New Books Highlights May 2020-July 2021

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Craft

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Reference History

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Professional Guides

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2 | AUTOBIOGRAPH Y/BIOGRAPHY - FILM INSIDERS FEATURE

Inside the Star Wars Empire

My West Side Story

By Bill Kimberlin

By George Chakiris, With Lindsay Harrison

A Memoir

Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as “one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies.” In reality though, he’s a true insider on some of the most celebrated and popular movies and franchises of the past century. Jurassic Park.

Star Trek. Jumanji. Schindler’s List. Saving Private Ryan. Even Forrest Gump. And, perhaps most notably, Star Wars.

Inside the Star Wars Empire is the very funny and insightful tell-all about the two decades Kimberlin spent as a department director at LucasFilm Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), the special effects studio founded by the legendary filmmaker George Lucas.

Bill Kimberlin is sought after as a lecturer and speaker on the subject of special effects.

A Memoir

George Chakiris famously played the gang leader Bernardo in the film version of West Side Story (1961), for which he won an Oscar for best supporting actor. My West Side Story is an insider’s look at how this theatrical and cinematic landmark evolved from a conversation in Jerome Robbins’ Manhattan apartment between him, Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein to ten Oscars, three Golden Globes, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy. While also a memoir of Chakiris’s long and distinguished career, the emphasis is on West Side Story, which will be revived on Broadway in December of this year.

George Chakiris appeared in dozens of plays, films, and TV shows before retiring in 1996.

Lyons Press November 2020 • 272 pages

Lyons Press May 2021 • 240 pages

Paperback 978-1-4930-4946-2 • £14.95 / $19.95 Hardback 978-1-4930-3231-0 • £18.95 / $24.95 (2018) eBook 978-1-4930-3232-7 • £23.99 / $17.95

Hardback 978-1-4930-5547-0 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5548-7 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Hemingway and Me

Letters, Anecdotes, and Memories of a Life-Changing Friendship

By Jeffrey Lyons In this short book, Jeffrey Lyons recounts visits to Hemingway in Cuba (where “Papa” first taught him how to shoot a gun) as well as nights out with the great writer at such popular New York watering holes as the Stork Club and Toots Shor’s. Throughout the book Hemingway comes across as a hard-working, generous, and thoughtful man of letters, and not the gruff, hard drinking beast perpetually looking for a fight that he was often perceived as.

Jeffrey Lyons grew up in a home visited by many of the greats of his father’s time. He has cohosted three national movie review shows—Sneak Previews, MSNBC’s At the Movies, and Reel Talk—in his fortyfive-year career continues in television, radio, and print.

Leonard, Marianne, and Me Magical Summers on Hydra

By Judy Scott Leonard, Marianne, and Me chronicles forty years of Judy Scott’s frequent summers on the Greek Island of Hydra with a diverse artistic community and her friendship with singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen and his legendary muse Marianne Ihlen.

Originally born and raised in New Jersey, Judy Scott now lives in Los Angeles with her spouse, Monika.

Backbeat July 2021 Hardback 978-1-4930-5976-8 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5977-5 • $26.50

Lyons Press April 2021 • 160 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5534-0 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5535-7 • $20.50 / £15.95

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Madam C.J. Walker

The Making of an American Icon

Sally Rand

American Sex Symbol

Shatner

By Erica L. Ball

By William Elliott Hazelgrove

By Michael Seth Starr

Madam C. J. Walker has long been celebrated for her ragsto-riches story. Erica L. Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker’s times.

Two ostrich feathers in a second-hand store rescued her from obscurity. Discover how Sally Rand paved the way for every sex symbol to follow from Marilyn Monroe to Lady Gaga.

A comprehensive look at this singular performer, using archival sources and information culled from interviews with friends.

Erica L. Ball is a professor of History and Black Studies at Occidental College.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2021 • 176 pages Hardback 978-1-4422-6038-2 $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4422-6039-9 $33.00 / £25.00

William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of ten novels.

Lyons Press January 2021 • 280 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-3859-6 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3860-2 $25.50 / £19.95

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Michael Seth Starr covers television at the New York Post. since 1995.

Applause June 2021 • 328 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5984-3 $22.95 / £17.95 Hardback (2020) 978-1-4950-8268-9 $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-4930-5065-9 $31.00 / £23.95

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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy

By D. A. Henderson M.D., Foreword by Richard Preston

By Ray Acheson

In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign to eliminate this disease from the face of the earth. This spellbinding book is Dr. Henderson’s personal story of how he led the World Health Organization’s campaign to eradicate smallpox—the only disease in history to have been deliberately eliminated.

After decades of campaigning, with the help of activists and diplomatcs, in 2017 the United Nations in New York, signed the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty . This book covers the story of their collective activism—a story of courage and hope, as well as lessons learned, that will inform and inspire others working for social justice.

D. A. Henderson, MD was professor of medicine and public health at the University of Pittsburgh and a distinguished scholar at the Center for Biosecurity in Baltimore.

Prometheus June 2021 • 334 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-701-5 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2009) 978-1-59102-722-5 • $27.99 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-61592-230-7 • $19.00 / £14.95

Ray Acheson is currently director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s disarmament program in New York City.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2021 • 368 pages Paperback 978-1-78661-490-2 • $24.95 / £18.95 Hardback 978-1-78661-489-6 • $38.00 / £29.00 eBook 978-1-78661-491-9 • $36.00 / £28.00

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K2, The Savage Mountain

The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World’s SecondHighest Mountain

One in a Billion

One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey through Modern-Day China

Charles Houston and Robert Bates organized the American expeditions to K2 in 1938 and 1953.

Lyons Press October 2020 • 224 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5024-6 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5025-3 $19.00 / £14.95

Confessions of a Battered Rider

By Nancy Pine

By Karol Modzelewski, Translated by Frank L. Vigoda

This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man, An Wei, who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens.

This book is the memoir of Karol Modzelewski. With keen critical insight, Modzelewski describes his role as one of the leading intellectuals of the Solidarity movement.

Nancy Pine has travelled and studied in rural China for decades.

Karol Modzelewski (1937-2019) was among the most prominent Polish dissidents of the twentieth century.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2021 • 312 pages

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers July 2021 • 416 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-4340-7 $34.00 / £26.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4341-4 $32.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978-1-5381-4161-8 $95.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4162-5 $90.00

By Charles Houston and Robert Bates

K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of terrible storms and illness stopped the team short of the 28,251foot summit.

Riding History to Death

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The Many Lives of Andy Warhol

More Alike Than Different

By Stuart Lenig

By David Egan

This book explores the multi-faceted career of this unique figure, whose ventures into all things popular resulted in perhaps his greatest creation—Andy Warhol himself.

In each chapter, the author looks at how Warhol undertook these various roles and to what extent he achieved success.

My Life with Down Syndrome

The first memoir written by a person with Down syndrome.

In this inspiring memoir, David Egan tells his own story, giving us a window into a life spent pushing boundaries. With a family undaunted by his diagnosis of Down syndrome, Egan learned early to speak up for himself. He has since become a powerful advocate for all people with disabilities.

Stuart Lenig is coordinator of the humanities program at Columbia State.

David Egan is a well-known champion of the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2021 • 256 pages

Prometheus November 2020 • 176 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-3702-4 • $37.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3703-1 • $35.00 / £27.00

Hardback 978-1-63388-628-5 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-63388-629-2 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Since launching nearly four decades ago, Lyons Press has evolved into a leading publisher of high-quality books on fishing and hunting, nature, animals, military history, American history, business and more.

The Art of the Con

How to Think Like a Real Hustler and Avoid Being Scammed

By By R. Paul Wilson, Foreword by Frank Abagnale Jr. One of the world’s leading and celebrated experts on con-games takes the reader through the history of cons, how they’ve been updated to the modern age, how they work, how to spot them, and how to protect yourself from being the victim of one.

