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Book SynopsisPaul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don’ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Holocaust and climate-change denial. Bad Advice is a humorous guide to taking on quack experts and self-appointed activists and a must-read for any American disturbed by politicized attacks on science.Trade ReviewIn breezy and deceptively conversational prose that often winks with humor, Bad Advice breaks down complex scientific subjects that have been distorted through several cultural lenses. Offit takes to task actors, network news anchors, quack scientists, and even politicians who, unlike Jolie in her thoughtful article, have opined on scientific subjects in ways that misinform the public, on occasion to a potentially dangerous degree. * Washington Post *Bad advice about your health, firmly grounded in fact-free marketing, greed, and science denialism, is omnipresent in the new and old media these days. One of the few reliable sources of good advice is Dr. Paul A. Offit who, unlike all too many scientists and doctors, is ready to take on the hype and lies of celebrities, charlatans, ideologues, and money-grubbers with logic, evidence, and humor. Take my advice: Bad Advice is just what you need to navigate the murky waters of an unending stream of really bad information about your health. -- Arthur L. Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, New York University School of MedicineBad Advice gives us a front row seat to Offit’s role on the leading edge of the vaccine fight as he shows just how important communicating good science can be. The author's rare storytelling blend of equal parts humorous anecdotes and serious facts leads to an entertaining and captivating read that is hard to put down. -- Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, Columbia University Medical CenterPaul Offit is a pediatrician, a vaccine scientist, and one of our foremost explainers of science. In Bad Advice, he distills what he has learned—often the hard way—from standing up for science in the face of bogus theories, quack remedies, and the flat-out denial of empirical fact. Skillfully, Offit uses stories of his many missteps in the treacherous public arena to teach us how to confront pseudoscience effectively. In the process, without noticing, we learn fascinating lessons in the relevant science. A forcefully-written, indispensable book, particularly at the present moment. -- Geoffrey Kabat, cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and author of Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health RisksWith humor and a unique perspective, Offit takes us step by step through our culture’s missteps (and some of his own), relating stories of real science and the difficulties of communicating complicated concepts clearly to a skeptical and sometimes hostile public. Bad Advice shows us how we can succeed in the battle against pseudoscience, seductive gurus with simple messages, and snake oil-hawking celebrities. -- Adam Ratner, M.D., New York UniversityThe beauty of mass communication in our free society is also our curse. Information flows so quickly, from so many different sources, that one can’t help but be overwhelmed—and too frequently misled. No one has fought harder over the years to educate the public, and to puncture the dangerously false dogmas of pseudoscience, than Paul Offit. Bad Advice is a brilliant extension of his dictate, so aptly stated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, that one is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. Celebrities and politicians bear the brunt of Offit’s elegantly written, often hilarious, pinpoint assaults. But what makes this book truly special is its vision of how science can, and must, be defended against its despoilers. Bad Advice is, in every sense, an essential read. -- David Oshinsky, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of MedicineBad Advice is a fun and educational book that will leave readers optimistic—as Offit himself is—that fact will ultimately prevail over fiction in the world of science and medicine. “Although science is under siege,” Offit writes toward the end of the book, “science advocates are fighting back.” -- Arlene Weintraub, author of Heal: The Vital Role of Dogs in the Search for Cancer Cures * New York Journal of Books *[Bad Advice] provides a sterling example of this stand in the name of empirical truth. * Publishers Weekly *A well-presented, knowledgeable, and surprisingly engaging look at the pitfalls of the information age. * Foreword Reviews *The author's droll account of attempts to inform the public about vaccines and even before a congressional hearing make for compelling reading....Recommended * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologue: On Being Naïve1. What Science Is—and What It Isn’t2. White Mice and Windowless Rooms3. An Alibi for Ignorance4. Feeding the Beast5. To Debate or Not to Debate6. Make ’Em Laugh7. Science Goes to the Movies8. The Emperor’s New Clothes9. Judgment Day10. The Nuclear Option11. Pharma Shill12. A Ray of HopeEpilogue: The End of the TourAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Blogs and PodcastsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent international scholars considers alternative political formations to the nation-state, discussing their ability to preserve and expand the achievements of democratic constitutionalism in the twenty-first century and their capacity to deal with deep societal differences.Trade ReviewWhat is the best political form for modern democratic orders—a nation-state, a sovereign state, an empire, a confederation, an international organization, a federation of states, or a federal state? In an age where the classical answers to this question have become unsatisfying, the authors in this book come up with new arguments and answers. The articles are crisply written and very accessible for political scientists, legal scholars, and historians. The book is essential reading for those who want to know about the institutional options in order to keep democracy’s future in the age of globalization alive. -- Hubertus Buchstein, Universität GreifswaldThis unique volume explores the various dimensions of the contemporary crisis of the modern nation-state and the potentialities and dangers of alternative political forms, such as dispersed sovereignty, legal pluralism, and corporate governance. Timely, systematic and wide-ranging, it offers unrivaled insights into the distinctive political challenges of our times. -- Cécile Laborde, University of OxfordDiverse, sharp, and timely, this volume is a welcome intervention in the debate on postnational political forms. The authors explore a panoply of historical and contemporary pluralist ideas and institutions—from empire, federation, subsidiarity, status group pluralism, to transnational corporate jurisdiction—and critically detail their political trajectories and normative possibilities. What makes this volume distinctive is its constructive orientation and global scope. It asks with clarity how these political forms might be revived, reformed, and enacted without undermining the ideals of democratic self-rule and political equality that the nation-state was meant to secure. -- Karuna Mantena, Yale UniversityThe essays in Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism address an important new topic with clarity and substance. All in all, this is an extraordinary book which incorporates the very best of scholarship on a significant topic, constitutionalism and pluralism, and is fundamental reading for the current debates in political theory, law, sociology, and political philosophy. -- David M. Rasmussen, Boston College, Editor-in-Chief, Philosophy and Social CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism, by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen I. After Empire: Historical Alternatives1. Federation, Confederation, Territorial State: Debating a Post-imperial Future in French West Africa, 1945-1960, by Fred Cooper2. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy, by Gary Wilder3. From the American System to Anglo-Saxon Union: Scientific Racism and Supra-Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century North America, by Joshua Simon4. Constitutions and Forms of Pluralism in the Time of Conquest: The French Debates Over the Colonization of Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s, by Emmanuelle SaadaII. New Federal Formations and/or Subsidiarity5. The Constitutional Identity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Status Groups or Federal Actors?, by Patrick Macklem6. Federacy and the Kurds: Might This New Political Form Help Mitigate Hobbesian Conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria?, by Alfred Stepan and Jeff Miley7. Europe-What’s Left: Towards a Progressive Pluralist Program for EU Reform, by Robert Howse8. Subsidiarity and the Challenge to the Sovereign State, by Nadia UrbinatiIII. Status Group Legal Pluralism9. Indian Secularism and Its Challenges, by Christophe Jaffrelot10. Tainted Liberalism: Israel’s Millets, by Michael Karayanni11. Jurisdictional Competition and Internal Reform in Muslim Family Law in Israel and Greece, by Yuksel SezginIV. The Challenge of Corporate Power12. Corporate Legal Particularism, by Katharina Pistor13. Tax Competition and the Unbundling of Sovereignty, by Tsilly Dagan14. The Politics of Horizontal Inequality: Indigenous Opposition to Wind Energy Development in Mexico, by Courtney JungConclusion: Territorial Pluralism and Language Communities, by Astrid von Busekist List of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisKerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory culture played an essential role in the formation of Japanese modernity. Electrified Voices is a far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan.Trade ReviewA delightful and insightful narrative that weaves vivid human examples into a theoretical discussion of the meanings of media and sound. * Pacific Affairs *With Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar provides a brilliant and stimulating analysis of the role of sound media (telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound films) in the transition of Japan to modernity. -- ANDRE LANGE * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Electrified Voices is a well-researched book, which looks at the early days of Japan’s telecommunications, recording, radio and film industry. -- David Harris * Radio Enthusiast *This is an ambitious and wide-ranging study of Japan’s modern auditory culture at a time of great changes. The book lends itself well to use in the classroom and will be helpful to historians who wish to provide a different perspective not only on Japanese history but also on the history of technology. * American Historical Review *Insightful and informative, Electrified Voices opens up important new paths for thinking about cultural, social, and political praxes in modern Japan. . . . The voices that Yasar reveals help us, in short, to hear history anew. -- Scott W. Aalgaard, Wesleyan University * Monumenta Nipponica *Electrified Voices represents a valuable and highly accessible contribution to the global history of technology and sound as well as to our understanding of the cultural history of modern Japan, and it deserves a wide readership. -- Margaret Mehl, University of Copenhagen * Journal of Japanese Studies *Electrified Voices is an innovative, pathbreaking study of sound culture, media, and technology in modern Japan. -- Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los AngelesThe sounds coming from Japan in this book are both strange and familiar to ears used to reading about acoustic modernity in the North Atlantic world. Kerim Yasar has found new stories and characters for asking classic questions in media history and I, for one, am delighted to be enriched by a media-historical book on Japan that is so innovative in its historical approach and its choice of media. This book sings the body electric in Japan. -- John Durham Peters, Yale UniversityKerim Yasar recounts the fascinating story of how modernity in Japan sounded. Eminently readable, his book traces how Japan’s existing soundscape found itself translated and transformed by such modern audio technologies as the telephone, gramophone, radio, and talkie cinema, and how the process launched new debates about what it means to represent the real. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs, author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-PopTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on NamesIntroduction: All That Is Solid Melts Into Sound1. Vocal Cords and Telephone Wires: Orality in Japan, Old and New2. Sound and Sentiment3. The Grain in the Groove: Inscribed Voices, Echoed Temporalities4. Imagining the Wireless Community5. Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds: Early Japanese Radio Drama6. Sound and MotionCoda-okeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe CEO’s Boss is the definitive guide to a productive working relationship between corporate boards and CEOs. In this revised edition, William M. Klepper renews the paradigm set forth in The CEO’s Boss, with new case studies of companies such as Wells Fargo, BP, Hewlett-Packard, and Proctor & Gamble.Trade ReviewEverybody needs a superior, even the company CEO, and governing boards have increasingly answered the call. In doing so, they have added plenty “tough love” to the executive suite, as William Klepper has so well chronicled in The CEO's Boss, with rich accounts of the partnerships, sometimes flawed, between bosses and boards from BP and Lehman to Hewlett-Packard and Wells Fargo. -- Michael Useem, professor of management, Wharton School, and coauthor of Boards That LeadToo many researchers forget that we have as much—or more—to learn from failure as we do from success. By examining transitions that have worked and ones that haven't, William M. Klepper has given us new perspective on how boards can work with CEOs while still holding them accountable. This work is a much-needed addition to the canon of board-level best practices. -- Michael E. Raynor, author of The Strategy Paradox and coauthor of The Innovator's SolutionThe CEO's Boss is a must-read for anyone who looks to be taking the highest position in a company. * Midwest Book Review *The CEO's Boss serves up a wealth of practical, hands-on recommendations to build a productive partnership and a plan of action for a variety of businesses and settings.... For anyone who wants to take board evaluation, leadership structure, and dynamics to the next level, The CEO's Boss is inspired reading and will provide impetus for discussion. * Corporate Board Member *This sharply focused book fills a very important gap in boardrooms and the literature on corporate governance. William M. Klepper is a highly skilled researcher. -- Ram Charan, business consultant and author of The High-Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact[Klepper] provides unique perspective and insight into the ways in which today's companies are adapting to the ethical and legal challenges to their traditional roles. . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. The Social Contract2. Tough Love in the Boardroom3. Why the Right Partnership Matters4. Leadership Metrics5. How the Partnership Can Go Wrong: Take-Two Interactive6. What Directors Need to Know Before Committing to a CEO7. The Board’s Commitment to the CEO8. Effective Board Dynamics: How Directors Interact as a TeamEpilogue Is PrologueAppendix A: Outstanding DirectorsAppendix B: Interview with Glenn HubbardNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBelief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era.Trade ReviewWhen hospital visiting hours are over in contemporary Myanmar, Thomas Nathan Patton reports in this compelling book, the supernatural heroes known as weizzā stay behind—in images and statues of them, in dreams, and sometimes in visions—to comfort and embolden the sick. This is one example of how the men and women of modern-day Myanmar make lives for themselves in the everyday company of Buddhist wizard-saints, to the anxious consternation of religious and political authorities. Written with historical depth, attentive throughout to comparative phenomena in other religions, and based on extensive fieldwork, The Buddha’s Wizards is a major contribution to the critical reexamination of lived religion in the modern world. -- Robert A. Orsi, author of History and PresenceIn this path-breaking and richly textured study, Patton presents a much needed revision of the literature on Burmese Buddhist practices. His comprehensive study accounts of the ways in which many lay Buddhists in Myanmar form affective relations with wizards like Bo Min Gaung in dreams, visions, and through their material embodiments of power. Buddhist wizards and the stories about them transcend not only time and space; they also help devotees or fight the threat of Buddhist decline while giving voice to traditional Theravada sentiments. The reader will leave this book with a nuanced understanding of Theravada Buddhist practices as lived religion and its imaginaries that goes far beyond monolithic depictions of Buddhist institutions or texts by showing the reader how followers of the Buddha’s wizards make sense of the world around them. Anthropologists of religion and scholars of Buddhism, Southeast Asia, and especially Myanmar will want to introduce their students to Patton’s wonderful book. -- Juliane Schober, author of Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar: Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies, and Civil SocietyPatton’s gift to us is that he has opened a door into the mystical and miraculous world of the weizzā, Burmese Buddhism’s furtive wizard-saints. Resisting colonial, state, and institutional religious power, the wizards belong to the people. In affective bonds with their devotees, they disrupt, occupy, heal, and transform. Readers will not forget their encounter with the most potent wizard of all, Grandpa Bo Min Gaung. Grandpa is more proximate and accessible to his devotees than the Buddha himself. Patton’s intimate and vivid ethnographic study of the material and spiritual worlds of lived religion in Myanmar will transform how we think about Buddhism. -- Jennifer Scheper Hughes, author of Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the PresentBeginning from the very first page, Patton whisks us away on an exciting journey through the magical world of the Buddhist wizards of Myanmar. Based on in-depth and long-term ethnographic research, this book provides an intimate and deeply empathetic exploration of the roles wizards play as healers, bestowers of good luck, defenders of the faith, spirit guides and teachers, and, most importantly, as familiar presences in the everyday lives of contemporary Burmese Buddhists. -- C. Pierce Salguero, author of Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern SourcesIn The Buddha’s Wizards, the prose sparkles—the writing is crisp without being dry and evocative without being flowery—and Patton has achieved a nice balance between personal stories, primary research, and secondary source citations. He puts the voices of actual Burmese weizzā and practitioners (both female and male) first and foremost while also drawing upon a plethora of Burmese-language sources. -- Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical MonkAn elegant, rich, and thought-provoking study. Thomas Nathan Patton weaves theoretical reflection through graceful ethnographic and historical narrative and in the process develops a sophisticated framework for thinking about religious bodies and their worlds. -- Donovan Schaefer, author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power[An] elucidating anthropological monograph on Burmese Buddhism. . . . Filled with absorbing stories of wizards and magic, this book would fit easily into undergraduate or graduate courses on Asian religions and Southeast Asia. