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Fall 2009
University of California Press | Fall 2009

Fall 2009
From the Director Contents

I am pleased to present another season of outstanding books General Interest 2
and authors.
Poetry 41
The following pages offer inspiring gift ideas, including the
comprehensive Book of Codes, the colorful Historical Atlas of Art 45
the American West, authoritative guides to the wine regions of Music 47
Champagne and Tuscany, new dinosaur discoveries, the first-
ever Encyclopedia of Pasta, and Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
Cinema 48
with illustrations by master engraver Barry Moser. History 49
Our literature list features a groundbreaking volume of Classics 56
Mayan writing over two millennia and an array of poetry
from diverse voices. Beautifully illustrated art books showcase Anthropology 57
the Italian Renaissance, contemporary art, Surrealism, and Sociology 63
American artists Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jacob Lawrence,
Science 65
and William T. Wiley, among others.
A number of authors tackle important policy issues such Series Monographs 69
as water resources, environmental conservation, U.S. detention Religion 69
and interrogation practices, and school lunches. And we bring
you the best research and ideas of distinguished scholars work-
Paperbacks 71
ing in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, Huntington Library Press 101
many of whom have previously published with UC Press. Watershed Media 104
Don’t forget to visit www.ucpress.edu for our entire selec-
tion of books and journals in print. Happy reading! University of California
Publishing Services 105
Ordering Information 106
Mark Twain Project Online 109
Lynne Withey Author Index 110
Director Title Index 111
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Edited by Paul Lunde

The Book of Codes
Understanding the World of Hidden Messages
An Illustrated Guide to Signs, Symbols, Cyphers, and Secret Languages
The art of the code—code making and code breaking—remains

shrouded in mystery and seems locked away in the murky realms of
military intelligence, spies, and secret services. Yet codes affect virtu-
ally every area of our lives, providing security, protecting identity, and
enabling us to connect via the Internet across global boundaries. This
lavishly illustrated encyclopedia surveys the history and development
of code making and code breaking in all areas of culture and society—
from hieroglyphs and runes to DNA, the Zodiac Killer, The Da Vinci
Code, graffiti, and beyond. Beginning with the first codes, including
those found in the natural world and among ancient peoples, the book
casts a wide net, exploring secret societies, codes of war, codes of the
underworld, commerce, human behavior, and civilization itself. Editor
Paul Lunde and an extraordinary group of specialists have compiled
Paul Lunde is the author of Islam: Faith, Culture,
the most comprehensive and complete
History and Organized Crime: An Inside Guide
collection of codes available. Visually
to the World’s Most Successful Industry and the
coauthor of A Land Transformed, a history of stunning and packed with fascinating
Saudi Arabia. details, The Book of Codes tells the com-
plete story of codes at a time when they
Copub: Weldon Owen Publishing
have become fundamentally important
SEPTEMBER to our lives.
288 pages, 10 x 8-3/4”, 350 color illustrations
History/Cultural Anthropology/Sociology
North America, U.S. & Territories
cloth 978-0-520-26013-9 $29.95
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e nter the mysterious world of code making

and code breaking to unveil and untangle the
Hieroglyphs
Morse Code
Early petroglyphs
secrets of languages, societies, and symbols Runes
throughout history... Currency and counterfeits
Flag signals
Animal tracks
Cuneiform writing
Religious iconography
Alphabets
Numerical systems
The Phaistos Disc
Riddles of the Maya
Totem poles
Cipher disks
Crossword puzzles
Hobo chalk marks
The Zodiac legacy
Cockney rhyming slang
Military maps
Graffiti
Calendars
Taxonomy
DNA
Freemasons
Stained glass windows
Survival signals
Medieval heraldry
Extraterrestrials
Early computers
Musical notation
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Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff

In the Shadow of Slavery
Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
“In the Shadow of Slavery is the most thorough and systematic

examination of Africa’s botanical contributions to the Americas.
This is truly creative and unique scholarship.”
James H. Sweet, author of Recreating Africa
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bond-

age. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the
Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery
provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and
upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops
slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own
nourishment. Many familiar foods—millet, sorghum, coffee, okra,
watermelon, and the “Asian” long bean, for example—are native to
Africa, while commercial products such as Coca-Cola, Worcestershire
sauce, and Palmolive soap rely on African plants that were brought
to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and
bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith
A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological
Judith A. Carney is the recipient of the John Simon
records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show
Guggenheim Fellowship (2005) and a Professor
of Geography at the University of California, Los how slaves’ food plots—“botanical gardens of the dispossessed”—
Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and
book Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.
Cultivation in the Americas. Richard Nicholas
Rosomoff is an independent writer.
NOVEMBER
238 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 color illustrations,
10 b/w photographs, 48 line illustrations
World/History/Geography/Agriculture/
African American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25750-4 $27.50/£20.95
Cattle herd from Tassili Jabberen rock art, ca. 4000 b.c.e.

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Gilbert Waldbauer
Fireflies, Honey, and Silk
With Illustrations by James Nardi
“Gilbert Waldbauer takes us on a wild and storied ride through the

insect world. Page after page, Fireflies, Honey, and Silk is highly
entertaining, authoritative, encyclopedic, mesmerizing.”
Erich Hoyt, author of Insect Lives and The Earth Dwellers
The beauty of butterflies, the cheerful chirp of crickets, the ink our
ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our
toast, the silk we wear. This enchanting book is a highly entertain-
ing exploration of the myriad ways insects have enriched our lives—
culturally, economically, and aesthetically. Entomologist and writer
Gilbert Waldbauer describes in loving, colorful detail how many of
the valuable products insects have given us are made, how they were
discovered, and how they have been used through time and across
cultures. Along the way, he takes us on a captivating ramble through
many far-flung corners of history, mythology, poetry, literature, medi-
cine, ecology, forensics, and more. Enlivened with personal anecdotes Gilbert Waldbauer is Emeritus Professor of
from Waldbauer’s distinguished career as an entomologist, the book Entomology at the University of Illinois. He is
also describes surprising everyday encounters we all experience that the author of many books on insects, including
were made possible by insects. From butterfly gardens and fly-fishing Insights from Insects, The Handy Bug Answer
to sex pheromones and insects as jewelry, this is an eye-opening ode to Book, and A Walk around the Pond: Insects in
and over the Water. James Nardi is a research
the wonder of insects that illuminates our extraordinary and essential
scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
relationship with the natural world.
Champaign and the author of Life in the Soil:
A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners.
OCTOBER
246 pages, 6 x 8”, 21 line illustrations
Natural History/Entomology/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-25883-9 $25.95/£19.95
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Anne Salmond
Aphrodite’s Island
The European Discovery of Tahiti
“A fresh history of early Tahiti, considerably richer than any published

before. Important and revelatory.” Nicholas Thomas, author of Cook
“A complex and consequential story, told with clarity, élan, and insight.”
Donald Brenneis, author of Law and Empire in the Pacific
Aphrodite’s Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of

Tahiti, the Pacific island that has figured so powerfully in European
imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality
of “savages.” In this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers
to the center of these peoples’ shared history to furnish rich insights
into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full
extent of European fascination with Tahiti. As she discerns the impact
and meaning of the European effect on the islands, she demonstrates
how the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became
entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts
and artwork and collections of Tahitian artifacts and illustrated with
contemporary sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages,
Dame Anne Salmond is Distinguished Professor of
Aphrodite’s Island provides a vivid account of the visitors’ Tahitian
Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University
of Auckland, New Zealand. Among her books is adventures and changes the way we view the history of this small
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog. island as it became a crossroads for Europe.
Copub: Penguin New Zealand
JANUARY
50 b/w photographs, 3 maps
Pacific Rim Studies/History/Anthropology
Omit Australia, New Zealand
cloth 978-0-520-26114-3 $29.95/£22.95
The Natives of Otaheite attacking Captain Wallis.

National Library of Australia.

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Dennis Tedlock
2000 Years of Mayan Literature
“A continuous narrative that skillfully links authors from the third
century to the sixteenth century with writers of today. An extremely
important, original, and innovative work.” Martha J. Macri, coauthor of
The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volumes 1 and 2
“A stunning recreation of the intellectual world of the ancient Maya,

the only fully literate people of pre-Columbian America. Beautifully
illustrated and wonderfully readable.”
Michael Coe, author of Breaking the Maya Code
Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an aston-

ishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the pres-
ent day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the
earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using
the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock—ethnographer, linguist, poet,
and award-winning author—draws on decades of living and work-
ing among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is
the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers
Dennis Tedlock is Distinguished Professor and
the texts chronologically. He establishes that women were among the
Endowed McNulty Chair of English and Research
ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan
Professor of Anthropology at the University at
rulers claimed the status of gods. 2000 Years of Mayan Buffalo of the State University of New York. He
Literature expands our understanding and apprecia- won a PEN translation prize for Popol Vuh: The
tion not only of Mayan literature but of indig- Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and The Glories
enous American literature in its entirety. of Gods and Kings.
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities

A Director’s Circle Book
JANUARY
492 pages, 7 x 10”, rich 2-color printing, 78 b/w
photographs, 291 line illustrations, 20 maps
Anthropology/Latin American Studies/History/Literature
World
cloth 978-0-520-23221-1 $49.95/£37.00
Far Left: The birth of Sun-Eyed Lord of the Shield, from the
sanctuary of Temple of the Sun-Eyed Shield at Palenque.
Drawing after Merle Greene Robertson and Linda Schele.
Left: Lady Shark Fin running a cord studded with thorns
through her tongue, creating a physical link between the
organs of speech and the book open before her. Drawing
after Ian Graham.
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Douglas Palmer
Evolution
The Story of Life
Illustrated by Peter Barrett
Evolution recreates the 3.5-billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning

detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest
scientific information, and hundreds of photographs. At the heart of
the book is an astonishing, beautifully detailed panorama by renowned
illustrator Peter Barrett that, in 100 double-page site reconstructions,
offers a freeze-frame view of the communities—from microbes to
humankind—that have lived on our planet’s continents and in its
oceans. These groundbreaking artworks, based on the most recent
findings at some of the most famous fossil sites around the world, are
paired with an authoritative and highly informative text written for a
wide audience of readers. A landmark project, published to commem-
orate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th
anniversary of his book On the Origin of Species, Evolution has been
Douglas Palmer teaches at Cambridge University produced in association with the Natural History Museum in London,
and is the author of many books, including Earth: one of the most important centers
The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Planet, The
of evolution research in the world. Evolution includes these spectacular
Origins of Man: An Illustrated History of Human
Evolution, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of
The volume includes an index of extras:
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. His articles the hundreds of species shown in • A special 16-page section opens out to
appear regularly in Science, BBC Wildlife, and New the illustrations, introductory arti- form an illustrated timeline chronicling
the development of life from 3.5 billion
Scientist. Peter Barrett is a natural history illustra- cles on evolution, and many other
years ago to the present.
tor, painter, graphic designer, and children’s book features, making it a must-have
author. • Pullout gatefolds explore two dramatic
reference for all homes, schools, landmark eras in detail—the Cambrian
Copub: Octopus Publishing Group and libraries. Explosion and Mass Extinction Events.
• A Trees of Life section uses the latest
OCTOBER methods to put the major lineages of
384 pages, 10-1/2 x 9-1/4”, 316 color photographs, life featured throughout the book into
100 color illustrations, 10 line illustrations, 30 maps, their evolutionary context using clear
2 gatefolds and concise diagrams and photographs.
Evolution/Paleontology/Earth Sciences
US & Canada
• A comprehensive Gazetteer of Sites
cloth 978-0-520-25511-1 $39.95
provides further information about the
sites featured in the panoramic art-
works, including how to visit them.
Some of the most complete records of past life. Right: Fossil

of Eocene-era Florissantia. Far right: Fossil of the arthropod,
trilobite.

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Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
Edited with Introduction, Afterword, and Notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Text established by the Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library
Illustrations by Barry Moser
“For those unaware that Mark Twain was one of America’s early
animal advocates, this collection will come as a revelation. Many of
these pieces are as fresh and lively as when they were first written.”
Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation
“A truly exhilarating work.”

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep
Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals

were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final
years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his death.
This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master
engraver Barry Moser, gathers writings from the full span of Mark
Twain’s career and elucidates his special attachment to and regard for
animals. What may surprise even longtime readers and fans is that
Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of English
Twain was an early and ardent animal welfare advocate, the most
and Director of American Studies at Stanford
University. Barry Moser is one of America’s
prominent American of his day to take up that cause. Edited and
foremost wood engravers and the proprietor selected by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who has also supplied an introduc-
of Pennyroyal Press. The Mark Twain Project, tion and afterword, Mark Twain’s Book of Animals includes stories that
housed within the Mark Twain Papers, is the are familiar along with those that are appearing in print for the first time.
world’s largest archive of primary materials by
this major American writer (see page 109).
“A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly
Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and
revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it
Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain, 3
prove title?” From Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
OCTOBER
American Literature/Pets
World
cloth 978-0-520-24855-7 $27.50/£20.95
Also by Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints
for Good Living
A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and
Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project
World
cloth 978-0-520-24245-6 $19.95/£14.95

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Randall Grahm
Been Doon So Long
A Randall Grahm Vinthology
Foreword by Hugh Johnson
“Raise your glass to Randall Grahm. Long may he tickle our fancy.”
Kermit Lynch, author of Adventures on the Wine Route
This eclectic collection at last brings to a wide audience the irrever-

ent, zany voice of Randall Grahm, visionary California winemaker
and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard. An iconoclastic send-up of the
wine industry and a celebration of unsung grape varieties, the book
features Grahm’s hilarious literary parodies—Joyce, Kafka, Pynchon,
Salinger, and others—together with song lyrics, other snarky satires,
poems, lectures, and more. Subtle undertones of gravitas with faint
suggestions of earnestness lie beneath the humor, however, as Grahm
passionately addresses the state of wine today: Where in wine does
“greatness” repose? How might true originality in New World wines
be found? Do New World winemakers have the integrity and courage
Randall Grahm’s writing has appeared in The
to unreservedly embrace terroir?
World of Fine Wine magazine. He has been induct-
This trove includes a very personal ed into Who’s Who of Cooking in America and
take on Dante’s Inferno (Grahm’s named Wine and Spirits Professional of the Year
own vision of Wine Hell) and a by the James Beard Foundation.
collection of tunes from the rock
NOVEMBER
opera “Born to Rhône.” Other 332 pages, 8-1/2 x 10”, 26 color illustrations,
pieces offer a fascinating glimpse 35 line illustrations
into the history of the Rhône Wine
World
Ranger wine movement and of cloth 978-0-520-25956-0 $34.95/£25.95
Bonny Doon itself, told through
the story of its adventurous wine
labels. Been Doon So Long is a
highly entertaining journey to find The pHs of Romanée County. Illustration by Alex Gross.
the truth of all things that may be
found in the unlikely medium of a
wineglass.
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Scott D. Sampson
Dinosaur Odyssey
Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
Foreword by Philip J. Currie
“The best general-audience dinosaur book since the Dinosaur

Renaissance began in the 1970s.”
from the Foreword by Philip J. Currie, coeditor of Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field,
gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their
world for a wide audience of readers. Situating these fascinating animals
in a broad ecological and evolutionary context, leading dinosaur expert
Scott D. Sampson fills us in on the exhilarating discoveries of the past
twenty-five years, the most active period in the history of dinosaur
paleontology, during which more “new” species were named than in
all prior history. With these discoveries—and the most recent contro-
versies—in mind, Sampson reconstructs the odyssey of the dinosaurs
from their humble origins on the supercontinent Pangaea, to their
reign as the largest animals the planet has ever known, and finally to
Scott D. Sampson is Research Curator at the their abrupt demise. Much more than the story of who ate whom way
Utah Museum of Natural History and Research back when, Dinosaur Odyssey places dinosaurs in an expansive web of
Associate Professor in the Department of Geology
relationships with other organisms. Addressing topics such as extinction,
and Geophysics at the University of Utah.
global warming, and energy flow, Dinosaur Odyssey finds that the
NOVEMBER dinosaurs’ story is, in fact, a major chapter in our own story.
5 b/w photographs, 59 line illustrations
Paleontology/Earth Sciences/Evolution
North America, US & Territories
cloth 978-0-520-24163-3 $29.95
Albasaurus pursues Dryosaurus. Illustration by Michael Skrepnick.

