MAY 13, 2008. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
HUMANITIES
Adinolfi, Francesco. MONDO EXOTICA: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Attwood, Bain, et al., editors. THE PUBLIC LIFE OF HISTORY. (Public Culture 54.) Duke. $15.00, paper.
Berlant, Lauren. THE FEMALE COMPLAINT: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Brody, Richard. EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. Metropolitan. $40.00.
Caldwell, John Thornton. PRODUCTION CULTURE: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television. Duke. $25.95, paper.
Cartwright, Lisa. MORAL SPECTATORSHIP: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Chambers, Iain. MEDITERRANEAN CROSSINGS: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity. Duke. $21.95, paper.
Connolly, William E. CAPITALISM AND CHRISTIANITY, AMERICAN STYLE. Duke. $21.95, paper.
Day, David. CONQUEST: How Societies Overwhelm Others. Oxford. $24.95.
Doyle, Laura. FREEDOM’S EMPIRE: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940. Duke. $27.95, paper.
Earle, Rebecca. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Ferguson, Andrew. LAND OF LINCOLN: Adventures in Abe’s America. Grove. $14.00, paper.
Frader, Laura Levine. BREADWINNERS AND CITIZENS: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Frey, James. BRIGHT SHINY MORNING. Harper. $26.95.
Gille, Elizabeth. SHADOWS OF A CHILDHOOD. New Press. $14.95, paper.
Go, Julian. AMERICAN EMPIRE AND THE POLITICS OF MEANING: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Hamilton, John T. MUSIC, MADNESS, & THE UNWORKING OF LANGUAGE. Columbia. $40.00.
Hanawalt, Barbara A. & Kiser, Lisa J., editors. ENGAGING WITH NATURE: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Notre Dame. $30.00, paper.
Heinrich, Larissa N. THE AFTERLIFE OF IMAGES: Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Ivey, Bill. ARTS, INC.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights. California. $24.95.
Jakobsen, Janet R. & Pellegrini, Ann, editors. SECULARISMS. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Keene, Donald. CHRONICLES OF MY LIFE: An American in the Heart of Japan. Columbia. $27.95.
Kinnell, Galway. STRONG IS YOUR HEART. Houghton Mifflin. $14.95, paper.
Lanctot, Neil. NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution. Pennsylvania. $19.95, paper.
Lee, Hermione. EDITH WHARTON. Vintage. $18.95, paper.
Luxford, Dominic, editor. THE MCSWEENEY’S BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS. McSweeney’s. $14.00, paper.
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. AGAINST WAR: Views from the Underside of Modernity. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Miller, Christopher L. THE FRENCH ATLANTIC TRIANGLE: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Duke. $27.95, paper.
Murphy, Kevin P., et al., editors. QUEER FUTURES. (Radical History 100.) Duke. $14.00, paper.
Noland, Carrie & Ness, Sally Ann, editors. MIGRATIONS OF GESTURE. Minnesota. $25.00, paper.
Packer, Jeremy. MOBILITY WITHOUT MAYHEM: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Pausch, Randy. THE LAST LECTURE. Harper. $21.95.
Pietrusza, David. 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents. With a New Epilogue. Basic Books. $18.95, paper.
Phillips, Glenn, editor. CALIFORNIA VIDEO: Artists and Histories. Getty Research Institute. $39.95.
Radhakrishnan, R. HISTORY, THE HUMAN, AND THE WORLD BETWEEN. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Ross, Alison. THE AGAMBEN EFFECT. (South Atlantic Quarterly 107:1.) Duke. $14.00, paper.
Sarkar, Mahua. VISIBLE HISTORIES, DISAPPEARING WOMEN: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Schoonmaker, Trevor, editor. BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS: Birth of the Cool. Duke. $39.95, paper.
Sellier, Genevieve. MASCULINE SINGULAR: French New Wave Cinema. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Smith, Andrea. NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances. Duke. $23.95, paper.
SOCIAL TEXT 94. Duke. $12.00, journal.
Spaar, Lisa Russ, editor. ALL THAT MIGHTY HEART: London Poems. $22.95.
Spangler, Jewel L. VIRGINIANS REBORN: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century. Virginia. $45.00.
Stein, Garth. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN: A Novel. Harper. $23.95.
Styron, William. HAVANAS IN CAMELOT: Personal Essays. Random House. $23.00.
Trilling, Lionel. THE JOURNEY ABANDONED: The Unfinished Novel. Geraldine Murphy, editor. Columbia. $26.95.
United States Army. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN FRANCE DURING WORLD WAR II. With a New Introduction by Rick Atkinson. $12.00.
Walters, Barbara. AUDITION: A Memoir. Knopf. $29.95.
Washington, George. THE PAPERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON: Revolutionary War Series 17, 15 September – 31 October. Virginia. $85.00.
Wheeler, Rachel. TO LIVE UPON HOPE: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast. Cornell. $45.00.
Wideman, John Edgar. FANON. Houghton Mifflin. $24.00.
Wright, James. A WILD PERFECTION: The Selected Letters of James Wright. Wesleyan. $27.95, paper.
Zhang, Xudong. POSTSOCIALISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century. Duke. $24.95, paper.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Auerbach, Robert D. DECEPTION AND ABUSE AT THE FED: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Allan Greenspan’s Bank. Texas. $24.95.
Bumiller, Kristin. IN AN ABUSIVE STATE: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Ephron, Nora. I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN. Vintage. $12.95, paper.
Ermakoff, Ivan. RULING ONESELF OUT: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Duke. $27.95, paper.
Finnstrom, Sverker. LIVING WITH BAD SURROUNDINGS: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda. Duke. $22.95, paper.
George, Susan. WE THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE. Pluto. $22.95, paper.
Hagedorn, John M. A WORLD OF GANGS: Armed Men and Gangsta Culture. Foreword by Mike Davis. Minnesota. $24.95.
Kiung, Victor T. THE SOCIOLOGY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: Transformations in a Developing Region. Hawaii. $26.00, paper.
Lowenstein, Roger. WHILE AMERICA AGED: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis. Penguin. $25.95.
Larkin, Brian. SIGNAL AND NOISE: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in America. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Lazar, Sian. EL ALTO, REBEL CITY: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia. Duke. $23.95, paper.
MacCormick. Neil. H.L.A. HART. Second Edition. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Marsiglio, William. MEN ON A MISSION: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities. Johns Hopkins. $30.00, paper.
