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HUMANITIES ..................61
SCIENCE .......................73
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Justice for Hedgehogs
Ronald Dworkin
The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most
comprehensive work Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that
what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands are different aspects of the
same large question. He develops original theories on a great variety of issues very rarely con-
sidered in the same book: moral skepticism, literary, artistic, and historical interpretation, free
will, ancient moral theory, being good and living well, liberty, equality, and law among many
other topics. What we think about any one of these must stand up, eventually, to any argument
we find compelling about the rest.
Skepticism in all its forms—philosophical, cyni-
cal, or post-modern—threatens that unity. The Galilean
revolution once made the theological world of value safe R O N A L D D W O R K I N is
for science. But the new republic gradually became a new
the 2007 Holberg Laureate.
empire: the modern philosophers inflated the methods of
He is Sommer Professor of
physics into a totalitarian theory of everything. They
Law and Philosophy at New
invaded and occupied all the honorifics—reality, truth,
York University and author
fact, ground, meaning, knowledge, and being—and dic-
of many books, including Taking Rights
tated the terms on which
Seriously, A Matter of Principle, Law’s Empire,
other bodies of thought
Freedom’s Law, Sovereign Virtue, and Justice in
might aspire to them, and
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Peculiar Institution
America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
David Garland
“T ELLS A FASCINATING AND IMPORTANT STORY THAT ILLUMINATES WHY THE DEATH
PENALTY IS SO PROBLEMATIC AND YET SO WELL SUITED TO A MERICAN PRACTICES .”
America’s death penalty is a peculiar institution born and bred of political and cultural prac-
tices. Despite its abolition elsewhere, it continues as a social fact enforced in U.S. law and in
dozens of American states. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenac-
ity as the workings of a dynamic social system that acquired its
contemporary forms and meanings over time and that must be
understood in terms of past and present functioning.
D AV I D G A R L A N D is Once universal in every society, the political environ-
Professor of Law and ment of the death penalty has changed. America’s radical fed-
Sociology at New York eralism and local democracy, as well its legacy of violence and
University. racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West.
Where elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide
abolition despite public objections, American elites are
unable—and unwilling—to end a decentralized punishment
that is embedded in popular culture.
In the course of hundreds of decisions, the federal
courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that had
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process, delays, and reversals. Yet, the Supreme Court insists Campaign
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Human Dignity
George Kateb
“T HE LAST—THAT IS , THE FIRST AND ONLY—THOROUGHGOING E MERSONIAN IN
A MERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT.”
—CORNEL W EST, P RINCETON U NIVERSITY
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Dickinson
Selected Poems and Commentaries
Helen Vendler
“T HE BEST CLOSE READER OF POEMS TO BE FOUND ON THE LITERARY PAGES .”
—S EAMUS H EANEY
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many
others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler
turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both sty-
listic and imaginative features of the poems.
In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to
exhibit many aspects of Dickinson’s work as a poet, “from her first-person
poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her
HELEN unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes
V E N D L E R is to her painful poems of aftermath.” Included here are many expected
A. Kingsley favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems.
Porter University Professor at Harvard Taken together, Vendler’s selection reveals Emily Dickinson’s development
University and author of many books, as a poet, her astonishing range, and her
including The Art of Shakespeare’s revelation of what Wordsworth called “the
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Poetry Nation, New York
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The Naive and the
Sentimental Novelist
Orhan Pamuk
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how
does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those
of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful,
deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds
of the writer and the reader, revealing
their intimate connections.
Pamuk draws on Friedrich
Schiller’s famous distinction between
ORHAN
“naive” poets—who write sponta-
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neously, serenely, unselfconsciously—
Turkish
and “sentimental” poets: those who
novelist, is
are reflective, emotional, questioning, and alive to the artifice of the writ-
author of
ten word. Harking back to the beloved novels of his youth and ranging
Snow, My
through the work of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal,
Name Is Red, Istanbul, The Museum
Flaubert, Proust, Mann, and Naipaul, he explores the oscillation between
the naive and the reflective, and the of Innocence, and other works. He
search for an equilibrium, that lie at the was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize
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they can make the here-and-now fade
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TLS, Bookforum, Boston he considers the elements of character,
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plot, time, and setting that compose the “sweet illusion” of the
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Pride and Prejudice
An Annotated Edition
Jane Austen
Edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks
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The Last Utopia
Human Rights in History
Samuel Moyn
“A MOST WELCOME BOOK , T HE L AST U TOPiA IS A CLEAR - EYED ACCOUNT OF THE
ORIGINS OF ‘ HUMAN RIGHTS ’: THE BEST WE HAVE .”
—TONY J UDT
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet
the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar
only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an
improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates
that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it S A M U E L M OYN
reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future.
is Professor of
For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of West- History at
ern civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or Columbia
the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of University.
Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic
tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was
in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to
broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across
eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United
States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few
short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it
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bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into
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What Is a Palestinian
State Worth?
Sari Nusseibeh
P RAISE FOR O NcE U PON A c OUNTRY: A PALESTiNiAN L iFE :
“N USSEIBEH ’ S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS , PERHAPS , THE MOST IMPORTANT TO EMERGE
FROM THE M IDDLE E AST FOR DECADES .”
—M ORIS FARHI , T HE i NdEPENdENT
Can a devout Jew be a devout Jew and drop the belief in the rebuild-
ing of the Temple? Can a devout Muslim be a devout Muslim and drop
the belief in the sacredness of the Rock? Can one right (the right of
SARI return) be given up for another (the right to live in peace)? Can one
N U S S E I B E H is claim Palestinian identity and still retain Israeli citizenship? What is a
the president of Palestinian state worth? For over sixty years, the Israeli-Palestinian con-
Al-Quds University in Jerusalem flict has been subjected to many solutions and offered many answers by
and the author of Once Upon a diverse parties. Yet, answers are only as
Country: A Palestinian Life. good as the questions that beget them.
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Roosevelt’s Purge
How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party
Susan Dunn
In his first term in office, Franklin Roosevelt helped pull the nation out of the Great Depression
with his landmark programs. In November 1936, every state except Maine and Vermont voted
enthusiastically for his reelection. But then the political winds shifted. Not only did the Supreme
Court block some of his transformational experiments, but he also faced serious opposition
within his own party. Conservative Democrats such as Senators Walter George of Georgia and
Millard Tydings of Maryland allied themselves with Republicans
to vote down New Deal bills.
Susan Dunn tells the dramatic story of FDR’s unprece-
dented battle to drive his foes out of his party by intervening in S U S A N D U N N is
Democratic primaries and backing liberal challengers to conser- Preston Parish ’41
vative incumbents. Reporters branded his tactic a “purge”—and Third Century
the inflammatory label stuck. Roosevelt spent the summer months Professor in the Arts
of 1938 campaigning across the country, defending his progressive and Humanities at
policies and lashing out at conservatives. Despite his efforts, the Williams College.
Democrats took a beating in the midterm elections.
The purge stemmed
not only from FDR’s commit-
ment to the New Deal but also from his conviction that the
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nation needed two responsible political parties, one liberal, the
Campaign other conservative. Although the purge failed, at great political
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By the end of the century, the irreconcilable tensions within
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Review of Books, The ocratic South was solid no more. It had taken sixty years to
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The Berlin-Baghdad Express
The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power
Sean McMeekin
The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the
full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling
reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique
of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, eco-
nomic, and military ends.
The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating story of how Germany exploited
Ottoman pan-Islamism in order to destroy the British Empire, then the largest Islamic power in
the world. Meanwhile the Young Turks harnessed themselves to German military might to
avenge Turkey’s hereditary enemy, Russia. Told from the perspec-
tive of the key decision-makers on the Turco-German side, many
of the most consequential events of World War I—Turkey’s entry
SEAN MCMEEKIN into the war, Gallipoli, the Armenian massacres, the Arab revolt,
is Assistant and the Russian Revolution—are illuminated as never before.
Professor of
Drawing on a wealth of new sources, McMeekin forces
International Relations at Bilkent us to re-examine Western interference in the Middle East and its
University in Turkey. lamentable results. It is an epic tragicomedy of unintended conse-
quences, as Turkish nationalists give Russia the war it desperately
wants, jihad begets an Islamic
insurrection in Mecca, German
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The Decline and Fall of the
American Republic
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have trans-
formed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and law-
lessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of deeper
pathologies. Ackerman points to a series of developments that have previously been treated
independently of one another—from the rise of presidential pri-
maries, to the role of pollsters and media gurus, to the central-
ization of power in White House czars, to the politicization of the
military, to the manipulation of constitutional doctrine to justify
BRUCE
presidential power-grabs. He shows how these different transfor-
A C K E R M A N is
mations can interact to generate profound constitutional crises in
Sterling
the twenty-first century—and then proposes a series of reforms
that will minimize, if not eliminate, the risks going forward. Professor of
Law and
The book aims to begin a new constitutional debate.
Political
Americans should not suppose that Barack Obama’s centrism and
Science at Yale University and the author
constitutionalism will typify the presidencies of the twenty-first
century. We should seize the present opportunity to confront of We the People and The Failure of the
deeper institutional pathologies Founding Fathers (both from Harvard).
before it is too late.
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Age of Fracture
Daniel T. Rodgers
“T HE MOST WIDE - RANGING AND AMBITIOUS INTERPRETATION OF LATE -TWENTIETH -
CENTURY A MERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AVAILABLE .”
—J AMES K LOPPENBERG
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to
fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial
identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed
aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple
identities; community responsibility shrank to smaller circles. In this wide-ranging narrative,
Daniel Rodgers shows how the collective purposes and
meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged
and uncertain.
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Age of Fracture offers a powerful reinterpretation
is Henry Charles Lea
of the ways in which the decades surrounding the 1980s
Professor of History at
changed America. Through a contagion of visions and
Princeton University and
metaphors, on both the intellectual right and the intellec-
the author of Atlantic Crossings (Harvard).
tual left, earlier notions of history and society that stressed
solidity, collective institutions, and social circumstances
gave way to a more individualized human nature that
emphasized choice, agency,
performance, and desire.
On a broad canvas that includes Michel Foucault, Ronald Rea-
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The Classical Tradition
Edited by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most,
and Salvatore Settis
Advisory Board: Gordon Braden, Peter Burke, Joseph Connors, Jas Elsner,
Philip Gossett, Dimitri Gutas, Alexander Jones, Jill Kraye, Wilfried Nippel,
Vivian Nutton, Claudia Rapp, and Jean-Claude Schmitt
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’ sirens
to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has
been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every cul-
ture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a
wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the
fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion,
and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the
essays—designed and written to serve scholars, students,
and the general reader alike—show how the Classical
tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to gov-
ernment, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban plan-
ning, legal theory to popular culture. At once authoritative and accessible, A N T H O N Y G R A F T O N is Henry Putnam
learned and entertaining, comprehensive and surprising, and accompanied by University Professor of History and Chair
an extensive selection of illustrations, this guide illuminates the vitality of the of the Council of the Humanities at
Classical tradition that still surrounds us today. Princeton University. He is the author of
many books, including Worlds Made by
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The Atlantic Online, Superiore di Pisa and Professor of the
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Shi’ism
A Religion of Protest
Hamid Dabashi
For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi’ism, this book arrives
with urgently needed information and critical analysis. Hamid Dabashi exposes the soul of
Shi’ism as a religion of protest—successful only when in a warring position, and losing its legit-
imacy when in power.
Dabashi makes his case through a detailed discussion of the Shi’i doctrinal founda-
tions, a panoramic view of its historical unfolding, a varied investigation into its visual and per-
forming arts, and finally a focus on the three major sites of its
contemporary contestations: Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. In these states,
Shi’ism seems to have ceased to be a sect within the larger context of
Islam and has instead emerged to claim global political attention. Here
HAMID
we see Shi’ism in its combative mode—reminiscent of its traumatic
D A B A S H I , an
birth in early Islamic history. Hezbollah in Lebanon claims Shi’ism, as
internationally do the militant insurgents in Iraq, the ruling Ayatollahs in Iran, and
renowned the masses of youthful demonstrators rebelling against their reign. All
cultural critic and award-winning declare their active loyalties to a religion of protest that has defined
author, is Hagop Kevorkian Professor them and their ancestry for almost
of Iranian Studies and Comparative fourteen hundred years.
Literature at Columbia University. Shi’sm: A Religion of Protest
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In Praise of Copying
Marcus Boon
This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential
part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recog-
nizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world
we live in.
In spite of the laws, stigmas, and anxieties attached to it, the word “copying” perme-
ates contemporary culture, shaping discourse on issues from hip hop to digitization to gender
reassignment, and is particularly crucial in legal debates concerning
intellectual property and copyright. Yet as a philosophical concept,
copying remains poorly understood. Working comparatively across
cultures and times, Marcus Boon undertakes an examination of MARCUS BOON
what this word means—historically, culturally, philosophically— is Associate
and why it fills us with fear and fascination. He argues that the dom- Professor of
inant legal-political structures that define copying today obscure English, York
much broader processes of imitation that have constituted human University,
communities for ages and continue to shape various subcultures Toronto, and the
today. Drawing on contemporary art, music and film, the history of
author of The Road of Excess
aesthetics, critical theory, and Bud-
(Harvard). More information can be
dhist philosophy and practice, In
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The End of Arrogance
America in the Global Competition of Ideas
Steven Weber and Bruce W. Jentleson
Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy—the ideas that
shaped world politics in the twentieth century and underpinned American foreign policy—
have lost a good deal of their strength. Authority is now more contested and power more dif-
fuse. Hegemony (benign or otherwise) is no longer a choice, not for the United States, for China,
or for anyone else.
Steven Weber and Bruce Jentleson are not declinists, but they argue that the United
States must take a different stance toward the rest of the world in this, the twenty-first century.
Now that we can’t dominate others, we must rely on strategy,
making trade-offs and focusing our efforts. And they do not
mean military strategy, such as “the global war on terror.”
STEVEN WEBER
Rather, we must compete in the global marketplace of ideas—
is Professor of Political with state-directed capitalism, with charismatic authoritarian
Science, University of leaders, with jihadism. In politics, ideas and influence are now
California, Berkeley, and critical currency.
author of The Success of Open Source (Harvard).
At the core of our efforts must be a new conception
B R U C E W. J E N T L E S O N is Professor of Public of the world order based on mutuality, and of a just society
Policy and Political Science, Duke University. that inspires and embraces people around the world.
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Wandering Soul
The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky
Gabriella Safran
The man who would become S. An-sky—ethnographer, war correspondent, author of the best-
known Yiddish play, The Dybbuk—was born Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport in 1863, in Russia’s
Pale of Settlement. His journey from the streets of Vitebsk to the center of modern Yiddish and
Hebrew theater, by way of St. Petersburg, Paris, and war-torn Austria-Hungry, was both extraor-
dinary and in some ways typical: Marc Chagall, another child of Vitebsk, would make a similar
transit a generation later. Like Chagall, An-sky was loyal to mul-
tiple, conflicting Jewish, Russian, and European identities. And
like Chagall, An-sky made his physical and cultural transience
manifest as he drew on Jewish folk culture to create art that GABRIELLA
defied nationality. S A F R A N is Associate
Leaving Vitebsk at seventeen, An-sky forged a number Professor of Slavic
of apparently contradictory paths. A witness to peasant poverty, Languages and
pogroms, and war, he tried to rescue the vestiges of disappearing Literatures at
communities even while fighting for reform. A loner addicted to Stanford University.
reinventing himself—at times a Russian laborer, a radical orator,
a Jewish activist, an ethnographer of Hasidism, a wartime relief
worker—An-sky saw himself as a savior of the people’s culture
and its artifacts. What united the disparate strands of his life was his eagerness to speak to and
for as many people as possible, regardless of their language or national origin.
In this first full-length biography in English, Gabriella Safran, using Russian, Yiddish,
Hebrew, and French sources, recreates this neglected protean figure who, with his passions,
struggles, and art, anticipated the complicated identities of the
European Jews who would follow him.
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In the 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influ-
ential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo
archive called The Image of the Black in Western Art. Now, fifty years D AV I D B I N D M A N is Emeritus
later, as the first American president of African American descent occu- Professor of the History of Art at
pies his historic term in office, her mission has been re-invigorated University College London.
through the collaboration of Harvard University Press and the W. E. B. H E N R Y L O U I S G AT E S , J R . , is
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books and the anticipated first
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The 50 Most Extreme Places in
Our Solar System
David Baker and Todd Ratcliff
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BAKER than Antarctica. Hail made of diamonds. Here, as the authors say, the
is the “WOW” factor is restored to our understanding of scientific discovery,
Chairman of the Physics Department at as we witness the grandeur and the weirdness that inspire researchers
Austin College. T O D D R AT C L I F F is a to dig deeper and go ever farther into the mysteries of the universe.
planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Jet The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System combines
Propulsion Laboratory. a fascination with natural disasters and the mesmerizing allure of outer
space to take readers on a journey that will forever change the way
they view our solar system. Full of dazzling photographs from NASA’s
most recent observations, this book
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Poetry and the Police
Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Robert Darnton
In spring 1749, François Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled
off to the Bastille for distributing an “abominable poem about the king.” So began the Affair of
the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unau-
thorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these
poems so intense?
In this captivating book, Robert Darnton follows the ROBERT
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How Many Friends Does
One Person Need?
Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
Robin Dunbar
“A N ECLECTIC COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON HUMANITY AND EVOLUTION WITH
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE . . . [D UNBAR ] SPEAKS WITH AUTHORITY AND SEDUCES
US AS ONLY A MASTER CAN .”
—K ATE D OUGLAS
Why do men talk and women gossip, and which is better for you? Why is
monogamy a drain on the brain? And why should you be suspicious of
someone who has more than 150 friends on Facebook?
ROBIN We are the product of our evolutionary history, and this history
D U N B A R is
colors our everyday lives—from why we joke to the depth of our religious
beliefs. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar uses
Professor of
groundbreaking experiments that have forever changed the way evolu-
Psychology
tionary biologists explain how the distant past underpins our current
at the University of Liverpool and
behavior.
author of Grooming, Gossip, and
We know so much more now than Darwin ever did, but the core
the Evolution of Language and The
of modern evolutionary theory lies firmly in Darwin’s elegantly simple idea:
Trouble with Science (both from
organisms behave in ways that enhance the frequency with which genes
Harvard).
are passed on to future generations. This idea is at the heart of Dunbar’s
book, which seeks to explain why humans behave as they do. Stimulating,
provocative, and immensely enjoyable, his book invites you to explore the
number of friends you have, whether you have your father’s brain or your
mother’s, whether morning sickness might
actually be good for you, why Barack Obama’s 2008 victory was
a foregone conclusion, what Gaelic has to do with frankincense,
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The Lab
Creativity and Culture
David Edwards
“E DWARDS INFECTS US WITH HIS SUBJECTS ’ CREATIVITY. W HEN THE FINAL CHAPTER
TURNS FROM VIGNETTES TO HIS UTOPIAN L ABORATOIRE , WE ’ RE ROOTING FOR IT TO
SUCCEED .”
Six months before opening Le Laboratoire David Edwards visited Hans Ulrich Obrist, who had
co-curated a famous exhibit, Laboratorium, that explored connections between art and science.
“Famous, yes,” said Hans, “which I find ironic since almost nobody saw it. You have to be care-
ful getting too near contemporary science.”
But this was precisely where David Edwards chose to be.
His book, The Lab, promotes surprising innovations in culture,
D AV I D E D WA R D S
industry, and society by exploring new ideas in the arts and design
at the frontiers of science. In The Lab Edwards argues for a new teaches at Harvard
kind of educational art lab based on a contemporary science lab University and is
model—the “artscience lab.” With examples ranging from breath- founding director of Le Laboratoire in Paris and
able chocolate to contemporary art installations that explore the the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard. His work spans
neuroscience of fear, he shows how students learn by translating the arts and sciences and lies at the core of a
ideas alongside experienced creators and exhibiting risky experi- network of multi-disciplinary labs in Europe, USA
mental processes in gallery settings. Idea translation from concep- and Africa. Edwards is the founder of Medicine in
tion to realization is in turn facilitated by a network of Need and the Boston-based Cloud Foundation that
complementary labs whose missions range from education to oversees Cloud Place, a dynamic center for urban
industrial and humanitarian development. youth arts, and that launched the $100K
A manifesto of a new innovation model driven by the ArtScience Innovation Prize. The youngest-ever
arts, this is the first detailed description of an emerging cultural member of the National Academy of Engineering,
phenomenon in the United States Edwards was a featured speaker at Davos in 2010.
and Europe where artists and sci- The author of ArtScience (Harvard), his creative
( Author Appearances entists collaborate to produce work is described at www.davidideas.com.
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The Death Marches
The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
Daniel Blatman
Translated by Chaya Galai
From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concen-
tration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They
were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often
by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. Even in
the bloody annals of the Nazi regime, this final death blow was unique in character and scope.
In this first comprehensive attempt to answer the ques-
tions raised by this final murderous rampage, the author draws
on the testimonies of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders.
D A N I E L B L AT M A N
Hunting through archives throughout the world, Daniel Blat-
man sets out to explain—to the extent that is possible—the
is Professor of Jewish
effort invested by mankind’s most lethal regime in liquidating
History and Head of
the remnants of the enemies of the “Aryan race” before it aban-
the Avraham Harman
doned the stage of history. What were the characteristics of this
Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The
last Nazi genocide? How was it linked to the earlier stages, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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tration camps? How did the pre-
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to understand a seemingly inexplicable chapter in history.
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“I have always loved the
Holy Tongue”
Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship
Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg
Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a
secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated achieve-
ment. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) is known to us through his pedan-
tic namesake in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. But in this book, the
real Casaubon emerges as a genuine literary hero, an intrepid
explorer in the world of books. With a flair for storytelling reminis-
cent of Umberto Eco, Grafton and Weinberg follow Casaubon as he ANTHONY
unearths the lost continent of Hebrew learning—and adds this G R A F T O N is
ancient lore to the well-known Renaissance revival of Latin and Henry Putnam
Greek. University
The mystery begins with Mark Pattison’s nineteenth- Professor of
century biography of Casaubon. Here we encounter the Protestant History and the
Casaubon embroiled in intellectual quarrels with the Italian and Humanities, Princeton University. He is the
Catholic orator Cesare Baronio. author of many books and an editor of The
Setting out to understand the Classical Tradition (page 13). J O A N N A
nature of this imbroglio, Grafton W E I N B E R G is a Reader in Hebrew and
( National Print Attention and Weinberg discover Casaubon’s Jewish Studies, University of Oxford.
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commentary, New York
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History News Network Casaubon’s own manuscript notebooks. Their search takes
them from Oxford to Cambridge, from Dublin to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, as they reveal how the scholar discovered the
learning of the Hebrews—and at what cost.
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Pilgrims of the Vertical
Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk
Joseph E. Taylor III
Few things suggest rugged individualism as powerfully as the solitary mountaineer testing his
or her mettle in the rough country. Yet the long history of wilderness sport complicates this
image. In this surprising story of the premier rock-climbing venue in the United States, Pilgrims
of the Vertical offers insight into the nature of wilderness adventure.
From the founding era of mountain climbing in Victorian Europe to present-day climb-
ing gyms, Pilgrims of the Vertical shows how ever-changing alignments of nature, technology,
gender, sport, and consumer culture have shaped climbers’ relations to nature and to each other.
Even in Yosemite Valley, a premier site for sporting and environmental
culture since the 1800s, elite athletes cannot be entirely disentangled
from the many men and women seeking recreation and camaraderie.
JOSEPH E.
Following these climbers through time, Joseph Taylor uncovers
TAY L O R I I I
lessons about the relationship of individuals to groups, sport to society,
is Associate
and nature to culture. He also shows how social and historical contexts
Professor,
influenced adventurers’ choices and experiences, and why some became
Departments of History and
leading environmental activists—including John Muir, David Brower, and
Geography, Simon Fraser Yvon Chouinard. In a world in which wild nature is increasingly associ-
University. ated with play, and virtuous play with environmental values, Pilgrims of
the Vertical explains when and how these ideas developed, and why they
became intimately linked to consumerism.
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The Heart of William James
William James
Edited and with an Introduction by
Robert Richardson
On the one hundredth anniversary of the death of William James, Robert Richardson, author
of the magisterial William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, assembles a wide-
ranging selection of essays and writings that reveal the evolution of James’s thought over time,
especially as it was continually being shaped by the converging influences of psychology, phi-
losophy, and religion throughout his life.
Proceeding chronologically, the volume begins with
“What Is an Emotion,” James’s early, notable, and still contro-
ROBERT
versial argument that many of our emotions follow from (rather
R I C H A R D S O N is
than cause) physical or physiological reactions. The book con-
cludes with “The Moral Equivalent of War,” one of the greatest Adjunct Professor of
anti-war pieces ever written, perhaps even more relevant now Letters at Wesleyan
than when it was first published. In between, in essays on “The University.
Dilemma of Determinism,” “The Hidden Self,” “Habit,” and
“The Will”; in chapters from The Principles of Psychology and
The Varieties of Religious Experience; and in such pieces as “On
a Certain Blindness in Human Beings,” “What Makes a Life Sig-
nificant,” and “Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results,” we witness the evolution of
James’s philosophical thinking, his pragmatism, and his radical empiricism. Throughout, Richard-
son’s deeply informed introductions place James’s work in its
proper biographical, historical, and philosophical context.
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Review of Books so every age was once the new age—and as this book makes
abundantly clear, William James’s writings are still the gateway
to many a new world.
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What Is Mental Illness?
Richard J. McNally
According to a major health survey, nearly half of all Americans have been mentally ill at some
point in their lives—more than a quarter in the last year. Can this be true? What exactly does
it mean, anyway? What’s a disorder, and what’s just a struggle with real life?
This lucid and incisive book cuts through both professional jargon and polemical hot
air, to describe the intense political and intellectual struggles over what counts as a “real” dis-
order, and what goes into the “DSM,” the psychiatric bible. Is schizophrenia a disorder?
Absolutely. Is homosexuality? It was—till gay rights activists drove it out of the DSM a gener-
ation ago. What about new and controversial diagnoses? Is “social anxiety disorder” a way of
saying that it’s sick to be shy, or “female sexual arousal disorder” that
it’s sick to be tired?
An advisor to the DSM, but also a fierce critic of exaggerated
RICHARD J. overuse, McNally defends the careful approach of describing disorders
M C N A L LY is by patterns of symptoms that can be seen, and illustrates how often
Professor of the system medicalizes everyday emotional life.
Psychology at Neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology may illu-
Harvard University and author of minate the biological bases of mental illness, but at this point, McNally
Remembering Trauma (Harvard). argues, no science can draw a bright line between disorder and dis-
tress. In a pragmatic and humane con-
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College Admissions for
the 21st Century
Robert J. Sternberg
SATs, ACTs, GPAs. Everyone knows that these scores can’t tell a college everything that’s impor-
tant about an applicant. But what else should admissions officers look for, and how can they
know it when they see it? In College Admissions for the 21st Century a leading researcher on
intelligence and creativity offers a bold and practical approach to college admissions testing.
Standardized tests are measures of memory and analytical
skills. But the ever-changing global society beyond a college campus
needs more than just those qualities, argues Robert Sternberg. Tomor-
row’s leaders and citizens also need creativity, practicality, and wisdom.
ROBERT J.
How can the potential for those complex qualities be meas- STERNBERG,
ured? One answer is “Kaleidoscope,” a new initiative in undergraduate formerly IBM
admissions, first used at Tufts University. Its open-ended questions for Professor of
applicants, and the means used to score the answers, gives applicants
Psychology and
and admissions officers the chance to go beyond standardized tests.
Education and
Does it work? As Sternberg describes in detail, Kaleidoscope Professor of Management at Yale,
measures predicted first-year academic success, over and above SATs was Dean of Arts and Sciences at
and high school GPAs, and predicted first-year extracurricular activi-
Tufts University from 2005 to 2010.
ties, leadership, and active citizenship
as well. And every year that Kaleido-
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No Right Turn
Conservative Politics in a Liberal America
David T. Courtwright
“C RISPLY WRITTEN , COLORFUL , AND OFTEN OUT- OF -THE - BOX ORIGINAL , THIS IS A
BOLD , SWEEPING LOOK AT THE LAST FOUR DECADES OF A MERICAN HISTORY.”
Few question the “right turn” America took after 1966, when liberal political power began to
wane. But if they did, No Right Turn suggests, they might discover that all was not really “right”
with the conservative golden age. A provocative overview of a half century of American poli-
tics, the book takes a hard look at the counterrevolutionary dreams of
liberalism’s enemies—to overturn people’s reliance on expanding gov-
ernment, reverse the moral and sexual revolutions, and win the Culture
D AV I D T. War—and finds them largely unfulfilled.
COURT WRIGHT David Courtwright deftly profiles celebrated and controversial
is Presidential figures, from Clare Booth Luce, Barry Goldwater, and the Kennedy
Professor at the brothers to Jerry Falwell, David Stockman, and Lee Atwater. He shows
University of North Florida and the us Richard Nixon’s keen talent for turning popular anxieties about
author of several books, including morality and federal meddling to Republican advantage—and his inabil-
Forces of Habit (Harvard). ity to translate this advantage into reactionary policies. Corporate inter-
ests, boomer lifestyles, and the media weighed heavily against Nixon
and his successors, who placated their base with high-profile attacks on
crime, drugs, and welfare dependency.
Meanwhile, religious conservatives
floundered on abortion and school prayer, obscenity, gay rights,
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Fugitive Justice
Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial
Steven Lubet
During the tumultuous decade before the Civil War, no issue was more divisive than the pur-
suit and return of fugitive slaves—a practice enforced under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
When free Blacks and their abolitionist allies intervened, prosecutions and trials inevitably fol-
lowed. These cases involved high legal, political, and—most of all—human drama, with run-
aways desperate for freedom, their defenders seeking recourse to a “higher law” and normally
fair-minded judges (even some opposed to slavery) considering the disposition of human beings
as property.
Fugitive Justice tells the stories of three of the most dra-
matic fugitive slave trials of the 1850s, bringing to vivid life the
determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, STE VEN LUBE T
the brutal doggedness of the slavehunters, and the tortuous is Williams
response of the federal courts. These cases underscore the crucial Memorial Professor
role that runaway slaves played in building the tensions that led to of Law and Director
the Civil War, and they show us how “civil disobedience” devel- of the Bartlit Center
oped as a legal defense. As they unfold we can also see how such for Trial Strategy, Northwestern
trials—whether of rescuers or of the slaves themselves—helped University.
build the northern anti-slavery movement, even as they pushed
southern firebrands closer to secession.
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so evil be treated so routinely by just men? The answer says
much about how deeply the institution of slavery had pene-
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Eden on the Charles
The Making of Boston
Michael Rawson
Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects
of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are
structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relation-
ships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first
great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in
America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history
of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental per-
spective on the creation of America’s first cities.
Eden on the Charles explores how Bostonians channeled country
lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean
MICHAEL
to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with
R AW S O N
houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks
is Assistant and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book
Professor of shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas
History, Brooklyn College, of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to the process of
City University of New York. urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of
Boston’s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control
over the city’s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of
Boston itself. In Boston’s history, we find the seeds of the environmental
relationships that—for better or worse—have defined urban America to this day.
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Journey Through
the Afterlife
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Edited by John H. Taylor
The Book of the Dead is not a single text but a compilation of
spells that the ancient Egyptians believed would assist them in
the afterlife as they made their perilous journey toward the
realm of the gods and the ultimate state of eternity. No two copies
are identical. The spells are often accompanied by colored
vignettes, which graphically show the imagined landscape
of the Netherworld, the gods and demons whom the
J O H N H . TAY L O R
deceased will meet, and the critical “weighing of the
heart”—the judgment that will determine whether the is a curator at the
traveler will be admitted into the afterlife or condemned to British Museum specializing in
destruction by the monstrous “Devourer.” ancient Egyptian funerary
archaeology.
With contributions from leading scholars and
detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted
scenes, this fascinating and important book affords a
greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems
and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears of mortal man
about the “world” beyond death. The whole is beautifully illustrated with specially commis-
sioned photographs of these exceptional papyri and an array of contextual funerary objects—
painted coffins, gilded masks, amulets, jewelry, tomb figurines, and mummy trappings.
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Seeing Patients
Unconscious Bias in Health Care
Augustus A. White III, M.D.
with David Chanoff
If you’re going to have a heart attack, an organ transplant, or a joint replacement, here’s the key
to getting the very best medical care: be a white, straight, middle-class male. This book by a pio-
neering black surgeon takes on one of the few critically important topics that haven’t figured in
the heated debate over health care reform—the largely hidden yet massive injustice of bias in
medical treatment.
Growing up in Jim Crow–era Tennessee and training and
teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White
witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine.
AU G U S T U S A . And while race relations have changed dramatically, old ways of think-
WHITE III, ing die hard. In Seeing Patients White draws upon his experience in
M . D . , is
startlingly different worlds to make sense of the unconscious bias that
riddles medical treatment, and to explore what it means for health
Professor
care in a diverse twenty-first-century America.
of Medical Education and Orthopedic Surgery
at Harvard Medical School and the first African White and co-author David Chanoff use extensive research
American department chief at Harvard’s and interviews with leading physicians to show how subconscious
stereotyping influences doctor-patient interactions, diagnosis, and
teaching hospitals. D AV I D C H A N O F F is a
treatment. Their book brings together insights from the worlds of
writer living in Marlborough, MA.
social psychology, neuroscience, and clinical practice to define the
issues clearly and, most importantly, to
outline a concrete approach to fixing
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The Offensive Internet
Speech, Privacy, and Reputation
Edited by Saul Levmore and Martha C. Nussbaum
Contributors include the editors, Cass Sunstein,
Daniel J. Solove, Brian Leiter, and Geoffrey Stone
The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophis-
ticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has
mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Law-
makers have joined the celebration, passing the Commu-
nications Decency Act, which enables Internet Service
Providers to allow unregulated discourse without danger
S A U L L E V M O R E is the
of liability, all in the name of enhancing freedom of speech.
William B. Graham
But an unregulated Internet is a breeding ground for offen-
Professor of Law at the
sive conduct.
University of Chicago Law
At last we have a book that begins to focus on
School. M A R T H A C .
abuses made possible by anonymity, freedom from liability,
N U S S B A U M is Ernst
and lack of oversight. The distinguished scholars assembled
Freund Distinguished Service Professor of
in this volume, drawn from law and philosophy, connect
Law and Ethics at the University of
the absence of legal oversight with harassment and dis-
Chicago Law School and the author of
crimination. Questioning the simplistic notion that abusive
speech and mobocracy are the inevitable outcomes of new several books, including The Clash Within,
technology, they argue that current misuse is the outgrowth Frontiers of Justice, and Cultivating
of social, technological, and legal choices. Seeing this Humanity (all from Harvard).
clearly will help us to be better informed about our options.
