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Subject Index Current Events, 11 Criminology, 4 Health, 9, 10, 18 History, 16, 20, 21 Memoir, 3
Music, 5, 19 Philosophy, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17 Politics, 6, 7, 8 Science, 22
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By Michael E. Uslan
MEMOIR
The Boy Who Loved Batman Meet the man whose life-long quest to reclaim the true, cool soul of Batman wonderfully transformed today’s comic book movies. Growing up outside of Asbury Park, New Jersey, Michael Uslan was obsessed with comic books. He’d be the first to grab the latest issues off the shelves of the three local comic book stores, including four copies of the now legendary Fantastic Four #1. His favorite superhero was the brooding, crime-fighting vigilante, Batman. Despising the campy 1960s TV show, Uslan became determined to bring the real Batman—dark, serious, burdened by a tragic past—to the silver screen. Undeterred by Hollywood’s initial lackluster response, Uslan went on to become Executive Producer on every modern Batman film, beginning with Tim Burton’s widely hailed Batman in 1989 to Christopher Nolan’s celebrated Dark Knight trilogy and well beyond. Warmly told and inspiring, Uslan’s remarkable story is a testament both to the profound imaginative power of comic book heroes and the tenacity of the New Jersey boy determined to bring one of them to life. This second edition includes a special foreword and afterword by Uslan, bringing us up to date on everything Batman. August 2019 Memoir, Comic Books, Popular Culture 255 pgs, 7.5x10.5, 250 color illus. China & Audiobook already sold.
Michael E. Uslan is best known as a producer of all the modern Batman films, beginning with Tim Burton’s 1989 movie. He was the first instructor to teach an accredited course on comic book folklore at any university.
“Don’t miss this spellbinding tale of one man who saw what Batman was—and realized what he could become. See how Michael Uslan took a comic book hero and, through the magic of motion pictures, helped transform him into a worldwide icon!” —Stan Lee, chairman emeritus of Marvel Comics, co-creator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, and the Hulk
“An inspirational tale of how one individual, armed only with a lifelong desire of restoring dignity to his beloved Batman, can prevail against all odds and emerge triumphant, forever altering the pop-culture landscape in the process. Informative, warmly witty, and deeply human, it should be required reading, not just for comic book and movie fans like me, but for anyone looking for a concrete plan to make their own dreams come true!” —Mark Hamill, voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars saga.
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CRIMINOLOGY
A Grip of Time When Prison Is Your Life By Lauren Kessler A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers inside a world most know little about, a maximum-security prison, and inside the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, serving out life sentences for aggravated murder, join a fledgling Lifers’ Writing Group started by award-winning author Lauren Kessler. Over the course of three years, meeting twice a month, the men reveal more and more about themselves, their pasts, and the alternating drama and tedium of their incarcerated lives. As they struggle with the weight of their guilt and wonder if they should hope for a future outside these walls, Kessler struggles with the fiercely competing ideas of rehabilitation and punishment, forgiveness and blame that are at the heart of the American penal system. Gripping, intense, and heartfelt, A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life shows what a lifetime with no hope of release looks like up-close.
May 2019 Memoir, Criminology 192 pages, 6x9
Lauren Kessler is an award-winning author and (semi) fearless immersion reporter who combines lively narrative with deep research. She has explored everything from the gritty world of a maximum-security prison to the grueling world of professional ballet. She is the author of ten works of narrative nonfiction, including Raising the Barre; Clever Girl; and The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Her books have been BookSense selections, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times bestsellers, Wall Street Journal and People magazine “best” selections, Pacific Northwest Book Award winners, and Oregon Book Award winners.
“With A Grip of Time, Lauren Kessler takes us on a compelling, intensely personal journey into the rarely glimpsed end point of our justice system. Through the lives and poignant stories of lifers, Kessler reveals the insidious truth behind America’s world-record mass incarceration: The system is not, as many believe, failing at its job. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do— dehumanize inmates and leave them ill-equipped to rejoin society. What dignity, meaning, and success these lifers achieve come despite the system’s design.” —Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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Never-Before-Seen Photos
MUSIC
Pilgrims of Woodstock By John Kane Foreword by Tom Law In the summer of 1969, 400,000 people from across the country came together and redefined the music scene forever. Though the legacy and lore of Woodstock lives on in the memory of its attendees, a new generation can experience the real and unedited festival through Richard Bellak’s never-before-seen photographs and John Kane’s incredible new interviews.
