Spring 2009 - University of California Press

Spring 2009

SPRING 2009
From the Director
SINCE 1893, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS has enriched
lives and contributed to the public good by fueling intellectual
and creative endeavor.
This season follows tradition with a catalog full of books
that build fields of knowledge, suggest solutions for challenging
environmental and social problems, and educate students,
policymakers, and curious readers alike.
Our lead book, Elephant Reflections by Karl Ammann and
Dale Peterson, illuminates the history and conservation of this
singular creature. Other comprehensive reference volumes document
the world’s wildlife, oceans, islands, and natural resources.
A number of authors take on current issues such as organic
farming, human trafficking, the war on terror, and drug addiction,
while historical studies reveal new information about topics
as diverse as ice cream, environmental change, the pineapple
industry, Alcatraz, punk music, and Khubilai Khan’s fleet.
We also offer a cluster of biographies of iconic figures Walt
Whitman, Wallace Stegner, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as
new works by returning authors Kevin Bales, Jann Pasler, Joan
Roughgarden, Neil Smelser, Robert Wuthnow, and many others
throughout the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
I invite you to learn about these books and more in the
pages that follow, and to visit www.ucpress.edu for our entire
selection of titles in print.
CONTENTS
General Interest 2
California 34
Poetry 38
Anthropology 40
Sociology 45
History 50
Classics 57
Religion 60
Science 64
GAIA/Series Monographs 69
Art 70
Music 73
Media 74
Film 75
Paperbacks 76
Huntington Library Press 103
Ordering Information 106
Author Index 110
Title Index 111
Lynne Withey
Director

GENERAL INTEREST
Photographs by Karl Ammann and Text by Dale Peterson
Elephant Reflections
Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl
Ammann’s gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer
Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature’s greatest and most original
works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely
aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enigmatic,
individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose,
Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains
their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history
and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics
of ivory. Elephant Reflections is a book that could change the way the
world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of
control over their fate.
Karl Ammann has photographed wildlife throughout
Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. His remarkable
work has appeared in the New York Times
Magazine, Outdoor Photography, Natural History,
African Geographic, and elsewhere. Dale Peterson
is the author or editor of fifteen books, including
the recent Jane Goodall: The Woman Who
Redefined Man. Ammann and Peterson’s previous
collaboration, Eating Apes (UC Press), was named
a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and the
Globe and Mail, and a Top Science Book of the
Year by Discover magazine.
MAY
288 pages, 10 x 10-1/2”, 131 color & 2 b/w photographs
Natural History/The Environment/Photography
World
cloth 978-0-520-25377-3 $39.95/£23.95
Also by Dale Peterson:
Eating Apes
With an Afterword and Photographs by
Karl Ammann
World
cloth 978-0-520-23090-3 $35.00tx/£19.95
paper 978-0-520-24332-3 $17.95/£10.95
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“This is a stunning book, combining Dale
Peterson’s lucid, compelling writing with
Karl Ammann’s magnificent photographs. It
is the best ever book about that most majestic
of animals, highlighting the elephant’s
intelligence, love of family, and delight in the
good things of life. The ideal book for anyone
who loves animals, nature, and the wonder of
creation.”
Jane Goodall, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
and United Nations Messenger of Peace
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Gary Y. Okihiro
Pineapple Culture
A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones
“Pineapple Culture is an imaginative reframing of world history with
Hawai‘i and its best-known tropical product at its center.”
Edmund Burke III, coeditor of Genealogies of Orientalism
“A stunning model of inclusive global history!”
George J. Sanchez, author of Becoming Mexican American
Gary Y. Okihiro is Professor of International and
Public Affairs and Founding Director of the Center
for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia
University.
California World History Library, 10
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
JUNE
200 pages, 6 x 8”, 40 b/w photographs,
1 line illustration, 7 maps, 1 table
History/Global Studies/Ethic Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25513-5 $24.95/£14.95
Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to
European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the
tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple
Culture is a dazzling history of the world’s tropical and temperate
zones told through the pineapple’s illustrative career. Following Gary
Y. Okihiro’s enthusiastically received Island World: A History of
Hawai‘i and the United States, Pineapple Culture continues to upend
conventional ideas about history, space, and time with its provocative
vision. At the center of the story is the thoroughly modern tale of
Dole’s “Hawaiian” pineapple, which, from its island periphery, infiltrated
the white, middle-class homes of the continental United States.
The transit of the pineapple brilliantly illuminates the history and
geography of empires—their creations and accumulations; the circuits
of knowledge, capital, labor, goods, and the cultures that characterize
them; and their assumed power to name, classify, and rule over alien
lands, peoples, and resources.
Also by Gary Y. Okihiro:
Island World
A History of Hawai‘i and the United States
California World History Library, 8
World
cloth 978-0-520-25299-8 $27.50/£16.95
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Jeri Quinzio
Of Sugar and Snow
A History of Ice Cream Making
“A chilling page-turner. Jeri Quinzio scoops out a detailed and entertaining
picture of my favorite dessert, from its wine-slush origins in
sixteenth-century Italy through contemporary flavor and marketing
innovations. I couldn’t put it down.”
Bruce Weinstein, author of The Ultimate Ice Cream Book
“This book is a real treat, as fun as running an ice cream store in July!”
Gus Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s Ice Cream
Was ice cream invented in Philadelphia? How about by the Emperor
Nero, when he poured honey over snow? Did Marco Polo first taste it
in China and bring recipes back? In this first book to tell ice cream’s
full story, Jeri Quinzio traces the beloved confection from its earliest
appearances in sixteenth-century Europe to the small towns of
America and debunks some colorful myths along the way. She explains
how ice cream is made, describes its social role, and connects historical
events to its business and consumption. A diverting yet serious work
of history, Of Sugar and Snow provides a fascinating array of recipes,
from a seventeenth-century Italian lemon sorbet to a twentieth-century
American strawberry mallobet, and traces how this once elite status
symbol became today’s universally available and wildly popular treat.
Jeri Quinzio is the author of Ice Cream: The
Ultimate Cold Comfort and a contributor to the ice
cream entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food
and Drink in America.
California Studies in Food and Culture, 25
MAY
286 pages, 6 x 8”, 18 color illustrations
Food/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-24861-8 $24.95/£14.95
‘The Cream of Love,” Currier & Ives. Courtesy of the Library
of Congress.
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Channa Bambaradeniya, Cinthya Flores, Joshua
Ginsberg, Dwight Holing, Susan Lumpkin, George
McKay, John Musick, Patrick Quilty, Bernard
Stonehouse, Eric John Woehler, and David Woodruff
The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife
Copub: Weldon Owen Publishing
APRIL
288 pages, 10-3/4 x 13-1/4”, 840 color illustrations,
160 maps, 175 tables
Natural History/Earth Science
North America, U.S. & Territories
cloth 978-0-520-25785-6 $39.95
Have you ever seen an antelope the size of a cat, or a frog bigger than
a lapdog? What kinds of animals thrive in the Sahara? Earth is full of
incredible creatures, all specially adapted to survive in even the most
inhospitable environments. This vividly illustrated atlas is the essential
wildlife reference, providing a spectacular visual survey of animals and
their habitats across the globe. Divided into eight geographic areas
and organized by continent and habitat type, The Illustrated Atlas of
Wildlife leads readers from the Great Barrier Reef to the Appalachians
and from the ocean floor to the cloud forests, showcasing in scientific
detail the bizarre, beautiful, and highly specialized wildlife of each
location. Learn about the critically endangered mountain gorilla, the
reptiles of the Everglades, a desert spider that transforms into a wheel,
and hundreds of other endemic and endangered species, as well as the
threats and challenges they face.
• Details the ecology and wildlife of the continents, oceans, and poles
• Includes the most up-to-date conservation and preservation data
• Features hundreds of beautiful color photographs, illustrations, and maps
• Chronicles evolution and adaptation over the ages, as well as current issues
• Explores human impacts upon the
world’s complex ecosystems
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Dr. Channa Bambaradeniya is the Coordinator of the Asia Regional Species and
Biodiversity Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Cinthya Flores is an international social communications consultant and journalist.
Dr. Joshua Ginsberg is Program Director at the Wildlife Conservation
Society. Dwight Holing is the author of many books on rain forests, coral reefs,
and wilderness in Europe and western America. Dr. Susan Lumpkin is a
Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoological Parks.
George McKay chairs the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Advisory
Council, Australia. Dr. John Musick is Marshall Acuff Professor Emeritus in
Marine Science at the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine
Science. Dr. Patrick Quilty is Honorary Research Professor in Earth Sciences at
the University of Tasmania. Dr. Bernard Stonehouse is an environmental biologist
with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and the
Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. Dr. Eric John Woehler is
an expert on antarctic and subantarctic birds. Dr. David Woodruff is Professor
of Biology at the University of California, San Diego.
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David Ward
Alcatraz
The Gangster Years
With Gene Kassebaum
“Ward has collected the most impressive documentation anywhere
on the workings of a prison. This is a unique and wonderful work of
sociology and history.” Howard Becker, author of Outsiders and Art Worlds
David Ward is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at
the University of Minnesota and the coauthor (with
Gene Kassebaum and David Wilner) of Prison
Treatment and Parole Survival. Gene Kassebaum
is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University
of Hawaii and the coauthor (with Ward) of Women’s
Prison.
Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Alvin Karpis, “Dock”
Barker—these were just a few of the legendary “public enemies” for
whom America’s first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The
Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life along with vivid
accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through
the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented
access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records,
conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts,
guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of “The
Rock.” Alcatraz is the only book with authoritative answers to questions
that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically
with the harsh regime? What provoked the protests and strikes?
How did security flaws lead to the sensational escape attempts? And
what happened when these “habitual, incorrigible” convicts were finally
released? By shining a light on the most famous prison in the world,
Ward also raises timely questions about today’s supermax prisons.
MARCH
576 pages, 6 x 9”, 72 b/w photographs
History/Sociology/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25607-1 $34.95/£19.95
George “Machine Gun” Kelly, AZ-117, and William Radkay,
AZ-666, watch convicts playing bridge with dominoes marked
like playing cards. Photo courtesy Bureau of Prisons.
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Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
The Slave Next Door
Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
“Once again, Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter make us confront a tragic
reality: there are as many as 27 million people trapped in modern
slavery worldwide. In this book, we hear the voices of survivors and
those who are fighting every day for freedom.”
Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery
Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of
human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In
The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in
plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant,
the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping
the floor of the local department store. In these pages we also meet
some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class
Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences
including slavery. Weaving together a wealth of voices—from slaves,
slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors, law
enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others—this
book is also a call to action, telling what we, as private citizens, can do
to finally bring an end to this horrific crime.
Also by Kevin Bales:
Ending Slavery
How We Free Today’s Slaves
World
978-0-520-25470-1 $24.95/£14.95
978-0-520-25796-2 $15.95/£9.50
Disposable People
New Slavery in the Global Economy
Revised Edition With a New Preface
World
paper 978-0-520-24384-2 $21.95sc/£12.95
Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves in
Washington, D.C., (www.freetheslaves.net) and
Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University
in London, England, is the author of Disposable
People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (UC
Press), among other books. Ron Soodalter, historian,
folklorist, and lecturer, is the author of Hanging
Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American
Slave Trader.
MAY
288 pages, 6 x 9”
Current Affairs/Politics/Sociology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25515-9 $24.95/£14.95
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Paul Rose and Anne Laking
Oceans
Exploring the Hidden Depths of the Underwater World
Paul Rose, expedition leader and copresenter of
the BBC television series Oceans, is a professional
diver, polar guide, and mountaineer. He was the
base commander of the British Antarctic Survey
and ran the U.S. Navy’s diver training program.
Rose has presented several other BBC television
series, including Voyages of Discovery, Climate
Change, and Take One Museum. Anne Laking’s
programs have won a number of awards. She was
executive producer of the Horizon documentary
The Mystery of the Persian Mummy, as well as the
BBC Four science series Time, Light Fantastic, and
Visions of the Future. She is the executive producer
of Oceans.
The oceans are the single most important feature of our planet. They
shape our climate, our culture, and our future. Yet their depths have
remained a mysterious and unchartered expanse. This book, which
accompanies a major BBC television series, draws on the most exciting
stories from the fields of subaquatic archaeology, geology, marine biology,
and anthropology to reveal an astonishing landscape of forgotten
shipwrecks, submerged volcanoes, and hidden caves. For Oceans,
explorer Paul Rose and his team of expert divers filmed fluorescence in
Red Sea corals for the very first time and explored the undisturbed
waters of the Black Hole off the Bahamas. They witnessed rarely seen
behavior in sperm whales in the Sea of Cortez and discovered a potentially
unknown species below the arctic ice pack. Undertaking thrilling
and often dangerous dives, Rose and his team reveal the importance of
the oceans to human existence—and at the same time trace the possible
consequences of climate change
on their delicate balance. Beautifully
illustrated with more than 160 color
photographs, Oceans unravels the
mysteries of the deep and provides
illuminating insights into this vast
undersea domain.
Copub: BBC
APRIL
240 pages, 8-1/2 x 10-3/4”, 162 color photographs,
4 maps
Natural History/Photography/Oceanography
U.S. & Canada
cloth 978-0-520-26028-3 $34.95
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• Lavishly illustrated with color photographs
• Includes profiles of the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of
Cortez, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Southern Ocean,
the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean
• Features photographs of many rarely seen life forms
• The international team of divers includes Philippe Cousteau
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Joan Roughgarden
The Genial Gene
Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
“No other book offers such a sustained argument against sexual
selection theory and provides such a compelling alternative—
substantively important and exciting.”
Jonathan Kaplan, coauthor of Making Sense of Evolution
“Roughgarden’s unique and forceful vision issues a timely, cogent
challenge to the predominant world view that selfishness and conflict
are the norm in adaptive evolution.”
Michael J. Wade, coauthor of Mating Systems and Strategies
Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biology at
Stanford University. She is the author of
Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and
Sexuality in Nature and People (UC Press),
Evolution and Christian Faith, and Primer of
Ecological Theory.
APRIL
252 pages, 6 x 9”, 20 tables
Evolution/Ecology Studies/Gender
World
cloth 978-0-520-25826-6 $24.95/£14.95
Are selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and cooperation—basic
to biological nature? Does a “selfish gene” create universal
sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully
rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study
of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book
Evolution’s Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about
gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the
notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops
a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social
selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an
important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation,
elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene
pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to
identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents
the facts of life as we now know them.
Also by Joan Roughgarden (see page 87):
Evolution’s Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality
in Nature and People
World
paper 978-0-520-24679-9 $18.95/£11.50
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Celebrate the Bicentennial
of Charles Darwin’s Birth
February 12, 2009
Richard Milner
Darwin’s Universe
Evolution from A to Z
With a Foreword by Ian Tattersall and a Preface by Stephen Jay Gould
“Darwin’s Universe is the single best volume ever published that covers
all matters Darwin from A to Z. I have never so enjoyed a scientific
book, plucking out gems of elegant narrative richly supported by
photographs and paintings from the history of evolutionary thought.”
Michael Shermer, author of In Darwin’s Shadow
This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining
browser’s delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of
Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative
and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which ideas of
evolutionary biology have leapt the boundaries of science to influence
philosophy, law, religion, literature, cinema, art, and popular culture.
Darwin’s Universe, a thoroughly revised and updated successor to
Richard Milner’s acclaimed Encyclopedia of Evolution, contains more
than a hundred new essays, including entries on animal behavior (Alex
the parrot, Kanzi the bonobo, Digit the gorilla), on women in science
(Mary Anning, Rosalind Franklin), and on the latest finds of human
fossils. A veritable museum of natural history, it also contains many
original discoveries brought to light by Milner’s historical sleuthing.
Packed with hundreds of rare illustrations, including many new ones,
this Darwin Bicentennial edition will appeal to a wide audience
of readers.
Richard Milner is an Associate in Anthropology at
the American Museum of Natural History, contributing
editor at Natural History magazine, and
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Author of
three award-winning books on evolution, he has
published articles in Scientific American and other
science magazines and has been featured on the
History, Discovery, and Animal Planet channels,
as well as on BBC Two and Nova.
MARCH
488 pages, 8-1/2 x 11”, 450 b/w photographs
Natural History/Evolution/Biology
World
cloth 978-0-520-24376-7 $39.95/£23.95
Darwin postage stamp from Mauritius, 1982.
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Ben Hoare
Animal Migration
Remarkable Journeys in the Wild
Ben Hoare is an author and editor who specializes
in natural history. His work has appeared in BBC
Wildlife and Birdlife magazines and on BBC Web
sites, and he is a fellow of the Zoological Society
of London.
This spectacular guide explores the mysteries of animal migration over
land, in the oceans, and through the air. Lavishly illustrated with two
hundred photographs and maps, Animal Migration highlights specific
conservation issues while tracing the routes of some one hundred
species of animal with examples on every continent. Ben Hoare
explains how animals migrate, either as parts of mass migration or in
individual journeys, and describes in fascinating detail their navigation,
reproduction, and feeding strategies. He also brings to life migrations
that stand out for their extraordinary challenges such as those that take
animals unthinkable distances across hostile or barren territory. Designed
for easy browsing or in-depth study, Animal Migration concludes with a
supplementary catalog of migrants, adding the routes of an additional
two hundred animals, and is an invaluable addition to any nature
lover’s library.
Copub: Marshall Editions
MARCH
176 pages, 10-1/4 x 11-1/2“, 200 color illustrations,
80 maps
Natural History/Ecology
North America and U.S. Territories
cloth 978-0-520-25823-5 $34.95
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Dominic Couzens
Top 100 Birding Sites of the World
“My first response after reading this book was to reach for the phone
and start booking tours to go see birds. This book’s combination of
dynamic photography and scope of coverage makes for a truly compelling
exploration.” John T. Rotenberry, University of California, Riverside
King penguins in Antarctica, cassowaries in Queensland, cocks-of-therock
in Peru. This gorgeous book describes the one hundred best birdwatching
sites on the planet. Introductory sections give an overview of
each continent or region, and then each site is listed and ranked on a
country-by-country basis. The entries all include a full description, a
list of key species, a map, and information on the best time of year to
visit. Lavish color photographs capture rare and elusive species as well
as some of the world’s best avian spectacles, such as the snow goose
blizzard at Bosque del Apache and the flocks of lesser flamingos on
Africa’s Rift Valley lakes. Many birding sites are included for their
unique avifauna, endemics, and oddities—the Seychelles, Andasibe in
Madagascar, Taveuni in Fiji, and the Alaka‘i wilderness in Hawaii,
among others. With its truly global coverage—of the huge flocks of
wintering geese in Britain and the United States, the cranes in both
Japan and France, the “river of raptors” passage at Veracruz in Mexico,
and much more—this book will inform and inspire anyone who plans
to visit, or who dreams of visiting, these extraordinary locations.
Dominic Couzens is a writer and birding leader
based in the United Kingdom. He has written
numerous books on birds and wildlife and hundreds
of articles in such magazines as BBC
Wildlife and Birdwatching. His best-known books
are Secret Lives of Garden Birds and Identifying
Birds by Behavior.
Copub: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd.
FEBRUARY
320 pages, 10-1/2 x 12-1/2”, 400 color photographs,
101 maps, 1 table
Natural History/Birds/Travel
North America
cloth 978-0-520-25932-4 $45.00
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David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
The Heart of Power
Health and Politics in the Oval Office
David Blumenthal is Samuel O Thier Professor of
Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at Harvard
Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts
General Hospital. He has advised Democratic presidential
candidates from Michael Dukakis to Barak
Obama. James A. Morone is Professor and Chair
of Political Science at Brown University and the
author of Hellfire Nation and The Democratic
Wish, a New York Times Notable Book and winner
of the Gladys Kammerer Award of the American
Political Science Association.
Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick,
take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about
ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon
watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored
a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received
last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a “belly
buster” of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality
—and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as
they faced the difficult politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of
newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White
House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently
come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which
presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking
a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight
Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon,
Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill
Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach
us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.
JUNE
387 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w illustrations
Medicine/Politics/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-26030-6 $26.95/£15.95
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Robert Wuthnow
Boundless Faith
The Global Outreach of American Churches
In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American
Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that
American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and
is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies
and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the
growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other
countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in
short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building
orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks.
Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for
this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church
leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S.
churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions,
that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice
of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh
and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grassroots
mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
Also by Robert Wuthnow:
All in Sync
How Music and Art Are Revitalizing
American Religion
World
cloth 978-0-520-23769-8 $40.00tx/£23.95
paper 978-0-520-24685-0 $21.95tx/£12.95
Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center
for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He
is the author of many books, including Creative
Spirituality: The Way of the Artist (UC Press).
