The Great Chicago Book Sale 2023

Gladius

The World of the Roman Soldier Guy de la Bédoyère

“In his encyclopedic Gladius, Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military arm of the Roman Empire.”—New York Times Book Review

“Neither a history of the army nor a review of battlefield tactics, [Gladius] studies daily life in military services far beyond the aspects of soldiering typically treated in history books. . . . de la Bédoyère’s informative and readable book offers real immediacy to readers.”—Clifford Ando, University of Chicago 2020 526 p. 6 x 9 34 color plates, 4 maps 1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75023-1 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Aeneid Virgil

Translated by David Ferry

“Ferry’s is now the best modern version of the Aeneid, both for its loyalty to the original and for its naturalness to itself.”—Times Literary Supplement

“Ferry’s blank verse is as understatedly traditional, and unflashy, as his diction. . . . The advantages of Ferry’s version seem obvious to me: regularity of meter, clarity of image, simplicity of language, understatement of the horrific. Throughout, Ferry maintains a coolness even amid the most terrible drama.”—New York Review of Books 2017 432 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone 2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45018-6 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

The First World War

Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front

Edited by Carl De Keyzer and David Van Reybrouck

“The book is a collection of previously unseen and restored WWI photographs of lesser-seen photo subjects, such as training, African colonial troops and postmortem portraits of Belgian soldiers.”— Chicago Tribune

“In this beautiful book, the reader is invited to dive into the First World War. . . . It is not only the mud, the corpses, and the craters in these images. It is a whole daily life parallel to the fighting that is revealed.”

L’Echo

“The amount of detail that you see in each [glass plate image] is stunning.”—Slate 2015 280 p. 91/2 x 123/4 20 color plates, 80 halftones 3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28428-6 $65.00 Your Price: $17.00

Versailles 1919

A Centennial Perspective

Alan Sharp

Fully revised and updated for the centennial of the Paris Peace Conference, Versailles 1919 is a clear guide to the global legacy of the Versailles Settlement, setting the ramifications of the Paris Peace treaties within a long-term context.

Distributed for Haus Publishing 2018 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones, 4 maps 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912208-09-8 $29.95

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The Makers of the Modern World (complete series)

Complete 32-volume set

Edited by Alan Sharp

A 32-volume boxed set, The Makers of the Modern World is a monumental look at all the signatories of the Versailles treaty.

Distributed for Haus Publishing 2012 51/2 x 81/2

5 Boxed Set ISBN: 978-1-907822-02-5 $595.00 Your Price: $119.00

England’s Great Transformation

Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

Marc W. Steinberg

“Steinberg’s meticulous study rethinks the relationship between the labor process and the state, between market and society, and between base and superstructure during Britain’s industrial revolution.”—Jeffrey M. Haydu, University of California, San Diego

“Steinberg argues that a fully modern employment structure did not emerge in England until the beginning of the twentieth century—a finding that has important implications for understanding the formation of the English working class and how this differs from the European Continent.”—Fred Block, University of California, Davis 2016 256 p. 6 x 9 21 tables

6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-32995-6 $38.00

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London

The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689

Robert K. Batchelor

“Fascinating. [Batchelor] shows how the skein of shipping routes on the Selden map were connected with the rise of London as a global city.”—Economist 2014 344 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones

7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08065-9 $52.00

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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

8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75314-0 $23.00

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The Peace That Never Was

A History of the League of Nations Ruth Henig

90 years ago, the League of Nations convened for the first time, hoping to create a safeguard against destructive, world-wide war by settling disputes through diplomacy. This book looks at how the League was conceptualized and explores the multifaceted body that emerged. As we face new forms of global crisis, this timely book asks if the UN’s fate could be ascertained by reading the history of its predecessor.

Distributed for Haus Publishing 2019 224 p. 5 x 8 3 maps 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910376-78-2 $24.95

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A Violent Peace

Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations Carolyn N. Biltoft

“With bold originality and a keen eye for the telling detail, Biltoft recasts the history of the League of Nations, dedicated to elevating the word over the sword, as a quest for symbolic capital in the chaotic interwar world. Focusing on questions of language, money, and the control of information flows, she shows how the challenges faced by the League continue to bedevil us today.”—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley 2021 216 p. 6 x 9 10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76642-3 $35.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Great Cat and Dog Massacre

The Real Story of World War Two’s Unknown Tragedy Hilda Kean

“Kean’s book brings to light an uncomfortable chapter in British history.”—Wall Street Journal

“Beginning with the mass slaughter of household pets immediately after Britain’s declaration of war on Germany in 1939, Kean’s compelling account explores the varied ways in which domesticated animals experienced the Home Front. . . . Kean offers a fresh perspective on what has often been called the ‘People’s War.’”

Harriet Ritvo, author of Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras 2017 248 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones

11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31832-5 $99.00

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The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road G. H. Bennett

“This surprising and artful book mixes the history of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine and of the Holocaust with present perspectives. It entertains and enriches our understanding of a terrible time.” —Richard Breitman, author of The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 27 halftones

12 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-909-5 $29.00

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Nemesis

The First Iron Warship and Her World Adrian G. Marshall

“The impact of steam and iron on the British Empire is all here. Every nut and bolt of it.”

Wall Street Journal

“History buffs would definitely enjoy this read as it provides an extensive historical context of the last years of the East India Company.”—BBC Knowledge Asia

Distributed for National University of Singapore Press

2016 375 p. 6 x 9 17 color plates, 32 halftones, 6 line drawings, 8 maps 13 Paper ISBN: 978-9971-69-822-5 $28.00 Your Price: $11.00

A Few Planes for China

The Birth of the Flying Tigers Eugenie Buchan

“One of Buchan’s great contributions to the history of the Flying Tigers is to debunk the self-promoting story that Chennault peddled in his postwar memoir, Way of a Fighter, which saw him arriving in Washington from China at the end of 1940 and, as if by magic, singlehandedly creating the AVG over the course of the next few months. Historians and writers, including this reviewer, have largely cleaved to that story ever since. Buchan presents a corrective account that is more complicated, provocative and interesting—and probably more accurate.”—Wall Street Journal

Distributed for ForeEdge 2017 272 p. 6 x 9 14 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-866-5 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Flashpoint Trieste

The First Battle of the Cold War

Christian Jennings

This is the inside story of how Trieste found itself poised on a knife edge at the end of World War II. Situated near the boundaries of Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia, this pivotal port city was caught in May 1945 between advancing Allied, Russian, and Yugoslav armies. Told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries, Flashpoint Trieste chronicles, on a human scale, the beginning of the Cold War.

Distributed for ForeEdge 2017 302 p. 6 x 9 15 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0172-5 $29.95

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Prague

A City and Its River Katerina Becková

“Fabulous panoramas support the author’s concluding observations that Prague’s bridges are like the strings of a harp, their arches creating a visual harmony, and that they all ‘constitute an extraordinary art of architecture, which deserves not only our attention, but also, indeed mainly, suitable preservation.’ . . .

I recommend the book to anyone with an interest in this beautiful city.”—Slavic and East European Journal

Distributed for Karolinum Press

2017 200 p. 8 x 10 100 color plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

16 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3292-6 $30.00

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Spartakiads

The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia Petr Roubal

“In this immensely readable book, the author combines theoretical reflections on the metamorphosis of gender, carnival culture, and transition rituals with detailed research on subjects like the effect mass exercise had on Czechoslovak birth rates.”—Iliteratura , on the Czech edition

Distributed for Karolinum Press

2020 350 p. 6 x 8 14 color plates, 35 halftones

17 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3851-5 $23.00

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Fragments of Lives Chronicles of the Gulag Jacques Rossi

“Rossi is one of the most astute observers and very best chroniclers of the Soviet forced labor camps. An extremely gifted storyteller, Rossi writes about the Gulag system with a sense of irony and tragedy, a keen understanding of human psychology, a brilliant grasp of language, and a passionate embrace of his responsibility as a witness to one of the twentieth century’s greatest crimes against humanity.”

—Golfo Alexopoulos, University of South Florida

Distributed for Karolinum Press

2019 160 p. 6 x 8 20 line drawings

18 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3700-6 $18.00

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Rus–Ukraine–Russia

Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity

Martin C. Putna

“A fascinating examination of Russian history with unrivaled connections to culture and religion. It explores the eternal struggle between East and West, between patriotism and religious devotion— forces upwelling under Putin’s rule today.”—Respekt Magazine, on the Czech edition

Distributed for Karolinum Press

2021 350 p. 5 x 8 20 halftones, 3 maps 19 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3580-4 $23.00 Your Price: $7.00

Lies, Passions, and Illusions

The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

François Furet

“This book is not only about the past but also about the current European predicament, the resurgence of nationalist sentiments and emotions, and the pitfalls of new ideological siren songs. . . .In refusing to be seduced by optimistic paeans to irreversible social progress, Furet reminds us that democratic politics is a continuously endangered undertaking.”—Times Higher Education

2014 128 p. 5 x 7 1 halftone 20 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11449-1 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Backpack Ambassadors

How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Richard Ivan Jobs

“Jobs’s lively, ambitious, transnational history of youth travel examines the transformative impact of mass travel on post-war Europe. Jobs takes us on a fascinating ride from the optimistic internationalism of the 1950s hostel movement, through the rebellious international youth culture of the 1960s, to the development of an iconic form of backpacking—complete with Let’s Go guidebooks—still prevalent today.”—Anne Gorsuch, author of All This Is Your World 2017 352 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 1 line drawing 21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46203-5 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

Unspeakable

A Life beyond Sexual Morality

Rachel Hope Cleves

“Unspeakable is a brave and beautifully written book, meticulously researched and carefully and ethically handled. Despite writing about a notable early-twentieth century British author who by today’s standards is nothing more than a pedophile, Cleves has managed the remarkable feat of producing a rich, compelling, and informative work of both history and biography that is as balanced and dispassionate as one can imagine possible.” —Steven Angelides, author of The Fear of Child Sexuality 2020 368 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones 22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73353-1 $35.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Man Who Stole Himself

The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan Gisli Palsson

“If you’re a history buff, this incredible story of an escaped slave will enthrall you. . . . The Man Who Stole Himself is an amazing story about how one lucky man used his wit and education to escape slavery, but it’s also about how people in small Icelandic communities understood race at a time when none of them had met anyone of African ancestry before. It’s simply riveting.”

Ars Technica 2016 264 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 49 halftones 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31328-3 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

A History of Crete

Chris Moorey

Known by the Greeks as ‘Megalónisos,’ or the ‘Great Island,’ Crete has a long and varied history. A History of Crete steps in to fill a gap in scholarship on this storied island, providing the first complete history of Crete to be published for over twenty years.

“A fascinating journey through Cretan history, from its mythological past to its tourist-crowded present.”—Mick Reed, University of New England Distributed for Haus Publishing 2020 444 p. 5 x 8 24 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912208-96-8 $18.95 Your Price: $6.00

Greece

Biography of a Modern Nation Roderick Beaton

“As Beaton argues in Greece . . . ‘Greece and the modern history of the Greek nation matter, far beyond the bounds of the worldwide Greek community.’ . . . Beaton’s biographical conceit keeps the narrative focused, lively, and clear.”

Wall Street Journal

“Beaton encourages the reader to take a fresh look at the people and culture so celebrated for their past, even as they strive to build a future as part of the modern West.”

National Herald 2021 488 p. 6 x 9 41 color plates, 4 maps 25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80979-3 $22.50 Your Price: $11.25

Ruling Culture

Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Fiona Greenland

“In this beautifully written and insightful study of the mutual entanglement between Italy’s national art police squad and the deeply entrenched tradition of tomb robbing, Greenland’s portrayal of the robbers—in whom Italians see heroic tricksters and traitorous villains by turns—is both sharply analytical and descriptively captivating. She deftly articulates historical and legal detail with a rattling good story.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome 2021 328 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 1 map 26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75703-2 $35.00 Your Price: $17.50

New York Recentered Building the Metropolis from the Shore

Kara Murphy Schlichting

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New York Recentered takes into account the twin dynamic of New York as an island city and as a regional entity. This is a welcomed change in perspective that allows the author to examine metropolitan growth and development from the relatively unstudied, but important, vantage point of the periphery.

Goodbye to center city–heavy perspectives on Gotham!”—Martin V. Melosi, author of The Sanitary City

2019 328 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones

27 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61302-4 $40.00

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Building a Revolutionary State

Steam City

Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore David

Schley

“Have enormous private corporations ever been accountable to the governments that support them with tax dollars? Tackling this once-again urgent question, Schley traces the lamentable uncoupling of public money and public regulation over the course of the nineteenth century. Steam City is a lucid and learned account of railroad corporations and municipal governance, but the relationship of American democracy and capitalism is truly what’s at stake in this important book.”—Seth Rockman, Brown University

This Radical Land A Natural History of American Dissent Daegan Miller

The

Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783

Howard Pashman

“Pashman has given us the first study of how legal order emerged from disorder during the American Revolution. He shows New Yorkers creating local committees to deal with the Loyalists among them and argues convincingly that the legitimacy of the legal institutions that later emerged rested on vigorously expropriating Loyalist property. A powerful statement that the new nation was built, at least in part, on retribution and redistribution.”

—Bruce H. Mann, Harvard University

2018 192 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 table

28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54401-4 $32.00

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Frontier Seaport

Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt

Catherine Cangany

“Frontier Seaport tells the story of Detroit’s evolution from an isolated fur trading post to an inland seaport that dominated commerce on the upper Great Lakes. . . . Cangany’s skillful reconstruction of their economic, social, and political lives forces us to reconsider what it meant to live on a colonial borderland in early America.”

—Timothy J. Shannon, Gettysburg College

2014 288 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables

29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09670-4 $52.00

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The Cycling City Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s

Evan Friss

“Friss has a good story to tell. In the late nineteenth century, bicycles were not just a sweet means of romantic transport—‘Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do,’ and all that—but a technological triumph creating fanatical followers and interest groups. The bicycle was more like a personal computer than like a love seat. . . . Friss is a demon researcher, and his book is full of revelatory facts.”—New Yorker 2021 288 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones

30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75880-0 $32.00

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2020 352 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones 31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72025-8 $55.00 Your Price: $27.50

My Dear Molly

The Civil War Letters of Captain James Love

Edited by M. E. Kodner

“An unusually fine and valuable collection of primary material. It provides insight into the early war situation in Missouri and Kansas, the burdens of small-unit command and administration, the areas in which the regiment served, Civil War era courtship, and especially Love’s prison experiences.”

Civil War News

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press

2015 496 p. 7 x 10 140 halftones

32 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-82-9 $29.95

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Accidental Pluralism

America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662

Evan Haefeli

“An eye-opening narrative of the many versions of church-and-state attempted or imagined during the great age of British colonization in the Caribbean and North America—a narrative uprooting the assumption that a straight line runs from those attempts to post-1789 schemes to separate church and state.”—David D. Hall, author of A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England 2021 384 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones

33 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74261-8 $45.00

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Abigail and John Adams

The Americanization of Sensibility G. J. Barker-Benfield

“[Barker-Benfield’s] engagement with the inner strengths and utter humanity of Abigail and John is just the beginning of this ingenious and expansive study.”—Andrew Burstein, author of The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving 2010 520 p. 6 x 9 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03743-1 $32.50

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“A fascinating, often hopeful journey through the landscape histories of ‘vibrant resistance’—anarchism, anti-slavery movements, socialjustice activists—that have sprung up across North America over the last two centuries.”— Guardian

“Though the histories in This Radical Land took place long ago, the era’s conflicted ideas about preservation, sustainability, and progress still confuse the debate over just what our relationship to nature should be.”—Bookforum 2020 336 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones 35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33628-2 $22.50 Your Price: $16.25

Wives Not Slaves

Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions

Kirsten Sword

“Sword reconstructs the stories of wives who fled their husbands between the mid-seventeenth and early nineteenth century US, comparing their plight with that of other runaway dependents. She explores the links between local justice, the emerging press, and transatlantic political debates about marriage, slavery, and imperial power.”—Law & Social Inquiry 2021 408 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 3 tables 36 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75748-3 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

Liberty Power

Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics

Corey M. Brooks

“In response to the Slave Power, opponents of slavery constructed a ‘Liberty Power’ that took concrete form as the Liberty Party. Brooks shows us how they did it and why it mattered. Elegantly crafted, thoroughly researched, and invariably insightful, this is one of the truly essential books on the antislavery movement and the origins of the Civil War.”—James Oakes, the Graduate Center, City University of New York 2016 336 p. 6 x 9 37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30728-2 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

That’s the Way It Is A History of Television News in America

Charles L. Ponce de Leon

“Ponce de Leon has written a brisk and informative history of television news since its inception in the late 1940s, covering the more than six decades of TV news from Douglas Edwards to Diane Sawyer.”

—Chester Pach, Ohio University

2015 352 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

38 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47245-4 $32.00

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The TVs of Tomorrow

How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs

Benjamin Gross

“Chronicles the drama, intrigue, and intense work of countless researchers over decades in the development of the liquid crystal television display. . . . [Gross] provides a very readable, exceptionally well-researched analysis of the scientists whose years of research eventually led to a quantum leap in how video technology impacts our lives today.”— Choice

2018 288 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones

39 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51997-5 $43.00

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Hollywood in Havana

The Democratic Surround

Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Fred Turner

“This is the true story of how a small group of artists and anthropologists set out to create an alternative to fascism during World War II—and ended up setting the stage for the consumer-driven, media-saturated world we inhabit today. A gripping, well-balanced, and surprising history.”—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now “Offers an important look at how our technologies might, or might not, resonate with the democratic politics many of us hope to better exercise.”—Los Angeles Review of Books 2013 376 p. 6 x 9 39 halftones 43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81746-0 $32.50

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Patty’s Got a Gun

Patricia Hearst in 1970s America William Graebner

“In an era traumatized by defeat in Vietnam, betrayal in Washington, stagflation, and shockingly violent crimes, the saga of Patty Hearst—kidnapped heiress turned carbine-toting bankrobber—was perhaps the most shocking tale of all. William Graebner’s rich retelling uses Hearst’s story to probe one of the central preoccupations of the Seventies: the nature of personal identity.”—Thomas Hine, author of The Great Funk 2015 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 halftones 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-32432-6 $20.00

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Crap

A History of Cheap Stuff in America

Wendy A. Woloson

Outside the Gates of Eden

The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now Peter Bacon Hales

“Looks at how American cultural landscapes have transformed and endured from the close of World War II to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Looking at diverse Cold War places and spaces, . . . Hales considers the significant impact that Cold War sensibilities, especially the persistent threat of nuclear devastation, have had on American understandings of self and national identity.”—Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania

2014 496 p. 7 x 10 105 halftones

47 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31315-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Follow Your Conscience

The Catholic Church and the Spirit of the Sixties Peter Cajka

“A fascinating book. . . [Cajka] makes a persuasive case that Catholics, with priests leading the way, did indeed ‘change the terms of American freedom’—though not always for the best.”— Commonweal 2021 232 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones

48 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76205-0 $45.00

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American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow

Building Churches for the Future, 1925–1975

Catherine R. Osborne

US

Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959

Megan Feeney

“A rich and detailed history. . . This book is an impressive accomplishment. It sheds new light on a long overlooked period of film history in Cuba, while also contributing to a growing scholarship on cinema exhibition and reception outside of the Global North. ”—The Americas

2019 320 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones

40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59369-2 $38.00

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Newsprint Metropolis

City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

Julia Guarneri

“The ‘go-to’ book on the history of twentieth century American newspapers. . . . Guarneri’s book, like all good history, brings our present into focus by illuminating some essential, but nearly forgotten aspects of our past.”—David Nasaw, author of The Chief 2020 368 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 59 halftones

41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75832-9 $30.00

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42 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-34133-0 $48.00

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“Since the consumer revolution of the 1700s, an abundance of cheap goods has enabled us to buy pointless stuff; but all of this crap comes with environmental, economic and spiritual costs, explains Woloson in this rich and expansive cultural history. It asks: surrounded by all these ‘what-nots’ and ‘thingums,’ have we ourselves become crappy?”

New Statesman 2020 416 p. 6 x 9 11 color plates, 105 halftones 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66435-4 $29.99

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Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

American Troops on the World War II Home Front

Aaron Hiltner

“An important and powerful contribution to the literature on the World War II home front. Hiltner recovers the long-forgotten history of American liberty ports and reveals that U.S. civil-military relations were far more violent and chaotic than most Americans may want to believe.”—Aaron O’Connell, University of Texas at Austin 2020 280 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones

46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68704-9 $25.00

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“This book provides both a dazzling synthesis and a powerful new vision of modern church architecture. . . . [Osborne] shows how concepts of church design were linked to understandings of the Church itself, beginning well before the Second Vatican Council.”

—Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University

2018 288 p. 7 x 10 68 halftones

49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56102-8 $48.00

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The Importance of Being Urban

Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940

David A. Gamson

“Gamson tells a new story about progressive education that needs to be heard. Based on compelling case studies of Oakland, Denver, Portland, and Seattle, he shows how progressivism grew at the district level in urban school systems that were seen as laboratories for democracy. . . . Should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding progressive education, education reform, and how we got the urban school systems we have today.”—Barbara Beatty, author of Preschool Education in America

2019 352 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 1 table

50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63454-8 $50.00

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The Rise of CommonSense Conservatism

The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment

Antti Lepistö

“How did American conservatives go from mistrusting the mob to taking up the language of commonsense populism? Lepistö answers that question by exploring the hold Scottish Enlightenment moral philosophy had on late twentiethcentury neoconservative thinkers. This is the kind of history writing that helps us make sense of our own moment.”—Sophia Rosenfeld, author of Common Sense: A Political History

2021 288 p. 6 x 9

51 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77404-6 $40.00

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Conspiracies of Conspiracies

How Delusions Have Overrun America

Thomas Milan Konda

“The theories Konda weighs and finds wanting are fascinating in their perversity, from chemtrails to climate change deniers. A book that deserves wide circulation and consideration.”—Kirkus

2019 432 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones

52 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-58576-5 $30.00

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Insurance Era

Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

Caley Horan

“The insurance industry promised to provide Americans with muchneeded security, but as Horan shows in this brilliant new book, its efforts only heightened the risk of individuals and deepened patterns of discrimination for marginalized groups, paving the way for the insecurities of the neoliberal age.”—Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University

2021 264 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones

53 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78438-0 $40.00

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The Angel in the Marketplace

Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America Ellen Wayland-Smith

“Wayland-Smith’s lively history tells the unusual story of pioneering adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub, who climbed the ladder from secretary to executive in the midtwentieth century. . . . Illuminates one woman’s journey from advocating traditional notions of women’s place and the benefits of capitalism to questioning the underlying message of the ads she produced.”

—Kathy Peiss, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture

2020 288 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

54 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48632-1 $30.00

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Freedom’s Ballot

African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration

Margaret Garb

“In this fascinating and original study, Margaret Garb traces the rise of Black politics in Chicago from its mid-nineteenth-century origins to the early twentieth century. The book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the long civil rights movement on northern soil.”—Eric Foner, Columbia University 2014 304 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 4 maps 56 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13590-8 $58.00

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Remembering Emmett Till

Dave Tell

“A fine history of racism, poverty and memory in the Mississippi Delta told through the lynching of Emmett Till, a black fourteen-yearold from Chicago whose murder in 1955—and his mother’s determination to display his mutilated features in an open coffin—made him an early martyr of the civil-rights movement.”—Economist 2021 322 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 1 line drawing 57 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-55967-4 $19.00

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After Redlining

The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

Rebecca K. Marchiel

“A compelling and revelatory history of community activism, American banking, and the politics of inequality. . . . Essential reading on the persistent tension between finance and democracy in American history.”—David Freund, author of Colored Property 2020 296 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 58 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72364-8 $50.00

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How States Shaped Postwar America

State Government and Urban Power Nicholas Dagen Bloom

“Highly recommended. . . Bloom’s carefully crafted work persuasively shows that without the intervention of states, large public systems in fields such as education, transportation, housing, and the environment might not exist or would be unrecognizable today.”— Choice 2019 392 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones, 2 line drawings

59 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49831-7 $35.00

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Supersizing Urban America

How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Chin Jou

“Should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the links between government policy, fast food franchising and the economic and biological health of urban communities.”—Times Higher Education 2017 248 p. 6 x 9 2 tables 55 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92192-1 $25.00

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The Encyclopedia of Chicago

Edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff

“The motto of any worthy encyclopedia ought to be that byword of Sgt. Joe Friday, ‘Just the facts, ma’am,’ and in as lucid a manner as you can deliver them. This The Encyclopedia of Chicago does indeed deliver, and consummately well. It also delivers excellent maps and carefully chosen, unobtrusively placed photographs. . . . I hope this doesn’t get around, but Chicago is just now one of the best cities in the world, lively and beautiful and happily youthful in spirit.”—Wall Street Journal

2004 1152 p. 81/2 x 103/4 56 p. color insert, 475 halftones, 442 maps, 10 tables 60 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31015-2 $65.00 Your Price: $17.00

Chicago’s Block

Clubs

How Neighbors Shape the City

Amanda I. Seligman

“Most scholars ignore the lowly block club. Seligman remedies that oversight in her magisterial account of their history and importance in Chicago. . . . She proves that Chicago and urban history more generally need to be rewritten to include these clubs that ‘make strangers into neighbors.’ Like community organizations and political movements, they should not be overlooked by scholars, city planners, or community organizers.”—Dick W. Simpson, University of Illinois at Chicago

2016 312 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones

61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-38585-3 $32.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven

John Schultz

“Schultz has written one of the few great trial books of our time.

