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Dear Readers,

I am proud to announce the Fall 2026 Columbia catalog, which features books that go from New York City to the world. Starting here in Manhattan, this catalog transports us to far-flung times and places—and connects them to where we are today.

We begin with New York, 1860 (p. 1), a portrait of the city on the brink of the Civil War. Fighting for New York (p. 24) shares lessons from activists who strove to make the city more inclusive, and The People’s Paper (p. 25) tells the story of a New York institution, the Daily News

Then we travel around the world: the jungles of Borneo in the epic novel The Crossing of the Boars (p. 7), the depths of forced labor camps in Inside China’s Secret Prisons (p. 14), wartime Vietnam’s shadow world of espionage in Face to Face with the CIA (p. 15), the Palestine of Sirhan Sirhan in I Did It for My Country (p. 16), and the complexities of modern India in Partha Chatterjee’s For a Just Republic (p. 17), stopping over in France for a peek inside Napoleon’s Closet (p. 6).

In a time of borders and barriers, the catalog highlights what the world has brought to the United States. Anna D. JaroszyńskaKirchmann relates how Polish immigrants gave us pierogi (p. 2) and other delights. In When Africa Comes to America (p. 30), Neeraj Kaushal foregrounds the contributions of the latest wave of immigrants. And Banking on Belonging (p. 32) makes a timely case that refugee entrepreneurs benefit us all.

This catalog shows that our list is as international as ever, but deeply rooted in our New York home. In order to publish these groundbreaking books, we rely on the Columbia University community, the broader university press community, and our readers. Thank you for helping support our books and our mission.

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New York, 1860

JOSHUA K. LEON

A PORTRAIT OF NEW YORK IN THE YEAR BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR

“Year of meteors! brooding year!” wrote Walt Whitman about the year 1860. New York City was a tinderbox. As the country’s trading capital, the city was caught in an unholy alliance with slave-owning cotton planters. Southern sympathizers—the mayor among them—shared the streets with abolitionists like Henry Ward Beecher. Abraham Lincoln began his unlikely march to the presidency in a speech at Cooper Union, and torch-bearing militiamen marched for him while merchants and secessionists organized against him. The city was a place of parades, séances, quack cures, dire poverty, and political fervor, hopelessly riven by the looming presidential election.

This book is a biography of New York City in the year before the Civil War, from the moment the telegraph brought news of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in October 1859 to the first shots on Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861. Joshua K. Leon tells this story month by month through the eyes of those who lived it: the obsessive diarist George Templeton Strong, the “Queen of Bohemia” Ada Clare, the journalist Thomas Butler Gunn as he goes undercover in the secessionist South, the showman P. T. Barnum with his American Museum in downtown Manhattan, the frustrated actor John Wilkes Booth, and many more. New York, 1860 recovers lives led in the shadow of catastrophe, capturing the dreams, romances, laughter, and fears of New Yorkers as history bore down on them. In vivid detail, this book brings their city to life in all its filth and glory.

JOSHUA K. LEON is professor of political science at Iona University. From 2022 to 2023 he was a Robert David Lion Gardiner Fellow at the New York Historical. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Progressive, and Dissent, among others. His most recent book is World Cities in History: Urban Networks from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Dutch Empire (2024).

“This extraordinary book makes urban social history and Civil War history remarkably accessible, tangible, and personal. The life of an impressive range of historical characters—journalists, athletes, actors, activists, artists, politicians, scoundrels, and astute observers— comes into focus through the author’s unique storytelling style.”

—David N Gellman, author of Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York

$29.95t / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-21327-1

$120.00 / £94.00  cloth 978-0-231-21326-4

DECEMBER  496 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 29 b&w illustrations

HISTORY / NEW YORK

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“This is a richly imagined history of Polish food, with a focus on its evolution in the United States. It is written in a highly accessible style, deftly interweaving the author’s memories and experiences in Poland and the United States with a social, political, and cultural history of Polish culinary culture from the earliest sources to the present.”

—Barbara

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ronald S Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Pierogi

An American Story of Polish Food

ANNA D. JAROSZYŃSKA-KIRCHMANN

AN APPETIZING HISTORY OF POLISH IMMIGRANT CUISINE

Today, pierogi are the most recognizable Polish food in the United States and a symbol of Polish American identity. How did this humble dish attain such lofty status?

Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann explores the surprising history of pierogi, tracing how Polish cuisine evolved amid the multiethnic landscape of the United States. When Polish immigrants crossed the ocean, they brought with them their traditional cuisine, which came to signify enduring attachment to homeland, family, religion, and culture. In time, new generations and new immigrant waves gradually transformed Polish American culinary culture. Pierogi takes readers into the kitchens where Polish American families, friend groups, and community organizations carry on the custom of cooking and eating together. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann highlights small- and large-scale pierogi producers who adapted traditional dishes for the US market and food celebrities who mainstreamed them, and she traces the symbolic representation of pierogi in popular culture. She also shares personal stories, from her family’s resourcefulness in communist-era Poland facing near-constant food shortages to her experiences as an immigrant to the United States in the 1980s. Drawing on sources from historical and recent cookbooks to interviews with Polish American entrepreneurs and community members, this book offers new insights for anyone interested in East Central European and American foodways.

$32.00* / £28.00  cloth 978-0-231-22346-1

AUGUST  376 pages / 6" x 9" / 35 b&w images

FOOD HISTORY

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

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ANNA D. JAROSZYŃSKA-KIRCHMANN is Distinguished Professor of History and CSU Professor Emerita at Eastern Connecticut State University. She is the author of The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956 (2004) and The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press (2015) and coeditor of Polish American Voices: A Documentary History, 1608–2020 (2024), among other books. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann is editor in chief of the journal Polish American Studies and past president of the Polish American Historical Association.

All the World in Thee

An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Poetry from Homer to Hughes

STEPHANIE BURT, DREW DANIEL, AND MELISSA E. SANCHEZ, EDITORS

A COMPANION TO THE VARIETY OF QUEER VERSE

Poets have depicted queer desire, same-sex love, and life outside gender norms since the beginning of the written word. Across eras and generations, such experiences could be put into verse even when they would not have been named as we name them today. All the World in Thee presents a selection of poems about LGBTQ+ experiences, spanning from English translations of Homer, Sappho, and Catullus to canonical poetry by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Tennyson through early-twentieth-century writers including Angelina Weld Grimké, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes. It features verse by wellknown figures like John Donne, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Gertrude Stein alongside lesser-known or recently rediscovered works, such as the first lesbian love poems recorded in Great Britain, bawdy eighteenth-century ballads, and homoerotic late-nineteenth-century poems about cowboys and football players. A critical introduction discusses patterns of LGBTQ+ poetry that persist across genres and centuries as well as the fraught history of representations of whiteness and racial difference. Edited by three prominent poetry critics and scholars, All the World in Thee provides a poignant and powerful new way to understand LGBTQ+ identities and feelings over time.

STEPHANIE BURT is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. Her many books include Super Gay Poems: LGBTQ+ Poetry After Stonewall (2025).

DREW DANIEL is professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Throbbing Gristle’s Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (2008). He is also one half of the acclaimed electronic band Matmos.

MELISSA E. SANCHEZ is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies (2025), among other books.

“All the World in Thee collects in one place for the first time a capacious and scholarly compendium of examples of queer Anglophone poetics across literary history. Against claims that queerness is any sense ‘new,’ this landmark anthology insists that queer being has not only always existed but always been articulate and imaginative and significant in the life of English letters. All the World in Thee slides neatly into a conspicuous gap on the shelf.”

—Nikki Skillman, author of The Lyric in the Age of the Brain

$26.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22253-2

$110.00 / £92.00  cloth 978-0-231-20296-1

DECEMBER  264 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" POETRY

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“A must-read for all who are concerned about the rise of authoritarianism and the vicious attacks on women’s leadership. By showcasing the experiences of women political leaders, Robinson debunks the stereotype that only men can lead in challenging times.

Women political leaders, she demonstrates, have the winning formula for defending democracy— governing for all and advancing gender equality.”

—Geeta Rao Gupta, former US ambassador at large for global women’s issues

$26.95t / £22.00  cloth 978-0-231-22174-0

AVAILABLE NOW  296 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

GLOBAL POLITICS

A COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS BOOK

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Women in Power

Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism

LINDA ROBINSON

HOW WOMEN LEADERS ARE RESISTING

AUTHORITARIAN FORCES

Around the world, antidemocratic forces are taking aim at women leaders. Misogynistic authoritarianism has entered the mainstream, seeking to reverse decades of progress. Weaponized digital technologies have unleashed sexualized smears and violent threats. There is a deep connection between attacks on women and attacks on democracy—and female leaders can show us how to fight back.

Linda Robinson—an award-winning journalist and foreign policy expert—tells the powerful stories of the women on the frontlines of the battle between democracy and authoritarianism. Despite age-old obstacles and virulent new dangers, these remarkable leaders have strengthened their countries, expanded gender equality, and promoted policies that benefit all. Tsai Ing-wen crafted a strategy to defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression while advancing social reforms. Estonia’s Kaja Kallas and Moldova’s Maia Sandu fought Russian hybrid warfare by pursuing European integration. Balkan leaders Vjosa Osmani and Nataša Pirc Musar bolstered their democracies against Serbian and Russian destabilization. Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados became a global champion for climate justice. Robinson distills the hard-won lessons of these and other recent leaders—including New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, Finland’s Sanna Marin, and Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands—providing a roadmap for countries facing existential threats. Timely and vivid, this book spotlights women’s leadership amid the global crisis of democracy.

LINDA ROBINSON is senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was previously director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation. A former foreign correspondent, Robinson is the author of three acclaimed and best-selling books about America’s “long wars.”

Mary Kay

How a Cosmetics Empire Transformed Women’s Work in America

CASSANDRA L. YACOVAZZI

HOW ONE BEAUTY ENTREPRENEUR FOREVER CHANGED THE FACE OF WOMEN’S

WORK

When Mary Kay Ash founded her company, Beauty by Mary Kay, in 1963, women had limited options in a male-dominated business world. By the 1970s, the cosmetics and skincare company had a salesforce of tens of thousands and became the first woman-founded firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mary Kay and the pink Cadillac turned into cultural icons, and the company remains a billion-dollar global business. Often dismissed as a lipstick-selling side hustle or labeled a predatory multilevel marketing scheme, Mary Kay drove a major and surprising shift in women’s economic opportunities outside the office.

This book tells the story of Mary Kay Ash and the cosmetics firm that bears her name, from its founding and growth to the distinctive gendered corporate culture she cultivated. Ash combined direct sales and multilevel marketing strategies with workplace flexibility, a rhetoric of “be your own boss,” and a sense of community and recognition for American women. She monetized women’s social networks and fostered a lifestyle brand built on values of faith, family, and free enterprise. Cassandra L. Yacovazzi explores how women in Mary Kay have navigated opportunity, structural constraints, and shifting gender norms. She also considers Mary Kay Ash’s complex personal life and carefully constructed public image, simultaneously a maternal icon and a driven executive. This book provides new insights into the history of the beauty industry, female entrepreneurship, and women’s work in the United States.

CASSANDRA L. YACOVAZZI is associate professor of history at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America (2018). Her mother was a longtime Mary Kay saleswoman.

“This is a rigorous work of historical investigation that examines the stories of Mary Kay, the business, and Mary Kay Ash, the leader. It’s incredibly important to have a scholarly take on this history, given that Ash founded the company at a time when it was rare for women to lead companies and rarer still to base the success of that company on a large contingent of women workers alone.”

—Melissa Ooten, coeditor of Audacious Voices: Profiles in Intersectional Feminism

$26.00* / £20.00  paper 978-0-231-21622-7

$110.00 / £85.00  cloth 978-0-231-21621-0

NOVEMBER  232 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 15 b&w illustrations HISTORY

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“Napoleon’s Closet demonstrates not only that fashion is political but that it actually shapes politics.

Waller has created a new genre, blending history, biography, gender, and fashion studies—all presented in elegant, lively prose. This book opens a new portal into French history, proving that seismic, global events— such as revolutions—are often generated and sustained by sartorial changes and details too often overlooked. This is radical, feminist scholarship—and a fabulous read.”

—Rhonda Garelick, author of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

$28.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22333-1

$110.00 / £85.00  cloth 978-0-231-16434-4

AUGUST  360 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 21 b&w images

HISTORY / GENDER STUDIES

GENDER AND CULTURE

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Napoleon’s Closet

The Emperor, the Priest, and the Men Who Invented Modern Fashion

MARGARET WALLER

THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF MODERN MALE CLOTHING

Why do the most powerful men in the West wear sober, understated attire? Until the “Great Masculine Renunciation” in the eighteenth century, luxurious and often flamboyant clothing signaled social superiority for men as well as women.

Margaret Waller’s fresh account of this historic recalibration of gender and class centers on an unlikely pair: Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart who crowned himself emperor of France, and Pierre Antoine Le Boux La Mésangère, the defrocked priest who became Europe’s premier fashion editor. Looking at knee breeches, schoolboy and officer uniforms, priests’ robes, and imperial regalia, this book shows how misogyny and homophobia helped make Bonaparte, La Mésangère, and their peers men.

Napoleon’s Closet shows when male fashion editors first associated women with fashion and urged men to renounce “feminine” frivolity in their dress. It connects French revolutionaries’ masculinist construction of citizenship to the Church’s long-standing requirement that its rank and file wear plain, modest clothing. It demonstrates that although Napoleon’s reinstitution of sumptuous uniforms for men might seem the exception, he reserved for himself the modern male privilege of dressing down.

A lively and unorthodox exploration of the paradoxical history of male clothing, this book unveils the origins of modern ideas about normative masculinity, queerness, and “the closet.”

MARGARET WALLER is professor emerita of French at Pomona College. She is the author of The Male Malady: Fictions of Impotence in the French Romantic Novel (1992) and the translator of Julia Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language (1984).

The Crossing of the Boars

A Novel ZHANG GUIXING

Translated by Christopher Rea and Julie M. Wang

A VIVID TALE OF ANTICOLONIAL

STRUGGLE AND BETRAYAL IN THE JUNGLES OF BORNEO

In December 1941, Japanese troops landed on the northern coast of Borneo and began a brutal threeyear, eight-month occupation. Set in this forgotten theater of World War II, The Crossing of the Boars is a gripping magical-realist tale of a multiethnic village fighting for survival.

Opening years after the war, with the Village of the Boars enveloped in wildfire smoke and confronted with a puzzling suicide, Zhang Guixing’s novel immerses readers in a tropical society plagued by violence. Once overrun with wild boars, Krokop finds itself overrun with Japanese soldiers. The bloodshed of the initial invasion sparks a protracted guerilla resistance led by such characters as Boar King Chu, Oddball Zhung, Turtle Tsin, Red-Face Guan, Flat-Nose Chiew, and Skinny Shim. The jungle takes its own toll with wildfires, headhunters, crocodile attacks, macaque wars, and visitations by the vampire Pontianak. A phantasmagoria of jungle shadows, yōkai demons, and opium hallucinations make the hunters and the hunted alike unable to distinguish friend from foe, human from beast, and self from other.

Celebrated for its linguistic virtuosity reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez, William Faulkner, James Joyce, and Salman Rushdie, The Crossing of the Boars is a stylistic masterpiece, a dazzling mix of ecological fantasy and labyrinthine mystery.

ZHANG GUIXING is one of the most innovative contemporary authors writing in Chinese. His several acclaimed novels, set in the rainforests of his native Borneo, include My South Seas Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing (2007) and Elephant Herd: A Novel (2025), also published in English translation by Columbia University Press.

CHRISTOPHER REA is a professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia.

JULIE M. WANG is an educator and translator based in Vancouver, Canada.

“Monumental in its gaze, microscopic in its rendition of local detail, The Crossing of the Boars is a major work from one of Southeast Asia’s most important writers. Raw, colorful, and violent, yet somehow playful, it scrambles our ideas of the historical epic and constantly asks questions of how we read and whose stories matter. The polyphonic effect of its sprawling, multiethnic cast of characters is vividly brought to life by Christopher Rea and Julie M. Wang in this masterwork of translation.”

—Tash Aw, author of The South

$30.00* / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-21767-5

$120.00 / £94.00  cloth 978-0-231-21766-8

AUGUST  544 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

FICTION IN TRANSLATION

MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN

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“While not universally embraced, starlings are adaptive, clever, and remarkably successful. Bird on the Street highlights what starlings have taught us about evolution and ecology. Readers will leave with a new appreciation of starlings, invasive species, and even ourselves.”

—Lauren Riters, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bird on the Street

The Unnatural History of Starlings

JULIA M. ZICHELLO

THE STORY OF AN IGNORED YET INVINCIBLE BIRD

Starlings cause a lot of trouble. Labeled one of the world’s worst invasive bird species, they devastate farms, drive out native birds, and interfere with aircraft. Many birdwatchers openly despise starlings, or more politely, look down on them. Yet all the traits that lead us to see starlings as pests are also signs of their extraordinary adaptability. Among the most successful birds on the planet, they are easy to overlook—and too easy to blame.

Blending natural history with science memoir, Bird on the Street traces how starlings illuminate the mechanisms of evolution and the relationship between humans and wildlife. Following starlings from the streets and skies into museums and laboratories, Julia M. Zichello invites readers into the daily practice of science: the small discoveries and frequent setbacks, moments of doubt as well as wonder. If we set aside our hostility and see starlings for what they are, Zichello argues, we gain new insight into not only evolution and ecology but also ourselves. Humans introduced starlings to new continents and then relentlessly transformed landscapes in ways perfectly suited to their success. Ultimately, this invasive species offers a mirror reflecting the human tendency to reshape the natural world.

At once scientifically rigorous and deeply personal, this book shows how the story of a familiar bird leads to a richer understanding of our ecological and emotional entanglements with nature.

$24.00* / £20.00  paper 978-0-231-22634-9

$100.00 / £78.00  cloth 978-0-231-21334-9

NOVEMBER  216 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 4 b&w figures, 32 color illustrations in insert

SCIENCE

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JULIA M. ZICHELLO is an evolutionary biologist and science writer. She teaches at Hunter College, City University of New York, and is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and Connecticut Audubon

Liars, Cheats, and Copycats

Trickery and Deception in Nature

JAMES O'HANLON

STORIES OF CREATURES ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT SURVIVE THROUGH ELABORATE CUNNING

Meet some of the world’s most dastardly creatures, who lie, cheat, and deceive for a living.

There’s the deadly praying mantis that looks like an innocent pink flower. The assassin bug that strums spider webs to lure in a tasty snack. The cuttlefish that changes color to hide its romantic intentions.

To understand how these creatures swindle their way to survival, Liars, Cheats, and Copycats reveals the science behind camouflage, mimicry, and masquerade. Taking readers on a journey from tropical rainforests to the darkness of deep ocean trenches, James O’Hanlon explores how animals and plants use deception to avoid predators, lure in prey, and even reproduce.

From creatures that disappear in front of your eyes to ones that misdirect their foes like masterful magicians, this book exposes the endless ways that animals can survive through breathtaking trickery— and illuminates the evolution of these widespread strategies.

JAMES O’HANLON is an award-winning science communicator. He has published more than thirty academic papers, and his popular science writing has appeared in ABC News (Australia), Australian Geographic, The Conversation, and Biosphere Magazine. He is the author of Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders (2024).

“O'Hanlon provides an accessible introduction to how camouflage and signal adaptations in animals and plants can deceive receivers. Liars, Cheats, and Copycats enables a wide audience to engage with several of the coolest and most bizarre natural phenomena that have been investigated by sensory biologists and ecologists.”

—William Allen, Swansea University

$28.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22594-6

$110.00 / £92.00  cloth 978-0-231-22593-9

OCTOBER  240 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 3 b&w figures, 18 color figures

SCIENCE

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“The Brain at Twilight explores the neuroscience behind experiences of death and severe brain injury from an empathetic perspective. Tucker weaves together compelling case stories that highlight the human stakes for patients, their families, and the clinical teams who care for them.”

—Helmi Lutsep, Oregon Health and Science University

The Brain at Twilight

The Neuroscience of Our Last Words and Moments

TARVEZ TUCKER, MD

WHAT NEUROSCIENCE TELLS US ABOUT DYING

What happens in the brain on the brink of death?

One person’s last words might be lucid, revealing deep-seated thoughts and emotions. Another person might be brought to intensive care and never awaken. Electroencephalograms of dying patients record surprising activity in portions of the brain that control vision and memory. Death is not a discrete event in which all cerebral processes abruptly cease but a complex transition, whose many mysteries neuroscientists are beginning to unravel. Interweaving the powerful stories of patients with accessible explanations of neuroscience, The Brain at Twilight illuminates consciousness, mortality, and the critical decisions that define our final moments. Tarvez Tucker—a neurologist with decades of experience treating patients with critical brain illnesses and injuries—takes readers inside the world of neurological intensive care. She shares insights into the structure and functions of the brain as well as the social and emotional complexities of end-of-life care. Tucker also explores zones of partial consciousness, such as vegetative and minimally conscious states, which challenge preconceptions about what being alive truly means. Showing how neuroscience is providing new insights into the last moments of life, this book is for all readers interested in the brain, near-death experiences, and the social and medical meanings of death and dying.

TARVEZ TUCKER, MD, is a professor of neurology and neurocritical care and an intensive care physician at Oregon Health and Science University. She has been at the bedside of thousands of patients, hearing their last thoughts as they approach—or defy—death. Tucker is a recipient of the American Academy of Neurology Award for Creative Expression of Human Values in Neurology.

$28.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22553-3

$110.00 / £92.00  cloth 978-0-231-22552-6

DECEMBER  288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

NEUROSCIENCE

The Resilient Pediatric Brain

Stories from Child Neurology

ANDREW SILVERMAN, MD

POWERFUL NARRATIVES FROM THE PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY CLINIC

A toddler wobbles strangely after a seemingly minor fall in the tub. A five-year-old, once delighted by her crayons, loses the ability to name her favorite colors. A teenager becomes convinced that his parents are imposters, the world around him reduced to an elaborate stage. An adolescent with migraines sees reality periodically shrink down—people, rooms, entire spaces doll-sized and distant. Through these and other fascinating cases, The Resilient Pediatric Brain explores how children—and the families and clinicians who care for them—respond when the developing brain is disrupted by disease or injury.

Drawing from his training in pediatric neurology, Andrew Silverman tells the stories of children facing illnesses—ranging from rare immune syndromes to epilepsy and developmental disorders—and contextualizes them within contemporary medical practice and emerging research. He blends vivid human detail with clear explanations of neuroscience, inviting readers to share in the diagnostic puzzles and moments of discovery that shape pediatric neurological care. Combining narrative medicine with clinical insight, Silverman considers the ethical and emotional challenges of caring for children with serious conditions while reflecting on broader themes of uncertainty, resilience, adaptation, and healing. Engaging, informative, and empathetic, this book offers a personal, in-depth view of pediatric brain disease for families, students, practitioners, and other curious readers alike.

ANDREW SILVERMAN, MD, is a pediatric neurologist and writer based in New York. He attended the Yale School of Medicine and completed general pediatrics and child neurology training at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

“The Resilient Pediatric Brain provides an insight into the fascinating, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying world of pediatric neurology. Silverman’s well-written and thoughtful narratives of children hospitalized with serious illnesses weave a compelling story of the brain’s capacity for resilience, tenacity, and strength—seen in pediatric patients, their caregivers, and the physicians who care for them.”

—Alison Christy, editor in chief, Journal of Child Neurology

$24.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22531-1

$100.00 / £92.00  cloth 978-0-231-22530-4

JANUARY  216 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 6 b&w figures

MEDICINE / SCIENCE

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Listening

MIRIAM RASCH

HOW TO REALLY LISTEN AMID THE CACOPHONIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND DAILY LIFE

When everyone can make themselves heard, who cares to listen? How can we learn to pay attention without simply waiting for our turn to speak? What does it truly mean to be a good listener?

Miriam Rasch offers a philosophical and personal exploration of the ethics of listening, understanding it not as a passive act but as a relationship between the self and the world. This relationship is always mediated—by technologies such as algorithms and social media, by techniques like dialogue and attention, and by our bodies and surroundings.

“Stop speaking, start listening. This is what Miriam Rasch invites us to do. Short-circuit your attention span and dive into the audiosphere. Using a rich sample of stories from literature and the mediated everyday, Rasch convinces the reader that without a renewed skill of listening there will be no dialogue or conversation.”

—Geert Lovink, media theorist and internet critic

$20.00* / £16.99  paper 978-0-231-22233-4

$80.00 / £68.00  cloth 978-0-231-22232-7

SEPTEMBER  168 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" PHILOSOPHY

NO LIMITS

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Rasch investigates listening in different settings across four chapters. The first explores the effects of technology, the second examines dialogue and its pitfalls, the third considers questions of testimony and bearing witness to trauma and violence, and the fourth shifts focus to nonverbal sounds such as music and nature as a way to discover meaning.

Listening brings together philosophy of technology, ethics, and aesthetics with examples from film, literature, and art as well as reflections on listening as an everyday practice. This book recasts listening as an act of generosity—an active and open-ended process that unites giving and receiving.

MIRIAM RASCH is a philosopher and literary scholar affiliated with the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She writes reviews, essays, and columns about literature, ethics, and technology and is the author of several books, including Frictie, which was awarded the 2021 Socratesbeker (Socrates Cup) for the best Dutch-language philosophical book.

Frivolity

A Defense

JEHANNE DUBROW

WHY FRIVOLOUSNESS IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE FABRIC OF LIFE

Why must everything be so important—so dour and solemn, so grim and austere? How about a feather boa, some frilly lace, and a bright splash of pink? In Frivolity, Jehanne Dubrow stands up for the seemingly shallow and trifling, calling for a reconsideration of what we find worthy and what we dismiss.

This book is a provocation. It offers a defense of the pursuits, objects, and people denigrated as frivolous, asking why we so readily scorn them and why, in particular, the label is so often tied to femininity and queerness. Its 101 sections move lightly across literature, art, and popular culture, from Susan Sontag, Sei Shōnagon, Jane Austen, and Mozart to Barbie, Nora Ephron rom-coms, exclamation points, and Dubrow’s own “Year of Perfect Skin.” Written in a lyrical style, this book takes a both intimate and rigorous approach to thinking about the frivolous, blending personal essay with scholarship.

For Dubrow, frivolity is a way of affirming the importance of joy and silliness. And don’t we need a little more of both in an era made all too serious by autocracy and terror?

JEHANNE DUBROW is a distinguished research professor and a professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas. She is the author of ten poetry collections; three books of nonfiction, including Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia, 2022); and a craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma (2025).

“In 101 associative leaps, Jehanne Dubrow flits from one frivolity to another, wondering what her love of them might signify. From the pursuit of flawless skin to lists, punctuation marks, the color pink, perfume, and romance, Dubrow explodes the opposition between silly and serious, revealing the necessity of lightness.

A whip-smart pleasure.”

—Margot Singer, author of Underground Fugue

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PHILOSOPHY / LITERARY STUDIES

NO LIMITS

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“For someone like me, who lived in exile with my father and spent my childhood displaced, reading Orville Schell’s work is deeply affecting. His sincerity, the richness of detail, and his tireless pursuit of truth, preserving it as evidence for humanity, reflect an immense effort that I find profoundly moving and striking.”

—Ai Weiwei, artist, activist, and author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

Inside China’s Secret Prisons An

Undercover Exposé and Its Lasting Legacy

ORVILLE SCHELL

A GROUNDBREAKING INVESTIGATION OF CHINESE FORCED LABOR CAMPS AND ITS ONGOING RELEVANCE

In 1991, the China analyst and journalist Orville Schell worked on an in-depth 60 Minutes investigation of the People’s Republic of China’s vast prison camp system, revealing that products made with forced labor were being surreptitiously and illegally sold to the United States. Inside China’s Secret Prisons is his gripping account of this milestone exposé— and how its findings still reverberate today.

Schell weaves a fast-paced story of high-level journalism while uncovering the duplicity and rule-bending techniques that China uses to sell cheap goods abroad. He takes readers on a hairraising journey into China’s secretive penal colonies, recounting how he worked with a former prisoner to sneak in and film with a hidden camera. They documented that China compels inmates, including political prisoners, to toil in prison factories—and that prison officials would even sell products to CBS correspondents posing as American businessmen. Schell also confesses how he set aside his account of the project, originally written for the New Yorker, out of fear of punitive consequences from the Chinese Communist Party for his Chinese-born wife, her relatives, and his own career, illuminating how Chinese intimidation tactics can drive journalists, scholars, and even businesspeople to self-censorship.

This powerful and incisive book shines a light on not only China’s forced labor camps—where hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs are now incarcerated—but also the moral quandaries faced by reporters and scholars who seek to investigate China’s shrouded and brutal penal system.

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JOURNALISM

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ORVILLE SCHELL is the Arthur Ross Vice President of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society and the former dean of the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of numerous books, most recently My Old Home: A Novel of Exile (2021).

Face to Face with the CIA

The Memoir of a North Vietnamese Spymaster

NGUY Ễ N TÀI

Translated by Quan Manh Ha and Merle L. Pribbenow

Foreword by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

A NORTH VIETNAMESE LEADER'S ACCOUNT OF HIS IMPRISONMENT BY AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE

In late 1970, South Vietnamese forces captured a man who, they soon discovered, was no ordinary prisoner. The highest-ranking North Vietnamese officer taken captive during the war, Nguyễn Tài ran an extensive clandestine security and intelligence network in Saigon that infiltrated the South Vietnamese government and carried out targeted assassinations. His arrest triggered one of the most intense and prolonged interrogations of the war, conducted by both South Vietnamese and American intelligence services, including the CIA. After many years of service in the postwar government, Nguyễn Tài published this memoir in 1999, recounting how he resisted relentless efforts to break him. This gripping account is at once a rare glimpse into the shadow war of espionage and a harrowing story of survival. Both chilling and thoughtprovoking, Face to Face with the CIA is essential reading for anyone interested in Cold War history and the moral complexities of intelligence work.

