Oxbow Books Autumn 2017 Trade Catalogue: Humanities

PUBLICATIONS & DISTRIBUTED TITLES Autumn 2017

Arts & Culture • Humanities • Poetry • Social Sciences

Welcome to the Autumn 2017 Catalogue from Oxbow Books We are delighted to present to you our distributed books for Autumn 2017 in the subject areas of humanities and social sciences. Covering a wide range of topics, from art, music and film, to philosophy and anthropology, we hope there is something that takes your interest. Don’t forget to turn to page 44 to discover our recently published highlights and bestsellers, available now.

Art & Antiques .....................................................................1 Music ........................................................................................6 Theatre & Performing Arts ............................................7 Film & Television ................................................................9 Food & Cooking .............................................................. 10 Cultural Studies ................................................................11 Anthropology & Sociology ........................................ 12 Philosophy & Religion ...................................................14 Discrimination & Race ................................................. 16 Jewish Studies ...................................................................17 Modern History ................................................................ 18 Military & Maritime History ....................................... 19 American History ............................................................ 21 Literary Criticism ............................................................. 23 Education ............................................................................ 25 Politics, Economics & Law ......................................... 26 Medicine & Health .......................................................... 27 Natural World .................................................................... 28 True Crime .......................................................................... 29 Children’s Books ............................................................. 30 Creative Writing & Memoir ........................................ 31 Fiction & Creative Writing .......................................... 32 Poetry .................................................................................... 35 Bestselling & New Highlights ................................... 44 Trade Ordering Information ...................................... 49

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The Man who Created Roman Britain Julia Sorrell & Mark Sorrell

ALAN SORRELL

The Man Who Created Roman Britain

By Julia Sorrell and Mark Sorrell Beautifully illustrated exploration of Alan Sorrell’s archaeological drawings and the work that went into them.

Alan Sorrell was a celebrated and accomplished artist, renowned for his meticulously researched archaeological reconstructions, especially of the towns and buildings of Roman Britain, many of which are still on display.

But archaeological subjects were not his only interest, and his output was prodigious. Written by his children, both also artists, this is the first book to chart his life as an artist and to examine the detailed research that led to the creation of individual paintings.

ART & ANTIQUES

ALAN SORRELL

Oxbow Books • September 2017 • 9781785707407 • £29.99 Paperback • 246 x 189 • 192 pages • b/w and colour illus.

JOHN UDVARDY

By John Udvardy, introduction by Cade Tompkins, contributions from Mary Dondero, Thomas Lyon Mills and Ronald J. Onorato A collection of contributions providing a nuanced perspective of John Udvardy and his work.

Sculptor and painter John Udvardy is a distinguished artist and educator with an extensive exhibition record throughout the United States. This comprehensive collection of his work by longtime colleagues includes more than 450 images, plus essays, interviews, and a memoir that gives readers a nuanced view of his life and studio. Authors, who are gallerists, curators, artists, art historians, and professors, include Cade Tompkins, Thomas Lyon Mills, Ronald Onorato, Judith Tolnick Champa, Anni Mackay, Varujan Boghosian, and Lasse Antonsen.

Udvardy Editions • February 2017 • 9780692032756 • £49.00 Hardback • 295 x 244 • 214 pages • 16 b/w and 446 colour illus.

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN

A New Political Understanding of Art

By Christina Braun The first study in English on the work and theory of a major installation artist.

Thomas Hirschhorn is a leading installation artist whose work is owned and exhibited by modern art museums throughout Europe and the United States. Known for his compelling, often site-specific and activated environments which tackle issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism, his work initially engages the viewer through sheer superabundance. Combining found images and texts, bound up in handcrafted constructions of cardboard, foil, and packing tape, they correlate to the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload that characterize our own grapplings with the excess of information in daily life.

Christina Braun is the first to compile and systematically analyze the extensive source material on this artist’s theoretical principles. Now translated into English, her study sheds light on the complicated yet constitutive relations between Hirschhorn’s work and theory, providing a major contribution to the study of contemporary art.

Dartmouth College Press • February 2018 • 229 x 152 • 232 pages • 124 illus. (29 col) INTERFACES: STUDIES 9781512601626 • £93.00 • Hardback IN VISUAL CULTURE 9781512601633 • £44.00 • Paperback

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ART & ANTIQUES

FREE AS GODS

How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism

By Charles A. Riley Drawing on unpublished albums, drawings, paintings, and manuscripts, Charles A. Riley offers a fresh examination of both canonic and overlooked Jazz Age writers and artists and their works, by revealing them in conversation with one another. He illuminates social interconnections and artistic collaborations among the most famous, and sets their work alongside that of African Americans.

University Press of New England • July 2017 • 9781611688504 • £29.00 Hardback • 272 pages • 29 illus.

MARY DE PIRO

BOV Exhibition XXIV

By Theresa Vella Mary de Piro had her early training in art at the Accademia dei Belle Arti in Florence and at the School of Art in Valletta, her home town. Her last major personal exhibition was held in 2014 at Palazzo de Piro in Mdina. De Piro has since become an internationally renowned artist through exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

Midsea Books • January 2016 • 9789993275855 • £13.00 Paperback • 240 x 215 • 96 pages • Colour illus.

ALBRECHT DURER IN MALTA

By John Azzopardi This first comprehensive study of Durer’s Life of Virgin and Small Passion series from the Mdina Cathedral Museum, Malta, looks at the life, works and influence of Albrecht Durer. It is divided into two parts: the first covers his life and works, including the history of the collection, and the second looks at the individual prints which are held in the Mdina collection.

Midsea Books • October 2017 • 9789993276043 • £50.00 Hardback • 300 x 220 • 192 pages • 65 illus.

TEN HUTS

By Jill Sigman An artist’s book that explores the ability of art to engage and alter our reality, Ten Huts documents a series of site-specific huts hand built from found and repurposed materials, ranging from the mundane (e-waste and plastic bottles) to the bizarre (circus detritus, moose bones, dental molds, and mugwort), in landscapes as varied as industrial Brooklyn and the Norwegian Arctic.

Wesleyan University Press • September 2017 • 9780819576897 • £34.00 Hardback • 235 x 203 • 312 pages • 473 colour illus.

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Edited by Peter Mark, Peter Helman and Penny Snyder This is the first English-language work to focus on the mountains as subject matter and source of aesthetic and spiritual inspiration for painters. The essays examine how artistic representation of mountains has varied through the lens of specific depictions in English and American literature, and consider how images of mountains functioned in conjunction with religion, the sublime, and Romanticism.

ART & ANTIQUES

THE MOUNTAINS IN ART HISTORY

Wesleyan University Press • April 2017 • 9780819577290 • £15.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 152 pages • 7 illus.

WOVEN SPLENDOUR

The Tapestries at St John’s Conventual Church, Valletta Malta

By Cynthia de Glorgio This study of the tapestries in St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta examines the political, religious and artistic influences of the tapestries. It examines the importance of the Eucharist Series, which would become a major artistic contribution and the hallmark of the High Baroque style, and traces its influence that led to the commission of the set that is housed at St John’s conventual church.

Midsea Books • April 2017 • 9789993276036 • £45.00 Hardback • 265 x 220 • 144 pages • Colour illus.

STUDIES IN ARTHURIAN ILLUSTRATION Volume 1

By Alison Stones

The present volume collects and updates Professor Stones’s papers on Arthurian manuscript illustration, one of her continuing passions. These essays explore aspects of the iconography of the romances of Chrétien de Troyes in French verse, the lengthy Lancelot-Grail romance in French prose, and other versions of the chivalrous exploits of King Arthur’s knights – the best-sellers of the Middle Ages.

Pindar Press • May 2017 • 9781904597377 • £150.00 Hardback • 660 pages • 340 illus.

STUDIES IN ARTHURIAN ILLUSTRATION Volume 2

By Alison Stones

This second volume continues the exploration of aspects of Arthurian Illustration. Of special interest is the cultural context in which these popular works were made and disseminated, by scribes and artists whose work encompassed all kinds of books, for patrons whose collecting was wide-ranging, including secular books alongside works of liturgical and devotional interest.

Pindar Press • May 2017 • 9781904597681 • £150.00 Hardback • 240 x 170 • 620 pages • 260 illus.

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ART & ANTIQUES

ANTIQUARIANISMS

Contact, Conflict, Comparison Edited by Benjamin Anderson and Felipe Rojas Case studies examine how a culture studies its own past and how people study a ‘foreign’ culture.

Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed before the early modern period and both were practiced in places other than Europe. This book concerns the divide between local and foreign antiquarianisms focusing on case studies drawn from the Mediterranean and the Americas. Rather than assuming that interest in antiquity is universal, this book explores the circumstances under which the past itself is produced and transformed through encounters between antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation.

Oxbow Books • May 2017 • 9781785706844 • £35.00 Paperback • 234 x 156 • 232 pages

JOUKOWSKY INSTITUTE PUBLICATION

BEJEWELLED

Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

By Natasha Awais-Dean Explores Tudor and Jacobean jewellery as worn and utilised from the male perspective.

Bejewelled offers an in-depth discussion of the contexts in which jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England was circulated from a male perspective, considering the jewels as valid items of material culture worthy of study and attention, rather than as mere trifles of adornment. Amongst other subjects, the book analyses the social and historical contexts in which jewellery was acquired, owned and circulated, interrogating the meanings that these jewels had for their male owners.

British Museum Press • October 2017 • 9780861592098 • £40.00 Paperback • 297 x 210 • 200 pages • 160 illus.

BRITISH MUSEUM RESEARCH PUBLICATION

AT HOME IN ART

Essays in Honour of Mario Buhagiar Edited by Charlene Vella Essays in celebration of the career of Professor Mario Buhagiar.

A collection of 39 essays edited by Dr Charlene Vella celebrating the outstanding career of Professor Mario Buhagiar. The book is in English, but includes also some papers in Italian and French. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 – From Medieval to Baroque: archaeology, history, painting, and architecture; Section 2 – Design and Decoration: fashion, manuscripts, precious metals, and wood; Section 3 – Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Revivalism, and the Modern; and Section 4 – Interpreting the arts, society, and documentation.

Midsea Books • January 2016 • 9789993275985 • £57.00 Hardback • 240 x 170 • 752 pages • Colour inserts

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Edited by Luke Beckerdite New issue of a journal dedicated to American furniture from 17th Century to the present.

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation.

Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.

Chipstone Foundation • June 2017 • 9780986385704 • £64.00 Hardback

ART & ANTIQUES

AMERICAN FURNITURE 2016

AMERICAN FURNITURE ANNUAL

CERAMICS IN AMERICA 2017 Edited by Robert Hunter New issue of a journal dedicated to the study of American ceramics.

Now in its seventeenth year of publication, Ceramics in America is considered the journal of record for historical ceramics scholarship in the American context and is intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians, and contemporary potters. It covers the latest research into a variety of topics that impact on the study of culture both public and private, imported and native, industrial and aesthetic, social and economic.

