DISTRIBUTED TITLES Autumn 2018
Arts & Culture • Humanities • Poetry • Social Sciences
Welcome to the Autumn 2018 Catalogue from Oxbow Books We are delighted to present to you our distributed books for Autumn 2018 in the subject areas of humanities and social sciences. Covering a wide range of topics from art, music and film to medicine and health, philosophy and the human sciences, we hope that there is something here that takes your interest.
Art, Antiquities & Collections........................................1 Biography & Memoir.......................................................5 Environment & Natural World......................................7 Film, Television & Performing Arts.............................8 Cultures & Human Sciences......................................... 11 Humour............................................................................. 15 Jewish Studies & History............................................. 16 Medicine, Disease & Health..........................................17 LGBTQ & Gender Studies............................................ 18 Music.................................................................................. 19 Philosophy & Ethics......................................................22 Sport..................................................................................25 Language, Literature & Texts......................................25 Theology & Religion..................................................... 28 World History................................................................. 29 True Crime........................................................................31 Fiction & Poetry.............................................................32 Recent Highlights.........................................................40 Trade Ordering Information........................................ 41
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(Do Tirar Pelo Natural) By Francisco De Holanda Published to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Portuguese Renaissance court painter, architect and essayist. This is the first treatise dedicated to portraiture, first circulating at the Lisbon court as a manuscript before its publication in Madrid in 1563. An English translation of Holanda’s portrait treatise and a transcription of the Portuguese original is included, with commentaries and essays regarding Holanda’s output as portraitist and theorist at the Lisbon court until his death in 1585.
Ad Ilissum • November 2018 • 9781912168118 • £25.00 Paperback • 270 x 195 • 128 pages
CHINESE MUSEUMS
ART, ANTIQUITIES & COLLECTIONS
ON PORTRAITURE
Strategies and Promotion of Contemporary Chinese Art By Ornella De Nigris Explores approaches to exhibiting and curating art in Chinese museums. Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. This volume explores different approaches to exhibiting and curating art, and investigates the crucial question of the cultural sustainability of art museums in China. Through four case studies on museums and art collections in Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shanghai, it provides an important contribution to the debate on the past, present and future of art museums in contemporary China.
Mimesis International • August 2018 • 9788869771439 • £22.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 230 pages • 70 illus.
ART
THE SOCIAL MUSEUM IN THE CARIBBEAN
Grassroots Heritage Initiatives and Community Engagement By Csilla E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke Showcases unique practices and processes used to engage with contemporary communities in the Caribbean. This dissertation presents the results of a unique research project based on a mixed methods approach. It begins with a macro view of Caribbean museums and their participatory practices, and continues on a micro level to explore the dynamics of community engagement processes. This book is a unique resource for museologists around the world, especially those interested in community engagement. It is particularly valuable for those working in, with, or on museums in the Caribbean.
Sidestone Press • September 2018• 257 x 182mm • 270 pages • 60 colour illus. Paperback • 9789088905926 • £45.00 Hardback • 9789088905933 • £135.00
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ART, ANTIQUITIES & COLLECTIONS
FINDING HOME: THE DINIACOPOULOS FAMILY AND COLLECTION
By Nadine Blumer and edited by Clarence Epstein and Imogen Bryant The story of the Diniacopoulos family, and their collection of artworks. Vincent and Olga Diniacopoulos were guardians of what has become one of the most important collections of antiquities in Canada. This book recounts the story of their immigration in the early 1950s, from France to Montreal, and how they sought to establish a home not only for themselves and their son, but also for their spectacular collection of artworks. Concordia University • October 2017 • 9781525103230 • £23.50 Paperback • 228 x 184 • 144 pages • 75 illus. • Available Now
THE DINIACOPOULOS COLLECTION
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COLLECTIONS
The Oriental Institute Edited by Jean M. Evans, Jack Green and Emily Teeter Guide to over 100 highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. This guide to over 100 highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia, Nubia, and objects from the Islamic collection. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago • January 2018 • 9781614910053 • £14.95 Paperback • 254 x 152 • 152 page • 149 illus. • Available Now
PORTRAIT MINIATURES IN THE FRITS LUGT COLLECTION By Karen Schaffers-Bodenhausen
Gives access to the Fondation Custodia’s collection of portrait miniatures for the first time. This is the first catalogue of the portrait miniatures in the Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris. The first volume contains detailed descriptions and exhaustive analyses of the portraits, their attributions, and identifications of the sitters. The author also examines the techniques employed and sets out to establish a date for each portrait. The second volume has colour plates of all the works in the collection. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9781912168101 • £70.00 Hardback • 270 x 195mm • 420 pages • Available Now
A MYSTICAL REALM OF LOVE
Pahari Painitings from the Eva & Konrad Seitz Collection By J. P. Losty and Konrad Seitz An important addition to the study of Pahari painting. Eva and Konrad Seitz have put together over many years an outstanding collection of some of the most famous and important of all 18th century Pahari paintings. This highly illustrated book with meticulous research by J.P. Losty (curator emeritus British Library), designed by Misha Anikst and published by Francesca Galloway, London, gives the reader the opportunity to see the collection in its entirety. Ad Ilissum • November 2017 • 9781912168057 • £90.00 Hardback 330 x 257mm • 400 pages • Available Now
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Exploring Chester Beatty’s Ruzbihan Qur’an By Elaine Wright The most detailed and comprehensive study of any Islamic manuscript. The Chester Beatty Library’s 16th-century Ruzbihan Qur’an is one of the finest Islamic manuscripts known. In terms of both materials and workmanship, it is exquisite: lapis lazuli and gold are used on every page, while the rendering of the decoration is exceptionally fine. Much of this study is focused on understanding the processes and procedures involved in the production of the manuscript and thus on gaining an insight into the problems faced by Ruzbihan and the other artists and how they resolved them. Ad Ilissum • April 2018 • 9781912168040 • £90.00 Hardback • 300 x 240mm • 352 pages • 350 colour illus. • Available Now
FORGING AUTHENTICITY
ART, ANTIQUITIES & COLLECTIONS
LAPIS AND GOLD
Giovanni Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in NineteenthCentury Florence By Anita Moskowitz Explores Bastianini’s own style, the style of works he sold as Renaissance art, and the nature of demand for them. Giovanni Bastianini (1830-1868) was a Florentine sculptor whose creations answered to the growing demand for Renaissance and Renaissance-like works of art during the second half of the 19th century. Arguably the most infamous and gifted imitator/faker of Italian Renaissance sculpture, he became a subject of great controversy. This book explores the differences between his pseudo-Renaissance and his contemporary ‘period’ style. At the same time, it places him firmly within the economic, political and cultural context that encouraged the production of neo-Renaissance art. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822261717 • £70.00 Hardback • 320 x 215mm • 190 pages
HESIOD’S THEOGONY AS SOURCE OF THE ICONOLOGICAL PROGRAM OF GIORGIONE’S “TEMPESTA” The Poet, Amalthea, the Infant Zeus and the Muses By Ursula Kirkendale and Warren Kirkendale
Explains how Giorgione’s famous picture shows the shepherd Hesiod undergoing his famous vision. Giorgione’s Tempesta has been the most discussed enigma in the history of art, with over 50 different interpretations, based largely on ancient literary sources which were compared, unconvincingly, with very few elements of the painting. Hesiod’s Theogony, well known in Venice when the painting was made, provides a comprehensive explanation. This book explores the iconographic elements and similarities, showing how the picture depicts the shepherd Hesiod during the vision in which the muses consign to him a poetic mission. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822264084 • £25.00 Hardback • 210 x 150mm • 106 pages • Available Now
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IL DISEGNO VENEZIANO 1580-1650
Ricostruzioni Storico-Artistiche (Drawing in Venice 1580-1650) By Bert Meijer The first book to comprehensively tackle drawing in Venice in the later sixteenth century. Although Venetian art of the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century has been the subject of scholarly study for nearly a century, it is comparatively under-explored, and a great deal of the foundational work needed has remained undone. This books sets out to fill in the gaps of our knowledge of this period, introducing a great number of artists whose drawings may be very little known, and discussing their patrons, the market for their drawings, and the collectors of this kind of material.
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822265036 • £115.00 Hardback • 315 x 240mm • 604 pages • 708 b/w and 42 colour illus.
TEXT IN ITALIAN
THE WORLD THE TRAINS MADE
A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada By James D. Dilts A richly illustrated guide to railroad architecture in the US and Canada. A comprehensive study of the broad range of structures built for the railroads during their heyday, from high-rise office buildings to beautiful resort hotels to lowly roundhouses and shops. This book delves into the personalities of the people who conceived these structures and examines the creative uses that have been found for many of them today. Included are over 100 of the finest examples of fourteen different building types.
ARCHITECTURE
ForeEdge from UPNE • October 2018 • 9781611688023 • £47.00 Hardback • 279 x 216 • 304 pages • 2 b/w and 230 colour illus.
