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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING · GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
· MATERIALS SCIENCE · MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION MATERIALS SCIENCE
SYSTEMS

Esri Press Hanser Publishers

ESRI MAP BOOK VOLUME 34 ELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF POLYMER MELTS
Rheology and Processing
Linda Peters & Chris Brigham
Helmut Münstedt
Aug 2019 200pp
9781589485419 Paperback US$24.99 Jul 2019 296pp
9781569907542 Hardback US$201.00
Showcases maps and applications that use ArcGIS to
evaluate the sustainability of resources, determine Understanding the elastic properties of polymer melts
efficient transportation routes, mitigate the effects is necessary for ensuring successful polymer processing
of natural disasters, and much more. Each map or and thus producing high-quality plastic parts. This book
application incudes a description of its purpose and how is the first to focus on this important topic.
it was produced.
USER’S GUIDE TO PLASTIC
GIS FOR SCIENCE Second Edition
Applying Mapping and
Spatial Analytics Ulf Bruder

Edited by Christian Harder & Jul 2019 376pp
Dawn J. Wright 9781569907344 Paperback US$45.00

Jul 2019 300pp For full details of this title, see page 5.
9781589485303 Paperback
US$39.99 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Presents a collection of real-world stories about modern IK International Publishing House
science and a cadre of scientists who use mapping and
spatial analytics to expand their understanding of the ELEMENTS OF MACHINE DESIGN
world. These stories present GIS ideas and inspiration
that users can apply across many disciplines, making this H.G. Patil et al
volume relevant to a diverse scientific audience.
Jul 2019 1240pp
MAPPING WITH ALTITUDE 9789384588502 Paperback US$110.00
Designing 3D Maps
Presents the fundamentals of machine design. Each
Nathan C. Shephard chapter contains theory and a number of solved
examples. Chapters one to five deal with the basic
Aug 2019 350pp principles of machine design. The remainder of the book
9781589485532 Paperback US$59.99 covers the design procedures for individual machine
elements.
Helps you deliver clear, compelling cartographic
representations in 3D that are both eye-catching and
informative. Understand scale, surfaces, base heights,
texturing, and lighting models. Discover new twists on
well-defined 2D cartographic principles, such as size,
colour, and text. Consider ways to convey time.

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50 OPTICS · PHYSICS

OPTICS UNDERSTANDING
SURFACE SCATTER
SPIE Press A Linear Systems
Formulation
ATMOSPHERIC
MODELING USING Edited by James S. Harvey
PCMODWIN©/
MODTRAN® Jul 2019 252pp
9781510627871 Paperback US$65.00
Larry B. Stoss & John Schroeder Press Monographs, Vol. 306

Jul 2019 350pp After reviewing the historical
9781510628052 Paperback US$75.00 background of surface scatter
Press Monographs, Vol. 307 theory, this book describes
how integrating sound radiometric principles with scalar
Helps beginners learn how diffraction theory results in the development of a linear
to perform analysis using systems formulation of non-paraxial scalar diffraction
MODTRAN®/PcModWin© by theory which then becomes the basis of the Generalized
using test cases. Specifically, many of the cases are used Harvey-Shack surface scatter theory.
to illustrate how to navigate the PcModWin© menus
to solve the given problems. The book also provides PHYSICS
the underlying mathematics and atmospheric physics
incorporated into MODTRAN™ PHI Learning

PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS
LITHOGRAPHY Fourth Edition
Fourth Edition
Vidwan Singh Soni
Harry J. Levinson
Aug 2019 448pp
Jul 2019 630pp 9789387472853 Paperback US$29.00
9781510627604 Hardback US$99.00
Press Monographs, Vol. 304 Presents numerous
illustrations and solved
This newest edition of examples to help students
Principles of Lithography clearly understand the
reflects the continuing concepts of mechanics clearly.
advancement of lithographic Chapter-end questions will
technology. In recent years, certain topics, such as help test students’ grasp of the subjects covered.
line-edge roughness (LER), multi-electron-beam
writers, have become more significant to practicing
lithographers. As such extensive treatments of these
topics are provided.

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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ·

SPACE SCIENCE

SPACE SCIENCE The University of Arizona Press

IK International Publishing House PLANETARY ASTROBIOLOGY

A TEXTBOOK OF ASTRONOMY Edited by Victoria Meadows et al
AND ASTROPHYSICS
Dec 2019 504pp, 177 b&w illustrations, 24 tables, 32-page colour insert
Mohit Kumar Sharma & Suresh Chandra 9780816540068 Hardback US$75.00
Space Science Series
Jul 2019 361pp
9789386768490 Paperback US$25.00 The overarching goal of Planetary Astrobiology is
to enhance and broaden the development of an
Explores the fundamentals of astronomy and interdisciplinary approach across the astrobiology,
astrophysics. Coverage includes the beginning of planetary science, and exoplanet communities, enabling
astronomy, coordinate systems used to specify position a new era of comparative planetology that encompasses
of a place, time, telescopes, and the fundamentals used conditions and processes for the emergence, evolution,
for the study of various phenomena. and detection of life.

Melbourne University Publishing University Press of Kansas

UNDER THE STARS THE VIEW FROM SPACE
Astrophysics for Bedtime NASA’s Evolving Struggle to Understand
Our Home Planet
Lisa Harvey-Smith
Illustrated by Mel Matthews Richard Leshner & Thor Hogan

Oct 2019 277pp Oct 2019 256pp
9780522876086 Hardback US$33.67 9780700628322 Paperback US$29.95

Transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet
incredible journey through the night sky. Astrophysicist Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to
Lisa Harvey-Smith brings the night sky to life with study the planet’s environment from space. MTPE’s main
her engaging storytelling, combined with brilliantly goal was to better understand fundamental processes
colourful illustrations. such as climate change. This book tells the remarkable
story of this unprecedented convergence of science,
technology, and policy.

Purdue University Press

DEAR NEIL ARMSTRONG
Letters to the First Man from All Mankind

Edited by James R. Hansen

Sep 2019 400pp
9781557538741 Hardback US$34.99
Aeronautics and Astronautics

In the years between the historic first moon landing
by Apollo 11 and his death in 2002, Neil Armstrong
received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from
all over the world. Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First
Man on the Moon publishes a careful sampling of these
letters.

GENERAL INTEREST
52 FAMILY & HEALTH

FAMILY & HEALTH DON’T BE A DICK
Change Yourself, Change Your World
Central Recovery Press
Mark B. Borg, Jr
21ST CENTURY PARENTING
A Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Aug 2019 256pp
Children in an Unstable World 9781949481020 Paperback US$17.95

Rick Capaldi Anyone, at any time, can slip into being a dick - and many
do. Yet Don’t Be a Dick is especially for people who have
Aug 2019 256pp noticed how their own behavior tends to backfire, leaving
9781949481006 Paperback US$17.95 them feeling isolated or uncertain why their seemingly
justified actions consistently have such poor results.
Gives a new twist on the original three Rs. Parents will
learn how to steer their children toward emotional IT’S NOT ABOUT THE SEX
stability and success using the new three Rs - Reading, Moving from Isolation to Intimacy After
Regulating, and Redirecting - reading their child’s Sexual Addiction
environment, regulating their child’s emotional
temperature, and redirecting their child’s behaviour. Andrew Susskind

400 FRIENDS AND Aug 2019 232pp
NO ONE TO CALL 9781949481068 Paperback US$17.95
Breaking through
Isolation and Building Out-of-control sexual behaviour results in broken
Community relationships and deep anguish - sometimes even ending
in death. Because most behavioral health professionals
Val Walker get minimal training in the area of sex addiction, It’s
Not about the Sex can help them better understand this
Mar 2020 240pp disorder and how to more effectively assist their clients
9781949481242 Paperback who struggle with it.
US$17.95
LONG WALK OUT OF THE WOODS
Spells out the how-tos A Physician’s Addiction Recovery and Return
for befriending our wider to Mental Health
community, building a social
safety net, and fostering our sense of belonging. On a Adam B. Hill
deeper level, we are invited to befriend our loneliness,
rather than feel ashamed of it, and open our hearts and Dec 2019 224pp
minds to others trapped in isolation. 9781949481228 Paperback US$16.95

DECEIVED Reveals the extent of the burnout epidemic in the
Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies, and Secrets medical field. By sharing his own harrowing story, Dr.
Adam Hill shows how this problem manifests, considers
Claudia Black ways to address it, and confronts commonplace
attitudes regarding self-care, recovery/treatment,
Jul 2019 272pp empathy, and vulnerability amongst medical
9781949481082 Paperback US$15.95 practitioners.

Offers women in relationships plagued by sexual
betrayal the care and guidance to create a new path
of clarity, direction, and confidence. Claudia Black
uses stories of real women who have been through
a wide variety of experiences to help readers develop
understanding and skills.

GENERAL INTEREST
FAMILY & HEALTH 53

MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR PLATE Magination Press
Eating Disorder Recovery, Second Edition
BEE HEARTFUL
Robyn Cruze & Espra Andrus Spreading Loving-Kindness

Jan 2020 224pp Frank J. Sileo
9781949481266 Paperback US$16.95 Illustrated by Claire Keay

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental Jan 2020 32pp, colour illustrations
illness. Binge eating disorder and bulimia can also bring 9781433831577 Hardback US$16.99
misery and death. With its unique three-phase approach
to eating, this book smashes the illusion of control, the When Willie Wasp steals Bentley’s favourite red scarf, it
power, and the lies of the deadly illness of disordered really stings! Bentley has the whole garden buzzing as he
eating, providing a concrete plan for long-term recovery. works through the situation. This sweet story shows the
power of strong, positive, and loving thoughts. Includes
Future Horizons a note from the author with more information about
loving-kindness and related meditation.

AUTISM AND GIRLS CAMILLA, CARTOGRAPHER
World-Renowned Experts Join Those with
Autism Syndrome to Resolve Issues That Girls Julie Dillemuth
and Women Face Every Day! Illustrated by Laura Wood
Second Edition
Oct 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
Temple Grandin & Tony Attwood 9781433830334 Hardback US$16.99

Aug 2019 277pp Camilla loves maps. Old ones, new ones, she loves them
9781941765234 Paperback US$19.95 all! She often imagines what it must have been like
to explore and discover a new path for the first time.
The revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking One morning, Camilla wakes up to a snow storm. Her
book Asperger’s and Girls describes the unique challenges neighbour Parsley can’t find the path to the creek. But
of females on the autism spectrum. Camilla has her old map-which inspires her to make her
own path and her own map!
YOU CAN’T MAKE ME!
Pro-Active Strategies for Positive FANTASTIC YOU
Behavior Change in Children
Danielle Dufayet
James Ball Illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin

Sep 2019 277pp Sep 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
9781941765876 Paperback US$18.95 9781433830280 Hardback US$16.99

This book walks the reader through a variety of Shows readers how to develop and nurture a loving and
scenarios that will explore why a child may engage in positive relationship with themselves. Kids will learn that
a specific behavior, and help you build your “behavior- self-care includes positive self-talk and self-compassion
investigator” skills to develop a behavior plan that works. for a happy, self-empowered life.

GENERAL INTEREST
54 FAMILY & HEALTH

THE GIFT OF GERBERT’S FEATHERS SLEEPY TIME

Meaghann Weaver & Lori Wiener Patricia Martin
Illustrated by Mikki Butterly Illustrated by Rocio Bonilla

Feb 2020 32pp, colour illustrations Feb 2020 20pp
9781433830235 Hardback US$16.99 9781433831812 Hardback US$7.99

Gerbert the gosling is strong and brave and has fun A comforting snuggle up book, perfect to read to young
times with his family and friends but knows that, kids to develop calm daily routines. Bathing, putting
one day soon, he won’t be able to keep up with them on pajamas, using the potty, brushing teeth, reading
anymore. As Gerbert prepares for his final migration, he a story, and being afraid. With a parent as instructor,
finds a way to show his flock that he will always be with protector, and safe-keeper, this book is for every kid.
them. Includes a Note to Readers and an online Note to
Parents and Caregivers. SNITCHY WITCH

LUCY’S LIGHT Frank J. Sileo
Illustrated by MacKenzie Haley
Jo Rooks
Sep 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
Aug 2019 32pp, 4 illustrations 9781433830228 Hardback US$14.99
9781433830884 Hardback US$14.99
Once Upon a Garden Tattling is an all too familiar occurrence among
children that can have harmful impacts on friends and
A sweet story which shines a light on inner confidence, relationships. This spellbinding story encourages children
self acceptance, and courage. Lucy learns that doing a to examine the difference between snitching and telling,
good deed will always make you shine bright! and the impact of their words on others.

MY SINGING NANA SOPHIE’S SHELL

Pat Mora Jo Rooks
Illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez
Aug 2019 32pp, colour illustrations
Oct 2019 32pp, colour illustrations 9781433830891 Hardback US$14.99
9781433830211 Hardback US$16.99 Once Upon a Garden

Always amigos! My Singing Nana is a compassionate When Sophie starts school, there’s a wobbly feeling in
tribute to families dealing with Alzheimer's Disease. This her tummy and she can’t help popping back into her
story celebrates the ideals of family, heritage, and happy shell. She is left with one big question Why am I so shy?
memories, showing kids that no matter how their loved When Sophie meets Stanley, she realizes that she’s not
one might change they always have ways to maintain the only one who feels shy. Can she gain the confidence
their special connection. to help a new friend?

TRANS+
Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You

Karen Rayne & Kathryn Gonzales

Aug 2019 304pp
9781433829833 Hardback US$16.99

Gender is hard. Especially for teens who might not
identify with stereotypical ideas of gender and sexual
identity. Trans+ is an all-inclusive, uncensored guide
for teens who are transgender, nonbinary, gender-
nonconforming, gender-fluid, queer, or questioning
their sexual and gender identity.