McGilvray, Dennis B. CRUCIBLE OF CONFLICT: Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka. Duke. $25.95, paper.
Milhaupt, Curtis J. & Pistor, Katharina. LAW & CAPITALISM: What Corporate Crises Reveal About Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World. Chicago. $39.00.
Mocktaitis, Thomas R. THE “NEW” TERRORISM: Myths and Reality. Stanford. $21.95, paper.
Pavlik, John V. MEDIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Columbia. $24.50, paper.
Perry, Bruce D., M.D., Ph.D. & Szalavitz, Maia. THE BOY WHO WAS RAISED AS A DOG AND OTHER STORIES FROM A CHILD PSYCHIATRIST’S NOTEBOOK: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing. Basic Books. $15.95, paper.
Rosen, Lawrence. VARIEIES OF MUSLIM EXPERIENCE: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life. Chicago. $35.00.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. COMMON WEALTH: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Penguin. $27.95.
Shain, Barry Alan, editor. THE NATURE OF RIGHTS AT THE AMERICAN FOUNDING AND BEYOND. Virginia. $45.00.
Tillman, Mary, with Narda Zacchino. ROOTS ON THE GROUND BY DUSK: My Tribute to Pat Tillman. Modern Times. $25.95.
Tsang, Steve, editor. INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL TERRORISM. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
SCIENCES
Chivian, Eric & Bernstein, Aaron, editors. SUSTAINING LIFE: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity. Foreword by Edward O. Wilson. Oxford. $34.95.
Doherty, Peter. THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO WINNING THE NOBEL PRIZE: A Life in Science. Columbia. $18.95, paper.
Evans, Arthur V. WHAT’S BUGGING YOU? A Fond Look at the Animals We Love to Hate. Virginia. $24.95.
Isaacson, Walter. EINSTEIN: His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster. $17.95, paper.
Michaels, David. DOUBT IS THEIR PRODUCT: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health. Oxford. $27.95.
APRIL 29, 2008. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
HUMANITIES
Alvarez, Luis. THE POWER OF THE ZOOT: Youth Cultures and Resistance During World War II. California. $34.95.
Atkinson, Michael, editor. EXILE CINEMA: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Auxier, Randall E. & Anderson, Doug. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND PHILOSOPHY: Darkness on the Edge of Truth. Open Court. $18.95, paper.
Baldwin, Neil. TO ALL GENTLENESS: William Carlos Williams, the Doctor Poet. Black Classic Press. $14.95, paper.
Barme, Geremie R. THE FORBIDDEN CITY. Harvard. $19.95
Baudrillard, Jean. FATAL STRATEGIES. Semiotext(e). $14.95, paper.
Baudrillard, Jean & Guillaume, Marc. RADICAL ALTERITY. Semiotext(e). $14.95, paper.
Bauman, Zygmunt. DOES ETHICS HAVE A CHANCE IN A WORLD OF CONSUMERS? Harvard. $25.95.
Baumler, Alan. THE CHINESE AND OPIUM UNDER THE REPUBLIC: Worse than Floods and Wild Beasts. SUNY. $26.95, paper.
Beccaria, Cesare. ON CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited by Aaron Thomas. Translated by Aaron Thomas & Jeremy Parzen. Toronto. 40.00.
Bersani, Leo & Phillips, Adam. INTIMACIES. Chicago. $20.00.
Besio, Kimberly & Tung, Constantine, editors. THREE KINGDOMS AND CHINESE CULTURE. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Birdwhistell, Joanne D. MENCIUS AND MASCULINITIES: Dynamics of Power, Morality, and Maternal Thinking. SUNY. $18.95, paper.
Bitel, Lisa M. & Lifshitz, Felice, editors. GENDER & CHRISTIANITY IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE: New Perspectives. $39.95.
Bittner, Stephen V. THE MANY LIVES OF KRUSHCHEV’S THAW: Experience and Memory in Moscow’s Arbat. Cornell. $39.95.
Boime, Albert. ART IN AN AGE OF CIVIL STRUGGLE, 1848-1871. Chicago. $65.00.
Boonin, David. THE PROBLEM OF PUNISHMENT. Cambridge. $34.99, paper.
Bolano, Roberto. AMULET. Translated by Chris Andrews. New Directions. $14.95, paper.
Brewer, Charlotte. TREASURE-HOUSE OF THE LANGUAGE: The Living OED. Yale. $35.00.
Brisson, Luc. HOW PHILOSOPHERS SAVED MYTHS: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology. Translated by Catherine Tihanyi. Chicago. $19.00, paper.
Brown, Henry Box. NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF HENRY BOX BROWN: Written by Himself. Edited by John Ernest. North Carolina. $17.95, paper.
Bulgakov, Mikhail. WHITE GUARD. Yale. $27.00.
Bulman, Jan K. THE COURT BOOK OF MENDE AND THE SECULAR LORDSHIP OF THE BISHOP: Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gevaudan. Toronto. $50.00.
Burkett, Elinor. GOLDA. Harper. $27.95.
Bush, George H.W. THE CHINA DIARY OF GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Making of a Global President. Edited by Jeffrey A. Engel. Princeton. $29.95.
Cardullo, Bert. SOUNDINGS ON CINEMA: Speaking to Film and Film Artists. SUNY. $29.95, paper.
Carey, Peter. THE POWER OF PROPHECY: Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785-1855. KITLV Press. $60.00.
Carlson, Ron. FIVE SKIES. Penguin. $14.00, paper.
Casetti, Francesco. EYE OF THE CENTURY: Film, Experience, Modernity. Columbia. $27.50, paper.
Chabon, Michael. THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN’S UNION. Harper. $15.95, paper.
Chapman, James. WAR AND FILM. Reaktion. $16.00, paper.
Cobb, William Jelani. TO THE BREAK OF DAWN: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. New York. $16.95, paper.
Costello, Diarmuid & Willsdon, Dominic, editors. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF IMAGES. Cornell. $24.95, paper.
Court, John M. DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE. Penguin. $17.00, paper.
DAEDALUS, SPRING 2008 (On Nature). $13.00, journal.
Davis, Mary E. CLASSIC CHIC: Music, Fashion, and Modernism. California. $21.95, paper.
de Pee, Christian. THE WRITING OF WEDDINGS IN MIDDLE-PERIOD CHINA: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries. SUNY. $27.95, paper.
