Fall 2020 Columbia University Press Science Catalog

SCIENCE Fall 2020

New and Forthcoming Titles

CO LU M BIA UN IVERSI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U

Letter from the editor:

The year 2020 has been a difficult one. But each book I have the good fortune to publish is a beacon to a better understanding of our world and ourselves. Please allow me to highlight a few of our new and forthcoming science books that have especially resonated with me while I physically isolate during this pandemic.

First are those titles that gained even greater relevance as COVID-19 became a global crisis. Rethinking Readiness by Jeff Schlegelmilch, the recently promoted director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, outlines five categories of megadisasters (including pandemics) that threaten to overwhelm our capacity to respond and recover—and provides guidance for preparing more effectively. Ruth DeFries’s What Would Nature Do? examines four sometimes counterintuitive lessons from biological evolution and the natural world that we can apply to our complex challenges today. And Sushma Subramanian’s How to Feel takes an introspective, scientific, and cultural approach to our sense of touch—something many of us, myself included, are thinking more about as we remain socially distanced from family and friends.

Two books this year speak to careers and personal experiences in the sciences. Ashley Juavinett’s So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? gives an honest look at that career path.

The Bearded Lady Project, edited by the project’s creators Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano, collects thought-provoking portraits of women scientists in the field and in the lab alongside bracing personal essays.

Elsewhere, in the life sciences, paleontologist Dean Lomax’s Locked in Time selects fifty very special fossils that capture prehistoric animals as they actually lived and died. Also revealing are Yves Agid’s Subconsciousness, a brief but illuminating exploration of how the human brain manages automatic behavior, and Daniel Graham’s An Internet in Your Head, which proposes a new metaphor for the brain: not as a single, unnetworked computer, but as a highly networked internet. In Mind Thief, Han Yu puts forth a deeply researched and deeply moving narrative history of Alzheimer’s disease, from the first patients to current research, its challenges, and future prospects.

I’ll end here on a book that I hope will inspire you to take what action you can: Plastic Free, by Plastic Free July creator Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and writer Joanna Atherfold Finn. It tells the story of how the Plastic Free July environmental movement went global and offers suggestions for how you can reduce your single-use plastic consumption—and why you should consider it, even if you’re feeling a bit cynical these days.

Thank you for reading.

Sincerely, Miranda Martin, editor, science

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CONTENTS

LIFE SCIENCES

How to Feel

Life Sciences...........................................................3

The Science and Meaning of Touch

Physical Sciences....................................................8 New in Paperback................................................11 Best of the Backlist............................................... 13

Sushma Subramanian

Of Related Interest...............................................15 Ordering Information..........................................18

Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to Miranda Martin (mm5451@columbia.edu).

For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website cup.columbia.edu.

Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press.

Titles published by the Transcript Publishing, ibi-

dem Press, Fernwood Publishing, and the Chinese

How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19932-2 February 2021 264 pages

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Mind Thief

press directly.

The Story of Alzheimer's Han Yu

Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer’s that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery of “presenile dementia” in the early twentieth century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19870-7

March 2021 368 pages 8 illus.

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LIFE SCIENCES

Locked in Time

The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries

Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils

The Evidence and the People Who Found It

Dean R. Lomax

Donald R. Prothero

Dean R. Lomax examines the extraordinary direct evidence of fossils captured in the midst of real-life action: dinosaurs sitting on their eggs like birds, Jurassic flies preserved while mating, a T. rex infected by parasites. Each fossil, he reveals, tells a unique story about prehistoric life.

Many recall behaviors typical of animals familiar to us today, evoking the chain of evolution that links all living things to their distant ancestors. $29.95 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19728-1

Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In twenty-five vignettes, he recounts the dramatic stories of the people who made crucial discoveries, placing each moment in the context of what it represented for the progress of science. The volume also features the stories of animal species strange and familiar, including humans—and our ties to some of our closest relatives and more distant cousins.

June 2021 232 pages 137 illus.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19036-7

December 2020 376 pages 154 illus.

Fantastic Fossils

On the Prowl

Donald R. Prothero

Mark Hallett and John M. Harris

A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric Life

In Search of Big Cat Origins

Illustrated by Mary Persis Williams

In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the paleontologist’s journey. He details the best places to look for fossils, the art of how to find them, and how to classify the major types. He also provides expert wisdom about typical fossils that an average person can hope to collect and how to hunt fossils responsibly and ethically. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19578-2 2020 336 pages 364 illus.

