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University of Georgia Press McFarland
HOUSEHOLD WAR WAR PIGEONS
How Americans Winged Couriers in the U.S. Military,
Lived and Fought the 1878-1953
Civil War
Elizabeth G. Macalaster
Edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank &
LeeAnn Whites Sep 2020 144pp, 40 photos
9781476680804 Paperback A$74.80
Jan 2020 312pp
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UnCivil Wars Ser. service that homing pigeons provided for the
American armed forces, from its fledgling beginnings
Restores the centrality of after the Civil War to the birds’ invaluable role in
households to the American communications in every branch of the US military
Civil War. These essays through both World Wars and beyond.
complicate the standard
distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier University Press of Mississippi
and civilian, and men and women. From this vantage
point, they look at the interplay of family and politics, COLD WAR II
studying the ways in which the war shaped and was Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia
shaped by the American household.
Edited by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
LSU Press
Dec 2020 272pp
THE ENDURING CIVIL WAR 9781496831101 Paperback A$56.10
Reflections on the Great American Crisis
For full details of this title, see page 72.
Gary W. Gallagher
Naval Institute Press
Sep 2020 250pp, 18 illustrations
9780807173480 Hardback A$64.90 AIRPOWER OVER GALLIPOLI 1915-1916
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Sterling Michael Pavelec
Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary Gallagher
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contemplation, and dispute. History of Military Aviation
Lynne Rienner Publishers Based on extensive archival research, Sterling Michael
Pavelec recounts the adventures of the handful of
KILLING CIVILIANS IN CIVIL WAR aviators and their aircraft during the Gallipoli Campaign.
The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence The book focuses on the men and machines, their
contributions to the campaign, and the ultimate
Jürgen Brandsch outcomes of the role of airpower in the early stages of
World War I.
Apr 2020 180pp
9781626378636 Hardback A$167.20 ASSURED DESTRUCTION
Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the
For full details of this title, see page 85. U.S. Air Force
FirstForumPress
David Bath
Apr 2020 256pp
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Transforming War
Documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic
missiles in the United States and their equally swift
demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how
these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Air
Force and the missile community.
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50 History • MILITARY HISTORY
New from Dead Reckoning CARRIER BATTLES
Command Decisions in Harm’s Way
ATLAS AT WAR
Douglas V. Smith
Edited by Michael Vassallo & Allan Harvey
Apr 2020 384pp, 42 illustrations
Sep 2020 272pp 9781682475027 Paperback A$46.20
9781682474709 Hardback A$121.00
A longtime professor at the Naval War College who
Atlas at War! collects fifty hard-hitting stories from once directed strategic and long-range planning for
Atlas Comics, the company that became Marvel the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the
Comics and published more war titles than anyone transformation of the US Navy from a defensive-
in the industry between the years 1951 and 1960. minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-
Dead Reckoning taking navy in the very early stages of World War II.
GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE CLASH OF FLEETS
TWENTIETH CENTURY Naval Battles of the Great War 1914-18
Tsushima Jutland Midway
Vincent O’Hara & Leonard R. Heinz
Jean-Yves Delitte & Giuseppe Baiguera
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An operational history that records every naval
In the history of civilizations, sea power has always engagement fought between major surface warships
played a central role. This symbol of a nation’s during World War I. Much more than a catalogue
scientific and military genius has often been the of combat facts, Clash of Fleets explores why battles
deciding factor during major conflicts, putting the occurred; how the different navies fought; and
names of several clashes down into legend. This how combat advanced doctrine and affected the
volume plunges you into the heart of three of the development and application of technology.
twentieth century’s greatest naval battles.
Dead Reckoning THE CRAFT OF WARGAMING
A Detailed Planning Guide for Defense
THE STRINGBAGS Planners and Analysts
Garth Ennis Robert Burks, Jeff Appleget & Fred Cameron
Drawings by P. J. Holden
Sep 2020 376pp
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Designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts
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the Fairey Swordfish, and planners with a clear methodology that allows
a biplane in an age of them to initiate, design, develop, conduct and
monoplanes: from their analyse wargames.
triumphs against the
Italian Fleet at Taranto FALLEN TIGERS
and the German The Fate of America’s Missing Airmen in
battleship Bismarck in the mid-Atlantic, to the China during World War II
deadly challenge of the Channel Dash in the bleak
winter waters of their homeland. Dan Jackson
Dead Reckoning
Apr 2020 352pp, 24 b&w photos, 8 maps
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History of Military Aviation
During the war, America’s air forces in China reported
at least 634 aircraft and 1,780 airmen as missing on
combat missions. The author of this volume scoured
thousands of pages of official reports to build a
comprehensive database of every American reported
missing in China. Memoirs, wartime diaries, and
interviews overlay this historical research.
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History • MILITARY HISTORY
GENERAL NAVAL TACTICS University of Oklahoma Press
Theory and Practice
DISCORDANT
Milan Vego MEMORIES
Atomic Age Narratives
Oct 2020 464pp and Visual Culture
9781682475416 Hardback A$103.40
Blue & Gold Professional Library Alison Fields
Describes and explains those aspects of naval tactics Filleubst2r0at2i0on2s56pp, 6 b&w and 17 colour
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Milan Vego explains the objectives and methods/
elements of tactical employment of naval forces, On two separate days
command and control, combat support, tactical design, in August 1945, the US
decision-making and planning/execution, leadership, dropped atomic bombs
doctrine, and training. over the cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Alison Fields
STRIKE FROM THE SEA explores - through the lenses
The Development and Deployment of of multiple disciplines - ongoing memories of the two
Strategic Cruise Missiles since 1934 bombings. Enhanced by colour and black-and-white
images, this book is an innovative contribution to
Norman Polmar & John O’Connell memory studies and nuclear humanities.
Sep 2020 208pp, 73 b&w photos MISSION ON THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL
9781682473894 Hardback A$92.40 Nature, Myth, and War in Viet Nam
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missile program and the similar Soviet Navy’s cruise
missile efforts. Taking the reader in the mountains and forests that the
Americans called ‘Indian country’, Stevens presents the
The University of North Carolina Press Viet Nam War as an extension of the romantic myth of
the American frontier. In seven operations on the Ho
GATHERING TO SAVE A NATION Chi Minh Trail, the reader enters an exotic, exhilarating,
Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors terrifying world.
Stephen D. Engle
Feb 2020 736pp
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Civil War America
In this rich study of Union governors and their role
in the Civil War, Stephen Engle examines how these
politicians were pivotal in securing victory. In a time of
limited federal authority, governors were an essential
part of the machine that maintained the Union while it
mobilized and sustained the war effort.
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52 Law & Criminology
Purdue University Press LAW & CRIMINOLOGY
BRITISH IMPERIAL Academica Press
AIR POWER
The Royal Air Forces AUTONOMY AND
and the Defense of COOPERATION
Australia and New WITHIN THE
Zealand Between the INTERNATIONAL
World Wars CRIMINAL COURT
AND UNITED
Alex M Spencer NATIONS
Foreword by Richard Hallion SECURITY COUNCIL
Jun 2020 260pp Dimitris Liakopoulos
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W. B. Sheridan Law Books
Examines the air defense of
Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. Explores the content of
The book also demonstrates the difficulty of applying powers attributed by the
new military aviation technology to the defense of the Statute of Rome to the UN Security Council. The book
global Empire and provides insight into the nature of begins by investigating the power to activate the
the political relationship between the Pacific Dominions investigations of the prosecutor before examining the
and Britain. power to suspend judicial activity. It then defines the
characteristics of Security Council intervention.
Texas A&M University Press W. B. Sheridan Law Books
BLACK JACK Lynne Rienner Publishers
The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
THE POLITICS OF
Frank E. Vandiver RESTORATIVE
JUSTICE
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Illustrated by Rod Keitz locally. The authors clarify key theoretical issues while
offering fresh perspectives and provocative questions.
Jun 2020 310pp, 21 b&w photos, 6 line drawings
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Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
“Captive Warriors is, from the beginning to end, a
thoughtful, well-written, and insightful true story of
endurance and survival in some of the most desperate
circumstances imaginable.” - Booklist
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Law & Criminology 53
McFarland University of Michigan Press
THE BUNDY KEEPING HOLD OF JUSTICE
MURDERS Encounters Between Law and Colonialism
A Comprehensive
History, Second Edition Jennifer Balint et al
Kevin M. Sullivan Apr 2020 224pp
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Jun 2020 243pp, photos Law, Meaning, And Violence
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Brings together the insights and approaches of history,
In this revised, updated criminology, socio-legal studies, and law to present a
and expanded edition, the range of case studies of the encounter between law and
author explores the life of colonialism. Through historical and contemporary case
Theodore Bundy, one of studies, the book emphasizes the nature of colonialism
the more infamous - and as a structural injustice.
flamboyant - American serial
killers on record. This in-depth examination of Bundy’s Rutgers University Press
life and his killing spree is drawn from legal transcripts,
correspondence and interviews with detectives CHRONICLES OF A
and prosecutors. RADICAL CRIMINOLOGIST
Working the Margins of Law, Power,
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF and Justice
CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT IN THE Gregg Barak
UNITED STATES
Second Edition May 2020 228pp
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Louis J. Palmer Jr. Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Apr 2020 631pp, 251 photos, diagrams Offers a first-person account that examines the linkages
and tables between one scholar’s experiences as a criminologist
9781476683690 Paperback A$176.00 from the late 1960s to the present and the emergence
and evolution of radical criminology as a challenge to
Provides information developments in mainstream criminology.
on all aspects of capital
punishment in America. This encyclopedia details SOCIAL JUSTICE
virtually every capital punishment decision rendered Theories, Issues, and Movements
by the US Supreme Court to 2006, including more
than 40 cases decided since the first edition. Entries are Loretta Capeheart & Dragan Milovanovic
also provided for each Supreme Court Justice who has
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Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Struggles for justice from legal to on the ground
movements are presented for historical context and to
inform the way forward.
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54 Literature
LITERATURE MARK TWAIN
The Complete Interviews
Academic Studies Press
Edited by Gary Scharnhorst
VLADIMIR SOROKIN’S DISCOURSES
A Companion May 2020 736pp, 22 b&w illustrations
9780817359959 Paperback A$74.80
Dirk Uffelmann American Literary Realism & Naturalism
Apr 2020 238pp An annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every
9781644692851 Paperback A$56.10 known interview with Mark Twain. Twain discusses
Companions to Russian Literature matters as varied as his lecture style, his writings, and
his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless
Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the issues as human nature, politics, war and peace,
most controversial contemporary Russian writer. government corruption, humour, race relations,
Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow’s artistic imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his
underground in the late 1970s and early '80s, he impressions of other writers.
became visible to a broader Russian audience only in
the mid-1990s, with texts shocking the moralistic MARK TWAIN, THE WORLD, AND ME
expectations of traditionally minded readers. Following the Equator, Then and Now
Academica Press Susan K. Harris
TRADITION AND EMANCIPATION IN Apr 2020 184pp, 7 b&w illustrations
HORACE AND ALEXANDER POPE 9780817359676 Paperback A$56.10
Megumi Ohsumi Follows Mark Twain’s last lecture tour as he wound his
way through the British Empire in 1895-1896. Deftly
Apr 2020 280pp blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage,
9781680532302 Hardback A$259.60 and travel memoir, Susan Harris gives readers a unique
take on one of America’s most widely studied writers.
