New Books: Autumn-Winter 2017

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University of Hawaii Press BARBARA LA MARR
The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood
CONTEMPORARY SINO-FRENCH CINEMAS
Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Sherri Snyder
Red Balloons
Dec 2017 454pp
Michelle E. Bloom 9780813174259 Hardback £47.50 / €55.00
Screen Classics
Nov 2017 296pp
9780824875114 Paperback £29.95 / €35.00 In the first full-length biography of the woman known
Critical Interventions as the girl who was too beautiful, Sherri Snyder presents
a complete portrait of one of the silent era’s most
Transnational cinemas are eclipsing national cinemas infamous screen sirens. Few stars have burned as brightly
in the contemporary world, and Sino-French films and as briefly as Barbara La Marr, and her extraordinary
exemplify this phenomenon through the cinematic life story is one of tempestuous passions as well as
coupling of the Sinophone and the Francophone. This perseverance in the face of adversity.
full-length work on Sino-French cinema maps uncharted
territory, offering a paradigm for understanding CONVERSATIONS WITH CLASSIC FILM STARS
other cross-cultural interminglings and tools to study Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era
transnational cinema.
James Bawden & Ron Miller
University Press of Kansas
Oct 2017 440pp
PRODUCER OF CONTROVERSY 9780813174389 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and Screen Classics
the Cold War
Presents an astonishing collection of rare interviews
Jennifer Frost with the greatest celebrities of Hollywood’s golden
age. Conducted over the course of more than fifty
Nov 2017 336pp years, James Bawden and Ron Miller recount intimate
9780700624966 Hardback £31.50 / €37.00 conversations with some of the most famous leading
men and women of the era, including Douglas Fairbanks
With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Who’s Jr., Joseph Cotten, Cary Grant, Gloria Swanson, Joan
Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) was one Fontaine, Loretta Young, and Kirk Douglas.
of the most successful and prolific director-producers of
his day. Producer of Controversy is the first book to take a MICHAEL CURTIZ
close-up look at Kramer’s career, films, and liberal politics A Life in Film
in an effort to explain his contributions and historical
significance. Alan K. Rode

The University Press of Kentucky Nov 2017 630pp
9780813173917 Hardback £52.50 / €61.00
ANNE BANCROFT Screen Classics
A Life
During his twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros.,
Douglass K. Daniel Michael Curtiz directed swashbuckling adventures,
westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical
Sep 2017 400pp dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies,
9780813169682 Hardback £36.95 / €43.00 and film noir masterpieces. In the first biography of this
Screen Classics colourful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the
life and work of one of the film industry’s most complex
In the first biography to cover the entire scope of Anne figures.
Bancroft’s life and career, Douglass K. Daniel brings
together interviews with dozens of her friends and
colleagues, never-before-published family photos, and
material from film and theatre archives to present a
portrait of an artist who raised the standards of acting
for all those who followed.

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MIRIAM HOPKINS A GREEN AND PAGAN LAND
Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film
and Television
Allan R. Ellenberger
David Huckvale
Jan 2018 396pp
9780813174310 Hardback £47.50 / €55.00 Sep 2017 167pp
9781476670508 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00
Screen Classics
British literature often refers to pagan and classical
Though she enjoyed popular and critical acclaim in her themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest
long career, Miriam Hopkins is most often remembered more than a mere backdrop of physical features. This
for being one of the most difficult actresses of volume analyses the evocative language and aesthetics
Hollywood’s golden age. In the first comprehensive of landscapes in literature, film, television and music,
biography of this colourful performer, Allan R. and how “psycho-geography” is used to explore the
Ellenberger illuminates Hopkins’s fascinating life and influence of the past on the present.
legacy.

YOU AIN’T HEARD NOTHIN’ YET AFTER THE BOMB BECAME GOD
Interviews with Stars from Hollywood’s The Legacy of the Cold War in Dr. Strangelove,
Golden Era End Zone, Crash and The Wire

James Bawden & Ron Miller Niall Heffernan

Oct 2017 394pp Nov 2017 166pp
9780813174211 Hardback £38.95 / €46.00 9781476664668 Paperback £57.50 / €68.00
Screen Classics
The Cold War profoundly shaped neoliberalism in ways
Journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their that are as yet not fully realised. This book is a careful
careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood’s and extensively researched look at the narratives
golden age. In You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet, Bawden and that pierce the heart of the Cold War zeitgeist and its
Miller return with a new collection of rare interviews with aftermath and reveal to us that we may be living in a
iconic film stars including Henry Fonda, Esther Williams, post-Cold War world.
Buster Keaton, Maureen O’Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, and
many more. AGNES MOOREHEAD ON RADIO, STAGE
AND TELEVISION
McFarland
Axel Nissen
A FISTFUL OF ICONS
Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Aug 2017 141pp
Western 9781476667584 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00

Edited by Sue Matheson Agnes Moorehead (1900-74) was unique among
twentieth-century American actresses in making a
Jul 2017 267pp major career for herself in all four entertainment media
9780786498048 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00 after the age of 40. This title focuses on Moorehead’s
career in radio, on the stage, and in television. A
Western archetypes remain important emblems of the representative selection of 25 of her most interesting
American experience, relating a complex and coded and representative performances in these media are
narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and discussed in separate profiles.
femininity, westward expansion and technological
progress, and assimilation and settlement. In this
collection of new essays, 21 contributors examine
the “cowboy cool” iconography of film and television
Westerns.

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APPROACHING TWIN PEAKS BECOMING JOHN WAYNE
Critical Essays on the Original Series The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon, 1930-1939

Edited by Eric Hoffman Larry Powell

Aug 2017 181pp Nov 2017 155pp
9781476671277 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00 9781476664132 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00

Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks raised the Explores the early westerns of John Wayne, from his first
bar for television and is now considered one of the great starring role in the 1930 epic The Big Trail through his
dramas in TV history. This collection of new essays explores breakthrough role as the Ringo Kid in John Ford’s 1939
its filmic influences, its genre-bending innovations and classic Stagecoach. This book argues that it was during
its use of horror and science fiction conventions, from the these 1930s westerns that Marion Morrison transformed
original series to the film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with from a prop man into the John Wayne film persona that
Me and subsequent video releases. became world famous.

ARROW AND SUPERHERO TELEVISION BELA LUGOSI AND BORIS KARLOFF
Essays on Themes and Characters of the Series The Expanded Story of a Haunting
Collaboration, with a Complete Filmography
Edited by James F. Iaccino, Cory Barker & Myc Wiatrowski of Their Films Together

Nov 2017 277pp Gregory William Mank
9780786497874 Paperback £20.95 / €25.00
Jul 2017 701pp
This collection of new essays focuses on The CW 9781476672342 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00
network’s hit television series Arrow - based on DC
Comic’s Green Arrow - and its spin-offs. The contributors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff starred in dozens of black-
explore the reasons behind Arrow ‘s success, the series’ and-white horror films, and managed to collaborate on
representation of bodies, its portrayal of women, its and co-star in eight movies. Through interviews and
shifting political ideologies, and audience reception and archival research, this expanded new edition examines the
influence on storylines. Golden Age of Hollywood, recreates the shooting of Lugosi
and Karloff’s mutual films, examines their odd and moving
AT HOME IN THE WHEDONVERSE personal relationship, and analyses their ongoing legacies.
Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life
CLAIRE TREVOR
Edited by Juliette C. Kitchens The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir

Sep 2017 197pp Derek Sculthorpe
9781476667027 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00
Oct 2017 125pp
Joss Whedon’s work collectively offers audiences the 9781476671932 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00
opportunity to question the ways we relate to and
inhabit homes. Focusing on his television series, films An alluring blonde with a uniquely seductive voice, Claire
and comics, this collection of new essays explores the Trevor is chiefly remembered now for her many femme
diversity of home spaces in Whedon’s many ‘verses, fatale roles in a series of iconic noirs. However she was
and the complexity these spaces afford the narratives, a versatile actress not trapped by genre who brought
characters, objects and relationships within them. a rare emotional depth to her art. This book provides a
comprehensive discussion of her life and career.

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CLASSIC MOVIE FIGHT SCENES FUNNY THING ABOUT MURDER
75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989 Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films

Gene Freese David Geherin

Aug 2017 277pp Jul 2017 175pp
9781476669434 Paperback £47.50 / €55.00 9781476669113 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00

The filming of fight scenes has changed significantly Focusing on crime fiction, film and television that artfully
through the years from improvised scuffles in the Silent combine comedy and misdeed, this comprehensive
Era to exquisitely choreographed and edited sequences. study explores the reasons why writers and filmmakers
Examining more than 300 films, the author provides inject humour into their work and identifies the various
behind-the-scenes details on memorable melees comic techniques they use. The author covers both
starring such iconic tough-guys as John Wayne, Robert American and European books, film and television from
Mitchum, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, the 1930s to the present.
and Bruce Lee.
GLAMOUR GIRLS OF SIXTIES HOLLYWOOD
CLINT EASTWOOD’S CINEMA OF TRAUMA Seventy-Five Profiles
Essays on PTSD in the Director’s Films
Tom Lisanti
Edited by Charles R. Hamilton & Allen H. Redmon
Jul 2017 252pp, photos
Aug 2017 176pp 9781476672335 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00
9781476667508 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00
During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds,
Throughout his directorial career, Clint Eastwood’s beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to
movies have presented sympathetic narratives of become “decorative actresses” appearing scantily clad
characters enduring personal trauma as they turn to on film and television. This illustrated homage to 75
violence to survive calamity or sustain social order. In this of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories
collection of new essays, contributors examine his films through individual biographical profiles, photographs,
as studies on PTSD that expose the social conditions lists of major credits and, frequently, in-depth personal
that tolerate or trigger traumatisation and imagine a interviews.
way through trauma.
HORROR IN SPACE
FRANK WISBAR Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre
The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany
to America and Back Edited by Michele Brittany

Henry Nicolella Aug 2017 212pp
9781476664057 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00
Aug 2017 277pp
9781476666884 Paperback £47.50 / €55.00 Analyses the space horror subgenre and its rise as a
cinematic phenomenon since the 1950s. These essays
German director Frank Wisbar (1899-1967) had the provide a historical retrospective of the genre’s cinematic
misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as journey and an in-depth examination of how filmmakers
Hitler came to power. Wisbar fled to America, where explored the concepts of the survivor, the uncanny
Hollywood saw him as no more than a technician. A valley, the isolationism of space travel, religion, and
successful stint in early television allowed him to return supernatural phenomenons to terrify audiences within
home to a very different Germany. The book examines the confines of space.
the films and career of an under-appreciated auteur who
ultimately lost faith in his own vision.

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INGRID PITT, QUEEN OF HORROR ROMANCING THE ZOMBIE
The Complete Career Essays on the Undead as Significant “Other”

Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter Edited by Ashley Szanter & Jessica K. Richards

Jul 2017 230pp Sep 2017 200pp
9781476672304 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00 9781476667423 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00

Explores the life and career of Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror The zombie, popular culture’s undead darling, shows
cinema. Full cast and production credits, synopses, no signs of stopping. But as it deliberately conquers
reviews and notes are offered for all of her film, stage pop culture, zombies also adapt to suit our needs
and TV appearances, along with a critical listing of her and, perhaps more importantly, our desires. This work
novels and other published works. Other features include presents examinations of the romantic zombie, for
rare photographs and other movie-related graphics from better or worse, as the newest inductee to the Hall of
every phase of the actress’ career, and a foreword by Paranormal Lovers.
Ingrid Pitt herself.
TECH-NOIR
MAKING YOUR FIRST FEATURE FILM The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir
Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Paul Meehan
Dominick Bagnato
Jul 2017 272pp
Aug 2017 277pp 9781476672359 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
9781476670348 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00
Traces the common origins of film noir and science
The tools for independent filmmaking are more fiction films, identifying the many instances in which
accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to the two have merged to form a distinctive subgenre
successfully creating a film than access to equipment known as Tech-Noir. From the German Expressionist
and software. Chronicling the making of his premier cinema of the late 1920s to the present-day cyberpunk
feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the author movement, the book examines more than 100 films in
describes the practical steps needed take a film project which common noir elements intersect with the high
from early concept to postproduction phases. technology of science fiction.