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Derek Hayes
Historical Atlas of
the American West
With Original Maps
Spectacular in scope and visually brilliant, this atlas presents a sweep-

ing history of the American West through more than 600 original,
full-color maps and informative extended captions. From the earliest
human inhabitants and the first European explorers to the national
parks and retirement resorts of today, this extensive collection chroni-
cles the West from uncharted territory to a well-populated Eden. We
bear witness as state lines strike through Native American territories,
see the frontier crack open and the railroad’s iron belt snake across the
Great Plains, and watch as the West’s cities rise and prosper. This is
the first atlas to compile all of the historically significant maps relat-
ing to the American West; it includes field sketches of battles, maps
depicting mythical rivers and fictional towns, and maps showing early
conceptions of California as an island. Distilling many centuries into
one fascinating volume, this atlas traces history as redwoods, mountains, Derek Hayes is the author of Historical Atlas of
and deserts become California, Montana, and Arizona, and offers a rare the United States, Historical Atlas of California,
opportunity to see the West through the eyes of its earliest explorers. and Historical Atlas of Oregon and Washington
(all from UC Press), among other books.
Copub: Douglas & McIntyre
OCTOBER
280 pages, 10 x 13-9/16”, 90 color illustrations,
606 maps
History/California and the West/Geography
World
cloth 978-0-520-25652-1 $39.95/£29.95
Above: The topography of Yellowstone National Park on a Northern Paciﬁc brochure dated 1904.
Right: An illustration drawn by an eleven-year-old Comanche boy, Combat between a Kiowa and a Comanche.
It appeared in an 1890 Census Report on Indians, published in 1894.
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Bill Sharpsteen
Dirty Water
One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s
Most Polluted Bays
Dirty Water is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los

Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollu-
tion in Santa Monica Bay—and won. The story begins in 1985, when
many scientists considered the bay to be one of the most polluted
bodies of water in the world. The insecticide DDT covered portions
of the sea floor. Los Angeles discharged partially treated sewage into its
waters. Lifeguards came down with mysterious illnesses. And Howard
Bennett happily swam in the bay every morning.
By accident, Bennett learned that Los Angeles had applied for a
waiver from the Clean Water Act to continue discharging sewage into
the bay. Incensed that he had been swimming in dirty water, Bennett
organized an oddball coalition to orchestrate stunts such as wrapping
brown ribbon around L.A.’s city hall and issuing Dirty Toilet Awards
to chastise the city’s administration. This is the fast-paced story of
how this unusual cast of characters created an environmental move-
ment in Los Angeles that continues to this day through the nationally
recognized group Heal the Bay. Character-driven, compelling, and
Bill Sharpsteen is a writer and photographer uplifting, Dirty Water tells how even the most polluted water can be
based in Los Angeles. His articles have appeared cleaned up—by ordinary people.
in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles
Magazine, and the Washington Post. He has also
worked as an award-winning documentary producer.
A Stephen Bechtel Fund Book in Ecology and the

Environment
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249 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 14 b/w photographs
California & the West/Politics/Water
World
cloth 978-0-520-25660-6 $27.50/£20.95
Brittle sea stars in Santa Monica Bay soil sample.

Photo by the author.

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Laurel E. Fletcher and Eric Stover

The Guantánamo Effect
Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention
and Interrogation Practices
Stephen Paul Smith, Alexa Koenig, Zulaikha Aziz, Alexis Kelly,
Sarah Staveteig, Nobuko Mizoguchi
Foreword by the Honorable Patricia M. Wald
“What happened to prisoners at Guantanamo is one of the most

shameful moments in recent American history. Anyone who seeks the
truth about these events--now and for years to come--will be in debt
to this study, which is comprehensive and careful, poignant and
devastating.” Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost
“Of great value to anyone coming to terms with this painful history.”
Christopher Kutz, University of California, Berkeley
This book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S.

government’s detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reveals
in graphic detail the cumulative effect of the Bush administration’s
“war on terror.” Scrupulously researched and devoid of rhetoric, the
book deepens the story of post-9/11 America and the nation’s descent
Laurel E. Fletcher is Director of the International
into the netherworld of prisoner abuse. Researchers interviewed more
Human Rights Law Clinic and Clinical Professor
than sixty former Guantánamo detainees in nine countries, as well of Law at the University of California, Berkeley,
as key government officials, military experts, former guards, inter- School of Law. Eric Stover is Faculty Director of
rogators, lawyers for detainees, and other camp personnel. We hear the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor
directly from former detainees as they describe the events surrounding of Law and Public Health at the University of
their capture, their years of incarceration, and the myriad difficul- California, Berkeley.
ties preventing many from resuming a normal life upon returning SEPTEMBER
home. Prepared jointly by researchers with the Human Rights Center, 192 pages, 6 x 9”, 18 b/w photographs
University of California, Berkeley, and the International Human Politics
World
Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of cloth 978-0-520-26176-1 $40.00tx/£29.95
Law, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, The paper 978-0-520-26177-8 $15.95/£11.95
Guantánamo Effect contributes significantly to the debate surrounding
the U.S.’s commitment to international law during war time.
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Bryant Simon
Everything but the Coffee
Learning about America from Starbucks
“Simon knows more about Starbucks—and about why so many

Americans find perfection in their lattes—than anyone. He connects
our deepest desires to be good, smart, ethical consumers with our
equally strong yearning to consume in an authentic way. Our coffee,
Simon shows, is us.” Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City
Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world’s most famous
coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul
McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about
America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around the
world to ask, Why did Starbucks take hold so quickly with consum-
ers? What did it seem to provide over and above a decent cup of cof-
fee? Why at the moment of Starbucks’ profit-generating peak did the
company lose its way, leaving observers baffled about how it might
regain its customers and its cultural significance? Everything but the
Coffee probes the company’s psychological, emotional, political, and
sociological power to discover how Starbucks’ explosive success and
Bryant Simon is Professor of History and the rapid deflation exemplify American culture at this historical moment.
Director of American Studies at Temple University
Most importantly, it shows that Starbucks speaks to a deeply felt
and the author, most recently, of Boardwalk
American need for predictability and class standing, community and
Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban
America. authenticity, revealing that Starbucks’ appeal lies not in the product it
sells but in the easily consumed identity it offers.
OCTOBER
318 pages, 6 x 9”
Business/American History/Sociology
World Excerpt from the book:
cloth 978-0-520-26106-8 $25.95/£19.95 “‘Successful people go there,’ a first-generation college student
once explained to me about her Starbucks latte habit; ’and I hope
it rubs off on me.’”

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John Varriano
Tastes and Temptations
Food and Art in Renaissance Italy
“John Varriano’s book not only is a delightful read but draws fascinat-
ing parallels between two hitherto disparate fields: art history and
the history of food in the Renaissance.”
Ken Albala, author of Eating Right in the Renaissance and Beans: A History
“A stimulating, provocative, and always entertaining study—a tasting

menu of gastronomic and visual delights.”
Gillian Riley, author of The Oxford Companion to Italian Food
Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still-life paintings, the

Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del
Sarto, a recipe for fish molded in the shape of a goat, the discovery
of an Ovidian scene at the bottom of a soup bowl. A feast for the
mind and eye, this beautifully illustrated, compellingly readable book
is a rich exploration of the little-examined interplay between art
and cuisine during the Italian Renaissance. Investigating a dazzling
array of artworks, and drawing from period recipes and menus, John John Varriano is Idella Plimpton Kendall Professor
Varriano illuminates the many, often surprising, ways that cooks and of Art History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the
author of Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture,
artists converged and drew from one another’s worlds. Among other
Rome: A Literary Companion, and Caravaggio: The
topics, he considers the significance of Art of Realism.
culinary images in Renaissance art, traces
parallels in the use of ingredients such as California Studies in Food and Culture, 27
An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book
eggs and oil in kitchens and in studios,
examines elaborate centerpieces that were NOVEMBER
made of food, and looks at the emer- 275 pages, 6 x 8”, 75 color illustrations
Food/Art/History
gence of the celebrity cook and celebrity World
painter. Woven throughout with the cloth 978-0-520-25904-1 $29.95/£22.95
flavors and colors of the era, this book
of Renaissance temptations expands our
understanding of the traditional bound-
Pier Leone Ghezzi, Portrait of Marco Ballarini.
aries of creative expression. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
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Announcing a New Series

Introducing The World’s finest wines, a new series of
authoritative “field guides” to the world’s most important wine
regions by the experts behind The World of Fine Wine magazine
Nicolas Belfrage MW
The Finest Wines of
Tuscany and Central Italy
A regional and village guide to the best wines and their producers
The wines of Tuscany were famous long before Leonardo da Vinci

described them as “bottled sunshine,” and they are at the forefront of
the remarkable renaissance of Italian wine over the past 30 years. In
this groundbreaking new book, Nicolas Belfrage shares his insider’s
knowledge acquired as a specialist wine trader and writer. Mindful
Nicolas Belfrage MW has worked with Italian
of the region’s fascinating past, Belfrage brings its story up to date,
wine, either in the trade or as a writer, since the discussing such subjects as geology and geography, grape varieties,
early 1970s and qualified as a Master of Wine in and the latest research into Sangiovese, the variety used in the top
1980, the first American to achieve this honor. He wines of Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vino Nobile
is the author of Barolo to Valpolicella: The Wines di Montepulciano. He also clarifies the regulatory framework and
of Northern Italy and Brunello to Zibibbo: Tuscany, follows the recent controversial developments in viticulture and wine-
Central and Southern Italy.
making, including the rise of the Super-Tuscans and the ongoing
The World’s Finest Wines “Brunellogate” scandal that broke in 2008. At the heart of the book
Copub: Quarto Group/The World of Fine Wine are in-depth, illustrated profiles of more than 90 of the most interesting
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producers, large and small, with insightful notes on the essential charac-
320 pages, 6-1/2 x 8-5/8”, 163 color photographs, ter of their finest wines. The author also offers a comprehensive review
8 maps of vintages and selects his top 100 wines in ten different categories,
Viticulture/Food & Wine
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paper 978-0-520-25942-3 $34.95
Castello di Brolio, home to the Ricasoli family since the

12th century, towers over Chianti Classico’s largest estate.

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Michael Edwards
The Finest Wines of Champagne
A guide to the best cuvées, houses, and growers
Champagne is synonymous with celebration and success—but have

its festive associations detracted from its status as a fine wine in its
own right? Drawing on his intimate knowledge of a classic but rapidly
changing region, Michael Edwards takes a radically different approach
in this unrivaled, terroir-based guide to the world’s best sparkling
wines. Ninety in-depth profiles of the best small growers as well as
the greatest houses are organized geographically—from the finest
Michael Edwards is a writer specializing in
producers of the great city of Reims, wine towns of Epernay and Aÿ,
Champagne and gastronomy. He is the author of
and the leading villages of the Marne, and to the rising stars of the the best-selling Champagne Companion (winner of
Aube (Côte des Bar) and beyond. Edwards also discusses the culture Le Prix Lanson), Pocket Guide to Champagne and
of Champagne, reviews trends in viticulture and winemaking, and Sparkling Wine, and The Red Wine Companion.
investigates controversial solutions to Edwards is also a regular contributor to The World
the current crisis of success in a region of Fine Wine among other publications.
that cannot satisfy global demand for The World’s Finest Wines
its wines. Additional sections explore Copub: Quarto Group/The World of Fine Wine
the gastronomic traditions of the area,
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food, survey the vintages of the past 8 maps
20 years, list the wines with the best Viticulture/Food & Wine
price-to-quality ratio, and more, making paper 978-0-520-25940-9 $34.95
this extensively illustrated work a true
connoisseur’s guide to the most glamor-
ous and perhaps the most enigmatic of
French wines.
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Patrick E. McGovern
Uncorking the Past
The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
“Patrick McGovern has written his masterpiece. This is an authorita-

tive, groundbreaking history based on cutting-edge science and keen
perceptions that will appeal to archaeologists, historians, and foodies
alike.” Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia,

Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity’s ingenious,
intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail
of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E.
McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages,
reveals what we now know about how humans created and enjoyed
fermented beverages across cultures. Along the way, he explores a pro-
vocative hypothesis about the integral role such libations have played
in human evolution. We discover, for example, that the cereal staples
of the modern world were probably domesticated for their potential
in making quantities of alcoholic beverages. These include the delec-
table rice wines of China and Japan, the corn beers of the Americas,
and the millet and sorghum drinks of Africa. Humans also learned
how to make mead from honey and wine
Patrick E. McGovern is head of the Biomolecular
from exotic fruits of all kinds—even from
Archaeology Laboratory at the University of
Pennsylvania Museum, where he is also Adjunct
the sweet pulp of the cacao (chocolate)
Professor of Anthropology. His books include fruit in the New World. The perfect
Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of drink, it turns out—whether it be
Viniculture. McGovern’s research on the origins of mind-altering, medicinal, a religious
alcoholic beverages has been featured in Time, symbol, a social lubricant, or artistic
The New York Times, The New Yorker, Nature, and inspiration—has not only been a
elsewhere.
profound force in history, but may
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320 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 color illustrations, condition itself.
30 b/w photographs, 4 maps
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Cacao serving vessel, Rio Azul Guatemala.

Courtesy Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

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Oretta Zanini De Vita

Encyclopedia of Pasta
Translated by Maureen B. Fant; with a Foreword by Carol Field
Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatelle, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati—pasta in

its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer
than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a com-
plete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant
variety of shapes it takes and the even greater abundance of names by
which it is known. Food scholar Oretta Zanini De Vita traveled to
every corner of her native Italy, recording oral histories, delving into
long-forgotten family cookbooks, and searching obscure archives to
produce this rich and uniquely personal compendium of historical
and geographical information. For each entry she includes the primary
ingredients, preparation techniques, variant names, and locality where
it is made and eaten. Along the way, Zanini De Vita debunks such
culinary myths as Marco Polo’s supposed role in pasta’s story even as
she serves up a feast of new information. Encyclopedia of Pasta, illus-
trated throughout with original drawings by Luciana Marini, will be
the standard reference on one of the world’s favorite foods for many
years to come, engaging and delighting both general readers and food
professionals. Oretta Zanini De Vita is a leading Italian food
critic and the author of several books on Italian
cuisine including The Food of Rome and Lazio:
History, Folklore, and Recipes and Il cibo e il suo
mondo nella campagna romana. Maureen B. Fant
is a writer and translator and is coauthor of
Dictionary of Italian Cuisine.
California Studies in Food and Culture, 26
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400 pages, 6 x 9”, 101 line illustrations, 1 map
Food & Cooking/European Studies/History
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Janet Poppendieck
Free for All
Fixing School Food in America
“President Obama has promised to end childhood hunger in America

by the year 2015. He and his team should read Jan Poppendieck’s
new book Free for All. Anyone who cares about our children should
read this book.”
Bill Ayres, Co-Founder and Executive Director of WHY (World Hunger Year)
“Extraordinarily well thought out, beautifully written, sympathetic,

and compelling. Anyone who reads this book will find the present
school lunch situation beyond unacceptable. Free for All is a call for
action on behalf of America’s school kids, one that we all need to join.”
Marion Nestle, author of Pet Food Politics
How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for
lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation’s school
kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a com-
prehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Drawing
from extensive interviews with officials, workers, students, and activ-
ists, Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision
Janet Poppendieck is Professor of Sociology at from multiple perspectives—history, policy, nutrition, environmental
Hunter College, City University of New York. She
sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situ-
is the author of Sweet Charity? Emergency Food
and the End of Entitlement and Breadlines Knee
ation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food
Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the
Depression. nutritional profile of federally funded meals? How well are they reach-
ing the students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture
as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces—the financial troubles of
JANUARY schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market
340 pages, 6 x 9” models—that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes
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with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children
cloth 978-0-520-24370-5 $27.50/£20.95 as a regular part of their school day.

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Joshua Clover
1989
Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About
“Joshua Clover finally puts the lie to the tiresome cliché that ‘writing
about music is like dancing about architecture.’ He shows definitively
that when the time is right, architecture is precisely what people do
dance about.” Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces
“Music and politics, drugs and society prove to be eerily congruent,

and Joshua Clover’s tough analysis dismantles prevailing myths while
revealing even stranger truths.” Luc Sante, author of Low Life
In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines

how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant
exploration of a year famously described as “the end of history.” Amid
the historic overturnings of 1989, including the fall of the Berlin Wall,
pop music experienced striking changes. Vividly conjuring cultural
sensations and events, Clover tracks the emergence of seemingly
unconnected phenomena—from grunge to acid house to gangsta
rap—asking if “perhaps pop had been biding its time until 1989
came along to make sense of its sensibility.” His analysis deftly moves Joshua Clover, Associate Professor at the
among varied artists and genres including Public Enemy, N.W.A., University of California at Davis, is the author of
Dr. Dre, De La Soul, The KLF, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, U2, Jesus The Totality for Kids (UC Press), The Matrix, and
Jones, the Scorpions, George Michael, Madonna, Roxette, and others. Madonna anno domini.
This elegantly written work, deliberately mirroring history as dialecti-
A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book
cal and ongoing, summons forth a new understanding of how “history
had come out to meet pop as something more than a fairytale, or JANUARY
170 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w photographs
something less. A truth, a way of being.”
Music/History/Politics
World
cloth 978-0-520-25255-4 $21.95/£16.95
General Interest
Mark A. Vieira
Irving Thalberg
Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
“Mark Vieira immerses us in Thalberg’s life and career and sheds

new light on the workings of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the peak of its
powers. This is an altogether remarkable piece of work. “
Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian
Hollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and oppor-

tunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood
illness to run Universal Pictures at age twenty; cofound Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and make stars of Lon Chaney,
Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean
Harlow. Known as Hollywood’s “Boy Wonder,” Thalberg created
classics such as Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Freaks,
Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good
Earth, but died tragically at thirty-seven.
His place in the pantheon should have
been assured, yet his films were not reis-
sued for thirty years, spurring critics to
question his legend and diminish his
Mark A. Vieira is a photographer, filmmaker, and
achievements. In this definitive biogra-
Hollywood historian. His previous books include
Hurrell’s Hollywood Portraits and Greta Garbo: phy, illustrated with rare photographs,
A Cinematic Legacy. Mark A. Vieira sets the record straight,
using unpublished production files, finan-
A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Book
cial records, and correspondence to con-
NOVEMBER firm the genius of Thalberg’s methods. In
416 pages, 6 x 9”, 36 b/w photographs addition, this is the first Thalberg biogra-
Film/Biography
phy to utilize both his recorded conversa-
World
cloth 978-0-520-26048-1 $34.95/£25.95 tions and the unpublished memoirs of his
wife, Norma Shearer.
The Thalbergs traveled to Europe in 1931.