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WHAT TO DO WHEN FEAR INTERFERES United Nations Publications
A Kid’s Guide to Dealing with Phobias
FRIEDA MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Claire A. B. Freeland & Jacqueline B. Toner The Sustainable Development Goals a
Illustrated by Janet McDonnell nd How You Too Can Change the World

Aug 2019 88pp, b&w illustrations United Nations
9781433829741 Paperback US$16.99
What-to-Do Guides for Kids® Aug 2019 52pp
9789211014068 Paperback US$12.00
Guides children and their parents through overcoming
phobias using strategies and techniques based on For full details of this title, see page 11.
cognitive-behavioral principles. This interactive self-help
book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, FRIEDA FAIT LA DIFFÉRENCE
and empowering children to overcome their fears-so Les Objectifs de Développement
they can blast off to new adventures! Durable et Comment Vous Aussi Pouvez
Changer le Monde
McFarland
Aug 2019 52pp
A KILLER APPETITE 9789211014075 Paperback US$12.00
Overcoming My Eating Disorder and the
Thinking That Fed It FRIEDA HACE LA DIFERENCIA
Los Objetivos de Desarrollo
Holly Pennebaker Sostenible y Cómo tú También Puedes
Cambiar el Mundo
Jul 2019 135pp, 25 photos
9781476678696 Paperback US$19.99 Aug 2019 52pp
9789211014082 Paperback US$12.00
In the middle of a paralyzing panic attack, 34-year-old
Holly Pennebaker made the call that would ultimately
save her life. This memoir chronicles her experience with
disordered eating, anxiety and other mental illness from
the onset of her major panic attack through the weeks
following her completion of the treatment program.

Toplight

Melbourne University Publishing

UNDER THE STARS
Astrophysics for Bedtime

Lisa Harvey-Smith
Illustrated by Mel Matthews

Oct 2019 277pp
9780522876086 Hardback US$33.67

For full details of this title, see page 51.

GENERAL INTEREST
56 SPORT

SPORT The University of Arkansas Press

McFarland A DANGEROUS JOURNEY
Inside Another Year in Boxing
BASEBALL IN EUROPE
A Country by Country History, Second Edition Thomas Hauser

Josh Chetwynd Oct 2019 277pp
9781682261071 Paperback US$29.95
Sep 2019 301pp, 120 photos
9781476679129 Paperback US$45.00 Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward
to Thomas Hauser’s newest collection of articles about
Featuring approximately 60 new interviews and the contemporary boxing scene. Reviewing his 2018
more than 70 new photos, this second edition builds collection, Booklist proclaimed, “This is Hauser in a
extensively on the previous edition’s country-by- nutshell: compassion, character, and context. As always,
country histories of more than 40 European nations. an annual delight.”
Also included are two new appendices on European
MLB players and European countries’ performance in
worldwide rankings.

CHINESE GONG FU
Toward a Body-Centered Understanding

R.F. Gonzalez

Oct 2019 148pp, 50 photos
9781476662213 Paperback US$39.95

Using the science of embodiment - the study of the
interaction between body, mind, cognition, behaviour
and environment - practitioner and teacher R.F. Gonzalez
explores the relationships among practitioner, praxis,
spirituality, philosophy and the body in gong fu.
Drawing on familiar routines, films, artefacts and art, the
author connects the reader to ancient Chinese culture,
philosophy, myth, shamanism and ritual.

THE DURABLE RUNNER
A Guide to Injury-Free Running

Alison Heilig

Nov 2019 250pp, 165 photos
9781476678337 Paperback US$19.99

Part sport and part exercise, running boosts health,
longevity and mental well-being. However, running is a
demanding activity that can potentially tax the runner’s
body and mind. This book, combining corrective
exercise, self-myofascial release, and yoga, empowers
runners with measures to avoid unnecessary pain, injury
and burnout.

Toplight

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ARTS & HUMANITIES

American Psychological Association University Press of Kansas

PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE STALINGRAD
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSOCIATION David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House
Seventh Edition
Oct 2019 640pp
American Psychological Association 9780700628797 Paperback US$28.95

Oct 2019 428pp This is the long awaited one-volume campaign
9781433832161 Paperback US$29.95 history from the leading experts of the decisive
clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad;
The Publication Manual of the American an abridged edition of the five volume
Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the Stalingrad Trilogy.
official source for APA Style. With millions of
copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is "Undoubtedly, the best researched narrative
the style manual of choice for writers, researchers, of Soviet-German battle during the period. . . .
editors, students, and educators in the social and Thorough, informative, scrupulously accurate, and
behavioural sciences, natural sciences, nursing, told with remarkable precision and reliability".
communications, education, business, engineering,
and other fields. - Journal of Military History

Known for its authoritative, easy-to-use "No literature review of the Nazi-Soviet war could
reference and citation system, the Publication be complete without the outstanding work done
Manual also offers guidance on choosing the by David Glantz and Jonathan House. What they
headings, tables, figures, language, and tone have done is illustrate how much more there is
that will result in powerful, concise, and elegant to the Battle of Stalingrad and why their more
scholarly communication. It guides users through comprehensive account changes our understanding
the scholarly writing process - from the ethics of the campaign. The late John Erickson wrote
of authorship to reporting research through that the research of Glantz and House reflected an
publication. The seventh edition is an indispensable ‘encyclopedic knowledge’ of the Nazi-Soviet war
resource for students and professionals to achieve and constituted a benchmark for excellence in the
excellence in writing and make an impact with field."
their work.
- War in History
The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised
and updated to reflect best practices in scholarly
writing and publishing.

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58 HIGHLIGHTS

Lynne Rienner Publishers University of Michigan Press

UNDERSTANDING THE MUGABE
CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST A Life of Power and Violence
Fifth Edition
Stephen Chan
Jillian Schwedler
Jul 2019 288pp
Nov 2019 480pp 9780472037599 Paperback US$29.95
9781626378414 Paperback US$28.50
Understanding: Introductions to the States and Regions of the On November 21, 2017, Robert Mugabe resigned
Contemporary World as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power.
A week earlier the military had seized control of
The previous edition of Understanding the the country and forced him to step down as leader
Contemporary Middle East was published soon after of the ruling ZANU-PF party. In this revised and
the Arab uprisings, and the authors - writing across updated edition of his classic biography, Stephen
disciplines - captured those moments of possibility. Chan seeks to explain and interpret Mugabe in his
role as a key player in the politics of Southern Africa.
Now, more than six years later, the Middle East is
substantially changed, with three protracted civil In this masterly portrait of one of Africa’s longest-
wars, several retrenched authoritarian regimes, serving leaders, Mugabe’s character unfolds with
possibly one emerging democracy, and social and the ebb and flow of triumph and crisis. Mugabe’s
economic conditions that have been profoundly story is Zimbabwe’s - from the post-independence
affected by the new political environment. hopes of idealism and reconciliation to electoral
victory, the successful intervention in the
This thoroughly revised and updated edition international politics of Southern Africa, and the
explores both the impact of recent events in resistance to South Africa’s policy of apartheid.
shaping the region and the continuities with But a darker picture emerged early with the savage
established patterns of political, economic, and crushing of the Matabeleland rising, the elimination
social relations. of political opponents, growing corruption, and
disastrous intervention in the Congo war, all
worsened by drought and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Chan’s revealing biography, based on close personal
knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence
and eventual downfall of a ruthless and single-
minded despot amassing and tightly clinging to
political power.

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HIGHLIGHTS 59

Rutgers University Press University Press of Mississippi

I WONDER U STEVEN SPIELBERG
How Prince Went beyond Race and Back Interviews, Revised and Updated

Adilifu Nama Edited by Lester D. Friedman & Brent Notbohm

Nov 2019 250pp, 27 b&w photos Aug 2019 240pp
9781978805163 Paperback US$24.95 9781496824028 Paperback US$25.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
In 1993, Prince infamously changed his name
to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this More than four decades after the premiere of his
was only one of a long string of self-reinventions first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to
orchestrated by Prince as he refused to be typecast be a household name whose influence on popular
by the music industry’s limiting definitions of culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now
masculinity and femininity, of straightness and in his seventies, Spielberg shows no intention of
queerness, of authenticity and artifice, or of black retiring from directing or even slowing down. Since
music and white music. the publication of Steven Spielberg: Interviews in
2000, the filmmaker has crafted some of the most
Revealing how he continually subverted cultural complex movies of his extensive career.
expectations, I Wonder U examines the entirety
of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi- With this new collection of interviews, which
instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label includes eleven original interviews from the 2000
mogul, movie star, and director. It shows how, by edition and nine new interviews, readers will
blending elements of R&B, rock, and new wave recognise the themes that motivate Spielberg,
into an extremely videogenic package, Prince was the cinematic techniques he employs to create his
able to overcome the colour barrier that kept black feature films, and the emotional connection he has
artists off of MTV. Yet even at his greatest crossover to his movies. The result is a nuanced and engaging
success, he still worked hard to retain his credibility portrait of the most popular director in American
among black music fans. In this way, Adilifu Nama cinema history.
suggests, Prince was able to assert a distinctly black
political sensibility while still being perceived as a
unique musical genius whose appeal transcended
racial boundaries.

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60 ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE

ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE The University of North Carolina Press

University Press of Florida BUILDING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Brunelleschi’s Dome and the Florence
ARTS OF SOUTH ASIA Cathedral
Cultures of Collecting
Paula Kay Lazrus
Edited by Allysa B. Peyton & Katherine Anne Paul
Jul 2019 82pp, 25 illustrations
Jul 2019 320pp, 151 colour photos, 30 b&w photos 9781469653396 Paperback US$30.00
9781683400479 Hardback US$65.00
David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series Focuses on the competition to select a team to execute
the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa
This beautifully illustrated volume details how South Maria del Fiore - the erection of its dome. Although the
Asian art has been acquired by public and private model for the dome was widely known, the question
collectors in Europe and North America from the of how this was to be accomplished was the great
mid-nineteenth century onward. It highlights the challenge of the age.
various journeys and colonial legacies of artwork from
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri MODERNISM ON THE NILE
Lanka. Art in Egypt between the Islamic and
the Contemporary
PICTURING CUBA
Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in Alex Dika Seggerman
the Diaspora
Sep 2019 296pp, 24 colour plates, 74 illustrations
Edited by Jorge Duany 9781469653044 Hardback US$34.95
Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
Sep 2019 288pp, 48 colour and 16 b&w illustrations
9781683400905 Hardback US$80.00 Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo
and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century to the
Explores the evolution of Cuban art and its links to 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts
cubanía, or Cuban cultural identity. Featuring artwork were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism.
from the colonial, republican, and postrevolutionary
periods of Cuban history, as well as the contemporary
diaspora, these illustrated essays trace the creation of
Cuban art through shifting political, social, and cultural
circumstances.

University of New Mexico Press

CAMERA HUNTER
George Shiras III and the Birth of
Wildlife Photography

James H. McCommons

Oct 2019 312pp, 32 illustrations
9780826354266 Hardback US$34.95

Recounts George Shiras’s life and craft as he travelled
to wild country in North America, refined his trail
camera techniques, and advocated for the protection of
wildlife. This biography serves as an important record
of Shiras’s accomplishments as a visual artist, wildlife
conservationist, adventurer, and legislator.

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HISTORY 61

HISTORY University of Delaware Press

Academic Studies Press EXQUISITE MATERIALS
Episodes in the Queer History of
'WE ARE NOT ONLY ENGLISH JEWS - Victorian Style
WE ARE JEWISH ENGLISHMEN."
The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, Abigail Joseph
1840-1880
Nov 2019 328pp, 32 b&w illustrations
Sara Abosch-Jacobson 9781644531693 Paperback US$39.50

Oct 2019 190pp, 3 illustrations For full details of this title, see page 125.
9781644690857 Hardback US$99.00
Lands and Ages of the Jewish People WOMEN WARRIORS IN EARLY
MODERN SPAIN
Between 1840 and 1880, a mature, increasingly A Tribute to Bárbara Mujica
comfortable, native-born Jewish community emerged
and matured in London. The history of this community Edited by Susan L. Fischer & Frederick A. de Armas
and the ways it developed are explored in this volume,
using archival and contemporary advertising material May 2019 304pp
that appeared in the Jewish Chronicle and other Anglo- 9781644530160 Paperback US$37.50
Jewish newspapers in these years. Early Modern Exchange

Academica Press Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish
women as victims, history and fiction of the period are
ITALIA REDIVIVA filled with examples of women who defended their
A Social and Cultural History of Italy, right to make their own decisions and to define their
1740-1900 own identities. The essays in this volume examine many
such examples, demonstrating how women battled the
Neil Kent status quo.

Jul 2019 277pp University Press of Florida
9781680531879 Paperback US$29.95
THE SEEDTIME,
Rather than considering the Risorgimento and Italy’s THE WORK, AND
national unification as the defining events of the THE HARVEST
period, this work provides an alternative focus, rejecting New Perspectives on
sweeping conclusions in favour of a more nuanced the Black Freedom
analysis. Struggle in America

Brookings Institution Press Edited by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn,
Reginald K. Ellis & Peter B. Levy
THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION AT FORTY
Aug 2019 264pp
Edited by Suzanne Maloney 9780813064383 Paperback
US$24.95
Jan 2020 200pp Southern Dissent
9780815737933 Hardback US$36.99
Expands the chronology and geography of the black
Forty years after the Iranian revolution, more than freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on
two dozen experts look back on the rise of the Islamic the old South and the years between 1954 and 1968.
Republic and explore what the startling events of 1979
continue to mean for the volatile Middle East as well as
the rest of the world.

