New Books: 2017-2018 (Asia-Pacific edition)

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Science, Technology & Engineering

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

LET’S TALK SAFETY 2017 IGI Global
52 Talks on Common Utility Safety Practices
for Water Professionals COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR
MODELING ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES
American Water Works Association
Vitaliy Prusov & Anatoliy Doroshenko
Jan 2017 144pp
9781625761965 Paperback $105.00 Jul 2017 299pp
9781522526360 Hardback $205.00
Makes it easy for safety officers to spend a few minutes Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
each week communicating with employees about the
critical importance of working safely. Presents novel methods for the collection and
study of meteorological data. Including a range of
INTERNAL CORROSION CONTROL IN perspectives on pertinent topics such as air pollution,
WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS parameterization, and thermodynamics, this book
is an ideal publication for researchers, academics,
American Water Works Association practitioners, and students interested in instrumental
methods in the study of atmospheric processes.
Jun 2017 212pp
9781625762023 Paperback River Publishers
Manual of Water Supply Practices M58
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION
Provides an explanation of the factors that influence TO DESALINATION
corrosion, assesses corrosion-related impacts, and
discusses the development of a strategy to implement Edited by Alireza Bazargan
and maintain effective corrosion control in the water
distribution system. Jul 2017 350pp
9788793379541 Hardback $75.00
STANDARD METHODS FOR THE River Publishers Series in Earth and Environmental Sciences
EXAMINATION OF WATER AND
WASTEWATER Drawing on the expertise of a team of international
23rd Edition authors, this book provides a simple, encompassing,
and “multidisciplinary” introduction to desalination. The
Edited by E.W. Rice, R.B. Baird & A.D. Eaton reader-friendly chapters are designed to cover the topic
of desalination as a whole, and strike a balance between
Aug 2017 1496pp the technical and non-technical.
9780875532875 Hardback $395.00

Analysts, researchers, and regulators have relied on
this peer-reviewed publication since 1905. The trusted
source of accurate, proven methodology for analysing
natural waters, water supplies, and wastewaters. The
23rd edition contains over 400 laboratory methods for
the analysis of: Dissolved Solids; Metals; Free and Total
Chlorine; Odour, Taste, and Flavour Profile Analysis;
Disinfection By-products; Radionuclides; Total Organic
Carbon; Total and Fecal Coliform.

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Science, Technology & Engineering
50 GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS GIS TUTORIAL 1 FOR ARCGIS PRO
A Platform Workbook
Esri Press
Wilpen L. Gorr & Kristen S. Kurland
THE ARCGIS BOOK
10 Big Ideas About Applying The Nov 2017 650pp 510 illustrations
Science of Where, Second Edition 9781589484665 Paperback $99.99

Edited by Christian Harder An introductory text for learning ArcGIS Pro, the premier
professional desktop GIS application. In-depth exercises
Aug 2017 172pp, 300 illustrations that use ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and other ArcGIS
9781589484870 Paperback $19.99 apps feature the latest GIS technology, show readers
how to make maps, how to create and analyse spatial
Provides access to hundreds of live maps from the data, and how to manage systems with GIS.
worldwide ArcGIS user community. In this second
edition, each big idea in the title is a chapter in the book IMAGERY AND GIS
about the ways that GIS technology can unlock your data Best Practices for Extracting Information
to reveal deeper insights and a better understanding of from Imagery
virtually any problem with a geographic dimension.
Kass Green, Russell G. Congalton & Mark Tukman
CARTOGRAPHY
The Definitive Guide to Making Maps Nov 2017 425pp, 173 illustrations
9781589484542 Paperback $99.99
Kenneth Field
Today, most maps include imagery in the form of
Jan 2018 460pp, 275 illustrations aerial photos, satellite images, thermal images, digital
9781589484399 Paperback $129.99 elevation models, and scanned maps. Imagery and GIS:
Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery
A comprehensive, one-stop-shop cartography guide, this shows how imagery can be integrated successfully into
book serves as a reference and an inspiration for anyone GIS maps and analysis.
who is required to make a map, but it does so using a
modern visual style. MAKING SPATIAL DECISIONS
USING ARCGIS
ESRI MAP BOOK, VOLUME 32 A Workbook

Aug 2017 200pp, 200 illustrations Kathryn Keranen & Robert Kolvoord
9781589484771 Paperback $24.99
Esri Map Book 32 Aug 2017 290pp, 447 illustrations
9781589484849 Paperback $69.99
Every year, works of mapmakers from around the world
are selected for the Esri Map Book. Esri Map Book, Volume Provides a broad overview of the capabilities of using
32 showcases maps and applications that use ArcGIS ArcGIS Pro to use geospatial tools to solve real-world
to evaluate the sustainability of resources, determine problems. This book takes full advantage of the integrative
efficient transportation routes, mitigate the effects of nature of ArcGIS Pro and its advanced capabilities to
natural disasters, and much more. seamlessly unite cloud-based and desktop GIS.

UNDERSTANDING GIS
An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook,
Third Edition

David Smith et al

Sep 2017 360pp, 567 illustrations
9781589484832 Paperback $79.99

An excellent resource for students and educators seeking
a guide for an advanced, single-project-based course
that incorporates GIS across a wide range of disciplines.
In this third edition, readers progress through nine
lessons (35 exercises), using ArcGIS Pro software from
Esri to find the best location for a new park along the Los
Angeles River in Southern California.

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Science, Technology & Engineering
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & MATERIALS SCIENCE

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & American Society of Mechanical Engineering
MATERIALS SCIENCE
COMPANION GUIDE TO THE ASME BOILER
ASM International AND PRESSURE VESSEL AND PIPING CODES
Fifth Edition
ASM HANDBOOK, VOLUME 1A
Cast Iron Science and Technology Edited by K.R. Rao

Edited by Doru M. Stefanescu    Volume 1

Aug 2017 600pp Aug 2017 900pp
9781627081337 Hardback $297.00 9780791861301 Hardback $379.00

Cast iron development engineers, foundry production Volume 2
and support personnel, product-application engineers,
and designers now have an ASM Handbook® devoted Aug 2017 900pp
to the principles, practices, and application of cast iron 9780791861318 Hardback $379.00
science and technology. Up-to-date content covers
all aspects of cast iron fundamentals and metallurgy, Two Volume Set
primary and secondary processing, effects of processing
on properties, process, and product design, and the Aug 2017 1800pp
engineering properties of specific grades, types, and 9780791861295 Hardback $629.00
product forms of iron castings.
This fully updated and revised fifth edition of this classic
TRANSFORMATIONS reference work is current to the latest ASME BPV Code
Selected Works of G.B. Olson on Materials, release. It is available in a convenient two-volume format
Microstructure, and Design that focuses on all twelve sections of the ASME Code, as
well as relevant piping codes. Several chapters have new
Edited by C.E. Campbell, M.V. Manuel & W. Xiong authors and are entirely new, while others have been
extensively re-written for this edition.
Aug 2017 500pp
9781627081375 Hardback $149.00 Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration

ASM International and The Minerals, Metals and RISK MANAGEMENT IN EVALUATING
Materials Society (TMS) have collaborated to present MINERAL DEPOSITS
a collection of the selected works of Dr. Greg B. Olson
in honor of his 70th. This collection highlights his Jean-Michel Rendu
influential contributions to the understanding of
martensite transformations and the development and Aug 2017 320pp
application of a systems design approach to materials. 9780873354486 Hardback $119.00

Written by a mining professional with a strong background
in technical and financial studies, risk assessment, and
statistics, this book provides a detailed suite of tools so you
can determine whether investing in a mining project makes
sense for you. Jean-Michel Rendu provides a comprehensive
guide to determine when to invest, when to demand a
plan that reduces the risks, and when to just walk away.

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52 PHYSICS

PHYSICS Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Morgan & Claypool Publishers MICROSEISMIC MONITORING

PHYSICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Vladimir Grechka & Werner M. Heigl

Kyle Forinash Aug 2017 468pp
9781560803478 Hardback $149.00
Aug 2017 236pp Geophysical References, Vol. 22
9781681744926 Paperback $65.00
A thorough description of how to process microseismic
Physics and the Environment directly connects the data and the underlying theory, of what can and cannot
physical world to environmental issues that the world be inferred, and to what level of certainty, the discussion
is facing today and will face in the future. It shows how follows the passage of a seismic wave – from a source
the first and second laws of thermodynamics limit the triggered by hydraulic stimulation, through hydrocarbon-
efficiencies of fossil fuel energy conversions to less than bearing formations, towards motion sensors.
100%, while also discussing how clever technologies can
enhance overall performance. SEISMIC INVERSION

IOP Concise Physics Gerard T. Schuster

SPIRAL STRUCTURE IN GALAXIES Aug 2017 376pp
9781560803416 Hardback $252.00
Marc S. Seigar Investigations in Geophysics, Vol. 20

Aug 2017 84pp Describes the theory and practice of inverting seismic data
9781681746081 Paperback $35.00 for subsurface rock properties of the earth. The primary
application is for inverting reflection and transmission
How does it happen that billions of stars can cooperate data from engineering or exploration surveys, but
to produce the beautiful spirals that characterize so methods also can be used for earthquake studies.
many galaxies, including ours? This book reviews the Computational labs are provided for most chapters.
history behind the discovery of spiral galaxies and the
problems faced when trying to explain the existence of
spiral structure within them.

IOP Concise Physics

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Science, Technology & Engineering

SPACE SCIENCE

SPACE SCIENCE NewSouth Publishing

The University of Arizona Press RADIO ASTRONOMER
John Bolton and a New Window on the
ENCELADUS AND THE ICY MOONS Universe
OF SATURN
Peter Robertson
Edited by Paul M. Schenk et al
Aug 2017 428pp, illustrations
Feb 2018 600pp, 300 b&w illustrations, 24 page colour insert 9781742235455 Hardback $59.99
9780816537075 Hardback $75.00
Space Science Series The leading Australian astronomer of his generation,
John Bolton, was born in Sheffield and educated at
With active geysers coating its surface with dazzlingly Cambridge University. After wartime service in the
bright ice crystals, Saturn’s large moon Enceladus is one Royal Navy, he arrived in Sydney and joined the CSIRO
of the most enigmatic worlds in our solar system. This Radiophysics Laboratory. In this illustrated biography,
book brings together nearly eighty of the world’s top Peter Robertson tells the story of how John Bolton and
experts to set the foundation for what we currently his colleagues propelled Australia to the forefront of
understand, while building the framework for the international radio astronomy.
highest-priority questions to be addressed through
ongoing spacecraft exploration. Purdue University Press

University of Nebraska Press PIERCING THE HORIZON
The Making of a Twentieth-Century
OUTPOSTS ON THE FRONTIER American Space Luminary
A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
Sunny Tsiao
Jay M. Chladek
Foreword by Clayton C. Anderson Sep 2017 266pp
9781557537911 Hardback $29.95
Aug 2017 528pp, 35, photos, 19 illustrations Purdue Series in Aeronautics and Astronautics
9780803222922 Hardback $37.95
Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight Delivers new insights into the behind-the-scenes drama of
the space race by examining the career of Thomas Paine.
A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, Piercing the Horizon provides provocative context to current
humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the conversations on the case for reaching Mars, settling our
Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans solar system, and continuing the exploration of space.
combined strengths to build space stations over the past
fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are
people of both greatness and modesty.

General Interest
54 Family & Health

General Interest

FAMILY & HEALTH Future Horizons

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO AUTISM FOR
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
DIABETES GUIDE TO ENJOYING FOODS OF
THE WORLD Anita Lesko

Constance Brown-Riggs & Jessica Jones Sep 2017 277pp
9781941765449 Paperback $16.95
Aug 2017 277pp
9780880919500 Paperback $12.99 A comprehensive guide to understanding autism,
formulating effective communication strategies,
Enjoy the food you love, wherever you are, with this and developing best care practices for health care
handy book, packed with useful tips. professionals. This book covers sensory issues, pain
tolerance, body awareness, communication challenges,
Demos Health legal and ethical issues, and many more issues associated
with dealing with a patient or others on the autism
THE MYELOMA SURVIVAL GUIDE spectrum.
Essential Advice for Patients and Their Loved
Ones, Second Edition MEET ME WHERE I’M AT!

Jim Tamkin & Dave Visel Cynthia Best
Designed by Joyce Shor Johnson
Jul 2017 280pp
9780826127051 Paperback $24.00 Jul 2017 28pp
9781941765395 Paperback $12.95
The definitive guide to living a longer, fuller life with
myeloma. The Myeloma Survival Guide makes sense of This book helps children understand how they are wired
the difficult questions myeloma patients face, dealing and it gives them a way to communicate without having
with every aspect of life after diagnosis, from creating to express it verbally or face-to-face. It provides something
a wellness team to navigating treatment options to concrete that could be individualized and given to new
building a financial safety net. teachers, coaches, or friends to help them understand
who the child is and how he or she functions best.

Hazelden Publishing

EARN IT
What to Do When Your Kid Needs an
Entitlement Intervention

Michael Wetter & Eileen Bailey

Sep 2017 200pp
9781616497170 Paperback $16.95

Create a family culture where responsibilities are
honored, praise has meaning, decisions are made
skillfully, and gratitude becomes second nature. You’ll
find tips on chores and allowances, friends and social
media, co-parenting, and cultivating true resilience.