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Eloquently demonstrates the power of studying religions as lived phenomena. I hope it will find readers far and wide, both among specialists and in the undergraduate classroom. * Reading Religion *An accessible text suitable for undergraduate students and scholars alike interested in Buddhist encounters with modernity and Southeast Asian lived religiosity broadly. * Religious Studies Review *A multilayered history and ethnography. . . . Patton’s work is especially important for the way in which he allows the voices of his informants to be heard. * Choice *Well-written and informative. * New Books Asia *A work of lucid scholarship on a novel topic of interest not only to students of Theravada Buddhism but also to ethnographers, theorists of affect, and historians of religion. -- Justin W. Henry, Georgia College & State University * Bulletin for the Study of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. Vanguards of the Sāsana2. The Buddha’s Chief Wizard3. Women of the Wizard King4. Pagodas of Power5. Wizards in the ShadowsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisLaura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.Trade ReviewIn The New Slave Narrative, Laura T. Murphy, a literary scholar and antislavery activist, provides a timely and rigorous examination of the current narratives of contemporary slavery. Through meticulous readings of these recent volumes, Murphy reveals the profound influence of nineteenth-century slave narratives on these stories, examining how antebellum conventions impact the representations of those who have been recently enslaved. Brilliantly unraveling the political and social milieu in which twenty-first-century slave narratives are produced and published, Murphy makes a convincing argument for a “collegial literary critical approach” in order to “deepen our understanding of slavery and freedom.” The New Slave Narrative is a critically important consideration of human rights discourse. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard UniversityThe New Slave Narrative is an important, foundational text—a book that unstops our ears and opens our minds. -- Kevin Bales, author of Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the WorldThe New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first-century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can reshape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their LivesLaura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean—for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves. -- Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, author of What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They DoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on LanguagePrefaceIntroduction: The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative in the Twenty-First Century1. Making Slavery Legible2. The Not-Yet-Freedom Narrative3. Blackface Abolition4. Sex Problems and Antislavery’s Cognitive Dissonance5. What the Genre Creates, It Destroys: The Rise and Fall of Somaly MamConclusion: Collegial ReadingAppendix: List of New Slave NarrativesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAdam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how Walmart workers make sense of their jobs in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present for social and economic justice. Working for Respect makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality.Trade ReviewI am obsessed with this book! The prose is riveting. The blend of disparate methods is spectacular. The sheer adventure of student organizers fanning out across the country in a manner reminiscent of Freedom Summer will keep you turning the pages. Taken together, the portrait wrought is simply devastating. Walmart not only demands your labor and your loyalty, it claims your pride and strips you of dignity. -- Kathryn Edin, coauthor of $2 a Day: The Art of Living on Virtually Nothing in AmericaWalmart—the largest U.S. employer—is a symbol for high inequality in America. Its many shop-floor employees are paid as little as possible and have never shared in the huge success and profits of the company. Why can’t Walmart workers get a bigger share of the pie they helped create? This book, based on extensive interviews with Walmart workers, helps us understand why a job at Walmart might be the least bad option for many, how workers make sense of their job, and the challenges of organizing work at Walmart. Working for Respect is essential reading for a rich sociological understanding of the struggles of low-paid workers pitted against all-powerful corporations in America today. -- Emmanuel Saez, University of California, BerkeleyHow do people find and flex their own power to improve their workplaces? What lessons can all of us learn from dogged and creative efforts to organize workers at Walmart, the biggest private employer in the world? What kinds of relationships between organizers and their communities are most likely to lead to organizing breakthroughs? Working for Respect is a gripping read—a thoughtful, perceptive, and accessible work that takes a multi-layered approach, from in-depth interviews with Walmart workers to brain scans to a crash course in front-line organizing and beyond. This is a book for students of organizing, for academics interested in helping to counter rampant economic inequality, and for anyone who cares about winning material gains and respect for all workers in the age of Trump. -- Anna Galland, Executive Director, MoveOn.orgWorking for Respect is an extraordinary book, both in its deft and original intertwining of multiple research methods and in the insights it generates. -- Erik Olin Wright, author of Envisioning Real UtopiasWorking for Respect is at once a brilliant analysis of the lives of Walmart workers and an original effort to bridge the tension between scholarly work and activism. Along the way, Reich and Bearman raise the bar for mixed-method research in the social sciences. -- Mitchell Duneier, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton UniversityWorking for Respect is an engaging read that bristles with fresh insights into both the experience of low-wage service sector work and the dilemmas facing the labor movement. It offers an ethnography of what the authors dub 'Walmartism' as well as an argument about the ways in which social ties centered on trust have the potential to jumpstart social change. A must-read for any sociologist of labor. -- Ruth Milkman, CUNY Graduate CenterWith Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman issue a rare invitation. To go with them to Walmart, to listen with them to the workers and to the managers who roam the stores, to take in the culture of low-wage work in America, and also to listen to the students who participated in what became the Summer for Respect. This is a gripping book about the relationship between social ties and social change, remarkable for its intelligence and the subtlety of its distinctions. We learn that in the end it is trust rather than good feeling that inspires collective action for social change. -- Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different VoiceWhile Walmart plays enormous economic, symbolic, and employment roles nationwide, the interplay of these dynamics has not been fully explored. Working for Respect makes great progress in understanding Walmart as a social institution and therefore in understanding work at Walmart as a unique bellwether of contemporary work. -- Andrew Perrin, University of North CarolinaThe use of interview excerpts amplifies the voices of low-wage workers not often heard in public discourse. This is an insightful examination of the inner workings of the 'country's largest corporate employer.' * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *No one has analyzed the experiences and aspirations of Walmart workers as thoughtfully as Adam Reich and Peter Bearman do in their captivating new book. * American Prospect *What differentiates and recommends it for close reading are the anecdotes and perspectives of workers who face down enormous personal and social challenges and barriers, only to have their goals to contribute and thrive in American society tempered or more often dashed by what they (and the authors) see as corporate measures of compliance, coercion, and control. * Choice *The labor movement still has life, and Reich and Bearman provide a valuable reminder regarding where we need to look to find it. * Social Forces *A vital perspective. Analytically exhilarating. Fascinating. * Contemporary Sociology *A compelling case study of one of the most important labor organizing efforts in twenty‐first‐century America. . . . Working for Respect will pique the interest of scholars, students, and activists keyed into the economic contradictions of late neoliberalism and searching for both explanations and practical solutions. * British Journal of Sociology *Adam Reich and Peter Bearman provide insight for both the conditions and experiences of working at a place like Walmart, as well as the relationship between community engagement and feelings of social solidarity. * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Real, Real Walmart1. Pathways2. The Shop Floor3. The Structure of Domination and Control4. Making Contact5. Social Ties and Social Change6. OUR Walmart on the Line7. Our WalmartAppendix: The Neural Signatures of Group LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.Trade ReviewThe end of the world and the extinction of the human species will be a catastrophe without event, survivor, or witness. Eva Horn's brilliant and copiously informed historical study explores the potential of 'future fictions' as epistemic tools to anticipate the unknowable—to imagine it by giving it shape, investing it with meaning and affect and thereby making it 'real.' -- Aleida Assmann, author of Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, ArchivesWho would ever have imagined that a book about catastrophes could be informative, entertaining, and helpful? In this magnificent volume, Eva Horn has achieved this trifecta. As a bonus, the book is erudite and paints a picture of thinking about disaster as a strident criticism of modernity’s blind faith in human progress. Read it! -- John Casti, author of X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything'Why do we imagine ourselves as Last Men​?' Eva Horn's imaginative, incisive, and wide-ranging exploration of this arresting question doubles up an arresting genealogy of the modern fear of the future as catastrophe. An illuminating read, not only for students of modernity but also those pondering the looming crisis of climate change. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of TruthTacking between the fictional and the real, Horn provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of why we are such avid consumers of dystopian disasters and what these not-so-artificial scenarios mean for our ability to contend with these portentous events. The Future as Catastrophe examines the content, sources, history, and function that the catastrophic has for politics, knowledge, and the human capacity to imagine its own destruction. -- Anson Rabinbach, author of In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and EnlightenmentWith the notion of the 'Anthropocene,' we have learned to think, in an entirely secular and scientific way, the end times of human life on the planet. With breathtaking erudition and in stunning and precise prose, Eva Horn guides us through the ways in which the natural and social sciences, economic and political theory, and above all literature and popular culture, have, over the last two centuries, sought to rehearse scenarios of the end and its aftermath. As Horn also shows, the future perfect tense of catastrophe—all this will have been—serves as a remarkable diagnostic lens for the revelation—the 'apocalypse'—of the present tense of catastrophic ways of living. -- Eric L. Santner, author of The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of SovereigntyThe Future as Catastrophe is theoretically rich and its arguments are bolstered by the sheer breadth oftexts with which it engages...a valuable contribution to environmental studies. -- Jason Ludwig, Cornell University * H-Environment *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Last Men2. Catastrophe Without Event: Imagining Climate Disaster3. Survival: The Biopolitics of Catastrophe4. The Future of Things: Accidents and Technical Safety5. The Paradoxes of PredictionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Survive and Resist, Amy Atchison and Shauna Shames explore the ways in which dystopian narratives help explain how real-world politics work. They draw on classic and contemporary fiction, films, and TV shows—as well as their real-life counterparts—to offer funny and accessible explanations of key political concepts.Trade ReviewIt is truly rare to find a text that so deftly serves as an introduction to core political concepts and political resistance in a way that will resonate with activists and students alike. Survive and Resist shows us how to be intellectually engaged with but not discouraged by ideas that often seem too overwhelming to examine in moments of political despair. It does so in a way that is rigorous and disarming, morally serious and fun. A must-read. -- Alex Zamalin, author of Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American ResistanceIn this original tour of modern political history, Atchison and Shames argue that dystopian novels (of all things!) offer pretty good guidance to democratic citizens who would prefer truth that is less strange than fiction. Engagingly written, the book is an urgent reminder that decency prevails when people of goodwill join in the frustrating and uncertain practice of self-governance. -- Kristin Goss, author of The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public VoiceAtchison and Shames’ examination of political machinations, tyrannies present and past, and the human desire for “collective resistance” to brutal regimes makes for a sizzling, unsettling, but ultimately reassuring read. Survive and Resist could also serve as an exhilarating and darkly droll primer for authors of dystopian fiction. Shining a light on thuggish, all-too-recognizable totalitarian states, the work takes readers from Atwood to Solzhenitsyn, from Wall-E to Fritz Lang, from The Hunger Games to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, demonstrating how works of political fiction expose evil and corruption, and inspire and encourage communal revolt. I wanted to cheer at the end. I wanted to give copies of Survive and Resist to my students and friends, and then take to the streets. And, I wanted to rediscover every work cited to give me courage for the fight. To quote Atchison and Shames, “Can You (Re)build it? Yes You Can!” -- Cordelia Frances Biddle, author of Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine DrexelAtchison and Shames have somehow gifted us with a concise guide to dystopia that is full of hope and humor. Survive and Resist offers crisp comparisons between fictional dystopias, real totalitarian regimes, and the political science of nondemocratic regimes—their economics, their tactics of control, and, crucially—their weak points and blind spots. It does this with a brisk voice, a quick pace, and a dose of dark humor that should make it a favorite of political science students and speculative fiction diehards. I can’t wait to use it in my teaching. -- Amelia Hoover Green, author of The Commander’s Dilemma: Violence and Restraint in WartimeThis lucid, intelligent, frequently amusing yet profoundly committed book speaks directly to you and me, the readers, addressing our present urgent political condition with practical lessons drawn from dystopian fiction like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale along with important classic and contemporary political theories. Atchison and Shames present political science with clarity, dystopian literature with wit, no easy feats! They show that dystopian literature is something beyond entertainment, beyond thought experiment, beyond exploration of our fear and trembling under the weight of an oppressive body politic. They reveal these works as offering an anatomy of authoritarian societies and thereby a blueprint for understanding, resisting and opposing such societies. It is more than a manifesto of nonviolent action: it is an action plan for resistance in a time of need. -- Andrew Vogel Ettin, author of Speaking Silences: Stillness and Voice in Modern Thought and Jewish TraditionPolitics meets popular culture in this lively, often lighthearted study. . . . [Survive and Resist] will have broad appeal to readers who appreciate the intersections of pop culture and politics. * Library Journal *An interesting read. