New Books: 2019 (Asia edition)

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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING · MICROBIOLOGY · PHYSICS

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MICROBIOLOGY

American Society of Mechanical Engineers IK International Publishing House

PIPELINE GEOHAZARDS MICROBIAL RESEARCH
Planning, Design, Construction and An Overview
Operations, Second Edition
Edited by Vinita Katiyar & Anubha Joshi
Edited by Moness Rizkalla & Rodney Read
Jan 2019 516pp
Jan 2019 800pp 9789385909443 Paperback US$317.00
9780791861790 Hardback US$299.00
Includes research findings and review articles
This book’s comprehensive treatment of pipeline contributed by scientists and researchers in different
geohazards includes terrain analysis for corridor selection areas of microbiology. The book includes coverage of
using data generation, integration and visualization bacterial pheromones, biosensors, various microbial
techniques; geotechnical engineering and pipeline enzymes, industrial biocatalysis, chaperones and
construction interface considerations; trenched and proteases, tuberculosis, and diagnostic techniques for
elevated river crossings; trenchless techniques for indoor dust enumeration.
pipeline construction; and more.

Morgan & Claypool Publishers PHYSICS

ESSENTIAL ENGINEERING American Mathematical Society
THERMODYNAMICS
A Student’s Guide MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN
QUANTUM PHYSICS
Yumin Zhang
Edited by Federico Bonetto et al
Nov 2018 79pp
9781681734231 Paperback US$34.95 Dec 2018 336pp
9781470436810 Paperback US$117.00
Synthesis Lectures on Mechanical Engineering Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 717

Introduces thermodynamic properties and laws with For full details of this title, see page 28.
the ideal gas model, where equations can be engaged.
In order to help students understand entropy in depth, Cognella Academic Publishing
interpretation with statistical physics is introduced.
Chapters then discuss control-mass and control-volume
processes with general fluids.

THE ENERGY OF PHYSICS, PART I
Classical Mechanics and Thermodynamics,
Second Edition

Christopher J. Fischer

Dec 2018 582pp
9781516542451 Paperback US$187.95

Provides students the opportunity to learn physics
the way in which physicists understand the discipline.
In contrast to standard textbooks, this text begins
with classical mechanics using the concept of energy
conservation. By inverting the standard order of
presentation, the book enables students to understand
and use calculus effectively.

STM & PROFESSIONAL

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
50 PHYSICS

Morgan & Claypool Publishers THE PHYSICS OF DESTRUCTIVE
EARTHQUAKES
AN APPROACH TO DARK MATTER
MODELLING Frederick Thomas, Robert Chaney & Richard Tseng

Tanushree Basak Dec 2018 104pp
9781643270753 Paperback US$39.95
Dec 2018 62pp
9781643271293 Paperback US$35.00 Offers a concise introduction to the interactions
between earthquakes and human-built structures. The
In the field of particle and astrophysics, one of the major book focuses on the ways in which these interactions
unresolved problems is to understand the nature and illustrate the application of basic physics principles
properties of dark matter, which constitutes almost and concepts, including inertia, force, shear, energy,
80% of the matter of the universe. This book gives a acceleration, elasticity, friction and stability.
pedagogical introduction to the field of dark matter IOP Concise Physics
in general, and in particular to the model building
perspective. SPIE

IOP Concise Physics

AN INTRODUCTION TO PLASMA PHYSICS FIELD GUIDE TO SOLID STATE PHYSICS
AND ITS SPACE APPLICATIONS
Volume 1, Fundamentals and Marek S. Wartak & Ching-Yao Fong
Elementary Processes
Jan 2019 118pp
Luis Conde 9781510622746 Spiral bound US$42.00
Field Guides, Vol. 43
Jan 2019 130pp
9781643271712 Paperback US$55.95 Provides an overview of the basic principles of solid
state physics, focusing on the practical aspects and
The growing number of scientific and technological device applications. Topics include crystal structures
applications of plasma physics in the field of aerospace and dynamics, band structures, quantum structures,
engineering requires that graduate students and semiconductors, superconductors, and magnetism.
professionals understand their principles. This Equations and diagrams effectively convey the concepts
introductory book is intended as a reading guide, that form the core of this field.
addressed to students and non-specialists to tackle later
with more advanced texts.

IOP Concise Physics

PARTICLE PHYSICS

Richard A. Dunlap

Jan 2019 128pp
9781643273594 Paperback US$49.95

Provides an overview of the Standard Model of
particle physics including an overview of the discovery
and properties of the Higgs Boson. The book also
summarizes the important investigations into the
physics of neutrinos and provides an overview of the
interpretation of these studies.

IOP Concise Physics

GENERAL INTEREST

FAMILY & HEALTH · FOOD & DRINK · SPORT 51

General Interest A RICH AND TANTALIZING BREW
A History of How Coffee Connected the World
FAMILY & HEALTH
Jeanette M. Fregulia
Future Horizons
Mar 2019 193pp, 16 illustrations
TEN THINGS EVERY CHILD WITH AUTISM 9781682260876 Paperback US$24.95
WISHES YOU KNEW Food and Foodways
Third Edition
For full details of this title, see page 78.
Ellen Notbohm
Edited by Veronica Zysk The University of North Carolina Press

Jun 2019 277pp ALCOHOL
9781941765883 Paperback US$16.95 A History

For full details of this title, see page 19. Rod Phillips

FOOD & DRINK Feb 2019 384pp
9781469652177 Paperback US$27.95
The University of Arkansas Press
For full details of this title, see page 79.
FORGING COMMUNITIES
Food and Representation in Medieval and SPORT
Early Modern Southwestern Europe
McFarland
Montserrat Piera
MAKING THE CUT
Sep 2018 300pp, 2 images Life Inside the PGA Tour System
9781682260685 Paperback US$29.95
Food and Foodways John A. Fortunato

For full details of this title, see page 78. Jan 2019 231pp
9781476676197 Paperback US$39.95

The PGA Tour system thrives because it creates
compelling, life-changing stories that lie within a golfer’s
quest for achievement. In speaking with more than
20 golfers on the tour, this collection of stories about
professional golfers and their recent career storylines
provides new insight into the tour system.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
52 HIGHLIGHTS