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On the Prowl is a fully illustrated and approachable guide to the evolution of the big cats and what it portends for their conservation today. Mark Hallett and John M. Harris trace the origins of these iconic carnivores, venturing down the evolutionary pathways that produced the diversity of big cat species that have walked the earth. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18450-2 2020 272 pages 153 illus.

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LIFE SCIENCES

An Internet in Your Head

Subsconsciousness

Automatic Behavior and the Brain

A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works

Yves Agid

Daniel Graham

Searching for the Subconscious makes clear the role the subconscious plays in our lives, highlighting the physiological basis of the subconscious, with particular reference to the more ancient parts of the brain (the basal ganglia) when compared to the more recently evolved cerebral cortex; identifying brain pathologies arising from malfunction of the subconscious; and demonstrating the unsuspected implications for society that this—still poorly understood— mental function entails. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20127-8

The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer—it is a communication system, like the internet. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19604-8 May 2021 352 pages 42 illus.

$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-20126-1 July 2021 200 pages

So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?

Music, Math, and Mind

David Sulzer

The Physics and Neuroscience of Music

Ashley Juavinett

So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? is a contemporary and engaging guide for aspiring neuroscientists of diverse backgrounds and interests. Ashley Juavinett provides a candid look at the field, offering practical guidance that explores everything from programming to personal stories.

David Sulzer offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency–(including none), Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19089-3

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$120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19378-8

December 2020 328 pages 17 illus

April 2021 272 pages

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LIFE SCIENCES

Mind Ecologies

The Alchemy of Disease

Body, Brain, and World

How Chemicals and Toxins Cause Cancer and Other Illnesses

Matthew Crippen and Jay Schulkin

Matthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended nature of mind. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19025-1 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19024-4 2020 336 pages

John Whysner

In The Alchemy of Disease, John Whysner offers an accessible and compelling history of toxicology and its key findings. He details the experiments and discoveries that revealed the causal connections between chemical exposures and diseases. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19166-1 2020 352 pages

Biotechnology Law

The Political Ecology of Malaria

A Primer for Scientists

Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda

Alan J. Morrison

Matian van Soest

This book is an essential introduction to biotechnology law for scientists and other non-attorneys with biotech backgrounds. Biotechnology Law is a clear, concise, and practical primer on the topic, replete with straightforward, real-world examples to illustrate each key concept.

Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa.

Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri-urban zones of Uganda’s capital Kampala against the backdrop of recent socioecological transformations.

$70.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-17938-6

$75.00 paper 978-3-8376-5053-2

2020 328 pages

2020 230 pages 26 illus.

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Making Diabetes

The Practice of Medicine as Being in Time

The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda

Raymond C. Barfield

Arlena Siobhan Liggins

Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the twentyfirst century. Tracing the effects of a diagnostic device, the glucometer, Arlena Siobhan Liggins examines how it contributes to the making of diabetes in contemporary Uganda. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4897-3 2020 300 pages 14 illus.

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The practice of medicine serves people who are facing limits in their lives brought on by the threats of disease and death. Because good doctoring is so intimately related to the complex impact these threats have on our limited lives, Raymond C. Barfield argues that the significance and meaning of the practice of medicine is inextricably bound to existence in time. $35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1427-6 2020 200 pages

IBIDEM PRESS

Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation

The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Transmission of Acupuncture

Current Debates and International Perspectives

Yang Zhenhai

Edited by Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz

Edited by Liu Lihong Translated by Sabine Wilms Introduction by Heiner Fruehauf

This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. It covers core issues in the global ethical debate such as donating, procuring, allocating, and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives.

This book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu Lihong’s discipleship with Yang Zhenhai, one of the last remaining master practitioners of Daoist acupuncture in mainland China.

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4643-6

2020 192 pages 21 illus.

2020 320 pages

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PHYSICAL SCIENCES

What Would Nature Do?

Rethinking Readiness

Ruth DeFries

Jeff Schlegelmilch

A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters

A Guide for Our Uncertain Times

Foreword by Irwin Redlener

Not long ago, the future seemed predictable.

Now, certainty about the course of civilization has given way to fear and doubt. Raging fires, ravaging storms, political upheavals, financial collapse, and deadly pandemics lie ahead—or are already here. Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather these crises.

Rethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today, detailing the dangers of pandemics, climate change, infrastructure collapse, cyberattacks, and nuclear conflict.

$26.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19942-1

$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19041-1

December 2020 264 pages 19 illus.

