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OF RELATED INTEREST The Membranes
A Novel Chi Ta-wei Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies—into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for selfunderstanding.
$17.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19571-3 $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19570-6 2021 168 pages
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN
The Long Year
A 2020 Reader Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.
$22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1 December 2021 560 pages
PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021
Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In “The Plague Year,” Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (New Yorker). Lizzie Presser reports on “The Black American Amputation Epidemic” (ProPublica). The novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband’s death against the backdrop of the pandemic and antiracist uprisings (Vanity Fair), and the poet Elizabeth Alexander considers “The Trayvon Generation” (New Yorker).
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19803-5 December 2021 544 pages
Earthlings
Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World Adrian Parr
Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life. We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years. Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of life. She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that make up life on Earth.
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-20549-8 $90.00 / £72.00 cloth 978-0-231-20548-1 May 2022 224 pages 19 illus.
Camp Century
The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen
At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap. This book is the first comprehensive account of Camp Century. Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20177-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20176-6 2021 352 pages The Pivot
Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action Steve Hamm
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. Some members are experts in the sciences and the humanities; others are environmental activists or regular people who see themselves as world citizens. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm—who embedded in the enterprise from the start— explores their efforts and shows how their approach provides a model for achieving systemic change.
$24.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-20090-5 November 2021 304 pages 36 illus.
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING
Music, Math, and Mind
The Physics and Neuroscience of Music David Sulzer
David Sulzer offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency–(including none), Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19379-5 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19378-8 2021 272 pages The Wuhan Lockdown
Guobin Yang
This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20047-9 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20046-2 February 2022 304 pages
Spin Doctors
How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic Nora Loreto
Spin Doctors meticulously documents the root causes of the struggles amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and challenges media and politicians who justify the status quo.
$35.00 paper 978-1-77363-487-6 November 2021 368 pages
FERNWOOD PUBLISHING
Psychiatric Casualties
How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley
The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. They examine the persistent disconnect between war culture, which valorizes an appearance of strength and seeks to purge weakness, and the science and treatment of trauma.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18777-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-18776-3 2021 464 pages
Perilous Medicine
The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War Leonard Rubenstein
Leonard Rubenstein—a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities around the world—offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers health workers face during conflict and the legal, political, and moral struggle to protect them. He shares the stories of people who have been attacked while seeking to serve patients.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19246-0 2021 416 pages Unnerved
Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health
Jason Schnittker
Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20035-6 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-20034-9 2021 280 pages
The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush
Edited by G. Pascal Zachary
This collection presents more than fifty of Vannevar Bush’s most important works across four decades. Here are his thoughts on the management of innovation, the politics of science, research and national security, technology in public life, and the relationship of scientific advancement to human flourishing. Together, this collection reveals Bush as a major figure in the history of science, computerization, and technological development and a prophet of the information age.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-11643-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-11642-8 January 2022 384 pages
Trans Health
Global Perspectives on Care for Trans Communities Edited by Max Nicolai Appenroth and María do Mar Castro Varela
This anthology addresses trans people’s access to health care from a transnational perspective, and offers courses of action to improve nursing, medical, therapeutic, and social care for trans persons. Many contributions of this book are written from a lived trans experience.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5082-2 December 2021 400 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
From Scalpel to Spade
A Surgeon’s Road to Ithaka Arthur van Langenberg
Arthur van Langenberg offers his recollections of significant events that steered the course of his surgical career, citing reports of cases and operations that remain firmly in his consciousness. The book encapsulates his perspective on how medical practice deals with the grim reality of being sick and how practice has evolved over the years.
$35.00 cloth 978-988-237-228-3 December 2021 250 pages 30 illus.
THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG PRESS
Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation
Current Debates and International Perspectives Edited by Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. It covers core issues in the global ethical debate such as donating, procuring, allocating, and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4643-6 November 2021 320 pages
