Rights Guide Autumn 2022

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On Marilyn

By Elisa Jordan

Her unforgettable image is seared into the minds of fans everywhere, and her private life continues to inspire headlines and controversy, but Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous—and misunderstood—women in the world who remains a mystery to most people. On Marilyn cuts through the rumors and myths to present the real person behind the queen of movies and pop culture.

From her chaotic childhood in Depression-era Los Angeles to her rise in the world of Hollywood and finally her untimely death—On Marilyn explores the legendary star’s family history, connection to the movies from childhood, her personal life as an adult, and her interest in continually educating herself.

On Marilyn is compulsively readable—instead of chronological dates and dry accounts of events, there are chapters about specific aspects of her life and career. What did Marilyn like to eat? What types of books did she read? Was she really plus size? Did she nearly bring down a political empire? And how did she actually die? This book explores everything—and vividly brings to light the truth about the world’s greatest movie star.

Elisa Jordan is a respected writer, editor, and historian whose work has appeared in a variety of publications. She has been studying Marilyn Monroe since the age of five, after seeing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on TV, and is currently regarded as a leading authority on Marilyn. She also gives tours devoted to Marilyn, Jean Harlow, the Doors, and rock ’n’ roll in Hollywood, a role that led her to help cofound the Los Angeles Tour Guides Association. She lives in Los Angeles.

Applause

January 2024 344 pages 65 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 5395 7

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 5396 4

$23.50 / £17.99

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The Last Charge of the Rough Rider

Theodore Roosevelt’s Final Days

By William Hazelgrove

There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg from an accident, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt, in the last two years of his life from April 1917 to January 6, 1919, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his own regiment in World War I, leading a suicide mission of Rough Riders against the Germans, to the devastating news that his son Quentin had been shot down and killed over France. Suffering from grief and guilt, marginalized by world events, the great glow that had been his life was now but a dimming lantern. But TR’s final years were productive ones as well: he churned out several “instant” books that promoted U.S. entry into the Great War, and he was making plans for another run at the Presidency in 1920 at the time of his death. Indeed, his political influence was so great that his opposition to the policies of Woodrow Wilson helped the Republican Party take back the Congress in 1918. However, as William Hazelgrove points out in this book, it was Roosevelt’s quest for the “vigorous life” that, ironically, may have led to his early demise at the age of sixty. “The Old Lion is dead,” TR’s son Archie cabled his brother on January 6, 1919, and so, too, ended a historic era in American life and politics.

William Elliott Hazelgrove has a master’s in History and is the best-selling author of ten novels and seven narrative nonfiction books, including Madame President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, Forging a President: How the West Created Teddy Roosevelt, and Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Lyons Press

August 2023 256 pages 16 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7090 9

$28.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7091 6

$27.50 / £20.99

America’s Youngest Ambassador

The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith’s Lasting Message of Peace

By Lena Nelson

In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Manchester, Maine, wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leader if he was going to start a war. When Pravda, the biggest Soviet newspaper, published her letter—and Samantha received an unprecedented invitation to visit the Soviet Union —her family embarked on a historic journey that helped transform the hearts and minds of two nations on a collision course.

Today, a nuclear war seems like a possibility once again. The story of a young American girl’s letter to the Soviet leader and her innocent curiosity about the other side of the Iron Curtain holds an important lesson for every American: to never stop questioning the status quo, and to recognize that the responsibility for the preservation of peace is not only the purveyance of the government. America’s Youngest Ambassador provides insights into a forgotten era and has an important message for young people who strive to be more involved in facilitating change, both locally and worldwide.

Lena Nelson is a writer, teacher and citizen historian who has spent the past seventeen years researching and documenting the story of Samantha Smith and creating www.SamanthaSmith.info, the online archive of news articles and videos about Samantha Smith. She was a nominee for the Allegra Johnson Prize and has worked with numerous news, educational, and humanitarian organizations around the world. She has degrees in International Studies and Linguistics and lives with her family in Southern California.

Down East Books

August 2023 208 pages 19 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6847 5020 7

$26.95 / £20.99

Thrive with a Hybrid Workplace

Step-by-Step Guidance from the Experts

By Felice Ekelman and Julie Kantor

The great debate of remote versus office begins with the myth of separate worlds we all live in: work-life and personal-life. For centuries, work and home were separated by physically going to and from the office. The separation was actually a myth because while we went between two different locations, each of us is one person. Our bosses may have not known anything about our family or friends, and vice versa, but we did. Two worlds. One person. Multiply that reality by 6 million workplaces in the United States alone, and it becomes clear how much of a difference to employee and employer satisfaction—and GDP—a healthy hybrid model for work might represent.

In this book, Julie Kantor and Felice Ekelman deliver expert guidance on balancing the inherent opportunities for growth with the risks inherent in a hybrid workplace. Given hybrid work is now the norm, leaders need to ensure that remote work is productive and employees are engaged, both within legal guardrails.

Felice Ekelman is a Principal of Jackson Lewis PC, where she practices employment law on behalf of companies. She currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Sheridan Libraries and Museums. Felice is a well-known employment attorney and is a sought-after speaker. Felice resides in New York City.

Julie P. Kantor, Ph.D., is a business psychologist, executive coach, advisor and founder of JP Kantor Consulting. As a sought-after expert in leadership, resilience, emotional intelligence and the interface between work and personal lives, Julie speaks and advises organizations ranging from small startups to global corporations. She has authored 50+ seminars which have trained thousands of employees in work-related topics. Julie resides in New York City.

March 2023 264 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7167 7

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7168 4

$32.00 / £25.00

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Untapped Leadership

Harnessing the Power of Underrepresented Leaders

By Jenny Vazquez-Newsum

Untapped Leadership examines strategies, capabilities, and contributions from leaders of color and marginalized backgrounds from all walks of life and career stages, showing how everyone can benefit. Highlighting diverse stories and strategies, this groundbreaking book reveals a different kind of leadership, one that requires an advanced understanding of situational awareness, organizational dynamics, and sound decision-making.

Jenny Vazquez-Newsum, Ed.D., is a facilitator, researcher, and educator with a long-time interest in leadership. As a biracial Black/Latinx woman, the leadership journey has been bumpy, stimulating, challenging, and a life’s work. For the past two decades, Vazquez-Newsum has designed and delivered leadership training for hundreds of diverse leaders, from established executives at large corporations to high school students beginning their leadership journeys. She currently serves as the Vice President of Training and Programs at a civic leadership institute in Southern California, where she has personally trained over 200 participants and launched a consulting arm supporting the leadership of external organizations including LAUSD, Capital Group, and the City of Costa Mesa among dozens of others.

Prometheus August 2023 192 pages 2 B&W illustrations, 66 text boxes

Paperback 978 1 6338 8916 3

$21.95 / £16.99

Gender Bias in the Workplace

Breaking Down The Six Barriers Holding Women Back

By Amy Diehl and Leanne M. Dzubinski

Looks at six main bias barriers women face at work and how leaders, allies, and women can overcome them.

Amy B. Diehl is an IT leader, researcher, consultant, public speaker, and expert on gender bias in the workplace. She currently serves as chief information officer at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. Diehl is a frequent speaker at international, national, and regional conferences on challenges that women leaders experience. She also guest lectures and consults on gender bias, helping individuals and organizations learn how to identify and eliminate bias and has served as a gender discrimination expert witness.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023

Hardback

288 pages

978 1 5381 7096

eBook

978 1 5381 7097

$36.00

$34.00

£28.00

£26.00

Sandbox Strategies for the New Workplace

Conflict Resolution from the Inside Out

By Penny Tremblay

Provides a system to help professionals embrace and even welcome conflict with coworkers, bosses, clients, and others, by introducing the PLAY NICE sandbox strategy for dealing with conflict in a postpandemic world.

Penny Tremblay has served organizations for decades with corporate training, mediation, and restorative workplace success, and circulates a weekly online Leadership Tip to over 2000 subscribers. After earning her Advanced Mediation certificate from Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, and founding the Tremblay Leadership Center, she developed the Sandbox System™ to help work teams turn the high cost of conflict into peace, productivity, and profit. She was voted the Best Motivational Speaker in Ontario. Visit her online at pennytremblay.com

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023 • 232 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7021 2

eBook

978 1 5381 7022 9

$34.00 / £26.00

$32.00 / £25.00

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Women in the Workplace

A Light-Hearted Guide for the Heavy-Hearted Employee

By Clare E Fowler

Offers step-by-step expert advice that empowers women to understand and overcome the conflicts they face at work with coworkers and managers.

Clare Fowler, PhD, serves as managing editor at Mediate.com and as director of caseload manager. She currently teaches workplace mediation at the University of Oregon School of Law. Dr. Fowler mediates and trains, focusing on workplace disputes, and recently mediated for the Department of Interior, Oregon Courts, University of Oregon, and Google. Her recent publications primarily include articles on mediation techniques and online mediation skills.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023

Hardback

978 1 5381

eBook

978 1 5381

Workplace Bullying

A Guide to Understanding and Overcoming

By Dorothy Suskind

A toolkit for managers wanting to create inclusive cultures by addressing toxic behaviors that stagnate innovation, fracture work communities, and drive out top employees and as a lifeline for employees suffering through workplace abuse.

Dorothy Suskind is an Assistant Professor in the Education and Counseling Department at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In her current role, she supervises pre-service teachers in the field and teaches classes in early literacy, disciplinary literacy, behavior management, secondary education, and a capstone course focusing on women as disruptive change agents in their community. Currently, Dorothy serves on the Research Team and Executive Board of the National Workplace Bullying Coalition and is the Vice President of the Virginia College Literacy Educators.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023

Hardback

978 1 5381 7208

eBook

978 1 5381 7209

$32.00

$30.00

£25.00

£22.99

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Cozy Coastal Knits

21 Easygoing Shawls, Sweaters, Ponchos and More

By Rosann Fleischauer

Channel the coastal vibe all year long! 21 easy to intermediate patterns for relaxing knitting and everyday wear: shawls, cowls, hats, sweaters, mitts, and more. These versatile pieces easily dress up or down and pair well with items already in your wardrobe. Easy, breezy, knits!

Whether you live by the sea, visit once a year, or only get as far as your local lake, if you love the vibe of carefree coastal living, this collection of knits is for you. From the knitting to the wearing, each of the 21 pieces is designed to relax and bring comfort. Enjoy your knitting in the company of friends around the firepit or with your toes in the sand. All designs are beginner to intermediate level and you’ll find just the right amount of complexity for interesting yet stress-free knitting.

When it’s time to wear your knits, you’ll have a collection built for laid-back luxury: cozy shawls, sweaters, and ponchos perfect for throwing over a tank top when there’s a cool breeze, a skirt for casual dress-up, and warm hats, mitts, and cowls for chilly evenings. Knit in your favorite yarns and colors to make your new go-to, beach-life wardrobe!

Rosann Fleischauer is a knitwear designer focusing on easy to knit and wear versatile styles that can go from grocery store to boardroom and beyond. She is also a marketing and business consultant for members of the fiber arts community, such as yarn manufacturers and local yarn shops. You can find her at firstbytedesigns. com

Stackpole Books

August 2023 144 pages

24 B&W illustrations, 140 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7216 7 $24.95 / £18.99

Homegrown Flax and Cotton

DIY Guide to Growing, Processing, Spinning & Weaving Fiber to Cloth

By Cindy Conner

From seed to shirt, Cindy Conner shows you how to plant, grow, harvest, process, spin, and weave cotton and flax into cloth from which you can sew your own clothes. And since cotton and flax are made from plants, when your clothes’ usefulness has passed they can also return to the environment without causing harm—a truly renewable and sustainable option for clothing.

Whether you live in colder climates where flax can thrive, or warmer climates where cotton does best, there is a sustainable option (or two, if you live in the temperate zone) for you. And it takes much less space than you would think; a backyard garden will do! This complete guide includes in-depth instructions on growing and harvesting, preparing the fiber for spinning, the spinning process for each fiber; the basics of weaving cloth; suggestions on patterns and how to weave the pieces you need for clothing; and how to sew your woven pieces together.

Cindy Connor received a degree in Home Economics Education from Ohio State University in 1975. She was instrumental in establishing the sustainable agriculture program at Reynolds Community College in Goochland, VA, while teaching there from 1999-2010. She had often sewn her own clothes, and her interest turned to sustainable clothing. In 2011, she learned to spin, then to weave, in order to turn her homegrown cotton into clothes. Since many people can’t grow cotton due to climate limitations, she added flax (which has a wider range) to her garden and learned to turn it into linen so that she could teach this process to others. She is the author of Grow a Sustainable Diet and Seed Libraries and Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People

Stackpole Books

September 2023 176 pages 80 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7219 8

$29.95 / £22.99

Making Stained Glass Mosaics

By Robin M. N. Jones

Stained glass made easy! This book introduces the beginner to working with colored glass without the need for soldering tools and a dedicated studio. With just a cutter, grout, and glue, you can make gorgeous stained glass pieces, from small pieces such as votive candle holders and flowerpots to windows, tables, and more.

It doesn’t take solder or a dedicated studio to start making gorgeous glass works. You can create items such as small votive holders and vases on up to windows, tables, and more, with just a few easy-to-find tools and materials. From tiny opaque tiles to larger pieces of transparent glass, there is so much beauty to be found in all sorts of glass pieces. Even broken glass items can be repurposed once you know how. You’ll soon be finding ways to incorporate glass into tray designs, jewelry, garden mosaics, and other decorative and useful items.

Robin M. N. Jones teaches glass work as part of her art therapy practice with teenagers and adults, and breaks the processes down step by step to teach you how to choose your glass, snip it into useful shapes, place your pieces into a pleasing design, and finish it with common glues and grouts. She shares what she’s learned in her own art to save you from making similar mistakes. And she has found the benefits for herself and others in the meditative focus of creating with glass pieces. Sorting, cutting, and placing glass is both a mental and tactile experience that calms and focuses the mind. Try out the many types of projects in this book to learn the basics, and then you’ll be ready to use glass in as many interesting designs as you can imagine!

Robin M.N. Jones, ATR-BC, LCPAT, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Master of Creative Arts in Therapy from Drexel University. She is a licensed professional art therapist. Robin has worked as an art therapist, art instructor, and artist for almost 40 years.

Stackpole Books

June 2023 144 pages 260 colour illustrations

Paperback 978 0 8117 7078 1

$24.95 / £18.99

Eldercare 101

Updated Edition

By Mary Jo Saavedra

A toolbox of critical resources that assists families and eldercare professionals with the navigation of aging loved ones based on the author’s Six Pillars of Aging Wellbeing.

Mary Jo Saavedra, MAIS, CMC, CAPS, CSA is a practicing gerontologist and aging life care manager in Portland, Oregon. With a passion for empowering individuals of all ages to live their best lives, Mary Jo is dedicated to the holistic wellbeing of her clients. Using her 6 Pillars of Aging Wellbeing™ process, she helps elders choose how they will live with the challenges of aging; at the heart of every care or life plan she designs is respect for the needs and wants of the elder. An out-of-the-box thinker, Mary Jo is credited with defining the conceptual model for an innovative real estate-focused rating system for classifying age-friendly homes. She is also an adjunct professor of gerontology at Marylhurst University, Pacific University, and Portland Community College; and she teaches aging and spirituality at the Franciscan Spiritual Center in Milwaukie, Oregon. In addition, Mary Jo has 30 years of professional experience across multiple industries including high tech, nonprofit, and health and wellbeing. Find out more at eldercare101book.com.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023 304 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7285 8

$32.00 / £25.00

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Relationship Rx

Prescriptions for Lasting Love and Deeper Connection

By Jessica Griffin and Pepper Schwartz

Relationship Rx tackles the top problems in relationships while offering simple yet effective strategies, grounded in evidence-based relationship science. All couples can benefit from taking their relationship medicine and vitamins to prevent and treat problems or restore a struggling relationship back to health.

Jessica L. Griffin, PsyD, is professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, where she has been a faculty member since 2006.

