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Jaws
Reactivating Elements
The Story of a Hidden Epidemic Sandra Kahn & Paul R. Ehrlich
Chemistry, Ecology, Practice Edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa & Natasha Myers
September 2021 216pp 9781503613584 £14.99/ $20.00 NIP
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elements January 2022 304pp 30 illus. 9781478014362 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013440 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
There's a silent epidemic in western civiliza�on. Our jaws are ge�ng smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, crea�ng both aesthe�c challenges and breathing difficul�es. Jaws proposes simple adjustments to alleviate this developing crisis, as well as a major alterna�ve to orthodon�cs that promises more significant longterm relief.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological en��es, and epistemic objects.
Scale Theory
The Aesop's Fable Paradigm
A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio
An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science Edited by K. Brandon Barker & Daniel J. Povinelli
November 2021 352pp 18 b&w illus. 9781517912079 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9781517912062 £96.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Encounters: Explora�ons in Folklore and Ethnomusicology December 2021 294pp 9780253059222 £32.00/ $40.00 PB
A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humani�es. Scale Theory provides a founda�onal theory of scale that explains how scale works, the parameters of scalar thinking, and how scale refigures reality—that teaches us how to think in terms of scale, no ma�er where our interests may lie.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A collec�on of essays that explore the cu�ng-edge intersec�on of Folklore and Science. From moralizing fables to fantas�c folktales, humans have been telling stories about animals—animals who can talk, feel, think, and make moral judgments just as we do—for a very long �me.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Forgotten Botanist
The Origins of COVID19
Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art Wynne Brown
China and Global Capitalism Li Zhang
November 2021 328pp 26 photos, 23 illus., 1 map 9781496222817 £20.99/ $27.95 PB
August 2021 152pp 9781503630178 £10.99/ $14.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Li Zhang shi�s debate away from narrow cultural, poli�cal, or biomedical frameworks, emphasizing that we must understand the origins of emerging diseases with pandemic poten�al (such as COVID-19) in the more complex and structural entanglements of state-making, science and technology, and global capitalism.
The Forgo�en Botanist tells the story of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a li�le-known and underappreciated woman of both science and art who did much of the botanical work a�ributed to her husband, John Gill Lemmon.
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The Ultimate Engineer
Victorian Contingencies
The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low Richard Jurek Foreword by Gerald D. Griffin
Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play Tina Young Choi
Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight November 2021 328pp 38 photos, 1 appendix, index 9781496229410 £20.99/ $26.95 NIP
December 2021 264pp 9781503629288 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Con�ngency is not just a feature of modern poli�cs, finance, and culture—by thinking con�ngently, nineteenth-century Britons rewrote familiar narra�ves and upended forgone conclusions. Victorian Con�ngencies shows how scien�sts, novelists, and consumers engaged in formal and material experiments with cause and effect, past and present, that ac�vely undermined rou�ne certain�es.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
From chronicling George M. Low’s escape from Nazi-occupied Austria to helping land a man on the moon, The Ul�mate Engineer sheds new light on one of the most fascina�ng and complex personali�es of the golden age of U.S. manned space travel.
Assisted Suicide in Canada
Medicine
Moral, Legal, and Policy Considerations Travis Dumsday
Africanizing Oncology Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda Marissa Mika
September 2021 200pp 9780774866019 £49.00/ $75.00 HB
New African Histories November 2021 248pp 9780821424650 £64.00/ $80.00 HB
UBC PRESS
In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down criminal laws prohibi�ng medical assistance in dying (MAID) in its Carter v. Canada ruling. Assisted Suicide in Canada delves into the moral and policy dimensions of this case, summarizing other key rulings and subsequent legisla�on.
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Considers the Uganda Cancer Ins�tute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and a lens through which to trace the poli�cal, technological, moral, and intellectual aspira�ons and ac�ons of health care providers and pa�ents.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Commodities of Care
Hematologies
November 2021 216pp 9781517907655 £18.99/ $25.00 PB 9781517907648 £80.00/ $100.00 HB
November 2021 288pp 9 b&w hal�ones 9781501761683 £18.99/ $24.95 NIP
The Political Life of Blood in India Jacob Copeman & Dwaipayan Banerjee
The Business of HIV Testing in China Elsa L. Fan
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In this ground-breaking account of the poli�cal economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and poli�cal life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals poli�cal ideologies, biomedical ra�onali�es, and ac�vist prac�ces.
Examines the unan�cipated effects of global health interven�ons, ideas, and prac�ces as they unfold in communi�es of men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. Targeted for the scaling-up of HIV tes�ng, Elsa L. Fan examines how the impact of this ini�a�ve has transformed these men from subjects of care into commodi�es of care. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Sickening
The Last of His Mind
August 2021 176pp 8 b&w illus. 9781517911720 £16.99/ $21.95 PB 9781517911713 £70.00/ $88.00 HB
September 2021 264pp 9780804012362 £14.99/ $18.95 PB
Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock
A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s John Thorndike OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The bi�ersweet account of a son’s final year with his Alzheimer’s-stricken father, former Life magazine managing editor Joe Thorndike, and a candid portrait of an implacable disease. For this second edi�on, author John Thorndike has wri�en a new introduc�on with updated sta�s�cs and important lessons.
A crucial component of an�-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this ins�tu�onalized inequality through drama�c, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living condi�ons and inadequate medical care have become rou�ne. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Way of Medicine
Nature
Ethics and the Healing Profession Farr Curlin & Christopher Tollefsen
A Love Affair with Birds
The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts Sue Leaf
Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics August 2021 232pp 9780268200862 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780268200855 £80.00/ $100.00 HB
September 2021 296pp 30 b&w illus. 9780816675654 £12.99/ $16.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Ar�culates and defends an account of medicine meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a pa�ent and instead offer an array of “health care services” for the sake of the pa�ent’s subjec�ve well-being.
