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The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York’s northern wilderness. From the 1840s and ‘60s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York’s constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship.

Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith’s suffrage-seeking plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and most leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo, a new Black Adirondack settlement in the woods.

Smith’s plan was prescient, anticipating Black suffrage reform, affirmative action, environmental distributive justice, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith’s offer fell radically short of his high hopes, Smith’s zeal cooled. Timbuctoo, Freemen’s Home, Blacksville and other settlements were forgotten. History would marginalize this Black community for 150 years.

In The Black Woods, Amy Godine recovers a robust history of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. Her immersive story returns the Black pioneers and their descendants to their rightful place at the center of this history. With stirring accounts of racial justice, and no shortage of heroes, The Black Woods amplifies the unique significance of the Adirondacks in the American imagination.

From Saratoga Springs, New York, independent scholar Amy Godine has been writing and speaking about ethnic, migratory, and Black Adirondack history for more than three decades. Exhibits she has curated include Dreaming of Timbuctoo at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in North Elba, New York.

“The Black Woods is a beautifully written, painstakingly researched, and uncommonly nuanced story, heretofore a footnote in the ongoing saga of race in America. But here is a real story, liberated from the chains of arrogant historiography and willing to look into dark corners of our national narrative and climb to summits that offer a panoramic ‘us.’”—Ken

Burns, Filmmaker

“Amy Godine has done something of great importance here: recovered a fascinating story that needs to be told and heard. If you care about the North Woods, or if you care about the possibilities for reconciliation in this tired nation, this book will inform and move you.”—Bill

McKibben, author of The End of Nature

“Amy Godine’s utterly fascinating, sprightly history of Black Adirondack settlers is gripping in its own right and just right for this extraordinary moment in American history. Restoring African Americans to the Adirondacks, The Black Woods discovers our anti-racist heritage in quite an unexpected place.”—Nell Painter, author of The History of White People

A National Park for Women’s Rights

The Campaign That Made It Happen

Judy Hart

A National Park for Women’s Rights chronicles a little-known story in American history: the establishment of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York; the first “idea park” in the National Park system. As told by Judy Hart, its visionary founder and first superintendent, the park’s story is one of struggle and perseverance, opposition and solidarity.

Hart narrates the uphill battle she fought to secure the park’s location—on the site of the first women’s rights convention in 1848—and to gain respect for the idea of a park dedicated to women’s rights from 1978, when she first championed its creation to the triumphant moment in 1982 when the park opened its doors, and following years.

Hart’s journey highlights the prejudices and resistance that she faced, like other women who have advocated for themselves, their rights, and their place in America. Going behind the scenes of the park’s planning and the negotiations, conflicts, and collaborations that shaped the final vision, A National Park for Women’s Rights highlights the contributions of Park Service officials, politicians, and interested citizens in Seneca Falls, despite opposition from within and beyond the Park Service.

An inspiration and rallying cry for women (and their male allies) to tell their stories and claim their place in American history, A National Park for Women’s Rights also offers a model for public history activism. No matter how daunting the opposition to such acts of historical memory-making are, Hart’s experiences remind citizen-activists to dream, organize, and persist.

Judy Hart is Founding Superintendent of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York. She was also Boston Chief Ranger for Legislation in the National Park Service, and first superintendent of Rosie the Riveter/WW II National Historical Park.

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“Hart’s tale ranges from when female park rangers were still issued mini-skirts to their triumph in securing a national park. Despite freak storms, collapsing walls, bureaucratic ennui, and partisan infighting, they prove Margaret Mead’s dictum, ‘a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”—Elizabeth Cobbs, author of Fearless Women

“Judy Hart’s perseverance in pressuring the National Park Service to rescue the remnants of the 1848 women’s rights convention equals that of the founding suffragists. Her chronicle is a candid, courageous lesson in civics and self-discovery.”—Elisabeth Griffith, author of Formidable

“In this memoir Judy Hart details her unique accomplishments (and mistakes), highlights victories over obstructionists, and credits supporters in Seneca Falls, Congress, and the National Park Service who helped establish a National Park for Women’s Rights in perpetuity.”—Susan Goodier, coauthor of Women Will Vote

Walkers in the City

Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

Debra Dash Moore

In the middle of the twentieth century, good cameras became smaller and lighter, enabling street photographers to roam alleyways, ride elevated trains and subways, and stroll beaches in summertime to capture daily life with urgency and intimacy. Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced with these new cameras on New York City’s streets and in public spaces.

Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on New York as seen through their eyes—a cityscape of working-class people and democratizing public transit. With their cameras, they pictured Gotham’s abrasive social milieu and its evanescent textures and light, creating an archive of vernacular images of city life and a distinctive tradition of street photography that would be widely imitated.

Walkers in the City documents how these roving, imaginative New Yorkers, entranced by the medium of photography, transformed everyday sights into rousing, joyous, and poignant moments of time, creating visual poetry out of the fabric of social life.

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of GI Jews and coauthor of Jewish New York.

“With verve, insight and a sharp eye, Walkers in the City explores a time, a place and its photographers, illuminating the city, its Jews, and worlds of urban experience.”—

Robert W. Snyder, author of Crossing Broadway

“ Walkers in the City is lucidly written and beautifully illustrated. Deborah Dash Moore deftly examines Jewish photographers’ commitment to capturing the life of the city they love its people, and the streets where they negotiated their own place in America.”—Laura S. Levitt, author of The Objects that Remain

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Gideon’s Revolution A Novel

Brian Carso

It’s 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is discovered and Gideon’s Revolution is about to begin. General George Washington orders a secret mission for two Continental Army soldiers to go behind enemy lines, abduct Arnold, and return him to his countrymen to be tried and hanged.

Washington selects one of the soldiers, Gideon Wheatley, for the mission because Arnold would trust him. Wheatley fought under Arnold’s command at Saratoga and tended to the gravely wounded general for several months at Albany’s military hospital. After feigning desertion to the British Army to join Arnold’s corps of loyalists, Wheatley and his comrade John Champe seek out Washington’s spies in New York and develop a plan to seize the traitor. But when the abduction is foiled, the soldiers are trapped by their own deceit and forced to fight alongside Arnold’s raiding army, as if they were traitors themselves.

Years after the war, pressed by memories that haunt him and seeking redemption, Wheatley must decide whether he alone can exact revenge on his former friend and commander, a decision that sends him across the Atlantic to London to find and confront Arnold.

Gideon’s Revolution is an American origin story based on real historical events, an odyssey that reveals the profound human tensions between loyalty and betrayal, allegiance and treason, revenge and the possibility of forgiveness.

Brian Carso, a lawyer and historian, has studied the American Revolution and the life of Benedict Arnold for more than two decades. Gideon’s Revolution is his first novel. A reading group guide is available at briancarso.com

“A dark, suspenseful account of not only the risks but the tolls of subterfuge, espionage, and sabotage during the American Revolution.”—Holly A. Mayer, author of Congress’s Own

“Gideon’s Revolution is full of historical detail and drama. Brian Carso expertly weaving his narrator’s life into the real events and conversations around Benedict Arnold’s betrayal.”—Eric D. Lehman, author of Homegrown Terror

“Gideon’s Revolution is a novel of espionage and thrilling action during the American Revolution, giving an intimate view of some of the most complex events of the conflict. Readers will not forget the accounts of several controversial episodes of our history, where loyalty and disloyalty were intertwined and hard to distinguish, and heroes were found in the most unexpected places. This is a story of the revolution within Gideon himself.”—Robert Ray Morgan, author of Gap Creek

Kibbitz and Nosh

When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria

Marcia Bricker Halperin

On a winter’s day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow’s Cafeteria on Kings Highway. There, between the magical mirrored walls and steaming coffee urns, she found herself as if on a theater set, looking out at a tableau of memorable Brooklyn faces. Enchanted, Halperin returned to Dubrow’s again and again.

In Kibbitz & Nosh, Halperin reminds us of the days when she would order a coffee, converse with the denizens of Dubrow’s on Kings Highway and at its Manhattan location in the Garment District, and in that relaxed atmosphere execute candid photographs. In keeping with the work of Vivian Maier and Robert Frank, these black-and-white images taken during the waning days of New York City’s legendary cafeteria culture are revealing and empathetic.

Dubrow’s was a restaurant-cum-social club for a generation of New Yorkers; it was a place to chat with friends, an escape from the confines of the family apartment, and a space to dream while looking out onto the traffic on Kings Highway and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn or Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue. Beyond Dubrow’s on the sidewalks and in the streets, the gritty and fantastic New York of the 1970s appears, ready to come through the revolving doors to order a coffee and a blintz.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies and the lauded historian of the Jewish-American experience Deborah Dash Moore provide essays that illuminate and contextualize Halperin’s poignant photographs. Kibbitz & Nosh, with a whiff of nostalgia and full of incisive visual commentary, is a revealing return to this lost third place, the essential cafeteria.

