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The Two-Parent
Privilege
How Americans Stopped Getting
Married and Started Falling Behind
Melissa S. Kearney
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates
are driving many of the country’s biggest economic
problems.

In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provoca-

tive, data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution’s
decline has led to a host of economic woes. Eschewing the religious
and values-based arguments that have long dominated this con- SEPTEMBER
versation, Kearney shows how the greatest impacts of marriage 240 p. 18 line drawings, 1 table 6 x 9

are, in fact, economic: when two adults marry, their economic and ISBN-13: 9780226817781
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household lives improve, offering a host of benefits not only for the
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married adults but for their children. Studies show that these effects
are today starker, and more unevenly distributed, than ever before.
Based on more than a decade of economic research, including
her original work, Kearney shows that a household that includes two
married parents—holding steady among upper-class adults, increas-
ingly rare among most everyone else—functions as an economic
vehicle that advantages some children over others. As these trends
of marriage and class continue, the compounding effects on inequal-
ity and opportunity grow increasingly dire. Their effects include not
just children’s behavioral and educational outcomes, but a surpris-
ingly devastating effect on adult men, whose role in the workforce
and society appears intractably damaged by the emerging economics
of America’s new social norms.
For many, the two-parent home may be an old-fashioned symbol
of the idyllic American dream. But The Two-Parent Privilege makes it
clear that marriage, for all its challenges and faults, may be our best
path to a more equitable future. By confronting the critical role that
family makeup plays in shaping children’s lives and futures, Kearney
offers a critical assessment of what a decline in marriage means for
an economy and a society—and what we must do to change course.

Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the

University of Maryland, Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group,
a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a
nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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The Accidental
Equalizer
How Luck Determines Pay
after College
Jessi Streib
A startling discovery—that job market success after
college is largely random—forces a reappraisal of
education, opportunity, and the American dream.

As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college degree is viewed

by many as America’s great equalizer. And it’s true: wealthier, more
connected, and seemingly better-qualified students earn exactly
the same pay as their less privileged peers. Yet, the reasons why NOVEMBER
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just be dumb luck. That’s what sociologist Jessi Streib proposes in ISBN-13: 9780226829319
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The Accidental Equalizer, a conclusion she reaches after interviewing
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dozens of hiring agents and job-seeking graduates.
Streib finds that luck shapes the hiring process from start to fin-
ish in a way that limits class privilege in the job market. Employers
hide information about how to get ahead and force students to guess
which jobs pay the most and how best to obtain them. Without clear
routes to success, graduates from all class backgrounds face the
same odds at high pay. The Accidental Equalizer is a frank appraisal
of how this “luckocracy” works and its implications for the future of
higher education and the middle class. Although this system is far
from eliminating American inequality, Streib shows that it may just
be the best opportunity structure we have—for better and for worse.

Jessi Streib is associate professor of sociology at Duke University. She is

the author of two books, including Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper-
Middle-Class and How They Fall.

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The Black Ceiling

How Race Still Matters in the
Elite Workplace
Kevin Woodson
A revelatory assessment of workplace inequality in
high-status jobs that focuses on a new explanation for
a pernicious problem: racial discomfort.

America’s elite law firms, investment banks, and management

consulting firms are known for grueling hours, low odds of promo-
tion, and personnel practices that push out any employees who don’t
advance. While most people who begin their careers in these insti-
tutions leave within several years, work there is especially difficult
for Black professionals, who exit more quickly and receive far fewer
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promotions than their white counterparts, hitting a “black ceiling.”
232 p. 3 line drawings, 1 table 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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tigious firms, Woodson discovers that their biggest obstacle in the

workplace isn’t explicit bias, but racial discomfort or the unease Black
employees feel in workplaces that are steeped in whiteness. He iden-
tifies two types of racial discomfort: social alienation, the isolation
stemming from the cultural exclusion Black professionals experi-
ence in white spaces, and stigma anxiety, the trepidation they feel
over the risk of discriminatory treatment. While racial discomfort
is caused by America’s segregated social structures, it can exist even
in the absence of racial discrimination, pointing out the inadequacy
of the unconscious bias training now prevalent in corporate work-
places. Firms must do more than prevent discrimination, Woodson
explains, outlining the steps that firms and Black professionals can
take to ease racial discomfort.
Offering a new perspective on a pressing social issue, The Black
Ceiling is a vital resource for leaders at preeminent firms, Black
professionals and students, managers within mostly white organiza-
tions, and anyone committed to cultivating diverse workplaces.

Kevin Woodson is a sociologist and former attorney. Now a professor of

law at the University of Richmond School of Law, he previously worked as
an associate at the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP.

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Wasted Education
How We Fail Our Graduates in
Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Math
John D. Skrentny
An urgent reality check for America’s blinkered
fixation on STEM education.

We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies

dominate American enterprise and economic growth while com-
plaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific solutions to
impending crises. As a society, we have poured enormous resources—
including billions of dollars—into cultivating young minds for well-
paid STEM careers. Yet despite it all, we are facing a worker exodus,
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with as many as 70% of STEM graduates opting out of STEM work. 256 p. 7 halftones 6 x 9
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Wasted Education reveals how STEM work drives away bright
graduates as a result of “burn and churn” management practices,
lack of job security, constant training for a neverending stream of
new—and often socially harmful—technologies, and the exclusion
of women, people of color, and older workers. Wasted Education
shows that if we have any hope of improving the return on our STEM
education investments, we have to change the way we’re treating the
workers on whom our future depends.

John D. Skrentny is professor of sociology at the University of California,

San Diego.

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Sins of the Shovel

Looting, Murder, and the
Evolution of American
Archaeology
Rachel Morgan
An incisive history of early American archaeology—
from reckless looting to professional science—and the
field’s unfinished efforts to make amends today.

American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business

proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill
and socialites-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill
had stumbled upon Mesa Verde’s spectacular cliff dwellings and
started selling artifacts, but with the Hydes’ money behind him, NOVEMBER
well—there’s no telling what they might discover. Thus begins the 312 p. 10 halftones 6 x 9
Hyde Exploring Expedition, a nine-year venture into Utah’s Grand ISBN-13: 9780226822389

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less-restrained looters—so devastates Indigenous cultural sites
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across the American Southwest that Congress passes first-of-their-
kind regulations to stop the carnage. As the money dries up, ten-
sions rise, and a once-profitable enterprise disintegrates, setting
the stage for a tragic murder.
Sins of the Shovel is a story of adventure and business gone wrong
and how archaeologists today grapple with this complex heritage.
Through the story of the Hyde Exploring Expedition, practicing
archaeologist Rachel Morgan uncovers the uncomfortable links
between commodity culture, contemporary ethics, and the broader
political forces that perpetuate destructive behavior today. The
result is an unsparing and even-handed assessment of American
archaeology’s sins, past and present, and how the field is working
toward atonement.

Rachel Morgan is an archeologist working in the southeastern United

States. She has published widely about historical archaeology and material
culture.

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Bird Day
A Story of 24 Hours and
24 Avian Lives
Mark E. Hauber
Illustrated by Tony Angell

An hourly guide that follows twenty-four birds as they

find food, mates, and safety from predators.

From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds
have busy days. In this short book, ornithologist Mark E. Hauber
shows readers exactly how birds spend their time. Each chapter cov- SEPTEMBER
ers a single bird during a single hour, highlighting twenty-four dif- 176 p. 25 halftones 4 3/4 x 6
ferent bird species from around the globe, from the tropics through ISBN-13: 9780226819402
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nightjars hunting at night and kiwis and petrels finding their way NATURE

in the dark. As the sun rises, we witness the beautiful songs of the
“dawn chorus.” At eleven o’clock in the morning, we float alongside a Praise for Mark E. Hauber’s
common pochard, a duck resting with one eye open to avoid pred- Book of Eggs
ators. At eight that evening, we spot a hawk swallowing bats whole,
“Stunning. . . . Sometimes we are
gorging on up to fifteen in rapid succession before retreating into the
oblivious to miraculous objects in
darkness. our daily lives.”—The Guardian
For each chapter, award-winning artist Tony Angell has depicted
these scenes with his signature pen and ink illustrations, which
grow increasingly light and then dark as our bird day passes. Work- Praise for Tony Angell’s
ing closely together to narrate and illustrate these unique moments The House of Owls
in time, Hauber and Angell have created an engaging read that is
a perfect way to spend an hour or two—and a true gift for readers, “Angell writes (and draws) with the
absolute authority of one who has
amateur scientists, and birdwatchers.
studied, rehabilitated, lived with,
and loved the animals his whole
Mark E. Hauber is the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor of Host-Parasite
life.”—Wall Street Journal
Interactions in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illi-
nois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches ornithology. He is the author
of The Book of Eggs, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Tony Angell is the author and illustrator of over a dozen books related to
natural history, including The House of Owls and In the Company of Crows
and Ravens.

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Deep Water
From the Frilled Shark to
the Dumbo Octopus and from
the Continental Shelf to the
Mariana Trench
Riley Black
From celebrated science writer Riley Black, a beautifully
illustrated, compelling deep dive into the life story of
the abyss, its ancient creatures, and the scientists and
submersibles that have documented them. SEPTEMBER
224 p. 100 color plates, 100 halftones 9 1/2 x 11
What lies beneath the surface of the ocean has mystified human- ISBN-13: 9780226827315

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of the Moon than we have of the deep sea. What thrives in these
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mysterious depths, how did these life forms evolve from ancient life,
and how has this environment changed over time as our planet has
developed? Praise for Black

Introducing us to the ancient, complex, and fascinating life “A delight. . . . Be prepared for
forms that have and continue to live in our oceans or have evolved surprises.”—New York Times
into the marine life we recognize today—from stromatolites, struc-
“An affable guide.”—New York Times
tures created by some of the earliest life billions of years ago and
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still found today, to yeti crabs, bioluminescent firefly squid, and gi-
ant jellyfish—Deep Water is an eye-opening journey into the world far “Gorgeously composed. . . . Richly
beneath the waves. Our guide, brilliant science communicator and imagined.”—Wall Street Journal
self-described “fossil fanatic” Riley Black, has studied marine biology
and paleontology, and she brings both her vast knowledge and
inimitable voice to our voyage. Through text and image, Black leads
us further and further into the depths to reveal how this unique and
largely unexplored habitat came into being, what lives there and
why, how it has evolved, and what the future will bring in this dark
and mysterious environment.

Riley Black is the author of numerous books, including Skeleton Keys,

My Beloved Brontosaurus, and, most recently, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs.
She has also written about prehistory for publications from National
Geographic to Nature and is the resident paleontologist for the Jurassic
World franchise. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Whoʼs a Good
Dog?
And How to Be a Better Human
Jessica Pierce
A guide to cultivating a shared life of joy and respect
with our dogs.

Who’s a Good Dog? is an invitation to nurture more thoughtful and

balanced relationships with our canine companions. By deepening
our curiosity about what our dogs are experiencing, and by working
together with them in a spirit of collaboration, we can become more
effective and compassionate caregivers.
With sympathy for the challenges met by both dogs and their
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humans, bioethicist Jessica Pierce explores common practices of 304 p. 3 halftones, 3 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
caring for dogs, including how we provide exercise, what we feed, ISBN-13: 9780226721712
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as collars and leashes. She helps us both to identify potential sources SCIENCE

of fear and anxiety in our dogs’ lives and to expand practices that
provide physical and emotional nourishment. Who’s a Good Dog? also Praise for Pierce
encourages us to think more critically about what we expect of our
dogs and how these expectations can set everyone up for success or “A book that all loving pet owners
should read.”—New Scientist
failure. Pierce offers resources to help us cultivate attentiveness and
kindness, inspiring us to practice the art of noticing, of astonish- “There is of course so, so much
ment, of looking with fresh eyes at these beings we think we know more to enrichment for pets; I’d
so well. And more than this, she makes her findings relatable by ex- recommend starting with Pierce’s
amining facets of her relationship with Bella, the dog in her life. As book if you want to know more.”
Bella shows throughout, all dogs are good dogs, and we, as humans —New York Magazine
and dog guardians, could be doing a little bit better to get along with
them and give them what they need.

Jessica Pierce is an internationally acclaimed bioethicist. Her work spans

from broad considerations of human responsibilities for nature to detailed
explorations of human-animal relationships. She has published eleven
books, including The Last Walk: Reflections On Our Pets At the End of Their
Lives, and Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, both also published by
the University of Chicago Press. Her essays have appeared in the New York
Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Scientific American. Pierce is a faculty
affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of
Colorado Anschutz Medical School. She lives in the Colorado Rockies.

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Beautiful
Experiments
An Illustrated History of
Experimental Science
Philip Ball
Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the
craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experi-
ments it documents.

This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a

celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers
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have used throughout the ages to study—and to change—the world.
240 p. 200 color plates 7 1/2 x 9 3/4
Here we see in intricate detail experiments that have, in some way ISBN-13: 9780226825823
or another, exhibited elegance and beauty: in their design, their con- Cloth $35.00/£25.00
ception, and their execution. Celebrated science writer Philip Ball SCIENCE

invites readers to marvel at and admire the craftsmanship of scien-

tific instruments and apparatus on display, from the earliest micro- Praise for Ball
scopes to the giant particle colliders of today. With Ball as our expert
guide, we are encouraged to think carefully about what experiments “Ball is lucid and interesting on every
are, what they mean, and how they are used. Ranging across millen- topic he touches.”—New Yorker

nia and geographies, Beautiful Experiments not only demonstrates

why “experiment” remains a contested notion in how the work of
science is done, but also explains how we came to understand how
the world functions, what it contains, and where the pursuit of that
understanding has brought us today.

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster whose many books on the
interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider culture include Bright
Earth, Curiosity, Patterns in Nature, How to Grow a Human, The Modern
Myths, The Elements, and, most recently, The Book of Minds, all also pub-
lished by the University of Chicago Press. His book Critical Mass won the
2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the
Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the
history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at
the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and
he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.

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How Life Works

A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Philip Ball
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise
our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it,
and what possibilities it offers.

Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Sev-

eral aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of
the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an
organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of
cells as entities with fixed identities, and more—have been exposed
as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.
In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing
life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. NOVEMBER
Ball explains that there is no unique place to look for an answer to 528 p. 92 halftones 6 x 9

this question: life is a system of many levels—genes, proteins, cells, ISBN-13: 9780226826684
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tissues, and body modules such as the immune system and the ner-
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vous system—each with its own rules and principles. How Life Works
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explains how these levels operate, interface, and work together
(most of the time).
Praise for Ball
With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can rede-
sign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms. We can “One of the most engaging contem-
reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into porary science writers.”—Financial
structures not seen in the natural world. As we discover the condi- Times

tions that dictate the forms into which cells organize themselves,
our ability to guide and select the outcomes becomes ever more
extraordinary. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be
able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new
life forms that evolution has never imagined.
Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works
is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the life sciences, a
realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster whose many books on the
interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider culture include Bright
Earth, Curiosity, Patterns in Nature, How to Grow a Human, The Modern
Myths, The Elements, and, most recently, The Book of Minds, all also pub-
lished by the University of Chicago Press. His book Critical Mass won the
2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the
Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the
history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at
the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and
he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.
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Mountains of Fire
The Menace, Meaning, and
Magic of Volcanoes
Clive Oppenheimer
Meeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanol-
ogist decodes their messages for human civilization
and the planet.

In Mountains of Fire, Clive Oppenheimer invites readers to stand

with him in the shadow of an active volcano. Whether he is peering
from the crater’s edge, climbing toward the summit, or hunting for
the far-flung deposits of Earth’s greatest eruptions, Oppenheimer
is an ideal guide, offering readers the chance to tag along on the
daring, seemingly-impossible journeys of a volcanologist.
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In his eventful career as a volcanologist and filmmaker, Oppen-
352 p. 20 color plates, 15 halftones 6 x 9
heimer has studied volcanoes around the world. He has worked with ISBN-13: 9780226826349
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sung in national anthems on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone. SCIENCE

He has ventured through Chad to the Tibesti Mountains to study the COBE/EU

fabled Tiéroko volcano. He has voyaged south to the hottest place

on the coldest continent, studying gases emitted from Antarctica’s Praise for Eruptions that Shook the
Mount Erebus. World:

Mountains of Fire reveals how volcanic activity is entangled “I have to thank God on my knees
with our climate and environment, as well as our economy, politics, that Oppenheimer’s book did not
culture, and beliefs. These adventures and investigations make clear exist at the time I made my decision
the dual purpose of volcanology—both to understand volcanoes to become a filmmaker. I might
for science’s sake and to serve the communities endangered and have become a volcanologist
entranced by these mountains of fire. instead.”—Werner Herzog

Clive Oppenheimer is a volcanologist and filmmaker who has conducted

fieldwork around the world. He is professor of volcanology at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge. He is the author of Eruptions that Shook the World, and
he has made two documentary features with legendary filmmaker Werner
Herzog, Into the Inferno and Fireball.

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Meetings with
Remarkable
Mushrooms
Forays with Fungi across
Hemispheres
Alison Pouliot
A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers
that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to
understanding our planet’s power and fragility.

What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between
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ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82963-0
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alongside Pouliot, magnifiers in hand, as she travels the world.
With Pouliot as our guide, we smell fire-loving truffles that
“Sensual and scientific. Dazzling
transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them
and boundary-breaking. [Meetings
and, ultimately, spread their spores. We spot the eerie glow of the
with Remarkable Mushrooms] will
ghost fungus, a deceptive entity that looks like an edible oyster make you see the world anew.”
mushroom but will soon heave back out—along with everything else —Long Litt Woon, author of
in your stomach—if you take a bite. And we crawl alongside vege- The Way Through the Woods
table caterpillars, which are neither vegetable nor caterpillar but a
fungus that devours insects from the inside out. “A joy to read.”—Sophie Cunningham,
author of City of Trees
Featuring stunning color photographs of these mycological mir-
acles, Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms shows that understanding
fungi is fundamental for harmonizing with the natural world.

Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and photographer with a passion for fungi.

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The Greater
Perfection
The Story of the Gardens at
Les Quatre Vents
Francis H. Cabot
With Forewords by Marianne Cabot Welch, Laurie Olin,
and Penelope Hobhouse

The story behind the creation of Les Quatre Vents,

one of the world’s most breathtaking public gardens. NOVEMBER
328 p. 99 color plates 9 x 11
As featured in the 2018 film The Gardener, Les Quatre Vents in ISBN-13: 9780226829814
Charlevoix County, Quebec, has been acclaimed as the most aesthet- Cloth $65.00/£52.00

ically satisfying and horticulturally exciting landscape experience GARDENING

in North America. This twenty-acre garden seamlessly combines

traditional elements with original and unexpected touches into a Praise for the first printing
splendid composition that is perfectly compatible with its natural
“Cabot is one of the most interest-
surroundings.
ing figures in American gardening.”
The Greater Perfection, first published in 2001, illustrates the —Washington Post
delights, diversions, and surprises that await visitors. Francis H.
Cabot’s account of his challenges in developing Les Quatre Vents “The evolutions of the land under
different hands interest Cabot
reveals the fascinating process behind the creation of a world-class
almost as much as the evolutions
garden that has become a mecca for horticultural enthusiasts from
he has brought about. Cabot is also
around the globe. Featuring stunning full-color images by five lead-
delightfully candid about the range
ing garden photographers, The Greater Perfection is one of the most of sources that have influenced Les
beautiful books on gardens to appear in years. This new printing Quatre Vents. He is an unabashed
includes a foreword by Marianne Cabot Welch, Cabot’s daughter, that bricoleur.”—Verlyn Klinkenborg,
contextualizes the gardens further and explores how a place rooted New York Times
in the past has evolved to confront our current reality, including the
effects of climate change.

Francis H. Cabot (1925–2011) was an American financier, gardener, and

horticulturist. He founded the non-profit Garden Conservancy in 1989 and
served as Chairman for the New York Botanical Garden.

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A Book of Noises
Notes on the Auraculous
Caspar Henderson
A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape
our world in invisible yet significant ways.

The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl

record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are
just a few of writer Caspar Henderson’s favorite sounds. In A Book of
Noises, Henderson invites readers to use their ears a little better—to
tune in to the world in all its surprising noisiness.
Gathering sounds from around the natural and human world,
the forty-eight essays comprising A Book of Noises are a celebration
of all things “auraculous.” Henderson calls on his characteristic
curiosity to explore sounds related to humans (anthropophony), NOVEMBER
other life (biophony), the planet (geophony), and space (cosmopho- 272 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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our heads. A Book of Noises also explores the marvelous, miraculous
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sounds we may never get the chance to hear, like the deep boom of a
volcano or the quiet, rustling sound of the Northern Lights.
Praise for Henderson
A Book of Noises will teach readers to really listen to the sounds of
the world around them, to broaden and deepen their appreciation of “Magnificent, bravura, beautiful and
the humans, animals, rocks, and trees simultaneously broadcasting astoundingly interesting.”—Sunday
across the whole spectrum of sentience. Times

“Spell-binding, brilliantly executed,

Caspar Henderson is a writer and journalist living in Oxford, England. He
extraordinary.”—Guardian
is the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings and A New Map of Won-
ders, both published by the University of Chicago Press. As a journalist, he
covers topics such as energy, science, environment, and human rights.

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So Much Stuff
How Humans Discovered Tools,
Invented Meaning, and Made
More of Everything
Chip Colwell
How humans became so dependent on things and
how this need has grown dangerously out of control.

Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that
rocks could be broken into sharp-edged objects for slicing meat,
making the first knives. This discovery resulted in a good meal, and
eventually changed the fate of our species and our planet.
With So Much Stuff, archaeologist Chip Colwell sets out to inves-
tigate why humankind went from self-sufficient primates to nonstop NOVEMBER
304 p. 60 halftones 6 x 9
shoppers, from needing nothing to needing everything. Along the
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-80142-1
way, he uncovers spectacular and strange points around the world—
Cloth $29.00/£24.00
an Italian cave with the world’s first known painted art, a Hong Kong SOCIAL SCIENCE
skyscraper where a priestess channels the gods, and a mountain of COBE
trash that rivals the Statue of Liberty. Through these examples, Col-
well shows how humanity took three leaps that led to stuff becoming
inseparable from our lives, inspiring a love affair with things that
may lead to our downfall. Now, as landfills brim and oceans drown
in trash, Colwell issues a timely call to reevaluate our relationship
with the things that both created and threaten to undo our over-
stuffed planet.

Chip Colwell is an archaeologist, former museum curator, and editor-

in-chief of SAPIENS, a digital magazine about anthropological thinking
and discoveries. He is the author and editor of twelve books, including the
award-winning Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim
Native America’s Culture, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Is There God after

Prince?
Dispatches from an Age of
Last Things
Peter Coviello
Essays considering what it means to love art, culture,
and people in an age of accelerating disaster.

This is a book about loving things—books, songs, people—in

the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny,
heart-wrenching essays, Peter Coviello considers pieces of cul-
ture across a fantastic range, setting them inside the vivid scenes
of friendship, dispute, romance, talk, and loss, where they enter OCTOBER
our lives. Alongside him, we reencounter movies like The Shining, 304 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
shows like The Sopranos; videos; poems; novels by Sam Lipsyte, Sally ISBN-13: 9780226828077
Rooney, and Paula Fox; as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Gladys Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
ISBN-13: 9780226828084
Knight, Steely Dan, Pavement, and the much-mourned saint of Min-
Paper $18.00/£15.00
neapolis, Prince.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Navigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls “end-
strickenness,” he asks what it means to love things in calamitous “Coviello—nearly alone among con-
times when so much seems to be shambling toward collapse. Bal- temporary literary critics—joins in
ancing comedy and anger, exhilaration and sorrow, Coviello illumi- the project of his objects, making
nates the strange ways the things we cherish help us to hold on to of them something more wonder-
life and to its turbulent joys. Is There God after Prince? shows us what ful than they would be without his
twenty-first-century criticism can be, and how it might speak to us, attention. We should be so lucky to
in a time of ruin, in an age of “Last Things.” be read by him.”—Jordy Rosenberg,
author of Confessions of the Fox
Peter Coviello is the author of five previous books, including Tomorrow’s
Parties, a finalist for a 2013 Lambda Award in LGBT Studies; Long Players,
a memoir selected as one of Artforum’s Ten Best Books of 2018; and Make
Yourselves Gods, also published by the University of Chicago Press. His
essays have appeared in Frieze, Chicago Review, Los Angeles Review of Books,
Raritan, Elle, and Believer, among other publications. He is professor of
English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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American
Imperialist
Cruelty and Consequence in the
Scramble for Africa
Arwen P. Mohun
This biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey
Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals
how American greed and state power helped shape
the new imperial order in Africa.

Richard Dorsey Mohun spent his career circulating among the east-
ern United States, the cities and courts of Europe, and the African
continent, as he served the US State Department at some points NOVEMBER

and King Leopold of Belgium at others. A freelance imperialist, he 328 p. 17 halftones 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 9780226828190
implemented the schemes of American investors and the Congo
Cloth $30.00/£24.00
Free State alike. Without men like him, Africa’s history might have
HISTORY
unfolded very differently. How did an ordinary son of a Washing-
ton bookseller become the agent of American corporate greed and
European imperial ambition? Why did he choose to act in ways that
ranged from thoughtless and amoral to criminal and unforgivable?
With unblinking clarity and precision, historian Arwen P.
Mohun interrogates the life and actions of her great-grandfather
in American Imperialist. She seeks not to excuse the man known as
Dorsey but to understand how individual ambition and imperial
lust fueled each other, to catastrophic ends. Ultimately, she offers
a nuanced portrait of how her great-grandfather’s pursuit of career
success and financial security for his family came at a tragic cost to
countless Africans.

Arwen P. Mohun is professor of history at the University of Delaware. She

teaches and writes about capitalism, technology, and gender in American
history. Her most recent book is Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society.

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The Lies of the

Land
Seeing Rural America for
What It Is—and Isn’t
Steven Conn
A new history that boldly challenges the idea of a
rural American crisis.