QUINTESSENTIAL JACK THE AGE OF NETFLIX
The Art of Jack Nicholson on Screen Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital
Delivery and Instant Access
Scott Edwards
Edited by Myc Wiatrowski
Aug 2017 277pp
9781476670942 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00 Aug 2017 215pp
9780786497478 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00
Drawing on years of research and dozens of interviews
with his associates, this critical study of Jack Nicholson’s Collecting several new essays from scholars around
oeuvre examines each of his film roles, as well as his the globe, this collection seeks to participate in the
screenwriting and directorial efforts. Personal insight ongoing discourse about Netflix’s place in contemporary
is provided by Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Noah Wyle, culture. These contributors explore the intricacies of the
Monkees Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, enormous effect Netflix has had on how we consume
several Apollo astronauts, Hells Angel Sonny Barger and popular media in the everyday world and examines the
many more. streaming giant as a disruptor and cultural institution.

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THE INCOMPARABLE HILDEGARDE THE STAR WARS PHENOMENON IN BRITAIN
The Sexuality, Style and Image of an The Blockbuster Impact and the Galaxy of
Entertainment Icon Merchandise, 1977-1983

Monica Storme Gallamore Craig Stevens

Nov 2017 144pp Nov 2017 239pp
9781476667706 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00 9781476666082 Paperback £42.50 / €49.00

The Incomparable Hildegarde, lived a long life full Provides a detailed account of the Star Wars saga’s British
of glamour and excitement. Her career started in connection, including personal recollections of fans
Milwaukee silent movie theatres, then the Vaudeville in the UK, exclusive interviews with staff members of
stage, and singing and playing piano in the cabarets Palitoy who took on the challenge of producing millions
of Paris and London. This biography, the first book to of toys, and the story of how a group of writers from the
address her importance in American culture, covers her underground press in London combined with Marvel
life from birth to death. comics to produce the first Star Wars expanded universe.

TO BOLDLY GO University Press of Mississippi
Essays on Gender and Identity in the
Star Trek Universe BEYOND BOMBSHELLS
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
Edited by Nadine Farghaly & Simon Bacon
Jeffrey A. Brown
Jul 2017 231pp
9781476668536 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00 Feb 2018 274pp
9781496814661 Paperback £28.50 / €34.00
In 2016, Star Trek - arguably the most popular science
fiction franchise of all time - turned 50. This collection of Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic
new essays provides a timely study of how well Star Trek books, TV, and literature than they have ever been. Their
has lived up to its own ideals of inclusivity and equality, spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about
and how well prepared it is to boldly go with everyone female agency, power, and sexuality. Beyond Bombshells
into the next half century. explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure
perceptions about how and why women are capable of
HERO OR VILLAIN? physically dominating roles in modern fiction.
Essays on Dark Protagonists of Television
BLAKE EDWARDS
Edited by Abigail G. Scheg & Tamara Girardi Interviews

Oct 2017 188pp Edited by Gabriela Oldham
9781476667690 Paperback £42.50 / €49.00
Jan 2018 192pp
One dimensional television characters are a thing of the 9781496815668 Hardback £56.95 / €67.00
past - today’s shows feature intricate storylines and well Conversations with Filmmakers Series
developed characters. Protagonists are not categorically
good, antagonists often have relatable good sides. These Blake Edwards was a multi-talented, versatile director
essays examines the complex characters in Orange Is the constantly exploring who he was, not only in filmmaking
New Black, Homeland, Key & Peele, Oz, Empire, Breaking but also in life. Blake Edwards: Interviews highlights
Bad, House, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. how the he created the Pink Panther franchise; his long
partnership with award-winning composer Henry
Mancini; his principles of comedy; his marriage and
film collaborations with Julie Andrews; and his unique
philosophy of life.

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CHINA IN THE MIX Northwestern University Press
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the
Age of Globalization SCREENING AUSCHWITZ
Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage and the
Ying Xiao Politics of Commemoration

Aug 2017 256pp Marek Haltof
9781496812605 Hardback £61.50 / €72.00
Jan 2018 188pp
Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of 9780810136106 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00
sound and its essential role in constructing image, Cultural Expressions
culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China
in the Mix fills a critical void as the first book to examine For full details of this title, see page 22.
the sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture of
post-Socialist China. Rutgers University Press

MARGARETHE VON TROTTA DEMOGRAPHIC ANGST
Interviews Cultural Narratives and American Films of
the 1950s
Edited by Monika Raesch
Alan Nadel
Feb 2018 224pp
9781496815613 Hardback £56.95 / €67.00 Dec 2017 256pp
Conversations with Filmmakers Series 9780813565491 Paperback £27.50 / €33.00

A collection of twenty-four illuminating interviews with Argues that mandated normativity - as a political
the auteur. Spanning three decades, from the mid-1980s agenda and a social ethic - precluded explicit expression
until today, the interviews reveal not only von Trotta’s of the anxiety produced by America’s radically
life in the film industry, but also evolving roles of and reconfigured postwar population. Alan Nadel explores
opportunities provided to women over that time. These influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and
interviews present the different dimensions of von Trotta public documents in conjunction with films to examine
through the lenses of film critics, scholars, and journalists. how these films worked through fresh anxieties that
emerged during the 1950s.
THE SCREEN IS RED
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War FILM REMAKES AND FRANCHISES

Bernard F. Dick Daniel Herbert

Feb 2018 308pp Nov 2017 160pp
9781496814937 Paperback £28.50 / €34.00 9780813579412 Paperback £16.50 / €20.00
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Explores Hollywood’s ambivalence toward the former
Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. Today Examines how remakes and sequels have been central
the threat is no longer the Soviet Union, but international to the film industry from its very inception, yet also
terrorism. Bernard F. Dick argues, however, that the Soviet considers how the recent trends toward reboots and
Union has not lost its appeal, as evident from the popular transmedia franchises depart from those historical
and critically acclaimed television series The Americans. precedents. Film scholar Daniel Herbert not only analyses
More than eighty years later, the screen is still red. the film industry’s increasing reliance on recycled
product, but also asks why audiences are currently so
drawn to such movies.

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GOING VIRAL MAKING BELIEVE
Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World Screen Performance and Special Effects in
Popular Cinema
Dahlia Schweitzer
Lisa Bode
Feb 2018 216pp
9780813593142 Paperback £25.50 / €30.00 Jul 2017 218pp
9780813579979 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00
Examines outbreak narratives in film, television, and a Techniques of the Moving Image
variety of other media, putting them in conversation
with rhetoric from government authorities and news In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of
organisations that have capitalised on public fears about digital effects cinema in which the human performer
our changing world. Dahlia Schweitzer identifies three is entangled with animation, collaged with other
distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic
to a specific contemporary anxiety. situations. Making Believe sheds light on these
developments by historicising screen performance
IMPERIAL AFFECTS within the context of special effects cinema and
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of technological change in Hollywood filmmaking.
American Cinema
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MOVIES
Jonna Eagle
David Sterritt
Jul 2017 276pp
9780813583020 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00 Nov 2017 152pp
War Culture 9780813583228 Paperback £16.50 / €20.00
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
In American culture and history, a feeling of national
identity and belonging have often derived from a sense Presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of
of injury, vulnerability, and loss. Jonna Eagle turns to rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies
the workings of American cinema to understand the to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations
power and persistence of these conjunctions, tracing the to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance
shifting dynamics of action and pathos as they structure documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt
representations of imperialist motion and violence considers the diverse ways that filmmakers have
across the twentieth century. regarded rock ‘n’ roll.

THE LIMITS OF AUTEURISM SEARCHING FOR SYCORAX
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed Black Women’s Hauntings of
New Hollywood Contemporary Horror

Nicholas Godfrey Kinitra D. Brooks

Feb 2018 274pp Dec 2017 216pp
9780813589145 Paperback £25.50 / €30.00 9780813584614 Paperback £23.95 / €28.00

The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early Highlights the unique position of Black women in horror
1970s has become one of the most romanticised periods as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates
in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic
boldness, thematic complexity, and the unshackling women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes
of directorial ambition. The Limits of Auteurism aims to and interrogating forms of literature that have often
challenge many of these assumptions. been ignored by Black feminist theory.

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THE MODERN BRITISH HORROR FILM MUSIC

Steven Gerrard University Press of Florida

Nov 2017 216pp FLORIDA SOUL
9780813579443 Paperback £16.50 / €20.00 From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
John Capouya
For full details of this title, see page 11.
Sep 2017 368pp
The University of Wisconsin Press 9780813054520 Hardback £26.50 / €31.00

SIX TURKISH FILMMAKERS Alongside Memphis, Detroit, New Orleans, Macon,
and Muscle Shoals, Florida has a rich soul music history
Laurence Raw – an important cultural legacy that has often gone
unrecognized. Florida Soul celebrates great artists of the
Nov 2017 277pp Sunshine State who have produced some of the most
9780299315405 Hardback £83.95 / €98.00 electric, emotive soul music America has ever heard.
Wisconsin Film Studies
McFarland
Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema,
Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects EUROPE’S STARS OF ‘80s DANCE POP
of profound socio economic change on ordinary people 32 International Music Legends Discuss Their
in contemporary Turkey. Raw interleaves his film Careers
discussion with thoughtful commentary on nationalism,
gender, personal identity, and cultural pluralism. James Arena

Aug 2017 176pp
9781476671420 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00

A massive dance music revolution swept across
Europe during the 1980s. Merging rock, new wave,
disco and worldbeat sounds, an explosion of exciting
and increasingly electronic dance-pop music caused
a sensation. In this book of interviews, 32 of the era’s
most celebrated singers, songwriters, producers and
industry professionals share memories of their lives and
careers during this extraordinary time.

THE MUSICAL ARTISTRY OF RAP

Martin E. Connor

Nov 2017 164pp
9780786498987 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00

Poses challenging questions to the public understanding
of rap music with an analytical foundation that’s firmly
built on a corpus of 135 songs from a group of over 50
artists. Building on Martin Connor’s decade of experience
in both the journalism and scholarly arena, the answers
that he arrives at are likely to be the motivating factors
behind any ongoing discourse that tries to explain and
describe rap.

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University of Michigan Press University Press of Mississippi

BEYOND NOTATION GODFATHER OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS
The Music of Earle Brown Morris Levy

Rebecca Y. Kim Richard Carlin

Oct 2017 424pp Oct 2017 312pp
9780472130580 Hardback £88.95 / €105.00 9781496814807 Paperback £23.95 / €28.00
American Made Music Series
Earle Brown (1926-2002) was a crucial part of the
seminal group of experimental composers known as the Tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in
New York School, and his work intersects in fascinating the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990).
ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland
Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand in Hell’s Kitchen, which became the home for a new
our view of Brown’s work, addressing his practices as a musical style, bebop. In 1957, he founded a record
painter and composer as well as his collaborations with label, Roulette Records. Roulette featured many of the
visual artists. significant jazz artists who played Birdland but also
scored top pop hits.
THE BRITISH BLUES NETWORK
Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity JAZZ TRANSATLANTIC, VOLUME I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-
Andrew Kellett Century Jazz Culture

Sep 2017 256pp Gerhard Kubik
9780472130528 Hardback £78.50 / €92.00
Nov 2017 464pp
Examines the role of British narratives of masculinity and 9781628462302 Hardback £70.95 / €83.00
power in the postwar era of decolonisation and national American Made Music Series
decline that contributed to the creation of a network
of Bristish musicians influenced by African-American Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to
blues music, and how its members used the tropes, the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music
vocabulary, and mythology of African-American blues we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself
traditions to forge their own musical identities. and how jazz has been defined and redefined. It also
celebrates the phenomena of jazz performance and
uncovers hidden gems of jazz history.

JAZZ TRANSATLANTIC, VOLUME II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in
Twentieth-Century Africa

Gerhard Kubik

Dec 2017 272pp
9781496806086 Hardback £70.95 / €83.00

American Made Music Series

Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic
exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume
I. This second volume amplifies how musicians
influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop
influenced musicians in Africa from the end of
World War II into the 1970s were interacting with
each other and re-creating jazz.