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62 HISTORY

The University of Georgia Press Markus Wiener Publishers

RECLAIMING THE GREAT WORLD HOUSE FROM BERBER STATE TO
The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr. MOROCCAN EMPIRE
The Glory of Fez Under the Marinids
Edited by Vicki L. Crawford & Lewis V. Baldwin
Foreword by Robert Franklin Maya Shatzmiller

Oct 2019 408pp Aug 2019 277pp
9780820356044 Paperback US$36.95 9781558769519 Paperback US$26.95
The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and
Human Rights Series Medieval Fez was a main centre of education, art, and
commerce from the 13th to the 16th centuries after the
The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies Berber tribe of the Marinids seized power in Morocco and
is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its moved the capital from Marrakesh to Fez. As non-Arabs
meaningfulness for the twenty-first-century world. This they gained legitimacy by founding madrassas, religious
volume brings together an impressive array of scholars universities. They also supported the arts and commerce.
from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the It was the Golden Age of Fez. Maya Shatzmiller draws a
global significance of King - then, now, and in the future. historical panorama of this era, highlighting its movers
and shakers.
ROSA PARKS
In Her Own Words HIDDEN LIVES OF JEWS AND AFRICANS
Underground Societies in the
Susan Reyburn Iberian Atlantic World
Foreword by Carla D. Hayden
Jonathan Schorsch
Jan 2020 80pp, 100 b&w and
colour images Aug 2019 360pp
9780820356921 Paperback 9781558766303 Paperback US$28.95
US$16.95
Draws on protocols of the inquisition to create a
Until recently, Rosa Parks’s personal papers were panorama of the lives of free and enslaved people
unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book, from Europe and Africa to Central and South America,
the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print including Conversos and freed Africans who were
through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. business partners and rivals, some involved in
Rosa Parks illuminates her inner thoughts, her ongoing clandestine relations between dominated groups.
struggles, and how she came to be the person who
stood up by sitting down. McFarland

Independent Institute ESCAPE FROM CUBA
Personal Accounts of Those Who Fled
LIBERTY IN PERIL Castro’s Regime
Power and Democracy in American History,
Second Edition Edited by Eloy L. Nuñez & Ernest G. Vendrell

Randall G. Holcombe Oct 2019 190pp, 115 photos
9781476676043 Paperback US$39.95
Sep 2019 356pp
9781598133332 Paperback US$19.95 In 1959, Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba after
overthrowing the government of Fulgencio Batista. In
Provides an account of the political history that response, thousands of Cubans fled the island, mostly
transformed the fundamental principle of American to the United States. This book tells the stories of these
government form liberty to democracy. And why Cubans in exile, all of whom overcame great obstacles to
that shift from the protection of liberty to democratic escape the Castro regime.
collectivism has serious and negative economic and
political consequences.

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HISTORY 63

MY SOVIET YOUTH WOMEN IN THE STRUGGLE FOR
A Memoir of Ukrainian Life in the Final Years IRISH INDEPENDENCE
of Communism
Joseph McKenna
Irina Rodri­guez
Jan 2020 197pp, 50 photos
Sep 2019 170pp, 85 photos 9781476680415 Paperback US$45.00
9781476677590 Paperback US$35.00
Women have too often been written out of history. This
One of the last generation of Soviet teenagers who tasted is especially true in the fight for Irish independence. The
the political restrictions and propaganda, and the benefits women’s struggle was three-fold, beginning with the
and deficits and of the communist state, the author recalls suffragettes’ fight to win the vote. Then came the push for
her years in a Soviet school, a Young Pioneer inauguration fair pay and working conditions. Binding them together
ceremony, work on a collective farm, her family’s plot of became part of the national struggle, first for home rule,
land, and her first breaths of post-Soviet freedom. then for the establishment of an Irish Republic.

SLAVERY AND RACISM IN AMERICAN Melbourne University Publishing
POLITICS, 1776-1876
BREAKING THE SILENCE
Michael C. Thomsett Aboriginal Defenders and the Settler State,
1905-1939
Aug 2019 184pp, 50 photos
9781476670997 Paperback US$39.95 Alison Holland

From early legislation like the Fugitive Slave Law of Nov 2019 277pp
1793 to Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux 9780522875409 Paperback US$36.60
Klan, this book explores the background of some of
America’s most controversial moments. Spanning the Recovers the conflicted politics around Aboriginal affairs
first American century, it offers a detailed chronology of in the first decades of the twentieth century - asking
slavery and racism in early US politics and society. why there was such investment in Aboriginal affairs in
the first half of the twentieth century, what form it took,
SOUTH AFRICA'S HIGH TREASON CLUB what was at stake, and what the outcomes were.
The White Separatist Boeremag Conspirators MUP Academic
on Trial
University of Michigan Press
Karin Mitchell
THE APPEARING DEMOS
Aug 2019 185pp, 20 photos, maps Hong Kong During and Beyond the Umbrella
9781476678832 Paperback US$45.00 Movement

Chronicles the longest running criminal trial in South Laikwan Pang
African history, piecing together court transcripts
and interviews to explore the dynamics and ideals at Feb 2020 240pp, 22 illustrations
the source of the Boeremag movement and its coup 9780472037681 Paperback US$29.95
attempt. The book offers a firsthand look at the dark
consequences of nationalism and populism. Studying Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, which
might be the largest Occupy movement in recent
UNDERSTANDING NAZI IDEOLOGY years, The Appearing Demos urges us to re-commit to
Its Historical Roots, Evolution and democracy at a time when democracy is failing on many
Consequences fronts and in different parts of the world.

Carl Müller Frøland
Translated by John Irons

Nov 2019 349pp, photos
9781476678306 Paperback US$49.95

Tracing the origins of the Nazi "political religion", this
book examines its foundation in ultra-nationalism,
totalitarianism, the Führer cult, racial theory and anti-
Semitism, and the glorification of violence - all swathed
in an element of occultism - and its culmination in the
global cataclysm of World War II and the Holocaust.

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64 HISTORY

SEX BETWEEN BODY Naval Institute Press
AND MIND
Psychoanalysis and CHINESE COMMUNIST ESPIONAGE
Sexology in the An Intelligence Primer
German-Speaking
World, 1890s-1930s Peter Mattis & Matthew Brazil

Katie Sutton Nov 2019 384pp
9781682473030 Hardback US$45.00
Dec 2019 392pp
9780472131600 Hardback The first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese
US$90.00 sources to explain the history and current state of
Social History, Popular Culture, Chinese Communist intelligence operations.
And Politics In Germany
GLASGOW MUSEUMS
In the first half of the 20th century the German-speaking THE SHIP MODELS
world became the international centre of medical- A History and Complete
scientific sex research - and the birthplace of sexology Illustrated Catalogue
and psychoanalysis. This is the first book to closely
examine encounters among this era’s German-speaking Emily Malcolm
researchers across their emerging professional and
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Serbia Before the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
The first full catalogue of Glasgow Museums’
Marko Grdešic internationally important collection of ship models,
almost all of which were produced by Clyde shipyards or
Aug 2019 204pp, 11 b&w cartoons, 11 charts, 16 tables Glasgow-based ship owners.
9780472131334 Hardback US$70.00
The University of North Carolina Press
Examines socialist Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia,
which in the late 1980s witnessed popular mobilization BUILDING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
and an emergence of a populist discourse that both Brunelleschi’s Dome and the
constructed and celebrated "the people". Marko Grdeic Florence Cathedral
uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to show how
"the people" emerge in the public sphere. Paula Kay Lazrus

University of Missouri Press Jul 2019 82pp, 25 illustrations
9781469653396 Paperback US$30.00
THE MEMOIRS OF HARRY S. TRUMAN
A Reader’s Edition For full details of this title, see page 60.

Edited by Raymond H. Geselbracht NO BARRIER CAN CONTAIN IT
Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War
Nov 2019 512pp
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The purpose of this edited and abridged edition of Dec 2019 320pp
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story, told in the authentic voice of Harry S. Truman. Envisioning Cuba
Raymond Geselbracht’s aim is for a new generation of
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approachable and enjoyable to read. transnational, Ariel Mae Lambe has produced an
unprecendented reimagining of Cuban activism during
an era previously regarded as a lengthy, defeated lull.

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HISTORY 65

SOVIET SOFT POWER University of Notre Dame Press
IN POLAND
Culture and the Making THE GLORY AND THE BURDEN
of Stalin’s New Empire, The American Presidency from FDR to Trump
1943-1957
Robert Schmuhl
Patryk Babiracki
Sep 2019 162pp
Aug 2019 368pp, 19 illustrations, 9780268106737 Hardback US$25.00
9 graphs, 3 tables
9781469654782 Paperback For full details of this title, see page 114.
US$29.95
The New Cold War History NUS Press

Concentrating on the IMPERIAL CREATURES
formative years of the Cold Humans and Other Animals in Colonial
War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals Soviet Singapore, 1819-1942
efforts to build a postwar East European empire through
culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in Timothy P. Barnard
foreign cultural outreach tried to use “soft power” in
order to galvanize support for the postwar order in the Sep 2019 336pp, 27 illustrations
emerging Soviet bloc. 9789813250871 Paperback US$34.00

THE VOYAGE OF THE SLAVE SHIP HARE For full details of this title, see page 46.
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to
South Carolina SOUTHEAST ASIA AFTER THE COLD WAR
A Contemporary History
Sean M. Kelley
Ang Cheng Guan
Aug 2019 304pp, 11 illustrations, 3 maps, 12 tables
9781469654768 Paperback US$27.95 Jul 2019 296pp
9789813250789 Paperback US$30.00
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a
journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and Crucial as a tool to make sense of the dynamics of the
back to the United States a journey that transformed region, this account of Southeast Asia’s international
more than seventy Africans into commodities. In relations will be of immediate relevance to those in
this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly China, the USA and elsewhere who engage with the
reconstructs this tumultuous voyage. region, with its young, dynamic population, and its
strategic position across the world’s key choke-points of
trade.

Northwestern University Press Paths International Ltd

CITIZEN OF THE WORLD THE FOUR GREAT INVENTIONS OF
The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois ANCIENT CHINA
Their Origin, Development, Spread and
Edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere Influence in the World

Aug 2019 248pp Jixing Pan
9780810140325 Paperback US$39.95
Critical Insurgencies Jun 2019 560pp
9781844645428 Hardback US$85.00
In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, W.E.B. Du Bois
announced that he was a “citizen of the world.” This Examines the origins, early development and outward
book chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois’s final spread of China’s four great inventions: papermaking,
three decades between the 1930s and 1960s. It maps printing, gunpowder and the compass. It discusses the
his extraordinarily active and productive latter years to role and influence of the four great inventions on the
social, cultural, and political transformations across the development of world civilisation.
globe.

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66 HISTORY

GOVERNANCE IN CHINA SINCE 1949 GEOGRAPHIES OF CITY SCIENCE
Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late
Yanzhe Zhang & Jiang Zhang Victorian Dublin

Jun 2019 400pp Tanya O’Sullivan
9781844645442 Hardback US$105.00
Nov 2019 242pp, 19 b&w illustrations and photos
For full details of this title, see page 115. 9780822945758 Hardback US$50.00
Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
University of Pittsburgh Press
Drawing on both geography and biography, Geographies
DESTAPE! of City Science underscores the crucial role urban spaces
Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in played in the production of scientific knowledge. Each
Postdictatorial Argentina chapter explores the lives of two practitioners from
one of the main religious and political traditions in
Natalia Milanesio Dublin (either Protestant and Unionist or Catholic and
Nationalist).
Oct 2019 296pp, 21 b&w illustrations
9780822945840 Hardback US$45.00 IVAN THE TERRIBLE
Pitt Latin American Series Free to Reward and Free
to Punish
For full details of this title, see page 126.
Charles J. Halperin
AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
OF KRAKOW Oct 2019 360pp, 10 b&w illustrations
9780822945918 Hardback
Adam Izdebski US$45.00
Russian and East European Studies
Mar 2020 192pp, 25 b&w illustrations
9780822946137 Hardback US$37.00 Ivan the Terrible is widely
History of the Urban Environment regarded as creating the
model of autocratic rule
THE FIREBIRD thought to be necessary,
The Elusive Fate of or even natural, for the Russian state whether Tsarist
Russian Democracy or Communist. Halperin, in this biography shatters
the myths surrounding Ivan and reveals a complex
Andrei Kozyrov ruler who had much in common with his European
Forward by Michael McFaul contemporaries, such as Henry the Eighth.

Sep 2019 350pp, A MIGHTY CAPITAL UNDER THREAT
20 b&w photos and illustrations The Environmental History of London,
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Russian and East European Studies Edited by Bill Luckin & Peter Thorsheim

The former Russian Foreign Mar 2020 277pp
Minster under Boris Yeltsin; 9780822946106 Hardback US$45.00
Andrei Kozyrev takes the History of the Urban Environment
reader into the corridors of power to provide a startling
eyewitness account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Investigates the environmental history of one of the
the struggle to create a democratic Russia in its place, world’s great global cities and the largest city in the
and how the promise of a better future led to the tragic United Kingdom. Contributors cover the feeding of
outcome that changed our world forever. London, waste management, movement between the
city’s numerous districts, and the making and shaping
of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.

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HISTORY 67

VÁCLAV HAVEL Southern Illinois University Press
A Biography
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND ROBERT BURNS
David Barton Connected Lives and Legends

Mar 2020 320pp Ferenc Morton Szasz
9780822946069 Hardback US$30.00
Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies Oct 2019 268pp, 12 illustrations
9780809337651 Paperback US$20.00
Offers the first objective and fully researched biography
of the leader of the Velvet Revolution that overthrew Few people are aware of the connection between Robert
communism, and the first president of a democratic Burns and Abraham Lincoln. In Abraham Lincoln and
Czechoslovakia. Robert Burns, Ferenc Morton Szasz reveals how famed
Scots poet Robert Burns - and Scotland in general -
Rutgers University Press influenced the life and thought of one of the most
beloved and important US presidents.

