University of Chicago Press 2022 Reading Catalog

from Chicago

Exquisite Books

Hilma af Klint A Biography

Julia Voss

Translated by Anne Posten

“Voss’s dazzling and timely biography of Hilma af Klint explores not only the life of this extraordinary artist but highlights the important contributions of both mysticism and women artists—so long excluded from the art-historical canon—to the story of modern art. I couldn’t put it down.”

—Jennifer Higgie, author of The Mirror and the Palette

“The indispensable resource for anyone interested in pioneering artist Hilma af Klint. . . . Voss reveals a Hilma we did not know, including a gender fluidity that underlies many of her motifs.”—Linda Henderson, University of Texas at Austin

2022 440 p. 6 x 9 44 color plates, 49 halftones

1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68976-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Phenomena

Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas

Giles Sparrow

Foreword by Martin Rees

The expansive and intricate Atlas Coelestis, created by Johann Doppelmayr in 1742, set out to record everything known about astronomy at the time, covering constellations, planets, moons, comets, and more, all rendered in exquisite detail. This oversized book presents 30 beautifully illustrated and richly annotated plates from Doppelmayr’s atlas, accompanied by expert analysis from astronomer Giles Sparrow. Through stunning illustrations, historical notes, and scientific explanations, Phenomena creates a spectacular handbook to the heavens.

2022 256 p. 101/2 x 143/8 600 color plates

2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82411-6 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50

From the Seashore to the Seafloor

An Illustrated Tour of Sandy Beaches, Kelp Forests, Coral Reefs, and Life in the Ocean’s Depths

Janet Voight and Peggy Macnamara

“Look upon these majesties of marine life, read about them, learn something about them—and be grateful you were born on the blue planet. . . . The minds and the eyes of these two journeying women will take you places you haven’t been.”—David Quammen

2022 144 p. 8 x 6 76 color plates

3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81766-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Trees From Root to Leaf

Paul Smith

Foreword by Robert Macfarlane

“Smith’s stunning prose and fabulous illustrations make his book, Trees, an essential volume for both tree lovers and tree professionals. He not only celebrates trees, but also interweaves amazing facts and essential biology about these essential woody denizens of our planet. From seeds to leaves and form, bark, wood, flowers, and fruits, the book is an inspirational journey through the stories of diverse trees, and their impact on humankind. I loved it!”

—Margaret Lowman, Executive Director, TREE Foundation

2022 320 p. 91/8 x 111/8 500 color plates

4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82417-8 $49.95 Your Price: $34.96

My Three Dads

Patriarchy on the Great Plains

Jessa Crispin

“Crispin’s erudite analysis and biting wit make this multifaceted history unmissable. Searing and intelligent, this delivers on all counts.”—Publishers Weekly

“By challenging a host of societal assumptions about family, identity, gender, religion, and politics, the author upends an array of notions about American exceptionalism. A fascinating and engaging cultural study.”—Kirkus

2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2

5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82010-1 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

Victories Never Last

Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

Robert Zaretsky

“It’s magical how much Zaretsky covers while zigzagging swiftly and deftly through the literature, history, and philosophy of plagues. Interludes about his volunteer work in a nursing home add a real-life, charming, absurdist atmosphere to the big ideas of thinkers like Marcus Aurelius or Albert Camus. For those of us who’ve been trying to face and process what we’ve just gone through, Victories Never Last serves to kick our thinking up a notch. His writing is a model of scholarship at its finest: lucid, learned, down-to-earth, and honest.”—Scott Samuelson, author of Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering 2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2

6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80349-4 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

The Nutmeg’s Curse Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

“Illuminating. . . . [Ghosh] wants us to reckon with broader structures of power, involving ‘the physical subjugation of people and territory,’ and, crucially, the ‘idea of conquest, as a process of extraction.’ The world-as-resource perspective not only depletes our environment of the raw materials we seek; it ultimately depletes it of meaning.”—New Yorker

“Ghosh weaves together travel writing, personal narrative, historical analysis, and synthesis of expansive scholarship to tell a story about Western empire and the extermination of our world.”

Los Angeles Review of Books

2022 336 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones

7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82395-9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

On Not Knowing How to Love and Other Essays

Emily Ogden

“Right now, our political and aesthetic discourse seems less a genuine conversation than a competition of mutually exclusive certainties. How wonderful it is to read Ogden, a writer who says that ‘the question mark’s business with me will never be finished’ and means it.”—Atlantic

“On Not Knowing is many things: a brilliant close reading of motherhood; a tonic counter to ‘self-help’ books; an intimate, unsentimental tribute to children; and an extended riff on how we make meaning with language. What is most extraordinary is how Ogden takes a surface moment of the everyday and deftly turns and deepens it until she arrives at a space of luminous complexity.”—Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward: A Novel 2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2

8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75135-1 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20

Audubon at Sea

The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon

Edited by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King

“While of course best-known for his definitive depictions of American birdlife, John James Audubon also wrote about his extensive travels at sea, from the American South to the shores of England and the frozen Canadian North. This is as much an ecological account as a narrative of his travels, however, with Audubon’s concerns for the natural world still relevant today.”—Bookseller

2022 352 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 38 halftones

9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75667-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Black Paper Writing in a Dark Time

Teju Cole

“In essays ranging on topics from Edward Said to the US –Mexico border to Black Panther, Cole interrogates what it means to bear witness in a turbulent world.”—New York Times

“In this erudite collection of observations written over the past three years, art historian Cole meditates on art, identity, politics, and literature to decipher ‘the fractured moment in our history.’” Publishers

The Education of Betsey Stockton

An Odyssey of

Slavery and Freedom

Gregory Nobles

“Nobles’ biography of Betsey Stockton returns to us an astonishing heroine of early America. Born into slavery in New Jersey, Stockton gains freedom, literacy, and a new life as a Christian missionary and teacher in Hawai’i before her return to eastern North America as a teacher and, in Princeton, a founder of the town’s First Presbyterian Church of Color and a pillar of the community. Nobles’ pageturning narrative greatly expands our understanding of the ‘freedom dreams’ of African Americans in the pre-Civil War United States.”—Leslie M. Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626 –1863

2022 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones

11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69772-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Nation That Never Was Reconstructing America’s Story

Kermit Roosevelt III

“Astute textual analysis, careful historical research, and a deep commitment to social justice make this an inspiring reexamination of America’s past.”

Publishers Weekly

“Roosevelt proposes that we . . . attempt a national enterprise to atone for our original sin through targeted investment in Black and other marginalized communities, which ‘offers the possibility of a real transformation.’ . . . [The book is] a novel way of reading our founding documents and revising them as both law- and nation-building myths.”—Kirkus

2022 256 p. 6 x 9

12 Cloth

ISBN: 978-0-226-81761-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Black in White Space

The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life

Elijah Anderson

“A must-read for anyone seeking a lucid discussion of American race relations.”—William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

“Black in White Space is an elegantly composed, brilliant, and intimate look at how Black people are seen in and navigate through predominantly white spaces. This will be an extremely useful text— particularly as we grapple with what diversity means in its substance as an aspiration.”

—Imani

Perry, Princeton University

2022 272 p. 6 x 9 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65723-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

City of Newsmen

Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War

Washington

Kathryn J. McGarr

“With crisp, fluent prose and an eye for telling detail and quotations, McGarr tells an engrossing story of the Washington press during a critical time in world affairs. She sets up her tale with vivid portraits of the early capital, the evolution of the gentlemen’s club of foreign correspondents, and their close but contentious relations with US officials through the early Cold War. McGarr’s archival work has netted a wealth of revealing vignettes and quotations, smoothly woven together in her crisp writing.”

—Robert Weisbrot, coauthor of The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change during the 1960s

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones

14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66404-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

A Conspiratorial Life

Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

Edward H. Miller

“Traces the origins and history of the John Birch Society and, in the process, provides historical perspective on the far-right populism of the Trump era. . . . On the whole, as Miller’s book makes clear, Republican politicians of the early 1960s were more eager to court the John Birch Society than to distance themselves from it.”—New York Review of Books

“Offers a good angle from which to appraise the fractured state of American conservatism.”

Financial Times

2022 464 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44886-2 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Pulp Empire

The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism

Paul S. Hirsch

“As Hirsch outlines in Pulp Empire, comics have always been entwined with capitalism, race, and foreign policy. . . . Hirsch makes an important inroad into not only understanding the cultural politics of the Cold War, but in the forces that led to the omnipresence of comic book motifs in the present.”

The Progressive 2021 344 p. 6 x 9 44 color plates, 6 halftones

16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35055-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Who Is the City For?

Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago

Blair Kamin

Photography by Lee Bey

“No one can match Blair Kamin and Lee Bey’s sustained scrutiny and deep understanding of Chicago architecture over the last three decades and beyond. . . . Who Is the City For? is compelling reading for anyone interested not just in Chicago, but in significant trends—both good and bad—in contemporary architecture and city life more broadly.”—Carl Smith, author of The Plan of Chicago

2022 312 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones

17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82273-0 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30

Every Goddamn Day

A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago

Neil Steinberg

Every day in Chicago is a day to remember, from the dedication of the Pablo Picasso sculpture downtown on August 15, to the arrest of Rod Blagojevich at his Ravenswood home on December 9, or a fire that possibly involved a cow on October 8. In Every Goddamn Day, acerbic Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg provides 366 captivating daily readings in Chicago history, creating a compelling narrative that can be read at a sitting or in a yearlong series of daily doses.

2022 408 p. 51/2 x 81/2 61 halftones

18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77984-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

Lisa D. Schrenk

“An image-rich dissection of the nine years Wright worked from his shaded suburban block, coming into his own within the local design world.” Chicago Tribune

“In this remarkable and informative new book, Schrenk shows what Wright had up his sleeve at his Oak Park Studio—a talented team of architects, artists, and designers who helped him produce a masterpiece a year.”—Kevin Harrington, Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology

2021 336 p. 81/2 x 11 179 halftones, 1 table

19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31894-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Beat Cop

Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music

Michael O’Malley

“Five million Irish people came to the US in the century following 1820. Without the efforts of police chief Francis O’Neill, much of their musical heritage might have vanished. As Chicago’s ‘beat cop’—in O’Malley’s wonderfully felicitous phrase—Chief O’Neill uncovered, traced, and classified Irish folk music in America, preserving but also inventing a unique tradition. Vivid, eloquent, and highly engaging, The Beat Cop sparkles with insights about immigration, community, and popular culture.”

—Kevin Kenny, author of The American Irish: A History

2022 344 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones

20 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81870-2

$27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Making the Second Ghetto

Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960

Arnold R. Hirsch

“Hirsch’s deeply transformational book lays out how a perfect storm of racism, redlining, and public policies formed Chicago and other American cities. If you want to understand what came after the 1960s, you have to understand what came before them. . . . Every sector of the city—its business interests, its government, its people, and sometimes even its churches—have employed particular weaponry to effect a single goal: the subjugation of Black people. It hasn’t changed.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of We Were Eight Years In Power

2021 400 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones

21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72851-3 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Foxconned

Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government

Lawrence Tabak

“A gripping and necessary postmortem on one of the biggest economic development fiascos of our time. Tabak applies a critical lens on the enormous quasipublic industry of business recruitment and how it can be exploitative—shockingly so—especially in job-starved postindustrial regions.”—Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

2022 280 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables

22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82405-5 $17.00 Your Price: $11.90

Redefining Geek

Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens

Cassidy Puckett

“Essential. . . . Puckett draws on a deep data set to redefine what it means to be competent with technology, bust a pile of myths much in need of busting, and offer clear steps for helping students develop the habits they need to succeed in life, work, and play. This book will guide how we tackle digital inequality and support the learning process of young people of all races, ethnicities, and genders for years to come.”—John Palfrey, president, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

2022 320 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 10 tables

23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73269-5 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Unworking

The Reinvention of the Modern Office

Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross

“This book could not be more timely as the world grapples with what the post-pandemic workplace should look like. Myerson and Ross give us a scholarly yet deeply engaging account of the past, present, and future shape of the office. Essential reading for those planning the new office environment— and anyone who’s going to have to live in it.”

—Rory Cellan-Jones, author of Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2022 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 46 halftones

24 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-668-4 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Gen Z, Explained

The Art of Living in a Digital Age

Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, and Linda Woodhead

“This extraordinarily rich and empathetic account of Gen Z offers a groundbreaking understanding of this generation’s habits and motivations without reducing them to the sum of their posts and tweets. . . . Parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about our future as a society should read this deeply informed contribution to the research on Gen Z.”

—Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids

Thrive and Survive in Their Digital World

2021 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 7 tables

25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79153-1 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

The Book of Minds

How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

Philip Ball

“A journey into the concept of the mind, mixing neurology, philosophy, technology, and other disciplines. Although everyone has a mind, few experts agree on its makeup. Ball delivers a fine investigation of the possibilities. . . . Many of his topics are among the hottest in neuroscience today, explored by scores of academics and popularizers such as Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio, and Daniel Dennett. Building on their theories and others, Ball makes a useful addition to the literature. A difficult subject lucidly illuminated, if not fully explained.”—Kirkus 2022 512 p. 6 x 9

26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79587-4 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20

Seeing Silicon Valley

Life inside a Fraying America

Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner

“In uber-rich Silicon Valley, [Meehan’s] camera captures those struggling to survive.”—Washington Post

“It is a Silicon Valley rarely described and never shown that photographer Mary Beth Meehan sought to document. . . . Without descending into pathos, she reveals the striking contrasts between the world of start-ups and that in which their employees live. . . . But underneath, Meehan also depicts another, more subtle dissonance—between the way Silicon Valley sees itself, and the way it really is.”—Le Monde 2021 112 p. 10 x 7 67 color plates

27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78648-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Modern Myths

Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

Philip Ball

“[Ball] makes a persuasive case that myth isn’t gone but can be found in stories closer to our current obsessions such as science and technology, globalization and individual psychology. . . . His provocations to debate are among the book’s many pleasures.”

Wall Street Journal

“Ball does an impressive job with the literary histories behind each iconic title, assembling a set of origin stories rich in cultural history and imagination.”—New York Times Book Review

2021 368 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones

28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71926-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Power in the Wild

The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others

Lee

Alan Dugatkin

“A scrupulously scientific but highly accessible tour of power’s manifestations among caribou, bonobos, deer, dolphins, hyenas, meerkats, mice, mongooses (mongeese?)—and those are just some of the mammals. . . . True to its title, Power in the Wild doesn’t address Homo sapiens. But the anthropocentrically inclined will find that the power dynamics of nonhuman animals offer plenty of insight into our own, distorted a bit as in a funhouse mirror. For the open-minded, Dugatkin’s depiction of power in the wild yields a stunningly provocative reflection.”

Wall Street Journal

2022 208 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 1 halftones, 1 tables

29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81594-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Platypus Matters

The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Jack Ashby

“Ashby reveals marvelous creatures, and the mysteries and myths surrounding them.”—BBC Wildlife

“Ashby makes the case that Australia’s wildlife is not a collection of oddities and species that can kill you. . . . He explores how this traditional narrative about Australia’s native animals arose, how it is incorrect, and why it matters. Some of the species met along the way, including echidnas, wombats, Tasmanian devils, and scaly-tailed possums, leave lovely impressions that will be lasting portrayals. Both serious and fun, Platypus Matters is compelling reading.”—Kristofer M. Helgen, chief scientist and director, Australian Museum Research Institute

2022 400 p. 6 x 9 23 color plates, 14 halftones

30 Cloth

ISBN: 978-0-226-78925-5 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30

We Are All Whalers

The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

Michael J. Moore

“A fascinating memoir by a marine biologistveterinarian who has devoted his entire life to developing methods for saving wild whales in distress, especially critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.”—Forbes

2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 33 halftones

31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80304-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Red Leviathan

The Secret History of Soviet Whaling

Ryan Tucker Jones

“American environmentalists are inclined to see the United States’ Cold War opponent as a villain. Telling the story of the Soviet role in modern whaling, Jones complicates this perspective by acknowledging the Soviets’ disproportionate impact while also looking beyond it. . . . From the first attempts at whaling in Peter’s Russia to the protest era and pushback against whaling by Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherds, Red Leviathan combines thorough research and great storytelling to fill a necessary gap in the history of global whaling.”

—Jakobina K. Arch, author of Bringing Whales

Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones

32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62885-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

The Elements A Visual History of Their Discovery

Philip Ball

“In this fascinating visual history of the elements, Ball spans over 3,000 years of scientific discovery, from the classical era of Plato to the present day. Each element and story behind their discovery has been told in detail with the use of engaging images including scientific firsts in photography, as well as interesting artifacts and some beautiful historical drawings.”—BBC Science Focus

2021 224 p. 71/2 x 93/4 200 color plates

33 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77595-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

What’s Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions

Paul Davies

“Brilliant. You won’t find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together.”—Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything

“A whirlwind tour through the vastness of space and the innermost recesses of subatomic matter. . . .

Like the immense void that gapes across the sky in the direction of the constellation Eridanus, a yawning emptiness that some have suggested may be the sign of another universe set to gobble up our own, the mysteries of space are so vast and so strange that we cannot but be amazed.”—Wall Street Journal

Where Research Begins

Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)

Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea

Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out what to research in the first place, and why it matters.

2022 216 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones, 9 tables

35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81744-6 $18.00

Your Price: $12.60

On Revision

The Only Writing That Counts

William Germano

A trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of writing: revision.

2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones, 6 line drawings

36 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-41051-7 $45.00

Your Price: $31.50

Hyphens & Hashtags*

*The stories behind the symbols on our keyboard

Claire Cock-Starkey

Hyphens & Hashtags presents the histories and modern usages of punctuation marks and other symbols.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing

2021 192 p. 43/4 x 71/4

37 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-536-9 $22.50

Your Price: $15.75

Storycraft, Second Edition

The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

Jack Hart

The definitive guide to crafting narrative nonfiction.

2021 320 p. 6 x 9

38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73692-1 $18.00

Your Price: $12.60

Wordcraft

The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing

Jack Hart

One of the most broadly useful writing books ever written.

2021 280 p. 6 x 9 6 line drawings

39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74907-5 $18.00

Your Price: $12.60

Information Now, Second Edition

A Graphic Guide to Student Research and Web Literacy

Matt Upson, Holly Luetkenhaus, C. Michael Hall, and Kevin Cannon

A graphic guide that teaches students about information, research, and the web.

2021 136 p. 7 x 10

40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76611-9 $18.00

Your Price: $12.60

Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711–1851)

Bryan A. Garner

An exploration of a surprisingly combative period in the history of English grammar.

Distributed for The Grolier Club

2022 301 p. 71/2 x 91/4 496 color illustrations

41 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60583-092-6 $45.00

Your Price: $31.50

Great Literary Friendships

Janet Phillips

This volume explores 24 literary friendships in succinct, structured entries, from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing

2022 216 p. 5 x 73/4

42 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-582-6 $25.00

Your Price: $17.50

The Art of Verbal Warfare

Rik Smits

A funny and fascinating exploration of our reliance upon swear words, insults, and the artfully placed expletive—damn it!

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2022 528 p. 61/4 x 91/4

41 halftones

43 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-594-6 $35.00

Your Price: $24.50

Seneca

Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.

2021 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2

44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5 $16.00

Your Price: $11.20

The Pocket Stoic

John Sellars

Concise and accessible, The Pocket Stoic provides an introduction to the lives and thought of the key Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.

2020 64 p. 41/2 x 6

45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68296-9 $12.00

Your Price: $8.40

The Pocket Epicurean

John Sellars

A short, smart guide to living the good life through an introduction to the teachings of Epicurus.

2022 64 p. 41/2 x 6

46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79864-6 $12.50

Your Price: $8.75

Homer The Very Idea

James I. Porter

The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.

2021 280 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones

47 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67589-3 $27.50

Your Price: $19.25

Around the World in 80 Words

A Journey through the English Language

Paul Anthony Jones

A whimsical voyage through the English language, with stories of how 80 places came to be immortalized in words.

2020 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2

48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68279-2 $18.00

Your Price: $12.60

The Daily Henry David Thoreau

A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season

Edited by Laura Dassow Walls

A collection of more than 365 Henry David Thoreau quotations arranged by season.

2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2

49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62496-9 $12.00

Your Price: $8.40

The Daily Jane Austen A Year of Quotes

Edited by Devoney Looser

For Janeites, Mr. Darcy fans and detractors, and everyone else with a penchant for BBC costume dramas, this is the ultimate quotable source.

2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4

50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65544-4 $14.00

Your Price: $9.80

The Daily Sherlock Holmes

A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World’s Greatest Detective

Edited by Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani

The perfect bedside companion for fans of the world’s most famous consulting detective.

2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4

51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65964-0 $14.00

Your Price: $9.80

The Daily Charles Dickens A

Year of Quotes

Edited by James R. Kincaid

Daily doses of linguistic verve, wild humor, and heart-wrenching pathos drawn from the Dickens oeuvre.

2018 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4

52 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56374-9 $16.00

Your Price: $11.20

A Fan’s Life

The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat

Paul Campos

“A terrific account of the experience of the engaged sports fan. Campos is deeply and broadly informed about sports, of course, but he also thoughtfully and authoritatively weaves in politics, music, economics, criminal justice, and race relations. He consistently and effectively reminds readers of how changes in media and communication have inflected the contemporary fan experience, without ever letting us forget the personal story at this book’s core.”—David Henkin, author of The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

2022 208 p. 6 x 9

53 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82348-5 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Fit Nation

The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

“Petrzela has brought us an intellectually rich and delightfully informative history of how people in the United States have understood, obsessed over, and changed their bodies. In a thorough look at the trends, characters, and ideologies that have informed the body politic and the politics of bodies, Petrzela helps us recognize the weight of constant messaging from industries trying to convince the public to seek perfection endlessly. An important and enjoyable read.”—Marcia Chatelain, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

2022 432 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones

54 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65110-1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30

Tinker to Evers to Chance

The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America

David Rapp

“Vividly details the lives of all three players, weaving together how they converged in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. Along the way, Rapp tells the story of a changing America that became suddenly and almost inexplicably gripped with baseball fever.”— Chicago Magazine

2021 340 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones

55 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79024-4 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

Get in the Game

An Interactive Introduction to Sports Analytics

Tim Chartier

“Get in the Game is a playful and welcoming introduction to the interplay between sports and math. Assuming no math and using only a coin and a die, Chartier artfully illustrates why sports analytics matter through the simplest of questions: how do we measure greatness? This is a must-read for anyone curious about the analytical side of sport.”

—John Urschel, former NFL offensive lineman, coauthor of Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football

2022 160 p. 6 x 9 198 halftones

56 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81114-7 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Games People Played

A Global History of Sports

Wray Vamplew

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Games People Played is the culmination of a life spent working on the history of sports, and it ranges far and wide. . . . Vamplew is as informative and comprehensive as one could want. . . . An outstanding guide to [sport’s] role in history.”

Wall Street Journal

“A finely woven overview. . . . Readers interested in the history of sports in global context and the historical scholarship of sports will find much to pore over.”—Booklist

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In Praise of the Bicycle

Marc Augé

“In this playful (and playfully illustrated) little book, deftly translated by Teresa Fagan, a French anthropologist expounds on his love of cycling. On a bicycle, he asserts, ‘you become someone else, and yet you are yourself as never before.’ . . . [The bicycle] is a tool for the realization of humanism. . . . His argument is fast and incautious; he’s freewheeling and having great fun.”

New York Times Book Review

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Dangerous Fun

The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers

Ugo Corte

“The North Shore of O‘ahu is the Vatican of surfing: small in area but densely packed with lore, power, secrets, and great waves. Ugo Corte goes straight to the heart of one of its abiding mysteries—the subculture within the subculture—the exceptional people who ride very big waves. He illuminates surfers’ mentality, diversity, self-expression, social bonds, and rituals with dramatic narrative and extensive interviews.”—William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days

2022 272 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones

59 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82045-3 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Shifting Currents A World History of Swimming

Karen Eva Carr

“A fascinating story about swimmers and swimming across the world from antiquity to the present. In exploring the many ways that swimming has served as a marker of cultural and social difference, archaeologist and historian Carr has, in effect, produced a sweeping history of world civilizations from a new vantage point. Swimmers and non-swimmers alike will find much to enjoy in this learned, ambitious, and lively book.”—Nigel Nicholson, Reed College

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2022 472 p. 61/4 x 91/4 25 color plates, 74 halftones

60 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-578-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Bulls Markets

Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality

Sean Dinces

“The role of sports teams in revitalizing cities is too often taken for granted by sportswriters and urban commentators alike. In Bulls Markets, Dinces does the invaluable work of taking a no-holds-barred look at what the Michael Jordan Bulls meant to Chicago— both economically and emotionally—to determine once and for all what the city gained from a championship team, and which segment of a changing city reaped these spoils.”—Neil deMause, author of Field of Schemes

2022 336 p. 6 x 9 46 halftones, 25 tables

61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82102-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Doping A Sporting History

April Henning and Paul Dimeo

“A highly accessible and thoroughly researched historical account of doping and anti-doping in elite sport. Doping: A Sporting History demonstrates why the ‘cops and robbers’ account of doping, in which seemingly morally justified anti-doping crusaders are pitted against athletic ‘cheats,’ is both false and misleading. The authors make recommendations for genuine reforms that consider the lives of the most important members of elite sport—the athletes themselves.”—Ian Ritchie, coauthor of Fastest, Highest, Strongest: A Critique of High-Performance Sport

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BMW M

The Most Powerful Letter in the World

Edited by Andreas Braun

BMW M achieved spectacular victories on all the world’s famous racing circuits. The brand also produces a wide range of innovative high-performance limousines, many of which have achieved cult status and have become prized by collectors. This book tells the story of the fifty years of BMW M and shows what lies behind the “strongest letter in the world,” featuring drawing images, sketches, designs, and information directly from the archive of BMW.

