIT • P • $32.00 / $15.98
127605 BIPOLAR EXPEDITIONS:
Mania and Depression in American
Culture
Martin, Emily
An exploration of the American fascination with mania, as seen in the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of
support groups, psychiatric rounds, and
psychotropic drugs. Martin reveals how
people living under the description of
bipolar disorder are often denied the status of being fully
human, even while contemporary America exhibits a powerful affinity for manic behavior. 384pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $14.98
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104447 THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
Zelazo, Philip David, et al.
After decades during which consciousness was considered
beyond the scope of legitimate scientific investigation, the subject has re-emerged as a popular focus of research. This handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world
who address the topic of consciousness from a wide variety of
perspectives, from philosophical to anthropological to neuroscientific. 981pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $89.00 / $50.98
104421 THE CAMBRIDGE
HANDBOOK OF SOCIOCULTURAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Valsiner, Jaan & Alberto Rosa, eds.
This unique volume integrates contributions of socio-cultural specialists from 15
countries worldwide, tied together by the
unifying focus on the role of sign systems
in human relations with the environment.
It is an essential purchase for psychologists and will have widespread appeal to anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers. 729pgs. • 2007
◆ • Cambridge • P • $63.00 / $38.98
066129 THE COGNITIVE
NEUROSCIENCES III
THIRD EDITION
Gazzaniga, Michael S., ed.
Each edition of this classic reference has
proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. This
third edition continues to chart new directions in the study of the biologic underpinnings of complex cognition -- the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of
the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind.
1385pgs. • 2004
◆ • MIT • C • $150.00 / $31.98
108150 THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY: Adaptations
and Innateness
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
Can moral thinking be explained by environmental pressures
on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? Addressing this controversial question, Richard Joyce finds that the evidence strongly supports
an innate basis to human morality. 583pgs. • 2007
◆ • MIT • P • $34.00 / $16.98
139197 THE FREUD FILES: An
Inquiry into the History of
Psychoanalysis
Shamdasani, Sonu & Mikkel BorchJacobsen
How did psychoanalysis attain its
prominent cultural position? How did it
eclipse rival psychologies and psychotherapies? Reconstructing the early
controversies around psychoanalysis,
the authors reveal the extraordinary apparatus by which
this would-be science gained a foothold in contemporary
societies. 450pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $11.98
139875 INFECTIOUS BEHAVIOR: Brain-Immune
Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
Patterson, Paul H.
Scientists are uncovering evidence of the important avenues of
communication between the brain and the immune system
and their role in mental illness. The heart of this volume concerns the involvement of the immune systems of the pregnant
woman and her fetus, and a consideration of maternal infection as a risk factor for schizophrenia and autism. 176pgs. •
2011
◆ • MIT • C • $24.95 / $9.98
132419 MARKING THE MIND: A History of Memory
Danziger, Kurt
Memory is one of the few psychological concepts with a truly
ancient lineage. In this volume, Kurt Danziger, an influential
historian of psychology, traces long-term continuities from
ancient mnemonics and tools of inscription to modern memory experiments and computer storage. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $49.00 / $30.98
✪ 148115 MIND AND LANGUAGE,
1972-2010
COLLECTED PAPERS, VOLUME 1
Stich, Stephen P.
This volume collects essays that Stich has
published in the last 40 years on topics in
the philosophy of mind and the philosophy
of language. They discuss a wide range of
topics, including grammar, innateness, reference, folk psychology, eliminativism,
connectionism, evolutionary psychology, simulation theory,
social construction, and psychopathology. 416pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $29.98
021327 NEUROPHILOSOPHY: Toward a Unified Science
of the Mind/Brain
Churchland, Patricia Smith
In this volume contemporary research in the empirical neurosciences and recent research in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science are used to illuminate fundamental questions concerning the relation between abstract cognitive theory and substantive neuroscience. 546pgs. • 2000
◆ • MIT • P • $42.00 / $21.98
111633 THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Neumann, Erich
This eloquent book draws on a full range
of world mythology to show that individual
consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as has human
consciousness as a whole. Neumann, one
of Jung's most creative students and a
renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right, shows how the stages begin and end
with the symbol of the Uroboros, or tail-eating serpent.
520pgs. • 1995
◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
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JUNG
038421 THE ARCHETYPES AND THE COLLECTIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
Jung, C. G.
Collects Jung's writings on two interrelated concepts that
were fundamental to his psychological system. 451pgs. •
1980
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✪ 140914 INTRODUCTION TO JUNGIAN
PSYCHOLOGY: Notes of the Seminar on Analytical
Psychology Given in 1925
Jung, C. G.
In 1925, Jung presented a series of seminars in which he
spoke for the first time in public about his early spiritualistic experiences, his encounter with Freud, the genesis of his
psychology, and the self-experimentation he called his "confrontation with the unconscious." The notes from these seminars make up the only reliable published autobiographical
account by Jung and the most important account of the
development of his work. 244pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $8.98
140864 JUNG CONTRA FREUD:
The 1912 Lectures on Freudian
Psychoanalysis
Jung, C. G.
In the autumn of 1912, Jung set out his
critique and reformulation of the theory of psychoanalysis in a series of lectures that led to a schism in the
Freudian school. Seen in the light of the
subsequent reception and development
of psychoanalysis, Jung's critiques appear strikingly prescient, while also laying the basis for his own school of analytical psychology. 168pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $11.95 / $5.98
✪ 039684 JUNG ON THE ACTIVE IMAGINATION
Jung, C. G.
All creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama,
poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on
active imagination, a concept he developed between the
years 1913 and 1916, following his break with Freud. This
volume offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination, gathered together for the first time. 198pgs. • 1997
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $12.98
111449 SYNCHRONICITY: An Acausal Connecting
Principle
Jung, C. G.
Jung's parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrasensory perception, and similar phenomena. 160pgs. • 1973
◆ • Princeton • P • $14.95 / $8.98
✪ 148153 THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF IMPULSE
CONTROL DISORDERS
Grant, Jon E. & Marc N. Potenza, eds.
