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Trade terms apply to the following trade titles God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

Like Shaking Hands with God

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was among the few grandmasters of twentiethcentury American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does now. Vonnegut’s other books from Seven Stories Press include the hardcover and paperback bestseller A Man Without a Country.

A Conversation about Writing

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian includes all of Kurt Vonnegut’s intrepid investigative reporting from the afterlife, from when he was sent there in 1998 by local NPR affiliate WNYC to interview, among others, Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray, Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and Kilgore Trout. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to the last word of the last entry, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian is a joy forever. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781609800734 Publish December 2010, 80 pages Seven Stories Press Fiction

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Lee Stringer lived on the streets from the early eighties until the mid-nineties. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Newsday. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was among the few grandmasters of twentieth-century American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does now. Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meet the art they practice. That these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer makes this a historic and joyous occasion. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut and Stinger took up the challenge of writing books that would make a difference and the concomitant challenge of living from day to day. A book for anyone interested in why the simple act of writing things down can be more important than the amount of memory in our computers. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781609800741 Publish December 2010, 80 pages Seven Stories Press Quantity Literature

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Crimes of Elagabalus

The Shadow Market

The Life and Legacy of Rome’s Decadent Boy Emperor

How Sovereign Wealth Funds Secretly Dominate the Global Economy

Martijn Icks is a lecturer in History and Cultural Studies at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Eric J. Weiner has covered business and economics for more than fifteen years. The author of the critically acclaimed What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. He lives in Massachusetts, USA.

Elagabalus is one of the most notorious of Rome’s ‘bad emperors’: a sexually-depraved and eccentric hedonist who in his short and riotous reign made unprecedented changes to Roman state religion and defied all taboos. An oriental boy-priest from Syria - aged just fourteen when he was elevated to power in 218 CE - he placed the sun god El-Gabal at the head of the established Roman pantheon, engaged in orgiastic rituals, took male and female lovers, wore feminine dress and prostituted himself in taverns and even inside the imperial palace. Since his assassination by Praetorian Guards at the age of eighteen, Elagabalus has been an object of fascination to historians and a source of inspiration for artists and writers. This immensely readable book examines the life of one of the Roman Empire’s most colourful figures, and charts the many guises of his legacy: from evil tyrant to firebrand rebel, from mystical androgyne to modern gay teenager, from decadent sensualist to ancient pop star. $54.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848853621 Publish December 2010, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers History

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Taking advantage of the Great Recession, cash-flush nations such as China, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and even Norway are using unregulated sovereign wealth funds to secure major holdings in multinational corporations and massive tracts of farmland and natural resources. They are the Shadow Market, quietly controlling political agendas as well as the flow of capital in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe and doing so with an increasingly aggressive attitude. Eric J. Weiner’s groundbreaking investigation reveals the real powers controlling our shaky recovery from the financial crisis and the economy of the twenty-first century. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851688166 Published October 2010, 320 pages Oneworld Publications Economics

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America, Hitler and the UN

My Life in the PLO

How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace

The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle

Dan Plesch, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS.

Shafiq Al-Hout was one of the leading figures of the PLO, from its foundation through to the Oslo Agreement.

Drawing on previously unknown material from the UN archives, Dan Plesch analyses responses at all levels of society, from high level political elites to grass roots level. Arguing that the Allied defeat of Nazism should properly be called a United Nations victory, Dan Plesch has pieced together the full story of how the UN intervened in surprising ways at a pivotal time in European history. This is an important addition to the literature of World War II and essential reading for anyone with an interest in military or diplomatic history or contemporary international relations. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848853089 Quantity Publish December 2010, 272 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers History

This is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993. Shafiq Al-Hout, a high ranking PLO official until his resignation in 1993, provides previously unavailable details on the key events in its history such as its recognition by the UN and the Oslo peace negotiations. Taking us right to the heart of the decision making processes, this book explains the personalities and internal politics that shaped the PLO’s actions and the Palestinian experience of the twentieth century. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745328836 Quantity Publish December 2010, 320 pages Pluto Current Affairs

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The Changing Face of Terrorism

The New Arab Journalist

How Real is the Threat from Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Weapons?

Mission and Identity in a Time of Change

Benjamin Cole, University of Liverpool, UK.

Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades’ experience reporting from the Middle East Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in the evolution of the Arab media. He explores how, in a diverse Arab media landscape expressing myriad opinions, journalists are still under siege as governments fight a rear-guard action to manage the message.This innovative book breaks through the stereotypes about Arab journalists to reveal the fascinating and complex reality - and what it means for the rest of us. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848850996 Quantity Publish December 2010, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Society & Culture

Lawrence Pintak, Washington State University.

This book evaluates the continuing threat and counter-measures of terrorism since 9/11 and into the 21st century. It is a sober and measured evaluation of the CBRN threat and argues that continuing terror attacks are inevitable and the ‘war on terror’ will be a continuing feature in international politics and military action. Benjamin Cole shows how effective counter-terrorist measures must be measured and based not only on effective police and military intelligence and action but on careful evaltuation of the politics, motivations, scientific and technical abilities of groups and religious and personal motivation. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781845118938 Quantity Publish December 2010, 320 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Current Affairs

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Etruscan Places

See No Evil

Travels through Forgotten Italy

Comments and Quotes from the Crisis

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, is an icon of 20th century literature.

Erik Banks is a Senior Risk Advisor for a European universal bank.

The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the 5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their ‘old wisdom’, the secret of their vivacity and love of life. The exhilaration of Lawrence in his Etruscan adventures stands in stark contrast to his intimations of the darkness of Mussolini’s Italy. The last of Lawrence’s travel books, Etruscan Places is an ephemeral and vivid account. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848855328 Quantity Publish December 2010, 176 pages Tauris Parke Paperbacks Travel

We are doomed to experience further financial crises in the future, because money is powerful, bankers clever, political will malleable, and memories short. So argues Erik Banks in this brilliant book, which tells the story of the recent global economic crisis in the words of the main players in the drama. Banks’s reconstruction of the crisis, and the demonstration that so few substantive lessons have been learnt, is essential reading for anyone interested in our current predicament. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230278936 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Economics

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The Land of an African Sultan

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Travels in Morocco

A Singing in Every Moment and Inch of Me

Walter Harris worked for The Times and travelled to areas of the Middle East never previously visited by Europeans.

Barney Simon (1932-1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.

Walter Harris and Morocco are inextricably linked. For 35 years, he immersed himself in the culture and way of life of Morocco in a way that few ever had before. In this classic work, Harris gives an evocative account of his journeys around Morocco from 1887-1889. Walter Harris was a legendary storyteller and through his rich descriptions of the tribes, customs and everyday life of Morocco, he renders a portrait of the country that is hard to surpass. The Land of an African Sultan is a story as compelling now as it was over a century ago. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848855731 Publish December 2010, 368 pages Quantity Tauris Parke Paperbacks Travel

Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and told in the letters home of a young theater director to a friend who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of one of South Africa’s national treasures-cofounder of the Market Theatre, director of the early productions of the plays of Athol Fugard, and mentor to a generation of South African actors-as he begins his artistic journey by wrestling with the angels. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781583229361 Publish December 2010, 176 pages Seven Stories Press Memoir Quantity

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Breaking the Wave

Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900

Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945 - 1985

Carmen M. Mangion, University of London, and Laurence Lux-Sterritt, University of Aix-Marseille.

Kathleen A. Laughlin, Metropolitan State University, and Jacqueline L. Castledine, University of Massachusetts.

This collection of essays on British and European Catholic spiritualities explores how ideas of the sacred have influenced female relationships with piety and religious vocations over time. The studies focuses on specific persons or groups within the varied contexts of England, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, together spanning the medieval period through to the nineteenth century. The volume highlights the relevance of gender and spirituality through a wide geographical and chronological spectrum. $53.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230577619 Publish December 2010, 224 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

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A Breath of Freedom The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany

Krista Cowman, University of Lincoln, UK. Krista Cowman’s highly approachable survey examines some of the areas of women’s political activity in Britain from the period of the Glorious Revolution to the election of the first female Prime Minister. Cowman shows how women had worked in a variety of locations and organizations in the decades before the suffrage campaign, and that women’s politics did not begin with the demand for a parliamentary vote. The volume also demonstrates how women’s political activity continued after equal suffrage in 1928 in a number of directions within and beyond Parliament. $53.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230545571 Publish December 2010, 208 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity History & Philosophy

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Maria Hohn, Vassar College, USA, and Martin A. Klimke, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

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Future Christ

The Advance of the British Left from the Great Reform Act to the Third Millennium

A Lesson in Heresy François Laruelle, Université de Paris X (Nanterre), and Anthony Paul Smith, DePaul University, USA.