Pepper Schwartz, PhD, is a highly acclaimed relationship and sexuality professional.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2023

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Hardback

1 5381

eBook

240 pages

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When Worry Works

How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success

By Dana Dorfman

Rights exclusion: Translation

Based on thirty years of clinical practice, When Worry Works is a roadmap for parents on how to manage adolescent achievement stress, make values-driven, rather than anxiety-driven parenting decisions, and raise flourishing teens and the future generation of successful adults.

Dana Dorfman, MSW, PhD, is a New York City based psychotherapist with 30 years experience treating adolescents and parents in her private practice, schools, and agency settings. As a passionate advocate of adolescent mental health, she is a lecturer and consultant for parenting centers, schools, and corporations. Dr. Dorfman is regularly interviewed and quoted in the media on mental health topics and was the co-host of a parenting podcast, 2 Moms on the Couch

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

2033

Hardback

978 1 5381 6453

eBook

978 1 5381 6454

232 pages

$32.00

$30.00

£25.00

£22.99

Convoy to Morocco

A Riley Fitzhugh Novel

By Terry Mort Rights exclusion: Translation

Riley Fitzhugh is temporarily made officer in charge of the naval guard on board the SS Carlota, a merchant ship assigned to deliver bombs and aviation fuel to the Sebou River during Operation Torch. The Atlantic crossing was supposed to be in convoy, but Carlota breaks down after surviving a U-boat attack and is forced to limp along alone. At the mouth of the Sebou River, Riley rejoins the Nameless, an anti–U-boat vessel, which has come down from her refit in Scotland to join the Torch attack. When the Nameless is tasked with delivering a company of Army Rangers to capture the French air force base, she and her crew must force their way through the boom guarding the mouth of the river and pass through the gunfire from the French fort on the hills above. Along the way, Riley runs into an old flame or two—one an enemy agent, the other a war correspondent from Cuba.

Terry Mort is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan, where he received an MA in English and began working on his PhD. After grad school, he served as an officer in the US Navy. Deployed to Southeast Asia, he saw a variety of action there. Mort has written four nonfiction histories that were extensively reviewed in the national press and widely praised. He has also written several novels, one of which, The Monet Murders (McBooks Press), introduces the character of Riley Fitzhugh, Hollywood private investigator.

Mcbooks Press

May 2023 176 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 5840 2 $26.95 / £20.99

Hidden Cargo

A Novel

By Robin Lloyd

Five months after the end of the Civil War, Acting Navy Lieutenant Everett Townsend is awaiting discharge in Key West. The war has left him bitter with little direction. Returning from a routine supply mission from Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, he and his men are caught in a hurricane. While seeking safety, Townsend spots a shipwreck in the Marquesas Keys. Upon investigating, they discover the grisly sight of a cargo hold filled with dead bodies. When Townsend reports this unsettling incident to his preoccupied naval commander in Key West, he finds himself alone in suspecting foul play, facing a mystery that takes him from the backwaters of Florida to the interior of Cuba.

The murder of an American sailor in a Cuban port provides Townsend with more clues even as it threatens to pull him into the dangerous undertow of Cuban politics. To pursue justice, Townsend agrees to become a government informant and goes to live with his Spanish grandmother at her sugar plantation in the Cuban countryside. There he continues his investigations and finds himself facing an impossible choice between the Cuban-American woman he loves and his traditionbound Spanish grandmother. As he grapples with this clash of personalities, Townsend uncovers the details of a conspiracy which forces him to come face to face with his own family’s close ties to slavery.

Robin Lloyd’s early years were spent on the island of St. Croix, where his parents owned a dairy farm and milk plant. As a boy, he grew up sailing in the Caribbean. Lloyd was a foreign correspondent for NBC News for many years, reporting mostly from Latin America and Africa. Among his prestigious awards are four Emmys from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay region and an Overseas Press Award. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Lyons Press

July 2023

320 pages

3 B&W illustrations, 3 maps

Hardback

978 1 4930 7231 6

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7232 3

$27.00 / £20.99

The Vatican Candidate

A Harper & Blake Mystery

By Paul Bryers Rights exclusion: Translation

April 1945: Europe is in ruins and Berlin is burning. As the Red Army closes in on the last few blocks surrounding the Fuhrerbunker, a famous aviatrix lands her light aircraft in the center of the shattered German capital. Two days later she takes off again. With her is a man called Heinrich Bechmann, SS mass killer and personal bodyguard of the German chancellor Adolf Hitler—and with Bechmann is a file of documents.

Nearly a century later, in the spring of 2020, Pope Francis announces that he intends to open the Vatican Secret Archives to the public. A week later, masked gunmen kill five people at an isolated Jesuit retreat in the mountains of Sicily. And two weeks after that, the body of a celebrated British historian is discovered in a beach house on Long Island. Aiden Blake, ex-Royal Marine and brother of the dead historian, believes there is a mysterious link between these events, stretching across seventy-five years of history. He’s right—and history itself will provide the clues. The trail will lead him and his brother’s New Yorkbased researcher, Hannah Harper, across the Atlantic to the hidden bunkers of Berlin, a Gothic castle in the South Tyrol, Rome, Sicily, and deep into the past in a bid to find his brother’s killers—and expose a neo-Fascist plot to kill the present Pope and replace him with one more conducive to the party’s own political views and ambitions.

Seth Hunter lives in London and is the author of six highly acclaimed naval adventures set against the canvas of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. One of his children’s stories, In a Pig’s Ear, was named as one of the Guardian’s six best novels of the year. He has written and directed many historical dramas for British television, radio, and the theatre.

Mcbooks Press

June 2023

240 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 6720 6

$27.95 / £21.99

Life Before and After Vaccines

The History, Controversy, and Efficacy of the Most Important Health Breakthroughs

By Stacy Mintzer Herlihy

The COVID-19 pandemic has moved conversations about vaccines from the realm of parenting message boards into front-page headlines and presidential speeches. The issue of vaccines now affects how all of us raise children, do business, and make important life choices.

In Life Before and After Vaccines, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy presents the history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. The author takes a look at diseases like chickenpox that no longer pose threats to many American children and segues into the response of the Founding Fathers to the dangers of smallpox and other vaccine-preventable diseases. She explores the many ways in which lack of access to vaccination has meant societal change and examines incidences such the measles epidemic that haunted Disneyland in 2019.

Life Before and After Vaccines presents the history, controversy, and efficacy of the most important health breakthroughs. The book helps readers make sense of the current COVID-19 crisis and offers vital information such as new research on vaccines and autism on which to base further decisions about vaccination.

Stacy Mintzer Herlihy is a freelance writer and public health advocate. She is a Shot@Life Champion and founder of New Jersey Parents For Vaccines. She is the co-author of Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives (Rowman & Littlefield 2012, Finalist Foreword Reviews Book of the Year in the Adult Health Non-Fiction category). Ms. Herlihy is also the author of: Teens and Smoking: Your Questions Answered and Corporations That Changed the World: Disney. Her articles have appeared in many publications including Kveller, USA Today and The Newark Star Ledger She works for ETS and Pearson as a standardized writing test scorer and test scoring supervisor.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

Hardback

978 1 5381 7543 9

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7544 6 $32.00 / £25.00

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The Story of Sleep

From A to Zzzz

By Daniel A. Barone and Lawrence A. Armour

Sleep impacts all areas of our lives, health, and overall well-being. We all need sleep, and most of us need better sleep.

The Story of Sleep is a lively annotated dictionary of topics related to slumber, designed to help people help themselves get a better night’s rest and improve their overall physical and mental health. Incorporating up-todate data, each entry reflects the fact that the world-ingeneral has changed, and new sleep technologies have been developed over the past few years.

Building on the success of their book Let’s Talk About Sleep, sleep expert Daniel Barone and expert writer Lawrence Armour provide the perfect format for those readers who crave a quick and ready reference for achieving better sleep habits and a sounder slumber every night.

Daniel A. Barone, M.D., is currently the Associate Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Sleep Medicine, USA. He specializes in the evaluation and management of patients with all forms of sleep disorders including sleep apnoea, restless legs syndrome, insomnia, and narcolepsy. He is the first author of multiple peerreviewed publications on a variety of topics in sleep medicine and has appeared in several media pieces. His first book, Let’s Talk About Sleep, was published in 2018.

Lawrence A. Armour is a freelance writer/editor who focused on business, finance and medicine during his 20 years at Time Inc., Fortune and Wall Street Journal. He also spent 10 years in communications at IBM and American Express and is the author of nine books, Let’s Talk About Sleep with Daniel A. Barone among others.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023

152 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 6973 5

$28.00 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 5381 6974 2

$26.5 / £21.99

Land of War

A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin

By William Nester

In this colorful new telling of European warfare—and indeed European history through the continent’s all too numerous wars and conflicts—William Nester describes millennia of armed conflict. He covers the “greatest hits” of military history both ancient and current: Thermopylae, the Peloponnesian War, the wars of the Roman Empire across the continent, the Battle of Hastings, the Crusades, Agincourt, Waterloo, Napoleon and Wellington, the Somme, the Spanish Civil War, Stalingrad and Normandy, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin, Bosnia, and up through Putin’s attempts to redraw the map of Europe. Nester highlights how warfare has been deeply entwined with European statesmanship and undergirds modern institutions such as NATO and the European Union. Europe’s sense of itself is bound up in its military history.

William Nester is a professor at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. He has written more than two dozen books on global politics/power and the history of warfare, including books about Europe’s colonial wars in North America, Napoleon, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles De Gaulle, and Winston Churchill. His book George Rogers Clark: “I Glory in War” received a 2013 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation; bestselling author Douglas Brinkley praised it as “an important contribution to early U.S. history.”

Stackpole Books

July 2023

496 pages

18 B&W illustrations, 12 maps, 23 tables

Hardback

978 0 8117 7248 8

$39.95 / £31.00

eBook

978 0 8117 7249 5

$38.00 / £29.00

Southeast Asia in China

Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements

By Ying-kit Chan and Chang-Yau Hoon

As part of “China’s south,” Southeast Asia has historically assumed a peripheral position when juxtaposed against the power of the Chinese state. In the existing scholarly literature, the power asymmetry is reflected in the ostensible bias where most studies are about China’s presence in or engagement with Southeast Asia rather than the reverse; studies on the presence or influence of Southeast Asia in China have been a marginal enterprise.

The present volume aims to fill this void by exploring the historical entanglements and contemporary engagements of Southeast Asia(ns) in China through a Southeast Asian perspective. As China seeks to understand Southeast Asia’s presence in the country on its own terms, it is also engaged in a process of self-discovery and defining where and how it should stand in relation to the region. Departing from the discourse of China as the a priori center dominating the scholarship on China–Southeast Asia relations, the present volume hopes to subvert such power relations in order to bring fresh perspectives on the historical and contemporary contributions of Southeast Asia(ns) in China.

Ying-Kit Chan is research fellow for the International Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden University.

Chang-Yau Hoon is associate professor and director of the Centre for Advanced Research at Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

Lexington Books

January 2023 174 pages

Hardback 978 1 7936 1214 4 $95.00 / £73.00

eBook 978 1 7936 1215 1 $45.00 / £35.00

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The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told

Edited by Tom McCarthy

The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traversed frozen hells to be the first to reach the North or South Pole. It is a collection that will both inspire and inform—and answer questions about the limits of human endurance.

The newspaper advertisement for volunteers to accompany Ernest Shackleton on his planned traverse of Antarctica in 1914 was frank in its offering: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” Still, hundreds applied. There were few chances left to be the first to reach the last challenge on Earth.

As the twentieth century came of age, explorers had uncovered most of the world’s mysteries, sailing to the far corners of the globe, ascending many of its most forbidding peaks, crossing its greatest deserts and penetrating its thickest jungles. Frozen, alien, inhospitable, dangerous, and close to impossible to reach, there were only two tiny dots on the globe that human beings had not yet set foot on—the North and South Poles.

Tom McCarthy is an award-winning editor and writer who lives in Guilford, Connecticut.

Lyons Press

May 2023 272 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 7100 5

$19.95 / £14.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7101 2

$19.00 / £14.99

Tibet’s Fate

By Warren W. Smith Jr.

Tibet’s Fate examines the issue of the political fate of Tibet. It is told by Tibetans themselves as well as by the author from his own experiences. The title is not meant to imply that the current fate of Tibet is an ultimate destiny, or even that Tibet’s fate is already decided. It is only meant in the sense that if Tibet’s fate is now determined, it has been determined not by the Tibetan people but by those of China. If it is to be determined by China, then Tibet’s fate is indeed to be an integral part of China. However, if Tibet’s fate were to be decided by the Tibetan people, if they were allowed their right to national self-determination, then it would definitely be different.

Given all the criteria for independent statehood—territory, culture, language, religion and government—Tibet surely should be an independent state. Tibetan territory, defined by altitude, was the very nearly exclusively habitation of people who identified themselves as Tibetans. Those people share a distinct culture, language and religion. They had a central government that directly administered the territory of Central Tibet and indirectly that of Kham and Amdo. Had Tibetans been allowed to determine for themselves their political status; that is, if they had the right to selfdetermination as specified in the most fundamental documents of international law, there is no doubt that they would have chosen independence. Whatever the flaws of the Tibetan social and political systems, Tibet should have had the right to determine its own fate, and could have done so, until deprived of that right by China.

The book also examines the sensitive question of the nature of the Tibetan political system and its role in the fate that has befallen Tibet. The author concludes that the Tibetan political system of Chosi Shungdrel, or the unity of religion and politics, is implicated in the failure of Tibet to maintain its independence.

Warren W. Smith Jr. is a research historian with Radio Free Asia, Tibetan Service, Washington, D.C..

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2033

328 pages

13 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7398 5

$39.00 / £30.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7399 2

$37.00 / £29.99

Aluminum Alley

The American Pilots Who Flew Over the Himalayas and Helped Win World War II

By Rory Laverty

This is the story of how a group of inexperienced pilots flew through some of the most challenging conditions in the world—and helped win World War II.

Rory Laverty is a journalist who has written for Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and Newsweek. His features include investigative series on sexual misconduct at the United Nations and the courtmartial of a Marine Corps drill instructor, and police misconduct. He teaches at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Stackpole Books

July 2023 288 pages 19 B&W illustrations, 5 maps

Hardback

978 0 8117 7262 4 $29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 0 8117 7263 1 $28.50 / £21.99

Tiger in the Sea

The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

By Eric Lindner

A riveting and inspiring air-sea ordeal at the height of the Cold War!

In 2009, Eric Lindner became a hospice volunteer, helping patients cope with the reality of dying. His book Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life was critically acclaimed by leading doctors and caregivers, NPR, BBC, and Publishers Weekly

Lyons Press

July 2023 360 pages 74 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7199 9 $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 3156 6 $26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 4930 3157 3 $19.00 / £14.99

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MacArthur Reconsidered

General Douglas MacArthur in World War II

By James Ellman

Imperious, outspoken, and a selfpromoter extraordinaire, Douglas MacArthur polarized opinions throughout his career. In this carefully researched book, James Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius.

James Ellman holds a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard.

Stackpole Books

August 2023 288 pages 20 B&W illustrations, 5 maps

Hardback

978 0 8117 7158 0 $29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 0 8117 7159 7 $28.50 / £21.99

Comet Madness

How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization

By Richard J. Goodrich

Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions (or so it was thought), proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than the will of the gods brought comets into our celestial neighborhood. Despite this scientific advance, when Halley’s Comet returned in 1910 and astronomers announced that our planet would pass through its poisonous tail, newspapers gleefully provoked a global hysteria that unfolded with tragic consequences.

In Comet Madness, author and historian Richard J. Goodrich examines the 1910 appearance of Halley’s Comet and the ensuing frenzy sparked by media manipulation, bogus science, and outright deception. The result is a fascinating and illuminating narrative history that underscores how we behave in the face of potential calamity—then and now.

Richard J. Goodrich earned his Ph. D, at St. Andrews and spent twenty years teaching ancient history in Britain and the United States. The author of six academic books, he now writes about early twentieth century history. Visit the author at RichardJGoodrich.com

Prometheus April 2023 240 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8856 2 $27.95 / £21.99

Frontier Terror

Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West

By Michael Rutter

Author Michael Rutter examines the growing pains of the American West through the lens of vigilantes, outlaws, mob violence, and lynchings that occurred between 1840 and 1920, proving that oftentimes our country’s democratic progress comes at the cost of physical violence.