Part investigator and part performer, R. Paul Wilson is the world’s foremost expert on cons and scams.

His hit TV show, “The Real Hustle,” has run for eleven seasons on the BBC and been syndicated in over forty five countries.

Lyons Press October 2020 • 368 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5026-0 • $18.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2015) 978-1-4930-0060-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-1611-2 • $18.00 / £13.95

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The Next Millionaire Next Door Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth

By Thomas J. Stanley Ph.D. and Sarah Stanley Fallaw Ph.D Is the millionaire next door still out there today? The latest research from Dr. Thomas J. Stanley and his daughter, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw, confirms that, yes, the millionaire next door is alive and well. And they're achieving their financial objectives much the same way they always have: by living below their means, being a contrarian in a maelstrom of hyper-consumption, and being disciplined in reaching their financial goals.

Thomas J. Stanley was an author, lecturer, and researcher who started studying the affluent in 1973.

Sarah Stanley Fallaw, Ph. D. is president of DataPoints.

Lyons Press December 2020 • 272 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5275-2 • $16.95 / £12.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-4930-3535-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3536-6 • $16.00 / £11.95

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200 Years of American Financial Panics

Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, and the Technology that Will Change it All

The Consuming Instinct Anthill Economics Animal Ecosystems and the Human Economy

What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

By Thomas P. Vartanian

By Nathanial Gronewold

This comprehensive historical account tells the story of 200 years of financial panics in America, from 1819 to COVID-19, showing how and why so many financial crises have occurred in the United States and offering solutions to avoiding these sorts of crises moving forward.

Anthill Economics puts forth an innovative and crossdisciplinary approach, asserting that the laws of nature and physics global economy as they are to animal ecosystems.

In this highly informative and entertaining book, the founder of the new field of evolutionary consumption illuminates the relevance of our biological heritage to our daily lives as consumers.

Nathanial Gronewold is a veteran journalist with experience running assignments in Pakistan, Colombia, Kenya, Haiti, and beyond.

Gad Saad is a professor of marketing at at Concordia University.

Prometheus June 2021 • 352 pages

Prometheus April 2021 • 240 pages

Hardback 978-1-63388-670-4 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-63388-671-1 $25.50 / £19.95

Hardback 978-1-63388-652-0 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-63388-653-7 $25.50 / £19.95

Hardback 978-1-63388-643-8 $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2011) 978-1-61614-429-6 $25.00 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-61614-430-2 $18.99 / £14.95

Thomas P. Vartanian is professor at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School.

By Gad Saad, Foreword

by David M. Buss

Prometheus September 2020 • 392 pages

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Baby Hats to Crochet

Easy Knits for Beautiful Yarns

9 Quick, Cozy Knits

21 Shawls, Hats, Sweaters & More Designed to Showcase Special Yarns

By Kristi Simpson

By Tabetha Hedrick

By Toby Roxane Barna

From pom-pom hats and beanies with flowers to adorable animals like an elephant, puppy, owl, giraffe, and others, there is a hat for every baby in this book.

High in style but low in time commitment, these pieces will become go-to favorites in your wardrobe. Choose fun and interesting yarns to personalize your look.

The 21 designs are written at a level for the motivated knitter who has made a scarf or two and is ready to move on to something a little more interesting and unique.

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications.

Tabetha Hedrick has had her designs published in numerous magazines and yarn company collections.

Toby Roxane Barna is an independent knitwear designer in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York.

Stackpole Books December 2020 • 32 pages

Stackpole Books April 2021 • 112 pages

Paperback 978-0-8117-3951-1 $9.95 / £7.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6945-7 $9.50 / £6.95

Paperback 978-0-8117-3859-0 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6856-6 $23.50 / £17.95

10 Fun Designs for Newborn to 12 Months

Stackpole Books January 2021 • 32 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3947-4 $9.95 / £7.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6941-9 $9.50 / £6.95

Bulky Knit Wraps & Cowls

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Switch & Knit Stitch Dictionary

Choose any yarn and any of the 12 patterns for cowls, hats, sweaters & more

The Punch Needle Handbook

Easy Guide to Punching plus 19 Projects

By Tabetha Hedrick

By Rohn Strong

Now it's easy to design your own knit! Start with one of the 12 basic pattern "recipes" for pieces such as a hat, pullover, shawl, scarf, socks, tee, mitts, tunic, or cardigan. Choose nearly any yarn and a stitch pattern from the 85 4-stitch multiple patterns in the stitch dictionary, and you are on your way to your own unique knitted piece.

You can pick up a punch needle and complete a project in less than an hour, with no prior skill needed.

It requires just one easy-to-use tool, a background fabric, an embroidery hoop or frame, and yarn. Punched pieces make excellent wall hangings, pillows, ornaments, stool covers, chair cushions, purses/ pouches, baby play mats, and much more!

Tabetha Hedrick has had her designs published in numerous magazines and yarn company collections.

Stackpole Books July 2020 • 200 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3826-2 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6831-3 • $28.50 / £21.95

Rohn Strong is a professional craft instructor and author.

Stackpole Books November 2020 • 112 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3873-6 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6876-4 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Pitch Battles

Sport, Racism and Resistance

By Lord Peter Hain and André Odendaal

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers December 2020 496 pages Hardback 978-1-78661-522-0 $33.00 / £25.00

The organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether.

With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa’s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist André Odendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a Springbok team captained by black athlete Siya Kolisi winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Peter Hain, a former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister, now a member of the House of Lords., has authored over twenty books André Odendaal is Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape.

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Race in Society

Reinventing Racism

By Margaret L. Andersen

By Jonathan D. Church

The Enduring American Dilemma, Second Edition

Race in Society is a comprehensive look at the sociology of race in America.

The purpose of the book is to introduce readers to current research scholarship on race, emphasizing the socially constructed basis of race and the persistence of racial inequality in American institutions.

This is a core textbook for the race and ethnicity course taught at the sophomore/ junior level in sociology departments at 4-year institutions.

Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2021 • 368 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2983-8 • $74.00 / £57.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-4945-4 • $148.00 / £114.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2984-5 • $70.00 / £54.00

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Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think About Racial Inequality

Despite its wide acclaim and rapid acceptance, the theory of white fragility has received no serious and sustained scrutiny.

This book argues that the theory is flawed on numerous fronts.

The theory functions as a divisive rhetorical device to shut down debate. It relies on the flawed premise of implicit bias. It posits a faulty way of understanding racism. It has serious methodological problems. It conflates objectivity and neutrality. It exploits narrative at the expense of facts. It distorts many of the ideas upon which the theory relies.

Jonathan D. Church is an economist, CFA charter holder, and writer.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2021 • 212 pages Paperback 978-1-4758-5818-1 • $37.00 / £28.00 Hardback 978-1-4758-5817-4 • $75.00 / £58.00 eBook 978-1-4758-5819-8 • $35.50 / £27.00

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is proud to publish an array of titles anually in the field of Black Studies.

Our new Classics in Black Studies series from recently acquired Humanities Press forms a rich collection of the pre-eminent writers in the field.

A Colored Woman in a White World

Reason, Religion, and Morals

By Mary Church Terrell. Introduction by Debra Newhan Ham

By Frances Wright. Foreword by Susan S. Adams

In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life.

A compilation of lectures, this book provides readers with insight into pioneering freethinker and abolitionist, Frances Wright.

Mary Church Terrell became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.

Frances Wright was a feminist, abolitionist and social reformer.

Humanities Press November 2020 • 487 pages

Humanities Press November 2020 • 386 pages

Paperback 978-1-5381-4597-5 • $29.99 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4598-2 • $28.50 / £21.95

Paperback 978-1-5381-5007-8 • $29.99 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5008-5 • $28.50 / £21.95

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February 2021 186 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-5012-2 $29.99 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5013-9 $28.50 / £21.95

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Our Historical Dictionaries series, now in print for over forty years, are written by specialists in their specific subjects, all of whom are well-known and highly recognised.