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THEATRE

QUINCY JONES THEATRE
His Life in Music
University of Michigan Press
Clarence Bernard Henry
ELLEN STEWART PRESENTS
Sep 2017 208pp Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre
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with over five hundred compositions and arrangements. productions and for fostering the early work of directors,
This book focuses on this material as well as many of playwrights, actors, composers, and performance artists.
Jones’s accomplishments. Theatre scholar Cindy Rosenthal relates the history of
La MaMa through its performance posters, capturing
TEARING THE WORLD APART the irreverence and the aesthetic of La MaMa over five
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century decades.

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(2006), and Tempest (2012) - along with the 2003 film Argues that tiny plays (shorter than twenty minutes)
Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan helped write and in deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should
which he appears as an actor and musical performer. be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice.
Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a
The University of North Carolina Press structural principle and a tool to investigate theatre
itself, the book explores four episodes in the history of
BEYOND THE CROSSROADS very short theatre, all characterised by the self-conscious
The Devil and the Blues Tradition embrace of brevity.

Adam Gussow PERFORMING UNIFICATION
History and Nation in German Theater
Oct 2017 416pp after 1989
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from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings
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the varied uses to which black southern blues people 1989, the most important German theatre artists
have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also have created plays and productions about unification.
empowering figure. Performing Unification examines how German directors,
playwrights, and theater groups have represented and
misrepresented the past, confronting their nation’s
history and collective identity.

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Northwestern University Press LATINX THEATER IN THE TIMES OF
NEOLIBERALISM
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Focusing on Paris in the twenty-first century, Emine programs, and the response of Latino artists.
Fisek analyses the use of theatre by immigrant-rights
organisations there and examines the relationship Southern Illinois University Press
between aesthetic practices and the political
personhoods they negotiate. ADAPTURGY
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Rethinking the Early Modern somehow less creative than “original” plays.

Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades
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Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and
visual change.

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PHILOSOPHY The Catholic University of America Press

Academic Studies Press HEIDEGGER’S QUESTION OF BEING
Dasein, Truth, and History
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In his monumental study of Philo of Alexandria readings of Heidegger’s texts and provide sound
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9781554813452 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 60

It is impossible to fully understand much of the most What is the modern turn in philosophy? In other words,
important work in contemporary philosophy without a what are the features that make modern philosophy
basic grasp of set theory, functions, probability, decision distinctively “modern” in contrast with the pre-modern
theory, and modality. More Precisely is written for people philosophy from which it emerged? The twelve essays in
who wish to engage with contemporary philosophical this volume seek to address this question, and in doing
writing but first need to fill gaps in their technical so, exemplify and contribute to a rich debate about the
knowledge. nature and value of modern philosophy.

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THE THINGS THAT MATTER University of Hawaii Press
Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques
Maritain CONFUCIANISM
Its Roots and Global Significance
Edited by Heidi M. Geibel
Ming-huei Lee
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themes. While following his unbeaten paths, the Although Lee Ming-huei has published in English
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every turn. German. Readers of this volume will discover the hard-
mindedness and precision of thinking associated with
American Maritain Association Publications German philosophy as they enter into Lee’s discussions
of Confucianism.
THOMAS AQUINAS
A Historical and Philosophical Profile ENGAGING JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY
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Reflecting the highest standards of philological
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philosophic analysis, Pasquale Porro explores the when it comes to us from another culture. In exploring
philosophical issues in each of Thomas Aquinas’ Japanese philosophy, a dependable guide is essential.
writings, which he interprets within the parameters The present volume, written by a renowned authority
of the temporal circumstances and institutional on the subject, offers readers a historical survey of
imperatives of their composition and in respect of the Japanese thought that is both comprehensive and
authoritative texts that Thomas encountered. comprehensible.

The University of Georgia Press University of Massachusetts Press

THE FATE OF TRANSCENDENTALISM TRANSCENDENTALISM AND THE
Secularity, Materiality, and Human CULTIVATION OF THE SOUL
Flourishing
Barry M. Andrews
Bruce A. Ronda
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American Transcendentalism is often seen as a literary
Examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of movement - a flowering of works written by New
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influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and and lived in nature. In this volume, Barry M. Andrews
artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the focuses on a neglected aspect of this well-known group,
creative outpouring it produced. Bruce A. Ronda offers showing how American Transcendentalists developed
an account of the movement as an early example of the rich spiritual practices to nurture their souls and discover
secular turn in American culture. the divine.

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University of Michigan Press ESSENTIAL VULNERABILITIES
Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other
KANT’S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace Deborah Achtenberg

Sean Patrick Molloy Oct 2017 224pp
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that texts such as Idea for a Universal History with of the other. Nonetheless, Deborah Achtenberg argues,
Cosmopolitan Intent and Toward Perpetual Peace cannot Plato and Levinas are different. Though they view
be fully understood without reference to Kant’s wider human beings as essentially vulnerable and in relation
philosophical projects, and in particular, the role that to others, they conceive human vulnerability and
belief in God plays within critical philosophy and Kant’s responsiveness differently.
inquiries into anthropology, politics, and theology.
JUDGMENT AND ACTION
University Press of Mississippi Fragments toward a History

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PHILOSOPHY Edited by Vivasvan Soni & Thomas Pfau

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For full details of this title, see page 46. Judgment and Action address the growing sense that
certain key concepts in humanistic scholarship have
University of Missouri Press become suspect, if not downright unintelligible, amid
the current plethora of critical methods. These essays
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THE ERIC VOEGELIN READER KANT’S CONCEPTION OF PEDAGOGY
Politics, History, Consciousness Toward Education for Freedom

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For full details of this title, see page 72. Topics in Historical Philosophy

Northwestern University Press Although he was involved in the education debates of
his time, it is widely held that in his mature philosophical
A PROCESS MODEL writings Immanuel Kant is silent on the subject. In this
groundbreaking book, G. Felicitas Munzel finds extant
Eugene Gendlin in Kant’s writings the so-called missing critical treatise
on education; it appears in the Doctrines of Method with
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A foundational text by Eugene Gendlin, increasingly
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such a way that one of them can be ours.

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KIERKEGAARD, LITERATURE, AND THE SAYING WHAT WE MEAN
ARTS Implicit Precision and the Responsive Order

Edited by Eric Ziolkowski Eugene Gendlin
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Jan 2018 280pp
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Presents a collection of fourteen essays that illuminate Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
the broad and often underappreciated variety of the
nineteenth-century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s The first collection of Gendlin’s groundbreaking essays
engagements with literature and the arts. These essays in philosophical psychology, Saying What We Mean casts
explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature, the familiar areas of human experience, such as language
performing arts, and the visual arts and film. and feeling, in a radically different light. Instead of the
familiar emphasis on the conceptually explicit in an
ONLY A JOKE CAN SAVE US era of scientism, Gendlin shows that the implicit also
A Theory of Comedy comprises a structure available for recognition and
analysis.
Todd McGowan
University of Notre Dame Press
Sep 2017 288pp
9780810135802 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00 METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES
Diaeresis
Nicholas Rescher
Presents an innovative and comprehensive theory
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the opposing concepts lack and excess. conceptualise, and in some cases answer, some of
the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and
PERCEPTION IN ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS value theory. He engages issues across a wide range
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Feb 2018 176pp philosophical methodology.
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WILLIAM DESMOND AND
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philosophy and theology together in new and vital ways.
The book examines the contribution that Desmond’s
metaphysics makes to contemporary theological
discourse and to the renewal of metaphysics.

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The University of South Carolina Press RETHINKING SINCERITY AND
AUTHENTICITY
THE KEYS OF POWER The Ethics of Theatricality in Kant,
The Rhetoric and Politics of Kierkegaard, and Levinas
Transcendentalism
Howard Pickett
Nathan Crick
Oct 2017 296pp
Aug 2017 288pp 9780813940151 Hardback £52.50 / €61.00
9781611177787 Hardback £52.50 / €61.00 Studies in Religion and Culture
Studies in Comparative Religion
Drawing on the writings of Immanuel Kant, Søren
A critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists Kierkegaard, and Emmanuel Levinas, Howard Pickett
that interprets a selection of their major works between presents a vivid defence of virtuous hypocrisy. Rethinking
the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses Sincerity and Authenticity offers an engaging new
to the growing crises of their times. Nathan Crick appraisal not only of the ethics of theatricality but of the
argues that one of the legacies of the Transcendentalist theatricality of ethics.
movement is the multifaceted understanding of
transcendental eloquence as a distinct rhetorical genre. The University of Wisconsin Press

UNDERSTANDING FRANZ KAFKA REASON AFTER ITS ECLIPSE
On Late Critical Theory
Allen Thiher
Martin Jay
Jan 2018 312pp
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George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and
For full details of this title, see page 42. Intellectual History

University of Virginia Press Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today:
what is reason, and what roles does and should it have
EXPERIENCING WILLIAM JAMES in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual
Belief in a Pluralistic World history, Martin Jay examines the overlapping, but not
fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the
James Campbell term reason over two millennia, homing in on moments
of crisis, critique, and defence of reason.
Nov 2017 328pp
9780813940489 Paperback £37.50 / €43.00

William James has long been recognised as a central
figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his
ideas continue to play a significant role in contemporary
thinking. Yet there has never been a comprehensive
exploration of his thought. In Experiencing William James,
James Campbell provides the fuller and more complete
analysis that James scholarship has long needed.

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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL BEYOND NATO
RELATIONS A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe

ASP (Academic & Scientific Publishers) Michael E. O’Hanlon

REBRANDING EUROPE Aug 2017 160pp
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Stavros Papagianneas The Marshall Papers

Aug 2017 176pp Argues that now is the time for Western nations
9789057186202 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00 to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral
countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and
Explores why EU communication fails and how to make reduce the risks of war with Russia. Michael O’Hanlon
it succeed. This volume illustrates how Europe can be believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core
rebranded by providing key recommendations on how concept of this new security architecture would be one
to convey the added value of the EU in the daily lives of permanent neutrality.
of its citizens. It gives original and logical answers to
communication questions. END GAME
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WASHINGTON’S LONG WAR ON SYRIA
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Aug 2017 260pp Attempts to solve the puzzle of why the Israeli strategic
9781771861083 Paperback £23.50 / €28.00 vision seems so elusive to many foreigners and Israelis
alike. It explores how Israelis’ beliefs about their future are
For full details of this title, see page 24. formed and how their visions are translated into policy,
focusing on three factors in depth: the role of security
Brookings Institution Press concerns, ideology, and domestic political constraints
that combine to shape Israel’s strategic posture.
ARAB POLITICS BEYOND THE UPRISINGS
Experiments in an Era of Resurgent NEW IN PAPERBACK
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JFK’S FORGOTTEN CRISIS
Edited by Thanassis Cambanis & Michael Wahid Hanna
Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
Aug 2017 560pp
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In this volume, researchers, scholars, and active Sep 2017 177pp
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media, artists’ collectives, rebel enclaves, neighborhood
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With rich ethnographic detail, these studies pay special
attention to regional dynamics, cross-border learning, and MILITANTS, CRIMINALS, AND WARLORDS
the intellectual history of ideas central to the uprisings. The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age
of Disorder

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Shadi Hamid & Harold Trinkunas

Nov 2017 277pp
9780815731894 Hardback £28.95 / €38.00

Geopolitics in the 21st Century

Takes the reader around the world to areas where
national governance has broken down - or never really
existed. In these places, the vacuum has been filled by
local gangs, militias, and warlords, some with ideological
or political agendas and others focused primarily on
economic gain.

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RUSSIA IN DECLINE THE FUTURE OF ISIS
Regional and International Implications
Edited by S. Enders Wimbush & Elizabeth M. Portale
Foreword by Paul A. Goble Edited by Sumit Ganguly & Feisal A.R. al-Istrabadi

Jul 2017 200pp Nov 2017 300pp
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Russia is in precipitous decline, which is unlikely to be The Islamic State has been active for less than a decade,
reversed. This conclusion, based on the research of but it has already been the subject of numerous histories
Russian and American experts, constitutes the bottom and academic studies - all focusing primarily on the past.
line of The Jamestown Foundation’s project, Russia The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead:
in Decline. Moreover, the tempo of Russia’s decay is what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near
accelerating across virtually every fragment of its politics, term, and what can the global community, including the
economy, society and military. United States, do to counter it?