SAN FRANCISCO YEAR ZERO LINCOLN’S SENSE OF HUMOR
Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a
Third-Place Baseball Team Richard Carwardine

Lincoln A. Mitchell Oct 2019 186pp, 10 illustrations
9780809337774 Paperback US$16.95
Oct 2019 360pp, 31 colour photos, 2 tables Concise Lincoln Library
9781978807341 Hardback US$34.95
Registers the variety, complexity of purpose, and ethical
San Francisco is a city of contradictions. Socially liberal, dimension of Lincoln’s humour and pinpoints the
but some of America’s worst income inequality. The political risks Lincoln ran in telling jokes while the nation
playground of tech millionaires, yet it also supports was engaged in a bloody struggle for existence.
vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes. So how did
the city get this way? Lincoln Mitchell traces the roots of THE LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN’S
the current situation back to 1978. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

The University of South Carolina Press Jared Peatman

HOWARD THURMAN Nov 2019 264pp, 16 illustrations
Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for 9780809337781 Paperback US$24.50
Common Ground
“Indispensable to the library of anyone concerned with
Kipton E. Jensen the changing meanings of the Gettysburg Address.
Never have these changes been described in richer or
Dec 2019 208pp fuller detail.” - Barry Schwartz, American Historical Review
9781643360478 Hardback US$34.99

Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman was an
exceptional philosopher and public intellectual in his
own right. In this book, Kipton Jensen provides new ways
of understanding Thurman’s role in and broad influence
on the civil rights movement and argues that he is one
its unsung heroes.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
68 HISTORY

Syracuse University Press THE LAST OTTOMAN WARS
The Human Cost, 1877-1923
HAKIBBUTZ HA’ARTZI, MAPAM,
AND THE DEMISE OF THE ISRAELI Jeremy Salt
LABOR MOVEMENT
Sep 2019 432pp, 6 maps
Tal Elmaliach 9781607817048 Hardback US$40.00
Translated by Haim Watzman
During the last half century of its existence, the Ottoman
Oct 2019 312pp Empire and the lands around its borders were places of
9780815636649 Paperback US$34.95 constant political turmoil and military action. The costs
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East of war were paid by all, including the Ottoman civilian
population. This book examines the hardships that
Israel’s 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic ordinary people endured during decades of warfare.
defeat for the ruling Labor movement. The government
passed into the hands of the rightwing nationalist SYMBOLISM AND FOLK IMAGERY
movement. Elmaliach chronicles the fascinating story of IN EARLY EGYPTIAN POLITICAL
Israel’s political transformation between the 1950s and CARICATURES
the 1970s, exploring the roots of the Labor movement’s The Wafd Election Campaign, 1920-1923
historic collapse.
Byron D. Cannon
NATIONAL SYMBOLS IN MODERN IRAN
Identity, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory Oct 2019 248pp, 38 colour images
9781607816997 Hardback US$45.00
Menahem Merhavy
Art is politics and politics is art in this study of post-
Sep 2019 264pp World War I caricature art in Egypt and Egyptian
9780815636663 Paperback US$29.95 politics. This book explores the complex meaning and
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East significance of caricature art drawn to support the
ascendant Egyptian Wafd political party and its push for
Taking an innovative approach to the study of Iranian independence from British colonial control.
nationalism, Merhavy examines the way symbols from
Iran’s past have played an important role in the struggles THUNDER GO NORTH
between political, religious, and ideological movements The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake’s
over legitimacy in the last five decades. Fair and Good Bay

The University of Utah Press Melissa Darby

THE BALKAN RECONQUISTA AND Sep 2019 336pp, 13 illustrations, 9 maps
TURKEY’S FORGOTTEN REFUGEE CRISIS 9781607817253 Hardback US$24.95

William H. Holt In the summer of 1579 Francis Drake and those
aboard the Golden Hind were in peril. The ship was leaking
Sep 2019 344pp, 34 illustrations and they needed a protected beach. They made landfall in
9781607816959 Hardback US$40.00 what they called a 'Fair and Good Bay', thought to be in
California. This book unravels the mysteries surrounding
During the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, Drake’s voyage and summer sojourn in this bay.
Russian troops, Cossack auxiliaries, and local Bulgarians
participated in what today would be called ethnic
cleansing. William Holt tells the story of a people and
moment in time that has largely been neglected in
modern Turkish and Balkan memory.

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HISTORY 69

Vanderbilt University Press The University of Wisconsin Press

IBERIAN EMPIRES AND THE ROOTS OF THE INVISIBLE JEWISH BUDAPEST
GLOBALIZATION Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle

Edited by Ivonne del Valle, Anna More & Mary Gluck
Rachel Sarah O’Toole
Jul 2019 240pp, 40 b&w illustrations
Jan 2020 328pp 9780299307745 Paperback US$21.95
9780826522535 Paperback US$34.95 George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and
Intellectual History
Through interdisciplinary essays covering the wide
geography of Spanish and Portuguese empires, Iberian Budapest at the fin de siècle was famed and emulated
Empires and the Roots of Globalization investigates the for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was
diverse networks and multiple centers of early modern also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck
globalization that emerged in conjunction with Iberian delves into the popular culture of Budapest’s coffee
imperialism. houses, music halls, and humor magazines to uncover
the enormous influence of assimilated Jews in creating
SURVIVING THE PEACE modernist Budapest.
The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in
Bosnia-Herzegovina REMEMBERING LENINGRAD
The Story of a Generation
Peter Lippman
Mary McAuley
Nov 2019 500pp
9780826522610 Hardback US$27.95 Jul 2019 288pp, 20 b&w photos, 3 maps
9780299322502 Hardback US$39.95
Unique in its breadth and profoundly humanitarian in its
focus, Surviving the Peace situates digestible explanations By weaving history and anecdotes to create a picture of
of the region’s bewilderingly complex recent history Russia’s cultural centre, McAuley underscores the impact
among interviews, conversations, and tableaus from the of time and place on the Russian intelligentsia who lived
lives of everyday Bosnians attempting to make sense of through the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet life.
what passes for normal in a postwar society. The result is a remarkable group portrait of a generation.

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70 HISTORY · ARCHAEOLOGY · CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY

ARCHAEOLOGY CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY

University of Michigan Press University of Massachusetts Press

COSA AND THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE OF FOUR BY EURIPIDES
REPUBLICAN ITALY Medea, Bakkhai, Hippolytos, and Cyclops
(Third and Second Centuries BCE)
Translated by Robert Bagg
Andrea De Giorgi
Nov 2019 200pp
Nov 2019 312pp, 62 illustrations, 2 tables 9781625344458 Paperback US$22.95
9780472131549 Hardback US$70.00
Robert Bagg’s translations are prized for making
Examines archaeological evidence of Roman ancient Greek dramas immediate and gripping. This
colonization of the Middle Republican period. In edition includes accessible new translations of four
delving deeply into the uniqueness of select colonial plays by Euripides - the tragedies Medea, Bakkhai, and
contexts, these essays invite a novel discussion on the Hippolytos, and the satyr play Cyclops - all rendered in
phenomenon of colonialism in the political landscape of iambic pentameter, a meter well­suited for the stage.
Rome’s early expansion.

OSTRAKA AND OTHER INSCRIBED University of Michigan Press
MATERIAL FROM A LATE ANTIQUE
SETTLEMENT AT BR SHAWSH, A STUDENT COMMENTARY ON
SMALL OASIS PLATO’S EUTHYPHRO

Marek Dospel Charles Platter

Nov 2019 304pp, 96 illustrations; 15 tables Oct 2019 120pp
9780472131617 Hardback US$85.00 9780472054329 Paperback US$29.95
Michigan Classical Commentaries
American Studies in Papyrology
The Euthyphro is crucially important for understanding
Informal documents and remains of material culture Plato’s presentation of the last days of Socrates. This
offer a unique window into the daily lives and workings accessible student commentary by Charles Platter
of ancient civilizations. Published here in their presents an introduction to the Euthyphro, the full Greek
archaeological context, the documents and inscriptions text, and a commentary designed for undergraduates
excavated in Egypt’s Western Desert represent a valuable and selected graduate students.
addition to our documentation of the Bahriya Oasis in
the first centuries CE.

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Rutgers University Press Southern Illinois University Press

BLACK ATHENA CHAIN OF GOLD
The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire

Martin Bernal Susan C. Jarratt

Dec 2019 250pp Nov 2019 224pp, 6 illustrations
9781978810037 Paperback US$99.95 9780809337538 Paperback US$38.00

What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy,
the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, the second sophists composed epideictic works for
Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking audiences across the Mediterranean world during the
about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has early centuries of the Common Era. In this study, Susan
deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these influences Jarratt argues that these discourses constitute intricate
have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed. negotiations with the absolute power of the Roman
Empire.
The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical
Civilization Volume I: The Fabrication of The University of Wisconsin Press
Ancient Greece 1785-1985
Martin Bernal RESET IN STONE
Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens
Dec 2019 728pp
9781978804265 Paperback US$44.95 Sarah A. Rous

The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Nov 2019 384pp, 72 black & white figures and photos
Civilization Volume II: The Archaeological 9780299322809 Hardback US$99.95
and Documentary Evidence
Martin Bernal Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Dec 2019 1086pp Ancient Athenians were known to reuse stone artifacts,
9781978804272 Paperback US$44.95 architectural blocks, and public statuary in the creation
of new buildings and monuments. These construction
The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation decisions they were often a visible mechanism for
Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence shaping communal memory, especially in periods of
Martin Bernal social or political transformation. Sarah Rous develops
the concept of upcycling to refer to this meaningful
Dec 2019 1066pp reclamation, the intentionality of reemploying
9781978804296 Paperback US$44.95 each particular object for its specific new context.

HOLOCAUST STUDIES

ARTS & HUMANITIES
72 HISTORY · HOLOCAUST STUDIES

HOLOCAUST STUDIES Syracuse University Press

Purdue University Press BORDERLAND GENERATION
Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON KRISTALLNACHT
After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Jeffrey Koerber
Comparison, 17th Edition
Oct 2019 392pp, 8 b&w illustrations
Edited by Steven J. Ross 9780815636373 Paperback US$39.95
Modern Jewish History
Dec 2019 200pp
9781557538703 Paperback US$34.99 Traces the prewar and wartime experiences of young
Jewish Role in American Life adult Jews raised under distinct political and social
systems. Each cohort harnessed the knowledge and skills
Assessing events 80 years after the violent anti-Jewish attained during their formative years to seek survival
pogrom of 1938, contributors to this volume offer during the Holocaust through narrow windows of
new cutting-edge scholarship on the event and its chance.
repercussions. Contributors include scholars from the
United States, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom Wayne State University Press
who represent a wide variety of disciplines.
HOLOCAUST MEMORY AND RACISM IN
Rutgers University Press THE POSTWAR WORLD

HOLOCAUST GRAPHIC NARRATIVES Edited by Shirli Gilbert & Avril Alba
Generation, Trauma, and Memory
Apr 2019 432pp, 10 b&w images
Victoria Aarons 9780814342695 Paperback US$39.99

Oct 2019 256pp, 39 illustrations Challenges the notion that there is an unproblematic
9781978802551 Paperback US$24.95 connection between Holocaust memory and the
discourse of anti-racism. Through diverse case studies,
Demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly this volume historicizes how the Holocaust has shaped
figured genre. Employing memory as her controlling engagement with racism from the 1940s until the
trope, Victoria Aarons analyses the work of the graphic present, demonstrating that contemporary assumptions
novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend are neither obvious nor inevitable.
the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into the present
and, in doing so, give voice to survival in the wake of
unrecoverable loss.

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HISTORY · MILITARY HISTORY 73

MILITARY HISTORY University of Hawaii Press

The University of Alabama Press PRODUCING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics
WAR AND PUBLIC MEMORY
Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Europe Yuko Shibata

David A. Messenger Nov 2019 216pp
9780824867782 Paperback US$28.00
Jan 2020 240pp, 20 b&w figures
9780817359645 Paperback US$39.95 Juxtaposes literary and cinematic texts usually
War, Memory, and Culture considered separately to highlight the “connected
divides” in the production of knowledge on Hiroshima
Offers an introduction to key issues in the study of and Nagasaki, shedding new light on both texts and
war and memory that examines significant conflicts contexts in the process.
in twentieth-century Europe. David Messenger argues
that in order to understand the history of twentieth- University of Iowa Press
century Europe, we must first appreciate and accept how
different societies and cultures remember their national THIS MIGHTY CONVULSION
conflicts. Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

Brookings Institution Press Edited by Christopher Sten & Tyler Hoffman

BEIRUT 1958 Nov 2019 264pp, 14 b&w photos, 4 b&w figures
How America’s Wars in the Middle East Began 9781609386634 Paperback US$75.00
Iowa Whitman Series
Bruce Riedel
For full details of this title, see page 81.
Oct 2019 128pp
9780815737292 Hardback US$24.99 University Press of Kansas

In July 1958, US Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, AMERICA’S USE OF TERROR
Lebanon, ready for combat. They were greeted by From Colonial Times to the A-bomb
vendors and sunbathers. Fortunately, the rest of their
mission - helping to end Lebanon’s first civil war - went Stephen Huggins
nearly as smoothly. Bruce Riedel’s new book tells the
now-forgotten story of the first US combat operation in Nov 2019 344pp
the Middle East. 9780700628551 Hardback US$39.95

The University of Georgia Press From the first, America has considered itself as uniquely
lighting the right way for the world. But it is hard to
VISIONS OF GLORY reconcile this picture, the very image of American
The Civil War in Word and Image exceptionalism, with what America’s Use of Terror shows
us: that the United States has frequently resorted to acts
Edited by Kathleen Diffley & Benjamin Fagan of terror to solve its most challenging problems.

Nov 2019 280pp, 22 b&w images THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY IN PEACE,
9780820355931 Hardback US$34.95 WAR, AND REVOLUTION, 1856-1917
UnCivil Wars Series
Roger R. Reese
Brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two
brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the Dec 2019 520pp
events that unfolded during a particular year of the 9780700628605 Hardback US$45.00
Civil War.
In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration
of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of
the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell - a collapse that,
in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution,
historians often treat as inevitable. Roger Reese contests
this assumption in this fascinating book.

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74 HISTORY · MILITARY HISTORY

KAZAKHSTAN IN WORLD WAR II McFarland
Mobilization and Ethnicity in the
Soviet Empire THE BRITISH MILITARY REVOLUTION OF
THE 19TH CENTURY
Roberto J. Carmack The Great Gun Question and the
Modernization of Ordnance and
Sep 2019 272pp Administration
9780700628254 Hardback US$45.00
Daniel R. LeClair
The first English-Language study of a non-Russian
Soviet republic during World War II, this book explores Sep 2019 228pp, 50 photos
how the war altered official policies toward the region’s 9781476674995 Paperback US$45.00
ethnic groups - and accelerated Central Asia’s integration
into Soviet institutions. Drawing on ordnance committee records and
contemporary news reports, this book fills a gap in
OPERATION DON’S LEFT WING the history of British military technology and army
The Trans-Caucasus Front’s Pursuit of the First modernization prior to World War I.
Panzer Army, November 1942-February 1943
DISPUTED DECISIONS
David M. Glantz OF WORLD WAR II
Decision Science
Nov 2019 960pp and Game Theory
9780700628438 Hardback US$45.00 Perspectives

On 1 January 1943, with German Sixth Army about to Mark Thompson
be destroyed in the Stalingrad pocket, the Stavka (Soviet
High Command) launched Operation Don, a strategic Jan 2020 222pp, maps
offensive aimed at demolishing German defenses in the 9781476680040 Paperback
southern Soviet Union. This book is the first detailed US$75.00
study of this crucial but virtually overlooked Soviet
military operation. A former Harvard professor
of decision science and
THE RAF AND TRIBAL CONTROL game theory draws on those
Airpower and Irregular Warfare between the disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and
World Wars tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leadership
- although outstanding in many ways - sometimes
Richard D. Newton botched what now is termed meta-decision making or
deciding how to decide.
Dec 2019 240pp
9780700628711 Hardback US$34.95 FORMULA FOR FAILURE IN VIETNAM
The Folly of Limited Warfare
Tells the story of the forgotten airmen, the RAF special
service officers who, embedded among local populations William Hamilton
and indigenous tribes, collected vital intelligence,
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and, perhaps most important, provided personal 9781476679945 Paperback US$35.00
assessments of airpower’s qualitative effects against
primarily guerrilla forces. Drawing on a range of sources, including original
interviews with the commanders ordered to fight a land
STALINGRAD war in Southeast Asia, a former US Army infantry captain
recounts his company’s experiences carrying out those
David M. Glantz & Jonathan M. House orders in Vietnam and Cambodia. The crucial flaws of
the Johnson administration’s strategy of attrition are
Oct 2019 640pp analysed.
9780700628797 Paperback US$28.95

For full details of this title, see page 57.