Michael Rutter is a freelance writer who lives in Orem, Utah. He is the author of more than forty books and teaches English at Brigham Young University.

TwoDot

June 2023 • 224 pages 37 B&W illustrations, 3 text boxes

Paperback

978 1 4930 6772 5 • $22.95 / £17.99

The Anointed

New York’s White Shoe Law Firms—How They Started, How They Grew, and How They Ran the Country

By Jeremiah Lambert and Geoffrey S. Stewart

Rights sold: Chinese Simplified

This is the story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell, grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice.

Jeremiah D. Lambert is a nationally recognized lawyer and a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars. Geoffrey S. Stewart is a Washingtonbased lawyer who handles complex commercial and international litigation.

Lyons Press

May 2023 • 256 pages 24 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7187 6 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5633 0 • $27.95 / £21.99

eBook 978 1 4930 5634 7 • $19.00 / £14.99

Burnside’s Boys

The Union’s Ninth Corps and the Civil War in the East

By Darin Wipperman

The story of the Union army Ninth Corps, which fought and distinguished itself in multiple battles in the Civil War. From the Carolinas to Maryland, from Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee to Virginia, the Ninth Corps sacrificed for the Union—and burnished its place in the annals of the American Civil War.

Darin Wipperman is the author of First for The Union: Life and Death in a Civil War Army Corps from Antietam to Gettysburg. A native of Iowa, Darin has studied the Civil War for much of his life. After receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science, he served for seventeen years as an employee of the U.S. Government, then was a reporter and editor for weekly newspapers in northern New Hampshire prior to early retirement. In addition to research and writing, Darin now manages the forested land he lives on with his wife in Lancaster, New Hampshire.

Stackpole Books

June 2023

B&W

Hardback

480 pages

maps,

Scoundrels

Political Scandals in American History

By J. Michael Martinez

Political scandals have become an indelible feature of the American political system since the creation of the republic more than two centuries ago. This book surveys both the most infamous scandals (e.g., Watergate and the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair) as well as more obscure episodes (e.g., the Daniel Sickles and Philip Barton Key II incident, and the Yazoo land fraud) in an effort to understand how these incidents have altered the course of American political history.

J. Michael Martinez is the author or editor of 15 books on American history and law including the Rowman & Littlefield titles A Long Dark Night (2016), Terrorist Attacks on American Soil (2012), Coming for to Carry Me Home (2011), and Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan (2007). He is a practicing attorney in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

2023

Hardback

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Grit, Not Glamour

Female Farmers, Ranchers, Ropers, and Herders of the American West

By Cheryl Mullenbach

This collection celebrates the contributions of our foremothers who devoted their lives to farming pursuits. Some embraced their roles; others detested the life of a farm woman; but most would agree their contributions were minimized or overlooked.

Cheryl Mullenbach is a former history teacher and school librarian. Since her retirement several years ago, she has written five books for young people. Her work has been recognized by the International Literacy Association and the National Council for Social Studies.

TwoDot

May 2023 • 168 pages

B&W illustrations

Paperback

1 4930

1 4930

$21.95

No Place for a Woman

The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West

By Chris Enss, introduction by Erin H. Turner

No Place for a Woman examines the conditions during the vast migration of pioneers on the frontier, the politics of the emerging Western territories at the end of the Civil War, and the changing social and economic conditions of a country recovering from war and on the brink of the Gilded Age. Through individual stories, this book reveals how the hard work and individual lobbying of a few heroines ushered in a new era for the expansion of women’s rights.

Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for over twenty years.

TwoDot

April 2023 • 232 pages

B&W illustrations, 1 map, 60 text boxes

Paperback

978 1 4930 7241 5

$19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

1 4930 4891 5

eBook

$26.95 / £20.99

1 4930 4892 2 • $19.00 / £14.99

Mya McLure, The Brave Science Girl

The Toad Cave

By Douglas Haddad Rights exclusion: Translation

A family of toads, threatened by land development, is rehomed by an innovative and courageous second grader, Mya McLure. In this dazzling adventure, Mya McLure not only has to figure out a way to save the toads, but also how to help her teacher in a moment of unanticipated crisis.

Douglas Haddad is an award-winning science teacher and best-selling author of The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens: Strategies for Unlocking Your Child’s Full Potential. Haddad has been awarded the honor of “Teacher of the Year” in his Connecticut school district and named a finalist for Connecticut Teacher of the Year. He has served as a Teacher-Ambassador in Public Education in the State of Connecticut and has also been awarded as a 2020–2021 Fund for Teachers Fellow for engaging students in transformational learning experiences that address equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Muddy Boots

July 2023 32 pages 16 colour illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 7012 1

$16.95 / £12.99

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Scout Moore, Junior Ranger

Great Smoky Mountains

By Theresa Howell Illustrated by Jeffrey Ebbeler

In the next book in the award-winning Scout Moore series the ever-adventurous junior ranger (“I am ranger of my own backyard!”) travels with her family to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where they go on a quest for the “sacred harp,” watch wildlife (particularly giant elk), and befriend a local girl by the name of Jolene. Along the way they look for salamanders, hike the trails, and even take a dip in a swimming hole. The “sacred harp” finally reveals itself when they hear music and singing coming from a small church they have come across.

Theresa Howell is a children’s book author and illustrator, who, just like Scout Moore, loves the great outdoors. She lives with her two daughters, Ella and Sylvia, and her husband Brian in Evergreen, Colorado, where they climb mountains, read books, and explore every chance they get.

Jeffrey Ebbeler is a picture book illustrator and author. He is also the creator of the monthly comic series “Nestor’s Dock.” Jeffrey has worked as an art director, done paper engineering for pop-up books, created largescale murals for schools and churches, sculpted puppets, and performed for several marionette theaters. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Muddy Boots

July 2023 32 pages 32 colour illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 6820 3

$15.95 / £11.99

The Mystery Traveler at Lake Fortune

By Cathie Pelletier

Rights exclusion: Translation

When Charlie Baker’s parents announce that they’re taking him and his sister—the drama queen Clarissa—to a cabin in Maine for two weeks, Charlie thinks they’re kidding. When the Bakers arrive at Lake Fortune, in rural Maine, they are welcomed by a rickety cabin with an outhouse, a thunder and lightning storm, and a creature in the attic that masquerades as a ghost.

But then true adventure begins when they discover a clue left in a Mason jar on a tiny island in the lake. That clue—written by The Mystery Traveler—leads them to an old apple tree, and a second clue. Soon, they are on the path of an exciting treasure hunt, one that brings Charlie and the bossy Clarrisa together for the first time. Not only do they bond as brother and big sister—especially after a harrowing experience in which Charlie rescues Clarissa— they have the summer of their lives.

When The Mystery Traveler’s identity is finally discovered, no one is more shocked than Charlie.

They are city kids who can now find the Big Dipper and Jupiter in the sky, who know that strange sound is made by loons, and what “fetch” a pail of water means. They wish the two weeks were two months. But they also love the city. They return to Boston knowing that the cabin and more adventures will be there for every vacation.

Cathie Pelletier is the author of sixteen books, including the novels The Funeral Makers, Beaming Sonny Home, and Once Upon a Time on the Banks. Two novels written under the name K.C. McKinnon became TV films. She also co-wrote Proving Einstein Right with National Medal of Science winner S. James Gates. a After years of living “away,” she has returned to the house where she was born, and lives on the banks of the St. John River in Allagash, Maine.

Down East Books

May 2023

160 pages

10 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6847 5076 4

$19.95 / £14.99

eBook

978 1 68475 077 1

$19.00 / £14.99

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Linguistic Fingerprints

How Language Creates and Reveals Identity

By Roger Kreuz

How much of ourselves do we disclose when we speak or write? A person’s accent may reveal, for example, whether they hail from Australia, or Ireland, or Mississippi. But it’s not just where we were born—we divulge all sorts of information about ourselves and our identity through language. Level of education, gender, age, and even aspects of our personality can all be reliably determined by our vocabulary and grammar. To those who know what to look for, we give ourselves away every time we open our mouths or tap on a keyboard.

But how unique is a person’s linguistic identity? Can language be used to identify a specific person? To identify—or to exonerate—a murder suspect? To determine who authored a particular book? The answer to all these questions is yes. Forensic and computational linguists have developed methods that allow linguistic fingerprinting to be used in law enforcement. Similar techniques are used by literary scholars to identify the authors of anonymous or contested works of literature. Many people have heard that linguistic analysis helped to catch the Unabomber, or to unmask an anonymous editorialist—but how is it done?

Linguistic Fingerprints explains how these methods were developed and how they are used to solve forensic and literary mysteries. But these techniques aren’t perfect, and the book will also include some cautionary tales about mistaken linguistic identity.

Roger Kreuz is an Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Memphis and a Professor in the University’s Psychology Department. He works mainly in experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychology of language. He earned his Ph.D at Princeton University.

Prometheus September 2023 230 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8897 5 $28.95 / £21.99

Health Communication and Sport

Connections, Applications, and Opportunities

Edited by Jimmy Sanderson and Melinda R. Weathers

Brings together sport and health scholars and practitioners to evaluate current topics in sport and health communication and provide a holistic resource for those working at the intersection.

Jimmy Sanderson is assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management at Texas Tech University. Melinda R. Weathers is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Sam Houston State University.

Lexington Books

June 2022 234 pages 1 table

Hardback

978 1 7936 4975 1 $100.00 / £77.00

eBook

978 1 7936 4976 8 $45.00 / £35.00

Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South

Edited by Tshepang Bright Molale, Abiodun Salawu, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Mohammad Sahid Ullah

Abiodun Salawu is professor of journalism, communication and media studies at the North-West University, South Africa. Tshepang B. Molale is senior lecturer at the University of Mpumalanga’s School of Social Sciences. Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed is professor and researcher at the School of Social Communication and Journalism, Universidad Externado de Colombia. Mohammad Sahid Ullah is professor in communication and journalism at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Lexington Books

December 2022 312 pages

Hardback

978 1 6669 1201 2 $110.00 / £85.00

eBook

978 1 66691 202 9 $45.00 / £35.00

The Climate Girl Effect Fridays, Flint, and Fire

By Carolyn M. Cunningham and Heather M. Crandall

The authors analyze the rise of climate activist girls who manage to advance the climate movement using social media, ingenuity, and an intersectional approach. United and focused, they confront the challenges of global systems and cultures that maintain power through all kinds of oppression.

Carolyn M. Cunningham is associate professor in the Communication and Leadership Studies Department at Gonzaga University.

Heather M. Crandall is associate professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University.

Lexington Books

September 2022 196 pages

Hardback

978 1 7936 3955 4 $95.00 / £73.00

eBook

978 1 7936 3956 1 $45.00 / £35.00

And God Knows the Soldiers

Islamic Law in Tradition and Today, Second Edition

By Khaled Abou Ed Fadl

This is a substantially expanded edition of the author’s seminal work The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses: A Contemporary Case Study

Beginning with the case study of a Muslim basketball player who refused to stand up while the American national anthem was playing, the author documents the disintegration of the Islamic juristic tradition, and the prevalence of authoritarianism in contemporary Muslim discourses. The author analyzes the rise of what he describes as puritan and despotic trends in modern Islam, and asserts that such trends nullify the richness and diversity of the Islamic tradition. By declaring themselves the true soldiers of God and the defenders of religion, Muslim puritan movements are able to degrade women, eradicate critical thinking, and empty Islam of its moral content.

Anchoring himself in the rich Islamic jurisprudential tradition, the author argues for upholding the authoritativeness of the religious text without succumbing to authoritarian methodologies of interpretation. Ultimately, the author asserts that in order to respect the integrity of the Divine laws it is necessary to adopt rigorous analytical methodologies of interpretation, and to reinvestigate the place of morality in modern Islam.

Khaled Abou El Fadl is Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, where he is also chair of the Islamic Studies program. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in Islamic Law, has served on the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, and served on the board of directors for Human Rights Watch, among other honors. He is the author of numerous books, including The Great Theft and The Search for Beauty in Islam

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Novermber 2023 220 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 1013 3

$85.00 / £65.00

Paperback

978 1 5381 1014 0

$35.00 / £27.00

eBook

978 1 5381 1015 7

$32.50 / £25.00

Animal Ethics and Animal Law

Edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey

Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wide-ranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. Specifically, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the book is edited by the Oxford Centre’s directors, Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey, and features contributions from many of its fellows. Divided into three sections, the work explores historical perspectives and ethical–legal issues such as “personhood” and “property” before focusing on five practical case studies. The volume introduces readers to the interweaving between these subjects and should act as a spur to further interdisciplinary work.

Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years.

Clair Linzey is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is a professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Lexington Books

November 2022 330 pages

Hardback

978 1 6669 2414 5 $120.00 / £92.00

eBook

978 1 6669 2415 2 $45.00 / £35.00

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American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India

Critical Perspectives

Edited by Sharada Chigurupati and Nageswara Rao Konda

American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical

Perspectives is a collection of critical essays on Contemporary American Literature. This book is a classic and unique collection of critical essays on various topics such as Americanness, American Dream, Transcendentalism, Counterculture, Gay culture, Post Communism, Race, Class, Gender in American Literature, African American literature, Jewish American literature, and comparative study between Indian and American Literature. The essays cut across the various genres of poetry, theatre, fiction and short stories. This book is the first of its kind, as all the collection of essays have been written by eminent professors across India, Fulbright Fellows, and serious research scholars of high repute who have contributed remarkably to American Studies both in India and across the globe.

Sharada Chigurupati is associate professor in the department of literatures in English at English and Foreign Languages University, India.

Nageswara Rao Konda is assistant professor in the department of English at Osmania University.

Lexington Books

November 2022 224 pages

Hardback 978 1 6669 0625 7 $100.00 / £77.00

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash.

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Superheroes!

The History of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon from Ant-Man to Zorro

By Brian Solomon

Superheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in tights who fight for what’s right and the comic book phenomenon that conquered the world.

From their origins in stories created by barely grown men during an era of global war and printed on cheap paper for consumption by children, superheroes have grown into a popular culture whirlwind that has attracted millions of fans and crossed over into every form of media. Encompassing early coming books, indie outliers, and the mammoth fictional universes managed by DC and Marvel, Superheroes! chronicles the rise of a distinctly American invention, the modern-day evolution of the myths and legends of old.

Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Captain America, X-Men, the Justice League and the Avengers—they all represent our greatest hopes, and sometimes our darkest fantasies. Pop culture expert Brian Solomon tells a story that goes from the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages of comic book history right up to the Modern Age of multimillion-dollar Hollywood movies, and beyond. Perhaps no fictional genre has endured and blossomed over the past eighty years the way superheroes have. Learn all about the creators who have brought them to life: artists like Jack Kirby and Jim Lee, writers like Stan Lee and Alan Moore, actors like Christopher Reeve and Robert Downey Jr., and directors like Tim Burton and Joss Whedon. They’re all here, in all their high-flying, eye-zapping, goon-punching glory. Up, up and away!

Brian Solomon is pop culture and film writer and English teacher with a master’s specialization in Shakespeare. He lives in Connecticut, with his wife and two children.

Applause

July 2023

pages

colour illustrations

Paperback

1 4930 6451 9

/ £20.99

The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities

Edited by Mark Terry and Michael Hewson

The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Mark Terry and Michael Hewson, provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses. Chapters in the book examine such applications as geographic information systems, global positioning systems, geo-doc filmmaking, and related geo-locative systems all being used as new technologies of research and analysis in investigations in the environmental humanities. The contributors also explore how these new methodologies impact the production of knowledge in this field of study as well as promote the impact of First Nation people perspectives.

Mark Terry is contract faculty professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.

Michael Hewson is senior lecturer in geography at Central Queensland University.

