Humanities and Arts – Autumn 2021

ARTS & HU MA N ITIE S

N E W BO O KS: AUTU MN 2 0 2 1

Art & Photography • Architecture • Cultural Studies • Media & Music Language & Literature • Philosophy & Religion • Fiction & Poetry Science & Technology • Politics • Health & Lifestyle

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Contents: 1. AUT UM N H I G HL IGH TS

57. PHILO SO PHY

2. A RT H I STORY

59. FIC TIO N

9. CO N T E M P O R A RY A RT

71. PO ETRY

11 . P H OTOG R A P H Y

75. SC IENC E & TEC HNO LO GY

16 . A RCHI T ECT UR E & P L A N N IN G

77. ENVIRO NMENTAL & EARTH SC IENC ES

18 . CULT UR A L ST U D IE S & A N TH ROP OLOGY

80. PO LITIC S, ECO NO MIC S & LAW

23 . M E D I A , F I LM & TV

85. MEDIC INE & HEALTH

31 . M US I C & P E R FORMIN G A RTS

88. MENTAL HEALTH & SELF HELP

35 . L A NG UAG E & LITE R ATU R E

91. SPO RTS & LIFESTYLE

40 . H I STO RY

94. INDEX

47 . T H EO LO GY & R E L IGION

All prices and publication dates are accurate at the time of printing but subject to change without notice.

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ART HISTORY

Bourdichon's Boston Hours

By Nicholas Herman, Anne-Marie Eze and with contributions by Nathaniel Silver and Jessica Chloros Explores the crown jewel of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's collection of rare books and manuscripts.

As court artist to King François I of France, Bourdichon produced paintings, books and even parade floats for the sovereign and his entourage. This publication accompanies the museum’s first ever exhibition dedicated to this spectacular illuminated manuscript. This book is the latest in the Gardner's Close Up series, each installment focusing on an individual, outstanding work of art in the collection. This publication is the first dedicated to this rare treasure, and precedes an exhibition opening in summer 2022.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Paperback • 9781913645014 • September 2021 • £17.95 64 pages • 60 illus.

Copley and West in England 1775–1815

By Allen Staley This beautifully and thoroughly illustrated book will be of considerable interest to both British and American art historians.

The book begins with a brief prologue discussing the earliest of West's depictions of recent historical events and of subjects set in America, painted prior to Copley's arrival in England. It then follows the year-byyear evolution of Copley's painting from 1775 to his death in 1815, with an underlying focus upon his ongoing give-and-take with West, and it ends with examination of hitherto little-known and unstudied major late paintings, from after 1800, by both artists.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781916237803 • May 2021 • £35.00 176 pages • 93 illus.

Persevere and Resist The Strong Black Women of Elizabeth Catlett

By Heather Nickels This welcome catalogue presents exciting new scholarship on the work of Mexican and American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012).

Catlett was one of the most important visual chroniclers of the African American experience in the 20th century. In addition to her print and drawing practice, Catlett was also an accomplished sculptor working in stone, wood, and clay. Accompanying an exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, this book reconsiders her works through the lens of contemporary psychology and sociology.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Paperback • 9781913645106 • June 2021 • £20.00 96 pages • 45 illus.

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Paolo Veneziano: The Art of Painting in 14th-Century Venice

By John Witty and Laura Llewellyn Reunites the dispersed components of two rare surviving altarpieces and presents them alongside contemporaneous objects.

The foremost Venetian painter of the fourteenth century, Paolo Veneziano (act. 1333–58) is regarded as the founder of the Venetian school of painting.

This publication demonstrates how the innovative and visually rich work of Paolo Veneziano engaged with fourteenth-century advances in manuscript illumination, ivory carving, textile production, and metalwork.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781911300953 • July 2021 • £50.00 168 pages • 60 illus.

Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500– 1860

By Charles Avery, Samuel Shaw, Robert Wenley, Helen Cowie and Edited by Robert Wenley The fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century.

The Rhinoceros ‘Miss Clara' arrived in Europe from the Dutch East Indies in 1741, brought by a retired Dutch East India Company captain who then toured her round Europe to huge acclaim and excitement. This book accompanies the first ever major loan exhibition devoted to Clara and celebrity pachyderms in the UK and will offer a significant contribution to scholarship on the subject.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Paperback • 9781913645021 • November 2021 • £16.50 96 pages • 65 illus.

Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II

By Anne-Marie Eze, Matthew Hayes, Ian Kennedy and Ian Verstegen Gives the first comprehensive examination of the painting's provenance, and reception throughout history.

This rare, full-length double portrait has only recently been attributed to Titian. This book re-examines received wisdom about its past ownership and presents new documentary evidence to expand on and fill gaps in our knowledge of its whereabouts. They also reflect on the technique, date, recent conservation, and authorship of the painting, proving it to be a masterpiece that only the great Titian could have created.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781913645090 • March 2021 • £20.00 80 pages • 30 illus.

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Towards the Sun World Pictures by British Artist-Travelers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

By Kenneth McConkey Explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates the artists.

While there have been monographs on British artist-travellers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, there has been no equivalent survey of ‘artistic travel' a hundred years later. By 1900, the ‘Grand Tourist' became a ‘globe-trotter' equipped with a camera, but visual recording by oil and watercolour on-the-spot sketching remained ever-popular. This book explores the complex reasons, revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781913645083 • June 2021 • £65.00 240 pages • 250 illus.

Henry Moore: Friendships and Legacies

By Tania Moore An exploration of the friendships that shaped artist Henry Moore and his ground-breaking work.

Henry Moore's humanist sculpture changed the course of art in the twentieth-century and raised the status of British sculpture internationally. This book centres on his friendships with collectors Robert and Lisa Sainsbury and photographer John Hedgecoe to illuminate the networks in which he was working and how they impacted the legacy of the public presentation of the artist and his work. The book is richly illustrated with archive images and new photography.

SA IN S B U RY C EN T RE FOR VISUAL ARTS Paperback • 9781916133624 • January 2021 • £25.00 176 pages

A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives The Royal Clock Salt

Edited by Timothy Schroder and Dora Thornton Beautifully illustrated publication, showcasing spectacular contextual objects from the collection of the British Museum and other museums.

At centre stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, a national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the Clock Salt is somewhere between a jewel and a table ornament, one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the renowned Jewel House of Henry VIII. The volume sheds new light on an exquisite object that has beguiled and fascinated for centuries.

BR ITIS H M U S EU M RES EARCH PU B LICAT ION S | B RIT ISH MUSE UM PR E SS Paperback • 9780861592272 • October 2021 • £40.00 196 pages • 130 illus.

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Pots, Prints and Politics Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century

Edited by Patricia Ferguson Examines how European and Asian ceramics in the domestic sphere challenged convention and tackled socio-political issues.

Ceramic artists across time and cultures have adapted graphic sources as painted or transfer-printed images to express political and social issues including propaganda, self-promotion, piety, gender, national and regional identities. Using the British Museum’s world-renowned ceramics and prints collections as a base, this book challenges and interrogates the sociopolitical underlying of domestic ceramic objects across Europe and Asia – from teapots to chamber pots – to discover new meanings that are as relevant today as when they were first conceived.

BR ITIS H M U S EU M RES EARCH PU B LICAT ION S | B RIT ISH MUSE UM PR E SS Paperback • 9780861592296 • April 2021 • £40.00 196 pages • 205 illus.

WOW Women Only Works on Paper

Edited by Sacha Llewellyn and Paul Liss Published on the occasion of the exhibition of works on paper by thirtyeight 20th-century British women artists.

This book brings together a display of over 50 watercolours and pastels, complemented by etchings and screenprints, executed in a variety of media and are made up of preliminary studies, cartoons for mural projects and finished works. The artists Vanessa Bell, Winifred Knights, Ithell Colquhoun, Annie French, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Thérèse Lessore, Hilda Carline and Paule Vézelay are all represented, as well as other accomplished but lesser-known female artists working in the first part of the 20th century.

LIS S LLEW EL LY N F I N E ART Paperback • 9781999314576 • March 2021 • £10.00 96 pages • 120 illus.

Diana Armfield A Lyrical Eye

By Andrew Lambirth Charts Diana Armfield's personal and artistic journey with over 200 beautiful reproductions of her work.

Diana Armfield has a highly personal attachment to subject and a subtly distinctive affinity with the rhythms of form and tone. These qualities make her an important, influential figure in modern British art – and a very popular one. Including an inspiring number of more recent works, this book brings her fascinating artistic and life story up to date.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781913645076 • April 2021 • £35.00 180 pages • 200 illus.

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A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature Vol 1

By Paul Holberton An iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter.

This volume is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature and drama in a variety of languages, and of a wide range of visual imagery, ending just before 1800. It analyses the development of pastoral as a means of representing human happiness on this earth in the requited wooing of girl and boy, to whose feelings early modern pastoral gives voice.

A D ILIS S U M Hardback • 9781912168255 • October 2021 • £100.00 1,000 pages • 300 illus.

A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature Vol 2

By Paul Holberton An iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter.

This volume is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature and drama in a variety of languages, and of a wide range of visual imagery, ending just before 1800. It analyses the development of pastoral as a means of representing human happiness on this earth in the requited wooing of girl and boy, to whose feelings early modern pastoral gives voice.

A D ILIS S U M Hardback • 9781912168262 • October 2021 • £100.00 1,000 pages • 300 illus.

Titian: Sources and Documents

By Charles Hope A comprehensive survey of the surviving historical evidence about Titian and his career.

Hugely ambitious, this volume includes all known documents about Titian and his work dating from his lifetime, and all known references to him in contemporary publications. The relevant section of each text is transcribed in full, preceded by a short summary in English, with extensive annotation and, where necessary, a commentary.

A D ILIS S U M Hardback • 9781912168231 • October 2021 • £500.00 6 volumes, approx. • 3,000 pages • 5 illus.

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Painting, Patronage and Devotion A Focus on Seven Roman Baroque Paintings

By Giovan Battista Fidanza and Guendalina Serafinelli A fresh perspective on the understanding of sacred imagery and its use through selected studies related to 17th century Roman visual culture.

The publication offers new approaches to the study of the complex processes involved in the making of a work of art. By reconstructing the religious and social dynamics of artistic patronage and the context of worship and devotion in which these paintings – fully documented by primary sources – were executed, the volume explores the visual impact of these works on the viewers. This beautifully illustrated book will feature remarkable new photographs and details of diagnostic analysis of Pietro da Cortona's and Carlo Maratti's altarpieces.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Paperback • 9781913645144 • November 2021 • £25.00 35 illus.

Modern Drawings The Karshan Gift

By Coralie Malissard and Barnaby Wright Presents an outstanding group of modern drawings by European and American masters, assembled by the late Howard Karshan and his wife, Linda.

Accompanying their exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue features drawings by renowned artists including Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Sam Francis, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz. The works demonstrate the Karshan's sensibility for the expressive power and rich variety of drawing as an art form. The drawings are characterised by innovative mark-making and distinctive use of line. This catalogue will include an interview with Linda Karshan, two essays, and is fully illustrated with detailed entries on each work.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Paperback • 9781913645113 • November 2021 • £25.00 120 pages • 50 illus.

Gustave Moreau The Fables

By Juliet Carey Accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works Gustave Moreau ever made.

Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) is one of the most brilliant artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of his most extraordinary works, unseen in public for over a century. It provides in-depth accounts of each piece, explaining the story and exploring Moreau’s response to it and places, and examines his work in the context of his own, turbulent, times.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781911300861 • May 2021 • £35.00 160 pages

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Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo and the Allegory of Patience

By Carlo Falciani Recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari’s painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 1551–52 for the Bishop of Arezzo.

This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari’s painting Allegory of Patience. The painting was conceived in Rome with the aid of Michelangelo, as many surviving letters reveal. The work will be on view to the public at the National Gallery, London, through 2023. The book carries full documentation of the work and its known copies, some of which can be traced to leading patrons in Renaissance Italy. It also examines Vasari’s own autograph technique and artistic aims.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781911300823 • July 2020 • £18.99 56 pages • 30 illus.

Elijah Pierce's America Edited by Nancy Ireson and Zoé Whitley Seeks to revisit the art of Elijah Pierce and see it in its own right, not simply as ‘naive’.

Elijah Pierce (1892–1984) was born the youngest son of a former slave on a Mississippi farm. He became known for his wood carvings nationally and then internationally for the first time in the 1970s. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, this publication seeks to revisit the art of Elijah Pierce and see it in its own right, not simply as ‘naive’.

PAUL H OL B ERTON P U B LISH IN G Hardback • 9781911300878 • September 2020 • £40.00 208 pages • 120 illus.

The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard

By Harlan Hubbard, Bill Caddell, Flo Caddell, Peter Morrin and introduction by Jessica Whitehead Argues Hubbard's place in the art historical canon while highlighting and analysing the artist's own voice.

those who knew him.

Harlan Hubbard (1900–1988), Kentucky writer, environmentalist and artist, spent many years trying to rediscover and revive the vanishing language of landscape in his watercolour paintings. In this unique collection, more than 200 watercolours are interspersed with anecdotes to present a personal meditation on the influence that Hubbard's work has had on the lives of

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813179766 • October 2021 • £30.00 250 pages • 250 colour illus.

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CONTEMPORARY ART

The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2

By Matt Price Showcases exhibitions that have defined contemporary painting in Britain since 2018.

This new, larger anthology presents the work of sixty artists born or living in Britain through documentation and discussion of solo exhibitions of their work in museums and galleries around Britain and internationally. Featuring artists at different stages in their careers, from senior figures exhibiting at major museums and commercial galleries to emerging artists staging their first shows.

A NO M I E P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9781910221273 • September 2021 • £30.00 240 pages • c. 180 illus.

Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture

By Jadé Fadojutimi, and essay by Jennifer Higgie The work of artist Jadé Fadojutimi, to accompany Fadojutimi’s second solo exhibition with the Pippy Houldsworth gallery.

Fadojutimi's studio is filled with objects, drawings and writings that evoke nostalgic pleasure. The synthesis of these various influences, through which Fadojutimi understands her sense of self, is transformed into large-scale gestural paintings charged with energy and emotion. This, the artist's first published book, has been co-published by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to accompany Fadojutimi’s exhibition with the gallery.

A NO M I E P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9781910221297 • January 2021 • £20.00 76 pages • c. 30 illus.

Jacqui Hallum – Workings and Showings

By Jacqui Hallum, with essays from Dan Howard-Birt, Hettie Judah, Andrew Hunt and Caroline Wilkinson The first monograph on Devon-based Jacqui Hallum, an artist known for her mixed-media paintings on textiles.

Well known for her eclectic mixed-media paintings on textiles featuring imagery ranging from medieval woodcuts to Art Nouveau children’s illustrations, this is an outstanding collection of papers on her work from experts in the artistic field: Andrew Hunt, Professor of Fine Art and Curating at the University of Manchester; Hettie Judah, arts journalist and critic and Caroline Wilkinson, Director of the School of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University and more.

A NO M I E P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9781910221235 • March 2021 • £25.00 128 pages • 158 illus.

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Kate MccGwire

By Kate MccGwire, Edited by Mark Sanders and with essays by Catriona McAra and Jane Neal A major monograph on over twenty years of Kate McGwire’s otherworldly sculptures and fantastical installations.

Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British sculptor whose practice revolves around the uncanny. Employing natural materials and in particular, feathers, MccGwire creates arresting, otherworldly sculptures and site-specific works, often rendering the familiar strange and disturbing.

This major monograph presents works spanning MccGwire's career, from the unsettling textile works of the turn of the millennium through to the fantastical site-specific installation and interventions of her solo exhibition in 2020 at Harewood House, Leeds.

A NO M I E P U B L I S H I N G Hardback • 9781910221259 • April 2021 • £45.00 200 pages • 140 illus.

Nick Hornby – Zygotes and Confessions

By Nick Hornby, text by Alfredo Cramerotti, foreword by Helen Boyd and essay by Matt Price Presents a substantial new body of sculptures exploring portraiture and intimacy in the digital age.

Hornby is known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble. In this publication he presents a substantial new body of smaller, more intimate work comprising three discrete yet interrelated series of works inspired by the history of sculptural busts, modernist abstractions and mantelpiece ceramic dogs. With text in both English and Welsh, these new works explore themes of portraiture, the body, identity, sexuality and intimacy in the digital era.

A NO M I E P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9781910221280 • January 2021 • £18.00 80 pages • c. 38 illus.

Harry Kernoff The Little Genius

By Kevin O'Connor A revised and lavishly illustrated full-length biography of Harry Kernoff.

The value of Kernoff’s work has risen dramatically in recent years, as has his reputation. Born in London, Harry Kernoff moved to Dublin in 1914 and from 1923 until his death in 1974 was a full-time artist when it was neither "profitable nor fashionable". Against the odds, Harry Kernoff has left a more encompassing visual record of the Irish experience during the twentieth century than any contemporary painter through his empathic interest in the ordinary people, and especially rank-and-file Dubliners.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359324 • September 2021 • £17.95 200 pages • 60 b/w & 50 colour illus.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets

By Maryam Ashrafi, with texts by Allan Kaval, Mylène Sauloy, Carol Mann and Kamran Matin Photographs taken in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan explore war for civilians, fighters, and the women in their ranks.

Maryam Ashrafi is a social documentary photographer who believes in long term projects, choosing to stay behind the front lines and observe the daily lives of combatants. Above all, she is involved in documenting the everyday life on the Kurdish front. Her work puts a face on a widely commented war which remains perceived mainly by the West in terms of the number of refugees.

Maryam documents the war in her own way, stressing its complexities and the actual building of a new social model based on equality where women occupy the same roles as men, which is remarkable in this area of the world. This is why, over the years, she has returned to the same places, from Kobane to Tabqa, to show the unique power of the resilience of the population and the will to live and change.

The book is built on the chronology of the events as documented by Maryam Ashrafi, to understand the evolution of the conflict and its consequences on the populations and their living environment.

It is a body of images which highlights very important topics as immediate consequences of war, from the sheer destruction to the refugee camps, as they evoke the foundations of the culture and the identity of the Kurdish people – from the ceremonies in honour of martyrs, dances around fires, to New Year celebrations.

Finally, Maryam Ashrafi’s work is also about empathy and about invisible wounds; it is obvious that one could not witness a conflict without being caught up in the daily suffering, especially children and women. Maryam finds emotions and feelings, in simple gestures, smiles and dances, these moments of intimacy. The presence of the photographer is forgotten, there remains only the reality of their fight and the resilience of a people. In these moments, she captures expressions that speak so much more than long speeches.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952168 • October 2021 • £65.00 304 pages

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Structure

By Isabelle Boccon-Gibod and Daniel Mendelsohn Reinvents the family portrait and provokes us to reflect on family as the fundamental cell on which every society is based.

From 1839 when it was invented, photography has served to create portraits of individuals, and soon thereafter portraits of families. What can photography show us to day of the visible and invisible aspects of family sociology? By creating this corpus of fixed black and white images, each composed in a large 5'x7' frame, the photographer has produced a work of anthropological scope, reaching beyond representation by placing the subject at palpable distance, thereby objectifying it.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952052 • September 2021 • £59.00 88 pages

Sagas Iceland

By Olivier Joly Photographer Olivier Joly has visited Iceland for over ten years to capture its landscapes and its faces.

Photographer, journalist, author and speaker Olivier Joly has always been drawn to Iceland. This volume explores how he found this ‘promised land’, with twenty trips and a year on the spot making him one of Iceland’s most knowledgeable connoisseurs.

His photographs examine Iceland in beautiful black and white.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952205 • October 2021 • £65.00 192 pages

The Sowers of Joy

By Caroline Riegel and Matthieu Ricard An intimate and rare immersion in the heart of a community of Nuns from a high Himalayan valley called Zanskar.

Photographer Caroline Riegel has lived day after day with nuns at a Buddhist nunnery of Zanskar. In this volume, she delivers a luminous tribute, in images and words, to these women who have found, in the heart of the Zanskar mountains, far from the modern world, a balance of life. It is a two-sided journey, showing both the charm of a unique "tribe" with astonishing sorority and the masterful beauty of their territory.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952182 • October 2021 • £59.00 208 pages

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Useful Lies By Éric Antoine and contributions by Bruno Patin A collection of Éric Antoine’s photographs using his distinctive collodion process.