NGUY ễ N TÀI (1926–2016) was a prominent Vietnamese revolutionary and senior communist intelligence officer whose life was deeply intertwined with Vietnam’s fight for independence. After the country’s reunification, he came under suspicion of cooperating with his American interrogators but was eventually cleared and subsequently held influential positions in the postwar government before retiring in 1992.

QUAN MANH HA is professor of English at the University of Montana. He is the cotranslator of Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath (Columbia, 2020), among other books.

MERLE L. PRIBBENOW is a former CIA Vietnamese language and operations officer. He is the translator of Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975 (2002), among other works.

LIEN-HANG T. NGUYEN is Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University.

“The story of Nguyễ n Tài’s incarceration is more than a Vietnam War story; it is an absorbing exploration of the psychology of torture. Unsettling and even revolting at times, this book offers perspectives and insights that are as thought-provoking as they are illuminating. It also serves as a stark reminder that the United States— and not just its enemies—has a long history of flouting the laws of war.”

—Pierre Asselin, author of Vietnam’s American War: A New History (second edition)

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GLOBAL HISTORY

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“Fischbach’s carefully researched and enlightening study of Sirhan Sirhan’s assassination of Robert F. Kennedy uncovers surprising connections to US-Middle East relations. Especially striking are his findings on the competing efforts, in the Middle East and the United States alike, to amplify—or to bury—Sirhan’s Palestinian political motives.”

—Pamela Pennock, author of Rethinking Arab American Activism

I Did It for My Country

Sirhan Sirhan, Palestine, and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

MICHAEL R. FISCHBACH

THE PALESTINIAN ANGLE ON THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY

In June 1968, a twenty-four-year-old Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan B. Sirhan assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, marking yet another killing in a decade haunted by political violence. As he was being subdued, Sirhan shouted, “I can explain. I did it for my country,” by which he meant Palestine. On trial, he testified that his motives included opposition to Zionism, with particular anger directed toward Kennedy because of the senator’s call for arms sales to Israel. Despite Sirhan’s confessions, the significance of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the slaying largely escaped notice—or was actively obscured.

I Did It for My Country is a revelatory account of Sirhan and the political dimensions of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It illuminates Sirhan’s Palestinian background, war-torn childhood, and experience of displacement. Michael R. Fischbach uncovers how prominent actors—from the United States and Middle Eastern governments to Jewish and Arab American groups—deliberately depoliticized the assassination by downplaying Sirhan’s grievances about American support for Israel. He also examines why US authorities investigated possible Arab co-conspirators and explores how Palestinians understood Sirhan’s action, as well as how Sirhan has maintained his Palestinian nationalism during his decades in prison. Drawing on in-depth archival research—including FBI and CIA documents—this book pinpoints a missed opportunity to consider how US foreign policy could affect domestic security.

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HISTORY

MICHAEL R. FISCHBACH is professor of history at Randolph-Macon College. His books include The Movement and the Middle East: How the ArabIsraeli Conflict Divided the American Left (2019) and Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (2018).

For a Just Republic

The People of India and the State

PARTHA CHATTERJEE

THEORIZING NATION, STATE, AND PEOPLE THROUGH THE LENS OF INDIA

From the forging of a constitution for the postindependence republic to the reign of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party today, the idea of India as a nation-state has predominated. Yet the country encompasses a vast diversity of communities, regions, languages, and cultures, calling into question any unitary identity.

In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years, the renowned scholar Partha Chatterjee challenges common notions of “state” and “nation,” arguing for a more capacious understanding of “the people.” He examines the varying trajectories of the Indian nation-state, as opposed to what he calls the “people-nation,” analyzing the complex connections between the two. Chatterjee offers a persuasive political-economic analysis of the transition from the time of developmental planning to the present era of capitalist dominance. He combines keen analysis of changing caste-class-gender formations in the country’s diverse regions with a close examination of the uneven spread of India’s capitalist economy.

By looking beyond the nation-state, this book unveils many hidden aspects of Indian politics today—and makes a powerful case for a future in which the federal system respects the equal worth of each part of the country.

PARTHA CHATTERJEE is professor emeritus of anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University and honorary professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His recent books include I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today (Columbia, 2019).

“This is a pathbreaking contribution to understanding Indian politics. Chatterjee’s innovative ideas, including his account of the regionally diverse imaginings of the nation expressed in local print languages, will have major implications for rethinking Indian nationalism, the ‘idea of India,’ Indian federalism, minority rights, and many other crucial topics.”

—Pranab Bardhan, distinguished professor emeritus of economics, University of California, Berkeley

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POLITICS

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“An engaging and intelligent book written by one of the most interesting people working in the field. When Companies Rule cuts across disciplines and will find an audience, not just among people interested in international relations, but more generally in the politics of business.”

—Henry

Farrell, coauthor of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

When Companies Rule

Corporate Power from the East India Company to Silicon Valley

MAHA RAFI ATAL

WHAT HISTORY CAN TEACH US ABOUT CONTEMPORARY CORPORATE POWER

Company towns are back. From Indian oil refineries to Kenyan canned food factories to Amazon warehouses, companies today rule over the daily lives of around a million people. In these enclaves of unregulated corporate power, bosses suspend workers’ health care to break up strikes, police residents’ sex lives, and control what children learn in school. These stories echo those of colonial-era companies that ruled whole countries with private armies and raise fears for the rights of workers and citizens today.

In When Companies Rule, Maha Rafi Atal blends investigative journalism and historical research to tell the gripping four-hundred-year story of company rule over daily life. Atal argues that we have misunderstood what makes corporations powerful. Corporations are not rational profit-seekers pursuing their business needs. Instead, corporate rulers are trying to build their own ideal societies. These utopian visions shape not only how managers rule but also whether people in these communities accept their authority. Managers’ moral values and personal ambitions, not the pursuit of profit, are the ultimate source of companies’ political power.

Atal illustrates this argument with examples ranging from the East India Company to Silicon Valley, and she explores what superpowerful corporations in science fiction reveal about real-world company rule. This book offers a new account of how corporate power works—and what we can do to limit it.

$30.00* / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-22290-7

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GLOBAL POLITICS

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MAHA RAFI ATAL is the Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Glasgow and an award-winning journalist who investigates the intersection of business and politics. She is a frequent media commentator on economic policy and an advisor to public sector bodies and nonprofits that work to hold corporations accountable.

Thoughtful Data

A Guide to Empathy and Equity in Data Communication

JONATHAN SCHWABISH AND ALICE FENG

HOW TO VISUALIZE DATA WITH PRINCIPLES OF INCLUSION IN MIND

Data shape how we understand the world—and how the world treats people. Yet data are never neutral. From redlining maps that entrenched racial segregation to charts that quietly reinforce stereotypes, the ways data are collected, analyzed, and visualized can produce real and lasting harm.

Thoughtful Data is a guide to practicing data work ethically, empathetically, and inclusively. Drawing on interviews with nearly 150 experts across research, journalism, design, data science, and policy, Jonathan Schwabish and Alice Feng argue that foregrounding equity is not at odds with rigor but is essential to it. They invite readers to reconsider the everyday decisions embedded in data projects—from language choices and category definitions to visual defaults and framing—and to reflect on how those decisions affect the people represented in the data and those who consume it.

Thoughtful Data provides a framework for critical thinking and intentional practice across the full data life cycle: collection, analysis, and communication. It situates data visualization within broader debates about equity, trust, power, and accountability while remaining practical and accessible to nonspecialists. This book equips readers with the tools to recognize bias, question defaults, engage communities, and communicate in ways that respect human dignity— helping ensure that data are used not just accurately but responsibly.

JONATHAN SCHWABISH is an economist and data visualization specialist who helps teams and organizations across the world improve how they communicate their work. He is the author of four books on data communication, including Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (Columbia, 2021).

ALICE FENG is a data visualization designer, developer, and instructor. She has worked with research organizations, policy institutions, and newsrooms and teaches courses on equitable data communication.

“Drawing on interviews with people in the field, Thoughtful Data provides a comprehensive look at data equity communication. The book offers actionable guidance to practitioners, funders, designers, educators, and others in the data visualization community.”

—Catherine D'Ignazio, author of Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

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DATA

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“From the American mastodon to Australopithecus, this book is an in-depth tour of the most remarkable fossil mammals known to paleontology. This very readable book will inform and educate laypeople, students, and professionals alike—another masterful contribution by Prothero, one of our most accomplished natural history writers.”

—Spencer G Lucas, author of Dinosaurs: The Textbook

The Story of the Mammals in 25 Discoveries

Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them

DONALD R. PROTHERO

ASTONISHING STORIES FROM THE EVOLUTION OF MAMMALS

How do we know that mammals lived alongside the dinosaurs? What proves that whales evolved from four-legged land animals and are related to hippos? Did hunting by humans or climate change cause the extinction of mammoths? How far back would we need to go to see that horses were once almost identical to tapirs and rhinos?

Donald R. Prothero takes readers on a journey through the history of mammals, opening a window onto the worlds of some of the most incredible and peculiar animals that ever lived. He tells the dramatic stories of fossil findings and the paleontologists who unraveled them, showing how scientific ingenuity advanced our knowledge of both ancient and present-day mammals. Alongside iconic animals like mastodons, dire wolves, and sabertoothed cats, Prothero introduces readers to a vast range of little-known prehistoric creatures. Some resemble their living relatives, but with a twist: short-necked giraffes, camels without humps, rhinos without horns, bear-sized beavers. Others are like nothing alive today, such as chalicotheres, which look like a cross between a horse and gorilla but with claws, and uintatheres, which one scientist compared to “giant horned bunnies.” Lively and informative, The Story of the Mammals in 25 Discoveries highlights the wonder, beauty, and strangeness of the creatures that have shared our world.

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SCIENCE / PALEONTOLOGY

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DONALD R. PROTHERO is a paleontology and geology researcher, teacher, and author. He is adjunct professor of geological sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His Columbia University Press books include The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life (2024).

Trilobites A to Z A Paleozoic Encyclopedia

ANDY SECHER

Forewords by David Rudkin and Greg Edgecombe

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDEBOOK TO TRILOBITE FOSSILS

Trilobites are among the most remarkable lifeforms ever to exist. First emerging 521 million years ago, these organisms—animals with highly developed eyes, sturdy walking legs, and protective outer shells—evolved into more than 25,000 scientifically recognized species. During their 270 million years of inhabiting the ancient seas, trilobites proliferated into an ever-more-fanciful cast of characters, from graceful Cambrian olenellids to robust Ordovician asaphids to spine-covered Devonian phacopids. Their fossil remains, which today can be found on every continent, testify to the astonishing breadth and scope of trilobite heterogeneity.

Trilobites A to Z is the ultimate reference guide to these incredible invertebrates. It features reader-friendly, concise yet information-packed introductions to nearly 1,500 trilobite species, each accompanied by a full-color photograph. The book illuminates the similarities and differences among trilobite specimens from around the globe, bringing to life the complexity and beauty of these longextinct creatures. Andy Secher—one of the world’s leading trilobite collectors—also offers practical guidance for readers seeking to identify specimens of their own. Comprehensive and entertainingly written, this essential encyclopedia will inform and delight trilobite enthusiasts and collectors as well as students and scholars of invertebrate paleontology.

ANDY SECHER has been a field associate in paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History for more than two decades. He curates one of the world’s largest private trilobite collections. Secher is the author of Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic (Columbia, 2022) and The Trilobite Collector’s Guide (Columbia, 2024), and he was the longtime editor of the rock music magazine Hit Parader

DAVID RUDKIN is the former assistant curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum.

GREG EDGECOMBE is a merit researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London.

“Trilobites A to Z presents a comprehensive overview of the trilobite class through spectacular photos and descriptions of hundreds of specimens from throughout the Paleozoic era. A reference guide through which anyone interested in trilobites will be able to compare specimens of similar genera that are found throughout the world, this is indeed Secher’s magnum opus on this topic.”

—Martin Shugar, paleontology field associate, American Museum of Natural History

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SCIENCE / PALEONTOLOGY

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“Most of us know little about the crazy ways that parasites influence the lives and evolution of their hosts. Puppet Masters of Evolution changes that, offering a rich sampling of parasites, life histories, and evolutionary roles that will captivate any curious reader.”

—John Janovy Jr , author of Life Lessons from a Parasite: What Tapeworms, Flukes, Lice, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity’s Most Difficult Problems

Puppet Masters of Evolution How Parasites Shape Life

ANDREW A. DAVINACK

THE HIDDEN ROLES PARASITES PLAY IN THE STORY OF LIFE

For centuries, parasites have been seen as nature’s freeloaders—organisms that exploit their hosts without contributing anything in return. But what if we have been thinking about them all wrong? In Puppet Masters of Evolution, Andrew A. Davinack reveals that parasites are far more than agents of disease or grotesque passengers along for the ride: They are powerful forces that have shaped the course of evolution. From microscopic viruses embedded in DNA to worms that alter the behavior of their hosts, parasites have influenced how species evolve, how ecosystems function, and even how human history unfolds.

Drawing on cutting-edge research in molecular genetics, ecology, and evolutionary biology, this book takes readers on a journey through the strange and often unsettling world of parasitism. It explores the powers of mind-controlling parasites, the evolutionary arms race between hosts and invaders, and the surprising roles parasites play in regulating immune systems and stabilizing ecosystems. Davinack challenges the conventional view of parasites as purely harmful, showing that they are the hidden architects of life—spurring biological innovation, driving coevolution, and maintaining biodiversity. He also examines how human activity, from climate change to biotechnology and artificial intelligence, is transforming the future of parasitism in profound and unpredictable ways. Blending scientific insight with vivid storytelling, Puppet Masters of Evolution offers a bold new perspective on life itself.

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SCIENCE

ANDREW A. DAVINACK is a marine biologist and an assistant professor of biology at Wheaton College Massachusetts. His research focuses on parasites in marine ecosystems, invasive species, and molecular approaches to understanding biodiversity.

On Aging

Solving the Mysteries of Late-Life Maladies

DAVID GEMS

HOW NEW ADVANCES ARE SOLVING THE PUZZLE OF THE BIOLOGY OF AGING

Aging is now the main cause of disease worldwide, including heart disease and stroke, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, lung disease, arthritis, and many more. But the causes of aging have remained one of the great unsolved mysteries in science—and the solution might hold the key to treating a vast number of maladies.

This book offers an accessible yet rigorous account of recent research that has begun to unlock the biology of aging. David Gems—a research scientist with decades of experience in this field—surveys the major ideas and discoveries, including a new synthesis of understanding that represents a revolutionary breakthrough. Rooted in evolutionary theory and genetics, this new model explains how aging works, why it is determined by genes, and the ways it causes late-life disease.

Besides discussing the scientific advances, Gems also considers their implications for how we perceive and live with aging, as well as the potential longterm consequences of this research. Written in an inviting, engaging style with literary, philosophical, and personal interludes, this book helps readers understand aging in terms of not only its underlying biology but also its deeper meaning. On Aging is at once an illuminating overview for general readers and an authoritative reference for students and practitioners in biology, medicine, and healthcare.

DAVID GEMS is professor of biogerontology and research director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London.

“This book reexamines ideas on life, development, and aging in a much wider context, blending personal anecdote, accurate science, and a wide-ranging knowledge of literature, mythology, and history.”

—Suresh Rattan, emeritus professor, Aarhus University

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SCIENCE / HEALTH

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“A fascinating and important account of the underappreciated role that activists play in changing policies and institutions.”

—Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“These stories should inspire any reader to join the movement to make health justice a reality.”

—Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters

Fighting for New York Activism for Health and Social Justice

Since the

1960s

NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG

PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVISM

What would New York City look like without the hard-won victories of social movements? From the Young Lords campaigns to prevent lead poisoning and tuberculosis in the late 1960s to ACT UP’s fight for people affected by AIDS in the early 1990s through Housing Justice for All’s recent advocacy for tenants, generations of activists have struggled to make the city a healthier and more equal place for all.

Fighting for New York is a pragmatic account of health-focused social movements over the past several decades. Nicholas Freudenberg—a longtime public health professional, researcher, and activist— examines a variety of cases, from campaigns for reproductive rights, environmental justice, and free school lunch to the Close Rikers Island and Fight for $15 movements. He analyzes how activist leaders, members, and organizations approach injustices, build coalitions, frame their messages, and define success, considering which strategies worked and which failed to achieve their goals.

Fighting for New York synthesizes the lessons of these campaigns into practical guidance for the activists, health professionals, and policy makers of today and tomorrow, suggesting specific strategies gleaned from decades of experience. Highlighting the voices of activists, this book is a riveting account of struggles to improve living conditions and uphold human dignity.

$32.00* / £28.00  paper 978-0-231-22140-5

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HISTORY / ACTIVISM / NEW YORK

All Rights: Columbia University Press

NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG is distinguished professor emeritus of public health at the City University of New York School of Public Health. He has studied, evaluated, and participated in activism on childhood lead poisoning, AIDS prevention, urban food policy, environmental justice, and mass incarceration. Freudenberg is the author of several books, most recently At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health (2021).

The People’s Paper

The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News

MATTHEW PRESSMAN

THE DAILY NEWS AND THE HISTORY OF POPULIST MEDIA

When the New York Daily News launched in 1919, it didn’t just sell papers—it reinvented them. Brash, populist, and impossible to ignore, the United States’ first tabloid quickly became the country’s bestselling newspaper, reaching millions of readers and reshaping the way Americans consumed news. The swaggering epitome of big-city journalism, it mixed sensationalist stories about crime and celebrities with in-depth reporting about local and national politics. Yet by the 1970s, the paper was struggling to adapt to changes both in New York City and in how Americans got their news. On top of that, the Daily News faced bruising competition with Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, a devastating strike, a shrinking newsroom, and repeated accusations of racism. Somehow, for decades, it weathered these setbacks—until the late 2010s, when the cuts went so deep that they reduced the publication to a shadow of its former self.

Drawing on never-before-cited documents and more than sixty interviews, The People’s Paper tells the story of the Daily News through the eyes of the owners, journalists, and readers who defined it. Matthew Pressman shows how the paper both reflected and shaped the transformations of New York City and American journalism. He argues that tabloids, despite their reputation, were crucial to an informed public, giving ordinary people reliable news in a relatable, digestible way. Lively and definitive, The People’s Paper links the history of the Daily News to today’s crises in media and politics.

MATTHEW PRESSMAN is an associate professor of journalism at Seton Hall University. He is the author of On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News (2018). Pressman previously worked for eight years at Vanity Fair, where he was an assistant editor and online columnist.

“The People’s Paper reclaims the important history of the tabloid in advancing serious journalism and political commentary, as well as the splashy stories and headlines that made it more well-known. Like the newspaper it chronicles, Pressman’s account is lively and entertaining while also rooted in rigorous research that takes seriously an icon of our popular culture and the people who have read it and produced it over the past century.”

—Kathryn Cramer Brownell, author of 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News

$28.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22200-6

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OCTOBER 320 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 22 b&w illustrations JOURNALISM / NEW YORK

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“With brisk, stylish, and wellpaced writing, Warren offers a commendably accessible critical appraisal of Bob Dylan’s cinematic work. By combining biographical insight with interpretive commentary, I’m Glad I’m Not Me takes a hybrid approach that feels fresh and distinctive, skillfully bridging the gap between fan engagement and scholarly analysis.”

—Jonathan Hodgers, author of Bob Dylan on Film: The Intersection of Music and Visuals

I’m Glad I’m Not Me Bob Dylan on Film

ETHAN WARREN

WHAT BOB DYLAN’S FILMS TELL US ABOUT HIS PERSONA

Bob Dylan’s art and image are at once rivetingly iconic and eternally elusive. Yet one aspect of his career remains underexplored: his appearances and depictions on screen. Since the mid-1960s, Dylan has been the subject of documentaries, an actor in feature films, and the auteur of his own film projects, as well as the inspiration for both traditional and unconventional biopics.

I’m Glad I’m Not Me explores Dylan on film, from D. A. Pennebaker’s direct cinema classic Dont Look Back to Martin Scorsese’s epic documentaries No Direction Home and Rolling Thunder Revue, and from his confounding feature Masked and Anonymous to the fractured mythology of Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There. Ethan Warren places these and other films, including a variety of overlooked, derided, and unmade projects, into conversation. He also considers Dylan’s music videos, from the MTV era to the streaming age, and paintings, which adapt stills from both classic and forgotten films. Tracing the evolution of Dylan’s on-screen persona, Warren casts the performer’s cinematic appearances as extensions of his lifelong project of creating an endlessly shapeshifting identity. Through this lens, I’m Glad I’m Not Me offers a new view of the life and work of one of the most influential yet least knowable celebrities in American history.

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SEPTEMBER  256 pages / 6" x 9" / 14 film stills

FILM / MUSIC WALLFLOWER

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ETHAN WARREN is the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Wallflower, 2023).

Big American Writer

The Bilingual Jack Kerouac

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CLOUTIER

THE FRENCH-CANADIAN ROOTS OF AN ICONIC BEAT WRITER

Jack Kerouac has long been mythologized as an all-American figure: the “King of the Beats,” forever hitchhiking on the road, who gave voice to a postwar generation of rebels. In fact, he was born Jean-Louis Kérouac to immigrant parents from Québec and was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. Throughout his career, Kerouac not only secretly composed French manuscripts but also served as a self-translator to negotiate between French and English. In his bilingual journals, Kerouac lamented the wounds of assimilation and what he called the impossibility of living in French in the United States.

Big American Writer recasts Jack Kerouac as an ethnic, bilingual author, demonstrating that his French Canadian upbringing and background were formative to his breakthrough literary achievements. Building on years of archival excavation, JeanChristophe Cloutier demystifies the Beat writer’s complex compositional practices and techniques of self-translation. Reading Kerouac’s secret French manuscripts and multilingual prose poem Old Angel Midnight alongside well-known works such as On the Road, Cloutier demonstrates how Kerouac’s writing engages with the complexity of ethnic identity in the United States. Offering a new lens on an often-misunderstood figure, Big American Writer shows why Kerouac’s bilingualism changes how we understand his place in North American literature.

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CLOUTIER is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature (Columbia, 2019) and editor of Kerouac’s La vie est d’hommage and Sur le chemin. He also translated two of Kerouac’s French manuscripts for The Unknown Kerouac from the Library of America.

“Cloutier makes an unassailable case that Kerouac’s writings in French are essential to his development as a writer in English, illuminating his work in ways that previous studies have only started to. Big American Writer is an outstanding contribution to the belatedly emerging assessment of Kerouac as one of the most important writers in US, North American, and world literature.”

—Hassan Melehy, author of Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory

$30.00* / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-22245-7

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OCTOBER  304 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 41 b&w images

LITERARY STUDIES

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“This cutting-edge collection of essays examines both how religious and spiritual traditions influence space exploration and how space exploration changes our understandings of religious and spiritual traditions. From ET encounters and ‘starseed’ movements to the ‘alienness’ of religious experiences and transhumanist visions of the future, this book asks us to rethink space travel— technology transfer, science fiction, and imagination—as something that materializes the worlds and bodies here on Earth.”

—Whitney Bauman, author of Critical Planetary Romanticism: Religious and Scientific Sources for a New Materialism

$30.00* / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-22490-1

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NOVEMBER  272 pages / 6" x 9" / 12 b&w images

RELIGION

Cosmic Missions

Religion and Space Exploration

MARY-JANE RUBENSTEIN AND LANCE GHARAVI, EDITORS

THE CONCEALED RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF “OUTER SPACE”

Why are the planets named after gods? Why did Buzz Aldrin take communion on the lunar surface? And why did Soviet propaganda posters triumphantly declare that cosmonauts found no god in heaven?

Cosmic Missions reveals the deep yet unacknowledged relationships between religion and the exploration of outer space. Bringing together cosmologists, historians, theologians, philosophers, the Vatican Astronomer, an Afrofuturist, and an Indigenous geographer, this book uncovers how space exploration has never been a purely technical and scientific enterprise: Religion operates within and across every dimension of our cosmic ambitions. Contributors examine these entanglements across numerous national contexts, a wide variety of religious traditions, and the new techno-utopian movements of Silicon Valley. Chapters range from the Cold War space race as rival salvation projects to feminist Islamic ethics of outer space, and from the spiritual history of UFO encounters to Buddhist arguments for and against leaving Earth.

As humanity accelerates into what some are calling a “new golden age” of space exploration, Cosmic Missions argues that it is vital to understand which values are steering us toward the stars and whom those values serve.

MARY-JANE RUBENSTEIN is dean of social sciences, professor of religion and science and technology studies, and convener of the Space Ethics Research Consortium at Wesleyan University. Her books include Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia, 2014); Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia, 2018); and Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (2022).

LANCE GHARAVI is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar who works at the intersections of art, science, technology, and religion. He is professor in the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre and former associate director of the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University.

Temporal Privilege Time, Power, and Possibility

JILL STAUFFER

HOW RECOGNIZING DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES OF TIME

OPENS UP NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL JUSTICE

We all inhabit a range of temporalities, but some ways of rendering time have greater power to determine the course of events. In an Indigenous land claims case, settlers’ linear conception of history is privileged over the dynamic ways Native peoples tell the passing of time. In the case of a former child soldier, an international court insists that childhood abuse and indoctrination are not relevant to crimes committed in adulthood. In these stories and many others like them, dominant conceptions of time shape whose voices are heard and whose are not—but if we understand time otherwise, different outcomes become possible.

Jill Stauffer identifies the way certain experiences of time are valued over others as “temporal privilege” and shows how this concept helps illuminate injustices that are often hidden in plain sight. By acknowledging the workings of temporal privilege, we can instead learn to think from a standpoint of temporal pluralism, taking into account the different forms and contexts of time. Ranging from the legacies of settler colonialism to ways to reimagine clocks and calendars, Temporal Privilege reveals how a more capacious understanding of time opens new paths toward human flourishing and justice.

JILL STAUFFER is associate professor, director, and creator of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at Haverford College, where she is also director of the Restorative Practices program and codirector of the Kim Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership. She is the author of Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (Columbia, 2015).

“Drawing together philosophy, law, and personal experience, Temporal Privilege explores the erasure of our many lived senses of time by a single, ethically and political fraught, temporal story. Stauffer’s work reminds her readers of the possibilities that await us when we rediscover and engage these other, unruly forms of time.”

—Eyo

Ewara, Loyola University Chicago

$28.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22466-6

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NOVEMBER  280 pages / 6" x 9" PHILOSOPHY

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“When Africa Comes to America shows that the next generation of immigrants to the United States will increasingly be Black people from Africa and the Caribbean. Kaushal considers the consequences for American race relations and the possibility that Black Africans will be the next model minority. A provocative, evidence-based, and thoughtful discussion.”

—Mae Ngai, author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

When Africa Comes to America

How the Next Wave of Immigrants Will Transform the United States

NEERAJ KAUSHAL

WHAT AFRICAN IMMIGRATION MEANS FOR THE UNITED STATES

Africans are the fastest-growing immigrant group to the United States. Only a tiny fraction in the 1960s, they represented ten percent of documented immigration in 2022. Without attracting much notice, immigration from Africa has the potential to change American society for the better. This book provides an expert analysis of the myths and realities surrounding African immigration today. Neeraj Kaushal argues that in the second half of the century, Africans will account for the largest share of immigrants to the United States. Challenging the view that African emigration is driven by poverty, war, and disaster, she demonstrates that the continent’s sizable and growing middle-class has both the aspirations and the means to relocate. First- and second-generation African immigrants are often highly skilled, and the children of Black African immigrants reach higher educational attainment than US-born whites and earn comparable incomes. Kaushal explores the political, economic, and demographic consequences, considering to what extent African immigrants can overcome American racial hierarchies and how their presence might change what it means to be Black in America. Through eye-opening empirical data, this book makes an optimistic case that the United States will continue to be a nation of immigrants.

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NEERAJ KAUSHAL is professor of social policy at Columbia University’s School of Social Work and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the author of Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement (Columbia, 2019).

Fast Culture, Slow Justice

How Digital Platforms Failed Black Lives Matter

RICHARD JEAN SO

WHAT #BLM REVEALS ABOUT INTERNET CULTURE

AND ITS CAPACITY TO AFFECT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE

In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter became the largest social movement in American history. As millions of people took to the streets, countless more went on Twitter, Instagram, Wattpad, and other online platforms to share stories, post images, and add their voices to a chorus demanding racial justice. It felt to many like a turning point. Why did this moment turn out to be so ephemeral?

Drawing on social media posts, digital stories, and book reviews collected in real time, Richard Jean So uncovers the limitations of BLM as an online cultural phenomenon. Combining computational analysis with interviews and cultural critique, he reveals a fundamental contradiction at the heart of digital life: The very features that make platforms feel transformative—speed, emotional intensity, viral reach—are precisely what prevent movements from achieving lasting change. So shows how BLM’s online surge was shaped and ultimately constrained by platform logics that prize entertainment and pleasure, not accountability—and how a movement built by and for Black communities was rapidly co-opted by a flood of white liberal storytelling that centered feeling over social action.

Fast Culture, Slow Justice transforms our understanding of digital activism and online culture, revealing not just what happened to BLM but why every social movement that routes itself through digital platforms faces the same structural trap.

RICHARD JEAN SO is Rhodes Chair in Digital Humanities and associate professor of English at Duke University. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia, 2021).

“While much ink has been spilled about the far right and fascist capture of online media, Fast Culture, Slow Justice offers an important contribution toward understanding left and liberal discourse online.

So advances a series of interlinked historical and theoretical arguments about the rise and fall of discourse about #BLM in the summer of 2020, providing an important resource for cultural historians and literary scholars.”

—Lindsay Thomas, Cornell University

$26.00* / £22.00  paper 978-0-231-22395-9

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NOVEMBER  248 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 20 figures

LITERARY STUDIES

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“Banking on Belonging presents a rigorous, realistic, and timely blueprint for how the private sector can step up and engage economically with refugee communities—and, in doing so, build shared prosperity and lessen human suffering the world over.”

