Rights Guide Spring 2023

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Hello, Norma Jeane

The Marilyn Monroe You Didn’t Know

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, Elisa Jordan 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 co-found the Los Angeles Tour Guides Association. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

This accessible and comprehensive guide reveals the human being behind the legend of cinema’s brightest star.

Applause

January 2024

360 pages

65 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 5395 7

eBook

978 1 4930 5396 4

Biography & Autobiography •

Entertainment & Performing Arts

Cover coming soon

Photo by pure julia on Unsplash.

Rod Stewart

The Classic Years

By Sean Egan

For some, Rod Stewart embodies all of the conceit and narcissism that susceptible egos are prone to once they make it big in the music industry. Even if that were true, however, that wouldn’t change the fact that he is responsible for some of the greatest recordings ever made. A great number of those songs were recorded for the Mercury label between 1969 and 1975, spread across Stewart’s solo output as well as his side gig as front man for the band Faces. Even when the records were likable more often than they were classic, Stewart was still one of the greatest live attractions in the world, whether on his own or with the band.

Rod Stewart: The Classic Years gives an unprecedented in-depth look at this crucial phase of Stewart’s career. Author Sean Egan brings together interviews with musicians Mick Waller, Pete Sears, and Ray Jackson, engineer Mike Bobak, manager Billy Gaff, Stewart’s then-girlfriend and muse Dee Harrington, his publicist Jonathan Rowlands, and many other key individuals in orbit around Stewart, including a brand-new interview with the man himself for a first-hand account of the Mercury years. Egan offers a striking portrait of big egos, plenty of decadence, and solid-gold rock ‘n’ roll amidst the long post-‘60s hangover.

Sean Egan has contributed to Billboard, Classic Rock, Reader’s Digest, Record Collector, Total Film, Uncut, RollingStone.com, and more. He has written or edited two dozen books, including works on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Clash. His 2002 book Jimi Hendrix and the Making of “Are You Experienced” was nominated for an Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

An unprecedented, in-depth look at a crucial stage in Rod Stewart’s career, recording for the Mercury label from 1969 to 1975.

Backbeat

October 2023

232 pages

25 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 6822 7

eBook

978 1 4930 7348 1

Biography & Autobiography • Music

Running Up That Hill

50 Visions of Kate Bush

By Tom Doyle

Kate Bush is the subject of murmured legend and one of the most distinctive musicians of the modern era. Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush is a multifaceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles. Featuring details from the author’s one-onone conversations with Kate as well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos, and concerts, this artful, candid, and often brutally funny portrait introduces a refreshingly real Kate Bush.

Tom Doyle also intertwines vivid reconstructions of transformative moments in her career and insights from the friends and collaborators closest to her, including her photographer brother John Carder Bush and fellow artists David Gilmour, John Lydon, and Youth. With Netflix’s Stranger Things inspiring a new generation of fans, Kate Bush has made an incredible resurgence in popularity and has broken new records.

Tom Doyle is a highly acclaimed music journalist and author. As a journalist and interviewer, his work has appeared in Mojo, Billboard, Q, Sound On Sound, The Guardian and The Times. Over the years, he has been responsible for key magazine profiles of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Yoko Ono, Keith Richards, U2, Madonna, Kate Bush, and R.E.M., among many other artists. He lives in London, England.

“Praiseworthy.”—The Guardian

Long-term Kate Bush devotees and new teenage fans won over by Stranger Things will both find enlightenment in Tom Doyle’s prismastic portrait of the elusive artist.—The Times

Approaching its subject from inspired angles [...] probably the best [Kate] Bush book to date.—Record Collector

A vibrant and comprehensive reexamination of the artist and her many creative landmarks.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

368 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8116 4

eBook

978 1 5381 8117 1

Biography & Autobiography • Music

Falling into Place

A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer

By Thomas Swick, foreword by Pico Iyer

Working as a feature writer in 1976, Thomas Swick falls in love with a visiting Polish student named Haina and soon moves with her to Warsaw. The next decade sees Thomas living in Poland, Greece, and New York. He declines an invitation to be a Polish informer, sees John Paul II embolden the masses on his first trip back to his homeland since becoming pope, witnesses the rise of Solidarity and the imposition of martial law in Poland, and walks with thousands of Poles on the pilgrimage to Czestochowa, an annual religious rite that blossoms into a nine-day protest march. In 1989, he watches Hania vote in her country’s first free elections since pre-war independence. One month later, he lands his dream job as a travel writer.

Falling into Place is the personal story of a young man’s discovery of the world and his development as a travel writer. It is also a love story, as he and Hania overcome cultural differences, communist bureaucracy, and unhealthy separations. Intertwined with both is the story of the revolution that altered history. With the world’s attention once again turned to Eastern Europe, and a Cold War reality, this memoir can help readers better understand both.

Thomas Swick was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from 1989–2008, during which time the newspaper’s name appeared in the first nine editions of The Best American Travel Writing. He is the author of four books, and his work has appeared in US newspapers and magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. He lives with his wife Hania in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Visit his website at thomasswick.com.

A coming-of-age story tied to a historic moment, the defining one of the second half of the twentieth century in Eastern Europe.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2023

264 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8177 5

eBook

978 1 5381 8178 2

Biography & Autobiography • Personal Memoirs

Becoming Kerouac A Writer in His Time

By Paul Maher Jr.

A full portrait fusing Kerouac’s life and art to comprehend this misunderstood literary genius.

Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer’s embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals how Kerouac’s troubled interactions with alcohol, drugs, and spirituality stamped its importance on his autobiographical prose and poetry and created a singular language that united thoughts on the human condition and spiritual liberation. Becoming Kerouac affixes Kerouac’s life and art in a fresh way, giving readers a rich perspective from which to understand this literary genius.

Paul Maher Jr. is a freelance writer and editor. He is also author/editor of Kerouac: His Life and Work. He lives in Lubec, Maine with his wife, Caitlin.

Lady Ref Making Calls in a Man’s World

By Shannon Eastin, with Kate St. Vincent Vogl

The eye-opening and inspiring memoir of the first female official for the NFL.

Shannon Eastin was used to breaking new ground. As a teenager, she was a six-time national judo champion before women were allowed to compete in her sport in the Olympics. Years later, she was the first woman to referee Division I football. But when she set her sights on officiating in the NFL, nothing could fully prepare her for the obstacles that would be thrown in her way. In Lady Ref: Making Calls in a Man’s World, Eastin candidly shares the struggles she faced throughout her journey to the pros.

Shannon Eastin is the Director of Officials for the Canyon Athletic Association and mentors and trains officials in football and basketball through her company, SE Sports Officiating. Kate St. Vincent Vogl is an author and teaches at the Loft Literary Center.

Lyons Press

November 2023 • 272 pages

Hardback with dust jacket 978 1 5897 9687 4

eBook 978 1 5897 9688 1

Biography & Autobiography • Literary Figures

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023 • 224 pages • 18 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8159 1

eBook 978 1 5381 8160 7

Biography & Autobiography • Sports

Red Cloud and the Indian Trader

The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier

By Marilyn Dear Nelson and Chris Nelson

The story of a friendship during the most turbulent, violent, and controversial periods in the history of the American West.

This book is about two men caught up in the momentous events of the Wild West in the 1870s and 80s. It is a story about the opening-up of the West and the process of nation building, driven by great vision, sacrifice, and human endeavor. But it is also a story of mismanagement, avarice, corruption, bigotry, extreme violence, and injustice.

Marilyn Dear Nelson grew up with stories, artifacts, and stereotype images from her great-grandfather’s life in the Wild West. When she and her husband Chris retired to London they started to research his extraordinary life.

The Tenacious Nurse Nichols An Unsung Civil War Hero

By Eileen Yanoviak

The remarkable story of a Civil War nurse who escaped slavery.

Lucy Higgs Nichols’ story is remarkable: a journey from enslavement in Tennessee, to freedom and service among the ranks of the Union Army, and finally to independence and national recognition from the press, the Grand Army of the Republic, and even Congress. Despite considerable obstacles and unimaginable pain, Lucy achieved notoriety, nobility, and self-sufficiency in a post-Civil War era that often denied black Americans and women justice and opportunity.

Eileen Yanoviak is the Director of the Carnegie Center for Art and History in Indiana. She has worked in museums in the US-American south for more than fifteen years.

TwoDot

December 2023 • 320 pages • 66 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7390 0

eBook 978 1 4930 7391 7

Biography & Autobiography • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal

Lyons Press

February 2024 • 224 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 5333 9

Biography & Autobiography • Women

Rising Above Office Conflict

A Light-Hearted Guide for the Heavy-Hearted Employee

By Clare E Fowler

Are you being harassed? Micromanaged? Or just plain annoyed by your gum-chewing, music-playing, lunchstealing co-worker?

Rising Above Office Conflict is specifically geared towards women in the workplace and offers concrete suggestions for them to determine their boundaries and strategies for reinforcing those boundaries. Beginning with 15 common workplace personalities that you have likely encountered, experienced mediator Clare Fowler helps you to diagnose your situation, and provides empowering strategies for dealing with this situation and preventing future disputes. Managers, on the other hand, can learn how to design effective training, identify red flags, triage employee concerns, and build a healthy workplace.

Based on the latest research in the dispute resolution field, and decades of workplace mediation experience, this book provides a step-by-step guide for employees to resolve their own conflict.

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. She recently mediated for Google.

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

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

320 pages

12 illustrations

Part of the ACR Practitioner’s Guide series

Hardback

978 1 5381 7127 1

eBook

978 1 5381 7128 8

Business & Economics • Conflict

Resolution & Mediation

Million Dollar Passion

How to Turn Your Idea into a Multi-Million Dollar Business

By Victoria Wieck

South Korean-born entrepreneur Victoria Wieck is a unique American rags-to-riches success story. Her family arrived in America from South Korea when Victoria was only twelve years old. Victoria helped raise her four younger siblings while learning a new language, adapting to American culture, and pursuing her education. After leaving the corporate world, she started a jewelry company that survived and thrived amidst the catastrophic events of the last three decades and catapulted Victoria Wieck Jewelry to over $500 million in retail sales.

With Million Dollar Passion, Victoria pulls back the curtain on what it takes to start a business from the ground up and provides unique strategies she perfected through her own business journey. Wieck provides expert advice, insider tips, and her unique formula for success. Sprinkled throughout are in-the-trenches stories of how she clawed her way to the top. Honest and transparent, she identifies her mistakes and details how anyone can overcome and learn from them.

Million Dollar Passion is for any aspiring first-time or experienced entrepreneur, innovator, creative, or anyone with a dream of self-made business success. The book is written in a no-nonsense, street-smart style that is easily accessible with actionable takeaways for starting your business, building it, avoiding the pitfalls, and making it successful.

Victoria Wieck has more than three decades of industry experience designing and selling timeless, high-quality jewelry. Victoria works with a wide variety of worldwide retailers. She resides in San Diego, California with her husband Kevin. Her daughter, Rachel, is married and has followed her mother’s footsteps in the jewelry business.

Details all the tools necessary to innovate, scale, and dominate your chosen industry.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

December 2023

224 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8092 1

eBook

978 1 5381 8093 8

Business & Economics • Entrepreneurship

Cover coming soon

Photo by Heidi Fin on Unsplash.

Tonight! A Bedtime Book

By Jamie Siebrase, illustrated by Eric Parrish

Every night at bedtime, a little boy imagines he’s a different animal as his mother attempts to put him to bed. “I’m a baby lark,” he tells her. The mother then says to him that baby birds are called hatchlings and it is time for this hatchling to go to sleep. “But hatchlings don’t sleep in beds, they sleep in nests,” she says. And so it continues as the boy imagines he is a baby mountain lion, bighorn sheep, chipmunk, coyote, skunk, and moose. This is a twist on “goodnight” books that also teaches about animal families and their habitats.

Jamie Siebrase is a Denver journalist and the author of Hiking with Kids Colorado: 52 Great Hikes for Families When she’s not on an adventure, she’s writing about the outdoors and parenting for a variety of newspapers and magazines. She lives in Littleton, Colorado.

Illustrator Eric Parrish is a trained artist and scientific illustrator who has made a career of communicating science at the University of Colorado Boulder and Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He lives in Erie, Colorado.

A goodnight book that also teaches about animal families and their habitats.

Muddy Boots

January 2024

32 pages

31 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 7321 4

eBook 978 1 4930 7799 1

Juvenile Fiction • Animals / General

She Went to Space

Astronaut Jessica Meir

By Fran Hodgkins

In 2019, Maine native and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir participated in the first all-female spacewalk, an historic honor she had been preparing for since first grade, when she drew a picture of an astronaut standing on the moon. This book for young readers follows Meir’s career as a marine biologist, physiologist, and astronaut. Filled with stunning photography from earth and beyond, it is an inspiration for girls (and boys) enthralled by science and exploration.

Fran Hodgkins is the author of numerous children’s books, including Andre the Famous Harbor Seal, How People Learned to Fly, and Do Pufins Ever. . .? She lives in Rockport, Maine.

An inspring book about AmericanSwedish NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.

Down East Books

October 2023

32 pages

Hardback

978 1 6847 5072 6

Juvenile NonFiction • Biography & Autobiography / Women

Cover coming soon

Photo by Edgar on Unsplash.

Introverts

Insights and Tips for Teenagers

By Christie Cognevich

Many introverted teenagers experience tremendous pressure to exhibit extroverted traits, while their vivid inner lives and intelligences go overlooked. This book explores the difficulties introverts may face while also highlighting how they can harness their unique abilities and skills to find success socially, academically, and in their future careers.

Christie Cognevich is a writer and former educator from New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned a PhD in English literature from Louisiana State University and an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She taught literature, composition, and creative writing at the high school and university level for over a decade. Her other books are Depression: Insights and Tips for Teenagers (2020) and Dealing with Stress: Insights and Tips for Teenagers (2022).

A helpful resource for teenagers, parents, and teachers.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2023

180 pages

Paperback 978 1 5381 7730 3

eBook 978 1 5381 7731 0

Young Adult NonFiction • Inspirational & Personal Growth

Superhero Smart

Real-World Facts behind Comic Book Characters

By Paul Volponi

How does Superman’s strength allow him to squeeze a chunk of coal into a diamond? What’s the connection between Wonder Woman’s golden Lasso of Truth and a lie detector? Why does the Black Panther speak so many different languages? What does Natasha Romanova, a.k.a. Black Widow, teach us about the Cold War?

All this and more is explored in Superhero Smart: RealWorld Facts Behind Comic Book Characters, written by award-winning author Paul Volponi. In a fast-paced, free-flowing narrative, Volponi reveals that there is so much more to spandex-clad superheroes than meets the eye. To truly understand their origins and powers, one must also understand science, history, literature, and the incredible diversity of people and cultures around us. The exploits and powers of almost every comic book superhero or villain have a basis in reality, opening the door to learning about so many things from the past and present. And in learning more about these heroes and our world, we can help prepare for and create a better future, just as superheroes strive to do every day in the pages of our comic books.

Paul Volponi is an author, journalist and educator. His twelve novels for young adults have been the recipients of a dozen American Library Association honors and his novel Black and White was a winner of the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award. Volponi is also the author of three non-fiction books for young adults: That’s My Team: The History, Science, and Fun Behind Sports Teams’ Names; Streetball is Life: Lessons Earned on the Asphalt; and The Great G.O.A.T. Debate: The Best of the Best in Everything from Sports to Science. He lives in Flushing, New York.

A fascinating exploration of the science, history, literature, and culture behind comic book superheroes’ powers and origins.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

178 pages

33 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 6784 7

eBook 978 1 5381 6785 4

Young Adult NonFiction • Comics & Graphic Novels / General

Evangeline’s Journey A Novel

By Cathie Pelletier

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie” vividly tells the story of an Acadian girl as she searches for her lost love Gabriel amid the expulsion of the Acadians from maritime Canada and Maine.

Now, acclaimed novelist Cathie Pelletier, descended from Acadians herself, adapts the story and retells it in novel form for middle readers. The prose retelling makes the story more accessible, and teachable, for younger readers. At a time when immigration and migration are at the forefront of news cycles, the historic displacement of the Acadians deserves a deeper look.

Cathie Pelletier is the author of ten novels. She also writes under the pseudonym of K. C. McKinnon. The first McKinnon novel was translated into 19 languages and was a CBS TV film starring Jacqueline Bisset, Valerie Harper, and Eric Mabius. The second was translated into 10 languages and was a Hallmark Hall of Fame film starring Alicia Silverstone. Two of Cathie’s novels received notable mentions from the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the house in which she was born.

Cover coming soon

The story of a community caught in the rising tensions between Britain and France in 18th-century Canada.

