The Great Chicago Book Sale 2021

THE GREAT CHICAGO

BOOK SALE 2021

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Contents European History

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British History

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American History

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World History

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Social History

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Reference

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Food

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Places & Travel

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Cartography

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Philosophy

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Ancient History

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Religion

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Architecture & Design

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Photography

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Art

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Media & Design

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Film, Sports, & Humor

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Music

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Biography

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Earth Sciences

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Nature & Gardens

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Life Sciences

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History & Philosophy of Science

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Mathematics & Physical Sciences

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Law & Political Science

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Education & Social Sciences

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Economics

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Literature

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Literary Studies

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Fiction, Poetry, & Literature at $7

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Children’s Books

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20% Off Recent Books

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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 “Beautifully illustrated. . . . It includes the playful (distorted views of the country from the perspective of New Yorkers, Texans and Californians); the obscure (a map of volunteer fire departments in Philadelphia, circa 1792, commissioned and drawn in 1938); and more of the obscure (a map of Michigan bakeries).”—New York Times

2016 304 p. 81/2 x 11 153 color plates 1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38604-1 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00

China

Visions through the Ages

Edited by Lisa C. Niziolek, Deborah A. Bekken and Gary M. Feinman “This book—with its 225 plates—is certainly gorgeous. It is also deeply learned.

The editors curate the almost 30,000 objects in Chicago’s Field Museum, which holds agricultural remains dating from earlier than 10,000 years BC, and precious treasures loved by emperors and learned connoisseurs.”

—Times Higher Education “A multi-faceted and comprehensive guide to China’s past and how we view it.”—Current Archaeology

2017 354 p. 81/2 x 11 225 color plates, 1 table 2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38537-2 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

Art in Chicago

A History from the Fire to Now

Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino “The most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date. . . . The book conspicuously lacks timelines and keywords, avoiding the encyclopaedic approach of past efforts. At the heart of this new history is instead a compelling story about how artistic identity is formed in the shadows. . . . All of these topics are deeply covered in the book's excellent essays.”

—Art Newspaper

2018 448 p. 91/4 x 11 160 color plates, 29 halftones 3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16831-9 $65.00 Your Price: $21.00

Cover image: Olenka Sergienko on Pexels

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The First World War Galleries

Paul Cornish The First World War Galleries revisits this historic event on the occasion of the centenary of its onset, drawing on the unparalleled archives of the Imperial War Museum. Cornish offers a carefully researched and compelling account of this crucial period of world history, told through a stunning array of artifacts from the museum's collections.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2014 224 p. 73/4 x 91/2 250 color plates 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-83-5 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

28 June

The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!

Advertisements from the Great War

Amanda Jane Doran and Andrew McCarthy This book collects some of the most original advertisements created between 1914 and 1918. The advertisements reveal how advertisers sought to create new markets for products that took into account social change throughout the course of World War I. “Cigarettes, gramophones, even guard dogs. There was nothing that the Great War didn't provide a good excuse to buy.”—Atlantic Distributed for the Bodleian Library

Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: The War and Peace That Made the Modern World

Edited by Alan Sharp 28 June looks in greater depth at the smaller nations that are often ignored in general histories of WWI. “A superb one-stop-shop book for the causes, influences on entry, and diplomatic finale of the First World War.”—The Historian Distributed for Haus Publishing 61/4

European History 1

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2014 412 p. x 2 maps 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-75-0 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Consequences of the Peace The Versailles Settlement: Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2015

Alan Sharp “As a glance at the table of contents shows, there are always more and interesting things to be said on the perennially fascinating question of the Paris Peace Conference.

Sadly, too, there is much that is still relevant for our own troubled world.”—Margaret Macmillan Warden, author of Paris 1919 Distributed for Haus Publishing

2015 275 p. 5 x 73/4 4 maps 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-92-7 $49.95 Your Price: $12.00

The Makers of the Modern World 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.

“Makers of the Modern World is to be welcomed because it is designed to provide concise biographies, around 200 pages long, of major politicians and intellectuals from all over the world. All of them are also put into the larger context of the age and the often momentous decisions that they were involved in.”

—V.R. Berghahn, H-Diplo Distributed for Haus Publishing

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

2014 112 p. 4 x 6 50 halftones 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-399-0 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

The Habsburgs

Dynasty, Culture and Politics

Paula Sutter Fichtner “Fichtner has produced a lucid and succinct account of a complicated history, and a readable and persuasive synthesis of recent research. . . .

[Hers is] an argument that has the great virtue of making coherent a dynastic history that pursued a similar cultural agenda across the course of hundreds of years.”

—BBC History Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books

2014 288 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-274-4 $39.00 Your Price: $12.00

Terror and Toleration

The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850

Paula Sutter Fichtner “Provides a good survey of early modern Habsburg representations of the ‘Turkish’ other and gives the reader a fascinating insight into Habsburg anti-Ottoman propaganda.”—Times Higher Education Distributed for Reaktion Books

2008 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-340-6 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Secrets in a Dead Fish

The Spying Game in the First World War

Melanie King A fascinating compendium of clever and long-forgotten ruses, interspersed with the stories of the spies themselves, Secrets in a Dead Fish sheds new light on the shadowy world of Great War espionage.

“An engaging, small format, short book about espionage during World War I. In nine chapters with pleasing illustrations . . . [King] seeks to illustrate the tools and tradecraft of espionage as practiced at the time.”

—Military History

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 “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 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28428-6 $65.00 Your Price: $21.00

Arc of Utopia

The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution

Lesley Chamberlain “Chamberlain’s book broadens our understanding of the roots of the Bolshevik Revolution, describing how German Idealism, which first emerged from Immanuel Kant’s reaction to the French Revolution, came to inspire philosophers and cultural figures throughout nineteenth-century Europe and Russia.”—New York Times Book Review Distributed for Reaktion Books

2017 256 p. 6 x 9 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-852-4 $29.95 Your Price: $10.00

Revolution!

Sayings of Vladimir Lenin

Edited by the Bodleian Library Revolution! is a compilation of Lenin’s most famous sayings, taken from speeches, lectures, letters, and recorded conversations. Together, they show his views on topics ranging from democracy to terrorism, from religion to Stalin’s untrustworthiness, and from education to music.

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2017 112 p. 6 3/4 x 71/2 50 color plates 14 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-470-6 $17.50 Your Price: $7.00

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2014 128 p. 4 x 6 20 halftones 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-260-3 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

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1-773-702-7000

Rommel

Flashpoint Trieste

Ralf Georg Reuth Reuth unveils the real Rommel, stripping away the layers of propaganda created by both the Nazis and Allies for their own political ends.

He portrays a Rommel contrary to the post-war myth—a man who remained loyal to the Führer until forced to commit suicide.

“Reuth reveals the truth in a brilliant book.”—Independent

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.

The End of a Legend

Distributed for Haus Publishing

WWII

A Chronicle of Soldiering

James Jones “Even now, after a perpetually surging Noah’s flood of ‘Good War’ literature, WWII stands out as one of the most vivid documents ever produced on how the war looked and felt to those who experienced it firsthand. . . . Readers will discover unexpected, alarming, dazzling or horrifying observations on every page.”—Wall Street Journal 1975 240 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing 15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18093-9 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

Somewhere in England

American Airmen in the Second World War

Imperial War Museums Somewhere in England celebrates the Americans who served as part of the USAAF in England, offering an unprecedented look at this group of airmen and their support staff.

Drawing on the 15,000 photographs in the Roger Freeman collection, this book shows us the USAAF at work and play.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2015 160 p. 82 /3 x 101/4 12 color plates, 63 halftones 16 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904897-54-5 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Jews in Nazi Berlin

From Kristallnacht to Liberation

Edited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz “The book’s team of editors, historians, and researchers succeeded with a great number of photographs to restore some features of wartime Berlin and its Jewish community in a frank and direct manner, adding another important volume to our growing Holocaust library.”

—Jerusalem Post “An amazing volume of facts and personal accounts. . . .

Accompanying these accounts of destruction is a stunning collection of photos and documents.”

—Publishers Weekly 2009 416 p. 71/2 x 91/2 50 color plates, 138 halftones, 6 tables 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52157-2 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

2009 235 p. 6 x 9 18 Paper ISBN: 978-1-905791-95-8 $14.95 Your Price: $8.00

Serving the Reich

The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

Philip Ball “An outstanding work about the social responsibility of scientists, exemplified by considering the actions of three Nobelist physicists during the Nazi regime in Germany: Max Planck, Peter Debye, and Werner Heisenberg. . . . This is a stunning cautionary tale, well researched and told.

Essential.”—Choice

2014 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20457-4 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

A Few Planes for China The Birth of the Flying Tigers

Eugenie Buchan “This is an impressive revisionist monograph that unpicks one of the more mythic events in the history of World War II in Asia: the founding of the ‘Flying Tigers’, the nickname for the American Volunteer Group (AVG) that operated in China in the years before Pearl Harbor. . . .

A compellingly-written and deeply researched account.”—Aerospace Distributed for ForeEdge

2017 272 p. 6 x 9 20 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-866-5 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Kiska

The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Brendan Coyle “What the Japanese left behind in 1943 is worthy of exploration, not just to catch echoes of history before they fade, but to grasp the new strategic relevance of this area. Coyle’s Kiska helps us understand what this most remote spot in North America has to offer.”—Mead Treadwell, former lieutenant governor of Alaska “Coyle recounts his 51-day stay on the island in which he documented the remaining ghosts of this farflung battlefield—from pairs of shoes strewn among wildflowers to rusting submarines.”—Japan Times

The First Battle of the Cold War

Distributed for ForeEdge

2017 302 p. 6 x 9 22 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0172-5 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Heroic City Paris, 1945-1958

Rosemary Wakeman “[A] very far ranging and charming book about imagined, poetic Paris, but also about everyday Paris, as the city moved from left to right, from penury to consumerism, from Stalinist Communism to Debord’s Situationism, and from historical Paris to Paris as it is today, the capital of world nostalgia.”

—Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University 2009 416 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-87023-6 $46.00 Your Price: $10.00

The Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941

Nancy L. Green “Fascinating, compelling, and sometimes hilarious. . . . Green’s wonderful book tells the untold story of the American businessmen, lawyers, renters, heiresses, and slackers who created the ‘American colony’ in Paris and never thought of writing the Great American Novel.”—Edward Berenson, New York University 2014 352 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 11 line drawings 24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30688-9 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Imperial City

Rome under Napoleon

Susan Vandiver Nicassio “[Imperial City] is meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life. . . . Probably the best work on the topic in print.”

—History Today 2005 256 p. 6 x 91/4 54 halftones, 3 maps 25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57973-3 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Distributed for University of Alaska Press 2014 144 p. 10 x 8 250 color plates, 77 halftones 21 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-237-2 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

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The 20 Prime Ministers of the 20th Century 20-Volume Set

Edited by Francis Beckett From Lord Salisbury to Tony Blair, the books of this twenty-volume set biographically profile the nineteen men and one woman who served as Prime Minister of Britain during the twentieth century.

Distributed for Haus Publishing

2006 2400 p. 5 x 8 20-volume set 26 Boxed Set ISBN: 978-1-904950-53-0 $299.00 Your Price: $119.00

The Lisle Letters

Edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne The Lisle Letters consists of the personal, official, and business correspondence of the household of Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, the illegitimate but acknowledged son of Edward IV, during the years 1533 to 1540.

“Epic in size and scope, tragic in the story it tells, it is also epic in its conception and execution, a remarkable triumph of persistence and determination.”—New York Review of Books 1981 6 3/4 x 91/2 six-volume set: 2 frontispieces, 94 facsimiles, 26 plates, 2 maps, foldout genealogy 27 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08801-3 $757.00 Your Price: $249.00

A Very Queer Family Indeed

Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Simon Goldhill “Child brides, cousin marriage, generational antagonisms, polyamory, lesbianism, homosexuality, all served with heavy dollops of graphomania and religious fervor—what could be more Victorian? As this magnificent account of the Benson family in the years between 1850 and 1940 shows, for the Victorians, nothing was more normal—or more agonizing—than queerness.”

—Sharon Marcus, author of Between Women 2016 344 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39378-0 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

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.”—Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1998 272 p. 61/4 x 91/4 88 halftones 29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73233-6 $63.00 Your Price: $15.00

British & European History 3

Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Craig A. Monson “[A] rich tapestry of cultural life, religious history, and gender politics that puts Whoopi Goldberg’s shenanigans in Sister Act to shame. . . .

Monson has rescued Vizzana and her colleagues from obscurity. Read Divas in the Convent as a reminder of music’s power to uplift, to challenge, and to transform.”

—James McAuley, Washington Post 1995, 2012 296 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 4 line drawings 30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53519-7 $33.00 Your Price: $10.00

Nuns Behaving Badly

Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy

Craig A. Monson

“For centuries, more than threequarters of upper-class women in Italy were immured in convents. . . . This beautifully written, gripping book tells the stories of nuns who sought escape. Some just sang forbidden polyphony, one slipped out in disguise to catch the latest opera, and an entire convent burned down their cloister so they could all go home.”—Edward Muir, Northwestern University 2010 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 25 halftones 31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53472-5 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Galateo

Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior

Giovanni Della Casa “In its brevity, Galateo can almost be viewed as a kind of Renaissance Elements of Style, with the understanding that ‘style’ here means courteous behavior. . . .

Timeless.”—Washington Post “Mixes sagacity with delicious asperity. . . . It is somehow reassuring to know that idiots and bores are the same throughout the ages.”—Guardian 2013 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-01097-7 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

The Atheist’s Bible

The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

Georges Minois “If you create false evidence in order to discredit your enemies . . . you will soon find people eager not only to believe you but also to serve the cause you have been trying to undermine. The text that is the object of Georges Minois’ study, the Treatise of the Three Impostors, provides a perfect illustration of this peculiar dynamics of deceit, credulity and paranoia.”

—Times Higher Education 2012 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftone, 2 line drawings 33 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53029-1 $30.00 Your Price: $8.00

Revolt in the Netherlands

The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648

Anton van Der Lem “This fresh, original, and beautifully written book offers as fine an introduction as one could wish to the revolt in the Netherlands—why it occurred, and why the Low Countries would eventually be divided against all expectation into a free north and a Spanish south. . . .

A definitive study of a critical episode in the development of modern European society.”

—Andrew Pettegree, author of Brand Luther Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 272 p. 61/4 x 91/4 74 color plates, 7 halftones 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-086-6 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

Europe’s Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

William H. McNeill “A study of Hungary and the neighboring regions . . . which impressively demonstrates the impact of the open frontier on European history in its formative period. . . .

[McNeill] interweaves not only the histories of a dozen or more different peoples but also the economic, religious, and social strands in the story.”—New York Review of Books 1964 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56152-3 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00

Engineering the Revolution

Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

Ken Alder “This is a fine work, grounded in research in French archives and a plethora of other sources. Alder has forcefully demonstrated the role of engineers in fostering social change in the eighteenth-century and revolutionary eras.”—Owen Connelly, American Historical Review 1997 496 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 3 maps 36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-01264-3 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Rising Up from Indian Country

The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Ann Durkin Keating “[An] informative, ambitious account. . . . Keating’s wellresearched book rights some misconceptions about the old conflicts, the strategies of the whites and Indians to keep their land, and how early Chicago came to exist.”

—Publishers Weekly

Ties That Bound

Founding First Ladies and Slaves

Marie Jenkins Schwartz “Fascinating. . . . A thought-provoking explication of the thorny personal relationships between slaveholding and enslaved women.”

—Virginia Magazine “Ties That Bound ’s most important contribution is refocusing our attention on First Ladies as slaveholders and revealing how slaveholding influenced their roles.”

—Journal of Southern History 2017 416 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14755-0 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

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 “A convincing reconstruction of people whose lives were utterly different from our own.”

—James Walvin, author of The Trader, the Owner, the Slave 2010 520 p. 6 x 9 38 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03743-1 $32.50 Your Price: $9.00

We Have Not a Government

The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution

George William Van Cleve “Instead of asking how the Constitution came to be adopted, Van Cleve asks why the previous government, the Articles of Confederation, failed—and why it failed not only in our own modern eyes, but in the eyes of its contemporaries. Pairing an enormous amount of scrupulous research with the unique perspective of a legal scholar, Van Cleve bridges the divide between scholarship and the curious reader. He writes with smooth, powerful, unobtrusive beauty.”—Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath God Wrought 2017 400 p. 6 x 9 3 tables 39 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48050-3 $30.00 Your Price: $12.00 40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64152-2 $20.00 Your Price: $8.00

2012 6 x 9 35 halftones, 14 maps 41 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42896-3 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

American Indians Fourth Edition

William T. Hagan and Daniel M. Cobb Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this concise account includes more than twenty new maps and illustrations, as well as a bibliographic essay that surveys the most recent research in Indianwhite relations.

2012 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 4 maps 42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31239-2 $26.00 Your Price: $8.00

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba A Critical Edition

Alexander von Humboldt “To read what Humboldt actually wrote, in this scrupulous, clear, and modern translation, is to embark on a truly encyclopedic adventure in history. . . . This primary and foundational work, a landmark of physical and cultural geography that includes one of the era’s most important denunciations of slavery, in one stroke reorients the study of the Americas and reinvents the making of knowledge.”

—Laura Dassow Walls, University of South Carolina 2010 496 p. 6 x 9 115 tables 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46567-8 $81.00 Your Price: $19.00

The First Wall Street

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance

Robert E. Wright “An outstanding, accessible account of Philadelphia’s status as the nation’s first financial center.

Wright has written a breezy, clear, and humorous history of the city’s central role as the American capital of banking and related industries.”

—Pennsylvania Magazine of History

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

2005 218 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings, 9 tables 46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-91026-0 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Chip Colwell “A lightly written, insider’s account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America’s culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider’s account—just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield.”—Spectator

Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun

Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture

Necessary Evil

2017 360 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29899-3 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

Joe Johnston Necessary Evil is the first book to chronicle the implications of vigilantism in Missouri, ultimately showing that the state could never have been settled without a healthy dose of rebel justice. Packed with stories of popular gunslingers such as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James, this action-filled read will be of interest to crime enthusiasts and historians alike.

Facing Racial Revolution Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection

Jeremy D. Popkin “[Popkin] manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it.”

—Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Soul’s Rising “The book, with its fascinating collection of personal narratives, helps to demonstrate and to explain the complexity and ambiguity of the Haitian Revolution.”

—H-France Review 2007 416 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67583-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2014 336 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones, 5 line drawings, 4 maps 47 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-81-2 $24.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Culinarians

Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

David S. Shields “The Culinarians is more than a collection of biographies. It is a celebration of lost voices—cooks, creators, and visionaries who paved the way for the food we eat today.

With this book, Shields pulls back the curtain of modern cuisine in America to reveal a story we forgot existed.”—Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate 2017 560 p. 7 x 10 16 color plates, 91 halftones, 10 line drawings 48 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40689-3 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

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Who Freed the Slaves?

The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment

Leonard L. Richards “Richards has produced a very rich account—a veritable gold mine of information—that consists of many overlapping stories: stories of how the overall strategies of different kinds of slavery opponents developed; stories of how different individuals, groups, and key episodes played out as the violent struggle over slavery in America unfolded.”—The Weekly Standard 2015 320 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones 49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17820-2 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Home Front

Daily Life in the Civil War North

Peter John Brownlee, et al.

“Framed by the era’s visual arts and burgeoning commercial visual culture, these essays offer an unusually imaginative and probing interdisciplinary exploration of . . . the ‘porous boundaries’ between the battle front and home front during the Civil War.”—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines 2013 216 p. 81/2 x 101/2 90 color plates 50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06185-6 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Confederate Cities

The Urban South during the Civil War Era

Edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers “For too long historians have gazed at the South from the veranda of the plantation, rarely looking beyond the fields of cotton and tobacco to see the urban South. . . . Editors Slap and Towers have assembled a cast of superb historians who show a multitude of perspectives on the urban South as it endured the revolutionary consequences of Confederate defeat.”

—Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College 2015 336 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30020-7 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Exile in Erin

A Confederate Chaplain’s Story

William Barnaby Faherty John B. Bannon excelled in four distinct capacities: as a pastor of a thriving Catholic congregation in St. Louis; as a chaplain with the First Missouri Confederate Infantry; as a diplomat winning Irish support for the cause of the Confederacy; and as Ireland’s greatest preacher in the 1880s. Exile in Erin explores Bannon’s life story to shed light on new facets of both Civil War and Irish history.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2002 256 p. 6 x 9 60 illus 52 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-46-1 $29.95 Your Price: $10.00

American History 5

General Sterling Price and the Confederacy

Thomas C. Reynolds In 1867, Lieutenant Governor Thomas C. Reynolds began writing his account of the infamous raid that failed to bring Missouri into the Confederacy. Lost to history for many decades, the unfinished manuscript is available here. It is important not only for its appraisal of Sterling Price, but also for Reynolds’s views of the inner workings of the Confederate government.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2009 336 p. 6 x 9 15 illustrations 53 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-68-3 $24.95 Your Price: $9.00

Captain Joseph Boyce and the First Missouri Infantry, CSA

Joseph Boyce “The publication of Capt. Joseph Boyce’s memoir is a welcome addition to the growing list of firstperson accounts of the Civil War. . . . In addition to extensive footnotes, Winter provides an introduction to the memoir, a biographical sketch of Boyce, and introductions to each chapter.”—Civil War History Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2011 272 p. 6 x 9 30 illustrations 54 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-70-6 $23.95 Your Price: $8.00

Blood Runs Green

The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

Gillian O’Brien “O’Brien’s meticulously researched book makes the case that one man’s brutal murder in 1889 Chicago (and the subsequent criminal investigation) had a ripple effect in both America and Britain on the contentious cause of Irish republicanism. . . . This is academic writing at its most accessible.”—New York Times 2015 320 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones 55 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-24895-0 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00 56 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37999-9 $17.00 Your Price: $6.00

The Tolerant Populists, Second Edition Kansas Populism and Nativism

Walter Nugent “A classic work on American politics and reform. . . . Full of rich evidence and lively portraits of impassioned activists, Nugent’s book decisively refutes the notion that Populists were reactionary and backward-looking. Rather, Nugent places them where they belong: in the grand tradition of American grassroots struggles for economic and social justice.”—Rebecca Edwards, author of New Spirits 2013 248 p. 6 x 9 57 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-05408-7 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

Jan R. Van Meter “Van Meter’s book is a delightful, richly informative, deeply researched, and fully contextualized work. It is also significant because so many of these slogans permeate American discourse and illuminate national values. Moreover, it’s also fascinating! Who knew that ‘duck and cover’ came from cold war security concerns?”—Michael Kammen, author of People of Paradox 2008 344 p. 6 x 9 58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84969-0 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

Inventing American Tradition

From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo

Jack David Eller “American traditions like our flag, anthem, and holidays are often thought of as ingrained in our history, as if they sprung fully formed on the day of our nation’s birth. But every tradition has a human story behind it, often involving conflict and disagreement and spurred on by an unlikely creator, according to Eller.”—New York Post Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 352 p. 6 x 9 48 halftones 59 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-986-6 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Buffalo Bill in Bologna The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes “This elegant synthesis of scholarship on US mass culture from the Civil War through the 1920s sheds new historical and interpretive light on the modern period.”—Choice “Rydell and Kroes are interested in the worldwide triumph of mass American culture. . . . With its several triumphant European tours, Cody’s Wild West, as he called the show, was pivotal in this history.”

—New York Review of Books 2005 224 p. 6 x 9 37 halftones 60 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00712-0 $24.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Operation Whisper

The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

Barnes Carr “The Cohens were the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, and vanished under the FBI’s nose, turning up as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. This is their story.”—The Intelligencer: Journal of US Intelligence Studies Distributed for ForeEdge

Two Women in the Klondike

Mary Hitchcock Two Women in the Klondike created a sensation when it was first published in 1899. The idea that two well-bred socialites could survive the dangers of the north thrilled nineteenth-century readers from San Francisco to New York. Invaluable for its detailed descriptions of manners, food, and personalities, this account of the Klondike Gold Rush is an outrageous adventure for general readers, armchair travelers, and anyone interested in the lives of American women in the late 1800s.

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2005 232 p. 6 x 9 black and white illustrations 61 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-889963-68-6 $24.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Daniel T. Rodgers “The Work Ethic in Industrial America is a brilliant and morally acute examination of the rhetoric of work in the United States. . . .

Written just before intellectual and social history separated and diverged, this edition comes when these fields are reconvening. What a wonderful model it offers for future work!”—Thomas Bender, New York University 2014 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13623-3 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Slaughterhouse

Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

Dominic A. Pacyga “This is the thrilling story of Chicago’s rise to power on the national stage; not just the ‘hog butcher to the world,’ but an industrial giant that led in technological innovations.”—Journal of Illinois History “[Pacyga’s] writing is as streamlined and efficient as the disassembly lines that inspired the book.”

—Chicago Tribune 2015 256 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones 63 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12309-7 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00 64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56603-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

2016 338 p. 61/4 x 91/4 65 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-809-2 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

American Girls in Red Russia Chasing the Soviet Dream

Julia L. Mickenberg “In this enthralling account, Mickenberg reveals the magnetic attraction of the new Soviet Union to American women seeking to reinvent working and family lives in the twenties. But American Girls in Red Russia also exposes the painful paradox of imagining freedom in a repressive culture. This is an illuminating achievement whose lessons speak to the utopian aspirations of men and women everywhere.”

—Alice Kessler-Harris, author of A Difficult Woman 2017 432 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones 66 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25612-2 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

Nut Country

Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Edward H. Miller “Featuring a memorable cast of characters—H. L. Hunt and General Edwin Walker not the least among them—Miller’s book reveals how conservatives used racial politics in Dallas to change the fortunes, forever after, of the American Right and the Republican Party.”

—David Farber, author of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism 2015 256 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones 67 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20538-0 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00 68 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-42121-6 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Last Words of the Executed

Robert K. Elder “By compiling the last words of people put to death by the state in America, juxtaposed against details of their crimes and victims, Elder has created an extraordinary book.

No matter which side of the capital punishment divide you find yourself, Last Words of the Executed is a must-read. . . . This not a political book, but a human journey.”

—Sean Chercover, author of Trigger City 2010 304 p. 6 x 9 69 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20268-6 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Machines of Youth America’s Car Obsession

Gary S. Cross “The 1930s through the 1980s represented a ‘golden age of American teen car culture.’ . . . Machines of Youth recreates this fascinating but largely neglected slice of social history.”—Times Higher Education “Cross has crafted an evocative, well researched, and engagingly written account of the relationship young people had with the automobile in the decades after World War II.”—David Farber, University of Kansas 2018 227 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones 70 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-55113-5 $32.50 Your Price: $10.00

The Thousand-Year Flood

The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

David Welky “Welky has done a prodigious job of reminding us about the horror inflicted by the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937. At its heart, The Thousand-Year Flood is a Great Depression story not unlike the Dust Bowl tragedy. His scholarship is impeccable.”—Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge 2011 384 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 2 maps 71 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-88716-6 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Arthur Vandenberg The Man in the Middle of the American Century

Hendrik Meijer “Meijer’s engaging biography traces Vandenberg’s evolution – from a young politician drawn toward isolationism, to a decisive proponent of the United Nations and an enduring American world role. Meijer has produced an affecting human portrait of a public servant who came to symbolize the bipartisan pursuit of the national interest and a more peaceful world.”