Lexington Books

October 2022 214 pages

12 B&W illustrations, 2 tables

Hardback 978 1 6669 1342 2

$95.00 / £73.00

eBook 978 1 66691 343 9

$45.00 / £30.99

Writing Ambition

Literary Engagements between Women in France

By Katharine Ann Jensen

Focusing on the psychological aspects of the literary engagements between women in France, Katharine Ann Jensen combines close readings of their works with attention to historical and biographical contexts to consider how and why one or both women in the pair express contradictions or anxiety about writing ambition.

Writing Ambition: Literary Engagements between Women in France analyzes pairs of women writing in French. Through examining pairs of writers, ranging from Colette and Anne de Pène to Nancy Huston and Leïla Sebbar, Katharine Ann Jensen assesses how their literary ambitions affected their engagements with each other. Focused on the psychological aspects of the women’s relationships, the author combines close readings of their works with attention to historical and biographical contexts to consider how and why one or both women in the pair express contradictory or anxious feelings about literary ambition.

Katharine Ann Jensen is professor in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University.

Lexington Books

December 2022 202 pages

Hardback 978 1 6669 1879 3 $95.00 / £73.00

eBook 978 1 66691 880 9 $45.00 / £35.00

Punk Revolution!

An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism

Edited by John Malkin

Punk rock has been on the frontlines of activism since exploding on the scene in the 1970s. Punk Revolution! is the most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement over the past forty-five years, told through first-hand accounts of roughly 250 musicians and activists.

John Malkin brings together a wide cast of characters that include major punk and post-punk musicians (members of The Ramones, Bad Religion, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Patti Smith’s band, Gang of Four, Sex Pistols, Iggy & the Stooges, Bikini Kill, Talking Heads, The Slits, and more), important figures influenced by the punk movement (Noam Chomsky, Kalle Lasn, Keith McHenry, Marjane Satrapi, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Jarecke), and underground punk voices. These insightful, radical, and often funny conversations travel through rebellions against Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin and to punk activism that has taken on nuclear war, neoliberalism, modern warfare, patriarchy, white supremacy, the police, settler colonialism, and more. The result is a fresh and unique history of punk throughout the ages.

John Malkin is a musician, activist, filmmaker, photographer, and radio & print journalist. He is the author of Sounds of Freedom: Musicians on Social Change & Spirituality, and his interviews and writings have been published in many magazines including Punk Planet, Z Magazine, In These Times, Ode, Spirituality & Health, Shambhala Sun, Tricycle, The Sun, and Sojourners. He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife and son.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023 350 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7172 1

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7173 8

$32.00 / £25.00

Silhouettes And Shadows

The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

By Adam Steiner

Silhouettes and Shadows explores the secret history of David Bowie’s 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)—an avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear which closed Bowie’s golden years of the 1970s.

Featuring exclusive interviews with close collaborators, this book uncovers the studio stories and hidden meanings behind Scary Monsters as Bowie stood at the crossroads of the new decade. Caught between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s smash hit “Let’s Dance,” it is here Bowie reached the end of his long road to recovery, overcame his demons, and buried the ghosts of his past to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans.

Scary Monsters’ hit singles “Fashion” and “Ashes to Ashes” would break Bowie back into the charts, confronting listeners with chaotic images of paranoia, addiction, social breakdown, and state control. Bowie would ride a new wave of inspiration with the post-punk of Joy Division, synth-pop of Gary Numan, and Culture Club’s sexual emancipation to the Blitz Kids and the New Romantics that followed in his wake. Marking a final goodbye to Space Oddity’s lost hero, Major Tom, and the personas of Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack, Plastic Soul (the Gouster) and The Thin White Duke, in this rare moment, David Bowie, the pierrot clown of everyday romance, suffering, and song, let his mask slip to reveal David Jones, the man within.

Adam Steiner studied philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and writes about music, street-art culture, architecture, poetry, and transgressive fiction. His previous books include Into the Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation of the Downward Spiral, a deep dive into the cultural impact of the seminal album. He lives in London.

Backbeat

August 2023 256 pages 12 B&W illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 6564 6

$27.95 / £21.99

When Rock Met Disco

The Culture War that Saved Pop Music

By Steven Blush

Disco began as a gay, black, and brown underground New York City party music scene, which alone was enough to ward off most rockers. The difference between rock and disco was as sociological as it was aesthetic. At its best, disco was galvanizing and affirmative. Its hypnotic power to uplift a broad spectrum of the populace made it the ubiquitous music of the late 1970s. Disco was a primal and gaudy fanfare, an exclamatory musical passageway into the future.

1978 was the apex of the record industry. Rock music, commercially and artistically, had never been more successful. At the same time, disco was responsible for roughly 40% of the records on Billboard’s Hot 100, thanks to the largest-selling soundtrack of all time in Saturday Night Fever.

When most 70s artists “went disco,” it was the relatively few daring rockers who had the most impact, bringing their intensity and personality to a faceless phenomenon. Rock stars who “went disco” crossed a musical Rubicon and forever smashed cultural conformity. The on-going dance-rock phenomenon demonstrates the impact of this unique place and time. The disco crossover forever changed rock.

Steven Blush has written five books about rock music and his journalism has appeared in over fifty publications, like Spin, Details, Interview, Village Voice, The Times of London, and Paper Magazine. He got his start in the early 1980s promoting punk rock shows in Washington, D.C. and then moved to New York City in 1986, where he published fifty-two issues of Seconds Magazine through 2000. He wrote and produced the documentary American Hardcore which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2006.

Backbeat

June 2023 272 pages 29 B&W illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 6389 5

$24.95 / £18.99

The Beat, the Scene, the Sound

A DJ’s Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City

By DJ Disciple and Henry Kronk

The Beat, the Scene, the Sound follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes account of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an international sensation—dive into the glitzy clubs, underground parties, and the diverse communities who made up the scene amidst the tumult of 1980s/90s-era NYC—between the fall of disco and the rise of EDM.

The book unearths many untold stories of the era. With dozens of interviews and historic photographs, The Beat, the Scene, the Sound shows what is possible when you bring people together and what can unravel when you split them apart.

DJ Disciple is a Black artist, DJ, radio host, producer, and community advocate and has toured the world over a forty-year career, playing venues such as Studio 54 in New York, Ministry of Sound in London, and Cream in Ibiza. His GRAMMY-nominated track “Caught Up” reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 2002 and was later featured in the Showtime series Queer as Folk. He won an ARIA music award for his remix of Steven Allkins’ “The Bass Has Got Me Movin.’” He is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Henry Kronk is a freelance journalist who has covered a range of subjects over the course of his career. His nonfiction work has appeared in Exclaim!, the Burlington Free Press, International DJ, Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, and more. In 2018, he produced the investigative radio program and podcast Code Burst. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023 256 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7487 6 $32.00 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7488 3 $30.00 / £22.99

All the Leaves Are Brown

How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart

By Scott G. Shea

Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as “California Dreamin’”. Scott Shea details how The Mamas and The Papas became standard-bearers for California counterculture, following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success. Through interviews with former bandmates, session musicians, family members, and many others, All the Leaves Are Brown is a layered and revelatory tale of overnight stardom and its many pitfalls.

Scott G. Shea is a long-time radio producer who currently works on the show Seize the Day with Gus Lloyd on SiriusXM’s Catholic Channel.

Backbeat

June 2023 • 408 pages 20 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7211 8 • $32.95 / £25.00

Lunacy

The Curious Origins and Lingering Effects of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon—50 Years On

By John Kruth

With interviews of musicians, artists, DJs, and fans, music biographer John Kruth gets to the heart of the lasting importance of The Dark Side of the Moon Lunacy starts with Pink Floyd’s band history, leading up to the creation of their masterpiece and exploring what inspired the “sonic stew” of styles—a mixture of avantgarde electronic, jazz, and classical music all contributed to the timeless album.

John Kruth is a prolific music biographer. He has written multiple books and for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Wire

Backbeat

May 2023 • 256 pages 22 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6716 9 • $27.95 / £21.99

Can’t Stop the Grrrls

Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono

By Lily E. Hirsch

Female musicians have long been the target of double standards. Lily Hirsch confronts the full range of this sexist labelling and shows how women like Yoko Ono, Courtney Love, Britney Spears, and many more have fought back, sometimes reclaiming these words and their own story through music.

Lily E. Hirsch is a musicologist and visiting scholar at California State University. She is the author of Weird Al: Seriously and blogs at insultingmusic. com

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 • 208 pages 8 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 6906 3 • $32.00 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6907 0 • $30.00 / £22.99

Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South

Edited by Christopher L. Ballengee

Through close readings of documentary film soundscapes, the essays in Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South provide new perspectives on the sonic dimension of nonfiction film outside the European-American mainstream.

Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist based in Poland, where he works as an academic editor and English teacher. He is director of the feature-length documentary film Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora (2019) and author of numerous articles on music in Trinidad and Tobago.

Lexington Books

October 2022 • 200 pages 14 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6669 0295 2 • $95.00 / £73.00

eBook 978 1 66690 296 9 • $45.00 / £30.99

A Tale of Two Cranes

Lessons Learned from 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act

By Nathanial Gronewold

It has been 50 years since the United States attempted a conservation revolution with the passing of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. It has had an enormous impact on conservation theory and practice throughout the world but worsening government budget constraints, public inattention, and a continuous string of setbacks experienced within numerous rehabilitation initiatives conspire to challenge the conventional thinking on endangered species management like never before.

A Tale of Two Cranes serves as a launching pad for better understanding the progress and pitfalls inherent in endangered species management. Author Nathanial Gronewold explains how we got here, where things stand today, and what lessons conservationists must take to heart as the world continues to struggle to put a halt to an ongoing global extinction crisis.

Nathanial Gronewold is an award-winning veteran journalist who has reported from ten countries on five continents. He has earned two National Press Club Awards and three awards from the United Nations Correspondents Association, including two UNCA Gold prizes. Nathanial is editor-in-chief of publicparks. org, launching in mid-2023 to cover the science and policy supporting the world’s public lands. He also works for two fabulous non-profit organizations on their communications and public outreach. He holds a master’s degree in ecosystem science and management and will have earned his Ph.D. in environmental science by the time this book is published. In addition to A Tale of Two Cranes, Nathanial is the author of Anthill Economics: Animal Ecosystems and the Human Economy.

Prometheus September 2023 288 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8762 6 $27.95 / £21.99

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Available to Be Poisoned

Toxicity as a Form of Life

By Dipali Mathur

This book explores the broader question of what it means to “live with” toxicity as a condition of life, particularly for disadvantaged communities in India. Mathur argues that the geographically uneven exposure to toxicity is a deliberate strategy of global neoliberalism to ensure that power is concentrated in the hands of the few.

In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its “others,” born of colonialism and capitalism’s entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of “toxicity as a form of life” to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned.

Dipali Mathur completed her PhD at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Lexington Books

October 2022 236 pages

Hardback 978 1 6669 1981 3 $100.00 / £77.00

Nature at Your Door

Connecting With the Wild and Green in the Urban and Suburban Landscape

By Sara A. Gagné

Focusing on the ecological importance of our day-to-day activities and spaces we are most familiar with and can most influence, this book brings the message of how people and nature are vitally connected in the urban and suburban landscape and features practical steps readers can take to deepen their connections with nature.

We are an integral part of the ecosystem where we live. In this book we learn that what we do in our yards matters just as much as the way our local parks and nature preserves are managed. Author and professor of landscape ecology Sara Gagné focuses on the ecological importance of our day-to-day activities and spaces we are most familiar with and can most influence. With cuttingedge science, anecdotal experiences, and practical recommendations, Sara brings the message of how people and nature are vitally connected in the urban and suburban landscape.

Based on the author’s fifteen years of research and teaching in urban ecology, the wide variety of places and topics covered in this book adds a fresh perspective to urban nature writing and appeals to those who want to take action to make the places they live greener, healthier, and more biodiverse for themselves, the wildlife, and the earth.

Dr. Sara Gagné is associate professor of landscape ecology in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at University of North Carolina Charlotte. She has trained with the best ecologists in the world and published scientific articles in high-impact journals such as Ambio and Bio Science. She has done research on coyotes and carabid beetles and is a member in an interdisciplinary department of physical and social scientists. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Stackpole Books

September 2023

256 pages

75 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7226 6

$29.95 / £22.99

Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen

Myth versus Reality

By Gregory S. Aldrete and Graham Sumner

No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the nineteenth century than filmmakers immediately turned to ancient history for inspiration. Nero, Cleopatra, Caesar, and more all found their way to the silver screen and would return again and again in the decades that followed. But just how accurate were these depictions of Ancient Rome?

In Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth versus Reality, Gregory S. Aldrete and Graham Sumner provide a fascinating examination of 50 films set in Ancient Rome, beginning with the classics from the dawn of cinema, through the great golden age of sword-and-sandals flicks in the 1950s, to the dramatic epics of the modern day. The authors analyse each film for its his-torical accuracy of plot, characters, costumes, and sets.

Featuring remarkable custom-made paintings depicting characters as they appeared in film and how they should have appeared if they were historically correct, this book delivers an invaluable perspective of film and history.

Gregory S. Aldrete is Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Winner of numerous national fellowships and awards as both a scholar and a teacher, his books about the ancient world include The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done For Us? and Daily Life in the Roman City

Graham Sumner has written and illustrated publications on Ancient Rome for almost forty years. His works include three publications on Roman military clothing and he has written the only standard work on Roman military dress.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023

240 pages 30 B&W illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 5951 4

$36.00 / £28.00

Cinema of Swords

A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings (and Samurai and Musketeers and Gladiators and Outlaw Heroes)

By Lawrence Ellsworth

Rights exclusion: Audio

Cinema of Swords is a combination history, handbook, and love letter to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and deals with their problems at the point of a sword.

Lawrence Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and translator of historical fiction and an acknowledged expert on the history of swashbuckling in literature and film. He is the author of The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure and historical adventure pieces for The Huffington Post and Literary Hub

Applause

September 2023 • 464 pages 100 colour illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 6562 2 • $50.00 / £38.00

Stories Told through Sound

The Craft of Writing Audio Dramas for Podcasts, Streaming, and Radio

By Barry M. Putt Jr.

Dust off that story idea you’ve been wanting to develop and learn how to craft an engaging audio drama that can become a fully realized production.

In Stories Told through Sound, audio-dramatist Barry M. Putt, Jr. lays out the essentials of the form in an engaging, easy-to-understand manner.

Barry M. Putt, Jr. is an audio-drama writer who has adapted over forty classic and modern stories for radio theater projects and has written original audiodrama plays that have been produced by Pendant Audio Productions, Petaluma Radio Players, and more. His other books include Alice: The TV Series— Life Behind the Counter in Mel’s Greasy Spoon and The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew on Film, TV, and Stage

Applause

July 2023 • 224 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 6534 9 • $24.95 / £18.99

Gandhi’s Global Legacy

Moral Methods and Modern Challenges

Edited by Veena R. Howard

This interdisciplinary collection brings Gandhi’s ideas into conversation with issues seldom discussed in Gandhi studies. The contributors engage with cross-cultural and cross-historical time periods, contributing in important ways to the ever-expanding field of Gandhi studies.

While there has been sustained interest in Gandhi’s methods and continued academic inquiry, Gandhi’s Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges is unique in bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who analyze Gandhi’s tactics, moral methods, and philosophical principles, not just in the fields of social and political activism, but in the areas of philosophy, religion, literature, economics, health, international relations, and interpersonal communication. Bringing this wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors provide fresh perspectives on Gandhi’s thought and practice as well as critical analyses of his work and its contemporary relevance.

Edited by Veena R. Howard, this book reveals the need for reconstructing Gandhi’s ideas and moral methods in today’s context through a broad spectrum of crucial issues, including pacifism, health, communal living, gender dynamics, the role of anger, and peacebuilding. Gandhi’s methods have been refined and reimagined to fit different situations, but there remains a need to consider his concept of Sarvodaya (uplift of all), the importance of economic, gender, and racial equity, as well as the value of dialogue and dissenting voices in building a just society. The book points to new directions for the study of Gandhi in the globalized world.

Veena R. Howard is professor of Asian religious traditions in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno.