Rights exclusion: Translation

Down East Books

January 2024

144 pages

Hardback

978 1 6847 5061 0

eBook

978 1 6847 5062 7

Juvenile Fiction • Historical / Canada / General

Inset of painting by Samuel Scott, British Vessels at Anchor in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, with a Rear-Admiral of the Red Firing a Salute , 1751, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

The Brontës of Haworth Moor

How the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the Most Revolutionary Novelists of Their Time

By Diane Browning

This fascinating work shares the intimate details of the Brontë sisters’ lives as unlikely trailblazers of women’s rights and reveals how their imagination, creativity, and passion helped them achieve their childhood dreams of being published authors.

Diane Browning is the author and illustrator of the Amelia Bloomer award-winning Signed, Abia Rose, which was named a Booklist Top Ten Title for Youth in both the art and history categories. Browning studied illustration with acclaimed artist Uri Shulevitz and at the Pasadena Art Center. She lives in Pasadena, California.

A must-have for every Brontë fan.

Rights exclusion: Translation, United Kingdom

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

208 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7231 5

eBook

978 1 5381 7232 2

Young Adult NonFiction • Biography & Autobiography / Women

Inspired to Action

How Young Changemakers Can Shape Their Communities and the World

By Jean Rawitt

While many teens, college students, and young professionals are passionate about social issues and want to help, enthusiasm alone is not enough to make a meaningful impact. But effective advocacy and activism can be learned, and with the right tools, achieving positive social change is possible.

Inspired to Action provides readers with the knowledge and tools they need to turn passion into effective action. From the basics of how civic engagement and political participation form the framework for lasting social change, to learning how non-profit organizations function and whether to consider starting one, this book gives young people the background they need to find their place in the world of social activism. With practical guidance regarding the importance of communication skills, community building, fundraising, and organizing, this book offers an accessible and lively grounding in what is needed to become an effective changemaker.

Featuring personal stories and advice from twelve successful young activists, thoughtful recommendations from seasoned professionals, and an extensive list of resources for further information, Inspired to Action is essential reading for any young person interested in the world of advocacy and activism.

Jean Rawitt is a freelance writer and consultant for the Department of Volunteer Services at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York). For ten years, she oversaw the hospital’s Varsity Volunteer Services, where she developed and coordinated a program for high-school students to volunteer on hospital inpatient units. Rawitt is the author of Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagers and other non-fiction books for young people.

For young readers eager to make a positive impact on the world.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

152 pages

21 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 6935 3

eBook

978 1 5381 6936 0

Young Adult NonFiction • Social Activism & Volunteering

Betty Boop

The Most Popular Female Comic Strip and Cartoon Character of All Time

By Peter Benjaminson

Although Amazon.com is now selling more than 3,000 commercial products bearing Betty Boop’s image, including calendars, tote bags, coffee mugs, and books about how young women can be more like Betty, no one has ever published a book about Betty herself.

The first biography of a major American cultural symbol ever written, Betty Boop: The Most Popular Female Comic Strip and Cartoon Character of All Time describes Betty Boop’s incredibly active romantic and family life as revealed in her numerous comic strips, comic books, cartoons, and movies since 1930. Award-winning author Peter Benjaminson details the creation of Betty Boop, based on two African American female entertainers who were the human models for Betty’s character. He explores the many alterations of Betty’s appearance, attitudes, and behavior over the years. Benjaminson also reveals the stories of the women who provided her with a speaking and singing voice, along with the backgrounds, intentions, and careers of Betty’s numerous creators and animators. Betty Boop indulges in the controversies surrounding the character, including her adventures with Felix the Cat (a four-year daily comic strip production).

Benjaminson illuminates social trends that have kept Betty popular for nearly a century, including her recent transition from a helpless sex object to a feminist icon and her massive popularity with young American women.

Before beginning his book-writing career, Peter Benjaminson worked as a reporter for twelve years for The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and many more. As a freelance author, he has written one university press book and eight commercially published books. His books cover investigative reporting, newspapers, book publishing, government investigations, and pop music stars.

Applause

January 2024

256 pages

35 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 6428 1

eBook 978 1 4930 6429 8

Comics & Graphic Novels • Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir

The first-ever biography written about American icon Betty Boop.

Cover coming soon christina rutz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Data Duped

How to Avoid Being Hoodwinked by Misinformation

By Derek W. Gibson and Jeffrey D. Camm

We are commonly deceived by numbers in our everyday lives. From lotteries, product warranties, and weight loss fads to misleading headlines, numbers are used in manipulative ways to lure us into making decisions about our life.

Data Duped will help you avoid common pitfalls and develop a sense of ‘data defense’ by learning what types of questions to ask and how to maintain a healthy level of curiosity and data skepticism. Data Duped gives readers the power of knowledge of how data can be manipulated, how it can influence our decisions and how it can deceive so that readers will face data with a new empowered approach. This book purposefully raises more questions than answers and guides readers to seek the differences between the plausible and the ridiculous along a journey of informed critical thinking and data literacy. With historical parallels and both practical and relatable examples, readers will learn how to separate the ‘malarkey’ from the truth, become able to comfortably bring a little more data into their lives, and ultimately avoid being hoodwinked by misinformation.

Jeffrey D. Camm is the Inmar Presidential Chair and Associate Dean of Business Analytics in the School of Business at Wake Forest University. He has also been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and a visiting professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Derek Gibson has spent most of his career in business analytics with a major financial services company providing support for business strategy and decision making. Through his 20+ year career, Derek has built expertise from back-room operations to the front office, with experience in banking, retirement, trust operations, finance, marketing, and client analytics.

Teaches readers to identify and avoid deceit and misinformation online.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

246 pages

9 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7914 7

eBook 978 1 5381 7915 4

Computers • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Tales from the Wine Floor

100 Questions Asked of a Sommelier

By James Quaile, illustrated by John O’Brien

Unlike most books on wine nowadays, Tales from the Wine Floor is geared toward true beginners—those who enjoy wine but lack the most basic understanding of it. This book offers an easy-to-digest crash course on wine and ready-reference written by a Sommelier. The author explains the intricacies of wine to the average Joe (or Joanne) in a way that is easy to understand and somewhat entertaining. Here is an easy reference Q&A based on real questions (often absurd or hysterically funny) asked by regular, wine-drinking people and the answers the author gives them in his job as “The Wine Guy.”

Among the questions and answers that comprise this book are: What Are Sulfites? Why Does the Same Wine Sometimes Taste Different? How Do I order Wine at a Restaurant? How Do I Host a Wine Tasting at Home? And, Why is Champagne Served on a Funny-Shaped Glass? Illustrated with amusing drawings by New Yorker cartoonist John O’Brien, novice wine enthusiasts will find Tales from the Wine Floor informative yet entertaining.

James (Jimmy) Quaile has had an illustrious 40-year career as a restaurateur, musician, educator, wine blogger, and Certified Sommelier. He has a passion for sharing his wine knowledge with humor and wit. Jimmy took on the role of restaurateur in 2003, with the help of his wife, Janet, a professional chef. Over a decade later, he transitioned to work as a Wine Consultant for Roger Wilco, a $45 million liquor business and a leading wine retailer.

“The Wine Guy” answers real questions asked by regular winedrinking people.

Rights exclusion: Audio

Lyons Press

December 2023

192 pages

10 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7465 5

eBook

978 1 4930 7848 6

Cooking • Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine

Draft cover

InstaKnits for Baby

By Melissa Leapman

A collection of approximately 30 quick-to-knit projects for babies newborn to 24 months, each expertly designed and fast and fun to make. Included are hats, socks and booties, sweaters, blankets, and more adorable items for baby. Chapters are divided according to the approximate time to knit, for example “under five hours,” “five to ten hours,” etc.

With more than 1,000 knit and crochet designs in print, Melissa Leapman is one of the most widely published American designers. She began her design career by freelancing for leading ready-to-wear design houses in New York City. She is the author of a few dozen knit and crochet books and publications, and her designs have been featured in numerous magazines and yarn house pamphlets.

Your go-to resource for all those last-minute baby gift ideas!

Stackpole Books

February 2024

144 pages

120 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 0 8117 7174 0

eBook

978 0 8117 7175 7

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

Crochet Creatures of Myth and

Legend

19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts

By Megan Lapp

Since 2017, Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions has built a following for her unique crochet creations. Her crochet creatures are like nothing else out there. They are intricately detailed and colourful, and yet with her stepby-step instructions, anyone can achieve her results.

Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend includes 13 Cute Critter patterns—small and adorable creatures that are quick and fun to make and a great place to start—and 6 standard-size mythological beasts in all their glory, including a dragon, kraken, feathered serpent, owl griffin, phoenix, and unicorn. Megan’s imagination is always at play, and many of her patterns include various options for wing styles, feathers, and more.

Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions has been creating crochet creatures from her imagination since 2017 and has amassed thousands of fans who just can’t wait for her next exciting design. Megan’s background is in the Fine Arts, having graduated with honours from Lafayette College, USA, with a double major in Art and Music.

Grab your hook start crocheting your own creatures of myth and legend!

Rights exclusion: Translation

Stackpole Books

May 2023

246 pages

784 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 0 8117 7148 1

eBook

978 0 8117 7149 8

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Crochet Impkins

Over a million possible combinations! Yes, really!

By Megan Lapp

Enter the world of the reclusive yet mischievous Impkins! Surely, you have seen them out of the corner of your eye from time to time, racing from hiding place to nook or cranny—odd little creatures of stitch and stuffing, of endless variety in form and manner.

With Crochet Impkins, Megan Lapp follows up on her globally successful Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend With detailed instructions for crafting these charming little creatures, the books offers techniques, methods, and an endless array of options for ears, antennae, hats, wings, tails, scales, horns, hairstyles, clothing, and accessories that make each Impkin unique.

Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions has been creating crochet creatures from her imagination since 2017 and has amassed thousands of fans who just can’t wait for her next exciting design. Megan’s background is in the Fine Arts, having graduated with honours from Lafayette College, USA, with a double major in Art and Music.

Bring your very own Impkin alive with hook and yarn.

Rights exclusion: Translation

Stackpole Books

November 2023

216 pages

460 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 0 8117 7160 3

eBook

978 0 8117 7161 0

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

A Year of Crochet Stitches A Stitch-a-Day Perpetual Calendar

By Jill Wright

A Year of Knitting Stitches A Stitch-a-Day Perpetual Calendar

By Tabetha Hedrick

Inspiration at your fingertips whenever you need it.

The perfect gift for yourself or a friend (or two) who loves to crochet or knit, these standing desk flip calendars showcases a new stitch pattern for every day of the year. Each date features a new pattern swatch with complete instructionsThe handy size fits easily in a project bag, making it a favorite stitch dictionary for on-the-go crafting. Use these perpetual calendars year after year.

Jill Wright is a digital copywriting specialist and crochet and knitwear designer raising her family in the foothills of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Tabetha Hedrick is a knitwear designer and writer living with her family just outside the Great Smoky Mountains in Eastern Tennessee.

Stackpole Books

January 2024 • 416 pages • 370 illustrations

Spiral-bound desk calendar 978 0 8117 7186 3

eBook 978 0 8117 7187 0

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Stackpole Books

January 2024 • 408 pages • 370 illustrations

Spiral-bound desk calendar 978 0 8117 7172 6

eBook 978 0 8117 7173 3

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

Exploring Tunisian Crochet

All the Basics plus the Stitches and Techniques to Take Your Crochet to the Next Level; Patterns for 20 Beautiful Wraps, Scarves, and More

By Lori Harrison

All the possibilities of Tunisian crochet.

A complete course in Tunisian crochet, from beginner to advanced stitches, for right- and left-handed hookers, plus 20 beautiful patterns for accessories like beautiful, colorful, lacy shawls, scarves, hats and more. Photo tutorials are included for all Tunisian stitches.

Lori Harrison is the Tunisian crochet designer behind Aklori Designs and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Oversize Fashion Crochet

6 Cozy Cardigans, Pullovers & Wraps

Designed with Maximum Style and Ease

By Salena Baca

Get ready for cool weather, fast!

You’ll be ready to cozy up in no time with these 6 crochet designs made with bulky yarn and big hooks. Designs include pullovers, cardigans, ponchos, and wraps in easy-to-wear, popular oversized fit.

Salena Baca is a renowned corchet designer and has authored many crochet books. She resides in Bend, Oregon.

Rags to Rugs

30 New Weaving Designs for Repurposed Fabrics

By Tom Knisely

Create a sturdy, hard-wearing piece that you can enjoy on your floor every day for years to come.

In Rags to Rugs, Tom explores the weaving possibilities of a variety of fabrics, from T-shirts and jeans to quilts, linens, towels, and more. He shows you the techniques he uses to get the most from each piece, and gives advice on how best to set up your loom for weaving with rags much thicker than your typical weaving thread. Includes 30 brandnew rug designs.

Tom Knisely teaches at the Red Stone Glen Fiber Arts Center in York Haven, Pennsylvania.

Stackpole Books

January 2024 • 160 pages

385 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 0 8117 7223 5

eBook 978 0 8117 7224 2

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Stackpole Books

January 2024 • 32 pages

30 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 0 8117 7047 7

eBook 978 0 8117 7048 4

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Stackpole Books

January 2024 • 132 pages

290 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket 978 0 8117 7057 6

eBook 978 0 8117 7058 3

Crafts & Hobbies • Weaving & Spinning

Teacher Education

Department Chairs and Social Justice

Transformative Leadership through Inclusivity

By Jocelyn D. Smith-Gray

Teacher Education Department Chairs and Social Justice introduces teacher educators to the power of social justice teacher preparation programs. The book highlights the importance and magnitude of developing teacher education programs that include a sociopolitical curriculum. It also adds value to the discourse around critical race theory in education by demonstrating how social justice discourses in teacher education can lead to more socially just teachers who can bring out the gifts and talents of diverse student populations.

Included in the book is a discussion of how department chairs who lead social justice teacher preparation programs apply transformative leadership practices. The book offers a critical pedagogy to deconstruct dominant ideologies that permeate teacher education programs and provides strategies to effectively prepare teachers who can educate and advocate for historically underserved students, their families, and communities.

Jocelyn D. Smith-Gray is adjunct lecturer of early childhood and elementary education, middle grades reading, and special education at Fayetteville State University, North Carolina.

Explores the stories of department chairs who led teacher-preparation programs framed around social justice and inclusivity.

Lexington Books

July 2023

156 pages

2 illustrations

Part of the Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies series

Hardback

978 1 7936 5272 0

eBook

978 1 7936 5273 7

Education • Leadership

Parenting Under Fire

How to Communicate with Your Hurt, Angry, Rejecting, Distant Kid

By Amy J.L. Baker, PhD and Paul R. Fine, LCSW

Children who are hurt, angry, rejecting, and distant (HARD) can be challenging to parent. They can be rude, uncooperative, and disagreeable. They are hard to relate to or connect with, and they can appear to be hardened to the love and guidance of their parent. Whether hard children are caught in a loyalty conflict, are victims of parental alienation, or behaving this way for some other reason, their parents need help.

This book provides parents of a hurt, angry, rejecting, or distant child the much needed guidance and support they need to connect with their children and repair relationships while opening the lines of communication. The book is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different form of communication, and provides the reader with the science-based hope and inspiration they need as well as hundreds of practical suggestions about how to keep the communication loving, appropriate, and connected.

Amy J.L. Baker, PhD is a leader in the field of parental alienation, lecturing and training on the subject around the world. She has been quoted and/or appeared in major media outlets including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Good Morning America.

Paul R. Fine, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker who has decades of experience working with individuals and families dealing with a range of conflicted family situations including families with children who are hurt, angry, rejecting, and distant. He is the co-author of three books with Amy J.L. Baker.

Essential for parents of HARD children.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2023

208 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7906 2

eBook 978 1 5381 7907 9

Family & Relationships • Parenting / General

Cover coming soon

Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash.

Relationship Rx

Prescriptions for Lasting Love and Deeper Connection

By Jessica Griffin and Pepper Schwartz

What if couples could take their relationship vitamins or medicine in order to prevent and treat problems in their relationships or restore their struggling relationship back to health? Here, two seasoned relationship experts address the top problems in relationships and provide simple strategies and exercises, grounded in relationship science, that couples can use to have the healthiest—and happiest—relationship of their lives.

This book includes discussions about research on effective communication strategies, adult attachment styles, cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques, and lessons learned from decades of relationship research— all presented in an easy to digest fashion, making Relationship Rx an easy pill to swallow. As Griffin and Schwartz tackle the major issues most couples face (or will inevitably face), they offer a tiered approach to mild, moderate, or severe relationship symptoms—each requiring various levels of intervention.

