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Spring 2009

SPRING 2009

From the Director CONTENTS


SINCE 1893, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS has enriched General Interest 2
lives and contributed to the public good by fueling intellectual California 34
and creative endeavor.
Poetry 38
This season follows tradition with a catalog full of books
that build fields of knowledge, suggest solutions for challeng- Anthropology 40
ing environmental and social problems, and educate students, Sociology 45
policymakers, and curious readers alike.
Our lead book, Elephant Reflections by Karl Ammann and History 50
Dale Peterson, illuminates the history and conservation of this Classics 57
singular creature. Other comprehensive reference volumes doc-
Religion 60
ument the world’s wildlife, oceans, islands, and natural resources.
A number of authors take on current issues such as organic Science 64
farming, human trafficking, the war on terror, and drug addic- GAIA/Series Monographs 69
tion, while historical studies reveal new information about topics
Art 70
as diverse as ice cream, environmental change, the pineapple
industry, Alcatraz, punk music, and Khubilai Khan’s fleet. Music 73
We also offer a cluster of biographies of iconic figures Walt Media 74
Whitman, Wallace Stegner, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as
new works by returning authors Kevin Bales, Jann Pasler, Joan Film 75
Roughgarden, Neil Smelser, Robert Wuthnow, and many others Paperbacks 76
throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
Huntington Library Press 103
I invite you to learn about these books and more in the
pages that follow, and to visit www.ucpress.edu for our entire Ordering Information 106
selection of titles in print. Author Index 110
Title Index 111

Lynne Withey
Director
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Photographs by Karl Ammann and Text by Dale Peterson


Elephant Reflections
Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl
Ammann’s gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer
Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature’s greatest and most original
works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely
aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enig-
matic, individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose,
Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains
their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history
and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics
of ivory. Elephant Reflections is a book that could change the way the
world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of
control over their fate.

Karl Ammann has photographed wildlife through-


out Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. His remark-
able work has appeared in the New York Times
Magazine, Outdoor Photography, Natural History,
African Geographic, and elsewhere. Dale Peterson
is the author or editor of fifteen books, including
the recent Jane Goodall: The Woman Who
Redefined Man. Ammann and Peterson’s previous
collaboration, Eating Apes (UC Press), was named
a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and the
Globe and Mail, and a Top Science Book of the
Year by Discover magazine.

MAY
288 pages, 10 x 10-1/2”, 131 color & 2 b/w photographs
Natural History/The Environment/Photography
World
cloth 978-0-520-25377-3 $39.95/£23.95

Also by Dale Peterson:


Eating Apes
With an Afterword and Photographs by
Karl Ammann
World
cloth 978-0-520-23090-3 $35.00tx/£19.95
paper 978-0-520-24332-3 $17.95/£10.95

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“This is a stunning book, combining Dale


Peterson’s lucid, compelling writing with
Karl Ammann’s magnificent photographs. It
is the best ever book about that most majes-
tic of animals, highlighting the elephant’s
intelligence, love of family, and delight in the
good things of life. The ideal book for anyone
who loves animals, nature, and the wonder of
creation.”
Jane Goodall, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
and United Nations Messenger of Peace

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Gary Y. Okihiro
Pineapple Culture
A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones

“Pineapple Culture is an imaginative reframing of world history with


Hawai‘i and its best-known tropical product at its center.”
Edmund Burke III, coeditor of Genealogies of Orientalism

“A stunning model of inclusive global history!”


George J. Sanchez, author of Becoming Mexican American

Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to


European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the
tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple
Culture is a dazzling history of the world’s tropical and temperate
zones told through the pineapple’s illustrative career. Following Gary
Y. Okihiro’s enthusiastically received Island World: A History of
Hawai‘i and the United States, Pineapple Culture continues to upend
conventional ideas about history, space, and time with its provocative
vision. At the center of the story is the thoroughly modern tale of
Gary Y. Okihiro is Professor of International and Dole’s “Hawaiian” pineapple, which, from its island periphery, infil-
Public Affairs and Founding Director of the Center trated the white, middle-class homes of the continental United States.
for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia
The transit of the pineapple brilliantly illuminates the history and
University.
geography of empires—their creations and accumulations; the circuits
California World History Library, 10 of knowledge, capital, labor, goods, and the cultures that characterize
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities them; and their assumed power to name, classify, and rule over alien
JUNE lands, peoples, and resources.
200 pages, 6 x 8”, 40 b/w photographs,
1 line illustration, 7 maps, 1 table
History/Global Studies/Ethic Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25513-5 $24.95/£14.95

Also by Gary Y. Okihiro:


Island World
A History of Hawai‘i and the United States
California World History Library, 8
World
cloth 978-0-520-25299-8 $27.50/£16.95

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Jeri Quinzio
Of Sugar and Snow
A History of Ice Cream Making

“A chilling page-turner. Jeri Quinzio scoops out a detailed and enter-


taining picture of my favorite dessert, from its wine-slush origins in
sixteenth-century Italy through contemporary flavor and marketing
innovations. I couldn’t put it down.”
Bruce Weinstein, author of The Ultimate Ice Cream Book

“This book is a real treat, as fun as running an ice cream store in July!”
Gus Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s Ice Cream

Was ice cream invented in Philadelphia? How about by the Emperor


Nero, when he poured honey over snow? Did Marco Polo first taste it
in China and bring recipes back? In this first book to tell ice cream’s
full story, Jeri Quinzio traces the beloved confection from its earliest
appearances in sixteenth-century Europe to the small towns of
America and debunks some colorful myths along the way. She explains
how ice cream is made, describes its social role, and connects historical
events to its business and consumption. A diverting yet serious work Jeri Quinzio is the author of Ice Cream: The
of history, Of Sugar and Snow provides a fascinating array of recipes, Ultimate Cold Comfort and a contributor to the ice
cream entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food
from a seventeenth-century Italian lemon sorbet to a twentieth-century
and Drink in America.
American strawberry mallobet, and traces how this once elite status
symbol became today’s universally available and wildly popular treat. California Studies in Food and Culture, 25

MAY
286 pages, 6 x 8”, 18 color illustrations
Food/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-24861-8 $24.95/£14.95

‘The Cream of Love,” Currier & Ives. Courtesy of the Library


of Congress.

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Channa Bambaradeniya, Cinthya Flores, Joshua


Ginsberg, Dwight Holing, Susan Lumpkin, George
McKay, John Musick, Patrick Quilty, Bernard
Stonehouse, Eric John Woehler, and David Woodruff
The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife
Have you ever seen an antelope the size of a cat, or a frog bigger than
a lapdog? What kinds of animals thrive in the Sahara? Earth is full of
incredible creatures, all specially adapted to survive in even the most
inhospitable environments. This vividly illustrated atlas is the essential
wildlife reference, providing a spectacular visual survey of animals and
their habitats across the globe. Divided into eight geographic areas
and organized by continent and habitat type, The Illustrated Atlas of
Wildlife leads readers from the Great Barrier Reef to the Appalachians
and from the ocean floor to the cloud forests, showcasing in scientific
detail the bizarre, beautiful, and highly specialized wildlife of each
location. Learn about the critically endangered mountain gorilla, the
reptiles of the Everglades, a desert spider that transforms into a wheel,
Copub: Weldon Owen Publishing and hundreds of other endemic and endangered species, as well as the
threats and challenges they face.
APRIL
288 pages, 10-3/4 x 13-1/4”, 840 color illustrations,
160 maps, 175 tables
Natural History/Earth Science • Details the ecology and wildlife of the continents, oceans, and poles
North America, U.S. & Territories • Includes the most up-to-date conservation and preservation data
cloth 978-0-520-25785-6 $39.95
• Features hundreds of beautiful color photographs, illustrations, and maps
• Chronicles evolution and adaptation over the ages, as well as current issues
• Explores human impacts upon the
world’s complex ecosystems

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Dr. Channa Bambaradeniya is the Coordinator of the Asia Regional Species and
Biodiversity Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Cinthya Flores is an international social communications consultant and jour-
nalist. Dr. Joshua Ginsberg is Program Director at the Wildlife Conservation
Society. Dwight Holing is the author of many books on rain forests, coral reefs,
and wilderness in Europe and western America. Dr. Susan Lumpkin is a
Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoological Parks.
George McKay chairs the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Advisory
Council, Australia. Dr. John Musick is Marshall Acuff Professor Emeritus in
Marine Science at the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine
Science. Dr. Patrick Quilty is Honorary Research Professor in Earth Sciences at
the University of Tasmania. Dr. Bernard Stonehouse is an environmental biolo-
gist with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and the
Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. Dr. Eric John Woehler is
an expert on antarctic and subantarctic birds. Dr. David Woodruff is Professor
of Biology at the University of California, San Diego.

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David Ward
Alcatraz
The Gangster Years
With Gene Kassebaum

“Ward has collected the most impressive documentation anywhere


on the workings of a prison. This is a unique and wonderful work of
sociology and history.” Howard Becker, author of Outsiders and Art Worlds

Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Alvin Karpis, “Dock”


Barker—these were just a few of the legendary “public enemies” for
whom America’s first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The
Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life along with vivid
accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through
the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented
access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records,
conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts,
guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of “The
Rock.” Alcatraz is the only book with authoritative answers to questions
that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psycholog-
ically with the harsh regime? What provoked the protests and strikes?
How did security flaws lead to the sensational escape attempts? And
David Ward is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at what happened when these “habitual, incorrigible” convicts were finally
the University of Minnesota and the coauthor (with released? By shining a light on the most famous prison in the world,
Gene Kassebaum and David Wilner) of Prison
Ward also raises timely questions about today’s supermax prisons.
Treatment and Parole Survival. Gene Kassebaum
is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University
of Hawaii and the coauthor (with Ward) of Women’s
Prison.

MARCH
576 pages, 6 x 9”, 72 b/w photographs
History/Sociology/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25607-1 $34.95/£19.95

George “Machine Gun” Kelly, AZ-117, and William Radkay,


AZ-666, watch convicts playing bridge with dominoes marked
like playing cards. Photo courtesy Bureau of Prisons.

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Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter


The Slave Next Door
Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today

“Once again, Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter make us confront a tragic
reality: there are as many as 27 million people trapped in modern
slavery worldwide. In this book, we hear the voices of survivors and
those who are fighting every day for freedom.”
Congressman John Conyers, Jr.

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery


Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of
human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In
The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in
plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restau-
rant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping
the floor of the local department store. In these pages we also meet
some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class
Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences
including slavery. Weaving together a wealth of voices—from slaves,
slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors, law
enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others—this
book is also a call to action, telling what we, as private citizens, can do Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves in
to finally bring an end to this horrific crime. Washington, D.C., (www.freetheslaves.net) and
Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University
in London, England, is the author of Disposable
People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (UC
Also by Kevin Bales: Press), among other books. Ron Soodalter, historian,
folklorist, and lecturer, is the author of Hanging
Ending Slavery Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American
How We Free Today’s Slaves
Slave Trader.
World
978-0-520-25470-1 $24.95/£14.95
MAY
978-0-520-25796-2 $15.95/£9.50
288 pages, 6 x 9”
Current Affairs/Politics/Sociology
Disposable People World
New Slavery in the Global Economy cloth 978-0-520-25515-9 $24.95/£14.95
Revised Edition With a New Preface
World
paper 978-0-520-24384-2 $21.95sc/£12.95

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Paul Rose and Anne Laking


Oceans
Exploring the Hidden Depths of the Underwater World

The oceans are the single most important feature of our planet. They
shape our climate, our culture, and our future. Yet their depths have
remained a mysterious and unchartered expanse. This book, which
accompanies a major BBC television series, draws on the most exciting
stories from the fields of subaquatic archaeology, geology, marine biol-
ogy, and anthropology to reveal an astonishing landscape of forgotten
shipwrecks, submerged volcanoes, and hidden caves. For Oceans,
explorer Paul Rose and his team of expert divers filmed fluorescence in
Red Sea corals for the very first time and explored the undisturbed
waters of the Black Hole off the Bahamas. They witnessed rarely seen
behavior in sperm whales in the Sea of Cortez and discovered a poten-
tially unknown species below the arctic ice pack. Undertaking thrilling
and often dangerous dives, Rose and his team reveal the importance of
the oceans to human existence—and at the same time trace the possi-
ble consequences of climate change
Paul Rose, expedition leader and copresenter of on their delicate balance. Beautifully
the BBC television series Oceans, is a professional illustrated with more than 160 color
diver, polar guide, and mountaineer. He was the photographs, Oceans unravels the
base commander of the British Antarctic Survey
mysteries of the deep and provides
and ran the U.S. Navy’s diver training program.
illuminating insights into this vast
Rose has presented several other BBC television
series, including Voyages of Discovery, Climate undersea domain.
Change, and Take One Museum. Anne Laking’s
programs have won a number of awards. She was
executive producer of the Horizon documentary
The Mystery of the Persian Mummy, as well as the
BBC Four science series Time, Light Fantastic, and
Visions of the Future. She is the executive producer
of Oceans.

Copub: BBC

APRIL
240 pages, 8-1/2 x 10-3/4”, 162 color photographs,
4 maps
Natural History/Photography/Oceanography
U.S. & Canada
cloth 978-0-520-26028-3 $34.95

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• Lavishly illustrated with color photographs


• Includes profiles of the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of
Cortez, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Southern Ocean,
the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean
• Features photographs of many rarely seen life forms
• The international team of divers includes Philippe Cousteau

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Joan Roughgarden
The Genial Gene
Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness

“No other book offers such a sustained argument against sexual


selection theory and provides such a compelling alternative—
substantively important and exciting.”
Jonathan Kaplan, coauthor of Making Sense of Evolution

“Roughgarden’s unique and forceful vision issues a timely, cogent


challenge to the predominant world view that selfishness and conflict
are the norm in adaptive evolution.”
Michael J. Wade, coauthor of Mating Systems and Strategies

Are selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and coopera-


tion—basic to biological nature? Does a “selfish gene” create universal
sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully
rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study
of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book
Evolution’s Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about
gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the
notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and devel-
Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biology at ops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social
Stanford University. She is the author of selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation,
Sexuality in Nature and People (UC Press), elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene
Evolution and Christian Faith, and Primer of pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to
Ecological Theory.
identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents
APRIL the facts of life as we now know them.
252 pages, 6 x 9”, 20 tables
Evolution/Ecology Studies/Gender
World
cloth 978-0-520-25826-6 $24.95/£14.95

Also by Joan Roughgarden (see page 87):


Evolution’s Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality
in Nature and People
World
paper 978-0-520-24679-9 $18.95/£11.50

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Celebrate the Bicentennial


of Charles Darwin’s Birth
February 12, 2009
Richard Milner
Darwin’s Universe
Evolution from A to Z
With a Foreword by Ian Tattersall and a Preface by Stephen Jay Gould

“Darwin’s Universe is the single best volume ever published that cov-
ers all matters Darwin from A to Z. I have never so enjoyed a scientific
book, plucking out gems of elegant narrative richly supported by
photographs and paintings from the history of evolutionary thought.”
Michael Shermer, author of In Darwin’s Shadow

This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining


browser’s delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of
Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative Richard Milner is an Associate in Anthropology at
and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which ideas of the American Museum of Natural History, con-
evolutionary biology have leapt the boundaries of science to influence tributing editor at Natural History magazine, and
philosophy, law, religion, literature, cinema, art, and popular culture. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Author of
Darwin’s Universe, a thoroughly revised and updated successor to three award-winning books on evolution, he has
published articles in Scientific American and other
Richard Milner’s acclaimed Encyclopedia of Evolution, contains more
science magazines and has been featured on the
than a hundred new essays, including entries on animal behavior (Alex History, Discovery, and Animal Planet channels,
the parrot, Kanzi the bonobo, Digit the gorilla), on women in science as well as on BBC Two and Nova.
(Mary Anning, Rosalind Franklin), and on the latest finds of human
fossils. A veritable museum of natural history, it also contains many MARCH
488 pages, 8-1/2 x 11”, 450 b/w photographs
original discoveries brought to light by Milner’s historical sleuthing. Natural History/Evolution/Biology
Packed with hundreds of rare illustrations, including many new ones, World
this Darwin Bicentennial edition will appeal to a wide audience cloth 978-0-520-24376-7 $39.95/£23.95

of readers.

Darwin postage stamp from Mauritius, 1982.

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Ben Hoare
Animal Migration
Remarkable Journeys in the Wild

This spectacular guide explores the mysteries of animal migration over


land, in the oceans, and through the air. Lavishly illustrated with two
hundred photographs and maps, Animal Migration highlights specific
conservation issues while tracing the routes of some one hundred
species of animal with examples on every continent. Ben Hoare
explains how animals migrate, either as parts of mass migration or in
individual journeys, and describes in fascinating detail their navigation,
reproduction, and feeding strategies. He also brings to life migrations
that stand out for their extraordinary challenges such as those that take
animals unthinkable distances across hostile or barren territory. Designed
for easy browsing or in-depth study, Animal Migration concludes with a
supplementary catalog of migrants, adding the routes of an additional
two hundred animals, and is an invaluable addition to any nature
Ben Hoare is an author and editor who specializes lover’s library.
in natural history. His work has appeared in BBC
Wildlife and Birdlife magazines and on BBC Web
sites, and he is a fellow of the Zoological Society
of London.

Copub: Marshall Editions

MARCH
176 pages, 10-1/4 x 11-1/2“, 200 color illustrations,
80 maps
Natural History/Ecology
North America and U.S. Territories
cloth 978-0-520-25823-5 $34.95

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Dominic Couzens
Top 100 Birding Sites of the World
“My first response after reading this book was to reach for the phone
and start booking tours to go see birds. This book’s combination of
dynamic photography and scope of coverage makes for a truly com-
pelling exploration.” John T. Rotenberry, University of California, Riverside

King penguins in Antarctica, cassowaries in Queensland, cocks-of-the-


rock in Peru. This gorgeous book describes the one hundred best bird-
watching sites on the planet. Introductory sections give an overview of
each continent or region, and then each site is listed and ranked on a
country-by-country basis. The entries all include a full description, a
list of key species, a map, and information on the best time of year to
visit. Lavish color photographs capture rare and elusive species as well
as some of the world’s best avian spectacles, such as the snow goose
blizzard at Bosque del Apache and the flocks of lesser flamingos on
Africa’s Rift Valley lakes. Many birding sites are included for their
unique avifauna, endemics, and oddities—the Seychelles, Andasibe in
Madagascar, Taveuni in Fiji, and the Alaka‘i wilderness in Hawaii, Dominic Couzens is a writer and birding leader
among others. With its truly global coverage—of the huge flocks of based in the United Kingdom. He has written
numerous books on birds and wildlife and hun-
wintering geese in Britain and the United States, the cranes in both
dreds of articles in such magazines as BBC
Japan and France, the “river of raptors” passage at Veracruz in Mexico, Wildlife and Birdwatching. His best-known books
and much more—this book will inform and inspire anyone who plans are Secret Lives of Garden Birds and Identifying
to visit, or who dreams of visiting, these extraordinary locations. Birds by Behavior.