August 2019 Music, Photography 250 pages, 10x10, 97 b&w illus., 25 color illus.
Pilgrims of Woodstock offers a vivid and intimate portrait of the overlooked stars of the festival: the everyday people who made Woodstock unforgettable. The photographs and interviews capture attendees’ profound personal moments across hundreds of acres of farmland, as they meditated, played music, cooked food at night, and congregated around campfires. For three days, they helped and relied on each other in peace and harmony. For most, it was a life-changing event. Now, as the 50th anniversary of the famed festival approaches, relive their experiences firsthand in Pilgrims of Woodstock. John Kane is an educator and artist. He is a college professor teaching media, leadership, and visual art courses. He grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts, and now resides on the seacoast of New Hampshire. By 1969, Richard F. Bellak’s work was in several major publications. In August of that year, the aspiring photojournalist traveled from his home in Brooklyn, NY to the rolling Catskill Mountains on an adventure of a lifetime. Although in his mid-thirties, Bellak could sense the special moments being had by the gathering flower children. For two days, he aimed his lens at the Woodstock audience. The result is a beautifully atmospheric collection of never before seen images capturing the essence of what it was like to attend this life-changing event.
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POLITICS
The Glory and the Burden The American Presidency from FDR to Trump By Robert Schmuhl The Glory and the Burden: The American Presidency from FDR to Trump is a timely examination of the state of the American presidency and the forces that have shaped it over the past seventy-five years, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes that have taken place within the institution and to the individuals occupying the Oval Office. In this fascinating book, Robert Schmuhl traces the evolution of the modern presidency back to the terms of Franklin Roosevelt, maintaining that FDR’s White House years had a profound impact on the office, resulting in significant changes to the job and to those who have performed it since. Specifically, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms, has largely redefined each administration’s agenda. News sources and social media have also grown exponentially, exercising influence over the conduct of presidents and affecting the consequences of their behavior.
September 2019 Political Science 162 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Schmuhl examines the presidency as an institution and the presidents as individuals from several different perspectives. He identifies recent trends in the office and probes the relationship between the White House and various forms of contemporary media. This book is an engrossing read for a general audience, particularly those with an interest in politics, American history, journalism, and communications. Robert Schmuhl is the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair Emeritus in American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame.
“The power of this book is that it goes where no one that I know of has yet gone. Reading The Glory and the Burden, it is clear you are listening to someone who knows his subject from soup to nuts. Schmuhl writes brightly, with touches of humor; he may be an academic, but he doesn’t write like one. The book plows new ground, making sense of what appears to be inexplicable and upsetting to many.” —Tom Bettag, former executive news producer at ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN
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Creating Citizens in the Global Age By Angus Ritchie
POLITICS
Inclusive Populism
In Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-right populism of billionaire Donald Trump, reveal fundamental flaws in secular liberalism. Ritchie maintains that both liberalism and this “fake populism” resign citizens to an essentially passive role in public life. Ritchie argues instead for an “inclusive populism,” in which religious and nonreligious identities and institutions are fully represented in the public square, engaging the diverse communities brought together by global migration to build and lead a common life. Drawing on twenty years of experience in action and reflection in East London, Ritchie posits that the practice of community organizing exemplifies a truly inclusive populism, and that it is also reflected in the teaching of Pope Francis. Speaking to our political crisis and mapping out a way forward, Inclusive Populism will appeal to thoughtful readers and active citizens interested in politics, community organizing, and religion.
September 2019 Political Science 186 pages, 6x9
Angus Ritchie heads the Centre for Theology and Community in London. He is a Church of England priest and the author of From Morality to Metaphysics: The Theistic Implications of Our Ethical Commitments .