CONNECTICUT ARCHITECTURE
Stories of 100 Places By Christopher Wigren and Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation The first comprehensive illustrated history of Connecticut architecture. Connecticut boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in New England, from Colonial churches and Modernist houses to tobacco sheds and refurbished factories. Featuring more than 200 illustrations, the book is organised thematically and introduces readers to 100 places across the state. A project of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, the book reflects more than 30 years of fieldwork and research. Wesleyan University Press • December 2018 • 9780819578136 • £38.00 Hardback • 254 x 229 • 296 pages • 173 colour photos, 1 map, 39 illus.
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The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell By Forrester A. Lee and James S. Pringle
Rediscovering the forgotten tale of Edward Mitchell and his legacy. In 1828 Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College, more than 35 years before any other Ivy League school admitted a black student. This book tells his life story with the help of a recently rediscovered trove of college essays by Mitchell, notes on his religious conversion, and his sermons.
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
A NOBLE AND INDEPENDENT COURSE
Dartmouth College Press • August 2018 • 9781512602845 • £22.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 200 pages
A PORTUGUESE ABBOT IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE The Letter Collection of Gomes Eanes (1415-1463) Edited by Rita Costa-Gomes
An annotated edition of the letters of Gomes Eanes, revealing a multilingual cultural world. This book is an annotated edition of the letters of Gomes Eanes, a Portuguese Abbot who lived for three decades in Italy and was head of the Badia Fiorentina between 1419 and 1439. It includes a transcription of 550 missives that he received. The text provides a detailed record of the abbot’s activities and of his constant communication with men and women living in Italy, Portugal, and other parts of Europe, revealing a multilingual cultural world and a wide field of human relations.
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822265166 • £60.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 598 pages
NOT BAD FOR DELANCEY STREET The Rise of Billy Rose By Mark Cohen
The first comprehensive biography of America’s great mid-century impresario. If you’ve ever seen the movie Funny Lady or read about the extravagance of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, ever visited Jerusalem, sung along to “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” or strolled through Times Square, then you have most likely heard about the tiny titan Billy Rose. He was a showman, songwriter, impresario, cultural arbiter, tough guy, visionary, wiseacre, and secret Jewish rescuer when Jews were struggling for survival in Europe. This is the first biography to tell the whole story of Rose’s life.
University Press of New England • October 2018 • 9781611688900 • £28.00 Hardback • 235 x 156 • 320 pages • 37 b/w and 8 colour illus.
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BRANDEIS SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND LIFE
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
THE RIGHT TO A FATHER
By Anne Sofie Hardenberg, annotated by Pia Christensen Bang, and translated by Susan Stanley A ‘fatherless’ Danish/Greenlandic girl exemplifies a generation of outcast mixed blood children. In the ’40s and ’50s many men from Denmark travelled to Greenland to work. Here they met Greenlandic women— which more than once resulted in pregnancies. Many of these men then returned to Denmark, which meant that the children grew up as illegitimate children without even knowing their fathers. One of these children was Anne Sofie Hardenberg, who was teased all through her childhood for having a Danish father—and an absent one at that. By the age of 17 she gathered the courage to write to her father. To her surprise he was very glad to hear from her, and wished to make her a part of his family. Unluckily they only got three weeks together before he died in a car accident. This book is Anne Sofie’s memoir accompanied by photos and letters between her and her Danish family.
International Polar Institute • July 2018 • 9780996748032 • £24.00 Paperback • 197 x 140 • 144 pages • 18 b/w and 11 colour illus.
SHE LIVED, AND THE OTHER GIRLS DIED Essays By Kirsti A. Sandy
Winner of the 2017 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize. Kirsti A. Sandi teaches creative nonfiction, memoir, and narrative theory at Keen State college, New Hampshire. She started She Lived, and the Other Girls Died in 1994, as a student in a creative non-fiction workshop. Judge Andrew Merton describes this award-winning collection of essays about coming of age in 1970s and 1980s mill towns near Boston as “a coming-of-age memoir infused with a refreshing generosity of spirit.”
Bauhaun Publishing • October 2018 • 9780872332645 • £19.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 128 pages
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Sea Level During Glacial Cycles By Kurt Lambeck
A theoretical and observational approach to fundamental questions relating to our planet. Of Moon and Land, Ice and Strand encompasses the four elements constituting the principal directions of Lambeck’s research over the past five decades: the Moon and artificial satellites; the Earth’s surface, crust and deep interior; the ice sheets of the geologically recent past; and aspects of the oceans and the coastal zones. In this lecture, Lambeck shows us what can be learnt from the analysis of past sea-level data.
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822263391 • £15.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 88 pages
WALKING TO THE SUN
A Journey through America’s Energy Landscapes By Tom Haines
ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL WORLD
OF MOON AND LAND, ICE AND STRAND
A journey on foot through the landscapes of America’s energy, from Maine to California. Tom Haines, an award-winning journalist and seasoned wanderer, walked hundreds of miles across landscapes of fuel—of oil, gas, and coal, and of water, wind, and sun—exploring how we live on Earth in the face of a growing climate crisis. The story he tells here is full not only of human encounters, but also of the meditative range that arrives with solitude far from home. The result is an empowering ground-level reckoning of our relationship with nature in the twenty-first century.
ForeEdge from UPNE • November 2018 • 9781512600957 • £22.00 Paperback • 216 x 140 • 248 pages • 6 photos, 6 maps
BIRDING THE HUDSON VALLEY By Kathryn J. Schneider
A guide to birds and birdwatching in the Hudson Valley. Although an estimated 400,000 Hudson Valley residents feed, observe, or photograph birds, the vast majority of New Yorkers enjoy their birdwatching activities mostly around the home. This engaging field guide provides encouragement for bird enthusiasts of all levels to expand their horizons. More than just a collection of bird-finding tips, this book explores Hudson Valley history, ecology, bird biology, and tourism. It describes sites in every county in the region.
University Press of New England • October 2018 • 9781611687187 • £26.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 352 pages • 24 maps, 100 colour photos
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FILM, TELEVISION & PERFORMING ARTS
CINÉMA & CIE INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL VOL. XVII, NO. 29, FALL 2017
Re-intermediation: Distribution, Online Access, and Gatekeeping in the Digital European Market Edited by Stefano Baschiera, Francesco Di Chiara and Valentina Re Special issue of this biannual international film studies journal. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie analyses the logic and processes of re-intermediation emerging in the contemporary European media industry landscape, providing an opportunity to bring questions of availability, text circulation and gatekeeping to the centre of scholarly debates and investigations.
Mimesis International • July 2018 • 9788869771330 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 140 pages • 10 illus.
CINÉMA & CIE INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL
A HISTORY OF CINEMA WITHOUT NAMES, VOLUME 2
Edited by Diego Cavallotti, Simone Dotto and Leonardo Vittorio Arena Collection of papers from the Gorizia International Film Studies Conference. A History of Cinema Without Names is an editorial project which promotes a new research perspective on the notions of film authorship, style, and genre, with the aim of re-articulating their theoretical definition. Papers in this issue include: A History of Cinema Without Names?; Quantitative Analysis and Big Data; Film Factory of Gestures; Technès: approches technologiques, questions esthétiques et histoire sans noms; L’Histoire des formes au pluriel; Apparitions, disparitions, transformations; Cinema and the Anonymous History of Human Gestures and Techniques ofthe Body; Histories, Historiographies: Cinema and Its Margins. UDINE/GORIZIA CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Mimesis International • March 2017 • 9788869771101 • £26.00 Paperback • 280 x 210mm • 274 pages • 30 illus.
A HISTORY OF CINEMA WITHOUT NAMES, VOLUME 3
Edited by Diego Cavallotti, Simone Dotto and Leonardo Vittorio Arena Collection of papers from the Gorizia International Film Studies Conference. A History of Cinema Without Names is an editorial project which promotes a new research perspective on the notions of film authorship, style, and genre, with the aim of re-articulating their theoretical definition. Papers in this issue include: Techniques; Cinematic Gestures; Histoire de l’Art et Cinéma; A History of World Cinema Without Names; Montage, Screens, and History.
Mimesis International • August 2018 • 9788869771354 • £26.00 Paperback • 190 x 150mm • 390 pages • 30 illus.
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Signal, Pixel, Diagram By Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
Exploring one of the most acknowledged—and most controversial— film directors of our time. In Lars von Trier’s Renewal of Film 1984-2014: Signal, Pixel, Diagram, scholar Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen offers a comprehensive discussion of Lars von Trier’s collected works. Examining Trier’s experiments with narrative forms, genre, camera usage, light, and colour tones, she shows how Trier’s unique ethically involving style activates the viewer’s entire perception apparatus. In understanding this affective involvement, the author frames the discussion around concepts from Gilles Deleuze, Alois Riegl, Brian Massumi and others on the haptic image, the diagram, affect and the signaletic material. Aarhus University Press • May 2018 • 9788771842302 • £35.00 Paperback • 350 pages
CINEMA AND ONTOLOGY
By Maurizio Ferraris and Enrico Terrone An investigation of cinema through ontology, and ontology through cinema.
