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Contents European History

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British History

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American History

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World History

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Social History

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Food

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25 Women

Essays on Their Art Dave Hickey “Throughout these trenchant essays on female artists, Hickey is characteristically incisive, challenging, and weird. . . .

Regardless of reputation, Hickey always deploys the same lively rigor. The introduction, titled ‘A Ladies’ Man,’ in which Hickey explains how ‘most of my favorite people are women,’ emerges as a surprisingly powerful piece of memoir.”—Publishers Weekly “If you’re an artist or an art lover, this needs to be on the top of your reading list.”—Bustle

Places & Travel

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Cartography

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Ancient Studies & Classics

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Philosophy

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Cartography from Colony to Nation Edited by James R. Akerman

Reference & Literary Studies

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Architecture, Design, & Photography

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“Decolonizing the Map examines how maps were used before and after independence movements to establish new nations that emerged in the lengthy decolonization process. In different contexts, the contributors reveal not only how maps served as a basis for the construction of those nations but also how they were reflections of those recently emerged entities. . . . This book is a pioneering intellectual enterprise—a highly recommended and welcome contribution to the field.”—Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Art

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Fun for All Ages

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Music

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Biography & Memoir

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Conservation & Earth Sciences

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Botany & Gardening

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Life Sciences

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History & Philosophy of Science 33 Physical Sciences

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Law & Political Science

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Education & Social Sciences

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Economics

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Fiction, Poetry, & Literature at $7 38 20% Off Recent & Bestselling Books

2016 192 p. 7 1/4 x 8 3/4 26 color plates, 1 halftone 1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33315-1 $31.00 Your Price: $9.00

Decolonizing the Map

2017 392 p. 7 x 10 121 halftones, 1 table 2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42278-7 $70.00 Your Price: $17.00

From the Score to the Stage

An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging Evan Baker “Engaging and lavishly illustrated.”—New York Times “Baker covers all the major players and pieces involved in getting an opera onto the stage, from the stage director who creates the artistic concept for the production and guides the singers’ interpretation of their roles to the blocking of singers and placement of scenery.”—Opera America “Whether read cover to cover or used as an easy-to-navigate reference on particular topics, [this] is the indispensable single-source guide to the opera stage.”—Huffington Post 2013 464 p. 10 x 12 189 color plates, 2 tables 3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03508-6 $75.00 Your Price: $34.00

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The Habsburgs

Dynasty, Culture and Politics Paula Sutter Fichtner “Fichtner has produced a lucid and succinct account of a complicated history, and a readable and persuasive synthesis of recent research. . . . [Hers is] an argument that has the great virtue of making coherent a dynastic history that pursued a similar cultural agenda across the course of hundreds of years.”—BBC History Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books 2014 288 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-274-4 $39.00 Your Price: $12.00

Secrets in a Dead Fish

European & Military History 1

The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!

Advertisements from the Great War Amanda Jane Doran and Andrew McCarthy

This book collects some of the most original advertisements created between 1914 and 1918. The advertisements reveal how advertisers sought to create new markets for products that took into account social change throughout the course of World War I. “Cigarettes, gramophones, even guard dogs. There was nothing that the Great War didn’t provide a good excuse to buy.”—Atlantic Distributed for Bodleian Library

The Spying Game in the First World War Melanie King

2014 112 p. 4 x 6 50 halftones 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-399-0 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

A fascinating compendium of clever and long-forgotten ruses, interspersed with the stories of the spies themselves, Secrets in a Dead Fish sheds new light on the shadowy world of Great War espionage.

“An engaging, small format, short book about espionage during World War I. In nine chapters with pleasing illustrations . . . [King] seeks to illustrate the tools and tradecraft of espionage as practiced at the time.”—Military History

The First World War Galleries

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2014 128 p. 4 x 6 20 halftones 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-260-3 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

St. Louis and the Great War S. Patrick Allie Featuring more than 250 photographs and archival documents from the collections of the Missouri Historical Society and Soldiers Memorial Military Museum—most of which have never before been published—St. Louis and the Great War details how the war touched the city and how its citizens rose to the challenge.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2018 176 p. 9 x 12 150 color plates, 130 halftones 6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-94-2 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Consequences of the Peace The Versailles Settlement: Aftermath and Legacy 1919–2015 Alan Sharp

“As a glance at the table of contents shows, there are always more and interesting things to be said on the perennially fascinating question of the Paris Peace Conference.

Sadly, too, there is much that is still relevant for our own troubled world.”—Margaret Macmillan Warden, author of Paris 1919 Distributed for Haus Publishing 2015 275 p. 5 x 73/4 4 maps 7 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-92-7 $49.95 Your Price: $12.00

Paul Cornish The First World War Galleries revisits this historic event on the occasion of the centenary of its onset, drawing on the unparalleled archives of the Imperial War Museum. Cornish offers a carefully researched and compelling account of this crucial period of world history, told through a stunning array of artifacts from the museum’s collections.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group

2014 224 p. 73/4 x 91/2 250 color plates 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-83-5 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

28 June

Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: The War and Peace That Made the Modern World Edited by Alan Sharp 28 June looks in greater depth at the smaller nations that are often ignored in general histories of World War I, and in doing so seeks to understand the conflict from a global perspective.

“A superb one-stop-shop book for the causes, influences on entry, and diplomatic finale of the First World War.”—The Historian

Art from the First World War Richard Slocombe Throughout World War I, the British government employed a diverse group of artists to produce a rich visual record of wartime events. But the art from this important collection often far exceeds this objective, giving voice to both the artist and the soldiers who are depicted. Art from the First World War contains more than fifty images by some of the most well-known British artists of the twentieth century, from the brothers John and Paul Nash to William Orpen, Stanley Spencer, and John Singer Sargent.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2014 64 p. 7 x 8 1/2 illustrated throughout 12 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904897-89-7 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Serving the Reich

The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler Philip Ball “An outstanding work about the social responsibility of scientists, exemplified by considering the actions of three Nobelist physicists during the Nazi regime in Germany: Max Planck, Peter Debye, and Werner Heisenberg. . . . This is a stunning cautionary tale, well researched and told.”—Choice 2014 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20457-4 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Distributed for Haus Publishing

2014 412 p. 61/4 x 91/2 2 maps 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-75-0 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Epitaphs of the Great War The Last 100 Days Sarah Wearne

“A work of heroic service for those who died heroically.”—Times Literary Supplement “From the inspiring to the harrowing to the humdrum, the epitaphs chosen remind us of the millions of individual lives that were cut short.”—Daily Telegraph “These short lines are some of the Commission’s real treasures . . . [they] reach through the decades and should we ever forget, remind us of the man.”—Victoria Wallace, Director General, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2019 132 p. 5 x 7 12 halftones 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911604-62-4 $16.95 Your Price: $6.00

The Makers of the Modern World (complete series) Complete 32-volume set Edited by Alan Sharp

A 32-volume boxed set, The Makers of the Modern World is a monumental look at all the signatories of the Versailles treaty.

“Makers of the Modern World is to be welcomed because it is designed to provide concise biographies, around 200 pages long, of major politicians and intellectuals from all over the world. All of them are also put into the larger context of the age and the often momentous decisions that they were involved in.”—H-Diplo Distributed for Haus Publishing

2012 51/2 x 81/2 14 Boxed Set ISBN: 978-1-907822-02-5 $595.00 Your Price: $119.00

2 European History

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The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road G. H. Bennett

Eve in Overalls

Women at Work in the Second World War Arthur Wauters First published in 1942, Eve in Overalls was written to highlight the huge contributions women were making to the war effort in Britain. Surprising and occasionally shocking, this entertaining facsimile reproduction reflects a time when women in the workplace were still unusual, viewed with curiosity and fascination. It provides an eye-opening insight into the dedicated and hardworking women who helped win the war and the challenges they faced.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2017 64 p. 41/4 x 6 3/4 42 halftones 15 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-35-4 $15.00 Your Price: $6.00

A Time To Fight

Living and Remembering WWII Robert Anderson “Anderson has embarked on an incredible project of commemoration, photographing living history actors alongside WWII veterans.

From those who landed on the shores of Normandy, to those who fought on the Home Front, the stories of their individual war experiences come to life through their portraits and memories.”—Daily Express Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2019 144 p. 73/4 x 73/4 130 color plates, 20 halftones 16 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911604-93-8 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Great Cat and Dog Massacre

The Real Story of World War Two’s Unknown Tragedy Hilda Kean “Kean’s book brings to light an uncomfortable chapter in British history.”—Wall Street Journal “Beginning with the mass slaughter of household pets immediately after Britain’s declaration of war on Germany in 1939, Kean’s compelling account explores the varied ways in which domesticated animals experienced the Home Front. . . . Kean offers a fresh perspective on what has often been called the ‘People’s War.’”—Harriet Ritvo, author of Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History 2017 248 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31832-5 $99.00 Your Price: $9.00

“An engaging book, which should be welcomed for shedding light on a little-known chapter of the wider Holocaust.”—BBC History Magazine “This surprising and artful book mixes the history of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine and of the Holocaust with present perspectives. It entertains and enriches our understanding of a terrible time.”

—Richard Breitman, author of The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 27 halftones 18 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-909-5 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

Jews in Nazi Berlin

From Kristallnacht to Liberation Edited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz “The book’s team of editors, historians, and researchers succeeded with a great number of photographs to restore some features of wartime Berlin and its Jewish community in a frank and direct manner, adding another important volume to our growing Holocaust library.”

—Jerusalem Post “An amazing volume of facts and personal accounts. . . .

Accompanying these accounts of destruction is a stunning collection of photos and documents.”

—Publishers Weekly

The Heroic City Paris, 1945–1958 Rosemary Wakeman

“[A] very far ranging and charming book about imagined, poetic Paris, but also about everyday Paris, as the city moved from left to right, from penury to consumerism, from Stalinist Communism to Debord’s Situationism, and from historical Paris to Paris as it is today, the capital of world nostalgia.”—Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University 2009 416 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones 22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-87023-6 $49.00 Your Price: $10.00

WWII

A Chronicle of Soldiering James Jones “Even now, after a perpetually surging Noah’s flood of ‘Good War’ literature, WWII stands out as one of the most vivid documents ever produced on how the war looked and felt to those who experienced it firsthand. . . . Readers will discover unexpected, alarming, dazzling, or horrifying observations on every page.”—Wall Street Journal “An expert, eloquent personal remembrance of battles past, what it felt like to live each day as possibly one’s last, what it felt like to go into battle, and finally what it felt like to get hit . . . written by one of the best combat novelists of our time.”—San Francisco Chronicle 2014 240 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing 23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18093-9 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

2009 416 p. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 50 color plates, 138 halftones, 6 tables 19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52157-2 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

Flashpoint Trieste

Secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms

This is the inside story of how Trieste found itself poised on a knife edge at the end of World War II. Situated near the boundaries of Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia, this pivotal port city was caught in May 1945 between advancing Allied, Russian, and Yugoslav armies.

Told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries, Flashpoint Trieste chronicles, on a human scale, the beginning of the Cold War.

Compact Edition Jonathan Asbury

“Provides fascinating details of life in this top-secret, subterranean space.”—Atlas Obscura “Asbury reveals the behind-thescenes secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms—sights that members of the public can’t experience on a tour of the bunker. Containing more than 150 photographs and details from once-top secret documents, the book offers a close-up look at items that have until now been seen by only a few people in the world.”

—BBC History Extra Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2020 208 p. 7 x 7 107 color plates, 26 halftones 20 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-14-9 $22.95 Your Price: $11.00

Churchill

Flip Book Edited by the Imperial War Museums This book presents little-known footage of Churchill inspecting troops from New Zealand in September 1940, rendered as a miniature flipbook. Sure to entertain Churchill’s many fans, this flipbook also serves as the perfect introduction to his mystique.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2016 80 p. 4 x 2 1/2 illustrated throughout 21 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904897-67-5 $8.95 Your Price: $4.50

The First Battle of the Cold War Christian Jennings

Distributed for ForeEdge 2017 302 p. 6 x 9 24 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0172-5 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

Rommel

The End of a Legend Ralf Georg Reuth Reuth unveils the real Rommel, stripping away the layers of propaganda created by both the Nazis and Allies for their own political ends. He portrays a Rommel contrary to the post-war myth—a man who remained loyal to the Führer until forced to commit suicide.

“Reuth reveals the truth in a brilliant book.”—Independent Distributed for Haus Publishing 2009 235 p. 6 x 9 25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-905791-95-8 $14.95 Your Price: $8.00

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British and European History 3

Imperial City

London

“A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “[Imperial City] is meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life. . . . Probably the best work on the topic in print.”—History Today

“Nurse’s glorious book is divided into convenient sections, illustrating maps and scenes of the City, Westminster, the Thames, and London’s fashionable environs. . . .

Each illustration is furnished with a useful commentary. Lavishly illustrated with full page reproduction.”—Brian Green, The Dulwich Society “A unique pictorial history of Georgian London that is visually rich, historically fascinating and of interest to Londoners and visitors alike.”—Fine Books Notes

Burned Alive

Distributed for Bodleian Library

“Martínez offers an interesting and provocative reassessment of the relation between the condemnation of Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake, and the milder one that was meted out to Galileo.”—William R. Shea, author of Galileo Observed: Science and the Politics of Belief “An innovative study linking Bruno’s and Galileo’s trials by the Inquisition, this book offers an impressively documented analysis of the ‘Pythagorean’ aspects of their thought, and their heretical implications for the Catholic theologians.”—Hilary Gatti, author of Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: from Machiavelli to Milton

Partition

Rome under Napoleon Susan Vandiver Nicassio

2009 256 p. 6 x 9 1/4 54 halftones, 3 maps 26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57973-3 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition Alberto A. Martínez

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 304 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 21 halftones 27 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-896-8 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

Engineering the Revolution

Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815 Ken Alder “This richly textured, heavily documented, and fluently written study centers on the attempt by French military engineers to apply engineering rationality to the reorganization of mass warfare.”—Isis “A fine work, grounded in research. . . . Alder has forcefully demonstrated the role of engineers in fostering social change in the eighteenth-century and revolutionary eras.”—American Historical Review

2010 496 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 3 maps 28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-01264-3 $34.00 Your Price: $9.00

Edge of Empires A History of Georgia Donald Rayfield

“The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Georgia available in English. This tour de force explains why the small south Caucasus nation looks longingly to the west. A work of consummate erudition from Britain’s foremost expert on Georgian history and literature.”—Financial Times Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 479 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 29 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-030-6 $55.00 Your Price: $15.00

Prints & Drawings before 1800 Bernard Nurse

2017 232 p. 11 x 9 1/3 123 color plates 30 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-412-6 $50.00 Your Price: $19.00

How and Why Ireland was Divided Ivan Gibbons “A must-read to understand why the Irish border continues to cast such a jagged shadow over the island of Ireland, from party politics to implementing Brexit.”—Peter Hain, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland “An excellent exposition of how the border came into existence.

Gibbons’s is a short, very readable and clear overview.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Haus Publishing 2021 172 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 1 map 31 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-01-2 $22.95 Your Price: $9.00

A Very Queer Family Indeed

Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain Simon Goldhill “Child brides, cousin marriage, generational antagonisms, polyamory, lesbianism, homosexuality, all served with heavy dollops of graphomania and religious fervor—what could be more Victorian?

As this magnificent account of the Benson family in the years between 1850 and 1940 shows, for the Victorians, nothing was more normal—or more agonizing—than queerness.”—Sharon Marcus, author of Between Women 2016 344 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39378-0 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Pain and Retribution

A Short History of British Prisons 1066 to the Present David Wilson “Wilson writes powerfully and affectingly about the continuing role of the prison as a primary site of state-sanctioned violence.”—Times Higher Education “Criminologist and prison reformer Wilson has written a fascinating, multisided view of prisons as they have developed over the centuries, including the Tower of London, Newgate, and Millbank and their successors.”—Choice Distributed for Reaktion Books 2014 240 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 33 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-283-6 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

No. 10

The Geography of Power at Downing Street Jack Brown “Brimming with illuminating accounts of the tenures of the postwar prime ministers through 1997, the book offers a comprehensive view of the history of the building, the functional roles of its different rooms, and most interestingly, the interplay between the geography of the building and the personalities of each of the prime ministers.”

—Choice Distributed for Haus Publishing 2019 400 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912208-01-2 $27.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Curious World of Dickens Clive Hurst and Violet Moller “Shows how integral Dickens’s everyday world was to the creation of his texts. . . . An interesting and tactile look at the intersections between Dickens’s literary world and the everyday world in which he lived.”—Victorian Periodical Review Distributed for Bodleian Library 2013 108 p. 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 95 color plates 35 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-384-6 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution The Art of the Cut Elizabeth Amann

“Sweeps aside received notions of the dandy as a disengaged fop to recover the figure’s political and politicized origins.”—Laura Mason, Johns Hopkins University 2015 288 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 36 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18725-9 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750–1900 Dominic Janes

“[Decenters] Wilde in order to examine the culture that created him and the almost forgotten literary scene of 1890s writers who wanted to be him. Oscar Wilde Prefigured is—to quote its author elsewhere—a ‘power romp’ through the image of the queer man between 1750 and 1895, when Wilde was imprisoned.”—Times Literary Supplement

2016 288 p. 6 x 9 63 halftones 37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35864-2 $43.00 Your Price: $13.00

4 American History

1-773-702-7000

Freedom’s Ballot

African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration Margaret Garb

Rum Maniacs

Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic Matthew Warner Osborn “Osborn’s path-breaking book explains the largely ignored physician-based temperance movement in Philadelphia from 1820 to 1850. . . . The author demonstrates that rising alcohol consumption, along with a concomitant rise in delirium tremens, coincided with a need to rethink the very meaning of medicine in Philadelphia during these years.”—William Rorabaugh, University of Washington 2014 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 1 table 38 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09989-7 $52.00 Your Price: $12.00

We Have Not a Government

The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution George William Van Cleve “Instead of asking how the Constitution came to be adopted, Van Cleve asks why the previous government, the Articles of Confederation, failed—and why it failed not only in our own modern eyes, but in the eyes of its contemporaries. Pairing an enormous amount of scrupulous research with the unique perspective of a legal scholar, Van Cleve bridges the divide between scholarship and the curious reader. He writes with smooth, powerful, unobtrusive beauty.”—Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath God Wrought 2019 400 p. 6 x 9 3 tables 39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64152-2 $20.00 Your Price: $8.00

Frontier Seaport

Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt Catherine Cangany “Frontier Seaport tells the story of Detroit’s evolution from an isolated fur trading post to an inland seaport that dominated commerce on the upper Great Lakes. . . . The native and colonial peoples of Detroit persistently defied imperial pretensions to sovereignty over them. Cangany’s skillful reconstruction of their economic, social, and political lives forces us to reconsider what it meant to live on a colonial borderland in early America.”—Timothy J. Shannon, Gettysburg College

2014 288 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables 40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09670-4 $52.00 Your Price: $12.00

“In this fascinating and original study, Margaret Garb traces the rise of Black politics in Chicago from its mid-nineteenth-century origins to the early twentieth century.

The book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the long civil rights movement on northern soil.”—Eric Foner, Columbia University “[This is] that rare book that adds something new to our national conversation about race, cities and America, for scholars and general readers alike.”—Chicago Tribune 2014 304 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 4 maps 41 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13590-8 $58.00 Your Price: $13.00

Slaughterhouse

Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made Dominic A. Pacyga “An illuminating history of this Chicago industry long vital to the city and the nation.”—Wall Street Journal “In Pacyga’s capable hands, the arc of the stockyards mirrors Chicago’s—a model of the Industrial Revolution that fell on hard times in the late twentieth century and is now reinventing itself. His writing is as streamlined and efficient as the disassembly lines that inspired the book.”—Chicago Tribune 2015 256 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones 42 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12309-7 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00

Blood Runs Green

The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago Gillian O’Brien “O’Brien’s meticulously researched book makes the case that one man’s brutal murder in 1889 Chicago (and the subsequent criminal investigation) had a ripple effect in both America and Britain on the contentious cause of Irish republicanism. . . . This is academic writing at its most accessible.”—New York Times 2016 317 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones 43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37999-9 $20.00 Your Price: $6.00

Rising Up from Indian Country The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago Ann Durkin Keating

“[An] informative, ambitious account. . . . Keating’s wellresearched book rights some misconceptions about the old conflicts, the strategies of the whites and Indians to keep their land, and how early Chicago came to exist.”

—Publishers Weekly “Opens up a fascinating vista of lost American history. . . . It’s a great story, and Keating’s neutral, unemphatic prose makes it register all the more clearly.”—Wall Street Journal 2012 320 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones, 14 maps 44 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42896-3 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850–1920 Second Edition Daniel T. Rodgers

“The Work Ethic in Industrial America is a brilliant and morally acute examination of the rhetoric of work in the United States. . . .

Written just before intellectual and social history separated and diverged, this edition comes when these fields are reconvening. What a wonderful model it offers for future work!”—Thomas Bender, New York University 2014 336 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 45 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13623-3 $29.00 Your Price: $8.00

Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans Julia Guarneri

“Newsprint Metropolis is a splendid study of big city daily and Sunday newspapers at the dawn of the twentieth century. Guarneri explores the marvelously diverse universe of newspaper content and influence. . . . And she persuasively supports a bold claim: that newspapers were not just chroniclers but were creators of the modern American city.”—David Paul Nord, Indiana University

2017 368 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 59 halftones 46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-34133-0 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture Chip Colwell “A careful and intelligent chronicle of the battle over Indian artifacts and the study of Indian culture.”

—Wall Street Journal “A lightly written, insider’s account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America’s culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell.”—Spectator 2017 360 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 47 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29899-3 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

Facing Racial Revolution

Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection Jeremy D. Popkin “Popkin’s collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work. . . . He manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it.”—Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising 2008 416 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67583-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Buffalo Bill in Bologna

My Dear Molly

“This elegant synthesis of scholarship on U.S. mass culture from the Civil War through the 1920s sheds new historical and interpretive light on the modern period.”

—Choice “Rydell and Kroes are interested in the worldwide triumph of mass American culture. . . . With its several triumphant European tours, Cody’s Wild West, as he called the show, was pivotal in this history.”

—New York Review of Books

“An unusually fine and valuable collection of primary material. It provides insight into the early war situation in Missouri and Kansas, the burdens of small-unit command and administration, the areas in which the regiment served, Civil War era courtship, and especially Love’s prison experiences.”—Civil War News

The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922 Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes

2012 224 p. 6 x 9 37 halftones 49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00712-0 $28.00 Your Price: $7.00

Arthur Vandenberg The Man in the Middle of the American Century Hendrik Meijer

“An engaging and thorough account. . . . A first-rate chronicle.”

—Wall Street Journal “Meijer’s engaging biography traces Vandenberg’s evolution— from a young politician drawn toward isolationism, to a decisive proponent of the United Nations and an enduring American world role. Meijer has produced an affecting human portrait of a public servant who came to symbolize the bipartisan pursuit of the national interest and a more peaceful world.”—Henry A. Kissinger 2017 448 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43348-6 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Home Front

Daily Life in the Civil War North Peter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, and Scott Manning Stevens “Framed by the era’s visual arts and burgeoning commercial visual culture, these essays offer an unusually imaginative and probing interdisciplinary exploration of . . . the ‘porous boundaries’ between the battle front and home front during the Civil War.”—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines

2013 216 p. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 90 color plates 51 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06185-6 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Ties That Bound

Founding First Ladies and Slaves Marie Jenkins Schwartz “Fascinating. . . . A thought-provoking explication of the thorny personal relationships between slaveholding and enslaved women.”

—Virginia Magazine “Ties That Bound’s most important contribution is refocusing our attention on First Ladies as slaveholders and revealing how slaveholding influenced their roles.”

—Journal of Southern History 2017 416 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 52 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14755-0 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

American History 5

The Civil War Letters of Captain James Love Edited by M. E. Kodner

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2015 496 p. 7 x 10 140 halftones 53 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-82-9 $29.95 Your Price: $8.00

Captain Joseph Boyce and the 1st Missouri Infantry, CSA Joseph Boyce “The publication of Captain Joseph Boyce’s memoir is a welcome addition to the growing list of first-person accounts of the Civil War. . . . In addition to extensive footnotes, Winter provides an introduction to the memoir, a biographical sketch of Boyce, and introductions to each chapter.”—Civil War History Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press

Liberty Power

Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics Corey M. Brooks “In response to the Slave Power, opponents of slavery constructed a ‘Liberty Power’ that took concrete form as the Liberty Party. Brooks shows us how they did it and why it mattered. Elegantly crafted, thoroughly researched, and invariably insightful, this is one of the truly essential books on the antislavery movement and the origins of the Civil War.”—James Oakes, the Graduate Center, City University of New York

2011 272 p. 6 x 9 30 illustrations 54 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-70-6 $23.95 Your Price: $8.00

2016 336 p. 6 x 9 57 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30728-2 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Confederate Cities

American Guides

“For too long historians have gazed at the South from the veranda of the plantation, rarely looking beyond the fields of cotton and tobacco to see the urban South. . . . Editors Slap and Towers have assembled a cast of superb historians who show a multitude of perspectives on the urban South as it endured the revolutionary consequences of Confederate defeat.”—Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College

“In this superb study, Griswold examines one of the most fascinating cultural projects of the twentieth century—the American Guide books that emerged from the Federal Writers’ Project in the 1930s. . . . As Griswold demonstrates so brilliantly, the writers and their guides captured the nation’s diversity in fresh ways and in so doing introduced Americans to their own country.”—Ellen Fitzpatrick, University of New Hampshire

The Urban South during the Civil War Era Edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers

2015 336 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 55 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30020-7 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

Who Freed the Slaves?

The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment Leonard L. Richards

“This study of the political drive toward the complete abolition of slavery is most welcome. Leonard Richards has rescued from obscurity James Ashley, who managed the course of the Thirteenth Amendment through the House of Representatives. The reader will come away with greater appreciation for the courage and skill of those antislavery leaders who never gave up and eventually triumphed.”—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

2015 320 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones 56 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17820-2 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture Wendy Griswold

2016 320 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables 58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-35783-6 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Thousand-Year Flood

The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 David Welky “Welky has done a prodigious job of reminding us about the horror inflicted by the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937. At its heart, The Thousand-Year Flood is a Great Depression story not unlike the Dust Bowl tragedy. His scholarship is impeccable.”—Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge 2011 384 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 2 maps 59 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-88716-6 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

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Patty’s Got a Gun

Patricia Hearst in 1970s America William Graebner “In an era traumatized by defeat in Vietnam, betrayal in Washington, stagflation, and shockingly violent crimes, the saga of Patty Hearst—kidnapped heiress turned carbine-toting bankrobber—was perhaps the most shocking tale of all. William Graebner’s rich retelling uses Hearst’s story to probe one of the central preoccupations of the Seventies: the nature of personal identity.”—Thomas Hine, author of The Great Funk

Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now Peter Bacon Hales

“Looks at how American cultural landscapes have transformed and endured from the close of World War II to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Looking at diverse Cold War places and spaces. . . . Hales considers the significant impact that Cold War sensibilities, especially the persistent threat of nuclear devastation, have had on American understandings of self and national identity.”—Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania 2014 496 p. 7 x 10 105 halftones 60 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31315-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Afterimages

Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy Liam Kennedy “Afterimages makes a powerful argument for the role that photojournalism has played in affirming the values of liberal democracy in the face of the constant and brutal wars waged by the United States.

Kennedy brings to light the strategies and experience of a range of enormously talented photojournalists in the face of danger, apathy, and censorship.”—Marita Sturken, New York University 2016 232 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones 61 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33726-5 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

Between Mao and McCarthy

Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years Charlotte Brooks “Drawing upon prodigious research, Between Mao and McCarthy remakes the possibilities of Chinese American civic participation and pushes back to the 1930s the kinds of political activism and claims once associated only with the civil rights movement. An impressively nuanced account of a complex and perplexing era.”

—Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin 2015 328 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 62 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-19356-4 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

2015 232 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 17 halftones 63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-32432-6 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

American Girls in Red Russia Chasing the Soviet Dream Julia L. Mickenberg

“In this enthralling account, Mickenberg reveals the magnetic attraction of the new Soviet Union to American women seeking to reinvent working and family lives in the twenties. But American Girls in Red Russia also exposes the painful paradox of imagining freedom in a repressive culture. This is an illuminating achievement whose lessons speak to the utopian aspirations of men and women everywhere.”—Alice Kessler-Harris, author of A Difficult Woman 2017 432 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones 64 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25612-2 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Streets of San Francisco

Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950–1972 Christopher Lowen Agee “A fascinating study. . . . It provides an interesting and under-examined insight into the cultural dynamics of the sixties and seventies, revealing that the police were not just an enemy of social change, but were often as much a part of it as the social movements they faced down in the streets.”—PopMatters 2014 256 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 1 map 65 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12228-1 $99.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Democratic Surround

Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties Fred Turner “This is the true story of how a small group of artists and anthropologists set out to create an alternative to fascism during World War II—and ended up setting the stage for the consumer-driven, media-saturated world we inhabit today. A gripping, well-balanced, and surprising history.”—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

2013 376 p. 6 x 9 39 halftones 66 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81746-0 $32.50 Your Price: $13.00

Conspiracies of Conspiracies

How Delusions Have Overrun America Thomas Milan Konda “The theories Konda weighs and finds wanting are fascinating in their perversity, from chemtrails to climate change deniers. A book that deserves wide circulation and consideration.”—Kirkus “There is plenty to be discovered here. . . . Konda’s survey is perhaps the most comprehensive attempt yet to record and understand the phenomenon of conspiracy theory as it applies to American politics.”

—Fortean Times 2019 432 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 67 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-58576-5 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

Inventing American Tradition

From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo Jack David Eller “American traditions like our flag, anthem, and holidays are often thought of as ingrained in our history, as if they sprung fully formed on the day of our nation’s birth. But every tradition has a human story behind it, often involving conflict and disagreement and spurred on by an unlikely creator, according to Eller.”—New York Post Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 352 p. 6 x 9 48 halftones 68 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-986-6 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Polarizers

Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era Sam Rosenfeld “We live in a polarized nation, and we vote in polarized elections.

Sam Rosenfeld, in his excellent The Polarizers, shows us how we got here. . . . Rosenfeld has produced a smart, fine-grained, and thorough analysis of one of the most consequential changes in modern American politics.”—Journal of American History “For anyone who cares about our political future enough to learn from its past, The Polarizers is absolutely essential reading.”

—Washington Monthly 2017 336 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 69 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40725-8 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

Packaged Pleasures

How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor “While networked technologies are reconfiguring associations between the senses, space and society—with work emails checked on holiday, selfies taken at funerals and 3D objects printed locally from a CAD file stored in the ‘cloud’—Packaged Pleasures offers a timely reminder of the longer history of the relationship between technology, industry, and the self.”—New Scientist 2014 336 p. 6 x 9 37 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table 70 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12127-7 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

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Jerusalem 1900

Faith and Sword

“Jerusalem, undoubtedly the most sensitive spiritual and geopolitical hotspot on the planet, counts Lemire among its most original historians. He brings the city to life at a time when ethnic and religious divisions were less entrenched and clear-cut than today.”—Le Monde

Jamieson explores here the long and bloody history of the Christian–Muslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history. “[A] sedulous, unapologetic presentation of facts. . . . Opens our eyes to an inescapable truth: Christians and Muslims fought wars for more than 1,000 years.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer

The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities Vincent Lemire

2017 224 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 1 table 71 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18823-2 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

Islands

From Atlantis to Zanzibar Steven Roger Fischer “In this astonishingly wide-ranging survey, [Fischer] tells us all about how islands have enchanted writers and artists, provoked clashes between lofty rulers, egged on greedy merchants and defined the world in which we live. . . . A charming and thought-provoking read.”—Geographical Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 336 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 10 halftones 72 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-032-0 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

A History of the Arctic Nature, Exploration and Exploitation John McCannon

“A remarkable voyage through the Arctic, from its misty past to contentious present. A graceful writer with a fine eye for telling detail, McCannon offers an exciting, broad-sweep tour. . . . A must-read volume for the general public and scholars alike.”—Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 349 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones 73 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-018-4 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Empires and Anarchies A History of Oil in the Middle East Michael Quentin Morton

“An excellent, readable introduction to the history and development of oil in the Middle East. . . . It is a complicated story, but Morton handles it well with engaging, insightful, and humorous details that bring the broader international, political, and social aspects into high relief.”—J. E. Peterson, editor of The Emergence of the Gulf Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 256 p. 6 x 9 57 halftones 74 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-810-4 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

The History of Bhutan Karma Phuntsho “Stands out as a unique and comprehensive survey of Bhutanese history. . . . A must have.”—Choice Distributed for Haus Publishing 2014 661 p. 6 1/5 x 9 1/2 35 color plates, 1 map 75 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-58-3 $50.00 Your Price: $17.00

World History 7

A Short History of Christian–Muslim Conflict, Second Expanded Edition Alan G. Jamieson

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2016 320 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 5 halftones 76 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-672-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Lumumba

Africa’s Lost Leader Leo Zeilig This second edition of the only full biography of Lumumba presents his life and quest for the Congo’s liberation.

“An excellent introduction to the political and personal life of the most enigmatic African leader of the twentieth century.”—Ludo de Witte, author of The Assassination of Lumumba Distributed for Haus Publishing 2015 198 p. 5 x 73/4 25 halftones 77 Paper ISBN: 978-1-908323-94-1 $21.95 Your Price: $8.00

China in Revolution The Road to 1911 Edited by Liu Heung Shing

The 1911 Revolution ended dynastic rule in China and paved the way for the founding of Asia’s first republic. China in Revolution assembles a remarkable survey of historical photographs and accompanying essays that tell the story of this tumultuous period. The images stretch from the Second Opium War to the Boxer Rebellion and wars with Russia and Japan, the outbreak of revolution, through the rise and fall of Yuan Shikai and the ensuing warlord era.

The Water Kingdom A Secret History of China Philip Ball

“Ball’s journey along the history, politics, and culture of China’s waterways encompasses many heroes of Chinese hydrology, men who grappled with elemental forces and imperial censure and sometimes came out on top. . . . Ball argues that China’s future, like the past, can be read in the fate of its water.”—Guardian 2017 320 p. 6 x 9 70 halftones, 26 line drawings 80 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36920-4 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City James Farrer and Andrew David Field

“A unique exploration of Shanghai’s clubs, bars, and dance halls that explains how and why Shanghai has once again become an epicenter of cosmopolitan nightlife. Drawing on a rich array of magazines, films, and many nights interviewing Shanghai entrepreneurs, performers, and club hoppers, Farrer and Field expertly ground their brilliant introduction to contemporary nightlife in a superb social history of Shanghai in the Jazz Age.” —Deborah Davis, coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers 2015 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones 81 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26288-8 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Distributed for Hong Kong University Press 2011 416 p. 10 x 13 78 Cloth ISBN: 978-988-8139-50-7 $100.00 Your Price: $29.00

China

Visions through the Ages Edited by Lisa C. Niziolek, Deborah A. Bekken and Gary M. Feinman “This book—with its 225 plates—is certainly gorgeous. It is also deeply learned. The editors curate the almost 30,000 objects in Chicago’s Field Museum, which holds agricultural remains dating from earlier than 10,000 years BC, and precious treasures loved by emperors and learned connoisseurs.”—Times Higher Education 2018 354 p. 8 1/2 x 11 225 color plates, 1 table 79 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38537-2 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

North Korea’s Public Face

20th-Century Propaganda Posters from the Zellweger Collection Katharina Zellweger North Korean propaganda posters are a well developed feature of national culture: they first came to prominence during the 1950–53 Korean War and are still displayed prominently throughout the capital and countryside. The posters collected in this book portray a wide variety of topics, from phrases reinforcing party policies to messages related to agricultural development and food production.

Distributed for Hong Kong University Press 2017 80 p. 8.25 x 10.63 30 color illustrations 82 Paper ISBN: 978-988-19024-0-5 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00

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A Brief History of Death W. M. Spellman

Nuns Behaving Badly Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy Craig A. Monson

“For centuries, more than threequarters of upper-class women in Italy were immured in convents. . . . This beautifully written, gripping book tells the stories of nuns who sought escape. Some just sang forbidden polyphony, one slipped out in disguise to catch the latest opera, and an entire convent burned down their cloister so they could all go home.”—Edward Muir, Northwestern University “Nuns Behaving Badly wears its learning with a smile, but it throws a sharp light into dark Roman Catholic corners.”—Economist

2011 264 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 25 halftones 83 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53472-5 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy Craig A. Monson

“[A] rich tapestry of cultural life, religious history, and gender politics that puts Whoopi Goldberg’s shenanigans in Sister Act to shame. . . . Monson has rescued Vizzana and her colleagues from obscurity. Read Divas in the Convent as a reminder of music’s power to uplift, to challenge, and to transform.”

—Washington Post

“A rich and sweeping account of how death has reflected and shaped human life since pre-history.”

—Times Literary Supplement “After the spate of near-death and out-of-the-body experience books comes this refreshing step back to examine the nature of the death experience culturally, historically, psychologically, and personally. . . . Recommended reading as an antidote to modern life.”

—Fortean Times Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 256 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 86 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-504-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Bigfoot

The Life and Times of a Legend Joshua Blu Buhs “In his witty account, the American scholar and skeptic Joshua Blu Buhs sets out in search of an animal variously claimed as America’s only remaining ape, an extant Neanderthal, or an even older hominid such as Gigantophithecus. . . . In his postmodern attempt to pin down Bigfoot, Buhs’s focus is on the hunters, rather than the hunted; this is not so much a book about Bigfoot as the belief in him.”—Telegraph 2010 296 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones 87 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-07980-6 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Fairies

A Dangerous History Richard Sugg “[A] bulging field guide to fairy lore. Taking readers on a tour of the brownies, hobs, changelings, kelpies, selkies, sea trows, and various other fairy types of the British Isles and beyond, Sugg investigates ‘the great heresy of fairyland’ in folklore, the arts, and historical testimony.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Reaktion Books

2012 296 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 4 line drawings 84 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53519-7 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

2019 280 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 17 color plates, 4 halftones 88 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-120-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

Is the Cemetery Dead?

Zombies

David Charles Sloane “A fascinating glimpse of new and evolving mourning rituals in American culture. As the son of cemetery managers, Sloane brings personal experience and knowledge to an otherwise academic history of burial methods, mourning, and memorials. . . . This is a great overview of mourning rituals in modern American culture.”—Publishers Weekly “A thought-provoking book that asks: Can the American cemetery adapt to the challenges of natural burial, grieving through social media, and DIY practices that remove mourning from professional and commercial control? Vital reading for anyone concerned with the cemetery’s past, present, and future.”—Tony Walter, University of Bath 2018 288 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones, 8 tables 85 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53944-7 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

A Cultural History Roger Luckhurst “From their emergence in the 1920s Western imagination to their position today as the go-to trope for a generation ‘flatlined by the alienating tedium of modern life,’ zombies have proved remarkably flexible metaphors. They have come to embody the Other, the economic zeitgeist, and even ourselves. This entertaining study begins in Haiti, with 19th-century America’s fears about vodou.”—Sunday Telegraph Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 60 halftones 89 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-528-8 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Stand Up Straight!

A History of Posture Sander L. Gilman

“Gilman illuminates the historical significance of posture in the workplace, in our bodies and minds, in the military, and in culture.

Underpinned by medicine, anthropology, and social engineering, never before has race, disability, and citizenship been so astutely linked to the ideal and image of standing up straight. A tour de force analysis, accompanied by extraordinary illustrations.”

—Ana Carden-Coyne, University of Manchester Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 424 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 121 halftones 90 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-924-8 $40.00 Your Price: $12.00

Machines of Youth America’s Car Obsession Gary S. Cross

“The 1930s through the 1980s represented a ‘golden age of American teen car culture.’ . . . Machines of Youth recreates this fascinating but largely neglected slice of social history.”—Times Higher Education “Cross has crafted an evocative, well researched, and engagingly written account of the relationship young people had with the automobile in the decades after World War II.”—David Farber, University of Kansas 2018 227 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones 91 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-55113-5 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Fat

A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life Christopher E. Forth “Why do we in the West have such an intense aversion to fat?

Was fatness really celebrated as a sign of health, prosperity, status, and beauty at some point in the distant past? Forth explores these questions in his lively, ambitious book Fat. Taking a longue durée approach, from the prehistoric to the present day, he resoundingly demonstrates that there really is more to fat than meets the eye. . . . An impressive, lively study and an enjoyable read.”—Literary Review Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 352 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 60 halftones 92 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-062-0 $32.00 Your Price: $10.00

The Mafia

A Cultural History Roberto M. Dainotto “Offers something unique in the somewhat overcrowded category of books about the Mafia and its pop culture representations: a Sicilian intellectual’s historically informed yet personal perspective on the enduring appeal of organized crime stories.”—PopMatters “[The book] makes us understand the true essence of the Mafia, a crime organization organically linked to power and wealth.”—Antonio Nicaso, author of Bloodlines and Angels, Mobsters and Narco-Terrorists Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 25 halftones 93 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-993-4 $15.00 Your Price: $6.00

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Get Out of My Room!

A History of Teen Bedrooms in America Jason Reid

“A concise and well-researched history of the rooms in which kids carry out the hideous process of becoming grown-ups.”—Wall Street Journal “From iconic posters to stereo systems to the music, movies and pop culture consumed therein, little is left untouched with regard to the evolution of the idea of the teenager’s bedroom. . . . Get Out of My Room! takes a serious look at an otherwise largely overlooked phenomenon, one we now essentially take for granted.”—Spectrum Culture

The Pleasure’s All Mine A History of Perverse Sex Julie Peakman

“Whether sussing out topics like homosexuality and BDSM, to those that still remain taboo, like bestiality and pedophilia, Peakman is able to provide a well-needed historical context for all things ‘perverse’ (or in her opinion, not perverse at all) and shine a light in the many places we would rather keep dark.”

—Bookslut Distributed for Reaktion Books 2016 472 p. 6 x 9 64 color plates, 114 halftones 98 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-675-9 $29.00 Your Price: $14.50

Licentious Worlds

2017 320 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 94 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40921-4 $48.00 Your Price: $11.00

Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires Julie Peakman

The Joy of Sets

“Peakman has an ear for a good story and makes engaging use of a range of historical sources, from European travelers’ journals, missionary accounts, and travelogues, to sex handbooks, anthropological studies, and more. . . . Peakman achieves her aim of building on more recent challenges to a history of empire as a male venture—showing instead the integral role in empire-building played by women, gender, and sexuality.”—BBC History Magazine

A Short History of the Television Chris Horrocks “Television, reveals cultural historian Horrocks in this compact chronicle, has tangled roots. . . .

Along with sets, from Baird’s 1928 ‘Noah’s Ark’ televisor to today’s ultra-thin screens, Horrocks examines the technology’s military uses, the ethical furor over content, and its uses as a symbol in art, film, and literature.”—Nature Distributed for Reaktion Books

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2017 256 p. 6 x 8 1/4 50 color plates, 50 halftones 95 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-758-9 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

2019 368 p. 6 x 9 1/4 80 color plates, 40 halftones 99 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-140-5 $35.00 Your Price: $14.00

With the Hand

A History of Language

“An enthusiastic, amusing and eye-opening exploration of a topic which remains disappointingly taboo.”—New Scientist “When [van Driel’s] stethoscope is about his neck, the M.D. employs all the unvarnished plainspokenness of any health care professional. But when he entertains historical, literary, and other artsand-humanities perspectives, he is as curious and open to surprise as any cultural critic.”—Chronicle of Higher Education

On the first edition: “[A] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book. . . . A virtuoso tour of the linguistic world.”—Economist “Fischer’s intriguing and ambitious study explores a vast terrain, parts of which have scarcely been charted, others examined in some depth over many years and, as he relates, many centuries.

Throughout, he addresses hard questions that bear directly on fundamental and distinctive aspects of human nature and achievement. A stimulating and highly informative inquiry.”—Noam Chomsky

A Cultural History of Masturbation Mels van Driel

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 255 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 60 halftones 96 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-919-4 $30.00 Your Price: $15.00

A Brief History of Nakedness Philip Carr-Gomm “As Carr-Gomm reveals in his academic romp through two millenniums of public exhibitionism from the ancient Greeks to animalrights activists, you can be naked anywhere. You are only nude if someone is watching. Nakedness on its own is straightforward—it’s the context and the audience of nudity that make it interesting.”—Times Distributed for Reaktion Books 2013 288 p. 6 x 9 99 color plates, 44 halftones 97 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-022-1 $25.00 Your Price: $12.50

Social History 9

Steven Roger Fischer

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 240 p. 5 x 73/4 12 halftones 100 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-903-3 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

A History of Reading Steven Roger Fischer Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating A History of Reading offers a sweeping view across time and geography of our evolving relationship with text.

“Starting from the Bronze Age and ending with modern emails and a possible future of e-books, Fischer’s A History of Reading takes in a wonderful diversity of things.”—Nature

Of Beards and Men

The Revealing History of Facial Hair Christopher Oldstone-Moore “For everyone with a hirsute family member, a bearded patriarch, a fuzzy metro-sexual, here’s a great gift, a not-entirely-serious account of why and when men grow facial hair.”—NPR Weekend “A great book for anyone who’s ever pondered why Jesus is portrayed with a beard, wondered about the origin of Hitler’s and Stalin’s mustaches, speculated why the Amish grow beards but shave their moustaches, or realized that no U.S. presidential candidate has sported facial hair since Dewey lost to Truman.”—Publishers Weekly

2015 352 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones 102 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28400-2 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Higher and Colder

A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration Vanessa Heggie “Extreme physiology remains an important aspect of study as we set our sights ever outward (to polar regions), upward (to the Moon and Mars), and downward (to the deep ocean). With Higher and Colder, Heggie reminds us that such work can offer extraordinary stories about how science is practiced while challenging the scientific community to consider adopting institutional changes that ensure that everyone can participate and is recognized for their contributions.”—Science

2019 264 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones 103 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65088-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Secrets of the Centenarians

What is it Like to Live for a Century and Which of Us Will Survive to Find Out? John Withington “Enjoyable and well written. . . . Using a journalistic tone, Withington looks at the history of exceptional human longevity, from Biblical oldster Methuselah to Britain’s celebrity fogey of the seventeenth century, Thomas Parr, before moving onto the recent surge, relatively speaking, in centenarians. . . . Filled with interesting facts and lively characters.”

—Publishers Weekly

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2019 416 p. 5 x 73/4 20 halftones 101 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-068-2 $13.99 Your Price: $11.19

2017 256 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones 104 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-818-0 $29.95 Your Price: $7.00

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Wood, Whiskey and Wine A History of Barrels Henry H. Work

“A thorough and entertaining journey from amphorae, barrels’ predecessors, through their period of domination, to their relative demise due to replacement with such as plastic and metal containers. . . . There is much to interest both the general reader and the spirits enthusiast in this well-written history of a container that has been with humanity for so long.”—London Drinker Distributed for Reaktion Books

Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World

2014 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 50 halftones 108 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-356-7 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

Ben-Erik van Wyk

Food on the Move

“If you’re ready to go beyond the basics and delve deeply into the herbs and spices that characterize the world’s cuisines, then this scholarly reference is for you.”

—New York Times “Outstanding. . . . This is the kind of book to be studied and digested, a kind of encyclopedia to pursue and enjoy in your kitchen.”—Current Books on Gardening and Botany

2014 320 p. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 600 color plates 105 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09166-2 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Smart Casual

The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America Alison Pearlman “A delicious romp through America’s rapidly changing and diverging restaurant scene. It begins with the old haute cuisine establishments frequented by the upscale, well-to-do diners, but concentrates on contemporary restaurants with their experimental, innovative, and exotic cuisines. It is an informative, witty, and delightful book brimming with hot anecdotes and tangy tidbits. It is a must read for all serious foodies.”

—Andrew F. Smith, editor of Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink 2013 200 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 106 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65140-8 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

From Pompeii to Napa Charles Frankel

“Volcanoes and Wine is a joyous celebration of the circumstances that produce some of the world’s most venerated wines.”—New Scientist “Geologist Charles Frankel goes looking for answers in Volcanoes and Wine, blending history, geology, and viniculture in an illuminating tour of some of the most curious wine-growing locales on earth. . . .

Frankel’s book is well researched, with the right blend of history, science, and wine.”—Terroirist 2019 216 p. 6 x 9 61 color plates, 27 halftones 107 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17722-9 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

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A Social History with Recipes Hannele Klemettilä

“Oh no! Not whole-roasted ox again! Even for the aristocracy, medieval fare must have been boring, it’s been assumed. The reality was quite otherwise, Hannele Klemettilä reveals. This ‘social history with recipes’ is as delicious in its details as it is mouthwatering in its presentation.”—New Scotsman Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 230 p. 7 1/2 x 9 4/5 100 color plates 113 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-908-8 $39.00 Your Price: $16.00

The Edible Series from Reaktion Books

Dining on the Legendary Railway Journeys of the World Edited by Sharon Hudgins “Food and trains . . . are brought together brilliantly in this guided tour of the symbiotic relationship between railways and eating. Whether it is a simple aloo dum enjoyed in the hill town of Darjeeling, caviar on the TransSiberian, or a feast on the Orient Express, this book makes you want to go on every journey and eat every meal described in it.”—Christian Wolmar, author of Engines of the Raj: How the Steam Age Transformed India Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 256 p. 7 1/2 x 93/4 100 color plates, 50 halftones 109 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-007-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

A Rich and Fertile Land

A History of Food in America Bruce Kraig “A deeply knowledgable introduction to U.S. food that shows how the environment has been melded to suit human desire since the Native Americans, and how cultural and political beliefs have shaped eating habits. . . . Kraig’s broad observations are worth a read for anyone interested in food or American history.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Reaktion Books

Volcanoes and Wine

The Medieval Kitchen

2017 304 p. 6 x 9 80 color plates, 30 halftones 110 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-853-1 $39.00 Your Price: $16.00

Fear of Food

A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat Harvey Levenstein “Levenstein’s entertaining social history of American food scares places today’s worries in a broader historical context, from the ‘germophobia’ of the 19th century to concerns about cholesterol and chemical residues in the 21st. Read this book and you’ll understand why warnings about the safety of your food should always be taken with a pinch of salt. (Just a pinch, though—too much could be bad for you.).”—Tom Standage, author of A History of the World in Six Glasses

2013 228 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 111 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-05490-2 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00 112 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47374-1 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Books in the Edible Series explore the global history of foods and drinks. Each book is approximately 150 pages, features approximately 40 color plates and 10 halftones, and measures 43/4 x 73/4.

Onions and Garlic Martha Jay 114 2016 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-587-5 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Sauces Maryann Tebben 115 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-351-2 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Offal Nina Edwards 116 2013 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-097-9 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Pomegranate Damien Stone 117 2017 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-749-7 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Nuts Ken Albala 118 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-282-9 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Berries Heather Arndt Anderson 119 2018 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-895-1 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Olive Fabrizia Lanza 120 2011 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-868-5 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Eggs Diane Toops 121 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-264-5 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Rum Richard Foss 122 2012 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-926-2 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

Moonshine Kevin R. Kosar 123 2017 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-742-8 $19.95 Your Price: $6.00

Brandy Becky Sue Epstein 124 2014 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-348-2 $19.00 Your Price: $6.00

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The Big Jones Cookbook

Tea, Coffee & Chocolate

“Fehribach is a bighearted anthropologist, history nerd, and kick-ass kitchen technician. . . . This is food that tells stories, and here are all the hero recipes we’ve been craving, from Big Jones’s legendary fried chicken to classics like gumbo z’herbes to new originals like chicken-fried morels and benne ice cream.”—Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen

Three of the great culinary obsessions of the 21st century—tea, coffee, and chocolate—are long-time favorites of both casual diners and foodies. But how did we become so enamored of the big three? Filled with fascinating and often funny anecdotes—from a goatherd whose flock became frisky after eating coffee berries to a duchess with a goblet of poisoned chocolate—Tea, Coffee & Chocolate tells the backstory of today’s enduring caffeine culture.

Recipes for Savoring the Heritage of Regional Southern Cooking Paul Fehribach

2015 288 p. 6 x 9 36 line drawings 125 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20572-4 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Kosher Baker

Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy Paula Shoyer “The Kosher Baker is a fascinating look into the world of Jewish baking. While an incredible resource for those who eat kosher, it’s equally compelling for anyone interested in a tempting array of sweets and breads, from fast-and-easy to elegant party fare. Two thumbs up!”—P.J. Hamel, author of The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2010 348 p. 8 x 10 126 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-58465-835-1 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Breakfast Book Andrew Dalby “[Dalby] presents a flurry of literary examples, mostly European, to prove the varieties of breakfast across time; from Homer to Cervantes, from Lawrence to Steinbeck. . . . The book also presents a wonderful sampling of breakfasting around the world today, such as how they breakfast on churros in Spain or anise-flavored ground cereal in Libya.”

—Publishers Weekly Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 232 p. 6 x 8 59 color plates, 16 halftones 127 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-507-3 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Kew’s Global Kitchen Cookbook 101 Recipes Using Edible Plants from around the World Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

“This cookbook is dedicated to edible plants from around the world, from Kazakhstan to Kent. Carolyn Fry introduces unusual plant material, [along] with excellent illustrations and unusual recipes. . . . Even if you never attempt a recipe from this work, you will find it a great read, learning about new edible plants and their use in kitchens around the world.”

—Chicago Botanic Garden Current Books on Gardening Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2014 160 p. 8 1/2 x 7 70 color plates 128 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-496-0 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Travel & Food 11

How We Fell in Love with Caffeine Melanie King

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2015 176 p. 41/3 x 6 3/4 20 halftones 129 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-406-5 $17.50 Your Price: $7.00

Dining Out

A Global History of Restaurants Katie Rawson and Elliott Shore “This book is for the dedicated foodie, a comprehensive social history of eating out, from the bronze age to modern times. There’s much to nibble on: for example, the word ‘restaurant’ was originally a popular restorative broth sold in France in the 1700s. . . . There are about 150 photographs, about half in color, and the authors include interesting archival excerpts from journals, documents, and literature.”—Toronto Star Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 304 p. 7 1/2 x 93/4 80 color plates, 78 halftones 130 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-057-6 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Culinarians

Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining David S. Shields “The Culinarians is more than a collection of biographies. It is a celebration of lost voices—cooks, creators, and visionaries who paved the way for the food we eat today.

With this book, Shields pulls back the curtain of modern cuisine in America to reveal a story we forgot existed.”—Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate 2017 560 p. 7 x 10 16 color plates, 91 halftones, 10 line drawings 131 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40689-3 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Millennium Park

Creating a Chicago Landmark Timothy J. Gilfoyle “[A] high-stakes game of pushand-pull forms the dramatic core of historian Timothy J. Gilfoyle’s absorbing and lavishly illustrated Millennium Park. Gilfoyle frames the park’s gestation as a titanic struggle between public and private interests.”—Chicago Reader “Gilfoyle captures all the soaring architectural drama, petty human squabbling, and commendable leadership behind the city’s newest civic jewel.”—Chicago

2006 474 p. 8 1/2 x 10 361 color plates, 145 halftones, 12 maps 132 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29349-3 $45.00 Your Price: $10.00

A Journey into Russia Jens Mühling “To understand the ambiguities, contradictions, absurdities and complexities of the Russian soul, the advice was always to read Gogol. The advice now would be to read Jens Mühling. There is a shock of discovery and a shot of pleasure on every page.”—Times “[Mühling] meets a bewildering variety of ‘old believers’ in a broader sense, from members of the sectarian Orthodox Church . . . through stubbornly Leninist former Soviet citizens, to newly minted Slavonic pagans.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Haus Publishing 2015 275 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 1 map 133 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-94-9 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Beyond the Map

Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias Alastair Bonnett “From the concept of guerrilla gardening in concrete jungles, trap streets on many maps, and the coastal tsunami stones planted decades or centuries ago in Japan. . . .

Bonnett fascinates with an exploration of the world beyond the map.

