AUGUST 26, 2008. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
HUMANITIES
Antunes, Antonio Lobo. WHAT CAN I DO WHEN EVERYTHING’S ON FIRE? Norton. $19.95, paper.
Babayan, Kathryn & Najmabadi, Afsaneh, editors. ISLAMICATE SEXUALITIES: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Harvard. $19.95, paper.
Bazzana, Kevin. LOST GENIUS: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy. Da Capo. $18.00, paper.
Berger, John. FROM A TO X: A Story in Letters. Verso. $22.95.
Berger, Karol. BACH’S CYCLE, MOZART’S ARROW: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity. California. $24.95, paper.
Bernstein, Burton & Haws, Barbara B. LEONARD BERNSTEIN, AMERICAN ORIGINAL: How a Modern Renaissance Man Transformed Music and the World during His New York Philharmonic Years, 1943-1976. Harper. $29.95.
Boland, Eavan. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Poems. Norton. $13.95, paper.
Brown, Cynthia Stokes. BIG HISTORY: From the Big Bang to the Present. New Press. $17.95, paper.
Buchanan, Ian & MacCormack, Patricia, editor. DELEUZE AND THE SCHIZOANALYSIS OF CINEMA. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Buell, Denise Kimber. WHY THIS NEW RACE: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. Columbia. $26.50, paper.
Buhle, Paul, editor. JEWS AND AMERICAN COMICS: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form. New Press. $29.95.
Buk-Swienty, Tom. THE OTHER HALF: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America. Norton. $27.95.
Campanini, Massimo. AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY. Edinburgh. $32.50, paper.
Chamberlain, Lesley. LENIN’S PRIVATE WAR: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia. Picador. $18.00, paper.
Collins, John. CHOMSKY: A Guide for the Perplexed. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Cook, Harold J. MATTERS OF EXCHANGE: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age. Yale. $25.00, paper.
Coyne, Michael. HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WASHINGTON: American Politics on Screen. Reaktion. $25.00, paper.
Craig, Campbell & Radchenko, Sergey. THE ATOMIC BOMB AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR. Yale. $27.00.
Critchley, Simon. INFINITELY DEMANDING: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. Verso. $16.95, paper.
Dando-Collins, Stephen. TYCOON’S WAR: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America’s Most Famous Military Adventurer. Da Capo. $26.00.
Davidson, Donald. TRUTH & PREDICATION. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
Davis, Rodney O. & Wilson, Douglas L., editors. THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES. Illinois. $35.00.
De Caro, Mario & Macarthur, David, editors. NATURALISM IN QUESTION. Harvard. $22.95, paper.
Di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso. THE MAN WHO BELIEVED HE WAS KING OF FRANCE: A True Medieval Tale. Translated by William McCuaig. Chicago. $25.00.
Doggett, Peter. THERE’S A RIOT GOING ON: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘60s. Canongate. $27.50.
Dolnick, Edward. THE FORGER’S SPELL: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century. Harper. $26.95.
Ebert, Roger. SCORSESE. With a Foreword by Martin Scorsese. Chicago. $25.00.
Ephrat, Daphna. SPIRITUAL WAYFARERS, LEADERS IN PIETY: Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine. Harvard. $19.95, paper.
Fallon, Stephen M. MILTON’S PECULIAR GRACE: Self-Representation and Authority. Cornell. $24.95, paper.
Finkelstein, David H. EXPRESSION AND THE INNER. Harvard. $24.95, paper.
Fishbane, Michael. SACRED ATTUNEMENT: A Jewish Theology. Chicago. $30.00.
Frankenberry, Nancy K., editor. THE FAITH OF SCIENTISTS: In Their Own Words. Princeton. $29.95.
Francks, Richard. DESCARTES’ MEDITATIONS. Continuum. $16.95, paper.
Fullbrook, Edward & Fullbrook, Kate. SEX AND PHILOSOPHY: Rethinking de Beauvoir and Sartre. Continuum. $21.95, paper.
Fuller, David. SWEETSMOKE. Hyperion. $24.95.
Fuller, Sophie & Whitesell, Lloyd, editors. QUEER EPISODES IN MUSIC AND MODERN IDENTITY. Illinois. $25.00, paper.
Ginsberg, Allen. THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG. Da Capo. $30.00.
Grumbach, Doris. CHAMBER MUSIC: A Novel. Pushcart. $15.00, paper.
Hall, Meredith. WITHOUT A MAP: A Memoir. Beacon. $24.95.
Hamerow, Theodore S. WHY WE WATCHED: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. Norton. $35.00.
Harris, Robert L., Jr. & Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1939. Columbia. $26.50, paper.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. HEGEL ON HAMANN. Translated by Lisa Marie Anderson. Northwestern. $29.95, paper.
Heidegger, Martin. ONTOLOGY—THE HERMENEUTICS OF FACTICITY. Translated by John van Buren. Indiana. $19.95, paper.
Heidegger, Martin. TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF PHILOSOPHY. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Herman, Barbara. MORAL LITERACY. Harvard. $22.95, paper.
Hulsebosch, Daniel J. CONSTITUTING EMPIRE: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830. North Carolina. $24.95, paper.
Jameson, Fredric. FABLES OF AGGRESSION: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist. Verso. $34.95, paper.
Jehlen, Myra. FIVE FICTIONS IN SEARCH OF TRUTH. Princeton. $27.95.
Jonsson, Stefan. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MASSES: Three Revolutions. Columbia. $29.50.
Jouvet, Michel. THE CASTLE OF DREAMS. Translated by Laurence Garey. MIT. $24.95, paper.
Kallendorf, Craig W., translator. HUMANIST EDUCATIONAL TREATISES. Harvard. $17.95, paper.
Kelsey, Robin & Stimson, Blake, editor. THE MEANING OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Yale. $24.95, paper.
Kirby, Jack Temple. MOCKINGBIRD SONG: Ecological Landscapes of the South. (Winner of the Bancroft Prize.) North Carolina. $22.50, paper.