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2022 304 p. 121/2 x 103/4 500 color plates

63 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3972-3 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50

Formula 1

Peter Nygaard

Since its first world championship in 1950, Formula 1 has held racing fans enthralled around the globe. In this book, motorsport historian, photographer, and collector Peter Nygaard opens his exclusive archives for the first time to tell the stories of this race’s illustrious history. Moving decade by decade and illustrated with more than 400 images, Formula 1 celebrates and illuminates more than 70 years at the pinnacle of motor racing.

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2022 480 p. 9 x 113/4 361 color plates, 77 halftones

64 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85443-320-6 $89.00 Your Price: $62.30

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Defying Hitler

The White Rose Pamphlets

Alexandra Lloyd

The White Rose (die Weiße Rose) was the name given to a resistance circle at the University of Munich in the early 1940s whose members secretly wrote and distributed anti-Nazi pamphlets. At its heart were undergraduate students, all of whom were executed in 1943 by the Nazi regime. Defying Hitler presents the White Rose resistance pamphlets in full, translated by modern-day students at the University of Oxford. Accompanied by sketches, photos, and letters, this volume sets the resistance texts within their political and historical context and commemorates the bravery of the White Rose.

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2022 160 p. 5 x 73/4 19 halftones

65 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-583-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

D-Day Through French Eyes

Normandy 1944

Mary Louise Roberts

“A moving examination of how French civilians experienced the fighting.”—Telegraph

“Roberts uses the diaries and memoirs of French civilians to narrate a history of the French at D-Day that has for too long been occluded by the mythology of the allied landing. . . . The switch of point of view from American to French is an exercise in empathy that renews history at the core. . . A gripping and artful book.”—Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French

2022 240 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 2 line drawings

66 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82107-8 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Hitler’s Tyranny A History in Ten Chapters

Ralf Georg Reuth

Hitler’s tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Reuth asks several key questions: Was anti-Semitism more pronounced in Germany than elsewhere? Was Versailles really responsible for Hitler’s rise and why did the Germans follow a racial fanatic like him? How did his war differ from all others before it? Reuth offers a fascinating counterpoint to much recent scholarship, showing that Hitler was not the consequence of the depths of German history, but the result of chance, deception, and seduction.

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The Last Consolation Vanished

The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

Zalmen Gradowski

A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz.

“The degradations of the death camps, and the prospect of his own imminent end, propel Zalmen Gradowski to an act of witness that rises now and then to Biblical heights of eloquence. To read this tragically riven collaborator in the Holocaust is to be shaken to the bone.”—J.

M. Coetzee

War and American Life

Reflections on Those Who Serve and Sacrifice

James Wright

“Critical reading for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be a United States citizen today. Wright possesses a deep historical consciousness, a gift for narrative, a sophisticated analysis of modern civilian and military relations, and a powerfully humanistic knowledge of the suffering of war. Marvelous, incisive, and fascinating work from a historian of great moral seriousness, and great emotional sensitivity.”—Phil Klay, National Book Award winner, author of Redeployment

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2022 264 p. 6 x 9

69 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-099-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Rommel

The End of a Legend

Ralf Georg Reuth

“The legend of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel—the Desert Fox—is threefold: he was a simple soldier who did his duty and knew nothing of Nazism; he was a commander of superlative talent who ran rings around the British in North Africa in 1941-42; he was a leader in resistance to Hitler and gave his life to the cause after the failure of the July 1944 plot. In this lucid, exemplary volume, Reuth shows that all three of these assumptions are false . . . and reveals the truth in a brilliant book.”—Independent Distributed for Haus Publishing 2020 230 p. 5 x 8 60 halftones

70 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912208-22-7 $14.95 Your Price: $10.46

Shadowland

The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners

Sarah Colvin

Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of Germany’s prisoners, and thereby shines new light on Germany itself. The story begins at the end of the Second World War, in a defeated country on the edge of collapse. While East Germany developed detention facilities for its secret police, West Germany passed prison reform laws, which erected, in the words of a prisoner, “little asbestos walls in Hell.” Shadowland is Germany as seen through the lives, experiences, triumphs, and tragedies of its lowest citizens.

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2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 29 halftones

71 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-627-1 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Dark Lens

Imaging Germany, 1945

Françoise Meltzer

“Meltzer’s meditation on her mother’s searing photographs of German ruins is bold yet subtle. . . . Meltzer suggests a way of looking at pictures of destruction without lapsing into either moral relativism or another cycle of blame and retribution.”

—Ulrich C. Baer, New York University

2021 256 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 41 halftones

72 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81685-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Sheer Misery

Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Mary Louise Roberts

“Roberts writes not about commanders and their strategies but about ordinary soldiers and their sufferings. . . . Gritty, intimate, and compelling, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the true character of warfare.”

—David M. Kennedy, author of Freedom From Fear

2021 208 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 4 maps

73 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75314-0 $23.00 Your Price: $16.10

Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma

Two Hundred Years of British–Russian Relations

David Owen

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2022 408 p. 6 x 91/4 2 maps

74 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-39-5 $29.95 Your Price: $20.96

Napoleon at Peace

How to End a Revolution

William Doyle

The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized revolutionary France: war, religion, and monarchy. Doyle shows how, as First Consul of the Republic, Napoleon resolved these issues: first by winning the war, then by forging peace with the Church, and finally by making himself a monarch. Napoleon at Peace ends by discussing Napoleon’s one great failure—his attempt to restore the colonial empire destroyed by war and slave rebellion.

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2022 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 halftones

75 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-617-2 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Troubled Water

A Journey Around the Black Sea

Jens Mühling

“[Mühling] explores nations ancient and nascent, meets everyone from marine scientists to cigarette smugglers, and digs into a history of neighborly conflict. It’s a brisk and brilliant tour, a reminder that ethnically mixed communities shaped these shores for hundreds of years, until they were torn apart by imperialists and nationalists.”—Telegraph

“Informative and often entertainingly wry. . . . The background to some of the tales [Mühling] relates—vanished kingdoms and khanates, and a scrap of Rome that outlasted even Byzantium—ought to stir any imagination.”—Wall Street Journal

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2022 320 p. 51/4 x 81/2 1 map

76 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-26-5 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46

Russia as Empire Past

and Present

Kees Boterbloem

Covering more than one thousand years of tumultuous history, Russia as Empire shows how the medieval empire of Kyivan Rus’ metamorphosed into today’s Russian Federation.

“An original synthesis and a stimulating overview of how Russia acquired and maintained its landbased empire.”—Brian Boeck, DePaul University

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2020 256 p. 51/4 x 81/4 25 halftones

77 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-291-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Freedom Seekers

Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

Simon P. Newman

“Newman’s painstaking research and luminous interpretation reveal a community of enslaved Black people in Restoration England, yearning to escape. Evocative prose and interactive illustrations enable us to imagine their flights on the streets of London, and also to perceive the arterial network of enslavers, merchants, investors, ship captains, and printers, who devised a novel way to repossess them: the runaway slave advertisement.”—Vincent Brown, author of Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

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2022 260 p. 61/4 x 91/4 20 color plates; 10 halftones; 5 maps, 3 tables

78 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912702-93-0 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

The Worm in the Apple

A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron

Christopher Tugendhat

“The switch of Conservative Party opinion on Europe was of profound and enduring significance to the UK and the EU. At the heart of this absorbing narrative of how and why it happened is a superb insider’s account of a critical moment in the story and one of the great might-have-beens of British history if Margaret Thatcher had been treated differently by the big figures in Europe after 1979.”

—Peter Hennessy, author of Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

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2022 256 p. 6 x 9

79 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-53-1 $29.95 Your Price: $20.96

Winters in the World

A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

Eleanor Parker

“In this wonderfully poetic journey through the Anglo-Saxon year, Parker offers a profound meditation on time and the world, nature and its seasons. Plunging the reader into the glorious cadences of Old English poetry with her supple translations, Parker brings to vivid life the terrors of winter, spring’s promise, the joyful warmth of summer , and the melancholy of autumn, powerfully connecting us with a rich and vital past that we have not quite lost.”—Carolyne Larrington, University of Oxford

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2022 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2

80 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-672-1 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Incomparable Realms

Spain during the Golden Age, 1500–1700

Jeremy Robbins

“A brilliant account of the Spanish monarchy in its ‘Golden Age,’ when it was the foremost power in Europe and ruled a global empire. This is an exceptional achievement by one of the very best cultural historians in the field, combining the art, architecture, literature, social values, political ideas, religious practices, and especially, the thought of Renaissance and Baroque Spain in a coherent and convincing synthesis. . . . Destined to become a classic of European cultural history.”—Edwin Williamson, author of The Penguin History of Latin America

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2022 464 p. 61/4 x 91/4 39 color plates, 31 halftones

81 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-537-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Outrageous!

The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education

Paul Baker

“As Baker sets out in this vivid look at the legislation and its effects, Section 28 represented ‘the culmination of the moral panic around homosexuality that took place over the 1980s.’ . . . Baker movingly recounts the more pernicious ways in which it affected the lives of gay people. . . . [His] chatty, tart tone and personal asides serve to throw the heady extremes of a not-so-distant era into even sharper relief.”—BBC History

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2022 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 36 halftones

82 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-561-8 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

Paul Baker

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2020 320 p. 5 x 73/4 39 halftones

83 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-294-5 $14.00 Your Price: $9.80

Partition

How and Why Ireland was Divided

Ivan Gibbons

“A must-read to understand why the Irish border continues to cast such a jagged shadow over the island of Ireland, from party politics to implementing Brexit.”—Peter Hain, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

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Afghanistan

A History from 1260 to the Present, Expanded and Updated Edition

Jonathan L. Lee

“A comprehensive history of a storied nation held together by an alliance of tribal and political groups that threatens to dissolve at any moment. . . . Anyone seeking to understand a complex, even bewildering part of the world will benefit from Lee’s careful account.”—Kirkus

“Lee has spent a lifetime studying this troubled region, and his account of Afghanistan’s history is almost dizzying in its power shifts and conflicts. . . . [An] epic story.”

—Washington Independent Review of Books

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2022 784 p. 61/4 x 91/4 138 halftones

85 Paper

ISBN: 978-1-78914-588-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Tazmamart

18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison

Aziz BineBine

“This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underground cell in a prison thought to be a mere horror story: Tazmamart. For 18 years, no one knew where the prison’s inmates were. No one knew if they were even alive. . . . Set to become a cult classic of survival literature, Tazmamart is a hellish journey through the abyss of despair—and out the other side.”

Institut Français

“A powerful tribute to human fortitude and imagination. . . . Perfect reading for incarcerated times.”— Guardian

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2022 179 p. 5 x 8

86 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913368-13-5 $14.95 Your Price: $10.46

A Short History of Beijing

Jonathan Clements

A guide to the history of China’s capital, from before its rise to prominence as the seat of empires to the 2022 Winter Olympics.

“The perfect book for the visitor to Beijing.”

—Rana Mitter, author of Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

“Clements comes well stocked with tales that will be new even to long-time residents.”—Financial Times

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ISBN: 978-1-913368-46-3 $18.95 Your Price: $13.26

The Worst Leaders in Military History

Edited by

John M. Jennings and Chuck Steele

“This book examines a rogues’ gallery of military leaders from across history who may be judged to have failed as a result of their own errors rather than through the brilliance of an opposing commander. Some of them failed in terms of strategic vision and planning, some because of tactical ineptitude, and others as the result of serious flaws of character. . . . On it goes, a tally of tragedy inflicted on troops and civilians alike by leaders at best inept, and at worst immoral, in their behavior.”

History of War

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2022 336 p. 61/4 x 91/4 16 halftones

88 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-583-0 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80

Tibet

A History Between Dream and Nation-State Paul Christiaan Klieger

“Klieger’s Tibet is a complex, storied survey of the mountainous homeland of the Dalai Lama. . . . With the epic sweep of a historical saga, Tibet chronicles centuries of invasions, geopolitical intrigues, assassinations, triumphs, and defeats. . . . Engrossing, detailed, and enhanced by beautiful thangka paintings, photographs, and antique maps, [this book] reveals the glories and trials of a beleaguered yet enduring land.”—Foreword

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2021 324 p. 61/4 x 91/4 58 color plates, 42 halftones

89 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-402-4 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00

Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty

The History and Legacy of Ancient India’s Greatest Empire

Colleen Taylor Sen

“A readable and comprehensive history of the greatest empire of ancient India. . . . Sen introduces us to the rise, apogee, and fall of the dynasty, with particular attention to its most famous monarch, Ashoka. Alongside a factual narrative, she discusses Ashoka in Buddhist legend, and the legacy of the Mauryas in the Buddhist world, colonial South Asia, and modern India. A fascinating appendix tells the story of the ‘rediscovery’ of the long-forgotten historical Mauryas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”—John

E. McLeod, University of Louisville

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2022 296 p. 61/4 x 91/4 20 color plates, 42 halftones

90 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-596-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Egyptomania A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Ronald H. Fritze

Egyptomania excavates our enduring enthrallment with the land of the pharaohs—from Napoleon’s motives for invasion to the global fascination with King Tutankhamun.