The most important source in each book is the dictionary section, which includes hundreds and sometimes even a thousand or more entries in alphabetical order on significant persons, places, events, institutions and major economic, social, and cultural features.

February 2021 432 pages

July 2020 490 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-2421-5 $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2422-2 $118.50 / £92.00

Hardback 978-1-5381-2259-4 $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2260-0 $118.50 / £92.00

May 2020 412 pages

June 2020 542 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-3358-3 $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3359-0 $90.00 / £69.00

Hardback 978-1-5381-3009-4 $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3010-0 $118.50 / £92.00

May 2020 372 pages

September 2020 374 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-3980-6 $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3981-3 $90.00 / £69.00

Hardback 978-1-5381-2816-9 $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2817-6 $118.50 / £92.00

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Historical Dictionary of Human Rights Second Edition

By Jacques Fomerand

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers December 2020 960 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-2305-8 $225.00 / £173.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2306-5 $213.00 / £165.00

The second edition of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights explores both the theory and the practice of international human rights with a focus on the norms and institutions that make up the “architecture” of the global human rights regime and the tools, processes and procedures through which such norms are realized and “enforced.” Particular attention is given to the contextual political and sociological factors that shape and constrain the operation and functioning of international human rights institutions and their state and non-state actors.

Jacques Fomerand had a lengthy career with the United Nations Department of Economic Affairs. When he retired in 2003, he was director of the North-American United Nations University Office in New York.

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Evil Roman Emperors

The Shocking History of Ancient Rome’s Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More

By Phillip Barlag Roman history, from the very foundation of the city, is replete with people and stories that shock our modern sensibilities. Evil Roman Emperors puts the worst of Rome’s rulers in one place and offers a review of their lives and a historical context for what made them into what they became. It concludes by ranking them, counting down to the worst ruler in Rome’s long history.

Phillip Barlag is an Executive Director at World 50, a Morgan Stanley company which initiates and facilitates the most interesting and influential business conversations in the world.

Prometheus July 2021 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-690-2 • $19.95 / £14.95

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Spare No One

Mass Violence in Roman Warfare

By Gabriel Baker This powerful book examines the ruthless but widely used tactics of mass killing, mass enslavement, and the destruction of cities in Roman warfare. Gabriel Baker convincingly shows that mass violence was vital to Roman military operations as commanders deliberately used brutal strategies to achieve their military objectives and political goals.

Gabriel Baker holds a PhD in history from the University of Iowa and specializes in Roman and Hellenistic warfare.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2021 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-1221-2 • $36.00 / £28.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-1220-5 • $89.00 / £68.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1222-9 • $34.00 / £26.00

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Marie Antoinette’s Darkest Days

Marie Antoinette’s World

Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie

Intrigue, Infidelity, and Adultery in Versailles

By Will Bashor

By Will Bashor

Will Bashor traces the final days of the prisoner registered only as Widow Capet, No. 280, a time that was a cruel mixture of grandeur, humiliation, and terror. Marie Antoinette’s reign amidst the splendors of the court of Versailles is a familiar story, but her final imprisonment in a fetid, dank dungeon is a little-known coda to a once-charmed life.

This riveting book explores the little-known intimate life of Marie Antoinette and her family in a world filled with intrigue, infidelity, and adultery. Will Bashor unveils the hedonistic atmosphere at Versailles as we learn the secret language of the queen’s fan and explore the hidden passageways and staircases of endless intrigue at the palace.

Will Bashor is the author of the award-winning Marie Antoinette’s Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and The Revolution and Marie Antoinette’s World: Intrigue, Infidelity, and Adultery in Versailles.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 • 392 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3890-8 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2017) 978-1-4422-5499-2 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4422-5500-5 • $19.00 / £14.95

Will Bashor is the author of the award-winning Marie Antoinette’s Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and The Revolution and Marie Antoinette’s Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 • 320 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3824-3 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-3825-0 • $23.50 / £17.95

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20 | FRENCH HISTORY

Paris on the Brink

The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Friends

Paris, City of Dreams

Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris

By Mary McAuliffe

By Mary McAuliffe

Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during which workers flexed their economic muscle and their opponents struck back with increasing violence. As the divide between haves and have-nots widened, so did the political split between left and right, with animosities exploding into brutal clashes, intensified by the paramilitary leagues of the extreme right. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini escalated the increasingly hazardous international environment, while the civil war in Spain added to the instability of the times.

This book traces the profound transformation of the City of Light during Napoléon III’s Second Empire, as he and Georges Haussmann completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades. Their breathtaking— and brutal— achievement was mirrored by dramatic social, cultural, and political changes, all brought to life through McAuliffe’s evocative narrative.

Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, has taught at several universities, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the Barnes Foundation, and the Frick Pittsburgh.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 • 376 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2179-5 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-5381-1237-3 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-1238-0 • $19.00 / £14.95

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Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, has taught at several universities, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution, the Barnes Foundation, and the Frick Pittsburgh.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers July 2020 • 344 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-2128-3 • $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-5381-2129-0 • $25.50 / £19.95

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Charles De Gaulle

A Thorn in the Side of Six American Presidents

By William R. Keylor

Imprint: Prometheus February 2021 376 pages Hardback 978-1-4422-3674-5 $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978-1-4422-3676-9 $37.00 / £28.00

In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces Charles de Gaulle’s career before the fall of France, then focuses on his contentious relationships with six American presidents, from FDR to Nixon.

All but Nixon found challenges from the intrepid French leader a deeply distracting annoyance from the daunting international challenges they faced.

William R. Keylor is professor emeritus at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

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22 | GENERAL HISTORY

Rocket Age

The Race to the Moon and What It Took to Get There

By George D. Morgan

Imprint: Prometheus August 2020 256 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-636-0 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-63388-637-7 $23.50 / £17.95

Rocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddard’s early experiments with liquid fuel rockets, through World War II and the work of Wernher von Braun and his German engineers, on to the postwar improvements made by Sergei Korolev and his team in the Soviet Union, and culminating with the historic Moon walk made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. From designers to engineers, and even communication specialists and the builders who assembled these towering rockets, hundreds of thousands of people worked on getting humans to the Moon, yet only a few have been recognized for their contributions. Author George D. Morgan sets the record straight by shining a light on these forgotten figures of space travel.

George D. Morgan (Santa Paula, CA) is the Playwright in Residence at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Rocket Girl, as well as more than a dozen stage plays and musicals, including Second to Die, Nevada Belle, and Thunder in the Valley.

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The Clock and the Camshaft

And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without

By John W. Farrell

Imprint: Prometheus May 2020 192 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-572-1 $19.00 / ÂŁ14.95 eBook 978-1-63388-573-8 $18.00 / ÂŁ13.95

This history of medieval inventions, focusing on the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, vividly portrays a thriving era of human ingenuity--and the results are still being felt to this day. From the mechanical clock to the first eyeglasses, both of which revolutionized society, many of the commonplace devices we now take for granted had their origin in the Middle Ages. Divided into ten thematic chapters, the accessible text allows the reader to sample areas of interest or read the book from beginning to end for a complete historical overview.

John W. Farrell is a writer and producer working in Boston.

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24 | MILITARY HISTO RY - STACKPOLE BOOKS

Stackpole Books boasts a proud 90-year history of publishing titles in Military History.

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The Jagged Edge of Duty A Fighter Pilot’s World War II

By Robert L. Richardson On the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets. Retreating German infantry unexpectedly pounded the American flyers. Knepper was one of two shot down; he was never found. Knepper’s story is the story-in-microcosm of thousands of American fighter pilots in World War II.

Generals of the Bulge Leadership in the U.S. Army’s Greatest Battle

By Jerry D. Morelock The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army’s largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American military leadership in action during the battle examines the performance of six generals in the days and weeks after the German attack in December 1944.