It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped

in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of glorious revival? Is it the
key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we’re
missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says
Conn, who believes we see only what we want to see in the lands OCTOBER
beyond the suburbs—fantasies about moral (or backward) commu- 320 p. 4 halftones 6 x 9
nities, simpler (or repressive) living, and what it means to be authen- ISBN-13: 9780226826905

tically (or wrongheadedly) American. If we want to build a better Cloth $29.00/£24.00

HISTORY
future, Conn argues, we must accept that these visions don’t exist
and never did.
In The Lies of the Land, Conn shows that rural America—so often
characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind—has ac-
tually been at the center of modern American history, shaped by the
same forces as everywhere else in the country: militarization, indus-
trialization, corporatization, and suburbanization. Examining each
of these forces in turn, Conn invites us to dispense with the lies and
half-truths we’ve believed about rural America and to pursue better
solutions to the very real challenges shared all across our nation.

Steven Conn is the W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University

in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of many books, most recently Nothing
Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools.

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Midwestern Food
A Chef’s Guide to the Surprising
History of a Great American
Cuisine, with More Than 100
Tasty Recipes
Paul Fehribach
An acclaimed chef offers a historically informed
cookbook that will change how you think about
Midwestern cuisine.

Celebrated chef Paul Fehribach has made his name serving up

some of the most thoughtful and authentic regional southern
cooking—not in the South, but in Chicago at Big Jones. But over
the last several years, he has been looking to his Indiana roots in SEPTEMBER
the kitchen, while digging deep into the archives to document and 280 p. 13 halftones 7 x 10
record the history and changing foodways of the Midwest. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81949-5
Cloth $27.50/£22.00
Fehribach is as painstaking with his historical research as he is
COOKING
with his culinary execution. In Midwestern Food, he focuses not only
on the past and present of Midwestern foodways but on the diverse
cultural migrations from the Ohio River Valley north- and westward
that have informed them. Drawing on a range of little-explored
sources, he traces the influence of several heritages, especially Ger-
man, and debunks many culinary myths along the way.
The book is also full of Fehribach’s delicious recipes informed
by history and family alike, such as his grandfather’s favorite water-
melon rind pickles; sorghum-pecan sticky rolls; Detroit-style coney
sauce; Duck and manoomin hotdish; pawpaw chiffon pie; straw-
berry pretzel gelatin salad (!); and he breaks the code to the most
famous Midwestern pizza and BBQ styles you can easily reproduce
at home. But it is more than just a cookbook, weaving together his-
torical analysis and personal memoir with profiles of the chefs, pur-
veyors, and farmers who make up the food networks of the greater
Chicago region.
The result is a mouth-watering and surprising Midwestern feast
from farm to plate. Flyover this!

Paul Fehribach is a seven-time James Beard Award semifinalist for Best

Chef: Great Lakes; and owner of the critically acclaimed Chicago restau-
rant, Big Jones. He is the author of The Big Jones Cookbook: Recipes for
Savoring the Heritage of Regional Southern Cooking, also published by the
University of Chicago Press.
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Chicago
Reflected
A Skyline Drawing
from the Chicago River
Ryan Chester
With an Essay by Thomas Dyja

A unique and playful hand-drawn exploration of OCTOBER

the Chicago River’s landscape, documented on an 16 p. 5 halftones 11 x 8

ISBN-13: 9780226828541
eleven-foot-long foldout. Cloth $35.00/£28.00
ARCHITECTURE
In March 2020, architect Ryan Chester began drawing the Chicago
River for at least one hour every day. Using only a simple pen, he
“Chester works at the intersection
moved methodically along a single massive roll of paper. As each
of real and imaginary, of what the
chaotic, isolating day of the Covid pandemic passed, he stayed con- city is and what it can be. . . . It is
nected with his adopted city by carefully documenting by hand the epic and in some ways unsettling,
beautiful intricacies of Chicago’s riverfront architecture, boats, and and that’s what makes it wonderful
bridges. and important.”—Thomas Dyja
As completed, Chester’s original two-foot-high, fifty-five-foot-
long drawing is a unique vision. In addition to dozens of accurately
depicted buildings, Chester included pieces of Chicago’s past, includ-
ing the Union Station Concourse Building that was demolished in
1969 and the immense SS Eastland, which sank in the river in 1915,
killing hundreds of people. Recent architecture is featured as well,
including Studio Gang’s St. Regis Chicago tower and the Bank of
America Tower by Goettsch Partners.
Designed as a single accordion-folded, two-sided image, an essay
booklet, and a printed slipcase, Chicago Reflected is a remarkable,
fun volume that will delight any fan of Chicago, architecture, or art.
Along with an essay by acclaimed writer Thomas Dyja, this book
opens up fresh vistas of the stunning, ever-evolving architectural
landscape that can be found only in Chicago.

Ryan Chester is a practicing architect in Chicago. He teaches at the

University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.

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The Lost Subways

of North America
A Cartographic Guide to the Past,
Present, and What Might Have Been
Jake Berman
A visual exploration of the transit histories of
twenty-three US and Canadian cities.

Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking

universal experience—being stuck in traffic. But things weren’t
always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities
in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate?
The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider
NOVEMBER
this eternal question, with a strikingly visual—and fun—journey 256 p. 107 color plates 8 1/2 x 11
through the past, present, and unbuilt urban transit. Through ISBN-13: 9780226829791
meticulous archival research, cartographer and artist Jake Berman Cloth $35.00/£28.00
successfully plotted maps of the old train networks covering twenty- TRANSPORTATION

three North American metropolises, ranging from New York’s Civil

War-era plan for a steam-powered subway under Fifth Avenue to the
ultramodern automated Vancouver SkyTrain and the thousand-mile
electric railway system of pre-World War II Los Angeles. He takes
us through colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost
ideas for never-built transit, and modern rail systems—drawing us
into the captivating transit histories of US and Canadian cities.
Berman combines vintage styling with modern printing tech-
nology to create a sweeping visual history of North American public
transit and urban development. With more than one hundred orig-
inal maps, accompanied by his essays on each city’s urban devel-
opment, this book comprises a fascinating look at North American
rapid transit systems.

Jake Berman is a cartographer, writer, artist, and lawyer. His work has
been featured in the New Yorker, Vice, Atlas Obscura, and the Guardian.
A native of San Francisco, he now lives in New York City.

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Revised Edition

The Stray
Shopping Carts
of Eastern
North America
A Guide to Field Identification
Julian Montague
A taxonomy we didn’t know we needed for identifying
OCTOBER
and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and 192 p. 250 color plates 6 x 8 1/2
photographer Julian Montague. ISBN-13: 9780226829104
Paper $22.00/£18.00

Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so PHOTOGRAPHY

little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they there?
Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban
explorer.
Thankfully, artist Julian Montague has created a comprehen-
sive and well-documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of
Eastern North America. Spanning the categories of Damaged, Frag-
ment, Plaza Drift, Bus Stop Discard, Plow Crush, and twenty-eight
more, it is a tonic for times defined increasingly by rhetoric and
media and less by the plain objects and facts of the real world. Mon-
tague’s incomparable documentation of this common feature of the
urban landscape helps us see the natural and man-made worlds—
and perhaps even ourselves—anew.
First published in 2006 to great perplexity and acclaim alike,
this refreshed and expanded edition of Montague’s book is both rig-
orous and absurd. Told in an exceedingly dry voice, with full-color
illustrations and photographs throughout, the result is a strangely
compelling vision of how we approach, classify, and understand the
environments around us. A new afterword brings insight into why
this project exists at all.

Julian Montague is an artist, graphic designer, and photographer. He lives

in Buffalo, NY.

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The Book by
OCTOBER
288 p. 200 color plates 8 1/8 x 10 1/2
ISBN-13: 9780226824093

Design
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LITERARY CRITICISM
NSA

The Remarkable Story of the

World’s Greatest Invention
Edited by Philippa Marks
and Stephen Parkin
A richly illustrated look at some of the British
Library’s most beautiful books from around the world.

For centuries across the world, books have been created as objects of
beauty, with bookmakers lavishing great care on their paper, binding
materials, illustrations, and lettering.
The Book by Design, featuring an array of books from the British
Library’s collection, focuses on the sensory experience of holding
and reading these objects. Each selection represents a specific mo-
ment in the development of what we know today as the book—from
scrolls and bound illuminated manuscripts to paperbacks and for-
matted digital information. These range from the seventh century
to the present and include examples from China, Japan, Southeast
Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America, in addition to a
look at book traditions in Africa and Oceania. John James Audubon’s
Birds of America, the works of Chaucer, Russian Futurist books,
limited editions, historic copies of the Qur’an and the Bible, mass-
market paperbacks, and more come together to tell the visual,
tactile, artistic, and cultural history of books.
Expert curators and specialists explore these books from the
perspective of design and manufacturing, original art photographs
offer vivid representations of their textures and materials, and
graphics detail the size and specifications of each book. Offering a
wide-ranging look at the creation and use of books, illustrated with
hundreds of color images, this volume is itself an object of beauty.

Philippa Marks is a curator of bookbindings at the British Library.

Stephen Parkin is a curator of the British Library’s printed heritage
collections, 1450–1600.

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Woven Histories
Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Edited by Lynne Cooke
Richly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable
histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-
century textiles.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke,

Woven Histories offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—
particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of abstraction.
This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators
whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating
the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts. OCTOBER
288 p. 190 color plates 9 1/2 x 11
Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, rooting
ISBN-13: 9780226827292
the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and hand-
Cloth $65.00/£50.00
icrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, ART
Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and others who
sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and
Exhibition schedule
apparel. Over the century, the intersection of textiles and abstraction
engaged artists from Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, ◆ Los Angeles County Museum
Lenore Tawney, and Sheila Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen of Art,
Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose Los Angeles, CA
textile-based works continue to shape this discourse. Including September 17, 2023–January 21, 2024
essays by distinguished art historians as well as reflections from
◆ National Gallery of Art,
contemporary artists, this ambitious project traces the intertwined Washington, DC
histories of textiles and abstraction as vehicles through which March 17–July 28, 2024
artists probe urgent issues of our time.
◆ National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, ON
Lynne Cooke is senior curator of special projects in modern art at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Her work has been published October 24, 2024–March 2, 2025
in Burlington Magazine and Artforum, as well as in numerous exhibition
◆ Museum of Modern Art,
catalogs and books. The catalog for her National Gallery of Art exhibition
New York, NY
Outliers and American Vanguard Art was also copublished by the University
of Chicago Press. Dates to be announced

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The Visual
Elements—
Photography
A Handbook for Communicating
Science and Engineering
Felice C. Frankel
For novice or pro, primary investigator or postdoc, the
essentials for photographing science and technology for
journals, grant applications, and public understanding.

Award-winning photographer Felice C. Frankel, whose work has

graced the covers of Science, Nature, and Scientific American, among The Visual Elements

other publications, offers a quick guide for scientists and engineers

who want to communicate—and better understand—their research OCTOBER
208 p. 283 color plates 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
by creating compelling photographs. Like all the books in the Visual
ISBN-13: 9780226827025
Elements series, this short guide uses engaging examples to train
Paper $20.00/£16.00
researchers to learn visual communication. Distilling her celebrated PHOTOGRAPHY
books and courses to the essentials, Frankel shows scientists and
engineers the importance of thinking visually. When she creates
stunning images of scientific phenomena, she is not only interested
in helping researchers to convey understanding to others in their
research community or to gain media attention, but also in making Forthcoming in
these experts themselves “look longer” to understand more fully. Spring 2024:
Ideal for researchers who want a foothold for presenting and prepar-
ing their work for conferences, journal publications, and funding
agencies, the book explains four tools that all readers can use—a
phone, a camera, a scanner, and a microscope—and then offers im-
portant advice on composition and image manipulation ethics.

Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research

scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Frankel is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. At MIT, Frankel
developed and instructed the first online MOOC (Massive Online Open
Course) for edX addressing science and engineering photography. Work-
ing in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel has had images
appear in National Geographic, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Ma-
terials Today, PNAS, Newsweek, Discover, Popular Science, and New Scientist,
among others. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including
Envisioning Science, No Small Matter, On the Surface of Things, Visual Strate-
gies, and Picturing Science and Engineering.
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Verified
NOVEMBER
240 p. 98 color plates 6 x 8
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82983-8

How to Think Straight, Get Duped

Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82206-8

Less, and Make Better Decisions

Paper $14.00/£12.00
REFERENCE

about What to Believe Online

Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on
the internet—often in less than 30 seconds.

The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly.

The result is that we often jump to thinking too fast, without taking
a few moments to verify the source before engaging with a claim or
viral piece of media. Literacy expert Mike Caulfield and educational
researcher Sam Wineburg are here to enable us to take a moment for
due diligence with this informative, approachable guide to the inter-
net. With this illustrated tool kit, you will learn to identify red flags,
get quick context, and make better use of common websites like
Google and Wikipedia that can help and hinder in equal measure.
This how-to guide will teach you how to use the web to verify the
web, quickly and efficiently, including how to
• Verify news stories and other events in as little as thirty seconds
(seriously)
• Determine if the article you’re citing is by a reputable scholar, AI,
or a quack
• Detect the slippery tactics scammers use to make their sites
look credible
• Decide in a minute if that shocking video is truly shocking
• Deduce who’s behind a site—even when its ownership is cleverly
disguised
• Uncover if that feature story is actually a piece planted by a
foreign government
• Use Wikipedia wisely to gain a foothold on new topics and leads
for digging deeper
And so much more. Building on techniques like SIFT and lateral
reading, Verified will help students and anyone else looking to get a
handle on the internet’s endless flood of information through quick,
practical, and accessible steps.  

Mike Caulfield is a research scientist at the University of Washington’s

Center for an Informed Public, where he studies the spread of online ru-
mors and misinformation. Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor
of Education, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and the founder of the
Stanford History Education Group.
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Performance All
the Way Down
Genes, Development, and
Sexual Difference
Richard O. Prum
An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer
feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing
that individuals are not essentially male or female.

The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist

theory since the nineties—has spread from college classrooms to
popular culture. This transformative concept has sparked reapprais-
als of social expectations as well as debate over not just gender, but
[Link]
sex. Most scientific and biomedical research over the past seventy
years has assumed and reinforced a binary concept of biological sex,
NOVEMBER
though some scientists point out that male and female are just two
368 p. 16 halftones 6 x 9
outcomes in a world rich in sexual diversity. ISBN-13: 9780226771755

In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
ISBN-13: 9780226829784
Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings feminist thought into conver-
Paper $22.50/£18.00
sation with biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential
SOCIAL SCIENCE
to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. In accessible language,
Prum shows that when we look closely at the science, we see that
gene expression is a material action in the world, a performance
through which the individual regulates and achieves its own be-
coming. A fertilized zygote matures into an organism with tissues
and organs, neurological control, immune defenses, psychological
mechanisms, and gender and sexual behavior through a performa-
tive continuum.
Rejecting the notion of an intractable divide between the hu-
manities and the sciences, Prum proves that the contributions of
queer and feminist theorists can help scientists understand the hu-
man body in new ways. Performance All the Way Down is a book about
biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists,
and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow.

Richard O. Prum is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology

at Yale University, and the head curator of vertebrate zoology at the Yale
Peabody Museum. He is the author of The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s
Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us, one of the
New York Times’s “10 Best Books of 2017” and a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer
Prize in General Nonfiction.
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Probably
Overthinking It
How to Use Data to Answer
Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps,
and Make Better Decisions
Allen B. Downey
An essential guide to the ways data can improve
decision making.

Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor’s office,

and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather
report. Blogger, teacher, and computer scientist Allen B. Downey
knows well that we have both an innate ability to understand statis- DECEMBER
256 p. 126 line drawings, 22 tables 6 x 9
tics and to be fooled by them. As he makes clear in this accessible
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82258-7
introduction to statistical thinking, the stakes are big. Simple mis- Cloth $24.00/£20.00
understandings have led to incorrect patient prognoses, underesti- MATHEMATICS
mated the likelihood of large earthquakes, hindered social justice
efforts, and resulted in dubious policy decisions. There are right and
“Downey’s pure love for the subject
wrong ways to look at numbers, and Downey will help you see which shines through abundantly, as does
is which. his social conscience and belief in
Probably Overthinking It uses real data to delve into real examples the importance of statistical meth-
with real consequences, drawing on cases from health campaigns, ods to illuminate the greatest,
political beliefs, chess rankings, and more. He lays out common most challenging issues of our
time.”—Aubrey Clayton, author of
pitfalls—like the base rate fallacy, length-biased sampling, and
Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic
Simpson’s paradox—and shines a light on what we learn when we
and the Crisis of Modern Science
interpret data correctly, and what goes wrong when we don’t. Using
data visualizations instead of equations, he builds understanding
from the basics to help you recognize errors—whether in your own
thinking or media reports. Even if you have never studied statis-
tics—or if you have and forgot everything you learned—this book
will offer new insight into the methods and measurements that help
us understand the world.

Allen B. Downey is a curriculum designer at the online learning company

Brilliant and professor emeritus of computer science at Olin College. He
is the author of Think Python, Think Bayes, and Think Stats, among other
books. He writes about statistics and related topics on his blog, Probably
Overthinking It.

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absolute animal
Rachel DeWoskin
Poems that traverse and question the lines between
human and animal behavior.

Experimenting with time, language, and transgressing boundaries,

the poems in absolute animal lean into Nabokov’s notion that preci-
sion belongs to poetry and intuition to science.
Rachel DeWoskin’s new collection navigates the chaos of societal
and mortal uncertainty. Through formal poetry, DeWoskin finds
sense amid disorder and unearths connections between the animal
and the human, between the ancient and the contemporary, and
between languages, incorporating translations from poems dating
as far back as the Tang dynasty. From sonnet sequences about heart
surgeries to examinations of vole romance and climate change, abso-
lute animal investigates and moves across boundaries and invites us NOVEMBER
to consider what holds life, what lasts, what dies, and what defines 80 p. 6 x 9

and enriches the experience of being human. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82905-0

Paper $19.00/£16.00
POETRY
Rachel DeWoskin is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: Banshee;
Someday We Will Fly; Blind; Big Girl Small; and Repeat After Me; and the
memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing; along with the poetry collection Two
Menus, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Her essays,
poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity
Fair, Sunday Times Magazine of London, Condé Nast Traveler, Asian Wall
Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, Agni, Ploughshares, New Delta
Review, New Orleans Review, Seneca Review, and numerous journals and
anthologies. She is on the core creative writing faculty at the University of
Chicago and affiliated faculty in Jewish and East Asian Studies. DeWoskin
serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic
Action (WDA).

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Negro Mountain
C. S. Giscombe
A cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea
of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the
shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.

In the final section of Negro Mountain, C. S. Giscombe writes, “Negro

Mountain—the summit of which is the highest point in Pennsylvania
—is a default, a way among others to think about the Common-
wealth.” Named for an “incident” in which a Black man was killed
while fighting on the side of white enslavers against Indigenous peo-
ples in the eighteenth century, this mountain has a shadow presence
throughout this collection; it appears, often indirectly, in accounts
of visions, reimaginings of geography, testimonies about the “natu-
ral” world, and speculations and observations about race, sexuality,
and monstrosity. These poems address location, but Giscombe—who
worked for ten years in central Pennsylvania—understands location
to be a practice, the continual “action of situating.”
The book weaves through the ranges of thinking that poetic
voice itself might trouble. Addressing a gallery of figures, Giscombe
probes their impurities and ambivalences as a way of examining what
languages “count” or “don’t count” as poetry. Here, he finds that the
idea of poetry is visionary, but also investigatory and exploratory.
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Giscome Road, winner of the Carl Sandburg Prize; Prairie Style, winner of Paper $18.00/£15.00
an American Book Award; Border Towns; Ohio Railroads; and Train Music, POETRY
in collaboration with the book artist Judith Margolis. He is the recipient
of the 2010 Stephen Henderson Award given by the African-American Lit-
erature and Culture Society. His work has been supported by the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Council for the International Exchange of
Scholars, the Canadian Embassy to the United States, and others. He is
professor and the Robert Hass Chair in English at the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley.

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The Upstate
Lindsay Turner
Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty
and crisis.

Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s

lace on the roadside and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay
Turner’s The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a con-
temporary moment of change and development. Layering a personal
lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political
and ecological crises, The Upstate redefines a regional poetics as one
attuned to national and global systems. These poems observe and
emote, mourning acts of devastation and raging in their own quiet
way against their continuation.
The poems in The Upstate arise from moments of darkness and
desperation, mobilizing a critical intelligence against the status quo
of place and history, all while fiercely upholding belief in the role
of poetry to affect these conditions. Turner’s poems weave spells
around beloved places and people, yearning to shield them from
destruction and to profess faith in the delicate beauties of the world
at hand.

Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collection Songs & Ballads and
a translator of contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy. Turner OCTOBER
is originally from northeast Tennessee and currently lives in Cleveland, 66 p. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2
Ohio, where she is assistant professor of English and creative writing at ISBN-13: 9780226828640
Case Western Reserve University. Paper $18.00/£15.00
POETRY

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Journeys with
Emperors
Tracking the World’s Most
Extreme Penguin
Gerald L. Kooyman and Jim Mastro
With a Foreword by Jessica Ulrika Meir

With stunning photographs from the ice edge, this

firsthand account of a researcher’s time in Antarctica
and of the perilous journeys of the world’s largest
penguin species: the iconic emperor.

One of the largest known emperor penguin colonies is found on a NOVEMBER

256 p. 25 color plates, 46 halftones 6 x 9
narrow band of sea ice attached to Antarctica. In Journeys with Em-
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perors, Gerald L. Kooyman and Jim Mastro take us with them to this
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far-flung colony in the Ross Sea, revealing what scientists learned NATURE
while living among the penguins as they raised their chicks.
The colony is close to the ice edge, which spares the penguins “Kooyman recounts his tale of one
the long, energy-draining march for which other colonies are well- of the most iconic examples of
known. But the proximity of the ice edge to the birds also allowed charismatic megafauna in a way
researchers to observe the penguins as they came and went on their that captures both the magnitude
foraging journeys, including their interactions with leopard seals of his science and the elegant de-
and killer whales. What the scientists witnessed revealed important scriptions and personal anecdotes
aspects of emperor penguin behavior and physiology. For instance, that transport the reader to the ice
they discovered that in the course of hunting for food, some of the (all through the lens of a chang-
ing climate). His acts of veritable
penguins dive to depths of greater than five hundred meters. And
heroism—raging-river crossings,
crucially: most of the emperor’s life is actually spent at sea, with
risky glacial traverses, frequent
fledged chicks and adults making separate, perilous journeys across
excursions on figurative and lit-
icy water—to mature, or to feed before they must fast while they eral thin ice—were simply routine
molt—before returning to the colony to breed once more. components of his daily scientific
Featuring original color photographs and complemented with procedures.”—Jessica Ulrika Meir,
online videos, Journeys with Emperors is both an eye-opening overview PhD, comparative physiologist and
of the emperor penguin’s life and a thrilling tale of scientific discovery. NASA astronaut, from the foreword

Gerald L. Kooyman is professor emeritus and a research physiologist in

the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps Institu-
tion of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He is coauthor
of Penguins: The Animal Answer Guide. Jim Mastro spent over six years
in Antarctica (including two winters) as a laboratory manager, scientific
diving coordinator, dive team leader, and research assistant. His coau-
thored book Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wu was named
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Liberalism’s
Last Man
Hayek in the Age of Political
Capitalism
Vikash Yadav
A modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek’s most famous
work for the 21st century.

Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was both an intellectual

milestone and a source of political division, spurring fiery debates
around capitalism and its discontents. In the ensuing discord,
Hayek’s true message was lost: liberalism is a thing to be protected
above all else, and its alternatives are perilous. AUGUST

In Liberalism’s Last Man, Vikash Yadav revives the core of 288 p. 2 line drawings 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9780226821474
Hayek’s famed work to map today’s primary political anxiety: the
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tenuous state of liberal meritocratic capitalism—particularly in
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
North America, Europe, and Asia—in the face of strengthening polit-
ical-capitalist powers like China, Vietnam, and Singapore. As open
societies struggle to match the economic productivity of authoritar-
ian-capitalist economies, the promises of a meritocracy fade; Yadav
channels Hayek to articulate how liberalism’s moral backbone is its
greatest defense against repressive social structures.

Vikash Yadav is associate professor of international relations and Asian

studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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Flowers, Guns,
and Money
Joel Roberts Poinsett and the
Paradoxes of American Patriotism
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
A fascinating historical account of a largely forgotten
statesman, who pioneered a form of patriotism that
left an indelible mark on the early United States.

Joel Roberts Poinsett’s (1779–1851) brand of self-interested patrio-

tism illuminates the paradoxes of the antebellum United States. He
was a South Carolina investor and enslaver, a confidant of Andrew
Jackson, and a secret agent in South America who fought surrepti- American Beginnings, 1500–1900
tiously in Chile’s War for Independence. He was an ambitious Con-
gressman and Secretary of War who oversaw the ignominy of the
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Trail of Tears and orchestrated America’s longest and costliest war 272 p. 3 halftones 6 x 9
against Native Americans, yet also helped found the Smithsonian. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82960-9
In addition, he was a naturalist, after whom the poinsettia—which Cloth $99.00x/£80.00

he appropriated while he was serving as the first US ambassador to ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82962-3

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Mexico—is now named.
HISTORY
As Lindsay Schakenbach Regele shows in Flowers, Guns, and
Money, Poinsett personified a type of patriotism that emerged
following the American Revolution, one in which statesmen served
the nation by serving themselves, securing economic prosperity and
military security while often prioritizing their own ambitions and
financial interests. Whether waging war, opposing states’ rights yet
supporting slavery, or pushing for agricultural and infrastructural
improvements in his native South Carolina, Poinsett consistently
acted in his own self-interest. By examining the man and his actions,
Schakenbach Regele reveals an America defined by opportunity and
violence, freedom and slavery, and nationalism and self-interest.