General Interest
Family & Health 55

STEP UP CAKE & I SCREAM!
Unpacking Steps One, Two, and Three with …being bossy isn’t sweet
Someone Who’s Been There
Michael Genhart
Michael Graubart Illustrated by Steve Mack

Aug 2017 200pp Aug 2017 32pp, illustrations
9781616497460 Paperback $15.95 9781433827594 Hardback $15.95
Step In to Recovery Series
A story about a friend who tries to get his way by being
Provides straightforward explanations on working a bossy and loud. Cake and Ice Cream are best friends,
Twelve Step program, starting with the first three Steps. but Cake starts to notice that when Ice Cream wants
something, he wants it right now! It becomes annoying
TENDING DANDELIONS to everyone else, and Ice Cream soon realizes that
Honest Meditations for Mothers with screaming at others is a quick way to lose friends. This
Addicted Children story shows that friends bring out the best in each other,
if you let them!
Sandra Swenson
CHICKEN OR EGG
Oct 2017 200pp Who Comes First?
9781616497200 Paperback $14.95
Hazelden Meditations Brenda S. Miles & Susan D. Sweet
Illustrated by Melon Mandarina
In the shadows of our child’s struggles with addiction,
we find ourselves tending to a life for which we weren’t Sep 2017 32pp, illustrations
prepared. These meditations continue the tradition 9781433827198 Hardback $15.95
of Hazelden’s beloved meditation books by providing
moments of recognition, confession, and healing for A story about friendship and losing gracefully. Chicken
those who are realizing that recovery rarely follows a and Egg compete with each other and get upset when
neat or comfortable path. they lose. Written by clinical psychologists with expertise
in social-emotional learning in children, this story shows
Magination Press that it’s more fun to play together, whether you win or
lose. Kids will learn to accept disappointments and build
A FEEL BETTER BOOK FOR LITTLE resilience. Age range: 4-8.
WORRIERS
DID YOU HEAR?
Holly Brochmann & Leah Bowen A Story About Gossip

Aug 2017 32pp Frank J. Sileo
9781433827181 Hardback $15.95 Illustrated by Jennifer Zivion

A gentle rhyming picture book for children ages 3 to 6 Oct 2017 32pp, illustrations
who may be developing anxious feelings but are too 9781433827204 Hardback $15.95
young to comprehend the implications. It is easy to use,
appealing, and effective for parents to use with their Uses serious and silly rumours to illustrate the concept
little ones, and includes calming tools based on science- of gossip and how it spreads and transforms. While
based strategies such as cognitive behavioural therapy gossiping is a natural human behaviour, it also describes
and mindfulness principles. what hurtful gossip feels like, how it can be like bullying,
and what to do to stop it. Illustrations take readers
through a day in a little girl’s life and the gossip around
her as the kids around her ask “did you hear?” Ages 4-8.

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56 Family & Health

GIRL WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON’T WANT
Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You TO BE APART
A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Separation
Karen Rayne Anxiety
Illustrated by Ramsey Beyer & Nyk Rayne
Kristen Lavallee & Silvia Schneider
Jul 2017 368pp Illustrated by Janet McDonnell
9781433823398 Paperback $15.95
Oct 2017 88pp
A growing-up guide for the 21st century, GIRL covers 9781433827136 Paperback $15.95
what everyone is talking about: healthy sexuality, loving What-to-Do Guides for Kids®
relationships, and gender fluidity, as well as thornier
subjects such as STIs, consent, and sexual assault. Addresses separation anxiety, a common developmental
phase. This workbook introduces kids and parents to
I SEE YOU cognitive-behavioural therapy-based strategies that
can help them understand and cope with any type
Michael Genhart of separation anxiety. It includes activities designed
Illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff to change kids’ perspectives on being separated and
includes an introduction for parents and caregivers
Oct 2017 40pp about how to successfully use the book.
9781433827587 Hardback $15.95
PMPH-USA
A wordless picture book that depicts a homeless woman
who is unseen by everyone around her - except for a HEALING DIGESTIVE DISORDERS
little boy. Over the course of a year, the boy is witness Natural Treatments for Gastrointestinal
to all that she endures. Ultimately, in a gesture of Conditions, Fourth Edition
compassion, the boy acknowledges her through an
exchange in which he sees her and she experiences being Andrew Gaeddert
seen. This book opens the door to begin a conversation
about homelessness. Jul 2017 360pp
9781607952855 Paperback $25.00
SO MANY SMARTS!
Conventional medicine, while effective for those in
Michael Genhart acute crisis, often does little to help those who suffer
Illustrated by Holly Clifton-Brown from chronic digestive problems. In this fully-updated
fourth edition, readers are offered an extensive resource
Sep 2017 32pp, illustrations of natural remedies and recommended lifestyle
9781433827228 Hardback $15.95 changes that have helped thousands of people alleviate
symptoms and heal their bodies.
Introduces kids to a variety of “smarts” and teaches
them that there is more than one way to be smart. It
encourages readers to look at their own combination
of brain power and skills to determine how they might
learn best, excel, and be themselves. This book shows
kids that all of the different skills they have require
various types of smarts as well as how they can celebrate
their differences.

THE TALLEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD
A Story for Children About Social Anxiety

Ellen Flanagan Burns

Illustrated by Anthony Lewis

Jul 2017 64pp, b&w illustrations
9781433827600 Hardback $15.95

Thomas has always been a bit shy, but recently his
nervousness has been getting in the way of the things
he would like to do. He realises it may be time to talk to
someone. With the help of his parents and a therapist,
Thomas learns how social anxiety affects his brain, and
everyday tools and strategies to cope with and combat
it. Age range: 8-12.

General Interest
Sport 57

SPORT MIXED MARTIAL ARTS AND THE QUEST
FOR LEGITIMACY
The University of Arkansas Press The Sport vs. Spectacle Divide

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE BOXING Mark S. Williams
Another Year Inside the Sweet Science
Nov 2017 162pp
Thomas Hauser 9781476671291 Paperback $35.00

Dec 2017 350pp Through an exploration of violence, class, gender, race
9781682260418 Paperback $29.95 and nationalism, the author of this volume finds that
mixed martial arts (MMA) is both an expression of the
In 2016, Booklist observed, “Thomas Hauser is a treasure. positive values of martial arts and a spectacle defined by
Whatever he writes is worth reading. Boxing is blessed narcissism, hate and patriarchy. The long-term success of
that he has focused so much of his career on the sweet MMA will depend on the ability of promoters and athletes
science.” There Will Always Be Boxing continues this to resist indulging in spectacle at the expense of sport.
tradition of excellence, showing why Hauser is one of
the last real champions of boxing and one of the very University of Nebraska Press
best who has ever written about the sport.
BASEBALL RESEARCH JOURNAL
Ian Randle Publishers Volume 46.2

USAIN BOLT Nov 2017 128pp
Legend 9781943816415 Paperback $14.95

Jul 2017 208pp, 250 photos The flagship publication of the Society for American
9789766379513 Hardback $25.00 Baseball Research (SABR), the Baseball Research Journal is
an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting
For full details of this title, see page 58. the best in SABR member research on baseball. History,
biography, economics, physics, psychology, game
McFarland theory, sociology and culture, records, and many other
disciplines are represented.

Society for American Baseball Research

MANAGER OF GIANTS Rutgers University Press
The Tactics, Temper and True Record of John
McGraw WHEN WOMEN RULE THE COURT
Gender, Race, and Japanese American
Lou Hernandez Basketball

Aug 2017 277pp, 35 illustrations Nicole Willms
9781476670706 Paperback $39.95
Aug 2017 244pp, 10 photos
For decades prior to the rise of Babe Ruth, the most 9780813584157 Paperback $28.95
recognized name in baseball was John McGraw. An Critical Issues in Sport and Society
outstanding player in the 1890s, McGraw was molded
in the rough and tumble pre-20th century game where Women’s basketball holds a special place in the
sportsmanship took a back seat to competition. Later, he contemporary scene of highly organised and expansive
became the successful manager of the New York Giants, Japanese American leagues in California, in part because
dominating the National League in New York City for these leagues have produced numerous talented
more than 30 years. players. Using data from interviews and observations,
Nicole Willms explores the interplay of social forces and
community dynamics that have shaped this unique
context of female athletic empowerment.

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58 HIGHLIGHTS

Arts & Humanities

Ian Randle Publishers University Press of Mississippi

USAIN BOLT CHINA IN THE MIX
Legend Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the
Age of Globalization
Jul 2017 208pp 250 photos
9789766379513 Hardback $25.00 Ying Xiao

A richly illustrated book on the career, on and off Aug 2017 256pp
the track, of sprinting superstar Usain Bolt, from 9781496812605 Hardback $65.00
schoolboy prodigy to World and triple Olympic
Champion and world record holder for 100 and 200 Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of
metres. sound and its essential role in constructing image,
culture, and identity in Chinese film and media.
Endorsed by the sports star’s management, this China in the Mix fills a critical void with the first
exciting new biography features an exclusive book on the sound, languages, scenery, media,
farewell message penned by Bolt himself. It and culture in post-Socialist China. In this study,
also contains archival photos not previously Ying Xiao explores fascinating topics, including
published, extensive quotes from Bolt, coaches and appropriations of popular folklore in the Chinese
competitors, and ‘Did You Know?’ sections with little new wave of the 1980s; Chinese rock ’n’ roll and
known facts about Bolt. A must-have for every fan. youth cinema in fin de siècle China; the political-
economic impact of free market imperatives and
“This book really captures every single aspect of my Hollywood pictures on Chinese film industry and
career; from my family, the fans, kids, everything so filmmaking in the late twentieth century; the
this is really wonderful.” – Usain Bolt (The Gleaner) reception and adaptation of hip hop; and the
emerging role of Internet popular culture and social
media in the early twenty-first century.

China in the Mix offers the first comprehensive
investigation of Chinese film, expressions, and
culture from a unique, cohesive acoustic angle
and through the prism of global media-cultural
exchange. It shows how the complex, evolving
uses of sound in film and media reflect and engage
the important cultural and socio-historical shifts
in contemporary China and in the increasingly
networked world.

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HIGHLIGHTS 59

University Press of Mississippi Broadview Press

COMICS ART IN CHINA OTHELLO

John A. Lent & Xu Ying William Shakespeare
Edited by Jessica Slights
Aug 2017 288pp, 109 b&w and colour illustrations
9781496811745 Hardback $65.00 Nov 2017 300pp
9781554813261 Paperback $12.95
In the most comprehensive and authoritative Broadview Internet Shakespeare Editions
source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers
almost all comics art forms in mainland China, Although other Shakespeare plays offer higher
providing the history from the nineteenth century body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes
to the present as well as perspectives on both the of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful
industry and the art form. affective punch, stunning us with its depiction
of the swiftness and thoroughness with which
This volume encompasses political, social, and love can be converted to hatred, and forcing us to
gag cartoons, lianhuanhua (picture books), confront our complicity with social and political
comic books, humorous drawings, cartoon and institutions that can put all of us—but especially
humor periodicals, and donghua (animation) the most vulnerable among us—at risk.
while exploring topics ranging from the earliest
Western-influenced cartoons and the popular, often This edition features a variety of interleaved
salacious, 1930s humour magazines to cartoons as materials - from facsimile pages and musical scores
wartime propaganda and comics art in the reform. to illustrations and extended discussions of myth
and folklore - that provide a context for the social
Coupling a comprehensive review of secondary and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices
materials (histories, anthologies, biographies, offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources
memoirs, and more) in English and Chinese with and historical materials on marriage, jealousy,
the artists’ actual works, the result spans more than and the treatment of people of African descent in
two centuries of Chinese animation. Structured Elizabethan England.
chronologically, the study begins with precursors in
early China and proceeds through the Republican,
wartime, Communist, and market economy
periods.

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60 ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE · History

ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & HISTORY
ARCHITECTURE
Academic Studies Press
University Press of Mississippi
CLASS OF ‘31
COMICS ART IN CHINA A German-Jewish Émigré’s Journey Across
Defeated Germany
John A. Lent & Xu Ying
Walter Jessel
Aug 2017 288pp, 109 b&w and colour illustrations Edired by Brian Crim
9781496811745 Hardback $65.00 Foreword by Michael J. Neufeld

For full details of this title, see page 59. Oct 2017 250pp
9781618116505 Paperback $29.00
University of New Mexico Press
A beautifully written memoir from Walter Jessel, a
EQUAL UNDER THE SKY German Jew determined to answer the question that
Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century haunted him since emigrating to the United States in
Feminism 1938: Would the people of other nations, if they were
placed in the same position as the Germans during the
Linda M. Grasso Hitler regime, behave in the same manner?

Oct 2017 368pp INVESTIGATING TURKEY
9780826358813 Hardback $65.00 Detective Fiction and Turkish Nationalism,
1928-1945
The first historical study of Georgia O’Keeffe’s complex
involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from David Mason
the 1910s to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources
such as fan letters, archives of women’s organisations, Sep 2017 180pp
transcripts of women’s radio shows, and programs from 9781618116284 Hardback $89.00
women’s colleges, Linda M. Grasso shows how feminism
and O’Keeffe are inextricably connected in popular Explores the lives and histories of the general population
culture and scholarship. of Turkey during the years 1928 and 1945. This work
assesses the level to which authors of indigenous
Turkish detective fiction written between 1928 and
1945 attempted to aid in the process of transmission.
Five series of this period are carefully analysed; the clear
conclusion is that there was authorial intent to spread
ideas of “Turkism” in each series.

Brookings Institution Press

JOURNEY INTO EUROPE
Islam, Immigration, and Identity

Akbar Ahmed

Dec 2017 600pp
9780815727583 Hardback $34.99

Offers a richly detailed, and clear-eyed exploration of
Islam in Europe and the place of Islam in European
history and civilization. Along with an analysis of what
has gone wrong and why, this urgent, unprecedented
study, the fourth in a quartet of studies examining
relations between the West and the Muslim world,
features recommendations for promoting integration
and pluralism in the twenty-first century.

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H istory

NEW IN PAPERBACK The Chinese University Press

JFK’S FORGOTTEN CRISIS SENSES OF THE CITY
Perceptions of Hangzhou and Southern Song
Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War China, 1127-1279

Bruce Riedel Edited by Joseph S. C. Lam et al

Sep 2017 177pp Jun 2017 328pp
9780815731634 Paperback $16.99 9789629967864 Hardback $60.00

The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of The city of Hangzhou symbolized all of the
John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the contradictions of the declining Song Empire (960-
world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war, 1279). It was paramount and feeble, awe-inspiring
Kennedy was also consumed by the Sino-Indian conflict. and threatened, the most admired city and a disgrace
Bruce Riedel, a CIA and National Security Council to its founders. Rather than debate the merit of these
veteran, provides the first full narrative of this crisis, polemical judgments, the contributors to this volume
which played out during the tense negotiations with treat them as expressions of their historical moment,
Moscow over Cuba. reflecting ideological convictions and aesthetic
preferences.
THE EAGLE AND THE TRIDENT
U.S.-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times The University of Georgia Press

Steven Pifer THE BROKEN COUNTRY
On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing
Aug 2017 366pp Legacy of Vietnam
9780815730408 Hardback $29.99
Paisley Rekdal
For full details of this title, see page 89.
Sep 2017 168pp
THE YEAR I WAS PETER THE GREAT 9780820351179 Paperback $24.95
1956 - Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative
Young American in Russia Nonfiction, Vol. 30

Marvin Kalb Uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City,
Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-
Nov 2017 300pp term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam
9780815731610 Hardback $24.99 War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling
incident, Paisley Rekdal draws on a range of material and
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia - and fashions it into a compelling account of the dislocations
molded the future path of one of America’s pre-eminent suffered by the Vietnamese and by American-born
diplomatic correspondents. Marvin Kalb, then a young veterans over the past decades.
diplomatic attache, observed this tumultuous year
that foretold the end of Soviet communism. In this,
his fifteenth book, Kalb writes a fascinating eyewitness
account of a superpower in upheaval and of a people
yearning for an end to dictatorship.