Robert L. Richardson lives in Spokane, Washington.

Jerry D. Morelock is a 1969 West Point graduate who served 36 years in uniform in numerous command and staff positions.

Stackpole Books September 2020 • 408 pages

Stackpole Books December 2020 • 384 pages

Paperback 978-0-8117-3960-3 • $21.95 / £16.95 Hardback (2017) 978-0-8117-1842-4 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6572-5 • $28.50 / £21.95

Paperback 978-0-8117-3897-2 • $24.95 / £18.95 Hardback (2015) 978-0-8117-1199-9 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6175-8 • $23.50 / £17.95

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A Concise History of Nazi Germany

Alone Against Hitler

Fifth Edition

Kurt von Schuschnigg's Fight to Save Austria from the Nazis

By Joseph W. Bendersky

By Jack Bray

An authoritative survey of the major political, economic, and social factors that powered the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

Alone Against Hitler tells the lesser-known but pivotal story of former Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg.

Joseph W. Bendersky is professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth.

University.

Jack Bray was for many years a senior partner at the international law firm King & Spalding.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 • 280 pages

Prometheus July 2020 • 336 pages

Paperback 978-1-5381-4083-3 • $35.00 / £27.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-4082-6 • $89.00 / £68.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4084-0 • $33.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978-1-63388-612-4 • $28.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-63388-613-1 • $27.50 / £20.95

Tigers in Combat 2020 Edition

By Wolfgang Schneider In this follow-up to Tigers in Combat I (978-0-8117-3171-3), Wolfgang Schneider turns his attention to the Tiger tanks of the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht's "named" units, such as the Großdeutschland Division, Company Hummel, and Tiger Group Meyer. Based on combat diaries, the text tells the history of each unit, but most of the book is devoted to photos of the tanks and the men who manned them.

Wolfgang Schneider, an expert on German armor, lives in Germany.

Stackpole Books September 2020 380 pages

Paperback 978-0-8117-3927-6 $32.95 / £25.00

eBook 978-0-8117-6921-1 $31.00 / £23.95

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Nazi Prisoners of War in America

By Arnold Krammer

Panzer Tactics

German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II

By Wolfgang Schneider

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government detained nearly half a million Nazi prisoners of war in 511 camps across the country.

Ultimate inside view of the blitzkrieg in World War II. Diagrams, maps, and schematics illustrate key principles.

Wolfgang Schneider, an expert on German armor, lives in Germany.

Arnold Krammer was Professor of History at Texas A & M University.

Lyons Press November 2020 • 350 pages

Stackpole Books September 2020 • 368 pages

Paperback 978-0-8128-8561-3 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4617-4034-6 • $28.50 / £21.95

Paperback 978-0-8117-3930-6 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6924-2 • $28.50 / £21.95

Target America

Hitler's Plan to Attack the United States

By James P. Duffy This book details the Third Reich’s shocking plans for worldwide offensives using secret weapons, including Hitler’s plan to bring World War II to the American homeland.

James P. Duffy is the author of more than fifteen books, most on military history.

Lyons Press February 2021 208 pages

Paperback 978-1-4930-5014-7 $19.95 / £14.95

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The Hidden Hindenburg

The Paratrooper Generals

By Michael McCarthy

By Mitchell Yockelson

The Hidden Hindenburg at last reveals the cause of aviation’s most famous disaster and the duplicity that kept the truth from coming to light for three generations. It also finally catches up with a German legend who misled the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections.

The Paratrooper Generals is the first book to explore in depth the significant role that two division commanders played on D-Day, describing the extraordinary courage and leadership they demonstrated throughout the most important American campaign of World War II.

The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies

Michael McCarthy worked for twenty-two years for the Wall Street Journal, as a reporter and editor in New York and Chicago.

Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy

Mitchell Yockelson is a military historian and archivist who has received the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award.

Lyons Press November 2020 • 328 pages

Stackpole Books August 2020 • 320 pages

Hardback 978-1-4930-5370-4 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5371-1 • $26.50 / £19.95

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August 2020 376 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3920-7 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6912-9 $28.50 / £21.95

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Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima

The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients in the Marine Corps' Bloodiest Battle of World War II

By James H. Hallas

Imprint: Stackpole Books September 2020 424 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3959-7 $21.95 / £16.95 Hardback (2016) 978-0-8117-1795-3 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6528-2 $28.50 / £21.95

When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19,000 American Marines had been wounded and 7,000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 percent.

Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines' bloodiest battle of the war and the only Pacific battle in which a U.S. landing force suffered more casualties than it inflicted. It was also the most highly decorated single engagement in Marine Corps history. This book: • Focuses on the twenty-two Marines and five Navy personnel who received the Medal of Honor and the actions that earned the award • Accounts of men at war showing gallantry under fire in one of the country's most storied engagements • Recounts the entire Battle of Iwo Jima through its most dramatic moments James H. Hallas is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and has been in the weekly newspaper business for more than thirty years as reporter, editor and publisher.

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Our Reference Guides series provides extensive overviews of the lives of varied, seminal figures in world history, from Florence Nightingale to Nelson Mandela. Each book includes a detailed chronology of each individual's life and works, an A-Z section and a bibliography.

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September 2020 196 pages

December 2020 352 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-3027-8 $50.00 / £38.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3028-5 $47.50 / £37.00

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March 2021 128 pages

May 2020 142 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-3001-8 $65.00 / £50.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3002-5 $62.00 / £48.00

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The Mob and the City American Dynasties

The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York

By Rachel Dickinson

By C. Alexander Hortis, Foreword by James B. Jacobs

No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies.

Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families:Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth, Carter, and Barrymore.

Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob.

Rachel Dickinson is a writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications.

C. Alexander Hortis, JD, is an attorney specializing in commercial litigation and constitutional law.

Lyons Press April 2021 • 272 pages

Prometheus April 2021 • 384 pages

Hardback 978-1-4930-4814-4 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4815-1 • $26.50 / £19.95

Paperback 978-1-63388-608-7 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2014) 978-1-61614-923-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-61614-924-6 • $17.00 / £12.95

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An Introduction to the Causes of War

Patterns of Interstate Conflict from WWI to Iraq, Second Edition

By Greg Cashman and Leonard C. Robinson This pioneering book explains the causes of war through a sustained combination of theoretical insights and detailed case studies from WWI to the Iraq War. Cashman and Robinson find that while all wars have multiple causes, specific factors typically combine in identifiable “dangerous patterns” that lead to bloody conflicts between countries.

Greg Cashman is professor emeritus of political science at Salisbury University.

Leonard C. Robinson is professor of political science at Salisbury University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2021 • 416 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2779-7 • $49.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-2778-0 • $120.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2780-3 • $46.50

Introduction to Conflict Resolution Volume 2

By Lois Edmund This book integrates research and theoretical findings from multiple disciplines to present a holistic approach to conflict resolution. It highlights the distinctive and compelling nature of Conflict Resolution Studies by including material on interpersonal relationships, family and group functioning, and national and international relations.

Dr. Lois Edmund currently holds the rank of Emeritus Professor at Canadian Mennonite University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2021 • 600 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-1763-7 • $69.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-1762-0 • $138.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1764-4 • $65.50

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Social Geographies An Introduction

By The Newcastle Social Geographies Collective

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers October 2020 440 pages Paperback 978-1-78661-230-4 $39.95 / £31.00 Hardback 978-1-78661-229-8 $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-78661-231-1 $38.00 / £29.00

Marking the renaissance of social geographies in recent years, this major textbook showcases the breadth of conceptual and empirical approaches that scholars now utilize to understand contemporary social issues through a spatial lens.

The book is collectively authored by one of the largest groups of social geographers in the world. It develops a vision of social geographies that is rooted in the commitments that have characterised the sub-discipline for at least half a decade (e.g. society-space relations, justice, equality), while incorporating new approaches, theories and concerns (e.g. emotions, performance, and the more-than-human).

