Rowman & Littlefield Spring 2022 Rights Guide

Rights Guide Spring 2022

Rowman & Littlefield is a leading independent publisher headquartered in Maryland, just outside Washington DC, with strengths in Academic Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Educational Publishing and a wide array of General Interest titles from hallmark imprints such as: Prometheus Lexington Books Globe Pequot Lyons Press Falcon Guides Hal Leonard Rowman & Littlefield has offices in Maryland, New York City, Toronto and London, and an international Rights team that license hundreds of translations every year.

This guide is just the tip of the iceberg of a truly extensive and diverse publishing programme, and we invite you to browse all our subject catalogues and explore the full breadth of our lists on rowman.com.

Sean McDonagh Head of Rights & Permissions 86-90 Paul Street London EC2A 4NE UK smcdonagh@rowman.com 02031111090

Table of Contents Art

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Biography & Autobiography

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Business & Economics

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Crafts & Hobbies

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Education

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Family & Relationships

19

Fiction

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Film, TV & Drama

24

Health & Fitness

27

History

29

Language Arts & Disciplines

40

Law

42

Literary Criticism

44

Music

47

Nature

51

Philosophy

54

Politics

56

Psychology

61

Religion

63

Science

65

Self-Help

68

Social Science

70

Sports & Recreation

76

True Crime

85

Young Adult Fiction

87

Backlist Highlights

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Sales & Distribution

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ART

Every Picture Hides a Story

The Secret Ways Artists Make Their Work More Seductive

By William Cane and Anna Gabrielle

Each year 11 million people trek to the Louvre to gawk at the Mona Lisa. For some, it’s the experience of a lifetime, one they’ll talk about with friends and family for decades.

Yet some modern researchers say that the vast majority of people will never recognize the hidden messages in this painting. That’s because those hidden messages are subliminal Buried below the threshold of conscious awareness, Da Vinci used techniques people never notice. Not only don’t people know what they’re seeing, they would be shocked to find out.

No book, however, has ever attempted to provide an overview of the technical sophistication and arcane methods that artists worldwide have used to conceal secret meaning in their work.

Every Picture Hides a Story is the first book to expose the subliminal content in the world’s greatest paintings. Titillating, subversive, and building on the groundbreaking work of pioneers of art criticism, this book will enable readers to view art masterpieces with greater understanding. And their enjoyment of these works will be exponentially enhanced.

This full-colour book contains 90 images of the paintings and their details.

William Cane is the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Art of Kissing, Fiction Writing Master Class and Clubhouse Confidential.

Anna Gabrielle earned a certificate in world art history from the Smithsonian Associates in Washington D.C., USA.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 272 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6136-4 $27.00 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6137-1 $25.50 / £19.95

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The Many Faces of Art Forgery

From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray

By William Casement

“This is an extremely well researched and structured book that does not overlook a single relevant issue in the area of art fraud while presenting the topic in a very accessible way.” —Saskia Hufnagel, reader in criminal law, Queen Mary University, London, editor/author The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime Forgery is a provocative presence in the art world that captures attention in the press and inspires books about the exploits of famous fraudsters as well as scholarly articles and monographs.

But missing until now has been a big-picture look at the phenomenon of art forgery.

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 280 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5800-5 $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5801-2 $34.00 / £26.00

The Many Faces of Art Forgery provides a unique treatment that features historical highlights, philosophical insights, psychological profiles, economic theories, and legal statutes and cases.

William Casement is a philosopher, writer, and former art dealer and gallery owner. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University and left a successful career as a professor to join the art business world. His writings span several fields including art, where his various articles on forgery range from scholarly expositions to an account of his personal experiences as a dealer.

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B IO GR APH Y & AUTOBI O GR AP HY

Stan Lee

A Life, Centennial Edition

By Bob Batchelor Foreword by Tom DeLonge

Rights Sold (original edition): Chinese Simplified, Hungarian, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Polish, Audio

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Stan Lee’s extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at the heart of global culture, loved by millions of superhero fans around the world.

October 2022 288 pages

In Stan Lee: A Life, award-winning cultural historian Bob Batchelor offers an in-depth and complete look at this iconic visionary. Born in the Roaring Twenties, growing up in the Great Depression, living and thriving through the American Century, and dying in the twenty-first century, Stan Lee’s life is a unique representation of recent American history. Batchelor examines Lee’s fascinating American life by drawing out all its complexity, drama, heartache, and humor, revealing how Lee introduced the world to heroes that were just as fallible and complex as their creator—and just like all of us.

An up-close look at a legendary figure, this centennial edition includes completely new material to give the full measure of a man whose genius continues to mesmerize audiences worldwide.

Bob Batchelor is an award-winning cultural historian and biographer and author of more than a dozen books. His work has been featured in Time, the New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, LitHub, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

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Hardback 978-1-5381-6203-3 $22.95 / £17.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6204-0 $21.50 / £16.95

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Sympathy for the Drummer

Why Charlie Watts Matters

By Mike Edison

Rights Exclusion: Audio Rights Sold: Japanese, Hungarian, Brazilian, French

Imprint: Backbeat

“As Keith Richards has said, “No Charlie, no Stones,” and Edison wrote the book to prove it.”— Modern Drummer

2021 272 pages

Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house. Charlie Watts, the anti-rock star was witness to the most savage years in rock history, and emerged a hero, a warrior poet. With his easy swing and often loping, uneven fills, he found nuance in a music that often had little room for it, and along with his greatest ally, Keith Richards, he gave the Stones their swaggering beat. While others battled their drums, Charlie played his modest kit with finesse and humility, and yet his relentless grooves on the nastiest hard-rock numbers of the era delivered a dangerous authenticity to a band that on their best nights should have been put in jail.

Paperback 978-1-4930-5981-2 $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5069-7 $16.00 / £11.95 Hardback (2020) 978-1-4930-4773-4 $24.95 / £18.95

Highly opinionated, fearless and hilarious, Sympathy for the Drummer is an unexpected treat for music fans and pop culture mavens, as edgy and ribald as the Rolling Stones at their finest, never losing sight of the sex and magic that puts the roll in the rock —the beat, that crazy beat!—and the man who drove the band, their true engine, the utterly irreplaceable Charlie Watts.

Mike Edison is the former editor and publisher of High Times magazine. Edison is also a noted musician who spent much of the 1980s and ‘90s seeing the world from behind a drum set, opening for bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, Sound Garden, and the Ramones.

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B IO GR APH Y & AUTOBI O GR AP HY

Gregor Mendel

His Life and Legacy

By Daniel J. Fairbanks Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, is renowned as one of the world’s most ingenious and influential scientists.

Nonetheless, he remains misunderstood and enigmatic, his history shrouded in controversy and myth. Mendel initiated an epic set of experiments with the common garden pea that would lead him to reveal the mystery of inheritance.

The article he published would become a classic in the history of science. This book commemorates Mendel’s life and legacy at the bicentennial of his birth. It interweaves traditional accounts of his history with newly discovered evidence to reveal an extraordinary teacher, a resolute priest and abbot, and a complex and guileless scientist whose momentous discoveries have remained essentially unchanged for more than a century and a half.

Daniel J. Fairbanks is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Gregor Mendel. His books and articles have dispelled pervasive Mendelian myths, clarified the influence of Darwin on Mendel, and brought to light new evidence of Mendel’s scientific discoveries and influence.

Prometheus August 2022 • 240 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-838-8 • $28.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-63388-839-5 • $27.50 / £20.95

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Hope Over Fate

Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty

By Scott MacMillan Rights Exclusion: Audio and UK This is the story of a mild-mannered accountant, Fazle Hasan Abed (19362019), whose life had a profound impact on millions. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC in 1972. BRAC went on to become the world’s largest nongovernmental organization, and Abed’s methods changed the way global policymakers think about poverty.

“For too long, people thought poverty was something ordained by a higher power, as immutable as the sun and the moon,” Abed wrote in 2018. His life’s mission was to put that myth to rest. This is the story of a man who lived a life of complexity, blemishes and all, driven by the conviction that in the dominion of human lives, hope will ultimately triumph over fate.

Scott MacMillan is the director of learning and innovation at BRAC USA, an affiliate organization of BRAC, where he has worked since 2011. A former journalist, he served as the speechwriter of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed.

Rowman & Littlefield August 2022 • 304 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6492-1 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6493-8 • $28.50 / £21.95

BI O GR AP HY & AU TO B I O GR AP HY

Thirty-Thousand Steps

Writing Gatsby

By Jess Keefe

By William Hazelgrove

Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author’s obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother. With propulsive narrative scenes, a unique voice, empathy, and even humor, Jess blends her grieving experience together with explorations of the social, political, and scientific drivers that influenced what happened to her brother. ThirtyThousand Steps explores the psychosocial risk factors that lead to addiction, the cudgel of Catholicism, the joy and shame in the early-aughts queer experience, and the extents to which one can push mind and body to regenerate after a major loss.

Rights Exclusion: Translation and Film/TV

A Memoir of Sprinting Towards Life After Loss

Jess Keefe is a writer, editor, and advocate.

She serves as a digital director for Shatterproof, a national addiction advocacy organization.

Prometheus November 2022 • 232 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-842-5 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-63388-843-2 • $28.50 / £21.95

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The Real Story of the Writing of the Greatest American Novel

The Great Gatsby has sold 25 million copies worldwide and sells 500, 000 copies annually. The book has been made into three movies and produced for the theatre. It is considered the Greatest American Novel ever written. Yet, the story of how The Great Gatsby was written has not been told except as embedded chapters of much larger biographies.

This story is one of heartbreak, infidelity, struggle, alcoholism, financial hardship, and one man’s perseverance to be faithful to the raw diamond of his talent in circumstances that would have crushed others.

William Hazelgrove has a masters in history and is the best-selling author of ten novels and seven narrative nonfiction books: Madame President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, Forging a President: How the West Created Teddy Roosevelt (Regnery Publishing), Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair (Rowman & Littlefield).

Lyons Press October 2022 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6803-6 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-7014-5 • $28.50 / £21.95

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B U S INE SS & E CON OM I C S

Inclusive Sponsorship A Bold Vision to Advance Women of Color in the Workplace

By Jhaymee Tynan

Rights Exclusion: Audio Inclusive Sponsorship is an inspiring business book that explores how career sponsorship can accelerate women of color into senior leadership. Jhaymee Tynan, a Black female executive and talent advisor, shares her personal sponsorship and leadership journey, and shows how sponsorship can be transformational for black women and their employers.

Tynan explores her personal journey to the executive ranks by sharing an emotional account of navigating the challenges of climbing the corporate ladder. Most importantly, she credits sponsorship as the key to giving her the access and visibility within her organization to get promoted and to live out her career goals. This experience, coupled with her interest and passion to advocate for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) women, were the impetus for launching a global career initiative to sponsor 100 women of color by 2030. For any person or organization looking for ways to elevate BIPOC women into leadership roles, this book offers a guide to success.

Jhaymee Tynan is an award-winning leadership consultant, executive talent advisor, and self-proclaimed kindness champion with a passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion to drive impactful business results. She was a healthcare strategy executive before pivoting her career to focus on solving challenging people problems in the workplace.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 160 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6039-8 $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6040-4 $30.00 / £22.95

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Dare to Lead Like a Girl

How to Survive and Thrive in the Corporate Jungle

By Dalia Feldheim Foreword by Sheryl Sandberg

Dare to Lead Like a Girl is a holistic look at how to achieve purpose and joy at work. It is about turning the world of work into a place where empathy, intuition, passion and resilience take their rightful place, where women can lead like women and men can tap into their more feminine leadership traits and dare to lead (more) like a girl!

Dalia Feldheim was one of the marketing directors behind the 2014 global Always ad campaign “#LikeAGirl.” This message touched a nerve for women and men alike becoming much more than a commercial – as it became an icon for women’s empowerment. The ad was selected by Forbes as one of the 10 most influential campaigns of the decade.

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield August 2022 256 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6352-8 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6353-5 $25.50 / £19.95

With Dalia’s new book it is time to reclaim that phrase once again and this time in the world of leadership.With her flair for relatable storytelling, Dalia shares her executive leadership journey of over two decades backed by theoretical underpinning from the world of psychology, business, and mindfulness to encourage leaders to connect to their more feminine super powers: be courageous, lead from their heart, and Dare to Lead Like a Girl.

Dalia Feldheim spent 17 years at Procter & Gamble, where she led some of the world’s most successful brand-building campaigns including the iconic Always “#LikeAGirl”, Tampax “Mother Nature” and Whisper “Touch the pickle” all Cannes advertising award winners.

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B U S INE SS & E CON OM I C S

So You Want to Work in a Museum?

By Tara Young “This book shines a light on a needed path, supporting those who are considering a museum career journey.

It provides a breadth of basic insights in order to encourage more intentional entry into the field.” —Dina Bailey, CEO, Mountain Top Vision So You Want to Work in a Museum? discusses some of the benefits of working in museums; explains how museums differ according to size, type, and organizational structure; and goes through dozens of museum positions in detail. It is designed to introduce college students, graduate students, and/or young professionals to the museum field.

Tara Young is an experienced museum professional and a professor of museum studies at Tufts University. Currently an independent consultant, she has held positions at several museums on both coasts.

American Alliance of Museums August 2022 • 192 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6940-7 • $25.00 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-2410-9 • $23.50 / £17.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-5381-2409-3 • $34.00 / £26.00

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Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360° Lessons Learned from World Class Investors

By R. Scott Arnell Rights Sold: Audio Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360° is a must-read for anyone wanting to know more about investing for positive social, environmental, and ethical impact – with market returns. These are the stories and tactics of those leading the way as Sustainable and Responsible Investing goes mainstream.

Scott Arnell’s engaging, in-depth conversations with 27 of the world’s leading Sustainable and Responsible Investment experts, reveal their unique investment journeys, approaches, experiences, tips, strategies, and insights.

R. Scott Arnell is the founding partner of Geneva Capital S.A. (www.GenevaCapitalSA. com), an alternative investment advisory firm based in Geneva, Switzerland specializing in sustainable & responsible investment opportunities.

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 384 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4904-1 • $40.00 / £31.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4905-8 • $38.00 / £29.00

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The Brain-Friendly Workplace

The Search for Meaning at Work

By Friederike Fabritius Foreword by Scott Barry Kaufman

By Steve Van Valin

Why Talented People Are Quitting and How to Get Them to Stay

Rights Exclusion: German and Polish Right now, we’re confronting a oncein-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that’s better for everyone.

Knowledge workers are expecting today’s leaders to create the workplace of tomorrow: a hybrid ecosystem that thrives on flexibility, diversity of thought, and enables every employee to reach peak performance. In The BrainFriendly Workplace, Friederike Fabritius offers a science-based and field-tested blueprint for tomorrow’s workplace.

Through her easy-to-follow program, entire organizations are discovering how small, inexpensive changes can lead to advantages like better employee performance, higher job satisfaction, and stronger talent retention.

Friederike Fabritius, M.S. is a neuroscientist and trailblazer in the field of neuroleadership.

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The Definitive Guide to Amplify Purpose, Inspire Performance, and Engage Your Workforce

Retaining top talent and encouraging engagement and motivation at work is always difficult but even more so at a time of remote or hybrid work, mass resignations, and the uncertainties of the future of work. Here, Steve Van Valin offers a playbook for managers and leaders for cultivating meaning and engagement at work for the success of everyone.

Steve Van Valin is currently CEO and founder of Culturology. His firm specializes in culture articulation, employee engagement, and high-performance collaboration.

Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 • 192 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5211-9 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5212-6 • $30.00 / £22.95

Rowman & Littlefield October 2022 • 240 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5953-8 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5954-5 • $30.00 / £22.95

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CRAFT & H OBBI E S

Wild and Woolly Knitted Animals A Naturalist’s Notebook

By Sara Elizabeth Kellner Foreword by Tanis Gray

Discover the creatures of the wild outdoors!

Through the eyes of our naturalist knitter, you’ll discover a world of interesting creatures. Inside, you’ll find her sketches of animals in their habitat, scientific notes, and her knitting patterns that capture the unique personality of each animal.

The easy-to-follow instructions show you how to knit a total of 25 endearing animals, including a hedgehog, timberwolf, rainbow trout, red squirrel, rabbit, beaver, badger, meadowlark, bald eagle, and many more. Each one is portrayed realistically, and yet exudes it’s own special cuteness that you find in live wildlife. Grab your needles and yarn, and cast on your favorite!

Sara Elizabeth Kellner is a knitted toy designer who can’t imagine a happier life; it combines a lifelong obsession with knitting and a devotion to children and animals. Sara has a standing invitation from Vogue Knitting Live to exhibit her designs in the artist’s gallery at their live events in NYC. She is the author of Knits for Kitties, and her designs have been published in Harry Potter Knitting Magic I and II, Official Disney Knitting Book and Knit a Vintage Christmas, among others.

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Imprint: Stackpole Books October 2022 176 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7106-1 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7107-8 $23.50 / £17.95

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Basic Pottery Making A Complete Guide

Edited by Linda Franz Consultant editor Mark Fitzgerald Photographs by Jason Minick

Learn the tools and techniques you need to start making ceramic mugs, bowls, and more!

