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The National Security Argument for Moving Away From Oil
BY GREGORY A. BALLARD
January Middle East, History Worldwide rights 168 pgs, 44 b&w illus., 4 maps 6 x 9
Every day, hundreds of millions of Americans get behind the wheels of their car, peacefully ignorant of where the gas that powers their vehicle originates. Electric power generated by oil is virtually nonexistent, while residential and commercial heating uses for oil continue to fall. Only transportation and industrial uses consume significant quantities of oil in the United States, with transportation by far the dominant user. In Less Oil or More Caskets, Greg Ballard profiles the history of US troops in the Middle East since after World War II and the impact the oil industry has had on our international politics. More than a recap, Ballard makes a call to action for American politicians and citizens to change their ideals about transportation in America. By changing the fuel in our vehicles and embracing new technologies in transportation, he argues that within two decades our nation will be on the path to oil-independence and save the lives of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers stationed in the Middle East.
MIDDLE EAST
Less Oil or More Caskets
GREG BALLARD served twenty-three years in the United States Marine Corps, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, a Distinguished Graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and a graduate of the School of Advanced Warfighting. Greg Ballard retired from the Marine Corps in 2001. Upon retirement, he returned home to Indianapolis, and became its 48th Mayor of Indianapolis, subsequently serving two terms. He is currently a Visiting Fellow for Civic Leadership and Mayoral Archives at the University of Indianapolis.
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HISTORY
Charting the Past The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England
BY JEREMY BLACK
January History Worldwide rights 296 pgs, 6 x 9
Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture in eighteenth-century England and shows how this engagement with the past shaped English historical writing. The past was used as a tool to illustrate the contemporary religious, social, and political debates that shaped the revolutionary advances of the era. Black reveals this "presentcentered" historical writing to be so valued and influential in the eighteenth-century that its importance is greatly underappreciated in current considerations of the period. In his customarily vivid and sweeping approach, Black takes readers from print shop to church pew, courtroom to painter's studio to show how historical writing influenced the era, which in turn gave birth to the modern world. JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books, including Plotting Power: Strategy in the Eighteenth Century; Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice; War and Technology; and Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815. Black is a recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History.
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YUGOSLAV MIGRATIONS TO POSTWAR GERMANY CHRISTOPHER A. MOLNAR
January History, Germany Worldwide rights 320 pgs, 6 b&w illus., 6 x 9 “Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany is the illuminating story of one of Europe’s largest and most significant postwar migrations, and simultaneously of how difference and belonging have been continuously redefined in postwar Germany. Bringing together the histories of Yugoslav Displaced Persons, asylum seekers, guest workers, and refugees, Molnar persuasively links the reception of Yugoslav migrants to West Germany’s shifting relationship to the Nazi past and Communist east. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the history of Germany, the Cold War, or migration and refugee policies in Europe up to the present day.”
Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany BY CHRISTOPHER A. MOLNAR
HISTORY
MEMORY, POLITICS, AND
While Europe's current refugee crisis is on a scale not witnessed since the end of World War II, political exiles, war refugees, and other immigrants from the western Balkans have streamed into Germany in massive numbers throughout the long postwar era. Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany tells the story of how Germans received the hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavs who migrated to Germany as labor migrants, political emigres, and war refugees from 1945 to 1997. While Yugoslavs made up the second largest immigrant group in the country, their impact has received little critical attention until now. With a particular focus on German policies and attitudes toward immigrants, Christopher Molnar examines how this reception shaped the experiences of immigrants and how, in turn, the history of Yugoslavs in postwar Germany was profoundly shaped by the memory of World War II and the shifting Cold War context. Through interviews and archival work, Molnar shows how immigration was a key way in which Germany negotiated the meaning and legacy of the war. CHRISTOPHER A. MOLNAR is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Flint.