“This is an important contribution about our current crisis and the part institutionally based organizing can play in addressing it. It should be read by journalists, academics, and citizens who are concerned about the vitality of our democratic institutions. Angus Ritchie is certainly an important reflective practitioner. I hope his work contributes to a robust and sustained conversation.” —Ernesto Cortes, Jr., co-director of the Industrial Areas Foundation
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POLITICS
Melania and Michelle First Ladies in a New Era By Tammy R. Vigil At home or at the podium, the First Lady is uniquely poised to serve as advisor, confidant, and campaigner, with the power to shape American political and social conversation. At first blush, First Ladies Michelle Obama and Melania Trump appear categorically different from each other; however, as women rising from humble origins to pursue their ambitions and support their husbands, the two have more in common than one might think. In Melania and Michelle: First Ladies in a New Era, author Tammy R. Vigil provides a compelling account of our modern first ladies, exploring how each woman has crafted her public image and used her platform to influence the country, while also serving as a paragon of fashion and American womanhood. Both women face constant scrutiny and comparison—from their degrees of political activism to their cookie recipes—and have garnered support as well as criticism. From their full lives pre-nomination to their attitudes while occupying the White House, Vigil builds careful and thoughtful portraits of Melania Trump and Michelle Obama that provide new appreciation for how these women, and the first ladies that came before them, have shaped our country.
September 2019 Politics, Women 184 pgs, 6x9, 29 b&w illus., 21 color illus.
Tammy R. Vigil’s recent books include Moms in Chief and Connecting with Constituents. She has also published articles or chapters on rhetoric by Michelle Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George W. Bush; the history of nominating conventions; and convention speeches by presidential nominees’ spouses. Dr. Vigil is Associate Professor of Communication at Boston University and studies political campaign rhetoric and women as political communicators. She formerly served as associate dean of the College of Communication at Boston University and is a past winner of the Wrange-Baskerville award given by the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association.
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Resilience and Healing Through Our Connections With Animals
HEALTH
Transforming Trauma By Philip Tedeschi and Molly Anne Jenkins
July 2019 Health & Human Science 490 pages, 6x9
Have you ever looked deep into the eyes of an animal and felt entirely known? Often, the connections we share with non-human animals represent our safest and most reliable relationships, offering unique and profound opportunities for healing in periods of hardship. This book focuses on research developments, models, and practical applications of humananimal connection and animal-assisted intervention for diverse populations who have experienced trauma. A myriad of animal species and roles, including companion, therapy, and service animals are discussed. Authors also consider how animals are included in a variety of formal and informal models of trauma recovery across the human lifespan, with special attention paid to canine- and equine-assisted interventions and psychotherapy. In addition, authors emphasize the potential impacts to animals who provide trauma-informed services, and discuss how we can respect their participation and implement best practices and ethical standards to ensure their well-being. The reader is offered a comprehensive understanding of the history of research in this field, as well as the latest advancements and areas in need of further or refined investigation. Likewise, authors explore, in depth, emerging practices and methodologies for helping people and communities thrive in the face of traumatic events and their long-term impacts. As animals are important in cultures all over the world, cross-cultural and often overlooked animal-assisted and animal welfare applications are also highlighted throughout the text. Philip Tedeschi is the executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. Molly Anne Jenkins is an affiliated faculty member with the Graduate School of Social Work’s Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver.
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HEALTH
The Pilates Effect Heroes Behind the Revolution By Stacey Redfield and Sarah Holmes Foreword by Kevin Bowen With over 9 million Americans practicing Pilates, the popular core exercise system is taking the world by storm. While many find the system helps to strengthen the core, improve posture, and recover from or prevent injuries and pain, Pilates has been clouded in controversy since the beginning. Its origin story is one of greed, ego, celebrities, and lies, with heated legal controversy that threatened the industry. In The Pilates Effect, Stacey Redfield and Sarah Holmes reveal the hidden history of Pilates. From humble beginnings, Joseph Pilates founded the groundbreaking regimen in New York City and worked closely with his wife Clara to rehabilitate and renew dancers who had been injured or were aging. Although Joseph’s core strengthening regime was touted as “fifty years ahead of [its] time,” finance and health issues plagued Joe and Clara’s business. A small and devoted group of followers, including Carola Trier, would fight to spread the practice that they felt gave them a second chance at life and rehabilitated their bodies and souls.
September 2019 Health & Fitness, Exercise 200 pgs, 5.5x8.5, 18 b&w illus.
A fascinating and inspiring story of fitness in America, The Pilates Effect showcases the people and events that formed an iconic industry. Redfield and Holmes offer inspiration and practical advice for how Pilates can offer change for everyday people regardless of gender, ethnicity, or background. Stacey Redfield is an actress, model, and spokesperson. Her Pilates career began after over a decade of weight training, aerobics, and two babies didn’t leave many options for exercise. She quickly became a believer in the health impacts of the system and opened the Physical Methods Pilates Studio in 2000. Sarah Holmes is passionate about spreading the benefits of Pilates. Currently she teaches modern dance, dance history, dance kinesiology, and Pilates as an Assistant Professor of Dance at Kennesaw State University.