Imprint: Stackpole Books

The art of pottery making is described in detail for the beginning potter. Complete with a chapter on tools and materials to get started, this easy-to-use guide explains and illustrates how to wedge clay, use a pottery wheel, shape and trim pots, determine clay thickness, add handles, and a host of other pottery-making techniques. It also contains a chapter on bisque firing and glazing, the final steps in creating beautiful and functional pottery. Includes complete instructions for making a large bowl, three styles of mugs, and a sugar bowl and creamer set.

August 2022 144 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7137-5 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7138-2 $23.50 / £17.95

Linda Franz is a writer and reporter in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Mark Fitzgerald is an expert potter whose work has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show.

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Learn to Crochet in 10 Easy Lessons

All the stitches and techniques you need to know, plus 28 patterns to make right away!

By Salena Baca This book starts with the basics of how to choose yarn and hooks, and then teaches the basic stitches as well as chart reading.

Once you know the basics, Salena teaches you how to work crochet in rows, rounds, and working from the inside out as in granny squares. Later lessons include patterns, 28 total, to practice your skills and make things right away. This is a complete beginner’s guide, broken down into easy and manageable steps, to have you crocheting actual items as you learn new skills.

Salena Baca is the author of many bestselling crochet titles, including Two Simple Shapes = 26 Crocheted Cardigans, Tops & Sweaters, My Crocheted Closet, Crochet in a Day, Crochet Market Bags and Crochet for Christmas.

Stackpole Books November 2022 • 144 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7074-3 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7075-0 • $23.50 / £17.95

Supersize Crochet Animals 20 Adorable Amigurumi Sized to Snuggle

By Kristi Simpson Tiny crochet animals are cute, but the larger animals in this book are just the right size for hugs and cuddles. Worked with bulky yarn and larger hooks, these stuffed animals hook up fast, and all of the patterns are easy enough for even a beginner crocheter. Single crochet stitches form most of the pieces. Stitched or crocheted embellishments make each creature unique.

You’ll love the new friends you crochet, from a soft, fluffy llama or sheep to a frisky puppy, platypus, dinosaur, teddy bear, raccoon, turtle, and more. Make a favorite animal for yourself or a young friend. Once you make one, you’ll see how easy and fun they are to crochet, and you’ll want to make all 20 supersized amigurumi!

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet, Adorable Baby Crochet, Ultimate Baby Crochet, and Crochet Stitch Sampler Baby Blankets. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogs, and online venues.

Stackpole Books October 2022 • 144 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7100-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7102-3 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Knowledge Mobility is the New Internationalization

Guiding Educational Globalization One Educator at a Time

By Ted Purinton and Jennifer Dickinson Skaggs

Knowledge Mobility is the New Internationalization: Guiding Educational Globalization One Educator at a Time shows how university-based faculties of education in both developed and developing countries can work together toward professional standards that are based on globally recognized evidence and applied in culturally appropriate, and thus sustainable, ways throughout the world. The last half century of international educational development has generated many positive accomplishments, including school access expansion and curriculum quality improvement. However, it has not produced sustainable or comprehensive results, mainly because key institutions and local culture are frequently ignored.

Simultaneous to the production of these mixed results in developing countries, education scholars and faculties of education in wealthier countries have pursued an agenda of professionalization of the educational occupations—through higher qualification requirements, more stringent entry standards, and explicit evidence to guide practice. Furthermore, higher education internationalization has increased its scope and expanded its volume. Yet in these three areas—educational development, educational professionalization, and higher education internationalization—there has rarely been any convergence. This book makes a case for this vital union.

Imprint: Lexington Books July 2022 216 pages Hardback 978-1-6669-0889-3 $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-6669-0890-9 $45.00 / £35.00

Ted Purinton is senior education advisor for the Economic Development Board of Bahrain with special secondment as the Dean of the Bahrain Teachers College (BTC).

Jennifer Skaggs is vice president for student life and associate professor at Gordon College in Massachusetts.

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Critical Thinking

Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life, Fourth Edition

By Richard Paul and Linda Elder

Rights Sold: Chinese Simplified Written by international authorities on critical thinking, this book details an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and applicable to any and every situation in which human thinking is necessary. It provides students with the basic intellectual tools needed for life-long learning, helping them understand the mind and how its three functions—thinking, feeling, motivating—influence one another.

Critical Thinking fosters the development of fair-minded critical thinking and explores essential intellectual standards of clarity, precision, accuracy, logicalness, significance, depth, breadth, and fairness; the importance of skilled and deep questioning; and how to take thinking apart in order to find problems in thinking and then improve thinking.

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and leading authority on critical thinking who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the executive director of the Center for Critical Thinking for more than 25 years.

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Imprint: The Foundation for Critical Thinking 2022 642 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-3874-8 $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3875-5 $70.00 / £54.00

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Critical Thinking

Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life, Second Edition

By Richard Paul and Linda Elder

Rights Sold: Chinese Simplified Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life—as a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent. Richard Paul and Linda Elder identify the core skills of effective thinking, then help you analyze your own thought processes so you can systematically identify and overcome your weaknesses.

Use better thinking to empower yourself, discover opportunities, avoid disastrous mistakes, build wealth, and achieve your biggest goals! This is your complete, up-to-theminute blueprint for assessing and improving the way you think about everything – from business decisions to personal relationships. Drs. Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder, of the Center for Critical Thinking, offer specific guidance for making more intelligent decisions, and overcoming the irrationalities and sociocentric limits we all face.

Imprint: The Foundation for Critical Thinking 2020 476 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-3952-3 $39.99 / £31.00 eBook 978-1-5381-3953-0 $38.00 / £29.00

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and leading authority on critical thinking who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been president of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the executive director of the Center for Critical Thinking for more than 25 years.

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The Foundation for Critical Thinking Catalogue Available to read and download now on Issuu issuu.com/rowmaninternational

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FAMI LY & R E L AT I O N S HI P S

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Marriage after Religion

A Practical and Spiritual Guide

By Donna Schaper

As membership in traditional churches or religious institutions plummets, the meaning of marriage is changing rapidly.

Interfaith marriages are on the rise, creating new challenges from wedding planning to childraising. People of faith are marrying nonreligious people. Many question the institution of marriage itself. At a time when those identifying as spiritual but not religious is on the rise, Pastor Donna Schaper provides a roadmap to help readers to understand this continuing transition of marriage after both culture and religion are no longer of one voice about its meaning.

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield January 2023 Hardback 978-1-5381-4352-0 $32.00 eBook 978-1-5381-4353-7 $30.00

Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper is senior minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. She is the author of numerous books and writes for National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Tikkun and other publications.

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Untangling Your Marriage

A Guide to Collaborative Divorce

By Nanci A. Smith, Esq.

The core focus of the book is to reframe divorce from a shame and blame game to a paradigm where divorce is viewed through the lens of grief. It offers each reader an opportunity to show up for their divorce and present their best selves, even if they don’t feel like it. It emphasizes honor and respect for everyone involved.

This book is an open and honest portrayal of divorce from the perspective of a veteran divorce attorney, who has also been divorced. We live in a time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. A divorce is just like that, and the antidote to those conditions include concepts like collaboration, deep listening, innovation, flexibility, and an ability to pivot.

Collaborative divorce is the best kept secret of family lawyers.

It is an opportunity to emerge from a divorce, healthy and wholehearted, not bitter, and resentful. Learn how to do it here.

Nanci A. Smith, Esq., is an attorney licensed to practice in Vermont and New York. She is the Chair of the Collaborative Divorce section of the Vermont Bar Association.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield October 2022 208 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6689-5 $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6690-1 $30.00 / £22.95

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Sundance, Butch and Me A Novel about Etta Place

By Judy Alter

Rights Exclusion: Film/TV

Imprint: TwoDot

Her name is Martha Baird. Most know her as Etta Place, the fearless woman who rode with notorious outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

August 2022 320 pages

Told in Etta’s voice, Sundance, Butch and Me is history transformed. From daring train robberies and hair-raising escapes from the law, to her attraction to Sundance and love for Butch, Etta recounts the drama, passion, and adventures of America’s most famous—and sometimes most comic—band of robbers.

Paperback 978-1-4930-5269-1 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5270-7 $19.00 / £14.95

Despite a famous movie, countless books, and much conjecture, no one knows the truth about Etta Place. In this novel, Judy Alter, an author acclaimed for chronicling women of the nineteenth-century American West, creates one of the most believable and plausible accounts of this ever-mysterious woman.

Judy Alter is the award-winning author of over a hundred books, fiction and nonfiction for both adults and young adults.

She has won awards from Western Writers of America, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, and the Texas Institute of Letters and has been inducted into the Western Writers of America Hall of Fame and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

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The Falmouth Frigate An Isaac Biddlecomb Novel

By James L. Nelson

Territorial Rights: US & Canada Rights Exclusion: Translation and Film/TV The year 1777 is bleak indeed for the cause of American Independence, with the British army twice defeating Washington and taking the capital city of Philadelphia and the Royal Navy sweeping aside the defenses of the Delaware Bay. And for Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and the men of the half-built frigate Falmouth, things are direr still. After managing to slip through a British blockade, they find themselves trapped in a desolate harbor on the New Jersey coast and menaced not by the British but by the outlaw bands that terrorize the countryside and see Falmouth as a potentially valuable prize.

Deserter Angus McGinty steals Biddlecomb’s most potent weapon, the captured British sloop Sparrowhawk, leaving him to face the ruthless Pine Robbers on his own, with only his diminished crew and the near-useless local militia to help.

Meanwhile, Virginia Biddlecomb, trapped in occupied Philadelphia, sees her chance to play a clandestine role in the fight. In the course of her activities, however, she lets slip information that will put her husband, his ship, and his crew in mortal danger, leading to a desperate race to get the unwieldy Falmouth to a place beyond the reach of the Royal Navy.

James L. Nelson is the award-winning author of more than twenty works of maritime fiction and history. His books cover the gamut from Vikings to piracy in Colonial America to naval action during the American Revolution and the Civil War.

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Imprint: McBooks Press November 2022 320 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6856-2 $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-7124-1 $12.99 / £9.95

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Trafalgar

The Fog of War, Volume 8

By Seth Hunter Rights Exclusion: Translation and Film/TV “All I need is three days of fog,” Napoleon told his admirals, and they would have his greatest enemy at their mercy and the world at his feet. In the event he had a lot more than three days, but it was the fog of war and in it, even Napoleon Bonaparte could lose his way. This is the story of the murders and intrigues, the myths and mysteries—and crucially the events at sea—that preceded the most famous battle in nautical history. This is Nathan Peake’s story of Trafalgar, the true story of the campaign.

Seth Hunter is the pseudonym of Londonbased Paul Bryers, the author of six highly acclaimed naval adventures set against the canvas of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. One of his children’s stories, In a Pig’s Ear, was named as one of the Guardian’s six best novels of the year.

He has written and directed many historical dramas for British television, radio, and the theatre.

McBooks Press November 2022 • 240 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6467-0 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-7123-4 • $12.99 / £9.95

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The Hostile Shore

By Douglas Reeman Crammed with refugees, harried and bombed by enemy planes, the Sigli had struggled south in a desperate attempt to escape. Rupert Blair’s family had been among the passengers on that fateful journey in which the ship and all aboard had disappeared. Twenty years later, he still hasn’t forgotten—has never abandoned his obsession to discover exactly what happened. Now Rupert Blair embarks upon a journey of his own— one that will take him to a primitive, savage island in search of the truth.

A thrilling tale of naval warfare from Douglas Reeman, the all-time bestselling master of naval fiction, who served with the Royal Navy on convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. English novelist Douglas Reeman, a master storyteller of the sea from the time of Nelson to the twentieth century, thrilled an international audience for nearly 60 years.

Under his pen name, Alexander Kent, the former Royal Navy officer chronicled the adventures of Richard and Adam Bolitho at sea during the Age of Fighting Sail. As Douglas Reeman, he wrote about naval action during the twentieth century, with a primary focus on Britain’s Royal Navy.

McBooks Press August 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6892-0 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-7131-9 • $19.00

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It’s a Drag

Cross-Dressing in Performance

By Janet Tennant

Favorite examples of cross-dressing or cross-gender performances include Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Vesta Tilley as Burlington Bertie, Maxine Peake as Hamlet, and Drag Queen RuPaul outrageously fronting RuPaul’s Drag Race. It’s a Drag: Cross-Dressing in Performance tells the story of the different ways performers cross-dress. Janet Tennant looks at many of the memorable performers over the years who have adopted the characters and dress of others, and why they have done so: to tell stories, to amuse, to create memorable alter-egos, to rebel or call attention to social and political issues or merely for reasons of expediency.

Tennant examines cross-dressing at different periods of theatrical history in the Western canon, predominantly in Britain and North America. Not following a conventional historical timeline, Tennant instead examines the different types of cross-dressing/cross-gender performance: Boys in Shakespeare, Heroes in Opera, Pantomime Dames, and Drag Queens being just a few. And no study of cross-dressing can, of course, forget its origins in Ancient Greece.

It’s a Drag: Cross-Dressing in Performance discusses the present and attempts to predict the future of cross-dressing in performance.

Janet Tennant spent many years lecturing, researching, and training in Europe and beyond, focusing on improving workplace relationships.

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Imprint: Applause August 2022 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5905-8 $22.95 / £17.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5906-5 $21.50 / £16.95

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Muppets in Moscow

The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia

By Natasha Lance Rogoff

Rights Exclusion: Translation

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Muppets In Moscow is the incredible true story of the author’s odyssey to create Sesame Street in Russia. It reveals how—in between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow—a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented hit in a post-communist era.

October 2022 304 pages

The book reveals all the amazing, elaborate, behind-thescenes action and work that goes into the making of a beloved children’s television show—from creating the Muppets and determining their distinct “personalities” to hiring the actors and creating the set—all while ensuring that Russian culture is respected and represented. More than just a story of a children’s show, this book explores Russia’s people, their culture, and their relationship with the West that remains relevant even today.

Hardback 978-1-5381-6128-9 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6129-6 $25.50 / £19.95

Natasha Lance Rogoff is an award-winning television producer and journalist whose writings have appeared in mainstream international newspapers and magazines that include The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out London and Stadt Zeitung in Germany.

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Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations

The Films of Gurinder Chadha Edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and enduring value, highlighting their challenges in hybridization and acculturation in the societies they migrate to and the historical and political exigencies that influence their everyday existence.

Outside Looking In

The Seriously Funny Life of George Carlin

By John Corcelli Rights Exclusion: Film/TV John Corcelli, author of Frank Zappa FAQ, takes a deep dive into the comedic artistry of George Carlin, one of America’s most important funny men. From his early radio days to his most successful comedy albums, Carlin changed the way stand-up comedy was written and performed. He was the king of all media: print, recordings, movies, television, and the thirteen quintessential HBO Specials that still resonate with fans. Carlin’s gift for gab was founded on his ability to understand the human condition and express his politically incorrect views with powerful insights.

Sex and the City A Cultural History

By Nicole Evelina Rights Exclusion: Audio The television show Sex and the City changed how a generation of women relate to themselves, their friends, and their men. Now, through a careful examination of the characters and the issues the show confronted—from sexuality and feminism to friendship and motherhood— this book reveals how the series impacted viewers from the 1990s to today.

Series: The Cultural History of Television

Shilpa Daithota Bhat is assistant professor at the National Forensic Sciences University in India.

John Corcelli was born and raised in Toronto. He is a musician, actor, radio producer, and writer. He studied improv at Second City and plays clarinet and soprano sax, but not at the same time.

Nicole Evelina is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and women’s fiction. Her six books have won more than 40 awards, including four Book of the Year designations. She was named Missouri’s Top Independent Author by Library Journal and Biblioboard as the winner of the Missouri Indie Author Project in 2018 and has been awarded the North Street Book Prize and the Sarton Women’s Book Award.

Lexington Books April 2022 • 270 pages

Applause November 2022 • 256 pages

Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 • 320 pages

Hardback 978-1-66691-285-2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978-1-66691-286-9 • $45.00 / £35.00

Hardback 978-1-4930-6220-1 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6221-8 • $28.50 / £21.95

Hardback 978-1-5381-6567-6 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6568-3 • $34.00 / £26.00

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Eating the Shokuiku Way

The Japanese Guide to Raising Kids with Healthy Food Habits

By Marie Akisawa and Motoko Kimura

Eating the Shokuiku Way teaches parents how to raise their kids with the life-long health benefits of the Japanese way of eating.

The Japanese culture is known for its longest life spans and lowest obesity rates. Every child can grow up with maximum intelligence, longevity, and quality of life using this method.

Here, parents learn why it’s essential to start these habits with their children (to prevent diabetes, allergies, and obesity), and get step-by-step instruction on not only what to feed their kids, but how. Including time-saving cooking tips, ready-to-go bento box recipes, and knowledge how to teach kids to make better food decisions – limiting carbs, maximizing whole foods, the importance of protein for cell growth and immunity—this work is your go-to guide for learning how to respect and honor food and its role in nourishing our bodies and minds.

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield December 2022 160 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6653-6 $30.00 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6654-3 $28.50 / £21.95

Marie Akisawa is a chef and nutritionist. She has published four books on healthy cooking: 2014’s Beat Diabetes Without Giving Up Gourmet Foods, 2015’s Beat Diabetes with Low-Carb Cooking, 2016’s 171 Food Recipes for Beauty, and 2017’s Almost Sugar-Free Cooking for Special Occasions.