Copub: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd.

FEBRUARY
320 pages, 10-1/2 x 12-1/2”, 400 color photographs,
101 maps, 1 table
Natural History/Birds/Travel
North America
cloth 978-0-520-25932-4 $45.00

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David Blumenthal and James A. Morone


The Heart of Power
Health and Politics in the Oval Office

Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick,
take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about
ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon
watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors moni-
tored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received
last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a “belly
buster” of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality
—and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as
they faced the difficult politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of
newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White
House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently
come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which
presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking
a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight
Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon,
Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill
Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach
David Blumenthal is Samuel O Thier Professor of us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.
Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at Harvard
Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts
General Hospital. He has advised Democratic pres-
idential candidates from Michael Dukakis to Barak
Obama. James A. Morone is Professor and Chair
of Political Science at Brown University and the
author of Hellfire Nation and The Democratic
Wish, a New York Times Notable Book and winner
of the Gladys Kammerer Award of the American
Political Science Association.

JUNE
387 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w illustrations
Medicine/Politics/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-26030-6 $26.95/£15.95

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Robert Wuthnow
Boundless Faith
The Global Outreach of American Churches

In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American


Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that
American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and
is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies
and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the
growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other
countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in
short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building
orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer net-
works. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for
this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church
leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S.
churches have turned away from the global church and overseas mis-
sions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice
of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh
and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-
roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.

Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52


Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center
for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He
is the author of many books, including Creative
Also by Robert Wuthnow: Spirituality: The Way of the Artist (UC Press).
All in Sync MAY
How Music and Art Are Revitalizing 356 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 tables
American Religion Religion/Sociology/American Studies
World World
cloth 978-0-520-23769-8 $40.00tx/£23.95 cloth 978-0-520-25915-7 $26.95/£15.95
paper 978-0-520-24685-0 $21.95tx/£12.95

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Barry Seldes
Leonard Bernstein
The Political Life of an American Musician

From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990,
Leonard Bernstein’s star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing
biography of Bernstein’s political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein’s
career against the backdrop of cold war America—blacklisting by
the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York
Philharmonic in 1951 to avoid its blacklist, signing a humiliating affi-
davit to regain his passport—and the factors that by the mid-1950s
allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes
for the first time links Bernstein’s great concert-hall and musical-
theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to
his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use
of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the
Library of Congress’s Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in
which Bernstein’s career intersected with the twentieth century’s most
momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively documented
account of the celebrity-maestro’s life deepens our understanding of an
entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections
of American culture and political power.
Barry Seldes is Professor of Political Science at
Rider University and the author of a wide range of
essays on politics and culture.

A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book

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288 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs
Politics/Music/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25764-1 $24.95/£14.95

Bernstein with (left to right) Sam Barlow, Paul Robeson, and


Muriel Smith, at a benefit for the Anti-Fascist Refugee
Committee, May, 1944. Photographer unknown; image courtesy
of the Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress.

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Ted Genoways
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862

“This is one of the most remarkable studies of Whitman that I’ve seen
in many a year. It's penetrating and original.”
Jerome Loving, author of
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself and The Last Titan

Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860,
Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge
again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two
and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as
evidence of Whitman’s indifference to the Civil War during its critical
early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written
book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years—locating
Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen
manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period
newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways’s account
fills a major gap in Whitman’s biography and debunks the myth that
Whitman was unaffected by the country’s march
to war. Instead, Walt Whitman and the
Civil War reveals the poet’s active Ted Genoways is the editor of Walt Whitman: The
participation in the early Civil War Correspondence, Volume VII and the author of two
period and elucidates his shock at volumes of poetry. He is also the editor of the
the horrors of war months be- Virginia Quarterly Review.

fore his legendary journey to A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Book


Fredericksburg, correcting in
part the poet’s famous asser- JUNE
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tion that the “real war will Literature/Gender Studies
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James Redpath, posing with a copy of the New York Tribune,


ca. 1858 (Kansas State Historical Society).

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Amiri Baraka
Digging
The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most
important commentators on African American music and culture. In
this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collec-
tion in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history,
musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, peo-
ple, times, and places he’s encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues
People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max
Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane-—and on those
whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter,
Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka’s literary style, with its deep
roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musi-
cian friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much
Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered.
He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians
carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, pro-
viding us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.

Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) is a writer


and critic, the poet laureate of New Jersey, and
Professor Emeritus of the State University of New
York, Stony Brook. His many books include Blues
People, Black Music, and The Music.

Music of the African Diaspora, 13


A George Gund Foundation Book in African American
Studies

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Music/Jazz/American Studies
World
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At Kimako’s: Gene Phipps, Sr. (left) and Amiri Baraka (right).


Photo courtesy Risasi Dais.

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Ray Carney
John Cassavetes in Person
John Cassavetes—celebrated as the father of American independent
filmmaking—managed to frustrate biographers with wildly conflicting
“facts” about himself, making it impossible to form an accurate picture
of the man and the artist. In this extraordinary book, Ray Carney
assembles the filmmaker’s statements and writings to present
Cassavetes’s life and work in his own words, vividly revealing the per-
sonal and cultural forces that shaped his career as a writer-director of
fiercely independent films—from Shadows, Faces, and Husbands in the
late 1950s and 1960s to Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman under the
Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Opening Night, Gloria, and
Love Streams in the decades that followed. Framed by Carney’s com-
prehensive introduction and bolstered by an invaluable timeline of
major developments, including his marriage to actress Gena Rowlands,
John Cassavetes in Person offers a biographical overview unlike any
other. Situating the filmmaker in his films, this book reaches beyond
the press releases to reveal the man behind the masks, the mortal at
the center of the myths, and the artistic hero without the hero worship.

Ray Carney is Professor of Film and American


Studies at Boston University. He is the editor of
Cassavetes on Cassavetes and the author of
American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes
among many books.

A Simpson Book in the Humanities

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Cinema/Film/American Studies
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Robert Flynn Johnson


The Face in the Lens
Anonymous Photographs
Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

Anonymous photography has a magic all its own. The intriguing


images assembled here by collector and curator Robert Flynn Johnson
are all mysterious, but their appeal is various. By turns poignant,
humorous, erotic, and disturbing, their subject is the human condition.
In ten stunning chapters every aspect of human experience—both
public and private—is explored. Richly reproduced and with subtle
tonalities marking their age, over 220 photographs showcase the work
of photographers whose identities have been lost in time. The images
are never anything less than mesmerizing and include previously
unseen portraits of such stars as Cary Grant, Richard Burton, and
Marlene Dietrich. Introduced by Alexander McCall Smith, this fol-
low-up to Johnson’s widely acclaimed Anonymous touches on birth,
Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator Emeritus of the marriage, death, disease, hope, glory, and despair and a plethora of
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts additional emotions, events, and human states, and will capture the
Museums of San Francisco. He is the author of imagination of any reader.
many books, including Anonymous: Enigmatic
Images from Unknown Photographers.
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over sixty
books, including the award-winning No. 1 Ladies’
Detective Agency series.

Copub: Thames and Hudson

MAY
208 pages, 9-3/4 x 9-3/4, 223 b/w photographs
Art/Photography
North America
cloth 978-0-520-25983-6 $45.00

USA c. 1910. Photographer unknown.

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Peter Jan Honigsberg


Our Nation Unhinged
The Human Consequences of the War on Terror
Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky

“A moving and powerful narrative of how we lost our constitutional


and moral compass.” Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and ear-


muffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist.
Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, “Kill
me!” Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed
through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and
blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the
freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administra-
tion’s response to the attacks of September 11, 2001—and of how we
have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies,
abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and
liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles
the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the pres-
ent, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the
past seven years and where we are now headed.
Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at the
University of San Francisco School of Law. He visit-
Our Nation Unhinged includes: ed Guantánamo in May 2007. He is author of
Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir
• Original documents, letters, and interviews
(UC Press), among other books.
• Peter Jan Honigsberg’s account of his own visit
to Guantánamo MAY
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• Case studies of detainees
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• Photographs World
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Camp Delta. Photo by Peter Jan Honigsberg.

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James P. Delgado
Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet
In Search of a Legendary Armada

“Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet is a fascinating adventure tale packed


with insights into a maritime empire about which most Westerners
know almost nothing.” Nathantiel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea

“Through brilliant and painstaking research James Delgado has


brought Khubilai Khan’s lost fleet to the surface, showing for the first
time the true nature of the doomed adventure.”
Stephen Turnbull, author of The Samurai Sourcebook

In 1279, near what is now Hong Kong, Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan
fulfilled the dream of his grandfather, Genghis Khan, by conquering
China. The Grand Khan now ruled the largest empire the world has
ever seen—one that stretched from the China Sea to the plains of
Hungary. He also inherited the world’s largest navy—more than seven
hundred ships. Yet within fifteen years, Khubilai Khan’s massive fleet
was gone. What actually happened to the Mongol navy, considered for
seven centuries to be little more than legend, has finally been revealed.
Renowned archaeologist and historian James P. Delgado has gone
James P. Delgado is the President of the Institute diving with a Japanese team currently studying the remains of the
of Nautical Archaeology. His many previous books Khan’s lost fleet. Drawing from diverse sources—sunken ships, hand-
include the British Museum Encyclopedia of painted scrolls, drowned bodies, and historical and literary records—
Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, and, most in this gripping account that moves deftly between the present and the
recently, Gold Rush Port: The Maritime past, Delgado pieces together the fascinating tale of Khubilai Khan’s
Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront (UC
maritime forays and unravels one of history’s greatest mysteries: What
Press). Delgado has hosted the National
Geographic television series “The Sea Hunters.”
sank the great Mongol fleet?

Copub: Douglas & McIntyre

MARCH
240 pages, 6 x 9”, 24 b/w illustrations, 4 maps
History/Archaeology/Asian Studies
Also by James P. Delgado (see page 43):
U.S. & Territories, Philippines
cloth 978-0-520-25976-8 $29.95 Gold Rush Port
The Maritime Archaeology of
San Francisco’s Waterfront
World
cloth 978-0-520-25580-7 $45.00sc/£26.95

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Aloys Winterling
Caligula
A Biography
Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a


tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and
cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a
god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold
leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him,
turned part of his palace into a brothel, and committed incest with his
sisters. He wanted to make his horse a consul. Torture and executions
were the order of the day. Both modern and ancient interpretations
have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane.
But was he?
This biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor.
In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling
opens a new perspective on the man and his times. Basing Caligula on
a thorough new assessment of the ancient sources, he sets the emperor’s
story into the context of the political system and the changing relations
between the senate and the emperor during Caligula’s time and finds a
new rationality explaining his notorious brutality.
Aloys Winterling is Professor of Ancient History at
University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author
of Aula Caesaris and Politics, Society, and
Aristocratic Communication in Imperial Rome,
among other books.

A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature

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240 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 5 b/w photographs,
1 line illustration
Classical Studies/Biography/History
World
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David J. Meltzer
First Peoples in a New World
Colonizing Ice Age America

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehis-
tory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then
truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the
most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This daz-
zling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archae-
ologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the
scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when
they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the
vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer
pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics,
skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs
that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among
many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere’s oldest
and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans
coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical
claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crash-
ing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining
David J. Meltzer is Henderson-Morrison Professor
descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this
of Prehistory in the Department of Anthropology at is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminat-
Southern Methodist University. He is the author of ing our past.
Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a
Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill (UC Press) and
Search for the First Americans, among other books.

APRIL
400 pages, 7 x 10”, 14 color & 64 b/w illustrations
Anthropology/Archaeology/Evolution
World
cloth 978-0-520-25052-9 $29.95/£17.95

Artifacts from the Clovis tool kit. Photos by Tom Wolf.

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Michael McLeod
Anatomy of a Beast
Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot

Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story
of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned
the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist
Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot’s rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced
account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous
1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds
to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century,
when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthe-
sized historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and
speculated that a proto-hominid “missing link” might still be alive in
remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast
of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth cen-
tury to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a
piece of a monster that the media and the public still can’t get enough
of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes, Anatomy
of a Beast offers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual
thinking—and how obsession and myth are created out of it.

Michael McLeod is a writer, producer, and director


who has created documentaries for PBS, the PBS
series Frontline, the Discovery Channel, and other
national venues.

APRIL
240 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Popular Culture/Natural History/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25571-5 $24.95/£14.95

Roger Patterson displays Bigfoot casts, ca 1969.


Courtesy Dennis Jenson.

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Richard Manning
Rewilding the West
Restoration in a Prairie Landscape

“The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding


views, because they foster the illusion that we command,” begins
Richard Manning’s vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American
plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American
enterprise to today. As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly
empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological
restoration, currently being set in motion, that would establish a
prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild
bison, elk, bears, and wolves. Taking us to an isolated stretch of central
Montana along the upper Missouri River, Manning peels back the lay-
ers of history and discovers how key elements of the American story—
conservation, the New Deal, progressivism, the yeoman myth, and the
idea of private property—have collided with and shaped this incompa-
rable landscape. An account of great loss, Rewilding the West also holds
out the promise of resurrection—but rather than remake the plains
once again, Manning proposes that we now find the wisdom to let the
prairies remake us.

Richard Manning is an award-winning environ-


mental author and journalist. He has written seven
books, including Against the Grain: How Agriculture
Has Hijacked Civilization, Food’s Frontier: The Next
Green Revolution, and Grassland: The Biology,
Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie.

JUNE
262 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 line illustrations, 2 maps
Ecology/Natural History/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25658-3 $24.95/£14.95

Cartoon by Thomas Nast from Harper’s Weekly, June 6, 1874.

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Jonah Raskin
Field Days
A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California
Photographs by Paige Green

“This is an insider’s view, and Raskin offers insights into a hidden


California. The impact of his book is to return culture to agriculture in
a state dominated by agribusiness.”
Gerald Haslam, author of The Great Central Valley

“Sooner or later, nearly everyone who cares about wine and food
comes to Sonoma”—so begins this lively excursion to a spectacular
region that has become known internationally as a locavore’s paradise.
Part memoir, part vivid reportage, Field Days chronicles how the ren-
aissance in farming organically and eating locally is unfolding in
Northern California. Jonah Raskin writes poetically about the year he
spent on Oak Hill Farm—working the fields, selling produce at farm-
ers’ markets, and following it to restaurants. He also goes behind the
scenes at Whole Foods. Along the way, he introduces a dynamic cast
of characters who conceived and sustain this renaissance, including
farmers, chefs, winemakers, farm workers, and environmentalists.
There are contemporary luminaries here—including Warren Weber at
Star Route Farm, the oldest certified organic farm in Marin County; Jonah Raskin is Professor of Communication
Bob Cannard, who has supplied Chez Panisse with vegetables for Studies at Sonoma State University and the author
decades; Sharon Grossi, the owner of the largest organic farm in most recently of The Radical Jack London: Writings
on War and Revolution (UC Press).
Sonoma; and Craig Stoll, the founder and executive chef at Delfina
in San Francisco. Raskin also offers portraits of renowned historical A Simpson Book in the Humanities
figures, including Luther Burbank, Jack London, and M.F.K. Fisher.
MAY
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Food & Wine/Memoir/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25902-7 $24.95/£14.95

Edited and with an Introduction by Jonah Raskin:


Jack London
The Radical Jack London
Writings on War and Revolution
cloth 978-0-520-25545-6 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-25546-3 $24.95/£14.95

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Paul Strang
South-West France
The Wines and Winemakers

Between Bordeaux and the Spanish border, reaching east to the Massif
Central and the river valleys of the Dordogne and Lot, and south to
the foothills of the Pyrenees, lies a unique and little-known viticultural
landscape. South-West France is a wine lover’s paradise that cultivates
an astonishing array of grape varieties, many that grow nowhere else,
and produces a fascinating assortment of wines. In this book, Paul
Strang covers the South-West with enthusiasm and keen expertise,
providing a history of its wine industry, including a near collapse and
unlikely rebirth, and introducing readers to a region that seems to defy
globalization. The outstanding local wines—made by idiosyncratic
growers motivated by a passion for their profession—range from inky
Tannats to honeyed late-harvest Semillons. Intrepid readers are invited
to rediscover this beautiful part of France, already well known for its
cuisine, castles, and cave art, for its earthy and intriguing wines.

Paul Strang is the author of Wines of South-West


France, which was named one of 1994’s best wine
books by Decanter magazine, and Languedoc-
Roussillon: The Wines and Winemakers, as well as
Take 5000 Eggs: Food from the Markets and Fairs
of Southern France.

JUNE
400 pages, 7-1/2 x 10-1/2”, 70 color illustrations,
14 maps
Wine/French Studies/Viticulture
World
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Richard Mendelson
From Demon to Darling
A Legal History of Wine in America
Foreword by Margrit Biever Mondavi

“Delicious! I lived it, and Richard Mendelson has it exactly right.”


Robert Mondavi

Richard Mendelson brings together his expertise as both a Napa Valley


lawyer and a winemaker into this accessible overview of American
wine law from colonial times to the present. It is a story of fits and
starts that provides a fascinating chronicle of the history of wine in the
United States told through the lens of the law. From the country’s
early support for wine as a beverage to the moral and religious fervor
that resulted in Prohibition and to the governmental controls that fol-
lowed Repeal, Mendelson takes us to the present day—and to the
emergence of an authentic and significant wine culture. He explains
how current laws shape the wine industry in such areas as pricing and
taxation, licensing, appellations, health claims and warnings, labeling,
and domestic and international commerce. As he explores these and
other legal and policy issues,
Mendelson lucidly highlights
the concerns that have made Richard Mendelson is Director and Managing
wine alternatively the demon Partner at Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty and
or the darling of American Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the University of
California at Berkeley School of Law.
society—and at the same
time illuminates the ways in JUNE
which lives and livelihoods 295 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Wine/Law/History
are affected by the rise and World
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South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, anti-alcohol crusader.