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2021 448 p. 61/4 x 91/4 50 halftones

91 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-348-5 $20.00

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A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures

Maria Golia

A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves.

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2022 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 27 color plates, 48 halftones

92 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-629-5 $27.50

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Tutankhamun Excavating the Archive

The Griffith Institute

Tutankhamun offers an intimate insight into the records of one of the world’s most famous archaeological discoveries.

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93 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-585-7 $45.00

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Laughing Shall I Die Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings

Tom Shippey

Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death, showing that Vikings were not peaceful explorers and traders, but warriors, marauders, and storytellers.

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2021 368 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

94 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-217-4 $18.00

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Gladius

The World of the Roman Soldier

Guy de la Bédoyère

Gladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.

2022 352 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 4 tables

95 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82390-4 $19.00

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The Making of a King

Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks

Robin Waterfield

Waterfield takes us to third century BCE Greece, writing the first book in more than a century to tell in full the story of Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas.

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 8 maps

96 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61137-2 $27.50

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Egypt Lost Civilizations

Christina Riggs

Examining the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt, an illuminating look at why it has been so influential throughout the centuries.

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2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 31 color plates, 15 halftones

97 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-587-8 $18.00

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The Inca Lost Civilizations

Kevin Lane

From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca.

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2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 45 color plates, 8 halftones

98 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-546-5 $25.00

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The Maya Lost Civilizations

Megan E. O’Neil

An illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries.

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2022 296 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 color plates, 24 halftones

99 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-550-2 $25.00

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Eaters of the Dead Myths and Realities of Cannibal

Monsters

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, this book is a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism.

2021 276 p. 61/4 x 81/4 43 halftones

100 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-444-4 $22.50

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Calling the Spirits A History of Seances

Lisa Morton

From Halloween expert Morton, a levelheaded and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead.

2022 352 p. 5 x 73/4 59 halftones

101 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-649-3 $14.00

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Where Light in Darkness Lies

The Story of the Lighthouse

Veronica della Dora

An illuminating history of both real-life lighthouses and the beacons of literature and art alike.

2022 280 p. 61/2 x 83/4 65 color plates, 32 halftones

102 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-549-6 $35.00

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Sex in the World of Myth

David Leeming

In this survey of the sex lives of the world’s mythological figures, Leeming demonstrates that these myths offer answers to questions of religion, existence, and human sexuality.

2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 50 halftones

103 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-977-4 $25.00

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Ballroom

A People’s History of Dancing

Hilary French

A tune-filled, light-footed people’s history of ballroom dancing, from Vernon and Irene Castle and Arthur Murray to Dancing with the Stars

2022 304 p. 61/4 x 91/4 10 color plates, 60 halftones

104 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-515-1 $25.00

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The Fires of Lust Sex in the Middle Ages

Katherine Harvey

An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.

2021 320 p. 61/4 x 91/4 17 halftones

105 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-489-5 $27.50

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Paths of Fire

The Gun and the World It Made

Andrew Nahum

This book follows the history of the gun and its often-unsuspected wider linkages, looking from the first cannons to modern gunnery, and to the yet-to-be-realized electrical futures of rays and beams.

2021 248 p. 63/4 x 83/4 70 halftones

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Sub Culture

The Many Lives of the Submarine

John Medhurst

A deep dive into the significance of submarines, across everything from warfare and politics to literature and film.

2022 256 p. 61/4 x 81/4 56 halftones

107 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-637-0 $22.50

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Out of the Depths A History of Shipwrecks

Alan G. Jamieson

A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks, both ancient and contemporary. 2022 320 p. 61/4 x 91/4 29 color plates, 46 halftones

108 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-619-6 $35.00

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The Bonds of Inequality

Debt and the Making of the American City

Destin Jenkins

“The Bonds of Inequality goes a long way toward revealing the role of financial markets in the making of urban inequality. . . . Jenkins’s work gives us an opportunity to ask not only how public policy and private markets were related but also how the bond and real estate markets worked together. . . . Government, Jenkins contends in his innovative book, only made urban inequality with the help of capital markets.”—The Nation

2022 320 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 10 tables

109 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81998-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Gossip Men

J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation

Christopher M. Elias

“A juicy introduction to three of the most controversial figures in twentieth-century American politics. . . . Elias vividly describes the era’s political battles, tabloid magazines, and dramatic Senate hearings, and persuasively identifies the influence of the ‘surveillance state masculinity’ embodied by his three subjects on the political rise of Donald Trump.”

Publishers Weekly

2022 288 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones

110 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82393-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

None of Your Damn Business

Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Lawrence Cappello

“Calmly, clearly, and sensibly, Cappello shows us how privacy as a right—and as a legal concept— gradually evolved as America itself evolved from small, largely rural beginnings into today’s incredibly intricate, sophisticated mega-state driven by an equally intricate, sophisticated mega-economy.”

The Washington Times

“Tracing a century of debates on topics from national security to reproductive rights, None of Your Damn Business offers a lively, instructive account of Americans’ ambivalent (and often muddled) thinking about privacy.”—Sarah Igo, author of The Known Citizen

2022 352 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones

111 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81995-2 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

When the News Broke

Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

Heather Hendershot

In When the News Broke, Heather Hendershot revisits TV coverage of he 1968 Democratic convention—not only the violence in the streets, but also the tumultuous convention itself, where Black citizens and others forcefully challenged southern delegations that had excluded them, anti-Vietnam delegates sought to change the party’s policy on the war, and journalists and delegates alike were bullied by both Daley’s security forces and party leaders. This riveting, blowby-blow account reveals the convention as a pivotal moment in American political history that shattered the public’s trust in national news sources.

2022 400 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones

112 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76852-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Pushing Cool

Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

Keith Wailoo

“Tracking the evolution of a century’s worth of targeted marketing, this history documents the sinister engineering of a Black consumer preference for menthol cigarettes. Wailoo details how Big Tobacco placed billboards in inner-city neighborhoods, strategically funded Black enterprises, and marshalled a vast network of influencers—from Ebony to the NAACP—to yoke ideas of Black authenticity to smoking menthols.”—New Yorker

2021 392 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones

113 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79413-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Travelers, Tracks, and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life

From the Barriger Railroad Historical Collection of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association

Nicholas Fry

This richly illustrated look at the history of American railways showcases the profound changes the US railroad industry has wrought on the land and its people since the 1820s. Including a collection of fascinating artifacts, this book provides a multifaceted look at American railroads in all their locomotive glory.

Strata

William Smith’s Geological Maps

Edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

“As visually dazzling as a gem field. Bursting with full-color maps, illustrations and photographs, it presents the work of William Smith (1769-1839), who created the first geological map of England at a time when most people still believed the planet was just a few thousand years old. . . . If you know a geology nerd—or anyone interested in British history or fine books—Strata will make a spectacular gift.”

Washington Post

“As Strata peels back layers of history and ideas as well as rock, many readers will stand, as Smith did, in awe at the worlds below, the body of Earth itself.”—New York Review of Books

2020 256 p. 101/2 x 143/8 500 color plates

115 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75488-8 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50

A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps

Jeremy Black

Drawing on 100 key maps from the unparalleled collections of the British Library and other sources, this book provides a captivating overview of World War II from the air, sea, and sky.

“A spectacular reference source. . . . This scrupulous survey of early-1940s to mid-1950s cartography offers a full study of the war through posters and photos of communication lines, waterways, and troop movements, with text from government and media sources.”—Booklist

2020 256 p. 81/2 x 11 150 color plates

116 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75524-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

A History of America in 100 Maps

Susan Schulten

“Lavish and fascinating.”—Economist

“Maps often capture history much more economically than any narrative. This is Schulten’s premise, which she supports by offering 100 cartographic snapshots of America from the European arrival to the digital age.”—New York Times

2018 256 p. 81/2 x 11 120 color plates

117 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45861-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

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“Westward the Course of Empire”

Exploring and Settling the American West

J. C. McElveen, Jr.

In the nineteenth century, the exploration and settlement of the West exploded. During the 58 years between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War, the United States expanded from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and, in the far West, from the 32nd Parallel to the 49th. By the late 1850s, almost all of these areas had been mapped and explored. Among the many iconic maps featured in this book is Lewis and Clark’s map of the Northwest. Published in 1814, it remained the standard against which all mapping of that part of North America was measured for decades.

Distributed for The Grolier Club

2022 155 p. 12 x 9 color plates, maps

118 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60583-073-5 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Eternal City

A History of Rome in Maps

Jessica Maier

“Organized chronologically from Rome’s early beginnings to the present, this richly detailed history of Rome is focused through the lens of maps and cartographic images. . . . A fascinating account.” —Pamela O. Long, author of Engineering the Eternal City

“Maier’s lively, imaginatively organized, and accessible book displays how centuries of maps not only tell stories about the city’s physical development but also show how Rome’s narratives of itself— conflating eras, resituating buildings, compressing waterways—unfurled in self-mapping from antiquity to the Metro.”—Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University

2020 240 p. 81/2 x 11 140 color plates

119 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59145-2 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00

Time in Maps From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

Edited by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer

“

Time in Map s is a fascinating look at some of the many ways in which humans have tried to depict the passage of time in cartographic form. The handsome hardback is illustrated throughout with color images of historical maps. . . . For those fascinated by the history and modern implications of mapmaking, it’s rewarding reading.”—Fortean Times

2020 272 p. 81/4 x 10 25 color plates, 80 maps

120 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71859-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

How the Clinic Made Gender

The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

Sandra Eder

“A stunningly original book. Eder shows that the concept of gender was originally mobilized not in the feminist debates of the 1970s and ’80s but decades earlier by social scientists and clinicians in their engagement with intersex children at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. For the first time, we hear the stories of the children and their parents through Eder’s extensive quotations from personal medical records.”—Thomas W. Laqueur, author of Making Sex

2022 336 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

121 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81993-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Stethoscope

The Making of a Medical Icon

Anna Harris and Tom Rice

This book explores the colorful past, present, and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself—how did this come to be? Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology, and sound studies, the book illustrates the surprising variety of roles the stethoscope has played over time.

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2022 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 54 halftones

122 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-633-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Duel Without End

Mankind’s Battle with Microbes

Stig S. Frøland

“An excellent book on the large pandemics through history. . . . Demonstrates in a brilliant way how modern biomedical research has contributed to the battle against microbes.”—Nils Chr. Stenseth, University of Oslo

“Frøland takes us on a fascinating journey through hundreds of thousands of years, from the dawn of humanity to the exploration of space. . . . It is difficult to put it down.”—Dagen, on the Norwegian edition

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2022 640 p. 61/4 x 91/4 59 color plates, 89 halftones

123 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-505-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

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The Doctor Who Wasn’t There Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth

Jeremy A. Greene

“Beautifully written and deeply researched, this nuanced exploration of the promises and disappointments attached to once-new electronic media in medicine ranging from the telephone to the computer is also a rich framework for critical reflection on the present and future. A timely tour de force.”

—John Harley Warner, Yale University

“The Doctor Who Wasn’t There is a history of forgetfulness when it comes to the many tech fixes that have promised better care, more profit, and greater equity in medicine. . . . Reveals how the media of medical care are shaped by powerful and often competing interests.”—Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University

2022 336 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones

124 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80089-9 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30

How to Make a Vaccine An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond

John Rhodes

“A go-to guide for non-experts on vaccine development.”—Lancet

“At a time when online searches for books on vaccines are more likely to turn up misinformation than reliable literature, How to Make a Vaccine is a required primer that demystifies concepts and gives an informative overview of how vaccines are developed and how they work. An essential guide indeed.”—The Inquisitive Biologist

2021 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table

125 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79251-4 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

Rethinking Hypothyroidism Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do

Antonio C. Bianco, MD

“A true ‘whodunit’—a famous scientist discovers we have it all wrong and offers a primer on the contrarian thinking at the heart of scientific discovery.”

—David A. Ansell, MD, author of The Death Gap: How Inequality

Kills

“Rethinking Hypothyroidism validates what many patients knew, but the science was not confirming before. It will open the door for all to consider alternate treatments.”—Philip James, patient advocate, creator and host of “Doctor Thyroid”

2022 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2

126 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82316-4 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40

In the Name of Plants

From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Sandra Knapp

In this lush and lively book, celebrated botanist Sandra Knapp explores the people whose names have been immortalized in plant genera, presenting little-known stories about both the featured plants and their eponyms alongside photographs and botanical drawings. Knapp’s subjects range from Charles Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin (Darwinia), to US founding figures like George Washington (Washingtonia) and Benjamin Franklin (Franklinia). Including granular details on the taxonomy and habitats for 30 plants alongside its vibrant illustrations, this book is sure to entertain and enlighten any plant fan.