— Tara Zahra, author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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POLITICS
Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe Immigrants, European Citizens, and Co-ethnics in Italy and Spain
BY ROXANA BARBULESCU
February Politics, Anthropology Worldwide rights 334 pgs, 6 x 9 “Migrant Integration in a Changing Europe is a smart, insightful, and original take on the state’s role in the process of immigrant integration. Supported by extensive evidence drawn from the Italian and Spanish cases, it challenges the prevailing scholarly wisdom in arguing that immigration integration strategies significantly vary across time, immigrant groups, and levels of government while offering compelling reasons for these variations.” —Anthony M. Messina, John R. Reitemeyer Professor, Trinity College
In this rich study, Roxana Barbulescu examines the transformation of state-led immigrant integration in two relatively new immigration countries in Western Europe: Italy and Spain. The book is comparative in approach and seeks to explain states’ immigrant integration strategies across national, regional, and citylevel decision and policy making. Barbulescu argues that states pursue no one-size-fitsall strategy for the integration of migrants, but rather simultaneously pursue multiple strategies that vary greatly for different groups. Two main integration strategies stand out. The first one targets non-European citizens and is assimilationist in character and based on interventionist principles according to which the government actively pursues the inclusion of migrants. The second strategy targets EU citizens and is a laissez-faire scenario where foreigners enjoy rights and live their entire lives in the host country without the state or the local authorities seeking their integration. The empirical material in the book, dating from 1985 to 2015, includes systematic analyses of immigration laws, integration policies and guidelines, historical documents, original interviews with policy makers, and statistical analysis based on data from the European Labor Force Survey. While the book draws on evidence from Italy and Spain in an effort to bring these case studies to the core of fundamental debates on immigration and citizenship studies, its broader aim is to contribute to a better understanding of state interventionism in immigrant integration in contemporary Europe. The book will be a useful text for students and scholars of global immigration, integration, citizenship, European integration, and European society and culture. ROXANA BARBULESCU is University Academic Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.
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Moral Argument at Home and Abroad
BY MICHAEL WALZER In Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, Michael Walzer revises and extends the arguments in his influential Spheres of Justice, framing his ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the past three decades. Walzer focuses on two different but interrelated kinds of moral argument: maximalist and minimalist, thick and thin, local and universal. This new edition has a new preface and afterword, written by the author, describing how the reasoning of the book connects with arguments he made in Just and Unjust Wars about the morality of warfare.
February Philosophy Worldwide rights 130 pgs, 5.5 x 8.5
PHILOSOPHY
Thick and Thin
Walzer’s highly literate and fascinating blend of philosophy and historical analysis will appeal not only to those interested in the polemics surrounding Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars but also to intelligent readers who are more concerned with getting the arguments right.
“Thick and Thin is extremely readable, engaging and perceptive, ambitiously MICHAEL WALZER is Emeritus Professor of drawing into a unified framework a variety the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton of difficult moral and political issues.” University. He is the author of Arguing About War, On Toleration, and Just and Unjust Wars. —Times Literary Supplement “Walzer thoughtfully answers objections to his many influential volumes of social criticism. . . . After five tight chapters, Walzer posits that we are all made up of several selves—based in our histories, identities, and associations—that we juggle as we confront a world of complex decisions and ambiguous choices. It is among those selves, rather than in a community of eager discussants, that the most profound moral reasoning occurs, a commentary on what Walzer perceives as the current sad state of public discussion and moral debate. . . .[T]his is a well-argued . . . set of carefully wrought ideas on the state of public moral debate.” —Kirkus Reviews Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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ANTROPOLOGY
Everyday Life in the Balkans EDITED BY DAVID W. MONTGOMERY
January Anthropology, History Worldwide rights 448 pgs, 68 b&w illus., 6.125 x 9.25
“Everyday Life in the Balkans represents a significant contribution to the research of contemporary socio-historical phenomena of the Balkans, pointing out some of the important process of transformation of the societies in this part of Europe in the last two decades. It represents a step forward in understanding the contemporary Balkans.”
Everyday Life in the Balkans gathers the work of leading scholars across disciplines to provide a broad overview of the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. This region has long been characterized as a place of instability and political turmoil, from World War I, through the Yugoslav Wars, and even today as debate continues over issues such as the influx of refugees or the expansion of the European Union. However, the work gathered here moves beyond the images of war and post-socialist stagnation which dominate Western media coverage of the region to instead focus on the lived experiences of the people in these countries. Contributors consider a wide range of issues including family dynamics, gay rights, war memory, religion, cinema, fashion, and politics. Using clear language and engaging examples, Everyday Life in the Balkans provides the background context necessary for an enlightened conversation about the policies, economics, and culture of the region. DAVID W. MONTGOMERY is Director of Program Development for CEDAR—Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion. He is author of Practicing Islam: Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan and author (with Adam B. Seligman and Rahel R. Wasserfall) of Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World.
