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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS 173028 Ambition, a History: From Vice to Virtue
194402 The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
King, William Casey
Medsger, Betty
Ambition today is regarded as the fuel of the American Dream, but at the time of the nation's founding, it was seen as a dangerous vice, "a canker on the soul." This engaging book explores ambition's surprising transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America's founding. 256pgs. • 2013
In 1971 a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Pennsylvania and made off with files that confirmed what many had long suspected: that J. Edgar Hoover was operating his own unconstitutional shadow Bureau of Investigation. Medsger, the first reporter to receive the FBI files, here reveals the destructive power of excessive government secrecy and spying as well as the potential power of non-violent resistance. 608pgs. • 2014
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050556 American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century Gerstle, Gary Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right" ancestry? In this sweeping look at 20thcentury America, Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both have profoundly shaped our society. 454pgs. • 2001
157118 California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State Federal Writers Project Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930s, this New Deal-era guide to California features writing by luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer-hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth Patchen. 756pgs. • 2013
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116670 The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It
104348 Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution
Hofstadter, Richard
Dawley, Alan
Hofstadter's landmark study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR, with a Foreword by Christopher Lasch. 560pgs. • 1989
Brings together domestic and world affairs to argue that American progressivism cannot be understood apart from its international context. Focusing on world-historical events of empire, revolution, war, and peace, Dawley shows how American reformers invented a new politics built around progressive internationalism. 424pgs. • 2005
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173019 Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds
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Bremer, Francis J. Co-founder of the colony of New Haven, John Davenport has been neglected in studies that view early New England primarily from a Massachusetts viewpoint. This volume explores his crucial advocacy for religious reform in England and the Netherlands before his emigration, his engagement with an international community of scholars and clergy, and his significant contributions to colonial America. 440pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Yale • C • $45.00 / $8.98
180912 Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America Faber, Eberhard L. In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, its levees packed with cotton and sugar, the city had become the unquestioned urban capital of the antebellum South. Examining this remarkable period filled with ideological struggle, class politics, and powerful personalities, this narrative biography captures a fascinating city at a crucial turning point in its history. 456pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $19.98
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LIZABETH COHEN
114580 A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America Cohen, Lizabeth Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Yet despite undeniable successes, it also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting this complex legacy, Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book. 576pgs. • 2003 ▲ • Vintage • P • $18.95 / $5.98
106747 Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 NEW EDITION Cohen, Lizabeth Examines the process through which ordinary Chicago factory workers became effective unionists and participants in national politics. Cohen demonstrates that although these workers may not have been "political" in traditional terms, they demonstrated their political loyalties in other ways, overcoming longstanding divisions in order to mount new kinds of collective action. 494pgs. • 2007 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $29.99 / $16.98
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS 101110 The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Lui, Mary Ting Yi In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of 19-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. Through the lens of this unsolved murder, Mary Ting Yi Lui offers a fascinating snapshot of social and sexual relations between Chinese and non-Chinese populations in turn-of-the-century New York City. 320pgs. • 2007 ▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $21.98
157765 The Civil War (Third Year): The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It Simpson, Brooks D., ed. Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of the Library of America's highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union closer to victory and slavery closer to destruction. 936pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
161396 The Civil War (Final Year): The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. This final installment of an acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865. It provides an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory, and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction. 919pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
135559 Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy Dudziak, Mary L. During the Cold War, American racism was a major concern of US allies, a chief Soviet propaganda theme, and a stumbling point to American strategies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Interpreting postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature, Mary Dudziak argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. 352pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
195155 Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the First Age of Terror Burrough, Bryan Revisits the period in the 1970s when native-born radicals smuggled bombs into skyscrapers and detonated them inside the Pentagon and the Capitol, robbed dozens of banks, and assassinated policemen in New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta. The FBI, encouraged to do everything possible to undermine the radical underground, itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice -- often with disastrous consequences. 608pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Penguin • C • $29.95 / $5.98
✪ 191923 The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom Green, James In the decades before the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia, pitting powerful corporations and industrialists against 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labor union, and the legendary "miners' angel," Mother Jones. Celebrated labor historian James Green here tells the story like never before. 448pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $20.00 / $7.98
STUDS TERKEL
112409 The Good War: An Oral History of World War II Terkel, Studs With this Pulitzer Prize-winning volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, producing a masterpiece of oral history as well as a testament to the experience of war. As always, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their events through which they lived. 608pgs. • 1997 ▲ • New Press • P • $18.95 / $7.98
074519 Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Terkel, Studs In this unique recreation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, and writers, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, the book reveals how the Depression affected the lives of those who experienced it. 480pgs. • 2005 ▲ • New Press • P • $17.95 / $7.98
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191983 Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America Gumbel, Andrew America is unique among established Western democracies in its inability to run clean, transparent elections. Exploring the tawdry history of elections in the US -- a chronicle of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up to the Supreme Court -- Gumbel explains why we are now experiencing the worst backslide in voting rights in more than a century. 304pgs. • 2016 ▲ • New Press • P • $18.95 / $6.98
141845 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Ellis, Joseph J. In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals -- Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison -- confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. 304pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Random House • C • IMPORT / $7.98
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS ✪ 176446 Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
143460 The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Dickstein, Morris
Wood, Gordon S.
Almost from its outset, the Sixties produced a dizzying display of cultural images and ideas. Dickstein's landmark study, first published in 1977, weighs the impact of this raucous decade in American history as a momentous cultural epoch in its own right, as much as Jazz Age America or Weimar Germany. From Ginsberg and Dylan to Vonnegut and Heller, it brilliantly re-creates not only the intellectual and political ferment of the decade but also its disillusionment. 336pgs. • 2015
In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, a renowned historian explores the ideological origins of the revolution and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy. As Wood reveals, while the founders hoped to create a virtuous republic of yeoman farmers and disinterested leaders, they instead gave birth to a sprawling, licentious, and materialistic popular democracy. 400pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Penguin • C • $29.95 / $6.98
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✪ 195882 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad Foner, Eric
✪ 104836 Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America Beisel, Nicola Kay
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. Building on fresh evidence, including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York, Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. 320pgs. • 2015 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $6.98
160025 George F. Kennan: An American Life
Moral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the US in the second half of the 19th century, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. In her analysis of Comstock's crusade with the New York and New England Societies for the Suppression of Vice, Beisel examines how the reformer drew on the anxieties of the upper classes. 288pgs. • 1998
Gaddis, John Lewis
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Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, Gaddis delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategic thinkers came to doubt his own strategy. 800pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Penguin • C • $39.95 / $9.98
185522 The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929 Fogelson, Robert M. The story of the landlord-tenant battles of post-World War I New York. These conflicts, triggered by a housing shortage, prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations. 512pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $7.98
✪ 169392 Honorable Treachery: A History of U. S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA O'Toole, G. J. A. Dramatically recounts every important intelligence operation since the country's founding, including how President Washington mounted a covert operation to ransom American hostages in the Middle East; how in 1897, German plans for an invasion of the US were scuppered by the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence; and how President Woodrow Wilson created a secret agency to compile intelligence for the peace negotiations at the end of World War I. 608pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $22.00 / $5.98
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114567 In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 Norton, Mary Beth An award-winning historian reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. By providing this essential context to the famous events, and by casting her net well beyond the borders of Salem itself, Norton sheds new light on one of the most perplexing and fascinating periods in our history. 448pgs. • 2003 ▲ • Vintage • P • $17.00 / $5.98
192243 The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan Perlstein, Rick A dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown amid the tumultuous political and economic events of the 1970s. Against a backdrop of melodramas, from the Arab oil embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of New York City, Perlstein examines a turbulent era in which Americans began thinking about their nation in new ways. 880pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Simon & Schuster • C • $37.50 / $7.98
GORDON S. WOOD
115408 The American Revolution: A History Wood, Gordon S. How did the great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions Wood addresses in his magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. 224pgs. • 2003 ▲ • Modern Library • P • $16.00 / $5.98
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS ✪ 161760 Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty Mitchell, Elizabeth The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. This volume relates the story of how one quixotic and visionary French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, not only forged the 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported it across the ocean, but battled to raise money for the statue and make it a reality. 384pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $27.00 / $4.98
✪ 044165 The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785 Cook, Don Drawn from a multitude of primary sources, including personal correspondence and political memos, this narrative account of the political blunders that led Britain into the American Revolution throws new light on this colorful age and its players, from William Pitt and King George III to Ben Franklin and a young John Adams. 416pgs. • 1995
✪ 195891 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights Jones, William P. Though Martin Luther King Jr.'s dazzling "I Have a Dream" speech was its most memorable moment, the 1963 March on Washington came about because of a movement of sustained grassroots organizing, linked locally to women's groups, unions, and churches across the country. Jones's fresh, compelling history provides new understanding of this emblematic event and the civil rights movement it propelled. 288pgs. • 2013 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $5.98
061057 A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in 18th-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. 444pgs. • 1991 ▲ • Vintage • P • $16.95 / $4.98
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039695 Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America Schrecker, Ellen Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism was the most widespread episode of political repression in the history of the United States. Schrecker has written the first complete post-Cold War account of the antiCommunist crusade -- supported by liberals and conservatives alike -- that ruined countless careers, marriages, and even lives. 573pgs. • 1998 ▲ • Princeton • P • $47.95 / $22.98
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127620 Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law Merry, Sally Engle Reveals how indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i. 364pgs. • 1999 ◆ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $23.98
142292 Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure Siler, Julia Flynn Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Siler brings to life the clash between the aboriginal Polynesian population of Hawaii and the relentlessly expanding capitalist powers who arrived in the wake of Captain Cook. Portraits of royalty, rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian kingdom's rise and fall. 480pgs. • 2012 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $30.00 / $7.98
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✪ 194456 Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic Stewart, Matthew The ideas that inspired the American Revolution were neither British nor Christian but largely ancient, pagan, and continental: the fecund universe of the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, the potent (but nontranscendent) natural divinity of the Dutch heretic Benedict de Spinoza. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart pursues a genealogy of the philosophical ideas from which America's revolutionaries drew their inspiration. 448pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $28.95 / $7.98
✪ 132062 The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West Corbett, Christopher Before 1849, the Chinese in the US were little more than curiosities, but when gold rush fever gripped the globe, thousands of Chinese immigrants came through San Francisco on their way to seek their fortunes. Peppered with characters such as Mark Twain and the legendary newswoman Cissy Patterson, this volume vividly reconstructs a lost period of history. 240pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $14.95 / $4.98
087719 Quest for Identity: America Since 1945 Woods, Randall Bennett This analytic survey of the American experience from the close of World War II to the present will help students understand postwar American history. By means of a seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses, Woods addresses and explains the major themes that predominated in each specific period. 608pgs. • 2005 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $46.99 / $24.98
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS 127769 Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial
✪ 194476 The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Miller, James A.
Oakes, James
In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defendants were sentenced to death. This volume explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and became a lens for perceptions of race, class, sexual politics, and justice. 296pgs. • 2009
Was there a peaceful route to abolition? Was Lincoln late to emancipation? What role did race play in the politics of slavery? In this fresh, incisive exploration of slavery and the Civil War, an awardwinning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war, and deepens our understanding of the most momentous events in our history. 160pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $23.95 / $4.98
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035817 Reporting Vietnam, Vol. 1: American Journalism, 1959-1969 Library of America Staff 25 years after the last American troops withdrew from Vietnam, this unique anthology, drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, brings together the work of over 80 remarkable writers to create an unprecedented mosaic view of America's longest war and its impact on an increasingly fractured American society. 858pgs. • 1998 ▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
175772 Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War Carr, Matthew Opening with an account of General Sherman's decision to turn his sights on the South's civilian population in order to break the back of the Confederacy, Matthew Carr shows how this strategy became the central preoccupation of war planners in the 20th century and beyond. He offers a stunning and lucid assessment of the impact Sherman's slash-and-burn policies have had on subsequent wars, including in the Philippines, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere. 336pgs. • 2015 ▲ • New Press • C • $26.95 / $6.98
187194 The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern Knock, Thomas J. The first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. Knock vividly describes McGovern's harrowing missions over Nazi Germany as a B-24 bomber pilot, and reveals how his combat experiences motivated him to earn a PhD in history and stoked his ambition to run for Congress. 544pgs. • 2016 ◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $16.98
179935 Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War Moe, Richard Focuses on a turning point in American history: FDR's decision to seek a third term. Often overlooked between the passage and implementation of the New Deal and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, that decision was far from inevitable, but after the Republicans nominated Wendell Willkie in July 1940, FDR became convinced that no other Democrat could both maintain the legitimacy of the New Deal and mobilize the nation for war. 368pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $29.95 / $6.98
051197 Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in NineteenthCentury America Savage, Kirk At the same time that the Civil War challenged the nation to reexamine the meaning of freedom, Americans began to erect public monuments as never before. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Savage shows how an old image of black slavery was perpetuated while a new image of the common white soldier was launched in public space. 270pgs. • 1997 ▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $26.98
✪ 173178 The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction McPherson, James M. In this volume, originally published in 1964, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He explores the role played by rights activists during and after the Civil War, and their evolution from despised fanatics into influential spokespersons for the radical wing of the Republican Party. 496pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $12.98
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AM ERICAN STU DI ES & POLITICS 043132 Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
135480 The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
Breen, T. H.
Lepore, Jill
The great Tidewater planters of 18th-century Virginia who were among the fathers of the American Revolution were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, transAtlantic shipping risks, and uneasy relations with English agents. T. H. Breen's study of their world examines the value-laden relationships that led from agrarian experience to political protest, and finally to a break with a political and economic system they believed threatened both their personal independence and their honor. 216pgs. • 2001
A distinguished historian's wry and bemused look at American history as seen by the far right, from the "rant heard round the world" that launched the Tea Party to the Texas School Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that the United States was established as a Christian nation. 232pgs. • 2011
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✪ 191889 Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution O'Donnell, Patrick K. In August 1776, when Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, a series of desperate rear guard attacks by one heroic regiment allowed the nascent Continental Army to escape and live to fight another day. Drawing on extensive original sources, from letters to diaries to pension applications, O'Donnell pieces together the stories of these brave men -- their friendships, loves, defeats, and triumphs. 336pgs. • 2016
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035804 Writings Washington, George This one-volume collection -- the most extensive and authoritative ever published -- covers five decades of Washington's astonishingly active life. Bringing together over 440 letters, orders, addresses, and other documents -- both public and personal -- it reveals him to have been an energetic, forceful, and at times eloquent writer. 1149pgs. • 1997 ▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
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ANTH ROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY 087440 African Archaeology
✪ 121084 The Aztecs
Phillipson, David W.
THIRD EDITION Townsend, Richard
A lucid and fully illustrated account of African archaeology from prehistory and the origins of humanity to the age of European colonization, this volume spans the entire continent from the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good Hope and demonstrates the relevance of archaeological research to the understanding of Africa today. 406pgs. • 2005
An illustrated portrait of the most famous Mesoamerican empire, covering such subjects as trade, farming, social organization, and women's roles, together with information from recent archaeological excavations and ethnohistoric studies. 256pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $8.98
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044867 African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective SECOND EDITION Connah, Graham Re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa over the last 4,000 years, focusing on archaeological research into two key factors -- urbanism and state formation -- in seven main areas of Africa. 356pgs. • 2001 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $54.99 / $36.98
106632 The Archaeology of Etruscan Society
055322 Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton Larsen, Clark Spencer Human remains recovered from archaeological sites can help us interpret lifetime events such as disease, physiological stress, injury and violent death, physical activity, tooth use, diet, and demographic history of once-living populations. The first comprehensive synthesis of the emerging field of bioarchaeology, this volume will be a unique resource for students and researchers interested in biological and physical anthropology or archaeology. 461pgs. • 1999 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $79.99 / $35.98
Izzet, Vedia Examining a wide range of evidence, including mirrors, tombs, sanctuaries, houses, and cities, this volume demonstrates the importance of local concerns in the formation of Etruscan material culture. This approach allows a uniquely holistic approach to the archaeology of Etruscan society that has potential implications for investigations in other areas. (In very limited supply.) 320pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $124.99 / $75.98
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✪ 195226 Memory and Vision: Arts, Cultures, and Lives of Plains Indian People
This three-volume set is a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history. The volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics, and examine such subjects as the formation of states and the development of technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy, and food production. 2049pgs. • 2014
Illustrated with more than 300 images of objects, from traditional feather bonnets to war shirts, bear claw necklaces, pipe tomahawks, beadwork, and quillwork, as well as archival photographs of historical events and individuals and photographs of contemporary Native life, this volume is a comprehensive examination of the environments and historic forces that forged the Plains cultures, as well as a celebration of their ongoing presence. 320pgs. • 2008
✪ 168439 The Cambridge World Prehistory
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✪ 194958 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Hansen, Emma I.
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125651 Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
Diamond, Jared
De Waal, Frans
Asking what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe - one whose warning signs can be seen in our modern world and that we ignore at our peril. Blends the most recent scientific advances into an engaging narrative. 608pgs. • 2011
In this provocative book, a primatologist argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes. Science has thus exacerbated our reciprocal habits of blaming nature when we act badly and labeling the good things we do as "humane." 232pgs. • 2009
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✪ 195875 The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance Barber, Elizabeth Wayland From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their nights and days dancing in fields and forests. An archaeologist, linguist, and avocational folk dancer, Elizabeth Wayland Barber has pored through ethnographic lore and archaeological reports, translating enchanting folktales about these "dancing goddesses" as well as eyewitness accounts of traditional rituals. Includes 80 illustrations. 448pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $21.95 / $5.98
100409 Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations Krupp, Edwin C. An authoritative survey of astroarchaeology, by the director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Krupp explores ancient and prehistoric observatories from sites in China and Babylonia to Scotland and Peru. He retells sky god myths from many cultures, discusses astronomy's influence on funerary rites, and profiles such sacred places as Stonehenge and the kivas of the Southwest. With 208 illustrations. 416pgs. • 2003 ◆ • Dover • P • $21.95 / $8.98
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154674 The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique Lieberman, Philip Contending that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation, Lieberman challenges the central claim of evolutionary psychology that we are locked into predictable patterns of behavior that were fixed by genes, and refutes the claim that language is innate. 272pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
✪ 195156 The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life Solomon, Sheldon, et al. Presents a transformative, fascinating theory -- based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research -- that reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do. The authors draw on wide-ranging evidence to reveal the many ways this fatal "worm at the core" guides our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage. 288pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Random House • C • $28.00 / $5.98
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ARCH ITECTU RE & DESIGN 125653 Architecture: Elements, Materials, Form
029739 The Details of Modern Architecture, Vol. 2: 1928 to 1988
Prina, Francesca
Ford, Edward R.
With beautiful color photographs on virtually every page, this book provides an easy-to-use visual grammar of the nearly infinite variety with which the elements of architecture have been used in buildings across the ages and around the world, from Western Europe and Greece to the Americas, the Middle East, China, Japan, India, and Africa. 408pgs. • 2009
Continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, from the late 1920s to the present day. Containing new information on the construction of modern architecture, there are over 500 illustrations explaining technical, aesthetic, and historical aspects of the building form. 447pgs. • 1998
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✪ 160100 Architecture on the Carpet: The Curious Tale of Construction Toys and the Genesis of Modern Buildings
041481 A History of Architectural Theory: From Vitruvius to the Present
Vale, Brenda & Robert Vale
This comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory researches, organizes, and analyzes the major statements of architectural theorists over the last 2,000 years. 706pgs. • 1994
An intriguing and nostalgic exploration of the relationships between children's model-building sets and developments in modern architecture. The authors explore connections between modelrailway buildings and modernism; model sets such as Castos and reinforced concrete housing; and even between the creative but slightly surreal Playplax and postmodern deconstructivist architecture. 208pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $27.95 / $9.98
✪ 203284 The Art of the Airport: The World's Most Beautiful Terminals
Kruft, Hanno-Walter
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✪ 137928 Houses by the Sea Graffin, Emmanuelle From the rugged Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean and the tropical shores of the Pacific, there are many ways of spending one's life by the sea. This book showcases 33 exceptional houses from around the world in a variety of styles from traditional to contemporary. 224pgs. • 2011
Gutzmer, Alexander, et al. Cathedrals of the jet age in an era of mass travel and budget fares, the 21 terminals featured here include Kansai International Airport, Renzo Piano's gigantic project built on three mountains of landfill, Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest civilian airport in the middle of the Tibetan mountains, Copenhagen Airport, an icon from the golden age of air travel, and Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro's modernist masterpiece. 192pgs. • 2016 ◆ • Frances Lincoln • C • $35.00 / $15.98
180169 The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two WorldSystems Alexander, Christopher, et al. In recent years, writes Christopher Alexander, our buildings have become progressively more sterile, rarely providing the kind of environment in which people are emotionally nourished, genuinely happy, and deeply contented. Here he introduces a way of building that includes the best current practices, enriched by a range of new processes that support the houses, communities, and health of all who inhabit the Earth. 528pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $47.95 / $12.98
✪ 152881 Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography Ville, De La Chaux-De Fond & Nathalie Herschdorfer The development of one of the 20th century's greatest architects was inextricably connected to the rise of the century's most popular visual medium: photography. Marking the 125th anniversary of Le Corbusier's birth, this volume traces the many ways in which the architect used photography to define and disseminate his work and ideas around the world. 256pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $60.00 / $27.98
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✪ 052684 Italian Architecture: From Michelangelo to Borromini WORLD OF ART Hopkins, Andrew The years between 1520 and 1630 in Italy are among the most crucial periods in the history of architecture, but it is a story that has never been fully told. Andrew Hopkins breaks new ground by revealing the era as a period of experiment, diversity, and bold initiatives that cannot be subsumed under a single label. 222pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $5.98
186956 The Japanese House Reinvented Jodidio, Philip Though Japanese architects have to contend with very particular constraints, from tiny plots in crowded urban contexts to everpresent seismic threats, their innovative solutions to the creation of space and stable structures, combined with their close attention to materials, technology, and natural light, have resulted in homes that are internationally admired. This survey, illustrated with color photographs and plans, is a powerful demonstration of Japan's enduring commitment to design innovation. 304pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Monacelli • C • $60.00 / $14.98
167843 The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner 1990-2010 Corner, James Cormer's highly influential writings of the 1990s, together with a post-millennial series of built projects such as New York's High Line, prove that the best way to address the problems facing our cities is to embrace their industrial past. Collecting Corner's writings from the early 1990s through 2010, this volume addresses critical issues in landscape architecture and reflects on how his writings have informed his built work. 320pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $60.00 / $25.98
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ARCH ITECTU RE & DESIGN 118304 New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium Stern, Robert A. M., et al. New York City demands the best in innovative architectural design, balancing the pressure to build with the need to preserve the historic fabric of the city. Stern and his colleagues document the milestones in the city's architectural history -- the development of Battery Park City, the rebirth of Harlem and Times Square, the creation of the cultural precinct around the new MoMA, and the reclaiming of the waterfront along the East and Hudson Rivers as recreational parkland. 1520pgs. • 2006 ◆ • Monacelli • C • $100.00 / $36.98
192079 Prefabulous World: Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Homes Around the Globe Koones, Sheri The rising cost of fuel and the growing commitment to protecting the environment have sparked exciting innovations in prefab home construction. With floor plans, multiple exterior and interior images, and an extensive resource section listing architects, builders, and suppliers, this book reveals how living in a beautiful, well-built, energy-efficient home is achievable for us all. 300pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Harry N. Abrams • C • $35.00 / $7.98
167715 Prospect Park: Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece Colley, David P. & Elizabeth Keegin Colley Right in the heart of one of the nation's most densely populated urban areas sits an idyllic realm of graceful meadows, dense woods, placid lakes, and fresh air. Presenting a wealth of archival and newly commissioned photography and insightful text, this volume traces the park's colorful history from its creation in the mid19th century to its decline and subsequent restoration. 208pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $45.00 / $21.98
✪ 159580 The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories Hollis, Edward In this radical re-imagination of architectural history, Edward Hollis tells the stories of thirteen buildings. He reveals the hidden histories of the Parthenon and the Alhambra, visits churches and palaces, and explores the monuments of our own day, from souvenir chunks of the Berlin Wall to the fiberglass theme parks of Las Vegas. 448pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Henry Holt • C • IMPORT / $29.98
165147 The Story of Modern Architecture Favole, Paolo Architecture's most diverse period, Modernism encompasses structures as varied as the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State Building. Chronologically arranged and it including some of 20th century's most exciting buildings, this volume sorts through the numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles of the era. 144pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Prestel • P • $19.95 / $8.98
187198 The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright Levine, Neil Beginning with Wright's plans from the late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and continuing through projects from the 1920s through the 1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright's place among the leading contributors to the creation of the modern city. 464pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • C • $65.00 / $39.98
100322 Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture Stephenson, David Showcases more than 120 images of domes from the 2nd to the 20th century, including the Roman Pantheon, the Byzantine churches of Turkey, the great domes of the Renaissance, the decorative cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo ages, and a 19thcentury synagogue in Hungary. Stephenson's brilliantly calibrated exposures present the complex geometrical structures as they have never been seen before. 192pgs. • 2005 ◆ • Princeton Architectural • C • $60.00 / $36.98
194159 Visual Tips for Eco Living Costa, S., et al., eds. From solar roofs to sinks that flush the toilet by recycling their gray water, there are any number of strategies for transforming a home into a sustainable "eco-house." This book is a complete guide to the structural features and interior and exterior elements that can make a house healthy both for its residents and for the environment. 492pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Loft • C • $39.99 / $16.98
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167892 Great Houses of England and Wales Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh Showcasing some of the most splendid examples of English art and architecture, from medieval stone to the beauties of the English Renaissance, the classical grandeur of the 18th century, and the excesses of High Victorian taste, this volume includes work by such masters as Inigo Jones, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Thomas Chippendale, William Kent, Robert Adam, and Lancelot "Capability" Brown. 424pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Laurence King • C • $65.00 / $34.98
✪ 189376 Landmark: A History of Britain in 50 Buildings Keay, Anna & Caroline Stanford A celebration of the Landmark Trust's achievement in the protection of British heritage since it was established 50 years ago. From a medieval hall house to the winner of the 2013 Stirling Prize for Architecture, 50 buildings rescued by Landmark from threatened oblivion are presented here, vividly illustrating the history of Britain from 1250 to the present. 288pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $40.00 / $15.98
✪ 080791 Scottish Architecture WORLD OF ART Glendinning, Miles & Aonghus MacKechnie This concise survey provides an overview of Scotland's finest buildings and its long line of architectural innovators. 224pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $16.95 / $4.98
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ART & ART H ISTORY 183887 21st-Century Portraits Mullins, Charlotte With more than 150 illustrations by 50 artists, this volume explores new developments in the representation of the human form and face as well as the continuing appeal of commissioned portraiture. The contributors include Sophie Calle, Lucian Freud, Leibovitz, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, Thomas Struth, and many others. 240pgs. • 2014 ◆ • National Portrait Gallery • C • $49.95 / $9.98
✪ 129406 Art and the Creative Unconscious: Four Essays Neumann, Erich Neumann's study of Leonardo treats the work of art, and art itself, not as ends in themselves, but rather as instruments of the artist's inner situation. Two other essays discuss the relation of art to its epoch and specifically the relation of modern art to our own time, while an essay on Chagall views this artist in the context of the problems explored in the other studies. 246pgs. • 1971 ◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $23.98
194156 The A to Z of Mod Hewitt, Paolo & Mark Baxter Combining visual savvy with cultural anthropology, this guide to the many aspects of Mod style takes an alphabetical approach to one of the most enduring youth cults. Beginning with A bout de souffle and ending with Zoot Money, authors and Mod experts Paolo Hewitt and Mark Baxter touch on every facet of the movement. 304pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Prestel • P • $24.95 / $7.98
057222 African Art in Transit: The Production of Value and Mediation of Knowledge in the African Art Trade Steiner, Christopher B.