Arts & Humanities

Brookings Institution Press The University of Georgia Press

THE DEER AND THE DRAGON OPEN BORDERS
Southeast Asia and China in In Defense of Free Movement
the 21st Century
Edited by Reece Jones
Edited by Donald K. Emmerson
Dec 2018 336pp
Mar 2019 386pp 9780820354262 Paperback US$34.95
9781931368537 Paperback US$29.99 Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation, Vol. 41

Southeast Asia is arguably the most diverse region This collection of essays challenges reactionary
in the world. Accordingly, rather than addressing nationalism by making the positive case for the
one list of questions, the contributors to this benefits of free movement for countries on both
volume have explored the matters they see as ends of the exchange.  
most important and most deserving of exploration
and exposure. After the editor's introduction, the Open Borders counters the knee-jerk reaction to
chapters proceed in pairs. Each pair and a closing build walls and close borders by arguing that there
chapter cover a distinctive theme in Southeast is not a moral, legal, philosophical, or economic
Asia's interactions with China. case for limiting the movement of human beings
at borders.
Featured among the historical and economic
contexts needed to understand the interactions  
are security and development as Chinese goals and
how diversified beyond China Southeast Asia's The volume brings together essays by theorists in
trading partners are. Southeast Asian and Chinese anthropology, geography, international relations,
perceptions of each other are examined using and other fields who argue for open borders with
survey research and by asking whether China views writings by activists who are working to make safe
the region as its “strategic backyard.”  passage a reality on the ground. It puts forward
a clear, concise, and convincing case for a world
Two actual or intended expansions are analysed: without movement restrictions at borders.
expanded Chinese sovereignty over the South
China Sea and Beijing's interest in using “overseas
Chinese” to expand its influence in the region. 

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HIGHLIGHTS 53

University Press of Mississippi University of Michigan Press

CHINA IN THE MIX ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in EMILY BRONTË
the Age of Globalization Wuthering Heights in Japan

Ying Xiao Judith Pascoe

Jan 2019 326pp, 20 b&w illustrations Feb 2019 192pp, 12 illustrations
9781496823472 Paperback US$30.00 9780472037407 Paperback US$24.95

Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was
of sound and its essential role in constructing fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily
image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there.
media. China in the Mix fills a critical void with the Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction
first book on the sound, languages, scenery, media, to the country, the novel continues to engage the
and culture in post-Socialist China.  imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers,
manga artists, and others, resulting in numerous
China in the Mix offers the first comprehensive translations, adaptations, and dramatizations.
investigation of Chinese film, expressions, and
culture from a unique, cohesive acoustic angle On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë is Pascoe’s lively
and through the prism of global media-cultural account of her quest to discover the reasons for the
exchange. It shows how the complex, evolving uses continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights,
of sound (popular music, voice-over, silence, noise, including quite varied and surprising adaptations of
and audio mixing) in film and media reflect and the novel.
engage the important cultural and socio-historical
shifts in contemporary China and in the increasingly At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s
networked world. experience as an adult student of Japanese. She
contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of
  Brontë, as contrasted to the single (or nonexistent)
English translations of major Japanese writers.
Xiao offers an innovative new conception of Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s
Chinese film and media and their audiovisual Wuthering Heights, Pascoe begins to see American
registers in the historiographical frame of China literary culture as a small island on which readers are
amid the global landscape. isolated from foreign literature.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
54 ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE

ART, ARCHITECTURE & The University of North Carolina Press
PHOTOGRAPHY
MODERNISM AND THE ART OF
The University of Georgia Press MUSLIM SOUTH ASIA

THE NATURE OF REVOLUTION Iftikhar Dadi
Art and Politics Under the Khmer Rouge
Feb 2019 360pp, 28 colour and 78 b&w illustrations
James A. Tyner 9781469654119 Paperback US$39.95
Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
Nov 2018 208pp, 11 b&w images
9780820354392 Hardback US$59.95 Traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary
art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational
Provides the first account of art and politics under the modernism and in light of the region’s intellectual,
brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James Tyner cultural, and political developments. Iftikhar Dadi
repositions Khmer Rouge artworks within their proper explores the art and writings of major artists, men and
political and economic context: the materialization women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era
of a political organisation in an era of anticolonial and of independence and beyond.
decolonization movements.
Rutgers University Press

University Press of Mississippi THE VISUAL IS POLITICAL
Feminist Photography and Counter-Cultural
THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERIOUS Activity in 1970s Britain
The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston
Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi
Edited by Ann J. Abadie
Jul 2019 250pp
Jun 2019 144pp, 66 colour photos 9781978800311 Paperback US$29.95
9781496822345 Hardback US$40.00
University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Series Examines the growth of feminist photography as
it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s.
Offers an examination of the life and work of the Klorman-Eraqi looks at the application of feminist
artist widely considered to be the father of colour theory, photojournalism, advertising, photo montage,
photography. Edited by Ann Abadie, this catalogue punk subculture, and politicized street activity to
contains fifty-five William Eggleston photographs, emphasize the statement and challenge that the
thirty-six that were featured in The Beautiful Mysterious photographic language of these works posed.
cexhibition at the University of Mississippi Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHS
Second Edition

Eudora Welty

Foreword by Reynolds Price &
Natasha Trethewey

Apr 2019 232pp, 252 b&w photos
9781496821232 Hardback US$50.00

Eudora Welty’s Photographs ,
originally published in 1989,
serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed
writer’s photographs. Photographs is a deeply felt
documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly
observant photographer who showed the human side of
her subjects.