Above image from The Pilates Effect, by Stacey Redfield & Sarah Holmes
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Achieving Peace, Prosperity, and Sustainability in Southeast Asia By David Carden For half a century, ten dynamic nations in Southeast Asia have been implementing a shared vision of economic growth, sustainable development, and cultural progress. Today, the economies of those nations are linked inextricably with the future of greater Asia as well as with the United States and the other Western countries. With authoritarianism and protectionism on the rise around the world and the catastrophic effects of global warming making action urgent, the nations that form the Association of Southeast Asia Nations are more relevant and under greater political and social stress than ever.
CURRENT EVENTS
Mapping ASEAN
In these illuminating pages, David Carden, the first American resident ambassador to ASEAN, paints a vivid portrait of the regional and global cooperation required to meet today, and interconnected future. Carden takes us behind the scenes as the leaders of these ten nations work to prepare their countries and their region for the 21st century. Carden persuasively argues that the unfolding story of the ASEAN nations is a story for the entire world that we are all increasingly interdependent and confronted with the existential need to solve the same set of challenges.
October 2019 Current Events 274 pgs, 6x9, 4 color illus.
David. L. Carden is the former United States Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He is a recipient of the US Department of State’s Superior Honor Award. A partner at the international law firm Jones Day, Carden also serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Center for Rural Excellence at Indiana University.
“If you want to understand better the urgent need for regional and global cooperation to solve our challenges, read David Carden’s compelling behind-the-scenes view of what needs to be done. You will get a lift in learning what some skilled diplomats are doing to solve our challenges in Southeast Asia.” —Lee H. Hamilton, former member of the US House of Representatives and author of Congress, Presidents, and American Politics
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PHILOSOPHY
Emergence Towards A New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science By Mariusz Tabaczek Over the last several decades, the theories of emergence and downward causation have become arguably the most popular conceptual tools in scientific and philosophical attempts to explain the nature and character of global organization observed in various biological phenomena, from individual cell organization to ecological systems. The theory of emergence acknowledges the reality of layered strata or levels of systems, which are consequences of the appearance of an interacting range of novel qualities. A closer analysis of emergentism, however, reveals a number of philosophical problems facing this theory. In Emergence, Mariusz Tabaczek offers a thorough analysis of these problems and a constructive proposal of a new metaphysical foundation for both the classic downward causation-based and the new dynamical depth accounts of emergence theory, developed by Terrence Deacon. Tabaczek suggests ways in which both theoretical models of emergentism can be grounded in the classical and the new (dispositionalist) versions of Aristotelianism. This book will have an eager audience in metaphysicians working both in the analytic and the Thomistic traditions, as well as philosophers of science and biology interested in emergence theory and causation. June 2019 Philosophy 400 pages, 6 x 9, 20 Figs., 3 tables
Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P., is researcher and lecturer at the Thomistic Institute in Warsaw, Poland.
“Mariusz Tabaczek brings together in a single, coherent narrative work that others have not integrated before— namely, both philosophical and scientific work on emergence causal powers, and the renaissance of Aristotelianism. Tabaczek offers new and powerful criticisms of emergentism from an ontological perspective. He provides a fair and judicious appraisal of recent work on causal powers and hylomorphism, from a Thomistic viewpoint. Such a critique is timely and important.” —Robert Koons, University of Texas at Austin
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Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age By Rémi Brague In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague’s lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving.
PHILOSOPHY
Curing Mad Truths
Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.
June 2019 Philosophy 152 pages, 5.5x8.5 French & Spanish already sold
Rémi Brague is emeritus professor of medieval and Arabic philosophy at the University of Paris I and Romano Guardini Chair Emeritus of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich). He is a member of the Institut de France and the 2012 recipient of the Joseph Ratzinger Prize, often described as the “Nobel Prize in Theology.”