By using an older form of technology, French artist Éric Antoine strips away modern-day conceits in the quest for simplicity, solitude, and core truths. The works speak to the passage of time but also to a sense of timelessness; nothing in the photographs dates them. And yet, his framing and cropping are entirely modern, subverting any suggestion of nostalgia. These are not attempts to replicate nineteenth-century photographs but rather forays into unchartered territory that use the past to draft new stories.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952212 • October 2021 • £59.00 196 pages

Sublime Napoli

By Jean Luc Dubin and Florian Villain An extraordinary photographic journey in the city of Naples (Italy).

Fascinated by the primitive beauty of reality, French photographer Jean Luc Dubin apprehends the social world without interpretation or spirituality, guided by what Florian Villain calls "a gaze without a glance". In Naples as in New York, his street photos are shaped like a social precipitate, triggered by the magical moment of the click. Beyond the social world, Jean Luc Dubin also tackles received ideas about human nature, which is akin to a standardised construction.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952045 • November 2021 • £65.00 128 pages

Elephant

By Laurent Baheux An homage to elephants through photography.

This book offers an incomparable spectacle, that of an intimate face-to-face with elephants, here treated as a subject in their own right, on an equal footing with man. As an extension of his militant commitment and his anti-speciesist discourse which seeks to break down the psychological barriers linked to the categorisation of animals according to their degree of utility or their "nuisance" power, Laurent Baheux provides new proof of the need to save elephants and protect their environment.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952229 • October 2021 • £59.00 128 pages • b/w illus.

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Landfill Elegy for the Santa Maria Valley

By Brett Kallusky A collection of eye-opening photographs in California's historic Santa Maria Valley, one of the world’s great wine-growing areas.

Addressing the current, human-centred epoch known as the Anthropocene, the quiet but powerful imagery of Kallusky's Landfill examines important questions of how the land is used and regarded. The landscape reveals who we are, as he brings these invisible spaces into visibility, showing how the earth supports our food needs on a massive scale, fuelling a massive engine of consumption. What is left in the wake of that system to which we all belong?

GEO RG E F. T H OM P S ON Hardback • 9781938086878 • October 2021 • £25.00 96 pages • 46 illus.

Paris Park Photographs

By Michael Kolster and contributions by Michelle Kuo Michael Kolster renders Paris’s parks like no one since photographer Eugène Atget a century ago.

Features spectacular images from a dozen public parks and gardens in and near France's capital city, exploring many of the same places that photographer Eugène Atget (1857–1927) made famous a century ago.

These intimate yet inherently expansive views of Paris’s parks invite closer scrutiny of the encounters awaiting us at the edges of the well-worn paths defining our daily lives. Presented in a bilingual English/French edition and concludes with an afterword by Michelle Kuo. GEO RG E F. T H OM P S ON Hardback • 9781938086885 • October 2021 • £30.00 120 pages • 52 illus.

Iceland Wintertide

Photographs by David Freese and afterword by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir A unique rendering of Iceland in winter by a renowned photographer and writer.

David Freese's profound, ongoing concern for our environmental predicament is once again manifested in his photographs of Iceland. By showing us what humankind is on the brink of losing, his images share and preserve his vision of this unique and special place. A small jewel of a book, Iceland Wintertide becomes a powerful coda to David Freese's Trilogy of North American Waters as the threats and ramifications of a warming climate steadily increase before our eyes.

GEO RG E F. T H OM P S ON Hardback • 9781938086830 • October 2021 • £25.00 88 pages • 57 colour illus.

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Violins and Hope From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall

By Daniel Levin and Franz Welser-Möst A visual chronicle of the the story of how violins from the Holocaust now sing in symphony halls.

Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli master luthier (violin maker), began a project to restore violins that survived the concentration camps and the ghettos, even when their owners often did not. Here, Daniel Levin has made the most compelling and beautiful series of photographs documenting Weinstein’s collection of violins, his workshop in Tel Aviv, and his processes for restoration.

GEO RG E F. T H OM P S ON Hardback • 9781938086861 • July 2021 • £30.00 136 pages • 75 colour illus.

Imagine: Reflections on Peace

By Jonathan Powell, Samantha Power, Jon Swain, Gary Knight, Philip Gourevitch, Martin Fletcher, Anthony Loyd, Jon Lee Anderson, Robin Wright, Ron Haviv, Don McCullin, Stephen Ferry, Gilles Peress, Jack Picone and The VII Foundation Photographic essays take us into societies that have suffered searing conflict – and survived.

In 2018, the VII Foundation asked more than a dozen renowned reporters and photojournalists to revisit countries with which they had become achingly familiar during times of brutal conflict. The task was to see peace through the prism of their journalistic experience. The result is Imagine: Reflections on Peace – a curation of searing images and trenchant essays that show both micro and macro views of peace, with its uneven degrees of economic success, political stability, and social harmony.

HEMERIA Hardback • 9782490952090 • October 2020 • £39.00 408 pages • 200 b/w & colour illus.

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Race and Modern Architecture A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis and Mabel O. Wilson Sheds new light on the construction and impact of race on architecture across the world since the eighteenth century.

Although race – a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination – has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored.

This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century.

Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism. By analysing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery, colonialism, and inequality – from eighteenth-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing projects for immigrants – Race and Modern Architecture challenges, complicates, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress.

“In looking at the history of architecture as a history of racialised cultures, seemingly everywhere, this volume makes a major contribution to the literature.” —CHOICE “Race and Modern Architecture challenges the suppression of race in canonical histories of modern architecture, revealing the discipline’s foundation on hierarchies of racial difference, its absorption of racial thought, and the racial origins of modernism’s narrative of universalism and progress. These incisive essays resonate beyond architectural history and reflect on the inextricable intertwining of race and modernism.” —Patricia Morton, University of California

CULTURE P OL I T I C S & T HE B U ILT EN VIRON MEN T | U N IVER SITY OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Paperback • 9780822966593 • December 2020 • £34.50 424 pages

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Three Cities After Hitler Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders

By Andrew Demshuk Compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of post-war development under three competing post-Nazi regimes.

A wide-ranging architectural history of German and post-German cities and an insightful comparison of postwar urban reconstruction across the Iron Curtain. This book looks at Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. It explores how these cities reimagined their pasts through architectural narratives using redemptive reconstruction.

RUS S IA N AN D EAS T EU ROPEAN ST U D IES | U N IVERSIT Y O F PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946977 • August 2021 • £49.00 500 pages

Writing Architectural History Evidence and Narrative in Architectural History Examines contributions of new approaches to research transcending traditional boundaries of art history departments and architecture schools.

Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history. With examples from medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings to Weimar German construction firms and present-day African refugee camps, this book considers the impact of these shifting institutional landscapes and disciplinary positionings for architectural history.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Hardback • 9780822946847 • December 2021 • £53.00 352 pages

From Earth Earth Architecture in Iceland

By Hjörleifur Stefansson A detailed, beautifully photographed exploration of historic and contemporary Icelandic turf houses.

The first inhabitants of Iceland built their homes from the material that was closest at hand: the earth itself. In the early 20th century, more than half the Icelandic population were still living in turf houses, and a few dozen such buildings remain standing today. This book explores the Icelandic turf house as a remarkable phenomenon in world architectural history, and is one of Iceland’s most important contributions to global culture.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF I C EL AN D PRESS Hardback • 9789935245465 • June 2021 • £34.00 320 pages • 300 illus.

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Beyoncé in the World Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times

Edited by Christina Baade and Kristin A. McGee Essays investigating Beyoncé's global cultural impact.

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has redefined global stardom, feminism, Black representation, and celebrity activism. This book brings together new work from international scholars to explore Beyonce's impact as an artist and public figure from the perspectives of critical race studies, gender and women's studies, queer and cultural studies, music, and fan studies.

Combining cutting edge research, vivid examples, and accessible writing, this collection provides multiple lenses onto the significance of Beyoncé around the world.

MUS IC / C U LT U RE | W ESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Hardback • 9780819579911 • July 2021 • £66.50 392 pages • 31 colour illus. | Paperback • 9780819579928 • £20.50

Impossible Domesticity Travels in Mexico

By Leila Gomez Examines perceptions of Mexico from around the world during the 19th and 20th century.

Travelers often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures’ desires, fears, and anxieties. This project studies the images of Mexico and the ways they were contested by travellers of different national origins and professions from the 19th to the 21st centuries. It starts with Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico, and ends with Bolaño, the Chilean novelist whose work defines Mexico as an "oasis of horror."

P IT T ILLU M I N AT I ON S | UN IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB U RG H PRESS Hardback • 9780822946915 • October 2021 • £39.50 264 pages

Romania Revisited On the Trail of English Travellers, 1602–1941

By Alan Ogden The definitive story of the journeys made by English travellers to Romania between 1602 and 1941.

This volume interweaves the impressions of previous generations into a witty account of the author’s own journeys to Romania, providing readers with a comprehensive and perspicacious review of today's Romania.

Although the chapters are arranged to follow his own route, the author successfully integrates earlier writers into his narrative by linking them to towns and places. Starting with the Transylvanian adventures of Captain John Smith in 1602, the bibliography is the most detailed inventory published of English travel writing on Romania.

CE NTE R FOR ROM AN I A N ST U D IES Paperback • 9781592111046 • September 2021 • £14.99 242 pages

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Central Asia Context for Understanding

Edited by David Montgomery This textbook offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available.

Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterised in the West as being difficult to access. Combining thematic chapters with case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching-off point for further research.

CE NTR AL EU RA S I A I N CON T EXT | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946786 • October 2021 • £56.00 900 pages • 10 illus.

Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 20 Edited by Amir Harrak A refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies.

JCSSS focuses on the vast Syriac literature, which is rooted in the same soil from which the ancient Mesopotamian and biblical literatures sprung; on Syriac art that bears Near Eastern characteristics as well as Byzantine and Islamic influences; and on archaeology, unearthing in the Middle East and the rest of Asia and China the history of the Syriac-speaking people: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maronites and Catholic and Orthodox Syriacs.

J O UR NAL OF T H E C AN AD IAN SOCIET Y FOR SYRIAC ST U DIE S | GORGIAS PR E SS Paperback • 9781463242626 • December 2020 • £56.00 119 pages

Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky Stories of Accommodation and Audacity

By Nora Rose Moosnick Reveals how Jewish and Arab women have navigated the intersection of tradition, assimilation, and Kentucky's cultural landscape.

Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, both must negotiate complex identities.

These stories of ten women's experiences as immigrants or the children of immigrants challenge misconceptions and overcome the invisibility of Arabs and Jews in out of the way places in America.

KE N TUC K Y REM EM B ERED : AN ORAL H ISTORY SERIES | U NIVE R SITY PR E SS OF KE NTUCKY Paperback • 9780813154602 • November 2021 • £20.00 228 pages • 31 b/w illus.

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We Women of Tehran

By Farian Sabahi Illustrates from a female standpoint the origins and contradictions of the Iranian capital.

Originally written for the stage, this book showcases women who have played a leading role in various disciplines and sports but who all too often have simply become an element in the regime's propaganda. The volume presents a lively narrative with verses from the great Persian poets and a hefty dose of irony: as a way to laugh about complex issues and dismantle misleading stereotypes.

LIT E R AT U RE | M I M ES I S IN T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773266 • September 2021 • £9.99 70 pages

Towards a Culture of Co-Existence in Pluralistic Societies The Middle East and India

Edited by Dietmar Winkler Focuses on a culture of co-existence in pluralistic societies in the Middle East and in India.

Pro Oriente might not be able to contribute to immediate peace-making, which has to be a political task, but may contribute substantially to peacekeeping, to support a peaceful co-existence by developing ideas, prospects, and chances for peace. This volume reflects on achievements and developing perspectives and visions for the future in both theory and practice.

P RO O R I EN T E S T U D I ES I N T H E SYRIAC T RAD IT ION | G ORGIAS PR E SS Hardback • 9781463242534 • January 2021 • £86.00 266 pages

Drowned Town

By Jayne Moore Waldrop Explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home.

These linked stories are rooted in the impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and the taking of property under the power of eminent domain to create a national recreation area. The subsequent federal land and water projects were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress, but at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, and history in the process.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9781950564156 • October 2021 • £19.00 218 pages

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Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural Heritage Studies Edited by Sonali Gupta A collection of articles from different perspectives on the Himalayas.

The Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural and Heritage Studies is an endeavour to include research-oriented articles on the Himalayas from different sections of academia which includes and is not limited to archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, geology, sociology, art, music, theatre, and law.

J O UR NAL OF T H E H I M A LAYAN IN ST IT U T E OF CU LT U RAL AND HE R ITAGE STUDIE S BLIKV E L D U I TG EV ERS P U B LISH ERS Paperback • 9789492940186 • November 2021 • £22.00 112 pages • colour illus.

African Dolls A Private Collection

By Jan Wychers and Jolanda Bos An overview of a collection of African (fertility) dolls.

This private collection of African dolls, sometimes spontaneously decorated with beadwork, are witnesses of people's hopes and beliefs. The book is richly illustrated with overviews and detailed photographs of the objects and, apart from a description of their history, also gives the reader a personal account of collecting these dolls single-handedly over a period of 45 years.

THE P RI VAT E COL L EC T I O N SERIES | B LIK VELD U ITG EVERS PUBL ISHE R S Hardback • 9789492940162 • November 2021 • £27.00 144 pages • colour illus.

Wearables 01 Magazine on Wearable Heritage

Edited by Jolanda Bos Full colour magazine on traditional dress and jewellery.

Wearables is an annual magazine edition, attractively illustrated, bringing together a variety of ethnographic topics on costume and jewellery traditions, placed in their cultural setting.

W E A R A B L ES | B L I K V EL D U ITG EVERS PU B LISH ERS Paperback • 9789492940179 • November 2021 • £20.00 64 pages • colour illus.

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The Art of Place People and Landscape of County Clare

Edited by Peadar King and Anne Jones, Photographs by John Kelly Beautifully designed testament to the artistic spirit of Ireland, including specially commissioned photographic interpretations by an award-winning photographer.

With a particular emphasis on the role of landscape and environs, The Art of Place brings together 30 captivating personal stories by some of the most creative people in Ireland, who all live in or come from County Clare. Featured contributors include writers and visual artists, musicians and composers, sculptors and crafts people, photographers and filmmakers. Their compelling and deeply personal stories will resonate not only with people from the West of Ireland, but with people worldwide who are enthralled by the creative process.

THE LIF F EY P RES S Paperback • 9781838359393 • November 2021 • £30.00 Colour photos throughout

Mythical Ireland New Light on the Ancient Past

By Anthony Murphy This book explores Irish mythology through archaeology, interpretive mythography, cosmology and cosmogony.

In this revised and expanded edition, we follow a fascinating and engaging journey through time, landscape and the human spirit. Lavishly illustrated with exquisite photographs of the Irish landscape and ancient monuments, Mythical Ireland represents a personal and yet universal journey, a quest to reimagine the shrines as empowering and transformative sacred places.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359331 • September 2021 • £27.95 350 pages • 160 colour illus.

Chasing Eden A Book of Seekers

By Howard Mansfield A book on the multiplicity and universality of longing, and how this manifests in America.

With his usual deep perception and humour, Howard Mansfield writes about "a small gathering of Americans" united by longing and devotion in their search for something perfect here on earth, a goal that is ever receding. Mansfield illuminates how this longing can be found in every era, and gives form and force to our lives in our pursuit of happiness – “the primary occupation of every American."

BAUH A N P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9780872333505 • May 2021 • £16.00 216 pages

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MEDIA, FILM & TV

Hitchcock and the Censors

By John Billheimer Highlights the director's theories of suspense as well as his magician-like touch when negotiating with code officials.

memorable films.

Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humour, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. This book traces Hitchcock's interactions with code officials on a film-by-film basis as he fought to protect his creations, bargaining with code reviewers and sidestepping censorship to produce a lifetime of

S CR E E N C L AS S I C S | U N I VERSIT Y PRESS OF K EN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813180540 • October 2021 • £21.00 384 pages • 43 b/w illus.

Film's First Family The Untold Story of the Costellos

By Terry Chester Shulman Explores the dramatic history of the Costellos and their extraordinary significance to the stage and screen.

Scandal, adultery, secret marriages, celebrity, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, and alcoholism – the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. Written with unprecedented access to the family's personal documents and artifacts, this riveting study explores the dramatic history of the Costellos and their extraordinary significance to the stage and screen.

S CR E E N C L AS S I C S | U N I VERSIT Y PRESS OF K EN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813151946 • September 2021 • £19.00 304 pages • 34 b/w illus.

Olivia de Havilland Lady Triumphant

By Victoria Amador Tribute to one of Hollywood's greatest legends, who has evolved from a gentle heroine to a strong-willed, respected, and admired artist.

Legendary actress and two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Her characters were often delicate, elegant, and refined; Havilland herself was a survivor with a fierce desire to direct her own destiny on and off the screen. Victoria Amador utilises extensive interviews and 40 years of personal correspondence to present an in-depth look at her life and career.

S CR E E N C L AS S I C S | U N I VERSIT Y PRESS OF K EN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813154657 • November 2021 • £21.00 353 pages • 54 b/w illus.

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Buzz The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley

By Jeffrey Spivak Telling portrait of the filmmaker who revolutionised the musical and changed the world of choreography.

Characterised by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry remains recognisable and striking. He pioneered many conventions, including the famous "parade of faces" technique, which lends an identity to each anonymous performer in a close-up. Employing personal letters, interviews, studio memoranda, and Berkeley's private memoirs, this book unveils the colourful life of one of cinema's greatest artists.

S CR E E N C L AS S I C S | U N I VERSIT Y PRESS OF K EN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813154084 • November 2021 • £23.00 410 pages • 62 b/w illus.

The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures

By Bernard F. Dick A radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures.

Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other sides to him. Drawing on personal interviews as well as previously unstudied source material, Bernard Dick offers a radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures from 1932 to 1958.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813152097 • October 2021 • £19.00 248 pages • 28 b/w illus.

Engulfed The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood

By Bernard F. Dick The fascinating history of Paramount from one of the biggest studios of the Golden Age of Hollywood to today’s corporate commodity.

Tracing the history of Paramount, one of the Big Five studios in the Golden Age of Hollywood, up to the present day, Bernard Dick argues that the studio represents the paradigm of modern Hollywood: where the only real art is the art of the deal. Filled with larger-than-life characters like Billy Wilder, Dick reconstructs the battle that culminated in the reduction of Paramount to a mere corporate commodity.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813151359 • September 2021 • £19.00 280 pages • illus.

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Radical Innocence A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten

By Bernard F. Dick First study to focus on the work of the Ten: their short stories, plays, novels, criticism, poems, memoirs, and, of course, their films.

On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the allege Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. By 1950 the ‘Hollywood Ten’ were serving prison sentences. Drawing on myriad sources, including archival materials, unpublished manuscripts, black-market scripts, screenplay drafts, letters, and personal interviews, Bernard F. Dick describes the Ten's survival tactics during the blacklisting and analyses their contribution to film and the arts.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813151342 • August 2021 • £19.00 280 pages • illus.

Columbia Pictures Portrait of a Studio

Edited by Bernard F. Dick An amply–illustrated chronology and filmography of Columbia Pictures, 1920-1991.

Bernard F. Dick's highly readable studio chronicle is followed by thirteen original essays by leading film scholars, writing about the stars, films, genres, writers, producers, and directors responsible for Columbia's emergence from Poverty Row status to world class. Designed for both the film lover and the film scholar, the book is ideal for film history courses.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813152158 • October 2021 • £21.00 311 pages

City of Dreams The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures

By Bernard F. Dick Explores the many faces of Universal Pictures throughout its history.