Illustration by Gary Hovland.

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Ellen Wohl
Of Rock and Rivers
Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West

This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints


a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. Ellen
Wohl traces her twenty years of living and conducting research in the
natural landscapes of the West as she investigates the conflict between
environmental history and widely held romanticized views of the
region. Wohl grew up in Ohio, subscribing to a common perception
of the American West as an unchanged frontier. Moving to Arizona,
she became enthralled with how the landscapes and ecosystems of the
West have undergone change, both through geologic time and during
the historical era of European settlement. These essays tell of her early
training as a geomorphologist and provide a memorable account of her
research in the rivers of the West. As the lessons accrue, Wohl gives us
the benefit of her experience and shows how years of studying and
living in the Colorado Rockies have enhanced her understanding of
landscape change through time. Building on the literary tradition of
Joseph Wood Krutch, Terry Tempest Williams, and John McPhee, Wohl
provides an up-to-date portrait of the West and brings a new urgency
to the call for conservation of the region’s land, water, and resources.
Ellen Wohl is Professor of Geology at Colorado
State University and the author of Disconnected
Rivers and Virtual Rivers, as well as Rain Forest
into Desert.

JUNE
240 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 30 b/w photographs
Ecology/Environment/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25703-0 $24.95/£14.95

Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah.

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Norris Hundley, Jr.


Water and the West
The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water
in the American West
Second Edition

“Vivid…. A well-documented case study of how not to go about making


public policy.” Western Political Quarterly

Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of
the numerous struggles—national, state, and local—that have
occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is
thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles
raging over the West’s most valuable, and contentious, resource.

“Water is today, as it was when the first edition of this book


appeared 35 years ago, among mankind's greatest concerns—a
problem that remains a crisis of worldwide importance…. This
book is about the greatest conflict over water in the American
west. To be more precise, it is primarily a book about an alleged
peace treaty, the Colorado River Compact. But like most books Norris Hundley, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of History
about peace, it is really an account of war.” at the University of California, Los Angeles, and
author of many books on California, water rights,
Norris Hundley, Jr., from the new preface
and the West.

MAY
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Previous hardcover published in 1975
(978-0–520–027008)
History/California & the West/Environment
World
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paper 978-0-520-26011-5 $24.95sc/£14.95

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CALIFORNIA

California Coastal Commission


Beaches and Parks
in Southern California
Counties Included: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego

Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border, Southern California’s


coast is justifiably famous, yet, as this essential guide reveals, it offers
more to see and do than even its greatest fans may realize. Easy-to-use,
up-to-date, and comprehensive, Beaches and Parks in Southern
California is the perfect companion for all visitors—sightseers, hikers,
swimmers, surfers, campers, birders, boaters, and anglers—who want
to explore this magnificent shoreline. In addition to well-known
beaches of soft, golden sand, it describes rocky shores and tide pools,
hidden pocket beaches, historic lighthouses, the Santa Monica
Mountains National Recreation Area, and much more.

• More than 450 site listings include beaches, public access ways,
parks, campgrounds, nature preserves, world-class aquariums, and
museums
• 304 color photographs and 52 color maps show recreational sites,
hiking and biking trails, topography, and other features of the region
and state
The California Coastal Commission was created • Easy-to-use charts list key facilities and features, open hours, food
by the voters of California, who adopted an initia- and beverage services, wheelchair accessibility, rules about dogs,
tive measure in 1972 that formed the Commission and other practical information
and gave it broad powers to plan and protect the
coast. Later, the California Coastal Act of 1976
established the Commission as a permanent state
agency with a mission to protect, maintain, and
enhance the quality of the coastal environment.
One of the Commission’s principal goals is to
Also by the California Coastal Commission:
maintain public access and public recreational
opportunities along the coast, in a manner consis-
Experience the
tent with environmental preservation. California Coast
A Guide to Beaches and Parks in
Experience the California Coast, 3 Northern California
Counties Included: Del Norte, Humboldt,
APRIL Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin
352 pages, 6 x 9”, 304 color and 6 b/w photographs, World
3 line illustrations, 52 maps paper 978-0-520-24540-2 $24.95/£14.95
Natural History/Recreation/California & the West
World
paper 978-0-520-25852-5 $24.95/£14.95

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Glenn Keator
California Plant Families
West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts
Illustrations by Margaret J. Steunenberg

Interest in California’s beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is


at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state’s
vast and varied flora can be challenging for both amateurs and profes-
sionals. This book provides a superb way for learning to identify
California’s native and naturalized plants by learning to recognize
plant families. The heart of the book contains user-friendly keys and
descriptions of seventy major families prominent in wildlands. With
this book in hand, anyone will be able to identify common native and
naturalized species throughout California’s majestic floristic province
extending from southwestern Oregon into northern Baja California
and to the western side of the major mountain ranges.

Also by Glenn Keator and Alrie Middlebrook:


Designing California
Glenn Keator, a California plant specialist, is
Native Gardens
coauthor, with Alrie Middlebrook, of Designing
The Plant Community Approach to
Artful, Ecological Gardens California Native Gardens (UC Press) and author of
World Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay
cloth 978-0-520-23978-4 $70.00tx/£40.95 Area (UC Press) and The Life of an Oak, among
paper 978-0-520-25110-6 $29.95/£17.95 other books.

Also of interest: MAY


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CALIFORNIA

Peter Asmus
Introduction to Energy in California
Foreword by Art Rosenfeld
Afterword by Arthur O’Donnell

This key reference is a primer on energy in a state that continues to


lead the world in finding sustainable solutions to one of the most
pressing issues of the twenty-first century. While much public debate
has focused on fossil fuels, this clearly written guide provides essential
information on a broader range of issues—where our energy comes
from, where future supplies will be found, and what new advances are
being made in the area of renewable energy sources. Making the com-
plex world of energy science and policy accessible to a wide audience,
Peter Asmus examines the rich human history of California’s earliest
oil and hydroelectricity developments, explains the natural history
underpinning the state’s cornucopia of energy sources, covers such con-
troversial sources as nuclear reactors and liquified natural gas, and more.

Introduction to Energy in California includes:


• Discussion of oil, nuclear power, coal, emerging alternative technolo-
gies, and renewable sources including geothermal, solar, wind, and
hydropower
• Analysis of the challenges and solutions facing California and the
world on energy-related issues such as global climate change
Peter Asmus, President of Pathfinder Communi-
cations, is a journalist, consultant, and author of • Compelling case studies of corporations, governments, communities,
and individuals working on today’s most pressing energy questions
Reaping the Wind: How Mechanical Wizards and
Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future, • Color illustrations, useful maps, and clear graphics throughout
among other books.

California Natural History Guides, 97

JULY
376 pages, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4”, 91 color & 42 line
illustrations, 18 maps, 8 tables
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CALIFORNIA

David Carle
Introduction to Water in California
Updated with a New Preface

“Should be in every home, within easy reach…. Anyone moving to


California should get a copy right away.” California Coast and Ocean

“Well illustrated…. Easy to read and understand, with comprehensive


explanations of each issue.” Choice

The food each of us consumes per day represents an investment of


4,500 gallons of water, according to the California Farm Bureau. In
this densely populated state where it rains only six months out of the
year, where does all that water come from? This thoroughly engaging,
concise book tells the story of California’s most precious resource,
tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the
snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much
about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands,
dams, and aqueducts and discusses the role of water in agriculture, the
environment, and politics. Essential reading in a state facing the future
with an already overextended water supply, this fascinating book
shows that, for all Californians, every drop counts. A new preface on
recent water issues brings the book up to the minute.

David Carle worked as a California State Park


• Features 130 color photographs and 26 color maps ranger for 27 years. He is author of Introduction
• Includes a table, "Where Does Your Water Come From?," that answers to Fire in California and Introduction to Air in
the question for 315 California cities and towns California, among other books.
• Provides up-to-date information on water quality in California, covering
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such timely topics as Giardia, groundwater contamination, fluoride, and
the bottled-water phenomenon
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26 color maps, 9 line drawings, 3 tables
Previous paperback published in 2004
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POETRY

Three new volumes in the New California Poetry series

David Lau Brian Teare


Virgil and the Sight Map
Mountain Cat In Sight Map Brian Teare blends the specu-
Poems lative poetics of the San Francisco
Renaissance with a postconfessional candor
At once uncompromising and highly inven-
to embody the “open field” tradition of
tive, David Lau’s poems are imbued with a
such poets as Robin Blaser and Robert
musicality that lightens the dark under-
Duncan. Teare provides us with poems that
tones of spoliation and entropy. Many of
insist on the simultaneous physical embodi-
the poems embody a nexus of interaction
ment of tactile pleasure—that which is
with historical events, films, modernist
found in the textures of thought and lan-
poetic texts, and works of art—but from
guage—as well as the action of syntax.
this allusion and evocation, a multifarious
Partly informed by an ecological imagina-
voice emerges. In these pages, the electric
tion that leads him back to Emerson and
linguistic experiment meets a new urban,
Thoreau, Teare’s method and fragmented
postnatural poetics, one in which poetry is
style are nevertheless up to the moment.
not just a play of signs and seemings but
Remarkable in its range, Sight Map serves at
also a prismatic investigation of our con-
once as a cross-country travelogue, a pilgrim’s
temporary order: “Hurry up before our
gnostic progress, an improvised field guide,
factory leaves. / The first column of the
and a postmodern “pillowbook,” recording
Freedom Tower / traduces its ensorcellment
the erotic conflation of lover and beloved,
in the facade.” Here is a poetry both deeply
deity and doubter.
lyrical and resistant, a poetry relentless in
its invention and its stance against the Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning The
apathy of convention and consumption. Room Where I Was Born, as well as the forthcom-
ing volume Pleasure and two chapbooks. He has
David Lau teaches writing at the University of received Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts,
California, Santa Cruz, and Cabrillo College. His and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships.
poems have appeared in Boston Review, New
Orleans Review, Wildlife, and other magazines. New California Poetry, 26

MARCH
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POETRY

NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY


Series editors: Robert Hass, Calvin Bedient, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander

The NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY series presents works by emerging and established poets that
reflect UC Press’s commitment to innovative and aesthetically wide-ranging literary traditions.

Keith Waldrop
Transcendental Studies
A Trilogy

“Waldrop’s brilliance of wit and device, the serenity of judgment, the


articulation of research and reflection…all these delight, and con-
vince anew that poetry is a vast, holistic science, a science of sci-
ences, from which an adept like Waldrop brings results we've never
heard before.” Robert Kelly, Rain Taxi

“Keith Waldrop has concerned himself with the topology of the world
of writing more consistently and valuably than any poet I can think of
since the late Paul Celan.” A. L. Nielsen, Gargoyle

This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated


poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences—“Shipwreck
in Haven,” “Falling in Love through a Description,” and “The Plummet
of Vitruvius”—in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these quasi-abstract,
experimental lines, collaged words torn from their contexts take on Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of
new meanings. Waldrop, a longtime admirer of such artists as the Humanities at Brown University, has published
French poet Raymond Queneau and the American painter Robert more than a dozen works each of original poetry
Motherwell, imposes a tonal override on purloined materials, yet the and translations.

originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once New California Poetry, 27
metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop’s romantic tendencies
with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and MARCH
211 pages, 6 x 8”
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ANTHROPOLOGY

Jonathan Marks
Why I Am Not a Scientist
Anthropology and Modern Knowledge

This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the


field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that inte-
grates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography. Jonathan
Marks examines biological anthropology, the history of the life sciences,
and the literature of science studies while upending common under-
standings of science and culture with a mixture of anthropology, com-
mon sense, and disarming humor. Science, Marks argues, is widely
accepted to be three things: a method of understanding and a means
of establishing facts about the universe, the facts themselves, and a
voice of authority or a locus of cultural power. This triple identity
creates conflicting roles and tensions within the field of science and
leads to its record of instructive successes and failures. Among the
topics Marks addresses are the scientific revolution, science as thought
and performance, creationism, scientific fraud, and modern scientific
racism. Applying his considerable insight, energy, and wit, Marks
sheds new light on the evolution of science, its role in modern culture,
and its challenges for the twenty-first century.

Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at


the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and
the author of What It Means to Be 98%
Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes.
Also by Jonathan Marks:
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Anthropology/Biology 98% Chimpanzee
World Apes, People, and Their Genes
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ANTHROPOLOGY

Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg


Righteous Dopefiend
“Calling this book ethnography would be like calling The Wire a cop
show: what comes roaring out of its pages is almost as visceral and
devastating as spending a night in ‘the hole’ itself.”
Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

“Plunge beneath the surface of America’s no-man’s lands to the terri-


fying but strangely ordered world of homeless heroin injectors. This
book will test your cultural relativism, but you will learn a great deal
about destitution, homelessness, addiction, and violence at all levels.”
Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labor

This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness


and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a
decade Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect, and Jeff
Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors
and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying
them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhan-
dling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stun-
Philippe Bourgois is Richard Perry University
ning black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detailed field
Professor of Anthropology and Family and
notes, and critical theoretical analysis. Its gripping narrative develops a Community Medicine at the University of
cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexual- Pennsylvania. Jeff Schonberg is a photographer
ity, family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality, and power and a graduate student in medical anthropology at
relations. The result is a dispassionate chronicle of survival, loss, car- the University of California, San Francisco.
ing, and hope rooted in the addicts’ determination to hang on for one
California Series in Public Anthropology, 21
more day and one more “fix” through a “moral economy of sharing”
that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal. MAY
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Anthropology/Sociology
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Receiving the Holy Ghost at Crystal’s evangelical church.


Photo by Jeff Schonberg.

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ANTHROPOLOGY

Rupert Stasch Edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd,


Society of Others Lesley Barclay, Betty-Anne Daviss,
Kinship and Mourning in
and Jan Tritten
a West Papuan Place Birth Models That Work
This important study upsets the popular This groundbreaking book takes us around
assumption that human relations in small- the world in search of birth models that
scale societies are based on shared experi- work in order to improve the standard of
ence. In a theoretically innovative account care for mothers and families everywhere.
of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, The contributors describe examples of
Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this maternity services from both developing
society, people organize their connections countries and wealthy industrialized societies
to each another around otherness. Analyzing that apply the latest scientific evidence to
the Korowai people’s famous “tree house” support and facilitate normal physiological
dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, birth; deal appropriately with complications;
and their practices of kinship, marriage, and generate excellent birth outcomes—
and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues including psychological satisfaction for the
that the Korowai actively make relations mother. The book concludes with a descrip-
not out of what they have in common, but tion of the ideology that underlies all these
out of what divides them. Society of Others, working models—known internationally as
House and banana garden. From Society of the first anthropological book about the the midwifery model of care.
Others.
Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives
sharply at odds with stereotypes of “tribal” Robbie E. Davis-Floyd is Senior Research Fellow in
societies. the Department of Anthropology at University of
Texas, Austin, and Fellow of the Society for Applied
Rupert Stasch is Associate Professor in the Anthropology. She is author of Birth as an
Department of Anthropology at the University of American Rite of Passage (second edition, UC
California, San Diego. Press), among other books. Lesley Barclay is
Director and Professor at the Centre for Family
MAY Health and Midwifery at the University of
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w photographs, Technology in Sydney, Australia. Betty-Anne Daviss
5 line illustrations, 2 maps is a practicing midwife and Adjunct Professor at
Anthropology/Asian Studies
the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies at
World
cloth 978-0-520-25685-9 $60.00tx/£35.00 Carleton University. Jan Tritten is founder and
paper 978-0-520-25686-6 $24.95sc/£14.95 editor-in-chief of Midwifery Today magazine.

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ANTHROPOLOGY

James P. Delgado Anny Bakalian and


Gold Rush Port Mehdi Bozorgmehr
The Maritime Archaeology of Backlash 9/11
San Francisco’s Waterfront Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans
Respond
Described as a “forest of masts,” San
Francisco’s Gold Rush waterfront was a For most Americans, September 11, 2001,
floating economy of ships and wharves, symbolized the moment when their security
where a dazzling array of global goods was was altered. For Middle Eastern and
traded and transported. Drawing on exca- Muslim Americans, 9/11 also ushered in a
vations in buried ships and collapsed build- backlash in the form of hate crimes, dis-
ings from this period, James P. Delgado crimination, and a string of devastating
re-creates San Francisco’s unique maritime government initiatives. This book provides
landscape, shedding new light on the city’s the first comprehensive analysis of the
remarkable rise from a small village to a impact of the post-9/11 events on Middle
boomtown of thousands in the three short Eastern and Muslim Americans as well as
years from 1848 to 1851. Gleaning history their organized response. Through field-
from artifacts—preserves and liquors in work and interviews with community lead-
bottles, leather boots and jackets, hulls of ers, Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
ships, even crocks of butter lying alongside show how ethnic organizations mobilized
discarded guns—Gold Rush Port paints a to demonstrate their commitment to the
fascinating picture of how ships and global United States while defending their rights
connections created the port and the city of and distancing themselves from the terrorists.
San Francisco. Setting the city’s history into
the wider web of international relation- Anny Bakalian is Associate Director and Mehdi
ships, Delgado reshapes our understanding Bozorgmehr is Codirector of the Middle East and
Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate
of developments in the Pacific that led to a
Center, City University of New York.
world system of trading.
MARCH
James P. Delgado is the President of the Institute 360 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 line illustrations, 15 tables
of Nautical Archaeology and author of Khubilai Anthropology/Sociology/Middle Eastern Studies
Khan’s Lost Fleet (UC Press, see page 24). World
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288 pages, 6 x 9”, 22 b/w photographs,
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Edited by Stephen Shennan Anupama Rao


Pattern and Process The Caste Question
in Cultural Evolution Dalits and the Politics of Modern India

This volume offers an integrative approach This innovative work of historical anthro-
to the application of evolutionary theory in pology explores how India’s Dalits, or ex-
studies of cultural transmission and social untouchables, transformed themselves from
evolution and reveals the enormous range stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama
of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead Rao’s account challenges standard thinking
to productive empirical research, the touch- on caste as either a vestige of precolonial
The diversity of early bicycle design. Courtesy
stone of any worthwhile theoretical perspec- society or an artifact of colonial gover-
Her Majesty’s Stationery office, UK, and the
Canada Science and Technology Museum. tive. While many recent works on cultural nance. Focusing on western India in the
From Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution.
evolution adopt a specific theoretical frame- colonial and postcolonial periods, she
work, such as dual inheritance theory or shines a light on South Asian historiogra-
human behavioral ecology, Pattern and phy and on ongoing caste discrimination,
Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes to show how persons without rights came
empirical analysis and includes authors who to possess them and how Dalit struggles
employ a range of backgrounds and methods led to the transformation of such terms of
to address aspects of culture from an evolu- colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and
tionary perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan personhood. Extending into the present,
has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary the ethnographic analyses of The Caste
theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian
cover a broad range of time periods, locali- democracy distinguished not by overcom-
ties, cultural groups, and artifacts. ing caste, but by new forms of violence and
new means of regulating caste.
Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical
Archaeology at University College London and Anupama Rao is Assistant Professor of History at
Director of its Institute of Archaeology. Barnard College.