MAY
356 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 tables
Religion/Sociology/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25915-7 $26.95/£15.95
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Barry Seldes
Leonard Bernstein
The Political Life of an American Musician
Barry Seldes is Professor of Political Science at
Rider University and the author of a wide range of
essays on politics and culture.
From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990,
Leonard Bernstein’s star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing
biography of Bernstein’s political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein’s
career against the backdrop of cold war America—blacklisting by
the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York
Philharmonic in 1951 to avoid its blacklist, signing a humiliating affidavit
to regain his passport—and the factors that by the mid-1950s
allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes
for the first time links Bernstein’s great concert-hall and musicaltheatrical
achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to
his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use
of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the
Library of Congress’s Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in
which Bernstein’s career intersected with the twentieth century’s most
momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively documented
account of the celebrity-maestro’s life deepens our understanding of an
entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections
of American culture and political power.
A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book
MAY
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs
Politics/Music/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25764-1 $24.95/£14.95
Bernstein with (left to right) Sam Barlow, Paul Robeson, and
Muriel Smith, at a benefit for the Anti-Fascist Refugee
Committee, May, 1944. Photographer unknown; image courtesy
of the Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress.
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Ted Genoways
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862
“This is one of the most remarkable studies of Whitman that I’ve seen
in many a year. It's penetrating and original.”
Jerome Loving, author of
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself and The Last Titan
Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860,
Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge
again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two
and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as
evidence of Whitman’s indifference to the Civil War during its critical
early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written
book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years—locating
Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen
manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period
newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways’s account
fills a major gap in Whitman’s biography and debunks the myth that
Whitman was unaffected by the country’s march
to war. Instead, Walt Whitman and the
Civil War reveals the poet’s active
participation in the early Civil War
period and elucidates his shock at
the horrors of war months before
his legendary journey to
Fredericksburg, correcting in
part the poet’s famous assertion
that the “real war will
never get in the books.”
Ted Genoways is the editor of Walt Whitman: The
Correspondence, Volume VII and the author of two
volumes of poetry. He is also the editor of the
Virginia Quarterly Review.
A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Book
JUNE
256 pages, 6 x 9”, 11 b/w photographs
Literature/Gender Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25906-5 $24.95/£14.95
James Redpath, posing with a copy of the New York Tribune,
ca. 1858 (Kansas State Historical Society).
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Amiri Baraka
Digging
The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most
important commentators on African American music and culture. In
this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection
in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history,
musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people,
times, and places he’s encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues
People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max
Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane-—and on those
whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter,
Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka’s literary style, with its deep
roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician
friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much
Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered.
He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians
carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing
us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.
Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) is a writer
and critic, the poet laureate of New Jersey, and
Professor Emeritus of the State University of New
York, Stony Brook. His many books include Blues
People, Black Music, and The Music.
Music of the African Diaspora, 13
A George Gund Foundation Book in African American
Studies
APRIL
352 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Music/Jazz/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25715-3 $26.95/£15.95
At Kimako’s: Gene Phipps, Sr. (left) and Amiri Baraka (right).
Photo courtesy Risasi Dais.
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Ray Carney
John Cassavetes in Person
John Cassavetes—celebrated as the father of American independent
filmmaking—managed to frustrate biographers with wildly conflicting
“facts” about himself, making it impossible to form an accurate picture
of the man and the artist. In this extraordinary book, Ray Carney
assembles the filmmaker’s statements and writings to present
Cassavetes’s life and work in his own words, vividly revealing the personal
and cultural forces that shaped his career as a writer-director of
fiercely independent films—from Shadows, Faces, and Husbands in the
late 1950s and 1960s to Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman under the
Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Opening Night, Gloria, and
Love Streams in the decades that followed. Framed by Carney’s comprehensive
introduction and bolstered by an invaluable timeline of
major developments, including his marriage to actress Gena Rowlands,
John Cassavetes in Person offers a biographical overview unlike any
other. Situating the filmmaker in his films, this book reaches beyond
the press releases to reveal the man behind the masks, the mortal at
the center of the myths, and the artistic hero without the hero worship.
Ray Carney is Professor of Film and American
Studies at Boston University. He is the editor of
Cassavetes on Cassavetes and the author of
American Dreaming: The Films of John Cassavetes
among many books.
A Simpson Book in the Humanities
JULY
408 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 b/w photographs
Cinema/Film/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-24571-6 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-24572-3 $24.95/£14.95
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Robert Flynn Johnson
The Face in the Lens
Anonymous Photographs
Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith
Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator Emeritus of the
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco. He is the author of
many books, including Anonymous: Enigmatic
Images from Unknown Photographers.
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over sixty
books, including the award-winning No. 1 Ladies’
Detective Agency series.
Anonymous photography has a magic all its own. The intriguing
images assembled here by collector and curator Robert Flynn Johnson
are all mysterious, but their appeal is various. By turns poignant,
humorous, erotic, and disturbing, their subject is the human condition.
In ten stunning chapters every aspect of human experience—both
public and private—is explored. Richly reproduced and with subtle
tonalities marking their age, over 220 photographs showcase the work
of photographers whose identities have been lost in time. The images
are never anything less than mesmerizing and include previously
unseen portraits of such stars as Cary Grant, Richard Burton, and
Marlene Dietrich. Introduced by Alexander McCall Smith, this follow-up
to Johnson’s widely acclaimed Anonymous touches on birth,
marriage, death, disease, hope, glory, and despair and a plethora of
additional emotions, events, and human states, and will capture the
imagination of any reader.
Copub: Thames and Hudson
MAY
208 pages, 9-3/4 x 9-3/4, 223 b/w photographs
Art/Photography
North America
cloth 978-0-520-25983-6 $45.00
USA c. 1910. Photographer unknown.
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Peter Jan Honigsberg
Our Nation Unhinged
The Human Consequences of the War on Terror
Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky
“A moving and powerful narrative of how we lost our constitutional
and moral compass.” Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs
to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist.
Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, “Kill
me!” Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed
through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and
blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the
freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration’s
response to the attacks of September 11, 2001—and of how we
have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies,
abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and
liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles
the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present,
providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the
past seven years and where we are now headed.
Our Nation Unhinged includes:
• Original documents, letters, and interviews
• Peter Jan Honigsberg’s account of his own visit
to Guantánamo
• Case studies of detainees
• Photographs
Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at the
University of San Francisco School of Law. He visited
Guantánamo in May 2007. He is author of
Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir
(UC Press), among other books.
MAY
336 pages, 6 x 9”, 20 b/w photographs
Politics/Law
World
cloth 978-0-520-25472-5 $27.50/£16.95
Camp Delta. Photo by Peter Jan Honigsberg.
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GENERAL INTEREST
James P. Delgado
Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet
In Search of a Legendary Armada
“Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet is a fascinating adventure tale packed
with insights into a maritime empire about which most Westerners
know almost nothing.” Nathantiel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea
“Through brilliant and painstaking research James Delgado has
brought Khubilai Khan’s lost fleet to the surface, showing for the first
time the true nature of the doomed adventure.”
Stephen Turnbull, author of The Samurai Sourcebook
James P. Delgado is the President of the Institute
of Nautical Archaeology. His many previous books
include the British Museum Encyclopedia of
Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, and, most
recently, Gold Rush Port: The Maritime
Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront (UC
Press). Delgado has hosted the National
Geographic television series “The Sea Hunters.”
In 1279, near what is now Hong Kong, Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan
fulfilled the dream of his grandfather, Genghis Khan, by conquering
China. The Grand Khan now ruled the largest empire the world has
ever seen—one that stretched from the China Sea to the plains of
Hungary. He also inherited the world’s largest navy—more than seven
hundred ships. Yet within fifteen years, Khubilai Khan’s massive fleet
was gone. What actually happened to the Mongol navy, considered for
seven centuries to be little more than legend, has finally been revealed.
Renowned archaeologist and historian James P. Delgado has gone
diving with a Japanese team currently studying the remains of the
Khan’s lost fleet. Drawing from diverse sources—sunken ships, handpainted
scrolls, drowned bodies, and historical and literary records—
in this gripping account that moves deftly between the present and the
past, Delgado pieces together the fascinating tale of Khubilai Khan’s
maritime forays and unravels one of history’s greatest mysteries: What
sank the great Mongol fleet?
Copub: Douglas & McIntyre
MARCH
240 pages, 6 x 9”, 24 b/w illustrations, 4 maps
History/Archaeology/Asian Studies
U.S. & Territories, Philippines
cloth 978-0-520-25976-8 $29.95
Also by James P. Delgado (see page 43):
Gold Rush Port
The Maritime Archaeology of
San Francisco’s Waterfront
World
cloth 978-0-520-25580-7 $45.00sc/£26.95
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Aloys Winterling
Caligula
A Biography
Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a
tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and
cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a
god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold
leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him,
turned part of his palace into a brothel, and committed incest with his
sisters. He wanted to make his horse a consul. Torture and executions
were the order of the day. Both modern and ancient interpretations
have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane.
But was he?
This biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor.
In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling
opens a new perspective on the man and his times. Basing Caligula on
a thorough new assessment of the ancient sources, he sets the emperor’s
story into the context of the political system and the changing relations
between the senate and the emperor during Caligula’s time and finds a
new rationality explaining his notorious brutality.
Aloys Winterling is Professor of Ancient History at
University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author
of Aula Caesaris and Politics, Society, and
Aristocratic Communication in Imperial Rome,
among other books.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
MAY
240 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 5 b/w photographs,
1 line illustration
Classical Studies/Biography/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-24895-3 $24.95/£14.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
David J. Meltzer
First Peoples in a New World
Colonizing Ice Age America
David J. Meltzer is Henderson-Morrison Professor
of Prehistory in the Department of Anthropology at
Southern Methodist University. He is the author of
Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a
Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill (UC Press) and
Search for the First Americans, among other books.
More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory,
humans colonized North America, a continent that was then
truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the
most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling,
cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist
who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the
scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when
they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the
vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer
pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics,
skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs
that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among
many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere’s oldest
and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans
coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical
claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing
comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining
descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this
is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating
our past.
APRIL
400 pages, 7 x 10”, 14 color & 64 b/w illustrations
Anthropology/Archaeology/Evolution
World
cloth 978-0-520-25052-9 $29.95/£17.95
Artifacts from the Clovis tool kit. Photos by Tom Wolf.
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Michael McLeod
Anatomy of a Beast
Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story
of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned
the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist
Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot’s rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced
account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous
1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds
to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century,
when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthesized
historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and
speculated that a proto-hominid “missing link” might still be alive in
remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast
of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth century
to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a
piece of a monster that the media and the public still can’t get enough
of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes, Anatomy
of a Beast offers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual
thinking—and how obsession and myth are created out of it.
Michael McLeod is a writer, producer, and director
who has created documentaries for PBS, the PBS
series Frontline, the Discovery Channel, and other
national venues.
APRIL
240 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Popular Culture/Natural History/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25571-5 $24.95/£14.95
Roger Patterson displays Bigfoot casts, ca 1969.
Courtesy Dennis Jenson.
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Richard Manning
Rewilding the West
Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
“The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding
views, because they foster the illusion that we command,” begins
Richard Manning’s vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American
plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American
enterprise to today. As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly
empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological
restoration, currently being set in motion, that would establish a
prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild
bison, elk, bears, and wolves. Taking us to an isolated stretch of central
Montana along the upper Missouri River, Manning peels back the layers
of history and discovers how key elements of the American story—
conservation, the New Deal, progressivism, the yeoman myth, and the
idea of private property—have collided with and shaped this incomparable
landscape. An account of great loss, Rewilding the West also holds
out the promise of resurrection—but rather than remake the plains
once again, Manning proposes that we now find the wisdom to let the
prairies remake us.
Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental
author and journalist. He has written seven
books, including Against the Grain: How Agriculture
Has Hijacked Civilization, Food’s Frontier: The Next
Green Revolution, and Grassland: The Biology,
Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie.
JUNE
262 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 line illustrations, 2 maps
Ecology/Natural History/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25658-3 $24.95/£14.95
Cartoon by Thomas Nast from Harper’s Weekly, June 6, 1874.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Jonah Raskin
Field Days
A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California
Photographs by Paige Green
“This is an insider’s view, and Raskin offers insights into a hidden
California. The impact of his book is to return culture to agriculture in
a state dominated by agribusiness.”
Gerald Haslam, author of The Great Central Valley
“Sooner or later, nearly everyone who cares about wine and food
comes to Sonoma”—so begins this lively excursion to a spectacular
region that has become known internationally as a locavore’s paradise.
Part memoir, part vivid reportage, Field Days chronicles how the renaissance
in farming organically and eating locally is unfolding in
Northern California. Jonah Raskin writes poetically about the year he
spent on Oak Hill Farm—working the fields, selling produce at farmers’
markets, and following it to restaurants. He also goes behind the
scenes at Whole Foods. Along the way, he introduces a dynamic cast
of characters who conceived and sustain this renaissance, including
farmers, chefs, winemakers, farm workers, and environmentalists.
There are contemporary luminaries here—including Warren Weber at
Star Route Farm, the oldest certified organic farm in Marin County;
Bob Cannard, who has supplied Chez Panisse with vegetables for
decades; Sharon Grossi, the owner of the largest organic farm in
Sonoma; and Craig Stoll, the founder and executive chef at Delfina
in San Francisco. Raskin also offers portraits of renowned historical
figures, including Luther Burbank, Jack London, and M.F.K. Fisher.
Jonah Raskin is Professor of Communication
Studies at Sonoma State University and the author
most recently of The Radical Jack London: Writings
on War and Revolution (UC Press).
A Simpson Book in the Humanities
MAY
316 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 22 b/w photographs
Food & Wine/Memoir/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25902-7 $24.95/£14.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Jonah Raskin:
Jack London
The Radical Jack London
Writings on War and Revolution
cloth 978-0-520-25545-6 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-25546-3 $24.95/£14.95
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Paul Strang
South-West France
The Wines and Winemakers
Between Bordeaux and the Spanish border, reaching east to the Massif
Central and the river valleys of the Dordogne and Lot, and south to
the foothills of the Pyrenees, lies a unique and little-known viticultural
landscape. South-West France is a wine lover’s paradise that cultivates
an astonishing array of grape varieties, many that grow nowhere else,
and produces a fascinating assortment of wines. In this book, Paul
Strang covers the South-West with enthusiasm and keen expertise,
providing a history of its wine industry, including a near collapse and
unlikely rebirth, and introducing readers to a region that seems to defy
globalization. The outstanding local wines—made by idiosyncratic
growers motivated by a passion for their profession—range from inky
Tannats to honeyed late-harvest Semillons. Intrepid readers are invited
to rediscover this beautiful part of France, already well known for its
cuisine, castles, and cave art, for its earthy and intriguing wines.
Paul Strang is the author of Wines of South-West
France, which was named one of 1994’s best wine
books by Decanter magazine, and Languedoc-
Roussillon: The Wines and Winemakers, as well as
Take 5000 Eggs: Food from the Markets and Fairs
of Southern France.
JUNE
400 pages, 7-1/2 x 10-1/2”, 70 color illustrations,
14 maps
Wine/French Studies/Viticulture
World
cloth 978-0-520-25941-6 $45.00/£26.95
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Richard Mendelson
From Demon to Darling
A Legal History of Wine in America
Foreword by Margrit Biever Mondavi
“Delicious! I lived it, and Richard Mendelson has it exactly right.”
Robert Mondavi
Richard Mendelson brings together his expertise as both a Napa Valley
lawyer and a winemaker into this accessible overview of American
wine law from colonial times to the present. It is a story of fits and
starts that provides a fascinating chronicle of the history of wine in the
United States told through the lens of the law. From the country’s
early support for wine as a beverage to the moral and religious fervor
that resulted in Prohibition and to the governmental controls that followed
Repeal, Mendelson takes us to the present day—and to the
emergence of an authentic and significant wine culture. He explains
how current laws shape the wine industry in such areas as pricing and
taxation, licensing, appellations, health claims and warnings, labeling,
and domestic and international commerce. As he explores these and
other legal and policy issues,
Mendelson lucidly highlights
the concerns that have made
wine alternatively the demon
or the darling of American
society—and at the same
time illuminates the ways in
which lives and livelihoods
are affected by the rise and
fall of social movements.
Richard Mendelson is Director and Managing
Partner at Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty and
Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the University of
California at Berkeley School of Law.
JUNE
295 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Wine/Law/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-25943-0 $29.95/£17.95
South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, anti-alcohol crusader.
Illustration by Gary Hovland.
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Ellen Wohl
Of Rock and Rivers
Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West
Ellen Wohl is Professor of Geology at Colorado
State University and the author of Disconnected
Rivers and Virtual Rivers, as well as Rain Forest
into Desert.
This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints
a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. Ellen
Wohl traces her twenty years of living and conducting research in the
natural landscapes of the West as she investigates the conflict between
environmental history and widely held romanticized views of the
region. Wohl grew up in Ohio, subscribing to a common perception
of the American West as an unchanged frontier. Moving to Arizona,
she became enthralled with how the landscapes and ecosystems of the
West have undergone change, both through geologic time and during
the historical era of European settlement. These essays tell of her early
training as a geomorphologist and provide a memorable account of her
research in the rivers of the West. As the lessons accrue, Wohl gives us
the benefit of her experience and shows how years of studying and
living in the Colorado Rockies have enhanced her understanding of
landscape change through time. Building on the literary tradition of
Joseph Wood Krutch, Terry Tempest Williams, and John McPhee, Wohl
provides an up-to-date portrait of the West and brings a new urgency
to the call for conservation of the region’s land, water, and resources.
JUNE
240 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 30 b/w photographs
Ecology/Environment/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25703-0 $24.95/£14.95
Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah.
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Norris Hundley, Jr.
Water and the West
The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water
in the American West
Second Edition
“Vivid…. A well-documented case study of how not to go about making
public policy.” Western Political Quarterly
Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of
the numerous struggles—national, state, and local—that have
occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is
thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles
raging over the West’s most valuable, and contentious, resource.
“Water is today, as it was when the first edition of this book
appeared 35 years ago, among mankind's greatest concerns—a
problem that remains a crisis of worldwide importance…. This
book is about the greatest conflict over water in the American
west. To be more precise, it is primarily a book about an alleged
peace treaty, the Colorado River Compact. But like most books
about peace, it is really an account of war.”
Norris Hundley, Jr., from the new preface
Norris Hundley, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of History
at the University of California, Los Angeles, and
author of many books on California, water rights,
and the West.
MAY
480 pages, 6 x 9“, 7 maps, 6 tables
Previous hardcover published in 1975
(978-0–520–027008)
History/California & the West/Environment
World
cloth 978-0-520-26010-8 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-26011-5 $24.95sc/£14.95
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CALIFORNIA
California Coastal Commission
Beaches and Parks
in Southern California
Counties Included: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego
Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border, Southern California’s
coast is justifiably famous, yet, as this essential guide reveals, it offers
more to see and do than even its greatest fans may realize. Easy-to-use,
up-to-date, and comprehensive, Beaches and Parks in Southern
California is the perfect companion for all visitors—sightseers, hikers,
swimmers, surfers, campers, birders, boaters, and anglers—who want
to explore this magnificent shoreline. In addition to well-known
beaches of soft, golden sand, it describes rocky shores and tide pools,
hidden pocket beaches, historic lighthouses, the Santa Monica
Mountains National Recreation Area, and much more.
The California Coastal Commission was created
by the voters of California, who adopted an initiative
measure in 1972 that formed the Commission
and gave it broad powers to plan and protect the
coast. Later, the California Coastal Act of 1976
established the Commission as a permanent state
agency with a mission to protect, maintain, and
enhance the quality of the coastal environment.
One of the Commission’s principal goals is to
maintain public access and public recreational
opportunities along the coast, in a manner consistent
with environmental preservation.