This book traces the history and examines the changing image of Universal Studios throughout the string of studio heads who entered and exited one after another following its founder’s success in establishing it as one of the major Hollywood studios. By tracing how the age of corporate Hollywood arrived at Universal Pictures earlier than at other studios, it highlights the studio’s resilience – celebrating that unlike several other studios of Hollywood's golden age, Universal still makes movies today.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813153445 • November 2021 • £21.00 500 pages

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Alfred Hitchcock The Legacy of Victorianism

By Paula Marantz Cohen Cohen argues that Hitchcock's films reflect his Victorian legacy and serve as a map for ideological trends.

This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Drawing on methodologies including feminism, psychoanalysis, and family systems, the author provides an insightful look at the paradox of a Victorian-style gentleman who evolved into one of the leading masters of the modern medium of film. Cohen charts his development from his British period through his classic Hollywood years into his later phase.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813151892 • October 2021 • £15.00 208 pages • 16 b/w illus.

Street with No Name A History of the Classic American Film Noir

By Andrew Dickos Traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years.

This book describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, it demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813152196 • October 2021 • £23.00 330 pages • 89 b/w illus.

Voice of the Wildcats Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting

By Alan Sullivan, Tom Leach and Joe Cox This engaging biography showcases the life and work of a beloved broadcast talent.

As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924–1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. Featuring dozens of interviews and correspondence with sports legends, Claude's son Alan, along with Joe Cox, offers an engaging and heartfelt look at the sportscaster's life and the context in which he built his career.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813154619 • October 2021 • £16.95 328 pages • 67 b/w illus.

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Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood

By Robert S. Birchard A detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film in Hollywood's Golden Age. In his forty-five-year career DeMille's box-office record was unsurpassed, and his swaggering style established the public image for movie directors.

Drawing extensively on DeMille's personal archives and other primary sources, Robert S. Birchard offers a revealing portrait of DeMille the filmmaker that goes behind studio gates and beyond DeMille's legendary persona.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813180519 • July 2021 • £23.00 497 pages • 97 b/w illus.

In Capra's Shadow The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin

By Ian Scott (University of Manchester, UK) The first sociohistorical examination of Robert Riskin’s life and work.

changing America.

Alongside being one of the best screenwriters of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Riskin playing a crucial role in the foundation of the Screen Writers Guild. This book provides a unique perspective on the way Riskin’s brilliant, pithy style was realised in the enduring In Capra’s Shadow and more, how his impact on cinema extended far beyond these films as he helped spread Hollywood cinema abroad and articulated his vision of a

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813180526 • December 2021 • £21.00 304 pages • illus.

The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall

By Eve Golden and foreword by Kim Kendall A complete filmography and numerous rare photographs complete this first-ever biography of Britain's most glamorous comic star.

and career.

Comedic film actress Kay Kendall came of age in London during the Blitz.

After starring in Britain's biggest cinematic disaster, she found stardom in 1953 with her brilliant performance in the low-budget film, Genevieve.

Kendall's private life was even more colourful than the plots of her films.

Written with the cooperation of Kendall's sister Kim and including interviews with many of her costars, relatives and friends. This book examines her life

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813180731 • June 2021 • £19.00 195 pages • illus.

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Charles Boyer The French Lover

By John Baxter A fascinating exploration of the life of Charles Boyer.

For generations of film and theatre audiences, Charles Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman – cultured, courteous, seductive, yet never quite at home in a culture not his own. This is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost 40 years. In an insightful analysis of Boyer's choice of roles during and after World War II, it reveals how Boyer both embraced and subverted that identity.

S CR E E N C L AS S I C S | U N I VERSIT Y PRESS OF K EN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813155524 • November 2021 • £25.00 298 pages • 54 b/w illus.

Dervish Dust The Life and Words of James Coburn

By Robyn L. Coburn The authorised biography of Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor James Coburn’s career, romances, friendships, and spirituality.

Details the life of a Hollywood legend that spanned huge changes in the entertainment and filmmaking industry. An individualist and deeply thoughtful actor, Coburn speaks candidly about acting, show business, people he liked, and people he didn't, with many behind-the-scenes stories from his work that includes beloved classics, intellectually challenging pieces, and less well-known projects.

P OTO M AC B OOK S , I N C .

Hardback • 9781640124059 • December 2021 • £28.99 432 pages

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Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality Towards the Immersive Interactive Movie

By Maria Cecilia Reyes (Schloss Solitude Akademie, Germany) This innovative volume proposes a narrative model for the creation of immersive filmic experiences.

This book puts forward a narrative model for interactive cinematic experiences in which the interactor has agency within the virtual environment to alter the story and shape their own journey. Maria Reyes focuses in detail on the epistemology of the immersive movie by analysing its aesthetic, narrative and interactive features, examining the workflow of production, and presenting an evaluative protocol for VR experiences of this kind.

CINE M A | M I M ES I S I N T E RN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773259 • March 2021 • £19.99 200 pages

Retuning the Screen Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film and Media History

Edited by Simone Dotto (Udine University, Italy) Explores how the theoretical concepts and methods developed to investigate aurality could reframe cinema.

This book does not only consider the aural 'segments' of audiovisual texts in terms of their expressive and artistic significance or examine only 'audio' and technologically mediated sound. The contributors develop the theoretical content of 'aural epistemologies' in Film and Media Studies, discuss the role of listening culture in our experience as film spectators and media users, and re-assess the significance of sound archives and sonic archaeologies in relation to our knowledge of past (sound)mediascapes.

H IS TO RY OF C I N EM A | MIMESIS IN T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773310 • November 2021 • £33.99 400 pages

And Finally…

A Journalist's Life in 250 Stories

By Paddy Murray An entertaining journey recalling Irish Journalist Paddy Murray's extraordinary life in 250 stories.

on his colourful life.

By any account Paddy Murray has had a remarkable life: from meeting entertainment and sports celebrities, to reporting on Ireland’s heroic loss in the World Cup at Italia ’90, to writing for newspapers for over 40 years.

His journey encompasses the highs of writing gags for the Two Ronnies, and the lows of battling Lymphoma for over 20 years. Here, he looks back

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359300 • March 2021 • £15.95 256 pages • 35 colour illus.

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Look How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America

By Andrew L. Yarrow The story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history.

Published from 1937 to 1971 and with about 35 million readers at its peak, Look was an astute observer with a distinctive take on one of the greatest eras in U.S. history. Because the magazine shaped Americans' beliefs while guiding the country through a period of profound social and cultural change, this is also a story about how a long-gone form of journalism helped make America better and assured readers it could be better still.

P OTO M AC B OOK S , I N C .

Hardback • 9781612349442 • November 2021 • £33.00 408 pages

Do You Believe in Swedish Sin? Swedish Exploitation Film Posters 1951–1984

By Rickard Gramfors A history lesson on Swedish exploitation cinema, with 350 outrageous, sexy, violent, fun movie posters.

This volume takes a journey through Swedish exploitation film posters from the fifties through to the eighties. Along the way, it encompasses 350 outrageous, sexy, violent, fun movie posters and covers Swedish films of all kinds: whacky co-productions, exported Swedish babes, and international films using the words Sweden, Schweden, Svezia, Suède as selling points.

An entertaining history lesson on Swedish exploitation cinema, its major genres, and personalities.

E KE N P RES S Hardback • 9789198677201 • May 2021 • £34.95 400 pages • 350 b/w illus.

Miracle Man From Homeless to Hollywood

By Glenn Gannon An examination of the extraordinary life and career of Glenn Gannon.

Miracle Man: From Homeless to Hollywood is the inspirational true story of Dublin actor and playwright Glenn Gannon. It gives a frank account of his childhood, his life on the streets of Dublin as a homeless man and his journey from there to the bright lights of Hollywood. It is a story of loss, violence and addiction, but most of all of hope.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309921 • June 2021 • £13.50 308 pages

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Ways of Voice Vocal Striving and Moral Contestation in North India and Beyond

By Matthew Rahaim An exploration of ethical dynamism in vocal life.

Ways of Voice is the first ethnomusicological monograph to delve deeply into the diverse, variegated techniques of voice production in North India. It explicitly thematises the dynamic movement between vocal dispositions—singers who consciously retrain themselves in order to acquire a different voice, focusing on the ways in which singers not only "have" voice, but actively acquire, cultivate and contest particular vocal dispositions. The book deals extensively with the formation and contestation of particular, historically grounded ways of voice, from Bollywood film singers to modern raga vocality to pop Sufi song. Working from dozens of concrete examples, it fills an important gap both in South Asian ethnomusicology and in the emerging field of voice studies. Audio and video examples are provided on the online companion site.

MUS IC / C U LT U RE | W ESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Hardback • 9780819579393 • November 2021 • £70.50 296 pages • 37 figs

Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection

By Arnold Aronson, Diane Kelder, John Marciari and Laurel Peterson Examines a group of Bibiena drawings from the collection of Jules Fisher.

For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theatre designers in Europe. Their elaborate stage designs were used for operas, festivals, and courtly performances across Europe. The distinctive Bibiena style survives through their remarkable drawings, ranging from energetic sketches to highly finished watercolours. This volume examines a group of drawings from the collection of Tony-award winning Jules Fisher.

MO RGA N L I B RA RY Paperback • 9781913645045 • May 2021 • £16.50 96 pages • 60 illus.

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Living from Music in Salvador Professional Musicians and the Capital of Afro-Brazil

By Jeff Packman An ethnography about local working musicians in Brazil's "most African" city.

Examines the labor of musicians in Salvador da Bahia, widely regarded as Brazil's most African city. Drawing on over sixteen years of fieldwork ranging from Carnaval parades to studio recordings, Jeff Packman reveals that the ability of musicians to earn a living wage is contingent on their navigating industry and societal conditions that are profoundly informed by the entrenched legacies of colonisation and slavery.

MUS IC / C U LT U RE | W ESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580481 • November 2021 • £18.50 320 pages • 10 b/w illus., 1 table, 16 figs

Performance/Art The Venetian Lectures

By Shaun Gallagher and Edited by Carlos Vara Sánchez An exploration of the phenomenology of skilled performance from athletics to the performing arts.

Gallagher reviews a variety of studies concerning different degrees of mindful awareness operative in performance, and builds on the concept of a meshed architecture, suggesting ways to make it more complex and dynamic. He draws on ideas from enactivist embodied cognition about how different types of movement can be meaningful and intelligent and can scaffold learning and problem solving and develops the idea of a double attunement to explain aesthetic experience in performance.

P H ILO SOP H Y | M I M ES I S IN T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773365 • March 2021 • £17.99 190 pages

Baring Unbearable Sensualities Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power

By Rosemarie A. Roberts Theorising the experiences of black and brown bodies in hip hop dance.

Drawing on bold methodology, an interdisciplinary perspective, and a rich array of primary sources, this book complicates mainstream understandings of Hip Hop Dance that have reduced the style to a set of techniques divorced from social contexts. Using interviews and observations, the author proposes that Hip Hop Dance is a collective and sentient process of resisting oppressive manifestations of race and power. A companion website contains over 30 video clips referenced in the book.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Hardback • 9780819500052 • November 2021 • £70.50 176 pages

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Funding Bodies Five Decades of Dance Making at the National Endowment for the Arts

By Sarah Wilbur How the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding policies have shaped the field of dance.

Drawing upon archival documentation of NEA narratives, program eligibility guidelines, and standards of evaluation as well as testimonies from insiders, Wilbur theorizes endowment as an economic and practical struggle by people with differential power and competing investments in the production and professionalisation of dance. Grounded in previously unheard stories, this book brings clarity to the complex processes underlying the continuing struggle to achieve equitable resource distribution and parity of opportunity in American dance.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580528 • November 2021 • £19.95 360 pages • 20 b/w illus.

Sensing, Feeling, and Action The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering

By Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Collected essays, interviews, and exercises written by pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

Drawing from both Western and Eastern scientific knowledge, BMC is an experiential study of the body systems and the evolutionary developmental patterns that underlie human movement. Over the last thirty years, BMC has engaged the interest of a wide range of people involved in dance, performing arts, athletics, therapy, healthcare, child development, meditation, and other body/mind disciplines. The third edition includes sixteen additional pages with new articles on inspiration, expiration, and dancing.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780937645147 • April 2021 • £29.50 232 pages • 155 b/w illus.

Handbook in Motion An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and Its Manifestations in Dance

By Simone Forti Combines drawings, "dance reports", and documentary materials to explore the work of Simone Forti.

Tracing a period in her life from the 1969 Woodstock Festival through the following years living on the land, this singular dance artist's direct and poetic writings bring a turbulent transitional era to life. Her work spans from early minimalist dance-constructions, through animal movement studies, news animations, land portraits, and currently, Logomotion, an improvisational form based on the resonance between movement and the spoken word. She performs and teaches worldwide.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780937645055 • April 2021 • £10.95 152 pages

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Inside Motion An ldeokinetic Basis for Movement Education

By John Rolland A comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark body alignment work developed by John Rolland.

John Rolland (1950–1993) was a significant figure in the development of Release and Alignment Technique, as a teacher, dancer, and performer.

Carefully organised as a learning manual, this book comprises a complete description of the skeletal system. The basic goal of the work is the improvement of one's physical balance through a creative learning process that integrates mental and physical capacities.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780965166508 • April 2021 • £14.95 100 pages

Caught Falling The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas

By David Koteen and Nancy Stark Smith Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her 36-year involvement with Contact Improvisation.

The book includes Q&As between the authors tracing the history of the dance form; photos of dancing and living; life stories; anecdotes from friends, colleagues, and family; and a description of Stark Smith's Underscore — a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780937645093 • April 2021 • £24.50 128 pages

A Body in Fukushima

By Eiko Otake and William Johnston A photographic account of an extended solo performance in irradiated Fukushima between 2014 and 2019.

On five separate journeys, Japanese-born performer and dancer Eiko Otake and historian and photographer William Johnston visited multiple locations across Fukushima, creating 200 transformative colour photographs that document the irradiated landscape, accentuated by Eiko's poses depicting both the sorrow and dignity of the land. The book also includes essays and commentary reflecting on art, disaster, and grief.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Hardback • 9780819580269 • July 2021 • £25.95 220 pages • 200 colour illus., 5 maps

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Memes, Communities and Continuous Change Chinese Internet Vernacular Explained

By Hua Nie (China University of Political Science and Law) A pioneering digital ethnography of language varieties and practices on Chinese internet as a holistic sociolinguistic phenomenon.

"Chinese Internet Vernacular," a complex of novel language varieties associated with the Chinese internet, is usually thought to consist of an increasing host of linguistic memes currently or once virally spread. This book attempts to account for the different dimensions and aspects that contribute to the memes' meaning and function variations, based on the quantitative and qualitative data meticulously collected by following and recording the various memes' diffusions on Chinese social media over four years.

BR IDGE 2 1 P U B L I C AT I ON S Paperback • 9781626430181 • July 2021 • £60.00 230 pages • b/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781626430778

"Who Knows What We'd Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?" The Bible and Margaret Atwood

Edited by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter Sabo Assembles cutting-edge literary and critical readings of Atwood and the Bible.

In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, atheists, and murderers alike–the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood.

This volume explores what happens when Atwood, and we as readers, take the Bible into our own hands.

BIBLICA L I N T ERS EC T I ON S | G ORG IAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242589 • November 2020 • £49.00 437 pages

Poems without Poets Approaches to Anonymous Ancient Poetry

Edited by Boris Kayachev (University of Oxford, UK) An examination of a wide array of anonymous Greek and Latin poetry from Homeric hymns to Virgilian pseudepigrapha.

The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around names like Homer and Virgil, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to such authors. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the Helen episode in Aeneid 2. This collection of essays attempt to disentangle the historically accreted misconceptions that affect such anonymous texts.

CA M BRI D G E C L AS S I C A L JOU RN AL SU PPLEMEN TS | CAMBR IDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIE TY Hardback • 9781913701406 • March 2021 • £60.00 230 pages • 3 b/w illus.

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Like What We Imagine Essays on Writing and Teaching

By David Bartholomae A collection of essays from prominent writer David Bartholomae.

David Bartholomae has been a prominent figure in the field of composition and rhetoric for almost five decades. These essays are arranged and unified by a thread that connects some of the books and ideas, people and places, students and courses that have shaped and sustained his work. They trace his formation as a teacher, writer, and scholar, and open doors to paths of study that speak directly to issues related to global understanding across linguistic and cultural divides.

CO MP OS I T I ON , L I T ERAC Y, AN D CU LT U RE | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946724 • November 2021 • £37.50 232 pages • 20 b/w illus.

Teaching Black Pedagogy, Practice, and Perspectives on Writing

Edited by Ana Lara and Drea Brown Presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers with practical advice and historical and theoretical questions about teaching.

The authors presented here write and teach across a variety of genres and at numerous intersections, including writers of poetry, fiction, experimental fiction, playwriting, and also from creative writers who are engaged in literary studies and criticism. This book is an invaluable tool for teachers, practitioners, presses, organisational leaders, and change agents who are interested in incorporating Black literature and conversations on Black literary craft into their own work.

CO MP OS I T I ON , L I T ERAC Y, AN D CU LT U RE | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946953 • November 2021 • £37.50 280 pages

The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Koine Greek Edited by Joey McCollum and Brent Niedergall A translation of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit into Koine Greek.

Written to expand available materials for students of Koine Greek, this translation is written in Koine style and only uses vocabulary found in the Greek New Testament and Septuagint (including the Apocrypha).

Translational glosses for all words appearing fifty times and fewer are included at the bottom of each page. An English translation of the Greek text is included in the back of the book.

GO RG IA S H A N D B OOK S | G ORG IAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242237 • February 2021 • £17.00 56 pages

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Journal of Language Relationship Edited by Vladimir Dybo A collection of essays from international scholars featuring comparative linguistics and the history of language.

An international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. This popular journal features a wide array of leading articles written in both English and Russian alongside scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.

J O UR NAL OF L AN G UAG E RELAT ION SH IP | G ORG IAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242510 • November 2020 • £57.00 179 pages

Structural Lexicology and the Greek New Testament Applying Corpus Linguistics for Word Sense Possibility Delimitation Using Collocational Indicators

By Todd Price Shows how an analysis of large corpora of Hellenistic Greek can advance our understanding of lexical semantics.

This book is a practical introduction to the use of digital corpora in the description and definition of New Testament Greek. The book traces the development of corpus linguistics as used in dictionary making and demonstrates how this approach can be applied to Greek-English lexica, with a special emphasis on defining words in context by disambiguating their possible meanings.

Included are numerous case studies in the Greek New Testament applying the method to exegetically problematic texts.

P E R S P EC T I V ES ON L I N GU IST ICS AN D AN CIEN T LAN G UAGE S | GORGIAS PR E SS Paperback • 9781463242206 • August 2020 • £36.00 269 pages

Intellectual Currents and the Practice of Engagement Ottoman and Algerian Writers in a Francophone Milieu, 1890–1914

By David Beamish Examines the French-language writings of Ottoman and Algerian writers between 1890 and 1914.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a great increase in the use of the printed word and the press by non-European actors to express ideas and participate in the intellectual life of their home societies and a wider international context. This book examines the French-language writings of Ottoman and Algerian writers across multiple platforms between 1890 and 1914, examining how they were working to situate themselves within a specific cultural and intellectual space.

THE MOD ERN M U S L I M WORLD | G ORG IAS PRESS Hardback • 9781463242398 • January 2021 • £78.00 212 pages

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A History of the Study of Grammar Among the Syrians Edited by Daniel King An English translation of Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros.

An English translation of a Latin work on the Syriac grammatical tradition ('Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros') by the 19th-century German theologian and linguist, Adalbert Merx.

GO RG IA S P RES S Hardback • 9781463241971 • May 2021 • £69.00 500 pages

Old Norse – Old Icelandic Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas

By Jesse Byock and Randall Gordon A straightforward and easy-to-use Old Norse primer for learning the language of Vikings and sagas.

This is a modern “primer” for learning to read Icelandic sagas and Viking myths in their original language. With carefully designed grammar explanations, vocabulary, and exercises, this new book is easy-to-use and requires no previous language knowledge. Suitable for self-instruction, inclass use, and distance teaching, students read Old Norse passages from sagas as well as episodes from Scandinavian myth and history. Free answer keys to the exercises are provided online.