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Gerald Nachman
Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!
Ed Sullivan’s America
“A three-dimensional portrait of the man and the show that were part
of our national consciousness for over two decades. Nachman’s style
is always accessible and will delight anyone interested in popular
culture.” Ron Simon, Curator of Television and Radio, Paley Center for Media
Before the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods
and the Internet, three television networks ruled America’s evenings.
And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip colum-
nist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. It was Sullivan’s
genius to take a worn-out stage genre—vaudeville—and transform it
into the TV variety show, a format that was to dominate for decades.
Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! tells the complete saga of The Ed
Sullivan Show and, through the voices of some 60 personalities inter-
viewed for the book, brings to life the most beloved, diverse, multi-
cultural, and influential variety hour ever to air. Gerald Nachman
takes us through those years, from the earliest dog acts and jugglers
to Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and beyond. No other TV show cut such
a broad swath through our national life or cast such a long shadow. Gerald Nachman is the author of Seriously Funny:
Nachman’s compulsively readable history, illustrated with classic pho- The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
tographs and filled with colorful anecdotes, reanimates The Ed Sullivan and Raised on Radio (UC Press) among other books.
Show for a new generation. An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
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Media Studies/Television
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Edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Jacquelynn Baas

Learning Mind
Experience into Art
“Learning Mind is astonishing in its range of authors, depths of

perception, and subjects, gliding elegantly among three thematic
clusters, from ‘Being of Being an Artist’ to ‘Making Art and Pedagogy’
and, finally, to ‘Experiencing Art.’ The editors have brilliantly and
imaginatively realized the promise of their anthology’s tantalizing,
terse title.” Moira Roth, author of Traveling Companions/Fractured Worlds
How is art conceived, created, and experienced? How is it taught?

How does the act of viewing a work make the viewer part of that
work? Learning Mind: Experience into Art addresses these questions
as it documents the changing practices in the making, teaching, and
exhibition of art. Timely, multifaceted, and instructive, this ground-
breaking volume explores the contemporary art experience and its
expanding presence in society through lively essays, revealing inter-
Mary Jane Jacob is Professor and Executive views, and provocative conversations with some of the most influential
Director of Exhibitions at the School of the Art
artists and educators of our time. Featured artists include Magdalena
Institute of Chicago. Jacquelynn Baas is the
author of Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy
Abakanowicz, Ann Hamilton, Alfredo Jaar, Kerry James Marshall, and
and Western Art (UC Press). Together Baas and Ernesto Pujol. Contributing authors include curators Marcia Tucker
Jacob conceived and edited Buddha Mind in and Christopher Bedford, art critics Michael Brenson and Jerry Saltz,
Contemporary Art (UC Press). art historian David Getsy, educators Ronald Jones and Lawrence
Rinder, philosopher Arthur Danto, and chef-educator Alice Waters.
Copub: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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288 pages, 8-1/2 x 10”, 67 color illustrations,
6 b/w photographs
Art/Art History
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cloth 978-0-520-26076-4 $45.00/£33.95
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Edited by Joann Moser

What’s It All Mean?
William T. Wiley in Retrospect
With Contributions by John Yau and John G. Hanhardt
The retrospective exhibition of the work of William T. Wiley (b. 1937)

that this publication accompanies is the first to be organized since
1979, when Wiley Territory opened at the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis. Thirty years later, What’s It All Mean? William T.
Wiley in Retrospect considers the artist’s entire career (including films)
through 2008. The art of William Wiley has stood the test of time
in the face of changing styles, successive movements, critical theories,
and passing fashion. Wiley’s self-deprecating humor and sense of the
absurd make his art accessible even to those who do not comprehend
his more ambiguous ideas, allusions, narratives, private symbols, and
layers of meaning. His liberal use of puns makes more palatable his
deadly serious commentary on war, pollution, global warming, racial
tension, and other threats to contemporary civilization. Wiley is best
known as a leading California artist, whose influence and impor- Joann Moser is Senior Curator of Graphic Arts at
tance in the San Francisco the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her most
recent publication is Graphic Masters, a catalogue
Bay area are well established.
of drawings from the museum’s collection.
This exhibition and catalogue
John Yau is a poet, critic, and freelance curator.
affirm his significance as an His recent books include A Thing Among Things:
artist of national stature whose The Art of Jasper Johns. John G. Hanhardt is
accomplishment resonates well Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts
beyond the region in which he at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
has chosen to live and the time
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recognition. OCTOBER
200 b/w photographs
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paper 978-0-520-26121-1 $39.95/£29.95
Exhibition dates:
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
October 2, 2009–January 24, 2010
William Wiley, The Good and the Grubby Part Strait, 1985.
Watercolor on paper, 30-1/4 x 22-1/4 in. Collection of Mr. and
Mrs. Graham Gund. Photograph by Eeva-inkeri.
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Patricia Hills
Painting Harlem Modern
The Art of Jacob Lawrence
“A long overdue study that will likely become the definitive work on
this seminal figure in American art.” Mary Ann Calo, Colgate University
Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American art-

ists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia
Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence’s long and productive
career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed
out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with
artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely posi-
tions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers
as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing
from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists,
Hills interprets Lawrence’s art as distilled from a life of struggle and
perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning
Patricia Hills, Professor of Art History at Boston with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial
University, is the author of Modern Art in the USA: image and follows each decade of Lawrence’s work, with accounts
Issues and Controversies of the Twentieth Century that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a
and contributed to Over the Line: The Art and Life groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence’s symbolic use of masks and
of Jacob Lawrence. masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is
An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence’s heroic efforts to meet
his many challenges while remaining true to his humanistic values and
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artistic vision.
205 b/w photographs
Art/African American Studies/American Literature
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cloth 978-0-520-25241-7 $49.95/£37.00
Jacob Lawrence, Many Whites Come to Harlem to Watch the

Negroes Dance, 1943. © 2009 The Jacob and Gwendolyn
Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York. Photo: The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation/
Art Resource.

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Therese Lichtenstein
Twilight Visions
Surrealism and Paris
With contributions by Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick
“This four-cornered exploration of the great surrealist epoch is enor-

mously enhanced by extraordinary imagery and extensive notes.”
Mary Ann Caws, author of The Surrealist Look
Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions,

activities, and writings, Twilight Visions, the beautifully illustrated
companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portrays the
French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis—in a kind of
twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major surrealist
exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassaï, André Kertész,
Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect
the tumultuous social and cultural Therese Lichtenstein is the author of Behind
transformations occurring in Paris in Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer (UC Press)
the 1920s and 1930s. Juxtaposing the among other books and essays. Julia Kelly is
the author of Art, Ethnography and the Life of
strange with the familiar, they seek
Objects: Paris, c. 1925–35. Among Colin Jones’s
to break down repressive hierarchies. books is Paris: The Biography of a City.
At the same time, they represent a Whitney Chadwick’s many books include Amazons
desire to change the world through in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks
experimental activities. This absorbing (UC Press).
volume considers the social, aesthetic,
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and political stances of the surrealists as An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book
they probed hidden aspects of the com-
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monplace and blurred the boundaries
between dreams and reality, subjectivity Art History/Photography
and objectivity. World
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Exhibition Dates:
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, Pola Illery in Sous les toits de Paris, directed by René Clair.
September 10, 2009–January 3, 2010 © Films Sonores Tobis. Photo: Films Sonores Tobis/Photofest.
International Center of Photography, New York, February–May 2010

Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, June–September 2010
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Ivan Bargna
Africa
This spectacular volume, at once a concise resource guide and a fas-
cinating read, brings the dazzling variety of sub-Saharan Africa to life
with its inviting, innovative approach. Africa tells its story through
hundreds of breathtaking full-color, full-page images of people, land-
scapes, artworks, and artifacts accompanied by extended explanatory
captions, relevant quotations, and concise overviews of topics such as
art, religion, colonialism, slavery, and popular culture. Attentive to the
ways in which we have constructed and
deconstructed meanings of Africa, the
crisp text encompasses recent under-
standings of history. The book explores
the contemporary dimension as well,
illuminating throughout the dynamic,
multicultural, and complex nature of
African societies. It includes a map
of precolonial Africa, a chronology
of events, and a list of the museums
where visitors can view much of the
Ivan Bargna teaches at the University of Milano, art featured in the volume. With
Bicocca, and is the author of Arte Africana. its innovative organization, wide-
ranging coverage, and up-to-date
Dictionaries of Civilization, 6
information, this highly original
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guide presents Africa as a living,
AUGUST changing entity.
386 pages, 5-3/8 x 7-5/8”, 321 color illustrations
Africa/History
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paper 978-0-520-25974-4 $26.95/£19.95
Egungun mask costume, Yoruba (Nigeria). Newark Museum.

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Alexandra Wetzel
China
This lavishly illustrated volume presents in dazzling visual detail
a highly engaging introduction to almost 2000 years of Chinese
history—from the founding of the Chinese Empire in 221 b.c. to the
Ming dynasty, the last dynasty to rule before the country opened to
the outside world in the middle of the seventeenth century. China
tells this dynamic story through hundreds of breathtaking full-page
images of people, landscapes, artworks, artifacts, and more. The invit-
ing, beautifully designed pages feature crisply written, up-to-date
text, quotations from ancient sources that establish context for the
personalities and episodes of each historic period, extended captions
that explore the visual details of the images, information on where to
see the images in museums, and more. The book brings
together in one convenient place the most significant
products of Chinese culture, showing in particular
everyday lifestyles, religious beliefs, the evolution of
the arts, the coexistence of tradition and innovation,
and sacred and profane values. For travelers, students,
and general readers of all levels, China brings alive a
great and ancient empire. Alexandra Wetzel is a consultant for the Giovanni
Agnelli Foundation and for the Center for Asian
Arts and the author of several essays about
Chinese art.
Dictionaries of Civilization, 5
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AUGUST
384 pages, 5-3/8 x 7-5/8”, 250 color illustrations
China/History/Asian Studies
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Statuette of a horsewoman, Tang dynasty, from the tomb

of Zheng Rentai in the Liquan district, Shaanxi, terracotta,
slip glaze, mineral pigments, 37 cm high. Shaanxi History
Museum, Xi’an.
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Darren Naish
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries
This elegantly illustrated volume is a journey through more than
two centuries of remarkable discovery. Books on dinosaurs are usu-
ally arranged by classification or epoch, but this unique work tells
the story by following the chronology of the key finds that shaped
our understanding and brought these creatures to life for the public.
From the fragmentary remains of giant extinct animals found in the
early 1800s to the dinosaur wars in the American West to the amazing
near-complete skeletons found around the world today, Darren Naish
tells how these discoveries have led not only to the recogni-
tion of new species and whole new groups, but also to
new theories of evolutionary history. Along the way,
we encounter dinosaurs both familiar and obscure—
including Tyrannosaurus rex, the giant sauropods,
and most recently, the feathered dinosaurs of China.
Along the way, Naish explains how our ideas about
dinosaur appearance, biology, and behavior have devel-
Darren Naish is Honorary Research Associate in oped and changed, and what the state of knowledge is today.
the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
at the University of Portsmouth. Among his books
are Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric
• Discusses each major dinosaur group by recounting the
Life, coauthored with David Lambert and Elizabeth
history of paleontological discovery
Wyse, and Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence,
coauthored with David Martill and produced to • Illuminates the human side of fossil discoveries by
describing explorers, scientists, and artists
accompany the acclaimed BBC series Walking with
Dinosaurs. • Beautifully designed pages feature extensive captions,
engaging text, and sidebars throughout on select
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• Almost 200 illustrations include historical and
OCTOBER contemporary photographs, artwork, drawings,
192 pages, 8-1/2 x 11”, 180 color illustrations, 5 maps, and maps
5 tables
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Janet Beccaloni
Arachnids
With around 11 distinctive lineages and more than 38,000 species of
spiders alone, arachnids are an amazingly diverse group of invertebrates
—and with names like the Goliath Bird-Eating Spider, the Tailless
Whip Spider, and the Harvestman, they can be both spectacular and
captivating. Most books about arachnids focus on spiders, neglecting
scorpions, ticks, mites, wind spiders, and other fascinating yet poorly
understood groups. This adventurous volume summarizes all existing
knowledge about each major type of arachnid, revealing their secrets
through detailed species accounts, brilliant photographs, and a com-
pelling cast of eight-legged characters. It examines the anatomy, habi-
tat, behavior and distribution of each lineage, from the garden spider
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inside a monkey’s lungs. Drawing on the vast resources at London’s
Natural History Museum, Arachnids spins a sensational tale, debunk-
ing common myths and delving deep into the lives of these bizarre
and beautiful creatures.
Janet Beccaloni is the Curator of Arachnida and
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General Interest
Fred Rosenbaum
Cosmopolitans
A Social and Cultural History of the Jews
of the San Francisco Bay Area
Levi Strauss, A.L. Gump, Yehudi Menuhin, Gertrude Stein, Adolph

Sutro, Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn—Jewish people have
been so enmeshed in life in and around San Francisco that their story
is a chronicle of the metropolis itself. Since the Gold Rush, Bay Area
Jews have countered stereotypes, working as farmers and miners, box-
ers and mountaineers. They were Gold Rush pioneers, Gilded Age
tycoons, and Progressive Era reformers. Told through an astonishing
range of characters and events, Cosmopolitans illuminates many aspects
of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women, extraor-
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the second generation, the bitter debate about the proper response to
the Holocaust and Zionism, and much more. Focusing in rich detail
on the first hundred years after the Gold Rush, the book also takes
the story up to the present day, demonstrating how unusually strong
affinities for the arts and the struggle for social justice have charac-
terized this community even as it has changed over time. Set in the
uncommonly diverse Bay Area, Cosmopolitans is a truly unique chapter
Fred Rosenbaum is Founding Director of Lehrhaus
Judaica and the author of Unlikely Life in California
of the Jewish experience in America.
and Visions of Reform: Congregation Emanu-El
and the Jews of San Francisco, and with Joseph
Pell, of Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet
Partisans, among other books.
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Rabbi Mayer Hirsch of Congregation Anshe Sfard. During

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through the permitted sale of “sacramental” wine, which the
authorities permitted. Western History Jewish Center of the
Judah L. Magnes Museum.

General Interest
Kirk Savage
Monument Wars
Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation
of the Memorial Landscape
“An exceptional book, Monument Wars is impressive in just about every

way one could imagine. It is an indispensable guide to the National Mall
that establishes Savage as one of the foremost historians of American
art now working.” Alexander Nemerov, Yale University
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is “a great public space,

as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon,”
according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, but few realize how
recent, fragile, and contested this achievement is. In Monument Wars,
Kirk Savage tells the Mall’s engrossing story—the historic plan of the
Mall, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it
reveals regarding national representation. Central to this narrative is a
dramatic shift from the nineteenth-century concept of a decentralized
landscape, or “ground”—heroic statues spread out in traffic circles and
picturesque parks—to the twentieth-century ideal of “space,” in which
the monument is transformed from an object of reverence to a space
Kirk Savage is Associate Professor and Chair
of experience. Savage’s analysis traces the refocusing of the monuments of the Department of Art and Architecture at
themselves, from a single man, often on horseback, to commemorations the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of
of common soldiers or citizens, and from monuments that celebrate Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War,
victory and heroism to memorials honoring victims. and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America.
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General Interest
Hillel Cohen
Good Arabs
The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948–1967
Translated by Haim Watzman
“A fascinating story…. With the publication of this book, we can

abandon several accepted clichés.” Ha’aretz
“While many Israelis—Jews and Palestinians alike—already had

a sense that these shadowplays were part of the state’s history,
Aravim Tovim (Good Arabs) supplies the evidence. Case after case is
summoned to illustrate how collaboration permeated all aspects of
Palestinian society.” The Nation
Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the
prime minister’s office, Hillel Cohen exposes the full extent of the
crucial and, until now, willfully hidden history of Palestinian collabo-
ration with Israelis and of the Arab resistance to it. Cohen’s previous
book, the highly acclaimed Army of Shadows, told how this hidden
history played out from 1917 to 1948, and, now, in Good Arabs he
focuses on the system of collaborators established by Israel in each
Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow at the Harry S. and every Arab community after the 1948 war. Covering a broad
Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace spectrum of attitudes and behaviors, Cohen brings together the stories
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is of activists, mukhtars, collaborators, teachers, and sheikhs, revealing
the author of Army of Shadows: Palestinian
how Israeli security agencies penetrated Arab communities, how they
Collaborations with Zionism 1917–1948 (UC
obtained cooperation, how national activists fought them, and how
Press), among other books.
deeply this activity influenced daily life. When this book was first
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General Interest
Maggie Black and Jannet King