—US Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia

Banking on Belonging

Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone

JOHN KLUGE JR. AND CHRISTINE MAHONEY

HOW IMPACT INVESTING CAN ASSIST REFUGEES AND THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL EFFORTS

More than one hundred million people are displaced worldwide today, and political backlash against refugees has slashed vital humanitarian aid. When given the chance, however, many displaced people have proved themselves to be resourceful entrepreneurs who can drive growth. Investing in refugee-led enterprises, companies supporting refugees, and the communities welcoming them transforms tragedy into economic and social gain for all.

Banking on Belonging offers a visionary roadmap that shows how investing in refugees not only empowers displaced communities but also builds more prosperous and resilient economies worldwide. John Kluge Jr., a social entrepreneur, and Christine Mahoney, a public policy expert, tell the powerful stories of resilient entrepreneurs displaced from places such as Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and Venezuela, exploring their contributions from New York to North Dakota, Poland to Jordan, Mexico to Uganda. Banking on Belonging presents the Refugee Lens Investing framework, a pioneering system for classifying opportunities. At once a hands-on guide and an inspiring global saga, this book delivers a fresh, hopeful vision of inclusion and prosperity.

JOHN KLUGE JR. is the founder of the Refugee Investment Network, a finance investment collaborative dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global forced migration. He is also the founder or cofounder of other investment funds and social enterprises, including Thistlerock Mead Company, a refugee-lens venture that combines ancient honey wine fermentation practices with modern regenerative agriculture.

CHRISTINE MAHONEY is chief innovation officer and professor of public policy and politics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Her books include Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced (2016), which inspired the Refugee Investment Network.

$27.95t / £22.00  cloth 978-0-231-21812-2

JULY  336 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 2 figures, 2 tables INVESTING / SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

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Running Against the Herd

Battling Biases to Make Better Investment Decisions

EDDIE PERKIN

WAYS TO OVERCOME BEHAVIORAL BIASES IN BUSINESS AND BEYOND

Why do smart, capable individuals and teams so often make poor decisions? Running Against the Herd offers new answers to this question by blending insights from behavioral economics with hard-earned lessons from a two-decade-plus investing career.

Eddie Perkin draws on his extensive experience leading global investment teams to identify biases that shape our decisions, not just in markets and boardrooms but also in sports, gambling, and everyday life. He shows how mental shortcuts— from overconfidence and short-termism to groupthink—impair judgment and shares practical tools to counteract them. Through real-world examples and data from hundred-million-dollar investment decisions, Perkin demonstrates that success depends less on predicting the future than on designing teams and processes that challenge assumptions, welcome dissent, embrace uncertainty, and learn from mistakes.

Accessibly written and deeply relevant beyond finance, this book reveals how anyone—investors, leaders, or professionals across fields—can improve their decision-making by understanding its underlying psychology. Running Against the Herd provides a road map for thinking more clearly, working more collaboratively, and achieving better outcomes in a world of uncertainty.

EDDIE PERKIN is a former chief investment officer at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Eaton Vance with more than two decades of global asset management experience. He now serves as an independent director on the Invesco mutual fund board and as an executive in residence at Babson College.

“The lessons drawn from Perkin’s successful investment career and his gift for storytelling make Running Against the Herd a highly readable and valuable guide for making better decisions—in business, investing, and life.”

—Tom Faust, former chairman and CEO, Eaton Vance Corporation

$26.00* / £22.00  cloth 978-0-231-22414-7

AUGUST  288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 9 b&w figures, 3 tables

BUSINESS

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“An invaluable book offering cohesive, helpful ways to think about business decision-making. It offers intellectual depth for the curious technical reader while remaining clear and accessible to professionals seeking effective tools and techniques for working with complex and adaptive systems.”

—Lisl Macdonald, Spring and Atlas

The Complexity Paradigm Using

Systems Science to Drive Business Success

DOUG GARNETT

A FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGEMENT ROOTED IN COMPLEXITY SCIENCE PRINCIPLES

Business today remains tethered to a paradigm that is long out of date. This mindset assumes that universal answers exist: Businesses can simply apply compartmentalized operations and follow linear paths to success. Experienced managers know business doesn’t work this way. Where should they turn?

In this groundbreaking book, Doug Garnett shows how complexity science reveals a new understanding of how business works that is as useful on the front lines as in the C-suite. This discipline—the study of behaviors in highly interconnected, adapting systems dominated by emergence—is revolutionizing fields from biology and economics to psychology and artificial intelligence. Recognizing a business as a complex adaptive system operating within other complex systems changes our perspective on everything from core concepts of demand, profit, and strategy to the nature of business success. Managers who grasp the order hidden within complexity discover not only a powerful new understanding of their role but also potential for dramatic contributions to success.

The Complexity Paradigm features vivid examples ranging from local coffee shops to major corporations like PepsiCo, Boeing, Mattel, Starbucks, and General Motors as well as tech giants such as Apple and AT&T. Grounding eye-opening theory in the realities of business, this foundational look at complexity offers deep insight and value for practitioners and students alike.

$32.00* / £28.00  cloth 978-0-231-22361-4

JANUARY  240 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 48 b&w figures

BUSINESS

DOUG GARNETT is the founder and president of the consulting firm Protonik LLC, which specializes in market research and consumer behavior, and an adjunct professor in the School of Business at Portland State University. His clients have included Lowe’s, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Apple, and DuPont.

Patently Successful Understanding and Mastering Intellectual Property

NICOLE REINEKE

AN INNOVATION-CENTRIC INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Intellectual property (IP)—patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, open source, and standards —is the most underused career accelerator available today. It is how ideas become assets, how credibility becomes influence. IP can often seem opaque and intimidating. At its core, however, it is not just a legal abstraction. It is concrete evidence of new ideas and the contributions they can make.

Patently Successful is a practical, jargon-free guide to creating, protecting, and leveraging IP, demonstrating its power to shape careers, build reputations, and transform industries. Nicole Reineke demystifies the world of IP, showing how it can amplify creativity and drive professional growth. She walks readers through how to find problems worth solving, choose the right form of intellectual property, build momentum through mentor circles and community, and use artificial intelligence as a tool to expand creative capacity. Along the way, Reineke shares stories from prolific inventors and industry builders who have used IP to reshape their careers and influence entire ecosystems.

Through real-world stories, accessible frameworks, and lessons from inventors and community builders, Patently Successful illustrates how anyone, regardless of title or training, can build an IP portfolio that reflects their strengths and testifies to their readiness, credibility, and ambition.

NICOLE REINEKE is chief AI officer at N-able and faculty in the Artificial Intelligence Management program at the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. A coauthor of CompassionDriven Innovation: 12 Steps for Breakthrough Success (2022), among other books, she holds more than fifty patents, making her among the most prolific recorded inventors.

“Drawing on personal experience, Nicole Reineke explains how IP can benefit anyone. Her insights into how IP creation drives innovation, collaboration, and opportunity will change the way both employees and employers approach intellectual property.”

—Carl Reed, Workman Nydegger

$26.00* / £22.00  cloth 978-0-231-22382-9

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INNOVATION

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A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021

“Coleman’s strategies for navigating polarization are insightful and unquestionably timely.”

Los Angeles Review of Books

The Way Out

How to Overcome Toxic Polarization

Updated edition

PETER T. COLEMAN

HOW CONFLICT RESOLUTION STRATEGIES CAN BRIDGE OUR POLITICAL DIVIDES

When The Way Out was first published in 2021, the partisan divide in the United States had widened to a chasm. Five years later, the crisis has metastasized. Political polarization continues to be personal but has also become more entrenched structurally. If we want a less contemptuous politics, we must come together across our differences to redesign the incentive systems that manufacture disdain. How can we loosen the grip of polarization and start redirecting our energies toward our most pressing problems?

Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences, explaining the unexpected ways that deeply rooted oppositions can and do change. Coleman meticulously details principles and practices for navigating and healing the difficult divides in our homes, workplaces, and communities, blending compelling personal accounts from his years of working on entrenched conflicts with lessons from leading-edge research. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country. This updated edition includes practical plans and exercises for changing individual, social, and systemic practices. Coleman explores lessons learned since the first edition, considering how to transform the institutions that entrench conflict and find sustainable ways to live together.

$25.00* / £20.00  paper 978-0-231-22478-9

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AUGUST  296 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 42 b&w figures

POLITICS / PSYCHOLOGY

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PETER T. COLEMAN is professor of psychology and education at Columbia University, where he holds a joint appointment at Teachers College and the Climate School and directs two research centers. His books include Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement (2014) and The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts (2011).

An Ethics for Today Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion

RICHARD RORTY

Introduction by Gianni Vattimo

Foreword by Jeffrey W. Robbins and conclusion by G. Elijah Dann

“This striking presentation of Rorty’s influential thoughts will be of value to those grounded in the study of philosophy, religion, and their interaction.”

Library Journal

Richard Rorty, a strict secularist, finds in the pragmatic thought of John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, William James, and George Santayana, among others, a political imagination shared by religious traditions. He seeks to locate patterns of similarity and difference so an ethics of decency and a politics of solidarity can rise.

RICHARD RORTY (1931–2007) was professor of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. His Columbia University Press books are The Future of Religion (with Gianni Vattimo) and What’s the Use of Truth?

GIANNI VATTIMO (1936–2023) was emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a former member of the European Parliament.

The Vital Illusion

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

“Rarely do words convey such urgency as on a page by Baudrillard.”

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Aren’t we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable thinker Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity. Peppered with Baudrillard’s signature counterintuitive moves, prophetic visions, and dark humor, The Vital Illusion exposes the contradictions that guide our contemporary culture and rule our lives.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD (1929–2007) was a French sociologist and philosopher hailed as the ”prophet of postmodernity.” Among his many books are Simulacra and Simulation (1981) and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991).

$15.00* / £12.99  paper 978-0-231-22589-2

JULY  104 pages / 5.5" x 7"

PHILOSOPHY

CLOTH EDITION  2010 978-0-231-15056-9

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$15.00* / £12.99  paper 978-0-231-22591-5

AUGUST  96 pages / 5.5" x 7"

PHILOSOPHY

CLOTH EDITION  2000 978-0-231-12100-2

THE WELLEK LIBRARY LECTURES

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An Education

How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else

DIANE RAVITCH

“A clarion call to protect and strengthen public schooling in America as the foundation of our young people—and our democracy. If you care about the future, read this book.”

—Randi Weingarten, former president of the American Federation of Teachers

In this intimate and timely memoir of her life’s work as a historian and advocate, Diane Ravitch traces her ideological evolution. She recounts her switch from championing standards-based curriculum and standardized testing to arguing for greater investment in professional teachers and in public schools. Bringing together candid reflections with decades of research on education, Ravitch makes a powerful case for becoming, as she calls herself, “an activist on behalf of public schools.”

DIANE RAVITCH is a historian of education and a prominent commentator about education and politics. She was assistant secretary of education under President George H. W. Bush and served on the national testing board during the Clinton administration. Ravitch is cofounder and president of the Network for Public Education.

$20.00* / £16.99  paper 978-0-231-22590-8

NOVEMBER  248 pages / 6" x 9"

EDUCATION / MEMOIR

CLOTH EDITION  2025 978-0-231-22029-3

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Design Thinking for the Greater Good Innovation in the Social Sector

JEANNE LIEDTKA, RANDY SALZMAN, AND DAISY AZER

“An excellent resource. . . . [that] serves as a practical guide for those who want to undertake organizational change.”

Foundation Review

Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, Design Thinking for the Greater Good shows how collaborative creativity can shake up even the most entrenched bureaucracies—and provides a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools.

JEANNE M. LIEDTKA is the United Technologies Corporation Professor Emerita of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and the former chief learning officer at United Technologies Corporation.

RANDY SALZMAN is a journalist and former communications professor.

DAISY AZER is an an entrepreneur, principal at Waterbrand Consulting Inc., and adjunct lecturer of design thinking at the Darden Graduate School of Business.

$30.00* / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-22601-1

JULY  352 pages / 8.5" x 8.5" / 57 color figures

DESIGN

CLOTH EDITION  2017 978-0-231-17952-2

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Invisible Light Poems About God

DIANA CULBERTSON, EDITOR

Invisible Light is an anthology of poetry about God, including writers from John Milton, William Blake, and Emily Dickinson to Countee Cullen, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton. It is divided into three sections: “From God” (in God’s voice, in the first person), “To God” (generally prayers, addressed to God, in the second person), and “About God” (in the third person). Witty, passionate, melancholic, sanguine, and ecstatic, the poems approach their single subject from a vast variety of attitudes and perspectives.

DIANA CULBERTON is professor emerita of English and comparative literature at Kent State University.

Why Black People Die Sooner What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race and How to Fix It

JOSEPH L. GRAVES JR.

“A compelling exposition for why using race to inform medical decisions is potentially harmful to Black patients.”

Science

Why Black People Die Sooner is a powerful and rigorous examination of the ways racism shapes health and disease. Joseph L. Graves Jr. demonstrates that the medical profession still fails to grasp basic facts about race, tracing how deep-rooted falsehoods have perpetuated the disparity between Black and white lifespans.

JOSEPH L. GRAVES JR. is the MacKenzie Scott Endowed Professor of Biology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. A fellow of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he received the Liberty Science Center’s Genius Award in 2024. His books include Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (Columbia, 2021, with Alan H. Goodman), which received the 2024 W. W. Howells Prize for the best book in biological anthropology.

$20.00* / £16.99  paper 978-0-231-22598-4

OCTOBER  200 pages / 5" x 8" / 2-color throughout POETRY

CLOTH EDITION  2000 978-0-231-12062-3

All Rights: Columbia University Press

$22.00* / £17.99  paper 978-0-231-22603-5

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SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2025 978-0-231-21796-5

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The Future

of Seeing How Imaging Is Changing Our World

DANIEL K. SODICKSON

A “Best of Technology” selection.

The Syllabus

ONE OF HARVARD

MAGAZINE ’S “MUST-READ HARVARD BOOKS WINTER 2025”

Daniel K. Sodickson—a physicist and biomedical imaging innovator—explores the rich history and surprising future of vision, from the evolution of eyes to emerging high-tech devices.

DANIEL K. SODICKSON is chief of innovation in radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, past president and gold medalist of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and a fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors.

The Man Who Built the Sierra Club

A Life of David Brower

ROBERT WYSS

“Wyss has crafted a detailed and thorough account of Brower’s life.”

Journal of American History

David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement who transformed the Sierra Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower’s role as steward of the modern environmental movement.

ROBERT WYSS is associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut and a journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, and Smithsonian. His books include Black Gold: The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal (2025).

If I Am Right, and I Know I Am Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret

HANNE STRAGER

“I came away from it with great admiration for Lehmann and an appreciation for how lonely life was for many women scientists even in recent history.”

Physics World

If I Am Right, and I Know I Am provides a powerful portrait of the pioneering Danish scientist Inge Lehmann (1888–1993) while guiding readers through the fascinating history of earth science.

HANNE STRAGER is a biologist and acclaimed science writer. Her books include The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas (2023), which received a National Outdoor Book Award.

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DECEMBER  288 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" /

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SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2025 978-0-231-20992-2

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SEPTEMBER  400 pages / 6" x 9" / 20 b&w

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BIOGRAPHY / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

CLOTH EDITION  2016 978-0-231-16446-7

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SCIENCE / BIOGRAPHY

CLOTH EDITION  2025 978-0-231-21864-1

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The Cult of the Fox

Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

XIAOFEI KANG

“Bound to be the definitive work on the subject.”

Reviews in Religion and Theology

For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Xiaofei Kang examines the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion and explores the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society.

XIAOFEI KANG is professor of world religions and history at the George Washington University

A Dharma Reader

Classical Indian

Law

PATRICK OLIVELLE, TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR

WINNER, 2017 LE PRIX

COLETTE CAILLAT

“It is difficult to overstate the value of this work for all who seek to connect with the intellectual debates over dharma in ancient India.”

Journal of the American Oriental Society

With accessible translations of key texts, A Dharma Reader traces the definition, epistemology, procedure, and process of Indian law from the third century BCE to the Middle Ages.

PATRICK OLIVELLE is professor emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian religions at the University of Texas at Austin.

A Śabda Reader Language in Classical Indian Thought

JOHANNES BRONKHORST, TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR

“Showcases the centrality of language in Indian thought across a truly staggering range of intellectual traditions.”

Philosophy East and West Language (śabda) occupied a central yet often unacknowledged place in classical Indian philosophical thought. The first reader on language in—and the language of—classical Indian philosophy, A Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive treatment of this topic.

JOHANNES BRONKHORST (1946–2025) was professor emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of Lausanne.

$30.00* / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-22597-7

SEPTEMBER  288 pages / 6" x 9"

ASIAN STUDIES

CLOTH EDITION  2005 978-0-231-13338-8

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$40.00 / £35.00  paper 978-0-231-22600-4 OCTOBER  424 pages / 7" x 10" PHILOSOPHY

CLOTH EDITION  2016 978-0-231-17956-0

HISTORICAL SOURCEBOOKS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT

World, excluding South Asia: Columbia University Press; South Asian Rights: Permanent Black

$40.00 / £35.00  paper 978-0-231-22599-1

OCTOBER  376 pages / 7" x 10" PHILOSOPHY

CLOTH EDITION  2019 978-0-231-18940-8

HISTORICAL SOURCEBOOKS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT

World, excluding South Asia: Columbia University Press; South Asian Rights: Permanent Black

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Revised and expanded edition

DAVID STERRITT

“Clearly written and lovingly detailed.”

Journal of Popular Film and Television

This book presents an engaging overview of Alfred Hitchcock’s life and work along with close studies of ten films spanning nearly five decades of his remarkable career. David Sterritt considers films ranging from Blackmail (1929), the first talkie made in England, to Family Plot (1976), the director’s last completed movie. He analyzes canonized masterpieces such as Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) alongside overlooked works including Rope (1948) and Under Capricorn (1949). Spotlighting the director’s extraordinary artistic range and thematic depth, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock offers new insights for both cinephiles and casual viewers.

DAVID STERRITT is a film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, professor emeritus of theater and film at Long Island University, and a contributing writer at Cineaste. The author or editor of seventeen books, he was the longtime film critic of the Christian Science Monitor and has chaired the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.

The Cinema of Wes Anderson

Bringing Nostalgia to Life

Second edition

WHITNEY CROTHERS DILLEY

“Here one finds many Andersons: Anderson the miniaturist, Anderson the skilled director of advertisements, and, most impressive, Anderson the autodidactic dreamer.”

Choice

Whitney Crothers Dilley explores the filmic and literary influences that have shaped Wes Anderson’s distinctive voice, revealing what makes him one of today’s most significant filmmakers. This second edition adds discussion of the films Anderson has released since the book’s original publication in 2017: Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch, Asteroid City, and The Phoenician Scheme, as well as a series of short films for Netflix based on stories by Roald Dahl, including the Academy Award–winning The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

WHITNEY CROTHERS DILLEY is a professor of English with a dual appointment in the Graduate School of Gender Studies at Shih Hsin University. She has published six books on literature and film, including The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen (Wallflower, second edition, 2014).

$30.00 / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-21955-6

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AUGUST  248 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

FILM STUDIES

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SEPTEMBER  384 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 12 film stills

FILM STUDIES

DIRECTORS' CUTS

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Body Horror Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology

XAVIER ALDANA REYES

“Aldana Reyes cuts a fearless path through this most fearsome of subgenres. With unerring skill, he dissects body horror’s most shocking images, provocative themes, and complex theoretical debates in eloquently accessible prose.”

—Adam Lowenstein, founding director of the Horror Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, and author of Horror Film and Otherness

Xavier Aldana Reyes provides an engaging introduction to the inner workings of body horror, tracing its evolution from foundational works such as The Fly (1986) and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) to recent films like Raw (2016) and The Substance (2024). He shows how the transformation of the body opens paths to resist dominant understandings of identity and to imagine alternatives. Compelling and accessible, this book offers new insights for both film studies courses and general readers interested in the role the body plays in horror cinema.

XAVIER ALDANA REYES is reader in English literature and film at Manchester Metropolitan University and copresident of the International Gothic Association. His books include Gothic Cinema (2020).

The Edges of Cinema Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture

ERIKA BALSOM

“One of the most promising titles due this summer.”

Criterion Current

Bringing together a decade of criticism, The Edges of Cinema roams across an array of styles to take account of how some of the most important contemporary filmmakers are engaging the world. Erika Balsom—a leading scholar and critic—explores subjects ranging from computer-generated animation to the effects of digitization, and from the status of observational cinema to the longest of long takes. Challenging the caricature of experimental film as “difficult,” this wideranging and engaging book makes a case for the politics, provocations, and pleasures of a less ordinary cinema.

ERIKA BALSOM is a reader in film and media studies at King’s College London. She is the author of five books, including TEN SKIES (2021) and After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation (Columbia, 2017).

$22.00 / £17.99  paper 978-0-231-22096-5

AUGUST  160 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 15 film stills

FILM STUDIES

SHORT CUTS

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SEPTEMBER  352 pages / 6" x 9"

FILM STUDIES

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We the Platform

How the Internet Changed

Twenty-First-Century

Literature

AARTHI VADDE

“The most persuasive and engaging account I’ve read of how the internet—rather than being a threat to literature—has become a legitimate and exciting site of literary creation . . . A must-read.”

—Vauhini Vara, author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

The proliferation of user-generated content such as social media posts, fan fiction, self-published novels, and Instagram poetry has spurred a host of anxieties about the end of literature. We the Platform is a groundbreaking account of mass writing in the twenty-first century, identifying literary possibility amid the profound upheavals in traditional publishing. Countering ubiquitous decline narratives, Aarthi Vadde offers powerful examples of innovation, adaptation, and survival.

AARTHI VADDE is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016 (Columbia, 2016) and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (2024), among other books.

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-21970-9

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AVAILABLE NOW  304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 11 b&w illustrations

LITERARY STUDIES

LITERATURE NOW

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Unendurable Freedom

US Empire and Postcolonial Literature

After 9/11

KALYAN NADIMINTI

How did postcolonial writing—which arose in opposition to the dominance of European and American literature—respond to its surprising incorporation into US institutions? Kalyan Nadiminti contends that postcolonial literature after 9/11 both invites and deflects global imperial interest by developing paradoxical narrative forms. Unendurable Freedom places novels from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq and their diasporas in dialogue with Guantánamo memoirs by detainees from Mauritania and Yemen, tracing how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Mohammed Hanif, Kamila Shamsie, Jamil Jan Kochai, Ahmed Saadawi, Inaam Kachachi, and Mohamedou Slahi present a layered critique of empire.

KALYAN NADIMINTI is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty with the Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University.

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22296-9

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JANUARY  304 pages / 6" x 9"

LITERARY STUDIES

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The Black Aerial Imagination

Aviation and Flight in African and Diasporic Literature

DELALI KUMAVIE

“The Black Aerial Imagination offers a stunning analysis of aviation and oppression. This beautifully written, theoretically rich, well-researched book transforms how air and air travel, flight, and flying are experienced, studied, and known.”

—Chandra D Bhimull, author of Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordination from the Middle Passage and the plantation to the present-day racialized order. Delali Kumavie examines how aviation and flight have shaped Black lives and the global Black cultural imagination. Considering works by African and diasporic writers such as Kofi Anyidoho, Toni Morrison, and Abdulrazak Gurnah, she argues that representations of aviation and air travel reveal the structures circumscribing Black existence.

DELALI KUMAVIE is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University.

The Black Sojourner Press

Experiments in Black Periodical Culture

Between Emancipation and Decolonization

MARINA BILBIJA

“Drawing on meticulous transnational archival research, Bilbija traces the intertwined histories of Black intellectuals in Africa and North America, revealing how a century of independent Black periodicals helped to forge powerful intellectual and political responses to the crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”

—Stephanie Newell, Yale University

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black periodical editors roved across oceans and between empires, bearing newspaper texts, formats, and genres with them. The Black Sojourner Press traces the travels of multiple generations of itinerant Black editors, demonstrating how they transformed Black political and literary culture in the United States, West Africa, and Britain.

MARINA BILBIJA is an assistant professor of English and African American studies at Wesleyan University. She is coeditor of a critical edition of Dusé Mohamed Ali’s 1934 serial novel, Ere Roosevelt Came: The Adventures of the Man in the Cloak—A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s (2024).

$32.00 / £28.00  paper 978-0-231-22252-5

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JULY  248 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 b&w illustration

LITERARY STUDIES / BLACK STUDIES

BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE

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SEPTEMBER  304 pages / 6" x 9" / 9 b&w illustrations

LITERARY STUDIES / BLACK STUDIES

BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE

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Crowd Control

The Racial Ordering of Literary Reward

CLAIRE GROSSMAN, JULIANA SPAHR, AND STEPHANIE YOUNG

From the race riots of 1919 to the Black Lives Matter movement, anxieties about Black uprising have influenced literary funding and prestige in the United States. Crowd Control tells the story of how efforts to contain Black resistance led to the invention of American literary excellence. It brings together archival research and comprehensive data on literary prize demographics with readings of works by Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, William Styron, Claudia Rankine, and others to offer a material account of how US literature has imagined—and managed—protest.

CLAIRE GROSSMAN is an assistant professor of English at Occidental College.

JULIANA SPAHR is Frederick A. Rice Professor at Mills College at Northeastern University.

STEPHANIE YOUNG directs the creative writing program at Mills College at Northeastern University and is a member of the Krupskaya Books editorial collective.

Natural Risk

A History of Oil, Politics, and the Environment in West Texas

SARAH STANFORD-M c INTYRE

“Natural Risk delivers a rich and eye-opening portrait of the Permian Basin, weaving together the stories of oil workers, ranchers, unions, and industry leaders. Stanford-McIntyre reveals the forces—environmental, economic, and political—that shaped one of the world’s most powerful energy regions.”

—Paul Sabin, author of Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

Sarah Stanford-McIntyre shows how Permian Basin oil production reshaped Texas’s environment, economy, and political culture, with major consequences for American understandings of health, wealth, and the social safety net. She argues that the energy industry naturalized the risks of extractive capitalism, redefining what sorts and levels of danger were seen as acceptable.

SARAH STANFORD-M c INTYRE is an assistant professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a coeditor of American Energy Cinema (2023).

$32.00 / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-22218-1

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SEPTEMBER 264 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 9 b&w graphs

LITERARY STUDIES

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$35.00 / £28.00  paper 978-0-231-19737-3

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OCTOBER 288 pages / 6" x 9" / 18 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U S CAPITALISM

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Monstrous Conceptions

A History of Race, Disability, and Reproductive Medicine in the United States

MIRIAM RICH

“With exquisite prose and exhaustive research, this poignant study illuminates how ideas about race, sex, and disability shaped the medical category of monstrosity.”

—Elizabeth O’Brien, author of Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

In the nineteenth century, American medical practitioners helped craft a new science of monsters. In so doing, they gave form to pervasive ideas about the meaning of racial difference, the fragility of racial order, and the peril of racial degeneration. Miriam Rich explores the history of “monstrous birth” as a category in modern US medical science. She reveals how the notion of biological monstrosity helped lay the groundwork for eugenics—and contributed to ideas about deviant and defective bodies that still haunt us today.

MIRIAM RICH is a historian and the James Wade Rockwell Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Professing Architecture

Morals, Markets, and Architects in the Early United States

BRYAN E. NORWOOD

“Professing Architecture is a deeply nuanced examination of the development of architectural professionalism.”

—Louis P Nelson, author of Architecture and Empire in Jamaica

In the early nineteenth-century United States, a number of architects began to see their profession as a higher calling. They sought to elevate it beyond mere building or crass profit-seeking by portraying it as a force for moral and civic improvement. Bryan E. Norwood explores how architects in cities from Boston to New Orleans portrayed their role in the burgeoning— and later fracturing—republic, tracing the tension between the religiously informed historical vision of architecture that they preached in popular lectures and the marketbased contractual approach to design work that they actually practiced.

BRYAN E. NORWOOD is an architectural historian and an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-20033-2

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JULY  336 pages / 6" x 9" / 8 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

RACE, INEQUALITY, AND HEALTH

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$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22460-4

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NOVEMBER  392 pages / 6" x 9" / 81 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

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Empire by Law

The Ottoman Origins of the Mandate System in the Middle East

AIMEE M. GENELL

“Empire by Law is a bold reimagining of modern Middle Eastern history, as viewed through the eyes of a long-neglected class of political actors: lawyers.”

—Elizabeth F Thompson, author of How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance

Empire by Law reveals the importance of the Ottoman Empire’s autonomous provinces, both within the empire and in the history of international relations. Aimee M. Genell demonstrates that the Ottoman model of autonomy became the foundation for the mandate system established in the Middle East after World War I, with lasting and catastrophic consequences. Bridging legal, international, and imperial history, this book shows how Ottoman practices of governance shaped the Middle Eastern political order.

AIMEE M. GENELL is an assistant professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

The Young Turk International

How Islamic Bolshevism Shaped the Global Order at the End of the Ottoman Empire

ALP YENEN

“A stellar piece of research and a marvelous achievement.”

—Michael A Reynolds, author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918

The Great War ended with the Ottoman Empire’s defeat, its remaining territories destined for partition. This settlement was complicated by a global moment of Muslim internationalism, as revolutions, revolts, and wars of independence swept across the Muslim world. Alp Yenen tells the story of a group of exiled “Young Turk” leaders— fugitive Ottoman statesmen wanted as war criminals for the Armenian Genocide—who sought to seize this moment by founding the Union of Muslim Revolutionary Societies to challenge European hegemony.

ALP YENEN is a university lecturer in Turkish, Middle Eastern, and international studies at the Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University.

$40.00 / £34.00  paper 978-0-231-20299-2

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AUGUST  408 pages / 6" x 9" / 5 b&w illustrations, 3 maps HISTORY

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY

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NOVEMBER  416 pages / 6" x 9" / 13 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY

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Revolution Domesticated

Austerity, Ideology, and Family Life in Urban China, 1949–1984

YANJIE HUANG

“This book’s rich source base offers rare access to the lived experience of ideological transformation. Huang skillfully moves between fine-grained microhistory and larger structural change, crafting a narrative that is both historically grounded and analytically ambitious.”