Motoko Kimura turned her lifelong love of film and storytelling into a successful career as an author, and television and film producer. She is the best-selling author of A Moment to Remember.

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The Manhood Rx

Every Man’s Guide to Improving Sexual Health and Overall Wellness

By Arthur Burnett Dr. Burnett takes a deep dive here into identifying what healthy sexual function actually looks like, and clearly identifies the distinct components of the male sexual response that every man experiences-desire and libido, arousal and erection, and orgasm and ejaculation. For each of these components, readers will learn about the specific problems that can present, their underlying or contributing causes, and how each can be resolved.

Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love

Supporting and Caring for Your Loved One, Second Edition

By Anne Katz Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer.

Each chapter tells the story of a man and his partner dealing with this cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship. Fully updated and comprehensive, this book educates and informs partners on the latest studies and findings.

Arthur L. Burnett, II, MD, MBA, F.A.C.S. is an internationally acclaimed urological surgeon and one of the preeminent doctors in his field whose active research laboratory is credited with discovering the chemistry of penile erection, which led to the development of Viagra.

Anne Katz, PhD, RN, FAAN works as a clinical nurse specialist and certified sexuality counselor at CancerCare Maitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. She supports men with prostate cancer and their partner through prostate cancer, from diagnosis and into survivorship.

Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 • 256 pages

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Hardback 978-1-5381-6659-8 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6660-4 • $30.00 / £22.95

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Understanding Osteoporosis

An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers

By Naheed Ali Offers cutting-edge tips for sufferers and those who help them, and offer and overview of the essentials of treatment, symptoms, risk factors, and outcomes.

Osteoporosis is prevalent among aging women especially, but it can affect anyone as they age.

Here, Naheed Ali offers an overview of the disorder and its warning signs and risk factors. He walks readers through prevention strategies, common symptoms, treatment options, and potential outcomes for sufferers. Dr. Ali offers advice for both sufferers and those who love and care for them, to keep them safe.

Naheed Ali, MD, PhD has more than 15 years of health-related publications to his credit.

Dr. Ali taught at colleges in the US where he lectured on various biomedical topics and delivered over 2000 hours of live presentations.

Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 • 190 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6814-1 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6815-8 • $33.00 / £25.00

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The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality Edited by Marshall J. Breger and Herbert R. Reginbogin

“The oldest sovereign in the international community, the Holy See combines the transcendent dimension of the Church and its adaptation to changing historical circumstances. This book masterly illustrates and discusses how the two dimensions interact in the rise of the Holy See as a unique experiment of both neutrality in diplomacy and stewardship of the global contemporary world.” —Marco Ventura, University of Siena This book examines Vatican diplomacy from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. The contributors focus on the concept of permanent neutrality and trace the Vatican’s political transformation into a modern international institution in conjunction with its use of neutrality as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft.

Imprint: Lexington Books April 2022 330 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4216-5 $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4217-2 $45.00 / £35.00

Marshall J. Breger is professor at the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America.

Herbert Reginbogin is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the Catholic University of America.

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The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945– 1961

By Alexey Tikhomirov Translated by Jacqueline Friedlander Rights Exclusion: Russian

Imprint: Lexington Books

“Tikhomirov’s ground-breaking and highly original research on Soviet propaganda and the Stalin cult in East Germany represents archive-based cultural and social history at its very best.” —Jeremy E. Taylor, University of Nottingham

March 2022 408 pages

This book examines the construction, dissemination, and reception of the Stalin cult in East Germany from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall. By exporting Stalin’s cult to the Eastern bloc, Moscow aspired to symbolically unite the communist states in an imagined cult community pivoting around the Soviet leader. Based on Russian and German archives, this work analyzes the emergence of the Stalin cult’s transnational dimension. On one hand, it looks at how Soviet representations of power were transferred and adapted in the former “enemy’s” country. On the other hand, it reconstructs “spaces of agency” where different agents and generations interpreted, manipulated, and used the Stalin cult to negotiate social identities and everyday life. This study reveals both the dynamics of Stalinism as a political system after the Cold War began and the foundations of modern politics through mass mobilization, emotional bonding, and social engineering in Soviet-style societies.

Alexey Tikhomirov is assistant professor of East European history at Bielefeld University, Germany.

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Hardback 978-1-66691-189-3 $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978-1-66691-190-9 $50.00 / £38.00

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State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia

Athanasios SouliotisNikolaidis and Greek Irredentism

By Baasanjav Terbish

By John Athanasios Mazis

Russia is defined by its past legacies, including Soviet state ideology and the intellectual movements of Russian cosmism and Eurasianism. This book recounts the histories of these legacies and the ongoing search for a unifying state-controlled narrative in contemporary Russia, drawing on the evolution of ideas across time and space.

Rights Exclusion: Greek

Between the Cosmos and the Earth

Baasanjav Terbish is affiliated researcher at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit of the University of Cambridge, UK. Lexington Books 2022 • 310 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-568-7 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978-1-66690-569-4 • $45.00 / £35.00

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A Life in the Shadows

John Athanasios Mazis examines the subject’s contribution to Greece’s irredentist activities of the early twentieth century, and answers some key questions: What were SouliotisNikolaidis’s achievements as an undercover agent in Ottoman Macedonia?

What was his behind-the-scenes role in the early elections of the Ottoman Empire, following the Young Turk Revolt? What was his relationship with important individuals and organizations of the Greek Diaspora? What was his contribution to the unique idea about the future of Greeks and Turks in a unified federal state? In this book, Mazis reveals that Souliotis-Nikolaidis, far from being a minor player in Greek irredentism, was an important actor whose many contributions deserve recognition.

John Athanasios Mazis is professor of history at Hamline University, USA. Lexington Books 2022 • 208 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-3444-3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-7936-3445-0 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Where War Began

A Military History of the Ancient Near East from the Cradle of Civilization to Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire

By Arthur Cotterell

Spanning some 4,000 years and drawing anecdotes and quotations from ancient sources, Where War Began is a lively narrative of the origins of war in a region that is still afflicted by war and that still shapes global politics.

This story begins around 4,000 to 3,000 BC with the Sumerians, one of the first dominant civilizations of fertile Mesopotamia, and their wars with their neighbors. The Sumerians eventually gave way to the Babylonians, whose period of dominance saw rudimentary “great power” rivalries begin to form with the likes of Egypt and the Hittites and the Battle of Kadesh (1274 BC). This period resolved with the fall of Babylon and the rise of other powers, ultimately the Persian Empire of Cyrus and Darius, one of the great ancient dynasties, which battled the Greeks directly and indirectly.

In the period that followed, the Near East was dominated by Alexander the Great, whose legendary campaigns conquered Persia and ventured east into modern India. This era saw the refinement of the Greek hoplite tactics that remained standard for many hundreds of years. After Alexander the Great, and the rise of the Seleucids and Parthians where Persians once reigned, the Roman Empire began to exert its power in the region, especially at its colonies in Judea and Syria.

Arthur Cotterell was formerly a principal at Kingston College, London. A respected author of more than thirty books, he has been published by Penguin and Oxford University Press.

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Imprint: Stackpole Books October 2022 320 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7145-0 $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978-0-8117-7146-7 $31.00 / £23.95

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Global Social Democracy Willy Brandt and the Socialist International in Latin America

By Bernd Rother

Rights Exclusion: German

Imprint: Lexington Books

“Bernd Rother’s book offers the first global history perspective on the biography of Willy Brandt and his role as president of the Socialist International. This profound study opens unexpected and fascinating insights into the networks between European reform forces and their partner organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean.”—Christine Hatzky, Leibniz University

April 2022 434 pages

This is first book in English dealing with the history of the Socialist International—the international alliance of social democratic parties—during the presidency of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt from 1976–1992. This book is based on thorough studies in numerous European and Latin American archives. It tries to avoid a Eurocentric view, giving equal importance to the Latin American and the European actors. It takes a fresh look at party diplomacy, a new kind of international diplomacy that was introduced by Willy Brandt in the field of international relations in the 1970s and 1980s.

Hardback 978-1-66691-138-1 $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978-1-66691-139-8 $50.00 / £38.00

Bernd Rother is senior fellow at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation.

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Hoover vs. Roosevelt

Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War

By Hal Elliott Wert The story of how the U.S. entered World War II as seen through the lens of Herbert Hoover. Widely and deeply researched in an array of rarely used secondary and primary sources, both domestic and international, Hoover vs. Roosevelt brings a fresh perspective to a time in the nation’s history when the country was deeply divided over what now seems a “done deal”.

Hal Elliott Wert, an Iowa native, is professor emeritus of history at the Kansas City Art Institute. He is the author of Hoover, the Fishing President; George McGovern and the Democratic Insurgents: The Best Campaign and Political Posters of the Last Fifty Years; and Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints.

Stackpole Books January 2023 • 496 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3972-6 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6970-9 • $33.00 / £25.00

Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Making of the Modern World

By Christopher Catherwood It is often said that the special bond between Britain and the USA was forged in war between Roosevelt and Churchill.

But the closer link in many ways was that between Churchill and Eisenhower, since it existed both in wartime 1941-1945 but also again in very different circumstances between 1951 and 1955, when Churchill was Prime Minister and Eisenhower was briefly the first Supreme Allied Commander NATO before going back to the USA to win the 1952 Presidential race and overlap in the White House with Churchill’s peacetime premiership from 1953-1955. And in 1945-1951 Churchill by his speeches and Eisenhower by his tenure as first ever Supreme Allied Commander Europe were continuing to create the new and stable global world order that held until now.

Christopher Catherwood is an historian and Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (now renamed Churchill Fellowship) Fellow since 2010. He has been one of the very few people ever to be elected an Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College Cambridge twice, with the award of his medal in 2014.

Lyons Press November 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5052-9 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5053-6 • $28.50 / £21.95

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The Black Legend

George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars

By Doug Hocking

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail Trail and routinely raided it, organized by their leader, the prudent, not friendly Cochise.

When a young boy was kidnapped from his stepfather’s ranch, Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Cochise even though there was no proof that the Chiricahua were responsible. After a series of missteps, Cochise exacted a short-lived revenge.

Despite modern accounts based on spurious evidence, Bascom’s performance in a difficult situation was admirable. This book examines the legend and provides a new analysis of Bascom’s and Cochise’s behavior, putting it in the larger context of the Indian Wars that followed the American Civil War.

Imprint: TwoDot September 2022 384 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6379-6 $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3446-8 $20.50 / £15.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-4930-3445-1 $24.95 / £18.95

Doug Hocking was born on Long Island. While still young, Hocking was transplanted to the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in New Mexico where he grew up forming close friendships with Native Americans and Mexican Americans learning the peoples, cultures, and terrain of the Southwest.

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Brothers in Liberty

The Story of the Free Black Haitians Who Fought for American Independence

By Phillip Thomas Tucker The Chasseurs constituted the largest Black military unit in the American Revolution. The soldiers were free men, the sons of French fathers, mostly sugar plantation owners, and slave mothers in France’s most prosperous overseas colony. In the fall of 1779, this force joined the attack on the British at Savannah in a series of frontal results.

The French and Americans were repulsed at great cost in lives, but the free Black Haitians stood their ground—and, in a moment of high courage that has never received its due, stymied a British counterattack that salvaged the day for the Americans and French.

Phillip Thomas Tucker is a writer and historian who has edited more than two dozen books and written over sixty scholarly articles.

Stackpole Books January 2023 • 288 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7061-3 • $32.95 / £25.00

George Washington’s Revenge

How General Washington Turned Defeat into the Strategy That Won the Revolution

By Arthur S. Lefkowitz In late August 1776, a badly defeated Continental Army retreated from Long Island to Manhattan. By the end of September, George Washington’s inexperienced army had been forced out of New York into New Jersey and, by the end of the year, into Pennsylvania.

During this dark night of the American Revolution—“the times that try men’s souls”—Washington began developing the strategy that would win the war. In this illuminating account, Arthur Lefkowitz reveals how George Washington turned defeat into victory.

Arthur S. Lefkowitz is an independent historian whose previous books are The Long Retreat: The Calamitous Defense of New Jersey, 1776, George Washington’s Indispensable Men, Benedict Arnold’s Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War and Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr (Stackpole, 2020).

Stackpole Books November 2022 • 320 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7041-5 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-7042-2 • $33.00 / £25.00

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Unsolved Mysteries of Texas

Stories of Legendary Outlaws, Buried Treasure, and Hauntings in the Lone Star State

By W.C. Jameson Rights Exclusion: Translation and Film/TV In Unsolved Mysteries of Texas, author and professional treasure hunter W.C. Jameson investigates stories of strange occurrences, ghostly specters, lost treasures, and other lesser known mysteries in the Lone Star State.

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Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody

Plainsmen of the Legendary West

By Bill Markley Rights Exclusion: Film/TV Two soldiers, scouts, and showmen who left a lasting legacy, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. Author Bill Markley offers a thoughtful and entertaining examination of these legendary lives in this new joint biography of these two great plainsmen of the Old West.

W. C. Jameson is the award-winning author of more than one hundred books and over one thousand articles, including numerous books for Globe Pequot on history’s mysteries. He lives in Llano, Texas, USA.

History has always fascinated Bill Markley, leading to his participation in Dances with Wolves and four other films. Bill has written the novel Deadwood Dead Men, four Western nonfiction books including Old West Showdown with co-author Kellen Cutsforth, and articles for True West and Wild West magazines.

TwoDot October 2022 • 200 pages

TwoDot August 2022 • 512 pages

Paperback 978-1-4930-6148-8 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6149-5 • $19.00 / £14.95

Paperback 978-1-4930-4842-7 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-4843-4 • $23.50 / £17.95

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When Mortals Play God

Libertines

By John Erickson Foreword by Molly Ladd-Taylor

By J. Michael Martinez

Eugenics and One Family’s Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance

In this extraordinary book, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Erickson uncovers the long-hidden story of an immigrant family whose matriarch was imprisoned in her 20s and later sterilized, a victim of the state-sanctioned eugenics movement. When Mortals Play God shows how valuable life is, and how grit and determination can sometimes relegate evil and injustice to a back seat.

John Erickson spent more than 30 years in journalism at newspapers in North Dakota, Montana, Illinois and Ohio. At the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, he led the coverage on three stories that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, including a series that won the Pulitzer for National Reporting in 1998.

In 2019, he was inducted into the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors’ Hall of Fame.

Rowman & Littlefield September 2022 • 208 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6669-7 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6670-3 • $34.00 / £26.00

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American Political Sex Scandals from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump

Libertines seeks to understand why public figures sometimes take extraordinary risks, sullying their good names, humiliating their families, placing themselves in legal jeopardy, and potentially destroying their political careers as they seek to gratify their sexual desires. From Hamilton to Trump and the many in between, each case of sexual misconduct in this book shows the seamy side of political lives, with calculations about covering discretions or portraying them favorably occurring only after the fact.

J. Michael Martinez is the author or editor of 15 books on American history and law including the Rowman & Littlefield titles A Long Dark Night: Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II (2016) and Terrorist Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War Era to the Present (2012).

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 260 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6753-3 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6754-0 • $33.00 / £25.00

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Monumental Fury

The History of Iconoclasm and the Future of Our Past

By Matthew Fraser

Recent years in America have seen Confederate monuments toppled, statues of colonizers vandalized, and public icons commemorating figures from a history of exploitation demolished. Some were alarmed by the destruction, claiming that pulling down public statues is a negation of an entire cultural heritage. For others, statue-smashing is justified vandalism against a legacy of injustice. Monumental Fury confronts the long-neglected questions of our relationship with statues, icons, and monuments in public spaces, providing a rich historical perspective on iconoclastic violence.

Imprint: Prometheus November 2022 344 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-810-4 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-63388-811-1 $28.50 / £21.95

Organized according to specific themes that provide insights into the erection and destruction of statues — from religion, war, and revolution to colonialism, ideology, art, and social justice — author Matthew Fraser examines the implications of our monuments from the Buddhas of Bamiyan to those of Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Vladimir Lenin, and many more.

Matthew Fraser is a professor of communications and international politics at the American University of Paris, France. Formerly, he was a senior research fellow for INSEAD, editor in chief and a columnist for Canada’s National Post, host of CBC’s primetime TV show Inside Media, professor of communications at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and a reporter for the Montreal Gazette and the Globe and Mail.

He was educated at Oxford University, the London School of Economics, and La Sorbonne-Panthéon, and holds a PhD in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

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Embodied Activisms

The Battle for Birth Control

Edited by Victoria A. Newsom and Lara Martin Lengel

By Jessica L. Furgerson

Performative Expressions of Political and Social Action

Embodied Activisms explores how activists use their bodies to resist social norms, engage with institutions, and promote change. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts, and the most current scholarly literature to interrogate how embodied activisms are read, performed, understood, and actualized. The studies in this volume address current, critical issues such as police accountability activism, the climate crisis, environmental concerns, and protests of Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Victoria A. Newsom is professor of communication studies and affiliate faculty in social justice and diversity at Olympic College.

Lara Martin Lengel is professor in the School of Media and Communication and affiliate faculty in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Bowling Green State University.