Taking the reader inside a uniquely American political show-trial, he demonstrates just how fragile our courts are, and how the massive power of the federal government can easily derail justice. . . . Any reader looking for a quick course in how a criminal trial can go wrong would do well to read it.”

—Timothy Sullivan, author of Unequal Verdicts

2020 416 p. 51/2 x 81/2

62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76074-2 $20.00 Your Price: $10.00

Tokyo Before Tokyo Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo Timon Screech

“According to Screech, the city is the source of much of what we consider to be Japanese culture: sushi, Mt Fuji, cherry blossoms. Tokyo Before Tokyo is a rich illustrated volume that presents the vibrant visual history of Edo. The book is presented as a series of vignettes, dealing with key landmarks and districts from the old city, from the Shogun’s castle to the famous redlight Yoshiwara district.”

New Books Network

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2020 272 p. 63/4 x 83/4 105 color plates, 5 halftones

63 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-233-4 $40.00

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My First Trip to China

Scholars, Diplomats and Journalists Reflect on their First Encounters with China

Edited by Kin-Ming Liu

“The opening of China to the world, and then of the world to China, is one of modern history’s most consequential stories. That story is told in a fresh, innovative fashion in this insightful collection of personal experiences related by a distinguished collection of historians, diplomats, journalists, political writers, and others who ventured behind the Bamboo Curtain early on.”—Washington Post

“Illuminating. . . . My First Trip to China invites readers to relive those voyages of discovery and to reflect on the complexities of modern-day China, whose new openness, material progress and limited freedoms were unimaginable just a generation ago.”—Wall Street Journal

Distributed for Hong Kong University Press

2012 320 p. 71/8 x 71/8

64 Paper ISBN: 978-988-16046-2-0 $28.00

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The Water Kingdom A Secret History of China

Philip Ball

“A rewarding read. . . . At its most fascinating when describing how in China the laws of nature seem to have embedded in them a moral precept. . . . Ball puts water beautifully back at the heart of China’s story.”—Economist 2020 320 p. 6 x 9 70 halftones, 26 line drawings

65 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75460-4 $19.00

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Two Years in East Asia

Travelling in Hong Kong 1907–1909

Translated by Elizabeth Szász, Krisztina Sarkady and Adrian Hart

Poised to learn more about Asia and to experience China firsthand, Hungarian naval doctor Dezso Bozóky traveled to the East during the first decade of the twentieth century, recorded his journey in a hitherto unpublished diary and photographed and self-developed hundreds of images that today present rare visual resources of the former colonial city. This collection of Bozóky’s beautiful black-and-white and hand-colored pictures allows us to retrace their master’s steps and offer insights into the bustling merchant town, culturally mixed society and lush natural landscape that he encountered.

Distributed for HKU Museum and Art Gallery 2016 116 p. 9 x 9 50 hand-colored images 66 Paper ISBN: 978-988-19023-0-6 $21.00

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A Story of Ruins

Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture Wu Hung

“With admirable clarity and precision, this ambitious book examines a rich topic—the multiple varieties of significance that have been invested in ruins as vehicles of cultural memory in China, from classical times until the present. A Story of Ruins is an original and welcome contribution not only to the study of art in China but art generally.”—Martin Powers, University of Michigan

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 296 p. 71/2 x 93/4 131 color plates, 59 halftones 67 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-876-0 $60.00 Your Price: $17.00

A Historical Atlas of Tibet

Karl E. Ryavec

“This may well be the best historical atlas of our time. Combining a hard-won mastery of Tibetan history and geography with an equally impressive command of digital cartography, Ryavec has revealed the contours of Tibet in unprecedented, radiant detail. . . . A must-have for every serious library.”

—Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps 2015 216 p. 81/2 x 11 121 color plates, 36 halftones, 2 tables 68 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73244-2 $45.00 Your Price: $12.00

Revolution

Structure and Meaning in World History

Saïd Amir Arjomand

“A masterful synthesis of knowledge about revolutions in the ancient and medieval world. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars on the Iranian revolution, this book offers a wealth of insights on revolutions that do not rely on the modern revolutionary myth.”—Hans Joas, Humboldt University of Berlin 2019 400 p. 6 x 9 3 tables 69 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02683-1 $55.00

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Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell

Jerry Brotton and Nick Millea

The Bodleian Library’s map collection is a treasure trove of cartographic delights spanning more than a thousand years. This lavishly illustrated book features highlights from the collection together with rare artifacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by a narrative revealing the story behind its creation and the significance of its design.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2019 144 p. 7 x 7 80 color plates

70 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-523-9 $20.00

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After the Nobel Prize 1989 –1994

The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume IV

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world’s only Nobel literature laureate, is best known internationally for his short stories and novels, including The Cairo Trilogy. But in Egypt he was equally familiar to newspaper readers for the column he wrote for many years in the leading daily Al-Ahram , in which he reflected on issues of the day from domestic and international events, politics, and economics to historic anniversaries, inspirational personalities, and questions of cultural freedom. This volume brings together the 285 articles he wrote between January 1989 and October 1994.

“He was not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romain.”—London Review of Books Distributed for Gingko Library 2020 700 p. 6 x 9 71 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-13-4 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

Palestinian Art

Gannit Ankori

“What’s wonderful about Palestinian Art is that it brings to our attention so many very good artists. . . . We learn that they have so much more on their minds than ‘the conflict.’”

Boston Globe

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2006 256 p. 71/2 x 93/4 143 color plates, 19 halftones 72 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-259-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Last Colonial Massacre

Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition

Greg Grandin

“Mounting the most powerful case to date against the know-nothing triumphalism of Cold War historians and the smug complacency of the American media, Grandin’s book also performs a modest act of restorative justice: it allows Guatemalans to tell their own stories in their own words. ”

London Review of Books 2011 336 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 73 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30690-2 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Lines of Thought

Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

Ayelet Even-Ezra

“Excitingly original. . . .Focusing on the logical horizontal tree diagrams that are ubiquitous in the margins of European medieval university manuscripts and early printed books, [Even-Ezra] demonstrates with much detailed evidence how these diagrams—too often dismissed by historians as mere ‘doodling’ by bored beginners— functioned as a primary means for medieval scholars to visually comprehend their learning.”

—Mary Carruthers, New York University

2021 272 p. 81/4 x 11 4 color plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables 74 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74308-0 $45.00

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The Chattering Mind A

Conceptual History of Everyday Talk

Samuel McCormick

“McCormick beautifully makes a case for seeing the history of attitudes toward chatter as essential to the understanding of media and communication. His readings of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Lacan show that, far from being identifiable with alienation and vacuity, speech that is poor in information turns out to be rich in the communication of a sense of community.”—Steven Connor, University of Cambridge 2020 336 p. 6 x 9 5 line drawings, 3 tables 75 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67777-4 $35.00

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Uncountable

A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

David Nirenberg and Ricardo L. Nirenberg

“The Nirenbergs combine their strength as a professional medievalist and a mathematician, respectively, to take the reader on a guided, remarkably enthralling tour through the universe and universals of formalization. Beautifully and engagingly written, this book will greatly appeal to a wide, interested reading public and change the critical terms of debate regarding mathematical versus other forms of reasoning.”

—Hent de Vries, New York University

2021 432 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone

76 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64698-5 $30.00

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Why Learn History (When It’s Already on

Your Phone)

Sam Wineburg

“Wineburg offers a set of timely and elegant essays on everything from the nuttiness of standardized testing regimes to the problems kids have, in the age of the internet, in knowing what’s true, and what’s not—problems that teachers have, too, along with everyone else. A bracing, edifying, and vital book.”

—Jill Lepore

2018 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones

77 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-35721-8 $20.00

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Cataclysms

An Environmental History of Humanity

Laurent Testot

“Testot’s message, that humanity is quickly losing its window for averting environmental collapse and that ‘neoliberal ideology’ is the main culprit, is crystal clear and hammered home regularly. There’s a great deal of breadth in this ambitious work.”—Publishers Weekly 2020 480 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 1 table 78 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60912-6 $35.00

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Power and Time

Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History

Edited by Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley

“This exciting and wide-ranging collection explores a crucial nexus of modern life: how social-political visions and conceptions of time shape each other. Its dazzling collection of case studies brings to life political leaders, scientists, economists, activists, and jurists as the authors chart how the interaction between temporality and authority transformed life across the globe. With original research and fresh methodological insights, Power and Time is a vital contribution to our understanding of contemporary history.”—Udi Greenberg, Dartmouth College 2020 464 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones 79 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48162-3 $45.00

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Equestrian Cultures

Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity

Edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld

“The varied and richly nuanced essays in Equestrian Cultures explore the horse’s instrumental role in constructing modernity and navigating its social, political, economic and symbolic dimensions. . . . The horse’s presence in, and influence on, discourses and technologies of modernity is given innovative and theoretically grounded analysis that gives us an important new set of insights into the horse’s multiple and endlessly malleable nature. ”—Karen Raber, University of Mississippi 2019 288 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 1 table 80 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58951-0 $32.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Phoenix

An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast Joseph Nigg

“This exhaustively researched and meticulously organized study of the mythical phoenix is an exceptional work of scholarship. . . . Even readers familiar with just the bare bones of the phoenix myth will find this book an engrossing history of an idea.”—Publishers Weekly 2016 496 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones, 17 line drawings 81 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-19549-0 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Imaginary Cities

A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between Darran Anderson

“A compendium of fantasy cities that takes its cue from Marco Polo via Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this remarkable survey reveals the influence that the metropolis of the mind has had on the real thing.”

Financial

Times

“A big, bustling book that looks at real cities through the prism of imaginary ones, from city planning to science fiction and everything in between. Anderson’s nimble study is never less than stimulating.”

New Scientist

2017 576 p. 53/8 x 81/2 82 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-47030-6 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Dispatches from Dystopia

Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten Kate Brown

“Brown’s book masterfully straddles the line between personal travelogue and academic research. Her essays jump from a war-torn region of Central Asia to a forgotten hotel basement in Seattle, and Brown argues that history is much better served by historians who put themselves in the places they research and the essays they write.”

Shelf Awareness

2015 216 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 7 maps 83 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-24279-8 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Phantom Islands In Search of Mythical Lands

Dirk Liesemer

“An entertaining exploration of thirty islands that are no longer on the map. Liesemer recounts these tall tales with great clarity, and teases out the truth with charm and rigor.”—Malachy Tallack, author of The Un-Discovered Islands

“In this elegantly produced, quietly quirky book, Liesemer presents brief histories of 30 islands that have appeared on maps and inspired explorations: Atlantis, Breasil, Saint Brendan’s Island, Rupes Nigra, Thule. Several have shifted their charted position over the centuries but none of them exist.”—Yachting Monthly Distributed for Haus Publishing

2019 155 p. 51/2 x 81/2 23 maps

84 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912208-32-6 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Hat

Origins, Language, Style

Drake Stutesman

“A new book shows just how important the hat has been, economically, culturally, and aesthetically, to us since prehistory. . . . The hat remains potent as fashion statement, symbol, or simple head-warmer; and Hat is a skilful and pithy handling of the subject. Chapeau! ”—World of Interiors

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2019 240 p. 6 x 91/2 100 color plates, 20 halftones

85 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-136-8 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

The Wig A Hairbrained History

Luigi Amara

“[Explores] the wig’s silly, sexy, and serious strains in a collection of fanciful short essays. . . . It’s clear that for Amara, the wig is an excuse to ponder, wander, and lose himself to flights of fancy.”—Hyperallergic

“With the precision of a Renaissance collector, Amara has written a book as wonderful and impressive as the old cabinets of curiosities. From Andy Warhol to Andre Agassi, the collection exposed in The Wig makes us smile and laugh with amazement, while we reflect on how shaky identity is.”—Carlos Fonseca, Trinity College, Cambridge

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2020 256 p. 51/4 x 81/4 20 color plates, 50 halftones 86 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-346-1 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Shoes

The Meaning of Style

Elizabeth Semmelhack

“Semmelhack’s history of shoes is neither an investigation into design nor an exhaustive chronology, but rather an informed and breezy examination of the meanings assigned to footwear through the ages. Tracing the development of four styles of shoes familiar to both men and women today—sandals, high heels, boots and sneakers— with lively anecdote she considers them as signifiers of status and gender, as reflections of our self-image within the prevailing culture of our times, and as tools to protect certain values and power structures, or to threaten them.”

World of Interiors

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 368 p. 61/2 x 91/4 159 color plates, 13 halftones

87 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-080-4 $20.00

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Ugliness

A Cultural History

Gretchen

E. Henderson

“In her wide-ranging and frequently illuminating study, Henderson traces the connections—some obvious, but many not at all—between aesthetic norms and cultural anxieties, from antiquity to the present day. Henderson’s totemic character is Polyphemus, the halfdivine Cyclops whose appearance in Homer’s Odyssey is one of the poem’s most harrowing episodes. . . . Ugliness—with all its seams unconcealed—is sometimes the closest thing to the truth.”

New Yorker

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 67 halftones 88 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-931-6 $17.50

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Insomnia

A Cultural History

Eluned Summers-Bremner

“Summers-Bremner’s excellent account of insomnia shows that the consideration of our waking moments is indicative of the changing ways we think about life. As crime fiction and drug prescriptions will attest, the inability to sleep is also a condition of modernity—of capitalist cultures founded on protestant work ethics, on eighteenth-century slavery and on the subsequent devaluation of sleep as an important activity in our 24-hour wired-up world. Wasn’t it Margaret Thatcher who said that sleeping was ‘for wimps?’”—Financial Times

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2008 176 p. 53/4 x 81/4 15 halftones 89 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-317-8 $29.95

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A History of Feelings

Rob Boddice

“To what extent are the things we feel—happiness, sadness, anger— the result of the world around us? How much would the emotions of someone from, say, the seventeenth century, be recognizable to us today four hundred years on? These are the kind of fascinating, if complex, questions posed by this original and ambitious book, which combines the latest research to explore centuries of feelings and how they related to wider society across centuries and continents.”

History Revealed

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Revenge

A Short Enquiry into Retribution

Stephen Fineman

“Fineman’s brief, questioning book is both a history and, by and large, a justification of revenge. It is, he argues, a primal human urge. . . . This is a thoughtful and thoughtprovoking book. It shows that blanket condemnations of revenge are over-hasty, and it leaves you feeling that what we call justice is not so much the opposite of revenge as a way of legalizing it.”—Sunday Times Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 91 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-840-1 $24.00

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Secrets of the Centenarians

What is it Like to Live for a Century and Which of Us Will Survive to Find Out?

John Withington

“Enjoyable and well written. . . . Using a journalistic tone, Withington looks at the history of exceptional human longevity, from Biblical oldster Methuselah to Britain’s celebrity fogey of the seventeenth century, Thomas Parr, before moving onto the recent surge, relatively speaking, in centenarians. . . . Filled with interesting facts and lively characters.”

Publishers Weekly Distributed for Reaktion Books

2017 256 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones

92 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-818-0 $29.95 Your Price: $11.00

Running A Global History Thor Gotaas

“Recreational running, Gotaas points out, has been around since the dawn of recreation time. It’s not some modern punishment we invented to burn off excess pints and pizza; it’s our most ancient and universal form of play, and has been rhapsodized and dramatized for thousands of years. Gotaas combs the world for true running tales, and comes up with some beauties. . . . An amazingly wideranging study.”— Guardian Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 15 halftones 93 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-913-2 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

The Waterless Sea

A Curious History of Mirages

Christopher Pinney

“Through the words of generations of desert travelers, Pinney paints the shimmering heat, the dazzling sand, and the strange visions hanging in the sky. He reproduces fascinating postcards, engravings, and photos of floating ships and castles, palm trees and palaces that ‘possess every possible stability,’ including one alleged photograph of a skyscraper city emerging from the Muir Glacier in Alaska.”

Economist

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2018 184 p. 53/4 x 81/4 14 color plates, 26 halftones

94 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-932-3 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

Blue Mythologies Reflections on a Colour

Carol Mavor

“Evocative and eclectic. . . . Drawing on the history of art, photography, literature, and her own memories, Mavor dives deep into an ocean of blueness. . . . Sumptuously illustrated throughout, Mavor’s writing—inspired by Roland Barthes’s Mythologies —is rich with insights, both theoretical and personal. . . . To quote Colette, Mavor is without doubt a true ‘connoisseur of blue.’”— Guardian Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 208 p. 61/4 x 91/4 59 color plates

95 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-050-7 $22.50

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Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages

Jacques Le Goff

“In these nineteen short essays— originally published in French— [Le Goff] offers case studies of ‘the medieval imaginary’ to argue that many creations of medieval culture not only had long lives but are still present today. . . . The erudition is smoothly presented with an implicit argument for the basic similarity between medieval culture and its modern heirs. . . .

Recommended.”— Choice

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2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 32 halftones

96 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-212-9 $22.50

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Storyworlds of Robin Hood

The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw

Lesley Coote

“Coote’s comparative approach situates the Robin Hood myth within a complex matrix of multilingual cultural contexts—French pastourelle traditions, English and German trickster stories, fabliaux and other comic tales, and Miracles of the Virgin tales among others. Thoughtful, learned, and sometimes provocative, Storyworlds of Robin Hood is a significant contribution to our understanding of the outlaw myth.”—Rob Gossedge, Cardiff University

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2020 320 p. 61/4 x 91/4 20 halftones

97 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-232-7 $30.00

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The White Devil

The Werewolf in European Culture

Matthew Beresford

“[Traces] the career of the werewolf from its roots in the shamanistic cults of prehistory, through its demonization in Christian Europe, to the reclassification of lycanthropy as a mental illness . . . The stories told in this book are arresting and often bloody: the crimes of Gilles Garnier and other selfconfessed ‘werewolves’ of the sixteenth century open a window on to changing perceptions of human barbarity in the pre-modern world. . . . This excursion into a fascinating but largely unvisited area of the past is welcome.”—BBC History

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2013 262 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 halftones

98 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-188-4 $24.95

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Trolls

An Unnatural History

John Lindow

“Clever little book. . . . Lindow writes with wit and warmth, but this is also a learned and sometimes unsettling study which brings to light some unexpected facets of the troll phenomenon more generally.”—Times Literary Supplement

“Excellent overview of the history of trolls. . . . A coherent, insightful, and informed exploration of a fascinating subject that deserves a wider audience.”—Fortean Times

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2015 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 22 halftones

99 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-565-3 $16.00

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Empires and Anarchies

A History of Oil in the Middle East Michael Quentin Morton

“An excellent, readable introduction to the history and development of oil in the Middle East. . . . It is a complicated story, but Morton handles it well with engaging, insightful, and humorous details that bring the broader international, political, and social aspects into high relief.”—J. E. Peterson, editor of The Emergence of the Gulf Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 256 p. 6 x 9 57 halftones 100 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-810-4 $40.00

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The Legendary Detective

The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

John Walton

“A masterly analysis of private detective work within the context of popular culture, revealing their interweaving and mutual influence. Mass-market literature made detective work look glamorous, which in turn provided a model and an incentive for memoirists like Alan Pinkerton, Charlie Siringo, and William J. Burns. Detectives wrote field and case reports that they and the home office polished and no doubt embellished to impress clients whose expectations were influenced by popular culture; fact and fiction blurred. Walton’s analysis is brilliant.”—Robert Weiss, SUNY 2015 232 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones 101 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30826-5 $29.00 Your Price: $11.00

Our Musicals, Ourselves

A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

John Bush Jones

“By looking at the entire continuum of musicals as a single ongoing dialog between Broadway and America, the book serves up fresh insights and eyebrow-raising parallels on each page. It starts in the nineteenth century and runs right up 2001’s Urinetown , from which it concludes that the political musical remains alive and well.”—Playbill

Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2004 426 p. 6 x 91/4 102 Paper ISBN: 978-0-87451-904-4 $35.00

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Show People

A History of the Film Star

Michael Newton

“ Examines how film stars shaped the medium, rather than vice versa. . . . It’s a collection of essays on individual actors, from Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin to Scarlett Johansson, sometimes focusing on a single film, sometimes on whole careers, and sometimes just on gossip. . . . [Made] me want to seek out some of the oddities and forgotten classics [Newton] mentions.”—Evening Standard

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 448 p. 6 x 91/2 50 halftones 103 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-156-6 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Higher

and

Colder A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration

Vanessa Heggie

“Extreme physiology remains an important aspect of study as we set our sights ever outward (to polar regions), upward (to the Moon and Mars), and downward (to the deep ocean). With Higher and Colder, Heggie reminds us that such work can offer extraordinary stories about how science is practiced while challenging the scientific community to consider adopting institutional changes that ensure that everyone can participate and is recognized for their contributions.”—Science

2019 264 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones 104 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65088-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Radio

Making Waves in Sound

Alasdair Pinkerton

“Pinkerton’s account of the scientific journey towards sending sounds by electromagnetic energy is fascinating, as are the human implications of this technology, all the way from Morse code to mobiles, Crippen’s arrest to the age of the podcast. Radio, rather than television, is the greatest popular miracle of the twentieth century. Yet Pinkerton’s account stretches back to ancient philosophers, Zeus’ monopoly on lightning, and the enduring fascination of both magnetism and electricity. There are many fine nuggets here.”

Times Literary Supplement

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 208 p. 61/4 x 81/4 50 color plates, 30 halftones

105 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-078-1 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Mafia

A Cultural History

Roberto M. Dainotto

“Offers something unique in the somewhat overcrowded category of books about the Mafia and its pop culture representations: a Sicilian intellectual’s historically informed yet personal perspective on the enduring appeal of organized crime stories.”—PopMatters

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 25 halftones

106 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-993-4 $15.00 Your Price: $6.00

How We Fell in Love with Italian Food

Diego Zancani

“This is a book both for the historian and for the cook. Beautifully illustrated and interspersed with some classic recipes, it relates the conquest of Great Britain by Italian food and cooking from Roman times to these days. It is a book after my own heart.”

—Anna del Conte

“A work both academically rigorous and impassioned, it had me heading straight to the kitchen.”

—Joe Trivelli, author of The Modern Italian Cook

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing

2019 256 p. 7 x 10 68 color plates

107 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-512-3 $40.00

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Volcanoes and Wine

From Pompeii to Napa

Charles Frankel

“Volcanoes and Wine is a joyous celebration of the circumstances that produce some of the world’s most venerated wines.”—New Scientist

“Geologist Charles Frankel goes looking for answers in Volcanoes and Wine, blending history, geology, and viniculture in an illuminating tour of some of the most curious wine-growing locales on earth. . . . Frankel’s book is well-researched, with the right blend of history, science, and wine.”—Terroirist 2019 216 p. 6 x 9 61 color plates, 27 halftones

108 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17722-9 $27.50

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Edible Memory

The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods

Jennifer A. Jordan

“This study of the recent resurgence of ‘heirloom’ crops—tomatoes, apples, carrots, and more— examines the nostalgia and the prestige that surround them. . . . Jordan’s theme is memory and how food connects us to traditions. We are more emotional about some foods than others. Broccoli, celery, and cucumbers, it seems, exist on a B-list of vegetables that will never be widely appreciated ‘heirlooms.’”—New Yorker 2015 328 p. 6 x 9

109 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22810-5 $26.00

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A Rich and Fertile Land

A History of Food in America Bruce Kraig

“The author of a definitive book on the hot dog is now covering a much bigger topic. Kraig surveys the food of America from prehistory to the present in A Rich and Fertile Land . Geology, geography, meteorology, agriculture, industrialization, politics, technology, and taste are all included, and Mexico and Canada are mentioned when relevant. What could have been a dry treatise is enlivened by individual stories drawn from diaries and other firstperson accounts, and by occasional illustrations.”—New York Times

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2017 304 p. 6 x 9 80 color plates, 30 halftones 110 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-853-1 $39.00 Your Price: $16.00

Bountiful Empire

A History of Ottoman Cuisine

Priscilla Mary Isin

“Işin’s account is comprehensively illustrated to make a visual as well as a textual record of Turkish social culture, conveyed through study of some 600 years of food and drink. . . . The main pleasure of the book lies in the background history and lively anecdotes of storytellers and puppet-shows entertaining in coffee houses, or the astonishment of a British visitor at the quantities of salt fish, nuts, olives, and pickles served merely as appetizers.”

