Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 Bestselling Titles

FRANKFURT B O O K FA I R 2 0 1 6 BESTSELLING TITLES FROM NYU PRESS

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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide Henry Jenkins Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green Gödel’s Proof Ernest Nagel and James Newman, Foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter The Ethics of Liberty Murray N. Rothbard Introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 22 Ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World’s Foremost Thinkers Edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa The Biopolitics Series Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment Phil Zuckerman Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity and Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War 10th Year Anniversary Edition, Revised and Updated Thomas de Waal Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the U.S. Gerald Horne

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide Henry Jenkins

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Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new

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media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide,

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where the power of the media producer and the power of the

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consumer interact in unpredictable ways. He explains the

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cultural shift that is occurring as consumers fight for control

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across disparate channels, changing the way we do business,

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elect our leaders, and educate our children.

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• Sold 65,000 copies in the United States alone

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• Riveting introduction to the world where every story gets told and every brand gets sold across multiple media platforms.

• Publishers Weekly called the book “remarkable…Jenkins’

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insights are gripping and his prose is surprising entertaining

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and lucid for a book that is, at its core, intellectually rigorous.”

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• The Los Angeles Times said “Jenkins is an astute observer of media culture and his insights are spot-on.”

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September 2007 Paperback • 368 pages • $19.95 Media Studies / Cultural Studies / Science & Technology

Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green THE BOOK

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Following up on the hugely popular Convergence Culture,

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Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place

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in our contemporary media environment, a space where

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corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and

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many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content.

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It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks, some approved, many unauthorized. Stickiness has been the measure of success in the broadcast era (and has been carried over to the online world), but “spreadability” describes the ways content travels through social media.

• Draws on examples from film, music, games, comics, television, transmedia storytelling, advertising, and public

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THE AUTHOR

relations industries, among others—from both the U.S. and

Henry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication,

around the world

Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at USC. He is

• Kirkus called the book “a wide-ranging examination of the

author of Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers (2006) and The Wow

contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly

Climax (2006), both available from NYU Press, and is co-author

control their own creation of content.”

or editor of eight other books on media and communication.

• Writer and producer of Battlestar Galactica, Jane Espenson, said of Spreadable Media: “Finally, a way of framing modern media creation and consumption that actually reflects reality and allows us to talk about it in a way that makes sense. It’s a spreadable world and we are ALL part of it. Useful for anyone who makes media, analyzes it, consumes it, markets it or breathes.”

• Practical guide relevant for conducting modern business • Co-authors Sam Ford (Peppercom) and Joshua Green are both digital strategists (Arnold Worldwide)

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January 2013 Hardcover • 352 pages • $29.95 Media Studies / Cultural Studies / Science & Technology

Gödel’s Proof Ernest Nagel and James Newman, Foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, “On

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Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica

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and Related Systems.” This revolutionary paper challenged

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certain basic assumptions underlying much research in

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mathematics and logic. Gödel received public recognition of

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his work in 1951 when he was awarded the first Albert Einstein

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Award for achievement in the natural sciences—perhaps

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the highest award of its kind in the United States. The award

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committee described his work in mathematical logic as “one of

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the greatest contributions to the sciences in recent times.”

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However, few mathematicians of the time were equipped

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to understand the young scholar’s complex proof. Ernest

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Nagel and James Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation to both scholars and non-specialists of the main ideas and broad implications of Gödel’s discovery. It offers every educated person with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to understand a previously difficult and inaccessible subject. Marking the 50th anniversary of the original publication of Gödel’s Proof, New York University Press is proud to publish this special anniversary edition of one of its bestselling and most frequently translated books.

• Sold over 50,000 copies in the United States alone • Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Douglas R. Hofstadter • An easy-to-read account of an incredibly complex formula • Will appeal to anyone interested in mathematics, logic, philosophy, and science • The American Mathematical Society called the book “an excellent nontechnical account of the substance of Gödel’s celebrated paper.”

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October 2008 Paper • 160 pages • $13.95 Philosophy

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The Ethics of Liberty

Murray N. Rothbard, Introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Murray N. Rothbard’s classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as

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one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated

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expositions of the libertarian political position.