Experience the California Coast, 3
APRIL
352 pages, 6 x 9”, 304 color and 6 b/w photographs,
3 line illustrations, 52 maps
Natural History/Recreation/California & the West
World
paper 978-0-520-25852-5 $24.95/£14.95
• More than 450 site listings include beaches, public access ways,
parks, campgrounds, nature preserves, world-class aquariums, and
museums
• 304 color photographs and 52 color maps show recreational sites,
hiking and biking trails, topography, and other features of the region
and state
• Easy-to-use charts list key facilities and features, open hours, food
and beverage services, wheelchair accessibility, rules about dogs,
and other practical information
Also by the California Coastal Commission:
Experience the
California Coast
A Guide to Beaches and Parks in
Northern California
Counties Included: Del Norte, Humboldt,
Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin
World
paper 978-0-520-24540-2 $24.95/£14.95
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CALIFORNIA
Glenn Keator
California Plant Families
West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts
Illustrations by Margaret J. Steunenberg
Interest in California’s beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is
at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state’s
vast and varied flora can be challenging for both amateurs and professionals.
This book provides a superb way for learning to identify
California’s native and naturalized plants by learning to recognize
plant families. The heart of the book contains user-friendly keys and
descriptions of seventy major families prominent in wildlands. With
this book in hand, anyone will be able to identify common native and
naturalized species throughout California’s majestic floristic province
extending from southwestern Oregon into northern Baja California
and to the western side of the major mountain ranges.
Also by Glenn Keator and Alrie Middlebrook:
Designing California
Native Gardens
The Plant Community Approach to
Artful, Ecological Gardens
World
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paper 978-0-520-25110-6 $29.95/£17.95
Also of interest:
California Desert Flowers
An Introduction to Families, Genera,
and Species
Sia Morhardt and Emil Morhardt
Copublished with Phyllis M. Faber
World
cloth 978-0-520-24002-5 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-24003-2 $34.95/£19.95
Glenn Keator, a California plant specialist, is
coauthor, with Alrie Middlebrook, of Designing
California Native Gardens (UC Press) and author of
Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay
Area (UC Press) and The Life of an Oak, among
other books.
MAY
272 pages, 7 x 10”, 405 b/w illustrations
Natural History/Botany/California & the West
World
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CALIFORNIA
Peter Asmus
Introduction to Energy in California
Foreword by Art Rosenfeld
Afterword by Arthur O’Donnell
This key reference is a primer on energy in a state that continues to
lead the world in finding sustainable solutions to one of the most
pressing issues of the twenty-first century. While much public debate
has focused on fossil fuels, this clearly written guide provides essential
information on a broader range of issues—where our energy comes
from, where future supplies will be found, and what new advances are
being made in the area of renewable energy sources. Making the complex
world of energy science and policy accessible to a wide audience,
Peter Asmus examines the rich human history of California’s earliest
oil and hydroelectricity developments, explains the natural history
underpinning the state’s cornucopia of energy sources, covers such controversial
sources as nuclear reactors and liquified natural gas, and more.
Peter Asmus, President of Pathfinder Communications,
is a journalist, consultant, and author of
Reaping the Wind: How Mechanical Wizards and
Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future,
among other books.
Introduction to Energy in California includes:
• Discussion of oil, nuclear power, coal, emerging alternative technologies,
and renewable sources including geothermal, solar, wind, and
hydropower
• Analysis of the challenges and solutions facing California and the
world on energy-related issues such as global climate change
• Compelling case studies of corporations, governments, communities,
and individuals working on today’s most pressing energy questions
• Color illustrations, useful maps, and clear graphics throughout
California Natural History Guides, 97
JULY
376 pages, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4”, 91 color & 42 line
illustrations, 18 maps, 8 tables
Natural History/California & the West/Conservation
World
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paper 978-0-520-25751-1 $18.95/£11.50
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CALIFORNIA
David Carle
Introduction to Water in California
Updated with a New Preface
“Should be in every home, within easy reach…. Anyone moving to
California should get a copy right away.” California Coast and Ocean
“Well illustrated…. Easy to read and understand, with comprehensive
explanations of each issue.” Choice
The food each of us consumes per day represents an investment of
4,500 gallons of water, according to the California Farm Bureau. In
this densely populated state where it rains only six months out of the
year, where does all that water come from? This thoroughly engaging,
concise book tells the story of California’s most precious resource,
tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the
snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much
about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands,
dams, and aqueducts and discusses the role of water in agriculture, the
environment, and politics. Essential reading in a state facing the future
with an already overextended water supply, this fascinating book
shows that, for all Californians, every drop counts. A new preface on
recent water issues brings the book up to the minute.
• Features 130 color photographs and 26 color maps
• Includes a table, "Where Does Your Water Come From?," that answers
the question for 315 California cities and towns
• Provides up-to-date information on water quality in California, covering
such timely topics as Giardia, groundwater contamination, fluoride, and
the bottled-water phenomenon
David Carle worked as a California State Park
ranger for 27 years. He is author of Introduction
to Fire in California and Introduction to Air in
California, among other books.
California Natural History Guides, 76
FEBRUARY
292 pages, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4”, 130 color photographs,
26 color maps, 9 line drawings, 3 tables
Previous paperback published in 2004
(978-0-520-24086-5)
Natural History/California & The West/Ecology
World
paper 978-0-520-26016-0 $18.95/£11.50
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POETRY
Three new volumes in the New California Poetry series
David Lau
Virgil and the
Mountain Cat
Poems
At once uncompromising and highly inventive,
David Lau’s poems are imbued with a
musicality that lightens the dark undertones
of spoliation and entropy. Many of
the poems embody a nexus of interaction
with historical events, films, modernist
poetic texts, and works of art—but from
this allusion and evocation, a multifarious
voice emerges. In these pages, the electric
linguistic experiment meets a new urban,
postnatural poetics, one in which poetry is
not just a play of signs and seemings but
also a prismatic investigation of our contemporary
order: “Hurry up before our
factory leaves. / The first column of the
Freedom Tower / traduces its ensorcellment
in the facade.” Here is a poetry both deeply
lyrical and resistant, a poetry relentless in
its invention and its stance against the
apathy of convention and consumption.
David Lau teaches writing at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, and Cabrillo College. His
poems have appeared in Boston Review, New
Orleans Review, Wildlife, and other magazines.
New California Poetry, 25
MARCH
79 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”
Poetry/Literature
World
cloth 978-0-520-25873-0 $45.00tx/£26.95
paper 978-0-520-25874-7 $16.95/£9.95
Brian Teare
Sight Map
In Sight Map Brian Teare blends the speculative
poetics of the San Francisco
Renaissance with a postconfessional candor
to embody the “open field” tradition of
such poets as Robin Blaser and Robert
Duncan. Teare provides us with poems that
insist on the simultaneous physical embodiment
of tactile pleasure—that which is
found in the textures of thought and language—as
well as the action of syntax.
Partly informed by an ecological imagination
that leads him back to Emerson and
Thoreau, Teare’s method and fragmented
style are nevertheless up to the moment.
Remarkable in its range, Sight Map serves at
once as a cross-country travelogue, a pilgrim’s
gnostic progress, an improvised field guide,
and a postmodern “pillowbook,” recording
the erotic conflation of lover and beloved,
deity and doubter.
Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning The
Room Where I Was Born, as well as the forthcoming
volume Pleasure and two chapbooks. He has
received Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts,
and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships.
New California Poetry, 26
MARCH
96 pages, 6 x 8”
Poetry/Literature
World
cloth 978-0-520-25875-4 $45.00tx/£26.95
paper 978-0-520-25876-1 $16.95/£9.95
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POETRY
NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY
Series editors: Robert Hass, Calvin Bedient, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander
The NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY series presents works by emerging and established poets that
reflect UC Press’s commitment to innovative and aesthetically wide-ranging literary traditions.
Keith Waldrop
Transcendental Studies
A Trilogy
“Waldrop’s brilliance of wit and device, the serenity of judgment, the
articulation of research and reflection…all these delight, and convince
anew that poetry is a vast, holistic science, a science of sciences,
from which an adept like Waldrop brings results we've never
heard before.” Robert Kelly, Rain Taxi
“Keith Waldrop has concerned himself with the topology of the world
of writing more consistently and valuably than any poet I can think of
since the late Paul Celan.” A. L. Nielsen, Gargoyle
This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated
poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences—“Shipwreck
in Haven,” “Falling in Love through a Description,” and “The Plummet
of Vitruvius”—in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these quasi-abstract,
experimental lines, collaged words torn from their contexts take on
new meanings. Waldrop, a longtime admirer of such artists as the
French poet Raymond Queneau and the American painter Robert
Motherwell, imposes a tonal override on purloined materials, yet the
originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once
metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop’s romantic tendencies
with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and
revealing him as a transcendentalist for the new millennium.
Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of
Humanities at Brown University, has published
more than a dozen works each of original poetry
and translations.
New California Poetry, 27
MARCH
211 pages, 6 x 8”
Poetry/Literature
World
cloth 978-0-520-25877-8 $50.00tx/£29.95
paper 978-0-520-25878-5 $19.95/£11.95
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Jonathan Marks
Why I Am Not a Scientist
Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the
field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates
philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography. Jonathan
Marks examines biological anthropology, the history of the life sciences,
and the literature of science studies while upending common understandings
of science and culture with a mixture of anthropology, common
sense, and disarming humor. Science, Marks argues, is widely
accepted to be three things: a method of understanding and a means
of establishing facts about the universe, the facts themselves, and a
voice of authority or a locus of cultural power. This triple identity
creates conflicting roles and tensions within the field of science and
leads to its record of instructive successes and failures. Among the
topics Marks addresses are the scientific revolution, science as thought
and performance, creationism, scientific fraud, and modern scientific
racism. Applying his considerable insight, energy, and wit, Marks
sheds new light on the evolution of science, its role in modern culture,
and its challenges for the twenty-first century.
Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and
the author of What It Means to Be 98%
Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes.
JUNE
304 pages, 6 x 9”
Anthropology/Biology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25959-1 $55.00tx/£32.95
paper 978-0-520-25960-7 $22.95/£13.50
Also by Jonathan Marks:
What It Means to Be
98% Chimpanzee
Apes, People, and Their Genes
With a New Preface
paper 978-0-520-24064-3 $21.95tx/£12.95
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg
Righteous Dopefiend
“Calling this book ethnography would be like calling The Wire a cop
show: what comes roaring out of its pages is almost as visceral and
devastating as spending a night in ‘the hole’ itself.”
Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
“Plunge beneath the surface of America’s no-man’s lands to the terrifying
but strangely ordered world of homeless heroin injectors. This
book will test your cultural relativism, but you will learn a great deal
about destitution, homelessness, addiction, and violence at all levels.”
Paul Willis, author of Learning to Labor
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness
and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a
decade Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect, and Jeff
Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors
and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying
them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling,
recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning
black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detailed field
notes, and critical theoretical analysis. Its gripping narrative develops a
cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexuality,
family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality, and power
relations. The result is a dispassionate chronicle of survival, loss, caring,
and hope rooted in the addicts’ determination to hang on for one
more day and one more “fix” through a “moral economy of sharing”
that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal.
Philippe Bourgois is Richard Perry University
Professor of Anthropology and Family and
Community Medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania. Jeff Schonberg is a photographer
and a graduate student in medical anthropology at
the University of California, San Francisco.
California Series in Public Anthropology, 21
MAY
420 pages, 7 x 9-1/2”, 64 duotones
Anthropology/Sociology
World
cloth 978-0-520-23088-0 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-25498-5 $24.95/£14.95
Receiving the Holy Ghost at Crystal’s evangelical church.
Photo by Jeff Schonberg.
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ANTHROPOLOGY
House and banana garden. From Society of
Others.
Rupert Stasch
Society of Others
Kinship and Mourning in
a West Papuan Place
This important study upsets the popular
assumption that human relations in smallscale
societies are based on shared experience.
In a theoretically innovative account
of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua,
Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this
society, people organize their connections
to each another around otherness. Analyzing
the Korowai people’s famous “tree house”
dwellings, their patterns of living far apart,
and their practices of kinship, marriage,
and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues
that the Korowai actively make relations
not out of what they have in common, but
out of what divides them. Society of Others,
the first anthropological book about the
Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives
sharply at odds with stereotypes of “tribal”
societies.
Rupert Stasch is Associate Professor in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of
California, San Diego.
MAY
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w photographs,
5 line illustrations, 2 maps
Anthropology/Asian Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25685-9 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-25686-6 $24.95sc/£14.95
Edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd,
Lesley Barclay, Betty-Anne Daviss,
and Jan Tritten
Birth Models That Work
This groundbreaking book takes us around
the world in search of birth models that
work in order to improve the standard of
care for mothers and families everywhere.
The contributors describe examples of
maternity services from both developing
countries and wealthy industrialized societies
that apply the latest scientific evidence to
support and facilitate normal physiological
birth; deal appropriately with complications;
and generate excellent birth outcomes—
including psychological satisfaction for the
mother. The book concludes with a description
of the ideology that underlies all these
working models—known internationally as
the midwifery model of care.
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd is Senior Research Fellow in
the Department of Anthropology at University of
Texas, Austin, and Fellow of the Society for Applied
Anthropology. She is author of Birth as an
American Rite of Passage (second edition, UC
Press), among other books. Lesley Barclay is
Director and Professor at the Centre for Family
Health and Midwifery at the University of
Technology in Sydney, Australia. Betty-Anne Daviss
is a practicing midwife and Adjunct Professor at
the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies at
Carleton University. Jan Tritten is founder and
editor-in-chief of Midwifery Today magazine.
APRIL
320 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 line illustrations, 18 tables
Anthropology/Medicine/Health Care
World
cloth 978-0-520-24863-2 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-25891-4 $27.50sc/£16.95
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ANTHROPOLOGY
James P. Delgado
Gold Rush Port
The Maritime Archaeology of
San Francisco’s Waterfront
Described as a “forest of masts,” San
Francisco’s Gold Rush waterfront was a
floating economy of ships and wharves,
where a dazzling array of global goods was
traded and transported. Drawing on excavations
in buried ships and collapsed buildings
from this period, James P. Delgado
re-creates San Francisco’s unique maritime
landscape, shedding new light on the city’s
remarkable rise from a small village to a
boomtown of thousands in the three short
years from 1848 to 1851. Gleaning history
from artifacts—preserves and liquors in
bottles, leather boots and jackets, hulls of
ships, even crocks of butter lying alongside
discarded guns—Gold Rush Port paints a
fascinating picture of how ships and global
connections created the port and the city of
San Francisco. Setting the city’s history into
the wider web of international relationships,
Delgado reshapes our understanding
of developments in the Pacific that led to a
world system of trading.
James P. Delgado is the President of the Institute
of Nautical Archaeology and author of Khubilai
Khan’s Lost Fleet (UC Press, see page 24).
MARCH
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 22 b/w photographs,
9 line illustrations, 18 tables
Archaeology//History/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25580-7 $45.00sc/£26.95
Anny Bakalian and
Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Backlash 9/11
Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans
Respond
For most Americans, September 11, 2001,
symbolized the moment when their security
was altered. For Middle Eastern and
Muslim Americans, 9/11 also ushered in a
backlash in the form of hate crimes, discrimination,
and a string of devastating
government initiatives. This book provides
the first comprehensive analysis of the
impact of the post-9/11 events on Middle
Eastern and Muslim Americans as well as
their organized response. Through fieldwork
and interviews with community leaders,
Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
show how ethnic organizations mobilized
to demonstrate their commitment to the
United States while defending their rights
and distancing themselves from the terrorists.
Anny Bakalian is Associate Director and Mehdi
Bozorgmehr is Codirector of the Middle East and
Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate
Center, City University of New York.
MARCH
360 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 line illustrations, 15 tables
Anthropology/Sociology/Middle Eastern Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25734-4 $55.00tx/£32.95
paper 978-0-520-25735-1 $21.95sc/£12.95
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ANTHROPOLOGY
The diversity of early bicycle design. Courtesy
Her Majesty’s Stationery office, UK, and the
Canada Science and Technology Museum.
From Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution.
Special issue of Janata, 1933, with photographs
of important leaders of the Nasik
satyagraha, Amrutrao Dhondiba Rankhambe
(left) and Bhaurao Krishnarao, or ”Dadasaheb,”
Gaikwad (right). From The Caste Question.
Edited by Stephen Shennan
Pattern and Process
in Cultural Evolution
This volume offers an integrative approach
to the application of evolutionary theory in
studies of cultural transmission and social
evolution and reveals the enormous range
of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead
to productive empirical research, the touchstone
of any worthwhile theoretical perspective.
While many recent works on cultural
evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework,
such as dual inheritance theory or
human behavioral ecology, Pattern and
Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes
empirical analysis and includes authors who
employ a range of backgrounds and methods
to address aspects of culture from an evolutionary
perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan
has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary
theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays
cover a broad range of time periods, localities,
cultural groups, and artifacts.
Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical
Archaeology at University College London and
Director of its Institute of Archaeology.
Origins of Human Behavior and Culture, 2
MARCH
336 pages, 7 x 10”, 2 b/w photographs,
89 line illustrations, 29 maps
Anthropology/Archaeology/Evolution
World
cloth 978-0-520-25599-9 $60.00sc/£35.00
Anupama Rao
The Caste Question
Dalits and the Politics of Modern India
This innovative work of historical anthropology
explores how India’s Dalits, or exuntouchables,
transformed themselves from
stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama
Rao’s account challenges standard thinking
on caste as either a vestige of precolonial
society or an artifact of colonial governance.
Focusing on western India in the
colonial and postcolonial periods, she
shines a light on South Asian historiography
and on ongoing caste discrimination,
to show how persons without rights came
to possess them and how Dalit struggles
led to the transformation of such terms of
colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and
personhood. Extending into the present,
the ethnographic analyses of The Caste
Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian
democracy distinguished not by overcoming
caste, but by new forms of violence and
new means of regulating caste.
Anupama Rao is Assistant Professor of History at
Barnard College.
JUNE
352 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs
Anthropology/Asian Studies
Omit South Asia, Myanmar
cloth 978-0-520-25559-3 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-25761-0 $24.95sc/£14.95
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SOCIOLOGY
Michael Burawoy
The Extended Case Method
Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations,
and One Theoretical Tradition
In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the
extended case method by connecting his own experiences among
workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth
century—the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the
reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to postcolonialism
in Zambia. Burawoy’s odyssey began in 1968 in the
Zambian copper mines and proceeded to Chicago’s South Side, where
he worked as a machine operator and enjoyed a unique perspective on
the stability of advanced capitalism. In the 1980s, this perspective was
deepened by contrast with his work in diverse Hungarian factories.
Surprised by the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1989, he journeyed
in 1991 to the Soviet Union, which by the end of the year had unexpectedly
dissolved. He then spent the next decade studying how the
working class survived the catastrophic collapse of the Soviet economy.
These essays, presented with a perspective that has benefited from
time and rich experience, offer ethnographers a theory and a method
for developing novel understandings of epochal change.
“Here lies the secret of the extended
case method—theory is not discovered
but revised, not induced but
improved, not deconstructed but
reconstructed. The aim of theory is
not to be boringly right but brilliantly
wrong. In short, theory exists to be
extended in the face of external
anomalies and internal contradictions.
We don't start with data, we
start with theory. Without theory we
are blind, we cannot see the world.”
Michael Burawoy, from the book
Michael Burawoy teaches at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the author of a number
of books, including Manufacturing Consent:
Changes in the Process under Monopoly
Capitalism, and coauthor of Global Ethnography
and Ethnography Unbound (both UC Press).
MAY
288 pages, 5- 1/2 x 8-1/4”, 8 tables
Sociology/Anthropology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25900-3 $55.00tx/£32.95
paper 978-0-520-25901-0 $21.95sc/£12.95
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SOCIOLOGY
Allison J. Pugh
Longing and Belonging
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
“In this brilliantly argued, lyrically written, and riveting book, Pugh
asks how kids cope with the incessant ads for the must-have toy, the
latest shoe, the coolest game. A complement to Juliet Schor’s Born
to Buy Pugh’s book is a must-read.”
Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind
Allison J. Pugh is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Sociology at the University of
Virginia.
MARCH
320 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 tables
Sociology/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25843-3 $55.00tx/£32.95
paper 978-0-520-25844-0 $21.95sc/£12.95
Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on children every year, and
yet most Americans decry the materialism of modern childhoods.
Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why
do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie behind
the onslaught of Nintendo Wiis and Bratz dolls, Allison J. Pugh spent
three years observing and interviewing children and their families. In
Longing and Belonging, she teases out the complex factors that contribute
to this spending boom, from lunchroom conversations about
Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Pugh
finds that children’s desires stem less from striving for status or falling
victim to advertising than from their yearning to join the conversation
at school or in the neighborhood. Most parents respond to children’s
need to belong by buying the particular goods and experiences that act
as passports in children’s social worlds, because they sympathize with
their children’s fear of being different from their peers. Pugh masterfully
illuminates the surprising similarities in the fears and hopes of parents
and children from vastly different social contexts, showing that while
corporate marketing and materialism play a part in the commodification
of childhood, at the heart of the matter is the desire to belong.