Lexington Books

November 2022 380 pages

1 B&W illustration

Hardback 978 1 7936 4036 9

$120.00 / £92.00

Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice

Rethinking Theory and Practice

By Anna Malavisi

This book offers a critical analysis of the theory and practice of global development. Using how Chagas disease has been understood and addressed as an example of a failing of global development, Anna Malavisi argues for a rethinking from an ethico-epistemic perspective using a strong ethical approach.

Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice: Rethinking Theory and Practice presents a critical analysis of global development from a perspective that is both theoretical and practical, addressing both ethical and epistemic issues. Offering a unique perspective from having worked as a practitioner in global development for several years, then left the practice to ponder the deep ethical issues that shadow global development, Anna Malavisi argues that one of the problems in global development today is the absence of an ethical analysis; ethics in development today is overshadowed by economic and political interests, as well as national self-interest. The book describes how Chagas diseases, as a Neglected Tropical Disease, continues to plague vulnerable populations in poorer countries such as Bolivia due to a very limited way in how it has been conceived, understood, and addressed. Malavisi offers a strong ethical approach, comprising a feminist methodology, a social ethical praxis, political responsibility, epistemic justice, and deep-green theory. A strong ethical approach is necessary to address Chagas Disease as well as other development problems in a more effective way.

Anna Malavisi is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies at Western Connecticut State University.

Lexington Books

October 2022 226 pages

Hardback

978 1 7936 1691 3 $100.00 / £77.00

The Meaning of Mourning

Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief

Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode

The Meaning of Mourning brings perspectives from leading philosophers, psychologists, theologians, writers, and artists exploring different dimensions of death, loss, and grief. They together form a wide-ranging study of some of the most difficult and formative experiences in human life.

Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings together fifteen essays from diverse disciplines addressing the topics of death, grief, and mourning. The collection moves from general questions concerning the putative badness of death and the meaning of loss through the phenomenology and psychology of grief, to personal and cultural aspects of mourning. Contributors examine topics such as theodicy and grief, reproductive loss, mourning as a form of recognition of value, the roots of grief in early childhood, grief in COVID-times, hope, phenomenology of loss, public commemoration and mourning rituals, mourning for a devastated culture, the Necropolis of Glasgow, and the “art of outliving.” Edited by Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode, the volume provides a survey of the rich topography of methodologies, problems, approaches, and disciplines that are involved in the study of issues surrounding loss and our responses to it and guides the reader through a spectrum of perspectives, highlighting the connections and discontinuities between them.

Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode is assistant professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw.

Lexington Books

December 2022 270 pages

5 B&W illustrations, 3 tables

Hardback

978 1 6669 0892 3

$105.00 / £81.00

eBook

978 1 66690 893 0

$45.00 / £35.00

The Foundation for Critical Thinking

Battlefield Cyber

How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security

By William J Holstein and Michael McLaughlin

Michael McLaughlin is, perhaps, America’s most knowledgeable expert on the threat of cyber warfare and America’s ability to counteract it. As the former Senior Counterintelligence Advisor for US Cyber Command, he has observed from the vantage point of the highest level of government security the structure of the nation’s cyber defenses. And what he has seen terrifies him.

The United States is being bombarded with cyberattacks. From the surge in ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure to nation states compromising the software supply chain and corporate email servers, malicious cyber activities have reached an all-time high. Russia attracts the most attention, but China is vastly more sophisticated. Halting this digital aggression will require Americans to undertake sweeping changes in how we educate, organize and protect ourselves and to ask difficult questions about how vulnerable our largest technology giants are.

Michael McLaughlin is the Senior Counterintelligence Advisor for United States Cyber Command, where he has been responsible for the coordination of all Department of Defense counterintelligence operations in cyberspace. He was at the heart of the Pentagon’s efforts, for example, to prevent Russia from using cyberattacks to disrupt Ukraine’s economy.

Bill Holstein was based in Hong Kong and Beijing for United Press International and has been following U.S.China relations for more than 40 years. He also has specialized in covering technology since joining U.S. News & World Report in 1996. He has worked for or written for Business Week, The New York Times, Business 2.0, Fortune and other top publications.

Prometheus

August 2023 250 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8901 9 $28.95 / £21.99

International Politics

Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, Fourteenth Edition

By Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis and Timothy W. Crawford

Marking its fitieth anniversary, this fourteenth edition of International Politics continues to be the preeminent reader for helping students understand the enduring concepts and contemporary issues in international relations. Editors Art, Crawford, and Jervis provide focus and clarity in a wide selection of scholarly readings – half of which are new to this edition – covering the key theoretical debates and core topics taught in introductory IR courses. Each selection is chosen for its analytical content, judiciously edited for students, and is contextualized by the editors’ introductions. Discussion questions at the end of each part and following each reading engage students in the central arguments and tie together diverse ideas.

Robert J. Art is Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University, Research Associate at Harvard University’s Olin Institute of Strategic Studies, Senior Fellow in MIT’s Security Studies Program, and Director of MIT’s Seminar XXI Program.

Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University; he is a former president of the American Political Science Association.

Timothy Crawford is associate professor of political science at Boston College (up for full professor this year). His most recent book is The Power to Divide: Wedge Strategies in Great Power Competition (Cornell University Press, 2021).

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2033 608 pages Paperback 978 1 5381 6955 1 $71.00 / £55.00

eBook 978 1 5381 7693 1 $67.50 / £52.00

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Money for Mayhem Mercenaries, Private Military Companies, Lethal Drones, and the Future of War

By Alessandro Arduino

Rights exclusion: Chinese

War is no longer waged only by national militaries. Might makes right, but with new tools: private intelligence outfits, rent-an-army soldiers, and cyber mercenaries for hire. These groups profit from chaos and uncertainty, while accountability, transparency, and peace seem harder than ever to achieve.

Dr. Alessandro Arduino is a consultant to several organizations on security, risk assessment, and mitigation.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023

256 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7031 1 $38.00 / £29.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7032 8 $36.00 / £28.00

Black Women’s Rights Leadership and the Circularities of Power

By Carole Boyce Davies

This book studies the manifestation of leadership as expressed, narrativized, and represented by women of African descent. It uses the language of “rights” and “power” to assert that Black women find strategic alternatives to the maledominated leadership status quo and are the leaders of the future.

Carole Boyce Davies, an endowed professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell University, is a leading scholar of African Diaspora, Black feminist theories and literatures, and Black women’s writings internationally.

Lexington Books

September 2022

336 pages

Hardback

978 1 7936 1238 0 $120.00 / £92.00

eBook 978 1 7936 1239 7 $45.00 / £35.00

Nigerian Media Industries in the Era of Globalization

Edited by Unwana Samuel Akpan

In this book, media professionals and scholars of media studies examine how the Nigerian media industry has changed in the era of globalization and digitization. They provide history on the Nigerian media industry and examine changes in media law, journalism, broadcasting, sports media, and digital news.

Unwana Samuel Akpan is lecturer of mass communication at University of Lagos.

Lexington Books

November 2022 350 pages 3 B&W illustrations, 2 tables

Hardback

978 1 6669 2285 1 $120.00 / £92.00

eBook

978 1 66692 286 8 $45.00 / £30.99

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Counseling in a Gender-Expansive World Resources to Support Therapeutic Practice

By Douglas Knutson, Chloë Goldbach and Julie M. Koch

With the increased attention on transgender and genderexpansive people in the media, politics, and the public conversation comes greater visibility, and counselors are therefore now likely to clinically engage with openly transgender or gender-expansive clients during their careers. However, many counselors have not received specific training to provide affirming, informed care for these populations.

Counseiling in a Gender-Expansive World provides practical suggestions and interventions to help therapists, supervisors, and trainees increase in their competence and confidence in working with transgender and genderexpansive clients. The resources provided are informed by evidence-based practice, scholarship on intersectionality, and by social justice and advocacy movements, making this book is a useful supplement to clinical work with transgender and gender-expansive people.

Douglas Knutson (he, him) is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. He focuses on research with LGBT populations with an emphasis on transgender health.

Chloë Goldbach (she/her/hers), MS, MA, is a White, lesbian, transgender woman and PhD candidate in counseling psychology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC).

Julie Koch is Head of the School of Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University. She is a Licensed Health Service Psychologist in the state of Oklahoma and has a small private practice focusing on work with rural transgender clients.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2022 224 pages 2 tables

Hardback 978 1 5381 2941 8

$120.00 / £92.00

Paperback 978 1 5381 2942 5

$35.00 / £27.00

eBook 978 1 5381 2943 2

$33.00 / £25.00

Failure to Communicate

Why We Misunderstand What We Hear, Read, and See

By Roger Kreuz

Miscommunication has led to military defeats, the loss of spacecraft, and even more tragically, accidents that cost human lives. It plays a role in road rage and social media feuds. It haunts the courtroom, the boardroom, and the singles bar.

“Why didn’t they understand me? I was as clear as I could be.” Everyone has had this thought at one time or another. Research from the fields of psychology and cognitive science can provide concrete answers to these questions. In Failure to Communicate, Dr. Roger Kreuz explores the answers to these questions.

We are exposed to the dangers of miscommunication early in life. As children, we play the Telephone Game and learn an important lesson about the fragility of long communication chains. And as adults, we are constantly on the lookout for misunderstanding. People interrupt each other, on average, about every ninety seconds in order to check their understanding. Despite such vigilance, however, a great deal of what is said and written is not understood as intended.

Roger Kreuz is an Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Memphis and a Professor in the University’s Psychology Department. He works mainly in experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychology of language. He earned his Ph.D at Princeton University. He is the author of about a hundred research presentations at national and international conferences.

Prometheus June 2023 250 pages Hardback 978 1 6338 8889 0 $26.95 / £20.99

Infancy

Development from Birth to Age Three, Fourth Edition

By Dana Gross

The Fourth Edition of Infancy is a comprehensive and accessible core text for courses in infant development and early childhood development. Dana Gross’s sensitive and engaging teaching voice seamlessly weaves together research and theory with current issues of diversity and culture. This latest edition provides students with enough detail to understand methodological issues, explore both practically and theoretically important topics, and engage in thinking critically about development from birth to age 3.

Dana Gross is professor of psychology at St. Olaf College, where she teaches infant development and developmental psychology. She earned her PhD in child psychology from the University of Minnesota and has been teaching at St. Olaf since 1988. Internationalizing the psychology curriculum is a major theme in her work. She has developed short-term courses in India and China and student assignments to promote global learning in her on-campus courses.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2023 496 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 6725 0

$195.00 / £150.00

Paperback 978 1 5381 6726 7

$97.00 / £75.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6727 4

$92.00 / £71.00

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Islam Based Psychology Implications for Our World Today

By Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

This will be the first textbook to offer a systematic and rigorous analysis of an Islam based psychology. The book addresses the major features of an Islamic based psychology both in concepts and applications and compares the differences between the mainstream psychology and an Islam based psychology. While drawing on authentic Islamic texts and primary books in mainstream psychology, this book introduces a new school of thought where religion, philosophy, mysticism and psychology intersect and create an integrative approach in understanding the human mind and human behavior.

Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi is a fellow in the department of psychology at Harvard University and works on mindfulness and its psychological implications for crosscultural, clinical, and social psychology. He also teaches at the University of British Columbia and the University of Massachusetts.He is a frequently published author and has been the keynote speaker of numerous international conferences.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023 242 pages Paperback 978 1 5381 2969 2 $38.00 / £29.00

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The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

By Jacky Comforty, with Martha Aladjem Bloomfield Foreword by Omer Bartov

The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust collects narratives of Bulgarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Through the analysis of eye-witness testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and researchers’ investigations, the authors weave a complex tapestry of voices that were previously underrepresented, ignored, and denied. Taken together, the collected memories offer an alternative perspective that counters official accounts and corroborates war crimes.

Jacky Comforty is an award-winning filmmaker, oral historian, and media creator who has worked for over thirty-five years creating films and videos in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Bulgaria.

Martha Bloomfield is an award-winning author, oral historian, photographer, and independent scholar who has written several books about immigrants, migrants, and the formerly homeless.

Lexington Books

April 2021 456 pages

101 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 7936 3291 3

$125.00 / £96.00

eBook

978 1 7936 3292 0

$50.00 / £38.00

Marriage after Religion

A Practical and Spiritual Guide

By Donna Schaper

At a time when the number of those identifying as spiritual but not religious is on the rise, Pastor Donna Schaper provides a roadmap to help readers understand this continuing transition of marriage after both culture and religion are no longer of one voice about its meaning.

Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper is senior minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. She is the author of numerous books and writes for National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Tikkun and other publications.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023

Hardback

978 1 5381 4352 0 $32.00 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 5381 4353 7 $30.00 / £22.99

Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives

By Jaco J. Hamman

Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence explores hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as fundamental traits for artificial intelligence. Incorporating these values into algorithms will minimize AI’s biases of technological determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy.

Jaco J. Hamman is professor of religion, psychology, and culture and the director of the program in theology and practice at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Lexington Books

October 2022

282 pages 1 table

Hardback

978 1 7936 4045 1

$105.00 / £81.00

eBook 978 1 7936 4046 8

$45.00 / £30.99

Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts

Edited by Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel

Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.

Christy Cobb is assistant professor of Christianity at University of Denver.

Eric Vanden Eykel is associate professor of religious studies at Ferrum College in Virginia.

Lexington Books

October 2022

304 pages

2 B&W illustrations, 1 table

Hardback

978 1 7936 3784 0

$110.00 / £85.00

eBook

978 1 7936 3785 7

$45.00 / £35.00

Photo by Zoriana Stakhniv on Unsplash.

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Darwin’s Falling Sparrow

Victorian Evolutionists and the Meaning of Suffering

By Kristin R Johnson

The “Darwin Story” has been told in many different ways and from a wide range of perspectives. Some focus on the detailed development of evolution theory. Others examine the ways in which evolution was used to justify different ideologies. But no one has told this tale as a story of mothers, fathers, and families wrestling with alternative explanations of suffering in a time of tremendously high child mortality rates.

Darwin’s Falling Sparrow explores how both Darwin and his readers confronted evolutionary ideas as more than scientists, ministers, or public intellectuals. They were also parents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends, who, in their attempt to devise a new explanation for the ubiquitous “Fall of Every Sparrow,” were inspired to see the world through new, extraordinary lenses that altered the course of history, science, and medicine.

Kristin Johnson is a professional historian of science who specializes in the history of the naturalist tradition (evolution biology, ecology, natural history museums, etc.) and has taught a wide range of courses in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington) since 2006. Johnson has years of experience with the challenging task of conveying the complex and often impenetrable work of academic historians to a non-professional audience, namely, hundreds of undergraduate students. She has won two teaching awards, reflecting her ability to successfully bring academic work and conversations to a broad, nonprofessional audience.

Prometheus September 2023 260 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8874 6 $28.95 / £21.99

Photo by Hulki Okan Tabak on Unsplash.

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Dancing with Disruption

A New Approach to Navigating Life’s Biggest Changes

By Linda Rossetti

Dancing with Disruption: A New Approach to Navigating Life’s Biggest Changes reshapes how we understand disruption and offers a proven toolkit for successfully navigating pivotal points in our lives. Linda Rossetti captivates readers with real stories and her own intimate experience of upheaval that is thought-provoking, stimulating, and empowering. Readers learn how to make different choices; choices not born out of fear or perceived barriers or constraints, but choices that allow us to identify opportunities, pursue dreams that felt previously unattainable, and ultimately live the lives we all imagine.

Linda Rossetti is an entrepreneur and experienced executive who has spent the past decade as a speaker, writer, and consultant on transition and its impact on individuals and organizations. Through her own unexpected transition and extensive research born out of curiosity, she developed a profoundly new approach to progressing through major milestones in a way that allows people to successfully see and navigate a path forward in a highly effective and rewarding way. Her work has been featured on NPR, NECN, CBS/WBZ, Money Magazine, Next Avenue, and other outlets. Her podcast, Destination Unknown, has explored transition with 2015 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ouided Bouchamaoui, NPR Marketplace host Tess Vigeland, Miss Singapore, Rachel Leung, and others. Linda is the author of Women & Transition: Reinventing Work and Life. Linda is the proud parent of two teenagers and a golden doodle named Apollo. She resides in Winchester, MA.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023

200 pages

9 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 6937 7

$32.00 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6938 4

$30.00 / £22.99

Photo by Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash.