—Yiching Wu, author of The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis

During the Mao era, Chinese urban families were subjected to decades of austerity in the name of continuous revolution. Under Deng Xiaoping, however, a new vision took hold: a stable, moderately well-off family, strikingly reminiscent of Confucian ideals. Drawing on Mao-era family letters, grassroots archives, and oral history, this book shows how revolutionary austerity transformed urban families and shaped China’s transition to a new economic order.

YANJIE HUANG is a Presidential Young Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is coauthor of Market in State: The Political Economy of Domination in China (2018).

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22376-8

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DECEMBER  320 pages / 6" x 9" / 9 b&w illustrations, 16 tables

HISTORY

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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The Camphor War

Taiwan in the Age of Imperial Realignments

RONALD C. PO

“This is a brilliantly researched study of camphor as a commodity in the world of trade, conflict, and diplomacy.”

—Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore

The Camphor War of 1868, fought in Taiwan, has slipped into obscurity. Lasting for only a few weeks, the clash arose from British interests in breaking the Qing monopoly over the lucrative trade in camphor, which was cultivated in Taiwan and widely used for medicinal purposes. Examining this little-known conflict, Ronald C. Po shows how the Qing and British empires evolved during a period of imperial reconfigurations and border realignments.

RONALD C. PO is associate professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire (2018), Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (2024), and The Silver Thread of the Deep: A Cultural History of Shark Fin in China and Beyond (2026).

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22399-7

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SEPTEMBER  336 pages / 6" x 9" / 6 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TAIWAN

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Defining China From Dynastic State to People’s Republic

MARA YUE DU

“This is a learned conversation of the highest order into which the author deftly welcomes the reader.”

—Timothy Cheek, author of The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History

The term guo, which meant “dynastic state” in classical Chinese, has been used to signify the modern “nation-state” since the mid-nineteenth century. Yet across epochal transformations, its lingering association with “regime” continued to shape Chinese efforts at nation-building, with far-reaching consequences. Mara Yue Du offers a cultural and legal genealogy of guo, examining how modern China, Chinese nationalism, and Sino-foreign relations have been shaped by this multifaceted concept. By tracing the opportunities and tensions that emerged from the translation of guo, she provides an ambitious reinterpretation of Chinese nationalism in Chinese terms.

MARA YUE DU is associate professor of history at Cornell University. She is the author of State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform (2022).

China’s Environmental History A Reader

BRIAN

LANDER AND PETER B. LAVELLE,

EDITORS

“This book makes available a wide range of important and interesting texts that give us insight into Chinese views on the environment over a period of three thousand years.”

—Joseph Dennis, author of Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700

China has a vast written history that records the countless ways people have observed, transformed, and preserved their environments over the centuries. This sourcebook presents translations of hundreds of texts spanning more than three thousand years, displaying the diversity of how humans have related to the world around them. It features texts translated from Chinese and eight other languages—most for the first time—in a wide variety of genres, including poetry, philosophy, official documents, religious tracts, travelogues, and oral histories.

BRIAN LANDER is associate professor of history and environment and society at Brown University.

PETER B. LAVELLE is associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut.

$40.00 / £35.00  paper 978-0-231-21842-9

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NOVEMBER  432 pages / 6" x 9" / 15 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

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$50.00 / £42.00  paper 978-0-231-21966-2

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JANUARY  568 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 40 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

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Writing Empire and Self

Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China

XIAOFEI TIAN

“Marries an impressive command of literary historical knowledge with assured and brilliant textual readings. Simply put, Tian sets the bar for the field.”

—Jack Chen, coeditor of Literary History in and Beyond China: Reading Text and World

How did poetry come to be regarded as the most potent form of cultural capital, a privileged literary genre, and a foundational skill for members of the elite? How was poetry transformed from an instrument of empire building to a venue for articulating personal trauma and voicing critique of the state? Tracing the evolution of poetry’s role in Chinese society, Writing Empire and Self uncovers the profound cultural changes that took place in the early medieval era.

XIAOFEI TIAN is Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at Harvard University. Her many books include Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China (2012).

The Book of China

A Persian Merchant’s Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court

‘ALI AKBAR KHATAYI

Edited and translated by Kaveh Hemmat, John Curry, and Hyunhee Park

“In its vividness and accuracy, this sixteenth-century report on society and government in China ranks with Marco Polo’s famed accounts.”

—Morris Rossabi, author of Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West

In the early sixteenth century, a Persianspeaking Muslim merchant named ‘Ali Akbar Khatayi traveled to China and stayed for six years. In a treatise presented to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire, Khatayi laid out his observations—here translated in full into English for the first time.

‘ ALI AKBAR KHATAYI was a Persian merchant from Central Eurasia, probably around the region of present-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. He later traveled to Istanbul, where he wrote the Khataynameh (Book of China) in 1516.

KAVEH HEMMAT is assistant professor of history at Benedictine University. JOHN CURRY is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. HYUNHEE PARK is professor of history at the City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the CUNY Graduate Center.

$40.00 / £35.00  paper 978-0-231-22314-0

$160.00 / £134.00  cloth 978-0-231-22313-3

AUGUST  408 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 5 figures

ASIAN STUDIES

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$35.00 / £28.00  paper 978-0-231-22430-7

$140.00 / £108.00  cloth 978-0-231-22429-1

OCTOBER  224 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

ASIAN STUDIES

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Sera Khandro

The Autobiography of a Tibetan Buddhist Visionary

SERA KHANDRO DEWÉ DORJÉ

Translated by Sarah H. Jacoby

“This book affords the reader a rare encounter with an exceptional woman teacher and the life of traditional tantric Buddhism on the Tibetan plateau in the early twentieth century.”

—Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School

This book presents the unabridged translation of the Buddhist visionary Sera Khandro Dewé Dorjé’s extraordinary autobiography —one of only a handful of life stories written by women in Tibetan literature. It is not only an invaluable resource for understanding the lives of Tibetan Buddhist women but also a beautiful and poignant work of literature.

SERA KHANDRO DEWÉ DORJÉ (1892–1940) was born in Lhasa, Tibet, to a wealthy and politically powerful family. She renounced her privileged upbringing and joined a group of pilgrims from the eastern Tibetan region of Golok, where she spent the rest of her life dedicated to Buddhist practice.

SARAH H. JACOBY is professor of religious studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro (Columbia, 2014), among other works.

$40.00 / £35.00  paper 978-0-231-22412-3

$160.00 / £134.00  cloth 978-0-231-14770-5

DECEMBER 384 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 10 b&w illustrations

RELIGION

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A Madhyamaka Reader

The Middle Way in Indian Buddhist Philosophy

DAN ARNOLD

“Supplemented by clear and illuminating introductions, Arnold’s lucid translations form an indispensable resource for all students of the Indian philosophical tradition.”

—Jan Westerhoff, University of Oxford

The Madhyamaka (“Middle Way”) tradition flourished for over a thousand years in India. An anthology of original translations of Sanskrit philosophical works, A Madhyamaka Reader traces the arc of the Middle Way school over the course of its history. Suitable for a range of courses in Buddhist and comparative philosophy, this book offers a comprehensive overview of one of the Buddhist world’s most significant traditions of thought.

DAN ARNOLD is the John Henry Barrows Professor of Philosophy of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His books include Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and CognitiveScientific Philosophy of Mind (Columbia, 2012).

$45.00 / £38.00  paper 978-0-231-22384-3

$180.00 / £150.00  cloth 978-0-231-22383-6

NOVEMBER 520 pages / 7" x 10"

RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY

HISTORICAL SOURCEBOOKS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT

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Reckoning with Racial Capitalism

Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Left Critique Beyond Neoliberalism

SIDDHANT ISSAR

In recent years, activists and scholars have increasingly turned to the notion of racial capitalism to examine a range of topics, from the role of slavery in the development of the modern economy to the uneven effects of capitalism on nonwhite populations. Yet the meaning, scope, and political implications of this concept are deeply contested. This book develops a critical theory of racial capitalism and argues that it is indispensable to understanding and contesting the neoliberal present. Challenging deracialized left critiques of neoliberalism, Siddhant Issar reconfigures the paradigm of racial capitalism to illuminate the relationships among anti-Black racism, settler colonialism, and capital accumulation.

SIDDHANT ISSAR is assistant professor of political science at the University of Louisville.

Critical Planetary Romanticism

Religious and Scientific Sources for a New Materialism

WHITNEY A. BAUMAN

“This book is original, creative, and potentially lifechanging. It should be required reading for those seeking reattunements to the planetary community.”

—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

This book turns to the nineteenthcentury German Romantic tradition to find resources for a new approach—critical planetary romanticism—that foregrounds the irreducible entanglement of all living and nonliving things. Whitney A. Bauman argues that German Romantic figures such as Ernst Haeckel represent a vital alternative path for critical thought that strikingly anticipates contemporary new materialisms. Their thinking about evolution and ecology did not separate humans from the rest of the natural world but instead foregrounded an immanent understanding of the world from a position within it.

WHITNEY A. BAUMAN is professor of religious studies at Florida International University. He is the author of Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (Columbia, 2014).

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-21681-4

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-21680-7

OCTOBER  312 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

PHILOSOPHY / POLITICAL THEORY

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

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$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-21183-3

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-21182-6

SEPTEMBER  304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 11 b&w illustrations

RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY

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Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World

Natural Capital and Climate Disaster in Belize

PATRICK M. GALLAGHER

“A brilliantly insightful and deeply humane exploration of how people, power, and ecosystems intertwine in Belize. Richly ethnographic and intellectually bold, this book reframes environmental value with nuance, urgency, and compelling narrative clarity.”

—Paige West, author of Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

Belize is often described as a “pristine” ecotourism destination with a landscape that is “naturally” valuable. This book explores how Belize’s precarious coastal environment has become a site for a new kind of capitalist value production, in which landscapes and ecosystems derive worth from their vulnerability or looming destruction in the era of climate change.

PATRICK M. GALLAGHER is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Dreams of Global Science

The Transnational Politics of Chinese Biomedical Innovation

LARRY AU

Through the case of precision medicine, Larry Au shows how global and national forms of science cooperate, compete, and come into conflict with one another, producing what he calls hybrid science. In China, hybrid science combines dreams of future scientific ascendancy with nostalgia for the past, such as its interest in modernizing traditional medicine. Yet hybridization can result in illegibility and a lack of recognition, devaluing the work, labor, and ideas of Chinese scientists and exacerbating their exclusion from global science. Offering new insights into transnational scientific networks and biomedical innovation, this book demonstrates how global science becomes entangled with national forms—and changes in the process.

LARRY AU is assistant professor of sociology at the City College of New York, CUNY.

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-21567-1

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-21566-4

AUGUST  320 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 12 b&w illustrations

SOCIOLOGY

SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22099-6

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-22098-9

DECEMBER  320 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 18 b&w illustrations

SOCIOLOGY

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Diasporic Connections

How Afro-Brazilians Use African American Culture to Challenge Racial Exceptionalism

REIGHAN GILLAM

“Centering Black narratives, Diasporic Connections provides a fresh perspective on both the comparative study of race and racism and scholarly critiques of comparison itself, which typically ignore the practices of comparison engaged ‘from below.’ ”

—Mark Anderson, author of From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology

There is a common narrative of Brazilian racial exceptionalism—that Brazilian society is more racially harmonious than other multiracial countries, or more simply that Brazil is less racist than the United States. Reighan Gillam offers a new perspective by showing how Afro-Brazilians draw on African American history and culture to argue that Brazil is typical, not exceptional, emphasizing common experiences across the African diaspora.

REIGHAN GILLAM is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (2022) and a host of the podcast New Books in Anthropology

$30.00 / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-21073-7

$120.00 / £94.00  cloth 978-0-231-21072-0

SEPTEMBER  208 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 7 b&w illustrations

SOCIOLOGY

BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE

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Mental States

Ordering Psychiatric Disorder in France

ALEX V. BARNARD

“The treatment of psychiatric disorders varies enormously between countries, and it’s still a mystery why. Barnard goes a long way toward providing an explanation, doing so with flair, insight, and sympathy. An excellent book.”

—Jason Schnittker, coauthor of Side Effects: The Social Ecology of Adverse Drug Reactions

How do states decide who is or is not mentally ill? Based on more than a year of in-depth fieldwork in France, Mental States shows that, beneath the chaotic trajectories of people with mental illness and the fragmented agencies and professionals serving them, there is an underlying order to the ways societies classify, treat, and control madness. This book reveals the power of states to create mentally ill populations and shows how these populations can in turn remake states.

ALEX V. BARNARD is an assistant professor of sociology at New York University. He is the author of Freegans: Diving Into the Wealth of Food Waste in America (2016) and Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness (Columbia, 2023).

$40.00 / £34.00  paper 978-0-231-20319-7

$160.00 / £132.00  cloth 978-0-231-20318-0

AUGUST  352 pages / 6" x 9" / 12 b&w illustrations

SOCIOLOGY

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The Art of Not Governing

Local Politics and Democratic Decline in Lebanon

CHRISTIANA PARREIRA

“This book takes a truly novel approach to the study of Lebanese politics, examining how local dynamics affect politics not just in postwar Lebanon but also in the larger postwar universe. The wealth of field interviews and extensive statistical work undertaken by the author place the book in a class of its own.”

—Bassel F Salloukh, coauthor of The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon

Christiana Parreira offers a fresh analysis of Lebanon’s political challenges that foregrounds local elections and institutions— and delivers a new account of how local politics influence broader patterns of statebuilding and democratization. Challenging prevailing framings of local governments as guardians of democratic accountability, The Art of Not Governing sheds new light on why recently democratized states fail to represent the interests of their citizens.

CHRISTIANA PARREIRA is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Cracks in Tradition

Liberal Trends in the Middle East

MANSOOR MOADDEL

“Grounded in a wealth of empirical evidence, Cracks in Tradition traces a significant and politically consequential shift of values away from Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East over the past two decades.”

—Ali Banuazizi, Boston College

Cracks in Tradition is a bold, data-driven account of the rise of liberal values in the Middle East. Drawing on more than 70,000 face-to-face interviews and in-depth qualitative insights from Egypt and Tunisia, Mansoor Moaddel provides a nuanced portrait of a region in flux, where liberal ideas are gaining strength despite the enduring power of fundamentalism and authoritarianism. Challenging entrenched assumptions and longstanding biases, Moaddel demonstrates that liberalism has emerged organically from within Middle Eastern societies, driven by local social, cultural, and historical dynamics.

MANSOOR MOADDEL is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His many books include The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism Versus Liberal Nationalism (Columbia, 2020).

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22188-7

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-22187-0

DECEMBER 288 pages / 6" x 9" / 13 b&w illustrations, 15 tables

POLITICS

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS

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$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22061-3

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-22062-0

SEPTEMBER 392 pages / 6" x 9" / 41 b&w illustrations, 53 tables

GLOBAL POLITICS

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East Asia’s Troubled Democracies

How Illiberal Trends Are Reshaping Politics in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

CHRISTOPHER CAROTHERS

“A highly original, carefully researched and argued contribution to the study of democratic backsliding around the world.”

—Kharis Templeman, coeditor of Electoral Malpractice in Asia: Bending the Rules

Amid global concern over democratic backsliding, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are often viewed as exceptions—stable, healthy democracies. Yet illiberal trends have been quietly growing in each country since the early 2010s. Drawing on extensive multilingual research, Christopher Carothers traces the forces undermining democracy in these three East Asian democracies. This book provides a nuanced corrective to overly optimistic views of the state of democracy in East Asia and reveals how global trends in democratic erosion are playing out in this critical region.

CHRISTOPHER CAROTHERS is a political scientist and an associated scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia (2022).

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22498-7

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-22425-3

OCTOBER  336 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 b&w illustration

GLOBAL POLITICS

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Experimental Junctures

The Social Shaping of World Order

MARY KALDOR

“This book represents the culmination of decades’ worth of thinking on the subjects of political violence, authority, and world order. Experimental Junctures provides a timely—and necessary—study of political authority and change in the modern world.”

—Andrew Mumford, author of The West’s War Against Islamic State: Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq

Mary Kaldor introduces a new concept, “experimental junctures,” to account for what happens when political institutions are out of kilter with far-reaching economic, social, and technological change. In these times of existential crisis, political leaders experiment with ideas drawn from outside their ranks—some with disastrous consequences, others potentially able to command a new long-term consensus. A capstone work from a major scholar, Experimental Junctures makes a timely case for the emergence of a new global order after American hegemony.

MARY KALDOR is professor emeritus of global governance and director of the Conflict Research Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her many books include New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (third edition, 2012).

$32.00 / £28.00  paper 978-0-231-22150-4

$130.00 / £109.00  cloth 978-0-231-22149-8

DECEMBER 224 pages / 6" x 9" / 3 b&w illustrations

GLOBAL POLITICS

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Shots in the Dark

The Bad Decision-Making Behind US Wars from Korea to Afghanistan

JAMES H. LEBOVIC

“Lebovic skillfully traces the decision-making processes leading up to various US military interventions, capturing these episodes with impressive detail. Ultimately, the book delivers a powerful critique of the flaws of national security decision-making.”

—Bruce W Jentleson, author of Economic Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know

Why have US wars so often failed to go as planned? James H. Lebovic offers a new analysis of the pervasive biases that have afflicted decision-making in the lead-up to and early days of US military interventions. To account for this persistent pattern, he develops an original theory of “instrumental bias,” reveals its telltale tendencies, and uncovers its results in the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars.

JAMES H. LEBOVIC is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of several books, most recently The False Promise of Superiority: The United States and Nuclear Deterrence After the Cold War (2023) and Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan (2019).

The Future of the Nuclear Order

Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

JOSEPH F. PILAT AND NATHAN E. BUSCH

“A timely and necessary clear-sighted review of the current landscape.”

—John R Walker, author of British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974–82

The Future of the Nuclear Order explores the difficulties facing nuclear nonproliferation and arms-control efforts today, from the immediate consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to deeper tensions that have been growing in significance. Timely and rigorous, this book identifies potential concrete steps that the United States and the international community can take to maintain limited progress on arms control despite significant obstacles.

JOSEPH F. PILAT is a program manager in the Center for National Security and International Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He served as the US Secretary of Defense’s representative to the Fourth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

NATHAN E. BUSCH is codirector of the Center for American Studies, James and Cynthia Crawford Professor of US National Security Studies, and distinguished professor of political science at Christopher Newport University.

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22438-3

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-22437-6

SEPTEMBER 320 pages / 6" x 9"

POLITICS

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$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-22450-5

$140.00 / £117.00  cloth 978-0-231-22449-9

SEPTEMBER 288 pages / 6" x 9"

POLITICS

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Emergence as Harmony

Mathematical Principles of SelfOrganization, Complexity, and Collective Behavior

VENKAT VENKATASUBRAMANIAN

“A rare synthesis: technically deep, conceptually original, and ultimately pointing toward something as elusive as harmony itself.”

—Julio Mario Ottino, author of The Nexus

Emergent phenomena occur when complex systems exhibit properties and behaviors that their individual parts do not have. They are found across scales and fields, from the collective intelligence of bird flocks in biology to segregation patterns in sociology. Venkat Venkatasubramanian shows that a novel paradigm can explain emergence. This unified theory offers new answers to fundamental questions on topics ranging from income inequality to large language models and neural networks.

VENKAT VENKATASUBRAMANIAN is the Samuel Ruben–Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering at Columbia University. He is the author of How Much Inequality Is Fair? Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society (Columbia, 2017).

Anti-Oppressive Social Work Ethics

BIBIANA D. KOH

“Anti-Oppressive Social Work Ethics engages with the question of how ethics can be embedded within practice in a way that upholds elimination of racism and social isolation and supports equal opportunity and justice. This is a timely and important book.”

—Donna McAuliffe, coeditor of Social Work Theory and Ethics: Ideas in Practice

Licensed social workers must adhere to a code of ethics set by the National Association of Social Workers. But this code is framed within the Eurocentric moral theories that dominate the conventional social work ethics curriculum, which exclude non-Western communities and pay insufficient attention to fighting oppressive power structures. Departing from traditional approaches, this book presents an anti-oppressive model to help social workers make ethical decisions that adhere to professional mandates while pursuing systemic social change.

BIBIANA D. KOH is an associate professor of social work at Salisbury University, where she serves as an Office of Diversity and Inclusion faculty fellow.

$50.00 / £42.00  paper 978-0-231-22458-1

$200.00 / £167.00  cloth 978-0-231-22457-4

AUGUST  304 pages / 6" x 9" / 60 color figures

SCIENCE

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$26.00 / £20.00  paper 978-0-231-21481-0

$110.00 / £85.00  cloth 978-0-231-21480-3

OCTOBER  176 pages / 6” x 9” / 15 b&w illustrations

SOCIAL WORK

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INTRODUCING

Italian Academy Publications releases distinguished work developed at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America—within its Fellowship program, or from its series of public events on scholarly and cultural topics. Building on the history of the five books in the Italian Academy Lectures series (Columbia University Press), in 2016 the publishing program of the institute was re-launched by Barbara Faedda (now the Academy’s executive director); it has been directed by her ever since.

Architectural History and Contemporary Preservation Trends

BARBARA FAEDDA, EDITOR

These eight essays address the conservation, reconstruction, and use of built heritage—in Bologna, Palermo, Rome, and Turin, as well as Madrid, Manhattan, and Queens—and illustrate destruction and losses in Syria and Iraq. The contributors are recipients of the prestigious Weinberg Fellowship in Architectural History and Preservation at Columbia’s Italian Academy—a fellowship dedicated to advancing the understanding and conservation of architecture across all geographic regions and historical periods.

BARBARA FAEDDA serves at Columbia University as the executive director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies—where she conceived the International Observatory for Cultural Heritage—and as an adjunct professor in the Italian Department. She is the author of From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana (Columbia, 2017) and is coeditor with Paolo Carta of A Lost Mediterranean Culture (Columbia, 2023) and Tharros (Columbia, 2025).

$60.00 / £50.00  paper 978-0-9974903-4-3

AVAILABLE NOW  156 pages / 9" x 9" / 105 color illustrations

ARCHITECTURE

A Shared Global Heritage

Architectural History, Conservation, and Preservation

BARBARA FAEDDA, EDITOR

This book presents eight studies by the winners of the Weinberg Fellowship on issues in the field of architectural heritage. It draws attention to new methods of preservation, conservation, and reconstruction while also offering fresh interpretations of little-known buildings and problems in not only Italy but also Algeria, Croatia, Iraq, Turkey, and the United States. Readers will find important assessments of environmental circumstances and constraints ranging from the effects of earthquakes to the promise of national parks.

BARBARA FAEDDA serves at Columbia University as the executive director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies—where she conceived the International Observatory for Cultural Heritage—and as an adjunct professor in the Italian Department. She is the author of From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana (Columbia, 2017) and is coeditor with Paolo Carta of A Lost Mediterranean Culture (Columbia, 2023) and Tharros (Columbia, 2025).

$60.00 / £50.00  paper 978-0-9974903-1-2

AVAILABLE NOW  132 pages / 9" x 9" / 63 color illustrations

ARCHITECTURE

Lotty Rosenfeld

Disobedient Spaces

NATALIA BRIZUELA AND JULIA BRYAN-WILSON, EDITORS

Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is the companion publication to the first US retrospective of the Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld (b. 1943, Santiago; d. 2020, Santiago). It features a conversation between the curators Natalia Brizuela and Julia BryanWilson, newly translated archival materials, and original essays that contextualize Rosenfeld’s solo practice as well as her collaborations with Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA). Together, these texts elaborate how the artist was a crucial node in a Latin American network that merged activism with poetry. In her wide-ranging work, Rosenfeld celebrated the imagination as the antidote to systems of control, be they patriarchal, dictatorial, capitalistic, or colonial. Framed through the lens of care, feminist friendship, and solidarity across difference, the exhibition highlights her tactile and conceptual strategies. The retrospective also emphasizes an unprecedented range of materialities used by Rosenfeld—including rarely seen intaglio prints, collages from everyday materials, book covers, and serigraphs with thread. Disobedient Spaces foregrounds her creative and political partnerships, illuminating Rosenfeld’s many alliances with fellow artists and activists.

This book explores how Rosenfeld circumvented attempts to police thought, behaviors, and language through the ambiguities inherent in art before, during, and after the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.

JULIA BRYAN-WILSON is professor of contemporary art and LGBTQ+ studies and core faculty in Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. Bryan-Wilson is curator at large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, where she co-organized the major group exhibitions Women’s Histories, Histories of Dance, and Queer Histories

NATALIA BRIZUELA is Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and professor of Spanish and Portuguese and film and media at the University of California, Berkeley. She most recently co-curated Contemporary Indigenous Media (2022) with Kathy Geritz at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive.

CONTENTS

Foreword and Introduction: Betti Sue-Hertz

Disobedient Spaces: A Curatorial Dialogue about Lotty Rosenfeld: Natalia Brizuela and Julia Byan-Wilson

Bandages, Stitches, and Sutures: Lotty Rosenfeld’s Feminist Materialities: Julia Bryan-Wilson

Tracing Crosses on the Pavement: Lotty Rosenfeld

An Underground Film: Diamela Eltit and Lotty Rosenfeld

Ties: Carolina Arevalo

My Mother’s Work: Alejandra Coz Rosenfeld

Crossings Along Those Lines: Susana Draper

Sites of Un+Happiness: Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos

Lotty Rosenfeld: Presente: Esther Gabara

Lotty, My Disobedient Friend: Guillermo Geisse

Desolation and Oblivion: Cristóbal Lehyt

Lotty Rosenfeld’s America: Florencia San Martín

Profane Attachments: Lotty Rosenfeld’s Via Crucis: Verónica Tello

Letter to Lotty: Cecilia Vicuna

Plates

Translated Archival Project Proposals from Diamela Eltit and Lotty Rosenfeld

Life Stories of Marginalized Women

Project Promoting Arts and Culture: Space for Women’s Artistic Creation

Proposal: Towards a Popular Culture

$45.00 / £38.00  paper 978-1-884919-41-1

AUGUST  160 pages / 6.75" x 9.5" / 194 color illustrations

ART

Inspired by a small plant that folds its leaves inward at the slightest touch only to reopen minutes later once it is safe, this series foregrounds the creative resilience of Caribbean authors. Folding inward and then opening again, Moriviví traces a poetics of vulnerability and survival: literature that transforms and reemerges, carrying within it the memory of contact and the promise of renewal. These voices are masterfully rendered into English by gifted translators who also hail from the literary traditions of the greater Caribbean.

Afroalgorhythms

YOLANDA ARROYO PIZARRO

Translated by Achy Obejas

Foreword by Shantall Laracuente Soto

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro blends ancestral memory with Afrodiasporic science fiction to map a feminist struggle shaped by artificial intelligence, data control, and reconfigured colonial surveillance. Throughout the book, her characters confront new kinds of systemic violence that have been reorganized to fit emerging technological and ecological conditions.

YOLANDA ARROYO PIZARRO is an internationally renowned Afro–Puerto Rican novelist and short story writer. She has won the PEN Club of Puerto Rico National Short Story Prize and the PEN International National Poetry Prize. She is writer in residence at EDP University.

ACHY OBEJAS is the author of The Boy Kingdom/El reino de los varones, a bilingual collection of prose poems.

SHANTALL LARACUENTE SOTO is a PhD candidate at the University of Salamanca who is writing a dissertation on Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s narrative work.

$12.00* / £9.99  paper 979-8-9903224-6-2

OCTOBER  150 pages / 5" x 7"

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

MORIVIVÍ: CARIBBEAN VOICES IN TRANSLATION

In Black Ink

ODETTE CASAMAYOR CISNEROS

Translated by Anna Kushner

In Black Ink is a memoir-like rendition of Odette Casamayor Cisneros’s Black, female, Cuban, and diasporic experience. At the intersection of personal experiences, collective memory, epistemological research, and the expansion of poetic knowledge, it is born from her biweekly column “Con tinta negra,” published since 2020 in the magazine On Cuba News

ODETTE CASAMAYOR CISNEROS teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Casamayor Cisneros is the author of Utopia, distopía e ingravidez: reconfiguraciones cosmológicas en la narrativa postsoviética cubana and the collection of stories Una casa en los Catskills

ANNA KUSHNER has translated The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala, The Halfway House and Leapfrog by Guillermo Rosales, Jerusalem by Gonçalo Tavares, The Transparency of Time by Leonardo Padura, and Sabers and Utopias by Mario Vargas Llosa, among other works.

$12.00* / £9.99  paper 979-8-9903224-7-9

OCTOBER  250 pages / 5" x 7" / 10 b&w illustrations

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

MORIVIVÍ: CARIBBEAN VOICES IN TRANSLATION

Levittown Mon Amour

CEZANNE CARDONA

Translated by Alejandro Álvarez Nieves

A freelance journalist who is short three hundred dollars for his father’s coffin—and fresh out of ideas. An unemployed man whose last shred of hope revolves around an abandoned couch outside his house. A desperate father who steals a water gun for his child and ends up performing the wrong kind of miracle. This is life in Toa Baja’s Levittown, one of the largest suburban projects in the Caribbean. Vulnerable, forlorn, and stuck in the mud of an uncertain future, the characters in these stories lack the resources to make ends meet yet are rich in grit, tenderness, and the scent of the sea breeze. Levittown Mon Amour renders a stirring portrait of the failure of the American dream in Puerto Rico.

CEZANNE CARDONA is a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and columnist. Levittown mon amour won the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra and the National Prize of Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña.

ALEJANDRO ÁLVAREZ NIEVES is a writer, translator, and professor in the Graduate Program in Translation at the University of Puerto Rico. His Spanish translation of Ntozake Shange’s Wild Beauty received the 2018 International Latino Book Award.

69 38 78

JUAN CARLOS MÉNDEZ GUÉDEZ

Translated by Daniela Ordóñez Delgado

Rendered in a variety of registers, this collection of short stories by the Venezuelan author Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez ranges from stark realism and poetic interludes to forays into the fantastic, a nod to noir, and surprising flashes of humor. Titled after his late mother’s phone number, 69 38 78 is divided into three parts, each corresponding to a distinct space: the territory of childhood and adolescence, the mythical realm of the sacred Montaña de Sorte in Venezuela, and the European landscape of adulthood and migration. These perspectives converge on a shared vision: narration as an act of tenderness, as a quest to preserve the fleeting memories of individuals who refuse to be consumed by oblivion and the passage of time.