Dicker, Rory. A HISTORY OF U.S. FEMINISMS. Seal. $12.95, paper.
Dolan, Frances E. MARRIAGE AND VIOLENCE: The Early Modern Legacy. Pennsylvania. $47.50.
Ebert, Roger. AWAKE IN THE DARK: Forty Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews. Chicago. $18.00, paper.
Einhorn, Robin L. AMERICAN TAXATION, AMERICAN SLAVERY. Chicago. $22.50, paper.
Englander, Nathan. THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES. Vintage. $14.95, paper.
Erdrich, Louise. THE PLAGUE OF DOVES. Harper. $25.95.
Esposito, Roberto. BIOS: Biopolitics and Philosophy. Translated and with an Introduction by Timothy Campbell. Minnesota. $22.50, paper.
Etheridge, Eric. BREACH OF PEACE: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders. Atlas. $45.00.
Farrington, Tim. THE MONK UPSTAIRS. Harper. $13.95, paper.
Feldman, Heidi Carolyn. BLACK RHYTHMS OF PERU: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific. Wesleyan. $24.95, paper.
Finlay, Victoria. COLOR: A Natural History of the Palette. Random House. $16.00, paper.
Frantz, Susanne K. LINO TAGLIOPIETRA IN RETROSPECT: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass. Washington. $50.00.
Freeberg, Ernest. DEMOCRACY’S PRISONER: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and the Right to Dissent. Harvard. $29.95.
Gao Xingjian. THE CASE FOR LITERATURE. Yale. $16.00, paper.
Garcia, Laura E., et al. TEATRO CHICANA: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays. Texas. $27.95, paper.
Garraway, Doris L., editor. TREE OF LIBERTY: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Virginia. $24.50, paper.
Getty, J. Arch & Naumov, Oleg V. YEZHOV: The Rise of Stalin’s “Iron Fist.” Yale. $35.00.
Gillespie, Michael Allen. THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF MODERNITY. Chicago. $35.00.
Glock, Hans-Johann. WHAT IS ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY? Cambridge. $24.99, paper.
Gordon, Alastair. NAKED AIRPORT: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure. Chicago. $17.00, paper.
Gossett, Philip. DIVAS AND SCHOLARS: Performing Italian Opera. Chicago. $22.50, paper.
Gottschall, Jonathan. THE RAPE OF TROY: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. Cambridge. $43.50, paper.
Hallett, Garth L. LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY: The Central Story. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Hamalainen, Pekka. THE COMANCHE EMPIRE. Yale. $35.00.
Hass, Lawrence. MERLEAU-PONTY’S PHILOSOPHY. Indiana. $24.95, paper.
Haven, Stephen. THE RIVER LOCK: One Boy’s Life along the Mohawk. Syracuse. $19.95.
Henry, Ed, et al. BERKELEY BOHEMIA: Artists and Visionaries of the Early 20th Century. Gibbs Smith. $24.99.
Henry, Nancy. THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO GEORGE ELIOT. Cambridge. $19.99, paper.
Holmes, A.M. THE MISTRESS’S DAUGHTER: A Memoir. Penguin. $14.00, paper.
Homer. CHAPMAN’S HOMERIC HYMNS & OTHER HOMERICA. Introduction by Stephen Scully. Princeton. $16.95, paper.
Hood, Ann. SOMEWHERE OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. Norton. $13.95, paper.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR BRITISH SERVICEMEN IN GERMANY 1944. The Foreign Office, London. Bodleian Library. $9.99.
Isenberg, Nancy. FALLEN FOUNDER: The Life of Aaron Burr. Penguin. $17.00, paper.
Iyer, Pico. THE OPEN ROAD: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Knopf. $24.00.
Jenckes, Kate. READING BORGES AFTER BENJAMIN: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History. SUNY. $19.95, paper.
Jiang Rong. WOLF TOTEM. Translated by Howard Goldblatt. Penguin. $26.95.
Joseph, Branden W. BEYOND THE DREAM SYNDICATE: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage. Zone. $34.95.
Kamen, Henry. IMAGINING SPAIN: Historical Myth & National Identity. Yale. $38.00.
Kennedy, Greg. AN ONTOLOGY OF TRASH: The Disposable and its Problematic Nature. SUNY. $21.95, paper.
Kershaw, Ian. HITLER, THE GERMANS, AND THE FINAL SOLUTION. Yale. $32.50.
King, Debra Walker. AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CULTURE OF PAIN. Virginia. $20.00, paper.
Korda, Michael. IKE: An American Hero. Harper. $17.95, paper.
Kordela, A. Kiarina. SURPLUS: Spinoza, Lacan. SUNY. $16.95, paper.
Lebeau, Vicky. CHILDHOOD AND CINEMA. Reaktion. $16.00, paper.
LeBesco, Kathleen & Naccarato, Peter, editors. EDIBLE IDEOLOGIES: Representing Food & Meaning. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Lewis, George E. A POWER STRONGER THAN ITSELF: The ACCM and American Experimental Music. Chicago. $35.00.
Lewycka, Marina. STRAWBERRY FIELDS. Penguin. $14.00, paper.
Li, Charles N. THE BITTER SEA: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao. Harper. $25.95.
London, Jack. THE RADICAL JACK LONDON: Writings on War and Revolution. Edited and with an Introduction by Jonah Raskin. California. $24.95, paper.
Longstreth, Richard, editor. CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice. Minnesota. $25.00, paper.
Lukacs, John. BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT: The Dire Warning. (Churchill’s First Speech as Prime Minister.) Basic Books. $24.00.
MacKinnon, Stephen R. WUHAN, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China. California. $39.95.
Maly, Kenneth. HEIDEGGER’S POSSIBILITY: Language, Emergence--Saying Be-ing. Toronto. $45.00.
Marrati, Paola. GILLES DELEUZE: Cinema and Philosophy. Johns Hopkins. $45.00.
McCracken, Grant. TRANSFORMATIONS: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture. Indiana. $19.95, paper.
McGrath, Alister E. THE OPEN SECRET: New Vision for Natural Theology. Blackwell. $44.95, paper.
McLennan, Rebecca M. THE CRISIS OF IMPRISONMENT: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941. Cambridge. $24.99, paper.
Meagher, Sharon M., editor. PHILOSOPHY AND THE CITY: Classic to Contemporary Writings. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Meech, Julia & Oliver, Jane, editors. DESIGNED FOR PLEASURE: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860. Washington. $45.00, paper.