FILM, TELEVISION & PERFORMING ARTS
LARS VON TRIER’S RENEWAL OF FILM 1984-2014
The essays presented in this volume investigate the relationship between cinema and ontology. The five sections of this volume, each containing a pair of complementary essays, analyse the following topics: the place of cinema in the system of the arts, the connection between cinematic realism and philosophical realism, the transition from analogue to digital cinema, the specificity of films made through cell phones, and the representation of non-human animals in films.
Mimesis International • October 2018 • 9788869771606 • £18.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 200 pages
REFRAMING LUCHINO VISCONTI Film and Art By Ivo Blom
Where does the visual splendour of Visconti’s films come from? Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of one of Italy’s most reputed film authors. It meticulously researches Visconti’s appropriation of European art in his set and costume design, from pictorial citations and the archaeology of the set to the use of portraits and pictorial references in costume design.
Sidestone Press • March 2018 • 257 x 182 • 318 pages • 191 b/w and 154 colour illus. • Available Now Paperback • 9789088905483 • £50.00 CLUES Hardback • 9789088905490 • £150.00
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FILM, TELEVISION & PERFORMING ARTS
IT’S ALIVE!
A Visual History of Frankenstein By Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger Two hundred years of Frankenstein on page, stage, and screen. A visual history of Frankenstein to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the novel’s publication. Since its first theatrical production in 1823, artists of all kinds have imagined Frankenstein, and this book both introduces readers to portrayals of the creature—from his early days dancing across a stage, to Boris Karloff’s lurching pathos, to the wide variety of modern-day comic book versions—and of Victor Frankenstein, from brainy college kid to bad scientist, and grounds them in historical context.
University Press of New England • November 2018 • 9781512603422 • £42.00 Hardback • 279 x 203 • 304 pages • 250 colour illus.
NATION, COMMUNITY, SELF
Female Voices in Scottish Theatre from the Seventies to the Present Edited by Gioia Angeletti Examines the contribution of female Scottish playwrights to theatre and the exploration of identity. Since the 1970s, many women playwrights have emerged in the Scottish theatre scene. However, their pioneering contribution to theatrical innovation and experimentation hasn’t yet received a thorough investigation and proper acknowledgement. By focusing on a selection of texts by Joan Ure, Liz Lochhead, Marcella Evaristi, Jackie Kay, Sue Glover, Rona Munro, Ann Marie Di Mambro, and Sharman MacDonald, this book analyses their discursive strategies to express women’s experiences in relation to issues of national and individual identities. Mimesis International • July 2018 • 9788869771347 • £18.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 180 pages
LITERATURE
THE FLOOR IS YOURS
Because Life is too Short for Bad Presentations By Hans Van de Water and Toon Verlinden, translated by Ian Connerty Learn to effectively and confidently convince your audience of your message. Life is too short for bad presentations, right? Giving a presentation doesn’t need to be an ordeal. This book will teach you how to keep your audience’s attention to achieve the results you want. You will also be shown a number of classic and instantly recognizable examples of bad presentations, so that you can immediately see how not to do it!
Academia Press • June 2018 • 9789401453226 • £33.00 Paperback • 235 x 156 • 220 pages • 79 b/w and 1 colour illus.
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By Philippe Nemo
Essential reading for those interested in contemporary cultural debates on Western culture. In this short, illuminating and very readable work, Philippe Nemo argues that what we call “the West” is one and only one cultural entity, to which both North America and Western Europe belong. In contemporary debates, then, Nemo asserts, it is simply incorrect to exaggerate the differences or gaps between countries that are indeed “Western.” Brilliantly and succinctly surveying the last five or six millennia, Nemo pieces together the history of the West’s development. Duquesne University Press • July 2006 • 9780820703756 • £19.00 Paperback • 229 x 152mm • 155 pages • Available Now
THE MEDITERRANEAN AS A SOURCE OF CULTURAL CRITICISM Myth, Literature, and Anthropology Edited by Andrea Benedetti and Ulrich van Loyen
CULTURES & HUMAN SCIENCE
WHAT IS THE WEST?
Conceptualises challenges of the 21st century by looking at the culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely “imagological” or “representational” point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions, their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Mimesis International • September 2018 • 9788869771361 • £18.00 Paperback • 210x 140mm • 100 pages • 3 illus.
ANTHROPOLOGY
AT THE ORIGIN OF MIDDLE-CLASS RATIONALITY Interpretations of Ulysses and the Sirens By Ruggero D’Alessandro
Explores the myriad levels of analysis allowed by the episode of Ulysses and the Sirens. By looking at the brief encounter between Ulysses and the Sirens, the reader of this volume will discover the roots of our modern concept of middle class rationality and its profound ramifications stretching between economy, politics, and the divine. Mimesis International • July 2018 • 9788869771378 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 118 pages
LITERATURE
THE PHALLUS AND THE MASK
The Patriarchal Unconscious of Psychoanalysis By Marina de Carneri Casts light on the unthought of Freudian and Lacanian theory through analysis of the concept of femininity.
While other disciplines, like sociology and anthropology, have welcomed the contributions of feminist theory, psychoanalysis remains hindered by its own patriarchal unconscious. This book aims to show how phallocentrism functions as a screen which obscures the real relationships between the sexes, the meaning of desire and the understanding of sexual difference. Mimesis International • July 2018 • 9788869771385 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 100 pages
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WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF JIHAD
The Hidden Pathways Towards Radicalization By Anna Zizola and Paolo Maria Inghilleri Scientific analysis of the mechanisms that can lead women to passionately fall for destructive movements. Surprisingly, jihadi groups like ISIS do not only attract female supporters coming from Muslim communities, but also Western women who grew up in non-Muslim environments. Trauma, depression and the need for a more exciting life outside the constraints of Western society brought some women to embrace the political cause of waging jihad and supporting terrorism. This book discovers the hidden psychological and sociological drivers that can lead young Western women to support jihadi ideology, violence, and sometimes suicide. Mimesis International • September 2018 • 9788869771316 • £15.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 120 pages
POLITICS
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Horizons of Contemporary Society By Fiammetta Fanizza Examines authentic human commitments that can re-establish meaningful relationships between people. How can we restore fundamental values on a political and cultural level? Taking this question as a starting point, the book identifies the notion of sociological imagination as a suitable method to address the widespread disorientation within the human and social sciences. In particular, the three essays included in this volume focus on the role of sociology as a tool to achieve a constructive representation of reality.
Mimesis International • October 2018 • 9788869771521 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 70 pages
SOCIOLOGY
UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL CONFLICT
The Relationship between Sociology and History Edited by Liana M. Daher Explores the relationship between history and social sciences. There is no question that social conflict – and social ambiguities – is a common ground of research both for sociology and history. Through the analysis of social conflict this book aims to provide argumentative issues concerning this relationship, and showing meaningful convergences between the two disciplines, in order to offer innovative spaces of discourse around the theory and methodology of research, and some areas of social conflicts of yesterday and today.
Mimesis International • November 2018 • 9788869771613 • £20.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 240 pages
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A Reflexive Mixed Methods Enquiry into Solo Time in the Wilderness By Jana Lemke The impact of young adults’ experiences of solo time in the wilderness on their attitudes and values. This study focuses on the phenomenology of young adults’ immersive experiences in nature and the evaluation of long term impact on their personal development, their relationship with nature, community participation and ecological behaviour. It tackles not only the pressing issue of an increasing psychological and physical separation between humans and nature, but also calls into question how conventional research and its prevailing tendency to investigate the world in isolated pieces may contribute to the problem.
CULTURE & HUMAN SCIENCE
EXPLORING HUMAN NATURE
Sidestone Press • April 2018 • 257 x 182mm • 280 pages • 42 b/w and 3 colour illus. Paperback • 9789088905582 • £35.00 Hardback • 9789088905599 • £95.00
IN THE WAKE OF TRAUMA
Psychology and Philosophy for the Suffering Other Edited by Eric Severson, Brian Becker and David M. Goodman An interdisciplinary discussion of traumatic experience seeking better understanding and care. When traumatic experiences occur, our patterns of living—the ways in which our bodies and minds have grown accustomed to feeling and reacting—are threatened. When psychologists, philosophers, or theologians turn their attention to trauma, they face a daunting task, as trauma is a concept that is incredibly difficult to understand and to describe. By drawing on resources across these disciplines (and others), the contributors here foster conversation that deepens the ability of practitioners and theoreticians alike to engage with the effects of trauma. Duquesne University Press • January 2017 • 9780820704982 • £33.00 Paperback • 229 x 152mm • 285 pages
TANGIBLE WHISPERS, NEGLECTED ENCOUNTERS Histories of East-West Artistic Dialogues, 1350-1904 By Marco Musillo
Examines the relationship between East and West within a broader historical framework. The relationship between East and West remains a topic of burning timeliness, particularly in its political dimension. Yet, we can gain a complete understanding of the current tensions only if we consider them within a broader historical framework, spanning from art to diplomacy, from religion to ethnography. The present volume tackles precisely this complex task, offering its reader a rich mosaic of case studies and scholarly research, relating to the mutual approaches between the Euro-American ‘West’, and the Sino-Japanese ‘East’.