La Marche, Jean. THE FAMILIAR AND THE UNFAMILIAR IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE. Illinois. $25.00, paper.
Lambert-Beatty, Carrie. BEING WATCHED: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s. MIT. $34.95.
Levitt, Laura. AMERICAN JEWISH LOSS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. New York. $39.00.
Lowenstam, Steven. THE TROJAN WAR TRADITION IN GREEK AND ETRUSCAN ART. Johns Hopkins. $50.00.
Ma, Ming-Qian. POETRY AS RE-READING: American Avant-Garde Poetry and the Poetics of Counter-Method. Northwestern. $32.95, paper.
Makovsky, Michael. CHURCHILL’S PROMISED LAND: Zionism and Statecraft. Yale. $20.00, paper.
Malcolm, Janet. TWO LIVES: Gertrude and Alice. Yale. $13.00, paper.
Marcuse, Herbert. THE ESSENTIAL MARCUSE: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse. Edited by Andrew Feenberg & William Leiss. Beacon. $20.00, paper.
MCCSWEENEY’S 28. (Eight Individual Books, Fully Illustrated, Which Resurrect and Reinvent the Art of the Fable…) $24.00.
Meldahl, Keith Heyer. HARD ROAD WEST: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail. Chicago. $17.00, paper.
Melville, Herman. CLAREL: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. With a New Foreword by Hershel Parker. Northwestern. $19.95, paper.
Narayan, Kirin. MY FAMILY & OTHER SAINTS. Chicago. $15.00, paper.
Naylor, Celia E. AFRICAN CHEROKEES IN INDIAN TERRITORY: From Chattel to Citizens. North Carolina. $22.50, paper.
Olender, Maurice. THE LANGUAGES OF PARADISE: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard. $15.95, paper.
Palmer, Colin A. ERIC WILLIAMS & THE MAKING OF THE MODERN CARIBBEAN. North Carolina. $24.95, paper.
Perpich, Diane. THE ETHICS OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Petrarca, Francesco. INVECTIVES. Translated by David Marsh. Harvard. $17.95, paper.
Reed, Toure F. NOT ALMS BUT OPPORTUNITY: The Urban League & the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950. North Carolina. $21.95, paper.
Rickels, Laurence A. THE DEVIL NOTEBOOKS. Minnesota. $24.95, paper.
Rickels, Laurence A. ULRIKE OTTINGER: The Autobiography of Art Cinema. Minnesota. $22.00, paper.
Robinson, Greg & Creff, Elena Tajima, editors. MINE OKUBO: Following Her Own Road. Washington. $26.95, paper.
Rovine, Victoria L. BOGOLAN: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali. Indiana. $24.95, paper.
Russo, Richard. BRIDGE OF SIGHS. Vintage. $14.95, paper.
Sarna, Jonathan D. A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE: Letters to a Young Jew. Basic. $23.00.
Sebbar, Leila. THE SEINE WAS RED: Paris, October 1961. Translated by Mildred Mortimer. Indiana. $17.95, paper.
Sexton, Jared. AMALGAMATION SCHEMES: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Minnesota. $22.50, paper.
Shapiro, Laura. PERFECTION SALAD: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century. With a New Afterword. California. $16.95, paper.
Shirane, Haruo, editor. TRADITIONAL JAPANESE LITERATURE: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. Columbia. $35.00, paper.
Smith, Mark M. HOW RACE IS MADE: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. North Carolina. $19.95, paper.
Soble, Alan. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SEX AND LOVE. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. Paragon. $19.95, paper.
Szonyi, Michael. COLD WAR ISLAND: Quemoy on the Front Line. Cambridge. $37.50, paper.
This, Herve & Gagnaire. COOKING: The Quintessential Art. Translated by M.B. DeBevoise. California. $27.50.
Tone, John Lawrence. WAR AND GENOCIDE IN CUBA, 1895-1898. North Carolina. $24.95, paper.
Tyldesley, Joyce. CLEOPATRA: Last Queen of Egypt. Basic. $27.50.
Valla, Lorenzo. ON THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE. Translated by G.W. Bowersock. Harvard. $17.95, paper.
Vogler, Candace. REASONABLY VICIOUS. Harvard. $19.95, paper.
Von Hallberg, Robert. LYRIC POWERS. Chicago. $29.00.
Wartzman, Rick. OBSCENE IN THE EXTREME: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. PublicAffairs. $26.95.
Webster, Sally. EVE’S DAUGHTER / MODERN WOMAN: A Mural by Mary Cassatt. Illinois. $24.95, paper.
Welsh, Irvine. CRIME. Norton. $24.95.
Worthington, Ian. PHILIP II OF MACEDONIA. Yale. $35.00.
Zimmerman, Jonathan. INNOCENTS ABROAD: American Teachers in the American Century. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
Zirin, Dave. A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES. New Press. $26.95.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Ashton, Nigel. KING HUSSEIN OF JORDAN: A Political Life. Yale. $35.00.
Bell, Janis. CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED SENTENCES: A Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation. Norton. $21.95.
Beltran, Mary & Fojas, Camilla, editors. MIXED RACE HOLLYWOOD. New York. $24.00, paper.
Bennett, W. Lance, et al. WHEN THE PRESS FAILS: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina. Chicago. $15.00, paper.
Betancourt, Ingrid. LETTERS TO MY MOTHER: A Message of Love, a Plea for Freedom. Abrams. $14.95.
Betancourt, Ingrid. UNTIL DEATH DO US PART: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia. Harper. $13.95, paper.
Boyd, Michelle R. JIM CROW NOSTALGIA: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville. Minnesota. $18.95, paper.
Burghoorn, Wil, et al., editors. GENDER POLITICS IN ASIA: Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. $25.00, paper.
Coe, Michael D. & Koontz, Rex. MEXICO: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs. Sixth Edition. Thames & Hudson. $24.95, paper.
Cohen, Marty, et al. THE PARTY DECIDES: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform. Chicago. $20.00, paper.