“Rémi Brague is a most singular polyglot and polymath, not to mention one of Europe’s wisest and wittiest Christian intellectuals. Curing Mad Truths is an impressive collection of his addresses to English-speaking audiences. As with all of Brague’s work, the volume uniquely combines cleverness and profound insight.” —Douglas Kries, professor of philosophy, Gonzaga University
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PHILOSOPHY
The Cost of Comfort By John Lachs Philosopher John Lachs observes that humans today live lives of comfort but also sees that these comfortable lives come at a cost: our increasing unhappiness. In The Cost of Comfort, Lachs contemplates what humans need in order to live fulfilled lives in today’s world. While comfort has not always reached everyone evenly, Lachs acknowledges that most of us who live in the US today reap the benefits of modern life. We live longer, we eat better food, we have access to good medical care, and we can stay in touch with loved ones who are far away. Lachs argues that this dizzyingly complex world often inspires isolation, but he believes that deeper engagement with it is required in order to dispel our growing psychic distance. Lachs advocates for mediation and champions education, advertising, openness, and transparency to help individuals understand the role they play in society and to nullify claims to blamelessness. Lachs suggests new rules for responsibility and argues that examining and understanding the consequences of one’s actions is imperative to overcoming the ills and problems of the modern world. John Lachs is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of many books, including Meddling: On the Virtue of Leaving Others Alone and Stoic Pragmatism. September 2019 Philosophy 128 pgs, 5.5x8
“This work is a very clear, engaging reflection on a genuine contemporary issue: deep feelings of disengagement and bewilderment about how to live responsibly in an almost overwhelmingly complex world.” —John Lysaker, author of After Emerson
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A Theology of Difficult Glory By John Caputo John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. Caputo also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and racial and sexual discrimination. Caputo is clear that he is not writing as any kind of orthodox Lutheran but is instead engaging with a radical view of theology, cosmology, and poetics of the cross. Readers will recognize Caputo’s signature themes— hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call—as well as his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics.
PHILOSOPHY
Cross and Cosmos
John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is author of many books, including The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps, Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim, and Truth: Philosophy in Transit.
September 2019 Philosophy, Religion 312 pgs, 6x9
“This work will be eagerly awaited and immediately read by John D. Caputo’s many followers. They will be looking for him to fill out the “big picture” which makes manifest for the first time all the parts and pieces he has contributed to the theological project he launched early in the previous decade.” —Carl Raschke, author of Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
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HISTORY
Beyond Versailles Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War Edited by Roberta Pergher and Marcus Payk European historians focus on two critical aspects of the Treaty of Versailles: it was an attempt to carve out a new Europe as determined by the victors of World War I, and it was doomed to failure. In Beyond Versailles, a broad and more nuanced look at the construction of the Treaty provides a rich understanding of the institutions and ideas involved in constructing the new world order. While previous attention has been paid to the treaty architects and their agendas, this collection considers the treaty’s resonance for local players responding to the global shifts in power. This volume offers important reappraisals of the shift from the imperial age to the age of nations and examines how notions of nation, sovereignty, and citizenship were negotiated and contested in order to balance popular will with clear constraints against assertions of post-war nationhood. The work questions our understanding of the nation-state as the inevitable outcome of the cataclysms of war and examines the ways in which a world of nations came into being. Roberta Pergher is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is author of Mussolini’s Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy’s Borderlands, 1922-1943. May 2019 History, WWI 312 pages, 6.125x9.25, 1 b&w illus., 1 maps
Marcus M. Payk is Assistant Professor of History at Humboldt University of Berlin and author of two books.
“This is an excellent collected volume, well-conceived and very well written. . . . This is not at all a top-down history of the diffusion of ideas about national self-determination. Rather, it is an examination of the ways in which these ideas were taken up, re-fashioned, and reasserted at many levels to serve local and regional agendas, while at the same time influencing international debates about the meanings and possible implementations of selfdetermination.” –Pieter M. Judson, author of The Habsburg Empire: A New History
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Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis By Elliot Wolfson While many scholars have noted Martin Heidegger’s indebtedness to Christian mystical sources, as well as his affinity with Taoism and Buddhism, Elliot R. Wolfson expands connections between Heidegger’s thought and kabbalistic material. By arguing that the Jewish esoteric tradition impacted Heidegger, Wolfson presents an alternative way of understanding the history of Western philosophy. Wolfson’s comparison between Heidegger and kabbalah sheds light on key concepts such as hermeneutics, temporality, language, and being and nothingness, while yielding surprising reflections on their common philosophical ground. Given Heidegger’s involvement with National Socialism and his use of antisemitic language, these innovative readings are all the more remarkable for their juxtaposition of incongruent fields of discourse. Wolfson’s entanglement with Heidegger and kabbalah not only enhances understandings of both but, more profoundly, serves as an ethical corrective to their respective ethnocentrism and essentialism. Wolfson masterfully illustrates the redemptive capacity of thought to illuminate common ground in seemingly disparate philosophical traditions.