Melograni, Piero. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: A Biography. Chicago. $19.00, paper.
Millan-Zaibert, Elizabeth. FRIDRICH SCHLEGEL AND THE EMERGENCE OF ROMANTIC PHILOSOPHY. SUNY. $25.95, paper.
Miller, Laura, et al., editors. STUDIO WORKS 12: Core Options & STUDIO WORKS 12: Options, Thesis Research. Harvard Graduate School of Design. $24.95, paper.
Montrie Chad. MAKING A LIVING: Work and Environment in the United States. North Carolina. $17.95, paper.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. DIS-ENCLOSURE: The Deconstruction of Christianity. Fordham. $20.00, paper.
Newman, Richard S. FREEDOM’S PROPHET: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York. $34.95.
Nicholas of Cusa. WRITINGS ON CHURCH AND REFORM. Translated by Thomas M. Izbicki. Harvard. $29.95.
Norris, Stephen M. & Torlone, Zara M. INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS IN RUSSIAN CINEMA. Indiana. $21.95, paper.
O’Connor, Flannery. THE PRESENCE OF GRACE and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O’Connor. Georgia. $22.95, paper.
Ogden, Dunbar H. MY FATHER SAID YES: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration. Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Vanderbilt. $24.95.
Parker, Dorothy & D’Usseau, Arnaud. THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR. Introduction by Marion Meade. Penguin. $12.00, paper.
Pavlowitch, Stevan K. HITLER’S NEW DISORDER: The Second World War in Yugoslavia. Columbia. $34.50.
Pettid, Michael. KOREAN CUISINE: An Illustrated History. Reaktion. $39.95.
Phillips, James, editor. CINEMATIC THINKING: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema. Stanford. $19.95, paper.
Philoctete, Rene. MASSACRE RIVER. Preface by Edwidge Danticat. Introduction by Lyonel Trouillot. Translated by Linda Coverdale. New Directions. $13.95, paper.
Platina, Bartolomeo. LIVES OF THE POPES, VOLUME I: Antiquity. Edited and translated by Anthony F. D’Elia. Harvard. $29.95.
Popp, Jerome A. EVOLUTION’S FIRST PHILOSOPHER: John Dewey and the Continuity of Nature. SUNY. $18.95, paper.
Portzamparc, Christian de & Sollers, Philippe. WRITING AND SEEING ARCHITECTURE. Minnesota. $18.95, paper.
Prokofiev, Sergey. DIARIES 1915-1923: Behind the Mask. Cornell. $49.95.
PUBLIC CULTURE 54 (The Public Life of History). $15.00, journal.
Pyle, Kenneth. JAPAN RISING: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. PublicAffairs. $19.95, paper.
Rivera, Louis Reyes. THE BANDANA REPUBLIC: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members & Their Affiliates. Soft Skull. $16.95, paper.
Rothermund, Dietmar. INDIA: The Rise of an Asian Giant. Yale. $35.00.
Schantz, Mark S. AWAITING THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death. Cornell. $24.95.
Seat, Karen K. “PROVIDENCE HAS FREED OUR HANDS”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. Syracuse. $22.95.
Silver, Larry. MARKETING MAXIMILIAN: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor. Princeton. $49.95.
Silver, Mark. PURLOINED LETTERS: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937. Hawaii. $52.00.
Smith, Nigel. IS MILTON BETTER THAN SHAKESPEARE? Harvard. $22.95.
Smith, Pamela & Schmidt, Benjamin, editors. MAKING KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800. Chicago. $28.00, paper.
Sokal, Alan. BEYOND THE HOAX: Science, Philosophy and Culture. Oxford. $34.95.
Sorensen, Ted. COUNSELOR: a Life at the Edge of History. Harper. $27.95.
Stamatellos, Giannis. PLOTINUS AND THE PRESOCRATICS: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus’ Enneads. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Stock, Brian. ETHICS THROUGH LITERATURE: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture. Brandeis. $45.00.
Stow, Simon. REPUBLIC OF READERS? The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis. SUNY. $19.95, paper.
Stryker, Susan. TRANSGENDER HISTORY. Seal. $12.95, paper.
Thiem, Annika. UNBECOMING SUBJECTS: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy, and Critical Responsibility. Fordham. $27.00, paper.
Thompson, Barbara, editor. BLACK WOMANHOOD: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Washington. $50.00, paper.
Tope, Rebecca. A COTSWOLD KILLING. Allison & Busby. $9.95, paper.
Torgovnick, Marianna. THE WAR COMPLEX: World War II in Our Time. Chicago. $17.00, paper.
Vella, John A. ARISTOTLE: A Guide for the Perplexed. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Vergil. THE AENEID. Translated by Sarah Ruden. Yale. $30.00.
Vidler, Anthony. HISTORIES OF THE IMMEDIATE PRESENT: Inventing Architectural Modernism. MIT. $22.95, paper.
Virilio, Paul & Lotringer, Sylvere. PURE WAR. Semiotext(e). $14.95, paper.
Visconsi, Elliott. LINES OF EQUITY: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England. Cornell. $39.95.
Vismann, Cornelia. FILES: Law and Media Technology. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Welky, David. EVERYTHING WAS BETTER IN AMERICA: Print Culture in the Great Depression. Illinois. $25.00, paper.
Weller, Sheila. GIRLS LIKE US: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation. Atria. $27.95.
Westman, Robert S. & Biale, David, editors. THINKING IMPOSSIBILITIES: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein. Toronto. $65.00.
Wicks, Robert. SCHOPENHAUER. Blackwell. $24.95, paper.
Wong, Shawn. HOMEBASE: A Novel. Washington. $12.95, paper.
Wood, Gordon S. THE PURPOSE OF THE PAST: Reflections on the Uses of History. Penguin. $25.95.
Worcester, Thomas, editor. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE JESUITS. Cambridge. $29.99, paper.
Zizek, Slavoj. IN DEFENSE OF LOST CAUSES. Verso. $34.95.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Adatto, Kiku. PICTURE PERFECT: Life in the Age of the Photo Op. Princeton. $19.95, paper.
Ali, Tariq. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: Axis of Hope. Revised Edition. Verso. $17.95, paper.
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Turner, Fred. FROM COUNTERCULTURE TO CYBERCULTURE: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago. $17.00, paper.
Vinovskis, Maris A. THE BIRTH OF HEAD START: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Chicago. $20.00, paper.