Lexington Books 2022 • 328 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-1652-4 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978-1-7936-1653-1 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Exploring the Lasting Consequences of the Movement’s Early Rhetoric

The Battle for Birth Control delves into the complex rhetorical history of the American birth control movement in its formative years. In just four decades, advocates, under the strategic guidance of Margaret Sanger, transitioned the fight for contraception from fringe radical movement to a respectable mainstream cause endorsed by powerful professionals and politicians alike.

Eschewing their early ideological commitments to obtain widespread acceptance, birth controllers adopted a strategy of political accommodation characterized by deferential rhetoric and careful posturing. This strategy secured significant victories for the movement but at what cost?

Jessica L. Furgerson is assistant professor in communication at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College.

Lexington Books April 2022 • 366 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4324-7 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4325-4 • $45.00 / £35.00

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The Political Interview

Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone

By Ian Hutchby The landscape of broadcast news media is constantly changing, partly under the influence of changing technology but also due to changes in the social role of television journalism. The Political Interview: Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone takes a sociological and linguistic approach to examining these changes, focusing on the discourse practices that are associated with them. Tracing contemporary developments in the ways that interviews with politicians are conducted in a range of televised formats, Ian Hutchby analyzes increasing tendencies toward conflictual interactions that may fundamentally impact the nature of political communication and the role of news interviews in the democratic process.

Ian Hutchby is honorary professor of sociology at the University of York, UK. Lexington Books 2022 • 196 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4009-3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4010-9 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Women of the Wild

Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories Edited by Victoria M. McDermott, Jennifer M. Gee and Amy R. May Women of the Wild: Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs) provides an interdisciplinary approach through the lens of communication to explore the gender disparities impacting women working at FSMLs. Victoria McDermott is current Ph.D. student and instructor of communication at the University of Maryland and adjunct faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Jennifer M. Gee is director of the James San Jacinto Mountains and Oasis de los Osos Reserves.

Amy R. May is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Lexington Books March 2022 • 334 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-2940-1 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-2941-8 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Black Interdictions

Haitian Refugees and Antiblack Racism on the High Seas

By Philip Kretsedemas In Black Interdictions, Philip Kretsedemas exposes the antiblack racism latent in the U.S. government’s Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and 1990s which set the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium and lead to the migration and refugee policies of the Trump era and beyond. This type of radical exclusion is singular to the black experience and the black/nonblack binary must be factored into an analysis of the US migration regime. It is not possible to work together for equity and justice if we are not prepared to grapple with this divisive history and the instinct to avoid dealing with the singularity of the black experience. This book will be of interest to scholars of migration and refugee studies, black studies, legal studies, public policy and international relations, and many others.

Philip Kretsedemas is professor of sociology at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Lexington Books 2022 • 358 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-3072-8 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-3073-5 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Jewish Foreign Trade Officials on Trial

In Gheorghiu-Dej’s Romania 19601964

By Veronica Rozenberg Foreword by Arthur House Rights Exclusion: Romanian This book deals with six trials, conducted by the Romanian state against Jewish key officials employed in state-owned importexport companies between 1950 and 1960. It begins with a presentation of the political realities of Romania following the Communist Party’s rise to power, in particular those regarding its relationship with Romania’s Jews and GheorghiuDej’s policy of National Communism.

Rozenberg describes the criminal procedure used in the staged economic trials follows and then examines this procedure based on the legal system of the period, as exemplified by the six analyzed trials. The Românoexport Jewish officials’ trial is analyzed in depth, as the case study of the whole book.

Veronica Rozenberg is a historian and author. She holds a PhD in Jewish History from Haifa University, Israel.

Lexington Books March 2022 • 304 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-5284-3 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978-1-7936-5285-0 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Pakistan and Human Rights Edited by Satvinder Juss All too often the law in Pakistan interacts with the country’s socio-cultural and religious norms. This together with the War on Terror, has led to the increased use of the death penalty, enforced disappearances, the use of Special Criminal Courts, ‘honor crimes’ and minority rights violations in a way that jeopardizes human rights.

Pakistan and Human Rights consists of a series of innovative and carefully chosen chapters by leading experts and specialists in the field of human rights law. With contributions from young emerging scholars, many of whom live and work in Pakistan, this volume takes a critical look at the legal ordering of human rights issues in Pakistan today.

Satvinder S. Juss teaches law at King’s College London, UK. Lexington Books 2022 • 308 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4606-4 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4607-1 • $45.00 / £35.00

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The Rule of Law in Retreat Challenges to Justice in the United Nations World

Edited by Sławomir Redo, Foreword by Diego García-Sayán, Afterword by Pedro R. David This book offers insights into the globally relevant Rule-of-Law ramifications for human rights, constitutional law, and philosophy of law in the time of such considerable challenges to it. From this legal perspective, the contributors analyze the questions of independence of judiciary, liberal education, freedom of mass media; populism, and corruption.

They discuss global civic education, enhanced social inclusion, violence prevention, restorative justice and other methods of civic participation that can create larger opportunities for freedom in a UN world and help overcome increased ideological division between global North and South.

Sławomir Redo is visiting professor of United Nations Law and member of the United Nations Studies Association.

Lexington Books March 2022 • 402 pages Hardback 978-1-66691-156-5 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978-1-66691-157-2 • $50.00 / £38.00

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LIT ERARY CRI TI CI SM

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work

The Loneliness of the LongDistance Running Artist

By Masaki Mori

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work first discusses Murakami Haruki’s real-life activities and interests, such as his selfidentity as a Japanese novelist, his position in the Japanese literary canon, music, translation and running. In this context, three short stories as pivotal to his early writing career are examined, including “The Second Bakery Attack,” “The Elephant Vanishes,” and “TV People.” Written in an easy style to read, and with the content full of references to select contemporary popular culture and consumer products, his fiction in general tends to invite criticism of irrelevance and frivolity. Against their nonsensical, even humorous appearance, however, the book’s close analysis reveals his persistent concern with the plight of today’s humanity in postindustrial reality. Through the bewildering stories, Murakami delivers a covert critique of aspects of the sociopolitical system, including unbridled consumerism, relentless pursuit of efficiency, and electronic media saturation, that brings people into total submission without their realization of the plight in which they are placed. In this respect, these short stories rival his acclaimed novels while showing his essential concerns and literary creativity more succinctly.

Masaki Mori is associate professor and head of the department of comparative literature and intercultural studies at the University of Georgia.

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Imprint: Lexington Books 2021 134 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-3597-6 $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978-1-7936-3598-3 $45.00 / £35.00

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Not All Supermen

Wonder Woman

By Tim Hanley

By Regina Luttrell, Foreword by Nancy Marston Wykoff and Peggy Marston Van Cleave

Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes

In Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes, Tim Hanley examines how anger, aggression, and violence became the norm in superhero comics, paired with a disdain for women that the industry has yet to fully move beyond. The sporadic addition of new female heroes over the years proved largely ineffective, the characters often underused and objectified. Hanley also reveals how the genre’s sexism has had real-world implications, with many creators being outed as sexual harassers and bigots, while intolerant fan movements are awash with misogynistic hate speech.

Tim Hanley is a comic book historian and author whose work focuses on the American comic book industry.

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 232 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5273-7 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5274-4 • $33.00 / £25.00

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Warrior, Disrupter, Feminist Icon

A remarkable exploration of Wonder Woman’s creation, mysterious identity, and evolution—and her extraordinary impact on her legions of fans.

For generations, Wonder Woman has been a symbol of equality and female empowerment, her complex saga deeply rooted within the feminist movement.

A staple of the comic book industry, she is arguably the best-known female superhero of all time.

Regina Luttrell is the associate dean for research and creative activity and an associate professor of public relations at Syracuse University, USA, within the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Rowman & Littlefield September 2022 • 256 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5388-8 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5389-5 • $34.00 / £26.00

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Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing

By Judit Ágnes Kádár Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing presents how Southwestern writers and visual artists provide an opportunity to turn a stigmatized identity into a self-conscious holder of valuable assets, cultural attitudes, and memories. The problem of mixed ethnocultural heritage is a relevant feature of North American population, and millions face similar challenges.

Narratives on blended heritage show how mixedrace authors utilize their multiple ethnic experiences, knowledge archives, and sensibilities.

Judit Kádár is Director of International Relations at the University of Physical Education, Budapest, Hungary.

Lexington Books April 2022 • 230 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-0790-4 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978-1-7936-0791-1 • $45.00 / £35.00

Global Identities in Transit The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures

Edited by Bouchra Benlemlih and Lahoussine Hamdoune Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores ways in which the impact of (post)colonial and global conditions on individual and group identities is reflected in different cultures and represented in world literary texts. This collection will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature.

Bouchra Benlemlih is professor of English and postcolonial studies at Ibn Zohr University, Morocco.

Lahoussine Hamdoune is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at Ibn Zohr University, Morocco.

Lexington Books April 2022 • 312 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-2432-1 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978-1-7936-2433-8 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises

Edited by Matthias Stephan and Sune Borkfelt Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of humannonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.

A diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of humannonhuman relationships.

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice Matthias Stephan is lecturer at Aarhus University, Denmark, and coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness.

Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.

Lexington Books June 2022 • 278 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-376-8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978-1-66690-377-5 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Prince and the Parade & Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986

By Duane Tudahl Foreword by Sir Elton John

Rights Sold: Audio

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

“The only thing better than reading about Prince’s music is listening to it. Duane Tudahl inspires us to do both.” —Alan Leeds, tour manager, production manager for Prince

October 2022 728 pages

From Prince’s superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything to create some of the most introspective music of his four-decade career.

Duane Tudahl takes us on an emotional and intimate journey of love, loss, rivalry and renewal revealed through unprecedented access to dozens of musicians, singers, studio engineers, and others who worked with him and knew him best—with neverbefore-published memories.

Paperback 978-1-5381-6634-5 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4452-7 $25.50 / £19.95 Previously published in Hardback (2021) 978-1-5381-4451-0 $38.00 / £29.00

Duane Tudahl is an award-winning author who has worked in entertainment for over thirty years.

Also in the series: Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 November 2018 | 978-1-5381-1462-9 | $24.95 / £18.95 Featuring insights on groundbreaking recording sessions, rehearsals and sound checks, the expanded edition of Duane Tudahl’s award-winning book pulls back the paisley curtain to reveal the untold story of Prince’s rise from cult favorite to the biggest rock star on the planet.

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Punk

The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond

By Rich Weidman

Rights Exclusion: Film/TV Punk: The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond focuses on the origins of punk, ranging from disparate influences such as Dadaism, the Beat Generation, the garage bands of the 1960s, the Paris-based Situationist International movement, Jamaican ska bands, Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange, and the glam rock of the early 1970s. Rich Weidman highlights the best and worst punk bands, the greatest punk songs and albums, the most notorious concerts, and the rise of American hardcore punk.

Legendary venues such as CBGB and classic punk films and documentaries like The Decline of Western Civilization propelled the rise of pop punk bands into the mainstream and every other aspect of punk subculture, including its lasting impact on rock ‘n’ roll and society as a whole.

Rich Weidman is a writer and editor from Florida. His works include The Doors FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock, The Beat Generation FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters, Guns N’ Roses FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Bad Boys of the Sunset Strip and Breaking Bad FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Hustlers, Bunsen Burners, and Heisenberg, as well as several regional travel guides.

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Imprint: Backbeat November 2022 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6240-9 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6241-6 $23.50 / £17.95

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Being Gerry Mulligan

You Are Ketchup

By Gerry Mulligan With Ken Poston

By Kokayi

My Life in Music

Rights Exclusion: Film/TV Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligan’s life and career, told in his own words. This personal narrative reveals great insight into the musician’s complex personality. He speaks freely about the important milestones in both his personal and professional life, bringing a new understanding to the man behind the music. Gerry Mulligan single-handedly established the baritone saxophone as a solo voice. As one of the great jazz innovators, his writing and playing influenced entire stylistic movements, including cool jazz and bossa nova. This is his story, the way he wanted it told.

Gerry Mulligan learned to play piano when he was two and sold his first arrangement when he was sixteen, beginning his sixdecade career as a composer, arranger, saxophonist, and conductor. Mulligan traveled the world for his music and won countless awards, including a Grammy Award in 1981 for “Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band”.

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And Other Fly Music Tales

Rights Exclusion: Film/TV Music artists, as perceived by the music industry, are akin to a condiment—to be easily replicated, sold in high volume, and enjoyed by the masses. The message is blunt, honest, and necessary. Implicit in it is the reality of an ever-changing music landscape that requires the artists to adapt, and with integrity, lest they become forgotten. It’s this essential idea that the Grammy-nominated artist and creative consultant Kokayi shares in You Are Ketchup.

A Grammy-nominated artist and creative consultant, Kokayi is entrenched in the ethos of hip hop culture while coloring outside the lines of tradition. He is a board trustee of the DC chapter of the Recording Academy and a recipient of the 2018 Halcyon Artist Fellowship.

Backbeat November 2022 • 252 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6119-8 • $24.95 / £18.95

Backbeat November 2022 • 348 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6482-3 • $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978-1-4930-6483-0 • $38.00 / £29.00

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Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy

Music + Revolution

Edited by David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum

By Richard Barone

Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music in international relations. Inspired by decolonization, this book describes policies and legal frameworks that impact music’s role in cultural diplomacy worldwide.

Series: Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings David G. Hebert is professor of music at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Jonathan McCollum is professor of music at Washington College.

Lexington Books May 2022 • 378 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4291-2 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4292-9 • $45.00 / £35.00

Greenwich Village in the 1960s

Rights Exclusion: Film/TV In Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Richard Barone tells this freewheelin’ historical narrative, peppered with personal stories and insights from those who were there, celebrating the lasting legacy of this pivotal decade with stories behind songs that resonate just as strongly today.

Richard Barone is an acclaimed recording artist, performer, producer, and author. Since pioneering the indie rock scene in Hoboken, NJ, as frontman of The Bongos and then helping to launch the chamber pop movement with his solo debut cool blue halo, Barone has produced countless studio recordings and worked with artists in every musical genre.

Backbeat September 2022 • 304 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6301-7 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6302-4 • $28.50 / £21.95

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The Malay Nobat

A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty

By Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, its spread throughout the Muslim empire, and its emergence as a symbol of power and sovereignty, ultimately showing how existing nobat ensembles in Malaysia and Brunei are the last living musical legacy of the Muslim world.

Series: Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid is an ethnomusicologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Heritage at Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia.

Lexington Books July 2022 • 258 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-088-0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978-1-66690-089-7 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Outdoor Minimalist

Waste Less Hiking, Backpacking and Camping

By Meg Carney Illustrated by Savannah Cuthbertson

We love the outdoors. We want to take care of it and we want to enjoy it. But with an excess of packaged food, single-use disposables and convenient consumables, are we loving the land to death?

Outdoor enthusiasts are more galvanized than ever to be good stewards of the land on which they recreate. Here, for the first time, is the central, reliable guide to hiking and backpacking with minimal impact that outdoor enthusiasts need. Outdoor Minimalist is a guide to actionable ways to waste less while hiking and camping and implement low-impact practices in outdoor pursuits.

Imprint: Falcon Guides September 2022 224 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6399-4 $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6400-7 $20.50 / £15.95

Meg Carney is a lifelong nature-lover and full-time outdoor and environmental writer. Her full portfolio can be found at megcarney.com. Along with personal writing projects, she is the Senior Editor of the CleanUp News, a news publication that focuses on environmental advocacy and educating consumers on the waste within the supply chain.

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Mythbusting the Great Outdoors Wilderness Wisdom for Outdoor Adventure

By Jamie Siebrase Illustrated by Olivia Wischmeyer

The skeptic’s guide to everything you thought you knew about life outside.

Imprint: Falcon Guides

Mysteries, misunderstandings, mistakes and unapologetic myths lurk in every corner of the great outdoors Is “earthquake weather” a real phenomenon? Just how dangerous are wild mushrooms? Can animals smell fear? And is moss even remotely useful for navigating through the wilderness?

Mythbusting the Great Outdoors tackles a wide range of common misconceptions plaguing the world of outdoor adventure, using science to debunk beliefs even longtime nature lovers might erroneously take as fact.

September 2022 192 pages

Jamie Siebrase is a Denver journalist and the author of Hiking with Kids Colorado: 52 Great Hikes for Families. When she’s not on an adventure, she’s writing about the outdoors and parenting for a variety of newspapers and magazines.

Olivia Wischmeyer is an Albuquerque New Mexico -based interdisciplinary artist. Find her work online at OliviaWischmeyer.myportfolio.com.

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Paperback 978-1-4930-6347-5 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6348-2 $19.00 / £14.95

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The Practical Geologist

Twelve Days of Winter

By Garret Romaine

By Sherri Maret Illustrated by Thomas Hilley

How to Apply Primitive Skills for Everyday Use

The Practical Geologist traces the impact of geology on the first toolmakers in their trek toward civilization and details how understanding geology allowed for advances in agriculture, construction, weaponry, and the arts. The hacks, shortcuts, and rules described here are still vital for not just homesteaders, campers, hikers, and survivalists—the same geological factors assist us all as we struggle with ever-changing global conditions and reach for the stars.

