Oxbow Autumn 2016 Humanities Catalogue by Casemate Publishers Ltd

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Welcome to the 2016 Oxbow Autumn Catalogue We are delighted to present to you an excellent autumn collection of humanities, arts, culture and social sciences books from our distributed publishers. From music and poetry, cultures and literature, to American and Irish History, we hope there is something here that takes your interest. Don’t forget to turn to page 34 to discover our recently published highlights available now. Visit our website and subscribe to receive email alerts on new books. Our autumn Archaeology and Ancient History catalogue is also available to view online along with advanced information sheets and publication schedules.

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Art & Architecture .........................................................1 Music & Dance ...............................................................4 Film & Media ...................................................................6 Jewish Studies ................................................................8 Literary Studies ..............................................................9 Language & Linguistics ..........................................10 Philosophy & Religion ............................................. 11 Landscape & Nature ................................................ 13 American History ....................................................... 15 Irish Studies .................................................................. 16 British History .............................................................. 18 World History ............................................................... 19 True Crime .....................................................................20 Education ....................................................................... 21 Science & Medicine ..................................................22 Sociology & Anthropology ...................................23 Biography & Memoir ................................................26 Fiction ..............................................................................28 Poetry ...............................................................................29 Recent Highlights .......................................................34 Trade Ordering Information ................................. 41

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Stories from Historic New England’s Jewelry Collection Edited by Laura E. Johnson and foreword by Carl Nold An overview of New England’s jewelry box told through stories of love tokens, party bling, and cherished heirlooms from 1700 to the present Historic New England’s jewelry collection spans centuries of family tales, industrial development, and artistic expression. Through full-colour photographs and engaging stories, Keepsakes and Treasures is a gorgeous overview of what jewelry looked like for New Englanders from the mid-1700s to the present. Each piece illuminates a new facet of New England life across the centuries.

Historic New England • 9780989059831 Paperback • 85 colour illus. • 64 pages • September 2016 • £17.00

ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

Keepsakes and Treasures

Performative Citizenship

Public Art, Urban Design, and Political Participation Edited by Laura Innelli and Pierluigi Musarò A book particularly useful for international students who have strong interests in the ongoing debates on political participation and communication from a multidisciplinary perspective This book is the product of extensive teaching experience in the field of political participation and communication, and stems from continuous comparisons between students of sociology, cultural and media studies, political sciences, arts, architecture, and urban planning. This book investigates how public artists have involved citizens in creative performances that aim to modify their perceptions of the places that they live.

Mimesis International • 9788869770340 Paperback • 200 pages • September 2016 • £13.00

In Julia’s Kitchen

Practical and Convivial Kitchen Design Inspired by Julia Child By Pamela Heyne and Jim Scherer An award-winning architect and Julia Child’s staff photographer show us how to bring into our homes this American culinary icon’s commitment to the life-changing magic of eating together American culinary icon Julia Child embraced the significance of the family meal and was devoted to sharing delicious food with friends and family at the comfortable dining table in her kitchen, a place where conversation was as important as cuisine. Pamela Heyne and Julia’s long-time food photographer Jim Scherer collaborate to share Julia’s kitchen design and lifestyle concepts in this book, which examines the kitchens in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home; at la Pitchoune, the Childs’ French vacation retreat; and in her television studio. University Press of New England • 9781611689136 Paperback • 73 illus. (48 colour) • 176 pages • December 2016 • £21.00

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ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

The Sheltering View

Conversations With and Around Bernardo Bertolucci Edited by Giancarlo Alviani Much has been said and written on Bertolucci. Yet, whoever has worked with him on the set has still a lot more to tell. Professionals who have lived the sets of the great director, winner of nine Oscars, provide a novel portrayal of his style and extraordinary humanity. Through their perspective, filled with anecdotes unknown to the greater public, the book penetrates the work of the most international of Italian directors. Mimesis International • 9788857526614 Paperback • 290 pages • August 2016 • £17.00

The Art of Evolution

Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture Edited by Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer Inspired by the Charles Darwin bicentennial, The Art of Evolution presents a collection of essays by international scholars renowned for their ground-breaking work on Darwin. The book not only includes a discussion of the popular imagery that immediately followed the publication of On the Origin of Species, but it also traces the impact of Darwin’s ideas on visual culture over time and throughout the Western world. Dartmouth College Press • 9781611689778 Paperback • 84 illus. • 348 pages • September 2016 • £29.00

Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture

Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace

Looking at Austen Henry Layard’s Reconstruction By Ada Cohen and Steven E. Kangas Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace studies this influential image in depth, both at the time of its creation in London in the eventful year 1848 and in terms of its afterlife. A hidden inscription reveals unsuspected contributions by the renowned architectdesigner Owen Jones and his colleague the architect-Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi.

University Press of New England • 9781611689976 Paperback • 47 illus. (42 colour) • 112 pages • November 2016 • £21.00

Caravaggio to Mattia Preti Baroque Painting in Malta By Keith Sciberras

The title Caravaggio to Mattia Preti aptly provides the parameters that span seventeenth century baroque painting in Malta. This book discusses the work of the major artists who painted on the island and analyses the context in which they were produced. It discusses paintings of importance that were sent from Italy and reviews them and their critical fortune within the story of Maltese art.

Midsea Books • 9789993275367 Hardback • full colour illus. • 195 pages • Available Now• £35.00

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In Dialog with Architects and Philosophers Edited by Vladan Djokić and Petar Bojanić Peter Eisenman (Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Eisenman Architects, New York, USA) discusses with architects and philosophers: Jörg H. Gleiter , Kim Förster, Preston Scott Cohen, Emmanuel Petit, Mario Carpo, Sarah M. Whiting, Manuel Orazi, John McMorrough, Gabriele Mastrigli, Panayotis Pangalos, Cynthia Davidson, Ingeborg M. Rocker, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Djordje Stojanović and Greg Lynn performing on the stage for two days in Belgrade. Mimesis International • 9788869770388 Paperback • 30 illus. • 214 pages • July 2016 • £15.00

Highlights of the New Britain Museum of American Art

Volume III: The Sanford B. D. Low Illustration Collection By Joyce Schiller, Douglas K. S. Hyland, Lindsley Wellman and Howard Munce

ART, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

Peter Einsenman

The New Britain Museum of American Art’s Sanford B. D. Low Illustration Collection is among the finest in the country, with 2,000 examples of American illustration. This volume, featuring new, original research, will serve as both a formal record of the top works in the Museum’s collection and a tribute to the great illustrators of our day. New Britain Museum of American Art • 9780972449793 Paperback • 352 pages • July 2016 • £50.00

Milton Avery’s Vermont By Jamie Franklin, Karen Wilkin and Robert Wolterstorff Milton Avery’s Vermont accompanies a summer, 2016 exhibition at the Bennington Museum which takes the first focused look at the work this prominent American modernist created based on six summers in southern Vermont between 1935 and 1943. Milton Avery’s Vermont examines Avery’s artistic process through pencil sketches executed en plein air, fresh watercolours based on his sketches, and major oil paintings. Bennington Museum • 9780945291046 Paperback • 64 colour illus. • 80 pages • September 2016 • £22.00

The Manoel Theatre A Short History By Paul Xuereb

Built in 1731, Teatru Manoel remains one of the finest examples of theatre architecture in Europe. Named as one of the most beautiful theatres by CNN, the Manoel is also one of the oldest ‘working’ theatres in the world and is Malta’s national theatre. This book aims to present the many other facets that make up the institution that is the Manoel.

Midsea Books • 9789993273776 Paperback • 196 pages • Available Now • £10.00

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MUSIC & DANCE

Women in Electronic Music By Johann Merrich Includes unpublished interviews with major female figures from electronic music This volume offers a broad panoramic of the leading female figures in the history of Electronic Music and music and radio production studios. Johann Merrich has gathered together some of the major figures with those little known by the broader public, such as Lady Ada Lovelace, Lucie Bigelow Rosen, Clara Rockmore. This work is enriched by the addition of unpublished interviews with several of these artists, unique in their experience of their different country of origin.