185810 Art Nouveau Documents: Modern Applied Arts 1902-1908 Pudor, Heinrich & Horst Makus Reprints the contents of Heinrich Pudor's lavish landmark magazine Documents of Modern Applied Arts, which was originally published from 1902-1908. The 1,200 illustrations present more than 1,500 individual artistic items from the German and international art nouveau movements, including furniture, metal, glass, ceramics, and jewellery as well as textile, poster, and book art. 256pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt • C • $135.00 / $55.98
192110 The Art-Architecture Complex Foster, Hal
African art means one thing to the villagers who create it and use it in ritual and performance, another to Muslim middlemen, and something else to buyers and collectors. This richly detailed volume explores the economic networks that transfer art objects from their site of use and production in Africa to their point of consumption in galleries and shops in Europe and America. 236pgs. • 1994
The author of the acclaimed Design and Crime argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a "global style" of architecture -- as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano -- that is analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies. 320pgs. • 2013
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143375 America's Other Audubon
194163 The Book of Bock
Kiser, Joy M.
Höhne, Frank
The story of Genevieve Jones, her family, and the making of an extraordinary 19th-century book, Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio. Includes archival photographs of the family and original advertisements and ephemera from the publication and sale of the book, the 68 original color plates of nests and eggs, plus selected field notes, a key to the eggs, and a key to the birds' scientific and current common names. 144pgs. • 2012
With clients that include BMW Mini, Nike, and Aveda, as well as a broad range of German newspapers and magazines, Frank Höhne has established himself as one of Germany's leading illustrators. This hilarious visual journey captures the delight and strange humor that radiate from his work. 160pgs. • 2012
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182418 Antonio López Solana, Guillermo Antonio López is hyper-realism's greatest living exponent, and one of the finest painters of the past hundred years. Published on the occasion of the artist's landmark exhibition at the Museo ThyssenBornemisza in Madrid, this generous overview constitutes a selfportrait of a genuine icon of contemporary painting. 264pgs. • 2011
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185502 Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World Cullen, Deborah & Elvis Fuentes, eds. Unprecedented in scope, this beautiful book offers an authoritative examination of the modern history of the Caribbean through its artistic culture. Featuring 500 color illustrations of artworks from the late 18th through the 21st century, it explores modern and contemporary art, ranging across the region and in time from the Haitian revolution to the present. 496pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Yale • C • $75.00 / $29.98
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038543 Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation Gombrich, E. H. A classic that explores the meeting ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. 466pgs. • 2000 ▲ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $29.98
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112798 Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art Stewart, Andrew What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? Andrew Stewart examines Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the period. 376pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $21.98
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ART & ART H ISTORY 173017 Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp
CRAFTS
195250 Art Deco Ceramics in Britain
Basualdo, Carlos & Erica F. Battle, eds.
Casey, Andrew
This fascinating book explores the interwoven lives, radical art, and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America's most important postwar artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. It traces the relationships among these artists by mapping their intersections and examining the depth of their artistic exchanges. 432pgs. • 2013
Focusing on the art deco ceramics that were produced by the British pottery industry during the late 1920 and early 1930s, this volume features high-quality new photographic and archival illustrations including advertising and company publicity material. 280pgs. • 2007 ◆ • Antique Collector's Club • C • $75.00 / $16.98
✪ 134265 Indian Textiles in the East: From Southeast Asia to Japan
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186954 The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History Chicago, Judy, et al. The official publication celebrating a feminist art masterpiece. Published to coincide with Judy Chicago's 75th birthday and a nationwide series of events and exhibitions, the book features newly commissioned photography and two new essays by Chicago, along with essays by art historian Frances Borzello and historian Jane Gerhard, and a Foreword by museum director Arnold Lehman. 288pgs. • 2014
Guy, John For more than a thousand years Indian cloths were traded for the spices and forest and mineral wealth of the East by Asian, Arab, and European merchants. The dazzling cloths presented here are the visual record of one of the great untold stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. 192pgs. • 2009
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173025 Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenge of Art Gorringe, Timothy J.
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✪ 202981 Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection Hanks, David A.
Argues that great art can function as a "secular parable," leading viewers to reflect on the reality and presence of God in the world. Gorringe examines representative secular paintings of the most significant types (mythological themes, genre painting, portraiture, landscape, still life, abstract art), showing how each can point toward God, whether by envisaging an alternative future, by creating aesthetic delight, or by teaching us to see things differently. 264pgs. • 2011
The splendid objects from the Driehaus Collection, installed as the inaugural exhibition of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, showcase a wide variety of Tiffany's work in an architectural setting of the period. Newly commissioned photographs by John Faier highlight the subtle detail and rich coloring of each object, revealing why Tiffany is so revered as a designer. 192pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Monacelli • C • $45.00 / $12.98
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171970 Erik Parker: Colorful Resistance Ramirez-Montagut, Monica With deep roots in alternative comics, illustration, and graffiti, internationally acclaimed artist Erik Parker's work bridges underground culture and the pop-surrealism movement. This volume presents his intense compositions, which originate from word clusters, viscera-like forms, and animated figurines and aggressively take on the issues of the day. 256pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Rizzoli • C • $75.00 / $20.98
✪ 195879 Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing Snyder, Laura J. On a summer day in 1674, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most luminous pictures ever beheld. Laura J. Snyder here transports us to the streets, inns, and guildhalls of 17th-century Holland, where mingling artists and scientists invented the modern way of seeing. 416pgs. • 2015 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $5.98
195255 Peter Thomson and Son: MidVictorian Furniture Designs for the Student and the Artisan Martin, J. & C. Martin A comprehensive guide to the design and construction of furniture, recognizing Peter Thomson's outstanding contributions to furniture design. 636pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Antique Collector's Club • C • $125.00 / $24.98
✪ 195233 Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts Berlo, Janet Catherine & Patricia Cox Crews Examining both the aesthetics and the social history of quilts from the early 19th century to the present, this volume presents fifty appliqué and pieced quilts, including Amish, African American, and modern art quilts, selected from the collections of the International Quilt Study Center for their outstanding visual qualities. 176pgs. • 2003 ◆ • University of Washington Press • P • $35.00 / $7.98
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ART & ART H ISTORY 194155 Fashion Muse: The Inspiration Behind Iconic Design
✪ 195960 The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age
Mancoff, Debra N.
Hirschfeld, Al & David Leopold
Examining the many iterations a muse can take -- Greek goddess, fairy-tale princess, wife, lover, supermodel, celebrity, and artist -this volume presents pairings both familiar and surprising, including the first couturier Charles Frederick Worth and his wife; Elsa Schiaparelli and the Surrealists; Yves Saint Laurent and Piet Mondrian; Oleg Cassini and Jacqueline Kennedy; and Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy. 208pgs. • 2014
Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature and exemplified Broadway and Hollywood, enchanting generations with his mastery of line. This volume brings together for the first time the artist's entire extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, as well as other illustrations and photographs. 336pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Knopf • C • $40.00 / $9.98
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142017 A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel
108727 Hans Holbein Bätschmann, Oskar & Pascal Griener One of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern Renaissance, Hans Holbein the Younger worked for leading patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as court painter to Henry VIII. This richly illustrated book -- the first comprehensive monograph on the artist in more than 40 years -- commemorates the 500th anniversary of Holbein's birth. 256pgs. • 1999 ▲ • Princeton • P • $57.50 / $28.98
FIFTH EDITION Phillips, Tom In the mid-1960s, artist Tom Phillips took a forgotten 19th-century novel and began doctoring and decorating the pages to create something new. This new edition incorporates Phillip's latest revisions and reworkings, and celebrates a 45-year-old artistic enterprise that is still an active work in progress. 384pgs. • 2012 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $13.98
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171173 Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York Delany, Samuel R. & Mia Wolff Acclaimed science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany's autobiographical graphic novel, drawn by Mia Wolff, about how he met a homeless man, Dennis, who became his partner. Wolff's pen-andink work not only expressionistically represents the characters' "body language" and the bustling New York setting, but is also filled with impish art references and visual puns. 72pgs. • 2013
155091 Dr. Seuss and Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's Leading Comic Artists Schiffrin, Andre A collection of more than 300 cartoons from the World War II era, including more than 100 by Dr. Seuss, 50 cartoons by the New Yorker's Saul Steinberg, and works by Al Hirschfeld, Carl Rose, and Mischa Richter. 280pgs. • 2009 ▲ • New Press • C • $29.95 / $7.98
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188235 Cartoons for Victory FOREWORD BY BOB DOLE Bernard, Warren, ed. Revealing how Superman, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and other characters helped fight the propaganda war in World War II, this volume showcases wartime work by Charles Addams (The Addams Family), Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie), Harvey Kurtzman (Mad magazine), Will Eisner, and many other known cartoonists. More than 90 percent of the cartoons and comics in this book have never been reprinted since their first publication. 258pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Fantagraphics • C • $34.99 / $12.98
✪ 152895 Comics Sketchbooks: The Private World of Today's Most Creative Talents Heller, Steven From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the world's most popular form of illustration. This volume, which features 700 illustrations in color and black-andwhite, offers a look inside the private notebooks of 82 of the world's most inventive, innovative, and successful comics artists. 352pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $44.95 / $16.98
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✪ 195912 Drawn Together Crumb, R. & Aline Crumb Our foremost cartooning couple here recall their success at shocking America with Weirdo Magazine, the life-altering birth of their precocious daughter Sophie, and their astonishing move to the safe haven of France. With an irresistible introduction and a striking four-color section, this is a must-have for any comics devotee. 272pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Liveright • C • $29.95 / $7.98
172916 Ghost World Clowes, Daniel Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid1990s, this quasi-autobiographical graphic novel follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, who are facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, growing apart. 80pgs. • 2001 ▲ • Fantagraphics • P • $14.99 / $7.98
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ART & ART H ISTORY 071291 Illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection
194888 In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Hindman, Sandra
Roe, Sue
The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in this collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the 14th to the 16th century. All the illuminations from the Lehman Collection are reproduced in color, and copious comparative illustrations supplement the extensive catalogue entries. 256pgs. • 1998
In the early years of the 20th century, among the studios, salons, dance halls, and galleries of Montmartre, Pablo Picasso joined the likes of Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi, and Gertrude Stein in revolutionizing artistic expression. Sue Roe here offers a remarkable group portrait of the men and women who profoundly changed the arts of painting, sculpture, dance, music, literature, and fashion. 384pgs. • 2015
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185489 Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection
195254 John Bates: Fashion Designer
Carr, Annemarie Weyl
Lester, Richard & Marit Allen
Comprising more than sixty works, the Menil collection of Byzantine and related icons spans twelve hundred years, and encompasses a number of distinct cultures, including Greek, Balkan, and Russian. In this volume, the first publication to survey this diverse collection, leading scholars explore the history and meaning of these remarkable works, as well as their continuing power to surprise and impress. 168pgs. • 2011
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other designer had such a comprehensive influence on what the UK wore. 176pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Antique Collector's Club • C • $55.00 / $14.98
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GRAPHIC NOVELS & COMICS
172884 Nancy Loves Sluggo Bushmiller, Ernie Many connoisseurs -- including Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Joe Brainard, and Andy Warhol -- have found in Bushmiller's often-corny Nancy cartoon strip a unique kind of Zen-like perfection. This volume contains a full three years of daily Nancy strips, from an era many regard as Bushmiller's finest. 336pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Fantagraphics • P • $39.99 / $19.98
188199 Peanuts Every Sunday 1961-1965 Schulz, Charles M.
188178 Snoopy vs. the Red Baron Schulz, Charles M. Including both dailies and Sundays, this volume collects all of the beloved Peanuts strips starring Snoopy as the famous World War I flying ace in perennial combat with the infamous Red Baron of Germany. 200pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Fantagraphics • C • $24.99 / $9.98
Snoopy steals the spotlight in these carefully color-restored 1960s Peanuts comic strips. 288pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Fantagraphics • C • $49.99 / $18.98
171947 The Raven Reed, Lou & Lorenzo Mattotti This gorgeous book of art and poetry shares its title with Lou Reed's 2003 album and further explores his fascination with Poe's work. Reed's poetically streetwise sensibility and style works in surprising harmony with Poe's dark chronicles of terror and despair, just as Lorenzo Mattotti's vivid and enigmatic paintings perfectly complement Reed's haunting interpretation of Poe's vision. 188pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Fantagraphics • P • $19.99 / $7.98
171180 Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend and Other Classic Comics Rodrigues, Charles "Black as sin and decay and perversion" is how National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles Rodrigues. Given carte blanche by the magazine's young editors, Rodrigues produced a 20-year tsunami of hilarious self-contained comic strips, themed gag spreads, and serials that boggled the mind and challenged all sense of decency and propriety. 192pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Fantagraphics • C • $29.99 / $6.98
172937 VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch Partch, Virgil & Jonathan Barli, ed. The first coffee-table collection of comics, letters and more from the mid-century cartoonist who revitalized the gag cartoon. Known to millions by his jazzy signature, VIP, Virgil Partch offered comic counterpoint to the grim headlines and a unique perspective on human nature in the pages of the nation's most popular magazines. 240pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Fantagraphics • C • $49.99 / $11.98
171181 Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball Drawings, 1934-1972 Mullin, Willard The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fields -- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other -and Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. 200pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Fantagraphics • C • $35.00 / $8.98
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WORLD OF ART
152966 Aboriginal Art WORLD OF ART Caruana, Wally
✪ 031618 Italian Baroque Sculpture WORLD OF ART Boucher, Bruce
For some 50,000 years, Aboriginal artists have built on traditions and worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred realm of ceremony to more public spheres, and in media that now include painting, sculpture, engraving, constructions, weaving, photography, printmaking, and textile design. For this third revised edition, a new chapter maps the latest developments across each of Australia's geographical regions. (231 illustrations, 90 in color.) 264pgs. • 2013
Italian baroque sculpture has enjoyed a controversial reputation, much like that of its chief protagonist, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bruce Boucher's text and the accompanying illustrations offer a fresh view of this rich and varied subject, arguing that Italian baroque sculpture addressed serious issues about art and reality. 224pgs. • 1998
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152896 The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec WORLD OF ART Miller, Mary Ellen
039490 The Language of Ornament WORLD OF ART Trilling, James
The fifth edition of this standard work incorporates new color images and extensive updates based on the latest research and discoveries. The revisions include a rewritten and extended chapter on Teotihuacan; updated analysis of the links between the Olmecs and the Maya; a discussion of new discoveries at the heart of the Aztec capital; and much more. 288pgs. • 2012
This introduction to the art of decorative patterning, of equal value to craftworkers, collectors, and students of art history, analyzes the historical importance of ornament across the world, whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenaean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain, or the carved and woven ornament of Native Americans. 224pgs. • 2001
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170601 Art Since 1960 WORLD OF ART Archer, Michael
✪ 031088 Manet WORLD OF ART Krell, Alan
Extensively revised and expanded since it was first published, Michael Archer's acclaimed book is brought fully up to date in this third edition. A completely new section maps the developments since 2000, ensuring that the book remains an indispensable source of information on the evolution of contemporary art. 288pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $8.98
Examines the artist's work and the critical, sometimes bitterly hostile reception that he encountered. Krell shows how the artist's progressive social views -- on sexuality, on the position of women, on the family -- were expressed through a style that was firmly modern yet rooted in the European artistic tradition. Includes 185 illustrations, 30 in color. 208pgs. • 1996 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $5.98
028673 Buddhist Art & Architecture WORLD OF ART Fisher, Robert E. Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia and through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. The author describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures and explains their imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams and Korean folk art to early Sri Lankan sites and Japanese Zen gardens. 216pgs. • 1993 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $7.98
✪ 031086 Cézanne WORLD OF ART Verdi, Richard
028566 The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922: Revised & Enlarged Edition WORLD OF ART Gray, Camilla When the original edition of this book was published, John Russell hailed it as a "massive contribution to our knowledge of one of the most fascinating and mysterious episodes in the history of modern art." It remains the most compact, accurate and reasonably priced survey of 60 years of creative dynamic activity that profoundly influenced the progress of Western art and architecture. 324pgs. • 1996 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $21.95 / $6.98
In this authoritative and up-to-date study of the painter widely regarded as the father of modern art, Richard Verdi traces the evolution of Cézanne's landscape, still-life and figure compositions, from the turbulently romantic creations of his youth to the visionary masterpieces of his final years. Features 182 illustrations, 33 in color. 216pgs. • 1992 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $5.98
✪ 031125 Gauguin WORLD OF ART Thomson, Belinda
✪ 028535 Van Gogh WORLD OF ART McQuillan, Melissa Van Gogh's reputation, the mythology that grew up after his death, the debates between naturalism and modernity and the social implications of Van his imagery are studied in full in this lucid account of an artist who sold only one painting during his lifetime, but whose works now command the highest prices in the world. Includes 168 illustrations, 25 in color. 216pgs. • 1997 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $5.98
A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and work of one of the most original artists of the late 19th century. Gauguin's output -- painting, sculpture, prints and ceramics -- is discussed in the light of his public persona, his relations with his contemporaries, his exhibitions, and the critical reception of his work. 216pgs. • 1987 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $14.95 / $6.98
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ART & ART H ISTORY 189240 John Evans Collages Evans, John Beginning in 1964, painter John Evans created a daily college out of found objects ranging from clippings, business cards, product stickers or labels and ticket stubs, to bits of ephemera or anonymous snapshots found on the streets of his East Village neighborhood. The 365 collages selected for this monograph illustrate the full range of Evans's mastery of his medium and attest to the artist's self discipline in adhering to the demanding regimen of creating a new collage every day. 384pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Quantuck Lane Press • C • $75.00 / $9.98
194364 Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 19101940 Locke, Adrian Illustrated with some 150 striking images, this volume explores the artistic changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution, the government's role in employing artists to promote its reforms, the emergence of a native modernism, and the remarkable contribution of European and American artists and intellectuals, including Eisenstein, Trotsky, and André Breton, to Mexico's cultural renaissance. 208pgs. • 2013
194162 Out of the Box!: Brand Experiences Between Pop-Up and Flagship Klanten, R. & K. Bolhofer The strong influence of e-commerce and the digital realm is forcing brands to rethink the traditional presentation of their wares in conventional stores. This volume shows architects, brand managers, graphic designers, and interior designers how they can effectively establish their brands in order to create unforgettable emotional experiences for discerning, internet-minded customers. 288pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Gestalten Verlag • C • $78.00 / $19.98
186454 Paths to Abstraction 1867-1917 Maloon, Terence, ed. Filled with full-page reproductions as well as stunning details of some of the most influential abstract paintings of the 19th and early 20th centuries, this volume follows the broad and diverse ways that painters such as Whistler, Monet, Cezanne, Denis, Vuillard, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Braque learned from each other as they embarked on an entirely new kind of expression. 296pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Prestel • C • $65.00 / $24.98
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✪ 031750 Picasso's Vollard Suite 160123 Nature Morte
Bolliger, Hans
Petry, Michael
The etchings made by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 for the great art critic and dealer Ambroise Vollard have long been recognized as one of the supreme productions of the master's hand. Arising from Picasso's artistic caprice, from his working experience, or from the very depths of his unconscious, these plates show, more than any of his other works, a man at once inspired by and prey to his dazzling imagination and the demands of his inner demon. Includes 100 illustrations. 110pgs. • 1994
Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other forms, contemporary artists have drawn on the still life tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy. Among the artists represented here are John Currin, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Jeff Koons, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Cy Twombly. Includes 400 illustrations. 288pgs. • 2013
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✪ 052663 Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe
134240 Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text
Courtney-Clarke, Margaret
Elsner, Jas
For generations, the women of the Ndebele of southern Africa have produced an art of remarkable richness and vitality. In their ceremonial beadwork and in large murals that cover the exterior walls of their mud dwellings, these women have created designs that are at once ancient and modern in their simplicity, bright colors and abstract patterns. 204pgs. • 2002
Drawing upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art. 376pgs. • 2007 ◆ • Princeton • C • $80.00 / $47.98
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133962 On Vision and Colors & Color Sphere
✪ 170599 Ron Mueck
Schopenhauer, Arthur & Philipp Otto Runge
Storr, Robert, et. al.
For Schopenhauer, vision was subjective and characterized by processes that cross over into the territory of philosophy. Runge's Color Sphere and essay on "The Duality of Color" contained one of the first attempts to depict a comprehensive and harmonious color system in three dimensions. By bringing these two visionary color theories together, this volume uncovers their enduring influence on our own perception of color and the visual world. 168pgs. • 2010
This catalogue of a major 2013 exhibition is the definitive reference book on Ron Mueck's sculptures over twenty years of work. It features photos of his emblematic works, some of which have never been published before, and includes spectacular exhibition views of the new works presented at the Fondation Cartier. 244pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Fondation Cartier • C • IMPORT / $45.98
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ART & ART H ISTORY ✪ 167687 Shadow Type: Classic ThreeDimensional Lettering Heller, Steven & Louise Fili Letters with relief and shadow have long been an effective way to add spectacle or intrigue to otherwise mundane words. Compiled by the leading historian of graphic design, Steven Heller, and renowned graphic designer Louise Fili, this volume presents a broad spectrum of examples -- advertising, shop signs, billboards, posters, type-specimen books -- drawn from the 19th to the mid20th century. 352pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton Architectural • P • $40.00 / $16.98
180935 Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master Loh, Maria H. What did it mean to be an image maker haunted by one's own image? Tracing the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, Dürer, and Titian became early modern celebrities, Maria Loh shows how this transformation was aided by the rapid expansion of portraiture and self-portraiture as independent genres in painting and sculpture. 328pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • C • $49.95 / $22.98
✪ 189431 The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street Cox, Devon
173029 Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England Kumler, Aden This beautifully illustrated book examines how manuscript paintings collaborated and, at times, competed with texts as they translated the rudiments of Christian belief as well as complex theological teachings to new audiences. In the illuminations in these books, the author argues, elite laypeople were offered an ambitious vision of spiritual excellence and a greater role in the pursuit of their salvation. 290pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Yale • C • $85.00 / $22.98
195217 Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collection at Columbia University Swergold, Leopold, et al. Focuses on a group of 22 stone devotional objects and architectural fragments that collectively represent major developments in Chinese religion and mortuary culture, from the Han dynasty through the Tang. The major emphasis is on works from the sixth century, a period of great intellectual ferment and artistic transformation, above all in the Buddhist arts. 126pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery • C • $45.00 / $16.98
185775 Velázquez: The Complete Paintings Checa, Fernando
One of London's most influential artistic quarters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived between the 1870s and 1930s, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent. This handsomely illustrated volume provides new perspective on legendary figures in British art and literature and explores the relationship between these artists and their living environment. 288pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $40.00 / $14.98
165213 Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place Auping, Michael A retrospective volume ranging from Rothenberg's earliest horse paintings through her spinning figures of the 1980s and early 1990s to her most recent series of paintings of dismembered puppets, this book highlights the key compositional strategies in this distinctive artist's work. 100pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Prestel • C • $45.00 / $15.98
Checa's monograph recasts the traditional critical reception of Velázquez as a Realist master, exploring other avenues of interpretation by examining his relationship with Classicism and with the most progressive trends in painting in his day. At the heart of the book is a color catalogue that reproduces the painter's entire oeuvre. 320pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Ludion • C • $150.00 / $65.98
039574 The Voices of Silence Malraux, André A comprehensive psychological history of art from a variety of cultures by one of the eminent thinkers of the 20th century. Dismissing orthodox classifications, Malraux illuminates all great periods of art, individual artists, and particular works, as he explores the haunting metaphysical problems inherent in the nature of creation. 661pgs. • 1978 ▲ • Princeton • P • $57.50 / $25.98
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142074 Winckelmann's Images from the Ancient World: Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian
The first major assessment in 30 years of the work of "American Scene" artist Reginald Marsh (1898-1954). Covering his art and photography, it puts Marsh's exuberant depictions of urban daily life within the context of the economic uncertainty of 1930s America and the work of fellow artists who shared his interest in the New York scene. 176pgs. • 2012
Assembled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767 publication features more than 200 fine engravings of ancient monuments. The first English-language version of this classic represents not only a fascinating panorama of images from ancient civilizations but also a major contribution to the literature of art history. 176pgs. • 2010
163345 Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
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CAM BRI DGE H ISTORI ES 144838 The Cambridge History of African American Literature
✪ 168243 The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy
Graham, Maryemma & Jerry Washington Ward, eds.
Pasnau, Robert, ed.
The first major 21st-century history of four hundred years of black writing, this volume presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, both oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the US. The contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasize the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history. 860pgs. • 2011
This two-volume set illuminates a rich and remarkable period in the history of philosophy and will be the authoritative source on medieval philosophy for the next generation of scholars and students. Beginning in the late eighth century with the renewal of learning centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, the chapters follow developments in multiple fields, including logic and language, natural philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. 1242pgs. • 2014
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✪ 150143 The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
✪ 144856 The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the 19th Century (1790-1870)
Lees, Clare A., ed.
Wood, Allen & Songsuk Susan Hahn, eds.