Times Literary Supplement

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2018 280 p. 71/2 x 93/4 100 color plates, 20 halftones 111 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-904-0 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

The Story of Soy

Christine M. Du Bois

“[The book] takes care to situate soy in its diverse historical and contemporary contexts. It shows how soy in each era paradoxically created conditions to sustain life, including fixing nitrogen for agricultural ecosystems, but also to destroy environments and societies through relentless and sometimes violent pursuit of food and wealth based on soybean cultivation, processing and distribution.”

FoodAnthropology

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 272 p. 61/4 x 91/4 50 halftones

112 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-925-5 $40.00

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The Kosher Baker

Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy Paula Shoyer

“The Kosher Baker is a fascinating look into the world of Jewish baking. While an incredible resource for those who eat kosher, it’s equally compelling for anyone interested in a tempting array of sweets and breads, from fast-and-easy to elegant party fare. Two thumbs up!”—P.J. Hamel, author of The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2010 348 p. 8 x 10 113 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-58465-835-1 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Edible Series from Reaktion Books

Books in the Edible Series explore the global history of foods and drinks. Each book is approximately 150 pages, features approximately 40 color plates and 10 halftones, and measures 43/4 x 73/4.

Corn

Michael Owen Jones

114 2017 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-816-6 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Moonshine

Kevin R. Kosar

115 2017 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-742-8 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Sausage

Gary Allen

116 2015 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-500-4 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Barbecue

Jonathan Deutsch and Megan J. Elias

117 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-259-1 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Rice

Renee Marton

118 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-350-5 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Sauces

Maryann Tebben

119 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-351-2 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Pineapple

Kaori O’Connor

120 2013 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-179-2 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Salmon

Nicolaas Mink

121 2013 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-183-9

$19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Lemon

Toby Sonneman

122 2012 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-034-4 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Pork

Katharine M. Rogers

123 2012 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-040-5 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Lobster

Elisabeth Townsend

124 2011 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-794-7 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Cityscopes from Reaktion Books

Food on the Move

Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World

Edited by Sharon Hudgins

“Food and trains . . . are brought together brilliantly in this guided tour of the symbiotic relationship between railways and eating. Whether it is a simple aloo dum enjoyed in the hill town of Darjeeling, caviar on the TransSiberian, or a feast on the Orient Express, this book makes you want to go on every journey and eat every meal described in it.”

—Christian Wolmar, author of Engines of the Raj: How the Steam Age Transformed India Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 256 p. 71/2 x 93/4 100 color plates, 50 halftones 129 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-007-1 $35.00

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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

Beijing

Linda Jaivin

“A pithy snapshot of a complex city and its dynasties, literature, theatre, music, shopping and charismatic characters.”

Sydney Morning Herald 2014 192 p. 5 x 73/4 75 color plates, 25 halftones, 1 map 125 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-261-4 $22.00 Your Price: $8.00

Chicago

From Vision to Metropolis

Whet Moser

“This is not your typical Rick Steves, Fodor’s, or Lonely Planet guide to a city. Moser has selected the defining moments, people, places, and audacious innovations that make Chicago a one-of-a-kind city.”—Booklist 2019 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 color plates, 40 halftones 126 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-000-2 $22.00 Your Price: $8.00

Prague Crossroads of Europe

Derek Sayer

“Prague has everything: the ancient and the modern, the history and the culture, the music and the tranquility, the contradictions and the harmony. Sayer’s excellent book captures all of these facets of Prague to make any visit even more worthwhile.”—Ivan Margolius, author of Reflections of Prague 2019 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 30 halftones, 70 color plates

127 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-009-5 $22.00

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Mexico City

Nick Caistor

“Caistor in this wonderful book proves to be a great decoder of the mysteries of the ancient Tenochtitlan. . . . Mexico City is the best companion for the curious traveler who wants to go beyond the myths and become immersed in its fascinating reality.”—Roger Bartra, author of The Cage of Melancholy 2019 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 75 color plates, 32 halftones

128 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-073-6 $22.00

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Michael Sorkin

“This book captures architect Sorkin wandering through lower Manhattan, where even the most banal-seeming sights send the author into casually fascinating digressions about urban planning, the history behind New York’s grid, stoops, and parks. After looking at the city through this ambler’s eyes, you’ll never look at a tenement building—or a stairwell—the same way again.”—Time Out New York

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2009 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2

130 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-428-1 $27.00

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Ulaanbaatar beyond Water and Grass

A Guide to the Capital of Mongolia M. A. Aldrich

“An authoritative introduction to Mongolia’s capital city. For firsttime visitors or long-term academics, this is quite simply the best book available on Ulaanbaatar.” —Jack Weatherford, author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Distributed for Hong Kong University Press 2018 312 p. 6 x 9 98 b&w illus.; 8 maps

131 Paper ISBN: 978-988-8208-67-8 $39.00

Your Price: $11.00

It’s a Living

Work and Life in Vietnam Today

Edited by Gerard Sasges

Through 67 interviews and 59 photographs, It’s a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling shoes on the sidewalk, a college student running an extensive multilevel sales network, and a promotion girl intent on moving into management are just a few of the people profiled.

Distributed for National University of Singapore Press 2013 350 p. 51/2 x 71/2

132 Paper ISBN: 978-9971-69-698-6 $24.00

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Elsewhere

A Journey into Our Age of Islands Alastair Bonnett

“A great primer on the concept of islands in the modern age. . . .

Engagingly written.”

Library Journal

“[A] beguiling, fact-filled account of the world’s headlong dash to build artificial islands. Via a mixture of extensive desk research and short field visits, Bonnett invites readers to journey with him from military-orientated ‘Frankenstein Islands’ in the South China Sea to gigantic windfarms anchored to the bottom of the North Sea.”

Times Literary Supplement 2020 272 p. 51/4 x 81/4 33 color plates, 19 halftones

133 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67035-5 $25.00 Your Price: $12.50

Whereabouts

Stepping Out of Place, An Outside In Literary & Travel Anthology

Brandi Dawn Henderson

“Each tale in this brilliantly curated collection deals not only with places and the people that make them, but also with the transformative aspects of travel, inspiring us to take our own daring first steps into the unexplored.”—Margot Bigg, author of Moon Living Abroad in India

“Whereabouts takes you from the well-heeled in St. Petersburg to a nude beach in Croatia, from tony Martha’s Vineyard to grungy Trenton. . . . Revelations abound in this wide-ranging and engrossing journey across continents.”

—Karen Houppert, author of Chasing Gideon

Distributed for 2Leaf Press

2013 212 p. 6 x 9

134 Paper ISBN: 978-0-9884763-6-3 $19.99

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Floating on a Malayan Breeze

Travels in Malaysia and Singapore

Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

“Part quirky travelogue, part social critique, Floating on a Malayan Breeze weaves random encounters with Malaysians into shrewd political commentary. From meeting former Communist Party guerillas to being stuffed silly with durians by friendly uncles, this is one account that gets right on the ground with everyday lives.”— City Nomads

Distributed for Hong Kong University Press 2012 308 p. 6 x 9 21 color and 5 b&w illus.

135 Paper ISBN: 978-988-8139-31-6 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Black Earth

A Journey through Ukraine Jens Mühling

“Mühling is a delightful travel companion, but Black Earth is much more than just a travel book. In his encounters with a diverse cast of Ukrainians, Mühling elicits stories about the past and present of their country, which are moving, disturbing, funny and captivating—or all at once. The result is a rich polyphonic portrait of Ukraine. Black Earth is essential reading on the country that is now on everyone’s mind.”—Tom de Waal

Distributed for Haus Publishing 2019 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 maps

136 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-60-9 $24.95

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Churchill’s Britain

From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight Peter Clark

“It’s hard to say anything new about ‘Winston’ but Peter Clark has managed to do so in Churchill’s Britain. It’s a fascinating tour guide, rich in stories and detail, which informs as well as entertains—a kind of life through places.”–New Statesman

“For those who wish to travel in the footsteps of one of the twentieth century’s greatest politicians and war leaders, there is no better guide than Peter Clark to the places in Britain lived in and associated with Sir Winston Churchill.”

—David Stafford, author of Oblivion or Glory

Distributed for Haus Publishing 2020 240 p. 6 x 9 8 maps

137 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-74-6 $29.95

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Berlin for Jews

A Twenty-First-Century Companion

Leonard Barkan

“After 1945, can there be a ‘Berlin for Jews’? Can a Jew be a Germanophile? In his learned, deeply personal, culturally astute and thoroughly unclassifiable book, Barkan tackles these questions and others that many Jews of a certain age, education and temperament have also pondered.”

Wall Street Journal

“For readers visiting Berlin who would like to get a good sense of how pre-Holocaust Jews felt at home in the city and influenced its cultural life, this is a very good place to start.”—Publishers Weekly 2016 256 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones, 2 maps

138 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-01066-3 $27.50

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Siena City of Secrets Jane Tylus

“[Tylus’s] fundamental theme is that of Siena’s indelible sense of its distinctiveness, present in everything from a vaporous Beccafumi fresco to the hermetic shimmer of Mario Luzi’s poetry. . . . Tylus brings greater empathy than any of her forerunners writing on Siena to the decoding of its secrets.”

Times Literary Supplement 2015 256 p. 6 x 9 33 color plates, 3 halftones, 3 maps 139 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20782-7 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Appian Way

Ghost Road, Queen of Roads Robert A. Kaster

“Slim but evocative. . . . Kaster proves himself a knowledgeable and engaging guide on this journey through the past and present of Italy.”— Guardian

“A wonderful preface for any traveler planning an outdoorsy day in Rome or, especially, a trip through southern Italy. Kaster’s enthusiasm for the road and the people (past and present) who populate it is contagious.”

Library Journal 2014 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 24 halftones, 3 line drawings 140 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-14299-9 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Pilgrimage to Dollywood

A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee Helen Morales

“Part quirky travelogue, part study of celebrity culture, part autobiography, Pilgrimage to Dollywood is a witty and self-aware account of being transplanted into an alien culture and deciding to revel in its (and one’s own) otherness.”

Times Higher Education

“It’ll make you want to experience your own pilgrimage, with the windows down and ‘Jolene’ blaring.”—Bust 2021 172 p. 51/2 x 81/2 24 halftones, 4 maps 141 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79668-0 $18.00 Your Price: $9.00

Traveling in Place

A History of Armchair Travel Bernd Stiegler

“Stiegler forces us to consider the beauty and uniqueness of our common abodes. . . . The locations of Stiegler’s brief chapters or ‘legs’ range from monastic cells to the artist’s studio, with authors including Samuel Beckett and Walter Benjamin. Although the reason for these travelogues ranges from sickness to boredom, they tell us more about their authors than any other genre.”—Booklist 2013 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 83 halftones 142 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77467-1 $25.00

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Much more information about each book is on our website at press.uchicago.edu To order online, see the order form.

Armchair Travels from Haus Publishing

Palermo

Roberto Alajmo

In this unusual guide to the beautiful Sicilian capital, Alajmo showcases its hidden cultural and culinary jewels, explores its people and their secrets, and touches on its politics and contentious mafia involvement.

2018 180 p. 5 x 8

143 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-49-4 $17.95 Your Price: $6.00

Salzburg City of Culture

Hubert Nowak

“A rich confection of fact and quirky detail, Salzburg is a must for any visitor to this remarkable city.”—John Gimlette, author of travel literature

2020 140 p. 5 x 8

144 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-68-5 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Ends of the Earth

Roger Willemsen

“We go from Gibraltar to Iceland, from Minsk to Patagonia, to Timbuktu and Bombay, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Mandalay. . . . Every episode is a drama with the traveler as tragic hero.”—Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

2015 480 p. 61/4 x 91/4

145 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-02-9 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland

Jonathan

Clements

“A highly entertaining book. . . . Combines light-reading history with travel writing and uses various monuments that Clements has visited on journeys throughout his adopted homeland, highlighting key historical events and figures from pre-historic herders straight through to the creators of Angry Birds.”—Nordic Reach

2014 272 p. 41/2 x 81/4 2 maps

146 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-00-5 $22.95

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An Armchair

Traveller’s History of Apulia

Desmond Seward

An Armchair Traveller’s History of Apulia is the story of the heel of Italy—Puglia—as told by past and present day travelers. Arranged in short chapters, the narrative travels from north to south, highlighting cities, churches, castles, and other important sites.

2013 384 p. 5 x 8

147 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-75-8 $19.95

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Rethinking America’s Highways

A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure

Robert W. Poole Jr.

“Poole offers a well-reasoned transition from the failing twentiethcentury highway model to one that can sustain and support our country for the 21st century.”—Mary Peters, former US Secretary of Transportation

“Poole’s bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure could not come at a better time. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the endemic, seemingly intractable problems facing our nation’s infrastructure, and offers a practical set of solutions.”—Rick Geddes, Cornell University

2018 352 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 14 tables

148 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-55757-1 $32.00

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Picturing America

The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

Stephen J. Hornsby

“An underappreciated form of American visual art: the pictorial map. They’re maps designed to draw you in and—as often as not—try to sell you something, whether it’s a tropical vacation, a brand of bourbon, or a version of the American dream. [Picturing America] highlights an occasionally twisted, often amusing, always colorful tradition of hand-drawn cartography.”—National Geographic 2017 304 p. 8 1/2 x 11 153 color plates

149 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38604-1 $45.00

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Globes

400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power Sylvia

Sumira

“All you ever wanted to know about the history of globes and how they have been made.”—Sarah Tyacke, University of London

“Lavishly illustrated. . . . Sumira traces the history and making of globes and showcases dozens of fine examples drawn largely from the collection of the British Library.”—Wired 2014 224 p. 81/2 x 11 120 color plates

150 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13900-5 $45.00

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Maps and Civilization Cartography

in Culture and Society, Third Edition

Norman J. W. Thrower

“The premier one-volume history of cartography. . . . Maps and Civilization should be a close companion for anyone interested in maps: where they came from, where they are now, and where to go for more detail.”—John P. Snyder, Mercator’s World

“An easily digestible rather than encyclopedic volume, backed by an authority of thorough scholarship.”— Cartography 2008 362 p. 6 x 9 71 halftones, 23 line drawings

151 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79974-2 $40.00

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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 map-making, it’s rewarding reading.”

Fortean Times

“Time in Maps shows definitively that maps brim with temporal references, both overt and subtle.” —Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine 2020 272 p. 81/4 x 10 25 color plates, 80 maps 152 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71859-0 $45.00 Your Price: $22.50

Cartophilia

Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop

“With lively and polished prose, Dunlop traces the many ways that visual imagery both reflected and shaped the shifting boundary between France and Germany. Her ability to explicate all types of cartographic knowledge—from state-sponsored surveys to popular ‘citizen maps’—makes this a most welcome addition to the history of cartography.”—Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps 2015 280 p. 7 x 10 16 color plates, 71 halftones 153 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17302-3 $48.00

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The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Benjamin B. Olshin

“For a guy who claimed to spend seventeen years in China as a confidant of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo left a surprisingly skimpy paper trail. . . . But a set of fourteen parchments, now collected and exhaustively studied for the first time, give us a raft of new stories about Polo’s journeys and something notably missing from his own account: maps.”

Smithsonian Magazine

2014 176 p. 6 x 9 13 color plates, 23 halftones, 3 line drawings 154 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14982-0 $48.00

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Maps of Paradise

Alessandro Scafi

“A highly readable yet deeply learned journey into how ‘humankind has yearned for a timeless elsewhere’, searching for ‘perfect bliss, remote either in time or in space.’”—History Today

“Enough verve for a wider audience yet enough scholarship for students and academ ics. . . . The result is a visually impressive and thought-provoking study showing how people perceived, situated, and mapped Eden over time.”

Historical Geography 2013 176 p. 81/4 x 101/2 100 color plates

155 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08261-5 $40.00

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How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition

Mark Monmonier

“A useful guide to a subject most people probably take too much for granted. It shows how mapmakers translate abstract data into eyecatching cartograms, as they are called. It combats cartographic illiteracy. It fights cartophobia. It may even teach you to find your way. For that alone it seems worthwhile.”

New York Times

2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 16 color plates, 110 halftones 156 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43592-3 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps

Tim Bryars and Tom Harper

“Charts the political and social upheavals of the last century by means of maps, digging below the functional surface to reveal how maps of the time reflected popular ideas, prejudices, and waves of progress. . . . The highly eclectic result serves in itself as a reminder of the myriad ways in which we see and interpret the world around us.”—Huffington Post 2014 224 p. 8 1/2 x 11 100 color plates 157 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20247-1 $45.00 Your Price: $12.00

The History of Cartography, Volume 6 Cartography in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Mark Monmonier

The lavishly produced volume includes more than 500 articles accompanied by more than 1,000 images.

“Mapmaking may now be a more popular activity than in any other time in history—every time a person looks for directions online, a new, customized map is born. Just a century or so ago, none of the mapmaking tools we now take for granted existed. . . . The History of Cartography, Volume 6 traces the incredible advances in the last century that made possible the mapobsessed world of today.”

Atlas Obscura

2015 1960 p. 81/2 x 11 Set of 2 volumes, 805 color plates, 119 halftones, 242 line drawings, 61 tables 158 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53469-5 $599.00 Your Price: $149.00

Giza and the Pyramids

The Definitive History

Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass

“This volume was some 30 years in the making, being continually expanded and rewritten to keep pace with the wealth of new evidence uncovered on the Giza plateau. . . . You will need a strong coffee table for this one—here in this huge, richly illustrated volume is everything you ever wanted to know about Giza, the pyramids and the people who built them.”

Ancient Egypt

2017 560 p. 9 x 11 442 color plates, 14 halftones 159 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42569-6 $75.00

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A History of Trust in

Ancient Greece

Steven Johnstone

“Well-written and interesting. . . . The main attraction of this book is that it describes how the rambunctious, commercially oriented democracies of ancient Greece attempted to come to grips with the same practical problems modern societies face today.”—Journal of the History of Economic Thought

“A fresh, highly intelligent, and well-reasoned take on institutions and social practices, public and private, in the world of the Greek citystates. . . . There is no other book that covers this terrain.”

—Josiah Ober, Stanford University 2011 272 p. 6 x 9 160 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40509-4 $62.00 Your Price: $17.00

The Making of a King Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks

Robin Waterfield

“Waterfield wisely takes the city states of European Greece as the backdrop for Antigonus’ life and the arena where his influence was principally felt. The Making of a King is only in part a biography of Antigonus. It also details the decline, economic devastation and political fragmentation of post-classical Greece, and makes plain why the Stoic and Epicurean schools, both founded during Antigonus’ youth, became so central to Greek intellectual life.”

London Review of Books 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 8 maps

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

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How Socrates Became Socrates

A Study of Plato’s Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium

Laurence Lampert

Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Lampert recognizes the path of Plato’s strides and guides us through the true account of Socrates’ becoming. He divulges how and why Plato ordered his Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium chronologically to give readers access to Socrates’ development on philosophy’s fundamental questions of being and knowing. 2021 248 p. 6 x 9 162 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74633-3 $45.00 Your Price: $22.50

Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory

Robin

Reames

“This is a masterful book. Each chapter proffers a new take on platonic dialogues that have been read and interpreted endlessly. Reames provides a fresh new view bolstered by innovative and well-supported philological arguments. Every chapter provides a new twist and original insight into Plato’s texts. I am not engaging in hyperbole when I say that this book has no peer.” —Edward Schiappa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018 240 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing, 1 table 163 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56701-3 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Oedipus the King Sophocles

Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor.

“These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.”—New Republic 2010 88 p. 51/4 x 8 164 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76868-7 $8.00 Your Price: $5.00

Tiber

Eternal River of Rome Bruce Ware Allen

In this rich history of Italy’s Tiber River, Bruce Ware Allen charts the main currents, mythic headwaters, and hidden tributaries of one of the world’s most renowned waterways. The Tiber has served as the realm of protomythic creatures and gods, a battleground for armies and navies, a livelihood for boatmen and fishermen, the subject matter of poets and painters, and the final resting place for criminals and martyrs. This book is a highly readable history and a go-to resource for information about Italy’s most storied river.

Distributed for ForeEdge 2018 304 p. 61/4 x 91/4 165 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0037-7 $35.00

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Oedipus and the Sphinx

The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

Almut-Barbara Renger

“Renger delivers a beautiful contribution to the general theory of myth by unfolding the history of a single ‘big myth.’ Big myths require new approaches and retellings, and Renger delivers both a general introduction to a core problem of religious studies and comparative literature and a surprising new perspective on an old story.”

—Eckart Goebel, New York University 2013 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones, 1 table 166 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04808-6 $31.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Persians Lost Civilizations

Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker

The authors examine the unique features of Persian life and trace their influence throughout the centuries. They examine the environmental difficulties the early Persians encountered and how, in overcoming them, they were able to develop a unique culture that would culminate in the massive, first empire, the Achaemenid Empire.

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2016 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 halftones 167 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-650-6 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

The Barbarians Lost Civilizations

Peter Bogucki

“Bogucki successfully shows that the barbarian world was not flat and monolithic, and he sheds light on the development of the barbarian cultures over the centuries as a result of migrations and interactions with other civilizations.”

The Historian Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 25 color plates, 25 halftones 168 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-718-3 $25.00

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The Greeks Lost Civilizations

Philip Matyszak

“Matyszak’s book covers 2,000 years of Greek history: from the prehistorical settlements in the shores of the Black Sea to the capture of the medieval Greek capital of Constantinople by Moslem Turks in 1453. The Greeks is a breath of fresh air in the stories it tells about the Greeks who lived primarily outside of mainland Greece: Southern Italy, Sicily, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, France, Spain, Black Sea, and Asia Minor. . . . Timely and riveting.”— Counterpunch Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 color plates, 30 halftones

169 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-900-2 $25.00

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The Actual and the Rational

Hegel and Objective Spirit Jean-Francois Kervégan

“With this new book by JeanFrançois Kervégan . . . we finally have what was needed—a clearly written, well-argued, and farseeing reconstruction of what Hegel intended when understanding societal life as objectified spirit. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in finding out why Hegel is of importance for current debates within social, legal, and political philosophy.”—Axel Honneth, Columbia University 2018 416 p. 6 x 9

170 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02380-9 $59.00

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After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Robert B. Pippin

“Pippin uses the work of Manet and Cezanne (the grandfather and father of modernism) to embark on a kind of philosophical time travel with Hegel. Pippin persuasively argues that Hegel’s thought remains relevant for helping one understand the achievements of modernist painting as philosophical achievements. . . . The theoretical and historical sweep of Pippin’s study is impressive and delightfully illuminating. . . . Highly recommended.”

Choice

2015 176 p. 6 x 9 7 color plates, 36 halftones

171 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-32558-3 $23.00

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Biopower

Foucault and Beyond

Edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar

“Cisney and Morar have assembled a stellar collection of essays. . . . Topics as diverse as the life sciences, the birth of statistics, contemporary medicine, HIV prevention, race, gender, and the Arab uprisings are all examined from the viewpoint of the concepts of biopower and biopolitics, demonstrating their continuing relevance.”

—Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University 2015 400 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones

172 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-22662-0 $38.00

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The Moral Meaning of Nature

Nietzsche’s Darwinian Religion and Its Critics

Peter J. Woodford

“Woodford does an excellent job of showing how the concept of ‘life’ connects many strands of Nietzsche’s thought while also engaging a constellation of authors and their approaches, such as Overbeck and the study of religion, Simmel and the study of sociology, and Rickert and the neo-Kantian approach to values.”

—John H. Smith, University of California, Irvine

2018 208 p. 6 x 9

173 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53989-8 $32.00

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Thinking Out of Sight

Writings on the Arts of the Visible Jacques Derrida

“Who other than Jacques Derrida could have demonstrated with this degree of insight and lucidity the essential relationship between the visual arts and invisibility, nonappearance, absence, the night, blindness, even death? This superb collection of essays on painting, drawing, photography, video, cinema, and theater will forever transform both the way we understand Derrida and the way we look at the visual arts.”—Michael Naas, DePaul University 2021 328 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 174 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14061-2 $45.00

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Two

Thumbs Up

How Critics Aid Appreciation

Stephanie Ross

“Two Thumbs Up offers a persuasive argument that experienced critics can importantly aid our appreciation of works of art. Ross defends Hume’s famous view of the development of taste, addressing a host of philosophical questions regarding the subjectivity of aesthetic preferences. Her sophisticated solution is convincingly presented in an enjoyable, readable style.”

—Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics 2020 256 p. 6 x 9 175 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06428-4 $45.00 Your Price: $22.50

Creatively Undecided

Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency Menachem Fisch

“[Fisch] has something crucially important to say about one of the most pressing issues in our globalized and politically-torn world: how to self-criticize ‘from within’ our normative frameworks when challenged by competing cultures who confront us ‘from without.’”