The British Left has developed almost beyond recognition since the early days of electoral reform heralded by the Great Reform Act of 1832. In this book, Kenneth Morgan provides a detailed history of the British Left from the Great Reform Act to the rise (and decline) of New Labour. Along the way, he highlights the characters and events that have been pivotal in shaping the development of the Left - from Gladstone and the New Radicalism, to Lloyd George and the Boer War, to Tony Blair and the War in Iraq. $65.00 Hb, ISBN 9781848855762 Publish December 2010, 320 pages Quantity I.B.Tauris Publishers History & Philosophy

Future Christ is one of the first English translations of the work of François Laruelle, one of the most exciting voices in contemporary French philosophy and the creator of the practice of ‘non-philosophy’. In this work Laruelle draws on material from the traditions of Christianity, Judaism and Gnosticism, but he does so by suspending their authority. This provocative, yet remarkably accessible book introduces philosophy to the lessons of heresy and makes use of them in a non-philosophical “dualysis” of messianism and apocalypticism. $48.00 Hb, ISBN 9781441118332 Publish December 2010, 176 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

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The Antifascist Classroom

Information History in the Modern World

Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949

Histories of the Information Age

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The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of information and, in this timely collection of essays, a team of international scholars from a variety of disciplines examines the changing understandings of information in the modern world. Situating the concept of information in varying historical contexts since the eighteenth century, this book explores how this historical research can challenge our perceptions of the information age in the global twenty-first century. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230237377 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity History & Philosophy

Toni Weller, De Montfort University, UK.

This study explores the history of the “new school” that developed in the immediate postwar period and its role in communicating antifascism to young people in the Soviet zone. Blessing traces how the decisions about how to educate young people after twelve years of a National Socialist dictatorship became part of a broader discussion about the future of the German nation. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230107304 Publish December 2010, 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

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Benita Blessing, Ohio University, USA.

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This moving and beautifully illustrated book examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Because of the American military occupation after World War II, America’s unresolved civil rights agenda was exposed to world-wide scrutiny as never before. While the effects of the African-American Civil Rights Movement reverberated across the globe, Germany represents a special case that illuminates a remarkable period in American and world history. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230104730 Quantity Publish December 2010, 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

Ages of Reform Kenneth Morgan is one of Britain’s leading modern historians.

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Ranging from the “civic feminism” of white middleclass organizers and the “womanism” of Harlem consumers in the immediate postwar period, to the utopian feminism of Massachusetts lesbian softball league founders and environmentally minded feminists in the 1970s and 1980s, Breaking the Wave documents a continuity of activism in both national and local organizing that creates a new discussion, and a new paradigm, for twentieth century women’s history. $59.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415874007 Publish December 2010, 268 pages Quantity Routledge History & Philosophy

N ew D irections in A merican H istory

H istory

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New Waves in Metaethics

Rob Johnson, Oxford University, UK.

Michael Brady, University of Glasgow, UK.

The Iran-Iraq War was personified by the determination and ambition of the key leaders, Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini, and characterised by mass casualties, the repression of the civilian populations and chemical warfare. Fought with lucrative oil money, it left the belligerents with crippling debts. In this important reappraisal, Rob Johnson explores the major issues surrounding the war, offers a fresh analysis of the military aspects and assesses the far-reaching consequences for the wider world. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the ensuing conflicts in the reqion, including the invasion of Iraq in 2003. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230577749 Publish December 2010, 224 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

Metaethical questions have occupied some of the greatest philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hume and Nietzsche, amongst many others, have all written on issues about the nature of moral thinking and moral practice. In the last 40 years, interest in metaethics has increased greatly, driven by developments in other areas of philosophy principally, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophical psychology. This collection presents original and groundbreaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best younger philosophers working in this field. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230251625 Publish December 2010, 352 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity History & Philosophy

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Jesus H. Aguilar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA; Andrei A. Buckareff, Marist College, USA; and Keith Frankish, the Open University, UK.

Second Edition

S ocial H istory P erspective

Donald M. MacRaild, Northumbria University, UK.

This volume contains a set of state-of-the-art essays by younger philosophers on various topics in the philosophy of action. Some of the essays are about the metaphysics of action and agency; some consider the nature of autonomy and free agency; some explore conceptual and normative issues, some draw on data from psychology and psychopathology. But what all of them have in common is that they address some problem related to our existence as human agents. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230230606 Publish December 2010, 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy Quantity

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Living with Jim Crow

Noncognitivism in Ethics

Anne Valk, Brown University, and Leslie Brown, Williams College.

Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California, USA.

This groundbreaking book collects black women’s personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women’s role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities of women’s experiences, as well as the ways that women’s lives differed from the experiences of southern black men, Living with Jim Crow analyzes the interlocking forces of racism and sexism. $45.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230621527 Quantity Publish December 2010, 228 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

Beginning with a general introduction to metaethics, this book introduces and assesses three principal kinds of noncognitivist theory: the speech-act theories of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare, the expressivist theories of Blackburn and Gibbard, and hybrid theories. Mark Schroeder pays particular attention both to the philosophical problems about what moral facts could be about or how they could matter which noncognitivism seeks to solve, and to the deep problems that it faces, including the task of explaining both the nature of moral thought and the complexity of moral attitudes, and the ‘FregeGeach’ problem. $64.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415773447 Publish December 2010, 258 pages Quantity Routledge History & Philosophy

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Making American Culture

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A Social History, 1900 - 1920

The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial

Patricia Bradley, Temple University, Philadelphia.

Paul Pettitt, University of Sheffield, UK.

This book argues that the development of American culture in the twentieth century was the result of a cacophony of influences with a large sociological sweep, from the role of immigrants as a new audience to the intimate circles of artists who forged connections through neighborhoods, popular pubs, and lovers - heterosexual and homosexual all contributing to an intellectual ferment that was open to new ideas. Patricia Bradley examines how some of these forces impacted the evolution of popular cultural forms such as vaudeville, song, and early film as well as the emergence of modern art, dance, and literary productions. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230105843 Publish December 2010, 264 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of human mortuary activity - the various ways we deal with the dead and with dead bodies. It is the first comprehensive survey of Palaeolithic mortuary activity in the English language. The core chapters of the book survey the mortuary activities of early hominins, archaic members of the genus Homo, early Homo sapiens, the Neanderthals, the Early and Mid Upper Palaeolithic, and the Late Upper Palaeolithic world. $64.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415354905 Publish December 2010, 320 pages Routledge History & Philosophy Quantity

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Until the 1950s, the Irish were by far the largest ethnic minority in Britain. This leading study focuses on the most important phase of Irish migration, providing an analytical discussion of why and how the Irish settled in such numbers. The book examines key aspects of the social, religious and political worlds of these migrants, and explores both Catholic and Protestant immigrants. It also explains why they were so often the victims of native hostility. Adopting a truly Britain-wide approach, it draws upon the latest research and a wide range of printed primary sources. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230240292 Publish December 2010, 304 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

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History & Philosophy Philosophies of Difference

Rabble!

A Critical Introduction to Non-philosophy

A People's History of War and Rebellion in Colonial North America

François Laruelle, Université de Paris X (Nanterre), and Rocco Gangle, Endicott College, USA.

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A crucial text in the development of François Laruelle’s oeuvre and an excellent starting point for understanding his broader project, Philosophies of Difference offers a theoretical and critical analysis of the philosophers of difference after Hegel and Nietzsche. Laruelle then uses this analysis to introduce a new theoretical practice of non-philosophical thought. Rather than presenting a narrative historical overview, Laruelle provides a series of rigorous critiques of the various interpretations of difference in Hegel, Nietzsche and Deleuze, Heidegger and Derrida. $53.00 Hb, ISBN 9780826436634 Publish December 2010, 224 pages Quantity Continuum History & Philosophy

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E uropean C ulture S ociety S eries

As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one’s skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration and colonialism to construct a hierarchy of civilizations and then justify slavery and other forms of economic exploitation. Ideas about race in antiquity were therefore completely distinct but as closely bound to political and historical contexts as those that came later. This provocative book boldly explores the complex matrices of race - and the differing interpretations of ancient and modern. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848851580 Quantity Publish December 2010, 160 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers History & Philosophy

Political Thought in the Age of Revolution, 1776-1848

Servants of Empire

Burke to Marx

F.R.H. Du Boulay (1920-2008) was one of the most distinguished medievalists of his time.