Providing a discussion of essential texts such as Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this volume captures the inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture as viewed through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science, and the history of women's writing. Chapters on English learning and literature in the 9th century and the later formation of English poetry and prose convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. 806pgs. • 2012
A comprehensive survey of the period. It begins with three chapters surveying the background of 19th-century philosophy: followed by two on logic and mathematics, two on nature and natural science, five on mind and language, including psychology, the human sciences and aesthetics, four on ethics, three on religion, seven on society, including chapters on the French Revolution, the decline of natural right, political economy, and social discontent, and three on history, dealing with historical method, speculative theories of history and the history of philosophy. 850pgs. • 2004
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✪ 144600 The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Haakonssen, Knud, ed. This judiciously balanced, systematic, and comprehensive account of the whole of Western philosophy in the period will be an invaluable resource for philosophers, intellectual historians, theologians, political theorists, historians of science and literary scholars. The two-volume set devotes due attention to historical context with particular emphasis on the connections between philosophy, science, and theology. 1424pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $108.00 / $49.98
✪ 144844 The Cambridge History of English Poetry O'Neill, Michael, ed. The most comprehensive and authoritative history of the field from early medieval times to the present. It traces patterns of continuity, transformation, transition, and development, explores how poets in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland have used language and to what effect, and offers fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and poems from Beowulf to Alice Oswald. 1115pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $242.00 / $99.98
✪ 144852 The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature Quayson, Ato, ed. The rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies focuses attention on the lives and conditions of various racial minorities in the West, as well as on regional, indigenous forms of representation around the world as distinct from dominant Western traditions. The first major collaborative overview of the field, this two-volume work will set the future agenda for the field, while also synthesizing its present state for the benefit of scholars and students. 1424pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $417.00 / $199.98
✪ 203098 The Cambridge History of Religions in America Stein, Stephen J., ed. A three-volume set tracing the historical development of religious traditions in America, including both their transplantation from other parts of the world and the inauguration of new religious movements. It documents complex relationships among religious communities as well as the growth of distinctive theological ideas and religious practices. 2736pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $489.00 / $199.98
✪ 146950 The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age McChesney, Robert & Di Cosmo, Nicola, et al., eds. This volume centers on the history and legacy of the Mongol Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. Beginning in the 12th century and focusing on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Europe, it continues to the establishment of Chinese and Russian political hegemony in Inner Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. 516pgs. • 2009
✪ 203097 The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World Sweeney, Marvin A two-volume comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. Supplemented with maps, illustrations, and detailed indexes, these volumes will be an excellent reference tool for scholars and students. 1002pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $278.00 / $129.98
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CAM BRI DGE H ISTORI ES 159837 The Cambridge History of the First World War Volume One: Global War Winter, Jay, ed. A comprehensive account of the war's military history. Adopting a global perspective, the volume explores how the imperial powers devoted vast reserves of manpower and material to their war efforts and thereby changed the political landscape of the world order. It also charts the moral, political and legal implications of the changing character of war and, in particular, the collapse of the distinction between civilian and military targets. 771pgs. • 2014
✪ 135895 The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume 3: AD 1420-AD 1804 Bradley, Keith & Cartledge, Paul, et al., eds. A collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of slavery and other forms of coerced labor in Africa, Asia, and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic World and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti. The essays, which are organized both nationally and thematically, cover the major empires, coerced migration, slave resistance, gender, demography, law, and the economic significance of coerced labor. 766pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $216.00 / $99.98
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✪ 159836 The Cambridge History of the First World War Volume Two: The State Winter, Jay, ed. Written by a global team of historical experts, this volume sets new standards in the political history of the waging of war, providing an authoritative new narrative that addresses problems of logistics, morale, innovation in tactics and weapons systems, and the use and abuse of science during the conflict. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to, and were deformed by, the pressures of war. 802pgs. • 2014
✪ 168439 The Cambridge World Prehistory Renfrew, Colin & Paul G. Bahn, eds. This three-volume set is a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history. The volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics, and examine such subjects as the formation of states and the development of technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy, and food production. 2049pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $721.00 / $299.98
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✪ 162025 The Cambridge History of the First World War Volume Three: Civil Society Winter, Jay, ed. Adopting a transnational approach, this volume surveys the war's treatment of populations at risk, including refugees, minorities and internees, to show the full extent of the disaster of war. It sheds new light on how families and medical authorities adapted to the challenges of war and on the shifts that occurred in gender roles and behavior that would subsequently reshape society. 779pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $170.00 / $79.98
✪ 135469 The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World Bradley, Keith & Paul Cartledge, eds. In twenty-two chapters, leading scholars here explore the centrality of slavery in ancient Mediterranean life using a wide range of textual and material evidence. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. 608pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $216.00 / $99.98
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✪ 203101 A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 Green, Karen During the 18th century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that led to the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualization of marriage, and the emergence of modern democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, as well as their engagement with the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville, and Rousseau. 312pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $102.00 / $49.98
✪ 144839 The New Cambridge History of the Bible: From 600 to 1450 Marsden, Richard & E. Ann Matter, eds. Examines the development and use of the Bible from late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing both its geographical and its intellectual journeys from its homelands throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean and into northern Europe. It provides a balanced treatment of eastern and western biblical traditions, highlighting processes of transmission and modes of exegesis among Roman and Orthodox Christians, Jews and Muslims, and illuminating the role of the Bible in medieval inter-religious dialogue. 1068pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $221.00 / $99.98
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ASIAN STU DI ES 127035 Asian Religions in Practice: An Introduction
123016 The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
Lopez, Donald S., ed.
SECOND EDITION Ebrey, Patricia Buckley
Accessible, clear, and concise overviews of the religions of Asia, providing both historical context and insightful analysis of Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and Bon, as well as many local traditions. 240pgs. • 1999 ▲ • Princeton • P • $38.95 / $18.98
177945 Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific Kaplan, Robert D. The underreported military buildup in the area where the Western Pacific meets the Indian Ocean means that it will likely be a hinge point for global war and peace for the foreseeable future. Robert D. Kaplan here offers up a vivid survey of the nations surrounding the South China Sea, the conflicts brewing in the region, and their implications for global peace and stability. 256pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Modern Library • C • $26.00 / $5.98
177698 The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation Flood, Gavin & Charles Martin, trans. A devotional, literary, and philosophical masterpiece of unsurpassed beauty and imaginative relevance, the Bhagavad Gita has inspired, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, and Aldous Huxley. This new verse translation combines the skills of leading Hinduist Gavin Flood with the stylistic verve of poet and translator Charles Martin. 224pgs. • 2012 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $6.98
181137 Bhagavad Gita: A Biography Davis, Richard H. Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable and enduring book, from its origins in ancient India to its reception today as a spiritual classic that has been translated into more than 75 languages. He looks at the devotional traditions surrounding the divine character of Krishna and traces how the Gita traveled from India to the West, where it found admirers in such figures as Emerson, Thoreau, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Aldous Huxley. 256pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $13.98
✪ 146950 The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age McChesney, Robert & Di Cosmo, Nicola, et al., eds. This volume centers on the history and legacy of the Mongol Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. Beginning in the 12th century and focusing on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Europe, it continues to the establishment of Chinese and Russian political hegemony in Inner Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. 516pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $258.00 / $99.98
Traces the development of Chinese culture from the rise of Confucianism, Buddhism, and the great imperial dynasties, to the Mongol, Manchu, and Western intrusions and the modern communist state. It encompasses arts, culture, economics, the treatment of women, foreign policy, emigration, and politics. This second edition includes a new chapter on China's recent opening to the world. 384pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $31.98
194955 Capital: The Eruption of Delhi Dasgupta, Rana The first literary portrait of one of the 21st century's fastest-growing megalopolises, this volume bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India's capital, but it also offers a glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming post-Western world. The story of Delhi, Dasgupta reveals, is a parable for where we are all headed. 480pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Penguin • C • $28.95 / $5.98
111376 The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India Fuller, C. J. Popular Hinduism is shaped by the worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings -- a proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of contemporary Indian society. 360pgs. • 2004 ▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $25.98
✪ 125707 The Central Philosophy of Tibet: A Study and Translation of Jey Tsong Khapa's Essence of True Eloquence Thurman, Robert A. F. The first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence by Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. Robert Thurman's translation and introduction present a strain of Indian Buddhist thought emphasizing the need for both critical reason and contemplative realization in the attainment of enlightenment. 476pgs. • 1991 ◆ • Princeton • P • $72.50 / $42.98
192377 Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision Midal, Fabrice Master of meditation, artist, poet, social visionary, Trungpa was all these and more. Midal, by steering his way between conventional Western biography and traditional Tibetan hagiography, has succeeded in painting a detailed portrait of the Tibetan lama regarded as one of the most influential forces in bringing Buddhism to the West. 576pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Shambhala • P • $24.95 / $8.98
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ASIAN STU DI ES ✪ 195151 Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath Ham, Paul In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the decision to use nuclear weapons. Drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War, he presents the grisly unadorned truth about the bombings and transforms our understanding of one of the defining events of the 20th century. 640pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Thomas Dunne • C • $35.00 / $7.98
✪ 202023 Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War
038404 A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy Chan, Wing-Tsit, trans. A classic text, providing a rich overview of the schools of Chinese thought, carefully weighing the influences of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, and making available a wide range of primary sources. 856pgs. • 1969 ▲ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $25.98
038605 A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli & Charles A. Moore, eds. In this volume, a standard reference for more than 50 years, a leading Indian philosopher and an American scholar bring together enough of the philosophical wisdom of ancient and modern India to enable students of Indian philosophy with no familiarity with Sanskrit to become acquainted with India's profound contributions to world thought. 684pgs. • 1957
Southard, Susan
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Susan Southard has spent years interviewing hibakusha ("bomb-affected people") and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. A gripping narrative of human resilience, this volume will help shape public discussion and debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history. 416pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Viking • C • $28.95 / $7.98
158584 The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism Buswell, Robert & Donald Lopez The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English, this volume provides encyclopedic coverage of the most important terms, concepts, texts, authors, deities, schools, monasteries, and geographical sites from across the history of Buddhism. It covers terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions, from Sanskrit, Pali, and Tibetan to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. 1304pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • C • $65.00 / $37.98
175964 Stillness, Insight, and Emptiness: Buddhist Meditation from the Ground Up Dorjee, Lama Dudjom In Tibetan Buddhism, developing a consistent and sustained meditation practice is the first step toward discerning the true nature of reality. This volume encapsulates the Buddha's teaching in terms that are accessible and encouraging for beginning meditators, covering topics from establishing a proper meditation posture to realizing the luminous and spacious qualities of the mind. 192pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Shambhala • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 195864 Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains: Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation Anderson, Reb This collection of dharma talks explores the life of passionate commitment that lies at the heart of the formal practice of Zen meditation. Reb Anderson draws on more than 30 years of experience as a Zen priest to explore Buddhist yoga and psychology and the relationship of wisdom and compassion to the personal, social, and ecological crises of our time. 208pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Rodmell Press • P • $24.95 / $7.98
CLASSICAL & N EAR EASTERN STU DI ES 129507 Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose
180125 After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars
Kurke, Leslie
Cartledge, Paul
What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Kurke offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have actually looked like in the ancient world. 504pgs. • 2010
The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE, which involved the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause, decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. Why, then, has this pivotal battle been so overlooked? Paul Cartledge here masterfully reopens one of the great puzzles of ancient Greece to discover what happened on the field of battle and, just as important, what happened to its memory. 216pgs. • 2013
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CLASSICAL & N EAR EASTERN STU DI ES 129473 The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures Pritchard, J. B. James Pritchard's anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region. With more than 130 reading selections and 300 photographs of ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this book combines both of the earlier volumes. 664pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $35.98
195134 The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood Finkel, Irving The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet is the starting-point for this groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world. Decoding the ancient cuneiform message wedge by wedge, Finkel discovers where the Babylonians believed the ark came to rest and develops a new explanation of how the old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. 432pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Doubleday • C • $30.00 / $5.98
041244 Casina Plautus, Titus Maccius The Latin text of one of the liveliest of ancient comedies. The introduction and notes discuss the background of Roman comedy and make the reader continually aware of the conditions of an actual stage performance. 241pgs. • 1976 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $39.99 / $23.98
114231 Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt Clayton, Peter A. Covers all the rulers and dynasties of Egypt in chronological order, from Narmer, who first united the lands along the Nile, to Cleopatra some 3,000 years later. The rich illustrative material includes timelines and specially drawn cartouches of each pharaoh with translations of their names. 224pgs. • 2006 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $10.98
✪ 114200 Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus Matyszak, Philip Supported by a wealth of pictorial and archaeological detail, these personal histories of the luminaries of Rome during its republican heyday provide an overview of its development and expansion. The biographies are supplemented by time lines, data files, and special features that highlight various aspects of Roman culture and society. Includes 320 illustrations, 110 in color. 240pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $10.98
133728 Civilizations of Ancient Iraq Foster, Benjamin & Karen Polinger Foster The story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements to the Arab conquest. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia, from the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians, Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. 312pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • P • $25.95 / $14.98
✪ 153969 The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana: Volume 1, Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia, LeidenseStephani, and Stephani Dickey, Eleanor, ed. The Colloquia -- manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages -- contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the Early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancient culture. This volume offers a new edition, translation, and commentary. 286pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $170.00 / $79.98
039747 Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times Redford, Donald B. Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, this volume by an eminent Egyptologist explores 3,000 years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. 488pgs. • 1992 ◆ • Princeton • P • $47.95 / $22.98
081148 Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire Boatwright, Mary Taliaferro Focuses on the emperor's direct interactions with Rome's cities, exploring the benefactions for which he was celebrated on coins and in literature and inscriptions. Although such evidence is often imprecise, its collective analysis, undertaken with all other related material, reveals that over 130 cities received at least one benefaction directly from Hadrian. 262pgs. • 2000 ◆ • Princeton • C • $67.50 / $39.98
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✪ 131846 Ancient Egypt on 5 Deben a Day Ryan, Donald P. This time-traveler's guide to sightseeing and survival in the land of the pharaohs provides the inside scoop on how to enter and travel through ancient Egypt, conform to its customs and expectations, and appreciate its often mysterious culture. You'll travel the Nile from north to south, stopping at such intriguing places as Memphis, Akhetaten, Abydos, and Thebes. 144pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $6.98
114251 Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day Matyszak, Philip This entertaining guide provides all the information a tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. Here is advice on what to see on each of the city's famous seven hills, what to take to a fancy dinner party (dining robe, your own napkin, and indoor shoes) and where to find the best markets and public baths. 43 illustrations, 11 in color. 144pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $5.98
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CLASSICAL & N EAR EASTERN STU DI ES 105175 The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays Foley, Helene P., ed. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century BCE, is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of this poem, together with selected essays that illuminate the Hymn's structure and artistry, its role in the religious life of the ancient world, and its meaning for the modern world. 320pgs. • 1993 ▲ • Princeton • P • $47.95 / $26.98
119964 Horace, the Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets McClatchy, J. D., ed. Includes translations by Richard Howard, W. S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Richard Wilbur, Marie Ponsot, Anthony Hecht, and Mark Strand, as well as many others. "McClatchy's extraordinary collection gives us the richest version of Horace's odes ever made available in English." -- Harold Bloom 320pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Princeton • C • $47.50 / $30.98
✪ 140850 Memphis under the Ptolemies SECOND EDITION Thompson, Dorothy J. Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world. 360pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Princeton • P • $41.95 / $23.98
104391 A New History of Classical Rhetoric Kennedy, George A. This extensive revision and abridgment of Kennedy's The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors provides a comprehensive history of the subject, one that is destined to be the standard work in the field. 336pgs. • 1994 ▲ • Princeton • P • $55.00 / $30.98
049629 Religions of Rome, Volume 2: A Sourcebook Beard, Mary, et al. Presents a range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire (both visual evidence and texts in translation), exploring major themes and problems of Roman religion (such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, and prediction). Each document has an introduction, explanatory notes, and bibliography. 416pgs. • 1998 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $44.99 / $28.98
051391 Religions of the Ancient Greeks Price, Simon In a book about the religious life of the Greeks from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, examined in the context of a variety of different cities and periods, Price surveys local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek conceptions, relating them, for example, to gender roles and to cultural and political life. 217pgs. • 1999 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $22.98
180944 The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece Ober, Josiah Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period -- and why only then? And how, after "the Greek miracle" had endured for centuries, did the Macedonians soundly defeat the Greeks, seemingly bringing an end to their glory? Drawing on newly available evidence, Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece. 464pgs. • 2015
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167374 The Odyssey TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN MITCHELL Homer In words of great poetic power, Stephen Mitchell's translation brings Odysseus and his adventures vividly to life as never before. His muscular language keeps the diction close to spoken English, yet its rhythms re-create the oceanic surge of the ancient Greek. 432pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Atria • C • $35.00 / $5.98
✪ 166851 The Shield of Homer: Narrative Structure in the Iliad Stanley, Keith Taking structural emphasis as a guide to poetic discourse, the author argues that the Iliad is not a poem of "might "-- as opposed to the Odyssean celebration of "guile" -- but that in advocating social and personal reconciliation it offers a profound indictment of a warring heroic society. In so doing he defends the hypothesis that the poem as we know it is a massive reorganization and expansion of earlier "Homeric" material. 492pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • P • $67.00 / $40.98
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133318 Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy DuBois, Page Juxtaposing modern experiences of bondage (economic or sexual) with slavery in antiquity, the author explores the writings on the subject of Aristotle, Plautus, Terence and Aristophanes. She also examines the case of Spartacus, and relates ancient notions of liberation to the all-too-common immigrant experience of enslavement to rampant corporatism and exploitative capitalism. 224pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Oxford University • P • $24.95 / $6.98
✪ 175397 When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra Casagrande-Kim, Roberta, ed. Through sculpture, coins, statuettes, funerary stelae, papyri, and more, this illustrated catalogue for an exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World examines interactions between Greek and Egyptian cultures during the centuries when Egypt was under Greek rule. The essays address such issues as the use of royal portraiture to convey messages about the royal family and its power, the use of religion to assert the divine nature of the Ptolemies, and the many languages spoken in Egypt before and during Ptolemaic rule. 120pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $17.98
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CU LTU RAL STU DI ES ✪ 195870 Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
185620 The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh
Since the 19th century, dolls have served as toys but also as objects of obsession, love, and lust. Challenging our commonsense grasp of the relations between persons and things, Marquard Smith examines these erotically charged human figures by interweaving art history, visual culture, gender, and sexuality studies with the medical humanities, offering startling insights into heterosexual masculinity and its discontents. 376pgs. • 2014
In an engaging narrative that ranges from ancient body art to modern plastic surgery, Aldersey-Williams explores the corporeal mysteries that make us human. Delving into our shared cultural heritage, from Shakespeare to Frankenstein and from Rembrandt to 2001: A Space Odyssey, he explores the origins and legacy of tattooing, shrunken heads, bloodletting, fingerprinting, X-rays, and more. 320pgs. • 2013 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $5.98
147477 The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds Dorfman, Ariel In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of works such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar children's books, and Reader's Digest magazine. This edition includes a new Preface by the author. 224pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Duke • P • $24.95 / $5.98
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142614 A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America Hale, Grace Elizabeth At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In this vividly written cultural history, Hale sheds light on why so many white middle-class Americans chose to re-imagine themselves as outsiders. 400pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $31.95 / $6.98
ECONOM ICS 160884 After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
✪ 158704 The Dollar Trap: How the U. S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
Blinder, Alan S.
Examining how the dollar came to have a central role in the world economy, Prasad demonstrates that it will remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future. Marshaling a range of arguments and data, and drawing on the latest research, he shows why it will be difficult to dislodge the dollar-centric system. 432pgs. • 2014
A masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it. With bracing clarity, Blinder chronicles the perfect storm of events beginning in 2007, from the bursting of the housing bubble to the implosion of the bond bubble, and how events in the US spread throughout the global economy. 528pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Penguin • P • $18.00 / $5.98
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✪ 180899 The Essential Hirschman Hirschman, Albert O.
160188 The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't Baumol, William J. Tracing the fast-rising prices of health care and education in the US and other major industrial nations, Baumol finds the underlying cause to lie in the very nature of providing labor-intensive services. Once we understand the "cost disease," he argues, effective responses will become readily apparent. 272pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Yale • C • $40.00 / $5.98
195129 The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Taibbi, Matt Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty, by a divide that allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime. Matt Taibbi conducts a timely, galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice -- the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. 448pgs. • 2014
Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. 408pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
135560 Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Rajan, Raghuram G. One of the few economists to warn of the global financial crisis before it hit warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us. He shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are out of step with the dangers those risks pose. 272pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $7.98
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ECONOM ICS 154376 Finance and the Good Society
104344 The New Industrial State
Shiller, Robert J.
Galbraith, John Kenneth
In this important and timely book, Shiller argues that, rather than condemning finance, we need to reclaim it for the common good. He makes a powerful case for recognizing that finance, far from being a parasite on society, is one of the most powerful tools we have for solving our common problems and increasing general well-being. 312pgs. • 2013
With searing wit and incisive commentary, Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in this landmark work, arguing that the US was no longer a free-enterprise society but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. First published in 1967, The New Industrial State continues to resonate today. This edition contains a new Introduction by Sean Wilentz. 518pgs. • 2007
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189277 The Glass Cage: Automation and Us Carr, Nicholas Exploring the impact of automation from a human perspective, this volume examines the personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers. Drawing on psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly people's happiness and satisfaction are tied to performing hard work in the real world, Carr reveals how shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. 304pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $3.98
111349 The Great Contraction 1929-1933 Friedman, Milton & Anna Jacobson Schwartz One of the most influential books of 20th century economics. It marshals massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the authors' claim that steady control of the money supply is profoundly important to the management of the nation's economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. 320pgs. • 2008 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $13.98
157447 The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality Deaton, Angus Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and he addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind. 362pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $19.98
✪ 175508 The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy Pettis, Michael Debunking popular misconceptions, Pettis shows that severe trade imbalances spurred on the recent financial crisis and were the result of unfortunate policies that distorted the savings and consumption patterns of certain nations. Pettis examines the reasons behind these destabilizing policies, and he predicts severe economic dislocations that will have long-lasting effects. 256pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $8.98
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111378 One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth Rodrik, Dani A leading economist argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local economic and political realities rather than obeying the dictates of the international globalization establishment. 280pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
105002 The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century Backhouse, Roger E. While some regard economics as a modern invention, Backhouse shows that the origins of contemporary economic thought can be traced back to the ancients. Taking us from Homer to the frontiers of game theory, this book presents an engrossing history of economics, what Alfred Marshall called "the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life." 384pgs. • 2004 ▲ • Princeton • P • $41.95 / $31.98
125748 Organizing America: Wealth, Power and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism Perrow, Charles How did a nation once committed to individual freedom, family firms, public goods, and decentralized power become transformed in one century into a society dominated by vast corporations? Writing in the tradition of Max Weber, Perrow concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but the rise of large, bureaucratic organizations. 272pgs. • 2005 ▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $23.98
✪ 180940 Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception Akerlof, George A. & Robert J. Shiller Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. Two Nobel Prize-winning economists here deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that as long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and ignorance through manipulation and deceit. 288pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $9.98
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ECONOM ICS 163931 The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims
038570 The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Frankel, Tamar
Esping-Andersen, Gosta
A century after Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme, con artists are still able to dazzle wealthy, educated individuals and sophisticated institutions and convince them to hand over huge sums of money. How? After years of close study of hundreds of cases, the author explains the striking patterns that emerge and the common characteristics of the con artists and their victims. 224pgs. • 2012
This new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of advanced Western societies distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting them with variations in the historical development of different countries. It argues that current economic processes are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. 248pgs. • 1990 ▲ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $27.98
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126250 This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Reinhart, Carmen M. & Kenneth S. Rogoff A comprehensive catalog of government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes, from medieval currency debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. The authors show that while countries do weather their financial storms, short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur. 496pgs. • 2009 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $14.98
169755 Wrong: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them Grossman, Richard S. Sheds light on the poor thinking behind nine of the worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, missteps whose outcomes ranged from appalling to tragic. Grossman tells the story behind each debacle -- from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, to Japan's lost decade of the 1990s, to the American subprime crisis -explaining why the policy was adopted, how it was implemented, and its short- and long-term consequences. 288pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $27.95 / $5.98
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✪ 195150 Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
069758 Scotland: The Story of a Nation
MacLean, Rory
Magnusson, Magnus
Vividly evokes the volatile history of Europe's capital through a series of intimate portraits of two dozen key residents: the medieval balladeer whose suffering explains the Nazis' rise to power; the Jewish chemist whose invention of poison gas was employed on First World War battlefields and in Holocaust death camps; and mythmakers like Christopher Isherwood, Leni Riefenstahl, and David Bowie, whose heated visions are now as real as the city's bricks and mortar. 432pgs. • 2014
A comprehensive history of Scotland packed with colorful stories, bloody battles, vicious political intrigues, and a rich pageant of historical characters. Encompassing everything from the first Mesolithic settlers in 7000 BC to the present movements for independence, this is a history on an epic level, and essential reading for anyone interested in the past of this fascinating land. 752pgs. • 2003
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152901 Scotland: A Concise History FOURTH EDITION MacLean, Fitzroy
039576 Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory O'Grada, Cormac
Continuously in print for more than 40 years and renowned for the authority and wit with which it disentangles the complex threads of Scotland's rich history, this classic work has been brought up to date with recent events along the path to Scottish independence. More than 240 illustrations provide a rich visual record of Scotland's art, craftsmanship, and intellectual life. 260pgs. • 2012 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $19.95 / $7.98
181665 The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 Hobsbawm, Eric This magisterial installment in Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world outlines, with intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance, the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies. 416pgs. • 1988 ◆ • Abacus • P • IMPORT / $9.98
Central to Irish and British history, European demography, and the story of American immigration, the Great Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, the book highlights economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. 302pgs. • 2000 ▲ • Princeton • P • $52.50 / $23.98
156926 Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 18841960 Aitken, Robbie & Eve Rosenhaft This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany's black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II. Including an in-depth account of the impact of Nazism and its aftermath, it offers a fresh critical perspective on narratives of "race" in German history. 379pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $129.00 / $38.98
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EU ROPEAN STU DI ES & POLITICS 192238 Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648
192402 Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF EUROPE Greengrass, Mark
Fontana, Biancamaria
From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheavals of the 16th century, as Luther's challenge to church authority shook the foundations of Christianity, and as dynastic rivalries and military changes fundamentally altered the relations between ruler and ruled. Mark Greengrass's magnum opus, this volume fosters a deeper understanding of Europe's identity today. 752pgs. • 2014
Germaine de Staël is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker, yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Staël's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique experience as a political actor in a world where women had no place. 312pgs. • 2016 ◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $15.98
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180926 Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke Bourke, Richard Edmund Burke grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist in the debate on the French Revolution. This volume offers a vivid reconstruction of the major concerns of this outstanding statesman, orator, and philosopher. 1032pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $22.98
180450 The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe Stites, Richard In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia, and national independence to the Greeks. Stites sets these stories side-by-side, allowing him to compare events and movements and illuminate such topics as the transfer of ideas and peoples across frontiers, the formation of an international revolutionary community, and the appropriation of Christian symbols and language for secular purposes. 456pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $36.95 / $8.98
✪ 195993 Happy and Glorious: The Revolution of 1688 Wilson, Michael I. In addition to deposing a stubborn and bigoted king and creating a constitutional monarchy, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to the Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland and the Orange Order marches in Northern Ireland. Michael Wilson here tells the story of these momentous events and sets them against the turbulent backdrop of 17th-century life. 192pgs. • 2015 ◆ • History Press • C • $29.95 / $6.98
192347 Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice Ryback, Timothy W. The remarkable story of the German prosecutor who, in 1933, risked everything in an attempt to prosecute the first perpetrators of the Holocaust. Though Hartinger's efforts were only a temporary roadblock to the Nazis, the evidence he compiled played a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal and struck a lasting blow for justice. 288pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Knopf • C • $26.95 / $5.98
146066 Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race Nelson, Bruce
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✪ 192416 How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens Viroli, Maurizio Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli gathers and interprets Machiavelli's timeless wisdom about choosing leaders. The concise and engaging result is a new kind of Prince -one addressed to citizens rather than rulers and designed to make you a better voter. 144pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Princeton • C • $16.95 / $6.98
✪ 187302 Redeeming "The Prince": The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece Viroli, Maurizio A startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Rather than a bible of unscrupulous politics, The Prince, Viroli argues, is actually about political redemption -- a book motivated by Machiavelli's patriotic desire to see a new founding for Italy. 208pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $11.98
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English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, while in the US Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been applied mainly to enslaved Africans and their descendants. This volume examines how the Irish created their own identity in the context of slavery and abolition, empire, and revolution, not only in Ireland, but in the US, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. 348pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Princeton • C • $55.00 / $24.98
049084 Italy: A Short History SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Hearder, Harry & Jonathan Morris A concise but comprehensive account of Italian history from the Ice Age to the present, intended for both students of Italian history and culture and the general reader. Hearder places the main political developments in Italian history in their economic and social context, and shows how these related to the peaks of artistic and cultural endeavor. 288pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $16.98 ✪ New to Catalog C = clothbound ■ New from the publisher P = paperback ◆ Remainder - like new C NDJ = clothbound, ▲ Publisher returns no dust jacket Note: remainders and publisher returns may be marked with a small line or dot.