— Milan Ristovic, University of Belgrade.
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Everyday Consumption and the Poverty of the State
BY YUSON JUNG Balkan Blues explores how a state transitions from the collectivized production and distribution of socialism to the consumerfocused culture of capitalism. Yuson Jung considers the state as an economic agent in upholding rights and responsibilities in the shift to a global market. Taking Bulgaria as her focus, Jung shows how impoverished Bulgarians developed a consumer-oriented society and how the concept of "need" adapted in surprising ways to accommodate this new culture.
February Anthropology Worldwide rights 240 pgs, 10 b&w illus., 6 x 9
ANTROPOLOGY
Balkan Blues
Different legal frameworks arose to ensure the rights of vulnerable or deceived consumers. Consumer advocacy NGOs and government officers scrambled to navigate unfamiliar EU-imposed models for consumer affairs departments. All of these changes involved issues of responsibility, accountability, and civic engagement, which brought Bulgarians new ways of viewing both their identities and their sense of agency. Yet these opportunities also raised questions of inequality, injustice, and social stratification. Jung’s study provides a compelling argument for reconsidering of the role of the state in the construction of 21st-century consumer cultures. YUSON JUNG is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University. She is editor with Jakob Klein and Melissa Caldwell of Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World.
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HISTORY
Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918 A Social History of a Multilingual Space
BY JAN SURMAN Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.
December European History Worldwide rights 460 pgs, 6 x 9
The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe’s scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe. Drawing on archives in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine, Surman analyzes the careers of several thousand scholars from the faculties of philosophy and medicine of a number of Habsburg universities, thus covering various moments in the history of the Empire for the widest view. Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918 focuses on the tension between the political and linguistic spaces scholars occupied and shows that this tension did not lead to a gradual dissolution of the monarchy’s academia, but rather to an ongoing development of new strategies to cope with the cultural and linguistic multitude. JAN SURMAN is a historian of science and scholarship, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Surman holds a PhD in history from the University of Vienna and has most recently been working at the Herder-Insitut, Marburg; IFK, Vienna; and the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
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A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs
BY SANDRA B. BARKER; REBECCA A. VOKES; & RANDOLPH T. BARKER
January Health Care Worldwide rights 70 pgs, 6 x 9
HEALTH CARE
Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings
Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings: A Best Practices Manual for Establishing New Programs succinctly outlines how best to develop, implement, run, and evaluate AAI programs. Drawing on extensive professional experiences and research from more than fifteen years leading the Center for Human-Animal Interaction in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the authors discuss both best practices and best reasons for establishing AAI programs. For thorough consideration, the text explores benefits from a variety of perspectives, including how AAI can improve patient experience, provide additional career development for staff, and contribute favorably to organizational culture as well as to the reputation of the facility in the surrounding community. Developed for administrators as well as for volunteers and staff, Animal-Assisted Interventions in Health Care Settings includes practical, casebased examples for easy comprehension and offers user-friendly templates that can be adapted to develop practice-specific training, evaluation, and procedure manuals. SANDRA B. BARKER is a professor of psychiatry and Bill Balaban Chair in Human-Animal Interaction at Virginia Commonwealth University REBECCA A. VOKES is administrator in residence at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. RANDOLPH T. BARKER is a professor emeritus in the VCU School of Business and a fellow and professor at the Williamson Institute for Health Studies.
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BIOGRAPHY
Ireland’s Revolutionary Diplomat A Biography of Leopold Kerney
BY BARRY WHELAN
February Biography Worldwide rights 330 pgs, 6 x 9 “Leopold Kerney is a worthy subject for a full-length book not only in the biographical sense but also because of the light it throws on interwar international relations. It is a major treatment of the career of a diplomat from the early years of the Irish state.” —Peter Collins, editor of Nationalism and Unionism: Conflict in Ireland, 1885–1921
Leopold Kerney was one of the most influential diplomats of twentieth-century Irish history. This book presents the first comprehensive biography of Kerney’s career in its entirety from his recruitment to the diplomatic service to his time in France, Spain, Argentina, and Chile. Barry Whelan’s work provides fascinating new perceptions of Irish diplomatic history at seminal periods of the twentieth century, including the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War, the Anglo-Irish Economic War, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, from an eyewitness to those events. Drawing on over a decade of archival research in repositories in France, Germany, Britain, Spain, and Ireland, as well as through unique and unrestricted access to Kerney’s private papers, Whelan successfully challenges previously published analyses of Kerney’s work and debunks many of the perceived controversies surrounding his career. Ireland’s Revolutionary Diplomat brings to life Kerney’s connections with leading Irish figures from the revolutionary generation. More importantly, the book illuminates the decades-long friendship Kerney enjoyed with Éamon de Valera—the most important Irish political figure of the twentieth century—and shows how the “Chief” trusted and rewarded his friend throughout their long association. This book offers new observations on how Nazi Germany tried to utilize Kerney, unsuccessfully, as a liaison between the Irish government and Hitler’s regime. Captured German documents reveal the extent of this secret plan to alter Irish neutrality during World War II, which concerned both Adolf Hitler and the leading Nazis of his regime. BARRY WHELAN is a lecturer of Irish and European history at Dublin City University.