The Atlas of Water
Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource
Foreword by Margaret Catley-Carlson, Global Water Partnership
Second Edition
Climate change and an exponential population explosion threaten the

world’s supply of fresh water, edging us closer to a global water crisis,
with dire implications for agriculture, the economy, the environment,
and human health. Completely revised and updated since its first edi-
tion, The Atlas of Water is a compelling visual guide to the state of
this life-sustaining resource. Using vivid graphics, maps, and charts,
it explores the complex human interaction with water over time and
across the world. This vibrant atlas addresses all the pressing issues
concerning water, from human impacts like dams and construction
to water shortages and excessive demand, pollution, privatization, and
water management. It also outlines critical tools for managing water,
providing safe access to water, and preserving the future of the world’s
water supply.
Maggie Black is the author of several books
on water and sanitation, most recently The
Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global
Sanitation Crisis. She writes on international
issues for UNICEF, WaterAid, and the Global Water
Partnership. Jannet King is the coauthor, with
Robin Clarke, of the first edition of The Atlas of
Water. She is a researcher and editor of many
political, social, and environmental atlases,
including a series for the World Bank.
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General Interest
Paul R. Linde, MD
Danger to Self
On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
“Linde comes across as a warm-hearted, thoughtful, dedicated physi-

cian doing a difficult job as best he can. His book offers an authentic
behind-the-scenes look at how a psychiatrist thinks and practices.”
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“A warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room

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The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pres-

sure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human
experience, where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of
uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative,
Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric
emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness
mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and
repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who
Paul R. Linde is Associate Clinical Professor of
are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs,
Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University
of California, San Francisco and the author of
paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal,
Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist moral, and medical issues that confront today’s psychiatric providers.
in Africa.
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General Interest
Leslie J. Reagan
Dangerous Pregnancies
Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
“Both a gripping story of the activism of middle-class mothers and an

insightful study of abortion law reform. A terrific book.”
Molly Ladd-Taylor, author of “Bad” Mothers
“Accessible and clearly written, Leslie Reagan’s illuminating account

of German measles is immensely valuable both in itself and as a win-
dow into larger issues of gender, public health, and bioethics.”
Charles Rosenberg, author of The Cholera Years
Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German

measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxi-
ety about dying, disabled, and “dangerous” babies. This epidemic
would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science,
and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late
twentieth century—the reproductive rights and disability rights move-
ments. At most a minor rash and fever for women, German measles
(also known as rubella), if contracted during pregnancy, could result
in miscarriages, infant deaths, and serious birth defects in newborns.
Leslie J. Reagan is Associate Professor of History
Award-winning writer Leslie J. Reagan chronicles for the first time
and Medicine with affiliations in Gender and
the discoveries and dilemmas of this disease in a book full of intimate Women’s Studies and Law at the University of
stories—including riveting courtroom testimony, secret investigations Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of
of women and doctors for abortion, and startling media portraits of When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine,
children with disabilities. Dangerous Pregnancies powerfully illuminates and Law in the United States, 1867–1973 (UC
social movements and the changes that still shape individual lives, Press) and coeditor of Medicine’s Moving Pictures:
pregnancy, medicine, law, and politics. Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film
and Television.
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General Interest
Steven Hill
Europe’s Promise
Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
“Steven Hill compellingly argues that Europe has become a dynamic,

transformational force in the world and stands as a clear model of
success on so many fronts that we must push reset in our assess-
ment of Europe’s course.”
Steve Clemons, author of the political blog, The Washington Note
“The path to the American Dream is the European Way.”

Parag Khanna, Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
A quiet revolution has been occurring in post-World War II Europe.

A world power has emerged across the Atlantic that is meticulously
recrafting the rules for how a modern society should provide economic
security, environmental sustainability, and global stability. In Europe
Rising, Steven Hill explains Europe’s bold new vision—one that offers
a viable development model for the world. He shows how Europe’s
leadership manifests itself in five major areas: economic strength, as
the world’s wealthiest trading bloc; the best health care and other
Steven Hill is Director of the Political Reform
social supports for families and workers; the widespread use of renew-
Program for the New America Foundation and the able energy technologies and conservation; the most advanced democ-
author of several books on politics. His articles racies in the world; multilateralism and regional networks of trade and
have appeared in the New York Times, Washington foreign aid that link one third of the world to the European Union.
Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, The Fresh, accessible, and invigorating, Europe Rising demonstrates how
Nation, Salon.com, and many other publications Europe has taken the lead in this make-or-break century.
and websites.
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poetry
Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard
Selections
Introduction by Jennifer Moxley
“Nicole Brossard is one of the outriders of fiction and poetry in North

America. With her ‘dangerous intensity,’ she continually shows us
new paths into and out of the forest. As Jennifer Moxley says in her
introduction, this book represents ‘twenty years of daring.’”
Michael Ondaatje
“Pleasure,” Jennifer Moxley writes in her introduction to this volume,

“is the word that first comes to mind at the mention of Nicole
Brossard’s poetry.” This volume provides English-language read-
ers with an overview of the life and work of Nicole Brossard, a poet,
novelist, and essayist who is widely recognized in her native Québec
and throughout the French-speaking world as one of the greatest writ-
ers of her generation. Brossard’s poetry is rooted in her investigations
of language, her abiding commitment to a feminist consciousness,
and her untamed desire for beauty and knowledge. The selections in
this volume include translations of some of Brossard’s best-known
works—Lovhers, Ultrasounds, Museum of Bone and Water, Notebook
Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist, and essayist,
of Roses and Civilization—along with short prose pieces, an interview and the author of more than thirty books.
with Brossard, and a bibliography of her works in French and English, Jennifer Moxley is a poet, translator, and editor,
constituting the most substantial English-language sampling published and the author of many books, including Often
to date of the writings of one of Canada’s greatest living poets. Capital.
Poets for the Millennium, 7

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poetry
Raúl Zurita
Purgatory
A Bilingual Edition
Translated from the Spanish by Anna Deeny
Foreword by C.D. Wright
“As citizens of the United States of ‘America,’ we have yet to answer

for U.S. complicity in the evil that befell Chile on September 11
(1973). In Purgatory, Zurita’s bleak but searching poem, the poet
shares his struggles to reconnect to his humanity. We should be
grateful for Anna Deeny’s translation and afterword, and for bringing
Zurita to us.” David Bonior, Chair, American Rights at Work
Raúl Zurita’s Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American

poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated
against the Chilean people under Pinochet’s military dictatorship
(1973–1990) in the fiercely inventive voice of a postmodern master.
This beautiful en face edition, superbly translated by Anna Deeny,
brings to English-language readers an indispensable volume written
Raúl Zurita, considered by many to be the heir to by one of the most important living poets writing in Spanish today.
Pablo Neruda, is one of Latin America’s most Zurita was a 24-year-old student
radical, influential, and prominent poets. in Valparaíso when, on the morn-
Anna Deeny is a doctoral candidate in Latin ing of the coup, he was arrested,
American Literature at the University of California,
detained, and tortured. Conceived
Berkeley.
as the first text of a Dantean tril-
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Text page: “Paradise/the love that moves the sun and other
stars/My friends and I/MY STRUGGLE.”

poetry
Edited by Mark Weiss

The Whole Island
Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
A Bilingual Anthology
“An uplifting anthology of Cuban poetry that is an excellent and timely

resource for scholars and general readers alike. A worthy contribution
to the canon.”
Oscar Hijuelos, author of Dark Dude and the forthcoming Beautiful Maria of My Soul
“The Whole Island is a masterwork of cartography: a map of what is,

for English-language readers, an almost entirely unexplored territory,
full of poets—at home or in the diaspora—whom we ought to know.”
Eliot Weinberger
Cuba’s cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere has

been disproportionately large for so small a country. This landmark
volume, presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, is
the first comprehensive overview of Cuban poetry written during the
past sixty years. The Whole Island makes available a range of Cuban
poets, including not only such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén,
José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in
Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world. Mark Weiss is a poet, translator, publisher, and
editor. His publications include six books of poetry;
With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets
Across the Line/Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja
have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tem-
California (as coeditor); and Stet: Selected Poems
pestuous period, from 1944 through the present. The poems offered of José Kozer (as translator).
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poetry
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Exilée and Temps Morts
Selected Works
Edited and with an Introduction by Constance M. Lewallen
With an Essay by Ed Park
“Mastery over language that was borrowed, that was not her mother
tongue, enabled Theresa Hak Kyung Cha to empathize with her viewer
(her distant audience) as powerfully as any artist I know.” Byron Kim
“Like few other contemporary collections, this book opens up new

horizons in literature, art history, film theory, and linguistics, empha-
sizing the originality of a unique body of work that belongs both to
history and to the present.” Elvan Zabunyan, author of Black Is a Color
In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer

and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought “the roots of language
before it is born on the tip of the tongue.” Her first book, the highly
original postmodern text Dictée, published in 1982, is considered a
classic work of autobiography and is widely read by students inter-
nationally. This stunning selection of her uncollected and hitherto
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was born in 1951 in
unpublished work at last brings together Cha’s writings and text-based
Pusan, Korea, and moved with her family to San pieces with images spanning the period between 1976 and 1980. The
Francisco at the age of 11. She received bachelor’s volume includes two related poem sequences, Exilée and Temps Morts,
and master’s degrees from the University of major texts incorporating autobiographical elements, as well as themes
California, Berkeley, and did postgraduate work in of language, memory, displacement, and alienation—issues that
Paris. In 1982, a stranger murdered Cha in New continue to resonate with artists decades after Cha explored them.
York City, just a few days after the original
publication of Dictée (reprinted by UC Press).
Constance M. Lewallen is Adjunct Curator at the
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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ART
Loren Partridge
Art of Renaissance Florence,
1400–1600
“An extraordinarily useful book, not only for teachers, but also for
historically minded travelers interested in an illustrated guide to the
art of Renaissance Florence.” Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University
In this absorbing illustrated history, Loren Partridge takes the reader

on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light
on its celebrated art and culture by examining the city’s great archi-
tectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and
religious contexts. This approach gives rise to a multitude of perspec-
tives that Partridge elegantly deploys to maximum effect, beginning
with a detailed analysis of each work and extending to its material and
aesthetic qualities, the ambiguities and conflicts associated with its
creation, and its function within Florentine society. The chronologi-
cal structure highlights changes that occurred in style and content in
response to shifting political and cultural currents across two centu- Loren Partridge is Professor of the Art of the
ries. This essential and accessible text, the only up-to-date volume on Italian Renaissance at the University of California,
Berkeley. His many books include Michelangelo:
Renaissance Florence currently available, incorporates insights from
Last Judgement—A Glorious Restoration, The
recent scholarship, including gender studies, while emphasizing the Art of Renaissance Rome, 1400–1600, and
artists’ social status, rivalries, and innovations. Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
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Detail of Michelangelo’s David. © Quattrone.
art
Susan Sidlauskas Alicia Volk

Cézanne’s Other In Pursuit of
The Portraits of Hortense Universalism
Yorozu Tetsugoro- and
In the voluminous scholarship on Paul
Japanese Modern Art
Cézanne, little has been said about the
twenty-four portraits in oil that Cézanne
In Pursuit of Universalism is the first com-
made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cézanne,
prehensive English-language study of early-
over an extended twenty-year period. In
twentieth-century Japanese modern art.
Cézanne’s Other: The Portraits of Hortense,
In this groundbreaking work, Alicia Volk
Susan Sidlauskas breaks new ground,
constructs a critical theory of artistic mod-
focusing on these paintings as a group and
ernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by
looking particularly at the differences that -
analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro,
render many of them unrecognizable as the
whose paintings she casts as a polemical
same person. She argues that Cézanne side-
response to Japan’s late-nineteenth-century
stepped the conventional goals of portrai-
encounter with European art. Volk places
ture—he avoids representing a consistent,
Yorozu at the forefront of a movement
identifiable physiognomy or conventional
that sought to define Japanese art’s role in
feminine postures and does not portray
the world by interrogating and ultimately
the subject’s inner life—making lack of
refusing the opposition between East and
fixedness itself his subject, which leads him
West. She vividly demonstrates how Yorozu
ultimately to a radical reformulation of
instead reframed modern art’s dualistic
modern portraiture.
underpinnings and transposed them into an
Susan Sidlauskas is Associate Professor and
inclusive relation between the local and the
Graduate Director of the Department of Art History universal.
at Rutgers University. She is the author of Body,
Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting and Alicia Volk is Assistant Professor of Art History at
Yorozu Tetsugoro,- Face of a Woman (Woman in coauthor of Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in the University of Maryland.
a Boa) (Onna no kao [Boa no onna]), 1912,
oil on canvas, Iwate Museum of Art. From In
Fashion and Architecture.
The Phillips Book Prize series, 1
Pursuit of Universalism.
Copub: The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of
An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book
Modern Art
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Art/Music
Julia Bryan-Wilson Frances Dyson

Art Workers Sounding New Media
Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era Immersion and Embodiment
in the Arts and Culture
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in
response to the political turbulence generated Sounding New Media examines the long-
by the Vietnam War, an important group neglected role of sound and audio in the
of American artists and critics sought to development of new media theory and
expand the definition of creative labor by practice, including new technologies and
identifying themselves as “art workers.” In performance art events, with particular
the first book to examine this movement, emphasis on embodiment, and technologi- Collage of Indignation (detail), Angry Arts Week,
1967. Photo © E. Tulchin. From Art Workers.
Julia Bryan-Wilson shows how a polemical cal interactions. Frances Dyson takes a his-
redefinition of artistic labor played a central torical approach, focusing on technologies
role in minimalism, process art, feminist that became available in the mid-twentieth
criticism, and conceptualism. In her close century—electronics, imaging, and digital
examination of four seminal figures of the and computer processing—and analyz-
period—Artists Carl Andre, Robert Morris, ing the work of such artists as John Cage,
and Hans Haacke and art critic Lucy Edgard Varèse, Antonin Artaud, and Char
Lippard—Bryan-Wilson frames an engross- Davies. She utilizes sound’s intangibility to
ing new argument around the double study ideas about embodiment (or its lack)
entendre that “art works.” in art and technology as well as fears about
technology and the so-called “post-human.”
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Assistant Professor of Art Dyson argues that the concept of “immer-
History at the University of California, Irvine.
sion” has become a path leading away from
AUGUST aesthetic questions about meaning and
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92 b/w photographs
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Technocultural Studies at the University of
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CINEMA
Scott MacDonald Tom Kemper

Adventures Hidden Talent
of Perception The Emergence of Hollywood Agents
Cinema as Exploration
Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Lauren
Essays/Interviews Bacall—behind each of these stars was a
hidden force: the talent agent. In this first-
Over the past twenty-five years, Scott
ever history of Hollywood agents, Tom
MacDonald’s kaleidoscopic explorations
Kemper mines agency archives to present an
of independent cinema have become the
insider’s view of their tooth-and-claw rise
most important chronicle of avant-garde
to power during the studio era. It’s a tale
and experimental film in the United States.
of ambitious characters, savvy calculation,
In this collection of thematically related
muckraking, financial ruin, and ultimate
personal essays and conversations with
triumph and establishes the agent’s vital
filmmakers, MacDonald takes us on a fas-
role in the Hollywood business world.
cinating journey into many underexplored
Existing studies characterize agents as a
territories of cinema. He illuminates top-
product of the 1950s, but Kemper revises
ics such as race and avant-garde film, the
the record to show how agents emerged
political implications of the nature film,
from the primordial film industry during
the inventive single shot films of the late
the late 1920s and carved themselves a
1960s and early 1970s, why men view
permanent niche.
pornography and what they are looking
at when they do, poetry and the poetic in Tom Kemper is Visiting Lecturer at the University
avant-garde film, and the widespread failure of Southern California and a teacher at the
of film studies academicians to honor those Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in
Workers in Bangladesh, in At Sea (2007). who keep film exhibition alive. Santa Monica.
Courtesy Peter Hutton. From Adventures of
Perception. NOVEMBER
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History
Susan L. Carruthers
Cold War Captives
Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing
“A strikingly original, scrupulously researched, and endlessly provoca-

tive work of cultural history that offers countless new insights into
the bipolar mind of postwar America.”
Thomas Doherty, author of Cold War, Cool Medium
“A wonderfully rich account of early cold war culture and politics.

Susan Carruthers writes with clarity and élan, illuminating aspects
of the cold war that no one has heretofore explored.”
Marilyn Young, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990
This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time

when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated
by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and
courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a “leap for free-
dom” from the Soviet Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and
forgotten stories, Cold War Captives explores a central dimension of
American culture and politics—the postwar preoccupation with cap-
tivity. “Menticide,” the calculated destruction of individual autonomy,
Susan L. Carruthers is Associate Professor of
struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear History at Rutgers, The State University of New
annihilation. Drawing upon a rich array of declassified documents, Jersey, in Newark. She is the author of The Media
movies, and reportage—from national security directives to films like at War, amongst other books.
The Manchurian Candidate—this book explores the ways in which
East-West disputes over prisoners, repatriation, and defection shaped
popular culture. Captivity became a way to understand everything OCTOBER
from the anomie of suburban housewives to the “slave world” of drug 334 pages, 6 x 9”, 29 b/w photographs
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History
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

Ghosts of Home
The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is

an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the “Vienna of the East,”
under the Habsburg empire, the city had a vibrant German-Jewish
Eastern European culture that vanished after World War II—yet an
idealized version of it lives on, suspended in the memories of its dis-
persed people and passed down to their children like a precious and
haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal
memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city’s survival
in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a
cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore—but also of oppression, shat-
tered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch
and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in
the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory’s echo
across generations.
Marianne Hirsch is Professor of English and

Comparative Literature and Director of the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender at
Columbia University. She is the author of Family
Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory,
among other books. Leo Spitzer is Kathe
Tappe Vernon Professor of History, Emeritus, at
Dartmouth College and the author of many books,
most recently Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory
in a Refuge from Nazism.
An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies
JANUARY
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The ceremonial hall at Czernowitz’s Jewish cemetery, 1998.