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Denise McCoskey, Miami University, Ohio.

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Antiquity and Its Legacy

Grounded in an analysis of the history of race in America, from antebellum slavery to present-day ongoing racial disparities, this book examines race through the lens of economic and institutional realities. Leiman argues that institutional racism - beyond simply individual prejudice or misunderstanding - has been, and continues to remain, a central factor in American life. Leiman argues that the persistence of racism functions as a disciplinary mechanism of social control in an unequal society where money and power have frequently been threatened by interracial social struggle. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781608460663 Publish December 2010, 420 pages Seven Stories Press Quantity History & Philosophy

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Melvin Leiman, Binghamton University, New York.

An Imperial Memoir of a British Family

Michael Levin, University of London, UK. The years between the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 saw fundamental shifts from autocracy to emerging democracy. It is a vital period in what may be termed ‘modernity’. This indispensable introductory text considers how a cluster of key thinkers viewed the global political upheavals and social changes of their time, covering the work of Edmund Burke, Georg Hegel, Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jeremy Bentham, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. $53.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230272118 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity History & Philosophy

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Spanning three continents, several generations and conflicts waged in every corner of the globe, this unusual memoir offers a memorable glimpse of late Imperial life. From General Gordon’s Siege of Khartoum to the Boxer Uprising, the Boer War and World War One, this book is a fascinating record of the intersection of the lives of a single British family with the drama of world affairs. Drawing on an outstanding collection of original letters exchanged between six siblings and their parents, the eminent historian F.R.H. Du Boulay has brilliantly reconstructed the lost world of his father’s generation. $69.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848855717 Quantity Publish December 2010, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers History & Philosophy

Turkey since 1989

An Introduction

Kerem Öktem, St Antony’s College.

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Since its re-emergence as nation-state in 1923, Turkey has often looked like an odd appendix to the West situated in the borderlands of Europe and the Middle East, economically backward, inward looking, marred by political violence, yet a staunch NATO ally, it has been eyed with suspicion by both ‘East’ and ‘West’. Today, as the foundations of the ethno-nationalist Kemalist state are eroding rapidly, Turkey appears to be coming to terms with the many sources of its anger, if cautiously and slowly. At this historical turning point, this book charts the contemporary history of Turkey by looking at the country’s erratic transformation from a military dictatorship to a maturing democracy. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848132115 Publish December 2010, 176 pages Quantity Zed Books History & Philosophy

Why are socialists, communists, and social democrats concerned with the distribution of wealth? Why do they place so much importance on public goods such as education and health care? To what extent does democracy matter to social egalitarians? In The Politics of Equality, Jason C. Myers sheds new light on questions such as these, providing a readable, contemporary introduction to egalitarian political philosophy. Concentrating on ideas and values, rather than on the rise and fall of parties and movements, the book offers crucial insights into a vital tradition of political thought. $45.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848138438 Publish December 2010, 160 pages Zed Books Quantity History & Philosophy

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The Politics of Equality Jason C. Myers, California State University, USA.

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Spanning the years 1492 to 1776, Rabble! is a long overdue people’s history of war and war resistance in this formative era, an ambitious narrative designed to examine the early centuries of American military history from the “bottom up.” In a brilliant and eye-opening reconstruction of longforgotten battles and little-known warriors, Garcia shows how the experience of warfare in North America was as much shaped by Native American and African military strategies as it was by the French and English generals who vied for control of the continent. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781595583604 Publish December 2010, 352 pages Quantity The New Press History & Philosophy

The Political Economy of Racism

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Daniel Garcia, College of New Rochelle.

Current Affairs & Politics Building State & Security in Afghanistan

The Iraqi Refugees

Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Princeton University, and Robert P. Finn, former ambassador to Afghanistan.

Joseph Sassoon is an independent academic based in London.

Bridging the pragmatic and the theoretical, leading scholars and policy analysts delve into the critical issues facing Afghanistan today. Their exploration of questions relating to security and peacekeeping, the rule of law, institutional design, mobilization of the economy, and relations within the region provides a crucial resource for understanding not only Afghanistan’s prospects, but also the opportunities and constraints associated with state building more broadly. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780977354443 Publish December 2010, 324 pages Lynne Rienner Current Affairs & Politics Quantity

In this rigorous and timely book, Joseph Sassoon explores the underlying trends of Iraq’s refugee flow: which class, ethnic and sectarian groups are going where and how. Based on extensive original research, he examines the economic impact of this exodus on Iraq itself, and on the host countries of the region: Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. He analyses international policy on the refugee issue, and assesses the options for return and resettlement. Iraqi Refugees is both the first and the definitive guide to what will come to be seen as one of the most significant issues affecting the Middle East. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848856974 Publish December 2010, 272 pages Quantity I.B.Tauris Publishers Current Affairs & Politics

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Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine Donald Kirk has reported from Korea for The Observer of London and USA Today and served as Seoul correspondent for other media.

Silvia Giagnoni, Auburn University, Montgomery. Migrant farm workers in the United States are routinely forced to live and work in unsafe, often desperate, conditions. In Immokalee, Florida, the tomato capital of the world - which has earned the dubious distinction of being “ground zero for modern slavery” - farm workers organized themselves into the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and launched a nationwide boycott campaign that forced McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell to recognize their demands for workers’ rights. This is their story. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781608460939 Publish December 2010, 260 pages Haymarket Books Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

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For the first time, using original sources and his own reporting going back to 1972 when he met Kim Dae Jung at his home in Seoul, Donald Kirk explores the great untold story of modern Korean history. This book recounts the rise of Kim Dae Jung from an oppressed region of Korea, beginning with his schooldays, his activities in the Korean War and his entry into politics. The book addresses his populist politics, his ascent to the national stage and his encounters first with the dictators who tried to take his life and then had him tried and sentenced to death for the Kwangju revolt. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9780312240172 Quantity Publish December 2010, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan Current Affairs & Politics

Handbook of China’s International Relations

Live Working or Die Fighting

Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick.

Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist.

This handbook is divided into three main sections: Part I: Ideas and Interests - changes in theoretical thinking on international relations in China; how ideas are transmitted into the policy-making community; the role of public opinion. Part II: Issues - major concerns and objectives that shape China’s international relations; historical legacies; sovereignty; energy; human rights; peacekeeping and international responsibility; military modernization. Part III: Relations - case studies of relations with the USA, Japan, East Asia, Europe, the Shanghai Co-operation Organization, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Australasia. $285.00 Hb, ISBN 9781857435085 Quantity Publish July 2010, 270 pages Routledge Current Affairs & Politics

The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America’s Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781608460700 Quantity Publish December 2010, 320 pages Haymarket Books Current Affairs & Politics

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Hell No

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This book provides, in one volume, primary sources by Marx and critical commentary which relates Marxism to contemporary social and political topics. It includes six brief works by Marx and ten articles by scholars sympathetic to but critical of Marxism, including Heidi Hartmann’s classic essay which criticizes Marxism for misunderstanding gender oppression, “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism.” No previous anthology of Marx has combined both brief works by Marx and multiple critical essays elaborating on his themes or engaging the shortcomings of his arguments. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230102415 Publish December 2010, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

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In Hell No, the Center for Constitutional Rights explores the current situation of attacks upon and criminalization of dissent, from the surveillance of activists to the federalization of local law enforcement and the labeling of activists as “terrorists.” The book includes chapters on what today’s activists must know about the threats posed by federal law enforcement agents and their tactics. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781595585400 Publish December 2010, 256 pages Quantity The New Press Current Affairs & Politics

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No Equal Justice

Trials of Europeanization

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Turkish Political Culture and the European Union

David Cole, Georgetown University.

Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, University of Athens.