J ULE S WI L L I AM S P RES S Paperback • 9781953947093 • May 2021 • £16.99 215 pages

Supplementary Exercises for Old Norse – Old Icelandic

By Jesse Byock and Randall Gordon A workbook of Old Norse exercises with vocabulary, maps, and answer key.

A brand new workbook of 17 lessons designed for those who want to learn or sharpen their skills in Old Norse with innovative exercises, word games, and map questions. With a full vocabulary and a free online answer key, it also contains Old Norse readings drawn from the Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok and mythic passages from The Prose Edda describing a journey of the Norse gods, the great dragon´s treasure, and the magical ring of the dwarves.

J ULE S WI L L I AM S P RES S Paperback • 9780988176409 • May 2021 • £12.99 122 pages • b/w illus.

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Occasional Views, Volume 2 "The Gamble" and Other Essays

By Samuel R. Delany A diverse collection of essays and interviews from one of literature's most iconic voices.

fiction.

Samuel R. Delaney is the acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature and fiction, whose work has fundamentally altered science fiction through their explorations of difference. This volume is both an anthology of essays, talks, and interviews covering topics ranging from sex and sexuality to Willa Cather, and a collection of over 25 pieces on films, poetry and science

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819579782 • January 2022 • £18.50 400 pages

Remainders of the American Century Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline

By Brent Ryan Bellamy Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel.

This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of post-apocalyptic writing, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields, including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580320 • July 2021 • £18.50 256 pages

Early Greek Alphabetic Writing A Linguistic Approach

By Natalia Elvira Astoreca Explores ancient Greek scripts and their development and evolution.

Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic Greece. This study compares the different Greek alphabets in their earliest stages, i.e. 8th and 7th centuries BC, also taking into account other contemporaneous alphabets, like those for Phrygian, Eteocretan and the Italic languages.

CO N TE X TS OF AN D REL AT ION S B ET WEEN EARLY WRIT ING SYSTE MS | OXBOW BOOKS Hardback • 9781789257434 • August 2021 • £38.00 144 pages • b/w & colour illus.

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Hoax Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds

By Edward Steers and Joe Nickell An investigation into the conspiracies that shape our history, and the disturbing reason why we believe them.

Hoax examines the legitimacy of the Shroud of Turin and the discovery of fossils confirming humanity's "missing link," the Piltdown Man. It exmaines the forged Hitler diaries and the "Oath of a Freeman," as well as conspiracy theories alleging that Franklin D. Roosevelt had prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor and that the details of Lincoln's assassination are recorded in missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's journal.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813181264 • April 2021 • £15.00 248 pages • 62 b/w illus.

Desert Drivers

By Andrew Goudie (University of Oxford, UK) The exhilarating stories of civilian and military drivers who crossed the Sahara Desert in the early 20th century.

The exploration of the Sahara – a huge swathe of terrain the size of India – by motor car is one of the great untold chapters in the story of early 20th century exploration. The new volume in the popular Short North African Histories series, this book brings together the best stories of intrepid desert drivers in the early 20th century, crossing the vast and sometimes dangerous expanses of the Sahara.

S O CIE T Y FOR L I BYAN S TU D IES Paperback • 9781900971973 • December 2020 • £10.00 96 pages

National Development in Romania and Southeastern Europe Edited by Paul E. Michelson, Kurt W. Treptow, Ernest H. Latham, Dennis Deletant and Radu R. Florescu A collection of studies reflecting the range of Cornelia Bodea’s work on Romanian national development, cultural legacy, and diplomatic history.

Cornelia Bodea’s work on Romanian history and culture is vast. It ranges from an effort to elucidate the image of Napoleon, as seen by Polish participants in Napoleon's failed Russia invasion to an illuminating study on British cultural policy in Romania, post-World War II Romanian-American relations. Known for combining discovery and elaboration of apparently small, but significant details along with important documentary and other resource material, this book is an ode to her exceptional work.

CE NTE R FOR ROM AN I A N ST U D IES Paperback • 9781592110988 • July 2021 • £24.99 176 pages

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The New Perlustration of Greenland

By Hans Egede A newly revised classic on the history of fascism in Romania and Hungary.

The first comprehensive and objective account of the history of fascist movements, specifically the Arrow Cross in Hungary and Legion of the Archangel Michael in Romania, in the two countries from 1918 to 1945.

The author considers their evolution and growth during the interwar period, as well as during the tragic periods in which each movement came to power in its respective country, drawing conclusions and parallels from the comparative history of the two movements.

INTE R N AT I ON AL P OL AR IN ST IT U T E Paperback • 9781736690208 • May 2021 • £25.00 224 pages

Bone Wars The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By Tom Rea The story of Diplodocus carnegii – once the most famous dinosaur on the planet.

The most complete fossil skeleton unearthed to date, and one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, Diplodocus was displayed in a dozen museums around the world and viewed by millions of people. Bone Wars explains how a fossil unearthed in the badlands of Wyoming in 1899 helped give birth to the public’s fascination with prehistoric beasts. With the help of letters found in scattered archives, Tom Rea recreates a remarkable story of hubris, hope, and turn-of-the-century science.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Paperback • 9780822966708 • September 2021 • £13.00 288 pages

Prelude to the Past The Autobiography of a Woman

By Rosie Gräefenberg and Ernest H. Latham The story of the scandal that brought down the most powerful press empire in Europe.

Rosie Gräefenberg enjoyed an adventurous life as she pursued her career in journalism and ultimately married Franz Ullstein, head of a powerful publishing dynasty and key representative of the democratic press establishment in pre-World War II Germany. But an unconventional marriage soon thrust Rosie into the greatest scandal the German Republic would endure – the Ullstein Affair. Rosie Gräefenberg provides a masterful, impassioned account of these events, in a fast-paced narrative, revealing many of the surprising motives behind them.

GAUDIU M Paperback • 9781592110414 • August 2021 • £24.99 368 pages

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A Description of Moldavia

By Dimitrie Cantemir and Edited by A.K. Brackob Provides unique insight into the geography, history, economy, ethnography, culture, and traditions of Moldavia.

Born to a noble family, the author, Dimitrie Cantemir, ruled as Prince of Moldavia on two occasions (March–April 1693 and 1710–1711). He wrote his Description of Moldavia (Descriptio Moldaviae) in 1716 at the request of the Royal Academy in Berlin, including the first real map of the country. This is the first time that it has appeared in the English language.

CE NTE R FOR ROM AN I A N ST U D IES Hardback • 9781592110254 • October 2021 • £44.99 276 pages • b/w illus.

Dark History of Penn’s Woods Murder, Madness, and Misadventure in Southeastern Pennsylvania

By Jennifer L. Green Seven true "dark histories” from the Greater Philadelphia region.

When ships under the command of European settlers first sailed into the Delaware Bay in the early 1600s, Pennsylvania’s documented history of strange and macabre events began. Jennifer L. Green transports readers through three centuries of murder, disease, witchcraft, cannibalism and botched executions in Chester and Delaware counties, using archival evidence and research to explain how historical oddities and tragedies occurred.

CA S E MAT E P U B L I S H ERS Paperback • 9781955041003 • October 2021 • £22.99 160 pages | eBook available: 9781955041010

Voices from the Peace Corps Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers

By Angene Wilson, Jack Wilson and Glenn Blumhorst Emphasises the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural connections that span the globe.

President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961.

In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the United States. This book follows the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to join, attend training, adjust to living overseas and the job, make friends, and eventually return home to serve in their communities.

KE N TUC K Y REM EM B ERED : AN ORAL H ISTORY SERIES | U NIVE R SITY PR E SS OF KE NTUCKY Paperback • 9780813151816 • July 2021 • £19.00 400 pages • 24 b/w illus., 1 map

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The Best Ever!

Parades in New England, 1788–1940

By Jane C. Nylander Explores the traditions of Parades and their role in American culture.

Explores the tradition of Parades as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England — events that at once celebrated the American Story and amplified distinctive regional and broader national cultures. Illustrated with nearly 300 photos, this book offers unseen pictures of parades, including floats and banners that have mostly disappeared, ranging from the Federal Ship carried in the 1788 Ratification parade at New Haven to 1940, when the parade tradition halted due to WWII. BAUH A N P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9780872333451 • July 2021 • £22.00 384 pages

Whiskey Boys And Other Meditations from the Abyss at the End of Youth

By Phillip Hurst A lively collection of literary essays about bars, booze, and travelling the American West.

This book follows the author from a small town to the West Coast after he abandons a legal career to pursue writing. Much of the narrative concerns growing up and what’s gained and lost with maturity, while considering the challenges of living as a writer in a culture that’s sceptical of the creative arts. Subtly discusses travel, wanderlust, the psychological effect of place, and mortality.

BAUH A N P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9780872333574 • December 2021 • £14.50 180 pages

The Most Hated Man in Kentucky The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge

By Brad Asher Explores how Burbridge earned his infamous reputation.

For the last third of the nineteenth century, Union General Stephen Gano Burbridge enjoyed the unenviable distinction of being the most hated man in Kentucky. Beyond successfully recalibrating history's understanding of Burbridge, Asher's biography adds administrative and military context to the state's reaction to emancipation and sheds new light on its post-war pro-Confederacy shift.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813181370 • July 2021 • £34.00 242 pages • 14 b/w illus.

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Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public Community Libraries in Pennsylvania

By Bernadette Lear Charts the history of public libraries and librarianship in Pennsylvania.

Based on archival research at more than 50 libraries and historical societies, this book describes a long progression from private, subscription-based associations to publicly funded institutions, highlighting the dramatic period during the late 19th century and early 20th century when libraries were ‘thrown open’ to women, children, and the poor. It highlights Pennsylvania’s libraries’ many contributions to the social fabric and shows that they have made their greatest strides when community activists and librarians have worked collaboratively.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Hardback • 9780822947004 • October 2021 • £45.00 464 pages

Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song

By George Ella Lyon and Illustrated by Christopher Cardinale The story of the classic union song that was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets.

George Ella Lyon tells the hair-raising story of a classic union song through the eyes of one of its author’s daughters — a dry-witted, pig-tailed gal whose vantage point is from under the bed with her six brothers and sisters.

Graphic novelist Christopher Cardinale brings Florence's triumphant story to life in true rip-roaring union style.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9781950564149 • November 2021 • £19.00 40 pages

The Assault on Elisha Green Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community

By Randolph Paul Runyon (Miami University) One man's pursuit of justice over violence and racism in the nineteenth century.

Explores the story and the significance of Rev. Elisha Green’s lawsuit against his two white assaulters. Runyon tells the story of Green's life and traces the network of relationships that led to the event of the assault, recounting one man's pursuit of justice over violence and racism in the nineteenth century.

He masterfully interweaves background information with the harrowing attack and its aftermath, revealing the true character of the primary actors and the racial tensions unique to a border state.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813152387 • October 2021 • £26.00 220 pages • 15 b/w illus., 5 maps

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Bonds of Womanhood The World of a White Anti-Slavery Slaveholder

By Susanna Delfino Compelling addition to the continuing conversation on the complicity of white, southern women in the slave labour economy.

Susanna Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891), a white plantation mistress and slaveholder, struggled to participate in the economic modernisation of antebellum Kentucky, both morally and financially. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondences, Delfino seeks to understand how white women participated in the economic transformation of 1840s Kentucky. Rather than a simple account of white domestic labour, Grigsby's letters reveal a rich variety of interlocking gender, class, and race-related issues.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813154831 • December 2021 • £30.00 230 pages

A Second Reckoning Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

Edited by Scott D. Seligman The story of a murder, a hanging, and the centuries-long search for justice for minorities under the American legal system.

This book tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried by an all-white jury, and sentenced to death. Using Snowden’s story – including his posthumous pardon in 2001 – this book examines the profound effect such acts of clemency can have on the living, and how they can begin to make amends for past racial injustices.

P OTO M AC B OOK S , I N C .

Hardback • 9781640124653 • October 2021 • £25.99 288 pages

Dracul: In the Name of the Father The Untold Story of Vlad II Dracul, Founder of the Dracula Dynasty

By A.K. Brackob Extensive documentary research traces the history of the real founder of the Dracula dynasty.

The elder Vlad gained the sobriquet Dracul or Dracula when initiated into the Order of the Dragon in February 1431. Several books have been devoted to the study of his famous son, Vlad the Impaler, but any search for the historical Dracula must begin with the story of the father. Here, the true story of the man who founded the Dracula dynasty is revealed.

GAUDIU M Hardback • 9781592110278 • October 2021 • £39.99 400 pages

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Snatch Racket The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America

By Carolyn Cox Takes the reader behind the scenes of gripping kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s.

An estimated 3000 Americans were kidnapped for ransom in the year 1931.

They were early victims of a kidnapping wave that grew to be an epidemic in the twilight days of Prohibition as urban gangs looked for new revenue streams to replace the once lucrative business of bootlegging. The Snatch Racket is the frightening story of this crime epidemic and the three-year War against kidnappers waged by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to eradicate it.

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Hardback • 9781640122031 • May 2021 • £27.00 384 pages

Getting Right with Lincoln Correcting Misconceptions About Our Greatest President

By Edward Steers and Foreword by Joseph Garrera Rectifies some of the most common misconceptions about President Abraham Lincoln.

Of the many presidents and founding figures of the United States, few have garnered more attention than Abraham Lincoln. In this book, Ed Steers addresses some of the most prominent misconceptions about Lincoln's life. His entertaining writing style and contention with some of the more popular and provocative Lincoln revisionist histories will garner attention from broad audiences who are interested in Lincoln's story and getting to the bottom of the stories that surround him.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813180908 • May 2021 • £20.00 216 pages • 65 b/w illus.

Before the Military Revolution European Warfare and the Rise of the Early Modern State 1300–1490

By Alexander Querengässer Examines European Warfare and economic transformation in the late Middle Ages (1300–1490).

This book argues that the economic changes during the late Middle Ages are among the most fundamental in the military and political organisation of Europe until the rise of the constitutional state around 1800. Through a critical look at other developments of this age such as the infantry and artillery revolution and the decline of cavalry, the author concludes that the economic changes come closer to the original concept of a military revolution.

OX BOW B OOK S Hardback • 9781789256697 • July 2021 • £50.00 256 pages • b/w illus. | eBook available: 9781789256703

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Time to Call Home

By Hugh O'Donnell With recourse to poetry, scripture, art and music, Hugh O’Donnell takes the reader on an awesome ecological journey.

Time to Call Home is a collection of short meditations inspired by Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical letter on climate change, that encourages the reader to take courage in the face of adversity and to ponder the astonishing gift of the natural world. Unlike many examinations of the environmental crisis that are understandably prescriptive in approach, the aim of this particular work is not to admonish but to embolden.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309624 • June 2021 • £13.50 144 pages

Every Bush Aflame

By John Feehan Argues that those whose lives are directed by the spiritual perspective should be the most motivated to respond to the current environmental crisis.

The theme that echoes most frequently through Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark publication on the environment, is the central role of biodiversity in creation spirituality. Every Bush Aflame is an extended reflection on this theme, exploring the origins of biodiversity in Christian theology, its roots in our growing scientific understanding of the true nature and scale of life’s complexity and diversity, and the implications of all this for the kind of Christian response called for in Laudato Si'.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309488 • June 2021 • £13.50 256 Pages

Victor Bewley’s Memoirs (new edition)

By Fionan Murdoch Revised edition of Victor Bewley’s Memoirs, which includes a new foreword.

This revised edition of Victor Bewley’s Memoirs, which includes a new foreword, gives a frank account of his life, revealing why in 1972 he and his brothers handed over Bewley’s cafes to the staff, what drove him to dedicate great time and energy to improving the lives of many, why he described parts of his life as ‘undiluted hell’ and how he ended up carrying secret messages from the IRA to the British government.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309914 • June 2021 • £13.50 156 pages

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The World of Monsieur Vincent The Life of St Vincent de Paul

By Mary Purcell Traces Vincent de Paul’s life in the grandeur and the misery of 17th century France.

In The World of Monsieur Vincent, Mary Purcell gives readers a fascinating portrait of the saint who saw ‘Christ agonising in every human being who suffered, and who spent a lifetime in trying to assuage that agony’. This is a valuable study of both a renowned saint’s life and the turbulent times in which he lived.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309556 • May 2021 • £11.99 288 pages

Meditating on the Mysteries of Salvation

By Frank Drescher Provides an extensive and joyful guide to praying the Rosary.

This book is a practical and spiritual guidebook to the Holy Rosary, which not only examines the meaning of its mysteries, but also creates awareness that the Rosary is a prayer deeply rooted in Sacred Scripture. It includes the basic prayers and the traditional sets of mysteries but also goes beyond that to provide new topics for meditation on a rosary.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309877 • May 2021 • £4.50 32 pages

Advent News: Too Good to Keep Daily Reflections for Advent

By Gerard Gallagher Selection of scripture readings and reflections.

Advent News: Too Good to Keep is a thought-provoking selection of scripture readings and reflections designed to accompany the reader through the season of Advent. This accessible and practical guide, which also includes inspirational quotations and questions to prompt the reader to effect change in their day-to-day lives, is the perfect companion for this essential period in the Church calendar.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309792 • March 2021 • £7.50 98 pages

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Veritas Sunday Missal

By Veritas Official text for Sunday mass in the Roman Catholic Church throughout the church year.

This brand-new edition of the Glenstal Sunday Missal is now the Veritas Sunday Missal, now including the reference to St Joseph in Eucharistic Prayers II, III and IV and the new amendment to the collects. Covering the three-year Liturgical Cycle, this volume also details the Order of the Mass with Eucharistic Prayers, Prefaces, Concluding Rites and Blessings and lists of Feast Days and readings.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Hardback • 9781847309785 • March 2021 • £22.50 1296 pages

Peace Smiles Rediscovering Thomas Mertin

By Bishop Fintan Monahan Covers Thomas Merton’s childhood and rather turbulent adolescence, to his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

This book traces Thomas Merton’s fascinating and often troubled life, from a disrupted childhood and turbulent adolescence to his conversion to Roman Catholicism and his life in the Trappist Monastery of Gethsemani. Bishop Monahan explores Merton as artist, social critic and ecumenist, his anti-war and anti-racism stances until his untimely death at the age of fifty-three.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309709 • March 2021 • £8.99 120 pages

Coming of Age Navigating Parish Pastoral Council Responsibilities – A Benedictine Perspective

By Justin Harkin A guide for those serving on Parish Pastoral Councils.

This book has been written for all who serve on Parish Pastoral Councils.

It has been written particularly for women and men who exert a service of leadership, or who feel called to exert such a service in a spirit of coresponsibility with others.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309891 • May 2021 • £13.50 208 pages

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Holy Shocking Saints The Extraordinary Lives of Twelve Irish Saints

By Síne Quinn and Margaret Anne Suggs Celebrating the extraordinary lives of twelve remarkable people Holy Shocking Saints is a beautifully illustrated book celebrating the extraordinary lives of twelve remarkable people. Whether mystics, healers or holy people, their strong belief was the catalyst that set them on the spiritual path. From Colmcille confronting the Loch Ness Monster to Lí Ban transforming into a mermaid for three hundred years, this collection of stories will delight readers aged seven and up.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Hardback • 9781847309716 • March 2021 • £13.99 32 pages

Patris Corde

By Pope Francis A very personal reflection on the importance of St Joseph as the husband of Mary.

Pope Francis gives a personal reflection on the importance of St Joseph as the husband of Mary, the father of Our Saviour and protector of the Church. It presents St Joseph as an example of the type of tender, loving and courageous father so sorely needed in the world and in the Church.

This volume includes the decree from the Apostolic Penitentiary detailing the conditions for the Special Indulgence available during the Jubilee Year in Honour of St Joseph.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309938 • June 2021 • £2.99 40 pages

Seven Voices of Hope

By Lorcan Kenny A sensory prayer book for individual or group use combining Franciscan and Augustinian spirituality.

In Seven Voices of Hope we hear from seven characters from the Easter story: Mary Magdalene; Peter; John; Thomas; Simon of Cyrene; the soldier; and Veronica. Each voice is unique. Each voice has a different tempo, feeling and resonance. Each contains comfort, inspiration and, above all, hope.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309853 • May 2021 • £7.50 40 pages

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Daily Wisdom/Léann an Lae Irish Proverbs and Sayings for Each Day of the Year

By John Quinn A seanfhocal (Irish proverb) for each day of the year alongside commentary and practical exercises for improving vocabulary.