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SOCIOLOGY
David Hemenway
While We Were Sleeping
Success Stories in Injury and
Violence Prevention
Public health has made our lives safer—but
it often works behind the scenes, without
our knowledge, that is, “while we are sleeping.”
This book powerfully illuminates how
public health works with more than sixty
success stories drawn from the area of
injury and violence prevention. It also profiles
dozens of individuals who have made
important contributions to safety and
health in a range of social arenas. Highlighting
examples from the United States as
well as from other countries, While We Were
Sleeping will inform a wide audience of
readers about what public health actually
does and at the same time inspire a new
generation to make the world a safer place.
David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy at
the Harvard School of Public Health, Director of the
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and
Director of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention
Center.
MAY
240 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 tables
Public Health/Medicine/Health Care
World
cloth 978-0-520-25845-7 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-25846-4 $24.95sc/£14.95
John Iceland
Where We Live Now
Immigration and Race in
the United States
Where We Live Now explores the ways in
which immigration is reshaping American
neighborhoods. In his examination of residential
segregation patterns, John Iceland
addresses these questions: What evidence
suggests that immigrants are assimilating
residentially? Does the assimilation process
change for immigrants of different racial
and ethnic backgrounds? How has immigration
affected the residential patterns of
native-born blacks and whites? Drawing on
census data and information from other
ethnographic and quantitative studies,
Iceland affirms that immigrants are becoming
residentially assimilated in American
metropolitan areas. While the future
remains uncertain, the evidence provided in
the book suggests that America’s metropolitan
areas are not splintering irrevocably into
hostile, homogeneous, and ethnically based
neighborhoods. Instead, Iceland’s findings
suggest a blurring of the American color
line in the coming years and indicate that
as we become more diverse, we may in some
important respects become less segregated.
John Iceland is Professor of Sociology and
Demography at Penn State University. He is also
the author of Poverty in America.
MARCH
200 pages, 6 x 9”, 22 line illustrations, 13 tables
Sociology/Ethnic Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25762-7 $50.00tx/£29.95
paper 978-0-520-25763-4 $19.95sc/£11.95
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SOCIOLOGY
Neil J. Smelser
The Odyssey Experience
Physical, Social, Psychological, and
Spiritual Journeys
This bold and innovative book traces the
phenomenon of the “odyssey” experience as
it shapes, informs, and defines our lives.
Drawing on an astonishing range of examples,
Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such
experiences enhance our lives and provide
us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey
experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic,
widespread, and recurring. It is a finite
period of disengagement from the routines
of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory,
often collective, usually intense period
of involvement that culminates in some
kind of regeneration. By examining a variety
of topics as part of a larger, overarching
phenomenon, Smelser transforms their
study from the particular to the comparative.
The Odyssey Experience thus reaches
beyond a simple description of where and
how transformations occur in daily life to
offer a profound explanation for why they
are there.
Neil J. Smelser is University Professor of Sociology
Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is the author of numerous books, including
The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis (UC Press).
MARCH
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Edited by John Borneman
and Abdellah Hammoudi
Being There
The Fieldwork Encounter and
the Making of Truth
Challenges to ethnographic authority and
to the ethics of representation have led
many contemporary anthropologists to
abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of
theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis,
and surrogate ethnography. In Being There,
John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi
argue that ethnographies based on these
strategies elide important insights. To
demonstrate the power and knowledge
attained through the fieldwork experience,
they have gathered essays by anthropologists
working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India,
Germany, and Russia that shift attention
back to the subtle dynamics of the ethnographic
encounter. From an Inuit village to
the foothills of Kilimanjaro, each account
illustrates how, despite its challenges, fieldwork
yields important insights outside the
reach of textual analysis.
John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi are both
Professors of Anthropology at Princeton University.
FEBRUARY
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SOCIOLOGY
Daniel Geary
Radical Ambition
C. Wright Mills, the Left, and
American Social Thought
Sociologist, social critic, and political radical
C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) was one of
the leading public intellectuals in twentieth
century America. Offering an important
new understanding of Mills and the times
in which he lived, Radical Ambition challenges
the captivating caricature that has
prevailed of him as a lone rebel critic of
1950s complacency. Instead, it places Mills
within broader trends in American politics,
thought, and culture. Indeed, Daniel Geary
reveals that Mills shared key assumptions
about American society even with those
liberal intellectuals who were his primary
opponents. The book also sets Mills firmly
within the history of American sociology
and traces his political trajectory from
committed supporter of the Old Left labor
movement to influential herald of an international
New Left. More than just a biography,
Radical Ambition illuminates the
career of a brilliant thinker whose life and
works illustrate both the promise and the
dilemmas of left-wing social thought in the
United States.
Daniel Geary is the Mark Pigott Lecturer in United
States History at Trinity College, Dublin.
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
Michael A. Messner
It’s All for the Kids
Gender, Families, and Youth Sports
Today, in a world quite different from the
one that existed just thirty years ago, both
girls and boys play soccer, baseball, softball,
and other youth sports. Yet has the dramatic
surge in participation by girls contributed
to greater gender equality? In this engaging
study, leading sociologist Michael A. Messner
probes the richly complex gender dynamics
of youth sports. Weaving together vivid
first-person interviews with his own experiences
as a volunteer for his sons’ teams,
Messner finds that despite the movement of
girls into sports, gender boundaries and
hierarchies still dominate, especially among
the adults who run youth sports. His book
widens into a provocative exploration of
why youth sports matter—how they play a
profound role in shaping gender, class,
family, and community.
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and
Gender Studies at the University of Southern
California.
APRIL
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Sociology/Gender Studies/Sports
World
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Girls’ softball team. Photo by Alphonso Jackson.
From It’s All for the Kids.
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World
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HISTORY
Dawahare family portrait, 1926. Raris and
Yamna Naff Arab-American Collection, Archives
Center, National Museum of American History,
Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution.
From Between Arab and White.
The Singer Chenard, as a Sans-Culotte, 1792,
by Louis Leopold Boilly (1761–1845). Oil on
panel. ©Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee
Carnavalet, Paris, France/Lauros/Giraudon/
The Bridgeman Art Library. From Cultural
Revolutions.
Sarah Gualtieri
Between Arab
and White
Race and Ethnicity in the Early
Syrian-American Diaspora
This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration
to the United States places Syrians—
and Arabs more generally—at the center of
discussions about race and racial formation
from which they have long been marginalized.
Between Arab and White focuses on
the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement
in the United States in the years
before World War II, but also continues the
story up to the present. It presents an original
analysis of the ways in which people
mainly from current day Lebanon and
Syria—the largest group of Arab-speaking
immigrants before World War II—came to
view themselves in racial terms and position
themselves within racial hierarchies as part
of a broader process of ethnic identity
formation.
Sarah Gualtieri is Assistant Professor in the
Departments of History and American Studies and
Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
American Crossroads, 26
MAY
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1 line illustration, 1 map
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World
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Leora Auslander
Cultural Revolutions
Everyday Life and Politics in Britain,
North America, and France
In Cultural Revolutions, Leora Auslander
takes a highly original approach to the significance
of the political changes wrought
by the English Civil War (1642–1651), the
American Revolutionary War (1775–1783),
and the French Revolution (1789–1799).
This broadly conceived yet succinct essay
advances a new argument: that these three
revolutions were not bourgeois in character
but were revolutions of culture that led to a
transformation of the ways societies could
be politicized. Auslander argues that these
revolutions conferred new importance upon
the symbols of state and upon the cultural
components of our everyday lives—the
clothes that cover our bodies, the food we
eat, and the songs and plays to which we
turn for distraction and insight.
Leora Auslander is Professor of History and
Founding Director of the Center of Gender Studies
at the University of Chicago.
Copub: Berg Publishers
FEBRUARY
256 pages, 6 x 9”, 34 b/w photographs
European History/American History
U.S., Canada, and the Philippines
cloth 978-0-520-25920-1 $50.00tx
paper 978-0-520-25921-8 $19.95sc
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HISTORY
Edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz
The Environment and World History
Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment
in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading
environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an
overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable
500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections
between environmental change and other major topics of
early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization,
imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and
more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to
European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a
series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising
in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land
and water.
The wide range of regional studies—including some in Russia,
China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America,
Southern Africa, and Western Europe—together with the book’s
broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History
ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and environmental
change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of
world history.
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke III,
Mark Cioc, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards,
Lise Sedrez, Douglas R. Weiner
Edmund Burke III is Professor, Presidental Chair,
and Director of the Center for World History at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor,
with David N. Yaghoubian, of Struggle and Survival
in the Modern Middle East (second editon, UC
Press). Kenneth Pomeranz is Chancellor’s
Professor of History at the University of California,
Irvine, and author of The Great Divergence, among
other books.
California World History Library, 9
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
MARCH
352 pages, 6 x 9”, 4 line illustrations, 2 maps, 3 tables
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World
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HISTORY
Alan Tansman
The Aesthetics of
Japanese Fascism
In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural
expression, Alan Tansman reveals how
a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic
sensibility—present in novels, essays,
popular songs, film, and political writings—helped
create an “aesthetic of fascism”
in the years leading up to World War
II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence,
both real and imagined, these works did
not lead to fascism in any instrumental
sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed
and inspired spiritual longings quenchable
only through acts in the real world. Tansman
traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from
its beginnings in the 1920s through its
flowering in the 1930s to its afterlife in
postwar Japan.
Alan Tansman is Agassiz Professor of Japanese in
the Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.
MAY
400 pages, 6 x 9”
History/Asian Studies/Literature
World
cloth 978-0-520-24505-1 $49.95sc/£29.95
Joanna Handlin Smith
The Art of Doing Good
Charity in Late Ming China
An unprecedented passion for saving lives
swept through late Ming society, giving rise
to charitable institutions that transcended
family, class, and religious boundaries.
Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative
guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries,
Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile
explanation that charity was a response to
poverty and social unrest and examines the
social and economic changes that stimulated
the fervor for doing good. Skillfully organized
and engaging, The Art of Doing Good
moves from discussions about moral leadership
and beliefs to scrutiny of the daily
operation of soup kitchens and medical dispensaries,
and from examining local society
to generalizing about the just use of resources
and the role of social networks in charitable
giving.
Joanna Handlin Smith is the editor of the Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies.
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
MARCH
352 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 maps
History/Asian Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25363-6 $34.95sc/£19.95
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HISTORY
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr.
Telling Chinese History
A Selection of Essays
Selected and Edited by Lea H. Wakeman
This superb collection of essays on late
imperial and modern Chinese history spans
the brilliant forty-year career of the late
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the
first time in one volume, the essays offer
richly textured narratives of critical historical
events as well as sweeping analyses of
China’s place in world history. They take us
from the late Ming dynasty to the People’s
Republic—delving into complex issues of
Confucianism and intellectual history, the
nitty-gritty details of Jiangyin localism,
wartime Shanghai, and more. Always there
is engagement with the larger concerns of
history and the social sciences: the public
sphere, rebellion and revolution, the world
crisis of the seventeenth century, and the
influence of imperialism.
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. (1937–2006) was
Professor of Chinese History and Haas Professor of
Asian Studies in the Department of History at the
University of California, Berkeley. Among his many
books is The Great Enterprise: The Manchu
Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-
Century China (UC Press).
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
MARCH
432 pages, 6 x 9”, 8 tables
Asian Studies/History
World
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paper 978-0-520-25606-4 $24.95sc/£14.95
Simon Partner
The Mayor of Aihara
A Japanese Villager and
His Community, 1865–1925
Aizawa Kikutarõ (1866–1963) was born
into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, a
small agricultural village specializing in
wheat and silk. By 1925, the village was
undergoing rapid commercial development,
residents were commuting to factory and
office jobs in cities, and, after serving as
mayor for almost twenty years, Aizawa was
working as a bank manager. Taking the
biography of this leading villager as its central
focus and incorporating intimate details
of life drawn from Aizawa’s diary, The
Mayor of Aihara chronicles the extraordinary
transformation of Hashimoto against
the background of Japan’s rapid industrialization.
By portraying history as it was
actually lived by ordinary people, the book
offers a rich and compelling perspective on
the modernization of Japan.
Simon Partner, Associate Professor at Duke
University, is author of Toshié: A Story of Rural Life
in Twentieth Century Japan and Assembled in
Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the
Japanese Consumer (both from UC Press).
JULY
304 pages, 6 x 9”, 13 b/w photographs, 1 map
History/Asian Studies
World
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paper 978-0-520-25859-4 $22.95sc/£13.50
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr.
Photo courtesy Aizawa family. From The Mayor
of Aihara.
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HISTORY
Frank Dikötter
The Age of Openness
China before Mao
The era between empire and communism is
routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude
in China’s modern history. But in this
book, Frank Dikötter shows that the first
half of the twentieth century was characterized
by unprecedented openness. He argues
that from 1900 to 1949, all levels of
Chinese society were seeking engagement
with the rest of the world and that pursuit
of openness was particularly evident in four
areas: governance, including advances in
liberties and the rule of law; greater freedom
of movement within the country and
outside it; the spirited exchange of ideas in
the humanities and sciences; and thriving
and open markets and the resulting sustained
growth in the economy.
Frank Dikötter is Professor of Chinese Modern
History at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, and Chair of
Humanities at the University of Hong Kong.
Copub: Hong Kong University Press
AVAILABLE
126 pages, 6 x 9”
History/Asian Studies
U.S. & Territories, Canada, Mexico
paper 978-0-520-25881-5 $24.95sc
Cyrus Schayegh
Who Is Knowledgeable
Is Strong
Science, Class, and the Formation
of Modern Iranian Society, 1900–1950
In Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus
Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how,
in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging
middle class used modern scientific knowledge
as its cultural and economic capital,
and how, along with the state, it employed
biomedical sciences to tackle presumably
modern problems like the increasing stress
of everyday life, people’s defective willpower,
and demographic stagnation. The book
examines the ways by which scientific
knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists
to socially differentiate themselves from
society at large and, at the very same time,
to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that
both class formation and social reform
emerged at the interstices of local Iranian
and Western-dominated global contexts
and concerns.
Cyrus Schayegh is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton
University.
A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Book
MARCH
342 pages, 6 x 9”
History/Middle Eastern Studies/History of Science
World
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HISTORY
Andrew J. Diamond
Mean Streets
Chicago Youths and the Everyday
Struggle for Empowerment in the
Multiracial City, 1908–1969
Mean Streets focuses on twentieth-century
Chicago from the era of the race riot to cast
a new light on Chicago’s youth gangs and
to place youths at the center of the twentieth-century
American experience. Andrew
J. Diamond breaks new ground by showing
that teens and young men stood at the vanguard
of grassroots mobilizations in working-class
Chicago, playing key roles in the
formation of racial identities as they defended
neighborhood boundaries. Drawing from a
wide range of sources to capture the experiences
of young Mexicans, Puerto Ricans,
African Americans, Italians, Poles, and others
in the multiracial city, Diamond argues
that from the early 1900s through the
1960s, youths in Chicago gained a sense of
themselves in opposition to others.
Andrew J. Diamond is Associate Professor of
American History and Civilization at the University
of Lille 3–Charles de Gaulle in France.
American Crossroads, 27
JUNE
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History/Ethnic Studies/Urban Studies
World
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Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
Inventing Autopia
Dreams and Visions of the Modern
Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles
In 1920, as its population began to
explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral
city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty
years later, choked with smog and traffic,
the city had become synonymous with
urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet
Los Angeles was anything but unplanned,
as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this
compelling, visually oriented history of the
metropolis during its formative years. In a
deft mix of cultural and intellectual history
that brilliantly illuminates the profound
relationship between imagination and
place, Inventing Autopia shows how the
clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and
dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen
new form of urbanism—sprawling,
illegible, fractured—that would reshape not
only Southern California but much of the
nation in the years to come.
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod is Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Department of History and
Program in Cultural Studies at Occidental College.
MAY
427 pages, 6 x 9”, 55 b/w photographs, 2 tables
History/Urban Studies/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25284-4 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-25285-1 $24.95sc/£14.95
Members of the Puerto Rican Viceroys gang with a
youth outreach worker in Wicker Park, Chicago, ca.
1960. Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum,
ICH:-51726. From Mean Streets.
“Visionary City,” William Robinson Leigh,
Cosmopolitain, 1908. From Inventing Autopia.
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HISTORY
Illustration from Thieves and Prostitutes.
Courtesy of Alexis Neptune and John DiDonna.
From Witnessing Suburbia.
Eileen Luhr
Witnessing Suburbia
Conservatives and Christian
Youth Culture
Witnessing Suburbia is a lively cultural analysis
of the conservative shift in national
politics that transformed the United States
during the Reagan-Bush era. Eileen Luhr
focuses on two fundamental aspects of this
shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism
and the rise of Christian popular culture,
especially popular music. Taking us from
the Jesus Freaks of the late 1960s to
Christian heavy metal music to Christian
rock festivals and beyond, she shows how
evangelicals succeeded in “witnessing” to
America’s suburbs in a consumer idiom.
Luhr argues that the emergence of a politicized
evangelical youth culture in fact ranks
as one of the major achievements of “third
wave” conservatism in the late twentieth
century.
Eileen Luhr is Assistant Professor in the Department
of History at California State University, Long Beach.
FEBRUARY
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 13 b/w photographs
History/Religion/Politics
World
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paper 978-0-520-25596-8 $19.95sc/£11.95
Charles Upchurch
Before Wilde
Sex between Men in Britain’s
Age of Reform
This book examines changing perceptions
of sex between men in early Victorian
Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little
explored period in the history of Western
sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations
of the era—changes in the family
and in the law, the emergence of the world’s
first police force, the growth of a national
media, and more—Charles Upchurch asks
how perceptions of same-sex desire changed
between men, in families, and in the larger
society. To illuminate these questions, he
mines a rich trove of previously unexamined
sources, including hundreds of articles
pertaining to sex between men that appeared
in mainstream newspapers. The first book
to relate this topic to broader economic,
social, and political changes in the early
nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new
light on the central question of how and
when sex acts became identities.
Charles Upchurch is Assistant Professor of History
at Florida State University.
APRIL
272 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 tables
History/History of Sexuality
World
cloth 978-0-520-25853-2 $45.00sc/£26.95
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CLASSICS
Stephen G. Miller
The Berkeley Plato
From Neglected Relic to Ancient Treasure,
An Archaeological Detective Story
With an Appendix by John Twilley
This book explores the provenance of the so-called Berkeley Herm of
Plato, a sculptural portrait that Stephen G. Miller first encountered
over thirty years ago in a university storage basement. The head, languishing
since its arrival in 1902, had become detached from the
body, or herm, and had been labeled a fake. In 2002, while preparing
another book, Miller—now an experienced archaeologist—needed an
illustration of Plato, remembered this piece, and took another look.
The marble, he recognized immediately, was from the Greek islands,
the inscription appeared ancient, and the ribbons visible on the head
were typical of those in Greek athletic scenes. The Berkeley Plato, rich
in scientific, archaeological, and historical detail, tells the fascinating
story of how Miller was able to authenticate this long-dismissed treasure.
His conclusion, that it is an ancient Roman copy possibly dating
from the time of Hadrian, is further supported by art conservation
scientist John Twilley, whose essay appears as an appendix. Miller’s
discovery makes a significant contribution to the worlds of art history,
philosophy, archaeology, and sports history and will serve as a starting
point for new research in the back rooms of museums.
Stephen G. Miller is Professor Emeritus of
Classical Archaeology at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the author of many
books, including Arete: Greek Sports from the
Ancient Sources, Third Edition (UC Press).
John Twilley is an independent art conservation
scientist.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
JUNE
126 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 color illustrations,
99 b/w photographs
Classics/Archaeology
World
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Mosaic of seven sages and Sokrates.
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CLASSICS
Harald Thorsrud
Ancient Scepticism
Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that
casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge
of the world and suggests suspending
judgment in the face of uncertainly, has
been influential since its beginnings in
ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides
an engaging, rigorous introduction to the
central themes, arguments, and general
concerns of ancient Scepticism, from its
beginnings with Pyrrho of Elis (ca. 360 B.C.
–ca. 270 B.C.) to the writings of Sextus
Empiricus in the second century A.D.
Thorsrud explores the differences among
Sceptics and examines in particular the separation
of the Scepticism of Pyrrho from its
later form—Academic Scepticism—the
result of its ideas being introduced into
Plato’s Academy in the third century B.C.