The term "impulse control disorders" comprises a range of
psychopathological disorders, including kleptomania,
pyromania, trichotillomania, intermittent explosive disorder, and pathological gambling. This volume provides
researchers and clinicians with a clear understanding of
the developmental, biological, and phenomenological features of a range of ICDs, as well as detailed approaches to
their assessment and treatment. 600pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $150.00 / $39.98
142629 SIGNALS: Evolution,
Learning, and Information
Skyrms, Brian
Signaling is a key ingredient in the evolution of teamwork, in the human but also in
the animal world, even in micro-organisms. This fascinating exploration of how
fundamental signals are to our world
employs a variety of tools -- including theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to investigate how meaning and communication develop. 208pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $65.00 / $23.98
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033124 SOURCES OF POWER: How People Make
Decisions
Klein, Gary
Based on observations of humans acting under such constraints as time pressure, personal responsibility, and shifting
conditions, presents an overview of the naturalistic decision
making process and the strength people bring to difficult
tasks. 330pgs. • 1999
◆ • MIT • P • $30.00 / $16.98
024251 THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE
Vygotsky, Lev
Revised and enlarged edition of a pioneering work from 1934
which has recently gained recognition in the West for balancing the claims of the individual with those of society and culture in thinking about psychology and linguistics. 286pgs. •
2000
▲ • MIT • P • $39.00 / $18.98
133733 WHAT MAKES US THINK?: A
Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue
about Ethics, Human Nature, and the
Brain
Changeux, Jean-Pierre & Paul Ricouer
Will understanding our brains help us to
know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? This remarkable exchange
explores the vexed territory between these divergent
approaches and arrives at a deeper, more complex perspective
on human nature. 352pgs. • 2002
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RELIGION
✪ 148170 ALBERT SCHWEITZER'S
ETHICAL VISION: A Sourcebook
Cicovacki, Predrag
Unlike many moral philosophers,
Schweitzer argued that knowledge of
human nature does not provide a sufficient
foundation for any adequate moral theory.
Schweitzer's ethics of reverence for life,
argues Predrag Cicovacki, offers a viable
alternative at a time when traditional ethical theories are found inadequate. 304pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $24.95 / $8.98
144220 AMBROSE'S PATRIARCHS: Ethics for the
Common Man
Colish, Marcia L.
Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397) has been viewed primarily as
the author of advice to those with special callings in the
church, such as priests, widows, and consecrated virgins. But
his "patriarch treatises," argues Colish, are in fact aimed at lay
people who did not have special callings in the church, but
who led active lives in the world as spouses, parents, heads of
households, professionals, and citizens. 208pgs. • 2005
◆ • Notre Dame • C • $15.00 / $6.98
✪ 142431 THE AMERICAN
CATHOLIC REVOLUTION: How the
Sixties Changed the Church Forever
Massa, Mark Stephen
The Second Vatican Council enacted the
most sweeping changes the Catholic
Church had seen in centuries. Mark S.
Massa tells the story of the culture war
these changes ignited in the US -- a war
that is still being waged today. As he narrates these turbulent events, he takes us beyond
"liberal/conservative" stereotypes and offers new insights
into the last 50 years of American Catholicism. 224pgs. •
2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $27.95 / $9.98
135854 AMERICAN RELIGION: Contemporary Trends
Chaves, Mark
Studies show that people do not really go to church as often as
they claim, and it is not always clear what they mean when they
tell pollsters that they pray or believe in God. Drawing on
major surveys undertaken in recent decades, this volume
presents the best and most up-to-date information about key
developments in American religion. 160pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $22.95 / $12.98
✪ 148171 ANGELS: A History
Jones, David Albert
A crisp, broad-ranging survey of angels in
theology, philosophy, and popular culture. Whether we believe in angels or not,
Jones's sweeping, accessible introduction
to their role in cultures past and present,
from scripture to cinema, can teach us
much about humanity. 224pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $19.95 /
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✪ 129947 ATLAS OF THE
WORLD'S RELIGIONS
Smart, Ninian & Frederick W.
Denny, eds.
The only comprehensive visual
guide to the world's religious traditions. With text by leading experts
and lavish photography, thematic
maps, tables, and charts, it ranges
from the travels of the Buddha to the
geographical distribution of modern indigenous faiths, providing a full and informative picture of world religion, both
past and present. Includes nearly 200 full-color maps.
272pgs. • 2007
◆ • Oxford University • C • $120.00 / $29.98
144216 BERGSONIAN PHILOSOPHY AND THOMISM
Maritain, Jacques
Published in 1913 as La Philosophie Bergsonienne, this incisive critique of the thought of Henri Bergson was Maritain's
first book. In it he shows himself already to have an authoritative grasp of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and an uncanny ability to demonstrate its relevance to alternative philosophical systems. 392pgs. • 2007
◆ • Notre Dame • C NDJ • $40.00 / $19.98
143321 BEYOND FUNDAMENTALISM: Confronting
Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization
Aslan, Reza
At a time when religion and politics increasingly share the
same vocabulary and function in the same sphere, the author
of No God but God writes that we must strip contemporary
conflicts of their religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that underlie them. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Modern Library • P • $16.00 / $6.98
✪ 128421 BLESSED EVENTS:
Religion and Home Birth in America
Klassen, Pamela E.
Women whose religious affiliations
range from Old Order Amish to Reform
Judaism to goddess-centered spirituality
often defy majority opinion, the medical
establishment, and even the law to have
their babies at home. In considering
their critiques of the dominant medical
model of childbirth and their views on labor pain, Klassen
examines the kinds of agency afforded to or denied women
when they derive religious meanings from childbirth.
368pgs. • 2001
◆ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $15.98
141572 THE BOOK OF MORMON: A Biography
Gutjahr, Paul C.
Examines how a book that has long been the subject of
ridicule -- Mark Twain called it "chloroform in print" -- has
more than 150 million copies in print in more than a hundred
languages. Paul Gutjahr traces the life of the book as it has
formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and
transformed religious expression around the world. 280pgs.