Mimesis International • 9788898599547 Paperback • 96 pages • August 2016 • £16.00

Don’t Call it Jazz

The European Impro-Music Experience By Giancarlo Schiaffini Looks at the methods and practices of interpreting improvisation, with examples A brilliant essay focused on the practices and methods of interpreting improvisation, which sheds light on the difficulty to define it and on its conspicuous presence, even in musical genres not explicitly improvised. Schiaffini deals exhaustively with the different ways of living total improvisation in its various idiomatic contexts. His work is filled with examples and careful references, lived first hand, as well as with reflections on problems of style and content.

Mimesis International • 9788898599554 Paperback • 113 pages • August 2016 • £16.00

Nation, Pride and Dignity

Borg Olivier and the National Anthem By Joseph M. Pirotta A historical account of Malta’s national anthem Nation, Pride and Dignity: Borg Olivier and the National Anthem is another systematically constructed historical account, profusely annotated, written in an equally vivid and subtle style. It may be simultaneously defined as (a) a historical account of how difficult it was for Malta to attain some degree of official recognition for its newly composed national anthem, as well as (b) a portrait of a Maltese political leader seeking to introduce an agenda with an item much more controversial than an anthem: Independence itself.

Midsea Books • 9789993275619 Hardback • Illustrated throughout • 240 pages • April 2016 • £24.00

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Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet By Joel Lobenthal Wilde Times is the first biography of this seminal figure in American dance, written with the cooperation of the star At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. She was a first-generation member and principal dancer of New York City Ballet during the uniquely dramatic Balanchine era—the golden age of the company and its hugely gifted director. In Wilde Times, Joel Lobenthal brings the world of Wilde and Balanchine, of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Diana Adams, Suzanne Farrell, Maria Tallchief, and many others thrillingly to life.

MUSIC & DANCE

Wilde Times

ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611688030 Hardback • 312 pages • July 2016 • £29.00

Trisha Brown

Choreography as Visual Art (1962–1987) By Susan Rosenberg First in-depth study of the ground-breaking work of artist/ choreographer Trisha Brown Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her boundarydefying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown’s archives, and interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Brown’s deliberate evolutionary trajectory through the first half of her career. This book discusses the formation of Brown’s systemic artistic principles, and provides close readings of the works that Brown created for non-traditional and art world settings in relation to the first body of works she created for the proscenium stage. Wesleyan University Press 129 illus. • 352 pages • December 2016

Hardback • 9780819576613 • £91.00 Paperback • 9780819576620 • £29.00

Punk Ethnography

The Sublime Frequencies Companion Edited by Michael Veal and E. Tammy Kim A critical companion to the radical DIY record label that challenges the conventions of ethnography, representation, and the category of world music This ground-breaking case study examines record production as ethnographic work. Since its founding in 2003, record label Sublime Frequencies has produced world music recordings that have been received as radical, sometimes problematic critiques of the practices of sound ethnography. Situated at the intersection of ethnomusicology, sound studies, cultural anthropology, and popular music studies, the essays in this volume explore the issues surrounding the label—including appropriation and intellectual property—while providing critical commentary and charting the impact of the label through listener interviews. Wesleyan University Press 13 illus. (1 map, 4 tables) • 352 pages • October 2016

Hardback • 9780819576521 • £70.00 Paperback • 9780819576538 • £23.00

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FILM & MEDIA

Shifting Layers

New Perspectives in Media Archaeology across Digital Media and Audiovisual Arts Edited by Miriam De Rosa and Ludovica Fales The volume proposes an overview of the possible research perspectives stemming from the archaeological methods applied to the study of digital audiovisual media and arts. The aim is to focus on the potentiality of media archaeology as a framework. The book offers a wide collection of chapters tackling the challenges posed by digitization in terms of research methods in the realm of Film and Media Studies. Mimesis International • 9788869770258 Paperback • 195 pages • July 2016 • £12.00

Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal Vol. XV, no. 26 Spring 2016

Post-what? Post-when? Thinking Moving Images Beyond the PostMedium/Post-Cinema Condition Edited by Vinzenz Hediger and Miriam De Rosa This volume asks which ontologies do the moving image justice in a situation in which the cinema is merely one of many configurations of film.

Mimesis International • 9788869770555 Paperback • 10 illus. • 124 pages • September 2016 • £12.00

Cinéma&Cie. International Film Studies Journal Vol. XV, no. 25 Fall 2016 Overlapping Images: Between Cinema and Photography Edited by Luisella Farinotti, Barbara Grespi and Barbara Le Maître

For a long time, the comparison between cinema and photography has mainly been a matter of contrasts, both of forms and of ways of seeing. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie reverses the perspective, by approaching some fundamental space of convergence and coexistence between the two languages. Mimesis International • 9788869770548 Paperback • 10 illus. • 128 pages •July 2016 • £12.00

Local Cinema

Sardinia & European Periphery Edited by Antioco Floris and Ivan Girina At a time when the European political program is progressively challenged by the multiplication of political and social instances that articulate ideas of cultural identity, the book interrogates the role of cinema as site for the negotiation of local culture between national and transnational realities. Starting with an analysis of Sardinian cinema as case study, this book collects essays that look at European peripheral realities, looking at the relevance of film in the definition of local identities. Mimesis International • 9788869770654 Paperback • 448 pages • August 2016 • £25.00

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Transient Visions in Museum and Art Edited by Alessandro Bordina, Vincenzo Estremo and Francesco Federici This book has been conceived from a series of speeches which took place during the Filmforum Festival of Udine and Gorizia whose main theme was the use of moving images in the space of contemporary art. The aim of this publication is to create a scientific framework of some of the most important artistic experiences: from the use of archive images to the newest participatory practices.

FILM & MEDIA

Extended Temporalities

Mimesis International • 9788869770517 Paperback • 30 b/w illus. • 160 pages • September 2016 • £13.00

Cinema is a Dream

New Images and the Principles of Modernity By Andrea Rabbito The emergence and spread of new images – photography, film, television and audiovisual – have established an important epistemological revolution oriented contemporary man to take on a confident attitude not only towards the image but also to the real.

Mimesis International • 9788869770661 Paperback • 44 illus. • 112 pages • July 2016 • £12.00

Requiem for a Nation

Religion and Politics in Post-War Italian Cinema Edited by Roberto Cavallini The objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of a post-war Italy’s cultural history. Starting from the assumption that to conduct a critical reflection on Italian post-war visual culture one must investigate the inevitable impact of Catholic religion.

Mimesis International • 9788869770562 Paperback • 5 illus. • 112 pages • July 2016 • £9.00

A History of Cinema without Names

Edited by Federico Giordano, Leonardo Quaresima and Diego Cavallotti The Udine Conference has focused on the problematization of the notion of the “author” and on a re-definition of the notion of “style”. In this perspective, it is indeed possible to articulate models aimed at understanding authorial poetics as the momentary unification of features that exceed them. On another level, genres could be simply seen as spaces in which elements of the same kind aggregate.

Mimesis International • 9788869770685 Paperback • 400 pages • July 2016 • £20.00

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JEWISH STUDIES

Raising Secular Jews

Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917–1950 By Naomi Prawer Kadar and David G. Roskies Through the lens of children’s literature, explores the largely untold story of secular Yiddish schools in America This unique literary study of Yiddish children’s periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational schools, these Yiddish schools chose Yiddish itself as the primary conduit of Jewish identity and culture. Four Yiddish school networks emerged, which despite their political and ideological differences were all committed to propagating the Yiddish language, supporting social justice, and preparing their students for participation in both Jewish and American culture.

Brandeis University Press Paperback • 9781611689877 • £29.00 32 illus. (11 colour) • 296 pages December 2016 Hardback • 9781611689860 • £79.00 Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life

A Home for All Jews

Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State By Orit Rozin This book will appeal to scholars and students of Israeli history, law, politics, and culture, and to scholars of nation building more generally Orit Rozin’s inspired scholarship focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state’s first decade. Positioning itself both within and against much of the critical sociological literature on the period, this work reveals the dire historical circumstances, the ideological and bureaucratic pressures that limited the freedoms of Israeli citizens. Rozin sets her work within a solid analytical framework, drawing on a variety of historical sources portraying the voices, thoughts, and feelings of Israelis, as well as theoretical literature on the nature of modern citizenship and the relation between citizenship and nationality.