—Niccolò Guicciardini, University of Bergamo 2017 304 p. 6 x 9 176 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-51451-2 $40.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) Errol Morris

“The documentarian Errol Morris gives us The Ashtray, a semi-autobiographical tale of the supremely influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. A spellbinding intellectual adventure into the limits, fragility, and infirmity of human reason. Morris’s tale is picaresque. Anecdotes, cameos, interviews, historical digressions, sly side notes, and striking illustrations hang off a central spine that recounts critical episodes in the history of analytic philosophy.”

Boston Review

2018 192 p. 8 x 10 49 color plates, 39 halftones

177 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92268-3 $30.00

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A Fragile Life Accepting Our Vulnerability

Todd May

“With an astonishing capacity to travel across philosophical traditions and with his usual grace in rendering deep philosophical issues through an accessible language, May tackles here one of the most pressing existential questions of our time: are we vulnerable, and, if so, why? This is a must read for anybody who has ever asked herself ‘What am I doing here?’”

—Chiara Bottici, author of Imaginal Politics

2017 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2

178 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43995-2 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Action versus Contemplation

Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters

Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule

“Summit and Vermeule taught a course at Stanford on this dichotomy between the cultivation of wisdom and the demonstration of skills. Action Versus Contemplation begins with an appeal for balance rather than conflict when these two realms are juxtaposed. . . . Trained as literary critics, [the authors] aim this brief book towards those who seek to recover a wise balance while never dismissing the life of the mind.”—PopMatters

2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones

179 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03223-8 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless

Suffering

What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All Scott Samuelson

“In this eminently readable but subtle book, Samuelson opens up new ways of thinking about suffering. Weaving together philosophical reflections with compelling stories of his time teaching in prison, Samuelson shows us the various roles undeserved suffering plays our lives, and indeed in life itself. This book is a necessary read for those of us who want to reflect on the place of pain in human existence.”—Todd May, author of A Decent Life

2018 272 p. 6 x 9

180 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40708-1 $25.00

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Fashion A Philosophy

Lars Svendsen

“Svendsen sums up and renders obsolete many previous, famous explanations. . . . I like his lack of complicity with his subject.”

The Guardian

“Fashion is an elegant and relatively easily read tour de force along academic and literary roads into the notion of fashion.”

Weekend-Avisen , Copenhagen

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2006 188 p. 43/4 x 73/4

181 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-291-1 $24.95

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A Philosophy of Dirt

Olli Lagerspetz

“Lagerspetz traces the ideological links that have existed, at least since the Enlightenment, between cleanliness and self-discipline, and conversely between dirt and the surrender to animal instincts. . . .

Cleanliness is not just contiguous to godliness, but in some deep-rooted way constitutive of it. You cannot be pure in spirit if you live in a pigsty.”—Boundless Magazine

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2

182 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-918-7 $24.00

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Artistic License

The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation Darren Hudson Hick

“Hick examines a range of key concepts central to intellectual property law, including authorship, works, originality, and infringement. . . . [Addresses] an area of growing interest among not only philosophers, but also legal theorists and the art world.”—Julie C. Van Camp, California State University, Long Beach

2017 240 p. 6 x 9

183 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46024-6 $32.00

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Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict

Edited by David Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara

“Offers readers a series of invaluable essays that represent the most important trends in contemporary scholarship on Machiavelli.”

—Filippo Del Lucchese, Brunel University London

2017 440 p. 6 x 9

184 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42930-4 $54.00

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Rousseau’s Reader

Strategies of Persuasion and Education

John T. Scott

“A remarkable book. Many have examined Rousseau’s literary style and rhetoric, as well as his efforts at what Rousseau himself is prone to call ‘persuasion,’ but Scott goes well beyond, focusing on the interaction between author and reader, and, specifically, the techniques Rousseau uses to educate his reader. Scott does all readers of Rousseau a great service in showing exactly how the arguments and what might be called the ‘literary action’ of Rousseau’s writings work together towards a common goal.”—Ryan Patrick Hanley, Boston College

2020 336 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 4 tables 185 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68914-2 $35.00

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Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento

Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit

Paolo D’Iorio

“Although this account of Nietzsche’s travels is confined to the time he was in Sorrento, it is valuable for tracing the philosopher’s intellectual thought. . . . This is a pleasant, instructive read.”— Choice 2016 168 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones 186 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16456-4 $38.00

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Critique of Freedom

The Central Problem of Modernity Otfried Höffe

“Höffe’s comprehensive review of the modern ethical, legal, and political order offers a new emphasis on propositions more often foolishly denied than ignored: Freedom is real, and important; modernity, the fullest realization of freedom achieved by humanity so far, is still very far from reaching its goal, but it is also far from being a total failure. . . The lessons of this book should be taken to heart by all of us.”—Allen W. Wood, Indiana University

2020 336 p. 6 x 9 187 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46590-6 $40.00 Your Price: $20.00

The Government of Desire

A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject Miguel de Beistegui

“Miguel de Beistegui contributes to what Foucault called a history of the present by pursuing the idea of desire across three categories: economic, sexual, and symbolic. By interweaving the historical and theoretical aspects of these together, he argues that desire is not a transcendental feature of subjectivity, but rather an ‘assemblage’ of knowledge and power. Bolstered by a remarkable amount of research, The Government of Desire is a compelling, persuasive, and original work of philosophy.”

—Leonard Lawlor, Pennsylvania State University 2018 320 p. 6 x 9 188 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54737-4 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Following Searle on Twitter

How Words Create Digital Institutions

Adam Hodgkin

“As we are all somehow aware, human reality is being changed as a result of the workings of social media. Philosophers have so far done little to come to terms with this fact. Hodgkin’s book is in this respect a true trailbreaker—and a pleasure to read.”—Barry Smith, University at Buffalo 2017 224 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 1 table 189 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43821-4 $43.00 Your Price: $12.00

Sovereignty, Inc.

Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment

William Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, and Aaron Schuster

“This superb trio of essays focuses on the mysterious third sphere that separates the governmental function from every living and breathing efficient cause. Conceived variously as a gap, the empty throne of power, the seat of the flesh or of surplus enjoyment, this sphere was formerly celebrated with pomp and circumstance. While these trappings have vanished from our modern, capitalist age, this sphere, filled now with a new form of emptiness, insists with implacable force. Posed polemically against the gray hues of contemporary critiques of capitalism and neoliberalism, these essays are dazzling standouts.”—Joan Copjec, Brown University 2019 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 190 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66841-3 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00

Interanimations

Receiving Modern German Philosophy

Robert B. Pippin

“In Interanimations, Pippin brings his interpretations of German philosophers into conversation with others’ interpretations. . . . Highly recommended.”— Choice

“Pippin’s book aims to show us what it is to advance philosophy through engaging the great minds of the past—and through an ongoing conversation and argument with others doing the same. From this point of view, philosophizing historically is very much a futureoriented enterprise, addressing the foundational philosophical concerns of our culture. Every reader who cares about the problems and prospects of modernity will find stimulation, provocation, and remarkable inspiration in these pages.”—R. Lanier Anderson, Stanford University 2015 272 p. 6 x 9 191 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25965-9 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

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A Library Miscellany

Claire Cock-Starkey

“This lovely little volume explores all sorts of library trivia about libraries all over the world . . . .

Every page holds engagingly written facts and anecdotes interesting, curious, or even startling, and you’ll find yourself absorbed in discovery as you wander from one entry to another. It is like browsing a little mini-library in itself.”

Manhattan Book Review

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2018 144 p. 41/4 x 63/4

192 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-472-0 $17.50

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Improbable Libraries

A Visual Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Libraries Alex Johnson

“Fascinating. . . . A valuable visual culture book that doubles as a travel resource.” —Los Angeles Times

“This delightful book will give bibliophiles everywhere ideas for how to exhibit their collection as well as add some destinations to their bucket list. A great option for the children’s room, too.”

Library Journal

2015 240 p. 7 x 7 250 color plates

193 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-26369-4 $27.50

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Hyphens & Hashtags*

*The stories behind the symbols on our keyboard

Claire Cock-Starkey

In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate to the punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the edges of our keyboard. Hyphens & Hashtags presents the histories and modern usages of punctuation marks and other symbols, revealing the long road many have taken on their way to general usage.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2021 192 p. 43/4 x 71/4

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

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Does Science Need a Global Language?

English and the Future of Research Scott L. Montgomery

“It may seem obvious that English is the one truly global language, but Scott Montgomery, himself a professional translator, is the first to assess the costs and benefits of this fact with such clarity.” Steve Fuller, University of Warwick

“Montgomery gives a clear overview of the issues surrounding any possible international language of science, and makes a convincing argument for the acceptance of the reality of the place of English in the world. . . . Fascinating.”

The British Journal for the History of Science 2013 240 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 1 table 195 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53503-6 $22.50

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But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”?

Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A

The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff

“If you would expect a ‘Best-Of anthology’ from the Chicago Manual of Style Q&A page to be a dry affair, it is time to think again. . . . This little guide book is the smart and sassy English teacher that we all wished we had.”

Publishing Research Quarterly

“A wonderful blend of substance and snark—both a useful reference and a fun (yes, fun) read.”

—Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing 2016 112 p. 51/2 x 81/2

196 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37064-4 $17.00 Your Price: $5.00

How to Write a BA Thesis, Second Edition

A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper Charles Lipson

How to Write a BA Thesis is the only book that directly addresses the needs of undergraduate students writing a major paper. It offers step-by-step advice on how to move from early ideas to finished paper, including choosing a topic, writing a proposal, conducting research, developing an argument, and writing and editing the thesis. 2018 432 p. 6 x 9 4 maps, 28 halftones, 29 tables

197 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43091-1 $24.00 Your Price: $8.00

Immersion

A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep Ted Conover

“A warm and generous guide for students and others aspiring to produce the kind of finely observed prose that represents journalism’s literary apex. . . . [Conover’s] clear voice and thoughtful instructions will be invaluable to undergraduate and graduate students embarking on their first ambitious projects. Professors and veteran journalists will appreciate Conover’s definition of immersion journalism, his defense of craft, and his discourse on ethics.”—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 2016 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2

198 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11306-7 $18.00

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The Truth about Language

What It Is and Where It Came From Michael C. Corballis

“Using a wealth of well-researched anecdotes about Neanderthals, cave paintings, gesturing apes, and well-trained border collies (to name a few), Corballis exemplifies moments of the human and animal minds fine-tuning their abilities to communicate. His journey into the written world is equally broad and insightful. . . . A thrill to read.”

Kirkus 2017 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 199 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28719-5 $30.00

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Who Reads Poetry

50 Views from Poetry Magazine

Edited

by Fred Sasaki and Don Share

“Poetry is most often defended by poets, so this anthology is a welcome addition to the chorus from outside voices.”

The Millions, “Must-Read Poetry Books”

“This collection appeals to the habitual reader of poetry and to the reader who has been wanting to read more poetry. We find that people like ourselves and people unlike ourselves all agree on one thing: Poetry has a lot to offer, and is not only relevant, but necessary.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune 2017 240 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 map 200 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50476-6 $24.00 Your Price: $8.00

Pitch of Poetry

Charles Bernstein

“Often elliptical, argumentative, and personal, this is a radical work about the nature of poetry and of language itself.”—Publishers Weekly

“[Bernstein’s] pitches for the importance of otherwise marginal experimentalist poets are luminously intelligent. . . The ‘official verse culture’ has a formidable antagonist.”

Times Literary Supplement

“Compulsively readable. . . . This compelling ‘pitch’ will leave readers with a sense of poetry’s everexpanding range and the danger of remaining complacent in the face of its power.”— Choice

2016 352 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones

201 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33208-6 $28.00

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London in Quotations

Compiled by Jaqueline Mitchell

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

—Samuel Johnson

London is one of the world’s great cities—a source of inspiration to generations of poets, novelists, journalists, and commentators who have visited or called it home. This slender volume—filled with wise, witty, and sometimes scandalous quotes—presents the full range of impressions the city has made.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2014 96 p. 31/2 x 41/2

202 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-401-0 $11.00

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A Conspiracy of Ravens

A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds

Compiled

by Samuel Fanous

“A few collective nouns for birds are still heard, . . . but your companion at the lakeside would be surprised to hear you cry, ‘Behold, a posse of herons,’ or see you recoil at a ‘dropping of pigeons.’ These are included . . . together with a ‘soar of kites,’ a ‘wake of buzzards,’ and a ‘merl of blackbirds.’”

Times Literary Supplement

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2014 144 p. 41/4 x 63/4 126 halftones

203 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-409-6 $17.50

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The Real McCoy And 149 Other Eponyms

Claire Cock-Starkey

“Those who have a fascination with the origin of place names and interesting words will appreciate the excellent research and clean, clever writing skills on display in this little book. Each of the 150 eponymous words or phrases in the book has its own fascinating story, and each is well told by the author. This is perfect for a road trip or to keep on the bedside table.”

Manhattan Book Review

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2019 144 p. 41/2 x 7

204 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-498-0 $17.50

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Just the Job

How Trades got their Names

Alexander Tulloch

In this highly original book, linguist Alexander Tulloch examines the etymology behind a selection of trades and professions, unearthing intriguing bits of historical information along the way. Here readers will find explanations of common surnames, such as Spencer, Hayward, and Fletcher; obsolete jobs such as pardoner, cordwainer, or telegraph boy; and roles for the modern era, such as wedding planner, pundit, and sky marshal. Packed with additional etymological information and literary quotations, this book will appeal not only to linguists, but to anyone interested in the quirky twists and turns of meaning that have led to the familiar job titles of today.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2020 224 p. 43/4 x 71/4 30 halftones

205 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-550-5 $22.50

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We Are Not Amused

Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch David Crystal

In We Are Not Amused , renowned English-language expert David Crystal has explored the most common pronunciation-related controversies during the reign of Queen Victoria and brought together the cartoons and articles that poked fun at them, adding insightful commentary on the context of the times.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2018 96 p. 61/4 x 81/4 54 halftones 206 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-478-2 $25.00

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The Flash Press

Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York

Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in association with the American Antiquarian Society

“The authors have managed to unearth and collate a remarkable amount of enriching detail about a curiously fleshy moment in the history of New York publishing.”

New York Times Book Review

“Almost half of the book’s text is reprints in full of stories from the press.”— Commercial Dispatch 2008 288 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones, 2 figures 207 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11234-3 $20.00

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Some Words of Jane Austen

Stuart M. Tave

“Tave’s book is one critical study of her novels which Jane Austen could have read with nothing but pleasure, so accurately and subtly does he probe the profound meaning of her art. Tave’s work is, very probably, the best interpretation of Austen’s meaning ever written.

. . . The old is made fresh, and the new, familiar, as Tave continually produces, by virtue of his masterful grasp of the Austen canon, new ore from what one might have supposed to be exhausted veins.”

Nineteenth-Century Fiction 2019 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 208 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63339-8 $20.00

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Jane Austen’s Names Riddles, Persons, Places Margaret Doody

“Doody makes a convincing argument that Jane Austen imbued most, if not all, of her character and place names with historical, geographical, or social significance, and provides the historical and cultural context necessary to understand the import of each of these careful naming choices. . . . A delightful, edifying read for both scholars and lay Austen fans.”

Library Journal 2015 440 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 209 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-15783-2 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Daily Charles Dickens

A Year of Quotes

Edited by James R. Kincaid

Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author’s beloved novels and Christmas stories as well as his lesser-known sketches and letters for “an around-the-calendar set of jolts, soothings, blandishments, and soarings.”

“Dickens was a chronicler of Victorian times, an entertainer and a fighter for social justice. So what book lover wouldn’t want a daily quote to chew on to start the day?”

Our Windsor 2018 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 210 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56374-9 $16.00 Your Price: $5.00

Alice in Space

The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll Gillian Beer

“An erudite, witty and intimate journey through Wonderland. . . . Reading Alice in Space is like participating in a marvelous dinner party conversation as the author moves freely and easily among the intricate interrelationships of Victorian culture.”—Times Higher Education

“Beer takes us on a vertiginous voyage through the wonderlands of [Carroll’s] creation. She explores the scientific and ethical questions of his time and reveals how the comic—and dark—fantasy of the Alice books often conveys the subtlety of his dissenting views.”

—Marina Warner, author of Stranger Magic 2018 320 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones 211 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56469-2 $29.00 Your Price: $11.00

Elizabeth I

Translations, 1592–1598

Elizabeth I

“A mine of interesting materials for Elizabethan scholars. . . . Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel provide here a series of documents which will allow readers to acquire an unique insight into Elizabeth’s formative years.”—Carlo M. Bajetta, Times Literary Supplement 2009 512 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 5 halftones 212 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20132-0 $68.00 Your Price: $17.00

Chicago by the Book

101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image Caxton Club

““The perfect study of the perfect library of the perfect Chicago provincial. . . Absorbing.”

Chicago Tribune

“As one would expect from the Caxtonians, the production value is high—the book is brimming with images of first editions and related illustrations, ephemera, and photography—and the content is a delightful miscellany.”

Fine Books & Collections 2018 336 p. 81/2 x 91/2 145 color plates

213 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46850-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Circus Girl

Photographs by Saibal Das and Text by Nola Rae

“While the images are striking and evocative, what makes this book truly haunting and unforgettable is the sparse text provided by worldrenowned mime Nola Rae. Rae alternates between careful description of the images from an insider’s perspective and succinct prose to elucidate the circus world.”

Photographer’s Forum

Distributed for Seagull Books

2010 142 p. 91/2 x 91/2 79 halftones

214 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-906497-33-0 $35.00

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Erich Lessing

The Pulse of Time—Capturing Social Change in Post-war Europe

Johannes Rambarter and Florian Knothe

Erich Lessing: The Pulse of Time includes documentary images from the pinnacle of Lessing’s career in the 1950s and 1960s, which illustrate the journalist’s ability to be working in the right place at the right time. Lessing reported on many of the most significant political event in post-war Europe and his historical photographs record social and economic change in both Eastern and Western Europe.

Distributed for HKU Museum and Art Gallery

2015 136 p. 81/4 x 113/4 b&w illustrations

215 Paper ISBN: 978-988-19023-2-0 $30.00

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A Box of Photographs

Roger Grenier

“Tells in words and images the story of a life spent with cameras and typewriters, while also tracing a path through the social and cultural history of twentieth-century France.”—Times Literary Supplement

“Through charming anecdotes, Grenier blends his own history with that of photography, and explains how the medium has influenced his entire life.”—Library Journal

2013 120 p. 51/2 x 81/2 16 halftones

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Dandyism in the Age of Revolution

The Art of the Cut

Elizabeth Amann

“Sweeps aside received notions of the dandy as a disengaged fop to recover the figure’s political and politicized origins.”—Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University

“Arguing for a seismic shift in the meanings of men’s dress in the late eighteenth century, Amann presents a new way of thinking about how the trauma of the French Revolution was managed through sartorial fashions.”—Peter McNeil, University of Technology, Sydney 2015 288 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones

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Picturing Empire

Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

James R. Ryan

“Ryan is a skilled analyst of photographic imagery and has done an excellent job in making accessible the lessons available from archives of the visual history of Empire. . . . [A] sensitive and engrossing account of the reciprocal relationship between photography and British imperial ideology.”—John R. Gold, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1998 272 p. 61/4 x 91/4 88 halftones 218 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73233-6 $68.00

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Vintage Advertising An A to Z

Julie Anne Lambert

Vintage Advertising: An A to Z takes a fresh look at historical advertising through a series of thematic and chronological juxtapositions, with topics arranged alphabetically from Art to Zeitgeist to provide striking, often unexpected, insights into changing culture, politics, and technology.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2020 144 p. 73/4 x 73/4 109 color plates 219 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-540-6 $25.00

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Art-Nouveau Prague

Petr Wittlich

In Art-Nouveau Prague, Petr Wittlich tours the monuments and buildings of Prague that best represent the art nouveau movement. An introductory essay emphasizing the role of art nouveau within contemporary currents of modern European art accompanies more than one hundred color illustrations of stunning examples of art nouveau architecture and decoration. A detailed bibliography provides additional reading for each of the sites displayed in the book.

Distributed for Karolinum Press 2009 135 p. 8 x 10 100 color plates 220 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-1346-8 $30.00

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The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus

Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam

Alain George

“George provides a vivid picture of the Umayyad mosque as it was designed and erected at the very beginning of the eighth century. This book is a scientific and aesthetic tour de force and will become an indispensable reference for historians and architecture lovers.”

—Mathieu Tillier, Université ParisSorbonne

“For the first time we have a book which does full justice to the Umayyad mosque in Damascus. . . . Rich, scholarly, readable and exciting.”—Hugh Kennedy, London University Distributed for Gingko Library 2021 264 p. 91/2 x 113/4 150 color plates

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Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park

Susan O’Connor Davis

“Davis’s book—replete with remarkably clear black-and-white photographs of extant and demolished buildings—includes vignettes of nationally or locally famous persons.”— Choice

“A compelling visual account that introduces the reader not only to a complex local history, but also to one grounded firmly in the larger currents of both architectural change and urban development.”—Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Chicago: A Biography 2013 504 p. 8 1/2 x 11 343 halftones, 11 line drawings 222 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13814-5 $60.00 Your Price: $17.00

Burnham of Chicago

Architect and Planner, Second Edition

Thomas S. Hines

“In every sense this is the definitive biography, and it is long overdue.”

Chicago Tribune

“The book as a whole is a model of the balanced portrait, sure of Burnham’s importance but always conscious of his failings.”

New York Times Book Review

“Hines has written what may prove to be an epoch-making book in the study of American civilization.”—Times Literary Supplement 2008 474 p. 6 x 9 148 halftones 223 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34172-9 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

The Flowering Desert Textiles from Sindh

Hasan Askari and Nasreen Askari

“The key attraction of the book is, not surprisingly, the excellent photography of examples of Sindhi work. Each image is captioned with an identification of the originating ethnic group, place of origin, date and materials used. Useful captions supply additional details relating to iconography or technique or function. Thus the catalogue offers not only a visual feast but also a fascinating and authoritative reference through which to explore the repertoire of the region, so often overlooked in the literature.”—Journal of the Oriental Rug and Textile Society Distributed for Paul Holberton Publishing 2019 160 p. 10 x 11 150 color plates

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The Sexual Night

Pascal Quignard

“Intelligible, mournful, and profound.”—New York Times

“Explores much more thoroughly and universally than ever before this ‘invisible’ sexual scene that founds and forever affects us. . . .

A thoroughly stimulating book.”

Arts Fuse

Distributed for Seagull Books

2015 124 p. 6 x 71/2 48 color plates

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Michelangelo’s Sculpture

Selected Essays

Leo Steinberg

“Steinberg returns the act of looking to center stage, insisting on it as the primary, indispensable instrument for understanding works of art. In an intellectual climate that holds that reading—critical theory—is the only true path to wisdom, the return of Leo Steinberg’s singular eye and mind could not be more timely or necessary.”

New Criterion

2018 320 p. 81/2 x 11 121 color plates, 127 halftones

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Renaissance and Baroque Art Selected Essays

Leo Steinberg

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. This volume includes two thematic essays and fourteen chapters on masterpieces of renaissance and baroque art. This is the third volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

2020 416 p. 81/2 x 11 104 color plates, 140 halftones

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Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt’s extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist’s life, these images are among the most evocative Rembrandt created. For years scholars have debated whether these paintings were intended as a series, yet until now these works have never been shown together. “This exhibition demonstrates how complex and as yet unknown this period remains for scholars, and how moving it remains for viewers.”

Renaissance Quarterly

2005 150 p. 91/2 x 111/2 40 color plates, 30 halftones 228 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-89443-0 $53.00 Your Price: $15.00

Fragonard Painting out of Time

Satish Padiyar

“Fragonard restores seriousness to a body of work often characterized by a certain légèreté, and to an artist who can seem light-hearted even in the manner of his death.”

London Review of Books

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Oscar Wilde Prefigured

Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750–1900

Dominic Janes

“[Decenters] Wilde in order to examine the culture that created him and the almost forgotten literary scene of 1890s writers who wanted to be him. Oscar Wilde Prefigured is—to quote its author elsewhere—a ‘power romp’ through the image of the queer man between 1750 and 1895, when Wilde was imprisoned.”