Readers will want to take their time with each chapter, to peruse every new and often thought-provoking idea. Bonnett’s exploration of areas unmarked on any map will delight fans of geography and cartography.”—Library Journal

2018 304 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 134 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51384-3 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

New York in Postcards 1880–1980 The Andreas Adam Collection Edited by Thomas Kramer

“These postcards bring us back to a New York that possessed glamour and drama and warmth, in even measure: a city in which there was always light, and always possibility; a city that, when you came to visit, you could not wait until you were back home to tell everyone all about it, and so you always, always, sent a postcard.”—Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker Distributed for Scheidegger & Speiss 2010 560 p. 9 x 11 948 color plates 135 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-85881-713-6 $65.00 Your Price: $19.00

12 Places & Travel

Cityscopes from Reaktion Books

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Love of Country

A Journey through the Hebrides Madeleine Bunting “[A] moving and wonderful journey through both the geography and history of the Hebrides. . . .

As much as it offers intellectual insight, Love of Country is readable and full of empathy. . . . Both the author and reader of this book end up losing themselves not just in politics and history and the details of nature, but a sense of wonder.”

—Guardian 2017 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 139 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47156-3 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

The Cruel Way

Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939 Ella K. Maillart

Paris Adam Roberts “Roberts’ Paris combines the intellect with the emotional. . . .

The rich history that belongs to the city—stone by stone, bridge by bridge, ruler by ruler, era by era—comes alive within these pages, giving vast meaning to each step and to each breath taken by today’s visitor.”

—Robert Wheeler, author of Hemingway’s Paris 2017 320 p. 4 3/4 x 73/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones 136 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-746-6 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00

Berlin Joseph Pearson “For the travelers, artists, flâneurs, coders, and students fascinated by Berlin, the historian Joseph Pearson masterfully offers a close reading of the metropolis in all its brutal immediacy. Berlin is an exploration of the German capital as it should be, drawing us into the teeming, tumbling life of its streets, clubs and Kieze as well as the dark recesses of the city’s scarred history.”—Bloomberg News

2017 280 p. 4 3/4 x 73/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones 137 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-719-0 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00

Prague

Crossroads of Europe Derek Sayer “Prague has everything: the ancient and the modern, the history and the culture, the music and the tranquility, the contradictions and the harmony.

Sayer’s excellent book captures all of these facets of Prague to make any visit even more worthwhile.”—Ivan Margolius, author of Reflections of Prague

2019 280 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 30 halftones, 70 color plates 138 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-009-5 $22.00 Your Price: $8.00

In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on a journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. Maillart’s narrative offers a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. “[Maillart’s] abilities to grasp a region in all its dimensions, and to involve the emerging national character in her own drama, are the marks of the best kind of travel writer.”—Women’s Review of Books

2013 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 13 halftones, 2 maps 140 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-03304-4 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Rising Ground

A Search for the Spirit of Place Philip Marsden “Travel writer Marsden returns home to walk the length of the Cornwall region in the southwest corner of Great Britain. . . .

Marsden is erudite and brings his knowledge of geology, etymology, history, and philosophy, as well as the voices of Cornwall’s past and current inhabitants, to his long peregrination. The writing is seamless and elegant.”—Publishers Weekly “A thoughtful and well-written meditation on place and myth, and finding meaning in the places that we call home.”—Chicago Tribune 2016 352 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 21 halftones 141 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36609-8 $27.50 Your Price: $8.00

Traveling in Place

A History of Armchair Travel Bernd Stiegler “Stiegler forces us to consider the beauty and uniqueness of our common abodes. . . . The locations of Stiegler’s brief chapters or ‘legs’ range from monastic cells to the artist’s studio, with authors including Samuel Beckett and Walter Benjamin. Although the reason for these travelogues ranges from sickness to boredom, they tell us more about their authors than any other genre.”—Booklist

2013 264 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 83 halftones 142 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77467-1 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

Armchair Travels from Haus Publishing An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland Jonathan Clements “Combines light-reading history with travel writing and uses various monuments that Clements has visited on journeys throughout his adopted homeland, highlighting key historical events and figures from prehistoric herders straight through to the creators of Angry Birds.”—Nordic Reach

2014 272 p. 41/2 x 8 1/4 2 maps 143 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-00-5 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

An Armchair Traveller’s History of Tokyo Jonathan Clements With almost 13 million residents, Tokyo is now as much an icon of modernity as it is a city. An Armchair Traveller’s History of Tokyo sketches the city’s amazing trajectory from its humble beginnings as a group of forest clearings all the way to its role as host of the 2021 Olympic Games.

2019 212 p. 4 x 8 2 halftones 144 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-58-6 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing Jonathan Clements “Evocatively captures the contradictions and complexitites of contemporary Beijing while rooting the city in its broader historical context. The book will provide tourists and armchair-bound travelers with enough tips and tales to satisfy their curiosity and sense of adventure.”—Times Literary Supplement

2017 320 p. 41/2 x 8 1/4 2 maps 145 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-27-2 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Borges in Sicily Alejandro Luque Part travel diary and part literary history, Borges in Sicily presents an intimate portrait of one writer discovering the world through the eyes of another.

2018 220 p. 4 x 8 23 halftones 146 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-44-9 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Hemingway in Italy Richard Owen “An exceptionally lively study. . . .

Hemingway’s adoration of Italy never waned.”—Times Literary Supplement

2017 240 p. 4 x 8 10 halftones 147 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-38-8 $22.95 Your Price: $7.00

Homer’s Mediterranean A Travel Companion Wolfgang Geisthövel

2010 248 p. 4 x 7 148 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-905791-39-2 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Cartography 13

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The History of Cartography, Volume 6

Cartography in the Twentieth Century Edited by Mark Monmonier “Mapmaking may now be a more popular activity than in any other time in history—every time a person looks for directions online, a new, customized map is born. Just a century or so ago, none of the mapmaking tools we now take for granted existed. . . . The History of Cartography, Volume 6 traces the incredible advances in the last century that made possible the mapobsessed world of today.”—Atlas Obscura 2015 1960 p. 8 1/2 x 11 Set of 2 volumes, 805 color plates, 119 halftones, 242 line drawings, 61 tables 149 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53469-5 $599.00 Your Price: $149.00

Sea Monsters

A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map Joseph Nigg “Sea Monsters is itself a neat trick.

Unfold the book jacket to reveal a poster-sized reproduction of a richly detailed map of Scandinavia that dates to 1539. The seas on the map are littered with fantastic creatures, such as a sea unicorn and a giant worm that wraps itself around a big ship. Nigg is an extremely capable guide through the treacherous waters.”

—Boston Globe

Mapping the Middle East Zayde Antrim “In this analysis of a millennium of cartography of the ever-changing region, Antrim provides welcome insights into the evolving function and meaning of its maps. This detailed and lavishly illustrated volume spans the ‘realm of Islam’ (eleventh to sixteenth centuries), where maps served more as memory aids than accurate geographical representation. . . . Academic yet highly readable, this book presents the history behind the maps.”—AramcoWorld Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 336 p. 7 1/2 x 93/4 80 color plates, 6 halftones 153 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-850-0 $57.00 Your Price: $17.00

Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy Genevieve Carlton

“Even as a handful of Europeans set out in the sixteenth century to explore the world, millions more stayed home and experienced it vicariously. Worldly Consumers is an ingenious study of how and why ordinary people began to buy maps at unprecedented rates. . . .

[Carlton] shows how Europeans embraced these more accurate pictures of the world to fashion more mobile identities for themselves.”

—Ken Alder, Northwestern University

2013 168 p. 10 x 11 157 color plates 150 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92516-5 $40.00 Your Price: $19.00

2015 240 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 4 line drawings 154 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25531-6 $48.00 Your Price: $17.00

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

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Benjamin B. Olshin “For a guy who claimed to spend seventeen years in China as a confidant of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo left a surprisingly skimpy paper trail. . . . But a set of fourteen parchments, now collected and exhaustively studied for the first time, give us a raft of new stories about Polo’s journeys and something notably missing from his own account: maps.”—Smithsonian Magazine 2014 176 p. 6 x 9 13 color plates, 23 halftones, 3 line drawings 151 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14982-0 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

Trading Territories

Mapping the Early Modern World Jerry Brotton “Brotton’s Trading Territories is a history not just of how the first truly global maps were made, but how they were conceptualized, and how they shaped as well as described the early modern world. . . . Trading Territories covers a wide sweep of shifting territory with verve and authority.”—Geographical Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 208 p. 5 x 73/4 44 halftones 152 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-929-3 $16.00 Your Price: $7.00

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The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549–1689 Robert K. Batchelor “Fascinating. [Batchelor] shows how the skein of shipping routes on the Selden map were connected with the rise of London as a global city.”—Economist “Batchelor plots us a map of the early modern English encounter with Asia. . . . This book finds a strikingly complex genealogy not only of John Selden’s remarkable map of China but of the development of London—and even modernity itself—in a seventeenth-century global context.”—Philip J. Stern, Duke University

2014 344 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones 155 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08065-9 $52.00 Your Price: $17.00

Maps of Paradise Alessandro Scafi “A highly readable yet deeply learned journey into how ‘humankind has yearned for a timeless elsewhere,’ searching for ‘perfect bliss, remote either in time or in space.’”—History Today “Enough verve for a wider audience yet enough scholarship for students and academ­ics. . . . The result is a visually impressive and thought-provoking study showing how people perceived, situated, and mapped Eden over time.”

—Historical Geography

2013 176 p. 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 100 color plates 156 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08261-5 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Globes

400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power Sylvia Sumira “All you ever wanted to know about the history of globes and how they have been made.”—Sarah Tyacke, University of London “Lavishly illustrated. . . . Sumira traces the history and making of globes and showcases dozens of fine examples drawn largely from the collection of the British Library.”—Wired

2014 224 p. 8 1/2 x 11 120 color plates 157 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13900-5 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library Newberry Library “Cartographic Treasures is a beautifully designed exhibit catalogue containing splendid reproductions and enlightening captions, providing the reader with an understanding of the cartographic value and importance of each map and, consequently, the reasons for its designation as a ‘treasure.’”—WAML Information Bulletin Distributed for Newberry Library 2002 104 p. 11 x 81/2 23 color plates, 57 halftones 158 Paper ISBN: 978-0-911028-71-3 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Picturing America

The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps Stephen J. Hornsby “An underappreciated form of American visual art: the pictorial map. They’re maps designed to draw you in and—as often as not—try to sell you something, whether it’s a tropical vacation, a brand of bourbon, or a version of the American dream. [Picturing America] highlights an occasionally twisted, often amusing, always colorful tradition of hand-drawn cartography.”—National Geographic “Hornsby’s Picturing America is a beautifully illustrated new book that documents the ‘golden age’ of pictorial maps, from the 1920s to the 1970s. It includes the playful (distorted views of the country from the perspective of New Yorkers, Texans and Californians); the obscure (a map of volunteer fire departments in Philadelphia, circa 1792, commissioned and drawn in 1938); and more of the obscure (a map of Michigan bakeries).”—New York Times 2017 304 p. 8 1/2 x 11 153 color plates 159 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38604-1 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00

14 Ancient Studies & Classical Thought

Plato’s Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues Catherine H. Zuckert

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture Richard Neer “The question that Richard Neer asks is of crucial importance: ‘Given that the Archaic Greeks, by definition, didn’t know the classical style, what were they after?’

What Neer advocates in this bold and enlightening book is a return to the analysis of style. . . . I know of no other work on the subject that addresses the issue in these thought-provoking terms.”—Gloria Ferrari Pinney, Harvard University

2013 288 p. 8 1/2 x 11 10 color plates, 1 map, 142 halftones 160 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57064-8 $49.00 Your Price: $13.00

Palmyra

An Irreplaceable Treasure Paul Veyne “Veyne, the most eminent living historian of Rome, has written an elegiac lament on the meaning for world history of this looted city. His short book describes how Palmyra, an oasis on the route across the north Syrian desert, around the turn of the common era became immensely wealthy as a staging post in the trade route from the Roman Empire to the Parthian Kingdom and the lands beyond. . . .

An excellent survey of the relationship between the city and the wider Roman Empire.”—Times Literary Supplement

2017 128 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 13 color plates 161 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42782-9 $22.50 Your Price: $10.00

Caesar

A Life in Western Culture Maria Wyke “Wyke’s concern is how we have created and adapted Caesar’s image and historical importance over the past 2,000 years—from Caesar’s camp at Arles to Caesars Palace, Las Vegas; from Mussolini, seeking a Caesarian mandate for his own grand ambitions, to Asterix, using the Roman dictator for satirical purposes in comic-book form; from the Caesar coins minted in tribute by Brutus (before he revised his opinion) to the taunts leveled at George W. Bush as an empireseeker in recent years.”—Wall Street Journal 2008 288 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones 162 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92153-2 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

“Brimming with original insights, this massive book offers a comprehensive vision of the entire Platonic corpus. . . . This book will allow scholars of all persuasions to make discoveries at every turn as the author guides them through territory they thought they knew well.”—Choice “No serious student of Plato could fail to benefit from [Zuckert’s] careful, intelligent, probing, and illuminating discussions. . . . An important, impressive, and, one hopes, lasting book.”—Claremont Review

2012 896 p. 6 x 9 163 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00774-8 $37.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Rhetoric of Plato’s Republic Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion James L. Kastely

“A startling reinterpretation of Plato, one that stands the standard narrative of the history of rhetoric on its head. Kastely persuasively takes the supposed archenemy of rhetoric and makes of him instead a theorist deeply concerned with rhetoric’s possibilities, and he does so with impeccable scholarship in a tour de force extended rereading of Plato’s most-read work.”—Jeffrey Walker, University of Texas at Austin 2015 280 p. 6 x 9 164 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27862-9 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory

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Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography Arnaldo Momigliano This collection of 21 carefully selected essays of Arnaldo Momigliano is remarkable both in the depth of its scholarship and the breadth of its subjects. Moving with ease across the centuries, this book is a brilliant reminder of Momigliano’s profound knowledge of classical civilization and his gift for deftly handling prose. “[Momigliano was] the world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world.”

—Donald Kagan, Yale University

2012 406 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 167 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53385-8 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Tiber

Eternal River of Rome Bruce Ware Allen In this rich history of Italy’s Tiber River, Bruce Ware Allen charts the main currents, mythic headwaters, and hidden tributaries of one of the world’s most renowned waterways.

The Tiber has served as the realm of protomythic creatures and gods, a battleground for armies and navies, a livelihood for boatmen and fishermen, the subject matter of poets and painters, and the final resting place for criminals and martyrs. This book is a highly readable history and a go-to resource for information about Italy’s most storied river.

Distributed for ForeEdge 2018 304 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 168 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0037-7 $35.00 Your Price: $9.00

Lost Civilizations from Reaktion Books

Robin Reames “This is a masterful book. Each chapter proffers a new take on platonic dialogues that have been read and interpreted endlessly. Reames provides a fresh new view bolstered by innovative and well-supported philological arguments. Every chapter provides a new twist and original insight into Plato’s texts. I am not engaging in hyperbole when I say that this book has no peer.”

—Edward Schiappa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018 240 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing, 1 table 165 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56701-3 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism Cathy Gere “A stylish and original cultural history of Knossos.”—Economist “Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a genuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography. . . . Gere tells some outlandish stories, but she never makes the protagonists themselves ridiculous.”—Harper’s

2011 288 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 166 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28954-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Greeks Philip Matyszak 2018 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 40 color plates, 30 halftones 169 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-900-2 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

The Barbarians Peter Bogucki

2017 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 25 color plates, 25 halftones 170 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-718-3 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

The Persians Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker

2016 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 50 halftones 171 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-650-6 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

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The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death Ben-Ami Scharfstein

“The book makes vivid and compelling Scharfstein’s long standing opposition to philosophical selfisolation.”—Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University 2014 256 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 172 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-10575-8 $52.00 Your Price: $13.00

The History of Continental Philosophy Edited by Alan D. Schrift “This landmark series provides the first comprehensive history of continental philosophy in the English language. . . . Every library will want to own a copy.”—Michael Naas, DePaul University “Opens up new vistas and possibilities by bringing canonical figures (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida), the necessary supporting cast (Herder, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Peirce), and marginal voices (Freud, Dostoevsky, utopian socialists, black existentialists) often given short shrift in less comprehensive histories into sharp focus. . . .

Essential.”—Choice 2011 3040 p. 6 x 9 173 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74046-1 $1099.00 Your Price: $199.00

The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem Edited by Marie Luise Knott “Now that the full correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem has finally been published, we can begin to understand the contours and dynamics of a relationship that was always complex. These letters illuminate the historical record by placing into context and documenting not only the profound differences between these powerful personalities but also their commonalities, shared activities, interests, and loyalties.”

—Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the German edition

2017 336 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones 174 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92451-9 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

Arendt and America Richard H. King “King’s great contribution to the literature on Arendt is to show, in fine-grained terms, how her political theory was the result of a quintessentially American experience: to arrive on American shores an immigrant, to draw on resources from both an old country and a new, imagined one, and to participate in the riot of reinvention.”

—Los Angeles Review of Books 2018 416 p. 6 x 9 175 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56553-8 $29.00 Your Price: $8.00

Negative Certainties Jean-Luc Marion Praise for the French edition: “If certain knowledge is impossible, must we condemn ourselves to hazardous understandings and skepticism? For Marion, there is a third way, through negative certainty.”—Libération “Marion loosens our Borromean knots: the human enigma, the mystery of God, and the unknown of birth as well as death, are so many inexplicable events. Negative Certainties, his latest book, questions the very possibility of these impossibilities.”—Le Monde

2015 288 p. 6 x 9 176 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50561-9 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I Jacques Derrida “Fascinatingly intricate. . . . A vivid attestation to the experience of Derrida as a teacher—the quality of his attention, the tone and rhythm of his voice, his means of sparking his students capacities’ to read and think.”—Times Literary Supplement “What Derrida accomplishes in this, his final seminar, is remarkable because it goes to the very heart of his lifelong project of deconstructing the logocentric bias of Western thinking.”—Choice 2009 368 p. 6 x 9 177 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14428-3 $99.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Evolution of Imagination Stephen T. Asma “From testing a theory to playing bebop, improvisation is the fount of creativity. . . . So argues philosopher and jazz musician Asma, who draws on neuroscience and animal behavior for this intriguing . . . foray into human evolution.

Looking at improvisation from pre-linguistic expression (such as dance) to storytelling, Asma explores how we actively engage the imagination to create our own ‘virtual realities’ and to build just societies, as well as to foster the adaptability we need to negotiate life’s changes.”—Nature

2017 320 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 178 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22516-6 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy Robert B. Pippin “Pippin presents a much-needed new approach and appreciation of Nietzsche. . . . [He] adroitly starts fresh with Nietzsche, considering his work holistically and in the context of both early psychology and 19th-century French morality.

In his novel reading, Pippin exposes the folly of underappreciating Nietzsche’s irony and self-criticism.”

—Choice

2011 160 p. 6 x 9 179 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66976-2 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy Sandra Laugier “Laugier’s brilliant book provides a concise history of the philosophy of language after Quine and Wittgenstein. But Laugier does more than that: she shows why Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell’s claim that to speak about language is to speak about the world is an antimetaphysical revolution in philosophy, a revolution that transforms our understanding of epistemology and ethics.”—Toril Moi, Duke University

2013 168 p. 6 x 9 180 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47054-2 $41.00 Your Price: $11.00

Revenge

A Short Enquiry into Retribution Stephen Fineman “Fineman’s brief, questioning book is both a history and, by and large, a justification of revenge. It is, he argues, a primal human urge. . . .

This is a thoughtful and thoughtprovoking book. It shows that blanket condemnations of revenge are over-hasty, and it leaves you feeling that what we call justice is not so much the opposite of revenge as a way of legalizing it.”—Sunday Times Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 181 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-840-1 $24.00 Your Price: $8.00

The Death Penalty, Volume II Jacques Derrida Of central importance in this second volume of Derrida’s extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, is Kant’s explicit justification of the death penalty in the Metaphysics of Morals. Thoroughly deconstructing Kant’s position—which holds the death penalty as exemplary of the eye-for-an-eye Talionic law— Derrida exposes numerous damning contradictions and exceptions.

Derrida’s powerful analysis is a paramount contribution to the death penalty debate as well as a lasting entry in his celebrated oeuvre.

2017 304 p. 6 x 9 182 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-41082-1 $48.00 Your Price: $17.00

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The Moral Meaning of Nature

Nietzsche’s Darwinian Religion and Its Critics Peter J. Woodford

Artistic License

The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation Darren Hudson Hick “Hick examines a range of key concepts central to intellectual property law, including authorship, works, originality, and infringement. The book is especially rich with detailed examples from the real art world, as well as numerous legal cases involving these works, well-informed with philosophical insights. . . . [Addresses] an area of growing interest among not only philosophers, but also legal theorists and the art world.”

—Julie C. Van Camp, California State University, Long Beach

“Woodford does an excellent job of showing how the concept of ‘life’ connects many strands of Nietzsche’s thought while also engaging a constellation of authors and their approaches, such as Overbeck and the study of religion, Simmel and the study of sociology, and Rickert and the neo-Kantian approach to values.”—John H. Smith, University of California, Irvine

2018 208 p. 6 x 9 186 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53989-8 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Government of Desire

A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject Miguel de Beistegui “Miguel de Beistegui contributes to what Foucault called a history of the present by pursuing the idea of desire across three categories: economic, sexual, and symbolic. . . . Bolstered by a remarkable amount of research, The Government of Desire is a compelling, persuasive, and original work of philosophy.”—Leonard Lawlor, Pennsylvania State University

Becoming Political

Spinoza’s Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment Christopher Skeaff “Any reader interested in (re)discovering Spinoza should start with Christopher Skeaff’s erudite yet supple Becoming Political, a book that not only offers a fresh interpretation of Spinoza as a ‘vital republican’ but also mobilizes that reading to engage rigorously and meaningfully with a variety of strands of contemporary political theory.”—Samuel A. Chambers, Johns Hopkins University

2018 208 p. 6 x 9 190 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-55547-8 $43.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Actual and the Rational Hegel and Objective Spirit Jean-Francois Kervégan

“With this new book by Jean-François Kervégan . . . we finally have what was needed—a clearly written, wellargued, and farseeing reconstruction of what Hegel intended when understanding societal life as objectified spirit. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in finding out why Hegel is of importance for current debates within social, legal, and political philosophy.”—Axel Honneth, Columbia University

2017 240 p. 6 x 9 183 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46024-6 $32.00 Your Price: $11.00

2018 320 p. 6 x 9 187 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54737-4 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Biopower

Articulating the World Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image Joseph Rouse

Wisdom

Foucault and Beyond Edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar “Cisney and Morar have assembled a stellar collection of essays. . . .

Topics as diverse as the life sciences, the birth of statistics, contemporary medicine, HIV prevention, race, gender, and the Arab uprisings are all examined from the viewpoint of the concepts of biopower and biopolitics, demonstrating their continuing relevance.”—Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University

“Rouse has written a wide-ranging, systematic attempt to give an account of naturalism and to solve some of the problems confronting it. He gives many of the basic concepts that are often employed in articulating naturalism a novel twist, one that breaks ground for research at new levels. Articulating the World will have a central place in debates about naturalism that will surely follow from the many important theses he advances.”

—Notre Dame Philosophical Review

In this book, Curnow provides an accessible introduction to wisdom and the many ways we have thought about and tried to achieve it throughout history. Drawing on examples from a diversity of eras and places, he explores deities, proverbs, and other ways in which humans have tried to solve the mystery of life. Including a collection of 100 sayings that offer a rich record of wisdom’s reification, this history gives new insight into what wisdom actually is and where we might find it.

2015 400 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 184 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-22662-0 $38.00 Your Price: $13.00

Creatively Undecided

Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency Menachem Fisch “Deeply informed by the history of science and argued with philosophical rigor, this tour de force demonstrates the surprising yet essential role played in scientific revolutions by dithering.”—Paul Franks, Yale University “[Fisch] has something crucially important to say about one of the most pressing issues in our globalized and politically-torn world: how to self-criticize ‘from within’ our normative frameworks when challenged by competing cultures who confront us ‘from without.’”

—Niccolò Guicciardini, University of Bergamo 2017 304 p. 6 x 9 185 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-51451-2 $40.00 Your Price: $9.00

2015 416 p. 6 x 9 1 table 188 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-29384-4 $38.00 Your Price: $13.00

Lies, Passions, and Illusions

The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century François Furet “Not only about the past but also about the current European predicament, the resurgence of nationalist sentiments and emotions, and the pitfalls of new ideological siren songs. It should be read as a melancholy reflection on past delusions and a caveat about their possible return as humankind grapples with agonizing uncertainties.”—Times Higher Education 2014 128 p. 5 x 7 1 halftone 189 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11449-1 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

2018 416 p. 6 x 9 191 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02380-9 $59.00 Your Price: $11.00

A History Trevor Curnow

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 10 halftones 192 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-451-9 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Leo Strauss’s Defense of the Philosophic Life Reading What Is Political Philosophy?

Edited by Rafael Major

“Lively interest in the work and legacy of Strauss continues, as does controversy over what he did—and did not—argue for. This collection of essays demonstrates an expository thoroughness that will be of great interest to those who read them alongside the Strauss essays themselves. One doubts this will clear away the controversy, but one can hope that it will promote a more serious, engaged, and sympathetic debate.”—Timothy Fuller, Colorado College

2013 232 p. 6 x 9 193 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-92421-2 $34.00 Your Price: $9.00

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The Architecture of Story

The Truth about Language

“The Architecture of Story is part of the most thorough course in playwriting available in print, one that is both an in-depth study in character and its relation to dramatic form, and a practical dramaturgical resource for dramatists in search of the best form for their work.”

—Art Borreca, University of Iowa

“Using a wealth of well-researched anecdotes about Neanderthals, cave paintings, gesturing apes, and well-trained border collies (to name a few), Corballis exemplifies moments of the human and animal minds fine-tuning their abilities to communicate. His journey into the written world is equally broad and insightful. . . . A thrill to read.”

—Kirkus

A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer Will Dunne

2016 224 p. 6 x 9 4 tables 194 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18191-2 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”?

Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff “If you would expect a ‘Best-Of anthology’ from the Chicago Manual of Style Q&A page to be a dry affair, it is time to think again. . . . This little guide book is the smart and sassy English teacher that we all wished we had.”—Publishing Research Quarterly “A wonderful blend of substance and snark—both a useful reference and a fun (yes, fun) read.”—Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing 2016 112 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 195 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37064-4 $17.00 Your Price: $9.00

The University of Chicago SpanishEnglish Dictionary

Sixth Edition David A. Pharies, Editor in Chief “Why invest in the latest edition of the University of Chicago’s SpanishEnglish Dictionary? In a word, más!

Reflecting increasing popularity of use and need in growing global industries, 6,000 words and their definitions have been added to the already impressive glossary. . . . Comprehensive in scope, but simple enough to use for even the most tongue-tied linguist. This completely bilingual text is a smart update.”—Library Journal

2012 626 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 196 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66695-2 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

A Brief History of the Spanish Language Second Edition David A. Pharies

“The second edition of A Brief History improves an already strong work in Spanish historical linguistics. As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of ‘linguistic myths’ about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar.”

—Choice

2015 296 p. 51/4 x 8 9 halftones, 2 line drawings 197 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13394-2 $38.00 Your Price: $10.00

What It Is and Where It Came From Michael C. Corballis

2017 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 198 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28719-5 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

On War and Writing Samuel Hynes “The excellent Samuel Hynes has gathered some entertaining and provocative reflections, rooted in his long life and wide experience of both literature and war.”—New York Review of Books “From renowned figures of literature to the less celebrated, the author offers powerful perspectives on the drama of destruction, exploring the character of wars ‘good’ and ‘bad.’ But the analysis is his own. He acknowledges, gloomily, that even the greatest art bears little power as a preventative instrument.”—Kirkus

2018 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 4 halftones 199 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46878-5 $22.50 Your Price: $9.00

The Art of Letter Writing Edited by the Bodleian Library Originally published in the 1920s, this charmingly presented book provides examples of well-crafted correspondence that will lend confidence whether one needs to break off an engagement, accept an invitation to a country house weekend, complain about a courier, or write to a countess.