—Henry A. Kissinger 2017 448 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 72 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43348-6 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Boundaries of the State in US History

Edited by James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer “Cutting edge. . . . It explains how the United States managed to accomplish complex goals, such as distributing its western lands, without an elaborate bureaucratic apparatus. The contributors to this widely ranging book force us to rethink our fundamental notions of the American state, such as its weakness in comparison with European and other states.”—Edward Berkowitz, George Washington University 2015 384 p. 6 x 9 73 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27778-3 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

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World History 7

The Water Kingdom

Segregation

Philip Ball “Ball’s journey along the history, politics, and culture of China’s waterways encompasses many heroes of Chinese hydrology, men who grappled with elemental forces and imperial censure and sometimes came out on top. . . . Ball argues that China’s future, like the past, can be read in the fate of its water.”—Guardian

Carl H. Nightingale “This study of the segregation of the world’s cities by race since the eighteenth century is an extraordinary achievement. Its scope is truly global, extending from urban Africa and Asia to the cities of the Americas and Europe and synthesizing in the process a vast literature. Through this prism Nightingale weaves a history which brilliantly links the big themes of empire, migration and racialization to the microanalysis of place and space.”—Simon Gunn, University of Leicester

A Secret History of China

2017 320 p. 6 x 9 70 halftones, 26 line drawings 74 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36920-4 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Shanghai Nightscapes

A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

James Farrer and Andrew David Field “A unique exploration of Shanghai’s clubs, bars, and dance halls that explains how and why Shanghai has once again become an epicenter of cosmopolitan nightlife. Drawing on a rich array of magazines, films, and many nights interviewing Shanghai entrepreneurs, performers, and club hoppers, Farrer and Field expertly ground their brilliant introduction to contemporary nightlife in a superb social history of Shanghai in the Jazz Age.”—Deborah Davis, coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers 2015 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones 75 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26288-8 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

A Village with My Name A Family History of China’s Opening to the World

Scott Tong “A Village With My Name is a rich, subtle, closely observed study of the power of memory (and forgetting) to shape both a family and a nation.

Tong’s multigenerational tale of his remarkable clan captures all the contradictions of a China in worldchanging metamorphosis.”

—Eric Liu, author of A Chinaman’s Chance 2017 272 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 76 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33886-6 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00 77 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63695-5 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

The History of Bhutan

Karma Phuntsho The History of Bhutan is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of Bhutan in English. Along with a detailed social and political analysis, it offers substantive discussions of Bhutan’s geography and culture: the result is the clearest, richest account of this nation and its history ever published for general readers.

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2013 661 p. 61/5 x 91/2 35 color plates, 1 map 78 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-58-3 $50.00 Your Price: $17.00

A Global History of Divided Cities

2012 536 p. 6 x 9 42 halftones 79 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-58074-6 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

Walls

Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Thomas Oles “In this engrossing ethical study, landscape architect Oles ponders walls and their potential for oppression or human exchange. Drawing on rich historical examples such as Britain’s economically and ecologically valuable hedgerows, Oles offers an ethics test for proposed barriers that questions whether they support commonalities or embed differences.”

—Nature 2014 232 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 80 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-19924-5 $45.00 Your Price: $12.00

In Search of Ancient North Africa A History in Six Lives

Barnaby Rogerson “Rogerson focuses on ancient figures with complicated Berber and refugee identities. . . . He takes these complex questions on in conversational style. . . . He tells us their stories with great care and animation, filling in gaps with intelligent speculation.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Haus Publishing

2018 320 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 81 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-54-8 $29.95 Your Price: $10.00

Lords of the Sea

A History of the Barbary Corsairs

Alan G. Jamieson “A detailed, synthetic account of the Barbary corsairs who rose from a minor Mediterranean nuisance to become a major maritime menace.”

—Historian “Jamieson provides a welldocumented history of Muslim– Christian confrontation on the high seas, of devastating defeats inflicted on the mighty Holy Roman Empire.”—Military History Monthly Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 82 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-907-1 $39.00 Your Price: $11.00

Islands

From Atlantis to Zanzibar

Steven Roger Fischer “In this astonishingly wide-ranging survey, [Fischer] tells us all about how islands have enchanted writers and artists, provoked clashes between lofty rulers, egged on greedy merchants and defined the world in which we live. . . . The author provides so many unexpected and fascinating nuggets . . . A charming and thought-provoking read.”—Geographical Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 83 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-032-0 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Cathy Gere “A stylish and original cultural history of Knossos.”—Economist “Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a genuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography. . . . Gere tells some outlandish stories, but she never makes the protagonists themselves ridiculous.”—Harper’s 2009 288 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 84 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28954-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

A History of the Arctic

Nature, Exploration and Exploitation

John McCannon “A remarkable voyage through the Arctic, from its misty past to contentious present. . . . A must-read volume for the general public and scholars alike.”—Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University “[McCannon] possesses a keen eye for detail, especially in chronicling the region’s wildlife and the painful transition from exploration to exploitation. . . . This is a thoughtful, provocative study that should be read by anyone who cares about the Arctic’s fate.”—Geographical Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 349 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones 85 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-018-4 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

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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

Jerusalem 1900

The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities

Vincent Lemire “Jerusalem, undoubtedly the most sensitive spiritual and geopolitical hotspot on the planet, counts Lemire among its most original historians. He brings the city to life at a time when ethnic and religious divisions were less entrenched and clear-cut than today.”—Le Monde 2017 224 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 1 table 86 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18823-2 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Faith and Sword

A Short History of Christian–Muslim Conflict, Second Expanded Edition

Alan G. Jamieson Jamieson explores here the long and bloody history of the Christian– Muslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history. “[A] sedulous, unapologetic presentation of facts. . . . Opens our eyes to an inescapable truth: Christians and Muslims fought wars for more than 1,000 years.”

— Philadelphia Inquirer Distributed for Reaktion Books

2016 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 halftones 87 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-672-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Makers of the Modern Middle East Second Edition

T. G. Fraser, Andrew Mango, and Robert McNamara This fully revised and updated second edition of The Makers of the Modern Middle East traces the changes and the ensuing history of the region through the twentieth century and on to the present.

Focusing in particular on three leaders—Emir Feisal, Mustafa Kemal, and Chaim Weizmann—the book offers a clear, authoritative account of the region seen from a transnational perspective.

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2015 358 p. 6 x 9 2 maps 88 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909942-00-4 $50.00 Your Price: $13.00

2017 256 p. 6 x 9 57 halftones 89 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-810-4 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

My House in Damascus An Inside View of the Syrian Crisis

Diana Darke “Written with the pace of a novel and the color of the best travel writing. . . . The book offers much more than a personal memoir: it is an eclectic but learned encyclopedia of Syrian history, of the Arabs and their language and traditions, of Islamic art and architecture, and more.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Haus Publishing

2014 320 p. 51/2 x 8 3/4 2 maps 90 Paper ISBN: 978-1-908323-99-6 $17.95 Your Price: $7.00

Edge of Empires A History of Georgia

Donald Rayfield “The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Georgia available in English. This tour de force explains why the small south Caucasus nation looks longingly to the west. A work of consummate erudition from Britain’s foremost expert on Georgian history and literature.”—Financial Times Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 479 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 91 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-030-6 $55.00 Your Price: $15.00

Another Darkness, Another Dawn

A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers

Becky Taylor “Taylor presents a subtly nuanced picture of European Roma, showing the everyday lived reality of complex community relations, the impact of inter-marriage and personal contacts, which alleviate what could appear to be a relentlessly grim picture of centuries of bureaucratic and legislative oppression.”—History Today “Thanks to the greater availability of relevant documentation at the point in the historical record, Taylor is able to offer more direct quotes from Roma people themselves, adding depth to the narrative.”—Times Higher Education Distributed for Reaktion Books

2014 272 p. 6 x 9 5 maps 92 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-257-7 $39.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers

Roelf Bolt “In a time when getting to the ‘truth’ can involve ill-informed conjecture or a maze of grey areas, this encyclopedia provides a useful countermeasure with its treatment of verifiable falsehoods, fibbers, and ‘facts’ found fictitious.” —Choice “Strangely addictive. A reader is apt to feel repelled by a hoaxster’s audacity and heartlessness yet intensely curious about how and why the deed was done.” —Boston Globe Distributed for Reaktion Books

2014 256 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 93 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-508-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Christmas

The Sacred to Santa

Tara Moore “An informative and intriguing page-turner. If there is anything to be known about Christmas, you will find it here.”—Catholic San Francisco Distributed for Reaktion Books

2014 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 35 halftones 94 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-514-1 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

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.

Distributed for ForeEdge

2017 272 p. 6 x 9 95 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-850-4 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Mountain

A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz “Receding glaciers, threatened freshwater supplies, and high-magnitude catastrophic events are increasingly focusing global attention on the world’s high mountain landscapes and people. The Mountain is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of how definitions of mountains, their meaning, and perceptions of their value evolved throughout time.”

—Alton C. Byers, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership 2015 352 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones, 2 tables 96 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03111-8 $50.00 Your Price: $13.00

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Fat

A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life

Christopher E. Forth “Why do we in the West have such an intense aversion to fat? Was fatness really celebrated as a sign of health, prosperity, status, and beauty at some point in the distant past? Forth explores these questions in his lively, ambitious book Fat. Taking a longue durée approach, from the prehistoric to the present day, he resoundingly demonstrates that there really is more to fat than meets the eye. . . . An impressive, lively study and an enjoyable read.”

—Literary Review Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 352 p. 61/4 x 91/4 60 halftones 97 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-062-0 $32.00 Your Price: $10.00

Of Beards and Men

The Revealing History of Facial Hair

Christopher Oldstone-Moore “For everyone with a hirsute family member, a bearded patriarch, a fuzzy metro-sexual, here’s a great gift, a not-entirely-serious account of why and when men grow facial hair.”—NPR Weekend “A great book for anyone who’s ever pondered why Jesus is portrayed with a beard, wondered about the origin of Hitler’s and Stalin’s mustaches, speculated why the Amish grow beards but shave their moustaches, or realized that no US presidential candidate has sported facial hair since Dewey lost to Truman.”—Publishers Weekly 2015 352 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones 98 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28400-2 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

A Brief History of Death

W. M. Spellman “After the spate of near-death and out-of-the-body experience books comes this refreshing step back to examine the nature of the death experience culturally, historically, psychologically, and personally. . . .

Recommended reading as an antidote to modern life.”—Fortean Times Distributed for Reaktion Books

2014 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 99 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-504-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Is the Cemetery Dead?

David Charles Sloane “A fascinating glimpse of new and evolving mourning rituals in American culture. As the son of cemetery managers, Sloane brings personal experience and knowledge to an otherwise academic history of burial methods, mourning, and memorials. . . . This is a great overview of mourning rituals in modern American culture.”—Publishers Weekly 2018 288 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones, 8 tables 100 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53944-7 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Social History 9

The Rise of the Vampire

Erik Butler “[Butler] is to be congratulated on writing a shrewd and sometimes sardonic study on the origins of an ancient mystery, which in the past decade has been reduced to 50 shades of comic strip. . . . For those with a taste of the supernatural, this is an excellent guidebook. Dracula probably would have enjoyed it.”

—Washington Times Distributed for Reaktion Books

2013 178 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 halftones 101 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-532-5 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

Zombies

A Cultural History

Roger Luckhurst “From their emergence in the 1920s Western imagination to their position today as the go-to trope for a generation ‘flatlined by the alienating tedium of modern life,’ zombies have proved remarkably flexible metaphors. They have come to embody the Other, the economic zeitgeist, and even ourselves. This entertaining study begins in Haiti, with nineteenth-century America’s fears about vodou.”

—Sunday Telegraph Distributed for Reaktion Books

2015 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 halftones 102 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-528-8 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur Mythology and Geology of the Underworld

Salomon Kroonenberg “Kroonenberg interleaves science, history and autobiography with a light touch, blending lively accounts of classical scholarship with superb descriptions of Earth’s interior and how geologists have come to know it. Virgil may no longer be available to accompany us through Hell, but Salomon Kroonenberg proves a witty and erudite guide for the 21st century.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Reaktion Books

2013 352 p. 6 x 9 40 color plates, 60 halftones 103 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-045-0 $38.00 Your Price: $9.00

Wood, Whiskey and Wine A History of Barrels

Henry H. Work “A thorough and entertaining journey from amphorae, barrels’ predecessors, through their period of domination, to their relative demise due to replacement with such as plastic and metal containers. . . .

There is much to interest both the general reader and the beer enthusiast in this well-written history of a container that has been with humanity for so long.”

—London Drinker

The Legendary Detective The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

John Walton “Over nearly a century, a symbiotic relationship developed between detective practices and the popular culture industry that depicted them. The Legendary Detective is a masterly analysis of private detective work within the context of popular culture, revealing their interweaving and mutual influence. . . . Walton’s analysis is brilliant.”—Robert Weiss, SUNY 2015 232 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones 105 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30826-5 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Bigfoot

The Life and Times of a Legend

Joshua Blu Buhs “In his witty account, the American scholar and sceptic Joshua Blu Buhs sets out in search of an animal variously claimed as America’s only remaining ape, an extant Neanderthal, or an even older hominid such as Gigantophithecus. . . .

In his postmodern attempt to pin down Bigfoot, Buhs’s focus is on the hunters, rather than the hunted; this is not so much a book about Bigfoot as the belief in him.”—The Telegraph 2009 296 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones 106 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07979-0 $31.00 Your Price: $10.00 107 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-07980-6 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Packaged Pleasures

How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor “While networked technologies are reconfiguring associations between the senses, space and society—with work emails checked on holiday, selfies taken at funerals and 3D objects printed locally from a CAD file stored in the ‘cloud’—Packaged Pleasures offers a timely reminder of the longer history of the relationship between technology, industry and the self.”—New Scientist 2014 336 p. 6 x 9 37 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table 108 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12127-7 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

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2014 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 halftones 104 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-356-7 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

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But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”?

Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A

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 109 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-26369-4 $27.50 Your Price: $11.00

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

The Book Lovers’ Anthology

A Compendium of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries

Edited by the Bodleian Library “Does the book have a future is a constant question, but The Book Lovers’ Anthology, subtitled A Companion of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries, has no doubts.

The Bodleian anthology is a treasure trove of apt quotations from more than 250 authors, such as Shakespeare, Swift and Ruskin, in chapters covering ‘Literary Worlds,’ ‘The Joys of Reading,’ and ‘The Library.’”—Sydney Morning Herald “Full of treasures.”

—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2014 352 p. 6 x 9 111 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-418-8 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

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 81/2 112 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37064-4 $15.00 Your Price: $9.00

The University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary, Sixth Edition David A. Pharies, Editor in Chief “Why invest in the latest edition of the University of Chicago’s SpanishEnglish Dictionary? In a word, más!

Reflecting increasing popularity of use and need in growing global industries, 6,000 words and their definitions have been added to the already impressive glossary. . . .

Comprehensive in scope, but simple enough to use for even the most tongue-tied linguist. This completely bilingual text is a smart update.”—Library Journal

2012 626 p. 51/2 x 81/2 113 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66695-2 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

A Brief History of the Spanish Language Second Edition

David A. Pharies “The second edition of A Brief History improves an already strong work in Spanish historical linguistics. As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of ‘linguistic myths’ about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar.”—Choice 2007, 2015 296 p. 51/4 x 8 9 halftones, 2 line drawings 114 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13394-2 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

A Barrel of Monkeys

A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals

Compiled by Samuel Fanous “Fanous marries a love of the English language with striking eighteenth-century engravings. . . .

It’s difficult to select favorites but how about ‘a crash of rhinoceroses,’ ‘a mischief of mice,’ and ‘a piddle of puppies?’”—Boston Globe Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2015 144 p. 41/2 x 6 3/4 110 halftones 115 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-445-4 $17.50 Your Price: $7.00

Epitaphs A Dying Art

Edited by Samuel Fanous As tribute to a form of expression that is very much alive, Epitaphs collects some of the most intriguing examples—many of which perfectly encapsulate the person buried beneath them.

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2016 144 p. 41/3 x 6 3/4 116 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-451-5 $17.50 Your Price: $7.00

The Edible Series from Reaktion Books The Edible Series explores the culinary culture and social history of foods and drinks. Each book is 135-200 pages in length, features approximately 40 color plates and 10 halftones, and is 4¾ x 7¾.

Doughnut

Heather Delancey Hunwick

117 2015 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-498-4 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Hot Dog Bruce Kraig

118 2009 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-427-4 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Pizza

Carol Helstosky

119 2008 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-391-8 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Beer

Gavin D. Smith

120 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-260-7 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Brandy

Becky Sue Epstein

121 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-348-2 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Moonshine Kevin R. Kosar

122 2017 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-742-8 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Wine

Marc Millon

123 2013 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-111-2 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Vodka

Patricia Herlihy

124 2012 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-929-3 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Edible Flowers

Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman

125 2016 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-638-4 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Barbecue

Jonathan Deutsch and Megan J. Elias

126 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-259-1 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Sausage Gary Allen

127 2015 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-500-4 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

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The Breakfast Book

Andrew Dalby “[Dalby] presents a flurry of literary examples, mostly European, to prove the varieties of breakfast across time; from Homer to Cervantes, from Lawrence to Steinbeck. . . . The book also presents a wonderful sampling of breakfasting around the world today, such as how they breakfast on churros in Spain or anise-flavored ground cereal in Libya.”—Publishers Weekly Distributed for Reaktion Books

2013 232 p. 6 x 8 59 color plates, 16 halftones 128 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-507-3 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Modern Art Cookbook

Mary Ann Caws “Mouthwatering. . . . Captivating images of works by Mary Cassat and Gustav Klimt are partnered with recipes used by Salvador Dalí and Frida Kahlo, amounting to the perfect gourmet tour through art history. . . . You’ll not only learn to cook Monet’s madeleines, but you’ll understand why Cezanne had a penchant for drawing potatoes.”

—Huffington Post Distributed for Reaktion Books

2013 300 p. 61/2 x 8 3/4 100 color plates, 11 halftones 129 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-174-7 $39.00 Your Price: $11.00

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 10 130 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-58465-835-1 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

Knish

In Search of the Jewish Soul Food

Laura Silver When Laura Silver’s favorite knish shop went out of business, she embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modernday manifestations of the knish.

The iconic potato pie leads the author from Mrs. Stahl’s bakery in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, to an Italian pasta maker in New Jersey— and on to a hunt across three continents for the pastry that shaped her identity.

Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2014 300 p. 51/2 x 7 131 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-312-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Food 11

Kew’s Global Kitchen Cookbook

101 Recipes Using Edible Plants from around the World

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew “This cookbook is dedicated to edible plants from around the world, from Kazakhstan to Kent. . . . Even if you never attempt a recipe from this work, you will find it a great read, learning about new edible plants and their use in kitchens around the world.”—Chicago Botanic Garden Current Books on Gardening Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2013 160 p. 81/2 x 7 70 color plates 132 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-496-0 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Kew’s Teas, Tonics and Tipples

Inspiring Botanical Drinks to Excite Your Tastebuds

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Many of our favorite concoctions— such as tea, beer, and wine—all began as plants, drawing their flavor, color, and fragrance from the botanical world. Kew’s Teas, Tonics and Tipples offers an illustrated history of botanical beverages accompanied by 60 exciting recipes for every occasion.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2015 120 p. 7 x 81/2 illustrated in color throughout 133 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-588-2 $30.00 Your Price: $8.00

Vegetables A Biography

Evelyne Bloch-Dano “A wonderfully evocative and indeed mouthwatering celebration of vegetables and the joys of gardening. . . . Bloch-Dano takes ten vegetables, from the carrot and the cabbage to the pumpkin and the pea, and explores their history, drawing on literature, art, language, geography, genetics and horticulture. . . .

Delightful.”—Guardian 2012 128 p. 51/2 x 81/2 134 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05994-5 $20.00 Your Price: $8.00 135 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-05995-2 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Fear of Food

A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

Harvey Levenstein “Levenstein’s entertaining social history of American food scares places today’s worries in a broader historical context, from the ‘germophobia’ of the nineteenth century to concerns about cholesterol and chemical residues in the 21st. Read this book and you’ll understand why warnings about the safety of your food should always be taken with a pinch of salt.”—Tom Standage, author of A History of the World in Six Glasses 2012 232 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones, 2 line drawings 136 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47374-1 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00 137 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-05490-2 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

The Big Jones Cookbook Recipes for Savoring the Heritage of Regional Southern Cooking

Paul Fehribach “Fehribach is a bighearted anthropologist, history nerd, and kick-ass kitchen technician. . . . This is food that tells stories, and here are all the hero recipes we’ve been craving, from Big Jones’s legendary fried chicken to classics like gumbo z’herbes to new originals like chicken-fried morels and benne ice cream.”—Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen 2015 288 p. 6 x 9 36 line drawings 138 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20572-4 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World

Ben-Erik van Wyk “If you’re ready to go beyond the basics and delve deeply into the herbs and spices that characterize the world’s cuisines, then this scholarly reference is for you.”

—New York Times “Outstanding. . . . A kind of encyclopedia to pursue and enjoy in your kitchen.”—Current Books on Gardening and Botany 2013 320 p. 61/2 x 91/2 600 color plates 139 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09166-2 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Food on the Move

Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World

Edited by Sharon Hudgins “Hudgins and seven other writers recount the glory days of train travel, specifically focusing on the cuisine that travelers used to partake of en route. . . . Hudgins and her crew cover the globe from Japan’s bullet train to the famed Orient Express to British Railways’ Flying Scotsman. . . . Included photographs and recipes are sure to whet many a nostalgic appetite for a slower, more gentle, more genteel way of life and travel.”—Booklist Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 256 p. 71/2 x 9 3/4 100 color plates, 50 halftones 140 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-007-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

12 Places and Travel

Cityscopes from Reaktion Books

Berlin

Joseph Pearson “For the travelers, artists, flâneurs, coders and students fascinated by Berlin, the historian Joseph Pearson masterfully offers a close reading of the metropolis in all its brutal immediacy. Berlin is an exploration of the German capital as it should be, drawing us into the teeming, tumbling life of its streets, clubs and Kieze as well as the dark recesses of the city’s scarred history.”

—Bloomberg News 2017 280 p. 4 3/4 x 73/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones 141 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-719-0 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00

Paris

Adam Roberts “The rich history that belongs to the city—stone by stone, bridge by bridge, ruler by ruler, era by era—comes alive within these pages, giving vast meaning to each step and to each breath taken by today’s visitor.”

—Robert Wheeler, author of Hemingway’s Paris 2017 320 p. 4 3/4 x 73/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones 142 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-746-6 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00

New York

Elizabeth L. Bradley “This concise history of the Empire City is a smart and lively read, as fast-paced and colorful as Gotham itself. Bradley is a thoughtful and witty tour guide, and her book makes an excellent travel companion.”

—Susan Henshaw Jones, Director, Museum of the City of New York 2015 192 p. 5 x 73/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 143 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-342-0 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00

Millennium Park

Creating a Chicago Landmark

Timothy J. Gilfoyle “[A] high-stakes game of pushand-pull forms the dramatic core of historian Timothy J. Gilfoyle’s absorbing and lavishly illustrated Millennium Park. Gilfoyle frames the park’s gestation as a titanic struggle between public and private interests.”—Chicago Reader 2006 474 p. 81/2 x 10 361 color plates, 145 halftones, 12 maps 144 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29349-3 $45.00 Your Price: $10.00

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Arctic Sanctuary

Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Photography by Jeff Jones and Essays by Laurie Hoyle “Beautifully showcases a pristine land caught in the crosshairs of the greatest of human calamities, including global climate change and the grim search for energy resources.”

—Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge “Accompanied by informative and easy-to-read text that describes the images and the region written

by Laurie Hoyle, this is a book you can read, savor and enjoy again and again.”—Great American Landscape Distributed for University of Alaska Press 2010 173 p. 14 x 9 162 color plates 145 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-088-0 $55.00 Your Price: $15.00

The Aleutian Islands of Alaska Living on the Edge

Edited by Kenneth F. Wilson and Jeff Richardson “As a presentation of the landscapes and wildlife of the islands, this book could hardly be bettered. The pictures are wonderful and the text is thought provoking. Those who wish for an armchair excursion to the islands in question could not do better than to peruse this volume.”—Journal of the Polar Record Distributed for University of Alaska Press 2009 300 p. 12 x 9 289 color plates 146 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-045-3 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Love of Country

A Journey through the Hebrides

Madeleine Bunting “[A] moving and wonderful journey through both the geography and history of the Hebrides. . . . As much as it offers intellectual insight, Love of Country is readable and full of empathy. . . . Both the author and reader of this book end up losing themselves not just in politics and history and the details of nature, but a sense of wonder”—Guardian 2017 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 147 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47156-3 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Rising Ground

A Search for the Spirit of Place

Philip Marsden “Travel writer Marsden returns home to walk the length of the Cornwall region in the southwest corner of Great Britain. . . .

Marsden is erudite and brings his knowledge of geology, etymology, history, and philosophy, as well as the voices of Cornwall’s past and current inhabitants, to his long peregrination. The writing is seamless and elegant.”—Publishers Weekly 2016 352 p. 5 3/4 x 81/2 21 halftones 148 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36609-8 $27.50 Your Price: $8.00

A Journey into Russia

Jens Mühling “To understand the ambiguities, contradictions, absurdities and complexities of the Russian soul, the advice was always to read Gogol.

The advice now would be to read Jens Mühling. There is a shock of discovery and a shot of pleasure on every page.”—Times “[Mühling] meets a bewildering variety of ‘old believers’ in a broader sense, from members of the sectarian Orthodox Church . . . through stubbornly Leninist former Soviet citizens, to newly minted Slavonic pagans.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Haus Publishing

2014 275 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 map 149 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-94-9 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

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 2016 256 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones, 2 maps 150 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-01066-3 $27.50 Your Price: $7.00

The Cruel Way

Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939

Ella K. Maillart In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on a journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. Maillart’s narrative offers a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. “[Maillart’s] abilities to grasp a region in all its dimensions, and to involve the emerging national character in her own drama, are the marks of the best kind of travel writer.” —Women’s Review of Books

1947, 2013 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 13 halftones, 2 maps 151 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-03304-4 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

A Journey through Afghanistan

David Chaffetz “The best thing I have read for giving the feel of Afghanistan and its varied people, social classes, religious sects.”—Owen Lattimore, Washington Post Book World

1981, 1984, 2002 272 p. 6 x 9 152 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-10064-7 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Places & Travel 13

Armchair Travels from Haus Publishing

Seeking Provence Old Myths, New Paths

Nicholas Woodsworth “Like Tuscany, Provence has been trampled over by too many writers in recent years. But Woodsworth, a former Africa correspondent for the Financial Times and a Provençal by marriage, looks as though he could break the curse of Mayle.”

—New York Times 2016 380 p. 5 x 8 153 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-26-5 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Tasting Spain A Culinary Tour

H. M. van den Brink Part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, this book offers a dynamic journey through Spain, focusing on culinary delights found everywhere from Madrid’s cafes to Barcelona’s fish markets.

2017 128 p. 5 x 8 154 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-21-0 $17.95 Your Price: $7.00

Tasting Italy

A Culinary Journey

Alice Vollenweider In this combined travelogue, cookbook and literary guide, Vollenweider provides delightful insights into Italian regional cuisine and culture.

2006 276 p. 5 x 7 155 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904950-28-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00 156 Paper ISBN: 978-1-906598-92-1 $11.95 Your Price: $7.00

Hemingway in Italy

Richard Owen “An exceptionally lively study. . . .

Hemingway’s adoration of Italy never waned.”

—Times Literary Supplement

2017 240 p. 4 x 8 10 halftones 157 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-38-8 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Lady Chatterley’s Villa

D. H. Lawrence on the Italian Riviera

Richard Owen “Gracefully and mischievously, [Owen] portrays the sunlit Riviera landscape and warmth of Italian society in which Lawrence was slowly resurrected and enabled to write.”—Times

2014 240 p. 41/2 x 8 3/8 158 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-98-7 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Borges in Sicily

Alejandro Luque Part travel diary and part literary history, Borges in Sicily presents an intimate portrait of one writer discovering life, love, and literature through the eyes of another.

2017 220 p. 4 x 8 23 halftones 159 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-44-9 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Palermo

Roberto Alajmo Alajmo gives an insight into the Sicilian capital from a lifelong resident’s point of view, showcasing its hidden cultural and culinary jewels; portraying its people; and touching on its politics.

2010 176 p. 5 x 7 160 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-906598-17-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Homer’s Mediterranean A Travel Companion

Wolfgang Geisthövel Geisthövel gives a detailed and lively desciption of the individual steps of the Odyssey, starting in Troy and finishing in Ithaca.