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HISTORY 55

HISTORY THE NATURE OF REVOLUTION
Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge
Cognella Academic Publishing
James A. Tyner
MODERN EAST ASIA
A History Nov 2018 208pp, 11 b&w images
9780820354392 Hardback US$59.95
Mary L. Hanneman et al
For full details of this title, see page 54.
Dec 2018 334pp
9781516528172 Paperback US$106.95 ISEAS Publishing

Explores the history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam ISEAS AT 50
from the late eighteenth century to the present. Understanding Southeast Asia
Comprehensive and complete, Modern East Asia provides Past and Present
readers with a thorough exploration of the progression of
these countries throughout the modern period. Edited by Lee Hsien Loong, Wang Gungwu &
Leonard Y. Andaya
The University of Georgia Press
Jan 2019 92pp
THE DRUM MAJOR INSTINCT 9789814818995 Hardback US$22.90
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Theory of
Political Service Presents three public lectures given to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute,
Justin Rose which was established to help the newly independent
city-state better understand the region’s complexities and
Mar 2019 144pp research the political, economic, and socio-cultural trends
9780820355542 Paperback US$28.95 in Southeast Asia for relevant stakeholders.
The Morehouse College King Collection Series on
Civil and Human Rights ISI Books

Though there are studies devoted to aspects of Martin CULT CITY
Luther King Jr.’s intellectual thought, no one has yet Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days
undertaken a comprehensive study of King’s overarching That Shook San Francisco
theory of political service. Justin Rose draws on Martin
Luther King Jr.’s sermons, political speeches, and writings Daniel J. Flynn
to construct and conceptualise King’s politics as a unified
theory. Dec 2018 288pp
9781610171519 Hardback US$27.95
LIFE OF MIRACLES ALONG THE
YANGTZE AND MISSISSIPPI Tells the untold story of the intersecting lives of the
Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk - marking the
Wang Ping 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk’s
assassination November 1978. Almost immediately
Jul 2018 376pp, 21 b&w images after the Jonestown massacre and the death of Milk,
9780820353920 Paperback US$26.95 their lives and deaths became shrouded in myth. The
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for distortions and omissions have piled up since. Forty
Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 31 years later, this book corrects the record.

A book about how the impossible became possible -
about things that happened in China and America to the
people Wang Ping grew up with, met, and befriended
along her journeys between these two distant rivers. This
is also a story about water, alive with spirits and energy,
giving birth to all sentient beings.

ARTS & HUMANITIES
56 HISTORY

Markus Wiener Publishers University of Michigan Press

CHINESE TRAVELERS GENDERED POWER
TO THE EARLY Educated Women of the Meiji Empress’ Court
TURKISH REPUBLIC
Mamiko Suzuki
Giran Fidan
Jan 2019 168pp
Feb 2019 160pp 9780472053971 Paperback US$19.95
9781558766365 Paperback US$22.95 Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Vol. 86

Chronicles the observations By focusing on the role Chinese classics (kanbun)
of Chinese travellers who played in the language employed by elite women, this
travelled to the Turkish book explores how Empress Haruko, poet Nakajima
Republic in the first quarter of Shoen, and educator Shimoda Utako contributed new
the 20th century, and features expectations for how women should participate in a
the notes of historical figures including Shi Zhaoji, the modernizing Japan.
first Chinese ambassador to the US, and Hu Hanmin, an
early leader in the Kuomintang. REVISITING
MINJUNG
THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA TO INDIA, New Perspectives on
THE SPICE ISLANDS AND CHINA the Cultural History of
1980s South Korea
Ibn Battuta
Edited by Albion M. Butters Sunyoung Park
Translated by Noel King
May 2019 312pp, 22 halftones
Apr 2018 232pp 9780472054121
9781558766341 Paperback US$24.95 Paperback US$34.95
Perspectives On Contemporary
Records the journey of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan jurist Korea
who travelled to the East, and offers fascinating details
into the cultures and dynamics of the region, along Drawing from the
with a first-hand account of increased globalisation due theoretical perspectives
to the rise of Islam, and the relationship between the of transnationalism, post-
Western world, India, and China in the 14th century. Marxist studies, intersectional feminism, popular culture
studies, and more, this volume demonstrates how an
McFarland era that is often associated with radical politics was, in
effect, the catalyst for the subsequent flourishing of
democratic and liberal values in South Korea.

AMERICA GOES HAWAIIAN Naval Institute Press
The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the
Mainland FEET TO THE FIRE
CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia,
Geoff Alexander 1957-1958

Jan 2019 199pp, 45 photos (8 page colour insert) Kenneth Conboy & James Morrison
9781476669496 Paperback US$49.95
Nov 2018 240pp
How did Hawaiin and Polynesian culture come to 9781682473450 Paperback US$21.95
dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as
well as ideas about race, in less than a century? This book In a fast-paced, engrossing narrative evoking the novels
describes how this cultural conquest came about and of John LeCarré and Graham Greene, the authors provide
the people and events that led to it. the first unclassified, detailed case study of an operation
that has escaped public scrutiny for decades. Their work
adds significantly to our understanding of the CIA and
American involvement in Asia.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 57

HISTORY
HOLOCAUST STUDIES · MILITARY HISTORY

The University of North Carolina Press HOLOCAUST STUDIES

THE EARLY EMPIRES OF CENTRAL ASIA Academic Studies Press
A Study of the Scythians and the Huns and
the Part They Played in World History UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE RISING SUN
Japan and the Jews During the Holocaust Era
William Montgomery McGovern
Meron Medzini
Nov 2018 548pp
9781469644769 Paperback US$55.00 Feb 2019 236pp
9781644690314 Paperback US$32.00
Provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known - Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
racial, social, and cultural as well as political - regarding
the inhabitants of central Asia, from the earliest times During World War II some 40,000 Jews found
(c. 3000 B.C.) down to the sixth century A.D. Originally themselves under Japanese occupation. Virtually all of
published in 1939. them survived. This book traces the evolution of Japan’s
policy towards the Jews from the beginning of the 20th
Rutgers University Press century, the existence of anti-Semitism in Japan, and
why Japan ignored Nazi demands to become involved in
THE RUINS OF ANI the “final solution”.

Krikor Balakian MILITARY HISTORY
Introduction by Peter
Balakian The University of Georgia Press
Translated by Peter Balakian
& Aram Arkun CAPTURED
The Japanese
Dec 2018 174pp, Internment of
45 colour illustrations American Civilians in
9781978802919 the Philippines, 1941-
Hardback US$24.95 1945

From the tenth to the Frances B. Cogan
thirteenth centuries, the
city of Ani was the jewel Mar 2019 384pp, 10 b&w photos, 2
of the Armenian kingdom, illustrations
renowned far and wide for 9780820355405 Paperback
its magnificent buildings. The Ruins of Ani is a unique US$26.95
combination of history, art criticism, and travel memoir
that takes readers on a thousand-year journey in search More than five thousand
of past splendours. American civilian men,
women, and children living
West Virginia University Press in the Philippines during World War II were confined to
internment camps. Captured tells the story of daily life in
THE POLITICS OF LISTS five different camps - the crowded housing, mounting
Bureaucracy and Genocide Under familial and international tensions, heavy labour, and
the Khmer Rouge increasingly severe malnourishment.