Mimesis International • December 2018 • 9788869771552 • £14.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 170 pages • 36 illus.
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THINKING ABOUT LIBERTY An Historian’s Approach By Quentin Skineer
The eminent historian Quentin Skinner traces a path in the history of ideas that involves different ways of thinking about liberty. The definition of freedom as the absence of interference (by external agencies or by the self), though widespread, was by no means the only one prevailing. Skinner discusses two other distinct strands in the genealogy of modern liberty. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822264602 • £15.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 78 pages
THE LONG JOURNEYS HOME
The Repatriations of Henry ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk By Nick Bellantoni The moving stories of two indigenous men and their repatriations.
Henry ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia (ca. 1792–1818) and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–1900) lived almost a century apart and came from different Indigenous Nations—Hawaiian and Lakota. Connecticut state archaeologist Nick Bellantoni oversaw the archaeological disinterment and forensic identifications in returning these men to their respective Native families. This book chronicles these stories as examples of the wide-reaching impact of colonialism and the resurgence of Hawaiian and Lakota cultures. Wesleyan University Press • October 2018 • 9780819576842 • £27.00 Hardback • 229 x 152mm • 336 pages • 20 colour illus., 5 maps
THE DRIFTLESS CONNECTICUT SERIES & GARNET BOOKS
THE HABIT OF TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief By Howard Mansfield
How belief in the certainty of property gives way to anguish when challenged. While reporting on citizens fighting natural gas pipelines and transmission lines planned to cut right across their homes, Howard Mansfield saw the emotional toll of these projects. “They got under the skin,” writes Mansfield. “This was about more than kilowatts, powerlines, and pipelines. Something in this upheaval felt familiar. I began to realize that I was witnessing an essential American experience: the world turned upside down. And it all turned on one word: property.” Bauhaun Publishing • November 2018 • 9780872332706 • £19.00 Paperback • 229 x 152mm • 128 pages
FIGHTING FIBRES
Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections Edited by Julie Adams, Polly Bence and Alison Clark Investigates the significance of Kiribati coconut fibre armour and its presence in UK collections. This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. It investigates the historical context that led to these unique artefacts leaving the Pacific and entering the orbit of British collectors and institutions, as well the legacies of those practices in the present. Sidestone Press • April 2018 • 257 x 182mm • 300 pages • 25 b/w and 260 colour illus. Paperback • 9789088905650 • £60.00 PACIFIC PRESENCES Hardback • 9789088905667 • £180.00
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Levinas, Ethics, and Humor Edited by Brian Bergen-Aurand
The important relationship of comedy to ethics through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas.
HUMOUR
COMEDY BEGINS WITH OUR SIMPLEST GESTURES
This volume aims to take comedy seriously, exploring the ethical encounter opened up in humour, laughter, and joking, as well as the comedic aspects of various types of human interaction. Duquesne University Press • October 2017 • 9780820707037 • £33.00 Paperback • 229 x 152mm • 294 pages • Available Now
DOG TRUTHS
By Kit Reed, with illustrations by Joseph Reed A whimsically serious chapbook about dogs. This chapbook includes absurd graphs, charts, and diagrams that tell the truth about dogs—their size, attitude, and likeability is laid bare for all to read and enjoy.
Wesleyan University Press • July 18 • 9780819578600 • £5.00 Paperback • 152 x 102mm • 12 pages
THIRTY POLITE THINGS TO SAY
By Kit Reed, with illustrations by Joseph Reed A darkly humorous look at etiquette. In hyperbolic fashion, the preface to this volume reads, “There are times in the lives of us all in which we are at a loss for words. This volume attempts a partial solution.” What follows is a pointedly funny collection of thirty things perhaps we shouldn’t say, but find ourselves saying anyway.
Wesleyan University Press • July 2018 • 9780819578594 • £5.00 Paperback • 152 x 102mm • 32 pages
DEATHS OF THE POETS
By Kit Reed, with illustrations by Joseph Reed A darkly humorous homage to poets and their deaths. In this humorous collection, rhyming couplets are combined with beautiful etched illustrations to create a whimsically dark chapbook that explores various poets and their deaths.
Wesleyan University Press • July 2018 • 9780819578587 • £5.00 Paperback • 142 x 102mm • 34 pages
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THE BOOK SMUGGLERS
Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis By David E. Fishman Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust Category. 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.” ForeEdge from UPNE • Oct-18 • 9781512603309 £19.95 • New in Paperback • 235 x 156mm 360 pages • 30 photos, 2 maps
Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto—a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach—The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.
“Masterful prose. What a pleasure it is to have a good read, a first-rate history, and a new perspective on Jewish cultural resistance all wrapped up in one fascinating book.” —Jewish Book World “[A] gripping narrative. . . . Fishman narrates his story with verve and considerable literary skill, practising narrative history in the literal sense.” —Times Literary Supplement
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Helping Patients, Parents, and Practitioners Understand Medical Marijuana By Ezra Parzybok An insider’s look at the medical marijuana debate. As the movement for legalization of marijuana spreads, it is important to weigh the possible benefits and pitfalls of cannabis use. Cannabis Consulting is both a handbook and a report from the front lines of medical marijuana use. Writing from the perspective of a parent and veteran schoolteacher turned professional cannabis consultant, Parzybok tells the often-inspiring stories of his efforts to assist victims of chronic pain, terminal disease, and even conditions such as ADHD. This timely volume was written for the patients, families, law enforcement, and health professionals all trying to make decisions about cannabis at this critical era of transition. It is an honest, clear-eyed exploration of the marijuana debate that looks beyond the hype and disinformation on both sides to chart a new path toward rational and safe use of cannabis.
MEDICINE, DISEASE & HEALTH
CANNABIS CONSULTING
University Press of New England • August 2018 • 9781512601107 • £15.95 Paperback • 229 x 152mm • 232 pages
A DOCTOR’S DOZEN
Twelve Strategies for Personal Heath and a Culture of Wellness By Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH A toolkit for sustaining wellness, building resilience, and modelling health. Burnout affects a third of our population and over half of our health professionals. For the second group, the impact is magnified, as consequences play out not only on a personal level, but also on a societal level and lead to medical errors, suboptimal care, low levels of patient satisfaction, and poor clinical outcomes. Achieving wellbeing requires strategies for change. In this book, Dr. Pipas shares twelve lessons and strategies for improved health that she has learned from patients, students, and colleagues over her twenty years working as a family physician. Each lesson is based on observation and research, and begins with a story of an exemplary patient whose challenges and successes reflect the theme of the lesson.
Dartmouth College Press • October 2018 • 229 x 152mm • 24 pages • 10 illus. Paperback • 9781512602999 • £22.00 Hardback • 9781512602982 • £89.00
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LGBTQ & GENDER STUDIES
NO SANCTUARY
Teachers and the School Reform That Brought Gay Rights to the Masses By Stephen Lane The struggle to protect LGBT youth in American schools. Until recently, school was a special sort of nightmare for LGBT youth, who were often targets of harassment with nowhere to turn for support. No Sanctuary tells the inspiring story of a mostly unseen rescue attempt by a small group of teachers who led the push to make schools safer for these students. It sheds light on these reforms, placing the Safe Schools movement within the context of the larger gay rights movement and highlighting its key role in fostering greater acceptance of LGBT individuals throughout society.
ForeEdge from UPNE • December 2018 • 229 x 152mm • 240 pages 9781512603149 • Paperback • £23.00
THE SOUL OF THE STRANGER
Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective By Joy Ladin Explores the ways that trans perspectives can enrich our understanding of God and religious texts. Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Ladin shows how the Torah speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others—challenges that can help us understand a God who defies all human categories.
Brandeis University Press • December 2018 • 229 x 152mm • 208 pages Paperback • 9781512602937 • £28.00 Hardback • 9781512600667 • £89.00
HBI SERIES ON JEWISH WOMEN
JE NATHANAËL
By Nathanaël with an afterword by Elena Basile Neither essay nor poem nor novel, a thought-provoking discussion of language. In Je Nathanaël, first published in 2006, Nathanaël explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead a different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and transform desire in turn. Suggesting that one body conceals another, it lends an ear to this other body and delights in the anxiety it provokes. With parts written in French, other parts in English, this is truly a hybrid text, throwing itself into question as it acts upon itself in translation.
Nightboat Books • October 2018 • 9781937658915 • £15.00 Paperback • 203 x 149mm • 88 pages
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Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism By Richard M. Shain
MUSIC
ROOTS IN REVERSE
A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity. Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Shain argues that the trajectory of Afro-Cuban music in twentieth century Senegal illuminates many dimensions of that nation’s cultural history. This work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural and political citizenship and modernity.