A CURSE UPON THE NATION
Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America
and the Atlantic World

Kay Wright Lewis

Aug 2017 272pp
9780820351278 Hardback $64.95

From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic
World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared
their mass extermination by the other in a race war.
In the US, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread
nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and
would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of
Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil
rights movement strategy.

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THE ILLUSTRATED SLAVE THE ELUSIVE THOMAS JEFFERSON
Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Essays on the Man Behind the Myths
Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition
Movement, 1800-1852 Edited by M. Andrew Holowchak & Brian W. Dotts

Martha J. Cutter Sep 2017 214pp
9781476669250 Paperback $49.95
Aug 2017 384pp, 15 colour and 99 b&w images
9780820351162 Hardback $44.95 Jefferson’s writings on morality and the moral sense have
typically been ignored by scholars. Why? His thoughts,
Analyses some of the more innovative works in the never fleshed out fully in any formal work, are said to be
archive of antislavery illustrated books published from unsystematic, inchoate, or confused. This volume argues
1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that that Jefferson was not confused and his moral thinking
depict enslavement. Martha J. Cutter argues that some was systemic and consistent, not fluctuant.
illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader
away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of TASTES OF THE EMPIRE
empathy and interrelationship with the enslaved. Foreign Foods in Seventeenth Century England

HSRC Press Jillian Azevedo

CHINA IN AFRICA Sep 2017 277pp
In Zheng He’s Footsteps 9781476668628 Paperback $35.00

Li Xinfeng During the 17th century, England increasingly saw
foreign foods made increasingly available to consumers
Jul 2017 352pp and featured in recipe books, medical manuals,
9781928246107 Paperback $25.95 treatises, travel narratives, even in plays. Yet the public’s
fascination with these foods went beyond just eating
Li Xinfeng’s years spent as a Chinese correspondent in them. This book examines the “body and mind”
South Africa are evident in the insights he shares in China consumerism of the early British Empire.
in Africa: Following Zheng He’s Footsteps, the narrative of
his research into the traces left by the famed navigator The University of North Carolina Press
during his travels in and around Africa. Li’s research led
him to travel around much of the southern part of the A DIFFERENT SHADE OF JUSTICE
African continent, searching for signs that Zheng He’s Asian American Civil Rights in the South
fleet had been there some six centuries earlier.
Stephanie Hinnershitz
Best Red
Oct 2017 304pp, 10 halftones, 1 map
McFarland 9781469633695 Hardback $39.95
Justice, Power, and Politics
CLASSIFIED
A History of Secrecy in the United States In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and,
Government later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles
similar to those experienced by African Americans in their
David B. Frost fight for civil and human rights. This book tells the story
of their resistance.
Aug 2017 158pp
9781476664002 Paperback $35.00

Explores the role that secrecy has played in American
governance for more than 240 years, beginning with the
earliest days of the First Continental Congress in 1774,
to the president’s executive privilege of withholding
information from Congress and the American people,
to World War II’s Manhattan Project, to today’s often
controversial procedures for protecting national security.

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AMBIVALENT EMBRACE CUBAN REVOLUTION IN AMERICA
Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America Havana and the Making of a United States
Left, 1968-1992
Rachel Kranson
Teishan A. Latner
Nov 2017 264pp, 6 halftones
9781469635439 Paperback $27.50 Dec 2017 336pp, 12 halftones, 1 maps
9781469635460 Hardback $37.50
This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in Justice, Power, and Politics
the United States after World War II focuses on the
process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges When a popular revolution prevailed on America’s
the common notion that most American Jews doorstep in 1959, it provoked the wrath of the American
unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth political establishment but fueled intense interest within
in economic status and social acceptance during the the multiracial American Left. In this groundbreaking
booming postwar era. book, Teishan Latner contends that as Americans
studied Cuba’s achievements, Havana in turn looked to
CHILDREN OF UNCERTAIN FORTUNE the US Left as a collaborator in the global battle against
Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the inequality and imperialism.
Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
JAH KINGDOM
Daniel Livesay Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in
the Age of Decolonization
Jan 2018 448pp, 24 halftones
9781469634432 Hardback $45.00 Monique A. Bedasse
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Oct 2017 272pp, 5 halftones
9781469633596 Paperback $32.95
By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century
migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian
Great Britain, this volume reinterprets the evolution of movement has become a global presence. While the
British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have
membership. Daniel Livesay follows the hundreds of primarily focused on its cultural expression through
mixed race children who crossed the ocean for educational reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse
opportunities, apprenticeships, marriage, or refuge. argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most
important vehicle of Rastafari’s international growth.
CONSUMING JAPAN
Popular Culture and the Globalizing of MAKING FREEDOM
1980s America The Underground Railroad and the
Politics of Slavery
Andrew C. McKevitt
R. J. M. Blackett
Oct 2017 288pp, 16 halftones
9781469634470 Paperback $27.95 Aug 2017 136pp
Studies in United States Culture 9781469636108 Paperback $20.00
The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in
1980s America when the future looked Japanese. From Uses the experiences of escaped slaves and those
autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces who aided them to explore the inner workings of the
new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the
demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese Fugitive Slave Law, while shedding light on the political
contributed to the globalizing of America in the late effects of slave escape. R.J.M. Blackett highlights the lives
twentieth century. of those who escaped, the impact of the fugitive slave
cases, and the extent to which slaves were aided by free
blacks, fellow slaves, and outsiders.

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POROUS BORDERS University of Pittsburgh Press
Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands THE RISE AND FALL OF KHOQAND,
1709-1876
Julian Lim Central Asia in the Global Age

Nov 2017 304pp, 7 halftones, 1 maps, 3 tables Scott C. Levi
9781469635491 Hardback $32.50
The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History Oct 2017 288pp, 26 b&w illustrations
9780822965060 Paperback $28.95
With the railroad’s arrival in the late nineteenth century, Central Eurasia in Context
immigrants of all colours rushed to the US-Mexico
borderlands, transforming the region into a booming Analyses how Central Asians actively engaged with
international hub of economic and human activity. the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth
Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first
American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand
the multiracial intersections of the borderlands. (1709-1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that
extraordinarily dynamic state in the Ferghana Valley.
SEARCHING FOR SUBVERSIVES
The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime Potomac Books
America
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas UPSTAIRS AT THE ROOSEVELTS’
Growing Up with Franklin and Eleanor
Nov 2017 256pp, 7 halftones, 4 graphs
9781469634340 Paperback $27.95 Curtis Roosevelt

Shedding new light on an injustice often overshadowed Jul 2017 264pp, 8 photos
by the mass confinement of Japanese Americans, Mary 9781612349015 Hardback $29.95
Elizabeth Basile Chopas traces how government and
military leaders constructed wartime policies affecting From the time Curtis Roosevelt, with his sister and
Italian residents. Based on new archival research into mother moved into his grandparents’ new home - the
the alien enemy hearings, this in-depth legal analysis White House - Curtis played, learned, slept, ate, and
illuminates a process not widely understood. lived in one of the most famous buildings in the world.
Writing about his childhood from that perspective,
WINNING OUR FREEDOMS TOGETHER Curtis Roosevelt offers anecdotes and revelations about
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960 the lives of the president and First Lady and the many
colorful personalities in this presidential family.
Nicholas Grant

Nov 2017 304pp, 12 halftones
9781469635286 Paperback $32.95
Justice, Power, and Politics

In this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines
how African Americans engaged with, supported,
and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid
movement. Bringing black activism into conversation
with the foreign policy of both the US and South African
governments, this study questions the dominant
perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated
black international activism.

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CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY

Southern Illinois University Press CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY

LINCOLN’S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS The University of North Carolina Press
Echoes of the Bible and Book of
Common Prayer INSIDE ROMAN LIBRARIES
Book Collections and Their Management in
A. E. Elmore Antiquity

Jul 2017 280pp George W. Houston
9780809335602 Paperback $22.50
Apr 2017 348pp, 13 halftones, 7 tables
Offers a new look at the sources of one of history’s great 9781469639208 Paperback $37.50
speeches. While it has long been determined that Abraham Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
Lincoln’s writings were influenced by the King James Bible,
until now no full-length study has shown the precise ways Libraries of the ancient world have long held a place
in which the Gettysburg Address uses its specific language. in the public imagination. Until now there has been
This revealing investigation provides a new way to think relatively little research to discover what was inside
about the speech and the man who wrote it. these libraries, how the collections came into being,
and who selected and maintained the holdings. In this
LINCOLN’S SENSE OF HUMOR study, George Houston examines a dozen specific book
collections of Roman date in the first comprehensive
Richard Carwardine attempt to answer these questions.

Nov 2017 168pp, 10 illustrations VIRTUS ROMANA
9780809336142 Hardback $24.95 Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to make Catalina Balmaceda
storytelling, jokes, and laughter tools of the office, and
his natural sense of humour has become legendary. Nov 2017 304pp, 3 halftones
Lincoln’s Sense of Humor registers the variety, complexity 9781469635125 Hardback $45.00
of purpose, and ethical dimension of Lincoln’s humour Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
and pinpoints the political risks Lincoln ran in telling
jokes while the nation was engaged in a bloody struggle Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over
for existence. time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its
manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin
Wits University Press historians: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda
demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives
THE BACKROOM BOY served as a form of self-definition which fostered and
Andrew Mlangeni’s Story propagated a new model of the ideal Roman.

Mandla Mathebula

Sep 2017 232pp, b&w illustrations
9781776140862 Paperback $34.95

This story of an ANC elder is a rigorously researched
historical record overlaid with intensely personal
reflections which intersect with the political narrative.
Above all, it is one man’s story, set in the maelstrom of
the liberation struggle.

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MILITARY HISTORY TERRORISM WORLDWIDE, 2016

Brookings Institution Press Edward Mickolus

BOMBS WITHOUT BOOTS Sep 2017 276pp
The Limits of Airpower 9781476671550 Paperback $49.95

Anthony M. Schinella This third comprehensive study of international terrorist
attacks covers 2016, during which the Islamic State
Sep 2017 300pp suffered several battlefield reversals but still continued
9780815732419 Paperback $39.99 its status as the most active, well-financed and well-
armed terrorist group worldwide. Regionally- and
Written by a long-time US intelligence analyst, this country-organized, the study covers domestic and
book assesses the military operations and post-conflict international incidents, outlining several trends.
outcomes in five cases since the mid-1990s in which the
United States and/or its allies used airpower to “solve” VICTORY AT MIDWAY
military problems. In each case, airpower helped achieve The Battle That Changed the Course of
the immediate objective, but the long-term outcomes World War II
often diverged significantly from the original intent of
policymakers. James M. D’Angelo

McFarland Nov 2017 129pp
9781476670713 Paperback $35.00
THE EMPEROR AND THE PEASANT
Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the In June 1942, Japan suffered a devastating defeat at the
End of the Habsburg Empire Battle of Midway and was never again able to take the
offensive in the Pacific. Bringing fresh perspective to the
Kenneth Janda battle and its consequences, the author identifies the
Japanese operational plan as a major factor in the navy’s
Oct 2017 277pp demise and describes the profound effects Midway had
9781476669571 Paperback $65.00 on the course of the war in Europe.

There was more to World War I than the Western Front. THE YANKS ARE COMING OVER THERE
This history, presented as two intertwined narratives in Anglo-Saxonism and American Involvement
alternating chapters, juxtaposes the experiences of a in the First World War
monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Joseph
I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European Dino Buenviaje
leader to declare war; Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak
labourer, drafted into the army and killed in combat. Nov 2017 164pp
9781476668932 Paperback $39.95
THE KAISER’S LOST KREUZER
A History of U-156 and Germany’s Long- At the outset of World War I few Americans saw any
Range Submarine Campaign Against North reason to get involved in yet another conflict among the
America, 1918 crowned heads of Europe. Despite its declared neutrality,
the US government gradually became more sympathetic
Paul N. Hodos with the Allies. Key to this shift in policy and public
opinion was “Anglo-Saxonism” - the belief that the
Nov 2017 171pp English-speaking peoples were inherently superior and
9781476671628 Paperback $35.00 fit for world leadership.

In 1917 and 1918 Germany made her first attempt
to wage long range submarine warfare. In that deadly
last chapter of the Great War the Germans sent giant
submarines to prey upon Allied shipping. This is the first
time the whole story has been told from the perspective
of Imperial Germany in the English language.

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W.D. EHRHART IN CONVERSATION Naval Institute Press
Vietnam, America and the Written Word
AMERICAN AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE
Edited by Jean-Jacques Malo The Roots of Tradition to 1865

Aug 2017 209pp Gary J. Ohls
9781476670409 Paperback $39.95
Dec 2017 320pp, 25 b&w photos, 7 maps
Named by Studs Turkel as “the poet of the Vietnam 9781682470886 Hardback $39.95
War”, W.D. Ehrhart has written and lectured on a wide
variety of topics and has been a preeminent voice on Describes and analyses early landing operations (from the
the Vietnam War for decades. This complete collection Revolution to the Civil War) of American history, showing
of unpublished interviews from 1991 to 2016 presents how they contributed to its rich amphibious tradition.
Ehrhart’s developing views on a range of subjects over This study does not attempt to describe every amphibious
three decades. operation in early America, but focuses on seven major
battles or campaigns providing a strong appreciation for
Mercer University Press the roots of American amphibious traditions.

AND HALF THE SEED OF EUROPE ANATOMY OF FAILURE
A Genealogy of the Great War, 1914-1918 Why America Loses Every War It Starts

Christopher Blake Harlan Ullman

Oct 2017 277pp Nov 2017 272pp
9780881466355 Hardback $25.00 9781682472255 Hardback $29.95

The story of family is rarely examined in terms of the Since the end of World War II, America lost every war it
impact of the Great War. In this book, several family started and failed in military interventions when it did not
members are the context for an understanding of how the use sound strategic thinking or have sufficient knowledge
War shaped our lives both in the past, and going forward. and understanding of the circumstances in deciding
In the stories of individual combatants, and their family to use force. By examining the records of presidents
relationships, lie the clues to understanding who we are, from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama in using force or
where we came from, and where we might choose to go. starting wars, it becomes self-evident why the US fails.

University Press of Mississippi GAMBLING AND WAR
Risk, Reward, and Chance in
THE HELL OF WAR COMES HOME International Conflict
Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in
Afghanistan and Iraq Justin Conrad

Owen W. Gilman Oct 2017 256pp, 12 b&w figures
9781682472194 Hardback $29.95
Feb 2018 256pp
9781496815767 Hardback $65.00 Focuses on applying lessons learned from poker,
blackjack, roulette and other games of chance to study
Since the trauma of September 11, the experience of of international conflict. The book demonstrates how
Americans at war has been rendered honestly and fully in the combined factors of strategy, psychology and
a wide range of texts - creative nonfiction and journalism, probability influence the outbreak of wars, how they are
film, poetry, and fiction. These responses, Owen W. fought, and why they end.
Gilman contends, have packed a lot of power and
measure up even to World War II’s literature and film.