• 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $11.98
KARL
BARTH:
CHURCH
D O G M AT I C S
One of the major theological undertakings of the 20th century, this multi-volume work continues to guide and
instruct the preaching and teaching of pastors and academics worldwide. This new edition includes English translations of the numerous passages in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and French that were included in Barth's original text.
Some volumes are in limited supply.
143411 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
I.2, Sections 13-15: The Doctrine of the Word of God
Barth, Karl
240pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143502 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
II.1, Sections 28-30: The Doctrine of God
Barth, Karl
232pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143412 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
II.1, Sections 25-27: The Doctrine of the Word of God
Barth, Karl
296pgs. • 2010
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143503 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
III.3, Sections 48-49: The Doctrine of Creation
Barth, Karl
320pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143414 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
II.2, Sections 36-39: The Doctrine of God
Barth, Karl
304pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143504 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
III.3, Sections 50-51: The Doctrine of Creation
Barth, Karl
272pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143415 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
III.2, Section 47: The Doctrine of Creation
Barth, Karl
240pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143506 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
III.4, Sections 55-56: The Doctrine of Creation
Barth, Karl
384pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143416 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
III.2, Sections 45-46: The Doctrine of Creation
Barth, Karl
256pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143508 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
IV.3.2, Sections 70-71: The Doctrine of Reconciliation
Barth, Karl
336pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
143501 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
I.2, Sections 19-21: The Doctrine of the Word of God
Barth, Karl
320pgs. • 2010
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143510 CHURCH DOGMATICS (STUDY EDITION): Vol.
IV.4, Section 75: The Doctrine of Reconciliation
Barth, Karl
232pgs. • 2010
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $34.95 / $16.98
128157 THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF
CHRISTIANITY
Patte, Daniel, ed.
An authoritative reference guide to all aspects of Christianity
from its origins to the present day. Written by a team of 800
scholars and practitioners from around the world, the volume
reflects the tremendous diversity of Christianity throughout its
long history. 1500pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $21.98
✪ 148107 CANON LAW: A
Comparative Study with AngloAmerican Legal Theory
Coughlin, John J.
Explores the canon law of the Roman
Catholic Church from a comparative perspective. Coughlin considers antinomian
and legalistic approaches to the rule of law
in light of three specific issues: the sexual
abuse crisis; ownership of church property; and the denial of communion to
Catholic public officials. 252pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $75.00 / $24.98
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105506 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN
HISTORY: Volume One
Haight, Roger
Drawing upon the methodology developed
in his Dynamics of Theology and exemplified in Jesus Symbol of God, Haight undertakes what he calls an historical ecclesiology, or ecclesiology from below. This first
of two volumes charts the history of the
church's self-understandings from the origins of the church in the Jesus movement to the late Middle
Ages. 512pgs. • 2004
◆ • Continuum • C • $70.00 / $24.98
136847 THE CHRISTIAN HOPE
Hebblethwaite, Brian
At successive stages in the history of the
church, very different stresses have been
laid on the present or on the future, on
hope for the individual or on hope for society. Through a study of the basis of
Christian hope and of the history of its
interpretation, Hebblethwaite aims to present a balanced view of these different elements in the Christian tradition and a credible eschatology for
today. 240pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
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✪ 136781 JESUS AND
MUHAMMAD: Parallel Tracks,
Parallel Lives
Peters, F. E.
This landmark contribution to interfaith understanding offers lucid, intelligent answers to questions that underlie
some of the world's most intractable
conflicts. Drawing on the views of modern historians and the evidence of the
Gospels and the Quran, Peters explores what we do and do
not know about the lives and portraits of these two towering
figures. 304pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $9.98
✪ 039782 JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM,
VOLUME 1: From Covenant to Community
Peters, F. E.
The first volume of a three-volume comparison of the great
Abrahamic religions as seen in their founding texts.
Includes texts and comments on the covenant and early history of the Chosen People and their post-Exilic reconstruction; the career and message of the Messiah Jesus and the
Prophet Muhammad; the concept of holiness and of a "kingdom of priests"; and, finally, the notions of church and state
and the state as a church. 408pgs. • 1990
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $19.98
✪ 126246 JUDAISM,
CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM,
VOLUME 2: The Word and the Law
and the People of God
Peters, F. E.
This second volume in a three-volume
work discusses the scriptures of the
three faiths in various contexts, exegetical and legal. 424pgs. • 1990
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $19.98
✪ 039779 JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM,
VOLUME 3: The Works of the Spirit
Peters, F. E.
In this third of a three-volume comparison of the great
Abrahamic religions as seen in their founding texts, Peters
focuses on spirituality and worship and presents material on
monasticism, theology, mysticism, and the "End Time."
408pgs. • 1990
◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $19.98
119121 CHRISTIAN REALISM AND THE NEW
REALITIES
Lovin, Robin W.
Are religion and public life really separate spheres of
human activity? Should they be? Drawing on the work of
Reinhold Niebuhr and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lovin argues
that "Christian realism" encourages responsible engagement with social and political problems. 248pgs. • 2008
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.99 / $14.98
133853 THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY: A History of a
New Religion
Urban, Hugh
Few religious movements have been subject to as much public
scrutiny as Scientology, yet much of what is written about it is
sensationalist and inaccurate. In this volume, Hugh Urban
examines Scientology's protracted and turbulent struggle to be
recognized as a religion in the postwar American landscape.
296pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $12.98
✪ 148113 CHURCH-OF-ENGLANDISM
AND ITS CATECHISM EXAMINED
Bentham, Jeremy
This volume, published in 1818, was part
of Bentham's sustained attack on English
political, legal, and ecclesiastical establishments. Bentham argued that the purpose of
the Church's system of education was to
instill habits of insincerity into the population at large, and thereby protect the abuses which were profitable to both the clergy and the ruling
class. 656pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $160.00 / $69.98
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041155 THE CITY OF GOD AGAINST
THE PAGANS
Augustine
Considered the first major intellectual
achievement of Latin Christianity and one
of the classic texts of Western civilization,
this work forms a detailed critique of the
political and moral tradition of Rome and
a synthesis of Platonism and Christianity.