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Perfect Wave

More Essays on Art and Democracy

Dave

Hickey

“Veteran art critic Hickey delivers another poignant and masterful collection of essays. In each selection, he critically and humorously contemplates cultural zeitgeists and the essence of good art in music, books, paintings, and architecture. His razor-sharp insight and witty prose make for an entertaining read.”—Publishers Weekly

“He remains one of the finest American cultural critics, for he opens his own pleasures to appreciative scrutiny and collective relish.”—PopMatters 2017 240 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 1 line drawing 231 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33313-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Global Work of Art

World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience

Caroline A. Jones

“Jones historicizes the contemporary globetrotting artwork, arguing that today’s international biennials, triennials, and art fairs belong to a much longer lineage of 18th- and 19th-century world’s fairs and colonial exhibitions.”—ARTnews

2017 400 p. 81/2 x 11 37 color plates, 128 halftones 232 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29174-1 $70.00 Your Price: $17.00

The Surrealism Reader An Anthology of Ideas

Edited by Dawn Ades, Michael Richardson, and Krzysztof

Fijalkowski

The texts uncover, among other things, the significance of surrealism for the antifascist and anticolonialist movements and the various manifestations of surrealism in the years after World War II. Giving space to the many different voices that made up the movement, and placing them for the first time within a clear and coherent historical framework, The Surrealism Reader radically revises the popular understanding of what, and when, surrealism was.

2016 368 p. 6 x 9 70 halftones

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Free as Gods

How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism

Charles

A. Riley

For many art, music and literature lovers, the expatriate community in France during the Jazz Age represents one of the most glorious periods in history. In Paris, famous figures such as Fitzgerald, Stein, Gershwin, Diaghilev, Bechet, and Picasso enjoyed access to a vast network of rivals, collaborators, critics, and consumers. Riley’s celebration of the many masterpieces of this remarkable group shows how the creative community of postwar Paris supported astounding experiments in content and form that still resonate today.

Distributed for ForeEdge

2017 272 p. 6 x 9 234 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-850-4 $29.95 Your Price: $11.00

Czech Modern Painters

1888–1918

Petr Wittlich

Czech Modern Painters is an articulate overview of modern art styles from the former Czechoslovakia, focusing on impressionism, art nouveau, and cubism.

Distributed for Karolinum Press

2013 207 p. 9 x 10 130 color plates, 29 halftones

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The Simple Truth

The Monochrome in Modern Art Simon Morley

“An indispensable introduction to the intriguing material, optical, and philosophical challenges posed by the monochrome. Morley writes with such tact and insight that anyone interested in the contemporary practice of painting, whether expert or novice, will find the book a delight.”—Malcolm Bull, University of Oxford Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 304 p. 61/4 x 81/4 10 color plates

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Gerhard Richter A Life in Painting

Dietmar Elger

“Among the many triumphs of Dietmar Elger’s landmark first biography of [Richter] . . . is to show how Richter’s apparently neutral tones are part of a long, complicated fight against traditional German emotionalism.”—Financial Times 2010 408 p. 7 x 10 78 color plates, 103 halftones

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Hannah Ryggen

Threads of Defiance

Marit Paasche

“Tapestry is back, part of a reputational revival of textile arts that’s also unclouded the achievements of neglected modernists. One is the Swedish-born Norwegian weaver Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970), whose monumental tapestries, drawing on Picasso’s deformed figures and steeped with feminist and antifascist conviction, come to life in this newly translated biography, illustrated in color throughout. . . . Ryggen was acclaimed throughout her lifetime in Norway, and this biography establishes her as a model of artistic and political engagement.”—New York Times 2019 288 p. 61/2 x 91/2 150 color plates

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Andy Warhol, Publisher

Lucy Mulroney

“Well written and meticulously detailed, this book clearly depicts subversive parallels and oppositions to the commercial establishment.”— Choice

“In this engrossing book, Lucy Mulroney offers a bracing new account of Andy Warhol’s publication projects as they redefined the rituals of publishing, publicity, and print in America. Drawing upon extensive new archival research treating everything from the ‘coloring parties’ of the 1950s to the late photobook America , Mulroney demonstrates the range, intricacy, and above all the radically collaborative nature of these projects.”

—Jennifer L. Roberts, Harvard University

2018 176 p. 7 x 10 43 halftones

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Accounts and Drawings from Underground

The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906

William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris

This book is the result of a unique collaboration between Kentridge and Morris, inspired by the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation. Kentridge’s 40 landscape drawings serve as a visual epitaph to a history of disappearances. These drawings are accompanied by Morris’s narrative, giving us a palpable sense of the world that gold mining created.

Distributed for Seagull Books

2015 196 p. 81/4 x 11 61 color plates

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The Artfulness of Death in Africa

John Mack

“The breadth of coverage in what’s a deeply informative and fascinating read is astonishing. . . . A work of clarity and rigor, The Artfulness of Death in Africa is essential reading for anyone interested in the arts of the continent.”—Morning Star

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 288 p. 71/2 x 93/4 50 color plates, 49 halftones 241 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-123-8 $55.00

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Mexican Modernity

20th-Century Paintings from the Zapanta Mexican Art Collection Translated by Edward Zhou

Mexican Modernity displays the development of painterly styles and social representations, from the more European-influenced compositions to predominantly indigenous themes that regularly appeared as liberal Mexico sought to distinguish itself from its Spanish colonial past.

Distributed for HKU Museum and Art Gallery 2016 64 p. 81/4 x 107/8 40 color illus.

242 Paper ISBN: 978-988-19023-6-8 $15.00

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Abstraction in Reverse

The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art

Alexander Alberro

“In this stimulating book Alberro mines fields well known to scholars of modern Latin American artists in a way that sheds new light.”

The Burlington Magazine “[Abstraction in Reverse makes] strong contributions to the growing body of scholarship on modernism, both Latin American and global. Alberro challenges his readers to reconsider how they understand abstract art and its operations; in particular, how Latin American modern art engages the viewer beyond the common tropes of the rational and the spiritual, inviting instead interaction, inhabitation and movement.”—Art History 2017 368 p. 7 x 10 58 color plates, 17 halftones

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Street Art World

Alison Young

“Street Art World is a must read for all who are drawn to vernacular visual culture. This is an exceptional book.”— Choice

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2016 256 p. 71/2 x 93/4 70 color plates, 50 halftones 244 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-670-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Dogs in Art

Susie Green

“This refreshing look at the dog in art runs over eight chapters. There is Landseer, Cubism, Japanese art, sculpture, and pop art, too. Through these striking images the story of the dog in art is traced, but also the story of the dog’s relationship to man and what it means.”

Field

“If nothing else, everyone in your living room should be able to agree on one thing after looking at this book: Every dog in the history of art is a very good dog.”

Great Big Story

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 288 p. 71/2 x 93/4 140 color plates, 10 halftones 245 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-129-0 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Photography, Trace, and Trauma

Margaret Iversen

“In this challenging analysis of the way photography can provide a trace of trauma, Iversen offers a revelatory exploration of how theory has introduced a complex method for interpreting the “messages” in imagery—imagery that is not limited to photography.”

Choice

“Elegant and thoughtprovoking, Photography, Trace, and Trauma takes an approach to the photographic that is simultaneously expansive and fine-grained. Through case studies across a range of media, Iversen develops a compelling aesthetics of trauma, according to which the artwork models an openness to being marked by time and contingency.”

—Tamara Trodd, author of The Art of Mechanical Reproduction: Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital 2017 184 p. 7 x 10 17 color plates, 29 halftones 246 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37016-3 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Great Movies IV

Roger Ebert

“Ebert’s take-no-prisoners essays packed with insider insights will send movie lovers back to the sofa for a second look at old favorites like Cool Hand Luke and My Fair Lady while introducing more offbeat picks like Sansho the Bailiff and Pixote.”—Parade

“Ebert offers informed critical appraisals, as well as background on the movies’ making and significance, that make these pieces rewarding for film buffs and ideal introductions for first-time viewers.”—Booklist

2016 288 p. 6 x 9

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Herzog by Ebert

Roger Ebert

Herzog by Ebert is a comprehensive collection of Ebert’s writings about the legendary director, featuring all of his reviews of individual films as well as longer essays he wrote for his Great Movies series. Herzog himself contributes a foreword in which he discusses his relationship with Ebert.

“This excellent collection will lead readers to revisit, or experience for the first time, Herzog’s unique imagery, which was likely Ebert’s wish.”—Library Journal

2017 224 p. 6 x 9

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Two Weeks in the Midday Sun

A Cannes Notebook Roger Ebert

“Sharp, wry, and—for this Cannes veteran—right on the mark.”

New York Times

“A charming little book. . . . Frenzies and all, Ebert brings it seductively back.”—Los Angeles Times

“A lighthearted trip through the 1987 festival, filled with celebrity interviews, casual encounters, and general commentary about the film and film-reviewing industry. . . . Tucked amid all that lighthearted traipsing through a French film festival is also a fairly serious and deliberate study of brows high, low, and middle—and Ebert’s appreciation of all three.”—Belt Magazine 2016 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 43 line drawings

249 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31443-3 $16.00

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Movies That Mattered More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Dave Kehr

“Extraordinary. . . . The 1980s were not the most salubrious decade in which to shine as a movie reviewer, . . . but as with all great reviewers—Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Manny Farber—Kehr’s reviews fly free from their ostensible subjects to become specimens of cultural criticism. Agree with his opinions or not, they’re always smart, lucid, well argued, and witty. This book is a pleasure to read.”—New York Times Book Review 2017 272 p. 6 x 9 250 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-49568-2 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Reinventing Hollywood

How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling David Bordwell

“Reinventing Hollywood shows how risk-taking screenwriters and directors of the 1940s introduced storytelling strategies taken from modernist novels and avant-garde theater. . . . No dry encyclopedia of cinematic tropes, this is a delectable menu of narrative techniques that maximize the complexity and depth of a plot.”—Film Quarterly 2019 592 p. 6 x 9 157 halftones 251 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63955-0 $32.00 Your Price: $11.00

Robert Altman

In the American Grain Frank Caso

Known as an iconoclast and maverick, film director Robert Altman has consistently pushed against the boundaries of genre. From refashioning film noir in The Long Goodbye, the western in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the psychological drama in Images, science fiction in Quintet, and the romantic comedy in A Perfect Couple, he has always tested the limits of what film can and should do. In this book, Frank Caso examines the development of Altman’s artistic method from his earliest days in industrial film to his work in television and feature films.

“A detailed study of the films of a talented American director.”— Choice Distributed for Reaktion Books 2016 320 p. 6 x 8 75 halftones 252 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-522-6 $27.00

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TV by Design

Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television Lynn Spigel

“Spigel demonstrates the deep connections between peoples’ lived experiences of art and how television challenges the binaries between artistic practices and the making of television.”— Choice 2009 402 p. 6 x 9 52 halftones 253 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76968-4 $27.50

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Overweight Sensation

The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman Mark Cohen

Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and into the American mainstream with explosively funny parodies of classic songs that won Sherman extraordinary success and acclaim across the board, from Harpo Marx to President Kennedy. Mark Cohen has written the first biography of the manic, bacchanalian, and hugely creative artist who sold three million albums in just twelve months, yet died in obscurity a decade later at the age of forty-nine.

Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2013 320 p. 6 x 9 254 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-256-4 $29.95 Your Price: $11.00

The New Adventures of Don Quixote

Tariq Ali

The New Adventures of Don Quixote, can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful tribute to Cervantes’s masterwork. “Ali broadens our horizons, geographically, historically, intellectually, and politically. His mode of history-telling is lyrical and engaging, humane, and passionate.” Nation Distributed for Seagull Books 2015 200 p. 6 x 71/2 30 color plates 255 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-209-5 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Bigger, Brighter, Louder

150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by Chicago Tribune Critics Chris Jones

“Bigger, Brighter, Louder gives us dozens of reviews—some perceptive, some notorious, and some bitingly funny. I warrant that you will find Mr. Jones’ Chicago-eyed view of theater sharp, amusing, and incisive.”—Playbill 2013 376 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 256 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05926-6 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Staging History

1780–1840

Edited

“This illuminating collection of essays transports the reader to the spectacular world of the London theatre in the early nineteenth century and demonstrates how seemingly trivial entertainments engaged with the world-historical events unfolding around them. . . . Every essay reconstructs the dynamic relation between performance and historical consciousness.”—Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2017 224 p. 81/4 x 81/4 74 color plates

257 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-456-0 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00

by Michael Burden, Wendy Heller, Jonathan Hicks, and Ellen Lockhart

Richard Wagner A Life in Music

Martin Geck

“Geck describes a Wagner who is grounded, focused, and even cautious, a savvy realist and ironist rather than a flamboyant, flailing ideologue. . . . Geck’s musical analyses are succinct and superb, and he is skilled at finding clues to Wagner in the interstices of his career.”—New York Times

2013 464 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones, 37 line drawings

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A Portrait in Four Movements

The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti Andrew Patner

“The interviews in A Portrait in Four Movements often read like relaxed conversations over drinks, even as they are guided by Patner’s subtle hand. . . For Patner [music reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times], music was lifeblood for a rich and meaningful existence, and his role was to share it.”— Chicago Tribune

“This book . . . will primarily appeal to music fans who pay attention to who’s at the conductor’s podium, but it’s an intriguing read for more casual fans as well: these are people whose lives revolve around thinking deeply about music, but their personalities and quirks, from Bernard Haitink’s dry wit to Riccardo Muti’s scholarly approach, shine through. A charming addition for followers of orchestral music.”—Library Journal

2019 272 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones

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American Orchestras

Sound Knowledge

Music and Science in London, 1789–1851

Edited by J. Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart

“The book picks up on recent work on the history of soundscapes, on scientific exhibitions and lectures, and on the sites of metropolitan knowledge production and consumption and connects them in ways that it would be hard not to find stimulating.”—Isis

2017 256 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table 275 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40207-9 $59.00 Your Price: $14.00

Curious and Modern Inventions

Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy

Rebecca Cypess

“Curious and Modern Inventions takes readers on a wide-ranging journey through early seventeenthcentury culture, musical and otherwise. This is a highly rewarding adventure.”—Journal of the American Musicological Society

“An elegant book. . . . It should become essential reading for anyone interested in early modern Italian science.”—Isis

2016 320 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 17 halftones, 72 line drawings, 4 tables 276 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31944-5 $59.00 Your Price: $14.00

Wherever the Sound Takes You

Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making David Rowell

“Quirky and delightful. . . Instead of the usual band profiles or reviews, Wherever the Sound Takes You offers eight elegant essays chronicling the odd, the marginal and the forgotten. . . . Rowell treats his subjects seriously, as people worthy of having their stories told, which endows them with dignity.”—Washington Post

Good Music

What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

John J. Sheinbaum

“Sheinbaum offers many brilliant ideas in his original and roaming coverage of seeming opposites: Mahler, Beethoven, Handel with Bruce Springsteen, prog rock, and jazz. Sheinbaum’s analysis of the Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is particularly insightful.”— Choice

2018 320 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 25 musical examples, 8 tables

279 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59338-8 $32.00

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Nightingales in Berlin

Searching for the Perfect Sound David Rothenberg

“A hugely thoughtful and fascinating book. . . . Rothenberg strikes me as bonkers, but also brilliant, and his book expands on this musical challenge to ask key questions relevant to anyone engaged with the natural world.”—Spectator

2019 184 p. 6 x 9 14 color plates, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

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The Works of Giuseppe Verdi

Il trovatore

Critical Edition Study Score

in

the Nineteenth Century

Edited by John Spitzer

“This collection of diverse essays reflects well the fits and starts of American orchestral development. . . . While American orchestras’ leadership is beyond question, the path by which they reached it is shown to be much less direct and far more compelling.”—Journal of American History

2020 504 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones, 14 tables

274 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75605-9 $55.00

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“By focusing so narrowly—e.g., on the “hang,” an obscure, expensive instrument in Switzerland, the popular rise and decline of the Hammond organ, or the cult appeal of musical aggression known as “grindcore”—Rowell offers revelations that seem universal, if often ineffable. . . . Every story concerns music, but the heart of each is people—the ones who make the music or the instruments and the ones whose lives depend on it. Readers who have had any sort of musical passion should find these stories compelling.”—Kirkus Reviews

2019 248 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones

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A Place for Us

West Side Story and New York Julia L. Foulkes

“Foulkes’s approach is chronological, but this is no pedantic march through time. Rather, it is a fascinating read focusing equally on the show and the world into which it was born.”— Choice

2016 272 p. 6 x 9 53 halftones

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2016 352 p. 81/2 x 11 5 halftones

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La traviata

Critical Edition Study Score

2017 624 p. 81/2 x 11 5 halftones

282 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-52129-9 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Macbeth

Melodramma in Four Acts. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

2006 612 p. 101/2 x 141/2 Three-volume set. Score (two volumes cloth); Commentary

283 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85320-8 $599.00 Your Price: $149.00

Duke Ellington’s America

Harvey G. Cohen

“Duke Ellington’s America attempts to get under the skin of this apparently most imperturbable of men, and the results, if hardly conclusive, are fascinating. . . . Extremely intelligent and formidably documented book—a welcome change from much that has been published about Ellington.”—New Yorker

“Illuminates Ellington’s career as never before, and also helps to deepen our understanding of larger trends and issues in American politics and culture. No previous book on Ellington has followed the money so rigorously, laying bare the interworkings of art and capital.”—Times Literary Supplement

2011 704 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones

284 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11264-0 $22.50

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The Art of the Blues

A Visual Treasury of Black Music’s Golden Age

Bill Dahl

“

The Art of the Blues celebrates the visual swagger of the blues. . . . This exhaustive book is a rich tapestry of how art was used to push the blues as an undisputed king of music in its 20th century heyday. . . . A sublime pictorial history of the blues itself.”—PopMatters

“The Art of the Blues will be a jewel in any blues fans library. It not only enhances the ability to understand and enjoy the music, it acts as a lavish historical document that will enrich anyone’s understanding of American history and the blues place in our ever changing society.”— Chicago Blues Guide

2016 224 p. 91/2 x 11 350 color plates

285 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39669-9 $35.00

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Say No to the Devil

The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis

Ian Zack

“[In this] biography of the blind preacher and street musician, the man who Keith Richards said, ‘started it all for me,’ . . . Zack gives an informative account of Davis’s life, both the sacred and profane. . . . A readable and faithful portrait of the times as well as the man.”

Times Literary Supplement

2015 344 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones

286 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-23410-6 $32.00

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The Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley

Ted Harrison

“Harrison’s central thesis—that Elvis has been much more heavily and successfully commercialized in death than in life—is convincing. . . . It is original. And its most compelling line is that the reason Elvis has been so brilliantly marketed after his death is because he was so badly handled in his lifetime.”—Spectator

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 22 halftones

287 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-990-3 $17.95

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Blowin’ Up Rap Dreams in South Central Jooyoung Lee

“Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central represents a jump through the keyhole into the world of hiphop as it is lived by some of the art form’s most dedicated practitioners. . . . Necessary and important, Blowin’ Up provides an intimate look at this essential art form.”

PopMatters

2016 272 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones 288 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34889-6 $23.00

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Rave On

Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music

Matthew Collin

“Here are ten x-rays of dance culture in ten global hotspots that lovingly trace the history of each locale’s sound through its DJs, promoters, and proponents. . . . Collin’s quest is never short of illuminating.”— Observer

“With a DJ’s skill for the emotive build and drop, [Collin] deftly organizes these essays to illuminate club culture’s role in saving cities from bland gentrification; the health of the underground speaking volumes about the health of the society above.”—Sunday Times 2018 384 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones 289 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59548-1 $20.00

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Music/City

American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Jonathan R. Wynn

“Wynn shows how music festivals like the Newport Folk Festival and Austin’s SXSW, have become increasingly important platforms as much for cities and their economies as for the careers of musicians.”—Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class “As a professional musician who rarely sees festivals from any perspective but the stage I found Music/City jam-packed with fascinating and indispensable information. Wynn has created a must read for music fans and festival goers the world over while also generating a how-to for the prospective host communities.”—Tegan Quin, singer-songwriter for the Grammy–nominated band Tegan and Sara 2015 336 p. 6 x 9 29 halftones, 4 line drawings 290 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30552-3 $32.00

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Let’s Make a Better World

Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp

Jane Sapp and Cynthia Cohen

“Jane Sapp is a musical and cultural power. Her work in the field as a cultural organizer is only matched by what happens when she explodes on stage.”—Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2019 152 p. 8 x 91/4 291 Paper ISBN: 978-1-5126-0355-2 $29.95 Your Price: $11.00

Neil Young

American Traveller Martin Halliwell

“Halliwell knows what he’s talking about, and writes with real enthusiasm and know-how.”—PopMatters

“Halliwell’s study of Neil Young is a superb cultural history and a highly informed piece of music criticism. By situating Young’s songs and films in specific locations, as well as the deterritorialised realms of time and space, Halliwell explores the boundary-smashing nature of a 50-year career that has transformed the history of North American music.”—Will Kaufman, author of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 224 p. 6 x 81/4 35 halftones 292 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-531-8 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Beatles in Hamburg

Ian Inglis

“Mr. Inglis has made a solid contribution to what I suppose we by now ought to call Beatles Studies. As an account of the ideas and ideals that impelled the band through its most formative years, the book is unbeatable.”—Wall Street Journal

“Inglis is at his best when summarizing the environmental forces and personal relationships that fostered the intense level of artistic growth the group achieved during their time in that city. In his chapter on the Beatles’ musical influences, he adeptly summarizes, in a short space, the unusual variety of musical currents that entered into their repertoire, including rhythm and blues, rockabilly, doo-wop, and Brill Building pop.”

The Weekly Standard

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 208 p. 54/5 x 81/4 30 halftones

293 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-915-6 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Van Halen Exuberant California, Zen Rock’n’roll

John Scanlan

“Diamond Dave as a Zen master? Eddie Van Halen as musical monk? That’s the case John Scanlan makes—tongue only partly in cheek—in this learned but lively take on Van Halen’s rise to the pinnacle of rockstardom, improvising all the way. Philosophy you can dance to.”—Barnes and Noble Review

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 216 p. 54/5 x 81/4 30 halftones

294 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-916-3 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Limited by Body Habitus

An American Fat Story

Jennifer Renee Blevins

“While many readers will be familiar with her argument that fat people are unfairly pathologized, her father’s medical records (used with his permission) offer new and concrete examples of how discrimination against fat patients occurs at the level of grammar, how those tiny building blocks add up to a wall of disparagement.”

Times Literary Supplement

Distributed for Autumn House Press

2019 192 p. 6 x 81/2

295 Paper ISBN: 978-1-938769-40-5 $17.95

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A Small Door Set in Concrete

One Woman’s Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine Ilana Hammerman

“Israeli journalist, translator, and editor Hammerman’s memoir of life along the Israel-Palestine border is a fascinating view into the region’s ongoing tensions in the early 2000s.”—Booklist

“Above all, Hammerman shows how the Occupation works to cast Palestinians as ‘creatures of a different species,’ rather than ‘normal human beings.’ Her remarkable book is a fierce corrective to this.”

Times Literary Supplement

2019 296 p. 51/2 x 81/2

296 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66631-0 $25.00

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Assassin of Youth

A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs Alexandra Chasin

“This ain’t your grandpa’s reefer madness but instead a swirling, energetic, decidedly offbeat history of a man and a time history has largely forgotten.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Chasin paces the trail from temperance to today, when nearly half the inmates of US jails are incarcerated for drug offences. A sorry tale of how one man’s racial prejudice and predilection for prohibition led to a colossal policy failure.”—Nature 2016 352 p. 6 x 9 75 halftones

297 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27697-7 $35.00

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A Life

Simone Veil

Simone Veil was one of France’s most beloved public figures, most admired for her personal and political courage. Her memoir is a sincere and candid account of an extraordinary life and career, reflecting both her humanity and her determination to improve social standards at home and maintain economic and political stability in Europe. In the wake of her passing in 2017, this translation of her memoir stands as a fitting tribute to an unparalleled life of survival, selflessness, and unwavering public service.

Distributed for Haus Publishing 2018 298 p. 5 x 8 12 halftones 298 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910376-96-6 $19.95

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Anarchy’s Brief Summer

The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti Hans Magnus Enzensberger

This book brings anarchism to life by focusing on the charismatic leader Buenaventura Durruti, who became a key figure in the Spanish Civil War. The basis of the book is a compilation of texts linked by Enzensberger’s own assessment in a series of glosses that illuminate the political contradictions of the Spanish Revolution.

“Enzensberger’s collection of personal testimonies creates a vivid portrait of Durruti as a revolutionary.”— On the Seawall Distributed for Seagull Books 2019 264 p. 6 x 9 299 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-600-0 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Music at Midnight

The Life and Poetry of George Herbert John Drury

“Being an English country minister has inspired many writers, none of them more lapidary, precise, witty and surprising than George Herbert, the frail intellectual who preached to the parish of Bemerton from 1630 to 1633. An account of an Anglican priest and his poetry that will probably never be bettered.”