Brandeis University Press 224 pages • August 2016

Hardback • 9781611689495 • £70.00 Paperback • 9781611689501 • £33.00

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Literary Ékphrasis and the Invention of Images Edited by Valeria Cammarata and Valentina Mignao The book offers new insights into the analysis of notional ékphrasis in the literature from the 18th to the 21st century The volume is devoted to images in painting, photography and cinema invented by literature. At the same time it intends to question, through this perspective, the relationship between text and image, between verbal and visual in modern and contemporary literature. The authors involved study the mutual boundaries between literature and arts from the point of view of aesthetics, visual culture and literary theory, trying to build a map of the notional ekphrasis, a description which constitutes the work of art while telling it.

LITERARY STUDIES

Fictional Artworks

Mimesis International • 9788869770586 Paperback • 25 illus. • 270 pages • July 2016 • £16.00

Imagining Urban Futures

Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them By Carl Abbott Discusses what science fiction can teach us about urban planning Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning for five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in works by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. Imagining Urban Futures is a remarkable treatise on what is best and strongest in urban theory and practice today, as refracted and intensely imagined in science fiction. Abbott delivers a compelling critical discussion of science fiction cities found in literary works, television programs, and films of many eras from Metropolis to Blade Runner and Soylent Green to The Hunger Games, among many others.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576712 Hardback • 16 illus. • 264 pages • November 2016 • £23.00

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LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Ruffians and Loose Women

More words and phrases derived from textiles By Elinor Kapp This book is a collection of words and phrases for articles that can be made from cloth and thread. The words all have a textile origin, but have gone on to take wing and are used in common speech as metaphors, and in proverbs and rhymes in a figurative sense. It will appeal to lovers of the English language, and particularly textile enthusiasts.

Elinor Kapp • 9780957475922 Paperback • 9 illus. • 160 pages • September 2016 • £9.99

Lexical Collocations in Bilingual Lexicography By Barbara Berti Elusive yet intuitive, the concept of collocation has attracted the attention of different branches of linguistics for many a year, owing to the proven pervasiveness of such combinations in languages. The author investigates the treatment of lexical collocations in the major bilingual English-Italian dictionaries, looking closely at the lexicographers’ choices while keeping the end users and their heuristics in mind.

Mimesis International • 9788869770531 Paperback • 200 pages • October 2016 • £13.00

An Intimacy of Words

Essays in Honour of Petur Knutsson Edited by Gudrun Bjork Gudsteinsdóttir, Birna Arnbjornsdottir, Matthew Whelpton and Martin Regal This volume contains articles in the fields of translation theory, literature and linguistics, and will appeal to international specialists in the humanities, especially in English and Icelandic studies.

University of Iceland Press • 9789935231000 Paperback • 354 pages • February 2016 • £31.00

ILA Arabic Certificate Training Tests

With audio CD – A1 Level The First Manual for the Preparation of the Arabic Modern Standard (AMS) Certificate Level A1 + Level A2 By Hochine Benchina and Nadia Rocchetti ILA project offers for the first time tests and preparation materials for the Certificate Exam in Modern Standard Arabic, the language used in international context and the one in which Arabic speakers identify themselves from a cultural perspective. This book focuses on oral skills, which imply the ability to organise linguistic means at a higher level than the one necessary for writing skills. Mimesis International • 9788869770593 Paperback • 74 pages • March 2016 • £9.00

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Edited by Luca Taddio and Kevin William Molìn A collection of writings each offering their own novel perspective with respect to question of realism This book presents a collection of writings each offering their own novel perspective with respect to question of realism. No doubt it has gathered much attention of recent philosophical debates; and one of its characteristic aspects has been in blurring the more the rigid way of thinking the traditional demarcations between “continental” and “analytic” philosophy. This volume, then, offers a contribution to the discussions on realism in the recognition that a renewal of the discussion is necessary and should bypass old divisions.

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

New Perspectives on Realism

Mimesis International • 9788869770272 Paperback • 236 pages • July 2016 • £14.00

Beyond Nihilism

The Knot of Plurality Edited by Chiara Di Marco This collection of essays offer an innovative perspective within the contemporary debate on the question of community Nihilism and/or community. The European matter. The gift of the in-common. Touching on different themes and authors, the papers presented here probe the prolificness that the terms sacred and community could have – if subtracted from the game of reactive nihilism – in checking the violence of the diverse political and religious ideologies that the West administers. An escape opens in the implementation of critical thinking and ethical behaviour that involve the “sacrifice” of thought and of the thinking subject.

Mimesis International • 9788869770210 Paperback • 188 pages • July 2016 • £13.00

Birth By Renata Viti Cavalieri Provides an overview that focuses on the theoretical debate about the notion of “birth” The “birth” could be the main concept of a philosophy of the commencement: indeed it is not only a biological event or an effective metaphor for new beginnings, but also the sign that being, knowledge and action, born themselves, have the power to give birth to something. Birth essentially has neither memory nor appropriation of itself: it’s a destiny and a choice that confirm the features of necessity and freedom bound in every coming into the world.

Mimesis International • 9788869770289 Paperback • 90 pages • July 2016 • £8.00

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PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

The West Removed

Economics, Democracy, Freedom: A Counter-History of Our Civilization By Paolo Ercolani This book offers a real counter-history of the Western civilization This book covers a variety of concepts (liberalism, freedom, Marxism) and classic thinkers (Mill, Marx, Hayek, Popper) in order to disclose several myths we’ve become accustomed to take for granted in the West. It posits that exploration of these myths is crucial for understanding the essence of the West or, better, for seeing what has been “removed” from the West as the title of this book alludes to. What emerges is a rigorous and surprising counter-history of our civilization.

Mimesis International • 9788869770678 Paperback • 50 pages • July 2016 • £8.00

A Resilient Legacy: Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone Form, History and Discourse By Cosetta M. Veronese

A gripping cartography of the epistemological changes that over the last 115 years have transformed Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone from an encyclopedic collection of personal notes This book will be the first comprehensive and systematic account of the modes and reasons for which the profile of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) has undergone a radical shift from poet to philosopher since the publication of the Zibaldone in 1898-1900. This book delves into the network of historical factors that have transformed Leopardi’s notebook from a key-work for the interpretation of its author in Italy into a reference point for European philosophical thought. Mimesis International • 9788869770432 Paperback • 244 pages • September 2016 • £13.00

Alpha v1 (2013)

Studies in Early Christianity By Alvin P. Cohen and Edited by Glenn S. Holland and E. Bruce Brooks Articles on early Christian texts and history Alpha is an annual repository for leading-edge research in the New Testament and related texts, and the historical development which the texts imply. Like its older sister journal Warring States Papers, it has a central focus on the methodology of text-based historical research, and includes examples of the application of basic historical and philological methods to texts in other traditions, including Chinese and Homeric Greek.

Warring States Project • 9781936166411 Paperback • 192 pages • August 2016 • £25.00

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Alpha

Edited by Reza Ghaderi, Etienne Geraert and Akbar Karegar The definitive first and only book on this family of plant parasite The Tylenchulidae of the World is the definitive first and only book on this family of plant parasites. It includes full descriptions of the pin, citrus and other, related nematodes (166 species) belonging to the family Tylenchulidae, reported from everywhere in the world.

LANDSCAPE & NATURE

The Tylenchulidae Of The World

Academia Press • 9789038226231 Paperback • 200 colour illus. • 453 pages • July 2016 • £79.00

Through a Naturalist’s Eyes

Exploring the Nature of New England By Michael J. Caduto and illustrated by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol A journey through the natural world of New England, with an expert guide, and reflections on the relationship between nature and humankind In more than fifty essays, Michael J. Caduto brings readers into the complex stories to be found in nature. Drawing on first-hand experiences and reflections on the relationship between the natural world and humans, Caduto explores some of the plants, animals, natural places, and environmental issues of New England—from dragonflies, cuckoos, and chipmunks to circumpolar constellations and climate change. Stunning illustrations by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol illuminate these elegant and humorous essays University Press of New England • 9781611689891 Paperback • 70 illus. • 184 pages • December 2016 • £17.00

The Greening of Faith

God, the Environment, and the Good Life Edited by John E. Carroll, Paul Brockelman, Mary Westfall and foreword by Bill McKibben Expanded 20th anniversary edition of a classic anthology that emphasizes links between multiple faith traditions and the natural world The recent release of Pope Francis’s much-discussed encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, has reinforced environmental issues as also moral and spiritual issues. This anthology, twenty years ahead of the encyclical but very much in line with its agenda, offers essays by fifteen philosophers, theologians, and environmentalists who argue for a response to ecology that recognizes the tools of science but includes a more spiritual approach. University of New Hampshire Press • 9781512600247 Paperback • 240 pages • November 2016 • £23.00