Origins of Human Behavior and Culture, 2 JUNE


Special issue of Janata, 1933, with photo-
graphs of important leaders of the Nasik 352 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs
satyagraha, Amrutrao Dhondiba Rankhambe MARCH Anthropology/Asian Studies
(left) and Bhaurao Krishnarao, or ”Dadasaheb,” Omit South Asia, Myanmar
Gaikwad (right). From The Caste Question.
336 pages, 7 x 10”, 2 b/w photographs,
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SOCIOLOGY

Michael Burawoy “Here lies the secret of the extended


The Extended Case Method case method—theory is not discov-
Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, ered but revised, not induced but
and One Theoretical Tradition improved, not deconstructed but
reconstructed. The aim of theory is
In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the
not to be boringly right but brilliantly
extended case method by connecting his own experiences among
workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth wrong. In short, theory exists to be
century—the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the extended in the face of external
reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post- anomalies and internal contradic-
colonialism in Zambia. Burawoy’s odyssey began in 1968 in the
tions. We don't start with data, we
Zambian copper mines and proceeded to Chicago’s South Side, where
he worked as a machine operator and enjoyed a unique perspective on start with theory. Without theory we
the stability of advanced capitalism. In the 1980s, this perspective was are blind, we cannot see the world.”
deepened by contrast with his work in diverse Hungarian factories. Michael Burawoy, from the book
Surprised by the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1989, he journeyed
in 1991 to the Soviet Union, which by the end of the year had unex-
pectedly dissolved. He then spent the next decade studying how the
Michael Burawoy teaches at the University of
working class survived the catastrophic collapse of the Soviet economy.
California, Berkeley. He is the author of a number
These essays, presented with a perspective that has benefited from of books, including Manufacturing Consent:
time and rich experience, offer ethnographers a theory and a method Changes in the Process under Monopoly
for developing novel understandings of epochal change. Capitalism, and coauthor of Global Ethnography
and Ethnography Unbound (both UC Press).

MAY
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SOCIOLOGY

Allison J. Pugh
Longing and Belonging
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture

“In this brilliantly argued, lyrically written, and riveting book, Pugh
asks how kids cope with the incessant ads for the must-have toy, the
latest shoe, the coolest game. A complement to Juliet Schor’s Born
to Buy Pugh’s book is a must-read.”
Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind

Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on children every year, and


yet most Americans decry the materialism of modern childhoods.
Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why
do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie behind
the onslaught of Nintendo Wiis and Bratz dolls, Allison J. Pugh spent
three years observing and interviewing children and their families. In
Longing and Belonging, she teases out the complex factors that con-
tribute to this spending boom, from lunchroom conversations about
Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Pugh
finds that children’s desires stem less from striving for status or falling
victim to advertising than from their yearning to join the conversation
at school or in the neighborhood. Most parents respond to children’s
Allison J. Pugh is Assistant Professor in the need to belong by buying the particular goods and experiences that act
Department of Sociology at the University of as passports in children’s social worlds, because they sympathize with
Virginia. their children’s fear of being different from their peers. Pugh masterfully
illuminates the surprising similarities in the fears and hopes of parents
MARCH
320 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 tables and children from vastly different social contexts, showing that while
Sociology/American Studies corporate marketing and materialism play a part in the commodifica-
World
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SOCIOLOGY

David Hemenway John Iceland


While We Were Sleeping Where We Live Now
Success Stories in Injury and Immigration and Race in
Violence Prevention the United States

Public health has made our lives safer—but Where We Live Now explores the ways in
it often works behind the scenes, without which immigration is reshaping American
our knowledge, that is, “while we are sleep- neighborhoods. In his examination of resi-
ing.” This book powerfully illuminates how dential segregation patterns, John Iceland
public health works with more than sixty addresses these questions: What evidence
success stories drawn from the area of suggests that immigrants are assimilating
injury and violence prevention. It also pro- residentially? Does the assimilation process
files dozens of individuals who have made change for immigrants of different racial
important contributions to safety and and ethnic backgrounds? How has immi-
health in a range of social arenas. High- gration affected the residential patterns of
lighting examples from the United States as native-born blacks and whites? Drawing on
well as from other countries, While We Were census data and information from other
Sleeping will inform a wide audience of ethnographic and quantitative studies,
readers about what public health actually Iceland affirms that immigrants are becom-
does and at the same time inspire a new ing residentially assimilated in American
generation to make the world a safer place. metropolitan areas. While the future
remains uncertain, the evidence provided in
David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy at the book suggests that America’s metropoli-
the Harvard School of Public Health, Director of the
tan areas are not splintering irrevocably into
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and
Director of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention
hostile, homogeneous, and ethnically based
Center. neighborhoods. Instead, Iceland’s findings
suggest a blurring of the American color
MAY line in the coming years and indicate that
240 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 tables
Public Health/Medicine/Health Care as we become more diverse, we may in some
World important respects become less segregated.
cloth 978-0-520-25845-7 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-25846-4 $24.95sc/£14.95 John Iceland is Professor of Sociology and
Demography at Penn State University. He is also
the author of Poverty in America.

MARCH
200 pages, 6 x 9”, 22 line illustrations, 13 tables
Sociology/Ethnic Studies
World
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SOCIOLOGY

Neil J. Smelser Edited by John Borneman


The Odyssey Experience and Abdellah Hammoudi
Physical, Social, Psychological, and Being There
Spiritual Journeys The Fieldwork Encounter and
the Making of Truth
This bold and innovative book traces the
phenomenon of the “odyssey” experience as Challenges to ethnographic authority and
it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. to the ethics of representation have led
Drawing on an astonishing range of exam- many contemporary anthropologists to
ples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of
experiences enhance our lives and provide theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis,
us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey and surrogate ethnography. In Being There,
experience, as Smelser advances it, is gener- John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi
ic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite argue that ethnographies based on these
period of disengagement from the routines strategies elide important insights. To
of life and immersion into a simpler, transi- demonstrate the power and knowledge
tory, often collective, usually intense period attained through the fieldwork experience,
of involvement that culminates in some they have gathered essays by anthropolo-
kind of regeneration. By examining a vari- gists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia,
ety of topics as part of a larger, overarching Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India,
phenomenon, Smelser transforms their Germany, and Russia that shift attention
study from the particular to the compara- back to the subtle dynamics of the ethno-
tive. The Odyssey Experience thus reaches graphic encounter. From an Inuit village to
beyond a simple description of where and the foothills of Kilimanjaro, each account
how transformations occur in daily life to illustrates how, despite its challenges, field-
offer a profound explanation for why they work yields important insights outside the
are there. reach of textual analysis.

Neil J. Smelser is University Professor of Sociology John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi are both
Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Professors of Anthropology at Princeton University.
He is the author of numerous books, including
The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis (UC Press). FEBRUARY
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SOCIOLOGY

Daniel Geary Michael A. Messner


Radical Ambition It’s All for the Kids
C. Wright Mills, the Left, and Gender, Families, and Youth Sports
American Social Thought
Today, in a world quite different from the
Sociologist, social critic, and political radical one that existed just thirty years ago, both
C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) was one of girls and boys play soccer, baseball, softball,
the leading public intellectuals in twentieth and other youth sports. Yet has the dramatic
century America. Offering an important surge in participation by girls contributed
new understanding of Mills and the times to greater gender equality? In this engaging
in which he lived, Radical Ambition chal- study, leading sociologist Michael A. Messner
lenges the captivating caricature that has probes the richly complex gender dynamics
prevailed of him as a lone rebel critic of of youth sports. Weaving together vivid
1950s complacency. Instead, it places Mills first-person interviews with his own experi-
within broader trends in American politics, ences as a volunteer for his sons’ teams,
thought, and culture. Indeed, Daniel Geary Messner finds that despite the movement of
reveals that Mills shared key assumptions girls into sports, gender boundaries and
about American society even with those hierarchies still dominate, especially among
liberal intellectuals who were his primary the adults who run youth sports. His book
opponents. The book also sets Mills firmly widens into a provocative exploration of
within the history of American sociology why youth sports matter—how they play a
and traces his political trajectory from profound role in shaping gender, class,
committed supporter of the Old Left labor family, and community.
movement to influential herald of an inter-
national New Left. More than just a biog- Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and
Gender Studies at the University of Southern
raphy, Radical Ambition illuminates the
California.
career of a brilliant thinker whose life and
works illustrate both the promise and the APRIL
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States History at Trinity College, Dublin.

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HISTORY

Sarah Gualtieri Leora Auslander


Between Arab Cultural Revolutions
and White Everyday Life and Politics in Britain,
North America, and France
Race and Ethnicity in the Early
Syrian-American Diaspora
In Cultural Revolutions, Leora Auslander
takes a highly original approach to the sig-
This multifaceted study of Syrian immigra-
nificance of the political changes wrought
tion to the United States places Syrians—
by the English Civil War (1642–1651), the
and Arabs more generally—at the center of
American Revolutionary War (1775–1783),
discussions about race and racial formation
and the French Revolution (1789–1799).
from which they have long been marginal-
This broadly conceived yet succinct essay
ized. Between Arab and White focuses on
Dawahare family portrait, 1926. Raris and advances a new argument: that these three
Yamna Naff Arab-American Collection, Archives the first wave of Arab immigration and set-
Center, National Museum of American History, revolutions were not bourgeois in character
Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution. tlement in the United States in the years
From Between Arab and White. but were revolutions of culture that led to a
before World War II, but also continues the
transformation of the ways societies could
story up to the present. It presents an origi-
be politicized. Auslander argues that these
nal analysis of the ways in which people
revolutions conferred new importance upon
mainly from current day Lebanon and
the symbols of state and upon the cultural
Syria—the largest group of Arab-speaking
components of our everyday lives—the
immigrants before World War II—came to
clothes that cover our bodies, the food we
view themselves in racial terms and position
eat, and the songs and plays to which we
themselves within racial hierarchies as part
turn for distraction and insight.
of a broader process of ethnic identity
formation. Leora Auslander is Professor of History and
Founding Director of the Center of Gender Studies
Sarah Gualtieri is Assistant Professor in the
at the University of Chicago.
Departments of History and American Studies and
Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Copub: Berg Publishers

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HISTORY

Edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz


The Environment and World History
Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment
in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading
environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an
overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable
500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the con-
nections between environmental change and other major topics of
early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercial-
ization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and
more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to
European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a
series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising
in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land
and water.
The wide range of regional studies—including some in Russia,
China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America,
Southern Africa, and Western Europe—together with the book’s
broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History
ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and envi-
ronmental change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of
world history. Edmund Burke III is Professor, Presidental Chair,
and Director of the Center for World History at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor,
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke III,
with David N. Yaghoubian, of Struggle and Survival
Mark Cioc, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards,
Lise Sedrez, Douglas R. Weiner in the Modern Middle East (second editon, UC
Press). Kenneth Pomeranz is Chancellor’s
Professor of History at the University of California,
Irvine, and author of The Great Divergence, among
other books.

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Alan Tansman Joanna Handlin Smith


The Aesthetics of The Art of Doing Good
Japanese Fascism Charity in Late Ming China

In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cul- An unprecedented passion for saving lives
tural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how swept through late Ming society, giving rise
a particular, often seemingly innocent aes- to charitable institutions that transcended
thetic sensibility—present in novels, essays, family, class, and religious boundaries.
popular songs, film, and political writ- Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative
ings—helped create an “aesthetic of fas- guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries,
cism” in the years leading up to World War Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile
II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, explanation that charity was a response to
both real and imagined, these works did poverty and social unrest and examines the
not lead to fascism in any instrumental social and economic changes that stimulated
sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed the fervor for doing good. Skillfully organ-
and inspired spiritual longings quenchable ized and engaging, The Art of Doing Good
only through acts in the real world. Tansman moves from discussions about moral leader-
traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from ship and beliefs to scrutiny of the daily
its beginnings in the 1920s through its operation of soup kitchens and medical dis-
flowering in the 1930s to its afterlife in pensaries, and from examining local society
postwar Japan. to generalizing about the just use of resources
and the role of social networks in charitable
Alan Tansman is Agassiz Professor of Japanese in giving.
the Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Joanna Handlin Smith is the editor of the Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies.
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HISTORY

Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Simon Partner


Telling Chinese History The Mayor of Aihara
A Selection of Essays A Japanese Villager and
Selected and Edited by Lea H. Wakeman His Community, 1865–1925

This superb collection of essays on late Aizawa Kikutarõ (1866–1963) was born
imperial and modern Chinese history spans into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, a
the brilliant forty-year career of the late small agricultural village specializing in
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the wheat and silk. By 1925, the village was
first time in one volume, the essays offer undergoing rapid commercial development,
richly textured narratives of critical histori- residents were commuting to factory and Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr.

cal events as well as sweeping analyses of office jobs in cities, and, after serving as
China’s place in world history. They take us mayor for almost twenty years, Aizawa was
from the late Ming dynasty to the People’s working as a bank manager. Taking the
Republic—delving into complex issues of biography of this leading villager as its cen-
Confucianism and intellectual history, the tral focus and incorporating intimate details
nitty-gritty details of Jiangyin localism, of life drawn from Aizawa’s diary, The
wartime Shanghai, and more. Always there Mayor of Aihara chronicles the extraordi-
is engagement with the larger concerns of nary transformation of Hashimoto against
history and the social sciences: the public the background of Japan’s rapid industrial-
sphere, rebellion and revolution, the world ization. By portraying history as it was
crisis of the seventeenth century, and the actually lived by ordinary people, the book
influence of imperialism. offers a rich and compelling perspective on
the modernization of Japan.
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. (1937–2006) was
Professor of Chinese History and Haas Professor of Simon Partner, Associate Professor at Duke
Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University, is author of Toshié: A Story of Rural Life
University of California, Berkeley. Among his many in Twentieth Century Japan and Assembled in
books is The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the
Photo courtesy Aizawa family. From The Mayor
Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth- Japanese Consumer (both from UC Press). of Aihara.
Century China (UC Press).
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Frank Dikötter Cyrus Schayegh


The Age of Openness Who Is Knowledgeable
China before Mao Is Strong
Science, Class, and the Formation
The era between empire and communism is
of Modern Iranian Society, 1900–1950
routinely portrayed as a catastrophic inter-
lude in China’s modern history. But in this
In Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus
book, Frank Dikötter shows that the first
Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how,
half of the twentieth century was character-
in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging
ized by unprecedented openness. He argues
middle class used modern scientific knowl-
that from 1900 to 1949, all levels of
edge as its cultural and economic capital,
Chinese society were seeking engagement
and how, along with the state, it employed
with the rest of the world and that pursuit
biomedical sciences to tackle presumably
of openness was particularly evident in four
modern problems like the increasing stress
areas: governance, including advances in
of everyday life, people’s defective willpow-
liberties and the rule of law; greater free-
er, and demographic stagnation. The book
dom of movement within the country and
examines the ways by which scientific
outside it; the spirited exchange of ideas in
knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists
the humanities and sciences; and thriving
to socially differentiate themselves from
and open markets and the resulting sustained
society at large and, at the very same time,
growth in the economy.
to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that
Frank Dikötter is Professor of Chinese Modern
both class formation and social reform
History at the School of Oriental and African emerged at the interstices of local Iranian
Studies, University of London, and Chair of and Western-dominated global contexts
Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. and concerns.
Copub: Hong Kong University Press Cyrus Schayegh is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton
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HISTORY

Andrew J. Diamond Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod


Mean Streets Inventing Autopia
Chicago Youths and the Everyday Dreams and Visions of the Modern
Struggle for Empowerment in the Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles
Multiracial City, 1908–1969
In 1920, as its population began to
Mean Streets focuses on twentieth-century explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral
Chicago from the era of the race riot to cast city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty
a new light on Chicago’s youth gangs and years later, choked with smog and traffic,
to place youths at the center of the twenti- the city had become synonymous with
eth-century American experience. Andrew urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Members of the Puerto Rican Viceroys gang with a
youth outreach worker in Wicker Park, Chicago, ca.
J. Diamond breaks new ground by showing Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, 1960. Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum,
ICH:-51726. From Mean Streets.
that teens and young men stood at the van- as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this
guard of grassroots mobilizations in work- compelling, visually oriented history of the
ing-class Chicago, playing key roles in the metropolis during its formative years. In a
formation of racial identities as they defended deft mix of cultural and intellectual history
neighborhood boundaries. Drawing from a that brilliantly illuminates the profound
wide range of sources to capture the experi- relationship between imagination and
ences of young Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, place, Inventing Autopia shows how the
African Americans, Italians, Poles, and oth- clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and
ers in the multiracial city, Diamond argues dreams resulted in the invention of an un-
that from the early 1900s through the foreseen new form of urbanism—sprawling,
1960s, youths in Chicago gained a sense of illegible, fractured—that would reshape not
themselves in opposition to others. only Southern California but much of the
nation in the years to come.
Andrew J. Diamond is Associate Professor of
American History and Civilization at the University Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod is Adjunct Assistant
of Lille 3–Charles de Gaulle in France. Professor in the Department of History and
Program in Cultural Studies at Occidental College.
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Eileen Luhr Charles Upchurch


Witnessing Suburbia Before Wilde
Conservatives and Christian Sex between Men in Britain’s
Youth Culture Age of Reform

Witnessing Suburbia is a lively cultural analy- This book examines changing perceptions
sis of the conservative shift in national of sex between men in early Victorian
politics that transformed the United States Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little
during the Reagan-Bush era. Eileen Luhr explored period in the history of Western
focuses on two fundamental aspects of this sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transfor-
shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism mations of the era—changes in the family
and the rise of Christian popular culture, and in the law, the emergence of the world’s
especially popular music. Taking us from first police force, the growth of a national
the Jesus Freaks of the late 1960s to media, and more—Charles Upchurch asks
Christian heavy metal music to Christian how perceptions of same-sex desire changed
Illustration from Thieves and Prostitutes.
Courtesy of Alexis Neptune and John DiDonna. rock festivals and beyond, she shows how between men, in families, and in the larger
From Witnessing Suburbia.
evangelicals succeeded in “witnessing” to society. To illuminate these questions, he
America’s suburbs in a consumer idiom. mines a rich trove of previously unexam-
Luhr argues that the emergence of a politi- ined sources, including hundreds of articles
cized evangelical youth culture in fact ranks pertaining to sex between men that appeared
as one of the major achievements of “third in mainstream newspapers. The first book
wave” conservatism in the late twentieth to relate this topic to broader economic,
century. social, and political changes in the early
nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new
Eileen Luhr is Assistant Professor in the Department light on the central question of how and
of History at California State University, Long Beach.
when sex acts became identities.
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CLASSICS

Stephen G. Miller
The Berkeley Plato
From Neglected Relic to Ancient Treasure,
An Archaeological Detective Story
With an Appendix by John Twilley

This book explores the provenance of the so-called Berkeley Herm of


Plato, a sculptural portrait that Stephen G. Miller first encountered
over thirty years ago in a university storage basement. The head, lan-
guishing since its arrival in 1902, had become detached from the
body, or herm, and had been labeled a fake. In 2002, while preparing
another book, Miller—now an experienced archaeologist—needed an
illustration of Plato, remembered this piece, and took another look.
The marble, he recognized immediately, was from the Greek islands,
the inscription appeared ancient, and the ribbons visible on the head
were typical of those in Greek athletic scenes. The Berkeley Plato, rich
in scientific, archaeological, and historical detail, tells the fascinating
story of how Miller was able to authenticate this long-dismissed treas-
ure. His conclusion, that it is an ancient Roman copy possibly dating
from the time of Hadrian, is further supported by art conservation
scientist John Twilley, whose essay appears as an appendix. Miller’s
discovery makes a significant contribution to the worlds of art history,
philosophy, archaeology, and sports history and will serve as a starting Stephen G. Miller is Professor Emeritus of
point for new research in the back rooms of museums. Classical Archaeology at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the author of many
books, including Arete: Greek Sports from the
Ancient Sources, Third Edition (UC Press).
John Twilley is an independent art conservation
scientist.