Garret Romaine is an avid gold prospector, rockhound, and fossil collector with years of experience in the field. He is a long-time writer for Gold Prospectors magazine, and is the author of The Modern Rockhounding and Prospecting Handbook, Rocks, Gems and Minerals of the Southwest, Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Rocky Mountains and Rockhounding Idaho, all from FalconGuides.

Falcon Guides October 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6213-3 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6214-0 • $23.50 / £17.95

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A Wildlife Celebration

In this reimagined version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, winter wildlife is observed as the snow comes. What animals do you think you might see? Do you think bears will be included? Why or why not? The only way to find out is to read or sing along as animals watch their world get blanketed by gentle layers of snow.

Sherri Maret is a former English teacher/ library media specialist. Lela and the Butterflies, written with Tim Maret, was released in 2020 and shares their love for butterflies and butterfly conservation.

Thomas Hilley has experience working on a variety of projects: he has created illustrations for several children’s books, various promotional campaigns and merchandise.

Muddy Boots August 2022 • 32 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6409-0 • $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6410-6 • $16.00 / £11.95

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Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion

By Michael C. Brannigan This work explores caring robots’ lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving.

As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.

Series: Revolutionary Bioethics Michael C. Brannigan is adjunct professor of intercultural bioethics at Albany Medical College and adjunct professor of philosophy at Salve Regina University.

Lexington Books March 2022 • 174 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4918-8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4919-5 • $45.00 / £35.00

Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion Melioristic Case Studies

By Ulf Zackariasson In Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies, Ulf Zackariasson argues for the fruitfulness of pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the contemporary philosophy of religion. Zackariasson first outlines a version of pragmatic philosophy of religion that takes the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice to heart. Here, he shows that religious traditions and their secular counterparts transmit a number of paradigmatic responses that adherents can draw on in their encounters with human life’s existential contingencies.

Series: American Philosophy Series Ulf Zackariasson is associate professor of philosophy of religion at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Lexington Books 2022 • 198 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-301-0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-66690-302-7 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato

By Hugo Moreno

Slurs and Expressivity Semantics and Beyond

Edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andrés Saab

In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramático, Jorge Luis Borges, María Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing—a way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures.

They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence.

Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab, focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the members of a certain group of people identified in terms of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, political ideology, and other personal qualities. In as far as they are used to express emotional attitudes, slurs are, thus, a kind of expressive words.

Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought

Series: Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives

Hugo Moreno is visiting assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Lewis and Clark College.

Eleonora Orlando is professor of philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and researcher at the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council.

Lexington Books 2022 • 240 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-3928-8 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978-1-7936-3929-5 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Andrés Saab is professor of linguistics at the University of Buenos Aires and researcher at the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council.

Lexington Books 2021 • 228 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-1436-0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978-1-7936-1437-7 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Europe Today

The Transformation of the European Nation-State Sixth Edition Edited by Erik Jones and Masha Hedberg

Now in its sixth edition, Europe Today presents unrivaled coverage of developments in major European countries and across the region. Thoroughly revised and updated—including new chapters on Russia and Turkey to address their growing influence—this is the only work that offers a sustained and unified set of both country case studies and thematic chapters on the European Union. Written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book builds on a foundation of basic political information and explanation to develop distinctive and thought-provoking analyses of current debates.

Informative and engaging, this comprehensive text will lead readers toward a coherent and informed view of Europe today.

Series: Europe Today Erik Jones is professor and director of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University.

Masha Hedberg is adjunct professor of European and Eurasian Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield January 2023 464 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-1093-5 $59.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-1092-8 $118.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1094-2 $56.00

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International Relations of Asia Third Edition

Edited by David Shambaugh

This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the international relations of Asia and the Indo-Pacific. The Asian region has become the fulcrum of international relations globally—it is the most economically vibrant, geostrategically significant, socially and culturally diverse, and militarily dangerous region in the world. The world’s leading great powers—the United States and China—jockey for primacy and vie for influence throughout the region, while “middle powers”—India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea—are extending their regional reach. The ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is collectively important in its own right, but has also become the epicenter of US-China regional competition. While Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands largely operate in their own orbits, Australia has assumed growing regional impact. North Korea and Taiwan are both significant actors but they are also each tinderboxes of potential conflict. While the region is geographically sprawling across the Indo-Pacific, it is tied together economically, technologically, and strategically. No one working in or on Asia cannot afford to read this volume.

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield April 2022 466 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6285-9 $49.00 / £38.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-6284-2 $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6286-6 $46.50 / £36.00

Series: Asia in World Politics David Shambaugh is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian studies, political science, and international affairs and director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

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Power and Choice

An Introduction to Political Science Sixteenth Edition

By W. Phillips Shively and David Schultz

Rights Sold (previous edition): French and Chinese Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics through the analysis of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power. Organized topically and using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice provides undergraduate students with a clear and engaging introduction to political science and comparative politics.

The 16th Edition has been updated to address the issues raised by the covid-19 pandemic, as well as the impact the Trump and Biden presidencies have had so far upon the world and its democracies, including challenges in states such as Hungary where illiberal democracy and nationalism are on the rise. The authors have also included discussion of the impact of the death of George Floyd upon race relations in America, and how issues such as growing inequality are impacting politics. This edition adds examination of women’s economic development and the rising importance of LGBTQ issues globally.

W. Phillips Shively is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Craft of Political Research, 10th edition (2017), as well as numerous articles on elections and methods of analysis.

David Schultz is Distinguished University Professor in the departments of political science, environmental studies, and legal studies at Hamline University. He is also a professor of law at the University of Minnesota.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield April 2022 496 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-5186-0 $89.00 / £68.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5187-7 $84.50 / £65.00

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Civil Wars in Africa Edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh Jr. This book argues that civil wars in Africa stem from the contradictions and crises that have been generated by the post-colonial state as the result of the adverse effects of colonialism and the failure of successive generations of African leaders to lead the process of changing the state’s nature, character, and mission.

Kelechi A. Kalu is professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside.

George Klay Kieh, Jr. is dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs and professor of political science at Texas Southern University, and professor of international relations at the African Methodist Episcopal University.

Lexington Books May 2022 • 370 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4933-1 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4934-8 • $45.00 / £35.00

Crossing Borders The Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants

By Ali Noorani Rights Sold: Audio In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them.

Ali Noorani, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy organization promoting the value of immigrants and immigration, is also the author of There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration.

Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 • 240 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4350-6 • $27.00 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4351-3 • $25.50 / £19.95

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Decolonizing Patagonia

Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina

By Lucas Savino In Decolonizing Patagonia: Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina, Lucas Savino examines Indigenous efforts for self-determination, territorial autonomy, and decolonization in Northern Patagonia, Argentina.

Through an analysis of the ways in which Mapuche activists organize in particular localities in the province of Neuquén, this book contributes to broader theoretical understandings of collective identity formation and Indigenous activism under multicultural neoliberal regimes of citizenship.

Lucas Savino is associate professor in the Centre for Global Studies at Huron University College, Canada.

Lexington Books 2022 • 218 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-3021-6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978-1-7936-3022-3 • $45.00 / £35.00

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For Queen and Country

The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand Alliances in the 21st Century

By Stephen J. KlimczukMassion and Michael J. Smith As Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK drifted apart diplomatically through the twentieth century, they are now reconverging on a host of issues and forging new, deeper links borne out of a shared allegiance to the monarchy. This book evocatively tells the whole story of where we are, what’s possible for the future, and how we got here.

Michael J. Smith is a senior government official in Canada’s Province of Ontario and a former Royal Canadian Navy officer.

Stephen Klimczuk-Massion is a corporate strategist, foundation director, author, CEO book ghostwriter and advisory board member of CANZUK International.

Rediscovering a Nation

Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology

By Michael Wayne Santos

Edited by Guoli Liu and Joanna Drzewieniecki

Will the Real America Please Stand Up?

Many Americans wonder how our politics became dysfunctional—and what it will take to fix it. Historian Michael Santos takes readers on a journey to the heart of the American nation and the values that have allowed us to overcome previous challenges, sometimes in spite of ourselves.

Michael W. Santos is a Professor of History at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia. A dedicated and enthusiastic teacher, Santos has received the Shirley Rosser Excellence in Teaching Award and the T.A. Abbott Award for Faculty Excellence.

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 216 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6921-6 • $38.00 / £29.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6922-3 • $36.00 / £28.00

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This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines.

This collection provides critical analysis of key issues in Russian and post-Soviet studies.

Guoli Liu is professor of political science at the College of Charleston.

Joanna Drzewieniecki is a translator and editor of academic articles.

Lexington Books May 2022 • 492 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-635-6 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978-1-66690-636-3 • $50.00 / £38.00

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Catastrophe!

How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse

By Christopher J. Ferguson

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In this highly original and engagingly written book, Author Christopher J. Ferguson examines how pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other events of mass hysteria impact our psychology and prevent us from adequately responding to, preventing, or learning from those calamities.

November 2022 224 pages

From the rush to hoard toilet paper during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, to the disconnect between procedure and practice surrounding massive wildfires, to debates about the science behind climate catastrophes, and shifts after traumatic events like 9/11 and the murder of George Floyd, The Psychology of Catastrophe uses in-depth case studies to reveal how moments of societal upheaval affect the psychology of citizens.

Hardback 978-1-63388-795-4 $27.95 eBook 978-1-63388-796-1 $26.50

Christopher J. Ferguson is a professor of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. His research and clinical work explore issues of crime, violence, and antisocial behavior. He has also researched and written on the impact of media on viewers, including violent video games, sex in the media, and suicidethemed media.

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The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else

Recognizing the 27 Types of Narcissism

By Sterlin L. Mosley

Rights Exclusion: Translation The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else introduces readers to the notion of narcissism as a spectrum-based model of increasing loss of empathy (due to a variety of factors including genetics, trauma, abuse, conditioning and environment) that can give way to a propensity toward narcissism. Through studies and examples, Sterlin Mosley defines the 27 subtypes of narcissism and how these variations differ from the limited description of the narcissistic as popularized in psychological literature, movies, and other forms of popular culture. He offers readers an opportunity to explore how their own narcissistic tendencies may show up and how to challenge those tendencies to continue to push for greater compassion and empathy for ourselves and others. Using the Enneagram model of personality, Mosley explores and explains the variety of narcissistic tendencies and types and reveals useful tips on how to best to manage those tendencies in ourselves and the narcissists around us.

Sterlin Mosley, PhD, is a professor of human relations at the University of Oklahoma where he teaches classes on personality psychology, social change, cultural awareness and media.

Mosley is a certified Enneagram Coach and Teacher and is scholar in the fields of empathy, narcissism and personality psychology.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield December 2022 Hardback 978-1-5381-6174-6 $34.00 / £26.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6175-3 $32.00 / £25.00

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Love as Common Ground Essays on Love in Religion Edited by Paul S. Fiddes This book explores the way that the study of love creates a “common ground” in religion. For the contributors, common ground is not to be understood as a minimal core of belief, but as a space which scholars from Islam, Judaism, and Christianity occupy in order to consider together the meaning and practice of love.

Paul S. Fiddes is professor of systematic theology in the University of Oxford, UK, Principal Emeritus of Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow of the College.

Lexington Books 2022 • 362 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4780-1 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4781-8 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis

By Matt Reingold Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis examines the ways in which the work of Israeli political cartoonists broadens conversations about contemporary challenges in the country.

Matt Reingold shows how 21 cartoonists across 10 different Israeli newspapers produced cartoons in response to the country’s social and political crises between December 2018–June 2021, a period where the country was mired in four national elections.

Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Matt Reingold holds a PhD in Jewish education and teaches Jewish history and Jewish thought at TanenbaumCHAT, a community Jewish high school.

Lexington Books March 2022 • 216 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-683-7 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978-1-66690-684-4 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Reviving the Love for Economic Justice Foul Was Never Fair

By Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo In Reviving the Love for Economic Justice, Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo argues that the options for organizing economies are not limited to individualistic capitalism and collectivistic communism because the democratic commitment to human dignity requires the transcendence of the materialistic premises of both politicoeconomic arrangements. She therefore shifts the conversation to the more fundamental level of conflicting values and ideals, showing that the cultural and political failure to bring about humane economies can largely be blamed on the cultural preference for utility and wealth over justice and civic friendship.

Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo teaches in the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology and the Department of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Tilburg University, Netherlands.

Lexington Books 2022 • 166 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-4210-3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-7936-4211-0 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Willful Ignorance

Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum

By Helen T. Boursier Using ethnographic research, Willful Ignorance: Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum examines the attitudes of clergy and lay leaders regarding their (in)attention to racism as it intersects with the harsh reality of U.S. immigration policies and practices. This multi-faceted work begins with a reality check on the scope of forced migration and its intersection with the historical legacy of racism in America, including testimonies from displaced migrants and immigration advocates who help to alleviate stateinflicted suffering at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Rev. Dr. Helen T. Boursier, PhD, is a public theologian, educator, author, activist, ordained minister, and artist who has been a volunteer chaplain with refugee families seeking asylum since 2014. She teaches theology and religious studies at the College of St. Scholastica.

Lexington Books May 2022 • 458 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-2826-8 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978-1-7936-2827-5 • $50.00 / £38.00

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Vitamin C

A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience

By Stephen M. Sagar M.D.

Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience is the compelling story of the history and science behind vitamin C. Vitamin C begins with scurvy, which afflicted Europe for four hundred years and killed millions. The reasons that a disease whose cure was known from the outset persisted over that time are at once baffling and familiar, and these trials eventually lead to invention of the science of epidemiology.

Author Stephen M. Sagar MD then chronicles the discovery of vitamins at the beginning of the twentieth century, a story that encapsulates the rise of a scientific approach to nutrition but with surprising twists and turns. As vitamin science became more acquainted with the mainstream, scientist Linus Pauling reached new heights of fame and influence by popularizing the practice of taking megadoses of vitamin C to prevent colds – a claim that was not necessarily backed by data. This kickstarted the growth of the $40 billion vitamin and supplement industry, which has since prospered all while ignoring science.

Imprint: Prometheus August 2022 192 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-826-5 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-63388-827-2 $23.50 / £17.95

Stephen M. Sagar, MD, brings 40 years’ experience in science and medicine to tell a story that integrates the history of science into broader cultural, political and intellectual life.

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The Phantom God

What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe

By John C. Wathey

“John Wathey has made landmark contributions to the anatomy of religious belief. The Phantom God gives us the fundamental hows of religion’s tenacious hold on human minds, the neuroscience buried deep in our neonatal and early infant attachment system. Read this landmark book, and treasure it.”— J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D., Psychiatrist, University of Virginia, author of Why We Believe In God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith Does neuroscience have anything to say about religious belief or the existence of God? Some have tried to answer this question, but, in doing so, most have strayed from the scientific method.

In The Phantom God, computational biologist and neuroscientist John C. Wathey, Ph.D., tackles this problem head-on, exploring religious feelings not as the direct perception by the brain of some supernatural realm, nor as the pathological misfiring of neurons, but as a natural consequence of how our brains are wired.

John C. Wathey, Ph.D. is a computational biologist whose research interests include evolutionary algorithms, protein folding, and the biology of nervous systems. Previously, he was a senior applications scientist at Biosym Technologies (now named Biovia), a company that develops molecular modeling software for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Imprint: Prometheus October 2022 320 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-806-7 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-63388-807-4 $28.50 / £21.95

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Evolution Talk

Space Oddities

By Rick Coste

By Joe Cuhaj

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Evolution helps us understand our own humble place in the rich tapestry of life.

But what do we know about the theory of evolution itself? Based on the popular podcast of the same name, Evolution Talk reveals how the theory of evolution came to be and how it explains the world around us.

Space Oddities brings unknown, offbeat, and obscure stories of space to life. From the showmanship and bravado of the earliest known space fatality, German Max Valier, to the first-ever indictment under the Espionage Act on an Army officer who leaked secrets concerning the development of early U.S. rockets; and the story of a single loose bolt that defeated the Soviet Union’s attempt to beat America to the moon.

The Who, What, Why, and How Behind The Oldest Story Ever Told

Breaking down complex concepts with easy-to-follow language and engaging examples, Evolution Talk will educate and entertain any reader looking to learn more about the greatest idea ever.

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Forgotten Stories of Mankind’s Exploration of Space

Author Joe Cuhaj also sheds light on the human aspects of space travel that have remained industry secrets – until now.

Rick Coste has written and produced 14 podcast series which have entertained and educated a worldwide audience of over one million listeners. His lifelong love of science led him to write, produce, and host the science education show Evolution Talk, which currently ranks in the top 100 of Apple’s Natural Sciences category.

Joe Cuhaj grew up in New Jersey as a space fanatic. He would skip school to watch every launch and recovery from the late Mercury missions to the final Skylab mission all while building and flying model rockets. Cuhaj is a Navy veteran and former radio broadcaster turned author and freelance writer.

Prometheus October 2022 • 200 pages

Prometheus August 2022 • 238 pages

Paperback 978-1-63388-834-0 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-63388-835-7 • $20.50 / £15.95

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Graceful Exits

Making the Case for Getting Good at Goodbye

By Geri Reid Suster Rights Exclusion: Audio Exits are going to happen whether we like it or not, so why not get good at them?