First published a decade ago, No Equal Justice is the seminal work on race- and class-based double standards in criminal justice. Hailed as a “shocking and necessary book” by The Economist, it has become the standard reference point for anyone trying to understand the fundamental inequalities in the American legal system. No Equal Justice examines subjects ranging from police behavior and jury selection to sentencing, and argues that our system does not merely fail to live up to the promise of equality, but actively requires double standards to operate. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781565849471 Publish December 2010, 288 pages Quantity The New Press Current Affairs & Politics

This book examines the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish political culture since Turkey became a candidate for EU membership in 1999. This study evaluates the impact that Turkey’s EU-motivated political reform had on civil society, state-society relations, the role of religion in politics and national identity. This leads to an assessment of whether Turkish political culture has become more participant and democratic. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230104976 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan Current Affairs & Politics Quantity

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The Political Culture of Leadership in the United Arab Emirates

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Andrea B. Rugh, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., USA.

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Mirela Bogdani here analyses the complex range of issues that are influencing the process of Turkey’s accession to the EU, assesses the positions of different European actors towards Turkey’s pursuit of EU membership and identifies the reasons for the European opposition. She also analyses the issues of political Islam, multiculturalism and the compatibility of Islam with democracy. This book will be an important resource for anyone interested in EU politics, EU enlargement policy, EU-Turkey relations, the relationship between religion and politics, political Islam, multiculturalism and supranational integration. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848854598 Quantity Publish December 2010, 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Current Affairs & Politics

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Peter Calvert, University of Southampton, UK.

J. P. Singh, Georgetown University.

Terrorism, Civil War, and Revolution analyzes the role of revolution and civil strife in the present day world. Expanding on the second edition of Calvert’s Revolution and International Politics, this new work reflects the drastic changes that have taken place in the world order since 2001. With an increased focus on terrorism and civil war, the book looks into such key issues as the use of force by the state in the international system, challenges to states, wars of national liberation, counterinsurgency, and more. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441153647 Publish December 2010, 200 pages Continuum Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

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This book traces the history of UNESCO from its foundational idealism to its current stature as the preeminent international organization for science, education, and culture, building a well rounded understanding of this important organization. The book provides an overview of the organization and its institutional architecture in the context of its humanistic idealism and details the subsequent challenges UNESCO faced through cold war and power politics, global dependence and interdependence, and the rise of identity and culture in global politics. $45.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415491143 Publish December 2010, 160 pages Quantity Routledge Current Affairs & Politics

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This book clearly identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, and offers policy options to deal with the world of the future. Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the book suggests the future lies in strong national protection systems backed up by regional and international organs and an international criminal justice system. The book explores the future of preventive human rights through a wide range of contemporary issues. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415548564 Publish December 2010, 152 pages Routledge Current Affairs & Politics

Daniela di Piramo, Griffith University, Australia.

The Ancient World Routledge Wall Maps for the Ancient World Series editor Richard Talbert Routledge Wall Maps for the Ancient World provide readers with detailed and exacting geographic information of the ancient world. Using the world renowned geographic data from the Ancient World Mapping Centre, the sweeping views of the ancient world allow students to understand important concepts such as trade, movement, spatial and cultural relations and to consider how the ancient terrain would have affected them. The maps provide a powerful tool for comprehending how the ancient world worked and also to help re-evaluate out-dated theories in light of precise geographic information. Those students who are new to the discipline of ancient history will find them invaluable in orientating themselves within the world of the past. How far is Athens from Sparta, what type of terrain did Alexander have to cross on his journeys, how did the valley of the Nile look in 500 BC? Such questions and many more are answered by the maps within this series.

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Thalia Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

And Other Stories Mikhail Bulgakov trained as a doctor before eventually giving up medicine to concentrate on literature.

Aeschylus’ Suppliants dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. It was long considered to be the earliest surviving tragedy. Even after the mid-twentieth century, when new evidence established a later date for the play, critics tended to condemn it for its alleged ‘archaic’ features. As a result it has long been underestimated, although a careful examination reveals it to be one of the most exciting tragedies. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780715639139 Publish December 2010, 144 pages Duckworth Academic Classics Quantity

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Key to Writing Greek

Directions to Servants

Stephen Anderson, Winchester College, and John Taylor, Tonbridge School, Kent.

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an AngloIrish writer of prose, poetry, essays and political pamphlets, and is probably the best-known satirist in the English Language.

Key to Writing Greek provides model translations for all the exercise sentences and continuous passages that appear in the authors’ Writing Greek, published simultaneously with this book. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781853997440 Publish December 2010, 48 pages Duckworth Academic Classics

A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations. Written towards the end of his writing career, this pamphlet – paired here with Polite Conversation, another work often attributed to the Dean – shows Swift at his witty and mischievous best. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491756 Publish December 2010, 144 pages Oneworld Classics Quantity Fiction

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Stephen Anderson, Winchester College, and John Taylor, Tonbridge School, Kent.

Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F.Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was the author of various novels and short stories.

This brand new guide to writing Greek will be useful both in the upper forms of schools and for those starting Greek prose composition at university. Part 1 deals with the constituent elements of the simple sentence, and in Part 2 all major constructions are covered, each with thorough explanations and clear examples. Each chapter has either two or three exercises of practice sentences, further supplemented throughout Part 2 by passages for continuous composition. 100 important irregular verbs with their principal parts are listed at the back of the book, and there is a complete vocabulary for all the exercises. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781853997174 Quantity Publish December 2010, 192 pages Duckworth Academic Classics

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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby’s impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the “Jazz Age”. $17.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491749 Quantity Publish December 2010, 256 pages Oneworld Classics Fiction

Zenobia of Palmyra

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination

And Other Russian Comic Stories One of the leading figures in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol (1809–52) is bestknown for his satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls.

Rex Winsbury has worked at the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the BBC. Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in Syria was one of the great women of classical antiquity, a romantic if tragic heroine both to Roman authors and to Chaucer, Gibbon and the neo-classical artists of the 19th century. This book constructs a coherent political and military narrative for Zenobia’s life, confirming the depth of the ‘third century crisis’ of the Roman Empire, choosing between rival versions of what happened to Zenobia, and examining the myths that have surrounded her ever since. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780715638538 Publish December 2010, 192 pages Duckworth Academic Quantity Classics

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In Diaboliad, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also feature explorations of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of Master and Margarita. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491534 Quantity Publish December 2010, 160 pages Oneworld Classics Fiction

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The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. The second story, Ivan Krylov’s Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather, has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The final two stories, by the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, are satirical attacks on the inability of civil servants to cope with real life, and on Russia’s autocracy. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491732 Quantity Publish December 2010, 160 pages Oneworld Classics Fiction

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Pablo Holmberg, after obtaining a degree in science and communication, began to focus on cartooning.

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Argentinean artist Pablo Holmberg creates a bucolic, medieval folktale in Eden, where nature is the protagonist and characters are the scenery. Follow a king as he converses with the moon, a star as it is born, and many more in four-panel strips that combine the playfulness of a Sunday comic with the simplicity of a haiku. Surreal yet friendly and approachable, each strip celebrates the thrill of being alive and encourages the reader to do the same. Eden is Holmberg’s chimerical cosmos where the author’s imaginative storytelling is purposely reliant on the reader’s interpretation. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781770460089 Publish December 2010, 120 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Quantity Graphic Novel

May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her living by putting people back onto the streets. Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, a police informant in the Fillmore District of San Francisco. May becomes a target of the police, and of her own shadowed past among the people of Fillmore as she walks the narrowest tightrope on the West Coast: the line of personal conscience that separates justice from authority. By turns lyrical, incisive, hilarious and bittersweet, Peter Plate’s Elegy Written On A Crowded Street explores the human cost of the twenty-first century American city with honesty, beauty, and moral power. $22.95 Pb, ISBN 9781583229316 Quantity Publish December 2010, 176 pages Seven Stories Press Fiction

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Oji Suzuki has produced short films and has written and drawn children’s books.

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In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. Although he touches on many of the same themes as his contemporaries in the field of postwar alternative manga, Suzuki uses an ever shifting narrative approach and dashes of surrealist humor to distinguish his work from that of his peers. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781770460096 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Quantity Graphic Novel

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John Stanley (1914 - 1993) was a journeyman comics scripter in the 1950s and 1960s.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s The Throne of Labdacus received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.