A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature

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Harald Thorsrud Miira Tuominen


Ancient Scepticism The Ancient
Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that
Commentators on
casts doubt on our ability to gain knowl- Plato and Aristotle
edge of the world and suggests suspending
judgment in the face of uncertainly, has The study of the ancient commentators has
been influential since its beginnings in developed considerably over the past two
ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides decades, fueled by recent translations of
an engaging, rigorous introduction to the their often daunting writings. Opening up
central themes, arguments, and general this period in the history of philosophy to a
concerns of ancient Scepticism, from its wide audience for the first time, this book
beginnings with Pyrrho of Elis (ca. 360 B.C. offers the only concise, accessible general
–ca. 270 B.C.) to the writings of Sextus introduction currently available to the writ-
Empiricus in the second century A.D. ings of the late ancient commentators on
Thorsrud explores the differences among Aristotle and, to a lesser extent, Plato. Miira
Sceptics and examines in particular the sepa- Tuominen provides a historical overview
ration of the Scepticism of Pyrrho from its followed by a series of thematic chapters on
later form—Academic Scepticism—the epistemology, science and logic, physics,
result of its ideas being introduced into psychology, metaphysics, and ethics. In par-
Plato’s Academy in the third century B.C. ticular, she focuses on the writings of
Steering an even course through the many Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius,
differences of scholarly opinion surround- Porphyry, Proclus, Philoponus, and
ing Scepticism, the book also provides a Simplicius. Until recently, the late ancient
balanced appraisal of the philosophy’s commentators have been understood mainly
enduring significance by showing why it as sources of information concerning the
remains so interesting and how ancient masters upon whose works they comment.
interpretations differ from modern ones. This book offers new insights into their
way of doing philosophy in their own right.
Harald Thorsrud is Assistant Professor of
Philosophy at Agnes Scott College and the author Miira Tuominen is a researcher at the Department
of Cicero’s Ethics. of Philosophy, University of Helsinki.

Ancient Philosophies, 5 Ancient Philosophies, 6


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Stephen V. Tracy Bezalel Bar-Kochva


Pericles The Image of the Jews
A Sourcebook and Reader in Greek Literature
The Hellenistic Period
Pericles, Greece’s greatest statesman and
the leader of its Golden Age, created the
This landmark contribution to ongoing
Parthenon and championed democracy in
debates about perceptions of the Jews in
Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise
antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek
have endowed him with the powers of a
writers of the Hellenistic period toward the
demigod, but what did his friends, associates,
Jewish people. Among the leading Greek
and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles:
intellectuals who devoted special attention
A Sourcebook and Reader, Stephen V. Tracy
to the Jews were Theophrastus (the succes-
visits the fifth century B.C. to find out.
sor of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the
Tracy compiles and translates the scattered,
father of “scientific” ethnography), and
elusive primary sources relating to Pericles.
Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest
He brings Athens’s political atmosphere to
rhetorician of the Hellenistic world).
life with archaeological evidence and the
Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references
accounts of those close to Pericles, including
of these writers and others to the Jews in
Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus,
light of their literary output and personal
Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon,
background; their religious, social, and
Plato, and Plutarch. Readers will discover
political views; their literary and stylistic
Pericles as a formidable politician, a persua-
methods; ethnographic stereotypes current
sive and inspiring orator, and a man full of
at the time; and more.
human contradictions.
Bezalel Bar-Kochva is Jacob M. Alkow Professor of
Stephen V. Tracy is Professor and Director the History of the Jews in the Ancient World at Tel
Emeritus at the American School of Classical Aviv University, Israel, and the author of Pseudo
Studies in Athens. Hecataeus “On the Jews”: Legitimizing the Jewish
Diaspora (UC Press), among other books.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature

Hellenistic Culture and Society, LI


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Alan Cole Edited by Thomas J. Csordas


Fathering Your Father Transnational
The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism Transcendence
Essays on Religion and Globalization
This book offers a provocative rereading of
the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen).
This innovative collection examines the
Working from a history-of-religions point
transnational movements, effects, and
of view that asks how and why certain liter-
transformations of religion in the contem-
ary tropes were chosen to depict the essence
porary world, offering a fresh perspective
of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers,
on the interrelation between globalization
this analysis focuses on the narrative logics
and religion. Transnational Transcendence
of the early Chan genealogies—the seventh-
challenges some widely accepted ideas
and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed
about this relationship—in particular, that
that certain high-profile Chinese men were
globalization can be understood solely as an
descendents of Bodhidharma and the
economic phenomenon and that its reli-
Buddha. This book argues that early Chan’s
gious manifestations are secondary. The
image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tra-
book points out that religion’s role remains
dition was constructed for reasons that have
understudied and undertheorized as an ele-
little to do with Buddhist practice, new
ment in debates about globalization, and it
styles of enlightened wisdom, or “ortho-
raises questions about how and why certain
doxy,” and much more to do with politics,
forms of religious practice and intersubjec-
property, geography, and, of course, new
tivity succeed as they cross national and
forms of writing.
cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J.
Alan Cole is Professor of Religious Studies at
Csordas’s introduction, this timely volume
Lewis & Clark College. both urges further development of a theory
of religion and globalization and constitutes
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
an important step toward that theory.
February
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Rita M. Gross
A Garland of Feminist Reflections
Forty Years of Religious Exploration

Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of


feminist theology. One of the earliest scholars in religious studies to
discover how feminism affects that discipline, she is recognized as pre-
eminent in Buddhist feminist theology. The essays in A Garland of
Feminist Reflections represent the major aspects of her work and provide
an overview of her methodology in women’s studies in religion and
feminism. The introductory article, written specifically for this volume,
summarizes the conclusions Gross has reached about gender and femi-
nism after forty years of searching and exploring, and the autobiography,
also written for this volume, narrates how those conclusions were
reached. These articles reveal the range of scholarship and reflection
found in Rita M. Gross’s work and demonstrate how feminist scholars
in the 1970s shifted the paradigm away from an androcentric model
of humanity and forever changed the way we study religion.

Rita M. Gross is Professor Emerita of Comparative


Studies in Religion at the University of Wisconsin,
Eau Claire. She is the author and editor of many
books, including Religious Feminism and the
Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian-Feminist
Conversation.

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Edited by John Renard Matt Tomlinson


Tales of God’s Friends In God’s Image
Islamic Hagiography in Translation The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity

This remarkable collection gathers a breath- Today, most indigenous Fijians are Christians,
takingly diverse selection of primary texts and the Methodist Church is the founda-
from the vast repertoire of Islamic stories tion of their social and political lives. Yet, as
about holy men and women—also known this thought-provoking study of life on rural
- - with cows resurrected through his
Manik Pır
- - Courtesy the
- Keccha.
as Friends of God—who were exemplary Kadavu Island finds, Fijians also believe
prayers. From Manik Pır
trustees of the British Museum. From Tales of for their piety, intimacy with God, and that their ancestors possessed an inherent
God’s Friends.
service to their fellow human beings. strength that is lacking in the present day.
Translated from seventeen languages by Looking in particular at the interaction
more than two dozen scholars of Islamic between the church and the traditional
studies, these texts come from the Middle chiefly system, Matt Tomlinson finds that
East, North and sub-Saharan Africa, this belief about the superiority of the past
Central and South Asia, and China and provokes great anxiety, and that Fijians seek
Southeast Asia. Historically, they begin ways of recovering this strength through rit-
with the eighth century and include sam- ual and political action—Christianity itself
ples from medieval, early modern, and simultaneously generates a sense of loss and
modern Muslim societies. Expertly edited the means of recuperation. To unravel the
and introduced by John Renard, Tales of cultural dynamics of Christianity in Fiji,
God’s Friends serves as a companion volume Tomlinson explores how this loss is expressed
to Renard’s Friends of God: Islamic Images of through everyday language and practices.
Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood.
Matt Tomlinson is Lecturer in Anthropology at
John Renard is Professor of Theological Studies at Monash University in Australia.
Kids outside the Methodist church in the Village
of Tavuki, Kadavu Island, Fiji. Photo by Matt Saint Louis University.
Tomlinson. From In God’s Image. The Anthropology of Christianity, 5
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John D. Blanco Lila Corwin Berman


Frontier Constitutions Speaking of Jews
Christianity and Colonial Empire in Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation
the Nineteenth-Century Philippines of an American Public Identity

Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the
study of the cultural transformations course of the twentieth century, American
arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born Jews became increasingly fascinated, even
creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), obsessed, with explaining themselves to
and indigenous colonial subjects in the their non-Jewish neighbors. What she dis-
Philippines during the crisis of colonial covers is that language itself became a cru-
hegemony in the nineteenth century and cial tool for Jewish group survival and
the social anomie that resulted from this integration into American life. Berman
crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco investigates a wide range of sources—radio
argues that modernity in the colonial and television broadcasts, bestselling books,
Philippines should not be understood as sociological studies, debates about Jewish
an imperfect version of a European model marriage and intermarriage, Jewish mission-
but as a unique set of expressions emerging ary work, and more—to reveal how rabbis,
out of contradictions—expressions that intellectuals, and others created a seemingly
sanctioned new political communities endless array of explanations about why
formed around the precariousness of Spanish Jews were indispensable to American life.
rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers Even as the content of these explanations
struggled to synthesize these contradictions developed and shifted over time, the very
as they attempted to secure the colonial project of self-explanation would become a
order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine core element of Jewishness in the twentieth
independence. century.

John D. Blanco is Assistant Professor of Comparative Lila Corwin Berman is Assistant Professor of
Literature at the University of California, San Diego. History and Religious Studies and Mal and Lea Taping “Tell Thy Son” at a CBS studio in New
York, 1958. Courtesy of the American Jewish
Bank Early Career Professor in Jewish Studies at Commitee. From Speaking of Jews.
Asia Pacific Modern, 4 Pennsylvania State University.
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Edited by Jill S. Schneiderman and Warren D. Allmon


For the Rock Record
Geologists on Intelligent Design

According to the idea of intelligent design, nature’s complexity is the


result of deliberate planning by a supernatural creative force. To date,
most scientific arguments against this form of creationism have been
made by evolutionary biologists. In this volume, a team of earth scien-
tists reveals that the flaws of intelligent design are not limited to the
biological sciences. Indeed, the geological sciences offer some of the
best refutation of intelligent design arguements. For the Rock Record is
dedicated to the proposition that the idea of intelligent design should
be of serious concern to everyone. Editors Jill S. Schneiderman and
Warren D. Allmon have gathered leading figures from the geological
community with a wide range of viewpoints that go to the heart of
the debate over what is and is not science. The purveyors of intelligent
design theories and its kindred philosophies threaten the scientific
literacy that our society needs by confusing faith and the practice of
science. This collection offers a much-needed response.

Jill S. Schneiderman is Professor of Earth Science


at Vassar College. Warren D. Allmon is Director of
the Paleontological Research Institute in Ithaca,
New York, and Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of
Paleontology in the Department of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University.

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Edited by Rosemary G. Gillespie and David A. Clague


Encyclopedia of Islands
Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for
centuries—unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them
natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative,
alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct
articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad
coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The
volume editors define it here as any discrete habitat isolated from
other habitats by inhospitable surroundings. The Encyclopedia of
Islands examines many such insular settings—oceanic and
continental islands as well as places such as caves, moun-
taintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean. This
essential, one-stop resource, extensively illustrated with
color photographs, clear maps, and graphics will introduce
island science to a wide audience and spur further research
on some of the planet’s most fascinating habitats.

Rosemary G. Gillespie is Schlinger Chair of


Systematics, Professor in the Division of Insect
Biology, and Director of the Essig Museum of
Entomology at the University of California,
Berkeley. David A. Clague is Senior Scientist at
the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

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Jonathan B. Losos Edited by Michael S. Rosenberg


Lizards in an Sequence Alignment
Evolutionary Tree Methods, Models, Concepts,
and Strategies
Ecology and Adaptive Radiation
of Anoles
The sequencing of the human genome
involved thousands of scientists but used
Adaptive radiation, which results when a
relatively few tools. Today, obtaining
single ancestral species gives rise to many
sequences is simpler, but aligning the
descendants, each adapted to a different
sequences—making sure that sequences
part of the environment, is possibly the sin-
from one source are properly compared to
gle most important source of biological
those from other sources—remains a com-
diversity in the living world. One of the
plicated but underappreciated aspect of
Anolis evermanni. Courtesy M. Johnson. best-studied examples involves Caribbean
comparative molecular biology. This vol-
From Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree. Anolis lizards. With about 400 species,
ume, the first to focus on this crucial step
Anolis has played an important role in the
in analyzing sequence data, is about the
development of ecological theory and has
practice of alignment, the procedures by
become a model system exemplifying the
which alignments are established, and more
integration of ecological, evolutionary, and
importantly, how the outcomes of any
behavioral studies to understand evolutionary
alignment algorithm should be interpreted.
diversification. This major work, written by
Edited by Michael S. Rosenberg with essays
one of the best-known investigators of Anolis,
by many of the field’s leading experts,
reviews and synthesizes an immense literature.
Sequence Alignment covers molecular causes,
Jonathan B. Losos illustrates how different
computational advances, approaches for
scientific approaches to the questions of
assessing alignment quality, and philosophical
adaptation and diversification can be inte-
underpinnings of the algorithms themselves.
grated and examines evolutionary and
ecological questions of interest to a broad Michael S. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of
range of biologists. Computational Evolutionary Biology and
Bioinformatics at Arizona State University.
Jonathan B. Losos is Monique and Philip Lehner
Professor for the Study of Latin America in the MARCH
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Biology, and Curator in Herpetology at the Museum
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Bruce S. Miller and Edited by Brian R. Silliman,


Arthur W. Kendall Jr. Mark D. Bertness, and
Early Life History Edwin D. Grosholz

of Marine Fishes Human Impacts


on Salt Marshes
The life cycles of fishes are complex and A Global Perspective
varied, and knowledge of the early life
stages is important for understanding the Salt marshes are vitally important coastal
biology, ecology, and evolution of fishes. In ecosystems that filter water, buffer against
Early Life History of Marine Fishes, Bruce S. storm erosion, and provide essential nursery
Miller and Arthur W. Kendall Jr., bring habitat for important fishery species. Long
together in a single reference much of the thought to be resistant to ecological pertur-
research available and its application to bations, salt marshes are now known to be
fishery science—knowledge increasingly highly sensitive indicators of environmental
important because, for most fishes, adult change and impacts. This state-of-the-science
populations are determined at the earliest volume details how humans have modified
stages of life. Clear and well written, this salt marshes around the world and why
book offers expert guidance on how to col- these critical habitats desperately need pro-
lect and analyze larval fish data and on how tection. It also offers clear recommendations
this information is interpreted by applied about what should be done to remediate cur-
fish biologists and fisheries managers. rent threats and restore the structure and
function of salt marsh ecosystems.
Bruce S. Miller is Professor Emeritus of the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of
Brian R. Silliman is Assistant Professor of Zoology
Washington. Arthur W. Kendall Jr., is a retired
at the University of Florida. Mark D. Bertness is
researcher for the National Oceanic and
Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology at Brown
Atmospheric Administration.
University. Edwin Grosholz is Professor and
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Jerry A. Powell and Paul A. Opler


Moths of Western North America
Insects boast incredible diversity, and this book treats an important
component of the western insect biota that has not been summarized
before—moths and their plant relationships. There are about 8,000
named species of moths in our region, and although most are unno-
ticed by the public, many attract attention when their larvae create
economic damage: eating holes in woolens, infesting stored foods,
boring into apples, damaging crops and garden plants, or defoliating
forests. In contrast to previous North American moth books, this vol-
ume discusses and illustrates about 25% of the species in every family,
including the tiny species, making this the most comprehensive volume
in its field. With this approach it provides access to microlepidoptera
study for biologists as well as amateur collectors. About 2,500 species
are described and illustrated, including virtually all moths of economic
importance, summarizing their morphology, taxonomy, adult behavior,
larval biology, and life cycles.

Jerry A. Powell is Professor of the Graduate


School in the Department of Environmental
Science, Policy, and Management at the University
of California, Berkeley. Paul A. Opler is Professor
in the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and
Pest Management at Colorado State University,
Ft. Collins.