“Ceramics in America is a highly important publication in the field of ceramics research. Always stunningly produced, it can be counted on to provide the latest research into a variety of topics that impact our understanding of ceramics production and consumption in America.” – Suzanne R.F. Hood, Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

CERAMICS IN AMERICA ANNUAL

Chipstone Foundation • February 2018 • 9780986385711 • £64.00 Hardback • 260 x 213 • 232 pages • 280 colour illus.

MALTA

Land of Sea Edited by Sandro Debono Uses art and heritage objects to explore Malta’s relationship with land and sea.

Malta is a Mediterranean territory of land and sea. Its history is inspired by the ways and means how the two connect and merge, overlap and retreat.

Indeed, Malta’s cultural landscape can be read and understood as a space of land and sea with common origins, history, and heritage. This volume presents nine categories of carefully selected heritage objects and artworks in different media to illustrate, question and expand the traditional dialectic between land and sea.

Midsea Books • January 2017 • 9789993276005 • £38.50 Hardback • 265 x 220 • 244 pages • Colour illus.

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MUSIC

EIGHT LECTURES ON EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC Edited by Alvin Lucier In this collection, ground-breaking figures of American experimental music discuss the meaning of their work at the turn of the twenty-first century. These captivating lectures provide rare insights by composers whose work has shaped our understanding of what it means to be experimental. They tell the story of twentieth-century American experimental music, covering such topics as repetition, phase, drone, duration, collaboration, and technological innovation.

Wesleyan University Press • November 2017 • 9780819577634 • £24.00 Hardback • 216 x 140 • 160 pages

LINEAGE OF LOSS

Counternarratives of North Indian Music

By Max Katz In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow. Drawing on six years of ethnographic and archival research, and fifteen years of musical apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history and written record of this family, tracing its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure from the collective memory.

Wesleyan University Press • November 2017 • 229 x 152 • 224 pages • 16 illus.

9780819577580 • £78.00 • Hardback 9780819577597 • £24.00 • Paperback

MUSIC/CULTURE

THE KIND OF MAN I AM

Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr.

By Nichole Rustin-Paschal Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus Jr. remains one of the least understood and most recognized jazz composers and musicians of our time. Drawing on archival records, published memoirs, and previously conducted interviews, this book uses Mingus as a lens through which to craft a gendered cultural history of postwar jazz culture.

Wesleyan University Press • November 2017 • 229 x 152 • 230 pages 9780819577559 • £78.00 • Hardback 9780819577566 • £24.00 • Paperback

MUSIC/CULTURE

MUSICAL ONTOLOGY

A Guide for the Perplexed

By Lisa Giombini What is musical ontology? Why should we as philosophers address it, if ever? The number of papers, volumes and essays that have recently been dedicated to the topic of art and musical ontology is so vast that it is hard to navigate. This book is a guide to help hapless readers find their way through this philosophical jungle.

Mimesis International • September 2017 • 9788869771064 • £14.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 300 pages

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What We Do, How We Do It, and Why

By David Hays A colourful account of theatre life for scholars, practitioners and theatregoers.

David Hays, elected to the Theater Hall of Fame in 2014, created an exciting and successful career designing scenery and lighting for plays and musicals on Broadway, in London, and in Japan. Told with passion and wit, this book takes readers behind the scenes of the theatre world to show how a stage designer collaborates with directors and producers to create great works of theatre and dance, integrating anecdotes, technical insights and life lessons.

THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS

SETTING THE STAGE

Wesleyan University Press • July 2017 • 9780819577214 • £26.00 Hardback • 192 pages • 6 illus.

INSIDE THE DANCER’S ART

By Rose Eichenbaum Elegant photographs of the mysterious and complex world of dance.

In this gorgeous book, the acclaimed photographer Rose Eichenbaum captures the spirit, beauty, and commitment of dancers along with the dancers’ own words of wisdom and guidance. More than 250 colour and black and white photographs are paired with inspirational quotes from legendary and emerging dancers. Sensual and mesmerizing, these images will entrance dancer and non-dancer alike—as well as anyone who loves fine photography—with their powerful depiction of the human body.

Wesleyan University Press • August 2017 • 9780819577009 • £29.00 Paperback • 203 x 254 • 240 pages • 31 b/w and 229 colour illus.

BOSTON BALLERINA

A Dancer, a Company, an Era

By Laura Young with Janine Parker A lively, informed and entertaining memoir of life with Boston Ballet.

As a charter member of Boston Ballet and its predecessor, New England Civic Ballet, Laura Young has been affiliated with the company longer than any other dancer in its history. This book is both a memoir of her personal journey and a fascinating account of Boston Ballet’s rise from a regional troupe to the internationally recognized company that it is today. It is interspersed with ruminations on the history of ballet, stories from the company’s early years, and recollections from noteworthy tours.

University Press of New England • December 2017 • 9781512600797 • £34.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 256 pages • 50 illus.

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THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS

A TIME TO DANCE

American Country Dancing from Hornpipes to Hot Hash

By Richard Nevell and illustrated by Randy Miller A history of American country dancing.

A Time to Dance: American Country Dancing from Hornpipes to Hot Hash presents a well-documented history of American country dancing. Richard Nevell records American country dances as historical artefacts, as social expressions of rural and urban communities, as manifestations of democracy, and as an evolving traditional art that changes to meet the needs of a changing American society. The breezy, relaxed style lends itself to easy reading, and is accompanied by excellent illustrations.

Bauhan Publishing • November 2017 • 9780872332546 • £22.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 266 pages • 20 illus.

THIS BODY IS IN DANGER!

Shape-shifting CorpoRealities in Contemporary Performing Arts Edited by Aneta Stojni, Christel Stalpaert and Marina Grini New media technologies and their relationship with the body.

This Body Is in Danger! offers an innovative perspective on corporeality at the intersection with cutting-edge contemporary debates regarding the shift from biopolitics to necropolitics, critical approaches to new media technologies and the relation between performing arts, activism and politics. The book consists of academic texts by both established and emerging scholars, who bring together perspectives from different fields (philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, theatre studies and dance studies) and different geopolitical contexts. A special section of the book featuring statements by artists will be dedicated to relevant artistic practices that deal with these topics.

Academia Press • November 2017 • 9789401444941 • £36.00 Paperback • 235 x 156 • 204 pages

STUDIES IN PERFORMING ARTS AND MEDIA

UNFOLDING SPECTATORSHIP

Shifting Political, Ethical and Intermedial Positions Edited by Christel Stalpaert, Katharina Pewny, Jeroen Coppens and Pieter Vermeulen What does it mean to be a spectator?

There is no performance without the spectator. This holds true not only for traditional drama, but also for contemporary interactive—and even virtual— forms of theatre. Concepts of spectatorship are now continually being redefined and the spectator is no longer a passive and immobile subject.

Promoting an ever-shifting notion of spectatorship, this collection of essays explores the field of contemporary performing arts by revealing the interplay between audience and community, gaze and passivity, image and living reality, self-ownership and alienation.

Academia Press • August 2017 • 9789038225982 • £36.00 Paperback • 235 x 156 • 192 pages • 29 illus.

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Assembling as a Form and Symptom in Contemporary Arts Edited by Cristina Baldacci and Marco Bertozzi Montage is a widespread procedure that doesn’t concern just artistic production, but also our daily lives and the use everyone makes of that huge visual archive contemporary media places at our disposal. In a technologically advanced society, where the notion of postproduction regulates our relationship with images and objects, this book aims to investigate the role, possibilities, and anthropological and politic connotations of montage.

FILM & TELEVISION

MONTAGES

Mimesis International • October 2017 • 9788869771026 • £15.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 250 pages

CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S CINEMA

Global Scenarios and Transnational Contexts Edited by Veronica Pravadelli These essays consider women’s production in cinema by looking at various films and filmmakers around the globe and by tackling the relation between national, transnational and global contexts in film production. What emerges is a multifaceted picture showing that women filmmakers, and especially non-Western filmmakers, are key social actors able to narrate the complexities of the current geopolitical condition and of its subjects.

Mimesis International • August 2017 • 9788869770999 • £15.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 220 pages • 40-50 illus.

SUPER SIZE STORIES

A Critical Approach to TV Series

By Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone This book claims that the vast amount of narrative time is one of the distinctive features by virtue of which TV series are treated as a self-standing appreciative kind in contemporary culture, and argues that this can conflict with the structural constraints of formulaic narrative, especially from an Aristotelian perspective according to which a narrative basically is a knot to be untied.

Mimesis International • July 2017 • 9788869770968 • £8.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 100 pages

ISHIRO HONDA

A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

By Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski, with contributions from Yuuko Honda-Yun and foreword by Martin Scorcese Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with a succession of science fiction films that were commercial hits worldwide. In this first full account of this director’s life and career, new light is shed on Honda’s work and the experiences that shaped it—including his days as a reluctant Japanese soldier, and witnessing the aftermath of Hiroshima.

Wesleyan University Press • November 2017 • 9780819570871 • £32.00 Hardback • 254 x 178 • 336 pages • 118 illus.

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FOOD & COOKING

THE GERMAN-JEWISH COOKBOOK

Recipes and History of a Cuisine

By Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman, with foreword by Nach Waxman The first German-Jewish cookbook in a century, a history and memoir with over 100 recipes.

This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes differ from more familiar Jewish food, they will be a discovery for many people. With a focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients, this indispensable collection of recipes includes numerous soups, both chilled and hot; vegetable dishes; meats, poultry, and fish; fruit desserts; cakes; and the German version of challah, Berches.

Brandeis University Press • October 2017 • 9781611688733 • £34.00 Hardback • 254 x 178 • 272 pages • 33 b/w and 23 colour illus.

HBI SERIES ON JEWISH WOMEN

THE FOOD AND COOKERY OF MALTA AND GOZO

By Helen Caruana Galizia Explores the rapid changes in Maltese nutrition and food fashions as well as recipes This book is considered the Bible of Maltese cuisine and is now in its fifth edition. This is not simply ‘another’ cookery book of Maltese dishes, but also a vivid description of the rapid changes in nutrition and food fashions. The author documents original Maltese recipes as well as looking into important environmental issues such as overfishing, genetically modified food, and air pollution. The book also explores the evolution of national tastes and cooking fashions.

Midsea Books • June 2017 • 9789993275572 • £19.50 Paperback • 240 x 148 • 320 pages • colour illus.

LEA’S GOOD FOOD EVERYDAY

By Lea Hogg 75 easy recipes for today’s living, curated from Lea Hogg’s television program.

Each of these recipes is simple to prepare using local ingredients that are readily available. Each recipe in the book is clearly classified to suit food intolerances and special diets. They include one-course meals such as pulled pork ftiras and kawlata, as well as Maltese Pudina without bread. The book also includes a number of recipes of Leah’s innovative work with aquafaba as an egg replacement. Author’s tips accompany each recipe to provide variations to the main recipe and quick hints on technique.

Midsea Books • January 2016 • 9789993275992 • £8.95 Paperback • 210 x 148 • 96 pages • colour illus.