Marcia Bricker Halperin, a lifelong Brooklynite, began photographing in the 1970s. Her work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the International Center of Photography, the Daniel Cowin Collection, City Lore, and the Walter and Naomi Rosenblum Collection. Follow her on Instagram @marciabrickerphoto.

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“There was a time when New York was home to dozens of restaurants like the Horn & Hardart Automats or the Belmore Cafeteria, the cabby mecca made famous in the movie ‘Taxi Driver.’ You’d grab a tray, shuffle down the counters and grab a seat. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s record of New York’s long-gone cafeterias, rendered in black and white, have graceful architecture, dazzling or moody lighting and more than a few characters, like Gene Palma, the slick-haired street drummer and Gene Krupa maven.”—The New York Times

“Kibbitz & Nosh reveals a New York of working people, of folk who needed a place to sit down, drink a cup of coffee and rest. This was a hard world and Dubrow’s provided a break from it. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s photographs show us a place that made New York what it was.”—Reggie Nadelson, author of the 212 column at the New York Times

“I miss Dubrow’s every time I take a cab down 7th Avenue. I happily recall meals at Dubrow’s before and after attending the opera at the old Metropolitan Opera House which was located a block away (until 1966).”—Mimi Sheraton, author of 1,000 Foods to Eat before You Die

Judgment and Mercy

The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

Martin J. Siegel

In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irving Robert Kaufman, the judge infamous for condemning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage.

In 1951, world attention fixed on Kaufman’s courtroom as its ambitious young occupant stridently blamed the Rosenbergs for the Korean War. To many, the harsh sentences and their preening author left an enduring stain on American justice. But then the judge from Cold War central casting became something unexpected: one of the most illustrious progressive jurists of his day.

Upending the simplistic portrait of Judge Kaufman as a McCarthyite villain, Siegel shows how his pathbreaking decisions desegregated a Northern school for the first time, liberalized the insanity defense, reformed Attica-era prisons, spared John Lennon from politically motivated deportation, expanded free speech, brought foreign torturers to justice, and more. Still, the Rosenberg controversy lingered. Decades later, changing times and revelations of judicial misconduct put Kaufman back under siege. Picketers dogged his footsteps as critics demanded impeachment. And tragedy stalked his family, attributed in part to the long ordeal. Instead of propelling him to the Supreme Court, as Kaufman once hoped, the case haunted him to the end.

Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy brings to life a complex man by turns tyrannical and warm, paranoid and altruistic, while revealing intramural Jewish battles over assimilation, class, and patriotism. Siegel, who served as Kaufman’s last law clerk, traces the evolution of American law and politics in the twentieth century and shows how a judge unable to summon mercy for the Rosenbergs nonetheless helped expand freedom for all.

Martin J. Siegel practices and teaches law in Houston. After clerking for Judge Kaufman, he served as an Assistant US Attorney in Manhattan and on the staff of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. His writing has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, and legal journals.

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“A major judicial biography that earns a place of distinction alongside other notable recent works such as Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, and Brad Snyder’s Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, Siegel’s Judgment and Mercy gives its flawed, complex, and perhaps too-long-reviled subject the captivating, multi-dimensional chronicle his life and work deserve.”— New York Journal of Books

“Judgment and Mercy seeks to provide a complete portrait of Kaufman by distinguishing between the bad judge of the Rosenberg trial and the good jurist who championed a variety of causes dear to the hearts of progressives. These included broadening the insanity defense, defending civil liberties and the desegregation of neighborhood schools, prosecuting individuals accused of torture outside the United States, and encouraging prison reform.”—Jewish Book Council

Vanishing Point

The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front

Tom Wilber

In Vanishing Point, award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie, and an eclectic group of enthusiasts who have spent years searching for it.

At the height of World War II, a B-24 Liberator bomber vanished with its crew while on a training mission over upstate New York. The final hours and ultimate resting place of pilot Keith Ponder and seven other US aviators aboard the plane remain mysteries to this day. The tale is at once a compelling instance of loss on the World War II American home front and a more extensive, largely unreported history. Ponder–a 21-year-old from rural Mississippi–and his crew were tragically unexceptional casualties in the monumental effort to recruit and train an air force en masse to counter the global conquest of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. More than fifteen thousand American airmen and, in some cases, women burned, crashed, or fell to their deaths in stateside training accidents during the war–their lives and stories shuffled away in piles of Air Force bureaucracy.

The forgotten story of Getaway Gertie was originally inspired by summer evenings around the campfire on the shores of Lake Ontario, where parts of the plane have washed up. Building on those campfire tales, Wilber deftly connects myth with fact and memory with historicity. The result is a vivid portrait of the forgotten soldier of the home front and a new take on the meaning of wartime sacrifice as the last survivors of the Greatest Generation pass away

Tom Wilber’s writing career spans 25 years at USA Today Network’s Central New York Newspaper Group, where he won Best of Gannett honors on multiple occasions. He also taught journalism at Binghamton University, and is the author of Under the Surface

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“Smoothly written and painstakingly researched, this is a fitting tribute to unsung heroes of the Greatest Generation.”— Publisher’s Weekly

“In Vanishing Point, Tom Wilber poignantly connects shipwreck hunting, aviation, and the history of World War II. Wilber’s story spans generations and shows the enduring relevance of the fallen, the lost, and the almost forgotten of that last great war.”—Valerie Van Heest, author of Fatal Crossing

“Original and captivating, Vanishing Point tells a deeply engaging, lovingly researched, and remarkably textured story. This book explores how memory, myth, and remembrance shape our perceptions of the lost airmen of World War II and the sacrifices they made.”—Aaron Hiltner, author of Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

Atomic Bill

A Journalist’s Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb

Vincent Kiernan

In Atomic Bill, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power.

Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government’s press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic experts on the atomic bomb. As the Cold War dawned, some assessed Laurence as a propagandist defending the militarization of atomic energy. For others, he was a skilled science communicator who provided the public with a deep understanding of the atomic bomb.

Laurence leveraged his perch at the Times to engage in paid speechmaking, book writing, filmmaking, and radio broadcasting. His work for the Times declined in quality even as his relationships with people in power grew closer and more lucrative. Atomic Bill reveals extraordinary ethical lapses by Laurence such as a cheating scandal at Harvard University and plagiarizing from press releases about atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. In 1963 a conflict of interest related to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City led to his forced retirement from the Times.

Kiernan shows Laurence to have set the trend, common among today’s journalists of science and technology, to prioritize geewhiz coverage of discoveries. That approach, in which Laurence served the interests of governmental official and scientists, recommends a full revision of our understanding of the dawn of the atomic era.

Vincent Kiernan is the Dean of the Metropolitan School of Professional Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He is the author of several books, including Embargoed Science

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“In Atomic Bill, Vince Kiernan offers an unsparing portrait of a powerful but corrupt journalist. His tale of the New York Times science writer William L. Laurence, during the mid-20th century heyday of nuclear weapons and Cold War espionage, stands as a potent reminder today of why journalist integrity is essential.”—Deborah

Blum, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Poison Squad

“Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves gambled that William L. Laurence’s flair for the dramatic would convey the extraordinary accomplishments of the Manhattan Project. However, Laurence’s hyperbole led critics to label the journalist ‘mythmaker-in-chief.’ Vincent Kiernan’s compelling account probes Laurence’s ethical conflicts including embellished stories, downplayed dangers, and plagiarism.”—Cynthia

C. Kelly, Founder and President of the Atomic Heritage Foundation

“This is more than a biography of the great New York Times science writer William L. Laurence. Atomic Bill is about journalism and journalists, the evolution of a life and a career, and a truly critical period in the development of both atomic weaponry and modern science journalism.”—Anthony Fellow, author

of American Media History

The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn

An American Story

Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler

In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn’s domination by upper- and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England. This lively history describes the unraveling of the control they wielded as more ethnically diverse groups moved into the “City of Churches” during the twentieth century.

Before it became a prime American example of urban ethnic diversity, Brooklyn was a lovely and salubrious “town across the river” from Manhattan, celebrated for its churches and upright suburban living. But challenges to this way of life issued from the sheer growth of the city, from new secular institutions—department stores, theaters, professional baseball—and from the licit and illicit attractions of Coney Island, all of which were at odds with post-Puritan piety and behavior.