James A. Tyner

Dec 2018 264pp, 9 illustrations
9781946684417 Paperback US$29.99

James A. Tyner in this book turns to the bureaucratic
roots of genocide, building on insight from Hannah
Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, and others to better
understand the Khmer Rouge and its implications for the
broader study of life, death, and power.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

HISTORY
58 MILITARY HISTORY

McFarland ELBRIDGE DURBROW’S
WAR IN VIETNAM
THE BODY BURNING DETAIL The Ambassador’s
Memoir of a Marine Artilleryman in Vietnam Influence on American
Involvement, 1957-1961
Bill Jones
Ronald Bruce Frankum Jr
Dec 2018 116pp, photos
9781476675176 Paperback US$29.95 May 2019 254pp
9781476677750 Paperback US$45.00
A poignantly written and heartfelt memoir that recounts
the author’s hair raising - and occasionally hilarious - Elbridge Durbrow served as
experience as a young Marine artilleryman in Vietnam. the third US ambassador to
Gritty, unvarnished and often times disturbing, the book the Republic of Vietnam from
provides a unique window into the lasting physical and 1957 to 1961. His relationships with the Vietnamese
emotional wounds of war. president and members of the Military Assistance
Advisory Group in Saigon helped to shape his tenure in
BYSTANDERS TO THE VIETNAM WAR office, which ultimately concluded with his decision to
The Role of the United States Senate, end his support for the Vietnamese leader.
1950-1965
MASS SUICIDES ON SAIPAN
Ron Goldberg AND TINIAN, 1944
An Examination of the Civilian Deaths in
Oct 2018 103pp, 25 photos Historical Context
9781476668918 Paperback US$35.00
Alexander Astroth
Focusing on the US Senate’s role in the Vietnam War,
this history records the various senators’ views in their Feb 2019 141pp
own words. The author demonstrates that during the 9781476674568 Paperback US$45.00
20-year conflict - as throughout American history - the
president was the principal formulator of policy on war Mass suicides occurred during World War II when
and peace. the Americans invaded and captured the Japanese-
controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944.
THE CAPTURE OF Historical scholarship on this topic is almost non-
THE USS PUEBLO existent. This book provides readers with a better
The Incident, the understanding of what happened on the two islands
Aftermath and the and why.
Motives of North Korea
MY BROTHERS HAVE
James Duermeyer MY BACK
Inside the November
Dec 2018 140pp, 50 photos 1969 Battle on the
9781476675404 Paperback US$39.95 Vietnamese DMZ

With extensive research, Lou Pepi
including summaries of
White House meetings and Dec 2018 147pp, 45 photos
conversations that followed the capture, The Capture of 9781476675169 Paperback US$35.00
the USS Pueblo reviews the flawed leadership decisions
and national events that led to the capture of the spy In November 1969, what
ship in 1968 in international waters off North Korea. Time Magazine called the
“largest battle of the year”
took place less than two miles from the Vietnamese
Demilitarized Zone. Three companies of Task Force
1-61 met 2,000-3,000 North Vietnamese. Written by a
combatant, this book offers unique insights into the story
of the men who fought for those three days in 1969.

ARTS & HUMANITIES 59

HISTORY
MILITARY HISTORY

A SPEAR-CARRIER IN VIET NAM Naval Institute Press
Memoir of an American Civilian in Country,
1967 and 1970-1972 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Michael E. Tolle Erich Maria Remarque
Adapted by Wayne Vansant
Jan 2019 155pp, 15 photos
9781476675978 Paperback US$35.00 Jun 2019 176pp
9781682473337 Paperback US$24.95
Part history, part memoir, this book chronicles an
overlooked aspect of US involvement in Vietnam, with For full details of this title, see page 64.
a focus on the war victims and refugees most tragically Dead Reckoning
affected by the carnage. The author recounts his two
years “in-country” as an aid worker and describes how CATKILLER 3-2
the humanitarian effort was conducted and why it failed. An Army Pilot Flying for the Marines in the
Vietnam War
UNDER FIRE WITH ARVN INFANTRY
Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Vietnam, Raymond G. Caryl
1966-1967
Aug 2018 264pp, 18 b&w photos
Bob Worthington 9781682473528 Hardback US$29.95

Sep 2018 183pp, 45 photos, maps Provides unique insights into the role of the tactical air
9781476674360 Paperback US$29.95 controller, airborne as seen through the eyes of one of the
pilots who flew low-flying, unarmed, single-engine aircraft
From 1945 to 1973, 115,427 US military men were in support of ground units in the Vietnam War. The book
advisors in Vietnam. Of these, 66,399 were combat details the tactics, manoeuvres, and dangers experienced
advisors. Combat advisors, officers and NCOs, lived by the pilots and aerial observers flying these missions.
and fought with Vietnamese combat units, advising
on tactics, weapons, and liaising with local US military CHINA’S MARITIME GRAY ZONE
support. This is the story of the author’s first tour as a OPERATIONS
combat advisor from 1966 to 1967.
Edited by Andrew Sven Erickson & Ryan D. Martinson
University Press of Mississippi
Mar 2019 336pp
SILENT WARRIORS, 9781591146933 Hardback US$45.00
INCREDIBLE COURAGE Studies in Chinese Maritime Development
The Declassified
Stories of Cold War With contributions from some of the world’s leading
Reconnaissance Flights experts, this volume explains the forces and doctrines
and the Men Who driving China’s paranaval expansion. The book covers
Flew Them China’s maritime forces beyond core gray-hulled Navy
units, with particular focus on China’s second and third
Wolfgang W.E. Samuel sea forces: the “white-hulled” Coast Guard and “blue-
Foreword by R. Cargill Hall hulled” Maritime Militia.