2010 248 p. 4 x 7 161 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-905791-39-2 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Geckos of Bellapais Memories of Cyprus

Joachim Sartorius “Sartorius travels genially and wisely, observing, talking . . . and making friends with leading figures in the island’s life.”—Times Literary Supplement 2013 178 p. 41/2 x 81/4 162 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-91-8 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Mount Sinai

A History of Travellers and Pilgrims

George Manginis “Offers a different perspective and a fascinating story of the enduring appeal of Sinai.”—History Today

2016 286 p. 41/4 x 81/4 15 halftones, 6 line drawings 163 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-910376-50-8 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Dickens

London into Kent

Peter Clark “This is a small, delightful book . . . describing walks around parts of London associated with Dickens’s life and writings.”—Literary Review 2013 260 p. 5 x 8 164 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-80-2 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Smile of the Midsummer Night A Picture of Sweden

Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist Smile of the Midsummer Night is a loving and poetic ode to this beautiful nation and a must-have for anyone interested in Scandinavia.

“Imparts a heart-warming sense of shared discovery and rediscovery.”

—Times Literary Supplement 2015 120 p. 5 x 6 3/5 1 map 165 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-04-3 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland

Jonathan Clements “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 166 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-00-5 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing

Jonathan Clements “Evocatively captures the contradictions and complexitites of contemporary Beijing while rooting the city in its broader historical context. . . .

A quick and breezy peek into Beijing life and culture.”

—Times Literary Supplement 2016 320 p. 41/2 x 81/4 2 maps 167 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-27-2 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

An Armchair Traveller’s History of Tokyo

Jonathan Clements This book sketches the city’s amazing trajectory from its humble beginnings as a group of forest clearings all the way to its planned role as host of the 2021 Olympic Games.

2019 212 p. 4 x 8 2 halftones 168 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-58-6 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

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The History of Cartography, Volume 6

Cartography in the Twentieth Century

Beyond the Map

Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias

Alastair Bonnett “From the concept of guerrilla gardening in concrete jungles, trap streets on many maps, and the coastal tsunami stones planted decades or centuries ago in Japan . . . Bonnett fascinates with an exploration of the world beyond the map.

Readers will want to take their time with each chapter, to peruse every new and often thought-provoking idea. Bonnett’s exploration of areas unmarked on any map will delight fans of geography and cartography.”

—Library Journal 51/2

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2018 304 p. x 169 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51384-3 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

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 academ­ics. . . . 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 170 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08261-5 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library “Cartographic Treasures is a beautifully designed exhibit catalogue containing splendid reproductions and enlightening captions, providing the reader with an understanding of the cartographic value and importance of each map and, consequently, the reasons for its designation as a ‘treasure.’”—WAML Information Bulletin Distributed for the Newberry Library

2002 104 p. 11 x 81/2 23 color plates 57 halftones 171 Paper ISBN: 978-0-911028-71-3 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Edited by Mark Monmonier “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. . . .

[This volume] traces the incredible advances in the last century that made possible the map-obsessed 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 172 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53469-5 $500.00 Your Price: $149.00

Mapping the Middle East

Zayde Antrim “In this analysis of a millennium of cartography of the ever-changing region, Antrim provides welcome insights into the evolving function and meaning of its maps. This detailed and lavishly illustrated volume spans the ‘realm of Islam’ (eleventh to sixteenth centuries), where maps served more as memory aids than accurate geographical representation. . . . Academic yet highly readable, this book presents the history behind the maps.”

—AramcoWorld Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 336 p. 71/2 x 9 3/4 80 color plates, 6 halftones 173 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-850-0 $57.00 Your Price: $17.00

Trading Territories

Mapping the Early Modern World

Jerry Brotton “Brotton’s Trading Territories is a history not just of how the first truly global maps were made, but how they were conceptualized, and how they shaped as well as described the early modern world. . . . Trading Territories covers a wide sweep of shifting territory with verve and authority.”—Geographical Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 208 p. 5 x 73/4 44 halftones 174 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-929-3 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

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 175 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14982-0 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

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 2014 224 p. 81/2 x 11 120 color plates 176 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13900-5 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

The Natures of Maps

Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World

Denis Wood and John Fels “Intelligent and drop-dead gorgeous. . . . Wood and Fels let the maps make their argument, creating the reality they propose. It’s a beautiful book and one whose propositions will be the source of ideas, articles, and books for years to come.” —Cartographic Perspectives 2008 231 p. 11 x 11 179 color plates, 16 halftones 177 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-90604-1 $49.00 Your Price: $15.00

The Objekt Series from Reaktion Books Railway

George Revill “Revill deftly produces a remarkable cultural tapestry of the railroad, one with many nuanced strands of insight. . . . A precious, memorable contribution to those interested in railroads and in the rail foundations of modern society.”

—Technology and Culture 2012 288 p. 6 x 82 /5 70 color plates, 30 halftones 178 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-874-6 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Motorcycle

Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferriss “The most extensive, perceptive, and rewarding inquiry yet into the role of the motorcycle and our fascination with it.”

—Ed Youngblood, editor of Motohistory 2008 224 p. 6 x 82 /5 30 color plates, 70 halftones 179 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-345-1 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Ship

Gregory Votolato “A fascinating, wide-ranging study on maritime shipping. . . .

Anyone interested in the design, construction, and operation of ships and their role in human history will find his book a delight.”—Arthur Donovan, US Merchant Marine Academy 2011 303 p. 6 x 82 /5 40 color plates, 70 halftones 180 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-772-5 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

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Philosophers at Table On Food and Being Human

Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa Heldke “Boisvert and Heldke are proceeding from our shared, lived experience as people with stomachs, so prior familiarity with the work of Immanuel Kant and Rene Descartes is not needed. The book is carved with that crisp, clear precision common to academic philosophy texts, never advancing any idea an inch without a concise explanation of its origin.”—PopMatters Distributed for Reaktion Books

Philosophy 15

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem “These letters illuminate the historical record by placing into context and documenting not only the profound differences between these powerful personalities but also their commonalities, shared activities, interests, and loyalties.”

—Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the German edition

2016 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 181 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-588-2 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

2017 336 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones 185 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92451-9 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

A Philosophy of Dirt

Arendt and America

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 Your Price: $8.00

A Philosophy of Freedom Lars Svendsen Freedom of speech, religion, choice, will—humans have fought, and continue to fight, for all of these.

But what is human freedom, really?

Taking a broad approach across metaphysics, politics, and ethics, Svendsen explores this question in his engaging book, while also looking at the threats freedom faces today. Though our behaviors, thoughts, and actions are restricted by social and legal rules, deadlines, and burdens, Svendsen argues that the fundamental requirement for living a human life is the ability to be free.

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2014 288 p. 6 x 9 183 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-370-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

A Philosophy of Pain

Arne Vetlesen “Vetlesen has produced a wideranging volume that begins with an examination of central cases of pain (including physical pain and psychic pain). . . . Vetlesen finds much to criticize in the culturally anemic modern world of youth violence, reality television, and a general lack of shame.”—Choice Distributed for Reaktion Books

2009 176 p. 4 3/4 x 78/9 184 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-541-7 $27.95 Your Price: $9.00

Richard H. King “King’s great contribution to the literature on Arendt is to show, in fine-grained terms, how her political theory was the result of a quintessentially American experience: to arrive on American shores an immigrant, to draw on resources from both an old country and a new, imagined one, and to participate in the riot of reinvention.”

—Los Angeles Review of Books 2015 416 p. 6 x 9 186 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31149-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00 187 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56553-8 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy

Peter Trawny “Only Trawny, at this point, has offered the kind of sustained interpretation of the anti-Semitic passages in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks that we need if we are to determine for ourselves just how far his thought is compromised by these revelations. In the present book, he shows in precise and rigorous ways the specific challenges that these passages present to those readings of Heidegger that attempt to minimize the role his association with National Socialism should play in the assessment of his thought.”

—Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University 2016 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 188 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30373-4 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

The History of Continental Philosophy

Edited by Alan D. Schrift “This landmark series provides the first comprehensive history of continental philosophy. . . . Every scholar of continental philosophy will have occasion to turn to it often.”

—Michael Naas, DePaul University 2010 3040 p. 9-volume set 6 x 9 189 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74046-1 $924.00 Your Price: $199.00

Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

Robert B. Pippin “Pippin presents a much-needed new approach and appreciation of Nietzsche. . . . [He] adroitly starts fresh with Nietzsche, considering his work holistically and in the context of both early psychology and 19th-century French morality.

In his novel reading, Pippin exposes the folly of underappreciating Nietzsche’s irony and self-criticism.”

—Choice 2010 152 p. 6 x 9 190 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66975-5 $35.00 Your Price: $13.00 191 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66976-2 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00

Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento

Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit

Paolo D’Iorio “This book is the detailed description of a metamorphosis, a break in the life and thought of Nietzsche, a ‘crisis’ from which the birth of the ‘philosophy of the free spirit’ was born.”—Libération “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 192 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16456-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll

Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death

Ben-Ami Scharfstein “The book makes vivid and compelling Scharfstein’s long standing opposition to philosophical selfisolation.”—Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University “A set of reflections on Scharfstein’s life and work that provides stimulation and pleasure in equal measure to heart and mind.

It belongs in every civilized person’s library.”—Hilary Putnam, Harvard University 2014 256 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 193 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-10575-8 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

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The Deepest Human Life An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone

The Just

Paul Ricoeur “The essays assembled in The Just are at once essential readings for anyone concerned with the link between ethics, law, and politics. . . . [Ricoeur] retains the style of a moderator by engaging the most powerful authors on justice available: Aristotle, Kant, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, to name a few.”

—Review of Metaphysics 2000, 2003 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 194 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-71340-3 $26.00 Your Price: $8.00

Leo Strauss’s Defense of the Philosophic Life

Reading “What Is Political Philosophy?”

Edited by Rafael Major “Lively interest in the work and legacy of Strauss continues, as does controversy over what he did—and did not—argue for. This collection of essays demonstrates an expository thoroughness that will be of great interest to those who read them alongside the Strauss essays themselves. One doubts this will clear away the controversy, but one can hope that it will promote a more serious, engaged, and sympathetic debate.”—Timothy Fuller, Colorado College 2012 232 p. 6 x 9 195 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-92421-2 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

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 “As an invitation to be self-reflexive about your own tweeting, you could not ask for a better guide than Hodgkin.”—LSE Review of Books 2017 224 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 1 table 196 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43821-4 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Scott Samuelson “Defying the widespread perception of philosophy as an academic specialty, Samuelson urges readers to join him in a humanizing intellectual adventure, one that begins with Socrates’ frank profession of ignorance. . . . But perhaps no one teaches more than Samuelson’s own diverse college students—a wineloving bicyclist, a sleep-deprived housewife, a monk-faced factory worker. These seemingly ordinary people underscore the most important lesson of all: philosophy matters for everyone.”—Booklist 2014 240 p. 6 x 9 197 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13038-5 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

The Evolution of Imagination

Stephen T. Asma “From testing a theory to playing bebop, improvisation is the fount of creativity. . . . So argues philosopher and jazz musician Asma, who draws on neuroscience and animal behaviour for this intriguing . . . foray into human evolution. Looking at improvisation from pre-linguistic expression (such as dance) to storytelling, Asma explores how we actively engage the imagination to create our own ‘virtual realities’ and to build just societies, as well as to foster the adaptability we need to negotiate life’s changes.”—Nature 2017 320 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 198 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22516-6 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Wisdom A History

Trevor Curnow Drawing on examples from a diversity of eras and places, Curnow explores deities, proverbs, and other ways in which humans have tried to solve the mystery of life. Including a collection of 100 sayings that offer a rich record of wisdom’s reification, this history gives new insight into what wisdom actually is and where we might find it.

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2015 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 199 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-451-9 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

A Philosophy of Tragedy Christopher Hamilton “Aims for a perspective that will account for the permanent condition of tragedy and for the specific contours of tragedy today. . . . Its guiding question is not ‘how can I find meaning in the world?’ but ‘who am I as I write philosophy?’”

—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Reaktion Books

2016 208 p. 5 x 73/4 200 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-589-9 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy

Sandra Laugier “Laugier’s brilliant book provides a concise history of the philosophy of language after Quine and Wittgenstein. But Laugier does more than that: she shows why Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell’s claim that to speak about language is to speak about the world is an antimetaphysical revolution in philosophy, a revolution that transforms our understanding of epistemology and ethics.”—Toril Moi, Duke University 2013 168 p. 6 x 9 201 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47054-2 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I

Jacques Derrida “Fascinatingly intricate. . . . A vivid attestation to the experience of Derrida as a teacher—the quality of his attention, the tone and rhythm of his voice, his means of sparking his students capacities’ to read and think.”—Times Literary Supplement “What Derrida accomplishes in this, his final seminar, is remarkable because it goes to the very heart of his lifelong project of deconstructing the logocentric bias of Western thinking.”—Choice 2009 368 p. 6 x 9 202 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14428-3 $44.00 Your Price: $13.00

Art and Truth after Plato

Tom Rockmore “A highly important contribution to the philosophy of art, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy generally. Rockmore successfully explores one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy, namely, appearance and reality, mimesis and representation, and their bearing on the question of truth, and he does so in a way that is engaging and highly readable. . . . His work easily ranks with the best in contemporary philosophy.” —Alan Olson, Boston University 2013 344 p. 6 x 9 203 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04002-8 $59.00 Your Price: $15.00

Human Predicaments And What to Do about Them

John Kekes “This book uses fascinating historical and anthropological material to leaven a clear and provocative discussion of issues such as boredom, hypocrisy, evil, and innocence— phenomena that are at the center of most people’s evaluative lives yet can often be pushed to the margins in contemporary moral philosophy.”—Stephen Mulhall, University of Oxford 2016 256 p. 6 x 9 204 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35945-8 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

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Secret Body

Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions

Jeffrey J. Kripal “Kripal presents us with a compilation of theories, cultural references and anecdotes making up an impassioned thesis about the future of religious studies and ‘what human beings may become’. . . . [Kripal’s] earnest encouragement of scholars to be more open and his rejection of skeptical approaches—‘scholars are not religiously inept and disciples are not dumb’—is both heartening and timely.”

—Times Higher Education 2017 448 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates 205 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12682-1 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

Daniel Boyarin “It is a brilliant and novel move to put the Talmud next to Lucian.

Boyarin brings together here some very hot topics: cultural difference, cultural regulation, and the specific interface between Jewish and Greco-Roman culture. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis is a book with intellectual range and ambition. And it is fun—as the title promises.”

—Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge

2009 408 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone 206 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06916-6 $58.00 Your Price: $15.00

Negative Certainties

Jean-Luc Marion “Marion loosens our Borromean knots: the human enigma, the mystery of God, and the unknown of birth as well as death, are so many inexplicable events. Negative Certainties, his latest book, questions the very possibility of these impossibilities.”—Le Monde, on the French edition 2015 288 p. 6 x 9 207 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50561-9 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Off Limits

New Writings on Fear and Sin

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist who has provided a powerful voice in feminist debates centering on the Middle East. Off Limits presents a selection of El Saadawi’s most recent recollections and reflections in which she considers the role of women in Islamic society, the inextricability of imperialism from patriarchy, and the meeting points of East and West.

“The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World.”—Guardian Distributed for Gingko Library

2020 171 p. 5 x 8 208 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909942-47-9 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Ancient History & Religion 17

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. . . . Summit and Vermeule, trained as literary critics, 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 209 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03223-8 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Plato’s Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues

Catherine H. Zuckert “Brimming with original insights, this massive book offers a comprehensive vision of the entire Platonic corpus. . . . This book will allow scholars of all persuasions to make discoveries at every turn as the author guides them through territory they thought they knew well.”—Choice

Palmyra

An Irreplaceable Treasure

Paul Veyne “Veyne, the most eminent living historian of Rome, has written an elegiac lament on the meaning for world history of this looted city. His short book describes how Palmyra, an oasis on the route across the north Syrian desert, around the turn of the common era became immensely wealthy as a staging post in the trade route from the Roman Empire to the Parthian Kingdom and the lands beyond. . . . Veyne’s account offers an excellent survey of the relationship between the city and the wider Roman Empire.”

—Times Literary Supplement

2009 896 p. 6 x 9 210 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00774-8 $34.00 Your Price: $11.00

2017 128 p. 51/2 x 81/2 13 color plates 213 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42782-9 $22.50 Your Price: $10.00

The Rhetoric of Plato’s Republic

Caesar

A Life in Western Culture

James L. Kastely “A startling reinterpretation of Plato, one that stands the standard narrative of the history of rhetoric on its head. Kastely persuasively takes the supposed archenemy of rhetoric and makes of him instead a theorist deeply concerned with rhetoric’s possibilities, and he does so with impeccable scholarship in a tour de force extended rereading of Plato’s most-read work.”

—Jeffrey Walker, University of Texas at Austin

Maria Wyke “Wyke’s concern is how we have created and adapted Caesar’s image and historical importance over the past 2,000 years—from Caesar’s camp at Arles to Caesars Palace, Las Vegas; from Mussolini, seeking a Caesarian mandate for his own grand ambitions, to Asterix, using the Roman dictator for satirical purposes in comic-book form; from the Caesar coins minted in tribute by Brutus (before he revised his opinion) to the taunts leveled at George W. Bush as an empire-seeker in recent years.”—Wall Street Journal

A History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography

Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion

2015 280 p. 6 x 9 211 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27862-9 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

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 2011 272 p. 6 x 9 212 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40509-4 $58.00 Your Price: $13.00

2008 288 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones 214 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92153-2 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Arnaldo Momigliano This collection of 21 carefully selected essays of Arnaldo Momigliano is remarkable both in the depth of its scholarship and the breadth of its subjects. “[Momigliano was] the world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world.”

—Donald Kagan, Yale University

2012 51/2 x 81/2 215 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53385-8 $33.00 Your Price: $11.00

18 Architecture & Design

1-773-702-7000

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building Myth and Fact

The World the Trains Made

A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada

James D. Dilts Dilts has written the first comprehensive study of the broad range of structures built in North America for the railroads during their heyday, providing an illustrated look at buildings from resort hotels to roundhouses and shops.

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2018 304 p. 81/2 x 11 216 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-802-3 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

Plans of Chicago

Robert Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher Plans of Chicago uses the 1909 Burnham Plan as a precedent for reconnecting Chicago’s center to outlying suburbs. With 130 exquisite illustrations, this book offers practical, viable proposals for city living.

Distributed for the Architects Research Foundation

2010 160 p. 121/2 x 91/2 45 color plates, 100 halftones 217 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-615-28220-6 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Carson Pirie Scott

Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store

Joseph M. Siry “Siry’s book is not about a store per se. Rather, it is a vehicle for examining how one man’s ideas at once expressed and informed defining aspects of material life in his immediate milieu and beyond.”

—Journal of American History

Jack Quinan “Thoughtful and readable. . . .

Quinan’s greatest contribution is in his ability to view the powerful yet serene form of the Larkin Building with its central light court not only as a remarkable modernist object, but also as a reflection of the goals and corporate culture of the huge soap company that built it.”

—New York Times Book Review

1987, 2006 204 p. 81/2 x 91/4 103 halftones, 15 line drawings 220 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69908-0 $34.00 Your Price: $13.00

Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture

Joseph M. Siry “Set in the context of Wright’s designs for religious architecture, Siry’s brilliant, clear, and thoroughly documented monograph is the definitive work on the magisterial Beth Sholom Synagogue. This beautifully written book is indispensable for our grasp of the architect’s late work.”

—Anthony Alofsin, University of Texas 2011 736 p. 81/2 x 11 10 color plates, 295 halftones 221 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76140-4 $81.00 Your Price: $17.00

The Architecture of Maritz & Young

Exceptional Historic Homes of St. Louis

Kevin Amsler and L. John Schott, AIA Featuring more than 200 photographs, architectural drawings, and original floor plans of homes built in a variety of styles, this is the definitive history of the domestic architecture that still defines St. Louis.

“Lavishly illustrated. . . .

Photographs, floor plans, and architectural drawings provide an intimate look inside the St. Louis homes that ‘are fancied above most others.’”—Missouri Historical Review Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press

1988 304 p. 6 x 9 132 halftones 218 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76137-4 $63.00 Your Price: $15.00

2013 208 p. 7 x 10 196 halftones, 43 line drawings 222 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-76-8 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

Once Upon a Playground

The Power of Love

A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920–1975

Brenda Biondo Before today’s safety-minded structures, America’s playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides. Biondo’s book is a visual tribute to these iconic structures.

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2014 188 p. 81/2 x 11 219 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-512-1 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

Jewels, Romance and Eternity

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson “From ancient betrothal bands to Victoria Beckham’s 14 engagement rings, Beatriz Chadour-Sampson explores how people have historically used jewels to show their affection.”—Jewelry Connoisseur Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2019 160 p. 8 3/4 x 101/4 100 color plates 223 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911604-46-4 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Shoes

The Meaning of Style

Elizabeth Semmelhack “A smörgåsbord of historical and contemporary examples, anecdotes, and stories revealing how each style has evolved. . . . An extremely good introduction to the vast and complex subject of why we wear the shoes that we wear.”

—Journal of Dress History Distributed for Reaktion Books

2017 368 p. 61/2 x 91/4 159 color plates, 13 halftones 224 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-080-4 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Coloring Books for Everyone Flowers of Love A Kew Colouring Book

Illustrated by Sue Mason Flowers of Love takes you through a lush garden of flowers such as sweethearts, forget-me-nots, and bleeding hearts. Mason has subtly woven in the theme of love throughout the book including a trail of hidden hearts. It features delightful, interconnected black and white drawings that will inspire artists of all stripes to let their imaginations run wild.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2016 44 p. 10 x 10 36 halftones 225 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-613-1 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Spice Trail

A Kew Colouring Frieze

Illustrated by Sue Mason This coloring book is a globetrotting journey through nine of the most important spices.

Mason has created beautiful scenes that combine the plants with animals from their native countries, including sesame plants with elephants, cinnamon with tigers, and cardamom with peacocks.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2015 16 p. 6 3/4 x 9 9 halftones 226 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-601-8 $13.00 Your Price: $5.00

Nature’s Portraits

A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

Peggy Macnamara Nature’s Portraits offers 60 of Macnamara’s detailed animal drawings that can be brought brilliantly to life with nothing more than a few colored pencils or crayons. Many of the drawings depict animals as they might appear in their natural habitats, or animals found in museums, including Sue, the Field Museum’s resident Tyrannosaurus rex.

2016 128 p. 81/4 x 9 3/4 60 halftones 227 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43155-0 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

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Photography & Art 19

Landscapes

Harlem

August Sander In 1975, German readers were introduced to the Rheinlandschaften, a collection of stunning images of the Rhineland captured in the first half of the twentieth century by photographer August Sander. This updated English-language edition brings Sander’s work to a new audience and offers a glorious journey through the landscapes that most affected him.

Camilo José Vergara “Vergara has watched—and photographed—Harlem as it fell apart and then rose back up as something else. He chronicles the passage from poverty to selective luxury, from segregation to selective integration, from street life to tourism.”

—Luc Sante, author of Low Life

Photographs 1926-1946

2016 112 p. 101/2 x 121/2 59 black and white photographs, 1 map 228 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39946-1 $65.00 Your Price: $19.00

Hearts and Bones

A Retrospective of Tom Chambers’ Photomontage Art

Tom Chambers

“Over 100 full-page, highquality reproductions that display [Chambers’s] subtle mastery of color as well as his seamless blending of the real and the unreal. . . . Instead of conjuring visions that are beyond belief or comically absurd, he injects a drop of magic into everyday reality, creating scenes that are improbable, and often disquieting, but not impossible.”—Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2018 208 p. 11 x 11 125 color plates 229 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911604-21-1 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Kwaidan

Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn and Hiroshi Watanabe “Written by Lafcadio Hearn over a century ago, and now brilliantly illustrated with accompanying photographs by award-winning photographer Hiroshi Watanabe, these folk stories are revitalized in this new edition.”—Photo-eye Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2019 128 p. 8 3/4 x 101/2 28 halftones 230 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911604-98-3 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Cairo to Constantinople Francis Bedford’s Photographs of the Middle East

Sophie Gordon “Less than two months after Prince Albert died, plunging his widow, Victoria, into a half century of mourning, she bade farewell to her eldest son and heir, Edward, as he set off on a four-month tour of the Middle East. Though Edward’s adventures are long forgotten, the visit’s true lasting legacy is [this] rare collection of more than 180 pictures, which captured an area rarely previously photographed.”

—Maclean’s Distributed for Royal Collection Trust

2013 256 p. 101/4 x 11 220 color plates 231 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-905686-18-6 $60.00 Your Price: $19.00

The Unmaking of a Ghetto

2014 269 p. 11 x 9 268 color plates 232 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85336-9 $55.00 Your Price: $13.00

Lewis Carroll

Photography on the Move

Lindsay Smith “Carroll was a prolific amateur photographer. . . . [Smith] demonstrates this through meticulous research, rooted in Carroll’s own letters and diaries and, of course, his photographs, many of which are included as illustrations. Smith has searched out collections around the world, matching photographs mentioned in Carroll’s letters to images now residing, for example, in Ohio and Philadelphia.”

—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Reaktion Books

2015 336 p. 6 3/5 x 9 30 color plates, 70 halftones 233 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-519-6 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image

Mary Campbell “A beautiful meditation on the agency of photographs, this book on the Mormon photographer Charles Ellis Johnson is also a remarkable account of American sexuality, its rituals, and its prohibitions, down to the last strap unfurled from the last shoulder in that photograph earmarked for an eager customer in Fresno. Sexuality itself lies coquettishly hidden in almost all studies of American art except this one.”

—Alexander Nemerov, author of Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine 2016 192 p. 81/2 x 11 10 color plates, 75 halftones 234 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37369-0 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Camera Does the Rest

How Polaroid Changed Photography

Peter Buse “The Camera Does the Rest takes a deep dive into Polaroid’s corporate archives. . . . For Buse, Polaroid is not just an object of nostalgia, it is a catalyst undeniably linked to the massive changes we’ve seen in social rituals and imaging technology in our lifetime.”—American Photo 2016 320 p. 6 x 9 45 color plates, 6 halftones 235 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17638-3 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Outliers and American Vanguard Art

Lynne Cooke This thought-provoking book offers a fantastic opportunity to consider works by schooled and self-taught artists in relation to each other and defined by historical circumstance.

“Accessible for most readers without extensive art history backgrounds, and for those looking to expand their understanding of American art and artists creating from the margins.”—Library Journal 2018 448 p. 10 x 12 450 color plates 236 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52227-2 $65.00 Your Price: $23.00

Rattling Spears

A History of Indigenous Australian Art

Ian McLean “Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art is the first comprehensive art historical account of this fascinating topic. It tells a clear and compelling story of the complex development of indigenous art in Australia, from the first encounters between indigenous and European explorers in the later eighteenth century right up to the present.”—Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh Distributed for Reaktion Books

2016 272 p. 71/2 x 9 3/4 130 color plates, 20 halftones 237 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-590-5 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00 238 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-987-3 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

New York in Postcards 1880-1980 The Andreas Adam Collection

Edited by Thomas Kramer “These postcards bring us back to a New York that possessed glamour and drama and warmth, in even measure: a city in which there was always light, and always possibility; a city that, when you came to visit, you could not wait until you were back home to tell everyone all about it, and so you always, always, sent a postcard.”—Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker Distributed for Scheidegger and Spiess

2010 560 p. 9 x 11 948 color plates 239 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-85881-713-6 $65.00 Your Price: $19.00

20 Art 1-773-702-7000

The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art

François Quiviger “Responding to recent work in anthropology as well as cultural history, the author explores the relationship between visual perception, imagination, and bodily sensation in the historical experience of images. . . . Quiviger’s study breathes life and meaning into the margins of Renaissance art.”

—Renaissance Quarterly Distributed for Reaktion Books

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.

2005 150 p. 91/2 x 111/2 40 color plates, 30 halftones 240 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-89443-0 $49.00 Your Price: $13.00

Rembrandt

Images & Metaphors

Christian Tümpel “Lavishly illustrated and handsomely produced, Images and Metaphors ignores the myths and legends that have grown up over the centuries about Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and replaces them with a hard look of the facts, creating thereby entirely new avenues into the creative genius of this painter. An impressive accomplishment!”