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Tracing Ancient India Through Text and Traditions Edited by Lucas den Boer and Daniele Cuneo Contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, with a particular emphasis on philology, history and sociology.

CULTURAL STUDIES

PUṢPIKĀ VOLUME 4

Oxbow Books • August 2017 • 9781785707568 • £30.00 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 182 pages • b/w figures

UALALAPI

Fragments from the End of Empire

By Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, translated by Richard Bartlett and Isaura de Oliveira, with an introduction by Phillip Rothwell Challenges the ideological celebration of Ngungunhane as a national hero and portrays him instead as a despot, highlighting the violence and tyranny that were markers of the Gaza Empire. This fresh look at the history of late nineteenth-century southeast Africa provides a prism through which to question the machinations of power in Mozambique during the 1980s.

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth • May 2017 • 9781933227733 • £20.00 Paperback • 216 x 140 • 104 pages

ADAMASTOR SERIES

STATE OF THE NATION

By Steve Hili

In this acclaimed (by himself) book, loud-mouth comedian Steve Hili takes an in-depth look at the state of the Maltese nation, taking no prisoners as he pulls the country apart, offering his unique views on everything from politics to religion, via massage parlours, Eurovision, booze and social media.

Midsea Books • January 2016 • 9789993275916 • £8.95 Paperback • 175 x 110 • 176 pages

BIOGRAPHY OF LISBON

By Magda Pinheiro and translated by Mario Periera This highly original and meticulously researched book follows the rich and fascinating history of Lisbon—European capital city and cosmopolitan metropolis—from its legendary founding by Ulysses to the present day, covering the most remarkable moments of the city. This amply illustrated and engaging book makes the seductively enchanting city of Lisbon come to life.

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth • January 2018 • 9781933227757 • £24.00 Paperback • 235 x 156 • 512 pages • 49 b/w and 40 colour illus., 9 maps

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ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

NORTH POLE PROMISE

Black, White, and Asian Friends

By S. Allen Counter The untold story of the children left behind by explorers Peary and Henson.

Commander Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, one white, one African American, discovered the North Pole in 1909 with four Inuit assistants. Peary and Henson returned to the US shortly after – the white Peary to acclaim, the African American Henson to obscurity.

They each left behind sons, fathered with indigenous Greenlandic Inuit women. Dr. Counter, an explorer himself, tells of discovering the fate of those children and ultimately honouring them and their illustrious forebears.

Bauhan Publishing • June 2017 • 9780872332461 • £20.00 Paperback • 260 x 216 • 144 pages • 75 colour illus.

THE MEANING OF ICE

People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities Edited by Shari Gearhead, Lene Kielsen, Henry Huntington, Joe Mello Leavitt and Andrew R. Mahoney The Inuit relationship with sea ice told through stories, artwork and photographs.

Celebrates Arctic sea ice as it is seen and experienced by the Inuit, Iñupiat, and Inughuit, who for generations have lived with it and thrived on what it offers. With extensive details offered through their own drawings and writings, this book describes the depth of Arctic communities’ knowledge of sea ice and the critical and complex role it plays in their lives.

Immap sikua pisariaqartipparput (Greenlandic Edition) • 9780996193863 Sikuup tukingit (Inuktitut Edition) • 9780996193887 Sivuninga Sikum (Inupiaq Edition) • 9780996193870 International Polar Institute • August 2017 • 9780996193856 • £29.00 Paperback • 254 x 279 • 416 pages • 645 colour illus., 22 maps, 3 tables

STYLE AND MEANING

Essays on the anthropology of art

By Anthony Forge and Edited by Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas Brings together Anthony Forge’s most important publications on the anthropology of art.

Anthony Forge’s powerful, question-raising arguments addressed basic issues, asking why so much art was produced in some regions, and why it was so socially important. This volume brings together Forge’s most important writings on the anthropology of art, published over a thirty year period, together with six assessments of his legacy, including extended reappraisals of Sepik ethnography, by distinguished anthropologists from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Sidestone Press • September 2017 • 257 x 182 • 300 pages • 16 b/w, 70 colour illus.

9789088904479 • £135.00 • Hardback PACIFIC PRESENCES 9789088904462 • £45.00 • Paperback

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Aisthesis, Aura, and Atmospheric Portfolio

By Andreas Rauh

Offers a discussion of the conceptual provenance of the “atmosphere”.

Atmospheres are omnipresent and they are frequently used in everyday language. Yet, when do we perceive atmospheres and how can we explore them? This volume not only offers a discussion of the conceptual provenance of the “atmosphere” and the special forms of perception that are related to it, it also offers a range of selected empirical methods to explore atmospheres and to understand the human understanding and relationship to them.

ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

CONCERNING ASTONISHING ATMOSPHERES

Mimesis International • November 2017 • 9788869771033 • £10.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 120 pages

CHALLENGES TO LIVING TOGETHER

Transculturalism, Migration, Exploitation. For a Semioethics of Human Relations Edited by Susan Petrilli Focuses on the problems of global social communication of our times.

Global semiotics evidences the condition of interrelatedness and interdependency not only among the sign systems forming the anthroposphere, but between nature and culture. This book designs a common vision from different perspectives all essentially oriented by the belief that living together can only be fully achieved when the business of living espouses diversity and care for the other as the principle of unity, when the unifying principle is difference.

Mimesis International • July 2017 • 9788869770937 • £28.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 460 pages

DISLOCATED SUBJECT Edited by Lorena Preta Explores the new means of communication and social organization that characterise our times.

“The time is out of joint”. This famous line from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet helps to describe the impression of de-centering, of deconstruction, which we currently live and experience. This phenomenon is caused by various factors and while it is happening worldwide, partly as a result of globalization itself, it is perceived in different ways in the various cultures and countries of the world, explored in this book.

Mimesis International • September 2017 • 9788869771071 • £10.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 120 pages

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PHILOSOPHY AND HOPE

Bloch and Loewith interpreters of Marx

By Diego Fusaro One of the greatest unsolved issues that Karl Marx bequeathed to his interpreters concerns the legitimacy of practical and theoretical hope. This book explores the interpretative lines chosen by Ernst Bloch and Karl Löwith, who both claim that hope is at the heart of Marx’s thought, but end up with an opposite evaluation of hope.

Mimesis International • August 2017 • 9788869770975 • £8.00 Paperback • 170 x 110 • 80 pages

THE ENLIGHTENED GENE

Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence that Explains the World

By Arri Eisen and Yungdrung Konchok with foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavour, the Dalai Lama invited Emory University to integrate modern science into the education of thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in exile in India. The Enlightened Gene explores the striking ways in which the integration of Buddhism with cutting-edge discoveries in the biological sciences can change our understanding of life and how we live it.

University Press of New England • November 2017 • 9781512600001 • £29.00 Hardback • 235 x 156 • 296 pages • 25 illus.

THREE PARADOXES OF PERSONHOOD The Venetian Lectures

By Margolis Joseph and edited by Roberta Dreon

This final book by Joseph Margolis gives a comprehensive idea to the reader about the ultimate goal reached by this American philosopher at the end of his long intellectual career. The starting point of Joseph Margolis’ last philosophical effort is represented by the problem of the human “gap” in animal continuity.

Mimesis International • September 2017 • 9788869771040 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 140 pages

A BODY, IN SPITE

A Slight Philosophy for Actors

By Alain Jugnon and translated by Nathanaël Philosopher-playwright Alain Jugnon’s A Body, in Spite introduces this prolific French author to an English-speaking readership. The aphorisms that comprise this slight philosophy for actors are an inventoried body with and without its defenses. With incisive humor, Jugnon casts his intellect into the many-organed world, to draw from its semantic recesses a sort of divine putrescence.

Nightboat Books • November 2017 • 9781937658755 • £16.00 Paperback • 159 x 133 • 112 pages

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From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back

By Noam Zadoff A new intellectual portrait of a prominent twentieth-century philosopher.

Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897–1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zionism, the phenomenology of mystical religion, and the spiritual and political condition of contemporary Judaism and Jewish civilization. This erudite interpretation of Scholem’s scholarship, embedded in its rich social and cultural contexts, show the remarkable contested worlds Scholem inhabited, resisted, and accommodated to—sometimes in ways that ran counter to his own self-portrait.

Brandeis University Press • January 2018 • 235 x 156 • 344 pages 9781512601138 • £39.00 • Paperback 9781512601121 • £93.00 • Hardback

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GERSHOM SCHOLEM

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TRACING THE PATH OF GIAMBATTISTA VICO’S UNIVERSAL RIGHT

By Lomonaco Fabrizio Offers a new approach to study on Vico’s philosophy.

This book is the result of sustained analysis and textual study on the extremely articulate trajectory of Vico’s interest in metaphysics and jurisprudence before the New Sciences. Particular importance is given to the three books of Diritto universale which mark a significant step in the redefinition of the relationship between philosophical questions of law and metaphysics. This has led to the acknowledgement of the connection – rather than the juxtaposition – of natural and historic law in Vico.

Mimesis International • September 2017 • 9788869771088 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 160 pages

TOWARD NATIONALISM’S END

An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn

By Adi Gordon Analyzes the intellectual evolution of Hans Kohn, pioneer of nationalism studies.

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891–1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn’s peripatetic life took him from the Revolutionary-era Soviet Union to interwar-era Palestine under the British Empire to the United States during the Cold War. Bearing witness to dramatic reconfigurations of national and political identities, he spearheaded an intellectual revolution that fundamentally challenged assumptions about the “naturalness” and the immutability of nationalism.

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DISCRIMINATION & RACE

NATIVE LAND TALK

Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories

By Yael Ben-zvi Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Correcting this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that indigenous and African-descended people(s) articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on a plethora of texts, including petitions, letters, newspapers, and official records, Yael Ben-zvi analyses nativity’s unsettling potential and its discursive and geopolitical implications.

Dartmouth College Press • February 2018 • 235 x 156 • 296 pages • 2 illus.

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SHORTCHANGED

Height Discrimination and Strategies for Social Change

By Tanya S. Osensky This book examines “heightism”: the widely held and mostly unconscious notion that taller is better. Prejudice against short people is so common and casual that we do not even notice it, yet it factors significantly into discrimination in the workplace, in social situations, and beyond. This book exposes the cultural, medical, and occupational issues that short people face. Osensky challenges heightism by disclosing some beneficial aspects of shortness and suggesting avenues of activism and change.

University Press of New England • November 2017 • 229 x 152 • 200 pages • 10 illus.

9781512601428 • £93.00 • Hardback 9781512601435 • £20.00 • Paperback

TELL

Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights

By Major Margaret Witt with contributions from Tim Connor and foreword by Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer The riveting story of Major Margaret Witt’s decorated military career as a frontline flight nurse, and of her devotion to her partner – now wife – Laurie Johnson. It captures the tension and drama of the politically charged legal battle that led to the congressional repeal of the controversial law and helped pave the way for a suite of landmark political and legal victories for gay rights.

University Press of New England • November 2017 • 9781611688429 • £27.00 Hardback • 235 x 156 • 288 pages • 30 illus.