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EU ROPEAN STU DI ES & POLITICS 194889 Jane Austen's England Adkins, Lesley & Roy Adkins A cultural snapshot of everyday life in the world of Jane Austen. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. 448pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Viking • C • $27.95 / $6.98
061970 The Movement of the Free Spirit Vaneigem, Raoul, et al.
158685 Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre Israel, Jonathan In recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture -almost anything but notions like liberty or equality, Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical 18th-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. 888pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $18.98
A fiercely partisan examination of the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s. Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements, his main emphasis is on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit in northern Europe. 302pgs. • 1994 ◆ • Zone Books • C • $38.95 / $15.98
181086 Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century Jarausch, Konrad H. This sweeping history explores the paradoxes of 20th-century history, shedding new light on why the European encounter with modernity led to cataclysm, inhumanity, and self-destruction, but also to social justice, democracy, and peace. 880pgs. • 2015
187209 The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial Douglas, Lawrence In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the trial of 89-yearold John Demjanjuk, a Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen accused of collaborating in Nazi genocide. The result is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law's effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history. 352pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $11.98
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150713 The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society Berman, Marshall
JULIET NICOLSON
Focusing on 18th-century Paris, where a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity -- of a self that could organize the individual's energy and direct it toward his own happiness -- articulated 18thcentury man's deepest responses to this brave new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it. 352pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Verso • P • $24.95 / $7.98
154690 Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History Sayer, Derek Ranging across 20th-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. 624pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
126277 Renaissance Florence on 5 Florins a Day FitzRoy, Charles All the practical advice you need for a journey back to the golden age of Florence and Tuscany. Marvel at Brunelleschi's sublime cathedral dome and the sculptures and paintings that have made this the art capital of its day -- and explore the darker side of life in the city, from its taverns and brothels to the grisly punishments meted out to wrongdoers. 144pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $18.95 / $7.98
✪ 119236 The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm Nicolson, Juliet Chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago, when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. Drawing on material from intimate and rarely seen sources and narrated through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals -- among them a debutante, a choirboy, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler, and the queen - Juliet Nicolson has crafted a vividly rendered glimpse of the twilight of the Edwardian era. 304pgs. • 2008 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $15.00 / $4.98
✪ 134920 The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age Nicolson, Juliet The euphoria of Armistice Day 1918 vaporized at the contemplation of the carnage that the Great War left in its wake, but from Britain's despair new life emerged. Juliet Nicolson pieces together colorful personalities, historic moments, and intimate details to create a social history of the two years in which the British people rediscovered the common bonds that held them together. 320pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $16.95 / $3.98
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131727 Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society Barnes, Steven A fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons in the structuring of Soviet society. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building socialism. 368pgs. • 2011
✪ 195899 Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times Lethbridge, Lucy From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, servants were essential to the British way of life. Spanning more than a hundred years, this volume brings the history of British domestics to life through letters, diaries, and interviews with former and current servants. 400pgs. • 2013 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $5.98
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051198 In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War
127008 Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
Fitzpatrick, Sheila & Yuri Slezkine, eds.
This history of sexual attitudes and practices in 20th-century Germany investigates such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation. It also demonstrates how Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust. 368pgs. • 2007
A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the 20th century. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia. 443pgs. • 2000
Herzog, Dagmar
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169362 Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich Moynahan, Brian In this magisterial account of one of the most tragic periods in history, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the backdrop of the siege of Leningrad and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. Weaving Shostakovich's own story and those of many others into the context of Stalin's purges and the brutal Nazi invasion, he relates how the music and the defiance it inspired provided a rare beacon of light for the watching world. 496pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $30.00 / $6.98
162316 Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin Zimmerman, William When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Tracing the history of modern Russian politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Zimmerman examines the complex evolution of communist and post-Soviet leadership in light of the latest research in political science. 344pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • C • $30.95 / $17.98
✪ 111191 The Russian Moment in World History Poe, Marshall T. Tracing Russia's course from its beginnings to the present, Poe shows that Russia was the only non-Western power able to defend itself for centuries against Western imperialism. It did so by building a powerful state that molded society to its military needs, producing a non-Western path to modernization that was neither "European" nor "Asian" but simply "Russian." 136pgs. • 2003 ◆ • Princeton • C • $37.50 / $21.98
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✪ 195152 Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London As Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - the George Inn Brown, Pete Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cozy, woodpaneled establishment a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way out of London to Canterbury, Shakespeare likely popped in for a pint, and Dickens certainly did. An entertaining tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that ever drank in one pub. 368pgs. • 2014 ◆ • St. Martin's • P • $16.99 / $4.98
195160 Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History Norwich, John Julius From its beginnings as a Greek city-state to its emergence as a multicultural trading hub during the Crusades, from the rebellion against Italian unification to the rise of the Mafia, the story of Sicily is rich with extraordinary moments and dramatic characters. Norwich outlines the surprising influence Sicily has had on world history, and tells the story of one of the world's most kaleidoscopic cultures in a galvanizing, contemporary way. 400pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Modern Library • C • $32.00 / $9.98
104356 Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London Koven, Seth In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. In this volume, Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped Victorian and 20th-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. 399pgs. • 2006 ◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $21.98
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EU ROPEAN STU DI ES & POLITICS 189966 The Smile Revolution: In EighteenthCentury Paris
✪ 195994 Waterloo 1815: The British Army's Day of Destiny
Jones, Colin
Fremont-Barnes, Gregory
Amazing as it might seem, it was only in the late 18th century that Western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In this entertaining, absorbing, and highly original work of cultural history, Colin Jones ranges from the history of art, literature, and culture to the history of science, medicine, and dentistry to tell a unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of western civilization. 304pgs. • 2014
Challenging conventional thinking about the opposing forces and the British victory, Napoleonic expert Gregory Fremont-Barnes argues that the British Army alone was more than equal to the French, and that victory would ultimately have been theirs with or without the arrival of the Prussian forces. He uses numerous previously unpublished sources to provide one of the most insightful accounts of the battle yet published. 440pgs. • 2015
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194895 The Spanish Armada Hutchinson, Robert Popular history holds that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was a David-versus-Goliath victory snatched by plucky and outnumbered English forces. In this tightly written and fascinating new history, Robert Hutchinson explodes this myth, revealing the true destroyers of the Spanish Armada: inclement weather and plain bad luck. 432pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Thomas Dunne • C • $32.99 / $7.98
✪ 191917 Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant Borman, Tracy
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195020 Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo Crane, David An astonishing hour-by-hour chronicle that begins with the day before the battle and continues to its aftermath. Switching perspectives between Britain and Belgium, prison and palace, poet and pauper, lover and betrothed, husband and wife, David Crane paints a picture of a summer when everything changed. 384pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $5.98
177406 A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment Blom, Philipp
Long reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who would stop at nothing in his quest for power, Thomas Cromwell secured Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn, only to die on the scaffold himself when he fell from Henry's grace. Tracy Borman reveals a different side of one of the most notorious figures in history: that of a caring family man, a loyal servant and friend, and a revolutionary who helped make medieval England into a modern state. 464pgs. • 2016
The remarkable story of Baron Thierry Holbach's Parisian salon, an epicenter of freethinking where figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole, and Benjamin Franklin embodied a radicalism in European thought so uncompromising and bold that its bracing, liberating, humanist vision has still not been fully realized. 384pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Basic Books • P • $18.00 / $5.98
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195013 Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister Hutchinson, Robert Over the course of his controversial career, Cromwell amassed a fortune through bribery and high-interest loans to members of the Tudor court, becoming the most hated man in England and ultimately suffering grisly execution outside the Tower of London. Rich in incident and colorful detail, Robert Hutchinson's narrative history gives readers the real inside look into the life of the protagonist of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. 368pgs. • 2014 ◆ • St. Martin's • P • $17.99 / $5.98
✪ 195223 Ukraine: An Illustrated History Magocsi, Paul Robert This lavishly-illustrated volume provides a concise and easy-toread historical survey of the country from earliest times to the present. Each of the book's forty-six chapters is framed by a historical map, which graphically depicts the key elements of the chronological period or theme addressed within. In addition, more than 300 historic photographs, line drawings, portraits, and reproductions of books and works of art bring Ukraine's rich past to life. 352pgs. • 2007
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185549 Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton The 18th-century Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But as Johnson shows, when improvement schemes foundered, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. 368pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Yale • C • $65.00 / $9.98
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FI LM & M EDIA STU DI ES 104372 An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking Naficy, Hamid An engaging overview of an important trend, the work of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced filmmakers living in the West. Treating creativity as a social practice, Naficy demonstrates that these films are in dialogue not only with the home and host societies but also with audiences, many of whom are also situated astride cultural fault lines. 368pgs. • 2001 ▲ • Princeton • P • $55.00 / $24.98
167836 Hollywood Frame by Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 19511997 Longworth, Karina Presents hundreds of never-before-published photos from the sets of some of the greatest films of the 20h century. Hollywood's biggest stars are here caught with their guard down, behind the scenes of movie classics from Some Like It Hot and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Taxi Driver and The Silence of the Lambs. 208pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $30.00 / $7.98
192078 Altman Altman, Kathryn Reed & Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films -- among them M•A•S•H, Nashville, The Player, and Gosford Park -- that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engagement. The first authorized visual biography of the iconoclastic director, this volume includes photographs and ephemera, many from private family albums, as well as personal recollections of the director. 336pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Harry N. Abrams • C • $40.00 / $7.98
127078 From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
164050 Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics Ross, Steven J. With a cast of larger-than-life figures from American cinema -including Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- this volume reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would imagine. 512pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $74.00 / $7.98
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170618 Moments That Made the Movies
Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. 432pgs. • 2004
In his first fully illustrated work, film historian and critic David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Includes more than 250 illustrations in color and black-and-white. 304pgs. • 2014
Thomson, David
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FOOD & COOKI NG ✪ 195973 The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey
✪ 195981 Simply Seasonal: Delicious Recipes for Year-Round Informal Entertaining
El-Haddad, Laila & Maggie Schmitt
Macdonald, Claire
In the summer of 2010, Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt traveled throughout the Gaza Strip, collecting the 130 recipes and capturing the stunning photographs presented in this book. In its pages, the people of Gaza tell their stories as they relate to cooking, farming, and the food economy: personal stories, family stories, and descriptions of the broader social and economic system in which they live. 136pgs. • 2013
Bustling with 150 contemporary Scottish recipes -- for starters, main courses, and desserts -- this cookbook also includes complete sample menus for each season. From mouth-watering sweet potato, lime, and ginger soup to warm the cold winter nights to pepper-crusted salmon fillets with tomato and basil salsa for a summer gathering, these meals are simple to produce, delicious to eat, and made with the very best of seasonal produce. 288pgs. • 2012
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✪ 194498 Sauces and Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way
194370 Small, Sweet, and Italian: Tiny, Tasty Treats from Sweet Maria's Bakery
de Vita, Oretta Zanini & Maureen B. Fant
Sanchez, Maria Bruscino
The indispensable cookbook for genuine Italian sauces and the traditional pasta shapes that go with them. It includes authentic versions of such favorites as carbonara, bolognese, marinara, and Alfredo, as well as unusual but no less traditional sauces based on roasts, ribs, rabbit, clams, eggplant, arugula, and mushrooms. 400pgs. • 2013
In this collection of classic Italian treats in small sizes for scrumptious small bites, the founder of Connecticut's Sweet Maria's Bakery offers more than 75 recipes with easy-to-follow instructions, including cappuccino hazelnut cupcakes, bite-sized almond cakes, individual pear crostatas, mini Italian cream horns, and a one-serving version of Zia Ann's delicious Chocolate Ricotta Pies. 208pgs. • 2013
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GARDEN I NG ✪ 194207 Gardens of the Italian Lakes
189373 Oxford College Gardens
Desmond, Stephen & Marianne Majerus
Richardson, Tim & Andrew Lawson
The gardens around Lake Como and Lake Maggiore in Italy's far north are renowned throughout the world for their beauty and variety. Both lakes are lined with towers, villas, and grand hotels that have inspired countless illustrious writers and composers, and drawn a long line of distinguished visitors. 224pgs. • 2016
The gardens of Oxford's colleges are surprisingly varied in style, age and size, ranging from the ancient mound in the middle of New College to fine modernist designs. In this volume, Tim Richardson's elegant text combines with Andrew Lawson's glorious photographs to reveal the full charm of Oxford's college gardens. 320pgs. • 2015
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195249 Garden's Quintessence
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195191 Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden, 1501-1900
Jan Joris Landscape Architects Since its creation in 1977, Jan Joris has become one of the main garden design firms in Western Europe, renowned for its trendsetting projects in a timeless and contemporary style. This beautiful book features 20 exceptional Joris gardens in lush settings. 256pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Beta-Plus • C • $125.00 / $24.98
✪ 189385 The Irish Garden Powers, Jane & Jonathan Hession
Harris, Stephen Drawing on the superb collection of botanical illustrations in the Plant Sciences Department and Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, this beautifully-illustrated volume charts the evolution of thinking about the cultivation of gardens from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and shows how the garden became a symbol of human interactions within the botanical world. 152pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Bodleian Library • C • $50.00 / $19.98
With a range of plants that runs from the subtropical to the subarctic, and a landscape that varies from gently pastoral to savagely rugged, Ireland has some of the most interesting gardens in the world. This volume visits dozens of beautiful gardens, ranging from the grand demesnes of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy to the intensely personal creations of passionate plantsmen and gardenmakers. 400pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $60.00 / $26.98
185648 The Making of the English Gardener: Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660 Willes, Margaret In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England, making it a leading player in the European horticultural game. Packed with illustrations from the herbals, design treatises, and practical manuals that inspired the creators of that revolution, this volume enthrallingly charts how England's garden grew. 336pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $12.98
✪ 191580 Shakespeare's Gardens Bennett, Jackie A richly illustrated, informative book about the gardens that William Shakespeare knew as a boy and tended as a man. Lovingly cared for by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, these gardens are continually evolving to reflect our ongoing knowledge of his life and the use of plants in 17th-century England. 192pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $40.00 / $14.98
✪ 189420 The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired Our Best-Loved Authors Bennett, Jackie & Richard Hanson Gardens hold a special place in many authors' lives. This beautifully-illustrated volume visits twenty gardens associated with noted British writers ranging from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy to Roald Dahl and Ted Hughes, revealing how they tended and enjoyed their gardens and how they managed their outdoor space. 176pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $40.00 / $19.98
H ISTORY 049096 Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 SECOND EDITION Thornton, John Focusing on the causes and consequences of the slave trade in Africa, Europe, and the New World, Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so invaluable to the European colonizers. 340pgs. • 1998 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $24.98
162210 The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 Palmer, R. R. & David Armitage In this magisterial account of the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being, Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society, marked by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating elites, and a new form of society that placed a greater value on social mobility and legal equality. 800pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $20.98
160179 A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death Desmazières, Erik The manifestation of a collector's appetite for discovering and mastering the world, represented by singular items of natural history, geology, art, or relics, cabinets of curiosities and rarities became popular in the Renaissance and were precursors to the modern museum. Erik Desmazières's contemporary etchings present a collection of the recondite, rare, and bizarre, complete with emblems of the vanity of earthly life and intimations of mortality. 110pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $45.00 / $22.98
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H ISTORY WORLD WAR I
✪ 159837 The Cambridge History of the First World War Volume One: Global War Winter, Jay, ed. A comprehensive account of the war's military history. Adopting a global perspective, the volume explores how the imperial powers devoted vast reserves of manpower and material to their war efforts and thereby changed the political landscape of the world order. It also charts the moral, political and legal implications of the changing character of war and, in particular, the collapse of the distinction between civilian and military targets. 771pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $170.00 / $79.98
✪ 159836 The Cambridge History of the First World War Volume Two: The State
✪ 177470 First to Fly: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the Heroic American Squadron That Flew for France in World War One Flood, Charles Bracelen If the 1903 flights at Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I was its violent adolescence -- a brief but bloody era that completely changed the way planes were designed, fabricated, and flown. Charles Bracelen Flood tells the story of the men who were at the forefront of that revolution: the daredevils of the Lafayette Escadrille, who flew in French planes, wore French uniforms, and showed the world an American brand of heroism before the US entered the Great War. 256pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $5.98
Winter, Jay, ed. Written by a global team of historical experts, this volume sets new standards in the political history of the waging of war, providing an authoritative new narrative that addresses problems of logistics, morale, innovation in tactics and weapons systems, and the use and abuse of science during the conflict. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to, and were deformed by, the pressures of war. 802pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $170.00 / $79.98
✪ 162025 The Cambridge History of the First World War Volume Three: Civil Society Winter, Jay, ed. Adopting a transnational approach, this volume surveys the war's treatment of populations at risk, including refugees, minorities and internees, to show the full extent of the disaster of war. It sheds new light on how families and medical authorities adapted to the challenges of war and on the shifts that occurred in gender roles and behavior that would subsequently reshape society. 779pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $170.00 / $79.98
✪ 195984 The Missing of the Somme Dyer, Geoff Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs, film, and literature determined -sometimes in advance of the events they described -- how we would think about and remember the Great War. With his characteristic originality and insight, he untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the conflict. 224pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Canongate • P • IMPORT / $4.98
180672 The Month That Changed the World - July 1914 Martel, Gordon Much time and ink has been spent trying to identify the person or state responsible, or to explain the underlying forces that "inevitably" led to war in 1914. Dissatisfied with these explanations, Gordon Martel has gone back to the contemporary diplomatic, military, and political records to investigate the twists and turns of the crisis afresh, with the aim of establishing just how the catastrophe really unfurled. 416pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $34.95 / $6.98
✪ 195992 Christmas in the Trenches Wakefield, Alan Unlike the famous Christmas truce of 1914, the Christmas experiences in other years and on other fronts of the Great War have received scant attention. Alan Wakefield has trawled the archives of the Imperial War Museum, National Archives, and National Army Museum to provide a fascinating selection of first-hand accounts of the six wartime Christmases of World War I. 224pgs. • 2013 ◆ • History Press • P • $17.95 / $7.98
195133 Dark Invasion : 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
✪ 195989 A Short History of the First World War: Land, Sea & Air, 1914-1918 Kerr, Gordon This concise volume describes the background to war, the international rivalries and conflicts that led it, the relentless build-up of military and naval hardware that characterized the early years of the 20th century, and the great figures that tried to prevent conflict or enthusiastically pushed for it. Each year of the war is covered in its own chapter, with the battles, various battlefronts, and important incidents described and analyzed. 160pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Old House • P • $16.95 / $4.98
Blum, Howard When the US became a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, a team of German saboteurs devised a series of "mysterious accidents" that attacked vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J. P. Morgan. Illustrated with eight pages of black and-white photos, this riveting true-life war thriller chillingly echoes our own time. 496pgs. • 2014 ◆ • HarperCollins • C • $27.99 / $5.98
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H ISTORY 112185 The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West
104818 Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions
REVISED EDITION Parker, Geoffrey
Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle & Donald Theodore Sanders
A unique account of Western warfare from antiquity to the present day. Treats all aspects of the subject: the development of warfare on land, sea and air; weapons and technology; strategy and defense; discipline and intelligence; mercenaries and standing armies; cavalry and infantry; chivalry and Blitzkrieg; guerilla assault and nuclear arsenals. It ranges in scope from the Greek victory at Marathon to the jungle warfare of Vietnam and the strategic air attacks of the Gulf War. 432pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $25.98
✪ 135469 The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World Bradley, Keith & Paul Cartledge, eds. In twenty-two chapters, leading scholars here explore the centrality of slavery in ancient Mediterranean life using a wide range of textual and material evidence. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. 608pgs. • 2011
Ranging from an examination of temblors mentioned in the Bible, to a richly detailed account of the 1906 catastrophe in San Francisco, to Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, to the Peruvian earthquake in 1970 (the Western Hemisphere's greatest natural disaster), this book is an unequaled testament to a natural phenomenon that can be not only terrifying but also threatening to humankind's fragile existence. 278pgs. • 2007 ▲ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $17.98
127086 Famine: A Short History Ó Gráda, Cormac Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from the Great Famine of 14th-century Europe to the famine in Niger in 2005. 344pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Princeton • P • $28.95 / $16.98
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✪ 135895 The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume 3: AD 1420-AD 1804 Bradley, Keith & Cartledge, Paul, et al., eds. A collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of slavery and other forms of coerced labor in Africa, Asia, and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic World and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti. The essays, which are organized both nationally and thematically, cover the major empires, coerced migration, slave resistance, gender, demography, law, and the economic significance of coerced labor. 766pgs. • 2011
WORLD WAR II
✪ 191909 1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War Wortman, Marc Explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Launching Lend-Lease, conducting espionage at home and in South America to root out Nazi sympathizers, and waging undeclared war in the Atlantic, were just some of the tactics with which FDR battled Hitler in the shadows. 416pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $27.00 / $7.98
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✪ 107371 Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
111506 The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method Trachtenberg, Marc A practical guide to the historical study of international politics, grounded in the author's more than forty years' experience as a working historian. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research -- that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. 266pgs. • 2006 ▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
041081 Cross-Cultural Trade in World History Curtin, Philip D.
Drury, Robert & Tom Clavin The story of World War II's most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, following a string of victories, Adm. William "Bull" Halsey attempted a complicated refueling maneuver and unwittingly drove his 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon, where Halsey's men found themselves battling 90-foot waves and 150-mph winds. 352pgs. • 2007 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $15.00 / $3.98
Discusses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships between different cultures throughout world history, using a combination of economic history and anthropology to examine crosscultural trade patterns in Africa, China, Asia, and North America. 293pgs. • 1984 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $57.00 / $38.98
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182296 The War in the West Vol. 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941 Holland, James A masterful book that redefines our understanding of the opening years of World War II. Beginning with the lead-up to the outbreak of war in 1939 and ending in the middle of 1941 on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Russia, this is a landmark history of the war on land, in the air, and at sea. 512pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $30.00 / $7.98
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H ISTORY 173023 History in the Making Elliott, J. H. Drawing on his own experiences as a renowned historian of Spain, Europe, and the Americas, Elliott provides a deft and sharp analysis of the work that historians do and how the field has changed since the 1950s. He offers acute observations on such topics as the history of national and imperial decline, political history, biography, and art and cultural history. 264pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $7.98
185824 How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Davidson, Neil Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the bourgeois revolution has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this volume, Neil Davidson systematically examines the approaches taken by a wide range of thinkers to explain the causes and outcomes of revolutions from the Reformation to decolonization. 818pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Haymarket • P • $32.00 / $9.98
111591 Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
087374 Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora Gomez, Michael A. A concise examination of the migrations and dispersals of African peoples from antiquity to the modern era. It explores the experiences of Africans in the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds before 1492, as well as their enslavement and involuntary migration to the New World empires of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, and English. 248pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $30.99 / $18.98
181128 "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide Suny, Ronald Grigor A century after it took place, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 191516 were committed. 520pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $20.98
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✪ 150539 What It Is Like to Go to War
In warfare, do states with the largest, best equipped, IT-rich militaries invariably win? In this landmark reconception of battle and war, Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to modern war, and has become increasingly important since 1900 in a world of ever more lethal weaponry. 337pgs. • 2006
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038403 On War: Indexed Edition Von Clausewitz, Carl
In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. In this volume, Marlantes, the author of Matterhorn, weaves riveting accounts of his combat experiences with thoughtful analysis, self-examination, and his readings from Homer to the Mahabharata to Jung. 272pgs. • 2012 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $15.00 / $4.98
First published in 1832, this classic study attempts to understand war both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. 732pgs. • 1984 ▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $22.98
125560 Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate Ruddiman, William F. Did human involvement in climate change only begin with the industrial revolution, as is commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative book argues that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years -- as a result of the invention of agriculture. 240pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
140838 Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present Headrick, Daniel R. An examination of Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa to America's conflicts in the Middle East today. Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies from muskets and galleons to jet planes and smart bombs, and sheds light on the factors that have led to victory in some cases and defeat in others. 416pgs. • 2012 ▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
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✪ 202876 When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010 Judt, Tony A great thinker's final testament: a wise and forthright collection of essays. Whether the subject is the scholarly poverty of the new social history, the willful blindness of French collective memory about what happened to the country's Jews during World War II, or the moral challenge to Israel of the so-called Palestinian problem, the majesty of Judt's work lies in his combination of unsparing honesty, intellectual brilliance, and ethical clarity. 400pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Heinemann • C • IMPORT / $7.98
180986 The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains Laqueur, Thomas W. The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavengers, yet even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters -- for individuals, communities, and nations. This ambitious history offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead from antiquity to the 20th century. 736pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $21.98
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J EWISH STU DI ES 028941 The Autobiography of a SeventeenthCentury Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah Cohen, Mark R., ed. Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community, well-known to contemporary European Christians as well as to Jews. This complete translation of his autobiography provides a wealth of historical material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a host of other subjects. 308pgs. • 1989 ▲ • Princeton • P • $47.95 / $32.98
181032 Maimonides: Life and Thought Halbertal, Moshe Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition. 400pgs. • 2015
125781 A Short History of the Jews Brenner, Michael The most learned yet broadly accessible book available on the subject. Brenner takes readers from the mythic wanderings of Moses to the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust; from the Babylonian exile to the founding of the modern state of Israel; and from the Sephardic communities under medieval Islam to the shtetls of eastern Europe and the Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn. 472pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
180993 Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Manuscript Illumination Epstein, Marc Michael, ed. The first comprehensive survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the present day. Magnificently illustrated with pages from hundreds of manuscripts -- including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved Jewish texts -- it offers surprising new perspectives on Jewish life, and presents the books of the People of the Book as never before. 288pgs. • 2015
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160477 Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
187184 Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Feiner, Shmuel
Waxman, Dov
The "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the 18th and 19th centuries. This volume, the first full, human portrait of this fascinating man, provides a vivid sense of Mendelssohn's daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. 248pgs. • 2010
More than ever before, American Jews are arguing about Israeli policies, and many, especially younger ones, are becoming uncomfortable with Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Dov Waxman argues that Israel is fast becoming a source of disunity for American Jewry, and that a new era of American Jewish conflict over Israel is replacing the old era of solidarity. 328pgs. • 2016
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104389 Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Gross, Jan T. One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence into an engulfing reconstruction of that horrific July day, one that has been remembered well by locals but forgotten by history. 216pgs. • 2001 ◆ • Princeton • C • $37.50 / $17.98
191156 What Is Talmud?: The Art of Disagreement Dolgopolski, Sergey Redefines the place of the Talmud and its study, both traditional and academic, in the intellectual map of the West, arguing that Talmud is a scholarly art of its own and represents a fundamental intellectual discipline, not a mere application of logical, grammatical, or even rhetorical arts for the purpose of textual hermeneutics. 320pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Fordham • C • $85.00 / $8.98
181031 No Joke: Making Jewish Humor Wisse, Ruth R. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity -- as well as the brilliance of comic writers like Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, she draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being -- and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience alike. 296pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
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LATI N AM ERICAN & CARI BBEAN STU DI ES 087675 Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
104985 Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
SECOND EDITION Clendinnen, Inga
Telles, Edward E.