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68 MILITARY HISTORY

GREAT POWERS, GRAND STRATEGIES INCIDENTS AT SEA
The New Game in the South China Sea American Confrontation and Cooperation
with Russia and China, 1945-2016
Anders Corr
David F. Winkler & John Warner
Jan 2018 336pp, 1 map
9781682472354 Hardback $34.95 Dec 2017 320pp, 18 b&w photos
9781682471975 Hardback $31.95
Focuses on grand strategic approaches to the South
China Sea dispute by major powers in the region - those Argues that Soviet and American naval officers, sharing
capable of projecting force to the South China Sea and bonds inherent in seamen, were able to put ideology
abroad. It explores international dimensions of the aside and speak frankly. Working together, they limited
South China Sea dispute, and how military, diplomatic, incidents that could have had unfortunate consequences.
and economic strategies of global actors have both The process they established served as a model for similar
contributed to solutions and exacerbated conflict. accords between other maritime nations.

HELL TO PAY INDIA’S WARS
Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of A Military History, 1947-1971
Japan, 1945-1947
Arjun Subramaniam
D.M. Giangreco
Aug 2017 576pp, 2 b&w photos, 18 maps
Oct 2017 576pp, 27 b&w photos, 16 maps 9781682472415 Hardback $40.00
9781682471654 Hardback $35.00
Provides a thoroughly researched, people-centric account
US planning for the invasion and military occupation of of the wars India fought between 1947 and 1971.
Imperial Japan was begun in 1943, two years before the Subramaniam provides a brief overview of the evolution
dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. of India’s uniformed services before assessing how each
Codenamed Operation Downfall, it called for the service participated during the time this book covers.
invasion to be carried out in two stages. Hell To Pay:
Operation Downfall: the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 LIMITING RISK IN AMERICA’S WARS
examine this subject in detail. Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic
Paradigm
IN THE SHADOW OF GREATNESS
Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service Phillip S. Meilinger
from America’s Longest War
Nov 2017 304pp, 25 b&w illustrations, 4 maps
Joshua Welle 9781682472507 Hardback $39.95
Transforming War Series
Aug 2017 264pp, 29 b&w photos, 1 map
9781682472477 Paperback $24.95 The US has the most expensive and seemingly military
forces in the world. Yet, since World War II its military
The profiles in this book represent the “Next Great success rate has been fairly meagre. Failures have
Generation” of American leaders. Men and women been marked by the introduction of large numbers of
who lost their innocence in battle and their youths to a conventional American ground troops, while successes
decade of deployments, throughout which they never have been characterized by the use of airpower, special
gave up hope. In exchange for down range scars, they operations forces, robust intelligence, and the use of
gained an unbreakable sense of purpose to America’s indigenous ground troops.
ideals - freedom, equality, and democracy.

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NEGLECTED SKIES STANLEY JOHNSTON’S BLUNDER
The Demise of British Naval Power in the The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind
Far East, 1922-1942 the U.S. Navy’s Victory at Midway

Angus Britts Elliot Carlson

Oct 2017 272pp, 25 b&w photos, 4 maps Nov 2017 352pp, 37 b&w photos
9781682471579 Hardback $34.95 9781591146797 Hardback $29.95

Offers a reconsideration of one of the Second World Chronicles the activity of Chicago Tribune war
War’s most forgotten naval engagements - the abortive correspondent Stanley Johnston aboard the carrier
clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Lexington and the transport ship Barnett, during and
Japanese Navy’s First Air Fleet (Kido Butai) to the south just after the Battle of the Coral Sea. It shows how he
of Ceylon, over a period of ten days in late March/early ingratiated himself with key officers and used his access
April 1942. The focus on this battle is for the purpose of to obtain information from a secret radiogram that
exploring the surrender of British naval supremacy. revealed the order of battle of Imperial Japanese Navy
forces advancing on Midway.
OSS OPERATION BLACK MAIL
One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial University of Nebraska Press
Japanese Army
AMERICA’S DIGITAL ARMY
Ann Todd Games at Work and War

Sep 2017 320pp, 14 b&w photos, 1 map Robertson Allen
9781682471500 Hardback $29.95
Jul 2017 240pp, 18 photos, 1 glossary
Tells the story of a remarkable woman who fought 9781496201911 Paperback $30.00
World War II on the front lines of psychological warfare. Anthropology of Contemporary North America
Elizabeth P. McIntosh spent eighteen life-changing
months serving in the Office of Strategic Services in what For full details of this title, see page 98.
has been called the “forgotten theatre”, China-Burma-
India, where she met and worked with people as diverse The University of North Carolina Press
as Allen Dulles, Julia Child, and Ho Chi Minh.
LINCOLN’S AUTOCRAT
PIRATE ALLEY The Life of Edwin Stanton
Commanding Task Force 151 off Somalia
William Marvel
Terry McKnight & Michael Hirsh
Aug 2017 632pp, 22 halftones, 3 maps
Sep 2017 272pp, 38 b&w photos in gloss gallery, 2 b&w charts, 1 map 9781469636153 Paperback $25.00
9781682472460 Paperback $24.95 Civil War America

Explores every aspect of Somali piracy, from how the Edwin M. Stanton, one of the nineteenth century’s most
pirates operate to how the actions of a relative handful impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous
of youthful criminals and their bosses have impacted influence and power as Lincoln’s Secretary of War during
the world economy. The book examines various most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early
answers to the question “How do you solve a problem years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of
like Somalia?”; explores the debate over the practice Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a
of putting armed guards aboard merchant ships, and detailed reexamination of Stanton’s life, career, and legacy.
focuses on best management practices.

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NUS Press IT’S MY COUNTRY TOO
Women’s Military Stories from the American
WORLD WAR II SINGAPORE Revolution to Afghanistan
The Chosabu Reports on Syonan
Edited by Tracy Crow & Jerri Bell
Edited by Greg Huff & Shinobu Majima
Foreword by Kayla Williams
Oct 2017 520pp
9789814722629 Hardback $56.00 Jul 2017 376pp, 23 photos, 2 illustrations
9781612348315 Hardback $32.95
For forty-four months during World War II, the Japanese
occupied Singapore, setting out to drastically change life This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich
on the island. As part of the occupation, the Japanese experiences and contributions of women in the American
produced detailed reports on the economy. The reports military in their own words - from the Revolutionary War
were notoriously difficult to read, and so this exceptional to the present wars in the Middle East. In excerpts from
translation by Gregg Huff and Shinobu Majima is a true diaries, letters, and oral histories, as well as from published
linguistic accomplishment. and unpublished memoirs, generations of women reveal
why and how they chose to serve their country.

Potomac Books WAR BY NUMBERS
Understanding Conventional Combat
HOW WE WON AND LOST THE WAR IN
AFGHANISTAN Christopher A. Lawrence
Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
Aug 2017 498pp, 231 tables, 2 charts, 49 graphs
Douglas Grindle 9781612348865 Paperback $39.95

Nov 2017 280pp, 19 photos, 2 maps Assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the
9781612349541 Hardback $29.95 analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence
establishes what we know about conventional combat
Provides a firsthand account of how the war in and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact
Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of a variety of factors have on combat he moves such
Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped analysis beyond the work of Carl von Clausewitz and into
away when vital resources failed to materialize and the modern data and interpretation.
United States headed for the exit. By placing the reader
at the heart of the American counterinsurgency effort, Rutgers University Press
Grindle reveals little-known incidents.
AT WAR
IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE TRAGIC The Military and American Culture in the
The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
East Indies during World War II
Edited by David Kieran et al
Donald M. Kehn
Feb 2018 256pp, 19 colour images, 12 b&w photos, 1 b&w graph
Aug 2017 592pp, 50 photos 9780813584300 Paperback $34.95
9781612348209 Hardback $39.95 War Culture

Tells the heroic story of the US Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice Offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues
defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in in the new military history - ranging from diplomacy
the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn and the history of imperialism to the environmental
Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and
involving multiple ships and thousands of men is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who
dramatically depicts the chaotic nature of these battles. serves in the US military and why and how US wars have
been represented in the media and in popular culture.

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LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS · Library STUDIES

Southern Illinois University Press LIBRARY STUDIES

TURNING POINTS OF THE AMERICAN American Library Association
CIVIL WAR
ACADEMIC LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
Edited by Chris Mackowski & Kristopher D. White Case Studies
Foreword by Thomas A. Desjardin
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Dec 2017 264pp, 31 illustrations Westbrooks
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9780838915592 Paperback $69.00
Although most Americans believe that the Battle of
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the war actually turned repeatedly. Events unfolded like in the real world? This book presents a selection of
in completely unexpected ways and had unintended case studies which dive deeply into the subject to answer
consequences. Turning Points of the American Civil that question. It features contributions from a range of
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them, demonstrating that the war was a continuum of ALA Neal-Schuman
watershed events.

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC
LIBRARIANSHIP
McFarland Third Edition

FRENCH IN A FLASH Kathleen de La Peña McCook & Jenny S. Bossaller
Grammar and Vocabulary Fundamentals
Aug 2017 368pp
Barbara Boyer 9780838915066 Paperback $72.00

Nov 2017 112pp Put simply, there is no text about public librarianship
9781476668178 Paperback $19.99 more rigorous or comprehensive than McCook’s survey.
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Anyone looking for a study guide that makes learning winning author has teamed up with noted public library
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This is a useful reference guide for beginning learners or
more advanced learners in need of review, for tutorial, ALA Neal-Schuman
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PODCAST LITERACY LITERATURE
Educational, Accessible, and Diverse Podcasts
for Library Users Broadview Press

Nicole Hennig OTHELLO
A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition
Aug 2017 44pp
9780838959855 Paperback $43.00 William Shakespeare
Library Technology Reports Edited by Jessica Slights

Podcasts are experiencing a renaissance today. More Nov 2017 300pp
high-quality programming is available for more diverse 9781554813261 Paperback $12.95
audiences than ever before. And in this report, Nicole Broadview Internet Shakespeare Editions
Hennig provides a guide that includes some of the best
educational, accessible, and diverse podcasts available For full details of this title, see page 59
for your library users.
PIZARRO
ALA TechSource
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES Edited by Selena Couture & Alexander Dick
An Introduction, Fourth Edition
Aug 2017 225pp
Kay Ann Cassell & Uma Hiremath 9781554811540 Paperback $22.95

Aug 2017 480pp Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s last play, an adaptation of
9780838915684 Paperback $88.00 August Von Kotzebue’s Die Spanier set in Peru and first
performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of
Guided by a national advisory board of educators and the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest
practitioners, this thoroughly updated text expertly of Peru, Pizarro dramatized English fears of invasion
keeps up with new technologies and practices while by Revolutionary France, but it is also surprisingly and
remaining grounded in the basics of reference work. critically engaged with Britain’s colonial exploits abroad.
Chapters on fundamental concepts, major reference
sources, and special topics provide a solid foundation; SELECTED WRITINGS OF
the text also offers fresh insight on core issues. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

ALA Neal-Schuman Edited by Robert D. Habich

SUMMER MATTERS Nov 2017 400pp
Making All Learning Count 9781554812691 Paperback $19.95
Broadview Editions
Elizabeth M. McChesney & Bryan W. Wunar
Essayist, lecturer, poet, and America’s first public
Aug 2017 128pp intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is the
9780838915615 Paperback $50.00 central figure in nineteenth-century American letters
and the leader (albeit reluctantly) of the Transcendental
Summer reading for children is a long standing and group. This collection contains a range of prose and
cherished tradition in public libraries. Today’s summer poetry representing some of Emerson’s central concerns.
programming needs to move beyond reading to engage
children with hands-on activities, thus keeping their
brains active even when school’s out. This book outlines
steps for libraries and cultural institutions to partner in
creating a sustainable summer learning program that’s
both fun and educational.

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TENDER BUTTONS McFarland
Objects, Food, Rooms
FUNNY THING ABOUT MURDER
Gertrude Stein Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films

Edited by Leonard Diepeveen David Geherin

Oct 2017 225pp Jul 2017 175pp
9781554811984 Paperback $15.95 9781476669113 Paperback $39.95

Broadview Editions Focusing on crime fiction, film and television that artfully
combine comedy and misdeed, this comprehensive
The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book’s study explores the reasons why writers and filmmakers
effect on readers as “something like terror, there are no inject humour into their work and identifies the various
known precedents to cling to.” This edition of Gertrude comic techniques they use. The author covers both
Stein’s transformative work immerses the text in its American and European books, film and television from
cultural context. The most opaque of modernist texts, the 1930s to the present.
Tender Buttons also had modernism’s most voluminous
and varied response.

The University of Georgia Press JOHN UPDIKE REMEMBERED
Friends, Family and Colleagues Reflect on the
CREATING FLANNERY O’CONNOR Writer and the Man
Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers
Edited by Jack A. De Bellis
Daniel Moran
Sep 2017 199pp
Oct 2017 264pp. 16 b&w photos 9781476667065 Paperback $29.95
9780820352930 Paperback $22.95
Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have
Flannery O’Connor may now be acknowledged as the much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote,
“Great American Catholic Author”, but this was not observation, and insight. Their memories reveal Updike
always the case. With Creating Flannery O’Connor Daniel the high school prankster, the golfer, the creator of
Moran explains how O’Connor attained that status, and bedtime stories, the charming ironist, the faithful
how she felt about it, by examining the development correspondent of scholars, the devoted friend, and the
of her literary reputation from the perspectives of dedicated practitioner of his art.
critics, publishers, agents, adapters for other media, and
contemporary readers. PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP AND THE ART OF
FANTASY WORLD-BUILDING
WILLIAM FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD
Screenwriting for the Studios Audrey Isabel Taylor

Stefan Solomon Oct 2017 146pp
9781476665160 Paperback $35.00
Aug 2017 320pp 19 black & white images Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
9780820351131 Hardback $49.95
The South on Screen Series From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes,
the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also
For full details of this title, see page 78. invite their exploration and study. This first book-length
study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip’s
lyrical other-worlds analyses her characters, environments
and legends and their interplay with genre expectations.