FACULTY OF COLOR IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS Stories of Survival and Success

By Dena Hassouneh

Provides the first in-depth examination of the experiences of one hundred faculty members of colour in nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry schools across the United States. Anchoring study in grounded theory, these extraordinary interviews with diverse faculty – together with rich contextual data – illuminate numerous and deeply embedded cultural and institutional challenges to equity they confront, as well as practical strategies to overcome them.

Dartmouth College Press • 16 January 2018 • 229 x 152 • 304 pages • 4 tables 9781512601213 • £93.00 • Hardback 9781512601220 • £34.00 • Paperback

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Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity Edited by Pawel Maciejko This volume provides a selection of the most original and influential texts composed

by Sabbatai Tsevi and his followers, complemented by fragments of the works of their rabbinic opponents and contemporary observers and some literary works inspired by Sabbatianism. An introduction and annotations by Pawel Maciejko provide historical, political, and social context for the documents.

Brandeis University Press • June 2017 • 9781512600520 • £25.00 Paperback • 216 pages

JEWISH STUDIES

SABBATIAN HERESY

THE BRANDEIS LIBRARY OF MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT

THE ROAD TO SEPTEMBER 1939

Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

By Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit Drawing on the memoirs, letters, and institutional reports, this volume sheds new light on a troubled period in Jewish history. Reinharz and Shavit trace Jewish responses to developments in Eastern and Central Europe to show that—contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief—Zionists in the Yishuv worked tirelessly on the international stage on behalf of their co-religionists in Europe.

Brandeis University Press • 13 February 2018 • 9781512601534 • £49.00 Hardback • 235 x 156 • 432 pages

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THE EDDIE CANTOR STORY

A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics

By David Weinstein This absorbing biography chronicles the life and work of one of the most important entertainers of the twentieth century. Eddie Cantor (1892–1964) starred in theater, film, radio, and television. His immense popularity across a variety of media, his pride in his Jewish heritage, and his engagement with pressing political issues distinguished him from other headliners of his era.

Brandeis University Press • December 2017 • 9781512600483 • £29.00 Hardback • 235 x 156 • 304 pages • 30 illus.

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JEWISH LEGAL THEORIES

Writings on State, Religion, and Morality Edited by Leora Batnitzky, and Yonatan Batnitzky Collects representative modern Jewish writings on law and provides short commentaries and annotations on these writings that situate them within Jewish thought and history, as well as within modern legal theory. Topics addressed include legal philosophy, the role of Jewish law in Israel, and contemporary feminist legal theory.

Brandeis University Press • January 2018 • 229 x 152 • 296 pages 9781584657439 • £93.00 • Hardback 9781584657446 • £25.00 • Paperback

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MODERN HISTORY

THE LIVES OF DILLON RIPLEY

Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution

By Roger D. Stone The true story of the last Renaissance man.

Explores the life of S. Dillon Ripley, a “courtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colourful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearer” who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. It also explores his recruitment in 1944 to the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the modern CIA, during which time he was posted to Ceylon, where he recruited and ran agents who reported from and infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia.

University Press of New England • July 2017 • 9781611686562 • £27.00 Hardback • 240 pages • 18 illus.

TWO TITANS, ONE CITY

Joseph Chamberlain & George Cadbury

By Andrew Reekes Reveals the fascinating lives and rivalries of two important figures from Birmingham’s history.

Two famous and powerful men of the late Victorian and early Edwardian era, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) and George Cadbury (1839-1922), towered over one of the great cities of the British Empire – Birmingham. Together, they offer a fascinating window into the rapidly changing world in which they lived and the preoccupations of their generation. This is the first study to explore, compare and contrast the lives of these two very famous but very different figures.

West Midlands History • February 2017 • 9781905036349 • £14.99 Paperback • 240 x 170 • 156 pages

HAIFA

City of Steps

By Nili Scharf Gold A rich look, from a native daughter, at Haifa over several decades.

Nili Gold, who was born in Haifa to German-speaking parents in 1948, the first year of Israeli statehood, here offers a remarkable homage to her native city during its heyday as an international port and cultural center. Illustrated with more than thirty-five photographs and six maps, Gold’s astute observations of the changing landscape of her childhood and youth highlight literary works that portray deeply held feelings for Haifa, by such canonical Israeli writers as A. B. Yehoshua, Sami Michael, and Dahlia Ravikovitch.

Brandeis University Press • November 2017 • 9781512601183 • £29.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 280 pages • 30 illus.

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The Birth of the Flying Tigers

By Eugenie Buchan

A new history of the genesis of the legendary Flying Tigers.

On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan.

In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable. Nonetheless, in those dark days, the U.S. press began to pick up reports about a group of American mercenaries who were bringing down enemy planes over Burma and western China. The pilots quickly became known as the Flying Tigers and a legend was born. But who were these flyers for hire and how did they wind up in the British colony of Burma. In A Few Planes for China, Eugenie Buchan draws on wide-ranging new sources to overturn seventy years of received wisdom about the genesis of the Flying Tigers.

MILITARY & MARITIME HISTORY

A FEW PLANES FOR CHINA

University Press of New England • Decemeber 2017 • 9781611688665 • £34.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 272 pages • 21 illus.

THE BOOK SMUGGLERS

Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

By David E. Fishman The nearly unbelievable story of those who risked their lives to save books from the Nazis.

The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion—including the readiness to risk one’s life—to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author’s interviews with several of the story’s participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, “The Jerusalem of Lithuania.”

University Press of New England • November 2017 • 9781512600490 • £29.00 Hardback • 235 x 156 • 312 pages • 28 photos, 2 maps

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MILITARY & MARITIME HISTORY

STATES AT WAR, VOLUME 6

A Reference Guide for South Carolina and the Confederate States Chronology during the Civil War Edited by Richard F. Miller A valuable reference guide to South Carolina during the American Civil War. Although many Civil War reference books exist, Civil War researchers have until now had no single compendium to consult on important details about the combatant states (and territories). This crucial reference work provides vital information on the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and laws of Civil War South Carolina. It also enlists multiple sources, including the statutes, Journals of Congress, departmental reports, general orders from Richmond and state legislatures, and others, to illustrate the rise and fall of the Confederacy.

University Press of New England • February 2018 • 9781512601077 • £98.00 Hardback • 254 x 178 • 712 pages • 2 maps

STATES AT WAR

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIXTEEN SHIPWRECKS

By Stewart Gordon Shipwrecks as a window on the history of globalization.

Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania to the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the study of shipwrecks makes for a new and very different understanding of world history. This book explores the age-old, immensely hazardous, persistently romantic, and ongoing process of moving people and goods across the seven seas.

University Press of New England • 9781512601244 • £20.00 New in Paperback • 235 x 156 • 290 pages • 34 illus.

THE PALATINE WRECK

The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship

By Jill Farinelli A deeply researched inquiry into one of the enduring mysteries of the New England coast.

Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. Shortly after the wreck, rumours about the lead up to these events began to circulate. What really happened to the Princess Augusta and the passengers she carried on her final, fatal voyage? Through years of research, Jill Farinelli reconstructs the origins of one of New England’s most chilling maritime mysteries.

University Press of New England • October 2017 • 9781611687057 • £20.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 232 pages • 8 illus., 3 maps

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Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape

By Thomas Rinaldi and Robert J. Yasinsac In an effort to raise awareness of their plight, Hudson Valley Ruins offers the reader a long-overdue glimpse at some of the region’s forgotten cultural treasures. In addition to great river estates, the book profiles sites more meaningful to everyday life in the Valley: churches and hotels, commercial and civic buildings, mills and train stations.

AMERICAN HISTORY

HUDSON VALLEY RUINS

University Press of New England • July 2017 • 9781512601312 • £29.00 Paperback • 254 x 178 • 356 pages • 230 b/w and 16 colour illus., 1 map

CAPTAINS OF CHARITY

The Writing and Wages of Postrevolutionary Atlantic Benevolence

By Mary Kathleen Eyring In this thematically rich book, Mary Kathleen Eyring examines authors whose writings were connected with their charitable endeavours, which addressed the worst by-products of the brisk maritime commerce in Atlantic seaport cities in the first half of the nineteenth century. She examines the processes behind the emergence of charitable institutions and societies, and their effect on the development of a revolutionary class in America.

University of New Hampshire Press • August 2017 • 229 x 152 • 256 pages 9781512600988 • £93.00 • Hardback 9781512600995 • £44.00 • Paperback

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ALONG THE VALLEY LINE

The History of the Connecticut Valley Railroad

By Max R. Miller The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. This book provides the first comprehensive history through maps, ephemera, and archival photographs of trains, bridges, and scenery surrounding the line. Offering tales of train wrecks, ghost sightings, booms and busts, it will be treasured by railroad enthusiasts and historians alike.

Wesleyan University Press • October 2017 • 9780819577375 • £24.00 Paperback • 254 x 178 • 160 pages • 116 b/w and 12 colour illus.

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF BOSTON TELEVISION

By Terry Ann Knopf There are some two hundred TV markets in America, but only one—Boston, Massachusetts—hosted a Golden Age of local programming. This insider account chronicles the development of Boston television. Laced with personal insights and anecdotes, it explores how Boston’s television stations refracted the city’s culture in unique ways, while at the same time setting national standards for television creativity and excellence.

University Press of New England • July 2017 • 224 pages • 8 illus.

9781611689044 • £83.00 • Hardback 9781611689051 • £24.00 • Paperback

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AMERICAN HISTORY

HOMEGROWN TERROR

Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London

By Eric D. Lehman On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground.

This book chronicles the events leading up to the attack and highlights this key transformation in Arnold—the point where he went from betraying his comrades to massacring his neighbours and destroying their homes.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819577498 • £19.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK • 229 x 152 • 300 pages • 30 illus.

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CIRCLE AROUND MONADNOCK Time Travel with Horses

By Francelia Clark

Francelia Clark finds and follows two of the oldest trails in New Hampshire’s Monadnock region into history—on horseback. Along the way she studies the cellar holes and rock remains of houses, wells, and walled cow paths, as well as old journals, to illuminate for readers the lives of the early settlers who made them.

Bauhan Publishing • November 2017 • 9780872332522 • £22.00 Paperback • 229 x 178 • 70 pages • 12 illus.

GOING TO BOSTON

Harriet Robinson’s Journey to New Womanhood

By Claudia Bushman As a poet, author, and keen observer of life in 1870s Boston, Harriet Robinson played an essential role in the women’s suffrage movement during Boston’s golden age.

This wonderful guide weaves together Robinson’s journal entries, her own learned commentary, and selections from other nineteenth-century writers to reveal the impact of the industrial revolution and the rise of women’s suffrage as seen through her eyes.

University Press of New England • August 2017 • 248 pages • 15 illus.

9781512600896 • £93.00 • Hardback 9781512600902 • £34.00 • Paperback

JACK PARKER’S WISEGUYS

The National Champion BU Terriers, the Blizzard of ’78, and the Road to the Miracle on Ice

By Tim Rappleye This is the story of the Boston University Terriers, the high-flying, headline-dominating, national championship squad led by three future stars of the “Miracle on Ice,” the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that beat the heavily favoured Soviet Union. A compelling tale for Boston sports fans and everyone else who feels a thrill of pride at America’s unlikely win over the Soviet national team.