An exploration of the turbulent 16th-century encounter between Spanish conquistadors and the Yucatecan Maya. Clendinnen's study, which now includes a new Preface, is both a specific examination of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with broader implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. 264pgs. • 2003 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $35.99 / $21.98
105005 Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the AfroBrazilian Candomblé Matory, James Lorand With counterparts in Nigeria, the Benin Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Trinidad, and the US, Candomblé is a religion of spirit possession, dance, healing, and blood sacrifice. Vividly combining history and ethnography, Matory spotlights a so-called "folk" religion defined not by its closure or internal homogeneity but by the diversity of its connections to classes and places often far away. 376pgs. • 2005
The most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the controversial subject of race relations in Brazil, a country often hailed as a more racially harmonious society than the US. Telles shows that although there is in fact far more mixing of races in Brazil, exclusion remains a serious problem. 324pgs. • 2006 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $21.98
127325 Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 Gleijeses, Piero The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution engineered by US intervention. 464pgs. • 1992 ▲ • Princeton • P • $62.50 / $26.98
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LAW & LEGAL STU DI ES ✪ 128321 Religion and the Constitution Vol. 2: Establishment and Fairness
107120 The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law
Greenawalt, Kent
Teles, Steven Michael
In this second of two major volumes on the intersection of constitutional and religious issues, Greenawalt focuses on the American Constitution's Establishment Clause, which forbids government from favoring one religion over another, or religion over secularism. 568pgs. • 2009
Beginning in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of liberal accomplishments, and set their sights on law schools, professional networks, public interest groups, and the judiciary. Drawing from internal documents as well as interviews with key conservative figures, Teles examines the conservative challenge to liberal domination of American legal institutions. 339pgs. • 2008
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LINGU ISTICS & LANGUAGES 128124 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language THIRD EDITION Crystal, David
041229 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, Volume 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons 1-30 Abboud, P. F., ed.
This thoroughly revised edition incorporates the major developments in language study which have taken place since the mid 1990s. Two main new areas have been added: the rise of electronic communication, and the crisis affecting the world's languages, of which half are thought to be so seriously endangered that they will die out this century. 524pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Cambridge • P • $51.00 / $27.98
The Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Course is the premier introduction, for the English-speaking student, to the active written language of the contemporary Arab world. Volume 1 is complete in itself and presents a practical introduction to the writing system of Arabic and to its pronunciation. Each lesson contains a text, a vocabulary, grammar, and drills including oral and written comprehension passages. 634pgs. • 1983 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $79.99 / $38.98
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LI NGU ISTICS & LANGUAGES 136865 The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
134285 How Many Languages Do We Need?: The Economics of Linguistic Diversity
Siegel, Jeff
Ginsburgh, Victor & Shlomo Weber
In addressing the emergence of contact languages, the author looks at research on processes of second language acquisition and use, including simplification, overgeneralization, and language transfer. He shows how these processes can account for many of the characteristics of pidgins and creoles, and proposes linguistic and sociolinguistic constraints on their application in language contact. 320pgs. • 2008
What are the specific advantages and disadvantages of linguistic diversity and how does it influence social and economic progress? This book examines linguistic diversity as a global social phenomenon and considers what degree of linguistic variety might result in the greatest economic good. 256pgs. • 2011
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104982 The Languages of China Ramsey, S. Robert
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"A comprehensive and accurate account that places China's linguistic diversity in a meaningful historical, geographical, and social context. Ramsey has succeeded admirably in achieving this end" -- The Journal of Asian Studies. 355pgs. • 1989 ▲ • Princeton • P • $52.00 / $29.98
LITERARY CRITICISM & BIOGRAPHY ✪ 195873 Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
154697 Kafka: The Years of Insight
Darnton, Robert
This volume of the acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the writer's final years. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of Kafka's personal life, then pulling back for panoramic shots of a wider world scarred by World War I, disease, and inflation. 816pgs. • 2013
Demonstrating his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds -- 18th-century France, the British Raj, and Communist East Germany -- in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. By rooting censorship in the particulars of history, he enables us to think more clearly about efforts to control expression past and present. 304pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $5.98
185493 Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History Cheyette, Bryan Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, Cheyette elaborates a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. Among the authors he examines are Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith, and Muriel Spark. 320pgs. • 2014
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195139 Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker Kunkel, Thomas From the 1930s to the 1960s, Joseph Mitchell was the voice of New York City, cherished for his intimate sketches of the people who made the city tick, from Mohawk steelworkers to Staten Island oystermen, from homeless intellectual Joe Gould to Old John McSorley, founder of the city's most famous saloon. Kunkel's biography, based on the thousands of archival pages he left behind and dozens of interviews, pieces together the life of a beloved and enigmatic literary legend. 384pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Random House • C • $30.00 / $7.98
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✪ 105155 Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading Jackson, Virginia Walker How do we recognize a poem when we see one? Jackson argues that the century and a half spanning the circulation of Dickinson's work tells the story of a shift in the publication, consumption, and interpretation of lyric poetry. This shift took the form of what she calls the "lyricization of poetry," a process that collapsed the variety of poetic genres into lyric as a synonym for poetry. 312pgs. • 2005 ◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $22.98
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185906 Melville and Milton: An Edition and Analysis of Melville's Annotations on Milton Grey, Robin Two decades ago, Herman Melville's marked and annotated copy of John Milton's poetry first came to light. Featuring a Foreword by John Bryant, the present volume brings together Melville and Milton scholars in order to illuminate the important artistic connections between these two major authors. 240pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Duquesne • C • $70.00 / $12.98
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LITERARY CRITICISM & BIOGRAPHY 160473 The Milton Encyclopedia Corns, Thomas N., ed. The articles in this comprehensive reference cover each poem and prose work by John Milton; the life of Milton and the members of his family; all events and all contemporary and historical figures mentioned significantly in his writings; every book of the Bible in its relation to Milton's own work; printers, booksellers, and publishing history; the critical and editorial traditions; illustrators; and those whose own writing was shaped by Milton's influence. 424pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Yale • C • $165.00 / $21.98
162332 Moral Imagination: Essays Bromwich, David In this volume, one of America's premier cultural critics explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the reality of justice. These wide-ranging essays address thinkers and topics from Gandhi and Martin Luther King on nonviolent resistance, to the dangers of identity politics, to the psychology of the heroes of classic American literature. 376pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $15.98
038520 The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Preminger, Alex & T. V. Brogan, eds. A comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. This completely revised edition includes new entries by Camille Paglia, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Elaine Showalter, Houston Baker, and Andrew Ross, and new coverage of cultural criticism, discourse, feminist poetics, and Chicano poetry. 1383pgs. • 1993 ▲ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $31.98
✪ 141741 On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling Dirda, Michael A lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prizewinning critic Michael Dirda is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars -- the most famous of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, this highly engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator is also a rare insider's account of the activities and playful scholarship of the Baker Street group. 224pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $7.98
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
✪ 129781 The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 Jackson, Lawrence Patrick The first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African-American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. Surveying the tumultuous decades surrounding World War II, Jackson restores the "indignant" quality to a generation of writers shaped by segregation, the Great Depression, the growth of American communism, and international decolonization. 608pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • C • $47.95 / $22.98
✪ 144838 The Cambridge History of African American Literature Graham, Maryemma & Jerry Washington Ward, eds. The first major 21st-century history of four hundred years of black writing, this volume presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, both oral and print, of Africandescended peoples in the US. The contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasize the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history. 860pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $206.00 / $99.98
✪ 195909 William Wells Brown: An African-American Life Greenspan, Ezra A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the 19th century. Born into slavery, William Wells Brown lifted himself out of illiteracy and became a widely admired and hugely popular speaker on antislavery circuits, wrote the earliest African American works in several genres, practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for black uplift, temperance, and civil rights. 448pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $35.00 / $5.98
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190468 The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry Robinson, Peter, ed. A collaborative guide to the groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have shaped contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. It can be read from cover to cover as a narrative of a developing tradition, by exploring its five thematically structured sections, or by picking out single chapters or discussions of particular interest to the reader. 784pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $150.00 / $49.98
✪ 092912 Patterns for America: Modernism & the Concept of Culture Hegeman, Susan Examining the historical uses of the term "culture" in both academic and popular contexts, Hegeman persuasively demonstrates how the concept shifted away from its original anthropological provenance. She connects this with the emergence of a specifically "American culture," as exemplified in the work of writers like Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, Nathanael West, and James Agee. 274pgs. • 1999 ◆ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $22.98
✪ 195915 Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece Gorra, Michael A revelatory biography of the American master, as told through the lens of his greatest novel. Traveling to Florence, Rome, Paris, and England, Gorra sheds new light on James's family, the European literary circles -- George Eliot, Flaubert, Turgenev -- in which James made his name, and the psychological forces that enabled him to create his most memorable female protagonist. 416pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Liveright • C • $29.95 / $5.98
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LITERARY CRITICISM & BIOGRAPHY ✪ 195140 Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
166736 The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
Gordon, Charlotte
The King James Bible, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour, stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English." Distilling the insights acquired from his career as a brilliant critic and teacher, he offers readers a magisterial and perceptive reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterpiece. 320pgs. • 2011
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein -- two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. 672pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Random House • C • $30.00 / $6.98
Bloom, Harold
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111807 Shakespeare Herder, Johann Gottfried
✪ 036927 Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815-1850 Helsinger, Elizabeth K. Explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain, showing how artists and writers competed to claim the English countryside as ideological ground, who should constitute the nation, and how should they be represented. 290pgs. • 1997 ◆ • Princeton • C • $70.00 / $49.98
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✪ 150143 The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature Lees, Clare A., ed. Providing a discussion of essential texts such as Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this volume captures the inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture as viewed through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science, and the history of women's writing. Chapters on English learning and literature in the 9th century and the later formation of English poetry and prose convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. 806pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $191.00 / $79.98
✪ 144844 The Cambridge History of English Poetry O'Neill, Michael, ed. The most comprehensive and authoritative history of the field from early medieval times to the present. It traces patterns of continuity, transformation, transition, and development, explores how poets in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland have used language and to what effect, and offers fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and poems from Beowulf to Alice Oswald. 1115pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $242.00 / $99.98
✪ 144852 The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature Quayson, Ato, ed. The rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies focuses attention on the lives and conditions of various racial minorities in the West, as well as on regional, indigenous forms of representation around the world as distinct from dominant Western traditions. The first major collaborative overview of the field, this two-volume work will set the future agenda for the field, while also synthesizing its present state for the benefit of scholars and students. 1424pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $417.00 / $199.98
One of the most important works in the history of literary criticism, this passionate essay pioneered a new, historicist approach to cultural artifacts by arguing that they should be judged not by conventions imported from another time and place, but by the effectiveness of their response to their own historical and cultural context. 86pgs. • 2008 ▲ • Princeton • C • $20.95 / $7.98
172658 Strindberg: A Life Prideaux, Sue Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser -- Strindberg was all these, and yet he is largely known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare. This biography, supported by extensive new research, describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great figures in world literature. 352pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Yale • P • $30.00 / $6.98 Order by Phone (609) 737-4171 ext.15 (10AM – 4PM
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150628 Brecht and Method Jameson, Fredric A dissection of the intricate connections between Brecht's drama and his politics. Jameson sees Brecht's method as a multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference, and self-reference, which tears open a gap for individuals to situate themselves historically, to think about themselves in the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a basis for judgment. 280pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Verso • P • $15.95 / $6.98
192025 The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink Katz, Pamela The first book to tell the full story of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's impulsive, combustible partnership, one of the most important creative collaborations of the past century. It is also the first to give full credit to the three women -- actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmann -- whose creative gifts contributed enormously to their masterworks. 480pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Doubleday • C • $30.00 / $5.98
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LITERARY CRITICISM & BIOGRAPHY 152573 The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue
172620 Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition
Eagleton, Terry & Matthew Beaumont
Douglas, Mary
This comprehensive volume of interviews covers both Eagleton's life and the development of his thought and politics. Lively and insightful, it will appeal to anyone interested in the evolution of radical politics, modernism, cultural theory, the history of ideas, sociology, semantic inquiry, and the state of Marxist theory. 224pgs. • 2009
Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, the literary technique known as ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Focusing on ring composition in the Iliad, the Book of Numbers, and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Mary Douglas examines the technique, its principles, and its functions in a crosscultural manner. 192pgs. • 2010
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LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA 085401 Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology Gopnik, Adam, ed. Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of old world Europe, a hotbed of revolutionary ideologies, and a space in which to cultivate an openness to life thought impossible at home. Including stories, letters, memoirs, and reporting, the text distills 3 centuries of writing about what Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world." 650pgs. • 2004 ▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $18.98
169788 The Bestiary, or Procession of Orpheus TRANSLATED BY X. J. KENNEDY Apollinaire, Guillaume
✪ 185105 But You Did Not Come Back: A Memoir Loridan-Ivens, Marceline A profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline LoridanIvens, who at the age of fifteen was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. In the camps, he managed to smuggle a note to her, a sign of life that made all the difference to Marceline; he died in the Holocaust, while Marceline survived. Here she writes back to her father, the man whose death overshadowed her whole life. 112pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $22.00 / $6.98
✪ 191956 Christodora Murphy, Tim
Since it was first published in 1911, Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poems has charmed readers with its celebrations of animals, birds, fish, insects, and the mythical poet Orpheus. X. J. Kennedy's translation follows Apollinaire in casting the poems into rhymed stanzas, suggesting music and sudden closures while remaining faithful to their sense. 96pgs. • 2011
Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a true response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, this vivid and compelling novel recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life the ever-changing city itself. 496pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $26.00 / $8.98
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Pynchon, Thomas
✪ 162218 The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales
Pynchon's novel takes place in New York City in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the events of September 11th. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler's aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. 496pgs. • 2014
Strange and fantastical, these fairy tales reflect the Hungarian author's profound interest in friendship, alienation, and Taoist philosophy. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, the volume brings together sixteen of Balázs's unique and haunting stories, accompanied by a selection of the brilliant illustrations drawn in the Chinese style by painter Mariette Lydis for the original edition. 208pgs. • 2013
170001 Bleeding Edge
Balázs, Béla
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194887 The Buried Giant
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157759 Collected Later Stories
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Updike, John
With the Romans have long departed and Britain steadily declining into ruin, an elderly couple decide that now is the time for them to set off across their troubled land of mist and rain to find the son they can scarcely remember. Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale of love, vengeance, and war. 336pgs. • 2015
The second of two volumes in this definitive collection includes 84 classic stories that display the virtuosic command of character, dialogue, and sensual description for which Updike was known. 800pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Library of America • C • $37.50 / $16.98
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LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA 182170 Collected Short Fiction Naipaul, V. S. No writer has rendered our postcolonial world as acutely or prophetically, nor given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face, as V. S. Naipaul. All of the Nobel Prize winner's stunning short fiction is here collected in one volume, with an Introduction by the author. 440pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Everyman's Library • C • $25.00 / $5.98
035752 Early Novels and Stories: The Troll Garden; O Pioneers!; The Song of the Lark; My Antonia; One of Ours Cather, Willa Includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," Cather's first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. 1336pgs. • 1987 ▲ • Library of America • C • $40.00 / $16.98
035759 Complete Plays 1932-1943 O'Neill, Eugene
163777 Echo's Bones
This third and final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene O'Neill's dramatic writings contains eight plays, including the crowning achievements of his career. Includes: Ah, Wilderness!, Days Without End, A Touch of the Poet, More Stately Mansions, The Iceman Cometh, Hughie, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, as well as "Tomorrow," O'Neill's only published short story. 1007pgs. • 1988
Beckett, Samuel
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195114 The Complete Poetry
Considered by Beckett's editor to be too imaginatively playful, too allusive, and too undisciplined for inclusion in his 1933 collection More Pricks than Kicks, "Echo's Bones" (not to be confused with the poem and collection of poems of the same title) remained unpublished for nearly eight decades. This little-known story is here introduced by Beckett scholar Mark Nixon, who situates the work in terms of its biographical context and textual references. 128pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $22.00 / $5.98
Angelou, Maya Timeless and prescient, this definitive compendium will warm the hearts of Maya Angelou's most ardent admirers even as it introduces new readers to the legendary poet, activist, and teacher -- a phenomenal woman for the ages. 336pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Modern Library • C • $30.00 / $8.98
157763 The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground O'Brien, Glenn, ed. Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, editor Glenn O'Brien has created an unparalleled literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others. 500pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Library of America • C • $27.95 / $9.98
✪ 169386 The Daylight Gate Winterson, Jeanette On Good Friday, 1612, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, a coven of thirteen is interrupted by the local magistrate. In this historical novel, Winterson's singular vision captures a dark period of complicated morality, sex, and tragic power-plays at a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined. 240pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $14.00 / $3.98
189266 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession TRANSLATED BY PETER CARSON Tolstoy, Leo A renowned translator's versions, completed just before his death, of Tolstoy's most spiritual and most existential works. Unlike so many previous translations that have tried to smooth out Tolstoy's rough edges, Peter Carson presents a translation that captures the verisimilitude and psychological realism of the original Russian text. 224pgs. • 2013
J. G. BALLARD
✪ 163191 The Day of Creation Ballard, J. G. On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance, but his obsession quickly spirals dangerously out of control. First published in 1987, this classic Ballard thriller continues to resonate today. 288pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Liveright • P • $15.95 / $4.98
✪ 195913 The Drowned World Ballard, J. G. First published in 1962, Ballard's ferociously imaginative novel imagines a terrifying world in which global warming has melted the ice caps and primordial jungles have overrun a tropical London. Set during the year 2145, it follows biologist Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists as they confront a cityscape in which nature is on the rampage and giant lizards, dragonflies, and insects fiercely compete for domination. 208pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Liveright • C • $23.95 / $5.98
✪ 195914 Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography Ballard, J. G. In this revelatory autobiography, Ballard movingly recalls his Shanghai childhood and internment during World War II, his first attempts at science fiction, the 1970 American pulping of The Atrocity Exhibition -- which sprang from his fascination with JFK conspiracy theories -- and his life as a single father after the premature death of his wife. 272pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Liveright • C • $25.95 / $5.98
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LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA ✪ 192024 Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 Munro, Alice
159729 The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1923-1925 Spanier, Sandra, et al., eds.
From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, a selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades. Here are two dozen of Alice Munro's most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, many of them set in the territory she has made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. 640pgs. • 2014
These letters illuminate Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s, as well as the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Striving to "make it new," he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation. 604pgs. • 2013
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195007 The Faraway Nearby Solnit, Rebecca
038608 The Lives of Animals Coetzee, J. M.
An exploration of how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories -- of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness -- Solnit revisits fairytales and stories about arctic explorers, Che Guevara among the leper colonies, and Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, about warmth and coldness, pain and kindness, decay and transformation, making art and making self. 272pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Viking • C • $25.95 / $5.98
✪ 195883 Harvard Square Aciman, André Amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge, a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but everything changes when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a café. With his most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. 304pgs. • 2013 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $4.98
✪ 132022 Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary Delacampagne, Ariane & Christian Delacampagne Fantastic animals -- sphinxes, hydras, chimeras, dragons, unicorns, griffins, sirens, and centaurs -- can be found in works from Greek vases to paintings by Bosch, Goya, and Picasso, from folk art to comic strips, advertising, and Hollywood movies. This lavishly illustrated compendium explores the marvelous menagerie of imaginary animals that humans have conjured up over the ages. 200pgs. • 2003 ◆ • Princeton • C • $69.95 / $19.98
035784 Historical Romances: The Prince & the Pauper; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Twain, Mark Collects for the first time in a single volume The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and the long unavailable fictional biography of "the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced," Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, which provides a glimpse of the moral imagination of America's greatest humorist. 1029pgs. • 1994 ▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98 Some books are in limited supply. Order today!
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A renowned novelist employs fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. 127pgs. • 2001 ▲ • Princeton • P • $26.95 / $15.98
187218 Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 Murdoch, Iris This first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and interesting personal letters offers a rounded self-portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than 40 of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. 688pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $20.98
192218 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Blake, William This new facsimile edition of Blake's iconoclastic work includes a plate-by-plate guide to the texts, interlinear figures, and larger designs in a commentary accompanying the transcript of each reproduced plate. An introduction explores the book's literary and historical background, Blake's printing process, and the book's anonymous initial publication. 184pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Bodleian Library • P • $25.00 / $9.98
194890 The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death Whitehead, Colson A longtime neighborhood poker player, Colson Whitehead was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online magazine Grantland to see how far he could get in the World Series of Poker. The result was this brilliant, hilarious, weirdly profound, and ultimately moving portrayal of the human condition, by the acclaimed author of The Underground Railroad. 256pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Doubleday • C • $24.95 / $4.98
194705 Notes from a Dead House Dostoevsky, Fyodor A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized autobiographical account of penal servitude in Siberia. His story, which revealed imprisonment as a tragedy both for the inmates and for Russia, is also a profound meditation on freedom. 336pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Knopf • C • $26.95 / $6.98
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LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA 101652 Novels and Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories / Letting Go Roth, Philip Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assaults on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. This first volume in the definitive edition of Roth's collected works presents Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, the book for which he won the National Book Award, as well as his first novel, Letting Go. 913pgs. • 2005 ▲ • Library of America • C • $35.00 / $16.98
182168 Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence Poirot, Luis Pablo Neruda wrote often about the natural world and the beloved objects he surrounded himself with. In this beautiful edition of photographer Luis Poirot's classic work -- featuring new scans from newly made prints -- we come to know the poet's world through his poems, his houses, the wonderful things he collected, and his friends. Includes 84 photographs. 192pgs. • 2004
✪ 195900 Service with a Smile Wodehouse, P. G. The final Uncle Fred novel marks his return to Blandings Castle to relieve Lord Emsworth's woes: a nagging secretary, prankster Church Lads, and a plot to thieve his prize-winning sow. Uncle Fred must serve up his brand of sweetness and light to ensure that everything turns out very capital indeed. 192pgs. • 2013 ◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $13.95 / $4.98
✪ 198676 Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites Malcolm, Lyons Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. This Penguin Classics hardcover edition presents a selection of the tales in their unexpurgated form. 496pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Penguin • C • $25.00 / $5.98
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177965 A Place in the Country Sebald, W. G. The last of the great writer's major works to be translated into English, this is Sebald's meditation on six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind. The beautiful hardcover edition includes more than 40 pieces of art and 6 full-color gatefolds, all as originally selected and laid out by the author. 240pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Random House • C • $26.00 / $5.98
JIM HARRISON
✪ 191896 The Ancient Minstrel Harrison, Jim Three novellas highlighting Harrison's phenomenal range as a writer, his trademark wit, and his keen insight into the human condition. Fresh, incisive, and endlessly entertaining, with moments of both profound wisdom and sublime humor, this volume is a reminder of what made Jim Harrison one of the most cherished and important of contemporary writers. 256pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $25.00 / $7.98
105182 The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'Ing Mei: The Gathering, Vol. 1
158217 Brown Dog: Novellas
Roy, David Tod, trans.
Harrison, Jim
An unabridged and annotated translation of the first volume of the anonymous 16th-century Chinese novel, the story of the domestic life of the corrupt and voracious Hsi-men Ch'ing, his six wives and concubines. 714pgs. • 1997 ▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $26.98
126167 The Poetry Lesson Codrescu, Andrei Neither precisely a novel nor a memoir, this is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical finde-siècle salaried beatnik" -- one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. In other words, pure Codrescu. 128pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $8.98
131913 The Quotable Thoreau Cramer, Jeffrey S., ed. The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations ever assembled, this volume gathers more than 2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American author, social reformer, environmentalist, and self-reliant thinker. It includes Thoreau's thoughts on topics ranging from sex to solitude, manners to miracles, government to God, and everything in between. 552pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Princeton • C • $19.95 / $8.98
Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down-onhis-luck Michigan Indian, has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. This volume gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never-published one, into one volume, making it the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible Everyman. 448pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $27.00 / $5.98
✪ 134857 The Great Leader Harrison, Jim Detective Sunderson is on the verge of retirement when he begins to investigate a hedonistic cult that has set up camp near his home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. At first, the selfdeclared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his unlikely sixteen-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him to be more intelligent and more sinister than they realized. 288pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Grove Press • C • $24.00 / $4.98
✪ 191897 The Big Seven Harrison, Jim This darkly comic follow-up to The Great Leader sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-toting family who live outside the law in rural Michigan. 352pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $16.00 / $5.98
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LITERATU RE, POETRY & DRAMA ✪ 195904 Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
✪ 195126 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Gordimer, Nadine
Rushdie, Salman
In this career-spanning collection of her non-fiction, Gordimer revisits the legacies of Tolstoy, Proust, and Flaubert, and engages vigorously with contemporaries like Susan Sontag, Octavio Paz, and Edward Said. But some of her most sensuous writing comes in her travelogues, including recollections of childhood holidays beside South Africa's coast of the Indian Ocean and a riveting account of her journey along the Congo River. 752pgs. • 2010
Inspired by the traditional "wonder tales" of the East, Salman Rushdie's novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that still underlie today's world. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, it is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling. 304pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Modern Library • C • $28.00 / $5.98
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092587 Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems AMERICAN POETS PROJECT Roethke, Theodore
111778 The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Von Hofmannsthal, Hugo
From the recollections of his youth in Michigan to the visionary longings of the poems written just before his death, Theodore Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed irreparably broken. This gathering of Roethke's works includes several of his poems for children, as well as a generous sampling from his notebooks. 200pgs. • 2005 ▲ • Library of America • C • $20.00 / $7.98
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fame as Richard Strauss's collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays. This volume, the most comprehensive collection of Hofmannsthal's writings in English, is a fresh introduction to the range of this extraordinary artist. 520pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Princeton • C • $55.00 / $31.98
MATH EMATICS ✪ 177643 Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis
187139 The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015
Appel, Andrew W., ed.
Pitici, Mircea, ed.