—Art Times Journal Distributed for Haus Publishing

2007 300 p. 10 x 11 241 Paper ISBN: 978-1-906598-01-3 $40.00 Your Price: $9.00

Leonardo, The Last Supper

Pinin Brambilla Barcilon and Pietro C. Marani “Pinin Barcilon was entrusted with the unenviable task of restoring the mural—again. Her highly controversial approach has been to pry away every bit of paint not clearly Leonardo’s, with the result that a pale but evocative ghost remains.

Was too much removed? Readers can judge by perusing the extraordinary 1:1 scale photographs of sections from the painting.”

—New York Times Book Review

2001 458 p. 10 x 12 382 color plates, 64 halftones 242 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50427-8 $127.00 Your Price: $45.00

2010 206 p. 51/2 x 81/2 37 color plates, 58 halftones 243 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-657-5 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

Titian

And the End of the Venetian Renaissance

Tom Nichols “Nichols’s book offers the kind of free-flowing and deeply intelligent analysis of a painter’s career that can only be produced after long study and intimate familiarity with his subject. . . . Beautifully written and generously illustrated, and you feel both Nichols’s and Titian’s minds working at every turn.”

—Renaissance and Reformation Studies Distributed for Reaktion Books

2013 336 p. 81/4 x 11 100 color plates, 70 halftones 244 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-674-2 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Tintoretto

Tradition and Identity

Tom Nichols “A wonderfully informative and entertaining new study of the painter. The first full-length account of the artist’s life and work to appear in English for nearly 50 years.”

—Sunday Telegraph Magazine, on the first edition Distributed for Reaktion Books

2015 400 p. 51/2 x 81/2 116 color plates, 92 halftones 245 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-450-2 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Shira Brisman “Today it seems harder than ever to say anything refreshingly new about Albrecht Dürer and his epochmaking art. Yet Brisman has done just that, taking us inside a guiding principle of Renaissance art and culture that had, until now, been hiding in plain sight. . . . This book showcases what is to be gained when the materiality of communication combines with the social history of art.”—Mitchell B. Merback, Johns Hopkins University 2016 320 p. 7 x 10 49 color plates, 86 halftones 246 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35475-0 $55.00 Your Price: $17.00

Hieronymus Bosch Visions and Nightmares

Nils Büttner “A handy, nearly ideal volume on the much-admired but little-understood Bosch. . . . Bosch emerges as an early moral satirist rather than as a secretive, strange quasi heretic, which is to say as more normal and arguably more artistically important than he has previously been portrayed.”—Choice Distributed for Reaktion Books

2016 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 color plates 247 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-579-0 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

The Art of Thomas Bewick

Diana Donald “Donald looks again at Bewick’s rich contribution to natural history and visual art and asks what his illustrated volumes meant. . . .

Like ‘knowing your Bible,’ knowing Bewick was a mark of both sound education and sensitive humanity.

This book enables one to know Bewick differently, to look more closely—as his engravings invite us to do—at the habits and habitat of a rara avis who possessed the common touch.”—Weekly Standard Distributed for Reaktion Books

2013 328 p. 71/2 x 94 /5 60 color plates, 150 halftones 248 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-109-9 $65.00 Your Price: $17.00

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Richard Neer “The question that Richard Neer asks is of crucial importance: ‘Given that the Archaic Greeks, by definition, didn’t know the classical style, what were they after?’ What Neer advocates in this bold and enlightening book is a return to the analysis of style. . . . I know of no other work on the subject that addresses the issue in these thought-provoking terms.”—Gloria Ferrari Pinney, Harvard University 2010 288 p. 81/2 x 11 10 color plates, 1 map, 142 halftones 249 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57064-8 $46.00 Your Price: $13.00

Jean-Antoine Houdon Sculptor of the Enlightenment

Anne L. Poulet “[The essays] detail Houdon’s artistic development and provide insights into his working methods and his relationships with his subjects, a group that included Molière, Diderot, Voltaire, Franklin and Napoleon. . . . He could do teeth, the pupils of the eyes, soft dimples, even tears; details that, two centuries later, still catch the breath.”

—New York Times 2003 400 p. 9 x 11 144 color plates, 225 halftones 250 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67649-4 $69.00 Your Price: $15.00

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Painting Paradise The Art of the Garden

Vanessa Remington From a space for solitary communion with nature to the backdrop for a budding romance, Painting Paradise looks at why the garden has remained such a seductive artistic subject. With more than 300 color illustrations, the book will be of great interest to all who find inspiration in the beauty of the garden.

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2015 312 p. 101/2 x 111/2 illustrated in color throughout 251 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909741-08-9 $75.00 Your Price: $23.00

Fabricating the Antique Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800

Viccy Coltman “A gorgeously illustrated, evocatively written, fascinatingly detailed, and wonderfully nuanced account of the ‘packaging and repackaging’ of ancient material artifacts by British collector-connoisseurs, engravers, manufacturers, and patrons in the second half of the eighteenth century.”—Journal of Modern History 2005 248 p. 71/2 x 9 5 color plates, 85 halftones 252 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11396-8 $69.00 Your Price: $23.00

Scottish Artists 17501900 From Caledonia to the Continent

Deborah Clarke and Vanessa Remington This survey of Scottish art from the Royal Collection brings together more than 100 reproductions of works from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century, highlighting the importance and influence of this period while also sharing recent research on the subject.

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2015 210 p. 81/4 x 81/4 illustrated in color throughout 253 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909741-20-1 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Alaska Native Art

Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

Susan W. Fair Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska’s interior forests, Alaska Native Art showcases a staggering array of types of art—from beadwork to ivory carving, basketry to skin sewing—from Aleutian Islander, Pacific Eskimo, Tlingit, Athabaskan, Yup’ik, and Inupiaq artists, as well as full-color photographs of artists at work.

“The most comprehensive volume ever published in this field.”—Choice Distributed for University of Alaska Press

2006 312 p. 81/2 x 101/2 220 color plates, 85 halftones, 2 color maps 254 Paper ISBN: 978-1-889963-82-2 $32.95 Your Price: $11.00

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Judenmord

Art and the Holocaust in Post-war Germany

Kathrin Hoffman-Curtius “A fascinating work. . . . The author brings to light the little-known works of German art made in the twenty years after the Second World War, which address the Holocaust.

Hoffman-Curtius handles both West and East Germany, explaining the denial of German guilt that stifled both countries.”—Art Newspaper Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 400 p. 71/2 x 9 3/4 200 color plates, 30 halftones 255 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-907-1 $57.00 Your Price: $17.00

Art from the First World War

Richard Slocombe Throughout World War I, the British government employed a diverse group of artists to produce a rich visual record of wartime events.

Art from the First World War contains more than 50 images by some of the most well-known British artists of the twentieth century, from the brothers John and Paul Nash to William Orpen, Stanley Spencer, and John Singer Sargent.

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2014 64 p. 7 x 81/2 illustrated throughout 256 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904897-89-7 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Portrait of the Artist

Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter, and Martin Clayton Throughout history, many of the world’s most renowned artists have made portraits to represent themselves and others. This book brings together works by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, David Hockney, and Lucian Freud.

“Spanning six centuries, the works are worthy of royalty, to be sure. . . .

[They] are infused with history— but they are also alive with personal details.”—Globe and Mail Distributed for Royal Collection Trust

2016 240 p. 81/2 x 101/2 150 color plates 257 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909741-32-4 $48.00 Your Price: $15.00

Brushstroke and Emergence

Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso

James D. Herbert “This is a succinct and elegant study that asks us to rethink what we assume we already know—the semiotics of the brushstroke. . . . For anyone who assumes they already know how to look at a painted canvas, this is essential reading.”

—Elizabeth C. Childs, Washington University in St. Louis 2015 176 p. 7 x 9 38 color plates, 4 halftones, 6 line drawings 258 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27201-6 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Today is Tomorrow

Edited by Aargauer Kunsthaus and Kunsthalle Bielefeld “Critics have lately advanced the worldwide reputation of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, a Swiss/French classic geometric artist whose reputation was marginalized. This is the foremost book on all her creative periods, and it includes more than 300 illustrations. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “This unprecedented collection of images and engaging scholarship will undoubtedly reward readers drawn to a life brimming with artistic expression that after a century remains timeless.”

—American Woodturner Distributed for Scheidegger and Spiess

2014 288 p. 91/2 x 121/2 250 color plates and 50 halftones 259 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-85881-757-0 $65.00 Your Price: $19.00

Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol

Encounters in New York and Beyond

Torsten Otte This book offers the first-ever direct juxtaposition of Dalí and Warhol as personalities and artists. Otte builds his account through perceptive analyses of similarities in their lives and work, as well as interviews with some 120 people who knew and worked with the two artists.

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2016 400 p. 7 x 91/2 40 color plates, 20 halftones 260 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-85881-774-7 $49.00 Your Price: $15.00

Henry Moore A European Impulse

Edited by Hermann Arnhold and the Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History This book showcases Moore’s most significant works, revealing themes often typified in his sculptures.

“Makes a powerful argument for the prevalence of organic abstraction, primitivism, and the vestigial remains of the figurative tradition in modern European sculpture.”

—Choice Distributed for Hirmer Publishers

2017 280 p. 91/2 x 113/4 150 color plates 261 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-2682-2 $49.95 Your Price: $17.00

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25 Women

Essays on Their Art

Dave Hickey “Throughout these trenchant essays on female artists, Hickey is characteristically incisive, challenging, and weird. . . . A surprisingly powerful piece of memoir.”

—Publishers Weekly “If you’re an artist or an art lover, this needs to be on the top of your reading list.”—Bustle

William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

Jane Taylor “This is an extraordinarily intrepid and lucid book. The fit between Taylor and Kentridge is so invigorating it may as well be unprecedented. Rarely has a major living artist found so engaged, major, and lively a commentator.”—Garrett Stewart, author of Closed Circuit 2017 165 p. 81/2 x 91/2 71 color plates, 6 halftones 262 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79120-3 $35.00 Your Price: $13.00

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.

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2015 196 p. 81/4 x 11 61 color plates 263 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-205-7 $100.00 Your Price: $23.00

Gerhard Richter Images of an Era

Edited by Uwe M. Schneede Among German painter Gerhard Richter’s best-known works are his large-scale paintings based on—and sometimes applied directly to—photographs. These paintings marked a new phase in Richter’s remarkable career. Providing new insight into these complex photo-derived works, Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era presents 50 of the artist’s works that cumulatively form an image of Richter’s Germany—its hopes and dreams, its new possibilities and memories of the oppressive past.

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2011 216 p. 8 3/4 x 11 167 color plates, 55 halftones 264 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-5001-8 $59.95 Your Price: $15.00

2016 192 p. 71/4 x 8 3/4 26 color plates, 1 halftone 265 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33315-1 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

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 2017 240 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 1 line drawing 266 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33313-7 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

Lucian Freud Portraits

Edited by Daniel Blau Lucian Freud redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny of the human form.

And while most are familiar with Freud’s thickly impasted paintings, few realize how integral etching became to his practice. Presenting an exceptional overview of Freud’s works on paper over his more than six-decade career, this oversized volume highlights the artist’s unconventional approach to the medium.

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2011 71 p. 91/2 x 11 35 color plates 267 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3971-6 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Experimental Group Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

Matthew Jesse Jackson “The most concretely informative book on the Moscow Conceptualist milieu to date. Jackson’s lucid, engaging prose further recommends his study, especially to readers seeking an introduction to Soviet unofficial art.”—Art Journal “Jackson’s access to Kabakov and familiarity with Moscow’s cultural milieu give readers a sense of direct contact with the intensely nuanced world of Moscow conceptualism. . . .

Recommended.”—Choice 2010 336 p. 81/2 x 101/2 69 color plates, 89 halftones, 1 line drawing 268 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31796-0 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

Power to the People

The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974

Geoff Kaplan “Reproduces stunning covers of radical late ’60s and early ’70s papers . . . including The Black Panther, Paul Krassner’s The Realist and the long-running Off Our Backs. This is a remarkable collection curating artifacts from the diverse worlds of feminists, leftists, technology visionaries, gays and other factions all liberated by cheap printing. . . . The powerful images Geoff Kaplan has expertly assembled are each worth an eloquent thousand words.”

—Chicago Tribune 2012 264 p. 10 x 12 700 color plates 269 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42435-4 $45.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Joy of Sets

A Short History of the Television

Chris Horrocks “Television, reveals cultural historian Horrocks in this compact chronicle, has tangled roots. . . .

Along with sets, from Baird’s 1928 ‘Noah’s Ark’ televisor to today’s ultra-thin screens, Horrocks examines the technology’s military uses, the ethical furor over content, and its uses as a symbol in art, film, and literature.”—Nature Distributed for Reaktion Books

2017 256 p. 6 x 81/4 50 color plates, 50 halftones 270 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-758-9 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

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. . . . The narrative moves quickly, yet pauses to offer extended discussions of such topics as the genesis of PBS, the establishment of CNN, the innovations of Roone Arledge at ABC, and the ways that local news helped to reshape the network evening newscasts.”—Chester Pach, Ohio University 2015 352 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 271 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47245-4 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

One More Time The Best of Mike Royko

Mike Royko “In this posthumous collection of his columns, journalist Royko displays the breezy wit that made him so beloved in the Windy City.”

—People

1999 322 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 272 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73071-4 $22.00 Your Price: $8.00

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Awake in the Dark

The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition

Roger Ebert “Roger Ebert understands how to pop the hood of a movie and tell us how it runs, while still enjoying the ride with his box of popcorn or, in some cases, a bottle of aspirin.

Awake in the Dark captures both those sides of Ebert and shows him to be a serious friend of film.”

—Steven Spielberg, on the first edition

2017 544 p. 6 x 9 273 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46086-4 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

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 2016 288 p. 6 x 9 274 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40398-4 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Herzog by Ebert

Roger Ebert Herzog by Ebert is a comprehensive collection of Ebert’s writings about the legendary director, featuring a foreword by Herzog himself.

“This excellent collection will lead readers to revisit, or experience for the first time, Herzog’s unique imagery”—Library Journal 2017 224 p. 6 x 9 275 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50042-3 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

Robert Altman In the American Grain

Frank Caso “If you want to get a complete understanding of Altman, his filmmaking style, and why his movies are so important to the history of cinema, Frank Caso’s book is a must read.”—PopMatters Distributed for Reaktion Books

2015 320 p. 6 x 8 75 halftones 276 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-522-6 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

Movies That Mattered

More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Dave Kehr “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.”

—New York Times Book Review 2017 272 p. 6 x 9 277 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-49568-2 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

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The Eddie Cantor Story A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics

David Weinstein “The history of the Jewish American community is sometimes reflected in the life of a single individual.

David Weinstein makes an excellent case that the singer, comedian, and actor Eddie Cantor was such a person. . . . The Eddie Cantor Story is a wonderful book for anyone interested in twentieth-century popular culture, Jewish history, and the ongoing drama of immigrants becoming Americans.”—Mark Cohen, author of Overweight Sensation Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2017 304 p. 61/4 x 91/4 278 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0048-3 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

From Darkness to Dynasty

The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots

Pauline Small In films from Houseboat to The Millionairess to Two Women, Sophia Loren established herself as an actress whose stardom transcended Italian film culture. Looking individually at Loren’s major films and drawing on rare archival materials in Italy, Small provides a thorough exploration of the commercial and cultural forces that combined to ensure Loren’s enduring star status.

Jerry Thornton “Once upon a time, the Patriots didn’t have Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft, or four Super Bowl rings. They were not a dynasty. They were dysfunctional.

There is nobody better than Jerry Thornton, a lifetime member of Patriots Nation, to provide this very entertaining and funny account of the hopelessness that once defined New England’s football team. . . . A must-read if you love the Patriots— or love to hate the Patriots.”

—Gary Myers, author of Brady vs.

Manning

2009 208 p. 7 x 9 10 halftones 279 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84150-234-2 $28.50 Your Price: $9.00

2016 312 p. 61/4 x 91/4 282 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-974-7 $27.95 Your Price: $9.00

Sophia Loren Moulding the Star

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We Made Uranium!

And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt

Edited by Leila Sales We Made Uranium! shares the stories behind Scav, told by participants and judges from the hunt’s more than 30-year history. The tales told here are absurd, uplifting, hilarious, and thought-provoking—and they are all one hundred percent true.

“Scav, as it is known on campus, is the college’s Rose Bowl: a mash-up of the Intel Science Talent Search, fraternity hazing, a pep rally, installation art, reality TV, and a 4-H fair.”—New Yorker 2018 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 280 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57184-3 $18.00 Your Price: $8.00

How to be a Good Lover

Edited by the Bodleian Library Written in the 1930s, How to be a Good Lover is a delightfully antiquated guide to romance. In addition to weighing in on the proper age gap, dating outside one’s class, and the etiquette of gifting, the book brims with age-old nuggets of advice, such as “don’t attempt kissing in a canoe.”

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2012 92 p. 31/2 x 41/2 19 line drawings 281 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-280-1 $11.00 Your Price: $5.00

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Wrigley Field

The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines

Stuart Shea “One of the best books ever written about the Cubs, their home and the fans who flock there to watch them, win or lose.”—Rolling Stone “Packed with colorful anecdotes that are sure to keep any Chicago history buff or baseball fan . . . glued to their bleacher seat.”

—Wrigleyville Nation 2014 448 p. 51/2 x 81/2 30 halftones, 1 map 283 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13427-7 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio’s Streak

Debunking America’s Favorite Sports Myths

Sheldon Hirsch “Hirsch is one of the shrewdest and liveliest of baseball analysts, and Hot Hands, primarily a baseball book though it deals with some basketball and football myths as well, is grist for the mill at your favorite pub. . . . Essential reading for sports fans who love to argue. Or stated a simpler way: essential reading for sports fans.”—Dallas News Distributed for ForeEdge

2017 240 p. 6 x 9 284 Paper ISBN: 978-1-5126-0063-6 $17.95 Your Price: $7.00

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More Important Than the Music A History of Jazz Discography

Bitten by the Blues The Alligator Records Story

Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts “In what is simultaneously a coming-of-age story; an elegy for a bygone, grittier Chicago; and a case study on the many ways the color barrier was crossed musically in the mid-twentieth century, Iglauer and Roberts contextualize the blues’ story as America’s.”—Booklist 2018 352 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 285 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12990-7 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

I Feel So Good

The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy

Bob Riesman “[Broonzy] was one of the most celebrated blues artists of his era, a visionary Chicago singer-songwriter who mentored Muddy Waters, introduced the music to Europe and inspired no less than Eric Clapton, Ray Davies and Pete Townshend. . . .

Riesman pieces together fragments of a hitherto under-documented life.”—Chicago Tribune 2011 366 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones 286 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71745-6 $27.50 Your Price: $8.00

Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz

Benjamin Cawthra “This first in-depth history of jazz photography provides the reader with a three-dimensional view of its fascinating subject, illuminating the music, the media, and the makers.” —Dan Morgenstern, author of Living with Jazz

Bruce D. Epperson “Traces the evolution of jazz discography from its humble beginnings as a hobbyist’s pastime and skillfully analyzes the issues confronting all discographers, past, present, and future—from plagiarism, copyright issues, and validity of sources to adaptation in the digital age.”—Allan Sutton, author of A Phonograph in Every Home 2013 304 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 290 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06753-7 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

Wherever the Sound Takes You

Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making

David Rowell “A wide-ranging exploration of the hold that music has on so many of us . . . 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.”—Kirkus 2019 248 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 291 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47755-8 $22.50 Your Price: $10.00

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

2011 392 p. 7 x 10 65 halftones 287 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09875-3 $45.00 Your Price: $11.00

2004 426 p. 6 x 91/4 292 Paper ISBN: 978-0-87451-904-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Duke Ellington’s America

Pick Up the Pieces

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. . . . An extremely intelligent and formidably documented book.”—New Yorker 2010 720 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 288 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11263-3 $43.00 Your Price: $11.00 289 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11264-0 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

Excursions in Seventies Music

John Corbett “[A] thoroughly enjoyable—and gorgeously written—joy ride down his version of 1970s memory lane. . . . Music lovers are sure to enjoy Corbett’s delightful book about a fascinating, often misunderstood time of musical innovation.”

—Booklist

2019 496 p. 6 x 9 293 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60473-2 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

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 . . . . Both scholarly and intimate . . . . Collin’s quest is never short of illuminating.”

—Observer 2018 384 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones 294 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59548-1 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Reverb Series from Reaktion Books This series explores the cultural and historical significance of music.

Peter Gabriel Global Citizen

Paul Hegarty “So much more than a biography of the Genesis founder and world music pioneer, Hegarty’s study focuses on Gabriel’s art taken as a whole, and what it tells us about being in a particular place at a particular time, be it Seventies England, Eighties New York, or the global mixing pot of Womad.”—Choice 2018 248 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 25 halftones 295 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-976-7 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

Jimi Hendrix Soundscapes

Marie-Paule Macdonald Macdonald follows Hendrix from the Pacific Northwest to the California coast to New York City, from his musical beginnings as a youth in Seattle to his launch, touring career, and up until his last weeks in London.

Crackling with the electrifying sound of explosive creativity, Jimi Hendrix explores place and space to offer fascinating new insight into Hendrix’s resounding talent.

2015 224 p. 6 x 81/4 35 halftones 296 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-530-1 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Neil Young

American Traveller

Martin Halliwell “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 boundarysmashing nature of a 50-year career that has transformed the history of North American music.”—Will Kaufman, author of Woody Guthrie, American Radical 2015 224 p. 6 x 81/4 35 halftones 297 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-531-8 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

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Robert Schumann’s Advice to Young Musicians Revisited by Steven Isserlis

Robert Schumann “Isserlis has taken Schumann’s aphorisms for young musicians and set them in a modern context from the point of view of one of today’s outstanding performers. The result is humorous, down-to-earth and quirky.”—Financial Times 2017 112 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 line drawings 298 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48274-3 $18.00 Your Price: $9.00

Robert Schumann

The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Martin Geck “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 299 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28469-9 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Beethoven’s Symphonies Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas

Martin Geck This book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as an oeuvre and of Beethoven as a symphonist. “[Offers] rich inspiration for hearing Beethoven anew.”—SWR2 Cluster, on the German edition 2017 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones 300 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45388-0 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

Beethoven for a Later Age Living with the String Quartets

Edward Dusinberre “In this brief but beguiling book, Dusinberre . . . takes us inside the complexity of [Beethoven’s] masterpieces. . . . The glimpse Dusinberre gives us of their working is fascinating.”—Telegraph 2016 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 line drawings 301 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37436-9 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

A Portrait in Four Movements

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

Andrew Patner “Patner’s brilliantly evocative writing, informed by a magical combination of knowledge, passion, and wit, is combined with his unerring ability to persuade the four great maestri to share many observations of great insight. Totally engrossing.”

—Anthony Freud, president of the Lyric Opera of Chicago 2019 272 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 302 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60991-1 $27.50 Your Price: $13.00

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Nightingales in Berlin Searching for the Perfect Sound

David Rothenberg “Intrepid, ever-curious, and creative philosophy professor, musician, and writer Rothenberg continues his unique and paradigm-altering inquiry into the music of other species. . . . Lush with literary allusions, Rothenberg’s enlightening and inspiring nightingale immersion attunes us to ‘the vast richness of natural soundscapes’ and the glory of life itself.”—Booklist 2019 184 p. 6 x 9 14 color plates, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing 303 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46718-4 $26.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Abramo Basevi “Basevi’s animated, highly opinionated writing makes for lively reading, and in documenting the views of one of the finest Italian critics of his day the book is invaluable.”—Opera 2013 304 p. 6 x 9 1 table 304 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09491-5 $59.00 Your Price: $11.00

Macbeth

Melodramma in Four Acts. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Giuseppe Verdi Verdi had a special fondness for Macbeth, and the first version of his opera based on Shakespeare’s play is arguably the most important work of his formative years. Published in three volumes, this critical edition offers the most vivid and dramatic reading to date.

2005 612 p. 101/2 x 141/2 Three-volume set.

Score (two volumes cloth); Commentary 305 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85320-8 $534.00 Your Price: $149.00

Nabucodonosor

Dramma Lirico in Four Parts by Temistocle Solera

Giuseppe Verdi Nabucodonosor, one of the early Verdi operas, is available here as a two-volume set: a full orchestral score and a critical commentary that discusses editorial decisions and identifies the sources of alternate readings of the music and libretto.

1988 674 p. 101/2 x 141/2 Two-volume set.

Score (one volume cloth); Commentary 306 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85310-9 $534.00 Your Price: $149.00

Music in the Culture of the Renaissance and Other Essays

Edward E. Lowinsky “Professor Lowinsky’s method is the only kind of ‘writing about music’ that I value.”—Igor Stravinsky

1989 1024 p. 9 x 12 Two volumes. Volume 1: xxii, 432 p.; Volume 2: viii, 562 p., 16 color plates, 10 307 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49478-4 $534.00 Your Price: $149.00

O Sing unto the Lord

A History of English Church Music

Andrew Gant “What, fundamentally, is the function of church music, and why have clerical authorities often been suspicious of how much attention music receives? Gant engages these questions in intelligent, energetic prose. . . . [This is] a book about people and the songs that many of us don’t even know that we know.”

—Publishers Weekly 2017 464 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 16 halftones, 26 line drawings 308 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46962-1 $35.00 Your Price: $13.00

Bach

Martin Geck “Geck’s fresh and penetrating portrait compels the reader.”

—Süddeutsche Zeitung Distributed for Haus Publishing

2005 176 p. 5 x 8 309 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904341-16-1 $15.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Missouri Harmony Songbook 2005 Edition

Allen D Carden, Compiled by Wings of Song The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. This updated version now contains more than 300 pages of original and traditional music.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2005 384 p. 10 x 7 10 b&w illustrations 310 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-54-6 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

Sacred Music from the Cathedral at Trent

Trent, Museo Provinciale d’Arte, Codex 1375 (olim 88)

Edited by Rebecca L. Gerber

2006 1222 p. 9 x 12 6 halftones, 1 table 311 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28809-3 $448.00 Your Price: $139.00

Masses for the Sistine Chapel

Vatican City, Biblioteca Aposotlica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina, MS 14

Edited by Richard Sherr

2010 616 p. 9 x 12 8 halftones, 7 musical examples, 5 tables 312 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75259-4 $341.00 Your Price: $119.00

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Correspondence

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

Dialogue with Death

The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War

Arthur Koestler “A self-analysis by an extraordinary psychologist who happened to be placed in a situation few human beings ever encounter.”

—New Yorker “Koestler’s harrowing memoir of his three months behind bars with the constant threat of execution inspired his iconic Darkness at Noon.

Dialogue with Death is the more lasting book for its lucid, exact, and unrelenting depiction of an imprisoned man on the verge of death.”

—Newsweek 1946 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 313 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44961-6 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Crossing

A Transgender Memoir

Deirdre N. McCloskey “This is a woman worth knowing.

She has given us a highly readable, dramatic account of her crossing.”

—New York Times Book Review “A searing tale of the traumas and rewards of gender change. . . . A powerful indictment of legal, medical, and institutional obstruction.”—Foreword Reviews

2019 320 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones 314 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66256-5 $19.00 Your Price: $9.00

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 2001, 2018 368 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftone 315 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56083-0 $18.00 Your Price: $6.00

Edited by Laurence Madeline “A triumph of scholarship. Editor Laurence Madeline provides scrupulous annotation, drawing upon memoirs, biographies, cultural histories, and other people’s letters; the book is beautifully illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, works of art, and reproductions of postcards. . . . Although both Stein and Picasso have been written about extensively, this volume is fresh, rich, and engrossing.”—Georgia Review

Critical Lives from Reaktion Books Critical Lives is a major series of short critical biographies that present the work of important cultural figures in the context of their lives. Each book is approximately 200 pages in length, includes about 30 halftones, and measures 5 x 8.

Distributed for Seagull Books

2008 390 p. 8 x 9 63 halftones 316 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-585-0 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Biographies from Haus Publishing Mark Twain Kevin J. Hayes

320 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-974-3 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Tito

Neil Barnett Inspirational partisan leader, doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow’s side, leading light in the Non Aligned Movement—this biography explores the life and death of Tito, one of the most enigmatic and influential public figures of the twentieth century.