“Introduces readers to more than fifty perfectly penned letters for all occasions. We’re certainly inspired.”—Woman’s Weekly Distributed for Bodleian Library 2014 80 p. 4 x 6 200 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-397-6 $15.00 Your Price: $6.00

We Are Not Amused

Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch David Crystal In We Are Not Amused, renowned English-language expert David Crystal has explored the most common pronunciation-related controversies during the reign of Queen Victoria and brought together the cartoons and articles that poked fun at them, adding insightful commentary on the context of the times.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2018 96 p. 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 54 halftones 201 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-478-2 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

Babel

Adventures in Translation Dennis Duncan, Stephen Harrison, Katrin Kohl, and Matthew Reynolds Babel opens up a world of adventures into translation. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, focusing on illustrated examples ranging from Greek papyri through illuminated manuscripts and fine early books to fantasy languages and the search for a universal language.

“Beautifully illustrated by some of the library’s treasures, this collection of essays about translation is a visual and intellectual treat.”

—Tatler Distributed for Bodleian Library 2019 176 p. 8 x 9 1/2 65 color plates 202 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-509-3 $35.00 Your Price: $14.00

Improbable Libraries A Visual Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Libraries Alex Johnson

“Fascinating. . . . A valuable visual culture book that doubles as a travel resource.”—Los Angeles Times “This delightful book will give bibliophiles everywhere ideas for how to exhibit their collection as well as add some destinations to their bucket list. A great option for the children’s room, too.”—Library Journal

2015 240 p. 7 x 7 250 color plates 203 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-26369-4 $27.50 Your Price: $11.00

Chicago by the Book

101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image Caxton Club “The perfect study of the perfect library of the perfect Chicago provincial. . . . Absorbing.”—Chicago Tribune “The book is brimming with images of first editions and related illustrations, ephemera, and photography—and the content is a delightful miscellany.”—Fine Books & Collections

2018 336 p. 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 145 color plates 204 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46850-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

18 Reference & Literary Studies

Last Words of the Executed Robert K. Elder

New York in Quotations Compiled by Jaqueline Mitchell Over the last three and a half centuries, New York City has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit. “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man,” wrote Mark Twain.

Others have taken a more cynical approach, calling the city a “sucked orange” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) or “fantastically charmless and elaborately dire” (Henry James). This book collects the many quotations that surround New York—a city like no other.

“By compiling the last words of people put to death by the state in America, juxtaposed against details of their crimes and victims, Elder has created an extraordinary book. No matter which side of the capital punishment divide you find yourself, Last Words of the Executed is a must-read. . . . This not a political book, but a human journey.”—Sean Chercover, author of Trigger City

2010 304 p. 6 x 9 208 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20268-6 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures

205 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-420-1 $11.00 Your Price: $5.00

London in Quotations Compiled by Jaqueline Mitchell “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

—Samuel Johnson London is one of the world’s great cities—a source of inspiration to generations of poets, novelists, journalists, and commentators who have visited or called it home. This slender volume—filled with wise, witty, and sometimes scandalous quotes—presents the full range of impressions the city has made.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2014 96 p. 3 1/2 x 41/2 206 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-401-0 $11.00 Your Price: $5.00

Famous Last Words

An Anthology Edited by Claire Cock-Starkey For Famous Last Words, Claire Cock-Starkey has collected the most interesting, insightful, and controversial last words, from deathbed desperation to the fondest of farewells, from kings and queens to politicians, philosophers, scientists, writers, and actors, including those of King Charles II: “You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.”

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Shaggy Muses

The Dogs who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë Maureen Adams “Move over Marley. Make room for Carlo (Emily Dickinson’s giant Newfoundland). Or Flush (Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s golden cocker spaniel). Or, maybe, Keeper (Emily Brontëʼs intimidating mastiff mix). In Shaggy Muses, the work of each author is viewed intimately within the context of the canine companions who provided love, comfort and inspiration.”

—Chicago Tribune

2011 320 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 43 halftones 212 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00536-2 $16.00 Your Price: $5.00

Claudia L. Johnson

Arthur

“At the heart of Claudia Johnson’s warmly appreciative study is the sole authenticated image of the novelist: a portrait, by her sister, of Jane Austen with her back to the viewer. Johnson . . . traces out the silences and losses surrounding Austen. Her aim is not so much to shine a light on the fiction as on its admirers.”—Literary Review

“Refreshingly accessible and expertly researched, Fee’s Arthur: God and Hero in Avalon is an adventure into myth and a tour through ancient history. This is an unparalleled introduction to the legendary and multifaceted King Arthur.”

—Andrew Cole, Princeton University

2014 240 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones 209 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-15503-6 $31.00 Your Price: $10.00

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Jane Austen: Writer in the World Edited by Kathryn Sutherland This lavishly illustrated collection presents an intimate portrait of Austen through her personal possessions, showing the many details of her life that found echoes in her fiction, especially her keen observations of the “little matters”—the routines of reading, dining and taking tea, paying visits to family and friends, and walking to the shops or to send the post.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2017 224 p. 9 1/2 x 10 1/4 90 color plates 210 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-463-8 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

The Making of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Daisy Hay The Making of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ explores the novel’s time and place, the people who inspired its characters, the relics of its long afterlife, and the notebooks in which it was created.

“A welcome addition. . . . This book is an excellent introduction to the novel; and for those of us who know it well, it offers an excellent reminder of why it is so good.”

—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Bodleian Library 2018 128 p. 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 55 color plates 211 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-486-7 $22.50 Your Price: $9.00

2016 144 p. 41/3 x 6 3/4 207 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-251-1 $17.50 Your Price: $6.00

God and Hero in Avalon Christopher R. Fee

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 10 color plates, 40 halftones 213 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-999-6 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Staging History

1780–1840 Edited by Michael Burden, Wendy Heller, Jonathan Hicks, and Ellen Lockhart “This illuminating collection of essays transports the reader to the spectacular world of the London theatre in the early nineteenth century and demonstrates how seemingly trivial entertainments engaged with the world-historical events unfolding around them. . . . Every essay reconstructs the dynamic relation between performance and historical consciousness.”—Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph Distributed for Bodleian Library 2017 224 p. 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 74 color plates 214 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-456-0 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00

Echoes of Valhalla

The Afterlife of the Eddas and Sagas Jón Karl Helgason “Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the myriad forms that hark back to the literature of medieval Iceland, with discoveries at every turn. . . . Weaving in the less familiar with the well-known— Wagner, Tolkien, and Thor movies—Jón Karl’s learned and witty commentary will engage readers as he explores the remarkable influence of medieval Icelandic mythology and sagas.”—Judy Quinn, Cambridge University Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 256 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 50 halftones 215 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-715-2 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Future Cities

Architecture and the Imagination Paul Dobraszczyk “Explores the politics and psychology of castles in the air, and suburbs under the sea.”—New Scientist “Dobraszczyk looks at how the cityscapes once dreamed up by artists and architects are slowly becoming a reality as climate change and overpopulation take hold.”—National Geographic Traveler Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 272 p. 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 70 halftones 216 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-064-4 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Carson Pirie Scott

Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store Joseph M. Siry “Siry’s book is not about a store per se. Rather, it is a vehicle for examining how one man’s ideas at once expressed and informed defining aspects of material life in his immediate milieu and beyond. . . . Carson Pirie Scott transcends the confines of ordinary case studies to become a formidable work of cultural history.”—Journal of American History 2012 304 p. 6 x 9 132 halftones 217 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76137-4 $68.00 Your Price: $15.00

Plans of Chicago Robert Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher Plans of Chicago uses the 1909 Burnham Plan as a precedent for reconnecting Chicago’s center to outlying suburbs. With 130 exquisite illustrations, including reproductions of Jules Guerin’s famous watercolors—collected here in full color for the first time—as well as original drawings by Aric Lasher, this book offers practical, viable proposals for city living and charts a path for Chicago’s future.

Distributed for Architects Research Foundation 2010 160 p. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 45 color plates, 100 halftones 218 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-615-28220-6 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Architecture of Maritz & Young

Exceptional Historic Homes of St. Louis Kevin Amsler and L. John Schott, AIA Featuring more than 200 photographs, architectural drawings, and original floor plans of homes built in a variety of styles, this is the definitive history of the domestic architecture that still defines St. Louis.

“Lavishly illustrated. . . .

Photographs, floor plans, and architectural drawings provide an intimate look inside the St. Louis homes that ‘are fancied above most others.’”—Missouri Historical Review Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2013 208 p. 7 x 10 196 halftones, 43 line drawings 219 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-76-8 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

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Beth Sholom Synagogue

Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture Joseph M. Siry “Set in the context of Wright’s designs for religious architecture, Siry’s brilliant, clear, and thoroughly documented monograph is the definitive work on the magisterial Beth Sholom synagogue. This beautifully written book is indispensable for our grasp of the architect’s late work.”—Anthony Alofsin, University of Texas

2011 736 p. 81/2 x 11 10 color plates, 295 halftones 220 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76140-4 $87.00 Your Price: $17.00

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image Mary Campbell “A beautiful meditation on the agency of photographs, this book on the Mormon photographer Charles Ellis Johnson is also a remarkable account of American sexuality, its rituals, and its prohibitions, down to the last strap unfurled from the last shoulder in that photograph earmarked for an eager customer in Fresno. Sexuality itself lies coquettishly hidden in almost all studies of American art except this one.”—Alexander Nemerov, author of Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine 2016 192 p. 8 1/2 x 11 10 color plates, 75 halftones 221 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37369-0 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

The World the Trains Made

A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada James D. Dilts This book is the first comprehensive study of the broad range of structures built in North America for the railroads during their heyday, from high-rise office buildings to resort hotels to roundhouses and shops. Dilts delves into the personalities of the people who conceived these structures and examines the creative new uses that have been found for many of them today.

Included in this lavishly illustrated, full-color volume are more than 100 of the finest examples of fourteen different building types.

Distributed for ForeEdge 2018 304 p. 8 1/2 x 11 222 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-802-3 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00

Kwaidan

Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn and Hiroshi Watanabe “Written by Lafcadio Hearn over a century ago, and now brilliantly illustrated with accompanying photographs by award-winning photographer Hiroshi Watanabe, these folk stories are revitalized in this new edition.”—Photo-eye

Harlem

The Unmaking of a Ghetto Camilo José Vergara “Vergara has watched—and photographed—Harlem as it fell apart and then rose back up as something else. He chronicles the passage from poverty to selective luxury, from segregation to selective integration, from street life to tourism.”—Luc Sante, author of Low Life “Wandering the streets of Harlem for the past forty years, Camilo Vergara has noticed and miraculously recorded those moments of great human invention that have been largely overlooked by the official chronicles of architecture and urban history.”—Ben Katchor, author of Hand-Drying in America

2013 269 p. 11 x 9 268 color plates 224 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85336-9 $55.00 Your Price: $13.00

Art in Chicago

A History from the Fire to Now Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino “The most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date. . . . The book conspicuously lacks timelines and keywords, avoiding the encyclopaedic approach of past efforts.

At the heart of this new history is instead a compelling story about how artistic identity is formed in the shadows. . . . All of these topics are deeply covered in the book’s excellent essays.”—Art Newspaper

2018 448 p. 9 1/4 x 11 160 color plates, 29 halftones 225 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16831-9 $65.00 Your Price: $21.00

Power to the People

The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the CounterCulture, 1964–1974 Geoff Kaplan “Reproduces stunning covers of radical late sixties and early seventies papers . . . including The Black Panther, Paul Krassner’s The Realist and the long-running Off Our Backs. This is a remarkable collection curating artifacts from the diverse worlds of feminists, leftists, technology visionaries, gays and other factions all liberated by cheap printing. . . . The powerful images Geoff Kaplan has expertly assembled are each worth an eloquent thousand words.”—Chicago Tribune 2013 264 p. 10 x 12 700 color plates 226 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42435-4 $45.00 Your Price: $11.00

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2019 128 p. 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 28 halftones 223 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911604-98-3 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

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Tintoretto

Tradition and Identity Tom Nichols “A wonderfully informative and entertaining new study of the painter. The first full-length account of the artist’s life and work to appear in English for nearly 50 years.”

—Sunday Telegraph Magazine “The many, excellent illustrations in Tintoretto can be admired for their own sake, but the text demands to be closely read.”

—Sunday Times Distributed for Reaktion Books

Jean-Antoine Houdon Sculptor of the Enlightenment Anne L. Poulet

“[The essays] detail Houdon’s artistic development and provide insights into his working methods and his relationships with his subjects, a group that included Molière, Diderot, Voltaire, Franklin and Napoleon. . . . He could do teeth, the pupils of the eyes, soft dimples, even tears; details that, two centuries later, still catch the breath.”

—New York Times 2005 400 p. 9 x 11 144 color plates, 225 halftones 227 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67649-4 $74.00 Your Price: $15.00

Leonardo da Vinci Self, Art, and Nature François Quiviger

“Sheds new light on aspects of the social, cultural, and intellectual environments in which Leonardo lived and worked. This is a book that will add more than many to our understanding of Leonardo as not just a painter but as a polymath.”

—Francis Ames-Lewis, University of London Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 60 color plates, 10 halftones 228 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-070-5 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Leonardo, The Last Supper Pinin Brambilla Barcilon and Pietro C. Marani “Pinin Barcilon was entrusted with the unenviable task of restoring the mural—again. Her highly controversial approach has been to pry away every bit of paint not clearly Leonardo’s, with the result that a pale but evocative ghost remains.

Was too much removed? Readers can judge by perusing the extraordinary 1:1 scale photographs of sections from the painting.”

—New York Times Book Review “Leonardo, The Last Supper documents the process by which, after nearly 500 years and various ‘restorations,’ conservators attempted to get the work as close as possible to its original state. . . . The 382 color plates and 64 halftones in the lush, slipcased edition are accompanied by extensive, cogent commentary.”—Publishers Weekly 2001 458 p. 10 x 12 382 color plates, 64 halftones 229 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50427-8 $137.00 Your Price: $45.00

2015 400 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 116 color plates, 92 halftones 230 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-450-2 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Titian

And the End of the Venetian Renaissance Tom Nichols “Nichols’s book offers the kind of free-flowing and deeply intelligent analysis of a painter’s career that can only be produced after long study and intimate familiarity with his subject. . . . Beautifully written and generously illustrated, and you feel both Nichols’s and Titian’s minds working at every turn.”

—Renaissance and Reformation Studies Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 336 p. 8 1/4 x 11 100 color plates, 70 halftones 231 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-674-2 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address Shira Brisman “Today it seems harder than ever to say anything refreshingly new about Albrecht Dürer and his epoch-making art. Yet Brisman has done just that, taking us inside a guiding principle of Renaissance art and culture that had, until now, been hiding in plain sight. . . . Gleaming with intelligence on every page, and carried off with a rare verve, this book showcases what is to be gained when the materiality of communication combines with the social history of art.”

—Mitchell B. Merback, Johns Hopkins University

2017 320 p. 7 x 10 49 color plates, 86 halftones 232 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35475-0 $59.00 Your Price: $17.00

Rembrandt

Images & Metaphors Christian Tümpel “Lavishly illustrated and handsomely produced, Images and Metaphors ignores the myths and legends that have grown up over the centuries about Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and replaces them with a hard look of the facts, creating thereby entirely new avenues into the creative genius of this painter. An impressive accomplishment!”—Art Times Journal Distributed for Haus Publishing 2009 300 p. 10 x 11 233 Paper ISBN: 978-1-906598-01-3 $40.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art François Quiviger “This small-format but richly illustrated book constructs the groundwork for further study of the representation of sensation in Italian Renaissance art. . . . Quiviger’s study breathes life and meaning into the margins of Renaissance art, integrating what often seem discordant elements into the sensorial landscape.”—Renaissance Quarterly Distributed for Reaktion Books 2010 206 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 37 color plates, 58 halftones 234 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-657-5 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

Portrait of the Artist Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter, and Martin Clayton Throughout history, many of the world’s most renowned artists have made portraits to represent themselves and others. This book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by artists from across the centuries, including works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, David Hockney, and Lucian Freud.

“Spanning six centuries, the works are worthy of royalty, to be sure. . . . [They] are infused with history—but they are also alive with personal details.”—Globe and Mail Distributed for Royal Collection Trust 2016 240 p. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 150 color plates 235 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909741-32-4 $48.00 Your Price: $15.00

Fabricating the Antique

Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760–1800 Viccy Coltman “A gorgeously illustrated, evocatively written, fascinatingly detailed, and wonderfully nuanced account of the ‘packaging and repackaging’ of ancient material artifacts

by British collector-connoisseurs, engravers, manufacturers, and patrons in the second half of the eighteenth century.”—Journal of Modern History

2006 248 p. 71/2 x 9 5 color plates, 85 halftones 236 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-11396-8 $74.00 Your Price: $23.00

Accounts and Drawings from Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906 William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris

This book is the result of a unique collaboration between Kentridge and Morris, inspired by the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation.

Kentridge’s 40 landscape drawings serve as a visual epitaph to a history of disappearances. These drawings are accompanied by Morris’s narrative, giving us a palpable sense of the world that gold mining created.

Distributed for Seagull Books 2015 196 p. 8 1/4 x 11 61 color plates 237 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-205-7 $100.00 Your Price: $23.00

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William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose Jane Taylor

“Not only reveals the playfulness and rigor of Kentridge’s aesthetic processes but manages the rare feat of capturing a certain spirit—one that is normally graspable only when one views a work of art itself or watches a live performance.”

—Jessica Dubow, University of Sheffield 2017 165 p. 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 71 color plates, 6 halftones 238 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79120-3 $38.00 Your Price: $13.00

Hannah Ryggen Threads of Defiance Marit Paasche

“Tapestry is back, part of a reputational revival of textile arts that’s also unclouded the achievements of neglected modernists. One is the Swedish-born Norwegian weaver Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970), whose monumental tapestries, drawing on Picasso’s deformed figures and steeped with feminist and antifascist conviction, come to life in this newly translated biography, illustrated in color throughout. . . . Ryggen was acclaimed throughout her lifetime in Norway, and this biography establishes her as a model of artistic and political engagement.”—New York Times

2019 288 p. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 150 color plates 239 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67469-8 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Lucian Freud

Portraits Edited by Daniel Blau Lucian Freud redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny of the human form.

And while most are familiar with Freud’s thickly impasted paintings, few realize how integral etching became to his practice. Presenting an exceptional overview of Freud’s works on paper over his more than six-decade career, this oversized volume highlights the artist’s unconventional approach to the medium.

Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2011 71 p. 9 1/2 x 11 35 color plates 240 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3971-6 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

Abstraction in Reverse The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art Alexander Alberro

“Offers an urgently needed postcolonial perspective for the study of Latin American art and provides new concepts for exploring visual culture at the crossroads of modernity and globalization.”—Andrea Giunta, author of Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties “This book nuances the history of modernist abstraction. . . . The art reproduced is wonderful to see.

Recommended.”—Choice

2017 368 p. 7 x 10 58 color plates, 17 halftones 241 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39395-7 $54.00 Your Price: $13.00

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Today is Tomorrow Edited by Aargauer Kunsthaus and Kunsthalle Bielefeld “Critics have lately advanced the worldwide reputation of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, a Swiss/French classic geometric artist whose reputation was marginalized. This is the foremost book on all her creative periods, and it includes more than 300 illustrations. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice Distributed for Scheidegger & Speiss 2014 288 p. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 250 color plates and 50 halftones 242 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-85881-757-0 $65.00 Your Price: $19.00

Brushstroke and Emergence

Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso James D. Herbert “This is a succinct and elegant study that asks us to rethink what we assume we already know—the semiotics of the brushstroke.

Focusing on a few key modernists, Herbert gives us a fresh view of how matter comes to have its own meanings, and how we often overdetermine the most basic relations of maker and mark. For anyone who assumes they already know how to look at a painted canvas, this is essential reading.”—Elizabeth C. Childs, Washington University in St. Louis 2015 176 p. 7 x 9 38 color plates, 4 halftones, 6 line drawings 243 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27201-6 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

Chagall to Malevich

The Russian Avant-Gardes Edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder When Marc Chagall, Kasimir Malevich, and the other artists of the Russian Avant-Garde created art in opposition to the sanctioned style of Socialist Realism, they set off an artistic revolution. Reaching its creative zenith between 1905 and 1934, the movement is best known for combining Cubism with the forward-looking vision of the Italian Futurists. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive look at the scope of the Russian Avant-Garde movement.

Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2016 312 p. 93/4 x 113/4 194 color plates 244 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-2577-1 $65.00 Your Price: $23.00

Outliers and American Vanguard Art Lynne Cooke This thought-provoking book offers a fantastic opportunity to consider works by schooled and self-taught artists in relation to each other and defined by historical circumstance.

“Accessible for most readers without extensive art history backgrounds, and for those looking to expand their understanding of American art and artists creating from the margins.”—Library Journal 2018 448 p. 10 x 12 450 color plates 245 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52227-2 $65.00 Your Price: $23.00

Gerhard Richter

Images of an Era Edited by Uwe M. Schneede Among German painter Gerhard Richter’s best-known works are his large-scale paintings based on—and sometimes applied directly to—photographs. These paintings marked a new phase in Richter’s remarkable career. Providing new insight into these complex photo-derived works, Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era presents fifty of the artist’s works that cumulatively form an image of Richter’s Germany—its hopes and dreams, its new possibilities and memories of the oppressive past.

Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2011 216 p. 8 3/4 x 11 167 color plates, 55 halftones 246 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-5001-8 $59.95 Your Price: $15.00

Judenmord

Art and the Holocaust in Post-war Germany Kathrin Hoffman-Curtius “A fascinating work. . . . The author brings to light the little-known works of German art made in the twenty years after the Second World War, which address the Holocaust. Hoffman-Curtius handles both West and East Germany, explaining the denial of German guilt that stifled both countries.”

—Art Newspaper Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 400 p. 7 1/2 x 93/4 200 color plates, 30 halftones 247 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-907-1 $57.00 Your Price: $17.00

Andrzej Wróblewski: Recto / Verso Edited by Eric de Chassey and Marta Dziewanska One of Poland’s most important and independent postwar artists, Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–57) in his short life created his own highly individual, suggestive, and prolific form of abstract and figurative painting that continues to inspire artists today. Offering an insightful picture of the world of postwar painting in communist Europe and highlighting Wróblewski’s political engagement, the book helps us to understand the immensely evocative vision of war and oppression that he created.

Distributed for Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 2015 280 p. 51/2 x 7 1/2 30 color plates, 80 halftones 248 Paper ISBN: 978-83-64177-16-3 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

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A Feast for the Eyes

The Suit

“This ravishingly luscious book proves once and for all, if it ever were in doubt, that food is art.”

—Ken Albala, University of the Pacific “The book is an alphabetical compendium, with entries showing and explaining fanciful Easter eggs, mosaics made from seeds and rice, carved radishes, butter sculptures, insanely elaborate lattes, and intricate Japanese confections.

The introduction gives historical background from 60,000-yearold engraved ostrich shells to Instagram.”—New York Times

“Expertly shows how the adoption of the suit was a manifestation of societal change as the great European wars of the 17th and 18th centuries morphed into the Industrial Revolution and thereon into the modern democratic world.

Indeed, it would be hard to name another facet of our modern culture that has so effortlessly and variously expressed the cross-purposes of, say, Baudelaire, Le Corbusier, and Mao Zedong.”—Wall Street Journal

Edible Art from Apple to Zucchini Carolyn Tillie

The Paper Zoo

500 Years of Animals in Art Charlotte Sleigh “In her scholarly and sprightly Paper Zoo, historian of science Sleigh tracks pictures of animals from medieval bestiaries to early twentieth-century school posters. . . . There are plenty of masterpieces here, from gorgeous illustrations of sea anemones and delightful black and white monkeys to ‘borderline animals’ (half-imaginary, half real).”—Wall Street Journal

2017 256 p. 9 1/2 x 11 250 color plates 249 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44712-4 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

Cats in Art Desmond Morris “Emphasizes the rich variety of cat images in art history, from a 7,000-year-old Libyan carving of cats fighting to Ronald Searle’s cartoon cats. Featuring 120 reproductions, Cats in Art explores the various manifestations and meanings behind the feline motif in art history. . . . The book’s scope encompasses not only Western art but also tribal art from preColumbian Latin America, art from India and Japan, and contemporary Malaysian wall murals of the 101 Lost Kittens Project. Morris strikes a perfect balance between scholarly information and pop culture history.”—Publishers Weekly Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 224 p. 7 1/2 x 93/4 120 color plates 250 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-833-3 $40.00 Your Price: $18.00

The Modern Art Cookbook Mary Ann Caws “Mouthwatering. . . . Captivating images of works by Mary Cassat and Gustav Klimt are partnered with recipes used by Salvador Dalí and Frida Kahlo, amounting to the perfect gourmet tour through art history. . . . You’ll not only learn to cook Monet’s madeleines, but you’ll understand why Cezanne had a penchant for drawing potatoes.

If visions of abstract paintings and juicy roasted vegetables are dancing in your head already, we don’t blame you.”—Huffington Post Distributed for Reaktion Books 2013 300 p. 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 100 color plates, 11 halftones 251 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-174-7 $39.00 Your Price: $11.00

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 144 p. 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 100 color plates 252 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-063-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Painting Paradise The Art of the Garden Vanessa Remington

From a space for solitary communion with nature to the backdrop for a budding romance, and from a place for scientific study to the source of the foods we eat, Painting Paradise looks at why the garden has remained such a seductive artistic subject. With more than 300 color illustrations—including many treasures that have been previously unpublished—the book will be of great interest to artists, art and design historians, and all who find inspiration in the beauty of the garden.

Distributed for Royal Collection Trust 2015 312 p. 10 1/2 x 11 1/2 illustrated in color throughout 253 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909741-08-9 $75.00 Your Price: $23.00

Communist Posters Edited by Mary Ginsberg Enriched with essays by several experts in a variety of regions, this collection showcases an extraordinary variety of communist art coming from the Soviet Union, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and several countries in Eastern Europe.

“The first major survey of communist poster art considers the visual legacy of propaganda graphic design in nations around the world.”—Hyperallergic Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 432 p. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 314 color plates, 5 halftones 254 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-724-4 $55.00 Your Price: $23.00

Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol

Encounters in New York and Beyond Torsten Otte This book offers the first-ever direct juxtaposition of Dalí and Warhol as personalities and artists. Otte builds his account through perceptive analyses of similarities in their lives and work, as well as interviews with some 120 people who knew and worked with the two artists.

Distributed for Scheidegger & Speiss 2016 400 p. 7 x 9 1/2 40 color plates, 20 halftones 255 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-85881-774-7 $49.00 Your Price: $15.00

Form, Function and Style Christopher Breward

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2016 256 p. 6 x 9 1/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 256 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-523-3 $27.00 Your Price: $11.00

Little Black Dress From Mourning to Night Shannon Meyer

“The Little Black Dress is illustrated with full page photographs . . . ranging from the black crepe of a Victorian widow’s mourning to maternity and cocktail dresses and the ne plus ultra: a sleeveless froufrou of transparent black lace and tulle. It’s a wedding gown guaranteed to give the bride’s mother a heart attack. . . . Entertaining reading.”—Wall Street Journal Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2016 160 p. 8 x 10 75 color plates 257 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-84-3 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

Chair Anne Massey Drawing on design, art, popular culture, and personal experience, Chair is an engaging and informative biography of this everyday object.

“Massey’s story is told in thoughtful and invitingly wellupholstered prose, ranging from ancient Egypt to the ‘fetishistic’ seating of postmodernity, encompassing Arts and Crafts, pushchairs, wheelchairs, famous chairs

by Eames and Herman Miller.”

—Guardian Distributed for Reaktion Books 2011 224 p. 6 x 8 2 /5 40 color plates, 80 halftones 258 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-758-9 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Kokoschka

The Untimely Modernist Rüdiger Görner “An unconventional but long expected approach to Kokoschka’s rich oeuvre. . . . This new biography adequately enables a holistic look at Kokoschka as a whole person, with his paintings, writings, enemies and lovers, agonies and hopes.”

—Catherine Hug, Kunsthaus Zürich “With appropriately rhapsodic descriptions, Görner shows how incredibly . . . worldly this petty bourgeois from Pöchlarn has been.”—Die Welt Distributed for Haus Publishing 2021 320 p. 6 x 9 3 maps 259 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912208-81-4 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

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Beasts at Bedtime

Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature Liam Heneghan “There is no book similar to this today. Heneghan dives deep into the world of children’s literature and brings out the environmental wisdom from works old and new.