Proverbs from the Irish language – seanfhocail – hark back to a time when Ireland was predominantly agricultural, poor and Catholic; though centuries old, they are integral to a sense of culture and are rich in wisdom that remains relevant today. This book, which includes a seanfhocal for each day of the year alongside commentary and practical exercises for improving vocabulary, covers topics ranging from the nature and weather to health and happiness.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Hardback • 9781847309600 • March 2021 • £13.99 272 pages

A Creed for Today Faith and Commitment for our New Earth Awareness

By Donal Dorr Topical new work that explores the interplay between ecological theology and spirituality at this critical juncture in the 21st century.

Donal Dorr explores the interplay between an ecological spirituality and traditional Christian faith. Rather than seeing ecological spirituality as an adjunct to Christian doctrine, Dorr views it as central to the understanding of Christianity today. Stressing the importance of ‘new earth awareness’, this book lays out a compelling vision for how we should live both spiritually and practically in regards to our Christian faith and our role as stewards of the Earth.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309389 • March 2021 • £13.99 160 pages

Master, the One you Love is Ill Reflections on Illness and Caring for the Sick

By Eamonn P. Bourke Simple reflections gently guide the reader to Lord Jesus who seeks out the lost, the lonely, and the ill.

Illness is one of the most challenging and disturbing experiences for any person. It can shake us to the very core and make us question everything we hold dear. Prayer that might have flowed so easily when we were well can, in times of illness, feel impossible. This book explores what it means to pray as you can, using the resources that you have, at a time when the closeness of God is needed more than ever.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309846 • July 2021 • £11.99

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Liturgical Calendar for Ireland 2021 Ordo 2021

By National Secretarial for Liturgy and Edited by (Rev.) Paddy Jones The essential guide to the Church’s daily round of prayer, based on the Roman Calendar.

This calendar not only provides the basic rules for celebrating the liturgy but also notes and commentaries for a deeper understanding of the liturgical celebrations. This calendar has been revised according to the third typical edition of the Roman Missal. Perfect for authors of ordines and other liturgical aids to foster the celebration of the liturgy in our country.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Spiralbound • 9781847309594 • March 2021 • £9.99 208 pages

Through the Year with the Irish Saints

By Stella Durand A series of fascinating biographical accounts of Irish saints for each day of the year.

This beautiful devotional book guides us through a year in the company of Irish saints, interspersed with short reflections designed to prompt the reader to consider how these venerated figures can shape the spiritual lives of the faithful today. Historically accurate whilst also reflecting on the inner meaning of stories and legends surrounding particular saints, the reader will be inspired by stories of heroism and steadfast faith.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309174 • March 2021 • £15.99 156 pages

A Little Less than Angels Sketch of a Biblical Anthropology

By Maurice Hogan An introduction and guide through the complexity of the biblical narrative The Bible provides answers to fundamental questions about life and death that people have always been asking. Biblical symbolism still has a powerful appeal even today to change lives, to give reasons for living and dying and a solid hope for a future worthy of human beings. A Little Less than Angels can serve as an introduction and guide through the complexity of the biblical narrative as readers endeavour to re-enact in their own lives the experiences contained therein.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309907 • June 2021 • £13.50 288 pages

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Exploring Christus Vivit Making Room for the Young Church

Edited by Gerard Gallagher Message of hope and consolation to all the faithful, with a particular focus on the young people of today and their relationship with Jesus.

In his apostolic exhortation Christus Vivat, Pope Francis offers words of hope and consolidation to all the faithful, focusing particularly on young people and encouraging their friendship with Jesus. Reflecting these themes, this instructive volume brings together people from the youth ministry to explore practical ways young people can navigate life’s challenges and setbacks, while still ‘walking the path to holiness’.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309457 • March 2021 • £8.99 118 pages

The History of the Russian Church in Australia Siberia to Sydney

By Michael A. Protopopov (Melbourne Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies, Australia) The history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Australia chronicled in the context of a modern culturally diverse society.

A chronological account of the Russian Orthodox Church in Australia within the wider context of the place of Russians in a dominantly anglophone society. Drawing on extensive archival sources spread over several continents together with his own life experience, the author traces this history from the arrival of Russian naval ships in Australia in the 19th century to 2020.

H O LY T RI N I T Y S EM I N A RY PRESS Paperback • 9781942699347 • September 2021 • £28.99 704 pages

William Palmer The Oxford Movement and a Quest for Orthodoxy

By Robin Wheeler The fascinating story of the failed 'journey to Orthodoxy' by the Oxford Movement of the Anglican Church in the 19th century.

This book charts the eccentric career of one of the most prominent members of The Oxford Movement, William Palmer, who pioneered the movement towards the Orthodox Church. This is the fascinating account of a failed ‘journey to Orthodoxy’ that provides food for thought to all who may follow this path in the future and offer grounds for reflection to Orthodox believers on how to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks that can arise on their path to their Church.

H O LY T RI N I T Y S EM I N A RY PRESS Paperback • 9781942699378 • May 2021 • £34.99 384 pages • 1 b/w illus.

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The Ecclesial Crisis in Ukraine and its Solution According to the Sacred Canons

By Tylliria Nikiforos and Metropolitan of Kykkos An exploration into effect of the Ukranian crisis on the Orthodox Church.

In this book, the Abbot of Kykkos Monastery (Cyprus) explains why the actions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate have created a schism in the Orthodox Church and promoted a new ecclesiology that distorts the traditional understanding of the church. Essential reading for all Orthodox believers to understand what the Ukrainian crisis means for the future of their Church, it will also assist others to see beyond the crisis as a political event in relations between Russia and the West.

H O LY T RI N I T Y S EM I N A RY PRESS Paperback • 9781942699415 • June 2021 • £7.99 104 pages

My Life in Christ The Spiritual Journals of St John of Kronstadt

By John of Kronstadt, translated by E. E. Goulaeff and revised by Nicholas Kotar A revised edition of St John’s reflections on his profound spiritual experience and love for Jesus Christ and the Church.

In this new edition, the English translation has been thoroughly revised and freshly typeset to make St John's own words more accessible to today's reader. This new paperback edition is presented in a single, complete volume, together with scripture and subject indices to aid the reader. This is the kind of book you will return to time and time again. Appropriate, relevant, and edifying reading for all Christians.

P R IN TS H OP OF S T J OB O F POCH AEV Paperback • 9780884654476 • November 2020 • £28.99 568 pages

Life after Death According to the Orthodox Tradition

By Jean-Claude Larchet and translated by G. John Champoux An accessible and well organised synthesis of the ancient Christian understanding of death and the afterlife.

Drawing primarily from the Greek language writings of the Fathers of the Church whilst also bringing the perspectives of Western Latin sources, this book provides an understanding of the classical Christian teaching of what lies beyond our temporal life. Noting the divergences between eastern and western traditions since the 5th century, it argues they have increased in importance since the 12th century as the Roman Catholic Church developed the notion of Purgatory.

P R IN TS H OP OF S T J OB O F POCH AEV Paperback • 9780884654773 • September 2021 • £19.99 344 pages

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On This Day (July) The Armenian Church Synaxarion (Yaysmawurk')

Edited by Edward Mathews Jr. Seventh volume of saints’ lives, arranged by the day of the year on which they are celebrated.

The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. This volume, the first Armenian-English edition, is the seventh of a twelve–volume series - one for each month of the year - and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for anyone interested in saints.

THE A R M EN I A N C H U RC H SYN AX ARION | G ORG IAS PRESS Hardback • 9781463242879 • July 2021 • £69.00 200 pages

Living the Quran with Joy and Purpose Selections on Tawhid from Said Nursi's Epistles of Light

By Yamina Bouguenaya and Umeyye Yazicioglu An annotated translation of selections from noteworthy Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1876–1960).

The current volume is an annotated translation of selections from noteworthy Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1876–1960) on the Quranic theme of oneness of God (tawhid). Given the scarcity of theological themes in Islamic literature in English as well as the lack of studies on Said Nursi, who wrote in Ottoman Turkish, the book is an important contribution to the field. It offers a contemporary peek into the view that faith in God could be profoundly meaningful and fulfilling spiritual path.

THE MOD ERN M U S L I M WORLD | G ORG IAS PRESS Hardback • 9781463242695 • December 2020 • £84.00 244 pages

Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830

By Peter E. Gilmore An historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America.

Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church.

In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches. Gilmore contends that ritual and daily religious practice, as understood and carried out by migrant generations, were abandoned or altered by American-born generations in the context of major economic change.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Paperback • 9780822966678 • February 2021 • £15.50 216 pages

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A Different World An English Vicar in West Cork

By Hilary Wakeman A fish-out-of-water tale of a female English vicar moving to rural West Cork.

A quarter of a century ago, Canon Hilary Wakeman became the Rector of a Church of Ireland parish in the far southwest of Ireland, a very different world from her English home in Norwich. This book is Hilary’s record of her memorable first year in West Cork, including challenges, setbacks, and tragedies but also great joy and even romance.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359355 • September 2021 • £15.95 176 pages • 40 colour illus.

I Am With you Still Faith Reflections from a Covid-19 World

By Fintan Monahan Explorations and reflections on faith during a global pandemic.

In I Am With You Still, 17 voices from across Ireland and further afield, from different backgrounds and faiths, reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their lives and their faith, and look forward with hope to the future.

Throughout the book, writer and broadcaster John Quinn provides a series of short reflections, memories and poems written during lockdown that capture something of our journey through the universal time of isolation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309822 • May 2021 • £11.99 288 pages

A Roomful of Elephants My First 80 Years in the Church

By Patrick Forbes An entertaining autobiography looking back at an exceptionally varied ministry in the Church of England.

Rev. Patrick Forbes looks back at an exceptionally varied ministry in the Church of England—from being the idiot curate to parish priest, to religious programs producer, to a BBC Radio 2’s “Pause For Thought” contributor, to co-founder of the Holy Fools UK, all while asking challenging questions about the future direction of the church. Forbes often finds and points out the humour and not-so-funny “elephants in the room”, after his more than 80 years in the church.

BAUH A N P U B L I S H I N G Paperback • 9780872333420 • July 2021 • £14.99 172 pages

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Asian Philosophers and Their Discontents Edited by Takeshi Morisato (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) and Roman Pașca (Kyoto University, Japan) Translations of neglected texts from Asian philosophical traditions alongside critical essays.

As the third volume in a series dedicated to making primary sources of Asian philosophies available to an international audience, this book includes a diverse range of primary sources written by thinkers from a wide range of historical periods and intellectual traditions, including India, China, Korea and Japan. The main theme is the concept of "discontents", focusing on the way different philosophical traditions of Asia enter into dialogue with each other, as well as their critical engagement with Western thought.

A S IA N P H I LOS OP H I C AL T EX TS | MIMESIS IN T ERN AT ION A L Paperback • 9788869773341 • September 2021 • £19.99 200 pages

The Atmospherical "We" Moods and Collective Feelings

By Tonino Griffero (University of Rome, Italy) This book explores the relationship between atmospheres, expressive qualities, moods and collective feelings.

Based on the neo-phenomenological theory of atmosphere perception as a primary pathic impression and bodily communication, this book explores the relationship between atmospheres, expressive qualities, moods, and collective feelings. It clarifies the key features of a general “pathic” aesthetic.

By realising how they expose themselves to what happens, perceivers turn out not to be "subjects of something" but rather "subject to something".

ATM O SP H ERI C S PAC ES | MIMESIS IN T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773334 • March 2021 • £19.99 200 pages

Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry Edited by Amy Dayton and Jennie Vaughn The historiography of feminist rhetorical research raises ethical questions about whose stories are told and how.

Women and other marginalised people have been excluded historically from many formal institutions, and researchers in this field often turn to alternative archives to explore how women have used writing and rhetoric to participate in civic life, share their lived experiences, and effect change.

The chapters in this volume present a frank conversation about the ways in which feminist scholars engage in the work of recovering hidden rhetorics, and grapple with the ethical challenges raised by this recovery work.

CO MP OS I T I ON , L I T ERAC Y, AN D CU LT U RE | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946731 • September 2021 • £37.50 224 pages • 10 b/w illus.

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Images, Philosophy, Communication Aesthetics and Thought in Japan and the World

Edited by Christopher Craig (Tohoku University, Japan), Enrico Fongaro (Tohoku University, Japan), Raffaele Milani (University of Bologna, Italy) and James Tink (Tohoku University, Japan) A collection of papers examining human labour as expressed in the arts across East Asia and Europe.

Adopting a perspective that crosses over from the classical world and into the future, this volume analyses human labour as expressed in the arts, poetics, and creative techniques. This is based on a basic idea that cuts across cultures and epochs, and the framework of Japanese, East Asian, and Western history.

Drawing from prominent international scholars in art history, aesthetics, and philosophy, it provides a new perspective on images and the philosophies connected with them in Japan and Europe.

H A S E KU RA L EAG U E I N T ERCU LT U RAL ST U D IES ED IT ION S | MIME SIS INTE R NATIONAL Paperback • 9788869773303 • July 2021 • £19.99 200 pages

Fear and Disruption of Habits During the Pandemic Edited by Marco Piazza (University of Rome, Italy) and Corinna Guerra (Centre Koyré, France) A historical and philosophical approach to understanding COVID-19 from scholars with diverse perspectives and opinions.

Could the pandemic affect shared habits in specific territories, habits that were ultimately generated in reaction to other natural risks and threats?

When philosophers address the issue of collective habits, they have generally emphasised that caution us required when it comes to changing them. Through a historical and philosophical approach, this book brings together a diverse range of scholars with differing opinions on the pandemic to provide a holistic understanding our current situation.

P H ILO SOP H Y | M I M ES I S IN T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773297 • November 2021 • £19.99 200 pages

In-Between Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life

Edited by Karen Ida Dannesboe, Jon Dag Rasmussen and Anne-Lene Sand Explores the many wonderous small cracks and unnoticed phenomena inherent to everyday life.

A collection of empirically based texts all of which are based on ethnographic (field)work focused around the small, unnoticed and seemingly insignificant phenomena that occur in the arenas of everyday life. Taking off from empirical settings such as schools, homes, institutions and urban spaces the chapters focus on the material, sensory and bodily aspects of belonging, inhabiting, learning, becoming and living.

A A R HU S U N I V ERS I T Y P RESS Paperback • 9788772191386 • July 2021 • £49.00 380 pages • colour illus.

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The Gilded Age

By Owen Dwyer An award-winning, burnt out writer is visited by the characters he is researching while writing a book about the assassination of President James Garfield.

Richard Todd, writer, can’t write anymore, paralysed by a sense of futility.

His publisher sends Jenny Lambe, a talented young editor, to help him work on his latest book about the assassination of Garfield by Charles Guiteau. In between falling for Jenny and leaving his wife, Richard is visited in turn by the major players surrounding Garfield's death, giving their own views on the assassination and on Richard’s own choices and their consequences.

LIBE RTI ES P RES S Paperback • 9781912589234 • September 2021 • £13.99 256 pages

At Medeleni A Summer in Moldavia

By Ionel Teodoreanu, Eugenia Farca, A.K. Brackob and Alexandra Maxim A classic work of Romanian literature and a wonderful novel for all ages.

A novel full of warmth, wit, love, and the pursuit of dreams, the story takes place during the years between the two world wars. It is a delightful account of brother-sister rivalry, and the life of a generally happy, easy-going family in rural Moldavia. Ionel Teodoreanu captivates your mind and your heart and places you alongside his memorable characters: Olga, Monica, and Dan. CLA S S IC S OF ROM A N I A N LIT ERAT U RE | CEN T ER FOR ROM ANIAN STUDIE S Hardback • 9781592111107 • November 2021 • £29.99 312 pages

The Forest of the Hanged

By Liviu Rebreanu, Eugenia Farca, A.K. Brackob and Phoebe Cho One of the greatest novels in Romanian literature explores the psychological turmoil of WWI. This classic Romanian novel lends psychological insights into the tragedy confronting minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during WWI. It is the story of Apostol Bologa, a middle-class Romanian officer serving in the Austro-Hungarian army who undergoes a transformation as his sense of national consciousness awakens, leading him to make a critical choice.

Based on the author’s brother, the author approaches the inner struggles of Bologa as he confronts the savagery and injustice of war with authentic emotion and immediacy.

CLA S S IC S OF ROM A N I A N LIT ERAT U RE | CEN T ER FOR ROM ANIAN STUDIE S Paperback • 9781592111138 • December 2021 • £19.99 326 pages

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Beyond the Walls of Baghdad

By Marika Guerrini An exciting novel that pushes temporal, spatial and literary boundaries.

The location is Manhattan, the protagonist is Richard Schwan, journalist for the New York Times. There follows a newsroom, airplanes, oceans, then after New York there is Los Angeles, Istanbul, Baghdad, Rome and then the return, everything to cross over, suffer, enjoy, to be lived. And in this living there is a war, one of those wars that continues but is never declared.

Beyond the peculiarities of contingency, this novel pushes the reader to pass over from non-being into being.

LIT E R AT U RE | M I M ES I S IN T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773273 • March 2021 • £10.99 120 pages

Now You Know It All

By Joanna Pearson A collection of stories about discovery, set in North Carolina.

Winner of the Drue Heinz for Literature. Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All is on the brink of discovery – and decision. Set in small-town North Carolina, or featuring eager Southerners venturing afar, these stories capture that crucial moment when someone’s path changes irrevocably.

P IT T DRU E H EI N Z L I T P R IZ E | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB U RGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946991 • October 2021 • £17.50 238 pages

Not a Hero A Novel

By Ignaty Potapenko Explores how to bring about social change within an oppressive political system without resorting to violence.

Between 1890 and 1893, Ignaty Potapenko published a number of works (including Not a Hero) in which he presented the Russian intelligentsia with a new role model, the “mediocre but commonsensical man” whose diligence and steady devotion to the improvement of society are depicted as being more productive than the reckless heroism of the regime’s most outspoken, and often violent, opponents.

RUS S IA N AN D EAS T EU ROPEAN ST U D IES | U N IVERSIT Y O F PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946984 • November 2021 • £19.50 128 pages

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Siri the Viking Prisoners in Paris

By Patric Nystrom, Illustrated by Per Demervall and Translated by Joseph A. Davis The perfect comic for kids wanting to learn about the Vikings.

In this third adventure in the series, Siri and Zack are kidnapped and forced to help the dreaded Viking Rollie in his attempt to sack Paris. How will they save the city without Rollie noticing? And what happens if they fail? This comic combines adventure and history in a humorous story, with colourful characters and fascinating settings.

S IR I T H E V I K I N G | EK EN PRESS Hardback • 9781908233387 • September 2021 • £6.99 86 pages • colour illus.

The Annunciationist

By Kenneth Kuenster The story of an American painter obsessed with the meaning and significance of paintings of the Annunciation.

The intensity of the relationship between Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin, and the message “You have in your womb an infant” intrigues our protaganist; he believes that Gabriel is involved. This book traces the painter’s obsession from the day he set off to view the Annunciation paintings in Europe to his relationship and son to a fallen-away nun in Italy, another child by an American flutist, to eventually finishing his three Annunciation paintings peopled by the encounters from his travels.

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9781592111053 • September 2021 • £24.99 200 pages

The Waters of Hercules The Legend of Gaura Dracului

By Emily Girard, Dorothea Girard and A. K. Brackob A classic Victorian novel similar to Stoker’s Dracula in its Gothic suspense.

wealthy Baron?

A long forgotten novel with close ties to Bram Stoker's Dracula. The heroine of the story, Gretchen, is an intelligent young German woman. Instead of marrying a man for wealth, she hunts out the Gaura Dracului (the Devil’s Pit) and its mysterious treasure. However, she is tempted by the rich, handsome debonair that courts her along the way: Will she find the lost treasure? Or will she achieve financial security for herself and her family by marrying the

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9781592111329 • October 2021 • £19.99 496 pages

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Quiet City

By Philip Davison A literate, satisfying work of fiction which crosses Richard Ford with Kinky Friedman, with a noir undercurrent.