Mar 2019 320pp, 128 b&w illustrations THE MAN WHO TOOK THE RAP
9781496822796 Hardback US$29.95 Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the
Fall of Singapore
The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the
American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the Peter Dye
US and its allies developed a selective overflight program
to gather intelligence. This book offers a history of the Oct 2018 432pp
Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union and China, 9781682473580 Hardback US$44.95
based on extensive interviews with dozens of pilots. History of Military Aviation

A biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in
the early development of airpower. The book highlights
Brooke-Popham’s role in developing the first modern
military logistic system, the creation of the Royal Air
Force Staff College and the organisational arrangements
that underpinned Fighter Command’s success in the
Battle of Britain.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

HISTORY · MILITARY HISTORY
60 LITERATURE

RED STAR OVER THE PACIFIC LITERATURE
China’s Rise and the Challenge to
U.S. Maritime Strategy Academic Studies Press

Toshi Yoshihara & James R. Holmes FAREWELL, AYLIS
A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works
Jan 2019 320pp
9781682472187 Hardback US$36.95 Akram Aylisli
Translated by Katherine E. Young
Provides an assessment of how the rise of Chinese
seapower will affect US maritime strategy in Asia. Dec 2018 520pp
9781618117946 Hardback US$35.00
TONKIN GULF AND THE ESCALATION OF Central Asian Literatures in Translation
THE VIETNAM WAR
Second Edition The three novellas of Farewell, Aylis take place over
decades of transition in a country that resembles
Edwin Moise modern-day Azerbaijan. A new essay by the author
that reflects on the political firestorm surrounding
Jun 2019 400pp these novellas and his current situation as a prisoner of
9781682474242 Hardback US$39.00 conscience in Azerbaijan, was commissioned especially
for this edition.
Examines the Tonkin Gulf incident and the escalation of
the Vietnam War. The author interviewed about twenty THE WHITE CHALK OF DAYS
Americans who were present. Most believed at the time that The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series
an attack was occurring. By the time they were interviewed Anthology
there were more doubters than believers but the ones who
still believed were more confident in their opinions. Edited by Mark Andryczyk

UNCOMMON VALOR Dec 2018 336pp
The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals 9781618118622 Paperback US$23.95
of Honor and Included America’s Most Ukrainian Studies
Decorated Green Beret
Presents translations of literary works that imaginatively
Stephen L. Moore engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its
tribulations and jubilations. Featuring poetry, fiction,
Dec 2018 384pp and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology
9781591145745 Hardback US$35.00 offers English-language readers a wide array of the
most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past
Looks at the formation and operation of an advanced fifty years.
Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War.
Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG
was the most covert US military unit in its time and
contained only volunteers from the Army’s Green Berets,
Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos.

Southern Illinois University Press Broadview Press

THE UNDAUNTED WOMEN OF NANKING HAMLET
The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and
Tsen Shui-fang William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington
Hua-ling Hu & Zhang Lian-hong
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9780809337460 Paperback US$24.50 A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition

Juxtaposes day-by-day exhausted and terrified women’s In the introduction to this new edition, David Bevington
wartime diaries, providing vital eyewitness accounts of explores some key dilemmas and puzzles in this most
the Rape of Nanking and a unique focus on the Ginling famous of Shakespeare’s tragedies. What is the role of
refugee camp and the sufferings of women and children. providence in a work with pagan sources? How does
Minnie Vautrin’s diary reveals the humanity and courage Hamlet comment on dramatic art in his play within
of a female missionary in a time of terror. a play? What are the moral ambiguities of seeking
revenge?

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HEART OF DARKNESS JANE AUSTEN
AND COMEDY
Joseph Conrad
Edited by John G. Peters Edited by Erin Goss

Jan 2019 225pp, 5 b&w illustrations Apr 2019 250pp, 6 illustrations
9781554813513 Paperback US$12.95 9781684480777 Paperback US$34.95
Transits: Literature, Thought &
A new edition of Joseph Conrad’s most famous tale. Culture 1650-1850
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experience and therefore allows the reader to consider often dismissed as superfluous
the tale in the context of Conrad’s time in the Congo. or irrelevant to a contemporary
world, this collection of essays directs attention to the
THE LIBRARY WINDOW ways we laugh, the ways that Austen may make us do
so, and the ways that our laughter is conditioned by the
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Edited by Annmarie Drury
TRANSMEDIA CREATURES
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READING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE studies, English and digital humanities.
A Critical Introduction, Second Edition
Cognella Academic Publishing
Carrie Hintz & Eric Tribunella
EROTIC LOVE POEMS OF GREECE AND
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Offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently Stephen Bertman
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century Britain. Samara Cahill explores two overlapping
strands of thinking about women and Islam, which
produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism”.

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62 LITERATURE

McFarland University Press of Mississippi

PERSPECTIVES ON STEPHEN KING CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLEN GINSBERG
Conversations with Authors, Experts and
Collaborators Edited by David Stephen Calonne

Andrew J. Rausch Jul 2019 224pp
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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous
This collection of original interviews with fellow American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career
authors, collaborators and critics covers all things King, is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to
from analysis of his best writing to his many screen literature but also social justice. Conversations with Allen
adaptations to recurring themes in his stories. Ginsberg collects interviews from 1962 to 1997 that chart
Ginsberg’s intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution.
SHAKESPEARE SCHOLARS
IN CONVERSATION CONVERSATIONS WITH MAURICE SENDAK
Interviews with 24 Leading Experts
Edited by Peter C. Kunze
Michael P. Jensen
Dec 2018 232pp
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9781476670607 Paperback US$45.00 Literary Conversations Series

Interviews twenty-four prominent Shakespeare scholars These interviews span from 1966 to 2011. They show
about the books that have influenced their ideas, been not only Maurice Sendak’s shifting artistic interests, but
the most useful in their work, and are just plain fun. They also changes in how he understood himself and his craft.
discuss their reasons for recommending the best known What emerges is a portrait of an author and an artist
books in Shakespeare studies and also unearth nearly who was alternately solemn and playful, congenial and
forgotten treasures that deserve a wide readership. irascible, sophisticated and populist.

University of Michigan Press CONVERSATIONS WITH NEIL GAIMAN

ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers
EMILY BRONTË
Wuthering Heights in Japan Dec 2018 240pp
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Judith Pascoe Literary Conversations Series

Feb 2019 192pp, 12 illustrations Presents interviews that span the length of Neil Gaimain’s
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of seven to a new, unpublished interview held in 2017.
For full details of this title, see page 53. They cover topics as wide and varied as a young Gaiman’s
thoughts on managing anger, learning the comics trade
from Alan Moore, and being on the clock virtually 24/7.