So many of our favorite books in our youth use nature or ideas from nature to enlighten our imagination. From Peter Rabbit to Harry Potter, from Middle Earth to the hungry nation of Panem, it’s all covered in here.”—Daily Journal

2018 338 p. 6 x 8 8 halftones 264 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43138-3 $27.50 Your Price: $10.00

The Art of Good Manners Edited by the Bodleian Library

What Is Round?

Blossom Budney Page by brightly colored page, What is Round? invites young readers to pick out the shapes in the world around them, from the smallest raindrop to a big spectacular carousel.

2018 32 p. 73/4 x 9 1/2 illustrated in color throughout 260 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-481-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

What Is Red? Suzanne Gottlieb A joyous celebration of colors that will encourage young readers’ curiosity about the world around them, What Is Red? follows a cheerful young boy named Jonny as he embarks on a colorful adventure.

2016 32 p. 8 x 93/4 illustrated in color throughout 261 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-458-4 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

What Can Cats Do? Abner Graboff Abner Graboff combines the voice of childhood innocence with a wonderful sense of fun in his quirky book about the mysteries of cats and their secret lives, inspired by the Graboff family’s own beloved cat, Tarzan.

2018 48 p. 73/4 x 93/4 illustrated in color throughout 262 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-493-5 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

The March Wind Inez Rice Every child knows that costumes are magical. Put on the right hat, add some imagination, and you can be anyone. That’s what happens to a little boy in The March Wind. Finding a large black hat lying in the street, he tries it on and instantly becomes a host of exciting characters.

2017 32 p. 72 /3 x 9 illustrated in color throughout 263 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-461-4 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Originally published in the 1920s, this petite guide offers timehonored advice on matters of etiquette. The Art of Good Manners ranges broadly across topics including courtship, children’s behavior, and civilized conversation before taking the reader through each course at a dinner party, where readers are reminded to neither gurgle the soup nor to make haste with the fruit course since “to peel an orange, apple or pear with a fruit knife and fork requires some practice.”

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2014 80 p. 4 x 6 265 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-398-3 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband W. Heath Robinson & K.R.G. Browne Heath Robinson (1872–1944) was famous for his madcap contraptions that made use of ropes, weights, and pulleys to perform relatively simple tasks.

The cartoons in Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband provide sage advice for how to succeed in almost all aspects of married life— and, of course, it often features a complicated Robinsonian gadget. A gently satirical collection, this book make a perfect gift for anyone looking to have a laugh at our complicated and increasingly mechanical modern life.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2018 128 p. 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 120 halftones 266 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-490-4 $17.50 Your Price: $6.00

In Praise of the Bicycle Marc Augé “In this playful (and playfully illustrated) little book, deftly translated

by Fagan, a French anthropologist expounds on his love of cycling. . . . [The bicycle] is a tool for the realization of humanism. . . . His argument is fast and incautious; he’s freewheeling and having great fun.”—New York Times Book Review Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 96 p. 4 3/4 x 73/4 8 halftones 267 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-138-2 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

Wrigley Field

The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines Stuart Shea “One of the best books ever written about the Cubs, their home and the fans who flock there to watch them, win or lose.”—Rolling Stone “Packed with colorful anecdotes that are sure to keep any Chicago history buff or baseball fan—yes, even those who root for the South Side White Sox (or ‘Pale Hose,’ as Shea notes they are nicknamed)— glued to their bleacher seat.”

—Wrigleyville Nation

2014 448 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 30 halftones, 1 map 268 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13427-7 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

We Made Uranium!

And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt Edited by Leila Sales We Made Uranium! shares the stories behind Scav, told by participants and judges from the hunt’s more than thirty-year history.

“Scav, as it is known on campus, is the college’s Rose Bowl: a mash-up of the Intel Science Talent Search, fraternity hazing, a pep rally, installation art, reality TV, and a 4-H fair.”—New Yorker

2019 248 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 10 halftones 269 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57184-3 $18.00 Your Price: $8.00

Nature’s Portraits

A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings Peggy Macnamara Nature’s Portraits offers sixty of Macnamara’s detailed animal drawings that can be brought brilliantly to life with nothing more than a few colored pencils or crayons. Many of the drawings depict animals as they might appear in their natural habitats.

2016 128 p. 8 1/4 x 93/4 60 halftones 270 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43155-0 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Doodling for Academics A Coloring and Activity Book Julie Schumacher

“Full of fun activities to pass the time at staff meetings, this book will be a quirky addition to any academic office.”—Glen Wright, creator of Academia Obscura

2017 96 p. 8 x 10 40 line drawings 271 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46704-7 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

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Say No to the Devil

The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis Ian Zack “[In this] biography of the blind preacher and street musician, the man who Keith Richards said, ‘started it all for me,’ . . . Zack gives an informative account of Davis’s life, both the sacred and profane. . . . A readable and faithful portrait of the times as well as the man.”

—Times Literary Supplement

2015 344 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 275 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-23410-6 $32.00 Your Price: $7.00

Music/City

American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport Jonathan R. Wynn “Combining a sociologist’s eye with the ear of a musician, Wynn shows how music festivals like the Newport Folk Festival and Austin’s SXSW have become increasingly important platforms as much for cities and their economies as for the careers of musicians.”

—Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class “A must read for music fans and festival goers the world over while also generating a how-to for the prospective host communities.”

—Tegan Quinn, singer-songwriter for the band Tegan and Sara

2015 336 p. 6 x 9 29 halftones, 4 line drawings 272 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30552-3 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

Duke Ellington’s America Harvey G. Cohen

Blue Notes in Black and White Photography and Jazz Benjamin Cawthra

2019 272 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 22 halftones 279 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-990-3 $17.95 Your Price: $7.00

Pick Up the Pieces

Excursions in Seventies Music John Corbett

Easy Riders, Rolling Stones

The Alligator Records Story Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts

Civic Jazz

2015 208 p. 6 x 9 274 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-21821-2 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Bitten by the Blues

2011 392 p. 7 x 10 65 halftones 276 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09875-3 $48.00 Your Price: $11.00

Five Years Ahead of My Time

“In seven entertaining chapters, Clark builds a strong case out of the many similarities both jazz culture and American democracy offer: namely freedom (of expression), self-determination, and equality.”

—Jive-Talk “A provocative, well-written, original study of how Kenneth Burke and jazz musicians in performance both explore the complications of achieving e pluribus unum—the ‘impossible American “ought,”’ the many-in-one, the onein-the-many.”—Walton Muyumba, Indiana University

“Harrison’s central thesis—that Elvis has been much more heavily and successfully commercialized in death than in life—is convincing. . . .

It is original. And its most compelling line is that the reason Elvis has been so brilliantly marketed after his death is because he was so badly handled in his lifetime.”—Spectator

“[A] thoroughly enjoyable—and gorgeously written—joy ride down his version of 1970s memory lane. . . . Music lovers are sure to enjoy Corbett’s delightful book about a fascinating, often misunderstood time of musical innovation.”—Booklist “Corbett is the Carl Sagan of vinyl. Funny and irreverent, he’s voyaged across the stars and the human imagination to bring us music both ‘pathetic and sublime’ from that most misunderstood of decades, the 1970s.”—Rainn Wilson

“A fascinating look at one of the great independent record labels, and producers, of our time. For blues fans, this one has teeth.”

—Library Journal “In what is simultaneously a coming-of-age story; an elegy for a bygone, grittier Chicago; and a case study on the many ways the color barrier was crossed musically in the mid-twentieth century, Iglauer and Roberts contextualize the blues’ story as America’s.”—Booklist

American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along Gregory Clark

Ted Harrison

“This first in-depth history of jazz photography provides the reader with a three-dimensional view of its fascinating subject, illuminating the music, the media, and the makers—the foreground and the background.”—Dan Morgenstern, author of Living with Jazz “Cawthra brings a deep appreciation for jazz and the photography that captured the ecstasy of the music and performing and the disappointments felt by Black musicians subject to race discrimination and personal demons.”—Booklist

“Duke Ellington’s America attempts to get under the skin of this apparently most imperturbable of men, and the results, if hardly conclusive, are fascinating. . . . Extremely intelligent and formidably documented book—a welcome change from much that has been published about Ellington.”—New Yorker “The book makes nuanced sense of the hard choices at every turn, in years when it often fell to Ellington to pioneer new audiences and new venues.”—New York Review of Books 2011 704 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 273 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11264-0 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

The Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley

2018 352 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones 277 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12990-7 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present Seth Bovey

“Musician Bovey enthusiastically romps through the history of guitar-driven, feedback-infused garage rock. . . . Fascinating and informative.”—Library Journal “The first comprehensive overview of a genre that has survived more on passion than commercial reach. . . . Bovey commendably covers a lot of ground previously left untouched.”—Irish Times Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 224 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 40 halftones 278 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-065-1 $16.00 Your Price: $6.00

2019 496 p. 6 x 9 280 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60473-2 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

On the Road in America, from Delta Blues to 70s Rock John Scanlan

“Scanlan delivers a beautifully rich and finely researched account of how America’s endless highway has influenced and manifested itself in key artists’ work. . . . It’s rare to find a tome which makes you ponder then punch the air in agreement, but this highly recommended work is as much an endangered species as its subjects.”—Record Collector Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 248 p. 6 x 8 1/4 35 halftones 281 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-529-5 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

Van Halen

Exuberant California, Zen Rock’n’roll John Scanlan “Scanlan takes you through the journey of Van Halen, via various in-depth musings of a social and historical persuasion that, the author suggests, uncover more potent truths than their regularly touted musical inspirations.”

—Classic Rock “Diamond Dave as a Zen master? Eddie Van Halen as musical monk? That’s the case John Scanlan makes—tongue only partly in cheek—in this learned but lively take on Van Halen’s rise to the pinnacle of rockstardom, improvising all the way. Philosophy you can dance to.”—Barnes and Noble Review Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 216 p. 5 4/5 x 8 1/4 30 halftones 282 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-916-3 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

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The Works of Giuseppe Verdi Published in collaboration with Casa Ricordi

La traviata

Critical Edition Study Score At a time in which most operas drew their subject matter from history or mythology, Verdi boldly selected Alexandre Dumas’s contemporary and wildly successful novel and play, La dame aux camelias. After a disastrous opening night, La traviata was revived a year later in Rome to great success, thanks to a more suitable cast of singers, and to this day it remains one of Verdi’s most beloved and frequently performed operas.

2017 624 p. 8 1/2 x 11 5 halftones 283 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-52129-9 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Nabucodonosor

Dramma lirico in Four Parts by Temistocle Solera Nabucodonosor, one of the early Verdi operas, is available here as a two-volume set: a full orchestral score and a critical commentary.

The score, which has been beautifully bound and autographed, is accompanied by a thorough introduction and a critical commentary that discusses editorial decisions and identifies the sources of alternate readings of the music and libretto.

1988 674 p. 10 1/2 x 141/2 Two-volume set.

Score (one volume cloth); Commentary 284 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85310-9 $599.00 Your Price: $149.00

Macbeth

Melodramma in Four Acts Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Verdi had a special fondness for Macbeth, and the first version of his opera based on Shakespeare’s play is arguably the most important work of his formative years. Published in three volumes, this critical edition of Macbeth includes here for the first time Verdi’s preferred text— the version he set to music—as well as his own stage directions.

2006 612 p. 10 1/2 x 141/2 Three-volume set.

Score (two volumes cloth); Commentary 285 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-85320-8 $599.00 Your Price: $149.00

Il trovatore

Critical Edition Study Score Based on Verdi’s autograph score and an examination of important secondary sources, including contemporary manuscript copies and performing parts, this edition of Il trovatore identifies and resolves numerous ambiguities of harmony, melodic detail, text, and phrasing that have marred previous scores. Scholars and performers alike will find a wealth of information in the critical apparatus to inform their research and interpretations.

2016 352 p. 8 1/2 x 11 5 halftones 286 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41972-5 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

Curious and Modern Inventions

Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy Rebecca Cypess “A highly original contextual study of the repertoire of solo and ensemble music for strings that was ‘invented’ in seventeenth‑ century Italy. Cypess’s thorough bibliographic investigation and spirited musical analysis raise— and answer—some critical questions regarding the reception of these extraordinary works, which she convincingly relates to contemporary scientific discoveries and concerns.”—Ellen Rosand, Yale University

2016 320 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 17 halftones, 72 line drawings, 4 tables 287 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31944-5 $59.00 Your Price: $14.00

Sound Knowledge

Music and Science in London, 1789–1851 Edited by James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart “This exhilarating volume illuminates London’s centrality in the history of nineteenth-century music through an investigation of music’s centrality in the history of nineteenth-century science. Davies, Lockhart, and their contributors offer compelling insights into the intersections of aural and visual realms, popular experiments and theatrical performances, and musical and scientific instruments in a way that both defamiliarizes the period while offering a novel account of how music was understood at the time.”—Benjamin Walton, University of Cambridge 2017 256 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table 288 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40207-9 $59.00 Your Price: $14.00

The Tango Machine Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency Morgan James Luker

“Luker addresses many aspects of musical life that have all too often been neglected by ethnomusicologists. . . . His broad insights, based on a rich multilevel ethnography of tango music in Buenos Aires in the twenty-first century, have implications for music throughout Latin America and beyond.”—Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles

2016 216 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings 289 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-38554-9 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

Beethoven’s Symphonies

Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas Martin Geck Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history’s greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.

2017 192 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 18 halftones 290 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45388-0 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

Music in the World Selected Essays Timothy D. Taylor

“Music in the World is a critical reference for engaging dynamics of contemporary musical globalization. But it is considerably more: a deep exploration of the value of meaning and the meaning of value in music under capitalism.”—Steven Feld, School for Advanced Research 2017 240 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones, 4 tables 291 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44239-6 $38.00 Your Price: $9.00

O Sing unto the Lord

A History of English Church Music Andrew Gant “What, fundamentally, is the function of church music, and why have clerical authorities often been suspicious of how much attention music receives? Gant engages these questions in intelligent, energetic prose. . . . It’s a book about people and the songs that many of us don’t even know that we know.”

—Publishers Weekly

2017 464 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 16 halftones, 26 line drawings 292 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46962-1 $35.00 Your Price: $13.00

Vaudeville Melodies Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870–1929 Nicholas Gebhardt

“Deftly weaving together diverse sources . . . Gebhardt provides a new and more holistic account of the creation and development of this prototypically modern American entertainment.”—Andrew Berish, author of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams

2017 208 p. 6 x 9 293 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44869-5 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Missouri Harmony Songbook 2005 Edition Allen D Carden, Compiled by Wings of Song

With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shapenote tune books. This updated and expanded version now contains more than 300 pages of original and traditional music.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2005 384 p. 10 x 7 10 b&w illus 294 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-54-6 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

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Dialogue with Death

The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War Arthur Koestler

The Angel in the Marketplace

Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America Ellen Wayland-Smith “Wayland-Smith’s lively history tells the unusual story of pioneering adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub, who climbed the ladder from secretary to executive in the midtwentieth century. . . . The Angel in the Marketplace illuminates one woman’s journey from advocating traditional notions of women’s place and the benefits of capitalism to questioning the underlying message of the ads she produced.”

—Kathy Peiss, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture 2020 288 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 295 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48632-1 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00

Crossing

A Transgender Memoir Deirdre Nansen McCloskey “This is a woman worth knowing.

She has given us a highly readable, dramatic account of her crossing.”—New York Times Book Review “A searing tale of the traumas and rewards of gender change. . . . A powerful indictment of legal, medical, and institutional obstruction.”—Foreword Reviews “That an affluent, uppermiddle-class person should be so powerless against a mental-health bureaucracy still subscribing to its offical pronouncement that transsexualism is a ‘gender identity disorder’ makes for gripping reading.”—Booklist

“A self-analysis by an extraordinary psychologist who happened to be placed in a situation few human beings ever encounter.”—New Yorker “Koestler’s harrowing memoir of his three months behind bars with the constant threat of execution inspired his iconic Darkness at Noon. Dialogue with Death is the more lasting book for its lucid, exact, and unrelenting depiction of an imprisoned man on the verge of death.”—Newsweek

A Small Door Set in Concrete

One Woman’s Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine Ilana Hammerman “Israeli journalist, translator, and editor Hammerman’s memoir of life along the Israel-Palestine border is a fascinating view into the region’s ongoing tensions in the early 2000s. . . . Readers will appreciate Hammerman’s literary depiction of life on the ground in the borderland.”—Booklist

2019 296 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 299 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66631-0 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

Bel Canto Bully

The Life and Times of the Legendary Opera Impresario Domenico Barbaja Philip Eisenbeiss Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period.

Dubbed the “Viceroy of Naples,” Barbaja was the influential force behind the careers of a plethora of artists including Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini and the great mezzo-soprano Isabella Colbran.

In this book, Eisenbeiss unlocks the enigma of an eccentric and fascinating personality that has been hitherto neglected.

Distributed for Haus Publishing

2019 320 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones 296 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66256-5 $19.00 Your Price: $9.00

Unmade Up

Sophia Loren

In the 1980s, British artist Edward Bell worked closely with David Bowie and provided the artwork for the album covers of Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and Tin Machine II. Bowie later purchased all of Bell’s art for his private collection.

In this lushly illustrated book, Bell offers an intimate look at their friendship and the art at the center of it—including many pieces which have never been published before.

Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2017 108 p. 8 1/4 x 9 100 color plates 297 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910787-62-5 $22.95 Your Price: $8.00

Critical Lives is a major series of short critical biographies that present the work of important cultural figures in the context of their lives. Each book is approximately 200 pages in length, includes about 30 halftones, and measures 5 x 8.

2011 232 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 298 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44961-6 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

2013 450 p. 5 x 8 300 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-25-5 $28.95 Your Price: $9.00

Recollections of a Friendship with David Bowie Edward Bell

Critical Lives from Reaktion Books

Simone de Beauvoir Ursula Tidd 302 2009 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-434-2 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Leonard Bernstein Paul R. Laird 303 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-910-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Virginia Woolf Ira Nadel 304 2016 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-666-7 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Tennessee Williams Paul Ibell 305 2016 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-662-9 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Georgia O’Keeffe Nancy J. Scott

Moulding the Star Pauline Small

In films from Houseboat to The Millionairess to Two Women, Sophia Loren established herself as an actress whose stardom transcended Italian film culture. Looking individually at Loren’s major films and drawing on rare archival materials in Italy, Small provides a thorough exploration of the commercial and cultural forces that combined to ensure Loren’s enduring star status.

Distributed for Intellect Ltd 2009 208 p. 7 x 9 10 halftones 301 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84150-234-2 $28.50 Your Price: $9.00

306 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-428-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Alfred Russel Wallace Patrick Armstrong 307 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-085-9 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Fyodor Dostoevsky Robert Bird 308 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-900-2 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Albert Camus Edward J. Hughes 309 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-493-9 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Environmental Law for Biologists Tristan Kimbrell “Will be an invaluable reference not just for biologists, but for all sorts of people who want a lucid, concise introduction to environmental law and to the crucial and pressing public policy issues that arise at the intersection of science and law.”—Amy Sinden, Temple University Beasley School of Law

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The Earth Series from Reaktion Books The Earth series is the first of its kind to trace the historical significance and cultural history of natural phenomena and resources.

2016 384 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 1 table 310 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33385-4 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

All the Boats on the Ocean

The Mountain

“As the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports, 90% of global fish stocks are fully fished or overfished.

Science historian Finley traces that crisis back to the Cold War, when the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union and other seafaring nations deployed fishing to stake territorial claims. . . . Now, with little reduction in subsidized fleets and oceans at risk, Finley sees the future of fisheries hinging on holistic approaches involving fish, fisher, and environment.”—Nature

“Receding glaciers, threatened freshwater supplies, and highmagnitude catastrophic events are increasingly focusing global attention on the world’s high mountain landscapes and people. The Mountain is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of how definitions of mountains, their meaning, and perceptions of their value evolved throughout time.”—Alton C. Byers, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership

A Political History from the Enlightenment to the Present Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz

How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing Carmel Finley

2015 352 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones, 2 tables 321 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03111-8 $54.00 Your Price: $8.00

2017 224 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 311 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44337-9 $48.00 Your Price: $12.00

After Preservation

Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans Edited by Ben A. Minteer and Stephen J. Pyne “After Preservation asks one of the big, hairy, audacious questions of the early twenty-first century: How should humans relate to Nature in the Anthropocene? Minteer and Pyne have assembled an impressive assortment of contributors to offer a wide-ranging set of answers in concise, poignant, and powerful essays. This is an important and timely contribution that should be read by people working to construct a thriving and sustainable future.”—R. Bruce Hull, author of Infinite Nature

2015 240 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 1 line drawing 312 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-25996-3 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism Ronald T. Merrill

“Part science, part history of science, and part personal experience, Our Magnetic Earth seamlessly draws together a variety of seemingly unrelated topics—from climate to space weather to geologic time to the Sun—under the grand heading of magnetism. . . .

Ultimately, we come away from this book understanding both much, much more about magnetism and about the importance of scientific literacy in today’s society.”—Bruce Moskowitz, University of Minnesota

2012 272 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 7 line drawings 313 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00659-8 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00 314 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52050-6 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

Gems and Gemstones Meteorite Maria Golia 2015 240 p. 6 x 8 1/4 70 color plates, 30 halftones 315 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-497-7 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Fire Stephen J. Pyne 2012 207 p. 5 4/5 x 8 1/4 60 color plates, 40 halftones 316 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-046-7 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Gold Rebecca Zorach and Michael W. Phillips Jr. 2016 224 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 70 color plates, 30 halftones 317 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-577-6 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

Swamp Anthony Wilson 2018 248 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 318 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-844-9 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Rainbows Daniel MacCannell 2018 208 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 90 color plates, 10 halftones 319 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-920-0 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Clouds Richard Hamblyn

2017 240 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 320 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-723-7 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00

Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn “Eye candy abounds in this volume on gems based on the newly revamped Grainger Hall of Gems at the Field Museum in Chicago.”

—Scientific American “Displays beautiful gemstones (cut and uncut) and explains the geography and science behind their creation. Photos of creations such as the Aztec ‘Sun-god Opal’ . . . show just how long gems have retained their hold on the human imagination.”—Seattle Times 2009 352 p. 8 1/2 x 10 290 color plates, 7 line drawings, 5 tables 322 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30511-0 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00

Volcanoes

Encounters through the Ages David M. Pyle Humans have always been simultaneously fascinated and terrified by volcanoes, and this book brings together an unforgettable selection of firsthand accounts from around the world. In these pages, anonymous seventeenth-century seafarers tell of exploding islands, Alexander Von Humboldt and Charles Darwin show us volcanoes through the eyes of developing science, and artists sketch the spectacular London sunsets created by the eruption of Krakatoa, half the world away.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2017 224 p. 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 83 color plates 323 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-459-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00

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A History of the Garden in Fifty Tools Bill Laws “This handsome horticultural history by a noted British gardener . . . would make a fine gift for the gardener who has everything, guaranteed to give him or her a one-up on buddies who don’t know a dibber from a mattock or a billhook from a daisy grubber.”—Toronto Star “Laws examines the history and cultural bearing of everything from a cloche to a lawn mower.”

—Washington Post

Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants

A Tour of His Botanical Legacy Ken Thompson “A survey of the botanical experimenting and theorizing that occupied Darwin’s golden years.

This little volume proceeds from Virginia creepers to sundews to orchids to pansies, all as gently as a Sunday garden tour, but with expert evolutionary commentary. . . . It’s a glimpse of Darwin the country squire, Darwin the horticulturalist, an old man pottering in what Thompson calls ‘the cabbage patch’—or think of Don Corleone amid the tomatoes.”—New York Review of Books 2019 256 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones 324 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67567-1 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

A Portable Latin for Gardeners

More than 1,500 Essential Plant Names and the Secrets They Contain James Armitage This book is the perfect quick reference for working in the garden, shopping for plants, or doing botanical research—and no prior knowledge of Latin is required. The 1,500 terms are grouped by categories, making it easy to describe color, size, form, habitat, scent, taste, and time.

2017 160 p. 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 200 color plates 325 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-45536-5 $18.00 Your Price: $9.00

Lessons from the Great Gardeners

Forty Gardening Icons and What They Teach Us Matthew Biggs “The book’s quirky capsule histories of forty great gardeners from the past centuries—from Vita Sackville-West to Claude Monet to Somai—convey amusing facts and practical tips.”—Gardenista “Each profile features a biography of the gardener, a page of ‘lessons’ that define that gardener’s philosophy, and a generous selection of color illustrations of the gardens, and specific plants, they cultivated.”—Booklist

2016 224 p. 7 x 9 200 color plates 326 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36948-8 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

2014 224 p. 7 x 9 150 color plates 327 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13976-0 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Gardening with Perennials

Lessons from Chicago’s Lurie Garden Noel Kingsbury “Will be indispensable for Midwestern gardeners who deal with searing heat and bone-rattling cold—and not much in between.

Yes, an Englishman in Chicago.

That’s the twist that makes this book special: It took an out-of-towner to realize that the dazzling, gently rolling five-acre Lurie Garden in Millennium Park merited booklength attention.”—New York Times 2014 216 p. 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 86 color plates, 1 line drawing 328 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-43745-3 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

The Botanical Treasury Celebrating 40 of the World’s Most Fascinating Plants through Historical Art and Manuscripts Edited by Christopher Mills

“The excitement of discovering a new plant is almost tangible in this lavish collection of plant histories.

A delightful compendium of 40 plants from around the world, it tells the story of each one through a fascinating mix of botanical illustrations, letters sent to Kew from plant hunters and reprinted extracts from botanical periodicals.”—English Garden “What’s better than a glorious book of botanical portraits and plant tales? A glorious book of botanical portraits and plant tales and an accompanying pack of 40 separate—and frameable—plant prints!”—Annals of Botany

2016 176 p. 8 1/2 x 11 100 color plates, 100 halftones 329 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36934-1 $54.00 Your Price: $15.00

New York City Gardens Veronika Hofer and Betsy Pinover Schiff “In New York City Gardens, Veronika Hofer and Betsy Pinover Schiff offer up a visually inviting respite from the city of steel, glass, concrete and asphalt. . . . An ambrosial paean to public and private spaces.”

—New York Times “Unexpectedly marvelous.”

—English Garden Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2010 240 p. 10 x 11 3/4 196 color plates 330 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-2731-7 $24.90 Your Price: $9.00

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers

& Other Unusual Relationships Marty Crump “The book is a believe-it-or-not treasury of glue-spitting soldier ants, divorced birds, monkeys that dose themselves with herbal cures, and underwater day spas where big fish suspend their practice of eating little fish in exchange for getting their scales groomed and their teeth cleaned. Less easily anthropomorphized species, fungi and bacteria, come in for their own share of behavioral observation.”

—Boston Globe 2009 232 p. 6 x 9 120 line drawings 331 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12185-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids Christian Ziegler

“Pairs gorgeous photographs by former biologist Christian Ziegler with a fascinating story of evolution and survival.”—Boston Globe “Ziegler captures these sex symbols of the plant world in 150 portraits taken on five continents in environments ranging from tropical cloud forest to semidesert.”

—Scientific American “Exquisite. . . . [Ziegler] takes you into the flowers’ wild habitats and leads you to the next level in understanding the functional basis of their aesthetic perfection.”

—BBC Wildlife 2011 184 p. 11 x 11 165 color plates 332 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-98297-7 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Orchid

A Cultural History Jim Endersby “An orchid thriller. Orchids are beautiful, strange, savage, sexy, mysterious, luxurious and expensive rarities. Endersby traces the history of our scientific understanding of orchids, and their culture, from the Greeks to present orchid enthusiasts.”

—Stephen Buchmann, author of The Reason for Flowers

2016 288 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 15 color plates, 45 halftones 333 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-37632-5 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Cannabis Chris Duvall “A helpful and insightful analysis. . . . Duvall makes the case that Cannabis is a powerful plant and one that needs to be better understood. He clarifies the confusion over its various names and roles while lending needed ballast to the current conversation. The book brings light to what Duvall calls the shades of meaning in ‘the humanCannabis relationship, which has unfolded through vast sweeps of space and time.’”—Publishers Weekly Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 264 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones 334 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-341-3 $27.00 Your Price: $8.00

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Herbs A to Z The St. Louis Herb Society Herbs are among the hardestworking and most versatile plants around, but many children—and even adults—don’t know much about these natural wonders. This book is a visual introduction to herbs for young readers. It takes them through nearly sixty wellknown (and some less-well-known) herbs, explaining the facts and stories that surround them. Each herb is illustrated and paired with a picture of its pollinators.