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Rasmussen, Nicolas. ON SPEED: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. New York. $29.95.
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Rupke, Nicolaas A. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT: A Metabiography. Chicago. $25.00, paper.
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Abbott, H. Porter. THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE. Second Edition. Cambridge. $24.99, paper.
Abu-Jaber, Diana. ORIGIN: A Novel. Norton. $13.95, paper.
Acocella, Joan. TWENTY-EIGHT ARTISTS AND TWO SAINTS: Essays. Vintage. $15.95, paper.
Adelman, Janet. BLOOD RELATIONS: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice. Chicago. $35.00.
Allende, Isabel. THE SUM OF OUR DAYS. Harper. $26.95.
Baker, Don. KOREAN SPIRITUALITY. Hawaii. $15.00, paper.
Baker, Nicholson. HUMAN SMOKE: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. Simon & Schuster. $30.00.
Barnes, Jonathan. THE SOMNAMBULIST. Morrow. $23.95.
Barrett, T.H. THE WOMAN WHO DISCOVERED PRINTING. Yale. $25.00.
Blackhawk, Ned. VIOLENCE OVER THE LAND: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Harvard. $17.95, paper.
Blackmon, Douglas A. SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Doubleday. $29.95.
Blake, William. THE COMPLETE POETRY & PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. Edited by David V. Erdman with a New Foreword & Commentary by Harold Bloom. California. $70.00.
Breen, John, editor. YASUKUNI, THE WAR DEAD, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR JAPAN’S PAST. Columbia. $45.00.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. THE SOUTHERN PAST: A Clash of Race and Memory. Harvard. $19.95, paper.
Burrus, Virginia. THE SEX LIVES OF SAINTS: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography. Pennsylvania. $22.50, paper.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. WONDERFUL BLOOD: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. Pennsylvania. $24.95, paper.
Cahill, Thomas. MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN WORLD. Random House. $19.95, paper.
Chen Shiyuan. WANDERING SPIRITS: Chen Shiyuan’s Encyclopedia of Dreams. Translated by Richard E. Strassberg. California. $45.00.
Crispi, Luca & Slote, Sam, editors. HOW JOYCE WROTE FINNEGANS WAKE: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide. Wisconsin. $39.95, paper.
Cusset, Francois. FRENCH THEORY: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States. Translated by Jeff Fort. Minnesota. $24.95, paper.
Dirks, Nicholas B. THE SCANDAL OF EMPIRE: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. Harvard. $19.95, paper.
Dray, Philip. AT THE HANDS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN: The Lynching of Black America. Modern Library. $16.95, paper.
Eagleton, Terry. LITERARY THEORY: An Introduction. Anniversary Edition. Minnesota. $18.50, paper.
Fassone, Alessia & Ferraris, Enrico. EGYPT: Pharaonic Period. Translated by Jay Hyams. California. $24.95, paper.
French, William E. & Bliss, Katherine Elaine, editors. GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND POWER IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE. Rowman & Littlefield. $32.95, paper.
Gay, Penny. THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES. Cambridge. $19.99, paper.
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Gross, Neil. RICHARD RORTY: The Making of an American Philosopher. Chicago. $32.50.
Hampton, Howard. BORN IN FLAMES: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses. Harvard. $19.95, paper.
Harris, Joanne. THE GIRL WITH NO SHADOW. Morrow. $24.95.
Haw, Stephen G. BEIJING—A CONCISE HISTORY. Routledge. $34.95, paper.
Hert, Jeffrey. THE JEWISH ENEMY: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
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Huang, Yunte. TRANSPACIFIC IMAGINATIONS: History, Literature, Counterpoetics. Harvard. $35.00.
Hurewitz, Daniel. BOHEMIAN LOS ANGELES AND THE MAKING OF MODERN POLITICS. California. $18.95, paper.
Igo, Sarah E. THE AVERAGED AMERICAN: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
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Johnston, Adrian. ZIZEK’S ONTOLOGY: A Transcendental materialist Theory of Subjectivity. Northwestern. $29.95, paper.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L. THE PACIFIC ARTS OF POLYNESIA & MICRONESIA. Oxford. $27.95, paper.
Kent, Alexandra. DIVINITY AND DIVERSITY: A Hindu Revitalization Movement in Malaysia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. $27.00, paper.
Kimmerle, Constance. ELSIE DRIGGS: The Quick and the Classical. Pennsylvania. $39.95.
King, David. VIENNA 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna. Harmony Books. $27.50.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa. UNACCUSTOMED EARTH. Knopf. $25.00.
Lear, Jonathan. RADICAL HOPE: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Harvard. $15.95, paper.
THE MABINOGION. A New Translation by Sioned Davies. Oxford. $13.95, paper.
MacPhee, Josh & Rodriguez, Favianna, editors. REPRODUCE Y REBELATE / REPRODUCE & REVOLT. Soft Skull Press. $19.95, paper.
Mao, Douglas. FATEFUL BEAUTY: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960. Princeton. $35.00.
McCabe, Herbert. ON AQUINAS. Edited by Brian Davies. Foreword by Anthony Kenny. Burns & Oates. 19.95, paper.
McGarry, Molly. GHOSTS OF FUTURES PAST: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America. California. $27.50.
McGregor, James H.S. VENICE FROM THE GROUND UP. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
MENG JIANGNU BRINGS DOWN THE GREAT WALL: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend. Translation and Introduction by Wilt L. Idema; with an Essay by Hiyan Lee. Washington. $25.00, paper.
Paley, Grace. FIDELITY. Farrar, Straus. $20.00.
Perry, John, editor. PERSONAL IDENTITY: Second Edition. California. $22.95, paper.
Pickering, Michael, editor. RESEARCH METHODS FOR CULTURAL STUDIES. Edinburgh. $34.50, paper.
Quine, W.V. QUINTESSENCE: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine. Harvard. $22.95, paper.
Quinn, Justin. THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO MODERN IRISH POETRY, 1800-2000. Cambridge. $24.99, paper.
Ratto, Stefania. GREECE. Translated by Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. California. $24.95, paper.
Robbins, Jeffrey W. & Magee, Neal, editors. THE SLEEPING GIANT HAS AWOKEN: The New Politics of Religion in the United States. Introduction by John d. Caputo. Postface by Slavoj Zizek. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Saunders, William S., editor. NATURE, LANDSCAPE, AND BUILDING FOR SUSTAINABILITY. Minnesota. $22.95, paper.