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The Freelance Mindset

Unleashing Your Side Hustles for Better Work, Play, and Life

By Joy Batra Rights exclusion: Translation

The Freelance Mindset explores the question of what comes next after you start freelancing. Drawing on a decade of freelance experience and interviews with fifty freelancers, Joy Batra shares concrete ways to navigate the uncertainty of freelancing to build a life that is financially and emotionally rewarding.

Offers concrete ways to navigate the uncertainty of freelancing to build a life that is financially and emotionally rewarding.

In The Freelance Mindset we discover our illusions about the way we work are just that—stories we make up, or, worse, stories that were made up for us. The current way of work is, in fact, not working for us, but there is another path forward: one that leverages our innate creativity and human need to make a living. Readers here discover what pulls us toward freelancing, develop tools to meet its challenges, and realize that we can succeed as either freelancers or traditional employees. What we cannot do is go back to seeing the world in the limited nine-to-five way we once did. Author Joy Batra compares traditional employment with the freelance lifestyle and keenly observes the gaps between the two. She shares concrete ways to help current and future freelancers navigate the uncertainty of freelancing in order to build a life that is both financially and emotionally rewarding.

Joy Batra is the founder of Quartz Consulting. She is a freelancer, entrepreneur, and was—briefly—a Bollywood actress. Joy lives in New York and is Head of Legal at Syndicate Protocol.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023

240 pages

4 B&W illustrations, 2 tables

Hardback

978 1 5381 6770 0

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6771 7

$32.00 / £25.00

Photo by Keenan Beasley on Unsplash.

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Bitches in Bonnets

Life Lessons from Jane Austen’s Mean Girls

By Sarah J. Makowski

Have you ever recognized Mrs. Elton in an office colleague? Or caught a glimpse of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the neighbourhood crank? Over two hundred years after their creation, Jane Austen’s mean girls are still alive and kicking.

Bitches in Bonnets explores parallels between Austen’s world and our own, showing how modern social and behavioural scientists are just beginning to document and quantify what the author knew instinctively. Interweaving modern research and sociological experiments, Austen scholar Sarah Makowski looks beyond Austen’s texts for the sources of female aggression both during the Regency and today. Despite incredible advances in gender equality, women still face discrimination and bullying from creche to career. The cruellest assaults are those that are least expected—from other women. Hardly a woman alive has not experienced a false friend whose opinions and affection bring both positive and destructive consequences. The very ordinariness of Austen’s stories leaves room for us to identify with her flawed heroines and make peace with their enemies.

This book examines how six novels of quiet English Regency life still provide insight on female relationships after all these years and how Austen’s writing—and our reading of it—offers solace to millions of fans worldwide.

Sarah Makowski completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Aachen, Germany, and is a learning and development professional supporting individuals and organizations in achieving the right skills and competencies to perform their best. Born in Michigan, Makowski now lives in Germany with her teenage son, husband, and two cats.

Prometheus May 2023 200 pages

Paperback 978 1 6338 8854 8 $21.95 / £16.99

Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation

By Leslie F. Stebbins Foreword by Ethan Zuckerman

How can we build back truth online? In this book, researcher Leslie F. Stebbins provides solutions for repairing our existing social media platforms and building better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.

Stebbins provides a road map with six paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit us, how we can learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital spaces, how to build tools to reduce harmful practices, how platform companies can prioritize the public good, how we can repair journalism, and how to strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new, healthier digital public squares.

Leslie F. Stebbins is an independent researcher and the Director of Research4Ed where her clients include Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Education, Tufts University, and the Gates Foundation. She has more than thirty years of experience in higher education with a background in library and information science, instructional design, research, and teaching. Her previous books, Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age and Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth have been mainstays in college and university media studies and information literacy courses. Leslie lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 232 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 6314 6

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6315 3

$32.00 / £25.00

Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea

Edited by Hojeong Lee and Joong-Hwan Oh

Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea deepens the current understanding of online activism and its impacts on society by highlighting how various forms of social movements have been mobilized in Korea. Through exploring movements in Korea such as political participation based on SNS, the 2008 U.S. beef protests, and the 2016-2017 candlelight vigils, the contributors study the intersection of digital media platforms, current trends, and social, cultural, and political conditions within Korean society. Using a wide range of events and movements, this book analyzes how people have utilized the development of digital media to facilitate social movements and effect social change.

Dr. Hojeong Lee teaches media studies in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University.

Dr. Joong-Hwan Oh is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York.

Lexington Books

March 2021

408 pages

22 B&W illustrations, 50 tables

Hardback

978 1 7936 4228 8

$125.00 / £96.00

eBook

978 1 7936 4229 5

$50.00 / £38.00

Indigenous Collective Rights in Latin America

The Role of Coalitions, Constitutions, and Party Systems

By Katherine Becerra Valdivia

This book explores the processes and causal mechanisms by which recognition of collective rights for indigenous peoples varies wildly across Latin America.

Latin America is a region with high levels of recognition for Indigenous collective rights. Still, legal protections differ considerably among countries. Why do some countries in Latin America have a strong recognition of collective rights for Indigenous people while others do not? What are the factors that help enhance the presence of collective rights? The author argues that while Indigenous social movements are crucial to the protection of Indigenous rights, they are not enough. The recognition of these rights is influenced by organizational factors (such as coalitions between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous allies) as well as institutional conditions (including constitutional replacement and party systems). By employing qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and case studies from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, this book explores the ways various elements combine to create conditions for a variety of collective rights.

Katherine Becerra Valdivia is assistant professor of law at Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.

Lexington Books

September 2022 192 pages

4 B&W illustrations, 14 tables

Hardback 978 1 6669 0910 4

$95.00 / £73.00

eBook 978 1 66690 911 1

$45.00 / £35.00

Tibet as I Knew It

The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba

By Tsewang Yishey Pemba

This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author’s formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans.

Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snailpaced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his father´s diaries and his conversations with Tibetan and British officials as well as people at the grassroots. His own metamorphosis, as he leaves Tibet in 1949 for higher education abroad, foreshadows the metamorphosis of Tibet and its inescapable fate in the decade that followed.

Tsewang Yishey Pemba was born on June 5, 1932 in Gyantse, Tibet. He is the author of Young Days in Tibet (1957), Idols on the Path (1966), and White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings (2017).

Lexington Books

December 2022 206 pages

Hardback

978 1 6669 0856 5

$95.00 / £73.00

eBook

978 1 66690 857 2

$45.00 / £35.00

Photo by Evgeny Nelmin on Unsplash.

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Built to Punish

How the Criminal Justice System Undermines American Society

By Nora V Demleitner

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. With only about 4.5% of the world’s population, it holds about 20% of the world’s inmates. But that’s only the tip of the punishment iceberg. One in five Americans have a criminal record. And every day the assembly line of punishment keeps its steady pace. Many who enter the criminal justice system are never able to fully shake it, and even those who emerge, carry its scars.

Nora Demleiter is a chaired law professor at Virginia’s Washington and Lee University, one of the nation’s top law schools. She has a national and international reputation in criminal justice reform work. Her extensive writing has focused especially on sentencing and the myriad consequences that flow from punishment.

Prometheus September 2023

Hardback

1

275 pages

Crime, Punishment, and Video Games

By Kristine Levan and Steven Downing

Crime, Punishment, and Video Games presents a comprehensive overview of some of the most pressing issues related to video games and their relationship with crime and justice.

Kristine Levan is associate professor of criminology in the Department of Culture, Society, and Justice at the University of Idaho.

Steven Downing is associate professor of social science and humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Lexington Books November 2022 • 244 pages 3 text boxes

Hardback 978 1 7936 1337 0 • $100.00 / £77.00

Photo by Emiliano Bar on Unsplash.

Social Media Victimization

Theories and Impacts of Cyberpunishment

By Jessica Emami

Social Media Victimization examines how and why social media cultivates conflict and misunderstanding, and offers solutions on how to move forward.

Jessica Emami is adjunct professor of sociology at American University. She specializes in technology and globalization.

Lexington Books

December 2022 • 116 pages

Hardback

978 1 7936 2964 7 • $85.00 / £65.00

eBook

978 1 7936 2965 4 • $45.00 / £35.00

The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless

An Honest Sheriff and the Exoneration of an Innocent Man

By Stephen R. Snodgrass, with Joshua C. Kezer

Everything that could go wrong did. This fascinating true crime explores the of wrongful conviction of Josh Kezer and the ways in which our legal system can prioritize politics over true justice.

Stephen R. Snodgrass has a JD from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in psychology from Johns Hopkins. Josh Kezer was his first innocence case, but he has since represented two more men wrongfully convicted of murder who have been freed, David Robinson and Donald Nash. Along with the other two lawyers in the case, Snodgrass received the 2021 Missouri Lawyer of the Year Award for work on the Nash case.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023 • 286 pages 10 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7206 3 • $36.00 / £28.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7207 0 • $34.00 / £27.99

Lies About Black People

How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why it Matters

By Omekongo Dibinga PhD Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

Rights exclusion: Translation

In this honest and welcoming book, diversity and inclusion expert, professor, and award-winning speaker Dr. Omekongo Dibinga argues that we must embark on a massive undertaking to reeducate ourselves on the stereotypes that have proven harmful, and too often deadly, to the black community.

Dr. Omekongo Dibinga’s life has been devoted to challenging bias and smashing stereotypes for over 30 years since first getting involved as a community activist. Dr. Dibinga is Professorial Lecturer of Intercultural Communication at American University. He is a well-known professional speaker working with corporations and school districts across the country on culturally relevant instruction.

Prometheus

September 2023 • 232 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8878 4 • $26.95 / £20.99

East Turkistan’s Right to Sovereignty

Decolonization and Beyond

By Rukiye Turdush

This study examines the relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the people of East Turkistan. The author accuses the Chinese state of settler colonialism and argues for East Turkistan’s sovereignty on the basis of international law and the Genocide Convention.

Rukiye Turdush is research director at the Uyghur Research Institute.

Lexington Books

December 2022 • 248 pages

Hardback

978 1 6669 2726 9 • $100.00 / £77.00

eBook 978 1 66692 727 6 • $45.00 / £35.00

eBook 978 1 5381 7286 5 • $30.00 / £22.99

The Savvy Ally

A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate, Second Edition

By Jeannie Gainsburg

Rights sold: Korean, Audio

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including:

• Updated and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language

• What to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you

• LGBTQ+ etiquette and common bloopers to avoid

• Techniques for respectfully and effectively navigating difficult conversations

• Addressing common questions and concerns

• Suggested actions for creating more inclusive spaces

• Sustaining our ally actions and taking care of ourselves

This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians and college professors, as well as the non-freaked out parent who wants to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but doesn’t know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to build the reader’s confidence in their ability to have respectful and useful conversations for and with LGBTQ+ individuals, and to offer tools to be effective advocates for change.

Jeannie Gainsburg has worked as a professional ally to the LGBTQ+ communities for 15 years at the Out Alliance in Rochester, NY, first as the Education and Outreach Coordinator and, for the past 5 years, as the Education Director. Find out more at savvyallyaction.com

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023

175 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 6923 0

$35.00 / £27.00

Paperback

978 1 5381 6924 7

$16.00 / £11.95

eBook

978 1 5381 6925 4

$15.00 / £11.95

Gender Equity

Global Policies and Perspectives on Advancing Social Justice

Edited by Elena V. Shabliy, Kimarie Engerman and Dmitry Kurochkin

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide.

Elena V. Shabliy is visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Kimarie Engerman is professor of psychology and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Dmitry Kurochkin is lecturer and researcher at Harvard University.

Lexington Books

2022

Hardback

eBook

Researching Creativity in Media Industries

By Mads Møller T. Andersen

Creative production processes are central to all media industries, and there is a need for more detailed understandings of how these industries facilitate and understand their own creativity. This book offers a theoretical framework to consider how researchers can conduct studies of creativity in different media industries.

Mads Møller T. Andersen is assistant professor at University of Copenhagen.

Lexington Books October 2022 • 116 pages

Hardback

1 6669 0169

eBook

$85.00

66690

$45.00

£65.00

£30.99

Camping Activity Book for Families

The Kid-Tested Guide to Fun in the Outdoors, Second Edition

By Linda Hamilton

Camping Activity Book for Families offers up a wide variety of activities, games, crafts, songs, and good old-fashioned fun for parents and children to share in the wonders of the outdoors. Whether it’s creating pinecone art and giant nests or going on nature-themed scavenger hunts, observing the night sky, or playing flashlight tag at the campground, this book gets the whole family engaged in everything outdoors.

Fully revised and updated, with age-specific recommendations, activity suggestions for parents, family conversation starter sidebars, and kids-only tips, this book has fun activities for every minute and every age group.

Linda Hamilton is a full-time writer and Bay Area native who has taught high school English, drama, and college composition. She lives in Oakland, California. She is the author of Best Hikes Near San Francisco and Hiking the San Francisco Bay Area, and Camping Northern California

Winner of the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Children’s Interactive category.

Falcon Guides

June 2023 240 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 6422 9

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook 978 1 4930 6423 6

$23.50 / £17.99

Casting Forward

Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

By Steve Ramirez, foreword by Ted Williams, illustrated by Bob White

In Casting Forward, Steve Ramirez goes on a yearlong fly-fishing journey to all the major rivers of the Texas Hill Country and makes an impassioned plea for a new ethic of how we treat fish, nature, and each other.

Steve Ramirez is a writer, educator, master naturalist, philosopher, and outdoor adventurer who lives and writes in Texas. He has lived in and travelled across four continents chronicling the unique historical landscapes, human cultures, and natural worlds that are in danger of vanishing.

Lyons Press

June 2023 • 240 pages

B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6671

$19.95

£14.99

Previously published in hardback

1 4930 5145

eBook 978 1 4930 5146

$24.95

$19.00

£18.99

£14.99

Casting Seaward

By Steve Ramirez, foreword by Kirk Deeter, illustrated by Bob White

In Casting Seaward, author, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez expands beyond the geographical scope of his first two books by traveling thousands of miles by plane, motor vehicle, boat, and foot pursuing the native gamefish of North America’s salt and brackish water habitats. This journey includes following anadromous fish like salmon from the ocean’s depth to the shallowest tributaries of Alaskan rivers, and following rivers and streams from their freshwater sources to their brackish water deltas.

Steve Ramirez is a writer, educator, master naturalist, philosopher, and outdoor adventurer who lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country. He has lived in and traveled across four continents chronicling the unique historical landscapes, human cultures, and natural worlds that are in danger of vanishing.

Lyons Press

June 2023 • 320 pages

B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7098 5 • $27.95 / £21.99

Fish Tales

Timeless and Compelling Stories of Anglers and Fish

Edited by Lamar Underwood

Fish Tales is a collection of some of the greatest fishing stories ever written. It will entertain, enlighten, and inspire fishers the world over. These are enduring stories that have passed the test of time and have attracted generations of readers. They are custom-made for the imaginative reader who loves to fish and read about fishing adventures. Included are stories by Washington Irving, Jerome K. Jerome, John Buchan, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Roland Pertwee, Andrew Lang, Henry Van Dyke, R. D. Blackmore, Anton Chekhov, John Taintor Foote, G. E. M. Skues and more.

Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. The numerous books he has edited include Tales of the Mountain Men, The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, Survival Stories, and War Stories and the novel On Dangerous Ground

Lyons Press

July 2023 • 368 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 7197 5

$27.95

£21.99

Fly Fishing Essentials

Tactics for Bass and Other Warmwater Species

By Tim Jacobs

Tim Jacobs covers techniques, rigs, and fly patterns for largemouth and smallmouth bass, pan-fish, pike, and other species common in lakes around the US. Part of a new series of fly-fishing tactics books, Tactics for Bass and Other Warmwater Species covers key areas in detail with clear and straightforward writing.