Steering an even course through the many
differences of scholarly opinion surrounding
Scepticism, the book also provides a
balanced appraisal of the philosophy’s
enduring significance by showing why it
remains so interesting and how ancient
interpretations differ from modern ones.
Harald Thorsrud is Assistant Professor of
Philosophy at Agnes Scott College and the author
of Cicero’s Ethics.
Ancient Philosophies, 5
Copub: Acumen Publishing Limited
MARCH
256 pages, 6 x 9”
Philosophy/Classical Studies
U.S. & Territories, Canada, Saint Pierre
cloth 978-0-520-25982-9 $65.00tx
paper 978-0-520-26026-9 $24.95sc
Miira Tuominen
The Ancient
Commentators on
Plato and Aristotle
The study of the ancient commentators has
developed considerably over the past two
decades, fueled by recent translations of
their often daunting writings. Opening up
this period in the history of philosophy to a
wide audience for the first time, this book
offers the only concise, accessible general
introduction currently available to the writings
of the late ancient commentators on
Aristotle and, to a lesser extent, Plato. Miira
Tuominen provides a historical overview
followed by a series of thematic chapters on
epistemology, science and logic, physics,
psychology, metaphysics, and ethics. In particular,
she focuses on the writings of
Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius,
Porphyry, Proclus, Philoponus, and
Simplicius. Until recently, the late ancient
commentators have been understood mainly
as sources of information concerning the
masters upon whose works they comment.
This book offers new insights into their
way of doing philosophy in their own right.
Miira Tuominen is a researcher at the Department
of Philosophy, University of Helsinki.
Ancient Philosophies, 6
Copub: Acumen Publishing Limited
JUNE
288 pages, 6 x 9”
Philosophy/Classical Studies
U.S. & Territories, Canada, Saint Pierre
cloth 978-0-520-25981-2 $65.00tx
paper 978-0-520-26027-6 $24.95sc
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Stephen V. Tracy
Pericles
A Sourcebook and Reader
Pericles, Greece’s greatest statesman and
the leader of its Golden Age, created the
Parthenon and championed democracy in
Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise
have endowed him with the powers of a
demigod, but what did his friends, associates,
and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles:
A Sourcebook and Reader, Stephen V. Tracy
visits the fifth century B.C. to find out.
Tracy compiles and translates the scattered,
elusive primary sources relating to Pericles.
He brings Athens’s political atmosphere to
life with archaeological evidence and the
accounts of those close to Pericles, including
Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus,
Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon,
Plato, and Plutarch. Readers will discover
Pericles as a formidable politician, a persuasive
and inspiring orator, and a man full of
human contradictions.
Stephen V. Tracy is Professor and Director
Emeritus at the American School of Classical
Studies in Athens.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
APRIL
204 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 6 b/w photographs,
2 line illustrations, 5 maps
Classics/Middle Eastern Studies/Literature
World
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paper 978-0-520-25604-0 $17.95sc/£10.95
Bezalel Bar-Kochva
The Image of the Jews
in Greek Literature
The Hellenistic Period
This landmark contribution to ongoing
debates about perceptions of the Jews in
antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek
writers of the Hellenistic period toward the
Jewish people. Among the leading Greek
intellectuals who devoted special attention
to the Jews were Theophrastus (the successor
of Aristotle), Hecataeus of Abdera (the
father of “scientific” ethnography), and
Apollonius Molon (probably the greatest
rhetorician of the Hellenistic world).
Bezalel Bar-Kochva examines the references
of these writers and others to the Jews in
light of their literary output and personal
background; their religious, social, and
political views; their literary and stylistic
methods; ethnographic stereotypes current
at the time; and more.
Bezalel Bar-Kochva is Jacob M. Alkow Professor of
the History of the Jews in the Ancient World at Tel
Aviv University, Israel, and the author of Pseudo
Hecataeus “On the Jews”: Legitimizing the Jewish
Diaspora (UC Press), among other books.
Hellenistic Culture and Society, LI
An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies
MAY
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Classical Studies/Judaism
World
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RELIGION
Alan Cole
Fathering Your Father
The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
This book offers a provocative rereading of
the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen).
Working from a history-of-religions point
of view that asks how and why certain literary
tropes were chosen to depict the essence
of the Buddhist tradition to Chinese readers,
this analysis focuses on the narrative logics
of the early Chan genealogies—the seventhand
eighth-century lineage texts that claimed
that certain high-profile Chinese men were
descendents of Bodhidharma and the
Buddha. This book argues that early Chan’s
image of the perfect-master-who-owns-tradition
was constructed for reasons that have
little to do with Buddhist practice, new
styles of enlightened wisdom, or “orthodoxy,”
and much more to do with politics,
property, geography, and, of course, new
forms of writing.
Alan Cole is Professor of Religious Studies at
Lewis & Clark College.
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
February
336 pages, 6 x 9”
Religion/Buddhism/Asian Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25484-8 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-25485-5 $27.50sc/£16.95
Edited by Thomas J. Csordas
Transnational
Transcendence
Essays on Religion and Globalization
This innovative collection examines the
transnational movements, effects, and
transformations of religion in the contemporary
world, offering a fresh perspective
on the interrelation between globalization
and religion. Transnational Transcendence
challenges some widely accepted ideas
about this relationship—in particular, that
globalization can be understood solely as an
economic phenomenon and that its religious
manifestations are secondary. The
book points out that religion’s role remains
understudied and undertheorized as an element
in debates about globalization, and it
raises questions about how and why certain
forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity
succeed as they cross national and
cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J.
Csordas’s introduction, this timely volume
both urges further development of a theory
of religion and globalization and constitutes
an important step toward that theory.
Thomas J. Csordas is Professor of Anthropology at
the University of California, San Diego.
MARCH
340 pages, 6 x 9”, 4 b/w photographs
Anthropology/Religion/Global Studies
World
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paper 978-0-520-25742-9 $24.95sc/£14.95
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Rita M. Gross
A Garland of Feminist Reflections
Forty Years of Religious Exploration
Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of
feminist theology. One of the earliest scholars in religious studies to
discover how feminism affects that discipline, she is recognized as preeminent
in Buddhist feminist theology. The essays in A Garland of
Feminist Reflections represent the major aspects of her work and provide
an overview of her methodology in women’s studies in religion and
feminism. The introductory article, written specifically for this volume,
summarizes the conclusions Gross has reached about gender and feminism
after forty years of searching and exploring, and the autobiography,
also written for this volume, narrates how those conclusions were
reached. These articles reveal the range of scholarship and reflection
found in Rita M. Gross’s work and demonstrate how feminist scholars
in the 1970s shifted the paradigm away from an androcentric model
of humanity and forever changed the way we study religion.
Rita M. Gross is Professor Emerita of Comparative
Studies in Religion at the University of Wisconsin,
Eau Claire. She is the author and editor of many
books, including Religious Feminism and the
Future of the Planet: A Buddhist-Christian-Feminist
Conversation.
MARCH
350 pages, 6 x 9”
Religion/Buddhism/Women’s Studies
World
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Manik
-
Pır - with cows resurrected through his
prayers. From Manik - Pır - Keccha. - Courtesy the
trustees of the British Museum. From Tales of
God’s Friends.
Kids outside the Methodist church in the Village
of Tavuki, Kadavu Island, Fiji. Photo by Matt
Tomlinson. From In God’s Image.
Edited by John Renard
Tales of God’s Friends
Islamic Hagiography in Translation
This remarkable collection gathers a breathtakingly
diverse selection of primary texts
from the vast repertoire of Islamic stories
about holy men and women—also known
as Friends of God—who were exemplary
for their piety, intimacy with God, and
service to their fellow human beings.
Translated from seventeen languages by
more than two dozen scholars of Islamic
studies, these texts come from the Middle
East, North and sub-Saharan Africa,
Central and South Asia, and China and
Southeast Asia. Historically, they begin
with the eighth century and include samples
from medieval, early modern, and
modern Muslim societies. Expertly edited
and introduced by John Renard, Tales of
God’s Friends serves as a companion volume
to Renard’s Friends of God: Islamic Images of
Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood.
John Renard is Professor of Theological Studies at
Saint Louis University.
MAY
400 pages, 6 x 9”, 21 b/w photographs, 1 map,
1 table
Religion/Islam
World
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paper 978-0-520-25896-9 $24.95sc/£14.95
Matt Tomlinson
In God’s Image
The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity
Today, most indigenous Fijians are Christians,
and the Methodist Church is the foundation
of their social and political lives. Yet, as
this thought-provoking study of life on rural
Kadavu Island finds, Fijians also believe
that their ancestors possessed an inherent
strength that is lacking in the present day.
Looking in particular at the interaction
between the church and the traditional
chiefly system, Matt Tomlinson finds that
this belief about the superiority of the past
provokes great anxiety, and that Fijians seek
ways of recovering this strength through ritual
and political action—Christianity itself
simultaneously generates a sense of loss and
the means of recuperation. To unravel the
cultural dynamics of Christianity in Fiji,
Tomlinson explores how this loss is expressed
through everyday language and practices.
Matt Tomlinson is Lecturer in Anthropology at
Monash University in Australia.
The Anthropology of Christianity, 5
MARCH
261 pages, 6 x 9”, 11 b/w photos, 3 tables, 2 maps,
1 music example
Anthropology/Religion/Christianity
World
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paper 978-0-520-25778-8 $21.95sc/£12.95
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John D. Blanco
Frontier Constitutions
Christianity and Colonial Empire in
the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking
study of the cultural transformations
arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born
creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish),
and indigenous colonial subjects in the
Philippines during the crisis of colonial
hegemony in the nineteenth century and
the social anomie that resulted from this
crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco
argues that modernity in the colonial
Philippines should not be understood as
an imperfect version of a European model
but as a unique set of expressions emerging
out of contradictions—expressions that
sanctioned new political communities
formed around the precariousness of Spanish
rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers
struggled to synthesize these contradictions
as they attempted to secure the colonial
order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine
independence.
John D. Blanco is Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Asia Pacific Modern, 4
FEBRUARY
370 pages, 6 x 9”, 8 b/w photographs
History/Asian Studies/Religion/Literature
World
cloth 978-0-520-25519-7 $49.95sc/£29.95
Lila Corwin Berman
Speaking of Jews
Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation
of an American Public Identity
Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the
course of the twentieth century, American
Jews became increasingly fascinated, even
obsessed, with explaining themselves to
their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers
is that language itself became a crucial
tool for Jewish group survival and
integration into American life. Berman
investigates a wide range of sources—radio
and television broadcasts, bestselling books,
sociological studies, debates about Jewish
marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary
work, and more—to reveal how rabbis,
intellectuals, and others created a seemingly
endless array of explanations about why
Jews were indispensable to American life.
Even as the content of these explanations
developed and shifted over time, the very
project of self-explanation would become a
core element of Jewishness in the twentieth
century.
Lila Corwin Berman is Assistant Professor of
History and Religious Studies and Mal and Lea
Bank Early Career Professor in Jewish Studies at
Pennsylvania State University.
An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies
MARCH
272 pages, 6 x 9”, 12 b/w photographs
Sociology/Judaism/U.S. History
World
cloth 978-0-520-25680-4 $55.00tx/£32.95
paper 978-0-520-25681-1 $22.95sc/£13.50
Taping “Tell Thy Son” at a CBS studio in New
York, 1958. Courtesy of the American Jewish
Commitee. From Speaking of Jews.
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SCIENCE
Edited by Jill S. Schneiderman and Warren D. Allmon
For the Rock Record
Geologists on Intelligent Design
According to the idea of intelligent design, nature’s complexity is the
result of deliberate planning by a supernatural creative force. To date,
most scientific arguments against this form of creationism have been
made by evolutionary biologists. In this volume, a team of earth scientists
reveals that the flaws of intelligent design are not limited to the
biological sciences. Indeed, the geological sciences offer some of the
best refutation of intelligent design arguements. For the Rock Record is
dedicated to the proposition that the idea of intelligent design should
be of serious concern to everyone. Editors Jill S. Schneiderman and
Warren D. Allmon have gathered leading figures from the geological
community with a wide range of viewpoints that go to the heart of
the debate over what is and is not science. The purveyors of intelligent
design theories and its kindred philosophies threaten the scientific
literacy that our society needs by confusing faith and the practice of
science. This collection offers a much-needed response.
Jill S. Schneiderman is Professor of Earth Science
at Vassar College. Warren D. Allmon is Director of
the Paleontological Research Institute in Ithaca,
New York, and Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of
Paleontology in the Department of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University.
APRIL
256 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 7 line illustrations
Ecology/Evolution/Natural History
World
cloth 978-0-520-25758-0 $55.00tx/£32.95
paper 978-0-520-25759-7 $21.95/£12.95
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SCIENCE
Edited by Rosemary G. Gillespie and David A. Clague
Encyclopedia of Islands
Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for
centuries—unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them
natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative,
alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct
articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad
coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The
volume editors define it here as any discrete habitat isolated from
other habitats by inhospitable surroundings. The Encyclopedia of
Islands examines many such insular settings—oceanic and
continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops,
and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean. This
essential, one-stop resource, extensively illustrated with
color photographs, clear maps, and graphics will introduce
island science to a wide audience and spur further research
on some of the planet’s most fascinating habitats.
Also available:
Encyclopedia of Tidepools
and Rocky Shores
Encyclopedias of the Natural World
Edited by Mark W. Denny and Steven D. Gaines
World
cloth 978-0-520-25118-2 $95.00tx/£56.00
Rosemary G. Gillespie is Schlinger Chair of
Systematics, Professor in the Division of Insect
Biology, and Director of the Essig Museum of
Entomology at the University of California,
Berkeley. David A. Clague is Senior Scientist at
the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Encyclopedias of the Natural World
JUNE
1008 pages, 8-1/2 x 11”, 100 color illustrations,
50 b/w photographs, 560 line illustrations, 40 maps,
50 tables
Biology/Natural History/Ecology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25649-1 $95.00sc/£56.00
Philippine tarsier (Tarsuis Syrichta). Photo by David Haring.
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Anolis evermanni. Courtesy M. Johnson.
From Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree.
Jonathan B. Losos
Lizards in an
Evolutionary Tree
Ecology and Adaptive Radiation
of Anoles
Adaptive radiation, which results when a
single ancestral species gives rise to many
descendants, each adapted to a different
part of the environment, is possibly the single
most important source of biological
diversity in the living world. One of the
best-studied examples involves Caribbean
Anolis lizards. With about 400 species,
Anolis has played an important role in the
development of ecological theory and has
become a model system exemplifying the
integration of ecological, evolutionary, and
behavioral studies to understand evolutionary
diversification. This major work, written by
one of the best-known investigators of Anolis,
reviews and synthesizes an immense literature.
Jonathan B. Losos illustrates how different
scientific approaches to the questions of
adaptation and diversification can be integrated
and examines evolutionary and
ecological questions of interest to a broad
range of biologists.
Jonathan B. Losos is Monique and Philip Lehner
Professor for the Study of Latin America in the
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology, and Curator in Herpetology at the Museum
of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
Organisms and Environments, 10
Edited by Michael S. Rosenberg
Sequence Alignment
Methods, Models, Concepts,
and Strategies
The sequencing of the human genome
involved thousands of scientists but used
relatively few tools. Today, obtaining
sequences is simpler, but aligning the
sequences—making sure that sequences
from one source are properly compared to
those from other sources—remains a complicated
but underappreciated aspect of
comparative molecular biology. This volume,
the first to focus on this crucial step
in analyzing sequence data, is about the
practice of alignment, the procedures by
which alignments are established, and more
importantly, how the outcomes of any
alignment algorithm should be interpreted.
Edited by Michael S. Rosenberg with essays
by many of the field’s leading experts,
Sequence Alignment covers molecular causes,
computational advances, approaches for
assessing alignment quality, and philosophical
underpinnings of the algorithms themselves.
Michael S. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of
Computational Evolutionary Biology and
Bioinformatics at Arizona State University.
MARCH
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 59 line illustrations, 13 tables
Evolution/Organismal Biology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25697-2 $59.95sc/£35.00
MAY
512 pages, 7 x 10”, 158 color & 116 line illustrations,
3 tables
Biology/Ecology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25591-3 $75.00tx/£44.95
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Bruce S. Miller and
Arthur W. Kendall Jr.
Early Life History
of Marine Fishes
The life cycles of fishes are complex and
varied, and knowledge of the early life
stages is important for understanding the
biology, ecology, and evolution of fishes. In
Early Life History of Marine Fishes, Bruce S.
Miller and Arthur W. Kendall Jr., bring
together in a single reference much of the
research available and its application to
fishery science—knowledge increasingly
important because, for most fishes, adult
populations are determined at the earliest
stages of life. Clear and well written, this
book offers expert guidance on how to collect
and analyze larval fish data and on how
this information is interpreted by applied
fish biologists and fisheries managers.
Bruce S. Miller is Professor Emeritus of the School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of
Washington. Arthur W. Kendall Jr., is a retired
researcher for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
MARCH
288 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 b/w photographs,
98 line illustrations, 14 tables
Organismal Biology/Zoology/Ecology
World
cloth 978-0-520-24972-1 $60.00sc/£35.00
Edited by Brian R. Silliman,
Mark D. Bertness, and
Edwin D. Grosholz
Human Impacts
on Salt Marshes
A Global Perspective
Salt marshes are vitally important coastal
ecosystems that filter water, buffer against
storm erosion, and provide essential nursery
habitat for important fishery species. Long
thought to be resistant to ecological perturbations,
salt marshes are now known to be
highly sensitive indicators of environmental
change and impacts. This state-of-the-science
volume details how humans have modified
salt marshes around the world and why
these critical habitats desperately need protection.
It also offers clear recommendations
about what should be done to remediate current
threats and restore the structure and
function of salt marsh ecosystems.
Brian R. Silliman is Assistant Professor of Zoology
at the University of Florida. Mark D. Bertness is
Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology at Brown
University. Edwin Grosholz is Professor and
Alexander and Elizabeth Swantz Specialist in
Cooperative Extension at the University of California,
Davis.
JUNE
408 pages, 7 x 10”, 144 b/w illustrations
Ecology/Organismal Botany
World
cloth 978-0-520-25892-1 $60.00sc/£35.00
Crabs eating cordgrass at Mar Chiquita salt
marsh, Argentina. Courtesy Cesar Costa and
Oscar Iribarrie. From Human Impacts on Salt
Marshes.
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Jerry A. Powell and Paul A. Opler
Moths of Western North America
Insects boast incredible diversity, and this book treats an important
component of the western insect biota that has not been summarized
before—moths and their plant relationships. There are about 8,000
named species of moths in our region, and although most are unnoticed
by the public, many attract attention when their larvae create
economic damage: eating holes in woolens, infesting stored foods,
boring into apples, damaging crops and garden plants, or defoliating
forests. In contrast to previous North American moth books, this volume
discusses and illustrates about 25% of the species in every family,
including the tiny species, making this the most comprehensive volume
in its field. With this approach it provides access to microlepidoptera
study for biologists as well as amateur collectors. About 2,500 species
are described and illustrated, including virtually all moths of economic
importance, summarizing their morphology, taxonomy, adult behavior,
larval biology, and life cycles.
Jerry A. Powell is Professor of the Graduate
School in the Department of Environmental
Science, Policy, and Management at the University
of California, Berkeley. Paul A. Opler is Professor
in the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and
Pest Management at Colorado State University,
Ft. Collins.
MAY
536 pages, 8-1/2 x 11”, 64 color photographs,
252 line illustrations
Biology/Natural History/Entomology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25197-7 $95.00sc/£56.00
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GAIA/SERIES MONOGRAPHS
GLOBAL, AREA, &
INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE
Hyaeweol Choi
Gender and Mission
Encounters in Korea
New Women, Old Ways
Global, Area, and International Archive, 14
AVAILABLE
280 pages, 6 x 9”, 8 b/w illustrations
Asian Studies/History/Religion/Gender
World
paper 978-0-520-09869-5 $29.95tx/£17.95
Edited by Giles Gunn and
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
America and the
Misshaping of a
New World Order
Global, Area, and International Archive, 13
AVAILABLE
272 pages, 6 x 9”
Global Studies/Politics/American Studies
World
paper 978-0-520-09870-1 $29.95tx/£17.95
Edited by F. R. Hauer, J. A. Stanford,
and R. L. Newell
International Advances
in the Ecology,
Zoogeography, and
Systematics of Mayflies
and Stoneflies
UC Publications in Entomology, 128
JUNE
422 pages, 7 x 10”, 30 b/w photographs,
106 line illustrations, 35 tables
Organismal Biology/Entomology
World
paper 978-0-520-09868-8 $65.00tx/£38.95
Serguei V. Triapitsyn and
Jung-Wook Kim
An Annotated Catalog
of the Type Material of
Aphytis (Hymenoptera:
Aphelinidae) in the
Entomology Research
Museum, University of
California at Riverside
UC Publications in Entomology, 129
Gertrude Snavely and Mary Beiler teaching Bible
class in Korea. Courtesy General Commission on
Archives and History, the United Methodist Church,
Drew University. From Gender and Mission
Encounters in Korea.