1241pgs. • 1998
◆ • Cambridge • P • $36.00 / $19.98
145073 CREATION AND FALL / TEMPTATION: Two
Biblical Studies
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
One of the 20th century's most respected theologians offers
elegant and meticulous analyses of two of the most important and least understood religious concepts: the fall from
grace and the nature of evil. 144pgs. • 1997
◆ • Touchstone • P • $12.99 / $5.98
✪ 131831 DIETRICH
BONHOEFFER'S LETTERS AND
PAPERS FROM PRISON: A Biography
Marty, Martin
Bonhoeffer's posthumous Letters and
Papers from Prison helped establish his
reputation as one of the most important
Protestant thinkers of the 20th century.
In this, the first history of the book's
remarkable global career, Martin Marty
tells how and why the book has been read and used in such
dramatically different ways, from the cold war to today.
288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $13.98
✪ 148099 EMOTION, IDENTITY, AND RELIGION: Hope,
Reciprocity, and Otherness
Davies, Douglas J.
Religious traditions often shape deep emotions and give devotees a sense of identity and hope in the face of conflict, confusion, pain and grief. Working from anthropological and
sociological perspectives, Davies describes and analyses these
dynamic tensions and life opportunities as they are worked out
in ritual, music, theology, and the allure of sacred places.
336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $110.00 / $24.98
143419 ERASMUS
OUTSTANDING CHRISTIAN THINKERS
Rummel, Erika
Erasmus was not only a man of letters but also a shrewd
observer of society, a sharp critic of the institutional
church, and a scholar on the cutting edge of biblical studies. Though not a systematic philosopher or theologian, he
left his stamp on the intellectual milieu of his time. In this
book, Rummel introduces readers to Erasmus's ideas on
education, piety, social order, and illuminates the epistemology underpinning his thought. 192pgs. • 2004
◆ • Continuum • P • $39.95 / $9.98
✪ 148130 THE FADING LIGHT OF
ADVAITA ACARYA: Three
Hagiographies
Manring, Rebecca J., et al.
An illuminating study of and translation of
three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a
crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in
Bengal in the 15th century. 312pgs. •
2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $35.00 / $12.98
144218 GLORIA PATRI: The History and Theology of
the Lesser Doxology
Ayo, Nicholas
A one-sentence prayer that has been prayed from the beginnings of Christianity, the Gloria Patri combines time and eternity in a compressed expression of doxology, praise of God. In
this brief but comprehensive book, Father Ayo examines the
riches in this prayer, the philological, historical, and theological origins of Christian prayer itself, and the profound spiritual implications of the Gloria Patri. 144pgs. • 2007
◆ • Notre Dame • P • $20.00 / $7.98
144221 HANS URS VON BALTHASAR'S THEOLOGICAL
AESTHETICS: A Model for Post-Critical Biblical
Interpretation
Dickens, W. T.
A critical assessment of Balthasar's interpretation of scripture
in his monumental The Glory of the Lord: A Theological
Aesthetics. Dickens demonstrates the extent to which
Balthasar's approach to scripture, while remaining conversant
with historical criticism, draws on pre-modern interpretive
conventions that helped Christians to understand themselves
and the world in terms of the images, stories, and conceptual
patterns of the Bible. 352pgs. • 2003
◆ • Notre Dame • C NDJ • $60.00 / $24.98
132566 THE KING JAMES BIBLE: A
Short History from Tyndale to Today
Norton, David
This fascinating new account of the creation of the King James Bible carefully
traces the work of Tyndale and his successors and closely analyzes the translation
and revision of representative passages. It
draws on previously unknown evidence,
such as the diary of John Bois, the only participant in the translation whose notes on the translation have
been preserved. 232pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $12.98
✪ 133252 HOLINESS AND
MINISTRY: A Biblical Theology of
Ordination
Dozeman, Thomas B.
The World Council of Churches has
called for renewed theological reflection on the biblical roots of ordination
in order to strengthen the vocational
identity of the ordained and to provide
a framework for ecumenical dialogue.
This book, a response to that call, is grounded in the
assumption that the vocation of ordination requires an
understanding of holiness and how it functions in religious
experience. 168pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $19.98
145054 LOSING MOSES ON THE FREEWAY: The 10
Commandments in America
Hedges, Chris
A veteran war correspondent who graduated from seminary at
Harvard Divinity School explores the challenge of living
according to the moral precepts that we have tried to follow,
often unsuccessfully, for the past 6,000 years. The commandments, he writes, do not save us from evil; instead they save us
from committing it. 224pgs. • 2006
◆ • Free Press • P • $15.99 / $5.98
✪ 146116 HOLY IGNORANCE: When
Religion and Culture Part Ways
Roy, Olivier
Roy, a distinguished analyst of political
Islam, argues that the modern disconnection between faith communities and sociocultural identities has created a fertile
space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead
of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that positions itself
in direct opposition to contemporary pagan culture. 288pgs.
• 2010
◆ • Columbia • C • $27.50 / $8.98
142605 HUGH OF SAINT VICTOR
Rorem, Paul
Born in Saxony in 1096, Hugh became an
Augustinian monk and in 1115 moved to
the monastery of Saint Victor, Paris, where
he spent the remainder of his life, eventually becoming the head of the school there.
His writings cover the whole range of arts
and sacred science taught in his day. This
volume offers a basic introduction to
Hugh's theology through a comprehensive survey of his works.
248pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • P • $27.95 / $12.98
144222 INCARNATE LOVE: Essays in Orthodox Ethics
Guroian, Vigen
A major contribution to both Orthodox ethics and to Christian
self-understanding. Completely revised with a new preface and
two additional chapters, this work aims to articulate a social
ethic that can make sense of the Orthodox experience in the
US, as well as challenge the Orthodox tradition to formulate a
new strategy for church and societal interaction. 264pgs. •
2002
◆ • Notre Dame • C NDJ • $42.00 / $19.98
142607 KARLSTADT AND THE ORIGINS OF THE
EUCHARISTIC CONTROVERSY: A Study in the
Circulation of Ideas
Burnett, Amy Nelson
The debate over the Lord's Supper had momentous consequences for the Reformation, causing the division of the
evangelical movement, influencing the formation of political alliances, and contributing to cultural differences
among the Protestant territories of Germany and
Switzerland. This volume is the first full-length study of the
beginning of that debate. 252pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $44.98
142610 MARTIN BUCER'S DOCTRINE OF
JUSTIFICATION: Reformation Theology and Early
Modern Irenicism
Lugioyo, Brian
Bucer has usually been portrayed as a diplomat who attempted to reconcile divergent theological views, or as a pragmatic
pastor more concerned with ethics than theology. Central to
his theology was his understanding of the doctrine of justification, an understanding that, Brian Lugioyo argues, has an
integrity of its own, though it has been imprecisely represented as intentionally conciliatory. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $24.98
✪ 148173 MEETING GOD ON THE
CROSS: Christ, the Cross, and the
Feminist Critique
Gudmundsdottir, Arnfridur
Some feminists have argued for the
total rejection of the doctrine of the
cross, or that Christianity and feminism are incompatible. In this book,
the author provides a lucid survey and
analysis of the full range of such arguments, as well as her own explicitly feminist retrieval and
reconstruction of a theology of the cross. 192pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $12.98
142611 THE METAPHYSICS OF THE INCARNATION
Marmodoro, Anna & Jonathan Hill, eds.
The contributors to this volume explore, from a variety of different viewpoints, whether any metaphysically rigorous and
coherent model of incarnation can be defended today. Their
aim is to give readers a clearer sense, not only of the problems
and possible solutions associated with incarnation itself, but of
how the notion of incarnation fits into broader debates in philosophy. 288pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $125.00 / $32.98
127175 MIRACLE CURES: Saints, Pilgrimage, and the
Healing Powers of Belief
Scott, Robert A.
Why, in an age of advanced biotechnology and medicine, do
millions still go on pilgrimages? Examining accounts of miracle cures at medieval, early modern, and contemporary
shrines, the author inquires into the transformative nature of
sacred journeying and shines new light on the roles belief,
hope, and emotion can play in healing. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • California • C • $40.00 / $7.98
✪ 148150 MORALITY WITHOUT GOD?
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
Argues that not only is God not essential to morality, but that
our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. Sinnott-Armstrong attacks several core ideas: that
atheists are inherently immoral people; that any society will
sink into chaos if it is becomes too secular; and that without religion, we simply wouldn't know what was wrong and
what was right. 192pgs. • 2009
◆ • Oxford University • C • $30.00 / $9.98
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132561 THE MYSTERY OF THE LAST
SUPPER: Reconstructing the Final
Days of Jesus
Humphreys, Colin J.
Apparent inconsistencies in the gospel
accounts of Jesus' final week have puzzled
Bible scholars for centuries. Reconciling
conflicting Gospel accounts and scientific
evidence, Humphreys reveals the exact
date of the Last Supper in a definitive new
timeline of Holy Week. 258pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • P • $24.99 / $14.98
050444 NARRATIVE IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
Gunn, David M. & Danna Nolan Fewell
After almost two centuries of historical criticism, Biblical
scholarship has recently taken major shifts in direction, most
notably toward literary study of the narrative texts of the
Hebrew Bible. This study provides a lucid guide to the interpretive possibilities of this movement. 263pgs. • 1993
◆ • Oxford University • P • $55.00 / $16.98
144225 OLIVI AND THE INTERPRETATION OF
MATTHEW IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
Madigan, Kevin
A study of the development and union of scholastic, apocalyptic, and Franciscan interpretations of the Gospel of Matthew
from 1150 to 1350. Madigan uses the fortunes of the
Franciscan Peter Olivi and his commentary on Matthew as a
lens through which to observe the larger theological and
ecclesiastical developments of this era. 240pgs. • 2003
◆ • Notre Dame • C • $27.50 / $7.98
135744 THE PARTING OF THE SEA:
How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and
Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus
Sivertsen, Barbara
An examination of how natural phenomena shaped the stories of Exodus,
the Sojourn in the Wilderness, and the
Israelite conquest of Canaan. Sivertsen
demonstrates that the Exodus was in
fact two separate exoduses, both triggered by volcanic eruptions, and provides scientific explanations for the ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea.
264pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $14.98
144227 PATHS TO THE TRIUNE GOD: An Encounter
Between Aquinas and Recent Theologies
Min, Anselm K.
Bringing the theology of Thomas Aquinas into mutually critical
dialogue with contemporary theological concerns, Min
defends Aquinas's Trinitarian theology of reason and creation
against modern detractors of natural theology while also calling attention to the lack of historical consciousness in
Aquinas's writing. 406pgs. • 2005
◆ • Notre Dame • P • $26.00 / $8.98
✪ 148159 PREDESTINATION: The
American Career of a Contentious
Doctrine
Thuesen, Peter J.
Argues that far from being only about
the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate
over predestination is inseparable
from other central Christian beliefs
and practices -- the efficacy of the
sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent
of God's involvement in human affairs -- and that it has
fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries. 336pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $19.95 / $7.98
143527 PROSTITUTE AND THE PROPHET: Hosea's
Marriage in Literary-Theoretical Perspective
Sherwood, Yvonne
Aiming to bring together literary criticism and biblical scholarship, this book provides lucid introductions to ideological
criticism, semiotics, deconstruction and feminist criticism,
and looks at the implications of these approaches not only for
the book of Hosea but for Biblical studies in general. 360pgs.