2006 175 p. 5 x 8 317 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904950-31-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Goethe

Peter Boerner “An invitingly colorful and compact volume. . . . The newcomer to Goethe will leave Boerner’s book with a clear impression of Goethe’s personality and of the scope of his work.”—Open Letters Monthly 2013 198 p. 5 x 73/4 35 color plates, 16 halftones 318 Paper ISBN: 978-1-908323-51-4 $16.95 Your Price: $7.00

Edgar Allan Poe

Brian Morton Edgar Allan Poe stands at the very beginning of American literature, an orphaned, rootless, haunted man who in just 40 years gave short story writing its modern cast, pioneered detective fiction, and wrote some of the most memorable lyric poems in the English language. In this short biography, Brian Morton sheds light on Poe’s scandalous life and his mysterious death.

2009 192 p. 5 x 8 319 Paper ISBN: 978-1-905791-52-1 $14.95 Your Price: $7.00

William Faulkner Kirk Curnutt

321 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-998-9 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Herman Melville Kevin J. Hayes

322 2017 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-807-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Thomas Mann

Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell

323 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-081-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Victor Hugo

Bradley Stephens

324 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-084-2 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Marcel Proust Adam Watt

325 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-094-8 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Albert Camus Edward J. Hughes

326 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-493-9 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Fyodor Dostoevsky Robert Bird

327 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-900-2 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Walter Benjamin Esther Leslie

328 2007 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-343-7 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Karl Marx Paul Thomas

329 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-906-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Søren Kierkegaard Alastair Hannay

330 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-923-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Earth Sciences 27

Our Magnetic Earth

Volcanoes

Ronald T. Merrill “Part science, part history of science, and part personal experience, Our Magnetic Earth seamlessly draws together a variety of seemingly unrelated topics—from climate to space weather to geologic time to the Sun—under the grand heading of magnetism. . . . Ultimately, we come away from this book understanding both much, much more about magnetism and about the importance of scientific literacy in today’s society.”—Bruce Moskowitz, University of Minnesota

David M. Pyle In these pages, anonymous seventeenth-century seafarers tell of exploding islands, Alexander Von Humboldt and Charles Darwin show us volcanoes through the eyes of developing science, and artists sketch the spectacular London sunsets created by the eruption of Krakatoa, half the world away.

The Science of Geomagnetism

2010 272 p. 6 x 9 7 line drawings, 26 halftones 331 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52050-6 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00 332 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00659-8 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

Ice

The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance

Mariana Gosnell “By the time you finish this remarkable book . . . you’ll never think about freezing and melting in quite the same way.”—New York Times “There’s a lot of good, hard science here . . . and a lot of gripping human-interest stuff about ice fishermen cracking through Minnesota lakes and explorers’ ships crushed in polar sea ice.”—Washington Post 2005, 2007 576 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 33 line drawings 333 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30496-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Earth Series from Reaktion Books The Earth series is the first of its kind to trace the historical significance and cultural history of natural phenomena and resources.

Comets

P. Andrew Karam 2017 224 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 334 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-830-2 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Rainbows

Daniel MacCannell 2018 208 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 90 color plates, 10 halftones 335 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-920-0 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Clouds

Richard Hamblyn 2017 240 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 336 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-723-7 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Swamp

Anthony Wilson 2018 248 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 337 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-844-9 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Encounters through the Ages

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2017 224 p. 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 83 color plates 338 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-459-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

A New Map of Wonders

A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels

Caspar Henderson “Henderson mines the cosmos for wondrous phenomena, from light to transformative technologies. We veer from Saturn’s moon Enceladus—spraying water into space through cracks in its ice sheath—to the human embryo, which at eighteen days resembles ‘a tiny jam sandwich.’ Strung through Henderson’s virtuosic meditations on such marvels is an exploration of felt wonder.”—Nature 2017 368 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 339 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29191-8 $29.00 Your Price: $13.00

Invisible

The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen

Philip Ball “Ball leads us on a very fun, largely chronological journey through invisibility, beginning with myth and early magicians, ending with quantum physics, and stopping along the way at Newton, Leibniz, microscopy, photography, spiritualism, B movies, and science fiction.

He is lucid and interesting on every topic he touches, from the ghost in Hamlet to those unseen extra dimensions posited by string theory.”—New Yorker

2015 322 p. 6 x 9 62 halftones, 8 line drawings 340 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37825-1 $18.00 Your Price: $8.00

Walden Warming

Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods

Richard B. Primack “Determined to help the public understand global warming, Primack decided to search for evidence of climate change in Concord, Massachusetts, home of Walden Pond, made famous by pioneering environmentalist Henry David Thoreau. . . . Primack shares striking tales from the field and elucidates from an unnervingly closeto-home perspective the dynamics and impact of climate change on plants, birds, and myriad other species, including us.”—Booklist 2014 264 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 341 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68268-6 $26.00 Your Price: $8.00

Gems and Gemstones

Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World

Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn “Displays beautiful gemstones (cut and uncut) and explains the geography and science behind their creation. Photos of creations such as the Aztec ‘Sun-god Opal’ . . . show just how long gems have retained their hold on the human imagination.”—Seattle Times 2009 352 p. 81/2 x 10 290 color plates, 7 line drawings, 5 tables 342 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30511-0 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00

Climate of Alaska

Martha Shulski and Gerd Wendler Replete with striking photos, maps, and charts, The Climate of Alaska presents a detailed picture of what to expect in this state of climate extremes, from the 40-below temperatures of the Interior to the 24 hours of daylight in a northern summer.

Distributed for University of Alaska Press 2007 208 p. 6 x 9 82 color plates, maps, and graphs 343 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-007-1 $21.95 Your Price: $8.00

Relics

Travels in Nature’s Time Machine

Piotr Naskrecki “Embedded in this showcase book of exotic plants and animals is a plea to preserve what’s left of the planet’s evolutionary history.”—Seattle Times 2011 384 p. 91/4 x 91/4 414 color plates 344 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56870-6 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

Curiosity

How Science Became Interested in Everything

Philip Ball “Curiosity emerges as a first-rate popular account of how science in Europe began. . . . 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 345 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04579-5 $35.00 Your Price: $8.00

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Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids

Christian Ziegler “Pairs gorgeous photographs by former biologist Christian Ziegler with a fascinating story of evolution and survival.”—Boston Globe “Ziegler captures these sex symbols of the plant world in 150 portraits taken on five continents in environments ranging from tropical cloud forest to semidesert.”

—Scientific American

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. 5 3/4 x 71/2 200 color plates 346 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-45536-5 $18.00 Your Price: $9.00

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 347 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53166-3 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

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 2014 224 p. 7 x 9 150 color plates 348 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13976-0 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

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2011 184 p. 11 x 11 165 color plates 349 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-98297-7 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Orchid

A Cultural History

Jim Endersby “An orchid thriller. Orchids are beautiful, strange, savage, sexy, mysterious, luxurious and expensive rarities. Endersby traces the history of our scientific understanding of orchids, and their culture, from the Greeks to present orchid enthusiasts.”—Stephen Buchmann, author of The Reason for Flowers 2016 288 p. 61/14 x 91/14 15 color plates, 45 halftones 350 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37632-5 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Gardening with Perennials

Lessons from Chicago’s Lurie Garden

Noel Kingsbury “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-oftowner to realize that the dazzling, gently rolling five-acre Lurie Garden in Millennium Park merited booklength attention.”—New York Times 2014 216 p. 5 3/4 x 71/2 86 color plates, 1 line drawing 351 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43745-3 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

Lessons from the Great Gardeners

Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us

Matthew Biggs “The book’s quirky capsule histories of 40 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 352 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36948-8 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

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 2016 176 p. 81/2 x 11 100 color plates, 100 halftones 353 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36934-1 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

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. 6 3/4 x 91/2 186 color plates, 12 halftones 354 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22435-0 $35.00 Your Price: $13.00

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. 9 3/4 x 11 204 color plates 355 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36691-3 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

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 2014 304 p. 61/4 x 91/4 350 color plates 356 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20491-8 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

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New York City Gardens

Veronika Hofer and Betsy Pinover Schiff “In New York City Gardens, Veronika Hofer and Betsy Pinover Schiff offer up a visually inviting respite from the city of steel, glass, concrete and asphalt. . . . An ambrosial paean to public and private spaces.”—New York Times “Unexpectedly marvelous.”

—English Garden Distributed for Hirmer Publishers

2010 240 p. 10 x 113/4 190 color plates 357 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-2751-5 $24.90 Your Price: $10.00

Chicago Gardens The Early History

Cathy Jean Maloney “From the boasting by its founders in 1833 that Chicago would be an ‘urbs in horto’ (or ‘city in a garden’) to the aftermath of the Century of Progress Exposition in 1933–34, Chicago Gardens traces Chicago’s coming of age as a center of horticulture, gardening and conservation.”—Robert E. Grese, Director, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum 2008 464 p. 7 x 10 11 color plates, 166 halftones 358 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50234-2 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

The Botanical Series from Reaktion Books The Botanical series integrates horticultural and botanical writing with a broader account of the cultural and social impact of trees, plants, and flowers.

Cannabis Chris Duvall

2015 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 359 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-341-3 $27.00 Your Price: $8.00

Rhododendron Richard Milne

2017 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 360 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-815-9 $27.00 Your Price: $8.00

Sunflowers

Stephen A. Harris 2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 80 color plates, 20 halftones 361 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-926-2 $27.00 Your Price: $8.00

Rose

Catherine Horwood 2018 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 80 color plates, 20 halftones 362 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-013-2 $27.00 Your Price: $8.00

Life Sciences 29

Wonders of the Plant Kingdom A Microcosm Revealed

Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, and Madeline Harley “The pseudocolored electron micrographs that grace the pages of this striking book reveal the dazzling array of adaptations in the plant kingdom. Featuring a wide range of seeds, spores, fruits, and pollen, the accompanying text offers a straightforward primer on plant reproduction as well as a discussion of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ efforts to protect plant biodiversity.”—Science 2015 160 p. 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 250 color plates 363 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-21592-1 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

A World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity

David Liittschwager “Thanks to photographer David Liittschwager, we now have a visual inkling of what exactly lives high in the cloud forest canopy, below our feet in the parks, in the sediments of rivers and on coral reefs. . . . What was found even in fairly nondescript places was wondrous.”

—Observer (UK) 2012 224 p. 12 x 12 985 color plates 364 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48123-4 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Plant Evolution

An Introduction to the History of Life

Karl J. Niklas “In a true tour de force, Niklas assays the mechanisms and patterns of evolution, from molecules to ecosystems, using plants as examples.

Must-reading for plant scientists, 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 365 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34214-6 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Legends of the Flowers

Janet Hepworth Legends of the Flowers explores the captivating stories behind some of our most popular flowers, such as lavender, forget-me-nots, marigolds, and thistles. With 34 charming woodcut illustrations alongside the text, the book is perfect for gardeners and anyone interested in celebrating the natural beauty of flowers.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group

2015 96 p. 51/2 x 71/2 34 halftones 366 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910065-83-9 $16.95 Your Price: $7.00

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A Year with Nature An Almanac

Marty Crump “Herpetologist and natural-science writer Crump joins up with illustrator McIvor to provide a year’s worth of nature diversions for thoughtful readers. Oriented around the dailyalmanac format but easily enjoyed beyond that, and far too quirky to be deemed encyclopedic (the maternal sacrifice of the Australian social spider serves as the Mother’s Day entry), this volume covers a vast number of topics. . . . An artful presentation of science and history that manages to beguile and amuse on every page.”—Booklist 2018 384 p. 6 x 9 150 halftones 367 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44970-8 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

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. Less easily anthropomorphized species, fungi and bacteria, come in for their own share of behavioral observation.”

—Boston Globe 2009 232 p. 6 x 9 120 line drawings 368 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12185-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Nature’s Palette

The Science of Plant Color

David Lee “Lee does a masterful job in explaining the science underlying the colors produced by plants, and in doing so shows how they both illuminate and enrich our lives. No trip to the grocery store, the florist, or even out your front door will be the same after reading this book.”

—N. Michele Holbrook, Harvard University 2007 432 p. 6 x 9 438 color plates, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings 369 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47052-8 $38.00 Your Price: $13.00

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How Animals Grieve

Barbara J. King “Poignant, thoughtful, and sometimes heartbreaking. King once again elevates the discussion of animal emotion. She tackles a tricky subject with a scientist’s care and an animal lover’s grace.”

—Jennifer Holland, author of Unlikely Friendships 2013 208 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 373 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43694-4 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

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 Reviews 2017 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 370 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28719-5 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Puzzle of Left-handedness

Rik Smits “There is a ‘whiff of negativity’ around left-handedness, admits the science journalist and left-hander Rik Smits in this fascinating study of the phenomenon. . . . Popular legends about left-handedness—and left vs. right in general—are scarcely less virulent, and Smits dispatches them entertainingly and ably.”

—Sunday Times Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 81 halftones 371 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-043-6 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

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

2016 344 p. 6 x 9 81 halftones, 64 line drawings 372 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38103-9 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

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Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

Barbara J. King “This thoughtful book is not about whether we ‘should’ or ‘shouldn’t’ eat meat. . . . King looks at the range of values surrounding farming and feasting, and at who we are considering eating. But King also shows that different approaches to meat and to animal farming can be viewed through different lenses, giving us a richer understanding.”

—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words 2017 224 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 374 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-19518-6 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Phoenix Zones

Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives

Hope Ferdowsian, MD “Human and nonhuman animal rights activist Dr. Hope Ferdowsian has witnessed the horrific effects of brutality directed at both. Phoenix Zones are sanctuaries throughout the earth that extraordinary people have created to allow these dignified human and nonhuman victims to reclaim their lives. An acute observer of all animals, human and nonhuman, Hope’s fine prose and deftly drawn portraits allow us to understand how we can not only support these Phoenix Zones, but create a world in which they become obsolete.”—Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project 2018 224 p. 6 x 9 375 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47593-6 $22.50 Your Price: $9.00

The Origin of the World Science and Fiction of the Vagina

Jelto Drenth “A highly satisfactory collection . . . [includes] fascinating accounts of the physiology of vaginal response, thoughtful readings of literature, films, and works of art, and a surprising range of trivia. The erudite book displays a brisk and slightly demented sense of humor.”—Village Voice “A wise and sympathetic view. . . .

Drenth’s book is full of intriguing anecdotes both personal and historical.”—Rachel Maines, author of The Technology of the Orgasm Distributed for Reaktion Books

2004 304 p. 6 3/10 x 94 /9 34 halftones 376 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-406-9 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Foundations of Macroecology

Classic Papers with Commentaries

Edited by Felisa A. Smith, John L. Gittleman, and James H. Brown “The pieces that have been selected are truly important, and there’s a roster of terrific scientists who have written informatively, sometimes even passionately, about the inspiration these papers provide.”

—Jeremy T. Kerr, University of Ottawa 2014 824 p. 61/2 x 91/2 1 halftone, 252 line drawings, 90 tables 377 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11547-4 $55.00 Your Price: $17.00

The Peregrine Returns

The Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor Recovery

Mary Hennen with Peggy Macnamara “Celebrates the renewal of North American peregrine populations, particularly in Illinois, after a perilous decline that resulted from eggshell thinning triggered by a DDT byproduct. . . . Macnamara’s vibrant watercolor-and-ink works are both precise and dreamy, and they pair beautifully with Hennen’s thoughtful, detailed text.”—American Scientist 2017 208 p. 6 x 9 159 color plates 378 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46542-5 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

Snowbird

Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco

Edited by Ellen D. Ketterson and Jonathan W. Atwell “Snowbird is focused on a songbird that has become a workhorse for integrative long-term research: the dark-eyed junco. . . . However, this book is much more than an exploration of a particular bird: it is an authoritative example of how to do integrative biology thoroughly, and thoroughly well.”—Evolution

2015 416 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables 379 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33077-8 $60.00 Your Price: $19.00

Costa Rican Ecosystems

Edited by Maarten Kappelle “Here it is—the book about the tiny country in Latin America with probably the most intensively studied ecosystems in the tropics.

Summarizing all facets of the interesting natural history gained from decades of intensive field research in a country as diverse as its name promises is a difficult task to tackle.

Nevertheless, combined efforts of over 70 contributing authors manages to introduce the reader to all Costa Rican ecosystems in ten parts.”—Biotropica 2015 744 p. 81/2 x 11 244 color plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables 380 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27893-3 $65.00 Your Price: $19.00

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Fishes of the Open Ocean

A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Julian Pepperell “In this gorgeous book, ichthyologist Pepperell introduces famous and lesser-known fish to the general reader. Part One describes the general environment of the open ocean, the role the fish play in the ecology, their general biology, and their importance to humans as sport or food fish. Part Two is a guide to the fish—and what fish these are! How many of us know that a blue marlin can weigh over 1,800 pounds? Also covered are mackerels, jacks, sharks, rays, and other lesser-known species.”

—Booklist 2010 272 p. 9 x 11 370 color plates 381 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65539-0 $35.00 Your Price: $15.00

Seahorses

A Life-Size Guide to Every Species

Sara A. Lourie “This guide covers every one of the 42 known species of seahorses, plus 15 additional relatives, including the seadragon. In addition to beautiful color photographs of all but the rarest species, the descriptions nicely summarize what is known about the distribution, reproduction, and identifying characters of each. The really striking feature, however, is an elegantly simple one: inclusion of a life-sized shadow/silhouette of each species.”—Choice 2016 160 p. 6 x 73/4 100 color plates 382 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33841-5 $30.00 Your Price: $15.00

Wild Sea

A History of the Southern Ocean

Joy McCann “A sensitive portrait of a complex ecosystem, from krill to blue whales, and of the ice, winds, and currents that are critical to the circulation of the world’s oceans.”—Harper’s “[McCann] successfully conveys the timeless mystery of the Southern Ocean and how it has figured in human history, adding a poet’s touch to many passages.”—Science 2019 256 p. 6 x 9 9 color plates, 8 halftones, and 8 maps 383 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62238-5 $28.00 Your Price: $13.00

Planet of Microbes

The Perils and Potential of Earth’s Essential Life Forms

Ted Anton “The story of microbes comes to life through vignettes about the eccentric and inquisitive scientists who study them. Anton takes the reader on a romping tour of microbial research, from astrobiology to zoology, and leaves us with a new respect for these tiny creatures.”

—Brooke Borel, author of Infested

2017 288 p. 6 x 9 384 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35394-4 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

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Microbes from Hell

Patrick Forterre “This is history told by a scientist who helped to make it. . . . His book walks the reader through his fascinating journey to understand how life evolved. Today, Forterre believes that viruses played a vital part. Microbes from Hell, in interweaving a scientific life with the grand discovery of the archaea, is a wonderful homage to this exciting field, which continues to challenge our view of life’s origins.”—Nature

2016 288 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones 385 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-26582-7 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

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. . . . A masterpiece.”

—Guardian 2018 416 p. 6 x 9 80 halftones, 3 line drawings 386 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56052-6 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Fishing Lessons

Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans

Kevin M. Bailey “A small book with an urgent plea for readers, seafood consumers, and society in general to pay more attention to the challenges faced by artisanal fisheries, where much of the fish used for human consumption is caught. . . . Fishing Lessons makes a good case for abandoning current practices and policies that marginalize artisanal fisheries and disrupt fishing jobs and communities all over the world.”—Science 2018 224 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 9 line drawings 387 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30745-9 $24.00 Your Price: $10.00

What Is a Dog?

Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger “There are about a billion dogs on Earth, according to some estimates.

The other 750 million don’t have flea collars. And they certainly don’t have humans who take them for walks and pick up their feces.

They are called village dogs, street dogs and free-breeding dogs, among other things, and they haunt the garbage dumps and neighborhoods of most of the world. . . . [The Coppingers] argue that if you really want to understand the nature of dogs, you need to know these other animals.”—New York Times 2016 272 p. 6 x 9 17 color plates, 13 halftones, 4 line drawings 388 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12794-1 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

How Dogs Work

Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein “Almost everything you think you know about dogs is wrong. Forget the loyal companion stereotype, or the idea you’ve got to show you’re the alpha of the pack. Ethologists Coppinger and Feinstein present this most familiar of animals in a new objective light, analyzing their anatomy and behavior with science rather than sentimentality.”

—Discover

2015 224 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables 389 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12813-9 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

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 “An expertly crafted and enjoyable personal journey that transforms the complicated topics of phenology and climate change. The book engages everyone with something accessible, tangible, and actionable.”

—Mark D. Schwartz, editor of Phenology 2018 240 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 390 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34813-1 $20.00 Your Price: $9.00

Environmental Law for Biologists

Tristan Kimbrell “Will be an invaluable reference not just for biologists, but for all sorts of people who want a lucid, concise introduction to environmental law and to the crucial and pressing public policy issues that arise at the intersection of science and law.”

—Amy Sinden, Temple University Beasley School of Law

2015 384 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 1 table 391 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33385-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

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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

The Book of Caterpillars A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World

Edited by David G. James “Lovely images are accompanied by two-tone engravings of caterpillar adults, a population distribution map, and details about their natural history and conservation. . . . [An] in-depth and scientifically accurate examination.”—Donovan’s Literary Services 2017 656 p. 81/2 x 101/2 2400 color plates 392 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28736-2 $55.00 Your Price: $17.00

Rainbow Dust

Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight

Peter Marren “A prizewinning British wildlife writer reveals the special place of butterflies in our imagination and cultural life. . . . This is not a field guide or a natural history but rather a celebration of butterflies with a note of sadness over the decline of these creatures. . . . An erudite, engaging book.”—Kirkus 2016 320 p. 6 x 9 18 line drawings 393 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39588-3 $30.00 Your Price: $8.00

Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Spiders

Christopher M. Buddle and Eleanor Spicer Rice “Spicer Rice makes complex topics easy to understand with minimal jargon. The species descriptions seem like stories about eccentric and entertaining relatives.”—Wired 2017 80 p. 6 x 8 72 color plates 394 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33225-3 $20.00 Your Price: $8.00

Planet of the Bugs

Evolution and the Rise of Insects

Scott Richard Shaw “This succinct but vivid history of the planet is told from the perspective of insects, which have dominated the terrestrial environment for millions of years. It is a humbling perspective, one that puts us well and truly in our place. . . . Shaw writes with a contagious enthusiasm and is an excellent guide to the history of our buggy planet.”—Guardian 2014 256 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 31 halftones 395 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16361-1 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

2016 520 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones 396 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04064-6 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Bear Wrangler

Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Will Troyer In this absorbing tale, Will Troyer vividly recounts his career as a wildlife biologist working in the last vestiges of American wilderness.

Troyer’s engaging prose affirms his passionate connection to the natural world, as he describes adventures such as being in the midst of a herd of 40,000 caribou.

Distributed for University of Alaska Press

2010 256 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 397 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-044-6 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Into Brown Bear Country

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 (most in color), and measures 5½ x 7½.

Zebra

Christopher Plumb and Samuel Shaw

400 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-935-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Hippopotamus Edgar Williams

401 2017 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-732-9 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Leopard

Desmond Morris

402 2014 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-279-9 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Rhinoceros Kelly Enright

403 2008 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-374-1 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Fox

Martin Wallen

Will Troyer Bears are North America’s most complex and controversial predator, both loved and hated for their majesty and power. Will Troyer’s introduction to the natural history of Alaska’s brown bears is both enchanting and informative, told with the objectivity of a biologist, the resonant voice of an outdoorsman who has spent decades in bear society, and breathtaking photography.

404 2006 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-297-3 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

2005 152 p. 8 x 10 color photos 398 Paper ISBN: 978-1-889963-72-3 $24.95 Your Price: $9.00

407 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-877-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

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Recent Mammals of Alaska

Stephen O. MacDonald and Joseph A. Cook Biologists Stephen O. MacDonald and Joseph A. Cook have compiled the first comprehensive guide to all of Alaska’s 115 mammal species.

Detailed entries for each species include distribution and taxonomic information, status, habitat, and fossil history. Appendices include quick reference listings of mammal distribution by region, specimen locations, conservation status, and the incidence of Pleistocene mammals.

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2009 399 p. 7 x 10 110 maps, 50 line drawings 399 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-072-9 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

Moose

Kevin Jackson

405 2009 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-396-3 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Beaver

Rachel Poliquin

406 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-423-6 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Trout

James Owen

Lobster

Richard J. King

408 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-795-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Shark

Dean Crawford

409 2008 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-325-3 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Sardine Trevor Day

410 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-996-5 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Bedbug

Klaus Reinhardt

411 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-973-6 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Beetle

Adam Dodd

412 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-488-5 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

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The Paper Zoo

500 Years of Animals in Art

Charlotte Sleigh “In her scholarly and sprightly Paper Zoo, historian of science Sleigh tracks pictures of animals from medieval bestiaries to early twentieth-century school posters. . . .

There are plenty of masterpieces here, from gorgeous illustrations of sea anemones and delightful black and white monkeys to ‘borderline animals’ (half-imaginary, half real).”—Wall Street Journal 2017 256 p. 91/2 x 11 250 color plates 413 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44712-4 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

History & Philosophy of Science 33

The Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

Michael Bliss “This concise, eloquent, and elegant volume is brimming with important insights and exciting ideas. It is the perfect introduction for anyone who hopes to understand the modern history of medical discovery and its impact on contemporary society.”

—Howard Markel, author of The Anatomy of Addiction 2010 112 p. 51/2 x 81/2 26 halftones 418 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05901-3 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

A General History of Quadrupeds

Risky Medicine

Thomas Bewick First published in 1790, A General History of Quadrupeds features engravings of over 400 animals alongside descriptions of their characteristics as scientifically understood at the time.

Robert Aronowitz “Americans have the most advanced (and expensive) health care—but not the best health. Science and sociology historian 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

The Figures Engraved on Wood

2009 544 p. 6 x 9 200 line drawings 414 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-04480-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Dancing Bees

Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Tania Munz “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 415 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02086-0 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Haeckel’s Embryos

Images, Evolution, and Fraud

Nick Hopwood “Sumptuous. . . . Hopwood’s excellent, thought-provoking book makes us ponder how these erroneous illustrations acquired their iconic status, and, above all, it shines a spotlight on the power of drawings to influence our thinking.”—New Scientist 2015 392 p. 81/2 x 11 202 color plates, 2 tables 416 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04694-5 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Body by Darwin

How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine

Jeremy Taylor “Taylor, a science writer and former BBC producer and director, celebrates the work of Charles Darwin and his successors in this densely packed survey of modern ailments with an evolutionary twist. . . .

Covers fascinating territory.”

—Publishers Weekly 2015 304 p. 6 x 9 417 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05988-4 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty

2015 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 419 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04971-7 $26.00 Your Price: $7.00

Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache?

Medical Advice from 1769

William Buchan Bringing together an exceedingly entertaining selection of entries from one of the earliest self-help books, William Buchan’s 1769 Domestic Medicine, this book offers fascinating insight into the popular treatments of the time—remedies such as administering urine to your ears or drinking a broth made from sheep’s brains.

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2012 208 p. 5 x 8 26 line drawings 420 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-382-2 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages Edited by Daniel Wakelin and compiled by students of the University of Oxford In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries, and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some were sensible herbal cures, many were wildly inventive. Full of embarrassing ailments, painful procedures, and icky ingredients, this book selects some of the most revolting and remarkable remedies from medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2017 112 p. 41/4 x 7 421 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-476-8 $17.50 Your Price: $7.00

The Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Laura Dassow Walls “By recovering the excitement of Humboldtian explorations and travel experiences, Walls wins back Humboldt for the 21st century. . . . Walls reclaims for the present a man whose personality and work had a formative influence on the cultural landscape of antebellum America and whose legacy may to good effect be used in addressing current affairs. . . . A fine piece of Humboldt scholarship, a heartfelt plea for environmental holism, and an enjoyable read.”—Science

2009 424 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones 422 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-87182-0 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Michael R. Canfield “Canfield . . . mines Theodore Roosevelt’s writings to provide a well-written and engaging perspective on the 26th US president.

Canfield’s focus is on Roosevelt’s hunting and collecting expeditions, but he also provides important details of Roosevelt’s personal life, contextualizing his passion for hunting and exploring.”—Publishers Weekly “Canfield argues that Roosevelt’s obsession with the natural world was genuine, serious and scholarly.”