Being properly damned brings its own joy: that's what Richard Meadows is thinking on his way to the city dump to retrieve his wife's favourite chair, which he had thrown away earlier. And that’s where he meets old flame Virginia Coates. So begins a dance of circumstance that feeds on Richard’s newfound fearlessness, and his desire to be daring. Time to lean into the danger.

LIBE RTI ES P RES S Paperback • 9781912589111 • March 2021 • £13.99 230 pages

Brevity is the Soul Wit from Locked-Down Ireland

Edited by Kevin Gildea A collection of short stories – from the sublime to the ridiculous.

While Ireland was in lockdown in Spring and Summer 2020, we scratched our heads and wondered what to do to help lift people's spirits. We decided to join forces with Irish Pensions & Finance and run a competition celebrating Irish people's love of a good story – and a good laugh. The best stories are gathered here.

LIBE RTI ES P RES S Paperback • 9781912589197 • April 2021 • £11.99 132 pages

Mystic of the Midway

By A.A. Blair Effie embraces her new abilities hoping they will lead her to the answers she needs to save her family.

Effie knew she wasn't the same after her accident but didn't realize how different she had become until her family vacation. When Effie begins to hear whispers and have visions, she enlists the aid of her detective brother, Jimmy, along with her long-time buddies Lydia and Sniff. When the investigation falters Effie struggles to overcome self-doubt and the realisation that her idyllic vacation spot isn't what it seems to be.

H IS T R IA K I D S Hardback • 9781592111183 • September 2021 • £14.99 136 pages

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Captain Cooked Hawaiian Mystery of Romance, Revenge… and Recipes!

By S.P. Grogan Madison and her father try to discover who may have poisoned a revered Hawaiian singing star.

All she wanted was to find a quiet beach, but it was not to be. Videographer Madison Merlot Dayne arrived on the Big Island to shoot her father’s popular cooking show. But from the moment she arrived, Madison and her father are involved in trying to discover who may have poisoned a revered Hawaiian singer. Her vacation involves riots, suspicious accidents, earthquakes, flowing lava, ancient Hawaiian weapons, and a real 'cliff-hanger.'

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Paperback • 9781592111121 • November 2021 • £19.99 272 pages

Wanting Radiance A Novel

By Karen Salyer McElmurray This mythical journey uncovers family secrets and forgotten truths to reveal the binding power of magic and memory.

Miracelle Loving's world comes crashing down when her mother, Ruby, is murdered during a fortune-telling session gone wrong. Without the guidance of her mother, Miracelle grows up traveling from town to town, sometimes fortune-telling, picking up odd jobs to fill the time and escape the ever-present lostness she can't seem to run far enough away from.

Desperate for answers, Miracelle sets out on a magical road trip in search of her own story and a father she's never known.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9781949669336 • November 2021 • £15.00 272 pages

Dogs of March

By Ernest Hebert The first volume of a highly acclaimed series, following its anti-hero in small-town American life.

Howard, anti-hero of this first novel in Ernest Hebert's highly acclaimed Darby Chronicles, is a man who is tough and tender. Howard's battle against encroaching change symbolises the class conflict between indigenous Granite Staters and citified immigrants. The seven novels of Hebert's Darby Chronicles cover 35 years in the life of a small New England town as seen through the eyes of three families and it all starts with this first volume.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819579980 • September 2021 • £18.50 272 pages

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A Little More than Kin

By Ernest Hebert This second volume in the highly acclaimed series explores the human psyche at its most perverse.

The second novel of the Darby Chronicles follows Ollie Jordan, a man with no education, no mentors, and a serious Freudian hang-up. Hebert gives his rural underclass protagonist the depths of a tragic hero. The book is actionpacked and its prose is clean, hard, lyrical, and sometimes very funny. The book is at its heart an exploration into a brilliant mind that has laid waste to itself.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580009 • September 2021 • £18.50 232 pages

Whisper My Name

By Ernest Hebert The third volume in this highly acclaimed series explores the clash of cultures in small-town America.

The institution of town meeting, the beauty of the landscape, and the enduring qualities of the architecture all give the New England town the power to shape the identity of its inhabitants – in a good way. This premise is put on trial – and to a vote – in Whisper My Name, the third novel in Hebert's Darby Chronicles.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819579997 • September 2021 • £18.50 248 pages

The Passion of Estelle Jordan

By Ernest Hebert The fourth volume in this highly acclaimed series puts a major character from earlier novels in the spotlight.

A major character in earlier Darby Chronicles novels, Estelle takes centre stage in The Passion of Estelle Jordan. Presently she is sliding into late middle age, drawn to two lovers who could not be more different: the widowed farmer Avalon Hillary and a mysterious young punk. The Passion of Estelle Jordan, like that of Christ, is rife with sin, suffering, sacrifice, and perhaps redemption and is for anyone going through a change of life.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580023 • September 2021 • £18.50 216 pages

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Live Free or Die

By Ernest Hebert Local politics, privilege and poverty are all tied together in the fourth volume of this highly acclaimed series.

The struggle between the rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this turning-point novel of the Darby Chronicles as Freddy Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, daughter of a prestigious family, embark on their ill-fated love affair. As that world increasingly intervenes, the lovers' attempt to bridge the chasm that divides their classalienated families inevitably collapses in Hebert's tragic tale that echoes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580030 • September 2021 • £18.50 424 pages

Spoonwood

By Ernest Hebert An optimistic return to the world of small-town America.

After almost fifteen years, Hebert has returned to this rich literary landscape for a new novel of the changing economic and social character of New England. Once again, Hebert masterfully conveys the natural and social landscape of contemporary rural New England. Grounded in complex, fully realised characters, Spoonwood offers Hebert's most optimistic vision yet of acceptance and accommodation across class lines.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580047 • September 2021 • £18.50 312 pages

Howard Elman's Farewell

By Ernest Hebert The final volume in a highly acclaimed series about love, laughs and life in small-town America.

Howard Elman's Farewell begins as a coming of (old) age story, morphs into a murder mystery, expands into a family saga, and in the end might just follow Howard Elman into the spirit world. This is a novel for people who like fiction with humour, pathos, and just a touch of magical realism. Howard Elman's Farewell establishes Howard Elman – mill worker, trash man, town cop – as the most fully developed working class character in American fiction.

W E S LE YA N U N I VERS I T Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580016 • September 2021 • £18.50 288 pages

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The Story of Katrine

By Maliaraq Vebaek A sad tale of cultural unity and oppression of women.

The Story of Katrine tells the story of a young Greenlandic woman who falls in love with a Danish craftsman, who works in Greenland over a summer.

When he returns to Denmark, Katrine follows him because she thinks they should get married, having had their child. It will be a big disappointment for her, but she stays in Denmark.

INTE R N AT I ON AL P OL AR IN ST IT U T E Paperback • 9780996748094 • May 2021 • £20.00 128 pages

The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories

By Caroline Kim Winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

Exploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora, Caroline Kim’s stories feature many voices. Language often acts as a barrier as characters try, fail, and momentarily succeed in connecting with each other.

Ultimately, what unites these characters across time and distance is their longing for human connection and a search for the place – or people – that will feel like home.

P IT T DRU E H EI N Z L I T P R IZ E | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB U RGH PR E SS Paperback • 9780822966746 • September 2021 • £11.00 222 pages

Olympia The Birth of the Games

By John A. Martino, Michael P. O'Kane and Alexis Lyras The untold story of the founding of the Olympic Games.

In ancient Greece and across the Mediterranean, kingdoms strive for dominance. At Olympia, the peace of the temple precinct is an island of calm in a sea of turmoil. There is one amongst the Greeks who sees light where others only perceive darkness. One who sees that there is another way to settle conflict – with honor and courage. One who will set aflame a torch that will burn for thousands of years, down through the ages.

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9781592110964 • July 2021 • £24.99 228 pages

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Betrayal of a Republic Memoirs of a Roman Matrona

By Joost Douma The fall of the Roman Republic through the eyes of one of the Republic’s most politically influential women.

In her final years, an aging Cornelia looks back on her life and that of her sons who tried to save the Republic, providing insight into the secret life of politically active women. The story is even more compelling for the parallels it offers with current superpower politics, the rise of strongmen, financial scandals, the shrinking of the middle class, and questions about the future of democracy.

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Paperback • 9781592111114 • September 2021 • £19.99 240 pages

Dakota A Novel

By Sarah Patt Follows the story of Dakota, who is determined not to be the messed-up, orphaned teenager with a wild imagination.

After her father’s death, Dakota moves in with her much older brother in Texas where she embarks on a turbulent adventure of her own. From falling in love to being assaulted by a CEO in her own home to finding herself in the middle of a murder mystery, and an even bigger family secret, Dakota navigates her new life with her moral compass – reconciling the past and seeking answers while uncovering deep-rooted, long established lies.

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9780980116434 • October 2021 • £24.99 220 pages

Gettysburg By Morning

By Randall O'Brien Based on real-life women, this is the story of a woman who fought for her country in the Civil War. Eloise Edwards is high-spirited and fiercely patriotic; when her brother refuses to join the army, she decides she will fight to honour her family and country. She joins the Massachusetts 20th and lives through several horrific battles, including Gettysburg. In the spirit of over 200 documented cases of women dressing as men to fight in the Civil War, this book places you on the battlefield with a patriotic young woman fighting arm-in-arm with her fellow soldiers.

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9781592111015 • November 2021 • £24.99 280 pages

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Islomanes of Cumberland Island

By Rita Welty Bourke A beautiful, tragic story of two families, separated by generations, living on Cumberland Island.

they are safe.

Lucy Carnegie built an estate that encompassed nearly all of Cumberland Island to protect her children from the smoke and soot-filled skies over Pittsburgh. It was a perfect world, until the outside world intruded, and it all came tumbling down. A century later, another family comes to Cumberland to walk among the horses and to accept what the island has to offer: solitude, unspoiled wilderness, and wildlife free to roam. For now,

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9780980116458 • November 2021 • £24.99 240 pages

Living Dangerously In Sweet Delusions and Datelines from Shrieking Hell

By Donald Tate Historical war novel casting a wide net over the Vietnam War. This novel covers the Vietnam War through flashbacks and live action, from the battlefield to the bedroom, politics and the military, to a his-her war of sweet, bitter, and brave love. Tales emerge of courage and puking-inthe-dust cowardice, of gritty-funny realism. Full of fury and fright, tortured rights and wrongs, Living Dangerously captures the essence of great war novels such as The Red Badge of Courage and Catch 22.

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9781592111039 • November 2021 • £24.99 320 pages

Between a Rock and a Hard Place A Dutch Policeman Fighting the Nazi Occupation

By Johanna Van Zanten Set in the Netherlands during WWII, this novel follows the struggles of an informer for the Dutch resistance.

Jacob van Noorden is a military policeman, just assigned his first job as crew chief in a rural town near the German border. When the Nazis invade and move through his town, Jacob and his crew have no defence. Joining the resistance as an informer and forced to deal with the disastrous events of the Nazi regime's occupation, he learns that in the end that every action he takes, no matter how well-intentioned, has enormous long-lasting consequences to those around him.

A D DIS O N & H I G H S M I T H Hardback • 9781592111022 • November 2021 • £29.99 524 pages

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Adventures in Thousandworld The Darkenstar

By Joseph A Davis and Yulia Ryabtseva Well-written young adult fantasy adventure exploring new cultures, aimed at 9 – 15 year olds.

When the refugee boy Kasir appears in the little Swedish town of Klippsby, twelve-year-old Julia realises at once that something about her new classmate is a bit strange. But she doesn’t realise just how different he is until one fateful night when they are attacked by terrifying living shadows.

Along with her little brother Edvin and an old vagrant called the Troubadour, they are forced to flee through a magical portal to Kasir's homeland.

A DV E NT U RES I N T H OU SAN D LAN D | EK EN PRESS Hardback • 9781908233370 • June 2021 • £11.99 284 pages • 10 b/w illus.

Powerfully Perplexing Presidential Profiles

By Rod Martinez A fun fact/trivia book on U.S Presidents, written in a fun, witty style, to make learning entertaining and enjoyable.

Whether you like American History or not, you will find a wealth of stories and facts to be shared that could spark conversation or debate at any party.

This book covers a vast array of presidential trivia and facts, from George Washington to Donald Trump, making it a fun read for kids and adults alike.

The book includes a never-before published timeline linking two presidents at the same time somewhere in history.

H IS T R IA K I D S Paperback • 9781592111237 • October 2021 • £17.99 94 pages

Miss Demeanor The Case of the Long Blonde Hair

By Celia J. and created by Ed N. White An exciting character-driven middle-grade mystery, filled with a compelling cast of heroes and villains.

There's a new crime fighter in town. She's smart. She's fearless. She's thirteen years old and determined to be the world's greatest detective.

Enter the brave world of Celia J., as she uses the skills learned at a CSI summer camp program to investigate an attempt to defraud her father.

Miss Demeanor offers young readers a character they can identify with and enjoy, and the crime scene investigative techniques are detailed at a level of understanding for the middle-grade reader.

H IS T R IA K I D S Hardback • 9781592111060 • August 2021 • £14.99 120 pages

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The Boy Who Saw with His Hands

By Tomasz Małkowski and Joanna Rusinek A witty introduction to the experience of disability with stylish illustrations

by Joanna Rusinek.

Kamil is a cheerful, lively five-year-old, who goes to kindergarten and loves to make silly jokes. Is he a boy like anyone else? Yes and no: he behaves normally but he is blind from birth. The book shows the daily life of a special child, without resorting to sentimentality but also without glossing over anything. Once they’ve read it, children should know how to behave when in the company of a blind person.

MIM E S I S I N T ERN AT I ON AL Hardback • 9788869773389 • September 2021 • £12.99 64 pages

Eva & Maxime Discover the Bayeux Tapestry and its Mysteries

By Aurélie Derreumaux, Laurent Granier and José Mauduit Illustrated children's book looking at the history behind the Bayeux Tapestry.

Eva and Maxime are two young Normans who travel to Bayeux for a medieval fair. "Have you heard of William the Conqueror?" a lady asks. “He was the Duke of Normandy and he even became King of England! The tale of his conquest is told on an embroidery called the Bayeux Tapestry. Let me tell you his story…" This fascinating adventure story helps young readers discover how William the Conqueror became King of England.

OREP Paperback • 9782815105552 • April 2021 • £6.75 32 pages • illus.

Heartwood

By Nikky Finney Breathing with life and vitality, Heartwood moves its readers to speak out and remind the world of the goodness it so easily forgets.

The characters in this new book by poet Nikky Finney, written at a middle grade level for adults learning to read, are the heartwood of their small Kentucky communities. You'll meet Buck Jones and Mae Bennet, whose anger has twisted them up inside, Queenie Sims and Arizona Scott, who can see the good in people, and Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan, two young women who discover how much they are alike despite their different skin colour.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813151076 • September 2021 • £10.00 85 pages

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Gumbo Ya Ya Poems

By Aurielle Marie Winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

"Some writers write poetry to flex what they can do. Aurielle Marie writes reckoning poems themselves come to work. Gumbo Ya Ya kicks with this lit lit magic, this insistent electricity, pages what sweat ink, bleed it, weep it, drip it. Aurielle Marie will cuss, but an Aurielle Marie poem can curse; that what she has seen, felt, or known, is trans-amplified in the room she gives the poem to do what it’s gonna do. Gumbo Ya Ya is Aurielle Marie’s Dirty-Dirty grimoire drawn from a vernacular trickbag at once up to something and down for whatever. These poems are spell weaving. They are bound to work you."

—Douglas Kearney - Final Judge Citation Winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Gumbo Ya Ya is a cauldron of multifaceted poems confronting race, binaries, and violence, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South.

Armed with a poetic dexterity that employs urgent subject matter and sultry lyricism, Aurielle Marie’s debut is as stunning as it is timely. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one where no Black girl dies “by the barrel of the law” or “for loving another Black gxrl.” Part ancestral and familial archival, part ethnography of Black femme resistance, Gumbo Ya Ya catalogues the wide gamut of Black life at its intersections, with cultural commentary and personal narrative. It asks us to chew upon both the rich meat and tough gristle, and in doing so we walk away, washed anew and more than satisfied.

Aurielle Marie is a Black and queer essayist, poet, and cultural strategist hailing from the Deep South.

A 2019 Ploughshares Emerging Writer award recipient, she’s received invitations to fellowships from many literary institutions, including Lambda Literary, VONA Voices, and Tin House. Her work is featured in TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, Black Warrior, and other journals. Aurielle Marie writes and speaks about Blackness, bodies, sex, and pop culture from a Black feminist lens.

P IT T P OET RY S ERI ES | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB U RG H PRESS Paperback • 9780822966661 • September 2021 • £14.00 72 pages

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Perfect Black

By Crystal Wilkinson, Nikky Finney and Ronald W. Davis A collection of lyrics and prose about Blackness, racism, and political awareness.

Crystal Wilkinson combines her deep love for her country roots with her passion for language and storytelling to craft compelling lyrics and prose in this collection about Black girlhood, racism, and political awareness. The fiction writer turned poet muses on such topics as the politics of her Black body, lost fathers, motherhood, mental illness, rape, and religion.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813151151 • August 2021 • £23.00 106 pages • 36 illus.

Other Worlds

By Albert Goldbarth A collection of poems examining life from a quasi-science-fiction perspective.

This book looks at our everyday joys and griefs as interpreted by Mars and quantum physics. It studies the many conflicting realities that America uneasily accommodates in time of pandemic and protests. It provides elegiac poems informed by the realms of memory, ghosts, and imagined afterlives. This is a bravura performance by the only poet to have twice received the National Book Critics Circle Award and who, at 73, is writing at the height of his power.

P IT T P OET RY S ERI ES | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB U RG H PRESS Paperback • 9780822966692 • November 2021 • £13.50 96 pages

Little Pharma Poems

By Laura Kolbe Winner of the 2020 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry.

The title Little Pharma is both a doppelgänger and a cri de coeur: as the poet’s dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky channels of the hospital and clinic, the borderlands of the living and the dead, and the journey from novice to healer. The poems trace the arc of a young woman’s life, from being a hesitant and anxious, newly-minted medical trainee to becoming an adept of the otherworldly logic of the hospital wards.

P IT T P OET RY S ERI ES | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB U RG H PRESS Paperback • 9780822966722 • October 2021 • £13.50 96 pages

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Elegguas

By Kamau Brathwaite Deeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poet.

Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas – a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad – is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking with the dead.

THE DRI F T L ES S S ERI ES & WESLEYAN POET RY SERIES | WESL E YAN UNIVE R SITY PR E SS Paperback • 9780819580184 • March 2021 • £13.50 136 pages

Be Brave to Things The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer

By Jack Spicer and Edited by Daniel Katz Indispensable collection of previously unavailable poetry by an American master.

This book shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his game – his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Alongside unseen, out of print, and otherwise unavailable poems are Spicer’s three main plays, major unfinished projects, early and alternative versions of his famous work, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended ‘books’ and serial poems. Invaluable to any student of 20th century American poetry.

W E S LE YA N P OET RY S ERIES | WESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Hardback • 9780819578150 • November 2021 • £25.95 400 pages

The Past

By Wendy Xu Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration.

This collection fantasises about becoming a lyrical record of the past, while working to disrupt this Westernised desire. Having immigrated to the US three days before Tian’anmen Square, Xu probes the multi-generational binds of family, displacement, and immigration as an eternal psychic experience. Subverting traditional Chinese forms, the book culminates in a series of ‘Tian’anmen Square Sonnets’ to conjure up the irrepressible past, and conjure up a new kind of poem: at once code and confession.

W E S LE YA N P OET RY S ERIES | WESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Hardback • 9780819580450 • October 2021 • £18.50 104 pages

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The Blue Split Compartments

By Andrea Brady An innovative suite of poems encompassing the drone age.

A powerful sequence of lyric poems exploring the relationships between military drone operators and their victims. Drawing on chatroom logs, military policy manuals, pattern of life archives, and accounts by witnesses around the world, these poems document the consequences of the perpetual and 'everywhere war’ through a sophisticated and complex interplay of linguistic devices.