• 2004
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $85.00 / $19.98
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145309 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MYSTICS
Maréchal, Joseph
This landmark volume among 20th-century studies of mystic
psychology begins with an examination of empirical science
and religious psychology. It discusses the sensation of presence in mystics and non-mystics, distinctive features of
Christian mysticism, and criticisms of the legitimacy of the
mystic experience. 352pgs. • 2004
◆ • Dover • P • $17.95 / $4.98
038639 RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED
STATES IN PRACTICE, VOL. 1
McDannell, Colleen, ed.
A rich anthology of primary sources
explores faith through action from
Colonial times through the 19th century,
from praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation. 512pgs. • 2001
▲ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $24.98
143528 RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN THE VICTORIAN AGE:
Challenges and Reconceptions
Livingston, James C.
Reconceptualizes British religious thought in the last decades
of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. Livingston
demonstrates that the late Victorian decades were a time of
vitality and creativity in the educated public's discussion of
critical religious and theological matters. 312pgs. • 2007
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $42.95 / $16.98
144186 SEEING THROUGH GOD: A Geophenomenology
Llewelyn, John
Touching on themes of salvation, the preservation of the environment, and the role of God in our temptation to dishonor
the earth, this unique book establishes Llewelyn as one of the
leading interpreters of the environmental phenomenology
movement. 248pgs. • 2004
◆ • Indiana • P • $24.95 / $8.98
✪ 125283 SELECTIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS
EDITED BY JOHN DILLENBERGER
Luther, Martin
Luther's fresh understanding of man's relation to God led
to a break with the Church and released the powerful
impulses that carried the Reformation. In this volume, Dr.
Dillenberger has made a representative selection from
Luther's extensive writings, and has also provided the reader with a lucid introduction to his thought. 560pgs. • 1958
◆ • Doubleday • P • $16.95 / $5.98
135156 THE STILLBORN GOD:
Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
Lilla, Mark
A brilliant account of religion's role in the
political thinking of the West from the
Enlightenment to the close of World War II.
Closely scrutinizing our beliefs about religion, politics, and the fate of civilizations,
Lilla reminds us of the uniqueness of the
modern West's trajectory and how we can
remain firmly on its course. 352pgs. • 2008
◆ • Vintage • P • $14.95 / $5.98
✪ 127032 TERESA OF AVILA AND THE RHETORIC OF
FEMININITY
Weber, Alison
Celebrated as a visionary chronicler of spirituality, Teresa of
Avila (1515-1582) suffered persecution by CounterReformation clergy in Spain. Confronting the historical
irony of Teresa's transformation from a figure of questionable orthodoxy to a national saint, Weber shows how this
teacher and reformer used exceptional rhetorical skills to
defend her ideas at a time when women were denied participation in theological discourse. 194pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $14.98
143534 WHAT'S WRONG WITH SIN: Sin in Individual
and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to
Theologies of Liberation
Nelson, Derek R. & Nelson
Examining the development of the doctrine of sin, this volume
follows the shift since the early 19th century from an individual to a social understanding of sin. 232pgs. • 2009
◆ • T & T Clark • P • $44.95 / $19.98
SCI ENCE, TECH NOLOGY &
MATH EMATICS
130386 THE BEST WRITING ON
MATHEMATICS 2010
Pitici, Mircea, ed.
Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in
mathematics, this volume makes available a wide range of articles not easily
found anywhere else -- and you don't
need to be a mathematician to enjoy
them. Together, these writings offer
surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice
of mathematics today. 440pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
140952 THE BEST WRITING ON MATHEMATICS 2011
Pitici, Mircea, ed.
Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, this volume makes available a
wide range of articles not easily found anywhere else -- and
you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them.
Together, these writings offer surprising insights into the
nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today.
414pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
131637 THE CALCULUS OF FRIENDSHIP: What a
Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while
Corresponding about Math
Strogatz, Steven
The story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher
and a student, as chronicled through more than 30 years of
letters. Compiled by one of the participants, the volume reveals
a unique relationship based almost entirely on a shared love
of calculus. 184pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $14.95 / $8.98
✪ 148106 CANCER: A Very Short Introduction
James, Nick
Every year around 10 million people are diagnosed with
cancer, around 80 percent of whom are destined to die
from the disease. Nick James, founder of the CancerHelp
UK website, explores the facts underlying these figures,
starting with the basic facts about the disease before moving on to the bigger picture of the economics and politics
of cancer care. 144pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • P • $11.95 / $4.98
137582 AN ENGINEER'S ALPHABET: Gleanings from the
Softer Side of His Profession
Petroski, Henry
Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and
educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of
thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia, and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture, and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking, and thinking about engineers and engineering, and range
from brief essays to lists of great engineering achievements.
368pgs. • 2011
◆ • Cambridge • C • $21.99 / $9.98
142883 EUCLID AND HIS MODERN RIVALS
Carroll, Lewis
The author of Alice in Wonderland (an Oxford professor of
mathematics) employs the fanciful format of a play set in Hell
to take a hard-nosed look at late-19th-century interpretations
of Euclidean geometry. Carroll's penetrating observations on
geometry are accompanied by ample doses of his famous wit.