Though less well known than his other work, Turing's 1938 Princeton PhD thesis, "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals," which includes his notion of an oracle machine, has had a lasting influence on computer science and mathematics. This book presents a facsimile of the original typescript of the thesis along with essays that explain its still-unfolding significance. 160pgs. • 2014
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, this volume makes available a wide range of articles not easily found anywhere else -- and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. 392pgs. • 2016
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JULIAN HAVIL
133727 Impossible: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums Havil, Julian The author of Nonplussed! offers another medley of the utterly confusing, profound, and unbelievable -- all of it mathematically irrefutable. He gathers entertaining problems from probability and statistics along with an eclectic variety of conundrums and puzzlers from other areas of mathematics, including classics of abstract math like the Banach-Tarski paradox. 264pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $9.98
181050 John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy Havil, Julian The first contemporary biography to take an in-depth look at the multiple facets of Napier's story: his privileged position as the son of influential Scottish landowners; his reputation as a magician who dabbled in alchemy; his interest in agriculture; his involvement with a notorious outlaw; his staunch antiCatholicism; his interactions with such peers as Kepler and Tycho Brahe; and, most notably, his estimable mathematical legacy as the inventor of logarithms. 296pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
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131637 The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math Strogatz, Steven The story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than 30 years of letters. Compiled by one of the participants, the volume reveals a unique relationship based almost entirely on a shared love of calculus. 184pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $7.98
180877 Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns Farris, Frank A. Featuring more than 100 stunning color illustrations and requiring only a modest background in math, this lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. As you progress through the book, you'll learn how to create breathtaking art images of your own. 248pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $14.98
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MATH EMATICS 127105 The Crest of the Peacock: NonEuropean Roots of Mathematics
111174 Radon Transforms and the Rigidity of the Grassmannians
Joseph, G. G.
Gasqui, Jacques & Hubert Goldschmidt
A multicultural tour that ranges from the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics. Joseph traces the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks, the major contributions of the Arabs, and the achievements of the great civilizations of India and China. 610pgs. • 2010
Provides the first unified examination of the relationship between Radon transforms on symmetric spaces of compact type and the infinitesimal versions of two fundamental rigidity problems in Riemannian geometry. Its primary focus is on the spectral rigidity problem. 376pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Princeton • C • $105.00 / $24.98
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104875 The Essential John Nash Kuhn, Harold W. & Sylvia Nasar, eds. Presents the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics -- from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations -- in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics. In an afterword, Nash describes his current work and discusses an error in one of his papers. 244pgs. • 2007 ◆ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $20.98
154686 The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible Fortnow, Lance
✪ 152706 Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics Banks, Robert B. How tall can a person grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic? In this volume, Banks shows how math and simple reasoning together may produce elegant models that explain everything from the federal debt to the proper technique for ski-jumping. 344pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $6.98
187268 Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner Gardner, Martin
The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not in all of mathematics. Fortnow provides a nontechnical introduction to the problem, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. 192pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • C • $26.95 / $9.98
111758 An Invitation to Modern Number Theory
Martin Gardner's informal, recreational approach to mathematics delighted countless readers and inspired many to pursue careers in mathematics and the sciences. His illuminating autobiography is a disarmingly candid self-portrait of the man Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality and sound science against mysticism and anti-intellectualism. 288pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
Miller, Steven J. & Ramin Takloo-Bighash Introduces many of the central problems, conjectures, results, and techniques of the field, such as the Riemann Hypothesis, Roth's Theorem, the Circle Method, and Random Matrix Theory. 503pgs. • 2006 ▲ • Princeton • C • $99.95 / $59.98
182128 Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks Diaconis, Persi & Ron Graham Reveals the secrets of amazing, fun-to-perform card tricks -- and the profound mathematical concepts behind them. The authors are mathematicians as well as skilled performers with decades of professional experience between them. Each card trick introduces a new concept, and taken together they bring readers to the cutting edge of today's mathematical knowledge. 264pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $8.98
✪ 140937 A Mathematical Nature Walk Adam, John A. How heavy is that cloud? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? John Adam presents 96 questions about many common natural phenomena --and a few uncommon ones -- and shows how to answer them using mostly basic mathematics. 288pgs. • 2011
ELI MAOR
181189 E: The Story of a Number PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY Maor, Eli The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, designed for readers with only a modest background in mathematics, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. 248pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • P • $16.95 / $7.98
154362 Trigonometric Delights Maor, Eli Trigonometry has long had a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view, bringing the subject to life in a compelling blend of history, biography, and mathematics. 256pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Princeton • P • $18.95 / $10.98
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M EDI EVAL STU DI ES 038897 Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages Nirenberg, David Focusing on attacks against minorities in 14th-century France and the Crown of Aragon, Nirenberg argues that these attacks -- ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes -- were often perpetrated not by irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by groups that deliberately manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on minorities. 301pgs. • 1998 ▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
✪ 181176 Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation Bagge, Sverre In this concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation, Scandinavia's leading medieval historian shows how the rise of the three kingdoms not only changed the face of Scandinavia, but also helped make the territorial state the standard political unit in Western Europe. 336pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • C • $30.95 / $14.98
061732 The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093-1343 Davies, R. R.
133693 A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century Jordan, William Chester The first book to systematically compare two of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of the 13th century: Westminster Abbey and the abbey of Saint-Denis. By illuminating the complex relationships the abbots and their institutions shared with each other and with the kings and social networks that supported and exploited them, Jordan paints a vivid portrait of medieval society and politics. 296pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • P • $32.95 / $15.98
192235 A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age Manchester, William No era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. With the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester captures a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse and the grandeur of its rebirth in the Renaissance -- the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. 336pgs. • 1993 ◆ • Little, Brown • P • $16.00 / $4.98
Traces the roots of the United Kingdom and its future to the middle ages, examining England's conquest and colonization of the outer zones of the British Isles, when Edward I set out to subjugate his Celtic neighbors. 224pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Oxford University • P • $60.00 / $33.98
106953 Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World Wormald, Patrick & Janet L. Nelson, eds.
152869 The World of the Vikings Hall, Richard The complete story of the Vikings from their Scandinavian origins, through the incredible period of raiding, trading, and settlement known as the Viking Age, to the last surviving Viking outposts in 15th-century Greenland. Drawing on the latest discoveries and augmenting textual evidence with archaeological detail, the book includes 330 illustrations, 141 in color. 240pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Thames & Hudson • P • $24.95 / $10.98
In this fascinating and wide-ranging volume, leading historians demonstrate that the learned laity, both women as well as men, contributed much more as writers and patrons to early medieval culture than was previously thought. 263pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $124.99 / $52.98
M IDDLE EASTERN & ISLAM IC STU DI ES 038393 Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation Ali, Ahmed
041162 A History of Islamic Societies: Second Edition Lapidus, Ira M.
A bilingual edition, forming an elegant and poetic translation of the Holy Book of Islam in a contemporary and living voice. It includes notes where necessary, providing the full meaning of each word and phrase. 572pgs. • 1993
Incorporates the origins and evolution of Islamic societies and brings into focus the historical processes that gave shape to the manifold varieties of contemporary Islam, and surveys the growing influence of the Islamist movements within national states. 1000pgs. • 2002
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125726 A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire Hanioglu, M. Sukru
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✪ 085477 Image and Reality of the IsraelPalestine Conflict Finkelstein, Norman G.
At the turn of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated 30 million people living within its borders. This volume gives scholars and general readers a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent years marked by enormous social changes. 264pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $17.98
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First published in 1995, this polemical study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically re-examines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current failures of the peace process. 224pgs. • 2001 ◆ • Verso • P • $20.00 / $5.98
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M I DDLE EASTERN & ISLAM IC STU DI ES 187232 Isis: A History
175774 Syria: A Century of War
Gerges, Fawaz A.
McHugo, John
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. Fawaz Gerges shows how decades of dictatorship, poverty, and rising sectarianism in the Middle East, exacerbated by foreign intervention, led to the rise and growth of ISIS -- and why addressing those problems is the only way to ensure its end. 384pgs. • 2016
The collapse of Syria into civil war has spawned a regional crisis whose reverberations grow louder with each passing month. In this timely account, John McHugo seeks to contextualize the headlines, providing broad historical perspective and a richly layered analysis of a country few in the United States know or understand. 320pgs. • 2015
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195218 Living in Historic Cairo: Past and Present in an Islamic City Daftary, Farhad, et al., eds. This illustrated book examines Cairo from the first century AH / seventh century AD to the present, considering the relationships between the physical layout of the city and its historic buildings, its economy, and its social, cultural, and religious life. It discusses the programs of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, both for restoring historic monuments in the district of al-Darb al-Ahmar and for reviving and improving the social and economic life of the old city. 300pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Museum Azimuth Editions • C • $60.00 / $30.98
194897 Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
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THE NILE
194886 The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Wilkinson, Toby A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists, this volume reveals how the Nile brought life to an ancient civilization and its successors. Wilkinson introduces us to a cast of colorful characters, from the godlike pharaohs who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality, to the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have fallen under Egypt's spell. 320pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Doubleday • C • $27.95 / $5.98
Bogosian, Eric
✪ 195149 Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River
A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. Casting fresh light on both one of the great crimes of the 20th century and one of history's most remarkable acts of vengeance, Eric Bogosian sets the killings in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history, and captures in vivid color the history of an era that was rife with political struggles and massacres. 384pgs. • 2015
From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind's tales. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Robert Twigger navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, exploring this unique breeding ground for creativity, power clashes, and constant change. 480pgs. • 2014
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M USIC & DANCE ✪ 126947 Aaron Copland and His World Oja, Carol J. & Judith Tick, eds.
173043 Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars of American music explores the stages of cultural change on which Copland's long life (1900 to 1990) unfolded: from the modernist experiments of the 1920s, through the progressive populism of the Great Depression and the urgencies of World War II, to postwar political backlash and the rise of serialism in the 1950s and the cultural turbulence of the 1960s. 568pgs. • 2005
A fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner, illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, mistress and later wife of Richard Wagner. The first biography to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, it explores the achievements of this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a hidden chapter of European cultural history. 400pgs. • 2011
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194891 Billie Holiday: A Musical Biography Szwed, John
Hilmes, Oliver
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194702 Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Teachout, Terry
The first biography to move beyond the tragic details of the singer's life and focus on her extraordinary musical talent. Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, John Szwed considers how Holiday's life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, her signature songs, and her legacy. 240pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Viking • C • $28.95 / $5.98
The greatest jazz composer of the 20th century was an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. This volume peels away countless layers of Ellington's evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to say, "All the musicians should get together one certain day and get down on their knees and thank Duke." 496pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Gotham Books • P • $20.00 / $5.98
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M USIC & DANCE ✪ 195880 Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music Barker, Hugh & Yuval Taylor Why do so many musicians base their approach on being authentic, and why do fans fall for it every time? Investigating this obsession in the last century through, this volume rethinks what makes popular music work. Along the way, the authors discuss the segregation of music in the South, investigate self-absorption in modern pop, reassess genres from rockabilly to disco, and show how the quest for authenticity has made some music great and some music terrible. 304pgs. • 2007 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $25.95 / $4.98
157865 Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany Sondheim, Stephen The second volume of Sondheim's collected lyrics. Once again, he richly annotates his lyrics with invaluable advice on songwriting, discussions of theater history and the state of the industry today, and exacting dissections of his work -- both successes and failures. 480pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Knopf • C • $45.00 / $9.98
185568 Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work Marissen, Michael In this pioneering study, a respected musicologist examines Handel's masterwork and uncovers a disturbing message of antiJudaism buried within its joyous celebration of the divinity of Christ. Discovering previously unidentified historical source materials has enabled the author to investigate the circumstances that led to the creation of the Messiah and to expose the hateful sentiments masked by musical artistry. 232pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Yale • C • $40.00 / $9.98
125551 Thayer's Life of Beethoven: Volume I Forbes, Elliot, ed. In compiling this classic biography, Alexander Wheelock Thayer spoke with Beethoven's surviving friends, gathered anecdotes, and sifted hundreds of documents, generating a wealth of detail and stimulating a mass of Beethoven scholarship. In this edition, Elliot Forbes, one of the foremost Beethoven scholars of our time, has used his new material to bring the Life up to date without sacrificing Thayer's text. 632pgs. • 1992 ▲ • Princeton • P • $60.00 / $29.98
✪ 129492 Wagner
181639 Mozart: A Life
Tanner, Michael
Johnson, Paul
In this fiery reassessment of one of the greatest composers in the history of opera, Tanner presents one of the most intelligent and controversial portraits of Wagner to emerge for many years. Examining Wagner's major works, he provides passionate and unconventional analyses that will be accessible to all lovers of music. 248pgs. • 2002
A concise, illuminating biography, focusing on Mozart's wondrous output and his uncanny gift for instrumentation. In addition to his insights into Mozart's music, Johnson also challenges the many myths that have followed in his wake, including those about the composer's health, wealth, religion, and relationships. 178pgs. • 2013
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185809 Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras Gottlieb, Robert, ed. Robert Gottlieb's anthology of the literature of dance -- by far the largest such project ever attempted -- is both inclusive and personal, the result of decades of reading. With its huge range of content accompanied by Gottlieb's incisive running commentary, this mammoth volume will be a source of pleasure and instruction for anyone who loves dance. 1360pgs. • 2008
✪ 189335 Words Without Music: A Memoir Glass, Philip A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass almost single-handedly crafted the dominant sound of contemporary classical music. Ranging from his childhood in post-World War II Baltimore to collaborations with Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing, and Martin Scorsese, this loving and slyly humorous autobiography re-creates the thrill that results from artistic creation. 432pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Liveright • C • $29.95 / $5.98
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NATU RAL H ISTORY & ENVI RON M ENTAL STU DI ES 194905 22 Ideas That Saved the English Countryside: The Campaign to Protect Rural England Waine, Peter, et al. The Campaign to Protect Rural England is one of the world's longest running environmental groups, marshalling the conservation movement in England since 1926. This book celebrates the achievements of the CPRE and associated groups in bequeathing to the present generation a countryside that remains a repository of beauty and tranquility, despite 300 years of sustained development and population growth. 224pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Frances Lincoln • C • $38.99 / $17.98
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180908 American Zoo: A Sociological Safari Grazian, David Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a pair of muddy work boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal rights activists, parents and toddlers, and the other human primates that make up the zoo's social world. He shows how the world of the zoo reflects how we project our own prejudices and desires onto the animal kingdom, and invest nature with meaning and sentiment. 344pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $16.98
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NATU RAL H ISTORY & ENVI RON M ENTAL STU DI ES 105220 Atlantic Shorelines: Natural History and Ecology
133215 Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life
Bertness, Mark D.
Brasier, Martin
An introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline communities on the East Coast of North America. Bertness examines how distinctive communities of plants and animals are generated on rocky shores and in salt marshes, mangroves, and soft sediment beaches. 431pgs. • 2006
Hidden in the depths of the early history of life is a great mystery: something happened around the beginning of the Cambrian period that produced many of the precursors of animals we know today -yet scientists don't really know what provided that spark. In this vibrantly written book, a leading paleontologist takes us into the deep, dark ages of the Precambrian to explore the enigma. 288pgs. • 2010
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✪ 104855 Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers
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Raby, Peter Whether looking for the sources of the Nile, the Niger, or the Amazon, penetrating the Australian outback, or searching for the Northwest Passage, the Victorians were intrepid explorers, zealously expanding the limits of science and human knowledge. Peter Raby here provides vivid and unforgettable portraits of larger-thanlife personalities like Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, and Henry Bates. 304pgs. • 1997 ◆ • Princeton • P • $55.00 / $16.98
093067 The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review Stern, Nicholas An independent and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue, compiled by a former Chief Economist of the World Bank. Will be a starting point for students of the economics and policy implications of climate change, as well as for economists, scientists, and policy makers involved in all aspects of climate change. 712pgs. • 2007 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $95.00 / $41.98
✪ 153912 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
✪ 111177 Elephants
Ruse, Michael, ed.
Spinage, C. A.
With more than 60 essays written by leading scholars in the field, this definitive work covers the background to Darwin's discovery of the theory of evolution through natural selection, the work he produced and contemporary reactions to it, and his influence on science in the 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species. It also explores the implications of Darwin's discoveries in religion, politics, gender, literature, culture, philosophy, and medicine. 574pgs. • 2013
A fascinating account of the elephant both in the wild and in its longtime association with our own species. Wide-ranging in geographical and temporal terms, it covers both African and Asian elephants as well as their extinct relative, the mammoth, discussing their origins, evolution, anatomy, ecology, and behavior. 320pgs. • 1994
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✪ 195874 Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment Hayes, Denis & Gail Boyer Hayes A revealing analysis of how our centuries-old relationship with bovines has evolved into one that now endangers us. In their quest to find fresh solutions to our bovine problem, the authors visit worm ranchers who compost cow waste, learn that feeding cows oregano yields surprising benefits, talk to sustainable farmers who care for their cows while contributing to their communities, and point toward a future in which we eat less, but better, beef. 400pgs. • 2015 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $5.98
135579 The Cryosphere Marshall, Shawn Encompassing the Earth's snow and ice masses, the cryosphere is a critical part of our planet's climate system, and one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. This volume provides an essential introduction to the subject written by one of the world's leading experts in Earth-system science. 312pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $19.98
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✪ 171111 An Explorer's Notebook: Essays on Life, History, and Climate Flannery, Tim Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. This selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past 25 years charts his evolution from a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming. 336pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Grove Press • P • $18.00 / $5.98
181307 The Extreme Life of the Sea Palumbi, Stephen R. & Anthony R. Palumbi The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. This volume takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world, in a look at the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. 240pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $7.98
195253 Frogs: And Other Amphibians Starosta, Paul & Teddy Moncuit A photographic window on the incredibly vibrant world of frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. The creatures depicted here are positively jewel-like, their colors further enhanced by being photographed against a black background. Teddy Moncuit's text provides a precise and passionate account of these animals' fantastic adaptation strategies. 192pgs. • 2006 ◆ • Antique Collector's Club • C • $49.50 / $19.98
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NATU RAL H ISTORY & ENVI RON M ENTAL STU DI ES BIRDS
180879 Better Birding: Tips, Tools, and Concepts for the Field
127041 Parrots of the World
Armistead, George L. & Brian L. Sullivan
Covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots. It features 146 superb color plates, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. 336pgs. • 2010
Featuring hundreds of stunning photos and composite plates throughout, this volume simplifies identification by organizing the birds you see into groupings and offering strategies specifically tailored to each group. Skill-building focuses not just on traditional elements such as plumage, but also on creating a context around each bird, including habitat, behavior, and taxonomy. 360pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $12.98
125714 Birds of Peru REVISED & UPDATED EDITION Schulenberg, Thomas S., et al. The most complete and authoritative field guide to the diverse, neotropical landscape of Peru. It features every one of the country's 1,817 bird species in 307 superb, high-quality color plates. 664pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $49.95 / $29.98
✪ 111673 Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica de la Pena, Martin Rodolfo & Maurice Rumboll Illustrates and describes all the known species -- more than 1,000 of them -- in a vast swath of this underexplored birder's paradise ranging from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay to parts of Antarctica. The 97 color plates depict the male of each species in breeding plumage, with the female and young often shown as well. 304pgs. • 2001 ◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $15.98
138979 A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa Demey, Ron & N. Borrow Covers the birds of all western African countries, from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and the Central African Republic and south to Congo. It describes 1,285 species, illustrated with 147 original color plates comprising more than 3,000 figures and depicting almost all the species included. 816pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Princeton • C • $150.00 / $64.98 Some books are in limited supply. Order today!
126242 Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire De Roy, Tui Wildlife photographer and writer Tui De Roy has spent her life exploring the Galapagos and recording their secrets. Here, in spectacular full-color images and her own words, she shares her intimate knowledge of the islands and her deep love and respect for the natural wonders they conceal. 168pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $16.98
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173200 The Passenger Pigeon Fuller, Errol At the start of the 19th century, passenger pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, with flocks so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, blotting out the sun for days at a time. This stunningly illustrated book tells the astonishing story of a bird species that, like the tyrannosaur, the mammoth, and the dodo, has become an icon of extinction. 184pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
141666 Petrels, Albatrosses, and StormPetrels of North America: A Photographic Guide Howell, Steve N. G. Among the most beautiful yet least known of all the world's birds, these enigmatic and fast-flying seabirds can be hard to differentiate, particularly from a moving boat. Useful worldwide, not just in North America, this photographic guide combines insightful text and hundreds of full-color images to aid in the identification of these remarkable birds. 520pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $28.98
158627 Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin Birkhead, Tim An engaging and authoritative illustrated history of modern ornithology. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews, it reveals how research on birds has contributed more to our understanding of animal biology than the study of just about any other group of organisms. 544pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $27.98
154386 The Warbler Guide Stephenson, Tom Warblers exhibit an array of seasonal plumages and have distinctive yet oft-confused calls and songs. This groundbreaking guide to the species of the US and Canada features more than 1,000 stunning color photos, extensive species accounts with multiple viewing angles, and an entirely new system of vocalization analysis that helps distinguish songs and calls. 560pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $16.98
181101 How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction Shapiro, Beth Could extinct species like the mammoth and the passenger pigeon be brought back to life? Journeying to far-flung Siberian locales in search of Ice Age bones Shapiro weighs de-extinction's practical benefits and ethical challenges, asking whether de-extinction would change the way we live, what its costs and risks would be, and what the ultimate goal of such a project ought to be. 240pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
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NATU RAL H ISTORY & ENVI RON M ENTAL STU DI ES 154661 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees SECOND EDITION More, David & John White
104336 Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds Hudler, George W.
This guide to nearly 2,000 tree species and cultivars found in North America and Europe includes precise paintings of leaves, needles, bark, blossoms, fruits, nuts, and cones; shows deciduous trees in both full leaf and winter; and describes the native range of each species, the date of its introduction into cultivation, and other key facts. 832pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Princeton • C • $55.00 / $28.98
In thousands of ways, members of the kingdom Fungi do their part to make life on Earth the miracle that it is. In this lively book, Hudler conducts a tour of an often-overlooked group of organisms, which differ radically from both animals and plants, and illuminates the role of fungi in the Irish potato famine, the Salem Witch Trials, and the philosophical writings of the ancient Greeks. 264pgs. • 2000 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $19.98
130377 The Importance of Species: Perspectives on Expendability and Triage
105071 Marine Mammals of the North Atlantic
Kareiva, Peter M. & Simon A. Levin, ed.
Kinze, Carl Christian
Given the limited resources for conservation efforts, there is a compelling need for scientists to help conservation practitioners set priorities and identify species most in need of urgent attention. The contributors to this volume provide scientific approaches and analyses for asking what we can expect from losing (or gaining) individual species. 440pgs. • 2002
A field guide to the region's whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and other ocean-going mammals, featuring distribution maps and 250 color illustrations. The comprehensive, readable text provides the most up-to-date information on the behavior, reproduction, feeding, habitat, and migration of 51 different species. 192pgs. • 2003
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✪ 192022 The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate Archer, David By comparing the global warming projection for the next century to natural climate changes of the distant past, and then looking into the future far beyond the usual scientific and political horizon of the year 2100, Archer reveals the hard truths of the long-term climate forecast. This edition includes a new Preface by the author. 200pgs. • 2016 ◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $8.98
158742 Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
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INSECTS
125751 Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior Gordon, Deborah Ant colonies operate without a central control or hierarchy, and no ant directs another. Instead, ants decide what to do based on the rate, rhythm, and pattern of individual encounters and interactions, resulting in a dynamic network that coordinates the functions of the colony. In this volume, Gordon provides a revealing and accessible look into ant behavior from this complex systems perspective. 184pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $14.98
Fuller, Errol A unique photographic record of extinction, featuring photographs dating from around 1870 to as recently as 2004. From a mother Thylacine and her pups to birds such as the Heath Hen and the Carolina Parakeet, Errol Fuller tells the story of each animal, explains why it became extinct, and discusses the circumstances surrounding the photography. 240pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
✪ 133044 Lost Land of the Dodo: The Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion, and Rodrigues Cheke, Anthony & Julian P. Hume The Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles: giant tortoises, parrots, skinks, geckos, burrowing boas, flightless rails and herons, and, most famously, dodos. This fascinating book, featuring Julian Hume's superb color illustrations, provides the first full ecological history of the islands and its bygone fauna. 480pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Yale • C • $55.00 / $18.98
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104331 Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs Cranshaw, Whitney The most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden. With full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes 1,420 species, including crickets, katydids, fruit flies, mealybugs, moths, maggots, borers, aphids, ants, bees, and many other pests. 672pgs. • 2004 ▲ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $13.98
194734 Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies Lewis, Sara Firefly expert Sara Lewis dives into the fascinating world of fireflies, revealing the latest discoveries about these beloved insects. From the meadows of New England and the hills of the Great Smoky Mountains, to the rivers of Japan and mangrove forests of Malaysia, this beautifully illustrated and accessible book uncovers remarkable, dramatic stories of birth, courtship, romance, sex, deceit, poison, and death among fireflies. 240pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
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NATU RAL H ISTORY & ENVI RON M ENTAL STU DI ES 167928 Nocturne: Creatures of the Night Scott, Traer
166855 Trees of Eastern North America
Bats, big cats, flying squirrels, tarantula, owls, kangaroo mice, giant moths, several species of snakes, and a Madagascar hissing cockroach are only a few of the animals illuminated in these lushly detailed portraits. Seventy-five full-color photographs of forty different species are accompanied by informed but accessible descriptions of each animal's habits and habitats. An Introduction provides insight into how Scott captures her astonishing images. 128pgs. • 2014
Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, this volume is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest to use book of its kind. It covers all the native and naturalized trees of the eastern US and Canada as far west as the Great Plains, including species found only in tropical and subtropical Florida and northernmost Canada. 720pgs. • 2014
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125774 The Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals
162293 Trees of Western North America
MacDonald, David W., ed.
Covering 630 species, this field guide presents all of the native and naturalized trees of the western US and Canada as far east as the Great Plains. It includes thousands of meticulous color paintings, while the easy-to-read descriptions present details of size, shape, growth habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, flowering and fruiting times, habitat, and range. 560pgs. • 2014
The definitive one-volume resource, a must-have reference book for naturalists and a delight for general readers. Unsurpassed in scope and stunningly illustrated, it covers every known living species, from aardvarks to zorros. 976pgs. • 2009 ▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $19.98
194266 Rainforest Blackwell, Lewis With their verdant plant life and diverse animal species, there are no places on Earth more mysterious, complex, and unknown than tropical rainforests. Combining stunning photographs by leading nature photographers with an inspiring text by Lewis Blackwell, this volume reveals the breathtaking beauty of these remarkable ecosystems. 264pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Harry N. Abrams • C • $60.00 / $14.98
✪ 195897 A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
Spellenberg, Richard, et al.