W E S LE YA N P OET RY S ERIES | WESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580429 • September 2021 • £11.95 96 pages

Born to Slow Horses

By Kamau Brathwaite Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize (2006).

Brathwaite is one of the foremost voices in postcolonial inquiry and expression, and his poetry is densely rooted and expansive. His newest poems are haunted, figuratively and literally, by spirits of the African diaspora and drenched in the colours, sounds, and rhythms of the islands.

But they also encompass the world of the exile and return, and the events of 9/11 in New York City.

W E S LE YA N P OET RY S ERIES | WESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819567468 • March 2021 • £13.50 160 pages

The Lazarus Poems

By Kamau Brathwaite A mystical masterwork about the afterlife by the great Barbadian poet at the end of his career.

This book is characteristically sui generis, vatic, and strange, exhibiting ornery bravura. Tonally and typographically frenetic in the 'sycorax video style' he's been employing for decades, the work examines a major theme appropriate to a great poet in the late stages of his career: the afterlife.

Brathwaite speaks of appropriation, theft, isolation, and exploitation, all within a context of an American hegemony that intensifies the racial politics and ageism underlying the events described.

W E S LE YA N P OET RY S ERIES | WESLEYAN U N IVERSIT Y PRESS Paperback • 9780819580177 • March 2021 • £13.50 136 pages

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The Forgotten Clones How Nuclear Transplantation Changed Science and Society

By Nathan Crowe Illuminates the importance of the early history of cloning for the biosciences and their institutional, disciplinary, and intellectual contexts.

Long before scientists cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning frog nuclei in 1952.

Although the history of cloning is often associated with contemporary ethical controversies, The Forgotten Clones revisits the influential work of scientists like Briggs, Thomas King, and Marie DiBerardino, before the possibility of human cloning and its ethical implications first registered as a concern in public consciousness.

S CIE N C E, VALU ES , AN D T H E PU B LIC | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946274 • December 2021 • £49.00 296 pages

Composition and Big Data Edited by Amanda Licastro and Benjamin M. Miller This book interprets and implements the drive toward data in diverse ways.

Everything is data. And as large-scale aggregation and computational analysis of data become more common and manageable, it becomes more important to rhetoric and composition. Bringing together a range of scholars, teachers, and administrators working with big-data methods and datasets to kickstart a collective reckoning with the role that algorithmic and computational approaches can, or should, play in research and teaching in the field.

CO MP OS I T I ON , L I T ERAC Y, AN D CU LT U RE | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946748 • September 2021 • £38.00 272 pages • 75 b/w illus.

The Trinity Circle Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England

By William J. Ashworth (University of Liverpool, UK) Explores science and religion at a time when new ways of thinking threatened to divide England.

Explores the creation of knowledge in nineteenth-century England, when any notion of a recognisably modern science was still nearly a century off, and religion still infused all ways of elite knowing. The rise of capitalism during this period was, according to Anglican critics, undermining this spiritual world and challenging it with a superficial material one. By focusing on the Trinity College circle, the author details an ongoing struggle between the Established Church and a quest for change to the prevailing social hierarchy.

S CI & CU LT U RE I N T H E NIN ET EEN T H CEN T U RY | U N IVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946878 • September 2021 • £41.50 296 pages

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The Voice of Science, British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America

By Diarmid A. Finnegan (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Examines five nineteenth-century British celebrity scientists and their lectures.

For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. This book explores the efforts of five celebrity British Scientists—John Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley, Richard Proctor, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Henry Drummond—to articulate and embody a moral vision of the scientific life on American lecture platforms.

S CI & CU LT U RE I N T H E NIN ET EEN T H CEN T U RY | U N IVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946816 • October 2021 • £43.50 336 pages

Symbols and Things Mathematics in the Age of Steam

By Kevin Lambert (Mercuria Energy, Geneva) An exploration of things and equipment used by eighteenth–and ninteenth– century mathematicians.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of mathematicians came to depend on far more than the properties of number. Each chapter of this book explores a thing, or assembling of things, needed by mathematicians to do their work—whether a textbook, museum, journal, library, diagram, notebook, or letter—all characteristic of the mid-nineteenth-century British taskscape, but also representative of great change to a discipline brought about by an industrialised world in motion.

S CI & CU LT U RE I N T H E NIN ET EEN T H CEN T U RY | U N IVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946830 • October 2021 • £49.00 312 pages

Ingenuity in the Making Materials and Technique in Early Modern Art and Science

Edited by Richard J. Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh, UK), José Ramón Marcaida (University of St Andrews, UK) and Alexander Marr Explores how ingenuity shaped experience, discourse and conceptualisation of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe.

The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which wit acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, and what were the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Hardback • 9780822946885 • November 2021 • £50.50 352 pages

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The Extraction State A History of Natural Gas in America

By Charles Blanchard Charles Blanchard traces the rise of natural gas and the regulatory missteps that nearly ruined the market.

The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. Natural gas provides the fuel that allows us to heat our homes in winter and cool them in summer with the touch of a button or turn of a dial - when the industry runs smoothly. From the oil crisis of the 1970s to the fall of Enron and the California electricity crisis at the turn of the century to contemporary issues of hydraulic fracking, poorly conceived government policies have sometimes left us shivering, stranded, or with significantly lighter wallets. In this expansive narrative, Charles Blanchard traces the rise of natural gas and the regulatory missteps that nearly ruined the market.

Beginning in the 1880s, The Extraction State explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s, even before the Great Depression, and how it fell apart in the 1970s. From there, the book dissects the policies that affect us today, and explores where we might be headed in the near future.

"Unlike crude oil, there are surprisingly few books devoted to the history of natural gas. Charles Blanchard offers a timely business history of an important industry. There are many stories to be told about a resource once considered a byproduct, but today key for meeting energy demand.

The Extraction State examines the still evolving technologies of natural gas production, pipeline infrastructure, early and recent pioneers, the role of investors and market hubs, and federal and state agencies that have managed the industry since the earliest gas wells. As U.S. petroleum production from shale continues to change the future of the industry, Blanchard brings a business insider’s perspective to the history of bringing energy to consumers."

Bruce Wells, Executive Director, American Oil & Gas Historical Society

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Paperback • 9780822966760 • February 2021 • £25.50 416 pages • 57 b/w illus.

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City of Lake and Prairie Chicago's Environmental History

Edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, William C. Barnett and Ann Durkin Keating A compelling environmental history of Chicago through the eyes of interdisciplinary academics.

Known globally as the Windy City, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet – City of Lake and Prairie – through this deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, early residents of this land enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections throughout the centuries. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of colour, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.

P IT TS BU RG H H I S T U RBAN EN VIRON | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Paperback • 9780822966739 • February 2021 • £19.00 360 pages

Rare Birds An American Family

By Dan Bessie Celebrates the colourful diversity of a remarkable and accomplished family.

What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, the world's leading birdwatcher, and a convicted murderer?

He tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American life along the way.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813153681 • November 2021 • £19.00 272 pages • illus.

The Birds of Kentucky

By Burt L. Monroe and William Zimmerman Exceptionally accurate and beautifully illustrated description of all the species of birds in Kentucky.

The first of its kind to be published for the Bluegrass State, this book provides a scientifically rigorous description of all the species of birds found in Kentucky. Illustrated by renowned artist William Zimmerman, it features a wealth of information: abundance and migration records, and indications whether a bird is a permanent resident, seasonal resident, visitant, or transient. Additionally, Monroe reviews the history or ornithologists who have worked in Kentucky and outlines the physiography of the state in relation to birding.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813151410 • March 2021 • £30.00 152 pages

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E N V I RO N M E N TA L & E A RT H S C I E N C E S : R EC E N T H I G H L I G H TS

Reinventing Sustainability How Archaeology Can Save the Planet

By Erika Guttmann-Bond Discusses the potential significance for the reintroduction of ancient technologies to a more sustainable planet.

This book describes and discusses the types of ancient technology that could be reintroduced to improve and assist in the growth of sustainable agriculture and food production in developing countries. It presents specific examples of successful subsistence technologies based on archaeological and historical data from different environmental zones across the world to show us just how techniques of the past could still save our planet.

OX BOW B OOK S Paperback • 9781785709920 • January 2019 • £29.95 192 pages • b/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781785709937

Far Beyond the Moon A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age

By Kärin Nickelsen and David P. D. Munns The dramatic story of engineering efforts to create artificial habitats for humans in orbiting space stations.

From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. This book explores the unglamorous but very real problem posed by long-term life support. It draws attention to the unsung participants of the space program, as well as the bioregenerative algae systems developed to reuse waste, water, and nutrients.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Hardback • 9780822946540 • June 2021 • £25.50 216 pages • 40 b/w illus.

Smokescreen Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate

By Chad Hanson Engages dialogue around forest fires at a time when it is desperately needed.

Wildfires are a naturally occurring phenomenon that create opportunity for rejuvenation of national forests in the USA. Popular misinformation about wildfires means that much anxiety about them is unnecessary and misdirected. This book aims to bridge the disconnect between widespread common beliefs and current science regarding wildland fire, forest management, and climate change.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813181073 • May 2021 • £20.00 280 pages • 49 b/w illus.

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9/12 The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders

By William H. Groner and Tom Teicholz Saga of the epic nine-year legal battle against the City of New York on behalf of the first responders on the Ground Zero cleanup.

Their selfless bravery and humanity were rewarded with horrible health issues resulting from the toxic stew of chemicals present in the dust and debris that government officials such as Mayor Rudy Giuliani and EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman had assured them was safe. The result is an intimate look into their battles – physical, mental, and legal – that will leave you cheering for these heroes who, in spite of everything, would do it all again.

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Paperback • 9781640124806 • September 2021 • £16.99 336 pages

Democracy Against Parties The Divergent Fates of Latin America’s New Left Contenders

By Brandon Van Dyck Investigates why parites fail in the context of the contemporary Latin American left.

Around the world, established parties are weakening, and new parties are failing to take root. To construct a durable party, elites must invest time and labour, and share power with activists. Because today’s elites have access to party substitutes like mass media, they can win votes without making such sacrifices in time, labour, and autonomy. Van Dyck illustrates this argument through a comparative analysis of four new left parties in Latin America: two that collapsed and two that survived.

P IT T LAT I N A M ERI C A N SERIES | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB URGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946946 • August 2021 • £41.50 248 pages

Amnesty in Brazil Recompense After Repression, 1895–2010

By Ann M. Schneider Examines amnesties in the aftermath of political persecution in Brazil.

Amnesty in Brazil has been both surprisingly democratising and yet stubbornly undemocratic. This book examines restitution in the aftermath of political persecution. It looks at the politics of conciliation over more than a century and reflects on the Brazilian case in the context of broader debates about transitional justice.

P IT T LAT I N A M ERI C A N SERIES | U N IVERSIT Y OF PIT TSB URGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946939 • October 2021 • £41.50 264 pages

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A-Democracy Global Politics and the Rise and Fall on Neo-liberalism

By Emanuela Fornari (University of Rome, Italy) Examines the rise and apparent fall of 'neo-liberalism' by analysing today's current climate.

Fornari proposes an original concept of post-hegemony that focuses on desire and enjoyment within a Freudian and Lacanian framework, a subject whose drives are incompatible with the systemic grid of contemporary hyper-capitalism. Finally, following a provocative analysis of violence and terrorism in the globalized world, she proposes a paradigm of a "democracy of bodies" as a salvation from the decline of the "political" today.

P O LI TIC S | M I M ES I S I N T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773358 • November 2021 • £13.99 150 pages

We Will Win The Day The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality

By Louis Moore Examines the history of black activist athletes.

By examining the connection between sports, black athletes, and the Civil Rights Movement overall, this book puts the athletes and their stories into the proper context. Rather than romanticising the stories and the men and women who lived them, it uses the roles these individuals played to illuminate the complexities and nuances in the relationship between black athletes and the fight for racial equality.

R ACE AN D S P ORTS | U N IVERSIT Y PRESS OF K EN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813153803 • November 2021 • £19.00 260 pages

Relapse into Bondage Political Memoirs of a Romanian Diplomat, 1918–1947

By Alexandru Cretzianu and Edited by Sherman David Spector This political memoir of Alexandru Cretzianu is a gold mine of information.

This book is one of the only memoirs written by a Romanian diplomat; it follows the career of Alexandru Cretzianu, a key Romanian diplomat during the interwar period and World War II, a man that faithfully presents himself as pro-Western, pro-French, pro-British, pro-League of Nations. Essential reading for those interested in Romanian foreign policy during this critical period, as well as in European diplomatic history generally.

CE NTE R FOR ROM AN I A N ST U D IES Paperback • 9781592110957 • August 2021 • £24.99 354 pages

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The Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities A Study in Anglo-Turkish Diplomacy, 1821–1854

By Radu R. Florescu and Kurt W. Treptow A study of the international significance of the struggle against Russia in the Romanian principalities.

The Romanian principalities were at the centre of the conflict between the various empires dominating Southeastern Europe, making them a permanent subject of international diplomacy. With the expansion of Russia in the Balkans during the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the struggle against Russia in the Romanian principalities, supported by Anglo-Turkish diplomacy, took on international significance. Written by a leading specialist on Romanian history in the United States, this book is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century European diplomatic history.

CE NTE R FOR ROM AN I A N ST U D IES Paperback • 9781592110261 • August 2021 • £24.99 382 pages

Romanian Crucible The Trial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Edited by Gheorghe Buzatu and Kurt W. Treptow The transcript of the monumental trial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Legionary Movement in Romania.

The trial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu marked a critical moment in the history of the country between the two World Wars. It destroyed the last vestiges of democracy and laid the groundwork for the establishment of the royal dictatorship by Carol II. This book presents the transcript of the trial for the first time in English, edited and accompanied by an introduction by two leading specialists on Romanian history.

CE NTE R FOR ROM AN I A N ST U D IES Hardback • 9781592111299 • November 2021 • £49.99 320 pages

Romanians and Hungarians Historical Premises

By C. Sassu An insight into the historical background of Romanian-Hungarian relations and conflict.

Despite their close ties throughout history, Romania and Hungary were in conflict at the beginning of WWII when Romanian territory was rewarded to Hungary. Originally published during these tumultuous times, this book discusses the historical premises of Romanian-Hungarian relations and tries to explain the value of the affirmations made, in the hope that unbiased minds will find it useful and opportune to understand the true elements of this controversy.

CE NTE R FOR ROM AN I A N ST U D IES Hardback • 9781592111312 • December 2021 • £29.99 136 pages

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Nine Lives The Reflections of a Deliberate Diplomat

By Donal Denham A delightful account of an Irish ambassador's experiences in nine very different postings.

In a career spanning 41 years in the Irish diplomatic service, Ambassador Dónal Denham has lived among nine very different societies, spanning three continents. With a focus on funny incidents, happy moments and some achievements for Ireland Inc., Nine Lives is a refreshing and enjoyable read by a diplomat who thoroughly enjoyed his years as Ireland’s envoy.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359386 • October 2021 • £17.95 250 pages • 20 colour illus.

Death of the Senate My Front Row Seat to the Demise of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body

By Ben Nelson An honest, first-person account of the US Senate by Ben Nelson, former Senator from Nebraska.

A clear-eyed look inside the Senate chamber and a brutally honest account of the current political reality. This book is not intended to tell old war stories, but to offer lessons for the future. It is meant to shame the current Senate to do the jobs they were elected to do and to warn Americans about the danger if they don't.

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Hardback • 9781640124943 • September 2021 • £27.99 264 pages

Havel Unfinished Revolution

By David Gilbreath Barton New in paperback published on the 10th anniversary of Havel's death.

In this intimate and sweeping portrayal of Havel, David Barton reveals the eccentricities of the last president of Czechoslovakia, and the first president of the Czech Republic. It is the story of a man who tried to resurrect the spirit of democratic life. This is his story and the story of the writers, artists, actors, and philosophers who took it upon themselves to remember a tradition that had failed so miserably it had almost been forgotten.

RUS S IA N AN D EAS T EU ROPEAN ST U D IES | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Paperback • 9780822966777 • October 2021 • £14.50 320 pages

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POLITICS, ECONOMICS & LAW: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Post-Pandemic 12 Lessons in Crisis Management

By Jonathan McMahon Applies lessons learned from the Irish bailout to recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic.

As a key insider to the Irish bailout, Jonathan McMahon was at the heart of the response, witnessing what it takes to manage a crisis that threatens a nation. Battle-hardened by his experiences at the top of UK financial regulation during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jonathan's advice on how to deal with crises is invaluable as countries all around the globe grapple with the effects of COVID-19.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781916099876 • September 2020 • £16.95 300 pages

Rage Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism

By Abigail R. Esman A ground-breaking book about links between domestic violence, terrorism, and narcissistic personality.

In this new approach to understanding terrorism and violence, Esman presents clear explanations of malignant (pathological) narcissism and its roots in shame-honour cultures – both familial and socio-political – through portraits of terrorists and batterers, including Osama bin Laden, Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, O.J Simpson, and others. The result is a volume that sheds new light on the roots of violence and terrorism, while arguing for proactive ways in which to protect our Western traditions of justice and of freedom.

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Hardback • 9781640122314 • November 2020 • £24.99 232 pages

Kennedys in the World How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America’s Empire

By Lawrence J. Haas Explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America's federation for more than six decades after World War II. This book provides a new look at the Kennedy clan, their relationships with one another, and how those relationships influenced America’s foreign policy. Because the brothers were such influential figures on foreign affairs, Lawrence J. Haas and the brothers' story offers a new window into the rise and fall of America’s post-war empire – from the Cold War consensus from the late 1940s to early 1960s to the futile search for a consistent and effective U.S. global role ever since.

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Hardback • 9781640123847 • May 2021 • £28.50 392 pages

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The Language of Illness

By Fergus Shanahan An appeal for the use of clearer, more holistic language surrounding mental illness.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Fergus Shanahan, an eminent gastroenterologist who has practiced in Ireland, the United States and Canada, and published widely around the world, looks at memoirs of illness, and outlines the lessons we can learn from a better understanding of the words we use to describe illness. He looks at the ways in which language can act as a barrier with regard to illness, and proposes practical ways in which we can dismantle these barriers.

LIBE RTI ES P RES S Hardback • 9781912589159 • March 2021 • £18.99

Imperial Bodies in London Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914

By Kristin Hussey (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) A postcolonial history of medicine in London.

With increased travel between Britain and its growing imperial territories came a wider range of illnesses and diseases which transformed medicine in Britain. Moving beyond the insular scale of the nation, this book challenges the idea of a uniquely domestic medical practice, arguing instead that British medicine was imperial medicine in the late Victorian era. Using the analytic tools of geography, it interrogates sites of encounter across the imperial metropolis to explore how medical research and practice were transformed and remade.

S CI & CU LT U RE I N T H E N IN ET EEN T H CEN T U RY | U N IVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946861 • October 2021 • £46.50 312 pages

Contemporary Public Health Principles, Practice, and Policy

Edited by James W. Holsinger and F. Douglas Scutchfield (both University of Kentucky, USA) Provides historical background that contextualises the current state of the field and explores the major issues practitioners face today.

"Public health" refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviours and environments to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer a concise overview of this burgeoning field, emphasising that the need for effective services has never been greater.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813180779 • July 2021 • £23.00 316 pages

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Giovanni Hautmann The Passion for Thought

Edited by Gabriela Gabbriellini, Arianna Luperini and Simonetta Nissim An homage to Giovanni Hautmann, the former president of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society.

This project features Giovanni Hautmann’s thought and theoretical elaboration on psychoanalysis, two of his most prestigious pieces of writing framing the opening and ending of this book. Never published in English, Hautmann receives little international recognition, and so this project aims to not only bring attention back to his theoretical-clinical construction but to extend it. Included are contributions from other psychoanalytic cultures that inspired or were inspired by this great scholar and scientist.

P SYCH OLOGY | M I M ES I S IN T ERN AT ION AL Paperback • 9788869773280 • March 2021 • £10.99 124 pages

The Gray Zones of Medicine Healers and History in Latin America

Edited by Diego Armus and Pedro F. Gómez An investigation into how health practitioners working between official and unofficial medicines shaped Latin America.