Photograph by Leo Spitzer.

history
J. Samuel Walker Jack O’Dell

The Road to Climbing Jacob’s
Yucca Mountain Ladder
The Development of Radioactive The Black Freedom Movement
Waste Policy in the United States Writings of Jack O’Dell
Edited and Introduced by Nikhil Pal Singh
In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel
Walker traces the U.S. government’s This book collects for the first time the black Cask containing spent fuel elements in transit,
tangled efforts to solve the technical and freedom movement writings of Jack O’Dell 1974. National Archives 434-SF-22-18. From The
Road to Yucca Mountain.
political problems associated with radioac- and restores one of the great unsung heroes
tive waste. From the Manhattan Project of the civil rights era to his rightful place
through the designation in 1987 of Yucca in the historical record. Climbing Jacob’s
Mountain in Nevada as a high-level waste Ladder puts O’Dell’s historically significant
repository, Walker thoroughly investigates essays in context and reveals how he helped
the approaches adopted by the U.S. Atomic shape the civil rights movement. From his
Energy Commission (AEC). He explains early years in the 1940s National Maritime
the growing criticism of the AEC’s waste Union, through his pioneering work in the
programs, such as the AEC’s embarrass- early 1960s with Martin Luther King Jr.,
ing failure in its first serious effort to build to his international efforts for the Rainbow
a high-level waste repository in a Kansas Coalition during the 1980s, O’Dell was
salt mine. Clearly and accessibly, Walker instrumental in the development of black
weaves reliable research with fresh insights consciousness and the institutions that
about nuclear science, geology, politics, and underpinned several decades of antiracist
public administration, making this original struggle. Nikhil Pal Singh’s substantial
and authoritative account an essential guide introduction is based on interviews he
for understanding the continuing contro- conducted with O’Dell.
versy over an elusive and emotional topic.
Jack O’Dell was editor of the legendary publica-
J. Samuel Walker is Historian of the United States tion Freedomways. Nikhil Pal Singh is Associate
Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and
History at New York University.
SEPTEMBER
224 pages, 6 x 9”, 11 b/w photographs A George Gund Foundation Book in African American
Public Health/Politics/History of Science Studies
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history
Anna Pegler-Gordon Yoav Di-Capua

In Sight of America Gatekeepers
Photography and the Development of the Arab Past
of U.S. Immigration Policy Historians and History Writing in
Twentieth-Century Egypt
When restrictive immigration laws were
introduced in the late nineteenth and
This groundbreaking study illuminates
early twentieth centuries, they involved
the Egyptian experience of modernity by
new requirements for photographing and
critically analyzing the foremost medium
documenting immigrants—regulations for
through which it was articulated: history. The
visually inspecting race and health. This
first comprehensive analysis of a Middle
work is the first to take a comprehensive
Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers
look at the history of immigration policy
of the Arab Past examines a system of
in the United States through the prism of
knowledge that replaced the intellectual
visual culture. Including many previously
and methodological conventions of Islamic
unpublished images, and taking a new
historiography only at the very end of the
look at Lewis Hine’s photographs, Anna
nineteenth century. Covering more than
Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses
one hundred years of mostly unexamined
of visual documentation at Angel Island
historical literature in Arabic, including rare
for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for
archival sources, Yoav Di-Capua explores
European immigrants, and on the U.S.-
Egyptian historical thought, examines the
Mexico border. Including fascinating close
careers of numerous critical historians, and
visual analysis, detailed histories of immi-
traces this tradition’s uneasy relationship
grants, and the perspectives of officials, this
with colonial forms of knowledge as well as
richly illustrated book traces how visual
with the postcolonial state.
regulations became central in the early
Types in the New Immigration, collage (detail).
From Peter Roberts, The New Immigration development of U.S. immigration policy. Yoav Di-Capua is Assistant Professor of History at
(New York: Macmillan, 1912). From In Sight the University of Texas at Austin.
of America.
Anna Pegler-Gordon is Associate Professor of
History and Asian American Studies at Michigan An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
State University.
AUGUST
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History
Stein Tønnesson Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery

Vietnam 1946 Indochina
How the War Began An Ambiguous Colonization,
With a Foreword by Philippe Devillers 1858–1954
Translated from the French by Ly Lan Dill-Klein,
Based on multiarchival research conducted with Eric Jennings, Nora Taylor, and
over almost three decades, this landmark Noémi Tousignant
account tells how a few men set off a war
that would lead to tragedy for millions. Combining new approaches with a ground-
Stein Tønnesson was one of the first histo- breaking historical synthesis, this accessible
rians to delve into scores of secret French, work is the most thorough and up-to-date
British, and American political, military, general history of French Indochina avail-
and intelligence documents. In this fasci- able in English. Unique in its wide-ranging
General de Gaulle’s government, reestablished
nating account, he brings this research to attention to economic, social, intellectual, in Paris in August 1944, planned to revive the
bear to disentangle the complex web of and cultural dimensions, it is the first book former empire as the French Union (Union fran-
çaise) as shown on this map. Courtesy Annick
events, actions, and mentalities that led to to treat Indochina’s entire history from its Guénel. From Vietnam 1946.
thirty years of war in Indochina. Taking us inception as Cochinchina in 1858 to its

from the antechambers of policymakers in crumbling at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and
Paris to the docksides of Haiphong and the on to decolonization. Basing their account
streets of Hanoi, Vietnam 1946 provides on original research as well as on the most
the most vivid account to date of the events recent scholarship, Pierre Brocheux and
that would make Vietnam the most embat- Daniel Hémery tell this story from a per-
tled area in the world during the Cold War spective that is neither Eurocentric nor
period. nationalistic but that carefully considers
the positions of both the colonizers and the
Stein Tønnesson was Director of the International colonized.
Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, from
2001 to 2009. Pierre Brocheux is Professor of Contemporary
History at Université de Paris VII—Denis Diderot.
From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Daniel Hémery is Professor of Contemporary
Global Perspective, 3
History at Université de Paris VII—Denis Diderot.
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a
OCTOBER Global Perspective, 2
346 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 b/w photographs An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
Asian Studies/United States History/International
Relations AUGUST
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History/Asian Studies/French Studies
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history
Tetsuo Najita Robin M. LeBlanc

Ordinary Economies The Art of the Gut
in Japan Manhood, Power, and Ethics
in Japanese Politics
A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950
This beautifully written ethnography follows
Tetsuo Najita explores a powerful theme
the lives of two very different Japanese men
in the economic thought and practice of
entering political life in two very different
ordinary citizens in late Tokugawa and
communities. One is the rural leader of
early modern Japan. He examines common-
a citizens’ referendum movement, while
ers’ writings on the virtues of commerce,
the other hopes to succeed his father in
the reconstruction of villages, and groups
a Tokyo ward assembly. Fast-paced and
offering credit and loans, particularly the
- which citi- engrossing, The Art of the Gut puts the
traditional cooperative, the ko,
reader behind the scenes to hear speeches,
zens created to save one another in times
attend campaign functions, and eavesdrop
of famine and fiscal emergency without
on late-night strategy sessions and one-on-
turning to their government. The alterna-
one conversations. In her groundbreaking
tive genealogy of early Japanese capitalism
analysis, Robin M. LeBlanc explores the
that emerges is based on cooperative action,
the two men’s differing notions of what is
whose motive for profit was combined with
expected of a “good” man and demonstrates
a concern for social well-being. Najita’s
how the fundamental desire to be good men
discussion centers on the relationship of
constrains their political choices even as it
economics, ethics, and the epistemological
encourages both to become ethical agents.
premise that nature must serve as the first
- Fujo, or “mutual aid,” a traditional phrase
Sogu principle of all knowledge, and he illuminates Robin M. LeBlanc is Professor of Politics at
widely used in the Tokugawa era. Calligraphy by
Kazuaki Tanahashi. From Ordinary Economies
comparative issues of poverty, capitalism, Washington and Lee University.
in Japan. and modernity.
NOVEMBER
Tetsuo Najita is the Robert S. Ingersoll 256 pages, 6 x 9”
Politics/Asian Studies/Sociology/Gender Studies
Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, in the
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Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World

Power, 18
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history
Nadja Durbach Jon R. Snyder

The Spectacle Dissimulation and the
of Deformity Culture of Secrecy in
Freak Shows and Modern Early Modern Europe
British Culture
“Larvatus prodeo,” announced René
In 1847, during the great age of the Descartes at the beginning of the seven-
freak show, the British periodical Punch teenth century: “I come forward, masked.”
bemoaned the public’s “prevailing taste Deliberately disguising or silencing their
for deformity.” This vividly detailed work most intimate thoughts and emotions,
argues that far from being purely exploit- many early modern Europeans besides
ative, displays of anomalous bodies served a Descartes—princes, courtiers, aristocrats,
deeper social purpose. Nadja Durbach con- and commoners alike—chose to practice
siders freaks both well-known and obscure the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men
including the Elephant Man; “Lalloo, the and women who could not risk revealing Souvenir photograph of Lalloo, the Double-
Bodied Hindoo Boy, Barnum and Bailey Circus,
Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy,” a set of their inner lives to those around them, this 1898. National Archives, copy 1–439. From
conjoined twins advertised as half male, practice was crucial, both personally and The Spectacle of Deformity.
half female; Krao, a seven-year-old Laotian politically. This beautifully written work
girl who was marketed as Darwin’s “miss- crisscrosses Europe, with a special focus on
ing link”; and African “Cannibal Kings,” Italy, to explore attitudes toward the art of
who were often merely Irishmen in black- dissimulation in the sixteenth and seven-
face. Upending our tendency to read late teenth centuries. Discussing both canonical
twentieth-century conceptions of disability and lesser-known works, Jon R. Snyder
onto the bodies of freak show performers, examines the treatment of dissimulation in
Durbach shows that these spectacles helped early modern writings on the court, civility,
to articulate the cultural meanings invested moral philosophy, political theory, and the
in otherness—and thus clarified what it visual arts.
meant to be British—at a key moment in
the making of modern and imperial ideolo- Jon R. Snyder is Professor of Italian Studies
gies and identities. and Comparative Literature at the University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Judith. Sebastiano Taricco, “Saletta del silen-
Nadja Durbach is Associate Professor of History at zio” (1706), fresco detail, Palazzo Salmatoris,
the University of Utah. She is the author of Bodily Cherasco, Italy. Reproduced by permission
of the City of Cherasco. Photo by Jon Snyder.
Matters. AUGUST From Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy
302 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 b/w photographs in Early Modern Europe.
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Classics
Léopold Migeotte Matthew P. Canepa

The Economy of Two Eyes of the Earth
the Greek Cities Competition and Exchange in
the Art and Ritual of Kingship
From the Archaic Period
between Rome and Sasanian Iran
to the Early Roman Empire
Translated by Janet Lloyd
This pioneering study examines a pivotal
period in the history of Europe and the
The Economy of Greek Cities offers readers a Near East. Spanning the ancient and medi-
clear and concise overview of ancient Greek eval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal
economies from the archaic to the Roman of sacred kingship that emerged between
period. Léopold Migeotte approaches Greek the late-Roman and Persian empires.
economic activities from the perspective of This shared ideal, while often generating
the ancient sources, situating them within conflict during the four centuries of
the context of the city-state (polis). He the empires’ coexistence (224–642), also
illuminates the ways citizens intervened drove exchange, especially the means and
in the economy and considers such impor- methods Roman and Persian sovereigns
tant sectors as agriculture, craft industries, used to project their notions of universal
public works, and trade. Focusing on how rule: elaborate systems of ritual and their
the private and public spheres impinged cultures’ visual, architectural, and urban
on each other, this book provides a broad environments. Matthew Canepa explores
understanding of the political and eco- the artistic, ritual, and ideological interac-
nomic changes affecting life in the Greek tions between Rome and the Iranian world
city-states over a thousand-year period. under the Sasanian dynasty, the last great
Léopold Migeotte is Professor Emeritus of History
Persian dynasty before Islam. He analyzes
at Laval University, Québec, and Directeur d’Études how these two hostile systems coexisted and
Associé L’École Pràtique des Hautes Études, Paris. fostered cross-cultural exchange and com-
munication despite their undying rivalry.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
Matthew P. Canepa is Assistant Professor of
AUGUST
210 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 3 maps Art History at the College of Charleston.
Classics/Middle Eastern Studies/Economics
Omit France Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 45
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Arch of Galerius. From Two Eyes of the Earth.
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anthropology
Edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman

The Insecure American
How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It
Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
“The Insecure American would have been essential reading at any

time in the last few years, but today it is indispensable.”
Barbara Ehrenreich, excerpt from the Foreword
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated com-

munities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s,
nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying
about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume,
editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from
nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an anx-
ious country and to furnish valuable insights into the nation’s possible
future. With an incisive foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, the con-
tributors draw on their deep knowledge of different facets of American
life to map the impact of the new economy, the “war on terror,” the
“war on drugs,” racial resentments, a fraying safety net, undocument-
ed immigration, a health care system in crisis, and much more. In
laying out a range of views on the forces that unsettle us, The Insecure Hugh Gusterson is Professor of Anthropology at
American demonstrates the singular power of an anthropological per- George Mason University, author of Nuclear Rites,
spective for grasping the impact of corporate profit on democratic life, and coeditor (with Besteman) of Why America’s
charting the links between policy and vulnerability, and envisioning Top Pundits Are Wrong, both from UC Press.
Catherine Besteman is Professor of Anthropology
alternatives to life as an insecure American.
at Colby College and the author of Transforming
Capetown (UC Press).
NOVEMBER
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anthropology
William F. Hanks Kevin Lewis O’Neill

Converting Words City of God
Maya in the Age of the Cross Christian Citizenship in
Postwar Guatemala
This pathbreaking synthesis of history,
anthropology, and linguistics gives an In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn’t
unprecedented view of the first two hun- just a belief system—it is a counterinsur-
dred years of the Spanish colonization of the gency. Amidst postwar efforts at democ-
Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary ratization, multinational mega-churches
range of sources, William F. Hanks docu- have conquered street corners and kitchen
ments for the first time the crucial role tables, guiding the faithful to build a
Woodcut of a Franciscan confessing an Indian,
played by language in cultural conquest: sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on
from Alonso de Molina, Confesionario mayor how colonial Mayan emerged in the age rich interviews and extensive fieldwork,
en la lengua mexicana y castellana, 1975
[1569], fol. 71r (courtesy of The Bancroft Library, of the cross, how it was taken up by native Kevin Lewis O’Neill tracks the culture
University of California, Berkeley).
From Converting Words. writers to become the language of indig- and politics of one such church, looking
enous literature, and how it ultimately at how neo-Pentecostal Christian practices
became the language of rebellion against have become acts of citizenship in a new,
the system that produced it. Converting politically relevant era for Protestantism.
Words includes original analyses of the lin- Focusing on everyday practices—praying
guistic practices of both missionaries and for Guatemala, speaking in tongues for the
Mayas—as found in bilingual dictionaries, soul of the nation, organizing prayer cam-
grammars, catechisms, land documents, paigns to combat unprecedented levels of
native chronicles, petitions, and the forbid- crime—this conceptually rich study reaches
den Maya Books of Chilam Balam. across disciplinary borders to illuminate
the highly charged, evolving relationship
William F. Hanks is Professor of Anthropology, between religion, democracy, and the state
Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic
in Latin America.
Anthropology, and Affiliated Professor of Linguistics
at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kevin Lewis O’Neill is Assistant Professor in
The Anthropology of Christianity, 6 the Department of Religious Studies and in the
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities American Studies Program at Indiana University,
Bloomington.
NOVEMBER
506 pages, 6 x 9”, 17 b/w photographs, 2 line The Anthropology of Christianity, 7
illustrations, 17 maps, 25 tables, 146 examples
Anthropology/Latin American Studies/Religion NOVEMBER
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anthropology
Lieba Faier Elizabeth L. Krause

Intimate Encounters Unraveled
Filipina Women and the A Weaver’s Tale of Life Gone Modern
Remaking of Rural Japan
Deftly bridging literary conventions, this
This groundbreaking study explores the compelling work exposes the cultural ori-
recent dramatic changes brought about gins of a quiet revolution that occurred
in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese over the course of the twentieth century.
population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier Elizabeth L. Krause combines novelistic
investigates how Filipina women who and ethnographic techniques to illuminate
emigrated to rural Japan to work in host- population dynamics that have raised alarm
ess bars—where initially they were widely across Europe and the United States and
disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners— manifested, for example, in Italy’s extremely
A view of the Kiso River from a bridge in
came to be identified by the local residents low birthrate. But what actually motivates Kisofukushima. From Intimate Encounters.
as “ideal, traditional Japanese brides.” people to have fewer children? Krause turns
Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cul- to the evocative story of one woman, Emilia
tural encounters, unravels this paradox by Raugei, who was born in a Tuscan hill
examining the everyday relational dynamics town in 1920 and worked as a straw weaver
that drive these interactions. Faier remaps in a rapidly globalizing economy, to better
Japan, the Philippines, and the United understand this question. Giving voice to a
States into what she terms a “zone of largely silent history, Unraveled: A Weaver’s
encounters,” showing how the meanings of Tale of Life Gone Modern challenges us to
Filipino and Japanese culture and identity find innovative approaches to understand-
are transformed and how these changes are ing the transformative shift to a modern
accomplished through ordinary interper- way of life.
sonal exchanges.
Elizabeth L. Krause is Associate Professor in the
Lieba Faier is Assistant Professor of Geography at Department of Anthropology at the University of
Donne di campagna (Trecciaiole che dormono)
the University of California, Los Angeles. Massachusetts, Amherst. [Country Women (Straw Weavers Who Sleep)]
by Quinto Martini, 1925. From Unraveled.
AUGUST SEPTEMBER
298 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 b/w photographs, 1 map, 2 tables 256 pages, 6 x 9”, 11 b/w photographs
Anthropology/Asian Studies/Women’s Studies Anthropology/History/Gender Studies
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anthropology
Paul U. Unschuld Carolyn Moxley Rouse