—Literary Review 2015 472 p. 6 x 9 108 color plates, 1 line drawing 423 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29837-5 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Visions of Science

Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age

James A. Secord “Elegantly written, Secord’s Visions of Science provides its readers with fresh insights into the turbulent decade around 1830, when science was changing from a ‘relatively esoteric pursuit’ into one that would have a huge impact on ‘the everyday life of all men and women.’”—Science 2015 256 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 23 halftones 424 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20328-7 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

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How We See the Sky

A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

Thomas Hockey “If you’ve ever wondered about the phases of the moon or the movements of the planets, or wondered why Polaris—the North Star— appears stationary, you can find that information and much more packed in here.”—Wall Street Journal 2011 224 p. 6 x 9 66 halftones 429 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34577-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Cosmos

An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology

John North “This is a suitably monumental book about the biggest subject of all: the cosmos. . . . This remarkable work brings together the global history, theories, people and technologies of astronomy to tell a story that ‘has very few intellectual parallels in the whole of human history.’”

—Guardian 2008 736 p. 7 x 10 21 color plates, 201 halftones, 73 line drawings 425 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59441-5 $52.00 Your Price: $17.00

Time Travel and Warp Drives

A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space

Allen Everett and Thomas Roman “Einstein meets Captain Kirk in this improbable foray into the frontiers of theoretical physics, where readers survey the exciting possibilities for traveling through time and between galaxies. . . . Armchair scientists share the thrill of peeking into the universe’s deepest secrets.

Penetrating science illuminates humankind’s most audacious dreams.”—Booklist 2011 280 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones, 9 line drawings 426 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22498-5 $30.00 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 this tough but informative primer to modern cosmology. Aside from revealing the science behind the sun, black holes and dark matter, the Garfinkles demonstrate how science develops. . . . [A] smart, rewarding read.”—Publishers Weekly 2008 280 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones 427 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28346-3 $28.00 Your Price: $10.00

428 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28348-7 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

Secrets of the Universe How We Discovered the Cosmos

Paul Murdin “This is a storyteller’s history of astronomy, constructed like a collection of short stories that invites readers to delve in at any point.

Murdin approaches each subject with passion, insight, and explanations that make the most complex topics—relativity, gravitation, cosmology—not just accessible, but completely absorbing.”—Ad Astra 2009 342 p. 10 5/8 x 8 3/8 400 color plates 430 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-55143-2 $49.00 Your Price: $13.00

Galaxy

Mapping the Cosmos

James Geach “A beautifully illustrated exploration of the Universe beyond the Milky Way and the mysteries and wonders of extragalactic astronomy.

Geach is ideally placed to be our guide on this journey—a researcher in the fast-changing field of galaxy evolution, he displays both breadth and depth of knowledge, happily matched by a talent for engaging, nontechnical prose and an eye for a simile.”—Sky at Night Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books

2014 256 p. 71/2 x 94 /5 100 color plates 431 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-363-5 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

On Sunspots

Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner “An excellent addition. . . . Makes available important works that are relatively inaccessible in their original edition and have never been fully translated into English.”

— Maurice Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2010 432 p. 6 x 9 108 halftones, 2 line drawings 432 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70716-7 $52.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Moon

Bill Leatherbarrow “Leatherbarrow’s energetic narrative tells the familiar story of the leaps science has made in seeing this nextdoor neighbor clearly.”—Christian Science Monitor Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 184 p. 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 45 color plates, 45 halftones 433 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-914-9 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

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Cracking the Einstein Code

Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics

Fulvio Melia “A wonderful, touching book about the life and work of one of the great unsung heroes of physics, Roy Kerr, the New Zealander who, in 1963, extracted from Einstein’s scarily complex equations of gravity an exact description for a real-life, ‘spinning’ black hole.”—New Scientist 2009 150 p. 6 x 9 54 halftones 434 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51951-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

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 centre of ‘megascience’. . . . Will be of interest to anyone curious about science and science policy, as well as those who want a better understanding of what it is like to perform large-scale research in high-energy particle physics.”—Physics World 2008 520 p. 6 x 9 65 halftones, 12 line drawings 435 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34624-3 $37.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Papers of Donald E. Knuth Distributed for the Center for the Study of Language and Information Knuth is one of the world’s preeminent computer scientists, whose works have had a profound influence on the subject.

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms 2010 453 p. 6 x 9 436 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-582-9 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Digital Typography

1998 685 p. 6 x 9 437 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-010-7 $40.95 Your Price: $10.00

Selected Papers on Computer Languages 2003 610 p. 6 x 9 438 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-382-5 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms 2000 540 p. 6 x 9 439 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-212-5 $45.00 Your Price: $10.00

Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics 2003 828 p. 6 x 9 50 line drawings 440 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-248-4 $40.00 Your Price: $10.00

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The Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don’t Sue

David M. Engel “[Engel] presents an exceptionally clear and compelling explanation of why most injurers are never asked to pay compensation for the harm they have inflicted on others—and why most injury victims never receive justice. In showing how and why this happens, he also offers us a way to change it.”—Former US Congressman Henry Waxman 2016 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 figures, 1 table 441 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30504-2 $24.00 Your Price: $7.00

Why the Law Is So Perverse

Leo Katz “Katz wisely peppers his puzzles with humor, jokes, mini-plays, and thoughtful warnings of difficult passages to come (along with welcome invitations to skip ahead) that temper this otherwise demanding volume and make following the twists and turns of the argument well worth the challenge.”

—Boston Globe 2011 256 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 442 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00581-2 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Tell

Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights

Major Margaret Witt “Margaret Witt’s moving and inspirational story of how she took on the US military and won is a powerful testament to how regular people can help achieve extraordinary results. Witt gives the reader a poignant insider’s perspective on the legal case that was crucial in building momentum to send Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to the dustbin of this country’s history.”—Marc Solomon, author of Winning Marriage Distributed for ForeEdge

2017 288 p. 61/4 x 91/4 443 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-842-9 $27.95 Your Price: $9.00

Attorney for the Damned Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Clarence Darrow “Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced.

All of Darrow’s most celebrated pleas are here. . . . The ghastly comedy of his deadpan interrogation of William Jennings Bryan on the origin of man in the Scopes case is particularly recommended.”

—New Yorker 1957, 1989, 2012 576 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 444 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13650-9 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Confident Pluralism

Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference

John D. Inazu “It is abundantly clear that we have become a deeply divided country. . . . This country no longer has one clear majority. Inazu explores the ways Americans can live together peaceably despite these deeply ingrained differences.”

—​Minneapolis Star Tribune

2016 176 p. 6 x 9 445 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36545-9 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Tzvetan Todorov Tzvetan Todorov argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect.

“Fascinating and important. . . .

Now, of all times, there is a need for cool heads, such as Todorov, who approaches the limits of free speech with admirable dexterity.”

—New York Review of Books 2010 248 p. 6 x 9 446 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80575-7 $27.50 Your Price: $7.00

Anarchism

Seán Sheehan “[Sheehan] has produced an elegant and readable introduction to many kinds of modern counter-cultural thought.”—Guardian “[Anarchism] makes many important points with admirable clarity, and opens up areas of debate. It is a charming, well-produced work, whose author is clearly excited by anarchist actions.”

—Anarchistic Studies Distributed for Reaktion Books

2004 176 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 447 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-169-3 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America James T. Schleifer “Virtually everything one needs to know about Democracy, including a taste for Tocqueville’s prose, is included in this fine companion.”—Michael Kammen, Cornell University

2012 216 p. 6 x 9 448 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73704-1 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769 William Blackstone

2002 1942 p. 6 x 9 4 Volumes, slipcased 449 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05547-3 $324.00 Your Price: $129.00

The Polarizers

Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

Sam Rosenfeld “We live in a polarized nation, and we vote in polarized elections. Sam Rosenfeld, in his excellent The Polarizers, shows us how we got here. . . . Rosenfeld has produced a smart, fine-grained, and thorough analysis of one of the most consequential changes in modern American politics.”—Journal of American History

2018 336 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 450 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40725-8 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

Secular Faith

How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

Mark A. Smith “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 451 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27506-2 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

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 “The Politics of Petulance joins an impressive array of books and essays that may, someday, have a future intellectual historian using them as examples to lament the fact that his or her contemporaries are not as eloquent or important as the group that arose in the Trump era to combat the threats to our way of life.”

—New York Times Book Review 2018 224 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 table 452 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-55516-4 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

36 Education & Social Sciences

Parenting to a Degree

Flavor and Soul

Laura T. Hamilton “Parenting beyond the age of eighteen matters more than ever because how parents approach their children’s undergraduate years shapes the life chances of young adults, and can set them on markedly different trajectories. But what this study also reveals is the extent to which universities depend, in part, on the availability of parental support and labour to ensure that students successfully complete their degrees.”

—Times Higher Education

John Gennari “In this thought-provoking, academic, yet often lively study, Gennari explores the intersections between African-American and Italian-American culture. . . .

Whether he’s discussing the relationship between Italian-American basketball coaches and Black players or the importance of food to both cultures, Gennari shows that despite tensions between them, Black and Italian-Americans have much in common and understand one another better than many outsiders realize.”—Publishers Weekly

How Family Matters for College Women’s Success

The Adjunct Underclass

How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Herb Childress “A heartbreaking indictment of American higher education.”

—Wall Street Journal “The Adjunct Underclass is a competent guide to academia, deconstructing and unpacking confusing jargon, interrogating the problems of faculty contingency, and urging us to center values that will guide us toward fairer treatment of faculty.

The book drives the conversation about the exploitation of academic labor forward in a meaningful and accessible way.”—Science 2019 208 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 23 tables 453 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49666-5 $24.00 Your Price: $11.00

American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education

Paul H. Mattingly “[Mattingly’s] history extends beyond developments at individual institutions to examine the wider intellectual, political, and social milieu that shaped academic cultures at various times in U.S. history. . . . A comprehensive analysis of the academic cultures that shaped American higher education from the colonial period to the present.”

—Journal of American History 2017 464 p. 6 x 9 2 tables 454 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-50526-8 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

Edited by Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel, and Mike Wright “This is an important, timely volume—the definitive resource for research university leaders and staff, whose institutions are stepping up and pushing academic entrepreneurship to ever greater heights in service of our citizenry.”—Nancy L. Zimpher, chancellor, The State University of New York

2014 280 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 2 line drawings, 13 tables 455 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17834-9 $100.00 Your Price: $33.00

1-773-702-7000

2016 224 p. 6 x 9 1 figure, 10 tables 456 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18336-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Testing Charade

Pretending to Make Schools Better

Daniel Koretz “Combining the latest data and moving stories of people caught up in the accountability frenzy, Koretz demonstrates that high-stakes testing has corrupted instruction, led educators to cut corners and even cheat, and produced sham increases in scores, while yielding precious little in the way of real improvements in student learning.”—John Merrow, author of Addicted to Reform 2017 288 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table 457 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40871-2 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

We

Reviving Social Hope

Ronald Aronson “By pointing out again and again that hope and social progress reside in collective action, Aronson calls on us to leave our lonely planets of hyper-individualism behind to join others in common struggles for a better world. Because only when we become active in concert with others, a sense of we and hope can materialize.”—Tikkun

2017 208 p. 6 x 9 458 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33466-0 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Obsession A History

Lennard J. Davis “From romantic obsessions to artistic obsessions to the neural underpinnings of obsessive-compulsive disorder, no aspect of the word or concept is left unexplored. Davis does not neglect the important question of why we medicate clinically obsessive people, yet laud those who are obsessed by their music, art, sports or other vocational calling. Beautifully written and impeccably—perhaps obsessively— researched: important reading for anyone interested in inescapable fascinations.”—Kirkus 2008 296 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones 459 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13784-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

Italian America at Its African American Edge

2017 296 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 460 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42832-1 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Get Out of My Room!

A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Jason Reid “A concise and well-researched history of the rooms in which kids carry out the hideous process of becoming grown-ups.”

—Wall Street Journal

2016 320 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 461 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40921-4 $45.00 Your Price: $11.00

The American Game

Capitalism, Decolonization, World Domination, and Baseball

John D. Kelly As John D. Kelly explains in this thought-provoking read, the American approach to global relations is best understood as a competition—one in which the United States, through the reshaping of economic theory and the global economy itself, imposes its own rules on a game played to win.

Kelly cleverly uses the quintessential American game of baseball to show how the United States maintains and advances its dominance over other nations.

Distributed for Prickly Paradigm Press

2006 115 p. 41/2 x 7 462 Paper ISBN: 978-0-9761475-5-8 $12.95 Your Price: $5.00

Becoming a Marihuana User

Howard S. Becker “A Beckerian analysis of a social ‘world’ asks how, in any culture or subculture, someone comes to be called an insider while someone else gets pushed outside. Simple as it is, this approach has proved immensely influential in the study of everything from drug addiction to queer theory. . . . The influence of Becker’s early work remains profound.”—New Yorker

1953, 2015 88 p. 4 x 6 6 halftones 463 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33290-1 $10.00 Your Price: $5.00

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Last Resort

The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Eric A. Posner “Rather than blaming the government or the corporations . . . [Posner] emphasizes how outdated the rules regulating these corporations are and how the public would be better served in future financial crises— which he posits are largely unavoidable—by changing the law.”—Booklist 2018 272 p. 6 x 9 4 line drawings 464 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42006-6 $27.50 Your Price: $7.00

From the National Bureau of Economic Research High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

Edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner 2018 272 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 101 line drawings, 31 tables 465 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52552-5 $130.00 Your Price: $21.00

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 466 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46833-4 $130.00 Your Price: $21.00

Women Working Longer

Increased Employment at Older Ages

Edited by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

2018 304 p. 6 x 9 77 line drawings, 70 tables 467 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53250-9 $130.00 Your Price: $21.00

Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis 2017 448 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones, 26 line drawings, 21 tables 468 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42636-5 $130.00 Your Price: $21.00

Human Capital in History The American Record

Edited by Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo 2014 432 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 61 line drawings, 49 tables 469 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16389-5 $110.00 Your Price: $21.00

Founding Choices

American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla 2011 368 p. 6 x 9 17 line drawings, 22 tables 470 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-38475-7 $46.00 Your Price: $13.00

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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 471 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-39283-7 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Classic Economic Works by F.A. Hayek Socialism and War Essays, Documents, Reviews

Edited by Bruce Caldwell This volume documents the evolution of F. A. Hayek’s thought on socialism and war during the dark decades of the 1930s and 1940s. Opening with Hayek’s arguments against market socialism, the volume continues with his writings on the economics of war. The last section presents articles that anticipated The Road to Serfdom.

1997 280 p. 6 x 9 472 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-32058-8 $63.00 Your Price: $19.00

Capital and Interest

Edited by Lawrence H. White “An excellent collection. White has expertly organized Hayek’s articles on capital theory, supplementing these essays with an accessible introduction that provides a modern appreciation for both the depth of Hayek’s thinking and the changes in his views over time.”

—Ross B. Emmett, Michigan State University 2015 272 p. 6 x 9 12 line drawings 473 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27487-4 $55.00 Your Price: $19.00

Business Cycles

Edited by Hansjoerg Klausinger “The two Business Cycles volumes bring together some of Hayek’s most substantial contributions to technical economics—and on a topic of enduring interest. The finely crafted introductions . . . add both importance and interest to the volumes.”

—Roger W. Garrison, Auburn University Part I

2012 304 p. 6 x 9 7 line drawings 474 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-32044-1 $63.00 Your Price: $19.00

Part II

2012 360 p. 6 x 9 7 line drawings, 2 tables 475 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-32047-2 $75.00 Your Price: $19.00

Bourgeois Equality

How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

Deirdre N. McCloskey “It is a giant of a book about a giant of a topic: the ‘great enrichment’ of humanity over the past 300 years.

It is so rich in vocabulary, allusion and fact as to be a contender for the great book of our age. Dump your copy of Thomas Piketty and put Deirdre McCloskey on the bookshelf instead.”—Times 2016 768 p. 6 x 9 5 line drawings, 6 tables 476 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33399-1 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Political Origins of Inequality

Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

Simon Reid-Henry “The Political Origins of Inequality makes the bold claim that popular thinking on global development is profoundly and fundamentally flawed because many of the economists who have written many of the best sellers have often been shortsighted. This is an important book about big issues, dismissive of facile solutions, it should change the terms of the debate on why the gaps between us are so wide and what we could do about them.”

—Danny Dorling, author of Injustice 2016 208 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 477 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-23679-7 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Down and Out in the New Economy

How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today

Ilana Gershon “Gershon vividly illuminates how workers have become ‘brands’ or ‘businesses’ in the new economy.

Sounds liberating, but beware. As Gershon shows with numerous examples, the gain of the ‘personal brand’ may entail the loss of the person. And the gain of the ‘personal business’ may entail the loss of loyalty, security, and connection.

This is a cautionary tale for all job seekers and the people who hire them.”—Barry Schwartz, author of Why We Work 2017 304 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones 478 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45214-2 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

38 Literature 1-773-702-7000

Victor Halfwit

Out of the Wreck I Rise

Thomas Bernhard “What is extraordinary about Bernhard is that his relentless pessimism never seems open to ridicule; his world is so powerfully imagined that it can seem to surround you like little else in literature.”

—New Yorker Combining the darkly comic voice and vision of Bernhard with the lush and beautiful collages of Indian designer Sunandini Banerjee, Victor Halfwit is a unique and collectible artist’s book.

Neil Steinberg and Sara Bader “A vivid and accessible panoply of literary and philosophical wisdom that is singular in the field of contemporary self-help. . . . This is not a book solely for the intellectual.

The well-chosen quotations that are the core of the book express the deep longings and suffering of people from all walks of life.”

—New York Journal of Books

A Winter’s Tale

The Great William Writers Reading Shakespeare

Theodore Leinwand “A powerful and subtle investigation of seven ‘writers reading Shakespeare.’ . . . Leinwand turns up a remarkable number of connections between his chosen writers, who include Coleridge, Keats, and Virginia Woolf; all of them engage adventurously with the lively immediacy of Shakespeare’s writing.”

—Times Literary Supplement 2016 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 479 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36755-2 $35.00 Your Price: $12.00 480 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-52762-8 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Beasts at Bedtime

Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature

Liam Heneghan “Heneghan dives deep into the world of children’s literature and brings out the environmental wisdom from works old and new. So many of our favorite books in our youth use nature or ideas from nature to enlighten our imagination.

From Peter Rabbit to Harry Potter, from Middle Earth to the hungry nation of Panem, it’s all covered in here.”—Daily Journal 2018 338 p. 6 x 8 8 halftones 481 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43138-3 $27.50 Your Price: $10.00

Who Reads Poetry

50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine

Edited by Fred Sasaki and Don Share “Economists, musicians, philo­sophers, journalists, musicians, doctors, soldiers, an iron worker and an anthropologist explain why poetry matters to them. Their response­s are funny, moving and inspiring.”—Australian 2017 240 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 map 482 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50476-6 $24.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Great Fall

Peter Handke “You are advised to read this book, take a cane, tuck a feather onto your hat like the hero, and to follow him. . . . German literature is not conceivable without Peter Handke.”

—Die Zeit Distributed for Seagull Books

2018 224 p. 5 x 8 483 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-534-8 $24.50 Your Price: $8.00

Distributed for Seagull Books

2011 208 p. 81/2 x 11 208 color plates 484 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-583-6 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Prose

Thomas Bernhard “For all of its easily identifiable Bernhardian preoccupations—its suicides and murderers, its haunted characters—the previously untranslated story collection Prose provides, in miniature, both an ideal introduction and a refresher to the work of one of the singular European writers of the twentieth century.”

—Three Percent Distributed for Seagull Books

2010 180 p. 5 x 8 485 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-576-8 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

A Long Saturday Conversations

George Steiner with Laure Adler In a stimulating series of conversations, George Steiner and journalist Laure Adler discuss a range of topics, including Steiner’s boyhood in Vienna and Paris, his education at the University of Chicago and Harvard, and his early years in academia.

2017 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 486 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35038-7 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Shaggy Muses

The Dogs who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë

Maureen Adams “Move over Marley. Make room for Carlo (Emily Dickinson’s giant Newfoundland). Or Flush (Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s golden cocker spaniel). Or, maybe, Keeper (Emily Bronte’s intimidating mastiff mix). In Shaggy Muses, the work of each author is viewed intimately within the context of the canine companions who provided love, comfort and inspiration.”

—Chicago Tribune

2007 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 43 halftones 487 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00536-2 $16.00 Your Price: $5.00

A Literary Companion to Recovery

2016 256 p. 51/4 x 81/4 488 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14013-1 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

The Curious World of Dickens

Clive Hurst and Violet Moller “Shows how integral Dickens’s everyday world was to the creation of his texts. . . . An interesting and tactile look at the intersections between Dickens’s literary world and the everyday world in which he lived.”—Victorian Periodical Review Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2012 108 p. 71/2 x 71/2 95 color plates 489 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-384-6 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

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 spoke highly of London in Boswell’s famous biography, but not all have shared his enthusiasm.

Since, the capital has been characterized as a “riddle,” a “cesspool,” and a “modern Babylon”—the last by none other than Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

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 the Bodleian Library

2014 96 p. 31/2 x 41/2 490 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-401-0 $11.00 Your Price: $5.00

Folktales of India

Edited by Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, and Jawahar “It is the type of book that can be enjoyed by all readers who love a well-told tale as well as by scholars of traditional narrative and scholars of India in general.”

—Asian Folklore Studies “The stories collected here are representative, rich in structural subtlety, and endowed with fresh earthy humor.”

—Contributions to Indian Sociology

1987 390 p. 5 3/8 x 81/2 8 halftones, 1 map 491 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-04083-7 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

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On War and Writing

Samuel Hynes “From renowned figures of literature to the less celebrated, the author offers powerful perspectives on the drama of destruction, exploring the character of wars ‘good’ and ‘bad.’

But the analysis is his own. He acknowledges, gloomily, that even the greatest art bears little power as a preventative instrument.”—Kirkus “Every year, Memorial Day tempts us into believing that the best way to honor the fallen is to exalt their triumphs while whitewashing everything that led to their sacrifice. A superb writer and thinker like Mr. Hynes reminds us why we must resist that hollow pursuit, now more than ever.”—Wall Street Journal 2018 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones 492 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46878-5 $22.50 Your Price: $9.00

Musings on Mortality From Tolstoy to Primo Levi

Victor Brombert “This handsome, compact book is, in fact, a work of elegant, beautifully written literary criticism, examining how eight major writers—‘From Tolstoy to Primo Levi’—dealt with death in their fiction. It offers the highly distilled insights of a master teacher.”—Wall Street Journal 2013 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 493 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06235-8 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00

Echoes of Valhalla

The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas

Jón Karl Helgason “Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the myriad forms that hark back to the literature of medieval Iceland, with discoveries at every turn. . . . Weaving in the less familiar with the well-known— Wagner, Tolkien, and Thor movies —Jón Karl’s learned and witty commentary will engage readers as he explores the remarkable influence of medieval Icelandic mythology and sagas.”—Judy Quinn, Cambridge University Distributed for Reaktion Books

2017 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 halftones 494 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-715-2 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

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

2016 352 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones 495 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33208-6 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations

Edited by the Bodleian Library Much loved for the romantic plot lines and wryly amusing social commentary that spring from the pages of her novels, Jane Austen was also a prolific letter writer and penned missives on many subjects. Drawing together 50 quotations from Jane Austen’s letters and novels with illustrations that illuminate everyday aspects of life in the Georgian era, this beautifully produced volume will make the perfect gift for Janeites.

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2017 112 p. 61/2 x 71/2 50 color plates 496 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-464-5 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

Alice in Space

The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

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 “Alice in Space arouses our curiosity and there is plenty for the general reader who likes the Alice books to enjoy. After reading Alice in Space one can return to the texts with an enhanced understanding, appreciating both author and his books to a greater extent.”—Children’s Books History Society

2017 224 p. 91/2 x 101/2 90 color plates 497 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-463-8 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

2016 240 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones 500 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04150-6 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

Jane Austen’s Names

Shakespeare’s Freedom

Jane Austen: Writer in the World

Edited by Kathryn Sutherland This lavishly illustrated collection presents an intimate portrait of Austen through her personal possessions, showing the many details of her life that found echoes in her fiction, especially her keen observations of the “little matters”—the routines of reading, dining and taking tea, paying visits to family and friends, and walking to the shops or to send the post.

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 498 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-15783-2 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures

Claudia L. Johnson “At the heart of Claudia Johnson’s warmly appreciative study is the sole authenticated image of the novelist: a portrait, by her sister, of Jane Austen with her back to the viewer. . . . [Johnson] traces out the silences and losses surrounding Austen. Her aim is not so much to shine a light on the fiction as on its admirers.”

—Literary Review 2012 240 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones 499 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-15503-6 $29.00 Your Price: $10.00

Stephen Greenblatt “[Greenblatt] argues that Shakespeare’s genius lay in embracing and subverting the norms of his age. . . . Yet, the book’s real lesson is Shakespeare’s awareness of the human condition in all its complexity.”—Financial Times “It is good, at a time when there is danger of seeing Shakespeare too exclusively as an entertainer, to find an acknowledgement of the intellectual powers that pervade his work.”—Times Literary Supplement 2010 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 color plates, 10 halftones 501 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30666-7 $26.00 Your Price: $8.00

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 502 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13444-4 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

40 Fiction, Poetry, and Literature at $7

Twain at Sea

The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I’ll Tell You Mine

Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program

Edited by Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley “Varied and stunning. . . . This expertly curated anthology holds abundant value for the student of writing and lover of literature alike.”—Publishers Weekly “Essays like these do something fiction cannot: speak precisely individual truths. Yes, fiction speaks universal truths, but the essay, at its best, addresses the singular event, the author’s experience.”

—PopMatters

2015 280 p. 6 x 9 503 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30647-6 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Behind the Book

Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication

Chris Mackenzie Jones “An indispensable tool for writers eager to peek behind the curtain and learn about the realities of writing and publishing. Myths and mysteries about being an ‘author’ abound, and this book shines a bright light on it all. Full of valuable nuggets, Behind the Book draws on real-life stories as well as the wisdom of the very best writing guides to reveal an empowering truth: There’s no one path to publishing success.”

—Katrin Schumann, author of The Secret Power of Middle Children 2018 224 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 504 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-40580-3 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Architecture of Story A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer

Will Dunne “The Architecture of Story is part of the most thorough course in playwriting available in print, one that is both an in-depth study in character and its relation to dramatic form, and a practical dramaturgical resource for dramatists in search of the best form for their work.”

—Art Borreca, University of Iowa 2016 224 p. 6 x 9 4 tables 505 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18191-2 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Edited by Eric Paul Roorda “Roorda balances these colorful tales with real insights and compassion for the financial woes and family tragedies that kept Twain writing and traveling right up until the last few months before his death in 1910. Taken as a whole, this volume masterfully takes the man Samuel Clemens and the icon Mark Twain from the familiar Mississippi River and sends his legacy out to sea, where it so clearly belongs.”

—Sea History Distributed for University Press of New England

2018 304 p. 6 x 9 506 Paper ISBN: 978-1-5126-0151-0 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Sea Is a Continual Miracle Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman

Edited by Jeffrey Yang “Jeffrey Yang has done us a service in extracting from Whitman’s oeuvre a body of poetry and prose on one of the master’s great themes, the oceans and rivers of his world. Yang proves a trusty guide through Leaves of Grass in its labyrinthine backtrackings and revisions. Plunging into Whitman in his company is, as ever, a cleansing and invigorating experience.”—J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace Distributed for University Press of New England

2017 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 507 Paper ISBN: 978-1-61168-922-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Palace of Books

Roger Grenier “Reading Roger Grenier, you feel as if you’re joining him in an inviting library, both of you seated in comfortable leather chairs and sipping calvados. . . . Subtle observations fill this slim volume, giving us a glimpse into the mind and life of this most sensitive of readers. While it may not leave you with many profound truths, I dare you not to fall in love.”—Daily Beast 2014 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 508 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30834-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Forms of Attention Botticelli and Hamlet

Frank Kermode “[Kermode] was drawn to the entanglements of the text and its rational mysteries rather than some scaffold of theory. . . . He protected the reader’s freedom to be interested in whatever was interesting.”