Jessica L. Griffin, PsyD, is professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Griffin has been an expert and consultant on several television docuseries about relationships, marriage and divorce on shows such as Seven Year Switch and Married at First Sight. She has a private consulting and coaching business and is the CEO of LoveBuilder, which provides educational online courses to couples, singles, and parents. She resides in Massachusetts.

Pepper Schwartz, PhD, is a highly acclaimed relationship and sexuality professional. She is a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she has created the Pepper Schwartz fellowship on intimate relationships and sexuality. She resides outside of Seattle, Washington State.

Offers a prescription for restoring the struggling relationship back to health.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2023

240 pages

6 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 6573 7

eBook 978 1 5381 6574 4

Family & Relationships • Love & Romance

Gay Fathers, Twin Sons The Citizenship Case That Captured the World

By Nancy L. Segal

The January 2018 headline story in the Los Angeles Times was riveting. Andrew from the United States and Elad Dvash-Banks from Israel married in Canada and conceived fraternal twins, Aiden and Ethan, with a Canadian surrogate. While unplanned given the uncertainties of in vitro fertilization, Aiden was fathered by Andrew and Ethan was fathered by Elad,

Andrew and Elad wished to raise their children in the United States, and after repeated DNA testing required by the American Consulate in Toronto, two envelopes arrived at their home, bearing both welcome and dreaded news: United States citizenship was offered to Aiden, whose father was a US citizen, but not to Ethan, whose father was Israeli. And, thus, their ground-breaking legal journey began. The couple’s high-profile lawsuit nearly reached the US Supreme Court, capturing worldwide attention along the way.

Nancy L. Segal, PhD, is a Psychology Professor, and Director and Founder of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton. She has authored over 300 scholarly articles and eight books. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and Atlantic Monthly. She has appeared on national and international TV, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, the Today Show and the BBC. Segal lives and works in southern California.

The lifely account of a legal battle that threatened to keep a loving family out of the US.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2023

264 pages

26 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7125 7

eBook

978 1 5381 7126 4

Family & Relationships • Siblings

Fat, Stressed, and Sick

MSG, Processed Food, and America’s Health Crisis

By Katherine Reid and Barbara Price

Fat, Stressed, and Sick makes the case that processed food compromises health not just because of added sugar, salt, and fat, but also because these foods contain significant amounts of glutamate—aka MSG, the additive that makes food deliciousy addicting.

In this book, Katie Reid details the research linking dietary glutamate to a suite of inflammatory diseases: obesity, diabetes, autism, addiction, depression, and cancer, to name a few. In what became an experiment in her home kitchen, Reid removed all items with MSG and relaced them with whole foods. The results were swift and undeniable. Reid’s discovery that what one ate mattered was the start of a program of food-based solutions to chronic inflammatory illnesses, through which now, a decade later, she has helped thousands of people.

The idea that large amounts of glutamate in the diet jeopardizes health is supported by decades of research, despite efforts by the glutamate industry to discredit the scientific evidence that MSG poses a risk. This book explains the science behind why we crave the MSG in processed food, why it is hidden, how it is making us sick, and what we can do about it.

Katherine Reid, PhD, is a biochemist and the founder of Unblind My Mind, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health through informed food choices. Previously she worked in the Silicon Valley biotech industry in the development of cancer pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. She lives with her family in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Barbara Price, MS, MA, PhD, has studied topics ranging from climate change to protein biophysics and has turned her passion for science into a career as a science writer and editor. She lives in Northern California.

Shows how glutamate (aka MSG) in processed food fuels food addictions and makes us sick.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023

296 pages

16 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 8076 1

eBook

978 1 5381 8077 8

Health & Fitness • Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition

Taming the Chaos of Dementia

A Caregiver’s Guide to Interventions That Make a Difference

By Barbara J. Huelat and Sharon T. Pochron, PhD

Taming the Chaos of Dementia supports the journey taken by both the caregiver and the person with dementia providing loved ones with practical recommendations and enriched with human empathy. This book helps ease the stress by offering interventions and nonpharmaceutical therapeutic suggestions. It helps decode dementia’s visceral world and supports noncognitive human experiences. It shares stories of real people struggling to survive the challenges presented by dementia paired with practical examples of interventions that target the miseries of dementia behaviors, triggers, and causalities induced by them. Barbara Huelat explores options in human engagement, the experience of destinations, positive distractions, familiar settings, furnishings, light, color, technology, nature, and the emotion of the senses. She offers design interventions that support the family caregivers in functional and emotional outcomes. No cure exists for dementia, but the tips, tools, strategies and suggestions include here provide tools for caregivers and those with dementia to make the experience more comfortable and calm.

Barbara J. Huelat, FASID, AAHID, EDAC, is recognized all over the US for her work in patient-centered design. She is Design Principal of the interiors firm Healing Design in Alexandria, Virginia, and a past president of the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers. Barbara lectures frequently on a spectrum of healthcare design topics and resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Sharon Pochron is faculty in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University, New York. She runs an environmental science laboratory and has published many peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from caregiving for dementia to primate behavior. She lives in Stony Brook, New York.

A hopeful and practical guide with practical strategies to mitigate the turbulence of dementia care.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2023

200 pages

3 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7898 0

eBook

978 1 5381 7899 7

Health & Fitness • Diseases / Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Cover coming soon

Photo by Matt Bennett on Unsplash.

Eldercare 101

A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing, Updated Edition

By Mary Jo Saavedra

The updated and revised toolbox to eldercare.

This important toolbox of critical resources and guidance assists families and eldercare professionals with the navigation of the advanced aging of loved ones and/or clients based on the Six Pillars of Aging Wellbeing. Mary Jo Saavedra adds salient new content that reflects the changing landscape of aging in today’s culturally-shifting, technological, and pandemic world. The book’s online resources have been updated and supplemented with many new tech products on the market that support elders.

Mary Jo Saavedra, MAIS, CMC, CAPS, CSA is a practicing gerontologist and aging life care manager in Portland, Oregon.

Nothing But the Tooth

An Insider’s Guide to Dental Health

By Teresa Yang

A lively and approachable guide to all aspects of dental health.

Nothing But the Tooth is a reference guide that provides current and concise information on all things dental. The book begins with the question of how to choose a competent and ethical dentist and ends with a discussion about technological advances in the dental field. Essential for any dental patient, Nothing But the Tooth will empower you with greater understanding. You’ll gain the ability to ask relevant questions about your treatment. After all, it’s your mouth—and your good health.

Teresa Yang, DDS, has practiced dentistry for over 30 years. Over the years, she has taught clinical dentistry and patient management at UCLA School of Dentistry. She is a member of the Forbes Health Advisory Board. She is also a member of the UCLA School of Dentistry Board of Counselors.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

• 360 pages • 4 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7285 8

eBook 978 1 5381 7286 5

Family & Relationships • Eldercare

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2023 • 288 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7365 7

eBook 978 1 5381 7366 4

Health & Fitness • Oral Health

Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines

More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By Garrett Ryan

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? How did they prove their identity? And how much of the modern gold supply comes from the Romans?

In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan is frequently asked in the classroom, in online forums, and on his popular YouTube channel, Told in Stone. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life. Learn the answers to: Did a tsunami inspire the Story of Atlantis? How did they send longdistance messages? What if Caesar had survived the Ides of March? How did the Romans build the aqueducts? Did they practice Buddhism? How deadly was the eruption that destroyed Pompeii? What if the Roman Empire hadn’t been ravaged by the Antonine Plague? Did they attend concerts? How did they pay taxes? Was Caligula actually insane? Did they have tattoos?

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, his website toldinstone.com, and his ToldinStone Youtube Channel. He lives in Chicago.

The follow-up title to Ryan’s hilariously informative and wildly successful Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants.

Prometheus

December 2023

288 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 6338 8893 7

eBook

978 1 6338 8894 4

History • Ancient / General

Paris

Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories of the City of Light

By Mary McAuliffe

Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories in the City of Light, Mary McAuliffe’s multi-layered exploration of Paris, weaves a narrative that takes the reader into secret and hidden places, even in the midst of the most wellknown of Paris destinations. McAuliffe’s hidden places can be small but are always revealing, like a bas-relief on an ignored corner of Notre-Dame or an overlooked courtyard inside an ancient and busy hospital. She takes the reader below the streets and sidewalks of Paris to discover ancient aqueducts and a lost river, and she prompts the reader to notice overlooked treasures in the most trafficked of museums. Always, McAuliffe’s focus is on people and their stories. Evil queens, designing noblemen, bold chevaliers, and desperate lovers mingle with resistance fighters and obsessed artists rising out of abject poverty into unexpected fame and fortune, adding to the tidal wave of creativity that is the life blood of the City of Light. One person, place, and story lead to another, each linked by a common thread within the layered richness of Paris’s past. The story of Paris is not a chronology but an exploration of the many layers of this remarkable city throughout the ages.

Mary McAuliffe received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland and has taught at several universities and lectured at the Smithsonian Institution. For many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes. She has traveled extensively in France and is the author of Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Narrates the story of Paris through an exploration of secret and hidden places.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

304 pages

36 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 5381 7333 6

eBook

978 1 5381 7334 3

History • Europe / France

Shipwrecked

A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

By Jonathan W. White

Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. The book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith’s case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician.

Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era.

Jonathan W. White is the author of many books including, most recently, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (2022). His numerous articles, essays, and reviews on Lincoln and the Civil War Era have appeared in Smithsonian, Time, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He teaches history at Christopher Newport University and resides in Newport News, Virginia.

The story of Appleton Oaksmithpens a new perspective on slavery and the US during the Civil War.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

328 pages

28 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 5381 7501 9

eBook

978 1 5381 7502 6

History • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

1789

The Founders Create America

By Thomas B. Allen

“No future session of Congress will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands,” the New York Gazette observed in summer 1789. “No examples to imitate, and no striking historical facts on which to ground their decisions—All is bare creation.” The constitution had been written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But 1789 was the year the government it described—albeit only in the broadest of terms—had to be brought into being.

1789: The Founders Create America draws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large that a new—and very American—form of government was calling itself into being. Veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen brings decades of experience and a gifted storyteller’s eye to the longhidden history of how George Washington and the other Founders set the Federal government into motion.

Thomas B. Allen (1929-2018) was the author of numerous history books and a frequent contributor to Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, Military History Quarterly, Military History, Naval History, the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, and other publications. He resided in Bethesda, Maryland.

The story of how the first US government was brought into being.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

400 pages

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 5381 8309 0

eBook

978 1 5381 8310 6

History • United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Cover coming soon Washington delivering his inaugural address April 1789, in the old city hall, NewYork / painted by T.H. Matteson ; engraved on steel by H.S. Sadd.

The Bulldog Detective

William J. Flynn and America’s First War against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists

By Jeffrey D. Simon

Fascinating, exciting, and at times tragic true crime.

This is the first book to tell the story of William J. Flynn, the first government official to bring down the powerful Mafia, uncover a sophisticated German spy ring in the United States, and launch a formal war on terrorism. As the Director of the Bureau of Investigation, the forerunner to the FBI, Flynn would become one of the most respected and effective law enforcement officials in American history.

Jeffrey D. Simon is an internationally renowned author, lecturer, and consultant on terrorism and political violence. He is president of Political Risk Assessment Company, Inc., and a visiting lecturer in the Department of Political Science at UCLA.

The Whites of Their Eyes

The Life of Revolutionary War Hero Israel

Putnam from Rogers’ Rangers to Bunker Hill

By Michael E. Shay

A little-known story from the Revolutionary War.

The Whites of Their Eyes recounts the life and times of Israel Putnam, a larger-than-life general, a gregarious tavern keeper and farmer, who was a folk hero in Connecticut and the probable source of legendary words during the Revolutionary War— “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” —and whose exploits make him one of the most interesting officers in American military history.

Michael Shay practiced law in Connecticut for thirty years before serving as a Superior Court Judge for fifteen years. He lives in Wilton, Connecticut.

Prometheus

March 2024 • 272 pages • 33 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 6338 8865 4

eBook 978 1 6338 8866 1

History • United States / 20th Century

Stackpole Books

December 2023 • 320 pages • 18 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket 978 0 8117 7351 5

eBook 978 0 8117 7352 2

History • United States / Revolutionary Period (17751800)

Frontier Teachers

Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West, Second Edition

By Chris Enss

Courageous women who brought formal education to the Wild West.

Between 1847 and 1858, more than 600 women teachers travelled across the untamed frontier to provide youngsters with an education, and the numbers grew rapidly in the decades to come, as women took advantage of one of the few career opportunities for respectable work for ladies of the era. Enduring hardship, the dozen women whose stories are movingly told in the pages of Frontier Teachers demonstrated the utmost dedication and sacrifice necessary to bring formal education to the Wild West.

Chris Enss is an award-winning screenwriter who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies.

TwoDot

October 2023 • 200 pages • 21 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 6477 9

eBook 978 1 4930 6478 6

History • United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

The Caretakers

War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II

By Caitlin Galante DeAngelis

The incredible story of British cemetery gardners in France and their role in WWII.

The Caretakers tells the powerful story of the British cemetery gardeners who remained in France during the Nazi invasion of WWII, aiding the French Resistance and providing safe haven for downed American airmen and safe passage for refugees.

With meticulous archive research, personal interviews of the families of British gardeners and American airmen and never-before-published journals and papers of Resistance members, author Caitlin Galante DeAngelis reveals untold stories of human courage, resistance, and survival.

Caitlin Galante DeAngelis is an internationally renowned expert on cemeteries. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation on the political histories of cemeteries in Britain and America.

Prometheus

February 2024 • 256 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8899 9

eBook 978 1 6338 8900 2

History • Wars & Conflicts / World War II

Inside the French Foreign Legion Adventures with the World’s Most Famous Fighting Force

By N. J. Valldejuli

Among the world’s elite fighting units, the French Foreign Legion remains one of the most unique and most mysterious. Open to volunteers from around the world, the Legion boasts an illustrious and exciting military history stretching from Europe to Africa and Latin America, from Vietnam and Algeria to Afghanistan; features a notoriously difficult selection and training process, accepting approximately two percent of applicants; and has traditionally required soldiers to enlist under assumed names. Soldiers swear allegiance not to France, but to the Legion, which has been romanticized in literature, song, and action movies as a place for men to prove their mettle or start their lives over.

With this book, former legionnaire N. J. Valldejuli lifts the veil on the French Foreign Legion, who the legionnaires are, what they do, where they serve, why they joined, and why they’re willing to die for France, which for most is a foreign country. Stories move from Algeria in the 1960s and the Balkans in the 1990s to more recent French operations in Afghanistan and former colonies in Africa. Drawing on his own experiences as well as those of members from various countries over the past fifty years (including several girlfriends of soldiers), his stories highlight the Legion’s intense camaraderie and its members’ fierce loyalty to this unique unit, in addition to the extreme mental and physical demands made of them, and the sacrifices of their families back home.

N. J. Valldejuli was born in England and raised in New York state. Inspired by stories of the unit’s exploits, he joined the French Foreign Legion in 1986, serving until his honorable medical discharge in 1988. A graduate of Kenyon College in Ohio and Lund University in Sweden, Valldejuli has taught English and history around the world. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

A colourful blend of first-hand experience and interviews that gives an insider’s perspective on what it means—and what it takes— to be a legionnaire.

Stackpole Books

January 2024

336 pages

14 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 0 8117 7240 2

eBook

978 0 8117 7241 9

History • Military / General

Ronin

Marine Snipers at War

By Mike Tucker

A boots-on-the-ground perspective on American policy in action in Iraq.

In this raw and provocative book, readers wear desert camouflage, climb to rooftops, and get behind the rifle with a platoon of elite Marine snipers and scouts in Iraq. Author Mike Tucker embedded with the unit for its entire combat tour in 2005–06 to tell this exclusive from-the-frontlines story. Ronin captures true-grit Marines at war as they reconnoitre Iraqi villages, track terrorist targets, grapple with unrealistic rules of engagement, and get the kill. It also contains the only first-hand accounts of such previously unreported actions as an Al Qaeda attack on a police station and the “winter of the sniper” when terrorist gunmen plagued Coalition forces in Fallujah.

Mike Tucker is a Marine infantry veteran who has reported on guerrilla warfare and terrorism from hot spots around the globe, including Thailand, Burma, Spain, and Iraq.

Stackpole Books

November 2023 • 256 pages • 27 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 0 8117 7386 7

History • Military / Iraq War (2003-2011)

Spy For No Country

The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World

By Dave Lindorff

The story of the teenage scientist who saved the world by spying for the Soviets.