Explores the mimetic encounters of classical material
across Alexander Pope’s poetry. Focusing particularly on Broadview Press
Pope’s Horatian Imitations, Megumi Ohsumi attempts
to identify the extent to which mimesis plays a role in THE ALCHEMIST
Pope’s oeuvre.
Ben Jonson
The University of Alabama Press Edited by John Greenwood
GERTRUDE STEIN’S SURREALIST YEARS May 2020 208pp
9781554813674 Paperback A$24.20
Ery Shin
The Alchemist has long been admired as one of
Jun 2020 224pp Ben Jonson’s best dramas. This edition includes an
9780817320638 Hardback A$92.40 introduction to the play, offering discussion of its
performance history and background information on
Brings to life Gertrude Stein’s surrealist sensibilities and alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also
personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least provided, as are contextual materials.
of which originated in a dread of anti-Semitism. Ery Shin
argues that Stein’s later works engage with storytelling THE DEAD ALIVE
and life-writing in startling ways - most emphatically
and poignantly through the surrealist lens. Wilkie Collins
Edited by Anna Clark
Feb 2020 118pp
9781554814336 Paperback A$28.60
In this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of
sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced
to be executed for having committed a murder that
never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic
Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the
two innocents.
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Literature 55
HEART OF DARKNESS Bucknell University Press
Third Edition
HEMISPHERES AND STRATOSPHERES
Joseph Conrad The Idea and Experience of Distance in the
Edited by D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke International Enlightenment
Jul 2020 290pp, 12 illustrations Edited by Kevin L. Cope
9781554815531 Paperback A$25.30
Nov 2020 252pp, 23 b&w images
The first Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness 9781684482016 Paperback A$83.60
appeared in 1995, the second in 1999. For the third Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
edition the book has been completely revised and
updated to take account of the scholarship of the Recognising distance as a central concern of the
most recent generation. The introduction has been Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on
extensively rewritten, and the appendices of contextual distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission
materials overhauled. and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic
in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in
OROONOKO modern research methods.
Aphra Behn JOHNSON IN JAPAN
Edited by Tiffany Potter
Edited by Kimiyo Ogawa & Mika Suzuki
Apr 2020 120pp Foreword by Greg Clingham
9781554811625 Paperback A$24.20
Oct 2020 216pp
The best-known work by Aphra Behn, widely 9781684482412 Paperback A$64.90
considered the first professional woman writer in
England, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the The study and reception of Samuel Johnson’s work
development of the novel in English. Though it predates has long been embedded in Japanese literary culture.
the British abolition movement by more than a century, The essays in this collection reflect that history and
it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial influence, underscoring the richness of Johnson
violence of slavery. scholarship in Japan, while exploring broader conditions
in Japanese academia today.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Second Edition THE LIFE AND
STRANGE
Jane Austen SURPRIZING
Edited by Robert P. Irvine ADVENTURES OF
ROBINSON CRUSOE
Jun 2020 500pp The Stoke
9781554814893 Paperback A$24.20 Newington Edition
Robert Irvine’s introduction sets the novel in the context Daniel Defoe
of the literary and intellectual history of the period, Edited by Maximillian E.
dealing with such crucial background issues as class Novak, Irving Rothman &
relations in Britain, female exclusion from property and Manuel Schonhorn
power, and the impact of the French Revolution.
Feb 2020 429pp, 16 b&w illustrations
WE 9A7$8110628.340480968 Paperback
Yevgeny Zamyatin Robinson Crusoe has been an international bestseller for
Edited & translated by Kirsten Lodge three hundred years. This edition of the novel with its
introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes
Jan 2020 240pp, 12 illustrations provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel.
9781554814107 Paperback A$34.10
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel We, written in the early
1920s as the new government of the Soviet Union was
beginning to show its authoritarian character, is one
of the great classics of dystopian fiction. It presents a
chilling vision of the future of the Soviet experiment.
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56 Literature
NARRATIVE MOURNING REWRITING CRUSOE
Death and Its Relics in the The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures,
Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Media
Kathleen M. Oliver Edited by Jakub Lipski
Jul 2020 232pp Sep 2020 206pp
9781684481910 Paperback A$64.90 9781684482313 Paperback A$64.90
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Explores death and its relics as they appear within the Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary
confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. The literary works whose importance lies not only in
book argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/ the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife.
dying body and the introduction of consciousness as This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays
humanity’s newfound soul found expression in fictional testifies to the book’s endurance, analysing its literary,
representations of the relic (object) or relict (person). aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in
historical context.
THE NOVEL STAGE
Narrative Form from ROMANTIC AUTOMATA
the Restoration to Exhibits, Figures, and Organisms
Jane Austen
Edited by Michael Demson & Christopher R. Clason
Marcie Frank
Apr 2020 264pp, 9 b&w, 12 colour illustrations
Jan 2020 230pp 9781684481767 Paperback A$69.30
9781684481675 Paperback A$64.90 Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Transits: Literature, Thought &
Culture 1650-1850 A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that
propels them surfaced in Romantic literature in the late
Traces the migration of eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This book
tragicomedy, the comedy of is a collection of essays examining the rise of cultural
manners, and melodrama suspicion of all imitations of homo sapiens and similar
from the stage to the novel, machinery, as witnessed in the literature and arts of
offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the the time.
English novel that examines how the collaboration of
genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to WRITING LIVES IN
the modern organization of literature. THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY
PLAY IN THE AGE OF GOETHE
Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Edited by Tanya M. Caldwell
Play Around 1800
Sep 2020 264pp
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Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
Aug 2020 332pp
9781684482061 Paperback A$74.80 Offers a collection of essays
New Studies in the Age of Goethe on memoir, biography,
and autobiography during
Explores how the modern discourse of play was first a formative period for the
shaped during this pivotal period (approximately genre. The essays revolve
1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate critical around recognised male and
developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, female figures - returning to the Boswell and Burney
politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of circle - but present arguments that dismantle traditional
major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, privileging of biographical modes.
Kant, and Schiller.
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Literature 57
The Catholic University of America Press FURIOUSLY FUNNY
Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock
PARADISE LOST
A Primer Terrence T. Tucker
Michael Cavanagh Jan 2020 302pp
Edited by Scott Newstok 9780813068268 Paperback A$52.80
Mar 2020 256pp A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and
9780813232461 Paperback A$56.10 pain, wit and love - Terrence Tucker calls it “comic rage”,
and he shows how it has been used by African American
After surveying Milton’s artists to aggressively critique America’s racial divide.
recurrent struggle as a
reconciler of conflicting AN OLD FRENCH TRILOGY
ideals, this Primer undertakes Texts from the William of Orange Cycle
a book-by-book reading of
Paradise Lost, reviewing key Translated by Catherine M. Jones, William W. Kibler &
features of John Milton’s Logan E. Whalen
“various style,” and why we treasure that style.
Jul 2020 224pp
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CATHOLIC IRELAND
While most English-language readers are familiar with
Kieran Quinlan Old French epic poetry, or chansons de geste, through
the Song of Roland and its tale of gallant martyrdom,
Apr 2020 328pp this volume provides a broader and richer view of the
9780813232713 Hardback A$121.00 tradition by introducing songs devoted to the exploits
of a different sort of hero.
Starts from Heaney’s awareness in the new millennium
of “something far more important in my mental University of Georgia Press
formation than cultural nationalism or the British
presence or any of that stuff - namely, my early religious WILLIAM FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD
education.” The book then examines the full trajectory Screenwriting for the Studios
of Heaney’s religious beliefs as represented in his poetry,
prose, and interviews. Stefan Solomon
University Press of Florida May 2020 320pp, 19 b&w images
9780820357898 Paperback A$61.60
EDITH WHARTON AND THE MODERN The South on Screen Series
PRIVILEGES OF AGE
For full details of this title, see page 69.
Melanie V. Dawson
University of Iowa Press
Mar 2020 304pp
9780813066301 Hardback A$167.20 POETICS OF EMERGENCE
Affect and History in Postwar
Providing a counterpoint to readings of modern Experimental Poetry
American culture that focus on the cult of youth, Edith
Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age focuses on Benjamin Lee
representations of modern American identities past
early youth in twentieth-century literature. Jul 2020 190pp, 1 b&w photo
9781609386979 Paperback A$157.30
Contemporary North American Poetry
Experimental poetry responded to historical change
in the decades after World War II, with an attitude of
such casual and reckless originality that its insights
have often been overlooked. However, as Benjamin
Lee argues, to ignore them is to overlook a rich
resource for our own complicated transition into the
twenty-first century.
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58 Literature
LSU Press CHINESE WOMEN WRITERS ON
THE ENVIRONMENT
PERFORMING JANE A Multi-Ethnic Anthology of Fiction
A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom and Nonfiction
Sarah Glosson Dong Isbister, Xiumei Pu & Stephen D. Rachman
Jun 2020 256pp Jun 2020 222pp
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Jane Austen has resonated with readers across The stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer
generations like no other writer. More than two hundred readers a unique and generous array of women’s
years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, people experiences in China. In a world that is rapidly
continue to honour “dear Jane”. In Performing Jane, Sarah modernizing, these writings attempt to reconcile
Glosson explores this vibrant fandom, examining a long with the ever-changing people, plants, beasts
history of Austen fans engaging with her work. and environment.
University of Manitoba Press CYCLONE COUNTRY
The Language of Place and Disaster in
IN GOOD RELATION Australian Literature
History, Gender, and Kinship in
Indigenous Feminisms Chrystopher J. Spicer
Edited by Sarah Nickel & Amanda Fehr Sep 2020 181pp, photos
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Apr 2020 264pp, 12 illustrations
9780887558511 Paperback A$59.40 Explores the connections between people, place
and environment through the image of cyclones
Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous within fiction and poetry from the Australian state
feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous of Queensland, the northern coast of which is
women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism characterized by these devastating storms.
and patriarchy. Organized around the notion
of’generations,’ this collection brings into conversation HORROR LITERATURE FROM GOTHIC TO
new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, POST-MODERN
and experience. Critical Essays
McFarland Edited by Michele Brittany & Nicholas Diak
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J.K. Rowling’s Novels
From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror
Edited by Anne J. Mamary has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries.
This collection of essays takes in a range of topics,
Sep 2020 263pp, photos focusing on historic works and modern novels. Other
9781476681344 Paperback A$74.80 contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King,
Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster
This collection of essays on alchemical symbolism and mythology and picture books.
transformations in J.K. Rowling’s series demonstrates
how Harry’s work with magical objects, people, and SPECULATIONS OF WAR
creatures transfigure desire, power, and identity. Essays on Conflict in Science Fiction, Fantasy
and Utopian Literature
Edited by Annette M. Magid
Sep 2020 219pp
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Examining a variety of conflicts from the Civil War
through the post-9/11 era, this collection of new essays
explores philosophical introspection and futuristic
forecasting in science fiction and fantasy literature and
film, with a focus on the warlike nature of humanity.
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Mercer University Press THE UNKNOWN ODYSSEUS
Alternate Worlds in Homer’s Odyssey
SIGN LANGUAGE
Reading Flannery O’Connor’s Thomas Van Nortwick
Graphic Narrative
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Ruth Reiniche 9780472037797 Paperback A$46.20
May 2020 224pp Offers the most complete exploration to date of the
9780881467406 Hardback A$64.90 implications of Odysseus’ divided nature, showing how
it allows Homer to explore the riddles of human identity
Flannery O’Connor is unique in that she is not only in a profound way that is not usually recognized by
familiar with seventeenth-century emblematic studies focusing on only one “real” hero in the narrative.
representations of scriptural truth, but she is also
knowledgeable of the conventions of twentieth-century University Press of Mississippi
art forms.