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LANDSCAPE & NATURE

The Traprock Landscapes of New England Environment, History, and Culture By Peter M. LeTourneau and photographs by Robert Pagini

Lavishly illustrated natural history of the distinctive lava highlands in the Connecticut Valley Through vibrant colour photographs, The Traprock Landscapes of New England presents the incomparable beauty of the region. Overflowing with information, long-time fans, first-time visitors, nature lovers and many others will find plenty to satisfy in the detailed text and captions, crisp photos, historical images, informative maps, and more. Showcasing popular locales, and revealing “secret spots,” this must-have resource will encourage old friends and newcomers alike to visit the rugged crags once called “the boldest and most beautiful” landscapes in New England. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576828 Paperback • 190 colour photos, 4 figs. • 208 pages • December 2016 • £21.00

The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books

Yorkshire Landscapes

A Photographic Tour of England’s Largest County By Doug Kennedy Contains over 100 pages of photography capturing classic Yorkshire landscapes, villages and towns, with text illuminating the history of the area Doug Kennedy has roamed Yorkshire’s lanes, byways and footpaths, seeking out what makes each place special and applying his photographer’s eye to capture the scene perfectly in sumptuous photographic images. These are complemented by informative text that gets underneath the surface of why things look like they do. It is a book for everyone who loves Yorkshire to treasure, and a splendid introduction to its landscape for those less familiar with ‘God’s Own County’. Windgather Press • 9781909686977 Hardback • 112 pages • December 2016 • £14.99

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything By Marcelo Gleiser Gleiser ponders how in the myriad ways physics informs the act of fishing; how, in its turn, fishing serves as a lens into nature’s inner workings Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world-famous theoretical physicist, he felt it was time to connect with nature in less theoretical ways. In The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, Gleiser travels to scientific conferences, fishing wherever he goes. The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected is a scientist’s tribute to nature, an affirmation of humanity’s deep connection with and debt to Earth, and an exploration of the meaning of existence. ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611684414 Hardback • 192 pages • July 2016 • £19.00

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The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots By Jerry Thornton and Michael Holley The wild, zany, and forgotten history of the NFL’s now-premier franchise From Darkness to Dynasty reveals the unlikely history of the New England Patriots as it has never been told before. From their humble beginnings as a team bought with rainy day money by a man who had no idea what he was doing, to that fateful 2001 season that saw them win their first Super Bowl, Jerry Thornton shares the wild, humiliating, unbelievable, and wonderful stories that comprised the first 40 years of what would ultimately become the most dominant franchise in NFL history.

AMERICAN HISTORY

From Darkness to Dynasty

University Press of New England • 9781611689747 Hardback • 24 illus. • 320 pages • November 2016 • £23.00

American Faces

A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity By Richard H. Saunders A sweeping exploration of why and how we look at ourselves through art In this sumptuously illustrated book, Richard H. Saunders explores America’s collective understanding of portraiture, its history in America, how it shapes individual and national identity, and why we make portraits—whether for propaganda and public influence or for personal and private appreciation. American Faces is a rich and fascinating view of American portraiture and identity.

University Press of New England • 9781611688924 Hardback • 232 pages • October 2016 • £37.00

African American Connecticut Explored Edited by Elizabeth J. Normen and By Katherine J. Harris, Stacey K. Close, Wm. Frank Mitchell and Olivia White First book for a general readership to present an overview of the African American experience in Connecticut The numerous essays in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from the earliest years of the state’s colonisation continuing well into the 20th century. Insightful introductions to each section explore broader issues faced by the state’s African American residents as they struggled for full rights as citizens. This book represents the collaborative effort of Connecticut Explored and the Amistad Center for Art & Culture, with support from the State Historic Preservation Office and Connecticut’s Freedom Trail.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819573995 Paperback • 40 illus. (9 colour) • 452 pages • October 2016 • £25.00

Garnet Books

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IRISH STUDIES

Proclaiming a Republic Ireland, 1916 By Darragh Gannon

Beautifully illustrated title to accompany the National Museum of Ireland’s hugely popular exhibition Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising, opened by the Taoiseach as a part of the Decade of Centenaries, was their most significant effort to date. An incredibly extensive display of artefacts that revealed something of the everyday and extraordinary from 1916. Proclaiming a Republic: Ireland, 1916 is the beautifully illustrated title set to accompany the exhibition’s immense scale. Darragh Gannon’s expertly select contextualisation of the National Museum’s collection provides an unprecedented opportunity to view these astounding artefacts from 1916 at arm’s length. Irish Academic Press • 9781911024330 Hardback • 350 pages • October 2016 • £21.99

Creating History

Stories of Ireland and Art By Brendan Rooney A chronicle of Irish history and art told through over 50 stunning paintings selected from Ireland’s National Collection Upon leaving the National Gallery during Easter Week 1916, its registrar James Stephens was struck by ‘the rumour of death and war’; one hundred years on, the National Gallery undertook to evaluate these seismic events in its principal contribution to the Decade of Centenaries. Creating History: Stories of Ireland and Art is the culmination of this entire effort. The National Gallery’s concurrent exhibition comprises some 50 paintings spanning the 17th century to the 1930s, depicting or inspired by episodes in Irish.

Irish Academic Press • 9781911024286 Paperback • 300 pages • October 2016 • £21.99

A History of the Irish Post Office By Stephen Ferguson A complete, fully illustrated and accessible history of the Irish Post Office from its earliest days to the present This is the first complete history of the Irish Postal Service over 300 years to the present day, where it remains Ireland’s largest employer, An Post. Originally, Ireland’s letters were delivered by ‘post boys’ until The Mail Coach was introduced in 1789. Before cheap postage in 1840, the Post Office mainly served the wealthy and the State. With increased literacy and railway transport, the post became something open to all. An Post continues this historic legacy today, as this fascinating book reveals.

Irish Academic Press • 300 pages • October 2016

Hardback • 9781911024323 • £85.00 Paperback • 9781911024316 • £21.99

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New Perspectives on Artistic Practice 1620–1820 Edited By Jane Fenlon and Caroline Pegum

A unique critical offering of contemporary research on Irish fine art in the Early Modern period with over 100 colour photos of exquisite art This richly illustrated book presents the finest contemporary research on Irish fine art from the 17th and 18th centuries. It was during this period that the luxury commodities which comprise fine art – sculpture, painting, miniatures, prints – became signifiers of the ‘cultured’ lifestyle emulated by the social elites in Ireland. These artefacts, in their production, consumption, appreciation, display and exchange, reveal the ethnic, social and political tensions that defined these turbulent centuries. Masterfully edited by Ireland’s leading art historians the book is a vital publication in defining the importance of Ireland’s artistic and social history. Irish Academic Press • 300 pages • September 2016

IRISH STUDIES

Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period

Hardback • 9781911024262 • £70.00 Paperback • 9781911024354 • £29.99

Hearing Voices

The History of Psychiatry in Ireland By Brendan Kelly A sweeping history, covering every aspect of psychiatry from the Middle Ages to the present day Hearing Voices is a colossal study on the history of psychiatry, representing the most comprehensive perspectives on medical developments and practices from the Middle Ages onwards. The ‘birth of psychiatry’ in Ireland and its farreaching effects on such disparate matters as Gleann na nGealt and Brehon Law are some indication of the almost impenetrably vast, often nebulous effects of psychiatry on Irish society. Hearing Voices is a marvel to match every step of its subject matter.

Irish Academic Press • 9781911024347 Hardback • 700 pages • November 2016 • £29.99

The Poetry of Vision

The Rosc Art Exhibitions 1967–1988 By Peter Shortt The riveting first-ever history of the landmark Rosc art exhibitions in Ireland Irish and European contemporary art were presented together for the first time at the Rosc Art Exhibitions in 1967. It included the works of Picasso, Miró and P.Scott. Rosc sparked public debate and recorded the epochal transition from modernism to postmodernism in Ireland. However, this impact was not without problems; ‘Rosc and controversy, it would seem, are inseparable.’ Shortt masterfully details every quarrel and breakthrough to expose the true achievement and significance of the Rosc exhibitions.