Wesleyan University Press • October 2018 • 229 x 152mm • 216 pages • 8 illus. Paperback • 9780819577092 • £23.00 Hardback • 9780819577085 • £75.00
MUSIC/CULTURE
DYNAMIC KOREA AND RHYTHMIC FORM By Katherine In-Young Lee
South Korean percussion genre samul nori goes global. The South Korean percussion genre, samul nori, is a world phenomenon whose rhythmic form is the key to its popularity and mobility. Based on both ethnographic research and close formal analysis, this book focuses on the kinetic experience, drawing out the concept of dynamism to show its historical, philosophical, and pedagogical dimensions. Lee argues that because rhythmic forms are experienced on a somatic level, they swiftly move beyond national boundaries and provide sites for cross-cultural interaction.
MUSIC/CULTURE
Wesleyan University Press • November 2018 • 229 x 152mm • 200 pages • 33 illus. Paperback • 9780819577061 • £23.00 Hardback • 9780819577054 • £75.00
CITIZEN AZMARI
Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv By Ilana Webster-Kogen An examination of popular Ethiopian music styles in Tel Aviv. In the thirty years since their immigration from Ethiopia to the State of Israel, Ethiopian-Israelis have put music at the centre of communal and public life, using it alternatingly as a mechanism of protest and as appeal for integration. For the first time, this book examines in detail those new genres of Ethiopian-Israeli music, including Ethiopian-Israeli hip-hop, Ethio-soul performed across Europe, and eskesta dance projects at the centre of national festivals.
Wesleyan University Press • September 2018 • 229 x 152mm • 248 pages • 10 illus., 2 tables Paperback • 9780819578334 • £25.00 MUSIC/CULTURE Hardback • 9780819578327 • £75.00
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WHY THE BEACH BOYS MATTER By Tom Smucker
The musical, historical, and cultural argument for the centrality of the Beach Boys. Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion and then survived into the 1970s and beyond. No other white group helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the Sixties. This is the first book to take an honest look at the themes running through the Beach Boys’ art and career, and to examine where they sit inside our culture and politics.
ForeEdge from UPNE • November 2018 • 9781512601671 • £14.00 Paperback • 178 x 127mm • 184 pages
MUSIC MATTERS
WHY THE RAMONES MATTER By Donna Gaines
The musical, historical, and cultural argument for the centrality of the Ramones. The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. This sense of estrangement and marginality permeates everything the Ramones still offer us. This book makes the case that the Ramones gave us everything: they saved rock & roll, modelled DIY ethics, addressed our deepest collective traumas from the personal to the historical, and showed us the urgency of staying true to who we are, no matter what.
ForeEdge from UPNE • November 2018 • 9781512601794 • £14.00 Paperback • 178 x 127mm • 176 pages
MUSIC MATTERS
ANGELA GHEORGHIU
A Life for Art By Angela Gheorghiu with Jon Tolansky The biography of the great soprano, in her own words. Angela Gheorghiu is one of the most passionate and talented artists working in opera today, a larger-than-life figure whose intensity and drive, on stage and off, have commanded the attention of the opera world. This authorised biography of the internationally acclaimed soprano, largely composed of exclusive interviews with the artist, covers Gheorghiu’s life and career from her childhood in Communist Romania to her spectacular Covent Garden debut in 1992 and up to the present day.
ForeEdge from UPNE • October 2018 • 9781611689129 • £29.95 Hardback • 229 x 152mm • 248 pages • 35 colour illus.
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By Micky White
This new biography, styled as a chronological series of original documents accompanied by ample commentaries, is the first such study of this composer to adopt this method.
MUSIC
ANTONIO VIVALDI: A LIFE IN DOCUMENTS
It reveals the composer more clearly than ever in his musical, familial, religious and social settings, giving us greater insight into his personality and daily life. The author, who has lived in Venice for many years and devoted herself assiduously to the task of uncovering new archival information, besides checking, collating and evaluating the already known data, has produced an irreplaceable vade mecum for Vivaldians that will be an essential resource for a long time. The volume is accompanied by a free CD-ROM containing reproductions of the original documents.
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822262219 • £30.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 336 pages
PUCCINI’S SOUNDSCAPES
Realism and Modernity in Italian Opera By Arman Schwartz By exploring the origins and limits of the composer’s realist acoustics Puccini’s Soundscapes aims to rethink the shape of Puccini’s career and reinterpret many of his major works. It asks how Italian composers responded to some of the fundamental transformations of auditory culture during the fin-de-siècle, and resituates their works within the discourses (aesthetic, political, and technological) of Italian modernity. Proposing a dialogue between musicology and sound studies, Puccini’s Soundscapes offers new ways of listening to major artistic movements from Naturalism to Futurism, and asks how late Romantic opera might contribute to a broader statement of the values of musical modernism. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822264473 • £22.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 180 pages • 60 colour illus.
ARIOSTO, OPERA AND THE 17TH CENTURY EVOLUTION IN THE POETICS OF DELIGHT
Evolution in the Poetics of Delight By Edward Milton Anderson and Edited by Nicola Badolato This book examines the main phases of the circulation and influence of Orlando furioso on the seventeenth-century music scene. The success of Orlando furioso in Italian musical theatre is vast and complex. This book examines the main phases of the circulation and influence of Orlando furioso on the seventeenth-century music scene by reconstructing an overall historical and critical profile, but also through the recovery and philologically verified transcription of about forty dramatic texts derived from Ariosto’s main narrative currents. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822265012 • £30.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 292 pages
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KNOWLEDGE AND ARTS ON THE MOVE
Transformation of the Self-aware Image through East-West Encounters Edited by Enrico Fongaro, Christopher Craig and Akihiro Ozaki Explores issues of identity formation and transformation at the nexus of East Asia and Europe from a variety of disciplinary approaches. East and West have long stood as towering edifices dividing history and the world into separate spheres. In fact, the two poles have not only shared a multitude of connections over the centuries, they have also played essential roles in shaping the identities of their oppositional others. HASEKURA LEAGUE Mimesis International • November 2018 • 9788869771323 • £12.00 INTERCULTURAL STUDIES EDITIONS Paperback • 210mm x 140mm • 156 pages
RETHINKING THE NIETZSCHEAN CONCEPT OF UNTIMELY Edited by Annalisa Caputo
Examines the understudied concept of the Nietzchean concept of ‘untimely’. After the publication of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations (Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen) the term ‘Untimely’ was introduced widely in philosophical studies. Although this concept has become very popular, it has been neglected by critical studies. In this volume the reader will find different reflections moving from the Nietzschean texts, rethinking the question of the ‘Untimely’ beyond the ‘master’, and exploring wider horizons of research. Mimesis International • July 2018 • 9788869771514 • £14.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 224 pages
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHICAL NEWS, N.13, DECEMBER 2016 Goodness Edited by Elisa Grimi
The official publication of the European Society for Moral Philosophy. The latest volume of a semi-annual journal of philosophy born from the collaboration of a number of international scholars as well as an intense editorial effort. The aim of the journal is to promote research and reflection with special regard to the contemporary debate in all its different cultural manifestations. Mimesis International • November 2018 • 9788869771170 • £14.50 Paperback • 230 x 160mm • 166 pages
ON THE DARKNESS OF THE WILL By Nicola Masciandaro
A selection of essays examining the nature and meaning of ‘the will’. Moving through the fundamental question of this paradox, this book offers a constellation of theoretical and critical essays that shed light on the darkness of the will: its obscurity to itself. Through in-depth analysis of medieval and modern sources, this volume interrogates the nature and meaning of the will, along seven modes: spontaneity, potentiality, sorrow, matter, vision, eros, and sacrifice.
Mimesis International • September 2018 • 9788869771569 • £12.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 120 pages • 9 illus.
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Le corps, la machine, l’inconscient - The body, the machine, the unconscious - Il corpo, la macchina, l’inconscio Edited by Mauro Carbone, Galen Johnson and Federico Leoni Trilingual studies concerning the thought of Merleau-Ponty. This journal gathers trilingual studies concerning the thought of renowned philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a 21st-century French philosopher who is considered a leading figure in the field of phenomenology. This issue of the journal gathers scholars and researchers to further explore notions and concepts at the core of Merleau-Ponty’s ideas of the body, techonology and the unconscious.
Mimesis International • January 2017 • 9788869770876 • £25.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 484 pages • 3 illus. • Available Now
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Penser le dehors: politique, esthétique, ontologie - Thinking the outside: politics, aestheontology - Pensare il fuori: politica, estetica, ontologia Edited by Mauro Carbone, Galen Johnson, Federico Leoni and Ted Toadvine Trilingual studies concerning the thought of Merleau-Ponty. This journal gathers trilingual studies concerning the thought of renowned philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a 21st-century French philosopher who is considered a leading figure in the field of phenomenology. This issue of the journal gathers scholars and researchers to further explore ideas behind of Merleau-Ponty’s notions of politics, aesthetics, and ontology.
CHIASMI INTERNATIONAL
Mimesis International • May 2018 • 9788869771620 • £25.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 500 pages
PASOLINI’S OUR By Nathanaël
A philosophical meditation on a body through film, photography and architecture. The body of the filmmaker is itself a discrepancy. This may be one of this book’s claims, if it were to advance something like an argument. Instead it writes its way through to a dry swamp, in the elusive company of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mizoguchi Kenji, and the albatross, evincing procedures of extinction that owe something to both translation and photography.