AVAILABLE
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Organismal Biology/Entomology
World
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ART
Sarah Burns and John Davis
American Art to 1900
A Documentary History
Sarah Burns is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts
at Indiana University. Among her many books is
Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic
Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (UC
Press). John Davis is Alice Pratt Brown Professor
of Art at Smith College.
MARCH
988 pages, 7 x 10”, 14 b/w illustrations
Art/Art History
World
cloth 978-0-520-24526-6 $70.00tx/£40.95
paper 978-0-520-25756-6 $34.95sc/£19.95
From the simple assertion that “words matter” in the study of visual
art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an
extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in
their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of
artists making stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular
works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns
and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown,
little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of
American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners,
consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights
such critically important themes as women artists, African American
representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native
Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery,
institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory
headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this
book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many
intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.
“There was a time when the presentation of one’s ‘likeness’
meant something. It was a sacred thing, exchanged only between
lovers or married people, kept carefully from unsympathizing
eyes, gazed at in private as a treasure apart. But we have changed
all that now. People like their faces to hang out at street doors,
and in galleries, to lie on everybody’s and anybody’s table in
albums, and to be hawked about promiscuously and vulgarly like
a fashion print, or a specimen of sea-weed, or a stuck insect, for
the gaze of the curious.”
Fanny Fern [Sara Willis Parton],
“Then and Now,” New York Ledger, April 5, 1862.
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Michelle Facos
Symbolist Art
in Context
The Symbolist art movement of the late
nineteenth century forms an important
bridge between Impressionism and
Modernism. But because Symbolism, more
than the two movements it links, emphasizes
ideas over objects and events, it has
suffered from vague and conflicting definitions.
In Symbolist Art in Context, Michelle
Facos offers a clearly written, comprehensive,
and accessible description of this challenging
subject. Reaching back into Romanticism
for Symbolism’s origins, Facos argues that
Symbolism enabled artists to confront an
increasingly uncertain and complex
world—one to which pessimists responded
with themes of decadence and degeneration
and optimists with idealism and reform.
Michelle Facos is Associate Professor of Art
History at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the
author of Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination:
Swedish Art of the 1890s (UC Press).
An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book
MARCH
304 pages, 7 x 10”, 16 color & 86 b/w illustrations
Art/Art History/European Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25499-2 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-25582-1 $29.95sc/£17.95
Edited by Ilia Dorontchenkov
Russian and
Soviet Views of
Modern Western Art,
1890s to Mid-1930s
Translated by Charles Rougle
Consulting Editor, Nina Gurianova
From the first Modernist exhibitions in the
late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the
West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and
writers came into wide contact with modern
European art and ideas. Introducing a
wealth of little-known material set in an
illuminating interpretive context, this
sourcebook presents Russian and Soviet
views of Western art during this critical
period of cultural transformation. The writings
document complex responses to these
works and ideas before the Russians lost
contact with them almost entirely. Many of
these writings have been unavailable to foreign
readers and, until recently, were not
widely known even to Russian scholars.
Both an important reference and a valuable
resource for classrooms, the book includes
an introductory essay and shorter introductions
to the individual sections.
Ilia Dorontchenkov is Professor at the Petersburg
Academy of Fine Arts and at the European
University in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has also
taught in the Department of Slavic Languages at
Brown University.
Documents of Twentieth-Century Art
Cover of Jugend, 1897. Photo by Per Nodahl.
From Symbolist Art in Context.
Cover of Ivan Aksionov’s Picasso and the
Environs, 1917. From Russian and Soviet Views
of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s.
MARCH
400 pages, 7 x 10”, 42 b/w illustrations
Art History
World
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paper 978-0-520-25372-8 $29.95sc/£17.95
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ART
Rosenquist in his studio, 1964. Photo by Ken
Heyman. Artwork©James Rosenquist/Licensed
by VAGA, New York, NY. From James Rosenquist.
Thomas Eakins, female model, ca, 1867–69.
FIne Arts Museums of San Fransico, Museum
Purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection.
From Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of
Modernity.
Michael Lobel
James Rosenquist
Pop Art, Politics, and History
in the 1960s
James Rosenquist’s paintings, with their
billboard-sized images of commercial subjects,
are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop
Art. Their provocative imagery also touches
on some of the major political and historical
events of that turbulent decade—from
the Kennedy assassination to the war in
Vietnam. In the first full-length scholarly
examination of Rosenquist’s art from that
period, Michael Lobel weaves together close
visual analysis, a wealth of archival research,
and a consideration of the social and historical
contexts in which these paintings were
produced to offer bold new readings of a
body of work that helped redefine art in
the 1960s. Bringing together a range of
approaches, James Rosenquist provides a
compelling perspective on the artist and on
the burgeoning consumer culture of postwar
America.
Michael Lobel is Assistant Professor of Art History
and Director of the M.A. Program in Modern and
Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory at
Purchase College, State University of New York.
An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book
FEBRUARY
240 pages, 7 x 10”, 16 color & 54 b/w illustrations
Art History
World
cloth 978-0-520-25303-2 $49.95sc/£29.95
Alan C. Braddock
Thomas Eakins
and the Cultures
of Modernity
Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of
Modernity is the first book to situate
Philadelphia’s greatest realist painter in relation
to the historical discourse of cultural
difference. Alan C. Braddock reveals that
modern anthropological perceptions of
“culture,” attributed to Eakins by many art
historians, did not become current until
after the artist’s death, in 1916. Braddock
demonstrates that Eakins’s realistic portrayals
of Spanish street performers, African
Americans, and southern European immigrants
embodied a premodern worldview.
Yet by exploring Eakins’s struggle to visualize
diversity amid the dislocating forces of
his day—mass immigration, orientalism,
tourism, commercial publishing, and the
international circulation of ethnographic
objects—this book illuminates American art
on the threshold of the twentieth-century
“culture concept” promulgated by Franz
Boas and other modern anthropologists.
Alan C. Braddock is Associate Curator of the
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
An Ahmanson • Murphy Fine Arts Book
APRIL
304 pages, 7 x 10”, 10 color & 90 b/w illustrations
Art/Cultural Anthropology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25520-3 $49.95sc/£29.95
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MUSIC
Jann Pasler
Composing the Citizen
Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of
music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how
music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third
Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes
and political persuasions looked to music to revitalize the country
after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its
“public utility,” music became an object of public policy as integral to
modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and
inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice conflicting
aspirations, and imagine a shared future.
Based on a dazzling survey of archival material, Pasler’s rich interdisciplinary
work looks beyond elites and the histories their agendas
have dominated to open new windows onto the musical tastes and
practices of amateurs as well as professionals. A fascinating history of
the period emerges, one rooted in political realities and the productive
tensions between the political and the aesthetic. Highly evocative and
deeply humanistic, Composing the Citizen ignites broad debates about
music’s role in democracy and its meaning in our lives.
John Singer Sargent, Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at
the Cirque d'Hiver, ca. 1879–80. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
From Composing the Citizen.
Jann Pasler is Professor of Music at the University
of California, San Diego. Among her books is
Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and
Modernist (UC Press) and Writing Through Music.
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
MAY
680 pages, 6 x 9”, 103 b/w photographs, 19 tables,
34 music examples
Music/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-25740-5 $60.00sc/£35.00
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MUSIC/MEDIA
Steve Waksman
This Ain’t the
Summer of Love
Conflict and Crossover in
Heavy Metal and Punk
This lively and entertaining revisionist history
of rock music after 1970 reconsiders
the roles of two genres, heavy metal and
punk. Instead of considering metal and
punk as aesthetically opposed to each other,
Steve Waksman breaks new ground by
showing that a profound connection exists
between them. Metal and punk enjoyed a
charged, intimate relationship that informed
both genres in terms of sound, image, and
discourse. This Ain’t the Summer of Love
traces this connection back to the early
1970s, when metal first asserted its identity
and punk arose independently as an ideal
about what rock should be and could
become, and upends established interpretations
of metal and punk and their place in
rock history.
Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music
and American Studies at Smith College.
A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book
FEBRUARY
382 pages, 6 x 9”, 21 b/w photographs
Music
World
cloth 978-0-520-25310-0 $65.00tx/£38.95
paper 978-0-520-25717-7 $24.95/£14.95
Ari Y. Kelman
Station Identification
A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio
in the United States
This study examines the culture of Yiddish
radio in the United States during radio’s
golden age. Ari Y. Kelman explores the
dynamic relationships between an immigrant
population and a mass medium and
between audience and community. By
focusing on voices previously excluded from
radio histories, this treatment of non-Englishlanguage
radio breaks new ground in the
study of both American mass media and
immigrant culture. Yiddish radio directly
addressed the everyday lives of Jewish
immigrants, while providing them with
invaluable guidance as they struggled to
become American. Throughout the 1930s
and 1940s, radio created a virtual place
where Jewish immigrants could listen to
voices like theirs and affirm the sound of
their community as it evolved, particularly
in light of World War II and the years that
followed.
Ari Y. Kelman is Assistant Professor of American
Studies at the University of California, Davis.
An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies
APRIL
264 pages, 6 x 9”, 20 b/w photographs
Media Studies/Jewish Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25573-9 $39.95sc/£23.95
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Jennifer M. Barker
The Tactile Eye
Touch and the Cinematic Experience
The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenological
analysis and film theory in its accessible
and beautifully written exploration of the
visceral connection between films and their
viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the
experience of cinema can be understood as
deeply tactile—a sensuous exchange between
film and viewer that goes beyond the visual
and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates
in the body. Barker combines analysis
of embodiment and phenomenological
film theory to provide an expansive description
of cinematic tactility. She considers
feminist experimental film, early cinema,
animation, and horror, as well as classic,
modernist, and postmodern cinema; films
from ten national cinemas; and work by
Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay
Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann,
and Tom Tykwer, among others.
Jennifer M. Barker is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Communication, Georgia State
University.
MAY
192 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w photographs
Film
World
cloth 978-0-520-25840-2 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-25842-6 $24.95sc/£14.95
Carl Plantinga
Moving Viewers
American Film and the
Spectator’s Experience
Everyone knows the thrill of being transported
by a film, but what is it that makes
movie watching such a compelling emotional
experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl
Plantinga explores this question and the
implications of its answer for aesthetics, the
psychology of spectatorship, and the place
of movies in culture. Through an in-depth
discussion of mainstream Hollywood films,
Plantinga investigates what he terms “the
paradox of negative emotion” and the function
of mainstream narratives as ritualistic
fantasies. He describes the sensual nature of
the movies and shows how film emotions
are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. He
uses cognitive science and philosophical
aesthetics to demonstrate why cinema may
deliver the same emotional charge in Senegal
or Peru as it does in Steven Spielberg’s
America.
Carl Plantinga is Professor of Film Studies at
Calvin College.
APRIL
262 pages, 6 x 9”, 14 b/w photographs, 1 table
Film/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25695-8 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-25696-5 $24.95sc/£14.95
Film still from Repulsion (Roman Polanski,
1965). From The Tacile Eye.
Film still from The Color Purple (Stephen Spielberg,
1985). From Moving Viewers.
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Gayle Greene
Insomniac
“A harrowing memoir.” Wall Street Journal
“Almost all there is to know about sleep and the lack thereof.”
Newsweek
“Insomniac is far too interesting to lull you into dreamland, but it will
certainly engage and comfort you—and keep you company—during
those long dark hours that the clock ticks off until dawn.”
O: The Oprah Magazine
“In search of a good night’s rest, a lit professor travels the world and
bones up on sleep science. No easy answers—but fascinating.” People
“Insomniac is among the best books of its kind.” Nature
“Readable, engaging, and sympathetic…. A rare and thorough view of
the phenomenology of insomnia…. Remarkably comprehensive.”
Science
Gayle Greene is Professor of Literature and
Women’s Studies at Scripps College, Claremont,
California. She is a member of the American
Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).
APRIL
520 pages, 6 x 9”
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-24630-0)
Medicine/Sociology
North America
paper 978-0-520-25996-6 $16.95
In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive
account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has
traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists,
sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts.
Insomniac is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited
by insomniacs and a book of consolations for anyone who has struggled
with this affliction that has long been trivialized and neglected.
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Gary Braasch
Earth under Fire
How Global Warming Is Changing the World
With an Afterword by Bill McKibben
Updated Edition
“The power of Gary Braasch’s personal witness to the climate crisis
makes this essential reading for every citizen.” Al Gore
“This may be the most deeply researched photo book of all time.”
Vanity Fair
“Braasch brings together startling and breathtaking imagery with
personal accounts and the best available scientific evidence.” Nature
“The pictures are truly eye-opening…. We may not truly believe what
we’ve done to the planet until we actually see the results for ourselves.”
The Ecologist
“Truly rich and beautiful…. An excellent publication!”
R. K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
and corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
More than a warning, Earth under Fire is the most complete illustrated
guide to the effects of climate change now available. It offers an
upbeat and intelligent account of how we can lessen the effects of our
near-total dependence on fossil fuels using technologies and energy
sources already available. A thorough revision and a new preface for
the paperback edition bring the compelling facts about climate change
up to date.
Gary Braasch is an Ansel Adams Award–winning
photojournalist and a fellow of the International
League of Conservation Photographers. He is the
author of Photographing the Patterns of Nature.
FEBRUARY
295 pages, 8-1/2 x 10”, 110 color & 5 line illustrations,
6 maps
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24438-2)
Ecology/Environmental Studies/Photography
World
paper 978-0-520-26025-2 $24.95/£14.95
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Susan Freinkel
American Chestnut
The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
“An absorbing account of not only the decline of this Herculean tree,
but of those who are trying to develop disease-resistant varieties.”
New York Times
“American Chestnut is a parable for our time: a sad and salutary tale,
beautifully written.” Nature
“A tale of the functional extinction of what was once one of the most
economically valuable and ecologically important trees.”
American Scientist
“Freinkel makes a fine narrator…. You’ll find yourself rooting for a cure.”
Utne
“A spellbinding microhistory teeming with tales of conviction, ambition,
frustration, and just plain luck…. Poetic…. Crystalline.” Booklist
“A moving portrait…. Freinkel’s fine reportage sparkles.” Natural History
Susan Freinkel is a freelance science journalist
whose feature writing has appeared in Discover,
Health, and Smithsonian, among other publications.
APRIL
294 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 1 line illustration,
1 map
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24730-7)
Ecology/Botany/Natural History
World
paper 978-0-520-25994-2 $16.95/£9.95
The American chestnut was one of America’s most common, valued,
and beloved trees. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague
swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within
forty years, the blight had killed close to four billion trees and left the
species teetering on the brink of extinction. In American Chestnut,
Susan Freinkel tells the dramatic story of the stubborn optimists who
refuse to let this cultural icon go.
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Philip L. Fradkin
Wallace Stegner
and the American West
“As Fradkin notes in this astute biography, it was a miracle that he
didn’t write pulp westerns. Instead, Stegner took as his subject the
failure of his father’s homestead, built on denial of the most fundamental
Western reality: drought.” The New Yorker
“It is clear that this is an ideal match between biographer and subject.”
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“Fradkin has given us our first full critical portrait of the man and his
protean career.” Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder
Renowned environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reveals the
Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy—a generous teacher, conservationist,
and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character.
Fradkin chronicles Stegner’s formative years, from the raw,
desolate plains of Saskatchewan and the canyonlands of Utah to
California’s Silicon Valley. A lifelong teacher and environmentalist,
Stegner inspired countless writers and defended the wilderness against
human desecration. In this biography of man, place, and century,
Fradkin traces Stegner’s life across its many landscapes, and shows us
how this child of the fading frontier became the voice, protector, and
enduring icon of the West.
Philip L. Fradkin is the author of eleven highly
praised books, including A River No More and The
Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906. He was
the first western editor of Audubon Magazine and
shared a Pulitzer Prize as a journalist for the Los
Angeles Times.
FEBRUARY
386 pages, 6 x 9”
American Studies/California & the West
Omit British Commonwealth, except Canada
paper 978-0-520-25957-7 $19.95
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Charles Robert Jenkins with Jim Frederick
The Reluctant Communist
My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment
in North Korea
“Oddly compelling.” New Yorker
“Extraordinary…. Opens a window on a world of fathomless evil, and
tells a heartbreaking story.” Wall Street Journal
“A valentine in disguise…. [An] evocation of the emotional space
Jenkins and his bride, Hitomi Soga, claimed for themselves, even
under the cruel gaze of the Kims.” The Atlantic
“A riveting account.” Kirkus Reviews
Charles Robert Jenkins is a former United States
Army soldier who lived in North Korea from 1965
to 2004. He now lives in Japan. Jim Frederick is a
Time Senior Editor stationed in London.
MARCH
232 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 14 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25333-9)
Asian Studies/History/Autobiography
British Commonwealth, U.S. & Territories, Canada,
Mexico
paper 978-0-520-25999-7 $15.95/£9.50
In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles
Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the
DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing
sentry along the world’s most heavily militarized border. He believed
his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence.
Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for forty
years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes
the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and
simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader
behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its
isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.
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PAPERBACKS
Robert Benewick and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
The State of China Atlas
Mapping the World’s Fastest-Growing Economy
Revised and Updated
Praise for the previous edition:
“A book to savour.” John Adams, Asian Affairs
“Clear, comprehensive, and focused on the most crucial issues facing
the country.” Marc Blecher, Oberlin College
This magnificently produced atlas provides a unique visual survey of
the profound economic, political, and social changes taking place in
China, as well as their implications for the world at large.
China has the world’s fastest-growing economy and is the secondlargest
trading nation. With its pro-entrepreneurial outlook and population
of 1.3 billion, it offers unique opportunities for domestic and
overseas investors. This dynamic volume provides an abundance of
information on China’s new wealth, growing unemployment, mass
migration to the cities, and trade disputes.
Completely Revised and Updated:
• Vivid full-color maps convey a wealth of information quickly and efficiently
• Comprehensive information on China’s population, employment,
agriculture, industry, and economics
Robert Benewick is Emeritus Professor of Politics,
University of Sussex, and Research Associate at
the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University
of Westminster. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is
Professor of Chinese Media Studies at the
University of Sydney.
Copub: Myriad Editions Limited
APRIL
128 pages, 7-1/2 x 9-3/4”, 60 maps, 7 color &
1 b/w photo, 5 tables
Geography/Asian Studies/Reference
World
paper 978-0-520-25610-1 $19.95/£11.95
Also by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
and Robert Benewick:
Pocket China Atlas
Maps and Facts at Your Fingertips
World
paper 978-0-520-25468-8 $10.95/£5.95
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PAPERBACKS
Steven H. Miles, MD
Oath Betrayed
America’s Torture Doctors
Second Edition
“Collects countless examples of medical complicity in abuse that is
all the more disturbing for the lack of any notable protest.”
The New York Times
“A harrowing documentation of how the military medical profession
has been corrupted by the Bush-Rumsfeld interrogation rules.” Time
“Dr. Miles writes in a white rage, with great justification—but he lets
the facts tell the story.” Seymour M. Hersh
Steven H. Miles, MD is Professor of Medicine at
the University of Minnesota Medical School, a
member of its Center for Bioethics, and a practicing
physician.
APRIL
250 pages, 6 x 9”, 7 b/w photographs, 3 line llustrations,
1 map
Politics/Health and Medicine
Omit North & South Korea, Lebenon
paper 978-0-520-25968-3 $16.95/£9.95
The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on terror
has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about
the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. In Oath Betrayed, medical
ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors,
psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised
and monitored abuse, falsified documents—including death certificates—and
were largely silent as the scandal unfolded. This updated
and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about
the policies that engage clinicians in torture. It discusses the ongoing
furor over psychologists’ participating in interrogations. Most explosively
this new edition shows how interrogation psychologists may
have moved from information-gathering to coercive experiments,
warning all of us about a new direction in U.S. policy and military
medicine—a direction that not so long ago was unthinkable.