Irish Academic Press • 9781911024293 Paperback • 400 pages • November 2016 • £24.99

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BRITISH HISTORY

Speeches that changed Britain Oratory in Birmingham By Andrew Reekes

A fascinating and richly illustrated book exploring speeches made in Birmingham that changed history This book looks at ten episodes when a speech in Birmingham challenged the rest of the country to embrace change and reform. More than any other city it represents Britain’s provincial voice across the period. The book reflects the importance of oratory in making a political argument. It may in a sound-bite era be a dying art but these speeches fulfil the first requirement of successful rhetoric, that it be a reasoned argument to persuade its audience.

West Midlands History • 9781905036233 Paperback • 158 pages • Available Now • £14.99

Fortunes of War

The West Midlands at the Time of Waterloo Edited by Andrew Watts and Emma Tyler In this publication, eleven leading writers and historians explore how the lives of many West Midlanders were affected by Napoleon’s relentless empire-building The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) changed Britain and the West Midlands for ever. For some people this was a time of great prosperity while others were driven into poverty. Fortunes of War explores the stories of people from the region during this important time. Its publication commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo which put an end to Napoleon’s ambitions once and for all.

West Midlands History • 9781905036219 Paperback • 54 pages • Available Now • £9.99

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Tourism in Native North America Edited by Pieter Hovens and Mette van der Hooft This book discusses the impact of tourism on traditional societies, in particular tourist encounters between Native American peoples and Euro-Americans With tourism becoming the largest single sector of the global economy it cannot but impact traditional societies in many ways, both detrimental and beneficial. This volume is the result of the “North American Indian Tourism” 2014 sessions organised during the American Indian Workshop held in Leiden, the Netherlands. Most contributions address developments from the late nineteenth century to the present. The majority of the articles focus on the Greater Southwest, but the Natives peoples of the Great Plains take central stage in several contributions.

WORLD HISTORY

Indian Detours

Sidestone Press • 9789088903366 Paperback • c. 33 b/w and 28 colour illus. • 230 pages • Available Now • £19.00

Garibaldi’s Maltese Corsairs, 1837 By Abraham Borg A tale of Garibaldi’s two unsung Maltese sefarer heroes Garibaldi’s connection with Malta dates back to 1837 when he had already taken refuge in South America. In 1837 Garibaldi was given Letters of Marque by the rebellious province of the Rio Grande do Sul, to run after Brazilian ships – a privateer who needed to assemble a crew for his ship. Among the crew of “corsairs” Garibaldi had approached and enlisted two Maltese whose names he does not give, and consequently none of his many biographers give their names: Montanelli writes “due maltesi di cui non si conoscono i nomi”.

Midsea Books • 9789993275312 Paperback • 160 pages • Available Now • £15.00

The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan

A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province prior to its Annexation by Russia By George A. Bournoutian Extensive annotations provide an accurate picture of the demography and economic conditions of a former Iranian province prior to its incorporation into the Russian Empire Shirvan existed as an autonomous khanate, under Iranian influence, until 1820, when under pressure from Russia, the khan fled to Iran, and Shirvan was immediately annexed. In order to enumerate the population and especially to ascertain revenues, The Description of the Shirvan Province, was compiled in 1820 and published in 1867. The present work is a translation of the original survey. It details the Christian and Muslim population and the revenues collected. Gibb Memorial Trust • 9781909724808 Hardback • 4 illus. • 288 pages • July 2016 • £45.00

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TRUE CRIME

Death by Cyanide

The Murder of Dr. Autumn Klein By Paula Reed Ward A look into a Pittsburgh doctor’s brutal poisoning of his physician wife, and his riveting trial for firstdegree murder Dr. Autumn Klein, a neurologist, had been named chief of women’s neurology at Pittsburgh’s largest health system. She collapsed suddenly on April 17, 2013 and died three days later. The police discovered her husband, Dr. Robert Ferrante, killed her through cyanide poisoning. Though Ferrante left a clear trail of circumstantial evidence, Klein’s death from cyanide might have been overlooked if not for the investigators who were able to use Ferrante’s computer, statements from the staff at his lab, and his own seemingly odd actions at the hospital during his wife’s treatment to piece together what appeared to be a long-term plan to end his wife’s life. Paula Reed Ward describes the murder investigation and the trial in this sensational case, taking us from the poisoning and the medical staff’s heroic measures to save Klein’s life to the investigation of Ferrante and the drama inside the courtroom. University Press of New England • 9781611689037 Hardback • 21 illus. • 248 pages • November 2016 £23.00

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Challenges for Teacher Educators, Teachers and Student Teachers Edited by Bram De Wever, Ruben Vanderlinde, Melissa Tuytens and Antonia Aelterma Discusses teacher educators’ professionalism and (student) teachers’ practices and professional development

EDUCATION

Professional Learning in Education

Educational quality is at the centre of debates worldwide. In all debates, teachers are considered as the critical actors determining to a large extent the quality of our educational systems. At the same time, doubts are expressed related to teachers’ quality as well as to the education or training of teachers. This book presents a model for teachers’ professional development together with the three themes: (1) professionalism of teacher educators, (2) professional development of (student) teachers, and (3) (student) teacher practices. Academia Press • 9789038225968 Paperback • 300 pages • July 2016 • £33.00

How to Learn?

Nippon/Japan as Object, Nippon/Japan as Method Edited by Enrico Fongaro and Akihiro Ozaki Looks at Japanese Studies across Literature, History, Religion, Sociology, and Political Studies How to learn in a time of globalization? And in particular: how to learn if the research “object” is a non-European culture, such as a Japanese one? What are the methodologies appropriate for working in the field “Nippon/Japan” in a “double-direction”, from West to East and from East to West? Based on an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, specialists from Europe and Japan analyse topics focusing on History, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Literature, Linguistics, Sociology, Economics and Religious Studies.

Mimesis International • 9788869770524 Paperback • 200 pages • August 2016 • £13.00

A Critique of Universities By Pall Skulason Discusses how the University of Iceland has developed from a medieval institution into a great contemporary university Páll Skúlason was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Iceland for several years and the Rector of that university from 1997-2005. Here, he explores the university historically, discusses how the contemporary university has evolved out of Medieval institutions, and presents the influential models of the university that were set out during the nineteenth century. Furthermore, he analyses the status and direction of the university in the new and radically changed social, political and technological environment of today.

University of Iceland Press • 9789935230737 Paperback • 110 pages • Available Now • £20.00

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SCIENCE & MEDICINE

A Plague on All Our Houses

Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS By Bruce J. Hillman The medical detective story of Dr. Michael Gottlieb’s discovery of AIDS, his struggle with the medical establishment, and the temptations of Hollywood In 1981, Dr. Michael Gottlieb of UCLA was presented with a battery of unusual cases: five formerly healthy gay men presenting with months-long fever, weight loss, and highly unusual infections. He published his findings in the New England Journal of Medicine and quickly became the medical face of the terrifying new epidemic. Bruce Hillman was a medical school classmate of Michael Gottlieb and had numerous interviews with him while writing this book. A Plague on All Our Houses follows Dr. Gottlieb’s thoughts and actions, as well as his relationships with his patients, colleagues, and family, during the first decade of the worldwide AIDS epidemic.

University Press of New England • 9781611688757 Hardback • 248 pages • November 2016 • £25.00

Hurt

The Inspiring, Untold Story of Trauma Care By Catherine Musemeche The heroic story of the invention of trauma care, from battlefield triage to level 1 trauma centers Trauma is a disease of epidemic proportions that preys on the young, killing more Americans up to age thirtyseven than all other afflictions combined. Every year an estimated 2.8 million people are hospitalized for injuries and more than 180,000 people die. Told through the eyes of a surgeon who has flown on rescue helicopters, resuscitated patients in trauma centres in Houston and Chicago, and operated on hundreds of trauma victims of all ages, Hurt takes us on a tour of the advancements in injury treatment from the battlefields of the Civil War to the state-of-the-art trauma centres of today.