University Press of New England • February 2018 • 9781512601558 • £27.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 288 pages • 36 illus.

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Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi Edited by Anthony Caleshu This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism while also reclaiming the living presence of the “lyric” in its capacity to sing of the human predicament. Gizzi is author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, including most recently Threshold Songs and Archeophonics.

LITERARY CRITICISM

IN THE AIR

Wesleyan University Press • November 2017 • 235 x 156 • 288 pages • 2 illus.

9780819577467 • £78.00 • Hardback 9780819577474 • £24.00 • Paperback

FROM VANITAS TO VERITAS

John Donne and the Journey of the Soul

By Audrey Taschini This book provides overview of the complex world of John Donne’s poetry and specifically of his reflections on the theme of the journey of the soul. Donne’s Metempsychosis and his Anniversaries are analysed from both a literary and philosophical/theological perspective, in the context of the rising new science.

Mimesis International • December 2017 • 9788869771057 • £8.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 100 pages

HERMAN MELVILLE

Modernity and the Material Text

By Katie McGettigan Katie McGettigan argues that Melville’s works demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. This “aesthetics of the material text,” central both to Melville’s stylistic signature and his innovations in form, allows Melville to explore the production of selfhood, test the limits of narrative authenticity, and question the nature of artistic originality.

University of New Hampshire Press • December 2017 • 229 x 152 • 288 pages • 5 illus.

9781512601367 • £93.00 • Hardback 9781512601374 • £44.00 • Paperback

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COMPENDIUM

A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody

By Donald Justice and Edited by David Koehn and Alan Soldofsky Justice’s insights serve as a sort of de facto taxonomy, an organically designed system that he uses to present his lecture on each respective aspect of the evolution of poetic form. The material possesses no hidden secrets; the treasures lie in plain sight and simply need be discerned to open the artist’s mind to their possibilities.

Omnidawn Publishing • March 2017 • 9781632430328 • £20.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 216 pages

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GHOSTS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity

By Joanne Chassot The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, this book examines literary works by five contemporary writers – Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers’ engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history.

Dartmouth College Press • February 2018 • 229 x 152 • 280 pages • 2 illus.

RE-MAPPING THE TRANSNATIONAL: A DARTMOUTH 9781512601589 • £93.00 • Hardback SERIES IN AMERICAN STUDIES 9781512601602 • £44.00 • Paperback

NOVELS OF GENOCIDE

Remembering and Forgetting the Ethnic Other in Fictional Rwanda

By Olivier Nyirubugara In the last 20 years or so, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has inspired a number of creative writers who were eager to represent that genocide itself, its aftermath, or the situation that they perceived as paving the way for it decades before it occurred.

This book focuses on 10 Rwandan-authored novels of genocide, which reveal a lot about memory processes in post-genocide Rwanda.

Sidestone Press • April 2017 • 257 x 182 • 190 pages 9789088904325 • £105.00 • Hardback 9789088904318 • £35.00 • Paperback

MEMORY TRAPS

ANGELS AND MONSTERS IN THE HOUSE

Essays on Womanhood In 19th Century America

By Simona Agnese Porro The three essays that comprise this volume explore literary representations of the ‘True Womanhood’ ideology, a narrative through which nineteenth-century women could invest their existence and their role in the world with meaning and purpose through the rigid role differentiation of women relegated to the private sphere, and their social respectable function of wife and mother.

Mimesis International • September 2017 • 9788869771002 • £10.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 106 pages

OTHER WORLD AND THE NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF OTHERNESS

By Esterino Adami, Francesca Bellino and Alessandro Mengozzi The ‘oriental context’ in the fields of science fiction and fantasy have not yet received proper critical attention. This book provides a series of stimulating insights into various themes and areas, covering everything from Indian cultures to Arabic literature, and from English-language fiction to Semitic and Classical Philology.

Mimesis International • July 2017 • 9788869770951 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 170 pages • 3 b/w and 2 colour illus.

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MOOCs and the Promises of Technology

By Karen J. Head Questioning the cult of the new in higher education.

EDUCATION

DISRUPT THIS!

In this smart and incisive work, Karen J. Head describes her experience teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and the attendant pressure on professors, especially those in the humanities, to embrace new technologies in the STEM era. A broader-based critique of the promises of technological “disruption” and the impact of Silicon Valley thinking on an unsuspecting, ill-prepared, and often gullible university community grasping for relevance, while remaining in thrall to the technologists.

University Press of New England • August 2017 • 9781512600506 • £29.00 Hardback • 208 pages

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF T. H. GALLAUDET

By Edna Edith Sayers The definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet, celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America.

Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787–1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers traces Gallaudet’s work in the fields of deaf education, free common schools, literacy, teacher education and certification, and children’s books, while also examining his role in reactionary causes intended to uphold a white, Protestant nation thought to have existed in New England’s golden past. Gallaudet’s youthful social and political entanglements included involvement with Connecticut’s conservative, state-established Congregational Church, the Federalist Party, and the Counter-Enlightenment ideals of Yale (where he was a student). He later embraced anti-immigrant, anti-abolition, and anti-Catholic efforts, and supported the expatriation of free African-Americans to settlements on Africa’s west coast. As much a history of the paternalistic, bigoted, and class-conscious roots of a reform movement as a story of one man’s life, this landmark work will surprise and enlighten both the hearing and Deaf worlds.

University Press of New England • December 2017 • 9781512600513 • £29.00 Hardback • 235 x 156 • 328 pages • 10 illus.

WHAT ARE THE ARTS AND SCIENCES? A Guide for the Curious Edited by Dan Rockmore

An introduction to the arts and sciences for students, parents, and curious parties.

What constitutes the study of philosophy or physics? What exactly does an anthropologist do, or a geologist or historian? In short, what are the arts and sciences? While many of us have been to college and many aspire to go, we may still wonder just what the various disciplines represent and how they interact. An accessible, entertaining, and enlightening survey of the ideas and subjects that contribute to a liberal education.

Dartmouth College Press • July 2017 • 235 x 156 • 376 pages • 59 illus.

9781512601015 • £83.00 • Hardback 9781512601022 • £22.00 • Paperback

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POLITICS, ECONOMICS & LAW

THE CASE OF THE PIGLET’S PATERNITY

Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639–1663

By Jon C. Blue In the middle of the seventeenth century, judges in the short-lived New Haven Colony presided over a remarkable series of trials ranging from murder and bestiality, to drunken sailors, frisky couples, faulty shoes, and shipwrecks. Rendered here in modernised English and with insightful commentary, readers can immerse themselves in the exciting legal battles of America’s earliest days.

Wesleyan University Press • July 2017 • 9780819577405 • £15.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK • 203 x 140 • 308 pages

THE DRIFTLESS CONNECTICUT SERIES & GARNET BOOKS

JUSTICE APPROXIMATED

Dispatches from the Bottom Rung of the Judicial Ladder

By L. Phillips Runyon Judge L. Phillips Runyon III, gives us a collection of essays that bring to life, with candour and eloquence, to a small-town New Hampshire courtroom where important decisions are made, exploring twenty-seven years on the bench.

Grove Street Books • June 2017 • 9781941934050 • £22.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 220 pages

FINANCING THE WORLD

By Keith Hollender Focuses on the events and entrepreneurs that shaped the world of finance we know today. It describes the period of initial industrialisation and the regular stock market crashes that accompanied it, in a concise and interesting style aimed at both the novice and the expert. Tales of financial skulduggery, innovation and the people behind it all are lucidly and amusingly set out.

Spink Books • April 2017 • 9781907427749 • £25.00 Hardback • 354 x 196 • 176 pages

YOU HAD A JOB FOR LIFE Story of a Company Town

By Jamie Sayen

The story of America’s industrial decline is all too familiar, yet still hard to fathom. This book explores the declining fortunes of Groveton, New Hampshire, and the slow demise of the paper mill which formed its economic backbone. Drawing on conversations with scores of former mill workers, it reconstructs the mill’s human history to illustrate the decimation of industrial America.

University Press of New England • January 2018 • 9781512601398 • £24.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 304 pages • 25 illus.

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Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS

By Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge The story behind the Ice Bucket Challenge.

While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it. When ALS crippled Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball star turned tragedy into inspiration, and in so doing mobilized a global army to combat one of the most devastating diseases on earth. Pete’s story is a testament to the power of love, of family, the generosity of strangers, and the compassion of crowds.

MEDICINE & HEALTH

THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE

University Press of New England • November 2017 • 9781512600964 • £20.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 192 pages • 22 illus.

BREATHE EASY

Relieving the Symptoms of Chronic Lung Disease

By Donald A. Mahler An informative and practical guide to better breathing.

Explains what constitutes normal breathing, what causes someone to feel short of breath, and what can be done to improve one’s breathing. It examines the treatment, origins and therapies of asthma, COPD and interstitial lung disease, while other chapters describe how we breathe, how to understand respiratory difficulties like chronic shortness of breath, the correct use of inhalers, the effects of aging on the brain and body, and the benefits of exercise.

University Press of New England • July 2017 • 184 pages • 20 illus.

9781611689013 • £83.00 • Hardback 9781611689020 • £20.00 • Paperback

THAT’S GOTTA HURT

The Injuries that Changed Sports Forever

By Dr. David Geier How advances in sports medicine help make sports and exercise safer.

Orthopaedist David Geier shows how sports medicine has had a greater impact on the sports we watch and play than any technique or concept in coaching or training. Injuries among professional and college athletes have forced orthopaedic surgeons and other healthcare providers to develop new surgeries, treatments, rehabilitation techniques, and prevention strategies.

Through the stories of a dozen athletes whose injuries and recovery advanced the field Dr. Geier explains how sports medicine makes sports safer for the pros, amateurs, student-athletes, and weekend warriors alike.

University Press of New England • July 2017 • 9781611689068 • £22.00 Paperback • 320 pages

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NATURAL WORLD

STREET TREES IN BRITAIN

Mark Johnston

street trees

in britain A History

A History

By Mark Johnston

The first book on the history of Britain’s street trees.

The trees which line many of the streets in our towns and cities can often be regarded as part of a heritage landscape. Despite the difficult conditions of an urban environment, these trees may live for a hundred years or more and represent ‘living history’ in the midst of our modern streetscapes. This is the first book on the history of Britain’s street trees and it gives a highly readable, authoritative and often amusing account of their story, from the tree-lined promenades of the seventeenth century to the majestic boulevards that grace some of our modern city centres. Street Trees in Britain will have particular appeal to those interested in heritage landscapes, urban history and the natural and built environment.

Windgather Press • July 2017 • 9781911188230 • £30.00 Paperback • 246 x 185 • 352 pages • 98 illus.

EMERALD LABYRINTH

A Scientist’s Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo

By Eli Greenbaum The race to explore the Congo’s dwindling biodiversity and unlock its ancient secrets.