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THE USS SWORDFISH University of Missouri Press
The World War II Patrols of the First American
Submarine to Sink a Japanese Ship THE DESPERATE DIPLOMAT
Saburo Kurusu’s Memoir of the Weeks before
George J. Billy Pearl Harbor

Sep 2019 192pp, 30 photos, maps Edited by J. Garry Clifford & Masako R. Okura
9781476677743 Paperback US$35.00
Nov 2019 176pp
The USS Swordfish was the first American submarine 9780826222015 Paperback US$21.95
to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship. Drawing on
archival sources and interviews with veteran sailors, this Three weeks prior to the bombing of Pear Harbor,
first full-length history of Swordfish provides detailed Japanese Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu visited
accounts of each patrol and covers the mysterious Washington in an attempt to further peace talks. For
disappearance of the legendary submarine on its final more than seventy years, many have viewed Kurusu’s
mission. visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Garry Clifford and
Masako Okura seek to dispel this myth with this edition
WOODROW WILSON of Kurusu’s memoir.
AS COMMANDER
IN CHIEF Naval Institute Press
The Presidency and the
Great War BATTLE OF MIDWAY
America’s Decisive
Michael P. Riccards & Strike in the Pacific
Cheryl A. Flagg in WWII

Oct 2019 241pp, photos John Grehan
9781476679570 Paperback
US$49.95 Nov 2019 176pp, 150 b&w illustrations
9781526758347 Paperback
The first study on Woodrow US$28.95
Wilson as commander in chief during the Great War, Images of War
this volume analyses Wilson’s management style before
the war, his diplomacy and his final demise in his battle The four-day Battle of
with the Senate. It considers the war as representing the Midway resulted in the loss
collapse of Western traditional virtues and examines of four Japanese aircraft
Wilson’s attempt to restore them. carriers, the U.S. Navy losing only one. The Japanese were
never able to recover from these losses, and it was the
University of Michigan Press Americans who were able to take control of the Pacific.
This book recounts the events of the Battle of Midway -
ALWAYS AT WAR which, unquestionably, marked the turning point in the
British Public Narratives of War war against Japan.

Thomas Colley A BRIEF GUIDE TO MARITIME STRATEGY

Aug 2019 280pp James R. Holmes
9780472131440 Hardback US$75.00
Nov 2019 192pp
Examines the stories told by a broad cross-section of 9781682473818 Paperback US$24.95
British society about their country’s past, present,
and future role in war, using in-depth interviews with A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy is a deliberately
67 diverse citizens. It brings to the fore the voices compact introductory work aimed at junior seafarers,
of ordinary people in ways typically absent in public those who make decisions affecting the sea services, and
opinion research. those who educate seafarers and decision-makers.

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CHURCHILL’S PHONEY WAR VINCERE
A Study in Folly and Frustration The Italian Royal Army’s Counterinsurgency
Operations in Africa 1922-1940
Graham T. Clews
Federica Saini Fasanotti
Oct 2019 400pp, 20 b&w photos, 8 maps
9781682472798 Hardback US$48.00 Jan 2020 240pp, 18 b&w photos
Studies in Naval History and Sea Power 9781682474280 Hardback US$44.00

Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this Based on ten years of study in the Italian archives and on
book examines the early months of World War II when the ground, Vincere examines a little-known topic: the
Winston Churchill’s ability to lead Britain in the fight counterinsurgency operations carried out by the Italian
against the Nazis was being tested. Royal Army in Libya and Ethiopia from 1922 to 1941.

NEW FROM DEAD RECKONING NewSouth Publishing

ONCE UPON A TIME IN FRANCE BATTLE ON 42ND STREET
War in Crete and the Anzacs’ Bloody
Fabien Nury Last Stand
Drawings by Sylvain Vallée
Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger Peter Monteath

Sep 2019 368pp Nov 2019 288pp
9781682474716 Paperback US$29.95 9781742236032 Paperback US$28.00

Based on a true story, Once Upon a Time in France Acclaimed historian Peter Monteath draws on records
follows the life of Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew and recollections of Australian, New Zealand, German
who immigrated to France in the 1920s and became and British forces and local Cretans to reveal the truth
one of the richest men in Europe as a scrap-metal behind one of the most gruesome battles of World
magnate. For some, he was a villain. For others, War II.
a hero.
THE GREAT WAR
SMEDLEY Aftermath and Commemoration

Jeff Mccomsey Carolyn Holbrook & Keir Reeves

Oct 2019 176pp Nov 2019 304pp
9781682472767 Paperback US$26.95 9781742236629 Paperback US$28.00

Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated Marines Reflects on the aftermath of World War I and the
of all time, is a man in his element as he recalls his commemoration of its centenary. Provocative and
toughest scrapes to an eager audience of World War engaging essays from a diverse group of leading
I veterans - who, we discover, have a few war stories historians reflect on the commemorative splurge, which
of their own. involved large amounts of public spending, and also
re-examine what happened in the immediate aftermath
SIX VICTORIES of the war itself.
North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean
Convoy War, November 1941-March 1942

Vincent O’Hara

Oct 2019 336pp, 26 b&w illustrations, 17 maps, 25 tables
9781682474600 Hardback US$34.95

Six Victories examines one of the most interesting and
instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the war on
traffic in the Mediterranean during the fall and winter of
1941-42.

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The University of North Carolina Press MAKING PEACE IN AN AGE OF WAR
Emperor Ferdinand III (1608-1657)
SEARCHING FOR BLACK CONFEDERATES
The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth Mark Hengerer

Kevin M. Levin Jul 2019 362pp, 27 illustrations
9781557538444 Paperback US$49.95
Sep 2019 240pp, 18 illustrations Central European Studies
9781469653266 Hardback US$30.00
Civil War America This translation of Mark Hengerer’s Kaiser Ferdinand
III: 1608- 1657 is based on an analysis of reports sent
More than 150 years after the Civil War, scores of by the papal nuncio’s office to the Vatican. They give
websites, articles, and organisations repeat claims information about the daily whereabouts of the dynasty,
that anywhere up to 100,000 African Americans courtiers, and foreign visitors, and contain the gossip of
fought in the Confederate army. Kevin Levin explains the court in addition to analysis of political problems.
that imprecise contemporary accounts and poorly
understood primary-source material have helped fuel Rutgers University Press
the rise of the black Confederate myth.
INTERVENTION NARRATIVES
THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION Afghanistan, the United States, and the
The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Global War on Terror
Rebirth of the American Republic
Purnima Bose
Gregory P. Downs
Nov 2019 228pp
Nov 2019 240pp, 6 illustrations 9781978805989 Paperback US$29.95
9781469652733 Hardback US$27.95 War Culture
The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Examines the contradictory cultural representations of
Argues that we can see the US Civil War anew the US intervention in Afghanistan that help to justify an
by understanding it as a revolution. More than a imperial foreign policy. An indictment of US policy, Bose
fight to preserve the Union and end slavery, the demonstrates that contemporary imperialism operates
conflict refashioned a nation, in part by remaking its on an ideologically diverse cultural terrain to enlist
Constitution. More than a struggle of brother against support for the war across the political spectrum.
brother, it entailed remaking an Atlantic world that
centred in surprising ways on Cuba and Spain.

Purdue University Press

EVA AND OTTO
Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the
Time of Hitler

Tom Pfister, Kathy Pfister & Peter Pfister

Nov 2019 478pp, 60 illustrations
9781557538819 Paperback US$29.99

A true story about German opposition and resistance to
Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski
Pfister and Otto Pfister. This is an intimate and epic
account of two Germans who worked with a little-
known German political group that resisted and fought
against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile
in Paris.

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78 LIBRARY STUDIES

LIBRARY STUDIES NEAL-SCHUMAN LIBRARY
TECHNOLOGY COMPANION
American Library Association A Basic Guide for Library Staff, Sixth Edition

CATALOGING CORRECTLY FOR KIDS John J. Burke
An Introduction to the Tools and Practices,
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Michele Zwierski, Joanna F. Foundation & Marilyn McCroskey
Carrying over the reorganization that made the fifth
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comprehensive library technology primer is timelier and
Guides cataloguers, children’s librarians, and LIS students more compelling than ever.
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LIBRARY SERVICE AND LEARNING
Empowering Students, Inspiring Social Edited by Adeyinka Tella
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ALA Editions

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LITERATURE Broadview Press

Academic Studies Press LONDON LABOUR AND
THE LONDON POOR
A READER’S COMPANION TO Selections
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV’S THE MASTER
AND MARGARITA Henry Mayhew

J.A.E. Curtis Edited by Barbara Leckie &
Janice Schroeder
Dec 2019 200pp
9781644690789 Paperback US$29.95 Aug 2019 380pp, 18 b&w illustrations
Companions to Russian Literature 9781554813391 Paperback
US$19.95
Offers readers a biographical introduction, and analyses
of the structure and the main themes of Mikhail Produced between 1850 and
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. More curious 1862, London Labour and the
readers will also enjoy the accounts of the novel’s writing London Poor is one of the most significant examples of
and publication history, alongside analyses of the work’s nineteenth century oral history. The collection teems
astonishing linguistic complexity. with the minute particulars of the everyday bits and
pieces of London lives assembled into a precarious whole
by the author, editor, and principal investigator, Henry
Mayhew.

Academica Press PEARL
Text and Translation
ECOSOPHICAL VISION AND
SELF-REALIZATION IN Edited & translated by Jane Beal
MARGARET ATWOOD’S PROSE
Dec 2019 250pp, 5 illustrations
Candy D’Cunha 9781554814589 Paperback US$18.95

Sep 2019 194pp The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one
9781680531824 Hardback US$139.95 of the best dream vision poems ever written. This dual-
language edition of Pearl provides the original Middle
In this incisive interpretation of Margaret Atwood’s English with a facing-page modern English translation. It
prose, Candy D’Cunha argues that the novelist’s also includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations
ecosophical vision provides valuable lessons that of key words and ideas.
could help in creating a greater and more responsible
awareness in the modern psyche about the PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
environment. Second Edition

SPIRITUAL SHAKESPEARE Jane Austen
Religious Subtext in the Plays Edited by Robert P. Irvine

E.L. Risden Mar 2020 500pp, 2 b&w illustrations
9781554814893 Paperback US$12.95
Jul 2019 194pp
9781680531565 Hardback US$139.95 Robert Irvine’s introduction sets the novel in the context
of the literary and intellectual history of the period,
For an author who tended to avoid explicitly Christian dealing with such crucial background issues as class
subjects in his plays and poems, Shakespeare showed an relations in Britain, female exclusion from property and
abiding interest in the spiritual qualities of his characters. power, and the impact of the French Revolution.
This book considers the playwright not only as a
Christian writer, but also one of considerable spiritual
significance.

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80 LITERATURE

Bucknell University Press WOVEN SHADES OF
GREEN
BESIDE THE BARD An Anthology of Irish
Scottish Lowland Poetry in the Age of Burns Nature Literature

George S. Christian Edited by Tim Wenzell

Mar 2020 232pp Aug 2019 386pp
9781684481811 Paperback US$38.95 9781684481378 Paperback
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 US$29.95

Argues that Scottish poetry in the age of Burns reclaims Offers an annotated selection
not a single past, dominated and overwritten by the of literature from authors who
unitary national language of an elite ruling class, but a focus on the natural world and
past that conceptualizes the Scottish nation in terms of the beauty of Ireland. The anthology begins with the
local self-identification, linguistic multiplicity, cultural Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature poetry,
and religious difference, and transnational affiliations. moves on to the nature literature of the Irish Literary
Revival, and concludes with a section on Irish naturalist
THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING writers.
ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
The Catholic University of America Press
Daniel Defoe
Edited by Maximillian E. Novak, Irving Rothman & PARADISE LOST
Manuel Schonhorn A Primer

Jan 2020 250pp Michael Cavanagh
9781684480968 Paperback US$49.95 Edited by Scott Newstok

Robinson Crusoe has been an international bestseller for Feb 2020 256pp
three hundred years. This edition of the novel with its 9780813232461 Paperback US$29.95
introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes
provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. After surveying Milton’s recurrent struggle as a reconciler of
conflicting ideals, this Primer undertakes a book-by-book
THE NOVEL STAGE reading of Paradise Lost, reviewing key features of John
Narrative Form from the Restoration to Milton’s “various style,” and why we treasure that style.
Jane Austen
University of Delaware Press
Marcie Frank
THE DARK THREAD
Dec 2019 224pp, 3 b&w photos & 2 colour photos From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales
9781684481675 Paperback US$34.95
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 Edited by John D. Lyons

Traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of Nov 2019 280pp
manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, 9781644531631 Paperback US$35.00
offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the Early Modern Exchange
English novel that examines how the collaboration of
genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to Examines a set of perennial narrative motifs centred
the modern organization of literature. on violence within the family as they have appeared in
French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. This
THE POETICS OF EPIPHANY IN THE book questions the traditional separation between the
SPANISH LYRIC OF TODAY honoured genre of tragedy and the less respected genres
of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror
Judith Nantell stories.

Nov 2019 200pp, 4 illustrations
9781684481576 Paperback US$39.95

Drawing on original contributions of four major voices in
the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell investigates the
epistemic poetry of Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep
M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas, arguing that, for them, the
poem is the fundamental means of exploring the nature
of both knowledge and poetry.