In a field still dominated by a frontier perspective,
this book has the potential to be a real game changer.
Armed with example after example of harassment in Internet chat rooms and forums, the
authors detail some of the vile and hateful speech that the current combination of law and tech-
nology has bred. The facts are then treated to analysis and policy prescriptions. Read this book
and you will never again see the Internet through rose-colored glasses.
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The Evolution of the
Human Head
Daniel E. Lieberman
“L IEBERMAN ’ S INTEGRATED APPROACH WILL MAKE HIS BOOK A FORUM FOR A WAY
OF THINKING IN HUMAN EVOLUTION THAT HAS NOT YET FOUND ITS EQUAL IN PRINT.”
In one sense, human heads function much like those of other mammals. We use them to chew,
smell, swallow, think, hear, and so on. But, in other respects, the human head is quite unusual.
Unlike other animals, even our great ape cousins, our heads are short and wide, very big brained,
snoutless, largely furless, and perched on a short, nearly vertical neck.
Daniel E. Lieberman sets out to explain how the human head works, and
why our heads evolved in this peculiarly human way.
DANIEL E.
Exhaustively researched and years in the making, this innovative
LIEBERMAN
book documents how the many components of the head function, how
is Professor
they evolved since we diverged from the apes, and how they interact in
of Human diverse ways both functionally and developmentally, causing them to be
Evolutionary Biology at highly integrated. This integration not only permits the head’s many units
Harvard. to accommodate each other as they grow and work, but also facilitates
evolutionary change. Lieberman shows how, when, and why the major
transformations evident in the evolution of the human head occurred.
The special way the head is integrated, Lieberman argues, made it possi-
ble for a few developmental shifts to have had widespread effects on craniofacial growth, yet
still permit the head to function exquisitely.
This is the first book to explore in depth what happened in human evolution by inte-
grating principles of development and functional morphology with the hominin fossil record.
The Evolution of the Human Head will permanently change the study of human evolution and
has widespread ramifications for thinking about other branches of evolutionary biology.
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Dilemmas and Connections
Selected Essays
Charles Taylor
There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one’s philosophy—
and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly
explored in his epochal A Secular Age. Here Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his
allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul
Celan. He offers major contributions to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism,
democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and moder-
nity. And he delves even more deeply into themes taken up in
A Secular Age: the continuity of religion from the past into the
future; the nature of the secular; the folly of hoping to live by C H A R L E S TAY L O R is
“reason alone”; the perils of moralism. He also speculates on Professor Emeritus of
how irrationality emerges from the heart of rationality itself, Philosophy, McGill
and why violence breaks out again and again. University. A Secular
In A Secular Age, Taylor more evidently foregrounded Age, also published by
his Catholic faith, and there are several essays here that fur- Harvard, was judged a
ther explore that faith. Overall, this is a hopeful book, showing “best book of the year” in 2007 by
how, while acknowledging the force of religion and the per- Publishers Weekly, Toronto Globe and Mail,
sistence of violence and folly, we nonetheless have the power and the Times Literary Supplement, among
to move forward once we have given up the brittle pretensions others. He is the author of many books,
of a narrow rationalism. including The Ethics of Authenticity,
Sources of the Self, and Philosophical
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The Colors of Zion
Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
George Bornstein
“B ORNSTEIN ’ S EMBRACE OF A MORE HUMANE VISION OF THE WORLD THAT
TRANSCENDS NARROW GROUP LOYALTIES MAY STRIKE SOME READERS AS
SENTIMENTAL OR SOMEHOW OUT OF KEEPING WITH A SERIOUS WORK OF CULTURAL
HISTORY. B UT THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK IS TO ARGUE THAT WE HAVE LITTLE HOPE
OF OVERCOMING THE DIFFERENCES OF THE PRESENT UNLESS WE HAVE A MUCH
BETTER GRASP OF THE DIFFERENCES OF THE PAST.”
—E RIC S UNDQUIST
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The Two Faces of
American Freedom
Aziz Rana
“A STRIKINGLY ORIGINAL AND POWERFUL ACCOUNT OF A MERICAN POLITICAL
CULTURE .”
—J EDEDIAH P URDY
—R OGERS S MITH
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Reading and Writing in Babylon
Dominique Charpin
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was
invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq. For the next three millennia, kings,
aristocrats, and slaves all made intensive use of cuneiform script to document everything from
royal archives to family records.
In engaging style, Dominique Charpin shows how hundreds of thousands of clay
tablets testify to the history of an ancient society that communicated broadly through letters to
gods, insightful commentary, and sales receipts. He includes a number of passages, offered in
translation, that allow readers an illuminating glimpse into the lives of
Babylonians. Charpin’s insightful overview discusses the methods and
institutions used to teach reading and writing, the process of appren-
DOMINIQUE
ticeship, the role of archives and libraries, and various types of litera-
CHARPIN
ture, including epistolary exchanges and legal and religious writing.
is Professor of
The only book of its kind, Reading and Writing in Babylon
Mesopotamian
introduces Mesopotamia as the birthplace of civilization, culture, and
History at the Sorbonne, Paris.
literature while addressing the technical side of writing and arguing for
a much wider spread of literacy than is generally assumed. Charpin
combines an intimate knowledge of cuneiform with a certain breadth
of vision that allows this book to transcend a small circle of scholars.
Though it will engage a broad general audience, this book also fills a critical academic gap and
is certain to become the standard reference on the topic.
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La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
Translated by David R. Slavitt
Introduction by Seth Lerer
—H ENRY TAYLOR
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Desert Kingdom
How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia
Toby Craig Jones
Oil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart
of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil’s abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has
been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom’s ruling family. The other bedrock ele-
ment was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth. Over much of the twentieth
century, it was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of
Saudi Arabia emerged.
The central government’s power over water, space, and people expanded steadily over
time, enabled by increasing oil revenues. The operations of the Arabian
American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving
power over the environment. Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape
TO BY
through global networks of oil, science, and expertise. And, where oil and
CRAIG
water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism, they were also
J O N E S is instrumental in shaping politics on the ground. Nowhere was the impact
Assistant more profound than in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where the politics of
Professor of History at Rutgers oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for rev-
University at New Brunswick. olution.
Saudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam,
tribe, and the economics of oil. Desert Kingdom now provides an alterna-
tive history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi
state. It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of
science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert.
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Brain Storm
The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
Female and male brains are different, thanks to hormones coursing through the brain before
birth. That’s taught as fact in psychology textbooks, academic journals, and bestselling books.
And these hardwired differences explain everything from sexual orientation to gender identity,
to why there aren’t more women physicists or more stay-at-home dads.
In this compelling book, Rebecca Jordan-Young takes on the evidence that sex differ-
ences are hardwired into the brain. Analyzing virtually all pub-
lished research that supports the claims of “human brain
organization theory,” Jordan-Young reveals how often these stud-
ies fail the standards of science. Even if careful researchers point REBECC A M.
out the limits of their own studies, other researchers and jour- J O R D A N - YO U N G
nalists can easily ignore them because brain organization theory is a sociomedical
just sounds so right. But if a series of methodological weaknesses, scientist and an
questionable assumptions, inconsistent definitions, and enormous Assistant Professor
gaps between ambiguous findings and grand conclusions have of Women’s Studies
accumulated through the years, then science isn’t scientific at all. at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Elegantly written, this book argues passionately that the
analysis of gender differences deserves far more rigorous, biolog-
ically sophisticated science. “The evidence for hormonal sex dif-
ferentiation of the human brain better resembles a hodge-podge
pile than a solid structure…Once we have cleared the rubble, we can begin to build newer,
more scientific stories about human development.”
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Announcing
DUMBARTON OAKS
The Vulgate Bible
Volume I
MEDIEVAL LIBRARY
The Pentateuch
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
is a groundbreaking new facing-page Douay-Rheims Translation
translation series designed to make writ-
ten achievements of medieval and Edited by Swift Edgar
Byzantine culture available to both
scholars and general readers in the Eng- The Vulgate Bible, compiled and translated in large
lish-speaking world. It will offer the part by Saint Jerome at the intersection of the fourth
classics of the medieval canon as well as and fifth centuries CE, was used from the early Middle Ages through the twentieth century
lesser-known gems of literary and cul- in the Western European Christian (and, later, specifically Catholic) tradition. Its signif-
tural value to a global audience through icance can hardly be overstated. The text influenced literature, visual art, music, and edu-
accessible modern translations based on cation during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart of much
the latest research by lead- of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and
ing scholars in the field. even political history of that period. At the end of
With subjects ranging the sixteenth century, as a variety of Protestant ver-
from The Vulgate Bible to nacular Bibles became available, professors at a
SWIFT EDGAR is a research
the lives of saints, and gen- Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims,
assistant at the Dumbarton Oaks
res as diverse as travelogues,
Research Library and Collection. translated the Vulgate into English, among other rea-
scientific treatises, and epic
CHRISTOPHER MCDONOUGH is
sons to combat the influence of rival theologies.
and lyric poetry, this new
series will bring a vibrant Emeritus Professor of Classics at This volume elegantly and affordably pre-
medieval world populated the University of Toronto. sents the text of the Pentateuch, the first five books
with saints and sinners, of the Bible, beginning with the creation of the
R. D. FULK is Chancellor’s
monsters and angels, kings world and the human race, continuing with the
Professor of
and slaves, poets and schol- Great Flood, God’s covenant with Abraham,
English at
ars, to a new generation of Israel’s flight from Egypt and wanderings
Indiana
readers who will discover through the wilderness, the laws revealed to
University,
cultures and literatures
Bloomington. Moses, his mustering of the twelve tribes of
both hauntingly familiar
Israel, and ending on the eve of Israel’s intro-
and wondrously alien.
duction into the Promised Land. This is the
In order to do justice
first volume of the projected five-volume set
to the scope of the
medieval world, the series of the complete Vulgate Bible.
commences with a focus on three lan-
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in the future.
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The Arundel Lyrics / The Beowulf Manuscript
The Poems of Edited and translated by
R. D. Fulk
Hugh Primas
Edited and translated by Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from
the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head
Christopher McDonough the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton
This volume presents two complementary medieval antholo- Oaks Medieval Library.
gies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the But this volume offers something unique. For the first
second half of the twelfth century. The poet Peter of Blois was time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears
proclaimed by a contemporary of his to be a master composer alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manu-
of rhythmic verse. Peter’s secular love-lyrics gathered in the script: the prose Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the
Arundel manuscript give substance to that claim. Written with East, The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle, and (following
a technical virtuosity that rivals the metrical display of Hora- Beowulf‘) the poem Judith. First-time readers as well as estab-
tian lyric, the poems give eloquent and learned expression to lished scholars can now gain new insights into Beowulf—and
the cult of secular love that emerged in the twelfth century. the four other texts—by approaching
The collection is further augmented by verse as varied each in its original context.
as Christmas poems and satires on the venality of the Roman Could a fascination with the
Curia and immoral bishops, including a famous lament about monstrous have motivated the com-
church corruption by Walther of Châtillon. piler of this manuscript, working over
The cleric Hugh Primas won recognition and fame for a thousand years ago, to pull together
compositions in which he reflects upon his experiences, good this diverse grouping into a single vol-
and bad, while traveling around the cities of northern France ume? The prose translation by R. D.
(such as the important sees of Rheims and Sens) in search of Fulk, based on the most recent edito-
patronage. Artistic in con- rial understanding, allows readers to
ception and execution, the rediscover Beowulf ’s brilliant mastery
poems are memorable for along with otherworldly delights in
the witty and often acerbic the four companion texts in The
tone with which Primas Beowulf Manuscript.
engages the holders of
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The Great Wall
A Cultural History
Carlos Rojas
Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one
of the world’s most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall
has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure’s conceptual coherence
is actually grounded on the tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it. These sto-
ries give life to the Wall and help secure its hold on our collective imagination, while at
the same time permitting it to constantly reinvent itself in accordance with the needs of
each new era.
Through an examination of allusions to the Wall in an
eclectic array of texts—ranging from official dynastic histories,
C A R LO S R O J A S
elite poetry, and popular folktales, to contemporary tourist testi-
is Assistant monials, children’s songs, and avant-garde performance art—
Professor of this study maps out a provocative new framework for
Chinese Cultural understanding the structure’s function and significance.
Studies at Duke University.
This volume approaches the Wall through the stories
we tell and contends that it is precisely in this cultural history
that we may find the Wall’s true meaning, together with the
secret of its greatness.
Chinae, O lim S ina rum Regionis, Nova D esc riptio: Auc tore Ludouico Ge orgio by Abraham O r telius and Luis
Jorge de B arbuda (1584). The Hong Kong Universit y of S cience and Technolo gy.
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Near Andersonville
Winslow Homer’s Civil War
Peter H. Wood
The admired American painter Winslow Homer rose to national attention during the Civil War.
But one of his most important early images remained unknown for a century. The renowned
artist is best known for depicting ships and sailors, hunters and fishermen, rural vignettes and
coastal scenes. Yet he also created some of the first serious black figures in American art. Near
Andersonville (1865–66) is the earliest and least known of these impressive images.
Peter Wood, a leading expert on Homer’s images of blacks,
reveals the long-hidden story of this remarkable Civil War painting.
His brisk narrative locates the picture in southwest Georgia in
August 1864 and provides its military and political context. Wood PETER H. WOOD
underscores the agony of the Andersonville prison camp and high- is Professor
lights a huge but little-known cavalry foray ordered by General Sher- Emeritus of
man as he laid siege to Atlanta. Homer’s image takes viewers History at Duke
“behind enemy lines” to consider the utter failure of “Stoneman’s University.
Raid” from the perspective of an enslaved black Southerner.
By examining the interplay of symbolic elements, Wood
reveals a picture pregnant with meaning. He links it to Abraham
Lincoln’s presidential campaign of 1864 and underscores the enduring importance of Homer’s
thoughtful black woman. The painter adopted a bottom-up perspective on slavery and emanci-
pation that most scholars needed another century to discover. By integrating art and history,
Wood’s provocative study gives us a fresh vantage point on Homer’s early career, the struggle
to end slavery, and the dramatic closing years of the Civil War.
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The Hungry World
America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia
Nick Cullather
“C ULLATHER HAS WRITTEN AN EPIC STORY THAT IS ESSENTIAL READING FOR ANYONE
WHO CARES ABOUT THE HISTORY— AND FUTURE — OF GLOBAL POVERTY.”
Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger fol-
lows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert
rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to
multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has
been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives,
NICK and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it
C U L L AT H E R as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science tri-
is Associate umphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan
Professor of
highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to trans-
form rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food.
History at Indiana University.
The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew along-
side development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war.
Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citi-
zens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food
policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned
Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto
inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land.
Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever
undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As
Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colos-
sal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.
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Reshaping the
Work-Family Debate
Why Men and Class Matter
Joan C. Williams
“AT LAST, A BOOK THAT LEAPS PAST THE CURRENT WORK - FAMILY DEBATE . I T IS TIME
TO FREE WOMEN AND MEN TO NURTURE THEIR CHILDREN AND SUPPORT THEIR
FAMILIES . B RILLIANT !”
—J OAN B LADES , CO - FOUNDER OF M OVE O N . ORG AND
M OMS R ISING . ORG
The United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the devel-
oped world. Despite what is often reported, new mothers don’t “opt JOAN C.
out” of work. They are pushed out by discriminating and inflexible WILLIAMS
workplaces. Today’s workplaces continue to idealize the worker who is Distinguished
has someone other than parents caring for their children. Professor of
Conventional wisdom attributes women’s decision to leave Law, 1066
work to their maternal traits and desires. In this thought-provoking Foundation
book, Joan Williams shows why that view is misguided and how work- Chair, and founding Director of the
place practice disadvantages men—both those who seek to avoid the Center for WorkLife Law at the University
breadwinner role and those who embrace it—as well as women. Faced of California, Hastings College of the Law.
with masculine norms that define the workplace, women must play She is the author of Unbending Gender.
the tomboy or the femme. Both paths result in a gender bias that is
exacerbated when the two groups end up pitted against each other.
And although work-family issues long have been seen strictly through
a gender lens, we ignore class at our peril. The dysfunctional relation-
ship between the professional-managerial class and the white working class must be addressed
before real reform can take root.
Contesting the idea that women need to negotiate better within the family, and redefin-
ing the notion of success in the workplace, Williams reinvigorates the work-family debate and
offers the first steps to making life manageable for all American families.
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Latin America’s Cold War
Hal Brands
For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace”
afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an
international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain
what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic.
Tracing the tumultuous course of regional affairs from the late 1940s through the early
1990s, Latin America’s Cold War delves into the myriad crises and turning points of the
period—the Cuban revolution and its aftermath; the recurring cycles of insurgency and counter-
insurgency; the emergence of currents like the National Security Doctrine, liberation theology,
and dependency theory; the rise and demise of a hemispheric diplomatic
challenge to U.S. hegemony in the 1970s; the conflagration that engulfed
Central America from the Nicaraguan revolution onward; and the dem-
HAL ocratic and economic reforms of the 1980s.