Collier, Paul. THE BOTTOM BILLION: Why the Poorest Countries Are Filing and What Can Be Done About It. Oxford. $15.95, paper.
CONCISE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, 11th Edition Revised. Oxford. $35.00.
Devasahayam, Therese & Yeoh, Brenda S.A., editors. WORKING AND MOTHERING IN ASIA: Images, Ideologies and Identities. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. $30.00, paper.
Evans, Thomas W. THE EDUCATION OF RONALD REAGAN: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism. Columbia. $19.50, paper.
Fischbach, Michael R. JEWISH PROPERTY CLIAMS AGAINST ARAB COUNTRIES. Columbia. $35.00.
Frank, Thomas. THE WRECKING CREW: How Conservatives Rule. Metropolitan. $25.00.
Friedman, Milton & Schwartz, Anna Jacobson. THE GREAT CONTRADICTION 1929-1933. With a New Preface by Anna Jacobson Schwartz and a New Introduction by Peter L. Bernstein. Princeton. $19.95, paper.
George, Mary W. THE ELEMENTS OF LIBRARY RESEARCH: What Every Student Needs to Know. Princeton. $14.95, paper.
Glaude, Eddie S., Jr. IN A SHADE OF BLUE: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America. Chicago. $19.00, paper.
Gordon, Neve. ISRAEL’S OCCUPATION. California. $21.95, paper.
Griffiths, Alison. SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE: Cinema, Museums, & the Immersive View. Columbia. $45.00.
Hasik, James. ARMS AND INNOVATION: Entrepreneurship and Alliances in the Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry. Chicago. $35.00.
Hennessy, Peter, editor. THE NEW PROTECTIVE STATE: Government, Intelligence and Terrorism. Continuum. $19.95, paper.
Hertz, Rosanna. SINGLE BY CHANCE, MOTHERS BY CHOICE: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family. Oxford. $18.95, paper.
Hitchens, Christopher. THOMAS PAINE’S RIGHTS OF MAN. G rove. $13.00, paper.
Honey, Martha. ECOTOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Who Owns Paradise? Second Edition. Island. $29.50, paper.
Iwanaga, Kazuki, editor. WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION IN ASIA. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. $35.00, paper.
Jensen, Steffen. GANGS, POLITICS & DIGNITY IN CAPE TOWN. Chicago. $24.00, paper.
Kaminsky, Amy K. ARGENTINA: Stories for a Nation. Minnesota. $22.50, paper.
Kipfer, Barbara Ann, Ph.D., editor. AMERICAN SLANG. 4th Edition. Harper. $19.95, paper.
Laruelle, Marlene. RUSSIAN EURASIANISM: An Ideology of Empire. Johns Hopkins. $60.00.
Lillard, Angeline Stoll. MONTESSORI: The Science Behind the Genius. Updated Edition with a Foreword by Renilde Montessori. Oxford. $19.95, paper.
MacKinnon, Mark. THE NEW COLD WAR: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union. Carroll & Graf. $26.95.
Margolis, Jane. STUCK IN THE SHALLOW END: Education, Race, and Computing. MIT. $24.95.
McDougall, Julian & O’Brien, Wayne. STUDYING VIDEOGAMES. Auteur. $29.50, paper.
Millstone, Erik and Lang, Tim. THE ATLAS OF FOOD: Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Revised and Updated. California. $19.95, paper.
Montgomery, Martin. AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY. Third Edition. Routledge. $30.95, paper.
Murawiec, Laurent. THE MIND OF JIHAD. Cambridge. $24.99, paper.
Murphy, Walter F. CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order. Johns Hopkins. $40.00, paper.
O’Brien, Ruth, editor. TELLING STORIES OUT OF COURT: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination. Cornell. $18.95, paper.
Page, Scott E. THE DIFFERENCE: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies. With a New Preface by the Author. Princeton. $19.95, paper.
Pride, Richard A. THE POLITICAL USE OF RACIAL NARRATIVES: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama 1954-97. Illinois. $25.00, paper.
Pritchett, Wendell E. ROBERT CLIFTON WEAVER AND THE AMERICAN CITY: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer. Chicago. $30.00.
Reger, Jo, et al., editors. IDENTITY WORK IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. Minnesota. $25.00, paper.
Robinson, Linda. TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq. PublicAffairs. $27.95.
Ross, Robert S. & Zhu, Feng, editors. CHINA’S ASCENT: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics. Cornell. $22.95, paper.
Sartori, Andrew. BENGAL IN GLOBAL CONCEPT HISTORY: Culturalism in the Age of Capital. Chicago. $22.00, paper.
Schmidt Camacho, Alicia. MIGRANT IMAGINARIES: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. New York. $24.00, paper.
Schulte Nordholt, Henk. BALI: An Open Fortress, 1995-2005. Singapore. $16.00, paper.
Shehabuddin, Elora. RESHAPING THE HOLY: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh. Columbia. $27.50, paper.
Shirk, Susan L. CHINA, FRAGILE SUPERPOWER: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail its Peaceful Rise. Oxford. $16.95, paper.
Smith, Dan. THE STATE OF THE MIDDLE EAST: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution. Revised and Updated. California. $19.95, paper.
Tredinnick, Mark. WRITING WELL: The Essential Guide. Cambridge. $16.99, paper.
Trounstine, Jessica. POLITICAL MONOPOLIES IN AMERICAN CITIES: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers. Chicago. $22.00, paper.
Watkins, Evan. CLASS DEGREES: Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education. Fordham. $22.00, paper.
Wedeen, Lisa. PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen. Chicago. $20.00, paper.
Winograd, Morley & Hais, Michael D. MILLENNIAL MAKEOVER: MySpace, YouTube & the Future of American Politics. Rutgers. $24.95.
Woliver, Laura R. THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF PREGNANCY. Illinois. $25.00, paper.
Young-Bruehl. ANNA FREUD: A Biography. Second Edition. Yale. $20.00, paper.