$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19040-4 2020 200 pages

Plastic Free

The Bearded Lady Project

The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters

Challenging the Face of Science

Edited by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn

This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns took off and shares lessons from its success. From narrating marine-debris research expeditions to tracking what actually happens to our waste to sharing insights from behavioral research, Plastic Free speaks to the massive scale of the plastic waste problem and how we can tackle it together. $28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19862-2 December 2020 272 pages

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Challenging persistent gender biases in the sciences, the Bearded Lady Project puts the spotlight on underrepresented geoscientists in the field and in the lab. This book pairs portraits of these scientists after donning fake beards with personal essays in which they tell their stories. $40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19804-2 2020 208 pages 11 illus.-

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PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Super Polluters

The Sustainable City

Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of ClimateDisrupting Emissions

Second Edition

Steven Cohen and Guo Dong

Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer

Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity, pinpointing who bears the most responsibility for the energy sector’s vast emissions and what can be done about them. Grant, Jorgenson, and Longhofer demonstrate which energy and climate policies are most effective at abating power-plant pollution, emphasizing how mobilized citizen activism shapes those outcomes. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19217-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19216-3

This second edition of The Sustainable City dives deeper into the financing of sustainable infrastructure and initiatives and puts additional emphasis on the roles that individual citizens and various stakeholders can play. It also reviews current trends in urban inequality and discusses whether a model of sustainability that embraces a multidimensional approach to development and a multi-stakeholder approach to decisionmaking can foster social inclusion. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19655-0

2020 296 pages

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SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES

June 2021 328 pages

Climate Change Science

To Be a Water Protector

John C. Mutter

Winona LaDuke

A Primer for Sustainable Development

This book is a primer on the essential science for grasping the workings of climate change and climate prediction. It is accessible for readers with little to no background in science, with an emphasis on the needs of those studying sustainable development. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19223-1 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19222-4 2020 208 pages

Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems, and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years—sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth, and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3. $25.00 paper 978-1-77363-267-4

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The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers

2020 128 pages

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Vanishing Ice

Drought

Vivien Gornitz

Benjamin I. Cook

Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas

Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon.

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies. $40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-17689-7 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-17688-0 2019 232 pages 57 illus.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16824-3 2019 400 pages 55 illus.

More Powerful Together

Climate Change

The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future Second Edition

Conversations With Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders

Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon

Jen Gobby

This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the

warming of our planet.

$55.00 / £46.00 paper 978-0-231-17283-7 $175.00 / £144.00 cloth 978-0-231-17282-0 2018 520 pages 239 illus.

As an activist, Jen Gobby has been actively involved with climate justice, anti-pipeline, and Indigenous land defense movements in Canada for many years. As a researcher, she has sat down with folks from these movements and asked them to reflect on their experiences with movement building. Bringing their incredibly poignant insights into dialogue with scholarly and activist literature on transformation, Gobby weaves together a powerful story about how change happens. $26.00 paper 978-1-77363-226-1 2020 266 pages

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Morphing Intelligence

Origins of Darwin's Evolution

Catherine Malabou Translated by Carolyn Shread

J. David Archibald

Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place

From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains

$22.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-18737-4 February 2021 224 pages

THE WELLEK LIBRARY LECTURES

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17685-9 2020 208 pages

The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries

Getting Risk Right

Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks

Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them

Geoffrey C. Kabat

Donald R. Prothero

CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE $27.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-16647-8

$26.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-18603-2

2020 272 pages 13 illus.

July 2021 488 pages 227 illus.

The Diagnostic System

The Ecocentrists

Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled

A History of Radical Environmentalism

Keith Makoto Woodhouse WINNER, S-USIH BOOK

Jason Schnittker

PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR U.S. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

WINNER, SECTION ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL kkk

$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-16589-1

2020 368 pages

Mind Beyond Brain Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal David E. Presti

$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18957-6 2020 240 pages

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$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17807-5

2020 392 pages 13 illus.

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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

After Eunuchs

Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them

Howard Chiang

Donald R. Prothero

$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18261-4 2020 368 pages 160 illus.

WINNER, BONNIE AND VERN L. BULLOUGH BOOK AWARD, SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF SEXUALITY WINNER, INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF

China’s Green Religion

Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future

ASIA SCHOLARS (ICAS), HUMANITIES BOOK PRIZE $26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18579-0 2020 416 pages 51 illus

Learn or Die

James Miller

Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization Edward D. Hess

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17587-6 2020 226 pages 10 illus.

WINNER, CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC

Live Sustainably Now A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life Karl Coplan

TITLE $18.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-17025-3 2020 280 pages 3 illus.

COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING

$22.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-19091-6 April 2021 224 pages 16 illus.

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BEST OF THE BACKLIST

Reductionism in Art and Brain Science

The Madhouse Effect

How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Bridging the Two Cultures Eric R. Kandel

Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles The Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. The Madhouse Effect offers a clever lampoon of the fallacious claims and absurd arguments of climate-science deniers.

$22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17963-8

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2018 240 pages 63 illus.

2018 240 pages 105 illus.

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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

The Collapse of Western Civilization

David J. Helfand

Naomi Oreskes and

A View from the Future

Scientific Habits of Mind

Erik M. Conway

A step-by-step strategy for protecting ourselves against the phony claims, trendy pseudoscience, and sloppy thinking that permeate our world. $22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-16873-1 $29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-16872-4 2016 344 pages 53 illus.

In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change.

Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, this book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so-called “carbon combustion complex” that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. $9.95 / £8.99 paper 978-0-231-16954-7 2014 104 pages 1 Illus.

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Dispossession and the Environment

Hot Carbon

Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

John F. Marra

Paige West

There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. In Hot Carbon, John F. Marra tells the untold story of this scientific revolution, weaving together the workings of the many disciplines that employ carbon-14 with gripping tales of the individuals who pioneered its possibilities.

Paige West’s searing study of Papua New Guinea reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today’s globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18670-4

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-17879-2

2019 280 pages 45 illus.

$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-17878-5

2016 216 pages 12 illus.

LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF LECTURES

Modern Humans

Neuroenology

John F. Hoffecker

Gordon M. Shepherd

How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine

Their African Origin and Global Dispersal WINNER, CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million years ago and their spread throughout the world. John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a major transition in the evolution of living systems.

Gordon Shepherd shows that creating the taste of wine engages more of the brain than does any other human behavior. He comprehensively explains how specific sensory pathways in the cerebral cortex create the memory of wine and how language is used to identify and imprint wine characteristics.

$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-16076-6

$24.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-17700-9

2017 520 pages 75 illus.

2016 224 pages 34 illus.

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The Terroir of Whiskey

Energy’s Digital Future

A Distiller’s Journey Into the Flavor of Place

Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security

Rob Arnold

Amy Myers Jaffe

Rob Arnold takes readers on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland. He puts the spotlight on a new generation of distillers, plant breeders, and local farmers who are bringing back long-forgotten grain flavors and creating new ones in pursuit of terroir. $27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19458-7 December 2020 368 pages

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to maintain its global influence in a post-oil era.

She surveys new advances coming to market in on-demand travel services, automation, logistics, energy storage, artificial intelligence, and 3-D printing and explores how this rapid pace of innovation is altering international security dynamics in fundamental ways. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-19682-6 April 2021 288 pages

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Underwater

Better Data Visualizations

Jonathan Schwabish

Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States

A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks

Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a chart’s design. $28.95 / £23.00 paper 978-0-231-19311-5 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19310-8

January 2021 320 pages 553 illus.

Rebecca Elliott

In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes.

She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides flood insurance protection for virtually all homes and small businesses that require it.

Elliott follows controversies over the NFIP from its establishment in the 1960s to the present. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19027-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19026-8 December 2020 296 pages

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Infowhelm

Nature and Value

Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data

Edited by Akeel Bilgrami

Heather Houser

Heather Houser argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises. Infowhelm analyzes how artists transform the techniques of the sciences into aesthetic material, repurposing data on everything from butterfly migration to oil spills and experimenting with data collection, classification, and remote sensing. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18733-6 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-18732-9 2020 336 pages

This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19463-1 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19462-4 2020 312 pages

LITERATURE NOW

Doctors’ Orders

The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession Tania M. Jenkins

Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians before, during, and after residency training. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that are taken for granted and that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals.

Artificial Whiteness Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz

Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19491-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19490-7 November 2020 352 pages 25 illus.

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Pat Treusch provides a technofeminist intervention that not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-5203-1

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Theodore Modis shows that some fundamental truths cast into scientific laws are ubiquitous and enter our lives in subtle ways that we may not be aware of. In a kind of twenty-first century version of Plato’s dialogues he offers new insights on life’s many possibilities and ambiguities everywhere from managing business and personal relationships to finding purpose in one’s existence. $32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-3-8382-1447-4 2020 238 pages 32 illus..

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In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the United States. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra, and anemia, and proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. Boel Bener presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions, and concerns—a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-5163-8 2020 200 pages 32 illus.

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