University of Michigan Press BEYOND THE BLOCKBUSTERS
Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young
FOLLOWING CHAUCER Adult Fiction
Offices of the Active Life
Edited by Rebekah Fitzsimmons & Casey Alane Wilson
Lynn Staley
Apr 2020 240pp
Apr 2020 272pp 9781496827142 Paperback A$56.10
9780472131877 Hardback A$138.60 Children’s Literature Association Series
Uses Chaucer’s likely reading, circumstances, and literary While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-
and social affiliations as guides to understanding his first-century young adult literature has increased in
poetry, within the context of late medieval English recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have
culture and the reshaping of the concept of these remained static in focus and slight in scope. This volume
particular offices that suited the needs of a future whose offers a remedy, bringing together essays about the
dynamics he anticipated. many subgenres, themes, and character types that have
been overlooked.
KAFKA’S ZOOPOETICS CHILDREN’S BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN
Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier
Meghann Meeusen
Naama Harel
Jun 2020 192pp
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9780472131792 Hardback A$138.60 Children’s Literature Association Series
Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant Goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of
corpus within Kafka’s entire poetics, and closely comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and
examining them in dialogue with both literary and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films
posthumanist analysis, Kafka’s Zoopoetics critically for young viewers, Meeusen proposes a consistent trend
revisits animality, interspecies relations, and the very can be found in movies adapted from children’s and
human-animal contradistinction in the writings of young adult books.
Franz Kafka.
CONVERSATIONS WITH
LYRIC POETRY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
ARCHAIC GREECE
Edited by Daria Tunca
Jessica Romney
Aug 2020 240pp
Apr 2020 248pp 9781496829276 Paperback A$46.20
9780472131853 Hardback A$138.60 Literary Conversations Series
For full details of this title, see page 46. For full details of this title, see page 16.
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60 Literature
CONVERSATIONS WITH GRAHAM SWIFT RECONSIDERING FLANNERY O’CONNOR
Edited by Donald P. Kaczvinsky Edited by Alison Arant & Jordan Cofer
Afterword by Marshall Bruce Gentry
Jun 2020 176pp
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Literary Conversations Series 9781496831804 Paperback A$56.10
The first collection of interviews conducted with the Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery
author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. O’Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of
Beginning in 1985 with Swift’s arrival in New York to O’Connor studies while also circling back to some old
promote Waterland and concluding with an interview questions that are due for new attention.
from 2016 that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald,
the collection spans Swift’s more than thirty-five-year TABLE LANDS
career as a writer. Food in
Children’s Literature
IN FAULKNER’S SHADOW
A Memoir Scott T. Pollard &
Kara K. Keeling
Lawrence Wells
Jun 2020 208pp
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9781496829917 Hardback A$46.20 Children’s Literature
Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography Association Series
What happens when you marry into a family that Provides a survey of food’s
includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest function in children’s
American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence texts, showing how the
Wells, author of In Faulkner’s Shadow: A Memoir, fills this sociocultural contexts of
lively tale with stories that answer just that. food reveal children’s agency. Kara Keeling and Scott
Pollard examine texts that vary from historical to
NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS ON contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and Anglo-
TONI MORRISON’S GOD HELP THE CHILD American to multicultural traditions, including a variety
Race, Culture, and History of genres, formats, and audiences.
Edited by Alice Knox Eaton, Maxine Lavon Montgomery & TAKING FLIGHT
Shirley A. Stave Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad
Jul 2020 144pp Jennifer Donahue
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Jul 2020 160pp
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that offer a nuanced and insightful analysis of the Caribbean Studies Series
novel God Help the Child, interpreting it in relation to
Morrison’s earlier work as well as locating it within Examines the immigrant experience in contemporary
ongoing debates in literary and other academic Caribbean women’s writing and considers the effects
disciplines engaged with African American literature. of restrictive social mores. The works explored in
this volume draw attention to the racialization and
POSTHUMANISM IN YOUNG sexualization of black women’s bodies and continue
ADULT FICTION the legacy of narrating black women’s long-standing
Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World contestation of systems of oppression.
Edited by Anita Tarr & Donna R. White TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Game Shows in Fiction and Film
Jun 2020 314pp
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Children’s Literature Association Series
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relevance in young adult literature. Contributors explore
the democratization of power, body enhancements, For full details of this title, see page 72.
hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment,
by analysing recent works for young adults.
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Literature 61
The University of North Carolina Press HARRY POTTER AND BEYOND
On J.K. Rowling’s Fantasies and Other Fictions
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE’S IMPACT ON
MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE Tison Pugh
Five Essays
Jun 2020 192pp
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May 2020 152pp Explores J.K. Rowling’s beloved best-selling series and
9781469658186 Paperback A$40.70 its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions.
University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Along with the seven foundational novels of the Harry
Literature Potter series, this book assesses the extraordinary range
of supplementary material concerning the young wizard
These previously published essays discuss Nietzsche’s and his allies.
influence on Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim,
Georg Kaiser, Robert Musil, and Hermann Hesse. As UNDERSTANDING SUSAN SONTAG
a Festschrift, it also contains a tribute to Herbert W.
Reichert and a bibliography of his writings. Carl Rollyson
NOVALIS Mar 2020 152pp
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Mystic, Second Edition Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Frederick Hiebel In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not
only provides an introduction to her essays, novels,
Apr 2020 136pp plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work, since the
9780807888100 Paperback A$40.70 publication of her diaries, he now has a lens through
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Literature sense of her importance and impact.
Originally published in 1954, Hiebel’s Novalis is a critical UNDERSTANDING TRUMAN CAPOTE
evaluation of the life and works of Novalis, the German
Romantic poet. This book presents a fully rounded Thomas Fahy
picture of the man, the philosopher and scientist,
the writer, the mystic, and a commentary on one of Mar 2020 200pp
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intellectual life. Understanding Contemporary American Literature
The University of South Carolina Press Truman Capote - along with his most famous works In
Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s - continues to have
BODILY EVIDENCE a powerful hold over the popular imagination. Thomas
Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Fahy provides a new direction for Capote studies that
Novels of Toni Morrison offers a way to reconsider the author’s place in literary
criticism, the canon, and the classroom.
Geneva Cobb Moore
UNDERSTANDING
Apr 2020 110pp WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
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Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
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Cobb Moore explores how Morrison captures and Understanding Contemporary American Literature
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audio, film, and painting. Miller argues that Burroughs,
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HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
62 Literature
Victoria University Press IN FIFTEEN MINUTES YOU CAN SAY A LOT
ALL THE Greville Texidor
JUICY PASTURES
Greville Texidor and Feb 2020 304pp
New Zealand 9781776562268 Paperback A$37.40
Margot Schwass First published in 1987 and reissued for the first time,
In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say a Lot restores an essential
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Texidor’s extraordinary ISLANDER
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ALL WHO LIVE ON ISLANDS sea and distance, and the returning tides of Scotland,
the archipelagos of New Zealand and the islands of
Rose Lu Oceania.” - Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature,
University of Glasgow
Apr 2020 224pp
9781776562893 Paperback A$37.40 University of Virginia Press
Introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. LOVE AND DEPTH IN THE
In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu AMERICAN NOVEL
takes us through personal history to explore friendship, From Stowe to James
the weight of stories told and not told about diverse
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Geoff Cochrane Seeks to change how we think about the American
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from one of the most memorable voices in New
Zealand poetry.
THE BURNING RIVER
Lawrence Patchett
Apr 2020 336pp
9781776562237 Paperback A$37.40
In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van’s
life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau
and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive.
When a young visitor summons him to the fenced
settlement on the hill, he is offered a new and
frightening responsibility.
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LiteratureY • COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
NEOLIBERAL NONFICTIONS COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion
to Jay-Z McFarland
Daniel Worden APOCALYPTIC ECOLOGY IN THE
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Apr 2020 200pp, 19 colour illustrations, 3 b&w illustrations Life and the Environment After
9780813944166 Paperback A$55.00 Societal Collapse
Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
Clint Jones
With the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American
culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures May 2020 169pp
governing private lives became more opaque 9781476668567 Paperback A$74.80
and obscure. This book argues that a new style of
documentary art emerged to articulate the fissures By carefully examining the narratives and artistic
between individual experience and reality in the era of renderings of the environmental apocalypse in some
finance capitalism. of the most popular contemporary graphic novels, the
author makes an argument against dystopian hope,
VICTORIANS ON BROADWAY arguing that the ways through which we experience
Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern depictions of apocalypse shape how we respond to real
American Musical environmental crises.
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman LEIJI MATSUMOTO
Essays on the Manga and Anime Legend
Jun 2020 328pp, 10 b&w illustrations
9780813944326 Paperback A$69.30 Edited by Helen McCarthy & Darren-Jon Ashmore
For full details of this title, see page 79. Sep 2020 206pp, 60 photos
9781476679969 Paperback A$83.60
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
This collection of new essays - the first book on
LITERATURES, COMMUNITIES, Matsumoto in English - covers his seven decades of
AND LEARNING comic creation, drawing on contemporary scholarship,
Conversations with Indigenous Writers artistic practice and fan studies to map Matsumoto’s
vast universe. The contributors mirror the range of his
Aubrey Jean Hanson work and experience.
May 2020 200pp
9781771124492 Hardback A$121.00
Indigenous Studies
Gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers
about the relationship between Indigenous literatures
and learning, and how their writing relates to
communities. Relevant, reflexive, and critical, these
conversations explore the pressing topic of Indigenous
writings and its importance to the well-being of
Indigenous peoples.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
64 Literature • COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
University Press of Mississippi MONSTROUS WOMEN IN COMICS
COMICS AND ADAPTATION Edited by Samantha Langsdale & Elizabeth Rae Coody
Edited by Benoît Mitaine, David Roche & May 2020 256pp, 35 b&w illustrations
Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot 9781496827630 Paperback A$56.10
Translated by Aarnoud Rommens Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series
Apr 2020 246pp, 35 b&w illustrations Explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how
9781496828187 Paperback A$56.10 the monster as dangerously evocative of women/
femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection
Both comics studies and adaptation studies have grown of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.
separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are
few in-depth studies of comic books and adaptations MS. MARVEL’S AMERICA
together. Available for the first time in English, this No Normal
collection pores over the phenomenon of comic books
and adaptation, sifting through comics as both sources Edited by Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid
and results of adaptation.
Mar 2020 256pp, 20 b&w illustrations
CRITICAL DIRECTIONS IN COMICS STUDIES 9781496827012 Paperback A$56.10
Edited by Thomas Giddens Brings together scholars from a range of disciplines including
literature, cultural studies, religious studies, pedagogy, and
Sep 2020 320pp, 63 illustrations communications to engage with a single character, exploring
9781496829009 Paperback A$56.10 Ms. Marvel’s significance for a broad readership.
In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of TOXIC MASCULINITY
disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes
and form as well as the wider economic and political
contexts of comics’ creation and reception. Edited by Esther De Dauw & Daniel J. Connell
GRAPHIC INDIGENEITY Sep 2020 176pp, 19 illustrations
Comics in the Americas and Australasia 9781496828941 Paperback A$56.10
Frederick Luis Aldama The superhero permeates popular culture from comic
books to film and television to internet memes,
Jun 2020 400pp, 104 b&w illustrations merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinity asks what
9781496828026 Paperback A$56.10 kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of
the unbalanced amount of attention.
Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines
light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled
and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences.
This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are
themselves clearing new visual-verbal narrative spaces for
articulating more complex histories, and narratives of self.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES 65
LITERATURE • COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Media & Communication
WITH GREAT POWER COMES MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
GREAT PEDAGOGY
Teaching, Learning, and Comics Hoover Institution Press
Edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia & Peter E. Carlson THREE TWEETS TO MIDNIGHT
Effects of the Global Information Ecosystem
Feb 2020 240pp, 23 b&w illustrations on the Risk of Nuclear Conflict
9781496826053 Paperback A$56.10
Edited by Herbert S. Lin, Benjamin Loehrke &
For full details of this title, see page 29. Harold A. Trinkunas
Naval Institute Press Apr 2020 248pp
9780817923358 Paperback A$35.20
New from Dead Reckoning
For full details of this title, see page 84.
ATLAS AT WAR
LSU Press
Edited by Michael Vassallo & Allan Harvey
FAKE NEWS!
Sep 2020 272pp Misinformation in the Media
9781682474709 Hardback A$121.00
Edited by Josh Grimm
For full details of this title, see page 50. Foreword by Leonard Apcar
GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE Jun 2020 240pp
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Tsushima Jutland Midway Media and Public Affairs
Jean-Yves Delitte & Giuseppe Baiguera Gathers a range of critical approaches to provide an
essential resource for readers, students, and teachers
Oct 2020 176pp interested in understanding this ever-present feature
9781682475249 Paperback A$46.20 of today’s media and political landscape. This volume
offers a wide-ranging and accessible discussion of
For full details of this title, see page 50. debates central to the current post-truth era.
THE STRINGBAGS Lynne Rienner Publishers
Garth Ennis AUTOCRACY AND RESISTANCE IN THE
Drawings by P. J. Holden INTERNET AGE
May 2020 192pp Rachel Vanderhill
9781682475034 Hardback A$51.70
Aug 2020 290pp
For full details of this title, see page 50. 9781626378995 Hardback A$167.20
Rutgers University Press For full details of this title, see page 84.
COMICS STUDIES
A Guidebook
Edited by Charles Hatfield & Bart Beaty
Jun 2020 274pp, 28 colour images
9780813591414 Paperback A$64.90
Offers a rich but concise introduction to this
multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in
multiple disciplines. The book opens diverse entryways
to comics studies, including history, form, audiences,
genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
66 Media & Communication
University of Massachusetts Press River Publishers
CONSTRUCTING THE OUTBREAK MICROCONTROLLER AND SMART
Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory HOME NETWORKS
Katherine A. Foss Dawoud Shenouda Dawoud & Peter Dawoud
Sep 2020 232pp May 2020 350pp
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River Publishers Series in Communications
Demonstrates how news reporting on epidemics
communicates more than just information about For full details of this title, see page 117.
pathogens; rather, prejudices, political agendas, religious
beliefs, and theories of disease also shape the message. Rutgers University Press
University of Michigan Press INDIE CINEMA ONLINE
SOUND STREAMS Sarah E.S. Sinwell
A Cultural History of
Radio-Internet Convergence Aug 2020 186pp
9781978814691 Paperback A$51.70
Andrew J Bottomley
For full details of this title, see page 73.
Jun 2020 336pp
9780472054497 Paperback A$92.40 RADIO’S SECOND CENTURY
Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
The first book to historicize radio-internet convergence
from the early’90s through the present, demonstrating Edited by John Allen Hendricks
how so-called new media represent an evolutionary
shift that is nevertheless historically consistent with Mar 2020 270pp
earlier modes of broadcasting. 9780813598468 Paperback A$74.80
A TUMBLR BOOK One of the first books to examine the status of
Platform and Cultures broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary,
Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard
Allison McCracken et al and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present,
and future.
Nov 2020 384pp, 96 illustrations
9780472054565 Paperback A$83.60
Takes an extensive look at the many different types of
users and cultures that comprise the popular social media
platform Tumblr. The book contains work from over 60
contributors and includes more than 80 illustrations and
three colour galleries, honoring Tumblr’s identity as a
heavily image-based social network.
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Media & Communication • VIDEO GAMES
Southern Illinois University Press VIDEO GAMES
GILBERT AUSTIN’S “CHIRONOMIA” LSU Press
REVISITED
Sympathy, Science, and the Representation INTERSECTIONAL TECH
of Movement Black Users in Digital Gaming
Sara Newman & Sigrid Streit Kishonna L. Gray
Foreword by Anita Sarkeesian
Apr 2020 256pp, 31 illustrations
9780809337675 Paperback A$83.60 Sep 2020 224pp
Rhetoric in the Modern Era 9780807174555 Paperback A$56.10
The first book-length study of Irish educator, clergyman, Examines blackness in gaming at the intersections
and author Gilbert Austin as an elocutionary rhetor of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating
investigates how his work informs contemporary her argument within the context of Gamergate and
scholarship on delivery, rhetorical history and theory, the Black Lives Matter movement, Kishonna Gray
and embodied communication. highlights the inescapable chains that bind marginalized
populations to stereotypical frames and limited
Teachers College Press narratives in video games.
WHY TAKE MEDIA SERIOUSLY? Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Key Concepts for Understanding Popular
Culture and Media Messaging AFFORDANCE THEORY IN GAME DESIGN
A Guide Toward Understanding Players
Ozlem Sensoy
Hamna Aslam & Joseph Alexander Brown
Jul 2020 192pp
9780807761502 Paperback A$64.90 Mar 2020 270pp
9781681737522 Paperback A$74.80
For full details of this title, see page 34. Synthesis Lectures on Games and Computational Intelligence
Wits University Press A playtest requires an intensive experimental process
and scientific protocols to ensure that the outcomes
TELL OUR STORY seen are reliable for the designer. Playtesting and
Multiplying Voices in the News Media players’ affordances are the focus of this book. The
book is not just about the playtest procedures but
Julie Reid & Dale T McKinley also demonstrates how they lead to the conclusions
obtained when considering data sets.
May 2020 216pp
9781776145775 Paperback A$37.40 Rutgers University Press
Investigates the problem of disproportionate media SIMULATING GOOD AND EVIL
representation and offers a hands-on demonstration of The Morality and Politics of Videogames
listening journalism and research in practice to promote
a more active engagement between journalists and Marcus Schulzke
local communities.
Sep 2020 232pp
9781978818569 Paperback A$56.10
Shows that the moral panic surrounding violent
videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically
motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally
important. Simulated actions are morally defensible
because they take place outside the real world and do
not inflict real harms.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
68 Performing Arts • DANCE
PERFORMING ARTS PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN DANCE
The Twentieth Century
DANCE
Edited by Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer &
University Press of Florida Tricia Henry Young
HOWLING NEAR HEAVEN Apr 2020 358pp, 39 b&w illustrations
Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern 9780813068251 Paperback A$59.40
Dance, Second Edition
The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus
Marcia B. Siegel exclusively on American dance practices across a
wide span of American culture. This volume and its
May 2020 368pp, 41 b&w illustrations companion show how social experience, courtship,
9780813068145 Paperback A$56.10 sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are
translated through dancing into spatial patterns,
For more than five decades, Twyla Tharp has been a gestures, and partner relationships.
phenomenon in American dance, a choreographer who
not only broke the rules but refused to repeat her own McFarland
successes. Howling Near Heaven is the only in-depth
study of Twyla Tharp’s unique, restless creativity. This DANIEL LEWIS
second edition features a new foreword. A Life in Choreography and the Art of Dance
MOVING LESSONS Donna H. Krasnow & Daniel E. Lewis
Margaret H’Doubler and the Beginning of
Dance in American Education, Second Edition May 2020 197pp, 60 photos
9781476681917 Paperback A$74.80
Janice L. Ross
Daniel Lewis’s legacy as a hugely influential
May 2020 336pp, 45 b&w illustrations choreographer and teacher of modern dance is
9780813068152 Paperback A$56.10 celebrated in this biography. It showcases the many
roles he played in the dance world by organising his
Offers an insightful look at the origins and influence of story around various aspects of his work. The book also
dance in American universities, focusing on Margaret offers rarely seen photographs and interviews.
H’Doubler, who established the first university courses
and the first degree program in dance. Janice Ross shows University Press of Mississippi
how H’Doubler changed the way Americans thought,
not just about female physicality but also about higher CARNIVAL IS WOMAN
education for women. Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas
PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN DANCE Edited by Frances Henry & Dwaine Plaza
The New Millennium
Feb 2020 210pp, 23 b&w illustrations
Edited by Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer & 9781496825452 Paperback A$56.10
Tricia Henry Young Caribbean Studies Series
Jun 2020 290pp, 21 b&w illustrations For full details of this title, see page 101.
9780813068299 Paperback A$56.10
DANCING MAN
The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey
exclusively on American dance practices across a
wide span of American culture. This volume and its Bob Avian, with Tom Santopietro
companion show how social experience, courtship,
sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are Feb 2020 240pp, 35 b&w illustrations
translated through dancing into spatial patterns, 9781496825889 Hardback A$52.80
gestures, and partner relationships.
Tony and Olivier Award-winning Bob Avian’s dazzling
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shocking, and always entertaining. Here at last is the
ultimate up-close and personal insider’s view from a
front row seat at the creation of the biggest, brightest,
and best Broadway musicals of the past fifty years.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Performing Arts • FILM & TV 69
FILM & TV University of Georgia Press
Academic Studies Press WILLIAM FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD
Screenwriting for the Studios
CINEMASAURUS
Russian Film in Contemporary Context Stefan Solomon
Edited by Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov & May 2020 320pp, 19 b&w images
Elena Prokhorova 9780820357898 Paperback A$61.60
The South on Screen Series
Apr 2020 310pp, 45 illustrations
9781644692714 Paperback A$64.90 The scripts that William Faulkner wrote for film - and,
Film and Media Studies later on, television - constitute an extensive and, until
now, thoroughly underexplored archival source. Stefan
Examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual Solomon not only analyses the majority of these scripts
economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet but compares them to the novels and short stories
collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Faulkner was writing at the same time.
Russian and US public festivals where the films have
premiered, the volume’s contributors examine four McFarland
issues of Russia’s transition.
ANN MILLER
University Press of Florida Her Life and Career
THE NEW BRAZILIAN Peter Shelley
MEDIASCAPE
Television Production Jul 2020 185pp, 25 photos
in the Digital 9781476679259 Paperback A$74.80
Streaming Age
Ann Miller (1923-2004) was
Eli Lee Carter an American actress, dancer,
singer and author. Best
Jul 2020 240pp, 9 b&w illustrations known as a tap dancer, Miller
9781683401834 Hardback A$157.30 practiced other forms of
Reframing Media, Technology, and dance, and some of her solo
Culture in Latin/o America routines are considered as
good as any recorded in film
Explores the ways in which musical history. This biography presents Ann Miller’s
the movement away career in the context of her fascinating life.
from historically popular
telenovelas toward new television and internet series is BRITISH THRILLERS, 1950-1979
creating dramatic shifts in how Brazil imagines itself as 845 Films of Suspense, Mystery, Murder
a nation, especially within the context of an increasingly and Espionage
connected global mediascape.