Economist

2014 416 p. 6 x 9 24 color plates, 28 halftones 300 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13444-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Robert Schumann

The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer Martin Geck

“A fine biography. . . . This is the most balanced account of Schumann’s life and work for more than a generation, one that makes us want to re-listen to Schumann’s music, knowing better the man behind it.”—Wall Street Journal 2012 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones, 8 line drawings 301 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28469-9 $35.00

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Critical Lives from Reaktion Books

Critical Lives is a major series of short critical biographies. Each book is approximately 200 pages in length, includes about 30 halftones, and measures 5 x 8.

Langston Hughes

W. Jason Miller

302 2020 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-195-5 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Thomas Mann

Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell

303 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-081-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Joseph Beuys

Claudia Mesch

304 2017 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-735-0 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Virginia Woolf

Ira Nadel

305 2016 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-666-7 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Georgia O’Keeffe

Nancy J. Scott

306 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-428-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Susan Sontag

Jerome Boyd Maunsell

307 2014 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-288-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Fidel Castro

Nick Caistor

308 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-090-0 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Mahatma Gandhi

Douglas Allen

309 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-865-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Simone Weil

Palle Yourgrau

310 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-798-5 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Future of Conservation in America

A Chart for Rough Water

Gary E. Machlis and Jonathan B. Jarvis

“The Future of Conservation in America calls for an enlightened vision for the future. The authors draw from a combined eighty years of public service in conservation and science to chart a course for a new generation of conservation action and leadership.”

—President Jimmy Carter

2018 112 p. 5 x 7 7 halftones

311 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54205-8 $14.00

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Peak Oil

Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

“Schneider-Mayerson interprets the tendency towards insularity and inactivism as a sign of the peak-oil subculture having accepted more of the dominant mentality of the past few decades than one might expect: in particular, a deep distrust of collective action, and of the state as capable of doing anything without screwing it up, combined with fatalism and an abiding sense of powerlessness. And feeling powerless, one places no demands on those who do have power (the first step toward gaining any).”

Inside Higher Ed

2015 280 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones

312 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28543-6 $30.00

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The Sun

Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff

“Golub and Pasachoff elucidate all things solar in this scientific primer. They anatomize sunspots by way of US astronomer George Ellery Hale, who pioneered their observation with his 1889 invention of the spectroheliograph. They explore helioseismology, which allows us to peer inside the Sun; look at chromosphere and corona; and proffer pointers on safe amateur observation. Beautifully illustrated, history-rich, and bang up to date.” Nature

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2017 224 p. 63/4 x 82/3 100 color plates

313 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-757-2 $40.00

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Don’t Look, Don’t Touch, Don’t Eat

The Science Behind Revulsion

Valerie Curtis

“For a book riddled with rancid and revolting things, Don’t Look, Don’t Touch is surprisingly difficult to put down. . . . Perhaps the most illuminating aspect of Curtis’s book is the elegant parallel she draws between parasite avoidance and moral judgment, revealing how a mechanism for keeping us physically well could have led to our lip curling at bad manners, loutish behavior and the perpetrators of crime.”

Times Literary Supplement 2013 184 p. 6 x 9 1 table

314 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13133-7 $25.00

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Dinner with Darwin

Food, Drink, and Evolution

Jonathan Silvertown

“A series of beautifully plated amuse-bouche, raising tantalizing and rich ideas. . . . The book left me feeling as if I had attended a dinner party, where foodies, historians, and scientists mingled, sharing vignettes on various foodrelated topics. Each ‘bite’ . . . left me contemplating the relationships between genetic changes, speciation, and, at times, even the future of our planet.”—Science 2020 232 p. 6 x 9 6 maps 315 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76009-4 $19.00

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Coevolution of Life on Hosts

Integrating Ecology and History Dale H. Clayton, Sarah E. Bush, and Kevin P. Johnson

“Parasites and their hosts constitute fascinating examples of ecological and evolutionary interactions. . . . Clayton and his collaborators . . . have done an impressive job by filling out many of the gaps of knowledge on coevolution, thereby accidentally filling an academic niche in the same way as many ectoparasites squeeze into empty spaces on the host to make their living.”—Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2015 320 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 110 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables 316 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30227-0 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

The Mantle of the Earth

Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Veronica della Dora

“As an account of ideas and artifacts The Mantle of the Earth provides a sweeping backdrop to current-day scientific technologies and practices.”—Science

“Although appropriated by geophysics the Mantle of the Earth has a much longer history magnificently narrated by della Dora. She gives to the critical zones a much richer mythical dimension combining metaphors of weaving and unveiling all the way to Gaia. A masterpiece.”—Bruno Latour 2020 416 p. 6 x 9 10 color plates, 71 halftones 317 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74129-1 $65.00 Your Price: $17.00

Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones

The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils

Ken McNamara

“This is a unique book. There are plenty of titles out there on fossils, and this book has fossils at its heart—but it’s not really about them. It is, rather, an exploration of humanity’s attempts to understand what fossils are and what (if anything) they might do for us. . . . The approach is engaging and different. The revelation of the vast length of time fossils have been collected is remarkable.”—PopularScience.co.uk Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 288 p. 51/4 x 81/4 70 halftones

318 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-290-7 $25.00

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The Earth Series from Reaktion Books

This series traces the historical significance and cultural history of natural phenomena and resources.

Desert

Roslynn D. Haynes

2013 248 p. 6 x 81/4 70 color plates, 30 halftones

319 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-169-3 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Air

Peter

Adey

2014 224 p. 54/5 x 81/4 70 color plates, 30 halftones

320 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-256-0 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Ice

Klaus

Dodds

2018 224 p. 53/4 x 81/4 90 color plates, 10 halftones

321 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-905-7 $24.95

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Lightning

Derek M. Elsom

2015 240 p. 6 x 81/4 70 color plates, 30 halftones

322 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-496-0 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Discoveries in the Garden

James Nardi

“Nardi urges us to recall that it’s a jungle out there—in the back garden, that is. His companion guide to garden science is a learned romp through plant biology; solar energy and soil nutrients; the movement of vines; and ‘fellow gardeners,’ from single-celled protozoans to beetles. Here, too, are experiments on the basics, such as photosynthesis, and a wealth of stunning images.”

—Nature

2018 288 p. 6 x 9 93 halftones, 30 line drawings, 3 tables

323 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53166-3 $25.00

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A History of the Garden in Fifty Tools Bill Laws

“This handsome horticultural history by a noted British gardener . . . would make a fine gift for the gardener who has everything, guaranteed to give him or her a one-up on buddies who don’t know a dibber from a mattock or a billhook from a daisy grubber.”—Toronto Star

“Laws examines the history and cultural bearing of everything from a cloche to a lawn mower.”

Washington Post

2014 224 p. 7 x 9 150 color plates

324 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13976-0 $25.00

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Lessons from the Great Gardeners Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

Matthew Biggs

“The book’s quirky capsule histories of forty great gardeners from the past centuries—from Vita Sackville-West to Claude Monet to Somai—convey amusing facts and practical tips.”— Gardenista

“Each profile features a biography of the gardener, a page of ‘lessons’ that define that gardener’s philosophy, and a generous selection of color illustrations of the gardens, and specific plants, they cultivated.”—Booklist

2016 224 p. 7 x 9 200 color plates

325 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36948-8 $30.00

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Gardening with Perennials

Lessons from Chicago’s Lurie Garden Noel Kingsbury

“It will be indispensable for Midwestern gardeners who deal with searing heat and bone-rattling cold—and not much in between. Yes, an Englishman in Chicago. That’s the twist that makes this book special: It took an out-of-towner to realize that the dazzling, gently rolling five-acre Lurie Garden in Millennium Park merited booklength attention. . . . Brimming with ideas for every home garden.”

New York Times

2014 216 p. 53/4 x 71/2 86 color plates, 1 line drawing 326 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43745-3 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

Prague Gardens and Parks

Božena Pacáková-Hoštálková

The design of Prague’s gardens and parks is inseparable from the millennium-long efflorescence of this exquisite Czech metropolis. Lushly illustrated with nearly one hundred and fifty original color photographs and archival images, Prague: Parks and Gardens not only shares the latest findings on these gardens’ historical foundation and stylistic transformations, but also takes us through the garden gates into individual gardens and parks— both Prague’s most visited and its undiscovered green gems. Distributed for Karolinum Press 2017 260 p. 8 x 101/2 145 color plates 327 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3422-7 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Botanical Treasury

Celebrating 40 of the World’s Most Fascinating Plants through Historical Art and Manuscripts Edited by Christopher Mills

“The excitement of discovering a new plant is almost tangible in this lavish collection of plant histories. A delightful compendium of 40 plants from around the world, it tells the story of each one through a fascinating mix of botanical illustrations, letters sent to Kew from plant hunters and reprinted extracts from botanical periodicals.”

English Garden

“What’s better than a glorious book of botanical portraits and plant tales? A glorious book of botanical portraits and plant tales AND an accompanying pack of 40 separate—and frameable—plant prints!”—Annals of Botany 2016 176 p. 81/2 x 11 100 color plates, 100 halftones 328 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36934-1 $54.00 Your Price: $15.00

Sex on the Kitchen Table

The Romance of Plants and Your Food

Norman C. Ellstrand

“The sex in this self-proclaimed ‘foodie sex manual’ is all of the plant variety. But what a variety it is! . . . Ellstrand’s knowledge of the pleasures and perils of plant sex is prodigious, and his wit sparkles throughout.”—Natural History

“In this self-described and highly readable ‘foodie sex manual’, Ellstrand takes his readers on a romp through the surprisingly sensual world of crop plant reproduction.”—Economic Botany

2018 208 p. 6 x 9 13 line drawings, 6 tables 329 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57489-9 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

A Portable Latin for Gardeners

More than 1,500 Essential Plant Names and

the Secrets They Contain

James Armitage

This book is the perfect quick reference for working in the garden, shopping for plants, or doing botanical research—and no prior knowledge of Latin is required. The 1,500 terms are grouped by categories, making it easy to describe color, size, form, habitat, scent, taste, and time.

2017 160 p. 53/4 x 71/2 200 color plates 330 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-45536-5 $18.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Botanical Series from Reaktion Books

Tulip

Celia Fisher

2017 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 331 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-759-6 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

Apple

Marcia Reiss

2015 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 332 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-340-6 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

Cannabis

Chris Duvall

2015 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 333 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-341-3 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

Geranium

Kasia Boddy

2013 216 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 colorplates, 50 halftones 334 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-048-1 $27.00

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Pine

Laura Mason

2013 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 335 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-101-3 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons

Edited by Ben-Erik van Wyk and Michael Wink

“Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons can be used as a guide for the novice herbalist, the seasoned botanist, or anyone with an interest in learning about how plants can heal (or kill). . . . The book is easy to navigate, with hundreds of color photographs and chapters divided by poisonous plants, healing plants, mind-altering plants, and more.”

Gardenista

2015 304 p. 61/4 x 91/4 350 color plates

336 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20491-8 $45.00

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Seeds A Natural History

Carolyn Fry

“Fry’s splendidly illustrated kaleidoscope of the science and history of the seeds that sustain us is a manual for the new era—pinpointing how seeds transformed our ability to feed ourselves, how we in turn transformed them, and what conservation means in a world dominated by humans.”

New Scientist

2016 192 p. 63/4 x 91/2 186 color plates, 12 halftones

337 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22435-0 $38.00

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Pollination Power

Heather Angel

“Photographer Angel has traveled the world to document how plants attract pollinators. Her mesmerizing images showcase magenta hibiscus trumpets in Hawaii, stubbly Arabian starflower stamens and pollen-covered bees in Tajikistan, as well as beetles, butterflies and birds swooping in to feed. . . . The photographs and text are all tied together in a gorgeous large-format book.”—Scientific American 2016 208 p. 93/4 x 11 204 color plates

338 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36691-3 $43.00

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Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World

Helen

Bynum and William Bynum

“A quietly lavish book that gathers together the history of human use of a wide array of plants worldwide. The book is divided into sections, treating plants used as major food crops, spices, drugs, building materials, cash crops, ornamentals, sacred plants and, in a fun final flourish, curiosities.”

Wall Street Journal

2014 240 p. 73/4 x 93/4 160 color plates, 15 halftones

339 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20474-1 $35.00

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Extraordinary Orchids

Sandra Knapp

“Meticulously researched, 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 2021 160 p. 10 x 13 140 color plates, 7 halftones 340 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77967-6 $30.00

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Sexy

Orchids Make

Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships

Marty Crump

“The book is a believe-it-or-not treasury of glue-spitting soldier ants, divorced birds, monkeys that dose themselves with herbal cures, and underwater day spas where big fish suspend their practice of eating little fish in exchange for getting their scales groomed and their teeth cleaned.”—Boston Globe 2009 232 p. 6 x 9 120 line drawings 341 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12185-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Orchid

A Cultural History

Jim Endersby

“Few orchid books are as fascinating as this. Endersby explores the grip of these exotic flowers on the human imagination. Melding art and science, this original title reminds us that the destruction of biodiversity also inflicts damage on our shared culture, a fundamental attribute of human existence.”

BBC Wildlife 2016 288 p. 61/14 x 91/14 15 color plates, 45 halftones 342 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37632-5 $30.00

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Deceptive Beauties

The World of Wild Orchids

Christian Ziegler

“Ziegler captures these sex symbols of the plant world in 150 portraits taken on five continents.”

Scientific American “Exquisite. . . . [Ziegler] takes you into the flowers’ wild habitats and leads you to the next level in understanding the functional basis of their aesthetic perfection.”

BBC Wildlife

“Deceptive Beauties pairs gorgeous photographs by former biologist Christian Ziegler with a fascinating story of evolution and survival.”

Boston Globe

2011 184 p. 11 x 11 165 color plates

343 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-98297-7 $45.00

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Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery

Anna Laurent

“Laurent has curated an exquisite collection of historic botanical art. This book is a treat.”—New York Botanical Garden

“In the era of computer presentations and emphasis on innovative teaching, it might be difficult to appreciate the importance once given to botanical wall charts in science education. In Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery, the reader is introduced to these beautiful wall charts. These are re-created in large format, stunning color, and are arranged according to plant families. Each family is briefly described and followed by representative charts.

Lively captions give further information about the plants, the scientists, and the artists.”— Choice 2016 224 p. 91/2 x 12 300 color plates

344 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-32107-3 $60.00

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Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants

A Tour of His Botanical Legacy Ken Thompson

“This little volume proceeds from Virginia creepers to sundews to orchids to pansies, all as gently as a Sunday garden tour, but with expert evolutionary commentary.

. . . It’s a glimpse of Darwin the country squire, Darwin the horticulturalist, an old man pottering in what Thompson calls ‘the cabbage patch’.”—New York Review of Books

2019 256 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones

345 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67567-1 $25.00

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Plant Evolution

An Introduction to the History of Life

Karl J. Niklas

“This is a work of scholarship and of imagination, offering great insight onto patterns of plant evolution and the underlying processes that drive those patterns.”

—Bruce H. Tiffney, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Plant Evolution will both delight and challenge everyone who peers into the heart of biology.”—Andrew Knoll, Harvard University

2016 560 p. 6 x 9 144 color plates, 16 halftones, 24 line drawings, 20 tables

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America’s Snake

The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake

Ted Levin

“The compelling story of a muchmaligned critter. . . . This book resonates with wit, love, and wonder—a feat, considering the vexed reputation of its subject. Readers, perhaps even ophidiophobic ones, will come away with a fresh appreciation for a creature with ‘the toxic bite and admonishing tail.’”

Library Journal

2016 520 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones

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Diamonds in the Marsh A Natural History of the Diamondback Terrapin Barbara Brennessel

“Environmentalists, ecologists, and marine biologists will delight in this meticulously detailed but highly readable look at the only North American turtle species that can tolerate the ‘fresh water, salt water, and everything in between.’”

Publishers Weekly

Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2021 256 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 23 halftones, 27 figures

348 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-080-4 $27.95

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Birds

An Anthology

Edited by Jaqueline Mitchell

“For centuries, birds have inspired the abiding interest of writers, and it’s easy to see why. . . . Studying birds inevitably leads to interest in a hundred other vivid realities of the natural world. That relationship resonates throughout the pages of Birds: An Anthology. . . . Birds is really about the birds of the English countryside and how these flying wonders and their surrounding landscape shape each other. Among the standouts are contributions from Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, George Eliot and Daniel Defoe.”—Wall Street Journal Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2020 272 p. 51/8 x 73/4 25 halftones

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The

Lost Bird Project

Todd McGrain

“

The Lost Bird Project is a moving tribute to species that have been lost through human action or indifference. With more and more birds going the way of the Great Auk, it should serve not just as a memorial, but as a goad to action.”

—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe Distributed for University Press of New England 2014 100 p. 9 x 12 350 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-566-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Lions in the Balance

Animals’ Best Friends

Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

Barbara J. King

“Animals’ Best Friends is the most comprehensive exploration I’ve read of the complex relationship between the human and nonhuman, full of great insights and practical information.”

New York Times Book Review

“Perhaps King’s greatest achievement is her quiet optimism that we can change how we interact with animals and make things better for them.”—Forbes

Man-Eaters,

Manes, and Men with Guns

Craig Packer

“Lions in the Balance mixes episodes of spy novel intrigue with detailed descriptions of scientific studies and PowerPoint presentations.”

New York Times

“Packer returns more than a decade after his memoir, Into Africa , with a fast-paced, unsentimental sequel about the kings of the savannah and the politics of protecting them.”—Discover 2015 440 p. 6 x 9 29 halftones 351 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09295-9 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

We Are All Whalers

The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

Michael J. Moore

“Moore makes a compelling argument that whales’ survival depends on each of us—not just on those who venture out on ships, hunting whales for meat and blubber. It’s sobering to grapple with the ways we might unwittingly contribute to the mammals’ demise, like by eating commercially caught seafood. But Moore also offers reason to be hopeful, including new technologies for ropeless fishing.”

Washington Post

“A fascinating memoir by a marine biologist-veterinarian 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

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Sharks and People

Exploring Our Relationship with the Most Feared Fish in the Sea

Thomas P. Peschak

“Peschak makes an eloquent visual case for the sublimity of sharks— and also for their conservation. He notes that the media still devotes far more attention to rare shark attacks than to the urgent need to protect them from human depredation, especially the shark fin trade.”—Atlantic 2013 256 p. 10 x 12 188 color plates

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“King has focused much of her esteemed career on the ‘inner lives’ of intelligent animals like primates, octopuses, squid, pigs, and dolphins, arguing that humanity should consider how best to communicate and accommodate these species’ lives without anthropomorphization or exploitation.”

—Mark Bittman, The Bittman Project 2021 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Personalities on the Plate

The Lives and Minds of Animals

We Eat

Barbara J. King

“Readers will finish the book and resolve to go forward—eating meat, abstaining from it, or consuming less of it—in a more purposeful way. The animal-welfare debate needs more thoughtful, informative and level-headed discussion—not least because it makes for effective advocacy. Personalities on the Plate is a good place to start.”

Wall Street Journal 2017 224 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 355 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-19518-6 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Extreme Conservation

Life at the Edges of the World Joel Berger

“Berger is an excellent guide, a respected ecologist and a gifted storyteller.”—Nature

“Extreme Conservation reveals just how hard-won knowledge about various Arctic species is. . . . Berger is a hero of biology who deserves the highest honors that science can bestow.”—New York Review of Books 2018 368 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 31 halftones 356 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36626-5 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Critical Terms for Animal Studies

Edited by Lori Gruen

“Critical Terms is an exceptional collection with the potential to dispel countless assumptions about the field of Animal Studies, as well as break habits of thinking about animals: who they are, how they think and feel, and why they matter.”—Isle

2018 448 p. 6 x 9 1 figure, 1 table

357 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-35542-9 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Animal Series from Reaktion Books

“Combines lavish illustration with incisive and often quite witty text. . . . Passionate and brilliant.”

New York Times

Each book is about 200 pages in length, includes 100 illustrations, and measures 5½ x 7½.

Tortoise

Peter Young

358 2004 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-191-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Swan

Peter Young

359 2008 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-349-9 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Owl

Desmond Morris

360 2009 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-525-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Donkey

Jill Bough

361 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-803-6 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Pig

Brett Mizelle

362 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-805-0 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Hyena

Mikita Brottman

363 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-921-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Ostrich

Edgar Williams

364 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-039-9 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Deer

John Fletcher

365 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-088-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Dolphin

Alan Rauch

366 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-089-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Rabbit

Victoria Dickenson

367 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-181-5 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Goat

Joy Hinson

368 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-338-3 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Seal

Victoria Dickenson

369 2016 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-489-2 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Moth

Matthew Gandy

370 2016 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-585-1 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Llama

Helen Cowie

371 2017 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-738-1 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

City Creatures

Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness

Edited by Gavin Van Horn and Dave Aftandilian

“A vivid and detailed depiction of Chicago’s natural world. . . . The book’s marriage of personal experience with historical record makes for an engaging read. The artwork included is as vibrant and aweinspiring as the city itself.”

Chicago Tonight

“There is something here for everyone: poems, personal essays, histories, marvelous reproductions of paintings, photographs and drawings. From monk parakeets in Hyde Park to animals in zoos and museums, alley cats to alewives to coyotes to migrating cranes, this book brings the nature that’s all around us into sharp focus.”

Chicago Tribune

2015 377 p. 8 x 10 102 color plates, 16 halftones 372 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-19289-5 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Way of Coyote

Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds Gavin Van Horn

“A true story about how the paths of people and wildlife cross and merge and how, if we attend to each other’s needs, we may all enjoy a brighter urban future.”

Wall Street Journal

“This dramatic picture of wildlife both flourishing and defending its very existence in the city will appeal to naturalists, urban dwellers, environmentalists, city planners, and those who enjoy good writing.”—Library Journal 2018 224 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones 373 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44158-0 $25.00

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The Cockroach Papers

A Compendium of History and Lore Richard Schweid

“Schweid blends both roach fact and fiction into an engaging, perceptive profile of our strange, and occasionally literal, bedfellows.”

Discover

“Schweid gives the cockroach a long cold look and keeps looking when most of us would turn away.”—Salon.com

2015 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 21 halftones

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Bats

A World of Science and Mystery

M. Brock Fenton and Nancy B. Simmons

“Yes, bats can be scary, but they can be beautiful, too, as researchers Fenton and Simmons show in their new book.”—Wall Street Journal

“By the end of the book, the reader feels like he has been taken on a personal tour by people who really care about what they do.”

Biological Conservation

2015 240 p. 81/2 x 11 342 color plates, 29 line drawings

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Monkeytalk

Inside

the Worlds and Minds of Primates Julia Fischer

“A delight. . . . Fischer adroitly explores the big questions now being asked about primate minds.

. . . You discover an unusual mix of science and insight, interspersed with funny anecdotes from African field work.”—New Scientist

2017 288 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones, 2 line drawings

376 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12424-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Elephant Don

The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse Caitlin O’Connell

“Based on 20 years of research in Namibia’s Etosha National Park, [this book] revolves around ‘Greg,’ a charismatic bull whose complex web of relationships weaves together the lives of dozens of other males. . . . It’s fascinating stuff.”

BBC Wildlife

“If you have any interest in elephants and their behavior you will enjoy this book.”—Wildlife News

“O’Connell’s book represents an uncommon story, the kind that can only unfold over time, with the help of meticulous observation. . . . O’Connell is aware that in Greg, she witnessed an exceptional leader. Encountering such an animal in fieldwork is a rare gift. He will open the door to another world, divulging nature’s secrets, letting us see our world—and ourselves —through his eyes.”

Times Literary Supplement

2016 271 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones

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Secrets of the Snout

The Dog’s Incredible Nose

Frank Rosell

“A fascinating and encyclopedic look at dogs’ amazing scent abilities.”—The Bark

“In this fascinating study, Rosell guides us through compelling research on olfaction-related canine ethology, physiology and neuroscience.”—Nature

2018 288 p. 6 x 9 3 tables

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Stung!

On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Lisa-ann Gershwin

“Gershwin, tells the story of jellyfish and human plunder of the oceans in Stung!. [It] evokes the danger of jellyfish blooms but, even more fundamentally, it is about the real stung effect of the collapsing oceans. . . . Extremely important, well written, and well documented.”

Huffington Post

2014 456 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 1 halftone, 4 tables

380 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-21303-3 $22.50

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Plankton

Wonders of the Drifting World Christian Sardet

“Filled with more than five hundred close-ups of jewel-like diatoms and gelatinous comb jellies, each accompanied by a condensed history and biography, the book is a long overdue introduction to the oceans’ ninety-eight percent.”—New Yorker

“A positively stunning book.” Wired

“In this beautiful book, marine scientist Christian Sardet shows that tiny plankton, not enormous blue whales, are the real stars of the ocean. Macro pictures of the huge variety of plankton forms and short details of their lives force a reconsideration of our view of them as part of an amorphous soup. A celebration of the small, and an unalloyed joy.”—Nature

2015 224 p. 93/4 x 121/2 550 color plates

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Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises

A Natural History and Species Guide

Edited by Annalisa Berta

“‘I take the good old-fashioned ground that the whale is a fish,’ Ishmael says confidently in Melville’s Moby-Dick. Old-fashioned indeed—whales are mammals, not fish. Thankfully, our scientific understanding of whales has come a long way since 1851, and much of that knowledge is collected in Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, a sperm whale-sized compendium of all things cetacean.”—Wired 2015 288 p. 11 x 93/4 128 color plates

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The Sounding of the Whale

Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century D. Graham Burnett

“A gifted and often very funny writer, Burnett bristles at the restrictions of academic rigor but does not abandon them. . . . His greatest service is to tell a story that helps us understand the present-day political obstacles to addressing key environmental questions.”