Despite these developments, the Yankee-Protestant hegemony largely held until the massive influx of Southern and Eastern European immigrants in the twentieth century. As The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn demonstrates, in their churches, synagogues, and other communal institutions, and on their neighborhood streets, the new Brooklynites established the ethnic mosaic that laid the groundwork for the theory of cultural pluralism, giving it a central place within the American Creed.

Stuart M. Blumin is Emeritus Professor of American history at Cornell University. He is the author or co-author of several books including Rude Republic, The GI Bill, and Mirror of the City.

Glenn C. Altschuler is Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is the author or co-author of twelve books, including All Shook Up, Rude Republic, The GI Bill, Cornell, and Ten Great American Trials.

“The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn offers a sophisticated, nuanced history of Brooklyn’s transformation into a vibrant, modern, urban community. It also speaks powerfully to the shameful anti-immigrant sentiment currently surging across the nation.”— Gotham, A Blog for New York City Scholars

“The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn is a well-told tale: lively and persuasive. It brings questions of religion to the fore in discussing Brooklyn as a suburb of New York even in the years when it was a separate city.”—Deborah Dash Moore, author of Walkers in the City

“An important and fascinating book. Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler chart Brooklyn’s complicated relationship with Manhattan, the behemoth across the East River, and the city’s and then borough’s struggles to forge its own urban identity. The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn is an instant classic of New York City history”—Clifton Hood, author of In Pursuit of Privilege

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The Loneliest Places

Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home

Rachel Dickinson

“A child’s suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an almost complete break with what’s happening in the world around you. That was my experience. I wish it upon no one.”

The essays of The Loneliest Places began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson’s life after her son’s suicide. The pieces became much more. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heartbreaking loss. In The Loneliest Places she tells stories from her months on the run, fleeing her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islands—as far as possible from the memories of her dead son, Jack. She frankly relates the paralyzing emotion that sometimes left her trapped in her home, confined to a single chair, helplessly isolated.

The tales from these years are bleak and Dickinson’s journey home, back to her changed self and fractured family, is lonely. Conjuring Emily Dickinson, however, she describes how hope was sighted, allowed to perch, and then, remarkably, made actual.

“Dickinson’s meditative style and use of metaphor elevate what might otherwise be simply a beautiful, detailed description of place, flora, and fauna to a much deeper study of what nature has to teach us about ourselves and our relationships.”— Hippocampus Magazine

“An elegant memoir.”— Pyschology Today

“Writing in the wake of her son Jack’s suicide, Rachel Dickinson shows that fragments contain worlds and connected fragments can build worlds. The truths on these pages are hard won and haunting, but also warm and surprising. The Loneliest Places will remind you that the most beautiful journeys take place in our hearts.”—Bethanne Patrick, NPR Books

Rachel Dickinson is a travel writer, essayist, artist, and award-winning author. Follow her on Twitter @rachelbirds.

The Muriel Rukeyser Era

Selected Prose

Eric Keenaghan & Rowena KennedyEpstein, eds.

The Muriel Rukeyser Era makes available for the first time a range of Muriel Rukeyser’s prose, a rich and diverse archive of political, social, and aesthetic writings. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein assemble a selection of unpublished and out-of-print texts, demonstrating the diversity, brilliance, and possibilities of mid-twentieth century women’s intellectual life and sociopolitical engagement.

Although primarily known as a poet, Rukeyser produced an expansive and influential body of nonfiction and critical writings. A deeply committed thinker, her accessible but philosophically complex prose—including essays, lectures, radio scripts, stories, and reviews— addresses issues related to racial, gender, and class justice, war and war crimes, the prison-industrial complex, Jewish culture and diaspora, motherhood, literature, music, cinema, and translation. Many of the selected texts have been forgotten, have fallen out of print, or were never previously published because of conservative Cold War political and gender orthodoxies. The Muriel Rukeyser Era offers new insight into Rukeyser’s radical and strikingly contemporary vision for the role of the writer—especially the woman writer. This selection reveals the centrality of feminism, anti-fascism, and anti-racism to her thinking and thus affirms the resonance and urgency of her work today.

Eric Keenaghan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Queering Cold War Poetry.

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Unfinished Spirit and editor of Rukeyser’s Savage Coast.

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“This volume represents a tremendous service to the field of feminist modernist studies, modern American poetry, and twentieth-century American literature.”—

Anne

E.

Fernald, author of Virginia Woolf

“Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein have expertly brought together a treasure trove of Rukeyser’s overlooked and unpublished prose.”—Catherine Gander, author of Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary

The Price of Truth

The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany

Richard Fine

In The Price of Truth, Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy’s controversial scoop.

On May 7, 1945, Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. Both the practice and the public perception of wartime reporting would never be the same. While, at the behest of Soviet leaders, Allied authorities prohibited release of the story, Kennedy stuck to his journalistic principles and refused to manage information he believed the world had a right to know. No action by an American correspondent during the war proved more controversial.

The Paris press corps was furious at what it took to be Kennedy’s unethical betrayal; military authorities threatened court-martial before expelling him from Europe. Kennedy defended himself, insisting the news was being withheld for suspect political reasons unrelated to military security. After prolonged national debate, when the dust settled, Kennedy’s career was in ruins.

This story of Kennedy’s surrender dispatch and the meddling by Allied Command, which was already being called a fiasco in May 1945, revises what we know about media-military relations. Discarding “Good War” nostalgia, Fine challenges the accepted view that relations between the media and the military were amicable during World War II and only later ran off the rails during the Vietnam War. The Price of Truth reveals one of the earliest chapters of tension between reporters committed to informing the public and generals tasked with managing a war

Richard Fine is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of West of Eden and James M. Cain and the American Authors’ Authority

“Fine presents a meticulous examination of the fraught relationship between the military and the media during World War II. A fresh contribution to the history of journalism.”— Kirkus Review

“A fascinating and well-written exploration of military-press relations during World War II. By focusing on the mechanics of the military-press interaction, The Price of Truth casts new light on the conventional story about military-press cooperation and conflict during the war.”—Elliot

King,

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“Richard Fine’s excellent book provides fresh insights on two levels: the media’s relationship with the military and the chaotic environment in Europe in 1945. The Price of Truth is recommended for anyone interested in these two important topics.”—Michael S. Neiberg, author of When France Fell

Marvel Comics in the 1970s

The World inside Your Head

Eliot Borenstein

Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel’s dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation of comic book writers whose work at Marvel in the 1970s established their own authorial voice within the strictures of corporate comics.

Through a diverse cast of heroes (and the occasional antihero)—Black Panther, Shang-Chi, Deathlok, Dracula, Killraven, Man-Thing, and Howard the Duck—writers such as Steve Gerber, Doug Moench, and Don McGregor made unprecedented strides in exploring their characters’ inner lives. Visually, dynamic action was still essential, but the real excitement was taking place inside their heroes’ heads. Marvel Comics in the 1970s highlights the brilliant and sometimes gloriously imperfect creations that laid the groundwork for the medium’s later artistic achievements and the broader acceptance of comic books in the cultural landscape today.

Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, where he teaches an annual course on the graphic novel. His books include Overkill, Plots against Russia, and Pussy Riot. Follow him on Twitter @eliotb2002 and visit him online at eliotborenstein.net.

“Marvel Comics in the 1970s is a detailed, wonky examination of a significant period in the history of Marvel Comics for diehard comicss fans and scholars of the graphic novel.”— Kirkus Reviews

“Eliot Borenstein sheds a thrilling new light on the ways superhero comics depict both the interior world of characters and the desires/anxieties of readers—and he does it in ways only a lifelong fan of Marvel comics could!”—José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero

“Providing fresh insights into an era in the history of Marvel Comics often overlooked by critics and popular culture scholars, Borenstein provides an enlightening thesis about the development of techniques to represent subjectivity within superhero comics.”—Ben Saunders, author of Do the Gods Wear Capes?

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German Blood, Slavic Soil

How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad

Nicole Eaton

German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes.

Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an intricate timeline, first describing how Königsberg, a seven-hundred-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the easternmost bastion of Hitler’s Third Reich and the launching point for the Nazis’ genocidal war in the East. She then describes how, after being destroyed by bombing and siege warfare in 1945, Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of Stalin’s Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own—in both wartime occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes.

German Blood, Slavic Soil presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during World War II. Eaton impressively shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.