2022 192 p. 63/4 x 9 100 color plates

127 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82430-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Chasing Plants

Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains

Chris Thorogood

“Botanist Thorogood combines his two lifelong passions, painting and plants, in this marvelous account of his travels around the globe. . . . The realistic oil paintings that appear throughout are a testament to Thorogood’s careful attention to the flora, and the vivid descriptions will make readers feel like they’re on the hunt with him. This will be catnip for plant lovers.”—Publishers Weekly

2022 224 p. 6 x 9 40 color plates, 76 halftones

128 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82353-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Tropical Arctic Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland

Jennifer McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian Glasspool

“Ice-covered Greenland was named misleadingly by tenth-century Norse settlers hoping to attract others. But at the time of the dinosaurs, the label would have been accurate, judging from the fossilized plants intricately reconstructed and pictured in this fascinating study by palaeobotanists Jennifer McElwain and Ian Glasspool, with scientific illustrator Marlene Donnelly. They warn that current greenhouse-gas emissions are becoming comparable in impact to the volcanic emissions that triggered the collapse of Triassic Greenland’s flora.”—Nature

2021 152 p. 81/2 x 11 91 color plates, 15 halftones

129 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53443-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

The Hidden Universe

Adventures in Biodiversity

Alexandre Antonelli

“The Hidden Universe is a sweeping road map to biodiversity science and conservation, from Linnaeus and the dodo to the Convention on Biological Diversity and pet hamsters. Updated and opinionated, part primer and part autobiographical account, it provides an engaging introduction for those who want to start exploring the main scientific and policy issues around biodiversity.”—Sandra Diaz, National University of Córdoba

2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 26 halftones

130 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82187-0 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40

Extraordinary Orchids

Sandra Knapp

“Meticulously researched—as one would expect from Knapp, a senior research botanist at the Natural History Museum—this book is also lavishly brought to life with an abundance of artwork by a roll call of great botanical illustrators. . . . Full of captivating surprises and interesting information about this immense, diverse family of flowering plants.”—BBC Wildlife

“Stories behind Dracula orchids, rattlesnake plantains, fairy orchids, and other fantastical forms come together in this beautiful tome. . . . A visual treat.”— Country Life

2021 160 p. 10 x 13 140 color plates, 7 halftones

131 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77967-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Driven by Nature

A Personal Journey from Shanghai to Botany and Global Sustainability

Peter H. Raven

“From his green awakening as a young boy, collecting butterflies and beetles, to his leadership of the famed Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter Raven tells the extraordinary story of his encounter with plants and other organisms. . . . In clear and understandable prose, Raven shows the beauty and complexity of nature and the tragedy of its mass extinctions. It is a human story that also carries a timely warning.”—Jerry Brown, former governor of California

Distributed for Missouri Botanical Garden Press

2021 408 p. 6 x 9 50 color plates, 70 halftones

132 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-935641-19-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Mushrooms A Natural and Cultural History

Nicholas P. Money

“Addressed to nature enthusiasts, Mushrooms is a perfect introduction to the kingdom of fungi. Each of the sixteen chapters is dedicated to a theme, ranging from Mushroom Science to Mushroom Superstition. Did you know that there is an Einstein of mycology? . . . Or that the largest organism in the world is a tangled web of hyphae that radiates for over 10 square km through a conifer forest in Oregon? Mushrooms addresses these questions and many more.”—Economic Botany

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2022 224 p. 51/2 x 91/4 10 color plates, 90 halftones

133 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-616-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Great Trees of Britain and Ireland

60 of the Best Ancient Avenues, Forests and Trees to Visit

Tony Hall

A wealth of ancient trees, avenues, and forests grow in Britain and Ireland. Boasting Europe’s largest number of ancient oaks and yews, Britain and Ireland are home to forests that can be traced back for centuries, feature amazing avenues lined with trees hundreds of years old, and include some truly majestic individual trees. In this book, Kew expert Tony Hall profiles 60 amazing ancient trees, avenues and forests from huge Scots pines to the ‘Dark Hedges’ featured in Game of Thrones —and reveals their locations across Britain and Ireland. This visually stunning compendium is a must for tree lovers and anyone planning a trip to the British Isles.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2022 184 p. 71/2 x 93/4 90 color plates

134 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-746-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Bark

A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Michael Wojtech

Featuring detailed information and illustrations covering each phase of a tree’s life cycle, this indispensable guidebook explains how to identify trees by their bark alone—no more need to wait for leaf season.

Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2020 280 p. 51/2 x 83/4 283 color plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps

135 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-031-6 $29.95 Your Price: $20.96

House Plants

Mike Maunder 2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 94 color plates, 17 halftones

136 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-543-4 $27.00

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The Botanical Series from Reaktion Books Ash

Edward Parker 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 80 color plates, 30 halftones

137 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-356-0 $27.00

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Cherry

Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman

2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 90 color plates, 10 halftones

138 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-282-2 $27.00

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Kew Pocketbooks

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

These beautiful pocketbooks present an array of botanical art, reproduced in full color from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Small enough to fit in a pocket or purse, these books are the perfect gift for any plant lover.

Fungi

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

139 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-726-8 $12.95

Your Price: $9.06

Fruit

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

140 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-752-7 $12.95

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Festive Flora

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

141 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-725-1 $12.95

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Herbs and Spices

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

142 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-753-4 $12.95

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The Sloth Lemur’s Song

Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain

Present

Alison Richard

“This book is an encyclopedia of wonders, but it’s also a riveting story of evolution through time in a land utterly unique. Madagascar is arguably the most amazing place on Earth. Richard knows it as few outsiders ever will, and its praises have never been better sung.”—David Quammen, author of Spillover

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 50 halftones

143 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81756-9 $27.00 Your Price: $18.90

Downriver Into the Future of Water in the West

Heather Hansman

“In an energizing mix of travelogue and investigative journalism, Hansman, a raft guide and environmental reporter, provides a straightforward elucidation of the mind-bogglingly complicated subject of water rights in the American West.”

Publishers Weekly

“A must-read for anyone who loves rivers or is concerned about the future of the West. . . . The river carries Hansman through Wyoming ranches, natural-gas fields, cities, and national parks, and she finds that seemingly everyone wants a piece of its pie. So she follows her curiosity, learning where the water goes—and who’s fighting over what.”

Outside

2022 248 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone

144 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81997-6 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Future Sea

How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans

Deborah Rowan Wright

“Future Sea sets out marine policy researcher

Rowan Wright’s ideas about how to end destructive industrial activities at sea and enable ocean wildlife to return and thrive. Luckily, she includes steps that anyone, from children to political leaders, can take.”—New Scientist

“A profound plan to save the seas. . . . Our ocean life-support system continues to buckle under human pressures. We have been approaching marine conservation backward, Wright argues. . . . Instead of regulating individual fisheries or putting boundaries around select areas of the ocean, we need to protect the whole thing.”—Science

2022 200 p. 6 x 9

145 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82408-6 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

The Other Dark Matter

The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health

Lina Zeldovich

“Here is an indispensable book about what we might call the Anthro-poo-cene. Humanity’s current collision course with nature has everything to do with energy and how we abuse it—including the human waste products of our metabolic bodies. This lively and entertaining history is also full of innovative ways people are finally dealing with their you-knowwhat.”—Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

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Amber

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Pearl

Nature’s Perfect Gem

Fiona Lindsay Shen

2022 256 p. 61/2 x 83/4 50 color plates, 50

148 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-621-9 $35.00

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The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change

Second Edition

Robert Henson

Everybody can be a thinking person when it comes to climate change, and this book is a perfect roadmap. This reference provides the most comprehensive, yet accessible, overview of where climate science stands today, acknowledging controversies but standing strong in its stance that the climate is changing—and something needs to be done.

Astrotopia

The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

A revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space— and a bold vision for a more equitable, responsible future both on and beyond our planet.

2022 224 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones

150 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82112-2 $24.00

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Soviets in Space

Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier

Colin Burgess

A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union’s leading role in the space race.

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2022 240 p. 61/4 x 91/4 85 halftones

151 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-632-5 $35.00

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What’s Eating the Universe?

And Other Cosmic Questions

Paul Davies

Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe.

2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 halftones, 1 table

152 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82387-4 $16.00

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The Greatest Adventure A History of Human Space Exploration

Colin Burgess

The Greatest Adventure explores the past, present, and future of the space race.

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2021 368 p. 61/4 x 91/4 138 halftones

153 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-460-4 $40.00

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Galaxy

Mapping the Cosmos

James Geach

Galaxy tells the rich scientific story of the evolution and our observation of galaxies.

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 272 p. 63/4 x 83/4 108 color plates

154 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-133-7 $20.00

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Twenty Worlds The Extraordinary Story of Planets Around Other Stars

Niall Deacon

Taking us to twenty diverse worlds orbiting distant stars, this book explores the latest exoplanet discoveries.

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2020 216 p. 51/4 x 81/4 27 color plates, 4 halftones

155 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-338-6 $22.50

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Uranus and Neptune

Carolyn Kennett

A comprehensive, accessible, and stunningly illustrated introduction to these far-off worlds.

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2022 224 p. 63/4 x 83/4 50 color plates, 50 halftones

156 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-641-7 $40.00

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Venus

William Sheehan and Sanjay Shridhar Limaye

From the latest scientific advances to observation advice for amateur astronomers, a beautifully illustrated exploration of one of Earth’s closest neighbors.

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2022 248 p. 63/4 x 83/4 50 color plates,

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157 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-585-4 $40.00

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Asteroids

Clifford J. Cunningham

Featuring exciting illustrations and highlighting the latest research, Asteroids is an accessible look at these important astronomical objects.

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2021 232 p. 63/4 x 83/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones

158 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-358-4 $40.00

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Fascinating Shells

An Introduction to 121 of the World’s Most Wonderful Mollusks

Andreia Salvador

Beautiful photographs of stunning shells from London’s Natural History Museum, home to one of the most significant and comprehensive collections in the world.

2022 256 p. 6 x 7 123 color plates

159 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81913-6 $22.50

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We Are All Whalers

The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

Michael J. Moore

Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imperiled animals.

2022 224 p. 5 x 8 33 halftones

160 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82399-7 $18.00

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Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park

Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty

An authoritative account of the reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone, written by the scientists who did the work.

2020 344 p. 81/2 x 11 62 color plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings

161 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72834-6 $35.00

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Otter

Daniel Allen

A fittingly lively study of its subject, Otter offers a new way of thinking about this muchloved but endangered animal.

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2020 192 p. 5 x 8 103 halftones

162 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-224-2 $14.00

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Dog

Susan McHugh

Showing how canines contribute to our lives in a huge number of ways, McHugh explores the ancient and fascinating relationship between human and dog.

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2019 248 p. 5 x 73/4 110 halftones

163 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-128-3 $14.00

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Dogopolis

How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris

Chris Pearson

Dogopolis suggests a surprising source of urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships.

2021 256 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones

164 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79816-5 $24.00

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Robin

Helen F. Wilson

A tuneful natural and cultural history of this globally renowned songbird.

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2022 224 p. 51/4 x 71/2 60 color plates, 45 halftones

165 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-626-4 $19.95

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Avian Illuminations A Cultural History of Birds

Boria Sax

An exquisitely illustrated journey through the complex and crucial relationship between humans and birds.

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166 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-432-1 $35.00

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Introducing the Medieval Swan

Natalie Jayne Goodison

A wide-ranging account of the place of the swan in medieval culture.

Distributed for University of Wales Press

2022 184 p. 5 x 73/4 11 color plates, 19 halftones

167 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78683-839-1 $15.00

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The Kew Gardens Cookbook

A Celebration of Plants in the Kitchen

Edited by Jenny Linford

The Kew Gardens Cookbook is an anthology of vegetarian recipes gathered from leading chefs and food writers including Yotam Ottolenghi, Fuchsia Dunlop, Olia Hercules, and Claudia Roden. Organized in six sections—leaves; roots, squashes, and tubers; grains and pulses; fungi; herbs and spices; and fruits and nuts—and featuring 100 lavish illustrations, this book is a cornucopia of botanical delights.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

2022 208 p. 71/2 x 91/2 100 color plates

168 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-745-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Wine

A Cultural History

John Varriano

“Varriano’s beautifully illustrated and detailed study shows how wine has inspired us in art, literature, and religion. It is the perfect drinking companion.”— Guardian

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2022 280 p. 63/4 x 83/4 88 color plates, 17 halftones

169 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-645-5 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80

The Edible Series from Reaktion Books

Soda and Fizzy Drinks

A Global History

Judith Levin

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Coconut

A Global History

Mary Newman and Constance L. Kirker

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Dinner in Rome

A History of the World in One Meal

Andreas Viestad

“Insightful and enchanting. Viestad reminds us of the power of food and how it has greatly impacted the formation of world history.”—Éric Ripert

“A uniquely beautiful, historical account of Andreas’ two-hour meal at a well-known trattoria in the Campo dei Fiori area of Rome. . . . It is a book that tells the history of the world according to the food that is eaten on a leisurely afternoon in one of the world’s most beautiful and historical cities.”