SOVEREIGNTY REIMAGINED THE NEW AUTOCRACY
America and the World Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia

Stewart Patrick Edited by Daniel Treisman

Sep 2017 330pp Oct 2017 316pp
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A look at protecting sovereignty while advancing The result of a two-year collaboration between Russian
American interests in the global age. Sovereignty experts and Western political scholars, this volume
Reimagined is intended to help today’s policymakers explores the complex roles of Russia’s presidency,
think more clearly about what is actually at stake in security services, parliament, media and other
the sovereignty debate and to provide some criteria for actors. The authors argue that Putin has created an
determining when it is appropriate to make bargains “informational autocracy,” which relies more on media
over sovereignty-and how to make them. manipulation than on the comprehensive repression of
traditional dictatorships.
THE EAGLE AND THE TRIDENT
U.S.-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times THE TERRORIST ARGUMENT
Studies of Modern Advocacy and Propaganda
Steven Pifer
Christopher C. Harmon & Randall G. Bowdish
Aug 2017 366pp
9780815730408 Hardback £24.50 / €28.00 Oct 2017 325pp
9780815732181 Paperback £29.95 / €39.00
Provides the first detailed account of US diplomacy
toward independent Ukraine, covering the formative Propaganda used by terrorists and armed groups might
dozen years following the collapse of the Soviet Union at not always be the most sophisticated or nuanced form of
the end of 1991. Steven Pifer, who worked on US-Ukraine rhetoric, but with the right mix of emotion and logic it can
relations at the State Department and the White House be extremely effective. This book examines how terrorist
and as ambassador to Ukraine, has written an insider’s groups in recent history have used propaganda, and how
narrative of the ups and downs in the relationship. they have adapted to new communications technologies
while retaining useful techniques from the past.

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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED Centre for European Policy Studies
TURKEY AND THE WEST
Faultlines in a Troubled Alliance REGROUP AND REFORM
Ideas for a More Responsive and Effective
Kemal Kirisci European Union

Jul 2017 200pp Steven Blockmans & Sophia Russack
9780815730002 Hardback £24.50 / €28.00
Geopolitics in the 21st Century Jul 2017 40pp
9789461385758 Paperback £8.50 / €11.00
Argues that domestic and regional realities are now
edging Turkey toward improving its relations with the This incisive report comes at a time of almost
West. A better understanding of these developments unprecedented self-examination for the EU. Faced with
will be critical in devising an updated US strategy growing nationalism, illiberalism, economic, security and
toward Turkey and its neighbourhood. This book political challenges - not least to the very membership of
discusses the challenges and opportunities for the new the Union - the relevance of the EU has become a matter
US administration of re-engaging with a sometimes- of intense debate. How it responds to these challenges
troublesome, yet long-time ally. will define the next era of cooperation and integration
in Europe.
TURKEY AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS
Chatham House
Edited by Sasha Toperich & Aylin Unver Noi
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Sep 2017 400pp
9780990772125 Paperback £28.95 / €38.00 Jacob Parakilas et al

The worthy goal of developing good relations with its Oct 2017 60pp
neighbours presents Turkey with a number of challenges. 9781784132125 Paperback £12.50 / €17.00
This volume sheds more light on the past, present, and
future of Turkish relations with its transatlantic partners, Discussions about the future of artificial intelligence
focusing on history, the impact of current developments (AI) tend to view it as distinct from, and potentially
affecting Turkey and its neighbours, and Turkish as a threat to, human intelligence. What has been
domestic and foreign policies. less examined are the potential applications for AI in
assisting the human decision making process. This
WORDS THAT MATTER report bridges the gap between the technical and policy
How the News and Social Media Shaped the sectors to examine how AI can contribute to different
2016 Presidential Campaign aspects of security policy.

Leticia Bode et al POTENTIAL FOR TRANSATLANTIC RIFTS

Jan 2018 200pp Xenia Wickett
9780815731917 Hardback £21.50 / €28.00
Aug 2017 60pp
For full details of this title, see page 10. 9781784132118 Paperback £12.50 / €17.00

The objective of this report is to establish greater
understanding and transparency between the United
States and the major European states over whether the
relationships are converging or diverging and whether
this is structural or cyclical. Based on an understanding
of the factors leading to any divergence, the report
identifies possible approaches that would help manage
any differences.

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University Press of Florida LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN POLITICS

THE PRESIDENT AND AMERICAN Edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins & Craig Volden
CAPITALISM SINCE 1945
Dec 2017 368pp
Edited by Mark H. Rose & Roger Biles 9780700625147 Hardback £41.95 / €49.00

Feb 2018 336pp In the polarised governing environment of American
9780813056524 Hardback £88.95 / €105.00 politics today, the problem of leadership becomes
ever more pressing and ever more vexed. What defines
For full details of this title, see page 13. leadership, what determines its importance and
effectiveness, and how does it differ from one sphere of
WINNING WHILE LOSING influence to another: these are the questions Leadership
Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and in American Politics addresses.
the Presidency from Nixon to Obama
The University Press of Kentucky
Edited by Kenneth Osgood & Derrick E. White
A POLITICAL COMPANION TO
Feb 2018 298pp FLANNERY O’CONNOR
9780813064536 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
Edited by Henry T. Edmondson III
For full details of this title, see page 14.
Jul 2017 394pp
University Press of Kansas 9780813169408 Hardback £62.95 / €74.00
Political Companions to Great American Authors
AMBITION, PRAGMATISM, AND PARTY
A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford For full details of this title, see page 37.

Scott Kaufman Lynne Rienner Publishers

Nov 2017 448pp COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF THE
9780700625000 Hardback £36.95 / €43.00 GLOBAL SOUTH
Linking Concepts and Cases, Fourth Edition
For full details of this title, see page 14.
December Green & Laura Luehrmann
CELEBRITY INFLUENCE
Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy Jul 2017 550pp
9781626376502 Paperback £39.50 / €46.00
Mark Harvey
In this now classic text, December Green and Laura
Nov 2017 272pp Luehrmann show how history, economics, and politics
9780700624980 Hardback £36.95 / €43.00 converge to create the realities of life in the Global
South. The authors offer an innovative blend of theory
Why should we listen to celebrities like Bono or Angelina and empirical material as they introduce the politics of
Jolie when they endorse a politician or take a position on what was once called the “third world”.
an issue? Do we listen to them? In this book Mark Harvey
takes a close look into the phenomenon of celebrity
advocacy in an attempt to determine the nature of
celebrity influence, and the source and extent of its power.

IRAQ AND THE POLITICS OF OIL
An Insider’s Perspective

Gary Vogler

Nov 2017 352pp
9780700625062 Hardback £31.50 / €37.00

For full details of this title, see page 25.

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DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS THE RESURGENCE OF POPULISM IN
Why, Where, How to Respond LATIN AMERICA

Roland Rich Robert R. Barr

Jul 2017 215pp Aug 2017 235pp
9781626376717 Hardback £36.50 / €42.00 9781626376670 Hardback £80.50 / €94.00

Democracy is in crisis. After the hope engendered by the Latin America has recently experienced a powerful
Third Wave, democracies around the world are beleaguered resurgence of populism, a phenomenon that has had an
with threats from multiple sources. What are these threats? outsized influence on the region’s politics. What explains
Where did they come from? And how can the challenges this resurgence? And what is distinctive about this new
to democratic governance best be overcome? Roland Rich populist era? Answering these questions, Robert Barr
interprets the danger signs that abound across the globe, offers a refined conceptualisation of populism and an
and offers innovative strategies for turning the tide. intriguing explanation of its recent electoral successes
across the continent.
EVOLVING PATTERNS OF PEACEKEEPING
International Cooperation at Work UNDERSTANDING
CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Hikaru Yamashita Fifth Edition

Sep 2017 210pp Edited by Robert E. Gamer & Stanley W. Toops
9781626376625 Hardback £80.50 / €94.00
Jul 2017 500pp
Though historically the term peacekeeping has 9781626376533 Paperback £22.50 / €28.00
essentially been shorthand for UN peacekeeping,
recent years have seen a proliferation of actors and China today bears little resemblance to the country
initiatives in a shift to global peacekeeping cooperation. introduced in the first edition of Understanding
Hikaru Yamashita explores the motivations behind this Contemporary China, published nearly two decades ago.
development, what forms it is taking, and what it means This new edition explores the impact of new domestic
for the international community. policies; China’s role as a behemoth in the world
economy; its modernising infrastructure; its expanding
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN military presence in the region; and much more.
WORLD POLITICS
An Introduction,Third Edition McFarland

Shirley V. Scott CLASSIFIED
A History of Secrecy in the United States
Jul 2017 350pp Government
9781626376045 Paperback £21.95 / €28.00
David B. Frost
Reflecting a dramatically changing global context, the third
edition of International Law in World Politics introduces the Aug 2017 158pp
actors, structures, processes, and issues of international law 9781476664002 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00
in a way that makes sense to students of political science.
The result is a text that effectively explains the role that For full details of this title, see page 14.
international law plays in the arena of world politics today.

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MISSION UKRAINE KANT’S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The 2012-2013 Diplomatic Effort to Secure The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace
Ties with Europe
Sean Patrick Molloy
Maciej Olchawa
Jul 2017 264pp
Aug 2017 277pp 9780472130405 Hardback £78.50 / €92.00
9781476669380 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00
For full details of this title, see page 63.
Over a year and a half, Aleksander Kwasniewski and Pat
Cox visited Ukraine 27 times to negotiate the release of ON PARLIAMENTARY WAR
former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, which would Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in
allow Ukraine to sign the Association Agreement with the U.S. Senate
the EU. The Cox-Kwasniewski mission was part of the
EU’s final, all-out effort to save the Agreement and give James Ian Wallner
millions of Ukrainians the hope of a European future.
Nov 2017 272pp
University of Michigan Press 9780472130542 Hardback £78.50 / €92.00
Legislative Politics and Policy Making
BETWEEN MILITARY RULE AND DEMOCRACY
Regime Consolidation in Greece, Turkey, Presents a new, bargaining model of procedural change
and Beyond to explain the persistence of the filibuster in the current
polarised US political environment, and focuses on
Yaprak Gürsoy the dynamics ultimately responsible for the nature
and direction of contested procedural change. James
Jul 2017 344pp Wallner’s model explains why Senate majorities have
9780472130429 Hardback £69.95 / €85.00 historically tolerated the filibuster, even when it has been
used to defeat their agenda.
Why do the armed forces sometimes intervene in politics
via short-lived coup d’états, at other times support RISING POWERS AND FOREIGN POLICY
authoritarian regimes, and in some cases come under REVISIONISM
the democratic control of civilians? Yaprak Gürsoy Understanding BRICS Identity and Behavior
examines four episodes of authoritarianism, six periods Through Time
of democracy, and ten short-lived coups in Greece and
Turkey, and applies her resultant theory to four more Cameron G Thies & Mark David Nieman
recent military interventions.
Dec 2017 224pp
CZARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE 9780472130566 Hardback £73.50 / €86.00
The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential
Management Tools Examines the identity and behavior of the BRICS
(Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in light
Justin S. Vaughn & Jose D. Villalobos of concerns that rising powers may become more
aggressive and conflict-prone. The authors develop a
Oct 2017 248pp theoretical framework that encapsulates pressures for
9780472036943 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00 revisionism through the mechanism of competition, and
pressures for accommodation and assimilation through
Combining public administration and political science the mechanism of socialisation.
approaches to the study of the American presidency
and institutional politics, Justin S. Vaughn and José
D. Villalobos argue that the creation of policy czars is
a strategy for combatting partisan polarisation and
navigating the federal government’s complexity.