B R A N D S is Most important, the book chronicles these events in a way that
Senior Analyst is both multinational and multilayered, weaving the experiences of a
at the diverse cast of characters into an understanding of how global, regional,
Institute for Defense Analyses and local influences interacted to shape Cold War crises in Latin Amer-
and the author of From Berlin to ica. Ultimately, Brands exposes Latin America’s Cold War as not a single
Baghdad: America’s Search for conflict, but rather a series of overlapping political, social, geostrategic,
Purpose in the Post–Cold War and ideological struggles whose repercussions can be felt to this day.
World.
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God-Fearing and Free
A Spiritual History of America’s Cold War
Jason W. Stevens
“T HOROUGH AND CONVINCING ... LUCID AND URGENT . . . S TEVENS ’ S BOOK
SHOWS US JUST HOW IMPORTANT WERE THE POPULAR ELEMENTS OF
FUNDAMENTALIST C HRISTIANITY DURING THE COLD WAR AND SETS ASIDE AS
RELATIVELY UNIMPORTANT THE RE - ALLURING INTELLECTUAL TRAGIC IRONIST,
R EINHOLD N IEBUHR .”
—PAUL A. B OVÉ , U NIVERSITY OF P ITTSBURGH
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Wagner and the
Erotic Impulse
Laurence Dreyfus
Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner
(1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical
eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus
shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such
as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic
stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual
desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like
Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau,
whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was
L AU R E N C E D R E YF U S
transmitted when music represented sex.
is Professor of Music at
Oxford University and a
Wagner himself saw the cultivation of an erotic
high style as central to his art, especially after devising an
Fellow of Magdalen
anti-philosophical response to Schopenhauer’s “meta-
College. He is the author of Bach’s
physics of sexual love.” A reluctant eroticist, Wagner
Continuo Group and Bach and the Patterns
masked his personal compulsion to cross-dress in pink
of Invention (both from Harvard).
satin and drench himself in rose perfumes while simulta-
neously incorporating his silk fetish and love of floral
scents into his librettos. His affection for dominant females
and surprising regard for homosexual love likewise enable
some striking portraits in his operas. In the end, Wagner’s achievement was to have fash-
ioned an oeuvre which explored his sexual yearnings as much as it conveyed—as never
before—how music could act on erotic impulse.
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What Was African American
Literature?
Kenneth W. Warren
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to
identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change the terms with which we dis-
cuss it.
Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for
understanding African American literature as creative and critical work
written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim
Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of
reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African
K E N N E T H W.
American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth
WA R R E N is
century.
Fairfax M. Cone
In Warren’s view, African American literature begged the ques- Distinguished
tion: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was
Service
finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African Ameri-
Professor of
can literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point,
English at the University of
Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an impor-
Chicago.
tant journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon doc-
uments, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing
literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary prac-
tice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans
has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these
writers in a politics that served the race as a whole.
Finally, Warren’s work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of
African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.
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The Same Thing Over and Over
How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s Ideas
Frederick M. Hess
In this genial and challenging overview of endless debates over school reform, Rick Hess shows
that even bitter opponents in debates about how to improve schools agree on much more than
they realize—and that much of it must change radically. Cutting through the tangled thickets
of right, and left-wing dogma, he clears the ground for transformation of the American school
system.
Whatever they think of school vouchers or charter schools, teacher merit pay or bilin-
gual education, most educators and advocates take many other things for granted. The one-
teacher–one-classroom model. The professional full-time
teacher. Students grouped in age-defined grades. The nine-
month calendar. Top-down local district control. All were
F R E D E R I C K M . H E S S is
innovative and exciting—in the nineteenth century. As
Resident Scholar and Hess shows, the system hasn’t changed since most Ameri-
Director of Education cans lived on farms and in villages, since school taught you
Policy Initiatives at the to read, write, and do arithmetic, and since only an elite
American Enterprise Institute and executive went to high school, let alone college.
editor of Education Next. Arguing that a fundamentally nineteenth century
system can’t be right for a twenty-first century world, Hess
suggests that uniformity gets in the way of quality, and
urges us to create a much wider variety of schools, to meet
a greater range of needs for different kinds of talents,
needed by a vastly more complex and demanding society.
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Someone Has to Fail
The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
David F. Labaree
What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we
want access and opportunity for all children—but all possible advantages for our own. So argues
historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way “this archetype of dysfunction works
so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do.”
Ever since the common school movement of the nineteenth century, mass schooling
has been seen as an essential solution to great social problems. Yet
as wave after wave of reform movements have shown, schools are
extremely difficult to change. Labaree shows how the very organi-
zation of the locally controlled, administratively limited school sys- D AV I D F.
tem makes reform difficult. LABAREE
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Promotion and Tenure
Confidential
David D. Perlmutter
“Sitting down with a young and brilliant mathematician, I asked what he thought were his
biggest problems in working toward tenure. Instead of describing difficulties with his equations
or his software programs, he lamented that (a) his graduate assistant wasn’t completing his tasks
on time, (b) his department chair didn’t seem to care if junior faculty obtained grants, and
(c) a senior professor kept glaring at him in faculty meetings. He knew he could handle the
intellectual side of being an academic—but what about the people side? ‘Why didn’t they offer
“Being a Professor 101” in graduate school?’ he wondered.”
Promotion and Tenure Confidential provides that course
in an astute and practical book, which shows that P&T is not just
D AV I D D . about research, teaching, and service but also about human rela-
P E R L M U T T E R is tions and political good sense. Drawing on research and extensive
Director of the interviews with junior and senior faculty across many institutions,
School of
David D. Perlmutter provides clear-sighted guidance on planning
and managing an academic career, from graduate school to tenure
Journalism and Mass Communication and a
and beyond.
Professor and Starch Faculty Fellow at the
University of Iowa. He writes the “P&T TOPICS INCLUDE
Confidential” column for the Chronicle of ( making the transformation from student and protégé to teacher
Higher Education. and mentor
( seeking out and holding onto lifelong allies
( how to manage your online reputation and avoid “death by
Google”
( what to say and what not to say to deans and department chairs
( how meeting deadlines wins points with everyone in your life
( how, when, and to whom to say “no”
( when and how to look for a new job when you have a job
( how (and whom) to ask for letters of recommendation
( what to do if you know you’re not going to get tenure
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The Illusion of Free Markets
Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Bernard E. Harcourt
“B ERNARD H ARCOURT HAS NEVER HAD AN UNINTERESTING THOUGHT, OR MADE AN
ARGUMENT THAT DOES NOT PROVOKE OR ENGAGE OR DELIGHT OR ENLIGHTEN — OR
DO ALL OF THOSE THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY.”
—M ALCOLM G LADWELL
It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism
ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as funda-
mental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a
legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena.
BERNARD E.
This curious incendiary combination of free market efficiency and the Big
HARCOURT
Brother state has become seemingly obvious, but it hinges on the illusion
is Julius
of a supposedly natural order in the economic realm. The Illusion of
Kreeger
Free Markets argues that our faith in “free markets” has severely dis-
Professor of
torted American politics and punishment practices.
Law and
Bernard Harcourt traces the birth of the idea of natural order
Professor of Political Science at
to eighteenth-century economic thought and reveals its gradual evolu-
The University of Chicago.
tion through the Chicago School of economics and ultimately into
today’s myth of the free market. The modern category of “liberty”
emerged in reaction to an earlier, integrated vision of punishment and
public economy, known in the eighteenth century as “police.” This
development shaped the dominant belief today that competitive markets are inherently effi-
cient and should be sharply demarcated from a government-run penal sphere.
This modern vision rests on a simple but devastating illusion. Superimposing the
political categories of “freedom” or “discipline” on forms of market organization has the unfor-
tunate effect of obscuring rather than enlightening. It obscures by making both the free market
and the prison system seem natural and necessary. In the process, it facilitated the birth of the
penitentiary system in the nineteenth century and its ultimate culmination into mass incarcer-
ation today.
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Genealogy of the
Pagan Gods
Volume 1: Books I–V
Giovanni Boccaccio
Edited and translated by Jon Solomon
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose
goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and
Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan
poetry in a Christian world.
The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously organized genealogical tree iden-
tifying approximately 950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723 chapters
include over a thousand citations from two hundred Greek, Roman,
medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy, Boccaccio
JON SOLOMON deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and philological critiques of the
is Robert D. ancient myths and their iconography.
Novak Professor of Western Civilization Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the
& Culture and Professor of the Classics
Genealogy incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on
and of Cinema Studies, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ancient poetry, illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural
G A RY R . G RU N D is Professor of English
inquiry emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most ambi-
Literature, Rhode Island College. tious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demon-
B R I A N P. C O P E N H AV E R is Professor of stration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of studying
History and Philosophy and Provost at ancient poetry. This is the first volume of the projected three-volume set
UCLA. L O D I N AU TA is Professor in the of Boccaccio’s complete Genealogy.
History of Philosophy, University of
Groningen, the Netherlands. THE I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY 46
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The Great Heart of
the Republic
St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War
Adam Arenson
“A N AMBITIOUS , INNOVATIVE , AND ENGAGING LOOK AT THE PIVOTAL ROLE
S T. LOUIS PLAYED IN THE CULTURAL CONTEST TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF
THE U NITED S TATES .”
The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Amer-
icans in the nineteenth century—not only in its deadly military con-
flict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems,
ADAM
and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This
ARENSON
cultural civil war was the clash among North, South, and West, as
is Assistant
their leaders sought to shape Manifest Destiny and slavery politics.
Professor of
No site embodied this struggle more completely than St.
History at the University of Texas
Louis, the largest city along the border of slavery and freedom. In
at El Paso.
this sweeping history, Adam Arenson reveals a city at the heart of
the cultural civil war. St. Louisans heralded a new future, erasing old
patterns as the United States stretched across the continent. They
tried to reorient the nation’s political landscape, with westerners in
the vanguard and St. Louis as the cultural, commercial, and national capital. John C.
Calhoun, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and John Brown tracked the progress of
the cultural contest by monitoring events in St. Louis, observing how the city’s leaders
tried yet ultimately failed to control the national destiny.
The interplay of local ambitions and national meanings reveals the wider cul-
tural transformation brought about by westward expansion, political strife, and eman-
cipation in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This vibrant and beautifully
written story enriches our understanding of America at a crossroads.
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humanities
Sublime Dreams of
Living Machines
The Automaton in the European Imagination
Minsoo Kang
From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—bet-
ter known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a
vital lens into the nature of humanity.
Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the
human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-
machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how
they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appear-
MINSOO
ances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang
K A N G is Associate
tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths
Professor of History at
through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the prolifer-
the University of
ation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Sci-
Missouri–St. Louis.
entific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the
Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and
the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He con-
cludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between
humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-
machinery theme today.
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at
heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most
uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.
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The Arc of the Moral Our South
Universe and Other Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of
National Literature
Essays Jennifer Rae Greeson
Joshua Cohen Since the birth of the nation, we have turned to stories about the
In this collection of essays, Joshua Cohen locates ideas about American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United
democracy in three far-ranging contexts. First, he explores the States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South, differ-
relationship between democratic values and history. He then dis- ent from yet integral to the United States, arose with the very
cusses democracy in connection with the views of defining polit- formation of the nation itself. Its semitropical climate, planta-
ical theorists in the democratic tradition: John Locke, John tion production, and heterogeneous population once defined the
Rawls, Noam Chomsky, Juergen Habermas, and Susan Moller New World from the perspective of Europe. By founding U.S. lit-
Okin. Finally, he examines the place of democratic ideals in a erature through opposition to the South, writers boldly asserted
global setting, suggesting an idea of “global public reason”—a their nation to stand apart from the imperial world order.
terrain of political justification in global politics in which shared Our South tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in U.S.
reason still plays an essential role. literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth cen-
All the essays are linked by his overarching claim that polit- tury, through genres including travel writing, gothic and
ical philosophy is a practical subject intended to orient and guide romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose,
conduct in the social world. Cohen integrates moral, social- and abolitionist address. Even as the southern states became
scientific, and historical argument in order to develop this peripheral to U.S. politics and economy, Jennifer Rae Greeson
stance, and he further confronts the question of whether a soci- demonstrates that in literature the South remained central to
ety conceived in liberty and dedicated to equality can endure. At the expanding and evolving idea of the nation.
Gettysburg, President Lincoln forcefully stated the question and Claiming the South as our deviant and recalcitrant “other,”
expressed both hope and concern over this same struggle about Americans have projected an anti-imperial imperative of domes-
an affirmative answer. By enabling us to trace the arc of the ticating and civilizing, administering and integrating underde-
moral universe, the essays in this volume—along with the com- veloped regions both within our borders and beyond. Our South
panion collection on Philosophy, Politics, Democracy—give us has been a primal site for thinking about geography and power
some reasons for sharing that hope. in the United States.
J O S H U A C O H E N i s M a r t a S u t to n We e k s P ro fe s s o r o f J E N N I F E R R A E G R E E S O N i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe ssor of
Ethi c s i n S o c i e t y at S t a n fo rd U n i ve r s i t y a n d e d i to r o f A m e r i c a n L i te r at u re at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Vi rg i n i a.
Bosto n Re v i e w.
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Do Metaphors Dream Sound and Script in
of Literal Sleep? Chinese Diaspora
A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation Jing Tsu
Seo-Young Chu
“A FASCINATING INQUIRY INTO THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND
DISSEMINATION OF MODERN C HINESE LANGUAGE FROM THE LATE
In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived
NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY.”
as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a
bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead —D AVID D ER - WEI WANG , H ARVARD U NIVERSITY
that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable
What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults
of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more tradi-
or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical
tional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces
sounds and shapes of language itself?
that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and
Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national
the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate
languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern
objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely fig-
period. The fight for global dominance between the English and
urative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the global-
Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control
ized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han,
of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingual-
and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates
ism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world.
science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films,
Encounters between global languages, as well as the internal
visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without pre-
tensions between Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, present
vious demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the
a dynamic, interconnected picture of languages on the move.
divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do
Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value In Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, Jing Tsu
of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource— explores the new global language trade, arguing that it aims at
one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow more sophisticated ways of exerting influence besides simply
increasingly resistant to straightforward representation. wielding knuckles of power. Through an analysis of the different
relationships between language standardization, technologies of
S E O - YO U N G C H U i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f E n g l is h writing, and modern Chinese literature around the world
at Q ueens Colle g e, C i t y U n i ve r s i t y o f New Yo r k . from the nineteenth century to the present, this study
transforms how we understand the power of language in
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$39.95X (£29.95 UK) | LITERATURE / SCIENCE FICTION migration and how that is changing the terms of cultural
dominance. Drawing from an unusual array of archival
sources, this study cuts across the usual China-West
divide and puts its finger on the pulse of a pending supra-
national world under “literary governance.”
J I N G T S U i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f C h i n e s e
L i te r at u re at Ya l e U n i ve r s i t y.
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social science
Dairy Queens
The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to
Marie-Antoinette
Meredith S. Martin
In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal
and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early
modern France. These garden structures—most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy
built for Marie-Antoinette’s Hameau at Versailles—have long been dismissed as the trifling fol-
lies of a reckless elite. Martin challenges such assumptions and reveals the pivotal role that
pleasure dairies played in cultural and political life, especially with respect to polarizing debates
about nobility, femininity, and domesticity. Together with other forms
of pastoral architecture such as model farms and hermitages, pleasure
dairies were crucial arenas for elite women to exercise and experiment
MEREDITH S.
with identity and power.
MARTIN
Opening with Catherine de’ Medici’s lavish dairy at
is Assistant
Fontainebleau (c. 1560), Martin’s book explores how French queens
Professor of Art at Wellesley
and noblewomen used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display
College.
their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their
virtue as nurturing mothers and capable
estate managers. Pleasure dairies also pro-
vided women with a site to promote good
health, by spending time in salubrious gar-
dens and consuming fresh milk. Illustrated
with a dazzling array of images and pho-
tographs, Dairy Queens sheds new light
on architecture, self, and society in the
ancien régime.
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Group Experiment Venice’s Most
and Other Writings Loyal City
The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia
Postwar Germany
Stephen D. Bowd
Friedrich Pollock, Theodor W.
By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had estab-
Adorno, and Colleagues
lished an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the
Edited, translated, and introduced by lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part of the
Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick peninsula. The wealthiest and most populous part of this empire
was the city of Brescia which, together with its surrounding ter-
During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World ritory, lay in a key frontier zone between the politically power-
War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the ful Milanese and the economically important Germans. Venetian
values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that governance there involved political compromise and some sen-
the fascist attitudes of the Nazi era had weakened to a large sitivity to local concerns, and Brescians forged their distinctive
degree. Theodor W. Adorno and his Frankfurt School colleagues, civic identity alongside a strong Venetian cultural presence.
who returned in 1949 from the United States, were skeptical.
Based on archival, artistic, and architectural evidence,
They held that standardized polling was an inadequate and
Stephen Bowd presents an innovative microhistory of a fasci-
superficial method for exploring such questions. In their view,
nating, yet historically neglected city. He shows how Brescian
public opinion is not simply an aggregate of individually held
loyalty to Venice was repeatedly tested by a succession of disas-
opinions, but is fundamentally a public concept, formed through
ters: assault by Milanese forces, economic downturn,
interaction in conversations and with prevailing attitudes and
demographic collapse, and occupation by
ideas “in the air.” In Group Experiment, edited by Friedrich
French and Spanish armies intent on dis-
Pollock, they published their findings on their group discussion
membering the Venetian empire. In
experiments that delved deeper into the process of opinion for-
spite of all these troubles the city
mation. Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick make a case that
experienced a cultural revival and a
these experiments are an important missing link in the ontology
dramatic political transformation
and methodology of current social-science survey research.
under Venetian rule, which Bowd
FRIEDRICH POLLOCK (1894–1970) was director of the describes and uses to illuminate
Institute for Social Research, the Frankfurt School, from the process of state formation in
1928 to 1959. THEODOR W. ADORNO (1903–1969) was one of the most powerful regions
a leading figure in the Frankfurt School and one of the of Renaissance Italy.
twentieth century’s most demanding intellectuals.