JUAN CARLOS MÉNDEZ GUÉDEZ is the acclaimed autor of En las ruinas (Tiflos Prize 2024), La diosa de agua, Ideogramas, El Vals de Amoreira, Los maletines, La ola detenida, and El baile de Madame Kalalú, among others.

DANIELA ORDÓÑEZ DELGADO is a 2026 recipient of the Sundial Emerging Translator Award and is pursuing an MFA in writing at Columbia University.

$12.00* / £9.99  paper 979-8-9903224-9-3

OCTOBER  150 pages / 5" x 7"

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

MORIVIVÍ: CARIBBEAN VOICES IN TRANSLATION

$12.00* / £9.99  paper 979-8-9903224-8-6

OCTOBER  150 pages / 5" x 7"

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

MORIVIVÍ: CARIBBEAN VOICES IN TRANSLATION

The Arts of Japan Creativity and Innovation

BRENDA G. JORDAN

This book focuses on the arts of Japan through the lens of creativity and innovation, drawing on current scholarship in the field and providing historical context for developments over time. Despite a deep respect for tradition, Japanese artists also process and restructure ideas and technologies from abroad to develop entirely new styles and techniques. Certain themes crop up repeatedly, such as a heightened attention to nature and the seasons; humor and satire; and a fascination with the mysterious and strange (ghosts, demons, tricksters). This book is intended to tease out some of these creative and innovative moments in the history of Japanese art and provide the reader with a solid foundation from which to learn more.

BRENDA G. JORDAN is a Japanese art historian specializing in Tokugawa-period paintings and woodblock prints. From 2008 to 2025, she was director of the University of Pittsburgh's coordinating site for the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia.

Living with Gandhi Experiments in Utopia

KARLINE M c LAIN

Mahatma Gandhi was an anticolonial activist, lawyer, and politician. Less famously, but no less importantly, he was also a back-to-the-land farmer, a founder of communes, and a seeker of utopia. This book tells the story of everyday life at four of Gandhi’s communities in India and South Africa. It explores who lived at each community alongside Gandhi, the experiments they undertook in the shared pursuit of universal wellbeing, and the connections that were forged between daily life and larger sociopolitical issues such as racial inequality, caste reform, and anticolonial activism. The lessons of Gandhi’s communities help us to formulate our own conception of the good life, including how the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion operate in our daily lives and whether or to what extent self-sacrifice is necessary for universal wellbeing.

KARLINE M c LAIN is Presidential Professor of Religious Studies at Bucknell University.

$25.00 / £20.00  paper 978-1-952636-57-8

SEPTEMBER  180 pages / 6" x 9" / color illustrations throughout

ART HISTORY

KEY ISSUES IN ASIAN STUDIES

$25.00 / £20.00  paper 978-1-952636-55-4

SEPTEMBER  220 pages / 6" x 9"

RELIGION

ASIA SHORTS

Rust in My Blood

Planning for Urban Population Decline

JOANNA GANNING

How can shrinking cities help their residents thrive? Rust in My Blood explores why America’s postindustrial cities have tended to focus on rebounding at all costs and how they can make strategic decisions that prioritize quality of life over population growth instead. Combining personal narrative with comprehensively researched case studies, Joanna Ganning—a planning professor and native of West Virginia—advances theory, including in some controversial areas; offers practical strategies for professionals; and meaningfully connects lived experiences with scholarship. The book includes case studies of Pittsburgh; St. Louis; Gary, Indiana; and Charleston, West Virginia. Personal vignettes emphasize why these legacy cities matter beyond their postindustrial economies, especially to the people who live in and continue to love them. Rust in My Blood is written for general audiences, planning practitioners, and classroom use.

JOANNA GANNING is an associate professor in the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.

CONTENTS

Getting My Bearings in Buffalo

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Rise of Legacy Cities in Research and Practice

Out of Gas in Gary

Chapter 2: What About This Century, Gary?

Finding a Place in St. Louis

Chapter 3: Dismantling the Growth Machine of Decline

Love the One You’re With

Chapter 4: Attempting Growth But Cutting Off the Roots

Remembering Pittsburgh—Both of Them

Chapter 5: Planning Beyond—or Without—the Plan

Making Home, Against the Grain

Chapter 6: Conclusion

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-1-55844-478-2

OCTOBER  250 pages / 7" x 9" / color photos and figures throughout LAND USE AND PLANNING

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell / Hal Foster

A Marginalia Volume

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotated by Hal Foster

William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of the strangest and most incendiary works in the Western canon. Written and engraved in the 1790s, it remains a work that resists containment—at once poem, manifesto, theology, and attack. In this volume, the text is placed under pressure by Hal Foster, who brings to Blake both reverence and dismissal, always with a sharp, testing intelligence. His annotations move restlessly across the page: clarifying Blake’s symbolic system, challenging his mysticism, tracing unexpected continuities into modern and contemporary art, and, at times, puncturing the text’s prophetic authority with dry, surgical wit. The result is not a guide but a confrontation, a running argument conducted in the margins of a visionary work that has lost none of its volatility.

WILLIAM BLAKE was an English poet who is regarded as a central figure of Romanticism.

HAL FOSTER is an American art critic, historian, and a longtime editor of the journal October

Art Is Absolute Truth

Constantin Brancusi in His Own Words

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

Edited with an introduction by Doïna Lemny

For decades, Brancusi’s sayings have been repeated like relics, translated, altered, mythologized, and made to serve the legend of the artist. This book returns them to the workshop. Drawn from the Brancusi archive at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, these notes, aphorisms, reflections, literary writings, and autobiographical fragments recover the artist’s thought before it hardened into quotation.

Brancusi wrote in an idiosyncratic FrancoRomanian, outside ordinary grammar and outside every artistic school. His sentences have the pressure of his sculpture: stripped, elemental, difficult, exact.

Edited, annotated, and introduced by Doïna Lemny, Art Is Absolute Truth restores Brancusi’s words to the severity, strangeness, and force of the work itself.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI (1876–1957) was a Romanianborn sculptor who made his career in France and became one of the decisive figures of modern art.

DOÏNA LEMNY is an art historian, the author of numerous books on Brancusi, and has curated several international exhibitions devoted to his work.

$29.00* / £25.00  paper 978-1-971559-15-5

OCTOBER  64 pages / 5.6" x 8.5" / 27 color illustrations

POETRY

$20.00  paper 978-1-971559-41-4

OCTOBER  136 pages / 9" x 5.25" / 12 b&w illustrations

ART

The Boxer

GABRIELE TINTI

Translated by David Graham and Nicholas Benson

“Seeing the Boxer at Rest was like a thunderbolt. My psychic borders broke as it instantly embedded itself in my inner museum.”

—Jerry

Saltz

In The Boxer, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the Boxer at Rest—a figure seated, battered, unvanquished—and draws from it a sequence of poems as spare and unrelenting as the object itself. These are not elegies for victory, but meditations on endurance, on the dignity of damage, on the silence after violence and the long life of the defeated body. Across these pages, antiquity is not revived but confronted, its beauty inseparable from brutality, its heroes stripped of myth and left with only their wounds.

GABRIELE TINTI is an Italian poet whose work has been read by actors including Willem Dafoe, Vincent Piazza, and Abel Ferrara at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum.

DAVID GRAHAM is a poetry and art-exhibition translator who has worked for the Venice Biennale and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.

NICHOLAS BENSON is the translator of Aldo Palazzeschi’s The Arsonist and, with Elena Coda, Scipio Slataper’s My Karst and My City

$19.00* / £15.99  paper 978-1-971559-07-0

JULY  72 pages / 5.1" x 9" POETRY

From the 20th to the 21st Century

Ideology, Power, and the Fate of the Liberal Order

PANAGIOTIS KONDYLIS

Translated by Constantine Lerounis

Written at the close of the twentieth century, this book grasped a simple, unfashionable truth: the global spread of Western mass democracy would not produce stable replicas of the West; it would transform it, destabilizing its own centers and intensifying struggles over power and distribution. What was once presented as universal—human rights, global markets, supranational governance—emerges here not as a neutral horizon but as the language through which power interprets and legitimates itself. Against the dominant theories of the late twentieth century, this book draws a hard line between ideology and reality.

PANAGIOTIS KONDYLIS (1943–1998) was one of modern Greece’s most influential—and controversial—intellectuals. He was among the few non-German scholars to receive both the Goethe Medal and the Humboldt Prize. His other works include Planetary Politics After the Cold War, The Theory of War, Power and Decision, and The Critique of Metaphysics in Modern Thought

$24.00* / £20.00  paper 978-1-971559-14-8

DECEMBER  208 pages / 5" x 7.68" PHILOSOPHY

CRITICAL CENTURY

Critical Century gathers some of the most urgent and enduring works of the twentieth century— texts from the edges of literature, philosophy, politics, and art. Essays, manifestos, notebooks, film scripts, city portraits—each one sharp, unsettling, and still very much alive.

Negative Capability

The Intuitive Approach in Keats

New edition

WALTER JACKSON BATE

Introduction by Maura Del Serra

First published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate’s seminal study of John Keats’s “negative capability” remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics. Against the egotism and epistemic certainties of his age, Keats proposed instead a poetics grounded in openness to “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts.” Bate’s study restores the full force of that challenge, revealing negative capability as a rigorous and enduring principle of artistic creation. This edition returns a foundational work to print, with a new introduction by the Italian poet and critic Maura Del Serra.

WALTER JACKSON BATE (1918–1999) was one of the most influential literary critics of the twentieth century. His book John Keats (1963) won the Pulitzer Prize.

MAURA DEL SERRA is a poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic, formerly a comparative scholar at the University of Florence.

$18.00* / £14.99  paper 978-1-971559-38-4

JULY  128 pages / 4.75" x 7.5"

LITERARY STUDIES

Eternity by the Stars

New edition

LOUIS-AUGUSTE BLANQUI

Translated with an introduction by Frank Chouraqui

Composed by Louis-Auguste Blanqui in 1871 during his imprisonment, Eternity by the Stars arrives at a stark and devastating proposition: given infinite time and a finite number of possible configurations, every event must recur, again and again, without end. Each life is lived an infinity of times across the expanse of the universe; nothing is ever concluded, nothing ever redeemed. At once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui’s text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century—and one of its most haunting. This critical edition presents the work in a new English translation, with an extended introduction by Frank Chouraqui.

LOUIS-AUGUSTE BLANQUI (1805–1881) was a lifelong conspirator against monarchy, empire, and bourgeois republics alike.

FRANK CHOURAQUI is a senior university lecturer of continental philosophy at Leiden University.

$24.00* / £20.00  paper 978-1-971559-35-3

JULY  222 pages / 4.75" x 7.5"

PHILOSOPHY

CLETHAM CLASSICS

Cletham Classics is an innovative new range of thoughtfully designed books comprising both canonical texts and lesser-known works by much-loved writers. Cletham’s carefully selected titles and dynamic visual style make for an indispensable and ever-expanding collection.

Appointment in Samarra

JOHN O’HARA

$18.00* / £14.99  paper 978-1-971559-48-3

SEPTEMBER  224 pages / 4.21” x 6.97”

FICTION

Vile Bodies

EVELYN WAUGH

$18.00* / £14.99  paper 978-1-971559-46-9

SEPTEMBER  224 pages / 4.21" x 6.97"

FICTION

The Maltese Falcon

DASHIELL HAMMETT

$18.00* / £14.99  paper 978-1-971559-44-5

SEPTEMBER  200 pages / 4.21" x 6.97"

FICTION

Sanctuary

WILLIAM FAULKNER

$20.00* / £16.99  paper 978-1-971559-50-6

SEPTEMBER  300 pages / 4.21” x 6.97”

FICTION

ERIS GEMS

ERIS gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and nonfiction.

Love

CLARICE LISPECTOR

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-26-1

JULY  18 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

What We Owe One Another

SIMONE WEIL

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-28-5

JULY  24 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

PHILOSOPHY

If Destruction Be Our Lot

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-16-2

JULY  24 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

POLITICS

Why Socialism?

ALBERT EINSTEIN

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-18-6

JULY  24 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

POLITICS

Decadent, Stricken, Dying

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-20-9

JULY  32 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

PHILOSOPHY

What’s in a Name

CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-30-8

JULY  18 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

ANTHROPOLOGY

Beyond Big Tech

EVGENY MOROZOV

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-22-3

JULY  24 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

POLITICS

The Yellow Wallpaper

CHARLOTTE PERKINS

GILMAN

$8.00* / £5.99  paper 978-1-971559-24-7

JULY  18 pages / 4.33” x 7.68”

FICTION

Museum Queeries

Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums, Archives, and Curating

ANGELA FAILLER, SABRINA MARK, MICHELLE M c GEOUGH, AND HEATHER MILNE, EDITORS

This book explores Two-Spirit and LGBTTQ* contributions to and interventions in museums and museum studies, as a means of both addressing structural exclusions and opening new modes of productive inquiry and activism. Building on the inroads that have been made into existing museological practice and scholarship, the collection brings new voices and concerns to the field.

For the contributors, “queering the museum” is about not only addressing representations of gender and sexuality but also challenging white privilege, racism, and settler colonialism among other structures of oppression as they operate alongside and with heteronormativity, homophobia, and transphobia in and beyond museums, archives, and galleries. To challenge these norms in the context of museums and other knowledge producing institutions means that “queering” must also, simultaneously and inextricably, be decolonial. That is, queering and decolonizing are inseparable strategies if we understand that heteronormativity and gender binaries are constructions that stem from colonial logics and are upheld by colonial institutions. The book features essays by artists, curators, and scholars—emerging and established—from a range of disciplines including art history, cultural studies, curatorial studies, English, Indigenous studies, museum studies, and women’s and gender studies.

ANGELA FAILLER is professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Winnipeg.

SABRINA MARK obtained her PhD in English literature from the University of Manitoba.

MICHELLE M c GEOUGH teaches art history at Concordia University.

HEATHER MILNE is professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.

CONTENTS

Angela Failler, Sabrina Mark, Michelle McGeough and Heather Milne: Introduction to Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums, Archives, and Curating

Angela Failler: Unsettling Homocolonial Frames of Remembrance: Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Interventions at the Museum

Heather Milne: Pitfalls and Potential: Anticipating the 2SLGBTQ+ Purge Exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Michelle McGeough: Finding the Unicorn: Locating Queer Indigenous Lives in the Archive

Mika Castro: Looking for Invisible Lives and Fantastical Creatures: A Tour of the Manitoba Museum through Queer Filipinx/o Immigrant Stories

Adrienne Huard: Turning Inwards: Locating Joy, Refusal, and Solidarity through Two-Spirit Performance

Adrian Deveau: Telepathic Visions: A Psychic Investigation of Queer Hauntings in Canadian Archives

Amelia Smith: The Exhibitionary Complex and Transgender Display in and Beyond The Dime Museum

Cara Tierney and Monica Eileen Patterson: Discriminant Disjunctions: Museological Practice, Trans Belonging, and the Insight of Children

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-83-233-5630-1

JUNE  218 pages / 6.14" x 9.21" / 20 color and 2 b&w photographs, 5 color figures

ART

EXHIBITING THEORY

On the Pulse of Time

Chronicles of Decolonization in India

MIGUEL ÁNGEL ASTURIAS

Edited

and translated by

Sonya Surabhi Gupta and Shad Naved

This book brings together, for the first time, the journalistic writings on India by the Nobel laureate and Guatemalan-Spanish writer Miguel Ángel Asturias. Asturias’s “chronicles”—a Latin American genre of witness, memoir, and history—record his encounter with an alien reality, coming from a hard-won national independence yet to establish itself. They reflect on Asia’s resurgence and the proliferation of languages and literatures in India while focusing on the crippling effects of poverty, the obscenity of caste practices, and the contradictions between national independence and religious revival. This bilingual collection bears witness to lines of contact between Latin America and India beyond the routes of global capital.

MIGUEL ÁNGEL ASTURIAS (1899–1974) was the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature.

SONYA SURABHI GUPTA is former professor of Latin American studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

SHAD NAVED is assistant professor of comparative literature and translation studies at Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi.

$30.00 / £25.00  cloth 978-81-993790-1-5

DECEMBER  160 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 10 b&w illustrations

MEMOIR / HISTORY / JOURNALISM

Turn of the Star

Satyan’s Lifetime and Malayalam Cinema

RATHEESH RADHAKRISHNAN

The Malayalam film industry consolidated itself in the 1950s and 1960s. The actor-star Satyan, active from 1951 to 1971, embodied the aesthetic energies of the industry and is admired as a lodestar of Malayalam cinema. Before becoming a film actor, he worked in amateur theater and as a school teacher, a soldier in the British Indian army, and a policeman in Travancore. Turn of the Star is a biography of Satyan/Manuel Sathyanesan, interwoven with theoretical and historiographical reflections. Narrating Satyan’s life story alongside the establishment of the Malayalam film industry and the formation of Kerala as a linguistic state, this book analyzes stardom, caste, mobility, and masculinity.

RATHEESH RADHAKRISHNAN teaches film studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

$80.00 / £68.00  cloth 978-81-993790-0-8

DECEMBER  552 pages / 7" x 9" / 200 b&w illustrations

BIOGRAPHY / FILM STUDIES

Mrinalini Mukherjee

In the Creative Element Immerse

DEEPAK ANANTH

A tribute to Mrinalini Mukherjee’s sculptural imagination, this book celebrates a body of work that occupies a unique position in contemporary art. Central to Mukherjee’s practice was her dialectical understanding of the interplay of art and craft, as epitomized by her use of natural fiber as her elected medium and by the equipoise her sculptures maintained between these terms. The transformation of nature into art remained the leitmotif of the work she made in ceramic and bronze. Deepak Ananth’s essay on Mukherjee’s oeuvre is interspersed with an array of images—at once archival, art-historical, and evocative as a portrait of the artist and the poetics of her practice.

DEEPAK ANANTH is an art historian based in Paris. He has written on a range of modern and contemporary European and Indian artists, mostly for museum publications.

Alladi Memorial Lectures 3

K. V. VIJAYA BABU, EDITOR

This collection of essays presents fourteen annual lectures delivered between 2001 and 2025—the Justice Umamaheswaram Memorial Lectures and lectures delivered on the occasion of the centenary of Justice Alladi Kuppuswami, founder of the Alladi Memorial Trust. The essays deal with topics such as human rights, self-determination, democracy and the Constitution, questions of dissent, constitutional morality, transformative potential of the Constitution, freedom of religion, the judiciary and its independence, linguistic rights, rights of linguistic and religious minorities, moments of constitutional history, secularism, and the right to information.

K. V. VIJAYA BABU retired from Andhra Loyola College after teaching for thirty-three years.

$85.00 / £70.00  cloth 978-81-993790-7-7

DECEMBER  248 pages / 8" x 10" / illustrated throughout

ART / ART HISTORY

$40.00 / £35.00  cloth 978-81-993790-4-6

DECEMBER  236 pages / 6.25" x 9.5" LEGAL STUDIES / SOCIAL SCIENCES

Ravenous A Novel

SARA COOPER

Breigh is a hot elder millennial who is obsessed with the brands she is ambassading for. Her policy is YES, and her livestreams are viral. But she’s pregnant now, and her body’s changing. It’s not that she’s hungry. She’s definitely not depressed. She just sometimes eats boxes of makeup before passing out.

“In a deeply hilarious voice, Cooper skins capitalist, Momfluencer culture alive. It simmers with rage, and I couldn’t stop reading. Obsessed.”

—Meredith Hambrock, author of She’s a Lamb!

“A stunning portrait of contemporary life that hits the sweet spot between comedy and tragedy and leads to an ending that leaves not only the products and characters but also the readers ‘unboxed.’ ”

—Deborah Brevoort, author of The Women of Lockerbie and other plays

$24.00  paper 978-1-77363-823-2

AUGUST  286 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

FICTION

Daddy’s bought a brand new home for Breigh and Baby, complete with a Greenguard Gold-certified, twice-imported velvet infant chaise—but is he cheating on her with a hotter, younger coworker? Breigh has to get Baby out before it ruins her. She has to create more and better content than the other momfluencers. She has to unbox something new. She has to unbox . . . Baby! Baby approves of her seven-step marketing plan. Welcome to #LiveBirth. Breigh’s increasingly unhinged life reflects her generation’s anxieties around psychological manipulation through social media platforms. Multiaward-winning author Sara Cooper presents a wild debut novel in this incisive satire of consumerism, performative femininity, and social media.

SARA COOPER is a debut novelist and an award-winning playwrightlyricist. She lives in New York with her husband John and their son Theo. Ravenous was a finalist for the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.

“Incisive, propulsive, and darkly funny. Cooper’s vibrant language buzzes at a frenetic pace, articulating the pleasure and pain of what it means to consume and be consumed. Obsessed.”

—Tiffany Morris, author of Green Fuse Burning

“A perfect blend of the insanity and comedy of what it is to be alive and pregnant today. Cooper’s lyrical use of language is stunning.”

—Mindi Dickstein, lyricist of Little Women (Broadway)

Children Are Medicine A Colouring Book

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY

JACKIE TRAVERSE

Children Are Medicine is the fourth coloring book by the Anishinaabe artist Jackie Traverse. It contains both new drawings and original art and honors the place of children in the lives of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous children were specifically targeted as part of a colonial mission that removed them from their families, their culture, and their vital role in sustaining their communities.

In this book, Traverse pays tribute to and celebrates the joy and vitality that children bring to the life of communities. The love that children generate is vital to healing Indigenous Nations.

JACKIE TRAVERSE is a graduate from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba. She works in many mediums, from painting in oils and acrylics to mixed media, sculpture, and stop-motion animation.

“I can be inspired by ceremony and prayer, as well as kind and moving words. I love the culture of my people, and this is where most of my inspiration comes from.”

—Jackie Traverse

$24.00  paper 978-1-77363-817-1

SEPTEMBER  56 pages / 10" x 8" / 40 line illustrations for coloring ART

COLORING BOOKS BY JACKIE TRAVERSE

“I Love You Kookoo”

“Hello Friend”

The Politics of Lonely Why Is Friendship So Hard?

LEE ARDEN

Why is it hard to make and keep friends as an adult? Widespread loneliness reflects a world of crappy jobs and unaffordable housing that makes it almost impossible to have close, interwoven friendships. A dwindling social safety net takes a toll on us and on our relationships. Particularly for queer people, friendships can be crucial relations of equality, constancy, and care. A less lonely world is possible. Through interviews, research, and personal narrative, this book shows how people build tight connections despite living in the austere conditions of colonial capitalism—boldly weaving a new social fabric as this one unravels.

LEE ARDEN is the founder of Sheer Spite Press, author of many zines, and a member of the organizing collective for Dick’s Lending Library, a community-run library in Montréal.

A Feel for Thinking Lessons for a Political Education

SHARON LUK

With universities tightening their grip on dissent, speech, and creativity, the opportunities for marginalized students to access radical curriculum and mentorship are shrinking. A Feel for Thinking is a salve in these bleak conditions: a study guide written in a conversational style for readers who want to ground themselves in radical ideas. Drawing on the work of thinkers like Cedric Robinson, Robyn Maynard, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robin D.G. Kelley, Fred Moten, and Stefano Harney, Sharon Luk suffuses A Feel for Thinking with personal stories of her own wayfinding through complex ideas to provide an introduction to social justice traditions.

SHARON LUK is an associate professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Geographies of Racialization at Simon Fraser University. Her first book, The Life of Paper (2018), won awards from the American Studies Association and the Modern Language Association.

$22.00  paper 978-1-77363-826-3

SEPTEMBER  254 pages / 5" x 7" SOCIOLOGY

$20.00  paper 978-1-77363-869-0

OCTOBER  126 pages / 5.5" x 7.5"

EDUCATION / SOCIAL JUSTICE

Revolution on the Move

An Oral History of Latin American Feminisms and the Making of Toronto

R. MAGALY SAN MARTIN

This book gathers the unforgettable voices of Latin American feminist activists who joined together to confront entrenched power and along the way transformed Canada’s biggest city. R. Magaly San Martin’s oral history upends dominant historiographies, revealing Latin American feminists’ role in shaping Toronto’s unique political and social milieu. Through a tapestry of voices, Revolution on the Move reveals how anti-oppression work evolved within the Latin American community. Everyone interested in social justice, feminist politics, and Toronto’s singular political culture will find in the company of these extraordinary characters the courage and inspiration to transform our own time.

R. MAGALY SAN MARTIN teaches social work, gerontology, and social and community development at Sheridan College. She is a community worker, educator, and political activist involved in solidarity and liberation movements.

Genocide in Canada A Critical Approach

ANDREW WOOLFORD

“Is it genocide?” Too often the answer to this question requires killing fields, death camps, gas chambers, and massacres. Andrew Woolford explores settler-colonial genocide in Canada, overcoming the limitations of the traditional legal formulation of the concept of genocide. He shows how the residential school system was implemented by the settler state to deal with the “Indian problem,” intending to destroy Indigenous Peoples’ culture and relationships with family and territory. Woolford examines the genocide debate in Canada, illuminating the blind spots and assumptions that disguise settler-colonial patterns. He exposes the deeply flawed denialist claims about residential schools, challenging the redemptive story of Indigenous-settler relations that absolves Canada of anything more than a “dark chapter” or “mistakes.”

ANDREW WOOLFORD is professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of This Benevolent Experiment (2015) and Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty-Making in British Columbia (2005).

$32.00  paper 978-1-77363-825-6

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SOCIOLOGY

$29.00  paper 978-1-77363-821-8

OCTOBER  192 pages / 6" x 9"

GENOCIDE STUDIES

Heart Work and Hard Choices

Service Providers’ Emotional-Ethical Dilemmas in Working with Criminalized Women

KATHARINE DUNBAR

Katharine Dunbar draws on her experience in community service to reveal how providers manage compassion, frustration, burnout, and hope in order to build and sustain relationships and remain effective in their roles. In taking an innovative sociology of emotions approach, Dunbar connects individual feelings to broader themes of neoliberal policy that shift responsibility for harm from the state onto marginalized women and the organizations that serve them. In centering emotions, the book exposes hidden forms of control and care as well as the emotional and ethical dilemmas that arise when community organizations are asked to enact both support and surveillance. Heart Work and Hard Choices offers a hopeful yet critical look at what genuine support for community service provision should be.

KATHARINE DUNBAR is a McCain Postdoctoral Fellow at Mount Allison University.

Métis Methodologies

LAURA FORSYTHE AND JENNIFER MARKIDES, EDITORS

This collection provides a groundbreaking contribution to decolonial knowledge production by showing what makes Métis research methods distinct. It offers a framework for conducting research in Métis contexts and serves as an accessible entry point for those interested in learning about Métis epistemology, ontology, and axiology. Insightful and frank reflections guide readers toward rich research paradigms for ethical and relational scholarship on Métis life, kin, history, and homelands. Through grounded examples in research projects on language revitalization, land-based pedagogy, health research, digital storytelling, and literary criticism, readers will learn specific techniques reflecting Métis experiences of colonization.

LAURA FORSYTHE is the cofounder of the Metis Thinkers Network, editor of the Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies, and a member of the circle of editors of Pawaatamihk: Journal of Metis Thinkers

JENNIFER MARKIDES is associate professor in both the Werklund School of Education and the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary.

$32.00  paper 978-1-77363-820-1

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SOCIAL WORK

$35.00  paper 978-1-77363-822-5

SEPTEMBER  256 pages / 6" x 9"

INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Colonized Classrooms

Racism, Trauma, and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education

Second edition

SHEILA COTE-MEEK

Foreword by Jacqueline Ottmann

“Essential reading for anyone teaching or working within higher education today.”

—Carolyn Roberts, faculty lecturer in the Teacher Education Program at the University of British Columbia

Drawing on the voices of Indigenous students and professors, this second edition of Colonized Classrooms explores both the progress that has been made since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the challenges that continue to shape Indigenous experiences in higher education. Grounded in lived experience and rigorous scholarship, this book challenges institutions to move beyond symbolic gestures and toward genuine, accountable, and transformative change.

SHEILA COTE-MEEK is a professor and interim vice provost of Indigenous engagement at Brock University. She was the inaugural vice president of equity, people, and culture at York University.

JACQUELINE OTTMANN is the president of the First Nations University and the first Indigenous person to become president of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education.

$33.00  paper 978-1-77363-818-8

OCTOBER  256 pages / 6" x 9"

EDUCATION / INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Reimagining Assessment in Social Work

Critical Approaches to Power, Culture, and Practice

PETER CHOATE, CHRISTINA TORTORELLI, AND JENNIFER HEDGES, ERDITORS

Foreword by Terri Pelton

“An essential guide for moving beyond bureaucratic compliance toward a practice rooted in social justice and genuine human connection.”

—Don Fuchs, University of Manitoba

This book considers the many ways assessment in social work carries power, from how information is reported, collected, and acted on through clients’ interactions with adjacent systems and institutions. Authors tackle the troubled history of racist and Eurocentric assessment.

PETER CHOATE is a professor of social work at Mount Royal University.

CHRISTINA TORTORELLI is an associate professor and academic director for social work at Mount Royal University.

JENNIFER HEDGES is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Social Work Inner City Social Work Program.

TERRI PELTON has worked in the social services sector for more than thirty years.

$38.00  paper 978-1-77363-811-9

SEPTEMBER  296 pages / 6" x 9" / 5 b&w figures, 5 b&w charts, 5 b&w tables

SOCIAL WORK

Seeing Ourselves Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

Fifth edition

CARL E. JAMES

Seeing Ourselves examines the meanings of ethnicity, race, and culture, exploring how these concepts are understood by individuals and embedded within society. Now in its fifth edition, the book has been updated to address major social and political developments since its first publication in 1989, including the rapid growth of immigration, particularly from Asia; the increasing prominence of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples; the Black Lives Matter movement; Quebec’s secularism legislation; the Trump-era backlash in the United States and its reverberations in Canada; and the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the book retains the core explanatory frameworks, theoretical discussions, student essays, excerpts, and references to media reports that have long distinguished it as a foundational text in the study of race and ethnicity.