What Is Medicine? Uncertain Suffering
Western and Eastern Approaches Racial Health Care Disparities and
to Healing Sickle Cell Disease
Translated by Karen Reimers
On average, black Americans are sicker and
What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern die earlier than white Americans. Uncertain
Approaches to Healing is the first compara- Suffering provides a richly nuanced exami-
tive history of two millennia of Western nation of what this fact means for health
and Chinese medicine from their begin- care in the United States through the lens
nings in the centuries bce through present of sickle cell anemia, a disease that primar-
advances in sciences like molecular biology ily affects blacks. In a wide-ranging analysis
and in Western adaptations of traditional that moves from individual patient cases to
Chinese medicine. In his revolutionary inter- the compassionate yet distanced profession-
pretation of the basic forces that undergird alism of health care specialists to national
Instructions in Anatomy. Miniature, ca. 1465. shifts in medical theory, Paul U. Unschuld policy, Carolyn Moxley Rouse uncovers the
Courtesy Glasgow University Library, Department
of Special Collections. From What Is Medicine? relates the history of medicine in both cultural assumptions that shape the quality
Europe and China to changes in politics, and delivery of care for sickle cell patients.
economics, and other contextual factors. She reveals a clinical world fraught with
Drawing on his own extended research of ambiguity over how to treat black patients
Chinese primary sources as well as his and given resource limitations and medical
others’ scholarship in European medical uncertainties. Her book is a compelling
history, Unschuld argues against any claims look at the ways in which the politics of
of “truth” in former and current, Eastern racism, attitudes toward pain and suffering,
and Western models of physiology and and the reliance on charity for health care
pathology. services for the underclass can create dis-
parities in the United States.
Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the
Horst-Goertz Institute for the Theory, History, and Carolyn Moxley Rouse is Associate Professor of
Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité Medical Anthropology at Princeton University.
University-Berlin. Karen Reimers, MD, is a graduate
A George Gund Foundation Book in African American
of McGill University and the Ludwig-Maximilians
Studies
University of Munich.
AUGUST
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anthropology
Jon Holtzman Lynn M. Morgan

Uncertain Tastes Icons of Life
Memory, Ambivalence, and the A Cultural History of Human Embryos
Politics of Eating in Samburu,
Northern Kenya Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provo-
cative story of an early twentieth-century
This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of
cattle herders in northern Kenya examines Washington’s project to collect thousands
the effects of an epochal shift in their basic of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M.
diet—from a regimen of milk, meat, and Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing,
blood to one of purchased agricultural and humor to trace the history of specimen
products. In his innovative analysis, Jon collecting. In the process, she illuminates
Holtzman uses food as a way to contextu- how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor
alize and measure the profound changes continues to be felt in today’s fraught
occurring in Samburu social and material arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until
life. He shows that if Samburu reaction the embryo collecting project—which she
to the new foods is primarily negative, it follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy
is also deeply ambivalent. The Samburu department, through Baltimore foundling
attribute a host of social maladies to these homes, and all the way to China—most
dietary changes, yet because the new foods people had no idea what human embryos
save lives during famines, the same indi- looked like. But by the 1950s, modern citi-
viduals speak enthusiastically of a better life zens saw in embryos an image of “ourselves
with less struggle to find food. unborn,” and embryology had developed a
biologically based story about how we came
Jon Holtzman is Associate Professor of to be.
Anthropology at Western Michigan University and is
the author of Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Lynn M. Morgan is Mary E. Woolley Professor
Refugees in Minnesota. of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and
is coeditor (with Meredith W. Michaels) of Fetal
AUGUST
338 pages, 6 x 9”, 14 b/w photographs, 1 map Subjects, Feminist Positions.
Anthropology/African Studies/Food History
World SEPTEMBER
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World Courtesy Virtual Human Embryo Project.
From Icons of Life.
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anthropology
Kathleen L. Hull Michael V. Wilcox

Pestilence and The Pueblo Revolt
Persistence and the Mythology
Yosemite Indian Demography and of Conquest
Culture in Colonial California
An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact
This innovative examination of the
In a groundbreaking book that chal-
Yosemite Indian experience in California
lenges familiar narratives of discontinuity,
poses broad challenges to our understand-
disease-based demographic collapse, and
ing of the destructive encounters that took
acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends
place between colonists and native peoples
many deeply held assumptions about native
across North America. Kathleen L. Hull
peoples in North America. His provoca-
focuses on the timing, magnitude, and
tive book poses the question, What if we
consequences of the introduction of lethal
attempted to explain their presence in con-
infectious diseases to native communities.
temporary society five hundred years after
The Yosemite Indian case suggests that
Columbus instead of their disappearance or
epidemic disease penetrated small-scale
marginalization? Wilcox looks in particular
hunting and gathering groups of the inte-
at the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in colonial New
rior of North America prior to face-to-face
Mexico, the most successful indigenous
encounters with colonists. It also suggests,
rebellion in the Americas, as a case study
however, that even the catastrophic depop-
for dismantling the mythology of the per-
ulation that resulted from these diseases was
petually vanishing Indian. Bringing recent
insufficient to undermine the culture and
archaeological findings to bear on tradition-
identity of many native groups. Instead,
al historical accounts, Wilcox suggests that
engagement in colonial economic ventures
a more profitable direction for understand-
often proved more destructive to traditional
ing the history of Native cultures should
lifeways.
involve analyses of issues such as violence,
Kathleen L. Hull is Assistant Professor of
slavery, and the creative responses they
Anthropology at the University of California, Merced. generated.
SEPTEMBER Michael V. Wilcox is Assistant Professor in the

360 pages, 6 x 9”, 4 b/w photographs, Anthropology Department at Stanford University.
9 line illustrations, 14 maps, 7 tables
Archaeology/Native American Studies/ December
California & the West 336 pages, 6 x 9”, 16 b/w photographs, 29 line
World illustrations, 7 tables
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World
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Sociology
Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon,

Tina Reynolds, Ruby Tapia
Interrupted Life
Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
“Interrupted Life will make a contribution to our understanding of a

hidden and ignored population.”
Assata Zerai, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois
“Striking, original, and stimulating. Even readers with extensive

familiarity of the literature regarding women in prison will learn
something new.” Mona Danner, Old Dominion University
Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about

imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger
percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This
eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside
and outside the prison system including those of incarcerated and
previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolition-
ists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays,
poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented
view of the realities of women’s experiences as they try to sustain rela- Rickie Solinger is the author of Pregnancy and
tions with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics
fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing in America and Wake Up Little Susie: Single
Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade, among
systems, remake life after prison and more. These powerful writings
other books. She is the editor of Abortion Wars
constitute an intense and visceral examination of life behind bars for (UC Press). Paula C. Johnson is Professor of Law
women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagina- at Syracuse University College of Law. Attorney
tion and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison Martha L. Raimon is Senior Associate at the
system. Center for the Study of Social Policy.
Tina Reynolds is Co-founder and Chair of Women
on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) and adjunct
lecturer at York College/CUNY. Ruby Tapia is
Associate Professor of Comparative Studies and
Women’s Studies at The Ohio State University.
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sociology
Jeffrey J. Sallaz Margarita A. Mooney

The Labor of Luck Faith Makes Us Live
Casino Capitalism in the Surviving and Thriving in the
United States and South Africa Haitian Diaspora
Jeffrey J. Sallaz goes behind the scenes of Based on fieldwork in Haiti and in three
the global casino industry to investigate cities of the Haitian diaspora—Miami,
the radically different worlds of work Montreal, and Paris—this study offers
and leisure in identically designed casinos a vivid portrait of the power of faith for
An early Nevada casino. Courtesy UNLV Library,
in the United States and South Africa. immigrants. Drawing on extensive inter-
Special Collections. From Labor of Luck. Seamlessly weaving political and economic views and including rich details of everyday
history with his own personal experience, life, Margarita A. Mooney explores the
Sallaz provides a riveting account of two struggles and joys of Haitian Catholics in
years spent working among both countries’ these three very different cities. She finds
casino dealers, pit bosses, and politicians. that religious narratives, especially those
While the popular imagination sees the about transformation and redemption,
Nevada casino as a hedonistic world of provide real meaning and hope in what
consumption, The Labor of Luck shows that are often difficult conditions. However,
the “Vegas experience” is made possible Mooney also finds that successful assimi-
only through a variety of systems regulat- lation into the larger society varies from
ing labor, capital, and consumers, and that country to country, having less to do with
because of these complex dynamics, the these private religious beliefs than with
Vegas casino cannot be seamlessly picked cooperation between religious and govern-
up and replicated elsewhere. ment leaders.
Jeffrey J. Sallaz is Assistant Professor of Sociology Margarita A. Mooney is Assistant Professor

at the University of Arizona. of Sociology and Faculty Fellow of the Carolina
Population Center at the University of North
OCTOBER Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Science
Joe C. Truett Walter K. Dodds

Grass Laws, Theories, and
In Search of Human Habitat Patterns in Ecology
Foreword by Harry W. Greene
Physics and chemistry are distinguished
Part autobiography, part philosophical from biology by the way generalizations are
rumination, this evocative conservation codified into theories tested by observation
odyssey explores the deep affinities between and experimentation. Some theories have
humans and our original habitat: grass- been sufficiently tested to qualify as laws.
lands. Joe C. Truett, a grassland ecologist In ecology, generalizations worthy of being
Black-tailed prairie dog, Wind Cave National
who writes with a flair for language, traces called theories are less common because Park. Photo by Joe C. Truett. From Grass.
the evolutionary, historical, and cultural observations and experimentation are dif-
forces that have reshaped North American ficult and exceptions are more common.
rangelands over the past two centuries. In this book, Walter K. Dodds enumerates
He introduces an intriguing cast of char- generalizations in ecology. Introductory
acters—wildlife and grassland biologists, material describes how the practice of
archaeologists, ranchers, and petroleum science, in general, and ecology specifi-
geologists—to illuminate a range of related cally, yields theories and laws. Dodds also
topics: our love affair with turf and how it discusses why such ideas are only useful if
manifests in lawns and sports, the glory of they have predictive ability, and delineates
cowboy culture, restoration ecology, and the scope of these generalizations and the
more. His book provides the background constraints that limit their application. The
against which we can envision a new para- result is a short book that delves deeply into
digm for restoring rangeland ecosystems‚ important ecological ideas and how they
and a new paradigm for envisioning a more predict and provide understanding.
sustainable future.
Walter K. Dodds is Professor of Biology at Kansas
Joe C. Truett is Senior Biologist with the Turner State University and the author of Freshwater
Endangered Species Fund and the author of Ecology and Humanity’s Footprint.
Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of
A Stephen Bechtel Find Book in Ecology and the
East Texas, among other books.
Environment
Organisms and Environments, 11
AUGUST
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NOVEMBER Ecology, Evolution, and Environment/Natural History/
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science
Announcing a new series—Species and Systematics

Malte C. Ebach, Series Editor
The SPECIES AND SYSTEMATICS Series includes scholarly books that investigate fundamental
and practical aspects of systematics and taxonomy with a close examination of descriptive
taxonomy, its fusion with cyber-infrastructure, its future with biodiversity studies, and its
importance as an empirical science.
John S. Wilkins Lynne R. Parenti and Malte C. Ebach

Species Comparative
A History of the Idea Biogeography
Discovering and Classifying
The complex idea of “species” has evolved
Biogeographical Patterns of
over time, yet its meaning is far from
a Dynamic Earth
resolved. This comprehensive work takes a
fresh look at an idea central to the field of
To unravel the complex shared history of
biology by tracing its history from antiq-
the Earth and its life forms, biogeographers
uity to today. John S. Wilkins explores
analyze patterns of biodiversity, species dis-
the essentialist view, a staple of logic from
tribution, and geological history. So far, the
The Triassic labyrinthodont (Paracyclotosaurus Plato and Aristotle through the Middle
davidi) from the Sydney Basin. © Rick Sardinha. field of biogeography has been fragmented
From Comparative Biogeography. Ages to fairly recent times, and considers
into divergent systematic and evolution-
the idea of species in natural history—a
ary approaches, with no unifying research
concept often connected to reproduction.
theme or method. In this text, Lynne
Tracing “generative conceptions” of species
Parenti and Malte Ebach outline compara-
back through Darwin to Epicurus, Wilkins
tive tools to unify biogeography. Rooted in
provides a new perspective on the relation-
phylogenetic systematics, this comparative
ship between philosophical and biological
approach offers a comprehensive empirical
approaches to this concept. He also reviews
framework for discovering and deciphering
the array of current definitions. Species is a
the distribution of life on Earth.
benchmark exploration and clarification of
a concept fundamental to the past, present, Lynne R. Parenti is Research Scientist and curator
and future of the natural sciences. of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History
in the Smithsonian Institution. Malte C. Ebach is
John S. Wilkins is Research Fellow in Philosophy a Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University’s
at the University of Sydney, Australia. International Institute for Species Exploration.
Species and Systematics, 1 Species and Systematics, 2
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science
Lisa Tauxe Edited by Thomas C. Winter

Essentials of and Gene E. Likens
Paleomagnetism Mirror Lake

With contributions from Subir K. Banerjee, Interactions among Air, Land, and Water
Robert F. Butler, and Rob van der Voo
Lakes change constantly in response to
More than 400 years ago William Gilbert their surrounding landscape and their air-
said, “The Earth itself is a great magnet.” shed. Mirror Lake, located in the White
Today, we know that it is also a great mag- Mountains of New Hampshire, has been Mirror Lake in autumn. Photo by Gene Likens.
netic tape recorder. This work is a compre- carefully researched since the 1960s. This From Mirror Lake.
hensive, up-to-date textbook on extracting book, edited by Thomas C. Winter and

and using rock and paleomagnetic data in Gene E. Likens, summarizes and interprets
archaeological, geological, and geophysical the extensive data collected on this lake
applications. Designed for students and and its watershed from 1981 to 2000, a
professionals with knowledge of college- period during which the lake was affected
level physics and some background in earth by a variety of climate conditions as well
sciences, it describes both the theory and as significant human activity. The find-
the practice of paleomagnetism, covering ings documented also identify the panoply
topics such as the basics of magnetism, of chemicals influenced by limnological
geomagnetic fields, how rocks become processes and include percentages of inflow
magnetized, and the various ways of analyz- sources; percentages of water loss from
ing the magnetism of rocks. The book uses seepage, surface outflow, and evaporation;
the companion PmagPy software package. and the effect of water flow on the lake
An appendix contains a brief introduction nutrients.
to Python, an easy-to-use, cross-platform,
Thomas C. Winter is a senior research hydrologist
and most important, free programming
with the U.S. Geological Survey. Gene E. Likens
environment in which PmagPy programs is the Director and President of the Institute of
are written. Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY.
Lisa Tauxe is Professor of Geophysics at Scripps Freshwater Ecology Series, 2

Institution of Oceanography. A Stephen Bechtel Fund Book in Ecology and the
Environment
January
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science
Edited by Theodore Garland, Jr. John O. Reiss

and Michael R. Rose Not by Design
Experimental Evolution Retiring Darwin’s Watchmaker
Concepts, Methods, and Applications
of Selection Experiments More than two centuries ago, William Paley
introduced his famous metaphor of the
Experimental approaches to evolution universe as a watch made by the Creator.
provide indisputable evidence of evolu- For Paley, the exquisite structure of the
tion by directly observing the process at universe necessitated a designer. Today,
work. Experimental evolution deliberately some 150 years since Darwin’s Origin of
duplicates evolutionary processes—forcing Species was published, the argument of design
life histories to evolve, producing adapta- is seeing a revival. This provocative work
tions to stressful environmental conditions, tells how Darwin left the door open for this
and generating lineage splitting to create revival—and at the same time argues for
incipient species. This unique volume sum- a new conceptual framework that avoids
marizes studies in experimental evolution, the problematic teleology inherent in some
outlining current techniques and applica- formulations of natural selection. In a wide-
tions, and presenting the field’s full range ranging discussion of the historical and
of research—from selection in the labora- philosophical dimensions of evolutionary
tory to the manipulation of populations theory from the ancient Greeks to today,
in the wild. It provides work on such key John Reiss argues that we should look to
biological problems as the evolution of the principle of the conditions for existence,
Darwinian fitness, sexual reproduction, life first formulated by the French paleontologist
history, athletic performance, and learning. Georges Cuvier, to resolve persistent issues
in evolutionary biology.
Theodore Garland, Jr. is Professor of Biology at
the University of California, Riverside. Michael R. John O. Reiss is Professor of Zoology at Humboldt
Rose is Director of the Network for Experimental State University.
Research on Evolution, A University of California
AUGUST
Multicampus Research Program, and Professor of
382 pages, 6 x 9”, 16 line illustrations, 10 tables
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University
Ecology/Evolution/History of Science
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Series monographs/Religion
Series Monographs Aharon Shemesh