August 2019 Philosophy, Judaica 420 pages, 7x10
PHILOSOPHY
Heidegger and Kabbalah
Elliot R. Wolfson is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of many books including, most recently, Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania and The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other.
“Given the importance of Heidegger in the history of modern philosophy, and indeed in the history of philosophy writ large, and given the importance of the Kabbalah to Jewish intellectual history and spiritual life, this volume provides a feast of texts and textual interlacings that many have surmised but none could elucidate except Elliot R. Wolfson.” –Michael Fagenblat, author of A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas’s Philosophy of Judaism
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HEALTH
A Reason to Live HIV and Animal Companions By Vicki Hutton
June 2019 Health & Human Science 264 pages, 6 x 9
A Reason to Live explores the human-animal relationship through the narratives of eleven people living with HIV and their animal companions. The narratives, based on a series of interviews with HIV-positive individuals and their animal companions in Australia, span the entirety of the HIV epidemic, from public awareness and discrimination in the 1980s and 1990s to survival and hope in the twenty-first century. Each narrative is explored within the context of theory (for example, attachment theory, the “biophilia hypothesis,” neurochemical and neurophysiological effects, laughter, play, death anxiety, and stigma) in order to understand the unique bond between human and animal during an “epidemic of stigma.” A consistent theme is that these animals provided their human companions with “a reason to live” throughout the epidemic. Long-term survivors describe past animal companions who intuitively understood their needs and offered unconditional love and support during this turbulent period. More recently diagnosed HIV-positive narrators describe animal companions within the context of hope and the wellness narrative of living and aging with HIV in the twenty-first century. Bringing together these narratives offers insight into one aspect of the multifaceted HIV epidemic when human turned against human, and helps explain why it was frequently left to the animals to support their human companions. Importantly, it recognizes the enduring bond between human and animal within the context of theory and narrative, thus creating a cultural memory in a way that has never been done before. Vicki Hutton is an Australia-based writer and academic, specializing in the areas of the human-animal relationship, health psychology, and HIV.
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By William Brown
MUSIC
Master Classes with Menahem Pressler Menahem Pressler is a world-renowned piano soloist, master class teacher, and member of the acclaimed Beaux Arts Trio. In this companion to his first book, Menahem Pressler: Artistry in Piano Teaching, Pressler’s former student William Brown brings together Pressler’s teachings on an additional 37 piano masterworks by Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann. With over 200 musical examples and measure-bymeasure lessons on masterpieces of the piano repertoire as well as instructions on phrasing, fingering, imagery, dynamic contrasts, pianistic touches, articulation, and practice drills, pianists of all levels will benefit from Pressler’s expertise. William Brown is Professor Emeritus of Music and Provost Emeritus at Southwest Baptist University. He earned two graduate performance degrees while studying with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University and is the author of Menahem Pressler: Artistry in Piano Teaching.
September 2019 Music 248 pgs, 6.125x9.25, 8 b&w illus., 226 music exx.
“Dr. Brown has once again provided a valuable contribution to serious pianists seeking insights into some of the important works for piano, as seen through the experienced lens of the great pianist and legendary teacher Menahem Pressler.” —Joel M. Harrison, President and Artistic Director of the American Pianists Association
“Menahem Pressler is widely regarded as one of the premiere musicians in the world, having performed thousands of concerts in the world’s great halls as the pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio, and having established himself as one of the world’s handful of top master teachers. . . . As a treasury of his thoughts on music, it is absolutely invaluable to professional performers and piano teachers.” —Peter Miyamoto, Concert Pianist and Professor, University of Missouri Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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HISTORY
The Spirit vs. the Souls Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship By Christopher A. McAuley Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864–1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing on their correspondence from 1904 to 1906, and comparing the sociological work that they produced during this period and afterward, The Spirit vs. the Souls: Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship examines for the first time the ideas that Weber and Du Bois shared on topics such as sociological investigation, race, empire, unfree labor, capitalism, and socialism. What emerges from this examination is that their ideas on these matters clashed far more than they converged, contrary to the tone of their letters and to the interpretations of the few scholars who have commented on the correspondence between Weber and Du Bois.