This book offers a human, complex examination of the history of healing in Latin American across five centuries. Contributors uncover how the biographies of individuals ranging from successful doctors to those outside the hegemonic biomedical knowledge can provide a unique window into social, cultural, political, and economic changes and continuities in the region. Through an accessible, story-like format, this book unlocks the potential of historical narratives of healing.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Hardback • 9780822946854 • September 2021 • £49.00 312 pages

Vaccine Hesitancy Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

By Maya Goldenberg An exploration of vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents in industrialised North America.

The public have always been concerned about the adverse effects of vaccines. Although biomedical, public health, and popular science literature has focused on a scientifically ignorant public, the real problem, Maya Goldenberg argues, lies not in misunderstanding, but in mistrust caused by fraud, research scandals and misconduct in scientific institutions. She ultimately reframes vaccine hesitancy as a crisis of public trust rather than a war on science, advocating for trust-building measures that focus on relationships, transparency, and justice.

S CIE N C E, VALU ES , AN D T H E PU B LIC | U N IVERSIT Y OF PITTSBURGH PR E SS Hardback • 9780822946557 • May 2021 • £34.50 264 pages

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M E D I C I N E & H E A LT H : R E C E N T H I G H L I G H T S

Fat Chance Diet Mania, Greed, and the Infamous Fen-Phen Swindle

By Rick Christman The shocking story of the weight-loss drug scandal that rocked a nation.

During the early 1990s, the diet drugs fen-phen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. But as the drugs' developer cashed in, medical researchers revealed that the drugs caused heart valve disease. Recounting a dramatic affair that bears conspicuous similarities to opioid-related class action litigation against the pharmaceutical industry, Christman offers an engaging if occasionally horrifying account of one of America's most prominent product liability cases and the settlement's aftermath.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9781949669305 • March 2021 • £18.00 244 pages

A Tale of Two Viruses The Parallel Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses

By Neeraja Sankaran The first study of medical virology to compare the history of bacteriophages and sarcoma agents.

This is the first study of medical virology to compare the history of two groups of medically important viruses: bacteriophages, which infect bacteria, and sarcoma agents, which cause cancer. By following the research trajectories of the two virus groups, Sankaran takes a novel approach to the history of the development of the field of medical virology, considering both the flux in scientific concepts over time and the broader scientific landscapes or styles that shaped those ideas and practices.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Hardback • 9780822946304 • May 2021 • £43.00 312 pages

Healing Power Living Traditions, Global Interactions

Edited by Cunera Buijs and Wouter Welling Essays from ritual specialists and scientists active in spiritual healing practices worldwide.

Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalised or severely persecuted. Nowadays, however, there is a growing interest in these traditions all over the world. This publication explores a limited selection of the manifold collective and individual healing practices, such as shamanism, winti, vodou and European witchcraft. Practitioners and/or academics share their insights and perspectives.

S ID E S TO N E P RES S Paperback • 9789088909184 • February 2021 • £40.00 170 pages • 90 colour illus.

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HER ALLIES A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy

By Ali Hira Offers men the strategies they need to become powerful advocates for gender equality.

At its heart, this book is an invitation to all men who are willing to take that bold first step and transform good intention into meaningful action. Those men with the courage to read on will embark on a progressive journey that ends only when women realise the same opportunities, recognition, and respect that men already command.

N E E M T REE P RES S Paperback • 9781911107477 • June 2021 • £10.99 240 pages

How He Wins Abusive Intimate Partners Going Free

By Don Hennessy Explores domestic abuse and the way we must approach it.

Don Hennessy examines our practices and procedures, our attitudes and our beliefs regarding domestic violence. He demonstrates how we have made few inroads in this area – either into the prevalence of male intimate abuse, or in relation to the tactics that support the ability of the male intimate abuser to establish and maintain his control. It is vital that all agencies, both statutory and non-governmental, recognise that we need to change our position from one of support to one of protection.

LIBE RTI ES P RES S Paperback • 9781912589173 • March 2021 • £13.99

How to be Our Best Self in Times of Crisis

By Stuart Breen and Tom Gunning Helps the reader to understand the body’s reaction to crisis.

Crises are changes in our circumstances that affect us deeply, varying from marriage to divorce and birth and death. Some we choose but many – like COVID-19 – are chosen for us. This book helps the reader to understand the body’s reaction to crisis and how the physiological response can impact our thinking. This book guides us through this process of repair and regeneration in a holistic way, beginning with acceptance.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309754 • March 2021 • £8.99 64 pages

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The Mindful Spark Reclaim Your Past, Reset Your Future

By David Delaney This step-by-step guide can set you free by breaking the chains of your past and helping you to embrace a bright new future.

In this insightful book, David Delaney draws on his own experiences to provide a welcome handbook on resilience and mindfulness. Becoming almost completely blind at eight years old, Delaney struggled to fit in. For over twenty years the author has researched resilience, meditation, Tai Chi, mindfulness, Yoga, and other techniques. He then studied modern scientific research on their efficacy and started applying their helpful practices and stories to his own life.

He now wants to share what he has learned.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359317 • March 2021 • £15.95 256 pages • 30 b/w illus.

Mental Health in the Times of the Pandemic

By Paul Valent Helps the reader understand the very wide mental health effects of this pandemic.

Traumatologist Paul Valent believes that knowledge of human responses in disasters can help individuals and societies to better control catastrophic events, such as the present pandemic. The author summarises disaster responses as they have manifested in this pandemic. These responses are biological, psychological and social, and they affect individuals, families, children and vulnerable groups. He also provides a framework which helps to the reader to understand, and thus be better informed to treat, the wide-ranging consequences of the pandemic.

A R DE N Paperback • 9781922454058 • April 2020 • £9.00 82 pages

Self-Care Squad Journal

By Amy Claire Ford A guide to mental health for teenagers and young adults.

The purpose of this book is to raise awareness, to add value, give guidance and offer clarity to a young readership. With the rise of teenage mental health issues and experience this book is a very useful tool for teenagers and pre-teens. It offers balance and clarity to the reader’s lives through awareness, mindfulness, and self-care.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309860 • June 2021 • £13.50 160 pages

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A Trellis for the Soul Spiritual Wisdom for Difficult Times

By Martina Lehane Sheehan Provides a framework for anyone struggling to navigate the dizzying maze of twenty-first century life.

As an antidote to the relentless noise of consumerism and commercialism, this book explores real ways of cultivating a meaningful spiritual life where reflection, quietude and silence can combat anxiety and stress. Drawing on the wisdom of the Christian tradition, as well as from her own experiences hosting workshops across the country, the author invites the reader on a profound journey of spiritual development as we face the challenges and embrace the opportunities of a post-Covid-19 world.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309570 • March 2021 • £13.99 192 pages

A Grieving Daughter's Heart

By Majella Quinlan Duignan An exploration of loss in a world turned upside-down by a global pandemic.

The death of a loved one is one of the most challenging events we have to face in our lifetime. This is an honest and raw recollection of the deep loss felt by a daughter who lost her father to cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic, isolated from her normal support networks and restricted in the ways she could celebrate the life of her father.

V E R ITA S B OOK S Paperback • 9781847309976 • June 2021 • £11.99 128 pages

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Feng Shui Flow Create Sustainable Interiors

By Susanna Utbul and Jenny Jonsson An accessible introduction to creating sustainable and beautiful interiors.

and spot-on decisions.

Susanna Utbult and Jenny Jonsson have adapted the ancient Chinese philosophy feng shui to western homes. You will get practical advice on how to decorate your home without resorting to expensive designs, minimalism or a lot of money. By learning about feng shui, you will decorate your home with mindful awareness, resulting in fewer impulse purchases or improvements that you soon regret. Instead, you will make active choices

E KE N P RES S Hardback • 9781908233332 • August 2021 • £12.99 96 pages • c. 40 colour illus.

Head to Head Conversations with a Generation of Horse Racing Legends

By Lenny Shulman Offers insights from men and women who reached the top levels of success in all aspects of horse racing.

Award-winning writer Lenny Shulman offers highlights from the best interviews he has conducted throughout his twenty-year career covering Thoroughbred horse racing. Touching on some of the greatest horses and greatest races the sport has ever seen, this engaging book serves as an important oral history of the sport and the industry. At the same time, it will be a guide for new generations of enthusiasts who are interested in learning from some of horse racing's most successful luminaries.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Hardback • 9780813181271 • July 2021 • £21.00 236 pages • 15 b/w illus.

Changing the Game My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing

By Jim Host and with Eric A. Moyen A memoir of the extraordinary professional life of the pioneer in college sports marketing.

Founder and CEO Jim Host was the pioneer in college sports marketing; his prevailing innovation of bundled licensing encouraged corporate partners to become official sponsors of athletic programs across media. This book is the first complete account of Host’s professional life covering everything from his achievements in sports radio to his foray into Kentucky politics.

Providing a behind-the-scenes look at the growth of big-time athletics, this memoir offers solutions for current challenges facing college sports.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813180427 • August 2021 • £21.00 296 pages • 70 b/w illus. |

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My Cookbook Passion Culinary History and Adventure in Exploring My Collection

By Pamela Kure Grogan and Edited by S.P. Grogan A cookbook with a historic recipe anthology tracks the evolution and modernisation of the cookbook.

on the public's taste.

Pamela Kure Grogan draws upon a vintage selection from her 3,000 volume cookbook collection showcasing the changing palates of those at-home and at-travel epicureans. In it, she visualises the impact of various world wars, financial depressions, expanding transcontinental auto usage, and the technological advancement of utensils and ingredients used in the kitchen

GAUDIU M Hardback • 9781592111176 • November 2021 • £39.99 228 pages

Festive Ukrainian Cooking

By Marta Farley New in paperback edition of this classic.

More than a cookbook, Festive Ukrainian Cooking is also a definitive account of traditional Ukrainian culture as perpetuated in family rituals and lovingly celebrated with elegantly prepared food and drink.

UNIV E R S I T Y OF P I T TS B URG H PRESS Paperback • 9780822966784 • November 2021 • £17.00 240 pages

Burgoo, Barbecue, and Bourbon A Kentucky Culinary Trinity

By Albert W. A. Schmid, Jessica Ebelhar and Loreal "Butcher Babe" Gavin An entertaining cookbook filled with fascinating tidbits and innovative recipes for the modern cook.

Award-winning author and chef Albert W. A. Schmid serves up a feast for readers in Burgoo, Barbecue, and Bourbon, sharing recipes and lore surrounding these storied culinary traditions. He introduces readers to new and forgotten versions of favourite regional dishes from the time of Daniel Boone to today and uncovers many lost recipes, such as Mush Biscuits, Kentucky Tombstone Pudding, and the Original Kentucky Whiskey Cake.

UNIV E R S I T Y P RES S OF KEN T U CK Y Paperback • 9780813154060 • October 2021 • £15.00 200 pages • 19 b/w illus.

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SPORTS & LIFESTYLE

The Trinity College VIII Rowing for the Ladies Plate

By David Hickey A light-hearted account of how the 1977 Dublin University Boat Club won the cherished Ladies Plate at the Royal Henley Regatta.

Author and crew member David Hickey describes how the 1977 Dublin University Boat Club beat the best university crews in the world to win the cherished Ladies Plate at the Royal Henley Regatta. It includes tales of their prowess on the water and misadventures on land. Hickey also takes an in-depth look at the reality of competitive rowing. Above all, it is a story of discipline, camaraderie, fitness, self-belief, teamwork, student antics and hard work.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359362 • October 2021 • £17.95 280 pages • 40 colour illus.

Being Irish New Views on Irish Identity Today

Edited by Marie-Claire Logue Short personal essays by well-known Irish people on Irish culture and heritage.

What does it mean to be Irish today? Why do over 70 million people worldwide embrace their Irish heritage? Being Irish gathers a diverse group of 100 people – the famous and not so famous – each trying to give expression to that special something that is more or less recognisable as Irish.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359348 • October 2021 • £17.95 300 pages • 100 b/w illus.

Food through the Ages A Popular History

By Mike Gibney Traces the story of food beginning with the early hunter-gatherers and describes the origins of commonplace foods.

Written for food aficionados everywhere, this book provides an entertaining look at the development of the key foods we eat every day. It traces the story of food from early hunter gatherers through settled agriculture to the migration across Europe, and examines the influence early trading, imperial conquests and medieval exploration had on the food chain.

LIF FE Y P RES S Paperback • 9781838359379 • October 2021 • £17.95 300 pages • c. 50 colour illus.

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INDEX 9/12

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A-Democracy Advent News: Too Good to Keep Adventures in Thousandworld African Dolls Alfred Hitchcock Amnesty in Brazil And Finally…

Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2 (The) Annunciationist (The) Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy Art of Place (The) Asian Philosophers and Their Discontents Assault on Elisha Green (The) At Medeleni The Atmospherical "We"

81 48 69 21 26 80 29 9

A

B

Baring Unbearable Sensualities Be Brave to Things Before the Military Revolution Being Irish Best Ever! (The) Betrayal of a Republic Between a Rock and a Hard Place Beyoncé in the World Beyond Portraits Beyond the Walls of Baghdad Birds of Kentucky (The) Blue Split Compartments (The) Body in Fukushima (A) Bonds of Womanhood Bone Wars Born to Slow Horses Bourdichon's Boston Hours Boy Who Saw with His Hands (The) Brevity is the Soul Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall (The) Burgoo, Barbecue, and Bourbon Buzz

C

Captain Cooked Caught Falling Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood Central Asia Changing the Game Charles Boyer Chasing Eden City of Dreams City of Lake and Prairie Columbia Pictures Coming of Age Composition and Big Data Contemporary Public Health Creed for Today (A)

D

Daily Wisdom/Léann an Lae Dakota Dark History of Penn’s Woods

94

A

61 19 31 22 57 44 59 57

A

32 73 46 93 43 67 68 18 2 60 78 74 34 45 41 74 2 70 62 27 92 24

A

63 34 27 19 91 28 22 25 78 25 49 75 85 51

A

51 67 42

Death of the Senate Democracy Against Parties Dervish Dust Description of Moldavia (A) Desert Drivers Diana Armfield Different World (A) Do You Believe in Swedish Sin? Dogs of March Dracul: In the Name of the Father Drowned Town

83 80 28 42 40 5 56 30 63 45 20

Early Greek Alphabetic Writing Ecclesial Crisis in Ukraine (The) Elegguas Elephant Elijah Pierce's America Engulfed Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry Eva & Maxime Discover the Bayeux Tapestry and its Mysteries Every Bush Aflame Exploring Christus Vivit Extraction State (The)

39 54 73 13 8 24 57

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F

Far Beyond the Moon Fat Chance Fear and Disruption of Habits During the Pandemic Feng Shui Flow Festive Ukrainian Cooking Film's First Family Food through the Ages Forest of the Hanged (The) Forgotten Clones (The) From Earth Funding Bodies

G

Getting Right with Lincoln Gettysburg By Morning Gilded Age (The) Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo and the Allegory of Patience Giovanni Hautmann Gray Zones of Medicine (The) Grieving Daughter's Heart (A) Gumbo Ya Ya Gustave Moreau

H

Handbook in Motion Harry Kernoff Havel Head to Head Healing Power Heartwood Henry Moore: Friendships and Legacies HER ALLIES History of Arcadia in Art and Literature Vol 1 (A) History of Arcadia in Art and Literature Vol 2 (A) History of the Russian Church in Australia (The) History of the Study of Grammar among the Syrians

A

70 47 53 77

A

79 87 58 91 92 23 93 59 75 17 33

A

46 67 59 8 86 86 90 71 7

A

33 10 83 91 87 70 4 88 6 6 53 38

INDEX Hitchcock and the Censors Hoax Holy Shocking Saints How He Wins How to be Our Best Self in Times of Crisis Howard Elman's Farewell

I

23 40 50 88 88 65

A

I am With you Still 56 Iceland 14 Images, Philosophy, Communication 58 Imagine: Reflections on Peace 15 Imperial Bodies in London 85 Impossible Domesticity 18 In Capra's Shadow 27 In-Between 58 Ingenuity in the Making 76 Inside Motion 34 Intellectual Currents and the Practice of Engagement 37 Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality 29 Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western 55 Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 Islomanes of Cumberland Island 68

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A

K

A

L

A

Jacqui Hallum – Workings and Showings 9 Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture 9 Journal of Language Relationship 37 Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 20 19 Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural 21 Heritage Studies Kate MccGwire Kennedys in the World Landfill Language of Illness (The) Lazarus Poems (The) Life after Death According to the Orthodox Tradition Like What We Imagine Little Less than Angels (A) Little More than Kin (A) Little Pharma Liturgical Calendar for Ireland 2021 Live Free or Die Living Dangerously Living from Music in Salvador Living the Quran with Joy and Purpose Look

M

Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public Master, the One you Love is Ill Meditating on the Mysteries of Salvation Memes, Communities and Continuous Change Mental Health in the Times of the Pandemic Merchant Prince of Poverty Row (The) Mindful Spark (The) Miracle Man Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500 1860 Miss Demeanor Modern Drawings

95

10 84 14 85 74 54 36 52 64 72 52 65 68 32 55 30

A

44 51 48 35 89 24 89 30 3 69 7

Most Hated Man in Kentucky (The) My Cookbook Passion My Life in Christ Mystic of the Midway Mythical Ireland National Development in Romania and Southeastern Europe

43 92 54 62 22 40

New Perlustration of Greenland (The) Nick Hornby – Zygotes and Confessions Nine Lives Not a Hero Now You Know It All

41 10 83 60 60

N

A

O

A

Occasional Views, Volume 2 Old Norse – Old Icelandic Olivia de Havilland Olympia On This Day (July) Other Worlds

P

39 38 23 66 55 72

A

Painting, Patronage and Devotion 7 Paolo Veneziano: The Art of Painting in 14th-Century 3 Venice Paris Park Photographs 14 Passion of Estelle Jordan (The) 64 Past (The) 73 Patris Corde 50 Peace Smiles 49 Perfect Black 72 Performance/Art 32 Persevere and Resist 2 Poems without Poets 35 Post-Pandemic 84 Pots, Prints and Politics 5 Powerfully Perplexing Presidential Profiles 69 Prelude to the Past 41 Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories (The) 66

Q

A

R

A

Quiet City Race and Modern Architecture Radical Innocence Rage Rare Birds Reinventing Sustainability Relapse into Bondage Remainders of the American Century Retuning the Screen Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets Romania Revisited Romanian Crucible Romanians and Hungarians Roomful of Elephants (A) Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives (A)

S

Sagas Second Reckoning (A) Self-Care Squad Journal

62

16 25 84 78 79 81 39 29 11 18 82 82 56 4

A

12 45 89

INDEX Sensing, Feeling, and Action 33 Seven Voices of Hope 50 Siri the Viking 61 Smokescreen 79 Snatch Racket 46 Sowers of Joy (The) 12 Spoonwood 65 Story of Katrine (The) 66 Street with No Name 26 Structural Lexicology and the Greek New Testament 37 Structure 12 Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities82 (The) Sublime Napoli 13 Supplementary Exercises for Old Norse - Old 38 Icelandic Symbols and Things 76

T

Tale of Peter Rabbit in Koine Greek (The) Tale of Two Viruses (A) Teaching Black Three Cities After Hitler Through the Year with the Irish Saints Time to Call Home Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II Titian: Sources and Documents Towards a Culture of Co-Existence in Pluralistic Societies Towards the Sun Trellis for the Soul (A) Trinity Circle (The) Trinity College VIII (The)

U

Useful Lies

V

Vaccine Hesitancy Veritas Sunday Missal Victor Bewley’s Memoirs (new edition) Violins and Hope Voice of Science, British Scientists on the Lecture Circuit in Gilded Age America (The) Voice of the Wildcats Voices from the Peace Corps

W

Wanting Radiance Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard (The) Waters of Hercules (The) Ways of Voice We Will Win The Day We Women of Tehran Wearables 01 Which Side Are You On? Whiskey Boys Whisper My Name Who Knows What We'd Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It? William Palmer World of Monsieur Vincent (The) WOW Writing Architectural History

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A

36 87 36 17 52 47 3

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A

86 49 47 15 76 26 42

A

63 8 61 31 81 20 21 44 43 35 64 53 48 5 17

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