New York Times Book Review

“A remarkable book, an astounding piece of research. . . . This is a major work in the history of science, but it is also an environmental history, a study in decisionmaking and a contribution to the growing genre of ocean history.”

Guardian

2013 824 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 86 halftones, 18 line drawings 383 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-10057-9 $34.00 Your Price: $11.00

RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR

In Search of the Soul of the Sea Philip Hoare

“This is a book that is at once nature writing, memoir, literary criticism, travelogue and elegy. . . . RisingTideFallingStar is about books and about swimming, but most of all it does what all great books do: makes you feel that it’s a private conversation between you and the author.”— Guardian 2018 416 p. 6 x 9 80 halftones, 3 line drawings 384 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56052-6 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Call of the Blue

Philip Hamilton

“A beautiful, otherworldly compendium of underwater photographs.”— GQ

“Teeming with images of spectacular underwater scenes from around the world.”— Guardian

“Hamilton’s camera captures underwater splendors. . . . Call of the Blue takes the viewer on a journey through ocean ecosystems we rarely observe.”—Sierra Magazine Distributed for Paul Holberton Publishing 2018 320 p. 15 x 111/4

385 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911300-51-9 $79.95 Your Price: $30.00

All the Boats on the Ocean

How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing Carmel Finley

“90% of global fish stocks are fully fished or overfished. Science historian Finley traces that crisis back to the Cold War, when seafaring nations deployed fishing to stake territorial claims. . . . Now, with little reduction in subsidized fleets and oceans at risk, Finley sees the future of fisheries hinging on holistic approaches involving fish, fisher and environment.”—Nature 2017 224 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones

386 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44337-9 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Waters of the World

The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole Sarah

Dry

“In the eight detailed, immensely readable essays of Waters of the World , Dry shows how over the past 150 years scientists have slowly come to see climate as a global system, and to recognize how human activity contributes to changes in the complex interactions of ice, oceans, and the atmosphere.”

New York Review of Books

“Dry takes readers on a journey through the history of climate science in this smart, compelling, and timely title. By focusing on specific scientists, Dry gifts readers with entertaining portraits of some thoroughly interesting if largely unknown individuals. . . . She shows how an artful blending of the personal and professional can result in unusually affecting scientific profiles. A true success on every literary level.”— Booklist, Starred Review

2019 368 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones

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Walden Warming

Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods Richard B. Primack

“More than a clarion testament to the real and present effects of climate change. It is an exhortation to become more engaged in the natural world whether through citizen science or observation, and, in so doing, recognize and limit our own impacts on the earth.”—Science 2015 272 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

388 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27229-0 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Ground Truth

A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home Mark

L. Hineline

“Hineline’s wonderful new book advocates the addition of a new kind of individual action to supplement our political struggle [against climate change]—one that’s both pragmatic and emotionally resonant.”—Slate

2018 240 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones

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After Preservation

Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans

Edited by Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Pyne

“Conservation requires conversation; protecting nature while still using it to meet human needs is a paradoxical mission, and its methods depend heavily on time and place. In such terrain, manifestos make lousy guides.”—New Yorker

2015 240 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 1 line drawing

390 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-25996-3 $18.00

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Appetite and Its Discontents

Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950

Elizabeth A. Williams

“This fascinating book, magisterial and yet accessible, opens up broad questions about human life and culture through a careful focus on the meaning of appetite as a central, albeit often ill examined, ‘natural’ human drive.”— Choice

2020 416 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 391 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69304-0 $35.00

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Poisonous Skies Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution

Rachel Emma Rothschild

“Sometimes you need to pay attention to history in order to better understand the present. Rothschild looks at the history of acid rain to explore what happened, how countries fought about it, how scientists led the charge against it, and how all of that offers lessons for the modern world of climate change.

Essential reading.”—The Revelator 2019 336 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones 392 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63471-5 $45.00

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Catastrophic Thinking Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene David

Sepkoski

“Timely and fascinating. . . . Sepkoski takes readers on an eyeopening journey into a history that remains surprisingly little known despite its obvious importance given the catastrophic biodiversity crisis we currently face. It’s an absolute pleasure to read.”

New Books Network

“Catastrophic Thinking is essential reading for those seeking to understand the origin of one of the most powerful concepts under consideration today.”—Science

2020 360 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

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Curiosity

How Science Became Interested in Everything Philip Ball

“Accurate, witty, and reliable, the book ably shows modern readers how we got to be modern. Ball adeptly sketches the virtuoso sensibility: a combination of intellectual nosiness and experimental dexterity plus the belief that, as he writes, ‘to understand everything, you could start from anywhere.’”

Wall Street Journal

2013 480 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

394 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04579-5 $35.00

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An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion

Edited by Charles H. Smith, James T. Costa, and David A. Collard

“Well informed, persistently rigorous, and inventive in his thinking, and unfailingly compassionate, Wallace was the prototypical socially engaged scientist. He is—or at least should be—an inspiration to us all.”— Current Biology

“A kaleidoscopic treatment befitting a kaleidoscopic life.”—Isis 2019 416 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 395 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62210-1 $60.00 Your Price: $17.00

Georg Forster

Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary Jürgen Goldstein

“Marvelous. . . . Goldstein is a wonderfully imaginative biographer. In sparkling prose he captures the highs and, even more memorably, the lows of Forster’s short life.”

Wall Street Journal

“Goldstein’s goal is to connect the thought of Forster the observant voyager and naturalist who accompanied Cook on his second voyage, and Forster the German revolutionary who died in exile in Paris in 1794.”— Choice 2019 240 p. 6 x 9 396 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46735-1 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Benjamin Smith Barton

Naturalist and Physician in Jeffersonian America Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan

Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815) was trained as a physician but is best known as the first professional naturalist in the United States. His wide-ranging interests were equaled by his voluminous correspondence to contemporaries including Thomas Jefferson, Alexander von Humboldt, and Thomas Pennant.

Distributed for Missouri Botanical Garden Press 2007 1127 p. 7 x 10 95 halftones 397 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-930723-35-1 $20.00

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The Scientific Life

A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Steven Shapin

“Remarkably rich in detail and revelation. . . . Shapin may not be doing a conventional history of the ‘scientific life,’ but what he has done is both novel and provocative.”—New York Review of Books “Shapin has produced a work of exceptional originality, power and significance.”

London Review of Books 2010 486 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 2 line drawings 398 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75025-5 $20.00

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The Lost Species

Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums

Christopher Kemp

“An unexpectedly delightful and rewarding jaunt into once-cherished, now-decaying living history.”

Wall Street Journal

“Essential for anyone with even a passing interest in biology (cryptoor otherwise). . . . The Lost Species is a compelling, fascinating, accessible, yet scientifically robust book that I can’t recommend too highly.”

Fortean Times

“This engaging book is a compelling argument for the overall value of natural history museums, and for the importance of studying these collections.”— Forbes 2020 256 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones

399 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-51370-6 $21.00 Your Price: $7.00

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The Dancing Bees

Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language Tania Munz

“Intraspecies communication is a hot research topic, but Karl von Frisch was decoding honeybee messages long before most of today’s scientists were born. Set against the backdrop of the Third Reich, Munz chronicles the Austrian ethologist’s life and his Nobel-winning study of one of the animal kingdom’s most intriguing forms of interpretive dance.”—Discover 2016 296 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 7 line drawings 401 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02086-0 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Darwin Deleted

Imagining a World without Darwin Peter J. Bowler

“Darwin Deleted offers a journey into the history of evolutionism well worth taking. Through his scenario in which the Origin never appeared, Bowler improves our ability to think about the assumptions underlying contemporary debates.”—Science

2013 328 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 4 line drawings 402 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06867-1 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Curious Creatures on Our Shores

Chris Thorogood

This veritable marine bestiary tells the fascinating stories of life between the tides. Featuring stunning oil paintings by the author, it presents more than fifty of the most unusual and remarkable marine organisms found on British coasts, from beloved seahorses and starfish to lesser-known critters like sea potatoes and sea lemons.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing

2019 128 p. 6 x 8 50 color plates

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The Beautiful Cure

The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health Daniel M. Davis

“Focuses on the science of immunology itself, taking us through the evolution of the discipline and the stories behind key advances in the field. . . . Davis conveys a visceral appreciation for how messy, and how human, medical science can be.”—Wall Street Journal

“Refreshingly sober. . . . Intelligent and insightful.” New York Review of Books 2021 256 p. 6 x 9

404 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75877-0 $18.00

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Global Flu and You A History of Influenza George Dehner

“In these times of pandemic anxiety I can think of few better antidotes than Global Flu and You Dehner is that rare animal, a writer who understands the complex history and science of influenza and can explain those complexities to the general reader in an accessible and level-headed manner.”

—Mark Honigsbaum, author of Living with Enza

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 191 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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How to Make a Vaccine

An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond

John Rhodes

“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

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

“Skilfully pitched at nonspecialists.”—Nature 2021 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table 406 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79251-4 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

A Contagious Cause

The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine

Robin Wolfe Scheffler

“Digs into the intersection between science, politics, and the social issues that shape the understanding of the word ‘cancer’ from a contagious to a molecular disease. . . . This book is a must read for those who want a historical immersion into the world of cancer in the United States.”—Anesthesia & Analgesia 2019 368 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 407 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62837-0 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

White Market Drugs

Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America David Herzberg

“In the style of a classic work of alternative history, Herzberg’s White Market Drugs reminds us that over the last 150 years, pharmaceutical boom and bust cycles have continually hit small towns and communities across America.”

New Republic

2020 400 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 4 line drawings 408 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73188-9 $27.50

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Risky Medicine

Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty

Robert Aronowitz

“Americans have the most advanced (and expensive) health care—but not the best health. Aronowitz suggests that our market-driven, risk management-focused health care culture has led to excessive tests and overdiagnosis. The cure? Reforming how we think about health and how it’s practiced.”

Discover

2015 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 409 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04971-7 $28.00

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The Longevity Seekers

Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth Ted Anton

“An engaging, accessible examination of the quest to understand longevity. . . . The book unwinds like a fast-paced thriller, as Anton recounts the highly competitive race in which scientists, research labs, and global drug companies engage in the search for a magic bullet to extend human life.”

Chicago Book Review 2013 240 p. 6 x 9 410 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02093-8 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Long and the Short of It

The Science of Life Span and Aging

Jonathan

Silvertown

“’Potatoes live longer than kings,’ sighs ecologist Silvertown ... in this whimsical book on aging. Aging is a complex topic, but the author mixes art, science, and humor to brew a highly readable concoction, presenting one aging theory after another.”—Publishers Weekly 2013 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones, 1 table 411 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75789-6 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Body by Darwin

How

Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine

Jeremy Taylor

“Taylor is often eager to demonstrate that the human body is for the most part a remarkably welladapted structure. . . . He does a fine job of raising provocative questions and pointing the reader toward the ways in which evolutionary biology has been enhancing medical science.”

Wall Street Journal

2015 304 p. 6 x 9 412 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05988-4 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Why the Wheel Is Round

Muscles,

Technology, and How We Make Things Move

Steven Vogel

“A brilliant history of technology. . . . This is a wonderful book, in the literal sense of the word, full of wonders of nature, human invention, history and the sheer joy of looking at the world through the eyes of a keen—and amiable—scientific observer.”—Wall Street Journal

“Mixing findings in his own field with those from mechanics, dynamics and historical analysis, [Vogel] creates a delightful perspective on the wonders of whirl. . . . Let the good times roll.”—Nature 2018 344 p. 6 x 9 81 halftones, 64 line drawings 413 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59968-7 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Cosmos

The Art and Science of the Universe

Roberta J. M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff

“The pictures in this book are both absolutely stunning and superbly reproduced. . . . The text is pacey, erudite, and informative and underlines the detailed, comprehensive, and impressive knowledge the authors have of the subject. . . .

In total the book is a great joy.”

Observatory Magazine

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2019 320 p. 83/4 x 11 260 color plates, 20 halftones

414 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-054-5 $49.95

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Mercury

William Sheehan

“Mercury, the Solar System’s innermost planet, was spotted in antiquity but remained an enigma until the 1960s. . . . [Sheehan] interleaves discoveries, from Johannes Kepler’s prediction of a transit of Mercury in the seventeenth century to NASA’s MESSENGER probe, which relayed gorgeous images and data before crashing on the planet in 2015.”

Nature

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2018 176 p. 63/4 x 83/4 60 color plates, 40 halftones

415 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-012-5 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

Saturn

William Sheehan

“Sheehan’s writing is captivating and his narrative is enhanced by the myriad beautiful images, which include the talented hand-drawings made by pre-camera astronomers. For all armchair and professional astronomers, this is a must-have addition to your library.”

Astronomy Now

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2019 224 p. 63/4 x 83/4 50 color plates, 50 halftones

416 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-153-5 $40.00

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Mars

Stephen James O’Meara

“O’Meara’s Mars book is written so poetically and with such a beautiful use of language that reading it is like listening to a presentation by a passionate outreacher. . . . A superb book which will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Mars.”

Popular Astronomy

“There are few celestial bodies as fascinating, or as well-studied, as Mars. O’Meara presents a concise summary of everything there is to know about Mars in a richly illustrated book that will appeal to any science enthusiast.”

Nature Astronomy

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2020 224 p. 63/4 x 83/4 100 color plates

417 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-220-4 $40.00

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How We See the Sky

A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night Thomas

Hockey

“Hockey takes us through the science as well as a host of cultural references, from Pink Floyd to the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. He explores the astronomical sky, the 88 constellations and the Milky Way; orientation through azimuth to zenith; lunar and solar motion, solstices and eclipses. A heavenly and often humorous journey.”

Nature 2011 224 p. 6 x 9 66 halftones

418 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34577-2 $20.00

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Fermilab

Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience

Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall

“The first written history of this unique place, covering both the birth of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and its journey to its current position as a world center of ‘megascience’.”

Physics World 2011 520 p. 6 x 9 65 halftones, 12 line drawings 419 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34624-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey

Matthew Shindell

“Absorbing . . . This fine biography wonderfully shows how Urey’s scientific contributions led chemistry in new directions, including to the Moon—and, in depicting the life of a leading scientist, Shindell probes the complex interplay of faith, values and politics in the United States.”—Nature 2019 248 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 420 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66208-4 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

The Transmutations of Chymistry

Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences

Lawrence M. Principe

“The Transmutations of Chymistry is the work of a master in his field, full of insights and very well written. It is a considerable achievement.”—Annals of Science

“A brilliant investigation, welldocumented and written with enthusiasm.”—Revue d’histoire des sciences 2020 504 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 6 line drawings 421 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70078-6 $45.00 Your Price: $22.50

The Demon in the Machine

How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life Paul Davies

“Boundary-transcending. . . . With apologies to Charles Darwin, there is grandeur in this view of life.”

Nature

“Explaining one of the oldest questions—what is life?—is physicist Davies’s quest. . . . He searches for answers beyond the known, venturing into a place with no name.”

New Scientist 2019 272 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 422 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66970-0 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Three Steps to the Universe

From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

David Garfinkle and Richard Garfinkle

“Meshing their complementary skill sets, physicist David and his brother, science fiction writer Richard, explore some of the knottiest problems facing modern cosmologists in informative primer to modern cosmology. Aside from revealing the science behind the sun, black holes and dark matter, the Garfinkles demonstrate how science develops.”—Publishers Weekly 2010 280 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones 423 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28348-7 $16.00 Your Price: $5.00

Everyday Mathematics for Parents

What You Need to Know to Help Your Child Succeed The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project

“This book is a lifesaver for busy parents trying to help their children understand their homework. It will be a great resource for when their child needs help, and it can even teach parents and their children to love math again.”

—Laura Smith, parent of a fifth grader

2017 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 67 halftones, 177 line drawings, 6 tables 424 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26548-3 $14.00 Your Price: $5.00

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Why Washington Won’t Work

Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis

Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph

“Hetherington and Rudolph argue that a profound, and historically high, lack of trust among the public reduces the likelihood of compromise in Congress. In an increasingly polarized political environment that is already predisposed to gridlock, this finding on public trust helps to further explain the inability of Washington to govern, effectively legislate, and work.”

New Books in Political Science

2015 256 p. 6 x 9 31 figures, 29 tables

425 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-29921-1 $30.00

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Democracy and Dysfunction

Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin

Democracy and Dysfunction brings together two of the leading constitutional law scholars of our time in an urgently needed conversation that seeks to uncover the underlying causes of our current crisis and their meaning for American democracy. In a series of letters exchanged over a period of two years, Levinson and Balkin travel . . . through the convulsions of the 2016 election and Trump’s first year in office. This book will help readers understand how America reached its current situation and how we might forestall the next demagogue who will seek to beguile the American public.

2019 208 p. 6 x 9

426 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61204-1 $25.00

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Strategic Party Government

Why Winning Trumps Ideology

Gregory Koger

and

Matthew J. Lebo

“[Koger and Lebo] seek to explain why Congress has become so polarized along partisan lines, arguing that this has been caused by individual legislators seeking to win elections by aligning themselves with strong party leaders, even if they personally disagree with elements of their parties’ platforms.”

Survival

2017 224 p. 6 x 9 40 figures, 16 tables

427 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-42460-6 $32.00

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The Politics of Petulance America in an Age of Immaturity Alan Wolfe

“A withering broadside against the immaturity that infests American politics, revealing itself in populism and demagoguery. Both the left and the right take it on the chin in this tough-minded analysis by Wolfe. . . . This is a persuasive and alarming book.”—Kirkus 2019 224 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 table 428 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67911-2 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00

Changing Their Minds? Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership

George C. Edwards III

“Edwards uses a scholar’s tools to dissect Trump’s presidency, asking all the right questions and answering them with careful and thorough analysis. . . . The result is a smart and unsparing portrait of the nation’s forty-fifth president—from his corrosive effect on the public discourse to his impact on democratic institutions.”—Washington Post 2021 376 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings, 74 tables 429 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77581-4 $30.00 Your Price: $15.00

The Wartime President Executive Influence and the

Nationalizing Politics of Threat

William G. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Rogowski

“The claim that war increases executive political power ranks among political science’s most axiomatic propositions. However, when political scientists seek to answer why and how precisely war increases executive power, the discipline reverts back to its usual state of disagreement. Howell, Jackman, and Rogowski not only address these questions, but also ask whether, and in what respect, executive power is amplified by war.”— Choice 2013 368 p. 6 x 9 18 line drawings, 31 tables 430 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-04839-0 $34.00 Your Price: $11.00

Campaign Finance and American

Democracy

The Congressional Endgame

Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Josh M. Ryan

In the current landscape of party polarization, legislation has become far more chaotic, leading to the public perception that the House and Senate are unwilling or unable to compromise and calling into question the effectiveness of the bicameral system itself. With The Congressional Endgame, Josh M. Ryan explains how the bicameral legislative process works in Congress and shows that the types of policy outcomes it produces are in line with those intended by the framers of the Constitution.

2018 240 p. 6 x 9 14 line drawings, 28 tables 432 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-58223-8 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Confident Pluralism

Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference

John D. Inazu

“Into this polluted political atmosphere comes a different sort of academic. Inazu is proposing a national cleanup effort to make our public life more pleasant and productive. . . . We should not downplay the stakes. Tolerance, humility and patience are not the ornaments of a democracy, they are its essence.”—Washington Post

2018 176 p. 6 x 9 433 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59243-5 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Secular Faith How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

Mark A. Smith

What

the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters

David M. Primo and Jeffrey D. Milyo

In recent decades, and particularly since the US Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve faith in the elections process, increase trust in the government, and counter cynicism toward politics. But as David M. Primo and Jeffrey D. Milyo argue, politicians and the public alike should reconsider the conventional wisdom in light of surprising and comprehensive empirical evidence to the contrary.

2020 256 p. 6 x 9 12 line drawings, 53 tables

431 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-71294-9 $30.00 Your Price: $15.00

“Secular Faith is a spirited and contrarian entry in the debate over what to make of the religious element of the ‘culture wars.’ Against the view that religion is a major influence on our politics, Smith sets out to show, as his subtitle puts it, ‘how culture has trumped religion.’ . . . . Throughout, he strives to be attentive not only to what Christians are saying but also to what they are choosing not to talk about.”—Wall Street Journal 2015 288 p. 6 x 9 10 figures, 1 table 434 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27506-2 $29.00 Your Price: $11.00

Justice Scalia

Rhetoric and the Rule of Law

Edited by Brian G. Slocum and Francis J. Mootz III

Justice Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the “new originalist” interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court’s interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting. In this edited collection, leading scholars from law, political science, philosophy, rhetoric, and linguistics look at the ways Scalia framed and stated his arguments. 2019 288 p. 6 x 9 4 line drawings 435 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-60182-3 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

Feminisms

A Global History

Lucy Delap

“Delap’s telling is unique amongst histories of feminism. As it tears across the globe, Feminisms reveals familiar organizations, projects, agitators, and obstacles in new garb and places them alongside ones conventionally overlooked. Start with any chapter and savor every generous, undogmatic page.”

—Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University

“This is an extraordinary and beautiful history of the global struggles against the injustices of gender. It brings the battles of feminists to life, not only through their ideas and campaigns, but also their dreams, songs, anger, and the material dimensions of their activism—their bloomers, badges, and veils, their refuges, workplaces, and borderlands.”—Hannah Dawson, King’s College London

2020 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 436 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75409-3 $27.50 Your Price: $13.75

Renegade Dreams

Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Laurence Ralph

“Renegade Dreams is a paradigmshifting anthropological rejoinder to popular stereotypes and scholarly cant about ‘inner-city violence,’ its causes, and its aftermath.”— John L. Jackson Jr., author of Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem 2014 256 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables

437 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-03271-9 $20.00

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Fútbol in the Park Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties David Trouille

“Trouille’s well-crafted ethnography gives us a close up view of working-class men’s sociability, and importantly, it also reveals the subtle and yet profound ways that borders and belonging operate for Latino immigrant men today. An important reminder for us to pay attention to what unfolds on the ground.”—Pierrette HondagneuSotelo, University of Southern California

2021 240 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones

438 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74888-7 $30.00

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Housekeeping by Design

Hotels and Labor

David Brody

“This is a thorough consideration of the physical aspects of architecture, historical conditions in the hotel services, and the all-too-often overlooked needs of the hospitality industry’s labor force. Highly recommended.”— Choice 2016 216 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones, 2 line drawings 439 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-38912-7 $30.00

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Creativity on Demand

The Dilemmas of Innovation in an Accelerated Age

Eitan Y. Wilf

“Creativity on Demand shines an ethnographic light on the ceaseless production of newness as a quality of contemporary ‘fast’ capitalism. Wilf’s work with innovation consultants is an important contribution to anthropological and other critical studies of business.”

—Andrew Orta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2019 240 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 440 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-60697-2 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Experimental Games

Critique, Play, and Design in the

Age of Gamification

Patrick Jagoda

“Jagoda produces some dazzling and thoughtful analyses of the ways in which games can work on us, and in which we can reciprocally work on games.”—LA Review of Books

2020 320 p. 6 x 9 46 halftones 441 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62997-1 $27.50

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Off to College

A Guide for Parents

Roger H. Martin

“In his new book Off To College: A Guide for Parents, [Martin] talks to everyone from cops to coaches, and hangs out everywhere from dorm rooms to drinking parties . . . all to give parents a sense of what happens when they drop their kid off and drive away.”