ANDREW J. PERRIN is Associate Professor of Sociology, S T E P H E N D. B O W D is
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. JEFFREY K. S e n i o r Le c t u re r i n Eu ro p e a n
OLICK is Professor of Sociology and History, University of H i s to r y, U n i ve r s i t y o f
Virginia. Ed i n b u rg h .
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“Neptune Transforming Cygnus into a Swan” by N icola da Urbino.
© National Museums S cotland
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Advertising Empire In the Shadow of
Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
Sectarianism
David Ciarlo Law, Shi‘ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon
At the end of the nineteenth Max Weiss
century, Germany turned
toward colonialism, establishing Contrary to the conventional wisdom that sectarianism is intrin-
protectorates in Africa, and sically linked to violence, bloodshed, or social disharmony, Max
toward a mass consumer soci- Weiss uncovers the complex roots of Shi’i sectarianism in twen-
ety, mapping the meaning of tieth-century Lebanon.
commodities through advertis- The template for conflicted relations between the Lebanese
ing. These developments, dis- state and Shi’i society arose under French Mandate rule through
tinct in the world of political a process of gradual transformation, long before the political
economy, were intertwined in mobilization of the Shi’i community under the charismatic
the world of visual culture. Imam Musa al-Sadr and his Movement of the Deprived, and
David Ciarlo offers an decades before the radicalization linked to Hizballah. Through-
innovative visual history of each out the period, the Shi’i community was buffeted by crosscutting
of these transformations. Tracing commercial imagery across dif- political, religious, and ideological currents: transnational affili-
ferent products and media, Ciarlo shows how and why the ations versus local concerns; the competing pull of Arab nation-
“African native” had emerged by 1900 to become a familiar fig- alism and Lebanese nationalism; loyalty to Jabal Amil, the
ure in the German landscape, selling everything from soap to cultural heartland of Shi’i Lebanon; and the modernization of
shirts to coffee. The racialization of black figures, first associated religious and juridical traditions.
with the American minstrel shows that toured Germany, found Uncoupling the beginnings of modern Shi’i collective iden-
ever greater purchase in German advertising up to and after tity from the rise of political Shi’ism, Weiss transforms our under-
1905, when Germany waged war against the Herero in South- standing of the nature of sectarianism and shows why in
west Africa. The new reach of advertising not only expanded Lebanon it has been both so productive and so destructive at
the domestic audience for German colonialism, but transformed the same time.
colonialism’s political and cultural meaning as well, by infusing
M A X W E I S S i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y and
it with a simplified racial cast.
Ne a r E a s te r n S t u d i e s at P r i n c e to n U n i ve r s i t y, a nd a
The visual realm shaped the worldview of the colonial j u n i o r fe l l ow at t h e S o c i e t y o f Fe l l ows, H a r va rd
rulers, illuminated the importance of commodities, and in the U n i ve r s i t y.
process, drew a path to German modernity. The powerful vision
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D AV I D C I A R L O i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y, Pack aging for Ceylon Cream Cho colates by the Stollwerck firm, Colo gne,
G ermany, c a. 1900. Verpackungsmuseum, Heidelb erg.
Unive r s i t y o f C i n c i n n at i .
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Strangers on the Cultivating Global
Western Front Citizens
Chinese Workers in the Great War Population in the Rise of China
Xu Guoqi Susan Greenhalgh
During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from Current accounts of China’s global
their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest rise emphasize economics and poli-
group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, how- tics, largely neglecting the cultivation
ever, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh,
140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. one of the foremost authorities on
These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, China’s one-child policy, places the
came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other governance of population squarely at
group. Xu explores China’s reasons for sending its citizens to the heart of China’s ascent.
help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the back- Focusing on the decade since
grounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe—across 2000, and especially 2004–09, she
the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic—and their argues that the vital politics of population has been central to
experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter the globalizing agenda of the reform state. By helping transform
with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also China’s rural masses into modern workers and citizens, by work-
considers the story from their perspective: how they understood ing to strengthen, techno-scientize, and legitimize the PRC
this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their regime, and by boosting China’s economic development and
attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. comprehensive national power, the governance of the popula-
In recovering this fascinating lost story, Xu highlights the tion has been critically important to the rise of global China.
Chinese contribution to World War I and illuminates the essen- After decades of viewing population as a hindrance to
tial role these unsung laborers played in modern modernization, China’s leaders are now equating it with
China’s search for a new human capital and redefining it as a positive factor in the
national identity on nation’s transition to a knowledge-based economy. In
the global stage. encouraging “human development,” the regime is trying to
induce people to become self-governing, self-enterprising
X U G U O Q I is persons who will advance their own health, education,
Professor of
and welfare for the benefit of the nation. From an object
Histor y at the
of coercive restriction by the state, population is being
Universit y of
refigured as a field of self-cultivation by China’s people
Hong Kong.
themselves.
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Capitalizing on Crisis Homelessness,
The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
Housing, and
Greta R. Krippner
Mental Illness
In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which
Russell K. Schutt
the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial activities
has been made abundantly clear. In Capitalizing on Crisis, Greta with Stephen M. Goldfinger
Krippner traces the longer-term historical evolution that made
the rise of finance possible, arguing that this development rested Humans are social animals and, in general, don’t thrive in iso-
on a broader transformation of the U.S. economy than is sug- lated environments. Homeless people, many of whom suffer
gested by the current preoccupation with financial speculation. from serious mental illnesses, often live socially isolated on the
streets or in shelters. Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Ill-
Krippner argues that state policies that created conditions
ness describes a carefully designed large-scale study to assess
conducive to financialization allowed the state to avoid a series
how well these people do when attempts are made to reduce
of economic, social, and political dilemmas that confronted pol-
their social isolation and integrate them into the community.
icymakers as postwar prosperity stalled beginning in the late
1960s and 1970s. In this regard, the financialization of the econ- Should homeless mentally ill people be provided with the
omy was not a deliberate outcome sought by policymakers, but type of housing they want or with what clinicians think they
rather an inadvertent result of the state’s attempts to solve other need? Is residential staff necessary? Are roommates advanta-
problems. The book focuses on deregulation of financial mar- geous? How is community integration affected by substance
kets during the 1970s and 1980s, encouragement of foreign cap- abuse, psychiatric diagnoses, and cognitive functioning? Home-
ital into the U.S. economy in the context of large fiscal lessness, Housing, and Mental Illness answers these questions
imbalances in the early 1980s, and changes in monetary policy and reexamines the assumptions behind housing policies that
following the shift to high interest rates in 1979. support the preference of most homeless mentally ill people to
live alone in independent apartments. The analysis shows that
Exhaustively researched, the book brings extensive new
living alone reduces housing retention as well as cognitive func-
empirical evidence to bear on debates regarding recent devel-
tioning, while group homes improve these critical outcomes.
opments in financial markets and the broader turn to the mar-
Throughout the book, Russell Schutt explores the meaning and
ket that has characterized U.S. society over the last several
value of community for our most fragile citizens.
decades.
R U S S E L L K . S C H U T T i s P ro fe s s o r a n d C h a i r o f
G R E TA R . K R I P P N E R i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f
S o c i o l o g y at U n i ve r s i t y o f M a s s a c h u s e t t s, B o s to n, and
S ocio l o g y at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n .
Le c t u re r o n S o c i o l o g y i n t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f Ps ychiatr y
at t h e H a r va rd M e d i c a l S c h o o l. S T E P H E N M .
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religion and classics
The Gnostics
Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
David Brakke
Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence
the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church
rejected Gnosticism? This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent
scholarly debates over the concept of “Gnosticism” and the nature of early
Christian diversity. Acknowledging that the category “Gnosticism” is flawed
and must be reformed, David Brakke argues for a more careful approach to
gathering evidence for the ancient
Christian movement known as the
Gnostic school of thought. He shows
how Gnostic myth and ritual
D AV I D B R A K K E is Professor of
addressed basic human concerns
Religious Studies at Indiana
about alienation and meaning, offered
University. He is the author of
a message of salvation in Jesus, and
Demons and the Making of the Monk
provided a way for people to regain
(Harvard).
knowledge of God, the ultimate
source of their being.
Rather than depicting the
Gnostics as heretics or as the losers in
the fight to define Christianity, Brakke
argues that the Gnostics participated in an ongoing reinvention of Christianity, in which other
Christians not only rejected their ideas but also adapted and transformed them. This book will
challenge scholars to think in news ways, but it also provides an accessible introduction to the
Gnostics and their fellow early Christians.
Christ flanked by t wo Ap ostles. Front of columnar sarcophagus with scen es of the New Testament. M arble bas relief,
Early Christian, c a. 350–375 C E . Museo Pio Cristiano, Vatic an Museums, Vatic an State. Photo Credit: Vanni / Ar t
Resource, NY
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EDITED BY JEFFREY HENDERSON
Plautus
Volume I: Amphitryon.
The Comedy of Asses.
The Pot of Gold.The Two Bacchises.The Captives
Edited and translated by Wolfgang de Melo
The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman
audiences c. 205–184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cor-
nerstones of the European theatrical tradition from
Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. This
first volume of a new Loeb edition of all 21
of Plautus’s extant comedies presents
Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bac-
chides, and Captivi with freshly
edited texts, lively modern trans-
lations, and ample explanatory notes. Accompanying the plays is a
detailed introduction to Plautus’s œuvre as a whole, discussing his
techniques of translation and adaptation, his use of Roman humor,
stage conventions, language and meter, and his impact on the
Greco-Roman comedic theater and beyond.
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Saturnalia The Learned
Books 1–2 / Books 3–5 / Books 6–7 Banqueters
Macrobius VolumeVII: Books 13.594b–14
Edited and translated by Athenaeus
Robert A. Kaster Edited and translated by
The Saturnalia, Macrobius’s encyclopedic celebration of S. Douglas Olson
Roman culture written in the early fifth century BCE, has
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series
been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of oth-
of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from
erwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the
Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of
Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the
the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraor-
Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing
dinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost.
Vergil as the master of all human knowledge from diction
Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about
and rhetoric to philosophy and religion.
different cuisines and foodstuffs, the music and entertain-
The new Latin text is based on a refined understand-
ments that ornamented banquets, and the intellectual talk
ing of the medieval tradition and improves on Willis’s stan-
that was the heart of Greek conviviality. S. Douglas Olson
dard edition in nearly 300 places. The accompanying
has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the
translation—only the second in English and the only one
work, replacing the previous Loeb Athenaeus (published
now in print—offers a clear and sprightly rendition of
under the title Deipnosophists).
Macrobius’s ornate Latin and is supplemented by ample
annotation. A full introduction places the work in its cul-
S . D O U G L A S O L S O N is Distinguished
tural context and analyzes its construction, while indexes of
McKnight University Professor of Classical and
names, subjects, and ancient works cited in both text and Near Eastern Studies at the University of
notes make the work more readily accessible than ever Minnesota.
before.
LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY® 345
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and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at
Princeton University.
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Augustine and Marriage and Slavery
Spinoza in Early Islam
Milad Doueihi Kecia Ali
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
What did it mean to be a wife, woman, or slave in a society in
Election and grace are two key concepts that not only have which a land-owning woman was forbidden to lay with her male
shaped the relations between Judaism and Christianity, but also slave but the same slave might be allowed to take concubines?
have formed a cornerstone of the Western philosophical dis- Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi‘i legal schools
course on the evolution and progress of humanity. Though frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to man-
Augustine and Spinoza can be shown to share a methodological umission. Juggling scripture, precedent, and custom on one
approach to these concepts, their conclusions remain radically hand, and the requirements of logical consistency on the other,
different. For the Church Father Augustine, grace defines human legal scholars engaged in vigorous debate. The emerging con-
nature by the potential availability of divine intervention, thus sensus demonstrated a self-perpetuating analogy between a hus-
setting the stage for the institutional and political legitimacy of band’s status as master and a wife’s as slave, even as jurists
the Church, the Christian state, and its justice. For Spinoza, on insisted on the dignity of free women and, increasingly, the mas-
the other hand, election represents a unique but local form of culine rights of enslaved husbands.
divine intervention, marked by geography and historical con- Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam presents the first
text. systematic analysis of how these jurists conceptualized mar-
Milad Doueihi maps out the consequences of such an riage—its rights and obligations—using the same rhetoric of
encounter between these two thinkers in terms of their philo- ownership used to describe slavery. Kecia Ali explores parallels
sophical heritage and its continued relevance for contemporary between marriage and concubinage that legitimized sex and
discussions of religious diversity and autonomy. legitimated offspring using eighth- through tenth-century legal
Augustine asserts a theological foundation for the political, texts. As the jurists discussed claims spouses could make on each
whereas Spinoza radically separates philosophy, and thus author- other—including dower, sex, obedience, and companionship–
ity, from theology in order to solicit a political democracy. In this they returned repeatedly to issues of legal status: wife and con-
sharply argued and deeply learned book, Milad Doueihi shows cubine, slave and free, male and female.
us how interconnections between the two thinkers have come Complementing the growing body of scholarship on
to shape Western philosophy. Islamic marital and family law, Ali boldly contributes to the
ongoing debates over feminism, sexuality, and reform in Islam.
M I L A D D O U E I H I i s Ho n o r a r y P ro fe s s or i a l Fe l l ow at
the U n i ve r s i t y o f G l a s g ow a n d t h e a u t h or o f Ea r t h l y K E C I A A L I i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f Re l i g i o n at
Para d i se ( H a r va rd ) . B o s to n U n i ve r s i t y.
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science
Life in a Shell
A Physiologist’s View of a Turtle
Donald C. Jackson
Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen
dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any won-
der the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson
shares a lifetime of observation of this curious creature, allowing us a look under the shell of an
animal at once so familiar and so strange.
Here we discover how the turtle’s proverbial slowness
helps it survive a long, cold winter under ice. How the shell not
only serves as a protective home but also influences such essential
functions as buoyancy control, breathing, and surviving remarkably DONALD C.
long periods without oxygen, and how many other physiological J A C K S O N is
features help define this unique animal. Jackson offers insight into Professor Emeritus
what exactly it’s like to live inside a shell—to carry the heavy cara- of Medical Science,
pace on land and in water, to breathe without an expandable Brown University.
ribcage, to have sex with all that body armor intervening.
Along the way we also learn something about the process
of scientific discovery—how the answer to one question leads to
new questions, how a chance observation can change the direction of study, and above all how
new research always builds on the previous work of others. A clear and informative exposition
of physiological concepts using the turtle as a model organism, the book is as interesting for what
it tells us about scientific investigation as it is for its deep and detailed understanding of how
the enduring turtle “works.”
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The Restless Plant
Dov Koller
Edited by Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
Plants, so predictable, stay where they are. And yet, like all living things, they also move: they
grow, adapt, shed leaves and bark, spread roots and branches, snare pollinators, and reward
cultivators. This book, the first to thoroughly explore the subject since Darwin’s 1881 treatise
on movements in plants, is a comprehensive, up-to-date account of the mechanisms and the
adaptive values that move plants.
Drawing on examples across the spectrum of plant families—including mosses, ferns,
conifers, and flowering plants—the author opens a window on how plants move: within cells,
as individual cells, and via organs. Opening with an explana-
tion of how cellular motors work and how cells manage to
move organs, Dov Koller considers the movement of roots,
D O V K O L L E R was Professor Emeritus in
tubers, rhizomes, and other plant parts underground, as well
the Department of Botany at the Hebrew as the more familiar stems, leaves, and flowers.
University of Jerusalem. E L I Z A B E T H
Throughout, Koller presents information at the sub-
VA N V O L K E N B U R G H is Adjunct
cellular and cellular levels, including the roles of receptors, sig-
Professor of Forest Resources and
naling pathways, hormones, and physiological responses in
Divisional Dean for Research, College of motor function. He also discusses the adaptive significance of
Arts and Sciences, University of movements. His book exposes the workings of a world little
Washington. understood and often overlooked, the world of restless plants
and the movements by which they accomplish the necessary
functions of their lives.
I llustrations by Dov B o ck
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economics & law
Maynard’s Revenge
The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics
Lance Taylor
It is now widely agreed that mainstream macroeconomics is irrelevant and
that there is need for a more useful and realistic economic analysis that can
provide a better understanding of the ongoing global financial and economic
crisis. Lance Taylor’s book exposes the unrealistic assumptions of the rational
expectations and real business cycle approaches and of mainstream finance
theory. It argues that in separating monetary and financial behavior from real
behavior, they do not address the ways that consumption, accumulation, and
the government play in the workings of the economy.
Taylor argues that the ideas of J. M. Keynes and others provide a
more useful framework both for understanding the crisis and for dealing with
it effectively. Keynes’s basic points were fundamental uncertainty and the
absence of Say’s Law. He set up machinery to analyze the macro economy
under such circumstances, including the principle of
effective demand, liquidity preference, different rules
for determining commodity and asset prices, distinct
behavioral patterns of different collective actors, and
L A N C E TAY L O R is
the importance of thinking in terms of complete macro
Arnhold Professor of
accounting schemes. Economists working in this tra-
International Cooperation
dition also worked out growth and cycle models.
and Development at the
Employing these ideas throughout May-
New School. He is the
nard’s Revenge, Taylor provides an analytical narrative
author of Reconstructing
about the causes of the crisis, and suggestions for deal-
Macroeconomics (Harvard).
ing with it.