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Malice in Wonderland2. Defining Dystopia3. The Invisible Hand Strikes Again4. Strategies and Tactics of Dystopian Governments5. Individual Survival and Resistance6. The Resistance Will Not Be Intimidated7. Disintegrating the Oppressor8. Can You (Re)build It? Yes You Can!EpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—thinking, acting, feeling, making, and being. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei reveals imagination’s roots in embodied human cognition and its role in shaping our cognitive ecology.Trade ReviewIntegrating the arts with the sciences of human nature is one of the most exciting frontiers of knowledge, and this exploration of imagination is a rich and creative example. -- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind WorksThis book provides the most insightful, nuanced, and expansive phenomenological account of human conscious imaginative activity I have had the pleasure to read. It probes the way imagination arises from our bodily engagement with the world to make and transform meaning via processes of inner imaging, hypothetical thinking, and our most creative acts of reconfiguring and transcending our current frames and perspectives. These creative imaginative enactments are beautifully illustrated with examples from science, painting, poetry, dance, music, and fictional narrative. -- Mark Johnson, author of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human UnderstandingThe Life of Imagination is a bold, breakthrough book. Contesting an entire tradition of regarding imagination as a separate autonomous activity located in a rarefied realm of pure mind, Gosetti-Ferencei shows imagining to be deeply embedded in concretely embodied activities of human beings as they are fully engaged in the world—a world that is itself in significant measure shaped and structured by imagination itself. She guides us with lucidity and force through the many ways in which imagining invests our lives—in dancing, sauntering on the land, in artists’ re-imagination of ordinary experience, and in countless other ways. The result is a breathtaking contribution to the understanding of imagination as ingredient in all that we feel, think, and do. -- Edward S. Casey, author of Imagining: A Phenomenological StudyA monumental achievement, Gosetti-Ferencei creates a philosophy of productive imagination that is precedent-setting. Intertwining cognitive theory and phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty on embodiment, her inviting, nuanced writing ranges across the history of philosophy, the arts, and literature, arriving at a beautiful discussion of the creativity of jazz. The book shows why imagination is a necessary power for social transformation. It will be the essential benchmark for all future studies. -- Galen A. Johnson, author of The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's AestheticsIn a compelling synthesis of ideas from many disciplines—including archaeology, developmental psychology, philosophy, literary theory, cognitive science, and art history—Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei offers an eloquent and inclusive account of the imagination. She shows that the human imagination not only penetrates our conception of reality at ground level but also enables us to soar upward in our creative endeavors, scientific as well as artistic. -- Paul Harris, author of The Work of the ImaginationThis is an impressively wide-ranging interdisciplinary project, in which the author patiently, critically, and imaginatively engages with expressions and analyses of the imagination drawn from a variety of philosophical, artistic, and scientific sources, in order to develop an original and thought-provoking characterization of that elusive human capacity. -- Stephen Mulhall, author of The Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the ArtsJennifer Gosetti-Ferencei argues with style and insight for the ubiquity of imagination in human life across all aspects of the mind’s grappling with the world, through the arts and sciences to ordinary perception. The book is engaging and accessible, remarkable for its cross-disciplinary and historical reach and for its depth and clarity of vision. -- Peter Lamarque, author of Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of ArtNo other book in this field treats the imagination so thoroughly and rigorously. -- Paul Armstrong, author of How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and ArtGosetti-Ferencei offers a broad-ranging account of imagination that casts it not as a single phenomenon or skill but rather as an aspect of mental life that involves multiple overlapping modes operating at multiple levels. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Extensive notes, a bibliography, and an index round out this extraordinary chronicle of the origins of imagination, and its transformative role in shaping human history. Highly recommended, especially for public and college library collections. * Midwest Book Review *There is much to be learned from this extraordinary book. * British Journal of Aesthetics *Highly recommended. * Al Femminile Blog *Clear and understatedly insightful. * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking Imagination1. Consciousness and Modes of Imagination2. Evolving Imagination3. Imagination, Perception, and Reality4. Revealing and Making the World5. The Embodied Life of Imagining6. Envisioning in the Mind’s Eye and Other Imaging7. Creativity as Situated TranscendenceEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—thinking, acting, feeling, making, and being. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei reveals imagination’s roots in embodied human cognition and its role in shaping our cognitive ecology.Trade ReviewIntegrating the arts with the sciences of human nature is one of the most exciting frontiers of knowledge, and this exploration of imagination is a rich and creative example. -- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind WorksThis book provides the most insightful, nuanced, and expansive phenomenological account of human conscious imaginative activity I have had the pleasure to read. It probes the way imagination arises from our bodily engagement with the world to make and transform meaning via processes of inner imaging, hypothetical thinking, and our most creative acts of reconfiguring and transcending our current frames and perspectives. These creative imaginative enactments are beautifully illustrated with examples from science, painting, poetry, dance, music, and fictional narrative. -- Mark Johnson, author of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human UnderstandingThe Life of Imagination is a bold, breakthrough book. Contesting an entire tradition of regarding imagination as a separate autonomous activity located in a rarefied realm of pure mind, Gosetti-Ferencei shows imagining to be deeply embedded in concretely embodied activities of human beings as they are fully engaged in the world—a world that is itself in significant measure shaped and structured by imagination itself. She guides us with lucidity and force through the many ways in which imagining invests our lives—in dancing, sauntering on the land, in artists’ re-imagination of ordinary experience, and in countless other ways. The result is a breathtaking contribution to the understanding of imagination as ingredient in all that we feel, think, and do. -- Edward S. Casey, author of Imagining: A Phenomenological StudyA monumental achievement, Gosetti-Ferencei creates a philosophy of productive imagination that is precedent-setting. Intertwining cognitive theory and phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty on embodiment, her inviting, nuanced writing ranges across the history of philosophy, the arts, and literature, arriving at a beautiful discussion of the creativity of jazz. The book shows why imagination is a necessary power for social transformation. It will be the essential benchmark for all future studies. -- Galen A. Johnson, author of The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's AestheticsIn a compelling synthesis of ideas from many disciplines—including archaeology, developmental psychology, philosophy, literary theory, cognitive science, and art history—Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei offers an eloquent and inclusive account of the imagination. She shows that the human imagination not only penetrates our conception of reality at ground level but also enables us to soar upward in our creative endeavors, scientific as well as artistic. -- Paul Harris, author of The Work of the ImaginationThis is an impressively wide-ranging interdisciplinary project, in which the author patiently, critically, and imaginatively engages with expressions and analyses of the imagination drawn from a variety of philosophical, artistic, and scientific sources, in order to develop an original and thought-provoking characterization of that elusive human capacity. -- Stephen Mulhall, author of The Self and Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the ArtsJennifer Gosetti-Ferencei argues with style and insight for the ubiquity of imagination in human life across all aspects of the mind’s grappling with the world, through the arts and sciences to ordinary perception. The book is engaging and accessible, remarkable for its cross-disciplinary and historical reach and for its depth and clarity of vision. -- Peter Lamarque, author of Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of ArtNo other book in this field treats the imagination so thoroughly and rigorously. -- Paul Armstrong, author of How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and ArtGosetti-Ferencei offers a broad-ranging account of imagination that casts it not as a single phenomenon or skill but rather as an aspect of mental life that involves multiple overlapping modes operating at multiple levels. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Extensive notes, a bibliography, and an index round out this extraordinary chronicle of the origins of imagination, and its transformative role in shaping human history. Highly recommended, especially for public and college library collections. * Midwest Book Review *There is much to be learned from this extraordinary book. * British Journal of Aesthetics *Highly recommended. * Al Femminile Blog *Clear and understatedly insightful. * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking Imagination1. Consciousness and Modes of Imagination2. Evolving Imagination3. Imagination, Perception, and Reality4. Revealing and Making the World5. The Embodied Life of Imagining6. Envisioning in the Mind’s Eye and Other Imaging7. Creativity as Situated TranscendenceEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDisrespectful Democracy offers a new account of the relationship between incivility and political behavior based on a key individual predisposition—conflict orientation. Drawing on a range of original surveys and experiments, Emily Sydnor contends that the rise of incivility in political media has transformed political involvement.Trade ReviewDisrespectful Democracy is the book our field has been waiting for. By integrating the concept of "conflict orientation" into the study of why different people respond in different ways to political media, Emily Sydnor has placed political psychology exactly where it belongs: at the heart of political communication research. -- Dannagal G. Young, author of Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the U.S.Scholars, pundits, and citizens all worry about incivility in politics. Is it bad for democracy? How does it affect citizens? This book is a giant step forward in unraveling the impact of incivility. It explains how people react differently and the democratic implications of these reactions. -- James N. Druckman, Northwestern UniversityThere is much we can learn from this timely and thoughtful book. It provides a much needed deep dive into the psychological underpinnings of conflict orientation and responses to mediated incivility, revealing critical insights about their important—but previously overlooked—effects on political participation and engagement. -- Johanna Dunaway, Texas A&M UniversityWith this important contribution, Emily Sydnor untangles the complex ways that political incivility shapes political engagement, proffering important evidence that one-size-fits-all assumptions about how we react to political toxicity are misguided and misleading. A key read for anyone interested in promoting healthy democracy. -- Sarah Sobieraj, coauthor of The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New IncivilityInteresting, accessible, timely, focused, and succinct. . . . Carefully argued and methodologically sound, this volume offers fascinating insights on a topic relevant to a moment rife with disagreement, thoughtfully considering the value of both civility and incivility for the survival of democracy in the twenty-first century. * Choice *There is no doubt this volume is a game-changer for the study of political incivility; going forward, I expect that consideration of heterogeneous effects will become the norm. For scholars of political psychology and communication, as well as those looking to add new and innovative research to course syllabi, Disrespectful Democracy is highly recommended. * International Journal of Press / Politics *An important and thorough examination of conflict orientation as a key determinant of behavior in a hostile media environment. * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Integrating the Political and the Psychological2. The Political Psychology of Conflict Communication3. To Laugh or Cry? Emotional Responses to Incivility4. Choosing Outrage: Selective Exposure and Information Search5. Mimicry and Temper Tantrums: Political Discussion and Engagement6. A More Disrespectful Democracy?Appendix A: Additional Study InformationAppendix B: Statistical Models and ResultsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisPaolo Sorrentino has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. This book is a critical examination of Sorrentino’s work, focusing on his emergence as a preeminent transnational auteur.Trade Review...Kilbourn’s monograph will form a solid foundation for what will likely be an outpouring of English-language writing on the director as he continues to produce works for a global audience. -- Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College * Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies *I highly recommend this book. It is a treasure trove of material and insight: assiduously researched, built upon minute observation, and grounded in important issues around Sorrentino and contemporary transnational cinema and media. It will be a touchstone for Sorrentino studies, setting a very high bar for its successors -- Frank Burke, Queen’s University * Italian Studies *With each new film, the need for a book capable of bridging the local and global and of accounting for the problematic aspects of Sorrentino’s aesthetic has become ever more pressing. That need has now been met. Film by film, Kilbourn maps and explains Sorrentino’s evolving aesthetic with great dexterity, clarity, and intellectual rigor, making a strong case for Sorrentino’s status as one of the most important cinematic artists of our age. This book is invaluable for newcomers and specialists alike and will undoubtedly become an essential touchstone for all future studies of the director. -- Alex Marlow-Mann, University of KentThis elegantly written book is the first extensive study in English of Italy’s leading contemporary director. It places Sorrentino more firmly on the Anglophone film-critical map, and offers an insightful reading of each of his films. Kilbourn is also incisive on the politics of the auteur that have elevated Sorrentino internationally and on his films’ sometimes problematic gender politics. As such, this book is a welcome and thorough examination of Sorrentino as an intermedial and transnational auteur, and will be required reading for all those interested in contemporary Italian cinema. -- Catherine O'Rawe, author of Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian CinemaThe Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino will be a touchstone for future work on the director. Nothing of the sort exists that engages with Sorrentino’s entire oeuvre. Kilbourn writes in a lively, clear, and engaging tone, translating concepts from a wide array of fields in a very accessible fashion. The astute and highly original analyses of Sorrentino's films will make important contributions to film genre studies, discourses around auteurism, and the stakes of transnational cinema. -- Dana Renga, author of Mafia Movies: A ReaderRichly researched and ultimately rewarding book. * Studies in European Cinema *Newcomers to Sorrentino who seek a guided entry into his works as well as experts who want to prod deeper will find a valuable and enriching experience with this text. * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Commitment to Style1. One Man Up (L’uomo in piú): The Consequences of Coincidence2. The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell’amore): This Must Be the (Non-) Place3. The Family Friend (L’amico di famiglia): “Ridiculous Men and Beautiful Women”4. “What Will They Remember About You?” Il Divo and the Possibility of a Twenty-First-Century Political Film5. This Must Be the Place: From the Ridiculous to the Unspeakable (A Holocaust Road Movie)6. The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza): Reflective Nostalgia and the Ironic Elegiac7. Youth (La giovinezza): Between Horror and Desire (Life’s Last Day)8. Ceci n’est pas un