Meet Tubby Tompkins, a mischievous gourmand, rabblerouser, and schemer who, along with neighborhood buddies The Fellers, is continually at odds with the belligerent and thwarting West Side Boys, headed by Wilbur Van Snobbe, the rich trickster who always gets the girl Tubby likes, Gloria Darling. Consistently humorous and engaging, Tubby is a spirited voyage through the prototypal works of a preeminent storyteller. Tubby collects issues 9-12 of the classic strip chronicling the tales of its namesake protagonist and is an offshoot from the wildly popular Little Lulu, Stanley’s careerdefining work. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9781770460232 Quantity Publish December 2010, 144 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Graphic Novel

Heavenly Questions, the first new collection of poems from Gjertrud Schnackenberg since the critically acclaimed The Throne of Labdacus, is a love poem that finds her at the height of her talents and showcases her continued growth as an artist. In six long poems, Schnackenberg’s rhyme-rich blank verse, with its densely packed images, shifts effortlessly between the lyric and the epic, setting passion to a verbal music that is recognizably her own. Heavenly Questions is a work of intellectual, aesthetic, and technical innovation - and, more than that, a deeply compassionate and strikingly personal work. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9780374283070 Quantity Publish December 2010, 80 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Poetry

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Eden

Poems 1959 - 2009

A Novel

Frederick Seidel’s previous collection, Ooga-Booga, received the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Yael Hedaya, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

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Every Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of a cancer ward, surrealistic depictions of a social order coming apart, or fluent, defiant outpourings of praise, Wiman pushes his language and forms until they break open, revealing startling new truths within. The poems attest to the human hunger to feel existence, even at its most harrowing, and the power of art to make our most intense experiences not only apprehensible but transfiguring. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780374150365 Quantity Publish December 2010, 112 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Poetry

Eden is no paradise: it is the stifling, rural community in which upscale urban escapees, Alona and Mark, drift apart and divorce under the resentful scrutiny of Roni, Mark’s needy adolescent daughter. Over the course of one month, Roni’s self-dramatizing turns to tragedy, her parents are jolted out of their absorbing concerns, and a new family structure begins to form out of an unlikely set of characters. Through a portrait of family entanglements, disappearing countryside, and disappointed expectations, Yael Hedaya has brilliantly mapped the social and emotional ecology of midlife and achieved miracles of insight and understanding. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780805092653 Quantity Publish December 2010, 496 pages Henry Holt and Company Fiction

These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, “the best American poet writing today.” $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9780374532192 Publish December 2010, 528 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Poetry

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Society & Culture A History of Drugs

The New Maids

Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age

Transnational Women and the Care Economy

Toby Seddon, University of Manchester.

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A History of Drugs traces a genealogy of the construction and governance of the ‘drug problem’ over the past 200 years, calling into question some of the most fundamental ideas in this field: from ‘addiction’ to the very concept of ‘drugs’. At the heart of the book is the claim that it was with the emergence in the late eighteenth century of modern liberal capitalism, with its distinctive emphasis on freedom, that our concerns about the consumption of some of these substances began to grow. And, indeed, notions of freedom, free will and responsibility remain central to the drug question today. $69.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415589604 Publish December 2010, 184 pages Quantity Routledge Society & Culture

AHelma Lutz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.

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The Islamic World

The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure

R outledge W orlds

Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Canada.

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The Islamic World is an outstanding guide to Islamic faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished international team of scholars, it elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world’s great religious traditions. Its grounding in contemporary scholarship makes it an ideal reference source for students and scholars alike. Edited by Andrew Rippin, a leading scholar of Islam, the volume covers the political, geographical, religious, intellectual, cultural and social worlds of Islam, and offers insight into all aspects of Muslim life including the Qur’an and law, philosophy, science and technology, art, literature, and film and much else. $98.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415601917 Quantity Publish December 2010, 704 pages Routledge Society & Culture

Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg, both Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

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Queer Popular Culture

Reclaiming Christianity for All

Thomas Peele, Boise State University.

The Rev. Scotty McLennan, Stanford University.

Queer Popular Culture is an exciting new collection that brings together work from several disciplines that address queer representation in multiple contexts. The articles cover many aspects of contemporary U.S. and international queer culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness, and work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities. Other essays address queer representations from soap operas to gangster films. The book also includes a pedagogical section that addresses the use of queer concepts in the classroom. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230105591 Publish December 2010, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Society & Culture

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Judaism Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky.

Jonathan Bonk, Overseas Ministries Study Center.

Oliver Leaman carefully and creatively explores the nature of the apparent contradictions surrounding the Jewish faith and people. He discusses the origins of the Jewish Bible; recounts the history of the Jewish people from the era of Patriarchs and Prophets through the Middle Ages up to the contemporary era; outlines the Jewish liturgical calendar and its major rites and modes of worship; and considers the great variety of Jewish literatures (including modern post-Holocaust writers like Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel), art, food and culture. Further chapters examine such topics as mysticism and kabbalah; modern Hebrew; interfaith relations; and the highly contested question, ‘Who is a Jew?’ $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848853959 Quantity Publish December 2011, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Society & Culture

The Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries examines the nature and effects of missionary work around the world and throughout history, analyzing how secular and clerical people from major religions (especially Christianity, Buddhism and Islam) have brought social changes along with words of a new faith. $88.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415880893 Publish December 2010, 478 pages Routledge Society & Culture

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S ociety

Routledge Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries

and

An Introduction

R eligion

I.B.T auris I ntroductions to R eligion

This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that the Sixties left behind. In their leisure lives - whether drinking, reading, surfing the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside - people seem to enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been relinquished? $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230216846 Quantity Publish December 2010, 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan Society & Culture

Jesus Was a Liberal In McLennan’s bold call to reclaim ownership of Christianity, he advocates a sense of religion based not on doctrinal readings of scripture but on the humanity behind Christ’s teachings. He addresses such topics as intelligent design, abortion, same sex marriage, war. torture and much, much more. As he says in the Preface, “We liberal Christians know in our hearts that there is much more to life than seems to meet the rational eye of atheists; yet we find it hard to support supernatural claims about religion that fly in the face of scientific evidence.” $25.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230103405 Publish December 2010, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan Society & Culture Quantity

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The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. $63.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848132887 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Quantity Zed Books Society & Culture

Business & Economics

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Conscientious Equity

The New Rules of Retail

An American Entrepreneur's Solutions to the World's Greatest Problems

Competing in the World’s Toughest Marketplace

Neal Asbury has published more than 100 articles on global trade issues.

Robin Lewis is the founder of the Goldman Sachs retail consulting subsidiary, Vantage Marketplace.

Free enterprise and entrepreneurialism can be the driving force in creating a world that all people want to see. Through his experience as a global entrepreneur, Neal Asbury has created his own set of solutions which derive from doing business around the world in a progressive new fashion, one that allows entrepreneurialism and the American spirit to reach out into the unknown to generate a new kind of transaction. A kind of transaction where there are many, many winners. Asbury calls this kind of business “conscientious equity.” $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230108929 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

Unprecedented consumer power, enabled by technology and globalization is driving a revolutionary transformation that will lead to the demise of retail as we know it. The authors provide a unique and essential view of the future of the industry, arguing that a new business model is necessary in these new times, one based on: Preemptive, precise and perpetual distribution; A neurological customer connection; and total control of the value chain. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230105720 Publish December 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Business & Economics

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The Future of Leadership Development

The Nonprofit Challenge Integrating Ethics into the Purpose and Promise of Our Nation's Charities

Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools

Doug White, New York University, USA. This book describes the challenges facing charities, explains how they must reassess their commitment, and pushes charities to be their best. It also examines how two sectors of society business and government - would benefit from a similar corrective journey. $59.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230623927 Publish December 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

Jordi Canals, University of Navarra, Spain. The current financial crisis highlights the need to rethink business leadership and the role of business schools in helping firms develop the leaders of the future. This book brings together the perspectives of deans of top international business schools, and the views of CEOs and senior business leaders. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230279285 Publish December 2010, 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

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Mismeasuring Our lives

Working in Adversarial Relationships

Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up

Operating Effectively in Relationships Characterized by Little Trust or Support

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University.

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In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - the most widely used measure of economic activity - is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our society. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781595585196 Publish December 2010, 176 pages Quantity The New Press Business & Economics

Aryanne Oade has worked as a Chartered Psychologist since 1991 and is a member of the British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology and holds general membership at the Division of Occupational Psychology. A highly practical and insightful book; it will help you to perform more effectively in a workplace which requires you to function effectively in predominantly adversarial relationships. Whether you work for a small, medium or large organization this book will enable you to get things done effectively in prevailingly oppositional relationships. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230238435 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Business & Economics

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More with Less

Economics for Everyone

Maximizing Value in the Public Sector

A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

Bernard Marr and James Creelman, both Advanced Performance Institute.