James A. Matisoff Halakhah in the Making
The Tibeto-Burman The Development of Jewish Law
Reproductive System from Qumran to the Rabbis
Toward an Etymological Thesaurus
UC Publications in Linguistics, 140 Halakhah in the Making offers the first
AVAILABLE comprehensive study of the legal mate-
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rial found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its
World significance in the greater history of Jewish
paper 978-0-520-09871-8 $34.95tx/£19.95 religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh
revives an issue long dormant in religious
Brent Douglas Galloway scholarship: the relationship between
Dictionary of Upriver rabbinic law, as written more than one
Halkomelem hundred years after the destruction of the
UC Publications in Linguistics, 141
Second Temple, and Jewish practice during
Available the Second Temple. The monumental dis-
1808 pages, 7 x 10” covery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran
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led to the revelation of this missing material
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Carmen Jany with rabbinic laws. With the publication
Chimariko Grammar of scroll 4QMMT—a polemical letter by
Areal and Typological Perspective Dead Sea sectarians concerning points of
UC Publications in Linguistics, 142
Jewish law—an effective comparison was
Available finally possible.
260 pages, 7 x 10
Language/Native American Ethnicity/Reference Aharon Shemesh teaches in the Department of
World
Talmud, Bar-Ilan University.
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Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies, 6
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religion
Bron Taylor
Dark Green Religion
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
“Bron Taylor takes us through our spiritual relationship with our planet,
its ecosystems, and its evolution in an enlightened and completely
undogmatic manner.”
Dr. Claude Martin, Former Director General, World Wildlife Fund
“This book is a vital contribution on a subject of immense religious,

political, and environmental importance. It’s also a great read.”
Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the
evolution of “green religions” in North America: spiritual practices
that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional
religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental
activists, lifestyle-focused bioregionalists, surfers, new agers involved in
“ecopsychology,” and groups that hold scientific narratives as sacred—
Taylor addresses a central theoretical question: How can environ-
mentally oriented, spiritually motivated individuals and movements
be understood as religious when many of them reject religious and
Bron Taylor is Associate Professor of Religion and supernatural worldviews? The “dark” of the title emphasizes the depth
Nature at the University of Florida. He is Editor-in-
of believers’ passion while suggesting a potential shadow side: besides
Chief of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
being uplifting and inspiring, such religion might mislead, deceive, or
and Editor of Ecological Resistance Movements:
The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular even precipitate violence. This book provides a fascinating global tour
Environmentalism. of the green religious phenomenon, enabling readers to assess its role
in a critically important religious revolution.
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paperbacks
Eugenie C. Scott
Evolution vs. Creationism
An Introduction
Second Edition
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More than eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over teaching
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tions. This accessible resource, now completely revised and updated, Eugenie C. Scott is Executive Director of the
National Center for Science Education. She has
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written extensively on the evolution-creationism
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as a concise history of the evolution-creationism controversy. This sec-
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Teaching Professor of Biology at the University of controversy by giving synopses of every major person, organization,
Minnesota. He is the author of Evolution in the
and place involved in it. In more than five hundred entries, many of
Courtroom: A Reference Guide and, with Janice
Moore, of Evolution 101. Mark D. Decker is
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intellectual history of evolution and evolutionism.”
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“A rich and energetic survey of the history of evolutionary thought.”

Journal of the History of Medicine
“This new edition makes an already excellent book even better.”

Quarterly Review of Biology
“Combines skilled historical research with superior writing…synthe-

sizing the complex, often emotion-filled strands of evolutionary theory
into a noteworthy, updated whole.” Science Teacher
Peter J. Bowler is Reader in the History of Science
at Queen’s University, Belfast, and is well known
Since its original publication in 1989, Evolution: The History of an on both sides of the Atlantic for his books on the
Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source history of evolutionism.
on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific
theories. This twentieth anniversary edition is updated with a new September
496 pages, 6 x 9”, 8 b/w photographs,
preface examining recent scholarship and trends within the study of 28 line illustrations
evolution. Evolution/History of Science
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Mark Juergensmeyer
Global Rebellion
Religious Challenges to the Secular State,
from Christian Militias to al Qaeda
“Highly recommended.” Choice
“This is an indispensable book in helping us understand the new

world disorder that seems to be overtaking us.”
Robert Bellah, coauthor of Habits of the Heart
Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new
religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents
in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations
of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreak-
ing book, The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the
Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road
map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discus-
sion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebel-
lious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that
have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious
revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious
Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology
activism in ways that will diminish the violence and lead to an accom-
and Global Studies, and Director of the Orfalea
Center for Global and International Studies at the
modation between radical religion and the secular world.
University of California. He is also president of the
American Academy of Religion.
Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, 16
October
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Jeremy Salt
The Unmaking of the Middle East
A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands
“Outstanding, thoroughly researched, and vividly written.”

Times Higher Education
“Devastating in its portrayal of the depths to which the West (France,

Britain, and the U.S. especially) sank in conquering the Middle East.”
Mehran Kamrava, author of The Modern Middle East
“This excellent book is comprehensive in scope, scholarly, and yet

highly readable.” Ghada Karmi, author of Married to Another Man
Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East
than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins
by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commenta-
tors since September 11, 2001: “Why do they hate us?” Jeremy Salt
offers the background essential for understanding the Middle East
today by chronicling the long and bloody history of Western interven-
tion in Arab lands. Throughout, he emphasizes the human cost of the
policies put in place to preserve “Western interests” or in the name of
bringing civilization, democracy, or freedom to the region. Making Jeremy Salt teaches in the Department of Political
Science at Bilkent University in Ankara and is
use of extensive research in U.S. and British archives that reveals what
the author of Imperialism, Evangelism, and the
politicians were deciding behind closed doors, and why, this book will Ottoman Armenians, 1878–1896.
change the way we see the Middle East.
October
484 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 map
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Stanley Wolpert
India
FOURTH EDITION
Praise for previous editions:
“To all of us who delightedly and sometimes repetitively call ourselves

old India hands, Stanley Wolpert is the acknowledged authority. This
book tells why. Indian history, art, culture, and contemporary politics
are here in accurate, wide-ranging, and lucid prose.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Refreshingly concrete and detailed, [and] vibrantly written, Wolpert’s

overview repeatedly succeeds at explaining a culture that gave us
little things like the decimal system, chess, cotton cloth, meditation,
and two religions called Buddhism and Hinduism.” Philadelphia Inquirer
“If one were to read a single book about India in a lifetime, this
should be it.” Library Journal
This new edition brings Stanley Wolpert’s brilliantly succinct and

accessible introduction to India completely up to date for a new gen-
Stanley Wolpert is the author of fourteen books, eration of readers, travelers, and students. In crisp detail, Wolpert
including A New History of India, now in its eighth
gives a panoramic overview of the continent on which the world’s
edition, and Gandhi’s Passion: The Life and
Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. He has taught the
most fascinating ancient civilization gave birth to one of its most
history of India and Pakistan at the University of complex modern democratic nations. India now includes new sections
California, Los Angeles, since 1958. on the country’s current global economic development, the recent
national elections, and on its international relations, including those
AUGUST
281 pages, 6 x 9”, 29 b/w photographs, 1 map
with Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, and the United States, India’s new
History/Asian Studies/South Asia strategic global partner.
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David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag

Asylum Denied
A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
“Riveting and essential reading for anyone interested in the lives and
struggles of immigrants. Kenney’s story will astonish, frustrate, and
inspire you.” Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What
“Reminds us of the persecution that refugees face, takes our

collective conscience and shakes it to the core.” Financial Times
“Astonishing in its power to move and inform…. Its core concerns for
justice and reform remain directed at American society.”
Publishers Weekly
“Reads like a suspense story.” America Magazine
Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri

Kenney’s harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration pro-
cessing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya,
led a boycott to protest his government’s treatment of his fellow
farmers. He was subsequently arrested and taken into the forest to be
Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center
executed. This book, told by Kenney and his lawyer Philip G. Schrag
from Kenney’s own perspective, tells of his near-murder, imprison- David Ngaruri Kenney pursues a career in public
ment, and torture in Kenya; his remarkable escape to the United service at the Montgomery County State Attorney’s
Office in Maryland. Philip G. Schrag is Professor
States; and the obstacle course of ordeals and proceedings he faced as
of Law and Director of the Center for Applied Legal
U.S. government agencies sought to deport him to Kenya. A story of Studies at Georgetown University Law Center.
courage, love, perseverance, and legal strategy.
August
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Adrian Lister and Paul Bahn

Mammoths
Giants of the Ice Age
Foreword by Jean M. Auel
REVISED EDITION
“An interesting and informative book that should be in every public

and school library across the continent.” TCM Reviews
“Recommended.” Choice
A dazzling visual record of one of Earth’s most extraordinary spe-

cies, this updated and revised edition of Mammoths: Giants of the
Ice Age integrates exciting new research to piece together the story
of mammoths, mastodons, and their relatives, icons of the Ice Age.
Incorporating recent genetic work, new fossil finds, new extinction
theories, and more, Mammoths is a captivating exploration of how
these mighty creatures evolved, lived, and mysteriously disappeared.
The book features a wealth of color illustrations that depict mam-
Adrian Lister is a Research Leader in Paleontology
at the Natural History Museum, London, and
moths in their dramatic Ice Age habitats, scores of photographs of
Visiting Professor at University College London. mammoth remains, and images of the art of prehistoric people who
Paul Bahn is an independent archaeologist and saw these animals in the flesh. Full of intriguing facts, boxed features,
author of Journey to the Ice Age, among other and clear graphics, Mammoths examines the findings—including
books. intact frozen carcasses from Siberia and fossilized remains from South
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Dakota, California, England, France, and elsewhere—that have pro-
vided clues to the mammoths’ geographic range, body structure, way
September of life, and interactions with early humans. It is an enthralling story of
192 pages, 8-1/2 x 11”, 221 color illustrations,
111 line illustrations, 16 maps
paleontological, archaeological, and geological exploration.
Paleontology/Biology/Archaeology
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Doug Macdougall
Nature’s Clocks
How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
“Rich in historical tidbits, this book is a delightful study of how scien-

tists figured out analytical techniques that revealed the history of the
earth.” New Scientist
“For time-conscious readers, Nature’s Clocks provides satisfaction

beyond measure.” Washington Post Book World
“Science buffs from all fields along with general readers will find this
a helpful handbook on how we are now able to travel to the distant
past.” Publishers Weekly
“Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting,” writes Doug

Macdougall. “It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper.”
In Nature’s Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking
to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now
use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining
radiocarbon (C-14) dating—the best known of these methods—and
several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past,
Doug Macdougall is Professor Emeritus of Earth
Macdougall unwraps the last century’s advances, explaining how they
Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as “Lucy,” the timing of the University of California, San Diego. He is the
dinosaurs’ extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that author of Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story
date from the beginning of the earth’s history. In lively and accessible of Ice Ages.
prose, he describes how the science of geochronology has developed
October
and flourished. 288 pages, 6 x 9”, 14 b/w photographs, 12 line
illustrations, 1 map
Ecology/Geology/Archaeology
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Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Fernando Gapasin

Solidarity Divided
The Crisis in Organized Labor and
a New Path toward Social Justice
“Strongly argued and richly informative.” In These Times
“You must read Solidarity Divided. Fletcher and Gapasin provide a

superior narrative of the road the labor movement has traveled, and
chart the path it must now take for its own survival.” Black Commentator
The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battle-
field filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various
social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible,
Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor’s current crisis and
a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill
Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose
experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage point on
the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid
history and probing analysis. They chart changes in U.S. manufactur-
ing, examine the onslaught of globalization, and consider the influence
of the environment on labor. Ultimately calling for a wide-ranging re-
An Essence Magazine Bestseller
examination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of today’s
Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder of the Center for labor movement, this book is essential for understanding how the
Labor Renewal, is a columnist, author, and long-
battle for social justice can be fought and won.
time activist. Fernando Gapasin is a Central Labor
Council President, labor educator, and author.
October
324 pages, 6 x 9”
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Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons

Gay L.A.
A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and
Lipstick Lesbians
“Vital intellectual fare brimming with fascinating history.”

Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Easily the subject’s definitive work.” Publishers Weekly
“Reads like a novel. Faderman and Timmons have set out a dramatic
struggle with Los Angeles as its epicenter, a struggle that reverber-
ates through red and blue states and that questions institutions as
basic as marriage and definitions as ancient as selfhood.”
Los Angeles Times Book Review
The exhortation to “Go West!” has always sparked the American

imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the
City of Angels provided a special home and gave rise to one of the
most influential gay cultures in the world. Drawing on rare archives
and photographs as well as more than three hundred interviews,
Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.’s unique gay his-
tory, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross- A Los Angeles Times “Favorite Book” 2006
gendered “two spirits” to cross-dressing frontier women in search of Advocate “Top Ten Books of 2006”
their fortunes; from the bohemian freedom of early Hollywood to the Winner, Lambda Literary Awards for Arts and
explosion of gay life during World War II to the underground radical- Culture and GLBT Nonfiction
ism set off by the 1950s blacklist; and from the 1960s gay liberation Lillian Faderman’s most recent book, Naked in
movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s. the Promised Land, received a Judy Grahn Award
for nonfiction and a Lambda Literary Award for
memoir. Stuart Timmons is the author of The
Trouble with Harry Hay, which was a Book-of-the-
Month Club selection.
AUGUST
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Nalini M. Nadkarni
Between Earth and Sky
Our Intimate Connections to Trees
“Wide-ranging and eye-opening…. The focus swings from the close

and intimate to the broadest of vistas: canopy ants and root-growth
studies rub paragraphs with the centrality of trees in human history.”
New Scientist
“A love letter to trees that effortlessly mixes poetry and prose with
environmentalism, culture, history and science…. An engaging and
satisfying read for anyone.” Foreword
“Presents a wealth of entertaining arboreal facts and figures, but

Nadkarni’s personal anecdotes are the book’s most compelling and
inimitable feature.” Publishers Weekly
World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees

on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musi-
cians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse per-
spectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories,
information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide
Nalini Nadkarni teaches in the Environmental
to the leafy wilderness above our heads. In a book that reawakens our
Studies Program at The Evergreen State College
and is President of the International Canopy
sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find
Network. entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it.
October
Natural History/Botany/Ecology
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Elin Kelsey
Watching Giants
The Secret Lives of Whales
With Photographs by Doc White. Additional Photos by François Gohier
“Cogent, compassionate…. Brilliant at pursuing seemingly unrelated

trails back down the blowhole, Kelsey illuminates the ‘humanity’ of
whales.” Publishers Weekly
“An engaging portrayal of the lives and culture of whales…. Ranges

from meditative essays on the scale of whales’ lives through to hard
scientific reporting.” The Economist
“An appealing, agitating foray into the world of whales that ignites
both protective instincts and a hungry curiosity to know more.”
Kirkus Reviews
Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, Watching Giants opens a

window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so differ-
ent that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Elin Kelsey is a faculty member in the School of
Kelsey’s colorful first-person account, drawing from her rich, often Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads
humorous, everyday experiences as a mother, a woman, and a scientist, University in Canada, and author of Saving Sea
takes us to the incredibly productive waters of the Gulf of California Otters, Finding Out about Whales, and Strange
and beyond, to oceans around the world. What emerges are fascinat- New Species, among other books.
ing snapshots of whale culture and a dizzying sense of the tremendous November
speed with which we are changing the oceans’ ecosystems. Watching 201 pages, 6 x 8”, 22 color illustrations,
Giants introduces a world of immense interconnectivity and beauty— 1 b/w photograph
one that is now facing imminent peril. Natural History/Marine Biology/Conservation
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Richard Bourne
Lula of Brazil
The Story So Far
“A biography of the metalworker who became president of Latin