pape: Postsecular Melodrama in The Young PopeCoda: Toward a Post-Political Film: Loro and the Mediatic ElegiacConclusion: Style as CommitmentNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today.Trade ReviewIt is often said that the tragedy of 9/11 was rooted in a failure to imagine a disaster of that particular character and scale. Jeff Schlegelmilch reminds us once again of the continued relevance of that hard-earned lesson. He guides us through extreme but plausible scenarios of some of the most existential threats we face—biological catastrophe, cyber infrastructure collapse, and other civilization-altering events—providing a straightforward account of what could be in store for us if we fail to invest in prevention and mitigation. Rethinking Readiness forces our leaders to answer the question—have we done all we can? Now is the time to imagine! -- Tom Ridge, forty-third governor of Pennsylvania and first U.S. Secretary of Homeland SecurityThis timely book both looks ahead to the mega-disasters on the horizon—disasters that tank economies, shred infrastructure, and take lives—and outlines how communities can start preparing now. It is an essential guide for policy makers and concerned citizens alike who want to build a better future. -- Alice C. Hill, former senior director of resilience policy on the National Security CouncilCovering a wide range of natural hazards and man made threats, Schlegelmilch's book pushes us to think through the question that we ask all too often: are we truly prepared? With chapters on biothreats, climate change, critical infrastructure failure, cyberthreats, and nuclear conflict, he sets out a framework to ensure that we take serious risks head on and build resilience to them. A must read. -- Daniel P. Aldrich, author of Black Wave and Building Resilience and director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern UniversityRethinking Readiness brings information on the scientific elements and socially constructed origins of megadisasters together in a clear and organized way. Schlegelmilch illustrates the interconnectivity of multiple drivers, showing how research and practice should consider these if we are to reach a more sustainable future. -- Ksenia Chmutina, coauthor of Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built EnvironmentSchlegelmilch provides a new perspective on the major threats and vulnerabilities facing modern society. Readers will find the discussion of megadisasters intriguing and the argument for better preparation compelling. Rethinking Readiness argues for a broader view of disasters and for a sustained effort to reduce the threats and societal vulnerability. -- William L. Waugh Jr., Professor Emeritus, Georgia State UniversityRethinking Readiness is a must-read for everyone committed to understanding the most existential threats we face, reinforced by the inclusion of multiple examples of inadequate response, including the identification of risks, opportunities, and misapplications embedded in practice. Compelling reading. * The Hindu Business Line *Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Biothreats2. Climate Change3. Critical Infrastructure Failure4. Cyberthreats5. Nuclear Conflict6. Crosscutting Threats and VulnerabilitiesConclusion: Investing in Today, Investing in TomorrowNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures.Trade ReviewRich with wit, Pavlova’s only novel is a masterful sendup of high society. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Karolina Pavlova’s 1848 novel made a splash when it first appeared, and for good reason. It is interesting in form, mixing prose and poetry, and full of sharply ironic insights about Russian society of the day, especially the lives of young women. This beautiful new edition of Barbara Heldt's translation offers the chance to appreciate a work of nineteenth-century Russian literature that deserves attention, the writing of a remarkable poet and author. -- Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore CollegePavlova’s A Double Life is a landmark of nineteenth-century Russian literature. With its multilayered account of a young society woman’s mysterious transformation into a poet, the novella explores a host of social, spiritual, and aesthetic questions. Indispensable, particularly in this revised edition of Barbara Heldt's translation. -- Thomas Hodge, Wellesley CollegePublished in the revolutionary year of 1848, A Double Life traces the awakening of a young noblewoman who by day submits to the prose of high society matchmaking, while at night she is a poet in her dreams of true love. Before Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, there was Karolina Pavlova. -- Hilde Hoogenboom, Arizona State UniversityOnce banished from the literary canon, this new release of her only novel includes both her prose and poetry that offer astute observations of Russian society. * Christian Science Monitor *A Double Life is an appealing novel, offering a colorful, penetrating portrait of Moscow's high society in those times, especially the lives of the wives and women in it. -- M. A. Orthofer * The Complete Review *A Double Life has plenty to say about how the marriage market deprived young noblewomen of outward agency and constrained their inner lives. . . . Heldt’s translation beautifully conveys the prose narrator’s astringent tone as well as the emotional intensity of the dreamworld’s poetry. -- Katharine Hodgson * Times Literary Supplement *Pavlova’s novel A Double Life shook the Russian literary world when it was published in 1848, earning widespread praise for its revolutionary form and psychological acuity. . . . The slim mixed-genre novel—translated by Barbara Heldt and released this year in a new edition . . . follows the 18-year-old Cecily von Lindenborn as her mother attempts to find her a husband. . . . The book is remarkable for its insights about the workings of internalized oppression. -- Talya Zax * The Atlantic *After all the thick tomes by Fyodors and Leos and Ivans, here we have a slim tale authored by a woman, and that alone should alert us that our old expectations may need to be altered. * Los Angeles Review of Books *This novel, therefore, should be read and reread not as a novelty or a token—a woman’s work in a still overwhelmingly male canon—but as a daring and sophisticated work of nineteenth century Russian prose. * Slavic Review *[An] unsurpassable translation . . . [Heldt] is deeply informed about the novel and its context, and this edition includes her original introduction. She is also a wonderful stylist and brings a fine sense of tone and rhythm to her translation of Pavlova. -- Catherine Ciepiela * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Barbara HeldtA Double LifeAfterword

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Book SynopsisJustene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves’ economy and the strategies that enslaved people used to participate in the market. Focusing on South Carolina from the colonial period to the Civil War, she examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economic lives of enslaved people.Trade ReviewCentering enslaved men, women, and children as actors on the grand stage of South Carolina’s economy, Hill Edwards demonstrates that the entrepreneurial enterprises of the enslaved did not undermine the institution of bondage but instead reinforced it. Beautifully written and researched, Unfree Markets is a welcome addition to the history of African Americans and capitalism. -- Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona JudgeA rich study of an important and understudied topic. Unfree Markets illuminates the many ways enslaved people participated in the expanding markets of early America. Justene Hill Edwards brings new insights to our understanding of how markets changed enslaved people's day-to-day economic lives, never losing sight of the profound ways that these same markets continued to undermine their freedom. -- Caitlin Rosenthal, author of Accounting for Slavery: Masters and ManagementUnfree Markets deserves distinctions and superlatives for treating enslaved people as economic agents rather than participants in a slave economy segregated from larger processes of commercial life and capitalist development. Edwards brilliantly and convincingly argues that enslavers protected enslaved people’s moneymaking ventures because they realized that the slaves’ economy helped to safeguard their investments in slavery. -- Calvin Schermerhorn, author of Unrequited Toil: A History of United States SlaveryUnfree Markets is a clearly written, persuasive study that will appeal to anyone interested in slavery, earlycapitalism, and the antebellum South. -- Frank J. Byrne, SUNY Oswego * EH.net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Capitalism in the Economic Lives of Enslaved People1. “Negroes Publickly Cabaling in the Streets”: The Enslaved Economy and the Culture of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina2. “This Infamous Traffick”: The Slaves’ Trade in the Age of Revolution3. “A Dangerous and Growing Practice”: Enslaved Entrepreneurship and the Cotton Economy in the New Nation4. “The Facility of Obtaining Money”: Violence, Fear, and Accumulation in the Vesey Era5. “The Negroes’ Accounts”: Capitalist Influences in the Slaves’ Economy6. “A Monstrous Nuisance”: Enslaved Enterprises, Class Anxieties, and the Coming of the Civil WarConclusion: “Freedom Ain’t Nothin”: Capitalism and Freedom in the Shadow of SlaveryNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBanned soon after its first midnight screenings, Jack Smith’s incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause célèbre of the New York underground. This study of Smith’s magnum opus explores its status as a cult film that appropriates the visual texture, erotic nuance, and overt fabrication of old Hollywood exoticism.Trade ReviewConstantine Verevis's Flaming Creatures dissects and maps with great affection the tangled network of intertextual appropriations Jack Smith performed in his landmark film. While the film has provoked censorship and admiration, scorn and expressions of the sublime, Verevis reveals Smith's "secret-flix" in rich detail, illuminating both aesthetic and cultural confrontations that now mark the transition to contemporary cinema. A feast of historical and filmic information. -- Janet Staiger, author of Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film ReceptionFlaming Creatures offers a comprehensive study of this classic and controversial avant-garde film, from its production and reception history to its complex, even fraught, place in the New York experimental scene, to scene-by-scene meanings, performance styles, and overall artistic accomplishments. Verevis even uses his well-known talents as a top scholar of film remakes to clarify the film’s status as a complicated yet loving ode to Hollywood kitsch. -- Dana Polan, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Background and Production2. Reception and Controversy3. The Film Work: Flaming Creatures4. Aftermath and LegacyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls “free indirect,” in which the novel’s refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found.Trade ReviewThis unapologetically polemical book is disturbing in the very best of ways, including the radical ideological optimism of its claims for the novel’s anti-formalist fugitivity. Tracking a historical mutation in the nature of contemporary fiction with eye-opening consequences for literary theory and beyond, Bewes has once again written a brilliant and utterly unforgettable book. Free Indirect is one of the boldest works of criticism I’ve encountered in decades. The study of the novel cannot be the same after its intervention. -- Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of ChicagoFree Indirect is the first work of literary theory to make sense of the contemporary novel and its maddening relationship to fiction. With patience and a great deal of wit, Bewes dispenses with the red herrings of novel theory—form, connection, subjectivity—to unveil how the novel thinks, and how its thinking hollows out the spurious distinction between fiction and nonfiction. This is a brilliant, brave, and exceptionally unsettling book for how it guides its readers to the outer limits of what criticism can say or do, and leaves them there, in the realm of pure thought. -- Merve Emre, University of Oxford and contributing writer at the New YorkerCan a single book tell us about the life of the novel after the death of the novel, after the end of theory, and after the eclipse of literary institutions? Yes. Bewes shrinks from nothing in reading contemporary fiction outside all traditional approaches. A true work of novel theory and a bracing challenge to literary-critical orthodoxy. -- Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of PennsylvaniaSummoning the work of a range of contemporary authors, from W. G. Sebald to Zadie Smith, Rachel Cusk, and Jesse Ball, Free Indirect constructs a remarkable theory of the contemporary novel, arguing that it thinks differently from how it represents thinking and in so doing both enacts and articulates a novel way for thought to relate to the body, language, and the environment. In Bewes' powerful readings, the contemporary novel is interested less in the traditional categories of character, plot, or narrative, than in unbinding thought from them in order to release it into the unformed and the obscure; it thus transcends the realm of the aesthetic, and instructs us in new possibilities for thinking in the twenty-first century. No conversation about the contemporary novel will henceforth be possible without approaching Free Indirect. -- Branka Arsić, Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor, Columbia UniversityFree Indirect is a provocation in the best sense of that word. -- Jesse van Amelsvoort * The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms *A must-read critique of the connections between thought and form in contemporary fiction. -- Adam Dalva * The Millions *Bewes teaches us how to read novelistically, where the lines between insight and experiment are blurred. As Bewes shows, pushing these limits is what keeps thought alive, and perhaps, free. -- Athanassia Williamson * Critical Inquiry *Bewes has produced a work for the ages—an intervention in critical theory that will forever change the way we read fiction. -- Jennie Hann * National Book Critics Circle *For scholars working on the twenty-first century this is an invaluable text for its examinations of perspective, discourse, thought, and genre. . . As critics and readers continue to parse its relevancy amidst so many competing genres, Bewes’s work reminds us of the novel’s inherent ability to transform and provoke. -- Emily Hall * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature *In tracing the autonomisation of thought from thinker, Bewes makes significant headway not only in conceptualising the contemporary novel, but also in identifying the theoretical problems that have made that task so difficult. -- Carson Welch * Radical Philosophy *[This] study seeks to overturn pretty much everything that has ever been thought and said about the novel. By its lights, a great deal of what counts as ordinary novel criticism, even very good criticism, looks unenlightened and, what’s worse, dreary. . . [Free Indirect]’s ambition is dazzling, as is its sentence-by-sentence intelligence. -- Bruce Robbins * American Literary History *Free Indirect upends modes of formal criticism and offers a bold view of contemporary literature and its study. This is a vital and important book for thinking about recent fiction, but also for reconsidering the practice of criticism in the present. -- Georgia Walton * Textual Practice *Remarkable and challenging. -- Michael Lucey * Genre *An illuminating work of novel theory that will stimulate and challenge the study of contemporary literature and of the novel alike. -- David Wylot * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction. Unthinking ConnectionsPart I. The Novel Form and Its Limits1. The Problem of Form2. Against Exemplarity: W. G. SebaldPart II. The Emergence of Postfictional Aesthetics3. The Instantiation Relation4. The Postfictional Hypothesis5. The Logic of Disconnection Interlude. Fictional Discourse as Event: On Jesse BallPart III. The Free Indirect6. How Does Immanence Show Itself?7. What Is a Sensorimotor Break? Deleuze on CinemaInterlude. Profiling8. Rancière: Toward Nonregime ThinkingConclusion. The Indeterminate Thought of the Free IndirectNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form.Trade ReviewA compact, breezy, and stimulating summary of Japanese film history. . . . Yomota's book offers something largely absent from English-language writing about Japanese cinema: a Japanese perspective. -- Kazu Watanabe * Film Comment *A deft and engaging history of Japanese film. -- Roger Pulvers * Japan Times *An excellent history of Japanese film. Invaluable...Highly recommended. * Choice *No living scholar-critic of Japanese movies possesses Yomota Inuhiko's encyclopedic range and sheer passion for film. What Is Japanese Cinema? is a tour de force of filmic history: a concise and spirited account of how Japanese film came to be, illuminating carryovers from native theatrical traditions and the tensions lining the political history of modern East Asia. That Japanese cinema has all along been local, and—in its imperial ambitions, aesthetic power, or moral force—global in its reach, is a matter that this insightful book brings remarkably to light. -- Paul Anderer, author of Kurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic FilmsA famously rambunctious critic, Inuhiko Yomota proves to be an even better pedagogue. He deftly organizes Japan’s kaleidoscopic genres and film fashions into a totality you can grasp. Auteurs and stars sparkle above an omnivorous industry that metabolized traditional theater, popular manga, and Hollywood techniques into unmistakably Japanese forms. A swift, truly satisfying summary, What Is Japanese Cinema? is also just as vibrant and searching as its title, because its author is clearly in the thrall of his marvelous subject. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale UniversityWhat Is Japanese Cinema? goes beyond the auteurist criticism that tells a history of cinema as a compilation of masterpieces. Instead, the work locates cinema in the specific contexts of cultural history as well as technological history. Yomota Inuhiko's knowledge of and attentiveness to film theories and histories is incredible. -- Daisuke Miyao, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsNote on Names and Film TitlesPreface to the English TranslationIntroduction1. Motion Pictures: 1896–19182. The Rise of Silent Film: 1917–19303. The First Golden Age: 1927–19404. Japanese Cinema During Wartime5. Film Production in the Colonies and Occupied Lands6. Japanese Cinema Under American Occupation: 1945–19527. Toward a Second Golden Age: 1952–19608. Upheaval Amidst Steady Decline: 1961–19709. Decline and Torpor: 1971–198010. The Collapse of the Studio System: 1981–199011. The Indies Start to Flourish: 1991–200012. Within a Production Bubble: 2001–2011NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisCity of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be.Trade ReviewCity of Workers, City of Struggle reveals how early colonists, later immigrants, and rural migrants became central to New York City’s manufacturing, trading, and financial industries. Evocatively illustrated, each chapter offers tales of mobilization and resistance experienced by diverse and ever-changing populations of New Yorkers. Together these chapters provide powerful insights into the interdependence of labor and capital. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, coeditor of Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of AusterityWritten by some of the country's most talented historians, this lavishly illustrated and impressively argued book inverts the usual pattern of viewing New York City's history from the point of view of the rich and powerful. It makes clear that the struggles of workers—artisans and domestic laborers, sailors and garment workers, public employees and men and women in health care—were essential to making New York a bastion of progressivism. No account of history could be more relevant to our current moment. -- Eric Foner, Columbia UniversityAt last! A pathbreaking history of New York laborers that runs from colonial-era artisans and slaves to today’s alt-labor organizers. Broadly conceived, it covers not only craft and industrial and white collar workers, but home workers, maritime workers, public workers, sex workers, health care workers, domestic workers, and criminals in the underground economy. It attends not only to unionization, but to the evolving nature of work, housing, leisure, politics, and culture. Vividly written, and copiously illustrated, City of Workers, City of Struggle is a superb and timely introduction to Gotham’s working people, past and present. -- Mike Wallace, coauthor of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898A richly illustrated work . . . in 16 well-written chapters, various scholars trace labor's role from the Colonial era through the rise of a new contemporary militant labor movement. * Choice *Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword, by Whitney W. DonhauserIntroduction: Workers’ Movements, Workers’ Struggles in New York, by Sarah M. HenryWorkers in the City of Commerce: 1624–18981. Artisan Labor in Colonial New York and the New Republic, by Simon Middleton2. Slave Labor in New York, by Leslie M. Harris3. Sailors Ashore in New York’s Sailortown, by Johnathan Thayer4. Housework and Homework in 19th-Century New York City, by Elizabeth Blackmar5. Victims, B’hoys, Foreigners, Slave-Drivers, and Despots: Picturing Work, Workers, and Activism in 19th-Century New York, by Joshua BrownUnion City: 1898–1975 6. The Needle Trades and the Uprising of Women Workers: 1905–1919, by Annelise Orleck7. Sex Work and the Underground Economy, by LaShawn Harris8. Here Comes the CIO, by Joshua B. Freeman9. Puerto Rican Workers and the Struggle for Decent Lives in New York City: 1910s–1970s, by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago10. Labor and the Fight for Racial Equality, by Martha Biondi11. Public Workers, by William A. HerbertCrisis and Transformation: 1975– 201812. The Fiscal Crisis and Union Decline, by Kim Phillips-Fein13. Health-care Workers and Union Power, by Brian Greenberg14. Chinatown, the Garment and Restaurant Industries, and Labor, by Kenneth J. Guest and Margaret M. Chin15. Domestic Workers, by Premilla Nadasen16. New Forms of Struggle: The “Alt-labor” Movement in New York City, by Ruth MilkmanConclusion: How Labor Shaped New York and New York Shaped Labor, by Joshua B. FreemanFor Further ReadingIndexImage Credits

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Book SynopsisCity of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be.Trade ReviewCity of Workers, City of Struggle reveals how early colonists, later immigrants, and rural migrants became central to New York City’s manufacturing, trading, and financial industries. Evocatively illustrated, each chapter offers tales of mobilization and resistance experienced by diverse and ever-changing populations of New Yorkers. Together these chapters provide powerful insights into the interdependence of labor and capital. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, coeditor of Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of AusterityWritten by some of the country's most talented historians, this lavishly illustrated and impressively argued book inverts the usual pattern of viewing New York City's history from the point of view of the rich and powerful. It makes clear that the struggles of workers—artisans and domestic laborers, sailors and garment workers, public employees and men and women in health care—were essential to making New York a bastion of progressivism. No account of history could be more relevant to our current moment. -- Eric Foner, Columbia UniversityAt last! A pathbreaking history of New York laborers that runs from colonial-era artisans and slaves to today’s alt-labor organizers. Broadly conceived, it covers not only craft and industrial and white collar workers, but home workers, maritime workers, public workers, sex workers, health care workers, domestic workers, and criminals in the underground economy. It attends not only to unionization, but to the evolving nature of work, housing, leisure, politics, and culture. Vividly written, and copiously illustrated, City of Workers, City of Struggle is a superb and timely introduction to Gotham’s working people, past and present. -- Mike Wallace, coauthor of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898A richly illustrated work . . . in 16 well-written chapters, various scholars trace labor's role from the Colonial era through the rise of a new contemporary militant labor movement. * Choice *Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword, by Whitney W. DonhauserIntroduction: Workers’ Movements, Workers’ Struggles in New York, by Sarah M. HenryWorkers in the City of Commerce: 1624–18981. Artisan Labor in Colonial New York and the New Republic, by Simon Middleton2. Slave Labor in New York, by Leslie M. Harris3. Sailors Ashore in New York’s Sailortown, by Johnathan Thayer4. Housework and Homework in 19th-Century New York City, by Elizabeth Blackmar5. Victims, B’hoys, Foreigners, Slave-Drivers, and Despots: Picturing Work, Workers, and Activism in 19th-Century New York, by Joshua BrownUnion City: 1898–1975 6. The Needle Trades and the Uprising of Women Workers: 1905–1919, by Annelise Orleck7. Sex Work and the Underground Economy, by LaShawn Harris8. Here Comes the CIO, by Joshua B. Freeman9. Puerto Rican Workers and the Struggle for Decent Lives in New York City: 1910s–1970s, by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago10. Labor and the Fight for Racial Equality, by Martha Biondi11. Public Workers, by William A. HerbertCrisis and Transformation: 1975– 201812. The Fiscal Crisis and Union Decline, by Kim Phillips-Fein13. Health-care Workers and Union Power, by Brian Greenberg14. Chinatown, the Garment and Restaurant Industries, and Labor, by Kenneth J. Guest and Margaret M. Chin15. Domestic Workers, by Premilla Nadasen16. New Forms of Struggle: The “Alt-labor” Movement in New York City, by Ruth MilkmanConclusion: How Labor Shaped New York and New York Shaped Labor, by Joshua B. FreemanFor Further ReadingIndexImage Credits

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Book SynopsisAt a time when many proclaim the death of active investing, Rupal J. Bhansali makes a call for its renaissance. Non-Consensus Investing is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand why active investing disappointed and how it can succeed.Trade ReviewAn instant classic! In this uniquely compelling book, Rupal J. Bhansali shows why active management is here to stay—and how active investors can still win at the investing game. A must read. -- John Mihaljevic, Chairman, MOI GlobalIn her masterful book, the accomplished and passionate global investor Rupal J. Bhansali dispenses many nuggets of knowledge and pearls of wisdom. With clarity and countless recent examples, she methodically debunks many myths and misconceptions regarding investing and catalogs and explains many fine investment concepts. A must read, especially at a time when so many abandon active management and question whether proper value investing can still be a winning investment approach in the years ahead. -- Charles de Vaulx, CIO and Portfolio Manager of International Value AdvisersRupal J. Bhansali is among a very small group of investors who have earned my confidence over many years in the business. In this thought-provoking book, she captures the essence of a philosophy of markets and investing that has stood the test of time. Her engaging and vivid distillation of this approach is a necessary addition to the library of any reader in search of unconventional wisdom. -- Gary Wendlandt, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, New York Life Insurance Co. (retired), Chairman and CEO, New York Life Investment Management (retired)Non-Consensus Investing is highly recommended for investors seeking to outperform the market. Focusing on contrarian approaches to investing in equities, an emphasis is placed on risk management and an understanding of the business model of a company. What can go wrong? Be a patient long term investor who can take advantage of excessive pessimism in the short term. Numerous examples are provided of how this approach has been successfully applied. -- David Kass, University of MarylandIn Non-Consensus Investing, Rupal J. Bhansali provides not only valuable technical insights from her extensive career and methodology of applying active investing principles but also personal guidance for young women aiming to pursue professions in finance. The combination of addressing the myths and hurdles for young women considering finance and her own personal story of overcoming them is very powerful. -- Amanda Pullinger, ‎Chief Executive Officer, 100 Women in FinanceHer book provides a number of valuable insights regarding how to go about the research process in a way that is likely to uncover non-consensus views and, even more importantly, how to control risk and avoid common traps. * Rational Walk *The book convincingly explains that being right with everybody else does not deliver any outperformance. It’s anticipating things before others that create value. And that’s very hard to do. * Strictly Value *Bhansali’s distinctive approach to active management stands to benefit investors during a time of below-historical-average market returns. The author’s personal journey and epilogue addressed to young women will also appeal to women considering a career in finance, especially money management. * Enterprising Investor *In conclusion, this book could greatly help investors in coming years, given low expected stock market returns that are likely to produce disappointing results for passive investing. * Seeking Alpha *Some investment managers follow the market trend and some are contrarians who go against the consensus thinking. A recognized investment specialist, Bhansali has written an instructive primer on the latter . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. How My Passion Became My Profession2. “And” Not “Or”3. Stocks or Bonds?4. To Stand Apart, You Must Stand Alone5. Score Upset Victories6. Do No Harm7. False Positives and Negatives8. Ditch the Database, Embrace the Search Engine9. From Victim to Victor10. Value Investing = Margin of Safety11. Sizzle Fizzles, Patience Prospers12. North StarA Special Message from Me to YouIndex

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Book SynopsisTerence McSweeney provides a concise and up-to-date overview of the superhero genre. He lays out its narrative codes and conventions, exploring why it appeals to diverse audiences and what it has to say about the world in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewWith the emphasis on the global impact of comic book crusaders on screen, McSweeney offers a powerful take on the cultural and categorical stakes involved in superhero cinema that will appeal to comics fans and scholars alike. -- Blair Davis, author of Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page and Comic Book MoviesTerence McSweeney has written an excellent introduction to superhero cinema and the surrounding scholarship in the field. The Contemporary Superhero Film does exactly what I’d expect in a student-friendly overview of the superhero genre. -- Iain Smith, author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World CinemaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Phenomenon or Cultural Catastrophe?1 The Codes and Conventions of the Contemporary Superhero Film2 The Mythologies of the Contemporary Superhero Film3 Gender and Sexuality in the Contemporary Superhero Film4 Ethnicity in the Contemporary Superhero Film5 The Global Contemporary Superhero FilmConclusion: “Is it me or is it getting crazier out there?”The Future of the Contemporary Superhero Film and the Genre’s “Impossible Solutions for Insoluble Problems”FilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisReckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.Trade ReviewTo recover a long-buried past in the archives is to experience the most extraordinary joy. But, as Reckoning with History shows so beautifully, doing true justice to the past is at the real heart of what it means to be a historian. This moving volume reminds us all why the writing of history matters so very much to the world we live in and to the one we hope yet to make. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyI love these essays. They are among the best ever written about the craft of history writing, the indispensability of creating and using archives, as well as the power of hindsight and new perspective to reconsider the meaning of the past. This brilliant anthology is perfect for this moment, just when we need to understand more than ever how American history becomes part of the public narrative of who we are. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban AmericaReckoning with History is a celebration and testament to how one’s changing social and political commitments can—and indeed must—inform one’s historical work, as modeled by Eric Foner. The editors have put together a timely and insightful group of essays about why history matters and why engaging with the public should matter to historians. -- Adrienne Petty, author of Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil WarReckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom transports the reader from the mundane names, dates, and events often associated with history class and into the world of the professional historian, opening students’ eyes to a world of research, interpretation, discussion, argumentation, and revision. By doing so, the authors of its well-written essays connect their thought-provoking work to contemporary social, cultural, and political events. -- Richard J. Stocking * The History Teacher *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T.K. Hunter, and Timothy Patrick McCarthyPart I: Archives1. Looking for Ona Judge: An Unfinished Story of Freedom, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar2. “Like People in History”: Why Social History Matters to the LGBT Community, by Jim DownsPart II: Revisions3. American Founders Reconsidered: The Case of Thomas Jefferson and Henry Christophe, by Ashli White4. The Civil War, Slavery, and the Problem of Neutrality, by April E. Holm5. Historians, Lincoln, and “the Ruining of America," by Matthew Taylor Raffety6. In Search of the Costs of Segregation, by Elizabeth A. Herbin-TriantPart III: History Matters7. Why Historical Film Matters, by Kellie Carter Jackson8. A Mob Museum Matters, by Michael Green9. On Living History and Stories Unfinished, by Timothy Patrick McCarthy10. In the Matter of Worth: The Value of Black Lives and the Law, by T.K. HunterEpilogue: Eric Foner: Historian of American Freedom, by Katrina vanden HeuvelContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisInventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells’s work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought, arguing that he embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged.Trade ReviewSarah Cole transforms our view of H. G. Wells, not only seeing him as a pivotal figure in his own world but also, with subtlety and conviction, connecting him with his modernist contemporaries. Wells emerges in this detailed, cogent, and incisive study as a complex and fascinating thinker filled with contradictions, combining moral force with artistic restlessness. He was headstrong, engaged, combative, innovative, industrious, fearless, and prophetic. Inventing Tomorrow does justice to his vast range of work while emphasizing how Wells must be placed at the core of any consideration of intellectual life in the early twentieth century. -- Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn: A NovelWhat if modernism met up with antimodernism, like matter and antimatter? In Sarah Cole’s fascinating and ambitious new study, she argues that H. G. Wells’s work was at once modernist and itself