Scott, Rebecca. DEGREES OF FREEDOM: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
Sebag-Montefiore. DUNKIRK: Fight to the Last Man. Harvard. $19.95, paper.
Shirane, Haruo, editor. EARLY MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE: An Anthology, 1600-1900. Abridged Edition. Columbia. $32.50, paper.
Smith, Jessica Todd & Murphy, Kevin M. PRESSED IN TIME: American Prints 1905-1950. Huntington Library. $19.95, paper.
Smith, Peter. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BAHA’I FAITH. Cambridge. $29.99, paper.
Streible, Dan. FIGHT PICTURES: a History of Boxing and Early Cinema. California. $24.95, paper.
Totani, Yuma. THE TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II. Harvard Asia Center. $39.95.
Towner, Theresa M. THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM FAULKNER. Cambridge. $19.99, paper.
Trodd, Zoe, editor. AMERICAN PROTEST LITERATURE. Harvard. $22.95, paper.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. WELLSPRINGS. Harvard. $17.95.
Vattimo, Gianni. ART’S CLAIM TO TRUTH. Edited by Santiago Zabala; translated by Luca D’Isanto. Columbia. $29.50.
Venuti, Lawrence. THE TRANSLATOR’S INVISIBILITY: A History of Translation. Second Edition. Routledge. $33.95, paper.
Walker, Alice. POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. With a New Preface by the Author. New Press. $15.95, paper.
Watson, Robert N. BACK TO NATURE: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Pennsylvania. $26.50, paper.
Wautischer, Helmut, editor. ONTOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Percipient Action. MIT. $38.00, paper.
Wood, Houston. NATIVE FEATURES: Indigenous Films from Around the World. Continuum. $24.95, paper.
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Appignanesi, Lisa. MAD, BAD AND SAD: Women and the Mind Doctors. Norton. $29.95.
Bar-On, Dan. THE OTHERS WITHIN US: Constructing Jewish-Israeli Identity. Cambridge. $30.50, paper.
Barak, Aharon. THE JUDGE IN A DEMOCRACY. Princeton. $22.95, paper.
Bartels, Larry M. UNEQUAL DEMOCRACY: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. Russell Sage / Princeton. $29.95.
Bell, Daniel A. CHINA’S NEW CONFUCIANISM: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton. $26.95.
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Blix, Hans. WHY NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT MATTERS. MIT. $14.95.
Brundage, James A. THE MEDIEVAL ORIGINS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts. Chicago. $49.00.
Castaneda, Carlos. THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. The Original Teachings in a Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Commentary by the Author. California. $17.95, paper.
Ceruzzi, Paul E. INTERNET ALLEY: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005. MIT. $29.95.
Chase, Anthony & Hamzawy, Amir, editors. HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ARAB WORLD. Pennsylvania. $24.95, paper.
Chua Beng Huat & Iwabuchi, Koichi, editors. EAST ASIAN POP CULTURE: Analyzing the Korean Wave. Hong Kong University Press. $27.95, paper.
Coyle, Diane. THE SOULFUL SCIENCE: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters. Princeton. $19.95, paper.
Dworkin, Ronald. JUSTICE IN ROBES. Harvard. $22.95, paper.
Foley, Duncan K. ADAM’S FALLACY: A Guide to Economic Theology. Harvard. $17.95, paper.
Gordon, Avery F. GHOSTLY MATTERS: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. With a New Introduction. Minnesota. $22.50, paper.
Green, James W. BEYOND THE GOOD DEATH: The Anthropology of Modern Dying. Pennsylvania. $29.95.
Hale, Charles R., editor. ENGAGING CONTRADICTIONS: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship. California. $39.95, paper.
Halley, Janet. SPLIT DECISIONS: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism. Princeton. $22.95, paper.
Hamilton, Marci A. JUSTICE DENIED: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. Cambridge. $23.00.
Hamm, Theodore. THE NEW BLUE MEDIA: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics. New Press. $24.95.
Hauser, Stuart T., et al. OUT OF THE WOODS: Tales of Resilient Teens. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
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Hillygus, D. Sunshine & Shields, Todd G. THE PERSUADABLE VOTER: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns. Princeton. $29.95.
Jones, Martin. FEAST: Why Humans Share Food. Oxford. $24.95, paper.
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Kornbluh, Felicia. THE BATTLE FOR WELFARE RIGHTS: Politics and Poverty in Modern America. Pennsylvania. $24.95, paper.
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Lewis, David E. THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance. Princeton. $24.95, paper.
Lichtblau, Eric. BUSH’S LAW: The Remaking of American Justice. Pantheon. $26.95.
MacMillan, Margaret. NIXON AND MAO: The Week That Changed the World. Random House. $17.00, paper.
Maddox, Brenda. FREUD’S WIZARD: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis. Da Capo. $18.95, paper.
Morris, Charles R. THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash. PublicAffairs. $22.95.
Nardulli, Peter F., editor. DOMESTIC PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACY. Illinois. $23.00, paper.
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Roy, Olivier. THE POLITICS OF CHAOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Columbia. $24.95.
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Singer, Audrey, et al., editors. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GATEWAYS: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America. Foreword by Henry Cisneros. Brookings. $26.95, paper.
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Alpert, Michelle J., M.D., & Wisnia, Saul. SPINAL CORD INJURY AND THE FAMILY: A New Guide. Harvard. $17.95, paper.
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Livingstone, David N. ADAM’S ANCESTORS: Race, Religion & the Politics of Human Origins. Johns Hopkins. $35.00.
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Mindell, David A. DIGITAL APOLLO: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. MIT. $29.95.
Monmonier, Mark. COAST LINES: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change. Chicago. $25.00.
Nusslein-Volhard, Christiane. COMING TO LIFE: How Genes Drive Development. Kales Press. $17.95, paper.
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Shulman, Seth. UNDERMINING SCIENCE: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration. Updated with a New Preface. California. $16.95, paper.
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Tyson, Neil deGrasse. DEATH BY BLACK HOLE AND OTHER COSMIC QUANDARIES. Norton. $15.95, paper.
Waldbauer, Gilbert. A WALK AROUND THE POND: Insects in and over the Water. Harvard. $16.95, paper.
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Ackerman, Kenneth D. YOUNG J. EDGAR: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties. Da Capo. $17.50, paper.