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What distinguishes Rothbard’s book is the manner in which

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it roots the case for freedom in the concept of natural rights and applies it to a host of practical problems. An economist by profession, Rothbard here proves himself equally at home with philosophy. And while his conclusions are radical—that a social order that strictly adheres to the rights of private property must exclude the institutionalized violence inherent in the state— his applications of libertarian principles prove surprisingly practical for a host of social dilemmas, solutions to which have eluded alternative traditions.

The Ethics of Liberty authoritatively established the anarchocapitalist economic system as the most viable and the only principled option for a social order based on freedom. This edition is newly indexed and includes a new introduction that takes special note of the Robert Nozick-Rothbard controversies.

• Often cited, this is a seminal work in libertarian thought • Libertarianism—called liberalism, classic liberalism, or monarchism, depending on where you are—is an international movement, with 28 nations across with organized parties

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February 2003 Paper • 308 pages • $25 Political Philosophy / Ethics

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22 Ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World’s Foremost Thinkers Edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa

THE BOOK The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis still reverberate

the food and agriculture division of the United Nations; Paul

throughout the globe. Markets are down, unemployment

Watson, the co-founder of Greenpeace; and Muhammad

is up, and nations from Greece to Ireland find their very

Yunus, the 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize for combating

infrastructure on the brink of collapse. There is also a crisis

poverty

in the management of global affairs, with the institutions of

• International in scope, conversational in tone

global governance challenged as never before, accompanied

• Forbes magazine said the book “points out where to look

by conflicts ranging from Syria, to Iran, to Mali. Domestically,

and where to begin to contribute to the dialogue. Assuming

the bases for democratic legitimacy, social sustainability, and

no remedy is meaningless, 22 Ideas to Fix the World succeeds

environmental adaptability are also changing. In this unique

in its task.”

volume from the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations and the Social Science Research Council, some of the world’s greatest minds—from Nobel Prize winners to long-time activists—explore what the prolonged instability of the so-called Great Recession means for our traditional understanding of how governments can and should function. Through interviews that are sure to spark lively debate, 22 Ideas to Fix the World presents both analysis of past geopolitical events and possible solutions and predictions for the future.

The book surveys issues relevant to the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Speaking from a variety of perspectives, including economic, social, developmental, and political, the discussions here increase our understanding of what’s wrong with the world and how to get it right.

• Incredible roster of international contributors, including Peter Katzenstein, voted by The Economist as the most influential scholar in international political economy; Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former VP of the World Bank; Olzhas Suleimenov, the People’s Writer of Kazakhstan; Jomo Kwame Sundaram, the assistant director-general in

PUB DATE: June 2010 FORMAT: Paperback • 240 pages •$25 SUBJECT: Religion/Sociology/Anthropology

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The Biopolitics Series

THE SERIES This 13-book series originated with the eponymous book Biopolitics by Thomas Lemke, translated by NYU Press from the German originally published by Junius Verlag.

The Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the Twenty-First Century Series examines the intersection of various practices of medicine and technoscience with human bodies and lives through an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing in particular on the ways in which the practices of medical, technological, and scientific institutions function in the modern world. The series also seeks to understand how society and culture foster the new developments in these fields that “work on� human bodies.

Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality edited by Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland has been translated into German (Luxbooks)and Japanese (Misuzu Shobo)

Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment Phil Zuckerman

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Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman

Phil Zuckerman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer

as if humans all over the globe were “getting religion”—praising

College in Claremont, California. He is the author of Invitation

deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world

to the Sociology of Religion and Strife in the Sanctuary: Religious

from sin. But most residents of Denmark and Sweden, he

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found, don’t worship any god at all, don’t pray, and don’t give much credence to religious dogma of any kind. Instead of being bastions of sin and corruption, however, as the Christian Right has suggested a godless society would be, these countries are filled with residents who score at the very top of the “happiness index” and enjoy their healthy societies, which boast some of the lowest rates of violent crime in the world (along with some of the lowest levels of corruption), excellent educational systems, strong economies, well-supported arts, free health care, egalitarian social policies, outstanding bike paths, and great beer.