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LITERATURE
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

CONVERSATIONS WITH COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
McFarland
Edited by Robert Golla
THE AGES OF THE FLASH
Nov 2018 256pp Essays on the Fastest Man Alive
9781496820242 Paperback US$25.00
Literary Conversations Series Edited by Joseph J. Darowski

Brings together candid, revealing interviews with one Feb 2019 170pp
of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. The 9781476674445 Paperback US$29.95
twenty-eight interviews and profiles in this collection
were drawn from Nabokov’s numerous print and While many superheroes have multiple powers and
broadcast appearances over a period of nineteen years. complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity
makes his character easily comprehendible. This
Modern Language Association collection of essays serves as a stepping-stone to a
greater understanding of the Flash, examining iterations
APPROACHES TO TEACHING THE WORKS of his character and what they reveal about the era in
OF AMITAV GHOSH which they were written.

Edited by Gaurav Desai & John Hawley University Press of Mississippi

Jan 2019 277pp THE ARTISTRY OF NEIL GAIMAN
9781603293976 Paperback US$24.00 Finding Light in the Shadows
Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Vol. 157
Edited by Joseph Michael Sommers & Kyle Eveleth
For full details of this title, see page 15.
Apr 2019 300pp, 44 b&w illustrations
AN INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH 9781496821652 Paperback US$30.00
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
Jonathan Evans
Neil Gaiman is one of the most critically decorated and
Dec 2018 230pp popular authors of the last fifty years, but his work is
9781603293112 Paperback US$29.00 under represented in sustained fashion in comics studies.
Introductions to Older Languages, Vol. 5 The thirteen essays and two interviews with Gaiman
and his frequent collaborator, artist P. Craig Russell, in
Introduces the major categories of grammar in parallel this volume examine the work of Gaiman and his many
with a summary of the major events of English illustrators.
prehistory and the history of the Anglo-Saxons up to
and immediately following the Norman Conquest.
Lessons present translation passages in chronological
order, starting from the Peterborough manuscript of the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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64 MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

THE EXPANDING ART OF COMICS MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
Ten Modern Masterpieces
Cognella Academic Publishing
Thierry Groensteen
Translated by Ann Miller VIRAL MEDIA
A Digital Production Marketing Guide
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Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in Paul Fornelli & Jody Mahler
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from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, before
delving into more recent masterpieces. Demonstrates how to integrate multiple forms of media
into a successful ad campaign, newscast, promotional event,
PANEL TO THE SCREEN TV show, or feature film so that the content stands out and
Style, American Film, and Comic Books gains attention in a world oversaturated with media.
During the Blockbuster Era
University of Michigan Press
Drew Morton
#IDENTITY
Dec 2018 238pp Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and
9781496820280 Paperback US$30.00 Nation

For full details of this title, see page 66. Abigail De Kosnik & Keith Feldman

Naval Institute Press Apr 2019 344pp, 20 figures
9780472054152 Paperback US$34.95
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Addresses the positive and negative effects of Twitter on
Erich Maria Remarque our contemporary world. Collectively, the essays in this
Adapted by Wayne Vansant volume offer a critically interdisciplinary view of how and
why social media has been at the heart of US and global
Jun 2019 176pp political discourse for over a decade.
9781682473337 Paperback US$24.95
GLOBAL DIGITAL CULTURES
The estate of Erich Maria Remarque sanctioned this Perspectives From South Asia
adaptation of the author’s 1928 novel of the same name
a tale of WWI trench warfare retold here by cartoonist Aswin Punathambekar & Sriram Mohan
Wayne Vansant (Knights of the Skull), a Vietnam veteran.
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Dead Reckoning 9780472131402 Hardback US$80.00

From state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube
censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter
and primetime TV to Facebook and political rumours,
this book focuses on concerns of representation,
identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic
curation and data-driven processes of production,
circulation, and consumption.

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MEDIA & COMMUNICATION · PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV

The University of North Carolina Press HITCHCOCK AND HUMOR
Comedic Elements in Twelve Defining Films
HASHTAG ISLAM
How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Wes D. Gehring
Transforming Religious Authority
Apr 2019 241pp
Gary R. Bunt 9781476673561 Paperback US$39.95

Jul 2018 240pp, 13 illustrations The author grew tired of misleading throwaway
9781469643168 Paperback US$24.95 references to the director’s “comic relief.” This
Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks book examines what should be obvious: Hitchcock
systematically incorporated assorted types of comedy
For full details of this title, see page 77. - black humour, parody, farce/screwball comedy and
romantic comedy - in his films to entertain his audience
PERFORMING ARTS with “comic” thrillers.

FILM & TV THE RISE OF K-DRAMAS
Essays on Korean Television and its
McFarland Global Consumption

FILM APPRECIATION THROUGH GENRES Edited by JaeYoon Park

Michael Patrick Gillespie Apr 2019 194pp
9781476677477 Paperback US$39.95
Mar 2019 160pp
9781476676395 Paperback US$39.95 Korean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the
late 1990s, and their global fandom continues to
Many intelligent, enthusiastic individuals approach grow. Examining the cultural impact of K-drama and
conversations about films as an extension of the its fandom, this collection of essays focuses on the
pleasures derived while watching them. Love for movies formation and transformation of identities in the
and enthusiasm for discussion makes many people want context of regional and global dynamics and differing
to attain a better understanding of what they have seen values and beliefs among social groups.
and to develop a greater skill in talking articulately about
their experiences. TAKASHI SHIMURA
Chameleon of
THE FILMS OF Japanese Cinema
ROBIN WILLIAMS
Critical Essays Scott Allen Nollen

Edited by Johnson Cheu Mar 2019 207pp
9781476670133 Paperback US$39.95
Jan 2019 186pp
9781476667331 Paperback US$39.95 Considered one of the finest
performers in world cinema,
This scholarly collection, the Japanese actor Takashi Shimura
first of its kind, brings together (1905-1982) appeared in
an array of essays, offering a more than 300 stage, film and
keen look at Robin Williams television roles during his five-decade career. This is the
and his oeuvre. His hits, such first complete English-language account of Shimura’s
as Good Morning, Vietnam and Dead Poets Society are work. In addition to historical and critical coverage, it
covered. Film scholars, students, and fans will also find includes an extensive filmography.
essays delving into his early career and political and
satirical films.