Comprehensive and fine-grained, this is a meticulous study of a city torn between two “radically transformative and violent revolutionary regimes.”— Publishers Weekly

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German Blood, Slavic Soil seamlessly brings together urban and military history with Russian and German studies to understand major ruptures in the twentieth century. Eaton deftly toggles between individual experience and high politics, rendering select characters as complex people and explaining the nuances of political decision-making under two dictatorships.”—Brandon Schechter, author of The Stuff of Soldiers

“In German Blood, Slavic Soil, Nicole Eaton traces how Nazi Königsberg became Stalinist Kaliningrad, exploring how two dictatorial regimes and ideologies interacted and diverged within one borderland city. This vivid and important study reveals how revolutions of Right and Left overlapped and unfolded in a single, and most singular, locale.”—Michael David-Fox, Georgetown University, author of Crossing Borders

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Nicole Eaton is Assistant Professor of History at Boston College. Follow her on Twitter @nicolemeaton.

The Ink in the Grooves

Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll

edited by Florence Dore

Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you’ve been meaning to pick up—the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since Dylan went electric, listening to rock ‘n’ roll has often been a surprisingly literary experience, and contemporary literature is curiously attuned to the history and beat of popular music. In The Ink in the Grooves, Florence Dore brings together a remarkable array of acclaimed novelists, musicians, and music writers to explore the provocatively creative relationship between musical and literary inspiration: the vitality that writers draw from a three-minute blast of guitars and the poetic insights that musicians find in literary works from Shakespeare to Southern Gothic. Together, the essays and interviews in The Ink in the Grooves provide a backstage pass to the creative processes behind some of the most exciting and influential albums and novels of our time.

Contributors: Laura Cantrell, Michael Chabon, Roddy Doyle, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, William Ferris, Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, Dave Grohl, Peter Guralnick, Amy Helm, Randall Kenan, Jonathan Lethem, Greil Marcus, Rick Moody, Lorrie Moore, the John Prine band (Dave Jacques, Fats Kaplin, Pat McLaughlin, Jason Wilber), Dana Spiotta, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Richard Thompson, Scott Timberg, Daniel Wallace, Colson Whitehead, Lucinda Williams, Warren Zanes.

Florence Dore is a Nashville-born, North Carolina–based musical artist as well as Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her second album, 2022’s Highways and Rocketships, was produced by Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. She is the author of Novel Sounds and coexecutive producer for the Billboard-charting compilation album Cover Charge.

“Novelists, musicians, and other cultural movers and shakers muse on the intersection of literature and rock music in this rich collection of essays. Music lovers with a literary bent will find this worth tuning in to.”— Publishers Weekly

“Florence Dore has created an excellent collection of old and new writing that explores the convergence of rock and literature. Readers will want to take the time to slowly savor this rich gathering.”— Booklist

“Florence Dore’s search along the seam of rock music and fiction evinces rare moments in the lives of writers and musicians, epiphanies suggesting a shared psyche of art seeking freedom, art quaking with hungers of expression that anyone who has gone stomp-down dancing in a club where the music soars will feel into the bone.”—The Daily Beast

Agents of Subversion

The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China

John Delury

Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity—and futility—of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao.

In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong’s government for the next twenty years.

Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release.

Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao’s campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home.

John Delury is Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University. He is the coauthor of Wealth and Power. Follow him on Twitter @JohnDelury.

“Delury blends first-rate storytelling with diplomatic history. For such an expansive and wide-ranging discussion of US-Chinese relations, Delury should be commended for his attention to detail and commitment to bringing to light sources previously underutilized in US writing on China.”— LA Review of Books

“A riveting and important case study. Delury retells this remarkable episode in the history of US-Chinese relations with fire and astonishment.He uses his flair for narrative and his eye for often surreal detail to describe the desperation in Washington in the wake of the Korean War and the fateful decision to use the fledgling CIA to try to undermine Mao’s China.”— Foreign Affairs

“An urgently needed book.”—South China Morning Post

“Agents of Subversion is a book that you can easily imagine being filmed, being turned into a television series or being discussed with gusto by members of a book club made up of history lovers.”— Five Books

Pink Triangle Legacies

Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust

W. Jake Newsome

Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis’ targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer survivors’ fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this context, a new generation of queer activists has used the pink triangle—a reminder of Germany’s fascist past—as the visual marker of gay liberation, seeking to end queer people’s status as second-class citizens by asserting their right to express their identity openly.

The reclamation of the pink triangle occurred first in West Germany, but soon activists in the United States adopted this chapter from German history as their own. As gay activists on opposite sides of the Atlantic grafted pink triangle memories onto new contexts, they connected two national communities and helped form the basis of a shared gay history, indeed a new gay identity, that transcended national borders.

Pink Triangle Legacies illustrates the dangerous consequences of historical silencing and how the incorporation of hidden histories into the mainstream understanding of the past can contribute to a more inclusive experience of belonging in the present. There can be no justice without acknowledging and remembering injustice. As Newsome demonstrates, if a marginalized community seeks a history that liberates them from the confines of silence, they must often write it themselves.

W. Jake Newsome is a scholar of American and German LGBTQ+ history whose work as a public historian reaches global audiences. He currently works as a museum professional in Washington, DC. You can find him online at wjakenewsome.com and @wjnewsome.

“In Pink Triangle Legacies, W. Jake Newsome illuminates how a transnational group of LGBTQ+ people recovered the history of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals and stood it on its head, transforming the fascists’ symbol of shame into a liberation banner. A fascinating, important study.”—Jonathan Ned Katz, founder of OutHistory.org

“In Pink Triangle Legacies, Newsome skillfully describes the interdependence of gay movements in Germany and other countries as they developed after World War II. By expertly evaluating untapped archives and eyewitnesses, Newsome details the important historical trope of the pink triangle as the symbol of bloody persecution and discrimination.”—Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida

“Pink Triangle Legacies is a compellingly written addition to LGBTQ history. Jake Newsome draws upon as-yet unexplored German archival sources to reveal the story of transnational activism around the persecution of gay men under the Nazis. It makes an important contribution to the historiography, with lessons for the present day.”—Jennifer V.

Evans, author of The Ethics of Seeing

$34.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-6515-5

Euromissiles

The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO

Susan Colbourn

In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe.

In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war—highlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil. That made European leaders uncomfortable and pushed fearful masses into the streets demanding peace in their time.

At the center of the story is NATO. Colbourn highlights the weakness of the alliance seen by many as the most effective bulwark against Soviet aggression. Divided among themselves and uncertain about the depth of US support, the member states were riven by the missile issue. This strategic crisis was, as much as any summit meeting between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the hinge on which the Cold War turned.

Euromissiles is a history of diplomacy and alliances, social movements and strategy, nuclear weapons and nagging fears, and politics. To tell that history, Colbourn takes a long view of the strategic crisis—from the emerging dilemmas of allied defense in the early 1950s through the aftermath of the INF Treaty thirty-five years later. The result is a dramatic and sweeping tale that changes the way we think about the Cold War and its culmination.

Susan Colbourn is Associate Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the coeditor of The Nuclear North. Follow her on Twitter @secolbourn.

“Susan Colbourn has written a truly international history of what has become known as “the Euromissile crisis” to explain why NATO did not collapse under the weight of these events. Colbourn’s book is an exemplary study of contemporary history. Reading Colbourn’s book offers a useful analytical antidote.”— Current History

“Susan Colbourn skillfully connects the Euromissile issue to the debates in the strategic community over the numbers and types of nuclear deployments, and then situates this high-level planning within the ferment of social anti-nuclear protest. A terrific work of historically informed statecraft and strategy.”—Francis Gavin, author of Nuclear Statecraft

“Euromissiles is an essential and timely history given the uncertain fate of arms control today. Susan Colbourn has authored an incomparable work showing how the staunchly anticommunist Reagan administration pursued its so-called zero option and reached an extraordinary agreement with the USSR.”—James Goldgeier, coauthor of America between the Wars

$36.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-6602-2

Tree by Tree Saving North America’s Eastern Forests

Scott J. Meiners

Tree by Tree is a warning and a toolkit for the future of forest recovery. Scott Meiners investigates the critical biological threats endangering tree species native to the forests of eastern North America, providing a needed focus on this plight. If we are to save our forests, Meiners suggests, the first step is to recognize the threats in front of us.

Meiners focuses on five familiar trees—the American elm, the American chestnut, eastern hemlock, white ash, and sugar maple—and shares why they matter economically, ecologically, and culturally. From outbreaks of Dutch elm disease to infestations of emerald ash borers, Meiners highlights the challenges that have led or will lead to their disappearance from forests. In doing so, he shows us how diversity loss often disrupts intricately balanced ecosystems and how vital it is that we pay more attention to massive changes in forest composition.

With practical steps for the conservation of native tree species, Tree by Tree offers the inspiration and insights we need to begin saving our forests.

Scott Meiners is Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University.