Nightboat Books • October 2018 • 9781937658908 • £15.00 Paperback • 203 x 140mm • 80 pages
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A&P N.12
Anthropology and Philosophy: International Multidisciplinary Journal Edited by Mariano L. Bianca, Luca Malatesti and Paolo Piccari Brings together international contributors to analyse the latest debates in philosophy and anthropology. A&P is an international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to human and natural scientists interested in sharing research experiences and theoretical issues. It focuses mainly on anthropology, philosophy and neurophilosophy, but does not undervalue contributions offered by other human sciences, such as psychology, sociology and human ethology. Its main concern is the development of a general theory of human mind and human nature.
Mimesis International • May 2018 • 9788869770944 • £11.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 193 pages
A&P
HOW FAR SHOULD TOLERANCE GO? By Yves Charles Zarka
Considers how tolerance can be conceptualised in a way that is relevant to people and their societies. What are the limits of tolerance in constitutional or liberal democracies today? This is a crucial question, for if there were no limits to tolerance, it would ultimately destroy itself by accepting the intolerable. In a time when a growing amount of political demands touches on themes of cultural identity and rights, and while we witness a mounting wave of religious fundamentalism, what should democracies accept and what should they refuse?
Mimesis International • October 2018 • 9788869771590 • £18.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 180 pages
PHILOSOPHY
BEYOND ANTHROPOCENTRIMS
Thoughts for a Post-Human Philosophy By Roberto Marchesini Seeks to overcome centuries of separation between human beings, non-human animals and technology. This book highlights the inspiring nature of the relationship with non-human beings – what Marchesini calls “Epiphany” – and how its enhancement can open new existential dimensions. Technology is also reinterpreted, no longer as a performative tool, but as a virus that infiltrates the human dimension and changes its predicates. This book lays the foundations for a new and non-anthropocentric Humanism, which is able to recognize the essential role that non-human alterities have had throughout our history.
Mimesis International • September 2018 • 9788869771545 • £14.00 Paperback • 210 x 140mm • 160 pages
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The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots (So Far) By Jerry Thornton A history of the modern Patriots as seen through the lens of their Super Bowl games. Since 2001 the Patriots have played in eight Super Bowl championships and won five, a run of excellence unparalleled in all of professional sports. In a league designed to ensure that no one franchise can dominate over time, New England won for over a decade and a half. Jerry Thornton provides an all-access pass to the Patriots’ years of unparalleled greatness from the unique perspective of an observant, obsessive, utterly dedicated fan.
ForeEdge from UPNE • October 2018 • 9781512602715 • £22.95 Hardback • 235 x 156mm • 360 pages • 20 illus.
FROM DARKNESS TO DYNASTY
The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots By Jerry Thornton The wild, zany, forgotten history of the NFL’s premier franchise. From Darkness to Dynasty tells 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 season that saw them win their first Super Bowl, Jerry Thornton shares the wild, humiliating, unbelievable, and wonderful stories that comprised the first forty years of what would ultimately become the most dominant franchise in NFL history.
THE BAROULKOS AND THE MECHANICS OF HERON By Giuseppina Ferriello, Maurizio Gatto and Romano Gatto
The new critical edition of Heron’s Mechanics, with discussion of its manuscript sources. The three books of Heron’s Mechanics contain the first systematic theory of simple and compound machines in the history of science, and many other remarkable matters about theoretical and practical mechanics, including three unknown theories by Archimedes. This new critical edition, with a full presentation of all the manuscript sources for the work, is the consequence of the unexpected discovery of four Persian manuscripts, all concerning the second book of this important treatise, which opened an unexplored field of research and offered new perspectives.
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822264275 • £130.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 434 • 182 illus.
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LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & TEXTS
ForeEdge from UPNE • October 2018 • 9781512603187 • £15.95 New in Paperback • 229 x 152 • 320 pages • 23 illus.
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JOHN DONNE
An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1979-1995 By John R. Roberts Winner of the John Donne Society Distinguished Book Award. This book includes more than 1,600 entries of descriptive annotations wherein Roberts quotes extensively from each item in order to convey a sense of its approach and the level of its critical sophistication and complexity. Entries are organised chronologically, and within each year, alphabetically by author.
Duquesne University Press • July 2004 • 9780820703534 • £136.00 Hardback • 229 x 152 • 605 pages • Available Now
MONTALE, THE MODERNIST By Giuseppe Gazzola
Explores the celebrated peculiarities of Montale’s poems as modernist innovations. This volume explores the historical contingencies and the scientific and philosophical ideas that influenced the composition of Montale’s poetry, offering new readings of, among others, Non chiederci la parola, Arsenio, L’alluvione and Dialogo. Framing Montale alongside such figures as Eliot, Pound, Svevo, Larbaud and Joyce, the book explores the celebrated peculiarities of his poems as modernist innovations, allowing a comprehensive understanding of Montale’s role in the lyrical canon of the twentieth century.
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822264824 • £25.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 242 pages
LYRIC MULTIPLES
Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration By George Albon Essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society. Lyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call, ascensional modes of thinking, pop songs, the built environment and its discontents, the post-punk moment, its fruitful aftermath, and much else. Throughout this book, Albon explores unencountered varieties of aesthetic experience and the contributions they make to an ideal of social interconnectivity.
Nightboat Books • November 2018 • 9781937658922 • £19.00 Paperback • 229 x 152 • 224 pages • 32 colour illus.
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Methods and Samples By Andrea Bozzi
Argues that analysis and translation of texts must be developed in an infrastructural dimension to facilitate scientific collaboration. This volume records the discussions held during the international seminar organised in November 2014 in Pisa by the Italian National Research Council, Pisa, as part of the European Research Council project ‘Greek into Arabic, Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges’. Generally, it advances the idea that the analysis and translation of texts, especially ancient ones, with the aid of an open-source software available online, must be developed in an infrastructural dimension in order to facilitate scientific collaboration. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822263933 • £25.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 156 pages • 35 illus.
FAR OTHER WORLDS, AND OTHER SEAS
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & TEXTS
DIGITAL TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, LEXICONS IN A MULTI-MODULAR WEB APPLICATION
Thinking with Literature in the Twenty-First Century By Terence Cave Considers problems encountered in the study of the relation between literary study and cognitive science. What is the object of knowledge in literary studies? What is the relation between the academic study of literature and the public sphere? Terence Cave addresses these and other questions about the discipline as a human activity by inserting it into a wider interdisciplinary frame that is at once flexible and respectful of its special character – a cognitive approach to the study of literature.
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822264077 • £15.00 Paperback • 240 x 170mm • 82 pages
SHARED LANGUAGE
Vernacular Manuscripts of the Middle Ages By Laura Light and Christopher De Hamel Thirty-six manuscripts provide unique pictures of life and people in Medieval Europe. Most people today think of the Middle Ages as a time when cloistered monks wrote and read only in now-obscure languages. While Latin was the language of those who aspired to literacy, and of the Church, by the thirteenth and fourteenth century, numerous books became available in the everyday languages spoken “at the court, on the street, and in the bedroom.” This catalogue focuses on these manuscripts, and the people for whom they were written.
Les Enluminures • March 2018 • 9780997184204 • £30.00 Paperback • 275 x 210mm • 128 pages • Available Now
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THEOLOGY & RELIGION
READING THE TORAH
Beyond the Fundamentalist and Scientific Approaches By Catherine Chalier and Michael B Smith Explores how a spiritual reading of religious texts leads to greater insight. Fundamentalist readings of sacred texts of major world religions are often regarded as an ever-increasing threat to personal and democratic freedoms. Historical and critical readings purport to be objective and teach us to understand these texts by relating them to the past and their authors’ intentions. Here, philosopher and Judaic studies scholar Catherine Chalier explains how a spiritual reading—in this case according to the Jewish tradition—leads to an understanding of aspects of these important texts that are otherwise missed. Duquesne University Press • May 2017 • 9780820707068 • £26.00 Paperback • 203 x 152mm • 184 pages • Available Now
HUMAN COMES FIRST
The Christian Theology of N.F.S. Grundtvig Edited and translated by Edward Broadbridge
HUMAN COMES FIRST
The teachings and beliefs of N.F.S. Grundtvig. This collection brings together works of N.F.S. Grundtvig to explore his Christian theology. A section of essays and articles includes Grundtvig’s reflections on his trial for libel and his promotion of freedom in the Church. 15 commentaries on the Christian faith and 14 sermons for the Church Year illustrate his views and teaching. Letters and speeches include two eulogies to his late wives.