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University Press of Florida VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MODERNIST PATH
Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read
JOYCE AND GEOMETRY
Barbara Lounsberry
Christopher W. Calvo
Dec 2018 280pp
Feb 2020 192pp 9780813064307 Paperback US$24.95
9780813066288 Hardback US$80.00
The Florida James Joyce Series Choice Outstanding Academic Title. In this second
volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf’s
Reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer’s life
James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to
non-Euclidean geometry. Tracing Joyce’s obsession with 1929 - what is often considered Woolf’s modernist
measuring and mapping space throughout his works, "golden age".
Ciaran McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce’s
work that has not been thoroughly explored until now. The University of Georgia Press

JOYCE AND THE LAW POSTHUMAN BLACKNESS AND THE
BLACK FEMALE IMAGINATION
Edited by Jonathan Goldman
Kristen Lillvis
Jul 2019 306pp
9780813064475 Paperback US$29.95 Nov 2019 148pp
The Florida James Joyce Series 9780820356860 Paperback US$24.95

Making the case that legal issues are central to James For full details of this title, see page 121.
Joyce’s life and work, international experts in law and
literature offer new insights into Joyce’s most important University of Hawaii Press
texts. They analyse Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man, Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake in
light of the legal contexts of Joyce’s day.

PANEPIPHANAL WORLD PRODUCING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
James Joyce’s Epiphanies Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics

Sangam MacDuff Yuko Shibata

Feb 2020 304pp Nov 2019 216pp
9780813066325 Hardback US$80.00 9780824867782 Paperback US$28.00
The Florida James Joyce Series
For full details of this title, see page 73.
Provides the first in-depth study of the forty short texts
James Joyce called “epiphanies”. Composed between University of Iowa Press
1901 and 1904, at the beginning of Joyce’s writing
career, these texts are often dismissed as juvenilia. THIS MIGHTY CONVULSION
Sangam MacDuff argues that the epiphanies are an Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War
important point of origin for Joyce’s entire body of work.
Edited by Christopher Sten & Tyler Hoffman
VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE WAR WITHOUT,
THE WAR WITHIN Nov 2019 264pp, 14 b&w photos, 4 b&w figures
Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read 9781609386634 Paperback US$75.00
Iowa Whitman Series
Barbara Lounsberry
The first book devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt
Aug 2019 408pp Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most
9780813068077 Paperback US$24.95 important poets of the war. These essays add to recent
critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of
In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, these poets; growing recognition of the complexity of
Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the their views; and appreciation for their anxieties in the
courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from war’s aftermath.
1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more
to her diary for support in these years as she engaged in
inner artistic wars.

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The Kent State University Press University of Massachusetts Press

HEMINGWAY IN THE DIGITAL AGE MINOTAUR, PARROT, AND THE SS MAN
Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Essays on Jorge de Sena
Understanding
George Monteiro
Edited by Laura Gruber Godfrey Introduction by Francisco Cota Fagundes

Aug 2019 232pp Dec 2019 176pp
9781606353813 Paperback US$34.95 9781933227979 Paperback US$19.95
Teaching Hemingway Adamastor Series

Asks questions that connect Hemingway’s time and Jorge de Sena was an undisputed giant of twentieth-
our own digital era. Are there qualities of digital age life century Portuguese letters. In the essays gathered in
that make students more connected to Hemingway’s this collection, George Monteiro deftly weaves together
life and writing? How can we compare the 21st- his readings of Sena’s poetry and prose, both literary
century transhumanist interest in making ourselves and critical, with evidence drawn from Sena’s
into something more than merely 'human' with biographical archive, focusing in particular on his
Hemingway’s characters? Brazilian and US years.

HEMINGWAY’S SHORT STORIES Tagus Press
Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and
Understanding THEATRICALS OF DAY
Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century
Edited by Frederic Svoboda American Popular Culture

Nov 2019 144pp Sandra Runzo
9781606353875 Paperback US$24.95
Teaching Hemingway Nov 2019 240pp, 9 illustrations
9781625344427 Paperback US$27.95
Sometimes characterised as the most significant
author since Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway was Explores how popular culture and entertainments
an acknowledged master of the short story. In this are seen, heard, and felt in Emily Dickinson’s writing.
collection, thirteen teachers from all levels discuss Sandra Runzo proposes that the presence of popular
aspects of his work, demonstrating how they motivate entertainment in Dickinson’s life and work opens our
students to appreciate what Hemingway is doing. eyes to new dimensions of the poems, illuminating
the ways in which the poet was attentive to strife and
I HEAR THE WORLD SING conflict, to amusement, and to play.
Italian and American Children Joined in Poetry
McFarland
Edited by David Hassler, Jessica Jewell & Stephanie Siciarz
READING THE SHORT STORY
Sep 2019 96pp A Student’s Guide to Selected British, Irish
9781606353899 Paperback US$19.95 and American Works

When school children from Kent, Ohio and Florence, Anna Wing-bo Tso & Scarlett Lee
Italy, were invited to express their thoughts about
“Where I’m From” in poetry, the connections that Sep 2019 160pp
emerged were remarkable. Their responses to this 9781476673981 Paperback US$35.00
prompt demonstrate the underlying importance of
home, families, the natural world, and the creative Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the
identities that children harbour within them. short story genre, alongside an overview of the key
short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of
literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight
into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American
authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery
O’Conner, and more.

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REALITY SIMULATION IN SCIENCE A STUDENT COMMENTARY ON
FICTION, FILM AND TELEVISION PLATO’S EUTHYPHRO

Heather Duerre Humann Charles Platter

Sep 2019 146pp Oct 2019 120pp
9781476677538 Paperback US$45.00 9780472054329 Paperback US$29.95
Michigan Classical Commentaries
In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual
media has produced an outpouring of story lines that For full details of this title, see page 70.
feature forms of simulated reality. In combination with
tech-driven tensions, this study shows that our collective University Press of Mississippi
sense of living in politically uncertain times propels the
popularity of these story lines. CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLEN GINSBERG

TRANSMEDIA HARRY POTTER Edited by David Stephen Calonne
Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms
May 2019 224pp
Edited by Christopher E. Bell 9781496823519 Paperback US$25.00
Literary Conversations Series
Aug 2019 156pp
9781476673547 Paperback US$39.95 Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most
famous American poets of the twentieth century.
For full details of this title, see page 90. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong
contributions to literature but also social justice.
TRUE CRIME PARALLELS TO THE Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from
MYSTERIES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE 1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg’s intellectual, spiritual,
and political evolution.
Anne Powers
THE SUPERVILLAIN READER
Nov 2019 172pp
9781476679464 Paperback US$39.95 Edited by Robert Moses Peaslee & Robert G. Weiner

Outsold only by the Bible and the works of Shakespeare, Jan 2020 416pp, 24 b&w illustrations
the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most 9781496826473 Paperback US$30.00
celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten
of Agatha Christie’s most famous works and shows their Featuring both reprinted and original essays, this
relationship to ten of crime history’s most famous and collection reveals why we are so fascinated with the
sensational cases - cases whose notoriety still resounds villain. This innovative collection brings together essays,
to this day. book excerpts, and original content from a wide variety
of scholars and writers, weaving a rich tapestry of
University of Michigan Press thought regarding villains in all their manifestations.

THE POSTCOLONIAL ANIMAL University of Missouri Press
African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN HUMORIST
Evan Mwangi
Tracy Wuster
Sep 2019 256pp, 4 illustrations
9780472054190 Paperback US$34.95 Aug 2019 504pp
African Perspectives 9780826221995 Paperback US$35.00
Mark Twain and His Circle
Despite the central role that animals play in African
writing and daily life, African literature and African Examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation
thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of developed at home and abroad in the period between
animal studies. This book demonstrates the importance 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional
of African writing to animal studies. humorist to national and international fame.

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84 LITERATURE

University of Nevada Press DAYBOOK 1918
Early Fragments
MAKE WAVES
Water in Contemporary Literature and Film J.V. Foix
Translated by Lawrence Venuti
Paula Anca Farca
Sep 2019 152pp
Oct 2019 304pp 9780810140653 Paperback US$18.95
9781948908429 Paperback US$34.95
Presents the first substantial selection in English from
In this edited collection, contributors tackle current the prose poetry of the major Catalan writer J.V. Foix
water issues in the era of climate change using a wide (1893-1987). The core of Lawrence Venuti’s edition
variety of recent literature and film. At its core, this is forty-five prose poems from the beginning of Foix’s
collection demonstrates that water is an immense career, supplemented by additional poems in prose and
reservoir of artistic potential and an agent of historical verse, prose fictions, and essays.
and cultural exchange.
HOW WOMEN MUST WRITE
Northwestern University Press Inventing the Russian Woman Poet

THE BILINGUAL MUSE Olga Peters Hasty
Self-Translation among Russian Poets
Oct 2019 272pp
Adrian Wanner 9780810140936 Paperback US$39.95
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Dec 2019 248pp
9780810141230 Paperback US$39.95 Studies how women who write poems were invented in
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia by
women poets themselves, readers who derived poets of
THE BLACKADEMIC LIFE their own design from women’s poems, and male poets
Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and who fabricated women and wrote poems on their behalf.
the Black Intellectual
ONLY AMONG WOMEN
Lavelle Porter Philosophies of Community in the Russian
and Soviet Imagination, 1860-1940
Oct 2019 224pp
9780810140998 Paperback US$34.95 Anne Eakin Moss

Examines academic fictions produced by black writers. Nov 2019 312pp, 32 b&w images
Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and 9780810141025 Paperback US$39.95
campus life in literature as a space for black writers to Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
produce counter-narratives that celebrate the potentials
of black intelligence and argue for the importance of Examines idealized relationships between women in
black higher education, particularly in the humanistic Russian literature and culture. The book reveals how
tradition. the idea of a community of women originates in the
classic Russian novel, fuels mystical notions of unity in
turn-of-the-century modernism, and assumes a place of
privilege in Stalinist culture.

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LITERATURE 85

SACRED AND SECULAR TRANSACTIONS IN University of Notre Dame Press
THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE
MARCH 1917
Edited by Katherine Steele Brokaw & Jason Zysk The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

Aug 2019 256pp Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9780810140516 Paperback US$39.95 Translated by Marian Schwartz
Rethinking the Early Modern
Nov 2019 700pp
Argues that Shakespeare’s plays present “secularization” 9780268106850 Hardback US$39.00
not only as a historical narrative of progress but also The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and
often problematic transactions between sacred and The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr
secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the
from pastoral government to wonder and the spatial Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about
imagination. just four of the most important periods, or “nodes”.
This is the first time that the monumental March
WIRELESS DADA 1917 - the third node - has been translated into
Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde English. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution
itself, during which the Imperial government melts
Kurt Beals in the face of the mob, and the giants of the
opposition also prove incapable of controlling the
Nov 2019 216pp, 30 b&w images course of events.
9780810141056 Paperback US$34.95
ALSO AVAILABLE
Demonstrates that the poetics of the Dada movement
were profoundly influenced by the telegraph and the MARCH 1917
technological and social transformations that it brought The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1
about in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2017 672pp
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Purdue University Press

IMAGINING AFGHANISTAN
Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars

Alla Ivanchikova

Sep 2019 324pp, 13 illustrations
9781557538468 Paperback US$44.99
Comparative Cultural Studies

Examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in
texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and
the subsequent US-led invasion. Through an analysis
of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film,
the book demonstrates that writing and screening
“Afghanistan” has become a conduit for understanding
our shared post-9/11 condition.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
86 LITERATURE

Syracuse University Press SELECTIONS FROM THE ART OF PARTY
CRASHING IN MEDIEVAL IRAQ
ANXIETY OF ERASURE
Trauma, Authorship, Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi
and the Diaspora in Arab Translated by Emily Selove
Women’s Writings
Aug 2019 200pp
Hanadi Al-Samman 9780815636687 Paperback US$16.95

Aug 2019 312pp Compiled in the eleventh century, this collection of
9780815636625 Paperback irreverent and playful anecdotes celebrates eating,
US$24.95 drinking, and general merriment. Ribald jokes, flirtations,
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the and wry observations of misbehaving Muslims acquaint
Middle East readers with everyday life in medieval Iraq in a way that
is both entertaining and edifying.
Far from offering another study
that bemoans Arab women’s University of Tennessee Press
repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at
Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF AFRICAN
translated their experiences into a productive and AMERICAN LITERATURE
creative force.
Phillip M. Richards
FINE MESHWORK
Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth, and Feb 2020 277pp
Irish-Jewish Literature 9781621904588 Hardback US$49.95

Dan O’Brien Inquiry into African American literature in recent decades
has neglected to probe the intellectual structure of
Aug 2019 288pp the tradition’s aesthetics and its underlying ideology.
9780815636397 Paperback US$34.95 This book begins this reconstructive work, illuminating
Irish Studies the dialectical backstory of black prose and poetry in
America.
Since the publication of their first controversial novels
in the 1950s and 1960s, Philip Roth and Edna O’Brien MOCKINGBIRD
have always argued against the isolation of mind from GROWS UP
body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self Re-Reading Harper Lee
from nation. In this book Dan O’Brien investigates these Since Watchman
shared concerns of the two authors.
Edited by Michele Reutter &
OPEN-EYED, FULL-THROATED Jonathan S. Cullick
An Anthology of American/Irish Poetry
Jan 2020 277pp
Edited by Nathalie Anderson 9781621905462 Hardback
US$60.00
Oct 2019 362pp
9781851322121 Paperback US$35.00 Takes on the task of
interpreting, contextualising,
Introduces forty-four distinct voices, exploring the and deconstructing To Kill a Mockingbird in the wake
complexity and nuance of Irish culture, language, of Go Set a Watchman. This volume offers a deeper
and society. In poems of loss, outrage, exhilaration, understanding of a canonical American work and
contemplation, and humour, the writers collected here prepares a new generation to engage with Harper Lee’s
offer responses to Ireland that intrigue, satisfy, and appealing prose, complex characters, and influential
sustain. metaphors.