Franz Antony Clinton
Oct 2020 397pp, 140 photos
9780786410323 Paperback A$138.60
For the first time, the extensive output of British thrillers
from 1950 to 1979 is covered in one volume - a detailed
reference suitable for film scholars and casual browsing.
Themed chapters cover a total of 845 films including
spy thrillers, mystery thrillers, psychological thrillers,
action-adventure thrillers, and crime thrillers.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
70 Performing Arts • FILM & TV
CHRISTOPHER LEE AND PETER CUSHING EXPLORING STAR TREK: VOYAGER
AND HORROR CINEMA Critical Essays
A Revised and Expanded Filmography
of Their Terrifying Collaborations, Edited by Robert L. Lively
Second Edition
Apr 2020 238pp
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Apr 2020 366pp, 110 photos In 1995, Star Trek: Voyager brought a new dynamic to
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essays interrogate the context, characters, and themes
From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the of Star Trek: Voyager, as they relate to the culture and
Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee zeitgeist of the 1990s.
and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful
collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER’S GUIDE
expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 TO THE NEW HOLLYWOOD
movie team-ups. Success in the Era of Netflix and
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DISCOVERING KUBRICK’S SYMBOLISM
The Secrets of the Films Gabriel Campisi
Nicole M. Berg Aug 2020 132pp, 30 photos
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Jul 2020 196pp, 20 photos
9781476680491 Paperback A$74.80 Featuring exclusive interviews with some of the
industry’s most prolific filmmakers and executives,
Bringing to light the long-shrouded symbolism and this book dives into the trenches of Hollywood to
startling spiritual depth that renowned director Stanley provide readers with the knowledge necessary to
Kubrick packed into every detail of his iconic films, rethink the business, see past the turmoil, recognise
this book excavates the subtle ways that Kubrick calls the new opportunities, and take advantage of exciting
attention to universal truths and shocking realities still new possibilities.
pervading our society.
KARLOFF AND THE EAST
DON’T GO UPSTAIRS! Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian
A Room-by-Room Tour of the House in Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career
Horror Movies
Scott Allen Nollen & Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen
Cleaver Patterson
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Based on extensive new research, this biography and
Guiding readers through a selection of prime movie career study of Boris Karloff’s “eastern” films provides
real estate, this book explores how homes come to a critical examination of 41 features, including many
life in horror with an analysis of more than sixty films, overlooked early roles, and offers fresh perspective on a
including interviews and insights from filmmakers and cinematic luminary so often labelled a “horror icon”.
scholars, along with with many rare stills.
THE LANDSCAPES OF WESTERN MOVIES
EXCAVATING INDIANA JONES A History of Filming on Location, 1900-1970
Essays on the Films and Franchise
Jeremy Agnew
Edited by Randy Laist
Jul 2020 189pp, 35 photos
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9781476676920 Paperback A$74.80
Chronicles the history of filming Westerns on location,
Despite the longevity and popularity of the Indiana from shooting on the East Coast in the early 1900s;
Jones franchise, it has rarely been the focus of sustained through the use of locations in Utah, Arizona, and
criticism. In this book, scholars analyse Indiana Jones California in the 1940s and 1950s; and filming Westerns in
tales from a variety of perspectives, examining the films’ Mexico, Spain, and other parts of the world in the 1960s.
representation of history, cultural politics, and identity,
and also tracing the adaptation of the franchise.
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Performing Arts • FILM & TV
MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS University Press of Mississippi
ON TELEVISION
Representation Versus Reality THE BAD SIXTIES
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture,
Kimberley McMahon-Coleman Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
Jul 2020 157pp Kristen Hoerl
9781476672151 Paperback A$74.80
Jan 2020 242pp
In past decades portrayals of mental illness on TV were 9781496826305 Paperback A$56.10
limited to psychotic criminals or comical sidekicks. As Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
public awareness of mental illness has increased so too
have its depictions on the small screen. Drawing on Focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s activism
interviews with people living with mental illness, this in popular television and film. Kristen Hoerl shows
book traces these shifts, placing on-screen depictions how Hollywood has perpetuated politics deploring the
in context. detrimental consequences of the 1960s on traditional
American values.
SEX, DEATH AND RESURRECTION IN
ALTERED CARBON BLAKE EDWARDS
Essays on the Netflix Series Interviews
Edited by Aldona Kobus & Lukasz Muniowski Edited by Gabriella Oldham
Feb 2020 168pp Feb 2020 190pp
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Conversations with
The 2018 series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to Filmmakers Series
the cyberpunk renaissance. This collection asks if the
increasing popularity of cyberpunk a sign of recognition Highlights how Blake
of the genre’s transgressive aspects, such as a stark Edwards created the
critique of capitalism, or the opposite: a sign of the hugely successful Pink
genre’s failure to successfully criticize modernity? Panther franchise; his long
partnership with award-
SEXUALITIES IN THE winning composer Henry
WORKS OF Mancini; his principles of comedy as influenced by the
JOSS WHEDON comic greats of film history, especially silent comedies;
his marriage and film collaborations with Julie Andrews;
Lewis Call and his unique philosophy of life.
May 2020 202pp CHILDREN’S BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN
9781476675060 Paperback A$74.80
Worlds of Whedon Meghann Meeusen
Joss Whedon’s works, Jun 2020 192pp
across all media including 9781496828651 Paperback A$56.10
television, film, musicals, Children’s Literature Association Series
and comic books, are known
for their commitment to For full details of this title, see page 59.
gender and sexual equality.
This book is a history of the sexualities represented in CLAUDE CHABROL
the works of Joss Whedon and covers all of Whedon’s Interviews
genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction,
westerns, and superhero stories. Edited by Christopher Beach
Dec 2019 225pp
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Conversations with Filmmakers Series
The seventeen interviews in this volume, most of which
have been translated into English for the first time, offer
new insights into Claude Chabrol’s remarkably wide-
ranging filmography, providing a sense of his attitudes
and ideas about a number of subjects.
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72 Performing Arts • FILM & TV
COLD WAR II TROUBLING MASCULINITIES
Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in
American Film Post-9/11
Edited by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Glen Donnar
Dec 2020 272pp
9781496831101 Paperback A$56.10 Jul 2020 264pp, 53 b&w illustrations
9781496828583 Paperback A$56.10
In recent years, Hollywood cinema has forwarded
a growing number of images of the Cold War and Offers the first multigenre study of representations of
entertained a return to memories of conflicts between masculinity following the emergence of violent terror
the USSR and the US, Russians and Americans, and as a plot element in American cinema after September
communism and capitalism. Cold War II explores 11, 2001. Glen Donnar examines the impact of
the reasons for this sudden renewed interest in the “terror-Others”, from Arab terrorists to giant monsters,
Cold War. especially in relation to cinematic representations in
earlier periods of turmoil.
MARGARETHE VON TROTTA
Interviews TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Game Shows in Fiction and Film
Edited by Monika Raesch
Mike Miley
Mar 2020 186pp
9781496828132 Paperback A$46.20 Feb 2020 288pp, 39 b&w illustrations
Conversations with Filmmakers Series 9781496825384 Hardback A$183.70
Presents twenty illuminating interviews with Seeks to broaden the conversation about game shows
Margarethe von Trotta. Spanning three decades, from by studying how they are represented in fiction and
the mid-1980s until today, the interviews reveal not film. By studying over two dozen works of fiction and
only von Trotta’s life in the film industry, but also film, Truth and Consequences argues that game shows
evolving roles of and opportunities provided to women offer a deeper understanding of modern-day America, a
over that time period. land where a game-show host can become president.
MICHAEL HANEKE The University of North Carolina Press
Interviews
WHITE BALANCE
Edited by Roy Grundmann, Fatima Naqvi & Colin Root How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology
and Undermined Civil Rights
Jun 2020 224pp
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Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Jun 2020 272pp, 23 illustrations
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interviews to English speakers. The volume features Studies in United States Culture
seventeen articles, fourteen of which have been
translated into English for the first time, and all of which In the decades after the civil rights movement, the
provide a detailed, eloquent commentary on his films ideology of colorblindness co-opted the language of
and worldview. the civil rights era in order to reinvent white supremacy.
The key to this shift, Justin Gomer contends, was film
SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! - Hollywood provided the visual medium necessary to
Experiencing Friday the 13th dramatize an anti-civil rights agenda over the course of
the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
Wickham Clayton
Oct 2020 256pp, 64 b&w illustrations
9781496830326 Paperback A$56.10
The Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most
successful horror film franchises in history. In SEE! HEAR!
CUT! KILL!, Wickham Clayton explores several aspects
of the films including how the technical aspects relate
to the audience, their influence on filmmaking, and the
cultural impact of the franchise
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Performing Arts • FILM & TV
Rutgers University Press FILMS OF BONG JOON-HO
ALTERNATIVE REALITIES Nam Lee
Carl Plantinga Sep 2020 254pp, 10 b&w images
9781978818903 Paperback A$56.10
Dec 2020 114pp Global Film Directors
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Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture For full details of this title, see page 16.
Explores the intersection between movies, reality, HOLLYWOOD DIPLOMACY
and fantasy; between subjective and objective Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and
representation. The book shows that surreal fantasies East Asian Representations
ground their images, sounds, and narratives in
quotidian reality. On the other hand, even the most Hye Seung Chung
realistic documentaries rely on creative structures that
are products of the human imagination. Feb 2020 227pp, 25 b&w photos
9781978801554 Paperback A$61.60
CINEMA ’62
The Greatest Year at Argues that images of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
the Movies ethnicities have long been contested sites where the
commercial interests of Hollywood studios and the
Stephen Farber & political mandates of US foreign policy collide, compete
Michael McClellan against one another, and often become compromised in
the process.
Feb 2020 270pp, 40 b&w photos
9781978808829 Hardback A$64.90 INDIE CINEMA ONLINE
Most conventional film Sarah E.S. Sinwell
histories dismiss the early
1960s as a pallid era, a Aug 2020 186pp
downtime between the 9781978814691 Paperback A$51.70
heights of the classic studio
system and the rise of New Investigates the changing nature of independent
Hollywood. Cinema ’62 challenges these assumptions cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on
by making the bold claim that 1962 was a peak year for the ways in which modes of production, distribution,
film, with a high standard of quality that has not been and exhibition are shifting with the advent of online
equalled since. streaming, simultaneous release strategies, and web
series, this book analyses online spaces as a means of
DAMSELS AND DIVAS redefining independent cinema.
European Stardom in Silent Hollywood
PLANET AUSCHWITZ
Agata Frymus Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction
and Horror Film and Television
Apr 2020 260pp, 23 b&w photos, 7 colour photos
9781978806085 Paperback A$64.90 Brian E. Crim
Investigates the meanings of Europeanness in May 2020 280pp, 15 b&w images
Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional 9781978801608 Paperback A$69.30
trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma
Bánky and Jetta Goudal. The book provides a thorough Explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust
understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and influences science fiction and horror film and TV by
Goudal were understood within the realm of their focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty
contemporary American culture. years. The book explores why the Holocaust continues
to set the standard for horror in the modern era and
asks if the Holocaust is imaginable here on Earth, why
not in a galaxy far, far away?