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PAPERBACKS
Melvyn C. Goldstein
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2
The Calm before the Storm, 1951–1955
“Impressively meticulous. [A] wealth of well-ordered detail and primary
source material, both Tibetan and Chinese.” Times Literary Supplement
“Incisive…. Goldstein’s remarkable dexterity of storytelling makes it a
book the reader cannot put down…. An indespensible reference.”
Journal of Asian Studies
“The definitive history…. Remarkably complete, careful, and persuasive.”
Journal of Chinese Political Science
It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between
China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened—
and why—during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of
Tibet’s history that he began in his acclaimed A History of Modern
Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, Melvyn C.
Goldstein critically revises our understanding of that key period in
midcentury. This authoritative account utilizes new archival material,
including never-before-seen documents, and extensive interviews with
Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, and Chinese officials. Goldstein
furnishes fascinating and sometimes surprising portraits of these major
players as he deftly unravels the fateful intertwining of Tibetan and
Chinese politics against the backdrop of the Korean War, the tenuous
Sino-Soviet alliance, and American cold war policy.
Melvyn C. Goldstein is Professor in Anthropology
and Codirector of the Center for Research on Tibet
at Case Western Reserve University. He is the
author of The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China,
Tibet, and the Dalai Lama (UC Press), among other
books.
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
Also by Melvyn C. Goldstein:
A History of Modern Tibet,
Volume 1: 1913–1951
The Demise of the Lamaist State
World
paper 978-0-520-07590-0 $45.00sc/£26.95
APRIL
674 pages, 6 x 9”, 26 b/w photographs, 4 maps
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24941-7)
History/Asian Studies/Tibet
World
paper 978-0-520-25995-9 $29.95/£17.95
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Caryl Flinn
Brass Diva
The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman
“Meticulously researched.” Bookforum
“Well-written and psychologically astute…. Will satisfy musical theater
fans and anyone who loves a snappy comeback.” The Advocate
“Fascinating…. Those interested in Merman the diva and the myriad
ways truth gets twisted in the making of a star will be utterly absorbed.”
Booklist
“Flinn masterfully analyzes Merman’s work on stage, screen and TV
with a sophisticated eye for detail that will delight theater buffs.”
Publishers Weekly
Caryl Flinn is Professor at the University of
Arizona. She is the author of The New German
Cinema: Music, History and the Matter of Style
(UC Press) and Strains of Utopia.
A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book
FEBRUARY
556 pages, 6 x 9”, 50 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-22942-6)
Biography/Cinema/Music
World
paper 978-0-520-26022-1 $18.95/£11.50
Broadway star Ethel Merman’s voice was a mesmerizing force and her
vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the
irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she
meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed
biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer
from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical
in its golden age. Mining official and unofficial sources, including
interviews with Merman’s family and her personal scrapbooks, Caryl
Flinn unearths new details of Merman’s life and finds that behind the
high-octane personality was a remarkably pragmatic woman who
never lost sight of her roots.
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Ernst van de Wetering
Rembrandt
The Painter at Work
Revised Edition
“Ernst van de Wetering’s wonderful book has taken us towards an
understanding of the machinery of Rembrandt’s genius. No one
attempting to write about Rembrandt in the future will be able to do
so without taking this fine work into account.” Simon Schama
“This is a very rich book, a deeply felt analysis of an artist whom the
author knows better than almost any living scholar.”
Times Literary Supplement
“This book is—if one may be allowed to say such a thing about a
serious scholarly work—a gripping good read.” Burlington Magazine
Rembrandt’s intriguing painting technique stirred the imaginations of
art lovers during his lifetime and has done so ever since. In this book,
now revised, updated, and with a new foreword by the author,
Rembrandt’s pictorial intentions and the variety of materials and techniques
he applied to create his fascinating effects are unraveled in
depth. At the same time, this “archaeology” of Rembrandt’s paintings
yields information on many other levels and offers a view of Rembrandt’s
daily practice and artistic considerations while simultaneously providing
a more dimensional image of the artist.
Ernst van de Wetering is Professor of Art History
at the University of Amsterdam. He has published
extensively on historical painting techniques, as
well as in the field of theory and ethics of conservation
and restoration.
Copub: Amsterdam University Press
APRIL
356 pages, 9-1/4 x 10-3/4”, 228 color & 107
b/w photographs
Art/Art History
U.S. & Territories, Canada, Philippines
Previous paperback published 2000
(978-0-520-22668-5)
paper 978-0-520-25884-6 $39.95
Rembrandt, detail of Self-Portrait at the Age of 26, 1632.
Panel (oval), 64.4 x 47.6 cm. Glasgow, The Burrell Collection.
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William F. Loomis
Life as It Is
Biology for the Public Sphere
“Fascinating.” Nature
“Wide-ranging, easily accessible, and thought-provoking…. A profound
and beautifully explained celebration of life.” New Scientist
“Highly provocative…. Loomis is a careful and clear guide to the historical,
social, and political aspects of biology, making this overview
both thorough and daring.” Publishers Weekly
William F. Loomis is Distinguished Professor of
Biology at the University of California, San Diego.
He is the former President of the Society for
Developmental Biology and an elected Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
This concise, accessible book considers from a biological perspective
the controversial issues of our day: abortion, euthanasia, engineered
evolution, cooperativity, and the future of sustainable life on this planet.
Exploring in fascinating detail the processes by which cells come into
being and multiply, Loomis clearly and simply explains the latest in
complex biological research. He reviews recent insights into molecular
and human evolution, the role of DNA sequences in determining
traits, and the biological basis for consciousness, all of which, he
argues, need to be considered when making life-and-death decisions
and wrestling with questions about the limits to intervention.
MAY
272 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 10 b/w photographs,
6 line illustrations
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25357-5)
Biology/Evolution
World
paper 978-0-520-26001-6 $15.95/£9.50
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Joan Roughgarden
Evolution’s Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
With a New Preface
“Thought–provoking…. Profound…. Combines the combustible power
of a keen intellect with powerful conviction and ethical courage.”
American Scientist
“Throws open the animal kingdom’s closet doors.” The Advocate
“As a compendium of information on sex and gender diversity in the
natural world, Roughgarden’s is the richest and most authoritative
book available.” Nature
“A fun read with laudable politics.” Out Magazine
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality
in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted
wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished
evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment,
the Bible, social science—and even Darwin himself. She leads
the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and
sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals,
including primates. Evolution’s Rainbow explains how this diversity
develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people
come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior.
Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay,
and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex,
gender, and sexuality. A new preface shows how this witty, playful, and
daring book has revolutionized our understanding of sexuality.
New by Joan Roughgarden, see page 12:
Genial Gene
Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
World
cloth 978-0-520-25826-6 $24.95/£14.95
Stonewall Book Awards, Israel Fishman Non-
Fiction Award; American Library Association’s
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered
Roundtable
Joan Roughgarden is Professor of Biological
Sciences at Stanford University. She is the author
of several books, including Evolution and Christian
Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist.
APRIL
484 pages, 6 x 9”
Previous paperback published in 2005
(978-0-520-24679-9)
Science/Gender Studies/Anthropology
World
paper 978-0-520-26012-2 $18.95/£11.50
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Jackson Mac Low
Thing of Beauty
New and Selected Works
Edited by Anne Tardos
“A substantial collection…. The book is a thing of beauty in itself,
splendidly designed and printed.” Times Literary Supplement
“A landmark collection.” Library Journal
“The best job to date in providing a window into Mac Low’s unique
perspective on what constitutes poetic beauty, showcasing a wide
range of his poetry.” Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Mac Low opened doors to places that poetry had not yet been. This
substantial selection is the ideal introduction to his work.”
Poetry Foundation
Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) was a poet, composer,
painter, and multimedia performance artist.
Anne Tardos is a poet, performer, visual artist,
and composer.
A Simpson Book in the Humanities
MAY
504 pages, 6 x 9”, 20 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-24936-3)
Literature/Poetry/Art
World
paper 978-0-520-26002-3 $21.95/£12.95
This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces,
“traditional” verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson
Mac Low’s lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, beginning
with “Thing of Beauty,” his first poem, until his death in 2004,
and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable
enthusiasm. Mac Low is widely acknowledged as one of the major
figures in twentieth-century American poetry. This volume, edited by
Anne Tardos, his wife and frequent collaborator, offers a balanced
arrangement of early, middle, and late work, designed to convey not
just the range but also the progressions and continuities of his writings
and “writingways.”
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Robert Creeley
On Earth
Last Poems and an Essay
“Few in number but various in approach, united by considerations of
aging and memory, these poems are more than merely a biographical
footnote.” D. H. Tracy, New York Times Book Review
“This work reveals a journeyman poet writing with unparalleled clarity
as he approached the most private of possible thresholds—the end of
a sorely loved life.” Boston Review
“The subtlest feeling for the measure that I encounter anywhere
except in the verses of Ezra Pound.” William Carlos Williams
“Robert Creeley’s poetry is as basic and necessary as the air we
breathe. He is about the best we have.” John Ashbery
Robert Creeley, one of the most significant American poets of the
twentieth century, helped define an emerging countertradition to the
prevailing literary establishment—a postwar poetry originating with
Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. When
Creeley died in March 2005, he was working on what was to be his
final book of poetry. In addition to more than thirty new poems,
many touching on the twin themes of memory and presence, this
moving collection includes the text of the last paper Creeley gave—an
essay exploring the late verse of Walt Whitman. Together, the essay and
the poems are a retrospective on aging and the resilience of memory.
Robert Creeley (1926–2005) published more than
sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews.
He was a member of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Professor
at Brown University.
MAY
100 pages, 4-1/2 x 7”
Hardcover published in 2006 (978-0-520-24791-8)
Literature/Poetry
World
paper 978-0-520-25990-4 $14.95/£8.95
Robert Creeley
The Collected Poems of
Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
World
paper 978-0-520-25620-0 $24.95/£14.95
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Elias Aboujaoude, MD
Compulsive Acts
A Psychiatrist’s Tales of Ritual and Obsession
“An engaging glimpse into the all-too-often-crippling disorders that
many thousands suffer.” Booklist
“Highly readable…. Consistently provides the reader with a refreshingly
jargon-free and intimate look at what OCD looks and feels like.”
Publishers Weekly
“A wonderful read. These stories, written in a breezy, accessible style,
illuminate several of the more mysterious and perplexing psychiatric
ailments. Highly informative.” Irvin Yalom, MD, author of Love’s Executioner
Elias Aboujaoude, MD, is Director of the Impulse
Control Disorders Clinic at Stanford University
School of Medicine. His work has been featured in
the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
In this compelling book, we meet a man who can’t let anyone get within
a certain distance of his nose, two kleptomaniacs from very different
walks of life, a professor with a dangerous gambling habit, and others
with equally debilitating compulsive conditions. Writing with compassion,
humor, and a deft literary touch, Elias Aboujaoude, an expert on
obsessive compulsive disorder and behavioral addictions, tells stories
inspired by memorable patients he has treated, taking us from initial
contact through the stages of the doctor-patient relationship. Into
these interconnected vignettes Aboujaoude weaves his own personal
experiences while presenting up-to-date, accessible medical information.
MARCH
191 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 4 tables
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25567-8)
Medicine
World
paper 978-0-520-25985-0 $15.95/£9.50
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Liza Dalby
East Wind Melts the Ice
A Memoir through the Seasons
“Eclectic…. A wealth of information.” New York Times Book Review
“Dalby seamlessly couples an artist’s adroit sensitivity with an
anthropologist’s keen perception to create a singularly intimate yet
universally accessible portrait of the natural world.” Booklist
“Delightful and fascinating…. A beautiful volume.” Bloomsbury Review
“Part garden journal and part memoir, this book presents an intriguing
new perspective—for Westerners at least—on the minute but inexorable
seasonal changes happening every day.” American Gardener
Writing in luminous prose, Liza Dalby, acclaimed author of Geisha
and The Tale of Murasaki, brings us this elegant and unique year’s
journal—a brilliant mosaic that is at once a candid memoir, a gardener’s
diary, and an enlightening excursion through cultures East and
West. Structured according to the seasonal units of an ancient Chinese
almanac, East Wind Melts the Ice is made up of seventy-two short
chapters that can be read straight through or dipped into at random.
In the manner of the Japanese personal poetic essay, this vibrant work
comprises seventy-two windows on a life lived between cultures, and
the result is a wonderfully engaging read.
Also by Liza Dalby:
Geisha
Updated with a New Preface
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Omit British Commonwealth; Include Canada
paper 978-0-520-25789-4 $24.95
Finalist for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize, Pacific Rim
Voices
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in
Japanese culture.
FEBRUARY
346 pages, 6 x 8”, 32 line illustrations, 1 table
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-25053-6)
Memoir/Gardening/California & the West
North America
paper 978-0-520-25991-1 $16.95/£9.95
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Peter Linebaugh
The Magna Carta Manifesto
Liberties and Commons for All
“Traces a proud lineage…with a passion, eloquence, and lyrical
reverence for hard-won freedoms.” The Independent
“Original, powerful, and groundbreaking…. Utterly fascinating….
Charts a path that gives me, and will give others, hope for a better
future.” Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights
“The ideas Linebaugh provokes and maps of liberty are dazzling,
reminders of what we have been and who we could be….
Remarkable.” Rebecca Solnit, author of Storming the Gates of Paradise
Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the
University of Toledo. He is the author of The
London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the
Eighteenth Century.
This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty
and shows how long-standing restraints against tyranny—and the
rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, as well as
the prohibition of torture—are being abridged. In providing a sweeping
history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215,
this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly
laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the
ambition of empire seize a state.
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
JUNE
376 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 13 b/w photographs,
1 line illustration, 1 table
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-24726-0)
History/Law/Politics
World
paper 978-0-520-26000-9 $15.95/£9.50
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Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman
Denying History
Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened
and Why Do They Say It?
Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg
Updated and Expanded
“You won’t be able to stop reading this great, gripping story.”
Jared Diamond, author of Collapse
“Convincing…. A patiently stunning case that denies the deniers.”
Los Angeles Times
“Deserves a prominent place…especially for its survey of the flaws,
fallacies and failings in the deniers’ arguments.” Financial Times
“An inventively thorough treatment…. Important…. A powerful weapon
for anyone who cares about learning from the credible historical record.”
Publishers Weekly
Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the
Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such
claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust
deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve a response,
historians Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves
in the minds and culture of these Holocaust “revisionists.” In
the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened
and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event.
This edition is expanded with a new chapter and epilogue examining
current, shockingly mainstream revisionism.
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of
Skeptic magazine and Adjunct Professor of
Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
Alex Grobman is President of the Institute for
Contemporary Jewish Life and the Brenn Institute.
An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies
APRIL
370 pages, 6 x 9”, 48 b/w photos, 16 illustrations,
3 tables
Previous paperback published in 2002
(978-0-520-23469-7)
History/Sociology/Jewish Studies
World
paper 978-0-520-26098-6 $18.95sc/£11.50
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Victor Davis Hanson
The Western Way of War
Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
With an Introduction by John Keegan
With a New Preface
“A small masterpiece of style and scholarship.” The Economist
“Enthralling…. One closes this book wishing that its final verdict was
as well known as more familiar tenets of Greek wisdom.”
Christopher Hitchens, Newsday
“[Hanson] has opened up a whole new way of looking at classical
Greek warfare.” Journal of Hellenic Studies
Victor Davis Hanson is Professor of Classics at
California State University, Fresno, and author and
coauthor of many books, including The Landmark
Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the
Peloponnesian War.
APRIL
303 pages, 6 x 9”
Previous paperback published in 2000
(978-0-520-21911-3)
Classical Studies/Military History
Omit British Commonwealth & Ireland, except Canada
paper 978-0-520-26009-2 $21.95/£12.95
The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of
Western politics—that the power of state should be guided by a
majority of its citizens—but also the central act of Western warfare,
the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, or combat
between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century B.C. devised
a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men
of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows
how this brutal enterprise was dedicated to the same outcome as consensual
government—an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute.
Linking this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional government,
Hanson raises new issues and questions old assumptions about
the history of war. A new preface addresses recent scholarship on
Greek warfare.
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Reyner Banham
Los Angeles
The Architecture of Four Ecologies
With a New Foreword by Joe Day
“The true language of Los Angeles is the language of movement, says
Banham…. A generous and exhilarating joyride.”
Roger Jellinek, The New York Times
“Deserves to be read today not for its prescience or as a quaint
historical artifact, but as a model on how to read any city.”
Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A light-hearted and affectionate tribute.” New York Review of Books
Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a
way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh
eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as
well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building.
His construct of “four ecologies” examined the ways Angelenos
relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills.
Banham delighted in this mobile city and identified it as an exemplar
of the posturban future. In a spectacular new foreword, architect and
scholar Joe Day explores how the structure of Los Angeles, the concept
of “ecology,” and the relevance of Banham’s ideas have changed over the
past thirty-five years.
Reyner Banham (1922–1988) was Sheldon H.
Solow Professor of the History of Architecture at
the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Joe Day leads deegan day design llc and serves on
the design faculty at the Southern California
Institute of Architecture.
FEBRUARY
281 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 111 b/w photographs,
4 line drawings, 8 maps
Previous paperback published in 2001
(978-0-520-21924-3)
Architecture/Urban Studies
World
paper 978-0-520-26015-3 $22.95/£13.50
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Janice Ross
Anna Halprin
Experience as Dance
Foreword by Richard Schechner
“Beautifully researched…with a tone of persuasive poise, Ross builds
a strong case for Anna Halprin as one of the most potent, if underrecognized,
catalysts in dance.” Dance Magazine
“An indispensable critical biography of this modern dance pioneer….
Remarkable…. Intelligent.” Financial Times
“Fastidiously researched…. A masterful job.” Jewish Book World
“Superb biography…. Rich with fascinating material.” Metro Newspapers
“A crucial contribution to a dance history heavily based in the New
York experience.” Marcia Siegel, Hudson Review
2008 Special Citation from the de la Torre
Bueno Prize, Society of Dance History Scholars
Janice Ross is Professor of Drama at Stanford
University. Richard Schechner is University Professor
and one of the founders of the Performance
Studies Department at New York University.
Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as “postmodern dance,”
creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation
in theater, music, Happenings, and performance art. This first comprehensive
biography examines Halprin’s fascinating life in the context
of American culture—in particular popular culture and the West
Coast as a center of artistic experimentation from the Beats through
the Hippies to the present. The result is an innovative consideration of
how experience becomes performance, as well as a masterful account
of an extraordinary life.
A Simpson Book in the Humanities
MAY
462 pages, 6 x 9”, 45 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24757-4)
Dance/Biography/California & the West
World
paper 978-0-520-26005-4 $21.95/£12.95
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David Shambaugh
China’s Communist
Party
Atrophy and Adaptation
“Although [Shambaugh] is not blind to the
serious—and growing—challenges to
Beijing’s rule, neither, in his telling, is
Beijing. Such open-minded vigilance may
be the Chinese leaders’ best insurance
against following in the footsteps of the
communists who went before them.”
William J. Dobson, Washington Post Book World
Few issues affect the future of China—and
hence all the nations that interact with
China—more than the nature of its ruling
party and government. In this timely study,
David Shambaugh assesses the strengths
and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and
potential longevity of China’s Communist
Party (CCP).
David Shambaugh is Professor of Political Science
and International Affairs and Director of the China
Policy Program at the Elliott School of International
Affairs, George Washington University.
Copub: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
MARCH
256 pages, 6 x 9”
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25492-3)
Asian Studies/History/Politics
World
paper 978-0-520-26007-8 $21.95sc/£12.95
Anita Chan, Richard Madsen,
and Jonathan Unger
Chen Village
Revolution to Globalization
Third Edition
The first two editions of Chen Village presented
an enthralling account of a Chinese
village in the throes of Maoist revolution
followed by dramatic changes in village life
and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping
period. Now, more than a decade and a half
later, the authors have returned to Chen
Village, and in three new chapters they
explore astonishing developments. The
once-backwater village is today a center of
China’s export industry, where more than
50,000 workers labor in modern factories,
ruled by the village government. This new
edition of Chen Village illuminates, in
microcosm, the recent history of rural China
up to the present time.
Anita Chan is a sociologist at the Australian
National University. Richard Madsen is Professor of
Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Jonathan Unger is head of the Contemporary China
Centre at the Australian National University.
APRIL
400 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 48 b/w photographs,
2 line illustrations
Previous paperback published in 1992
(978-0-520-08109-3)
Sociology/Asian Studies/China
World
paper 978-0-520-25931-7 $22.95sc/£13.50
A modern wedding procession in China.
From Chen Village.