320pgs. • 2004
◆ • Dover • C • $50.00 / $19.98
145365 FEARFUL SYMMETRY: Is God a Geometer?
Stewart, Ian & Martin Golubitsky
From the shapes of clouds to dewdrops on a spider's web,
this accessible book employs the mathematical concepts of
symmetry to portray fascinating facets of the physical and
biological world. More than 120 figures illustrate the interaction of symmetry with dynamics and the mathematical
unity of nature's patterns. 320pgs. • 2011
◆ • Dover • P • $14.95 / $4.98
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 • $25.95 / $12.98
105056 FOUR COLORS SUFFICE: How the Map Problem
Was Solved
Wilson, Robin
What is the least possible number of colors needed to fill in
any map so that neighboring counties are always colored differently? Providing a clear and elegant explanation of the problem and the proof, Robin Wilson tells how a seemingly innocuous question baffled great minds and stimulated exciting
mathematics with far-flung applications. 280pgs. • 2004
▲ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $9.98
038574 GALACTIC ASTRONOMY
Binney, James & Michael Merrifield
An illustrated introduction to all astronomical concepts necessary
to understand the properties of galaxies, including magnitudes
and colors, the theory of stellar and chemical evolution, and the
measurement of astronomical distances. 796pgs. • 1998
◆ • Princeton • P • $85.00 / $42.98
✪ 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
130988 GRAVITY'S FATAL ATTRACTION: Black Holes in
the Universe
Begelman, Mitchell C. & Martin Rees
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the
ground and in space, this book shows how black holes were
discovered and discusses our current understanding of their
role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade, including definitive proof of
a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. 312pgs. • 2009
◆ • Cambridge • P • $45.00 / $25.98
ROBERT EHRLICH
✪ 105228 EIGHT PREPOSTEROUS PROPOSITIONS:
From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of
Global Warming
Ehrlich, Robert
Is intelligent design a scientific alternative to evolution? Are
people getting smarter or dumber? In this follow-up to Nine
Crazy Ideas in Science, Ehrlich shows readers how to use the
tools of science to judge the accuracy of strange ideas and the
trustworthiness of ubiquitous "experts." 360pgs. • 2005
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $10.98
✪ 105122 NINE CRAZY IDEAS IN SCIENCE: A Few
Might Even Be True
Ehrlich, Robert
A prominent physicist applies his open mind to nine controversial -- and in some cases, surprisingly plausible -propositions in the fields of physics, biology, and social science. In the process, he demonstrates in easy-to-understand
terms how to weigh an argument, judge someone's use of
statistics, identify underlying assumptions, and ferret out
secret agendas. 256pgs. • 2002
◆ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $9.98
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133808 DR. EULER'S FABULOUS FORMULA: Cures
Many Mathematical Ills
Nahin, Paul J.
In the 18th century, mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues
to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional limerick. Paul Nahin shares the fascinating story of this groundbreaking formula and shows why it still lies at the heart of
complex number theory. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $10.98
126086 EULER'S GEM: The Polyhedron Formula and
the Birth of Topology
Richeson, D. S.
So simple it can be explained to a child, Leonhard Euler's
polyhedron formula nevertheless describes the structure of
objects from soccer balls and gemstones to Bucky Fuller's
buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Using examples
and illustrations, Richeson presents the formula's many
applications, such as showing why there is always some
windless spot on earth, and how many crayons are needed
to color any map. 332pgs. • 2008
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $14.98
128622 HOW OLD IS THE UNIVERSE?
Weintraub, David A.
Astronomers have determined that our
universe is 13.7 billion years old. How
exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? This volume, which explains how
astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in science, also explores
such phenomena as red giants and white
dwarfs, gravitational lenses, dark matter,
dark energy, and the accelerating universe. 380pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
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 / $15.98
125937 THE MATHEMATICAL MECHANIC: Using
Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
Levi, Mark
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to
physics. But how many people realize that physics can in
turn be used to produce strikingly elegant solutions in
mathematics? This delightful book shows how, treating
readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will amuse and inspire their inner physicist. 196pgs. • 2009
◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $9.98
053190 A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY
Hardy, Godfrey H.
Written by one of the 20th century's finest mathematicians as
his powers were declining, this is a brilliant and engaging
account of mathematics as very much more than mere science. 153pgs. • 1992
▲ • Cambridge • P • $19.99 / $9.98
✪ 087730 MINERALS: Their
Constitution and Origin
Wenk, Hans-Rudolf & Andrei Bulakh
With color photographs, reference
tables, and a glossary of terms, this volume is an ideal introduction to mineralogy for undergraduate and graduate
students in the fields of geology and
materials science. Intended as a text for
a one-semester course, it covers all
aspects of mineralogy in a contemporary, integrated format.
668pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $100.00 / $55.98
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125644 THE NATURE OF SPACE AND
TIME
Hawking, Stephen W. & Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose, like Einstein, refuses to
believe that quantum mechanics is a final
theory. Stephen Hawking thinks otherwise,
and argues that general relativity simply cannot account for how the universe began.
Here they explain their positions in a work
based on six lectures and a final debate presented at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
at the University of Cambridge. 160pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $15.95 / $7.98
143998 PARTNER TO THE POOR: A Paul Farmer
Reader
Farmer, Paul & Haun Saussy
For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul
Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places
on earth to bring comfort and medical care to the poorest of
the poor. This broad overview of his work collects his writings
on anthropology, epidemiology, health care for the global
poor, and international public health policy. 680pgs. • 2010
◆ • California • C NDJ • $60.00 / $12.98
140951 PICTURING THE UNCERTAIN WORLD: How to
Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty
through Graphical Display
Wainer, Howard
Using a visually diverse sampling of graphical display, from
displays of genocide in the Kovno ghetto to the "Pie Chart of
Mystery" in a New Yorker cartoon, Wainer illustrates the many
ways graphs can be used -- and misused -- as we try to make
sense of an uncertain world. 280pgs. • 2011
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
✪ 141991 PLAGUE TIME: The New
Germ Theory of Disease
Ewald, Paul
According to conventional wisdom, our
genes and our lifestyles are the major
factors behind the deadliest ailments of
our time. In this controversial book, an
eminent biologist argues, to the contrary, that infectious disease may lie at
the root of heart disease, Alzheimer's,
schizophrenia, many forms of cancer, and other chronic
ailments. 304pgs. • 2002
◆ • Doubleday • P • $16.95 / $5.98
125866 TITAN UNVEILED: Saturn's Mysterious Moon
Explored
Lorenz, Ralph & Jacqueline Mitton
In 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully parachuted
down through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon,
revealing a landscape of methane monsoons, equatorial sand
seas, and turbulent orange skies. In this popular account, the
authors describe Titan as a world strikingly like our own and
tell how it may hold clues to the origins of life on Earth and
elsewhere. 272pgs. • 2010
◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
141585 THE UNIVERSE IN ZERO
WORDS: The Story of Mathematics
as Told Through Equations
Mackenzie, Dana
The history of 24 great and beautiful
equations that have shaped mathematics, science, and society -- from the
elementary (1+1=2) to the sophisticated (the Black-Scholes formula for
financial derivatives), and from the
famous (E=mc2) to the arcane (Hamilton's quaternion
equations). 224pgs. • 2012
◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $14.98
✪ 089158 A WALK THROUGH THE HEAVENS: A Guide
to Stars and Constellations and Their Legends
Heifetz, Milton D. & Wil Tirion
An easy-to-use guide to the constellations of the northern hemisphere. By following the unique simplified maps, readers will be
able to find and identify the constellations and the individual stars
within them. Written for the beginner, this is a practical guide to
understanding the patterns of the night sky. 96pgs. • 2004
◆ • Cambridge • P • $18.00 / $8.98
SOCIOLOGY & EDUCATION
140323 AMERICA'S FOOD: What You Don't Know about
What You Eat
Blatt, Harvey
After taking us on a tour of the American food system -- not
only the basic food groups but soil, grain farming, organic
food, genetically modified food, food processing, and diet -Blatt reminds us that we aren't powerless. Once we know the
facts about food in America, we can change things by the
choices we make as consumers, as voters, and as ethical
human beings. 352pgs. • 2011
◆ • MIT • P • $18.95 / $8.98
068907 HAPPINESS AND EDUCATION
Noddings, Nel
Explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness
seriously as an aim of education. It asks, first, what it means
to be happy and, second, how we can help children to
understand what happiness is. Criticizes the current almost
exclusive emphasis on economic well-being and pleasure.