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele is associate professor of history at Miami

University and the author of Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and
the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848.

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Saul Alinsky and

the Dilemmas of
Race
Community Organizing in the
Postwar City
Mark Santow
A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky’s
organizing work as it relates to race.

Saul Alinsky is the most famous—even infamous—community

organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invent-
AUGUST
ed a new political form: community federations, which used the
400 p. 10 halftones 6 x 9
power of a neighborhood’s residents to define and fight for their own ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82627-1
interests. Across a long and controversial career spanning more Cloth $37.50s/£30.00
than three decades, Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundation HISTORY

organized Eastern European meatpackers in Chicago, Kansas City,

Buffalo, and St. Paul; Mexican Americans in California and Arizona; “What do race in the US and Saul
white middle-class homeowners on the edge of Chicago’s South Side Alinsky have in common? Both are
black ghetto; and African Americans in Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago, mercurial, shrouded in myth, and
and other cities. caricatured across the political
spectrum. Mark Santow confronts
Mark Santow focuses on Alinsky’s attempts to grapple with the
each, illuminating the intersection
biggest moral dilemma of his age: race. As Santow shows, Alinsky
of the community organizer and
was one of the few activists of the period to take on issues of race on
the pragmatics of racism in the
paper and in the streets, on both sides of the color line, in the halls crucible of Chicago.”—Amanda I.
of power, and at the grassroots, in Chicago and in Washington, DC. Seligman, author of Block by Block:
Alinsky’s ideas, actions, and organizations thus provide us with a Neighborhoods and Public Policy
unique and comprehensive viewpoint on the politics of race, pov- on Chicago’s West Side
erty, and social geography in the United States in the decades after
World War II. Through Alinsky’s organizing and writing, we can see
how the metropolitan color line was constructed, contested, and
maintained—on the street, at the national level, and among white
and black alike. In doing so, Santow offers new insight into an
epochal figure and the society he worked to change.

Mark Santow is associate professor and chair of the History Department

at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He is coauthor of Social
Security and the Middle Class Squeeze.

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In Levittown’s
Shadow
Poverty in America’s
Wealthiest Postwar Suburb
Tim Keogh
Highlights how low-wage residents have struggled to
live and work in a place usually thought of as affluent:
suburbia.

There is a familiar narrative about the American suburbs: after

1945, white residents left cities for leafy, affluent subdivisions and
the prosperity they seemed to embody. In Levittown’s Shadow tells
us there’s more to this story, offering an eye-opening account of
Historical Studies of Urban America
diverse, poor residents living and working in those same neighbor-
hoods. Tim Keogh shows how public policies produced both subur-
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ban plenty and deprivation—and why ignoring suburban poverty
336 p. 13 halftones, 8 tables 6 x 9
doomed efforts to reduce inequality. ISBN-13: 9780226827735

Keogh focuses on the suburbs of Long Island, home to Levit- Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
ISBN-13: 9780226827759
town, often considered the archetypal suburb. Here military con-
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tracts subsidized well-paid employment welding airplanes or filing
HISTORY
paperwork, while weak labor laws impoverished suburbanites who
mowed lawns, built houses, scrubbed kitchen floors, and stocked
supermarket shelves. Federal mortgage programs helped some fam-
ilies buy orderly single-family homes and enter the middle class, but
also underwrote landlord efforts to cram poor families into subur-
ban attics, basements, and sheds. Keogh explores how policymak-
ers ignored suburban inequality, addressing housing segregation
between cities and suburbs rather than suburbanites’ demands for
decent jobs, housing, and schools.
By turning our attention to the suburban poor, Keogh reveals
poverty wasn’t just an urban problem but a suburban one, too. In
Levittown’s Shadow deepens our understanding of suburbia’s history—
and points us toward more effective ways to combat poverty today.

Tim Keogh is assistant professor of history at Queensborough Community

College, part of the City University of New York.

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God’s Scrivener
The Madness and Meaning of
Jones Very
Clark Davis
A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American
Transcendentalist poet.

In September of 1838, a few months after Ralph Waldo Emerson

delivered his controversial Divinity School address, a twenty-five-
year-old tutor and divinity student at Harvard named Jones Very
stood before his beginning Greek class and proclaimed himself
“the second coming.” Over the next twenty months, despite a brief
confinement in a mental hospital, he would write more than three
hundred sonnets, many of them in the voice of a prophet such as
John the Baptist, or even of Christ himself—all, he was quick to DECEMBER
claim, dictated to him by the Holy Spirit. 312 p. 10 halftones 6 x 9
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ment, Very strove to convert, among others, Elizabeth and Sophia BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Peabody, Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and, most signifi-
cantly, Emerson himself. Though shocking to some, his message
was simple: by renouncing the individual will, anyone can become
a “son of God” and thereby usher in a millennialist heaven on earth.
Clark Davis’s masterful biography shows how Very came to embody
both the full radicalism of Emersonian ideals and the trap of isola-
tion and emptiness that lay in wait for those who sought complete
transcendence.
God’s Scrivener tells the story of Very’s life, work, and influence
in depth, recovering the startling story of a forgotten American
prophet, a “brave saint” whose life and work are central to the devel-
opment of poetry and spirituality in America.

Clark Davis is professor of English and literary arts at the University of

Denver. He is the author of After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-
Dick, Hawthorne’s Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement,
and It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing.

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The Pensive
Citadel
Victor Brombert
With a Foreword by Christy Wampole

A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary

study from a storied professor.

In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of

learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered
Yale on the GI bill in the 1940s. Yet for all that has changed, so much
of Brombert’s long experience as a reader and teacher is richly fa-
miliar: the rewards of rereading, the joy of learning from students,
and most of all the insight to be found in engaging works of litera-
ture. The essays gathered here range from meditations on laughter OCTOBER
192 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
and jealousy to new appreciations of Brombert’s lifelong compan-
ISBN-13: 9780226828664
ions Shakespeare, Montaigne, Voltaire, and Stendhal.
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A veteran of D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge who witnessed BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

history’s worst nightmares at firsthand, Brombert nevertheless

approaches literature with a lightness of spirit, making the case for
intellectual mobility and an openness to change. The Pensive Citadel
is a celebration of a life lived in literary study, and of what can be
learned from attending to the works that form one’s cultural heritage.

Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor Emeritus of

Romance and Comparative Literature at Princeton University and the
author of many books.

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The Policing
Machine
Enforcement, Endorsements, and
the Illusion of Public Input
Tony Cheng
A revelatory look at how the NYPD has resisted
change through strategic and selective community
engagement.

The past few years have seen Americans express passionate de-
mands for police transformation. But even as discussion of no-knock
warrants, chokeholds, and body cameras has exploded, any changes
to police procedures have only led to the same outcomes. Despite JANUARY

calls for increased accountability, police departments have success- 240 p. 11 halftones, 5 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83063-6
fully stonewalled change.
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In The Policing Machine, Tony Cheng reveals the stages of that re- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83065-0
sistance, offering a close look at the deep engagement strategies that Paper $20.00s/£16.00

NYPD precincts have developed with only subsets of the community SOCIAL SCIENCE

in order to counter any truly meaningful, democratic oversight.

Cheng spent nearly two years in an unprecedented effort to under-
stand the who and how of police-community relationship building in
New York City, documenting the many ways the police strategically
distributed power and privilege within the community to increase
their own public legitimacy without sacrificing their organizational
independence. By setting up community councils that are conve-
niently run by police allies, handing out favors to local churches that
will promote the police to their parishioners, and offering addi-
tional support to institutions friendly to the police, the NYPD, like
police departments all over the country, cultivates political capital
through a strategic politics that involves distributing public resourc-
es, offering regulatory leniency, and deploying coercive force. The
fundamental challenge with police-community relationships, Cheng
shows, is not to build them. It is that they already exist and are moti-
vated by a machinery designed to stymie reform.

Tony Cheng is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Duke

University.  

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Righting the
American Dream
How the Media Mainstreamed
Reagan’s Evangelical Vision
Diane Winston
A provocative new history of how the news media
facilitated the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the
religious Right.

After two years in the White House, an aging and increasingly

unpopular Ronald Reagan looked like a one-term president, but in
1983 something changed. Reagan spoke of his embattled agenda as a
spiritual rather than a political project and cast his vision for limited JULY
government and market economics as the natural outworking of 256 p. 26 halftones 6 x 9

religious conviction. The news media broadcast this message with ISBN-13: 9780226824529
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enthusiasm, and white evangelicals rallied to the president’s cause.
HISTORY
With their support, Reagan won reelection and continued to disman-
tle the welfare state, unraveling a political consensus that stood for
half a century. “Standard accounts of the Reagan
era treat foreign policy, religious,
In Righting the American Dream, Diane Winston reveals how sup- and economic conservatism as sepa-
port for Reagan emerged from a new religious vision of American rate spheres that rarely intersected,
identity circulating in the popular press. Through four key events— but Winston’s fascinating and
the “evil empire” speech, AIDS outbreak, invasion of Grenada, and well-argued account shows how
rise in American poverty rates—Winston shows that many journal- the religious worldview champi-
ists uncritically adopted Reagan’s religious rhetoric and ultimately oned by President Reagan rein-
mainstreamed otherwise unpopular evangelical ideas about indi- forced the ideological transforma-
vidual responsibility. The result is a provocative new account of tion he sought in all three realms.
Righting the American Dream will
how Reagan together with the press turned America to the right and
reshape studies of the media no
initiated a social revolution that continues today.
less than our historical understand-
ing of a pivotal era in the history of
Diane Winston spent over a decade as a journalist and is now associate
American religion.”—E. J. Dionne Jr.,
professor of journalism and Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the
author of Why the Right Went
University of Southern California. She is the author or editor of several
books, including Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Wrong: Conservatism–From Gold-
Diversity in the Global City. water to Trump and Beyond

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The Nation That

Never Was
Reconstructing America’s Story
Kermit Roosevelt III
Our idea of the Founders’ America and its values is
not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but
we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision
for equality.

There’s a common story we tell about America: that our funda-

mental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of In-
dependence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the
Constitution. But, with the country increasingly divided, this story OCTOBER
isn’t working for us anymore—what’s more, it’s not even true. As 256 p. 6 x 9
Kermit Roosevelt argues in this eye-opening reinterpretation of the ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82951-7
American story, our fundamental values, particularly equality, are Paper $19.00/£16.00

not part of the vision of the Founders. Instead, they were stated in HISTORY
CUSA
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and were the hope of Reconstruction,
when it was possible to envision the emergence of the nation com-
mitted to liberty and equality. “Astute textual analysis, careful
historical research, and a deep
We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our
commitment to social justice make
history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both this an inspiring reexamination
inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. of America’s past.”—Publishers
In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both Weekly
those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we were.
Reconstruction, Roosevelt argues, was not a fulfillment of the ideals
of the Founding but rather a repudiation: we modern Americans
are not the heirs of the Founders but of the people who overthrew
and destroyed that political order. This alternate understanding of
American identity opens the door to a new understanding of our-
selves and our story, and ultimately to a better America.
America today is not the Founders’ America, but it can be
Lincoln’s America. Roosevelt offers a powerful and inspirational
rethinking of our country’s history and uncovers a shared past that
we can be proud to claim and use as a foundation to work toward a
country that fully embodies equality for all.

Kermit Roosevelt III is a professor of constitutional law at the University

of Pennsylvania Law School. A former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice
David Souter, he is the author of The Myth of Judicial Activism, as well as
two novels, Allegiance and In the Shadow of the Law.
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The Paradox of
Democracy
Free Speech, Open Media, and
Perilous Persuasion
Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing
A thought-provoking history of communications
media that challenges ideas about freedom of
speech and democracy.

At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be re-

solved, one that has affected free societies since their advent:
Though freedom of speech and media has always been a necessary
condition of democracy, that very freedom is also its greatest threat. AUGUST

When new forms of communication arrive, they often bolster the 320 p. 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82941-8
practices of democratic politics. But the more accessible the media
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of a society, the more susceptible that society is to demagoguery,
POLITICAL SCIENCE
distraction, and spectacle. Tracing the history of media disruption
and the various responses to it over time, Zac Gershberg and Sean
“The Paradox of Democracy is as
Illing reveal how these changes have challenged democracy—often
provocative as it is unpredictable.
with unsettling effects.
It carefully and engagingly ex-
The Paradox of Democracy captures the deep connection between pands our understanding of how
communication and political culture, from the ancient art of rhet- democracy works—and struggles—
oric and the revolutionary role of newspapers to liberal broadcast in a society where free expression
media and the toxic misinformation of the digital public sphere. is foundational and where media
With clear-eyed analysis, Gershberg and Illing show that our con- is undergoing revolutionary and
temporary debates over media, populism, and cancel culture are not rapid change. It will change how
you think.”—Margaret Sullivan,
too different from the democratic cultural experiences of the past.
Washington Post
As we grapple with a fast-changing, hyper-digital world, they prove
democracy is always perched precipitously on a razor’s edge, now as
ever before.

Zac Gershberg is associate professor of journalism and media studies at

Idaho State University. Sean Illing is a senior writer at Vox and the host of
its Conversations podcast.

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Water Always
Wins
Thriving in an Age of Drought
and Deluge
Erica Gies
A hopeful journey around the world and across time,
illuminating better ways to live with water.

Nearly every human endeavor on the planet was conceived and

constructed with a relatively stable climate in mind. But as new
climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable—and it
is changing in ways that expose the deep dysfunction of our rela-
tionship with water. Increasingly severe and frequent floods and OCTOBER
droughts inevitably spur calls for higher levees, bigger drains, and 344 p. 17 halftones 6 x 9
longer aqueducts. But as we grapple with extreme weather, a hard ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82942-5

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ture designed to control water, is actually exacerbating our problems.
CUSA
Because sooner or later, water always wins.
In this quietly radical book, science journalist Erica Gies intro-
“A fascinating look at the conse-
duces us to innovators in what she calls the Slow Water movement
quences of our attempts to control
who start by asking a revolutionary question: What does water want? water in an age of climate instability.
Using close observation, historical research, and cutting-edge sci- Whether we dam, divert, or con-
ence, these experts in hydrology, restoration ecology, engineering, crete it over, from California’s
and urban planning are already transforming our relationship with Central Valley to Iraq’s Mesopota-
water. mian Marshes, the results are the
same: too much water where we
Modern civilizations tend to speed water away, erasing its slow
don’t want it, not nearly enough
phases on the land. Gies reminds us that water’s true nature is to flex
where it is needed. Gies makes a
with the rhythms of the earth: the slow phases absorb floods, store
persuasive case that to preserve
water for droughts, and feed natural systems. Figuring out what ourselves, we need to consider
water wants—and accommodating its desires within our human what water wants.”—Chicago
landscapes—is now a crucial survival strategy. By putting these new Tribune
approaches to the test, innovators in the Slow Water movement are
reshaping the future.

Erica Gies is an independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer

who writes about water, climate change, plants, and animals for Scientific
American, the New York Times, Nature, the Atlantic, and other outlets. She
cofounded two environmental news startups, Climate Confidential and
This Week in Earth. She is based in San Francisco and Victoria, British
Columbia.

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The Big Jones

Cookbook
Recipes for Savoring the Heritage
of Regional Southern Cooking
Paul Fehribach
An original look at southern heirloom cooking with a
focus on history, heritage, and variety.

You expect to hear about restaurant kitchens in Charleston, New

Orleans, or Memphis perfecting plates of the finest southern cui-
sine—from hearty red beans and rice to stewed okra to crispy fried
chicken. But who would guess that one of the most innovative chefs
cooking heirloom, regional southern food is based not in the heart SEPTEMBER
288 p. 36 line drawings 6 x 9
of biscuit country, but in the grain-fed Midwest—in Chicago, no less?
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82937-1
Since 2008, chef Paul Fehribach has been introducing Chicagoans to
Paper $25.00/£20.00
the delectable pleasures of Lowcountry cuisine, while his restaurant COOKING
Big Jones has become a home away from home for the city’s south-
ern diaspora.
Organized by region, The Big Jones Cookbook provides an original
look at southern heirloom cooking with a focus on history, heritage,
and variety. Throughout, Fehribach interweaves personal experi-
ence, historical knowledge, and culinary creativity, all while offer-
ing tried-and-true takes on everything from Reezy-Peezy to Gumbo
Ya-Ya, Chicken and Dumplings, and Crispy Catfish. Fehribach’s
dishes reflect his careful attention to historical and culinary detail,
and many recipes are accompanied by insightful background on
their origins. In addition to the regional chapters, the cookbook fea-
tures sections on breads, from sweet potato biscuits to spoonbread;
pantry put-ups like bread and butter pickles and chow-chow; cock-
tails, such as the sazerac; desserts including Sea Island benne cake;
as well as an extensive section on snout-to-tail cooking, including
homemade Andouille and pickled pigs feet.
Proof that one need not possess a thick southern drawl to
appreciate the comfort of creamy grits and the skill of perfectly
fried green tomatoes, The Big Jones Cookbook will be something to
savor regardless of where one set’s one’s table.

Paul Fehribach is the co-owner and executive chef of Big Jones, a nationally
acclaimed restaurant in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood and the
author of Midwestern Food, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Serving the Reich

The Struggle for the Soul of
Physics under Hitler
Philip Ball
The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany
—including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner
Heisenberg—and how they accommodated them-
selves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s
and ’40s.

Mixing history, science, and biography, Philip Ball’s gripping

exploration of the lives of scientists under Nazism offers a powerful
portrait of moral choice and personal responsibility, as scientists
navigated “the grey zone between complicity and resistance.” Ball’s
OCTOBER
account of the different choices these three men and their colleagues
320 p. 6 halftones 6 x 9
made shows how there can be no clear-cut answers or judgment of ISBN-13: 9780226829340
their conduct. Yet, despite these ambiguities, Ball makes it undeni- Paper $22.00
able that the German scientific establishment as a whole mounted HISTORY

no serious resistance to the Nazis, and in many ways acted as a will- COBE/EU

ing instrument of the state.

Serving the Reich considers what this problematic history can tell “Why should we be interested in
this now? There is a lesson to be
us about the relationship of science and politics today. Ultimately,
learned. Before a fanatic regime
Ball argues, a determination to present science as an abstract inquiry
came to power, Germany had the
into nature that is “above politics” can leave science and scientists
greatest scientific establishment
dangerously compromised and vulnerable to political manipulation.
ever created. In a very few years
it evaporated. The ambience for
Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster whose many books on the doing science is fragile. . . . Revolu-
interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider culture include Bright
tionary science thrives on dissent.
Earth, Curiosity, Patterns in Nature, How to Grow a Human, The Modern
Without it, science becomes mun-
Myths, The Elements, and, most recently, The Book of Minds, all also pub-
dane.”—Wall Street Journal
lished by the University of Chicago Press. His book Critical Mass won the
2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also the 2022 recipient of the
Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the
history, philosophy, or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at
the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol, and
he was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He lives in London.

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To Live Is to
Resist
The Life of Antonio Gramsci
Jean-Yves Frétigné
Translated by Laura Marris
Foreword by Nadia Urbinati

This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio

Gramsci casts new light on his life and writing, em-
phasizing his unflagging spirit, even in the many years
he spent in prison.

One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth cen- NOVEMBER
tury, Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) has left an indelible mark on phi- 328 p. 1 line drawing, 1 table 6 x 9
losophy and critical theory. His innovative work on history, society, ISBN-13: 9780226829388
power, and the state has influenced several generations of readers Paper $22.00/£18.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
and political activists, and even shaped important developments in
postcolonial thought. But Gramsci’s thinking is scattered across the
thousands of notebook pages he wrote while he was imprisoned by “Frétigné brings a wealth of new
Italy’s fascist government from 1926 until shortly before his death. material and welcome precision
to his biography. . . . Gram­sci [is]
To guide readers through Gramsci’s life and works, historian
a thinker worth turning to in our
Jean-Yves Frétigné offers To Live Is to Resist, an accessible, compel- moment.”—The New Republic
ling, and deeply researched portrait of an extraordinary figure.
Throughout the book, Frétigné emphasizes Gramsci’s quiet heroism “Frétigné’s volume—a lucid, sober,
and his unwavering commitment to political practice and resis- and well-substantiated documen-
tance. Most powerfully, he shows how Gramsci never surrendered, tation and interpretation of Gram-
even in conditions that stripped him of all power—except, of course, sci’s life and work—unquestionably
stands apart.”—Boston Review
the power to think.

Jean-Yves Frétigné is maître de conférences in the Department of History at

the University of Rouen in Normandy, France. He is the author of several
books published in French and Italian. This is his first book published in
English. Laura Marris is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her recent trans-
lations include Albert Camus’s The Plague, Geraldine Schwarz’s Those Who
Forget, and Louis Guilloux’s Blood Dark.

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The Sloth
Lemur’s Song
Madagascar from the Deep Past
to the Uncertain Present
Alison Richard
A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher
who has spent over fifty years investigating the
mysteries of this remarkable island.

Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the

fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular
parade of animals, from giant flightless birds and giant tortoises
on the ground to agile lemurs leaping through the treetops. Some SEPTEMBER
species live on; many have vanished in the distant or recent past. 352 p. 12 color plates, 50 halftones 6 x 9

Over vast stretches of time, Madagascar’s forests have expanded and ISBN-13: 9780226829494
Paper $16.00
contracted in response to shifting climates, and the hand of people
SCIENCE
is clear in changes during the last thousand years or so. Today, Mad-
COBE/EU
agascar is a microcosm of global trends. What happens there in the
decades ahead can, perhaps, suggest ways to help turn the tide on
“[A] masterpiece. . . . Revelatory.”
the environmental crisis now sweeping the world.
—Madagascar Conservation &
The Sloth Lemur’s Song is a far-reaching account of Madagascar’s Development
past and present, led by an expert guide who has immersed herself
in research and conservation activities with village communities “Richard’s book is about the stories
told about Madagascar, its people,
on the island for nearly fifty years. Alison Richard accompanies the
and its nature. . . One of the stories
reader on a journey through space and time—from Madagascar’s
that threads through the book is
ancient origins as a landlocked region of Gondwana and its emer-
her story, and how her interactions
gence as an island to the modern-day developments that make the
with the Malagasy people and their
survival of its array of plants and animals increasingly uncertain. environment provided the insights
Weaving together scientific evidence with Richard’s own experienc- and knowledge that have shaped
es and exploring the power of stories to shape our understanding her understanding.”—Biological
of events, this book captures the magic as well as the tensions that Conservation
swirl around this island nation.

Alison Richard is the Crosby Professor of the Human Environment emer-

ita and senior research scientist at Yale University. She previously served
as vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and in 2010, she was
awarded a DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire) for her services
to higher education.

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Perfect Wave
More Essays on Art and Democracy
Dave Hickey
A collection of essays by American art critic Dave
Hickey, nicknamed “The Bad Boy of Art Criticism.”

When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer’s dream: the per-
fect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn’t quite
turn out—he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of
Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which nearly killed him.
Hickey went on to develop a career as one of America’s foremost
critical iconoclasts, a trusted no-nonsense voice commenting on
the worlds of art and culture. Perfect Wave brings together essays on
a wide range of subjects from throughout Hickey’s career, display- OCTOBER
ing his breadth of interest and powerful insight into what makes 240 p. 3 halftones, 1 line drawing 6 x 9
art work, or not, and why we care. With Hickey as our guide, we ISBN-13: 9780226333144

travel to Disneyland and Vegas, London and Venice. We discover Paper $18.00/£15.00
ART
the genius of Karen Carpenter and Waylon Jennings, learn why
Robert Mitchum matters more than Jimmy Stewart, and see how the
stillness of Antonioni speaks to us today. Never slow to judge—or to "Veteran art critic Hickey delivers
surprise us in doing so—Hickey relates his wincing disappointment another poignant and master-
in the later career of his early hero Susan Sontag and shows us the ful collection of essays. In each
selection, he critically and hu-
appeal to our commonality that we’ve been missing in Norman
morously contemplates cultural
Rockwell.
zeitgeists and the essence of good
Bookended by previously unpublished personal essays that offer art in music, books, paintings,
a new glimpse into Hickey’s own life—including the aforementioned and architecture. His razor-sharp
conclusion to his surfing career—Perfect Wave is a welcome addition insight and witty prose make for
to the Hickey canon. an entertaining read. . . . Hickey is
always serious when challenging
Dave Hickey (1938–2021) was the executive editor of Art in America and the status quo or defending the
the author of 25 Women: Essays on Their Art,The Invisible Dragon: Essays on cultural innovators who, in his view,
Beauty, and Air Guitar. He served as a contributing editor for the Village have realized art’s potential as a
Voice and as the arts editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. medium for beauty, democracy,
and unabashed self-expression."
—Publishers Weekly

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The Chemical Age

How Chemists Fought Famine
and Disease, Killed Millions, and
Changed Our Relationship with
the Earth
Frank A. von Hippel
A dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how
humankind’s affinity for pesticides made the modern
world possible—while also threatening its essential
fabric.

For thousands of years, we’ve found ways to scorch, scour, and

sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these
OCTOBER
methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with
368 p. 28 halftones 6 x 9
vast unintended consequences—typically not truly understood for ISBN-13: 9780226829562
generations. Paper $20.00/£16.00
SCIENCE
The Chemical Age tells the captivating story of the scientists who
waged war on famine and disease with chemistry. With depth and
verve, Frank A. von Hippel explores humanity’s uneasy coexistence “Our love affair with industrial
with pests, and how their existence, and the battles to exterminate chemicals may have heroic
them, have shaped our modern world. Beginning with the potato origins, but it also has Promethean
consequences that we are only
blight tragedy of the 1840s, which led scientists on an urgent mission
beginning to fully comprehend.
to prevent famine using pesticides, von Hippel traces the history
The Chemical Age is an essential
of pesticide use to the 1960s, when Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
addition to this comprehension,
revealed that those same chemicals were insidiously damaging our
and a delightful mix of deep
health and driving species toward extinction. Telling the story of research and vivid anecdotal
these pesticides in vivid detail, von Hippel showcases the thrills storytelling.”—McKay Jenkins,
and complex consequences of scientific discovery. He describes the author of Food Fight: GMOs and
invention of substances that could protect crops, the emergence of the Future of the American Diet
our understanding of the way diseases spread, the creation of chem-
icals used to kill pests and people, and, finally, how scientists turned
those war-time chemicals on the landscape at a massive scale,
prompting the vital environmental movement that continues today.
For fans of Jared Diamond and Rachel Carson, The Chemical Age
is a dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind’s
affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible—while also
threatening its essential fabric.