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University Press of Mississippi FAULKNER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY
BETWEEN GENERATIONS
Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Edited by Robert W. Hamblin & Ann J. Abadie
Children’s Literature
Feb 2018 200pp
Victoria Ford Smith 9781496814784 Paperback $30.00
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
Sep 2017 304pp
9781496813374 Hardback $65.00 Presents the thoughts of ten noted Faulkner scholars
Children’s Literature Association Series who spoke at the twenty-seventh annual Faulkner
and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of
A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as Mississippi. Contributions by Deborah N. Cohn, Leigh
powerful forces in the production of their own literature Anne Duck, Robert W. Hamblin, Michael Kreyling,
and culture by uncovering a tradition of collaborative Barbara Ladd, Walter Benn Michaels, Patrick O’Donnell,
partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- Theresa M. Towner, Annette Trefzer, and Karl F. Zender.
and early twentieth-century England. The intergenerational
collaborations documented provide the foundations for OZ BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
some of the most popular Victorian literature for children. Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series

BEYOND BOMBSHELLS Erika Haber
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
Dec 2017 240pp
Jeffrey A. Brown 9781496813602 Hardback $65.00
Children‘s Literature Association Series
Feb 2018 274pp
9781496814661 Paperback $30.00 In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov published Wizard of the
Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum’s The
For full details of this title, see page 82. Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Erika Haber demonstrates how
the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being
CONVERSATIONS WITH COLUM MCCANN popular children’s literature and became compelling and
enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia,
Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll & Mary C. Ingersoll despite being dismissed and ignored for many years.

Aug 2017 224pp READING IN THE DARK
9781496812940 Hardback $60.00 Horror in Children’s Literature and Culture
Literary Conversations Series
Edited by Jessica R. McCort
Brings together eighteen interviews with a world-
renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 Dec 2017 258pp
literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a new 9781496814890 Paperback $30.00
and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these Children’s Literature Association Series
interviews represent the development as well as the
continuation of McCann’s interests. The number and Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children
length of the later conversations attest to his star-power. and young adults are proliferating wildly. Reading in the
Dark fills a gap in criticism devoted to children’s popular
CONVERSATIONS WITH GARY SNYDER culture by concentrating on horror, an often neglected
genre. These scholars explore the intersection between
Edited by David Stephen Calonne horror, popular culture, and children’s cultural productions.

Sep 2017 224pp TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FEMINISMS
9781496811622 Hardback $60.00 IN CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENT
Literary Conversations Series LITERATURE

Gary Snyder is one of the most distinguished American Roberta Seelinger Trites
poets, remarkable both for his long and productive
career and for his equal contributions to literature Jan 2018 224pp
and environmental thought. This volume collects 9781496813800 Hardback $65.00
interviews from 1961 to 2015 and charts his developing Children’s Literature Association Series
environmental philosophy and his wide-ranging
interests in ecology, Buddhism, Native American studies, Over twenty years after the publication of her ground
history, and mythology. breaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in
Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyse
how literature for the young still provides one outlet in
which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism.

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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

University of Nebraska Press COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF The University of Arizona Press
HENRY JAMES, 1880-1883
Volume 2 LATINX SUPERHEROES IN MAINSTREAM
COMICS
Henry James
Edited by Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias & Frederick Luis Aldama
Katie Sommer
Oct 2017 240pp, 104 colour illustrations
Oct 2017 336pp 9780816537082 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00 / $22.95
9781496201188 Hardback $95.00 Latinx Pop Culture
The Complete Letters of Henry James
Explores the storyworld spaces inhabited by brown
Includes 178 letters, 98 of which are published for the superheroes in mainstream comic book storyworlds:
first time, written from November 1, 1881, to January 1, print comic books, animation, TV, and film. It makes
1883. The letters record Henry James’s establishment as visible and lets loose the otherwise occluded and
one of the preeminent professional writers in Britain and shackled. Leaving nothing to chance, it sheds light on
the United States and follow James’s return journeys to how creators make storyworlds that feature Latinos/as,
the United States following the deaths of his parents. distinguishing between those that we should evaluate
as well done and those not well done.
The University of North Carolina Press

JACK LONDON McFarland
A Writer’s Fight for a Better America
THE ASCENDANCE OF HARLEY QUINN
Cecelia Tichi Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain

Aug 2017 296pp, 33 halftones Edited by Shelley E. Barba & Joy M. Perrin
9781469636054 Paperback $22.00
Nov 2017 200pp
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog 9781476665238 Paperback $19.99
tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi
challenges the long-standing view of London as merely With the long history of Batman, it is unusual for
a mass-market producer of potboilers. Thoroughly something new to come along and grab a new
exploring London’s importance as an artist and as a generation’s attention. That is what happened in
political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who 1992 when fans were introduced to Harley Quinn, an
merits recognition as one of America’s foremost public eccentric female sidekick. Those interested in a deeper
intellectuals. understanding of Harley’s bubbly and sometimes
malicious character will delight in reading the first book
Northwestern University Press dedicated to her in all her duality.

MILTON’S MODERNITIES VISIONS OF THE FUTURE IN COMICS
Poetry, Philosophy, and History from the International Perspectives
Seventeenth Century to the Present
Edited by Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic &
Edited by Feisal G. Mohamed & Patrick Fadely Frank Bramlett

Aug 2017 368pp Aug 2017 207pp
9780810135338 Paperback $39.95 9781476668017 Paperback $39.95
Rethinking the Early Modern
Across generations and genres, comics have imagined
The phrase “early modern” challenges readers and different views of the future, from unattainable utopias
scholars to explore ways in which that period expands to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can
and refines contemporary views of the modern. be read as reflections of their authors’ (and readers’)
Milton’s Modernities is a collection of eleven original hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection
essays undertaking such exploration with a focus of new essays explores the creative processes in comics
on John Milton, a poet whose prodigious energies production that bring plausible futures to the page.
simultaneously point to the past and future.

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University Press of Mississippi NEW IN PAPERBACK

BEN KATCHOR ED BRUBAKER
Conversations Conversations

Edited by Ian Gordon Edited by Terrence R. Wandtke

Feb 2018 192pp Dec 2017 168pp
9781496815811 Hardback $50.00 9781496814760 Paperback $25.00
Conversations with Comic Artists Series
Conversations with Comic Artists Series
Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951)
as “the creator of the last great American comic strip.” Ed Brubaker has emerged as one of the most popular,
Katchor’s work is often described as zany or bizarre, and significant figures in art comics since the 1990s.
author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work as “one Brubaker layers his stories with a keen self-awareness,
or two notches too far” beyond an absurdist reality. applying his expansive knowledge of American comic
And yet the work resonates with its audience because book history to invigorate his work and challenge the
absurdity was the reality. dividing line between popular entertainment and
high art. This collection of interviews explores the
sophisticated artist’s work.

NEW IN PAPERBACK FORGING THE PAST
Seth and the Art of Memory
A CHARLIE BROWN RELIGION
Daniel Marrone
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of
Charles M. Schulz Dec 2017 246pp
9781496814791 Paperback $30.00
Stephen J. Lind Great Comics Artists Series

Oct 2017 308pp At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed
9781496814678 Paperback $20.00 Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer
exists - and perhaps never existed, except in the panels
Great Comics Artists Series of long-forgotten comics. Forging the Past offers a
comprehensive account of his work and the complex
For full details of this title, see page 96 interventions it makes into the past.

NEW IN PAPERBACK GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PHILOSOPHY

CHRIS WARE Edited by Jeff McLaughlin
Conversations
Sep 2017 240pp
Edited by Jean Braithwaite 9781496813275 Hardback $65.00

Oct 2017 296pp In a follow-up to Comics as Philosophy, contributors
9781496809308 Paperback $25.00 address two questions: Which philosophical insights,
concepts, and tools can shed light on the graphic
Conversations with Comic Artists Series novel? And how can the graphic novel cast light on the
concerns of philosophy? Each contributor ponders a
Virtuoso Chris Ware (b. 1967) has achieved some graphic novel to illuminate ways in which philosophy can
noteworthy firsts for comics. Editor Jean Braithwaite untangle combinations of image and written word for
compiles interviews displaying both Ware’s erudition deeper understanding.
and his quirky self-deprecation. They span Ware’s career
from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse portrait of the
artist as he matures.

COMICS ART IN CHINA

John A. Lent & Xu Ying

Aug 2017 288pp, 109 b&w and colour illustrations
9781496811745 Hardback $65.00

For full details of this title, see page 59.

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MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

MICHAEL ALLRED MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
Conversations
Brookings Institution Press
Edited by Christopher Irving
THE TERRORIST ARGUMENT
Jan 2018 194pp Studies of Modern Advocacy and Propaganda
9781496814838 Paperback $25.00
Conversations with Comic Artists Series Christopher C. Harmon & Randall G. Bowdish

Michael Allred (b. 1962) stands out for his blend of Oct 2017 325pp
spiritual and philosophical approaches with an art style 9780815732181 Paperback $35.99
reminiscent of 1960s era superhero comics, which
creates a mixture of both postmodernism and nostalgia. For full details of this title, see page 90.
Michael Allred: Conversations features several interviews
with the cartoonist from his early days to his current WORDS THAT MATTER
mainstream work for Marvel Comics. How the News and Social Media Shaped the
2016 Presidential Campaign
SUPERMAN IN MYTH AND FOLKLORE
Leticia Bode et al
Daniel Peretti
Jan 2018 200pp
Nov 2017 208pp 9780815731917 Hardback $25.99
9781496814586 Hardback $65.00
For full details of this title, see page 90.
For full details of this title, see page 78.
Texas A&M University Press
THE COMICS OF CHARLES SCHULZ
The Good Grief of Modern Life COLUMNS TO CHARACTERS
The Presidency and the Press Enter the
Edited by Jared Gardner & Ian Gordon Digital Age

Aug 2017 192pp, 27 b&w illustrations Peter Baker et al
9781496812896 Hardback $65.00 Edited by Stephanie A. Martin
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
Nov 2017 288pp, 5 tables, 6 graphs
Collects new essays on the work of the creator of 9781623495626 Hardback $42.00
the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Kenneth E. Montague Presidential Rhetoric Series
Schulz’s celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and
career have been published. This collection serves as a For full details of this title, see page 92.
foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz
(1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied
medium of newspaper comics.

THE EXPANDING ART OF COMICS
Ten Modern Masterpieces

Thierry Groensteen
Translated by Ann Miller

Nov 2017 240pp
9781496808028 Hardback $65.00

Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in
comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten
seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a
century of comics production, sampling a single work from
the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. He then delves
into recent masterpieces. Groensteen recaptures the impact
with which these works broke with what had gone before.

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78 Performing Arts · FILM &TV

MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE PERFORMING ARTS

University Press of Mississippi FILM & TV

SUPERMAN IN MYTH AND FOLKLORE The University of Georgia Press

Daniel Peretti WILLIAM FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD
Screenwriting for the Studios
Nov 2017 208pp
9781496814586 Hardback $65.00 Stefan Solomon

Many studies have examined the ways in which folklore Aug 2017 320pp, 19 b&w images
has provided inspiration for other forms of culture, 9780820351131 Hardback $49.95
especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and The South on Screen Series
Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore
inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of During more than two decades (1932-1954), William
Steel’s origins but on the culture he has helped create. Faulkner worked on approximately fifty film screenplays.
The scripts that Faulkner wrote for film and, later on,
THE COMPLETE FOLKTALES OF television constitute an extensive and, until now,
A. N. AFANAS’EV thoroughly underexplored archival source. Stefan
Volume I Solomon not only analyses the majority of these scripts
but compares them to the novels and short stories
Edited by Jack V. Haney Faulkner was writing at the same time.

Nov 2017 550pp McFarland
9781496814715 Paperback $40.00
A FISTFUL OF ICONS
Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, A.N. Afanas’ev Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American
collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire. Western
Up to now, there has been no complete English-language
version of the Russian folktales of Afanas’ev. This Edited by Sue Matheson
translation is based on L.G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s
edition, widely regarded as the authoritative edition. Jul 2017 267pp
9780786498048 Paperback $39.95

Western archetypes remain important emblems of the
American experience, relating a complex and coded
narrative about heroism and morality, masculinity and
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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FILM &TV

A GREEN AND PAGAN LAND ARROW AND SUPERHERO TELEVISION
Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film Essays on Themes and Characters of the Series
and Television
Edited by James F. Iaccino, Cory Barker & Myc Wiatrowski
David Huckvale
Nov 2017 277pp
Sep 2017 167pp 9780786497874 Paperback $19.99
9781476670508 Paperback $39.95
This collection of new essays focuses on The CW
British literature often refers to pagan and classical network’s hit television series Arrow - based on DC
themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest Comic’s Green Arrow - and its spin-offs. The contributors
more than a mere backdrop of physical features. This explore the reasons behind Arrow ‘s success, the series’
volume analyses the evocative language and aesthetics representation of bodies, its portrayal of women, its
of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, shifting political ideologies, and audience reception and
and how “psycho-geography” is used to explore the influence on storylines.
influence of the past on the present.
AT HOME IN THE WHEDONVERSE
AFTER THE BOMB BECAME GOD Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life
The Legacy of the Cold War in Dr. Strangelove,
End Zone, Crash and The Wire Edited by Juliette C. Kitchens

Niall Heffernan Sep 2017 197pp
9781476667027 Paperback $35.00
Nov 2017 166pp
9781476664668 Paperback $55.00 Joss Whedon’s work collectively offers audiences the
opportunity to question the ways we relate to and
The Cold War profoundly shaped neoliberalism in ways inhabit homes. Focusing on his television series, films
that are as yet not fully realised. This book is a careful and and comics, this collection of new essays explores the
extensively researched look at the narratives that pierce diversity of home spaces in Whedon’s many ‘verses,
the heart of the Cold War zeitgeist and its aftermath and and the complexity these spaces afford the narratives,
reveal to us that we may be living in a post-Cold War world. characters, objects and relationships within them.

AGNES MOOREHEAD ON RADIO, STAGE BECOMING JOHN WAYNE
AND TELEVISION The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon,
1930-1939
Axel Nissen
Larry Powell
Aug 2017 141pp
9781476667584 Paperback $39.95 Nov 2017 155pp
9781476664132 Paperback $35.00
Agnes Moorehead (1900-74) was unique among
twentieth-century American actresses in making a Explores the early westerns of John Wayne, from his first
major career for herself in all four entertainment media starring role in the 1930 epic The Big Trail through his
after the age of 40. This title focuses on Moorehead’s breakthrough role as the Ringo Kid in John Ford’s 1939
career in radio, on the stage, and in television. A classic Stagecoach. This book argues that it was during
representative selection of 25 of her most interesting these 1930s westerns that Marion Morrison transformed
and representative performances in these media are from a prop man into the John Wayne film persona that
discussed in separate profiles. became world famous.