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Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws
BY JOHN BUGBEE
December Philosophy, Theology Worldwide rights 550 pgs, 6 x 9 “A highly original contribution to Chaucer scholarship... Though the arguments are underpinned by and informed by sophisticated philosophical investigation, the author manages complicated ideas in ways that readers who might have less philosophical training will find both illuminating and easy to negotiate.” —Nancy Warren, Texas A&M University “John Bugbee’s book, based on impressive theological and philosophical learning and argued with energetic lucidity, conducts a scrupulous analysis of the ethical implications of six Canterbury tales to which medieval thought about action and passion, will and law, is particularly relevant. In raising fundamental questions about what kind of poet Chaucer is, it offers a challenge that Chaucerians cannot afford to disregard.”
God’s Patients approaches some of Chaucer’s most challenging poems with two philosophical questions in mind: How does action relate to passion, to being-acted-on? And what does it mean to submit one’s will to a law? Building on the work of Jill Mann and Mark Miller, who have pointed out the subtlety of Chaucer’s approach to such fundamentals of ethics, John Bugbee seeks the source of the subtlety and argues that much of it is ready to hand in a tradition of religious (and what we would today call “mystical”) writing that shaped the poet’s thought. Bugbee considers the Clerk’s, Man of Law’s, Knight’s, Franklin’s, Physician’s, and Second Nun’s Tales in juxtaposition with an excellent informant on a major stream of medieval religious culture, Bernard of Clairvaux, whose works lay out ethical ideas closely matching those detectable beneath the surface of the poems. While some of the positions that emerge—most spectacularly the notion that the highest states of human being are ones in which activity and passivity cannot be disentangled— are anathema to much modern ethical thought, God’s Patients provides evidence that they were relatively common in the Middle Ages. The book offers striking new readings of Chaucer’s poems; it proposes a nuanced hermeneutical approach that should prove fruitful in reading a number of other high- and late-medieval works; and, by showing how assumptions about its two fundamental questions have shifted since Chaucer’s time, it provides a powerful new way of thinking about the transition between the Middle Ages and modernity.
PHILOSOPHY
God’s Patients
JOHN BUGBEE has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Texas, and Mount St. Mary’s University (Maryland). He is currently a visiting scholar in English at the University of Virginia.
—A. C. Spearing, Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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JUDAICA
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism The Dynamics of Delegitimization
BY ALVIN H. ROSENFELD
February Judaica Worldwide rights 432 pgs, 3 b&w illus., 4 tables, 6 x 9 "This important volume should be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about the state of Israel and the extraordinary levels of criticism levelled not just against the policies of particular governments, but against the very idea and existence of the state itself. These criticisms are being voiced with growing insistence and attract considerable attention, uncritical approval, and adherence. This volume offers a very different and much needed set of arguments that persuasively counter much of what passes, particularly in progressive circles, for conventional wisdom."
How and why has anti-Zionism and antisemitism become so radical and widespread? This timely and important volume argues convincingly that today’s inflamed rhetoric exceeds the boundaries of legitimate criticism of the policies and actions of the state of Israel and conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism. The contributors give the dynamics of this process full theoretical, political, legal, and educational treatment and demonstrate how these forces operate in formal and informal political spheres as well as domestic and transnational spaces. They offer significant historical and global perspectives of the problem, including how Holocaust memory and meaning have been reconfigured and how a singular and distinct project of delegitimization of the Jewish state and its people has solidified. This intensive but extraordinarily rich contribution to the study of antisemitism stands out for its comprehensive overview of an issue that is very much in the public eye. ALVIN H. ROSENFELD holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University Bloomington. He is editor of Deciphering the New Antisemitism and Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives and author of The End of the Holocaust.