SCIENCES
Austin, Paul. SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN: One Doctor’s Account of Life and Death in the ER. Norton. $24.95.
Blackwell, Richard J. BEHIND THE SCENES AT GALILEO’S TRIAL: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer’s Tractatus syllepticus. Notre Dame. $28.00, paper.
Cheney, Dorothy . & Seyfarth, Robert M. BABOON METAPHYSICS: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Chicago. $18.00, paper.
Chiang, Connie Y. SHAPING THE SHORELINE: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. Washington. $35.00.
Gliboff, Sander. H.G. BRONN, ERNST HAECKEL, AND THE ORGINS OF GERMAN DARWINISM: A Study of Translation and Transformation. MIT. $35.00.
Hedman, Matthew. THE AGE OF EVERYTHING: How Science Explores the Past. Chicago. $16.00, paper.
Johnston, John. THE ALLURE OF MACHINIC LIFE: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI. MIT. $40.00.
LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski. SCIENCE ON THE AIR: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television. Chicago. $27.50.
Meinesz, Alexandre. HOW LIFE BEGAN: Evolutions Three Geneses. Translated by Daniel Simberloff. Chicago. $27.50.
Pentland, Alex (Sandy). HONEST SIGNALS: How They Shape Our World. MIT. $22.95.
Safir, Neil. MEASURING THE NEW WORLD: Enlightenment Science and South America. Chicago. $45.00.
Shank, J.B. THE NEWTON WARS & THE BEGINNING OF THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT. Chicago. $55.00.
Shapin, Steven. THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. Chicago. $29.00.
Tallis, Raymond. THE KINGDOM OF INFINITE SPACE: A Portrait of Your Head. Yale. $28.00.
This, Herve. MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY: Exploring the Science of Flavor. Columbia. $19.95, paper.
Whiteley, John M., et al., editors. WATER, PLACE, & EQUITY. MIT. $25.00, paper.
Wilczek, Frank. THE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces. Basic. $26.95.
Wolf, Maryanne. PROUST AND THE SQUID: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Harper. $14.95, paper.
JULY 29, 2008. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
HUMANITIES
Abrahamian, Ervand. A HISTORY OF MODERN IRAN. Cambridge. $24.99, paper.
Adams, Henry. DEMOCRACY: An American Novel. Introduction by Earl N. Harbert. Penguin. $13.00, paper.
Aldrich, M.A. THE SEARCH FOR A VANISHING BEIJING: A Guide to China’s Capital Through the Ages. Hong Kong. $29.95, paper.
Axworthy, Michael. A HISTORY OF IRAN: Empire of the Mind. Basic Books. $27.50.
Bahr, Erhard. WEIMAR ON THE PACIFIC: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. California. $24.95, paper.
Barnouw, Dagmar. THE WAR IN THE EMPTY AIR: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germany. Indiana. $21.95, paper.
Barry, Brunonia. THE LACE READER. Morrow. $24.95.
Baume, Nicholas, editor. ANISH KAPOOR: Past, Present, Future. MIT. $29.95.
Bertram, Carel. IMAGINING THE TURKISH HOUSE: Collective Visions of Home. Texas. $24.95, paper.
Berzock, Kathleen Bickford. BENIN: Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom. Yale. $9.95, paper.
Biguenet, John & Wade, Sidney, editors. STRANGE HARBORS. Center for the Art of Translation. $14.95, paper.
Bradley, Arthur. DERRIDA’S OF GRAMMATOLOGY. Indiana. $19.95, paper.
Bragg, Rick. THE PRINCE OF FROGTOWN. Knopf. $24.00.
Bulkeley, Kelly. DREAMING IN THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS: A Comparative History. New York. $23.00, paper.
Burnham, Douglas. KANT’S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. Indiana. $19.95, paper.
Burkhardt, Barbara. WILLIAM MAXWELL: A Literary Life. Illinois. $24.95, paper.
Calico, Joy H. BRECHT AT THE OPERA. California. $45.00.
Camoes, Luis de. THE COLLECTED LYRIC POEMS OF LUIS DE CAMOES. Translated by Landeg White. Princeton. $19.95, paper.
Canto-Sperber, Monique. MORAL DISQUIET AND HUMAN LIFE. Translated by Silvia Pavel. Princeton. $39.50.
Ch’ien, Ssu-ma. THE GRAND SCRIBE’S RECORDS, VOLUME VIII: The Memoirs of Han China, Part I. Indiana. $49.95.
Cooke, Miriam, et al., editors. MEDITERRANEAN PASSAGES: Readings from Dido to Derrida. North Carolina. $24.95, paper.
Cox, Alex. X FILMS: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker. Soft Skull. $17.95, paper.
Creeley, Robert. IF I WERE WRITING THIS. New Directions. $14.95, paper.
DAEDALUS, VOLUME 137: NUMBER 3 (Summer 2008). MIT. $13.00, journal.
Dawdy, Shannon Lee. BUILDING THE DEVIL’S EMPIRE. Chicago. $35.00.
de Sousa Santos, Boaventua, editor. ANOTHER KNOWLEDGE IS POSSIBLE: Beyond Northern Epistemologies. Verso. $34.95, paper.
Draitser, Emil. SHUSH! A Memoir of Growing Up Jewish under Stalin. California. $24.95.
Drewal, Henry John. MAMI WATA: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas. Fowler Museum, UCLA. $25.00, paper.
Epstein, Barbara. THE MINSK GHETTO 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism. California. $39.95.
Euben, Roxanne L. JOURNEYS TO THE OTHER SHORE: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge. Princeton. $22.95, paper.
Foley, Barbara. SPECTRES OF 1919: Class & Nation in the Making of the New Negro. Illinois. $25.00, paper.
Foucault, Michel. INTRODUCTION TO KANT’S ANTHROPOLOGY. Semiotext(e). $14.95, paper.
Gallagher, Mary, editor. WORLD WRITING: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization. Toronto. $27.95, paper.
Garb, Tamar. THE BODY IN TIME: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France. Washington. $24.95, paper.