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
74 Performing Arts • FILM & TV
POST-COMMUNIST MALAISE Wayne State University Press
Cinematic Responses to European Integration
THE CONSTRUCTION OF TESTIMONY
Zoran Samardzija Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes
May 2020 212pp Edited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager &
9780813587141 Paperback A$56.10 Markus Zisselsberger
Media Matters
Apr 2020 492pp, 40 b&w illustrations
Focuses on how select cinemas from Eastern Europe 9780814347348 Paperback A$69.30
and the Balkans critique the neoliberal integration of Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Europe whose failures fuel the rise of nationalism and
right-wing politics. By politicizing art cinema from the Explores how Shoah fundamentally changed the nature
regions, this book asks fundamental questions about and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork
film, aesthetics, and ideology. for how historians and documentarians understand
the history of the Holocaust. Contributors reexamine
SPORTS MOVIES the impact of Shoah through a trove of previously
unavailable and unexplored footage.
Lester D. Friedman
TWIN PEAKS
Apr 2020 198pp
9780813599861 Paperback A$34.10 Julie Grossman & Will Scheibel
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Feb 2020 122pp
Describes the traditional formulas that have made 9780814346228 Paperback A$37.40
sports movies such crowd-pleasers, including stock TV Milestones Series
figures like the disgraced athlete on a quest for
redemption, or the wise old coaches who help mentor Takes fans through the world that Mark Frost and David
the heroes to victory. Lester Friedman also explores how Lynch created and examines its impact on society,
the genre’s attitudes have changed over time. genre, and the television industry. Grossman and
Scheibel explore the influences of melodrama and film
Syracuse University Press noir, the significance around the idea of “home,” as well
as female trauma and agency.
PERSPECTIVES ON CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND
Nuanced Postnetwork Television
Edited by Amanda Konkle & Charles Burnetts
Nov 2020 260pp
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Television and Popular Culture
Focusing on themes of feminism, gender identity, and
mental health, contributors explore the ways in which
the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend challenged viewer
expectations, as well as the role television critics play in
identifying a show’s “authenticity” or quality.
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Performing Arts • MUSIC
MUSIC LSU Press
Academica Press THE PLEASURES
OF DEATH
SPEAKING OF WAGNER Kurt Cobain’s
Talking to Audiences about The Ring of Masochistic and
the Nibelung Melancholic Persona
William Berger Arthur Flannigan Saint-Aubin
Apr 2020 160pp Dec 2020 296pp
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Compiles in a new and highly accessible format As the first academic
celebrated author, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera study that provides
commentator William Berger’s collection of talks a literary analysis of
and presentations about Richard Wagner, the most Kurt Cobain’s creative
controversial, and perhaps the most widely influential, writings, Arthur Flannigan
artist in history. Saint-Aubin’s The Pleasures of Death approaches the
journals and songs crafted by Nirvana’s iconic front
University of Iowa Press man from the perspective of cultural theory and
psychoanalytic aesthetics.
JOHNNY CASH INTERNATIONAL
How and Why Fans Love the Man in Black McFarland
Michael Hinds & Jonathan Silverman CAL TJADER
The Life and Recordings of the Man Who
Jun 2020 270pp, 12 b&w photos Revolutionized Latin Jazz, Second Edition
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Fandom & Culture S. Duncan Reid
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the individuals who comprise them, profiling their 9781476671345 Paperback A$102.30
relationships to Cash and each other. Studying Johnny
Cash’s international fans and their love for the man Within one of the most complex musical categories yet
reveals new insights about music, fandom, and the to surface, Cal Tjader quietly pioneered the genre as a
United States. jazz vibraphonist, composer, arranger and bandleader
from the 1950s to the 1980s. Reid tells the life story of
Libri Publishing a humble musician, written in a conversational tone
that reveals the friendship they shared and the complex
ELVIS PRESLEY charisma of Tjader.
Stories Behind the Songs,Volume Two
THE FIRST OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN AND
Matt Shepherd NEW YORK’S GOLDEN AGE OF THEATER
AND MUSIC
Jul 2020 24pp
9781912969111 Paperback A$24.20 Adolph S. Tomars
This second volume begins 60 years ago when Elvis Apr 2020 211pp, photos
Presley returns from the army, wondering if he still has 9780786496150 Paperback A$83.60
a career and massive fan base after being away for two
years.He needn’t have worried himself, the fans lapped Oscar Hammerstein I came to New York in the 1860s, a
up his new and more ambitious recordings. Prussian runaway, made a fortune and turned his efforts
Redshank Books to theatre. Throughout the Gay Nineties and early 20th
century, the greatest performers in the world were billed
at his houses. This biography recounts the heyday of
Hammerstein’s daring and masterful productions
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76 Performing Arts • MUSIC
POPULAR MUSIC IN THE CLASSROOM University of Michigan Press
Essays for Instructors
RHYMES IN THE FLOW
Edited by David Whitt How Rappers Flip the Beat
Apr 2020 203pp Macklin Smith & Aurko Joshi
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Apr 2020 304pp, 20 illustrations
For full details of this title, see page 29. 9780472053896 Paperback A$74.80
WOMEN IN JAMAICAN MUSIC Analyses the poetics (rap beats, rhythms, rhymes,
verse and song structures) of 6,000 lines of rap lyrics to
Heather Augustyn provide new insights on rap artistry and performance.
While most scholarship on rap has focused on its
May 2020 242pp, 20 photos historical and cultural dimensions, this book traces rap’s
9781476680958 Paperback A$74.80 deepest roots and stylistic evolution and contextualizes
its complex poetics.
As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once
famously sang, “half the story has never been told.” WHAT IS POST-PUNK?
This book covers the female contribution to Jamaican Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular
music and its subgenres through dozens of interviews Music, 1977-82
with vocalists, instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers,
deejays and supporters of the arts. Mimi Haddon
Mercer University Press Mar 2020 240pp, 15 illustrations
9780472131822 Hardback A$129.80
REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY
Reflections on Hymns by Isaac Watts Combines a close reading of the late-1970s music press
discourse with musical analyses and theories of identity
David W. Music to unpack post-punk’s status as a genre. Mimi Haddon
traces the discursive foundations of post-punk and
Nov 2020 200pp presents case studies of bands including Wire, PiL, Joy
9780881467697 Hardback A$64.90 Division, the Raincoats, and Pere Ubu.
For full details of this title, see page 92.
University Press of Mississippi
DAMAGED
Musicality and Race in Early American Punk
Evan Rapport
Dec 2020 352pp, 20 b&w illustrations, 25 musical examples
9781496831224 Paperback A$56.10
American Made Music Series
Offers the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical
style with an emphasis on how punk developed in
relation to changing ideas of race in American society
from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The book
provides fresh interpretations of race and American
society during this period and illuminates the
contemporary importance of that era.
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Performing Arts • MUSIC
GROOVE THEORY SWEET BITTER BLUES
The Blues Washington, DC’s Homemade Blues
Foundation of Funk
Phil Wiggins & Frank Matheis
Tony Bolden Foreword by Elijah Wald
Nov 2020 256pp Jan 2020 272pp, 50 b&w illustrations
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American Made Music Series American Made Music Series
Presents an innovative Depicts the life and times of harmonica player
history of funk music Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene
focused on the performers, around him. Featuring Wiggins’s story, but including
regarding them as information on many musicians, the volume presents
intellectuals who fashioned an incomparable documentary of the African American
a new aesthetic. Utilizing blues scene in Washington, DC, from 1975 to
musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and the present.
African American intellectual history, Tony Bolden
explores what it means for music, or any cultural University of New Mexico Press
artifact, to be funky.
DREAMS UNREAL
THE LAST SEAT IN The Genesis of
THE HOUSE the Psychedelic
The Story of Rock Poster
Hanley Sound
Titus O’Brien
John Kane Foreword by
Foreword by Ken Lopez Scott B. Montgomery
Preface by Andrew Connors
Dec 2019 560pp, 50 b&w illustrations
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Examines Bill Hanley’s For full details of this title, see page 17.
echoing impact on the The Albuquerque Museum
entire field of sound
engineering, that crucial but The University of North Carolina Press
often-overlooked carrier wave of contemporary music.
Hanley’s innovations founded the sound reinforcement I DON’T LIKE THE BLUES
industry and launched a new area of technology, rich Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life
with clarity and intelligibility.
B. Brian Foster
SOUL OF THE MAN
Bobby “Blue” Bland Dec 2020 200pp
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Charles Farley
In this illuminating work, B. Brian Foster takes us where
Jan 2020 330pp, 18 b&w photos not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the
9781496828149 Paperback A$46.20 homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds
American Made Music Series of black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what
they have to say about the blues and all that has come
Bobby “Blue” Bland’s captivating live performances about since their forebears first sang them.
helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into
urban clubs and upscale theatres. Soul of the Man relates
how Bland, along with B.B. King, and other members of
the “Beale Streeters”, forged a new electrified blues style
in Memphis in the early 1950s.
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78 Performing Arts • MUSIC
WHOSE BLUES? The University of the West Indies Press
Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music
DANCEHALL
Adam Gussow A Reader on Jamaican
Music and Culture
Oct 2020 250pp, 30 illustrations
9781469660363 Paperback A$52.80 Edited by
Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor,
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blues tradition’s major writers, and grounded in his
first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Contextualizes the
Gussow’s thought-provoking book kickstarts a long emergence of the
overdue conversation. dancehall genre, while
tracing the complex
University of North Texas Press and often contradictory
aspects of its evolution,
CONDUCTING OPERA dispersion and politics. This collection of foundational
Where Theater Meets Music essays places dancehall in context with cutting-edge
analyses of performance modes and expression, genre
Joseph Rescigno development, and impact on the wider struggles.
May 2020 336pp, 25 b&w illustrations Victoria University Press
9781574417937 Hardback A$56.10
DEAD PEOPLE I
Discusses operas in the standard repertory from the HAVE KNOWN
perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience
performing them. The book focuses on Joseph Shayne Carter
Rescigno’s approach to performing these masterworks
in order to realize what opera can uniquely achieve: a Apr 2020 408pp
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than the sum of its parts.
Legendary New Zealand
Texas A&M University Press musician Shayne Carter tells
the story of a life in music,
SEEING STEVIE RAY taking us deep behind
the scenes and songs of
Tracy Anne Hart his riotous teenage bands
Bored Games and the
Apr 2020 168pp, 53 colour, 115 b&w photos Doublehappys and his best-
9781623498139 Hardback A$64.90 known bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer, tracing an
John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music intimate history of the Dunedin Sound.
It may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray THE NECESSITY FOR CONSOLATION
Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny John Cousins Speaks
kid from Oak Cliff who would establish himself as the
finest guitar player of his generation. What others have John Cousins, Robert Hoskins & Norman Meehan
attempted to portray in prose, photographer Tracy Anne
Hart has expressed in imagery. Jan 2020 120pp
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John Psathas has said that, of all New Zealand
composers, John Cousins has “thrown the spear
furthest”, meaning he is one of our most original artists,
going beyond the edge. On the conversations, talks and
reflections gathered in this volume, John Cousins speaks
of landscape, family, himself, and shares a musical vision
of consolation and hope.