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University of Missouri Press University of Utah Press

THE ERIC VOEGELIN READER RELIGION, CONFLICT, AND PEACEMAKING
Politics, History, Consciousness An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Charles R. Embry & Hughes Glenn Muriel Schmid

Sep 2017 416pp Nov 2017 192pp
9780826221346 Hardback £52.50 / €61.00 9781607815860 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00

Drawing from the University of Missouri Press’s For full details of this title, see page 78.
thirty-four-volume edition of The Collected Works of
Eric Voegelin, Charles Embry and Glenn Hughes have Texas A&M University Press
assembled a selection of representative works of
Voegelin, satisfying a longstanding need for a single COLUMNS TO CHARACTERS
volume that can serve as a general introduction to The Presidency and the Press Enter the
Voegelin’s philosophy. Digital Age

Oregon State University Press Edited by Stephanie A. Martin

THE ALTERNATE ROUTE Nov 2017 288pp
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones 9781623495626 Hardback £43.95 / €52.00
Kenneth E. Montague Presidential Rhetoric Series
Thomas Graham
Offers a fresh perspective on how the evolution of
Nov 2017 320pp technology affects the way presidents interact with
9780870719066 Paperback £33.50 / €39.00 the public. From Bill Clinton’s saxophone playing on
the Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama’s skillful use of
Eventual achievement of nuclear disarmament has been YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit as the first “social media
an objective and a dream of the world community since president”, political communication appears to reflect
the dawn of the Nuclear Age. Essential reading for policy the increasing fragmentation of the American public.
advisors, foreign service professionals, and scholars
in political science, The Alternate Route examines the Vanderbilt University Press
possibilities of nuclear-weapon-free zones as a pathway
to worldwide nuclear disarmament. IN PURSUIT OF PEACE IN ISRAEL AND
PALESTINE
Syracuse University Press
Gershon Baskin
MOHAMMAD MOSADDEQ AND THE 1953
COUP IN IRAN Nov 2017 288pp
9780826521811 Hardback £29.50 / €35.00
Edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski & Malcolm Byrne
Gershon Baskin’s memoir of thirty-eight years of
Jul 2017 384pp intensive pursuit of peace. During the many cycles of
9780815635291 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00 peace negotiations, Baskin has served both as an outside
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East agitator for peace and as an advisor on the inside of
secret talks. He ends this book with his own proposal,
For full details of this title, see page 17. which includes establishing a peace education program
and cabinet-level Ministries of Peace in both countries, in
order to foster a culture of peace.

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POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS · RELIGION

Victoria University Press RELIGION

CHINA–US RELATIONS IN GLOBAL Academica Press
PERSPECTIVE
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Bo Zhiyue
APOLOGIA PRO BEATA MARIA VIRGINE
Aug 2017 304pp
9781776560905 Paperback £28.50 / €34.00 John Henry Newman’s Defence of the Virgin
Mary in Catholic Doctrine and Piety
Features scholars and practitioners from China, the US,
New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and other countries on Robert M. Andrews
issues related to the bilateral relationship. The book not Foreword by Austin Cooper
only looks at China-US relations from the perspectives of
the two giants but also offers an opportunity to examine Sep 2017 148pp
the bilateral relationship from third parties such as 9781680530384 Paperback £52.95 / €61.00
countries in the Asia-Pacific region and Oceania.
Discusses a theme within John Henry Newman’s
The University of Wisconsin Press Mariology: namely, his apologetic defense of the place
of the Virgin Mary in Catholic doctrine and piety. This
THE SOVIET UNION AND THE GUTTING OF revised paperback edition shows ever more strongly how
THE UN GENOCIDE CONVENTION Newman possessed a highly developed Marian apologetic
- one that grew out of his Anglican background and that
Anton Weiss-Wendt developed into his life as a Catholic priest.

Jul 2017 384pp Brookings Institution Press
9780299312909 Hardback £78.50 / €92.00
Critical Human Rights JOURNEY INTO EUROPE
Islam, Immigration, and Identity
For full details of this title, see page 18.
Akbar Ahmed

Dec 2017 600pp
9780815727583 Hardback £31.95 / €38.00

For full details of this title, see page 13.

The Catholic University of America Press

AN INTRODUCTION TO VATICAN II AS AN
ONGOING THEOLOGICAL EVENT

Matthew Levering

Sep 2017 277pp
9780813229300 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00

Contemporary scholars often refer to “the event of
Vatican II”, but what kind of an event was it? Matthew
Levering offers an introduction to Vatican II with a
detailed summary of each of its four central documents
- the dogmatic constitutions - followed by explanations
of how to interpret them. Levering also offers a reading
of each conciliar Constitution in light of a key theological
author from the era.

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FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY THE CLEANSING OF THE HEART
The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the
Guy Mansini Thomistic Tradition

Jan 2018 304pp Reginald Lynch
9780813229850 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
Sacra Doctrina, Vol. 2 Aug 2017 277pp
9780813229447 Hardback £67.95 / €80.00
Examines the light by which the mysteries of Christ and
the Church, the Trinity and the Sacraments, are revealed Thomistic Ressourcement Series
to us. That light we call “revelation,” and fundamental
theology examines in the first place what this light Provides the historical context for understanding the
shows about itself, and how it is sustained in the world. development of sacramental causality as a theological
topic in the scholastic period, emphasising the unique
GLORY OF THE LOGOS IN THE FLESH features of Aquinas’ response to this question. Following
Saint John Paul’s Theology of the Body this, relevant texts from Aquinas’ early and later work are
examined, noting Aquinas’ development and integration
Michael Maria Waldstein of the idea of sacramental causality in his later work.

Dec 2017 400pp THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
9781932589764 Paperback £37.50 / €43.00 A Catholic Biblical Theology of God’s Temple
Presence in the Old and New Testaments
Helps readers of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
enter this masterwork with clearer understanding. Part Steven Smith
One is a map of John Paul’s text. Part Two reflects on the
breadth of reason in Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Physics, Aug 2017 277pp
and the Gospel of John. Part Three shows how this 9780996930543 Hardback £62.95 / €74.00
breadth of reason is at work in John Paul’s dialogue with
Thomas Aquinas, John of the Cross, Kant, and Scheler. Invites readers to participate in a unique journey: a
deep exploration of the Old and New Testaments that
Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University searches out and contemplates the reality of God’s
presence with his people, with a particular focus on
THE BIBLE AND EARLY TRINITARIAN investigating God’s self-revelation in and through the
THEOLOGY biblical temple. The journey represents a tour de force of
biblical theology, guided by author Steven Smith.
Edited by Christopher A. Beeley & Mark E. Weedman
Franciscan University Press
Feb 2018 272pp
9780813229959 Hardback £79.50 / €92.00 LATE ANNOUNCED
CUA Studies in Early Christianity, Vol. 5
THE INCARNATE LORD
Based on a multi-year consultation in the Society of
Biblical Literature, The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology A Thomistic Study in Christology
brings new insights to the relationship between patristic
exegesis and current strategies of biblical interpretation, Thomas Joseph White
specifically with reference to the doctrine of the Trinity.
May 2017 552pp
THE BUSINESS FRANCIS MEANS 9780813230092 Paperback £37.50 / €43.00
Understanding the Pope’s Message on the
Economy Considers central themes in Christology from a
metaphysical perspective. Particular attention is given
Martin Schlag to the hypostatic union, the two natures of Christ, the
knowledge and obedience of Jesus, the passion and
Sep 2017 210pp death of Christ, his descent into hell, and resurrection.
9780813229737 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00

Shows that Pope Francis has something to say to all
Christians. His message, taken as a whole, keeps us from
dividing the “seamless garment” of Christ: he reminds
the conservatives of the problems of inequality and
poverty, and the liberals that social justice is not enough:
the Church is the bride of Christ, not a social institution
or an NGO.

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THE LIGHT OF CHRIST The Crossroad Publishing Company
An Introduction to Christianity
CATHOLIC DOGMATICS FOR THE STUDY
Thomas Joseph White AND PRACTICE OF THEOLOGY

Sep 2017 328pp Gerhard Ludwig Müller
9780813229713 Paperback £21.50 / €25.00
Oct 2017 175pp
Provides an accessible presentation of Catholicism that 9780824522339 Paperback £28.50 / €34.00
is grounded in traditional theology, but engaged with a
host of contemporary questions or objections. Inspired The definitive text on the structure of Catholic
by the theologies of Iranaeus, Thomas Aquinas and John dogmatics, written by one of the most important
Henry Newman, and rooted in a post-Vatican II context, authors in the Catholic Church today. The author is
Fr. Thomas Joseph White presents major doctrines of highly placed in the Vatican hierarchy. Cardinal Mueller
the Christian religion in a way that is comprehensible for oversaw the collected writings of Pope Benedict. The
non-specialists. book will enhance both the scholar’s and lay reader’s
knowledge of dogmatics.
THE THREE DYNAMISMS OF FAITH
Searching for Meaning, Fulfillment, and Truth Herder & Herder

Louis Roy FINDING BEAUTY IN THE OTHER
Theological Reflections across
Dec 2017 256pp Religious Traditions
9780813229799 Paperback £37.50 / €43.00
Peter Casarella & Sirry Mun’im
Taking account of the widespread indifference,
scepticism, and distrust of organised religion in the Nov 2017 250pp
West, Louis Roy begins The Three Dynamisms of Faith 9780824523350 Hardback £84.95 / €100.00
with the human concern about hope and about a
reachable happiness, both in our contemporary world Explores how beauty can be found in religions and
and in the Bible. He then traces these themes in three cultures. This book also views how the beauty of the
historic giants of Christian thinking: Thomas Aquinas, Christian gospel should be communicated in different
John Henry Newman, and Bernard Lonergan. religious and cultural settings. This valuable collection
of essays features a host of highly respected scholars,
THOMAS AQUINAS presenting a unique treatment of the concept of beauty
A Historical and Philosophical Profile as seen in a variety of religions and cultures.

Pasquale Porro Herder & Herder
Translated by Joseph G. Trabbic & Roger W. Nutt
HANDING ON THE FAITH
May 2017 400pp The Church’s Mission and Challenge
9780813230108 Paperback £37.50 / €43.00
Robert P. Imbelli
For full details of this title, see page 62.
Sep 2017 264pp
9780824523312 Paperback £18.95 / €22.00
The Church in the 21st Century

This is the first volume of The Church in the 21st Century
series sponsored by Boston College. It includes original
contributions by figures such as Robert P. Imbelli,
Mary Johnson, William D. Dinges, Paul J. Griffiths, Luke
Timothy Johnson, Robert Louis Wilken, Michael J. Himes,
Christopher and Deborah Ruddy, Terrence W. Tilley,
Thomas Groome, Bishop Blase Cupich, and John C.
Cavadini.

Herder & Herder

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PROPHETIC WITNESS Holy Trinity Publications
Catholic Women’s Strategies for Reform,
Second Edition THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

Edited by Colleen M. Griffith Nicholas Kotar, Vitaly Permiakov & Averky Taushev

Sep 2017 312pp Sep 2017 128pp
9780824523305 Paperback £18.95 / €22.00 9781942699156 Hardback £24.50 / €28.00
The Church in the 21st Century Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament

Presenting practical strategies for reform and renewal of Writing in the tradition of biblical exegetes, such as St
the Church, this strikingly direct volume brings together John Chrysostom, Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria, and St
the voices of leading Catholic theologians who offer ideas Theophan the Recluse, the work of Archbishop Averky
for change while still showing that feminist reflection (Taushev) provides a commentary that is firmly grounded
can work in support of the Church. With insightful essays in the teaching of the Church, manifested in its liturgical
on a wide range of topics, this anthology provides an hymnography and the works of the Holy Fathers.
exciting perspective into the lives of practicing women.
Hoover Institution Press
Herder & Herder
RUSSIA AND ITS ISLAMIC WORLD
REVERED AND REVILED From the Mongol Conquest to The Syrian
A Re-Examination of Vatican Council I Military Intervention

John R. Quinn Robert Service

Sep 2017 128pp Aug 2017 128pp
9780824523299 Hardback £21.95 / €26.00 9780817920845 Hardback £19.50 / €22.00

Explores the ways that Vatican Council I influenced the For full details of this title, see page 14.
important issues of papal primacy and the infallible
teaching magisterium of the Pope. This book clarifies Independent Institute
and corrects many misunderstood concepts and
conclusions about the first Council. Although this is, POPE FRANCIS AND THE CARING SOCIETY
first and foremost, a church history, it is written with the
educated lay reader in mind. Edited by Robert M. Whaples

Herder & Herder Sep 2017 256pp
9781598132878 Hardback £24.50 / €28.00
Hebrew Union College Press
Explores the Pope’s earnest call for a dialogue on
ENGAGING TORAH building a truly compassionate society. Pope Francis and
A Jewish Guide to Biblical Study the Caring Society provides an integrated perspective
on Francis and the issues he has raised, examining the
Edited by Walter Homolka & Aaron Panken intersection of religion, politics, and economics.