August 2019 African American History 236 pages, 6 x 9
Christopher McAuley provides close readings of key texts by the two scholars, including Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, to demonstrate their different views on a number of issues, including the economic benefits of unfree labor in capitalism. The book addresses the distinctly different treatment of the two figures’s political sympathies in past scholarship, especially that which discredits some of Du Bois’s openly antiracist academic work while failing to consider the markedly imperialist-serving content of some of Weber’s. McAuley argues for the acknowledgment and demarginalization of Du Bois’s contributions to the scholarly world that academics have generally accorded to Weber. This book will interest students and scholars of black studies, history, and sociology for whom Du Bois and Weber are central figures. Christopher A. McAuley is associate professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
“I think The Spirit vs. the Souls is an outstanding book. The chapters on Max Weber, religion, and capitalism are simply brilliant. I like the rich, textured, and excellent grounding on both the privileges of Weber and W. E. B. Du Bois. I believe that this book will be a hit, a well-rounded, much needed appraisal of two giants of the discipline of sociology, race, and critical scholarship.” —Rodney Coates, Miami University
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By Jeremy Black
HISTORY
England in the Age of Shakespeare How did it feel to hear Macbeth’s witches chant of “double, double toil and trouble” at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare’s plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare’s audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience’s own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, “grunt and sweat under a weary life.” Black’s clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays’ histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.
August 2019 History 312 pages, 6x9
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books, including Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England; London: A History; and Mapping Shakespeare: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s Worlds through Maps.
Smyllie’s Ireland Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times By Caleb Wood Richardson
June 2019 20th Century History, Ireland 224 pages, 6x9
As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early 20th century, a clear delineation was made between what was “authentically” Irish and what was considered to be English influence. As a member of the Anglo-Irish elite who inhabited a precarious identity somewhere in between, R. M. Smyllie found himself having to navigate the painful experience of being made to feel an outsider in his own homeland. Smyllie’s role as an influential editor of the Irish Times meant he had to confront most of the issues that defined the Irish experience, from Ireland’s neutrality during World War II to the fraught cultural claims surrounding the Irish language and literary censorship. In this engaging consideration of a bombastic, outspoken, and conflicted man, Caleb Wood Richardson offers a way of seeing Smyllie as representative of the larger Anglo-Irish experience. Richardson explores Smyllie’s experience in a German internment camp in World War I, his foreign correspondence work for the Irish Times at the Paris Peace Conference, and his guiding hand as an advocate for cultural and intellectualism. Smyllie had a direct influence on the careers of writers such as Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice, and his surprising decision to include an Irish-language column in the paper had an enormous impact on the career of novelist Flann O’Brien. Smyllie, like many of his class, felt a strong political connection to England at the same time as they had enduring cultural dedications to Ireland. How Smyllie and his generation navigated the collision of identities and allegiances helped to define what Ireland is today. Caleb Wood Richardson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
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SCIENCE
From Pugwash to Putin A Critical History of US–Soviet Scientific Cooperation By Gerson S. Sher
July 2019 Science, Russia & Eastern Europe 352 pages, 6x9
For 60 years, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union participated in state-organized programs of collaboration. But what really happened in these programs? What were the hopes of the participants and governments? How did these programs weather the bumpiest years of political turbulence? And were the programs worth the millions of dollars invested in them? From Pugwash to Putin provides accounts from 63 insiders who participated in these programs, including interviews with scientists, program managers, and current or former government officials. In their own words, these participants discuss how and why they engaged in cooperative science, what their initial expectations were, and what lessons they learned. They tell stories of classified chalkboards, phantom scientists, AIDS propaganda, and gunfire at meteorological stations, illustrating the tensions and benefits of this collaborative work. From the first scientific exchanges of the Cold War years through the fall of the Soviet Union, Gerson S. Sher provides a sweeping and critical history of what happens when science is used as a foreign policy tool. Sher, a former officer for these inter-academy programs, provides a detailed and critical assessment of what worked, what didn’t, and why it matters. Gerson S. Sher spent twenty years as Coordinator for US–Soviet and East European Programs at the National Science Foundation, before providing leadership throughout the rest of his career to private and public foundations at the intersection of scientific cooperation, international affairs, and global security.
“Sher’s book is a masterful account of “what worked, what didn’t, and why it matters” in science collaboration between the US and the Soviet Union during and after the cold war. Both scientists and diplomats interested in science diplomacy can learn from his authoritative account informed by insightful interviews with key participants.” —E. William Colglazier, former Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State
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