Frank A. von Hippel is professor of ecotoxicology at Northern Arizona

University. He has taught ecology field courses in over twenty countries
and conducted research in the Americas, Africa, and Australia. He hosts
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Ninth Edition

The CSE Manual

Scientific Style and Format for
Authors, Editors, and Publishers
Council of Science Editors
Comprehensive and authoritative scientific style and
format rules from the leading professional association
in science publishing.

The CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and
Publishers delivers complete coverage of rules and best practices in
scientific publishing. Since 1960, the esteemed Council of Science
Editors has offered authoritative guidance on clearly and effectively
writing scientific manuscripts. In the ninth edition of The CSE Manual, JANUARY

this leading international association offers its most comprehensive 880 p. 29 halftones, 76 line drawings, 149 tables
7 x 10
recommendations yet, continuing to guide authors and editors
ISBN-13: 9780226683942
through the ever-evolving world of scientific publishing. The Manual
Cloth $80.00x/£64.00
is available in print and by subscription online. SCIENCE

The Council of Science Editors (CSE) is an international membership or-

ganization for editorial professionals publishing in the sciences. The CSE’s
purpose is to serve its more than 800 members in the scientific, scientific
publishing, and information science communities by fostering network-
ing, education, discussion, and exchange. The CSE aims to be an author-
itative resource on current and emerging issues in the communication of
scientific information.

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The Dissertation-
to-Book Workbook
Exercises for Developing and
Revising Your Book Manuscript
Katelyn E. Knox and
Allison Van Deventer
Writing an academic book is a daunting task.
Where to start? This workbook.

So, you’ve written a dissertation. Congratulations! But how do you

turn it into a book? Even if you know what to do when revising your
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and
dissertation, do you know how to do those things? This workbook by Publishing
Katelyn E. Knox and Allison Van Deventer, creators of the successful
online Dissertation-to-Book Boot Camp, offers a series of manage-
NOVEMBER
able, concrete steps with exercises to help you revise your academic 240 p. 1 halftone, 176 tables 8 1/2 x 11
manuscript into publishable book form. ISBN-13: 9780226828848
Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook uses targeted exercises and
ISBN-13: 9780226825816
prompts to take the guesswork out of writing a book. You’ll clarify
Paper $29.95x/£24.00
your book’s core priorities, pinpoint your organizing principle, pol- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ish your narrative arc, evaluate your evidence, and much more.
Using what this workbook calls “book questions and chapter
answers,” you’ll figure out how to thread your book’s main ideas
through its chapters. Then, you’ll assemble an argument, and finally,
you’ll draft any remaining material and revise the manuscript.
And most important, by the time you complete the workbook, you’ll
have confidence that your book works as a book—that it’s a cohesive,
focused manuscript that tells the story you want to tell.
Indispensible to anyone with an academic manuscript in prog-
ress, the prompts, examples, checklists, and activities will give you
confidence about all aspects of your project—that it is structurally
sound, coherent, free of the hallmarks of “dissertationese,” and
ready for submission to an academic publisher.

Katelyn E. Knox is an associate professor of French at the University

of Central Arkansas. She is the author of Race on Display in 20th- and
21st-Century France. Allison Van Deventer is a freelance developmental
editor for academic authors in the humanities and qualitative social sciences.

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Second Edition

Developmental
Editing
A Handbook for Freelancers,
Authors, and Publishers
Scott Norton
The only guide dedicated solely to developmental
editing, now revised and updated with new exercises
and a chapter on fiction.

Developmental editing—transforming a manuscript into a book

that edifies, inspires, and sells—is a special skill, and Scott Norton
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and
is one of the best at it. With more than three decades of experience
Publishing
in the field, Norton offers his expert advice on how to approach the
task of diagnosing and fixing structural problems with book man-
SEPTEMBER
uscripts in consultation with authors and publishers. He illustrates
320 p. 8 line drawings, 10 tables 6 x 9
these principles through a series of detailed case studies featuring ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79363-4
before-and-after tables of contents, samples of edited text, and other Paper $32.00s/£26.00
materials to make an otherwise invisible process tangible. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES

This revised edition for the first time includes exercises that
allow readers to edit sample materials and compare their work with
that of an experienced professional as well as a new chapter on the
unique challenges of editing fiction. In addition, it features expand-
ed coverage of freelance business arrangements, self-published
authors, e-books, content marketing, and more.
Whether you are an aspiring or experienced developmental
editor or an author who works alongside one, you will benefit from
Norton’s accessible, collaborative, and realistic approach and guid-
ance. This handbook offers the concrete and essential tools it takes
to help books to find their voice and their audience.  

Scott Norton was formerly a developmental editor at the University of

California Press, where he eventually served as the director of editing,
design, and production before retiring in 2020.

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Expanded and Updated Third Edition

Honor and
Respect
The Official Guide to Names,
Titles, and Forms of Address
Robert Hickey
With a Foreword by Pamela Eyring

From addressing letters to local officials to sending

formal invitations to foreign chiefs of state, this com-
plete guide provides the correct usage of names, titles,
and forms of address for anyone on any occasion.
NOVEMBER
For any personal or professional situation where formality is of the 576 p. 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83066-7
essence and proper decorum is the expectation, this book offers
Cloth $80.00x/£64.00
critical information on how to address, introduce, and communicate
REFERENCE
with officials, functionaries, and dignitaries from all walks of life.
From presidents to pastors, ambassadors to attorneys general to
your local alderperson, Honor and Respect offers clear explanations
and examples of the official honorifics of thousands of federal, state,
and municipal officials; corporate executives; clergy; tribal officials;
and members of the armed services in the United States, Australia,
Canada, and the United Kingdom. It also includes titles and guid-
ance on addressing high officials from more than 180 countries.
This updated third edition reflects the nuanced changes in
language, protocol, and conventions that have been implemented by
the State Department, Armed Forces, and myriad other government
offices in the United States and beyond. With its all-encompassing
scope and quick-reference format, Honor and Respect provides easy
access for all who seek the proper protocols of forms of address.
This book is an indispensable reference for individuals and offices
working in government, foreign affairs, diplomacy, law, the mili-
tary, training and consulting, and public relations, among others.

Robert Hickey is the deputy director of the Protocol School of Washington.

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Enlarged Edition

Cultural Capital
The Problem of Literary Canon
Formation
John Guillory
With an New Introduction by Merve Emre

An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniver-

sary of John Guillory’s formative text on the literary
canon.

Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory’s Cultural Capital has

been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of
the literary canon. Cultural Capital reconsiders the social basis for OCTOBER
448 p. 6 x 9
aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of sym-
ISBN-13: 9780226830599
bolic and literary knowledge on which “culture” had long been
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based. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, Guillory argues LITERARY CRITICISM
that canon formation must be understood less as a question of the
representation of social groups than as a question of the distribution
Praise for the previous edition
of “cultural capital” in the schools, which regulate access to literacy,
to the practices of reading and writing. “A brilliantly iconoclastic explora-
Now, as the “crisis of the canon” has evolved into the “crisis of tion of the current state of liter-
ary criticism.”—Review of English
humanities,” Guillory’s groundbreaking, incisive work has never
Studies
been more relevant and urgent. As scholar and critic Merve Emre
writes in her introduction to this new edition: “Exclusion, selection, “A distinctive contribution to the
reflection, representation—these are the terms on which the canon ubiquitous discussion of the ‘crisis’
wars of the last century were fought, and the terms that continue to in the humanities. Neither jeremiad
inform more recent debates about, for instance, decolonizing the nor apology, Guillory’s book is
curriculum and the rhetoric of anti-racist pedagogy.” a densely reasoned sociological
analysis of literary canon forma-
tion.”—Modernism/modernity
John Guillory is the Julius Silver Professor of English at New York Univer-
sity. He is coeditor of What’s Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Liter-
ary Theory and the author of Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary
History and Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study,
the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Moral Minefields
How Sociologists Debate Good
Science
Shai M. Dromi and
Samuel D. Stabler
An analysis of the effects of moral debates on
sociological research.

Few academic disciplines are as contentious as sociology. Sociolo-

gists routinely turn on their peers with fierce criticisms not only of
their empirical rigor and theoretical clarity but of their character
as well. Yet despite the controversy, scholars manage to engage in
thorny debates without being censured. How?
In Moral Minefields, Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler con-
sider five recent controversial topics in sociology—race and genetics, SEPTEMBER

secularization theory, methodological nationalism, the culture of 240 p. 4 tables 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82816-9
poverty, and parenting practices—to reveal how moral debates affect
Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
the field. Sociologists, they show, tend to respond to moral criti-
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82818-3
cism of scholarly work in one of three ways. While some accept and Paper $27.50s/£22.00
endorse the criticism, others work out new ways to address these SOCIAL SCIENCE
topics that can transcend the criticism, while still others build on
the debates to form new, more morally acceptable research.
Moral Minefields addresses one of the most prominent questions
in contemporary sociological theory: how can sociology contribute
to the development of a virtuous society? Rather than suggesting
that sociologists adopt a clear paradigm that can guide their research
toward neatly defined moral aims, Dromi and Stabler argue that
sociologists already largely possess and employ the repertoires to
address questions of moral virtue in their research. The conversa-
tion thus is moved away from attempts to theorize the moral goods
sociologists should support and toward questions about how sociol-
ogists manage the plurality of moral positions that present them-
selves in their studies. Moral diversity within sociology, they show,
fosters disciplinary progress.

Shai M. Dromi is associate senior lecturer on sociology at Harvard Univer-

sity. He is the author of Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the
Humanitarian NGO Sector and coeditor of The Handbook of the Sociology of
Morality, vol. 2. Samuel D. Stabler is associate teaching professor of sociol-
ogy and criminology at Pennsylvania State University.

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Forever 17
Coming of Age in the German
Asylum System
Ulrike Bialas
An exploration of how age affects the experience and
life prospects of asylum-seekers in Germany.

Heartbreaking images of children in distress have propelled some

of the most urgent calls for action on immigration crises, and that
compassion often affects how state asylum policies are structured.
In Germany, for example, the immigration system is engineered
to protect minors, which leads to unintended consequences for
migrants.
In Forever 17, Ulrike Bialas follows young African and Central
Asian migrants in Germany as they navigate that system. Without Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries
official paperwork or even, in many cases, knowledge of their exact
age, migrants must decide how to present their complicated life sto- DECEMBER
ries to government officials. They quickly realize that their age can 240 p. 6 x 9

have an outsized effect on the outcome of their cases. A migrant un- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83006-3
Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
der 18, for example, can’t be deported, but might instead be placed
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83008-7
in a youth home, where they will be subject to strict curfew laws. An Paper $30.00s/£24.00
18-year-old adult, on the other hand, can get permission to work, but SOCIAL SCIENCE
not opportunities to go to school.
Regardless of their age—actual or assumed—migrants face great
difficulties. Those classified as minors must live with the psycholog-
ical burden of being treated like children, while those classified as
adults must live without the practical support and legal protections
reserved for minors. The significance of age stands in stark contrast
to the ambiguities inherent in its determination. Though Germany’s
infamous bureaucracy is designed to issue clear statements about
refugees and migrants, the truth is often more complicated, and
officials are forced to grapple with the difficult implications of their
decisions. Ultimately, Bialas shows, policies surrounding asylum
seekers fall dramatically short of their humanitarian ideals. Even
those policies designed to help the most vulnerable can lead to
outcomes that drastically limit the possibilities for migrants in real
need of protection and keep them from leading fulfilling lives.

Ulrike Bialas is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of

Socio-Cultural Diversity at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of
Religious and Ethnic Diversity.

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The Enduring
Classroom
Teaching Then and Now
Larry Cuban
A groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually
teach and have taught in the past.

The quality and effectiveness of teaching are a constant subject of

discussion within the profession and among the broader public.
Most of that conversation focuses on the question of how teachers
should teach. In The Enduring Classroom, veteran teacher and scholar
of education Larry Cuban explores different questions, ones that just
might be more important: How have teachers actually taught? How
do they teach now? And what can we learn from both? OCTOBER
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Examining both past and present is crucial, Cuban explains. If ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82969-2
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hope of having their innovations implemented. Cuban takes us into Paper $25.00s/£20.00
EDUCATION
classrooms then and now, using observations from contemporary
research as well as a rich historical archive of classroom accounts,
along the way asking larger questions about teacher training and the
individual motivations of people in the classroom. Do teachers free-
ly choose how to teach, or are they driven by their beliefs and values
about teaching and learning? What role do students play in deter-
mining how teachers teach? Do teachers teach as they were taught?
By asking and answering these and other policy questions with the
aid of concrete data about actual classroom practices, Cuban helps
us make a crucial step toward creating reforms that could actually
improve instruction.

Larry Cuban has taught high school, served as a school system superin-
tendent, and been professor of education at Stanford University. He is the
author of numerous books, including Tinkering Toward Utopia (with David
Tyack).

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Black Scare / Red

Scare
Theorizing Capitalist Racism in
the United States
Charisse Burden-Stelly
A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial
oppression has infused the US government’s
anti-communist repression.

In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United

States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of
Black Nationalism and dread at what social, economic, and political
equality of Black people might entail. The Red Scare, sparked by NOVEMBER
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meticulously outlines the conjoined nature of these state-sanctioned
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panics, revealing how they unfolded together as the United States HISTORY
pursued capitalist domination. Antiradical repression, she shows,
is inseparable from anti-Black oppression, and vice versa.
Beginning her account in 1917—the year of the Bolshevik Revolu-
tion, the East St. Louis Race Riot, and the Espionage Act—Burden-
Stelly traces the long duration of these intertwined and mutually
reinforcing phenomena. She theorizes two bases of the Black Scare/
Red Scare: US Capitalist Racist Society, a racially hierarchical
political economy built on exploitative labor relationships, and
Wall Street Imperialism, the violent processes by which businesses
and the US government structured domestic and foreign policies to
consolidate capital and racial domination. This reactionary response
led to an ideology that Burden-Stelly calls True Americanism, the
belief that the best things about America were absolutely not Red
and not Black, which were interchangeable threats.
Black Scare / Red Scare illuminates the anticommunist nature of
the US and its governance, but also shines a light on a misunder-
stood tradition of struggle for Black liberation.

Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate professor of African American studies

at Wayne State University. She is the coauthor of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in
American History and the coeditor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist
Women’s Political Writing and Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean
Postcolonial State, a collection of essays by Percy C. Hintzen.
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The City and the

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Hospital
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The Paradox of the Medically

Overserved Community
Daniel Skinner, Jonathan R. Wynn,
and Berkeley Franz
A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are
affected by their surrounding communities.

An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many commu-

nities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counter-
intuitively, medically underserved. In The City and the Hospital two
sociologists, Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz, and a political
scientist, Daniel Skinner, track the multiple causes of this problem
and offer policy solutions.
Focusing on three urban hospitals—Connecticut’s Hartford
Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, and the University of Colorado Hos-
pital—the authors analyze the complicated relationship between a
hospital and its neighborhood. On the one hand, hospitals anchor
the communities that surround them, often staying in a neighbor-
hood for decades. Hospitals also craft strategies to engage with the
surrounding community, many of those focused on buying locally
and hiring staff from their surrounding area. On the other hand,
hospitals will often only provide care to the neighboring community
through emergency departments, reserving advanced medical care
and long-term treatment for those who can pay a premium for it.
To understand how urban healthcare institutions work with
their communities, the authors address power, history, race, and
urbanity as much as the workings of the medical industry. These
varied effects mean that understanding urban hospitals requires
seeing them in a new light—not only as medical centers but as com-
plicated urban forces.

Daniel Skinner is associate professor of health policy in the Department

of Social Medicine at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic
Medicine, Dublin. Jonathan R. Wynn is professor and department chair
of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Berkeley Franz is
associate professor of community-based health in the Department of Social
Medicine at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Athens, Ohio.

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The Sociology of
Housing
How Homes Shape Our Social Lives
Edited by Brian J. McCabe and
Eva Rosen
A landmark volume about the importance of housing
in social life.

In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association

argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological re-
search. Yet seventy-five years later, the sociology of housing has not
developed as a distinct field, leaving efforts to understand housing’s
place in society to other disciplines, such as economics and urban OCTOBER
planning. This volume intends to change that, solidifying the place 424 p. 8 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table 6 x 9
of housing studies as a distinct subfield within the discipline of ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82851-0

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sociology and a significant component of social life that deserves
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dedicated attention as a distinct area of research.
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To do so, the book takes stock of the current field of scholarship
and provides new directions for study. The contributors showcase
the very best traditions of sociology—they draw on diverse method-
ological approaches, present unique field sites and data sources, and
foreground sociological theory to understand contemporary housing
issues. The Sociology of Housing will be a landmark volume, used by
researchers and students alike as an introduction to this crucial field
and a map of its future potential.

Brian J. McCabe is associate professor of sociology and an affiliated

faculty member at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown
University. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and
the Politics of Homeownership. Eva Rosen is associate professor at George-
town University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and an affiliated faculty
member in the department of sociology. She is the author of The Voucher
Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood.

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Indebted Mobilities
Indian Youth, Migration, and the
Internationalizing University
Susan Thomas
An ethnographic rendering of overseas students’
fraught encounters studying at an American public
university.

As states have reduced funding to public universities, many of those

institutions have turned to expanding overseas student enrollments
as a vital, alternative source of revenue. Students from India have
especially been seen as among the most desirable populations, as
they’re typically fluent in English and overwhelmingly enroll in
professional fields deemed critical to the knowledge economy. The
large numbers of these youth migrating for their education tend to JANUARY
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be viewed as a shining example of the value of the contemporary
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reveals a more complicated story than glossy brochures and paeans
to American higher education would suggest. Indebted Mobilities
draws on Susan Thomas’s close shadowing of a group of middle-class
Indian migrant men who attended a public university in New York
just as the institution sought to “internationalize” its campus in the
wake of state withdrawal of funding support. Thomas takes the
reader along with the young men as they study, work, and socialize,
pursuing the successful futures they believed to be promised when
they migrated for an American education. All the while, she shows,
they must face their marginalization as they become enmeshed in
the fraught inclusion politics of contemporary university life in the
United States. At the heart of these encounters is these students’
relationship to debt—not just material ones that include student
loans, but moral and emotional debts as well. This indebtedness,
which keeps them tied to both India and the United States, becomes
meaningful to how Indian middle-class youth make sense of their
experiences as student-migrants. Thomas illuminates how the com-
plex realities that arise for these men force a reckoning with their
anxieties about successful masculinities and the precarity of being
drawn into the global knowledge economy as indebted migrants.

Susan Thomas is assistant professor of cultural foundations of education

in Syracuse University’s School of Education.

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Anonymous
The Performance of Hidden
Identities
Thomas DeGloma
A rich sociological analysis of how and why we use
anonymity.

In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social land-
scape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower
was at the heart of President Trump’s first impeachment, the hacker
group Anonymous compromised more than 77 million Sony ac-
counts, and best-selling author Elena Ferrante resolutely continued
to hide her real name and identity. In Anonymous, Thomas DeGloma
draws on a fascinating set of contemporary and historical cases
to build a sociological theory that accounts for the many faces of OCTOBER

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under various circumstances, do individuals act anonymously? How
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some situations, how is it imposed on them? SOCIAL SCIENCE

To answer these questions, DeGloma tackles anonymity the-

matically, dedicating each chapter to a distinct type of anonymous
action, including ones he dubs protective, subversive, institutional,
and ascribed. Ultimately, he argues that anonymity and pseudonym-
ity are best understood as performances, in which people obscure
personal identities as they make meaning for various audiences. As
they bring anonymity and pseudonymity to life, DeGloma shows,
people work to define the world around them to achieve different
goals and objectives.  

Thomas DeGloma is associate professor of sociology at Hunter College and

the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of See-
ing the Light: The Social Logic of Personal Discovery and coeditor of Interpret-
ing Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts Over the Past
and The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism.

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“What Is Critique?”
and “The Culture
of the Self”
Michel Foucault
Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini,
and Arnold I. Davidson
Translated by Clare O’Farrell

Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique,

Enlightenment, and the care of the self.

On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Soci-
ety of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project Chicago Foucault Project
in light of Immanuel Kant’s 1784 text, “What Is Enlightenment?”
Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral JANUARY
attitude consisting in the “art of not being governed in this particu- 208 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
lar way,” one that performs the function of destabilizing power re- ISBN-13: 9780226383446

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the “politics of truth.”
This volume presents the first critical edition of this crucial
lecture alongside a previously unpublished lecture about the culture
of the self and three public debates with Foucault at the University of
California, Berkeley in April 1983. There, for the first time, Foucault
establishes a direct connection between his reflections on Enlight-
enment and his analyses of Greco-Roman antiquity. However, far
from suggesting a return to the ancient culture of the self, Foucault
invites his audience to build a “new ethics” that bypasses the tradi-
tional references to religion, law, and science.

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher and historian

who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de
France. Henri-Paul Fruchaud is an editor of Michel Foucault’s posthumous
works. Daniele Lorenzini is associate professor of philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. Arnold I. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of
Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as the Robert
O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of
Chicago. Clare O’Farrell is a senior lecturer at the Queensland University
of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She is the founding editor of Foucault
Studies.

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Hope, Trust, and

Forgiveness
Essays in Finitude
John T. Lysaker
A new ethics of human finitude developed through
three experimental essays.

As ethical beings, we strive for lives that are meaningful and praise-
worthy. But we are finite. We do not know, so we hope. We need,
so we trust. We err, so we forgive. In this book, philosopher
John T. Lysaker draws our attention to the ways in which these
three capacities—hope, trust, and forgiveness—contend with human
limits. Each experience is vital to human flourishing, yet each also
poses significant personal and institutional challenges as well as OCTOBER
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opportunities for growth. Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness explores these
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challenges and opportunities and proposes ways to best meet them.
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our ethical horizons. PHILOSOPHY

John T. Lysaker is the William R. Kenan Professor of Philosophy at Emory

University. He is the author of many books, including Philosophy, Writing,
and the Character of Thought, also published by the University of Chicago
Press.

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A Precarious
Happiness
Adorno and the Sources of
Normativity
Peter E. Gordon
A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s
work as a critique animated by happiness.

Theodor Adorno is often portrayed as a totalizing negativist, a scowl-

ing contrarian who looked upon modern society with despair. Peter
E. Gordon thinks we have this wrong: if Adorno is uncompromising
in his critique, it is because he sees in modernity an unfulfilled pos-
sibility of human flourishing. In a damaged world, Gordon argues, JANUARY
all happiness is likewise damaged, but not wholly absent. Through 320 p. 4 line drawings 6 x 9
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of the good amid the bad. Ultimately, Gordon argues that social
criticism, while exposing falsehoods, must also cast a vision for an
unrealized better world.

Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History and faculty

affiliate in philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of
many books, most recently Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the
Question of Secularization.

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The Culmination
Heidegger, German Idealism, and
the Fate of Philosophy
Robert B. Pippin
A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique
of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s fore-
most interpreters.

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended, failed even, in

the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin
explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey
of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger’s critiques of Hegel and
Kant. Pippin argues that Heidegger’s basic concern was to determine
sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been
obscured by Western philosophy’s attention to reason. The Culmina- JANUARY
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the fate of Western rationalism.
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Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Pro-
fessor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of
Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author
of many books on philosophy, literature, art, and film.

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The Force of
Truth
Critique, Genealogy, and
Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault
Daniele Lorenzini
A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s
history of truth.

Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden

society, but Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism misunder-
stands the philosopher’s work: Foucault did not question truth itself
but what Lorenzini calls “the force of truth,” or how some truth
claims are given the power to govern our conduct while others are SEPTEMBER
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his writings on regimes of truth and parrhesia in conversation with
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early analytic philosophy and by drawing out the “possibilizing”
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elements of Foucault’s genealogies that remain vital for practicing
critique today.

Daniele Lorenzini is associate professor of philosophy at the University

of Pennsylvania and a prolific editor of Michel Foucault’s works, including
Madness, Language, Literature, also published by the University of Chicago
Press.

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Hospitality,
Volume I
Jacques Derrida
Edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf
Translated by E. S. Burt

Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of

what we owe to others.

Hospitality, Volume I reproduces a seminar delivered by Jacques

Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris
between November 1995 and June 1996. In these lectures, Derrida
asks a series of related questions about responsibility and “the for-
eigner”: How do we welcome or turn away the foreigner? What does
the idea of the foreigner reveal about kinship and the state, par- The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
ticularly in relation to friendship, citizenship, migration, asylum,
assimilation, and xenophobia? Derrida approaches these questions NOVEMBER
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rigorous distinction between conventional hospitality with its many
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conditions and our idea of hospitality as something offered uncondi-
tionally to the stranger.

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes
études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the
University of California, Irvine. Several of his books have been published
in translation by the University of Chicago Press. Pascale-Anne Brault
is professor of French at DePaul University. Peggy Kamuf is professor
emerita of French and comparative literature at the University of South-
ern California. E. S. Burt is professor emerita of French and English at the
University of California, Irvine. She is the author of two books, including
Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire,
and Wilde.

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Pan-Asianism
and the Legacy
of the Chinese
Revolution
Viren Murthy
An intellectual history of pan-Asianist discourse in the
twentieth century.

Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contem-
porary era and ongoing Western interest in China’s growth and
development have led to increased attention to the concept of
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pan-Asianism. Most of that discussion, however, lacks any his- 288 p. 6 x 9
torical grounding in the thought of influential twentieth-century ISBN-13: 9780226827988
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proposed new ways of thinking about Asia in their own histori-
cal and political contexts. Tracing pan-Asianist discourse across
the twentieth century, Murthy reveals a stronger sense of resis-
tance and alternative visions than the contemporary discourse on
pan-Asianism would suggest. At the heart of pan-Asianist thinking,
Murthy shows, was the notion of a unity of Asian nations, of weak
nations becoming powerful, and of the Third World confronting
the “advanced world” on equal terms—the latter an idea that grew
to include non-Asian countries into the global community of Asian
nations. But pan-Asianists also had larger aims, imagining a future
beyond both imperialism and capitalism. That the resurgence of
pan-Asianist discourse has emerged alongside the dominance of
capitalism, Murthy argues, signals a profound misunderstanding of
its roots, history, and potential.

Viren Murthy is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-

Madison and the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The
Resistance of Consciousness and The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back
to the Future.

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Thinking with
Ngangas
What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can
Tell Us about Scientific Practice
and Vice Versa
Stephan Palmié
A comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and
Western science that aims to challenge the rationality
of Western expert practices.

Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century

Jesuit priest and proto-ethnographer who compared the lives of the
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Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks
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ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
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of the spirits of the dead? How do genomics and “ancestry projects”
converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean
that Black Cubans in the United States took advantage of Edisonian
technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity
named ecué onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-
Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production?
By writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scien-
tific practice, and vice versa, Palmié hopes to challenge the ratio-
nality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings
together enchantment and experiment.

Stephan Palmié is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Anthro-

pology at the University of Chicago and the author of Wizards and Scien-
tists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition and The Cooking of
History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion, the latter also published by
the Press.

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The End of the

World
Cultural Apocalypse and
Transcendence
Ernesto de Martino
Translated by Dorothy Louise Zinn

The first English translation of a classic work of

twentieth-century anthropology and philosophy.

A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto

de Martino (1908–65) produced a body of work that prefigured many
ideas and concerns that would later come to animate anthropology. DECEMBER
In his writing, we can see the roots of ethnopsychiatry and medical 352 p. 2 halftones 6 x 9
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rapher, considerations of social inequality and hegemony from a
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Gramscian perspective, and an anticipation of the discipline’s “exis-
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tential turn.” We also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, SOCIAL SCIENCE
despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published book La Fine
del Mondo, or The End of the World. Examining apocalypse as an indi-
vidual as well as a cultural phenomenon, treating subjects both clas-
sic and contemporary and both European and non-Western, ranging
across ethnography, history, literature, psychiatry, and philosophy,
de Martino probes how we relate to our world and how we might be
better subjects and thinkers within it. This new translation offers
English-language readers their first chance to engage with de Mar-
tino’s masterwork, which continues to seem prescient in the face of
the frictions of globalization and environmental devastation.

Ernesto de Martino (1908–1965) was an Italian anthropologist, philoso-

pher, and historian of religions. Dorothy Louise Zinn is professor of so-
ciocultural anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She has
translated two of de Martino’s other books: The Land of Remorse: A Study of
Southern Italian Tarantism and Magic: A Theory from the South.

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The Specter of
the Archive
Political Practice and the
Information State in Early
Modern Britain
Nicholas Popper
An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early
modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics
and society.

We commonly think of ourselves as living amid an unprecedented

abundance of information. In The Specter of the Archive, Nicholas
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Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with similarly mixed
320 p. 20 halftones 6 x 9
blessings. ISBN-13: 9780226825953

He reveals that early modern Britain was a society newly Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
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drowning in paper—for them a light and durable technology whose
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spread allowed statesmen to record drafts, memoranda, and other
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ephemera that might otherwise have been lost, and also made it
possible for ordinary people to collect political texts. As the volume
of original paperwork ballooned, the number of copies grew even
more: secretaries took down version after version of letters, records,
policy proposals, and other documents. As those seeking to advance
their careers flooded the government with paper, information man-
agement became a core element of politics, and England’s history
of flexible institutions coalesced into the image of a stable state.
Focusing on two of the primary political archives of early modern
England, the Tower of London Record Office and the State Paper
Office, Popper traces the circulation of their materials through the
government and the broader public sphere. In this early media-
saturated society, we find the origins of many of the same issues we
face today: Who shapes the archive? Can we trust the picture of the
past and present that it shows us? How do we decide what to preserve,
what to copy and disseminate, and what to discard? And, in a more
politically urgent vein: Does a huge volume of widely available infor-
mation (not all of it accurate) risk contributing to polarization and
extremism?

Nicholas Popper is associate professor of history at William & Mary and

the author of Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of
the Late Renaissance, also published by the Press.

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A Chinese Rebel
beyond the Great
Wall
The Cultural Revolution and
Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia
TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, and
Mark Selden
A striking first-person account of the Cultural
Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close
examination of the historical evidence on China’s
minority nationality policies to the present. Silk Roads

During the Great Leap Forward, as hundreds of thousands of Chi- OCTOBER

nese famine refugees set their sights on the promise of Inner Mon- 416 p. 31 halftones 6 x 9

golia, Cheng Tiejun arrived in 1959 as a middle school student. In ISBN-13: 9780226826844
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1966, when the PRC plunged into the Cultural Revolution, he joined
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millions of students and young intellectuals in the Red Guards just
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as Inner Mongolia’s longtime leader, Ulanhu, was purged. With the HISTORY
military in control, and with deepening conflict with the Soviet
Union and its Mongolia ally on the border, Mongols were accused
of being nationalists and traitors. A pogrom of torture and killing
followed, taking more than 16,000 Mongol lives by official count.
At the heart of this book are Cheng’s first-person recollections of
his experiences as a rebel. These are complemented by a close exam-
ination of the documentary record of the era from the three coau-
thors. The final chapter offers a theoretical framework for Inner
Mongolia’s repression. Its goal, the authors show, was not to destroy
the Mongols as a people or as a culture—that is, it was not a geno-
cide. It was, however, a “politicide,” an attempt to prevent an officially
recognized nationality from exercising leadership of an autonomous
region. This unusual narrative provides urgently needed primary
source material to understand the events of the Cultural Revolution.

TJ Cheng is an emeritus professor of sociology at Macau University and

a freelance writer based in California. Uradyn E. Bulag is professor of
social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Mark Selden is a
senior research associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University
and emeritus professor of sociology and history at the State University of
New York at Binghamton.
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The Making of
Lawyers’ Careers
Inequality and Opportunity in the
American Legal Profession
Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer,
Bryant G. Garth, Joyce S. Sterling,
David B. Wilkins, Meghan Dawe,
and Ethan Michelson
An unprecedented account of social stratification
within the US legal profession.

How do race, class, gender, and law school status condition the ca- Chicago Series in Law and Society
reer trajectories of lawyers? And how do professionals then navigate
these parameters? OCTOBER
416 p. 22 line drawings, 24 tables 6 x 9
The Making of Lawyers’ Careers provides an unprecedented
ISBN-13: 9780226828909
account of the last two decades of the legal profession in the US, Cloth $105.00x/£84.00
offering a data-backed look at the structure of the profession and the ISBN-13: 9780226828923
inequalities that early-career lawyers face across race, gender, and Paper $35.00s/£28.00

class distinctions. Starting in 2000, the authors collected over 10,000 LAW

survey responses from more than 5,000 lawyers, following these

lawyers through the first twenty years of their careers. They also
interviewed more than two hundred lawyers and drew insights from
their individual stories, contextualizing data with theory and close
attention to the features of a market-driven legal profession.
Their findings show that lawyers’ careers both reflect and re-
produce inequalities within society writ large. They also reveal how
individuals exercise agency despite these constraints.

Robert L. Nelson is the MacCrate Research Professor at the American Bar

Foundation and professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University.
Ronit Dinovitzer is professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.
Bryant G. Garth is Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the Uni-
versity of California, Irvine. Joyce S. Sterling is professor of law emeritus
at the University of Denver College of Law. David B. Wilkins is the Lester
Kissel Professor, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession,
and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law
School. Meghan Dawe is a resident research fellow at the Center on the
Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. Ethan Michelson is professor of
sociology and law at Indiana University.

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Race, Rights, and Chicago Studies in American Politics

Rifles
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368 p. 17 halftones, 31 line drawings, 8 tables
6x9
ISBN-13: 9780226828749

The Origins of the NRA and Cloth $99.00x/£80.00

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Contemporary Gun Culture Paper $30.00s/£24.00

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Alexandra Filindra
An eye-opening examination of the ties between
American gun culture and white male supremacy
from the American Revolution to today.

One-third of American adults—approximately 86 million people—

own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although
many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and liber-
tarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and
Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation.
Instead, Alexandra Frilindra shows that American gun culture can
be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions
of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a
commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies.
Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary evi-
dence, Race, Rights, and Rifles traces how this ideology emerged
during the Revolution and became embedded in America’s institu-
tions, from state militias to the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Utilizing original survey data, Filindra reveals how many White
Americans —including those outside of the NRA’s direct orbit—
embrace these beliefs, and as a result, they are more likely than
other Americans to value gun rights over voting rights, embrace
antidemocratic norms, and justify political violence.

Alexandra Filindra is associate professor of political science at the

University of Illinois, Chicago.

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Born This Way

Science, Citizenship, and
Inequality in the American
LGBTQ+ Movement
Joanna Wuest
The story of how a biologically driven understanding of
gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+
political and legal advocacy.

Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that

sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely, conservatives
incite panic over “groomers” and a contagious “gender ideology”
that corrupts susceptible children. Yet, as this debate rages on, the
history of what first compelled the hunt for homosexuality’s biolog- SEPTEMBER
ical origin story may hold answers for the queer rights movement’s 304 p. 6 x 9
future. ISBN-13: 9780226827513
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Born This Way tells the story of how a biologically based un-
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derstanding of gender and sexuality became central to LGBTQ+ Paper $32.50s/£26.00
advocacy. Starting in the 1950s, activists sought out mental health POLITICAL SCIENCE
experts to combat the pathologizing of homosexuality. As Joanna
Wuest shows, these relationships were forged in subsequent decades
alongside two broader, concurrent developments: the rise of an in-
terest-group model of rights advocacy and an explosion of biogenetic
and bio-based psychological research. The result is essential reading
to fully understand LGBTQ+ activism today and how clashes over
science remain crucial to equal rights struggles.

Joanna Wuest is assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College.

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Counter-
mobilization
Policy Feedback and Backlash in
a Polarized Age
Eric M. Patashnik
An essential look at how and why backlash
movements are inherent to US policymaking.

The most successful policies not only solve problems. They also
build supportive coalitions. Yet, sometimes, policies trigger back-
lash and mobilize opposition. Although backlash is not a new
phenomenon, today’s political landscape is distinguished by the
frequency and pervasiveness of backlash in nearly every area of US
Chicago Studies in American Politics
policymaking, from abortion rights to the Affordable Care Act.
Eric M. Patashnik develops a policy-centered theory of backlash
DECEMBER
that illuminates how policies stimulate backlashes by imposing 256 p. 25 line drawings, 19 tables 6 x 9
losses, overreaching, or challenging existing arrangements to which ISBN-13: 9780226829876
people are strongly attached. Drawing on case studies of issues from Cloth $99.00x/£80.00

immigration and trade to healthcare and gun control, Countermobili- ISBN-13: 9780226829890
Paper $32.50s/£26.00
zation shows that backlash politics is fueled by polarization, cultural
POLITICAL SCIENCE
shifts, and negative feedback from the activist government itself.
It also offers crucial insights to help identify and navigate backlash
risks.

Eric M. Patashnik is professor of public policy and political science at

Brown University. His books include Reforms at Risk: What Happens After
Major Policy Changes Are Enacted.

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Big Money Chicago Series in Law and Society

Unleashed
DECEMBER
336 p. 7 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9780226830711
Cloth $99.00x/£80.00

The Campaign to Deregulate ISBN-13: 9780226830735

Paper $32.50s/£26.00

Election Spending POLITICAL SCIENCE

Ann Southworth
The story of how the First Amendment became an
obstacle to campaign finance regulation—a history
that began much earlier than most imagine.

Americans across party lines believe that public policy is rigged in

favor of those who wield big money in elections. Yet, legislators are
restricted in addressing these concerns by a series of Supreme Court
decisions finding that campaign finance regulations violate the First
Amendment.
Big Money Unleashed argues that our current impasse is the
result of a long-term process involving many players. Naturally, the
justices played critical roles—but so did the attorneys who hatched
the theories necessary to support the legal doctrine, the legal advo-
cacy groups that advanced those arguments, the wealthy patrons
who financed these efforts, and the networks through which they
coordinated strategy and held the Court accountable.
Drawing from interviews, public records, and archival materi-
als, Big Money Unleashed chronicles how these players borrowed a
litigation strategy pioneered by the NAACP to dismantle racial segre-
gation and used it to advance a very different type of cause.

Ann Southworth is professor of law and codirector of the Center for

Empirical Research on the Legal Profession at the University of California,
Irvine.

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Developing to
Scale
Technology and the Making of
Global Health
Heidi Morefield
The first critical book on “appropriate technology,”
Developing to Scale shows how global health came
to be understood as a problem to be solved with the
right technical interventions.

In 1973, economist E. F. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful,

which introduced a mainstream audience to his theory of “appropri- OCTOBER

ate technology”: the belief that international development projects 240 p. 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 9780226828619
in the global south were most sustainable when they were small-
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scale, decentralized, and balanced between the traditional and
ISBN-13: 9780226828633
the modern. His theory gained widespread appeal, as cuts to the Paper $30.00s/£24.00
foreign aid budget, the national interests of nations seeking greater MEDICAL
independence, postcolonial activism, and the rise of the United States’
tech sector drove stakeholders across public and private institutions
toward cheaper tools. In the ensuing decades, US foreign assistance
shifted away from massive modernization projects, such as water
treatment facilities, toward point-of-use technologies like village
water pumps and oral rehydration salts. This transition toward the
small scale had massive implications for the practice of global health.
Developing to Scale tells the history of appropriate technology in
international health and development, relating the people, organiza-
tions, and events that shaped this consequential idea. Heidi More-
field examines how certain technologies have been defined as more
or less “appropriate” for the global south based on assumptions about
gender, race, culture, and environment. Her study shows appropriate
technology to be malleable, as different constituencies interpreted
its ideas according to their own needs. She reveals how policymakers
wielded this tool to both constrain aid to a scale that did not threaten
Western interests and to scale the practice of global health through
the development and distribution of technical interventions.

Heidi Morefield is a historian of medicine and global health. She currently

works for a global consultancy.

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How Does
Germline
Regenerate?
Kate MacCord
A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth
in biology—the divide between germ and somatic
cells—with far-reaching ethical and public policy
ramifications.

Scientists have long held that we two have kinds of cells—germ and
soma. Make a change to germ cells—say using genome editing—and
that change will appear in the cells of future generations. Somatic
cells are “safe” after such tampering; modify your skin cells, and Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine
your future children’s skin cells will never know. And, while germ Biological Laboratory
cells can give rise to new generations (including all of the somatic
cells in a body), somatic cells can never become germ cells. How did JANUARY
scientists discover this relationship and distinction between so- 176 p. 20 halftones 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
matic and germ cells—the so-called Weismann Barrier—and does it ISBN-13: 9780226830490
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actually exist? Can somatic cells become germ cells in the way germ
ISBN-13: 9780226830513
cells become somatic cells? That is, can germ cells regenerate from
Paper $26.00s/£21.00
somatic cells even though conventional wisdom denies this possibil- SCIENCE
ity? Covering research from the late nineteenth century to the 2020s,
historian and philosopher of science Kate MacCord explores how
Praise for What Is Regeneration?
scientists came to understand and accept the dubious concept of the
Weismann Barrier and what profound implications this convenient “From hydras to humans, this short
assumption has for research and policy, from genome editing to book by two marine biologists
stem cell research, and much more. explores the peculiar process of
regeneration, showing that it is a
Kate MacCord is a teaching assistant professor in the School of Life Sci- far bigger subject than it might
ences at Arizona State University and the program administrator of the at first seem. . . . Maienschein and
McDonnell Initiative at the Marine Biological Laboratory, where she also MacCord argue that, to fully under-
serves as the McDonnell Fellow. She is coauthor of What Is Regeneration?, stand this, we need to see regener-
also published by the University of Chicago Press. ation as a window into the world
of biology in general, and the
complex feedback loops that de-
cide what grows, divides, and dies,
where and when.”—New Scientist

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Collective Body
Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit
of Socialist Realism
Christina Kiaer
A study of the Socialist Realist aesthetic focusing
on the artist Aleksandr Deineka.

Dislodging the avant-garde from its central position in the narrative

of Soviet art, Collective Body presents painter Aleksandr Deineka’s
haptic and corporeal version of Socialist Realist figuration not as
the enemy of revolutionary art, but as an alternate experimental
aesthetic that, at its best, activates and organizes affective forces for
collective ends. Tracing Deineka’s path from his avant-garde origins FEBRUARY
as the inventor of the proletarian body in illustrations for mass mag- 352 p. 82 color plates, 73 halftones 8 1/2 x 11
azines after the Revolution through his success as a state-sponsored ISBN-13: 9780226827162
painter of monumental, lyrical canvases during the Great Terror and Cloth $55.00s/£44.00
ART
beyond, Collective Body demonstrates that Socialist Realism is best
understood not as a totalitarian style, but rather as a fiercely collec-
tive art system that organized art outside the market and formed part
of the legacy of the revolutionary modernisms of the 1920s. Collective
Body accounts for the way the art of the October Revolution contin-
ues to capture viewers’ imaginations through the sheer intensity of
its evocation of the elation of collectivity, making viewers not only
comprehend but also truly feel socialism, and retaining the potential
to inform our own art-into-life experiments within contemporary
political art. Deineka figures in this study not as a singular master,
in the spirit of a traditional monograph, but as a limited case of the
system he inhabited and helped to create.

Christina Kiaer is the Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor

of art history at Northwestern University. She is the author of Imagine No
Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism, coauthor with
Robert Bird and Zachary Cahill of Revolution Every Day: A Calendar, and
coeditor with Eric Naiman of Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the
Revolution Inside.

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The God behind

the Marble
The Fate of Art in the German
Aesthetic State
Alice Goff
A history of Germans’ attempts to transform society
through art in an age of revolution.

For German philosophers at the turn of the nineteenth century,

beautiful works of art acted as beacons of freedom, instruments
of progress that could model and stimulate the moral autonomy
of their beholders. Amid the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars,
Germans struggled to uphold these ideals as they contended with JANUARY
the destruction of art collections, looting, and questions about 344 p. 9 color plates, 17 halftones 6 x 9
cultural property. As artworks fell prey to the violence they were ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82710-0

supposed to transcend, some began to wonder how art could deliver Cloth $45.00s/£36.00
ART
liberation if it could also quickly become a spoil of war. Alice Goff
considers a variety of works—including forty porphyry columns
from the tomb of Charlemagne, the Quadriga from the Brandenburg
Gate in Berlin, the Laocoön group from Rome, a medieval bronze
reliquary from Goslar, a Last Judgment from Danzig, and the mum-
mified body of an official from the Rhenish hamlet of Sinzig—follow-
ing the conflicts over the ownership, interpretation, conservation,
and exhibition of German collections during the Napoleonic period
and its aftermath.

Alice Goff is assistant professor of history and the College at the University
of Chicago.

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Modern Art
Selected Essays
Leo Steinberg
Edited by Sheila Schwartz
With an Introduction by James Meyer

The fifth and final volume in the Essays by

Leo Steinberg series, focusing on modern artists.

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the
twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that chal-
lenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In es-
says and lectures ranging from old masters to modern art, he com-
bined scholarly erudition with eloquent prose that illuminated his Essays by Leo Steinberg
subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image
over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provoc- SEPTEMBER
352 p. 153 color plates, 87 halftones 8 1/2 x 11
ative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Stein-
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82426-0
berg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects
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of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal ART
analysis that were always put into the service of interpretation.
Following the series publication on Pablo Picasso, this volume
focuses on other modern artists, including Cézanne, Monet, Matisse,
Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein,
Hans Haacke, and Jeff Koons. Included are seven unpublished
lectures and essays, Steinberg’s landmark essay “Encounters with
Rauschenberg,” a survey of twentieth-century sculpture, and an
examination of the role of authorial predilections in critical writing.
The final chapter presents a collection of Steinberg’s humorous
pieces, witty forays penned for his own amusement.
Modern Art is the fifth and final volume in a series that presents
Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate
Sheila Schwartz.

Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) was born in Moscow and raised in Berlin and
London, emigrating with his family to New York in 1945. He was a profes-
sor of art history at Hunter College, City University of New York, and then
Benjamin Franklin Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where
he remained until his retirement in 1990. Sheila Schwartz worked with
Steinberg from 1968 until his death in 2011. She received her PhD from the
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is presently the Research
& Archives Director of the Saul Steinberg Foundation.  

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Accountability in
State Legislatures
Steven Rogers
A troubling portrait of democracy in US state
legislatures.

State legislatures hold tremendous authority over key facets of our

lives, ranging from healthcare to marriage to immigration policy.
In theory, elections create incentives for state legislators to produce
good policies. But do they?
Drawing on wide-ranging quantitative and qualitative evidence,
Steven Rogers offers the most comprehensive assessment of this
question to date, testing different potential mechanisms of account-
ability. His findings are sobering: almost ninety percent of Ameri-
can voters do not know who their state legislator is; over one-third Chicago Studies in American Politics
of incumbent legislators run unchallenged in both primary and
general elections; and election outcomes have little relationship SEPTEMBER

with legislators’ own behavior. 304 p. 41 line drawings, 47 tables 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 9780226827223
Rogers’s analysis of state legislatures highlights the costs of our Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
highly nationalized politics, challenging theories of democratic ISBN-13: 9780226827247
accountability and providing a troubling picture of democracy in Paper $32.50s/£26.00

the states. POLITICAL SCIENCE

Steven Rogers is associate professor of political science at Saint Louis

University.

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Exchange of Ideas
The Economy of Higher Education
in Early America
Adam R. Nelson
The first volume of an ambitious new economic
history of American higher education.

Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic

history of American higher education. In this, the first volume,
Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how
knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became
saleable goods and American colleges were drawn into transatlantic
commercial relations. Earlier, scholars might have imagined that
higher education could sit beyond the sphere of market activity
—that intellectual exchange could transcend vulgar consumerism DECEMBER
—but already by the end of the eighteenth century, Americans 448 p. 6 x 9
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insisted that ideas were commodities and that it was the function
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of colleges to oversee the complex process whereby knowledge was
EDUCATION
priced and purchased. The history of capitalism and the history of
higher education, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined—which
raises a host of important questions that remain salient today. How
do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods?
Should they be public or private? Who should pay for them? And,
fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education for a
capitalist democracy?

Adam R. Nelson is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of

Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin–
Madison. He is the author of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Oppor-
tunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools and Education and
Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964 and coeditor of
Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America and The Global Univer-
sity: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives.

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Capital of Mind
The Idea of a Modern American
University
Adam R. Nelson
The second volume of an ambitious new economic
history of American higher education.

Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious

new economic history of American higher education. Picking up his
account where the first volume, Exchange of Ideas, ended, Adam R.
Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explain-
ing how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of insti-
tutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass produc-
tion and mass consumption of knowledge, an “industrialization of
ideas” that mirrored the industrialization of the American economy JANUARY

and catered to the demands of a new industrial middle class for 480 p. 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9780226829203
practical and professional education. From Harvard in the north to
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the University of Virginia in the south, new experiments with the
EDUCATION
idea of a university elicited intense debate about the role of schol-
arship in national development and international competition, and
whether higher education, in periods of fiscal austerity, should be
supported by public funds. The history of capitalism and the history
of the university, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined—which
raises a host of important questions that remain salient today. How
do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods?
Should they be public or private? Who should pay for them? And,
fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education for a
capitalist democracy?

Adam R. Nelson is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of

Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin–
Madison. He is the author of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Oppor-
tunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools and Education and
Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964 and coeditor of
Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America and The Global University:
Past, Present, and Future Perspectives.

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The Price of
Misfortune
Rights and Wrongs in Indebted
America
Daniel Platt
An examination of the movement for debtors’ rights
in the wake of the Civil War.

What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and
failed to repay? What do the victims of misfortune owe to their cred-
itors, and what can they keep for themselves? The answers to those
questions, hugely important for debtors, creditors, and society at
large, have changed over time. The Price of Misfortune examines the NOVEMBER
state of debtors’ rights in the United States in the wake of the Civil 224 p. 5 halftones 6 x 9
War and the work of the many reformers who fought to improve and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73398-2

codify them. Cloth $40.00s/£32.00

HISTORY
Daniel Platt shows how a range of reformers drew potent anal-
ogies among slavery, imprisonment for debt, and the experiences
of wage garnishment and property foreclosure. He traces the ways
those analogies were used to campaign for bold new protections
for debtors, keeping unfortunate borrowers secure in their labor,
property, and personhood. At the same time, however, he shows
that those reforms tended to assume that their borrower was white,
propertied, and male. In subsequent decades, the emancipatory
promise of debtors’ rights would be tested as women, wage earn-
ers, and African Americans seized on their language to challenge
structural inequalities of which indebtedness was only one part: the
dependency on marriage, the exploitation of industrial capitalism,
and the oppression of Jim Crow. By reconstructing these develop-
ments—and recovering the experiences of indebted farmwives,
sharecroppers, and wage workers—The Price of Misfortune narrates a
new history of inequality, coercion, and law amid the first financial-
ization of American capitalism.

Daniel Platt is an assistant professor of legal studies at the University of

Illinois Springfield.

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First Edition, Enlarged

In the Shadow of
Slavery
African Americans in
New York City, 1626–1863
Leslie M. Harris
With a New Afterword by the Author

A new edition of a classic work revealing the

little-known history of African Americans in
New York City before Emancipation.