—Philip Spencer, author of Nations and Nationalism
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BY CAMISHA A. RUSSELL
February Philosophy Worldwide rights 240 pgs, 6 x 9 "Camisha A. Russell makes a strong case that race has a history of practices, not just a history of ideas, and that eugenics is more central to these practices than we have assumed so far. I know of no other work that drives this point home as well as Russell's does, precisely thanks to her focus on assisted reproductive technologies." —Margret Grebowicz, author of Whale Song “An incisive use of bioethics, history of philosophy, and race theory to analyze a contemporary issue that is generally not understood as racialized—how the concept of race is conceived and utilized in assisted reproductive technology.” — Jacqueline Scott, editor of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families
The use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)–in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy– challenge contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight to ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world.
PHILOSOPHY
The Assisted Reproduction of Race
CAMISHA A. RUSSELL is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.
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EDUCATION
Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies Vol. 1, First-Year Composition Courses
EDITED BY GRACE VEACH
September Education, Library and Information Science Worldwide rights 354 pgs, 7 x 10
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This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to foregrounding information literacy in first-year college writing courses. Chapters describe cross-disciplinary efforts underway across higher education, as well as innovative approaches of both writing professors and librarians in the classroom. This seminal work unpacks the disciplinary implications for information literacy and writing studies as they encounter one another in theory and practice, in the post-information age. Topics include: reading and writing through the lens of information literacy, curriculum design, specific writing tasks, transfer, and assessment. GRACE VEACH holds an MA in library science and an MA and PhD in English rhetoric and composition. She is the chair of Foundational Core and was formerly dean of Libraries at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, where she founded the Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Intensive programs. Veach has published in the areas of library science, literature, and rhetoric and composition.
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Vol. 2, Upper-Level and Graduate Courses
EDITED BY GRACE VEACH
January Education, Library and Information Science Worldwide rights 309 pgs, 7 x 10
EDUCATION
Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to teaching information literacy and writing studies in upper-level and graduate courses. Contributors describe crossdisciplinary and collaborative efforts underway across higher education, during a time when “fact” or “truth” is less important than fitting a predetermined message. Topics include: working with varied student populations, teaching information literacy and writing in upper-level general education and disciplinary courses, specialized approaches for graduate courses, and preparing graduate assistants to teach information literacy. GRACE VEACH holds an MA in library science and an MA and PhD in English rhetoric and composition. She is the chair of Foundational Core and was formerly dean of Libraries at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, where she founded the Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Intensive programs. Veach has published in the areas of library science, literature, and rhetoric and composition.
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LITERARY CRITICISM
Topophrenia Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination
BY ROBERT T. TALLY, JR.
January Literary Criticism Worldwide rights 256 pgs, 6 x 9 “With Topophrenia Robert Tally discerns, first, how literature invents and produces space, and second, what the creative imagination does with space. These become the ground of a critical praxis addressing the conditions of the world in which we live. Blending close analysis with dialectics, Tally’s book is a compelling study of the complex relations of literature and geography.” — Tom Conley, author of An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France
What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one's location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply-felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan's "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces which condition our understanding of that Space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world, but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world. ROBERT T. TALLY, JR., is Professor of English at Texas State University. His books include Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism; Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World System; and Spatiality.
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BY JOHN SALLIS
Elemental Discourses
John Sallis
January Philosophy Worldwide rights 200 pgs, 6 x 9
John Sallis's thought is oriented to two overarching tasks: to bring to light the elemental in nature and to show how the imagination operates at the very center of human experience. He undertakes these tasks by analyzing a broad range of phenomena, including perception, the body, the natural world, art, space, and the cosmos. In every case, Sallis develops an original form of discourse attuned to the specific phenomenon and enacts a thorough reflection on discourse itself in its relation to voice, dialogue, poetry, and translation. Sallis's systematic investigations are complemented by his extensive interpretations of canonical figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Schelling, and Hegel and by his engagement with the most original thinkers in the areas of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction.
PHILOSOPHY
Elemental Discourses
JOHN SALLIS is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is author of more than 20 books, including Light Traces, The Return of Nature, and The Figure of Nature.
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