Book Celebration 2022 - 2023 Humanities Publications

A Celebration of Academic Scholarship

2022–2023

“We are threatened by our own cleverness, and it is easy to get paranoid. This book, by one of our best historians of science and technology, offers a sane, balanced, and deeply informed look at the major threats and lays out a rational way forward.”

Written by an award-winning historian of science and technology, Planet in Peril describes the top four mega-dangers facing humankind – climate change, nukes, pandemics, and AI. It outlines the solutions that have been tried, and analyzes why they have thus far fallen short. These four exponential dangers present a special kind of challenge that urgently requires planet-level responses, yet today’s international institutions have so far failed to meet this need.

The book lays out a realistic pathway for gradually modifying the United Nations over the coming century so that it can become more effective at coordinating global solutions to humanity’s problems.

Neither optimistic nor pessimistic - but pragmatic and constructive - the book explores how to move past ideological polarization and global political fragmentation. Unafraid to take intellectual risks, Planet in Peril sketches a plausible roadmap toward a safer, more democratic future for us all.

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MONOGRAPHS “a joy to read and a roadmap for solving daunting problems...”

Michael Vandenbergh

MICHAEL D. BESS

PLANET IN PERIL Humanity’s Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

“It is hard to believe that international cooperation remains a tough sell in 2022.

Imagine: global problems require global solutions! Bess spells out concrete, and hopefully doable, steps toward overcoming polarization and fragmentation. Let’s hope he’s right.”

THOMAS G. WEISS, CUNY Graduate Center “Michael Bess is able to look over the horizon and think creatively without losing sight of what is viable. In Planet in Peril he offers insightful ... solutions to four of the greatest threats facing humankind.

It is one of those rare books that is both a joy to read and a roadmap for solving daunting problems.”

MICHAEL VANDENBERGH, Vanderbilt University

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MONOGRAPHS Anoll, Allison. The Obligation Mosaic: Race and Social Norms in US Political Participation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2022.

Bess, Michael D. Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 2023.

Budwey, Stephanie. Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Campany, Robert Ford. Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE - 800 CE. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2023.

CREATIVE WORKS

Cizmar, Elizabeth M. Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Theatre: Reviving the Legacy. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Cowie, Jefferson. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. New York: Basic Books, 2022.

Epstein-Levi, Rebecca. When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2023.

Filosa, Elsa. Boccaccio’s Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2022.

EDITIONS

González-Justiniano, Yara. Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.

Hemmer, Nicole. Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s. New York: Basic Books, 2022.

Joskowicz, Ari. Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2023.

Karageorgou Bastea, Christina. Beyond Intimacy: Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2023.

Lieberman, Phillip. The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East.

Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2022.

López González, Luis F. The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022.

Lorge, Peter. Sun Tzu in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2023.

Michelson, David. The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023.

Rieger, Joerg. Theory in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity. Minneapolis: Fortress P, 2022.

Rogaski, Ruth. Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2022.

Ross, Norbert. A World of Many. Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2023.

Saxena, Akshya. Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2022.

Scott, Claire E. Murderous Mothers: Late Twentieth-Century Medea Figures and Feminism. New York: Peter Lang, 2022.

Sheppard, Phillis Isabella. Tilling Sacred Ground: Inferiority, Black Women, and Religious Experience. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022.

Slobogin, Christopher. Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing. New York: New York UP, 2022.

Zamora, Andres. Inciviles batallas españolas (1772-1910): Retórica, ideología, literatura. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2022.

Zeller, Christoph. Werte: Geschichte eines Versprechens. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2022.

SPECIAL ISSUES: JOURNAL Clayton, Jay and Claire Sisco King, eds. “Fictions of Genetic Privacy.”

Special issue of Journal of Literature and Science, vol. 14, no. 1-2, 2022.

TRANSLATIONS Calico, Joy H. La memoria cantata: A Survivor from Warsaw di Arnold Schönberg nell’Europa del dopoguerra. Edited by Paulo Dal Molin; Translated by Silvia Albisano. Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2023. [Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe. Berkeley: U of California P, 2014.]

Werner, Meike G. Germany’s Other Modernism. The Jena Paradigm, 1900-1914. Translated by Stephen D. Dowden. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2023. [Moderne in der Provinz. Kulturelle Experimente in Fin de Siècle Jena. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003.]

EDITED BOOKS Philippe Bourbeau, Jean-Michel Marcoux, and Brooke A. Ackerly, eds.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022.

Bogdanović, Jelena, ed. Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Bogdanović, Jelena, Ida Sinkević, Marina Mihaljević, and Čedomila Marinković, eds. Type and Archetype in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Ranissance Europe, 19). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023.

Kutzinski, Vera M. and Anthony Reed, eds. Langston Hughes in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2022.

Pugh, Tison and Lynn Ramey, eds. Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Korka, Elena and Joseph L. Rife, eds. On the Edge of a Roman Port: The Excavations at Koutsongila, Kenchreai, 2007-2014. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies, 2022.

Rooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sunar, eds. ed. Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media Book 3). Oakland: University of California P, 2023.

Prefume, Yuko, Akiko Murata, Hiroshi Tajima, Yuka Matsuhashi, Makoto, Negishi, and Hideko Shimizu, eds. Diving into Japanese Culture and Society through Food. Tokyo: Kuroshio, 2023.

Townes, Emilie M., Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Alison Gise Johnson, and Angela D. Sims, eds. Walking Through the Valley: Womanist Explorations in the Spirit of Katie Geneva Cannon. Louisville: Westminster John Knox P, 2022.

Werner, Meike G. and Peter Demetz. eds. Was wir wiederlesen wollen.

Literarische Essays 1960-2010. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022.

Christian Damböck, Günther Sanders and Meike G. Werner, eds, Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die deutsche Jugendbewegung: Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022.

Johannes, Endres and Christoph Zeller, eds. Collecting in the TwentyFirst Century: From Museums to the Web. Rochester: Camden House, 2022.

CREATIVE WORKS Conklin, Lydia. Rainbow Rainbow: Stories. New York: Catapult, 2022.

Dordal, Lisa. Water Lessons. New York: Black Lawrence P, 2022.

Jackson, Major. A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2022.

Klass, Judy. After Tartuffe. Next Stage Press.

Nextstagepress.com, 2023.

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