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66 FILM & TV

TONY SCOTT PANEL TO THE SCREEN
A Filmmaker on Fire Style, American Film, and Comic Books
During the Blockbuster Era
Larry Taylor
Drew Morton
Feb 2019 149pp
9781476675664 Paperback US$35.00 Dec 2018 238pp
9781496820280 Paperback US$30.00
Tony Scott was a thrill seeker who lived and loved life to
the fullest... He was also one of the more cutting edge Film and comic books continuously lean on one another
filmmakers of his generation. With original interviews to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic
from actors, cinematographers, and writers, Scott’s possibilities. Drew Morton examines this dialogue in its
larger-than-life persona is covered in great detail, from intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological,
the early days of his life and career, to its untimely end. and industrial contexts.

University Press of Mississippi PULLING A RABBIT OUT OF A HAT
The Making of Roger Rabbit
BUMPY ROAD
The Making, Flop, and Revival of Ross Anderson
Two-Lane Blacktop
Jun 2019 352pp, 30 b&w illustrations
Sylvia Townsend 9781496822338 Paperback US$30.00

Dec 2018 240pp Ross Anderson interviewed over 140 artists to tell the
9781496820952 Paperback US$30.00 story of how, with Who Framed Roger Rabbit, they created
something truly magical. Anderson describes the ways in
Chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, which the Roger Rabbit characters have been used in film
resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of shorts, commercials, and merchandising, and how they
director Monte Hellman’s 1971 existentialist car-racing have remained a cultural touchstone today.
movie. Sylvia Townsend conducts a comprehensive
examination of the film, its reception, and the QUENTIN TARANTINO
resurgence of interest it has more recently generated. Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction

CHINA IN THE MIX David Roche
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture
in the Age of Globalization Jun 2018 352pp
9781496821157 Paperback US$30.00
Ying Xiao
Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino’s films according
Dec 2018 326pp, 20 b&w illustrations to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural
9781496823472 Paperback US$30.00 studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how
closely the films’ poetics and politics are intertwined.
For full details of this title, see page 53. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some
which have drawn much attention, others less so.
J. J. ABRAMS
Interviews NEW IN PAPERBACK

Edited by Brent Dunham WONG KAR-WAI
Interviews
Dec 2018 240pp
9781496820426 Paperback US$25.00 Edited by Silver Wai-ming Lee & Micky Lee
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Aug 2018 222pp
Throughout his career, J.J. Abrams has dedicated his 9781496820259 Paperback US$25.00
life to storytelling and worked tirelessly to become Conversations with Filmmakers Series
one of the best-known and most successful creators in
Hollywood. The thirty interviews collected in this volume Wong Kar-wai’s signature style - experimental, emotive,
span Abrams’s entire career, covering his many projects character-driven, and timeless - remains apparent
from television and film to video games and theatre. throughout his films. This volume includes interviews
that appear in English for the first time, including some
that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of
print. The interviews cover each of Wong’s feature films.

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PERFORMING ARTS
FILM & TV · MUSIC

Rutgers University Press SOME KIND OF MIRROR
Creating Marilyn Monroe
BORDER CINEMA
Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics Amanda Konkle

Edited by Monica Hanna & Rebecca A. Sheehan Dec 2018 280pp, 31 b&w illustrations
9781978802612 Paperback US$29.95
Mar 2019 244pp, 10 illustrations
9781978803152 Paperback US$29.95 Offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn
Global Media and Race Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united
the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in
Demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary 1950s America. Amanda Konkle suggests that Monroe’s
border fortification processes, showing how cinematic star persona resonated with audiences precisely because
media have functioned to engender shifts in identities it engaged with the era’s critical debates regarding
while proposing alternative conceptions of these femininity, sexuality, marriage, and political activism.
identities to those promulgated by the current political
rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to TRANSGENDER CINEMA
globalization.
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
CRIMINALIZATION/ASSIMILATION
Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Mar 2019 130pp
Classical Hollywood Film 9780813597331 Paperback US$17.95
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Philippa Gates
Gives readers the big picture of how trans people have
Mar 2019 280pp, 15 images been depicted on screen. The book examines a plethora
9780813589411 Paperback US$34.95 of trans portrayals that emerged from varied media
outlets, including documentary films, television serials,
Traces how classical Hollywood films constructed and world cinema. Along the way, it analyses milestones
America’s image of Chinese Americans from their in trans representation.
criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their
eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, MUSIC
exploiting both America’s yellow peril fears about
Chinese immigration and its fascination with Cognella Academic Publishing
Chinatowns.
GLOBAL POPULAR
DIGITAL CINEMA MUSIC

Stephen Prince Edited by Thomas Garcia

Jan 2019 144pp Dec 2018 276pp
9780813596266 Paperback US$17.95 9781516525867 Paperback US$99.95
Quick Takes: Movies and P
opular Culture Examines the commonalities
and differences among
Considers how new different popular music
technologies have traditions in the Americas,
revolutionized the medium, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
while investigating the The text explores the ways in which each tradition
continuities that might remain developed, evolved, eventually disseminated, and how
from filmmaking’s analogue they gained global reach.
era. In the process, this book raises provocative questions
about the status of realism in a pixel-generated digital
medium whose scenes often defy the laws of physics.

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68 MUSIC

The University of Georgia Press University Press of Mississippi

GETTIN’ AROUND ANALYSIS OF JAZZ
Jazz, Script, Transnationalism A Comprehensive Approach

Jürgen E. Grandt Laurent Cugny

Dec 2018 200pp Apr 2019 384pp, 78 b&w illustrations
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American Made Music Series
Examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in
various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration In this groundbreaking volume, Laurent Cugny examines
of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders and connects the theoretical and methodological processes
of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time that underlie all of jazz. Jazz in all its forms is researched and
remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history. analysed by performers, scholars, and critics. This book is
required reading for any serious study of jazz.