At 18, Theodore Hall was not only the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project. He was was also the youngest spy taken on by the Soviet Union in search of secrets to the atomic bomb. Neither a Communist nor a Soviet sympathizer, Hall worked to ensure that America did not monopolize the science behind the atomic bomb, which he felt may have apocalyptic consequences. Instead, by providing the Soviets with the secrets of the bomb, and thereby initiating “mutual assured destruction,” Hall may have saved the world. Featuring in-depth research from recently declassified FBI documents, first-hand journals, and personal interviews.

Dave Lindorff is a veteran investigative journalist who has won several major journalism awards and was a two-time Fulbright Professor of Journalism.

Prometheus

February 2024 • 296 pages • 12 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 6338 8895 1

eBook 978 1 6338 8896 8

History • Military / Intelligence & Espionage

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Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash.

Desert Storm Marines

A Marine Tank Company at War in the Gulf

By Jeff Dacus

An exciting narrative account of a group of Marine reservists during 1991’s Operation Desert Storm.

In the Gulf War, thousands of reservists are called up for the first time since the Korean War. During their deployment they face enemy tanks, mines, and artillery as well as their own bureaucracy, petty jealousies, and one officer that fails to live up to his oath. Their superior officers make debatable decisions, and they are often unsupported. In the end, they find the support they need, the leadership they lack, and a comradeship comparable to historic units like the Band of Brothers.

Jeff Dacus is a retired Master Sergeant of Marines who experienced tank combat in Operation Desert Storm. He is also a retired schoolteacher who taught U.S. history for 35 years and as an adjunct professor at the University of Portland, Oregon. He resides in Vancouver, Washington.

Lyons Press

November 2023 • 272 pages • 42 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket 978 1 4930 7567 6

eBook 978 1 4930 7568 3

History • Military / Persian Gulf War (1991)

Air Apaches

The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II

By Jay A. Stout

The remarkable story of an aerial combat unit in the South Pacific in World War II.

Air Apaches reconstructs the war of the 345th Bomb Group in the South Pacific in painstaking detail, capturing what it was like to be one of the young men flying low-level bombing and strafing missions and facing such challenges as kamikaze attacks and, if a pilot was shot down, primitive jungle conditions and a sword-brandishing enemy who did not treat downed airmen by the letter of the Geneva Convention.

Jay A. Stout is a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot with more than 4,500 flight hours and 37 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. He has appeared as an aviation and military expert on various TV and radio news programs, including Fox News and NPR. He lives in San Diego, California.

Stackpole Books

October 2023 • 432 pages • 103 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 0 8117 7268 6

eBook 978 0 8117 6809 2

History • Military / World War II

Photo by the New York Public Library on Unsplash.

Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies

Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts

Edited by Eileen E. Schell, Dianna Winslow and Pritisha Shrestha

Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies brings together national and transnational scholars in the field of rhetoric, composition, writing studies, and other interdisciplinary fields to address food as a topic of inquiry and a matter of social and environmental justice. The contributors in this edited collection demonstrate that analyzing the literacies, rhetorics, and pedagogies needed to transform food systems is vital to creating sustainable food systems. The contributors advocate that food learning be taught and engaged at all levels of schooling and in society, including college courses and community settings. Scholars of rhetoric, interdisciplinary food studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

Eileen E. Schell is professor of writing and rhetoric, L. Douglas and Laura J. Meredith professor of teaching excellence, and faculty affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University.Dianna Winslow is assistant director and writing instruction specialist for the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at California Polytechnic.Pritisha Shrestha is Ph.D. candidate in the Composition and Cultural and Rhetoric (CCR) program at Syracuse University.

Makes a compelling case for food learning to be taught throughout society.

Lexington Books

March 2023

282 pages

7 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 7936 5068 9

eBook

978 1 7936 5069 6

Language Arts & Disciplines • Communication Studies

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 will explain 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.

A fascinating introduction to forensic and computational linguistics for true-crime fans or those wishing to learn more about the people in their lives.

Prometheus

October 2023

260 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8897 5

$28.95 / £21.99

Language Arts & Disciplines • Linguistics / General

Making It in Country Music

An Insider’s Look at the Industry

By Rich Redmond, with Jennifer Della’Zanna, foreword by Dave Pomeroy

Rich Redmond, drummer for superstar Jason Aldean, provides a shot of inspiration for those interested in jump-starting a music career.

Any successful musician will tell you the most common question asked of them is, “What does it take to make it?” Rich Redmond is no different. He moved to Nashville more than twenty-five years ago with his drums, a cat, and a vision, and he’s made his dreams come true.

Over one too many lattes, he decided to put all of his advice in one place. Making It in Country Music is filled with practical advice, stories of how Redmond did it himself, and insights from a chorus of other musicians. Redmond takes you on a tour of Nashville and many other country music meccas: from the massive stadiums to the honky-tonks and the wide variety of jobs that make the industry go. You’ll learn the various skill sets needed to become successful in the industry as well as predictions for the future of country music among many other things. There is no better guide to the country music business than Redmond with his unique blend of encouragement, detailed advice, humor, and experience.

Rich Redmond is a top-call recording drummer/ percussionist and has toured, recorded, and performed with more than forty acts, including Jason Aldean, Hank Williams III, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Ludacris, Jewel, and Kelly Clarkson. He has played on thirty #1 hit singles. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jennifer Della’Zanna is an award-winning freelance writer from Woodbine, Maryland.

The ultimate behind-the-scenes and fun-to-read book looking at the country music industry and music careers.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023

224 pages

44 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7251 3

eBook

978 1 5381 7252 0

Music • Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass

Defiant Sounds

Heavy Metal Music in the Global South

Edited by Nelson Varas-Díaz, Jeremy Wallach, Esther Clinton and Daniel Nevárez Araújo

Far from its sites of origin in the Global North, metal music thrives in the hands of musicians, fans, and scholars throughout other geographies of the world.

This volume brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. With contributions spanning Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations, the essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. The authors stress how metal music is used to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world. It may be that metal’s greatest contribution to human emancipation will be in the years to come, in places its originators never imagined.

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies.

Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.

Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther’s tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy.

Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto RicoRío Piedras.

Reflects on the social roles of metal music and stresses how it faces oppressive experiences and aims to build a better world.

Lexington Books

March 2023

418 pages

21 illustrations

Part of the Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations series

Hardback

978 1 7936 5185 3

eBook

978 1 7936 5186 0

Music • Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal

Queer Opera

By Andrew Sutherland

In Queer Opera, Andrew Sutherland argues that operas often reflect characteristics of the society and epistime in which they are written but that they also do much more than that; operas have agency.

LGBTQ+ social, cultural, and political issues have become an increasingly defining feature of twenty-first century life, and as agency for change, composers have turned to opera to underscore the lived queer experience. Sutherland posits that operas written before the sexual revolution of the mid-twentieth century utilized a codified language both in the libretto and score, communicating with those observers open to a queer reading. He explores the growing trend of local, small-scale, independent opera companies seen around the world towards the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century and argues that this has emboldened queer artists to reclaim opera as a queer space. He further argues that for several centuries, opera houses have been safe havens for queer composers, librettists, performers, and designers, and yet it is only relatively recently that any serious attempt at queer representation in operatic works has begun to be realized.

In this book, he examines narratives and music of selected operas to walk through queer history in Western societies and shines a light on how many of opera’s well-known characters, based on historical figures who represent pivotal moments in the queer story, are responsible in a variety of ways for the continued struggle for queer acceptance.

Andrew Sutherland is director of music at Methodist Ladies’ College and adjunct lecturer at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Explores narratives and music of selected operas to argue that composers have turned to opera to underscore lived queer experiences and that they have served as agents for change.

Lexington Books

May 2023

310 pages

30 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 6669 0607 3

eBook 978 1 6669 0608 0

Music • Genres & Styles / Opera

She’s a Badass Women in Rock Shaping Feminism

By Katherine Yeske Taylor

During the rise of second-wave feminism in the ‘60s and ‘70s, political activists were not the only ones at work to usher in a more equitable world. In the music world, female rock performers were pursuing a revolution of their own: rejecting the industry’s manufactured pop personas and the unacknowledged labor they contributed to male-led groups, women took control of their own music, messages, and images. Even while they often used music to critique rampant chauvinism, they made some of their greatest impacts by paving the way for subsequent musicians to simply be true to themselves. In this way, they helped to transform the music business and society more broadly.

In She’s a Badass, rock critic Katherine Yeske Taylor interviews more than a dozen of these influential, fearless women about their experiences in an era when female rockers were not given the same respect and opportunities as their male peers. Each chapter focuses on an individual artist, taking an in-depth look at her most memorable experiences in the music business that helped cement her place on the list of influential artists. From Suzi Quatro (the first female rock star to front her own band, singing and playing bass as well as writing her own songs) through superstar singer-songwriter Jewel, She’s a Badass reveals the incredible talent, determination, and humor these women deployed in order to further the feminist cause while building brilliant musical careers.

Katherine Yeske Taylor began her career as a rock critic in Atlanta in the 1990s, interviewing Georgia musical royalty such as the Indigo Girls, R.E.M., and the Black Crowes while still a teenager. Since then, she has conducted several hundred interviews and contributes regularly to Billboard, Spin, and American Songwriter, among others. She is a longtime New York City resident and is extremely active in the downtown rock scene.

coming soon

Profiles of the female rock performers who took control of their careers and transformed the music industry from the inside.

Backbeat

February 2024

256 pages

20 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 7254 5

eBook

978 1 4930 7255 2

Music • History & Criticism

Cover

Photo by Anton Mislawsky on Unsplash.

Darker With The Dawn Nick Cave’s Songs of Love and Death

By Adam Steiner

From his early work with The Birthday Party to the future sounds of Ghosteen, Nick Cave has rewritten the language of rock ‘n’ roll. Darker with the Dawn uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most well-known songs from “Tupelo”, “The Mercy Seat”, “Red Right Hand”, “Stagger Lee”, “Into My Arms”, to “Higgs Boson Blues” and beyond.

The book explores Nick Cave’s life in music drawing upon his inspirations of the Bible, Greek myth, and literature, as well as his enduring passion for gospel, blues, and progressive rock. Steiner reflects upon Cave’s journey from his childhood in Australia, struggles with drug addiction, his young fascination with the nightmare landscapes of America’s wild west and the southern gothic towards a reckoning with his own sense of Christian spirituality. In a career spanning four decades Cave’s songwriting has moved from the saints and sinners of the traditional murder ballad to piano-based heartbreak songs, deconstructed garage rock and ambient fever dreams delivered through minimalist electronica. Adam Steiner dives into the world of a complex songwriter who, in his universal expressions of love and death, continues to speak to us of the light and shade of humanity.

Adam Steiner is the author of Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation of The Downward Spiral and Silhouettes And Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters. He writes about music, street-art culture, architecture, poetry, and transgressive fiction and lives in London, England.

Uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most well-known songs.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

December 2023

240 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 6035 0

eBook

978 1 5381 6036 7

Music • Individual Composer & Musician

Everyday Life Ecologies Sustainability, Crisis,

Resistance

By Alice Dal Gobbo

Everyday Life Ecologies is about those complex, sticky, but also open arrangements of bodies, objects, and plants that make up daily existence. The multiple and interlocking lines of a long capitalist crisis disrupt their normal flow: sometimes, they open opportunities for transformation, sometimes else, they foreclose horizons of change.

In contrast with approaches that respond to environmental crisis by advocating “sustainable lifestyles” and “responsible behaviors,” Alice Dal Gobbo suggests that it is necessary to address the complex socio-material relationalities that constitute everyday ecologies. Beyond that, the book argues for their politicization, illuminating daily existence as embedded in capitalist relations of re/ production.

Combining political ecology and new materialist sensitivities, this book investigates the ways in which ecologically damaging logics are inscribed in everyday assemblages through their habitual rehearsal and libidinal hold. But it also points to how apparently banal acts of resistance embody and promote different logics, such as a logic of care and an ecological “aesth-ethics” of desire. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Northeast of Italy, this journey through the concrete matters and beings of daily life in crisis talks beyond this emplaced reality and dialogues with emerging forms of contestation and prefiguration that put socio-ecological reproduction at their center.

Alice Dal Gobbo is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento University, Italy.

Addresses the complex sociomaterial relationalities that constitute everyday ecologies to tackle environmental crisis and resist capitalist logics of exploitation, appropriation, and waste. Lexington Books

May 2023

264 pages

13 illustrations

Part of the Environment and Society series

Hardback

978 1 6669 2066 6

eBook

978 1 6669 2067 3

Nature • Ecology

SpongeBob SquarePants

The Unauthorized Fun-ography

By Paul Volponi

When SpongeBob SquarePants debuted in 1999, the funloving, pure-hearted title character took the world of animation by storm, riding a virtual tsunami of praise. As the 25th anniversary of the show nears, it’s time to look back at where it all began and revisit all the adventures from the best episodes.

In SpongeBob SquarePants: The Unauthorized Fun-ography, award-winning author Paul Volponi presents the first ever “biography” of the show, exploring its origins and providing insight into the characters, the episodes, the voices, and the fans. From jellyfishing with Patrick Star and irritating Squidward Tentacles, to flipping Krabbie Patties at the Krusty Krab and attending boating school with Mrs. Puff, this book covers it all. Volponi even includes fascinating details pulled straight from the pitch bible used by creator Stephen Hillenburg to sell the show to Nickelodeon, revealing how SpongeBob SquarePants became the network’s first original Saturday morning cartoon.

Featuring quotes from an exclusive, in-depth interview with Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, as well as quiz questions in every chapter to test the reader’s SpongeBob IQ, SpongeBob SquarePants is the perfect book for all fans of the dorky and loveable talking sea sponge and his band of friends.

Paul Volponi is an author, journalist and educator. His twelve novels for young adults have been the recipients of a dozen American Library Association honors and his novel Black and White was a winner of the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award. Volponi is also the author of three non-fiction books for young adults: That’s My Team: The History, Science, and Fun Behind Sports Teams’ Names; Streetball is Life: Lessons Earned on the Asphalt; and The Great G.O.A.T. Debate: The Best of the Best in Everything from Sports to Science. He lives in Flushing, New York.

The first, long-overdue book on SpongeBob SquarePants for all ages.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

168 pages

38 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 8029 7

eBook

978 1 5381 8030 3

Young Adult NonFiction • Performing Arts / Television & Radio

Jesus Christ Superstar

Behind the Scenes of the Worldwide Musical Phenomenon

By Ellis Nassour

Almost thirty years after Rock Opera, his first book on Jesus Christ Superstar, Ellis Nassour returns to the world of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to complete the fascinating story of the Broadway musical that rocked the stage and pushed boundaries. Nassour goes behind the scenes to show the evolution of Jesus Christ Superstar from an album to a Broadway musical, exploring not only the breakthroughs, but also the frustrations and pitfalls. With never-before-seen photos and new interviews, Superstar presents a detailed account of the life of the musical from 1969–1973.

Ellis Nassour is a noted freelance writer, from the New York Times and Daily News to Hollywood and Universal Studios. He is the author of the bestselling biography, Honky Tonk Angel, the first on Patsy Cline, and Rock Opera: The Creation of Jesus Christ Superstar, from Record Album to Broadway Show and Motion Picture

Presents a detailed account of the life of the musical from 1969–1973 with never-before-seen photos and new interviews.

Applause

November 2023

284 pages

108 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 6804 3

eBook 978 1 4930 6805 0

Performing Arts • Theater / Broadway & Musical Revue

I Want You Around

The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

By Stephen B. Armstrong

A detailed production history a beloved musical film with the Ramones.

This book provides readers with a detailed production history of the 1979 musical film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School that draws upon extensive interviews the author has conducted with many of the people who contributed to its creation, including director Allan Arkush, uncredited co-director Joe Dante, screenwriter Joseph McBride, producer Michael Finnell, the Ramones’ tour manager, Monte A. Melnick, and Roger Corman.

Stephen Armstrong is a film historian and author of several books. A professor of English, he teaches in the Creative Writing and Professional & Technical Writing emphases at Utah Tech University.

The Golden Girls A Cultural History

By Bernadette Giacomazzo

The first-ever cultural history of The Golden Girls.

Bernadette Giacomazzo shows why the iconic sitcom The Golden Girls is more than just comedy gold. She examines how, between all the laughs and the tales of St. Olaf, these women tackled tough issues of the time—issues that continue to resonate in the twentyfirst century. From sexual harassment, ageism, and PTSD to AIDS, inter-racial relationships, and homosexuality, Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia weren’t afraid to take on topics which were once considered taboo.

Bernadette Giacomazzo is an editor, writer, and photographer. Her work has been featured in People, Teen Vogue, Us Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and many more. She is bBased in New York City.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Backbeat

November 2023 • 256 pages • 33 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 6449 6

eBook 978 1 4930 6450 2

Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

August 2023 • 224 pages • 16 illustrations

Part of the Cultural History of Television series

Hardback 978 1 5381 6655 0

eBook 978 1 5381 6656 7

Performing Arts • Television / Genres / Comedy

Hollywood and History What the Movies Get Wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam

By Jem Duducu

A fun but informative look at Hollywood’s morethan-a century long love affair with historical figures, events, and places.