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The Crisis of Consistency, Choice,
Neoliberalism and Rationality
Gérard Duménil and Walter Bossert and
Dominique Lévy Kotaro Suzumura
This book examines “the great contraction” of 2007–2010 In Consistency, Choice, and Rationality, economic theorists
within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura present a thorough math-
the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched ematical treatment of Suzumura consistency, an alternative to
the top 5 percent of Americans, including capitalists and finan- established coherence properties such as transitivity, quasi-
cial managers, but at a significant cost to the country as a whole. transitivity, or acyclicity. Applications in individual and social
Declining domestic investment in manufacturing, unsustainable choice theory, fields important not only to economics but also to
household debt, rising dependence on imports and financing, philosophy and political science, are discussed. Specifically, the
and the growth of a fragile and unwieldy global financial struc- authors explore topics such as rational choice and revealed pref-
ture threaten the strength of the dollar. Unless these trends are erence theory, and collective decision making in an atemporal
reversed, the authors predict, the U.S. economy will face sharp framework as well as in an intergenerational setting.
decline.
WA LT E R B O S S E R T i s P ro fe s s o r o f Ec o n o m i c s at the
Summarizing a large amount of troubling data, the authors
U n i ve r s i t y o f M o n t re a l. K O TA R O S U Z U M U R A is
show that manufacturing has declined from 40 percent of GDP
P ro fe s s o r o f Ec o n o m i c s at Wa s e d a U n i ve r s i t y.
to under 10 percent in thirty years. Since consumption drives
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ECONOMICS
able to sustain the accumulating trade deficits.
Rather than blame individuals, such as Greenspan or
Bernanke, the authors focus on larger forces. Repairing the
breach in our economy will require limits on free trade and the
free international movement of capital; policies aimed at improv-
ing education, research, and infrastructure; reindustrialization;
and the taxation of higher incomes.
G É R A R D D U M É N I L a n d D O M I N I Q U E L É V Y a re
D ire c to r s o f Re s e a rc h at t h e Ce n t re N at i o n a l d e l a
Rech e rc h e S c i e n t i f i q u e, Pa r i s, a n d c o a u th o r s o f
Capi ta l Re s u rg e n t ( H a r va rd ) .
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Constitutional Constitutional
Theocracy Identity
Ran Hirschl Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
At the intersection of two sweeping global trends—the rise of In Constitutional Identity, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn argues that a
popular support for principles of theocratic governance and the constitution acquires an identity through experience—from a
spread of constitutionalism and judicial review—a new legal mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a
order has emerged: constitutional theocracy. It enshrines reli- nation’s past and the desire to transcend that past. It is change-
gion and its interlocutors as “a” or “the” source of legislation, able but resistant to its own destruction, and manifests itself in
and at the same time adheres to core ideals and practices of mod- various ways, as Jacobsohn shows in examples as far flung as
ern constitutionalism. A unique hybrid of apparently conflicting India, Ireland, Israel, and the United States.
worldviews, values, and interests, constitutional theocracies Jacobsohn argues that the presence of disharmony—both
thus offer an ideal setting—a “living laboratory” as it were—for the tensions within a constitutional order and those that exist
studying constitutional law as a form of politics by other means. between a constitutional document and the society it seeks to
In this book, Ran Hirschl undertakes a rigorous comparative regulate—is critical to understanding the theory and dynamics
analysis of religion-and-state jurisprudence from dozens of coun- of constitutional identity. He explores constitutional identity’s
tries worldwide to explore the evolving role of constitutional great practical importance for some of constitutionalism’s most
law and courts in a non-secularist world. vexing questions: Is an unconstitutional constitution possible? Is
Counterintuitively, Hirschl argues that the constitutional the judicial practice of using foreign sources to resolve domes-
enshrinement of religion is a rational, prudent strategy that tic legal disputes a threat to vital constitutional interests? How
allows opponents of theocratic governance to talk the religious are the competing demands of transformation and preservation
talk without walking most of what they regard as theocracy’s in constitutional evolution to be balanced?
unappealing, costly walk. Many of the jurisdictional, enforce-
ment, and cooptation advantages that gave religious legal G A RY J E F F R E Y J ACO B S O H N is H. Malcolm
M a c D o n a l d P ro fe s s o r o f Co n s t i t u t i o n a l a n d
regimes an edge in the pre-modern era, are now aiding the mod-
Co m p a r at i ve L aw i n t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f G ove r n m e n t,
ern state and its laws in its effort to contain religion. The “con-
U n i ve r s i t y o f Tex a s at A u s t i n .
stitutional” in a constitutional theocracy thus fulfills the same
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R A N H I R S C H L i s P ro fe s s o r o f Po l i t i c a l S c i e n c e a n d
L aw, Universit y o f To ro n to, a n d C a n a d a Re s e a rc h C h a i r
in Constitution a l i s m a n d D e m o c r a c y.
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Legality Legally Poisoned
Scott J. Shapiro How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants
Carl F. Cranor
What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from
Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart, yet many others find Take a random walk through your life and you’ll find it is awash
it perplexing, even frivolous. Why do we need a general theory in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Sip water from a plastic bot-
of what law is? What does it have to do with legal practice? In tle and ingest bisphenol A. Prepare dinner in a non-stick frying
Legality, Scott Shapiro draws on current work in the theory of pan or wear a layer of Gore-Tex only to be exposed to perfluo-
action to offer an original and compelling answer to this peren- rinated compounds. Hang curtains, clip your baby into a car seat,
nial philosophical question. Breaking with a long tradition in watch television—all are manufactured with brominated flame-
jurisprudence, Shapiro argues that legal systems are not defined retardants.
by rules but by plans. He shows how thinking about laws as Cosmetic ingredients, industrial chemicals, pesticides,
plans resolves many vexing puzzles about the nature of law and and other compounds enter our bodies and remain briefly or
demonstrates its profound implications for the practice of legal permanently. Far too many suspected toxic hazards are
interpretation. unleashed every day that affect the development and function of
By introducing us to the Planning Theory, Shapiro our brain, immune system, reproductive organs, or hormones.
not only develops a highly distinctive and promising answer to But no public health law requires product testing of most chem-
the question of what law is, but also vindicates the value of the ical compounds before they enter the market. If products are
question itself. Through careful argumentation and analysis of deemed dangerous, toxicants must be forcibly reduced or
current legal controversies, Shapiro shows that jurisprudence is removed—but only after harm has been done.
not formal and arid, as some have alleged, but vitally important. In this scientifically rigorous legal analysis, Carl Cranor
In fact, many of the most pressing issues that confront lawyers argues that just as pharmaceuticals and pesticides cannot be sold
demand that these grand philosophical questions be resolved without pre-market testing, other chemical products should be
first. Written in clear, jargon-free language, and presupposing no subject to the same safety measures. Cranor shows, in terrifying
legal or philosophical background, Legality offers a ground- detail, what risks we run, and that it is entirely possible to design
breaking new theory of law as well as an excellent introduction a less dangerous commercial world.
to, and defense of, classical jurisprudence.
C A R L F. C R A N O R i s D i s t i n g u i s h e d P ro fe s s o r of
S C O T T J . S H A P I R O i s P ro fe s s o r o f L aw at Ya l e L aw P h i l o s o p hy at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f C a l i fo r n i a , R i ve rside.
S cho o l.
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dumbarton oaks research library and collection
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A Home of the American Art at
Humanities Dumbarton Oaks
The Collecting and Patronage of Mildred and James N. Carder
Robert Woods Bliss
Edited by James N. Carder Mildred and Robert Woods
Bliss, the founders of Dumb-
Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss were arton Oaks, were not, per se,
consummate collectors and patrons. collectors of American art.
After purchasing Dumbarton Oaks in Nevertheless, they acquired
1920, they significantly redesigned the interesting and, at times,
house and its interiors, built important important examples of Ameri-
new structures, added over fifty acres of can paintings, drawings, etch-
planned gardens, hosted important musi- ings, and sculptures. Such
cal evenings and intellectual discussions acquisitions were but a part of
in their Music Room, and acquired a an overall collection which
world-class art collection and library. comprised ancient Chinese,
The illustrated essays in this vol- Greek, Roman, Byzantine,
ume reveal how the Blisses’ wide-rang- Pre-Columbian, and European
ing interests in art, music, gardens, architecture, and old master artworks as well as
interior design resulted in the creation of the Dumbarton Oaks rare books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, important
Research Library and Collection. Their collections of Byzantine furnishings, unusual bibelots, and concert-quality instruments.
and Pre-Columbian art and rare garden books and drawings are The American artworks that remain at Dumbarton Oaks offer
examined by Robert Nelson, Julie Jones, and Therese O’Malley, an important insight into the Blisses’ remarkable breadth of
respectively. James Carder provides the Blisses’ biography and vision for their collection.
discusses their patronage of various architects, including Philip This volume catalogues the American art collection at
Johnson, and the interior designer Armand Albert Rateau. The Dumbarton Oaks and is published in conjunction with an exhi-
Blisses’ collaboration with Beatrix Farrand on the creation of the bition, “American Art at Dumbarton Oaks.” An introductory
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens is recounted by Robin Karson, and essay describes the formation of this collection by Mildred and
their commission of Igor Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto Robert Woods Bliss and their parents Anna and William H. Bliss,
and its premiere by Nadia Boulanger is examined by Jeanice while the subsequent catalogue entries elaborate on nineteen
Brooks. The volume demonstrates that every aspect of the artworks by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Elihu Vedder,
Blisses’ collecting and patronage had a place in the creation of Walter Gay, Childe Hassam, Albert Edward Sterner, Henry
what they came to call their “home of the humanities.” Golden Dearth, and Bernice Cross. Richly illustrated with color
plates and comparative illustrations, this catalogue will be an
J A M E S N . C A R D E R i s A rc h i v i s t a n d Ho u s e important and enduring reference for scholars, students, and
Colle c t i o n M a n a g e r at D u m b a r to n O a k s Re s e a rc h admirers of American art.
Libra r y a n d Co l l e c t i o n .
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sculpture and society in Preclassic Mesoamerica, and
The Place of call into question the traditional dividing line
Stone Monuments between Preclassic and Classic cultures. They offer
not only a fruitful way of rethinking the beginnings
Context, Use, and Meaning in Mesoamerica’s of civilization in Mesoamerica, but provide a series
Preclassic Transition of detailed discussions concerning how these begin-
Edited by Julia Guernsey, John E. nings were dynamically visualized through sculp-
tural programming during the Preclassic period.
Clark, and Barbara Arroyo
J U L I A G U E R N S E Y i s A s s o c i ate P ro fe s s o r o f A r t a n d
This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in A r t H i s to r y at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Tex a s, A u s t i n .
Preclassic Mesoamerica, focusing on the period following the J O H N E . C L A R K i s P ro fe s s o r o f A n t h ro p o l o g y a n d
precocious appearance of monumental sculpture at the Olmec D i re c to r o f t h e New Wo r l d A rc h a e o l o g i c a l Fo u n d at i o n
site of San Lorenzo and preceding the rise of the Classic polities at B r i g h a m Yo u n g U n i ve r s i t y. B A R B A R A A R R O YO i s
in the Maya region and Central Mexico. By quite literally “plac- Re s e a rc h A s s o c i ate at t h e M u s e o Po p o l Vu h i n
ing” sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, reli- G u ate m a l a C i t y.
gious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors utilize
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present abundant new data and new ways of thinking about
harvard forest
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harvard graduate school of design
E L H A D I J A Z A I R Y i s a d o c to r a l c a n d i d ate at the
H a r va rd G r a d u ate S c h o o l o f D e s i g n .
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The Poetics of Manifest in Words,
Sovereignty Written on Paper
On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China
Jack W. Chen Christopher M. B. Nugent
Emperor Taizong (r. 626–49) of the Tang is This study aims to engage the tex-
remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study tual realities of medieval literature
addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and by shedding light on the material
Taizong’s construction of a reputation for moral lives of poems during the Tang,
rulership through his own literary writings— from their initial oral or written
with particular attention to his poetry. The author highlights the instantiation through their often
relationship between historiography and the literary and rhetor- lengthy and twisted paths of cir-
ical strategies of sovereignty, contending that, for Taizong, and culation. Tang poems exist today
for the concept of sovereignty in general, politics is inextricable in stable written forms assumed
from cultural production. to reflect their creators’ original
The work focuses on Taizong’s literary writings that speak intent. Yet Tang poetic culture
directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign was based on hand-copied manu-
power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated scripts and oral performance. We have almost no access to this
dynastic identity through literary stylistics. The author maintains poetry as it was experienced by contemporaries. This is no
that Taizong’s writings may have been self-serving at times, rep- trivial matter, the author argues. If we do not understand how
resenting strategic attempts to control his self-image in the eyes Tang people composed, experienced, and transmitted this
of his court and empire, but that they also become the ideal poetry, we miss something fundamental about the roles of mem-
image to which his self was normatively bound. This is the ory and copying in the circulation of poetry as well as readers’
paradox at the heart of imperial authorship: Taizong dynamic participation in the creation of texts.
was simultaneously the author of his representation We learn something different about poems when we exam-
and was authored by his representation; he was ine them, not as literary works transcending any particular phys-
both subject and object of his writings. ical form, but as objects with distinct physical attributes, visual
and sonic. The attitudes of the Tang audience toward the sta-
J A C K W. C H E N i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f bility of texts matters as well. Understanding Tang poetry
C h i n e s e Po e t r y a n d Th o u g h t at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f
requires acknowledging that Tang literary culture accepted the
C a l i fo r n i a , Lo s A n g e l e s.
conscious revision of these works by authors, readers, and
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HISTORY / ASIAN STUDIES
P ro fe s s o r o f C h i n e s e at Wi l l i a m s Co l l e g e.
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Seeing Stars Sailor Diplomat
Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Nomura Kichisaburō and the Japanese-American War
Modern Japan
Peter Mauch
Dennis J. Frost
As Japan’s pre–Pearl Harbor
In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emer- ambassador to the United States,
gence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo
from the seventeenth through the twenty-first (1877–1964) played a signifi-
centuries. Frost explores how various con- cant role in a tense and turbu-
stituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed lent period in Japanese-U.S.
representations of individual athletes, revealing relations. Scholars tend to view
that sports stars are socially constructed phe- his actions and missteps as
nomena, the products of both particular historical ambassador as representing the
moments and broader discourses of celebrity. failure of diplomacy to avert the
Drawing from media coverage, biographies, outbreak of hostilities between
literary works, athletes’ memoirs, bureaucratic the two paramount Pacific powers.
memoranda, interviews, and films, Frost argues This extensively researched biography casts new light on
that the largely unquestioned mass of informa- the life and career of this important figure. Connecting his expe-
tion about sports stars not only reflects, but also shapes society riences as a naval officer to his service as foreign minister and
and body culture. He examines the lives and times of star ath- ambassador, and later as “father” of Japan’s Maritime Self
letes—including sumo grand champion Hitachiyama, female Defense Forces and proponent of the U.S.-Japanese alliance, this
Olympic medalist Hitomi Kinue, legendary pitcher Sawamura study reassesses Nomura’s contributions as a hard-nosed realist
Eiji, and world champion boxer Gushiken Yoko —demonstrat- whose grasp of the underlying realities of Japanese-U.S. relations
ing how representations of such sports stars mediated Japan’s went largely unappreciated by the Japanese political and mili-
emergence into the putatively universal realm of sports, unset- tary establishment.
tled orthodox notions of gender, facilitated wartime mobiliza- In highlighting the complexities and conundrums of
tion of physically fit men and women, and masked lingering Nomura’s position, as well as the role of the Imperial Navy in the
inequalities in postwar Japanese society. formulation of Japan’s foreign policy, Peter Mauch draws upon
As the first critical examination of the history of sports rarely accessed materials from naval and diplomatic archives in
celebrity outside a Euro-American context, this book also sheds Japan as well as various collections of personal papers, including
new light on the transnational forces at play in the production Nomura’s, which Mauch discovered in 2005 and which are
and impact of celebrity images and dispels misconceptions that now housed in the National Diet Library.
sports stars in the non-West are mere imitations of their Western
counterparts. P E T E R M A U C H i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f
I n te r n at i o n a l H i s to r y at R i t s u m e i k a n U n i ve r s i t y.
D E N N I S J . F R O S T i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y
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Lori Watt analyzes how the human remnants of empire,
When Empire those who were moved and those who were left behind, served
Comes Home as sites of negotiation in the process of the jettisoning of the colo-
nial project and in the creation of new national identities in
Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan Japan. Through an exploration of the creation and uses of the
Lori Watt figure of the repatriate, in political, social, and cultural realms,
this study addresses the question of what happens when empire
Following the end of World War II in Asia, the comes home.
Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese
nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout L O R I WAT T i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f H i s to r y at
Asia and deported more than a million colonial sub- Wa s h i n g to n U n i ve r s i t y i n S t. Lo u i s.