How much time did you spend learning to walk, ride a bike, drive a car, and/ or interview for a job? Why not spend a little time learning to approach exits with greater skill? An ugly exit not only leaves scars on everyone involved, but also adds to the psychological burden one carries long after the exit. On the other hand, a graceful exit is hard in the moment, but sets us up to feel lighter and healthier on the other side.

Direct and full of advice and suggestions for next steps forward, Suster guides readers through the ups and downs of goodbyes, and carefully reveals the best methods for a smoother, more graceful transition.

Geri Reid Suster has 30-years of experience in business and management specializing in acquisitions and creating operational excellence.

Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 • 144 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6930-8 • $28.00 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6931-5 • $26.50 / £19.95

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Leading an Emotionally Intelligent Life Expanding Your EI to Make Courageous Decisions and Transform Your Life

By Patrick J. Kilcarr Rights Exclusion: Audio Expand your EI to make courageous decisions and transform your life based on Patrick Kilcarr’s EQ-I 2.0 tool and his ‘Master Trainer’ status.

Our emotional intelligence (EI) is an intensely personal inner landscape. It is an intricate interplay of self-regard, empathy, resilience, and other key competencies essential to leading a fulfilled and balanced personal and professional life. While it is unique for each one of us, taking into account our formative experience growing up and the myriad of others experiences we encountered up to this moment in time, there are specific emotions and behaviors that suggest we either are, or are not, socially and emotionally balanced.

Patrick J. Kilcarr, PhD is a writer and therapist. He is a professor at Georgetown University.

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 224 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4374-2 • $30.00 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4375-9 • $28.50 / £21.95

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Navigating Grief and Loss

Steady, Calm, and Brave

By Kimberly Brown

By Kimberly Brown

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Navigating Grief and Loss is designed to support all of us through difficult and upsetting times. It’s a relatable and useful guide with practical applications to help navigate the profound experience of loss, be it an elderly parent, succumbing to a lingering illness, the shock of an accidental death, a small business shuttered, a divorce after years of conflict, or euthanasia of a beloved pet.

Each short chapter honestly describes a personal experience dealing with death or grief and is followed by a brief practice.

Kimberly Brown is a popular Buddhist meditation teacher and Certified Mindfulness Instructor and since 2011 she has led thousands of classes, retreats, and workshops with individuals and groups merging self- compassion, emotional resilience, mindfulness, and Buddhism.

25 Buddhist Practices to Keep Your Heart Open to Yourself and Others

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25 Practices of Resilience and Wisdom In a Crisis

Prometheus January 2023 Paperback 978-1-63388-821-0 • $19.95 / £14.95

Kimberly Brown is a popular Buddhist meditation teacher and Certified Mindfulness Instructor and since 2011 she has led thousands of classes, retreats, and workshops with individuals and groups merging self- compassion, emotional resilience, mindfulness, and Buddhism.

Prometheus November 2022 • 155 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-819-7 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-63388-820-3 • $17.50 / £13.95

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Digging through History Again

New Discoveries from Atlantis to the Holocaust

By Richard A. Freund

Digging through History Again: New Discoveries from Atlantis to the Holocaust follows archaeologist Richard Freund’s journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history—including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, a medieval synagogue in northern Spain and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor and long-neglected sites of the Holocaust. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological site, showing what we can learn about past religious life and religious faith through the artifacts found there, as well as what has given each site such strong “staying power” over time. It also highlights the technological developments in geoscience and archaeology of the last 25 years that allows us to uncover more with less time, expense. and labor while observing the sensitivities associated with Jewish traditions.

Richard A. Freund is the endowed Bertram and Gladys Chair of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. He is a field archaeologist and historian of Judaism who together with geoscientists from around the world has developed a new method or working on sites with particular social, political, and religious sensitivities where traditional archaeological technique cannot easily be used.

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Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel

Stories Beyond Nature-Culture Divide By Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu

“Erudite and sophisticated yet accessible and engaging, Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel deserves a wide readership and will appeal to all those interested in cuttingedge environmental humanities research.” —Stef Craps, Ghent University, Netherlands Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel examines how shamanism is used as a significant trope in a selection of novels. Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu contends that the shamanic figures and societies featured in these works have been subjected to marginalization, dislocation, and dispossession through imperialist, colonialist, and capitalist encroachments in different historical contexts.

Imprint: Prometheus March 2022 190 pages Hardback 978-1-4985-9115-7 $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-4985-9116-4 $45.00 / £35.00

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu is associate professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Turke y.

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On the Rocks

Straight Talk about Women and Drinking

By Susan D. Stewart Drawing on original research and extensive interviews with a diverse group of women, author Susan Stewart reveals women’s complex relationships with alcohol and factors associated with its increasing use. This unvarnished examination of women and drinking challenges readers to think through the implications to individuals, families, and society.

Susan D. Stewart is a Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University. She received her Doctorate in Sociology from Bowling Green State University.

Dr. Stewart is a family demographer whose research focuses on gender, structural diversity in families, family dynamics, and children and adults’ physical, social, and emotional health.

Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times Beyond the Endgame

Edited by David A.B. Murray As global health organizations claim that the AIDS/HIV crisis is nearing its end, Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame examines how people living with HIV navigate changes in the management and control of the HIV pandemic.

Series: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society David A.B. Murray is professor of anthropology and sexuality studies at York University, UK. Lexington Books 2021 • 254 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-148-1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978-1-66690-149-8 • $45.00 / £35.00

Revisiting HIV/ AIDS in French Culture Raw Matters

Edited by Loïc Bourdeau and V. Hunter Capps This volume offers a multidisciplinary study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the French context from the 1980s to today through the concept of rawness. Exploring vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma in relation to disease, this collection provides important tools to understand and discuss both the ongoing HIV and SARS-CoV-2 pandemics.

Loïc Bourdeau is associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

V. Hunter Capps is postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at the University at Buffalo.

Rowman & Littlefield September 2022 • 192 pages

Lexington Books April 2022 • 180 pages

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Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies Edited by Martha Donkor and Amoaba Gooden Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women’s sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women’s perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives.

Series: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora Martha Donkor is professor of women’s and gender studies at West Chester University.

Amoaba Gooden is professor of Pan-African studies at Kent State University.

Lexington Books March 2022 • 194 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-2844-2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-7936-2845-9 • $45.00 / £35.00

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The Trial of Hissein Habré The International Crimes of a Former Head of State

By Emmanuel Guematcha In The Trial of Hissein Habré: The International Crimes of a Former Head of State, Emmanuel Guematcha recounts the trial of Hissein Habré, the former head of state of Chad. Accused of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture while ruling Chad between 1982 and 1990, Hissein Habré was tried in Dakar, Senegal, by the Extraordinary African Chambers. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2016 and the sentence was confirmed in 2017. . In a narrative style, Guematcha examines the process that led to this achievement in Africa, including the failed attempts to try Hissein Habré in the Senegalese, Chadian, and Belgian courts. Guematcha discusses the mobilization of victims and the involvement of nongovernmental and international organizations.

Emmanuel Guematcha is senior lecturer of international law at the University of French Guiana and lecturer of transitional justice at the University of Paris–Nanterre.

Lexington Books April 2022 • 202 pages Hardback 978-1-66690-391-1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978-1-66690-392-8 • $45.00 / £35.00

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Here Comes the Flood

Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave Edited by Marcy L. Tanter and Moisés Park

This collection breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, specifically examining issues of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in a variety of cultural products including K-pop, K-drama, and cover dancing through the lens of how “Koreanness” can be defined. A diverse range of of contributors showcase how Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, began as a wave rolling across Asia and morphed into a tsunami that has impacted every continent, making Korean popular culture an industry that draws in fans on a global scale. The stereotypes and issues being explored in this collection, contributors argue, are intertwined with how Koreans both at home and in the diaspora portray themselves publicly and consider themselves privately.

Marcy L. Tanter is an active teacher-scholar and international education advisor for the May 18 Memorial Foundation in Gwangju, South Korea.

Moisés Park is assistant professor in the Modern Languages and Cultures department at Baylor University.

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Imprint: Lexington Books March 2022 270 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-3630-0 $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978-1-7936-3631-7 $45.00 / £35.00

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The Anthropocene and the Undead

Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination Edited by Simon Bacon The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise up and consume the world, and undead temporalities that can never end.

Series: Lexington Books Horror Studies Simon Bacon is an independent scholar.

Lexington Books March 2022 • 276 pages Hardback 978-1-7936-2582-3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978-1-7936-2583-0 • $45.00 / £35.00

Fifty Years of Polyamory in America

A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement

By Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers Fifty Years of Polyamory in America is a history of multiply committed relationships, group marriage, and group living in American over the last fifty years. It is based on the personal experiences of the authors, on extensive research of the movement, and on interviews with leaders in this movement.

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Death before Sentencing

Ending Rampant Suicide, Overdoses, Brutality, and Malpractice in America’s Jails

By Andrew R. Klein, With Jessica L. Klein Death before Sentencing provides a comprehensive description of America’s 3,000 plus county and local jails being ignored by the media, politicians, and even criminal justice reformers.

Jails have largely escaped scrutiny for deaths in their facilities for several reasons.

Glen Olson is an author and historian of the polyamory movement and gives presentations on the history of polyamory and open relationships to interested groups.

Andrew R. Klein, PhD, is head of the United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance training and technical assistance program for prison and jail drug treatment programs (called RSAT).

Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Life/ Business Coach, director of Success Center Inc. since 1969.

Jessica L. Klein is a freelance journalist, published widely in outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and the BBC.

Rowman & Littlefield November 2022 • 176 pages

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Hardback 978-1-5381-6975-9 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6976-6 • $30.00 / £22.95

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The FIFA World Cup A History of the Planet’s Biggest Sporting Event

By Clemente A. Lisi

In The FIFA World Cup: A History of the Planet’s Biggest Sporting Event, veteran soccer reporter Clemente A. Lisi chronicles the tournament from 1930 to today, including a preview of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Lisi provides vivid accounts of individual games, details the innovations that impacted the sport across the decades, and offers biographical sketches of greats such as Pelé, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi. In addition, Lisi includes needed, objective coverage of off-field controversies such as the FIFA corruption case, making this book the only complete and impartial history of the tournament.

Featuring personal interviews and behind-the-scenes stories from the author’s many years attending and covering the World Cup, as well as stunning color photography, The FIFA World Cup is the definitive history of this global event.

Clemente A. Lisi is a journalism professor at The King’s College in New York City. He has worked as a journalist and editor for more than two decades.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield October 2022 382 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5643-8 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5644-5 $28.50 / £21.95

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The History of the NBA in Twelve Games From 24 Seconds to 30,000 3-Pointers

By Sean Deveney

From its early days as a physical, plodding game with franchises parked in outpost towns like Fort Wayne, Moline, and Rochester, to today’s international showcase sport, professional basketball has evolved dramatically over the decades. But the development of the National Basketball Association and its star players was not preordained. There were moments, both obvious and subtle, that steered the direction of the sport, whether it was Bill Russell’s swan song, a near-miss on Michael Jordan, a LeBron James legacy game or a deep 3-point-shot by Steph Curry, these moments gradually brought us the NBA we know today—a scrappy league that was jump-started by a 24-second timer and will be defined by the 30,000 3-pointers its players knock down per season. Veteran NBA reporter and editor Sean Deveney will explore the unique characters and backstories of 12 crucial games in the history of the league, while putting them into the context of their influence on the direction of the game.

Imprint: Lyons Press November 2022 288 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6665-0 $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6912-5 $26.50 / £19.95

Sean Deveney is an editor at Heavy.com with a focus on the NBA and basketball in general. He has covered the league on a national basis for 20 years and has interviewed stars from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jerry West to Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant to LeBron James and Kevin Durant.

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Four Quarters of History

Walking Alone

Bronko

Ten Games That Define the Modern NFL

The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington

By David Fischer

By Dan Taylor

By Chris Willis

Professional football has come a long way from its origins as a game played on sandlots and frozen fields to the high-tech spectacular it is today. This book focuses on ten games of the modern era that, collectively, have shaped and defined the National Football League.

The chapters will go beyond mere descriptions of the games as they trace the significance of a particular contest on the growth of the league. From “the greatest game ever played” to Joe Namath’s guaranteed win in Super Bowl III, Franco Harris’s Immaculate Reception, and the rise of the New England Patriots’ dynasty.

In Walking Alone: The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington, Dan Taylor reveals Washington’s immeasurable impact on his sport and beyond. Legends of the game hailed Washington as one of the greatest players in football history. He was also a baseball star, and Taylor recounts never-beforetold details of the efforts to make Washington the first Black player in big league baseball along with Jackie Robinson. Taylor also delves into the heinous verbal and physical abuse Washington was subjected to, his refusal to play in the South, and how he positively impacted ignorant teammates and rivals through his character and talent.

Bronko is the definitive biography of NFL legend Bronko Nagurski. A smalltown athlete from the plains of Minnesota, Bronko became one of the greatest players in NFL history. He led the Chicago Bears to success on the gridiron as a largerthan-life personality, helping raise the popularity of the fledgling league during the Great Depression.

David Fischer has written for The New York Times and Sports Illustrated For Kids and has worked at Sports Illustrated, National Sports Daily, and NBC Sports.

Dan Taylor is a former awardwinning television sportscaster.

He is the author of Fate’s TakeOut Slide in collaboration with George Genovese.

Lyons Press October 2022 • 288 pages

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 248 pages

Hardback 978-1-4930-6283-6 • $28.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6911-8 • $27.50 / £20.95

Hardback 978-1-5381-5436-6 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5437-3 • $34.00 / £26.00

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The Legendary Story of the NFL’s Greatest TwoWay Fullback

Chris Willis is the head of the Research Library at NFL Films.

He is the author of multiple books on professional football, including The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr; Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians: How a Dog Kennel Owner Created the NFL’s Most Famous Traveling Team; and Red Grange: The Life and Legacy of the NFL’s First Superstar, all published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Rowman & Littlefield August 2022 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5062-7 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5063-4 • $42.50 / £33.00

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The Black Athlete Revolt

The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

By Shaun M. Anderson

A timely and significant examination of how Black athletes have used their influence to create meaningful change and reform for Black Americans.

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

In the age of social media, athletes have a powerful influence like never before. Many Black athletes have used that power in positive ways, galvanizing their platforms to create impactful educational opportunities, donate to Black social causes, and raise political awareness on important issues.

In The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter, Shaun M. Anderson examines the Black athlete’s rise in advocating for social justice and how today’s athletes have moved beyond protesting to create substantial change for Black Americans. Anderson reflects on the history and evolution of Black athlete activism, breaking down its importance during the civil rights movement, the commodification of athletes during the 1990s, and how twentyfirst century athletes have utilized their wealth and influence to create lasting societal change in the age of #BlackLivesMatter.

With fascinating portraits of notable individuals in the history of Black activism, as well as insights from athletes and allies who discuss the future of athlete activism, The Black Athlete Revolt reveals the ever-evolving and crucial role of Black athletes beyond the world of sports.

February 2023 192 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5324-6 $34.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5325-3 $32.00

Shaun M. Anderson, PhD, is the founder and president of CSR Global Consulting, LLC, which is a global consulting firm dedicated to helping sport organizations develop strategic plans to effectively communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. He has worked with organizations such as PBS, Major League Baseball, Football University, Job Corp, and Pursuit Sports Group, as well as multiple universities.

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Fighting Against the Odds

The Answers to Questions You’ve Always Wondered About from America’s Most Popular Game

By Fiaz Rafiq Foreword by Royce Gracie Rights Exclusion: UK Rights Sold: Russian

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Fighting against the Odds is the culmination of Fiaz Rafiq’s decades of work behind the scenes as a mixed martial arts and combat sports journalist, gaining the trust and confidence of the best fighters in UFC and boxing. Rafiq shares candid accounts, hidden histories, and thrilling experiences from his time with some of the most famous and prominent personalities in fighting sports. Included are never-before-told stories of UFC’s most decorated and revered champions in Randy Couture, Royce Gracie, Daniel Cormier, Brock Lesnar, Georges St-Pierre, and Conor McGregor and boxing icons such as Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali.

Rights: World, excl. UK

Fiaz Rafiq is a sports and entertainment journalist and author.

He solidified himself as an acclaimed biographer of some of the towering figure in sports and Hollywood, writing Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend, Bruce Lee: The Life of a Legend, and Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Life of a Legend. Rafiq is the coauthor of My Brother, Muhammad Ali: The Definitive Biography —a Sunday Times Book of the Year published in seven languages—with Ali’s brother Rahaman Ali.

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May 2022 334 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5483-0 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5484-7 $28.00 / £21.95

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“(Fiaz’s) passion became his life’s work as a writer. No one else covers MMA with such insight. Now, he spins out his unlikely life story with entertaining energy, verve, sincerity and passion.”

— Alex Ben Block, former editor, The Hollywood Reporter, veteran showbiz journalist “An inspiring story of a kid who discovered his path in life — and success — through his passion for Bruce Lee and the martial arts. Highly recommended.” — Matthew Polly, New York Times bestselling author “He (Fiaz) studies his subjects and does his homework so much that he can’t go wrong. Fiaz studies the person - like he studied about me, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and all those guys. And he knows more about the person than the person knows about himself.” — Royce Gracie, Three-time UFC champion “The story of an obsessive individual who drew inspiration from his boyhood idol Bruce Lee to follow his dream and shape his life.