Arlen House

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LITERATURE 87

THE WANDERER IN AFRICAN University of Virginia Press
AMERICAN LITERATURE
CHARACTER AND MOURNING
Gena E. Chandler-Smith Woolf, Faulkner, and the Novel Elegy of the
First World War
Feb 2020 277pp
9781621905295 Hardback US$60.00 Erin Penner

Highlights an enduring feature of African American May 2019 248pp
letters. Gena E. Chandler argues that wanderers and the 9780813942971 Paperback US$29.50
theme of wandering push the limits of narrative forms
and challenge assumptions about the African American In response to the devastating trauma of World War I,
experience. British and American authors wrote about grief. The
need to articulate loss inspired moving novels by Virginia
Vanderbilt University Press Woolf and William Faulkner. Erin Penner shows how
these two modernist novelists took on the challenge
ENDURING POSTWAR of rewriting the literature of mourning for a new and
Yasuoka Shtar and Literary Memory in Japan difficult era.

Kendall Heitzman CHILDREN OF THE RAVEN AND
THE WHALE
Oct 2019 225pp Visions and Revisions in American Literature
9780826522566 Paperback US$24.95
Caroline Chamberlin Hellman
Yasuoka Shtar (1920-2013) was perfectly situated
to become Japan’s premier chronicler of the Shwa Dec 2019 206pp
period (1926-89). In Enduring Postwar, the first 9780813943602 Paperback US$29.50
literary and biographical study of Yasuoka in English,
Kendall Heitzman explores the element of memory in Taking its cue from Perry Miller’s 1956 classic of
Yasuoka’s work in the context of his life and evolving American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale,
understanding of postwar Japan. Caroline Chamberlin Hellman examines ways in which
contemporary multi-ethnic American writers of the
WRITING REVOLUTION United States have responded to nineteenth- and
IN LATIN AMERICA early twentieth-century texts historically central to the
From Martí to García American literary canon.
Márquez to Bolaño
EVANGELICAL GOTHIC
Juan De Castro The English Novel and the
Religious War on Virtue
Sep 2019 352pp from Wesley to Dracula
9780826522597 Paperback
US$24.95 Christopher Herbert

In the politically volatile period Nov 2019 272pp
from the 1960s through 9780813943404 Hardback
the end of the twentieth US$45.00
century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue Victorian Literature and Culture
with the violent realities of their time and place. This
volume is a chronological study of the way revolution Explores the bitter antagonism
and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction that prevailed between
composed from the eye of the storm. two defining institutions of
nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the
popular novel. Herbert contends that the realistic
popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to
Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its
opposition to that ideology as its core function.

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88 LITERATURE · COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

GOODNESS AND THE LITERARY COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
IMAGINATION
Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays University of Iowa Press
on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision
SUPERHERO THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
Toni Morrison Comic Book Philosophy
Edited by David Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell & Mara Willard
Chris Gavaler & Nathaniel Goldberg
Oct 2019 256pp, 15 b&w photos
9780813943626 Hardback US$27.95 Sep 2019 224pp, 12 b&w figures
9781609386559 Paperback US$22.50
What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the
literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American Examining the deep philosophical topics addressed in
letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing superhero comics, authors Gavaler and Goldberg read
questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered plot lines for the complex thought experiments they
at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the contain and analyse their implications as if the comic
first time. authors were philosophers.

THE SHORTEST WAY WITH DEFOE McFarland
Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel
SECONDARY SUPERHEROES OF
Michael B. Prince GOLDEN AGE COMICS

Dec 2019 288pp, 17 b&w illustrations Lou Mougin
9780813943657 Paperback US$35.00
Jan 2020 377pp, 300 photos
A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the 9781476675138 Paperback US$75.00
voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary
immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that When Superman debuted 1938, he ushered in a string
Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against of imitators - Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel,
one person, that has gone undetected for 300 years. Captain America. But what about the many less well-
known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains
The University of Wisconsin Press or Hitler. This book gives the other superheroes of the
Golden Age of comics their due.
LYRIC COMPLICITY
Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of WELCOME TO ARKHAM ASYLUM
Russian Literature Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City
Institution
Daria Khitrova
Edited by Sharon Packer, M.D. & Daniel R. Fredrick
Jul 2019 296pp
9780299322106 Hardback US$79.95 Sep 2019 253pp, 40 photos
Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies 9781476670980 Paperback US$45.00

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple
was woven into everyday life - in conversation and of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise
correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlour comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games,
entertainments. Blending close literary analysis with films, television series and more. The 25 essays in this
social and cultural history, Daria Khitrova shows collection explore the significance of Arkham’s sinister
how poetry lovers of the period all became nodes psychiatrists, murderous mental patients, and unethical
in a vast network of literary appreciation and geneticists.
constructed meaning.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
LITERATURE · COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 89

University Press of Mississippi Naval Institute Press

THE COMICS OF ALISON BECHDEL NEW FROM DEAD RECKONING
From the Outside In
ONCE UPON A TIME IN FRANCE
Edited by Janine Utell
Fabien Nury
Jan 2020 272pp, 46 b&w illustrations Drawings by Sylvain Vallée
9781496825780 Paperback US$30.00 Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
Sep 2019 368pp
In a definitive collection of original essays, scholars 9781682474716 Paperback US$29.95
cover the span of Alison Bechdel’s career, placing her
groundbreaking early work within the context of her For full details of this title, see page 76.
more well-known recent projects. Contributors provide Dead Reckoning
new insights on major themes in Bechdel’s work, such
as gender performativity, lesbian politics, trauma, and SMEDLEY
queer theory.
Jeff Mccomsey
GOTHIC FOR GIRLS
Misty and British Comics Oct 2019 176pp
9781682472767 Paperback US$26.95
Julia Round
For full details of this title, see page 76.
Nov 2019 320pp, 53 colour illustrations Dead Reckoning
9781496824462 Paperback US$30.00
University Press of Mississippi
Today fans still remember and love the British
girls’ comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative WITH GREAT POWER COMES
complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little GREAT PEDAGOGY
critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round Teaching, Learning, and Comics
presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed
discussion of the comic. Edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia & Peter E. Carlson

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PHILOSOPHY Feb 2020 240pp, 17 b&w illustrations
9781496826053 Paperback US$30.00
Edited by Jeff McLaughlin
For full details of this title, see page 14.
Feb 2020 226pp
9781496825629 Paperback US$30.00 Rutgers University Press

Each contributor to this collection ponders a well-known DREAMING THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
graphic novel to illuminate ways in which philosophy can The Novelization of Comics
untangle particular combinations of image and written
word for deeper understanding. Paul Williams

MONSTROUS IMAGINARIES Nov 2019 222pp, 10 colour photos, 6 figures, 5 tables
The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics 9781978805064 Paperback US$29.95

Maaheen Ahmed Examines how notions of the graphic novel began to
coalesce in the 1970s. Surveying the eclectic array of
Dec 2019 240pp, 27 b&w illustrations long comics narratives that emerged from this fertile
9781496825278 Paperback US$30.00 period, Paul Williams investigates many texts that have
fallen out of graphic novel history.
Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters
created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary HOLOCAUST GRAPHIC NARRATIVES
Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Maaheen Ahmed maps Generation, Trauma, and Memory
the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in
contemporary comics and graphic novels. Victoria Aarons

Oct 2019 256pp, 39 illustrations
9781978802551 Paperback US$24.95

For full details of this title, see page 72.

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90 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

MEDIA & COMMUNICATION University of Michigan Press

Brookings Institution Press TRANSGENERATIONAL
MEDIA INDUSTRIES
DIGITAL DEMOCRACY Adults, Children, and the Reproduction
A New Social Contract for Our Technological of Culture
Future
Derek Johnson
Dipayan Ghosh
Nov 2019 268pp, 8 illustrations
Nov 2019 200pp 9780472054312 Paperback US$34.95
9780815737650 Hardback US$24.99
Presents an innovative perspective that looks beyond
For full details of this title, see page 109. the simple category of "kids" media to consider how
entertainment industry strategies invite producers and
McFarland consumers alike to cross boundaries between adulthood
and childhood, professional and amateur, new media
MYTH-BUILDING IN MODERN MEDIA and old.
The Role of the Mytharc in Imagined Worlds
University Press of Mississippi
A.J. Black
SUBVERSIVE SPIRITS
Dec 2019 190pp The Female Ghost in British and American
9781476675633 Paperback US$39.95 Popular Culture

For full details of this title, see page 91. Robin Roberts

TRANSMEDIA HARRY POTTER Feb 2020 184pp
Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms 9781496825582 Paperback US$30.00

Edited by Christopher E. Bell For full details of this title, see page 126.

Aug 2019 156pp Wayne State University Press
9781476673547 Paperback US$39.95
JUSTICE ON DEMAND
While there has been adaptation - books to films, for True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era
example - for more than a century, modern technology
and media consumption have expanded the scope Tanya Horeck
of transmediating practices. Nowhere are these more
evident than within the Harry Potter universe. This Nov 2019 288pp, 26 b&w images
collection of essays explores the range of Potter texts 9780814340639 Paperback US$34.99
across a variety of media. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Offers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in
countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade:
Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Tanya Horeck
examines a range of audiovisual true crime texts, and
considers the extent to which the genre has come to
epitomize participatory media culture.

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MEDIA & COMMUNICATION · VIDEO GAMES ·
MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE

VIDEO GAMES MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE

McFarland McFarland

THE COMPOSITION OF VIDEO GAMES MYTH-BUILDING IN MODERN MEDIA
Narrative, Aesthetics, Rhetoric and Play The Role of the Mytharc in Imagined Worlds

Johansen Quijano A.J. Black
Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Dec 2019 190pp
Oct 2019 206pp, 20 photos 9781476675633 Paperback US$39.95
9781476673936 Paperback US$55.00
Studies in Gaming What is the “Mytharc”, how did it arise, and how does
it inform modern long-form storytelling? How does
Taking a holistic view, this study explores how ludology, the classical hero’s journey intersect with modern myth
narratology, visual rhetoric, musical theory and player and narrative? And where might the storytelling of
psychology work (or don’t work) together to create a tomorrow take readers and viewers as we imagine our
cohesive experience and to provide a unified framework future? This study explores our modern storytelling
for understanding video games. mythology and where it may lead us.

THE MINDS BEHIND ADVENTURE GAMES University Press of Mississippi
Interviews with Cult and Classic Video
Game Developers THE COMPLETE FOLKTALES OF
A. N. AFANAS’EV
Patrick Hickey, Jr. Volume II

Jan 2020 183pp, 120 photos Edited by Jack V. Haney
9781476679662 Paperback US$39.95
Studies in Gaming Aug 2019 570pp
9781496823397 Paperback US$40.00
Featuring interviews with the creators of 31 popular
video games - including Grand Theft Auto, Strider, Up to now, there has been no complete English-
Maximum Carnage and Pitfall - this book gives a behind- language version of the Russian folktales of A.N.
the-scenes look at the origins of some of the most Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L.G. Barag
enjoyable and iconic adventure games of all time. and N.V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded as the
authoritative Russian-language edition. This edition
includes commentaries to each tale as well as its
international classification number.

DOWNTOWN MARDI GRAS
New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina
New Orleans

Leslie A. Wade, Robin Roberts & Frank de Caro

Aug 2019 400pp, 42 colour illustrations
9781496823847 Paperback US$30.00

For full details of this title, see page 122.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE ·
92 PERFORMING ARTS · DANCE

POSTHUMAN FOLKLORE PERFORMING ARTS

Tok Thompson DANCE

Oct 2019 192pp University Press of Florida
9781496825094 Paperback US$30.00
LA MERI AND HER LIFE IN DANCE
Offers an overview of posthumanism as it applies to Performing the World
folklore studies and an investigation of “vernacular
posthumanisms” - the ways in which people are Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
increasingly performing the posthuman. Posthumanism
calls for a close investigation of what is meant by the Oct 2019 312pp
term “human” and a rethinking of this, our most basic 9780813066097 Hardback US$34.95
ontological category.
Details the life and work of world dance pioneer La Meri
THE PRACTICE OF FOLKLORE (1899-1988). Nancy Ruyter introduces readers to a
Essays toward a Theory of Tradition visionary artist who played a pivotal role in dance history.
This long-overdue book illustrates that the popularity of
Simon J. Bronner world dance today owes much to the trailblazing efforts
of La Meri.
Aug 2019 304pp, 19 b&w illustrations, 12 charts and graphs
9781496822635 Paperback US$35.00 McFarland

Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would ON STAGE AT THE BALLET
displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, My Life as Dancer and Artistic Director
often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore,
author Simon Bronner works with theories of cultural Robert Barnett & Cynthia Crain
practice to explain the social and psychological need for
tradition in everyday life. Aug 2019 166pp, 65 photos
9781476679105 Paperback US$35.00
SUPERMAN IN MYTH AND FOLKLORE
This autobiography of Robert Barnett recounts the life of
Daniel Peretti a dancer and director, offers insight on what is involved
in pursuing a professional career in dance, and provides
Oct 2019 204pp, 16 b&w illustrations a history of ballet in America from the early 1920s to
9781496826312 Paperback US$30.00 2018.

Many studies have examined the ways in which folklore
has provided inspiration for other forms of culture,
especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and
Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore
inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of
Steel’s origins but on the culture he has helped create.

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PERFORMING ARTS · FILM & TV 93

FILM & TV University Press of Florida

Academic Studies Press POWER AND PARADISE IN
WALT DISNEY’S WORLD
FILM AS EMBODIED ART
Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Cher Krause Knight
Stanley Kubrick
Jul 2019 248pp
Maarten Coëgnarts 9780813068015 Paperback US$19.95

Sep 2019 450pp, 118 illustrations For full details of this title, see page 121.
9781644691120 Paperback US$45.00
University of Hawaii Press
Reveals Stanley Kubrick to be a genuine master of the art
of embodying the mental life of characters, a filmmaker PRODUCING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
who perhaps more than any other director, uses all the Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics
resources of filmmaking in such a controlled and dense
manner as to elicit the embodied conditions necessary Yuko Shibata
to achieve a level of conceptual depth.
Nov 2019 216pp
9780824867782 Paperback US$28.00

For full details of this title, see page 73.