88 w w w.hup.ha r va rd. e d u ( h a r va rd u n i ve r s i t y p re s s
The Moche of The Copan
Ancient Peru Sculpture
Media and Messages
Museum
Jeffrey Quilter Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone
Peru’s ancient Moche culture is Barbara W. Fash
represented in a magnificent col-
lection of artifacts at Harvard’s The Copan Sculpture Museum in western
Peabody Museum. In this richly Honduras features the extraordinary stone
illustrated volume, Jeffrey Quilter carvings of the ancient Maya city known
presents a fascinating introduction as Copan. The city’s sculptors produced some of the finest
to this intriguing culture and and most animated buildings and temples in the Maya
explores current thinking about area, in addition to stunning monolithic statues and altars.
Moche politics, history, society, The ruins of Copan were named a UNESCO World Her-
and religion. itage site in 1980, and more than 150,000 tourists visit the
ancient city each year.
Quilter utilizes the Peabody’s collection as a means to
investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly Opened in 1996, the Copan Sculpture Museum was ini-
ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His tiated as an international collaboration to preserve Copan’s
presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of original stone monuments. Its exhibits represent the best-
many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts known examples of building façades and sculptural achieve-
and their imagery, raising important issues of art production and ments from the ancient kingdom of Copan.
its role in ancient and modern societies. In this book, Barbara Fash—one of the principal cre-
The most up-to-date monograph available on the Moche— ators of the museum—tells the inside story of conceiving,
and the first extensive discussion of the Peabody Museum’s col- designing, and building a local museum with global sig-
lection of Moche ceramics—this volume provides an nificance. Along with numerous illustrations and
introduction for the general reader and contributes to ongoing detailed archaeological context for each exhibit in
scholarly discussions. Quilter’s fresh reading of Moche visual the museum, the book provides a comprehensive
imagery raises new questions about introduction to the history and culture of the
the art and culture of ancient Peru. ancient Maya and a model for working with local
communities to preserve cultural heritage.
J E F F R E Y Q U I LT E R i s D e p u t y
D i re c to r o f t h e Pe a b o d y M u s e u m B A R B A R A W. FA S H i s D i re c to r o f t h e Co r p u s
o f A rc h a e o l o g y a n d E t h n o l o g y, o f M aya H i e ro g l y p h i c I n s c r i p t i o n s, Pe a b o d y
H a r va rd U n i ve r s i t y. M u s e u m o f A rc h a e o l o g y a n d E t h n o l o g y, H a r va rd
U n i ve r s i t y.
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The Epic Rhapsode Plato’s Counterfeit
and His Craft Sophists
Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective Håkan Tell
Jose Gonzalez
This book explores the place of
The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance the sophists within the Greek wis-
from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular dom tradition, and argues against
utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully their almost universal exclusion
elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes. Attention to the ways from serious intellectual tradi-
in which these performance domains informed each other over tions. By studying the sophists
time reveals a shifting dynamic of competition and emulation against the backdrop of the
among rhapsodes, actors, and orators that shaped their texts and archaic Greek institutions of wis-
their crafts. A diachronic analysis of this web of influences illu- dom, it is possible to detect con-
minates fundamental siderable intellectual overlap
aspects of Homeric between them and their prede-
poetry: its inspiration cessors. This book explores the
and composition, the continuity of this tradition, sug-
notional fixity of its gesting that the sophists’ intellec-
poetic tradition, and tual balkanization in modern
the performance-dri- scholarship, particularly their low
ven textual fixation standing in comparison to the
and writing of the Presocratics, Platonists, and Aris-
Homeric poems. It also totelians, is a direct result of Plato’s condemnation of them and
shows that rhapsodic their practices. This book thus seeks to offer a revised history of
practice is best under- the development of Greek philosophy, as well as of the poten-
stood as an evolving tial—yet never realized—courses it might have followed.
combination of revela-
H Å K A N T E L L i s A s s i s t a n t P ro fe s s o r o f C l a s s i c s at
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D a r t m o u t h Co l l e g e.
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S tudies at D uke U n i ve r s i t y.
C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one iambic verse. Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and lit-
of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. erary interaction with Cavafy’s poetry and its Greek and western
He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria European intertexts, this edition by John Chioles provides an
(1863–1933), with brief periods spent in Eng- exceptionally nuanced and the most authoritative translation of
land, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy’s canon into English.
motion the most powerful modernism in early
twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting intriguing truths J O H N C H I O L E S i s P ro fe s s o r o f Co m p a r at i ve
about eroticism, history, and philosophy—an inscrutable tri- L i te r at u re at New Yo r k U n i ve r s i t y.
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Kleanthes and The Shackles of
Habrokome Modernity
Konstantinos Manos Women, Property, and the Transition from the Ottoman
Empire to the Greek State, 1750–1850
Translated and with an Introduction and
Notes by Panagiotis Roilos Evdoxios Doxiadis
Bank , U S A . E R N E S T O S T E I N i s Re g i o n a l Ec o n o m i c
Ad vi s o r, Co u n t r y D e p a r t m e n t Ce n t r a l A m e r i c a ,
Mexi c o, Pa n a m a , a n d D o m i n i c a n Re p u b l i c , I n te r -
Ame r i c a n D eve l o p m e n t B a n k , U S A . M A R I A N O
TO M M A S I is Chairman of the Department of
Econ o m i c s, U n i ve r s i d a d d e S a n A n d ré s, A rg e n t i n a .
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Portraits of an
Invisible Country
The Photographs of Jorge Mario Múnera
Edited by José Luis Falconi
In May 2003, Jorge Mario Múnera won the Latino and Latin American Art Forum
Prize, which entitled him to produce and present an exhibit at the David Rocke-
feller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. By this time, Mún-
era had already produced an important body of work, presenting even the farthest
corners of his native Colombia through his photographs of people and their way of life. This volume, which bears the name of the
exhibit that he presented at Harvard in 2004, marks the culmination of a five-year project between the photographer and the cura-
tor of the show, José Luis Falconi.
Renowned in his home country for being one of the most prolific and influential photographers of his generation, Jorge Mario
Múnera was the first recipient of the National Photography Award in Colombia in 1998. Since then, numerous international recog-
nitions have followed, chief among them, his appointment to the Andrés Bello Chair of the King Juan Carlos Center at New York
University.
Portraits of an Invisible Country is comprised of a booklet of essays by leading authorities in the field and a series of sixteen photo
posters that showcase the photographer’s travels within Colombia and his careful depiction of his countrymen.
J O S É L U I S FA L C O N I i s A r t Fo r u m C u r ato r at t h e D av i d Ro c ke fe l l e r Ce n te r fo r L at i n A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s,
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U n i ve r s i t y. H O WA R D D . W E I N B R O T i s P ro fe s s o r o f E n g l i s h at t h e U n i ve r s i t y o f Wi s c o n s i n , M a d i s o n .
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department of celtic languages and literatures
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paperbacks
My Dearest Friend
Letters of Abigail and John Adams
Edited by Margaret A. Hogan
and C. James Taylor
Foreword by Joseph J. Ellis
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to “Miss Adorable,” the seventeen-year-
old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he
headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The
letters that span these nearly forty years form the most signifi-
cant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and
inspiring partnerships—in American history.
MARGARET A.
“B ECAUSE J OHN A DAMS ’ S WORK AS A CRITICAL PLAYER IN THE WAR H O G A N is
OF I NDEPENDENCE FREQUENTLY TOOK HIM AWAY FROM HOME , HIS Managing Editor of
CORRESPONDENCE WITH A BIGAIL ( SOME 1,160 LETTERS BETWEEN the Adams Papers
THEM HAVE SURVIVED ) PROVIDES A WONDERFULLY VIVID ACCOUNT OF at the Massachusetts Historical
THE MOMENTOUS ERA THEY LIVED THROUGH , UNDERSCORING THE
Society. C . J A M E S TAY L O R is
CHAOTIC , OFTEN IMPROVISATORY CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ATTENDED THE
Editor in Chief of the Adams
BIRTH OF THE FLEDGLING NATION AND THE HARDSHIPS OF DAILY LIFE .”
Papers at the Massachusetts
—M ICHIKO K AKUTANI , N EW YORK T IMES
Historical Society.
“T HE LETTERS REVEAL THE MAKING OF THE A MERICAN NATION , IN ALL
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Galileo Goes to Jail Healing Spaces
And Other Myths about Science and Religion The Science of Place and Well-Being
Edited by Ronald L. Numbers Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.
A C HOICE O UTSTANDING A CADEMIC B OOK Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distor-
The picture of science and religion at each tions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up
other’s throats persists in mainstream media the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings
and scholarly journals, but each chapter in also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther
Galileo Goes to Jail shows how much we Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously
have to gain by seeing beyond the myths. rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.
“T HE AUTHORS NECESSARILY SPEND THE BULK “W HAT S TERNBERG DOES SO SKILLFULLY IS TO STITCH TOGETHER AN
EXPLANATION AS TO HOW SO MANY OF THE THINGS WE INTUITIVELY
OF THEIR TIME DEBUNKING ATTACKS ON
FIND RELAXING , LIKE YOGA , OR SITTING BY THE SEA , OR IN A BRIGHT
RELIGION IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE , BUT THEY
AIRY ROOM , AFFECT HOW QUICKLY WE HEAL . S HE PROVIDES THE
ALSO CLEAR THE MUDDY WATERS LEFT BEHIND
WHEN PRO - RELIGION FORCES TRY TO OBSCURE SCIENCE TO BACK IT UP AND EXPLAINS IT SO ENGAGINGLY THAT IT ’ S
HARD TO RESIST SHARING HER CONVICTION .”
THE SCIENTIFIC RECORD …G IVEN ALL OF THE
POLEMICS PUBLISHED TODAY, THIS IS A BREATH —L INDA G EDDES , N EW S CIENTIST
OF FRESH AIR .”
“H EALING S PACES [ IS ] AN EXPLORATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
—R YAN T. A NDERSON , W EEKLY S TANDARD
INFLUENCES OVER THE BRAIN , THE BODY AND THE COURSE OF MENTAL
AND PHYSICAL DISEASE …A NYONE WHO HAS EVER FELT PEACE
“[T HIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN ] WITH ORDINARY
DESCEND IN LOVELY SURROUNDINGS WILL FIND A FEW SEEDS OF
READERS , NOT SPECIALISTS , IN MIND , MAKING
EXPLANATION IN HER BOOK .”
THIS A TRULY RARE BOOK : WHERE ELSE CAN YOU
FIND SUCH AUTHORITATIVE SCHOLARSHIP —A BIGAIL Z UGER , M.D., N EW YORK T IMES
DELIVERED SO ACCESSIBLY AND FAIRLY ON SUCH
AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT ?” E S T H E R M . S T E R N B E R G , M . D . , author of Th e
—E DWARD B. D AVIS , BELIEF. NET Ba l a n ce Wi t h i n : Th e S c i e n ce Co n n e c t i n g He a l t h a nd
E m o t i o n s, has done extensive research on brain-immune
R O N A L D L . N U M B E R S is Hilldale interactions and the effects of the brain’s stress response on
Professor of the History of Science and health. She was on the faculty at Washington University,
Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison. St. Louis, prior to joining the National Institutes of Health
His books include Th e C re a t i o n i s t s : Fro m S c i e n t i f i c in 1986.
Crea t i o n i s m to I n te l l i g e n t D e s i g n , E x p a n d e d Ed i t i o n
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To Serve God and Total Cure
Wal-Mart The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis
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Hadrian Arthur Miller
Empire and Conflict Christopher Bigsby
Thorsten Opper
A C HOICE O UTSTANDING A CADEMIC T ITLE
Even in the panoply of Roman history, This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth cen-
Hadrian stands out. Emperor from CE 117 to tury’s greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller, whose postwar decade
138, he was at once a benevolent ruler and of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim.
a ruthless military leader, known for his rest- Christopher Bigsby’s gripping, meticulously researched biogra-
less and ambitious nature, his interest in phy, based on boxes of papers made available to him before
architecture, and his passion for Greek cul- Miller’s death, examines his refusal to name names before the
ture. This book moves beyond the familiar notorious House on Un-American Activities Committee, offers
image of Hadrian to offer a new appraisal of new insights into Miller’s marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and
this Emperor’s contradictory personality, his sheds new light on how their relationship informed Miller’s sub-
exploits and accomplishments, his rule, and sequent great plays.
his military role, against the backdrop of his
twenty-one-year reign. “T HANKS TO B IGSBY ’ S RESEARCH , PARTICULARLY INTO PREVIOUSLY
UNSEEN MATERIAL , HIS ACCOUNT OF M ILLER TRYING TO HANG ON TO
“B RING [ S ] TOGETHER ARTIFACTS FROM AROUND HIS SOUL IN MIDCENTURY A MERICA SHOWS THAT HE WAS LARGE NOT
THE WORLD, INCLUDING STUNNING SCULPTURES , LEAST IN HIS CONTRADICTIONS …W HAT THE BOOK MAKES NEWLY
BRONZES , COINS , MOSAICS , AND FINE CLEAR , THOUGH , IS HOW MUCH OF M ILLER ’ S WORK REFLECTS HIS
INTERPRETIVE TEXTS ABOUT THE MAN WHO WAS OWN PERSONAL STRUGGLES .”
EMPEROR OF R OME FROM 117 CE TO 138 CE —J EREMY M CC ARTER , N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW
…[A] STRIKING , BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
BOOK .” “B IGSBY ’ S BIOGRAPHY IS SO EFFECTIVE BECAUSE IT MANAGES TO
LOCATE M ILLER ’ S ART IN TERMS BOTH OF THE PROGRESSION OF HIS
—J OAN W. G ARTLAND, L IBRARY J OURNAL
IDEALISM AND THE REGRESSIONS OF HIS ACTUAL EXPERIENCE . T HERE
“[A N ] EXCELLENT AND LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED CAN ’ T BE MANY WRITERS WHO APPEARED TO LIVE SO MUCH AT THE
BOOK …H IGHLY RECOMMENDED AND CENTER OF THEIR TIMES AND WHO SUFFERED SO MUCH FROM THAT
—A NDREW J ACK , CULTUREKIOSQUE . COM —A NDREW O’H AGAN , LONDON R EVIEW OF B OOKS
BIOGRAPHY
W INNER OF THE U NGAR G ERMAN T RANSLATION AWARD The Johnson that emerges from this enthralling
He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet biography is still the foremost figure of his age,
this life of Adorno by one of his last students is far more than lit- but a more rebellious, unpredictable, flawed,
erary in its accomplishments, giving us our first clear look at and sympathetic figure than has been previously
how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An known.
intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transat-
“M ODERN BIOGRAPHERS ARE AWARE OF THE
lantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural fer-
COMPETITION . T HEY HAVE TO WRITE A FIRST- RATE
ment of Adorno’s day—and its ongoing importance in our own.
BOOK ABOUT J OHNSON OR HEAR FROM CRITICS THAT
THEY ’ VE FOOLISHLY ENTERED THE WRONG LEAGUE .
“C LAUSSEN IS ILLUMINATING ON HIS SUBJECT ’ S POLITICS , CULTURAL
A ND A NUMBER OF SCHOLARS , NOTABLY PAUL
HERITAGE , HISTORICAL CONTEXT, MUSICOLOGY, INTELLECTUAL
F USSELL AND W. J ACKSON B ATE , HAVE GIVEN US
LIAISONS AND REFLECTIONS ON THE CULTURE INDUSTRY…
REMARKABLE PORTRAITS . T HEY ’ RE NOW JOINED BY
T HEODOR W. A DORNO : O NE L AST G ENIUS IS A STRENUOUSLY P ETER M ARTIN [ IN ]… A DEEPLY FELT, BEAUTIFULLY
INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY, THE ONLY SORT THE MASTER HIMSELF
WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF A PERSONALITY ABOUT WHOM
MIGHT JUST HAVE APPROVED , IN WHICH THE BARE FACTS OF HIS LIFE
WE CANNOT KNOW ENOUGH .”
ALWAYS COME TO US INTERWOVEN WITH HISTORICAL CURRENTS AND
PHILOSOPHICAL WRANGLES .”
—G EORGE S IM J OHNSTON ,
WALL S TREET J OURNAL
—T ERRY E AGLETON , LONDON R EVIEW OF B OOKS
“A LIVELY NEW BIOGRAPHY, A BOOK WELL SEASONED
“C LAUSSEN , A STUDENT OF A DORNO ’ S , HAS WRITTEN WHAT HAS BEEN
WITH GOOD STORIES , MOST OF WHICH DO NOT SEEK
HAILED AS AMONG THE BEST BOOKS ON ITS FAMOUSLY RECALCITRANT
ALWAYS TO SHOW THE D OCTOR IN A BETTER LIGHT.”
SUBJECT.”
—A NDREW O'H AGAN ,
—B RIAN S HOLIS , B OOKFORUM N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS
pointing. After all, what is wrong with a lit- DEPTH . T HE BOOK IS NOT ABOUT MUSIC ITSELF, BUT ABOUT ITS
tle sloth? CREATORS AND CONSUMERS . B LANNING EVOKES THE LIFE OF THE
EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY MUSICIAN WITH MARVELOUS CLARITY; H AYDN
IS PARTICULARLY WELL TREATED , AND THE SHIFTING STATUS OF
“A N INTELLECTUAL GEM THAT INTRODUCES THE
MUSICIANS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD IS HELD UNDER THE
READER TO A NEW WORLD OF IDEAS . I T IS A
HISTORIAN ’ S SHARP GAZE .