America’s most powerful country, which describes Lula’s life from
childhood hardships in an impoverished family, through revolution
and scandal, to his re-election as Brazilian president in 2006.”
Times Higher Education Supplement
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s dramatic life story has captured the imagi-
nation of millions, and his progressive politics have brought hope
and excitement to Brazil—and the world. In a clearly written, vividly
detailed narrative, Richard Bourne describes Lula’s childhood hard-
ships in an impoverished family, his days as a revered trade unionist,
and the strike movement that brought down Brazil’s military dictator-
ship. The book chronicles Lula’s campaigns for the presidency, his
first term in office beginning in 2002, a major corruption scandal,
and his reelection in 2006. Throughout, Lula of Brazil connects this
charismatic leader’s life to larger issues, such as the difficulty of main-
taining a progressive policy in an era of globalization. Brazil’s con-
temporary history, parallels with other developing countries and other
Richard Bourne is Senior Fellow at the Institute of
world leaders, the conservatism of Brazilian society, and other themes
Commonwealth Studies at London University. He
is the author of several books including Assault on
provide a rich backdrop for assessing the struggles, achievements, and
the Amazon, Getúlio Vargas of Brazil: Sphinx of the failures of this major figure on both the Brazilian and the world stage.
Pampas, and Political Leaders of Latin America.
October
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Susan Morgan
Bombay Anna
The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of
the King and I Governess
“Absorbing.” New York Times
“This informed and entertaining biography reveals Leonowens as an

intriguing and complex woman, whose interests ranged far beyond
young lovers and whistling happy tunes.” Foreword
“Morgan deserves congratulations for a lively incarnation of Anna,

one that gives the character of the musical and movie’s full humanity
in historical context.” Philadelphia Inquirer
“Anyone who thinks that the British experience in India was a long
succession of polo, tea on the lawn, brave officers leading the charge
against howling native hordes and similar conceits will be riveted by
Morgan’s portrait of the gritty Anglo-Indian underclass from which
Anna sprang.” The Montreal Gazette
If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think
Susan Morgan, Distinguished Professor of English
again. As this captivating biography shows, the real life of Anna
at Miami University, is the author of Place Matters:
Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Gendered Geography in Victorian Women’s Travel
Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write Writings about Southeast Asia, among other
this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled around the globe and books.
discovered new information that has eluded researchers for years. Anna
was born a poor, mixed-race army brat in India, and what followed is
an extraordinary nineteenth-century story of savvy self-invention, wild September
adventure, and far-reaching influence. 300 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w photographs
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Stephen Trimble
Bargaining for Eden
The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America
“Convincing…. The case Trimble makes is well illustrated, and also

troubling testimony to the speed with which a birthright is now
slipping away.” Rick Bass, Boston Globe Book Section
“Bargaining for Eden ultimately asks what we are doing as landowners,

neighbors, and citizens to ensure that our changing communities are
rooted in, not greed, but generosity.” Orion
Beginning with an Olympic ski race in northern Utah, this heartfelt

book from award-winning writer and photographer Stephen Trimble
takes a penetrating look at the battles raging over the land—and the
soul—of the American West. Bargaining for Eden investigates the
high-profile story of a reclusive billionaire who worked relentlessly to
acquire public land for his ski resort and to host the Salt Lake City
Winter Olympics. In a gripping, character-driven narrative based
on extensive interviews, Trimble tells of the land exchange deal that
ensued, one of the largest and most controversial in U.S. history,
as he deftly explores the inner conflicts, paradoxes, and greed at the
Writer, photographer, and naturalist Stephen
heart of land-use disputes from the back rooms of Washington to the
Trimble has won awards for his nonfiction, his
fiction, and his photography, including the Ansel grassroots efforts of passionate citizens. We travel with Trimble in a
Adams Award from the Sierra Club. fascinating journey that becomes, in the end, a hopeful credo to guide
citizens and communities seeking to reinvent their relationship with
September
the beloved American landscape.
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Paul D. Blanc, MD
How Everyday Products
Make People Sick
Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
Updated and Expanded
“A wonderful read…. I haven’t seen a book that so clearly describes

how the health of workers fits into the big picture, and how occupa-
tional health can also protect the public.” Nature
“A superb tool for making our homes, finally, a safe place to raise
children.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Superbly researched…. There are many lessons to be learned from

this book, and I recommend it strongly.”
Occupational & Environmental Medicine
This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seem-
ingly innocent products we encounter every day—a tube of glue in a
kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf
on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on
an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with Paul D. Blanc is Professor of Medicine and
extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational and
case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and Environmental Medicine at the University of
meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different California, San Francisco.
time periods, places, and technologies.
November
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• Leaded toys and other consumer hazards Medicine/Health Care/Public Policy
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• Biological hazards in meat processing
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Lilia Zaouali
Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World
A Concise History with 174 Recipes
Translated by M. B. DeBevoise, with a Foreword by Charles Perry
“A fascinating selection of recipes taken from ancient cookbooks.

There are amazements on nearly every page.” New York Times
“[Offers] thought-provoking ideas for experimentation, while

31 updated recipes evoke the flavors of the Middle Ages for
contemporary palate.” Food Arts
“Pleasurable sustenance can be had from this book’s many

fascinating historical nuggets.” San Francisco Bay Guardian
Vinegar and sugar, dried fruit, rose water, spices from India and
China, sweet wine made from raisins and dates—these are the flavors
of the golden age of Arab cuisine. This book, a delightful culinary
adventure that is part history and part cookbook, surveys the gas-
Lilia Zaouali has taught at the University of
tronomical art that developed at the Caliph’s sumptuous palaces in
Jussieu Paris–7 and the Sarah Lawrence American ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, drew inspiration from Persian,
Academy. The author of numerous essays and Greco-Roman, and Turkish cooking, and rapidly spread across the
scientific articles, Zaouali is a contributor to SLOW, Mediterranean. In a charming narrative, Lilia Zaouali brings to life
among other journals. Islam’s vibrant culinary heritage.
September
264 pages, 6 x 8”, 32 color illustrations
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Amy B. Trubek
The Taste of Place
A Cultural Journey into Terroir
“A collection of eclectic information that satisfies, at least temporarily,

the most inquisitive and academic of gourmands.” The Wine News
“Marvelous.” Austin American Statesman
“Engaging.” The Toronto Star
“Blends history, economics, and other scholarly disciplines with

engaging stories of Americans who are trying to recreate or retain
local flavors.” Philadelphia Inquirer
How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While
much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to
wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering voice
in the new culinary revolution, expands the concept of terroir beyond
wine and into cuisine and culture more broadly. Bringing together
Amy B. Trubek is Assistant Professor in the
lively stories of people farming, cooking, and eating, she focuses on a
Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the
series of examples ranging from shagbark hickory nuts in Wisconsin University of Vermont, and the author of Haute
and maple syrup in Vermont to wines from Northern California. Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary
Written for anyone interested in food, this book shows why the taste Profession.
of place matters now, and how it can mediate between our local
desires and our global reality to define and challenge American food
practices. August
illustrations
Food/Global Studies/Anthropology
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Joan Reardon
M. F. K. Fisher among
the Pots and Pans
Celebrating Her Kitchens
Foreword by Amanda Hesser
“Joan Reardon sketches a brisk, charming biography of the beloved

food writer’s life, through the lens of where and what she cooked.”
O At Home
“In this rich portrait, Joan Reardon eloquently shares with us Mary
Frances’s great lesson: to cook well, you need only the most elemen-
tary kitchen, a mortar and pestle, and full awareness of your own five
senses.” Alice Waters
“Insightful…. Needs to be enjoying a primo position on your bookshelf.”

The Wine News
“Reardon delivers a history that, like Fisher’s famous dishes, is at

Joan Reardon is a culinary historian and author of once simple and hugely enjoyable.” Philadelphia Inquirer
Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M. F. K.
Fisher, among other books. Avram Dumitrescu is From her very first book, Serve It Forth, M.F.K. Fisher wrote about
an Irish artist and illustrator specializing in food, her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the
architecture, and animals.
many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to
California Studies in Food and Culture, 22 express her ideas about the art of eating. M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots
and Pans, interspersed with recipes and richly illustrated by Avram
September
Dumitrescu with original watercolors, provides a deeply personal
184 pages, 6 x 8”, 24 color illustrations, 18 b/w
photographs glimpse of a woman who continues to mystify even as she commands
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25555-5) our attention.
Food/Literature
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Bernat Rosner and Frederic C. Tubach

An Uncommon Friendship
From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust
With Sally Patterson Tubach
With a New Epilogue
“A fine book and a significant contribution to the massive literature

of the Holocaust.” Washington Post Book World
“An authentic, poignant account of two very different lives during the
Nazi regime, with all the horrors, small triumphs, and unexpected
kindnesses distilled into a compelling, tightly woven tale.”
Washington Times
In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join

the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same
year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto
a train with the rest of the village’s Jewish inhabitants and taken to
Auschwitz, where his whole family was murdered. Many years later,
after enjoying successful lives in California, they met, became friends,
and decided to share their intimate story—that of two boys trapped
in evil and destructive times, who became men with the freedom to Bruno Brand Tolerance Book Award,
construct their own future, with each other and the world. In a new Simon Wiesenthal Center
epilogue, the authors share how the publication of the book changed Bernat Rosner is retired General Counsel of
their lives and the lives of the countless people they have met as a the Safeway Corporation in Oakland, California.
result of publishing their story. Frederic C. Tubach is Professor Emeritus of
German at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sally Patterson Tubach is the author of Memoirs
of a Terrorist.
January
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Adamson, Walter L., 99 Gapasin, Fernando, 80 McGovern, Patrick E., 20 Sharpsteen, Bill, 14
Alvarez, Luis, 99 Garland, Theodore, Jr., 68 Migeotte, Léopold, 56 Shemesh, Aharon, 69
Arnheim, Rudolf, 98 Grahm, Randall, 11 Mooney, Margarita A., 64 Sidlauskas, Susan, 46
Asad, Talal, 105 Gusterson, Hugh, 57 Moore, Randy, 72 Simon, Bryant, 16
Baas, Jacquelynn, 26 Hackel, Steven W., 103 Morgan, Lynn M., 61 Singh, Nikhil Pal, 51
Bahn, Paul, 78 Hanhardt, John G., 27 Morgan, Susan, 85 Snyder, Jon R., 55
Bargna, Ivan, 30 Hanks, William F., 58 Moser, Joann, 27 Solinger, Rickie, 63
Beccaloni, Janet, 33 Hayes, Derek, 13 Nachman, Gerald, 25 Spitzer, Leo, 50
Belfrage, Nicolas, 18 Hémery, Daniel, 53 Nadkarni, Nalini M., 82 Stone, Michael K., 104
Besteman, Catherine, 57 Hill, Steven, 40 Naish, Darren, 32 Stover, Eric, 15
Black, Maggie, 37 Hills, Patricia, 28 Najita, Tetsuo, 54 Tapia, Ruby, 63
Blanc, Paul D., 87 Hirsch, Marianne, 50 O’Dell, Jack, 51 Tauxe, Lisa, 67
Bourne, Richard, 84 Holtzman, Jon, 61 O’Grady, Patrick M., 69 Taylor, Bron, 70
Bowler, Peter J., 73 Hull, Kathleen L., 62 Okihiro, Gary Y., 94 Tedlock, Dennis, 7
Brocheux, Pierre, 53 Jacob, Mary Jane, 26 O’Neill, Kevin Lewis, 58 Timmons, Stuart, 81
Brossard, Nicole, 41 Jany, Carmen, 69 Palmer, Douglas, 8 Tønnesson, Stein, 53
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, 47 Johnson, Paula C., 63 Parenti, Lynne R., 66 Trimble, Stephen, 86
Bull, Malcolm, 105 Jones, Colin, 29 Partridge, Loren, 45 Trubek, Amy B., 89
Canepa, Matthew P., 56 Juergensmeyer, Mark, 74 Pegler-Gordon, Anna, 52 Truett, Joe C., 65
Carney, Judith A., 4 Kawazoe, Alica, 105 Poppendieck, Janet, 22 Tubach, Frederic C., 91
Carruthers, Susan L., 49 Kelly, Julia, 29 Race, Jeffrey, 100 Tubach, Sally Paterson, 91
Center for Ecoliteracy, 104 Kelsey, Elin, 83 Raimon, Martha L., 63 Twain, Mark, 10
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, 44, 93 Kemper, Tom, 48 Reagan, Leslie J., 39 Unschuld, Paul U., 60
Chadwick, Whitney, 29 Kenney, David Ngaruri, 77 Reardon, Joan, 90 Vallejo, César, 92
Clover, Joshua, 23 King, Jannet, 37 Reiss, John, 68 Varriano, John, 17
Cohen, Hillel, 36 Krause, Elizabeth L., 59 Reynolds, Tina, 63 Vieira, Mark A., 24
Conley, Dalton, 97 LeBlanc, Robin M., 54 Rose, Michael R., 68 Volk, Alicia, 46
Decker, Mark D., 72 Lewallen, Constance M., 44 Rosenbaum, Fred, 34 Waldbauer, Gilbert, 5
Di-Capua, Yoav, 52 Lichtenstein, Therese, 29 Rosner, Bernat, 91 Walker, J. Samuel, 51
Dodds, Walter K., 65 Likens, Gene E., 67 Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas, 4 Weiss, Mark, 43
Durbach, Nadja, 55 Linde, Paul R., 38 Rossabi, Morris, 95 Wetzel, Alexandra, 31
Dyson, Frances, 47 Lister, Adrian, 78 Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 60 Wilcox, Michael V., 62
Ebach, Malte C., 66 Lunde, Paul, 2 Sacks, Peter, 96 Wilkins, John S., 66
Edwards, Michael, 19 MacDonald, Scott, 48 Sallaz, Jeffrey J., 64 Winter, Thomas C., 67
Faderman, Lillian, 81 Macdougall, Doug, 79 Salmond, Anne, 6 Wolpert, Stanley, 76
Faier, Lieba, 59 Magnacca, Karl N., 69 Salt, Jeremy, 75 Yau, John, 27
Fletcher, Bill, Jr., 80 Makhulu, Anne-Marie, 105 Sampson, Scott D., 12 Zanini De Vita, Oretta, 21
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, 10 Mao Zedong, 100 Savage, Kirk, 35 Zaouali, Lilia, 88
Fletcher, Laurel E., 15 Martin, Clair G., 102 Schrag, Philip G., 77 Zurita, Raúl, 42
Galloway, Brent Douglas, 69 Matisoff, James A., 69 Scott, Eugenie C., 71

title index
1989, 23 Dynamics of Architectural Form, 98 Insecure American, 57 Right Here on Our Stage
2000 Years of Mayan Literature, 7 Economy of the Greek Cities, 56 In Sight of America, 52 Tonight!, 25
Adventures of Perception, 48 Embattled Avant-Gardes, 99 Interrupted Life, 63 Road to Yucca Mountain, 51
Africa, 30 Encyclopedia of Pasta, 21 In the Shadow of Slavery, 4 Smart by Nature, 104
Alta California, 103 Essentials of Paleomagnetism, 67 Intimate Encounters, 59 Solidarity Divided, 80
Aphrodite’s Island, 6 Europe Rising, 40 Irving Thalberg, 24 Sounding New Media, 47
Arachnids, 33 Everything but the Coffee, 16 Is Critique Secular?, 105 Species, 66
Art of Renaissance Florence, 45 Evolution: The History of an Island World, 94 Spectacle of Deformity, 55
Art of the Gut, 54 Idea, 73 Khubilai Khan, 95 Stories from Schools, 105
Art Workers, 47 Evolution: The Story of Life, 8 Labor of Luck, 64 Taste of Place, 89
Asylum Denied, 77 Evolution vs. Creationism, 71 Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Tastes and Temptations, 17
Atlas of Water, 37 Exilée and Temps Morts, 44 Ecology, 65 Tearing Down the Gates, 96
Bargaining for Eden, 86 Experimental Evolution, 68 Learning Mind, 26 Tibeto-Burman Reproductive
Been Doon So Long, 11 Faith Makes Us Live, 64 Lula of Brazil, 84 System, 69
Being Black, Living in the Red, 97 Finest Wines of Champagne, 19 M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots Twilight Visions, 29
Between Earth and Sky, 82 Finest Wines of Tuscany and and Pans, 90 Two Eyes of the Earth, 56
Bombay Anna, 85 Central Italy, 18 Mammoths, 78 Uncertain Suffering, 60
Book of Codes, 2 Fireflies, Honey, and Silk, 5 Mark Twain’s Book of Animals, 10 Uncertain Tastes, 61
Cézanne’s Other, 46 Free for All, 22 Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic Uncommon Friendship, 91
Chimariko Grammar, 69 Gatekeepers of the Arab Past, 52 World, 88 Uncorking the Past, 20
China, 31 Gay L.A., 81 Mirror Lake, 67 Unmaking of the Middle East, 75
City of God, 58 Ghosts of Home, 50 Monument Wars, 35 Unraveled, 59
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder, 51 Global Rebellion, 74 More Than Darwin, 72 Vietnam 1946, 53
Cold War Captives, 49 Good Arabs, 36 Nature’s Clocks, 79 War Comes to Long An, 100
Comparative Biogeography, 66 Grass, 65 Nicole Brossard, 41 Watching Giants, 83
Complete Poetry, 92 Great Dinosaur Discoveries, 32 Nietzsche’s Negative Ecologies, What Is Medicine?, 60
Converting Words, 58 Guantánamo Effect, 15 105 What’s It All Mean?, 27
Cosmopolitans, 34 Halakhah in the Making, 69 Not by Design, 68 Whole Island, 43
Dangerous Pregnancies, 39 Hard Work, Hard Times, 105 Ordinary Economies in Japan, 54
Danger to Self, 38 Hidden Talent, 48 Painting Harlem Modern, 28
Dark Green Religion, 70 Historical Atlas of the American Pestilence and Persistence, 62
Dictee, 93 West, 13 Poems of Mao Zedong, 100
Dictionary of Upriver How Everyday Products Make Power of the Center, 98
Halkomelem, 69 People Sick, 87 Power of the Zoot, 99
Dinosaur Odyssey, 12 Huntington Rose Garden, 102 Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology
Dirty Water, 14 Icons of Life, 61 of Conquest, 62
Dissimulation and the Culture India, 76 Purgatory, 42
of Secrecy in Early Modern Indochina, 53 Revision of the Modified
Europe, 55 In Pursuit of Universalism, 46 Mouthparts Species, 69
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