—New York Times 1985 112 p. 51/4 x 8 509 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43175-8 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

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The Flying Mountain

Christoph Ransmayr “A haunting tale, epic in scope, bringing together familial and national histories in a tender and powerfully-observed account of brotherly love.”—Irish Times “The Flying Mountain is an outstanding work of great sophistication, ultra-modern in its technology theme and as ancient as time in the tragic inevitability of the denouement.”—The Swansea Bay Distributed for Seagull Books

2018 336 p. 6 x 9 510 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-474-7 $27.50 Your Price: $7.00

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.

The explosive title cries out—Pow!— but it is also a subtle display of narrative wizardry.”—Washington Post Distributed for Seagull Books

2012 392 p. 6 x 9 511 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-221-7 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Safe House A Novel

Christophe Boltanski The Safe House was a literary sensation when published in France in 2015 and won the Prix de Prix, France’s most prestigious book prize. With hints of Oulipian playfulness and an atmosphere of dark humor, this is an unforgettable portrait of a self-imprisoned family.

“Complex and meticulously plotted; this mystery house full of odd characters will make the reader consider storytelling as the building of a physical and mental space.”—Kirkus 2017 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 512 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44919-7 $24.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Waste Land

Martin Rowson Available for the first time in a decade, this is an unforgettably strange trip through modern literature with one of Britain’s best writers and illustrators.

“Irresistibly funny . . . Rowson has produced not only a first-rate comic book but also an acute critical commentary, footnotes and all. His book is a marvel of sly scholarship and invention.”—Village Voice Distributed for Seagull Books

1990 73 p. 6 x 9 illustrated in halftones throughout 513 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-041-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

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The Bad Lands A Novel

Oakley Hall “An elegiac, incandescent 1880s Dakota badlands Western that bears comparison to the greats (Shane, Ox-Bow Incident) that it recalls. . . .

A tale of tragic justice, of nightriders, of horse thieves fighting cattle thieves—the clearest call yet from the sensitive, slicing voice that rang through the west in Warlock.”

—Kirkus 1978, 2016 376 p. 6 x 9 1 map 514 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41261-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Uselessness A Novel

Eduardo Lalo “In this dreamy and succinct novel, Lalo takes readers on an intimate journey of companionship abroad. . . . Set between glowing, literary Paris, the deceptively dangerous Spanish coast, and various humble San Juan apartments, Uselessness is a novel of modern plight that’s brimming with hope and wisdom.”

—Booklist 2017 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 515 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-20779-7 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Wallis’s War

A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue

Kate Auspitz Wallis’s War is a fictionalized memoir of Wallis Simpson, the infamous American divorcée who caused the abdication of the King of England.

Was it love? Or was it also some behind-the-scenes engineering? A blend of diplomacy and dalliance, fashion and fascists, this richly researched satire offers witty and erudite entertainment and leaves us speculating.

“An ingenious twist and just as plausible as the well-researched reality this fictional account deftly uses.”—Daily Mail 2010, 2011, 2015 220 p. 51/2 x 81/2 5 halftones 516 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-24038-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Great Prince Died A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky

Bernard Wolfe “Illuminating for its insight into the moment when a great struggle for human liberation became a tyranny that still threatens the world. . . .

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 1959, 2015 416 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 517 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26064-8 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales

Collected by Giuseppe Pitrè Edited and Translated by Jack Zipes “The book is a classic, formed like a mosaic of precious small pieces, each one glinting with its own color and character, glassy and crystalline. . . . Zipes is on a lifelong mission, as ardent as the Grimms’, to bring fairy tales into circulation for the general increase of pleasure, mutual and ethical understanding. . . . His prodigious energy seems as inexhaustible as the fairy-tale purse that never empties.”

—New York Review of Books 2017 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 518 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46279-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Aristotle Detective An Aristotle Detective Novel

Margaret Doody “Doody brings the Athens of 322 BC to life with skill and verve and her story of the bloody murder, the shards of evidence, the drama of the trials, the odd twists and turns of motives and events is wonderfully plotted as she keeps everyone guessing, except the wily old philosopher who never tips his hand.”

—Publishers Weekly 1978 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 map 519 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13170-2 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

Afternoon Men A Novel

Anthony Powell “The funniest novel you’ve never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqué on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . Indeed, if you’re looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.”—Slate

Children’s Books from the Bodleian Library

What Is Round?

Blossom Budney

2018 32 p. 7 3/4 x 91/2 illustrated in color throughout 522 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-481-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

N Is for Nursery Blossom Budney

2018 32 p. 7 3/4 x 91/2 illustrated in color 523 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-482-9 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

The March Wind Inez Rice

2017 32 p. 7 2 /3 x 9 Illustrated in color 524 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-461-4 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

There was an Old Lady Abner Graboff

2018 48 p. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 illustrated in color 525 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-494-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

What Can Cats Do? Abner Graboff

2018 48 p. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 illustrated in color 526 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-493-5 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Rain Puddle Adelaide Holl

2017 36 p. 9 x 7 Illustrated in color 527 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-469-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Children’s Books from the University of Alaska Press

1931 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 520 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18689-4 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

What’s Become of Waring A Novel

Anthony Powell “A grand, glittering array of splendid comic characters doing funny things. Mr. Powell’s prose is beautiful and hilarious, and the whole nutty arrangement ends too soon.”—New Yorker “I do not see how anyone who is not an imbecile can fail to be amused and delighted with What’s Become of Waring.”—Observer

1939 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 521 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13718-6 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

A Woolly Mammoth Journey Debbie S. Miller

2010 32 p. 10 x 8 15 color plates 528 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-098-9 $9.95 Your Price: $5.00

The Little Fox An Alaska Adventure

Ram Papish

2007 38 p. 81/2 x 11 529 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-889963-87-7 $15.95 Your Price: $5.00

Pup and Pokey Seth Kantner

2014 48 p. 7 x 81/2 illustrated in color 530 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-241-9 $14.95 Your Price: $5.00

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Judge Dee Mysteries

by Robert van Gulik “Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously.”

—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

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The Writer’s Map

An Atlas of Imaginary Lands

Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones “One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books (especially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside and filled with the details of a land about to be discovered. . . . The Writer’s Map contains dozens of the magical maps writers have drawn or that have been made by others to illustrate the places they’ve created.”—Atlas Obscura 2018 256 p. 81/4 x 113/4 220 color plates 543 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59663-1 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00

The Daily Jane Austen A Year of Quotes

The Chinese Maze Murders

1957 336 p. 51/4 x 8 12 line drawings 531 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84878-5 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40

The Emperor’s Pearl

1963 192 p. 51/4 x 8 9 line drawings 532 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84872-3 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

The Haunted Monastery

1961 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 line drawings 533 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84879-2 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

Judge Dee at Work

1967 184 p. 51/4 x 8 534 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84866-2 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

The Lacquer Screen

1962 194 p. 4 3/4 x 7 14 line drawings 535 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84867-9 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

The Monkey and The Tiger 1967 152 p. 51/4 x 8 8 line drawings 536 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84869-3 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

Murder in Canton

1966 216 p. 51/4 x 8 12 line drawings 537 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84874-7 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Necklace and Calabash 1967 152 p. 51/4 x 8 10 line drawings 538 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84870-9 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

The Phantom of the Temple

1966 214 p. 5 1/4 x 8 11 line drawings 539 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84877-8 $13.00 Your Price: $10.40

Poets and Murder

1968 184 p. 51/4 x 8 540 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84876-1 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

The Red Pavilion

1964 185 p. 51/4 x 8 6 line drawings 541 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84873-0 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

The Willow Pattern

1965 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 16 line drawings 542 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84875-4 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

Edited by Devoney Looser It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. Looser has drawn 378 passages from across the canon, resulting in an anthology that is compulsively readable and repeatable.

“Delightful. . . . Some [quotations] are the briefest little bons mots, others provide a satisfying chunk of Austen to illuminate your day.”—Jane Austen’s Regency World 2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 544 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65544-4 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

The Daily Sherlock Holmes

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

Edited by Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani The Daily Sherlock Holmes is the perfect bedside companion for fans of the world’s only consulting detective. Within these pages readers will find a quotation for every day of the year, drawn from across the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. Moriarty and Mycroft, Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson . . . It’s all here—anchored, of course, in that unforgettable duo of Holmes and Watson.

2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 545 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65964-0 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

A River Runs through It and Other Stories

Norman Maclean “A masterpiece. . . . This is more than stunning fiction: It is a lyric record of a time and a life, shining with Maclean’s special gift for calling the reader’s attention to arts of all kinds—the arts that work in nature, in personality, in social intercourse, in fly-fishing.”

—Village Voice

2017 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 546 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-47206-5 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth

Edited by Catherine McIlwaine “Reveals [Tolkien’s] painstaking creative process. . . . Reflect[s] a literary mind almost obsessed with perfecting each and every detail.”

—New York Times Book Review “For anyone who grew up in the Tolkien universe, seeing the original artwork—the death of Smaug, for instance . . . will be like meeting an old friend.”—Country Life Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2018 416 p. 91/4 x 10 300 color plates 547 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-485-0 $65.00 Your Price: $52.00

Tolkien: Treasures

Catherine McIlwaine “Probably the finest reproduction of Tolkien’s art (and maps) published to date. The true glory of this book is the illustrations, all of which seem to be in true colour, often accompanied by enlarged details.”

—Beyond Bree Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2018 144 p. 73/4 x 73/4 100 color plates 548 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-496-6 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Reynard the Fox

Retold by Anne Louise Avery “This is marvelously spirited and adroit storytelling and an exciting example of innovative translation. . . . Adding mischievous contemporary twists, [Avery] has wonderfully refreshed and revivified the medieval collection and shows how these traditional animal fables, with their large and lively cast of characters and their wicked and seductive protagonist, have lost none of their truth-telling power.”

—Marina Warner Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2020 480 p. 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 549 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-555-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction

Translated, Edited, and with an Introduction by John Gardner Besides the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, this edition includes two allegorical poems, “Purity” and “Patience”; the beautiful dream allegory “Pearl”; and the miracle story “Saint Erkenwald.”

“Gardner has translated into modern English and edited a text of these five poems that could hardly be improved. . . . The entire work is preceded by a very fine and complete general introduction and a critical commentary on each poem.”—Library Journal

1965 218 p. 51/2 x 81/2 550 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28328-9 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Fairies

A Dangerous History

Richard Sugg “[A] bulging field guide to fairy lore. Taking readers on a tour of the brownies, hobs, changelings, kelpies, selkies, sea trows, and various other fairy types of the British Isles and beyond, Sugg investigates ‘the great heresy of fairyland’ in folklore, the arts, and historical testimony.”

—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 color plates, 4 halftones 551 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-120-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

Are You Really a Genius?

Timeless Tests for the Irritatingly Intelligent

Robert A. Streeter and Robert G. Hoehn If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will seven hens lay in six days?

Which is heavier, milk or cream?

“Coauthors Streeter and Hoehn present dozens of questions that, in their words, ‘require a mind that resembles an active mountain goat rather than a saturated sponge.’”

—Boston Globe Distributed for the Bodleian Library 41/3

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2015 80 p. x illustrated in halftones throughout 552 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-423-2 $17.50 Your Price: $14.00

Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book

Julie Schumacher “Better than a massage! Better than acupuncture! Better than a double whiskey on the rocks! It’s university satire, but you don’t have to teach to get the jokes. Even the copyright page is funny.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “The wonderfully weird illustrations in Doodling for Academics brilliantly capture the bizarre highs and arcane lows of academic life. Full of fun activities to pass the time at staff meetings, this book will be a quirky addition to any academic office.”—Glen Wright, creator of Academia Obscura 2017 96 p. 8 x 10 40 line drawings 553 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46704-7 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

In Praise of the Bicycle

Marc Augé “In this playful (and playfully illustrated) little book . . . a French anthropologist expounds on his love of cycling. On a bicycle, he asserts, ‘you become someone else, and yet you are yourself as never before.’ . . .

His argument is fast and incautious; he’s freewheeling and having great fun.”—New York Times Book Review Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 96 p. 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 8 halftones 554 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-138-2 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

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A Brief History of Nakedness

Philip Carr-Gomm “As Carr-Gomm reveals in his academic romp through two millennia of public exhibitionism from the ancient Greeks to animal-rights activists, you can be naked anywhere. You are only nude if someone is watching. Nakedness on its own is straightforward—it’s the context and the audience of nudity that make it interesting.”—Times Distributed for Reaktion Books

2010 288 p. 6 x 9 99 color plates, 44 halftones 555 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-022-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Manhood

The Rise and Fall of the Penis

Mels van Driel “This vastly entertaining, eclectic book, written by a Dutch urologist, is full of myths, lore, natural history, and medical information about the male nether regions. . . . A compassionate . . . account of the long human strugle to understand—and to celebrate—the sometimes baffling workings of men and their malest members.”

—Barnes & Noble Review Distributed for Reaktion Books

2009 288 p. 6 x 9 52 halftones 556 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-866-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

With the Hand

A Cultural History of Masturbation

Mels van Driel “An enthusiastic, amusing and eyeopening exploration of a topic which remains disappointingly taboo.”

—New Scientist “When [van Driel’s] stethoscope is about his neck, the M.D. employs all the unvarnished plainspokenness of any health care professional. But when he entertains historical, literary, and other arts-and-humanities perspectives, he is as curious and open to surprise as any cultural critic.”—Chronicle of Higher Education Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 255 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 halftones 557 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-919-4 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Calling the Spirits A History of Seances

Lisa Morton “A fun and thorough look at how humans have tried to communicate with the dead over time.”

—Library Journal “The fascinating history of séances is filled with mystery, deception, self-deception, genuine belief, scientific inquiry, and personal transformation, which is well described in this extremely interesting and readable account.”

—Magonia Review of Books Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 336 p. 51/4 x 81/4 10 color plates, 20 halftones 558 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-280-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Licentious Worlds

Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

Julie Peakman “Peakman has written what may be the first genuinely global history of licentiousness, an account not only of the fantasies and exploitative sexual adventures of western male colonizers but also of the powerful elite men in the great empires of the modern world from China and Japan to India and the Ottoman world. It is world history on a new, scholarly, unideological, and theoretically informed level.”

—Thomas W. Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 368 p. 6 x 91/4 80 color plates, 40 halftones 559 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-140-5 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Pleasure’s All Mine A History of Perverse Sex

Julie Peakman “Whether sussing out topics like homosexuality and BDSM, to those that still remain taboo, like bestiality and pedophilia, Peakman is able to provide a well-needed historical context for all things ‘perverse’ (or in her opinion, not perverse at all) and shine a light in the many places we would rather keep dark.”

—Bookslut Distributed for Reaktion Books

2013 472 p. 6 x 9 64 color plates, 114 halftones 560 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-675-9 $29.00 Your Price: $23.20

Loving Animals

On Bestiality, Zoophilia and PostHuman Love

Joanna Bourke “This bold and imaginative book is thoughtful and—inevitably— provocative. With characteristic compassion and insight, Bourke undertakes a tour de force of historical and cultural attitudes towards human-animal relations to guide us through serious ethical and political questions concerning sexuality, power, and consent.”

—Julie-Marie Strange, Durham University Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 184 p. 61/4 x 91/4 22 halftones 561 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-310-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

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King of the World

Gladius

Philip Mansel “Mansel, building on his formidable reputation as the most stylish of historians of modern Europe, is as good at explaining and illustrating Louis’s decline as his ascendancy. . . .

Copiously, beautifully and intelligently illustrated, complemented by excellent maps and diagrams (notably a ground-plan of Versailles), King of the World is one of the most stimulating and enjoyable works on European history to have been published for many a long year.”

—Wall Street Journal

Guy de la Bédoyère “Gladius is a highly successful introduction to the life of the Roman soldier. Neither a history of the army nor a review of battlefield tactics, it instead studies daily life in military services far beyond the aspects of soldiering typically treated in history books. Making use of a wide range of sources, from stone inscriptions to colorful anecdotes, de la Bédoyère’s informative and readable book offers real immediacy to readers.”—Clifford Ando, University of Chicago

The Life of Louis XIV

A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps

Jeremy Black As Jeremy Black convincingly shows in this lavish full-color book, it is impossible to understand the events and outcomes of the Second World War without deep reference to mapping at all levels. Drawing on 100 key maps from the unparalleled collections of the British Library and other sources, this book provides a captivating overview of World War II from the air, sea, and sky, making clear how fundamental maps were to every aspect of this unforgettable global conflict.

2020 256 p. 81/2 x 11 150 color plates 562 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75524-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms Compact Edition

Jonathan Asbury “Provides fascinating details of life in this top-secret, subterranean space.”—Atlas Obscura “Asbury reveals the behind-thescenes secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms—sights that members of the public can’t experience on a tour of the bunker. Containing more than 150 photographs and details from once-top secret documents, the book offers a close-up look at items that have until now been seen by only a few people in the world.”

—BBC History Extra Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group

2020 208 p. 7 x 7 107 color plates, 26 halftones 563 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-14-9 $22.95 Your Price: $18.36

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 Distributed for Haus Publishing

2020 240 p. 6 x 9 8 maps 564 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-74-6 $29.95 Your Price: $23.96

2020 608 p. 6 x 9 57 color plates, 2 halftones 565 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69089-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The World of the Roman Soldier

2020 352 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 4 tables 569 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75023-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

The Eternal City

Giza and the Pyramids

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

Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass “This volume was some thirty 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

A History of Rome in Maps

2020 240 p. 81/2 x 11 140 color plates 566 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59145-2 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00

Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages

Jacques Le Goff Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the period: the heroic and the miraculous. Roaming between the boundaries of the natural and the supernatural, between earth and the heavens, this history of the medieval universe covers a vast geographical span.

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2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 32 halftones 567 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-212-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933–45

Milton Mayer “A timely reminder of how otherwise unremarkable and in many ways reasonable people can be seduced by demagogues and populists.”—Richard J. Evans, author of The Coming of the Third Reich “Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider as in Mr. Mayer’s report.”—New York Times 2017 384 p. 51/2 x 81/2 568 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-52583-9 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

The Definitive History

2017 560 p. 9 x 11 442 color plates, 14 halftones 570 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42569-6 $75.00 Your Price: $60.00

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

2019 444 p. 5 x 8 571 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912208-96-8 $18.95 Your Price: $15.16

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Laughing Shall I Die

Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings

Tom Shippey “Magnificent. . . . Shippey’s magnum opus provides not only an exhilarating, mind-expanding appraisal and retelling of Viking history but also an invitation to discover the cold-iron poetry and prose of the medieval North. Take up that invitation.”—Washington Post Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 368 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 572 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-217-4 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

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White Market Drugs

Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America

David Herzberg “White Market Drugs provides essential backstory for a string of Pharma-stoked drug crises. Reading Herzberg, you can see the prescription opioid addiction epidemic coming from a mile away. This book is a powerful prequel to the body of investigative reporting on what now seems like the worst scandal in US medical history.”

—David T. Courtwright, author of The Age of Addiction 2020 400 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 4 line drawings 573 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73188-9 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Assassins’ Deeds

A History of Assassination from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day

John Withington “Like Shakespeare himself, Assassins’ Deeds offers us a stage memorably strewn with the most distinguished of corpses. . . . Assassination, Withington instructs us in entertaining style, is no exact science. A messy tale: and a haunting one.”

—Tim Wilson, University of St Andrews Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 368 p. 61/4 x 91/4 81 halftones 574 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-351-5 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Why North Is Up

Map Conventions and Where They Came From

Mick Ashworth “In this handsome and informative book, Mick Ashworth picks through the conventions that have shaped cartography thus far, in a lively narrative augmented by lavish illustrations of the maps in question. For map addicts and casual bystanders alike, this is a terrific work that both entertains and enlightens.”

—Mike Parker, author of Map Addict Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2019 224 p. 7 x 9 108 color plates 575 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-519-2 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Ornette Coleman

The Territory and the Adventure

Maria Golia “Golia offers a wide-ranging biography of the great saxophonist, writing less about the man himself than about the people, places, and musical tendencies that converged to make him the ‘patron saint of all things dissonant and defiant.’ The approach suits Coleman, who was soft-spoken despite his stubborn nonconformity, and unaffected by the larger-than-life egotism of contemporaries such as Charles Mingus or Miles Davis.”—Harper’s Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 368 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 halftones 576 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-223-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

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The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven

John Schultz In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to “incite, organize, promote, and encourage” antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In his vivid account, Schultz exposes one of the most significant legal events in American history.

“Schultz, more than any other observer, covered the Conspiracy Trial in all its bizarre aspects. . . .

This work, aside from being a profound study of fear, is investigative journalism in its highest sense.”

—Studs Terkel 1993 416 p. 51/2 x 81/2 577 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76074-2 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

The Torture Letters Reckoning with Police Violence

Laurence Ralph “[A] deeply caring work . . . An essential primer on the roots of police violence.”—Publishers Weekly “Ralph traces the painful history of policing that prohibits officers from holding their peers accountable and discusses how policing is deeply rooted in maintaining racial dominance over people of color in Chicago. . . . [He] builds an argument for human rights that extend to all people.”—Newcity

2020 248 p. 6 x 9 578 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65009-8 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20

Plague Years

A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis

Ross A. Slotten, MD “Slotten’s memoir of caring for AIDS patients in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s could not be more timely. . . . What loudly echoes from Slotten’s account is the commitment of caregivers to confront the uncertainty of a contagious disease.”—New York Review of Books 2020 224 p. 6 x 9 579 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71876-7 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Tinker to Evers to Chance

The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America

David Rapp “Vividly details the lives of all three players, weaving together how they converged in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Along the way, Rapp tells the story of a changing America that became suddenly and almost inexplicably gripped with baseball fever.”

—Chicago Magazine 2018 336 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 580 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-41504-8 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Crap

A History of Cheap Stuff in America

Wendy A. Woloson “A fascinating look at the history of cheap commodities in America and the ways they have been marketed, sold, and consumed. Woloson examines gadgets, giveaways-giftsswag, ready-made cheap collectibles, novelties/jokes, with some terrific mini case-histories of businesses such as Woolworth’s Five and Dime, Hummel figurines, and Beanie Babies. Crap elucidates the central role that cheap goods have played in American consumer culture.”

—Marita Sturken, author of Tourists of History 2020 416 p. 6 x 9 11 color plates, 105 halftones 581 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66435-4 $29.99 Your Price: $23.99

A History of America in 100 Maps

Susan Schulten “Lavish and fascinating.”—Economist “Maps often capture history much more economically than any narrative. This is Schulten’s premise, which she supports by offering 100 cartographic snapshots of America from the European arrival to the digital age.”—New York Times “Any one [map] may make readers rethink what they know about how the nation came to be.”

—Wall Street Journal 2018 256 p. 81/2 x 11 120 color plates 582 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45861-8 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Atlas of Boston History

Edited by Nancy S. Seasholes “Boston history buffs as well as lovers of cartography will find much pleasure in The Atlas of Boston History. . . a series of striking maps that cover ground from the ice age to the present day. . . . The book is a rich new way of looking at the city.”—Boston Globe 2019 224 p. 11 x 14 57 color plates 583 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63115-8 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00

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The Demon in the Machine

How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life

Paul Davies “Boundary-transcending. . . . Davies claims that life’s defining characteristics are better understood in terms of information. . . . With apologies to Charles Darwin, there is grandeur in this view of life.”—Nature 2019 272 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 588 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66970-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

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Beyond Weird

Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different

Philip Ball “[A] clear and deeply researched account of what’s known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about what they might really mean.”—Nature 2018 384 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 halftones, 19 line drawings 584 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75510-6 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

Twenty Worlds

The Extraordinary Story of Planets Around Other Stars

Niall Deacon “A wonderfully enjoyable tour of twenty diverse worlds that orbit distant stars. Deacon uses simple ideas from science to show us how each world has its own personality— its own story. Twenty Worlds is an accessible introduction to some of the most exciting discoveries in astronomy.”—Michael E. Summers, George Mason University Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 216 p. 51/4 x 81/4 27 color plates, 4 halftones 585 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-338-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Quantum Legacies

Dispatches from an Uncertain World

David Kaiser “Engrossing. . . . Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

2020 360 p. 51/2 x 81/2 47 halftones 586 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69805-2 $26.00 Your Price: $20.80

The Genesis Quest

The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

Michael Marshall “Written in clear and entertaining prose, like a Sherlock Holmes story, this is the best book I know for general readers about the quest to solve one of our most enduring mysteries: how and where, in a seemingly purposeless universe, life began on planet Earth.”—Oren Harman, author of Evolutions 2020 368 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 1 table 587 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71523-0 $26.00 Your Price: $20.80

The Beautiful Cure

The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health

Daniel M. Davis “Eye-opening. . . . As David Attenborough opens our goggling eyes to the natural world without, so Davis brings us face to face with the stunningly clever and, yes, beautiful world within—our immune system.

One of those books that makes you look at everything human in a new, challenging, and thrilling way.”

—Stephen Fry 2018 256 p. 6 x 9 589 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75877-0 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Selfish Ape

Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction

Nicholas P. Money “This Dawkins-inspired book is a tour de force of life on Earth.

Money eloquently describes the dynamics of life and the quite insignificant place of humans in the grand scheme of existence. Charting important biological discoveries, he describes life from all angles, including our molecular complexity and our genetic makeup. . . . The book brings together many perspectives on human existence to create a beautiful but damning picture of humankind.”—The Biologist Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 152 p. 51/2 x 81/2 590 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-155-9 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

The World of Dinosaurs An Illustrated Tour

Mark A. Norell “Filled with fresh information and eye-catching graphics, Norell’s book guides the reader, like a birding handbook, through the two great dinosaur halls at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. . . . Brontosaurus and Triceratops are included, of course, but confirmed dinophiles will revel in many less-familiar species that get equal time, from ‘frilled’ Dilophosaurus wetherilli to Corythosaurus causarius, which wore a hollow bony crest, ‘reminiscent of a Corinthian battle-helmet.’”

—Natural History 2019 256 p. 91/2 x 11 200 color plates 591 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62272-9 $32.50 Your Price: $26.00

Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones

The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils

Ken McNamara “McNamara opens window after window on the use and interpretation of fossils by different cultures from Ireland to Australia over the millennia and up to the present.

Through the strange medieval mythologies of dragons’ teeth, stone swallows, toadstones, thunderstones, snakestones, and devil’s toenails, an even more ancient tradition is uncovered.”—Douglas Palmer, author of A History of Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries “A fascinating account of fossils as objects of mystical, mythological, and practical significance to ancient humans, thousands of years before written history or modern science.”

—Olivia Judson, Imperial College London Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 288 p. 51/4 x 81/4 70 halftones 592 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-290-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Patterns in Nature

Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

Philip Ball “From tigers’ stripes to the hexagons that make up honeycombs to the ripples in windblown sand, the natural world is full of order and regularity. Science writer Ball investigates the phenomenon in his new book, Patterns in Nature, with 250 photographs of snowflakes, shells, and more.”—Wall Street Journal “Captivating. . . . This book is a visual feast that can serve as a source of wonder and inspiration for artists and naturalists as well as scientists.”—Forbes 2016 288 p. 81/2 x 10 250 color plates 593 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33242-0 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Five Photons

Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time

James Geach “Light illuminates cosmic origins and decodes quotidian realities. But what is it? This deft primer by astrophysicist Geach captures the elusive electromagnetic wave in five processes. His meditation on ‘old’ light takes us back to the singularity: the ‘cosmic seed’ that expanded into the Big Bang. A study of starlight plunges us into the seething stellar surface. We peruse dark energy, radio waves and quasars—beaconlike galaxies in which supermassive black holes feed off interstellar gas and release vast amounts of energy.

A masterclass in elucidating hard science with elegance and brevity.”

—Nature Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 192 p. 5 x 73/4 35 halftones 594 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-295-2 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

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Yellowstone Wolves

Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park

Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty “Reintroducing the wolf to Yellowstone is arguably the world’s greatest wildlife experiment. The wolves’ progress has been documented meticulously by a team of hiking, driving and flying biologists and passionate volunteers—so much so that no wolf study comes close to yielding its abundance of information. The research generated has been distilled into a new book, Yellowstone Wolves, assembled by three of the biologists who studied the wolves’ return.”—New York Times 2020 344 p. 81/2 x 11 62 color plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings 595 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72834-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Plant Families

A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists

Ross Bayton and Simon Maughan “An amazing guide filled with botanical information and exacting illustrations and diagrams.”