The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply troubled colonial past and a complicated political present.

As a bellwether of the climate and biodiversity crises now facing the planet, the Congo holds the key to our planet’s future. Writing in the tradition of books like The Lost City of Z, Greenbaum seeks out the creatures struggling to survive in a war-torn, environmentally threatened country. Emerald Labyrinth is an extraordinary book about the enormous challenges and hard-won satisfactions of doing science in one of the least known, least hospitable places on earth.

University Press of New England • December 2017 • 9781512600971 • £20.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 336 pages • 28 b/w and 24 colour illus.

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The Inside Story of an Ivy-League Doctor’s Double Life, His Slain Wife, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

By Tom Farmer and Marty Foley

TRUE CRIME

A MURDER IN WELLESLEY

Inside one of New England’s most infamous murders.

On Halloween morning in 1999, Mabel Greineder was savagely murdered along a wooded trail in the wellheeled community of Wellesley, Massachusetts. As the shock following the brutal killing slowly subsided, the community was further shaken when the focus of the investigation turned to her husband, Dirk Greineder, a prominent physician and family man who was soon revealed to be leading a secret double life involving prostitutes, pornography, and trysts solicited through the Internet. A Murder in Wellesley takes the reader far beyond the headlines and national news coverage spawned by “May” Greineder’s killing and tells the untold story of the meticulous investigation led by Marty Foley, the lead State Police detective on the case, from the morning of the murder through Dirk Greineder’s ultimate conviction.

Northeastern University Press April 2017 • 9781512601060 • £20.00 Paperback • 235 x 152 • 328 pages • 20 illus., 1 map

SHALLOW GRAVES

The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer

By Maureen Boyle The worst serial killing case in Massachusetts since the Boston Strangler.

The Crimes: The skeletal remains of nine of the women, aged nineteen to thirty-six, were discovered near highways around New Bedford. Some had clearly been strangled, others were so badly decomposed that police were left to guess how they had died.

The Victims: All the missing women had led troubled lives of drug addiction, prostitution, and domestic violence.

The Investigators: Massachusetts state troopers Maryann Dill and Jose Gonsalves were the two constants in a complex cast of city, county, and state cops and prosecutors. They knew the victims, the suspects, and the drug-and-crime-riddled streets of New Bedford. They were present at the beginning of the case and they stayed to the bitter end.

University Press of New England • October 2017 • 9781512600742 • £20.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 312 pages • 42 illus.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

STORIES FROM ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

By Joyce Tyldesley and illustrated by Julian Heath An informative introduction to the myths of ancient Greece and Rome to readers of all ages.

Joyce Tyldesley re-tells some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from the Classical world. These stories tell us how the spider spun the first web, how a simple ball of string defeated the fearsome Minotaur, and how Romulus founded the mighty city of Rome. The “this book belongs to” introductions teaches the reader how to write their name using ancient Greek letters, and their age using Roman numerals. Each story includes a question and answer section for enthusiastic young archaeologists.

Oxbow Books • October 2017 • 9781785707650 • £8.95 Paperback • 210 x 148 • 108 pages

BARKING

The Dogs With the Barking Genes

By Edith Milton and illustrated by Judith Oksner Beautifully illustrated children’s fiction.

Barking tells the tale of Emily and her sister Charlotte, two King Charles Cavalier Spaniels who live a happy, barking life in New York City, until the day everything comes crashing down—literally—all around them. Written by widely acclaimed author Edith Milton and with lively and unique illustrations from painter Judith Oksner.

Bauhan Publishing • July 2017 • 9780872332447 • £16.00 Paperback • 64 pages • 64 colour illus.

ABC

A Winterthur Book for Children

By Lois Stoehr Learn ABCs with a unique twist.

ABC: A Winterthur Book for Children is a fun and unique way to assist in their learning! Each letter is matched with a corresponding object from Winterthur’s own collection, some of the most renowned works in Henry France du Pont’s collection of exceptional American decorative arts. Not only will children be learning the alphabet, but they also will be exposed to objects made of various woods, textiles, and metals, each with its own unique history! Ages 2–8.

Winterthur • January 2017 • 9780912724751 • £19.00 Hardback • 178 x 254 • 32 pages • 27 colour illus.

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Collected Essays from the Waterman Fund Contest Edited by Christine Woodside and foreword by Amy Seidl A literary celebration of the Northeast USA’s wild places.

The Waterman Fund’s annual essay contest entries celebrate the timeless issues of wilderness, wildness and humanities, furthering the legacy of Guy and Laura Waterman and their lifetime of reflection on and writing about the mountains of the Northeast. These winning creative essays from new and emerging voices are collected here for the first time, along with the best runners-up. Together, they make up an important and celebratory addition to the growing body of environmental literature, and shed new light on our wild spaces.

CREATIVE WRITING & MEMOIR

NEW WILDERNESS VOICES

University Press of New England • August 2017 • 9781512600841 • £18.00 Paperback • 200 pages

ACKER

By Douglas A. Martin A lyric essay written through evocative prose, public statements, and private archives.

A lyric cover of Kathy Acker’s career and a study of the development of narrative in her books deftly tracing Acker’s interactions with a diverse palette of avant-gardisms, world letters, cultures, and theory. Martin follows Acker through New York’s downtown St. Mark’s Poetry Project scene, Black Mountain College, and the Beats, as Acker embarks on her own deconstructions of subjects autobiographical and historical, art procedurals, proto-conceptual writing, legacies, and spirits.

Nightboat Books • October 2017 • 9781937658717 • £18.00 Paperback • 216 x 140 • 296 pages

SUMMER OVER AUTUMN

A Small Book of Small-Town Life

By Howard Mansfield An insightful but droll glimpse inside the life of one New England town.

Howard Mansfield muses on people, places, and life in his own hometown of Hancock, New Hampshire.

“Whenever Howard Mansfield writes about the world around him, I pay attention.” – Mel Allen, editor, Yankee magazine “It’s as if Walt Whitman had come out of the grave in the persona of Howard Mansfield for one more epic. I highly recommend this “small book” full of big ideas.” – Ernest Hebert, prize-winning author of Howard Elman’s Farewell, The Old American, and nine other novels.

Bauhan Publishing • November 2017 • 9780872332508 • £20.00 Paperback • 203 x 140 • 96 pages • 14 illus.

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FICTION & CREATIVE WRITING

MISSIVES FROM THE GREEN CAMPAIGN

By David Michael Armstrong An environmentalist military coming-of-age story askance of the real.

In a future short on fossil fuels and flora, the military compels its soldiers to carry houseplants wherever they go. To allow a plant to die is treason.

Hershel Boyd is by all accounts a poor soldier, a frail, overeducated believer in the fading freedoms of a dying country. The narrator, a fellow recruit, makes it his mission to protect Hershel. The two men must fight for a future where hope, not savagery, still springs eternal in the human breast.

Omnidawn Publishing • November 2017 • 9781632430441 • £7.00 Paperback • 178 x 140 • 64 pages

THE OMNIDAWN FABULIST FICTION CHAPBOOK PRIZE

ROBUR THE CONQUEROR

By Jules Verne, translated with introduction and notes by Alex Kirstukas, and edited by Arthur B. Evans.

First complete English translation of Jules Verne’s classic novel of flight.

At the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, a mob of zealous balloon enthusiasts plans to conquer the sky in a state-of-the-art dirigible. When a stranger, the mysterious Robur, declares that the future belongs not to balloons but to heavier-than-air flying machines, the Institute scornfully dismisses the idea.

But Robur demands vengeance—and has a unique flying machine that will allow him to take it. Includes an insightful introduction, explanatory chapter notes and never-before-published glimpses of Verne’s original manuscript.

Wesleyan University Press • August 2017 • 9780819577269 • £29.00 Hardback • 288 pages • 43 illus.

EARLY CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION

SCALES

Melographed by César Vallejo

By César Vallejo and edited and translated by Joseph Mulligan The first complete English translation of a Latin American avantgarde masterpiece.

First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author’s early experimentalism. This radical collection shattered many aesthetic notions prevailing in Latin America and Europe.

Intermingling romantic, symbolist, and avant-garde traditions, Scales is a poetic upending of prose narrative that blends Vallejo’s intercontinental literary awareness with his commitment to political transformation.

Wesleyan University Press • October 2017 • 229 x 152 • 168 pages • 10 illus.

9780819577252 • £49.00 • Hardback 9780819577238 • £24.00 • Paperback

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By Andrew Bourelle Gives us a glimpse into the life of Danny, a teenager who seeks peace and stability after the suicide of his mother. “...while Heavy Metal deals with many dark subjects, it’s also a story about brothers, bonds, first loves and even hope. All of these themes add up to a brilliant story that is both entertaining and captivating.” – Matt Bayman, My Miami County

Autumn House Press • March 2017 • 9781938769191 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 232 pages

HOW TO GET INTO OUR HOUSE AND WHERE WE KEEP THE MONEY

FICTION & CREATIVE WRITING

HEAVY METAL

By Panio Gianopoulos Within these stories, there are unusual love triangles and stirring family clashes. From overwhelmed single dads to free-diving housewives to infatuated martial artists, the characters in Gianopoulos’s debut collection How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money find themselves tripping, sometimes painfully, sometimes hilariously, toward self-revelation. Here is life in all of its clumsiness, humour, and unexpected beauty.

Four Way Books • October 2017 • 9781945588020 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 236 pages

57 OCTAVES BELOW MIDDLE C

By Kevin McIlvoy A hybrid collection comprised of short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems, the works in 57 Octaves Below Middle C enact the dilemma of self-forgetting. This book is for any reader who hears the states of dissonance that are disturbing and natural aspects of the human comedy.

Four Way Books • October 2017 • 9781935536987 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 184 pages

DON GIOVANNI OR THE INCONVENIENT Triptych of Shadow Second Door

By Cesare Vergati

Ten people persecute Don Giovanni, the loathed seducer, manifestly seeking revenge.

Again and again they scorn and sully his senses, the source of his faculty of love, with the aim of crippling his sense of taste, hearing, smell, touch and sight. Deformed in body and humiliated in thought, Don Giovanni wanders the capitals of the world, desperate, now incapable of loving, doomed to die.

Mimesis International • December 2016 • 9788869770333 • £15.00 Paperback • 210 x 140 • 214 pages

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IVALU’S COLOR

By Nauja Lynge, with an introduction from Thorkild Kjaergaard Greenland, circa 2015. Three women are found murdered in the capital city Nuuk.

Ongoing issues in the country involving the desire for independence from the Kingdom of Denmark are redirected, as race and gender recolour the scene. An intertwined story of corruption, greed, domination, and sovereignty reveals itself through the discoveries of three investigators—Russian, Chinese, and a Danish Greenlander.

International Polar Institute • June 2017 • 9780996748001 • £24.00 Paperback • 210 x 133 • 224 pages

MACARTHUR PARK

By Andrew Durbin After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it. Nick discovers that outsiders are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed.