Garber, Daniel & Languenesse, Beatrice, editors. KANT AND THE EARLY MODERNS. Princeton. $29.95, paper.
Geltner, G. THE MEDIEVAL PRISON: A Social History. Princeton. $29.95.
Goldstein, David S. & Thacker, Audrey B., editors. COMPLICATING CONSTRUCTIONS: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts. Washington. $25.00, paper.
Grampp, Christopher. FROM YARD TO GARDEN: The Domestication of America’s Home Grounds. Center for American Places. $32.50.
Grenville, Bruce. KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art. California. $34.95, paper.
Hass, Robert. NOW & THAN: The Poet’s Choice Columns, 1997-2000. Counterpoint. $16.95, paper.
Hayashi, Brian Masaru. DEMOCRATIZING THE ENEMY: The Japanese American Internment. Princeton. $24.95, paper.
Heilbron, Carolyn G. WRITING A WOMAN’S LIFE. Norton. $13.95, paper.
Huber, Toni. THE HOLY LAND REBORN: Pilgrimage & the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India. Chicago. $45.00.
Irmscher, Christoph. LONGFELLOW REDUX. Illinois. $24.95, paper.
Jones, Michael. LENINGRAD: State of Siege. Basic Books. $27.95.
Kavoori, Anandam P. & Punathambekar, Aswin, editors. GLOBAL BOLLYWOOD. New York. $24.00, paper.
Kelley, Jeff, et al. HALF-LIFE OF A DREAM: Contemporary Chinese Art. California. $35.00.
Kelley, Mary. LEARNING TO STAND AND SPEAK: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic. North Carolina. $24.95, paper.
Kirino, Natsuo. REAL WORLD. Knopf. $23.95.
Kropp, Phoebe S. CALIFORNIA VIEJA: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place. California. $24.95, paper.
Krug, Rebecca. READING FAMILIES: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England. Cornell. $22.50, paper.
Large, William. HEIDEGGER’S BEING AND TIME. Indiana. $19.95, paper.
Lucretius. DE RERUM NATURA: The Nature of Things. Translated by David R. Slavitt. California. $14.95, paper.
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Glazer-Raymo, Judith, editor. UNFINISHED AGENDAS: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education. Johns Hopkins. $25.00, paper.
Goldin, Claudia & Katz, Lawrence F. THE RACE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Harvard. $39.95.
Goldsmith, Jack & Wu, Tim. WHO CONTROLS THE INTERNET? Illusions of a Borderless World. With a New Preface. Oxford. $15.95, paper.
Gray, Paul & Drew, David E. WHAT THEY DIDN’T TEACH YOU IN GRADUATE SCHOOL: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career. Stylus. $15.95, paper.
Greenberg, Rosalie, M.D. BIPOLAR KIDS: Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm. Da Capo. $15.95, paper.
Gupta, Dipak K. UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE: The Life Cycle of Birth, Growth, Transformation, and Demise. Routledge. $35.95, paper.
Hanley, Lisa M., et al., editors. IMMIGRATION & INTEGRATION IN URBAN COMMUNITIES: Renegotiating the City. Johns Hopkins. $55.00.
Healy, David. MANIA: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder. Johns Hopkins. $24.95.
Heath, Jennifer, editor. THE VEIL: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics. California. $21.95, paper.
Hedges, Chris & Al-Arian, Laila. COLLATERAL DAMAGE: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians. Nation Books. $22.95.
Hellman, Deborah. WHEN IS DISCRIMINATION WRONG? Harvard. $39.95.
Jones, Michael & Olwig, Kenneth, editors. NORDIC LANDSCAPES: Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe. Minnesota. $35.00, paper.
Kern, Jonathan. SOUND REPORTING: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production. Chicago. $20.00, paper.
Laughlin, Robert M. & Jtz’ibajom, Sna. MONKEY BUSINESS THEATRE. Texas. $45.00.
Lieberg, Carolyn. TEACHING YOUR FIRST COLLEGE CLASS: A Practical Guide for New Faculty and Graduate Student Instructors. Stylus. $24.95, paper.
Marquez, Raquel R. & Romo, Harriett D., editors. TRANSFORMATIONS OF LA FAMILIA ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER. $28.00, paper.
McClellan, Scott. WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. PublicAffairs. $27.95.
Menzies, Gavin. 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance. $26.95.
Murray, Martin J. TAMING THE DISORDERLY CITY: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid. Cornell. $22.95, paper.
Nardulli, Peter F., editor. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACY. Illinois. $23.00, paper.
National Geographic. ATLAS OF THE MIDDLE EAST. Second Edition. National Geographic. 21.95, paper.
O’Brien, Eileen. THE RACIAL MIDDLE: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide. New York. $22.00, paper.
Oxford. ATLAS OF EXPLORATION. Oxford. $50.00.
OXFORD SPANISH DICTIONARY. Fourth Edition. Oxford. $49.95.
Pfiffner, James P. POWER PLAY: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution. Brookings. $28.95.
Powell, H. Jefferson. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSCIENCE: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision. Chicago. $22.50.
Salt, Jeremy. THE UNMAKING OF THE MIDDLE EAST: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands. California. $29.95.
Salter, Malcolm S. INNOVATION CORRUPTED: The Origins and Legacy of Enron’s Collapse. $35.00.
Schaffer, Frederic Charles. THE HIDDEN COSTS OF CLEAN ELECTION REFORM. Cornell. $35.00.
Schuman, Howard. METHOD AND MEANING IN POLLS AND SURVEYS. Harvard. $39.95.
Sharansky, Nathan. DEFENDING IDENTITY: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy. PublicAffairs. $26.95.
Sternberg, Robert J. & Weis, Karin, editors. THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE. Yale. $20.00, paper.
Torrey, E. Fuller. THE INSANITY OFFENSE: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens. Norton. $24.95.
Tuck, Richard. FREE RIDING. Harvard. $35.00.
Wild, Mark. STREET MEETING: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. California. $24.95, paper.