Tim Jacobs is a popular demonstration tier at various fishing shows including The Fly Fishing Show. He lives in New Castle, Colorado; find him at timjacobsflyfishing.com

Stackpole Books

May 2023 • 192 pages

B&W illustrations, 123 colour illustrations, 8 text boxes

Part of the Stackpole Fly Fishing Essentials series

Hardback

0 8117

eBook

$34.95

£27.00

Muhammad Ali A Humanitarian Life

By Margueritte Shelton Foreword by Norman Giller

Muhammad Ali is arguably the greatest boxer of all-time. Yet, outside his record-breaking achievements in the ring, he was admired by millions of people worldwide for his compassionate heart and altruistic endeavors. Throughout his life, Ali demonstrated an unwavering commitment to advancing justice and freedom that should never be forgotten.

In Muhammad Ali: A Humanitarian Life, Margueritte Shelton shows how the “People’s Champion” transformed his success in the boxing ring into a powerful platform to further his fight against inequality, injustice, and oppressive politics. Ali ascended to greatness during a violent decade of protests and revolutionary movements, and Shelton vividly portrays the personal journey of this bold young dreamer as he pursued athletic glory to become a champion in the ring and a champion for human rights.

Margueritte Shelton is a new voice in the non-fiction genre. As an avid volunteer invested in humanitarian work, she was named an honorary member of the National Museum of the American Indian for her contributions. She participated in the international hunger relief organization “Rise Against Hunger,” the Longest Walk in Washington, DC, and more. She is a member of the Muhammad Ali Center and supports their humanitarian awards events in Louisville, Kentucky.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2033 272 pages 22 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7154 7 $34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7155 4 $32.00 / £25.00

Outward Bound Canoeing Handbook

Third Edition

By Johnny Molloy

Outward Bound Canoeing Handbook is a handy, illustrated resource on the fundamentals of canoeing, including solid, sound instruction on all aspects of canoeing, from types of canoes to equipment choices, paddle and on-thewater techniques, safety tips, and more. In partnership with outdoor leader Outward Bound, this book combines expert instruction with practical tips to ensure a fun and a satisfying canoe trip for your next outdoor adventure.

Outward Bound is the premier provider of experiencebased outdoor leadership programs for teens, adults and professionals. Outward Bound is a non-profit educational organization and expedition school that serves people of all ages and backgrounds through active learning expeditions that inspire character development, selfdiscovery and service both in and out of the classroom. Outward Bound excels in curricula developed for struggling teens, groups with specific health, social or educational needs and business and professional organizations.

Johnny Molloy is an adventurer and writer for various magazines, websites, and newspapers. He has written over 50 books on hiking, camping, paddling, regional activities, and outdoor ad-venture.

Falcon Guides

May 2023

136 pages

96 colour illustrations

Part of the Outward Bound series

Paperback

978 1 4930 5308 7

$18.95 / £14.99

Raising Young Athletes

Parenting Your Children to Victory in Sports and Life

By Jim Taylor, PhD

Sports are an amazing environment in which to raise children. The benefits they gain from athletic participation are many, including physical, personal, and social. Yet, there is also a dark side to today’s youth sports culture, as an emphasis on winning has made what was once fun become a burden for many young athletes. As a result, parents can’t always be certain their children’s athletic involvement will be safe and enjoyable.

In Raising Young Athletes: Parenting Your Children to Victory in Sports and Life, Dr. Jim Taylor—an internationally recognized authority on sport psychology, child development, and parenting—offers a guiding hand to help parents ensure their children’s sports participation encourages positive attitudes and promotes healthy developments as they move toward adulthood. The role of parents in shaping their children’s sports experience has never been more important, and Dr. Taylor shows parents how to send the right messages to their young athletes with clear and practical advice.

Jim Taylor, PhD, is internationally recognized for his work in the psychology of sport and parenting. He has worked with junior elite, collegiate, Olympic, and professional athletes for more than thirty years. Taylor is a former world-ranked alpine ski racer, second-degree black belt in karate, marathon runner, and Ironman triathlete. Dr. Taylor is the author of many books, including the Prime Sport series, Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child, and Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals. You can learn more about his work at drjimtaylor.com

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023

182 pages

Hardback

9781538108116

$37.00 / £28.00

Paperback

978 1 5381 7550 7

$20.00 / £14.95

eBook

978 1 538 10812 3

$35.00 / £27.00

The Black Athlete Revolt

The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

By Shaun M. Anderson Foreword by Len Elmore

In the age of social media, athletes have a powerful influence like never before. Many Black athletes have used that power in positive ways, galvanizing their platforms to create impactful educational opportunities, donate to Black social causes, and raise political awareness on important issues.

In The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter, Shaun M. Anderson examines the Black athlete’s rise in advocating for social justice and how today’s athletes have moved beyond protesting to create substantial change for Black Americans. Anderson reflects on the history and evolution of Black athlete activism, breaking down its importance during the civil rights movement, the commodification of athletes during the 1990s, and how twenty-first century athletes have utilized their wealth and influence to create lasting societal change in the age of #BlackLivesMatter.

With fascinating portraits of notable individuals in the history of Black activism, as well as insights from athletes and allies who discuss the future of athlete activism, The Black Athlete Revolt reveals the ever-evolving and crucial role of Black athletes beyond the world of sports.

Shaun M. Anderson, PhD, is the founder and president of CSR Global Consulting, LLC, a firm dedicated to helping sport organizations develop strategic plans to effectively communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. An internationally recognized scholar and a prominent voice discussing sport and social change, his work and commentary has been featured in the AtlantaJournal Constitution, Huffington Post, World Policy Institute, Washington Times, Black Enterprise Magazine, and others. He lives just outside Los Angeles, CA.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2023 192 pages

1 B&W illustration

Hardback

978 1 5381 5324 6

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 5325 3

$32.00 / £25.00

When Women Stood

The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World

By Alexandra Allred

When Women Stood is an unapologetically new sport and social history that unveils the often-overlooked chronicle of women and their fight for equality.

From early Amazons to modern-day athletes, women have been fighting for their rightful place in the world. The history of these female athletes, whether warriors on the battlefield or competitors in the sports arena, has often been neglected, yet it is through sports that women have changed society, gaining entry into education, travel, politics, and more.

When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports is an eye-opening chronicle of the amazing women who refused to accept the status quo and fought for something better for themselves and for those who would follow. Featuring exclusive insight from athletes such as Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Kathrine Switzer, Nancy Lieberman, Briana Scurry, and Nancy HogsheadMaker, this book includes the stories of female football players, Olympic athletes, powerlifters, and soccer stars, of historians, archeologists, crusaders, and scientists.

Alexandra Allred is a former professional athlete who made sports history when she won the first-ever U.S. Women’s Bobsled Championship when she was over four months pregnant. A former fighter and fourth degree black belt, Allred has been teaching martial arts, selfdefense and mainstream fitness classes for over 25 years. She is the author of the award-winning book Atta Girl! A Celebration of Women in Sport. Today, she is an adjunct professor and researcher of sports and exercise science. For more, please visit alexandraallred.com

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2023

360 pages 30 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7134 9

$36.00 / £28.00

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978 1 5381 7135 6

$34.00 / £26.00

The Australian Gamble Organized Crime Down Under

By Paul Bleakley

The Australian Gamble explores Rooklyn’s role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history. It is a story that begins overseas, with the origins of the Bally poker machine company — a scandal-prone business with a name that was fated to be forever linked with Rooklyn’s.

From humble origins in Al Capone’s Chicago, Bally rode the amusement game wave to become one of the biggest players in the gaming industry worldwide … a status that made it an attractive target for takeover by America’s Italian Mafia. Run out of Cuba on the heels of Castro’s communist revolution, ‘The Families’ were looking for new opportunities to expand their gaming ambitions, both in the desert mecca Las Vegas and (more quietly) through clandestinely sinking their hooks into a financially-struggling Bally. Meanwhile, far away in Australia, Bally distributor Jack Rooklyn looked to continue his rise in the often-fatal world of 1960s Sydney Noir.

Paul Bleakley is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven, with expertise in the histories of crime and policing in Australia. A native Queenslander, Paul completed his doctoral studies at the University of New England where he traced the impact of police corruption in his home state from the 1950s to 1990s. For his doctoral studies, Paul was awarded a research scholarship by the Australian federal government in recognition of the contribution his work made to Australian policing history.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2023

245 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7708 2

$32.00 / £25.00

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978 1 5381 7709 9 $30.00 / £22.99

“Slot machines (las vegas)” by Antoine Taveneaux is licenses under CC BY-SA 3.0.

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In Search of the Blonde Tigress

The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman

By Silvia Pettem Foreword by Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the “blonde tigress” and “the most dangerous woman alive.” But a closer look at her life shows that she was an otherwise-ordinary woman who got caught up in a Chicago crime spree, then was convicted as an accomplice to murder and sent to prison. In 1940, Eleanor escaped and managed to live out her life as America’s longest-running female fugitive.

In Search of the Blonde Tigress: The Untold Story of Eleanor Jarman sets the mystery and intrigue of this wanted woman into historic context. It also includes her family’s plea, in 1993, for Eleanor to come forward and apply for clemency. Most revealing at the time was Eleanor’s alias. With that information (and given the fact that Eleanor, born in 1901, is obviously deceased), the author documents her search for Eleanor’s remains—right up to a visit to her likely grave.

Silvia Pettem is a Colorado-based historical researcher, writer, and author. After local history research led her to the identification of a decades-old murder victim, Pettem switched from writing about history to the genre of true crime. Pettem’s other books that relate to cold case investigations include Someone’s Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe (2009); Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases (2013); The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families (2017); and Cold Case Chronicles: Mysteries, Murders, and the Missing (2021). Pettem lives with her husband and two cats in the mountains west of Boulder, where she continues her research and writing. She can be reached through her website, silviapettem.com

Lyons Press

July 2023 200 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 6863 0

$29.95 / £22.99

Jukebox Empire

The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream

By David Rabinovitch

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Jukebox Empire follows the many twists and turns in one man’s pursuit of the American dream, from a self-taught electronics genius to money launderer for the mob. This book exposes how the jukebox industry became the vertically integrated business model for organized crime at a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen throughout the country. Anyone can afford a nickel for a song and every week the jukeboxes generate millions of dollars in cash, untaxed income, that needed to be laundered. Beneath this wholesome veneer lies a seamy underworld of juke joints, operators’ routes, smoke-filled showrooms, and violence.

David Rabinovitch reveals the details of the mob’s international money-laundering scheme to finance running guns to Cuba. The investigation pieces together an epic puzzle that begins in Chicago with the invention of a jukebox and spans the casinos of Havana and the financial giants of Europe, leading to what the FBI called ‘the biggest bank robbery in the world.’

David Rabinovitch is a winner of the EMMY, Peabody, and Gemini awards. Significant films include the documentary Politics of Poison, which was screened for a Congressional committee and resulted in the suspension of the domestic use of the chemicals Agent Orange, and the mini-series Secret Files of the Inquisition, which dramatized a thousand years of intolerance by the Catholic Church, based on newly accessed archival files. David hails from the town of Morden, Manitoba.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

216 pages 15 B&W illustrations

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978 1 5381 7259 9

$34.00 / £26.00

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978 1 4930 6864 7

$28.50 / £21.99

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Stan Lee

The Man Behind Marvel

By Bob Batchelor

In Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel, Bob Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at this iconic visionary, a man who created (with talented artists) many of history’s most legendary characters. In this energetic and entertaining biography, Batchelor explores how Lee capitalized on natural talent and hard work to become the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager. After toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations of readers. Marvel superheroes became a central part of pop culture, from collecting comics to innovative merchandising, from superhero action figures to the ever-present Spider-Man lunchbox.

Batchelor examines many of Lee’s most beloved works, including the 1960s comics that transformed Marvel from a second-rate company to a legendary publisher. This book reveals the risks Lee took to bring the characters to life and Lee’s tireless efforts to make comic books and superheroes part of mainstream culture for more than fifty years.

Bob Batchelor is an award-winning cultural historian and biographer and author of more than a dozen books. His work has been featured in Time, the New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, LitHub, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times

Rowman & Littlefield

December 2018 264 pages Paperback 978 1 5381 2843 5 $16.95 / £12.95

Previously publihsed as hardback 978 1 4422 7781 6 $22.95 / £17.95

eBook 978 1 6338 8825 8 $16.00 / £11.95

The Millionaire Next Door

The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By Thomas J. Stanley PhD and William D. Danko PhD, foreword by Sarah Stanley Fallaw PhD

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“Why aren’t I as wealthy as I should be?” Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence.

The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family’s wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America’s rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue they live next door.

Thomas J. Stanley was an author, lecturer, and researcher who started studying the affluent in 1973. He died in 2015.

William D. Danko is professor emeritus at the School of Business, State University of New York at Albany.

Taylor Trade Publishing

2016 272 pages

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978 1 6307 6250 6

$22.95 / £17.95

The Next Millionaire Next Door

Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth

By Thomas J. Stanley PhD and Sarah Stanley Fallaw PhD

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Is the millionaire next door still out there today? The latest research from Dr. Thomas J. Stanley and his daughter, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw, confirms that, yes, the millionaire next door is alive and well. And he’s achieving his financial objectives much the same way he always has: by living below his means, being a contrarian in a maelstrom of hyper-consumption, and being disciplined in reaching his financial goals.

The book examines wealth in America 20 years after Dr. Stanley’s groundbreaking work on self-made affluence. While a new generation of household financial managers are being inundated with the proliferation financial advice, The Next Millionaire Next Door provides readers with an analysis of what it takes to achieve wealth with data-based conclusions and evidence from those who have built wealth on their own over the last two decades. In this current work, the authors detail how specific decisions, behaviors, and characteristics align with the discipline of wealth building, covering areas such as consumption, budgeting, careers, investing, and financial management in general. Through case studies, survey research, and a careful examination of quantitative studies of wealth, the authors illustrate what it takes to achieve financial success today, regardless of market conditions or rising costs.

Thomas J. Stanley was an author, lecturer, and researcher who started studying the affluent in 1973. He died in 2015.

William D. Danko is professor emeritus at the School of Business, State University of New York at Albany.

Lyons Press 2021 272 pages

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978 1 4930 5275 2 $16.95 / £12.95

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978 1 4930 3536 6 $16.00 / £11.95

The Origins of the Modern World

A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, Fourth Edition

By Robert B. Marks

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This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including their impacts on the environment. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, increasing inequality within the wealthiest industrialized countries, and an escape from the environmental constraints of the “biological old regime.”

Robert B. Marks is professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at Whittier College.

Rowman & Littlefield

2019 320 pages

Part of the World Social Change series

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978 1 5381 2703 2

$34.00 / £26.00

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978 1 5381 2702 5

$93.00 / £72.00

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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants

Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By Garrett Ryan Rights sold:

Why didn’t the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery?

In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life.

Garrett Ryan earned his PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan. Besides teaching at several universities and authoring a series of academic works, he has brought ancient history to life for hundreds of thousands of readers through his contributions to online forums and his website toldinstone.com

Prometheus 2022 288 pages Paperback 978 1 6338 8702 2 $21.95 / £16.95

eBook 978 1 6338 8703 9 $20.50 / £15.95

Power & Choice

An Introduction to Political Science

By W. Phillips Shively

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W. Phillips Shively’s Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics, both domestic and international, through the use of multiple comparative perspectives and theoretical approaches. The major theme reflected in the title is based on Shively’s definition of politics as the making of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power. Using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice provides undergraduate students with a clear and engaging introduction to political philosophy, comparative legal systems, and international politics.

W. Phillips Shively is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Craft of Political Research, tenth edition (2017), as well as numerous articles on elections and methods of analysis.

Rowman & Littlefield

2018

464 pages Paperback 978 1 5381 1412 4 $89.00 / £68.00

eBook 978 1 5381 1413 1 $84.50 / £65.00

The History of the Popes

From Peter to the Present

By John W. O’Malley, SJ

A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus’ chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the popes have been key players in virtually all of the great dramas of the western world in the last two thousand years. Rather than describe each pope one by one, this engaging narrative focuses on the popes that shaped pivotal moments in both church and world history.