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Arnold, Martin. THE VIKINGS: Culture and Conquest. Continuum. $16.95, paper.
Bedau, Mark A. & Humphreys, Paul, editors. EMERGENCE: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science. MIT. $40.00, paper.
Bembo, Pietro. HISTORY OF VENICE, VOLUME 2: Books V-VIII. Edited and Translated by Robert W. Ulery, Jr. Harvard. $29.95.
Blaetz, Robin, editor. WOMEN’S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: Critical Frameworks. Duke. $25.95, paper.
Booth, Wayne C., et al. THE CRAFT OF RESEARCH. Third Edition. Chicago. $17.00, paper.
Cahun, Claude. DISAVOWALS. MIT. $29.95, paper.
Camoes, Luis de. SELECTED SONNETS: A Bilingual Edition. Edited & Translated by William Baer. Chicago. $17.00, paper.
Cazdyn, Eric, editor. DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES. Special Issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly (106:4, Fall 2007). Duke. $14.00, paper.
Clark, Paul. THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A History. Cambridge. $22.99, paper.
Clemens, Raymond & Graham, Timothy. INTRODUCTION TO MANUSCRIPT STUDIES. Cornell. $39.95, paper.
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Davies, Tony. HUMANISM. Second Edition. Routledge. $19.95, paper.
Davis, David Brion. INHUMAN BONDAGE: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford. $18.95, paper.
Day, Mark. THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. Continuum. $29.95, paper.
Domina, Lynn, editor. POETS ON THE PSALMS. Trinity. $19.95, paper.
Doty, Alexander, editor. FABULOUS! Divas, Part 1. Special Issue of Camera Obscura ((65). Duke. $12.00, paper.
Doty, Mark. DOG YEARS: A Memoir. Harper. $13.95, paper.
Epps, Brad & Katz, Jonathan, editors. MONIQUE WITTIG: At the Crossroads of Criticism. GLQ, Volume 13: Number 4, 2007. Duke. $12.00, paper.
Esperdy, Gabrielle. MODERNIZING MAIN STREET: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. Chicago. $35.00.
Falola, Toyin & Roberts, Kevin D., editors. THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1450-2000. Indiana. $24.95, paper.
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Friedrich, Jorg. THE FIRE: The Bombing of Germany 1940-1945. Columbia. $24.95, paper.
Frueh, Joanna. CLAIRVOYANCE (For Those in the Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979-2004. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Garoutte, Claire & Wambaugh, Anneke. CROSSING THE WATER: A Photographic Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World. Duke. $24.95, paper.
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Goldner, Nancy. BALANCHINE VARIATIONS. Florida. $24.95, paper.
Hajdu, David. THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. Farrar Straus. $26.00.
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Harman, Chris. A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium. Verso. $19.95, paper.
Harrison, Colin. THE FINDER. Farrar, Straus. $25.00.
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Herzog, Don. CUNNING. Princeton. $19.95, paper.
Howard, Michael. WAR AND THE LIBERAL CONSCIENCE. With a New Foreword. Columbia. $22.50, paper.
Hullot-Kentor, Robert. THINGS BEYOND RESEMBLANCE: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno. Columbia. $24.50, paper.
Jameson, Fredric. JAMESON ON JAMESON: Conversations on Cultural Marxism. Edited by Ian Buchanan. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. MODERN ARABIC FICTION: An Anthology. Columbia. $34.50, paper.
Jeal, Tim. STANLEY: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer. Yale. $38.00.
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Kawana, Sari. MURDER MOST MODERN: Detective Fiction & Japanese Culture. Minnesota. $22.50, paper.
Keeling, Kara. THE WITCH’S FLIGHT: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Duke. $22.95, paper.
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Lessing, Doris. THE CLEFT. Harper. $14.95, paper.
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Middleton, Carl H. GREAT QUOTATIONS THAT SHAPED THE WESTERN WORLD. Paragon House. $29.95, paper.
Pavlowitc, Stevan K. HITLER’S NEW DISORDER: The Second World War in Yugoslavia. Columbia. $34.50.
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PICASSO’S VOLLARD SUITE. Introduction by Hans Bolliger. Thames & Hudson. $19.95, paper.
Pocock, J.G.A. BARBARISM AND RELIGION, VOLUME FOUR: Barbarians, Savages and Empires. Cambridge. $34.99, paper.
Prashad, Vijay. THE DARKER NATIONS: A People’s History of the Third World. New Press. $19.95, paper.
Puar, Jasbir K. TERRORIST ASSEMBLAGES: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Rejwan, Nissim. ARABS IN THE MIRROR: Images and Self-Images from Pre-Islamic to Modern Times. Texas. $24.95, paper.
Richardson, Heather Cox. WEST FROM APPOMATTOX: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. Yale. $20.00, paper.
Sandlin, Tim. ROWDY IN PARIS. Riverhead. $24.95.
Scala, Bartolomeo. ESSAYS AND DIALOGUES. Translated by Renee Neu Watkins. Harvard. $29.95.
Schmitt, Carl. CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY. Translated & Edited by Jeffrey Seitzer. Duke. $29.95, paper.
Sconce, Jeffrey, editor. SLEAZE ARTISTS: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Segal, Lore. SHAKESPEARE’S KITCHEN. New Press. $14.95, paper.
Sernett, Milton C. HARRIET TUBMAN: Myth, Memory, and History. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Shakespeare, William. JULIUS CAESAR. (Cambridge School Shakespeare.) Cambridge. $10.00, paper.
Shipton, Alyn. A NEW HISTORY OF JAZZ. Revised and Updated Edition. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Skirry, Justin. DESCARTES: A Guide for the Perplexed. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Standaert, Nicolas. THE INTERWEAVING OF RITUALS: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange Between China and Europe. Washington. $30.00, paper.
Starobinski, Jean. ENCHANTMENT: The Seductress in Opera. Translated by C. Jon Delogu. Columbia. $29.50.
Sullivan, Jack. HITCHCOCK’S MUSIC. Yale. $20.00, paper.
Tasker, Yvonne & Negra, Diane, editors. INTERROGATING POSTFEMINISM: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Duke. $24.95, paper.
Tilly, Charles. WHY? What Happens When People Give Reasons…and Why. Princeton. $16.95, paper.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. HUMAN GOODNESS. Wisconsin. $24.95.
Wald, Priscilla. CONTAGIOUS: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Waters, Don. DESERT GOTHIC. Iowa. $16.00, paper.