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Performing Arts • MUSIC • THEATRE
University of Wisconsin Press The University of South Carolina Press
OLE HENDRICKS AND HIS TUNEBOOK STAGE MONEY
Folk Music and Community on the Frontier The Business of the Professional Theater,
Second Revised and Updated Edition
Amy Shaw
Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson
Aug 2020 264pp, 29 b&w illustrations, 129 musical examples Foreword by Ken Davenport
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Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest Aug 2020 176pp
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Based on extensive historical and genealogical research,
Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, For decades roughly 80% of Broadway productions
his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, have failed to recoup their original investments. In light
revealing much about music and dance in the area. of this shocking and harsh reality, how does the show
go on? Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson answer this
THEATRE question and many others in this updated edition of
their popular, straightforward guide to understanding
professional theatre finances.
Bucknell University Press University of Virginia Press
LOTHARIO’S CORPSE VICTORIANS
Libertine Drama and the Long-Running ON BROADWAY
Restoration, 1700-1832 Literature, Adaptation,
and the Modern
Daniel Gustafson American Musical
Jun 2020 238pp Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
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Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 Jun 2020 328pp, 10 b&w illustrations
9780813944326 Paperback A$69.30
Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage,
of Restoration libertine drama in Britain’s eighteenth Provides a wide-ranging
and early nineteenth centuries. Daniel Gustafson traces interdisciplinary study of
libertine drama’s persistent appeal for writers and live stage musicals from
performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent the mid- to late-twentieth
liberal subject and the tensions of that subject with century adapted from
sovereign absolutism. British literature written between 1837 and 1886.
Investigating musical dramatizations of a range of
Rutgers University Press works, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these
musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which
THE GREAT WHITE WAY they derive.
Race and the Broadway Musical,
Second Edition
Warren Hoffman
Jan 2020 302pp, 20 b&w images
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Musicals reflect the political and social issues of their
day. Warren Hoffman investigates the thematic
content of the Broadway musical and considers how
musicals work on a structural level, allowing them to
simultaneously present and hide their racial agendas in
plain view of their audiences.
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80 Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY NATURAL LAW ETHICS IN THEORY
AND PRACTICE
Academica Press A Joseph Boyle Reader
BEING AND SYMPTOM Joseph Boyle
The Intersection of Sociology, Lacanian Edited by John Liptay & Christopher Tollefsen
Psychoanalysis, and Continental Philosophy Foreword by Robert P. George
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Apr 2020 220pp
9781680539974 Hardback A$259.60 For full details of this title, see page 91.
For full details of this title, see page 93. TRANSCENDING GENDER IDEOLOGY
A Philosophy of Sexual Difference
Broadview Press
Antonio Malo
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Translated by Alice Pavey
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Foreword by John M. Rist
Third Edition
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THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION AT FORTY RE-ENGAGING THE
MIDDLE EAST
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WORLD IN DANGER ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time
HOW WILL SHIFTS IN AMERICAN FOREIGN
Wolfgang Ischinger POLICY AFFECT SOUTHEAST ASIA?
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address the most urgent challenges facing the continent. importance of Southeast Asia. Located in the middle
of Indo-Pacific, it will be a contested zone between
Hoover Institution Press China and the US and its allies. The US will step up its
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ASIA’S NEW GEOPOLITICS Southeast Asia.
Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
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POLITICKING WHILE FEMALE
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THREE TWEETS TO MIDNIGHT political leadership in the United States. Nichole Bauer
Effects of the Global Information Ecosystem gathers essays studying the forces that keep women out
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female candidates and politicians once they overcome
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Harold A. Trinkunas
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INTERNET AGE
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Politics & International Relations 85
DYNAMICS OF DEMOCRACY IN TAIWAN KILLING CIVILIANS IN CIVIL WAR
The Ma Ying-jeou Years The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence
Edited by Kharis Templeman, Yun-han Chu & Larry Diamond Jürgen Brandsch
Sep 2020 350pp Apr 2020 180pp
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During the Ma Ying-jeou presidency in Taiwan (2008- Conventional wisdom tells us that targeting civilians in
2016), confrontations over relations with mainland civil wars makes little sense as a combat strategy. Yet,
China stressed the country’s institutions, leading to a the indiscriminate violence continues. Why? To tackle
political crisis. Nevertheless, its democracy proved to be this vexing question, Jürgen Brandsch looks at the on-
resilient. The authors of Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan the-ground impact of indiscriminate violence - what
explore key aspects of the complicated Ma era. he finds shows that there often is, in fact, a method to
the madness.
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conceptions of leadership, and more.
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES &
CULTURES IN ASIA & THE MIDDLE EAST NATO AND THE MIDDLE EAST
A Comprehensive Reference In Search of a Strategy
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How are intelligence systems structured in countries Over the course of more than seven decades, NATO
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decolonization and the Cold War influence their for interacting with its neighbours in the Middle East
organisation? What is their mission, and to what extent and North Africa. Rolf Schwarz traces the evolution of
do they come under public scrutiny? The authors of this NATO’s engagement with its neighboring region, and
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THE IRRATIONAL TERRORIST & OTHER POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN
PERSISTENT TERRORISM MYTHS CONTEMPORARY CHINA
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Darren Hudson et al
Elizabeth Freund Larus
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Provides an overview of the key theoretical explanations
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terrorist groups. economic change in contemporary China.
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86 Politics & International Relations
UNDERSTANDING DIVINED INTERVENTION
CONTEMPORARY AFRICA Religious Institutions and Collective Action
Sixth Edition
Christopher Wayne Hale
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Provides an innovative institutionalist account for why
This sixth edition combines the historic strengths of religion enables political activism in some settings, but
the previous editions with coverage of new topics. This not others. Christopher Hale argues that decentralized
edition includes new chapters on the politics of public religious institutions facilitate grassroots collective
health, the changing role of women, and LGBTQ rights, action, and he uses a multimethod approach to test this
along with new treatments of geography, history, explanation against several theoretical alternatives.
politics, economics, international relations, kinship,
religion, and more. FROM
MULTICULTURALISM
UNMASKING BOKO HARAM TO DEMOCRATIC
Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria DISCRIMINATION
The Challenge
Jacob Zenn of Islam and the
Re-Emergence of
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US POLICY TOWARD AFRICA and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European
Eight Decades of Realpolitik democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that
now faces an ultra-conservative backlash.
Herman Cohen
INTERSPECIES POLITICS
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decades of US policy toward Africa.
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Encounters Between Law and Colonialism
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Politics & International Relations 87
THE MANY FACES OF University of Nevada Press
POLITICAL ISLAM
Religion and Politics THE BATTLE TO STAY IN AMERICA
in Muslim Societies, Immigration’s Hidden Front Line
Second Edition
Michael Kagan
Mohammed Ayoob &
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spectrum describe Islamic activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle
fundamentalism as one of for the identity of a nation.
the top threats to Western-style democracy. Yet few
non-Muslims can define political Islam. Revised and The University of North Carolina Press
updated, The Many Faces of Political Islam thoroughly
analyses the many facets of this rising ideology and INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL AND
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SCRIPTURES, SHRINES, SCAPEGOATS,
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Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation
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Zeev Maoz & Errol A. Henderson
Encompassing the latest scholarship in what has
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SHAPING THE FUTURE OF POWER NUS Press
Knowledge Production and Network-
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A Critical Interregnum in Thailand
Lina Benabdallah
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rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily
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have distinctive features that require new theoretical sparked a crisis that jeopardised the Thai nation and
frameworks for their analysis. its institutions, from the politicised judiciary to the
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88 Politics & International Relations
TOWARDS A NEW MALAYSIA? Pentagon Press LLP
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At this juncture, India needs to reformulate its policies
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Myanmar’s tangled challenges. The book employs foreign policy. But now, India has to reformulate its
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KASHMIR
Beyond Article 3701
Bashir Assad
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LOOK EAST TO ACT EAST
Transforming India-ASEAN Relations in
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Sudhir Singh
Apr 2020 344pp
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The Act East Policy launched in 2014 has been one
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Politics & International Relations 89
Syracuse University Press Victoria University Press
GENERATIONS OF DISSENT SHIRLEY SMITH
Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the An Examined Life
State in the Middle East and North Africa
Sarah Gaitanos
Edited by Alexa Firat & R. Shareah Taleghani
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Contemporary Issues in the Middle East Shirley Smith’s lifelong commitment to social justice,
legal reform, gender equality and community service
Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and left a profound legacy. This book tells the story of a
cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations remarkably warm and generous woman, one with a rare
of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural gift for frankness, an implacable sense of principle, and a
production, intellectual movements, and acts of political personality of complexity and formidable energy.
dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa.
WESTERN SAHARA West Virginia University Press
War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution
BEYOND POPULISM
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knowledge of the region. opened by neoliberalism’s failures, particularly since the
financial collapse of 2008. It contextualises the recent
Texas A&M University Press history of the Global North - notably Brexit and the
Trump election - among wider comparative politics.
DEMAGOGUE FOR PRESIDENT
The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump
Jennifer R. Mercieca
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For full details of this title, see page 14.
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90 Religion
RELIGION THE EXPERIMENT OF FAITH
Pope Benedict XVI on Living the Theological
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DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH Matthew J. Ramage
Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-
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Judith Bleich
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The Emancipation of European Jewry during the
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passion underlying the disparate views, the particular
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Jewish Thought, Jewish History: New Studies Christian doctrine, specifically Catholic, in dialogue with
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One cannot think of Judaism without taking some
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as it continues to uphold a sense of chosenness and as to Scotus
it seeks to engage the world beyond it - nations, as well
as religions. Justus H. Hunter
The Catholic University of America Press Apr 2020 272pp
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BLOOD IN THE FIELDS
Óscar Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Provides a study of the medieval debates over the
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JOHN HENRY NEWMAN ON TRUTH AND
Examines Archbishop Óscar Romero’s role in one of the ITS COUNTERFEITS
central conflicts that seized El Salvador during his time A Guide for Our Times
as archbishop and that plunged the country into civil
war immediately after his death: the conflict over the Reinhard Hütter
concentration of agricultural land and the exclusion of
the majority from access to land to farm. Mar 2020 288pp
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Sacra Doctrina, Vol. 3
Reinhard Hütter’s main thesis in this third volume of
the Sacra Doctrina series is that John Henry Newman,
in his own context of the nineteenth century, a century
far from being a foreign one to our own, faced the same
challenges as we do today; the problems then and now
differ in degree, not in kind.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Religion 91
NATURAL LAW THE CHRISTOLOGY AND MYSTICAL
ETHICS IN THEORY THEOLOGY OF KARL RAHNER
AND PRACTICE
A Joseph Boyle Reader Harvey D. Egan & Joesph H. Wong
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with Germain Grisez and John Finnis, a founder and THE WHOLE IS
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arguably the most important development in Catholic ITS PARTS
moral philosophy of the twentieth century. Encountering the
Interreligious and
READING JOB WITH Ecumenical Other in
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS the Age of Pope Francis
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Provides a scholarly contribution to Thomistic studies, The epoch of globalization
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shared concentration of the book on Aquinas’s Literal the sake of wanton hegemony. Pope Francis has thus
Exposition on Job. applied this new notion of encounter to questions of
ecumenism and interreligious dialogue.
The Crossroad Publishing Company Herder & Herder
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FROM TIBERIAS, WITH LOVE: A
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Galilee that still has much to teach us.