The University of Arizona Press CINEMA IS A CAT
A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies
LATINX CINÉ IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Daisuke Miyao

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama Oct 2019 216pp, 98 b&w illustrations
9780824879709 Paperback US$24.99
Sep 2019 520pp, 81 b&w photos
9780816537907 Paperback US$35.00 Watching movies every night at home with his cats,
Latinx Pop Culture film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how
frequently cats turned up on screen. In Cinema Is a Cat,
Twenty-first-century Latinx film offers much to Miyao uses the fascinating relationship between cats
celebrate, but as pop culture critic Frederick Luis Aldama and cinema to offer a uniquely appealing introduction to
writes, there’s still room to be purposefully critical. In film studies.
this book contributors offer scholarship that does both,
bringing together a comprehensive presentation of POP EMPIRES
contemporary film and filmmakers from all corners of Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India
Latinx culture. and Korea

REEL LATINXS Edited by S. Heijin Lee, Monika Mehta & Robert Ji-Song Ku
Representation in U.S. Film and TV
Jul 2019 360pp, 15 b&w illustrations
Frederick Luis Aldama & Christopher González 9780824880002 Paperback US$30.00
Asia Pop!
Sep 2019 192pp, 82 colour photos
9780816539581 Paperback US$22.95 "Bollywood" and "Hallyu" are increasingly competing
Latinx Pop Culture with “Hollywood” - either replacing it or filling a
void in places where it never held sway. This critical
Not seeing real Latinxs on TV and film reels as kids multidisciplinary anthology places the mediascapes of
inspired the authors of this book to dive deep into the India, South Korea, and the US in comparative dialogue
world of mainstream television and film to uncover to explore the transnational flows of technology, capital,
examples of representation, good and bad. The result: and labour.
a riveting ride through televisual and celluloid reels that
make up mainstream culture.

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University of Iowa Press McFarland

QUEERBAITING AND FANDOM ALIEN IN THE MIRROR
Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer and
Under the Skin
Edited by Joseph Brennan
Maureen Foster
Dec 2019 296pp
9781609386719 Paperback US$50.00 Jul 2019 212pp, 45 photos
9781476670423 Paperback US$39.95
Fandom & Culture
Directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett
In this first-ever comprehensive examination of Johansson, the 2013 film Under the Skin contains
queerbaiting, fan studies scholar Joseph Brennan and elements of science fiction and fantasy, horror, mystery,
his contributors examine cases that shed light on the and thriller. This is the first book to be written about the
sometimes exploitative industry practice of teasing quiet masterpiece, revisiting the film scene-by-scene
homoerotic possibilities that, while hinted at, never through all its cinematic elements.
materialize in the program narratives.

STAR ATTRACTIONS AMERICAN INDIAN IMAGE MAKERS
Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and OF HOLLYWOOD
Global Fandom
Frank Javier Garcia Berumen
Edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald & Lies Lanckman
Aug 2019 247pp, 30 photos
Dec 2019 282pp, 20 b&w figures 9781476678139 Paperback US$39.95
9781609386733 Paperback US$55.00
Fandom & Culture Analyses the representation of Native Americans in
cinematic images from the 1890s to the present day,
Looking at the fan magazines of Hollywood’s classic era deconstructing key films in each decade. This book also
with fresh regarding eyes and treating them as primary addresses efforts by the Native American to improve
sources, the contributors of this collection provide and have a part in their filmic representations, including
unique insights into contemporary assumptions about mini-biographies of important indigenous filmmakers
the relationship between fan and star, performer and performers.
and viewer.
BUFFY TO BATGIRL
University Press of Kansas Essays on Female Power,
Evolving Femininity and
EXPANDING THE BLACK FILM CANON Gender Roles in Science
Race and Genre Across Six Decades Fiction and Fantasy

Lisa Doris Alexander Edited by Julie M. Still &
Zara T. Wilkinson
Sep 2019 256pp
9780700628407 Paperback US$29.95 Sep 2019 218pp
9781476664460 Paperback
If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a US$39.95
Slave to Get Out, to Black Panther tells us anything, it
might be that there’s no such thing as “black film” per se. Offers a serious discussion of
This book is timely, then, in expanding our idea of what women and gender in science
black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us fiction and fantasy. Critically examining the depiction
new ways to understand them. of women and gender in science fiction and fantasy on
both page and screen, contributors focus on characters
who are as varied as they are interesting, and who range
from vampire slayers to time travellers, witches, and
spacefarers.

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BURT REYNOLDS ON SCREEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WEIRD DETECTIVES
Supernatural and Paranormal Elements in
Wayne Byrne Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games
and Other Media
Dec 2019 269pp, 100 photos
9781476674988 Paperback US$39.95 Paul Green

In a prolific career spanning six decades, actor Burt Sep 2019 187pp, 35 photos
Reynolds was a definitive American icon and one of 9781476678009 Paperback US$45.00
the world’s most famous stars of film and TV. This
overview of Reynolds’ work examines his complete The detective genre has explored supernatural and
filmography, featuring candid discussions with costars paranormal themes throughout its colourful history.
and collaborators, exclusive behind-the-scenes photos This encyclopaedia covers the history of the genre in its
and a wealth of film stills. multiple forms. Its A-Z format provides ready reference
by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will
THE DIGITAL DYSTOPIAS OF BLACK enjoy the entertaining style.
MIRROR AND ELECTRIC DREAMS
THE FIRST STAR TREK MOVIE
Steven Keslowitz Bringing the Franchise to the Big Screen,
1969-1980
Jan 2020 300pp
9781476678689 Paperback US$39.95 Sherilyn Connelly

This critical examination of Black Mirror and Electric Dec 2019 205pp, 15 photos
Dreams focuses on pop culture depictions of technology 9781476672519 Paperback US$39.95
and its impact on human existence. Representations of
a wide range of modern and futuristic technologies are The history of Star Trek’s resurrection, between its 1969
explored, from early portrayals of artificial intelligence to cancellation and the 1979 release of Star Trek - The
digital consciousness transference. Motion Picture, has become legend. Like many legends,
it tends to get printed instead of the facts. Drawing on
DON’T GO UPSTAIRS! contemporary news articles and primary sources, this
A Room-by-Room Tour of the House in book tells the true story of the first Star Trek reboot.
Horror Movies
FOURTH WAVE FEMINISM IN SCIENCE
Cleaver Patterson FICTION AND FANTASY
Volume 1, Essays on Film Representations,
Jan 2020 155pp, 70 photos 2012-2019
9781476672977 Paperback US$29.95
Edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Showing readers through a selection of prime movie
real estate, this book explores how homes come to Oct 2019 188pp
life in horror with an analysis of more than sixty films, 9781476677668 Paperback US$39.95
including interviews and insights from filmmakers and
scholars, along with with many rare stills. From the Fourth wave feminism has entered the national
gruesome murder in the hallway of The House by the conversation and established a highly visible presence
Cemetery to the malevolent haunting in the nursery of in popular media. This first of two companion volumes
the Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black, no door is addresses fourth wave feminism and cinema, exploring
left unopened. how, since 2012, films have showcased women of action.

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HAILING FREQUENCIES OPEN JOSS WHEDON, ANARCHIST?
Communication in Star Trek: A Unified Theory of the Films and
The Next Generation Television Series

Thomas D. Parham, III James Rocha & Mona Rocha
Edited by Donald E. Palumbo & C.W. Sullivan III Edited by Sherry Ginn

Aug 2019 148pp Sep 2019 193pp
9781476676685 Paperback US$39.95 9781476673837 Paperback US$39.95
Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Worlds of Whedon

Star Trek: The Next Generation blended speculative Joss Whedon has created plethora of TV series, movies,
science fiction and space opera in its portrayal of comics and one sing-along-blog, all of which focus on
communication. This book proposes that these patterns societal problems in the metaphorical guise of monsters-
of communication reveal a foundational philosophy of of-the-week and over-arching big-bads. This study traces
Star Trek that informs the series as a whole while also a theme of anarchist theory through the multiple strings
enticing millions of viewers. of the Whedonverse - all of his works show how ordinary
heroes can unite for the love of humanity to save the
HOLLYWOOD AND THE FEMALE BODY world from hierarchy and paternalism.
A History of Idolization and Objectification
RAY MILLAND
Stephen Handzo The Films, 1929-1984

Oct 2019 166pp, 100 photos James McKay
9781476679136 Paperback US$39.95
Jan 2020 302pp, 60 photos
This history of Hollywood’s treatment of women’s 9781476678870 Paperback US$49.95
bodies traces the full span of the motion picture era.
Each chapter of this book situates movies, famous With no formal training as an actor, Welsh-born
and obscure, into the context of changes in the movie Ray Milland, a former trooper in the British Army’s
industry and the larger society. Household Cavalry, enjoyed a half-century career
working alongside some of the great directors and stars
HORROR COMES HOME from the Golden Age of cinema. This first complete
Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other filmography covers the actor’s screen career, with a
Domestic Terrors in Cinema concise introductory biography and an appendix listing
his extensive radio and television credits.
Edited by Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper
SEX, DEATH AND RESURRECTION IN
Jul 2019 279pp, 29 photos ALTERED CARBON
9781476679679 Paperback US$39.95 Essays on the Netflix Series

Focuses on genre horror movies in which the home Edited by Aldona Kobus & Lukasz Muniowski
is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison,
menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors Jan 2020 168pp
explore the shifting role of the home as both a source 9781476679624 Paperback US$39.95
and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next.
The 2018 series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to
the cyberpunk renaissance. This collection asks if the
increasing popularity of cyberpunk a sign of recognition
of the genre’s transgressive aspects, such as a stark
critique of capitalism, or the opposite: a sign of the
genre’s failure to successfully criticize modernity?

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SPIKE LEE’S BAMBOOZLED AND THE WESTERN FILMS OF
BLACKFACE IN AMERICAN CULTURE ROBERT MITCHUM
Hollywood’s Cowboy Rebel
Elizabeth L. Sanderson
Gene Freese
Aug 2019 176pp
9781476678634 Paperback US$39.95 Oct 2019 250pp, 80 photos
9781476678498 Paperback US$39.95
Spike Lee’s challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often
read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Explores the life of Robert Mitchum and the films that
Careful analysis, however, gives way to a complex and established him as one of Hollywood’s strongest and
nuanced study of the history of black performance. This smartest horsemen. Starting from early classics, Freese
book analyses the work of five men through the lens of shows how Mitchum’s nuanced portrayals of the iconic
this misunderstood film. anti-hero of the West earned him his spot in the Cowboy
Hall of Fame.
THE STRUGGLE BEHIND THE SOUNDTRACK
Inside the Discordant New World of WOMEN OF SCIENCE FICTION AND
Film Scoring FANTASY TELEVISION
400 Characters, 1950s to the Present
Stephan Eicke
Karen A. Romanko
Aug 2019 202pp
9781476676319 Paperback US$45.00 Nov 2019 184pp, 30 photos
9781476668048 Paperback US$39.95
For full details of this title, see page 101.
Television’s women of science fiction and fantasy
THEMES IN LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA are iconic and unforgettable yet there hasn’t been a
A Critical Survey, Second Edition reference book devoted to them until now. Covering
400 female characters from 200 series since the
Keith John Richards 1950s, this encyclopaedic work celebrates the essential
contributions of women to science fiction and fantasy TV.
Dec 2019 246pp, photos
9781476677828 Paperback US$39.95 University of Michigan Press

Presents critical analysis of 23 Latin American films from REDISCOVERING KOREAN CINEMA
the last 20 years, including the addition of four films
from Bolivia. Explored throughout the text are seven Sangjoon Lee
crucial themes in Latin American film: the indigenous
image, sexuality, childhood, female protagonists, crime Dec 2019 616pp, 69 illustrations
and corruption, fratricidal wars, and writers as characters. 9780472054299 Paperback US$44.95
Perspectives On Contemporary Korea
TRANSMEDIA HARRY POTTER
Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms This groundbreaking collection of thirty-five essays by a
wide range of academic specialists situates current
Edited by Christopher E. Bell scholarship on Korean cinema within the ongoing
theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies.
Aug 2019 156pp
9781476673547 Paperback US$39.95

For full details of this title, see page 90.

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University Press of Mississippi THE BROTHERS MANKIEWICZ
Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics
ANG LEE
Interviews Sydney Ladensohn Stern

Edited by Karla Rae Fuller Oct 2019 464pp, 88 b&w illustrations
9781617032677 Hardback US$35.00
Dec 2019 166pp Hollywood Legends Series
9781496825612 Paperback US$25.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series For this first dual portrait of the Mankiewicz brothers,
Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews, letters,
Thoughtful and passionate, Ang Lee humbly reveals here diaries, and other documents still in private hands to
a personal journey that brought him from Taiwan to his provide a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle
chosen home in the United States as he struggled and of the lives, loves, work, and relationship between these
ultimately triumphed in his quest to become a superb complex men.
filmmaker. Ang Lee: Interviews collects the best interviews
of this reticent yet bold figure. CLAUDE CHABROL
Interviews
THE BAD SIXTIES
Hollywood Memories Edited by Christopher Beach
of the Counterculture,
Antiwar, and Black Power Feb 2020 225pp
Movements 9781496826756 Paperback US$25.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Kristen Hoerl
The seventeen interviews in this volume, most of which
Jan 2020 242pp, 6 b&w illustrations have been translated into English for the first time, offer
9781496826305 Paperback new insights into Claude Chabrol’s remarkably wide-
US$30.00 ranging filmography, providing a sense of his attitudes
Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series and ideas about a number of subjects.

Focuses on fictionalized ROBERT TAYLOR
portrayals of 1960s activism in popular television Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom
and film. Kristen Hoerl shows how Hollywood has in Hollywood
perpetuated politics deploring the detrimental
consequences of the 1960s on traditional American Gillian Kelly
values.
May 2019 224pp, 20 b&w illustrations
BLAKE EDWARDS 9781496823144 Paperback US$30.00
Interviews
Robert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood’s
Edited by Gabriella Oldham classical era. In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and
Stardom in Hollywood, Gillian Kelly investigates the initial
Feb 2020 190pp construction and subsequent developments of Taylor’s
9781496825605 Paperback US$25.00 star persona across his thirty-five-year career.
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Highlights how Blake Edwards created the hugely Interviews, Revised and Updated
successful Pink Panther franchise; his long partnership
with award-winning composer Henry Mancini; his Edited by Lester D. Friedman & Brent Notbohm
principles of comedy as influenced by the comic greats of
film history, especially silent comedies; his marriage and Aug 2019 240pp
film collaborations with Julie Andrews; and his unique 9781496824028 Paperback US$25.00
philosophy of life. Conversations with Filmmakers Series

For full details of this title, see page 59.