Nov 2017 96pp
9780822945147 Hardback £26.50 / €31.00

In this volume of essays, eminent Jewish scholars from
around the world present introductions to the different
parts of the Bible for the wider public. The essays
encompass a general introduction to the Torah in Jewish
life, and include specific essays on each of the Five Books of
Moses, as well as on the Haftarot, Neviim, and Ketuvim.

Hebrew Union College Press

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ISI Books The University of North Carolina Press

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED RELIGION AS CRITIQUE
A POPE AND A PRESIDENT Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to
John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the the Marketplace
Extraordinary Untold Story of the
20th Century Irfan Ahmad

Paul Kengor Dec 2017 288pp
9781469635095 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00
Jun 2017 624pp Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
9781610171434 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00
Makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems
In this fascinating new book, Paul Kengor tells the and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others
untold story of the partnership between Pope John Paul are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its
II and President Ronald Reagan and how together they fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common
changed the course of world history. Kengor shows views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad
that the bonds between the pope and the president ran delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic
deeper than anyone has suspected, and that these bonds culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions.
drove them to confront what they saw as the great evil
of the twentieth century: Soviet communism. University of Notre Dame Press

University of Michigan Press ABDUCTED IN IRAQ
A Priest in Baghdad
KANT’S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace Saad Sirop Hanna & Edward S. Aris

Sean Patrick Molloy Sep 2017 152pp
9780268102937 Hardback £26.50 / €31.00
Jul 2017 264pp
9780472130405 Hardback £78.50 / €92.00 How do we respond in the face of evil, especially to those
who inflict grave evil upon us? Abducted in Iraq is Bishop
For full details of this title, see page 63. Saad Sirop Hanna’s firsthand account of his abduction in
2006 by a militant group associated with al-Qaeda. The
University Press of Mississippi book charts Hanna’s twenty-eight days in captivity as he
struggles through threats, torture, and the unknown to
NEW IN PAPERBACK piece together what little information he has in a bid for
survival.
A CHARLIE BROWN RELIGION 
CONSTRUCTING CIVILITY
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of The Human Good in Christian and Islamic
Charles M. Schulz Political Theologies

Stephen J. Lind Richard S. Park

Oct 2017 308pp Oct 2017 256pp
9781496814678 Paperback £18.95 / €23.00 9780268102739 Hardback £47.50 / €55.00

Great Comics Artists Series This is a unique and fascinating work whose aim is to
present the reader with a compelling set of arguments for
Based on new archival research and original interviews why the doctrine should remain central to the grammar
with Charles M. Schulz’s family, friends, and colleagues, of contemporary Christian theology. As such, the book
author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of will appeal to theologians as well as those interested in
the life and work of the great comic strip artist. Previously the relationship between theology and science.
unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they
begin to see the nuances of the humourist’s own complex,
intense journey toward understanding God and faith.

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CREATION EX NIHILO WILLIAM DESMOND AND
Origins, Development, CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
Contemporary Challenges
Edited by Christopher Ben Simpson &
Edited by Gary A. Anderson & Markus Bockmuehl Brendan Thomas Sammon

Nov 2017 418pp Nov 2017 288pp
9780268102531 Hardback £47.50 / €55.00 9780268102210 Hardback £52.50 / €61.00

The doctrine of creation ex nihilo has met with criticism For full details of this title, see page 64.
and revisionary theories in recent years, from the worlds
of science, theology, and philosophy. This is a unique The University of South Carolina Press
and fascinating work whose aim is to present the reader
with a compelling set of arguments for why the doctrine COPTS IN CONTEXT
should remain central to the grammar of contemporary Negotiating Identity, Tradition,
Christian theology. and Modernity

MEDITATIONS ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST Edited by Nelly van Doorn-Harder
The Short Italian Text
Oct 2017 296pp
Edited by Sarah McNamer 9781611177848 Hardback £57.50 / €68.00
Studies in Comparative Religion
Jan 2018 520pp
9780268102852 Hardback £67.95 / €80.00 In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Coptic community
was caught up in regional violence, and its predicament
For full details of this title, see page 23. became a cause for concern around the world. Copts
in Context examines the situation of the Copts as a
MILTON AND CATHOLICISM minority faith in a volatile region and as a community
confronting modernity while steeped in tradition.
Edited by Ronald Corthell & Thomas N. Corns
University of Utah Press
Nov 2017 216pp
9780268100810 Hardback £52.50 / €61.00 RELIGION, CONFLICT, AND PEACEMAKING
An Interdisciplinary Conversation
For full details of this title, see page 42.
Muriel Schmid
SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE
Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Nov 2017 192pp
across the Reformation Divide 9781607815860 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00

Jay Zysk Discussions of the relationship between religion and
violence have been on the rise since 9/11. Conversations
Sep 2017 424pp have also focused on how religion can mediate conflict
9780268102302 Paperback £47.50 / €55.00 and help build peace. This volume offers a diversity
ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern of approaches to the subject, gathering essays from a
cross-section of prominent scholars studying the role of
Presents a sustained examination of the relationship religion in peacemaking.
between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across
the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary
study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a
devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way
of thinking about physical embodiment and textual
interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts.

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SOCIAL STUDIES The University of Georgia Press

Canadian Scholars’ Press A CURSE UPON THE NATION
Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America
REIMAGINING ANTI-OPPRESSION SOCIAL and the Atlantic World
WORK PRACTICE
Kay Wright Lewis
Edited by Samantha Wehbi & Henry Parada
Aug 2017 272pp
Aug 2017 220pp 9780820351278 Hardback £62.50 / €74.00
9781551309798 Paperback £47.50 / €56.00
From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic
Demonstrates the transformative potential of inclusive World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared
practices, such as in Indigenous practice principles, their mass extermination by the other in a race war.
through examples of anti-oppression work with In the US, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread
marginalised populations. Contributors also reveal how nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and
anti-oppression approaches more strongly combat a would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of
diversity of social issues, including anti-Black sanism, Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil
discrimination against queer populations, and children rights movement strategy.
and youth injustices.
MAKING BLACK HISTORY
REIMAGINING ANTI-OPPRESSION SOCIAL The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of
WORK RESEARCH Jim Crow

Edited by Henry Parada & Samantha Wehbi Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Aug 2017 160pp Feb 2018 264pp
9781551309767 Paperback £47.50 / €56.00 9780820352831 Paperback £25.95 / €31.00

Outlines the challenges and advantages of conducting For full details of this title, see page 14.
research with marginalised communities and within
organisational contexts. Students in social work HSRC Press
programs will gain a thorough understanding of the
decision-making processes involved in conducting PHILANTHROPY IN SOUTH AFRICA
anti-oppression research studies through examples Horizontality, Ubuntu and Social Justice
of anti-oppression research applications and personal
experiences within the field. Edited by Shauna Mottiar

University Press of Florida Jul 2017 224pp
9780796925671 Paperback £22.50 / €24.00
THE CULTURE WAR IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT Dominant narratives of philanthropy often portray
Africans as mere recipients of aid, usually from well
Joe Street endowed, Western almoners - the West distributing
charity to impecunious Africans. The contributors to this
Aug 2017 272pp volume turn this argument on its head and ask: what
9780813054872 Paperback £20.95 / €25.00 about the beneficent spirit of multitudes of Africans
whose acts of generosity sustain millions of their
For full details of this title, see page 13. compatriots?

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80 Social Studies

Independent Institute University Press of Mississippi

CHINA’S GREAT MIGRATION ANYWHERE BUT HERE
How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World
and Beyond
Bradley M. Gardner
Edited by Kendahl Radcliffe, Jennifer Scott & Anja Werner
Jul 2017 232pp
9781598132229 Hardback £26.50 / €31.00 Sep 2017 278pp
9781496814647 Paperback £28.50 / €34.00
China’s rise over the past several decades has lifted more
than half of its population out of poverty and reshaped Brings together new scholarship on the cross-cultural
the global economy. What has caused this dramatic experiences of intellectuals of African descent since the
transformation? Bradley Gardner looks at one of the eighteenth century. The book embraces historian Paul
most important but least discussed forces pushing Gilroy’s prominent thesis in The Black Atlantic: Modernity
China’s economic development: the migration of more and Double-Consciousness and posits arguments
than 260 million people from their birthplaces to China’s beyond The Black Atlantic’s traditional organisation and
most economically vibrant cities. symbolism.

Lynne Rienner Publishers BLASIAN INVASION
Racial Mixing in the Celebrity
BLACK MEN ON THE BLACKTOP Industrial Complex
Basketball and the Politics of Race
Myra S. Washington
A. Rafik Mohamed
Dec 2017 192pp
Sep 2017 175pp 9781496814227 Hardback £61.50 / €72.00
9781626376786 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00 Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

What is it about basketball that makes it the black man’s Probes the social construction of race through the
game? And what about pickup basketball in particular: mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and
can it tell us something about the state of blackness in Asian ancestry. Myra S. Washington looks at the
America? Reflecting on these questions, Rafik Mohamed construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term
presents pickup games as a text of the political, social, went from being undefined to forming a significant role
and economic struggles of African American men. In in popular media. Washington tracks the transformation
the process, he tells a story about race in its peculiarly of Blasian from being an unmentioned category to a
American context. recognised status.

University of Michigan Press CONNECTING CHILDHOOD AND OLD AGE
IN POPULAR MEDIA
FINDING VOICE
A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Edited by Vanessa Joosen
Social Change
Jan 2018 240pp
Kim Shelley Berman 9781496815163 Hardback £61.50 / €72.00

Dec 2017 232pp With populations aging all around the world, awareness
9780472053667 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00 of intergenerational relationships and associations
surrounding old age is becoming urgent. Connecting
Demonstrates how Kim Berman was able to use visual Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media caters to this
arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool urgency and contributes to age literacy by supplying
for political and social transformation in South Africa. insights into the connection between childhood and
Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows senescence to show that people are aged by culture.
how hands-on work in the arts with learners of all ages
and backgrounds can contribute to economic stability by
developing new skills, as well as enhancing public health
and gender justice.

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Social Studies

DREAM AND LEGACY Springer Publishing Company
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil
Rights Era THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL
IMPACT OF ILLNESS AND DISABILITY
Edited by Michael L. Clemons, Donathan L. Brown & Seventh Edition
William H. L. Dorsey
Edited by Irmo Marini & Mark A. Stebnicki
Jul 2017 208pp
9781496811844 Hardback £61.50 / €72.00 Nov 2017 590pp
9780826161611 Paperback £115.00 / €135.00
Examines how Martin Luther King’s life and work had
a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of For full details of this title, see page 118.
the United States since the civil rights era. With unique,
multidisciplinary works by scholars from around the Syracuse University Press
US, these pieces explore wide-ranging issues and
contemporary social developments through the lens of BLOOD AND FAITH
Dr. King’s perceptions, analysis, and prescriptions. Christianity in American White Nationalism

PRISON POWER Damon T. Berry
How Prison Influenced the Movement for
Black Liberation Sep 2017 280pp
9780815635321 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00
Lisa M. Corrigan Religion and Politics

Oct 2017 210pp Since the 1980 US presidential races, the term religious
9781496814876 Paperback £28.50 / €34.00 right has come to signify a politically and socially
Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series conservative form of Christianity. Less well known
are the various other religions that have influenced
In the black liberation movement, imprisonment white racist activities in America. The recent popularity
emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media of these ideologies has caused a shift away from
resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and Christianity among white nationalists. This title explores
ideology to counter white supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan the causes of this shift.
underscores how imprisonment - a site for both political
and personal transformation - shaped movement
leaders by influencing their political analysis and
organisational strategies.