Nightboat Books • October 2017 • 9781937658694 • £16.00 Paperback • 210 x 133 • 304 pages

PARAGUAYAN SEA

By Wilson Bueno and translated by Erín Moure Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea is a homage to life, to being embodied, to border crossing, and to language itself. Who is its Paraguayan narrator who has loved two men, old and young, in a hot/cold beach town in Brazil? A woman, as she says? A gay man switching pronouns? Paraguayan Sea is a river-to-the-sea of identities and migrations.

Nightboat Books • November 2017 • 9781937658748 • £16.00 Paperback • 216 x 140 • 112 pages

DEAR KATHLEEN

On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday Edited by Susan Gervitz and Stephen Motika This volume gathers a diverse group of writing, from essays and correspondence to poems and songs, written in honour of Kathleen Fraser on the occasion of her eightieth birthday and celebrated at Small Press Traffic in San Francisco on March 22, 2015.

Nightboat Books • June 2017 • 9781937658687 • £15.00 Paperback • 203 x 140 • 152 pages

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POETRY

ENTANGLEMENTS

By Rae Armantrout The product of a years-long interest in science by Pulitzer P r i ze w i n n i n g p o et , R a e Armantrout. The collection includes poems from her previous books, as well as four new poems.

Bilingual Edition

By Aimé Césaire and Translated by Clayton Eshleman and A. James Arnold Wesleyan University Press Sep 2017 9780819574831 • £49.00 • HB 229 x 152 • 952 pages

Wesleyan University Press Mar 2017 9780819577399 • £7.00 • PB 152 x 102 • 52 pages

SEMIAUTOMATIC

LET’S NOT LIVE ON EARTH

By Evie Shockley

By Sarah Blake

Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury.

Wesleyan University Press Jan 2018 • 229 x 152 • 128 pages 9780819577665 • £29.00 • HB 9780819577658 • £16.00 • PB

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THE COMPLETE POETRY OF AIMÉ CÉSAIRE

These poems trace a whole web of connections between the kinds of violence that affect people across racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic boundaries.

Wesleyan University Press Oct 2017 9780819577436 • £24.00 • HB 241 x 178 • 104 pages • 2 illus.

CLASS WARRIOR— TAOIST STYLE

By Katibi Abdelkéir and translated by Matt Reeck The first English translation of a seminal North African poem.

Wesleyan University Press Dec 2017 • 203 x 152 • 72 pages 9780819577528 • £29.00 • HB 9780819577535 • £16.00 • PB

TO SEE THE EARTH BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD

By Ed Roberson Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye.

Wesleyan University Press Sep 2017 9780819569493 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 180 pages • 5 illus.

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POETRY PARTLY

New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015

By Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout’s poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years.

Wesleyan University Press Sep 2017 9780819577733 • £20.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 252 pages

SOMETIMES WE’RE ALL LIVING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY

By Rebecca Morgan Frank Personal and regional histories blur in tornadoes, guns, suburban sprawl, and the quest to escape where we come from.

Carnegie Mellon University Press Nov 2017 9780887486258 • £16.00 • PB 216 x 140 • 72 pages

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KINGDOM

New Poetry

By Joseph Millar

DISAPPEARED

By Jasmine V. Bailey

Kingdom extends Joseph Millar’s articulate devotion to the astonishments of daily life – their mingled beauty and pain.

An extended study of the love poem, this book explores disappearance through political erasure, the march of time, and personal loss.

Carnegie Mellon University Press Mar 2017 9780887486210 • £16.00 • PB 216 x 140 • 72 pages

Carnegie Mellon University Press Nov 2017 9780887486234 • £16.00 • PB 216 x 140 • 72 pages

ROWING WITH WINGS

By James Harms The poems in Rowing with Wings surround everyday silences with everyday songs, however carefully sung.

Carnegie Mellon University Press Nov 2017 9780887486265 • £16.00 • PB 216 x 140 • 88 pages

MICKEY ROURKE AND THE BLUEBIRD OF HAPPINESS A Poet’s Notebooks

By W.S. Di Piero

Selections and poetry from Simone Di Piero’s notebooks going back thirty years.

Carnegie Mellon University Press Nov 2017 9780887486241 • £16.00 • PB 216 x 140 • 88 pages

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By Denis Johnson Johnson’s work transforms the stuff of everyday life into something vibrant, wonderful, and strange. These are poems of grief and regret, of nightmare and acceptance, of redemption and the possibility of grace. They present a vision of the American landscape at once unique and startling, terrifying and true.

POETRY

THE MAN AMONG THE SEALS & INNER WEATHER

Carnegie Mellon University Press • November 2017 • 9780887486272 • £16.00 Paperback • 235 x 140 • 88 pages • Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry

PRECIS

By José Felipe Alvergue The border is a policed realm, neoliberal market, an affective landscape of spectral echoes, a geography of traces. These poems ask: What about the body? What about the personal and the communal? The reader is asked to follow along without forgetting that overshadowed in every moment of the known, every authorization of what is, there is a silence asking what should also be.

Omnidawn Publishing • March 2017 • 9781632430304 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 96 pages

OF ANNUNCIATIONS

By Ewa Chrusciel In her book, Chrusciel maps the biblical event of annunciation onto the current migration crises. Annunciation becomes a symbol of the “yes” that we utter in front of reality, particularly confronted with exiles, strangers—in other words, the other. The book quivers on the brink between openness to the other and the terror the other brings out in us.

Omnidawn Publishing • November 2017 • 9781632430397 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 104 pages

RAYFISH

By Mary Hickman Drawing on her childhood in China and Taiwan and her experience as an assistant in open-heart surgery, Rayfish combines the urgency and vulnerability of the lyric with meditative autobiographical accounting and the voices of numerous artists (Francis Bacon, Eva Hesse, Chaim Soutine, Ida Applebroog) to produce an uncanny chorus of voices.

Omnidawn Publishing • March 2017 • 9781632430311 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 80 pages

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POETRY YOU ENVELOP ME

By Laynie Browne How does one in mourning converse with those absent, yet ever present? How is a motherless daughter conceived?

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430380 • £18.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 88 pages

FROM UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY [LUKAO]

By Craig Santos Perez The fourth installment in the Chamorro poet’s series on the history, ecology, and mythology of Guam.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430410 • £18.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 104 pages

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OBSCENITY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF POETRY

By Kathryn L. Pringle Sardonic and sincere, obscenity questions your intentions—and your digressions—and hopes you do, too.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430427 • £18.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 104 pages

SHADOWBOXING

Poems & Impersonations

By Joseph Rios A mashup of poetry and theater collaged from the overlooked voices of California’s labor class.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430434 • £18.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 88 pages

FROM UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY [HACHA]

By Craig Santos Perez The first installment in the Chamorro poet’s series on the history, ecology, and mythology of Guam.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430496 • £18.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 104 pages

WHITE DECIMAL

By Jean Daive and Translated

by Norma Cole A masterful rendition and translation of a groundbreaking French work.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430489 • £12.00 • PB 178 x 140 • 144 pages

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POETRY

RISK :: NONCHALANCE

THE SOLUBLE HOUR

By Hillary Gravendyk with introduction by Cynthia Arrieu-King

By Laura Neuman

Poems with visionary passion about how dear ones will soon be without the poet, and laments for their imminent grief.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430465 • £12.00 • PB 178 x 140 • 64 pages

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430458 • £12.00 • PB 178 x 140 • 80 pages

THRESHOLD

TAKE TWO

Film Studies

By Susan Terris

By Joseph O. Legaspi

A series of dazzling poems about pairs who are heading in one way or another for trouble, disaster, or death.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430472 • £12.00 • PB 178 x 140 • 56 pages

AUTUMN 2017

An ekphrastic series of poems that troubles and illuminates embodiment and encounter.

Celebrates the courageous journey across boundaries, the intersections between liminal spaces, and the tenacity to endure.

Cavankerry Press Nov 2017 9781933880631 • £16.00 • PB 235 x 152 • 88 pages

GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY

An Occupy lyric

By Henry Wei Leung These poems orbit around the manifold erasures of the Umbrella protests in Hong Kong in 2014.

Omnidawn Publishing Nov 2017 9781632430403 • £18.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 128 pages

GLOVED AGAINST BLOOD

By Cindy Veach Addresses the need to protect ourselves against received histories we cannot control no matter how we work to sew or mend.

Cavankerry Press Dec 2017 9781933880648 • £16.00 • PB 235 x 152 • 88 pages

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POETRY DEAR ALL,

By Maggie Anderson A poetic letter to the lost in the author’s life and to the lives of the larger world in these days of endless war.

Four Way Books Oct 2017 9781935536970 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 88 pages

IMAGINARY ROYALTY

By Miranda Field Harrowing poems focus on how human connection can both transcend devastation as well as complicate our individual sense of existence.

Four Way Books Oct 2017 9781945588013 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 64 pages

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THE CHILDREN ARE READING

By Gabriel Fried These poems are written through the lens and with the cadences of children (or adults trying to remember being children).

Four Way Books Oct 2017 9781935536949 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 88 pages

COMING ABOUT

By Michelle Gillett, with preface by Jacquelyn Malone Lyric poems from a voice of authority, where the terrain is at once discovered and known, palpable yet mysterious.

Four Way Books Oct 2017 9781945588006 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 74 pages

STARSHINE & CLAY

By Kamilah Aisha Moon These poems run the gamut between human striving and suffering, ultimately imbued with a tenacious hope.

Four Way Books Oct 2017 9781935536956 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 128 pages

WHEN HOLLYWOOD COMES TO YOU

By Vincent Guerra Explores the conflict between the story we tell ourselves about our life and the actual, everyday stuff that makes up our life.

Four Way Books Oct 2017 9781945588037 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 72 pages

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POETRY

THE DESIRES OF MOTHERS TO PLEASE OTHERS IN LETTERS

By Bernadette Mayer and Laynie Browne A reissue of Bernadette Mayer’s classic fugitive intergenre text.

CLOSET SONNETS

The Life of G. S. Crown (1950–2021)

By Yakov Azriel Explores the life of a closeted gay man through the bars of heterosexual marriage.

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By Jen Bervin Jen Bervin’s poem composed in a six-character chain that corresponds to the DNA structure of silk, In conjunction with Tufts University’s Silk Lab’s research.

Nightboat Books Nov 2017 9781937658724 • £16.00 • PB 203 x 127 • 116 pages

Nightboat Books Mar 2017 9781937658670 • £18.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 328 pages

Sheep Meadow Press Dec 2017 9781937679736 • £22.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 110 pages

SILK POEMS

NEW & SELECTED Poems

By Joy Ladin

Joy Ladin’s Impersonation completes the trilogy of gender transformation begun with her Transmigration and Coming to Life.

Sheep Meadow Press Jan 2018 9781937679743 • £24.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 300 pages

SOME BEHEADINGS

By Aditi Machado A stunning debut collection that examines the geophilosophy of lyric poetry.