The Christian Theology of
N.F.S.Grundtvig Edward Broadbridge (translator and editor)
Aarhus University Press
Aarhus University Press • May 2018 • 9788771841350 • £20.00 Hardback • 240 x 170mm • 200 pages
N.F.S. GRUNDTVIG: WORKS IN ENGLISH
PRINTED BOOKS OF HOURS FROM FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY
The Texts, the Books, and the Survival of a Long-lasting Genre By Cristina Dondi Offers an in-depth examination of production, distribution, and use of 74 editions of Books of Hours. This book offers an in-depth examination of the production, distribution and use, from the late fifteenth century to the present, of the 74 editions of Books of Hours printed in Italy in the fifteenth century, 198 copies of which have survived. Special attention is paid to the transmission of the texts in print, their stemma editionum, the cycle of illustrations, and the identification of buyers and users, including the question of the price of these first printed copies in comparison to that of contemporary manuscript copies. Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822264688 • £85.00 Hardback • 240 x 170mm • 754 pages • 88 illus.
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By Gino Barbieri, Edited by Sergio Noto and Maria Cristina Gatti and with an introduction by David Colander Traces the evolution of Italian economic ideals through the writings of theologians, men of law and of business. Decline and Economic Ideals in Italy in the Early Modern Age (1940) is the most important work of Gino Barbieri. It investigates the writings of theologians, lawyers and merchants to disclose the Italian outlook on money and wealth in the sixteenth century. Among the reasons for its new release is the way it tackles fundamental issues, such as the notion of making a profit, with surprisingly familiar attitudes. The original Italian version is published alongside this new English translation.
WORLD HISTORY
DECLINE AND ECONOMIC IDEALS IN ITALY IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE
Ad Ilissum • March 2018 • 9788822263018 • £32.50 Hardback • 240 x 170mm • 272 pages
GENERALE MISSIVEN VAN GOUVERNEURS-GENERAAL EN RADEN AAN HEREN XVII DER VERENIGDE OOSTINDISCHE COMPAGNIE DEEL XIV: 1761-1767 Band 1 Edited by H.K. s’Jacob
Correspondence of the Dutch East India Trading Company 1761-1767. This book - published in 2 parts - is an edited translation and summary of the correspondence of the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) between the colonial headquarters in Indonesia and the national headquarters in the Netherlands between 1761-1767. They contain information about trading, shipwrecks, local events and news from the colonies. Text is in Dutch. Sidestone Press • March 2018 • 9789088905346 • £85.00 Hardback • 270 x 180mm • 550 pages • Available Now
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GENERALE MISSIVEN VAN GOUVERNEURS-GENERAAL EN RADEN AAN HEREN XVII DER VERENIGDE OOSTINDISCHE COMPAGNIE DEEL XIV: 1761-1767 Band 2 Edited by H.K. s’Jacob
Correspondence of the Dutch East India Trading Company 1761-1767. This book - published in 2 parts - is an edited translation and summary of the correspondence of the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) between the colonial headquarters in Indonesia and the national headquarters in the Netherlands between 1761-1767. They contain information about trading, shipwrecks, local events and news from the colonies. Text is in Dutch. Sidestone Press • March 2018 • 9789088905377 • £85.00 Hardback • 270 x 180mm • 550 pages • Available Now
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WORLD HISTORY
THE BOOK OF LOOMS
A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present By Eric Broudy A definitive work now in its 40th year. The handloom—often no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordage—has been known to almost all cultures for thousands of years. Eric Broudy places the wide variety of handlooms in historical context. What influenced their development? How did they travel from one geographic area to another, or were they invented independently by different cultures? How have modern cultures adapted ancient weaving skills and methods?
University Press of New England • December 2018 • 9781512603361 • £28.00 Paperback • 279 x 216mm • 176 pages • 248 illus.
THE LISTENERS
U-boat Hunters During the Great War By Roy R. Manstan An untold story of scientists and engineers who changed the course of WW1. Roy R. Manstan’s new book documents the rise of German submarines in World War I and the Allies’ successful efforts to rein in these undersea predators. The Listeners takes readers into the world of the civilian scientists and engineers and naval personnel who were directly involved at the Naval Experimental Station in New London, Connecticut with the development and use of submarine detection technology during the war.
GARNET BOOKS
Wesleyan University Press • December 2018 • 9780819578358 • £33.00 Hardback • 248 x 178mm • 352 pages • 75 illus.
COUNTRY ACRES AND CUL-DE-SACS
Connecticut Circle Magazine Reimagines the Nutmeg State, 1938–1952 Edited by Jay Gitlin Classic magazine captures New England state on the brink of transformation. In 1938, the first year of its publication, Connecticut Circle magazine covered the opening of the Merritt Parkway in June, a devastating hurricane in September, and a transformative election in November that saw Raymond Baldwin replace Governor Wilbur Cross on the brink of WWII. With an illuminating introduction and context-setting headnotes for its 13 sections, this volume provides a wealth of fascinating articles for anyone seeking to reminisce, and understand the values that pushed Connecticut into the postwar world. Wesleyan University Press • December 2018 • 9780999793503 • £26.00 Paperback • 305 x 229mm • 328 pages • 256 illus.
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Eternal River of Rome By Bruce Ware Allen A natural and social history of the great river of Rome. In this rich history of Italy’s Tiber River, Bruce Ware Allen charts the main currents, mythic headwaters, and hidden tributaries of one of the world’s most storied waterways. He considers life along the river, from its twin springs high in the Apennines all the way to its mouth at Ostia, and describes the people who lived along its banks and how they made the Tiber work for them. The Tiber has served as the realm of protomythic creatures and gods, a battleground for armies and navies, a livelihood for boatmen and fishermen, the subject matter for poets and painters, and the final resting place for criminals and martyrs. Tiber: Eternal River of Rome is a highly readable history and a go-to resource for information about Italy’s most storied river.
WORLD HISTORY
TIBER
ForeEdge from UPNE • December 2018 • 9781512600377 • £31.00 Hardback • 235 x 156mm • 304 pages • 20 illus., 6 maps
The Hunt for the Beltway Snipers By David Reichenbaugh The inside story of the pursuit and capture of the Beltway snipers.
TRUE CRIME
IN PURSUIT
In Pursuit follows the hunt for the Beltway snipers during the twenty-three-day shooting spree that terrorized Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. David Reichenbaugh, the criminal intelligence operations commander for the Maryland State Police, and commanding officer at the scene during the snipers’ capture in Myersville, Maryland, played a major role in the investigation from the first day of the killing spree through its final act, as the snipers were cornered in a rest area in western Maryland. Here, he presents a step-by-step procedural that offers an inside look at how investigators made sense of the dizzying array of facts, conjectures, motives, and opportunities and brought to heel two of the most diabolical killers in the nation’s history.
ForeEdge from UPNE • November 2018 • 9781512603255 • £19.00 Paperback • 216 x 140mm • 256 pages • 48 illus.
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FICTION & POETRY
THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS By Sherrie Flick
NATIVE TRIBUTES Historical Novel By Gerald Vizenor
Full of wit and humor, readers will find themselves immersed in big worlds contained in short narratives. From a woman who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.
THE GREAT CZECH NAVY Edited By Richard Katrovas
Autumn House Press October 2018 9781938769351 • £17.00 PB • 203 x 133 • 200 pages
Carnegie Mellon University Press November 2018 9780887486425 • £19.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 176 pages
A historical novel about Native American veterans in the Bonus Army during the Great Depression, Sequel to Blue Ravens. Wesleyan University Press September 2018 9780819578259 • £14.00 Pb • 229 x 152 • 128 pages
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ESL OR YOU WEREN’T HERE By Aldrin Valdez
CROSSLIGHT FOR YOUNGBIRD By Asiya Wadud
An exciting debut collection of poems that presents a portrait of the poet as witness to, and healer of, their child self.
These poems are concerned with the demands we make on our body, the limits of those demands, and ultimately, how everyone inhabits space.
Nightboat Books November 2018 9781937658861 • £16.00 PB • 210 x 152 • 112 pages
Nightboat Books November 2018 9781937658878 • £15.00 PB • 203 x 140 • 96 pages
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Written over twenty years, this collection chronicles the relationship between Czech citizens and Americans who live in their midst from 1990 to the present.
GREEN-WOOD By Allison Cobb with a foreword by Brian Teare A cultural biography of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, and a cry of mourning for a post-9/11 world of perpetual war and environmental violence. Nightboat Books November 2018 9781937658885 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 172 pages
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LIVINGRY By Gracie Leavitt
DREGS By Cynthia Cruz
BLOOD LABORS By Daniel Tobin
A love letter to language even as it drifts away, this lyric collection tracks the emotive landscape of a lived experience.
A collection of poems constructed like a series of film montages or collages showing what the world looks like now.
A collection that explores spaces in order to probe the fraught interplay of matter and spirit, desire and monstrosity, the created and the uncreated.
Nightboat Books November 2018 9781937658892 • £15.00 PB • 178 x 127 • 96 pages
Four Way Books October 2018 9781945588181 • £15.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 52 pages
Four Way Books October 2018 9781945588198 • £15.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 90 pages
YOU DARLING THING By Monica Ferrell A meditation on courtship, language of endearment, the social promise of marriage as fulfilment, and the tension between a desire to be alone and not to be lonely. Four Way Books October 2018 9781945588228 • £15.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 56 pages
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FORGIVE THE BODY THIS FAILURE By Blas Falconer A collection of poems that faces personal losses to explore the human sense of impermanence and to cherish what we must relinquish. Four Way Books October 2018 9781945588174 • £15.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 66 pages
NO SMALL GIFT By Jennifer Franklin Centred on the theme of re g a i n i n g a vo i ce, t h e collection manifests poetry’s power to distil meaning from the chaos of trauma.