Rutgers University Press

ISTANBUL
Living with Difference in a Global City

Edited by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce &
E. Fuat Keyman

Jan 2018 244pp
9780813589091 Paperback £27.50 / €33.00
New Directions in International Studies

Explores how to live with difference through the prism
of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have
long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the
Other. Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one
time, the contributors to this volume focus on the city’s
experience of migration and globalisation over the last
two centuries.

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Social Studies
82 ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTHROPOLOGY University of Hawai’i Press

University Press of Florida PEOPLE AND CHANGE IN INDIGENOUS
AUSTRALIA
WHEN SCIENCE SHEDS LIGHT ON HISTORY
Forensic Science and Anthropology Edited by Diane Austin-Broos & Francesca Merlan

Phillipe Charlier Nov 2017 216pp
Translated by Isabelle Ruben 9780824867966 Hardback £64.95 / €76.00

Sep 2017 136pp Essays in this collection are grounded in Australian
9780813056548 Paperback £19.95 / €24.00 locales commonly termed “remote”. The contributors
discuss the changing circumstances of indigenous
For full details of this title, see page 121. people who originate from such places. Some remain,
while others travel far afield. The accounts reveal a
ZOMBIES diversity of experiences and histories that involve major
An Anthropological Investigation of the dynamics of disembedding from country and home
Living Dead locales, and re-embedding in new contexts.

Phillipe Charlier University of New Mexico Press
Translated by Richard Gray
CONSTRUCTING POWER AND PLACE IN
Sep 2017 142pp MESOAMERICA
9780813054575 Paperback £19.95 / €24.00 Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions

Philippe Charlier - dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Edited by Merideth Paxton & Leticia Staines Cicero
graveyards” - travels to Haiti where rumours claim that
some who die may return to life as zombies. Charlier Dec 2017 256pp
investigates these far-fetched stories and finds that, in Haiti, 9780826359063 Hardback £88.95 / €105.00
the dead are a part of daily life. Zombies follows Charlier’s
journey to understand the fascinating world of Haiti’s living Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings
dead, inviting readers to believe the unbelievable. from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest
of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case
studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area.
These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur
with architecture, in manuscripts, on large pieces of
cloth, and on ceramics.

University of Notre Dame Press

IRISH ETHNOLOGIES

Edited by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin

Oct 2017 226pp
9780268102371 Hardback £41.95 / €49.00

Gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology,
covering representative topics of institutional history
and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with
religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music,
and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays
draws from work in multiple disciplines including but
not limited to anthropology and ethnomusicology.

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Social Studies
GENDER & SEXUALITY

GENDER & SEXUALITY University Press of Mississippi

University Press of Florida BEYOND BOMBSHELLS
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
RESISTANCE REIMAGINED
Black Women’s Critical Thought as Survival Jeffrey A. Brown

Regis M. Fox Feb 2018 274pp
9781496814661 Paperback £28.50 / €34.00
Dec 2017 192pp
9780813056586 Hardback £78.50 / €92.00 For full details of this title, see page 54.

For full details of this title, see page 35. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FEMINISMS
IN CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENT
McFarland LITERATURE

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ORAL SEX Roberta Seelinger Trites

David DePierre Jan 2018 224pp
9781496813800 Hardback £61.50 / €72.00
Nov 2017 150pp Children’s Literature Association Series
9781476671260 Paperback £20.95 / €25.00
For full details of this title, see page 39.
Attitudes about oral sex have varied through the
centuries and across cultures - a death sentence in some The University of North Carolina Press
nations, a religious practice in others. This book explores
its history as well as its impact on world events. REMAKING BLACK POWER
How Black Women Transformed an Era
University of Michigan Press
Ashley D. Farmer
NOT STRAIGHT FROM GERMANY
Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Nov 2017 288pp
Magnus Hirschfeld 9781469634371 Hardback £31.50 / €37.00
Justice, Power, and Politics
Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm &
Rainer Herrn Examines black women’s political, social, and cultural
engagement with Black Power ideals and organisations.
Sep 2017 416pp, 58 colour images, 86 b&w images Complicating the assumption that race and gender
9780472130351 Hardback £88.95 / €105.00 constraints relegated black women to the margins of the
Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany movement, Ashley Farmer demonstrates how female
activists fought for more inclusive understandings of
Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science was Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas
founded in Berlin in 1919 as a place of research, political about black womanhood.
advocacy, counselling, and public education. It was
destroyed in 1933 as the first target of the Nazi book Northwestern University Press
burnings. Not Straight from Germany examines its legacy,
combining essays and a lavish array of visual materials. THE NEW WOMAN
Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the
Trans Feminine Allegory

Emma Heaney

Aug 2017 384pp
9780810135536 Paperback £41.95 / €49.00
FlashPoints, Vol. 27

For full details of this title, see page 41.

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Rutgers University Press STUDY SKILLS & WRITING GUIDES

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NON-NEOPLASTIC DISEASES OF THE 2018 NELSON’S PEDIATRIC
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BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & GLOBAL SHOCKS AND THE NEW
ECONOMICS GLOBAL AND REGIONAL FINANCIAL
ARCHITECTURE
Brookings Institution Press Asian Perspectives

COMMITMENT TO EQUITY HANDBOOK Edited by Naoyuki Yoshino, Pradumna B. Rana &
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on inequality and poverty. Inequality has emerged in ongoing reforms of the global financial architecture. The
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MISSION INCOMPLETE
DILEMMAS OF A TRADING NATION Reflating Japan’s Economy
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Geopolitics in the 21st Century In April 2013, under its new governor, the Bank of Japan
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Its economy still struggling after two decades of low monetary easing policy. About 4 years later, the BOJ lags
growth, Japan now faces a difficult moment as it behind other major central banks, with actual inflation
confronts this ongoing challenge to economic renewal. and inflation expectations still well below 2%. What
In Dilemmas of a Trading Nation, Mireya Solis describes happened? What should the BOJ do next? This former
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Center for Economic Policy Research International Monetary Fund

BAIL-INS AND BANK RESOLUTION IN BALANCE OF PAYMENT STATISTICS
EUROPE YEARBOOK 2017
A Progress Report
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Melbourne University Publishing PHI Learning

A MATTER OF TRUST OPERATIONS RESEARCH
The Practice of Ethics in Finance Principles and Applications

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WOMEN LEADING
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AGILE PRACTICE GUIDE World Bank Group Publications
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Building on the framework developed in the previous
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managers).

THE STANDARD FOR ORGANIZATIONAL
PROJECT MANAGEMENT (OPM)
First Edition

Nov 2017 246pp
9781628252002 Paperback £86.95 / €100.00

Provides a framework and integrated approach using
portfolio, program, and project management to deliver
organisational strategy for better performance, better
results, and a sustainable competitive advantage. This
standard is one of PMI’s foundational standards and it is
aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).

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DEVELOPMENT United Nations Publications

Brookings Institution Press HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016
Human Development for Everyone
FOOD INSECURITY IN ASIA
Why Institutions Matter Aug 2017 277pp
English Edition
Edited by Zhang-Yue Zhou & Guanghua Wan 9789211264135 Paperback £34.50 / €40.00
Arabic Edition
Aug 2017 340pp 9789216260309 Paperback £34.50 / €40.00
9784899740735 Paperback £34.95 / €41.00 French Edition
9789212260488 Paperback £34.50 / €40.00
Approaches the issue of food security in a number of Portuguese Edition
Asian and other countries by highlighting the crucial role 9789216260309 Paperback £34.50 / €40.00
played by government and economic institutions and Spanish Edition
by examining how they influence food availability. This 9789213260647 Paperback £34.50 / €40.00
book lays out policy initiatives for national governments
and international bodies to reduce poverty and Focuses on how human development can be ensured for
inequality and to achieve higher levels of food security. every one, now and in future. The Report explores who
Asian Development Bank Institute has been left behind in human development progress
and why. The Report also identifies the national policies
and key strategies that will enable every human being
achieve at least basic human development and to
sustain and protect the gains.

Center for Global Development World Bank Group Publications

IDENTIFICATION REVOLUTION MOVING BEYOND ZERO
Achieving Sustainable Development in the Assessment of Post-Ebola Health Systems
Digital Age
Ramesh Govindaraj et al
Alan Gelb & Anna Diofasi
Aug 2017 176pp
Sep 2017 200pp 9781464811098 Paperback £28.95 / €38.00
9781944691035 Paperback £15.95 / €21.00
This report discusses the importance and challenge
Recent advances in the reach and technological of developing viable, resilient, and fiscally sustainable
sophistication of identification systems have been health systems in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
nothing less than revolutionary. Identification Revolution:
Achieving Sustainable Development in the Digital Age offers WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2018
a balanced perspective on this new area, covering both Learning to Realize Education’s Promise
the benefits and the risks of the identification revolution,
as well as pinpointing opportunities to mitigate risks. World Bank Group

Oct 2017 200pp
9781464810961 Paperback £33.50 / €43.00

Every year, the World Bank’s World Development
Report takes on a topic of central importance to global
development. The 2018 Report, Learning to Realize
Education’s Promise, is the first ever devoted entirely to
education. Now is an excellent time for it: education has
long been critical for human welfare, but is even more so
in a time of rapid economic change.

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EDUCATION Brookings Institution Press

ACER Press THE TRANSFORMATION OF TITLE IX
Regulating Gender Equality in Education
READY, SET, LEARN!
Helping Your Child with Autism Prepare to R. Shep Melnick
Start School
Oct 2017 250pp
Anna Moffat & Robyn Young 9780815732228 Paperback £29.95 / €39.00

Jul 2017 216pp Intended to give girls and women greater access to
9781742864334 Paperback £38.95 / €45.00 sports programs and other courses of study in schools
SPECTRA and colleges, Title IX has since been used by judges and
agencies to expand a wide range of antidiscrimination
This resource is designed to boost parent confidence in their policies. In this comprehensive review of how Title IX
ability to provide their child with foundational skills relevant has been implemented, R. Shep Melnick analyses how
to schooling, without spending large amounts of money interpretations of “equal educational opportunity” have
and without huge time commitments. It also provides early changed over the years.
years educators with a framework to help increase school
readiness in the children with ASD in their care. Harvard Education Press

The University of Arkansas Press HOW TO CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR
LEARNING
WORDS UNBOUND Continuous Improvement in Classrooms,
Teaching Dante’s Inferno in the High Schools, and Districts
School Classroom
Ann Jaquith
Milton Burke
Sep 2017 232pp
Jul 2017 170pp 9781682530825 Paperback £29.95 / €35.00
9781682260319 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00
Shows how the conditions for continuously improving
Draws on Milton Burke’s thirty years of teaching instruction can be created at every level - from the
experience to help educators bring Inferno alive for today’s classroom to the school to the central office. Ann Jaquith
young reader. In a conversational, “colleague-to-colleague” presents a framework for understanding and building
style, Burke shares the interpretations, questions, and instructional capacity, based on her original research in
exercises he found effective in his high-school classroom, schools and districts and ideas drawn from the literature
emphasizing group discussion to help students engage on instructional resourcing.
meaningfully with the notoriously difficult text.
LEARNING FOR CAREERS
The Pathways to Prosperity Network

Nancy Hoffman & Robert B. Schwartz
Foreword by Anthony P. Carnevale

Oct 2017 184pp
9781682531112 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00

Provides a comprehensive account of the Pathways
to Prosperity Network, a project that offers urgently
needed career pathways for young Americans who
do not have a four-year college degree. It takes as
its starting point the influential 2011 Pathways to
Prosperity report, which challenged the prevailing idea
that the core mission of high schools was to prepare all
students for college.