“A must read for anyone interested in achieving a sustainable relationship with the natural world. Our only hope in saving our forests—and save them we must—is to understand appropriate responses to these threats. Scott Meiners provides this essential knowledge and the motivation to act on it!”—Douglas

Tallamy, author of The Nature of Oaks

“Scott Meiners brings to bear a deep love and wide knowledge of trees to explain the many threats that imperil our eastern forests. If Aldo Leopold was right and we will only save what we appreciate, Tree by Tree is just the kind of book we need now.”—Susan Freinkel, author of American Chestnut

“In this wonderful book, Meiners deftly introduces readers to some of the trees we love and their unfortunate fates in the face of exotic introduced pests and pathogens while offering an overview of the biogeography of relatedness.”—Mark

S. Ashton, Yale University, author of The Practice of Silviculture

Bees of Costa Rica

Paul Hanson, Mauricio Fernández Otárola, Jorge Lobo Segura, Gordon W. Frankie, Rollin Coville, Ingrid Aguilar Monge, Mariana Acuña Cordero, and Eduardo Herrera González

In this richly illustrated guide, Bees of Costa Rica, leading bee experts showcase the diversity of bees in Costa Rica and the myriad ways in which they interact with flowers and people.

Costa Rica is home to 117 bee genera and approximately 700 bee species. Focusing on the five bee families present in Costa Rica, the authors describe the bees’ general physical traits, foraging and mating behavior, and nest characteristics. Chapters cover the relationships between bees and other insects, profiles of plants pollinated by bees, and practical suggestions for bee conservation.

With identification keys and more than 150 color photographs, Bees of Costa Rica is essential for anyone looking to learn about and protect these important pollinators in Costa Rica and beyond.

“Distilling more than fifty years of the authors’ intense fieldwork into a beautifully illustrated and readable natural history, Bees of Costa Rica is a must-have for travelers who want to meet the bees that give us landscapes filled with orchids, mass-flowering trees, tropical orchards, and coffee plantations.”—Peter Bernhardt, Missouri

Botanical Garden, coeditor of

Darwin’s Orchids

“With hundreds of stunning images, Bees of Costa Rica treats readers to a tour of Costa Rica’s splendid bees and flowers, introducing a myriad of other pollinators, predators, and freeloaders of the system along the way. Paul Hanson and his coauthors outdo themselves with this must-read, timeless book.”—Justin O. Schmidt, author of The Sting of the Wild

Quetzals

Icons of the Cloud Forest

Alan F. Poole

In Quetzals, the renowned ornithologist Alan F. Poole introduces readers to one of the world’s most alluring group of birds. Native to the cloud forests of Mexico, and Central and South America, quetzals have played an essential role in the cultures of those lands, where their radiant, brightly colored feathers have been worshipped as sacred objects and coveted as luxury goods for millennia.

Drawing on scientific and historical facts, Poole details the natural history and cultural significance of these legendary birds. He focuses on the most iconic of quetzal species, the Resplendent Quetzal, delving into their its distinctive ecology and behavior. He offers an overview of four other known quetzal species—the Pavonine Quetzal, the Golden-headed Quetzal, the White-tipped Quetzal, and the Crested Quetzal—and traces their evolutionary descent from the trogons. Spectacular photographs and illustrations accompany details of quetzal ecology, the long history of their place in the Mayan and Aztec worlds, and current conservation efforts.

A celebration of quetzals and the forests that nurture them, Quetzals is a must-have for anyone who wants to better understand these awe-inspiring birds.

Alan F. Poole is an Associate of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the former editor of Birds of North America. He is the author of Ospreys.

“This book is a gem. Filled with vivid photos, beautiful artwork, and engaging writing on the historical origins, present -day distributions, and uncertain but hopeful future of this iconic group of birds, Quetzals is a must-have for all bird enthusiasts.”—Steve Hilty, Victor Emanuel

Nature Tours

“It is time the Resplendent Quetzal had a biographer, and avian life historian Alan F. Poole is the person for the job. Placing it in its proper ornithological, historical, and botanical contexts, he weaves a compelling story of this near-mythical bird whose sheer beauty could save it—and the mist-shrouded cloud forest it inhabits.”—

Julie Zickefoose, author of Saving Jemima

“With Poole masterfully guiding us into their tropical forest haunts, we behold in these pages just how utterly extraordinary and captivating quetzals truly are.”—Carl

Safina, author of Alfie and Me

Butterflies of Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces

Phillip G. deMaynadier, John Klymko, Ronald G. Butler, W. Herbert Wilson Jr., and John V. Calhoun

Butterflies of Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces introduces readers to over one hundred and twenty butterfly species documented in the Acadian region. Including contributions from researchers and community scientists, this volume is indispensable for anyone interested in the study and conservation of these ecologically important insects.

This user-friendly guide features:

• The first annotated checklist of the species and subspecies of Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island

• Species accounts covering habitat, behavior, threats, and more

• Color photographs, flight histograms, and distribution maps

Phillip G. deMaynadier is a wildlife biologist at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and codirected the Maine Butterfly Survey. John Klymko is a zoologist at the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre and directed the Maritimes Butterfly Atlas. Ronald G. Butler is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Maine at Farmington and codirected the Maine Butterfly Survey. W. Herbert Wilson Jr., is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Colby College and codirected the Maine Butterfly Survey. John V. Calhoun is Research Associate at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and a longtime researcher of Maine butterflies.

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“Among the very best, most thorough butterfly guides ever produced. All who own it will be able to better enjoy and recognize each species, take part in citizen science afield, and help conserve these flying treasures.”—Robert Michael Pyle, Founder of the Xerces Society

“This book allows everyone to find joy and fun in scientific data. It brings history and data to life with incredible photos, maps, and the stories of the many people behind it.”—Hillary Peterson, President of the Maine Entomological Society

“A well-written, in-depth treatise on butterflies found in Maine and the Canadian Maritime provinces complete with excellent images, figures, and maps. Anyone interested in butterflies will welcome this addition to their shelves.”—Kent McFarland, senior conservation biologist, Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Bats of the West Indies

A Natural History and Field Guide

Allen Kurta and Armando RodríguezDurán, eds.

Bats of the West Indies is a concise guide to the sixty-one bat species found across the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. Edited by Allen Kurta and Armando Rodríguez-Durán, this volume synthesizes the expertise of twenty-nine accomplished chiropterologists to present up-to-date information on the natural history, ecology, and behavior of these fascinating creatures.

Bats represent an evolutionarily distinctive and ecologically significant part of biological diversity in the West Indies. Opening chapters introduce readers to the unique biology of bats, factors influencing their distribution, and conservation concerns. Family and species accounts detail anatomical traits, natural history, and conservation status. With over a one hundred illustrations, a glossary, and other useful identification tools, Bats of the West Indies is an authoritative yet accessible reference for bat enthusiasts and experts alike.

Allen Kurta is Professor of Biology at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of several books, including Mammals of the Great Lakes Region and Bats of Puerto Rico

Armando Rodríguez-Durán is Professor and Director of Mata de Plátano Field Station at InterAmerican University, Puerto Rico. He is the author or coauthor of several books in English and Spanish, including Bats of Puerto Rico and Breviario sobre los Murciélagos de Puerto Rico, La Española y las Islas Vírgenes.

“This beautifully written and illustrated book offers a rich yet accessible guide to the most diverse mammals of the West Indies. Covering a remarkable sixty-one species, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in the ecology and evolution of tropical island bats!”—Nancy Simmons, American Museum of Natural History

“A triumph. Bats of the West Indies is the first modern authoritative compendium of this fascinating fauna, with well-written, up-to-date accounts and a strong conservation focus on the sixty-one species occurring in the region complemented by full-color pictures and maps.”—Robert

M. Timm, The University of Kansas

“Comprehensive yet eminently accessible. There is much to admire in this book, including its thoughtful introduction, and the rigorous editing of sixty-one species accounts from different contributors achieves the noble goal of the text reading as if written in one voice.”—R.

Mark Brigham, coauthor of Bats of British Columbia

Snakes Biology, Diversity, and Behavior

David Gower, Katie Garrett, and Simon Maddock

Snakes is a comprehensive introduction to the biology and natural history of this ecologically diverse and important group of animals. From garter snakes and vipers to boas and pythons, authors David Gower, Katie Garrett, and Simon Maddock showcase the variety and complexity of a group that includes more than three thousand living species.

Snakes inhabit almost every part of the globe. While some live only in the water, others are found primarily in the treetops of rain forests or underground in deserts. This book reveals the myriad ways snakes have adapted to such diverse habitats and the workings of their unique behavior—how they are able to move so gracefully even without limbs, swallow meals several times the size of their heads, and survive without eating for months. Along the way, readers will also learn about the latest research on new species, taxonomic changes, and conservation status. With stunning color illustrations throughout, Snakes is an indispensable guide to these fascinating and awe-inspiring creatures.