This book delves into what really happened in history, as opposed to the Hollywood interpretation of events, and reveals why the movies don’t usually reflect the reality of our known history.

Jem Duducu is a populist historian and historical fiction writer based in London. He spends his time writing, public speaking, and generally messing around with his wife and children.

Six Seasons and a Movie How Community Broke Television

By Chris Barsanti, Brian Cogan and Jeff Massey

A rich and heartfelt look at a series that rewrote the rules of TV sitcoms.

This is an episode-by-episode deep-dive that excavates a central cultural artifact: a six-season show that rewrote the rules for TV sitcoms and presaged the self-aware, metafictional sensibility so common now.

Chris Barsanti is the author of several books on pop culture and member of the National Book Critics Circle and Online Film Critics Society, both in the US. Brian Cogan is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Molloy College, Long Island, New York. Jeff Massey is an associate professor in the Royal English Department at Molloy College in Long Island, New York, with a focus on mythology and monstrosity.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023 • 264 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7706 8 • $38.00 / £29.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7707 5 • $36.00 / £28.00

Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

Applause

December 2023 • 288 pages • 37 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 6655 1 • $21.95 / £16.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6656 8 • $20.50 / £15.99

Performing Arts • Television / History & Criticism

Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion

By Michael C. Brannigan

Would you want to be cared for by a robot? Michael C. Brannigan’s Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion explores caring robots’ lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving.

As our COVID-19 purgatory lingers on, caring robots will join our nursing and healthcare frontlines. Carebots can perform lifesaving tasks to minimize infection, safeguard vulnerable persons, and relieve caregivers of certain burdens. They also spark profound moral and existential questions: What is caring? How will we relate with each other? What does it mean to be human?

Underscoring carebots’ hands-on benefits, Brannigan also warns us of perils. They can be a dangerous lure in a culture that settles for substitutes and venerates the screen. Alerting us to the threatening prospect of carebots becoming our surrogate for interpersonal connection, he maintains they are not the culprits. The challenge lies in how we relate to them. While they beneficially complement our caregiving, carebots cannot replace human caring. Caring is a fundamentally human act and lies at the heart of ethics. As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.

Explores caring robots’ lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving.

Lexington Books

March 2022

174 pages

Part of the Revolutionary Bioethics series

Hardback

978 1 7936 4918 8

eBook

978 1 7936 4919 5

Philosophy • Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Michael C. Brannigan is adjunct professor of intercultural bioethics at Albany Medical College, New York, and adjunct professor of philosophy at Salve Regina University, Rhode Island.

Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity An Ontological Approach

By André van der Braak

Ayahuasca often yields transformative experiences that merge such familiar categories as the sacred and the secular, transcendence and immanence, subject and object, and the human and the nonhuman. However, such experiences are interpreted differently by Western and indigenous discourses.

Using the work of French philosopher Bruno Latour, André van der Braak asks fundamental ontological questions in order to reimagine ayahuasca as liquid divinity, shifting the focus from ayahuasca experiences to ayahuasca-based ritual practices that aim to cultivate relationships with more-than-human powers, described by Latour as “beings of transformation and religion.”

Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity describes Santo Daime practices as a contemporary form of “theurgy” (god-work), as defined by the third-century Platonic philosopher and mystagogue Iamblichus. Theurgical practices aim at drawing down divine action through ritual procedures, using the imagination as an active faculty. Van der Braak argues that ayahuasca religiosity is ultimately not about individual recreation or healing, or even personal visions, but rather about engaging in communal transformative ecodelic practices that let us work as companions of the gods in order to practice solidarity with all sentient beings.

André van der Braak is professor of comparative philosophy of religion at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Argues that ayahuasca religiosity lets us work as companions of the gods to practice solidarity with all sentient beings.

Lexington Books

May 2023

246 pages

Part of the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series

Hardback 978 1 6669 0644 8

eBook

978 1 6669 0645 5

Philosophy • Metaphysics

Relational Agency and Environmental Ethics

A Journey beyond Humanism as We Know It

By Suvielise Nurmi

Explores how the concept of moral agency embedded in modern humanist ethics prevents ethics from efficiently supporting a sustainability transition.

The book charts a new direction for environmental ethics—and ethics in general—by relationally revising the concept of moral agency in light of the current understanding of embodied mental processes and environmentally extended cognition. The book sketches the crucial implications of a relational theory of ethics for environmental ethics.

Suvielise Nurmi is postdoc researcher in ethics and environmental philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

Africa beyond Liberal Democracy

In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Reginald M.J. Oduor

Calls for alternative trajectories of democratization that are responsive to the sociopolitical realities on the continent.

The contributors to this volume ask whether democracy is universal or culturally bound, how the adoption of Western liberal models of democracy has hindered democratisation in Africa, and how indigenous African political thought can be utilised to design models of democracy suitable for twentyfirst-century African countries.

Reginald M.J. Oduor is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Nairobi.

Lexington Books

May 2023 • 318 pages

Hardback 978 1 6669 0454 3

eBook 978 1 6669 0455 0

Philosophy • Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Lexington Books

July 2022 • 298 pages

Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series

Hardback 978 1 6669 1381 1

eBook 978 1 6669 1382 8

Philosophy • Political

Popular Culture and Foreign Policy

The Case of Turkey and Valley of Wolves: Ambush

By Umut Yukaruç

This book argues that, as a popular text, the Turkish television series Valley of the Wolves: Ambush functions as a site for consent production for foreign policies formed by the AKP within the last decade, through a process of reproduction of state identities, ideologies, and discourses at the level of narrative. This book positions its argument in two fields: Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) studies and Popular Culture and World Politics within the larger International Relations context. It is interdisciplinary in nature as it also makes use of theories around popular culture. It advances works within these fields by focusing on a particular national context and offer an original analysis on Turkey. While doing so, it employs discourse analysis. It also teases out some of the complexities of the nature and implications of representation of the TFP by using critical reception. Together with an analysis of the critical reception of the television series, political discourses around foreign policy is examined in line with the ways in which these policies are depicted and reproduced by the series. This leads to an intertextual reading of Turkish state identity and security imaginary and a critical examination of the TFP in the last decade from a Constructivist perspective.

Umut

How foreign policy discourses can be reproduced by a popular television series and consequently produce consent for certain foreign policies.

Lexington Books

January 2023

214 pages

Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series

Hardback

978 1 6669 1810 6

eBook

978 1 6669 1811 3

Political Science • General

Yukaruç is lecturer at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Turkey.

Battlefield Cyber

How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security

By William J Holstein and Michael McLaughlin

The United States is being bombarded with cyber-attacks. 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. They have a common interest in exploiting the openness of the Internet and social media—and our democracy—to erode confidence in our institutions and to exacerbate our societal rifts to prevent us from mounting an effective response. Halting this digital aggression will require US society 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. Using language that the layman can understand, this book educates readers about what has happened and inspires them to seek solutions.

Michael McLaughlin is the former Senior Counterintelligence Advisor for United States Cyber Command, where he was 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.

Asking difficult questions about how vulnerable the largest US tech giants are.

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Prometheus

October 2023

260 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8901 9

eBook 978 1 6338 8902 6

Political Science • Intelligence & Espionage

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

By Alessandro Arduino

War is no longer waged only by national militaries. We are seeing a shift to a new anarchy where 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.

Alessandro Arduino unpacks the trade-offs involved when conflict is increasingly waged not by national armies, but by professional outfits that thrive on chaos. This book charts the rise of private military actors from Russia, China, and the Middle East using primary source data, inperson interviews, and field research amongst operations in conflict zones around the world. Individual stories narrated by mercenaries, military trainers, security businessmen, hackers, and drone pilots will be used to introduce the beginning of each chapter. The book ends by considering today’s trajectories in the deployment of mercenaries by state, corporations, or even terrorist organizations and what it will mean for the future of conflict.

Dr. Alessandro Arduino is a principal research fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, co-director of the Security & Crisis Management International Centre at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, and an affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. He has two decades of experience in China encompassing risk analysis and crisis management, focusing on Belt & Road Initiative security, cyber security, private military and security companies, combat UAVs, and China’s political economy in Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia. He is a consultant to several organizations on security, risk assessment, and mitigation.

Unpacks the trade-offs involved when conflict is waged by professional outfits that thrive on chaos.

Rights exclusion: Chinese

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

282 pages

2 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7031 1

eBook

978 1 5381 7032 8

Political Science • Security (National & International)

Africa and its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas

Edited by Tunde Adeleke and Arno Sonderegger

Africa and its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas is an interdisciplinary study of the changing and complex nature of the Africa-Black Diaspora relationship. The contributors highlight the problems and challenges of this relationship and provide strategies for developing a more functional and mutually beneficial engagement in a radically changing global environment.

This book presents new methodological approaches and research to study the many dimensions and complexities of Africa and its Diasporas. Collectively, this book addresses three vital themes. First, it foregrounds new and emerging forces reshaping the Africa-Black Diaspora nexus. Second, it highlights new and interdisciplinary approaches to “Diaspora” and Pan-Africanism” (culture, religion, ideology, literature, philosophy, and epistemology). Third, it examines factors infusing the transformation in, and challenges of, African Diaspora and Pan-Africanist collaborations, and possible strategies of strengthening the relationship.

Tunde Adeleke is professor of history and director of African American studies at Iowa State University.

Arno Sonderegger is senior lecturer for African history and societies in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna.

Sheds light on the rich and complex Africa-Black Diaspora world through different disciplinary perspectives.

Lexington Books

July 2023

252 pages

5 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6669 4019 0

eBook

978 1 6669 4020 6

Political Science • World / African

Fear of a Yellow Vest Planet

The Gilets Jaunes and the Battle for the Future of France

By Peter Wilkin

Examines the radical democratic and egalitarian ideas generated by the Yellow Vest movement and defends it from its many critics.

The Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) protests that started in November 2018 have rocked French political culture and led critics to denounce the movement as being a threat to democracy, or worse. This book argues that the protests must be understood as part of a wave of protests against the extension of the market into all areas of social life that have been taking place around the world since the 1980s. The end goal is to be a new social order which is environmentally sustainable and built around principles of social justice. In this respect its ideas and actions are a challenge to mainstream French political culture.

Peter Wilkin is reader in Social Science at Brunel University, UK.

Lexington Books

June 2021 • 172 pages • 4 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 7936 1025 6

eBook 978 1 7936 1026 3

Political Science • International Relations / General

Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam War A Diplomatic History

By Lubna Z. Qureshi

Argues that neutral Sweden had the independence to challenge the Nixon administration that members of NATO did not have.

In 1972, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme’s fierce condemnation of the Christmas Bombings of the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong led to a breakdown in diplomatic relations at the highest level between Sweden and the United States. The author argues that Sweden’s official position of neutrality allowed its Prime Minister greater independence of action on the international stage. Palme opposed the American military intervention in Southeast Asia for its violation of Vietnamese self-determination. Superpower aggression against one small country threatened all others, including Palme’s own.

Lubna Z. Qureshi earned her doctorate in U.S. history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lexington Books

June 2023 • 308 pages

Hardback 978 1 7936 3844 1

eBook 978 1 7936 3845 8

Political Science • International Relations / General

Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate Change Prospects for an Alternative Future

By Andrew Kolin

Argues for replacing capitalism with rational socialism that does not necessitate conquering the environment.

The overwhelming scientific evidence indicates that planet Earth is undergoing dramatic climate change, which threatens to undermine the quality of life around the world. This book demonstrates how the roots of humanity’s assault on the environment are directly associated with the origins of capitalism, an irrational social system in which reproduction of capital on a global scale is destructive to the environment. The book concludes by proposing rational socialism, a life-affirming social system that functions in harmony with the environment.

Andrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College, New York.

Rights sold: Russian

Lexington Books

February 2022 • 126 pages

Hardback 978 1 6669 0199 3

eBook 978 1 6669 0200 6

Political Science • Public Policy / Economic Policy

Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies Born With a Junk Food Deficiency

By Martha Rosenberg

The hard-hitting exposé by an investigative journalst, now updated and with a new chapter and new epilogue.

This revealing book blows the lid off everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. Having gained the trust of more than twenty doctors, researchers, and experts who were willing to come forward and tell all, Martha Rosenberg presents us with her shocking findings. Explosive material from whistleblowers, scientists, unsealed lawsuits, and Big Pharma’s and Big Food’s own marketers exposes how these industries put profits before public safety and how the government puts the interests of business before the welfare of consumers.

Martha Rosenberg is a freelance writer and editorial cartoonist. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and more.

Prometheus

October 2023 • 350 pages

Paperback 978 1 6338 8935 4

Previously published in hardback 978 1 6161 4593 4

eBook 978 1 6161 4594 1

Political Science • Corruption & Misconduct

Afraid

Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety

By Arash Javanbakht, MD

Fear is one of the most deeply rooted biological mechanisms that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years in the brains and bodies of animals and humans with one key mission: to increase our chance of survival. Fear is deeply woven into our biology, culture, politics, and day to day life. We sometimes don’t even know what we are afraid of. What we know for sure is that we are afraid too often.

But why are we so scared? What is the evolutionary purpose of fear? Why do we enjoy watching horror movies? How does the brain of a brave person work differently than others? How do we learn to be afraid, and how can we unlearn? Is fear good or bad for creativity?

This book is a comprehensive review of fear and anxiety in most tangible aspects of the modern life. Arash Javanbakht explores how our childhood experiences define the role fear plays in us as adults, how fear may or may not affect our genes, what excessive fear and anxiety can do to our brains and bodies, and the role of fear in the wake of trauma. Readers will come away with a better understanding of fear and how we can tamp its negative effects, how we can treat it medically if necessary, and how we can protect ourselves from fear’s most negative consequences.

Arash Javanbakht, MD, is a psychiatrist who currently serves as the Director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic (STARC) at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Michigan. He is a frequently invited keynote speaker at conferences as well as universities. Multiple media outlets have featured his work, including: CNN, National Geographic, Aljazeera, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, PBS, and more. He is the academic advisor on the PBS documentary Mysteries of Mental Illness

Provides a broad and entertaining overview of fear from evolution, to modern day challenges, and how clinicians treat trauma, anxiety, and PTSD today.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023

208 pages

2 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7038 0

eBook 978 1 5381 7039 7

Self-Help • Emotions

Diagnosis Human

How Unlocking Hidden Relationship Patterns Can Transform and Heal Our Children, Our Partners, Ourselves

By Amy Begel and David V. Keith

Diagnosis Human offers a compelling alternative to the biomedical model of mental health as it has been promoted over the last 30 years—a model which says that mental distress is a problem of chemical imbalance, or brain chemistry. In this model, symptoms are never good. They are always seen as a sign that something is wrong with that person, a sign of pathology that must be changed.

What may appear as intractable individual problems, however, often are not individual problems at all. This book reveals how many of these distressing emotional states are created by nearly invisible, intimate patterns in our relationships. Diagnosis Human invites readers into the therapist’s office to be part of family therapy sessions, where they can experience first-hand what these intimate relationship patterns look and feel like. The authors present cases of adults dealing with depression, couples who come to therapy reeling from the betrayal of an affair, families with kids diagnosed with ADHD, teenagers with anxiety or young children with temper tantrums. Each therapy session includes the voice of the therapist, inviting readers to sit in as observers to watch and listen as the case unfolds.

Amy Begel is a family therapist who received her family therapy training over 30 years ago with one of the creators of family therapy, Dr. Salvador Minuchin. Since then, she has maintained a busy private practice in New York City. She lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

David Keith is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. He has been in practice for 45 years. He lives in Manlius, New York.

Cover coming soon

Shows how mental distress is often caused by relationship imbalance, not chemical imbalance.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2023

224 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8272 7

eBook

978 1 5381 8273 4

Psychology • Mental Health

Photo by averie woodard on Unsplash.

Living with Depression

Why Biology and Biography Matter

Along the Path to Hope and Healing, 2nd Edition

By Deborah Serani

Essential to help sufferers and their loved ones do more than just cope.

In the fully updated second edition of Living with Depression, Deborah Serani outlines the vari-ous forms of depression, describes the different treatments, and outlines methods for living with depression and getting the help you or a loved one needs.

Deborah Serani, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist in practice over twenty years and an adjunct professor at Adelphi University, New York. She is a go-to media expert on a variety of psycho-logical issues and writes for Psychology Today and many more.

The Fearful Mind

A Psychological Portrait of Our Most Misunderstood Emotion

By Alby Elias

Argues that fear is a motivating force rather than a despicable emotion.