Popular understanding of the history of slavery in America has

Historical Studies of Urban America
a crucial gap: It almost entirely ignores its extensive reach in the
North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home
DECEMBER
of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom
400 p. 31 halftones 6 x 9
would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. ISBN-13: 9780226824857

In the Shadow of Slavery turns to New York City to reveal the Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
ISBN-13: 9780226824871
history of African Americans in the nation’s largest city. Drawing on
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extensive travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, HISTORY
and organizational records, Leslie M. Harris extends beyond prior
studies of racial discrimination by tracing the undeniable impact of
African Americans on class, politics, and community formation and
by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless
black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the
author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments
about how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized,
and acknowledged by government.

Leslie M. Harris is professor of history at Northwestern University.

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Criticism and
Truth
On Method in Literary Studies
Jonathan Kramnick
A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary
studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading.

Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In this book,
Jonathan Kramnick explains literary criticism’s distinctive approach
to knowledge and its disciplinary rationale by zeroing in on its
singular method: close reading. Close reading is the field’s way of
pursuing arguments and advancing knowledge—the crucial craft
and skill that it imparts to students. For Kramnick, close reading is
also a creative, transformative, and immersive writing practice that Thinking Literature
fosters a unique kind of ecologically-minded engagement with the
world. Drawing on recent examples of literary criticism, Kramnick DECEMBER
unpacks the art of in-text quotations and other reading methods, 144 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
advocating for them as a valuable form of humanistic expertise ISBN-13: 9780226830520

worthy of a prominent place within a multi-disciplinary university. Cloth $99.00x/£80.00

ISBN-13: 9780226830537
As the humanities fight for survival in contemporary higher Paper $20.00s/£16.00
education, the study of literature doesn’t need more plans for re- LITERARY CRITICISM
form. Rather, it needs a defense of the work already being done and
an account of why it should flourish. This is what Criticism and Truth
offers, in vivid and portable form.

Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English and direc-

tor of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. He is the author of
Making the English Canon, Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson, and
Paper Minds, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Novels by Aliens
Weird Tales and the Twenty-First
Century
Kate Marshall
A wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century’s
fascination with the weird.

Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird

turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in
the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers
of fiction and criticism are avidly experimenting with strange, even
alien perspectives and protagonists. Kate Marshall’s Novels by Aliens
explores this development broadly while focusing on problems of
genre fiction. She identifies three key generic hybrids that harness a
longing for the nonhuman: The Old Weird, an alternative tradition OCTOBER
within naturalism and modernism for the twenty-first century’s 240 p. 2 halftones 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN-13: 9780226827827
cowboys and aliens; Cosmic Realism, the reach for words legible
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only from space in otherwise terrestrial narratives; and Pseudosci-
ISBN-13: 9780226827834
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on earth. Offering sharp and surprising insights about a breathtak- LITERARY CRITICISM
ing range of authors, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kazuo Ishiguro,
Willa Cather to Maggie Nelson, Novels by Aliens tells the story of how
genre became mood in the twenty-first century.

Kate Marshall is associate professor of English at the University of Notre

Dame and the author of Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction.

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When Conscience
Calls
Moral Courage in Times of
Confusion and Despair
Kristen Renwick Monroe
What is moral courage? Why is it important and what
drives it? An argument for why we should care about
moral courage and how it shapes the world around us.

War, totalitarianism, pandemics, and political repression are among

the many challenges and crises that force us to consider what
humane people can do when the world falls apart. When tolerance
disappears, truth becomes rare, and civilized discourse is a distant OCTOBER
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people performing extraordinary acts—be it confronting presidents Paper $30.00s/£24.00
and racist mobs or simply caring for and protecting the vulnerable. PHILOSOPHY

Uniting these portraits is the idea that moral courage stems not from
choice but from one’s identity. Ultimately, Kristen Renwick Monroe
argues bravery derives from who we are, our core values, and our
capacity to believe we must change the world. When Conscience Calls
is a rich examination of why some citizens embrace anger, bit-
terness, and fearmongering while others seek common ground, fight
against dogma, and stand up to hate.

Kristen Renwick Monroe is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of

Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and the Founder/
Director of the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of
Ethics and Morality.

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Creatures of
the Air
Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath,
1817–1913
J. Q. Davies
An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic
worlds told through the history of the art’s elemental
medium, the air.

Often experienced as universal and incorporeal, music seems an

innocent art form. The air, the very medium by which music con-
stitutes itself, shares with music a claim to invisibility. In Creatures
of the Air, J. Q. Davies interrogates these claims, tracing the history
New Material Histories of Music
of music’s elemental media system in nineteenth-century Atlantic
worlds. He posits that air is a poetic domain, and music is an art of
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that domain.
288 p. 44 halftones 6 x 9
From West Central African ngombi harps to the European J. S. ISBN-13: 9780226826134

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century. Creatures of the Air tells these truths through stories about
suffocation and breathing, architecture and environmental design,
climate strife, and racial turmoil. Contributing to elemental media
studies, the energy humanities, and colonial histories, Davies shows
how music, no longer just an innocent luxury, is implicated in the
struggle for control over air as a precious natural resource. What
emerges is a complex political ecology of the global nineteenth cen-
tury and beyond.

J. Q. Davies is professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley.

With Nicholas Mathew, he is the coeditor of the New Material Histories of
Music series at the University of Chicago Press. He is the author of Roman-
tic Anatomies of Performance and coeditor, with Ellen Lockhart, of Sound
Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851.

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Mozart the
Performer
Variations on the Showmanʼs Art
Dorian Bandy
An innovative study of the ways performance
influenced Mozart’s compositional style.

We know Mozart as one of history’s greatest composers. But his

contemporaries revered him as a multi-instrumentalist, a dazzling
improviser, and the foremost keyboard virtuoso of his time. He did
some composing as well, often with a single aim in mind: to set the
stage, quite literally, for compelling and captivating performances.
He wrote piano concertos not with an eye to posterity, but to give
himself a repertoire with which to flaunt his keyboard wizardry DECEMBER
288 p. 2 halftones, 49 musical examples 6 x 9
before an awe-struck public. The same was true of his sonatas,
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string quartets, symphonies, and operas, all of which were pains-
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takingly crafted to produce specific effects on those who played or MUSIC
heard them: to amuse, stir, and ravish colleagues and consumers
alike.
Mozart the Performer brings to life this elusive side of Mozart’s
musicianship. Dorian Bandy traces the influence of showmanship
on Mozart’s style, showing through detailed analysis and imagina-
tive historical investigation how he conceived his works as a series
of dramatic scripts. Mozart the Performer is a book for anyone who
wishes to engage more deeply with Mozart’s artistry and legacy—
who wants to understand why, centuries later, his music still capti-
vates us.

Dorian Bandy is assistant professor of musicology and historical perfor-

mance at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.

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Sounding Human
Music and Machines, 1740/2020
Deirdre Loughridge
An expansive analysis of the relationship between
human and machine in music.

From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in

musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse
defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and
machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human” musicality
from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In Sounding Human, Deir-
dre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the
“human or machine” logic and seeking out others, better character-
ized by conjunctions such as and or with.
Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and
New Material Histories of Music
human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories
of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over
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the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737
256 p. 42 halftones 6 x 9
invention of what became the first musical android to the creation of ISBN-13: 9780226830094
“sound wave instruments” by a British electronic music composer in Cloth $105.00x/£84.00
the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals produced by sam- ISBN-13: 9780226830117
pling singers’ voices in modern pop music. From music-generating Paper $35.00s/£28.00

computer programs to older musical instruments and music notation, MUSIC

Sounding Human shows how machines have always actively shaped

the act of music composition. In doing so, Loughridge reveals how
musical artifacts have been—or can be—used to help explain and
contest what it is to be human.

Deirdre Loughridge is associate professor in the Department of Music at

Northeastern University. She is the author of Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s
Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism,
also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of The
Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future.

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Within Reason
A Liberal Public Health for
an Illiberal Time
Sandro Galea
A provocative chronicle of how US public health has
strayed from its liberal roots.

The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health—a

volatile combination that produced predictably bad results. As scien-
tific expertise became entangled with political motivations, the pub-
lic-health establishment found itself mired in political encampment.
It was, as Sandro Galea argues, a crisis of liberalism: a retreat
from the principles of free speech, open debate, and the pursuit of
knowledge through reasoned inquiry that should inform the work of
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public health.
304 p. 1 line drawing 6 x 9
Across fifty essays, Within Reason chronicles how public health ISBN-13: 9780226822914
became enmeshed in the insidious social trends that accelerated Paper $22.50x/£18.00
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under Covid-19. Galea challenges this intellectual drift towards
intolerance and absolutism while showing how similar regressions
from reason undermined social progress during earlier eras. Within
Reason builds an incisive case for a return to critical, open inquiry
as a guiding principle for the future public health we want—and a
future we must work to protect.

Sandro Galea is the dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston Uni-
versity School of Public Health. He is the author of several books, includ-
ing The Contagion Next Time and Well: What We Need to Talk about When We
Talk about Health.

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The Economic
Approach
Unpublished Writings of
Gary S. Becker
Gary S. Becker
Edited by Julio J. Elias, Casey B. Mulligan,
and Kevin M. Murphy
With a Foreword by Edward L. Glaeser

A revealing collection from the intellectual titan

whose work shaped the modern world.

As an economist and public intellectual, Gary S. Becker was a giant. AUGUST

184 p. 8 line drawings 6 x 9
The recipient of a Nobel Prize, a John Bates Clark Medal, and a Pres-
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82720-9
idential Medal of Freedom, Becker is widely regarded as the greatest
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microeconomist in history. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

After forty years at the University of Chicago, Becker left a slew

of unpublished writings that used an economic approach to human “What a tremendous book! Becker
behavior, analyzing such topics as preference formation, rational was a giant, with an extraordi-
indoctrination, income inequality, drugs and addiction, and the nary combination of intense focus
economics of family. and curiosity, and you can see his
genius here. Be prepared to be
These papers unveil the process and personality—direct, criti-
surprised and illuminated—and to
cal, curious—that made him a beloved figure in his field and beyond.
have some fun in the process.”
The Economic Approach examines these extant works as a capstone to
—Cass R. Sunstein, author of
the Becker oeuvre—not because the works are perfect, but because Too Much Information
they offer an illuminating, instructive glimpse into the machina-
tions of an economist who wasn’t motivated by publications. Here,
and throughout his works, an inquisitive spirit remains remarkable
and forever resonant.

Julio J. Elias is professor of economics, director of the master of economics,

and executive director of the Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimen-
tal Economics at the University of CEMA, Argentina. Casey B. Mulligan
is professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and
program director at the Initiative on Enabling Choice and Competition in
Healthcare at the University of Chicago. Kevin M. Murphy is the George J.
Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of
Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Third Edition

Trade-Offs
An Introduction to Economic
Reasoning
Harold Winter
The highly engaging introduction to thinking like an
economist, updated for a new generation of readers.

When economists wrestle with any social issue—be it unemploy-

ment, inflation, healthcare, or crime and punishment—they do so
impersonally. The big question for them is: what are the costs and
benefits, or trade-offs, of the solutions to such matters? These trade-
offs constitute the core of how economists see the world—and make
the policies that govern it. SEPTEMBER

Trade-Offs is an introduction to the economic approach of analyz- 192 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

ISBN-13: 9780226828886
ing controversial policy issues. A useful introduction to the various
Paper $22.50s/£18.00
factors that inform public opinion and policymaking, Trade-Offs is
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
composed of case studies on topics drawn from across contempo-
rary law and society.
Intellectually stimulating yet accessible and entertaining, Trade-
Offs will be appreciated by students of economics, public policy,
health administration, political science, and law, as well as by any-
one following current social policy debates.

Harold Winter is professor of economics at Ohio University.

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Better Health
Economics
An Introduction for Everyone
Tal Gross and
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
An ideal entry point into health economics for
everyone from aspiring economists to healthcare
professionals.

The economics of healthcare are messy. For most consumers, there’s

little control over costs or services. Sometimes doctors are paid a lot;
other times they aren’t paid at all. Insurance and drug companies
are evil, except when they’re not. If economics is the study of market JANUARY
efficiency, how do we make sense of this? 256 p. 45 line drawings, 4 tables 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9780226820293
Better Health Economics is a warts-and-all introduction to a field Cloth $105.00x/£84.00
that is more exceptions than rules. Economists Tal Gross and Mat- ISBN-13: 9780226820330
thew J. Notowidigdo offer readers an accessible primer on the field’s Paper $35.00x/£28.00
essential concepts, a review of the latest research, and a framework BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

for thinking about this increasingly imperfect market.

A love letter to a traditionally unlovable topic, Better Health Eco-
nomics provides an ideal entry point for students in social science,
business, public policy, and healthcare. It’s a reminder that health-
care may be a failed market—but it’s our failed market.

Tal Gross is associate professor of markets, public policy, and law at

Boston University and a faculty research fellow for NBER. Matthew J.
Notowidigdo is the David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics at the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a research associate
of NBER.

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Statistics for
Public Policy
A Practical Guide to Being
Mostly Right (or at Least
Respectably Wrong)
Jeremy G. Weber
A long-overdue guide on how to use statistics to
bring clarity, not confusion, to policy work.

Statistics are an essential tool for making, evaluating, and improving

public policy. Statistics for Public Policy is a crash course in wielding
these unruly tools to bring maximum clarity to policy work. Former
JANUARY
White House economist Jeremy G. Weber offers an accessible voice
192 p. 17 line drawings, 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
of experience for the challenges of this work, focusing on seven core
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• Critically engaging with data by focusing on its origins, purpose, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
and generalizability

• Understanding the strengths and limits of the simple statistics that

dominate most policy discussions

• Developing reasons for considering a number to be practically

small or large

• Distinguishing correlation from causation and minor causes from

major causes

• Communicating statistics so that they are seen, understood, and

believed

• Maintaining credibility by being right (or at least respectably

wrong) in every setting
Statistics for Public Policy dispenses with the opacity and techni-
cal language that have long made this space impenetrable; instead,
Weber offers an essential resource for all students and professionals
working at the intersections of data and policy interventions. This
book is all signal, no noise.

Jeremy G. Weber is professor in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate

School of Public and International Affairs. He previously served as a chief
economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
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Losing the Plot

Film and Feeling in the
Modern Novel
Pardis Dabashi
An examination of the relationship between literature
and classical Hollywood cinema, revealing a profound
longing for plot in modernist fiction.

It is widely understood that the modernist novel sought to escape

what Virginia Woolf called the “tyranny” of plot. Yet even as twen-
tieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of Victorian,
plot-driven novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence
of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella
Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner—writers known for
their affinities and connections to classical Hollywood—Pardis NOVEMBER
304 p. 47 halftones 6 x 9
Dabashi links the moviegoing practices of these writers to the
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endings, classical Hollywood films often provided satisfying formal Paper $30.00s/£24.00
resolutions and promoted normative social and political values. LITERARY CRITICISM

Watching these films, modernist authors were reminded of what

they were leaving behind—both formally and in the name of aesthetic
experimentalism—by losing the plot.

Pardis Dabashi is assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in

English at Bryn Mawr College and a faculty affiliate in the Film Studies
Program and the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Stud-
ies Program. She is the coeditor of The New William Faulkner Studies, with
Sarah Gleeson-White.

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On Both Sides of
the Tracks
Social Mobility in Contemporary
French Literature
Morgane Cadieu
An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French
literature that offers a new perspective on figures
who move between social classes.

Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their
position between traditional tiers in society makes them a touchstone
for any political and literary moment, including our own. Morgane
Cadieu’s study looks at a certain kind of contemporary social climber JANUARY
in French literature whom she calls the parvenant. Taken from the 320 p. 6 halftones 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
French term parvenu, which refers to one who is newly arrived, a ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82712-4
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parvenant is a character who shuttles between social groups. A parv-
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enant may reach the level of another social class, but devises literary
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ways to come back, constantly undoing any fixed ideas of social LITERARY CRITICISM
affiliation.
Focusing on recent French novels and autobiographies, On Both
Sides of the Tracks speaks powerfully to issues of emancipation and
class. Cadieu offers a fresh, critical look at tales of upward mobility
in the work of Annie Ernaux, Kaoutar Harchi, Michel Houellebecq,
Édouard Louis, and Marie NDiaye, shedding fascinating light on
social mobility today as a formal, literary problem.

Morgane Cadieu is associate professor of French at Yale University. She is

the author of one book in French, Marcher au hasard: clinamen et création
dans la prose du XXe siècle, and her articles and essays have appeared in
publications such as Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Com-
parative Literature, The Balzac Review, Fabula, and French Forum, among
others.

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Networks of
Improvement
Literature, Bodies, and Machines
in the Industrial Revolution
Jon Mee
A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial
Revolution in Britain from the late-eighteenth to
the mid-nineteenth centuries.

Working against the stubbornly persistent image of “dark satanic

mills,” in many ways so comforting to literary Romanticism, Jon
Mee provides a fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolu-
tion as a story of unintended consequences. In Networks of Improve- OCTOBER
ment, Mee reads a wide range of texts—economic, medical, and 288 p. 10 halftones 6 x 9

more conventionally “literary” ones—with a focus on their circula- ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82837-4

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tion through networks and institutions. Mee shows how a project of
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enlightened liberal reform articulated in Britain’s emerging man-
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ufacturing towns led unexpectedly to coercive forms of machine LITERARY CRITICISM
productivity, a pattern that might be seen repeating in the digital
technologies of our own time. Instead of treating the Industrial Rev-
olution as Romanticism’s “other,” Mee shows how writing, practices,
and institutions emanating from these industrial towns developed a
new kind of knowledge economy, one where local literary and phil-
osophical societies served as important transmission hubs for the
circulation of knowledge.

Jon Mee is professor in the Department of English and Related Litera-

tures at the University of York, where he is also affiliated with the Center
for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of five books, including
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty and
Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community, 1762 to 1830.

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Queer Objects to
the Rescue
Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya
George Paul Meiu
Examines forms of intimate citizenship that have
emerged in relation to growing anti-homosexual
violence in Kenya.

Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countries of

homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the “homosex-
ual threat” they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify.
To make that threat visible, leaders, media, and civil society groups
have deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya,
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bead necklaces, plastics, and diapers more generally have come to
240 p. 17 halftones 6 x 9
represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially
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that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led
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and popular attempts to rid Kenya of homosexuality. Meiu shows
that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to repre-
senting the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target of
outrage, violence, and exclusion, while also crystallizing anxieties
over wider political and economic instability. To effectively under-
stand and critique homophobia, Meiu suggests, we must take these
objects seriously, and recognize them as potential sources for new
forms of citizenship, intimacy, resistance, and belonging.

George Paul Meiu is professor of anthropology at the University of Basel,

Switzerland. He is the author of Ethno-erotic Economies, also published by
the University of Chicago Press.

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The Color of
Asylum
The Racial Politics of Safe Haven
in Brazil
Katherine Jensen
An ethnography of the difficult experiences of
refugees in Brazil.

In 2013, as Syrians desperate to escape a brutal war fled the country,

Brazil took the remarkable step of instituting an open-door policy
for all Syrian refugees. Why did Brazil—in contrast to much of the
international community—offer asylum to any Syrian who would
come? And how do Syrians differ from other refugee populations SEPTEMBER
seeking status in Brazil? 256 p. 7 halftones, 4 tables 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82842-8
In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen offers an ethnographic
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look at the process of asylum seeking in Brazil, uncovering the
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different ways asylum seekers are treated and the racial logic behind Paper $30.00s/£24.00
their treatment. She focuses on two of the largest and most success-
ful groups of asylum seekers: Syrian and Congolese refugees. While
the groups obtain asylum status in Brazil at roughly equivalent rates,
their journey to that status could not be more different, with Congo-
lese refugees enduring significantly greater difficulties at each stage,
from arrival through to their treatment by Brazilian officials. As
Jensen shows, Syrians, meanwhile, receive better treatment because
the Brazilian state recognizes them as white, in a nation that has his-
torically privileged white immigration. Ultimately, however, Jensen
reaches an unexpected conclusion: Regardless of their country of
origin, even migrants who do secure asylum status find their lives
remain extremely difficult, marked by struggle and discrimination.

Katherine Jensen is assistant professor of sociology and international

studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

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New Earth
Histories
Geo-Cosmologies and the Making
of the Modern World
Edited by Alison Bashford,
Emily M. Kern, and Adam Bobbette
With a Foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty

A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know

the earth.

This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmolo-
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gies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific,
392 p. 44 halftones, 1 table 6 x 9
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mental sciences? How have different world traditions understood Paper $37.50s/£30.00
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human and geological origins? How does the inclusion of multiple
cosmologies change the meaning of the Anthropocene and the glob-
al climate crisis? By carefully examining these questions, New Earth
Histories sets an ambitious agenda for how we think about the earth.
The chapters consider debates about the age and structure of
the earth, how humans and earth systems interact, and how empire
has been conceived in multiple traditions. The methods the authors
deploy are diverse—from cultural history and visual and material
studies to ethnography, geography, and Indigenous studies—and the
effect is to highlight how earth knowledge emerged from historically
specific situations. New Earth Histories provides both a framework
for studying science at a global scale and fascinating examples to
educate as well as inspire future work. Essential reading for students
and scholars of earth science history, environmental humanities,
history of science and religion, and science and empire.

Alison Bashford is Scientia Professor in History and codirector of the New

Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales in
Australia. Emily M. Kern is assistant professor of history of science at the
University of Chicago. Adam Bobbette is a lecturer in geographical and
earth sciences at the University of Glasgow.

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Sexualizing
Cancer
HPV and the Politics of
Cancer Prevention
Laura Mamo
The virus that changed how we think about cancer
and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how
we talk about sex and its risks.

Starting in 2005, people in the US and Europe were inundated with

media coverage announcing the link between cervical cancer and the
sexually transmitted virus HPV. Within a year, product ads promoted
a vaccine targeting cancer’s viral cause, and girls and women became DECEMBER
early consumers of this new cancer vaccine. The knowledge of HPV’s 368 p. 2 line drawings, 2 tables 6 x 9

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new at-risk populations—namely boys and men—and ignited a plethora
ISBN-13: 9780226829296
of gendered and sexual issues related to cancer prevention.
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Sexualizing Cancer is the first book dedicated to the emergence MEDICAL

and proliferation of the HPV vaccine along with the medical ca-
pacity to screen for HPV—crucial landmarks in the cancer preven-
tion arsenal based on a novel connection between sex and chronic
disease. Interweaving accounts from the realms of biomedical
science, public health, and social justice, Laura Mamo chronicles
cervical cancer’s path out of exam rooms and into public discourse.
She shows how the late twentieth-century scientific breakthrough
that identified the human papilloma virus as having a causative
role in the onset of human cancer ignited sexual politics, struggles
for inclusion, new risk identities, and, ultimately, a new regime of
cancer prevention. Mamo reveals how gender and other equity ar-
guments from within scientific, medical, and advocate communities
shaped vaccine guidelines, clinical trial funding, research practices,
and clinical programs, with consequences that reverberate today.
This is a must-read history of medical expansion—from a “woman’s
disease” to a set of cancers that affect all genders—and of lingering
sexualization, with specific gendered, racialized, and other contours
along the way.

Laura Mamo is professor in the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco

State University. She is the author of Queering Reproduction: Achieving
Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience, coauthor of Living Green: Communities
that Sustain, and coeditor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and
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William James,
MD
Philosopher, Psychologist,
Physician
Emma K. Sutton
The first book to map William James’s preoccupation
with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the
breadth of his work.

William James is known as a nineteenth-century philosopher,

psychologist, and psychical researcher. Less well-known is how his
interest in medicine influenced his life and work, driving his ambi-
tion to change the way American society conceived of itself in body, DECEMBER
mind, and soul. William James, MD offers an account of the devel- 240 p. 10 halftones 6 x 9

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establishes, for the first time, the relevance of medical themes to his
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major lines of thought.
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James lived at a time when old assumptions about faith and the MEDICAL

moral and religious possibilities for human worth and redemption

were increasingly displaced by a concern with the medically “nor-
mal” and the perfectibility of the body. Woven into treatises that
warned against humanity’s decline, these ideas were part of the
eugenics movement and reflected a growing social stigma attached
to illness and invalidism, a disturbing intellectual current in which
James felt personally implicated. Most chronicles of James’s life have
portrayed a distressed young man, who then endured a psycholog-
ical or spiritual crisis to emerge as a mature thinker who threw off
his pallor of mental sickness for good. In contrast, Emma K. Sutton
draws on his personal correspondence, unpublished notebooks,
and diaries to show that James considered himself a genuine invalid
to the end of his days. Sutton makes the compelling case that his
philosophizing was not an abstract occupation but an impassioned
response to his own life experiences and challenges. To ignore the
medical James is to misread James altogether.

Emma K. Sutton is an honorary research fellow at Queen Mary University

of London.

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Tools and the

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Organism
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SCIENCE

Technology and the Body in

Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
Colin Webster
The first book to show how the concept of bodily or-
gans emerged and how ancient tools influenced con-
ceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.

Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools

and substances, and so one can write the history of medicine as the
application of different technologies to the human body. In Tools and
the Organism, Colin Webster argues that, throughout antiquity, these
tools were crucial to broader theoretical shifts. Notions changed
about what type of object a body is, what substances constitute
its essential nature, and how its parts interact. By following these
changes and taking the question of technology into the heart of
Greek and Roman medicine, Webster reveals how the body was first
conceptualized as an “organism”—a functional object whose inner
parts were tools, or organa, that each completed certain vital tasks.
He also shows how different medical tools created different bodies.
Webster’s approach provides both an overarching survey of the
ways that technologies impacted notions of corporeality and corpo-
real behaviors and, at the same time, stays attentive to the specific
material details of ancient tools and how they informed assumptions
about somatic structures, substances, and inner processes. For
example, by turning to developments in water-delivery technologies
and pneumatic tools, we see how these changing material realities
altered theories of the vascular system and respiration across Clas-
sical antiquity. Tools and the Organism makes the compelling case for
why telling the history of ancient Greco-Roman medical theories,
from the Hippocratics to Galen, should pay close attention to the
question of technology.