Distributed for Missouri Botanical Garden Press 2018 100 p. 8 x 10 60 color plates 335 Paper ISBN: 978-0-9884551-5-3 $12.00 Your Price: $6.00

Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons Edited by Ben-Erik van Wyk and Michael Wink “Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons can be used as a guide for the novice herbalist, the seasoned botanist, or anyone with an interest in learning about how plants can heal (or kill). . . . The book is easy to navigate, with hundreds of color photographs and chapters divided by poisonous plants, healing plants, mind-altering plants, and more.”

—Gardenista

2015 304 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 350 color plates 336 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20491-8 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Pollination Power Heather Angel “Photographer Angel has traveled the world to document how plants attract pollinators. Her mesmerizing images showcase magenta hibiscus trumpets in Hawaii, stubbly Arabian starflower stamens and pollen-covered bees in Tajikistan, as well as beetles, butterflies and birds swooping in to feed. . . . The photographs and text are all tied together in a gorgeous large-format book.”—Scientific American

2016 208 p. 93/4 x 11 204 color plates 337 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36691-3 $43.00 Your Price: $13.00

Nature’s Palette

The Science of Plant Color David Lee “Lee does a masterful job in explaining the science underlying the colors produced by plants, and in doing so shows how they both illuminate and enrich our lives. No trip to the grocery store, the florist, or even out your front door will be the same after reading this book.”

—N. Michele Holbrook, Harvard University “Lee takes his readers through the social history, ecology, evolution and biochemistry of plant color. . . . His love and enthusiasm for the subject shine through on every page.”—Times Literary Supplement

2007 432 p. 6 x 9 438 color plates, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings 338 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47052-8 $38.00 Your Price: $13.00

Seeds

A Natural History Carolyn Fry “Fry’s splendidly illustrated kaleidoscope of the science and history of the seeds that sustain us is a manual for the new era—pinpointing how seeds transformed our ability to feed ourselves, how we in turn transformed them, and what conservation means in a world dominated by humans.”—New Scientist

2016 192 p. 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 186 color plates, 12 halftones 339 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22435-0 $38.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Extraordinary Story of the Apple David Mabberley and Barry Juniper “This is a thoughtful book by renowned botanical experts, which considers both the geographical history of the apple and its influence on human civilization through the eras. . . . Richly illustrated throughout, this is a comprehensive and thoughtful tome, which will delight anyone who enjoys the more in-depth approach.”—​T he English Garden “This is the ultimate accessible academic apple volume.”—The Field Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2020 224 p. 93/4 x 7 1/2 150 color plates, 50 halftones 340 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-655-1 $55.00 Your Price: $16.00

Trees, Woods and Forests

A Social and Cultural History Charles Watkins

The Art of Plant Evolution W. John Kress and Shirley Sherwood “The quality and quantity of the paintings takes one’s breath away. . . . In a series of introductory chapters, the authors clearly and simply lay out the evidence on which our understanding of plant evolution is based. They talk about phylogenetics, the role of fossils in understanding patterns of evolution, and the coevolution of plants and animals.”—American Scientist “A celebration of the marriage of plant evolution and art. 84 artists depict in 136 paintings the botanical relationships between plant forms as identified by the most recent research, such as DNA sequencing.”—Marilyn K. Alaimo, Chicago Botanic Garden Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2010 320 p. 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 200 illustrations 343 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-417-5 $41.00 Your Price: $16.00

“Charcoal, warships, fruit, houses, shade and sheer beauty—the manifold uses of trees have bound them inextricably to human culture. . . .

With Watkins we walk a Neolithic ‘road’ of ash planks, delight in Pliny’s description of German forests as ‘untouched by the ages and coeval with the world,’ celebrate the rise of scientific forestry and ponder the diseases and creeping urbanization now threatening the future of these stupendous organisms.”—Nature

Plant Evolution

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2016 560 p. 6 x 9 144 color plates, 16 halftones, 24 line drawings, 20 tables 344 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34214-6 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

2016 312 p. 6 x 9 14 color plates, 98 halftones 341 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-664-3 $27.00 Your Price: $9.00

Sunflowers Stephen A. Harris

An Introduction to the History of Life Karl J. Niklas “In a true tour de force, Niklas assays the mechanisms and patterns of evolution, from molecules to ecosystems, using plants as examples. Must-reading for plant scientists, Plant Evolution will both delight and challenge everyone who peers into the heart of biology.”

—Andrew Knoll, Harvard University

Legends of the Flowers

Unraveling the interplay between human cultures and the biology of these spectacular blooms over the last six thousand years, Sunflowers explores our persistent fascination with this family and how our uses of the plants have changed over millennia. Illustrated with many rarely seen images of the sunflower family, this beautiful volume sheds surprising new light on these familiar, sunniest of flowers.

Janet Hepworth

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2016 96 p. 51/2 x 7 1/2 34 halftones 345 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910065-83-9 $16.95 Your Price: $7.00

2018 256 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 80 color plates, 20 halftones 342 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-926-2 $27.00 Your Price: $8.00

Legends of the Flowers explores the captivating stories behind some of our most popular flowers, such as lavender, forget-me-nots, marigolds, and thistles. With 34 charming woodcut illustrations alongside the text, the book is perfect for gardeners and anyone interested in celebrating the natural beauty of flowers.

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Don’t Look, Don’t Touch, Don’t Eat

The Science Behind Revulsion Valerie Curtis

The Long and the Short of It

The Science of Life Span and Aging Jonathan Silvertown “An ideal introduction to the science of aging and mortality. Interwoven with history and poetry, [this] erudite and eloquent book concisely explains the mechanisms underlying the lifespan of organisms ranging from nematode worms and chickweed to humans and redwoods. Considering their fates in terms of genetics and environment, Silvertown explores the questions that have bedeviled our species for as long as we’ve had the language to ask: why do we get old and why do we die?”—New Scientist

2013 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 2 halftones, 1 table 346 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75789-6 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

The Longevity Seekers Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth Ted Anton

“Research, money, and ego are the basic ingredients in the modernday quest to live longer—or forever. Ted Anton takes us into the laboratories and boardrooms in the worldwide competition for longevity, and with expertise and wit tells a wondrous story of contemporary science.”—Daniel S. Greenberg, author of Science for Sale

2013 240 p. 6 x 9 347 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02093-8 $26.00 Your Price: $9.00

Body by Darwin

How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine Jeremy Taylor “Drawing on complicated science, interviews, and current research, Taylor describes the body as an evolutionary collection of compromises, leaving the human species susceptible to degeneration and illness. . . . One anthropologist describes evolution as ‘a tinker not an engineer.’ Understanding how this tinkerer has molded the body provides greater insight into the ways our health works and fails.”

—Booklist

2015 304 p. 6 x 9 348 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05988-4 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

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“Well-sourced and often witty, Don’t Look delves into the science behind taboos and turned-up noses in occasionally stomach-churning but fascinating detail.”—Discover “It is great fun (yucky things always are), and Curtis writes well, but there is a deeper purpose to this book: things that make you say ‘euw’ often (though not always) require vigilance because they may be harmful.”—Toronto Star 2013 184 p. 6 x 9 1 table 349 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13133-7 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

Costa Rican Ecosystems Edited by Maarten Kappelle “Here it is—the book about the tiny country in Latin America with probably the most intensively studied ecosystems in the tropics.

Summarizing all facets of the interesting natural history gained from decades of intensive field research in a country as diverse as its name promises is a difficult task to tackle. Nevertheless, combined efforts of over seventy contributing authors manages to introduce the reader to all Costa Rican ecosystems in ten parts.”—Biotropica

2016 744 p. 8 1/2 x 11 244 color plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables 350 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27893-3 $70.00 Your Price: $19.00

The Desert

Lands of Lost Borders Michael Welland “A rich, scholarly, beautifully crafted and illustrated account of deserts in all their diversity: not just their geology and wildlife, but also the human cultures that have made wilderness their home, and the art and poetry that has been inspired by arid remoteness. . . . Welland’s grasp of an impressive range of research never falters.”

—Richard Fortey, author of The Earth: An Intimate History Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 400 p. 6 x 9 75 color plates, 35 halftones 351 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-360-4 $40.00 Your Price: $16.00

A World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity David Liittschwager

“Thanks to photographer David Liittschwager, we now have a visual inkling of what exactly lives high in the cloud forest canopy, below our feet in the parks, in the sediments of rivers and on coral reefs. . . .

What was found even in fairly nondescript places was wondrous.”

—Observer (UK) 2012 224 p. 12 x 12 985 color plates 352 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48123-4 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

Foundations of Macroecology

Classic Papers with Commentaries Edited by Felisa A. Smith, John L. Gittleman, and James H. Brown “Includes classic papers and commentary by the editors on the development of the topics. Dates of the papers range from 1920 to 1998; topics include determinants of diversity and species abundances, allometry, speciation and extinction patterns, and new methodologies.”—Ecology “The pieces that have been selected are truly important, and there’s a roster of terrific scientists who have written informatively, sometimes even passionately, about the inspiration these papers provide.”—Jeremy T. Kerr, University of Ottawa 2014 824 p. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 1 halftone, 252 line drawings, 90 tables 353 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-11547-4 $59.00 Your Price: $17.00

Planet of Microbes

The Perils and Potential of Earth’s Essential Life Forms Ted Anton “The story of microbes comes to life through vignettes about the eccentric and inquisitive scientists who study them. Anton takes the reader on a romping tour of microbial research, from astrobiology to zoology, and leaves us with a new respect for these tiny creatures.”

—Brooke Borel, author of Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

2017 288 p. 6 x 9 354 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35394-4 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

Microbes from Hell Patrick Forterre “This is history told by a scientist who helped to make it. . . . His book walks the reader through his fascinating journey to understand how life evolved. Today, Forterre believes that viruses played a vital part. Microbes from Hell, in interweaving a scientific life with the grand discovery of the archaea, is a wonderful homage to this exciting field, which continues to challenge our view of life’s origins.”—Nature

2016 288 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones 355 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-26582-7 $54.00 Your Price: $15.00

A Year with Nature An Almanac Marty Crump

“Herpetologist and natural-science writer Crump joins up with illustrator McIvor to provide a year’s worth of nature diversions for thoughtful readers. Oriented around the dailyalmanac format but easily enjoyed beyond that, and far too quirky to be deemed encyclopedic (the maternal sacrifice of the Australian social spider serves as the Mother’s Day entry), this volume covers a vast number of topics. . . . An artful presentation of science and history that manages to beguile and amuse on every page.”—Booklist 2018 384 p. 6 x 9 150 halftones 356 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44970-8 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

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The Animal Series from Reaktion Books “Combines lavish illustration with incisive and often quite witty text. . . . Passionate and brilliant.”—New York Times Each book is about 200 pages in length, includes 100 illustrations (most in color) and measures 5½ x 7½.

Pelican Barbara Allen 357 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-075-0 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Woodpecker

Common Ground

Encounters with Nature at the Edges of Life Rob Cowen “In beautifully written and evocative prose, English nature writer Cowen explores the relationship between humans and nature, making it abundantly clear that nature is where you find it. His subject is ostensibly a single square mile of waste land on the edge of Bilton, a small town in northern England. . . .

Cowen shows how to find joy and awe in the quotidian while cogitating on the world we will leave the next generation.”—Publishers Weekly

2016 352 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 8 halftones 370 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42426-2 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

Gerard Gorman 358 2017 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-829-6 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Skunk Alyce L. Miller 359 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-490-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Fox Martin Wallen 360 2006 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-297-3 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Moose Kevin Jackson 361 2009 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-396-3 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Beaver Rachel Poliquin 362 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-423-6 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Zebra Christopher Plumb and Samuel Shaw 363 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-935-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Rhinoceros Kelly Enright 364 2008 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-374-1 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Goldfish Anna Marie Roos 365 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-135-1 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Sardine Trevor Day 366 2018 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-996-5 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Leopard Desmond Morris 367 2014 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-279-9 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Trout James Owen 368 2012 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-877-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Lobster Richard J. King 369 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-795-4 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

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Snowbird

Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco Edited by Ellen D. Ketterson and Jonathan W. Atwell “Snowbird is focused on a songbird that has become a workhorse for integrative long-term research: the dark-eyed junco. . . . However, this book is much more than an exploration of a particular bird: it is an authoritative example of how to do integrative biology thoroughly, and thoroughly well.”—Evolution

2016 416 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables 371 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33077-8 $64.00 Your Price: $19.00

What Is a Dog? Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger “There are about a billion dogs on Earth, according to some estimates.

The other 750 million don’t have flea collars. And they certainly don’t have humans who take them for walks and pick up their feces.

They are called village dogs, street dogs and free-breeding dogs, among other things, and they haunt the garbage dumps and neighborhoods of most of the world. . . . [The Coppingers] argue that if you really want to understand the nature of dogs, you need to know these other animals.”—New York Times

2016 272 p. 6 x 9 17 color plates, 13 halftones, 4 line drawings 372 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12794-1 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

How Dogs Work Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein “Almost everything you think you know about dogs is wrong. Forget the loyal companion stereotype, or the idea you’ve got to show you’re the alpha of the pack. Ethologists Coppinger and Feinstein present this most familiar of animals in a new objective light, analyzing their anatomy and behavior with science rather than sentimentality.”—Discover “Explain[s] why dogs do what they do—why they play, why they bark, how they forage—as well as how they have evolved into the animals they are.”—Chicago Tribune 2019 224 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables 373 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-63776-1 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00 374 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12813-9 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00

Elephant Don

The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse Caitlin O’Connell “O’Connell takes us inside the littleknown world of African male elephants—a world that is steeped in ritual, where bonds are maintained by unexpected tenderness punctuated by violence. It is also the story of O’Connell and the challenges and triumphs of field research.”

—Jane Goodall “Based on 20 years of research in Namibia’s Etosha National Park, [this book] revolves around ‘Greg,’ a charismatic bull whose complex web of relationships weaves together the lives of dozens of other males. . . . It’s fascinating stuff.”

—BBC Wildlife 2015 256 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones 375 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-10611-3 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Peregrine Returns The Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor Recovery Mary Hennen with Peggy Macnamara

“Celebrates the renewal of North American peregrine populations, particularly in Illinois, after a perilous decline that resulted from eggshell thinning triggered by a DDT byproduct. . . . Macnamara’s vibrant watercolor-and-ink works are both precise and dreamy, and they pair beautifully with Hennen’s thoughtful, detailed text.”

—American Scientist

2017 208 p. 6 x 9 159 color plates 376 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46542-5 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00

Lions in the Balance Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns Craig Packer

“A fast-paced, detailed inside look at the politics of lion conservation, the often corrupt big-game hunting fraternity, and Tanzanian government.”—Library Journal “Packer returns more than a decade after his memoir, Into Africa, with a fast-paced, unsentimental sequel about the kings of the savannah and the politics of protecting them.”—Discover “Lions in the Balance mixes episodes of spy novel intrigue with detailed descriptions of scientific studies and PowerPoint presentations.”—New York Times

2015 440 p. 6 x 9 29 halftones 377 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09295-9 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

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Rainbow Dust

Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight Peter Marren “A prizewinning British wildlife writer reveals the special place of butterflies in our imagination and cultural life. . . . This is not a field guide or a natural history, but rather a celebration of butterflies with a note of sadness over the decline of these creatures. . . . An erudite, engaging book.”—Kirkus 2016 320 p. 6 x 9 18 line drawings 381 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39588-3 $30.00 Your Price: $8.00

The Book of Caterpillars

A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World Edited by David G. James “Lovely images are accompanied by two-tone engravings of caterpillar adults, a population distribution map, and details about their natural history and conservation. . . . [An] in-depth and scientifically accurate examination.”—Donovan’s Literary Services “If you know a true natural history nerd, this is the gift to choose.”

—Wall Street Journal

2017 656 p. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 2400 color plates 378 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28736-2 $55.00 Your Price: $17.00

Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Spiders Christopher M. Buddle and Eleanor Spicer Rice In this witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide, Buddle and Spicer Rice provide a fascinating arachnological overview of the spiders all around us. Exploring species from the tiny (but gymnastic) zebra jumping spider to the naturally shy and woefully misunderstood black widow, this guide will be a tremendous resource for teachers, students, and scientists alike.

“Spicer Rice makes complex topics easy to understand with minimal jargon. The species descriptions seem like stories about eccentric and entertaining relatives.”—Wired

2018 80 p. 6 x 8 72 color plates 379 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33225-3 $20.00 Your Price: $8.00

Bee Claire Preston “With so many fascinating facts, fables and arcana from art, science, literature and apiculture, Bee offers a compelling meditation on the fortune’s of nature’s workaholic.”

—American Bee Journal “Engaging. . . . An excellent example of how cultural history can entertainingly cross borders.”

—BBC History Magazine “It is an outstanding book: marvelously researched and annotated, superbly illustrated and exceptionally well written. . . . [Preston] has done this esteemed creature the great service it merits.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 224 p. 5 x 73/4 117 halftones 382 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-048-4 $13.99 Your Price: $5.00

Plankton

Wonders of the Drifting World Christian Sardet “Filled with more than five hundred close-ups of jewel-like diatoms and gelatinous comb jellies, each accompanied by a condensed history and biography, the book is a long overdue introduction to the oceans’ ninety-eight percent.”—New Yorker “[Sardet’s] positively stunning book Plankton features some of the most intriguing, most beautiful organisms that he had the honor of observing at hundreds of sites in the world’s oceans.”—Wired

2015 224 p. 93/4 x 12 1/2 550 color plates 383 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18871-3 $45.00 Your Price: $20.00

Where Corals Lie

Planet of the Bugs

A Natural and Cultural History J. Malcolm Shick

“This succinct but vivid history of the planet is told from the perspective of insects, which have dominated the terrestrial environment for millions of years. It is a humbling perspective, one that puts us well and truly in our place. . . . Shaw writes with a contagious enthusiasm and is an excellent guide to the history of our buggy planet.”—Guardian

“Where Corals Lie takes the reader on a widely ranging and richly illustrated tour of corals, not just their biology and currently threatened state, but also how their history interweaves with ours. It is beautifully written and deeply informed on an astonishing range of topics—a book where science shares the table with figures as diverse as Ovid and Obama.”—Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Evolution and the Rise of Insects Scott Richard Shaw

2014 256 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 31 halftones 380 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16361-1 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00

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Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 352 p. 7 1/2 x 93/4 140 color plates, 60 halftones 384 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-934-7 $55.00 Your Price: $19.00

Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide Julian Pepperell

“In this gorgeous book, ichthyologist Pepperell introduces famous and lesser known fish to the general reader. Part One describes the general environment of the open ocean, the role the fish play in the ecology, their general biology, and their importance to humans as sport or food fish. Part Two is a guide to the fish—and what fish these are! How many of us know that a blue marlin can weigh over 1,800 pounds? Also covered are mackerels, jacks, sharks, rays, and other lesser-known species.”

—Booklist

2010 272 p. 9 x 11 370 color plates 385 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65539-0 $35.00 Your Price: $15.00

Wild Sea

A History of the Southern Ocean Joy McCann “A sensitive portrait of a complex ecosystem, from krill to blue whales, and of the ice, winds, and currents that are critical to the circulation of the world’s oceans.”

—Harper’s “McCann has written a brief but delightfully comprehensive history. . . . [She] successfully conveys the timeless mystery of the Southern Ocean and how it has figured in human history, adding a poet’s touch to many passages.”—Science

2019 256 p. 6 x 9 9 color plates, 8 halftones, and 8 maps 386 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62238-5 $28.00 Your Price: $13.00

Seahorses

A Life-Size Guide to Every Species Sara A. Lourie “This guide covers every one of the 42 known species of seahorses, plus 15 additional relatives, including the seadragon. In addition to beautiful color photographs of all but the rarest species, the descriptions nicely summarize what is known about the distribution, reproduction, and identifying characters of each. The really striking feature, however, is an elegantly simple one: inclusion of a life-sized shadow/silhouette of each species.”—Choice 2016 160 p. 6 x 73/4 100 color plates 387 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33841-5 $30.00 Your Price: $15.00

Relics

Travels in Nature’s Time Machine Piotr Naskrecki “Relics is an exciting, adventurefilled, and scientifically important presentation by one of the world’s best naturalists and photographers.”

—E. O. Wilson “Embedded in this showcase book of exotic plants and animals is a plea to preserve what’s left of the planet’s evolutionary history.”—Seattle Times “Comprises page after page of the most jaw-droppingly spectacular nature photography you’ve ever seen.”—Scientific American

2011 384 p. 9 1/4 x 9 1/4 414 color plates 388 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56870-6 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00

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Darwin Deleted

Imagining a World without Darwin Peter J. Bowler “Where Darwin really mattered was in timing. Here, ironically, the shock of his book, and the polarisation it caused, may have delayed the acceptance of evolution. The great man was ahead of his time, and science may have paid a price for that.”—New Scientist 2013 328 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 4 line drawings 389 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06867-1 $30.00 Your Price: $11.00

Ice Ship

The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer “Fram” Charles W. Johnson In the golden age of polar exploration, many an expedition set out to answer the big question—was the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? Norway’s charismatic scientist-explorer Fridtjof Nansen, convinced that it was a frozen ocean, intended to prove it in a novel if risky way: by building a ship capable of withstanding the ice. Ice Ship is the story of that extraordinary ship, the “Fram,” and of the extraordinary men who steered it.

Distributed for ForeEdge 2014 336 p. 8 1/2 x 9 390 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-396-7 $29.95 Your Price: $9.00

The Waterless Sea

A Curious History of Mirages Christopher Pinney “Through the words of generations of desert travelers, Pinney paints the shimmering heat, the dazzling sand, and the strange visions hanging in the sky. He reproduces fascinating postcards, engravings, and photos of floating ships and castles, palm trees and palaces that ‘possess every possible stability,’ including one alleged photograph of a skyscraper city emerging from the Muir Glacier in Alaska.”

—Economist Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 184 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 14 color plates, 26 halftones 391 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-932-3 $29.00 Your Price: $9.00

Visions of Science

Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age James A. Secord “Elegantly written, Secord’s Visions of Science provides its readers with fresh insights into the turbulent decade around 1830, when science was changing from a ‘relatively esoteric pursuit’ into one that would have a huge impact on ‘the everyday life of all men and women.’”

—Science “A wonderfully lucid account of a complex and often misunderstood era that poses important questions about the way we understand both science and history.”—Guardian 2015 256 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 23 halftones 392 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20328-7 $32.00 Your Price: $9.00

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Novel Science

Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology Adelene Buckland “Buckland tries to get inside the heads of the Britons who were writing into existence a scientific geology while developing a great literary form: the nineteenth-century novel. She succeeds triumphantly.”

—Nature “Buckland offers both a compelling reassessment of the Victorian novel in itself and a reframing of science’s place within literary culture, demonstrating that geology played a fundamental and formative role in the writing of fiction.”

—Ralph O’Connor, author of The Earth on Show

2013 400 p. 6 x 9 9 color plates, 28 halftones 393 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07968-4 $56.00 Your Price: $13.00

Does Science Need a Global Language?

English and the Future of Research Scott L. Montgomery “It may seem obvious that English is the one truly global language, but Scott Montgomery, himself a professional translator, is the first to assess the costs and benefits of this fact with such clarity.”

—Steve Fuller, University of Warwick 2013 240 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 1 table 394 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53503-6 $22.50 Your Price: $7.00

Haeckel’s Embryos

Images, Evolution, and Fraud Nick Hopwood “Rarely have images proved so incendiary as the embryo drawings of nineteenth-century experimental zoologist Ernst Haeckel.

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Hopwood traces the chequered history of the sketches, which showed similarities between embryos of higher and lower vertebrates, including humans, at particular points in their development.

Haeckel intended the images as support for Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory, but under attack revealed that they were schematics. Hopwood meticulously charts how, despite the controversy, the drawings took on a life of their own.”—Nature

2015 392 p. 8 1/2 x 11 202 color plates, 2 tables 395 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04694-5 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Making of Modern Medicine Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease Michael Bliss

“This concise, eloquent, and elegant volume is brimming with important insights and exciting ideas. It is the perfect introduction for anyone who hopes to understand the modern history of medical discovery and its impact on contemporary society.”—Howard Markel, author of The Anatomy of Addiction 2011 112 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 26 halftones 396 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05901-3 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Invisible

The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen Philip Ball “Ball leads us on a very fun, largely chronological journey through invisibility, beginning with myth and early magicians, ending with quantum physics, and stopping along the way at Newton, Leibniz, microscopy, photography, spiritualism, B movies, and science fiction. He is lucid and interesting on every topic he touches, from the ghost in Hamlet to those unseen extra dimensions posited by string theory.”—New Yorker

2016 322 p. 6 x 9 62 halftones, 8 line drawings 397 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37825-1 $21.00 Your Price: $8.00

Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache?

Medical Advice from 1769 William Buchan

Bringing together an exceedingly entertaining selection of entries from one of the earliest self-help books, William Buchan’s 1769 Domestic Medicine, this book offers fascinating insight into the popular treatments of the time— remedies such as administering urine to your ears or drinking a broth made from sheep’s brains.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2013 208 p. 5 x 8 26 line drawings 398 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-382-2 $25.00 Your Price: $7.00

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field Michael R. Canfield “[Canfield] mines Theodore Roosevelt’s writings to provide a well-written and engaging perspective on the 26th U.S. president.

Canfield’s focus is on Roosevelt’s hunting and collecting expeditions, but he also provides important details of Roosevelt’s personal life, contextualizing his passion for hunting and exploring.”—Publishers Weekly “Canfield argues that Roosevelt’s obsession with the natural world was genuine, serious and scholarly.”

—Literary Review

2015 472 p. 6 x 9 108 color plates, 1 line drawing 399 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29837-5 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

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Galaxy

Mapping the Cosmos James Geach “A beautifully illustrated exploration of the Universe beyond the Milky Way and the mysteries and wonders of extragalactic astronomy. Geach is ideally placed to be our guide on this journey—a researcher in the fast-changing field of galaxy evolution, he displays both breadth and depth of knowledge, happily matched by a talent for engaging, nontechnical prose and an eye for a simile.”

—Sky at Night Magazine

Time Travel and Warp Drives

A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space Allen Everett and Thomas Roman “Einstein meets Captain Kirk in this improbable foray into the frontiers of theoretical physics, where readers survey the exciting possibilities for traveling through time and between galaxies. . . . Armchair scientists share the thrill of peeking into the universe’s deepest secrets. Penetrating science illuminates humankind’s most audacious dreams.”—Booklist “Whenever anyone asks me whether time travel is possible, or rapid insterstellar travel via spacewarps is possible, I send them to this book. It is the best source of answers at a level accessible to nonexperts.”—Kip Thorne, author of Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy 2011 280 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones, 9 line drawings 400 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-22498-5 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

How We See the Sky

A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night Thomas Hockey “[Hockey] gives us descriptions of the motions of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the planets over a night, over a month, over a year, even over millennia. If you’ve ever wondered about the phases of the moon or the movements of the planets, or wondered why Polaris— the North Star—appears stationary, you can find that information and much more packed in here.”

—Wall Street Journal

2011 224 p. 6 x 9 66 halftones 401 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34577-2 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Mercury William Sheehan “Mercury, the Solar System’s innermost planet, was spotted in antiquity but remained an enigma until the 1960s. . . . [Sheehan] interleaves discoveries, from Johannes Kepler’s prediction of a transit of Mercury in the seventeenth century to NASA’s MESSENGER probe, which relayed gorgeous images and data (such as the presence of a wealth of volatile compounds on the surface) before crashing on the planet in 2015.”—Nature Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 176 p. 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 60 color plates, 40 halftones 402 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-012-5 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2014 256 p. 7 1/2 x 9 4/5 100 color plates 403 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-363-5 $40.00 Your Price: $13.00

Cosmos

An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology John North “This is a suitably monumental book about the biggest subject of all: the cosmos. . . . This remarkable work brings together the global history, theories, people and technologies of astronomy to tell a story that ‘has very few intellectual parallels in the whole of human history.’”—Guardian 2008 736 p. 7 x 10 21 color plates, 201 halftones, 73 line drawings 404 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-59441-5 $56.00 Your Price: $17.00

Fermilab

Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall “The first written history of this unique place, covering both the birth of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and its journey to its current position as a world center of ‘megascience’.