University Press of New England • 9781611687965 Hardback • 256 pages • October 2016 • £23.00

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The Circulation of Knowledge In the Spanish Netherlands Edited by Sven Dupré, Bert De Munck, Werner Thomas and Geert Vanpaemel A seminal work that offers a new framework for the history of science in the Spanish Netherlands This book indicates new paths of research furthering the integration of the history of science into wider, general history. To accomplish this aim the book raises three sets of questions. The first question concerns the role of cities in the production and transmission of knowledge and skills in the Spanish Netherlands. In a second step, the book discusses how the Southern Netherlands were entangled with the rest of the globe through the Spanish Empire, and the Atlantic world in particular. Thirdly, did the definition and nature of knowledge change in the Spanish Netherlands and how was this related to processes of political and religious transformation?

SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Embattled Territory

Academia Press • 9789038225685 Paperback • 50 colour illus. • 456 pages • July 2016 • £55.00

Journeys Through the Human Traces of Science Technology and Sound By Trevor J. Pinch and Simone Tosoni An introductory text to the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) This book of interviews is conceived as an introductory text to the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Pinch guides readers through their first, but still in-depth, exploration of the fundamental concepts and debates in the field of STS, from its origins to its most recent developments. The text is aimed to students closer to the discipline, as well as to researchers and scholars in all fields of study strongly influenced nowadays by STS. The theoretical parts of the book are complemented by more historical and narrative sections, which delineate the academic and intellectual context in which the field took form, and what took place behind the scenes.

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

Entanglements

Mimesis International • 9788857526621 Paperback • 210 pages • September 2016 • £12.50

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SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

Cartographies of the Unconscious A New Atlas for Psychoanalysis Edited by Lorena Preta

The principles of psychoanalysis have been subjected to considerable pressure from the outside that forces psychoanalysis to problematise its vision of humankind, in order to recognize the link between individual and social boundaries and the differences of various cultures. It is at this intersection between individual horizon and collective sphere that the psychoanalysis could be a force for knowledge and social growth. Mimesis International • 9788869770579 Paperback • 120 pages • July 2016 • £10.00

A Critique of Aesthetic Capitalism By Gernot Böhme The stage-setting of products and lifestyles is a central feature of aesthetic capitalism, the manifestations of which Böhme tracks down here. In concerning himself with the ideology of growth, he makes an important contribution to a reconstruction and extension of the theory of the culture industry to the sphere of economic life.

Mimesis International • 9788869770296 Paperback • 104 pages • December 2016 • £8.00

Independent Work in a Postfordist Society By Sergio Bologna The author investigates the ‘anthropological’ difference between making a living as employee or as freelancer. He criticises the wrong assumption that an independent worker is an enterprise. Freelancers belongs to the symbolic world of labour, they merit full citizenship in the right of labour. But they should come together and have more voice.

Mimesis International • 9788869770647 Paperback • 200 pages • October 2016 • £13.00

Intersectionality

Digest Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies Edited by Karen Celis, Eline Severs, Alison E. Woodward and Liselotte Vandenbussche Intersectionality: buzzword or new paradigm? In this book, renowned scholars and young researchers explore the value of the concept for research and critical practice. How does intersectionality add to existing categories and frameworks? What frameworks, practices, and policies do we need to map complex social structures? What role does intersectionality play herein? Academia Press • 9789038225975 Paperback • 192 pages • July 2016 • £33.00

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Anthropology, Ontology, Existence By Albert Piette An original theoretical frame which focuses on reality and realism, singularity and humans This book is a theoretical essay that lays a few foundations on which to build an anthropology directly focusing on human units. In the first chapter, the author attempts to show that the evolutionary specificity of humans constitutes an argument in favour of this perspective. The second chapter is a critique of the abundant use of the notion of relations in social anthropology. The third chapter concerns nonhumans, another major theme of contemporary anthropology.

Mimesis International • 9788869770395 Paperback • 90 pages • July 2016 • £8.00

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

Separate Humans

‘Some Friends Came to See Us’

Lord Moyne’s 1936 Expedition to the Asmat By Nick Stanley A unique account of indigenous Asmat life and culture at the time immediately prior to colonisation Walter Edward Guinness (1880–1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in search for ethnographic material, Lord Moyne visited South Papua three times. There he was able to make sustained contact with several groups of villages, and barter for a range of objects that included shields and other carvings. Many of these objects were brought back to the British Museum as a means to address the severe lack of representation of South Papuan art.

British Museum Press • 9780861592067 Paperback • 100 illus. • 90 pages • July 2016 • £30.00

British Museum Research Publication series

Amaravati

The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context Edited by Akira Shimada and Michael Willis Discusses the rediscovery and recreation of Amaravati and its sculptures and the collection Amaravati art held in the British Museum The papers in this book emerged from a conference at the British Museum held in September 2014 that brought together leading specialists to address aspects of Amaravati and its sculpture. Subjects include the rediscovery of the stūpa in the 18th century and its recreation in the 21st century. The art of Amaravati is also placed in the context of other sites and remains from the Andhra region which has been neglected in the study of religious and visual cultures of South Asia.

British Museum Press • 9780861592074 Paperback • 170 illus. • 152 pages • October 2016 • £40.00

British Museum Research Publication series

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

Louis Bamberger

Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist By Linda B. Forgosh The only biography of Louis Bamberger— department store magnate, merchandising genius, enlightened philanthropist, and Newark’s leading citizen Louis Bamberger (1855–1944) was the epitome of the merchant prince as public benefactor. Born in Baltimore, this son of German immigrants built his business—L. Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark, N.J.— into the sixth-largest department store in the country. Despite his vast wealth and local prominence, Bamberger was a reclusive figure who shunned the limelight. Yet his achievements are manifold. He was a merchandising genius whose innovations, including newspaper and radio ads and brilliant use of window and in-store displays, established the culture of consumption in twentieth-century America. This full-length biography will interest historians as well as general readers of Jewish history nationally.

Brandeis University Press • 9781611689815 Hardback • 29 illus. • 296 pages • October 2016 • £25.00

Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life

The Stranger in My Genes A Memoir By Bill Griffeth

How a simple DNA test complicated the author’s life Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: “If the results were correct, it meant that the family tree I had spent years documenting was not my own.” Bill undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, which shakes his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others—and we see Bill measure and weigh his own difficult choices as he confronts the past.

New England Historical Genealogical Society • 9780880823449 Hardback • 20 illus. • 160 pages • October 2016 • £25.00

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By Thomas Freller Based on the material of various European archives, this book finally presents the long-overdue biography of the colourful character, Comte de Bavière Novice and negotiator in the service of the Catholic Order of St John, candidate to the post of grand prior of Castille, but bastard son of a prince and married to his niece, lieutenant general in the French army and fighting at the forefront of many battles, French envoy, lover of his father’s mistress, and protagonist of several scandals and duels, the Comte de Bavière was one of the most notorious and popular figures of his times.

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

The Fabulous Life of the Comte de Bavière and Malta

Midsea Books • 9789993275299 Paperback • 140 pages • August 2015 • £9.00

Dialog of a Veteran Soldier By Diogo do Couto, translated by Timothy J. Coates and foreword by M. N. Pearson A scathing critique of the administrative, military, and political system of Portuguese Asia at the beginning of the seventeenth century Fraud, scandal and theft of royal funds: these are the subjects of the 1612 exposé written by Diogo do Couto in his Dialog of a Veteran Soldier. Couto revealed too much and as a result, this work wasn’t published until 1790, over 175 years later. This classic of overseas Portuguese history is a well-known source cited by historians of Portuguese Asia, yet it has remained beyond the reach of a larger audience until this translation—its first into any other language.

Classic Histories from the PortugueseSpeaking World in Translation

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth • 9781933227726 Paperback • 19 illus. • 256 pages • October 2016 • £17.00

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer An American Hero By Ronald D. Lankford

The amazing story behind the classic Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was the creation of Robert May, a staff copywriter who wrote the original poem as a Montgomery Ward Christmas giveaway in 1939. More than 2.4 million copies were printed and thus the legend began. Lankford has produced the first complete history of Rudolph that both celebrates and explains the undying popularity of Rudolph. The result is a glowing tribute and a rigorously researched biography that will appeal to fans of classic American holiday culture.

University Press of New England • 9781611687354 Paperback • 78 full colour illus. • 224 pages • November 2016 • £19.00

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FICTION

The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather By Willa Cather and Peter Oresick In these six stories, Willa Cather vividly captures the character of early 1900s Pittsburgh. She depicts a city where culture is beginning to rise from the harsh industrial landscape. Her characters, ranging from a young usher boy to an elderly doctor, seek meaning in music, art, and human connection. Through them, Cather explores the dual nature of art as a higher purpose.