WBEZ Morning Shift

2015 240 p. 6 x 9 442 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29563-3 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Paying the Price

College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream Sara Goldrick-Rab

“Bracing and well-argued, this study not only puts faces on the students who struggle to earn college degrees; it also serves as a warning that university study is rapidly becoming a privilege reserved for only the wealthy. Necessary reading for anyone concerned about the fate of American higher education.”—Kirkus Reviews

2017 368 p. 6 x 9 17 figures, 21 tables 443 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-52714-7 $19.00

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Aspiring Adults

The Secret Lives of Teachers Anonymous

“This is one of the best books (or, in the author’s estimation, a ‘series of interlocking essays’) about being a teacher (about actually being one, with all its humiliations and petty jealousies, as well as its joys and triumphs) that I have ever read—about a life of service to others and, at times, in mere servitude. . . . The book asks us to reconsider assumptions about our work, our students, our goals, our limits, and our teaching lives.”—Newsletter of the Southern Association of Independent Schools

2015 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2

445 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31362-7 $29.00 Your Price: $11.00

Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools

Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton with Erin Turner and Maura Varley Gutiérrez

“Teachers and researchers in urban schools, the authors make a compelling argument for transformative classrooms that connect the worlds of youth with the world of school. They present timely, well-written case studies describing how many urban students are underserved in math and science.”— Choice 2012 224 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones, 9 line drawings, 8 tables 446 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-03798-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Charter School City

Adrift

Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa

“The follow-up to the much talked about, responded to, and reflected upon Academically Adrift Highly recommended for faculty, staff, administrators, students, and parents. Of special interest is the chapter titled ‘A Way Forward,’ which provides the authors’ recommendations for improving undergraduate education based on their research.”—Library Journal

2014 264 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 19 line drawings, 18 tables 444 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-19728-9 $18.00

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What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education Douglas N. Harris

“Anyone interested in diving more deeply into the current school debates without the noise from overheated political rhetoric will find Charter School City an excellent starting point.”—Washington Independent Review of Books

“[Harris] has delivered an invaluable resource for everyone concerned with the practice and the politics of urban school reform.”—Frederick Hess, American Enterprise Institute

2020 352 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables 447 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69464-1 $20.00 Your Price: $10.00 448 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67178-9 $60.00 Your Price: $30.00

House of Debt

How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

“A concise and powerful account of how the great recession happened and what should be done to avoid another one.”—Wall Street Journal

2015 232 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones

449 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27165-1 $15.00

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After the Flood

How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought

Edited by Edward L. Glaeser, Tano Santos, and E. Glen Weyl

“A coherent, thought-provoking, and well-written analysis of the causes of the recent financial crises.”—Alberto Bisin, New York University

2017 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 19 line drawings, 15 tables

450 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44354-6 $55.00 Your Price: $13.00

Big Med

Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns

“Dranove and Burns 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

451 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66807-9 $35.00

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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden

“McCloskey and Carden show how much better off everyone is today compared to everyone who lived before, and how this is explained not by the usual suspects . . . but simply by the practice of liberty.

. . . This is a work for economists, historians, and anyone who wants to understand why the world has become so much better for human beings in the last 250 years.”

—Stephen Davies, Institute of Economic Affairs

2020 232 p. 6 x 9

452 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73966-3 $25.00

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Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies

Edited by Benjamin Lee and Randy Martin

“Derivatives have been a transformative financial innovation but have multiplied risks and complexities. Lee and Martin make an important contribution tracing the history of derivatives, how they work, and why they are important beyond technical finance.”

—Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics

2016 312 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 6 line drawings 453 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-39283-7 $32.00 Your Price: $11.00

Clashing over Commerce

A History of US Trade Policy

Douglas A. Irwin

“Irwin outlines [the] long evolution of trade politics from the mercantilist 1640s to the present, when Trump has made trade controversial again by arguing for a renewal of protectionist policies. [His] chronicle—lengthy, detailed, and readable—traces the winding trail that has brought us to the liberal world trading order we enjoy today.”—Wall Street Journal 2019 862 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 21 line drawings, 17 tables 454 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67844-3 $27.50

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Selling Power

Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940 John L. Neufeld

“Neufeld’s account of the development of electricity markets in the United States clearly outlines the problems stemming from the industry’s character as a natural monopoly. Chronicling the responses of public officials over time, he explains why each response occurred within the context of political struggle and carefully explains how some policy responses, while solving a current problem, created future problems as the industry evolved and technology changed.”—Carl Kitchens, Florida State University 2016 336 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 26 line drawings, 9 tables 455 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39963-8 $64.00

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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 quasi-public 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 2021 280 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables 456 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74065-2 $27.50 Your Price: $13.75

From the National Bureau of Economic Research

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

An Agenda

Edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb

2019 648 p. 6 x 9 74 line drawings, 21 tables

457 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61333-8 $130.00 Your Price: $30.00

U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy

Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Hal Salzman

2018 320 p. 6 x 9 39 line drawings, 61 tables

458 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46833-4 $140.00 Your Price: $30.00

Risk Topography

Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling

Edited by Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy 2014 288 p. 6 x 9 28 line drawings, 14 tables 459 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07773-4 $118.00 Your Price: $36.00

Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden

“The recent foreclosure crisis rekindled interest in the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC).

. . . With Well Worth Saving, Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden offer a new history of the program alongside an economic analysis of its costs and benefits. This is a highly useful, well-organized, and interesting book which will be of great interest and use both to researchers and policy makers.”—Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

“Impressive. . . . In this slim volume, the authors have produced a skillful short- and long-term analysis of both mortgage markets and a significant New Deal agency.”

Economic History Review

2013 192 p. 6 x 9 14 line drawings, 10 tables 460 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08244-8 $41.00 Your Price: $13.00

Of Bridges

A Poetic and Philosophical Account

Thomas Harrison

“Like all great books, each a bridge from lone writer to lone reader, Harrison’s magisterial and lively Of Bridges calls us to attention and makes this difficult task more bearable. For there is no ultimate crossing over, only a temporary dwelling in between.”— On the Seawall 2021 304 p. 6 x 9 3 color plates, 73 halftones 461 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73529-0 $35.00

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Ahab’s Rolling Sea A Natural History of Moby-Dick Richard J. King

“A lighthearted and incredibly enjoyable read that manages somehow, at the right moments, to be both broad and narrow in scope. It should be required reading for anyone attempting Moby-Dick A talented and clear-eyed writer.”

Science

“Focusing on nineteenth century oceanography, natural history, and, of course, the whalers’ understanding of his prey’s remarkable intelligence, King’s book is a fascinating and rare thing: a vital addition to Melville studies.”—LitHub 2019 464 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 71 halftones 462 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51496-3 $30.00

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Sleep Demons

An Insomniac’s Memoir

Bill Hayes

“What if the hum [of sleep] never comes? That’s what writer and photographer Bill Hayes explores in his magnificent book Sleep Demons, part reflection on his own lifelong turmoil in the nocturne, part sweeping inquiry into the sometimes converging, sometimes colliding worlds of sleep research, psychology, medicine, mythology, aging, and mental health.”

Brain Pickings

“Hayes has created something that goes beyond mere memoir; call it obsessional autobiography. . . . His polished writing and fearless revelations make it work beautifully.”—San Francisco Chronicle 2018 368 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftone 463 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56083-0 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00

Lost Mars

Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet

Edited by Mike Ashley

“Enchanting . . . . Readers fond of classic science fiction imbued with romance, exotic settings, and whimsical scenarios will treasure these evocative stories.”

Publishers Weekly

“A fascinating overview of the history of Mars in science fiction, from the birth of the genre through the beginning of the space age.”

Booklist 2018 304 p. 51/8 x 71/2 464 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57508-7 $17.00 Your Price: $6.00

POW!

Mo Yan

“Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and . . . Pow! demonstrates for Americans why he deserved to win. It’s a vibrant, visceral novel that is both personal and political, realistic and surrealistic, funny and shocking.”—Washington Post

“Mo’s skill makes POW ! a wild, unpredictable ride—a work of demented and subversive genius.”

Los Angeles Times

Distributed for Seagull Books 2014 392 p. 6 x 9 465 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-221-7 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00

Norte

A Novel Edmundo Paz Soldán

“This searing novel about three Latinos lost north of the border is not for the faint of heart. . . . Paz Soldán perfectly modulates the tension, evincing our sympathy even as we recoil. . . . We don’t forgive, but we understand.”

New York Times Book Review

“Paz Soldán effectively inhabits the interior lives of each of his three characters, and Miles’s translation captures their distinct emotional flavors. . . . A superb set of interlinked character studies.”

Kirkus Reviews 2016 312 p. 51/2 x 81/2 466 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-20720-9 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00

The Great Prince Died

A

Novel about the

Trotsky

Bernard Wolfe

Assassination of

“No one who reads The Great Prince Died . . . can fail to be gripped by a tale well told. Its message is one the free world will ignore at its peril.” New York Times

“Wolfe . . . has produced one of the major political novels of our time.”—Boston Globe 2015 416 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 467 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26064-8 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

A Novel

Peter De Vries

“Anyone who has never read [De Vries] could perhaps find no better place to start than with Slouching Towards Kalamazoo. It is vintage De Vries. . . . a hilarious and expertly crafted comic novel.” New York Times

“An artesian outpouring of parodistic and mimetic felicities, of literary nudges and verbal and nominal wheezes.”

Times Literary Supplement 2005 246 p. 5 1/4 x 8 468 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-14389-7 $14.00 Your Price: $6.00

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Looking for The Stranger

Albert

Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic Alice Kaplan

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2018 304 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones 469 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56536-1 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00

Why I Write?

The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952 Bohumil Hrabal

“One of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats and women (in roughly that order). . . . In Hrabal’s work beauty, pity, sorrow and high silliness come tightly braided.”

New York Times Book Review

“In Why I Write?, a motley crew of carousers play drunken pranks and tell each other wild stories. . . . In place of the drab realism that the regime demanded, Hrabal offered dizzying embellishments and dazzling augmentations.”—New Yorker

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The Great Fall

Peter Handke

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2018 224 p. 5 x 8

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Papi

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Rita Indiana

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Globe and Mail

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Voice Message

Katherine Barrett Swett

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Washington Independent Review of Books

“Swett understands the force of traditional forms and, in poem after poem, presents us with a world almost worrisome in its wonders.”—Erica Dawson, When Rap Spoke Straight to God Distributed for Autumn House Press 2020 72 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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A Slap in the Face

Abbas Khider

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Times Literary Supplement

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Father’s on the Phone with the Flies A Selection

Herta Müller

To create the poems in this collection, Herta Müller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in the form of a collage.

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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

A Humorous—Insofar as That Is Possible—Novella from the Ghetto J. R. Pick

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Eulogy for the Living Taking Flight Christa Wolf

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The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus

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When True Love Came to China

Lynn Pan

This highly original work shows how love’s profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy, and a Western model of romantic love.

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The Morning Side of the Hill

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Land of Cockaigne

Jeffrey Lewis

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Heartland Calamitous Michael Credico

Longlisted—2021 PEN America / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

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O, How the Wheel Becomes It!

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Venusberg

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Anthony Powell

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What’s Become of Waring

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Anthony Powell

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From a View to a Death

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Anthony Powell

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Aristotle Detective

An Aristotle Detective Novel Margaret Doody

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Aristotle and Poetic Justice

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Aristotle and the Secrets of Life

An Aristotle Detective Novel Margaret Doody

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Times Literary Supplement

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The Maze Maker A Novel

Michael Ayrton

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You Feel So Mortal Essays on the Body

Peggy Shinner

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The Chinese Love Pavilion A Novel Paul Scott

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Who Is the City For?

Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago Blair Kamin

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Get in the Game

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Every Goddamn Day

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The Sloth Lemur’s Song

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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. 2022 192 p. 6.7 x 9 100 color plates 535 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82430-7 $25.00

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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. . . . This will be catnip for plant lovers.”

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The Hidden Universe

Adventures in Biodiversity Alexandre Antonelli

“[An] impassioned debut. Through research and globe-trotting anecdotes, Antonelli seeks to answer ‘big questions about the origins and evolution of whole ecosystems. . . and how biodiversity has changed, and continues to change.’ . . . . This timely appreciation of Earth’s varied life forms delivers.”

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Audubon at Sea

The

and Transatlantic

King

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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

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Fascinating Shells

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

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Life and Research

A Survival Guide for Early-Career Biomedical Scientists

Paris H. Grey and David G. Oppenheimer

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Coastal

Adventures of John James Audubon Edited by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J.

We Are All Whalers

The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

Michael J. Moore

“Moore makes a compelling argument that whales’ survival depends on each of us—not just on those who venture out on ships, hunting whales for meat and blubber. But Moore also offers reason to be hopeful, including new technologies for ropeless fishing.”

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Red Leviathan

The Secret History of Soviet Whaling

Ryan Tucker Jones

“A gripping and heart-breaking chronicle of the Soviet regime’s war (not a ‘conflict,’ ‘special operation,’ or any other euphemism) against the freedom of our natural environment and its inhabitants it wanted to dominate.”—Engineering and Technology 2022 304 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones

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Out of the Depths

A History of Shipwrecks

Alan G. Jamieson

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Sub Culture

The Many Lives of the Submarine

John Medhurst

Sub Culture explores the crucial role of the submarine in modern history, its contribution to scientific progress and maritime exploration, and how it has been portrayed in art, literature, fantasy, and film.

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Where Light in Darkness Lies

The Story of the Lighthouse

Veronica

della Dora

Engineered to draw the gaze of sailors, lighthouses have likewise long attracted the attention of soldiers and saints, artists and poets, novelists and filmmakers, colonizers and migrants, and, today more than ever, heritage tourists and developers. This book explores the rich story of the lighthouse in the human imagination.

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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. Colin Burgess guides us through the amazing achievements of Russia’s spaceflight program through to the present day.

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Afghanistan

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

Jonathan L. Lee

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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.”—BBC History

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Tutankhamun Excavating the Archive

The Griffith Institute

This book presents a vivid firsthand account of the 1922 discovery of king Tutankhamun’s tomb, including the spectacular variety of the king’s burial goods and the remarkable work that went into documenting and conserving them.

The archive enables a nuanced and inclusive view of the complexities of both the ancient burial and the excavation, including often overlooked Egyptian members of the archaeological team.

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Egyptomania

A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Ronald H. Fritze

“Delves into how the realities of Egyptology have been reimagined or misinterpreted as sources of hermeticism, portals to another reality, or tokens to confer knowledge and respectability. . . . Fritze’s entertaining and enlightening work does well in separating ancient Egypt’s actual legacy from the pseudo-history of occultists and assorted charlatans.”

Publishers Weekly

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

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A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures

Maria Golia

“At the heart of Golia’s compulsively readable book about the history of treasure-seeking and tomb-raiding in Egypt is the idea that, despite all our technology and progress, people don’t change.”—Daily Mail

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

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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

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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

Shadowland is Germany as seen through the lives, experiences, triumphs, and tragedies of its lowest citizens.”—New Books Network

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

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Hitler’s Tyranny A History in Ten Chapters

Ralf Georg Reuth

Reuth examines ten aspects of Hitler’s catastrophic rule. Among other things, he asks: Was antiSemitism 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? Reuth argues that Hitler’s rise was the result of chance, deception, and seduction.

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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 of undergraduates at the University of Munich in the early 1940s whose members secretly wrote and distributed anti-Nazi pamphlets. Defying Hitler presents the White Rose resistance pamphlets in full, translated by modern-day students at the University of Oxford.

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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.

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

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The Worst Military Leaders in History

Edited by John M. Jennings and Chuck Steele

“Ranging far and wide in chronology and geography, this is a stimulating collection of essays—pithily written and persuasively argued— that fills a gap in the important study of ‘those who make someone else’s victory possible.’”

Times (UK)

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The Worm in the Apple

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

“Britain has ‘left’ and re-joined Europe a dozen times over the past two thousand years. The latest round has been among the bitterest. Tugendhat’s survey is a masterful injection of sanity into this timeless argument.”

—Simon Jenkins, author of Europe’s 100 Best Cathedrals

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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.

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

Financial Times

Distributed for Haus Publishing 2022 208 p. 5 x 8 1 map 560 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913368-46-3 $18.95 Your Price: $13.27

Tazmamart

18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison Aziz BineBine

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

Guardian Distributed for Haus Publishing 2022 179 p. 5 x 8 561 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913368-13-5 $14.95 Your Price: $10.47

Great Literary Friendships

Janet Phillips

“‘The power of human friendship provides a wonderful escape from the sometimes grim realities of everyday life,’ writes Phillips, editor at Bodleian Library Publishing, in her lighthearted debut, a survey of 24 friendships from classic works of literature. . . . A fun spin on literary analysis.”—Publishers Weekly

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The Art of Verbal Warfare

Rik Smits

“There is such a fountain of anarchic, foul-mouthed, carnivalesque energy, obscenity, and linguistic mayhem on display here, so much of it hilariously enjoyable, that life would be a dull affair without it.”

Sunday Times

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The Pocket Epicurean John Sellars

“Not only an excellent introduction to the history of Epicurean philosophy, but also a helpful guide to facing the manifold anxieties of modern life.”—The Idler

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Geometry of Grief

Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life

Michael Frame

“This brief, intriguing personal meditation is inspired by mathematician Michael Frame’s lifelong love of geometry—including 20 years’ collaboration with fractal geometer Benoit Mandelbrot—and the childhood loss of his aunt, who set him on his career path.”—Nature 2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 45 halftones

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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.”—Leslie M. Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery 2022 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones

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The Bonds of Inequality

Debt and the Making of the American City Destin Jenkins

“The Bonds of Inequality is a detailed and damning account of how bond finance structures racial privilege in San Francisco and beyond.”

Public Books

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

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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

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Lydia Maria Child

A Radical American Life

Lydia Moland

“[Lydia Maria Child was] a remarkable woman who needs to be remembered as one of the nineteenth century’s most influential Abolitionists.—Booklist 2022 560 p. 6 x 9 61 halftones

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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 2022 256 p. 6 x 9 570 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81761-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

War and American Life Reflections on Those Who Serve and Sacrifice

James Wright

“Jim Wright presents a fascinating blend of history and personal reflection that reminds us of the human costs of war and of our responsibilities as citizens to support those who serve for us. A timely and very readable book.” —George W. Casey, Jr., General, U.S. Army (Retired)

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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 572 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82393-5 $22.50

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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.”

—Robert Weisbrot, coauthor of The Liberal Hour 2022 304 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones 573 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66404-0 $30.00

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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.”—Rory Cellan-Jones, author of Always On Distributed for Reaktion Books

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Redefining Geek

Bias and the Five Hidden Habits of Tech-Savvy Teens

Cassidy Puckett

“By uncovering the habit-based origins of technological competence, and by revealing how successful programs cultivate these habits in students (including in low-income students, Black, Latinx, and Native American students, and girls of all backgrounds), Redefining Geek offers a new way forward for those interested in tackling longstanding inequalities in STEM.”

—Jessica McCrory Calarco, author of Negotiating Opportunities

2022 320 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 10 tables 575 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73269-5 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Gen Z, Explained

The Art of Living in a Digital Age

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

“Paints an optimistic portrait of a much misunderstood generation that has never known a world without the internet.”— Observer

2021 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 7 tables 576 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79153-1 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

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.”

—Peter Ireland, Boston College

2023 696 p. 6 x 9 117 line drawings, 24 tables 577 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82165-8 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

A Drop of Treason

Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA

Jonathan Stevenson

The only biography of CIA whistleblower Philip Agee, A Drop of Treason is a thorough portrait of this contentious, legendary man and his role in US history during the Cold War and beyond.

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Troublemakers

Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay Erik S. Gellman

Using Art Shay’s well-known photographs of Chicago, Gellman analyzes the political, social, and racial conflicts that shaped the city during that time.

2020 304 p. 81/2 x 11 72 color plates, 175 halftones

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The Economic Other Inequality in the American Political Imagination

Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky

Laying bare how social comparisons drive political attitudes, The Economic Other is an essential look at the stubborn plight of inequality and the measures needed to solve it.

2020 240 p. 6 x 9 26 line drawings, 15 tables

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The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade

Samantha Barbas

Samantha Barbas presents a longoverdue biography of the legendary civil liberties lawyer—a vital and contrary figure who both defended Ulysses and fawned over J. Edgar Hoover.

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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe

Howell and Moe argue that rising populism and ineffective government threaten the end of American democracy.

2020 256 p. 6 x 9 582 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72879-7 $95.00

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The Mismeasure of Progress

Economic Growth and Its Critics

Stephen J. Macekura

The Mismeasure of Progress illuminates the stories of the activists, intellectuals, and other leaders who long argued that GDP growth was not all it was cracked up to be.

2020 320 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 585 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73630-3 $27.50

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Running the Numbers Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling

Matthew Vaz

Running the Numbers traces the racially-fraught history of how illegal gambling rings were co-opted into the state-run lotteries enjoyed by millions of Americans today.

2020 208 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

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The Myth of the Imperial Presidency

How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive Dino P. Christenson and Douglas L. Kriner

“This book offers remarkable evidence that the public. . . do in fact hold the president accountable. ” —James N. Druckman, Northwestern University, 2020 240 p. 6 x 9 37 line drawings, 23 tables 583 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70422-7 $90.00 Your Price: $45.00

Democracy Declined

The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection

Mallory E. SoRelle

Mallory E. SoRelle details how federal policy makers’ inability to curb risky practices can be explained by the evolution of consumer finance policies that encourage easy credit by foregoing more stringent regulation.

2020 248 p. 6 x 9 72 line drawings, 19 tables 586 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71165-2 $97.50

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How Schools Really Matter

Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

Douglas B. Downey

Contrary to popular belief, achievement gaps have very little to do with what goes on in our schools. Not only do schools not exacerbate inequality in skills, they actually help to level the playing field.

2021 176 p. 51/4 x 81/4 12 figures 587 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73319-7 $95.00 Your Price: $47.50

The Streets of Europe

The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities

Brian Ladd

This book is a heavily sensory history of the European street—from its rise, to its peak in 19th century, to the decline that came with the proliferation of cars and suburbs.

2020 320 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones, 4 maps 588 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67794-1 $30.00

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King of the World

The Life of Louis XIV

Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel’s King of the World is the most comprehensive and upto-date biography in English of this hypnotic, flawed figure who continues to captivate our attention.

2020 608 p. 6 x 9 57 color plates, 2 halftones 590 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69089-6 $35.00 Your Price: $17.50

Diagramming Devotion

Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross Jeffrey F. Hamburger

This is an examination of a famous set of theological picture poems from 800 AD.

2020 384 p. 81/2 x 11 220 color plates, 1 halftone 591 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64281-9 $65.00 Your Price: $32.50

Shoddy

From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of

Rags Hanna Rose Shell

Did you know that shoddy was first coined as a noun? This is the untold story of one of the earliest forms of recycling and the political and social controversies that came with it.

2020 248 p. 6 x 8 4 color plates, 65 halftones 589 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37775-9 $25.00 Your Price: $12.50

The Genesis Quest

The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

Michael Marshall

This book is the first full history of the scientists who strive to explain the genesis of life.

2020 368 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 1 table 593 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71523-0 $26.00

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Dangerous Earth

What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More Ellen Prager

Ellen Prager of the much loved Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime explores the extent of our scientific knowledge of what causes natural and human made disasters.

2020 272 p. 6 x 9 9 color plates, 24 halftones 594 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54169-3 $25.00 Your Price: $12.50

Amber Waves

The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop

Catherine Zabinski

A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop.

2020 216 p. 5 x 8 11 halftones 592 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-55371-9 $24.00 Your Price: $12.00

Hearing Happiness

Deafness Cures in History

Jaipreet Virdi

Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.

2020 328 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 595 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69061-2 $27.50 Your Price: $13.75

Keats’s Odes

A Lover’s Discourse

Anahid Nersessian

Timed for the 200th anniversary of John Keats’s death, these intimate essays show why we love Keats still, and why his odes continue to speak powerfully to our own desires.

2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2

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Mental Traveler

A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia W. J. T. Mitchell

Mitchell’s memoir tells the story of one family’s encounter with mental illness, and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son.

2020 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones

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The Porch Meditations on the Edge of Nature Charlie Hailey

Solidly grounded in ideas, ecology, and architecture, Charlie Hailey’s The Porch takes us on a journey along the edges of nature where the outside comes in, hosts meet guests, and imagination runs wild.

2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones, 6 line drawings

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The Opening of the American Mind Ten Years of The Point The Point

This anthology brings together significant essays from the first ten years of “The Point,” a philosophical magazine at the University of Chicago that has an international audience.

2020 392 p. 6 x 9 597 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73871-0 $18.00

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Myself and My Aims Writings on Art and Criticism

Kurt Schwitters

The first anthology in English of the critical and theoretical writings of influential twentieth-century artist, Kurt Schwitters, best known for his Merz assemblages.

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Geschlecht III Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity Jacques Derrida

A significant long-lost text in Derrida’s four-part “Geschlecht” series, the book addresses Heidegger’s nationalism through the lens of the German word “Geschlect,” which roughly translates to race, sex, lineage, or creed.

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Music’s Monisms

Disarticulating Modernism

Daniel Albright

Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 24 musical examples 603 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79122-7 $45.00

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Artist as Author Action and Intent in LateModernist American Painting Christa Noel Robbins

Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US.

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The Eighth Mahler and the World in 1910

Stephen Johnson

In The Eighth , Stephen Johnson provides a masterful account of Mahler’s symphony and its farreaching effect on composers, conductors, and writers of the time.

2020 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 line drawing

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