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LEARNING TIME Pembroke Publishers
In Pursuit of Educational Equity
WHAT IS A ‘GOOD’ TEACHER?
Edited by Marisa Saunders, Jorge Ruiz de Velasco &
Jeannie Oakes David Booth & Richard Coles

Nov 2017 300pp Oct 2017 160pp
9781682531068 Paperback £31.95 / €37.00 9781551383279 Paperback £22.95 / €27.00

Explores how education time can be expanded, Based on the experiences of teachers who make a
reimagined, and reorganised in an effort to enhance difference, this book offers valuable insights into
the educational opportunities and outcomes of becoming the best teacher you can be for your students.
disadvantaged students. The editors and contributors Beginning with developing your teacher identity and
address questions of educational equity and opportunity getting to know your students, the book goes on
by considering how best to extend learning time in high- to show you how to implement effective strategies
poverty schools. and techniques in your classroom and gain a better
understanding of how effective schools work.

University of Michigan Press Redleaf Press

ACADEMIC ABLEISM BABY STEPS TO STEM
Disability and Higher Education Infant and Toddler Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math Activities
Jay T. Dolmage
Jean G. Barbre
Dec 2017 232pp, 6 figures
9780472053711 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00 Jul 2017 224pp
Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability 9781605545080 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00

Brings together disability studies and institutional Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore,
critique to recognise the ways that disability is investigate, and discover. This book defines what
composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the science, technology, engineering, and maths education
spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher looks like for this age group, provides caregivers
education to place disability front and centre. For too opportunities to expand their understanding of STEM,
long disability has been constructed as the antithesis and supplies 50 play-based developmentally appropriate
of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a activities for introducing STEM.
problem to be solved.

NEGOTIATING DISABILITY INFANT-TODDLER SOCIAL STUDIES
Disclosure and Higher Education Activities to Develop a Sense of Self

Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman & Carla B. Goble
James M. Jones
Dec 2017 176pp
Dec 2017 416pp, 8 tables, 1 figure 9781605545608 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
9780472053704 Paperback £47.50 / €55.00
As infants become toddlers, their expanding sense
Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability of self, growing motor, language, and cognitive skills
provide opportunities for learning more about the
Disability is not always central to claims about diversity world around them. This book is a valuable resource
and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This for understanding and facilitating young children’s
collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues development of healthy sense of self, positive cultural
and considerations within many higher education identity, effective social relationships, and feelings of
populations and settings, from classrooms to physical connectedness.
environments to policy impacts on students, faculty,
administrators, and staff.

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Stenhouse Publishers Stylus Publishing

ENTICING HARD-TO-REACH WRITERS THE ANALYTICS REVOLUTION IN
HIGHER EDUCATION
Ruth Ayres
Edited by Jonathan S. Gagliardi, Amelia Parnell &
Aug 2017 176pp Julia Carpenter-Hubin
9781625310903 Paperback £23.95 / €28.00
Jan 2018 224pp
Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers invites you on a journey 9781620365779 Paperback £36.95 / €43.00
to become a teacher who refuses to give up on any
student, who helps children believe that they can have a In this era of “Big Data,” institutions of higher education
positive impact on the world, and who—in some cases— are challenged to make the most of the information they
becomes the last hope for a child to heal. have to improve student learning outcomes, close equity
gaps, keep costs down, and address the economic needs
MENTOR TEXTS of the communities they serve at the local, regional, and
Teaching Writing Through Children’s national levels. This book helps readers understand and
Literature, K-6, Second Edition respond to this “analytics revolution”.

Lynne R. Dorfman & Rose Cappelli CREATING THE PATH TO SUCCESS IN THE
Foreword by Linda Hoyt CLASSROOM
Teaching to Close the Graduation Gap for
Jun 2017 368pp Minority, First-generation, and Academically
9781625311313 Paperback £31.95 / €38.00 Unprepared Students

It’s been a decade since Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli Kathleen F. Gabriel
wrote the first edition of Mentor Texts and helped teachers
make the most of high-quality children’s literature in Dec 2018 176pp
their writing instruction. In this second edition of this 9781579225568 Paperback £28.95 / €34.00
important book Lynne and Rose show teachers how to
help students become confident, accomplished writers by At a time when the numbers of underrepresented
using literature as their foundation. students is increasing, this book provides faculty with
evidence-based instructional practices geared toward
SUPER SPELLERS reaching all the students in their classrooms, including
Seven Steps to Transofmring Your Spelling those from groups that traditionally have been the
Instruction least successful, while maintaining high standards and
expectations.
Mark Weakland
Foreword by Richard Gentry SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ACTIVE LEARNING
Engaging Students in Meaningful Networked
Aug 2017 192pp Knowledge Activities
9781625311023 Paperback £27.50 / €32.00
Vanessa Dennen
Many teachers are frustrated with not only how spelling
traditionally is taught, but also with finding time to Mar 2018 165pp, 25 figures
support young spellers with explicit strategy instruction. 9781620366332 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00
So Mark Weakland has developed Super Spellers, an
approach to teaching spelling in a way that is research- Harnessing the power and harvesting the breadth of
based, focused, developmentally appropriate, and tied social media tools and networks for formal learning
to authentic reading and writing. purposes can be challenging. This book helps instructors
approach social media integration in an organised and
well planned fashion, with tips to help both complete
novices and social media mavens succeed.

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Teachers College Press ESL

GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE NEW Michigan ELT
EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONAL
Building on Strength and Competence THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT’S GUIDE
TO WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER
Valora Washington & Brenda Gadson
Janine Carlock et al
Oct 2017 144pp
9780807758694 Paperback £29.95 / €35.00 Jul 2017 200pp
Early Childhood Education Series 9780472036431 Paperback £25.95 / €30.00
Pitt Series in English as a Second Language
With growing evidence about the critical period of birth to
age 5 for child development and learning, the imperative A reference text for undergraduate students and those
to professionalise the early childhood education in ESL or bridge courses who are writing a research
workforce has never been greater. In this follow-up to paper for the first time. Each section of the book
The New Early Childhood Professional: A Step-By-Step Guide includes a discrete task called a Building Block, which
to Overcoming Goliath, the authors share lessons learned requires students to apply the skills learned toward
from their work with thousands of practitioners. the development of their own paper. This step-by-step
approach allows students to construct knowledge as
LEADING FOR CHANGE IN EARLY CARE they become more familiar with the process.
AND EDUCATION
Cultivating Leadership from Within TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN OR
SECOND LANGUAGE
Anne L. Douglass A Self-Development and Methodology Guide,
Third Edition
Sep 2017 144pp
9780807758359 Paperback £31.95 / €37.00 Jerry G. Gebhard

Featuring both research findings and practical Jul 2017 296pp
recommendations, this book presents an innovative 9780472036738 Paperback £30.95 / €36.00
framework for nurturing leadership in the care and
education of young children. Douglass calls for a This third edition is an ideal teacher development text
paradigm shift in thinking that challenges many long- for pre-service and in-service EFL/ESL teachers, as well as
held stereotypes about the early care and education a guide for those who find themselves teaching English
workforce’s capacity to lead change. overseas but who do not have a master’s in TESOL.
This edition has the same three major sections as the
previous edition: Self-Development, Exploration, and
Settings; Principles of EFL/ESL Teaching; and Teaching
Language Skills.

TESOL Press

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
MORE THAN A NATIVE SPEAKER
An Introduction to Teaching English Abroad,
Third Edition

Don Snow & Maxi-Ann Campbell

Apr 2017 320pp
9781942799160 Paperback £51.95 / €61.00

In this newly updated third edition, learn step-by-step
how to effectively teach English abroad. Gain valuable tips
and resources for teaching in an unfamiliar educational
system, working with students of varying ages and skill
levels, and adapting to life in a different culture.

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E n vir o n m e n t

ENVIRONMENT University Press of Kansas

Food and Agriculture Organization of the THE END OF SUSTAINABILITY
United Nations Resilience and the Future of Environmental
Governance in the Anthropocene
FAO YEARBOOK OF FOREST PRODUCTS 2015
Melinda Harm Benson & Robin Kundis Craig
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Nov 2017 248pp
Jul 2017 356pp 9780700625161 Hardback £31.50 / €37.00
9789250097664 Paperback £66.95 / €77.00
The continued invocation of sustainability in policy
A compilation of statistical data on basic forest products discussions ignores the emerging reality of the
for all countries and territories of the world. This Anthropocene, which is creating a world characterised
report contains series of annual data on the volume of by extreme complexity, radical uncertainty, and
production and the volume and value of trade in forest unprecedented change. From a legal and policy
products. It includes tables showing direction of trade perspective, we must face the impossibility of even
and average unit values of trade for certain products. defining - let alone pursuing - a goal of “sustainability”
in such a world.

PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD 2016 Melbourne University Publishing
Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues
- Report 2016 CLIMATE WARS

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Mark Butler

Jul 2017 489pp Jul 2017 277pp
9789251095522 Paperback £98.50 / €115.00 9780522871685 Paperback £21.50 / €25.00
9789251097076 CD-ROM £24.95 / €29.00
FAO Plant Production and Protection Papers 229 As the consequences of climate change become
perilously close to the point of no-return, time-wasting
The pesticides diazinon, glyphosate and malathion wars over what to do distract us from taking real action.
were evaluated at the Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel Mark Butler, the opposition minister for climate change
of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the and energy in the Australian parliament, makes a forceful
Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Group on case for using less and cleaner energy as part of global
Pesticide Residues held in May 2016. This followed a action to save the planet.
recommendation that they be re-evaluated due to public
health concerns identified by the International Agency University of Pittsburgh Press
for Research on Cancer.
THE SHALE DILEMMA
THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE A Global Perspective on Fracking and
Trends and Challenges Shale Development

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Edited by Shanti Gamper-Rabindran

Jul 2017 176pp Oct 2017 416pp
9789251095515 Paperback £49.50 / €57.00 9780822945130 Hardback £47.95 / €55.00
History of The Urban Environment
Sheds light on the challenges that agriculture and food
systems are facing now and into the 21st century. This The US shale boom and efforts by other countries to
report’s analysis of 15 global trends provides insights exploit their shale resources could reshape energy and
into what is at stake and what needs to be done. Most of environmental landscapes across the world. But how
the trends are strongly interdependent and, combined, might those landscapes change? The Shale Dilemma
inform a set of 10 challenges to achieving food security brings together experts working at the forefront of shale
and nutrition for all and making agriculture sustainable. gas issues on four continents to explain how countries
reach their decisions on shale development.

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ICT & COMPUTER SCIENCE EXAMINING DEVELOPMENTS AND
APPLICATIONS OF WEARABLE DEVICES IN
Chatham House MODERN SOCIETY

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Edited by Saul Emanuel Delabrida Silva,
Ricardo Augusto Rabelo Oliveira &
Jacob Parakilas et al Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro

Oct 2017 60pp Sep 2017 275pp
9781784132125 Paperback £12.50 / €17.00 9781522532903 Hardback £180.00 / €210.00
Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication
For full details of this title, see page 68.
Presents the most innovative research on the expansion
IGI Global of wearable computing and technology. Featuring
coverage on a broad range of topics such as stroke
ADVANCED CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY monitoring, augmented reality, and cancer detection,
TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS this publication is designed for academics, researchers,
and students seeking current research on the challenges
Ihssan Alkadi and benefits of the latest wearable devices.

Jul 2017 350pp SMART TECHNOLOGIES
9781522525066 Hardback £210.00 / €245.00 Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics
Jul 2017 500pp
Provides an innovative source of academic perspectives 9781522525899 Hardback £315.00 / €370.00
on the latest trends in cyber security within the realm
of cloud computing. Highlighting a range of relevant Provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary research on
topics such as cybercrime, online privacy, and threat emerging areas of information science and technology.
detection, this book is designed for researchers, Including innovative studies on image and speech
academics, students, and professionals interested in recognition, human-computer interface, and wireless
novel techniques in computer security. technologies, this book is an ideal source for researchers,
academics, practitioners, and students interested in
advanced technological applications and developments.

DESIGN AND USE OF VIRTUALIZATION
TECHNOLOGY IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Edited by Prashanta Kumar Das & Ganesh Chandra Deka

Sep 2017 264pp
9781522527855 Hardback £215.00 / €255.00

Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering

Provides in-depth discussions on the background of
virtualization, and the ways it can help shape the future
of cloud computing technologies. Highlighting relevant
topics including grid computing, mobile computing, open
source virtualization, and virtualization in education, this
scholarly reference source is ideal for computer engineers,
academics, students, and researchers.