This textbook is authored by the The Newcastle Social Geographies Collective and edited by Rachel Pain and Peter Hopkins.

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Chinese Foreign Relations

The First World War

Power and Policy of an Emerging Global Force, Fifth Edition

Ethics in the Digital Domain

By Robert G. Sutter

By Robert S. Fortner

By William Kelleher Storey

Robert G. Sutter assesses China’s growing international political and economic assertiveness and considers the causes and grave consequences of tensions with the United States.

Ethics in the Digital Domain helps students explore the big questions surrounding the impact of the digital domain on our daily lives.

In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective.

Robert G. Sutter is professor of practice in international affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers January 2021 • 422 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3829-8 $45.00 / £35.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-3828-1 $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3830-4 $37.00 / £28.00

Robert S. Fortner is a research professor of communication at the University of Illinois.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers August 2020 • 198 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2185-6 $39.00 / £30.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-2184-9 $75.00 / £58.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-2186-3 $37.00 / £28.00

A Concise Global History, Third Edition

William Kelleher Storey is professor of history at Millsaps College.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2021 • 270 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3132-9 $32.00 / £25.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-3131-2 $89.00 / £68.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3133-6 $30.00 / £22.95

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34 | MUSIC

Get Tusked

Sympathy for the Drummer

Fast Forward, Play, and Rewind

The Inside Story of Fleetwood Mac’s Most Anticipated Album

By Michael Oberman

By Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas

By Mike Edison

A legendary journalist presents his rock ’n’ roll journey, featuring more than one hundred short interviews with popular musicians from 1967 to 1973.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac’s epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, from producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas.

A wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World needed the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll drummer.

Michael Oberman became a weekly music columnist at age nineteen and wrote an interview column for six years before leaving for a career in the music business.

Ken Caillat is a Los Angeles– based producer and engineer.

Hernan Rojas is a recording engineer and music producer.

Backbeat October 2020 • 472 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5092-5 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5093-2 $28.50 / £21.95

Backbeat May 2021 • 392 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5983-6 $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2020) 978-1-4930-4771-0 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5070-3 $28.50 / £21.95

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Why Charlie Watts Matters

Mike Edison is the former editor and publisher of High Times magazine.

Backbeat May 2021 • 264 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5981-2 $16.95 / £12.95 Hardback (2020) 978-1-4930-4773-4 $22.00 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5069-7 $20.50 / £15.95

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America, the Band An Authorized Biography

Hold On World

The Lasting Impact of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band, 50 Years On

I’m Gonna Say It Now The Writings of Phil Ochs

By Jude Warne, Foreword by Billy Bob Thornton

By John Kruth

By Phil Ochs, Edited by David Cohen

Celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell share stories of growing up, growing together, and growing older.

Hold On World revisits Lennon and Ono’s love affair and startling collaborations.

John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made.

A comprehensive look at another side of the famous topical songwriter Phil Ochs, showcasing his prose and poetry from across the full span of his life.

Jude Warne is a music journalist with publications in The Observer, The Vinyl District, Live for Live Music, No Depression, and Film International.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2020 • 288 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-2095-8 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-2096-5 $23.50 / £17.95

John Kruth is the author of three musical biographies.

Backbeat June 2021 • 248 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5235-6 $24.95 / £18.95

Phil Ochs recorded three albums for Elektra Records.

Backbeat January 2021 • 344 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5147-2 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5148-9 $28.50 / £21.95

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To Hell and Back Sex, Drums, Rock ’n’ Roll!

My Life in Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers, in the Words of the Last Man Standing

The Annotated Ring Cycle

By Kenny Aronoff

By Walter Lure, with Dave Thompson

By Frederick Paul Walter, Illustrated by Cliff Mott

Talent, energy, dedication, discipline, passion, innovation, education, drive, mind, body, spirit, vision, honor, truth, and drums make the man: Kenny Aronoff.

Alongside Richard Hell, Walter Lure is the last surviving member of punk band Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers.

Frederick Paul Walter makes The Rhine Gold accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwart. Walter provides a dazzling, new translation in lively modern English and annotations.

The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business

Kenny Aronoff is one of the most famous rock ‘n’ roll drummers alive.

Backbeat November 2020 • 340 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5162-5 $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2017) 978-1-4950-0793-4 $29.99 / £22.95

Walter Lure’s latest album received great reviews across the media spectrum.

Dave Thompson is the author of over 150 books.

Backbeat July 2021 • 280 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5988-1 $18.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2020) 978-1-4930-5169-4 $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5170-0 $26.50 / £19.95

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The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)

Frederick Paul Walter has worked for Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Southwest, and other performance organizations.

Amadeus November 2020 • 160 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3668-3 $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3669-0 $38.00 / £29.00

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Tumult!

I Feel Love

By Donald Brackett

By Dave Thompson

The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner

The narrative of Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl Anna Mae Bullock into the boisterous force of nature we know today as Tina Turner. In Turner, we have a case study in triumph over adversity and sheer creative will power: singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, feminist icon.

Donald Brackett is a Vancouver-based culture journalist who writes about music, art, and films, as well as curating film programs for Cinematheque.

Backbeat January 2021 • 248 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5506-7 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5507-4 • $23.50 / £17.95

Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music

“I Feel Love” is routinely featured toward the top of manifold “greatest song” Top 100s—and remains a favorite by music fans and artists alike, with dozens of cover versions paying homage.

That is the tale this book tells—not only the story of the song but also the story of its all-pervading impact upon the world of popular music. Firsthand experiences and original interviews with a host of musicians, disc jockeys, and dancers loudly illustrate the record’s initial impact and its continuing influence. “I Feel Love” still sounds like the future.

Dave Thompson is the author of over 150 books.

Backbeat July 2021 • 320 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4980-6 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4981-3 • $26.50 / £19.95

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Founded in 1987, Amadeus Press offers a full line of books on classical music and opera. Their mission is to publish books that appeal to the wide audience of music lovers while also maintaining the highest scholarly integrity.

Beethoven’s Orchestral Music An Owner’s Manual, Volume 33

Berlioz

A Listener’s Guide, Volume 34

By Victor Lederer

By David Hurwitz

Beethoven’s orchestral works include some of the most iconic pieces of music ever written. Veteran music critic David Hurwitz surveys all of the symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces. It also features extensive discographies and recommended recordings.

Music critic, percussionist, and author David Hurwitz is the founder and executive editor of Classicstoday.com.

Amadeus February 2021 • 240 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3560-0 • $38.00 / £29.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3561-7 • $36.00 / £28.00

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Victor Lederer surveys the music of Hector Berlioz, one of the most pioneering orchestrators in history, and introduces the general music lover to both his masterpieces such as Les Troyens and lesser known gems.

A bold innovator in the 19th century, Berlioz was a musical dramatist with an output that is less familiar than it should be and often misunderstood. His most famous and popular pieces are the thrilling programmatic symphonies, the Symphonie fantastique and Harold en Italie.

Victor Lederer is a writer on music and urban history.

Amadeus March 2021 • 168 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3558-7 • $38.00 / £29.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3559-4 • $36.00 / £28.00

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For more than 40 years, FalconGuides have set the standard for outdoor recreation content. With contributions by top outdoors experts and enthusiasts, we invite readers to experience the endless adventure and beauty of the great outdoors.

Discover the full range of FalconGuide's publishing at falcon.com.

May 2021 104 pages

July 2021 224 pages

Paperback 978-1-4930-5543-2 $12.95 / £9.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5544-9 $12.00 / £8.95

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December 2020 256 pages

June 2021 144 pages

Paperback 978-1-4930-4781-9 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4782-6 $23.50 / £17.95

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40 | PROFESSIONAL GUIDES

How to Write Songs on Guitar

A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course, Third Edition

Music Theory for SelfTaught Musicians Level 1: The Basics

By Rikky Rooksby

By Will Metz

You want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar.