a critique of modernism, an explosive mix whose significance was missed both by his contemporaries and by literary critics who have taken his rivals at their word and mistaken their jealousy at his popularity for judgment of his merit. -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesFrom the prehistoric to the posthuman, from the microcosmic to the cosmic, Wells wrote about everything under the twentieth-century sun. To see why he was the indispensable writer of the last century, we need a guide as skilled and authoritative as Sarah Cole, who gives to readers an eloquent vindication of modernism’s forgotten man. -- Jed Esty, author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of DevelopmentSarah Cole restores a colossus to size, recovering the enormous importance of H. G. Wells in the literary and cultural history of a century that seems, until now, to have left him behind. No longer. Written with synoptic power and narrative flair, synthesizing an extensive archive of print and film, Inventing Tomorrow splendidly establishes Wells not just as a figure of primary importance, but as an attractive, indeed fascinating, imaginative personality. -- Vincent Sherry, Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. LouisFull of illuminating argument, fresh perception, and lively polemic, Inventing Tomorrow makes an overwhelming case for the twenty-first century rediscovery of H. G. Wells. -- Patrick Parrinder, University of ReadingSarah Cole’s fascinating literary investigation Inventing Tomorrow shows how H. G. Wells’s work is relevant and meaningful today. . . . The book’s scholarship combines literary criticism with biographical elements, explaining how Wells mixed details of his own life and his modernist philosophy into his work. * Foreword Reviews (starred review) *Cole documents a thorough and thoughtful appreciation of Well's accomplishments and skills as a writer to argue for a revised estimate of his body of work. * Library Journal *Cole adroitly captures Wells, from his mould-breaking books (such as the 1895 science-fiction classic The Time Machine and 1920 Outline of History) to his unlikely intellectual kinship with subtle modernists such as Virginia Woolf. * Nature *[H.G. Wells] emerges from this wide-ranging account as a passionate and persistent advocate of social change, and of literature’s capacity to shape it. * The Economist *An important new evaluation of H.G. Wells. -- Maya Jasanoff * Wall Street Journal *Inclusive, capacious, infectiously energetic work...Inventing Tomorrow is an invitation well worth taking up. * Politics / Letters *While never ignoring untenable views about race and eugenics, [Cole] sees the point of him, saluting his humor and his relation to the world that formed him. Any subsequent work on Wells will have to take her as its starting point. -- D. J. Taylor * Wall Street Journal *Cole’s dense, erudite and wide-ranging account demonstrates the grand sweep of his interests and ambitions. * Times Higher Education *[Cole's] ingenious recasting of Wells as a dissident modernist seems likely to prove influential. * Times Literary Supplement *A sympathetic and informative exploration of Wells as a writer and thinker. * Spiked *In a landmark new study of Wells, Sarah Cole...reveals a writer whose twin obsessions with biology and history saturated his sense of humankind and its future prospects. Inventing Tomorrow restores Wells to his erstwhile centrality in the intellectual culture of the early twentieth century and unspools a “mix of attractive and repellent” ideas that resonate in an ambitious, anxious twenty-first. * New York Review of Books *[A] substantial, well-written study. * Choice *A magisterial book...beautifully written and persuasive throughout. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *Is a deeply researched and compellingly argued defense of the author as a neglected modernist master whose work was in continuous, productive conversation with that of Woolf, Joyce, and other writers who are now more widely celebrated in the academy. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *Impressively comprehensive. * English Studies *Cole has offered a portrait of Wells that at least acknowledges many of his shortcomings, including racism and a geopolitical vision tainted by imperialism, though these acknowledgments do not detract from her largely positive assessment ofhis work * Twentieth Century Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Voice2. Civilian3. Time4. BiologyConclusion: The WorldNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisM. Todd Bennett explores the logistics, media fallout, and geopolitical significance of one of the most ambitious operations in intelligence history. The Glomar mission, he argues, played a pivotal but underappreciated role in helping the CIA ward off oversight amid a push for transparency and accountability.Trade ReviewBennett explores timely questions about the balance between secrecy and transparency and the role of the press in both...[his]comprehensive research makes this book as engaging as any espionage novel. An essential read. * Library Journal, starred review *This is intelligence history as it should be written: packed with new archival findings and thrillingly narrated yet also deeply engaged with the latest scholarship in the wider fields of U.S. history and America in the world. A must-read for academic historians and espionage buffs alike. -- Hugh Wilford, author of The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played AmericaBennett shows why the story of the Glomar Explorer is not only filled with exciting characters and twists, it’s also a key moment in the history of the U.S. government’s refusal to disclose information to the voters. -- Kathryn Olmsted, author of The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled HitlerNeither Confirm nor Deny is an extraordinary account of one of the most important moments in the history of the CIA, the Glomar Explorer Mission. Likely to become a classic in the field of the history of intelligence, Neither Confirm nor Deny vividly underlines the continuing tensions that exist between democratic transparency and the American national security state. -- Thomas A. Schwartz, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political BiographyFrom the murky depths of the 1970s, this riveting book surfaces not only a Soviet sub and its CIA salvagers but also a new reckoning with an era known for investigative transparency. Glomar’s legacy instead was to anchor the media, politicians, and all Americans to a barnacled ship of state secrecy. -- Katherine A. S. Sibley, coeditor of Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist PartyComprehensive research makes this book as engaging as any espionage novel. An essential read. [Starred Review] * Library Journal *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Old Lines2. The Hughes Connection3. The Rules of the Game4. Inside Job5. Fish or Cut Bait?6. Colby’s Dike7. Neither Confirm nor Deny8. Shivering from Overexposure9. Hold the LineConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was savagely murdered in Tehran in 1829 in an attack on the Russian embassy.Trade Review[G]ripping and gratifying, if not quite easy, reading. The translators wrestle skilfully with an unruly original, and we are lucky to have ringside seats. -- Boris Dralyuk * Times Literary Supplement *The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar is grand novel rooted in the old Russian tradition -- but also in much of the new, a work that is also experimental, a work of the 1920s Soviet Union when Russia was in similar ferment and people faced similar crossroads. Tynyanov's modernism is far removed from the writing of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, yet achieves similar sweep and detail; grounded in the historical, it nevertheless avoids being dryly documentary. -- M.A. Orthofer * Complete Review *[This] crisp new English translation of this dazzling and erudite novel by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush . . . underscores Tynyanov’s signal achievement . . . Readers with an interest in Russian history and literature, or a more general interest in how the Great Game was played in the 19th century, will likely find The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar riveting. -- Richard Byrne * The Wilson Quarterly *Using meticulous research to fuel his imagination, [Tynyanov] endowed his characters with emotional lives rarely found in archives. The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, first published in 1928, is a fine specimen of this technique . . . The text is full of fragmentary hints, deftly preserved in all their ambiguity by the translators, Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush, who leave the reader to decode the author’s messages. -- Anna Aslanyan * Los Angeles Review of Books *Another fine rendition...with a splendid introduction by Angela Brintlinger and helpful supplementary material identifying people and allusions unfamiliar to the nonspecialist. A brilliant thinker and a splendid writer, Tynyanov deserves to be better known. -- Gary Saul Morson * New York Review of Books *The well-known formalist literary scholar Yury Tynyanov was a master of form. In bracing prose style, his novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar dives deeply into the life of the Russian poet Alexander Griboedov and Russian cultural and political history. This translation by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush brings the reader every unexpected turn of Griboedov’s life and thoughts. -- Sibelan Forrester, translator of Vladimir Propp’s The Russian FolktaleTogether with Shklovsky and Jakobson, Tynyanov was the face of Russian formalism—the premier student of Romanticism. His historical novels draw on the extensive wealth of archival materials he acquired as a critic. Tynyanov’s novel is a must-read! -- Peter Steiner, author of Russian Formalism: A MetapoeticsTynyanov’s novel transforms the life of writer-diplomat Alexander Griboedov into the death of the author as such, dispersed discursively even as he is dismembered physically, through bureaucratic manipulation, high-society intrigue, diplomatic complicity, and social oblivion. This book recasts the familiar story of the martyred Russian writer, anticipating by a century the fate of Soviet intellectuals whose life and work would be subsumed by the state. -- Harsha Ram, author of The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of EmpireThe novel’s omniscient narrator tracks and probes dozens of characters, but mostly we follow Griboedov—observant, ironic, scheming—as he pursues his fortune. Enriching it all is plenteous period detail . . . And none of it is tedious. In fact, the effect is light, fast, and decidedly cinematic. -- Michael Kasper * Rain Taxi Review of Books *This is a story of political repression of writers and rebels—of symbolic as well as literal dismemberment—but it is also a sharp-eyed account of the struggle of empires to maximize their economic clout through colonialism, a fascinatingexample of an anticolonial Soviet historical novel. -- Sophie Pinkham * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Truth and Ambiguity on the Road to Tehran, by Angela BrintlingerTranslators’ NoteThe Death of Vazir-MukhtarGlossary of Foreign WordsGlossary of NamesNotes

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Book SynopsisThe Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was savagely murdered in Tehran in 1829 in an attack on the Russian embassy.Trade Review[G]ripping and gratifying, if not quite easy, reading. The translators wrestle skilfully with an unruly original, and we are lucky to have ringside seats. -- Boris Dralyuk * Times Literary Supplement *The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar is grand novel rooted in the old Russian tradition -- but also in much of the new, a work that is also experimental, a work of the 1920s Soviet Union when Russia was in similar ferment and people faced similar crossroads. Tynyanov's modernism is far removed from the writing of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, yet achieves similar sweep and detail; grounded in the historical, it nevertheless avoids being dryly documentary. -- M.A. Orthofer * Complete Review *[This] crisp new English translation of this dazzling and erudite novel by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush . . . underscores Tynyanov’s signal achievement . . . Readers with an interest in Russian history and literature, or a more general interest in how the Great Game was played in the 19th century, will likely find The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar riveting. -- Richard Byrne * The Wilson Quarterly *Using meticulous research to fuel his imagination, [Tynyanov] endowed his characters with emotional lives rarely found in archives. The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, first published in 1928, is a fine specimen of this technique . . . The text is full of fragmentary hints, deftly preserved in all their ambiguity by the translators, Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush, who leave the reader to decode the author’s messages. -- Anna Aslanyan * Los Angeles Review of Books *Another fine rendition...with a splendid introduction by Angela Brintlinger and helpful supplementary material identifying people and allusions unfamiliar to the nonspecialist. A brilliant thinker and a splendid writer, Tynyanov deserves to be better known. -- Gary Saul Morson * New York Review of Books *The well-known formalist literary scholar Yury Tynyanov was a master of form. In bracing prose style, his novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar dives deeply into the life of the Russian poet Alexander Griboedov and Russian cultural and political history. This translation by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush brings the reader every unexpected turn of Griboedov’s life and thoughts. -- Sibelan Forrester, translator of Vladimir Propp’s The Russian FolktaleTogether with Shklovsky and Jakobson, Tynyanov was the face of Russian formalism—the premier student of Romanticism. His historical novels draw on the extensive wealth of archival materials he acquired as a critic. Tynyanov’s novel is a must-read! -- Peter Steiner, author of Russian Formalism: A MetapoeticsTynyanov’s novel transforms the life of writer-diplomat Alexander Griboedov into the death of the author as such, dispersed discursively even as he is dismembered physically, through bureaucratic manipulation, high-society intrigue, diplomatic complicity, and social oblivion. This book recasts the familiar story of the martyred Russian writer, anticipating by a century the fate of Soviet intellectuals whose life and work would be subsumed by the state. -- Harsha Ram, author of The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of EmpireThe novel’s omniscient narrator tracks and probes dozens of characters, but mostly we follow Griboedov—observant, ironic, scheming—as he pursues his fortune. Enriching it all is plenteous period detail . . . And none of it is tedious. In fact, the effect is light, fast, and decidedly cinematic. -- Michael Kasper * Rain Taxi Review of Books *This is a story of political repression of writers and rebels—of symbolic as well as literal dismemberment—but it is also a sharp-eyed account of the struggle of empires to maximize their economic clout through colonialism, a fascinatingexample of an anticolonial Soviet historical novel. -- Sophie Pinkham * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Truth and Ambiguity on the Road to Tehran, by Angela BrintlingerTranslators’ NoteThe Death of Vazir-MukhtarGlossary of Foreign WordsGlossary of NamesNotes