• One of the first full-length books in the field of secular studies • Features colorful answers from interviews with nearly 150 Danes and Swedes • Written in an anecdotal, conversational style • Publishers Weekly wrote that ““For those interested in the burgeoning field of secular studies’ or for those curious about a world much different from the devout U.S.—this book will offer some compelling reading.”

• The New York Times noted that “much that he [Zuckerman] found will surprise many people, as it did him.”

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June 2010 Paperback • 240 pages •$25 Religion / Sociology / Anthropology

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Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity -andHitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke THE BOOKS

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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British Historian and professor

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of Western Esotericism at University of Exeter. His most

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celebrated work, The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults

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and their Influence on Nazi Ideology, has been continually in

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print since its first publication in 1985 and has been translated

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into 12 languages including Polish (Aletheia), Czech (Eminent),

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Greek, German (Marix-Verlag), Russian, French. He writes

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regularly for European and US Journals and has contributed to

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several films on the Third Reich and World War II. Hitler’s Priestess Black Sun examines the new neo-fascist ideology, showing

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how hate groups, militias and conspiracy cults attempt to gain

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influence. Hitler’s Priestess is a window into the roots and evolution of international neo-Nazism, revealing the powerful impact of Savitri Devi, one of fascism’s most creative minds.

• Of Hitler’s Priestess: “[A] superb study. . . . Goodrick-Clarke has done a service to sanity, even if the gullible will go on swallowing [Devi’s] recycled poison rather than his antidote.”—Times Literary Supplement • Of Black Sun: “Excellent book provides a lucid and often chilling guide.” —Journal of European Studies

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Hitler’s Priestess July 2003 Paper • 278 pages • $26 History / Sociology

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July 2003 Paper • 371 pages • $28 History / Sociology

Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War 10th Year Anniversary Edition, Revised and Updated Thomas de Waal

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Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black

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Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and

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Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into

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a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the

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end the Soviet Union, and plunge a region of great strategic importance into a decade of turmoil. This important volume

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is both a careful reconstruction of the history of the Nagorny

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Karabakh conflict since 1988 and on-the-spot reporting of the convoluted aftermath. Part contemporary history, part travel book, part political analysis, the book is based on six months traveling through the south Caucasus, more than 120 original interviews in the region, Moscow, and Washington, and unique historical primary sources, such as Politburo archives. What emerges is a complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflict.

The revised and updated 10th-year anniversary edition includes a new forward, a new chapter covering developments up to2011, such as the election of new presidents in both countries, Azerbaijan’s oil boom and the new arms race in the region, and a new conclusion. Telling the story of the first conflict to shake Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, Black Garden remains a central account of the reality of the post-Soviet world.

• “Brilliant.”—Time • “Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter.”—The New York Review of Books • “Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described—or indeed, better explained…Offers a deeper and more compelling account of the conflict than anyone before.”—Foreign Affairs

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July 2013 Paper • 406 pages • $27 Political Science / Sociology / History

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Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire — Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade — Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the U.S. Murray N. Rothbard, Introduction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe THE BOOKS

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Gerald Horne is an African-American historian who currently

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holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and

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African American Studies at the University of Houston. He received his PhD from Columbia University and a J.D. from the

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University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent contributor

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to Political Affairs magazine.

Color of Fascism He writes about topics he perceives as misrepresented struggles for justice, in particular communist struggles and struggles against imperialism, colonialism, fascism and racism. Individuals whose lives his work has highlighted in their historical contexts have included the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter John Howard Lawson, Ferdinand Smith (a Jamaican-born communist, sailor, labor leader), the perplexing Lawrence Dennis, an African-American fascist and racist who passed for white, and the feminist, anti-colonialist, internationalist intellectual Shirley Graham Du Bois whose own career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband.

In Race War!, Horne delves into submerged and forgotten history to reveal how European racism and colonialism were deftly exploited by the Japanese to create allies among formerly colonized people of color. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals—before and after Emancipation— continued to actively participate in slave trade by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil. In Color of Fascism, Horne asks the provocative question: What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white?

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