Colin Webster is assistant professor of classics at the University of

California, Davis.

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Inference and
Representation
A Study in Modeling Science
Mauricio Suárez
The first comprehensive defense of an inferential con-
ception of scientific representation with applications
to art and epistemology.

Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that

delivers a compelling account of modeling practice. He begins by
discussing the history and methodology of model building, helpfully
charting the emergence of what he calls the modeling attitude, a
nineteenth-century and fin de siècle development. Prominent cases
of models, both historical and contemporary, are used as bench- JANUARY

marks for the accounts of representation considered throughout the 352 p. 16 halftones 6 x 9
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its constituents. He shows that scientists employ a plurality of dif- SCIENCE
ferent modeling relations in their representational practice—which
also help them to assess the accuracy of their representations—while
demonstrating that there is nothing metaphysically deep about the
constituent relation that encompasses all these diverse means.
The book also probes the broad implications of Suárez’s inferen-
tial conception outside scientific modeling itself, covering analogies
with debates about artistic representation and philosophical thought
over the past several decades.

Mauricio Suárez is professor of logic and philosophy of science at the

Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a visiting fellow in the Depart-
ment of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
He is also a research associate of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural
and Social Science at the London School of Economics. He is the author of
Philosophy of Probability and Statistical Modelling.

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Social Practices
as Biological
Niche Construction
Joseph Rouse
A broad, synthetic philosophy of nature focused on
human sociality.

In his latest book, Joseph Rouse takes his innovative work to the next
level by articulating an integrated philosophy of society-as-part-
of-nature. He shows how and why we ought to unite our biological
conception of human beings as animals with our sociocultural and
psychological conceptions of human beings as persons and accultur-
ated agents. Rouse’s philosophy engages with biological understand- OCTOBER
ings of human bodies and their environments as well as the diverse 352 p. 6 x 9

practices and institutions through which people live and engage ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82795-7
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with one another. Familiar conceptual separations of natural, so-
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82797-1
cial, and mental “worlds” did not arise by happenstance, he argues,
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but often for principled reasons that have left those divisions deeply SCIENCE
entrenched in contemporary intellectual life. Those reasons are now
eroding in light of new developments across the disciplines, but that
erosion has not been sufficient to produce more adequately integrat-
ed conceptual alternatives until now.
Social Practices and Biological Niche Construction shows how
the characteristic plasticity, plurality, and critical contestation of
human ways of life can best be understood as evolved and evolving
relations among human organisms and their distinctive biological
environments. It also highlights the constitutive interdependence
of those ways of life with many other organisms, from microbial
populations to certain plants and animals, and explores the conse-
quences of this in-depth, noting, for instance, how the integration of
the natural and social also provides new insights on central issues in
social theory, such as the body, language, normativity, and power.

Joseph Rouse is professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University, where he

is also affiliated with the Science in Society and Environmental Studies
programs. He is the author of four previous books, including Articulat-
ing the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image and How
Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism, both also
published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Working the
Difference
Science, Spirit, and the Spread of
Motivational Interviewing
E. Summerson Carr
A history of motivational interviewing and what its
rise reveals about how cultural forms emerge and
spread.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a professional practice, a behav-

ioral therapy, and a self-professed conversation style that encour-
ages clients to talk themselves into change. Originally developed
to treat alcoholics, MI quickly spread into a variety of professional SEPTEMBER
fields including corrections, medicine, and sanitation. In Working the 304 p. 23 halftones, 9 tables 6 x 9

Difference, E. Summerson Carr focuses on the training and dissemi- ISBN-13: 9780226827605
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nation of MI to explore how cultural forms—and particularly forms
ISBN-13: 9780226827629
of expertise—emerge and spread. The result is a compelling anal-
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ysis of the American preoccupations at MI’s core, from democratic PSYCHOLOGY
autonomy and freedom of speech to Protestant ethics and American
pragmatism.

E. Summerson Carr is associate professor of social work and anthropol-

ogy at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Scripting Addiction:
The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety and co-editor of Scale:
Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life.

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The Feeling of
Forgetting
Christianity, Race, and Violence
in America
John Corrigan
A provocative examination of how religious practices
of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism.

The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native
Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence
toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrig-
an calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as
perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory’s role in American SEPTEMBER
Christianity, Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian 248 p. 1 line drawing 6 x 9
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courses through American culture like an underground river that
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sometimes bursts forth into brutality, terrorism, and insurrection.
RELIGION
Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing.

John Corrigan is the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Re-

ligion and professor of history at Florida State University. He is the author
of many books, including Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A
History of Forgetting and Remembering, also published by the University of
Chicago Press.

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Lands of Likeness
For a Poetics of Contemplation
Kevin Hart
An original and profound exploration of contemplation
from philosopher, theologian, and poet Kevin Hart.

In Lands of Likeness, Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of con-

templation through a meditation on Christian thought and secular
philosophy. Drawing on Kant, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, and Husserl,
Hart first charts the emergence of contemplation in and beyond the
Romantic era. Next, Hart shows this hermeneutic at work in poetry
by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and
others. Delivered in its original form as the prestigious Gifford Lec-
tures, Lands of Likeness is a revelatory meditation on contemplation
for the modern world.
OCTOBER
432 p. 6 x 9
Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Theology at the ISBN-13: 9780226827568
University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, the- Cloth $112.50x/£90.00
ology, and criticism, including Morning Knowledge, Poetry and Revelation: ISBN-13: 9780226827582
For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry and The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot Paper $37.50s/£30.00
and the Sacred, which was also published by the University of Chicago RELIGION
Press.

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Space and Time

under Persecution
The German-Jewish Experience in
the Third Reich
Guy Miron
Translated by Haim Watzman

A new history of how the Nazi era upended

German-Jewish experiences of space and time
from eminent historian Guy Miron.

In Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron considers how social
exclusion, economic decline, physical relocation, and, later, forced SEPTEMBER
evictions, labor, and deportation under Nazi rule forever changed 288 p. 8 halftones 6 x 9
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German Jews’ experience of space and time. Facing ever-mounting
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restrictions, German Jews reimagined their worlds—devising new
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relationships to traditional and personal space, new interpretations Paper $32.50s/£25.00
of their histories, and even new calendars to measure their days. RELIGION
For Miron, these tactics reveal a Jewish community’s attachment to
German bourgeois life as well as their defiant resilience under Nazi
persecution.

Guy Miron is professor of history at the Open University of Israel. He is the

author of several books, including The Waning of the Emancipation: Jewish
History, Memory, and the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France, and Hungary.
Haim Watzman is a Jerusalem-based writer, journalist, and translator.
Among his recent translations is Law and Identity in Israel: A Century of
Debate by Nir Kedar.

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The Best Effect

Theology and the Origins of
Consequentialism
Ryan Darr
A theological history of consequentialism and a new,
more expansive vision for teleological ethics.

Consequentialism—the notion that we can judge an action by its

effects alone—has been among the most influential approaches to
ethics and public policy in the Anglophone world for more than
two centuries. In The Best Effect, Ryan Darr argues that consequen-
tialist ethics is not as secular or as rational as it is often assumed to
be. Instead, Darr describes the emergence of consequentialism in
the seventeenth century as a theological and cosmological vision
and traces its intellectual development and eventual secularization DECEMBER

across several centuries. He argues that contemporary consequen- 320 p. 6 x 9

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place a more expansive vision for teleological ethics.
ISBN-13: 9780226829999
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Ryan Darr is a postdoctoral research associate in religion, ecology, and RELIGION
expressive culture at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music and a
lecturer in the Yale Divinity School.

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Lectures on
Imagination
Paul Ricoeur
Edited by George H. Taylor, Robert D. Sweeney,
Jean-Luc Amalric, and Patrick F. Crosby

Ricoeur’s theory of productive imagination in

previously unpublished lectures.

The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the imagi-

nation. These previously unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur’s most
significant and sustained reflections on creativity as he builds a new
theory of imagination through close examination, moving from
Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant to Ryle, Price, Wittgen-
OCTOBER
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example of the image, Ricoeur develops a theory about the mind’s PHILOSOPHY
power to produce new realities. Modeled most clearly in fiction, this
productive imagination, Ricoeur argues, is available across concep-
tual domains. His theory provocatively suggests that we are not con-
strained by existing political, social, and scientific structures. Rather,
our imaginations have the power to break through our conceptual
horizons and remake the world.

Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity
School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social
Thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books,
including Memory, History, Forgetting, Oneself as Another, and the three-
volume Time and Narrative, all published by the University of Chicago
Press. George H. Taylor is professor emeritus of law at the University of
Pittsburgh. Robert D. Sweeney (1929–2016) was the Don Shula Chair in
Philosophy at John Carroll University. Jean-Luc Amalric teaches at the
CPGE Arts and Design in Nîmes and the Research Center for Arts and
Language (CRAL), EHESS, Paris. Patrick F. Crosby (1948–2020) was an
independent Ricoeur scholar.

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Efficacy of Sound Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

NOVEMBER

Power, Potency, and Promise in 272 p. 28 halftones, 4 line drawings 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 9780226830223
the Translocal Ritual Music of Cloth $105.00x/£84.00

Cuban Ifá-Òrìşà
ISBN-13: 9780226828954
Paper $35.00s/£28.00
MUSIC

Ruthie Meadows
The first book-length ethnographic study on music
and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria.

Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America
and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming
the landscape of Ifá divination and deity (òrìşà/oricha) worship
through transatlantic travel and reconnection. In Cuba, where Ifá
and Santería emerged as an interrelated, Yorùbá-inspired ritual
complex, worshippers are driven to “African Traditionalism” by its
promise of efficacy: they find Yorùbá approaches more powerful,
potent, and efficacious.
In the first book-length study on music and Ifá, Ruthie Meadows
draws on extensive, multi-sited fieldwork in Cuba and Yorùbáland,
Nigeria to examine the contentious “Nigerian-style” ritual move-
ment in Cuban Ifá divination. Meadows uses feminist and queer of
color theory along with critical studies of Africanity to excavate the
relation between utility and affect within translocal ritual music cir-
culations. Meadows traces how translocal Ifá priestesses (Ìyánífá),
female batá drummers (bataleras), and priests (babaláwo) harness
Yorùbá-centric approaches to ritual music and sound to heighten
efficacy, achieve desired ritual outcomes, and reshape the condi-
tions of their lives. Within a contentious religious landscape marked
by the idiosyncrasies of Revolutionary state policy, Nigerian-style
Ifá-Òrìşà is leveraged to reshape femininity and masculinity, state
religious policy, and transatlantic ritual authority on the island.

Ruthie Meadows is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University

of Nevada, Reno.

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Love Songs in Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Motion
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Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland ISBN-13: 9780226827391

Paper $32.50s/£26.00

Christina J. Woolner MUSIC

An intimate account of everyday life in Somaliland,

explored through an ever-evolving musical genre of
love songs.

At first listen, both music and talk about love are conspicuously
absent from Somaliland’s public soundscapes. The lingering effects
of war, the contested place of music in Islam, and gendered norms
of emotional expression limit opportunities for making music
and sharing personal feelings. But while Christina J. Woolner was
researching peacebuilding in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeysa, she
continually heard snippets of songs. Almost all of these, she learned,
were about love. In these songs, poets, musicians, and singers col-
laborate to give voice to personal love aspirations and often painful
experiences of love-suffering. Once in circulation, the intimate and
heartfelt voices in love songs provide rare and deeply therapeutic
opportunities for dareen-wadaang (feeling sharing). In a region of
political instability, they also work to powerfully unite listeners on
the basis of shared vulnerability, transcending social and political
boundaries and opening space for a different kind of politics.
Taking us from 1950s recordings preserved on dusty cassettes to
new releases on YouTube, to live performances at Somaliland’s first
postwar music venue where the author herself eventually performs,
Woolner offers an account of love songs in motion that reveals the
power of music to connect people and feelings across time and
space, opening new possibilities for relating to oneself and others.

Christina J. Woolner is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the

Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

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When Death Falls

Apart
Making and Unmaking the
Necromaterial Traditions of
Contemporary Japan
Hannah Gould
Through an ethnographic study inside Japan’s Bud-
dhist goods industry, this book establishes a method
for understanding change in death ritual through at-
tention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials.

Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, “the grave of the graves”

DECEMBER
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death rites. In the past, the Japanese dead would be transformed ISBN-13: 9780226828992
into ancestors through years of ritual offerings at graves and in the Cloth $99.00x/£80.00

home at Buddhist altars called butsudan. But in twenty-first-century ISBN-13: 9780226829012

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Japan, this intergenerational system of care is rapidly collapsing due
SOCIAL SCIENCE
to falling birth rates, secularization, and economic downturn.
Through the lens of this domestic altar, Gould asks: What hap-
pens when religious technology becomes obsolete? In noisy carpen-
try studios, flashy funeral showrooms, the neglected houses of wid-
owers, and the cramped kitchens where women prepare memorial
feasts, Gould traces the butsudan alongside the Buddhist lifecycle,
exploring how they are made, circulate within religious and funer-
ary economies, come to mediate intimate exchanges between the
living and the dead, fall into disuse, and, maybe, are remade. Gould
suggests how this form might be reborn for the modern world, from
miniature urns inspired by sleek Scandinavian design to new ritual
practices that embrace impermanence, such as scattering or the
making of “bone buddhas.” Read against a long tradition of theo-
rizing memorialization, Japan’s contemporary deathscape offers a
case study of a different kind of necrosociality, based on material
exchanges that seek to both nurture the dead and disentangle them
from the world of the living.

Hannah Gould is a Melbourne Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the

School of Social and Political Sciences and a member of the DeathTech
Research Team at The University of Melbourne. She is president of the
Australian Death Studies Society and coeditor of Aromas of Asia.

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The Inspiration
Machine
Computational Creativity in
Poetry and Jazz
Eitan Y. Wilf
Explores how creative digital technologies and artifi-
cial intelligence are embedded in culture and society.

In The Inspiration Machine, Eitan Y. Wilf explores the transforma-

tive potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice
through three ethnographic cases, two with jazz musicians and one
with a group of poets. At times dissatisfied with the limitations of
human creativity, these artists do not turn to computerized algo- NOVEMBER
rithms merely to execute their preconceived ideas. Rather, they 288 p. 10 halftones 6 x 9
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hopes of finding inspiration in their output and thereby expanding
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their own creative horizons.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
The algorithms these artists develop and use, however, remain
rooted in and haunted by the specific social predicaments and hu-
man shortfalls that they were intended to overcome. Experiments in
the digital thus hold an important lesson: although Wilf’s interlocu-
tors returned from their adventures with computational creativity
with modified, novel, and enriched capacities and predilections,
they also gained a renewed appreciation for, and at times a desire to
re-inhabit, non-digital creativity. In examining the potentials and
pitfalls of seemingly autonomous digital technologies in the realm
of art, Wilf shows that computational solutions to the real or imag-
ined insufficiencies of human practice are best developed in relation
to, rather than away from, the social and cultural contexts that gave
rise to those insufficiencies, in the first place.

Eitan Y. Wilf is associate professor of anthropology at the Hebrew Uni-

versity of Jerusalem. He is the author of School for Cool and Creativity on
Demand, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Fixers
Agency, Translation, and the Early
Global History of Literature
Zrinka Stahuljak
A new history of early global literature that treats
translators as active agents, mediating cultures.

In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval

and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in
the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere con-
duits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective
rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language,
Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators
and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures—insider
informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and JANUARY

political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of lit- 368 p. 13 halftones 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9780226830391
erature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective,
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not of the author or state, but of the fixer.
ISBN-13: 9780226830407
Paper $35.00s/£28.00
Zrinka Stahuljak is professor of comparative literature and French at the LITERARY CRITICISM
University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of seven books,
most recently, The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance
in the Medieval East.

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American
Agriculture,
Water Resources,
and Climate
Change
Edited by Gary D. Libecap and
Ariel Dinar
A collection of the most advanced and authoritative
agricultural-economic research in the face of National Bureau of Economic Research
increasing water scarcity. Conference Report

Agriculture has been critical in the development of the American DECEMBER

economy. Except in parts of the western United States, water access 432 p. 150 line drawings, 68 tables 6 x 9
has not been a critical constraint on agricultural productivity, but ISBN-13: 9780226830612

with climate change, this may no longer be the case. This volume Cloth $135.00x/£108.00
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
highlights new research on the interconnections between Ameri-
can agriculture, water resources, and climate change. It examines
climatic and geologic factors that affect the agricultural sector and
highlights historical and contemporary farmer responses to varying
conditions and water availability. It identifies the potential effects of
climate change on water supplies, access, agricultural practices, and
profitability, and analyzes technological, agronomic, management,
and institutional adjustments. Adaptations such as new crops, pro-
duction practices, irrigation technologies, water conveyance infra-
structure, fertilizer application, and increased use of groundwater
can generate both social benefits and social costs, which may be
internalized with various institutional innovations. Drawing on both
historical and present experiences, this volume provides valuable
insights into the economics of water supply in American agriculture
as climate change unfolds.

Gary D. Libecap is professor emeritus in the Bren School of Environmen-

tal Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ariel Dinar is professor of environmental economics and policy at the
University of California, Riverside.

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Waste and the

Wasters
Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought
in Medieval England
Eleanor Johnson
A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought
in medieval England.

While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedented, environmental

catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late
Middle Ages, when a convergent crisis of land contraction, soil
depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague eclipsed Western
Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of NOVEMBER
explaining and coming to grips with what was happening fell to 224 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
medieval poets. The poems they wrote used the terms “waste” or ISBN-13: 9780226830162
“wasters” to anchor trenchant critiques of people’s unsustainable re- Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
ISBN-13: 9780226830179
lationships with the world around them and with each other. In this
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book, Eleanor Johnson shows how poetry helped medieval people
LITERARY CRITICISM
understand and navigate the ecosystemic crises—both material and
spiritual—of their time.

Eleanor Johnson is associate professor of English and comparative litera-

ture at Columbia University. She is the author of several books including,
Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse,
and Drama, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Trialectic
The Confluence of Law,
Neuroscience, and Morality
Peter A. Alces
A thought-provoking examination of how insights
from neuroscience challenge deeply held assump-
tions about morality and law.

As emerging neuroscientific insights change our understanding of

what it means to be human, the law must grapple with monumental
questions, both metaphysical and practical. Recent advances pose
significant philosophical challenges: how do neuroscientific revela-
tions redefine our conception of morality, and how should the law
adjust accordingly?
AUGUST
Trialectic takes account of those advances, arguing that they will 336 p. 6 x 9
challenge normative theory most profoundly. If all sentient beings ISBN-13: 9780226827483
are the coincidence of mechanical forces, as science suggests, then Cloth $105.00x/£84.00
it follows that the time has come to reevaluate laws grounded in the- ISBN-13: 9780226827506

ories dependent on the immaterial that distinguish the mental and Paper $35.00s/£28.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE
emotional from the physical. Legal expert Peter A. Alces contends
that such theories are misguided—so misguided that they under-
mine law and, ultimately, human thriving.
Building on the foundation outlined in his previous work,
The Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience, Alces further investigates
the implications for legal doctrine and practice.

Peter A. Alces is the Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law Emeritus at

The College of William & Mary.

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Remapping
Sovereignty
Decolonization and Self-
Determination in North American
Indigenous Political Thought
David Myer Temin
An examination of anticolonial thought and practice
across key Indigenous thinkers.

Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies,

yet Native communities have made unique contributions to antico-
lonial thought and activism. Remapping Sovereignty examines how
AUGUST
twentieth-century Indigenous activists in North America debated
288 p. 6 x 9
questions of decolonization and self-determination, developing
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distinctive conceptual approaches that both resonate with and Cloth $99.00x/£80.00
reformulate key strands in other civil rights and global decoloniza- ISBN-13: 9780226827285
tion movements. In contrast to decolonization projects that envi- Paper $32.50s/£26.00

sioned liberation through state sovereignty, Indigenous theorists SOCIAL SCIENCE

emphasized the self-determination of peoples against sovereign

state supremacy and articulated a visionary politics of decoloniza-
tion as earthmaking. Temin traces the interplay between anticolonial
thought and practice across key thinkers, interweaving history and
textual analysis. He shows how these insights broaden the political
and intellectual horizons open to us today.

David Myer Temin is assistant professor of political science and on the

faculty in Native American Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor.

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The Art of
Terrestrial
Diagrams in
Early China
Michelle H. Wang
A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary
methods.

This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of

maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date
from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute the entire
NOVEMBER
known corpus of early Chinese maps (ditu). More than a millennium
256 p. 46 color plates, 15 halftones 7 x 10
separates them from the next available map in the early twelfth
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82746-9
century CE. Unlike extant studies that draw heavily from the his- Cloth $55.00s/£44.00
tory of cartography, this book offers an alternative perspective by TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
mobilizing methods from art history, archaeology, material culture,
religion, and philosophy. It examines the diversity of forms and
functions in early Chinese ditu to argue that these pictures did not
simply represent natural topography and built environments, but
rather made and remade worlds for the living and the dead. Wang
explores the multifaceted and multifunctional diagrammatic tradi-
tion of rendering space in early China.

Michelle H. Wang is associate professor of art and humanities at Reed Col-

lege. Her scholarship has been published in Art History and Artibus Asiae.

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Risk Work
Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics
in Punitive America, 1967–1987
Faye Raquel Gleisser
How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to
use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual
art, maneuvering policing, racism, and surveillance.

As US news covered anticolonialist resistance abroad and urban rebel-

lions at home, and as politicians mobilized the perceived threat of “guer-
rilla warfare” to justify increased police presence nationwide, artists
across the country began adopting guerrilla tactics in performance and
SEPTEMBER
conceptual art. Risk Work tells the story of how artists’ experimentation
264 p. 12 color plates, 39 halftones 7 x 8 1/2
with physical and psychological interference from the late 1960s through ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82646-2
the late 1980s reveals the complex and enduring relationship between Cloth $40.00s/£32.00
contemporary art, state power, and policing. ART

Focusing on instances of arrest or potential arrest in art by Chris

Burden, Adrian Piper, Jean Toche, Tehching Hsieh, Pope.L, the Guerrilla
Girls, Asco, and PESTS, Faye Raquel Gleisser analyzes the gendered, sex-
ualized, and racial politics of risk-taking that are overlooked in prevail-
ing, white-centered narratives of American art. Drawing on art history
and sociology as well as performance, prison, and Black studies, Gleisser
argues that artists’ anticipation of state-sanctioned violence invokes the
concept of “punitive literacy,” a collectively formed understanding of how
to protect oneself and others in a carceral society.

Faye Raquel Gleisser is assistant professor of contemporary art and crit-

ical theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. Gleisser has curated mul-
tiple exhibitions, contributed to a range of exhibition catalogs and edited
volumes, and published articles and reviews in Art Journal, Artforum, and
Journal of Visual Culture, among others.

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Imperial Material
National Symbols in the US
Colonial Empire
Alvita Akiboh
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—
and the role they played in US imperialism.

In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity

has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodi-
ments of empire found in its territories, from the US dollar bill to the
fifty-star flag. These symbolic objects encode the relationships be-
tween territories—including the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands,
Puerto Rico, and Guam—and the empire with which they have been
entangled. Akiboh shows how such items became objects of local
power, transmogrifying their original intent. For even if imperial NOVEMBER

territories were not always front and center for federal lawmakers 320 p. 54 halftones 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82636-3
and administrators, the people living there remained continuously
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aware of the imperial United States, whose presence announced
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82848-0
itself on every bit of currency, every stamp, and the local flag. Paper $30.00s/£24.00
HISTORY

Alvita Akiboh is assistant professor of history at Yale University.

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Vaughan
Williams and
His World
Edited by Byron Adams and
Daniel M. Grimley
A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in
collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative

and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies
stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Rous-
sel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a pe-
riod of critical neglect. What could not have been foreseen is that by Bard Music Festival
the second decade of the twenty-first century, a handful of Vaughan
Williams’s scores would attain immense popularity worldwide. AUGUST
Yet the present renown of these pieces has led to misapprehension 336 p. 20 halftones, 17 line drawings, 3 tables
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
about the nature of Vaughan Williams’s cultural nationalism and a
ISBN-13: 9780226830445
distorted view of his international cultural and musical significance.
Cloth $105.00x/£84.00
Vaughan Williams and His World traces the composer’s stylistic and ISBN-13: 9780226830452

aesthetic development in a broadly chronological fashion, reapprais- Paper $35.00x/£28.00

MUSIC
ing Vaughan Williams’s music composed during and after the Second
World War and affirming his status as an artist whose leftist politi-
cal convictions pervaded his life and music. This volume reclaims
Vaughan Williams’s deeply held progressive ethical and democratic Bard Music Festival
convictions while celebrating his achievements as a composer. Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
August 4–6 and 11–13, 2023
Byron Adams is emeritus professor of musicology at the University of
California, Riverside. He is an associate editor of the Musical Quarterly and
editor of the volume Vaughan Williams Studies as well as the volume Edward
Elgar and His World for the Bard Music Festival series, for which he also
serves as a consultant. Daniel M. Grimley is professor of music and head
of humanities at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at
Merton College. His books include Grieg: Music, Landscape, and Norwegian
Identity; Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism; Delius and the Sound of
Place; and Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence.