—Lidia Bastianich, host of PBS’s “Lidia’s Kitchen”

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2022 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2

172 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-674-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Fish and Chips

A Takeaway History

Panikos Panayi

“An affectionate, sprightly, and crisply informative history of the British national obsession.”

Daily Mail

“This is the best history yet written of a British institution, alive to the cosmopolitan origins of food through global migration . . . a rewarding read for anyone interested in the history of Britain; so good in fact that it made me venture out on a windy night to buy a fish supper at my traditional local chippie.”

History Today

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173 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-603-5 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20

Oishii

The History of Sushi

Eric C. Rath

“Oishii means ‘delicious’ in Japanese, and this impressive book both nourishes and delights. Through prodigious research and recipes, Oishii carries us along sushi’s path from fermented fish to fresh. Rath’s narrative is revelatory as he traces sushi’s history in relation to culinary methodologies, nationalism, wartime rationing, global innovations, and more.”—Darra Goldstein, founding editor of Gastronomica

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India

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Edited by Shikha Jain, Vinay Sheel Oberoi, and Rohit Chawla

This stunning photographic survey presents India’s 38 World Heritage Sites, together with commentary by architects and conservationists. The cultural sites in India are a rich repository of the country’s long history, bearing witness to the creativity and influence of multiple communities, crafts, and religions. The sites covered in this volume are located across India. They include ancient rock art, Buddhist caves and Hindu temples, Sultanate and Mughal forts, medieval Hindu and Islamic cities, Portuguese churches, Victorian and Art Deco architecture, twentieth-century industrial heritage sites, and national parks of exceptional natural beauty.

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2021 240 p. 10 x 12 250 color plates

175 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3571-8 $60.00 Your Price: $42.00

Coloring St. Louis A Coloring Book for All Ages

Andrew Wanko

St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, with beautiful, strange, and fascinating structures of every size and shape, ranging from the city’s earliest days to the twenty-first century. In Coloring St. Louis, readers will find new illustrations of more than 30 St. Louis structures—all ready to color however you please. Entertaining explanatory text accompanies each drawing, so readers can discover the structures’ significance as they color away.

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2022 64 p. 81/2 x 11 30 line drawings

176 Paper ISBN: 979-8-9855716-0-8 $9.95 Your Price: $6.96

Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them

Joseph

M. Bagley

As Boston marks its 400th anniversary, it is remarkable that the city still maintains its historic character despite constant development. This book takes readers on a tour of 50 historic buildings in Boston that pre-date 1800, ranging from homes to churches and warehouses to restaurants. Featuring a wealth of full color photos and illustrations as well as chapters on the history and preservation of each structure, this book is perfect for history lovers, architectural enthusiasts, and tourists alike.

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2021 248 p. 7 x 10 160 color plates

177 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-039-2 $29.95 Your Price: $20.96

All the Tiny Moments Blazing

A Literary Guide to Suburban London

Ged Pope

“Urban magnetism is now under threat, but Pope’s charming circuit of London’s suburbs and the figures who frequented them in All The Tiny Moments Blazing is a reminder that cities have coped with worse. Even urban smog has its benefits: ‘Monet worked in the park whilst I, living at Lower Norwood, at that time a charming suburb, studied the effects of fog, snow and springtime,’ Camille

Pissarro wrote of 1870.”—Financial Times Distributed

Armchair Travels from Haus Publishing

The View from the Hill

Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain Christopher Somerville

The Serpent Coiled in Naples

Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners

John

G.

Sayers

In the heyday of ocean travel—between the late nineteenth century and World War II—ocean liners were a home away from home. Passengers prepared for voyages that could last as long as three months, and shipping companies ensured their guests were as comfortable as possible, providing entertainment, dining, sleeping quarters, and smoking lounges to accommodate passengers of all ages and budgets. Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners dives into a vast, unique collection of ephemera to reveal the scandals, glamour, challenges, and tragedies of ocean liner travel.

Pow! Right in the Eye!

Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting

Berthe Weill

“Now published in English for the first time, Weill’s fast-paced and punchy account of her gallery’s first 25 years of exhibitions is a who’s who of emerging artists in early-twentieth century Paris, the collectors who bought their work, and how much they paid. . . . She paints a clear portrait of how modern masters like Metzinger and Matisse, alongside lesser known painters like Émilie Charmy, shook up modern art and modern culture even before there was a market for their work.”—Booklist

2022 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 12 halftones

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Florine Stettheimer

A Biography

Barbara Bloemink

“Bloemink is again making the case for Stettheimer as a fascinating, and crucial, figure of art history, one deserving a place in the pantheon of American modernists. In a hefty new biography, Stettheimer’s life and work—which, in addition to her paintings, include acerbic poems, ornate furniture and frames, and costumes and set designs—unfold in unprecedented detail.”—Vogue

“Stettheimer’s work, like her personal life, has suffered from a dearth of rigorous, good-faith appraisals. . . . Bloemink’s new biography rectifies this by engaging with the work on its own terms, rather than by stretching it to fit prefabricated discourses on American modern art.”—The Nation

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2022 432 p. 8 x 10 110 color plates

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Mina Loy

Apology of Genius

Mary Ann Caws

“Much like its subject, Mina Loy: Apology of Genius runs on restlessness, fervor, and open-endedness. With it, Caws has gifted us yet another stirring assemblage that teaches and excites, this time blessedly dilating on a singularly complex, singularly wild figure at the heart of the modern and so much else.”—Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

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2022 208 p. 61/4 x 81/4 28 color plates, 26 halftones

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The Portraitist

Frans Hals and His World

Steven Nadler

“Nadler has masterfully brought Frans Hals to life. . . . He introduces us to Hals’s family, enumerates Hals’s financial woes, and assesses the personalities of his sitters, among them merchants, ministers, officers in militia companies, and directors of charitable institutions. Seamlessly fusing these narratives, Nadler evokes the ambiance of Haarlem’s rich and varied culture, but he also explores how broader political and religious developments in the Dutch Republic impacted Hals throughout his career.”—Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., author of Clouds, Ice, and Bounty

2022 360 p. 6 x 9 21 color plates, 61 halftones

185 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69836-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Vincent’s Books

Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him

Mariella Guzzoni

“Vincent van Gogh’s letters are almost as wonderful as his paintings and in one of them he writes, ‘I have a more or less irresistible passion for books.’ Guzzoni traces that passion in the beautifully designed Vincent’s Books. If you need a gift for a book or art lover, this is it.”—Washington Post

2020 224 p. 6 x 9 132 color plates

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Van Gogh. Self-Portraits

Edited by Karen Serres

Spanning Van Gogh’s entire career, this volume explores his self-portraits, analyzing the artist’s self-representation in context to reveal the role it plays in his oeuvre.

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2022 152 p. 81/2 x 101/4 65 color plates

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Matisse The Books

Louise Rogers Lalaurie

“These books-as-works-of-art are both a running commentary upon Matisse himself, the ever evolving, ever surprising image-maker, and an extraordinarily vivid series of critical responses to words that are often so rich and elusive in their meanings.”

Hyperallergic

2020 320 p. 121/2 x 103/8 350 color plates

188 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75054-5 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50

Flowers!

In the Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Edited by Regina Selter and Stefanie Weißhorn-Ponert

This volume explores the motif of flowers in art, featuring more than 120 works in a variety of media, including painting, photography, video, and installation. The book shows the changes in meaning and the topicality of flowers from the study of color and form via sociopolitical and gender-specific questions to reflections on existence, the environment, and new technologies. This lavishly illustrated book also offers an art-historical review and essays on the political dimensions and everyday culture of our dealings with flowers.

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2022 272 p. 91/2 x 11 160 color plates

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Edvard Munch

Masterpieces from Bergen

Edited by Barnaby

Wright

This important publication showcases eighteen masterworks by Edvard Munch (1863–1944) along with contributions from several leading experts. The works span the most significant part of Munch’s artistic development, including seminal paintings from Munch’s early “realist” phase of the 1880s as well as his famous Frieze of Life series. This collection demonstrates how Munch’s powerful use of color and form marked him as one of the most radical painters at the turn of the twentieth century.

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2022 136 p. 81/2 x 101/4 60 color plates

190 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913645-27-4 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects

From the Collection of Glen S. Miranker

Cathy Miranker and Glen Miranker

As one of the most beloved characters in the English language, Sherlock Holmes sometimes seems to have a life of his own, one that leaps beyond the pages of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery stories. Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects aims its magnifying glass toward a host of overlooked extra-literary objects, bringing to light exhibits ranging from original manuscripts, handwritten letters, business correspondence, vintage book art, pirated editions, and more—all presented in thematic clusters that highlight their significance to the case at hand.

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2022 168 p. 9 x 12 238 color plates

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Edward Hopper Inner and Outer Worlds

Edited by Stefan Koja

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is one of the most renowned American artists of the twentieth century. Through his distinctive scenes of everyday life, he opened a window into his own emotions and thoughts. This publication offers a fresh look at Hopper’s oeuvre and places it in dialogue with works by the Old Masters, such as Johannes Vermeer. Although their paintings were created almost 300 years apart and in different locations and cultural settings, they reveal intriguing similarities that go beyond resonant compositional aspects.

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2022 144 p. 91/2 x 11 145 color plates

192 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3858-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Iran

Five Millennia of Art and Culture

Edited by Ute Franke, Ina Sarikhani, and Stefan Weber

Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture presents 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilizations during the third millennium BCE until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early eighteenth century. Providing insight into the art of the courts and the urban elites, these works are brought together in a multifaceted kaleidoscope through an array of gorgeous full-color reproductions.

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2022 400 p. 91/2 x 111/2 520 color plates

193 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3806-1 $60.00 Your Price: $42.00

Textures

The History and Art of Black Hair

Edited by Tameka Ellington and Joseph L. Underwood

Textures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Combs, products, and implements from the collection of hair pioneer Willie Morrow are paired here with masterworks from artists like Sonya Clark, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, and Alison Saar. Exploring topics such as the preferential treatment of straight hair, the social hierarchies of skin, and the power and politics of display, Textures is a lavishly illustrated exploration of Black hair and its important, complicated place in the history of African American life and culture.

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2020 200 p. 8 x 10 150 color plates

194 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3554-1 $39.95 Your Price: $27.96

Here, Now Indigenous Arts of North America at

the Denver Art Museum

Edited by John P. Lukavic, Dakota Hoska, and Christopher Patrello

200 masterpieces of Indigenous art accompanied by essays on current issues affecting Indigenous communities.

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2022 312 p. 9 x 11 200 color plates

195 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3842-9 $55.00

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Kinship

Dorothy Moss and Leslie Ureña

Work by eight of today’s leading contemporary artists exploring the complex nature of familial relationships and other interpersonal bonds.

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2022 120 p. 7 x 9 80 color plates

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Ai Weiwei In Search of Humanity

Edited by Dieter Buchhart, Elsy Lahner, and Klaus Albrecht Schröder

A critical examination of the human condition and artistic responsibility through the eyes of Ai Weiwei.

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2022 336 p. 91/2 x 113/4 180 color plates

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Agnes Pelton

Gilbert Vicario

Rediscover an American modernist and her poetic celebration of nature.

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2022 72 p. 51/2 x 8 55 color plates

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Gustav Klimt

Wilfried Rogasch

An overview of Gustav Klimt’s life and work commemorating the 160th anniversary of the artist’s birth.

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2022 72 p. 51/2 x 8 55 color plates

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Foreshadowed

Malevich’s “Black Square” and Its Precursors

Andrew Spira

An exploration of Kasimir Malevich’s radical 1915 artwork, its predecessors, and its continuing relevance.

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2022 144 p. 61/4 x 81/4 70 color plates, 7 halftones

200 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-535-9 $25.00

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Paul Cézanne

Christoph Wagner

A new entry in the Great Masters of Art series dedicated to one of the most popular painters in history, Paul Cézanne.

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2022 80 p. 51/2 x 8 56 color plates

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Picasso

The Women of His Life. A Tribute

Markus Müller

An exploration of the lives and work of Picasso’s muses from the whole of their lives.

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2022 192 p. 83/4 x 11 90 color plates

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Children of Mercury The Lives of the Painters

Spike Bucklow

Following “the seven ages of man” from infancy to death, an innovative retelling of the lives of premodern painters both famous and forgotten.

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2022 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 23 color plates, 5 halftones

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Naturally Brilliant Colour

Andrew Parker

The first book to showcase art made using nature’s most powerfully intense colors.

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2022 112 p. 91/2 x 11 60 color plates

204 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-733-6 $35.00

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Chihuly at Kew

Reflections on nature

Dale Chihuly

A highly illustrated celebration of the iconic sculptor’s blown glass installations at Kew Gardens.