This updated twentiethanniversary third edition of the bestselling songwriting handbook shows you how. Learn the techniques and tricks used in two thousand great songs by everyone from the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie to Kings of Leon, U2, Amy Winehouse, and Ed Sheeran. Explore and understand the four main elements of a song—melody, harmony, rhythm, and lyrics—and learn how to use them in exciting new ways. Master song structure, intros, bridges, chord sequences, and key changes.

Make the most of your guitar, with innovative chords, scales, modes, tunings, and recording techniques. Use the skills and insights of the great songwriters to create better, more memorable songs.

Music Theory for Self-Taught Musicians describes and explains music theory to musicians and aspiring musicians who did not receive much or any formal music education and don't necessarily know how to read music. It presents a clear, step-bystep exploration of all the tools needed to understand modern music, without the hassle of learning how to read music.

Rikky Rooksby is a guitar teacher, songwriter/ composer, and writer on popular music.

Backbeat January 2021 • 288 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5176-2 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5177-9 • $26.50 / £19.95

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Will Metz is a French-American guitarist and author.

Backbeat July 2021 • 160 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5611-8 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5612-5 • $23.50 / £17.95

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The Elements of Song Craft

The Contemporary Songwriter’s Usage Guide To Writing Songs That Last

The Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook Third Edition

By Billy Seidman

By Bill Gibson

The Elements of Song Craft beelines directly to the most important aspect of writing good songs— identifying the key emotion living at the heart of the song—then offers a stepby-step process to harnessing that singular emotional power. Additionally, a dozen other strategies, formulas, perspectives, and exercises are offered in the book.

Any live act must sound great to be well received by today’s increasingly demanding audiences. If you’re a sound operator, teacher, musician, or even a music fan who is interested in becoming a sound operator, you know that regardless of the musical genre or venue, high-quality audio is mandatory for an artist or band’s success. This book shows you how to improve your audio skills, including how to build great sounds that form a professionalsounding mix.

Billy Seidman's songwriting career includes staff positions in both New York and Nashville at RCA music publishing, Warner Chappell Music Publishing, SONY/ATV Tree Music Publishing/ Nashville, Carlin America Music Publishing, and Criterion Music Publishin companies.

Backbeat September 2020 • 288 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4765-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5078-9 • $23.50 / £17.95

Bill Gibson is president of Northwest Music and Recording, Inc. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 • 456 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3317-0 • $49.95 / £38.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3465-8 • $47.50 / £37.00

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How to Act & Eat at the Same Time

Naked Screenwriting

By Tom Logan

By Lew Hunter, with Meg Gifford

All sixteen chapters, eight on the “do’s” and eight on the “don’t,” have been brought upto-date, making How to Act & Eat at the Same Time the must read for today’s aspiring and working actors. And all of the appendices containing all the essential practical information an actor needs in his toolbox has been updated to – resource websites; SAG, AFTRA, and Equity locations; rules and requirements for joining SAG, AEA, and Equity; plus, an updated glossary.

Through interviews with worldrenowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter, Oscar-winning screenwriters and multiple awardwinners reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology. Interviewees include Francis Ford Coppola, William Golden, Alexander Payne, Ernest Lehman, Horton Foote and Billy Wilde.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Landing a Professional Acting Job

Tom Logan is well-known as an actor’s director.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2021 • 304 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3772-7 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-3773-4 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing

Lew Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television.

Limelight Editions May 2021 • 528 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3795-6 • $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3796-3 • $38.00 / £29.00

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Red Pill, Blue Pill

Snow

By David Neiwert

By Anthony R. Wood

Conspiracy theories are killing us. Once confined to the fringes of society, this worldview now has adherents numbering in the millions -extending right into the White House. This disturbing look at this alt-right threat to our democratic institutions offers guidance for counteracting the personal toll this destructive mindset can have on relationships and families.

From “Winter Wonderland” to “Snowmageddon,” we’ve had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations delves into science, history, economics, and popular culture to examine snow’s enduring hold on the imagination.

How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us

David Neiwert is a journalist and author based in Seattle, Washington.

Prometheus November 2020 • 232 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-626-1 • $28.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-63388-627-8 • $26.50 / £19.95

A History of the World’s Most Fascinating Flake

In more than thirty years as a staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Anthony R. Wood has written on many and varied subjects.

Prometheus December 2020 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-594-3 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-63388-595-0 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Microbes

The Life-Changing Story of Germs

By Phillip K. Peterson, Foreword by Michael T. Osterholm

Microbes also takes on contemporary issues like the importance of vaccinations in the face of the growing antivaxxer movement, as well as the rise of cutting-edge health treatments like fecal transplants.

Phillip K. Peterson, M.D. is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Prometheus October 2020 • 312 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-634-6 $25.95 / £19.95 eBook 978-1-63388-635-3 $24.50 / £18.95

The State of Science

What the Future Holds and the Scientists Making It Happen

Your Place in the Universe Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence

By Paul M. Sutter

By Marc Zimmer

New research and innovations in the field of science are leading to lifechanging and world-altering discoveries like never before.

What does the horizon of science look like?

Marc Zimmer is the Jean C. Tempel ’65 Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut College.

Prometheus September 2020 • 224 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-639-1 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-63388-640-7 $25.50 / £19.95

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Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night? In this exciting tour of a universe far larger than we can imagine, cosmologist Paul M. Sutter emphasizes how amazing it is that we are part of such a huge, complex, and mysterious place.

Paul M. Sutter is the cosmological researcher for the Department of Astronomy at The Ohio State University.

Prometheus July 2021 • 280 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-663-6 $17.95 / £13.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-63388-472-4 $24.00 / £17.95 eBook 978-1-63388-473-1 $17.00 / £12.95

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Math Tricks

The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers

The Joy of Geometry

By Alfred S. Posamentier

By Alfred S. Posamentier

It is no secret that most people avoid mathematics, in large measure because elementary school teachers have never done much to motivate a love of the subject matter. In his latest book, mathematician Alfred S. Posamentier provides easily understandable, easily presentable and easily replicated tricks that one can do with mathematics. All that is required is the ability to do arithmetic, understand the very basics of algebra and geometry and have an open mind for probability.

A veteran math educator reveals the hidden fascinations of geometry and why this staple of math education is important.If you remember anything about high school geometry class, it’s probably doing proofs.

But geometry is more than axioms, postulates, theorems, and proofs. It’s the science of beautiful and extraordinary geometric relationships--most of which is lost in high school classrooms where the focus is on the rigor of logically proving those relationships. This book will awaken readers to the appeal of geometry by placing the focus squarely on geometry’s visually compelling features and intrinsic elegance.

Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education.

Prometheus June 2021 • 246 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-664-3 • $25.95 / £19.95 eBook 978-1-63388-665-0 • $24.50 / £18.95

Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education.

Prometheus November 2020 • 162 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-586-8 • $18.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-63388-587-5 • $18.00 / £13.95

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46 | SPORT

The Man Who Created Merseyside Football

John Houlding, Founding Father of Liverpool and Everton

By David Kennedy

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 180 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-4123-6 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4124-3 $19.00 / £14.95

In The Man Who Created Merseyside Football: John Houlding, Founding Father of Liverpool and Everton, David Kennedy recounts the sporting legacy of John Houlding. A brewer and Conservative politician, Houlding was a polarising yet fascinating figure. His financial input, first at Everton Football Club and then at Liverpool Football Club, provided the launch pad for the establishment of two nationally and internationally known sporting organizations. By the time of his death in 1902, both clubs had reached the pinnacle of the English game and Houlding’s place as the founding father of professional football in Merseyside was assured.

David Kennedy, PhD, is a researcher and author whose focus is on football club governance.

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Soccer Under the Swastika

Is This Heaven?