John W. O’Malley, S.J., is a Roman Catholic priest and professor of religion at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C., and is the author of numerous books, including What Happened at Vatican II and Four Cultures of the West.

Sheed & Ward

2011 • 368 pages

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978 1 5805 1228 2 • $19.95 / £14.95

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978 1 5805 1227 5 • $26.95 / £20.95

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978 1 5805 1229 9 • $18.99 / £14.95

When Paris Sizzled

The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends

By Mary McAuliffe

When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.

Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution. She has traveled extensively in France, and for many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes

Rowman & Littlefield

2019 • 344 pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 2180 1 • $19.95 / £14.95

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978 1 4422 5332 2 • $29.95 / £22.95

eBook 978 1 4422 5333 9 • $19.00 / £14.95

Racism without Racists

Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Sixth Edition

By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality and makes clear that color-blind racism is as insidious now as ever. The sixth edition includes new material on systemic racism and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

Rowman & Littlefield

2022 • 392 pages

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978 1 5381 5141 9 $45.00 / £35.00

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978 1 5381 5140 2 $90.00 / £69.00

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978 1 5381 5142 6 $42.50 / £33.00

Recursivity and Contingency

By Yuk Hui

This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom.

Yuk Hui is the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects and The Question Concerning Technology in China

Rowman & Littlefield

2019 • 336 pages

Part of the Media Philosophy series

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978 1 7866 0053 0

$42.00 / £32.00

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978 1 7866 0052 3 $126.00 / £97.00

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978 1 7866 0054 7

$39.50 / £30.00

Nihilism and Technology

By Nolen Gertz

This investigation is carried out by using Nietzsche’s philosophy of nihilism in order to explore the ways in which our values mediate how we design technologies and how we use technologies. Examining our technological practices reveals how our nihilism and our technologies have become intertwined, creating a world of techno-hypnosis, data-driven activity, pleasure economics, herd networking, and orgies of clicking.

Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente.

Rowman & Littlefield

July 2022 • 298 pages

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978 1 7866 0703 4

$37.00 / £28.00

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978 1 7866 0702 7

$89.00 / £68.00

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978 1 7866 0704 1

$35.00 / £27.00

Dear Professor Einstein

Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children

Edited by Alice Calaprice

This enchanting book displays a small sampling of the amusing, touching, and sometimes precocious letters sent to Albert Einstein by children from around the world, and his often witty and very considerate responses. Alice Calaprice has compiled a delightful and charming collection of more than 60 letters, most never published before, from children to perhaps the greatest scientist of all time. Enhancing this correspondence are numerous photographs showing Einstein amid children, wearing an Indian headdress, carrying a puppet of himself, donning furry slippers, among many other wonderful pictures. They reveal the intimate human side of the great public persona, a man who, though he spent his days contemplating the impersonal abstractions of mathematics and physics, was very fond of children and enjoyed being in their company.

Prometheus

2003 • 200 pages

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978 1 5910 2015 8 • $25.99 / £19.95

eBook 978 1 6159 2276 5 • $24.50 / £18.95

Einstein’s Brainchild Relativity Made Relatively Easy!

By Barry R. Parker, illustrated by Lori Scoffield-Beer

Physicist and popular science writer Barry Parker speaks to the broadest possible audience in bringing Einstein’s theories to life. While tracing the story of Einstein’s life, Parker seizes on the crucial groundbreaking theories that Einstein envisioned. Not since Isaac Newton had anyone conceived the universe in such a revolutionary, startling new way. Through Parker’s eloquence, eye for detail, and clever use of Einsteinian cartoons and vivid illustrations, he enables the reader to see and appreciate for perhaps the first time the full meaning and scope of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity.

Prometheus

2007 • 280 pages

Paperback

978 1 5910 2522 1 • $18.99 / £14.95

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978 1 5739 2857 1 • $28.99 / £21.95

eBook 978 1 6159 2368 7 • $18.00 / £13.95

Leonardo’s Brain

Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius

By Leonard Shlain

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Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.

Shlain asserts that Leonardo’s genius came from a unique creative ability that allowed him to understand and excel in a wide range of fields. From here Shlain jumps off and discusses the history of and current research on human creativity that involves different modes of thinking and neuroscience. The author also boldly speculates on whether or not the qualities of Leonardo’s brain and his creativity presage the future evolution of the human species.

Leonard Shlain was a best-selling author and San Francisco surgeon. Admired among artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists and educators, Shlain authored three best-selling books: Art & Physics, Alphabet vs. The Goddess and Sex, and Time and Power

Lyons Press 2015 240 pages

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978 1 4930 0939 8

$18.95 / £14.95

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978 1 4930 1557 3

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Origins of Form

The Shape of Natural and Man-made Things— Why They Came to Be the Way They Are and How They Change

By Christopher Williams Rights sold:

Origins of Form is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree? Why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small one? What is the similarity between a human rib cage and an airplane or a bison and a cantilevered bridge? How might we plan for things to improve as they are used instead of wearing out? The author has chosen eight criteria that constitute the major influences on three-dimensional form. These criteria comprise the eight chapters of the book: each looks at form from entirely different viewpoints. The products of both nature and man are examined and compared.

Christopher Williams has lectured on and written many articles about the theory of design, and he has taught design and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Cleveland Art Institute; the University of Alberta in Canada; and in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University.

Taylor Trade Publishing 2013 144 pages Paperback

978 1 5897 9808 3

$19.95 / £14.95

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978 1 5897 9936 3

$9.99 / £7.95

Math Makers

The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians

By Alfred S. Posamentier and Christian Spreitzer

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Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers to life while making their contributions understandable to readers with little math background. Among the fascinating characters profiled are Isaac Newton (1642–1727), the founder of classical physics and infinitesimal calculus—he frequently quarreled with fellow scientists and was obsessed by alchemy and arcane Bible interpretation; Sophie Germain (1776–1831), who studied secretly at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, using the name of a previously enrolled male student—she is remembered for her work on Fermat’s Last Theorem and on elasticity theory; Emmy Noether (1882–1935), whom Albert Einstein described as the most important woman in the history of mathematics—she made important contributions to abstract algebra and in physics she clarified the connection between conservation laws and symmetry.

Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education.

Christian Spreitzer is a co-author of The Mathematics of Everyday Life and The Joy of Mathematics.

Prometheus 2020 440 pages Paperback

978-1-63388-520-2

$25.00 / £18.95

eBook 978-1-63388-521-9

$23.50 / £17.95

The Joy of Chemistry

The Amazing Science of Familiar Things

By Cathy Cobb and Monty Fetterolf

This book challenges the perception of chemistry as too difficult to bother with and too clinical to be any fun. Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf, both professional chemists and experienced educators, introduce readers to the magic, elegance, and, yes, joy of chemistry. From the fascination of fall foliage and fireworks, to the functioning of smoke detectors and computers, to the fundamentals of digestion (as when good pizza goes bad!), the authors illustrate the concepts of chemistry in terms of everyday experience, using familiar materials.

Prometheus

2010 • 400 pages

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978 1 5910 2771 3

$19.00 / £14.95

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978 1 6159 2019 8 $18.00 / £13.95

The Joy of Physics

By Arthur W. Wiggins, illustrated by Sidney Harris

For those who have always wanted to discover the joy of physics, this is the book that they’ve been waiting for. Many people remember their struggles with physics in high school and have wished for the right opportunity to gain an appreciation of this significant area of knowledge. Now is their chance not only to understand physics, but to do physics. The author provides the general reader with a funfilled, entertaining, and truly educational tour of this allimportant science.

Prometheus

2011 • 472 pages

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978 1 6161 4453 1 $21.00 / £15.95

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The Joy of Geometry

By Alfred S. Posamentier

A veteran math educator reveals the hidden fascinations of geometry and why this staple of math education is important. Geometry is more than axioms, postulates, theorems, and proofs. It’s the science of beautiful and extraordinary geometric relationships. This book will awaken readers to the appeal of geometry by placing the focus squarely on geometry’s visually compelling features and intrinsic elegance.

Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education.

Prometheus

September 2020 • 162 pages

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978 1 6338 8586 8 $18.95 / £14.95

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978 1 6338 8587 5 $18.00 / £13.95

The Primitive Edge of Experience

By Thomas H. Ogden

“In this magnificent book, Ogden illuminates the darkest recesses of the human psyche with his brilliant formulation of the autistic-contiguous position. He also provides refreshing new perspectives on the Oedipus complex and female psychology. With this impressive contribution, Thomas Ogden has come into his own as one of the most creative and original psychoanalytic thinkers of our time.” —Glen Gabbard

Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., is a graduate of Amherst College, the Yale School of Medicine, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

Jason Aronson, Inc. 1993 • 254 pages

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978 0 8766 8290 6 • $74.00 / £57.00

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978 0 7657 0738 3 • $70.00 / £54.00

The Matrix of the Mind Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

By Thomas H. Ogden

“Ogden re-interprets Klein to illuminate Freudian instinct theory, using the contributions of Bion, Fairbairn, and particularly Winnicott–British object relations theorists–to clarify and extend aspects of their work and to move towards an impressive exposition of the way in which the human mind develops.”—Pamela M. Ashurst, The British Journal of Psychiatry

Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., is a graduate of Amherst College, the Yale School of Medicine, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

Jason Aronson, Inc.

July 2022 • 286 pages

Part of the Empowering You series

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978 1 5682 1051 3 • $74.00 / £57.00

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978 1 4616 3157 6 • $66.50 / £51.00

The Craft of Intelligence

America’s Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World

By Allen Dulles

This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles’s incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and America’s premier intelligence officer. Dulles was a high-ranking officer of the CIA’s predecessor—the Office of Strategic Services—and was present at the inception of the CIA, where he served eight of his ten years there as director. Here he sums up what he learned about intelligence from nearly a half-century of experience in foreign affairs.

Allen W. Dulles, one of the most important figures in the history of American intelligence, served under eight U.S. presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy.

Lyons Press

2016

300 pages

Hardback

eBook

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite Updated and Revised

By David Disalvo

This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains “happy” leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which cloud our judgment and muddle our decision making. Science writer David DiSalvo presents evidence from evolutionary and social psychology, cognitive science, neurology, and even marketing and economics. And he interviews many of the top thinkers in psychology and neuroscience today. From this research-based platform, DiSalvo draws out insights that we can use to identify our brains’ foibles and turn our awareness into edifying action.

David DiSalvo is a science writer and public education specialist who writes about the intersection of science, technology and culture.

Prometheus

2018 • 355 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8349

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Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist

How to End the Drama and Get On with Life

By Margalis Fjelstad

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Here, Margalis Fjelstad describes how people get into a Caretaker role with a Borderline or Narcissist, and how they can get out. Caretakers give up their sense of self to become who and what the Borderline or Narcissist needs them to be. This compromises the Caretaker’s self-esteem, distorts their thinking processes, and locks them into a Victim-Persecutor-Rescuer pattern with the Borderline or Narcissist. The book looks at the underlying rules and expectations in these relationships and shows Caretaker’s how to move themselves out of these rigid interactions and into a healthier, more productive, and positive lifestyle—with or without the Borderline/Narcissistic partner or family member. It describes how to get out of destructive interactions with the Borderline or Narcissist and how to take new, more effective actions to focus on personal wants, needs, and life goals while allowing the Borderline or Narcissist to take care of themselves. It presents a realistic, yet compassionate, attitude toward the self-destructive nature of these relationships, and gives real life examples of how individuals have let go of their Caretaker behaviors with creative and effective solutions.

Margalis Fjelstad, PhD, LMFT, has a private psychotherapy practice in Ft. Collins, CO, specializing in work with clients who are in relationship to someone who has borderline or narcissistic personality disorder, and she facilitates groups on Caretaker recovery.

Rowman & Littlefield

2014 232 pages

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978 1 4422 3832 9

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978 1 4422 2019 5

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Before I Go

Letters to Our Children about What Really Matters

By Peter Kreeft

In Before I Go, Kreeft presents lessons learned about life, faith, morality, priorities, marriage, and more, as his legacy to his children—and to readers. He shares his practical wisdom, as well as his concern for truth and goodness, in a warm and readable way.

Peter Kreeft has been featured on the PBS series “The Question of God.” He is professor of philosophy at Boston College and lives in West Newton, Massachusetts.

Sheed & Ward

2008 • 264 pages

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978 1 5805 1224 4 • $18.95 / £14.95

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978 1 5805 1230 5 • $17.99 / £13.95

The Father Factor

How Your Father’s Legacy Impacts Your Career

By Stephen B. Poulter Ph.D

The father factor is the conscious understanding, awareness, and appreciation of the critical influence that your father had, still has, or could have in your career development and future potential. Noting that the father-son or father-daughter relationship is one of the least understood relationships in adult life, Dr. Poulter helps you become acutely aware of the immeasurable impact (negative or positive) that your father has on your ability to relate to other people. From this recognition you will also learn to move past the career roadblocks that frequently stem from the lingering effects of your father’s influence.

Prometheus

2006 • 239 pages

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978 1 5910 2410 1 • $18.99 / £14.95

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978 1 6159 2139 3 • $18.00 / £13.95

Everyday Bias

Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives, Updated Edition

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To be human is to be biased. From this simple truth, nationally recognized diversity expert Howard J. Ross explores the biases we each carry within us. Incorporating anecdotes from today’s headlines alongside case studies from over 30 years of diversity consulting, Ross helps readers understand how unconscious bias impacts our day-to-day lives and, particularly, our daily work lives. And, he answers the question: “Is there anything we can do about it?” by providing examples of behaviors that the reader can engage in to disengage the impact of their own biases. Originally published in 2014, the updated edition draws new examples from today’s headlines such as the #me too Movement, police shootings, and bias in the ever more partisan Trump era.

Howard J. Ross, a lifelong social justice advocate and founding partner of the nationally recognized diversity consulting firm Cook Ross, Inc., is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance (2011), Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Bias in our Everyday Lives and Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart (Barrett Koehler, 2018).

Rowman & Littlefield 2020 214 pages

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978 1 4422 5865 5

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The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need Twenty-First-Century Edition

By Joanna Martine Woolfolk

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This book provides the compatibility between every sign (144 combinations) and dispenses advice about health, money, lifestyle, and romance, while also offering advice on dealing with the negative aspects of each sign. This edition also takes an even closer look at the inner life of the individual and the emotional needs that motivate a person. Chapters include a look back on the history and mythology of astrology as well as the newest developments in astronomy. This is an indispensable source book for unlocking the mysteries of the cosmos through the twenty-first century and beyond.

Joanna Martine Woolfolk has had a long career as an author, columnist, lecturer, and counselor. She has written the monthly horoscope for numerous magazines in the United States, Europe, and Latin America—among them Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook, Self, YM, House Beautiful and StarScrollInternational

Taylor Trade Publishing 2013 560 pages Paperback 978 1 5897 9653 9 $19.95 / £14.95

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Stella Adler

The Art of Acting

By Howard Kissel

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Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century’s greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book.

Applause 2001 288 pages Hardback 978 1 5578 3373 0 $29.99 / £22.95

Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?

By Carmela LaVigna Coyle, illustrated by Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon

At the heart of Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? lives an energetic, spirited, and contemporary child who has lots of important questions for her mom. Do princesses ride tricycles, climb trees, do chores, or have to eat the crusts of their bread? The mother’s voice is timelessly reassuring as she answers her daughter’s questions and advises her that being like a princess has to do with what we are on the inside.

Do Princesses Have Best Friends Forever?

By Carmela LaVigna Coyle, illustrated by Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon

Your favorite princess has met her match! Join in the fun as two little girls celebrate their friendship by playing dress up, making forts, stomping in the mud, and generally doing all the things that best friends do. Together they learn that being a princess is about more than just crowns and dress up. It’s about being yourself and sharing that with a friend.

Carmela LaVigna Coyle’s first book, Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?, is enjoyed by little princesses everywhere and has been succeeded by four other princess books.

Mike Gordon’s award-winning illustrations span fiction, non-fiction, entertainment, and educational books worldwide. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Carl Gordon and his father have been a team since 1999. Mike Gordon creates the line art illustrations, and the color is computer generated by Carl. He lives in Hove, England.

Taylor Trade Publishing

2016

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