Carnegie Mellon University Press 208 pages • November 2016

Hardback • 9780887486166 • £21.00 Paperback • 9780887486111 • £17.00

Mariana Brown Dietrich Notable Book Series

Monsters By Karen Brennan Literal as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all.

Four Way Books • 9781935536796 Paperback • 208 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

Feder

A Scenario By Nathanaël Part noir, part philosophical investigation, part literary subterfuge, Feder tenders image over evidence as it exfoliates the inside-out life of its protagonist Feder. In this reality, municipal sewer systems are brimming with bodies drifted in with the tides, the last century’s architectures have gone unpeopled, and a minor mishap on a tram can cause the sudden death of a stranger across a continent.

Nightboat Books • 9781937658564 Paperback • 96 pages • October 2016 • £13.00

Our Lives Became Unmanageable By Jackie Craven An advertising copywriter searches for her missing reflection. An artist tries to sculpt clouds. A businessman fades into the atmosphere while an old man drifts over rooftops, his gravity broken. Eleven narrative strands fragment and reform to weave a story of other-worldly ailments and compulsions. Told with wit and pathos, the linked tales are comical and strange, yet heartbreakingly familiar.

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430274 Paperback • 56 pages • November 2016 • £10.00

The Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize

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Watchful

By Elena Karina Byrne

By Molly Bendall Witness to the late and sorrowful pact between predator and prey, spectator and species, Molly Bendall’s fifth book beckons the reader into the enigma of animal relation.

Squander occupies a place where “the mind’s upstairs windows [are] blown out”: a place of juxtapositional delight through sensory and conceptual dislocation.

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430229 Paperback • 96 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

POETRY

Squander

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430212 Paperback • 72 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

Inside Job

Where Are We in This Story?

Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series

Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry

By John Skoyles

By Sarah Rosenblatt The poems in Inside Job range from intensely autobiographical lyrics to brief historical portraits of literary figures.

Carnegie Mellon University Press • 9780887486142 Paperback • 72 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

Suddenly, It’s Evening Selected Poems

Rosenblatt questions the meaning of the ongoing story of time. The collection challenges the guts and touches the heart and soul of being alive in a story in which we are challenged to find meaning.

Carnegie Mellon University Press • 9780887486135 Paperback • 80 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

Letters from Limbo By Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series

By John Skoyles Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Alan Dugan described Skoyles’s poems as “cleare ye d b u t p a s s i o n a t e , sarcastic but grave, all at the same time.” That description holds true for this selection of poems from his previous four books. Carnegie Mellon University Press • 9780887486159 Paperback • 112 pages • November 2016 • £14.00

Voices of the dead reach the living through various means, revealing experiences harrowing and mysterious, and exploring limbo as an abode of souls as well as a state of entrapment and intermediacy.

Cavankerry Press • 9781933880594 Paperback • 80 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

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POETRY

Jesus Was a Homeboy By Kevin Carey A poet’s look at the hard lessons of separation, of growing older, and of wanting the things that are beyond our reach. Cavankerry Press • 9781933880556 Paperback • 80 pages • October 2016 • £13.00

Fire Muse

Poems from the Salt House By Cynthia Huntington Returning to Provincetown her inspiration for The Salt House, Huntington’s poems display a kind of ecstasy born of love for her surroundings. Dartmouth College Press • 9781611689792 Paperback • 72 pages • December 2016 • £10.00

God’s Breath Hovering Across the Waters

Round Lake

By Henry Israeli

A family is lost and discovered among the pages of Round Lake.

M e d i t at i ve p o e m s t h at struggle to make sense of a mother’s sudden death through the lenses of science and religion. Four Way Books • 9781935536765 Paperback • 68 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

Stahlecker Selections

By Grace Bonner

Four Way Books • 9781935536741 Paperback • 63 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

Violent Blues

Off Message

Stahlecker Selections

By Joel Brouwer

By Bruce Willard

Violent Blues focuses on personal violence—the violence we perpetrate on ourselves—and how we attempt to resolve it.

Four Way Books • 9781935536758 Paperback • 54 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

The Off-Season Stahlecker Selections

By Jen Levitt

The Off-Season grapples with the question of how to be in the world.

Engages thorny political and historical issues with humor, humility, and artfulness.

Four Way Books • 9781935536789 Paperback • 96 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

Inuit Poems and Songs

Folk poetry of East Greenland By William Thalbitzer and Torben Hutchings Thalbitzer found in their values his own mission to search for and preserve theirs.

Four Way Books • 9781935536772 Paperback • 76 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

International Polar Institute • 9780996193825 Paperback • 128 pages • October 2016 • £17.00

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Threnody

By Susan Gevirtz

By Juliet Patterson

Hotel abc is poetry fieldwork done in the trenches of daily life.

An urgent and scintillating second collection by poet and activist Juliet Patterson.

Nightboat Books • 9781937658571 Paperback • 176 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

Fleshgraphs By Brynne Rebele-Henry A visceral engagement with the politics and poetics of girlhood by a 14-year-old author.

Nightboat Books • 9781937658540 Paperback • 96 pages • October 2016 • £13.00

Nightboat Books • 9781937658557 Paperback • 96 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

Dismembered

Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays By Bruce Boone and Edited by Rob Halpern A new collection by a founding writer and theorist of the literary movement known as New Narrative.

Nightboat Books • 9781937658588 Paperback • 400 pages • December 2016 • £19.00

The Mansion of Happiness

Ocular Proof

FIELD Poetry Series

Ocular Proof explores not only what each of us sees, but also how photographs modify sight as they capture, distort, frame, and simultaneously encourage discovery.

By Jon Loomis

Alien abduction, reincarnation, earthquake, love, death, children—Jon Loomis’s new collection covers a lot of ground. Oberlin College Press • 9780997335507 Paperback • 68 pages • December 2016 • £14.00

House A

Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest

By Jennifer S. Cheng Investigates the tones and textures of immigrant homebuilding by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home, and vice versa? Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430236 Paperback • 128 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

POETRY

Hotel abc

By Martha Ronk

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430250 Paperback • 96 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

Güera By Rebecca Gaydos A debut meditation on the body across national and linguistic borders.

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430243 Paperback • 88 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

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POETRY

Ghost Nets

White Decimal

By John Wilkinson

By Jean Daive and Norma Cole

John Wilkinson’s first co l l ecti o n di spl ays th e intense musicality, syntactical intricacy and affective power characteristic of his poetry.

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430267 Paperback • 104 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

The Field By Robert Andrew Perez This first collection is a curation of the perils of love in an age of persistent angst.

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430298 Paperback • 64 pages • November 2016 • £10.00

Dwelling By Aliki Barnstone “The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.” —Robert Pinsky

Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679637 Paperback • 110 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

Winters Come, Summers Gone Selected Poems By Howard Moss

“Everywhere his poems speak eloquently of the wounds of experience, the weather of the spirit.” —J. D. McClatchy, from the Introduction Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679651 Paperback • 216 pages • November 2016 • £18.00

A new translation of the groundbreaking French work.

Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430281 Paperback • 144 pages • November 2016 • £10.00

Plucking the Stinger By Stephanie Rogers Grief and desire cartwheel t h ro u g h t h e p a g e s o f Stephanie Rogers’s debut collection.

Saturnalia Books • 9780996220682 Paperback • 80 pages • November 2016 • £13.00

Live at the Bitter End A Trial by Opera By Ed Pavli

“Dialogic, dangerous, this is a poetics of body and soul, music to listen to with all five senses.” —Adrienne Rich Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679675 Paperback • 80 pages • November 2016 • £14.00

The Noise of the Rain By Sarah Plimpton “Sarah Plimpton’s sinewy poems open vistas of experience and sensation in astonishingly few words.” — Rachel Hadas Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679682 Paperback • 160 pages • November 2016 • £14.00

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Walking on Darkness

By Brian Swann

By Peter Dale Scott

“Brian Swann is our poet of the primal present.” —William Heyen

“Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time.” – Robert Hass

Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679668 Paperback • 120 pages • November 2016 • £15.00

Archeophonics Wesleyan Poetry Series

By Peter Gizzi

Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576804 Hardback • 96 pages • October 2016 • £21.00

Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679644 Paperback • 90 pages • October 2016 • £14.00

Partly

New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015 Wesleyan Poetry Series

By Rae Armantrout Armantrout’s poetry comprises one of the most refined visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576552 Hardback • 288 pages • September 2016 • £23.00

Mr. West

The Little Edges

Wesleyan Poetry Series

The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person’s public story.