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Miriam Silverberg
Erotic Grotesque
Nonsense
The Mass Culture of Japanese
Modern Times
“A timely and provocative challenge to the
master narratives of interwar and wrtime
Japan…. Insightful, provocative, often
effervescent…. An excellent book.”
Journal of Asian Studies
This history of Japanese mass culture during
the decades preceding Pearl Harbor
argues that the new gestures, relationship,
and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic
grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously
modern ethos that challenged state
ideology and expansionism. Miriam
Silverberg’s innovative study demonstrates
how new public spaces, new relationships
within the family, and an ironic sensibility
expressed the attitude of Japanese consumers
who identified with the modern as providing
a cosmopolitan break from tradition at
the same time that they mobilized for war.
Miriam Silverberg (1951–2008) was Professor of
History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Asia Pacific Modern, 1
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
JUNE
388 pages, 6 x 9”, 33 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-22273-1)
History/Asian Studies/Gender Studies
World
paper 978-0-520-26008-5 $24.95sc/£14.95
Hillel Cohen
Army of Shadows
Palestinian Collaboration with
Zionism, 1917–1948
“Groundbreaking…. Riveting…. Eloquent.”
The Nation
“Important…. The picture presented is
thorough and fair and persuasive.”
New Republic
“Cohen adds human insights to one of the
most painful dimensions of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. Fascinating.”
Tom Segev, author of 1967: Israel, the War, and
the Year that Transformed the Middle East
Inspired by stories he heard in the West
Bank as a child, Hillel Cohen uncovers a
hidden history in this extraordinary and
beautifully written book—a history central
to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict
but for the most part willfully ignored
until now. Army of Shadows, initially published
in Israel to high acclaim and intense
controversy, offers a crucial new view of
history from below and raises profound
questions about the roots of the Israel-
Palestine conflict.
Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow at the Truman
Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
FEBRUAURY
352 pages, 6 x 9”
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25221-9)
History/Middle Eastern Studies/Politics
World
paper 978-0-520-25989-8 $18.95sc/£11.50
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Peter Jelavich
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Radio, Film, and the Death
of Weimar Culture
“Important…. Moves beyond the sphere of
textual interpretation to analyze the complex
interplay of multiple media in the
making of modern German culture.” History
This fascinating exploration of a work that
was the epitome of German literary modernism
illuminates in chilling detail the
death of the Weimar Republic’s left-leaning
culture of innovation and experimentation.
Peter Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin’s
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), a novel that
questioned the autonomy and coherence of
the human personality in the modern
metropolis. Jelavich’s book becomes a cautionary
tale about how fear of outspoken
right-wing politicians can curtail and eliminate
the arts as a critical counterforce to
politics—all in the name of entertainment.
Peter Jelavich is Professor of History at Johns
Hopkins University.
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 37
An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities
MARCH
316 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2006 (978-0-520-24363-7)
History/Film & Media Studies/Literature
World
paper 978-0-520-25997-3 $24.95sc/£14.95
Daniel D. Beck
Biology of Gila Monsters
and Beaded Lizards
With Contributions from Brent E. Martin
and Charles H. Lowe
Photographs by Thomas Wiewandt
Foreword by Harry W. Greene
“No one could ask for a more comprehensive
yet readable book on the biology of
this fascinating group of lizards.”
Quarterly Review of Biology
No two lizard species have spawned as
much folklore, wonder, and myth as the
Gila Monster, Heloderma suspectum, and
the Beaded Lizard, H. horridum—the sole
survivors of an ancient group of predacious
lizards called the Monstersauria.
Monstersaurs are among the most famous
of lizards, yet until quite recently they have
remained among the least studied. With
numerous illustrations, stunning color photographs,
and an up-to-date synthesis of
their biology, this book explains why they
seems poised to change the way we think
about lizards.
Daniel D. Beck is Professor of Biology at Central
Washington University.
Organisms and Environments, 9
JUNE
247 pages, 7 x 10”, 35 color illustrations, 26 b/w
photographs, 40 line illustrations, 2 maps, 22 tables
Hardcover published 2005 (978-0-520-24357-6)
Natural History
World
paper 978-0-520-25987-4 $29.95sc/£17.95
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Arthur M. Eckstein
Mediterranean Anarchy,
Interstate War, and
the Rise of Rome
“A sophisticated reading of the ancient
evidence about the motives underlying the
expansionism of the Roman Republic.
A heroic, painstaking work.”
American Historical Review
This groundbreaking study is the first to
employ modern international relations
theory to place Roman militarism and
expansion of power within the broader
Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy.
Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that
Rome was an exceptionally warlike and
aggressive state—not merely in modern but
in ancient terms—by arguing that intense
militarism and aggressiveness were common
among all Mediterranean polities from ca.
750 B.C. onward.
Arthur M. Eckstein is Professor of History at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
Hellenistic Culture and Society, XLVIII
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
APRIL
389 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 maps
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24618-8)
Classical Studies/Ancient History/Politics
World
paper 978-0-520-25992-8 $24.95sc/£14.95
Michael Flower
The Seer in
Ancient Greece
“Descriptive…. [An] overall achievement….
Covers so much evidence so thoroughly.”
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of
divination, operated in ancient Greek society
through a combination of charismatic
inspiration and diverse skills ranging from
examining the livers of sacrificed animals to
spirit possession. This engaging book, the
only comprehensive study of this fascinating
figure, enters into the socioreligious
world of ancient Greece to explore what
seers did, why they were so widely
employed, and how their craft served as a
viable and useful social practice.
Michael Flower is Senior Research Scholar at
Princeton University.
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
JANUARY
328 pages, 6 x 9”, 19 b/w photographs
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25229-5)
Classical Studies
World
paper 978-0-520-25993-5 $24.95sc/£14.95
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PAPERBACKS
Clifford Ando
The Matter of the Gods
Religion and the Roman Empire
“Clifford argues that the Romans acquired
knowledge of the gods through observation
of the world and that their rituals were
maintained or modified in light of what
they learnt.” Times Higher Education Supplement
What did the Romans know about their
gods? Why did they perform the rituals of
their religion, and what motivated them to
change those rituals? To these questions
Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: In
contrast to ancient Christians, who had
faith, Romans had knowledge, and their
knowledge was empirical in orientation. The
Matter of the Gods pursues a variety of themes
essential to the study of religion in history.
Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics, History, and
the College at the University of Chicago.
The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 44
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
MARCH
270 pages, 6 x 9”
Hardcover published 2008 (978-0-520-25083-3)
Classical Studies/Religion
World
paper 978-0-520-25986-7 $24.95sc/£14.95
Sheldon Pollock
The Language
of the Gods in the
World of Men
Sanskrit, Culture, and Power
in Premodern India
“A tour de force.” American Historical Review
“Magisterial…. The kind of scholarly synthesis
and insightful interpretation that
comes along, at most, once in a generation
or two.” Journal of Asian Studies
In this work of impressive scholarship,
Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable
rise and fall of Sanskrit, India’s ancient language,
as a vehicle of poetry and polity.
Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for
Asian Studies
32nd Lionel Trilling Award, Columbia College and
Flora Levy Foundation of Lafayette, La.
2006 Professional and Scholarly Publishing
Division Awards for Excellence in Literature,
Language & Linguistics, The Professional and
Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association
of American Publishers
Sheldon Pollock is Professor of Sanskrit and
South Asian Studies at Columbia University.
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
JUNE
703 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 4 maps
Hardcover published in 2006 (978-0-520-24500-6)
Religion/Asian Studies/History/Literature
Omit South Asia, Myanmar
paper 978-0-520-26003-0 $34.95sc/£19.95
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Stephen R. Bokenkamp
Ancestors and Anxiety
Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth
in China
“Meticulous research…penetrating insight.
There is no doubt that this book will deeply
influence the way we look at Medieval
Chinese religion and society.”
Journal of Chinese Religions
This innovative work on Chinese concepts
of the afterlife is the result of groundbreaking
study of Chinese scripture and the
incorporation of Indic concepts into the
Chinese worldview. Here, Bokenkamp
explores how Chinese authors received and
deployed ideas about rebirth from the third
to the sixth centuries C.E. In tracing the
antecedents of these scriptures, Bokenkamp
uncovers a stunning array of non-Buddhist
accounts that provide details on the realms
of the dead, their denizens, and human
interactions with them.
Stephen R. Bokenkamp is Professor in the
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
at Indiana University.
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
JANUARY
232 pages, 6 x 9”
Hardcover published in 2007 (978-0-520-24948-6)
Religion/History/Asian Studies
World
paper 978-0-520-25988-1 $24.95sc/£14.95
David Sedley
Creationism and
Its Critics in Antiquity
“The brilliance of this book is that Sedley
lets the Greeks talk to us and, surprisingly,
we can understand what they’re saying.”
Nature
The world is configured in ways that seem
systematically hospitable to life forms, especially
the human race. Is this the outcome
of divine planning or simply of the laws
of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans
famously disagreed on whether the cosmos
was the product of design or accident. In
this book, David Sedley examines this question
and illuminates new historical perspectives
on the pantheon of thinkers who laid
the foundations of Western philosophy and
science: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates,
Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient
Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Sather Classical Lectures, 66
A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature
FEBRUARY
296 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 line illustrations
Hardcover published in 2008 (978-0-520-25364-3)
Classics/Religion/Philosophy
World
paper 978-0-520-26006-1 $19.95sc/£11.95
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For eighty-eight years, the Huntington Library has
published books in the fields of art, horticulture, and
British and American history and literature. A field of
art history new to the Huntington Library Press is represented
by an exhibit catalogue featuring masterworks
of Chinese painting and calligraphy.
TOP: One-Stroke Calligraphy of the Character Hu (Tiger) (1890) by Weng Tonghe (1830–1904), hanging scroll, ink on paper, 25 x 57”, Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection.
ABOVE: Elegant Gathering at the Laixi Residence (1990, detail of Lyme Creek), by Wan-go Weng (b. 1918), ink and color on paper, 15 x 105”, Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection.
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HUNTINGTON LIBRARY PRESS
Edited by T. June Li
Treasures through Six Generations
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Weng Collection
“One of the world’s great private collections of classical Chinese art.”
Boston Globe
This beautifully illustrated volume provides an in-depth look at some
of the key works in the Wang-go H. C. Weng Collection of Chinese
painting and calligraphy. Weng Tonghe (1830–1904), who gathered
the greater part of the collection, was a preeminent statesman and
scholar of late Qing-dynasty China, and the masterworks he collected
reflect the refined taste of the scholars of his time. Weng’s great-greatgrandson
Wan-go H. C. Weng—the collection’s current owner—
brought it to the United States for safekeeping in 1948. The fifty-one
works reproduced in this catalogue, on exhibit at the Huntington in
spring 2009, range from the twelfth century to the twentieth, and represent
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collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy during the
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AUTHOR INDEX
Aboujaoude, Elias, MD, 90
Allmon, Warren D., 64
Ammann, Karl, 2
Ando, Clifford, 101
Asmus, Peter, 36
Auslander, Leora, 50
Axelrod, Jeremiah B.C., 55
Bakalian, Anny, 43
Bales, Kevin, 9
Bambaradeniya, Channa, 6
Banham, Reyner, 95
Baraka, Amiri, 20
Barclay, Lesley, 42
Barker, Jennifer M., 75
Bar-Kochva, Bezalel, 59
Beck, Daniel D., 99
Benewick, Robert, 81
Berman, Lila Corwin, 63
Bertness, Mark D., 67
Blanco, John D., 63
Blumenthal, David, 16
Bokenkamp, Stephen R., 102
Borneman, John, 48
Bourgois, Philippe, 41
Bozorgmehr, Mehdi, 43
Braasch, Gary, 77
Braddock, Alan, C., 72
Burawoy, Michael, 45
Burke III, Edmund, 51
Burns, Sarah, 70
California Coastal Commission, 34
Carle, David, 37
Carney, Ray, 21
Chan, Anita, 97
Choi, Hyaeweol, 69
Clague, David A., 65
Cohen, Hillel, 98
Cole, Alan, 60
Couzens, Dominic, 15
Creeley, Robert, 89
Csordas, Thomas J., 60
Dalby, Liza, 91
Davis, John, 70
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E., 42
Daviss, Betty-Anne, 42
Delgado, James P., 24, 43
Diamond, Andrew J., 55
Dikötter, Frank, 54
Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk, 81
Dorontchenkov, Ilia, 71
Eckstein, Arthur M., 100
Facos, Michelle, 71
Flinn, Caryl, 84
Flores, Cinthya, 6
Flower, Michael, 100
Fradkin, Philip L., 79
Frederick, Jim, 80
Freinkel, Susan, 78
Geary, Daniel, 49
Genoways, Ted, 19
Gillespie, Rosemary G., 65
Ginsberg, Joshua, 6
Goldstein, Melvyn C., 83
Greene, Gayle, 76
Grobman, Alex, 93
Grosholz, Edwin D., 67
Gross, Rita M., 61
Gualtieri, Sarah, 50
Gunn, Giles, 69
Gutierrez-Jones, Carl, 69
Hammoudi, Abdellah, 48
Hanson, Victor Davis, 94
Hauer, F. R., 69
Hemenway, David, 47
Hoare, Ben, 14
Hodson, Sara S., 105
Holing, Dwight, 6
Honigsberg, Peter Jan, 23
Hundley, Norris, Jr., 33
Iceland, John, 47
Jelavich, Peter, 99
Jenkins, Charles Robert, 80
Johnson, Robert Flynn, 22
Kassebaum, Gene, 8
Keator, Glenn, 35
Kelman, Ari Y., 74
Kendall, Arthur W., Jr., 67
Kim, Jung-Wook, 69
Laking, Anne, 10
Lau, David, 38
Li, T. June, 104
Linebaugh, Peter, 92
Lobel, Michael, 72
Loomis, William F., 86
Losos, Jonathan B., 66
Luhr, Eileen, 56
Lumpkin, Susan, 6
Mac Low, Jackson, 88
Madsen, Richard, 97
Manning, Richard, 28
Marks, Jonathan, 40
McKay, George, 6
McLeod, Michael, 27
Meltzer, David J., 26
Mendelson, Richard, 31
Messner, Michael A., 49
Miles, Steven H., MD, 82
Miller, Bruce S., 67
Miller, Stephen G., 57
Milner, Richard, 13
Morone, James A., 16
Musick, John, 6
Newell, R. L., 69
Okihiro, Gary Y., 4
Opler, Paul A., 68
Partner, Simon, 53
Pasler, Jann, 73
Peterson, Dale, 2
Plantinga, Carl, 75
Pollock, Sheldon, 101
Pomeranz, Kenneth, 51
Powell, Jerry A., 68
Pubols, Louise, 105
Pugh, Allison J., 46
Quilty, Patrick, 6
Quinzio, Jeri, 5
Rao, Anupama, 44
Raskin, Jonah, 29
Reesman, Jeanne Campbell, 105
Renard, John, 62
Rose, Paul, 10
Rosenberg, Michael S., 66
Ross, Janice, 96
Roughgarden, Joan, 12, 87
Schayegh, Cyrus, 54
Schneiderman, Jill S., 64
Schonberg, Jeff, 41
Sedley, David, 102
Seldes, Barry, 18
Shambaugh, David, 97
Shennan, Stephen, 44
Shermer, Michael, 93
Silliman, Brian R., 67
Silverberg, Miriam, 98
Smelser, Neil J., 48
Smith, Joanna Handlin, 52
Soodalter, Ron, 9
Stanford, J. A., 69
Stasch, Rupert, 42
Steunenberg, Margaret J., 35
Stonehouse, Bernard, 6
Strang, Paul, 30
Tansman, Alan, 52
Teare, Brian, 38
Thorsrud, Harald, 58
Tomlinson, Matt, 62
Tracy, Stephen V., 59
Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 69
Tritten, Jan, 42
Tuominen, Miira, 58
Unger, Jonathan, 97
Upchurch, Charles, 56
van de Wetering, Ernst, 85
Wakeman, Frederic E., Jr., 53
Waksman, Steve, 74
Waldrop, Keith, 39
Walker, Franklin, 105
Ward, David, 8
Winterling, Aloys, 25
Woehler, Eric John, 6
Wohl, Ellen, 32
Woodruff, David, 6
Wuthnow, Robert, 17
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TITLE INDEX
Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism, 52
Age of Openness, 54
Alcatraz, 8
America and the Misshaping of a
New World Order, 69
American Art to 1900, 70
American Chestnut, 78
Anatomy of a Beast, 27
Ancestors and Anxiety, 102
Ancient Commentators on Plato
and Aristotle, 58
Ancient Scepticism, 58
Animal Migration, 14
Anna Halprin, 96
Annotated Catalog of the
Type Material of Aphytis
(Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
in the Entomology Research
Museum, University of
California at Riverside, 69
Army of Shadows, 98
Art of Doing Good, 52
Backlash 9/11, 43
Beaches and Parks of Southern
California, 34
Before Wilde, 56
Being There, 48
Berkeley Plato, 57
Berlin Alexanderplatz, 99
Between Arab and White, 50
Biology of Gila Monsters and
Beaded Lizards, 99
Birth Models that Work, 42
Boundless Faith, 17
Brass Diva, 84
California Plant Families, 35
Caligula, 25
Caste Question, 44
Chen Village, 97
China’s Communist Party, 97
Composing the Citizen, 73
Compulsive Acts, 90
Creationism and Its Critics in
Antiquity, 102
Cultural Revolutions, 50
Darwin’s Universe, 13
Denying History, 93
Digging, 20
Early Life History of Marine
Fishes, 67
Earth under Fire, 77
East Wind Melts the Ice, 91
Elephant Reflections, 2
Encyclopedia of Islands, 65
Environment and World History,
51
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense, 98
Evolution’s Rainbow, 87
Extended Case Method, 45
Face in the Lens, 22
Father of All, 105
Fathering Your Father, 60
Field Days, 29
First Peoples in a New World, 26
For the Rock Record, 64
From Demon to Darling, 31
Frontier Constitutions, 63
Garland of Feminist Reflections,
61
Gender and Mission Encounters
in Korea, 69
Genial Gene, 12
Gold Rush Port, 43
Heart of Power, 16
History of Modern Tibet, Vol. 2,
83
Human Impacts on Salt Marshes,
67
Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife, 6
Image of the Jews in Greek
Literature, 59
In God’s Image, 62
Insomniac, 76
International Advances in the
Ecology, Zoogeography, and
Systematics of Mayflies and
Stoneflies, 69
Introduction to Energy in
California, 36
Introduction to Water in
California, 37
Inventing Autopia, 55
It’s All for the Kids, 49
Jack London and the Klondike,
105
Jack London, 105
James Rosenquist, 72
John Cassavetes in Person, 21
Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet, 24
Language of the Gods in the
World of Men, 101
Leonard Bernstein, 18
Life as It Is, 86
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree, 66
Longing and Belonging, 46
Los Angeles, 95
Magna Carta Manifesto, 92
Matter of the Gods, 101
Mayor of Aihara, 53
Mean Streets, 55
Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate
War, and the Rise of Rome, 100
Moths of Western North
America, 68
Moving Viewers, 75
Oath Betrayed, 82
Oceans, 10
Odyssey Experience, 48
Of Rock and Rivers, 32
Of Sugar and Snow, 5
On Earth, 89
Our Nation Unhinged, 23
Pattern and Process in Cultural
Evolution, 44
Pericles, 59
Pineapple Culture, 4
Radical Ambition, 49
Reluctant Communist, 80
Rembrandt, 85
Rewilding the West, 28
Righteous Dopefiend, 41
Russian and Soviet Views of
Modern Western Art,
1890s to Mid–1930s, 71
Seer in Ancient Greece, 100
Sequence Alignment, 66
Sight Map, 38
Slave Next Door, 9
Society of Others, 42
South-West France, 30
Speaking of Jews, 63
State of China Atlas, 81
Station Identification, 74
Symbolist Art in Context, 71
Tactile Eye, 75
Tales of God’s Friends, 62
Telling Chinese History, 53
Thing of Beauty, 88
This Ain’t the Summer of Love,
74
Thomas Eakins and the Cultures
of Modernity, 72
Top 100 Birding Sites of the
World, 15
Transcendental Studies, 39
Transnational Transcendence, 60
Treasures through Six
Generations, 104
Virgil and the Mountain Cat, 38
Wallace Stegner and the American
West, 79
Walt Whitman and the Civil War,
19
Water and the West, 33
Western Way of War, 94
Where We Live Now, 47
While We Were Sleeping, 47
Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong,
54
Why I Am Not a Scientist, 40
Witnessing Suburbia, 56
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