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Book SynopsisThe Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.Trade ReviewBrilliantly and provocatively, The Remnants of Race Science reveals that the so-called decline of racial thought in human biology was really just a substitution of other more flexible ideas of human difference—mostly from the Global South—for the rigid racist typologies of the Global North. This more inclusive refiguring of racial difference would make possible the economic ‘development’ of people once excluded from modernity—which meant in practice their neocolonial incorporation into the netherworlds of global capitalism. In this paradigm-shifting book, Gil-Riaño thus offers us a new ‘southern’ vocabulary to talk about racism and antiracism. -- Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the PhilippinesStarting with scientific research from the Southern Hemisphere, this important book overturns the common story of antiracist science as simplistically rooted in rejecting fixed biological kinds. Drawing from a transnational archive, Gil-Riaño shows how so-called anti-racist science was caught up in projects of improvement that rested on a multitude of other racisms. -- M. Murphy, author of The Economization of LifeLatin Americanists have long maintained that race and biology are shaped by culture, social organization, and economic conditions. In this deeply researched study, Gil-Riaño shows how Latin American racial ideas shaped the post–World War II human sciences and UNESCO projects. The human sciences did not renounce racial explanation—as so many believe—but folded them into global ideas about economic development. -- Karin Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950Offers useful historical context to current debates about how to successfully build solidarity in science and society. * Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Remnants of Race SciencePart I: Confronting Racism in the Southern Hemisphere, 1890–19511. Substituting Race: Arthur Ramos, Bahia, and the “Nina Rodrigues School”2. Relocating Race Science After World War II: Situating the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race in the Southern Hemisphere3. Vikings of the Sunrise: Alfred Metraux, Te Rangi Hīroa, and Polynesian Racial ResiliencePart II: Race in the Tropics and Highlands and the Quest for Economic Development, 1945–19624. A Tropical Laboratory: Race, Evolution, and the Demise of UNESCO’s Hylean Amazon Project5. “Peasants Without Land”: Race and Indigeneity in the ILO’s Puno-Tambopata ProjectPart III: Engineering Racial Harmony and Decolonization, 1952–19616. A Brazilian Racial Dilemma: Modernization and UNESCO’s Race Relations Studies in Brazil7. A White World Perspective and the Collapse of Global Race Relations InquiryConclusion: “Racism Continues to Haunt the World”NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn The Ferrante Letters, four critics create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Elena Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that falls between the seminar and the book club.Trade ReviewWith fiery insight and feminist spirit, they have written a fitting companion to Ferrante’s books. * Booklist (starred review) *The intimate tone lends a beguiling humanity to the book, inducing a pleasure more often associated with novels: the pleasure of character. * New Yorker *A truly innovative approach to understanding the author-reader connection made all the more compelling for having one of the 20th century's greatest literary works at its core. * Library Journal *The combination of intellectual rigor and personal reaction makes this fascinating reading for Ferrante fans. * Publishers Weekly *If The Ferrante Letters is meant to be an experiment in what would happen if boundaries, forms, and the shape of literary criticism were to dissolve and the opinions of critics blurred into one another, it is one that the authors recognize as both an exciting and frightening possibility. * New Republic *The Ferrante Letters gives us a unique opportunity to read—or reread—the Neapolitan novels with four distinct guides beside us, both literary and personal, posing questions and offering insights, analysis, and discussion that enrich and deepen our experience of the books. -- Ann Goldstein, translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novelsThe Ferrante Letters is a smart, beautiful, often moving meditation on the experience of reading the Neapolitan Quartet. This collection of letters and essays deftly manages that tricky balance of the creative, the critical, and the personal. A magnificent accomplishment. -- Namwali Serpell, author of The Old Drift: A NovelThese four smart feminist critics reflect on the Neapolitan novels' exploration of women's friendship, intellectual labor, and personal lives. Reading The Ferrante Letters feels like you have stumbled upon your favorite reading group talking about your favorite author. It captures the way critical thinking should work, not in isolation but in conversation. -- Pamela Thurschwell, University of SussexIn The Ferrante Letters, expertise and passion dovetail to great effect. This absorptive, idiosyncratic book is a work of collective criticism that offers a set of rigorous, convivial, and stylish readings of its primary texts, staging the critical act as also a creative one. This book reveals that the form literary criticism takes is as important as its content. -- Sarah Blackwood, author of The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesWhile it is primarily Ferrante devotees who will find this book most intriguing, those interested in alternative modes of critical inquiry should take a look as well. A sharp and lively book for fans and scholars. * Kirkus Reviews *This book is a must-read for anyone who loves Elena Ferrante and for anyone who wants to think about new directions in literary criticism. * Bookriot *If you are new at the Ferrante's world this one will be a great introduction...Highly recommended. * Il Feminile *The Ferrante Letters is a bold, often inspiring attempt to rethink literary criticism and teaching practices on a collective basis, bridging the personal, critical and pleasurable. * Times Higher Education *I would heartily recommend The Ferrante Letters to fellow Ferrante fans, to feminist scholars, to readers interested in collective critical experiments. * Times Literary Supplement *What Chihaya, Emre, Hill, and Richards have created might cater more to the cultivated reader of Ferrante than the scholar, yet academics stand to learn much from as daring and novel a form of criticism as this one. * World Literature Today *The Ferrante Letters is extremely absorbing. It’s rare to come across university-nurtured criticism, informed by theory, that is jargon-free and studded with insight. * Virginia Quarterly Review *I was thoroughly compelled by the rigor and candor with which Chihaya, Emre, Hill, and Richards explore the intimacies that readers create through and with novels—and by their readiness in The Ferrante Letters to put their own reading lives under the microscope while they do so. I want to continue to read with these four critics, jointly and severally. They certainly should be your companions as well, dear readers, the next time all of us, severally or jointly, read Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet. -- Deidre Lynch * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Collective CriticismI. Letters (2015)My Brilliant FriendThe Story of a New NameThose Who Leave and Those Who StayThe Story of the Lost ChildII. Essays (2018)Unform, by Sarah ChihayaThe Story of a Fiction, by Katherine HillThe Queer Counterfactual, by Jill RichardsThe Cage of Authorship, by Merve EmreAfterwordAppendix: Guest Letters, by Sara Marcus, Marissa Brostoff, Lili Loofbourow, Cecily Swanson, and Amy SchillerAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisThe master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes readers on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland.Trade ReviewThis book is an educational journey through the fascinating worlds of whiskey and flavor. Rob Arnold is well versed in the art and science of whiskey making and shares his wealth of wisdom with the reader in this brilliant book. He helps us understand the connection between the land and the spirit in our glass, shining his inquisitive spotlight on the distillers, grain farmers, and cultivators who are changing the way whiskey is made. If you want to delve beyond the glass into the mind-blowing worlds of flavor and terroir, this book is a must. -- Rob Allanson, editor at large * Whisky Magazine *For years, we’ve argued as to whether terroir exists in whiskey. Rob Arnold makes the best argument yet, and this book is a must-read for every whiskey geek in the world. -- Fred Minnick, author of Bourbon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American WhiskeyA fascinating look at whiskey and the manner in which it is made, written in a knowledgeable but friendly tone that welcomes newcomers as well as whiskey aficionados. -- Jeff Fleischer * Foreword *A fantastic debut for a writer whose storytelling talents are proportionate to his distilling skills. -- Rob Theakston * Drink Hacker *Arnold smartly and capably writes for the distiller, educated taster and novice alike, breaking issues into lay language as necessary (even using Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the Tasmanian Devil to explain). Arnold provides specifics for the reader to taste along with him, resulting in a full sensory educational experience. * Shelf Awareness *With standout information that’s both broad and deep, The Terroir of Whiskey considers bourbon, rye, and other popular whiskeys from all angles. * Foreword Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Fashioning Flavor, Tasting Terroir1. A Farm in Texas2. The Production and Perception of Flavor3. The Chemistry of Flavor4. The Wine Terroir Tasting5. Wine Country6. The Evolutionary Role of Terroir7. The Rise of CommoditiesPart II: A Roadmap to Terroir8. A Texas Tic-Tac-Toe9. The Chemistry of Terroir10. The Roadmap11. Overlaying the MapsPart III: Following the Map12. Whiskey in the Big Apple13. The Trilogy of Farming14. My Old Kentucky Home15. Corn, Wheat, and Rye Among the Bluegrass16. Across the Pond and Through the Hills17. TĒIREOIR18. Cultivating Flavor on the Farms of Éire19. At Last, a Sip20. The Church of Scotch WhiskyConclusionAppendix 1: Whiskey Terroir Tasting GuideAppendix 2: Key to the Roadmap: Sources for Chapter 10Appendix 3: Key to the Roadmap: Sources for Chapter 11Appendix 4: Key to the Roadmap: Sources for Chapter 17NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisPeace on Our Terms is the first book to demonstrate the centrality of women’s activism to the Paris Peace Conference and the critical diplomatic events of 1919. Mona L. Siegel tells the timely story of how female activists transformed women’s rights into a global rallying cry, laying a foundation for generations to come.Trade ReviewA stunning retelling of the Great War’s aftermath and how women rose up at the war’s end to demand a different and better world. Siegel’s evocative prose transports us back in time and around the world as women from east, west, north, and south descend on Versailles in pursuit of their rights. Peace on Our Terms is a stirring, extraordinary tale of how the denial of voice to more than half the world’s people shaped our time. This is history and drama at its finest. -- Dorothy Sue Cobble, coauthor of Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's MovementsSiegel models beautifully the capacity for academic scholarship to draw transnational connections within a complex, multilingual project. Few scholars have this capacity for such beautiful writing. The book is truly engaging, and readers will come to ‘know’ the key figures in really personal ways—readers share humor and wit, puzzlement, adventure and grief alongside the women themselves. In this regard, it is a very contemporary style of scholarly history—and one that I hope will be modeled more in the future. -- Louise Edwards, author of Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of ChinaPeace on Our Terms highlights the contributions that women from all over the world made in 1919 to the history of peacemaking. Her collage of activists—from France's Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger to China's Soumay Tcheng—is stunningly drawn. By investigating women's activism on a global scale, Siegel has made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the post-World War I period. A beautifully written, inspiring page-turner! -- Karen Offen, author of European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political HistoryAs diplomats gathered in Paris in 1919 to negotiate the peace that would end World War I, women around the world—in North America and Europe but also in Egypt, China, and elsewhere—mobilized to make their voices heard. Convinced that they had a role to play in making the peace, they demanded disarmament, racial justice, national sovereignty, international cooperation, and women’s rights. This deeply researched and elegantly written book shows how these women’s efforts, despite many disappointments, helped to shape the new world order and the rise of global feminism. -- Erez Manela, author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial NationalismA riveting study...this sparkling, character-driven history will captivate readers interested in the suffrage movement and feminist history. * Publishers Weekly *Peace on Our Terms is a 'must read' for anyone interested in WPS, women's peace history, feminist historical scholarship, or women and social movements. -- Melissa Deehring * International Feminist Journal of Politics *Even specialists on women’s internationalism will discover new insights in these pages...in taking seriously the microdiplomacy of allied feminists with their Central Powers counterparts while reconceptualizing the players and meaning of diplomacy, Siegel illuminates powerful dreams and desires behind gender equity. -- Eileen Boris * Diplomatic History *Argue[s] that the feminist campaigners of the interwar period set the terms for future activism by insisting that the language of human rights is inherently feminist. * London Review of Books *A very worthwhile addition to the literature on the international women's movement, which also enhances understanding of postwar international politics. * Choice *Offers an insightful and engaging combination of history and biography that sheds new light on the history of the First World War, the history of France and its relationship with the world, and the transnational history of women and women’s movements. * H-France Review *Original and well-researched...makes significant contributions to the history of women's involvement in transnational movements. -- Sara Kimble, DePaul University * Women and Social Movements *This book would be appropriate for advanced World History courses, Gender Studies, or even as a foil for post-World War One history courses that are traditionally taught. The book is accessible for community college undergraduates as well as graduate courses and adds new global insights. * Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsTimeline of International Women’s Activism in 1919List of IllustrationsPrologue: The Closing Days of the First World War1. A New Year in Paris: Women’s Rights at the Peace Conference of 19192. Winter of Our Discontent: Racial Justice in a New World Order3. March(ing) in Cairo: Women’s Awakening and the Egyptian Revolution of 19194. Springtime in Zurich: Former Enemies in Pursuit of Peace and Freedom5. May Flowers in China: The Feminist Origins of Chinese Nationalism6. Autumn on the Potomac: Women Workers and the Quest for Social JusticeEpilogue: Rome, 1923AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisFilm Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. The second edition to this best-selling textbook adds two new chapters: “Film and Ideology” and “Film Studies in the Age of Digital Cinema.”Trade ReviewSikov is remarkably clear in his explanation of the technical elements of film as well as conceptual matters. Film Studies makes conceptually challenging material part of the introductory experience. -- Katherine Fusco, author of Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and ModernityTable of ContentsPreface: What This Book Is—and What It’s NotIntroduction: Representation and Reality1. Mise-en-Scene: Within the Image 2. Mise-en-Scene: Camera Movement 3. Mise-en-Scene: Cinematography 4. Editing: From Shot to Shot 5. Sound 6. Narrative: From Scene to Scene 7. From Screenplay to Film 8. Filmmakers 9. Performance 10. Genre 11. Special Effects 12. Film and Ideology 13. Film Studies in the Era of Digital Cinema 14. Putting It Together: A Model 8- to 10-Page Paper Glossary Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisMany of the finest objects of the Western Han dynasty have been excavated from the tombs of kings, who administered local provinces on behalf of the emperors. Allison R. Miller paints a new picture of elite art production by revealing the contributions of the kings to Western Han artistic culture.Trade ReviewKingly Splendor is a deeply researched, lucid, and path-breaking exploration of cultural and political competition and exchange between the Western Han kings and the imperial court. This is a major contribution to the field of early China studies; I know of no other work that demonstrates the method and historical value of material analysis more convincingly. -- Martin Powers, author of China and England: The Preindustrial Struggle for Justice in Word and ImageAn engaging read for students and scholars alike, Kingly Splendor offers a fresh materials-based approach to Western Han archaeology. By privileging the stories of artisans and local rulers, Miller decenters traditional narratives about the court’s pervasive influence and highlights the creativity and innovation that flourished on the fringes. -- Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art MuseumsUsing art and architecture as primary evidence, Kingly Splendor is an in-depth study of the first sixty years of the Han dynasty, and it is much more. Superbly illustrated, this first work to focus on such a short period of Chinese art also offers translations of the most important literary evidence of the period. Further, it interfaces the legacy of China’s first emperor with its resolution in early Han China. The charts, from tomb typology to jade suits, are unsurpassed by any other study. -- Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, author of Chinese Architecture: A HistoryFinally, a book that takes seriously the royal courts of the Western Han as sites of innovation. Miller marshals her impressive art-historical and archaeological skills to zoom in on concrete aspects of a rich record of materiality created by the kings and their artisans. This book is refreshing in its attention to local contexts and initiatives, and in its refusal to assume that the imperial court at Chang’an was the measure of all things. -- Griet Vankeerberghen, author of The Huainanzi and Liu An's Claim to Moral AuthorityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Kings and the Court in the Early Western Han2. From Imitation to Innovation: The Emperor’s Baling Tomb and the Mountain Tombs of the Western Han Kings3. New Styles from Political Change: The Early Han Kings and the Reimagining of Terracotta Armies4. The Many Meanings of Jade: Jade Suits and Local Identity in the Early Han5. The Murals at Shiyuan and the King of Liang6. The Purple Textiles of Qi: Tracing the Growth of a Provincial IndustryConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNatalie B. Aviles examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the U.S. National Cancer Institute to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation.Trade ReviewThe U.S. government's long-term investment in cancer research and treatment has had profound effects on cancer, but also on the relationships among health, science, industry, and democracy. Spanning an extraordinary seventy-year period, An Ungovernable Foe traces the ways the National Cancer Institute's dual missions, scientific developments, and organizational imperatives have shaped both politics and health. If you want to understand the ways science and democracy shape one another, you can't afford to miss this book. -- Andrew J. Perrin, SNF-Agora Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins UniversityAn Ungovernable Foe is essential reading for scholars studying translational research and public-private partnerships. Aviles makes