David Gower is a Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, whose expertise lies in caecilian amphibians and Triassic archosaurian reptiles as well as snakes.

Long interested in amphibians and reptiles, Katie Garrett is a British filmmaker and science communicator based in Virginia.

Herpetologist Simon Maddock is a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum and a Senior Lecturer in Conservation Genetics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Nature on the Doorstep

A Year of Letters

Angela E. Douglas

Nature on the Doorstep reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world in one’s own backyard over the course of a year. In weekly letters, Angela Douglas shares the joys and curiosities of a decidedly ordinary patch of green in upstate New York cultivated through the art of “strategic neglect”—sometimes taking a hand to manage wildlife, more often letting nature go its own way.

From the first flowers of spring to cardinals singing in the winter, Douglas shows us the magic of welcoming unexpected plant and animal life into one’s backyard. A paean to the richness we find when we stop to look and let be, Nature on the Doorstep celebrates the role humble backyards play both in conservation efforts and in an expanded appreciation of the living world.

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Elaine Sarkaria

Professor Emerita of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including Symbiotic Interactions, Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes, and Fundamentals of Microbiome Science

“Filled with wide-eyed wonder, these lighthearted letters charm. This book has plenty to offer those looking to discover the magic in one’s own backyard.”— Publishers Weekly

“Nature on the Doorstep brings to life the rarely noticed wonders of a backyard wilderness. Through Angela E. Douglas’s keen eyes, we see anew even the most familiar creatures, from crows to crickets. They all have stories to tell, and Douglas’s wit and sensitivity make her a delightful interpreter.”—Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener

“Bursting with insight, sensitivity, and warm, wry humor, these letters vividly bring to life the memory of how nature on our doorstep became the inspiration and therapy that kept so many of us going through a global pandemic that plunged each of us into our own tiny world.”— Ian Owens, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

$19.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6811-8

An Environmental Leader’s Tool Kit

Jeffrey W. Hughes

If you want to tackle an environmental problem in your neighborhood but do not know where to start, An Environmental Leader’s Tool Kit can help. In this handbook, Jeffrey W. Hughes shares the proven strategies you need to step up and get meaningful action done.

From designing a pilot study to managing contentious public meetings and more, Hughes walks you through the essentials of effective place-based environmental efforts. Among the tools you will find here are worksheets to kickstart brainstorming, appendixes that demystify jargon you might encounter, and illuminating, real-life examples. Down-to-earth and stimulating, An Environmental Leader’s Tool Kit is a launchpad for those ready to make a difference now.

Jeffrey Hughes is Director Emeritus of the Field Naturalist Graduate Program and Associate Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Environmental Problem Solving.

“Jeffrey W. Hughes has a gift for distilling theory into practical advice for anyone. A passionate environmentalist and skillful scientist, he’s taught countless individuals how to turn science into action for impact. You’ll enjoy reading this book—and do more good for nature while you’re at it.”—

Mike Tetreault, Chief People Officer, The Nature Conservancy

“Were you ever inspired to take up an environmental cause—but have no idea where to begin? Well, this book’s for you. Hughes gives you the tools you need to solve environmental problems and work well with people along the way, so you can transform your passion into real action.”— Doug

Bechtel, President, New Hampshire Audubon

“With a dash of humor that reveals what we often take for granted, Hughes brings us a highly recommended road guide for the environmentalist or anyone who anticipates dealing with people to accomplish something that makes our world a better place.”—Bernd

$19.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6860-6

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In This Together

Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis

Marianne E. Krasny

In This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of “network climate action”—the idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those close to us. Through this spread of climate-conscious practices, our individual actions become collective ones that can eventually effect widespread change.

Weaving examples of everyday climate-forward initiatives in with insights on behavioral and structural change, Krasny demonstrates how we can scale up the impact of our efforts through leveraging our community connections. Whether by inviting family, friends, or colleagues to a plant-rich meal or by becoming activists at climate nonprofits, we can forge the social norms and shared identities that can lead to change. With easyto-follow dos and don’ts, In This Together shows us a practical and hopeful way forward into our shared future.

Marianne E. Krasny is Professor and Director of the Civic Ecology Lab in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University. She is the author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of several books, including Civic Ecology, Communicating Climate Change, and Grassroots to Global. Follow her on Twitter @KrasnyMarianne

“Bravo! In this very readable book, Marianne E. Krasny gently but methodically deconstructs the unhelpful belief that individual climate action is pointless, backs up her case with research, and shows how and why individual action matters. If you want to know how you can make a difference, you have come to the right place.—”Brett Walter, creator of the Climate Action Now app

“For the many who are not activists but who want to do something to address the climate crisis, Krasny draws on personal examples, research, and a global perspective to provide practical tips that improve our ability to make a difference.”—Susan Clayton, The College of Wooster, coauthor of Conservation Psychology

“Societal transformation to address climate change may seem enormously challenging, but at heart, it’s simply about many people doing things differently. In exploring how individual actions can transform into collective ones, Krasny gives all of us confidence in embarking on the journey of doing things differently.”—Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm Resilience Center

$21.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6859-0

Ecological Guide to the Mosses and

Common Liverworts of the Northeast

Sue Alix Williams

Ecological Guide to the Mosses and Common Liverworts of the Northeast is an essential introduction to identifying mosses and common liverworts found in the northeastern United States and Canada. This richly illustrated guide, organized by substrate, offers readers with little prior experience or knowledge an intuitive, easy-to-use method for distinguishing over 250 species of bryophytes in the field.

Sue Alix Williams teaches us how to narrow down species possibilities at a site by first paying attention to the particular substrate, such as a tree trunk or a river rock. Field and microscopic keys detail characteristics visible by the naked eye or through a microscope. Drawings of plant features placed side-by-side for quick comparison accompany photo galleries of species. With an illustrated overview of bryophyte terminology and tips for collecting specimens, Ecological Guide to the Mosses and Common Liverworts of the Northeast is an invaluable resource for outdoor enthusiasts looking to learn more about these marvelous plants.

Sue Alix Williams is an independent naturalist and bryologist instructor with more than thirty years of experience.

“Presenting bryophyte habitats in a unique, nontraditional style, this book is beneficial for beginners and professionals alike. Its numerous illustrations coupled with symbols and color codes minimize the need for technical vocabulary and make it easy to gain much information quickly.”—Janice Glime, author of Bryophyte Ecology

“A gem of a book. Sue Alix Williams’s approach to moss identification by habitat coupled with excellent photographs and line drawings will open the door to the world of mosses for beginner bryologists.”—Bill Buck, New York Botanical Garden

“This wonderful guide makes it possible to identify common and rare mosses and liverworts by the many different habitats we find them in. An exciting addition to bryology books.”—Nancy Slack, author of Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change

$27.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6772-2

Pocket Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica

Twan Leenders

If you want to tackle an environmental problem in your neighborhood but do not know where to start, An Environmental Leader’s Tool Kit can help. In this handbook, Jeffrey W. Hughes shares the proven strategies you need to step up and get meaningful action done.

From designing a pilot study to managing contentious public meetings and more, Hughes walks you through the essentials of effective place-based environmental efforts. Among the tools you will find here are worksheets to kickstart brainstorming, appendixes that demystify jargon you might encounter, and illuminating, real-life examples. Down-to-earth and stimulating, An Environmental Leader’s Tool Kit is a launchpad for those ready to make a difference now.

Jeffrey Hughes is Director Emeritus of the Field Naturalist Graduate Program and Associate Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Environmental Problem Solving.

“Jeffrey W. Hughes has a gift for distilling theory into practical advice for anyone. A passionate environmentalist and skillful scientist, he’s taught countless individuals how to turn science into action for impact. You’ll enjoy reading this book—and do more good for nature while you’re at it.”—

Mike Tetreault, Chief People Officer, The Nature Conservancy

“Were you ever inspired to take up an environmental cause—but have no idea where to begin? Well, this book’s for you. Hughes gives you the tools you need to solve environmental problems and work well with people along the way, so you can transform your passion into real action.”—

Doug Bechtel, President, New Hampshire Audubon

“With a dash of humor that reveals what we often take for granted, Hughes brings us a highly recommended road guide for the environmentalist or anyone who anticipates dealing with people to accomplish something that makes our world a better place.”—Bernd

Heinrich, author of Racing the Clock

$27.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6992-4

Weeds of the Northeast

Second Edition

Joseph C. Neal, Richard H. Uva, Joseph M. DiTomaso, and Antonio DiTommaso

This fully updated second edition of the best-selling Weeds of the Northeast provides lavish illustrations for ready identification of more than 500 common and economically important weeds in the Northeast and in the Upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. This new edition covers the region south to North Carolina, north to Maine and southern Canada, and west to Wisconsin. This practical guide includes descriptions and photos of floral and vegetative characteristics, giving anyone who works with plants the ability to identify weeds before they flower.