Weisbard, Eric, editor. LISTEN AGAIN: A Momentary History of Pop Music. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Weiss, Andrea. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story. Chicago. $27.50.
Williams, Bernard. SHAME AND NECESSITY. With a New Foreword by A.A. Long. California. $21.95, paper.
Williams, Tennessee. A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND. Edited by Thomas Keith. New Directions. $14.95, paper.
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Woodward, Gerard. A CURIOUS EARTH. Norton. $14.95, paper.
Zeami. ZEAMI: Performance Notes. Translated by Tom Hare. Columbia. $45.00.
Zuckert, Catherine & Michael. THE TRUTH ABOUT LEO STRAUSS: Political Philosophy & American Democracy. Chicago. $19.00, paper.
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Alexander, Karen & Hawkesworth, Mary E., editors. WAR & TERROR: Feminist Perspectives. Chicago. $29.00, paper.
Brauer, Jurgen & van Tuyll, Hubert. CASTLES, BATTLES, AND BOMBS: How Economics Explains Military History. Chicago. $29.00.
Brooks, Risa A. SHAPING STRATEGY: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment. Princeton. $26.95, paper.
Brzezinski, Zbigniew. SECOND CHANCE: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. Basic Books. $15.95, paper.
Buckley, William F., Jr. FLYING HIGH: Remembering Barry Goldwater. Basic Books. $25.95.
Coarelli, Filippo. ROME AND ENVIRONS: An Archaeological Guide. California. $24.95, paper.
Dershowitz, Alan M. IS THERE A RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT? Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11. Oxford. $19.95.
Fabian, Johannes. MEMORY AGAINST CULTURE: Arguments and Reminders. Duke. $21.95, paper.
Fujiwara, Lynn. MOTHERS WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform. Minnesota. $22.50, paper.
Ganji, Akbar. THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN IRAN. MIT. $14.95.
Ghani, Ashraf & Lockhart, Clare. FIXING FAILED STATES: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. Oxford. $24.95.
Gidwani, Vinay. CAPITAL INTERRUPTED: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India. Minnesota. $25.00, paper.
Gunning, Jeroen HAMAS IN POLITICS: Democracy, Religion, Violence. Columbia. $34.50.
Heal, Geoffrey. WHEN PRINCIPLES PAY: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line. Columbia Business School. $29.95.
Jackson, Michael. EXCURSIONS. Duke. $22.95, paper.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. GLOBAL REBELLION: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda. California. $27.50.
Khudayyir, Muhammad. BASRAYATHA: The Story of a City. Verso. $15.95, paper.
Koretz, Daniel. MEASURING UP: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us. Harvard. $29.95.
Kurnaz, Murat. FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo. Palgrave. $24.95.
Kwon, Heonik. GHOSTS OF WAR IN VIETNAM. Cambridge. $30.00.
Lewis, Michael. COACH: Lessons on the Game of Life. Norton. $11.95, paper.
Lindberg Falk, Monica. MAKING FIELDS OF MERIT: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand. Washington. $30.00, paper.
Miller, Jody. GETTING PLAYED: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence. New York. $22.00, paper.
Moskos, Peter. COP IN THE HOOD: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District. Princeton. $24.95.
Naji, Kasra. AHMADINEJAD: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader. California. $24.95.
Off, Carol. BITTER CHOCOLATE: The Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet. New Press. $27.95.
Panayi, Panikos. SPICING UP BRITAIN: The Multicultural History of British Food. Reaktion. $40.00.
Patterson, Dennis & Afilalo, Ari. THE NEW GLOBAL TRADING ORDER: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade. Cambridge. $32.99.
Payne, Leigh A. UNSETTLING ACCOUNTS: Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence. Duke. $23.95, paper.
Pepper, William. AN ACT OF STATE: The Execution of Martin Luther King. Updated with a New Afterword. Verso. $17.95, paper.
Rothkopf, David. SUPERCLASS: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making. Farrar, Straus. $26.00.
Schultz, George P. & Shoven, John B. PUTTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER: A Guide to Social Security & Health Care Reform. Norton. $24.95.
Silvester, Hans. NATURAL FASHION: Tribal Decoration from Africa. Thames & Hudson. $45.00.
Siracusa, Joseph M. NUCLEAR WEAPONS: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford. $11.95, paper.
Smith, Anthony D. THE CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATIONS: Hierarchy, Covenant, and Republic. Blackwell. $39.95, paper.
Smith, Philip. PUNISHMENT AND CULTURE. Chicago. $19.00, paper.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. & Bilmes, Linda J. THE THREE TRILLION DOLLAR WAR: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. Norton. $22.95.
Swarts, Heidi J. ORGANIZING URBAN AMERICA: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements. Minnesota. $25.00, paper.
Toussaint, Eric. THE WORLD BANK: A Critical Primer. Pluto. $26.95, paper.
Viego, Antonio. DEAD SUBJECTS: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies. Duke. $23.95, paper.
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Delaporte, Francois. ANATOMY OF THE PASSIONS. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Edited by Todd Meyers. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Francis, Charles M. A GUIDE TO THE MAMMALS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA. Princeton. $55.00.
Frank, Robert H. THE ECONOMIC NATURALISTS: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas. Basic Books. $15.95, paper.
Garvey, James. THE ETHICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: Right and Wrong in a Warming World. Continuum. $16.95, paper.
Gledhill, David. THE NAMES OF PLANTS. Fourth Edition. Cambridge. $45.00, paper.
Groopman, Jerome, M.D. HOW DOCTORS THINK. With a New Afterword. Mariner Books. $15.95, paper.
Jackson, Kate. MEAN AND LOWLY THINGS: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo. Harvard. $27.95.
Krup, Fred & Horn, Miriam. EARTH: THE SEQUEL: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. Norton. $24.95.
Nur, Amos with Dawn Burgess. APOCALYPSE: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God. Princeton. $26.95.
Power, Max S. AMERICA’S NUCLEAR WASTELANDS: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup. Washington State. $19.95, paper.
Roach, Mary. BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Norton. $24.95.
Ronald, Pamela C. & Adamchak, Raoul W. TOMORROW’S TABLE: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. Oxford. $29.95.
Stahl, Stephen W. STAHL’S ESSENTIAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications. Cambridge. $85.00, paper.
Thomson, Keith. THE LEGACY OF THE MASTODON: The Golden Age of Fossils in America. Yale. $35.00.