Yet Fermilab is far from being a dry historical account. . . . Will be of interest to anyone curious about science and science policy, as well as those who want a better understanding of what it is like to perform large-scale research in high-energy particle physics.”

—Physics World

2011 520 p. 6 x 9 65 halftones, 12 line drawings 407 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-34624-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

The Calculus

A Genetic Approach Otto Toeplitz “Appropriate for students who have completed basic or high school calculus but have not yet stepped up to the rigors of advanced calculus. Here those students will find motivation for understanding techniques in response to the original problems that gave rise to them.”

—Scitech Book News

2007 201 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 408 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80668-6 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

On Sunspots Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner On Sunspots collects the correspondence that constituted the public debate between Galilei and Scheiner, supplemented with lengthy introductions, extensive notes, and a bibliography.

“An excellent addition to the literature on Galileo and, more generally, on the Copernican Revolution.

It makes available important works that are relatively inaccessible in their original edition and have never been fully translated into English.”—Maurice Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2010 432 p. 6 x 9 108 halftones, 2 line drawings 405 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70716-7 $56.00 Your Price: $13.00

Cracking the Einstein Code Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics Fulvio Melia

“A wonderful, touching book about the life and work of one of the great unsung heroes of physics, Roy Kerr, the New Zealander who, in 1963, extracted from Einstein’s scarily complex equations of gravity an exact description for a reallife, ‘spinning’ black hole.”—New Scientist “Today, experiments are slowly shedding light on Einstein’s theory, and theoreticians are still trying to find a rigorous way to quantize it. Much of this research uses the results so brilliantly obtained by Roy Kerr.”—Times Higher Education 2009 150 p. 6 x 9 54 halftones 406 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51951-7 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Papers of Donald E. Knuth Distributed for the Center for the Study of Language and Information

Knuth is one of the world’s preeminent computer scientists, whose works have had a profound influence on the subject.

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms 2010 453 p. 6 x 9 409 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-582-9 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms 2001 540 p. 6 x 9 410 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-212-5 $45.00 Your Price: $10.00

Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics 2001 828 p. 6 x 9 50 line drawings 411 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-248-4 $40.00 Your Price: $10.00

Digital Typography 1998 685 p. 6 x 9 412 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-010-7 $40.95 Your Price: $10.00

Selected Papers on Computer Languages 2002 610 p. 6 x 9 413 Paper ISBN: 978-1-57586-382-5 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00

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Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict

Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications Edited by David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst, and Kristen Wall “[Brings] together specialists on strategy, human rights, ethics, and law to discuss the implications of drone use for each of these areas. In particular, Cortright and Fairhurst make a forceful and convincing case for why drones or a militarized strategy more generally should not be central to our counterterrorism policy.”—Sarah Kreps, Cornell University

2015 288 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 2 tables 414 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25805-8 $99.00 Your Price: $17.00

Wrong Turnings How the Left Got Lost Geoffrey M. Hodgson

“Hodgson is among the most interesting scholars writing today on the history of economic and social thought. In Wrong Turnings, he provides a highly illuminating and interesting discussion of the meanderings over the years of the intellectual orientation of the political Left. His arguments broadened and in some ways reoriented my thinking about a number of political and ideological issues.”—Richard Nelson, Columbia University

2018 288 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones 415 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-50588-6 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

Money, Power, and the People

The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic Christopher W. Shaw “An engaging and enlightening history of working people’s fight against big finance. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the evolution of banking and politics from the Gilded Age to Occupy Wall Street.”—Christina D. Romer, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers

2019 400 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone 416 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63633-7 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States Edited by Anup Malani and Michael H. Schill “Few pieces of legislation have engendered as much controversy in recent decades as the Affordable Care Act, and Malani and Schill have brought together in one volume some excellent examples of commentaries on the ACA from across the political spectrum. This outstanding book displays many of the major issues facing U.S. policymakers as they seek to provide more Americans with basic access to affordable, high-quality healthcare despite fundamental ideological disagreements and substantial practical hurdles.”—Aaron Kesselheim, Harvard Medical School 2015 352 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 1 line drawing, 9 tables 417 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25495-1 $64.00 Your Price: $12.00

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The Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations Tzvetan Todorov

Drawing on history, anthropology, and politics, Tzvetan Todorov argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect.

“Fascinating and important. . . .

Now, of all times, there is a need for cool heads, such as Todorov, who approaches the limits of free speech with admirable dexterity.”

—New York Review of Books 2010 248 p. 6 x 9 418 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80575-7 $27.50 Your Price: $7.00

Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict Edited by David Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara “Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict offers readers a series of invaluable essays that represent the most important trends in contemporary scholarship on Machiavelli.

Johnston, Urbinati, and Vergara have assembled a remarkable group of scholars, including several whose recent contributions are not widely available in English, and the diverse essays in the book carry on a highly engaging conversation with one another with a coherence that one seldom sees in an anthology.”—Filippo Del Lucchese, Brunel University London

2017 440 p. 6 x 9 419 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42930-4 $54.00 Your Price: $14.00

The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America James T. Schleifer “This book will be of great value to readers who seek a compressed orientation to things Tocquevillean all in one place.”—Choice “Virtually everything one needs to know about Democracy, including a taste for Tocqueville’s prose, is included in this fine companion.”—Michael Kammen, Cornell University

2012 216 p. 6 x 9 420 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73704-1 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00

Commentaries on the Laws of England A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765–1769 William Blackstone

“[Chicago’s facsimile edition] made it easy for modern readers to confront Blackstone the way his contemporaries (including many in America’s Founding generation) did—unencumbered by successive editors and eminently readable. Chicago’s reprint deservedly became the standard edition of the Commentaries. . . . For the first time in many years . . . it is again available in hardback.”—Green Bag 2002 1942 p. 6 x 9 4 Volumes, slipcased 421 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05547-3 $399.00 Your Price: $129.00

Nut Country

Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy Edward H. Miller “Featuring a memorable cast of characters—H. L. Hunt and General Edwin Walker not the least among them—Miller’s book reveals how conservatives used racial politics in Dallas to change the fortunes, forever after, of the American Right and the Republican Party.”—David Farber, author of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism 2016 256 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones 422 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-42121-6 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don’t Sue David M. Engel

“[Engel] presents an exceptionally clear and compelling explanation of why most injurers are never asked to pay compensation for the harm they have inflicted on others—and why most injury victims never receive justice. In showing how and why this happens, he also offers us a way to change it.”—Former U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman 2016 248 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 5 figures, 1 table 423 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30504-2 $24.00 Your Price: $7.00

Attorney for the Damned

Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom Edited by Arthur Weinberg “Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced. All of Darrow’s most celebrated pleas are here—in defense of Leopold and Loeb (1924), of Lieutenant Massie (1932), of Big Bill Haywood (1907), of Thomas Scopes (1925), and of himself for attempted bribery. The ghastly comedy of his deadpan interrogation of William Jennings Bryan on the origin of man in the Scopes case is particularly recommended.”—New Yorker “That Clarence Darrow was the great protagonist of that age, no one would deny. . . . In the present volume Mr. Weinberg wisely permits him to speak for himself.”

—American Bar Association Journal 2012 576 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 424 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13650-9 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

36 Education & Social Sciences

The Importance of Being Urban

Designing the Progressive School District, 1890–1940 David A. Gamson

The Purposeful Graduate

Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation Tim Clydesdale “At this time of increasing doubt and uncertainty in higher education, Clydesdale has given us a shining path forward. The Purposeful Graduate is well reasoned yet passionate in its recommendations.

It is also a good read, filled with compelling stories of young people searching for meaningful vocations in our complex world. I recommend it to anyone who cares about the future of higher education in this country.”—William Damon, Stanford University 2015 320 p. 6 x 9 6 line drawings, 6 tables 425 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-23634-6 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

The Adjunct Underclass How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission Herb Childress

“A heartbreaking indictment of American higher education.”

—Wall Street Journal “The Adjunct Underclass is a competent guide to academia, deconstructing and unpacking confusing jargon, interrogating the problems of faculty contingency, and urging us to center values that will guide us toward fairer treatment of faculty. The book drives the conversation about the exploitation of academic labor forward in a meaningful and accessible way.”—Science

2019 208 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 23 tables 426 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49666-5 $24.00 Your Price: $11.00

American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education Paul H. Mattingly

“American Academic Cultures is a multifaceted social history of higher education in the United States. . . .

[Mattingly’s] history extends beyond developments at individual institutions to examine the wider intellectual, political, and social milieu that shaped academic cultures at various times in U.S. history. . . . A comprehensive analysis of the academic cultures that shaped American higher education from the colonial period to the present.”—Journal of American History 2017 464 p. 6 x 9 2 tables 427 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-50526-8 $38.00 Your Price: $11.00

“Gamson tells a new story about progressive education that needs to be heard. Based on compelling case studies of Oakland, Denver, Portland, and Seattle, he shows how progressivism grew at the district level in urban school systems that were seen as laboratories for democracy. . . . The Importance of Being Urban should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding progressive education, education reform, and how we got the urban school systems we have today.”

—Barbara Beatty, author of Preschool Education in America 2019 352 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 1 table 428 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63454-8 $50.00 Your Price: $13.00

Class Warfare

Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, and Heather Jenkins “Does an excellent job of mapping the intricate ecosystem in which students are enmeshed, from school to parental gossip networks, and also offers a complex, noteworthy discussion of how race and class dynamics combine to compound marginalization for outsider minority students. . . . This is a welcome addition to research on the U.S. university admissions system’s role in perpetuating inequality.”

—Times Higher Education 2014 288 p. 6 x 9 7 tables 429 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13492-5 $34.00 Your Price: $11.00

MOOCs and Their Afterlives

Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education Elizabeth Losh “Whither MOOCs—the massive open online courses that promised to vastly scale up access to higher education? This multi-author volume reveals a bumpy evolution, from wrangles over ‘educational monoculture’ to the emergence of spin-offs such as POOCs (participatory open online courses). Media theorist Elizabeth Losh is typically insightful.”—Nature

2017 384 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables 430 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46945-4 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00

Chicago’s Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City Amanda I. Seligman

“Most scholars ignore the lowly block club. Seligman remedies that oversight in her magisterial account of their history and importance in Chicago. . . . She proves that Chicago and urban history more generally need to be rewritten to include these clubs that ‘make strangers into neighbors.’”—Dick W. Simpson, University of Illinois at Chicago 2016 312 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones 431 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-38585-3 $32.00 Your Price: $11.00

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Flavor and Soul

Italian America at Its African American Edge John Gennari “In this thought-provoking, academic, yet often lively study, Gennari explores the intersections between African-American and Italian-American culture. . . .

Gennari shows that despite tensions between them, Black and ItalianAmericans have much in common and understand one another better than many outsiders realize.”

—Publishers Weekly 2017 296 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 432 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42832-1 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00

Obsession

A History Lennard J. Davis “From romantic obsessions to artistic obsessions to the neural underpinnings of obsessive-compulsive disorder, no aspect of the word or concept is left unexplored.

Davis does not neglect the important question of why we medicate clinically obsessive people, yet laud those who are obsessed by their music, art, sports or other vocational calling. Beautifully written and impeccably—perhaps obsessively— researched: important reading for anyone interested in inescapable fascinations.”—Kirkus 2009 296 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones 433 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13784-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

Cannabis Consulting

Helping Patients, Parents, and Practitioners Understand Medical Marijuana Ezra Parzybok Writing from the perspective of a parent and veteran schoolteacher turned professional cannabis consultant, Cannabis Consulting is a report from the front lines of medical marijuana use.

“With knowledge, warmth, and uncommon empathy [Parzybok] describes the clients he has known and the ways in which he has carefully ministered to their needs.”

—Catherine Hiller, author of Just Say Yes: A Marijuana Memoir Distributed for ForeEdge 2018 232 p. 6 x 9 434 Paper ISBN: 978-1-5126-0110-7 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

Becoming a Marihuana User Howard S. Becker “A Beckerian analysis of a social ‘world’ asks how, in any culture or subculture, someone comes to be called an insider while someone else gets pushed outside. . . . The influence of Becker’s early work remains profound.”—New Yorker “Becker was the first expert to talk about marijuana use, when everyone else called all consumption of the drug ‘abuse.’ . . . In writing Becoming a Marihuana User, Becker pointed the way toward a more enlightened, rational view of cannabis.”—Andrew Weil, MD

2015 88 p. 4 x 6 6 halftones 435 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-33290-1 $12.00 Your Price: $5.00

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Bourgeois Equality

How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World Deirdre Nansen McCloskey “It is a giant of a book about a giant of a topic: the ‘great enrichment’ of humanity over the past 300 years.

It is so rich in vocabulary, allusion and fact as to be a contender for the great book of our age. Dump your copy of Thomas Piketty and put Deirdre McCloskey on the bookshelf instead.”—Times 2016 768 p. 6 x 9 5 line drawings, 6 tables 436 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33399-1 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00

From the National Bureau of Economic Research Risk Topography

Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling Edited by Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy 2014 288 p. 6 x 9 28 line drawings, 14 tables 437 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07773-4 $118.00 Your Price: $36.00

Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis 2017 448 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones, 26 line drawings, 21 tables 438 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42636-5 $140.00 Your Price: $21.00

High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences Edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner 2018 272 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 101 line drawings, 31 tables 439 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52552-5 $140.00 Your Price: $21.00

Human Capital in History

The American Record Edited by Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo 2014 432 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 61 line drawings, 49 tables 440 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16389-5 $118.00 Your Price: $21.00

Women Working Longer

Increased Employment at Older Ages Edited by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz 2018 304 p. 6 x 9 77 line drawings, 70 tables 441 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53250-9 $140.00 Your Price: $21.00

Founding Choices

American Economic Policy in the 1790s Edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla 2011 368 p. 6 x 9 17 line drawings, 22 tables 442 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-38475-7 $49.00 Your Price: $13.00

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International Bankruptcy

The Challenge of Insolvency in a Global Economy Jodie Adams Kirshner “With engaging real-life examples of the major corporate and financial collapses, International Bankruptcy puts the issues clearly in context, bringing home to readers just how difficult it may be to resolve issues in this area. An invaluable addition to the literature in the field, the book is filled with clear, accessible, and practical insights.”—Paul J. Omar, De Montfort University 2018 288 p. 6 x 9 443 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53197-7 $81.00 Your Price: $17.00

Selling Power

Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940 John L. Neufeld “Neufeld’s account of the development of electricity markets in the United States clearly outlines the problems stemming from the industry’s character as a natural monopoly. Chronicling the responses of public officials over time, he explains why each response occurred within the context of political struggle and carefully explains how some policy responses, while solving a current problem, created future problems as the industry evolved and technology changed.”—Carl Kitchens, Florida State University 2016 336 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 26 line drawings, 9 tables 444 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39963-8 $64.00 Your Price: $11.00

Down and Out in the New Economy How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today Ilana Gershon

“Gershon vividly illuminates how workers have become ‘brands’ or ‘businesses’ in the new economy.

Sounds liberating, but beware. . . .

This is a cautionary tale for all job seekers and the people who hire them.”—Barry Schwartz, author of Why We Work

2017 304 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones 445 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45214-2 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00

After the Flood

How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought Edited by Edward L. Glaeser, Tano Santos, and E. Glen Weyl “For this important collection of essays in honor of José Sheinkman, the editors have brought together a truly impressive team of international contributors who, together, provide a coherent, thought-provoking, and well-written analysis of the causes of the recent financial crises.”—Alberto Bisin, New York University

2017 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 19 line drawings, 15 tables 446 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44354-6 $55.00 Your Price: $13.00

Well Worth Saving

How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden “The recent foreclosure crisis rekindled interest in the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC). . . . With Well Worth Saving, Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden offer a new history of the program alongside an economic analysis of its costs and benefits. This is a highly useful, well-organized, and interesting book which will be of great interest and use both to researchers and policy makers.”—Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

2013 192 p. 6 x 9 14 line drawings, 10 tables 447 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08244-8 $41.00 Your Price: $13.00

The Political Origins of Inequality Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All Simon Reid-Henry

“The Political Origins of Inequality makes the bold claim that popular thinking on global development is profoundly and fundamentally flawed because many of the economists who have written many of the best sellers have often been shortsighted. This is an important book about big issues, dismissive of facile solutions, it should change the terms of the debate on why the gaps between us are so wide and what we could do about them.”

—Danny Dorling, author of Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists 2015 208 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 448 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-23679-7 $29.00 Your Price: $8.00

Hayek vs Keynes A Battle of Ideas Thomas Hoerber

“The shock of the Great Depression led to intellectual tumult as economists tried to understand the causes and recommend responses.

To Keynes, economic narrative offered a better approach than mathematics; to Hayek, the problem was too little abstraction. . . .

Hoerber’s analysis of these two giants of the history of economics makes us reflect on the crisis of our own time as much as on the world they inhabited.”—Martin Daunton, University of Cambridge Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 192 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 449 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-730-5 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00

38 Fiction, Poetry, & Literature at $7

The Nightwatches of Bonaventura

A Cage in Search of a Bird

Bonaventura

Florence Noiville

“Fans of upscale horror, postmodern literature, and literary analysis will find something to like in this unusual, fractured novel, first published in Germany in 1804. It unfolds as a series of spooky episodes, 16 ‘Nightwatches,’ told by a ringmaster and raconteur who refers to himself as a night watchman, a spectral and sometimes melodramatic figure.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Look into the mirror, you might not recognize what you see. Watch someone else gaze into the exact same mirror, you might just see yourself. Noiville tackles issues of identity and belonging like few other novelists. A Cage in Search of a Bird is smart, suspenseful, and powerful.”—Colum McCann

2014 216 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2

Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere Georges Perec Georges Perec’s first book, Portrait of a Man, was rejected by publishers. Decades after Perec’s death, David Bellos discovered the manuscript, and through his translation we have a chance to enjoy it in English for the first time.

“A fully realized and mature work of fiction that will provide Perec’s fans a fuller view of his oeuvre, can serve as an accessible entry point for readers who are new to its author.”—New York Journal of Books

2015 144 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 450 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05425-4 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Doña Barbara A Novel Rómulo Gallegos

Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela’s first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela’s literary treasures, the novel Doña Barbara. Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Doña Barbara is one of the first examples of magical realism.

“An exciting heroic tale of the life of Venezuelan plainsmen, master and peons, ranchers and cowboys and horse thieves.”—New Republic

2012 448 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 451 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27920-6 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Maze Maker A Novel Michael Ayrton

“Ayrton, sculptor turned novelist, makes the world of mythology a superbly real place with a relevance to our technological society that is inescapable in this beautiful, cruel, and fascinating re-creation of the Daedalus-Icarus myth.”—Publishers Weekly “It belongs with the work of such other fine modern interpreters of myth as Mary Renault and Robert Graves.”—Wall Street Journal

2015 328 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 452 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-04243-5 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

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A Dog’s Head Jean Dutourd A Dog’s Head is a wonderful piece of magical realism, presenting the story of a boy born, to his bourgeois parents’s horror, with the head of a spaniel.

“A Dog’s Head is an excellent joke in the worst possible taste, and its author, M. Jean Dutourd, is a satirist of the first rank.”—New Yorker

1998 168 p. 51/4 x 8 454 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-17492-1 $30.00 Your Price: $7.00

POW! Mo Yan “Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and . . . Pow! demonstrates for Americans why he deserved to win. It’s a vibrant, visceral novel that is both personal and political, realistic and surrealistic, funny and shocking. The explosive title cries out—Pow!—but it is also a subtle display of narrative wizardry.”

—Washington Post Distributed for Seagull Books 2014 392 p. 6 x 9 455 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-221-7 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

I’ll Tell You Mine

Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Edited by Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley “Varied and stunning. . . . This expertly curated anthology holds abundant value for the student of writing and lover of literature alike.”—Publishers Weekly

2015 280 p. 6 x 9 456 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30647-6 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Prose Thomas Bernhard “The neuroticism and cruelty on display in these seven newly translated short stories leave you short of breath but entirely absorbed—or, more accurately, entrapped.”

—Observer Distributed for Seagull Books 2018 180 p. 5 x 8 459 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-576-8 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Mokusei!

A Love Story Cees Nooteboom Two men talk in Tokyo: a Belgian diplomat and a Dutch photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? This moving novel of obsession and difference is the latest masterwork from one of the greatest European writers working today, redolent with the power of desire and alive to the limits of our understanding of others.

“An extraordinarily beautiful story. . . . [Nooteboom] has the strange capacity to evoke mono no aware, a beautiful kind of melancholy.”—Biisbooks Distributed for Seagull Books 2017 64 p. 5 x 8 460 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-484-6 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Great Fall Peter Handke “You are advised to read this book, take a cane, tuck a feather onto your hat like the hero, and to follow him. . . . The book is reminiscent of Handke’s beginnings, and it is impressive . . . German literature is not conceivable without Peter Handke.”—Die Zeit Distributed for Seagull Books

The Safe House A Novel Christophe Boltanski

The Safe House was a literary sensation when published in France in 2015 and won the Prix de Prix, France’s most prestigious book prize. With hints of Oulipian playfulness and an atmosphere of dark humor, this is an unforgettable portrait of a self-imprisoned family.

“Complex and meticulously plotted; this mystery house full of odd characters will make the reader consider storytelling as the building of a physical and mental space.”—Kirkus 2017 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 10 halftones

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Storm Still Peter Handke “Numerous pleasures await the reader who delves into the fabric of Peter Handke’s prose. . . . A subtle writer of unostentatious delicacy, Handke excels at fiction that, as it grows, coils around itself like wisteria. . . . This is where the French New Novel might have gone if pushed.”—Washington Post Distributed for Seagull Books 2018 124 p. 51/2 x 8 462 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-558-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

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A River Runs through It and Other Stories Norman Maclean “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.”—New York Times “The title novella is the prize. . . .

Something unique and marvelous: a story that is at once an evocation of nature’s miracles and realities and a probing of human mysteries.

Wise, witty, wonderful, Maclean spins his tales, casts his flies, fishes the rivers and the woods for what he remembers from his youth in the Rockies.”—Publishers Weekly

2017 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 463 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-47206-5 $15.00 Your Price: $7.00

Notes for a Young Gentleman Toby Litt Told in the form of the pithy, even lyrical advice left behind after a mission gone wrong, Notes for a Young Gentleman tells the powerful story of a young soldier parachuting toward a beautiful, moonlit country house on a mission of betrayal. The house? Marlborough. The target?

Winston Churchill, an old friend of his father. Brilliant, at times dizzying, Notes for a Young Gentleman is classic Toby Litt: wholly new and wholly unforgettable.

“A mesmerizingly elusive set of glimpses.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Seagull Books 2018 376 p. 6 x 9 464 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-485-3 $29.50 Your Price: $7.00

Afternoon Men A Novel Anthony Powell

“The funniest novel you’ve never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqué on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . .

Indeed, if you’re looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.”—Slate

2014 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 465 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18689-4 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

What’s Become of Waring A Novel Anthony Powell

“A grand, glittering array of splendid comic characters doing funny things. Mr. Powell’s prose is beautiful and hilarious, and the whole nutty arrangement ends too soon.”—New Yorker “I do not see how anyone who is not an imbecile can fail to be amused and delighted with What’s Become of Waring.”—Observer

2014 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 466 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13718-6 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

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The Pistol James Jones As bombs begin to fall on Pearl Harbor, nineteen-year-old PFC Richard Mask is wearing a pistol, a .45 caliber automatic. In the chaos of his first days and weeks of the war, as Mask and his company move from Schofield Barracks to the beaches of Oahu, a struggle over the pistol dominates this novella’s action, providing the pathos and savagery of the story.

“Superbly written.”—New York Times

2003 158 p. 51/4 x 8 467 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-39186-1 $26.00 Your Price: $7.00

A Certain Smile

Loving Little Egypt

A Novel Françoise Sagan

“A technical fable crackling with the elation, nostalgia, and suspense of scientific discovery. . . . The pleasures of McMahon’s prose are constant.”—Boston Globe “A slam-bang adventure tale. . . .

As the novel delights in its own power to make the grim amusing and the dour delightful, it leaks its own positiveness onto the reader, lighting the air around him.”

—Chicago Tribune

Françoise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a scandal when she first published it at the age of eighteen in 1953. Frank and spontaneous, Sagan’s stirring second novel explores such perennial themes as unrequited love and the precarious balance of irrational emotions and self-restraint.

“Sagan is a technician of the highest order, working with exceptional economy and elegance in the tradition of Colette and Benjamin Constant.”—Atlantic

A Novel Thomas McMahon

2003 280 p. 51/4 x 8 468 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56109-7 $30.00 Your Price: $7.00

Not Dead Yet and Other Stories Hadley Moore “Astounding. . . . In Not Dead Yet, Moore takes readers on an emotional journey, insisting on illuminating our profound human connections and the mysteries of life. Her characters stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page and are penetrating reminders that life is full of endless chances, missed opportunities and grace.

Moore’s insight and compassion are the triumph of this collection, signaling the arrival of a brilliant writer.”—Dana Johnson, author of In the Not Quite Dark Distributed for Autumn House Press 2019 216 p. 51/2 x 8 469 Paper ISBN: 978-1-938769-41-2 $17.95 Your Price: $7.00

Uselessness A Novel Eduardo Lalo

“In this dreamy and succinct novel, Lalo takes readers on an intimate journey of companionship abroad. . . . Set between glowing, literary Paris, the deceptively dangerous Spanish coast, and various humble San Juan apartments, Uselessness is a novel of modern plight that’s brimming with hope and wisdom.”

—Booklist

2017 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 470 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-20779-7 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

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2011 136 p. 51/4 x 8 471 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73347-0 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

Is It Good for the Jews?

More Stories from the Old Country and the New Adam Biro A collection simultaneously of foibles and fables, adversity and affection, this book reminds us that if in the beginning was the word, then we can surely be forgiven for expecting a punch line to follow one of these days.

“Sparkles with the happy anguish of Jewish humor, with the wit of threateningly cultured protagonists, and with the ‘special case’ treatment that life’s tangles invariably receive in this milieu between old and new worlds.”

—ForeWord 2009 152 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 472 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-05217-5 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Wallis’s War

A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue Kate Auspitz Wallis’s War is a fictionalized memoir of Wallis Simpson, the infamous American divorcée who caused the abdication of the King of England.

Was it love? Or was it also some behind-the-scenes engineering? A blend of diplomacy and dalliance, fashion and fascists, this richly researched satire offers witty and erudite entertainment and leaves us speculating.

“An ingenious twist and just as plausible as the well-researched reality this fictional account deftly uses.”—Daily Mail

2015 220 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 5 halftones 473 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-24038-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

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The Waste Land Martin Rowson Available for the first time in a decade, this is an unforgettably strange trip through modern literature with one of Britain’s best writers and illustrators.

“Irresistibly funny . . . Rowson has produced not only a first-rate comic book but also an acute critical commentary, footnotes and all.

His book is a marvel of sly scholarship and invention.”—Village Voice

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Judge Dee Mysteries

by Robert van Gulik “Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously.”

—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

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Lost Mars

Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet Edited by Mike Ashley “Enchanting . . . . Readers fond of classic science fiction imbued with romance, exotic settings, and whimsical scenarios will treasure these evocative stories.”—Publishers Weekly “A fascinating overview of the history of Mars in science fiction, from the birth of the genre through the beginning of the space age.”

—Booklist 2018 304 p. 51/8 x 7 1/2 474 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57508-7 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

Off Limits

New Writings on Fear and Sin Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist who has provided a powerful voice in feminist debates centering on the Middle East. Off Limits presents a selection of El Saadawi’s most recent recollections and reflections in which she considers the role of women in Egyptian and wider Islamic society, the inextricability of imperialism from patriarchy, and the meeting points of East and West.

“The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World.”—Guardian Distributed for Gingko Library 2020 171 p. 5 x 8 475 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909942-47-9 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

The Sea Is a Continual Miracle Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Edited by Jeffrey Yang

“Yang has done us a service in extracting from Whitman’s oeuvre a body of poetry and prose on one of the master’s great themes, the oceans and rivers of his world.