Nightboat Books Nov 2017 9781937658731 • £16.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 96 pages

DAUBS FOR NEEDY SPACE Selected Poems

By Aaron Rosen

“A poet of wit, spit, and polish, Aaron Rosen deals with two major themes, love and language, each held close and at furthest distance.” – Stanley Moss Sheep Meadow Press Dec 2017 9781937679729 • £22.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 243 pages

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POETRY THE ELEGY ON HATS

SAINT TORCH

Bv Stephen Berg

By Emily Fragos

Berg makes poetry out of the ordinary, commonplace and material, out of which his sexual and religious visions are passionately made.

“Emily Fragos’s poems are mysterious. In her poems, you find the God’s honest truth like wildflowers.” Stanley Moss

Sheep Meadow Press Jul 2005 9781931357951 • £13.00 • PB 229 x 165 • 102 pages

Sheep Meadow Press Dec 2017 9781937679767 • £22.00 • PB 229 x 152 • 76 pages

By Hadara Bar-Nadav

LOUDER THAN HEARTS

In this radiant new collection of poetry, everyday objects – a ladder, a wineglass, and spine – are shocked into life, ignited into being.

Prizewinning explorations of love, loss and personal experience offer a lens to see life in the Middle East.

THE NEW NUDITY

Poems

By Zeina Hashem Beck

May Sarton New Hampshire Prize Winner for Poetry Saturnalia Books Nov 2017 9780989979726 • £16.00 • PB 190 x 140 • 80 pages

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Bauhan Publishing May 2017 9780872332348 • £12.00 • PB 216 x 140 • 96 pages

THE BOSSES

By Sebastian Agudelo Poems considering the seen and unseen authority figures who dictate the boundaries of our lives, and the roles they play.

Saturnalia Books Nov 2017 9780989979740 • £16.00 • PB 190 x 140 • 80 pages

THE CONTRARIAN VOICE and Other Poems

By Ernest Hebert

Award-winning author Ernest Hebert writes of the trials, tribulations, and plight of the working man.

Bauhan Publishing Oct 2017 9780872332485 • £16.00 • PB 216 x 165 • 66 pages

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By Wesley Rothman SUBWOOFER makes audible the deep bass of history, for this is a book of vibrant, honest listening: to the voices of Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Basquiat; to those without names; to the sadness of loss and the bitter silences within privilege and racism; to the luck of being alive.

POETRY

SUBWOOFER

New Issues Poetry & Prose • November 2017 • 9781936970506 • £16.00 Paperback • 152 x 216 • 78 pages • First Book

VIXEN

By Cherene Sherrard Cherene Sherrard’s poetry collection Vixen takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity. She asks her readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens, and the star on stage. In powerful, finely crafted lines, Sherrard’s poems interrupt and redirect the conversation.

Autumn House Press • October 2017 • 9781938769214 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 64 pages

HERALD

By Roberta P. Feins Roberta P. Feins’s poetry chapbook Herald (winner of the 2016 Coal Hill Review Contest) reveals the anxiety and power that comes from a woman choosing her own path in the late ’60s. These beautifully crafted poems explore the layers of identity we all contain.

This chapbook can be enjoyed by women of all ages as well as anyone who challenges social norms.

Autumn House Press • June 2017 • 9781938769221 • £18.00 Paperback • 216 x 140 • 32 pages

THE MOON IS ALMOST FULL

By Chana Bloch Chana Bloch’s newest poetry collection, The Moon is Almost Full, focuses frankly and tenderly on the themes of aging and death. Bloch doesn’t shy away from the dark places, but she is a trustworthy guide. These remarkable poems remind the reader to take joy where we can find it and relish the everyday.

Autumn House Press • October 2017 • 9781938769207 • £18.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 72 pages

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MAXIMUM HARM

The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing

By Michele R. McPhee An exploration of the chaos, complicity, and consequences of the Boston Marathon bombing.

University Press of New England May 2017 9781611688498 • £29.00 • HB 320 pages

IN THE NAME OF THE MOTHER

Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

By Samuele F. S. Pardini A dialogue on modernity, class, and difference in the 20th century.

Dartmouth College Press Feb 2017 9781512600193 • £39.00 • PB 296 pages

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ESCAPE VELOCITY

American Science Fiction Film, 1950–1982

By Bradley Schauer A cultural and economic history of science fiction cinema, from B-movies to blockbusters.

Wesleyan University Press Feb 2017 9780819576590 • £26.00 • PB 264 pages

TRISHA BROWN

Choreography as Visual Art (1962–1987)

By Susan Rosenberg First in-depth study of the ground-breaking work of late artist/choreographer Trisha Brown.

Wesleyan University Press Dec 2016 9780819576620 • £34.00 • PB 352 pages

BUYING TIME

Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy

By Kaz Makabe Assesses the failure of complex systems, and looks to the future of energy.

University Press of New England Apr 2017 9781611689310 • £27.00 • HB 296 pages

PETER EISENMAN

In Dialogue With Architects and Philosophers Edited by Vladan Djokić and Petar Bojanić Peter Eisenman discusses with architects and philosophers.

Mimesis International Jan 2017 9788869770388 • £19.50 • PB 262 pages

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A Festschrift in honour of Prof. Dr. Henk Kars Edited by Sjoerd Kluiving, Lisette Kootker and Rita Hermans.

THE WEST REMOVED

Economics, Democracy, Freedom: A Counterhistory of Our Civilization

By Paolo Ercolani and Foreword by Santiago Zabala Th i s b o o k o f f e r s a re a l counter-history of the Western civilization.

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Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State

By Orit Rozin Focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state’s first decade.

Brandeis University Press Aug 2016 9781611689501 • £39.00 • PB 224 pages

Sidestone Press Feb 2017 9789088904035 • £35.00 • PB 184 pages

Mimesis International Oct 2016 9788869770678 • £8.00 • PB 86 pages

A HOME FOR ALL JEWS

IMAGINING URBAN FUTURES

Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them

By Carl Abbott Examines how fictional cities might help us to envision our urban future.

Wesleyan University Press Nov 2016 9780819576712 • £27.00 • HB 263 pages

AMERICAN FACES

VULTURE

A rich and fascinating view of America through portraits and commemoration.

Perfectly adapted to its place in nature, the vulture retains its bad reputation. But is it deserved?

University Press of New England Oct 2016 9781611688924 • £44.00 • HB 232 pages

University Press of New England Apr 2017 9781611689716 • £27.00 • HB 248 pages

A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity

By Richard H. Saunders

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INTERDISCIPLINARITY BETWEEN HUMANITIES AND SCIENCE

The Private Life of an Unloved Bird

By Katie Fallon

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SPEECHES THAT CHANGED BRITAIN

Oratory in Birmingham

By Andrew Reekes E xa m i n e s te n s p e e c h i n Birmingham challenged the rest of the country to embrace change and reform.

West Midlands History Oct 2015 9781905036233 • £14.99 • PB 158 pages

SEPARATE HUMANS

Anthropology, Ontology, Existence

By Albert Piette Suggests an alternative to contemporary anthropologies, which insist on construction, relation, non-humans.

Mimesis International Jun 2016 9788869770395 • £8.00 • PB 90 pages

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A PLAGUE ON ALL OUR HOUSES

Big Medicine, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS

By Bruce J. Hillman The story of Dr. Michael Gottlieb’s discovery of AIDS, his struggle with the medical establishment, and the temptations of Hollywood.

University Press of New England Nov 2016 9781611688757 • £29.00 • HB 248 pages

AMERICAN LUTHIER

Carleen Hutchins—the Art and Science of the Violin

By Quincy Whitney American Luthier chronicles the life of the unsung woman who altered everything in a world that had changed little in three centuries.

ForeEdge from University Press of New England • May 2016 9781611685923 • £20.00 • HB 312 pages

I HEART OBAMA

By Erin Aubry Kaplan An unapologetic appreciation of the first African-American president of the United States and what he means to black Americans.

ForeEdge from University Press of New England • Mar 2016 9781611685367 • £22.00 • HB 256 pages

MALEVOLENT MUSE

By Oliver Hilmes and Translated by Donald Arthur The fascinating life and times of the one and only Alma Mahler.

Northeastern University Press Jun 2015 9781555537890 • £39.00 • HB 360 pages

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SISTERS OF TOMORROW

Explores “negative characters” in espionage narratives of some of the most esteemed English writers.

A comprehensive selection of works by female luminaries of early science fiction.

Double Agents and Villains in Spy Fictions Edited by Carmen Concilio

Wesleyan University Press Jul 2016 9780819576248 • £29.00 • PB 432 pages

Mimesis International Jun 2016 9788869770319 • £14.00 • PB 176 Pages

EMBATTLED TERRITORY

The Circulation of Knowledge In the Spanish Netherlands

Edited by Sven Dupré, Bert De Munck, Werner Thomas and Geert Vanpaemel Seminal work that offers a new framework for the history of science in the Spanish Netherlands.

Academia Press Jul 2016 9789038225685 • £66.00 • PB 456 pages

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The First Women of Science Fiction Edited by Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp

A POWER TO TRANSLATE THE WORLD

By David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso The impact of global thinkers on Emerson; Emerson’s impact on global thought.

Dartmouth College Press Feb 2016 9781611688290 • £44.00 • PB 336 pages

OPERATION WHISPER

The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

By Barnes Carr

BESTSELLING & NEW HIGHLIGHTS

PLOTS AND PLOTTERS

The true story of the master spies who stole the atomic bomb.

ForeEdge from University Press of New England • Jun 2016 9781611688092 • £29.00 • HB 320 pages

THE ART OF EVOLUTION

Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture Edited by Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer A collection of essays about the impact of Darwin’s ideas on visual culture.

Dartmouth College Press Sep 2016 9781611689778 • £34.00 • PB 348 pages

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STYLE AND SEDUCTION

SELF AS NATION

A provocative reexamination of the roots of Viennese modernism.

Identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self.

Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna

By Elana Shapira

Brandeis University Press Jul 2016 9781611689211 • £32.00 • PB 320 pages

THE STRANGER IN MY GENES A Memoir

By Bill Griffeth

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Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography

By Tamar Hess

Brandeis University Press Sep 2016 9781611688801 • £39.00 • PB 216 pages

WHY THE GRATEFUL DEAD MATTER

By Michael Benson

H ow a s i m p l e D N A te st complicated the author’s life.

Argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rockand-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture.

New England Historical Genealogical Society • Oct 2016 9780880823449 • £29.00 • HB 160 pages

ForeEdge from University Press of New England • Mar 2016 9781611688511 • £16.00 • PB 84 pages

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BEYOND NIHILISM

The Knot of Plurality Edited by Chiara Di Marco Offers an innovative perspective within the contemporary debate on the question of community.

Mimesis International Jul 2016 9788869770210 • £13.00 • PB 172 pages

WORDSWORTH AND THE GREEN ROMANTICS Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century Edited by Lisa Ottum and Seth T. Reno Advances a vision of Romantic ecology that complicates scholarly perceptions of Romantic Nature.

New Hampshire Historical Society • Jun 2016 9781611688955 • £39.00 • PB 248 pages

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