308pgs. • 2003
◆ • Cambridge • C • $50.00 / $21.98
✪ 148134 HAPPINESS AROUND THE WORLD: The
Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable
Millionaires
Graham, Carol
How is happiness affected by poverty? By economic
progress? Is happiness a viable objective for policy? This
book attempts to answer these questions, using research on
the determinants of happiness in countries around the
world ranging from Peru and Russia to the US and
Afghanistan. 256pgs. • 2010
◆ • Oxford University • C • $24.95 / $5.98
049684 HOW SOCIETIES REMEMBER
Connerton, Paul
Concentrates on memory in terms of bodily (or incorporated)
practices, questioning the currently dominant idea that literary
texts may be taken as a metaphor for social practices generally. Argues that images of the past and recollected knowledge of
the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances
and that performative memory is bodily. 121pgs. • 1989
◆ • Cambridge • P • $32.00 / $19.98
✪ 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 / $10.98
104918 ON JUSTIFICATION: Economies of Worth
Boltanski, Luc
In this foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology, the authors
examine a wide range of situations where people justify their
actions. The authors argue that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by six authors: civic (Rousseau), market (Adam
Smith), industrial (Saint-Simon), domestic (Bossuet), inspiration
(Augustine), and fame (Hobbes). 389pgs. • 2006
▲ • Princeton • P • $47.50 / $29.98
136937 THE POLITICS OF TRUTH: Selected Writings
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOHN H. SUMMERS
Mills. C. Wright
The first collection of Mills's writings to be published since
1963, this volume contains 23 out-of-print and hard-to-find
writings which trace his growth from academic sociologist to
an intellectual maestro in command of a mature style, a dissenter who sought to inspire the public to oppose the drift
toward permanent war. 320pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $21.95 / $7.98
✪ 148162 THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT
OF CAPITALISM WITH OTHER WRITINGS ON THE
RISE OF THE WEST
Weber, Max & Stephen Kalberg
Weber's best-known and most controversial work opposes
the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view
that change takes place through the conflict of opposites.
Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to
the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds, an effort that
ultimately discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism. 416pgs. • 2008
◆ • Oxford University • P • $44.95 / $12.98
050270 THE ROOTS OF EVIL: The Origins of Genocide
and Other Group Violence
Staub, Ervin
Explores the psychology of group aggression, focusing particularly on genocide. Staub sketches a conceptual framework
and examines four historical examples: the Holocaust; the
Turkish massacres of Armenians; the Khmer Rouge purges in
Cambodia; and the disappearances in Argentina. He concludes
with a primer on the necessary conditions through which we
might create civil, peaceful societies. 336pgs. • 1992
◆ • Cambridge • P • $42.00 / $22.98
142511 SLEEP AND DEVELOPMENT: Familial and
Socio-Cultural Considerations
El-Sheikh, Mona, ed.
Sleep problems of American children have become a matter of
national concern, with recent estimates indicating that 13 to
27 percent of children have sleep problems as reported by
their parents. This is the first volume to integrate knowledge
and approaches from numerous disciplines to focus on sleep
and its implications for child development. 432pgs. • 2011
◆ • Oxford University • C • $59.95 / $29.98
064504 A SPACE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD: Cultural
Poetics in an "Other" America
Stewart, Kathleen
Vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously
among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers."
To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. 243pgs. • 1996
◆ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
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 • $57.50 / $31.98
U RBAN STU DI ES & GEOGRAPHY
✪ 148123 THE ENGLISH URBAN LANDSCAPE
Waller, Philip, ed.
A compact and authoritative historical survey of the ways
English urban environments have developed since the
Roman period, particularly in the last two centuries. The
text covers types of urban development (industrial towns,
commercial cities, slums, and suburbs), plus important
topics such as transport, recreation, civil and ecclesiastical
functions, and images of the town and city in literature, art,
and film. 352pgs. • 2000
◆ • Oxford University • C • $60.00 / $29.98
142803 WRESTLING WITH MOSES: How Jane Jacobs
Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed
the American City
Flint, Anthony
To Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and complex demographic makeup, was
everything a city neighborhood should be, but to the consummate power broker Robert Moses, it cried out for
"urban renewal." Anthony Flint skillfully recounts the
thrilling David-vs.-Goliath story of their struggle for the soul
of a city, the legacy of which echoes through our society
today. 256pgs. • 2009
◆ • Random House • C • $27.00 / $7.98
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