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Sarah Burns and John Davis


American Art to 1900
A Documentary History

From the simple assertion that “words matter” in the study of visual
art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an
extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in
their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of
artists making stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular
works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns
and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown,
little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of
American art through the many voices of its contemporary practition-
ers, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights
such critically important themes as women artists, African American
representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native
Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery,
institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory
headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this
book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many
intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.
Sarah Burns is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts
at Indiana University. Among her many books is
Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic “There was a time when the presentation of one’s ‘likeness’
Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (UC
meant something. It was a sacred thing, exchanged only between
Press). John Davis is Alice Pratt Brown Professor
of Art at Smith College. lovers or married people, kept carefully from unsympathizing
eyes, gazed at in private as a treasure apart. But we have changed
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the gaze of the curious.”
Fanny Fern [Sara Willis Parton],
“Then and Now,” New York Ledger, April 5, 1862.

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Michelle Facos Edited by Ilia Dorontchenkov


Symbolist Art Russian and
in Context Soviet Views of
The Symbolist art movement of the late
Modern Western Art,
nineteenth century forms an important 1890s to Mid-1930s
bridge between Impressionism and Translated by Charles Rougle
Modernism. But because Symbolism, more Consulting Editor, Nina Gurianova
than the two movements it links, empha-
sizes ideas over objects and events, it has From the first Modernist exhibitions in the
suffered from vague and conflicting defini- late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the
tions. In Symbolist Art in Context, Michelle West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and
Facos offers a clearly written, comprehensive, writers came into wide contact with mod- Cover of Jugend, 1897. Photo by Per Nodahl.
and accessible description of this challenging ern European art and ideas. Introducing a From Symbolist Art in Context.

subject. Reaching back into Romanticism wealth of little-known material set in an


for Symbolism’s origins, Facos argues that illuminating interpretive context, this
Symbolism enabled artists to confront an sourcebook presents Russian and Soviet
increasingly uncertain and complex views of Western art during this critical
world—one to which pessimists responded period of cultural transformation. The writ-
with themes of decadence and degeneration ings document complex responses to these
and optimists with idealism and reform. works and ideas before the Russians lost
contact with them almost entirely. Many of
Michelle Facos is Associate Professor of Art these writings have been unavailable to for-
History at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the eign readers and, until recently, were not
author of Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination:
widely known even to Russian scholars.
Swedish Art of the 1890s (UC Press).
Both an important reference and a valuable
An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book resource for classrooms, the book includes
an introductory essay and shorter introduc-
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University in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has also
taught in the Department of Slavic Languages at
Brown University.

Documents of Twentieth-Century Art

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Michael Lobel Alan C. Braddock


James Rosenquist Thomas Eakins
Pop Art, Politics, and History and the Cultures
in the 1960s
of Modernity
James Rosenquist’s paintings, with their
billboard-sized images of commercial sub- Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of
jects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop Modernity is the first book to situate
Art. Their provocative imagery also touches Philadelphia’s greatest realist painter in rela-
on some of the major political and histori- tion to the historical discourse of cultural
Rosenquist in his studio, 1964. Photo by Ken cal events of that turbulent decade—from difference. Alan C. Braddock reveals that
Heyman. Artwork©James Rosenquist/Licensed
by VAGA, New York, NY. From James Rosenquist. the Kennedy assassination to the war in modern anthropological perceptions of
Vietnam. In the first full-length scholarly “culture,” attributed to Eakins by many art
examination of Rosenquist’s art from that historians, did not become current until
period, Michael Lobel weaves together close after the artist’s death, in 1916. Braddock
visual analysis, a wealth of archival research, demonstrates that Eakins’s realistic portray-
and a consideration of the social and histor- als of Spanish street performers, African
ical contexts in which these paintings were Americans, and southern European immi-
produced to offer bold new readings of a grants embodied a premodern worldview.
body of work that helped redefine art in Yet by exploring Eakins’s struggle to visual-
the 1960s. Bringing together a range of ize diversity amid the dislocating forces of
approaches, James Rosenquist provides a his day—mass immigration, orientalism,
compelling perspective on the artist and on tourism, commercial publishing, and the
the burgeoning consumer culture of post- international circulation of ethnographic
war America. objects—this book illuminates American art
on the threshold of the twentieth-century
Thomas Eakins, female model, ca, 1867–69. Michael Lobel is Assistant Professor of Art History “culture concept” promulgated by Franz
FIne Arts Museums of San Fransico, Museum
Purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection. and Director of the M.A. Program in Modern and Boas and other modern anthropologists.
From Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory at
Modernity.
Purchase College, State University of New York. Alan C. Braddock is Associate Curator of the
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
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Jann Pasler
Composing the Citizen
Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France

In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of
music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how
music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third
Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes
and political persuasions looked to music to revitalize the country
after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its
“public utility,” music became an object of public policy as integral to
modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and
inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice con-
flicting aspirations, and imagine a shared future.
Based on a dazzling survey of archival material, Pasler’s rich inter-
disciplinary work looks beyond elites and the histories their agendas
have dominated to open new windows onto the musical tastes and John Singer Sargent, Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at
the Cirque d'Hiver, ca. 1879–80. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
practices of amateurs as well as professionals. A fascinating history of From Composing the Citizen.

the period emerges, one rooted in political realities and the productive
tensions between the political and the aesthetic. Highly evocative and
deeply humanistic, Composing the Citizen ignites broad debates about Jann Pasler is Professor of Music at the University
music’s role in democracy and its meaning in our lives. of California, San Diego. Among her books is
Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and
Modernist (UC Press) and Writing Through Music.

An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities

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Steve Waksman Ari Y. Kelman


This Ain’t the Station Identification
Summer of Love A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio
in the United States
Conflict and Crossover in
Heavy Metal and Punk
This study examines the culture of Yiddish
radio in the United States during radio’s
This lively and entertaining revisionist his-
golden age. Ari Y. Kelman explores the
tory of rock music after 1970 reconsiders
dynamic relationships between an immi-
the roles of two genres, heavy metal and
grant population and a mass medium and
punk. Instead of considering metal and
between audience and community. By
punk as aesthetically opposed to each other,
focusing on voices previously excluded from
Steve Waksman breaks new ground by
radio histories, this treatment of non-English-
showing that a profound connection exists
language radio breaks new ground in the
between them. Metal and punk enjoyed a
study of both American mass media and
charged, intimate relationship that informed
immigrant culture. Yiddish radio directly
both genres in terms of sound, image, and
addressed the everyday lives of Jewish
discourse. This Ain’t the Summer of Love
immigrants, while providing them with
traces this connection back to the early
invaluable guidance as they struggled to
1970s, when metal first asserted its identity
become American. Throughout the 1930s
and punk arose independently as an ideal
and 1940s, radio created a virtual place
about what rock should be and could
where Jewish immigrants could listen to
become, and upends established interpreta-
voices like theirs and affirm the sound of
tions of metal and punk and their place in
their community as it evolved, particularly
rock history.
in light of World War II and the years that
Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music followed.
and American Studies at Smith College.
Ari Y. Kelman is Assistant Professor of American
A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book Studies at the University of California, Davis.

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FILM

Jennifer M. Barker Carl Plantinga


The Tactile Eye Moving Viewers
Touch and the Cinematic Experience American Film and the
Spectator’s Experience
The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenologi-
cal analysis and film theory in its accessible Everyone knows the thrill of being trans-
and beautifully written exploration of the ported by a film, but what is it that makes
visceral connection between films and their movie watching such a compelling emo-
viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the tional experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl Film still from Repulsion (Roman Polanski,
1965). From The Tacile Eye.
experience of cinema can be understood as Plantinga explores this question and the
deeply tactile—a sensuous exchange between implications of its answer for aesthetics, the
film and viewer that goes beyond the visual psychology of spectatorship, and the place
and aural, gets beneath the skin, and rever- of movies in culture. Through an in-depth
berates in the body. Barker combines analy- discussion of mainstream Hollywood films,
sis of embodiment and phenomenological Plantinga investigates what he terms “the
film theory to provide an expansive descrip- paradox of negative emotion” and the func-
tion of cinematic tactility. She considers tion of mainstream narratives as ritualistic
feminist experimental film, early cinema, fantasies. He describes the sensual nature of
animation, and horror, as well as classic, the movies and shows how film emotions Film still from The Color Purple (Stephen Spielberg,
1985). From Moving Viewers.
modernist, and postmodern cinema; films are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. He
from ten national cinemas; and work by uses cognitive science and philosophical
Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay aesthetics to demonstrate why cinema may
Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, deliver the same emotional charge in Senegal
and Tom Tykwer, among others. or Peru as it does in Steven Spielberg’s
America.
Jennifer M. Barker is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Communication, Georgia State Carl Plantinga is Professor of Film Studies at
University. Calvin College.

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Gayle Greene
Insomniac
“A harrowing memoir.” Wall Street Journal

“Almost all there is to know about sleep and the lack thereof.”
Newsweek

“Insomniac is far too interesting to lull you into dreamland, but it will
certainly engage and comfort you—and keep you company—during
those long dark hours that the clock ticks off until dawn.”
O: The Oprah Magazine

“In search of a good night’s rest, a lit professor travels the world and
bones up on sleep science. No easy answers—but fascinating.” People

“Insomniac is among the best books of its kind.” Nature

“Readable, engaging, and sympathetic…. A rare and thorough view of


the phenomenology of insomnia…. Remarkably comprehensive.”
Science

In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive


Gayle Greene is Professor of Literature and
account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has
Women’s Studies at Scripps College, Claremont,
California. She is a member of the American traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists,
Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts.
Insomniac is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited
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520 pages, 6 x 9”
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Medicine/Sociology
North America
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Gary Braasch
Earth under Fire
How Global Warming Is Changing the World
With an Afterword by Bill McKibben
Updated Edition

“The power of Gary Braasch’s personal witness to the climate crisis


makes this essential reading for every citizen.” Al Gore

“This may be the most deeply researched photo book of all time.”
Vanity Fair

“Braasch brings together startling and breathtaking imagery with


personal accounts and the best available scientific evidence.” Nature

“The pictures are truly eye-opening…. We may not truly believe what
we’ve done to the planet until we actually see the results for ourselves.”
The Ecologist

Gary Braasch is an Ansel Adams Award–winning


“Truly rich and beautiful…. An excellent publication!”
photojournalist and a fellow of the International
R. K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
League of Conservation Photographers. He is the
and corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
author of Photographing the Patterns of Nature.

More than a warning, Earth under Fire is the most complete illustrated FEBRUARY
guide to the effects of climate change now available. It offers an 295 pages, 8-1/2 x 10”, 110 color & 5 line illustrations,
6 maps
upbeat and intelligent account of how we can lessen the effects of our Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24438-2)
near-total dependence on fossil fuels using technologies and energy Ecology/Environmental Studies/Photography
sources already available. A thorough revision and a new preface for World
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the paperback edition bring the compelling facts about climate change
up to date.

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Susan Freinkel
American Chestnut
The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

“An absorbing account of not only the decline of this Herculean tree,
but of those who are trying to develop disease-resistant varieties.”
New York Times

“American Chestnut is a parable for our time: a sad and salutary tale,
beautifully written.” Nature

“A tale of the functional extinction of what was once one of the most
economically valuable and ecologically important trees.”
American Scientist

“Freinkel makes a fine narrator…. You’ll find yourself rooting for a cure.”
Utne

“A spellbinding microhistory teeming with tales of conviction, ambition,


frustration, and just plain luck…. Poetic…. Crystalline.” Booklist

“A moving portrait…. Freinkel’s fine reportage sparkles.” Natural History


Susan Freinkel is a freelance science journalist
whose feature writing has appeared in Discover,
Health, and Smithsonian, among other publications. The American chestnut was one of America’s most common, valued,
and beloved trees. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague
APRIL swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within
294 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 1 line illustration,
1 map forty years, the blight had killed close to four billion trees and left the
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24730-7) species teetering on the brink of extinction. In American Chestnut,
Ecology/Botany/Natural History Susan Freinkel tells the dramatic story of the stubborn optimists who
World
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Philip L. Fradkin
Wallace Stegner
and the American West
“As Fradkin notes in this astute biography, it was a miracle that he
didn’t write pulp westerns. Instead, Stegner took as his subject the
failure of his father’s homestead, built on denial of the most funda-
mental Western reality: drought.” The New Yorker

“It is clear that this is an ideal match between biographer and subject.”
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

“Fradkin has given us our first full critical portrait of the man and his
protean career.” Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder

Renowned environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reveals the


Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy—a generous teacher, con-
servationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and char-
acter. Fradkin chronicles Stegner’s formative years, from the raw,
desolate plains of Saskatchewan and the canyonlands of Utah to
California’s Silicon Valley. A lifelong teacher and environmentalist,
Stegner inspired countless writers and defended the wilderness against Philip L. Fradkin is the author of eleven highly
human desecration. In this biography of man, place, and century, praised books, including A River No More and The
Fradkin traces Stegner’s life across its many landscapes, and shows us Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906. He was
the first western editor of Audubon Magazine and
how this child of the fading frontier became the voice, protector, and
shared a Pulitzer Prize as a journalist for the Los
enduring icon of the West. Angeles Times.

FEBRUARY
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Charles Robert Jenkins with Jim Frederick


The Reluctant Communist
My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment
in North Korea

“Oddly compelling.” New Yorker

“Extraordinary…. Opens a window on a world of fathomless evil, and


tells a heartbreaking story.” Wall Street Journal

“A valentine in disguise…. [An] evocation of the emotional space


Jenkins and his bride, Hitomi Soga, claimed for themselves, even
under the cruel gaze of the Kims.” The Atlantic

“A riveting account.” Kirkus Reviews

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles


Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the
DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing
sentry along the world’s most heavily militarized border. He believed
his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence.
Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for forty
years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes
Charles Robert Jenkins is a former United States
Army soldier who lived in North Korea from 1965
the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and
to 2004. He now lives in Japan. Jim Frederick is a simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader
Time Senior Editor stationed in London. behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its
isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.
MARCH
232 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 14 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25333-9)
Asian Studies/History/Autobiography
British Commonwealth, U.S. & Territories, Canada,
Mexico
paper 978-0-520-25999-7 $15.95/£9.50

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Robert Benewick and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald


The State of China Atlas
Mapping the World’s Fastest-Growing Economy
Revised and Updated

Praise for the previous edition:


“A book to savour.” John Adams, Asian Affairs

“Clear, comprehensive, and focused on the most crucial issues facing


the country.” Marc Blecher, Oberlin College

This magnificently produced atlas provides a unique visual survey of


the profound economic, political, and social changes taking place in
China, as well as their implications for the world at large.
China has the world’s fastest-growing economy and is the second-
largest trading nation. With its pro-entrepreneurial outlook and popu-
lation of 1.3 billion, it offers unique opportunities for domestic and
overseas investors. This dynamic volume provides an abundance of
information on China’s new wealth, growing unemployment, mass
Robert Benewick is Emeritus Professor of Politics,
migration to the cities, and trade disputes.
University of Sussex, and Research Associate at
the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University
of Westminster. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is
Completely Revised and Updated: Professor of Chinese Media Studies at the
• Vivid full-color maps convey a wealth of information quickly and efficiently University of Sydney.
• Comprehensive information on China’s population, employment,
Copub: Myriad Editions Limited
agriculture, industry, and economics
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1 b/w photo, 5 tables
Geography/Asian Studies/Reference
World
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Also by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald


and Robert Benewick:
Pocket China Atlas
Maps and Facts at Your Fingertips
World
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Steven H. Miles, MD
Oath Betrayed
America’s Torture Doctors
Second Edition

“Collects countless examples of medical complicity in abuse that is


all the more disturbing for the lack of any notable protest.”
The New York Times

“A harrowing documentation of how the military medical profession


has been corrupted by the Bush-Rumsfeld interrogation rules.” Time

“Dr. Miles writes in a white rage, with great justification—but he lets


the facts tell the story.” Seymour M. Hersh

The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on ter-
ror has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about
the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. In Oath Betrayed, med-
ical ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors,
psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised
and monitored abuse, falsified documents—including death certifi-
cates—and were largely silent as the scandal unfolded. This updated
Steven H. Miles, MD is Professor of Medicine at and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about
the University of Minnesota Medical School, a the policies that engage clinicians in torture. It discusses the ongoing
member of its Center for Bioethics, and a practicing furor over psychologists’ participating in interrogations. Most explo-
physician. sively this new edition shows how interrogation psychologists may
APRIL have moved from information-gathering to coercive experiments,
250 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 b/w photographs, 3 line llustrations, warning all of us about a new direction in U.S. policy and military
1 map
medicine—a direction that not so long ago was unthinkable.
Politics/Health and Medicine
Omit North & South Korea, Lebenon
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Melvyn C. Goldstein
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2
The Calm before the Storm, 1951–1955

“Impressively meticulous. [A] wealth of well-ordered detail and primary


source material, both Tibetan and Chinese.” Times Literary Supplement

“Incisive…. Goldstein’s remarkable dexterity of storytelling makes it a


book the reader cannot put down…. An indespensible reference.”
Journal of Asian Studies

“The definitive history…. Remarkably complete, careful, and persuasive.”


Journal of Chinese Political Science

It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between


China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened—
and why—during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of
Tibet’s history that he began in his acclaimed A History of Modern
Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C.
Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in
midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material,
including never-before-seen documents, and extensive interviews with
Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and Chinese officials. Goldstein
furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major Melvyn C. Goldstein is Professor in Anthropology
and Codirector of the Center for Research on Tibet
players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and
at Case Western Reserve University. He is the
Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous
author of The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China,
Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy. Tibet, and the Dalai Lama (UC Press), among other
books.