Mixed Martial Arts A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC

Defiance and Survival in the Nazi Camps and Ghettos

By Brett Mandel

By Marc Zimmer

By Kevin E. Simpson

In this updated edition of his 2002 book, Brett Mandel tells the story of a make-believe place made real, its incredible lure, and its effect on the people who have stepped between its chalk lines.

This book is a fascinating history of mixed martial arts, from ancient fighting sports to the present day.

It examines the growth and development of the different sports and features vignettes of famous moments in fighting history alongside stories of the fighters themselves.

The Magic of the Field of Dreams

A lifelong Philadelphian, Brett Mandel is the Commissioner of the Greater Philadelphia Men’s Adult Baseball League.

Lyons Press January 2021 • 224 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5510-4 $17.95 / £13.95 Hardback (2002) 978-1-888698-41-1 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5722-1 $17.00 / £12.95

L.A. Jennings is a former amateur kickboxer and submission wrestler.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2021 • 232 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4195-3 $38.00 / £29.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4196-0 $36.00 / £28.00

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This book reveals the surprising role soccer played during World War II. It uncovers many survivor testimonies and old accounts of wartime players, revealing hidden stories of soccer in almost every Nazi concentration camp. To these prisoners, soccer was a glimmer of joy amid hunger and torture, and a show of resistance against the Nazi regime.

Kevin E. Simpson is professor of psychology at John Brown University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers= July 2020 • 272 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3869-4 $26.00 / £19.95 eBook 978-1-5381-3879-3

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The Night the Referee Hit Back

Sparring with Smokin’ Joe

By Mike Silver

By Glenn Lewis

This book is a collection of twenty-eight of the best articles on boxing by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, looking back at some of the sport’s most iconic moments.

The essays are a colorful mix of hard-hitting exposes and light-hearted stories featuring legendary boxers Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, and more.

This book aims to rectify the imbalance in coverage between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali just in time for the 50th anniversary of The Fight of the Century.

Based on several months Glenn Lewis spent in the gym and on the road with Frazier in 1980, Lewis gives new insight into Frazier’s Hall-of-Fame career, wars with Ali, and hard-scrabble roots.

Mike Silver is an internationally respected boxing historian and author.

Glenn Lewis is director of journalism at York College, CUNY, and professor of print journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Memorable Moments from the World of Boxing

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers October 2020 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3690-4 • $34.00 / £26.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3691-1 • $32.00 / £25.00

Joe Frazier’s Epic Battles and Rivalry with Ali

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2021 • 224 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3679-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-3680-5 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Now in its fourth decade, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is America's foremost publisher of theatre, cinema, and TV books.

Janet Langhart Cohen’s Anne & Emmett A One-Act Play, Trade Edition

Notes on the Writing of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

By Janet Langhart Cohen

Edited by Robert L. Freedman

Janet Langhart Cohen’s Anne & Emmett: A One-Act Play is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the thirteenyear-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Till is the fourteen-year-old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the modern American civil rights movement.

The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, “Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?”

As anyone on Broadway will tell you, the answer is, “The book.” Tonywinning book writer Robert L. Freedman takes you through the process of writing a new musical, including story structure, song placement, dialogue, character development, and more that led to the creation of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

Janet Langhart Cohen is an award-winning playwright, and journalist.

Tony-winning book writer Robert L. Freedman takes you through the process of writing a new musical.

Applause February 2021• 72 pages

Applause June 2021 • 72 pages

Paperback 978-1-4930-5255-4 • $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5645-3 • $16.00 / £11.95

Paperback 978-1-4930-5598-2 • $12.95 / £9.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5599-9 • $12.00 / £8.95

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Ever After

The Mikado to Matilda

By Barry Singer

By Thomas S. Hischak

Ever After remains far more than a detailed showby-show history.

With nearly one hundred first-person interviews, it is also a definitive behind-thescenes account of how those shows were made.

Singer invites the people who created the last forty years of musical theater on and off Broadway to tell their own stories.

Ever After also closely documents the evolving contributions of women and persons of color to the past forty years of musical theater: their triumphs, their setbacks, and their centrality to musical theater's future.

This is the first book to look at the British musical theatre with reference to those London musicals that were also produced in New York City. The book covers 110 British musicals, ranging from 1750 to the present day, including the popular Gilbert and Sullivan comic operettas during the Victorian era, the Andrew Lloyd Webber mega-musicals of the late twentieth century, and today's biggest hits such as Matilda.

Forty Years of Musical Theater and Beyond, 1977–2020

Barry Singer has written extensively about the arts for the New York Times Arts & Leisure section, the New Yorker, New York magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Opera News, USA Today, the Huffington Post, and Playbill, among others.

Applause June 2021 • 400 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5160-1 • $37.95 / £29.00 eBook 978-1-4930-5161-8 • $36.00 / £28.00

British Musicals on the New York Stage

Each London musical is discussed first as a success in England and then how it fared in America. The plots, songs, songwriters, performers, and producers for both the West End and the Broadway (or Off Broadway) production are identified and described. The discussion is sometimes critical, evaluating the musicals and why they were or were not a success in New York.

Thomas S. Hischak is an internationally recognized writer and teacher in the performing arts and the author of twenty-six non-fiction books about theatre, film, and popular music.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 • 360 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-2606-6 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2607-3 • $42.50 / £33.00

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The Best American Short Plays 2018–2019

The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2020

Edited by John Patrick Bray

Edited by Lawrence Harbison

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other.

Revolving around the theme of 'this is who we are," the one-act plays in this latest edition of the Best American Short Plays series (now in its ninth decade) explore the thoughtful ways in which playwrights are wrestling to make sense of our world today.

Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-beforepublished men’s monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays.

The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights such as Don Nigro, Theresa Rebeck, Rob Ackerman, Len Jenkin, Stephen Belber, and Tim Blake Nelson, and future stars such as David MacGregor, Reina Hardy, Chris Daftsios, Frank Baslo and Will Arbery.

The selected plays reflect how we perform our identities (private and public) and how we negotiate who we are with others who often have different perspectives, perspectives that make us uncomfortable. The theme of this collection is topical and apt—as our country continues to shore up its borders along party lines, from pride parades to strict abortion laws, from inclusivity in education curricula to children in detention centers at the US– Mexico border.

John Patrick Bray is a playwright, screenwriter, and teacher at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Applause May 2021 • 352 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5592-0 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5593-7 • $28.50 / £21.95

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There are terrific comic and dramatic pieces, and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.

Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisitions for Samuel French, Inc., for over thirty years.

Applause June 2021 • 184 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5323-0 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5324-7 • $19.00 / £14.95

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The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020

The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020

Edited by Lawrence Harbison

Edited by Lawrence Harbison

The Best New TenMinute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. Selections include:

Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-beforepublished women’s monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays.

The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights such as Don Nigro, Saviana Stanescu, and Len Jenkin and future stars such as Lia Romeo, Steven Hayet, Lori Fischer, Will Arbery, and Carey Crim.

Beta Testing by Jenny Lyn Bader The Fourteenth Annual Foot Puppet Festival by Holly Hepp-Galvan Glasstown by Don Nigro Incident on the Golden Gate Bridge by David MacGregor Oxycontin Follies by Steve Gold Two Artists Trying to Pay Their Bill by Lucy Wang The Scottish Loo by J. Thalia Cunningham Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisitions for Samuel French, Inc., for over thirty years.

Applause December 2020 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5327-8 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5328-5 • $19.00 / £14.95

There are terrific comic and dramatic pieces, and all represent the best of contemporary playwriting. This collection is an invaluable resource for aspiring actors hoping to ace their auditions and impress directors and teachers with contemporary pieces.

Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisitions for Samuel French, Inc., for over thirty years.

Applause June 2021 • 184 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5325-4 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5326-1 • $19.00 / £14.95

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54 | TRAVEL

Around the World in Eighty Wines Exploring Wine One Country at a Time

By Mike Veseth

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Gourmand International’s Best U.S. Book in Wine and Spirits Tourism

November 2020 224 pages

Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines.