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2019 120 p. 91/2 x 11 100 color plates

205 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-682-7 $35.00

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333 Birds

Peter Vos

A facsimile of a sketchbook by the Dutch artist and illustrator Peter Vos along with a volume of introductory essays.

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2022 415 p. 41/2 x 73/4 350 color plates

206 Paper ISBN: 978-90-6868-846-7 $60.00

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Cats in Art

Desmond Morris

Featuring 130 images, Cats in Art explores the various manifestations and meanings behind the feline motif in art history.

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2017 224 p. 71/2 x 93/4 120 color plates

207 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-833-3 $40.00

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Filippino Lippi

An Abundance of Invention

Jonathan K. Nelson

Offering particular insight into Filippino Lippi’s artistic problem-solving, an innovative look at the Renaissance master.

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2022 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 15 halftones

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Hans Holbein

The Artist in a Changing World

Jeanne Nuechterlein

Nuechterlein reconstructs what we know of the life of this elusive artist, illuminating the complexity of his world and the images he generated.

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2020 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 65 color plates, 5 halftones

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Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist

Machtelt Brüggen Israëls

By reconstructing how Italian Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca came of age, this book reveals the simple and stunning intentions behind his work.

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2020 368 p. 51/4 x 81/4 94 color plates

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Rubens’s Spirit From Ingenuity to Genius

Alexander Marr

This book explores the extraordinary career of a Flemish Baroque painter who helped shape notions of beauty and aesthetics with his highly sensual masterworks.

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2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 71 color plates, 17 halftones

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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

Mary D. Garrard

This beautifully illustrated book gives for the first time a full portrait of a strong woman artist who fought back through her art.

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2020 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 65 color plates, 4 halftones

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Photographs at the Edge

Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger

Roger Härtl

An illustrated look at two early-twentiethcentury explorers whose work took them to deserts and mountain peaks, coinciding with the rise of modern photography along the way.

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2022 216 p. 91/2 x 11 144 color plates, 17 halftones

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125th Street Photography in Harlem

Edited by Antonella Pelizzari and Arden Sherman

An unprecedented study of Harlem’s 125th Street photography and cultural identity.

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2022 172 p. 8 x 10 72 color plates, 65 halftones

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The Second Half Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty

Ellen Warner

A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over 50 through photographs and interviews.

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2022 257 p. 7 x 9 80 halftones

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The Porch Meditations on the Edge of Nature

Charlie Hailey

Solidly grounded in ideas, ecology, and architecture, this is a deeply passionate meditation on the joy and gravity of sitting on the porch.

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Chicago Apartments

A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury

Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein

Featuring nearly 350 stunning images, this book offers a wide-ranging look inside some of the Windy City’s most magnificent abodes.

2020 368 p. 81/2 x 11 344 duotones

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Olmsted Trees

Stanley Greenberg

Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker, and Mindy Fullilove

Olmsted’s visionary landscape architecture through the lens of a leading photographer.

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Meadow

The Intimate Bond between People, Place and Plants

Iain Parkinson

An exploration of Britain’s vanishing hay meadows: vestiges of a rural past and sanctuaries for future biodiversity.

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2022 228 p. 81/2 x 10 270 color plates

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The Historic Heart of Oxford University

Geoffrey Tyack

An accessible guide to Oxford’s world-famous architectural heritage.

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2022 192 p. 81/4 x 93/4 102 color plates

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Open House Designing Spaces for Living

Edited by Simon Lamunière

Looking beyond the popular fascination with trendy tiny houses, this book is a much-needed, substantial contribution to international debates about temporary housing.

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2022 336 p. 61/4 x 9 170 color plates

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Dressing Up A History of Fancy Dress in Britain

Verity Wilson

Featuring many exquisite historical photographs, a celebration of the sometimes extravagant, sometimes bizarre pastime: playing dress-up.

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2022 320 p. 63/4 x 83/4 40 color plates, 104 halftones

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Diamonds The Queen’s Collection

Caroline de Guitaut

This illustrated collection highlights the most significant diamond jewels worn by generations of the Royal Family.

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2022 120 p. 73/4 x 73/4 70 color plates, 27 halftones

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The Return of Twin Peaks Squaring the Circle

Franck Boulègue

A detailed analysis of Twin Peaks: The Return, focusing on the role of spirituality and science in the cult classic TV series.

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2022 276 p. 63/4 x 91/2 75 color plates, 12 halftones

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Extinct

A Compendium of Obsolete Objects

Edited by Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Miranda Critchley

A visual tour through futures past via the objects we have replaced, left behind, and forgotten.

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2021 400 p. 63/4 x 83/4 74 color plates, 46 halftones

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Designing Modern Japan

Sarah Teasley

A revealing look at Japanese design that weaves together the stories of people who shaped Japan’s design industries with social history, economic conditions, and geopolitics.

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2022 424 p. 63/4 x 83/4 75 color plates, 70 halftones

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British Dandies

Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation

Dominic Janes

Reveals how the scandalous history of fashionable men is a reflection of changing attitudes to style, gender, and sexuality.

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2022 248 p. 61/4 x 91/4 28 color plates, 26 halftones

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Werner Herzog Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests

Kristoffer Hegnsvad

Including interviews with Herzog himself and focusing in particular on his cinematic output, this book is a revealing look at an inimitable artist.

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2021 256 p. 61/4 x 83/4 40 color plates, 67 halftones

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Painting in the 1980s Reimagining the Medium

Rosemary Cohane Erpf

This book is the first to explore major painters of the 1980s in depth and to analyze the factors that shaped art from the period.

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2022 304 p. 63/4 x 91/2 104 color plates

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Heavy Metal Armour A Visual Study of Battle Jackets

Thomas Cardwell

A lavishly illustrated study of the customized denim “battle jackets” worn by heavy metal fans to signify their devotion to the music and subcultures of metal.

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2022 232 p. 63/4 x 91/2 38 color plates, 34 halftones

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Sound Experiments

The Music of the AACM

Paul Steinbeck

A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago’s AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music.

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 108 line drawings

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Ornette Coleman

The Territory and the Adventure

Maria Golia

A compelling biography of the great American saxophonist and free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman.

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2022 368 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 halftones

232 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-560-1 $18.00

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Song Noir

Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles

Alex Harvey

A gritty, smoke-filled, and boozy account of musician Tom Waits’s formative decade in Los Angeles.

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2022 240 p. 53/4 x 81/4 39 halftones

233 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-663-9 $15.00

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Distant Melodies Music in Search of Home

Edward Dusinberre

This engaging memoir explores changing ideas of home, displacement, and return through the lives and chamber music of four composers.

2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 halftones

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Beethoven

A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

William Kinderman

This biography demonstrates how the tumultuous political events of Beethoven’s lifetime influenced his music.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rebecca Mitchell

Drawing extensively on Russian-language sources, a concise yet comprehensive survey of the life and work of one of classical music’s great composers.

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2022 240 p. 5 x 73/4 40 halftones

236 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-576-2 $19.00

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Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself A Screen History

John Scanlan

A raucous cultural history of rock’s relationship with the moving image.

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2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 74 halftones

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The Academy and the Award

The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Bruce Davis

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards.

Distributed for Brandeis University Press

Fighting without Fighting Kung Fu Cinema’s Journey to the West

Luke White

From classic Bruce Lee films to the comedies of Jackie Chan, a vibrant look at the enduring fascination with the kung fu cinema of Hong Kong.

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2022 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 halftones

239 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-533-5 $22.50

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Russia Container

Alexander Kluge

“More than a few of Kluge’s many books are essential, brilliant achievements. None are without great interest.”—Susan Sontag

Composed in Kluge’s characteristic short-prose style, interspersed with numerous images and often humorous asides, Russia Container is an intellectually stimulating yet accessible collection of short vignettes on Russia and Germany from one of Europe’s most prolific literary minds. The volume includes a preface specially written to engage with the current events in Ukraine, making Kluge’s narratives even more timely and topical.

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2022 392 p. 6 x 9 182 color plates

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The Great Tales Never End Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien

Edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine

“Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, and Tolkien archivist McIlwaine take an illuminating look in this superior anthology at the work of J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher (1924–2020), who played a major part in his father’s literary legacy. . . . Taken together, the pieces are a great testament to what Christopher’s ‘extraordinary editorial efforts have brought to light.’ This is a must-read for fans of Tolkien’s classic epic fantasies.”—Publishers Weekly

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Lily White

Christian Schünemann and Jelena Volic

A thrilling crime novel set in Belgrade that dives into Serbia’s troubled history.

“The discovery of the bodies of two elite guardsmen from the Topcider military camp, Nenad Jokic and Predrag Mrsa, propels Schünemann and Volic’s Kafkaesque tale set in present-day Serbia.”

Publishers Weekly

“This mesmerizing novel provides an incisive look at how the Bosnian War marked its survivors.”

Foreword Reviews

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2022 212 p. 51/4 x 81/2

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Lucky Wreck

Poems

Ada Limón

From the recently appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, this collection traces the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Limón’s award-winning debut, this edition includes a new introduction by the poet.

“Risky, haunting, wonderfully unexpected. . . . Like many of the best writers, [Limón] is funny and serious at the same time, the depths and heights are one: lucky wreck!”—Jean Valentine

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Entry Level

Wendy Wimmer

“In the world of Entry Level , no job is too small, nor is it ever just a job. In cities and across rural landscapes and dreamscapes, we find clerks and corpses, mothers and daughters, cruise entertainers and scientists, grappling with longing and loss. . . . Each tale is as smart, exquisite, and surprising as the next. I really didn’t want this collection to end!”—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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2022 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2

244 Paper ISBN: 978-1-63768-058-2 $17.95 Your Price: $12.56

Marie Blythe

Howard Frank Mosher

From one of the best-loved writers of northern New England, this is a new edition of a classic novel with a strong female lead.

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2022 468 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Where the Rivers Flow North

Howard Frank Mosher

These six classic stories, available again in this new edition and featuring an introduction by novelist Peter Orner, continue Howard Frank Mosher’s careerlong exploration of Kingdom County, Vermont.

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2022 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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A Sinister Assassin Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948

Antonin Artaud

A Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud’s last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English.

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2023 120 p. 43/4 x 71/2 3 halftones

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Eleven-Inch

Michal Witkowski

What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s?

Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude.

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2021 304 p. 6 x 9

248 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-891-2 $24.50

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Glory Hole

Kim Hyun

A ground-breaking new collection of queer poetry from a leading contemporary Korean poet.

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2022 264 p. 61/4 x 9

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Aesop’s Fables

Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker

This beautiful collector’s edition of Aesop’s Fables contains the best-loved fables and the lesser-known tales, illustrated with detailed wood engravings.

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Reynard the Fox

Retold by Anne Louise Avery

An imaginative retelling of the legend of Reynard the Fox, a beloved character from European folklore.

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2020 480 p. 53/4 x 73/4

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Tales from the Prague Ghetto

Siegfried Kapper

A collection of nineteenth-century folkloreinfused tales of Jewish life in Prague.

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2022 90 p. 5 x 71/2 3 halftones

252 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-4945-0 $15.00

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Tanto Tanto

Marina Carreira

A critical look at female queerness through the lens of first-generation culture.

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2022 88 p. 6 x 9

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Queer Nature A Poetry Anthology

Edited by Michael Walsh

An anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries.

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2022 320 p. 6 x 9

254 Paper ISBN: 978-1-63768-038-4 $24.95

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Concrete Poetry A 21st-Century Anthology

Edited by Nancy Perloff

A significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today.

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2022 224 p. 61/4 x 91/4 119 color plates, 28 halftones

255 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-368-3 $35.00

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The Queen

70 Glorious Years

Royal Collection Trust

This official souvenir publication celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch.

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2022 144 p. 63/4 x 81/4 55 color plates, 22 halftones

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The Huxleys An Intimate History of Evolution

Alison Bashford

200 years of modern science and culture told through one family history.

2022 480 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones

257 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72011-1 $30.00

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Lydia Maria Child A Radical American Life

Lydia Moland

A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.

2022 560 p. 6 x 9 61 halftones

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Benjamin Franklin

Kevin J. Hayes

An action-packed retelling of the life and work of the polymath and so-called First American, Benjamin Franklin.

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2022 224 p. 5 x 73/4 35 halftones

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Sigmund Freud

Matt ffytche

Drawing on the latest research, an engaging and nuanced biography of Freud that argues for his continuing relevance.

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2022 224 p. 5 x 73/4 44 halftones

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Ritchie Robertson

An accessible and informative study of the life and work of this vaunted German philosopher.

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2022 224 p. 5 x 73/4 27 halftones

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Bismarck

The Iron Chancellor

Volker Ullrich

An accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s first chancellor.

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2022 196 p. 5 x 8 40 halftones

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The Subversive Simone Weil

A Life in Five Ideas

Robert Zaretsky

Zaretsky upends our thinking on Simone Weil, bringing us a woman and a philosopher who is complicated and challenging, while remaining incredibly relevant.