A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies

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A History of Modern Tibet, History/Asian Studies/Tibet
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Caryl Flinn
Brass Diva
The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

“Meticulously researched.” Bookforum

“Well-written and psychologically astute…. Will satisfy musical theater


fans and anyone who loves a snappy comeback.” The Advocate

“Fascinating…. Those interested in Merman the diva and the myriad


ways truth gets twisted in the making of a star will be utterly absorbed.”
Booklist

“Flinn masterfully analyzes Merman’s work on stage, screen and TV


with a sophisticated eye for detail that will delight theater buffs.”
Publishers Weekly

Broadway star Ethel Merman’s voice was a mesmerizing force and her
vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the
irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she
meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed
biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer
Caryl Flinn is Professor at the University of from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical
Arizona. She is the author of The New German in its golden age. Mining official and unofficial sources, including
Cinema: Music, History and the Matter of Style interviews with Merman’s family and her personal scrapbooks, Caryl
(UC Press) and Strains of Utopia. Flinn unearths new details of Merman’s life and finds that behind the
high-octane personality was a remarkably pragmatic woman who
A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book
never lost sight of her roots.
FEBRUARY
556 pages, 6 x 9”, 50 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-22942-6)
Biography/Cinema/Music
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Ernst van de Wetering


Rembrandt
The Painter at Work
Revised Edition

“Ernst van de Wetering’s wonderful book has taken us towards an


understanding of the machinery of Rembrandt’s genius. No one
attempting to write about Rembrandt in the future will be able to do
so without taking this fine work into account.” Simon Schama

“This is a very rich book, a deeply felt analysis of an artist whom the
author knows better than almost any living scholar.”
Times Literary Supplement

“This book is—if one may be allowed to say such a thing about a
serious scholarly work—a gripping good read.” Burlington Magazine

Rembrandt’s intriguing painting technique stirred the imaginations of


Ernst van de Wetering is Professor of Art History
art lovers during his lifetime and has done so ever since. In this book, at the University of Amsterdam. He has published
now revised, updated, and with a new foreword by the author, extensively on historical painting techniques, as
Rembrandt’s pictorial intentions and the variety of materials and tech- well as in the field of theory and ethics of conser-
niques he applied to create his fascinating effects are unraveled in vation and restoration.
depth. At the same time, this “archaeology” of Rembrandt’s paintings
Copub: Amsterdam University Press
yields information on many other levels and offers a view of Rembrandt’s
daily practice and artistic considerations while simultaneously providing APRIL
356 pages, 9-1/4 x 10-3/4”, 228 color & 107
a more dimensional image of the artist.
b/w photographs
Art/Art History
U.S. & Territories, Canada, Philippines
Previous paperback published 2000
(978-0-520-22668-5)
paper 978-0-520-25884-6 $39.95

Rembrandt, detail of Self-Portrait at the Age of 26, 1632.


Panel (oval), 64.4 x 47.6 cm. Glasgow, The Burrell Collection.

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William F. Loomis
Life as It Is
Biology for the Public Sphere

“Fascinating.” Nature

“Wide-ranging, easily accessible, and thought-provoking…. A profound


and beautifully explained celebration of life.” New Scientist

“Highly provocative…. Loomis is a careful and clear guide to the his-


torical, social, and political aspects of biology, making this overview
both thorough and daring.” Publishers Weekly

This concise, accessible book considers from a biological perspective


the controversial issues of our day: abortion, euthanasia, engineered
evolution, cooperativity, and the future of sustainable life on this planet.
Exploring in fascinating detail the processes by which cells come into
being and multiply, Loomis clearly and simply explains the latest in
complex biological research. He reviews recent insights into molecular
and human evolution, the role of DNA sequences in determining
traits, and the biological basis for consciousness, all of which, he
argues, need to be considered when making life-and-death decisions
William F. Loomis is Distinguished Professor of and wrestling with questions about the limits to intervention.
Biology at the University of California, San Diego.
He is the former President of the Society for
Developmental Biology and an elected Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.

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6 line illustrations
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25357-5)
Biology/Evolution
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Joan Roughgarden
Evolution’s Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
With a New Preface

“Thought–provoking…. Profound…. Combines the combustible power


of a keen intellect with powerful conviction and ethical courage.”
American Scientist

“Throws open the animal kingdom’s closet doors.” The Advocate

“As a compendium of information on sex and gender diversity in the


natural world, Roughgarden’s is the richest and most authoritative
book available.” Nature

“A fun read with laudable politics.” Out Magazine

In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individu-


ality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted
wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished
evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establish-
ment, the Bible, social science—and even Darwin himself. She leads
the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and Stonewall Book Awards, Israel Fishman Non-
sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, Fiction Award; American Library Association’s
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered
including primates. Evolution’s Rainbow explains how this diversity Roundtable
develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people
come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biological
Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, Sciences at Stanford University. She is the author
and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, of several books, including Evolution and Christian
gender, and sexuality. A new preface shows how this witty, playful, and Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist.

daring book has revolutionized our understanding of sexuality. APRIL


484 pages, 6 x 9”
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New by Joan Roughgarden, see page 12:
Genial Gene
Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
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Jackson Mac Low


Thing of Beauty
New and Selected Works
Edited by Anne Tardos

“A substantial collection…. The book is a thing of beauty in itself,


splendidly designed and printed.” Times Literary Supplement

“A landmark collection.” Library Journal

“The best job to date in providing a window into Mac Low’s unique
perspective on what constitutes poetic beauty, showcasing a wide
range of his poetry.” Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Mac Low opened doors to places that poetry had not yet been. This
substantial selection is the ideal introduction to his work.”
Poetry Foundation

This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces,


“traditional” verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson
Mac Low’s lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, begin-
ning with “Thing of Beauty,” his first poem, until his death in 2004,
Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) was a poet, com- and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable
poser, painter, and multimedia performance artist. enthusiasm. Mac Low is widely acknowledged as one of the major
Anne Tardos is a poet, performer, visual artist, figures in twentieth-century American poetry. This volume, edited by
and composer.
Anne Tardos, his wife and frequent collaborator, offers a balanced
A Simpson Book in the Humanities arrangement of early, middle, and late work, designed to convey not
just the range but also the progressions and continuities of his writings
MAY
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and “writingways.”
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-24936-3)
Literature/Poetry/Art
World
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Robert Creeley
On Earth
Last Poems and an Essay

“Few in number but various in approach, united by considerations of


aging and memory, these poems are more than merely a biographical
footnote.” D. H. Tracy, New York Times Book Review

“This work reveals a journeyman poet writing with unparalleled clarity


as he approached the most private of possible thresholds—the end of
a sorely loved life.” Boston Review

“The subtlest feeling for the measure that I encounter anywhere


except in the verses of Ezra Pound.” William Carlos Williams

“Robert Creeley’s poetry is as basic and necessary as the air we


breathe. He is about the best we have.” John Ashbery

Robert Creeley, one of the most significant American poets of the


twentieth century, helped define an emerging countertradition to the
prevailing literary establishment—a postwar poetry originating with
Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. When
Creeley died in March 2005, he was working on what was to be his
Robert Creeley (1926–2005) published more than
final book of poetry. In addition to more than thirty new poems,
sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and inter-
many touching on the twin themes of memory and presence, this views. He was a member of the American Academy
moving collection includes the text of the last paper Creeley gave—an of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Professor
essay exploring the late verse of Walt Whitman. Together, the essay and at Brown University.
the poems are a retrospective on aging and the resilience of memory.
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World
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Robert Creeley
The Collected Poems of
Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
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Elias Aboujaoude, MD
Compulsive Acts
A Psychiatrist’s Tales of Ritual and Obsession

“An engaging glimpse into the all-too-often-crippling disorders that


many thousands suffer.” Booklist

“Highly readable…. Consistently provides the reader with a refresh-


ingly jargon-free and intimate look at what OCD looks and feels like.”
Publishers Weekly

“A wonderful read. These stories, written in a breezy, accessible style,


illuminate several of the more mysterious and perplexing psychiatric
ailments. Highly informative.” Irvin Yalom, MD, author of Love’s Executioner

In this compelling book, we meet a man who can’t let anyone get with-
in a certain distance of his nose, two kleptomaniacs from very different
walks of life, a professor with a dangerous gambling habit, and others
with equally debilitating compulsive conditions. Writing with compas-
sion, humor, and a deft literary touch, Elias Aboujaoude, an expert on
obsessive compulsive disorder and behavioral addictions, tells stories
inspired by memorable patients he has treated, taking us from initial
Elias Aboujaoude, MD, is Director of the Impulse contact through the stages of the doctor-patient relationship. Into
Control Disorders Clinic at Stanford University these interconnected vignettes Aboujaoude weaves his own personal
School of Medicine. His work has been featured in experiences while presenting up-to-date, accessible medical information.
the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.

MARCH
191 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 4 tables
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25567-8)
Medicine
World
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Liza Dalby
East Wind Melts the Ice
A Memoir through the Seasons

“Eclectic…. A wealth of information.” New York Times Book Review

“Dalby seamlessly couples an artist’s adroit sensitivity with an


anthropologist’s keen perception to create a singularly intimate yet
universally accessible portrait of the natural world.” Booklist

“Delightful and fascinating…. A beautiful volume.” Bloomsbury Review

“Part garden journal and part memoir, this book presents an intriguing
new perspective—for Westerners at least—on the minute but inexorable
seasonal changes happening every day.” American Gardener

Writing in luminous prose, Liza Dalby, acclaimed author of Geisha


and The Tale of Murasaki, brings us this elegant and unique year’s
journal—a brilliant mosaic that is at once a candid memoir, a garden-
er’s diary, and an enlightening excursion through cultures East and
West. Structured according to the seasonal units of an ancient Chinese Finalist for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize, Pacific Rim
almanac, East Wind Melts the Ice is made up of seventy-two short Voices
chapters that can be read straight through or dipped into at random.
In the manner of the Japanese personal poetic essay, this vibrant work Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in
Japanese culture.
comprises seventy-two windows on a life lived between cultures, and
the result is a wonderfully engaging read. FEBRUARY
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Geisha
Updated with a New Preface
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Peter Linebaugh
The Magna Carta Manifesto
Liberties and Commons for All

“Traces a proud lineage…with a passion, eloquence, and lyrical


reverence for hard-won freedoms.” The Independent

“Original, powerful, and groundbreaking…. Utterly fascinating….


Charts a path that gives me, and will give others, hope for a better
future.” Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights

“The ideas Linebaugh provokes and maps of liberty are dazzling,


reminders of what we have been and who we could be….
Remarkable.” Rebecca Solnit, author of Storming the Gates of Paradise

This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty
and shows how long-standing restraints against tyranny—and the
rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, as well as
the prohibition of torture—are being abridged. In providing a sweeping
history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215,
this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly
laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the
Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the ambition of empire seize a state.
University of Toledo. He is the author of The
London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the
Eighteenth Century.

An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities

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Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman


Denying History
Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened
and Why Do They Say It?
Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg
Updated and Expanded

“You won’t be able to stop reading this great, gripping story.”


Jared Diamond, author of Collapse

“Convincing…. A patiently stunning case that denies the deniers.”


Los Angeles Times

“Deserves a prominent place…especially for its survey of the flaws,


fallacies and failings in the deniers’ arguments.” Financial Times

“An inventively thorough treatment…. Important…. A powerful weapon


for anyone who cares about learning from the credible historical record.”
Publishers Weekly

Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the
Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such
claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of
Skeptic magazine and Adjunct Professor of
deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response,
Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed them- Alex Grobman is President of the Institute for
selves in the minds and culture of these Holocaust “revisionists.” In Contemporary Jewish Life and the Brenn Institute.
the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust hap-
pened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event. An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies

This edition is expanded with a new chapter and epilogue examining APRIL
current, shockingly mainstream revisionism. 370 pages, 6 x 9”, 48 b/w photos, 16 illustrations,
3 tables
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Victor Davis Hanson


The Western Way of War
Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
With an Introduction by John Keegan
With a New Preface

“A small masterpiece of style and scholarship.” The Economist

“Enthralling…. One closes this book wishing that its final verdict was
as well known as more familiar tenets of Greek wisdom.”
Christopher Hitchens, Newsday

“[Hanson] has opened up a whole new way of looking at classical


Greek warfare.” Journal of Hellenic Studies

The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of
Western politics—that the power of state should be guided by a
majority of its citizens—but also the central act of Western warfare,
the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, or combat
between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century B.C. devised
a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men
of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows
Victor Davis Hanson is Professor of Classics at how this brutal enterprise was dedicated to the same outcome as con-
California State University, Fresno, and author and
sensual government—an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute.
coauthor of many books, including The Landmark
Linking this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional govern-
Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the
Peloponnesian War. ment, Hanson raises new issues and questions old assumptions about
the history of war. A new preface addresses recent scholarship on
APRIL Greek warfare.
303 pages, 6 x 9”
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(978-0-520-21911-3)
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Reyner Banham
Los Angeles
The Architecture of Four Ecologies
With a New Foreword by Joe Day

“The true language of Los Angeles is the language of movement, says


Banham…. A generous and exhilarating joyride.”
Roger Jellinek, The New York Times

“Deserves to be read today not for its prescience or as a quaint


historical artifact, but as a model on how to read any city.”
Los Angeles Times Book Review

“A light-hearted and affectionate tribute.” New York Review of Books

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a


way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh
eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as
well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial build-
ing. His construct of “four ecologies” examined the ways Angelenos
relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills.
Banham delighted in this mobile city and identified it as an exemplar
of the posturban future. In a spectacular new foreword, architect and Reyner Banham (1922–1988) was Sheldon H.
scholar Joe Day explores how the structure of Los Angeles, the concept Solow Professor of the History of Architecture at
the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
of “ecology,” and the relevance of Banham’s ideas have changed over the
Joe Day leads deegan day design llc and serves on
past thirty-five years. the design faculty at the Southern California
Institute of Architecture.

FEBRUARY
281 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 111 b/w photographs,
4 line drawings, 8 maps
Previous paperback published in 2001
(978-0-520-21924-3)
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Janice Ross
Anna Halprin
Experience as Dance
Foreword by Richard Schechner

“Beautifully researched…with a tone of persuasive poise, Ross builds


a strong case for Anna Halprin as one of the most potent, if under-
recognized, catalysts in dance.” Dance Magazine

“An indispensable critical biography of this modern dance pioneer….


Remarkable…. Intelligent.” Financial Times

“Fastidiously researched…. A masterful job.” Jewish Book World

“Superb biography…. Rich with fascinating material.” Metro Newspapers

“A crucial contribution to a dance history heavily based in the New


York experience.” Marcia Siegel, Hudson Review

Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as “postmodern dance,”


creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation
in theater, music, Happenings, and performance art. This first com-
2008 Special Citation from the de la Torre prehensive biography examines Halprin’s fascinating life in the context
Bueno Prize, Society of Dance History Scholars of American culture—in particular popular culture and the West
Coast as a center of artistic experimentation from the Beats through
Janice Ross is Professor of Drama at Stanford
the Hippies to the present. The result is an innovative consideration of
University. Richard Schechner is University Professor
and one of the founders of the Performance
how experience becomes performance, as well as a masterful account
Studies Department at New York University. of an extraordinary life.

A Simpson Book in the Humanities

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David Shambaugh Anita Chan, Richard Madsen,


China’s Communist and Jonathan Unger

Party Chen Village


Atrophy and Adaptation Revolution to Globalization
Third Edition
“Although [Shambaugh] is not blind to the
serious—and growing—challenges to The first two editions of Chen Village pre-
Beijing’s rule, neither, in his telling, is sented an enthralling account of a Chinese
Beijing. Such open-minded vigilance may village in the throes of Maoist revolution
be the Chinese leaders’ best insurance followed by dramatic changes in village life
against following in the footsteps of the and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping
communists who went before them.” period. Now, more than a decade and a half
William J. Dobson, Washington Post Book World later, the authors have returned to Chen
Village, and in three new chapters they
Few issues affect the future of China—and explore astonishing developments. The
hence all the nations that interact with once-backwater village is today a center of
China—more than the nature of its ruling China’s export industry, where more than
party and government. In this timely study, 50,000 workers labor in modern factories,
David Shambaugh assesses the strengths ruled by the village government. This new
and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and edition of Chen Village illuminates, in
potential longevity of China’s Communist microcosm, the recent history of rural China
Party (CCP). up to the present time.
David Shambaugh is Professor of Political Science Anita Chan is a sociologist at the Australian
and International Affairs and Director of the China National University. Richard Madsen is Professor of
Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Affairs, George Washington University. Jonathan Unger is head of the Contemporary China
Centre at the Australian National University.
Copub: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
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MARCH
400 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 48 b/w photographs,
256 pages, 6 x 9”
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Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25492-3)
Previous paperback published in 1992
Asian Studies/History/Politics A modern wedding procession in China.
(978-0-520-08109-3) From Chen Village.
World
Sociology/Asian Studies/China
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Miriam Silverberg Hillel Cohen


Erotic Grotesque Army of Shadows
Nonsense Palestinian Collaboration with
Zionism, 1917–1948
The Mass Culture of Japanese
Modern Times
“Groundbreaking…. Riveting…. Eloquent.”
The Nation
“A timely and provocative challenge to the
master narratives of interwar and wrtime
“Important…. The picture presented is
Japan…. Insightful, provocative, often
thorough and fair and persuasive.”
effervescent…. An excellent book.”
New Republic
Journal of Asian Studies

“Cohen adds human insights to one of the


This history of Japanese mass culture dur-
most painful dimensions of the Israeli-
ing the decades preceding Pearl Harbor
Palestinian conflict. Fascinating.”
argues that the new gestures, relationship,
Tom Segev, author of 1967: Israel, the War, and
and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic the Year that Transformed the Middle East
grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-con-
sciously modern ethos that challenged state Inspired by stories he heard in the West
ideology and expansionism. Miriam Bank as a child, Hillel Cohen uncovers a
Silverberg’s innovative study demonstrates hidden history in this extraordinary and
how new public spaces, new relationships beautifully written book—a history central
within the family, and an ironic sensibility to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine con-
expressed the attitude of Japanese consumers flict but for the most part willfully ignored
who identified with the modern as provid- until now. Army of Shadows, initially pub-
ing a cosmopolitan break from tradition at lished in Israel to high acclaim and intense
the same time that they mobilized for war. controversy, offers a crucial new view of
history from below and raises profound
Miriam Silverberg (1951–2008) was Professor of questions about the roots of the Israel-
History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Palestine conflict.
Asia Pacific Modern, 1
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow at the Truman
Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the
JUNE Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
388 pages, 6 x 9”, 33 b/w photographs, 6 line illustra-
tions FEBRUAURY
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-22273-1) 352 pages, 6 x 9”
History/Asian Studies/Gender Studies Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25221-9)
World History/Middle Eastern Studies/Politics
paper 978-0-520-26008-5 $24.95sc/£14.95 World
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Peter Jelavich Daniel D. Beck