Jim Stanford is economist for the Canadian Auto Workers union, and an economics columnist.

Public sector organizations are about to enter one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the credit crunch. This timely book shows public sector leaders what they need to understand in order to be able to cope with these challenges. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230283565 Publish December 2010, 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

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Jim Stanford's book is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wage labour are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. Stanford answers questions such as "Do workers need capitalists?", "Why does capitalism harm the environment?", and "What really happens on the stock market?" He offers both a realistic assessment of capitalism's strengths, and a robust critique of its many failures. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780745327501 Quantity Published 2008, 360 pages Pluto Business & Economics

BFI F ilm C lassics

The Arts

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Bringing Up Baby

Film Moments

Peter Swaab, University College, London, UK.

Critical Methods and Approaches

Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. There are no real babies in Bringing Up Baby (though grown-up infants abound), but there are those leopards and the indefatigable terrier George - and, as Peter Swaab argues, in its own way Hawks’s film is an artwork which wonders profoundly why and how far we want animals in our lives and we are animals in our lives. Many screwball films have been seen as comedies of remarriage, but Peter Swaab argues that this is a less respectable story, a comedy about having a love affair. $25.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844570706 Publish December 2010, 128 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan The Arts

James Walters, University of Birmingham, UK, and Tom Brown, University of Reading, UK. This book is comprised of sections addressing Theory, History and Criticism, within which individual chapters combine close textual readings of key cinematic moments with an illustration of key approaches and concerns in film analysis. Film Moments provides both an enlightening introduction for students to the diversity of approaches and concerns in the study of film, and a dynamic and vibrant account of key film sequences for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of cinema. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844573356 Publish December 2010, 200 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity The Arts

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Contemporary British Art

From Film Adaptation to PostCelluloid Adaptation

An Introduction

Rethinking the Transition of Popular Narratives and Characters across Old and New Media

Grant Pooke, University of Kent. This book takes a fresh look at some of the themes, ideas and directions which have informed British art since the later 1980s through to the first decade of the new millennium. In addition to discussing some iconic images and examples, it also looks more broadly at the contexts in which a new ‘post-conceptual’ generation of artists, those typically born since the late 1950s and 1960s have approached and developed aspects of their professional practice. Contemporary British Art is an ideal introduction to the field. $62.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415389747 Publish December 2010, 304 pages Routledge The Arts Quantity

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Costas Constandinides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

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The Enchanted Screen

Graven Images

The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films

Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels

Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota.

A. David Lewis, Boston University, and Christine Hoff, Cherry Hill Seminary, South Carolina.

In The Enchanted Screen, Jack Zipes looks at the long, illustrious life of fairy tales on film. Decades before Walt Disney made his mark on the genre, Zipes argues that fairy tales were central to the birth of cinema as a medium-they offered cheap, copyright-free material that could easily engage audiences not only though their familiarity but also through their dazzling special effects. In this book, Zipes examines the special relationship between fairy tales and cinema, examining how and why so many films have adapted fairy tale narratives, whether directly or indirectly. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415990615 Publish December 2010, 496 pages Routledge Quantity The Arts

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The main corpus of film adaptation thus far has focused on films based on canonical literature. This book takes the next logical step by discussing the emerging modes of film adaptation from older media to new, mainly focusing on the computergenerated reconstructions of popular narratives and characters along with other forms of convergence such as the Internet. Discussing films like Minority Report, King Kong, 300 and Wanted, it aims to challenge and rework the definition of adaptation. $154.00 Hb, ISBN 9781441103802 Quantity Publish December 2010, 160 pages Continuum The Arts

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Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comics books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780826430267 Quantity Publish December 2010, 336 pages Continuum The Arts

Film England

Hits and Misses

Culturally English Filmmaking Since the 1990s

Crafting Top 40 Singles, 1963 - 1971

Andrew Higson, University of York.

Hits and Misses examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual criticism and delineates the creative process as it unfolds from the initial conception of a song to the final mix presented on disc. The book takes as its subject top 40 singles released between 1963 and 1971 in the USA, Britain, and Canada, and considers the songs themselves and their transformation in the studio. Robert Toft studies the methods by which recordists (songwriters, arrangers, band members, producers, and engineers) impart their ideas to audiences. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826432162 Publish December 2010, 192 pages Continuum Quantity The Arts

Robert Toft, University of London.

In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Higson demonstrates how a variety of Englishnesses have appeared on screen since 1990, and surveys the genres and production modes that have captured those representations. He looks at the industrial circumstances of the film business in the UK, government film policy and the emergence of the UK Film Council. He considers the period’s diverse films about the English past, including big-budget, Hollywood-led action-adventure films about medieval heroes, intimate costume dramas of the modern past, and films about the very recent past. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848854543 Publish December 2010, 304 pages Quantity I.B.Tauris Publishers The Arts

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R eading C ontemporary T elevision

The Arts Mad Men

Shadows of Progress

Dream Come True TV

Documentary in Post-War Britain

Gary R. Edgerton, Old Dominion University.

Patrick Russell and James Piers Taylor, both BFI National Archive, UK.

This book explores, analyses and celebrates the world of Mad Men as cutting edge TV drama and popular phenomenon, and includes an interview with its Executive Producer Scott Hornbacher and an episode guide. Every few years a new television program comes along to capture and express the zeitgeist. Mad Men is now that show, and, as this book demonstrates, it is partly because its characters are an earlier, confused and conflicted version of us, trying to make the best of a future unfolding at breakneck speed. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848853799 Publish December 2010, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers The Arts Quantity

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This unique book combines an overview of British documentary cinema from 1945 to the early 1980s with profiles of major filmmakers of the period, outlining their career histories and key themes of their work, alongside useful resource information about how films from the period can be viewed. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844573219 Publish December 2010, 432 pages Palgrave Macmillan The Arts

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National Museums

The Sound of Musicals

New Studies from Around the World

Steven Cohan, Syracuse University, USA.

Simon Knell, University of Leicester, UK; Peter Aronsson; and Arne Amundsen, University of Oslo, Norway.

The Sound of Musicals examines the films, stars, issues and traditions of the musical from the 1930s to the present, and explores the genre’s global variety and its complex history. Featuring 16 original essays by leading international scholars, this illuminating collection reflects the robust interest the musical continues to stimulate in audiences throughout the world. Classic films of the genre including South Pacific (1958) and Hairspray (1988; 2007) are analysed, in addition to a consideration of recent musicals such as the High School Musical franchise. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844573462 Publish December 2010, 232 pages Palgrave Macmillan The Arts

National Museums is a major thematic collection of new research papers from around the world. The book is an interrogation of the origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives, philosophies, of national museums. It combines new research from both leading and new researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology. Comprising a major comparative analysis of national museums, National Museums examines the past, present and the future of the national museum. $199.00 Hb, ISBN 9780415547734 Quantity Publish December 2010, 400 pages Routledge The Arts

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Neo-Feminist Cinema

Working Together in the Theatre

Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture

Collaboration and Leadership

Hilary Radner, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world’s great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels, from a production’s conception to its final performance. The book provides the techniques, exercises and language that promote collaborative skills. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230239821 Publish December 2010, 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan The Arts

Robert Cohen, University of California, USA.

Neo-Feminist Cinema examines how Hollywood has responded to women’s changing social roles through an analysis of a flourishing sub-genre “the Girly Film,” associated with the contemporary “Chick Flick.” Radner pays particular attention to how the contemporary woman’s film portrays what some have called postfeminism and what the author redefines as neo-feminism. Through an analysis of the girly film, this project teases out the parameters of the neo-feminist paradigm and its implications for an understanding of the contemporary woman’s film. $55.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415877749 Publish December 2010, 208 pages Quantity Routledge The Arts

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Ordinary Lives

Xenakis

Studies in the Everyday

His Life in Music

Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UK.

James Harley, Canadian composer, writer, and educator, studied under Xenakis at the Université de Paris.