McFarland CREATING THE JAZZ SOLO
Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony
DECODING DYLAN
Making Sense of the Vic Hobson
Songs That Changed
Modern Culture Dec 2018 288pp
9781496819789 Paperback US$30.00
James M. Curtis American Made Music Series

May 2019 149pp Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain
9781476678450 Paperback US$35.00 how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets
of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship.
Taking readers behind Bob Creating the Jazz Solo shows that Armstrong understood
Dylan’s familiar image as exactly the relationship between what he sang and what
the enigmatic rebel of the he played, and that he he was singing through his horn.
1960s, this book reveals a
different view - that of a CREOLE TROMBONE
careful craftsman and student of the art of songwriting. Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
Drawing on revelations from Dylan’s memoir and a
variety of other sources, the author arrives at a radically John McCusker
new interpretation of his body of work.
Dec 2018 272pp
University of Michigan Press 9781496823427 Paperback US$25.00
American Made Music Series
THE BEATLES THROUGH A GLASS ONION
Reconsidering the White Album Edward “Kid” Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist,
composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz
Mark Osteen band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth
on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking,
Mar 2019 328pp, 15 musical examples ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans
9780472074082 Hardback US$80.00 as the city’s hottest band leader.
Tracking Pop
TEARING THE WORLD APART
The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
as the White Album, has always been viewed as an
oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it to be Edited by Nina Goss & Eric Hoffman
inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles
Through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume Nov 2018 202pp
to explore this seminal recording at length. 9781496820143 Paperback US$30.00
American Made Music Series

Participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob
Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty-
first century - Love and Theft (2001), Modern Times
(2006), and Tempest (2012) - along with the 2003 film
Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan helped write and in
which he appears as an actor and musical performer.

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PHILOSOPHY

The University of North Carolina Press PHILOSOPHY

MUSIC MAKERS Academica Press
Portraits and Songs from the Roots of
America THE LUCIFERIC VERSES
The Daodejing and the Chinese Roots of
Edited by Timothy Duffy Esoteric History
Foreword by B.B. King
Eric Cunningham
Feb 2019 216pp, 142 illustrations
9781469651699 Paperback US$30.00 Dec 2018 199pp
9781680530834 Hardback US$139.95
Features photographs, biographies, interviews, and
lyrics from sixty-six real and rooted originals such Combines a new translation of the Chinese classic
as Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Cootie Stark, Mudcat, Daodejing with a synthetic interpretation of the
Macavine Hayes, and Drink Small. The music of Dao, innovatively employing the perspectives of
America exists in these largely forgotten artists who Anthroposophy and esoteric world history.
link us back to our earliest history.
Broadview Press
The University of North Carolina Press
MORAL PHILOSOPHY
STONE FREE A Contemporary Introduction
Jimi Hendrix in
London, Daniel R. DeNicola
September 1966-
June 1967 Jan 2019 320pp
9781554813544 Paperback US$34.95
Jas Obrecht
Offers an explication and critique of the major theories
Dec 2018 256pp, 15 halftones that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with
9781469647067 both historical and contemporary figures, this book
Hardback US$28.00 explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality.
Each chapter opens with a provocative real case or
A compelling portrait of fictional scenario that helps to illuminate the issues at
rock’s greatest guitarist hand.
at the moment of his
ascendance, Stone Free PHILEBUS
is the first book to focus
exclusively on the happiest and most productive period Plato
of Jimi Hendrix’s life. In addition to featuring the voices Edited by James Wood
of Jimi, his bandmates, and other eyewitnesses, the
book draws from contemporary accounts published in Mar 2019 200pp
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The only Platonic dialogue
that takes as its central
theme the fundamental
Socratic question of the
good, understood as that
which makes for the best or
happiest life. Following the
translation is an appendix
of parallel passages from other Platonic dialogues as
well as related material from Aristotle, the Stoics, and
Epicurus.

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PHILOSOPHERS OF THE WARRING STATES NEW IN PAPERBACK
A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy
KAROL WOJTYLA’S PERSONALIST
Translated with a commentary by Kurtis Hagen & PHILOSOPHY
Steve Coutinho Understanding Person and Act

Dec 2018 400pp Miguel Acosta & Adrian J. Reimers
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Jan 2019 288pp
An anthology of new translations of essential readings 9780813231976 Paperback US$34.95
from the classical texts of early Chinese philosophy. It
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as well as short chapters on the Da Xue and the THE METAPHYSICAL
Zhong Yong. FOUNDATIONS OF LOVE
Aquinas on Participatin, Unity, and Union
The Catholic University of America Press
Anthony T. Flood
ACTION AND CHARACTER
ACCORDING TO ARISTOTLE Dec 2018 277pp
The Logic of the Moral Life 9780813231204 Hardback US$65.00
Thomistic Ressourcement Series
Kevin Flannery
Offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas’s
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elements to the nature of love and friendship.
Proposes comprehensive interpretations of some
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brings to bear upon the analysis of human behaviour Edited by Brian J. Shanley
passages in Aristotle’s logical works. It also draws
connections to action theory, the analysis of practical Jan 2019 312pp
reason, and virtue ethics. 9780813232102 Paperback US$34.95
Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 36
FROM KANT AND ROYCE TO HEIDEGGER
Essays in Modern Philosophy Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, the
essays in this collection provide a unique overview of
Charles M. Sherover philosophical developments in the twentieth century.
The broad range of topics considered makes the book an
Jan 2019 232pp invaluable reference work.
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Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 38 THEMES IN KANT’S METAPHYSICS AND
ETHICS
Argues that there is a single, substantial line of
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pragmatism to the ethical ramifications of Heidegger’s Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 40
existential phenomenology.
Intended for those interested in Kant’s contribution to
philosophy, this volume provides an overview of Kant’s
arguments concerning central issues in metaphysics and
ethics. Arthur Melnick argues that the key to all of Kant’s
arguments is his constructivist theory of space and time.

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Mercer University Press POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE? Academic Studies Press
Reading the Buddha’s Discourses
CHINA AND ISRAEL
Krishnan Venkatesh Chinese, Jews; Beijing, Jerusalem (1890-2018)

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American Psychological Association FAILED DIPLOMACY
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EMERGING HORIZONS IN Rutgers University Press
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RELIGION BOUND FOR BEATITUDE
A Thomistic Study in Eschatology and Ethics
Academic Studies Press
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THE METAPHYSICAL Mercer University Press
FOUNDATIONS OF LOVE
Aquinas on Participatin, Unity, and Union DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE?
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PRESCRIBING THE DHARMA SOCIAL STUDIES
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Canadian Scholars PROCESS-TRACING
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LEGITIMATING LIFE ANTHROPOLOGY
Adoption in the Age of Globalization and
Biotechnology University of Manitoba Press

Sonja van Wichelen INUIT STORIES OF BEING AND REBIRTH
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SOCIAL STUDIES
ANTHROPOLOGY · GENDER & SEXUALITY

Nunavut Arctic College Media University of Michigan Press

INUIT ORAL HISTORY & REPRESENTATION BEYOND THE GENDER GAP IN JAPAN
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