In sharp contrast to the existing literature, this book argues that fear, overriding all other emotions, operates relentlessly in the unconscious mind as a motivating force and renders life compatible with survival. Fear appeals can bring healthy behavioral changes; the stronger the appeal, the more persuasive it is.

This book expands the concept of eustress, a positive reaction to stress, and describes the beneficial aspects of fear. The book gives a twist to the conventional view of fear as an unwanted emotion and draws a new hypothesis that fear is the primary emotion and a constant psychological operative, a lack of which poses dangerous consequences.

Uncertain

The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure

By Maggie Jackson

How the gifts of not-knowing offer us a remarkable antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our day.

Understanding when and how to be unsure is what distinguishes a superior expert from one who is merely good enough. By learning to wield uncertainty with skill and care, we can deftly navigate conflict and surprise, bolster our memory and creative imagination, and gain resilience.

Featuring cutting-edge research and in-depth reporting, this paradigmshifting book shows us how to skilfully confront the unexpected and unknown, and how to seek notknowing in the service of curiosity, wisdom, and discovery.

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her pioneering writings on social trends, particularly technology’s impact on humanity. She lives with her family in New York and Rhode Island.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023 • 264 pages

8 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7982 6

eBook 978 1 5381 7983 3

Psychology • Mental Health

Prometheus January 2023

Hardback 978 1 6338 8936 1

Psychology • Emotions

Rights exclusion: Translation, Foreign English Reprint (excluding Canada)

Prometheus January 2023 • 272 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8918 7

Psychology • Social Psychology

Cover coming soon

Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash.

Marriage in the Bible

What Do the Texts Say?

By Jennifer Bird

Marriage in the Bible is an honest and candid engagement with the Christian Bible. In clear and accessible language Jennifer Bird invites readers to be open about what these biblical stories, laws, commands, and sayings meant in their original contexts before trying to decide how to handle them in our current ones.

The first part of the book addresses four passages that many Christians believe define “biblical marriage”: being intended for procreation, only between a man and a woman, anti-divorce, and holy or sacred, rooted in the parallel drawn by Paul between the Christ-Church connection and marriage. In the second part of the book, Bird offers crash course on what marriages in the Bible actually look like, including additional content from Jesus and Paul that is anything but positive about marriage. The final section of the book highlights several of the themes in the Bible that are still alive and well, today, themes that have an impact on relational and social expectations of men and women, though most detrimentally for women.

Marriage in the Bible asks readers to take these passages and their messages seriously, to consider the ways they influence beliefs and behaviors, and to decide if marriage as it is described in the Bible is helpful and healthful for people today.

Jennifer Bird received her PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt University. She has been writing, teaching, speaking, leading workshops, and creating videos for faith communities on what the Bible does and does not say about marriage since 2012, when North Carolina passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Explores the passages that many people turn to in order to defend “biblical marriage,” and illuminates what marriages actually look like in the Bible.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2023

200 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 2105 4

eBook 978 1 5381 2106 1

Religion • Biblical Commentary / General

The Wonder of Genetics

The Creepy, the Curious, and the Commonplace

By Richard V. Kowles

This refreshingly clear layperson’s overview of genetics shows how heredity actually works and how it is studied in plants and animals, clearly explaining these concepts without an overload of technical jargon. The author devotes separate chapters to such popular topics as: the genetic differences between males and females, the potential effects of radiation on the human genome, eating irradiated or genetically modified foods, cloning, genetic therapy, stem-cell research, nature vs. nurture, and how genes are related to many diseases, psychological disturbances, and possibly other behaviors. The book concludes by addressing common misconceptions about genetics and emphasizing the discipline’s potential for curing some diseases, extending human lifespan, enhancing medicine and agriculture, and generally improving society.

The layperson’s introduction to genetics.

Prometheus

November 2023

337 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 6338 8946 0

eBook

978 1 6161 4262 9

Science • Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics

Uncovering the Hidden Connections Between Life and the Universe

By Nicholas Golledge

We live in a world where things come and go, rise and fall, grow and decay, tracing out cycles of change that are ordered and predictable. But amongst those wellbehaved rhythms hide other phenomena, pulsing and fizzing and refusing to play by the same rules. Earth and the life upon it have evolved over billions of years to be right where we are now only because of feedbacks that pushed those systems until they broke. And then those systems adapted, reorganized, and rebuilt. With each new cycle of growth it was feedbacks that created order from disorder and gave rise to a world perfectly optimized for everything it needed to be. Now the latest scientific research is revealing that the exact same patterns that describe plate tectonics, evolution, and mass extinctions also emerge in the heartbeat of our everyday lives, underpinning everything from the cohesion of our social networks and personal relationships to our emotional well-being and spiritual beliefs.

In Feedback, we embark on a backstage journey revealing how these lesser-known processes keep us operating right where we need to be, poised at the edge of chaos. In a world simultaneously threatened with social and environmental disasters this journey uncovers the hidden connections that unite us not just to those around us but also across vast scales of time and space to the very fabric of the universe.

Nicholas Golledge is an internationally recognized climate scientist based in Wellington, New Zealand. He uses a combination of field, laboratory, and computerbased techniques to answer fundamental questions about how the Earth works. He is frequently interviewed for television, radio, and print media and his work has been covered by publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Geographic

How the power of feedback initiates adaptation, reorganization and reconstruction.

Prometheus

January 2023

250 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8933 0

eBook

978 1 6338 8934 7

Science • Philosophy & Social Aspects

Kepler and the Universe How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy

By David K. Love

A colourful portrait of a key figure of the Scientific Revolution.

A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This colorful, wellresearched biography brings the man and his scientific discoveries to life, showing how his contributions were every bit as important as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton.

Intermingling historical and personal details of Kepler’s life with lucid explanations of his scientific research, this book presents a sympathetic portrait of the man and underscores the critical importance of Kepler’s discoveries in the history of astronomy.

Shadows of Science

How to Uphold Science, Detect Pseudoscience, and Expose Anti-Science in the Age of Disinfor-mation

By Kendrick Frazier

In his final book, science journalist Kendrick Frazier shares his experiences, his knowledge and insights, and his love and passion for our ability to learn.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antago-nists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science).

Kendrick Frazier was a science journalist. He was editor of the Skeptical Inquirer and Science News and author or editor of ten books. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Prometheus

February 2024 • 254 pages

Trade paperback 978 1 6338 8947 7

Previously published in hardback 978 1 6338 8106 8

eBook 978 1 6338 8107 5

Science • History

Prometheus

January 2024 • 256 pages • 2 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 6338 8938 5

eBook 978 1 6338 8939 2

Science • Philosophy & Social Aspects

I’m Speaking

Every Woman’s Guide to Finding Your Voice and Using it Fearlessly

By Jessica Doyle-Mekkes

Imagine a world without the voices of Maya Angelou, Malala Yousafzai, Gloria Steinem, your mother, your best girlfriend, your midwife, your hair stylist. Do you know a woman whose voice isn’t essential to her career, her family, the world? Women’s voices are essential, and they are powerful. Every woman can harness that power.

I’m Speaking is every woman’s guide to creating a clear, confident voice that is authentically hers and then using it fearlessly. Full of effective, efficient, brainscience-based ways to make positive changes to your voice, in your head and coming out of your mouth, this book also teaches the reader how to fearlessly use that voice, personally and professionally: ask for what you want and get what you need, speak up against toxicity, communicate everything better, have the difficult conversations, and cultivate resilience.

Think of how much more centered and confident you would be knowing that you can deliver your message in a voice that makes people want to listen to you. Knowing that, regardless of situation, you can speak clearly and confidently, stay on track (or get back on), relax your body, and even enjoy the moment you’ve worked so hard for. Your voice is the secret weapon to success you’ve always had, but never knew how to use, until now.

Jessica Doyle-Mekkes is the Head of Musical Theatre at East Carolina University, North Carolina. She also runs a private voice studio for both professional singers and executive speakers. A vocal coach, researcher, and accomplished performer, she has spent the last 15 years studying the power of the human voice. Jessica lives in Greenville, NC with her husband Don, their daughters Tallulah and Jolie, and a co-dependent chihuahua named Sebastian.

Gives women the exact tools necessary to solve the common vocal problems they face, and literally reprogram their brains and bodies to be more confident when speaking.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

208 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7916 1

eBook

978 1 5381 7917 8

Self-Help • Personal Growth / SelfEsteem

Controlling Mental Chaos

Harnessing the Power of the Creative Mind

By Jaime A. Pineda

For centuries, spirituality has told us that the answer to life’s problems lies within us, if only we would realize that we are more than what we imagine. Now, scientific understanding is showing us the way.

For humans, anxiety is the background “fever” that never breaks but can often get much worse. Whether the causes are individual, relational, cultural, or pandemic problems, when they occur, they affect our ability to live a joyful and creative life. This often means getting mired in uncontrolled mind loops and incessant circular thinking, making us feel helpless and stuck.

In this book, Jaime Pineda shows how the dynamics of anxiety and incessant rumination reflect uncontrolled creativity, and how using simple, time-tested techniques we can learn to control the chaos and recover our creative nature. The key to the solution is to understand that the intellect only helps to some extent, but by itself cannot solve its own problem. What we need is a mind that can, in a nonjudgmental way, distance itself from the thought patterns that trap us. We are born with an incredible, original mind that quickly becomes obscured by the fever of fear and anxiety. But we can recover this mind quickly. Pineda teaches us how to recognize the basic problem and find the solution through a series of steps and techniques that help bring us out of the loops and recover a cleaner mindset that enables us to move beyond the static of anxiety.

Jaime Pineda, PhD, is Professor of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. For 28 years, he directed the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory where he explored the relationship between mind and brain.

How to distance oneself from the thought patterns that trap us and achieve a cleaner mindset for a more joyful life.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

232 pages

10 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7980 2

eBook

978 1 5381 7981 9

Self-Help • Anxieties & Phobias

Escaping Addiction Resetting the Brain for Success

By Patrick Bordeaux and George F. Koob, illustrated by Melanie Baillairge

The key to escape addiction is to deconstruct the intense pleasure memories linked to it and to create new memories of happiness with others. This book presents helpful tools to accomplish this mission. Our goal is to motivate patients to change their operating mode, give hope to their families and improve the work of those taking care of them.

Addiction is a worldwide curse that seems to be growing in seriousness on a yearly basis. While to the general public addiction may seem almost inescapable, the truth is that there are solutions to overcoming the various addictions, though to date they seem more elusive than attainable. Escaping Addiction highlights the variety of causes of addiction alongside an array of useful tools anyone can use to break the cycle of addiction, whether it’s to alcohol, drugs, food, or video games. The seeds of addictive behavior are often planted in childhood then fed to grow over years of the input and reward cycle. Detaching the rewards from the addictive input is key to breaking the habits that keep us addicted. Here, the authors present the variety of treatments—from medications to therapeutic approaches—that can help. Offering a better understanding of the mechanisms of addiction, this book can help anyone struggling with addiction to unravel it in their own lives.

Patrick Bordeaux, MD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, and practices Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Quebec.

George Koob, PhD, has been Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) since 2014.

Presents a variety of effective tools to break the cycle of addiction.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

296 pages

31 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8074 7

eBook

978 1 5381 8075 4

Self-Help • Substance Abuse & Addictions / General

Nation Women Negotiating Islam

Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Twentieth Century

By C. S’thembile West

Nation Women Negotiating Islam highlights that Black women modeled diverse ways of agency and executing their roles in the nation-building project of the Nation of Islam. Informants candidly discussed their roles as women who were members of the Nation family between 1955 and 2000. In their personal and collective struggles to maintain a revolutionary consciousness in their homes and community, Nation women demonstrated that women need not be and were not totally submissive to Black men, as they assumed respectable status as wife or mother.

C. S’thembile West highlights that activism need not exclude motherhood or marriage and that the home constituted a “house of resistance,” as described in Angela Davis’ seminal 1971 article “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.” In sum, the role of Black women as mothers, teachers, and custodians of freedom consciousness had and has a significant impact on individual households and communities.

Nation Women Negotiating Islam illuminates the intricate threads that connect Nation women as a critical component of the continuum of Black women’s activism, despite disparate strategies.

Untold stories of women in the social project of the Nation of Islam reveals an activism that sought to engage self-agency, despite classist, patriarchal, and sexist underpinnings.

Lexington Books

May 2023

234 pages

Part of the Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies series

Hardback

978 1 7936 4237 0

eBook

978 1 7936 4238 7

Social Science • Ethnic Studies / African Studies

C. S’thembile West is professor emerita at Western Illinois University.

The Making of a Smart City in Korea

The Quest for E-Seoul

Edited by Hojeong Lee, Jaehyeon Jeong and JoongHwan Oh

Cutting across diverse disciplines, such as economics, sociology, public administration, public policy, urban design and planning, urban engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and tourism research, The Making of a Smart City in Korea provides empirical evidence on how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul—the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. The contributors show how shifting a traditional city into a digital one has brought about noticeable changes in the governance, econom-ics, arts, and cultures of Seoul.

This edited volume on the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s quest for e-Seoul provides great resources for many cities worldwide to seek to benchmark this particular type of smart city, as well as for all those academics in the related fields to learn it theoretically and empirically, given that Seoul has systematically pushed different stages and strategies of the smart urbanization.

Hojeong Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Film and Theatre at San Jose State University.

Jaehyeon Jeong is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah Asia Campus.

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

How Seoul has interpreted and developed the notion of the smart city.

Lexington Books

May 2023

370 pages

81 illustrations

Part of the Korean Communities across the World series

Hardback

978 1 6669 3185 3

eBook

978 1 6669 3186 0

Social Science • Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies

Electronic Dance Music From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry

By Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture’s emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture industry. Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens explore the concept of “commodified resistance” as the mechanism by which the movement’s politically dissident features were removed and its place as a multi-billion-dollar industry made possible. Ultimately, this text advocates the continued utility of the culture industry thesis through an empirical analysis of the EDM subculture.

Christopher T. Conner is non-tenure track teaching assistant professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

David R. Dickens was professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for thirty-eight years.

A critical exploration of EDM’s transition from marginalized deviant subculture to a billiondollar culture industry.

Lexington Books

March 2023

150 pages

30 illustrations

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Music and Society series

Hardback

978 1 7936 2039 2

eBook

978 1 7936 2040 8

Social Science • Popular Culture

Sex Work in Contemporary Russia

A Cultural Perspective

By Emily Schuckman Matthews

Sex Work in Russia weaves together a wide range of materials to examine the figure of the female sex worker in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present day. This book offers readers both an expansive and nuanced discussion of the significance of this archetypal female who appears with remarkable frequency in literature, film, and other cultural productions. Emily Schuckman Matthews explores the ways in which the fictional sex worker (and her real-life counterpart) has become a symbolic representative of social and moral instability, economic volatility, political, social, and ideological revolutions, and changing concepts of gender, sexuality, and the nation itself. Focus is given to the movement of the female sex worker from marginal foil to a hero in her own right, even finding a voice of her own in recent years. Works featuring this alluring and complex figure reveal critical insights into the changing position of women and other marginalized people in a volatile Russia.

Offers critical insights into the significance of the figure of the female sex worker and women’s lives in Russia.

Lexington Books

March 2023

292 pages

25 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6669 1594 5

eBook

978 1 6669 1595 2

Social Science • Prostitution & Sex Trade

Emily Schuckman Matthews is associate professor of European studies at San Diego State University, California.

The Complexities of American Indian Identity in the Twenty-First Century

By Sean M. Daley and Christine Makosky Daley, with Ryan Goeckner and Jason Hale

What makes contemporary Native identities?

Between 2011 and 2015, over 700 Native Americans from across the United States participated in a mixed-methods study that delved into modern-day American Indian identities. Using the perspectives, voices, and stories of these participants, the authors document how contemporary Native peoples feel, define, and contribute to the construction of Native identity on topics such as col-onization, tribal enrollment, blood quantum, language, spirituality, family, and community.

Sean M. Daley is co-founder and director of the Institute for Indigenous Studies at Lehigh University. Christine Makosky Daley is professor and chair of the department of community and population health in the College of Health at Lehigh University, as well as the co-founder of the Institute for Indigenous Studies at Lehigh University.

Lexington Books

March 2023 • 164 pages • 20 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 7936 4387 2

eBook 978 1 7936 4388 9

Social Science • Anthropology / Cultural

Until Our Lungs Give Out Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

By George Yancy, foreword by Tim Wise

Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power.

This collection of searingly honest interviews with leading intellectuals includes conversations with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Peter McLaren. Learning how to speak about such topics as white supremacy, anti-BIPOC racism, and fear of critical race theory, readers will be better able to join future conversations with their peers, those in power, and those who need to be empowered to change the status quo.