A broadened range and prevalence of important weeds in the Northeast, as well as the Upper Midwest and Mid-Atlantic United States

Standardized species descriptions with a wealth of information in a condensed and comprehensive format—more than 200 new species accounts

Easy identification through a dichotomous key, detailed descriptions, and images

Comparison tables make it easy to differentiate between many closely related and similar species

Weeds of the Northeast is a comprehensive reference book for those aspects of weed biology and ecology important to weed management. It will serve home gardeners and landscape managers as well as pest management specialists and allergists.

Joseph C. Neal is Professor of Weed Science at North Carolina State University. He is a past President and Fellow of the Northeastern Weed Science Society. Richard H. Uva is co-owner of Seaberry Farm in Federalsburg, Maryland. He is coauthor of Weeds of the Northeast, 1st ed. Joseph DiTomaso is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He is coauthor of three other books, and a past President and Fellow of the Weed Science Society of America. Antonio DiTommaso is

“A detailed and user-friendly guide.”—The American Gardener

“Highly recommend.”— Horticulture

“Lavishly illustrated and exceptionally well-done.”—Taxon 47

“This distinctive book will be welcomed in a library, school, garden club, as a gift for friends, and definitely as a copy for yourself.”—News of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State

Professor and Chair of the Section of Soil and Crop Sciences, School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University and a past President and Fellow of the Northeastern Weed Science Society.

$32.95t paperback 978-1-5017-5572-9

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

A Year of Keeping Bees

Helen Jukes

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and struggling to settle into her new job and home. Then friends gift her a colony of honeybees—a gift that, according to folklore, brings good luck—and Jukes embarks on the rewarding, perilous journey of becoming a beekeeper.

Jukes writes about what it means to “keep” wild creatures and to live alongside beings whose laws of life are so different from our own. She delves into the history of beekeeping, exploring the ancient—and sometimes disturbing—relationship between keeper and bee, human and wild thing. And as her colony grows, the very act of beekeeping seems to open new perspectives, making her world come alive again. A beautifully wrought meditation on uncertainty and hope, feelings of restlessness and home, and how we might better know ourselves, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings shows us how to be alert to these small creatures flitting among us that are yet so vital a force for the continuation of life.

Helen Jukes is a writer and writing tutor based in the United Kingdom. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Port Magazine, Aeon, The Clearing, and other venues. Follow her on Twitter @helen__jukes.

“Luminously honest and affecting. Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and her book ought to become a key text of this bright moment in our history of nature writing.”— The Observer

“Evocative. Affecting. Readers will appreciate the candor and inviting openness of Jukes’s voice throughout this winning memoir.”— Publishers Weekly

“Jukes portrays her experiences with vivid imagination and a spirit that encourages readers to think deeper about a creature that is vital to all life on this planet. Entertaining reading for budding apiarists and armchair nature enthusiasts.”— Kirkus Reviews

“A subtly wrought personal journey into the art and science of beekeeping.”— Nature

$17.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6653-4

Bats Their Biology and Behavior

Tony Hutson

In this illuminating introduction to the world of bats, Tony Hutson reveals the secrets of these extraordinary creatures.

Beginning with their anatomy, Hutson explores how bats’ unique characteristics have enabled them to evolve to fill a wide variety of habitats and niches. He examines their different life cycles, dietary strategies, migration patterns, and unique feats of echolocation. And he also discusses their predators, parasites, the man-made threats to their ecosystem, and how the viruses harbored by bats can have an impact on humans.

Bats also features an appendix of bat families that details the number of genera and species and their distribution and diet.

Tony Hutson is a specialist in international bat conservation, currently working on a range of research and consultancy projects. Previously, he was the Conservation Officer for the Bat Conservation Trust, London.

$23.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6777-7

Baby Bird Identification

A North American Guide

Linda Tuttle-Adams

Baby Bird Identification is a comprehensive illustrated guide for distinguishing hundreds of North American bird species in their early stages of life. From the just hatched to the fledgling, Linda Tuttle-Adams walks readers through the process of identifying baby birds that they may encounter in the wild—a first step to ensuring proper care and rehabilitation.

Successful rehabilitation of birds found in the wild requires species-specific attention. But the identification of a baby bird, whether altricial or precocial, may seem overwhelming at first, even to a trained ornithologist. Tuttle-Adams lays out an approachable and systematic method for discerning a baby bird’s identity, offering descriptions of telling anatomical and environmental features as well as details of a bird’s day-to-day growth.

With over four hundred original watercolor paintings and an illustrated glossary, Baby Bird Identification is an invaluable resource for wildlife rehabilitators, those who find baby birds in their yards or recreational places, and anyone who enjoys watching or studying birds in the wild.

Linda Tuttle-Adams is a biologist and wildlife artist. She works as a wildlife rehabilitator and as an advocate for conservation of wildlife through public education.

“A groundbreaking must-read for wildlife rehabilitators, field ornithologists, and curious birders. Linda Tuttle-Adam’s masterpiece expertly takes on a set of previously neglected topics to make a singular contribution to the identification, anatomy, and development of young birds.”—Paul J. Baicich, coauthor of Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds

“A remarkable trove of information with exceptionally beautiful illustrations. Tuttle-Adams’s fresh, rigorous approach to the process of baby bird identification is a welcome and much-needed contribution to the field.”—Susan Elbin, NYC Audubon

“Invaluable, comprehensive, and utterly original in its scope. By covering multiple stages of nestling development, Baby Bird Identification has positioned itself as the most complete guide to nestling and fledgling identification ever written.”—Robyn Bailey, Project Leader at NestWatch

$39.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6285-7

Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica

Fiona A. Reid and Gianfranco Gómez Zamora

Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica is the first guide to provide comprehensive coverage of every currently known mammal species found in Costa Rica. From the Central American Silky Anteater to the West Indian Manatee, Fiona A. Reid and Gianfranco Gómez Zamora introduce readers to over 200 species inhabiting the country and its waters. This pocket guide features:

• 60 plates with full-color illustrations and over 100 photographs

• An illustrated introduction covering the history of mammalogy in Costa Rica, how to find mammals, and more

• Up-to-date species accounts, range maps, and natural history vignettes

Lavishly illustrated and highly portable, the Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica is indispensable for biologists, eco-tourists, and naturalists eager to learn more about the mammalian fauna of this small but biologically rich country.

Fiona A. Reid is a Departmental Associate in Mammalogy at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has written and illustrated numerous books on mammals, including the Peterson Guide to Mammals of North America and A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico.

Gianfranco Gómez Zamora is a naturalist and tour guide with 20 years of experience in the field. A contributor to the discovery of new species and new species records for Costa Rican fauna, he is currently based in Drake Bay, where he leads night tours.

“Anyone hoping to enjoy Costa Rica’s amazing wildlife ought to have this elegant, informative guidebook. It’s packed with interesting information and beautiful illustrations that will help you identify the mammals you see, understand their life history, and enable you to discuss your sightings.”—Adrian Forsyth, author of Tropical Nature

“At last! I have waited a long time for a complete guide to Costa Rica’s mammals. This beautiful book is every bit as good as I had hoped. This should be an essential luggage item of anyone heading to Central America’s premier mammal-watching destination and hoping to know their vesper bats from their Vesper Rat.”—Jon Hall, founder of mammalwatching.com

$31.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6696-1

Don’t Count Me Out A Baltimore Dope Fiend’s Miraculous Recovery

Rafael Alvarez

Don’t Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs, to his miraculous recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilitation field.

Rafael Alvarez’s recounting of White’s journey should inspire those dealing with the fallout of addiction. Alvarez, a journalist and screenwriter, allows the reader to get inside the head of an addict who was stealing alcohol from his parents at the age of nine, selling drugs and tripping on LSD and PCP by the time he hit seventh grade, and hooked on morphine before he turned fifteen. “Bruce White? I thought he was dead?” is a response encountered in many of the interviews Alvarez conducted.

Don’t Count Me Out shines a spotlight on an improbable and stunning miracle. Though this is just one person’s story, the contributing factors of early sexual assault, the role of permissive preoccupied parents, and the need for peer approval, among others, will resonate with many as the opioid crisis continues to haunt us.