This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415461870 Publish December 2010, 192 pages Routledge Quantity The Arts

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Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them. Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early influences: Messiaen and Le Corbusier. $69.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415885386 Publish December 2010, 280 pages Routledge Quantity The Arts

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Literature & Language Alice Walker

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry

Second Edition

Lauri Ramey, California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Maria Lauret, University of Sussex, UK.

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This second edition of Alice Walker examines the full range of Walker’s prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs. It has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments, and brings coverage of Walker’s work right up to date with a new chapter on Now is the Time to Open Your Heart, and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including Overcoming Speechlessness. It also traces Walker’s lineage back to nineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists, and assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230575899 Quantity Publish December 2010, 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan Literature

This book restores the slaves’ songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230100343 Publish December 2010, 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan Literature

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Autobiography

Witnessness

Second Edition

Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility

Linda Anderson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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This new edition is fully updated to include developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts, as well as different forms of the genre from confessions and narratives to memoirs and diaries. It discusses uses of the genre in their historical and cultural contexts, and major autobiographical writers including St Augustine, Bunyan, Boswell, Rousseau and Wordsworth, alongside non-canonical autobiographies by women. A new chapter on narrative and new material examining recent trends in autobiography such as blogs, the popularity of literary memoirs and recent developments in theory on testimonial writing is also included. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415572149 Quantity Publish December 2010, 176 pages Routledge Literature

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A Guide to the Text and the Play in Performance Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire, UK. An introductory guide to Othello in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of screen adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and further reading. $28.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230535671 Publish December 2010, 176 pages Palgrave Macmillan Literature

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Colloquial Persian is easy to use and completely up-to-date! Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Persian. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Whether you’re a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday – if you’d like to get up and running with Persian, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations. $99.95 Pack,ISBN 9780415554091 Publish December 2010 Routledge Language

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Seven Ways of Looking at Language A brief and lively introduction to the main issues, debates and ideas that have emerged in language study over the last fifty years. Designed for the non-specialist reader with an interest in language as well as the intending student, this book concisely conveys an overview of exciting topics and research in the core areas of linguistics. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230279315 Publish December 2010, 160 pages Palgrave Macmillan Literature

Core Vocabulary for Learners Frantisek Cermák and Michal Kren, both Charles University, Prague.

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A Frequency Dictionary of Czech is an invaluable tool for all learners of Czech, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on data from a 100 million word corpus and evenly balanced between spoken, fiction, nonfiction and newspaper texts, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part of speech indexes. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence with English translation and an indication of register variation. $59.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415576628 Publish December 2010, 320 pages Quantity Routledge Language

R outledge F requency D ictionaries

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary Czech

Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Pitzer College, USA.

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Colloquial Persian Abdi Rafiee, University of Westminster.

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Witnessness posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination. Harvey pursues this ethics by staging a speculative reading of Samuel Beckett’s ‘untranslatable’ text, Worstward Ho, alongside Dante’s Purgatorio and Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved and If This Be a Man. Many of the thirty concise chapters that compose Witnessness are built upon notions whose names (e.g. dimness, lessness) take inspiration from Beckett’s unique and precise vocabulary. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441124241 Publish December 2010, 176 pages Quantity Continuum Literature

C olloquial S eries

S hakespeare H andbooks

Othello

Robert Harvey, State University of New York, USA.

Health & Lifestyle The Self Aware Parent

Human Genetics

Resolving Conflict and Building a Better Bond with Your Child

The Basics

Frances Walfish is a leading child and family therapist in private practice.

Human genetics has blossomed from an obscure branch of biological science and occasional explanation for exceedingly rare disorders to a field all of its own that affects everyone. Human Genetics: The Basics introduces the key questions and issues in this emerging field, including: the common ancestry of all humanity; the role of genes in sickness and health; and debates over the use of genetic technology. Written in an engaging, narrative manner, this concise introduction is an ideal starting point for anyone who wants to know more about genes, DNA, and the genetic ties that bind us all. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415579865 Publish December 2010, 240 pages Quantity Routledge Science & Environment

Ricki Lewis, Alden March Bioethics Institute, USA.

Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience and new theories on attachment, Dr. Fran Walfish argues that parents need to distinguish their own personality types in order to make more informed decisions about how they interact and raise their own children. This step-by-step guide shows parents how to recognize the strength and weaknesses of your parenting style and how it affects your child. It describes the ways your style might clash with your child’s nature, and how to negotiate a common ground. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230102569 Publish December 2010, 224 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Health & Lifestyle

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B A C K L I S T

Body Politic

A Beginner's Guide

Science journalist Barbara Seaman (1935-2008) spent the last forty years of her life on the front lines as a women's health advocate. Here she brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm, activism, motherhood and birth control. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781583228449 Publish December 2010, 960 pages Seven Stories Press Quantity Health & Lifestyle

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The Food Wars

Depression

Walden Bello, Binghamton University.

The Way Out of Your Prison, Third Edition

The hike in global food prices has pushed hundreds of millions more people into poverty, and sparked riots and protests in the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Walden Bello, the leading writer and activist on the global South, provides a penetrating analysis of the various causes: not just the rise in energy costs, but also the IMF and WTO-led restructuring of the worldwide agricultural system. Charting the evolution of the current crisis, Bello also offers a way forward: the principle of food sovereignty, allowing the developing world to protect and sustain a diverse range of crops. $21.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844673315 Published September 2009, 186 pages Verso Science & Environment

Dorothy Rowe is a clinical-psychologist worldrenowned for her work on depression.

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At a time of unparalleled environmental change, there has never been a greater need for new ways of defending nature. In this forward-thinking work, Paul Jepson and Richard Ladle cover all aspects of modern conservation to provide a fascinating look into how we’re fighting for the earth’s species and habitats, as well as details on where conservation is heading, and how we can all contribute. Because, it’ll be far more than just a pity when we lose the polar bears, pandas, and parrots. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687145 Published May 2010, 208 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications Science & Environment

This book gives us a way of understanding our depression which matches our experience and which enables us to take charge of our life and change it. Dorothy Rowe shows us that depression is not an illness or a mental disorder but a defence against pain and fear, which we can use whenever we suffer a disaster and discover that our life is not what we thought it was. By understanding how we have interpreted events in our life we can choose to change our interpretations and thus create for ourselves a happier, more fulfilling life. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781583912867 Published 2003, 344 pages Quantity Routledge Health & Lifestyle

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The D-Word

Second Nature

Talking About Dying

The Inner Lives of Animals

Sue Brayne is a published author, academic writer and researcher, workshop leader and psychotherapist.

Jonathan Balcombe is a former animal behavior research scientist and currently a consultant based in Washington, D.C

The D-Word is a practical guide to support relatives, friends and carers who are coping with the distress and anxiety of someone nearing the end of life, or who has suddenly died. Personal stories from people from all walks of life explore the different ways they have come to terms with the dying process or the sudden death of their spouse, partner, parent, friend or child, how they have confronted their fear of talking about it, and ways in which they found support during this very difficult time. $25.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441186799 Published February 2010, 192 pages Quantity Continuum Health & Lifestyle

Jonathan Balcombe, animal behaviorist and author of the critically acclaimed Pleasurable Kingdom, draws on the latest research, observational studies and personal anecdotes to reveal the full gamut of animal experience—from emotions, to problem solving, to moral judgment. Balcombe challenges the widely held idea that nature is red in tooth and claw, highlighting animal traits we have disregarded until now: their nuanced understanding of social dynamics, their consideration for others, and their strong tendency to avoid violent conflict. $43.00 Hb, ISBN 9780230613621 Published March 2010, 256 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Science & Environment

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Paul Jepson, University of Oxford and Richard Ladle works as a science writer and conservation consultant.

Barbara Seaman's first book, The Doctors' Case Against the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings and exposed the biases of the medical establishment regarding women's health issues.

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Conservation

Dispatches from the Women's Health Revolution

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Best of Alma Books The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

Life of Our Lord

Sofia Tolstoy was the wife of Leo Tolstoy for nearly fifty years.

Charles Dickens now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language.

After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, Sofia Behrs kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him. In the background of her life was one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history: the transition from old feudal Russia to the three revolutions and three major international wars. Yet it is as Sofia Tolstoy’s own life story that the diaries are most valuable and moving. They are a testament to a woman of tremendous vital energy and poetic sensibility who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life and to remain indomitable. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781846881022 Quantity Published May 2010, 460 pages Alma Books Biography

Notes from under the Floorboards

Alessandro Gallenzi is a literary publisher, a translator, a poet, a playwright and a novelist.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is considered one of the greatest writers of all times.