CARL E. JAMES holds the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at York University.

De-colonizing Journeys

Confronting Colonialism Through Circle Work

GISELLE DIAS, JULIA JANES, KATHY ABSOLON, JESSICA HUTCHISON, JENNIFER POOLE, AND CARLA RICE, EDITORS

This collection features Indigenous and settler peoples who engaged in years of circle work to unpack how colonialism affects their lives and professional practices. Circle work is an Indigenous methodology of building knowledge. It reveals that de-colonizing isn’t linear; it is an embodied process that unfolds on multiple levels.

GISELLE DIAS is an assistant professor in the Indigenous Field of Study in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University.

JULIA JANES is an associate professor of social work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

KATHY ABSOLON is a professor in the Indigenous Field of Study at Wilfred Laurier University.

JESSICA HUTCHISON is an assistant professor of social work at Wilfrid Laurier University.

JENNIFER POOLE is full professor in the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University.

CARLA RICE is a full professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Feminist Studies and Social Practice, and founding and academic director of the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph.

$36.00  paper 978-1-77363-872-0

OCTOBER 226 pages / 6" x 9"

SOCIOLOGY / RACE & ETHNIC RELATIONS

$35.00  paper 978-1-77363-819-5

SEPTEMBER 256 pages / 6" x 9"

INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Orphans of the Times

Chinese Writers and Artists in the Seventies

BEI DAO AND LI TUO, EDITORS

English edition edited by Theodore Huters

Foreword by Eliot Weinberger

This collection of essays reexamines a pivotal and often misunderstood decade in modern Chinese history. Originally edited by the acclaimed poet Bei Dao and the literary critic Li Tuo, it pulls back the curtain on a decade often seen as a void between Mao’s rigid control and the explosion of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms. But for this generation, the 1970s were a crucible—the time they came of age and fought to find their own voices.

Many of the writers and artists represented here were sent to the countryside as “educated urban youth.” They were both participants in and victims of the Cultural Revolution. Through a series of unfiltered portraits and vivid impressions, this book reveals what it was like to be young, restless, and searching for meaning in a society of conformity. The essays also reveal that the foundations of the “new enlightenment” of the 1980s were laid in the quiet defiance of the 1970s.

BEI DAO, the pseudonym of Zhao Zhenkai, is a renowned poet, a central figure of China’s “Misty Poets” movement, and the founder of the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages, and he has received numerous international literary awards, including the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

LI TUO is a prominent writer, critic, and editor in contemporary China. He is also an adjunct associate research scholar at Columbia University.

THEODORE HUTERS is professor emeritus in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has translated works by Bei Dao, Lu Xun, Wang Guowei, Wang Hui, Wang Xiaoming, and Zhang Lihua.

ELIOT WEINBERGER is a celebrated author, translator, and editor.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Nourished by Ignorance, by Xu Bing

Out of Context, by Bei Dao

Hapless Youth, by Zhai Yongming

A Quiet Horizon, by Zhang Langlang

A Very Long Vacation, by Han Shaogong

Listening to Enemy Broadcasts, by Ah Cheng

Wei Village, by Wang Anyi

The Seventies: Fragments of My Heart, by Li Ling

I Was a Wolf of the Mountains, a Pirate of the Seas, by Deng Gang

Scattered Memories of the Seventies, by Wang Xiaoni

Practical Linguistics of the 1970s, by Huang Ziping

About the Translators

Timeline: Major Events of the Cultural Revolution and Featured Authors

Glossary

$45.00  cloth 978-962-996-494-8

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LITERARY STUDIES

Village Life in Hong Kong Revisited

Transformations of the Rural New Territories

JAMES L. WATSON AND RUBIE S. WATSON

During fieldwork in the 1960s and 1970s, James L. Watson and Rubie S. Watson lived in San Tin and Ha Tsuen—two everchanging villages in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Since their Village Life in Hong Kong (2004), the Watsons have continued to research and write about these villages, even as the structure of life they explored has become a fading memory for the village residents. In this book, the Watsons extend their discussions to include the decidedly gendered aspect of village life that conditioned their research—on women’s lives and subculture, and on young men who survived anti-Japanese battles back in the 1940s, becoming vanguard-emigrants to Britain.

JAMES L. WATSON is Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and professor emeritus of anthropology at Harvard University.

RUBIE S. WATSON is the former director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Through Other Eyes

An Anthropologist’s View of Hong Kong

BARBARA E. WARD

Through Other Eyes offers an account of Hong Kong’s boat people—known locally as the Tanka—during a period of rapid postwar transformation. Drawing on decades of fieldwork conducted between 1950 and 1967, Barbara E. Ward analyzes the social organization, economic practices, and ritual life of Tanka fishing communities, highlighting their complex credit systems, family structures, gendered division of labor, and distinctive religious practices. She documents the profound effects of mechanization between the 1950s and 1960s while situating these changes within broader debates on peasant economies, modernization, and the relationship between cultural models and social behavior. Ward’s influential formulation of “conscious models” provides an analytic framework for understanding how communities interpret and negotiate social change.

BARBARA E. WARD (1919–1983) was a British social anthropologist renowned for her pioneering research on South China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. A specialist in Chinese social organization, she conducted multiple periods of fieldwork in Hong Kong between the early 1950s and late 1960s.

$55.00  cloth 978-988-237-423-2

DECEMBER  480 pages / 6" x 9" / 54 b&w illustrations

ANTHROPOLOGY

$50.00  cloth 978-988-237-422-5

DECEMBER  350 pages / 6" x 9"

ANTHROPOLOGY

The Lexicon of Empiricism and Chinese Modernization

THOMAS A. METZGER

The Lexicon of Empiricism and Chinese Modernization offers a deeply reflective exploration of how culture, philosophy, and empirical inquiry intersect in shaping China’s modern transformation. In this ambitious work, Thomas A. Metzger argues that understanding modernization requires studying not only measurable events but also the Lebenswelt—the evolving moral concepts and cultural assumptions that guide political and social life. He highlights the enduring influence of Confucian value rationality, suggesting it aligns more closely with aspects of Western Enlightenment thought than commonly assumed. Blending philosophy, historiography, and cultural analysis, the book challenges mainstream approaches and offers a fresh perspective on China’s intellectual landscape and its implications for global modernity.

THOMAS A. METZGER (1933–2025) was senior fellow emeritus of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.

Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants

Rare and Endangered Plants

Volume III

DAVID T.W. LAU, MAN-CHING LI, AND KA-YI WONG

Botanical illustrations by Man-Ching Li and Ka-Yi Wong

Edited by Ka-Yi Wong

This third volume of the Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants continues the vital mission of documenting the region’s unique floral heritage. Dedicated to rare and endangered species, this book provides a comprehensive record that serves as a crucial foundation for local botanical research. With exquisite color illustrations throughout, the artistic renderings elevate the expressive depth and scientific accuracy of plant structures to a higher level.

DAVID T.W. LAU is the curator of the Shiu-Ying Hu Herbarium, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

MAN-CHING LI is research coordinator, Shiu-Ying Hu Herbarium, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

KA-YI WONG is research and education coordinator, ShiuYing Hu Herbarium, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

$52.00  cloth 978-988-237-416-4

DECEMBER  400 pages / 6" x 9" PHILOSOPHY

$45.00  cloth 978-988-237-406-5

DECEMBER  312 pages / 7.7" x 11" / 19 color illustrations; 200 b&w illustrations; 300 photos SCIENCE

Lives Interrupted

The Nazi Takeover and Autobiographical Testimonies from the 1939 Harvard Prize Competition

DETLEF GARZ

In 1939, an extraordinary academic competition at Harvard University asked questions about the lives of emigrants from Nazi Germany before and after 1933. Around 200 autobiographical manuscripts, some of them extensive, were collected from emigrants from Germany and Austria. The corpus remains largely unexplored to this day. Detlef Garz takes a comprehensive look at the competition and focuses on the life stories of the participants: detailed experiences of life before 1933, suffering, resistance, emigration between 1933 and 1939, and arrival and resettlement in the host countries. His book thus lays the foundation for both the exploration of the autobiographical materials and the comprehension of exemplary life stories, as well as the concept of (moral) misrecognition.

DETLEF GARZ is senior professor at Kiel University.

Reclaiming Social Work

Critical Practice for Solidarity, Resistance and Change

MAGNUS

DAHLSTEDT,

SABINE GRUBER, MARCUS HERZ, AND PHILIP LALANDER, EDITORS

Translated and with a foreword by Walter Lorenz

People’s encounters with social work are often marked by the experience of being turned into an object. Poverty, addiction, crime, and homelessness are framed as individual problems, as if people lived their lives in isolation from broader social and political structures. This book offers another vision of social work that has the potential to contribute to creating a more just society in which people can truly develop their lives. Based on case studies and observations from Sweden, the book examines challenges and developments relevant to social work internationally.

MAGNUS DAHLSTEDT is professor of social work at Linköping University.

SABINE GRUBER is professor of social work at Mid Sweden University.

MARCUS HERZ is professor of social work at Gothenburg University.

PHILIP LALANDER is professor of social work at Linnaeus University.

$95.00  cloth 978-3-8474-3435-1

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HISTORY

$70.00  paper 978-3-8474-3441-2

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SOCIAL WORK

Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace

Multilateral Cooperation for

People and Planet

CORNELIA ULBERT AND MARCUS KAPLAN, EDITORS

Confronted with changing global power structures and competing concepts of global order, rules-based multilateral cooperation remains possible and necessary in order to tackle the many global challenges we face. Examining longer-term trends, this book shows how joint global problem solving can develop in selected areas.

CORNELIA ULBERT is the executive director of the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of DuisburgEssen.

MARCUS KAPLAN is the executive director of the Foundation for Development and Peace in Bonn.

Constitutions under Pressure

How Patient Autocrats Capture the Courts and Disassemble Checks and Balances

ŽILVINAS ŠVEDKAUSKAS

In an era marked by a global retreat from democracy, this book investigates constitutional capture, defined as the systematic and intentional weakening of constitutional checks and balances, to explain how constitutional change facilitates autocratization. Through innovative comparison of Poland, Hungary, Turkey, and Egypt, it details how incumbents subvert judicial independence to consolidate power. This subjugated judiciary then becomes a key facilitator, dismantling executive constraints and suppressing fundamental rights, from LGBTQ+ rights in Poland to collective ownership of national soil in Egypt, illuminating the mutually reinforcing relationship between constitutional manipulation and autocratization.

ŽILVINAS ŠVEDKAUSKAS is an assistant professor in the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University.

$25.00  paper 978-3-8474-3196-1

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

GLOBAL TRENDS: PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE

$75.00  paper 978-3-96665-122-6

OCTOBER  220 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

NBIC Technologies as Weapons of Modern Warfare

ALISA GRUNERT

The dynamics of the global world order are increasingly being shaped by new technological possibilities. What implications do the convergence and recontextualization of these innovations have for new forms of warfare, particularly in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC)? This integrative book analyzes and synthesizes the approaches of experts in this field, incorporating the role of dual-use and offensive and defensive classification.

ALISA GRUNERT completed her studies in the Department of Political Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

The Pan-African ‘Charter for African Cultural Renaissance’

The Return of Museum Objects from Colonial Contexts

SABINE VON SCHORLEMER

This book focuses on the postcolonial preservation of cultural heritage and the restitution of colonial artifacts to African countries of origin within the framework of the Pan-African Charter for African Cultural Renaissance. It analyzes the history of the charter, which came into force in 2020, and its multifaceted content. In doing so, it highlights the role of the African Union and its member states, as well as UNESCO, in its implementation, particularly within the Global Priority Africa framework.

SABINE VON SCHORLEMER is a senior professor at the Dresden University of Technology.

Dynamics of Shame in Residential Care

An Ethnography of Child and Youth Services and Disability Services

SARA BLUMENTHAL

This book uses an ethnographic approach to examine shame dynamics in residential care for young people in Austria. It explores shame dynamics in the context of pedagogical responses to violence from the perspective of young males, educationrelated shaming as a pedagogical sanction of girls by care workers, and suicidal behavior as a cause of shame and guilt among care workers and young people in residential care.

SARA BLUMENTHAL is an assistant professor at the Research Unit for Social Pedagogy and Inclusion Research, Department of Educational Science, University of Klagenfurt.

$75.00  paper 978-3-8474-3194-7

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$10.00  paper 978-3-8474-3442-9

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

WIFIS-AKTUELL (ACADEMIC FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY)

$110.00  cloth 978-3-8474-3413-9 JULY  381 pages / 6.69" x 9.45" ART

EDUCATION

BOOK SERIES OF THE SOCIAL PEDAGOGY SECTION OF ÖFEB (AUSTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATION)

Sport from the Perspective of Peer Groups

Exploring Collectively Shared Knowledge in School and Leisure During Early Adolescence

BENJAMIN ZANDER

This book explores how communities emerge within adolescent peer groups based on their engagement in physical education and both club and informal sport. Based on a longitudinal study using group discussions with diverse peer groups, the analysis shows that peer groups are social collectives characterized by shared stocks of knowledge.

BENJAMIN ZANDER is a full professor of sport science and head of the Sport and Society Division at the Institute of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at Osnabrück University.

From EDI Policy to Practice

Embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in European Research

SARA CLAVERO, JASMINKA HASIC

TELALOVIC, OLGA KOLOTOUCHKINA, AND CINZIA LEONE, EDITORS

This book explores how inclusivity, particularly gender equality and intersectional perspectives, can be meaningfully embedded in research and innovation policies and practices. It highlights strategies and action plans to improve governance and institutional culture.

SARA CLAVERO is a research fellow at Technological University Dublin.

JASMINKA HASIC TELALOVIC is associate professor at Sarajevo School of Science and Technology.

OLGA KOLOTOUCHKINA is assistant professor at Complutense University of Madrid.

CINZIA LEONE is a researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova.

Sustainability Transitions in Professional Life Trajectories An Empirical Reconstruction of Changing Work Life Practices

ELISA THEVENOT

How do people incorporate sustainability into their professional lives? Based on biographical interviews, this book reconstructs the individual processes of finding meaning in the context of career transitions. Various strategies emerge, ranging from radical transformations to leading by example or adapting sustainability to fit one’s lifestyle.

ELISA THEVENOT is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education at the University of Tübingen.

$55.00  paper 978-3-8474-3414-6

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EDUCATION

$85.00  paper 978-3-8474-3410-8

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EDUCATION

$60.00  paper 978-3-8474-3192-3

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EDUCATION

REFLEXIVE TRANSITION STUDIES | DOING TRANSITIONS

The Failure

An Investigative Report of Germany’s Russia Policy

KATJA GLOGER AND GEORG MASCOLO

“Well worth reading.”

—Olaf Scholz, former chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

“[Gloger and Mascolo’s] careful analysis, firsthand observations, and sharp conclusions about their country’s missteps should resonate as strongly in the United States as they did in Germany.”

—Fiona Hill, senior fellow, Brookings Institution

When Vladimir Putin launched his fullscale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the world was taken by surprise. Yet Western intelligence agencies had long warned that this war was coming. In this gripping investigation, Katja Gloger and Georg Mascolo show how political leaders ignored these warnings for decades—and how critics of Germany’s Russia policy were sidelined or silenced.

KATJA GLOGER reported for Stern magazine for many years from Moscow and Washington.

GEORG MASCOLO served as editor in chief of Der Spiegel and later headed the investigative reporting network of the major public television broadcasters NDR and WDR and the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung

After Putin

The Russia We’ll Have to Live with for the Next 50 Years

VADYM DENYSENKO AND VITALIY PYROVYCH

“This is a fearless investigation—with elements of ‘dissection’—of the mechanisms of Russian governance.”

—Yevhen Magda, director of the Center for Public Relations, Kyiv

This book peers into the near future when Russia will no longer be ruled by Vladimir Putin. Even after the inevitable power transition, post-Putin Russia will remain haunted by the myths Putin cultivated and the political system he built. Understanding the inner workings of this regime, its strengths, and especially its vulnerabilities is therefore essential. Vadym Denysenko and Vitaliy Pyrovych offer a clear-eyed deconstruction of the Putin cult and the assumptions widely accepted among observers.

VADYM DENYSENKO is a former people’s deputy in Ukraine’s parliament. His previous books include Putin vs. the World: Why Russia Has Not Changed in the Past 400 Years (2023).

VITALIY PYROVYCH is editor in chief of the publishing group Kartel.

$30.00  paper 978-3-8382-2113-7

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POLITICS

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POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

Borders de Todos Lados, Fronteras from all Directions—

Volume 1: Crossings, Elementals, Vigilances, Disborders

Volume 2: Discourses, Reveries, Diasporas, Beyond Borders

CHRISTIAN FERNÁNDEZ HUERTA, JULIA

SUSHYTSKA, AND ALISA SLAUGHTER, EDITORS

Foreword by Botakoz

Kassymbekova

Two of the world’s most forbidding borders run along the eastern edge of Ukraine and the northern edge of Mexico, but lines of control can materialize between and across any locations or peoples: in the supposed unanimity of the European Union, on the streets of the world’s wealthiest democracies, in the memories of an exile. An engine of violence and discord, a destroyer of identity and integrity, a border is an abstraction disguised as an inevitability. To create another reality, this book invites writers and artists to a groundbreaking project of mutual translation and encounter, moving through and across Spanish, Ukrainian, English, Chinese, Hebrew, Hungarian, Bosnian, French, and Russian. It provides a starting point to communicate, document, and expand experiences of separation and sovereignty through essays, stories, art, and poetry.

CHRISTIAN FERNANDEZ HUERTA works for Autonomous University of Baja California’s Institute of Cultural Research–Museum of Mexicali.

JULIA SUSHYTSKA is associate professor of comparative studies in literature and culture at Occidental College.

ALISA SLAUGHTER is a writer and translator from southern California.

BOTAKOZ KASSYMBEKOVA is professor of East European history at the University of Zurich.

“The contributors have achieved something remarkably ambitious: a truly global, polyphonic dialogue that refuses to let geography or language be an obstacle to solidarity.”

—Jeremy G Tasch, professor and graduate studies director, Towson University

VOLUME 1: $44.00 / £35.00  paper 978-3-8382-2161-8

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POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

SALE

Inside Ukrainian Diplomacy

Volume 1: True Stories by a Career Diplomat, 1970–1994

VOLODYMYR KHANDOGIY

This book offers a professional’s perspective on the history of late Soviet and early post-Soviet Ukrainian diplomacy, drawing on the forty years of firsthand experience that its author acquired through multiple positions in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Volume 1 focuses on how foundations were laid during the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic for the diplomatic service of an independent Ukraine. Reminiscences from the past guide the reader into the present, offer a glimpse of the future, and spark unexpected associations. This makes the book compelling not only for foreign relations specialists but also for a wider audience, particularly those who have chosen the challenging path toward the diplomatic arena.

VOLODYMYR KHANDOGIY served as a diplomat for decades. He is now the cofounder and president of the Ukrainian Foreign Policy Association and chairman of the board of the journal Foreign Affairs UAV

Inside Ukrainian Diplomacy

Volume 2: Reflections and Analyses, 1995–2016

VOLODYMYR KHANDOGIY

Volume 2 unfolds during the challenging transition from the diplomacy of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the emerging diplomatic service of independent Ukraine. Volodymyr Khandogiy provides uncensored reflections of an eyewitness to these transformative events to contribute to a broader understanding of Ukraine at different points in its history. In the context of the Russian aggression since 2014, as Ukraine defends its civilizational choice, the book offers an identification, by a seasoned high-ranking Ukrainian diplomat, of the internal and external factors leading to the largest military confrontation in Europe since World War II. This compelling interpretation elevates the book beyond a conventional memoir, making it valuable for not only foreign policy experts but also the general reader.

$48.00  paper 978-3-8382-2147-2

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

$46.00  paper 978-3-8382-2148-9

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

Whispers of Survival

War, Trauma, and the Making of Civilian Rescuers

ALLA PROKHOVNIK-RAPHIQUE

Foreword by Sarah Adams

“Whispers of Survival is an inspiring story that centers the strength of individual and community resilience during the chaos of war.”

—Kim Baranowski, Mount Sinai Human Rights Program

This memoir blends frontline urgency with psychological insight to document the author’s transformation from a Ukrainian American psychologist into an unexpected rescue coordinator during Russia’s full-scale invasion. From her New York apartment, Alla Prokhovnik-Raphique became a lifeline—coordinating evacuations, calming families, and improvising alongside grassroots networks when international systems stalled. Whispers of Survival is simultaneously a memoir, a study of trauma, and a testament to human resilience.

ALLA PROKHOVNIK-RAPHIQUE is a practicing clinical psychologist and the chief operating officer of the Ukraine NGO Coordination Network.

SARAH ADAMS is the host of the political news analysis YouTube channel The Watch Floor.

Ukraine Layer by Layer

Freedom and Friction in a Frontier Society

MARYNA STARODUBSKA

Foreword by Natalka Cmoc

Ukraine Layer by Layer peels back the cultural tiers behind today’s politics and daily life. Why do Ukrainians distrust the state yet demand that it works? Why do rules feel negotiable—and why do Westernstyle reforms fail unless they are adapted? Why is corruption treated as both painful and oddly “explanatory”? How does the myth of Russians and Ukrainians as “brother nations” collapse the moment you look at the two peoples’ values and institutions? Written as a clear, research-grounded explainer, this book uses cross-cultural frameworks, diachronic comparisons, and empirical evidence to map how values, norms, and institutions interact—and what that means for rebuilding, reform, and working with Ukraine without stereotypes.

MARYNA STARODUBSKA is adjunct professor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

NATALKA CMOC has been Canada’s ambassador to Ukraine since 2023.

$29.00  paper 978-3-8382-2114-4

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UKRAINIAN VOICES

$48.00  paper 978-3-8382-2117-5

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UKRAINIAN VOICES

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Ukrainian Freedom

Collective Agency in National Defense

AMBER FRENCH-GRIETTE, EDITOR

Foreword by Oleksandra Matviichuk

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the Ukrainian people’s collective resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion. The chapters examine how diverse sectors of society and ordinary people contribute to national defense and societal resilience beyond the military ecosystem. Combining case studies, personal testimonies, historical analysis, and policy-oriented research, the contributors argue that Ukraine’s resilience stems from its historical experience with nonviolent revolution, coordinated civic action, and moral determination. The collection’s key novelty lies in framing unarmed civilian-based defense as not a panacea but merely a blind spot in twenty-first-century security, with implications for democratic societies confronting hybrid warfare and authoritarian aggression.

AMBER FRENCH-GRIETTE is the cofounder and executive director of the Organization for Nonviolent Movements.

OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUK is a human rights lawyer who heads the Center for Civil Liberties in Kyiv, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.

Culture War

An Essay on the Origins of the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict

IAROSLAV PETIK

Foreword by Iryna Grabovska

This essay is an attempt to assess the old conflict between the Ukrainian and Russian nations in the light of both the full-scale invasion since 2022 and the larger historical context. Analyzing salient cultural incidents that have become issues for Ukrainian national identity and Ukraine’s attitude toward the aggressor state, Iaroslav Petik argues that debates about historical events such as the Pereyaslav Agreement, the Holodomor, the Great Terror of 1937–38, and World War II exert a heavy political influence on the two states’ nation building and conflictual relations.

IAROSLAV PETIK is senior research fellow at the Museum for Prominent Figures of Ukrainian Culture in Kyiv.

IRYNA GRABOVSKA is senior research fellow at the Institute for Ukrainian Studies of the National Shevchenko University of Kyiv.

$26.00  paper 978-3-8382-2168-7

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POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

$29.00  paper 978-3-8382-2017-8

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POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

Free Will in Civil Law

A Ukrainian Perspective

VIKTOR SAVCHENKO

“A significant contribution to legal theory.”

—Vitalii Seryogin, V N Karazin National University of Kharkiv

This book offers the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the foundational role of the concept of free will across the entire spectrum of Ukrainian civil law. Drawing on historical-philosophical analysis and a detailed examination of Ukrainian legislation and doctrine within the broader European continental tradition, the work demonstrates how the concept of free will shapes legal relationships. It provides a unique perspective on a universal legal concept, offering valuable insights for scholars of civil law, comparative law, legal theory, and East European legal systems.

VIKTOR SAVCHENKO is associate professor of private and civil law at the V. N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv.

The Armed Truth

What Germany and Europe Can Learn from Ukrainian Media

DANYLO POLILUEV-SCHMIDT, EDITOR

Foreword by Patrick Sensburg

This book analyzes the transformation of Ukraine’s media landscape into a resilient bulwark against Russian hybrid warfare to demonstrate how democratic discourse can survive weaponized disinformation. Using an interdisciplinary framework, the contributors demonstrate how Ukrainian journalism has worked alongside civil society, fact checkers, and the state to counter Kremlin narratives without resorting to censorship. They argue that “arming truth” requires active defense through rigorous verification and transparency rather than counterpropaganda. This book translates these lessons into a concrete roadmap for German and EU policymakers that can be used to fight off similar hybrid threats.

DANYLO POLILUEV-SCHMIDT works as an essayist and columnist for various German and European magazines. Since 2022, he has designed and led the seminar Armed Truth at the University of Potsdam.

PATRICK SENSBURG is professor of public law and European law at the University of Police and Public Administration in North Rhine–Westphalia.

$48.00  paper 978-3-8382-2133-5

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LAW

UKRAINIAN VOICES

$34.00  paper 978-3-8382-2150-2

SEPTEMBER  294 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

The Arts of War: Ukrainian Artists Confront Russia

Year Four

BLAIR A. RUBLE

The Ukrainian response to the 2022 Russian invasion has inspired a new appreciation for the country both within and beyond Ukraine. The stories presented here from the war’s fourth year highlight the ways in which Ukrainians have explored the meaning of their country and culture through the arts and the manner in which the arts and their creators have empowered Ukrainians to confront the Russian invaders. They represent an extension of the artistic efforts during the war’s first, second, and third years, chronicled in previous volumes of The Arts of War

BLAIR A. RUBLE was a former distinguished fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is the author of ten book-length works including The Arts of War: Ukrainian Artists Confront Russia, Years One, Two, and Three

Instrumentalizing Russia’s Literary Heritage

The Kremlin’s Identity Politics during Putin’s Third Presidential Term, 2012–18

OSHANK HASHEMI

“Hashemi has produced a highly enlightening, innovative, and rigorously substantiated book.”

—Piet Van Poucke, associate professor, Ghent University

Drawing on an extensive body of primary and secondary sources, this book examines how the Russian state appropriated Russia's classical literary heritage to create an identity politics. Examining the Russian cultural community, Oshank Hashemi offers fresh insights into identity politics as an interactive process that involves not only political elites and state structures but also a wider range of actors, institutions, and social structures. The book contributes to a better understanding of nation building in unsettled times by showing how the symbolic capital of Russian literature continues to function as an effective tool for shaping national identity, maintaining the status quo, and legitimizing political agendas.

OSHANK HASHEMI is a researcher at the Ghent Center for Slavic and East European Studies.

$29.00  paper 978-3-8382-2170-0

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ART / POLITICS

$55.00  paper 978-3-8382-2145-8

SEPTEMBER  490 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Illusions About Russia

The Grave Mistakes in Germany’s Russia Policy and Their Consequences for a Western Russia Policy

JÖRG HIMMELREICH

Jörg Himmelreich traces how Germany’s deeply rooted “Russia complex” blinded its leaders to the true nature of Putin’s regime. From Gerhard Schröder’s fateful personal alliance with the Kremlin to Angela Merkel’s veto of Ukraine’s NATO accession in 2008, the book lays bare a chain of miscalculations with devastating consequences. A rigorous, provocative analysis that redefines the debate on European security and Western resolve, this book also takes into account the Russia policies of German chancellors Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz as well as US president Donald Trump.

JÖRG HIMMELREICH is an honorary professor at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in Berlin and Paris.

Russia Against Ukraine

Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity

ANTON SHEKHOVTSOV, EDITOR

Foreword by Galia Ackerman

This book challenges the narrative that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was driven by national security concerns over NATO expansion. Since gaining independence in 1991, Ukraine had maintained a nonaligned status. Despite this neutrality, Russia violated numerous international agreements. The focus on NATO is not just misleading—it serves as a strategic distraction from Russia’s revisionist aims: challenging the post–Cold War order and dismantling Ukraine as a sovereign nation. The contributors argue that central to this project is Ukrainophobia, deeply rooted ideological hostility toward Ukraine, which is embedded in Russian geopolitical chauvinism, and they explore its manifestations within the Russian state and society.

ANTON SHEKHOVTSOV is visiting professor at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University.

GALIA ACKERMAN is vice president and editorial director of Desk Russie in Paris.

$29.00  paper 978-3-8382-2154-0

$48.00  paper 978-3-8382-2111-3

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JULY  220 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

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SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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Russian Influence Operations

Disinformation and Beyond

OLGA BERTELSEN, EDITOR

Foreword by Victoria A. Malko

“This book is incredibly valuable in today’s national security environment.”

—Jan Goldman, professor, the Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina

This book examines the past and present of Russian influence operations and Russian intelligence agencies’ tactics and strategies. Paying special attention to the terminology used by Soviet and Russian intelligence agencies, we are better able to understand how they design operations to blackmail, bribe, and coerce to stop or disrupt military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. The contributors further demonstrate how Russian agents create discord among NATO countries in order to compromise their unity and actions aiming to curtail Russian military activities in Ukraine.

OLGA BERTELSEN is associate professor of global security and intelligence at Tiffin University.

VICTORIA A. MALKO is senior research associate at the Koretsky Institute of State and Law at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv.

From Ethnophobia to Anti-Semitism

Terror Against National Minorities under Stalinist Rule

MATTHIAS VETTER

Foreword by Irina Shcherbakova

Why did the Soviet Union take a virulent anti-Semitic turn in the late Stalin years? Matthias Vetter offers a new explanation that places Soviet anti-Semitism in the context of Stalinist general terror against “foreign nationalities” and diaspora groups as well as overlooked aspects of Soviet minority policies. He argues that Jews in the Soviet sphere of influence were regarded and persecuted as quasi-natural agents of the West, especially of America—a form of anti-Semitism that was disguised as “antiZionism.”