A S A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MUSIC IN THE
THOUGHT- PROVOKING AND PASSIONATE
BOOK …K LEINBERG ’ S HUMOR AND LEARNING PERIOD FROM B ACH TO WAGNER , THE BOOK IS PENETRATING AND
RICHLY DOCUMENTED . T HERE ARE FASCINATING NUGGETS OF
INVITE THE READER TO A JOURNEY OF SELF
EXPLORATION AND TO A REEXAMINATION OF INFORMATION THROUGHOUT, ILLUMINATING BUT NOT DETRACTING
THE SOURCES OF EVIL .” FROM THE CHRONICLE OF MUSICIANS AND THE RESPONSES OF
AUDIENCES , POLITICIANS , AND CRITICS .”
—T IMEOUT I SRAEL
—H UGH M AC D ONALD, T IMES L ITERARY S UPPLEMENT
“[A] LIVELY AND ENGAGING ESSAY
COLLECTION .” T I M B L A N N I N G is Professor of Modern European History
—J. COURTNEY S ULLIVAN , at the University of Cambridge and the author of Th e
N EW YORK T IMES B OOK Pu r s u i t o f G l o r y : Eu ro p e 1 6 4 8 – 1 8 1 5.
R EVIEW
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HISTORY
of History at Tel Aviv University and
the author of Fl e s h M a d e Wo rd : S a i n t s’
S to r i e s a n d t h e We s te r n I m ag i n a t i o n
(Harvard).
story up to date from the mid-1980s, including such events as INVALUABLE …T HIS INSIGHT IS TYPICAL OF
the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in M CG REGOR , WHO… IS AT HIS BEST WHEN
ELABORATING ON THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF
Syria, Morocco, and Jordan; and the aftermath of the events of
PARIS ’ S BUILDINGS .”
September 11, 2001.
—C AROLINE W EBER ,
P RAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION : N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW
“A SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT…W RITTEN WITH JUST THE RIGHT MIX OF
“M CG REGOR ’ S EXCELLENT F ROM THE G ROUND
EMPATHY AND SENSITIVITY, AND A FEEL FOR THE IRONY OF HUMAN
U P SERIES TREATS THE CITY AS A PALIMPSEST,
HISTORY. T HIS IS HISTORY IN THE GRAND STYLE . I T CAN LEAD TO A
SUBSTITUTING SPACE FOR TIME AND ALLOWING
BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE A RABS , PAST AND PRESENT.”
THE READER TO EXPLORE THE HISTORY OF A
—L. C ARL B ROWN , N EW YORK T IMES B OOK R EVIEW PLACE WHILE WANDERING ITS STREETS . H ERE HE
TRACES THE STORY OF PARIS , DESCRIBING THE
“H ERE AT LAST IS A GENUINELY READABLE , GENUINELY RESPONSIVE
REMNANTS OF A LONG HISTORY THAT ARE , FOR
HISTORY OF THE A RABS .” THE MOST PART, BURIED DEEP BENEATH THE CITY
—E DWARD W. S AID, LOS A NGELES T IMES B OOK R EVIEW STREETS .”
The Future of the Middle East Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
Gilles Kepel After the fall of the atomic bomb Asia was
Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh dominated by the British. Yet within a few
violent years, British power in the region
A C HOICE O UTSTANDING A CADEMIC T ITLE would crumble, and independent nations
Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the would struggle into existence. Christopher
global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War
terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyr- II never really ended in these ravaged Asian
dom through the slaughter of infidels. Beyond Terror and Mar- lands, but instead continued in bloody civil
tyrdom sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of wars and insurrections.
these exhausted narratives are bankrupt—productive neither of
“[A] COMPELLING BOOK …T HE AUTHORS WRITE
democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam.
THAT ‘ THE END OF EMPIRE IS NOT A PRETTY
THING IF EXAMINED TOO CLOSELY,’ BUT WHEN
“G ILLES K EPEL …[ HAS ] DONE MORE THAN MOST WRITERS TO OPEN
EXAMINED SO ABLY IT IS CERTAINLY
THE MINDS OF W ESTERN READERS TO THE WORLD OF I SLAM …
FASCINATING .”
B EYOND T ERROR AND M ARTYRDOM IS A STRONG CRITIQUE OF WHAT
HE CALLS THE TWO ‘ GRAND NARRATIVES ’ THAT HAVE CREATED SO —P HILIP D ELVES B ROUGHTON ,
MUCH HAVOC IN THE M IDDLE E AST, AND BY EXTENSION IN E UROPE WALL S TREET J OURNAL
TOO.”
“F ORGOTTEN WARS MOVINGLY BRINGS OUT THE
—I AN B URUMA , N EW YORK R EVIEW OF B OOKS TRAVAILS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO GOT
CAUGHT UP WITHIN A VICIOUS CYCLE OF
“T HIS BOOK , FROM ONE OF F RANCE ’ S SHREWDEST INTERPRETERS OF
POLITICAL TURMOIL , ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION ,
THE M USLIM WORLD , PROVIDES A HIGHLY READABLE END - OF -TERM
AND VIOLENCE . T HIS IS A ‘ MUST READ ’ FOR
CONSPECTUS OF THE SUBSEQUENT VIOLENT ENCOUNTER BETWEEN
THOSE INTERESTED IN HISTORIES OF B RITISH
A MERICA AND THE JIHADISTS . I T ALSO OFFERS AN INTRIGUING
IMPERIALISM AND DECOLONIZATION IN A SIA .”
ARGUMENT. I N G ILLES K EPEL’ S TELLING , IT IS NOT ONLY M R . B USH
WHOSE STRATEGY FAILED AFTER S EPTEMBER 11 TH . O SAMA BIN —H AIMANTI R OY,
L ADEN ’ S STRATEGY FAILED TOO.” J OURNAL OF B RITISH S TUDIES
—T HE E CONOMIST
C H R I S T O P H E R B AY LY is Vere Harmsworth Professor of
Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge,
G I L L E S K E P E L is Professor and Chair of Middle East
and a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College. T I M H A R P E R is a
Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He is
Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge,
the author of Th e Wa r fo r M u s l i m M i n d s : I s l a m a n d t h e
and a Fellow of Magdalene College. They are the authors of
West and Jihad: Th e Tra i l o f Po l i t i ca l I s l a m and coeditor
Fo rg o t te n A r m i e s : Th e Fa l l o f Br i t i s h A s i a , 1 9 4 1 – 1 9 4 5
of A l Qaeda in I t s O w n Wo rd s (all from Harvard).
(Harvard).
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—T HE ATLANTIC
“T HIS FASCINATING BOOK ABOUT [D EBS ’ S ] CLIMACTIC LAST YEARS
“A BOVE ALL , [G ILDEA ] SUCCEEDS IN ONE CENTRAL TASK : SHOWING MAKES CLEAR THAT HE REALLY MATTERED . I N BOTH POLITICAL AND
JUST HOW SURPRISINGLY LIVABLE AND CREATIVE F RANCE WAS DURING LEGAL WAYS HE PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT PART IN REDUCING
THIS GOLDEN CENTURY- LONG INTERVAL BETWEEN TWO MOMENTS OF INTOLERANCE OF DISSENT IN THIS COUNTRY, AND BRINGING TO LIFE
PHILOSOPHERS OF MIND, M IND IN L IFE IS SURE SELF - ORGANIZING SYSTEMS AND THEIR ENORMOUS SIGNIFICANCE IN
TO BECOME ESSENTIAL READING .” EVOLUTION , AND TO THINK THROUGH HIS ARGUMENTS , WITH ALL
THEIR ACCOMPANYING INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES . T HIS IMPORTANT
—J OHN C. WALLER , I SIS
BOOK IS FOR THOSE WHO SEARCH FOR AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE
“O NE OF THE RICHEST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VARIOUS FORMS THAT LIFE CAN TAKE AND OF HOW LIFE WORKS .”
MANY YEARS TO COME .” T URNER HOLDS THAT BLINDLY OPERATING NATURAL SELECTION DOES
NOT PRECLUDE WHAT HE INTERPRETS AS INTENTIONAL BIOLOGICAL
—K EITH A NSELL -P EARSON ,
ACTIVITY…T URNER ’ S THESIS SHOULD GAIN TRACTION WITH THOSE
P HENOMENOLOGY AND THE C OGNITIVE
THINKING AND DEBATING ISSUES IN EVOLUTION .”
S CIENCES
—G ILBERT TAYLOR , B OOKLIST
“T HOMPSON HAS WRITTEN A BOOK THAT FOR
PHILOSOPHERS MAY GIVE A NEW INCENTIVE TO J . S C O T T T U R N E R is Associate Professor at SUNY
RETHINK AND RECONCEPTUALIZE OUR PLACE IN College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse.
THE WORLD THAT SURPASSES DUALISTIC THINKING .”
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—A LLAN G IBBARD,
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LONDON R EVIEW OF B OOKS
P ERDUE HAS PRODUCED THE FIRST BROAD SURVEY IN A W ESTERN
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“S CANLON EXAMINES THE PERMISSIBILITY OF
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SECURED ITS CONQUEST OF THE EASTERN PART OF C ENTRAL E URASIA ,
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THE ‘ DOCTRINE OF DOUBLE EFFECT.’ HE ARGUES
EVALUATING THE ARGUMENTS AND BY STUDENTS NEEDING AN
THAT THE ILLUSION STEMS FROM CONFUSION
INTRODUCTION TO THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC .”
BETWEEN TWO TYPES OF MORAL JUDGMENT,
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A MERICAN H ISTORICAL R EVIEW TERMS EITHER ‘ CRITICAL’ OR ‘ DELIBERATIVE ’
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“P ERDUE SUCCEEDS IN GIVING NEW LIFE TO MATTERS THAT HAVE
AN IMPORTANT NEW DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE
SUCCUMBED TO STALE CONVENTIONAL THINKING .”
PERMISSIBILITY OF ACTIONS AND THEIR
—LUCIAN P YE , F OREIGN A FFAIRS MEANING , AND TO DEVELOP ACCOUNTS OF
BLAME ( LINKED TO THE MEANING OF AN ACTION )
P E T E R C . P E R D U E is Professor of History at Yale AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY THAT BEAR CLOSE ATTENTION .”
University. —J. H. B ARKER , C HOICE
“I NGENIOUSLY COMBINES SOCIAL HISTORY AND —T REVOR B URNARD, T IMES H IGHER E DUCATION S UPPLEMENT
DOMESTIC HISTORY BY DISCUSSING HOW
A MERICAN CITIZENS CONTRIBUTED TO THE “B ROWN ’ S T HE R EAPER ' S G ARDEN IS A PENETRATING AND THOUGHT-
PROVOKING BOOK THAT IS A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY
PROCESS OF INCORPORATING J APAN INTO THE
US- LED LIBERAL CAPITALIST FRAMEWORK IN
OF EARLY A MERICA B RITISH ATLANTIC WORLD. A S
AND THE
THE YEARS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE S ECOND MORTALITY WAS A CENTRAL FACT THROUGHOUT COLONIAL A MERICAN
LIFE , FOR BLACKS AND WHITES , HISTORIANS WILL FIND THAT AFTER
W ORLD WAR .”
READING B ROWN ’ S BOOK , THEY MAY NEVER LOOK AT THE WORLD OF
—Y UJIN YAGUCHI ,
COLONIAL B RITISH A MERICA THE SAME WAY AGAIN .”
J OURNAL OF A MERICAN S TUDIES
—W. B RYAN R OMMEL -R UIZ , C OMMON -P LACE
N A O K O S H I B U S AWA is Assistant Professor of History
at Brown University. V I N C E N T B R O W N is Professor of History and of African
and African American Studies at Harvard University.
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“T HIS AMBITIOUS BOOK DESERVES WIDE READERSHIP. O NE DOES NOT “A BRAMSON BESTOWS UPON READERS THE BENEFIT OF HIS DECADES
HAVE TO AGREE WITH J ACKSON THAT WOMEN WERE , AS THE TITLE OF TEACHING POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY…T HIS BOOK CONSISTS OF
SUGGESTS , ‘ DESTINED FOR EQUALITY ’ TO APPRECIATE THE STRAIGHTFORWARD AND LUCID EXPLORATIONS OF THE CANONICAL
FORCE OF HIS ARGUMENT AND THE CRISP AND THINKERS AND THEIR WORKS .”
CLEAR MANNER IN WHICH HE PRESENTS IT.”
—S TEVEN C HABOT, L IBRARY J OURNAL
—D ENNIS A. D ESLIPPE ,
J OURNAL OF A MERICAN H ISTORY “[A BRAMSON ] GIVES US A WONDERFULLY ACCESSIBLE SURVEY OF
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ON EVERY PAGE .”
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J E F F R E Y A B R A M S O N is Professor of Government
SOCIOLOGY and Law and Fellow of the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial
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Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses…, 70 Dunn, Roosevelt’s Purge, 9 Lab, 23 Roosevelt’s Purge, 9
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Arthur Miller, 100 Ecologies of Human Flourishing, 92 Latin America’s Cold War, 50 San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice, 79
Arundel Lyrics. The Poems of Hugh Primas, 45 Eden on the Charles, 32 Learned Banqueters, 71 Saturnalia, 71
Athenaeus, Learned Banqueters, 71 Edgar, Vulgate Bible, 44 Legality, 78 Scanlon, Moral Dimensions, 113
Augustine and Spinoza, 72 Edwards, Lab, 23 Legally Poisoned, 78 Scartascini, How Democracy Works, 94
Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 6 End of Arrogance, 16 Levmore, Offensive Internet, 35 Schutt, Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness, 68
Azimi, Quest for Democracy in Iran, 109 Epic Rhapsode and His Craft, 91 Lewis, Early Chinese Empires, 109 Scott, Rethinking Juvenile Justice, 111
Baker, 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar…, 20 Evolution of the Human Head, 36 Lieberman, Evolution of the Human Head, 36 Seeing Patients, 34
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Beowulf Manuscript, 45 Fash, Copan Sculpture Museum, 89 Lubet, Fugitive Justice, 31 Selma of the North, 116
Berlin-Baghdad Express, 10 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System, 20 Luft, Total Cure, 99 Seven Deadly Sins, 102
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom, 105 Forgotten Wars, 105 Macrobius, Saturnalia, 71 Shackles of Modernity, 93
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Brakke, Gnostics, 69 Gnostics, 69 McMeekin, Berlin-Baghdad Express, 10 Swearer, Ecologies of Human Flourishing, 92
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Brashier, Ancestral Memory in Early China, 83 Gonzalez, Epic Rhapsode and His Craft, 91 Mind in Life, 112 Taylor, Dilemmas and Connections, 37
Brown, Reaper’s Garden, 114 Grafton,“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”, 25 Minerva’s Owl, 115 Taylor, Journey Through the Afterlife, 33
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Children of the Revolution, 108 Hadrian, 100 New Geographies, 82 Total Cure, 99
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Colors of Zion, 38 Hollmann, Master of Signs, 90 Our South, 62 Vikan, Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, 79
Common Sense, 106 Home of the Humanities, 80 Paine, Common Sense, 106 Vita Nuova, 41
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Constitutional Identity, 77 Hourani, History of the Arab Peoples, 103 Peculiar Institution, 2 Wandering Soul, 17
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Cooper, Last of the Mohicans, 106 How Many Friends Does One Person Need?, 22 Perdue, China Marches West, 113 Watt, When Empire Comes Home, 88
Copan Sculpture Museum, 89 How Professors Think, 111 Perlmutter, Promotion and Tenure Confidential, 56 Weber, End of Arrogance, 16
Courtwright, No Right Turn, 30 Human Dignity, 3 Petropoulos, Kleos in a Minor Key, 90 Weiss, In the Shadow of Sectarianism, 66
Cranor, Legally Poisoned, 78 Humanist Tragedies, 59 Pilgrims of the Vertical, 26 What Is Mental Illness?, 28
Crisis of Neoliberalism, 76 Hungry World, 48 Place in Public, 87 What Was African American Literature?, 53
Cullather, Hungry World, 48 Illusion of Free Markets, 57 Place of Stone Monuments, 81 What Is a Palestinian State Worth?, 8
Cultivating Global Citizens, 67 Image of the Black in Western Art, 18 Plato’s Counterfeit Sophists, 91 When Empire Comes Home, 88
Dabashi, Shi’ism, 14 In Praise of Copying, 15 Plautus, Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses…, 70 White, Seeing Patients, 34
Dairy Queens, 64 In the Shadow of Sectarianism, 66 Poetics of Sovereignty, 84 Wildlands and Woodlands, 81
Dante, Vita Nuova, 41 Jackson, Destined for Equality, 115 Poetry and the Police, 21 Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, 49
Darnton, Poetry and the Police, 21 Jackson, Life in a Shell, 73 Pollock, Group Experiment and Other Writings, 65 Wilson, Diversity of Life, 104
Death Marches, 24 Jacobsohn, Constitutional Identity, 77 Portraits of an Invisible Country, 95 Wood, Near Andersonville, 47
Decline and Fall of the American Republic, 11 James, Heart of William James, 27 Pride and Prejudice, 6 Xu, Strangers on the Western Front, 67
Democracy’s Prisoner, 108 Jazairy, New Geographies, 82 Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 96 Yang, Technology of Empire, 87
Denecke, Dynamics of Masters Literature, 83 Johnson After Three Centuries, 95 Promotion and Tenure Confidential, 56
Desert Kingdom, 42 Jones, Desert Kingdom, 42 Quest for Democracy in Iran, 109
Destined for Equality, 115 Jones, Selma of the North, 116 Quilter, Moche of Ancient Peru, 89