Berlin Alexanderplatz Biology of Gila Monsters
Radio, Film, and the Death and Beaded Lizards
of Weimar Culture
With Contributions from Brent E. Martin
and Charles H. Lowe
“Important…. Moves beyond the sphere of Photographs by Thomas Wiewandt
textual interpretation to analyze the com- Foreword by Harry W. Greene
plex interplay of multiple media in the
making of modern German culture.” History “No one could ask for a more comprehen-
sive yet readable book on the biology of
This fascinating exploration of a work that this fascinating group of lizards.”
was the epitome of German literary mod- Quarterly Review of Biology
ernism illuminates in chilling detail the
death of the Weimar Republic’s left-leaning No two lizard species have spawned as
culture of innovation and experimentation. much folklore, wonder, and myth as the
Peter Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin’s Gila Monster, Heloderma suspectum, and
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), a novel that the Beaded Lizard, H. horridum—the sole
questioned the autonomy and coherence of survivors of an ancient group of predacious
the human personality in the modern lizards called the Monstersauria.
metropolis. Jelavich’s book becomes a cau- Monstersaurs are among the most famous
tionary tale about how fear of outspoken of lizards, yet until quite recently they have
right-wing politicians can curtail and elimi- remained among the least studied. With
nate the arts as a critical counterforce to numerous illustrations, stunning color pho-
politics—all in the name of entertainment. tographs, and an up-to-date synthesis of
their biology, this book explains why they
Peter Jelavich is Professor of History at Johns seems poised to change the way we think
Hopkins University.
about lizards.
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 37
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities Daniel D. Beck is Professor of Biology at Central
Washington University.
MARCH
316 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs Organisms and Environments, 9
Hardcover published in 2006 (978-0-520-24363-7)
History/Film & Media Studies/Literature JUNE
World 247 pages, 7 x 10”, 35 color illustrations, 26 b/w
paper 978-0-520-25997-3 $24.95sc/£14.95 photographs, 40 line illustrations, 2 maps, 22 tables
Hardcover published 2005 (978-0-520-24357-6)
Natural History
World
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Arthur M. Eckstein Michael Flower


Mediterranean Anarchy, The Seer in
Interstate War, and Ancient Greece
the Rise of Rome “Descriptive…. [An] overall achievement….
Covers so much evidence so thoroughly.”
“A sophisticated reading of the ancient
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
evidence about the motives underlying the
expansionism of the Roman Republic.
The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of
A heroic, painstaking work.”
divination, operated in ancient Greek society
American Historical Review
through a combination of charismatic
inspiration and diverse skills ranging from
This groundbreaking study is the first to
examining the livers of sacrificed animals to
employ modern international relations
spirit possession. This engaging book, the
theory to place Roman militarism and
only comprehensive study of this fascinat-
expansion of power within the broader
ing figure, enters into the socioreligious
Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy.
world of ancient Greece to explore what
Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that
seers did, why they were so widely
Rome was an exceptionally warlike and
employed, and how their craft served as a
aggressive state—not merely in modern but
viable and useful social practice.
in ancient terms—by arguing that intense
militarism and aggressiveness were common Michael Flower is Senior Research Scholar at
among all Mediterranean polities from ca. Princeton University.
750 B.C. onward.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
Arthur M. Eckstein is Professor of History at the
JANUARY
University of Maryland, College Park.
328 pages, 6 x 9”, 19 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25229-5)
Hellenistic Culture and Society, XLVIII
Classical Studies
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
World
paper 978-0-520-25993-5 $24.95sc/£14.95
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389 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 maps
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24618-8)
Classical Studies/Ancient History/Politics
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Clifford Ando Sheldon Pollock


The Matter of the Gods The Language
Religion and the Roman Empire of the Gods in the
“Clifford argues that the Romans acquired World of Men
knowledge of the gods through observation Sanskrit, Culture, and Power
of the world and that their rituals were in Premodern India
maintained or modified in light of what
they learnt.” Times Higher Education Supplement “A tour de force.” American Historical Review

What did the Romans know about their “Magisterial…. The kind of scholarly syn-
gods? Why did they perform the rituals of thesis and insightful interpretation that
their religion, and what motivated them to comes along, at most, once in a generation
change those rituals? To these questions or two.” Journal of Asian Studies
Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: In
contrast to ancient Christians, who had In this work of impressive scholarship,
faith, Romans had knowledge, and their Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable
knowledge was empirical in orientation. The rise and fall of Sanskrit, India’s ancient lan-
Matter of the Gods pursues a variety of themes guage, as a vehicle of poetry and polity.
essential to the study of religion in history.
Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for
Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics, History, and Asian Studies
the College at the University of Chicago.
32nd Lionel Trilling Award, Columbia College and
The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 44 Flora Levy Foundation of Lafayette, La.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
2006 Professional and Scholarly Publishing
Division Awards for Excellence in Literature,
MARCH
270 pages, 6 x 9” Language & Linguistics, The Professional and
Hardcover published 2008 (978-0-520-25083-3) Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association
Classical Studies/Religion of American Publishers
World
paper 978-0-520-25986-7 $24.95sc/£14.95 Sheldon Pollock is Professor of Sanskrit and
South Asian Studies at Columbia University.

A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies

JUNE
703 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 4 maps
Hardcover published in 2006 (978-0-520-24500-6)
Religion/Asian Studies/History/Literature
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Stephen R. Bokenkamp David Sedley


Ancestors and Anxiety Creationism and
Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth Its Critics in Antiquity
in China
“The brilliance of this book is that Sedley
“Meticulous research…penetrating insight. lets the Greeks talk to us and, surprisingly,
There is no doubt that this book will deeply we can understand what they’re saying.”
influence the way we look at Medieval Nature
Chinese religion and society.”
Journal of Chinese Religions The world is configured in ways that seem
systematically hospitable to life forms, espe-
This innovative work on Chinese concepts cially the human race. Is this the outcome
of the afterlife is the result of groundbreak- of divine planning or simply of the laws
ing study of Chinese scripture and the of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans
incorporation of Indic concepts into the famously disagreed on whether the cosmos
Chinese worldview. Here, Bokenkamp was the product of design or accident. In
explores how Chinese authors received and this book, David Sedley examines this ques-
deployed ideas about rebirth from the third tion and illuminates new historical perspec-
to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the tives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid
antecedents of these scriptures, Bokenkamp the foundations of Western philosophy and
uncovers a stunning array of non-Buddhist science: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates,
accounts that provide details on the realms Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
of the dead, their denizens, and human
interactions with them. David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient
Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Stephen R. Bokenkamp is Professor in the
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Sather Classical Lectures, 66
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
at Indiana University.
FEBRUARY
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296 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 line illustrations
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25364-3)
JANUARY
Classics/Religion/Philosophy
232 pages, 6 x 9”
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For eighty-eight years, the Huntington Library has
published books in the fields of art, horticulture, and
British and American history and literature. A field of
art history new to the Huntington Library Press is rep-
resented by an exhibit catalogue featuring masterworks
of Chinese painting and calligraphy.

TOP: One-Stroke Calligraphy of the Character Hu (Tiger) (1890) by Weng Tonghe (1830–1904), hanging scroll, ink on paper, 25 x 57”, Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection.
ABOVE: Elegant Gathering at the Laixi Residence (1990, detail of Lyme Creek), by Wan-go Weng (b. 1918), ink and color on paper, 15 x 105”, Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection.

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HUNTINGTON LIBRARY PRESS

Edited by T. June Li
Treasures through Six Generations
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Weng Collection

“One of the world’s great private collections of classical Chinese art.”


Boston Globe

This beautifully illustrated volume provides an in-depth look at some


of the key works in the Wang-go H. C. Weng Collection of Chinese
painting and calligraphy. Weng Tonghe (1830–1904), who gathered
the greater part of the collection, was a preeminent statesman and
scholar of late Qing-dynasty China, and the masterworks he collected
reflect the refined taste of the scholars of his time. Weng’s great-great-
grandson Wan-go H. C. Weng—the collection’s current owner—
brought it to the United States for safekeeping in 1948. The fifty-one
works reproduced in this catalogue, on exhibit at the Huntington in
spring 2009, range from the twelfth century to the twentieth, and rep-
resent such renowned artists as Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Dong
Qichang, Wang Jian, Wang Hui, Wang Yuanqi, and other important
painters and calligraphers. The exhibition is
based on an exhibit organized by the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2007.

T. June Li is the curator of the Huntington’s


Chinese Garden. Exhibition Dates:
Huntington Library, Art Galleries, and Botanical
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102 pages, 9 3/4 x 9 3/4”, 80 color illustrations
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World
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ABOVE: Xie An’s Excursion on the Eastern Mountain (1480) by


Shen Zhou (1427–1509), hanging scroll, ink and color on silk,
114 x 48”, Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection.
RIGHT: Weng Tonghe (1830–1904) assembled a legendary
collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy during the
nineteenth century.

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Louise Pubols
JACK LONDON
The Father of All is the Big Read!
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Aboujaoude, Elias, MD, 90 Daviss, Betty-Anne, 42 Laking, Anne, 10 Ross, Janice, 96


Allmon, Warren D., 64 Delgado, James P., 24, 43 Lau, David, 38 Roughgarden, Joan, 12, 87
Ammann, Karl, 2 Diamond, Andrew J., 55 Li, T. June, 104 Schayegh, Cyrus, 54
Ando, Clifford, 101 Dikötter, Frank, 54 Linebaugh, Peter, 92 Schneiderman, Jill S., 64
Asmus, Peter, 36 Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk, 81 Lobel, Michael, 72 Schonberg, Jeff, 41
Auslander, Leora, 50 Dorontchenkov, Ilia, 71 Loomis, William F., 86 Sedley, David, 102
Axelrod, Jeremiah B.C., 55 Eckstein, Arthur M., 100 Losos, Jonathan B., 66 Seldes, Barry, 18
Bakalian, Anny, 43 Facos, Michelle, 71 Luhr, Eileen, 56 Shambaugh, David, 97
Bales, Kevin, 9 Flinn, Caryl, 84 Lumpkin, Susan, 6 Shennan, Stephen, 44
Bambaradeniya, Channa, 6 Flores, Cinthya, 6 Mac Low, Jackson, 88 Shermer, Michael, 93
Banham, Reyner, 95 Flower, Michael, 100 Madsen, Richard, 97 Silliman, Brian R., 67
Baraka, Amiri, 20 Fradkin, Philip L., 79 Manning, Richard, 28 Silverberg, Miriam, 98
Barclay, Lesley, 42 Frederick, Jim, 80 Marks, Jonathan, 40 Smelser, Neil J., 48
Barker, Jennifer M., 75 Freinkel, Susan, 78 McKay, George, 6 Smith, Joanna Handlin, 52
Bar-Kochva, Bezalel, 59 Geary, Daniel, 49 McLeod, Michael, 27 Soodalter, Ron, 9
Beck, Daniel D., 99 Genoways, Ted, 19 Meltzer, David J., 26 Stanford, J. A., 69
Benewick, Robert, 81 Gillespie, Rosemary G., 65 Mendelson, Richard, 31 Stasch, Rupert, 42
Berman, Lila Corwin, 63 Ginsberg, Joshua, 6 Messner, Michael A., 49 Steunenberg, Margaret J., 35
Bertness, Mark D., 67 Goldstein, Melvyn C., 83 Miles, Steven H., MD, 82 Stonehouse, Bernard, 6
Blanco, John D., 63 Greene, Gayle, 76 Miller, Bruce S., 67 Strang, Paul, 30
Blumenthal, David, 16 Grobman, Alex, 93 Miller, Stephen G., 57 Tansman, Alan, 52
Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 102 Grosholz, Edwin D., 67 Milner, Richard, 13 Teare, Brian, 38
Borneman, John, 48 Gross, Rita M., 61 Morone, James A., 16 Thorsrud, Harald, 58
Bourgois, Philippe, 41 Gualtieri, Sarah, 50 Musick, John, 6 Tomlinson, Matt, 62
Bozorgmehr, Mehdi, 43 Gunn, Giles, 69 Newell, R. L., 69 Tracy, Stephen V., 59
Braasch, Gary, 77 Gutierrez-Jones, Carl, 69 Okihiro, Gary Y., 4 Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 69
Braddock, Alan, C., 72 Hammoudi, Abdellah, 48 Opler, Paul A., 68 Tritten, Jan, 42
Burawoy, Michael, 45 Hanson, Victor Davis, 94 Partner, Simon, 53 Tuominen, Miira, 58
Burke III, Edmund, 51 Hauer, F. R., 69 Pasler, Jann, 73 Unger, Jonathan, 97
Burns, Sarah, 70 Hemenway, David, 47 Peterson, Dale, 2 Upchurch, Charles, 56
California Coastal Commission, 34 Hoare, Ben, 14 Plantinga, Carl, 75 van de Wetering, Ernst, 85
Carle, David, 37 Hodson, Sara S., 105 Pollock, Sheldon, 101 Wakeman, Frederic E., Jr., 53
Carney, Ray, 21 Holing, Dwight, 6 Pomeranz, Kenneth, 51 Waksman, Steve, 74
Chan, Anita, 97 Honigsberg, Peter Jan, 23 Powell, Jerry A., 68 Waldrop, Keith, 39
Choi, Hyaeweol, 69 Hundley, Norris, Jr., 33 Pubols, Louise, 105 Walker, Franklin, 105
Clague, David A., 65 Iceland, John, 47 Pugh, Allison J., 46 Ward, David, 8
Cohen, Hillel, 98 Jelavich, Peter, 99 Quilty, Patrick, 6 Winterling, Aloys, 25
Cole, Alan, 60 Jenkins, Charles Robert, 80 Quinzio, Jeri, 5 Woehler, Eric John, 6
Couzens, Dominic, 15 Johnson, Robert Flynn, 22 Rao, Anupama, 44 Wohl, Ellen, 32
Creeley, Robert, 89 Kassebaum, Gene, 8 Raskin, Jonah, 29 Woodruff, David, 6
Csordas, Thomas J., 60 Keator, Glenn, 35 Reesman, Jeanne Campbell, 105 Wuthnow, Robert, 17
Dalby, Liza, 91 Kelman, Ari Y., 74 Renard, John, 62
Davis, John, 70 Kendall, Arthur W., Jr., 67 Rose, Paul, 10
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E., 42 Kim, Jung-Wook, 69 Rosenberg, Michael S., 66

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TITLE INDEX

Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism, 52 Denying History, 93 It’s All for the Kids, 49 Society of Others, 42
Age of Openness, 54 Digging, 20 Jack London and the Klondike, South-West France, 30
Alcatraz, 8 Early Life History of Marine 105 Speaking of Jews, 63
America and the Misshaping of a Fishes, 67 Jack London, 105 State of China Atlas, 81
New World Order, 69 Earth under Fire, 77 James Rosenquist, 72 Station Identification, 74
American Art to 1900, 70 East Wind Melts the Ice, 91 John Cassavetes in Person, 21 Symbolist Art in Context, 71
American Chestnut, 78 Elephant Reflections, 2 Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet, 24 Tactile Eye, 75
Anatomy of a Beast, 27 Encyclopedia of Islands, 65 Language of the Gods in the Tales of God’s Friends, 62
Ancestors and Anxiety, 102 Environment and World History, World of Men, 101 Telling Chinese History, 53
Ancient Commentators on Plato 51 Leonard Bernstein, 18 Thing of Beauty, 88
and Aristotle, 58 Erotic Grotesque Nonsense, 98 Life as It Is, 86 This Ain’t the Summer of Love,
Ancient Scepticism, 58 Evolution’s Rainbow, 87 Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree, 66 74
Animal Migration, 14 Extended Case Method, 45 Longing and Belonging, 46 Thomas Eakins and the Cultures
Anna Halprin, 96 Face in the Lens, 22 Los Angeles, 95 of Modernity, 72
Annotated Catalog of the Father of All, 105 Magna Carta Manifesto, 92 Top 100 Birding Sites of the
Type Material of Aphytis Fathering Your Father, 60 Matter of the Gods, 101 World, 15
(Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) Field Days, 29 Mayor of Aihara, 53 Transcendental Studies, 39
in the Entomology Research First Peoples in a New World, 26 Mean Streets, 55 Transnational Transcendence, 60
Museum, University of For the Rock Record, 64 Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate Treasures through Six
California at Riverside, 69 From Demon to Darling, 31 War, and the Rise of Rome, 100 Generations, 104
Army of Shadows, 98 Frontier Constitutions, 63 Moths of Western North Virgil and the Mountain Cat, 38
Art of Doing Good, 52 Garland of Feminist Reflections, America, 68 Wallace Stegner and the American
Backlash 9/11, 43 61 Moving Viewers, 75 West, 79
Beaches and Parks of Southern Gender and Mission Encounters Oath Betrayed, 82 Walt Whitman and the Civil War,
California, 34 in Korea, 69 Oceans, 10 19
Before Wilde, 56 Genial Gene, 12 Odyssey Experience, 48 Water and the West, 33
Being There, 48 Gold Rush Port, 43 Of Rock and Rivers, 32 Western Way of War, 94
Berkeley Plato, 57 Heart of Power, 16 Of Sugar and Snow, 5 Where We Live Now, 47
Berlin Alexanderplatz, 99 History of Modern Tibet, Vol. 2, On Earth, 89 While We Were Sleeping, 47
Between Arab and White, 50 83 Our Nation Unhinged, 23 Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong,
Biology of Gila Monsters and Human Impacts on Salt Marshes, Pattern and Process in Cultural 54
Beaded Lizards, 99 67 Evolution, 44 Why I Am Not a Scientist, 40
Birth Models that Work, 42 Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife, 6 Pericles, 59 Witnessing Suburbia, 56
Boundless Faith, 17 Image of the Jews in Greek Pineapple Culture, 4
Brass Diva, 84 Literature, 59 Radical Ambition, 49
California Plant Families, 35 In God’s Image, 62 Reluctant Communist, 80
Caligula, 25 Insomniac, 76 Rembrandt, 85
Caste Question, 44 International Advances in the Rewilding the West, 28
Chen Village, 97 Ecology, Zoogeography, and Righteous Dopefiend, 41
China’s Communist Party, 97 Systematics of Mayflies and Russian and Soviet Views of
Composing the Citizen, 73 Stoneflies, 69 Modern Western Art,
Compulsive Acts, 90 Introduction to Energy in 1890s to Mid–1930s, 71
Creationism and Its Critics in California, 36 Seer in Ancient Greece, 100
Antiquity, 102 Introduction to Water in Sequence Alignment, 66
Cultural Revolutions, 50 California, 37 Sight Map, 38
Darwin’s Universe, 13 Inventing Autopia, 55 Slave Next Door, 9

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