MATTHIAS VETTER has worked at the East-West European Cultural and Study Center “Palais Jalta,” for an EU development project in St. Petersburg, and as a consultant for banks in Frankfurt.

IRINA SHCHERBAKOVA is cofounder and board member of the Russian human rights organization Memorial, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.

$52.00  paper 978-3-8382-2194-6

JULY  434 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" / 3 figures

POLITICS

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

$46.00  paper 978-3-8382-2149-6

JULY  416 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

HISTORY

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Vulnus On Vulnerability

GAMZE HAKVERDI

“The book successfully renders a highly abstract, slippery, and hard-to-define psychic state empirically discussable.”

—Gülay Acar Göktepe, Moment Journal

Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, this book argues that vulnerability is not merely an inner, individual condition but a negotiated position. Gamze Hakverdi addresses contemporary regimes of visibility by connecting lived narratives, cultural images, and theoretical analysis, inviting readers to rethink vulnerability as a relational condition that can open a new ethics of seeing and listening.

GAMZE HAKVERDI holds a PhD in communication sciences from Ankara University.

Rabindranath Tagore and His Discourses on Politics, Nationalism and Decolonization

Translations with a Critical Introduction of

Select Public Lectures

MANOJIT MANDAL, SANKHA GHOSH, AND ISHANI DUTTA

Foreword by Michael Collins

This book examines the largely unrecognized contributions of Rabindranath Tagore to early anti-imperialist thought within postcolonial studies. It presents annotated translations of twelve explicitly political essays.

MANOJIT MANDAL is professor and chair of English at Jadavpur University.

SANKHA GHOSH is assistant professor in the Department of English at the Heritage College, Kolkata.

ISHANI DUTTA submitted her PhD dissertation on contemporary Nepali performance poetry at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana.

$25.00  paper 978-3-8382-2107-6

AUGUST  140 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" / 19 figures

PSYCHOLOGY

$34.00  paper 978-3-8382-2136-6

OCTOBER  280 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" POLITICS

STUDIES IN COMMONWEALTH WRITINGS

Subjects and Occasions

Articles, Comment Pieces, and Reviews on the Far Right and Other Matters

Volume 2

MATTHEW FELDMAN

Edited by Kate Yanduganova

Afterword by Steven Matthews

“Lively and readable, the texts collected in these wide-ranging volumes use archivally rich literary criticism to read modernist literature and contemporary culture alike.”

—Alys Moody, associate professor, Bard College

Drawing on Matthew Feldman’s experience as literary scholar, intellectual historian, and political consultant, this book follows the development of different forms of radicalism, especially far-right movements, fascist ideology, and terrorism during the “long twentieth century.”

MATTHEW FELDMAN is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far right in Europe and the United States. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books.

KATE YANDUGANOVA is an editor and translator.

STEVEN MATTHEWS is emeritus professor of modernist studies and codirector of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading.

Thinking Europe’s Catastrophe

Essays on Fascism and the Holocaust, Volumes 1 and 2

DAN STONE

“A most welcome introduction to Dan Stone’s amazing scholarship.”

—Debórah Dwork, director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, CUNY Graduate Center

Focusing on the history and interpretation of the Holocaust, this interdisciplinary collection of essays by the scholar Dan Stone discusses the idea of “race,” fascism, and genocide. It showcases how Stone’s various approaches to the past are united by the attempt to uncover, from as wide a perspective as possible, the sources of Europe’s mid-twentieth-century catastrophe.

DAN STONE is professor of modern history and director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London.

$44.00  paper 978-3-8382-2153-3

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POLITICS

THE BEST OF SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

VOLUME 1:

$109.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2156-4

SEPTEMBER  500 pages / 5.83” x 8.27” / 7 figures

VOLUME 2:

$104.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2157-1

SEPTEMBER  420 pages / 5.83” x 8.27” / 7 figures

HISTORY

THE BEST OF SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

Understanding Modern Japan Through Its Literature

ROY STARRS

“This volume will be of immense value to scholars and students working in East Asian studies, modernism studies, modern history, and other fields besides.”

—Mark Byron, University of Sydney

Roy Starrs explores how Japanese writers and intellectuals have responded to the turbulent history of the past century and a half, from Western imperialism and Japan’s own imperial expansion to wartime defeat, atomic destruction, and postwar economic recovery.

ROY STARRS is an honorary professor at the University of Otago. His most recent book is The Paradoxes of Japan’s Cultural Identity (2025).

At the Crossroads of Philosophy, Politics, and Culture

Essays for a Troubled Time

MARTIN JAY

Theoretically informed but accessibly written, these essays tackle a number of timely and controversial issues: Trump’s debts to the left, the rise of conspiracy theories, the lack of empathy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the declining interest in the concept of alienation, the role of lying in politics, the challenges faced by Black artists, and the dubious idea of the judgment of history.

MARTIN JAY is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Selected Writings

Volume 1: Papers on Kuhn and Feyerabend

PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE

Foreword by Philip Kitcher

This book collects published and unpublished papers by Paul Hoyningen-Huene on Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and their relationship. Considered the preeminent expert on Kuhn, Hoyningen-Huene was also friends with both Feyerabend and Kuhn, interacting with them intensively on professional and personal levels. With unique insight into their positions, this is indispensable reading for everyone interested in Kuhn or Feyerabend.

PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE is professor emeritus at Leibniz University Hannover, where he founded and directed the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, and continues to lecture on the philosophy of economics at the University of Zürich.

$115.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2108-3

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LITERARY STUDIES / ASIAN STUDIES

THE BEST OF SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

$90.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2130-4

SEPTEMBER  320 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

ESSAYS / POLITICS

THE BEST OF SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

$104.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2110-6

OCTOBER  440 pages / 5.83” x 8.27”

PHILOSOPHY

THE BEST OF SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

Judgment Calls Finding the Way to Wise Decisions

ZACHARY SHORE

Foreword by Adam Hochschild

In Judgment Calls, Zachary Shore roams across history, science, culture, and current events to illuminate how we think, where we go wrong, and how we might judge more wisely. This provocative collection brings together essays that confront some of our most challenging questions: How should we remember the twentieth century? Why do even brilliant scientists miss the connections that bind the natural world? What does it take to truly understand our enemies? With clarity, wit, and a gift for unexpected insight, Judgment Calls is an invitation to let history help guide us toward a wiser future.

ZACHARY SHORE is professor of history at the Naval Postgraduate School, senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies, and a national security visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute.

ADAM HOCHSCHILD is an author, journalist, historian, and lecturer.

Modernist Figures

Volume 1: New Poetries

Volume 2: Ezra Pound and After

PETER NICHOLLS

Foreword by Chad Hegelmeyer

“To have these rich and influential essays under one cover and in one place is a treat for scholarship and remarkable testimony to a lifetime of bravura reading and insightful, brilliant writing.”

—Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg College

Modernist Figures collects three decades of Peter Nicholls’s scholarship on poetry and poetics. New Poetries begins with Melville’s transatlantic encounters and proceeds to chart divergent modernist innovations through Eliot, Stein, and Hemingway. The second volume examines the positive and negative features of Pound’s legacy.

PETER NICHOLLS is Henry James Professor of English and American Letters Emeritus at New York University.

CHAD HEGELMEYER is professor of humanities at the Oregon Institute of Technology.

$104.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2142-7

OCTOBER  466 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" PHILOSOPHY

THE BEST OF SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

VOLUME 1:

$104.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2109-0

VOLUME 2:

$104.00  cloth 978-3-8382-2209-7

OCTOBER  430 pages / 5.83” x 8.27”

LITERARY STUDIES

THE BEST OF SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

Defiant Bodies

Interpreting Violence, Agency, and Resistance in Belarus

KATSIARYNA LOZKA, EDITOR

Foreword by David R. Maples

This edited collection examines political contestation in contemporary Belarus through the lens of everyday, bottom-up vernacular practices. By foregrounding art, education, research, humor, music, diaspora culture, and public creativity as powerful modes of resistance, it illuminates the dynamics of Belarusian society from below.

KATSIARYNA LOZKA is a postdoctoral researcher at the Egmont Institute and KU Leuven.

DAVID R. MARPLES is distinguished professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.

Keystone Serbia How Misjudgments

Weaken the West

MIROSLAV I. EMEJDI

Foreword by Bernd Paul and Vasco Malta

Miroslav I. Emejdi makes a compelling case that only EU accession of Serbia and the entire Western Balkans can deliver lasting continental stability and relieve pressure on NATO. This clear-eyed, provocative book reveals why the Balkans could once again become Europe’s powder keg—and what must be done to prevent it.

MIROSLAV I. EMEJDI is a chief commissioner of law enforcement in Germany and a recognized expert on geopolitics and security.

BERND PAUL is a senior German law enforcement official and former chief of police.

VASCO MALTA is the head of mission of the International Organization for Migration in Portugal.

The Paradox of Belonging Despite Systematic Human Rights Violations

The Case of Turkish Alevis

MELIH UĞRAŞ EROL

Drawing on extensive ethnographic research in Anatolia, Melih Uğraş Erol explores how Alevis negotiate religious-cultural identity across generations. At the book’s core lies the “paradox of belonging”: Despite marginalization and human rights challenges, many Alevis maintain a deep sense of commitment to the Turkish state.

MELIH UĞRAŞ EROL is assistant professor of law at the Rauf Denktaş University, Nicosia.

$32.00  paper 978-3-8382-2151-9

DECEMBER  250 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" POLITICS

BELARUS VOICES

$46.00  paper 978-3-8382-2094-9

SEPTEMBER  240 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" POLITICS

$26.00  paper 978-3-8382-2140-3 OCTOBER  160 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" POLITICS

From Theory to Practice

A Theory-Guided Approach to Communicative Language Teaching

ALEXEY TYMBAY

“TGCI proved an efficient method with university students.”

—Martina Vránová, Brno University of Technology

This book introduces theoryguided communicative instruction (TGCI), a new approach within the competence-based framework of communicative language teaching. TGCI systematically integrates core concepts from linguistic pragmatics and discourse analysis into foreign-language pedagogy, aiming to bridge the long-standing gap between communication theory and classroom practice.

ALEXEY TYMBAY is assistant professor of English at the Technical University of Liberec.

Contrastive Analysis and Error Typology in Teaching Persian as a Foreign Language

Persian Without Petrification

$31.00  paper 978-3-8382-2126-7

AUGUST  250 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" EDUCATION

A Corpus-Based Study of Iraqi Arabic L1

Speakers

AMIR KARIMIPOUR

This book presents the results of a major three-year longitudinal study on Persian acquisition by Iraqi Arabic-speaking learners. Based on an unprecedented corpus—847 hours of spoken data and 1.18 million written words from 312 learners—it offers Persian instructors working with Arabic speakers clear, evidence-based insights and practical pedagogical recommendations.

AMIR KARIMIPOUR is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and an adjunct lecturer at Ilam University’s AZFA Center.

A Communicative, TaskBased Approach to Teaching Persian to Non-Native Speakers

AMIR KARIMIPOUR

Persian Without Petrification addresses a critical gap in Persian language pedagogy: the widespread fossilization of errors among learners, particularly Arabic speakers who rely on structural similarities and cognates. This book presents a research-informed approach to teaching Persian that prevents fossilization through task-based language teaching principles.

AMIR KARIMIPOUR is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and an adjunct lecturer at Ilam University’s AZFA Center.

$34.00  paper 978-3-8382-2224-0

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LANGUAGE STUDIES

$37.00  paper 978-3-8382-2124-3

SEPTEMBER  302 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" /  19 figures

LANGUAGE STUDIES

Just Right

Why We Like What We Like (and Why We Don’t What We Don’t)

URIEL MESHOULAM

“A fresh, deeply considered, and excellent guide to the Goldilocks principle.”

—Noah Charney, best-selling author and professor of art history

Drawing on psychological research, neuroscience, philosophy, clinical insight, and vivid real-world examples, Uriel Meshoulam uncovers the hidden mechanisms that quietly shape our preferences, emotions, relationships, and perception of the world. Intellectually sharp yet highly accessible, this book offers a powerful new lens on motivation, anxiety, boredom, fulfillment—and how to make wiser choices in a world that rarely feels “just right.”

URIEL MESHOULAM maintains an independent psychotherapy practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

$30.00  paper 978-3-8382-2118-2

OCTOBER  200 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

PSYCHOLOGY

Toward the Turning Rethinking the Meaning of 9/11,

the Clash of Civilizations, and a Postmodern World

SCOTT GIBBS

“Gibbs has written a masterful manifesto on the contemporary history of extremism.”

—Kirk J Schneider, Teachers College, Columbia University

Scott Gibbs exposes our unwitting loyalty to inherited identities, using 9/11 and the subsequent collisions as touchstones to reframes global division as a theater of the absurd defined by “deadly dances.” This book calls for a “turning”—toward not a new ideology but a corrective understanding that can move us beyond violent, reactive patterns.

SCOTT GIBBS is a psychotherapist and board member of the ExistentialHumanistic Institute.

Under the Volcano

A Tale of a Marriage, a Journalist and an Island

JONATHAN POWER

The book tells the story of a family who left life behind in northern Europe to live for three years on an island in the Atlantic and the joys and sorrow that they encountered in their new life. From the unspoiled village they lived in to the daughter who learned Spanish in three months and the fights over whether or not they should return north, Jonathan Power explores home, travel, and the consequences of starting over.

JONATHAN POWER is a journalist, filmmaker, and broadcaster. He is the author of eight books, including When Are You Going to Get a Proper Job? and Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International.

$58.00  paper 978-3-8382-1766-6

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PHILOSOPHY

$23.00  paper 978-3-8382-2137-3

JUNE  250 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

FICTION

EDITION NOEMA

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Adaptation

Freedom, Hope and Politics After Modernity

PHILIPP STAAB

“Adaptation offers a compelling account of the profound paradigm shift shaping the contemporary world.”

—Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo

Modernity was characterized by a belief that progress would automatically lead to a better future. Today, that optimism has evaporated. In its place we have global heating, multiple wars, economic austerity, and a prevailing sense of malaise. Now the primary concern is to limit the damage and avert the catastrophe. Adaptation will be the guiding principle of society. Philipp Staab shows how this is raising momentous questions about our understanding of time, politics, and ourselves—to which progressive political forces and humanity as a whole are going to have to find answers.

PHILIPP STAAB is professor of sociology of work, political economy, and technological change at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and codirector of Einstein Center Digital Future.

Time to Care

Chronofeminist Politics in Authoritarian Times

FRIEDERIKE BEIER

Capitalist acceleration and the patriarchal organization of labor have robbed us of life’s most vital resource: time. Caught within a toxic neoliberal grind culture that puts the burden of making and saving time squarely on the individual, we actually have less and less of it. To escape this unforgiving acceleration, Friederike Beier offers a new chronofeminist politics to reclaim time for care, rest, and democracy. She introduces novel perspectives on gender inequality, environmental destruction, and democratic decline. Bridging queer, feminist, and crip theories and politics of time, the study offers a radical blueprint to reclaim time for a better and more equitable, inclusive, ecological, and caring future.

FRIEDERIKE BEIER works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Margherita-von-Brentano-Center for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

$35.00  paper 978-3-8376-8046-1

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SOCIOLOGY

X-TEXTS ON CULTURE AND SOCIETY

$35.00  paper 978-3-8376-7867-3

JUNE  300 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"

PHILOSOPHY / FEMINIST STUDIES

CARE – RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Critical Political Theory

Interrogating Contemporary Politics

OLIVER FLÜGEL-MARTINSEN

How can political theory strengthen democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations? How can it confront populist movements that claim to defend democracy but in fact advance authoritarian agendas? Oliver Flügel-Martinsen engages with key thinkers of the political—among them Foucault, Derrida, Lefort, Mouffe, Rancière, Brown, Geuss, Mbembe, and Butler—to address these challenges. Revisiting truthskeptical approaches, neoliberal hegemony, exclusions in the name of an essentialist understanding of the people, and global injustices, he explores how critical theory can help us escape the present in working toward a different future.

OLIVER FLÜGEL-MARTINSEN is professor of political theory and history of political thought at Universität Bielefeld.

The Politics of Atrocity On the Genealogy of Structural Violence in Argentina

WOLFGANG R. HEUER

“An extremely readable and illuminating contribution to the history of Latin America.”

—Barbara

Dröscher, private lecturer, Free University of Berlin

The terror of Argentina’s military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, with an estimated 30,000 people murdered, is one of a series of violent conflicts that have taken many forms since independence from Spain in 1825: civil wars, dictatorships, and genocide of the indigenous population. Accompanied by a culture of violence and cruelty, they reinforce social inequality, weakness, and corruption in state institutions. Wolfgang R. Heuer tells the story of political violence in Argentina in short episodes, including early observations of genocide, metaphors of failure in literature, and the reasons for the failure of the Montoneros urban guerrilla movement. This shows that violence and anarchy, in the sense of weak politics, reinforce each other.

WOLFGANG R. HEUER is a lecturer at the Otto-SuhrInstitute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and coeditor of the HannahArendt.net online journal.

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SOCIOLOGY

X-TEXTS ON CULTURE AND SOCIETY

$55.00  paper 978-3-8376-8175-8

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POLITICS

POLITICAL SCIENCE

SALE

Worldmaking Projects and the Infrastructural Nexus

An Interdisciplinary Exploration

MATHIAS ALBERT, HEIDI TWOREK, AND TOBIAS WERRON, EDITORS

How do idealistic projects for shaping the world relate to the actual organization of world politics? The contributors to this volume provide a fresh perspective on the formation of order in world politics. They develop and use the concept of “worldmaking projects.” These are projects that throughout history have sought to advance specific visions of order, such as national, imperial, or international. A particular emphasis is put on the central yet often overlooked role that infrastructures play in this regard. The nexus between infrastructures and worldmaking is explored in relation to different projects, including those in the air, in space, and in the polar regions.

MATHIAS ALBERT is a professor of political science in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

HEIDI TWOREK is professor of history and public policy at the University of British Columbia.

TOBIAS WERRON is a professor of sociological theory and general sociology in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

Democracy and Digital Communication

The Effects of Social Media Platforms on Deliberative Systems

KAROLINE

HELBIG

How do social media platforms influence democracy? Karoline Helbig explores how the logics and architectures of these platforms structure communication processes. She begins by collecting and systematizing central theoretical concepts from the deliberative systems approach, focusing specifically on those pertaining to the structures and normative standards associated with deliberative systems. Based on these theoretical foundations and drawing on digitization research, Helbig then situates social media platforms within society-wide deliberative systems. She offers a nuanced analysis of the specific characteristics of digital communication and how they affect the qualities of deliberation throughout the system. This study speaks to scholars, policymakers, and readers concerned with democracy in the digital constellation.

KAROLINE HELBIG is a senior researcher at Power for Democracies, She also holds a technology and human rights fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School.

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SOCIOLOGY

POLITICAL SCIENCE

$60.00  paper 978-3-8376-8056-0

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HISTORY

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Climatic Subjects

Cultural Interventions, Writing Climate, and a Burning Planet

Drug Assemblages

Policies, Counternarratives, and Local Experiences

PHILIPP WOLFESBERGER, EDITOR

GROTKOPP, EDITORS

MARTIN ZÄHRINGER, SIMON PROBST, AND MATTHIAS

Who or what is the contemporary climatic subject? Addressing the climate crisis in thought, imagination, and action requires connections among scholars, artists, journalists, and activists. The contributors to this volume put this into practice, presenting not only academic articles but also interviews, short stories, poems, and political essays. Readers will encounter the climatic subject as an entity and a historical force. But they will also hear the climatic subject posed as a question, a displacement of subjectivation under the condition of the climate crisis. Finally, they will find the climatic subject as a connector for new subjectivities yet to be embodied in cultural practice.

MARTIN ZÄHRINGER is a literary critic and climate cultures journalist based in Berlin.

SIMON PROBST is a postdoctoral scholar at Universität Vechta.

MATTHIAS GROTKOPP is an assistant professor of digital film studies at the Seminar for Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

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PHILOSOPHY

CULTURE & THEORY

In the shifting landscapes of global drug governance, power asymmetries shape drug economies as well as policy discourses. Through counternarratives and regional case studies of the Americas, this edited volume investigates how prohibition, securitization, and regulation intertwine in the production of violence and inequality. Bridging fresh interdisciplinary studies and critical policy analysis, the contibutors provide conceptual and empirical insights toward more reflexive, context-sensitive, and emancipatory approaches to drug policies.

PHILIPP WOLFESBERGER is a research associate, lecturer, and managing director at the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Universität Bielefeld.

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SOCIOLOGY

GLOBAL STUDIES

Understanding Science with Large Language Models?

Potentials for

the

History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science

ARNO SIMONS, ADRIAN WÜTHRICH, MICHAEL ZICHERT, AND GERD GRA ß HOFF, EDITORS

“This volume exemplifies why collaborations between disciplines matter.”

—Martin Potthast, Universität Kassel, and Benno Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

How are large language models changing research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science? The contributors to this volume show how these tools open new possibilities for interpretative scholarship while posing fresh challenges for fields that thrive on qualitative methods, nuance, and historical depth.

ARNO SIMONS is a postdoctoral researcher at HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin and a member of the project Network Epistemology in Practice.

ADRIAN WÜTHRICH is a guest professor for the history and philosophy of modern science at Technische Universität Berlin. He leads the project Network Epistemology in Practice.

MICHAEL ZICHERT is a PhD candidate in the project Network Epistemology in Practice at Technische Universität Berlin.

GERD GRA ß HOFF is a professor of the history of ancient science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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SCIENCE / SOCIOLOGY

SCIENCE STUDIES

Figurations of Childhood

Middle-Class Topologies in Nairobi and Berlin

CLAUDIA MOCK

Worldwide neoliberal urban planning and securitization create childhoods marked by segregation, confinement, and isolation. Especially in middle- and upper-class milieus, childhood appears as a spatial crisis in which children are patronized and disempowered in the name of protection. Claudia Mock draws on intergenerational biographies and mental maps from Nairobi and Berlin to reveal how security discourses intertwine with bourgeois values and architectures, reshaping childhoods in these cities in surprisingly similar ways since 1960. By identifying bourgeois lifestyles and adultism as integral to anthropocentric urban crises, she calls for cities to be reimagined through intergenerational spatial justice.

CLAUDIA MOCK works at the collaborative research center

Re-Figuration of Space at Technische Universität Berlin, where she completed her PhD.

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SCIENCE / SOCIOLOGY

RE-FIGURATION OF SPACES

Professionalisation of Medical Education

The Rise of Simulation-Based Training

JASMIN DIERKES

Simulation-based training (SBT) has been on the rise as a medical education methodology in Germany since the 1980s, characterizing this period of change in terms of professionalization and institutionalization. Jasmin Dierckes illustrates how SBT reflects significant historical and contemporary shifts in education, science and technology, and the medical profession, all of which are undergoing profound albeit incremental changes. Her study provides insights for researchers specializing in professional development, transformation, medical materiality, and educational and institutional structures, as well as stakeholders in medical or higher education.

JASMIN DIERKES completed her doctorate at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

Refiguration of Cyberspace

Digital Infrastructures, Space, and Control

SEZGIN SÖNMEZ AND SILKE STEETS, EDITORS

As an increasingly conflicted infrastructure, the materiality and spatiality of the internet is continuously shaped and reshaped by strategic actions, spatial imaginaries, representations, and corresponding material figurations, asserting forms of spatial control over parts of the internet infrastructure. The contributions to this volume are centered around the thesis of a refiguration of cyberspace, which ties in with the debates of recent years about the territorialization, fragmentation, pluralization, and splintering of the internet. The contributors facilitate an interdisciplinary debate on the global transformation of the internet and its digital infrastructures, focusing particularly on space and relational dynamics.

SEZGIN SÖNMEZ is a postdocotoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin.

SILKE STEETS is a professor of sociological theory at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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SOCIOLOGY

SCIENCE STUDIES

$55.00  paper 978-3-8376-7787-4

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SOCIOLOGY

RE-FIGURATION OF SPACES

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Mediating Geographic Knowledge

U.S. Geographical Societies, 1888–1914

MAXIMILIAN REIMANN

Between 1888 and 1914, US geographical societies became central institutions mediating the production and circulation of geographic knowledge. Anchoring his analysis in the American Geographical Society, Maximilian Reimann moves beyond celebrated explorers to examine the knowledge infrastructures, networks, and everyday labor of editors, librarians, and councilors who defined modern geography. He traces how knowledge traveled from the field to libraries and archives, evolving into publications and lectures that had to balance academic credibility with popular appeal. Together, national and regional societies shaped geography into a respected discipline and a popular science entangled with American national ambitions and imperial visions.

MAXIMILIAN REIMANN is a research associate at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

Conversations with Those Who Ask About War

Practices of Interviewing During Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

NATALIA OTRISHCHENKO, EDITOR

“This book gives testimony to the efforts of academics who have continued their work despite genocidal threats of Russian aggression against Ukraine.”

—Jan Claas Behrends, European University Viadrina

How can best practices be developed for collecting, preserving, and publishing eyewitness accounts of a war that is still ongoing? This book offers insights drawn from interviewing witnesses of the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Each chapter introduces researchers and practitioners who began documenting the war while living through it, driven by a desire for justice, preservation of memory, and community building. As a dialogic and multifaceted volume, it welcomes collaborative thinking and serves as a methodological guide and a space for frankness and sensitivity, capturing the academic community’s response to the challenges posed by extraordinary circumstances and existential threats.

NATALIA OTRISHCHENKO is a researcher and sociologist at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv.

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GEOGRAPHY

AMERICA: CULTURE - HISTORY - POLITICS

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SOCIOLOGY

STORIES OF WAR

Postmigrant Counterpublics

Racialized Leisure and Sexual Dissidence in Urban Europe

KIRA KOSNICK

Can we move beyond the politics of community when it comes to understanding minoritized life in postmigrant, sexually diverse societies marked by racism? In a set of interconnected essays, Kira Kosnick explores the conflicting dynamics of community and subcultural socialities in racialized and sexually dissident urban contexts in Germany. Drawing on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, she examines how dominant framings of community turn into a burden of representation for minoritized groups. Against such framings, urban nightlife and queer postmigrant club scenes are shown to work as counterpublics that offer spaces for dissident articulations of sexuality and postmigrant identities.

KIRA KOSNICK is a professor of cultural and social anthropology and director of the research center B/Orders in Motion at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany.

Making Places Inbetween

Resisting and Inhabiting Border Regimes

MELANIE GARLAND

Global border regimes threaten to escalate, and state-controlled refugee camps dominate the discourse while contrary viewpoints seem to be missing. Focusing on autonomous settlements in France, Italy, and Chile, Melanie Garland follows how communities on the move transform socalled nonplaces into social places through practices of inbetweenness, resisting border regimes and creating sites of belonging and political imagination. Attuned to the oceans connecting these places, her study draws on artistic multimodal anthropology to develop a holistic approach that combines sensory and affective methods to explore these urban practices. It offers insights for social sciences, the arts, and readers interested in urban future making shaped by collective agency.

MELANIE GARLAND is an artist, heritage restorer, researcher, and lecturer. She earned a PhD from the Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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URBAN STUDIES

CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE

$72.00  paper 978-3-8376-8072-0

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IMMIGRATION STUDIES

GLOBAL STUDIES

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Remembering Future Disasters

Temporal

Ecologies in the Peruvian Andes

TOMÁS USÓN

Disasters engage with time in diverse ways and cannot be fully understood as events or processes. Tomás Usón explores how time emerges from disastrous encounters. Building on ethnographic research in the Callejón de Huaylas, he analyzes how cities in this Peruvian Andean region have responded to and anticipated extreme events over the past century. Inspired by the Quechua word tinkuy, or gathering in difference, this study invites readers to see disasters both as sociomaterial arrangements and moments where historical figures gather in conflicting ways. This book will be a valuable resource for those interested in disasters, memory, science and technology studies, decolonial perspectives, and Peruvian history.

TOMÁS USÓN completed his doctorate at the Institute of European Ethnology and the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography.

Fashion from Below

Intersectional Inequalities and Transformations in Buenos Aires’ Garment Industry

KARLOTTA JULE BAHNSEN

In the garment industry of Buenos Aires, workers reshape precarious working conditions through collective organization and throughout their trajectories of migration and garment work. Moving beyond victimizing or criminalizing narratives, Karlotta Jule Bahnsen offers an ethnographic view of migrant workers’ negotiations of intersectional inequalities across migration, gender, and labor, highlighting processes of transformation, transnational networks, and the hidden structures sustaining the Buenos Aires urban fashion industry. This perspective speaks to scholars of Latin America, informal labor in global industries, migration, and gender while offering a vivid account of agency that resonates beyond academia.

KARLOTTA JULE BAHNSEN is a cultural anthropologist who earned her doctorate at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

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SOCIOLOGY / ECOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY

$67.00  paper 978-3-8376-8066-9

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SOCIOLOGY

CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE

Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

DIETRICH ERBEN AND CARSTEN RUHL, EDITORS

Starting from the fundamental premise that references are essential for all cultural techniques, the contributors to this volume elaborate architecture’s ambivalent tension between reference and contemporaneity, its central role in both architectural production and discourse. The issues surrounding contemporaneity pertain not to a condition but to an agenda—one where references are selected according to interests and adapted to present needs. This perspective enriches existing conceptions of references as tools of design economy, imitation, and historicization by tying them more explicitly to contemporary agendas than has been done before.

DIETRICH ERBEN is a professor of theory and history of architecture, art, and design at Technische Universität München.

CARSTEN RUHL is a professor of architectural history at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Making Rural Futures

Model Villages Between Aesthetics, Development, and Utopia

REBEKKA DIESTELKAMP

What does it mean to create a “model” village, and what kinds of futures are imagined in the process? Across the world and throughout history, the village has served as a powerful ideal of harmony, progress, and a better way of living. Focusing on model villages in India and Germany, Rebekka Diestelkamp explores how such ideals are reworked through development agendas, aesthetic norms, and utopian aspirations. She shows how hopes for harmony and sustainability are translated into everyday practices—and how these visions can inspire collective action while also producing new tensions and exclusions. By tracing how rural futures are imagined, performed, and contested, this book offers fresh insights into contemporary debates on sustainability, community, and social transformation.