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Challenges of
Globalization in the
Measurement of
National Accounts
Edited by Nadim Ahmad,
Brent R. Moulton, J. David
Richardson, and Peter van de Ven
An essential collection at the intersection of global-
ization, production supply chains, corporate finance
regulation, and economic measurement.
National Bureau of Economic Research
Studies in Income and Wealth
The substantial increase in the complexity of global supply chains
and other production arrangements over the past three decades has
JULY
challenged some traditional measures of national income account 512 p. 120 line drawings, 89 tables 6 x 9
aggregates and raised the potential for distortions in conventional ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82589-2
calculations of GDP and productivity. This volume examines a vari- Cloth $135.00x/£108.00
ety of multinational business activities and assesses their impact on BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

economic measurement. Several chapters consider how global sup-

ply chains complicate the interpretation of traditional trade statis-
tics and how new measurement techniques can provide information
about global production arrangements. Other chapters examine the
role of intangible capital in global production, including the output
of factoryless goods producers and the problems of measuring R&D
in a globalized world. The studies in this volume also explore poten-
tial ways to enhance the quality of the national accounts by improv-
ing data collection and analysis and by updating the standards for
measurement.

Nadim Ahmad is deputy director at the Organisation for Economic

Co-operation and Development Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs,
Regions, and Cities. Brent R. Moulton is senior economist at the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund. J. David Richardson is professor emeritus in the
department of economics at Syracuse University and a research associate
of the NBER. Peter van de Ven is former head of national accounts at the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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Risks in
Agricultural
Supply Chains National Bureau of Economic Research

Edited by Pol Antràs and Conference Report

David Zilberman SEPTEMBER

272 p. 155 line drawings, 46 tables 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9780226829227
An essential guide to the role of microeconomic
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incentives, macro policies, and technological change BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
in enhancing agriculture resilience.

Climate change and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have exposed

the vulnerability of global agricultural supply and value chains.
There is a growing awareness of the importance of interactions
within and between these supply chains for understanding the per-
formance of agricultural markets. This book presents a collection
of research studies that develop conceptual models and empirical
analyses of risk resilience and vulnerability in supply chains. The
chapters emphasize the roles played by microeconomic incentives,
macroeconomic policies, and technological change in contributing
to supply chain performance. The studies range widely, consid-
ering for example how agent-based modeling and remote sensing
data can be used to assess the impact of shocks, and how recent
shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the African Swine fever
in China affected agricultural labor markets, the supply chain for
meat products, and the food retailing sector. A recurring theme is
the transformation of agricultural supply chains and the volatility
of food systems in response to microeconomic shocks. The chapters
not only present new findings but also point to important directions
for future research.

Pol Antràs is the Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard Univer-

sity. David Zilberman is distinguished professor and chair of agriculture
and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Requirements for
Certification
of Teachers, Counselors,
Librarians, Administrators for
Elementary and Secondary
Schools, Eighty-Eighth Edition,
2023–2024
Edited by Alain Park
The authoritative annual guide to the requirements
for certification of teachers.
Requirements for Certification for
This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools,
Junior Colleges
of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational
professionals at the elementary and secondary levels. Requirements
NOVEMBER
for Certification is a valuable resource, making much-needed knowl-
160 p. 8 1/2 x 11
edge available in one straightforward volume.
ISBN-13: 9780226830124
Cloth $90.00x/£72.00

Alain Park is a freelance editor based in Chicago. EDUCATION

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Afterall Afterall

DECEMBER

2023, Issue 55/56 175 p. illustrated in color throughout

7 1/2 x 11 3/4

Edited by Elisa Adami, et al. ISBN-13: 9781846382666

Paper $21.00x/£17.00
ART
The newest issue from the triannual journal of art
history and theory.

Established in 1998, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that

provides an in-depth analysis of art and its social, political, and
philosophical contexts. Each issue provides the reader with well-re-
searched contributions that discuss each artist’s work from different
perspectives. Contextual essays and other texts discussing events,
works, or exhibitions further develop the thematic focus of each
issue.
The volume includes contributions on Jonathas de Andrade
(Filipa Ramos in conversation with Nav Haq), Rosana Paulino
(Amanda Carneiro), Richard Mosse (Ailton Krenak in conversation
with Charles Stankievech); contributions from Felix Kalmenson,
“Between Mean Time”; Lotte Arndt, “On the Lubumbashi Biennale”;
Stephanie Bailey on Sin Wai Kin; Corina L. Apostol on “Botanical
Entanglements, Women’s Emancipation, and Coloniality”; and
Adeena Mey on “The Politics of the Forest and Land in Cambodian
Contemporary Art”; an Artist’s Insert from Marwa Arsanios; and
more.

Elisa Adami is a research fellow and editor at Afterall who is based at the
University of the Arts London.

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Metropolitan Metropolitan Museum Journal

Museum Journal,
FEBRUARY
224 p. illustrated in color throughout
9 1/4 x 11 1/2

2023
ISBN-13: 9780226831923
Paper $55.00x/£44.00
ART

Volume 58
Edited by the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
The latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum
Journal series.

Founded in 1968, the Metropolitan Museum Journal is a blind, peer-

reviewed scholarly journal published annually that features original
research on the history, interpretation, conservation, and scientific
examination of works of art in the Museum’s collection. Its scope
encompasses the diversity of artistic practice from antiquity to the
present day. The Journal encourages contributions offering critical
and innovative approaches that will further our understanding of
works of art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is the largest art
museum in the Western Hemisphere.

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Forbidden
Knowledge
Medicine, Science, and Censorship
in Early Modern Italy
Hannah Marcus
An exploration of the censorship of medical books
from their proliferation in print through the prohibi-
tions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.

How and why did books banned in Italy during the Counter-
Reformation end up back on library shelves in the seventeenth
century? Historian Hannah Marcus uncovers how early modern
physicians evaluated the utility of banned books and facilitated their OCTOBER
continued circulation in conversation with Catholic authorities. 360 p. 40 halftones, 2 tables 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9780226829470
Through extensive archival research, Marcus highlights how
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talk of scientific utility, once thought to have begun during the SCIENCE
Scientific Revolution, in fact, began earlier, emerging from ecclesi-
astical censorship and the desire to continue to use banned medical
books. What’s more, this censorship in medicine, which preceded
the Copernican debate in astronomy by sixty years, has had a lasting
impact on how we talk about new and controversial developments in
scientific knowledge. Beautiful illustrations accompany this master-
ful, timely book about the interplay between efforts at intellectual
control and the utility of knowledge.

Hannah Marcus is the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the
Social Sciences in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard
University.

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Sound
Experiments
The Music of the AACM
Paul Steinbeck
A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of
Chicago’s AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and
experimental music.

Founded on Chicago’s South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is
the most influential collective organization in jazz and experimental
music. In Sound Experiments, Paul Steinbeck offers an in-depth his-
torical and musical investigation of the collective, analyzing individ-
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ual performances and formal innovations in captivating detail. He
304 p. 17 halftones, 108 line drawings 6 x 9
pays particular attention to compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams
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and Roscoe Mitchell, the Association’s leading figures, as well as Cloth $32.50s/£26.00
Anthony Braxton, George Lewis (and his famous computer-music ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82953-1
experiment, Voyager), Wadada Leo Smith, and Henry Threadgill, Paper $25.00s/£20.00

along with younger AACM members such as Mike Reed, Tomeka MUSIC

Reid, and Nicole Mitchell.

Sound Experiments represents a sonic history, spanning six
decades, that affords insight not only into the individuals who
created this music but also into an astonishing collective aesthetic.
This aesthetic was uniquely grounded in nurturing communal ties
across generations, as well as a commitment to experimentalism.
The AACM’s compositions broke down the barriers between jazz
and experimental music and made essential contributions to Afri-
can American expression more broadly. Steinbeck shows how the
creators of these extraordinary pieces pioneered novel approaches
to instrumentation, notation, conducting, musical form, and tech-
nology, creating new soundscapes in contemporary music.

Paul Steinbeck is associate professor of music at Washington University

in St. Louis. He is the author of Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of
Chicago and coauthor of Exercises for the Creative Musician.

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Theory and
Practice
Jacques Derrida
Edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf
Translated by David Wills

Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques

Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist
distinction between thinking and acting.

Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Derrida delivered

at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976–77. The topic of “theory and
practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and par-
ticularly the influential interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser.
Derrida’s many questions to Althusser and other thinkers aim at The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
unsettling the distinction between thinking and acting.
JANUARY
Derrida’s investigations set out from Marx’s “Theses on Feuer-
144 p. 6 x 9
bach,” in particular the 11th thesis, which has often been taken as a ISBN-13: 9780226572345
mantra for the “end of philosophy,” to be brought about by Marxist Cloth $38.00s/£31.00
practice. Derrida argues, however, that Althusser has no such end ISBN-13: 9780226829357
in view and that his discourse remains resolutely philosophical, Paper $30.00s/£24.00
PHILOSOPHY
even as it promotes the theory/practice pair as primary values.
This seminar also draws fascinating connections between Marxist
thought and Heidegger and features Derrida’s signature reconsid-
eration of the dichotomy between doing and thinking. This text,
available for the first time in English, shows that Derrida was doing
important work on Marx long before Specters of Marx. As with the
other volumes in this series, it gives readers an unparalleled glimpse
into Derrida’s thinking at its best—spontaneous, unpredictable, and
groundbreaking.

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des

Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities
at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books
published by the University of Chicago Press. David Wills is professor of
French and comparative literature at Brown University.

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The Pensive
Image
Art as a Form of Thinking
Hanneke Grootenboer
Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking
in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and
interpretive thought.

While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been dis-

cussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet
to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered
to raise ontological issues while landscapes direct the mind toward
introspection. Grootenboer moves beyond these considerations to
SEPTEMBER
focus on what remains unspoken in painting, the implicit and inex-
240 p. 16 color plates, 26 halftones 6 x 9
pressible that manifests in a quality she calls pensiveness. Different
ISBN-13: 9780226829449
from self-aware or actively desiring images, pensive images are Paper $28.00s/£20.00
speculative, pointing beyond interpretation. An alternative picto- ART
rial category, pensive images stir us away from interpretation and
toward a state of suspension where thinking through and with the “This deeply thoughtful and com-
image can start. pact book, like a self-aware image,
In fluid prose, Grootenboer explores various modalities of visual also stimulates in its own right,
thinking— as the location where thought should be found, as a ref- prompting a reader toward unpre-
uge enabling reflection, and as an encounter that provokes thought. dictable, wide-ranging pathways
during engagement with it. Every
Through these considerations, she demonstrates that artworks serve
sentence, every reference, gives
as models for thought as much as they act as instruments through
pause, leading to other thoughts or
which thinking can take place. Starting from the premise that paint-
thinkers about art, including con-
ing is itself a type of thinking, The Pensive Image argues that art is
temporary art.”—Sixteenth Century
capable of forming thoughts and shaping concepts in visual terms. Journal

“It is wonderful to have this book. . . .

Hanneke Grootenboer is professor and chair of art history at Radboud
University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She is the author of The Rhetoric A coherent account of the thought
of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life that sounds in ‘stilled images’ of all
Painting and Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century kinds.”—James Elkins, coauthor of
Eye Miniatures. Her work has been published in Art Bulletin, Oxford Art Visual Worlds
Journal, Art History, and numerous other outlets.

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Negative
Certainties
Jean-Luc Marion
Translated by Stephen E. Lewis

Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking

philosophy of human uncertainty.

In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion

challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have
developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and
positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward
our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly
simple—but profoundly provocative—question in order to open up
an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn’t our uncer- Religion and Postmodernism
tainty, our finitude, and rational limitations, one of the few things
we can be certain about? DECEMBER
288 p. 6 x 9
Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive
ISBN-13: 9780226829487
demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable
Paper $35.00s/£28.00
or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every PHILOSOPHY
day that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons and that
these constitute a very real knowledge—a knowledge of the limits of
“Marion is one of today’s most im-
what can be known. Establishing this “negative certainty,” Mari-
portant philosophers. . . . If certain
on applies it to four aporias, or issues of certain uncertainty: the
knowledge is impossible, must we
definition of man; the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; condemn ourselves to hazardous
and the unpredictability of events. Translated for the first time into understandings and skepticism?
English, Negative Certainties is an invigorating work of epistemologi- For Marion, there is a third way,
cal inquiry that will take a central place in Marion’s oeuvre. through negative certainty.”
—Libération, on the French edition
Jean-Luc Marion, member of the Académie française, is emeritus profes-
sor of philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He is the An-
drew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic
Studies, professor of the philosophy of religions and theology, and profes-
sor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy
at the University of Chicago. He also holds the Dominique Dubarle chair at
the Institut Catholique of Paris. He is the author of many books, including
The Erotic Phenomenon and God without Being, both also published by the
University of Chicago Press. Stephen E. Lewis is professor and chair of the
English Department at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He has
translated several works by Jean-Luc Marion.

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Americaʼs
Philosopher
John Locke in American
Intellectual Life
Claire Rydell Arcenas
An account of the surprisingly widespread influence
of philosopher John Locke on American thought and
culture.

The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can

still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch
on issues of identity, republicanism, and the nature of knowledge
itself. Claire Rydell Arcenas’s new book tells the story of Americans’ JULY
longstanding yet ever-mutable obsession with this English thinker’s 280 p. 7 halftones 6 x 9

ideas, a saga whose most recent manifestations have found the so- ISBN-13: 9780226829333
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called Father of Liberalism held up as a right-wing icon.
ISBN-13: 9780226831619
The first book to detail Locke’s trans-Atlantic influence from the
eighteenth century until today, America’s Philosopher shows how and
“A wonderfully wide-ranging and
why interpretations of his ideas have captivated Americans in ways
insightful history of John Locke’s
few other philosophers—from any nation—ever have. As Arcenas changing reputation in America,
makes clear, each generation has essentially remade Locke in its moving from the early eighteenth
own image, drawing inspiration and transmuting his ideas to suit century to the present with terrific
the needs of the particular historical moment. Drawing from a host scholarly command and authority.
of vernacular sources to illuminate Locke’s often contradictory im- The book will surprise and inform
pact on American daily and intellectual life from before the Revolu- every reader invested in the history
tionary War to the present, Arcenas delivers a pathbreaking work in of American political culture. There
the history of ideas. is simply nothing comparable in the
existing literature.”—Daniel Rodgers,
author of As a City on a Hill: The
Claire Rydell Arcenas is assistant professor of history at the University of
Story of America’s Most Famous
Montana.
Lay Sermon.

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Making Our
Neighborhoods,
Making Our
Selves
George C. Galster
Drawing on economics, sociology, geography, and
psychology, Galster delivers a clear-sighted explana-
tion of what neighborhoods are, how they come to
be—and what they should be.

Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a DECEMBER
neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies 416 p. 31 halftones, 5 tables 6 x 9
a much murkier problem: never mind how you define them—how ISBN-13: 9780226829395
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do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their residents?
SOCIAL SCIENCE
In Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, George C. Galster
delves deep into the question of whether American neighborhoods
are as efficient and equitable as they could be—socially, financially,
and emotionally—and, if not, what we can do to change that. Galster
aims to redefine the relationship between places and people, pro-
moting specific policies that reduce inequalities in housing markets
and beyond. Drawing on economics, sociology, geography, and
psychology, Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves delivers
a clear-sighted explanation of what neighborhoods are, how they
come to be—and what they should be.

George C. Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs and

distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Urban Studies and
Planning at Wayne State University.

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Catastrophic
Thinking
Extinction and the Value of
Diversity from Darwin to the
Anthropocene
David Sepkoski
A history of scientific ideas about extinction that
explains why we learned to value diversity as a
precious resource at the same time as we learned
to “think catastrophically” about extinction.

We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scien-

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tists, by the media, by popular culture—of the looming threat of
mass extinction. We’re told that human activity is currently produc-
ing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater magnitude than DECEMBER
360 p. 15 halftones 6 x 9
the five previous geological catastrophes that drastically altered
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life in the past. Indeed, there is a very real concern that the human
Paper $28.00s/£23.00
species may itself be poised to go the way of the dinosaurs, victims SCIENCE
of the most recent mass extinction some 65 million years ago.
How we interpret the causes, consequences, and moral impera- “Catastrophic Thinking offers an
tives of extinction is deeply embedded in the cultural values of any authoritative, compelling, and in-
given historical moment. And as David Sepkoski reveals, the his- sightful account of how biological
tory of scientific ideas about extinction over the past two hundred and cultural diversity has come to
years—as both a past and current process—are implicated in major be so highly prized in contempo-
changes in the way Western society has approached biological and rary Western society. This is a de-
cultural diversity. It seems self-evident to most of us that diverse finitive history of the cultural and
scientific developments, especially
ecosystems and societies are intrinsically valuable, but the current
in paleontology, that have helped
fascination with diversity is a relatively recent phenomenon. In fact,
forge our sense of the modern bio-
the way we value diversity depends crucially on our sense that it is
diversity crisis. Lucid, historically
precarious—that it is something actively threatened, and that its loss sweeping, and accessible, Sepkoski’s
could have profound consequences. In Catastrophic Thinking, Sepkos- book ably reconstructs key aspects
ki uncovers how and why we learned to value diversity as a precious of the larger culture in which ideas
resource at the same time as we learned to think catastrophically about extinction, catastrophe,
about extinction. and diversity emerged.”
—Mark V. Barrow, Jr., Virginia Tech
David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several
books, most recently Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology
as an Evolutionary Discipline, also published by the University of Chicago
Press.

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Shaping Science
Organizations, Decisions, and
Culture on NASAʼs Teams
Janet Vertesi
Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with
NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams to create a compar-
ative account of two great space missions of the early
2000s, Janet Vertesi uncovers how the social orga-
nization of a scientific team affects their scientific
practices and results.

In Shaping Science, Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive eth-

nography with NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams to create a compara-
tive account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although
SEPTEMBER
these missions appear to feature robotic explorers on the frontiers of 352 p. 12 halftones 6 x 9
the solar system, bravely investigating new worlds, their commands ISBN-13: 9780226829555
were issued from millions of miles away by a very human team. Paper $30.00s/£25.00

By examining the two teams’ formal structures, decision-making SCIENCE

techniques, and informal work practices in the day-to-day process of

mission planning, Vertesi shows just how deeply entangled a team’s
local organizational context is with the knowledge they produce
about other worlds.
Using extensive, behind-the-scenes, embedded experiences on
two NASA spacecraft teams, this is the first book to apply organi-
zational studies of work to the laboratory environment in order to
analyze the production of scientific knowledge itself. Engaging and
deeply researched, Shaping Science demonstrates the significant in-
fluence that the social organization of a scientific team can have on
the practices of that team and the results they produce.

Janet Vertesi is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University.

She is the author of Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft
Knowledge of Mars, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and
coeditor of Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited and digitalSTS.

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A Hercules in the
Cradle
War, Money, and the American
State, 1783–1867
Max M. Edling
Explores the origin and evolution of American public
finance and shows how the nation’s rise to great-power
status in the nineteenth century rested on its ability to
go into debt.

Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United
States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the un-
doubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolu- American Beginnings, 1500–1900
tion was far from a foregone conclusion of independence. The con-
quest of the North American continent required violence, suffering,
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and bloodshed. It also required the creation of a national govern- 336 p. 10 line drawings, 18 tables 6 x 9
ment strong enough to go to war against, and acquire territory from, ISBN-13: 9780226829364
its North American rivals. Paper $35.00s/£28.00
HISTORY
In A Hercules in the Cradle, Max M. Edling argues that the federal
government’s abilities to tax and borrow money, developed in the
early years of the republic, were critical to the young nation’s ability “I consider Edling one of the finest
historians of the early American
to wage war and expand its territory. He traces the growth of this
republic in the world today. A Her-
capacity from the time of the founding to the aftermath of the Civil
cules in the Cradle will revolution-
War, including the funding of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War.
ize the way historians think about
Edling maintains that the Founding Fathers clearly understood the the founding and development of
connection between public finance and power: a well-managed pub- the federal state—a state with the
lic debt was a key part of every modern state. Creating a debt would capacity to fulfill the expanding
always be a delicate and contentious matter in the American context, new empire's ‘manifest destiny.’”
however, and statesmen of all persuasions tried to pay down the —Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson
national debt in times of peace. A Hercules in the Cradle explores the Memorial Foundation and University
origin and evolution of American public finance and shows how the of Virginia
nation’s rise to great-power status in the nineteenth century rested
on its ability to go into debt.

Max M. Edling is professor of early American history at King’s College

London.

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Errand into the

Wilderness of
Mirrors
Religion and the History of
the CIA
Michael Graziano
Reveals the previous underexplored influence of reli-
gious thought in building the foundations of the CIA.

Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in

American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956),
AUGUST
about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists,
240 p. 2 line drawings 6 x 9
and David Martin’s Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers ISBN-13: 9780226829432
and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fitting- Paper $36.00s/£29.00
ly, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors investigates the dangers and HISTORY

delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early

molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that
the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures
like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and
overlooked, factor in establishing the agency’s concerns, methods,
and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was
because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of
people and safe places that American agents could use to their ad-
vantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence
officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious
figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes
clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an
international scale. By braiding the development of the modern
intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion,
Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look
at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power.

Michael Graziano is assistant professor of religion at the University of

Northern Iowa.

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An Education in
Judgment
Hannah Arendt and the
Humanities
D. N. Rodowick
Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt
and argues that thinking is an art we practice with
and for each other in our communities.

In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the

definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at
the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interper-
JULY
sonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, the moral
224 p. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
capacity to draw conclusions alone and with others, and in letting ISBN-13: 9780226829500
one’s own judgments be answerable to the potentially contrasting Paper $28.00s/£23.00
judgments of others. Thinking, for Rodowick, is an art we practice PHILOSOPHY
with and learn from each other all the time.
In taking this approach, Rodowick follows the lead of Hannah
Arendt, who made judgment the cornerstone of her conception of
community. What is important for Rodowick, as for Arendt, is the
cultivation of “free relations,” in which we allow our judgments to be
affected and transformed by those of others, creating “an ever-wid-
ening fabric of intersubjective moral consideration.” That is a fragile
fabric, certainly, but one that Rodowick argues is worth pursuing,
caring for, and preserving. This original work thinks with and be-
yond Arendt about the importance of the humanities and what “the
humanities” amounts to beyond the walls of the university.

D. N. Rodowick is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in

the College and the Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Among his books are Philosophy’s Artful Conversation, Elegy for Theory, and
What Philosophy Wants from Images, also published by the University of
Chicago Press.

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The Argument of
the Action
Essays on Greek Poetry
and Philosophy
Seth Benardete
Edited and With an Introduction by Ronna Burger and
Michael Davis

This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies

of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic
dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete’s AUGUST
work, documenting its impressive range. Benardete’s philosophic 456 p. 6 x 9
reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers ISBN-13: 9780226826431
share a common ground, guided by the key he found in the Platonic Paper $30.00s/£24.00

dialogue: probing the meaning of speeches embedded in deeds, he LITERARY CRITICISM

uncovers the unifying intention of the work by tracing the way it

unfolds through a movement of its own. Benardete’s original inter-
pretations of the classics are the fruit of this discovery of the “argu-
ment of the action.”

Seth Benardete (1930–2001) was professor of classics at New York Uni-

versity and lecturer in philosophy at the New School for Social Research
Graduate Faculty. His books include Plato’s “Laws” and The Rhetoric of
Morality and Philosophy, as well as translations of Plato’s Symposium and
other works. Ronna Burger is Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Chair in
the Department of Philosophy at Tulane University. Michael Davis is
professor emeritus of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Platoʼs “Laws”
The Discovery of Being
Seth Benardete
An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws, his
complex final work.

The Laws was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most dif-
ficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract ideal,
the Laws appears to provide practical guidelines for the establish-
ment and maintenance of political order in the real world. Classicist
Seth Benardete offers a rich analysis of each of the twelve books of
the Laws, which illuminates Plato’s major themes and arguments
concerning theology, the soul, justice, and education.
Most importantly, Benardete shows how music in a broad sense,
including drama, epic poetry, and even puppetry, mediates between JANUARY
reason and the city in Plato’s philosophy of law. Benardete also 432 p. 6 x 9
uncovers the work’s concealed ontological dimension, explaining ISBN-13: 9780226826424

why it is hidden and how it can be brought to light. In establishing Paper $30.00s/£24.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE
the coherence and underlying organization of Plato’s last dialogue,
Benardete makes a significant contribution to Platonic studies.

Seth Benardete (1930–2001) was professor of classics at New York Univer-

sity and the author of many books, including The Argument of the Action
and The Rhetoric and Morality of Philosophy, and as well as the translator
of Plato’s Symposium and other works, all published by the University of
Chicago Press.

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Why We Need
Ordinary
Language
Philosophy
Sandra Laugier
Translated by Daniela Ginsburg

Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration

of analytic philosophy and ordinary language.

Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and NOVEMBER
European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American 168 p. 6 x 9
philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, ISBN-13: 9780226829579
and Stanley Cavell to French readers—but until now her books have Paper $30.00s/£24.00

never been published in English. Why We Need Ordinary Language PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy rights that wrong with a topic perfect for English-

language readers: the idea of analytic philosophy. “Sandra Laugier’s book is already
quite influential in France and
Focused on clarity and logical argument, analytic philosophy
Italy, and it has drawn a renewed
has dominated the discipline in the United States, Australia, and
interest in language conceived not
Britain over the past one hundred years, and it is often seen as a
only as a cognitive capacity but
unified, coherent, and inevitable advancement. Laugier questions also as used, and meant, as part of
this assumption, rethinking the very grounds that drove analytic our form of life. This translation is
philosophy to develop and uncovering its inherent tensions and very welcome, even indispensable,
confusions. Drawing on J. L. Austin and the later works of Ludwig and could change the perspective
Wittgenstein, she argues for the solution provided by ordinary lan- on philosophy of language as well
guage philosophy—a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday as on the analytical/continental
use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides—and in doing divide.”—Stanley Cavell, Harvard
so offers a major contribution to the philosophy of language and University
twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.

Sandra Laugier is professor of philosophy at University of Paris I Panthéon

Sorbonne and a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.
She is the author or editor of many books in French and several articles
and chapters in English. Daniela Ginsburg is a freelance translator. She
cotranslated Knowledge of Life by Georges Canguilhem.

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