It reflects how his passion forged friendships and taught him to roll with the blows that journalism can throw at you.” — Simon Jones, Daily Mail “Fiaz knows exactly how to get to the heart of every story seamlessly - and telling his own is no different. A must read for fans of combat sports, MMA and Hollywood.” — Ellie Henman, The Sun “This is a gripping memoir which doubles up as an insightful deep dive into the world of entertainment and sports by a journalist who identified the phenomenon of MMA fighting as well as one man’s journey to discover who he really is.” — Halina Watts, Sunday Mirror

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Hiking is Fundamental

The Tracker’s Field Guide

By Barbara Ann Kipfer

By James C. Lowery

Hiking is Fundamental is an informative celebration of all things hiking.

Illustrated list-style chapters cover the core elements of getting into hiking, from preparation to pacing. This inviting overview will demystify the whole hiking experience and give readers the tools and skills they need to get started with confidence. Hiking is not exclusive to the wealthy, the athletic, or the experienced.

It’s fun! And it’s for everyone.

Step richly into the animal world by discovering what their tracks tell you about their purpose, mood and individuality. Learn to understand an animal’s current behavior and choices through the context of its biology and the tracks it leaves behind. From decades of field research and teaching tracking to thousands, expert tracker Jim Lowery leads you to confident identification of tracks and into a deeper relationship with animals and their habitat, using many examples, tips, and focused notes written specifically for field exploration.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Hitting the Trail

Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer is an archaeologist, lexicographer, former sports writer, hiker, and author. She has written more than 65 books and calendars.

Falcon Guides September 2022 • 224 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6362-8 • $22.95 / £17.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6363-5 • $21.50 / £16.95

A Comprehensive Manual for Animal Tracking, Third Edition

James C. Lowery has taught hundreds of beginning and advanced tracking workshops, including many special trainings for field biologists, over the past 35 years.

His school, Earth Skills, offers courses and mentoring, and his website www.earthskills. com offers many tracking resources.

Falcon Guides September 2022 • 416 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6703-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6704-6 • $23.50 / £17.95

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Wilderness First Responder

How To Recognize, Treat, And Prevent Emergencies In The Backcountry, Fourth Edition

By Buck Tilton Wilderness First Responder is a comprehensive text for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of backcountry emergencies, written by wilderness expert Buck Tilton with more than a dozen medical professionals. Thoroughly updated and revised, this guide represents more than a century and a half of combined experience in wilderness medicine, rescue, and education. It is essential reading for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, search and rescue groups, and anyone who works or plays far from definitive medical care.

Buck Tilton is co-founder of the Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Lander, Wyoming. He has extensive hands-on experience in prehospital medicine and wilderness search and rescue.

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Wilderness 101

Common Sense for Every Adventurer

By Maurice L. Phipps Wilderness 101 is the companion guide for new adventurers. Aimed at preventing newcomers to the outdoors from ending up in “survival” situations due to a lack of preparedness, this guide will impart introductory knowledge and skills to readers applicable across a range of potential activities, and useful for anyone heading into the backcountry.

Maurice Phipps is Professor Emeritus of Parks and Recreation Management in the Department of Human Services at Western Carolina University. He is currently on the Presidential Council for the Wilderness Education Association, having been an instructor and board member for 28 years.

Falcon Guides September 2022 • 128 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6502-8 • $14.95 / £11.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6503-5 • $14.00 / £10.95

Falcon Guides September 2022 • 324 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6705-3 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4930-6706-0 • $33.00 / £25.00

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Sailing by Starlight

The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star

By Rod Scher

Sailing by Starlight is the story of the adventure of a lifetime—in fact, of many lifetimes. In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do what hadn’t been done for a thousand years—if indeed it had ever been done at all: Marv and his crew boarded a 35’ sailboat named Globe Star and set out into the frigid Atlantic, planning to sail around the world without the use of any instruments. There was no sextant aboard. No compass. No chart-plotter. No GPS. No radar. Not even a stopwatch. Creamer wanted to prove to the world that it was possible for ancient mariners to have crossed the largest seas, perhaps even sailed around the world, using only their brains, their experience, their sense, and their courage. In attempting to prove his point, Creamer would push his boat and his crew to the limit—and occasionally beyond.

Rod Scher is an experienced writer and editor with multiple books and dozens of magazine articles to his credit. The former editor of Smart Computing Magazine, Scher is also the author of Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology and the editor/annotator of recent editions of Joshua Slocum’s classic nautical memoir, Sailing Alone Around the World, and of Richard Henry Dana’s classic Two Years Before the Mast, all from Sheridan House Publishers.

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Imprint: Sheridan House November 2022 288 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6569-1 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-7076-3 $28.50 / £21.95

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Forensic Files Now

Recaps and Updates to 40 Favorite Cases

By Rebecca Reisner Foreword by Paul Dowling

In Forensic Files Now, author Rebecca Reisner shares her own gripping retellings of 40 favorite cases profiled on the show along with fascinating updates adapted from her popular blog, ForensicFilesNow.com. From classic cases like the Harvardeducated architect who opted for arsenic instead of divorce, to the Texas lovebirds who robbed a grave in an insurance fraud plot that made international headlines, the Ohio doctor who attempted a fresh start by burying his wife in the basement of their house, and some cases that are so captivating that they have sparked spinoff mini-series of their own, readers will be enthralled by these vivid recaps and detailed updates.

Imprint: Prometheus October 2022 232 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-828-9 $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-63388-829-6 $20.50 / £15.95

Also featuring an in-depth interview with Forensic Files creator Paul Dowling and a profile on the show’s beloved narrator, Peter Thomas, Forensic Files Now is a must-read for diehard Forensic Files fans and a welcome find for true crime readers who are always looking for more riveting and well-told stories.

Rebecca Reisner is a writer and editor who has held longtime staff positions at Businessweek, the New York Post, and Discover magazine. Her blog, ForensicFilesNow.com, has been named as among the best true crime sites by Bustle, True Crime Traveller, and Bizarrepedia and has garnered mention on Time. comand the Daily Beast.

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King David and Boss Daley

The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge

By Lance Williams

Rights Exclusion: Film/TV Rights

Imprint: Prometheus

In Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one young, one old and both leaders of their clans.

Each ruled with an iron fist. Each embodied the fighting spirit of the turbulent 1960s. One was David Barksdale, the Black Disciples leader, a Black youth club that would give birth to America’s largest street gang; the other was Richard J. Daley, the legendary Mayor of the City of Chicago. He was one of the longest-serving, most prominent mayors in American history and the last of the big-city “bosses.” Although the two never met, at least not face-to-face, their fates were linked by a time of change, an era of protest, which was a decisive moment of transformational power that was on the verge of a violent uprising in America’s second-largest city.

November 2022 275 pages

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Hardback 978-1-63388-786-2 $26.95 eBook 978-1-63388-825-8 $25.50

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Something Spectacular A Rock’s Journey

By Carmela Coyle Illustrated by Carly Allen-Fletcher

Rights Exclusion: Audio

Imprint: Muddy Boots

Carmela LaVigna Coyle’s new picture book takes readers on an epic journey through time. Through ice ages, meteor showers, and earthquakes, readers experience the formation of an ancient treasure.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the present, a little girl sets out on a hike with her family.

The two parallel stories collide when the little girl finds something SPECTACULAR on the side of a trail—a treasure forged over the course of hundreds of MILLIONS of years all leading to this very moment—the discovery of a precious heart rock.

October 2022 32 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6568-4 $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-4930-7107-4 $16.00 / £11.95

Illustrated with Carly Allen Fletcher’s lush and vivid paintings, Something Spectacular is a geologic adventure with heart and wonder. The perfect book for rockhounds young and old.

Carmela LaVigna Coyle is an award-winning author of over a dozen picture and board books. Her popular Do Princesses… series is a favorite among the not-your-ordinary-princess crowd.

Carly Allen-Fletcher is a freelance illustrator living and working in the Midlands, UK. Her work explores the combination of digital painting and traditional media, creating images by layering graphic shapes with painted textures and handmade elements.

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Stan Lee

The Man behind Marvel Young Adult Edition

By Bob Batchelor

Rights Sold: Chinese Simplified, Hungarian, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Polish, Audio Rights Sold for Original Edition Stan Lee’s extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at the heart of global culture, loved by millions of superhero fans around the world.

In this young adult edition of Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel, award-winning cultural historian Bob Batchelor offers an in-depth and complete look at this iconic visionary. Batchelor explores how Lee, born in the Roaring Twenties and growing up in the Great Depression, capitalized on natural talent and hard work to become the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager. Lee went on to introduce the world to heroes that were complex, funny, and fallible, just like their creator and just like all of us.

Featuring amazingly detailed illustrations by artist Jason Piperberg, the young adult edition of Stan Lee also includes new details from Stan Lee’s life, like how he became a pioneer in crafting female and African-American superheroes and his crucial role in establishing one of the world’s most popular film franchises in history.

Bob Batchelor is an award-winning cultural historian and biographer and author of more than a dozen books. His work has been featured in Time, the New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, LitHub, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield October 2022 224 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6205-7 $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6206-4 $16.00 / £11.95

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Coping with Parental Death

Insights and Tips for Teenagers

By Michelle Shreeve

Dealing with Stress

Insights and Tips for Teenagers

By Christie Cognevich

Losing a parent at any time in one’s life is difficult, but losing a parent when a teenager brings its own distinct challenges.

Today’s teenagers are dealing with stress at an unprecedented level. The inescapable flood of difficult news and world concerns can make anyone—but especially young adults—feel isolated and anxious.

Coping with Parental Death offers coping strategies, expert advice, useful resources, and valuable insight from other young adults, providing support to those struggling with the death of one or both of their parents.

Dealing with Stress: Insights and Tips for Teenagers offers relatable anecdotes and practical strategies to guide teenagers who are struggling with stress and mental health, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic and other life crises.

Series: Empowering You

Series: Empowering You

Michelle Shreeve is a freelance writer who has been published nationally and locally in newspapers, magazines, and websites.

Christie Cognevich is an educator and writer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a PhD in English literature and taught literature, composition, and creative writing at the high school and university levels for over a decade.

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 168 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-5489-2 • $29.00 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5490-8 • $27.50 / £20.95

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The Hope Raisers

How a Group of Young Kenyans Fought to Transform Their Slum and Inspire a Community

By Nihar Suthar

Rights Exclusion: Film/TV

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

In The Hope Raisers: How a Group of Young Kenyans Fought to Transform Their Slum and Inspire a Community, Nihar Suthar tells the amazing story of how Daniel and Mutura turned their band into a platform for change. They started teaching children on the streets how to express themselves through art and established a skating team after finding a pair of rollerblades in the dump. Suthar closely follows the story of one rebellious girl, Lucy Achieng, who refused to get married off at a young age and instead used competitive rollerblading to reach for her dreams.

Lucy continues to inspire girls to stand up for themselves and challenge the longstanding practices in Korogocho of early marriage and prostitution.

November 2022 184 pages

The Hope Raisers is an eye-opening look into a world of poverty and violence where children receive only a basic education and are left with little to no means to get out. Yet it also reveals the remarkable impact that a few determined individuals can have on their community, even in the most challenging of conditions.

Part of the proceeds from all book sales will be donated to the Hope Raisers and toward improving the slum of Korogocho.

Nihar Suthar is an author who covers inspirational stories around the world. He is the author of Win No Matter What: A Guide to Hyping Up Your Life and The Corridor of Uncertainty: How Cricket Mended a Torn Nation.

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Stan Lee

The Man Behind Marvel

By Bob Batchelor

Rights Sold: Russian, Polish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian, Vietnamese In Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel, Bob Batchelor offers an eyeopening look at this iconic visionary, a man who created (with talented artists) many of history’s most legendary characters.

In this energetic and entertaining biography, Batchelor explores how Lee capitalized on natural talent and hard work to become the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager. After toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations of readers. Marvel superheroes became a central part of pop culture, from collecting comics to innovative merchandising, from superhero action figures to the ever-present Spider-Man lunchbox.

Batchelor examines many of Lee’s most beloved works, including the 1960s comics that transformed Marvel from a second-rate company to a legendary publisher. This book reveals the risks Lee took to bring the characters to life and Lee’s tireless efforts to make comic books and superheroes part of mainstream culture for more than fifty years.

Bob Batchelor is an award-winning cultural historian and biographer and author of more than a dozen books. His work has been featured in Time, the New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, LitHub, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield December 2018 264 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2843-5 $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-63388-825-8 $16.00 / £11.95 Hardback (2017) 978-1-4422-7781-6 $22.95 / £17.95

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The Origins of the Modern World

A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, Fourth Edition

By Robert B. Marks

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including their impacts on the environment. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, increasing inequality within the wealthiest industrialized countries, and an escape from the environmental constraints of the “biological old regime.”

2019 320 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-2703-2 $34.00 / £26.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-2702-5 $93.00 / £72.00 eBook 978-1-5381-2704-9 $32.00 / £25.00

Series: World Social Change Robert B. Marks is professor emeritus of history and

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The Millionaire Next Door

The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By Thomas J. Stanley PhD and William D. Danko PhD Foreword by Sarah Stanley Fallaw PhD Rights Sold: French, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Mongolian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Complex, Thai, Hebrew, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian, Russian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Hindi, Croatian, Marathi, Portuguese, Estonian “Why aren’t I as wealthy as I should be?” Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hardworking, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence.

The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family’s wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the bigspending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America’s rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.

Thomas J. Stanley was an author, lecturer, and researcher who started studying the affluent in 1973. He died in 2015.

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Imprint: Taylor Trade Publishing 2016 272 pages Hardback 978-1-63076-250-6 $22.95 / £17.95

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The Next Millionaire Next Door Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth

By Thomas J. Stanley PhD and Sarah Stanley Fallaw PhD

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Imprint: Lyons Press

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 he’s achieving his financial objectives much the same way he always has: by living below his means, being a contrarian in a maelstrom of hyper-consumption, and being disciplined in reaching his financial goals.

The book examines wealth in America 20 years after Dr. Stanley’s groundbreaking work on self-made affluence. While a new generation of household financial managers are being inundated with the proliferation financial advice, The Next Millionaire Next Door provides readers with an analysis of what it takes to achieve wealth with data-based conclusions and evidence from those who have built wealth on their own over the last two decades. In this current work, the authors detail how specific decisions, behaviors, and characteristics align with the discipline of wealth building, covering areas such as consumption, budgeting, careers, investing, and financial management in general. Through case studies, survey research, and a careful examination of quantitative studies of wealth, the authors illustrate what it takes to achieve financial success today, regardless of market conditions or rising costs.

2021 272 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5275-2 $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3536-6 $16.00 / £11.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-4930-3535-9 $24.95 / £18.95

Thomas J. Stanley was an author, lecturer, and researcher who started studying the affluent in 1973. He died in 2015.

William D. Danko is professor emeritus at the School of Business, State University of New York at Albany.

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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants

Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By Garrett Ryan

Rights Sold: Korean, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Polish, Audio (English) Why didn’t the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery?

In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life.

Garrett Ryan earned his PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan. Besides teaching at several universities and authoring a series of academic works, he has brought ancient history to life for hundreds of thousands of readers through his contributions to online forums and his

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Power & Choice

An Introduction to Political Science

By W. Phillips Shively

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

W. Phillips Shively’s Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics, both domestic and international, through the use of multiple comparative perspectives and theoretical approaches. The major theme reflected in the title is based on Shively’s definition of politics as the making of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power.

Using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice provides undergraduate students with a clear and engaging introduction to political philosophy, comparative legal systems, and international politics.

2018 464 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-1412-4 $89.00 / £68.00 eBook 978-1-5381-1413-1 $84.50 / £65.00

W. Phillips Shively is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Craft of Political Research, 10th edition (2017), as well as numerous articles on elections and methods of analysis.

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The History of the Popes From Peter to the Present

By John W. O’Malley, SJ Rights Sold: Portuguese, French, Italian, Hungarian A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus’ chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the popes have been key players in virtually all of the great dramas of the western world in the last two thousand years. Rather than describe each pope one by one, this engaging narrative focuses on the popes that shaped pivotal moments in both church and world history.

John W. O’Malley, S.J., is a Roman Catholic priest and professor of religion at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C., and is the author of numerous books, including What Happened at Vatican II and Four Cultures of the West.

When Paris Sizzled

The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends

By Mary McAuliffe Rights Sold: Romanian, Korean, Audio (English) When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Années folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them—one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.

Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, has taught at several universities, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution. She has traveled extensively in France, and for many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes.

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Paperback 978-1-58051-228-2 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-58051-229-9 • $18.99 / £14.95 Hardback (2010) 978-1-58051-227-5 • $26.95 / £20.95

Paperback 978-1-5381-2180-1 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4422-5333-9 • $19.00 / £14.95 Hardback (2017) 978-1-4422-5332-2 • $29.95 / £22.95

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Racism without Racists

Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Sixth Edition

By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Rights Sold: Portuguese, Audio (English) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality and makes clear that color-blind racism is as insidious now as ever.