REBEKKA DIESTELKAMP is a cultural geographer with a background in comparative literature and transformation studies.

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DESIGN

ARCHITECTURE

$55.00  paper 978-3-8376-8284-7

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LAND USE AND PLANNING

CRITICAL RURAL RESEARCH CONTESTED RESOURCES, RURAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES

Dirty Dragging Performative Transpositions

EVELYN ANNU ß

“Dirty Dragging offers startlingly new readings of drag performance and is an instant classic!”

—Jack Halberstam, Columbia University

In Dirty Dragging, Evelyn Annuß reformulates queer theorizations of drag, exploring the ambivalence of transgressive performances under apartheid, Nazism, and Jim Crow through a transoceanic lens. Taking up the ambivalence of “dirty” performance modes spanning drag and carnival to propaganda, she extends readings of gender bending by incorporating perspectives on blackface and “racialized drag.” She explores violent, locally specific mobilizations of the transgressive along with the ways in which queer and creolized forms of performance intertwine to oppose identitarian boundaries. Against the current slide into right-wing authoritarianism, the book gestures toward the potential joy of collectively making societal conditions dance.

EVELYN ANNU ß is professor of gender studies and director of the International Research Center Gender and Performativity at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

Facing Drag

Gender Bending and Racialized Masking in Performing Arts and Popular Culture

EVELYN ANNU ß AND RAZ WEINER, EDITORS

Facing Drag brings together international experts from cultural studies—including history, media, theater, dance, and performance studies—to explore how gender, race, and ethnicity are impersonated across time and cultures. Expanding the concept of drag beyond gender bending, it investigates the interrelations of drag, processes of racialization, and colonial histories. The essays offer critical insights into both the subversive potential of drag and its entanglement with violent forms of othering and exclusion.

EVELYN ANNU ß is professor of gender studies and director of the International Research Center Gender and Performativity at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

RAZ WEINER is a visiting lecturer at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

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GENDER STUDIES

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PERFORMING ARTS

The Flavor of Thinking

Philosophy in

Artistic

Research—Artistic Research in Philosophy

ARNO BÖHLER AND SUSANNE VALERIE GRANZER, EDITORS

How do the conceptual personae of philosophers change when they become artist-philosophers? And how do writing and working methods shift when crossing the boundaries between art and philosophy? This book opens up a new perspective on writing and reading by philosopher-artists who strive toward a genuine crossover between art and philosophy.

ARNO BÖHLER is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Universität Wien.

SUSANNE VALERIE GRANZER is a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

Hybrid Art Space

Relational Dynamics of Art, Space, and Digital Visibility

LUDOVICA TOMARCHIO

Today, art practices unfold across physical sites and digital platforms. In this study, Ludovica Tomarchio reveals how museums, art districts, and small cultural venues are reshaped by the logics of social media, influencing visibility, public experience, and spatial practices. Through detailed case studies from Singapore and beyond, this book demonstrates how architecture, curatorial practices, and social media platform cultures interact in processes of hybrid spatial production.

LUDOVICA TOMARCHIO is an architect and researcher affiliated with the Technische Universität Berlin.

Standardization of AI Ethics

Stakeholders, Values and Profit

NICHOLAS KLUGE CORRÊA AND JULIA MARIA MÖNIG, EDITORS

The contributors to this volume discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in standardizing AI ethics, including algorithmic audits, stakeholder participation, and certification mechanisms. They offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to AI ethics governance.

NICHOLAS KLUGE CORRÊA is a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Bonn.

JULIA MARIA MÖNIG is a philosopher and project manager of the philosophical part of the KI.NRW flagship project “Zertifizierte KI.”

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PHILOSOPHY

$67.00  paper 978-3-8376-7881-9

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ARCHITECTURE

URBAN STUDIES

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PHILOSOPHY

TECHNOSOPHY

Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Education

Normativity, Social Pathologies, and Educational Justice

TOBIAS LENSCH AND KRASSIMIR STOJANOV, EDITORS

This book explores educational issues from the perspectives of Frankfurt School critical theory, educational philosophy, and educational sociology, critically analyzing the possibility of educating individuals to become mature and autonomous.

TOBIAS LENSCH is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the chair of philosophy of education and educational theory at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

KRASSIMIR STOJANOV is a professor and chair of philosophy of education and educational theory at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Beyond the Postcolony

On Achille Mbembe’s Planetary Justice and Ethics

KORASSI TÉWÉCHÉ

To make the Earth more habitable, we must think beyond inherited frameworks of Western and postcolonial thought. Drawing on a bold reading of Achille Mbembe, Korassi Téwéché shows how this thinker opens new pathways for both Western and postcolonial traditions, guiding them beyond their impasses. Beyond the Postcolony is a profound reflection on planetary sustainability, resilience, and equitable life in the Anthropocene.

KORASSI TÉWÉCHÉ, also known as Dr. Ever Aware, is a Cameroonian artist and philosopher whose work bridges critical theory and contemporary art through video, installation, and writing.

Longing, Belonging and the Other

Black African Diasporic Literatures across French and Spanish Contexts

NELSON SINDZE WEMBE

How do Black African diasporic literatures articulate the desire for elsewhere and the struggle to belong? Drawing on a comparative corpus of texts written in French and Spanish, Nelson Sindze Wembe examines how migration, return, and disillusion shape diasporic subjectivities at the intersection of racialization, alterity, and the politics of belonging.

NELSON SINDZE WEMBE is a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Bremen.

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PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY – ENLIGHTENMENT –CRITIQUE

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PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY – ENLIGHTENMENT –CRITIQUE

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LITERARY STUDIES

POSTCOLONIAL WRITINGS

Reading Nature and Cultures

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witi Ihimaera’s “The Whale Rider” and its Contexts

JULIA SANDER, ANKE VOGEL, AND WOLFGANG JÄGER, EDITORS

Witi Ihimaera’s acclaimed novel The Whale Rider connects with pressing issues: decolonization, environmental protection, cultural resilience. The contributors to this volume offer intercultural and interdisciplinary scholarly and personal perspectives on the novel.

JULIA SANDER is professor of contemporary German literature at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität.

ANKE VOGEL is a research and teaching associate in the Book Studies Department at Johannes GutenbergUniversität Mainz.

WOLFGANG JÄGER is a teacher at a secondary school in Frankfurt am Main.

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LITERARY STUDIES

CLIMATES – CULTURES – CONTEXTS

Reworking the Computer Age

Histories of Emotions, Work, and Gender

CHRISTIANE

BERTH AND

MICHAEL M. PRENTICE, EDITORS

Workplaces are key sites where computers were first introduced, transforming organizations, senses of self, and visions of the future. The contributors to this volume explore the global history of the computer age from the perspectives of work, gender, and emotions. The eight case studies span Europe, Asia, and Latin America to shed light on the global computer age as well as trends today, such as artificial intelligence.

CHRISTIANE BERTH is a professor of contemporary history at Universität Graz.

MICHAEL M. PRENTICE is a senior lecturer in the School of Languages, Arts, and Societies at the University of Sheffield.

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HISTORY

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Grounding

Digitalization

Technologies, Materialities, and Spaces

REGULA VALÉRIE BURRI, HANNA GÖBEL, AND INGA REIMERS, EDITORS

Digitalization is usually perceived as an invisible process, and its cultural embeddedness as well as its material, spatial, and environmental grounding are often neglected. The contributors to this volume analyze digitalization from a “grounding” perspective that explores involved cultural practices, technologies, materialities, and spaces.

REGULA VALÉRIE BURRI is a professor of science and technology studies at HafenCity Universität.

HANNA GÖBEL is a professor of methods of urban practice at HafenCity Universität.

INGA REIMERS is a research associate at Universität Regensburg.

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SOCIOLOGY

DIGITAL SOCIETY

SALE

Interactive Documentary and Non-Fiction Media

Relational Practice and (De)Stabilized

Reception

TOBIAS CONRADI, FLORIAN KRAUTKRÄMER, AND VANESSA ZALLOT, EDITORS

Interactive documentaries combine moving images, text, graphics, and digital interactions to create dynamic, web-based narrative formats. This book brings together perspectives on interactive documentaries from film, media, game, and interface studies and includes analyses of key works as well as interviews with actors.

TOBIAS CONRADI is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media.

FLORIAN KRAUTKRÄMER is a professor in the Department of Design, Film, and Art at Hochschule Luzern.

VANESSA ZALLOT is a doctoral student at the Department of Media Studies at Universität Basel.

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PERFORMING ARTS

MEDIA STUDIES

Voice and Publics in West African Radio

Grogneurs as Media

Activists in Bénin

TILO

GRÄTZ

“First caller, good morning”: This is how a famous radio show in Bénin begins. Callers can express their concerns on almost any topic of public life. The most frequent callers to these programs, known as grogneurs, have become committed media activists. Tilo Grätz examines their topics, motives, strategies, and public position.

TILO GRÄTZ is a researcher at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Life in Virtual Reality

Exploring Lived Experiences and Social Interactions of Long-Term VRChat Users

FELIX KRELL

What does social life in VR feel like? Combining in-depth sociological study of the social VR platform VRChat with a phenomenological perspective, Felix Krell examines the lived experience of long-term social VR users. Grounded in (auto)ethnographical data as well as ethnographic interviews, this book provides multidisciplinary insight of how a social life inside virtual reality is experienced and negotiated.

FELIX KRELL is a research fellow at the chair of Media and Communication Science at Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen.

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FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

MEDIA STUDIES

$61.00  paper 978-3-8376-7245-9

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FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

MEDIA STUDIES

Virtual Reality Exhibited

Interfacing Art, Games and Everyday Life

MANISCHA PARTOWI, ANNETTE URBAN, AND MANUEL VAN DER VEEN, EDITORS

This book examines virtual reality in contemporary art, highlighting its use as a “world within a world,” ranging from encapsulated artificial environments to transitions into familiar lifeworlds.

MANISCHA PARTOWI is a researcher affiliated with the collaborative research center Virtual Lifeworlds at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

ANNETTE URBAN is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at the Institute of Art History at RuhrUniversität Bochum. She is principal investigator within the collaborative research center Virtual Lifeworlds.

MANUEL VAN DER VEEN is a research assistant within the collaborative research center Virtual Lifeworlds at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

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VIRTUAL LIFEWORLDS

Turkish and GermanTurkish Pop Music

Anatolian Pop and Rock, Arabesk, Belly Dance, HipHop. Texts 2011 to 2025

Revised and enlarged edition

CORNELIA LUND AND HOLGER LUND, EDITORS

Today, the neo-Anatolian pop music scene is thriving, and there is an abundance of reissues of Anatolian pop from the 1960s and 1970s, sparked by US hip-hop beat diggers. Focusing on productions from Turkey and Germany, this book explores the emergence of Anatolian pop as a hybrid style.

CORNELIA LUND is a research fellow at Hochschule für Künste Bremen.

HOLGER LUND is a full professor of media design, applied art, and design studies at Duale Hochschule BadenWürttemberg Ravensburg.

Hardware and EcoFeminist Art

Hacking and Artistic Practices Towards Ethical Technology

PATRÍCIA J. REIS AND STEFANIE WUSCHITZ

The hardware in our smart devices contains plastics and raw materials mined from conflict regions. The feminist hackers Patrícia Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz discuss developing ethical alternatives through ecofeminist artistic tools, rooted in care economies, local knowledges, and collective survival.

PATRÍCIA J. REIS leads the arts-based research project Hacking the Body as the Black Box at Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, where she also teaches.

STEFANIE WUSCHITZ is the founder of the feminist hacklab and art collective Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, which she co-organized until 2023.

$60.00  paper 978-3-8376-7807-9

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MUSIC

MEDIA STUDIES

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ART

DIGITAL SOCIETY

SALE

Decentering World’s Fairs

Transcultural Perspectives on Art, Fashion, and Latin America

ALEXANDRA KARENTZOS,

MIRIAM OESTERREICH, ELENA NUSTRINI, AND LIZZY RYS, EDITORS

How are the histories of art and fashion connected in the global context of world’s fairs? The contributors to this volume analyze the changing roles of the arts, visual media, handicrafts, and artifacts.

ALEXANDRA KARENTZOS is a professor of fashion and aesthetics at Technische Universität Darmstadt.

MIRIAM OESTERREICH is a professor of design theory at Universität der Künste Berlin.

ELENA NUSTRINI is an art historian and doctoral candidate at Universität der Künste Berlin.

LIZZY RYS is a doctoral candidate at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and Ghent University.

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ENTANGLED ART HISTORIES

Looking Through Theatre

Phenomenologies and Intermedial Performance

KATI RÖTTGER

“Through bold case studies and sharp critique, Röttger shows why theater remains vital: a living antidote to automated society and a guide for navigating the blind spots of our time.”

—Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town

Kati Röttger connects phenomenology and intermediality to engage with orders of looking in theatrical events, offering a multifaceted methodological approach to performance analysis.

KATI RÖTTGER worked as a professor and chair of the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Belonging Through Heritage?

Minority BoundaryMaking and the Reach of Global Frameworks in Northern Germany

DEBORAH SIELERT

Since the 2003 UNESCO Convention, cultural heritage policies have promoted diversity and grassroots participation. Deborah Sielert explores how these global discourses do and do not unfold in three small towns in northern Germany, where Portuguese, Dutch, and East Frisian minorities have shaped the cultural sphere since the 1990s despite the absence of official heritage frameworks.

DEBORAH SIELERT is an open access advisor at Technische Informationsbibliothek in Hannover.

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PERFORMING ARTS

THEATER

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IMMIGRATION STUDIES

CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Vol. 12, Issue 1 (2026) Critical AI: Rethinking Intelligence, Bias, and Control

RAMÓN REICHERT, EDITOR

This issue examines how AI-mediated surveillance reshapes knowledge, accountability, and marginalization within digital societies, focusing on platform capitalism, the economic precarity and exploitation of clickworkers in the Global South, biometric control, and the commodification of social behavior.

RAMÓN REICHERT is a senior researcher in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge

Vol. 6, No. 11 (2026)

Prototypes as Instruments for

Critical Practice

HUGO MULDER, ANNECATRIN SCHULTZ, FILIP VAN DE VOORDE, AND ISAK WORRE FOGED, EDITORS

This issue explores and documents prototypes as instruments and mediums across architecture and engineering.

HUGO MULDER Is an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

ANNE-CATRIN SCHULTZ is professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

FILIP VAN DE VOORDE is a guest professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Antwerp.

ISAK WORRE FOGED is a professor at the Royal Danish Academy, Institute of Architecture and Design.

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge

Vol. 5, No. 9 (2025)

Rethinking Hans Döllgast

UTA GRAFF, IRENE

MEISSNER, AND MAXIMILIAN STERNBERG, EDITORS

Hans Döllgast’s architectural works of reconstruction and repair resonate with the contemporary prioritization of reuse in times of climate emergency. This issue reflects on his relevance today.

UTA GRAFF holds the chair of architectural design and conception at Technische Universität München.

IRENE MEISSNER works at the Technische Universität Darmstadt Architecture Museum.

MAXIMILIAN STERNBERG is a professor of history and theory of architecture at the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University.

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DIGITAL CULTURE & SOCIETY

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ARCHITECTURE

DIMENSIONS JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE

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DIMENSIONS JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE

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Afterlives of the Plantation

JARVIS C. M c INNIS

Winner, 2026 Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society Winner, 2025 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning

$30.00 / £25.00  paper 978-0-231-21575-6

2025  LITERARY STUDIES / BLACK STUDIES

A History of Uyghur Buddhism

JOHAN ELVERSKOG

Winner, 2026 Levenson Prize Pre-1900, Association for Asian Studies

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2024  RELIGION / ASIAN STUDIES

Blessing America First

DAVID T. BUCKLEY

Winner, 2026 Religion and International Relations Book Award, Religion and International Relations Section of the International Studies Association

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2024  POLITICS

Death by Laughter

MAGGIE HENNEFELD

Winner, 2025 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book, Cinéma & Cie: International Film Studies Journal

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2024  FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Beauty Matters

ANRI YASUDA

Winner, 2026 F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize, Modern Japan History Association

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2024  ASIAN STUDIES

Governing the Feminist Peace

PAUL KIRBY AND LAURA J. SHEPHERD

Winner, 2025 Carole Pateman Gender and Politics Book Prize, Australian Political Studies Association

$40.00 / £35.00  paper 978-0-231-21525-1

2024  POLITICS

The Political Clinic

CAROLYN LAUBENDER

Winner, 2025 Academic Monograph Book Award, British Psychological Society

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-21495-7

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Koume’s World

SIMON PARTNER

Winner, 2026 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize, Modern Japan History Association

$35.00 / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-21185-7

2023  ASIAN STUDIES

The Venture Alchemists

ROB LALKA

Winner, 2025 Publication Award for Best Book—Social Impact, Tulane University

$35.00* / £30.00  paper 978-0-231-21525-1

2024  BUSINESS

Democracy and Beauty

ROBERT GOODINGWILLIAMS

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22003-3

2025 PHILOSOPHY

Scattered and Fugitive Things

LAURA E. HELTON

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21275-5 2024 BLACK STUDIES

The Backstreets

PERHAT TURSUN

Translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous

$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-20291-6

2022 FICTION IN TRANSLATION

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939

THOMAS DOHERTY

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Why Civil Resistance Works

ERICA CHENOWETH AND MARIA J. STEPHAN

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2011 POLITICS

Waking, Dreaming, Being

EVAN THOMPSON

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2014 PHILOSOPHY

The Running Flame

FANG FANG

Translated by Michael Berry

The Dark Delight of Being Strange

JAMES B. HAILE III

$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21630-2

2024 PHILOSOPHY / LITERATURE

The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway

EDWARD MENDELSON

$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-22171-9

2025 LITERARY STUDIES

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2025 FICTION IN TRANSLATION

The Sisterhood

COURTNEY THORSSON

The Membranes

CHI TA-WEI

Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich

$17.00* / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19571-3

2021 FICTION IN TRANSLATION

$19.00* / £15.99 paper 978-0-231-21874-0

2023 LITERARY STUDIES

The Met JONATHAN CONLIN

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21871-9

2024 ART / NEW YORK HISTORY

Before Central Park

SARA CEDAR MILLER

$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18194-5

2022 NEW YORK HISTORY

Big Fiction

DAN SINYKIN

$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19295-8

2023 LITERARY STUDIES

From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower

NICK YABLON

$40.00* / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-20353-1

2026 NEW YORK / HISTORY

Vaccines and Your Family

PAUL A. OFFIT, MD, AND CHARLOTTE A. MOSER, MS

$19.95t / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-21339-4 2024 HEALTH / SCIENCE

The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese

KARIMA MOYERNOCCHI

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2026 FOOD / HISTORY

Every Brain Needs Music

LARRY S. SHERMAN AND DENNIS PLIES

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21911-2

2023 SCIENCE / MUSIC

Women in Science Now

LISA M. P. MUNOZ

Essays on Art and Science

ERIC R. KANDEL

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What We Eat

EDITED BY PIERRE SINGARAVÉLOU AND SYLVAIN VENAYRE

Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer

$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22147-4 2025 FOOD STUDIES

Music, Math, and Mind

DAVID SULZER

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19379-5 2021 SCIENCE / MUSIC

$19.95t / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-22084-2 2023 SCIENCE

Better Data Visualizations

JONATHAN SCHWABISH

$36.95t / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19311-5

2021 DATA SCIENCE

The Ages of Globalization

JEFFREY D. SACHS

Massively Better Healthcare

HALLE TECCO

$32.00* / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-22236-5 2026 HEALTH

Ignorance

GEORGE G. SZPIRO

$26.95t / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19374-0

2020 POLITICS

Recipes for the Melting Pot

NORA L. RUBEL

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22434-5

2026 FOOD / JEWISH STUDIES

The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs

DEAN R. LOMAX

Illustrated by Bob Nicholls

$38.95t / £32.00 cloth 978-0-231-21130-7

2025 SCIENCE

Bernoulli’s Fallacy

AUBREY CLAYTON

$26.95t / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19995-7

2021 STATISTICS

$28.00* / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-22165-8

2026 PHILOSOPHY

Unreliable

CSABA SZABO

$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-21624-1

2025 SCIENCE

Absolon, Kathy 80

Adaptation 104

Afroalgorhythms ............................. 62

Afterlives of the Plantation 123

After Putin 88

Ages of Globalization, The 125 Albert, Mathias .......................... 106

Aldana Reyes, Xavier 43

Alladi Memorial Lectures 3 73

All the World in Thee ........................ 3

Ananth, Deepak 73

Annuß, Evelyn 114

Anti-Oppressive Social Work Ethics 59

Appointment in Samarra ............... 69

Architectural History and Contemporary Preservation Trends ....................................... 60

Arden, Lee 76

Armed Truth, The 93

Arnold, Dan 52

Arroyo Pizarro, Yolanda ............. 62

Art Is Absolute Truth 66

Art of Not Governing, The 56

Arts of Japan, The .......................... 64

Arts of War, The 94

Asturias, Miguel Ángel 72

Atal, Maha Rafi 18

At the Crossroads of Philosophy, Politics, and Culture .................. 99

Au, Larry 54

Azer, Daisy 38

Babu, K. V. Vijaya 73

Backstreets, The ............................. 124

Bahnsen, Karlotta Jule 112

Balsom, Erika 43

Banking on Belonging 32

Barnard, Alex V. 55

Bate, Walter Jackson 68

Baudrillard, Jean 37

Bauman, Whitney A. ................... 53

Beauty Matters 123

Before Central Park 124 Bei Dao 81

Beier, Friederike ......................... 104

Belonging Through Heritage? 120

Bernoulli’s Fallacy 125

Bertelsen, Olga ............................ 96

Berth, Christiane 117

Better Data Visualizations 125 Beyond Big Tech 70

Beyond the Postcolony .................... 116

Big American Writer 27

Big Fiction 124

Bilbija, Marina ............................. 45

Bird on the Street 8

Black Aerial Imagination, The 45

Black Sojourner Press, The 45

Blake, William 66

Blanqui, Louis-Auguste 68

Blessing America First .................. 123

Blumenthal, Sara 86

Body Horror 43

Böhler, Arno 115

Book of China, The 51

Borders de Todos Lados, Fronteras from all Directions— Кордони зусібіч 89

Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants 83

Boxer, The 67

Brain at Twilight, The 10

Brancusi, Constantin 66

Brizuela, Natalia 61

Bronkhorst, Johannes 41

Bryan-Wilson, Julia ..................... 61

Buckley, David 123

Burri, Regula Valérie 117

Burt, Stephanie 3

Busch, Nathan E. ......................... 58

Camphor War, The 49

Cardona, Cezanne 63

Carothers, Christopher ................ 57

Casamayor Cisneros, Odette 62

Césaire, Aimé 70

Chatterjee, Partha 17

Chenoweth, Erica ...................... 124

Children Are Medicine 75

China’s Environmental History 50 Chi Ta-wei .................................. 124

Choate, Peter 79

Cinema of Wes Anderson, The 42

Clavero, Sara 87

Clayton, Aubrey .......................... 125

Climatic Subjects 107

Cloutier, Jean-Christophe 27

Coleman, Peter T. 36

Colonized Classrooms 79

Complexity Paradigm, The 34 Conlin, Jonathan 124

Conradi, Tobias ........................... 118

Constitutions under Pressure 85

Contrastive Analysis and Error Typology in Teaching Persian as a Foreign Language 102

Conversations with Those Who Ask About War 110

Cooper, Sara 74

Corrêa, Nicholas Kluge ...............

Failure, The 88

Fang Fang 124

Fashion from Below ....................... 112

Fast Culture, Slow Justice 31

Faulkner, William 69

Feel for Thinking, A 76

Feldman, Matthew ...................... 98

Feng, Alice 19

Fighting for New York 24

Figurations of Childhood .............. 108

Films of Alfred Hitchcock, The 42

Fischbach, Michael R. 16

Flavor of Thinking, The 115

Flügel-Martinsen, Oliver ........... 105

Foged, Isak Worre 121

For a Just Republic 17

Forsythe, Laura ............................ 78

Free Will in Civil Law 93

French-Griette, Amber 92

Freudenberg, Nicholas 24

Frivolity ......................................... 13

From EDI Policy to Practice 87

From Ethnophobia to Anti-Semitism 96

From Theory to Practice 102

From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower 124

From the 20th to the 21st Century 67

Future of Seeing, The 40

Future of the Nuclear Order, The 58

Gallagher, Patrick M. .................. 54

Ganning, Joanna 65

Garland, Melanie 111

Garnett, Doug 34

Garz, Detlef ................................. 84

Gems, David 23

Genell, Aimee M. 48

Genocide in Canada ........................ 77

Gharavi, Lance 28

Ghosh, Sankha 97

Gibbs, Scott 103

Gillam, Reighan ........................... 55

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 70

Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace 85

Gloger, Katja 88

Göbel, Hanna .............................. 117

Governing the Feminist Peace 123

Graff, Uta 121

Granzer, Susanne Valerie ............ 115

Graßhoff, Gerd 108

Grätz, Tilo 118

Graves, Joseph L., Jr. 39

Grossman, Claire ........................ 46

Grotkopp, Matthias 107

Grounding Digitalization 117

Gruber, Sabine 84

Grunert, Alisa ............................. 86

Haile, James B., III 124

Hakverdi, Gamze 97

Hammett, Dashiell ..................... 69

Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art 119

Hashemi, Oshank 94

Heart Work and Hard Choices 78

Hedges, Jennifer ........................... 79

Helbig, Karoline 106

Helton, Laura E. 124

Hennefeld, Maggie ..................... 123 Herz, Marcus 84

Heuer, Wolfgang R. 105

Himmelreich, Jörg 95

History of Uyghur Buddhism, A .... 123

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 124

Hoyningen-Huene, Paul 99

Huang, Yanjie .............................. 49

Huerta, Christian Fernández 89

Hutchison, Jessica 80

Hybrid Art Space 115

I Did It for My Country ................. 16

If Destruction Be Our Lot 70

If I Am Right, and I Know I Am 40

Ignorance 124

Illusions About Russia 95

I’m Glad I’m Not Me 26

In Black Ink 62

Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway, The 124

Inside China’s Secret Prisons 14

Inside Ukrainian Diplomacy 90

Instrumentalizing Russia’s Literary Heritage 94

Interactive Documentary and Non-Fiction Media 118

Invisible Light ................................ 39

Issar, Siddhant 53

Jäger, Wolfgang 117

James, Carl E. 80

Janes, Julia ................................... 80

Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Anna D. 2

Jay, Martin 99

Jordan, Brenda G. 64

Judgment Calls 100 Just Right 103

Kaldor, Mary 57

Kandel, Eric R. ........................... 125

Kang, Xiaofei 41

Kaplan, Marcus 85

Karentzos, Alexandra 120

Karimipour, Amir ...................... 102

Kaushal, Neeraj 30 Keystone Serbia 101

Khandogiy, Volodymyr ............... 90

Kirby, Paul 123

Kluge, John, Jr. 32

Koh, Bibiana D.

Kolotouchkina, Olga

Kondylis, Panagiotis

Lalander, Philip 84

Lalka, Rob 123

Lander, Brian ............................... 50 Lau, David T. W. 83 Laubender, Caryolyn 123

Lavelle, Peter B. 50

Lebovic, James H. ........................ 58 Lensch, Tobias 116 Leone, Cinzia

McInnis, Jarvis C. 123

McLain, Karline 64

Mediating Geographic Knowledge 110

Meissner, Irene ............................ 121

Membranes, The 124

Mendelson, Edward 124

Méndez Guédez, Juan Carlos 63

Mental States .................................. 55

Meshoulam, Uriel 103

Met, The 124

Métis Methodologies 78

Metzger, Thomas A. ..................... 83

Miller, Sara Cedar 124

Milne, Heather 71

Moaddel, Mansoor ....................... 56

Mock, Claudia 108

Modernist Figures 100

Mönig, Julia Maria 115

Monstrous Conceptions ................... 47

Morozov, Evgeny 70

Moser, Charlotte A. 125

Moyer-Nocchi, Karima ............... 125

Mrinalini Mukherjee 73

Mulder, Hugo 121

Munoz, Lisa M. P. 125

Museum Queeries ........................... 71

Music, Math, and Mind 125

Nadiminti, Kalyan 44

Napoleon’s Closet 6

Natural Risk 46

NBIC Technologies as Weapons of Modern Warfare 86

Negative Capability 68

New York, 1860 1

Nguy ễn Tài .................................. 15

Nicholls, Peter 100

Norwood, Bryan E. 47

Nustrini, Elena ........................... 120

Oesterreich, Miriam 120

Offit, Paul A. 125

O’Hanlon, James 9

O’Hara, John ............................... 69

Olivelle, Patrick 41

On Aging 23

On the Pulse of Time 72

Orphans of the Times 81

Otrishchenko, Natalia 110

Pan-African ‘Charter for African Cultural Renaissance’, The 86

Paradox of Belonging Despite Systematic Human Rights Violations, The 101

Parreira, Christiana ...................... 56

Partner, Simon 123

Partowi, Manischa 119

Patently Successful 35

People’s Paper, The .......................... 25

Perhat Tursun 124

Perkin, Eddie 33

Persian Without Petrification 102

Petik, Iaroslav .............................. 92

Pierogi 2

Pilat, Joseph F. 58

Plies, Dennis 125

Po, Ronald C. .............................. 49

Poliluev-Schmidt, Danylo 93

Political Clinic, The 123

Politics of Atrocity, The .................. 105 Politics of Lonely, The 76

Poole, Jennifer 80

Postmigrant Counterpublics 111

Power, Jonathan ......................... 103

Prentice, Michael M. 117

Pressman, Matthew 25

Probst, Simon ............................. 107

Professing Architecture 47

Professionalisation of Medical Education 109

Prokhovnik, Alla 91

Prothero, Donald R. ................... 20

Puppet Masters of Evolution 22

Pyrovych, Vitaliy 88

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