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✪ 132761 The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740-1840 Judd, Richard Traces the origins of conservation thinking in America to the naturalists who explored the middle-western frontier between 1740 and 1840. Their inquiries yielded a comprehensive natural history of America and inspired much of the thinking we now associate with later environmental and ecological philosophy. 330pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $18.98
Harden, Blaine After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. His personal narrative of rediscovery merges with a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river now tamed to puddled remains. 272pgs. • 1997 ◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $15.95 / $4.98
136028 Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World
✪ 039753 Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective Colinvaux, Paul A. In this classic work, one of the most provocative, wide-ranging, and delightful books ever written about our environment, Paul Colinvaux takes a penetrating look at the science of ecology, bringing to his subject both profound knowledge and an enthusiasm that will encourage a greater understanding of the environment and of the efforts of those who seek to preserve it. 256pgs. • 1979 ◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $13.98
Thompson, Peter & Stephen Harris This absorbing scientific detective story brings to life the eccentrics, explorers, amateurs, and dedicated professionals -including Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and the brilliant Russian geneticist Nikolai Vavilov -- who discovered what seeds do and how they work. Includes 42 color and 8 black-and-white illustrations. 280pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $29.95 / $6.98
173988 The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast Kershner, Bruce & Robert T. Leverett The 134 sites featured in the book showcase the most magnificent and inspiring forests in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The book offers practical details on where to go, how to get there, and what to see -- including little-known trails that lead to some of the Northeast's oldest, tallest, and biggest trees. 288pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Sierra Club Books • P • $16.95 / $8.98
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✪ 141595 Wildflower Wonders: The 50 Best Wild Flower Sites in the World Gibbons, Bob This magnificently-illustrated volume features 200 panoramic, fullcolor photographs as well as a color map for each site and information panels that highlight the kinds of flowers at each location and the best times to see them in bloom. The informative text gives a botanical profile of each location, and also describes the ecology and conservation status of these sites and the wildlife to be found there. 192pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $14.98 ✪ New to Catalog C = clothbound ■ New from the publisher P = paperback ◆ Remainder - like new C NDJ = clothbound, ▲ Publisher returns no dust jacket Note: remainders and publisher returns may be marked with a small line or dot.
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PH I LOSOPHY ✪ 195954 Atheism: A Reader Joshi, S. T., ed. This unique anthology assembles the best writings on atheism, agnosticism, and skepticism by some of the world's great thinkers past and present. Arranged to address the most significant questions pertaining to religious belief -- the existence of God, immortality, the nature of religious belief, and religion in relation to science, ethics, politics, and society -- the selections present a challenge to religion on all fronts. 346pgs. • 2000 ◆ • Prometheus Books • P • $22.99 / $5.98
185948 Bonds of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics Arp, Kristana
✪ 144856 The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the 19th Century (1790-1870) Wood, Allen & Songsuk Susan Hahn, eds. A comprehensive survey of the period. It begins with three chapters surveying the background of 19th-century philosophy: followed by two on logic and mathematics, two on nature and natural science, five on mind and language, including psychology, the human sciences and aesthetics, four on ethics, three on religion, seven on society, including chapters on the French Revolution, the decline of natural right, political economy, and social discontent, and three on history, dealing with historical method, speculative theories of history and the history of philosophy. 850pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $211.00 / $99.98
This complete analysis of Beauvoir's distinctive and innovative approach to existentialism shows her true importance as a philosopher. It places Beauvoir's ethics within the larger context of her other writings and political views, providing the first balanced portrait of Beauvoir's intellectual legacy. 256pgs. • 2001 ◆ • Open Court • P • $19.95 / $7.98
021352 Collected Dialogues of Plato Plato This edition of Plato's dialogues and letters includes editorial notes prefacing each dialogue as well as an introductory essay on Plato's philosophy and writing. 1743pgs. • 1989 ▲ • Princeton • C NDJ • $60.00 / $34.98
✪ 161767 The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon Lawlor, Leonard & John Nale, eds. Written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science, and history, this volume provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy, and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Canguilhem. 756pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $165.00 / $79.98
✪ 144600 The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
✪ 159842 Commentary on Plato's Timaeus Volume 5, Book 4: Proclus on Time and the Stars Proclus Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. The present volume, dealing with Proclus' account of static and flowing time, situates Plato's account of the motions of the stars and planets in relation to the astronomical theories of his day. 355pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $129.00 / $59.98
Haakonssen, Knud, ed. This judiciously balanced, systematic, and comprehensive account of the whole of Western philosophy in the period will be an invaluable resource for philosophers, intellectual historians, theologians, political theorists, historians of science and literary scholars. The two-volume set devotes due attention to historical context with particular emphasis on the connections between philosophy, science, and theology. 1424pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $108.00 / $49.98
✪ 168243 The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy Pasnau, Robert, ed. This two-volume set illuminates a rich and remarkable period in the history of philosophy and will be the authoritative source on medieval philosophy for the next generation of scholars and students. Beginning in the late eighth century with the renewal of learning centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, the chapters follow developments in multiple fields, including logic and language, natural philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. 1242pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $103.00 / $49.98
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KIERKEGAARD
038394 Fear and Trembling / Repetition: Kierkegaard's Writings, VI Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard discusses the profound implications of the unity of personhood and of identity within change -- the repetition that creates the rebirth of God in the heart of man, brings the eternal into the present, and allows the past to retain its meaning. 420pgs. • 1983 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
038480 Philosophical Fragments / Johannes Climacus Kierkegaard, Soren Written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking, exploring the implications of venturing beyond the Socratic understanding of truth. 371pgs. • 1985 ▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $26.98
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PH I LOSOPHY ✪ 202864 Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin
162259 Essays and Reviews 1959-2002
Badiou, Alain & Alain Finkielkraut
One of the most important philosophers of the past 50 years, Bernard Williams was also a distinguished critic and essayist with a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. In this volume, the first collection of his popular essays and reviews, covers a broad range of subjects, from philosophy to science, the humanities, economics, feminism, and pornography. 456pgs. • 2014
Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents, gathered here for their first-ever debate, have irreconcilable visions. Yet neither is a stranger to controversy, and in this debate they make explicit the grounds of their personal dispute as well as addressing, in a frank and open exchange, their ideas and theories. 166pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Pocket (France) • P • $19.95 / $7.98
✪ 153005 Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others Wyschogrod, Edith Ranging over the thought of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas, Janicaud, and others, as well as novels and artworks, music and dance, traditional Jewish thought and Jain and Buddhist metaphysics, Wyschogrod's work opens radically new vistas while remaining mindful that the philosopher stands within and is responsible to a philosophical legacy conditioned by the negative. 592pgs. • 2006 ◆ • Fordham • P • $55.00 / $8.98
157335 Enigmas of Identity Brooks, Peter Many of us are uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because of that failure, we keep searching for identity, making it up, trying to authenticate it. This wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. 232pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Princeton • P • $23.95 / $12.98
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111176 Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism Soames, Scott Defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. 384pgs. • 2004 ◆ • Princeton • C • $58.00 / $20.98
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182049 Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed Kanterian, Edward A lucid and critical introduction to Frege's logic as he developed it in his groundbreaking first book, Conceptual Notation. It guides the reader directly to the core of Frege's philosophy, as well as to some of the most pertinent issues in the contemporary philosophy of language, logic, mathematics, and mind. 264pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Continuum • P • $25.95 / $10.98
✪ 181092 Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse Wolin, Richard A seductive classroom presence, Martin Heidegger attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal commitments to Heidegger with his nefarious political views. This book explores how four of Heidegger's most influential Jewish students came to grips with his Nazi association and how it affected their thinking. 320pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $13.98
✪ 169067 A History of Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl A., ed. A comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. The full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics, and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics, and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome, and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. 530pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $118.00 / $54.98
130181 Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics Pettit, Philip Hobbes's political views have garnered so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. Yet this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows, and it critically shaped Hobbes's political philosophy. 192pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $22.98
✪ 152443 What Is Meaning? Soames, Scott The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma. 144pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $11.98
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148149 Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization Searle, John R. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." He explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. 224pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Oxford University • P • $19.95 / $6.98
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PH I LOSOPHY 140091 Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking
041127 The Politics and The Constitution of Athens
Cox, Michael T. & Anita Raja, eds.
REVISED STUDENT EDITION Aristotle
The capacity to think about our own thinking may lie at the heart of what it means to be both human and intelligent. In this volume, leading authorities offer a variety of perspectives -- drawn from philosophy, cognitive psychology, and computer science -- on reasoning about the reasoning process. 352pgs. • 2011
Provides the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as a political scientist, and places it in the context of his ethical theory and science of nature. 279pgs. • 1996 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $20.99 / $10.98
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125765 Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists Neiman, Susan In this profound and powerful book, Susan Neiman reclaims the vocabulary of morality -- good and evil, heroism and nobility -- as a lingua franca for the 21st century. In constructing a framework for taking responsible action, she reaches back to the 18th century to retrieve values that were esteemed by the thinkers of the Enlightenment. 480pgs. • 2009 ▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $20.98
191166 On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores
131862 The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present Talisse, Robert & Scott Aikin This anthology includes works by the founders of pragmatism, including Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, as well as seminal writings by mid-20th-century pragmatists such as Sidney Hook, C. I. Lewis, Nelson Goodman, Rudolf Carnap, Wilfrid Sellars, and W. V. O. Quine. Each selection is a stand-alone piece -not an excerpt or book chapter -- and each is presented fully unabridged. 496pgs. • 2011 ▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $26.98
162301 The Soul of the World
Nancy, Jean-Luc
Scruton, Roger
A philosopher's examination of the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. In evoking the peddler who, in times past, plied the streets with books and pamphlets literally hanging off him, Nancy emphasizes the sensuality of this commerce and reminds us that this form of consumerism is like no other, one that ends in an experience -- reading -- that is the beginning of a limitless dispersion, metamorphosis, and dissemination of ideas. 84pgs. • 2009
What is left of our aspirations after science has delivered its verdict about what we are? In an extended reflection on why a sense of the sacred is essential to human life -- and what the final loss of the sacred would mean -- Scruton suggests that the highest forms of human experience and expression tell the story of our religious need, and of our quest for the being who might answer it, and that this search for the sacred endows the world with a soul. 216pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • C • $27.95 / $12.98
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✪ 133391 On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
036802 Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume 1: The Presocratics
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Vlastos, Gregory
In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche drew on philosophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline. Ecce Homo is the philosopher's review of his life and works. Walter Kaufmann's masterful translations are faithful to the letter and spirit of Nietzsche, and are accompanied by running footnote commentaries. 384pgs. • 1989
A wide-ranging collection of essays link Greek science, religion, and politics with philosophy, with individual studies illuminating the thought of such major philosophers as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. 389pgs. • 1996
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049458 Outlines of Scepticism Sextus Empiricus The fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, this work is also one of our most copious sources of information about other Hellenistic philosophies. The first part contains an elaborate exposition of the Pyrrhonian variety of scepticism; the second and third parts argue against "dogmatism" in logic, epistemology, science, and ethics. 248pgs. • 2000 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $34.99 / $23.98
189737 The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy Marenbon, John, ed. The fullest, most wide-ranging and up-to-date survey of medieval philosophy available. All four traditions -- Greek, Latin, Islamic and Jewish -- are considered, and the Latin tradition is traced from late antiquity through to the 17th century and beyond. 848pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $170.00 / $79.98
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✪ 203099 Testimonia Aenesidemus of Cnossus The first edition of all testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus. It provides an extensive philosophical and historical commentary, and casts light on a series of questions concerning the philosophy of the late Academy, Stoic Heracliteanism, and the interaction between medicine and philosophy in the late Hellenistic era. 280pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $124.00 / $54.98
125695 Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics Nussbaum, Martha C. The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this engaging book, Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers who were committed to a therapeutic paradigm, including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca. 600pgs. • 2009 ▲ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $26.98
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PHOTOGRAPHY 186955 ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer
192244 Lee Miller in Fashion
Michals, Duane
Conekin, Becky E.
Whether recalling encounters with illustrious artists (Balthus, Duchamp), celebrating literary heroes (Whitman, Joyce), addressing essential human concerns (grief, children's stories, homosexuality, God), or revealing snippets of life with a partner suffering from dementia, this volume serves as both a creative autobiography and the perfect primer for Michals's influential body of work. 184pgs. • 2014
Fashion model, surrealist artist, muse, photographer, war correspondent -- Lee Miller defies categorization. The first book to examine how her career as a model and fashion photographer, this volume illuminates her life story and links it to international fashion history. Includes striking archival fashion photographs as well as contact sheets, memos, and Miller's published illustrations. 224pgs. • 2013
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177699 The American Barn Plowden, David A master documentarian's tribute to the American barn in 130 duotone photographs, capturing the evocative beauty of these honest and vital structures as they are left to decay or converted to other uses. 160pgs. • 2003 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $50.00 / $9.98
186952 Cuba Milstein, Jeffrey Photographer Jeffrey Milstein delves deep into the beauty, soul, and the extremes of Cuba's urban life, the character of its people, the atmosphere of the region, and the country's visual attractions and landscape. 128pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Monacelli • C • $25.00 / $7.98
✪ 195234 Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Photographer's Trail MacGregor, Greg A stunning visual journey through contemporary America, by a photographer who followed the rivers west and, like Lewis and Clark, found a country "transformed by generations of human habitation." In photographs that range from remarkable and beautiful views to powerful and unsettling images of decay, MacGregor's eye never strays from its search for ways to see and understand the American landscape and the people who shaped it. 224pgs. • 2003 ◆ • University of Washington Press • P • $29.95 / $7.98
182415 Lewis Hine: From the Collections of George Eastman House Nordstrom, Alison
194158 A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial Lehan, Joanna, et al. Highlighting the increasing overlay of networked reality onto the human experience of the world, this volume identifies some of the new types of imagery that are beginning to coalesce into a 21stcentury digital vernacular. Created by 27 international artists, these works -- photographs, films, videos, installations, performances, and other media -- reflect the growing influence of new paradigms associated with digital image making and networking. 192pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Prestel • C • $49.95 / $9.98
✪ 185685 Erwin Blumenfeld Eskildsen, Ute, ed. This landmark publication broadens our understanding of Blumenfeld's innovations, reuniting all the media used by the artist throughout his long career, including drawing, photography, photomontage, and collage. The motifs of his experimental, sometimes overtly political, black-and-white photographs appear alongside self-portraits, celebrity portraits, and the fashion photographs for which he is most known. 240pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Yale • P • $50.00 / $24.98
✪ 152852 Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography Assouline, Pierre An intensely private individual, Cartier-Bresson took Pierre Assouline into his confidence over a number of years, discussing his youthful devotion to surrealism, his lifelong passion for drawing, his experience of war and the prison camps, his friends, and the women in his life. 280pgs. • 2013
This beautifully produced volume, which includes a complete facsimile of Hine's 1932 volume Men at Work, has been compiled from the collection of the George Eastman House, to whom Hine's son bequeathed his archive. It includes both well-known series and recently discovered early works, plus rare family photographs, ephemera, and a detailed chronology. 264pgs. • 2012 ◆ • D.A.P. • C • $65.00 / $24.98
194973 Living Shrines of Uyghur China Ross, Lisa Lisa Ross's ethereal photographs of Islamic holy sites were created over the course of a decade on journeys to China's Xinjiang region. These monumental images show shrines created during pilgrimages, many of which have been maintained continuously over several centuries; visitation to the tombs of saints is a central aspect of daily life in Uyghur Islam, and its pilgrims ask for intercession for physical, mental, and spiritual ailments. 128pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Monacelli • C • $35.00 / $5.98
083184 The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtain Rose, Brian Photographer Brian Rose began shooting the borderlands between East and West -- from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic -- in the early 1980s, while the Cold War was still hot, and has been taking pictures of this eerie terrain ever since. This portfolio documents the gradual disintegration of the Berlin Wall and the busy reclamation of what was -- and in places still remains -- a scarred and brutalized landscape. 144pgs. • 2004 ▲ • Princeton Architectural • C • $40.00 / $21.98
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PHOTOGRAPHY 182416 Margaret Bourke-White: Moments in History
167719 The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Quimby, Sean, et al.
Dawson, Robert
America's first female war correspondent, Margaret Bourke-White was also something of a media star, as well as a favorite pin-up among US forces. Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and '40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and the UK, this volume presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals. 191pgs. • 2013
For two decades, Robert Dawson has crisscrossed the country documenting hundreds of these invaluable but often endangered institutions. Featuring essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and others, this volume presents a wide selection of his photographs -- from the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former slaves. 192pgs. • 2014
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✪ 195232 Out [O] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty
195633 Sammy Baloji: Memoire/Kolwezi
Willis, Deborah
Baloji, Sammy
Explores historical perceptions of beauty and desire through artistic and ethnographic imagery and the role that individual photographers play in constructing ways of seeing. Through the themes of idealized beauty, the unfashionable body, the gendered image, and photography as memory, Willis challenges and makes problematic the "reading" of photographic images in the 21st century. 144pgs. • 2013
For the past ten years Sammy Baloji has been capturing the memories, hopes, and imaginings of the people of the mines of Katanga, the economic heart of Congo, where the relationship between the mining industry and the population could almost be said to resemble that between parent and child. 168pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Stichting • C • $55.00 / $24.98
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POLITICAL PH I LOSOPHY 154639 The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas SECOND EDITION Berlin, Isaiah
✪ 203101 A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 Green, Karen
In this volume, Berlin reveals the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of the 20th century: between the Platonic belief in absolute Truth and the lure of authoritarianism; between the reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and 20th-century fascism; between the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant nationalism that convulses the modern world. 472pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $9.98
During the 18th century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that led to the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualization of marriage, and the emergence of modern democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, as well as their engagement with the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville, and Rousseau. 312pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $102.00 / $49.98
104758 The Ethics of Identity Appiah, Kwame Anthony To what extent do ethnic, national, religious, and other identities constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, a renowned philosopher develops an account of ethics that relates moral obligations to collective allegiances, our individuality to our multiple identities. 358pgs. • 2007 ▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $18.98
✪ 202869 From Communism to Capitalism: Theory of a Catastrophe Henry, Michel & Scott Davidson This prescient analysis of our present economic crises begins by tracing the collapse of communist regimes back to their failure to implement Marx's original insights into the irreplaceable value of the living individual. Henry goes on to apply this same criticism to the surviving capitalist economic systems, portending their eventual and inevitable collapse. 144pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Bloomsbury • C • $34.00 / $7.98
128576 Hobbes and the Law of Nature Zagorin, Perez Because Hobbes is commonly held to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated. Zagorin here reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law. 176pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Princeton • C • $39.95 / $23.98
126956 Justice: Rights and Wrongs Wolterstorff, Nicholas Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Wolterstorff not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights. He argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. 416pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
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POLITICAL PH I LOSOPHY ✪ 162334 Liberalism: The Life of an Idea Fawcett, Edmund This engrossing history traces liberalism's ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians, ranging from the early 19th century to the present. It provides vital historical and intellectual background for hard thinking about liberal democracy's future. 464pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
039660 Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato Cohen, Mitchell & Nicole Fermon, eds. Presents 44 selections -- key articles, book excerpts, essays, and speeches -- that have shaped our understanding of Western society and politics. The selections range from classical times (Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero), to the ideas of such 20th-century political philosophers and ideologists as Lenin, Freud, Malcolm X, Leo Strauss, Nozick, Habermas, and Foucault. 740pgs. • 1996 ▲ • Princeton • P • $62.50 / $36.98
195154 The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition Kittelstrom, Amy Today we commonly associate liberal thought and politics with secularism, but the role of religion in American politics has been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest. Amy Kittelstrom traces the lived connections among seven liberal thinkers - from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams -- through the people they knew, what they read and wrote, where they went, and how they expressed their opinions. 432pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Penguin • C • $32.95 / $5.98
✪ 086670 Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism Berkowitz, Peter Virtue is often associated with a prudish, Victorian morality or with crude attempts by government to legislate morals. Berkowitz clarifies the fundamental issues, arguing that a certain ambivalence toward virtue reflects the liberal spirit at its best. He makes his case with penetrating analyses of four central figures in the making of modern liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill. 256pgs. • 1999 ◆ • Princeton • C • $42.50 / $5.98
POLITICAL SCI ENCE 101107 After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
169808 The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Keohane, Robert O.
Graeber, David
Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the US after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes," through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American hegemony has eroded. 312pgs. • 2005
This journey through the idea of democracy provocatively reorients our understanding of pivotal historical moments -- from the birth of Athenian democracy and the founding of the US to the global revolutions of the 20th century and the rise of a new generation of activists -and extracts their lessons for today. 352pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Modern Library • C • $26.00 / $4.98
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127155 The Case for Big Government Madrick, Jeff
195029 Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword Shipler, David K.
In this eye-opening book, Madrick explains why America benefits when the government actively nourishes economic growth, and why we should reject free market orthodoxy and embrace ambitious government-centered programs. He shows that the big governments of past eras fostered greatness and prosperity, while weak laissez-faire governments marked periods of corruption and exploitation. 224pgs. • 2010
Focusing on recent free speech controversies across the nation, and anchored in personal stories -- sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar -- Shipler's investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of American democracy. 352pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Knopf • C • $28.95 / $5.98
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154920 Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America Parker, Christopher S. & Matt A. Baretto Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? The authors offer an alternative argument: that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled by a fear that the country is being stolen from "real Americans." 384pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $14.98
181072 The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It Weeden, Jason & Robert Kurzban Challenging our cherished notions about what motivates us, this book explores how self-interest divides the public on a host of issues, from abortion and the legalization of marijuana to samesex marriage, immigration, affirmative action, and income redistribution. The authors show how we engage in unconscious rationalization to justify our political positions, portraying our own views as wise, benevolent, and principled while casting our opponents' views as thoughtless and greedy. 376pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $15.98
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POLITICAL SCI ENCE 092911 Is America Breaking Apart? Hall, John A. & Charles Lindholm Combines analytical strategies from a variety of different disciplines to examine past and recent challenges to the stability of US society. The authors argue that the strength and promise of America's institutions, especially in their ability to accommodate difference and reduce conflict, will ultimately resolve the deep moral tensions that threaten America's social fabric. 182pgs. • 2001 ◆ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $21.98
154713 Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy McCarty, Nolan, et al. Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble" -- policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Demonstrating how political bubbles helped create the 2008 financial crisis, this book shows how such patterns have occurred repeatedly throughout US history. 368pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $13.98
193690 Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Hochschild, Arlie Russell Why do the people who would seem to benefit most from "liberal" government intervention abhor the very idea? Finding lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, and an ever-elusive American dream, Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to live in "red" America. 288pgs. • 2016 ▲ • New Press • C • $27.95 / $9.98
038524 Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right McGirr, Lisa Broadens our understanding of the roots of popular conservatism by introducing us to women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; new arrivals drawn to Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches; and other elements of the conservative "base." 395pgs. • 2001
125553 Politics of the Veil Scott, Joan Wallach In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Proponents of the law, which was largely aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves, insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. In this volume, Scott lays out an explosive refutation of this view. 224pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $25.95 / $14.98
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125527 Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age Bartels, Larry M. A searching analysis of the political causes and consequences of America's growing income gap. The disparity in income, Bartels shows, is not simply the result of economic forces, but is the product of broad-reaching policy choices in a political system increasingly dominated by partisan ideologies and the interests of the wealthy. 344pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $22.95 / $12.98
PSYCHOLOGY & COGN ITIVE SCI ENCE ✪ 203102 The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders Cummings, Louise, ed.
104809 The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Young, Allan
Many children and adults experience impairment of their communication skills. These communication disorders impact adversely on all aspects of these individuals' lives. This volume examines the full range of developmental and acquired communication disorders, and provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to their epidemiology, aetiology, and clinical features. 716pgs. • 2013
In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon newly discovered. Rather, it is a "harmony of illusions," a cultural product gradually put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing these efforts. 328pgs. • 1997 ◆ • Princeton • P • $45.00 / $23.98
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066129 The Cognitive Neurosciences III THIRD EDITION Gazzaniga, Michael S., ed.
✪ 183712 Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Dennett, Daniel C.
Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. This third edition continues to chart new directions in the study of the biologic underpinnings of complex cognition -- the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind. 1385pgs. • 2004 ◆ • MIT • C • $150.00 / $24.98
One of the world's leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as psychology, biology, computer science, and physics, Dennett's tools welcome uninitiated and seasoned readers alike. As always, his goal remains to teach you how to "think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions." 384pgs. • 2013 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $28.95 / $5.98
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PSYCHOLOGY & COGN ITIVE SCI ENCE 181126 Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine Scull, Andrew Today, mental disturbance is commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this volume paints a vivid and often harrowing portrait of the different ways that cultures around the world have interpreted and responded to the seemingly irrational, psychotic, and insane. 432pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $39.50 / $21.98 ✪ New to Catalog C = clothbound ■ New from the publisher P = paperback ◆ Remainder - like new C NDJ = clothbound, ▲ Publisher returns no dust jacket Note: remainders and publisher returns may be marked with a small line or dot.
104898 Memory: The Key to Consciousness Thompson, Richard F. & Stephen A. Madigan Over the past two decades, memory research has accelerated, leading to an explosion of new knowledge about the brain. Focusing on cutting-edge research in behavioral science and neuroscience, this volume is a primer of our current scientific understanding of the mechanics of memory and learning. 280pgs. • 2007 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $16.98
195037 Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry Lieberman, Jeffrey A. The former President of the American Psychiatric Association traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science to its maturity as a science-driven profession that saves lives. With case studies and portraits of the luminaries of the field -- from Sigmund Freud to Eric Kandel -- this is an urgent call to dispel the stigma of mental illnesses by treating them as diseases rather than unfortunate states of mind. 352pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Little, Brown • C • $28.00 / $5.98
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✪ 180909 Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann Jung, C. G. & Erich Neumann Presented here in English for the first time, these letters provide a rare look at the development of Jung's psychological theories from the 1930s onwards, as well as insight into the emerging self-confidence of another towering 20th-century intellectual, Erich Neumann, who was often described as Jung's most talented student. 496pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $19.98
127096 Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 Jung, C. G. In the 1930s, Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. This volume marks the first publication in English of these investigations, and fills a critical gap in Jung's collected works. 520pgs. • 2010 ▲ • Princeton • P • $27.95 / $16.98
✪ 038420 The Development of Personality: Papers on Child Psychology, Education, and Related Subjects Jung, C. G. These papers on child psychology, education, and individuation underline the overwhelming importance of parents and teachers in the genesis of the intellectual and emotional disorders of childhood. The final paper deals with marriage as an aid or obstacle to self-realization. 223pgs. • 1981 ◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $15.98
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✪ 133839 Freud and Psychoanalysis Jung, C. G. This book provides the substance of Jung's published writings on Freud and psychoanalysis between 1906 and 1916, along with two later papers. It covers the period of enthusiastic collaboration between the two pioneers of psychology as well as the years when Jung's growing appreciation of religious experience and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on pathology led to his formal break with his mentor. 392pgs. • 1961 ◆ • Princeton • C • $85.00 / $42.98
✪ 187135 On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nérval's Aurélia Jung, C. G. In 1945, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zurich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the first time, Jung's lecture is both a cautionary psychological tale and a validation of Nerval's visionary experience as a genuine encounter. 240pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $17.98
039580 Psychological Types Jung, C. G. One of the most important of Jung's works, rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology. 608pgs. • 1976 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $18.98
039570 Psychology and the Occult HULL, R. F. C., TRANS. Jung, C. G. Includes "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena"; "The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits"; "The Soul and Death"; "Psychology and Spiritualism"; and other key writings. 167pgs. • 1977 ◆ • Princeton • P • $29.95 / $15.98
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RELIGION ✪ 151876 Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy
✪ 149678 The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
Norwich, John Julius
McFarland, Ian A., et al.