Wilkinson, Donna. THE ONLY 127 THINGS YOU NEED: A Guide to Life’s Essentials. Tarcher/Penguin. $14.95, paper.
Young-Eisendrath, Polly & Dawson, Terence, editors. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JUNG. Second Edition. Cambridge. $37.50, paper.
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Armstrong, Pat, et al. CRITICAL TO CARE: The Invisible Women in Health Services. Toronto. $24.95, paper.
Ausmus, William A. WINES & WINERIES OF CALIFORNIA’S CENTRAL COAST. California. $24.95, paper.
Bailey, R.A. DESIGN OF COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS. Cambridge. $52.00, paper.
Barr, Donald A., M.D., Ph.D. HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health. Johns Hopkins. $40.00, paper.
Daniell, Ellen. EVERY OTHER THURSDAY: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists. Yale. $17.00, paper.
Haeg, Fritz, et al. EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn: A Project by Fritz Haeg. Metropolis. $24.95, paper.
Hailman, Jack P. CODING AND REDUNDANCY: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals. Harvard. $39.95.
Hargittai, Istvan. MARTIANS OF SCIENCE: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. Oxford. $15.95, paper.
Harrington, Jonathan. THE CLIMATE DIET: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs, and Save the Planet. Earthscan. $15.95, paper.
Haycock, David Boyd. MORTAL COIL: A Short History of Living Longer. Yale. 30.00.
Kaku, Michio. PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel. Doubleday. $26.95.
Kantner, Seth. SHOPPING FOR PORCUPINE: A Life in Arctic Alaska. Milkweed. $28.00.
Macdougall, Doug. NATURE’S CLOCKS: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything. California. $24.95.
McKay, Kim et al. TRUE GREEN@WORK: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business. National Geographic. $19.95, paper.
Minnich, Richard A. CALIFORNIA’S FADING WILDFLOWERS: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions. California. $49.95.
North, John. COSMOS: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology. Chicago. $39.00, paper.
Rhodes, Frank H.T., et al., editors. LANGUAGE OF THE EARTH: A Literary Anthology. Second Edition. Blackwell. $29.95.
Rosenblum, Bruce & Kuttner, Fred. QUANTUM ENIGMA: Physics Encounters Consciousness. Oxford. $15.95, paper.
Rudwick, Martin J.S. WORLDS BEFORE ADAM: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. Chicago. $49.00.
Sloan, Frank A. & Kasper, Hirschel, editors. INCENTIVES AND CHOICE IN HEALTH CARE. MIT. $30.00, paper.
Wendel, Tim & Villegas, Jose Luis. FAR FROM HOME: Latino Baseball Players in America. National Geographic. $28.00.
MAY 20, 2008. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
HUMANITIES
Athenaeus. THE LEARNED BANQUETERS. Books 8-10.420e. Edited and Translated by S. Douglas Olson. Harvard/Loeb. $24.00.
Bahrani, Zainab. RITUALS OF WAR: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia. Zone. $32.95.
Bal, Mieke. LOVING YUSUF: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past. Chicago. $22.50, paper.
Benfey, Christopher. A SUMMER OF HUMMINGBIRDS: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade. Penguin. $25.95.
Benjamin, Walter. THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCIBILITY AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MEDIA. Harvard. $18.95, paper.
Black Hawk. THE LIFE OF BLACK HAWK, OR MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK, DICTATED BY HIMSELF. Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy. Penguin. $14.00, paper.
Blanning, Tim. THE PURSUIT OF GLORY: The Five revolutions that Made Modern Europe, 1648-1815. Penguin. $20.00, paper.
Bochner, Mel. SOLAR SYSTEM & REST ROOMS: Writings and Interviews, 1965-2007. MIT. $39.95.
Bonds, Alexandra B. BEIJING OPERA COSTUMES: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture. Hawaii. $50.00.
Brecht, Bertolt. THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN. Foreword by Carl Weber. Penguin. $11.00, paper.
Brecht, Bertolt. THE LIFE OF GALILEO. Foreword by Richard Foreman. Penguin. $12.00, paper.
Brooks, Peter. REALIST VISION. Yale. $18.00, paper.
Bugliosi, Vincent. FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Norton. $17.95, paper.
Castellanos Moya, Horacio. SENSELESSNESS. Translated by Katherine Silver. New Directions. $15.95, paper.
Chesnutt, Charles W. THE PORTABLE CHARLES W. CHESNUTT. Edited by William L. Andrews. Penguin. $18.00, paper.
Cox, Virginia. WOMEN’S WRITING IN ITALY, 1400-1650. Johns Hopkins. $50.00.
Currie, Ron, Jr. GOD IS DEAD. Penguin. $14.00, paper.
Davis, Kathleen. PERIODIZATION & SOVEREIGNTY: How Ideas of Feudalism & Secularization Govern the Politics of Time. Pennsylvania. $42.50.
Derrida, Jacques. THE ANIMAL THAT THEREFORE I AM. Fordham. $20.00, paper.
Eisler, Benita. NAKED IN THE MARKETPLACE: The Lives of George Sand. Counterpoint. $16.95, paper.
Euripides. FRAGMENTS. Aegeus-Meleager. Edited and Translated by Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp. Harvard/Loeb. $24.00.
Gallagher, Sean & Kelly, Thomas Forrest, editors. THE CENTURY OF BACH & MOZART: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory & Performance, In Honor of Christoph Wolff. Harvard. $45.00.
Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani. MEDICI GARDENS: From Making to Design. Pennsylvania. $55.00.
Gilmore, Stephanie, editor. FEMINIST COALITIONS: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States. Illinois. $25.00, paper.
Gonzalez, Jennifer A. SUBJECT TO DISPLAY: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art. MIT. $29.95.
Greer, Andrew Sean. THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE. Farrar Straus. $22.00.
Grosz, Elizabeth. CHAOS, TERRITORY, ART: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth. Columbia. $22.50.