a compelling case that we should not be too quick to label these organizational forms as neoliberal or to dismiss government scientists as unimaginative. Through her meticulous study of the National Cancer Institute, she shows that federal agencies are an underappreciated site of both scientific and bureaucratic innovation. -- Nicole C. Nelson, coeditor of Social Studies of Science and author of Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric DisordersIn this comprehensive book, Natalie Aviles takes us deep inside the National Cancer Institute, tracing how a federal agency has orchestrated the evolving mission to treat a much-feared disease over seven decades. Sure to become a classic in the study of government-sponsored science, An Ungovernable Foe tells the surprising story of how scientific innovation as well as failure emerge from the inner workings of the federal bureaucratic machine. -- Steven Epstein, author of The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday LifeHow can we inspire innovation in the public interest? An Ungovernable Foe offers a thorough history of the NCI’s virus program, which played a crucial history in shaping HIV treatment and developing the HPV vaccine. At a moment of growing concern about the social impacts of the biomedical research enterprise as it is currently constituted, this book is both timely and important. -- Shobita Parthasarathy, author of Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and EuropeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Medicine, Meliorism, and the Making of a Modern NCI2. Cancer Viruses and the Promise of a Vaccine, 1958–19683. Moving Targets in the War on Cancer, 1969–19794. Back to Basics: Human Cancer Retrovirus Research, 1980–19845. HIV Research and Drug Development, 1985–19896. Lost in Translation, 1990–20017. From Roadmap to Moonshot, 2002–2016ConclusionMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNatalie B. Aviles examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the U.S. National Cancer Institute to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation.Trade ReviewThe U.S. government's long-term investment in cancer research and treatment has had profound effects on cancer, but also on the relationships among health, science, industry, and democracy. Spanning an extraordinary seventy-year period, An Ungovernable Foe traces the ways the National Cancer Institute's dual missions, scientific developments, and organizational imperatives have shaped both politics and health. If you want to understand the ways science and democracy shape one another, you can't afford to miss this book. -- Andrew J. Perrin, SNF-Agora Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins UniversityAn Ungovernable Foe is essential reading for scholars studying translational research and public-private partnerships. Aviles makes a compelling case that we should not be too quick to label these organizational forms as neoliberal or to dismiss government scientists as unimaginative. Through her meticulous study of the National Cancer Institute, she shows that federal agencies are an underappreciated site of both scientific and bureaucratic innovation. -- Nicole C. Nelson, coeditor of Social Studies of Science and author of Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric DisordersIn this comprehensive book, Natalie Aviles takes us deep inside the National Cancer Institute, tracing how a federal agency has orchestrated the evolving mission to treat a much-feared disease over seven decades. Sure to become a classic in the study of government-sponsored science, An Ungovernable Foe tells the surprising story of how scientific innovation as well as failure emerge from the inner workings of the federal bureaucratic machine. -- Steven Epstein, author of The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday LifeHow can we inspire innovation in the public interest? An Ungovernable Foe offers a thorough history of the NCI’s virus program, which played a crucial history in shaping HIV treatment and developing the HPV vaccine. At a moment of growing concern about the social impacts of the biomedical research enterprise as it is currently constituted, this book is both timely and important. -- Shobita Parthasarathy, author of Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and EuropeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Medicine, Meliorism, and the Making of a Modern NCI2. Cancer Viruses and the Promise of a Vaccine, 1958–19683. Moving Targets in the War on Cancer, 1969–19794. Back to Basics: Human Cancer Retrovirus Research, 1980–19845. HIV Research and Drug Development, 1985–19896. Lost in Translation, 1990–20017. From Roadmap to Moonshot, 2002–2016ConclusionMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on years of unprecedented access to the best and most influential culinary R&D teams in the world, Vaughn Tan reveals how they exemplify what he calls the uncertainty mindset. A revelatory look at the R&D kitchen, The Uncertainty Mindset upends conventional wisdom about how to organize for innovation and offers practical insights.Trade ReviewWhether you’re new to the culinary world or have dined in some of the world’s top restaurants, you’d be hard pressed not to find The Uncertainty Mindset fascinating. Vaughn Tan has written an intriguing, well-researched account of how some of the world’s top chefs and their teams approach culinary innovation—this book is full of valuable insights for forward-thinking, innovation-minded organizations and teams in any sector. -- Nathan Myhrvold, coauthor of Modernist Bread, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking and Modernist Cuisine at Home, author of The Photography of Modernist CuisineVaughn Tan spent long periods observing some of the world’s most famous chefs at work in their prize-winning restaurants and tells his readers what they do and how they do it. A real contribution to our understanding of how experts combine artistic creation and business success. -- Howard S. Becker, author of Art WorldsThe Uncertainty Mindset takes a close look at the secret inner workings of some of the most innovative food R&D teams worldwide. It shows organizations in other industries how to redesign themselves to become more resilient, innovative, and adaptable—by simply changing how they think about the future. -- Amy C. Edmondson, author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and GrowthThis is one of the best books to appear in the last several decades about how to design organizations for continual innovation in high-pressure environments. It offers explanations for why some companies work and others don’t, and made me embrace a new, more subtle way of thinking about hiring, managing, and trusting innovators in leading-edge technology companies. -- Jerry Neumann, founder of Neu Venture CapitalChefs are responsible for some of today’s most novel innovations. Vaughn Tan goes behind the scenes to show how R&D is organized inside the world’s most famous kitchens, uncovering surprising lessons that have wide application. This is a provocative contribution to studies of culture and R&D. -- Woody Powell, Stanford UniversityIf you’re an R&D executive or practitioner, The Uncertainty Mindset is a worthy if occasionally repetitive (in the time-honored academic style) read that should spark ideas for improvement. And if, in this pandemic year, you are missing high-end cuisine, you will surely find it an appetizing read as well. * Strategy + Business *In this closely researched book, the emphasis is on culinary innovation. * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating account of how top chefs and their teams approach innovation. * Welcome to the Jungle *Vaughn’s book is the most insightful treatment I’ve read of industrial R&D organizational practices—and now I’m hungry for more. -- Andy MatuschakInsightful. * LSE Review of Books *The empirical evidence offered by this book not only adds to the research in food studies but will stimulate current discussions on the nature of uncertainty in the market economy among economic sociologists and political economists. * Food Culture and Society *An engrossing account of the challenges faced by some of the world’s leading food organizations that highlight the remarkable mindset of those tasked with overcoming them, celebrating the future’s inevitable uncertainty as an engine for growth. * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. A Partial History of New Ideas in Food1. From the Margins to the Center2. The Undercurrents of the NewPart II. What Is Innovation in Food?3. Well-Known, Barely Understood4. Four Types of New Ideas in FoodPart III. Innovation Is Uncertainty5. A Nondelusional Worldview6. The Uncertainty MindsetPart IV. Building the Ever-Changing Team7. Innovation Implies Change8. Building Innovation Dream TeamsPart V. Creating the New Familiar9. The Power of Familiar Novelty10. Learning House StylePart VI. Staying in the Discomfort Zone11. The Motivation Paradox12. Desperation by DesignPart VII. Insights from the Frontiers of Food13. All Change14. A Mindset for an Uncertain WorldNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface1. Conversation with Andrew Solomon2. Conversation with Evan Osnos3. Conversation with Tim Marlow4. Conversation with Amale Andraos and Carol Becker5. Conversation with Vivian Yee6. Conversation with Nicholas BaumeContributor Biographies

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface1. Conversation with Andrew Solomon2. Conversation with Evan Osnos3. Conversation with Tim Marlow4. Conversation with Amale Andraos and Carol Becker5. Conversation with Vivian Yee6. Conversation with Nicholas BaumeContributor Biographies

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible guide to making healthy diets from sustainable food systems available to all. Glenn Denning bridges the divisive worlds of science, policy, and practice and shares personal perspectives and insights gained over four decades working in more than fifty countries.Trade ReviewUniversal Food Security is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary individual. Glenn Denning offers a comprehensive approach to one of the world’s greatest challenges: how to feed humanity, including the poor and vulnerable, while protecting the Earth’s environment. The book covers an enormous range of topics with remarkable clarity and wisdom, drawing upon Denning’s long career as a world-leading practitioner, scholar, teacher, and policy advisor of agricultural systems. This book will educate, inspire, and help to guide today’s and future leaders in the global effort to achieve a world without hunger. -- Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions NetworkGlenn Denning brings together a lifetime of experience as a development practitioner and teacher to present an extremely compelling story of what has worked and what has not in meeting the challenge of global hunger. This book is a must-read for all future development practitioners and aspiring policy experts. -- Prabhu Pingali, professor and founding director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell UniversityIt is hard enough to ensure food security during normal times. It is even harder during major shocks to the food production ecosystem. Glenn Denning’s book provides invaluable tools for the ‘first principles analysis’ to support policy makers, scientists, investors, and business leaders, who have to act quickly during times of crisis. It couldn’t have come at a better time as the world grapples with the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, and crushing inflation with high food and energy prices globally. -- Frannie Léautier, senior partner and CEO of SouthBridge InvestmentsThe strength of the book lies in the extraordinary experiences relayed as first-hand stories...there is no one else who brings this degree of high-level experience and influence to the table. -- C. Peter Timmer, Harvard University * The Developing Economies *Timely and well written...[this] important book is a call to all of us as well as for students and practitioners looking to transform our food systems and assist humanity at all levels. -- Dr. Francis Costello, Queen's University Belfast * The Irish News *This book, from the director of SIPA’s MPA in Development Practice, allows students to understand how the current food and climate crises are intertwined, and why geopolitics can aggravate them. Using science and evidence, it teaches us how to find a solution to these global challenges. -- Mauricio Cárdenas, Professor of Professional Practice in Global Leadership at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance, Colombia. * SIPA’s Top Summer Reads *But beyond the roadmap, Denning reminds us that the engine driving this transformation is practitioner-leadership, underscored by education and development. This book stands as a testament to the potential for meaningful change when individuals and institutions commit to reshaping our world, making universal food security not merely a dream but a tangible and sustainable reality. -- Dilara Ozer * Politics Today *Table of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsPart I. Context1. Prophets of Doom2. Green RevolutionsPart II. Knowledge3. Soil and Land4. Water Resources5. Seeds of Life6. Climate Change7. Human Nutrition8. Food Systems TransformationPart III. Strategy9. Sustainable Intensification10. Market Infrastructure11. Postharvest Stewardship12. Healthy Diets13. Social Protection14. COVID-19 and Food SecurityPart IV. Implementation15. More than a Miracle16. Learning to LeadAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRichard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequality in American publishing that reveals the persistence of an extreme bias toward white authors.Trade ReviewIn this gift of a book, So challenges racial hegemony and discrimination in the publishing industry — and, by extension, in the country at large . . . Recognizing the significance of So’s work means recognizing the impact of words, language, and storytelling on who we have been as a country, who we are as a country, and who we could be as a country if we valued, amplified, and embraced the stories of those from historically marginalized groups — an embrace that, ultimately, would shape a world built upon celebrating not only their stories and voices, but their lives. -- Emanuela Kucik * Los Angeles Review Books *It’s easy to say that American publishing has taken steps to reduce racial inequality, indicated by the expanding list of published novels by nonwhite authors since World War II. So refutes that statement with this data-driven account that brings literary and historical methods together. A breakthrough in book history, this pathbreaking study about publishing, authorship, race, and recognition is essential reading. -- Maryemma Graham, founding director of the Project on the History of Black Writing, University of KansasWith clarity and conviction, Richard Jean So makes the case for why quantitative methods matter for the study of literary culture. But more than that, he shows what these methods can do: reveal patterns of inequality, identify examples of resistance, and enrich our understanding of the structural forces that shape what we read and why. -- Lauren Klein, coeditor of Debates in the Digital HumanitiesSo conducts groundbreaking data analysis of modern and contemporary American literary production, making visible, at scale, the denial of opportunity, attention, and distinction to writers of color. An ambitious work in cultural analytics, Redlining Culture will be a model for future work in the field. -- Kinohi Nishikawa, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary UndergroundRedlining Culture is a book of landmark significance, both for digital humanities and for literary studies at large. So demonstrates that scholars have underestimated the persistence of inequality in postwar fiction. In supporting that thesis, he also shows that quantitative models can help us understand every stage in the production of literary value—from authorial and editorial decisions, to book reviews, to the distribution of prizes and academic consecration. At once ambitious and startlingly clear, the book provides a blueprint for a new kind of literary history. -- Ted Underwood, author of Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary ChangeRedlining Culture joins a select group of texts in the humanities that employ scientific tools and computational methods in order to rigorously demonstrate the existence and persistence of institutional injustices . . . [This book] levels an incisive, evidence-based criticism against the American publishing industry, as well as the academic discipline of literary and cultural studies. -- Amir Jaima * Publishing Research Quarterly *Using an incisive combination of data science and traditional literary scholarly methods, So paints a compelling picture of the persistence of whiteness in literary culture, analysing the whole cycle of literary production to uncover the ways in which power moves through the system . . . Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction shows the richness arising from the application of an intersectional, data-justice-informed approach to a set of questions about literary culture. -- Kathryn Eccles * The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory: Digital Humanities *At its best moments, So’s methodologies are indeed able to document the way that our institutions of publishing, book reviewing, and scholarly criticism have ossified or reified racialized entities like the ‘Black Author’ or ‘Asian American Fiction’ both as market phenomena and on the page. -- Nick Valvo * The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory: Economic Criticism *[So] is a clear and thoughtful writer, and this is particularly helpful to those new to big data and machine learning. -- Charlotte Roh * College & Research Libraries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Production: On White Publishing2. Reception: Multiculturalism of the 1 Percent3. Recognition: Literary Distinction and Blackness4. Consecration: The Canon and Racial InequalityConclusionNotesIndex

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