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92 Religion
University of Iowa Press THEOLOGICAL FORMATION
Making Theology Your Own
CONFESSIONS OF A
GAY PRIEST Mark Ellingsen
A Memoir of Sex, Love,
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Tom Rastrelli Drawing on his rich ecumenical, international
experience, his years of working with the Black church,
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for explaining the Church’s doctrine which have
Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of appeared in the history of Christianity.
clergy-perpetrated sexual
abuse who then became a University of Michigan Press
priest in the early days of the
Catholic Church’s ongoing DIVINED INTERVENTION
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REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY For full details of this title, see page 86.
Reflections on Hymns by Isaac Watts
THE MANY FACES OF POLITICAL ISLAM
David W. Music Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies,
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eighteenth century, the “Golden Age of English
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work and its importance, including chapters on each of
his twenty-five most widely sung texts. MUSLIMS IN A POST-9/11 AMERICA
A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their
SOURCES OF LIGHT Implications for U.S. National Security Policy
Resources for Baptist Churches
Practicing Theology Rachel M. Gillum
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May 2020 220pp
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Perspectives on Baptist Identities Series States compare with the reality of American Muslims’
attitudes on a range of relevant issues. While most
In this volume, a diverse group of twenty-three Baptist research on Muslim Americans focuses on Arab Muslims,
theologians engage in a collaborative attempt to a quarter of the Muslim American population, Rachel
imagine how Baptist communities might draw on the Gillum includes perspectives of Muslims from various
resources of the whole church more intentionally in ethnic and national communities.
their congregational practice of theology.
SCRIPTURES, SHRINES, SCAPEGOATS,
AND WORLD POLITICS
Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation
in the Modern Era
Zeev Maoz & Errol A. Henderson
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For full details of this title, see page 87.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES 93
RELIGION • Social Studies
The University of North Carolina Press SOCIAL STUDIES
REALIZING ISLAM Academica Press
The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the
Eighteenth-Century Muslim World BEING AND SYMPTOM
The Intersection of Sociology, Lacanian
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The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North
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origins and development in the late eighteenth century, this book argues that there is an “M theory” - a master
Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within theory of theories - not only in Quantum Physics, but
the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early also in Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and
modern period. Sociology, disclosing how the ontological structure
of the “fantastic four” ingredients of metaphysics has
THE TRANSNATIONAL MOSQUE recurred through time.
Architecture and Historical Memory in the
Contemporary Middle East The University of Arkansas Press
Kishwar Rizvi OLIMPISMO
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the role of transnational mosques in the construction Sport, Culture, and Society
of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains,
transnational mosques are structures built through the For full details of this title, see page 5.
support of both government sponsorshipand diverse
transnational networks. Baraka Books
The University of Utah Press STOLEN MOTHERHOOD
Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children
PRODUCING ANCIENT SCRIPTURE
Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Maria De Koninck
Development of Mormon Christianity Translated by Arielle Aaronson
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volumes of scripture between 1829 and 1844. Less read ban on surrogacy.
and studied are the texts that Smith translated. This
collaborative volume is the first to study Joseph Smith’s
translation projects in their entirety.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
94 Social Studies
Bocconi University Press HEALTHY AGING IN ASIA
DESTINATION 2050 Edited by Karen Eggleston
A Practical Guide to
the Future Apr 2020 325pp
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A Moral Challenge to the America I Love
CRITICAL CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK
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the American political system, especially as these affect
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well-informed by current events, empirical data, and resource moves social work forward by highlighting the
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and postcolonial frameworks.
Brookings Institution Press Cognella Academic Publishing
EXPLORING HATE ANTI-OPPRESSIVE SOCIAL
An Anthology WORK PRACTICE
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Explores the different manifestations and consequences Applies anti-oppressive theories and concepts to
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real-world settings.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social Studies 95
DICTIONARY OF COUNSELING AND THEORY & PRACTICE IN CLINICAL
HUMAN SERVICES SOCIAL WORK
An Essential Resource for Students and Third Edition
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Provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary
Provides readers with concise and straightforward clinical social work practice. Featuring chapters
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within the disciplines. Each word or term is ranked practice, this text covers frameworks for clinical practice,
according to its likelihood to appear on a credentialing specific treatment modalities, and specialized clinical
exam in counseling and separately ranked according issues, themes, and dilemmas.
to its likelihood to appear on a credentialing exam in
human services. Lynne Rienner Publishers
FAMILIES & CHILDREN LIVING HOBO JUNGLE
IN POVERTY A Homeless
Community in Paradise
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and environmental ramifications of poverty. unsheltered homelessness
Through scholarly studies, case studies, historical through an evocative
events, and contemporary happenings, readers portrait of a jungle
examine the connections between poverty and encampment that has
family-related challenges. endured since the Great
Depression in one of the
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY most opulent cities on California’s south coast.
Understanding Society, Culture,
Socialization, and Belonging McFarland
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Essays and Case Studies on Practices,
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Features scholarly readings that familiarize students
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factors have facilitated engagement with new groups
and social relationships. Homelessness in America’s cities remains an intractable
and growing problem. Challenges facing the homeless
NATURE AND COLONIALISM today the same as in years past: poverty, tenuous ties
A Reader to family, debilitating health issues, and substance
abuse. These essays cover case studies, innovations,
Edited by Theodore Grudin practices and policies of municipalities coping with
homelessness today.
Apr 2020 260pp
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Provides students with a collection of classic texts on
environmental thought and invites them to analyse the
texts alongside the often contrarian ideas of expansion,
development, and human exceptionalism.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
96 Social Studies
AN INTRODUCTION WHITE BALANCE
TO COMPARATIVE How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology
SOCIOLOGY and Undermined Civil Rights
Jon Oplinger Justin Gomer
Mar 2020 140pp Jun 2020 272pp, 23 illustrations
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Studies in United States Culture
Not your typical sociology
primer, this straightforward For full details of this title, see page 72.
yet challenging text begins
with an accessible discussion WHOSE BLUES?
of foundational theories, Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music
central concepts and areas
of study. Drawing on Adam Gussow
anthropology, archaeology and history to illustrate key
points, it offers a thorough examination of the field. Oct 2020 250pp, 30 illustrations
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For full details of this title, see page 78.
University of Michigan Press Rutgers University Press
MUSLIMS IN A POST-9/11 AMERICA EASY LIVING
A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their The Rise of the
Implications for U.S. National Security Policy Home Office
Rachel M. Gillum Elizabeth A Patton
Mar 2020 248pp, 34 illustrations J3uclo2l0o2u0r i2m16agpeps, 27 b&w,
9780472053872 Paperback A$56.10 9781978802223 Paperback A$53.90
For full details of this title, see page 92. How did Americans come
to believe that working at
The University of North Carolina Press home is feasible, productive,
and desirable? Easy Living
DINERS, DUDES, AND DIETS examines how the idea of
How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media working within the home
and Culture was constructed and disseminated in popular culture
and mass media during the twentieth century.
Emily J. H. Contois
SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Studies in United States Culture Loretta Capeheart & Dragan Milovanovic
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I DON’T LIKE THE BLUES Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life
For full details of this title, see page 53.
B. Brian Foster
Dec 2020 250pp
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For full details of this title, see page 77.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social Studies • ANTHROPOLOGY 97
SPORT, PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
CULTURE, AND THE
MOVING BODY University Press of Florida
Materialisms,
Technologies, APPROACHES TO
Ecologies MONUMENTAL
LANDSCAPES OF THE
Edited by Joshua I. Newman, ANCIENT MAYA
Holly Thorpe & David Andrews
Edited by Brett A. Houk,
Dec 2019 350pp, 14 illustrations Barbara Arroyo &
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Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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fields of sport studies and Maya Studies
body studies, these essays draw on the traditions of
feminist theory, posthumanism, actor network theory, Brings together a wide
and new materialism to reposition the physical, moving spectrum of new approaches
body as crucial to the cultural, political, environmental, to ancient Maya studies in an innovative exploration
and economic systems that it constitutes and within of how the Preclassic and Classic Maya shaped their
which is constituted. world. Moving beyond the towering temples and
palaces typically associated with the Maya civilization,
Syracuse University Press contributors present unconventional examples of
monumental Maya landscapes.
TEL AVIV
Mythography of a City CHINESE DIASPORA ARCHAEOLOGY IN
NORTH AMERICA
Maoz Azaryahu
Edited by Chelsea Rose & J. Ryan Kennedy
Mar 2020 328pp, 15 b&w illustrations
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Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Showcasing the enormous amount of data available on
Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that the lives of Chinese people who migrated to the United
have been part of the vernacular and perception of Tel States and Canada in the nineteenth century, this
Aviv. He relates the city’s mythology to its physicality volume charts new directions by providing fresh, more
through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and nuanced approaches to interpreting immigrant life.
municipal policies.
Texas A&M University Press MAYA CHRISTIANS AND THEIR CHURCHES
IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BELIZE
XQUERY FOR HUMANISTS
Edited by Elizabeth Graham
Clifford B. Anderson & Joseph C. Wicentowski
Apr 2020 458pp, 80 b&w illustrations, 19 maps
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9781623498290 Paperback A$92.40 Maya Studies
Coding for Humanists
Based on her analysis of archaeological evidence from
For full details of this title, see page 117. the excavations of Maya churches at Tipu and Lamanai,
Elizabeth Graham seeks to understand why the Maya
sometimes actively embraced Catholicism during the
period of European conquest and continued to worship
in this way even after the end of Spanish occupation.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
98 Social Studies • ANTHROPOLOGY
RETHINKING ANTHROPOLOGICAL University of Michigan Press
PERSPECTIVES ON MIGRATION
GOING TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
Edited by Graciela S. Cabana & Jeffery J. Clark The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural
Imagination, 1915-1965
Mar 2020 362pp, 43 b&w illustrations, 16 tables
9780813068190 Paperback A$52.80 Yu Zhang
Addresses innovative approaches to migration research Mar 2020 312pp, 15 illustrations
that emerge from the collective effort of scholars from 9780472054435 Paperback A$64.90
different intellectual backgrounds. Contributors present China Understandings Today
a comprehensive anthropological exploration of the
many topics related to human migration throughout Focuses on the cultural practices and representations
the world, ranging from theoretical treatments to of “going to the countryside” as a distinctively modern
specific case studies. experience in China between 1915 and 1965, bringing the
rural back to the central concern of Chinese cultural studies.
University of Manitoba Press University of New Mexico Press
IN GOOD RELATION WALLING IN AND WALLING OUT
History, Gender, and Kinship in Why Are We Building New Barriers to
Indigenous Feminisms Divide Us?
Edited by Sarah Nickel & Amanda Fehr Edited by Laura McAtackney & Randall H. McGuire
Apr 2020 264pp, 12 illustrations Apr 2020 272pp, 24 illustrations, 3 maps
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School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
For full details of this title, see page 58.
Walls are being built at a dizzying pace to separate
WORDS OF THE INUIT us, cocoon us, and exclude us. The contributors to
A Semantic this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls
Stroll Through a around the world - in contexts ranging from historic
Northern Culture neighbourhoods to contemporary national borders.
Louis-Jacques Dorais Rutgers University Press
Afterword by Lisa Koperqualuk
ANTHROPOLOGICAL LIVES
Sep 2020 256pp An Introduction to the Profession
9780887558627 Paperback A$64.90 of Anthropology
Contemporary Studies on the North
Virginia R. Dominguez & Brigittine M. French
An important compendium
of Inuit culture illustrated May 2020 202pp, 22 b&w photos
through Inuit words. The 9780813597386 Paperback A$56.10
book brings the sum of the
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that being an anthropologist affects the kind of life
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