Yang proves a trusty guide through Leaves of Grass in its labyrinthine backtrackings and revisions.

Plunging into Whitman in his company is, as ever, a cleansing and invigorating experience.”

—J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace Distributed for University Press of New England 2017 288 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 476 Paper ISBN: 978-1-61168-922-8 $19.95 Your Price: $7.00

2012 73 p. 6 x 9 illustrated in halftones throughout 477 Paper ISBN: 978-0-85742-041-1 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

Aristotle Detective An Aristotle Detective Novel Margaret Doody

“Doody brings the Athens of 322 BC to life with skill and verve and her story of the bloody murder, the shards of evidence, the drama of the trials, the odd twists and turns of motives and events is wonderfully plotted as she keeps everyone guessing, except the wily old philosopher who never tips his hand.”—Publishers Weekly 2014 280 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 1 map 478 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13170-2 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Bad Lands A Novel Oakley Hall

“An elegiac, incandescent 1880s Dakota badlands Western that bears comparison to the greats (Shane, Ox-Bow Incident) that it recalls. . . . A tale of tragic justice, of nightriders, of horse thieves fighting cattle thieves.”—Kirkus “Readers unable to suppress an unfashionable yearning for a good story will be delighted with The Bad Lands. . . . The cast of whores, gunhands, buffalo hunters, and grizzled settlers is effectively put into play.”—New York Times

2016 376 p. 6 x 9 1 map 479 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41261-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00

Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Giuseppe Pitrè Edited by Jack Zipes

“The book is a classic, formed like a mosaic of precious small pieces, each one glinting with its own color and character, glassy and crystalline. . . . Zipes is on a lifelong mission, as ardent as the Grimms’, to bring fairy tales into circulation for the general increase of pleasure, mutual and ethical understanding. . . . His prodigious energy seems as inexhaustible as the fairy-tale purse that never empties.”

—New York Review of Books 2017 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 480 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-46279-0 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

Judge Dee at Work 2007 184 p. 51/4 x 8 481 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84866-2 $12.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Emperor’s Pearl 2008 192 p. 51/4 x 8 9 line drawings 482 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84872-3 $12.00 Your Price: $7.00

Murder in Canton 2004 216 p. 51/4 x 8 12 line drawings 483 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84874-7 $20.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Haunted Monastery 1997 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 10 line drawings 484 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84879-2 $12.00 Your Price: $7.00

Necklace and Calabash 1992 152 p. 51/4 x 8 10 line drawings 485 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84870-9 $15.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Willow Pattern 2009 192 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 16 line drawings 486 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84875-4 $12.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Parker Novels by Richard Stark “Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.”—Stephen King “Why do readers love this heartless bad guy? Because he’s so damn good at what he does.”

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The Hunter

The Rare Coin Score

Comeback

2008 208 p. 51/4 x 8 487 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77099-4 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

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The Man with the Getaway Face

The Green Eagle Score

Backflash

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The Black Ice Score

Flashfire

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2008 224 p. 51/4 x 8 488 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77100-7 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Outfit 2008 224 p. 51/4 x 8 489 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77101-4 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Mourner 2009 232 p. 51/4 x 8 490 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77103-8 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Score 2009 224 p. 51/4 x 8 491 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77104-5 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Jugger 2009 224 p. 51/4 x 8 492 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77102-1 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Seventh 2009 168 p. 51/4 x 8 493 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77105-2 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Handle 2009 176 p. 51/4 x 8 494 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77106-9 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

The Sour Lemon Score

Firebreak

2010 168 p. 51/4 x 8 498 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77110-6 $14.00 Your Price: $7.00

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Breakout

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Deadly Edge

Nobody Runs Forever

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The Nutmeg’s Curse Parables for a Planet in Crisis Amitav Ghosh

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Seeing Silicon Valley Life inside a Fraying America Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner

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A Conspiratorial Life Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism Edward H. Miller

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The Art of Living in a Digital Age Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, and Linda Woodhead

The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Alex Wellerstein

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How Schools Really Matter

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The Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas Robert Zaretsky

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The Porch

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Pulp Empire

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The Only Writing That Counts William Germano

Animals’ Best Friends Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild Barbara J. King

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Keats’s Odes

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What’s Eating the Universe?

And Other Cosmic Questions Paul Davies 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 17 halftones, 1 tables 527 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81629-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Geometry of Grief

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The Elements

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Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty

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The Other Dark Matter The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health Lina Zeldovich

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The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole Sarah Dry 2019 368 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones 534 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-50770-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

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We Are All Whalers The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility Michael J. Moore

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Extraordinary Orchids Sandra Knapp 2021 160 p. 10 x 13 140 color plates, 7 halftones 536 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77967-6 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

The Greatest Adventure

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They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933–45 Milton Mayer

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The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition Ida B. Wells 2020 496 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 10 halftones 545 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69142-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

Waves Across the South A New History of Revolution and Empire Sujit Sivasundaram

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A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps Jeremy Black “A spectacular reference source. . . . This scrupulous survey of early-1940s to mid-1950s cartography offers a full study of the war through posters and photos of communication lines, waterways, and troop movements, with text from government and media sources.”

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A Month at the Front

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Sheer Misery

Gladius

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“In his encyclopedic Gladius, Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military arm of the Roman Empire.”—New York Times Book Review

Soldiers in Battle in WWII Mary Louise Roberts

2021 208 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 4 maps 551 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75314-0 $23.00 Your Price: $18.40

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

American Troops on the World War II Home Front Aaron Hiltner “An important and powerful contribution to the literature on the World War II home front. Hiltner recovers the long-forgotten history of American liberty ports and reveals that U.S. civil-military relations were far more violent and chaotic than most Americans may want to believe.”—Aaron O’Connell, University of Texas at Austin

2020 280 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones 552 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68704-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

King of the World The Life of Louis XIV Philip Mansel

“[Mansel] is as good at explaining and illustrating Louis’s decline as his ascendancy. . . . King of the World is one of the most stimulating and enjoyable works on European history to have been published for many a long year.”—Wall Street Journal 2020 608 p. 6 x 9 57 color plates, 2 halftones 553 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69089-6 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Making of a King

Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks Robin Waterfield “General, patron of the arts, votary of the god Pan, generous king, and occasional tyrant, Antigonus Gonatas ruled the legendary Kingdom of Macedon . . . The Making of a King is the perfect introduction to this eccentric and exciting figure.”—J. E. Lendon, author of Soldiers and Ghosts 2021 296 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 8 maps 554 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61137-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

The World of the Roman Soldier Guy de la Bédoyère

2020 352 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 4 tables 555 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75023-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Crime Dot Com

From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global Geoff White “An informative, accessible, and entertaining tour of the cyber underworld. If you want to understand everything from ransomware to nation-state attacks on key infrastructure this is an excellent primer.”—BBC News Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 344 p. 5 x 73/4 556 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-443-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

Policing the Big Apple The Story of the NYPD Jules Stewart

“Stewart has written an intriguing history of the New York City Police Department. . . . His deft narrative leads the reader through the history of law enforcement, from the cobblestones of New Amsterdam to the metropolis of the twenty-first century.”—Jeffrey Kroessler, City University of New York Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 272 p. 6 1/4 x 93/4 29 halftones 557 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-482-6 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Paths of Fire

The Gun and the World It Made Andrew Nahum “Ancient yet contemporary, the gun has for centuries dominated the world in a myriad of ways and is woven into the fabric of human existence. . . . The book abounds with amusing anecdotes as well as revealing portraits of key figures in this often underrated milestone in human technological ingenuity.”

—History of War Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 248 p. 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 70 halftones 558 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-397-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

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The Modern Myths

Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination Philip Ball “In The Modern Myths, [Ball] makes a persuasive case that myth isn’t gone but can be found in stories closer to our current obsessions such as science and technology, globalization and individual psychology. . . . His provocations to debate are among the book’s many pleasures.”—Wall Street Journal

2021 368 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones 559 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71926-9 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages Jacques Le Goff “In these nineteen short essays— originally published in French in 2005—[Le Goff] offers case studies of ‘the medieval imaginary’ to argue that many creations of medieval culture not only had long lives but are still present today.”—Choice Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/4 32 halftones 560 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-212-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Sex in the World of Myth David Leeming “Destined to become a classic in its field. . . . [Leeming] understands that lack of respect for the female is the great wound at the heart of human sexuality, and this book serves as a starting point to heal it.”—Australian

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Homer

The Very Idea James I. Porter “This book is a reckoning with who or what we understand Homer to be and how we have reinvented him for our own ends. Porter makes clear the impossibility of Homer both as a concept and as a person.”—Alex C. Purves, author of Homer and the Poetics of Gesture

Aesop’s Fables Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker For 25 centuries, the animal stories that go by the name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. These timeless stories are collected here and illustrated with 37 woodcuts by renowned artist Agnes Miller Parker.

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2021 280 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones 563 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67589-3 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

2021 208 p. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 35 halftones 567 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-537-6 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00

Seneca

Reynard the Fox

Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic Lucius Annaeus Seneca Translated by Margaret Graver and A.A. Long

In the year 62, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. This selection of fifty letters brings out the essentials of Seneca’s thought and elucidates key elements of Stoic philosophy, with much that speaks directly to the modern reader.

2021 320 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 564 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Edited by Catherine McIlwaine

Retold by Anne Louise Avery “Riffing on William Caxton’s 1481 English translation of a popular Dutch beast epic, this is set in an intricate medieval world reminiscent of Brian Jacques’s ‘Redwall’ series, except bawdy and violent. . . .

The challenge of Avery’s language is equaled by the reward of worldbuilding.”—School Library Journal Distributed for Bodleian Library 2020 480 p. 5 3/4 x 73/4 568 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-555-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and the Invention of Wonderland Peter Hunt

2018 256 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 50 color plates, 50 halftones 561 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-977-4 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

“Reveals [Tolkien’s] painstaking creative process. . . . Reflect[s] a literary mind almost obsessed with perfecting each and every detail.”

—New York Times Book Review “For anyone who grew up in the Tolkien universe, seeing the original artwork—the death of Smaug, for instance . . . will be like meeting an old friend.”—Country Life

The Pocket Epicurean

2018 416 p. 9 1/4 x 10 300 color plates 565 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-485-0 $65.00 Your Price: $52.00

Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners

The Writer’s Map

John G. Sayers

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John Sellars “In this brief and eloquent book, Sellars takes us through the basic arguments of Epicureanism with wonderful clarity, distilling the essence of an ancient philosophy that speaks with increasing urgency to our troubled times.”

—David Konstan, New York University 2021 64 p. 41/2 x 6 562 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79864-6 $12.50 Your Price: $10.00

“This attractive and ingeniously illustrated little volume . . . will add much enjoyment to reading and thinking about this remarkable book.”—Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University Distributed for Bodleian Library 2020 128 p. 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 67 color plates 569 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-532-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

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An Atlas of Imaginary Lands Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones “One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside. . . . The Writer’s Map contains dozens of the magical maps writers have drawn or that have been made by others to illustrate the places they’ve created.”—Atlas Obscura 2018 256 p. 8 1/4 x 113/4 220 color plates

566 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59663-1 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00

In the heyday of ocean travel— between the late nineteenth century and World War II—ocean liners were a home away from home.

Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners dives into a vast, unique collection of ephemera to reveal the scandals, glamour, challenges, and tragedies of this bygone era.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2021 256 p. 7 x 9 150 color plates 570 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-530-7 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00

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Belonging and Betrayal

How Jews Made the Art World Modern Charles Dellheim “[An] exceptional work of scholarship. A brilliant account of Nazi pillage and the ongoing efforts at restitution.”—Kirkus Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2021 672 p. 7 x 10 24 color plates, 95 halftones 571 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-056-9 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00

Georgia O’Keeffe A Life Roxana Robinson

“The best book ever written on O’Keeffe. . . . An invaluable resource.”—New Yorker “Robinson’s detailed, sensitive critique of O’Keeffe’s work alternates with an absorbing, intimate narrative of O’Keeffe’s personal life to provide a resourceful, imaginatively rendered portrait of a dauntingly difficult subject.”—Publishers Weekly Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2020 679 p. 6 x 9 1/4 94 halftones 572 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-032-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

Vincent’s Books

Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him Mariella Guzzoni “Vincent van Gogh’s letters are almost as wonderful as his paintings and in one of them he writes, ‘I have a more or less irresistible passion for books.’ Guzzoni traces that passion in the beautifully designed Vincent’s Books. If you need a gift for a book or art lover, this is it.”—Washington Post

2020 224 p. 6 x 9 132 color plates 573 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70646-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

The Art of the Bird

The History of Ornithological Art through Forty Artists Roger J. Lederer “Exquisite. . . . Ornithological gems such as Joseph Wolf’s gorgeous crimson-bellied tragopan, Roger Tory Peterson’s flock of flamingos in the Andes, and James Fenwick Lansdowne’s rainbow-plumed Chinese pheasant reveal not only the sophistication of avian art, but the extravagant global variety of avian species.”—Natural History

2019 224 p. 9 1/2 x 11 200 color plates 574 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67505-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

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Matisse

Games People Played

“These books-as-works-of-art are both a running commentary upon Matisse himself, the ever evolving, ever surprising image-maker, and an extraordinarily vivid series of critical responses to words that are often so rich and elusive in their meanings.”—Hyperallergic

“Games People Played is the culmination of a life spent working on the history of sports, and it ranges far and wide. . . . Vamplew is as informative and comprehensive as one could want. . . . An outstanding guide to [sport’s] role in history.”

—Wall Street Journal

The Books Louise Rogers Lalaurie

2020 320 p. 12 1/2 x 103/8 350 color plates 575 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75054-5 $75.00 Your Price: $60.00

Cosmos

The Art and Science of the Universe Roberta J. M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff “Olson and Pasachoff join strengths felicitously in a large-format tour and celebration of images of the cosmos, from ancient and fine art through scientific illustrations to the (literally) out-of-this-world observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and other modern instruments.”—Harvard Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 320 p. 8 3/4 x 11 260 color plates, 20 halftones 576 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-054-5 $49.95 Your Price: $39.96

Around the World in 80 Words A Journey through the English Language Paul Anthony Jones

“A fabulous and erudite survey of words inspired by place names. . . . Logophiles will have a ball.”

—Publishers Weekly

2020 288 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 577 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68279-2 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

Hyphens & Hashtags*

*The stories behind the symbols on our keyboard Claire Cock-Starkey In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate to the punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the edges of our keyboard. Hyphens & Hashtags presents the histories and modern usages of punctuation marks and other symbols, revealing the long road many have taken on their way to general usage.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2021 192 p. 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 578 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-536-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

A Global History of Sports Wray Vamplew

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 456 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 98 halftones 579 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-457-4 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

The Botany of Gin Chris Thorogood and Simon Hiscock With this volume, Thorogood and Hiscock provide an account of how gin has been developed and produced. Garnished with sumptuous illustrations of the plants that tell the story of this complex drink, this enticing book delves into the botany of gin from root to branch.

Distributed for Bodleian Library 2020 112 p. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 35 color plates 580 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-553-6 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks Christina Harrison The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks is a colorful introduction to a one-of-a-kind figure in British history: Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the unofficial first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, who had a hand in some of Britain’s most well-known historical expeditions, including James Cook’s Endeavour voyages in the Pacific and William Bligh’s Bounty.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2020 128 p. 6 x 7 1/4 150 color plates, 20 halftones 581 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-715-2 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Breathing

An Inspired History Edgar Williams “An expansive piece of scholarship that explores the wild and often weird history of our most essential biological function.”

—James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 9 1/4 70 halftones 582 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-362-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

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The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold Billy Boy Arnold with Kim Field This book is the frank, funny, and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues.

“Billy Boy Arnold’s great Vee-Jay sides were a big influence on me when I was first starting out. . . .

I’m very happy to see his amazing personal story finally appear in print.”—Eric Clapton

2021 288 p. 6 x 9 57 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 tables 583 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80920-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Ornette Coleman

The Territory and the Adventure Maria Golia “Fittingly unconventional. . . .

Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure is an atlas in prose, a guide to the territories of varied sorts—social, racial, aesthetic, economic, and even geographic—that Coleman came out of, traveled through, lived near, occupied, left behind, or transformed.”—New York Times Book Review Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 368 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 60 halftones 584 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-223-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Pilgrimage to Dollywood

A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee Helen Morales “Part quirky travelogue, part study of celebrity culture, part autobiography, Pilgrimage to Dollywood is a witty and self-aware account of being transplanted into an alien culture and deciding to revel in its (and one’s own) otherness.”—Times Higher Education

2021 172 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 24 halftones, 4 maps 585 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79668-0 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

Wanderers

A History of Women Walking Kerri Andrews “A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of ‘knowing’ that they found along the path.”—Raynor Winn, author of the The Salt Path Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 304 p. 5 x 73/2 586 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-501-4 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20

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Land of Cockaigne Jeffrey Lewis “This deeply humane novel, about an intricate relationship between born-heres and from-aways in a small Maine town, left me breathless, wordless, and grateful to be part of the human family. . . .

Unforgettable.”—Monica Wood, author of The One-in-a-Million Boy Distributed for Haus Publishing 2021 190 p. 51/2 x 8 3/4 587 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-16-6 $22.95 Your Price: $18.36

What Is Time?

An Enquiry Truls Wyller

“With this erudite yet very accessible book, Wyller tackles the most central question in the study of time: How do we reconcile the time of physics with time as we experience it? His answer—drawing on history, philosophy, science, and literature—is that time is constituted by consciousness itself.”—Adrian Bardon, author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 176 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 4 halftones 588 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-236-5 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

Come and Hear

What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-HalfYear Journey through the Talmud Adam Kirsch “Come and Hear entices readers to sample the fruits of Kirsch’s 7-½year Talmud regime, which includes its quirkiest tidbits and the staples of rabbinic debate and wisdom. A joy to read—and a surefire enticement to savor the pleasures of Talmud for oneself.”—Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2021 256 p. 6 x 9 589 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-067-5 $32.50 Your Price: $26.00

The Daily Henry David Thoreau

A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season Edited by Laura Dassow Walls Drawn from the full range of Thoreau’s journals and published writings, and arranged according to season, The Daily Henry David Thoreau allows us to discover the endless variation and surprise to be found in the natural world.

2020 224 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 590 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62496-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

Pushing Cool

Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette Keith Wailoo “Engrossing. . . . [A] history of the evolution of targeted tobacco marketing and how the industry strategically created a demand and then peddled their product to Black America.”—Salon 2021 392 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 591 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79413-6 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Newcomers

Gentrification and Its Discontents Matthew L. Schuerman “Solid sociology in pursuit of an issue that continues to confound. . . . Schuerman unpacks the loaded word ‘gentrification,’ allowing readers to understand it as a complex phenomenon in urban neighborhoods—never entirely negative or entirely positive and usually a mixture that improves the lots of some residents while hurting others.”

—Kirkus 2019 320 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones 592 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47626-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Great Economic Thinkers

An Introduction—from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen Edited by Jonathan Conlin Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of thirteen of the most influential economists of modern times. Free from confusing jargon and equations, the book describes key concepts put forward by these thinkers and shows how they have come to shape how we see ourselves and our society.

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 304 p. 5 x 73/4 593 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-210-5 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman First published in 1962, Capitalism and Freedom is one of the most significant works of economic thought ever written. This new edition includes a new foreword

by Binyamin Appelbaum, lead economics writer for the New York Times editorial board.

2020 272 p. 51/4 x 8 1/4 594 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73479-8 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

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163 978-0-226-00774-8 $11.00 164 978-0-226-27862-9 $11.00 165 978-0-226-56701-3 $12.00 166 978-0-226-28954-0 $7.00 167 978-0-226-53385-8 $11.00 168 978-1-5126-0037-7 $9.00 169 978-1-78023-900-2 $8.00 170 978-1-78023-718-3 $8.00 171 978-1-78023-650-6 $8.00 172 978-0-226-10575-8 $13.00 173 978-0-226-74046-1 $199.00 174 978-0-226-92451-9 $13.00 175 978-0-226-56553-8 $8.00 176 978-0-226-50561-9 $13.00 177 978-0-226-14428-3 $13.00 178 978-0-226-22516-6 $11.00 179 978-0-226-66976-2 $9.00 180 978-0-226-47054-2 $11.00 181 978-1-78023-840-1 $8.00 182 978-0-226-41082-1 $17.00 183 978-0-226-46024-6 $11.00 184 978-0-226-22662-0 $13.00 185 978-0-226-51451-2 $9.00 186 978-0-226-53989-8 $9.00 187 978-0-226-54737-4 $12.00 188 978-0-226-29384-4 $13.00 189 978-0-226-11449-1 $7.00 190 978-0-226-55547-8 $13.00 191 978-0-226-02380-9 $11.00 192 978-1-78023-451-9 $11.00 193 978-0-226-92421-2 $9.00 194 978-0-226-18191-2 $7.00 195 978-0-226-37064-4 $9.00 196 978-0-226-66695-2 $13.00 197 978-0-226-13394-2 $10.00 198 978-0-226-28719-5 $11.00 199 978-0-226-46878-5 $9.00 200 978-1-85124-397-6 $6.00 201 978-1-85124-478-2 $7.00 202 978-1-85124-509-3 $14.00 203 978-0-226-26369-4 $11.00 204 978-0-226-46850-1 $11.00 205 978-1-85124-420-1 $5.00 206 978-1-85124-401-0 $5.00 207 978-1-85124-251-1 $6.00 208 978-0-226-20268-6 $7.00 209 978-0-226-15503-6 $10.00 210 978-1-85124-463-8 $15.00 211 978-1-85124-486-7 $9.00 212 978-0-226-00536-2 $5.00 213 978-1-78023-999-6 $8.00 214 978-1-85124-456-0 $17.00 215 978-1-78023-715-2 $9.00 216 978-1-78914-064-4 $9.00 217 978-0-226-76137-4 $15.00 218 978-0-615-28220-6 $13.00 219 978-1-883982-76-8 $9.00 220 978-0-226-76140-4 $17.00 221 978-0-226-37369-0 $13.00 222 978-1-61168-802-3 $15.00 223 978-1-911604-98-3 $11.00 224 978-0-226-85336-9 $13.00 225 978-0-226-16831-9 $21.00 226 978-0-226-42435-4 $11.00 227 978-0-226-67649-4 $15.00 228 978-1-78914-070-5 $7.00 229 978-0-226-50427-8 $45.00 230 978-1-78023-450-2 $11.00 231 978-1-78023-674-2 $11.00 232 978-0-226-35475-0 $17.00 233 978-1-906598-01-3 $9.00 234 978-1-86189-657-5 $9.00 235 978-1-909741-32-4 $15.00 236 978-0-226-11396-8 $23.00

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385 978-0-226-65539-0 $15.00 386 978-0-226-62238-5 $13.00 387 978-0-226-33841-5 $15.00 388 978-0-226-56870-6 $15.00 389 978-0-226-06867-1 $11.00 390 978-1-61168-396-7 $9.00 391 978-1-78023-932-3 $9.00 392 978-0-226-20328-7 $9.00 393 978-0-226-07968-4 $13.00 394 978-0-226-53503-6 $7.00 395 978-0-226-04694-5 $13.00 396 978-0-226-05901-3 $7.00 397 978-0-226-37825-1 $8.00 398 978-1-85124-382-2 $7.00 399 978-0-226-29837-5 $11.00 400 978-0-226-22498-5 $9.00 401 978-0-226-34577-2 $7.00 402 978-1-78914-012-5 $11.00 403 978-1-78023-363-5 $13.00 404 978-0-226-59441-5 $17.00 405 978-0-226-70716-7 $13.00 406 978-0-226-51951-7 $9.00 407 978-0-226-34624-3 $11.00 408 978-0-226-80668-6 $11.00 409 978-1-57586-582-9 $10.00 410 978-1-57586-212-5 $10.00 411 978-1-57586-248-4 $10.00 412 978-1-57586-010-7 $10.00 413 978-1-57586-382-5 $10.00 414 978-0-226-25805-8 $17.00 415 978-0-226-50588-6 $11.00 416 978-0-226-63633-7 $9.00 417 978-0-226-25495-1 $12.00 418 978-0-226-80575-7 $7.00 419 978-0-226-42930-4 $14.00 420 978-0-226-73704-1 $5.00 421 978-0-226-05547-3 $129.00 422 978-0-226-42121-6 $7.00 423 978-0-226-30504-2 $7.00 424 978-0-226-13650-9 $9.00 425 978-0-226-23634-6 $9.00 426 978-0-226-49666-5 $11.00 427 978-0-226-50526-8 $11.00 428 978-0-226-63454-8 $13.00 429 978-0-226-13492-5 $11.00 430 978-0-226-46945-4 $11.00 431 978-0-226-38585-3 $11.00 432 978-0-226-42832-1 $9.00 433 978-0-226-13784-1 $7.00 434 978-1-5126-0110-7 $7.00 435 978-0-226-33290-1 $5.00 436 978-0-226-33399-1 $13.00 437 978-0-226-07773-4 $36.00 438 978-0-226-42636-5 $21.00 439 978-0-226-52552-5 $21.00 440 978-0-226-16389-5 $21.00 441 978-0-226-53250-9 $21.00 442 978-0-226-38475-7 $13.00 443 978-0-226-53197-7 $17.00 444 978-0-226-39963-8 $11.00 445 978-0-226-45214-2 $8.00 446 978-0-226-44354-6 $13.00 447 978-0-226-08244-8 $13.00 448 978-0-226-23679-7 $8.00 449 978-1-78023-730-5 $8.00 450 978-0-226-05425-4 $7.00 451 978-0-226-27920-6 $7.00 452 978-0-226-04243-5 $7.00 453 978-0-226-14156-5 $7.00 454 978-0-226-17492-1 $7.00 455 978-0-85742-221-7 $7.00 456 978-0-226-30647-6 $7.00 457 978-0-226-44919-7 $7.00

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531 978-0-226-75488-8 532 978-0-226-72834-6 533 978-0-226-61557-8 534 978-0-226-50770-5 535 978-0-226-80304-3 536 978-0-226-77967-6 537 978-1-78914-460-4 538 978-0-226-81562-6 539 978-0-226-75507-6 540 978-0-226-76317-0 541 978-0-226-52583-9 542 978-0-226-35668-6 543 978-0-226-73952-6 544 978-0-226-66600-6 545 978-0-226-69142-8 546 978-0-226-79041-1 547 978-0-226-75524-3 548 978-1-85124-422-5 549 978-1-913368-22-7 550 978-0-226-59145-2 551 978-0-226-75314-0 552 978-0-226-68704-9 553 978-0-226-69089-6 554 978-0-226-61137-2 555 978-0-226-75023-1 556 978-1-78914-443-7 557 978-1-78914-482-6 558 978-1-78914-397-3 559 978-0-226-71926-9 560 978-1-78914-212-9 561 978-1-78023-977-4 562 978-0-226-79864-6 563 978-0-226-67589-3 564 978-0-226-78293-5 565 978-1-85124-485-0 566 978-0-226-59663-1 567 978-1-85124-537-6 568 978-1-85124-555-0 569 978-1-85124-532-1 570 978-1-85124-530-7 571 978-1-68458-056-9 572 978-1-68458-032-3 573 978-0-226-70646-7 574 978-0-226-67505-3 575 978-0-226-75054-5 576 978-1-78914-054-5 577 978-0-226-68279-2 578 978-1-85124-536-9 579 978-1-78914-457-4 580 978-1-85124-553-6 581 978-1-84246-715-2 582 978-1-78914-362-1 583 978-0-226-80920-5 584 978-1-78914-223-5 585 978-0-226-79668-0 586 978-1-78914-501-4 587 978-1-913368-16-6 588 978-1-78914-236-5 589 978-1-68458-067-5 590 978-0-226-62496-9 591 978-0-226-79413-6 592 978-0-226-47626-1 593 978-1-78914-210-5 594 978-0-226-73479-8 900 978-0-226-28705-8 901 978-0-226-43057-7 902 978-0-226-23973-6 903 978-0-226-49991-8 904 978-0-226-73692-1 905 978-0-226-74907-5 906 978-0-226-76611-9 907 978-0-226-28140-7 908 978-0-226-18885-0

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