2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Afghan Napoleon

The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud

Sandy Gall

The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.

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2022 380 p. 5 x 8 32 halftones

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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn

Incommensurability in Science

Thomas S. Kuhn

“Combining Kuhn’s unfinished last book, The Plurality of Worlds, with two related works not previously available in English, and a substantial and illuminating introduction by editor Bojana Mladenović, The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn will be received as an absolute gem by philosophers of science, as well as by the wide swath of academics across the social sciences and humanities who revere Kuhn.”

—Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto

2022 312 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones

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Street Scriptures

Between God and Hip-Hop

Alejandro Nava

“With this majestic study, Nava reclaims ‘the streets’ as a living, breathing text, through which black and brown youth transmute everyday terror into spiritual beauty. . . . By placing academic theology and urban hip-hop culture side by side, Nava’s work has the potential to usher both into a more liberating future.”—Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball

2022 256 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

266 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81916-7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

The Complete Works Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments

Epictetus

Edited and translated by Robin Waterfield

Epictetus is now considered the most important exponent of Stoicism, and his surviving work comprises a series of impassioned discourses, delivered live and recorded by his student Arrian, and the Handbook, Arrian’s own take on the heart of Epictetus’s teaching. Edited and translated by renowned scholar Robin Waterfield, this book collects the complete works of Epictetus, bringing to modern readers his insights on how to cope with death, exile, the people around us, the whims of the emperor, fear, illness, and much more.

2022 480 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones

267 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76947-9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything

Marcelo Gleiser

A personal and engaging tribute to nature from a world-famous theoretical physicist.

“The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected is an elegantly written, introspective, and thought-provoking meditation on growing up as someone curious about the universe. It’s a wonderful introduction to the human side of science and the scientific side of being human.”—Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture

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2022 204 p. 51/2 x 8

268 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-108-5 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46

The Index of Prohibited Books

Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God

Robin Vose

This book constitutes the first full study of the Catholic Church’s Index of Prohibited Books. It examines the reasons behind the Church’s attempts to censor religious, scientific, and artistic works, and considers not only why this most sustained of campaigns failed, but what lessons it can teach us.

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2022 352 p. 61/4 x 91/4 35 halftones

269 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-657-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Human Condition

Second Edition

Hannah Arendt

“Arendt’s most important philosophical work.” New Republic

2018 380 p. 6 x 9

270 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58660-1 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

The Rabbit Between Us

Victor Menza

Through philosophy, history, education, art, and personal musing on everyday uncanny experiences, Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love. Gentle and political at once, this unique book will appeal to any intellectually curious reader.

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2021 172 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

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Radical American Partisanship

Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy

Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason

“This provocative book by two of political science’s rising stars asks readers to consider what only recently would have seemed implausible. Is American democracy on the brink? Will the kind of political violence that most Americans connect to remote outposts in other parts of the world become a feature of our own deeply polarized political system? Readers will find themselves deeply unsettled by Kalmoe and Mason’s evidence and conclusions.”

Deep South

A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class

Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner

First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark work of anthropology. Living undercover in Depression-era Mississippi, groundbreaking Black scholar Allison Davis and his co-authors delivered an unprecedented examination of how race shaped nearly every aspect of twentieth-century American life. This reissue of the 1965 abridged edition features a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.

2022 328 p. 6 x 9 13 line drawings, 5 tables

—Marc

J.

Hetherington, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

2022 224 p. 6 x 9 45 line drawings, 7 tables

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Democratize Work

The Case for Reorganizing the Economy

Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda

“A cornerstone for building a fairer and more inclusive society. A must-read.”—Thomas Piketty

“This book powerfully makes the case that democracy cannot be limited to political institutions but also belongs in the workplace. As technology and a global pandemic are radically remaking our relations at work, this book offers desperately needed guidance for achieving a more just and inclusive economic system. Imaginative, empirically informed, and motivated by a profound humanity, this is a normative social science at its best.”

—Debra Satz, Stanford University

2022 168 p. 51/4 x 8

273 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81962-4 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

When Freedom Speaks

The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right

Lynn Greenky

“Lynn Greenky offers a spirited and engaging examination of the individuals, groups, and movements that have advanced free speech protections by standing up and speaking out. When Freedom Speaks is an accessible guide to the past, present, and future of free speech in the United States.”

—David Cole, National Legal Director, ACLU

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2022 248 p. 6 x 9

274 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-093-4 $27.95 Your Price: $19.56

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Hope and Fear

Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo History

Ronald H. Fritze

“The book traces a common link among fans of freaky fantasies, one that stretches from the Nazi cult of the supernatural, through alien-abduction conspiracists, and up to the COVID-19 deniers and QAnon embracers of our own mottled age.”

Independent

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2022 280 p. 61/4 x 91/4

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Polling UnPacked

The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls

Mark Pack

“A comprehensive yet surprisingly fun overview of modern opinion polling. . . . Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand modern politics.”

Sunday Times

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2022 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus

Danielle Allen

“In this stirring manifesto, renowned political theorist Allen argues that the United States’ woeful response to the COVID-19 pandemic must serve as a wake-up call for Americans to rebuild their public health infrastructure and renew their constitutional democracy.”—Foreign Affairs

2022 128 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 line drawings, 3 tables

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Race at the Top

Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools

Natasha Warikoo

“In communities across the country, white and Asian parents argue over whose style of parenting is naturally better. Rather than consider such either/ or questions, Warikoo effectively demonstrates that each group is making strategic choices that best advance their own children. As she passionately writes, the real argument should be how to support the children being left behind.”—Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College

“An absorbing work of ethnography . . . that looks at the complex power and social dynamics at work in a system where success seems both scarce and an absolute imperative. Strikes a nice balance between academic and popular audiences.”— Chicago Tribune

2022 240 p. 6 x 9 4 tables

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Cancel Wars

How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy

Sigal R. Ben-Porath

“In Cancel Wars, Sigal R. Ben-Porath offers an insightful, original, and powerful analysis of how colleges, universities, and lower schools must play an ever-more central role in fostering a free and open educational process in order to redress the increasing polarization that has seriously damaged our democracy. This is a must-read for anyone concerned with these profoundly important issues.”

—Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago

2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2

280 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82380-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

The Successful TA A Practical Approach to Effective Teaching

Kathy Nomme and Carol Pollock

Nomme and Pollock draw on decades of experience in teaching and TA training to offer practical advice on interacting with course instructors, dealing with nerves and anxiety, preparing for the first session, supporting student learning, developing learning exercises, engaging students with diverse needs and backgrounds, using technology in the classroom, and assessing student work.

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2022 100 p. 5 x 8

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Life and Research

A Survival Guide for Early-Career Biomedical Scientists

Paris H. Grey and David G. Oppenheimer

“Part survival guide and part pep-talk, Life and Research should be included in every welcome package for scientists joining a new lab or research program. Grey and Oppenheimer have created a portable version of the ideal mentor—helpful, honest, and compassionate.”—Susanna Harris, Founder and Chair of PhD Balance

2022 264 p. 6 x 9

282 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82209-9 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Becoming a Historian

An Informal Guide

Edited by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock

Written by two esteemed historians, this accessible guide offers step-by-step advice designed to make it easier to join this community of scholarship.

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2022 118 p. 61/4 x 91/4 16 halftones

283 Paper ISBN: 978-1-914477-15-7 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

The Inclusion Illusion How

Children with Special Educational Needs

Experience Mainstream Schools

Rob Webster

An examination of contemporary inclusive pedagogy and how it is failing students with special educational needs and disabilities.

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2022 140 p. 61/4 x 91/4

284 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78735-700-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

How Schools Really Matter Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

Douglas B. Downey

“It’s not often that a publication changes the way we think the world works. Communicated in remarkably clear prose, Downey’s incisive empirically based analysis reveals that inequality increases significantly when children are out of, not while they are in, school.”—William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

2020 176 p. 51/4 x 81/4 12 figures

285 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73322-7 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20

Hayek

A Life, 1899–1950

Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger

“Admirers and opponents of Hayek alike will find much to savor in this deeply researched, sweeping biography. Even readers who well know Hayek and his times will be enlightened and enriched.”

—Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

“A magnificent achievement. Caldwell and Klausinger bring Hayek alive; they also bring his world alive. This is riveting reading, taken as biography, and it’s much more than that. It casts a bright new light on Hayek’s era, and on our own.”

—Cass R. Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

2022 824 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones

286 Cloth

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The Federal Reserve

A New History

Robert L. Hetzel

“Hetzel’s book skillfully traces out the Fed’s uneven history. He carefully identifies and explains the reasons for the Fed’s major failures and successes and he covers the most recent episodes—the financial crisis, Great Recession, and the COVID-19 crisis— in great detail. Hetzel’s own intellectual framework provides valuable nuances, resulting in a unified view of Fed policy, before and after 1980, with reference to a single model.”—Peter Ireland, Boston College

2022 696 p. 6 x 9 117 line drawings, 24 tables

287 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82165-8 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Invisible China

How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell

“The biggest obstacle to China’s development is that rural children—two-thirds of the total—do terribly in school, argues this stunningly researched book. Many are malnourished, lack reading glasses or suffer from energy-sapping intestinal worms. If these basic problems are not fixed, say the authors, China will struggle to reach its goal of broad prosperity.”

Economist

2020 248 p. 6 x 9 5 figures, 2 tables

288 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82401-7 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

The Tragic Science

How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good)

George F. DeMartino

“DeMartino sounds the alarm on how much damage economists can do out of paternalism and hubris. He issues a clarion call for economists to embrace ethical principles that oblige them to consider the harm they may do.”—William Easterly, author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

2022 272 p. 6 x 9 17 line drawings, 6 tables

289 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82123-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Capital Order

How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Clara E. Mattei

“A fascinating history of the rise of austerity policies in post–World War I Europe and how it paved the way for fascism—along with many of the economic policies of today. A must-read, with key lessons for the future. Historical political economy at its best.”—Thomas Piketty

2022 480 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 8 line drawings, 3 tables

290 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81839-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Big Med

Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns

“For years, allies of big medicine have argued that Bigger is Better. Dranove and Burns take on that argument and show it is not true. They point out how big medicine is failing, and how it can be reformed. This book is wonderfully informed and thoughtfully presented.”—David Cutler, Harvard University

2021 336 p. 6 x 9 2 figures, 3 tables

291 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66807-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Capitalism and Freedom

Milton Friedman

First published in 1962, Capitalism and Freedom is one of the most significant works of economic thought ever written. This new edition includes a new foreword by Binyamin Appelbaum, lead economics writer for the New York Times editorial board.

2020 272 p. 51/4 x 81/4

292 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73479-8 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

The City Creative

The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America

Michael H. Carriere and David Schalliol

2021 360 p. 81/4 x 9 145 color plates

293 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72722-6

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Supernatural America

The Paranormal in American Art

Edited by Robert Cozzolino

2021 320 p. 91/4 x 11 200 color plates

294 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78682-7

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Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries

Edited by Rebecca Abrams & César Merchán-Hamann

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing

2020 304 p. 91/2 x 101/4 136 color plates

295 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-502-4

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Henry David Thoreau

A Life

Laura Dassow Walls

2018 640 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones

296 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59937-3

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The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

Billy Boy Arnold with Kim Field

2021 288 p. 6 x 9 57 halftones,

3 line drawings, 1 table

297 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80920-5

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A Drop of Treason

Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA

Jonathan Stevenson

2021 328 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones

298 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35668-6

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To Live Is to Resist

The Life of Antonio Gramsci

Jean-Yves Frétigné

2022 328 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing, 1 table

299 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71909-2

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Hayek vs Keynes

A Battle of Ideas

Thomas Hoerber

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2017 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2

300 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-730-5

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The

Money Illusion

Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy

Scott Sumner

2021 392 p. 6 x 9 78 line drawings, 10 tables

301 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77368-1

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The Thinking Student’s Guide to College

75 Tips for Getting a Better Education

Andrew Roberts

2010 184 p. 6 x 9 2 tables

302 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72115-6

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Typographic Firsts

John Boardley

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2021 208 p. 71/2 x 93/4 60 color plates

303 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-473-7

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Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side

Eve L. Ewing

2020 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

304 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-52616-4

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How to Succeed in College (While Really Trying)

A Professor’s Inside Advice

Jon B. Gould

2012 160 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing, 2 tables

305 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30466-3

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Doodling for Academics

A Coloring and Activity Book

Julie Schumacher

2017 96 p. 8 x 10 40 line drawings

306 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46704-7

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The Bridge on the Drina

Ivo Andrić

1977 318 p. 51/4 x 8

307 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-02045-7

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Walking

A Novella

Thomas Bernhard

2015 104 p. 51/2 x 81/2

308 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31104-3

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A River Runs through It and Other Stories

Norman Maclean

2017 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2

309 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-47206-5

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Lost Mars

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