APPROACHING TWIN PEAKS
Critical Essays on the Original Series

Edited by Eric Hoffman

Aug 2017 181pp
9781476671277 Paperback $35.00

Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks raised the
bar for television and is now considered one of the great
dramas in TV history. This collection of new essays explores
its filmic influences, its genre-bending innovations and
its use of horror and science fiction conventions, from the
original series to the film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with
Me and subsequent video releases.

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BELA LUGOSI AND BORIS KARLOFF FRANK WISBAR
The Expanded Story of a Haunting The Director of Ferryman Maria, from
Collaboration, with a Complete Filmography Germany to America and Back
of Their Films Together
Henry Nicolella
Gregory William Mank
Aug 2017 277pp, 35 illustrations
Jul 2017 701pp 9781476666884 Paperback $45.00
9781476672342 Paperback $39.95
German director Frank Wisbar (1899-1967) had the
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff starred in dozens of black- misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as
and-white horror films, and managed to collaborate on Hitler came to power. Wisbar fled to America, where
and co-star in eight movies. Through interviews and Hollywood saw him as no more than a technician. A
archival research, this expanded new edition examines successful stint in early television allowed him to return
the Golden Age of Hollywood, recreates the shooting of home to a very different Germany. The book examines
Lugosi and Karloff’s mutual films, examines their odd the films and career of an under-appreciated auteur who
and moving personal relationship, and analyses their ultimately lost faith in his own vision.
ongoing legacies.
FUNNY THING ABOUT MURDER
CLAIRE TREVOR Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films
The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir
David Geherin
Derek Sculthorpe
Jul 2017 175pp
Oct 2017 125pp 9781476669113 Paperback $39.95
9781476671932 Paperback $39.95
For full details of this title, see page 73.
An alluring blonde with a uniquely seductive voice, Claire
Trevor is chiefly remembered now for her many femme GIANT CREATURES IN OUR WORLD
fatale roles in a series of iconic noirs. However she was Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture
a versatile actress not trapped by genre who brought
a rare emotional depth to her art. This book provides a Edited by Camille D.G. Mustachio & Jason Barr
comprehensive discussion of her life and career.
Nov 2017 188pp
CLASSIC MOVIE FIGHT SCENES 9781476668369 Paperback $19.99
75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989
Dismissed as camp by critics but revered by fans, the
Gene Freese kaiju or strange creature film has become an iconic
element of both Japanese and American pop culture. In
Aug 2017 277pp, 120 illustrations this collection of new essays, contributors examine kaiju
9781476669434 Paperback $45.00 representations in a range of contexts and attempt to
define this at times ambiguous genre.
The filming of fight scenes has changed significantly
through the years from improvised scuffles in the Silent GLAMOUR GIRLS OF SIXTIES HOLLYWOOD
Era to exquisitely choreographed and edited sequences. Seventy-Five Profiles
Examining more than 300 films, the author provides
behind-the-scenes details on memorable melees starring Tom Lisanti
such iconic tough-guys as John Wayne, Robert Mitchum,
Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, and Bruce Lee. Jul 2017 252pp
9781476672335 Paperback $29.95
CLINT EASTWOOD’S CINEMA OF TRAUMA
Essays on PTSD in the Director’s Films During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centrefolds,
beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to
Edited by Charles R. Hamilton & Allen H. Redmon become “decorative actresses” appearing scantily clad
on film and television. This illustrated homage to 75
Aug 2017 176pp of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories
9781476667508 Paperback $39.95 through individual biographical profiles, photographs,
lists of major credits and, frequently, in-depth personal
Throughout his directorial career, Clint Eastwood’s interviews.
movies have presented sympathetic narratives of
characters enduring personal trauma as they turn to
violence to survive calamity or sustain social order. In this
collection of new essays, contributors examine his films
as studies on PTSD that expose the social conditions
that tolerate or trigger traumatization and imagine a
way through trauma.

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FILM &TV

HORROR IN SPACE QUINTESSENTIAL JACK
Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre The Art of Jack Nicholson on Screen

Edited by Michele Brittany Scott Edwards

Aug 2017 212pp Aug 2017 277pp
9781476664057 Paperback $39.95 9781476670942 Paperback $35.00

Analyses the space horror subgenre and its rise as a cinematic Drawing on years of research and dozens of interviews with
phenomenon since the 1950s. These essays provide a his associates, this critical study of Jack Nicholson’s oeuvre
historical retrospective of the genre’s cinematic journey and examines each of his film roles, as well as his screenwriting
an in-depth examination of how filmmakers explored the and directorial efforts. Personal insight is provided by Peter
concepts of the survivor, the uncanny valley, the isolationism Fonda, Bruce Dern, Noah Wyle, Monkees Michael Nesmith,
of space travel, religion, and supernatural phenomenons to Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, several Apollo astronauts,
terrify audiences within the confines of space. Hells Angel Sonny Barger and many more.

INGRID PITT, QUEEN OF HORROR TECH-NOIR
The Complete Career The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir

Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter Paul Meehan

Jul 2017 230pp Jul 2017 272pp
9781476672304 Paperback $29.95 9781476672359 Paperback $25.00

Explores the life and career of Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror Traces the common origins of film noir and science
cinema. Full cast and production credits, synopses, fiction films, identifying the many instances in which
reviews and notes are offered for all of her film, stage the two have merged to form a distinctive subgenre
and TV appearances, along with a critical listing of her known as Tech-Noir. From the German Expressionist
novels and other published works. Other features include cinema of the late 1920s to the present-day cyberpunk
rare photographs and other movie-related graphics from movement, the book examines more than 100 films in
every phase of the actress’ career, and a foreword by which common noir elements intersect with the high
Ingrid Pitt herself. technology of science fiction.

INVASION USA THE AGE OF NETFLIX
Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital
1960s Delivery and Instant Access

Edited by David J. Hogan Edited by Myc Wiatrowski

Sep 2017 144pp Aug 2017 215pp
9780786499045 Paperback $39.95 9780786497478 Paperback $29.95

In twenty-one essays, sixteen film historians scrutinize Collecting several new essays from scholars around
more than forty films from the anti-Red cycle of the 1950s the globe, this collection seeks to participate in the
and ‘60s, including many provocative examples that have ongoing discourse about Netflix’s place in contemporary
fallen into undeserved obscurity. Concerned equally with culture. These contributors explore the intricacies of the
the pictures’ aesthetic, political, and social ramifications, enormous effect Netflix has had on how we consume
the essays capture the essence not only of some popular media in the everyday world and examines the
remarkable movies, but the period that spawned them. streaming giant as a disruptor and cultural institution.

MAKING YOUR FIRST FEATURE FILM Receive regular up-to-date information about
Lessons I Learned the Hard Way our new titles by registering for e-alerts at:

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Aug 2017 277pp
9781476670348 Paperback $29.95

The tools for independent filmmaking are more
accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to
successfully creating a film than access to equipment
and software. Chronicling the making of his premier
feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the author
describes the practical steps needed take a film project
from early concept to postproduction phases.

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Performing Arts
82 FILM &TV

THE GHOST OF ONE’S SELF University Press of Mississippi
Doppelgangers in Mystery, Horror and Science
Fiction Films PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
BAZ LUHRMANN
Paul Meehan Interviews

Sep 2017 277pp Tom Ryan
9781476665665 Paperback $65.00
Aug 2017 159pp
The theme of the double has inspired works by E.T.A. 9781496813022 Paperback $25.00
Hoffmann, Poe, de Maupassant, Dostoevsky and others, Conversations with Filmmakers Series
and has been the basis for classic films in the genres
of mystery, horror and science fiction. This theme is Though he has made only five films in two decades,
examined in film noir and neo-noir, with a special Australian writer-director Baz Luhrmann is an
emphasis on the works of Alfred Hitchcock. internationally known brand name. In this collection
of interviews, Luhrmann discusses his methods and his
THE INCOMPARABLE HILDEGARDE motives, explaining what has been important to him
The Sexuality, Style and Image of an and his collaborators from the start and how he has been
Entertainment Icon able to maintain an independence from the studios that
have backed his films.
Monica Storme Gallamore
BEYOND BOMBSHELLS
Nov 2017 144pp The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
9781476667706 Paperback $39.95
Jeffrey A. Brown
The Incomparable Hildegarde, lived a long life full
of glamour and excitement. Her career started in Feb 2018 274pp
Milwaukee silent movie theatres, then the Vaudeville 9781496814661 Paperback $30.00
stage, and singing and playing piano in the cabarets
of Paris and London. This biography, the first book to Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic
address her importance in American culture, covers her books, TV, and literature than they have ever been. Their
life from birth to death. spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about
female agency, power, and sexuality. Beyond Bombshells
TO BOLDLY GO explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure
Essays on Gender and Identity in the perceptions about how and why women are capable of
Star Trek Universe physically dominating roles in modern fiction.

Edited by Nadine Farghaly & Simon Bacon BLAKE EDWARDS
Interviews
Jul 2017 231pp
9781476668536 Paperback $35.00 Edited by Gabriela Oldham

In 2016, Star Trek - arguably the most popular science Jan 2018 192pp
fiction franchise of all time - turned 50. This collection of 9781496815668 Hardback $60.00
new essays provides a timely study of how well Star Trek Conversations with Filmmakers Series
has lived up to its own ideals of inclusivity and equality,
and how well prepared it is to boldly go with everyone Blake Edwards was a multi-talented, versatile director
into the next half century. constantly exploring who he was, not only in filmmaking
but also in life. Blake Edwards: Interviews highlights 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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Performing Arts

FILM &TV

CHINA IN THE MIX PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the WONG KAR-WAI
Age of Globalization Interviews

Ying Xiao Edited by Silver Wai-ming Lee & Micky Lee

Aug 2017 256pp Aug 2017 208pp
9781496812605 Hardback $65.00 9781496812841 Hardback $60.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
For full details of this title, see page 58.
Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai as an
MARGARETHE VON TROTTA enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and
Interviews his high expectations for actors all contribute to the
idea that he only makes art for a few high-brow critics.
Edited by Monika Raesch However Wong’s interviews show this Hong Kong auteur
is candid about the art of filmmaking, even surprising his
Feb 2018 224pp interlocutors by suggesting his films are commercial and
9781496815613 Hardback $60.00 made for a popular audience.
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Purdue University Press
A collection of twenty-four illuminating interviews with
the auteur. Spanning three decades, from the mid-1980s MARVELOUS BODIES
until today, the interviews reveal not only von Trotta’s Italy’s New Migrant Cinema
life in the film industry, but also evolving roles of and
opportunities provided to women over that time. These Vetri Nathan
interviews present the different dimensions of von Trotta
through the lenses of film critics, scholars, and journalists. Aug 2017 290pp
9781557537737 Paperback $45.00
THE SCREEN IS RED Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe
Bernard F. Dick and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred
destination for immigrants from the global South.
Feb 2018 308pp Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen
9781496814937 Paperback $30.00 key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and
2010 that treat this remarkable moment of cultural role
Explores Hollywood’s ambivalence toward the former reversal through a plurality of styles.
Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. Today
the threat is no longer the Soviet Union, but international Rutgers University Press
terrorism. Bernard F. Dick argues, however, that the Soviet
Union has not lost its appeal, as evident from the popular
and critically acclaimed television series The Americans .
More than eighty years later, the screen is still red.

DEMOGRAPHIC ANGST
Cultural Narratives and American Films of the
1950s

Alan Nadel

Dec 2017 256pp 86 b&w photos
9780813565491 Paperback $29.95

Argues that mandated normativity - as a political agenda
and a social ethic - precluded explicit expression of the
anxiety produced by America’s radically reconfigured
postwar population. Alan Nadel explores influential non-
fiction books, magazine articles, and public documents in
conjunction with films to examine how these films worked
through fresh anxieties that emerged during the 1950s.

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Performing Arts
84 FILM &TV

FILM REMAKES AND FRANCHISES THE LIMITS OF AUTEURISM
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed
Daniel Herbert New Hollywood

Nov 2017 160pp Nicholas Godfrey
9780813579412 Paperback $17.95
Feb 2018 274pp, 30 b&w photos
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture 9780813589145 Paperback $27.95

Examines how remakes and sequels have been central to The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early
the film industry from its very inception, yet also considers 1970s has become one of the most romanticized
how the recent trends toward reboots and transmedia periods in motion picture history, celebrated for
franchises depart from those historical precedents. its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the
Film scholar Daniel Herbert not only analyses the film unshackling of directorial ambition. The Limits of
industry’s increasing reliance on recycled product, but also Auteurism aims to challenge many of these assumptions.
asks why audiences are currently so drawn to such movies.

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, 35 b&w photos
9780813593142 Paperback $27.95 Jul 2017 218pp, 19 photos
9780813579979 Paperback $27.95
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 capitalized on public fears about digital effects cinema in which the human performer
our changing world. is entangled with animation, collaged with other
performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic
IMPERIAL AFFECTS situations. Making Believe sheds light on these
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of developments by historicizing screen performance
American Cinema within the context of special effects cinema and
technological change in Hollywood filmmaking.
Jonna Eagle
Wayne State University Press
Jul 2017 276pp, 25 photos
9780813583020 Paperback $29.95 THE BEST LAID PLANS
War Culture Interrogating the Heist Film

In American culture and history, a feeling of national Edited by Jeanette Sloniowski & Jim Leach
identity and belonging have often derived from a sense
of injury, vulnerability, and loss. Jonna Eagle turns to Jan 2018 320pp, 30 b&w images
the workings of American cinema to understand the 9780814342244 Paperback $36.99
power and persistence of these conjunctions, tracing the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
shifting dynamics of action and pathos as they structure
representations of imperialist motion and violence The heist has been a persistent and popular mainstay
across the twentieth century. of the crime film. The Best Laid Plans asks the question:
why has the heist film proved so appealing to audiences
over many years and in diverse cultural contexts? The
twelve essays in this volume, explore the significance of
the heist film in different national cinemas, as well as its
aesthetic principles and ideological issues.