The sixth edition of this provocative book includes new material on systemic racism and how colorblind racism framed many issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. A revised conclusion addresses what readers can do to confront racism—both personally and on a larger structural level.

Rowman & Littlefield 2022 • 392 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-5141-9 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5142-6 • $42.50 / £33.00 Hardback 978-1-5381-5140-2 • $90.00 / £69.00

Recursivity and Contingency

Nihilism and Technology

By Yuk Hui

By Nolen Gertz

Rights Sold: Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Polish This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of thinking elaborated by Kant, passing by the philosophy of nature (Schelling and Hegel), to the 20th century Organicism (Bertalanffy, Needham, Whitehead, Wiener among others) and Organology (Bergson, Canguilhem, Simodnon, Stiegler), and questions the new condition of philosophizing in the time of algorithmic contingency, ecological and algorithmic catastrophes, which Heidegger calls the end of philosophy.

Series: Media Philosophy Rowman & Littlefield 2019 • 336 pages Paperback 978-1-78660-053-0 • $42.00 / £32.00 eBook 978-1-78660-054-7 • $39.50 / £30.00 Hardback 978-1-78660-052-3 • $126.00 / £97.00

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Rights Sold: Japanese Rather than engage in endless debates about whether technologies are making us better or making us worse, Nolen Gertz investigates what we think “better” and “worse” mean, and what role this thinking has played in the creation of our technological world.

This investigation is carried out by using Nietzsche’s philosophy of nihilism in order to explore the ways in which our values mediate how we design technologies and how we use technologies. Examining our technological practices reveals how our nihilism and our technologies have become intertwined, creating a world of techno-hypnosis, data-driven activity, pleasure economics, herd networking, and orgies of clicking.

Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 • 298 pages Paperback 978-1-78660-703-4 • $37.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-78660-704-1 • $35.00 / £27.00 Hardback 978-1-78660-702-7 • $89.00 / £68.00

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Dear Professor Einstein

Einstein’s Brainchild

Edited by Alice Calaprice

By Barry R. Parker Illustrated by Lori Scoffield-Beer

Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children

Rights Sold: French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Complex, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish This enchanting book displays a small sampling of the amusing, touching, and sometimes precocious letters sent to Albert Einstein by children from around the world, and his often witty and very considerate responses. Alice Calaprice has compiled a delightful and charming collection of more than 60 letters, most never published before, from children to perhaps the greatest scientist of all time.

They reveal the intimate human side of the great public persona, a man who, though he spent his days contemplating the impersonal abstractions of mathematics and physics, was very fond of children and enjoyed being in their company.

Prometheus 2003 • 200 pages Hardback 978-1-59102-015-8 • $25.99 / £19.95 eBook 978-1-61592-276-5 • $24.50 / £18.95

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Relativity Made Relatively Easy!

Rights Sold: Dutch, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese Complex, Indian, Turkish Physicist and popular science writer Barry Parker speaks to the broadest possible audience in bringing Einstein’s theories to life. Given the fervent renewed appreciation for the contributions Albert Einstein has bestowed on humanity, Parker thinks it only right to dedicate a book to explaining in the clearest possible terms the meaning and beauty of Einstein’s theories.While tracing the story of Einstein’s life, Parker seizes on the crucial groundbreaking theories that Einstein envisioned. Not since Isaac Newton had anyone conceived the universe in such a revolutionary, startling new way. Through Parker’s eloquence, eye for detail, and clever use of Einsteinian cartoons and vivid illustrations, he enables the reader to see and appreciate for perhaps the first time the full meaning and scope of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity.

Prometheus 2007 • 280 pages Paperback 978-1-59102-522-1 • $18.99 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-61592-368-7 • $18.00 / £13.95 Hardback (2001) 978-1-57392-857-1 • $28.99 / £21.95

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Leonardo’s Brain

Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius

By Leonard Shlain

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Imprint: Lyons Press

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.

2015 240 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-0939-8 $18.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-1557-3 $17.99 / £13.95

Shlain asserts that Leonardo’s genius came from a unique creative ability that allowed him to understand and excel in a wide range of fields. From here Shlain jumps off and discusses the history of and current research on human creativity that involves different modes of thinking and neuroscience .The author also boldly speculates on whether or not the qualities of Leonardo’s brain and his creativity presage the future evolution of the human species.

Leonard Shlain was a best-selling author and San Francisco surgeon. Admired among artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists and educators, Shlain authored three bestselling books: Art & Physics, Alphabet vs. The Goddess and Sex,

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Origins of Form

The Shape of Natural and Manmade Things—Why They Came to Be the Way They Are and How They Change

By Christopher Williams

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Imprint: Taylor Trade Publishing

Origins of Form is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree? Why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small one? What is the similarity between a human rib cage and an airplane or a bison and a cantilevered bridge? How might we plan for things to improve as they are used instead of wearing out? The author has chosen eight criteria that constitute the major influences on threedimensional form. These criteria comprise the eight chapters of the book: each looks at form from entirely different viewpoints.

The products of both nature and man are examined and compared.

2013 144 pages

Christopher Williams has lectured on and written many articles about the theory of design, and he has taught design and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Cleveland Art Institute; the University of Alberta in Canada; and in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University.

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Math Makers

The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians

By Alfred S. Posamentier and Christian Spreitzer

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Imprint: Prometheus

Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers to life while making their contributions understandable to readers with little math background. Among the fascinating characters profiled are Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the founder of classical physics and infinitesimal calculus--he frequently quarreled with fellow scientists and was obsessed by alchemy and arcane Bible interpretation; Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831), who studied secretly at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, using the name of a previously enrolled male student--she is remembered for her work on Fermat’s Last Theorem and on elasticity theory; Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935), whom Albert Einstein described as the most important woman in the history of mathematics-she made important contributions to abstract algebra and in physics she clarified the connection between conservation laws and symmetry.

2020 440 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-520-2 $25.00 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-63388-521-9 $23.50 / £17.95

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

Christian Spreitzer is a coauthor of The Mathematics of Everyday Life and The Joy of Mathematics.

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The Joy of Chemistry

The Joy of Physics

The Joy of Geometry

The Amazing Science of Familiar Things

By Arthur W. Wiggins Illustrated by Sidney Harris

By Cathy Cobb and Monty Fetterolf

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For those who have always wanted to discover the joy of physics, this is the book that they’ve been waiting for.

Many people remember their struggles with physics in high school and have wished for the right opportunity to gain an appreciation of this significant area of knowledge. Now is their chance not only to understand physics, but to do physics. The author provides the general reader with a fun-filled, entertaining, and truly educational tour of this all-important science. What makes the study of physics so worthwhile? The author says that, despite its reputation for difficulty, physics has an enormously ambitious goal, which appeals to people’s innate curiosity: to

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.

This book challenges the perception of chemistry as too difficult to bother with and too clinical to be any fun. Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf, both professional chemists and experienced educators, introduce readers to the magic, elegance, and, yes, joy of chemistry.

From the fascination of fall foliage and fireworks, to the functioning of smoke detectors and computers, to the fundamentals of digestion (as when good pizza goes bad!), the authors illustrate the concepts of chemistry in terms of everyday experience, using familiar materials.

Prometheus 2010 • 400 pages Paperback 978-1-59102-771-3 • $19.00 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-61592-019-8 • $18.00 / £13.95

Prometheus 2011 • 472 pages Paperback 978-1-61614-453-1 • $21.00 / £15.95 eBook 978-1-61592-180-5 • $20.00 / £14.95

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By Alfred S. Posamentier

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

Prometheus September 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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The Primitive Edge of Experience

By Thomas H. Ogden Rights Sold: Italian, Turkish, Chinese Simplified, Japanese, Korean, German “In this magnificent book, Ogden illuminates the darkest recesses of the human psyche with his brilliant formulation of the autistic-contiguous position. He also provides refreshing new perspectives on the Oedipus complex and female psychology. With this impressive contribution, Thomas Ogden has come into his own as one of the most creative and original psychoanalytic thinkers of our time.” —Glen Gabbard

The Matrix of the Mind Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

By Thomas H. Ogden Rights Sold: Turkish, Chinese Simplified, Romanian, Japanese, Korean “Ogden re-interprets Klein to illuminate Freudian instinct theory, using the contributions of Bion, Fairbairn, and particularly Winnicott–British object relations theorists–to clarify and extend aspects of their work and to move towards an impressive exposition of the way in which the human mind develops.”

—Pamela M. Ashurst, The British Journal of Psychiatry Series: Empowering You

Jason Aronson, Inc. 1993 • 254 pages Paperback 978-0-87668-290-6 • $74.00 / £57.00 eBook 978-0-7657-0738-3 • $70.00 / £54.00

Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., is a graduate of Amherst College, the Yale School of Medicine, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

Jason Aronson, Inc. July 2022 • 286 pages Paperback 978-1-56821-051-3 • $74.00 / £57.00 eBook 978-1-4616-3157-6 • $66.50 / £51.00

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The Craft of Intelligence

America’s Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World

By Allen Dulles Rights Sold: Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Japanese, Audio (English) This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles’s incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and America’s premier intelligence officer.

Dulles was a high-ranking officer of the CIA’s predecessor--the Office of Strategic Services--and was present at the inception of the CIA, where he served eight of his ten years there as director.

Here he sums up what he learned about intelligence from nearly a half-century of experience in foreign affairs.

Allen W. Dulles, one of the most important Lyons Press 2016 • 300 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-1879-6 • $18.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-59921-577-8 • $17.99 / £13.95

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite Updated and Revised

By David Disalvo Rights Sold: Italian This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains “happy” leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which cloud our judgment and muddle our decision making. Science writer David DiSalvo presents evidence from evolutionary and social psychology, cognitive science, neurology, and even marketing and economics. And he interviews many of the top thinkers in psychology and neuroscience today. From this research-based platform, DiSalvo draws out insights that we can use to identify our brains’ foibles and turn our awareness into edifying action.

David DiSalvo is a science writer and public Prometheus 2018 • 355 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-349-9 • $18.00 / £13.95 eBook 978-1-63388-350-5 • $17.00 / £12.95

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Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist How to End the Drama and Get On with Life

By Margalis Fjelstad

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Here, Margalis Fjelstad describes how people get into a Caretaker role with a Borderline or Narcissist, and how they can get out. Caretakers give up their sense of self to become who and what the Borderline or Narcissist needs them to be. This compromises the Caretaker’s self-esteem, distorts their thinking processes, and locks them into a VictimPersecutor-Rescuer pattern with the Borderline or Narcissist.

The book looks at the underlying rules and expectations in these relationships and shows Caretaker’s how to move themselves out of these rigid interactions and into a healthier, more productive, and positive lifestyle—with or without the Borderline/Narcissistic partner or family member. It describes how to get out of destructive interactions with the Borderline or Narcissist and how to take new, more effective actions to focus on personal wants, needs, and life goals while allowing the Borderline or Narcissist to take care of themselves. It presents a realistic, yet compassionate, attitude toward the self-destructive nature of these relationships, and gives real life examples of how individuals have let go of their Caretaker behaviors with creative and effective solutions.

2014 232 pages Paperback 978-1-4422-3832-9 $28.00 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4422-2019-5 $26.50 / £19.95

Margalis Fjelstad, PhD, LMFT, has a private psychotherapy practice in Ft. Collins, CO, specializing in work with clients who are in relationship to someone who has borderline or narcissistic personality disorder, and she facilitates groups on Caretaker recovery.

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Before I Go

The Father Factor

By Peter Kreeft

By Stephen B. Poulter Ph.D

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Letters to Our Children about What Really Matters

In Before I Go, Kreeft presents lessons learned about life, faith, morality, priorities, marriage, and more, as his legacy to his children—and to readers. He shares his practical wisdom, as well as his concern for truth and goodness, in a warm and readable way.

Peter Kreeft has been featured on the PBS series “The Question of God.” He is professor of philosophy at Boston College and lives in West Newton, Massachusetts.

How Your Father’s Legacy Impacts Your Career

The father factor is the conscious understanding, awareness, and appreciation of the critical influence that your father had, still has, or could have in your career development and future potential. Noting that the father-son or father-daughter relationship is one of the least understood relationships in adult life, Dr. Poulter helps you become acutely aware of the immeasurable impact (negative or positive) that your father has on your ability to relate to other people.

From this recognition you will also learn to move past the career roadblocks that frequently stem from the lingering effects of your father’s influence.

Sheed & Ward 2008 • 264 pages

Prometheus 2006 • 239 pages

Hardback 978-1-58051-224-4 • $18.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-58051-230-5 • $17.99 / £13.95

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Everyday Bias

Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives, Updated Edition

By Howard J. Ross

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

To be human is to be biased. From this simple truth, nationally recognized diversity expert Howard J. Ross explores the biases we each carry within us. Incorporating anecdotes from today’s headlines alongside case studies from over 30 years of diversity consulting, Ross helps readers understand how unconscious bias impacts our day-to-day lives and, particularly, our daily work lives. And, he answers the question: “Is there anything we can do about it?” by providing examples of behaviors that the reader can engage in to disengage the impact of their own biases. Originally published in 2014, the updated edition draws new examples from today’s headlines such as the #me too Movement, police shootings, and bias in the ever more partisan Trump era.

2020 214 pages Paperback 978-1-4422-5865-5 $28.00 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4229-5 $26.50 / £19.95

Howard J. Ross, a lifelong social justice advocate and founding partner of the nationally recognized diversity consulting firm Cook Ross, Inc., is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance (2011), Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Bias in our Everyday Lives and Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart (Barrett Koehler, 2018).

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The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need

Twenty-First-Century Edition

By Joanna Martine Woolfolk

Rights Sold: Italian, Russian, Chinese Complex, Viatnemese, Turkish, Slovene, Chinese Simplified This book provides the compatibility between every sign (144 combinations) and dispenses advice about health, money, lifestyle, and romance, while also offering advice on dealing with the negative aspects of each sign. This edition also takes an even closer look at the inner life of the individual and the emotional needs that motivate a person. Chapters include a look back on the history and mythology of astrology as well as the newest developments in astronomy. This is an indispensable source book for unlocking the mysteries of the cosmos through the twenty-first century and beyond.

Joanna Martine Woolfolk has had a long career as an author, columnist, lecturer, and counselor. She has written the monthly horoscope for numerous magazines in the United States, Europe, and Latin America—among them Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook, Self, YM, House Beautiful and StarScrollInternational.

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Stella Adler

The Art of Acting

By Howard Kissel

Rights Sold: Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Complex, Audio (English)

Imprint: Applause

Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century’s greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro.

The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book.

2001 288 pages Hardback 978-1-55783-373-0 $29.99 / £22.95

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Only One You

By Linda Kranz

Rights Sold: Chinese Simplified, French, Korean

Imprint: Taylor Trade Publishing

There’s only one you in this great big world. Make it a better place! Adri’s mama and papa share with their eager son some of the wisdom they have gained through the years. Their words, simple and powerful, are meant to comfort and guide him as he goes about exploring the world. This exquisitely illustrated book explodes with color and honest insights. Kranz’s uniquely painted rockfish, set against vibrant blue seas, make an unforgettable and truly special impression. Only One You will inspire parents and children of all ages as they swim through life.

2015 32 pages

Linda Kranz, winner of the IRA Children’s Choices Award, is the author of many books and journals, including You Be You. Linda lives with her husband in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?

Do Princesses Have Best Friends Forever?

By Carmela LaVigna Coyle Illustrated by Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon

By Carmela LaVigna Coyle Illustrated by Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon

Rights Sold: Spanish

Rights Sold: Spanish, Koean, Chinese Simplified

At the heart of Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? lives an energetic, spirited, and contemporary child who has lots of important questions for her mom. Do princesses ride tricycles, climb trees, do chores, or have to eat the crusts of their bread? The mother’s voice is timelessly reassuring as she answers her daughter’s questions and advises her that being like a princess has to do with what we are on the inside.

Carmela LaVigna Coyle’s first book, Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?, is enjoyed by little princesses everywhere and has been succeeded by four other princess books.

Mike Gordon’s award-winning illustrations span fiction, non-fiction, entertainment, and educational books worldwide. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Carl Gordon and his father have been a team since 1999. Mike Gordon creates the line art illustrations, and the color is computer generated by Carl. He lives in Hove, England.

Your favorite princess has met her match!

Join in the fun as two little girls celebrate their friendship by playing dress up, making forts, stomping in the mud, and generally doing all the things that best friends do. Together they learn that being a princess is about more than just crowns and dress up. It’s about being yourself and sharing that with a friend.

Carmela LaVigna Coyle’s first book, Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?, is enjoyed by little princesses everywhere and has been succeeded by four other princess books.

Mike Gordon’s award-winning illustrations span fiction, non-fiction, entertainment, and educational books worldwide. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Carl Gordon and his father have been a team since 1999. Mike Gordon creates the line art illustrations, and the color is computer generated by Carl. He lives in Hove, England.

Taylor Trade Publishing 2016 • 32 pages

Taylor Trade Publishing 2011 • 32 pages

Board book 978-1-63076-164-6 • $7.95 / £5.95 eBook 978-1-4617-4240-1 • $9.99 / £7.95 Hardback (2003) 978-1-4617-4240-1 • $9.99 / £7.95

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