Paperback 978-1-5381-3831-1 $16.95 / £12.95 Hardback (2018) 978-1-4422-5736-8 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4422-5737-5 $16.00 / £11.95

Bookauthority 5 Best Wine Audiobooks of All Time

The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world’s leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya’s most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really!

Mike Veseth is professor emeritus of international political economy at the University of Puget Sound.

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Europe by Eurail 2021

Touring Europe by Train, Forty-Fifth Edition

By Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski, Revised by Darren Price

Imprint: Globe Pequot February 2021 584 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4777-2 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4778-9 $23.50 / £17.95

Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler’s one-stop source for visiting Europe’s cities and countries by rail for over forty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options.

LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski and her late husband, George Ferguson, first coauthored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (Globe Pequot).

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Seinfeld

Star Wars

By Paul Arras

By Josef Benson

Seinfeld: A Cultural History explores the show’s history with an engaging look at the show’s legendary co-creators, its supporters (and skeptics) at NBC, and its awardwinning cast. By all the traditional rules of television, Seinfeld never should have made it to the air. Paul Arras pays close attention to the writers and writing of the show, offering a fresh look at the episodes themselves and assessing its broader cultural impact. Throughout he also dissects the show’s main quartet and the other memorable characters that foursome interacted with over the show’s eight seasons.

With deep perception and good humor, this book considers what the adventures of Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine reveal about the nineties and what messages they pass along to twenty-first century viewers.

Star Wars fans both love and hate Star Wars and George Lucas.

He is equally responsible for their pleasure and pain. Star Wars:The Triumph of Nerd Culture delves deeper into the Star Wars universe than any book has gone before, including an illuminating look into why Lucas sold Lucasfilm to the Disney Corporation and how the sale affected the franchise. After reading this book, fans will never be able to watch Star Wars in the same way again.

A Cultural History

Paul Arras, PhD, teaches in the Communication and Media Studies department at SUNY Cortland.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers August 2020 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2687-5 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2688-2 • $33.00 / £25.00

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The Triumph of Nerd Culture

Josef Benson is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Parkside.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers January 2021 • 190 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-1620-3 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1621-0 • $33.00 / £25.00

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A Book about the Film Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

Black Oscars

All the References from Americans to Zulu Nation

From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans

By Darl Larsen

By Frederick W. Gooding, Jr.

This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, the Pythons’ third and final original feature as a complete group. In this resource, virtually every allusion and reference that appears in the film is identified and explained —from Britain’s waning Empire through the Winter of Discontent to Margaret Thatcher’s secondterm mandate, from playing fields to battle fields, and from accountant pirates to sacred sperm.

Gooding provides a thorough analysis and overview of black people that were nominated for their Hollywood roles, going decade by decade in highly accessible language. The book shows how the Oscars are a litmus test, ultimately reflecting what degree our society has truly embraced diversity within the hallowed confines of our sacred imaginations.

Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. is an Assistant Professor within the Honors College at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX.

Darl Larsen is professor in the Media Arts department and the Center for Animation at Brigham Young University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers July 2020 • 320 pages

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers August 2020 • 444 pages

Hardback 978-1-5381-2372-0 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2373-7 • $37.00 / £28.00

Hardback 978-1-5381-1596-1 • $55.00 / £42.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1597-8 • $52.00 / £40.00

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Olivia de Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood

The Films of Martin Scorsese

Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt

By Ellis Amburn

By Eric San Juan

This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its most iconic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author’s meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the Delacorte Press in 1973. Amburn also knew many of the key figures in her life and career, a veritable pantheon of Hollywood royalty from the 30s, 40s, and 50s: Jimmy Stewart, George Cukor, and David O. Selznick, and he was an editor at William Morrow when the company published the autobiography of de Havilland’s difficult sister Joan Fontaine.

The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt looks at the 24 features directed by Martin Scorsese in chronological order, providing an overview with some historical context, followed by a brief synopsis, and other details per film. An accessible analysis that dives deep into the themes, techniques, and innovations of each movie

A 1954 graduate of Texas Christian University, Ellis Amburn worked as a reporter for Newsweek before going into the book publishing industry.

Lyons Press November 2020 • 440 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4954-7 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-4930-3409-3 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3410-9 • $19.00 / £14.95

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Eric San Juan is the author of several books.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers November 2020 • 250 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-2765-0 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2766-7 • $33.00 / £25.00

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Release the Snyder Cut

The Crazy True Story Behind the Fight That Saved Zack Snyder’s Justice League

The Art of Pulp Horror

By Sean O’Connell

Edited by Stephen Jones

unfinished version.

Release the Snyder Cut is an entertaining, investigative, and emotional recap of 2017’s failed Justice League movie, followed closely by a breakdown of the exhaustive efforts by a dedicated fan base to unearth director Zack Snyder’s

Sean O’Connell is the managing director of CinemaBlend, a globally recognized and industry-respected entertainment news website.

Applause April 2021 • 232 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5903-4 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5904-1 • $19.00 / £14.95

An Illustrated History

Profusely illustrated with more than 800 rare and unique images from around the world— including book and magazine covers, interior illustrations, movie posters, comic books, promotional items, tieins, and previously unpublished artwork commissioned especially for this book—this handsome volume charts the history of escapist horror and the individuals who created it.

Stephen Jones is a Hugo Award nominee and the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, four Bram Stoker Awards, twenty-one British Fantasy Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Horror Association.

Applause October 2020 • 256 pages Hardback 978-1-5400-3297-3 • $40.00 / £31.00

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The Voyages of Star Trek

A Mirror on American Society through Time

By K.M. Heath and A. S. Carlisle

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers January 2021 228 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3696-6 $35.00 / ÂŁ27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3697-3 $33.00 / ÂŁ25.00

Star Trek emerged alongside mini-skirts, bellbottoms, and VW vans; flourished in the shadow of Madonna, big hair, and greed; and expanded with computers, Beanie Babies, and religious revitalization. Star Trek survived the culture shock of 9/11 and experienced a revival in the era of yoga pants, hybrid cars, and Starbucks. After more than 5 decades, Star Trek is alive and well, still voyaging through space and time. But, why is that? How has this science fiction franchise managed to anticipate and adapt to such rapid culture change?

Kathleen M. Heath is an associate professor of anthropology at Indiana State University and the author of numerous articles on topics in archaeology, evolution, behavioral ecology, culture, and genetics.

Ann S. Carlisle has a B.A. in anthropology. While a student at Indiana State University she began integrating her academic concentration in cultural diversity with her keen interest in science/speculative fiction, ultimately researching Star Trek as a phenomenon of American culture.

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How to Think Like an Officer

Lessons in Learning and Leadership for Soldiers and Citizens

By Reed Bonadonna

Reed Bonadonna describes how officers think, how they ought to think, how they develop their skills, and how they can improve these skills, as well as how average civilians and citizens can learn from the example of military officers and their program of education.

Reed Bonadonna served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1979 to 1988 as an infantry officer.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers November 2020 • 288 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3941-2 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6937-2 $28.50 / £21.95

The Official U.S. Army Tactics Field Manual

What Do We Know About War? Third Edition

By Department of the Army

Edited by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A. Vasquez

Filled with diagrams of attack plans, defensive strategies, and troop movements, The Official U.S. Army Tactics Field Manual is the playbook the U.S. Army uses to employ available means to win in combat.

What Do We Know about War? brings together leading scholars within international relations to review the current theory and research on peace and war.

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command was created on July 1st, 1973, under General William E. DePuy. Lyons Press July 2020 • 488 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-4868-7 $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4869-4 $20.50 / £15.95

Sara McLaughlin Mitchell is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa.

John A. Vasquez is the Thomas B. Mackie Scholar in International Relations at the University of Illinois.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2021 • 416 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-4009-3 $59.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-4008-6 $118.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4010-9 $56.00

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