George Yancy is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books, including Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America. He is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times’ philosophy column, The Stone. Yancy lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is professor of philosophy at Emory University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023 • 376 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7642 9

eBook 978 1 5381 7643 6

Social Science • Activism & Social Justice

Re-Centering Women in Tourism Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies

Edited by Frances Julia Riemer, foreword by Florence E. Babb

Reframes the very presuppositions on which tourism initiatives are based and helps imagine sustainable and regenerative alternatives.

This book addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. Placing a unique and long overdue theoretical frame around tourism, this volume contributes to conversations on the engagement of women in tourism by centering women’s multivalent lived experiences in tourism projects. Examining eco-tourism, craft production, and food tourism initiatives, the contributors embrace the building of new knowledge and advocate for change.

Frances Julia Riemer is professor of educational foundations and associate faculty and director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Northern Arizona University.

Lexington Books

June 2023 • 236 pages • 5 illustrations

Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series

Hardback 978 1 6669 0106 1

eBook 978 1 6669 0107 8

Social Science • Anthropology / General

Slaves among Us

The Hidden World of Human Trafficking

By Monique Villa, foreword by Evelyn Chumbow

Exposes the horrific world of modern slavery.

Monique Villa shows us the world of slaves—no longer physically in chains—who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation. Her moving book, giving voice to survivors of this horrific trade, vividly illustrates dire situations we can do something about. Her call to action outlines concrete steps in order to outlaw and eliminate modern slavery. Now with a foreword by trafficking survivor Evelyn Chumbow, of The Human Trafficking Legal Center.

Monique Villa is former CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is ranked among the world’s 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere. She was ranked fourth in the UK’s 2018 Top 100 Modern Slavery Influencers’ Index. She lives in London.

Rights sold: Japanese

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2023 • 216 pages • 8 illustrations

Paperback 978 1 5381 8045 7

Previously published in hardback with dust jacket 978 1 5381 2728 5

eBook 978 1 5381 2729 2

Social Science • Human Trafficking

The Voices of Baseball

The Game’s Greatest Broadcasters Reflect on America’s Pastime, Updated Edition

By Kirk McKnight

With careers spanning two to three times that of an average player, baseball’s best broadcasters have no shortage of history to offer. They have witnessed opening days, no hitters, slugfests, and perfect games, all from arguably the best seats in the house. Broadcasters know their clubs, their stadiums, and their teams in a way that no one else can.

In The Voices of Baseball, Kirk McKnight provides an in-depth look at each of Major League Baseball’s thirty ballparks from the perspectives of the game’s longesttenured story-tellers. Fifty broadcasters reflect on their most iconic calls, fondest memories, what makes their ballparks unique, and more. This updated edition includes 14 additional broadcasters, two new stadiums, the latest World Series calls from the booth, and a special tribute to the recently-departed Vin Scully. With decades of broadcasting between them, their stories encapsulate some of Major League Baseball’s biggest moments. Generations of baseball fans will all enjoy the historic and triumphant memories shared by some of the game’s greatest broadcasters in The Voices of Baseball.

Kirk McKnight is an American author specializing in interview-based sports books ranging from the diamonds of baseball to the Zamboni-swept ice of hockey. McKnight’s other books include The Voices of Hockey and Batting Clean: Why Dale Murphy Belongs in Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Kirk currently serves as the Staff Writer for The Wickenburg Sun, a weekly Arizona newspaper. He resides in Wickenburg, Arizona.

A fascinating tour of baseball’s greatest moments and iconic stadiums, told through the reminiscences of 50 play-by-play broadcasters.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2023

364 pages

26 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7701 3

eBook

978 1 5381 7702 0

Sports & Recreation • Baseball / History

Long Run to Glory

The Story of the Greatest Marathon in Olympic History and the Women Who Made It Happen

By Stephen Lane

On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history. By then, they had dominated their competition for at least five years, upending a century’s worth of preconceived notions of what marathoners could do. By decade’s end, they had lowered the world record a total of 13 minutes, won 27 major marathon titles, and swept every Olympic and World Championship held in the 1980s. And, in their careers, only once did all four—American Joan Benoit, Norwegians Grete Waitz and Ingrid Kristiansen, and Portugal’s Rosa Mota—square off in the same race: at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, in the first-ever Women’s Olympic Marathon.

Such was their talent that Benoit, the world record holder, entered the race as the underdog. She’d had knee surgery in April, and no one, least of all Benoit herself, was certain she could hold up for 26 miles against her three rivals. Waitz, the former world record holder, was the favorite—she had destroyed the field at the 1983 World Championships and had never lost a marathon she had finished. Kristiansen, who had beaten Waitz twice in the summer of 1984 (albeit at shorter distances), was considered the fastest woman in the race: she held world records at 5,000m and 10,000m, and would break Benoit’s marathon record in 1985. Mota had beaten Kristiansen at the 1982 European marathon championships and was already earning a reputation for raising her level in the biggest races.

Stephen Lane, the meet director for the Adrian Martinez Classic (considered the top professional track and field meet for distance runners on the East Coast), has coached track and field for twenty-five years. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Lyons Press

November 2023

272 pages

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 7302 3

eBook

978 1 4930 7760 1

Sports & Recreation • Running & Jogging

Benoit, Waitz, Kristiansen, Mota— and the story of the first women’s Olympic Marathon.

The Babe Book Baseball’s Greatest Legend

Remembered

By Ernestine Gichner Miller, foreword by Julia Ruth Stevens

Brings Babe’s personality and competitive spirit vividly to life.

His last game was more than seventy years ago, but Babe Ruth remains an American icon—the first superstar of sports. Named the Greatest Baseball Player of the Twentieth Century by the sports media, George Herman Ruth epitomizes the best of baseball history and is still one of the most beloved sports heroes of all time.

Babe Ruth’s daughter Julia Ruth Stevens adds a personal note in the book’s foreword.

Ernestine Gichner Miller is a women’s sports historian and was a member of the board of directors and chair of all women’s sport activities at the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum in Baltimore. She divides her time between New York City and Washington, D.C.

The Basketball Book of Why (and Who, What, When, Where, and How)

The Answers to Questions You’ve Always Wondered about Hoops

By Wayne Stewart

The perfect resource to settle arguments or to answer challenging trivia questions.

This book provides over 100 questions and detailed answers concerning the traditions, rules, and history of basketball. Organized by the sport’s three eras—its birth through 1945, the NBA from 1946 through 1999, and the game today—it answers questions about the sport at all levels, from college games to the Olympics. A bonus chapter provides a Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of basketball—the perfect resource to settle arguments or to answer challenging trivia questions.

Wayne Stewart is the author of thirtyeight books and hundreds of articles in sports. He lives in Lorain, Ohio.

The Hockey Book of Why (and Who, What, When, Where,

and How)

The Answers to Questions You’ve Always Wondered about the Fastest Game on Ice

By Martin Gitlin

A one-stop shop to all your questions on ice hockey.

This book provides a slew of questions and in-depth answers concerning the traditions, rules, records, and history of hockey. From the early days of hockey to the hugely popular game seen today, Martin Gitlin answers questions even the most knowledgeable fan may have pondered. Whether the topic is goalies or coaches, famous “firsts” or memorable moments, if a Who, What, When, Where, Why, or How? question is on your mind, this is the book for you.

Martin Gitlin is a multi-awardwinning veteran author and sportswriter. Gitlin lives in North Olmsted, Ohio.

Lyons Press

November 2023 • 224 pages

90 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7498 3

Sports & Recreation • Baseball / History

Lyons Press

January 2024 • 160 pages

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7276 7

eBook 978 1 4930 7277 4

Sports & Recreation • Reference

Lyons Press

October 2023 • 176 pages

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7092 3

eBook 978 1 4930 7093 0

Sports & Recreation • Reference

Walks of a Lifetime from around the World

Extraordinary Hikes in Exceptional Places

By Robert Manning and Martha Manning

Walking is simple, but it can also be profound. In an increasingly complex and frantic world, walking can help simplify and focus our lives. It is an elegantly sustainable form of recreation, deepens our understanding and appreciation of the world’s great cultural landscapes, stimulates our thinking, and makes us healthier and happier in the process.

In Walks of a Lifetime from Around the World, Bob and Martha Manning invite readers to join the walking community. Their book explains why, how, and where to walk, with an emphasis on multi-day, long-distance trails—walking vacations of a few days to a few weeks. The heart of the book is a series of first-hand descriptions of forty of the world’s great multi-day walks, spanning six continents, most U.S. states and Washington, DC, and ranging from inn-to-inn walks to backpacking treks. Many of these walks are among the world’s most iconic. Trail descriptions are richly illustrated with color photographs and maps.

Robert Manning is Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont where he taught the history, philosophy, and management of national parks and conducted a longterm program of research for the US National Park Service.

Martha Manning is an artist whose work is in-spired by the out-of-doors; her work has appeared in national shows and publications. Bob and Martha have lived, worked, and walked extensively in the national parks.

A must-read for all walking enthusiasts who yearn to explore the world.

Falcon Guides

December 2023

288 pages

409 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7237 8

eBook

978 1 4930 7238 5

Sports & Recreation • Hiking

Safecracker

A Chronicle of the Coolest Job in the World

By Dave McOmie

Like a character in a Hitchcock movie, Dave McOmie travels the country breaking into bank vaults, cracking jewelry store safes, and decoding unbreakable codes secured deep in govern-ment facilities. He’s never been arrested or charged with a crime, because—it’s his job!

Safecracker reveals a shadowy world where tumblers are twirled, skeletons are exposed, and longstanding mysteries are solved. You’ll ride shotgun with Dave for one crazy week, beginning with an impenetrable vault in Vegas with a midnight deadline, and ending with Prince’s ultra-secure music vault in the basement of Paisley Park. In between are factual stories that read like fiction: drilling the same model ATM from the notorious episode of Breaking Bad; meeting a mystery man from the Department of Defense at a remote location to crack two high security safes; chronicling the corruption and ineptitude that dogged efforts to develop the first electronic safe lock to guard our national secrets; tackling a hundred-year-old antique bank vault in downtown Salt Lake City, and more. What’s in all these safes and vaults? Gold and silver, drugs and cash, guns and ammo, family heirlooms and X-rated paraphernalia. And a few secrets that should have remained secret.

Dave McOmie is editor-at-large at The International Safecracker and a member of the Safe & Vault Technicians Hall of Fame. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Washington and resides in Washington State with his wife and children.

Readers follow a professional safecracker in his exciting job.

Lyons Press

February 2024

248 pages

23 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7629 1

Previously published in hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 5851 8

eBook

978 1 4930 5852 5

True Crime • Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions

Crime Time

Twenty True Tales of Murder, Madness, and Mayhem

By J. North Conway

Crime Time is a collection of 20 riveting, page-turning historic true crime stories from 1724 to 1913 covering a host of monstrous American and English criminals, their crimes and their punishment. It includes stories of criminals—men, women and children, whose gruesome tales have been obscured by the passage of time.

Jack Conway is the author of a dozen non-fiction books from a variety of publishers. He lives in Assonet, Massachusetts.

A riveting collection of historic true crime from America and England, spanning from the 18th to the early 20th century.

Lyons Press

January 2024

240 pages

21 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7192 0

Previously published in hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 5288 2

eBook

978 1 4930 5289 9

True Crime • Murder / General

Jukebox Empire

The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream

By David Rabinovitch

Jukebox Empire 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. 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.

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.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

December 2023

242 pages

16 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7259 9

eBook

978 1 5381 7260 5

True Crime • Organized Crime

Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash.

Informing with clarity, persuading with conviction.

The Brookings Institution and its scholars are known worldwide as a source for original and innovative thought in foreign policy, American politics and governance, current affairs, metropolitan policy, economics, and development. In turn, the Brookings Institution Press helps bring the knowledge and research by scholars from within and outside the Institution to a wider audience of readers, researchers, students, and policymakers through its books and journals. The Press publishes about forty books a year that harness the power of fact and rigorous research to start conversations, inform debates, change minds, and move policy.

Backlist highlights

Publishing has been an integral facet of the Brookings Institution mission since its founding in 1916. The Brookings Institution Press grew from its beginning as an outlet for institutional research to a full-fledged scholarly press publishing an impressive variety of peer-reviewed titles, and by 1958 it had joined the Association of American University Presses.

In recent years, the Press has published such exciting, successful titles as Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves, Diversity Explosion: How the New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America by William H. Frey, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Clifford Gaddy and Fiona Hill, and Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympic and the World Cup by Andrew Zimbalist—in other words, books that address real-world issues and get people talking.

The Rise of the Global Middle Class

How the Search for a Good Life Can Change the World

By Homi Kharas

The middle class is the most successful group in world history. Sometime before 2030, the fifth billionth person will join the middle class. What started a little over two hundred years ago as a search for a better life has fueled unprecedented global transformation. In his new book, Homi Kharas looks at how this powerful dream captivated generations through history, but its demands have led younger generations to ask if it is all worth it. Can the middle class continue to thrive, or will it falter under the stresses of automation, consumerism, pollution, and political strife?

Homi Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings.

The history of the middle class from its origins in Victorian England to present day India.

Brookings Institution Press

November 2023

192 pages

Hardback

978 0 8157 4032 2

eBook

978 0 8157 4033 9

Business & Economics • Economic Conditions

Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash.

Cover coming soon

Techlash

Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?

By Tom Wheeler

Hailed by Ken Burns as one of the foremost “explainers” of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler now turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation. In Techlash, he connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st-century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised.

Warning that today is not the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.

Businessman, venture capitalist, and former chairman of the Federal Communication Corporation during the Obama administration, Tom Wheeler is the author of several books including, most recently, From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future (Brookings, 2019). He resides in Washington, DC.

The case for balancing entrepreneurial innovation with the public good from one the foremaost expainers of technology.

Brookings Institution Press

December 2023

216 pages

7 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 0 8157 3993 7

eBook

978 0 8157 3994 4

Business & Economics • Free Enterprise & Capitalism

U.S.-Taiwan Relations

Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?

By Ryan Hass, Bonnie Glaser and Richard Bush

Anxiety about China’s growing military capabilities to threaten Taiwan has induced alarm in Washington about whether the United States remains capable of deterring attempts to seize Taiwan by force. This alarm has fed American impulses to alter longstanding policy, and to increasingly view challenges confronting Taiwan through a military lens. While Taiwan clearly is under growing military threat, it also is facing a simultaneous and intensifying Chinese political campaign to wear down the will of the Taiwan people. This latter line of effort receives less attention, but left unaddressed, has the potential to do far more damage to American interests.

This book rightsizes the risks confronting Taiwan by taking a holistic view of China’s national ambitions and Taiwan’s role in them, China’s strategies for pursuing unification with Taiwan, and America’s most effective responses. Contrary to many other books on the market, the authors make the case for why conflict in the Taiwan Strait is not preordained, and in fact, it would be strategic folly for the United States to conclude that conflict is inescapable. Hass, Bush, and Glaser argue that the center of gravity for determining the future of Taiwan is the will of Taiwan’s 23 million people. American policy should focus on their hopes and fears if the United States wishes to maintain influence over events in the Taiwan Strait.

Richard Bush is author of seven books, including most recently, Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life (Brookings Press, 2021).

Bonnie Glaser is Director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Ryan Hass is the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution.

An invaluable resource for students, researchers, and journalists to understand this critical moment in U.S. foreign policy.

Brookings Institution Press

April 2023

184 pages

4 illustrations

Hardback

978 0 8157 4034 6

Paperback

978 0 8157 3999 9

eBook

978 0 8157 4000 1

Political Science • International Relations / General

Japan’s Quiet Leadership Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

By Mireya Solis

Why has Japan emerged from the “lost decades” unscathed from the populist wave and a far more consequential actor in the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific?

In answering this question, Japan’s Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan’s domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country’s security profile. This deep dive into Japan’s trajectory over the last three decades underscores Japan’s hidden strengths in its democratic resilience, social stability, and proactive diplomacy; while reckoning with the profound challenges the nation faces: depopulation, rising inequality, voter disengagement, and threats to Asia’s long peace. The book traces the profound currents of change coursing through the Japanese polity and its external environment; and the myriad ways in which Japan’s experience has become more relevant to countries coping with slow growth, adverse demographics, adjustment to economic globalization, and the emergence of a powerful and assertive China. This is a story of Japan’s reinvention as a network power to overcome the harsh realities of diminishing relative capabilities.

Mireya Solís is Director of the Center for Policy Studies and Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Japanese foreign economic policy, regional integration in East Asia and U.S. economic strategy in Asia.

Illuminates where the Japanese polity, economy, and people are heading as we move past the Abe era, and well into the 2020s and beyond.