Hall, Steven. THE RAW SHARK TEXTS. Canongate. $14.00, paper.
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. & Marti, Susan, editors. CROWN & VEIL: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries. Foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum. Columbia. $40.00.
Harrist, Robert E., Jr. THE LANDSCAPE OF WORDS: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China. Washington. $60.00.
Heeck, Gijsbert. A TRAVELER IN SIAM IN THE YEAR 1655: Extracts from the Journal of Gijsbert Heeck. Silkworm. $35.00, paper.
Holton, Linwood. OPPORTUNITY TIME: A Memoir by Governor Linwood Holton. Virginia. $27.95.
Horwitz, Gordon J. GHETTOSTADT: Todz and the Making of a Nazi City. Harvard. $29.95.
Horwitz, Tony. A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE: Rediscovering the New World. Holt. $27.50.
Hyland, Drew A. PLATO AND THE QUESTION OF BEAUTY. Indiana. $21.95, paper.
Johnson, James Weldon. GOD’S TROMBONES: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Foreword by Maya Angelou. Penguin. $14.00, paper.
Katz, Dana E. THE JEW IN THE ART OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. Pennsylvania. $55.00.
Kleeblatt, Norman L., editor. ACTION/ABSTRACTION: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976. Yale. $65.00.
Lerer, Seth. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. Chicago. $30.00.
Lewis, David Levering. GOD’S CRUCIBLE: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215. Norton. $29.95.
Lewis-Colman, David M. RACE AGAINST LIBERALISM: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit. Illinois. $22.00, paper.
Lutz, John Sutton. MYTH & MEMORY: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact. British Columbia. $29.95, paper.
Maggi, Armando. IN THE COMPANY OF DEMONS: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago. $25.00, paper.
Marchal, Jules. LORD LEVERHULME’S GHOSTS: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo. Verso. $29.95.
Maupin, Armistead. MICHAEL TOLLIVER LIVES. Harper. $13.95, paper.
McCarthy, Tom. TINTIN AND THE SECRET OF LITERATURE. Counterpoint. $15.95, paper.
McGowan, Todd. THE REAL GAZE: Film Theory After Lacan. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Milward, Richard. APPLES. Canongate. $15.00, paper.
Moskowitz, Marina. STANDARD OF LIVING: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America. Johns Hopkins. $25.00, paper.
Nalle, Sara T. GOD IN LA MANCHA: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650. Johns Hopkins. $35.00, paper.
Nicolson, Juliet. THE PERFECT SUMMER: England 1911, Just Before the Storm. Grove. $15.00, paper.
OCTOBER 124 (Spring 2008). MIT. $13.00, journal.
Pack, Robert. STILL HERE, STILL NOW. Chicago. $22.00.
Piterberg, Gabriel. THE RETURNS OF ZIONISM: Myth, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. Verso. $29.95, paper.
Patchett, Ann. WHAT NOW? Harper. $14.95.
Reardon, Joan. M.F.K. FISHER AMONG THE POTS AND PANS: Celebrating Her Kitchens. California. $24.95.
Regosin, Elizabeth A. & Shaffer, Donald R. VOICES OF EMANCIPATION: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files. New York. $22.00, paper.
Riemen, Rob. NOBILITY OF SPIRIT: A Forgotten Ideal. Foreword by George Steiner. Yale. $22.00.
Rosemont, Henry, Jr. & Smith, Huston. IS THERE A UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR OF RELIGION? Open Court. $19.95, paper.
Scharnhorst, Gary. KATE FIELD: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist. Syracuse. $27.95.
Silvester, Hans. INTO THE WIND: The Art of the Kite. Abrams. $24.95.
Sokolowski, Robert. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE HUMAN PERSON. Cambridge. $33.50, paper.
Stoichita, Victor I. THE PYGMALION EFFECT: From Ovid to Hitchcock. Chicago. $45.00.
Sumegi, Angela. DREAMWORLDS OF SHAMANISM AND TIBETAN BUDDHISM. The Third Place. SUNY. $19.95, paper.
Tolstoy, Leo. THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND OTHER STORIES. Translated by Anthony Briggs, et al. Penguin. $11.00, paper.
Torres-Padilla, Jose L. & Rivera, Carmen Haydee. WRITING OFF THE HYPHEN: New Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Washington. $30.00, paper.
Tratner, Michael. CROWDSCENES: Movies and Mass Politics. Fordham. $28.00, paper.
Tucker, Michael. LIVING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy. Grove. $14.00, paper.
Wasserstein, Bernard. DIVIDED JERUSALEM: The Struggle for the Holy City. Third Edition. Yale. $18.00, paper.
Westphal, Merold. LEVINAS AND KIERKEGAARD IN DIALOGUE. Indiana. $22.95, paper.
Wieviorka, Olivier. NORMANDY: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris. Translated by M. DeBevoise. Harvard. $29.95.
Young, Sherman. THE BOOK IS DEAD: Long Live the Book. New South. $26.00.
Zucker, Carole. THE CINEMA OF NEIL JORDAN: Dark Carnival. Wallflower. $25.00, paper.
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Bales, Kevin & Trodd, Zoe, editors. TO PLEAD OUR OWN CAUSE: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves. Cornell. $18.95, paper.
Benei, Veronique. SCHOOLING PASSIONS: Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Bodenhamer, David J. & Ely, James W., Jr. THE BILL OF RIGHTS IN MODERN AMERICA. Revised and Expanded. Indiana. $21.95, paper.
Brunelle, Dorval. FROM WORLD ORDER TO GLOBAL DISORDER: States, Markets, and Dissent. British Columbia. $32.95, paper.
Charlton, Noel G. UNDERSTANDING GREGORY BATESON: Mind, Beauty, and the Sacred Earth. SUNY. $21.95, paper.
Chong, Alberto, editor. PRIVATIZATION FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD? Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in Latin America. Harvard. $29.95, paper.
CONTEXTS, VOLUME 7: NUMBER 2 (Spring 2008). American Sociological Association. $13.00, journal.