Jim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by virtually every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of literary stardom come true. Charles Randall, the eccentric founder and managing director of Tetragon Press, a small independent publisher that has managed to survive for thirty years in a fierce publishing environment dominated by corporate juggernauts, is about to be brutally sacked by a newly appointed business consultant. Inevitably, and calamitously, Charles and Jim’s paths are about to collide. $35.00 Pb, ISBN 9781846881015 Published May 2010, 288 pages Alma Books Quantity Fiction

The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact revenge on an officer who has shown him disrespect and a dramatic encounter with a prostitute.Seen by many as the first existentialist novel and showcasing the best of Dostoevsky’s dry humour, Notes from under the Floorboards was a pivotal moment in the development of modern literature and has inspired countless novelists, thinkers and film-makers. Quantity $22.00 Pb, ISBN 9781847491619 Publish October 2010, 160 pages Oneworld Classics Fiction

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The Maid

La Bohème

Yasutaka Tsutsui is one of the leading Japanese novelists and short-story writers.

The operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) are among the most frequently performed in the international repertory.

Nanase cannot remember when she first realized she could read people’s minds, but not once during her eighteen years has she ever thought that it was a particularly unusual ability. Yet, when she gets a job as a live-in maid, she is inevitably drawn into the lives, thoughts and desires of her employers, with dangerous and at times hilarious consequences. From the sexual rapaciousness of her first boss to the grime and stench of the house where she works next and her third employer’s inability to accept she’s no longer young, Nanase’s adventures are a picaresque journey into the inner sanctum of the lives and psyches of ordinary Japanese people. $22.00 Pb, ISBN 9781846880995 Published May 2010, 200 pages Quantity Alma Books Fiction

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In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto over the course of three and a half years and gives a synopsis, outlining the main themes of La Bohème. Edward Greenfield presents an essay on the musical structure and consistency of the opera, whose "very accessibility tends to obscure the musical genius behind the score". Finally, Joanna Richardson surveys the Parisian bohemians portrayed by Henry Murger, whose book formed the dramatic basis for Puccini's work. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847495402 Quantity Publish November 2010, 184 pages Oneworld Classics The Arts

The Very Thought of You

Tosca

Rosie Alison spent over ten years as a producerdirector of arts documentaries and she has recently produced two films

The operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) include Tosca, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly and Turandot.

England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate which has been opened up to evacuees by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, an enigmatic childless couple. Soon Anna gets drawn into their unravelling relationship, seeing things that are not meant for her eyes – and finding herself part-witness and part-accomplice to a love affair, with unforeseen consequences. $22.00 Pb, ISBN 9781846881008 Quantity Published April 2010, 352 pages Alma Books Fiction

Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his article, analyses different aspects of the score, noting Puccini's special genius for orchestration and the subtle effects that give the opera its irresistible vitality, while Stuart Woolf's survey of the historical background reveals its political and nationalistic undertones. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847495389 Published August 2010, 184 pages Oneworld Classics The Arts Quantity

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Never published in its author’s lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life of Our Lord is an accessible and gently humorous take on the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings.Far removed from the sharp satire and social dimension of his more famous writings, but showcasing his characteristic humanity and genius for storytelling, this is both an essential work for those wanting to see a different, more intimate side to Dickens and a timeless retelling for children and adults alike. $25.00 Hb, ISBN 9781847491664 Publish November 2010, 128 pages Oneworld Classics Quantity Fiction

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Opera

Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

A Beginner's Guide

Jean Sasson is the author of The New York Times bestselling Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia.

Opera is often dismissed as outdated and excessive, and perceived to be characterised by excessive passions, sumptuous costumes, and ill-mannered divas. In reality, however, operas address the most fundamental and universal of human concerns – love, death, jealousy, greed, and power. Revealing the diverse reasons behind opera’s lasting appeal, opera champion and expert Alexandra Wilson provides a lucid and engaging introduction to the agendas that have governed its composition, production and reception over the last four centuries, and explains the reasons behind its enduring appeal. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687336 Published May 2010, 176 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications The Arts

Granting extraordinary access to their private world, Osama’s wife and son reveal the frightening transformation of a loving husband into a hardened terrorist. In 1996, Osama chose the 15-year-old Omar to accompany him to his mountain fortress of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, where the risks of hunger and disease soon paled before the dangers of the terrorist camps. With unprecedented access and insight, bestselling author Jean Sasson takes us inside the secret world of Osama bin Laden. $25.00 Pb, ISBN 9781851687565 Published June 2010, 320 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications Biography

Alexandra Wilson, Oxford Brookes University.

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The Moneyless Man

Feminism

A Year of Freeconomic Living

A Beginner's Guide

Mark Boyle founded the ‘freeconomic’ movement in the UK and is a columnist for the Guardian and Ethical Consumer magazine

Sally J. Scholz is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University.

Imagine a year without spending or even touching money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is his extraordinary story. Going back to basics and following his own strict rules, Mark learned ingenious ways to eliminate his bills and flourish for free. Encountering seasonal foods, solar panels, skill-swapping schemes, cuttlefish toothpaste, compost toilets and – the unthinkable – a cash-free Christmas, Boyle puts the fun into frugality and offers some great tips for economical (and environmentally friendly) living. $25.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687541 Published May 2010, 336 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications Biography

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Pink Brain, Blue Brain

Judaism

How Small Differences Can Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It

A Beginner's Guide Dan Cohn-Sherbok was Professor of Judaism at the University of Wales, and is the author or editor of over 80 books. Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok is a writer specialising in Judaism and Jewish issues, a former headmistress, and a published novelist.

Lise Eliot, The Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University.

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Drawing on years of exhaustive research and her own work in the field of neuroplasticity, Lise Eliot argues that infant brains are so malleable that small differences at birth become amplified over time as parents, teachers, and the culture at large unwittingly reinforce gender stereotypes. By focussing on the ways in which differences emerge such prescriptive behaviours can be eradicated, and the boundaries that prevent boys and girls from achieving can be destroyed. $35.00 Pb, ISBN 9781851687404 Published May 2010, 432 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications Popular Science

Examining Judaism as a religion, philosophy, and lifestyle, this authoritative introduction asks what it means to be a Jew today. From the nature of God to worship and everyday life, Dan and Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok address the topics essential to an informed understanding of the beliefs, values, and enduring traditions of this highly influential religion. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687480 Published July 2010, 208 pages Oneworld Publications Quantity History & Philosophy

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The Book of Night Women

Nietzsche

Marlon James graduated from the University of the West Indies with a degree in literature and currently teaches a creative writing course in Minnesota.

A Beginner's Guide Robert Wicks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland.

This is a startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery – a tour de force of voice and storytelling. At the heart of the novel is the extraordinary character Lilith, a spirited slave girl struggling to transcend the violence into which she is born, her story narrated in one of the boldest literary voices to grace the page. Overflowing with high drama and heartbreak, at its centre is the conspiracy of the Night Women, a clandestine council of fierce slave women plotting an island-wide revolt. $26.00 Pb, ISBN 9781851687282 Published May 2010, 432 pages Oneworld Publications Fiction

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Feminism is arguably the most significant social movement of the last century and it is far from over. But what appears as a single, unified movement on behalf of women’s liberation is really a fascinating coalition of social and political causes, goals, and ideals. By highlighting the themes that form the enduring nexuses between the three “waves”, taking powerful examples from feminist campaigns, and tackling timely issues such as genocide and war rape, Scholtz invites us to join in with the lively debates and always germane challenges of feminism. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687121 Published May 2010, 224 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications Gender Politics

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In this illuminating account of Nietzsche's life and work, Robert Wicks skilfully navigates the controversy that continues to surround the philosopher. Exploring the impact of Nietzsche's Christian upbringing and his eventful childhood on his beliefs, Wicks demonstrates that, far from being a nihilist, Nietzsche offers a positive and life-affirming understanding of human nature. From the 'will to power' and the 'Übermensch', to Nietzsche's influence on Sartre and Derrida, this is a sharp appraisal of Nietzsche's philosophy and its extensive legacy. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687572 Published July 2010, 224 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications History & Philosophy

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Growing Up bin Laden

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