Brookings Institution Press

September 2023

232 pages

22 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 4026 1

Paperback 978 0 8157 3997 5

eBook 978 0 8157 3998 2

Political Science • World / Asian

Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash.

Cover coming soon

Autocracy Rising

How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism

By Javier Corrales

An alarming number of countries that once were seemingly stable democracies have veered in recent years toward authoritarianism—a trend known as “democratic backsliding.” One of those countries in Venezuela, which enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century but in the past two decades has increasingly descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse.

Autocracy Rising, written by a veteran scholar of Venezuela and Latin American politics generally explores how and why this happened. Corrales argues that Venezuela’s slide began with the policies of former president Hugo Chávez—policies that were based on government control of the economy and in turn generated a lingering economic crisis. After he succeeded Chávez in 2013, Nicolás Maduro not only entrenched the failed economic policies but also responded to various crises by establishing institutions that further undermined democracy. Each of Maduro’s responses may have solved a short-term problem but collectively they destroyed both any pretense of democracy in Venezuela and prospects for his own long-term success.

Corrales analyzes the lingering crisis in Venezuela by comparing it to twenty cases in Latin America where presidents were forced out of office. Regardless of how the current situation ends in Venezuela, his book illuminates the depressing cycle in which semiauthoritarian regimes become increasingly autocratic in response to crises, only to cause new crises that led to even greater authoritarianism.

Javier Corrales is the John E. Kirkpatrick 1951 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.

Traces Venezuela’s democratic backslide and analyses it in the Latin American context.

Brookings Institution Press

March 2023

256 pages

39 illustrations

Hardback

978 0 8157 4007 0

Paperback

978 0 8157 3807 7

eBook

978 0 8157 3808 4

Political Science • World / Caribbean & Latin American

Middle Eastern Maze Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022

By Itamar Rabinovich

Middle East Maze is an expanded and updated version of Itamar Rabinovich’s The Lingering Conflict, published by Brookings in 2012. This new book offers a unique narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process by a senior academic historian who has served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States and as a peace negotiator with Syria. Rabinovich places the Arab-Israeli relationship in the larger context of Middle Eastern regional and international politics. He also examines Iran’s and Turkey’s new roles in the region. An equally important place is given to the U.S. policy in the Middle East and to the U.S. special relationship with Israel.

This revised new edition covers the signing of the Abraham Accords, the new policies pursued by the Trump and Biden administrations, the full-fledged Syrian civil war, the heyday of the Islamic State, Russia’s military intervention in Syria, the Iranian nuclear drive, and the lengthy domestic political crisis in Israel.

Itamar Rabinovich is a distinguished nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. A professor and president emeritus at Tel Aviv University, he served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States and chief negotiator with Syria.

An insider’s analysis of the ArabIsraeli conflict and peace process.

Brookings Institution Press

March 2023

376 pages

Hardback

978 0 8157 4010 0

Paperback

978 0 8157 4011 7

eBook

978 0 8157 4012 4

Political Science • World / Middle Eastern

Red Arctic Russian Strategy Under Putin

By Elizabeth Buchanan

Renewed tensions between Russia and the West have fueled speculation that Moscow’s apparent designs on the Arctic region could help stimulate a new cold war. Vladimir Putin’s openly nationalistic ambitions, as demonstrated most vividly with his seizure of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, might seem to justify such concerns.

This book by a noted expert shifts the debate over Russia’s strategy from what Moscow could do in the Arctic to the realities of what Putin’s Russia likely will do. Buchanan challenges the widely held assumption that the Arctic is emerging as one of the most important strategic theaters in a potentially dangerous new cold war between Russia and the West. In fact, she explains that Putin’s Arctic aspirations rely heavily upon continued international cooperation via commercial partnerships with Western energy firms and Eastern injections of capital—all of which could be at risk in a new cold war.

Three main themes are intertwined throughout the book: Russian Arctic interests; Putin’s vision to regain great power status; and the emerging narrative of a new cold war in the Arctic. Weaved together, they dovetail to present a qualitative assessment of Russian Arctic strategy devoid of ideological biases. The unique departure for the book is that it makes the case that Russia’s renewed great power ambitions under Putin are not the only explanation for Russian Arctic strategy.

Elizabeth Buchanan is lecturer in strategic studies at Deakin University based at the Department of Defense’s Australian War College, Canberra. She specializes in Arctic and Antarctic geopolitics and Russian foreign energy strategy. She is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point.

Explores the broader context of Putin’s actions.

Brookings Institution Press

March 2023

224 pages

20 illustrations

Hardback

978 0 8157 4004 9

Paperback

978 0 8157 3888 6

eBook

978 0 8157 3889 3

Political Science • World / Russian & Former Soviet Union

America and the Yemens A Tragic Encounter

By Bruce Riedel

The first in-depth review of America’s role in the Yemeni civil war.

This book provides a history of US relations with the various entities of north and south Yemen, and the first in-depth review of America’s role in the deadly Saudi directed war in the Yemens. Three Presidents—Obama, Trump, and Biden—have been deeply involved in this conflict. Riedel places this current war in the context of America’s history of engaging with the Yemens. America and the Yemens is of interest to readers seeking to have a better understanding of America’s role in the Middle East and the tragic encounter that has created the worst humanitarian catastrophe in our lives.

Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution where he specializes in the Middle East and South Asia. He resides in Chestertown, Maryland.

Brookings Institution Press

September 2023 • 96 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 4013 1

eBook 978 0 8157 4014 8

Political Science • International Relations / General

Small Isn’t Beautiful The Case against Localism

By Trevor Latimer

Exposes the disadvantages of localism beyond slogans and marketing.

“Local” has become synonymous with good. Trevor Latimer’s, however, argues that “localism” is based on an “undeserved aura of respectability, virtue, and good sense” and can produce results that are misguided or even dangerous. Particularly when it comes to public policies, decisions made at the local level are rarely superior and are sometimes unjust. Latimer exposes the supposed “virtue” of localism as a hodgepodge of weak arguments and misleading hunches.

Trevor Latimer received his PhD in Politics from Princeton University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Georgia and Dartmouth College.

Brookings Institution Press

February 2023 • 288 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 3971 5

Paperback 978 0 8157 4048 3

eBook 978 0 8157 3972 2

Political Science • General

Photo by Saif Albadni on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Hand-Off

The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama

Edited by Stephen J. Hadley, Peter D. Feaver, William C. Inboden and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, preface by Condoleezza Rice and Stephen J. Hadley, foreword by President George W. Bush

Provides unprecedented access to recently declassified Transition Memoranda of the Bush administration.

Hand-Off details the Bush administration’s national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council experts who advised President Bush.

Stephen J. Hadley served for four years as the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 2005 to 2009. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Hadley was the Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, serving under then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He resides in Washington, D.C.

Brookings Institution Press

February 2023 • 774 pages

Hardback with dust jacket 978 0 8157 3977 7

eBook 978 0 8157 3978 4

Political Science • American Government / Executive Branch

Military History for the Modern Strategist America’s Major Wars Since 1861

By Michael O’Hanlon

Combines brevity and clarity with a broad conceptual approach, for students of security studies as well as generalist policymakers.

In this timely book, esteemed military expert Michael O’Hanlon examines America’s major conflicts since the mid-1800s: the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He presents America’s wars on a conceptual level, focusing on strategies, key decisions, innovative technologies and the dynamics that shaped their outcomes. O’Hanlon looks for overarching trends and themes, along with the lessons for the military strategists and political leaders of today and tomorrow.

Michael O’Hanlon holds the Phil Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at Brookings, where he also is director of research and director of the Talbott Center in the Foreign Policy Program. He teaches at Columbia and Georgetown universities.

Brookings Institution Press

January 2023 • 416 pages • 10 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 3983 8

eBook 978 0 8157 3984 5

History • Military / Strategy

Digitally Invisible How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

By Nicol Turner Lee

More than one-half of the world’s 7.7 billion people still do not have access to the Internet, including millions of people in the United States, which has led the digital revolution. Most of these non-adopters—whether by choice or circumstance—are poor, less educated, people of color, older, or living in rural communities. As the digital revolution is quickly carving out this other America, it’s likely that these people on the margins of the information-based economy will fall deeper into abject poverty and social and physical isolation.

Based on fieldwork across the United States, this book explores the consequences of digital exclusion through the real-life narratives of individuals, communities, and businesses that lack sufficient online access. The inability of these segments of society to exploit the opportunities provided by the Internet is rapidly creating a new type of underclass: the people on the wrong side of a digital divide. The book focuses on the places in America where technology is widening the gaps among social classes, racial and ethnic minorities, and urban and rural communities.

The author offers fresh ideas for providing equitable access to existing and emerging technologies. Her ideas potentially can offset the unintended outcomes of increasing automation, the use of big data, and the burgeoning app economy. In the end, she makes the case that remedying digital disparities is in the best interest of U.S. competitiveness in the technology-driven world of today and tomorrow.

Nicol Turner Lee is a fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where she and specializes in legislative and regulatory policies targeting telecommunications and high-tech industries.

Real-life consequences of the digital divide, and what can be done to close it.

Brookings Institution Press

August 2023

220 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 3898 5

eBook 978 0 8157 3899 2

Political Science • Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy

Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash.

Cover coming soon

Regulating Digital Industries How Public Oversight Can Encourage Competition, Protect Privacy, and Ensure Free Speech

By Mark MacCarthy

Essential reading for a coherent policy approach to today’s tech industry discontents.

This is the first book to address the tech backlash within a coherent policy framework. It treats competition, privacy and free speech as objectives that must be pursued in a coordinated fashion by a dedicated industry regulator. It argues for new laws and regulations to promote competition, privacy and free speech in tech and outlines the structure and powers of a regulatory agency able to develop, implement and enforce digital rules for the 21st century.

Mark MacCarthy is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, & Technology Program.

Brookings Institution Press

October 2023 • 416 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 4015 5

Paperback 978 0 8157 3981 4

eBook 978 0 8157 3982 1

Business & Economics • Industries / Computers & Information Technology

The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World

Edited by Tarik M. Yousef and Adel Abdel Ghafar

For policymakers, academics, researchers at think tanks and non-governmental organizations, and everyone who is interested in the GCC region.

This policy-oriented book of essays by noted scholars and experts considers the key trends shaping GCC countries, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic, to climate change, economic disruptions, demographics and other domestic concerns, and shifts in the global order.

Tarik M. Yousef was a non-resident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. His professional career has spanned the academic world, the public policy arena, and more recently the NGO space. Adel Abdel Ghafar was a nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. His research interests include statesociety relations, socio-economic development and foreign policy in the MENA region.

Brookings Institution Press

March 2023 • 310 pages • 26 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 4005 6

Paperback 978 0 8157 3953 1

eBook 978 0 8157 3954 8

Political Science • World / Middle Eastern

Cover coming soon

Photo by Rodion Kutsaiev on Unsplash.

Backlist Highlights

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

Rights sold: Russian, Polish, Audio, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Vietnamese

Rowman & Littlefield

December 2018

264 pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 2843 5

Previously published as hardback

978 1 4422 7781 6

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978 1 6338 8825 8

Biography & Autobiography •

Entertainment & Performing Arts

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

“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.

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Taylor Trade Publishing

December 2016

272 pages

Hardback

978 1 6307 6250 6

Business & Economics • Motivational

The Next Millionaire Next Door Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth

By Thomas J. Stanley PhD and Sarah Stanley Fallaw PhD

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.

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October 2020

272 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 5275 2

Previously published as hardback

978 1 4930 3535 9

eBook

978 1 4930 3536 6

Business & Economics • General

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

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.

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Rowman & Littlefield

July 2019

320 pages

Part of the World Social Change series

Paperback

978 1 5381 2703 2

Hardback

978 1 5381 2702 5

eBook

978 1 5381 2704 9

History • Modern / General

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants

Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By Garrett Ryan

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

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Prometheus

September 2021

288 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8702 2

eBook

978 1 6338 8703 9

History • Ancient / Rome

Power & Choice An Introduction to Political Science

By W. Phillips Shively

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.

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Rowman & Littlefield

October 2018

464 pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 1412 4

eBook

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Political Science • Political Ideologies / General

A 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.

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

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Sheed & Ward

January 2010 • 368 pages

Paperback 978 1 5805 1228 2

Previously published as hardback 978 1 5805 1227 5

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Religion • Christian Theology / History

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Rowman & Littlefield

February 2019 • 344 pages

Paperback 978 1 5381 2180 1

Previously published as hardback 978 1 4422 5332 2

eBook 978 1 4422 5333 9

History • Europe / France

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.

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.

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.

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Rowman & Littlefield

December 2021 • 392 pages

Paperback 978 1 5381 5141 9

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Social Science • Discrimination & Race Relations

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Rowman & Littlefield

January 2019 • 336 pages

Part of the Media Philosophy series

Paperback 978 1 7866 0053 0

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Philosophy • Movements / Critical Theory

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Rowman & Littlefield

June 2018 • 298 pages

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Philosophy • Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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.

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Prometheus

September 2002 • 200 pages

Hardback 978 1 5910 2015 8

eBook 978 1 6159 2276 5

Literary Collections • Letters

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.

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Prometheus

April 2007 • 280 pages

Paperback 978 1 5910 2522 1

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Science • Relativity

Leonardo’s Brain Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius

By Leonard Shlain

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

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Lyons Press

December 2015

240 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 0939 8

eBook

978 1 4930 1557 3

History • Europe / Renaissance

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

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.

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Taylor Trade Publishing

April 2013

144 pages

Paperback

978 1 5897 9808 3

eBook 978 1 5897 9936 3

Architecture • Reference

Math Makers

The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians

By Alfred S. Posamentier and Christian Spreitzer

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

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Prometheus

April 2020

440 pages

Paperback 978 1 6338 8520 2

eBook 978 1 6338 8521 9

Mathematics • History & Philosophy

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. Rights sold: Arabic

Prometheus

January 2010 • 400 pages

Paperback 978 1 5910 2771 3

eBook978 1 6159 2019 8

Science • Chemistry / General

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.

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.

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Prometheus March 2011 • 472 pages

Paperback 978 1 6161 4453 1

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Science • Experiments & Projects

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Prometheus

September 2020 • 162 pages

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Mathematics • Geometry / General

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.

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.

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Jason Aronson, Inc.

December 1992 • 254 pages

Paperback 978 0 8766 8290 6

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Psychology • General

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Jason Aronson, Inc.

July 2022 • 286 pages

Part of the Empowering You series

Paperback 978 1 5682 1051 3

eBook 978 1 4616 3157 6

Psychology • General

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.

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Lyons Press

May 2016 • 300 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 1879 6

eBook 978 1 5992 1577 8

Political Science • Intelligence & Espionage

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.

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Prometheus

February 2018 • 355 pages

Paperback 978 1 6338 8349 9

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Psychology • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist

How to End the Drama and Get On with Life

By Margalis Fjelstad

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.

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Rowman & Littlefield

August 2014

232 pages

Paperback

978 1 4422 3832 9

eBook

978 1 4422 2019 5

Psychology • Mental Health

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.

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.

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Sheed & Ward

December 2007 • 264 pages

Hardback 978 1 5805 1224 4

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Religion • General

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Prometheus

May 2006 • 239 pages

Paperback 978 1 5910 2410 1

eBook 978 1 6159 2139 3

Psychology • Social Psychology

Everyday Bias

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

By Howard J. Ross

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).

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Rowman & Littlefield

September 2020

214 pages

Paperback

978 1 4422 5865 5

eBook

978 1 5381 4229 5

Family & Relationships • Prejudice

The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever

Need

Twenty-First-Century Edition

By Joanna Martine Woolfolk

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

Rights sold: Italian, Vietnamese, Russian, Complex Chinese

Taylor Trade Publishing

January 2013

560 pages

Paperback

978 1 5897 9653 9

eBook

978 1 5897 9691 1

Body, Mind & Spirit • Astrology / General

Stella Adler

The Art of Acting

By Howard Kissel

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.

Rights sold: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese, French, Spanish, Audio, Russian, English in Indian Subcontinent

Applause

November 2000

288 pages

Hardback

978 1 5578 3373 0

Performing Arts • Acting & Auditioning

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.

Rights sold: Spanish

Taylor Trade Publishing

March 2016 • 32 pages

Board book 978 1 6307 6164 6

Previously published as hardback 978 0 8735 8828 7

eBook 978 1 4617 4240 1

Juvenile Fiction • Imagination & Play

Rights sold: Spanish, Simplified Chinese

Taylor Trade Publishing

February 2011 • 32 pages

Hardback 978 1 5897 9542 6

eBook 978 1 4617 4117 6

Juvenile Fiction • Social Issues / Friendship

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