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Performing Arts

MUSIC

MUSIC JAZZ TRANSATLANTIC, VOLUME I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-
McFarland Century Jazz Culture

EUROPE’S STARS OF ‘80s DANCE POP Gerhard Kubik
32 International Music Legends Discuss
Their Careers Nov 2017 464pp
9781628462302 Hardback $75.00
James Arena American Made Music Series

Aug 2017 176pp Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to
9781476671420 Paperback $35.00 the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music
we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself
A massive dance music revolution swept across and how jazz has been defined and redefined. It also
Europe during the 1980s. Merging rock, new wave, celebrates the phenomena of jazz performance and
disco and worldbeat sounds, an explosion of exciting uncovers hidden gems of jazz history.
and increasingly electronic dance-pop music caused
a sensation. In this book of interviews, 32 of the era’s JAZZ TRANSATLANTIC, VOLUME II
most celebrated singers, songwriters, producers and Jazz Derivatives and Developments in
industry professionals share memories of their lives and Twentieth-Century Africa
careers during this extraordinary time.
Gerhard Kubik
THE MUSICAL ARTISTRY OF RAP
Dec 2017 272pp
Martin E. Connor 9781496806086 Hardback $75.00
American Made Music Series
Nov 2017 164pp
9780786498987 Paperback $29.95 Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic
exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. 
Poses challenging questions to the public understanding of This second volume amplifies how musicians
rap music with an analytical foundation that’s firmly built influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop
on a corpus of 135 songs from a group of over 50 artists. influenced musicians in Africa from the end of
Building on Martin Connor’s decade of experience in both World War II into the 1970s were interacting with
the journalism and scholarly arena, the answers that he each other and re-creating jazz.
arrives at are likely to be the motivating factors behind any
ongoing discourse that tries to explain and describe rap. QUINCY JONES
His Life in Music
University Press of Mississippi
Clarence Bernard Henry
GODFATHER OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS
Morris Levy Sep 2017 208pp
9781496814883 Paperback $25.00
Richard Carlin American Made Music Series

Oct 2017 312pp Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific
9781496814807 Paperback $25.00 composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and
American Made Music Series humanitarians in American music history and the
recording and film industries. Jones’s career has spanned
Tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in over sixty years, generating a substantial body of work
the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). with over five hundred compositions and arrangements.
At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in This book focuses on this material as well as many of
Hell’s Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical Jones’s accomplishments.
style, bebop. In 1957, he founded a record label, Roulette
Records. Roulette featured many of the significant jazz
artists who played Birdland but also scored top pop hits.

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PERFORMING ARTS · MUSIC · THEATRE

86 Philosophy

TEARING THE WORLD APART PHILOSOPHY
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
Academic Studies Press
Edited by Nina Goss & Eric Hoffman
PHILO’S HEIRS
Sep 2017 208pp Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas
9781496813329 Hardback $65.00
American Made Music Series Luis Cortest

Participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob Jun 2017 160pp
Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty- 9781618116307 Hardback $89.00
first century - “Love and Theft” (2001), Modern Times
(2006), and Tempest (2012) - along with the 2003 film In his monumental study of Philo of Alexandria (1947),
Masked and Anonymous , which Dylan helped write and Harry A. Wolfson argued that the philosophical method
in which he appears as an actor and musical performer. developed by Philo, in which Greek philosophy and
Scripture are combined, served as the model for Christian,
The University of North Carolina Press Jewish and Islamic thinkers until the time of Spinoza. This
book, through an examination of the thought of Philo,
BEYOND THE CROSSROADS Maimonides and Aquinas, confirms Wolfson’s thesis.
The Devil and the Blues Tradition
Broadview Press
Adam Gussow
BRINGING BIOLOGY TO LIFE
Oct 2017 416pp, 6 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology
9781469633664 Paperback $29.95
New Directions in Southern Studies Mahesh Ananth

In this groundbreaking study, Adam Gussow takes the Oct 2017 300pp
full measure of the devil’s presence in the blues. Working 9781551119908 Paperback $34.95
from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings
released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores For full details of this title, see page 43.
the varied uses to which black southern blues people
have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also MORE PRECISELY
empowering figure. The Math You Need to Do Philosophy,
Second Edition
THEATRE
Eric Steinhart
Southern Illinois University Press
Oct 2017 248pp
ADAPTURGY 9781554813452 Paperback $24.95
The Dramaturg’s Art and Theatrical
Adaptation It is impossible to fully understand much of the most
important work in contemporary philosophy without a
Jane Barnette basic grasp of set theory, functions, probability, decision
theory, and modality. More Precisely is written for people
Nov 2017 264pp, 10 illustrations who wish to engage with contemporary philosophical
9780809336272 Paperback $40.00 writing but first need to fill gaps in their technical
knowledge.
Dramaturg Jane Barnette has put together an essential
guide for theatre scholars and practitioners seeking to
understand and participate in the process of adaptation
for the stage. Employing the term “adapturgy”, Barnette
redefines the dramaturg’s role and thoroughly refutes
the commonplace point of view that adapted works are
somehow less creative than “original” plays.

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P hilosophy

The Catholic University of America Press THE THINGS THAT MATTER
Essays Inspired by the Later Work of
AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALISM Jacques Maritain

Juan Manuel Burgos Edited by Heidi M. Geibel

Feb 2018 288pp Feb 2018 296pp
9780813229874 Paperback $34.95 9780997220506 Paperback £37.50 / € 43.00 / $34.95

Much has been written about the great personalist Comprised of original essays by twenty English-speaking
philosophers of the 20th century, but few books cover Thomists on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of
the personalist movement as a whole. An Introduction Jacques Maritain’s Untrammeled Approaches first English
to Personalism fills that gap, and presents an engaging appearance, this volume explores several of Maritain’s
anthropological vision capable of taking the lead in the still-untrammeled (or at least less-trammeled) themes.
debate about the meaning of human existence and of While following his unbeaten paths, the contributing
winning hearts and minds for the cause of the dignity of authors find and refine hidden treasures at every turn.
every person.
American Maritain Association Publications

HEIDEGGER’S QUESTION OF BEING The University of Georgia Press
Dasein, Truth, and History
THE FATE OF TRANSCENDENTALISM
Edited by Holger Zaborowski Secularity, Materiality, and Human
Flourishing
Oct 2017 277pp
9780813229546 Hardback $75.00 Bruce A. Ronda
Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
Oct 2017 256pp
The contributions to this volume, written by leading 9780820351247 Hardback $64.95
scholars in the field of Heidegger research, offer close
readings of Heidegger’s texts and provide sound Examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of
orientation in the field of contemporary Heidegger research. American transcendentalism and shows the movement’s
They show how the different trajectories of Heidegger’s influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and
thought all converge at one point: the question of Being. artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the
creative outpouring it produced. Bruce A. Ronda offers
THE MODERN TURN an account of the movement as an early example of the
secular turn in American culture.
Edited by Michael Rohlf

Dec 2017 344pp
9780813230054 Hardback $75.00
Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 60

What is the modern turn in philosophy? In other words,
what are the features that make modern philosophy
distinctively “modern” in contrast with the pre-modern
philosophy from which it emerged? The twelve essays in
this volume seek to address this question, and in doing
so, exemplify and contribute to a rich debate about the
nature and value of modern philosophy.

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PHILOSOPHY
88 Politics & International Relations

Marquette University Press POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
LATE ANNOUNCEMENT
UNSETTLED BOUNDARIES Brookings Institution Press
Philosophy, Art, Ethics East/West
ARAB POLITICS BEYOND THE UPRISINGS
Edited by Curtis L. Carter Experiments in an Era of Resurgent
Authoritarianism
May 2017 179pp, illustrations
9781626006089 Paperback $20.00 Edited by Thanassis Cambanis & Michael Wahid Hanna
Marquette Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 89
Jul 2017 560pp
Presents contemporary reflections of Chinese and Western 9780870785474 Paperback $34.99
philosophers who explore issues of common interest in
aesthetics focused on interrelations of philosophy, art and In this volume, researchers, scholars, and active
ethics East/West. Chinese authors connect knowledge participants explore political initiatives in therealms of
of western philosophical aesthetics to grounding in their media, artists’ collectives, rebel enclaves, neighborhood
own Chinese traditions. Western aestheticians explore councils, fledgling citizen campaigns, and elsewhere.
common ground between western and eastern aesthetics. With rich ethnographic detail, these studies pay special
attention to regional dynamics, cross-border learning, and
University Press of Mississippi the intellectual history of ideas central to the uprisings.

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PHILOSOPHY BEYOND NATO
A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe
Edited by Jeff McLaughlin
Michael E. O’Hanlon
Sep 2017 240pp
9781496813275 Hardback $65.00 Aug 2017 160pp
9780815732570 Paperback $14.99
For full details of this title, see page 76. The Marshall Papers

Northwestern University Press Argues that now is the time for Western nations
to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and
HEGEL AND SPINOZA reduce the risks of war with Russia. Michael O’Hanlon
Substance and Negativity believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core
concept of this new security architecture would be one
Gregor Moder of permanent neutrality.

Jul 2017 176pp, 27 images BLIND SPOT
9780810135420 Hardback $99.95 America and the Palestinians, from Balfour
Diaeresis to Obama

Contemporary materialist philosophy is either Spinozist Khaled Elgindy
or Hegelian. Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity
both traces the historical elements of the alternatives Oct 2017 333pp
and explains contemporary discussions as its variation, 9780815731559 Hardback $25.99
persuasively demonstrating throughout that the best
way to read Hegel and Spinoza is not in opposition or The US government and Palestinian leaders have had
contrast, but together: as Hegel and Spinoza. some form of direct contact for nearly four decades - and
cooperation on economic, political, and security issues for
the past two-plus decades-but that experience has never
led to a genuine bilateral relationship. This book explains
why the two sides have an independent relationship and
what this means for American efforts to broker peace.

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Politics & International Relations 89

THE EAGLE AND THE TRIDENT MILITANTS, CRIMINALS, AND WARLORDS
U.S.-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age
of Disorder
Steven Pifer
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Shadi Hamid & Harold Trinkunas
Aug 2017 366pp
9780815730408 Hardback $29.99 Nov 2017 277pp
9780815731894 Hardback $34.99
Provides the first detailed account of US diplomacy
toward independent Ukraine, covering the formative Geopolitics in the 21st Century
dozen years following the collapse of the Soviet Union at
the end of 1991. Steven Pifer, who worked on US Ukraine Takes the reader around the world to areas where national
relations at the State Department and the White House governance has broken down - or never really existed. In
and as ambassador to Ukraine, has written an insider’s these places, the vacuum has been filled by local gangs,
narrative of the ups and downs in the relationship. militias, and warlords, some with ideological or political
agendas and others focused primarily on economic gain.

END GAME RUSSIA IN DECLINE
Does Israel Have a Plan?
Edited by S. Enders Wimbush & Elizabeth M. Portale
Natan Sachs Foreword by Paul A. Goble

Dec 2017 266pp Jul 2017 200pp
9780815731573 Hardback $27.99 9780998666006 Paperback $24.95

Attempts to solve the puzzle of why the Israeli strategic Russia is in precipitous decline, which is unlikely to be
vision seems so elusive to many foreigners and Israelis reversed. This conclusion, based on the research of Russian
alike. It explores how Israelis’ beliefs about their future are and American experts, constitutes the bottom line of The
formed and how their visions are translated into policy, Jamestown Foundation’s project, Russia in Decline. Moreover,
focusing on three factors in depth: the role of security the tempo of Russia’s decay is accelerating across virtually
concerns, ideology, and domestic political constraints every fragment of its politics, economy, society and military.
that combine to shape Israel’s strategic posture.
SOVEREIGNTY REIMAGINED
THE FUTURE OF ISIS America and the World
Regional and International Implications
Stewart Patrick
Edited by Sumit Ganguly & Feisal A.R. al-Istrabadi
Sep 2017 330pp
Nov 2017 300pp 9780815731597 Hardback $29.99
9780815732167 Paperback $45.99
A look at rotecting sovereignty while advancing
The Islamic State has been active for less than a decade, American interests in the global age. Sovereignty
but it has already been the subject of numerous histories Reimagined is intended to help today’s policymakers
and academic studies - all focusing primarily on the past. think more clearly about what is actually at stake in
The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead: the sovereignty debate and to provide some criteria for
what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near determining when it is appropriate to make bargains
term, and what can the global community, including the over sovereignty-and how to make them.
United States, do to counter it?
TACKLING TRANSNATIONAL THREATS
NEW IN PAPERBACK States, Markets, and Citizens, and the Case for
Hybrid Governance
JFK’S FORGOTTEN CRISIS
Bruce D. Jones
Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
Sep 2017 160pp
Bruce Riedel 9780815732488 Paperback $14.99

Sep 2017 177pp Critical global issues, such as climate change and
9780815731634 Paperback $16.99 terrorism, require innovative solutions. Can civil society
and political leadership be linked across nations to
For full details of this title, see page 61. address these scourges? Bruce Jones offers a solution
that harnesses the power of centralized states and their
citizenry to form a hybrid governance system to tackle
the transnational issues confronting the globe today.

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90 Politics & International Relations

THE NEW AUTOCRACY TURKEY AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS
Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia
Edited by Sasha Toperich & Aylin Unver Noi
Edited by Daniel Treisman
Sep 2017 400pp
Oct 2017 316pp 9780990772125 Paperback $35.00
9780815732433 Paperback $35.99
The worthy goal of developing good relations with its
The result of a two-year collaboration between Russian neighbours presents Turkey with a number of challenges.
experts and Western political scholars, this volume explores This volume sheds more light on the past, present, and
the complex roles of Russia’s presidency, security services, future of Turkish relations with its transatlantic partners,
parliament, media and other actors. The authors argue focusing on history, the impact of current developments
that Putin has created an “informational autocracy,” affecting Turkey and its neighbours, and Turkish
which relies more on media manipulation than on the domestic and foreign policies.
comprehensive repression of traditional dictatorships.
WORDS THAT MATTER
THE TERRORIST ARGUMENT How the News and Social Media Shaped the
Studies of Modern Advocacy and Propaganda 2016 Presidential Campaign

Christopher C. Harmon & Randall G. Bowdish Leticia Bode et al

Oct 2017 325pp Jan 2018 200pp
9780815732181 Paperback $35.99 9780815731917 Hardback $25.99

Propaganda used by terrorists and armed groups might Assesses how the news media covered the extraordinary
not always be the most sophisticated or nuanced form of 2016 US presidential election and, more important, what
rhetoric, but with the right mix of emotion and logic it can information - true, false, or somewhere in between -
be extremely effective. This book examines how terrorist actually helped voters make up their minds. The evidence
groups in recent history have used propaganda, and how uncovered shows how Donald Trump’s victory, and
they have adapted to new communications technologies Hillary Clinton’s loss, resulted in large part from how the
while retaining useful techniques from the past. news media responded to these two unique candidates.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED Chatham House
TURKEY AND THE WEST
Faultlines in a Troubled Alliance ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Kemal Kirisci Jacob Parakilas et al

Jul 2017 200pp Oct 2017 60pp
9780815730002 Hardback $29.99 9781784132125 Paperback $15.00

Geopolitics in the 21st Century For full details of this title, see page 17.