“From the first time I met Rafael on The Wire, we’ve always had in depth conversations. Whether about our families or work, it always left me smiling. Like his anthology Hometown Boy, where Alvarez recounts stories of those who call Baltimore home, Don’t Count Me Out, is filled with affliction and triumph. The Bruce White Story takes you along the road to redemption.”—Domenick Lombardozzi, The Wire, The Irishman

“For those struggling with addiction—and for their loved ones—the story of Bruce White should bring terror, because it shows just how far a person can fall, and hope, because he came back. Rafael Alvarez gives us a relentlessly honest look at the disease that is ravaging so many American communities.”—Scott Shane, former New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of Dismantling Utopia and Objective Troy

“No writer knows this territory better than Rafael Alvarez, and he tell’s Bruce White’s harrowing story with a fresh, urgent candor; a deep exploration of a wayward soul who somehow found his way to redemption.”—Dan Fesperman, author of Winter Work and The Cover Wife

Rafael Alvarez is a former City Desk reporter for the Baltimore Sun and former writer for the HBO drama, The Wire. He is the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction.

Lord Acton for Our Time

Christopher Lazarski

Lord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty—how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and necessary ingredients, and the history of its development in Western Civilization.

Acton is known as a historian, or even the historian, of liberty and as an ardent liberal, but there is confusion as to how he understood liberty and what kind of liberalism he professed.

Lord Acton for Our Time provides an introduction that presents essentials about Acton’s life and recovers his theory of liberalism. Lazarski analyzes Acton’s type of liberalism, probing whether it can offer a solution to the crisis of liberal democracy in our own era. For Acton, liberty is the freedom to do what we ought to do, both as individuals and as citizens, and his writings contain valuable lessons for today.

Christopher Lazarski is Professor of Politics and History at Lazarski University, and author of Power Tends to Corrupt.

“Lord Action was the great Catholic libertarian historian.”—Murray N. Rothbard

“A man with intelligence so great that he was, and is, the only intellectual to ever face full-on the profound conundrums of religious faith, moral philosophy, economic activity, and political action.”—P.J.

O’Rourke

Making No Compromise

Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the “Little Review”

Holly A. Baggett

Making No Compromise is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal The Little Review in Chicago in 1914.

Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, lived openly as lesbians, and advocated causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, and Paris and Europe, two World Wars, and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they managed to transform themselves and their journal into a major force for shifting perspectives on literature and art.

Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age Aesthetics were among the radical trends The Little Review promoted and introduced to American audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the “Men of 1914” —Pound, Joyce, Yeats and Eliot—and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa Freytag-von Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and ceased publication of The Little Review in 1929.

Holly Baggett examines the role of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality, and suggests that Anderson’s and Heap’s interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in modernism.

“This book breaks new ground on a number of fronts. It is lively, engaging, and provides a welcome corrective to some of what has been previously written. Baggett reaffirms the Little Review’s importance.”— Andrea

Barnet, author of Visionary Women

$36.95t hardcover 978-1-5017-7144-6

George Kennan for Our Time

Lee Congdon

George Kennan for Our Time examines the work and thought of the most distinguished American diplomat of the twentieth century and extracts lessons for today. In his writings and lectures, Kennan outlined the proper conduct of foreign policy and issued warnings to an American society on the edge of the abyss.

Lee Congdon identifies the principles Kennan applied to US relations with Russia and Eastern Europe, and to the Far and Near East. He takes particular note of Kennan’s role in formulating postwar policy in Japan, measured response to North Korea’s invasion of South Korea, and opposition to the war in Vietnam. Congdon also considers Kennan’s strong criticisms of his own country, its egalitarianism, unrestricted immigration, and multiple addictions. He cites Kennan’s call for a greater closeness to nature, a revival of religious faith, and a return to the representative government established by the Founding Fathers.

George Kennan for Our Time describes the often-disastrous results of rejecting Kennan’s counsel, and the dangers, international and national, posed by an ongoing failure to draw upon his wisdom. In view of America’s foreign policy disasters in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world, Kennan’s realist approach provides important lessons for our current age.

Lee Congdon is Professor Emeritus of History at James Madison University. He is the author of multiple books including, Seeing Red, George Kennan, and Solzhenitsyn.

“We in our country believe that a man may be the friend of another country and remain, at the same time, a loyal and devoted citizen of his own; and that is the way we view you.”—Mikhail Gorbachev to Kennan in Washington, DC, 1987

“One of the most important, complex, moving, challenging and exasperating American public servants.”—Henry Kissinger, New York Times Sunday Book Review

“Kennan’s mind was richly stored with knowledge, eloquent in expression, and disciplined by a scholarly respect for precision.”—John Paton Davies, Jr.

Chicago in Stone and Clay

A Guide to the Windy City’s Architectural Geology

Raymond Wiggers

Chicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city’s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they’re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they are anchored in. This unique geologist’s survey of Windy City neighborhoods demonstrates the fascinating and often surprising links between science, art, engineering, and urban history.

Drawing on two decades of experience leading popular geology tours in Chicago, Raymond Wiggers crafted this book for readers ranging from the region’s large community of amateur naturalists, “citizen scientists,” and architecture buffs to geologists, architects, educators, and other professionals seeking a new perspective on the themes of architecture and urbanism.

Unlike most geology and architecture books, Chicago in Stone and Clay is written in the informal, accessible style of a natural history tour guide, humanizing the science for the nonspecialist reader. Providing an exciting new angle on both architecture and natural history, Wiggers uses an integrative approach that incorporates multiple themes and perspectives to demonstrate how the urban environment presents us with a rich geologic and architectural legacy.

Raymond Wiggers is a geologist, science writer, and retired college Earth and life sciences instructor. He is the author of Geology Underfoot in Illinois and three other books.

“Chicago in Stone and Clay adds a fascinating new layer of history to your brain that will change the way you see the city.”— Chicago Reader, Best Chicago Books of 2022

“As one who has had his eyes opened to the unexpected wonders to be found as the result of staring closely and intently as a stone wall, I very much hope that my readers will take the opportunity to investigate this handy new book, as well as – for those not in the Chicago area itself – to investigate their own local stone edifices to discover what geological surprises they may hold.”—The Well-read Naturalist

“If the reader has not had the privilege of attending a walking tour with Ray Wiggers, here is an opportunity to learn about Chicago’s local treasures. This book is for the seasoned geologist as well as the casual scientific reader.—Renee Wawczak, licensed Professional Geologist, State of Illinois

Problem Solver

Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

Our decisions are expressions of who we are and how we move through the world. Rarely, though, do we examine our decisions or even look inward to consider the psychology of our decision-making. Instead, we often make decisions based on what we call instinct (which relies on cognitive bias), false assumptions, mis-remembering, and mental mistakes. Truthfully, we don’t see the world as it is; we see it as we are.

We can develop self-knowledge about our decision-making styles. We can wake ourselves up to how biases cloud our judgment and impede good decision-making—and we can counter bias. From there, we can transform our decision-making habits to make better big decisions alone and together. Problem Solver provides you with tools to identify:

• The five basic decision-making approaches, or “Problem Solver Profiles” (PSPs): Adventurer, Detective, Listener, Thinker, and Visionary

• Your dominant—and secondary—PSPs

• Tools to assess other peoples’ PSPs

• Each PSP’s decision-making strengths, blind spots, and biases

• How your PSP impacts your outlook on life and your risk appetite

• How to use your PSP to maximize your decision strengths

Replete with real-life examples and replicable strategies to apply new decision-making skills for your immediate benefit, Problem Solver will do more than help you look out into a future; it will equip you to move forward, with confidence, into your future.

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is the creator of the AREA Method, and founder of the decision-sciences company Decisive, and an adjunct professor at Cornell University. She is the author of the award-winning books Problem Solved and Investing in Financial Research. For more information visit areamethod.com.

“This is a really interesting account of the process of decision-making and why, even if it’s shaped in part by instinct honed by experience, there is no substitute for thoughtful analysis. However, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn also shows how that process can be conducted in a way that is conclusive and not merely analytical. The book succeeds in being informative and accessible!”—Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Cheryl Einhorn’s Problem Solver is an innovative guide to clear thinking in the face of life’s knotty challenges. The book is deeply thoughtful and highly engaging, a winning combination. Full of evocative real-life examples and incisive analyses, Einhorn’s book makes for a delightful and informative read.”—William Damon, Stanford University, author of The Path to Purpose

$19.95t paperback 978-1-5017-6803-3

“Cheryl Strauss Einhorn’s decision-making system helped me understand my own approach, both my strengths and my blind spots. In Problem Solver, she provides practical techniques that helped me counter my biases and strengthen my decision-making competency and confidence.”—Adrienne Johnson, Chief Transformation Officer and Member of the Operating Committee, Equitable

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