Easterly, William, editor. REINVENTING FOREIGN AID. MIT. $35.00, paper.
Fanon, Frantz. BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS. A New Edition Translated by Richard Philcox. Grove. $14.00, paper.
Fletcher, Bill, Jr. & Gapasin, Fernando. SOLIDARITY DIVIDED: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice. California. $24.95.
Freidin, Robert, et al., editors. FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY: Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud. MIT. $35.00, paper.
Frey, Bruno S. HAPPINESS: A Revolution in Economics. MIT. $35.00.
Gillon, Steven M. THE PACT: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation. Oxford. $24.95.
Goldman, Marshall. PETROSTATE: Putin, Power, and the New Russia. Oxford. $27.95.
Goldsmith, Jeff. THE LONG BABY BOOM: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation. Johns Hopkins. $24.95.
Gourevitch, Philip & Morris, Errol. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. Penguin. $25.95.
Hansen, Karen Tranberg. YOUTH AND THE CITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH. Indiana. $24.95, paper.
Harriford, Diane & Thompson, Becky. WHEN THE CENTER IS ON FIRE: Passionate Social Theory for Our Times. Texas. $24.95, paper.
Iton, Richard. IN SEARCH OF THE BLACK FANTASTIC: Politics & Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Oxford. $29.95.
Janusek, John Wayne. ANCIENT TIWANAKU. Cambridge. $30.50, paper.
Joshee, Reva & Johnson, Lauri, editors. MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION POLICIES IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. British Columbia. $36.95, paper.
Joyce, Rosemary A. ANCIENT BODIES, ANCIENT LIVES: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology. Thames & Hudson. $29.95.
Kang Zhengguo. CONFESSIONS: An Innocent Life in Communist China. Norton. $15.95, paper.
Kawai, Hayao. BUDDHISM AND THE ART OF PSYCHOTHERAPY. Texas A & M. $16.95, paper.
Kenneally, Christine. THE FIRST WORD: The Search for the Origins of Language. Penguin. $16.00, paper.
Moro, Andrea. THE BOUNDARIES OF BABEL: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages. MIT. $35.00.
Newfield, Christopher. UNMAKING THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class. Harvard. $29.95.
Nordhaus, William. A QUESTION OF BALANCE: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies. Yale. $28.00.
Rieff, Philip. THE CRISIS OF THE OFFICER CLASS: The Decline of the Tragic Sensibility. Virginia. $34.95.
Rieff, Philip. THE JEW OF CULTURE: Freud, Moses, and Modernity. Virginia. $34.95.
Schlefer, Jonathan. PALACE POLITICS: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico. Texas. $24.95, paper.
Woodard, Roger D., editor. THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF ASIA AND THE AMERICAS. Cambridge. $45.00, paper.
Woodard, Roger D., editor. THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF ASIA MINOR. Cambridge. $45.00, paper.
Woodard, Roger D., editor. THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF MESOPOTAMIA, EGYPT, AND AKSUM. Cambridge. $45.00, paper.
Woodard, Roger D., editor. THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF EUROPE. Cambridge. $45.00, paper.
Woodard, Roger D., editor. THE ANCIENT LANGUAGES OF SYRIA-PALESTINE AND ARABIA. Cambridge. $45.00, paper.
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Andree, Peter. GENETICALLY MODIFIED DIPLOMACY: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment. British Columbia. $32.95, paper.
Broderick, Damien, editor. YEAR MILLION: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge. Atlas & Co. $16.00, paper.
Engel, Christoph & Singer, Wolf. BETTER THAN CONSCIOUS: Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications for Institutions. MIT. $50.00.
Floyd, Ted. SMITHSONIAN FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. (Includes disk with 587 downloadable bird songs.) Collins. $24.95.
Geschwind, Carl-Henry. CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKES: Science, Risk & the Politics of Hazard Mitigation. Johns Hopkins. $30.00, paper.
Gessen, Masha. BLOOD MATTERS: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene. Harcourt. $25.00.
Giacconi, Riccardo. SECRETS OF THE HOARY DEEP: A Personal History of Modern Astronomy. Johns Hopkins. $45.00.
Harman, Oren & Dietrich, Michael R., editors. REBELS, MAVERICKS, AND HERETICS IN BIOLOGY. Yale. $40.00.
Innis, Nancy K., editor. REFLECTIONS ON ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR: Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon. MIT. $35.00, paper.
Jones, Sheilla. THE QUANTUM TEN: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science. Oxford. $24.95.
Katz, James E., editor. HANDBOOK OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION STUDIES. MIT. $45.00.
Kriz, Carey James. THE PATIENT WILL SEE YOU NOW: How Advances in Science, Medicine, and Technology Will Lead to a Personalized Health Care System. Rowman & Littlefield. $24.95.
Lyson, Thomas A., et al., editors. FOOD AND THE MID-LEVEL FARM: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle. MIT. $25.00, paper.
Maclaurin, James & Sterelny, Kim. WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY? Chicago. $24.00, paper.
Mayes, Rick, Ph.D. & Berenson, Robert A., M.D. MEDICARE PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT AND THE SHAPING OF U.S. HEALTH CARE. Johns Hopkins. $25.00, paper.
Pitte, Jean-Robert. BORDEAUX/BURGUNDY: A Vintage Rivalry. California. $24.95.
Proctor, Robert N. & Schiebinger, Londa, editors. AGNOTOLOGY: The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford. $24.95, paper.
Richards, Robert J. THE TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought. Chicago. $39.00.
Sanford, Christopher, M.D. THE ADVENTUROUS TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO HEALTH. Washington. $14.95, paper.
Segre, Gino. FAUST IN COPENHAGEN: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics. Penguin. $16.00, paper.
Sideris, Lisa H., et al., editors. RACHEL CARSON: Legacy and Challenge. SUNY. $24.95, paper.
Wright, Edmond, editor. THE CASE FOR QUALIA. MIT. $36.00, paper.
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.
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