The Little Edges is a collection of poems that extends poet Fred Moten’s experiments in what he calls “shaped prose”.

By Sarah Blake

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576910 Paperback • 132 pages • September 2016 • £13.00

By Fred Moten

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576705 Paperback • 96 pages • August 2016 • £13.00

Heliopause

The Work-Shy

Wesleyan Poetry Series

By Blunt Research Group

By Heather Christle

Heather Christle’s stunning fourth collection blends disarming honesty with keen leaps of the imagination.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576927 Paperback • 112 pages • September 2016 • £13.00

POETRY

Companions, Analogies

A poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettled.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576781 Hardback • 120 pages • November 2016 • £21.00

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OXBOW HIGHLIGHTS A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks Shipwrecks as hidden windows on the history of globalization.

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611685404 Hardback £25.00

Breaking the Spell, Contemporary Realism under Discussion Essays by philosophers and young scholars on contemporary forms of realism. Mimesis International 9788857526591 Paperback £16.00

American Luthier The most innovative violinmaker of the modern age, Carleen Maley Hutchins set out to explore violins and acoustical physics.

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611685923 Hardback £29.00

Baby You’re a Rich Man The first book devoted to the cascade of legal actions engulfing the Beatles, from their earliest days to present. ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611683806 Hardback £20.00

Chinese Dance

City of the Soul

Unveils the relationship between Chinese dance and the cultural contexts of dance within the region and abroad.

Examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome’s image, visual and literary between 1770 – 1870.

Wesleyan University Press 9780819576309 • HB • £66.00 9780819576316 • PB • £22.00

UPNE 9780875981710 Hardback £41.00

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Convict Voices Sensitive interdisciplinary reading of texts concerning female prison experience in nineteenth-century England.

University of New Hampshire Press 9781611686722 • PB • £37.00 9781611686715 • HB • £70.00

Dirt Brings together essays by award-winning scientists, authors, artists, and dirt lovers to tell dirt’s exuberant tales.

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611687668 Paperback £15.00

Crossings in Text and Textile

David Sylvian as a Philosopher

Fashion and literary history prompt fresh understandings of the complexities of race, class, and sexual identity.

A n a l ys e s t h e s o n g s a n d philosophy of one of the greatest contemporary musicians.

University of New Hampshire Press 9781611686425 Hardback • £33.00

Mimesis International 9788869770029 Paperback £4.50

Diseases of Poverty

Europe and Capitalism

Comprehensive review of diseases of poverty and public health strategies to combat them.

Looks at the realities behind the European Union alongside a critique of the euro and contemporary finance.

Dartmouth College Press 9781611687521 Paperback £25.00

Mimesis International 9788857526607 Paperback £10.00

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OXBOW HIGHLIGHTS

Fearless This book is based on historical research of hitherto unpublished documents and war journals, and illustrated by photographs taken by Dorothie Feilding herself.

Academia 9789038224824 Paperback £20.00

I Heart Obama Journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan offers an unapologetic appreciation of the first AfricanAmerican president and what he means to black Americans.

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611685367 Hardback £19.00

Flowers Cracking Concrete

Ghost Riders of Baghdad

First in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko and Koma—two Japanese modern and post-modern dancers.

An American officer confronts the realities of war and politics during a year with the 61st Cavalry in Iraq.

Wesleyan University Press 9780819576477 • HB • £66.00 9780819576484 • PB • £22.00

Inferno in Chechnya The history of the Chechen wars and the origins of terrorism in Russia and beyond.

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611687378 Hardback £20.00

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611687811 Hardback £20.00

Jewish Soul Food A lighthearted introduction to the art of traditional Jewish cooking, which links Jewish foods and Jewish beliefs.

Brandeis University Press 9781611685015 Paperback £23.00

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Malevolent Muse

Matisse Drawings

Naked Truth

An even-handed yet tantalizingly detailed account of the fascinating life of Alma M a h l e r, u s i n g p rev i o u s l y unpublished material.

An insightful reflection on Henri Matisse’s drawings from the perspective of modernist Ellsworth Kelly.

An inquiry into conceptions of the human body in Austria and Germany before and after the First World War.

Northeastern University Press 9781555537890 Hardback £33.00

Mount Holyoke 9780989083522 Hardback £29.00

Nihilism and Destiny

No Laughing Matter

Translated for the first time in English, veteran thinker Emanuele Severino responds to some of the most profound questions raised by philosophy.

An interdisciplinary collection discussing the role of race and ethnicity in global humor.

Mimesis International 9788869770111 Paperback £4.50

Dartmouth College Press 9781611688214 Paperback £35.00

Middlebury College Museum of Art 9781928825104 Paperback • £25.00

On Nudity P re s e n t s t h e t h e o re t i c a l philosophy of the author, trying to incorporate nihilism into a new constructive view.

Mimesis International 9788869770036 Paperback £5.50

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OXBOW HIGHLIGHTS Operation Whisper True story of the most effective Soviet spy couple in America who spent time undercover in London.

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611688092 Hardback £25.00

Radicalism and Music

Brings together an international group of scholars to reflect on a different approach to photography and its histories.

A comparative study of the music cultures of four radical groups.

Dartmouth College Press 9781611686470 Paperback £33.00

Wesleyan University Press 9780819575845 Paperback £20.00

Re/Search Milano

Seeing the War

Self as Nation

A hypertextual guide to an uncharted Milan, the liveliest, expressed through features far from the media’s limelight.

The dramatic stories behind some of the war’s best-known photos.

A systematic review of contemporary Hebrew autobiography, raising questions essential to the debates about identity at the heart of Israeli culture today.

Mimesis International 9788869770371 Paperback £20.00

Photography, History, Difference

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611687262 Paperback £21.00

Brandeis University Press 9781611688795 • HB • £70.00 9781611688801 • PB • £33.00

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Sisters of Tomorrow

Surviving the Essex

Tango: Music and Dance

A comprehensive and groundbreaking selection of works by female luminaries of early Science Fiction.

Captivating story of a ship’s crew battered by whale attack, broken by months at sea, and forced to make meals of their fellow survivors.

This book explores all the musical compositions of the cultural phenomenon of tango, able to capture multitudes of aficionados in every corner of the world.

Wesleyan University Press 9780819576231 • HB • £74.00 9780819576248 • PB • £25.00

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611689075 Paperback £21.00

Mimesis International 9788898599585 Paperback £16.00

The Christopher Small Reader

The Dyer’s Handbook

The Great Siege of Malta

Brings Small’s previously published work together with key excerpts.

Translation and facsimile reproduction of this 18th century French manuscript providing colour recipes for and samples of dyes of the day.

The definitive battle in the clash of empires that has defined Europe for 500 years.

Wesleyan University Press 9780819576392 • HB • £62.00 9780819576408 • PB • £19.00

Oxbow Books 9781785702112 Hardback £36.00

ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611687651 Hardback £25.00

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OXBOW HIGHLIGHTS The Selected Letters of John Cage Letters of an avant-garde icon available to the public for the first time. Wesleyan University Press 9780819575913 Hardback £33.00

Wordsworth and the Green Romantics Ground-breaking and unique collection on the role of emotions in Western environmentalism.

New Hampshire Historical Society 9781611688955 • PB • £33.00 9781611688948 • HB • £70.00

The Sound of the North

The Strangers We Became

The first book dedicated to the lively Norwegian Jazz scene; dense with anecdotes, unpublished interviews and encounters.

A smart, funny, and lyrical memoir of an Iraqi Jewish girl’s experiences in five countries before settling in the United States.

Mimesis International 9788898599530 Paperback £18.00

World Beats Explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Dartmouth College Press 9781611688986 Paperback £33.00

Brandeis University Press 9781611688054 Hardback £20.00

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 A n ew a n d p rovo c a t i ve reassessment of the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Brandeis University Press 9781611688115 Paperback £20.00

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