The first full biography of Thomas Sadler Roberts. Bird enthusiast, doctor, author, curator, educator, conserva�onist: every chapter in Roberts’s life is also a chapter in the state’s history. Excludes Japan & ANZ
A Natural Curiosity
An Atlas of Illinois Fishes
The Story of the Bell Museum Barbara Coffin, Don Luce, Gwen Schagrin & Lansing Shepard
150 Years of Change Brian A. Metzke, Brooks M. Burr, Leon C. Hinz Jr., Lawrence M. Page & Christopher A. Taylor
November 2021 400pp 310 color plates 9781517910365 £26.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2022 312pp 9780252044144 £40.00/ $50.00 HB
A richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum a�er 150 years. Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move to its new building, this gorgeously illustrated book chronicles the remarkable discoveries, moments, and personali�es that have made the Bell Museum what it is today.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Scien�fically up-to-date and illustrated with over 240 color photos, this is a benchmark in the study of Illinois's ever-changing fish communi�es and the habitats that support them. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids
Edible Plants
Life of the Past October 2021 184pp 141 color photos, 7 b&w illus., 2 maps, 5 charts 9780253058232 £48.00/ $60.00 HB
February 2022 200pp 113 color illus. 9781684351718 £18.99/ $25.00 HB
A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America Jimmy Fike
William W. Morgan Foreword by David L. Meyer
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
For over a decade, ar�st Jimmy Fike traveled across the con�nental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants is the culmina�on of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selec�vely colorized to highlight the comes�ble part of the plant.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first comprehensive guide for iden�fying the fossils of echinoderms from hundreds of millions of years ago, when North America was covered by a warm, equatorial sea. It features photographs, o�en offering more than one view, of the bestquality specimens curated in the Smithsonian and other prominent invertebrate fossil museums.
Lives of Weeds
Pocket Guide to the Insects of Costa Rica
Opportunism, Resistance, Folly John Cardina
Paul E. Hanson, Kenji Nishida & Ángel Solís Foreword by Tracie Stice
September 2021 296pp 8 b&w hal�ones 9781501758980 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Zona Tropical Publica�ons / Antlion Media October 2021 208pp 9781501760976 £20.99/ $27.95 PB
Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their rela�onship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspec�ve on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essen�al, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Pocket Guide to the Insects of Costa Rica reveals the sheer number and diversity of insects and arthropods of the tropics. Every square meter of rainforest and cloud forest in Costa Rica offers up mul�tudes of gemlike �ny creatures with enough wonders to keep an entomologist busy for a life�me.
Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America
Weeds of the Northeast
September 2021 392pp 304 color photos, 2 maps 9781477322727 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
September 2022 600pp 1393 color photos, 123 b&w line drawings 9781501755729 £24.99/ $32.95 PB
Joseph C. Neal, Richard H. Uva, Joseph M. DiTomaso & Antonio DiTommaso
Alan E. Bessette, Dianna Smith & Arleen R. Bessette
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The first color-illustrated guide to polypores and similar fungi specific to the eastern and central regions of the US and Canada. Accurate and comprehensive, it presents the currently available informa�on about polypores, emphasizes iden�fica�on based primarily on macroscopic field characters, and includes observa�onal data drawn from the authors’ extensive experience.
This fully updated second edi�on of the bestselling Weeds of the Northeast provides lavish illustra�ons for ready iden�fica�on of more than 500 common and economically important weeds in Northeast and Mid-Atlan�c states. This new edi�on now covers the region south to Virginia, north to Maine and southern Canada, and west to Wisconsin. 4
Assembly Codes
Technology
The Logistics of Media Edited by Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski & Susan Zieger Foreword by John Durham Peters
A Vulnerable System
The History of Information Security in the Computer Age Andrew J. Stewart September 2021 312pp 9781501758942 £26.99/ $34.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2021 264pp 23 illus. 9781478010760 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781478009733 £80.00/ $99.95 HB
Describes how, even as the demand for informa�on security increases, the needs of society are not being met. The result is that the confiden�ality of our personal data, the integrity of our elec�ons, and the stability of foreign rela�ons between countries are increasingly at risk.
The contributors document how media and logis�cs—the techniques of organizing and coordina�ng the movement of materials, bodies, and informa�on—are co-cons�tu�ve and key to the circula�on of informa�on and culture.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
How We Became Sensorimotor
Herbert Lin
Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson
October 2021 208pp 9781503630390 £18.99/ $25.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2021 320pp 23 b&w illustra�ons 9781517910006 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9781517909994 £89.00/ $112.00 HB
Herbert S. Lin provides a cleareyed breakdown of the cyber risks to the U.S. nuclear enterprise. Featuring a series of scenarios that clarify the intersec�on of cyber and nuclear risk, this book guides readers through a li�le-understood element of the risk profile that government decision-makers should be an�cipa�ng.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Provides a systema�c account of the transforma�ve period of 1833-1945, while also demonstra�ng its substan�al implica�ons for current explora�ons into phenomenology, embodied consciousness, the extended mind, and theories of the sensorimotor, the body, and embodiment. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Media Hot and Cold
Modelwork
Nicole Starosielski
The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Edited by Martin Bruckner, Sandy Isenstadt & Sarah Wasserman
Elements December 2021 304pp 32 illus. 9781478014546 £20.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478013617 £84.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2021 312pp 69 b&w illus. 9781517910907 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9781517910891 £96.00/ $120.00 HB
Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature and the history of thermal media such as thermostats and infrared cameras to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communica�on, subjuga�on, and control.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what s�ll might be. In this wideranging volume, scholars examine the interrela�onships between a model’s material founda�ons and the otherwise invisible things it gestures toward. 5
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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