Four Way Books October 2018 9781945588204 • £15.00 PB • 229 x 152•62 pages
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FICTION & POETRY PASSENGER By Tom Thompson
THE ARRANGEMENTS By Kate Colby
AMERICAN PARABLE By Sonia Greenfield
A world where physical experiences are forgotten, events remembered never happened, loved ones have died but their physical presence remains.
These reverberative poems locate and explore where body, mind and language meet.
Poetry chapbook American Parable is a portrait of America’s current political and cultural landscape. Greenfield’s candor is a light that helps us make sense of a murky world.
Four Way Books October 2018 9781945588235 • £15.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 58 pages
Four Way Books October 2018 9781945588211 • £15.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 70 pages
Autumn House Press May 2018 9781938769344 • £9.00 PB • 216 x 140 • 30 pages
BLUE MISTAKEN FOR SKY By Andrea Hollander Aw a r d - w i n n i n g a u t h o r Andrea Hollander’s fifth full-length poetry collection explores a mature woman’s life after divorce. Autumn House Press October 2018 9781938769337 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 140 • 72 pages
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EACH TREE COULD HOLD A NOOSE OR A HOUSE By Nina Puro A work of rupture and repair, what occurs after healing, and the irreparable—on individual and planetary levels. New Issues Poetry & Prose November 2018 9781936970544 • £15.00 PB • 216 x 152 • 80 pages
LET THE HOUSE OF BODY FALL By Sara J. Grossman Let the House of Body Fall is an exploration of physical disability in post–September 11th America.
New Issues Poetry & Prose November 2018 9781936970551 • £15.00 PB • 216 x 152 • 80 pages
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FICTION & POETRY
PAROLE By Angie Estes The latest dazzling collection by Pulitzer finalist and Kingsley Tufts winner Angie Estes.
Oberlin College Press November 2018 9780997335538 • £16.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 80 pages
A lyric investigation into the relationship between East and West that is both personal and political.
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The first comprehensive English translation of one of postwar Italy’s most important poets. Oberlin College Press November 2018 9780997335545 • £16.00 PB • 210 x 192 • 104 pages
AS IZ By Tyrone Williams
Omnidawn Publishing November 2018 9781632430618 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 136 pages
MY LIFE, I LAPPED IT UP By Edoardo Sanguineti Translated by Will Schutt
REAL LIFE: AN INSTALLATION By Julie Carr Poetry that stands at the crossroads between the real and the supernatural, the actual and the imaginary.
Omnidawn Publishing November 2018 9781632430571 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 232 pages
FATE NEWS By Norma Cole Topical poems that present t h e l i fe o f t h e m i n d — mourning and celebrating who and what is lost as time goes by.
Omnidawn Publishing November 2018 9781632430588 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 104 pages
PLACE-DISCIPLINE By Jose-Luis Moctezuma A psycho-geography and metahistory of the formation of Chicago.
Omnidawn Publishing November 2018 9781632430595 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 120 pages
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FICTION & POETRY DAY COUNTER By Sara Mumolo Poetic assemblages that consider the ways in which one act of creation (motherhood) threatens to erase another (writing).
Omnidawn Publishing November 2018 9781632430601 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 80 pages
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ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA
By Steve Dickison
Poetic iterations of what Amiri Baraka called the blues impulse, attending to an “inside song” that “could bring people in”. Omnidawn Publishing November 2018 9781632430625 • £13.00 PB • 178 x 140 • 56 pages
MAY IS AN ISLAND By Jonathan Johnson If the dead are a sea and the living an island, these poems speak from the shore.
Carnegie Mellon University Press November 2018 9780887486371 • £15.00 PB • 216 x 140 • 88 pages
BAD HARVEST By Dzvinia Orlowsky
THE TURNING By Ricardo Pau-Llosa
NO BEAUTIFUL By Anne Marie Rooney
I n t h i s p owe r f u l s i x t h collection, each poem is a village, populated by music, texture, tears, and laughter.
Pau-Llosa’s poetry makes intellectual demands from his reader, not so much aiming at abstractions as to make the concrete forms of poetic language intelligible.
In Anne Marie Rooney’s second full-length book, she queers form and narrative to explore girlhood at the corner of the twenty-first century.
Carnegie Mellon University Press November 2018 9780887486388 • £15.00 PB • 216 x 140 • 80 pages
Carnegie Mellon University Press November 2018 9780887486395 • £16.00 PB • 216 x 140 • 120 pages
Carnegie Mellon University Press November 2018 9780887486401 • £15.00 PB • 216 x 140 • 72 pages
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IMAGINAL MARRIAGE By Eleanor Stanford The poems in this collection move deftly from the kiss of the hummingbird’s fringed tongue to apocalypse, from midwives’ magical cures to a gritty New Jersey overpass. Carnegie Mellon University Press November 2018 9780887486418 • £15.00 PB • 216 x 140 • 72 pages
DETROIT AND SELECTED POEMS By Philip Hammial
ESPERANZA AND HOPE By Esperanza Snyder
“...transports the reader through an interior world where object and memory become metaphor.” —Yusef Komunyakaa
This is a collection of new poetry from Esperanza Snyder, poet laureate of Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Sheep Meadow Press November 2018 9781937679828 • £23.00 PB • 229 x 165 • 288 pages
Sheep Meadow Press October 2018 9781937679750 • £17.00 PB • 229 x 165 • 120 pages
THE NEIGHBOR OUT OF SOUND By Jake Marmer
SUNDAY OUT OF NOWHERE New and Selected Poems By Brian Swann “Rich and constantly rewarding book ... [the] poems are muscular and masterful…” —John Koethe
“Marmer produces visions on the page. Whose woods are these? Who is God? Read and learn.” —Stanley Moss
Sheep Meadow Press October 2018 9781937679804 • £22.00 PB • 229 x 165 • 262 pages
Sheep Meadow Press November 2018 9781937679781 • £16.00 PB • 229 x 165 • 90 pages
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MY OCEANOGRAPHY By Harriet Levin Plunges the reader into the imagination as it fictionalises the crushing demands of separation, loss, and artistic process.
Cavankerry Press November 2018 9781933880679 • £15.00 PB • 235 x 152 • 80 pages
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FICTION & POETRY REWILDING By January Gill O’Neil
THE IDENTITY THIEF By Derek Mong
FOR HUNGER By Margaret Ronda
From the external worlds of race and gender to the internal world of family life, taps into what is wild and good in all of us.
Derek Mong’s highly anticipated new poetry collection, The Identity Thief, is a gathering of voices borrowed and voices lost.
A haunting and brilliant new collection by Margaret Ronda.
Cavankerry Press December 2018 9781933880686 • £15.00 PB • 235 x 152 • 80 pages
Saturnalia Books November 2018 9780998053462 • £15.00 PB • 191 x 140 • 80 pages
Saturnalia Books November 2018 9780991545452 • £15.00 PB • 191 x 140 • 80 pages
BURY IT By Sam Sax
WOBBLE By Rae Armantrout
Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Poems written on the shifting ground of imminent systemic collapse.
AMERICAN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Poetics of Social Engagement By Michael Dowdy Showcases the most innovative and politically engaged poets working in the U.S.
Wesleyan University Press October 2018 9780819577313 • £14.00 PB • 229 x 152 • 88 pages
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TROPHIC CASCADE By Camille T. Dungy
THE WORK-SHY Blunt Research Group
Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power.
A poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettled.
Wesleyan University Press Sep 2018 • 229 x 152 • 360 pages PB • 9780819578181 • £19.00 HB • 9780819578174 • £33.00
Wesleyan University Press Oct 2018 • 229 x 178 • 88 pages PB • 9780819578563 • £14.00 HB • 9780819577191 • £23.00
Wesleyan University Press Oct 2018 • 229 x 178 • 160 pages PB • 9780819578617 • £14.00 HB • 9780819576781 • £23.00
COUNTERDESECRATION A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene By Linda Russo
THE LIGHT OF WHAT COMES AFTER
BAX 2018 Best American Experimental Writing By Seth Abramson An anthology of dynamic, forward-thinking writing.
By Jen Town
SEE THE WOLF By Sarah Sousa
A new vocabulary for a world on the brink.
This collection was selected by judge Jennifer Militello as the winner of the 2017 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize.
The violence and sexual predation that threaten to dictate the lives of a single mother and her two daughters are echoed in retold fairy tale and myth.
Wesleyan University Press Oct 2018 • 229 x 178 • 160 pages PB • 9780819578464 • £16.00 HB • 9780819578457 • £28.00
Bauhan Publishing May 2018 9780872332560 • £15.00 PB • 204 x 152 • 96 pages
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