From Innocent I, who in the 5th century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, to the infamous libertines of the 10th and 11th centuries, to Benedict XVI in the 21st, Norwich recounts in riveting detail the stories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially, both to Rome and to the world. 528pgs. • 2011
With more than 550 entries written by leading contemporary theologians from around the world, this volume represents a fresh, ecumenical approach to theological reference. Written with an emphasis on clarity and concision, the entries are designed to help the reader understand and assess the specifically theological significance of the most important concepts. 572pgs. • 2011
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125763 After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty - And Thirty - Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion
✪ 203098 The Cambridge History of Religions in America
Wuthnow, Robert
A three-volume set tracing the historical development of religious traditions in America, including both their transplantation from other parts of the world and the inauguration of new religious movements. It documents complex relationships among religious communities as well as the growth of distinctive theological ideas and religious practices. 2736pgs. • 2012
Interpreting new evidence from scores of in-depth interviews and surveys, Wuthnow reveals how the recent growth in evangelicalism is tapering off, and traces how biblical literalism, while still popular, is becoming less dogmatic and more preoccupied with practical guidance. 320pgs. • 2010
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039809 Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power Meyer, Marvin W. & Richard Smith, ed. This collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt surveys the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even recipes from a magical "cookbook." 409pgs. • 1999
✪ 203097 The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World Sweeney, Marvin A two-volume comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. Supplemented with maps, illustrations, and detailed indexes, these volumes will be an excellent reference tool for scholars and students. 1002pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $278.00 / $129.98
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✪ 154032 The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers
PAULA FREDRIKSEN
173042 Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
Wortley, John The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremitic monasticism, a significant phenomenon within the early history of Christianity. The publication of this book finally ensures the availability of all three major collections which constitute the work, edited and translated into English. 658pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $165.00 / $79.98
Fredriksen, Paula Now featuring a new Postscript, this updated edition of Paula Fredriksen's critically acclaimed study traces the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian anti-Judaism, and shows how and why Augustine challenged this tradition. 528pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Yale • P • $20.00 / $7.98
189676 Asceticism
✪ 162371 Sin: The Early History of an Idea
Wimbush, Vincent L. & Richard Valantasis, eds. From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. In this volume, more than 40 preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines analyze asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings. 672pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Oxford University • P • $73.00 / $31.98
Fredriksen, Paula Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, a historian of religion tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity. 208pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • P • $17.95 / $7.98
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RELIGION 142009 Early Christian Books in Egypt Bagnall, Roger S. Bagnall explains why papyrus manuscripts have routinely been dated too early, how the role of Christians in the history of the codex has been misrepresented, and how the place of books in ancient society has been misunderstood. He offers a realistic reappraisal of the number of believers in Egypt during the early Christian era, and provides a thorough picture of the economics of book production during the period. 136pgs. • 2009 ▲ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $26.98
187388 Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence Armstrong, Karen
194733 The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion Barton, John, ed. Brings together scholars from across a variety of disciplines to provide a concise and accessible guide to the Hebrew Bible. Covering every major genre of book in the Old Testament, it provides in-depth discussions of major themes such as human nature, covenant, creation, ethics, ritual and purity, sacred space, and monotheism. 632pgs. • 2016 ◆ • Princeton • C • $45.00 / $25.98
160510 In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible Walzer, Michael
A renowned scholar of religion examines how and in what measure religions came to absorb modern belligerence, and considers the prospects for peace among believers of different faiths. With unprecedented scope, Armstrong looks at the whole history of each tradition, surveying not only Christianity and Islam, but also Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism. 528pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Knopf • C • $30.00 / $5.98
In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile. 256pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Yale • C • $30.00 / $6.98
104973 The Formation of Christendom Herrin, Judith In this lucid history of what used to be termed "the Dark Ages," Herrin outlines the origins of Europe from the end of late antiquity to the coronation of Charlemagne. Placing the rise of the West in its true Mediterranean context, she shows how the clash between nascent Islam and stubborn Byzantium was pivotal to the development of Christian Europe. 544pgs. • 1989 ◆ • Princeton • P • $55.00 / $22.98
139226 The Gnostic Gospels Pagels, Elaine A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts. 224pgs. • 1989 ▲ • Vintage • P • $16.00 / $5.98
✪ 114837 Goddess: Mother of Living Nature ART & IMAGINATION Getty, Adele Describes the role and history of the goddess, the personification of Mother Earth, among the various peoples of the world, as well as some of the ways artists of different cultures have depicted her. 96pgs. • 1990 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $15.95 / $5.98
195158 The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West Goldberg, Michelle When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. Michelle Goldberg here traces the long and eventful life of the extraordinary woman who ushered in a global craze that continues unabated. 336pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Knopf • C • $26.95 / $5.98
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✪ 195886 In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint Lopez, Donald S., Jr. & Peggy McCracken The story of St. Josaphat, a prince who gave up his wealth and kingdom to follow Jesus, was one of the most popular Christian tales of the Middle Ages, yet it is remembered today only because of the similarities of the story to that of the Buddha. The fascinating account of how the Buddha was transformed into a Christian saint traces the path of the tale from India and shows how it evolved, adopting details from each culture as it spread. 272pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $24.95 / $5.98
182093 John's Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic Williams, Catrin H. & Christopher C. Rowland, eds. John has traditionally been regarded as the least apocalyptic document in the New Testament. This exciting new collection redresses the balance by exploring the ways in which the apocalyptic literature of Second Temple Judaism contributed to the theology and outlook of John's Gospel. 344pgs. • 2014 ◆ • T & T Clark • P • $35.95 / $14.98
✪ 195889 Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism Goldberg, Michelle Reveals how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life. With trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind the movement, Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular republic bequeathed by our founders into a fundamentalist theocracy. 256pgs. • 2007 ◆ • W. W. Norton • P • $14.95 / $4.98
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RELIGION 160189 The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome
190155 The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Bernard, G. W.
An introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) in the vast geographical area impacted by the early church. Thematically arranged to encompass history, literature, thought, practices, and material culture, it contains authoritative and up-to-date surveys of the various subfields of early Christian studies, written by leading figures in the discipline. 1048pgs. • 2008
The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. In this bold and provocative book, historian George Bernard examines the church on its own terms, revealing an institution with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with weaknesses that its own leadership worked to overcome. 304pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Yale • C • $50.00 / $21.98
160472 Nahum: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary Christensen, Duane L. Nahum is a book about God's justice; it portrays God as strong, unyielding, and capable of great anger. In this edition, a renowned biblical scholar offers a detailed analysis of the Hebrew text and demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the work. 464pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Yale • C • $85.00 / $16.98
✪ 144839 The New Cambridge History of the Bible: From 600 to 1450 Marsden, Richard & E. Ann Matter, eds. Examines the development and use of the Bible from late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing both its geographical and its intellectual journeys from its homelands throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean and into northern Europe. It provides a balanced treatment of eastern and western biblical traditions, highlighting processes of transmission and modes of exegesis among Roman and Orthodox Christians, Jews and Muslims, and illuminating the role of the Bible in medieval inter-religious dialogue. 1068pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $221.00 / $99.98
160471 The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works Charlesworth, James H. This second of two volumes volume contains expansions of the Old Testament as well as legends, wisdom and philosophical literature, prayers, psalms and odes, and fragments of lost Judeo-Hellenistic works. 1056pgs. • 1985 ◆ • Yale • C • $85.00 / $26.98
190929 Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation McKenzie, Steven L., ed. Written by leading scholars in the field, the nearly 120 entries in this two-volume set offer detailed, comprehensive treatments of the latest approaches to and methods for interpretation of the Bible, and provide a single source for authoritative reference overviews of scholarship on some of the most important topics of study in the field of biblical studies. 1164pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Oxford University • C • $395.00 / $198.98
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, ed.
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177703 The Poems of Jesus Christ Barnstone, Willis Austere and poignant, the teachings of Jesus are wisdom lyrics and narrative parables rich with garden, animal, and nature imagery. Translator Willis Barnstone here unveils the essential poetry of the Gospels by taking the direct speech of Jesus from Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John and restoring it to its original poetic form. 320pgs. • 2012 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $7.98
148159 Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine Thuesen, Peter J. Argues that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices -the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's involvement in human affairs -- and that it has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries. 336pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Oxford University • P • $21.95 / $9.98
126055 The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards Lee, Sang Hyun, ed. Comprising 20 essays by leading Edwards scholars, this volume covers the theologian's view on the Trinity, God and the world, Christ, and salvation, as well as history, typology, the church, and the mission to Native Americans. 344pgs. • 2005 ◆ • Princeton • C NDJ • $75.00 / $48.98
138499 Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels Gordon, Mary In an effort to understand whether or not she had "invented a Jesus to fulfill my own wishes," Mary Gordon determined to read the Gospels as literature and to study Jesus as a character. What results is a vibrantly fresh and personal journey through the Gospels, as Gordon plumbs the central mysteries of the Christian faith. 240pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Pantheon • C • $24.95 / $7.98
039858 Religions of the United States in Practice, Vol. 2 McDannell, Colleen, ed. An anthology of primary sources examines religious behavior in America, from praying in Pentecostal churches to singing Hanukkah songs to debating the ordination of women, and explores faith through action in the 19th and 20th centuries. 472pgs. • 2001 ▲ • Princeton • P • $62.50 / $19.98
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RELIGION 185575 Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance
✪ 195902 Strong as Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, Daniel
Meyers, Robin
Alter, Robert
During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the church as a community of believers and calls readers back to the church's roots as a community of resistance. 168pgs. • 2015
As distant in time from the Five Books of Moses as Updike is from Shakespeare, the Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel are innovative, entertaining literary works. Robert Alter's awardwinning translation brings new immediacy to these five beloved books of the Bible. 320pgs. • 2015 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $6.98
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025244 The Still Point: Reflections on Zen & Christian Mysticism Johnston, William A comparison of the principles and the practices of Zen with the traditional concepts, aims, and results of Christian mysticism. It explores the bases of Zen and Christian mysticism, rethinks the basic concepts of Catholic mystical theology in the light of the Zen experience, and encourages more people to turn to contemplative prayer. 202pgs. • 1989
173030 Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire Marquis, Timothy Luckritz This re-evaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. It casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of the Augustan age, when Rome's wealth depended on conquests abroad, the international commerce they facilitated, and the incursion of foreign customs and peoples they brought about. 216pgs. • 2013
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SCI ENCE ✪ 195162 A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design Wilczek, Frank Though the ancients weren't right about everything, their ardent belief in the music of the spheres has proved true down to the quantum level. In this gorgeously-illustrated book, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek reveals just how intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos. 448pgs. • 2015
185992 Eastern Astrolabes: Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Volume II Pingree, David E. & Bruce Chandler The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago is home to one of the world's great collections of astrolabes. In this volume, Eastern astrolabes from the Adler's collection are described in detail, accompanied by numerous illustrations. 268pgs. • 2009 ◆ • Adler Planetarium • C • $75.00 / $18.98
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045962 The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics Westfall, Richard S. Westfall's introduction to the history of science in the 17th century examines the "scientific revolution" in terms of the interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and mechanical philosophy. 171pgs. • 1978 ◆ • Cambridge • P • $40.99 / $23.98
162240 The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter Freese, Katherine
104874 Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics Zee, A. A distinguished physicist reveals how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, the book brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. 356pgs. • 2007 ▲ • Princeton • P • $31.95 / $17.98
111175 Fundamental Papers in Wavelet Theory Heil, Christopher & David F. Walnut
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe -- from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars -- constitute only 5 percent of all the matter and energy in the cosmos. This volume narrates the inside story of the epic quest to solve one of the most compelling enigmas of modern science: what is the universe really made of? 264pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $9.98
Traces the prehistory and initial development of wavelet theory, a discipline that has had a profound impact on mathematics, physics, and engineering. The book covers the interchanges between these fields during the last 15 years have led to advances in applications such as image compression, turbulence, machine vision, radar, and earthquake prediction. 878pgs. • 2006 ◆ • Princeton • C NDJ • $120.00 / $75.98
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SCI ENCE 038574 Galactic Astronomy Binney, James & Michael Merrifield An illustrated introduction to all astronomical concepts necessary to understand the properties of galaxies, including magnitudes and colors, the theory of stellar and chemical evolution, and the measurement of astronomical distances. 796pgs. • 1998 ▲ • Princeton • P • $105.00 / $58.98
✪ 147285 How to Find a Habitable Planet
181028 Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable Falkowski, Paul G. The stewards of Earth, microbes transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Paul Falkowski takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible -- and how human life today would cease to exist without them. 224pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $24.95 / $12.98
Kasting, James Ever since Carl Sagan predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the question has been inescapable: is Earth so rare that advanced life forms like us -- or even the simplest biological organisms -- are unique to the universe? Kasting describes how scientists are testing Sagan's prediction, and demonstrates why Earth may not be so rare after all. 360pgs. • 2012 ◆ • Princeton • P • $24.95 / $15.98
✪ 195961 How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World Johnson, Steven In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes, it investigates the secret history behind everyday objects of contemporary life. 304pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Riverhead • C • $30.00 / $5.98
✪ 195885 The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us Ackerman, Diane We tinker with nature at every opportunity, and have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. With her distinctive gift for making scientific discovery intelligible to the layperson, Ackerman takes us on an exhilarating journey through our new reality, introducing us to many of the people and ideas now creating -- perhaps saving -- our future and that of our fellow creatures. 352pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $27.95 / $5.98
084949 Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters Feingold, Mordechai, ed. Focusing on the institutional setting of Jesuit science, the contributors take a new and broader look at the overall intellectual environment of Jesuit colleges to see how Jesuit scholars taught and worked, to examine the context of the Jesuit response to the new philosophies, and to chart the Jesuits' scientific contributions. 495pgs. • 2002 ◆ • MIT • C • $52.00 / $21.98
✪ 195161 Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology McFadden, Johnjoe & Jim Al-Khalili Examining the rapidly unfolding discoveries of the last few years, Al-Khalili and McFadden communicate the excitement of the explosive new field of quantum biology and its potentially revolutionary applications, while offering insights into the biggest puzzle of all: what is life? As they brilliantly demonstrate in these groundbreaking pages, life exists on the quantum edge. 368pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Crown • C • $28.00 / $5.98
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111729 Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology Jammer, Max Only fragmentarily known, Einstein's ideas about religion have been often distorted both by non-believers and by religious groups eager to claim him as one of their own. But what exactly was Einstein's religious credo? In this fascinating book, a distinguished physicist and philosopher offers an unbiased and welldocumented answer to this question. 272pgs. • 2002 ▲ • Princeton • P • $37.50 / $19.98
158707 Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian Stone, A. Douglas The untold story of how Einstein -- not Max Planck or Niels Bohr -was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics by behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. 344pgs. • 2013 ▲ • Princeton • C • $29.95 / $14.98
175391 The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the NonSymmetric Field PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY Einstein, Albert In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then-controversial theory of relativity. 200pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $9.98
180937 The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's The Foundation of General Relativity Gutfreund, Hanoch & Jürgen Renn Written in 1915, Einstein's The Foundation of General Relativity was a watershed in the history of physics and remains an enduring testament to the elegance and precision of Einstein's thought. This edition presents a beautiful facsimile of Einstein's original handwritten manuscript, along with an English translation and insightful page-by-page commentary that places the text in historical and scientific context. 272pgs. • 2015 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $18.98
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SCI ENCE 125644 The Nature of Space and Time Hawking, Stephen W. & Roger Penrose
104361 The New Science of Strong Materials: Or, Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
Roger Penrose, like Einstein, refuses to believe that quantum mechanics is a final theory. Stephen Hawking thinks otherwise, and argues that general relativity simply cannot account for how the universe began. Here they explain their positions in a work based on six lectures and a final debate presented at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. 160pgs. • 2010
A revised edition of the classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering. Gordon shows how an in-depth understanding of the intrinsic strengths (and weaknesses) of materials guides our engineering choices, and allows us to build the structures that support our modern society. 328pgs. • 2006
Gordon, J. E.
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✪ 195872 The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
111732 Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems
Eig, Jonathan
Ostfeld, Richard S., et al.
The fascinating story of oral contraceptives -- one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century. Spanning the years from Margaret Sanger's Greenwich Village days in the early 20th century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s and the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand narrative of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea-change in social attitudes. 416pgs. • 2014
Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts, this book develops an integrated framework for understanding where infectious diseases come from, what ecological factors influence their impact, and how they in turn influence ecosystem dynamics. 506pgs. • 2008
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191878 Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe Though he died at forty-eight, Thomas Dent Mütter pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed that was considered radical in its time. This mesmerizing biography captures the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. 372pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Gotham Books • C • $27.50 / $7.98
✪ 195881 The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis Allen, Arthur From a laboratory in wartime Poland comes a fascinating story of anti-Nazi resistance and scientific ingenuity. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with survivors, Arthur Allen tells the harrowing story of two brave scientists -- the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl and a gifted Jewish immunologist named Ludwik Fleck -- put their expertise to the best possible use, at the highest personal danger. 352pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $5.98
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195032 On the Move: A Life Sacks, Oliver The autobiography of the brilliantly unconventional physician and writer who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists -- Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick -- who influenced him. 416pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Random House • C • $27.95 / $6.98
✪ 195124 The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain As Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery Kean, Sam From the author of the bestsellers The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinist's Thumb, a volume of fascinating tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience. With lucid explanations and incisive wit, Sam Kean explains the brain's secret passageways while recounting forgotten stories of common people whose struggles, resiliency, and deep humanity made modern neuroscience possible. 432pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Little, Brown • P • $17.00 / $4.98
194725 Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes Roossinck, Marilyn J. This stunningly illustrated book provides an unprecedented look at 101 incredible microbes that infect all branches of life on Earth -- from humans and other animals to insects, plants, fungi, and bacteria. 272pgs. • 2016 ▲ • Princeton • C • $35.00 / $20.98
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SCI ENCE ✪ 188353 Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
181265 Quotable Feynman
Canfield, Donald E.
Carefully selected from Feynman's spoken and written legacy -including interviews, lectures, letters, articles, and books -- the quotations in this volume range across art, childhood, discovery, family, imagination, and humor to mathematics, politics, science, religion, and uncertainty. Together, they vividly demonstrate Feynman's almost constitutional inability to be anything other than unconventional, engaging, and inspiring. 432pgs. • 2015
While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? In this volume, one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry and the early oceans covers this vast history, emphasizing the relationship of oxygen to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. 216pgs. • 2015
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180942 Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time
194894 The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
Maudlin, Tim
Falk, Dan
This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of space and time, and traces how Galileo's conceptions of relativity and space-time led to Einstein's special and general theories of relativity. 200pgs. • 2015
Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time, one we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. Dan Falk introduces a cast of Renaissance thinkers, including Thomas Digges, who published the first English account of the "new astronomy" and lived in the same neighborhood as Shakespeare; Thomas Harriot -"England's Galileo"; and Tycho Brahe, whose observatory-castle stood within sight of Elsinore, and whose family crest sported the names "Rosencrans" and "Guildensteren." 384pgs. • 2014
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✪ 132186 The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind Feist, Gregory J. This book offers the most comprehensive perspective yet on how science came to be possible in our species as well as on the important role of psychological forces in an individual's development of scientific interest, talent, and creativity. Without a psychological perspective, Feist argues, we cannot fully understand the development of scientific thinking or scientific genius. 336pgs. • 2008 ◆ • Yale • P • $26.00 / $6.98
125857 Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge SECOND EDITION Dear, Peter
✪ 195901 Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination Appleby, Joyce An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science. Appleby vividly recounts the explorers' triumphs and mishaps, including Magellan's violent death and the miserable trek of the "new Argonauts" across the Andes on their mission to determine the true shape of the earth, and describes how Alexander Humboldt and Charles Darwin traveled to the Americas for evidence to confirm their hypotheses about the earth and its inhabitants. 288pgs. • 2013 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $5.98
187188 Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
An accessible introduction to the origins of modern science, including such figures as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. This second edition further explores the practice and influence of alchemy, the social standing of early scientists, and the role of medicine and medical practitioners. 216pgs. • 2009 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $20.98
Jorgensen, Timothy J. How much do we really know about radiation? And what are its actual dangers? This accessible blend of narrative history and science describes mankind's extraordinary, thorny relationship with radiation, and examines how radiation helps and harms our health. 512pgs. • 2016 ◆ • Princeton • C NDJ • $35.00 / $17.98
SOCIOLOGY & EDUCATION ✪ 195871 The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor Shorris, Earl
✪ 195956 Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People Banaji, Mahzarin R. & Anthony G. Greenwald
Together with a faculty of friends, Earl Shorris began teaching the great works of literature and philosophy -- from Plato to Kant, from Cervantes to García Márquez -- at the college level to dropouts, immigrants, and ex-prisoners. Here, in tribute to the courage of people rising from unspeakable poverty to engage in dialogue with professors from great universities around the world, he tells the stories of those who teach and those who study the humanities. 320pgs. • 2013
Explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. Writing with simplicity and verve, the authors reveal the extent to which our perceptions of social groups shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about the character, abilities, and potential of others. 272pgs. • 2013 ◆ • Bantam • C • $27.00 / $5.98
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SOCIOLOGY & EDUCATION ✪ 173457 The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences SECOND EDITION Sawyer, R. Keith, ed.
155822 Living Illegal: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration Marquardt, Marie Friedmann, et al.
In this thoroughly revised second edition, leading scholars incorporate the latest research to address the best ways to write textbooks, design educational software, prepare effective teachers, organize classrooms, and use the Internet to enhance student learning. They illustrate the importance of creating productive learning environments both inside and outside school, including after school clubs, libraries, and museums. 802pgs. • 2014 ◆ • Cambridge • C • $165.00 / $79.98
104765 Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures Cowen, Tyler Through an array of colorful examples, Cowen asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, and if national cultures matter at all. Scrutinizing such manifestations of "indigenous" culture as the steel band ensembles of Trinidad, Indian handweaving, and music from Zaire, Cowen finds that they are more vibrant than ever -- thanks largely to cross-cultural trade. 192pgs. • 2004 ▲ • Princeton • P • $35.00 / $17.98
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Based on oral histories, individual testimonies, and years of research into the lives of ordinary migrants, this volume offers richly textured portraits of real people working, building families, and enriching their communities even as the political climate has grown increasingly hostile. 342pgs. • 2013 ▲ • New Press • P • $19.95 / $7.98
148548 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Alexander, Michelle By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, Alexander argues, the US criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, relegating millions to a permanent second-class status even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. 312pgs. • 2012 ▲ • New Press • P • $19.95 / $7.98
064504 A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America Stewart, Kathleen Vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. 243pgs. • 1996 ▲ • Princeton • P • $46.00 / $21.98
TRAVEL ✪ 189285 Italian Ways: On and off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
✪ 114841 The Most Beautiful Country Towns of Provence
Parks, Tim
Attlee, Helena
A wry and revealing portrait of Italian life -- as seen by riding its trains. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians he meets along the way, Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive: an obsession with speed but an acceptance of slower, older ways; a blind eye toward brutal architecture amid grand monuments; and an undying love of a good argument and the perfect cappuccino. 320pgs. • 2013
The outstanding beauty of the small towns of Provence has proved irresistibly attractive to visitors from other parts of Europe and from America for generations. This evocative tribute in photographs and text captures the stunning variety of these communities. 208pgs. • 2002
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✪ 195893 Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia Greene, David An NPR host chronicles his journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, during a 6,000-mile cross-country trip from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. In quadruple-bunked cabins and stopover towns sprinkled across the country's snowy landscape, Greene speaks with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. 320pgs. • 2014 ◆ • W. W. Norton • C • $26.95 / $4.98
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✪ 115019 The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of the South Ramsey, Bonnie Produced in association with Veranda magazine, this lavish volume includes 250 full-color photographs, plus a traveler's guide to sites, local festivals, hotels, and guest houses. 208pgs. • 2000 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • C • $40.00 / $16.98
134227 The Most Beautiful Villages of Greece Ottaway, Mark From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands are incomparable. From north to south through the mainland and the Peloponnese, and from west to east through the islands, the 285 full-color photographs in this volume capture Greece's blend of intimacy and grandeur. 224pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Thames & Hudson • P • $26.95 / $7.98
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U RBAN STU DI ES & GEOGRAPHY 111406 American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland Self, Robert O. As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar US: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. Robert Self tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. 408pgs. • 2005 ▲ • Princeton • P • $39.95 / $24.98
155958 The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960 Longstreth, Richard W. This masterful and innovative history of a celebrated building type focuses on many of the nation's greatest retail companies -- Marshall Fields, Lord and Taylor, Gimbel's, Wanamaker's, and Bullock's, among others -- and the role they played in defining America's cities. Extensively illustrated, it offers a fundamental understanding of the transformation of Main Streets nationwide. 352pgs. • 2010 ◆ • Yale • C • $70.00 / $18.98
173103 Atlas of Cities
081162 Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe Savitch, H. V., et al. Does globalization menace our cities? Looking at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring during the past thirty years, Savitch and Kantor conclude that cities do have choices in city building and that they behave strategically in the international marketplace. 432pgs. • 2002 ◆ • Princeton • C • $65.00 / $40.98
181024 The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City Helmreich, William B. A lifetime New Yorker who teaches university courses about the city, William Helmreich decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs -- an astonishing 6,000 miles. His encounters along the way -- with hundreds of New Yorkers from every part of the globe as well as with several mayors -- are the heart of this captivating and original book. 480pgs. • 2015 ◆ • Princeton • P • $19.95 / $8.98
Knox, Paul, ed. Using stunning infographics, maps, charts, tables, and photographs, this volume provides a unique taxonomy of cities illuminating various aspects of their physical, economic, social, and political structures; their interactions with each other and with their hinterlands; the challenges and opportunities they present; and where cities might be going in the future. 256pgs. • 2014 ▲ • Princeton • C • $49.50 / $25.98
100928 Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 Hayden, Dolores
195017 Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier Glaeser, Edward A pioneering urban economist explains why the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. Traveling through history and around the globe, Glaeser reminds us forcefully why we must nurture our cities -- or suffer consequences that will harm us all, no matter where we live. 352pgs. • 2011 ◆ • Penguin • C • $29.95 / $5.98
This lively history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live chronicles two centuries in the birth and development of America's metropolitan regions. Encompassing environmental controversies as well as complexities of race, gender, and class, Hayden's fascinating account will forever alter how we think about the communities we inhabit. 336pgs. • 2004
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WOM EN'S STU DI ES ✪ 203100 A Feminist Reader: Feminist Thought from Sappho to Satrapi
✪ 203101 A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800
Harris, Sharon M. & Linda K. Hughes, eds.
Green, Karen
This four-volume anthology brings together the richest collection of feminist texts available, with more than 120 entries, most of them complete essays or chapters, arranged broadly chronologically. Readers can compare 17th-century New World feminist writing with European counterparts, historical with poststructuralist feminist writing, Asian with Anglophone voices, and difference feminism with universalist statements. 1904pgs. • 2013
During the 18th century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that led to the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualization of marriage, and the emergence of modern democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, as well as their engagement with the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville, and Rousseau. 312pgs. • 2014
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