—Oregonian “Examines the major families of the plant world. . . . For each included family, information is provided on family origins, morphology, and ornamental or agricultural uses for members of the family. Elegant color illustrations throughout highlight important terms, structures, and example species associated with each plant family.”—Choice 2017 224 p. 7 x 9 300 color plates 596 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52308-8 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Remarkable Trees

Christina Harrison and Tony Kirkham In portraits that combine vivid cultural and historical narrative with a firm scientific grounding, Harrison and Kirkham reveal fascinating details of 60 remarkable trees from around the world’s major zones and ecologies. More than 200 delightful illustrations from the archive at England’s Royal Botanic Gardens help bring this enlightening and enchanting volume to life.

“This beautifully illustrated book reveals just how much these useful, fascinating, dangerous yet beautiful living beings really contribute to our lives.”—Dame Judi Dench 2019 256 p. 71/2 x 91/2 225 color plates 597 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67391-2 $32.50 Your Price: $26.00

Weeds of North America

Richard Dickinson and France Royer “An ambitious identification guide laid out in the clearest possible terms.”—Chicago Book Review

2014 656 p. 6 x 9 1254 color plates, 26 halftones, 125 line drawings 598 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-07644-7 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

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Chihuly at Kew Reflections on Nature

Dale Chihuly Dale Chihuly’s sculptures are some of the most immediately recognizable and internationally beloved.

He revolutionized the Studio Glass movement and is credited as helping to elevate blown glass from craft to fine art form. This book showcases Chihuly’s utterly unique glass artworks across one of London’s most breathtaking backdrops.

“This celebration of Chihuly’s creations depicts his stunning designs across Kew’s spectacular landscape.”—Bookseller

Matisse The Books

Roger J. Lederer “Exquisite. . . . Ornithological gems such as Joseph Wolf ’s gorgeous crimson-bellied tragopan, Roger Tory Peterson’s flock of flamingos in the Andes, and James Fenwick Lansdowne’s rainbow-plumed Chinese pheasant reveal not only the sophistication of avian art, but the extravagant global variety of avian species.”—Natural History

Louise Rogers Lalaurie “These books-as-works-of-art are both a running commentary upon Matisse himself, the ever evolving, ever surprising image-maker, and an extraordinarily vivid series of critical responses to words that are often so rich and elusive in their meanings.”—Hyperallergic “This sumptuous publication brings together Matisse’s eight livres d’artiste with meticulous attention to feel and detail. . . . The sheer number of images reproduced in sequence and the contextual detail given is much appreciated too in a publication that ultimately brings us closer to Matisse and his books.”

—Studio International

Birds

Vincent’s Books

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

2019 120 p. 91/2 x 11 100 color plates 599 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-682-7 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Art of the Bird

The History of Ornithological Art through Forty Artists

2019 224 p. 91/2 x 11 200 color plates 600 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67505-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

An Anthology

Edited by Jaqueline Mitchell “For centuries, birds have inspired the abiding interest of writers, and it’s easy to see why. . . . 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 the Bodleian Library

2020 272 p. 51/8 x 73/4 25 halftones 601 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-529-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change Second Edition

Robert Henson Combining years of data with recent research, this book provides the most comprehensive, yet accessible, overview of where climate science stands today.

Distributed for the American Meteorological Society

2019 480 p. 5 x 8 Illustrated in color throughout 602 Paper ISBN: 978-1-944970-39-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

2020 320 p. 121/2 x 10 3/8 350 color plates 603 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75054-5 $75.00 Your Price: $60.00

Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him

Mariella Guzzoni “During this meandering journey through Holland, Paris, Provence, and beyond, Guzzoni reveals just how much Van Gogh’s favorite books and authors defined his life and art.”—Christie’s

2020 224 p. 6 x 9 132 color plates 604 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70646-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Georgia O’Keeffe A Life

Roxana Robinson “The best book ever written on O’Keeffe. . . . An invaluable resource.”—New Yorker “Robinson’s detailed, sensitive critique of O’Keeffe’s work alternates with an absorbing, intimate narrative of O’Keeffe’s personal life (including her notorious relationship with Juan Hamilton, six decades her junior, and the public battle over her estate) to provide a resourceful, imaginatively rendered portrait of a dauntingly difficult subject.”

—Publishers Weekly Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2020 679 p. 6 x 91/4 94 halftones 605 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-032-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

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The Daily Henry David Thoreau

Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich

Edited by Laura Dassow Walls “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”

Drawn from the full range of Thoreau’s journals and published writings, and arranged according to season, The Daily Henry David Thoreau allows us to discover the endless variation and surprise to be found in the natural world.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden “If you are feeling down about the state of the world or pessimistic about its prospects then this is the book to cheer you up. . . . 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

A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season

The Pocket Stoic

John Sellars “Expertly and vividly Sellars presents lessons in Stoicism that are strikingly relevant to modern life. From the great Roman Stoic authors, he distills teaching on managing emotions, dealing with adversity, facing death, and making the best use of every hour and situation.

This is a book that excellently shows why Stoicism is the philosophy for our time. I recommend it with enthusiasm.”—A. A. Long, author of Epictetus: How to be Free 2020 64 p. 41/2 x 6 606 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68296-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

A Philosophy of Simple Living

Jérôme Brillaud “This fascinating and well-written book by Brillaud does not evangelize about simple living or tell readers how to think or live. Rather, it is a diverse and profound review of various perspectives on simplicity that have emerged throughout the ages, from the Ancient Greeks, through Christianity, to the modern Voluntary Simplicity Movement. . . .

Paradoxically, however, it turns out the notion of ‘simplicity’ is surprisingly complex, but readers will be both challenged and enriched.”

—Samuel Alexander, author of Prosperous Descent Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 607 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-227-3 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

A Significant Life

Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

Todd May “In A Significant Life, May has produced a tour de force. . . . A careful study of this book will tell you what it takes to make life worth living. It is refreshing to encounter someone worrying about such a big question in the small-minded times we live in, and an absolute joy to discover that he may actually have provided an answer.”—Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice 2015 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 608 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-42104-9 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 609 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62496-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

2020 232 p. 6 x 9 613 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73966-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

What Is Time?

New Edition

Truls Wyller “With this erudite yet very accessible book, Wyller tackles the most central question in the study of time: How do we reconcile the time of physics with time as we experience it? His answer—drawing on history, philosophy, science, and literature—is that time is constituted by consciousness itself. Delightful, synoptic, and laudably interdisciplinary.”—Adrian Bardon, author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

Milton Friedman In this classic work of economic theory, Friedman provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophy— one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.

This new edition includes a new foreword by Binyamin Appelbaum, lead economics writer for the New York Times editorial board.

An Enquiry

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2020 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones 610 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-236-5 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

Crusade for Justice

The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition

Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells is an American icon of truth telling. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage.

This engaging memoir relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. “[Wells was] a sophisticated fighter whose prose was as thorough as her intellect.”—New York Times 2020 496 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones 611 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69142-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Attention

Beyond Mindfulness

Gay Watson “Watson weaves together profound spiritual insights, crisply clear science, and page-turning personal observations about the front edge of consciousness: how we attend to our inner and outer worlds.”

—Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain Distributed for Reaktion Books

2017 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 612 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-745-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Capitalism and Freedom

2020 272 p. 51/4 x 81/4 614 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73479-8 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

Great Economic Thinkers An Introduction-from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen

Edited by Jonathan Conlin Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of thirteen of the most influential economists of modern times. Free from confusing jargon and equations, the book describes key concepts put forward by these thinkers and shows how they have come to shape how we see ourselves and our society.

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2019 304 p. 5 x 73/4 615 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-210-5 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

Invisible China

How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell “From the opening pages, a clear and compelling argument unfolds: China faces a labor quality crisis, as hundreds of millions of young rural workers lack the education and robust health they need to participate in China’s emerging high tech economy. Nobody who cares about China can afford to ignore Invisible China.”—Barry Naughton, University of California, San Diego 2020 248 p. 6 x 9 5 figures, 2 tables 616 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-73952-6 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

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The Devil’s Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce In 1881, journalist Ambrose Bierce began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp, launching a journalistic career that would earn him the title of “the wickedest man in San Francisco.” These columns formed the beginnings of The Devil’s Dictionary. More than 100 years later, Bierce’s redefinitions still give us pause for thought: interpreting politics, for example, as “the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2018 256 p. 5 x 73/4 617 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-507-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

The First English Dictionary 1604

Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabeticall

Robert Cawdrey “This is a gnarled, rude, fierce old dictionary and utterly without ‘calliditie’ (‘craftiness, or deceit’). It may not provide much ‘clavicorde’ (‘mirth’) and it certainly ‘maffles’ (‘stammers’), but it also ‘inchaunts’ (‘bewitches’).”—New York Sun Distributed for the Bodleian Library 73/4

2007 160 p. 5 x 618 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-388-4 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

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A History of Language

Steven Roger Fischer On the first edition: “[A] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book. . . . A virtuoso tour of the linguistic world.”—Economist “Fischer’s intriguing and ambitious study explores a vast terrain, parts of which have scarcely been charted, others examined in some depth over many years and, as he relates, many centuries.

Throughout, he addresses hard questions that bear directly on fundamental and distinctive aspects of human nature and achievement. A stimulating and highly informative inquiry.”—Noam Chomsky Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 240 p. 5 x 73/4 12 halftones 622 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-903-3 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

The Book Lovers’ Miscellany

Claire Cock-Starkey How is ink made? What is the bestselling book of all time? And how does one make sense of the colors found on Penguin paperbacks?

The answers to these questions and many more await readers in The Book Lovers’ Miscellany.

“A perfect little gift book of bibliophilic wisdom.”

—Fine Books Magazine Distributed for the Bodleian Library

B. E. Gent “A fascinating insight into a bygone linguistic age.”—David Crystal

2017 136 p. 41/3 x 7 623 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-471-3 $17.50 Your Price: $14.00

2010 224 p. 5 x 8 619 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-387-7 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

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

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The Victorian Dictionary of Slang & Phrase

J. Redding Ware First published in 1909, the dictionary reflects the rich history of unofficial English.

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2015 288 p. 5 x 7 1/2 620 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-448-5 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

A History of Reading

Steven Roger Fischer Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Fischer’s fascinating book offers a sweeping story of our evolving relationship with text.

“Starting from the Bronze Age and ending with modern emails and a possible future of e-books, Fischer’s A History of Reading takes in a wonderful diversity of things.”—Nature Distributed for Reaktion Books

2019 416 p. 5 x 73/4 20 halftones 621 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-068-2 $13.99 Your Price: $11.19

A Library Miscellany

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2018 144 p. 41/4 x 6 3/4 624 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-472-0 $17.50 Your Price: $9.00

It’s All Greek

Borrowed Words and their Histories

Alexander Tulloch This book offers a word-by-word look at the influence of Greek on everyday words in English—words like purse, sketch, and marmalade—telling the stories behind the etymological developments of each example and revealing how deeply indebted we are to the language spoken in Athens 2,500 years ago.

Distributed for the Bodleian Library

2018 240 p. 4 3/4 x 71/4 30 halftones 625 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-505-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Around the World in 80 Words

A Journey through the English Language

Paul Anthony Jones “A fabulous and erudite survey of words inspired by place names. . . .

Logophiles will have a ball.”

—Publishers Weekly “Do read this book in the correct order—the author has gone to great lengths to make sense of his eccentric itinerary—but be mindful. . . .

To read it all at once would be like swallowing the globe.”

—Times Literary Supplement

2020 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 626 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68279-2 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities A Yearbook of Forgotten Words

Paul Anthony Jones Open this book and you’ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event—and an equally curious or notable word— are explored. On the day on which flirting was banned in New York City, for instance, you’ll discover why to “sheep’s-eye” someone once meant to look at them amorously.

The English language is vast enough to supply us with a word for every occasion—and this linguistic “wunderkammer” is here to prove precisely that.

2019 384 p. 51/2 x 81/2 627 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64670-1 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

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 the Bodleian Library

2014 144 p. 41/4 x 6 3/4 126 halftones 628 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-409-6 $17.50 Your Price: $14.00

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978-0-226-84969-0 978-1-78023-986-6 978-0-226-00712-0 978-1-889963-68-6 978-0-226-13623-3 978-0-226-12309-7 978-0-226-56603-0 978-1-61168-809-2 978-0-226-25612-2 978-0-226-20538-0 978-0-226-42121-6 978-0-226-20268-6 978-0-226-55113-5 978-0-226-88716-6 978-0-226-43348-6 978-0-226-27778-3 978-0-226-36920-4 978-0-226-26288-8 978-0-226-33886-6 978-0-226-63695-5 978-1-908323-58-3 978-0-226-58074-6 978-0-226-19924-5 978-1-909961-54-8 978-1-86189-907-1 978-1-78023-032-0 978-0-226-28954-0 978-1-78023-018-4 978-0-226-18823-2 978-1-78023-672-8 978-1-909942-00-4 978-1-78023-810-4 978-1-908323-99-6 978-1-78023-030-6 978-1-78023-257-7 978-1-78023-508-0 978-1-78023-514-1 978-1-61168-850-4 978-0-226-03111-8 978-1-78914-062-0 978-0-226-28400-2 978-1-78023-504-2 978-0-226-53944-7 978-1-78023-532-5 978-1-78023-528-8 978-1-78023-045-0 978-1-78023-356-7 978-0-226-30826-5 978-0-226-07979-0 978-0-226-07980-6 978-0-226-12127-7 978-0-226-26369-4 978-0-226-46850-1 978-1-85124-418-8 978-0-226-37064-4 978-0-226-66695-2 978-0-226-13394-2

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115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171

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978-1-85124-445-4 978-1-85124-451-5 978-1-78023-498-4 978-1-86189-427-4 978-1-86189-391-8 978-1-78023-260-7 978-1-78023-348-2 978-1-78023-742-8 978-1-78023-111-2 978-1-86189-929-3 978-1-78023-638-4 978-1-78023-259-1 978-1-78023-500-4 978-1-78023-507-3 978-1-78023-174-7 978-1-58465-835-1 978-1-61168-312-7 978-1-84246-496-0 978-1-84246-588-2 978-0-226-05994-5 978-0-226-05995-2 978-0-226-47374-1 978-0-226-05490-2 978-0-226-20572-4 978-0-226-09166-2 978-1-78914-007-1 978-1-78023-719-0 978-1-78023-746-6 978-1-78023-342-0 978-0-226-29349-3 978-1-60223-088-0 978-1-60223-045-3 978-0-226-47156-3 978-0-226-36609-8 978-1-907973-94-9 978-0-226-01066-3 978-0-226-03304-4 978-0-226-10064-7 978-1-909961-26-5 978-1-909961-21-0 978-1-904950-28-8 978-1-906598-92-1 978-1-909961-38-8 978-1-907973-98-7 978-1-909961-44-9 978-1-906598-17-4 978-1-905791-39-2 978-1-907973-91-8 978-1-910376-50-8 978-1-907973-80-2 978-1-909961-04-3 978-1-909961-00-5 978-1-909961-27-2 978-1-909961-58-6 978-0-226-51384-3 978-0-226-08261-5 978-0-911028-71-3

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172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249

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978-0-226-67649-4 978-1-909741-08-9 978-0-226-11396-8 978-1-909741-20-1 978-1-889963-82-2 978-1-78023-907-1 978-1-904897-89-7 978-1-909741-32-4 978-0-226-27201-6 978-3-85881-757-0 978-3-85881-774-7 978-3-7774-2682-2 978-0-226-79120-3 978-0-85742-205-7 978-3-7774-5001-8 978-0-226-33315-1 978-0-226-33313-7 978-3-7774-3971-6 978-0-226-31796-0 978-0-226-42435-4 978-1-78023-758-9 978-0-226-47245-4 978-0-226-73071-4 978-0-226-46086-4 978-0-226-40398-4 978-0-226-50042-3 978-1-78023-522-6 978-0-226-49568-2 978-1-5126-0048-3 978-1-84150-234-2 978-0-226-57184-3 978-1-85124-280-1 978-1-61168-974-7 978-0-226-13427-7 978-1-5126-0063-6 978-0-226-12990-7 978-0-226-71745-6 978-0-226-09875-3 978-0-226-11263-3 978-0-226-11264-0 978-0-226-06753-7 978-0-226-47755-8 978-0-87451-904-4 978-0-226-60473-2 978-0-226-59548-1 978-1-78023-976-7 978-1-78023-530-1 978-1-78023-531-8 978-0-226-48274-3 978-0-226-28469-9 978-0-226-45388-0 978-0-226-37436-9 978-0-226-60991-1 978-0-226-46718-4 978-0-226-09491-5 978-0-226-85320-8 978-0-226-85310-9 978-0-226-49478-4 978-0-226-46962-1 978-1-904341-16-1 978-1-883982-54-6 978-0-226-28809-3 978-0-226-75259-4 978-0-226-44961-6 978-0-226-66256-5 978-0-226-56083-0 978-0-85742-585-0 978-1-904950-31-8 978-1-908323-51-4 978-1-905791-52-1 978-1-78023-974-3 978-1-78023-998-9 978-1-78023-807-4 978-1-78914-081-1 978-1-78914-084-2 978-1-78023-094-8 978-1-78023-493-9 978-1-86189-900-2

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328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405

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978-1-86189-343-7 978-1-86189-906-4 978-1-78023-923-1 978-0-226-52050-6 978-0-226-00659-8 978-0-226-30496-0 978-1-78023-830-2 978-1-78023-920-0 978-1-78023-723-7 978-1-78023-844-9 978-1-85124-459-1 978-0-226-29191-8 978-0-226-37825-1 978-0-226-68268-6 978-0-226-30511-0 978-1-60223-007-1 978-0-226-56870-6 978-0-226-04579-5 978-0-226-45536-5 978-0-226-53166-3 978-0-226-13976-0 978-0-226-98297-7 978-0-226-37632-5 978-0-226-43745-3 978-0-226-36948-8 978-0-226-36934-1 978-0-226-22435-0 978-0-226-36691-3 978-0-226-20491-8 978-3-7774-2751-5 978-0-226-50234-2 978-1-78023-341-3 978-1-78023-815-9 978-1-78023-926-2 978-1-78914-013-2 978-0-226-21592-1 978-0-226-48123-4 978-0-226-34214-6 978-1-910065-83-9 978-0-226-44970-8 978-0-226-12185-7 978-0-226-47052-8 978-0-226-28719-5 978-1-78023-043-6 978-0-226-38103-9 978-0-226-43694-4 978-0-226-19518-6 978-0-226-47593-6 978-1-86189-406-9 978-0-226-11547-4 978-0-226-46542-5 978-0-226-33077-8 978-0-226-27893-3 978-0-226-65539-0 978-0-226-33841-5 978-0-226-62238-5 978-0-226-35394-4 978-0-226-26582-7 978-0-226-56052-6 978-0-226-30745-9 978-0-226-12794-1 978-0-226-12813-9 978-0-226-34813-1 978-0-226-33385-4 978-0-226-28736-2 978-0-226-39588-3 978-0-226-33225-3 978-0-226-16361-1 978-0-226-04064-6 978-1-60223-044-6 978-1-889963-72-3 978-1-60223-072-9 978-1-78023-935-4 978-1-78023-732-9 978-1-78023-279-9 978-1-86189-374-1 978-1-86189-297-3 978-1-86189-396-3

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406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483

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978-1-78023-423-6 978-1-86189-877-7 978-1-86189-795-4 978-1-86189-325-3 978-1-78023-996-5 978-1-78023-973-6 978-1-78023-488-5 978-0-226-44712-4 978-0-226-04480-4 978-0-226-02086-0 978-0-226-04694-5 978-0-226-05988-4 978-0-226-05901-3 978-0-226-04971-7 978-1-85124-382-2 978-1-85124-476-8 978-0-226-87182-0 978-0-226-29837-5 978-0-226-20328-7 978-0-226-59441-5 978-0-226-22498-5 978-0-226-28346-3 978-0-226-28348-7 978-0-226-34577-2 978-0-226-55143-2 978-1-78023-363-5 978-0-226-70716-7 978-1-78023-914-9 978-0-226-51951-7 978-0-226-34624-3 978-1-57586-582-9 978-1-57586-010-7 978-1-57586-382-5 978-1-57586-212-5 978-1-57586-248-4 978-0-226-30504-2 978-0-226-00581-2 978-1-61168-842-9 978-0-226-13650-9 978-0-226-36545-9 978-0-226-80575-7 978-1-86189-169-3 978-0-226-73704-1 978-0-226-05547-3 978-0-226-40725-8 978-0-226-27506-2 978-0-226-55516-4 978-0-226-49666-5 978-0-226-50526-8 978-0-226-17834-9 978-0-226-18336-7 978-0-226-40871-2 978-0-226-33466-0 978-0-226-13784-1 978-0-226-42832-1 978-0-226-40921-4 978-0-9761475-5-8 978-0-226-33290-1 978-0-226-42006-6 978-0-226-52552-5 978-0-226-46833-4 978-0-226-53250-9 978-0-226-42636-5 978-0-226-16389-5 978-0-226-38475-7 978-0-226-39283-7 978-0-226-32058-8 978-0-226-27487-4 978-0-226-32044-1 978-0-226-32047-2 978-0-226-33399-1 978-0-226-23679-7 978-0-226-45214-2 978-0-226-36755-2 978-0-226-52762-8 978-0-226-43138-3 978-0-226-50476-6 978-0-85742-534-8

$7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $15.00 $7.00 $9.00 $13.00 $9.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $11.00 $11.00 $9.00 $17.00 $9.00 $10.00 $7.00 $7.00 $13.00 $13.00 $13.00 $13.00 $9.00 $11.00 $10.00 $10.00 $10.00 $10.00 $10.00 $7.00 $7.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $7.00 $7.00 $5.00 $129.00 $13.00 $7.00 $9.00 $11.00 $11.00 $33.00 $9.00 $8.00 $8.00 $7.00 $9.00 $11.00 $5.00 $5.00 $7.00 $21.00 $21.00 $21.00 $21.00 $21.00 $13.00 $10.00 $19.00 $19.00 $19.00 $19.00 $13.00 $8.00 $8.00 $12.00 $9.00 $10.00 $9.00 $8.00

Quant. #

484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561

ISBN

Price

978-0-85742-583-6 978-0-85742-576-8 978-0-226-35038-7 978-0-226-00536-2 978-0-226-14013-1 978-1-85124-384-6 978-1-85124-401-0 978-0-226-04083-7 978-0-226-46878-5 978-0-226-06235-8 978-1-78023-715-2 978-0-226-33208-6 978-1-85124-464-5 978-1-85124-463-8 978-0-226-15783-2 978-0-226-15503-6 978-0-226-04150-6 978-0-226-30666-7 978-0-226-13444-4 978-0-226-30647-6 978-0-226-40580-3 978-0-226-18191-2 978-1-5126-0151-0 978-1-61168-922-8 978-0-226-30834-0 978-0-226-43175-8 978-0-85742-474-7 978-0-85742-221-7 978-0-226-44919-7 978-0-85742-041-1 978-0-226-41261-0 978-0-226-20779-7 978-0-226-24038-1 978-0-226-26064-8 978-0-226-46279-0 978-0-226-13170-2 978-0-226-18689-4 978-0-226-13718-6 978-1-85124-481-2 978-1-85124-482-9 978-1-85124-461-4 978-1-85124-494-2 978-1-85124-493-5 978-1-85124-469-0 978-1-60223-098-9 978-1-889963-87-7 978-1-60223-241-9 978-0-226-84878-5 978-0-226-84872-3 978-0-226-84879-2 978-0-226-84866-2 978-0-226-84867-9 978-0-226-84869-3 978-0-226-84874-7 978-0-226-84870-9 978-0-226-84877-8 978-0-226-84876-1 978-0-226-84873-0 978-0-226-84875-4 978-0-226-59663-1 978-0-226-65544-4 978-0-226-65964-0 978-0-226-47206-5 978-1-85124-485-0 978-1-85124-496-6 978-1-85124-555-0 978-0-226-28328-9 978-1-78914-120-7 978-1-85124-423-2 978-0-226-46704-7 978-1-78914-138-2 978-1-78023-022-1 978-1-86189-866-1 978-1-86189-919-4 978-1-78914-280-8 978-1-78914-140-5 978-1-78023-675-9 978-1-78914-310-2

$11.00 $7.00 $7.00 $5.00 $7.00 $9.00 $5.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $9.00 $7.00 $15.00 $10.00 $10.00 $9.00 $8.00 $9.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $7.00 $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 $10.40 $9.60 $9.60 $9.60 $12.00 $9.60 $16.00 $12.00 $10.40 $9.60 $9.60 $9.60 $36.00 $11.20 $11.20 $12.00 $52.00 $16.00 $24.00 $7.00 $11.20 $14.00 $12.00 $11.20 $20.00 $20.00 $24.00 $18.00 $28.00 $23.20 $20.00

Quant. #

562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 900 987 988 989 991 992 993 994 997 999

ISBN

Price

978-0-226-75524-3 $28.00 978-1-912423-14-9 $18.36 978-1-909961-74-6 $23.96 978-0-226-69089-6 $28.00 978-0-226-59145-2 $32.00 978-1-78914-212-9 $18.00 978-0-226-52583-9 $16.00 978-0-226-75023-1 $24.00 978-0-226-42569-6 $60.00 978-1-912208-96-8 $15.16 978-1-78914-217-4 $14.40 978-0-226-73188-9 $22.00 978-1-78914-351-5 $20.00 978-1-85124-519-2 $24.00 978-1-78914-223-5 $18.00 978-0-226-76074-2 $16.00 978-0-226-65009-8 $15.20 978-0-226-71876-7 $16.00 978-0-226-41504-8 $22.00 978-0-226-66435-4 $23.99 978-0-226-45861-8 $28.00 978-0-226-63115-8 $32.00 978-0-226-75510-6 $14.40 978-1-78914-338-6 $18.00 978-0-226-69805-2 $20.80 978-0-226-71523-0 $20.80 978-0-226-66970-0 $22.00 978-0-226-75877-0 $14.40 978-1-78914-155-9 $16.00 978-0-226-62272-9 $26.00 978-1-78914-290-7 $20.00 978-0-226-33242-0 $28.00 978-1-78914-295-2 $11.20 978-0-226-72834-6 $28.00 978-0-226-52308-8 $20.00 978-0-226-67391-2 $26.00 978-0-226-07644-7 $28.00 978-1-84246-682-7 $28.00 978-0-226-67505-3 $28.00 978-1-85124-529-1 $20.00 978-1-944970-39-0 $24.00 978-0-226-75054-5 $60.00 978-0-226-70646-7 $20.00 978-1-68458-032-3 $28.00 978-0-226-68296-9 $9.60 978-1-78914-227-3 $16.00 978-0-226-42104-9 $14.40 978-0-226-62496-9 $9.60 978-1-78914-236-5 $14.40 978-0-226-69142-8 $16.00 978-1-78023-745-9 $18.00 978-0-226-73966-3 $20.00 978-0-226-73479-8 $14.40 978-1-78914-210-5 $11.20 978-0-226-73952-6 $22.00 978-1-85124-507-9 $18.00 978-1-85124-388-4 $12.00 978-1-85124-387-7 $12.00 978-1-85124-448-5 $12.80 978-1-78914-068-2 $11.19 978-1-78023-903-3 $12.80 978-1-85124-471-3 $14.00 978-1-85124-472-0 $9.00 978-1-85124-505-5 $18.00 978-0-226-68279-2 $14.40 978-0-226-64670-1 $16.00 978-1-85124-409-6 $14.00 978-0-226-71389-2 $20.00 978-0-226-44807-7 $11.20 978-0-226-64393-9 $11.20 978-0-226-61669-8 $18.00 978-0-226-43026-3 $13.60 978-0-226-43057-7 $14.40 978-0-226-28705-8 $56.00 978-0-226-23973-6 $14.40 978-0-226-18885-0 $36.00 978-0-226-49991-8 $48.00

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