Argues that domestic and regional realities are now HEAT, LIGHT, AND POWER FOR REFUGEES
edging Turkey toward improving its relations with the Saving Lives, Reducing Costs
West. A better understanding of these developments
will be critical in devising an updated US strategy Glada Lahn & Owen Grafham
toward Turkey and its neighborhood. This book
discusses the challenges and opportunities for the new Sep 2017 72pp
US administration of re-engaging with a sometimes- 9781784130954 Paperback $15.00
troublesome, yet long-time ally.
The Moving Energy Initiative’s flagship report, Heat,
Light, and Power for Refugees: Saving Lives, Reducing Costs,
investigates the current state of energy use among the
forcibly displaced. Using a purpose-built model, the
study provides the first-ever global estimates of energy
use among forcibly displaced people, and the costs
incurred for using this energy.

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Politics & International Relations

The Chinese University Press McFarland

HOW THE RED SUN ROSE CLASSIFIED
The Origin and Development of the Yanan A History of Secrecy in the United States
Rectification Movement, 1930-1945 Government

Gao Hua David B. Frost

Aug 2017 800pp Aug 2017 158pp
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Offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and For full details of this title, see page 62.
consequences of the Yan’an Rectification Movement from
1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign TERRORISM WORLDWIDE, 2016
emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Soviet-
infleunced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it Edward Mickolus
for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949.
Sep 2017 276pp
9781476671550 Paperback $49.95

For full details of this title, see page 66.

ISEAS Publishing University of Pittsburgh Press

FRANCE AND SINGAPORE NATIONALISM IN CENTRAL ASIA
Strategic Partners in a Fast-Changing World A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan
Boundary
Francois Hollande
Nick Megoran
Jul 2017 37pp
9789814786164 Paperback £16.50 / €18.00 $16.90 Aug 2017 368pp
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The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide an Central Eurasia in Context
opportunity for distinguished statesmen and leaders of
thought and knowledge to reach a wider audience in Explores the process of building independent nation-
Singapore. The 40th Singapore Lecture was delivered by states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the
François Hollande, President of the French Republic, on boundary between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, using a
27 March 2017 under the Chairmanship of Mr Tharman combination of political, historical, ethnographic, and
Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore. geographic frames to shed new light on this process.

MUDDY BOOTS AND SMART SUITS
Researching Asia-Pacific Affairs

Nicholas Farrelly, Amy King, Michael Wesley & Hugh White

Jul 2017 230pp
9789814459785 Paperback $29.90

From grassroots conflicts to great power relations, this
book explores some of the key concepts, methodologies,
and dilemmas of researching Asia-Pacific affairs. Muddy
Boots and Smart Suits is for students, scholars, and
policymakers in the region looking for a new way to
understand local, regional, and global security challenges.

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Potomac Books Texas A&M University Press

RUSSIA’S DEAD END COLUMNS TO CHARACTERS
An Insider’s Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age

Andrei A. Kovalev Peter Baker et al

Translated by Steven I. Levine Edited by Stephanie A. Martin

Foreword by Peter Reddaway Nov 2017 288pp, 5 tables, 6 graphs
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Aug 2017 392pp, 1 map, 1 table
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Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, Offers a fresh perspective on how the evolution of
knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin - such technology affects the way presidents interact with
is the environment in which Andreï A. Kovalev lived and the public. From Bill Clinton’s saxophone playing on
worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat the Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama’s skillful use of
serving in various key capacities and as a member of YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit as the first “social media
Mikhail Gorbachev’s staff, Kovalev reveals hard truths president”, political communication appears to reflect
about his country as only a perceptive witness can do. the increasing fragmentation of the American public.

Syracuse University Press United Nations Publications

FROM RICE FIELDS TO KILLING FIELDS BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS
Nature, Life and Labor under the Khmer Rouge 42nd Edition

James A. Tyner United Nations, Department of Public Information

Sep 2017 288pp, 9 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography Jun 2017 296pp
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Provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation This comprehensive handbook explains the structure of
of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. the United Nations, how the Organization works, the
Tyner argues that Cambodia’s mass violence was the main issues it addresses and its importance for people
consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia everywhere. In addition to setting out the various roles
of a few tyrannical leaders but of the structural violence, played by principle UN organs, this book documents
the direct result of a series of political and economic the Organization’s contributions to international peace,
reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly. economic and social development, human rights, and
international law.

UNITED NATIONS DISARMAMENT
YEARBOOK 2016: PART I
Disarmament Resolutions and Decisions
of the Seventy-first Session of the United
Nations General Assembly

United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs

Jul 2017 324pp
9789211423198 Paperback $50.00

Compiles the disarmament resolutions and decisions of
the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, the
voting patterns in the General Assembly and the First
Committee report and dates of their adoption.

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RELIGION GLORY OF THE LOGOS IN THE FLESH
Saint John Paul’s Theology of the Body
Brookings Institution Press
Michael Maria Waldstein
JOURNEY INTO EUROPE
Islam, Immigration, and Identity Dec 2017 400pp
9781932589764 Paperback $34.95
Akbar Ahmed
Helps readers of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
Dec 2017 600pp enter this masterwork with clearer understanding. Part
9780815727583 Hardback $34.99 One is a map of John Paul’s text. Part Two reflects on the
breadth of reason in Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Physics,
For full details of this title, see page 60. and the Gospel of John. Part Three shows how this
breadth of reason is at work in John Paul’s dialogue with
Thomas Aquinas, John of the Cross, Kant, and Scheler.

Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University

The Catholic University of America Press AN INTRODUCTION TO VATICAN II AS AN
ONGOING THEOLOGICAL EVENT
THE BIBLE AND EARLY TRINITARIAN
THEOLOGY Matthew Levering

Christopher A. Beeley & Mark E. Weedman Sep 2017 277pp
9780813229300 Paperback $24.95
Feb 2018 272pp
9780813229959 Hardback $75.00 Contemporary scholars often refer to “the event of
CUA Studies in Early Christianity 5 Vatican II”, but what kind of an event was it? Matthew
Levering offers an introduction to Vatican II with a
Based on a multi-year consultation in the Society of detailed summary of each of its four central documents
Biblical Literature, The Bible and Early Trinitarian Theology - the dogmatic constitutions - followed by explanations
brings new insights to the relationship between patristic of how to interpret them. Levering also offers a reading
exegesis and current strategies of biblical interpretation, of each conciliar Constitution in light of a key theological
specifically with reference to the doctrine of the Trinity. author from the era.

THE BUSINESS FRANCIS MEANS
Understanding the Pope’s Message on the
Economy

Martin Schlag

Sep 2017 210pp
9780813229737 Paperback $24.95

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.

FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY

Guy Mansini

Jan 2018 304pp
9780813229850 Paperback $24.95

Sacra Doctrina 2

Examines the light by which the mysteries of Christ and
the Church, the Trinity and the Sacraments, are revealed
to us. That light we call “revelation,” and fundamental
theology examines in the first place what this light
shows about itself, and how it is sustained in the world.

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THE CLEANSING OF THE HEART THE LIGHT OF CHRIST
The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the An Introduction to Christianity
Thomistic Tradition
Thomas Joseph White
Reginald Lynch
Sep 2017 328pp
Aug 2017 277pp 9780813229713 Paperback $19.95
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Thomistic Ressourcement Series Provides an accessible presentation of Catholicism that
is grounded in traditional theology, but engaged with a
Provides the historical context for understanding the host of contemporary questions or objections. Inspired
development of sacramental causality as a theological by the theologies of Iranaeus, Thomas Aquinas and John
topic in the scholastic period, emphasizing the unique Henry Newman, and rooted in a post-Vatican II context,
features of Aquinas’ response to this question. Following Fr. Thomas Joseph White presents major doctrines of
this, relevant texts from Aquinas’ early and later work are the Christian religion in a way that is comprehensible for
examined, noting Aquinas’ development and integration non-specialists.
of the idea of sacramental causality in his later work.
THE THREE DYNAMISMS OF FAITH
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD Searching for Meaning, Fulfillment, and Truth
A Catholic Biblical Theology of God’s Temple
Presence in the Old and New Testaments Louis Roy

Steven Smith Dec 2017 256pp
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Aug 2017 277pp
9780996930543 Hardback $60.00 Taking account of the widespread indifference,
scepticism, and distrust of organised religion in the
Invites readers to participate in a unique journey: a West, Louis Roy begins The Three Dynamisms of Faith
deep exploration of the Old and New Testaments that with the human concern about hope and about a
searches out and contemplates the reality of God’s reachable happiness, both in our contemporary world
presence with his people, with a particular focus on and in the Bible. He then traces these themes in three
investigating God’s self-revelation in and through the historic giants of Christian thinking: Thomas Aquinas,
biblical temple. The journey represents a tour de force of John Henry Newman, and Bernard Lonergan.
biblical theology, guided by author Steven Smith.
THOMAS AQUINAS
Franciscan University Press A Historical and Philosophical Profile

THE INCARNATE LORD Pasquale Porro
A Thomistic Study in Christology Translated by Joseph G. Trabbic & Roger W. Nutt

Thomas Joseph White May 2017 400pp
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May 2017 552pp
9780813230092 Paperback $34.95 Reflecting the highest standards of philological
and textual scholarship accompanied by judicious
Considers central themes in Christology from a philosophic analysis, Pasquale Porro explores the
metaphysical perspective. Particular attention is given philosophical issues in each of Thomas Aquinas’
to the hypostatic union, the two natures of Christ, the writings, which he interprets within the parameters
knowledge and obedience of Jesus, the passion and of the temporal circumstances and institutional
death of Christ, his descent into hell, and resurrection. imperatives of their composition and in respect of the
A central concern is to argue for the importance of authoritative texts that Thomas encountered.
ontological principles of Christology inherited from
patristic and scholastic authors.

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ISI Books THE JPS RASHI DISCUSSION TORAH
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In this fascinating new book, Paul Kengor tells the JPS Rashi Discussion Torah Commentary, his commentary
untold story of the partnership between Pope John Paul on the Torah - regarded as the most authoritative of all
II and President Ronald Reagan and how together they Torah commentaries - is finally accessible to the entire
changed the course of world history. Kengor shows Jewish community.
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University Press of Mississippi SOCIAL STUDIES

NEW IN PAPERBACK Canadian Scholars’ Press

A CHARLIE BROWN RELIGION REIMAGINING ANTI-OPPRESSION SOCIAL
WORK PRACTICE
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of
Charles M. Schulz Edited by Samantha Wehbi & Henry Parada

Stephen J. Lind Aug 2017 220pp
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Oct 2017 308pp
9781496814678 Paperback $20.00 Demonstrates the transformative potential of inclusive
practices, such as in Indigenous practice principles, through
Great Comics Artists Series examples of anti-oppression work with marginalized
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Based on new archival research and original interviews approaches more strongly combat a diversity of social
with Charles M. Schulz’s family, friends, and colleagues, issues, including anti-Black sanism, discrimination against
author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of queer populations, and children and youth injustices.
the life and work of the great comic strip artist. Previously
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.

The University of North Carolina Press REIMAGINING ANTI-OPPRESSION SOCIAL
WORK RESEARCH
RELIGION AS CRITIQUE
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fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common experiences within the field.
views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad
delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic The University of Georgia Press
culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions.

Purdue University Press MAKING BLACK HISTORY
The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of
OLAM HE-ZEH V’OLAM HA-BA Jim Crow
This World and the World to Come in Jewish
Belief and Practice Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon Feb 2018 264pp 7 black & white images
9780820352831 Paperback $26.95
Sep 2017 275pp
9781557537928 Paperback $35.00 In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools,
Studies in Jewish Civilization, Vol. 28 and newspapers, African Americans also had their own
history. Making Black History focuses on the engine
Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating behind the early black history movement, Carter G.
the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life
the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account and History (ASNLH).
of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and
structured their lives in this world accordingly.

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THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IN A University Press of Mississippi
CITY NEAR YOU
ANYWHERE BUT HERE
Edited by Judson L. Jeffries Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World
and Beyond
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known organisation to emerge from the 1960s Black
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Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. eighteenth century. The book embraces historian Paul
Gilroy’s prominent thesis in The Black Atlantic: Modernity and
THE PRIORITY OF INJUSTICE Double-Consciousness and posits arguments beyond The
Locating Democracy in Critical Theory Black Atlantic’s traditional organisation and symbolism.

Clive Barnett BLASIAN INVASION
Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex
Nov 2017 360pp
9780820351520 Paperback $28.95 Myra S. Washington
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series, Vol. 36
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of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various
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importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian
contemporary political change. ancestry. Myra S. Washington looks at the construction of
the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being
HSRC Press undefined to forming a significant role in popular media.
Washington tracks the transformation of Blasian from
PHILANTHROPY IN SOUTH AFRICA being an unmentioned category to a recognised status.
Horizontality, Ubuntu and Social Justice
CONNECTING CHILDHOOD AND OLD AGE
Edited by Shauna Mottiar IN POPULAR MEDIA

Jun 2017 224pp Edited by Vanessa Joosen
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Jan 2018 240pp
Dominant narratives of philanthropy often portray Africans 9781496815163 Hardback $65.00
as mere recipients of aid, usually from well endowed,
Western almoners - the West distributing charity to With populations aging all around the world, awareness
impecunious Africans. The contributors to this volume of intergenerational relationships and associations
turn this argument on its head and ask: what about the surrounding old age is becoming urgent. Connecting
beneficent spirit of multitudes of Africans whose acts of Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media caters to this
generosity sustain millions of their compatriots? urgency and contributes to age literacy by supplying
insights into the connection between childhood and
senescence to show that people are aged by culture.

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DREAM AND LEGACY University of Nebraska Press
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
AMERICA’S DIGITAL ARMY
Edited by Michael L. Clemons, Donathan L. Brown & Games at Work and War
William H. L. Dorsey
Robertson Allen
Jul 2017 208pp
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Examines how Martin Luther King’s life and work had Anthropology of Contemporary North America
a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of
the United States since the civil rights era. With unique, Provides an ethnographic study of the link between
multidisciplinary works by scholars from around the interactive entertainment and military power, drawing
US, these pieces explore wide-ranging issues and on Robertson Allen’s fieldwork observing video game
contemporary social developments through the lens of developers, military strategists, US Army marketing
Dr. King’s perceptions, analysis, and prescriptions. agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies
that worked to produce the official US Army video game,
PRISON POWER America’s Army.
How Prison Influenced the Movement for
Black Liberation SCIENCE, SEXUALITY, AND RACE IN THE
UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA,
Lisa M. Corrigan 1780-1940
Revised Edition
Oct 2017 210pp
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In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged 9780803295919 Paperback $35.00
as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource.
Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to Examines the entwined formation of racial theory
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how imprisonment - a site for both political and personal US and Australia. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the
transformation - shaped movement leaders by influencing dissemination and application of scientific and social-
their political analysis and organisational strategies. scientific ideas within the process of nation building and
shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality
were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples.