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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wise, practical, and smart, Wordcraft is an exceptional book, offering advice with good humor and great insight. Hart’s approach to the writing process will engage you while you’re learning, console you when you’re stuck, and, best of all, inspire you to be a better writer.” -- Susan Orlean, Author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book“I consider this a foundational book about strong, clear, purposeful writing—along with Zinsser, Strunk and White, and Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools. The update keeps pace with the times and makes it useful across platforms and experience levels.” -- Jacqui Banaszynski, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, writer, editor, and teacher “A landmark book. Wordcraft gets behind the mystique and shows how the successful writer thinks his or her way through stories.” -- Jon Franklin, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist“Hart is one of the country’s foremost writing coaches. The lessons he teaches are about storytelling, structuring, pacing, tension, and conflict. These lessons are perhaps even more important now in a digital age that sometimes forgets that—without a story to tell—words, videos, graphs, graphics, emails, alerts, and news bulletins are just so much noise.” -- Amanda Bennett, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, investigative journalist, and editorTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Method 2 Process 3 Structure 4 Force 5 Brevity 6 Clarity 7 Rhythm 8 Humanity 9 Color 10 Voice 11 Mechanics 12 Mastery Acknowledgments Selected Resources for Writers Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this beautifully written and insightful study of the mutual entanglement between Italy's national art police squad and the deeply entrenched tradition of tomb robbing, Greenland's portrayal of the robbers--in whom Italians see heroic tricksters and traitorous villains by turns--is both sharply analytical and descriptively captivating. She deftly articulates historical and legal detail with a rattling good story."--Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome "Ruling Culture provides a detailed and thought-provoking analysis of the construction of Italian national identity. It promises to be a major contribution to our understanding of Italian national identity, the institutional and legal dimensions of heritage, and the disciplinary history of archaeology. Greenland has written a first-rate piece of work and a valuable scholarly contribution."--Joshua Arthurs, author of Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy "Ruling Culture is groundbreaking. Greenland addresses the problem of how culture is used by states and various non-state actors to foster allegiance to nations, investigating culture as a key building block of national identity and making a convincing case for the difference between cultural power and ideological power."--Richard Lachmann, author of First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great PowersTable of ContentsIntroduction: The World’s Greatest Cultural Power 1 Art Squad Agonistes 2 The American Price 3 Distributing Sovereignty: From Fascism to the Art Squad 4 Tomb Robbers and Cultural Power from Below 5 Made in Italy 6 Farewell to the Tomb Robber Acknowledgments Appendix: Methodology Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAt the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women's pages, and Sunday magazines. Newspapers' lavish illustrations, colorful dialogue, and sensational stories seemed to reproduce city life on the page.Yet as Julia Guarneri reveals, newspapers did not simply report on cities; they also helped to build them. Metropolitan sections and civic campaigns crafted cohesive identities for sprawling metropolises. Real estate sections boosted the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. Advice columns and advertisements helped assimilate migrants and immigrants to a class-conscious, consumerist, and cosmopolitan urban culture. Newsprint Metropolis offers a tour of American newspapers in thTrade Review“Impressive. . .Julia Guarneri makes a convincing case that newspapers played an essential role in American life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . .This book will likely become the definitive study of turn-of-the-century newspapers. . .It will also appeal to those seeking a prehistory to the news media of the twenty-first century.” * The American Historian *“In her wonderful new book, Julia Guarneri returns us to the salad days of the mass daily at the turn of the twentieth century. . . Guarneri is a skilled and loving reader of old newspapers. Newsprint Metropolis provides an excellent depiction of a now-distant era of booming cities and booming newspapers, and an insightful account of the modern life-styles they brought into being.” * The Journal of American History *“An ambitious, engaging, and persuasive history of this most quintessentially metropolitan institution. . . . Guarneri makes a compelling argument that urban newspapers were a creative force that helped forge a modern, metropolitan social order in the United States. Her emphasis on readers is especially welcome. . . . She makes creative use of circulation data, commentary, letters, and surveys. . . . Guarneri shrewdly infers reading experiences from the way newspapers were organized and written.” * The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *“As social history, Newsprint Metropolis offers a deeply sourced and engaging account of the complicated relationship between newspapers and cities, and the ways in which the two intersected. . .One of the strengths of Newsprint Metropolis is Guarneri's holistic approach with primary sources. She dives beyond front pages and intro newspaper folds, examining Sunday sections, comics, advice columns, theater sections, and business directories. And while large metropolitan dailies are covered, she does not forget the role weekly, African-American, and foreign language newspapers played in the lives of city dwellers.” * American Journalism *“Guarneri’s decision to examine mass-readership newspapers in four major cities allows her not only to look at the epicenter of newspaper publishing at the turn of the century—New York—but also to examine the similarities and differences in newspaper publishing in other major metropolitan markets. The result is detailed and fascinating social history, as well as a set of interlinked arguments regarding the ‘metropolitan’ and its relationship to the creation of regional and national cultures.” * Alice Fahs, author of Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space *“Beautifully written, brightly illustrated, and prodigiously researched, Guarneri’s Newsprint Metropolis will, the day it is published, become the ‘go-to’ book on the history of twentieth century American newspapers. We forget, at our peril, how important the daily newspaper was in spreading wide and far the gospel of business, the joys of consumerism, the tensions between the local and the national, and the changing gender roles that defined daily life in the decades surrounding the turn of the century. Guarneri’s new book, like all good history, brings our present into focus by illuminating some essential, but nearly forgotten aspects of our past.” * David Nasaw, author of The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst *“Newsprint Metropolis is a splendid study of big city daily and Sunday newspapers at the dawn of the twentieth century. Guarneri explores the marvelously diverse universe of newspaper content and influence, from news and advertising, to comics and advice columns, to politics and popular culture. And she persuasively supports a bold claim: that newspapers were not just chroniclers but were creators of the modern American city.” * David Paul Nord, Indiana University *“Not in several decades has a scholar offered as comprehensive and geographically balanced an account of the American daily newspaper in its commercial and aesthetic heyday. In clear, crisp, and lively prose, at once authoritative and evocative, Newsprint Metropolis neither presumes nor demands prior familiarity with the period or the historical literature. Instead it rewards curiosity about a time when cheap daily papers anchored, expanded, and reshaped their massive readership’s sense of community and place.” * David Henkin, University of California, Berkeley *"Gracefully written, with many appealing historical photos and illustrations, Newsprint Metropolis presents case studies of four different cities: New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago. . . .The book’s detailed and lively examination of social history commands interest from both scholars and general readers." -- Nancy L. Roberts * American Periodicals *Table of ContentsIntroduction One: A New Newspaper Model Two: Making Metropolitans Three: Building Print Community Four: Connecting City, Suburb, and Region Five: Nationalizing the News Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix: Sources Notes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A much-needed, comprehensive, and accessible overview of the interrelationship among these languages. . . . Throughout the book, Sanders makes a convincing argument about how languages, their perception, and even their definitions are simultaneously bound to multiple factors. Leaving out any one aspect from analysis—be it cultural or historical context, linguistic properties, the geographic or genealogical vicinity, or the mutual intelligibility between languages—would give a falsely simplified picture of the whole. . . . The Languages of Scandinavia is a welcome contribution. . . . Its strength lies in its inclusivity, and Sanders sees and describes contacts and encounters, whereas the scholarship has often focused on boundaries.” -- Ilmari Ivaska, University of Bologna * Scandinavian Studies *“This book is structured in seven chapters that tell concurrently the individual and shared histories of the titular sister languages: the five Germanic Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese) and the two Finno-Ugric Scandinavian languages (Finnish and Sami). Though Sanders refers to the latter group as stepsisters, the blended family analogy—maintained throughout the narrative—enhances the presentation and sharpens the dramatic impact of the storytelling. The author’s perspective is unique in that she does not separate the Germanic languages from the Finno-Ugric languages despite their originating and modern-day differences; instead she considers moments of intersection and co-development as essential to all the stories. . . . Of particular interest are the discussions of the effect of the black death on Norwegian, the parallel and divergent paths in the development of Faroese and Icelandic, Sami variants as languages or dialects, and immigrants and ‘multiethnolects’ in modern-day Scandinavia. Recommended.” * Choice *“This book focuses on contacts, colonialism, conflicts and causes of friction, and the resulting language developments from a macro perspective, investigating the Scandinavian languages from the point of view of their contacts rather than as static entities. This makes for a refreshing and pleasant read. It furthermore supplies a well-written introduction to the phonology, orthography, grammar, and linguistic varieties of each of the seven languages. It is especially laudable that Sámi and Faroese are included here, and that all ‘seven sisters’ appear on an equal footing. An extremely valuable and long-overdue overview of all the major languages spoken in Scandinavia.” -- Verena Höfig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“Languages are constantly in flux, but it takes a rather long view to show just what a contingent and transitory thing a language can be at any point in time. Sanders takes just such a view. . . . Her biography ranges widely over not just linguistics, but also over archaeology and genetic history to tell the story of these prolific Indo-Europeans and their languages . . . . It is an ingenious telling of just how German emerged from the primordial Germanic soup, and how many other ways it could have been. . . . This is an enjoyable yet still-scholarly read for the historian, linguist, and Germanophile alike. It would be a fine thing to have more such brief histories, made easily readable to the non-specialist, of the major world languages.” * Economist, on Sanders's "German: Biography of a Language" *"In understanding linguistic history to respond to as well as shape historical and cultural change, Sanders rightly emphasizes that the history of a language cannot be divorced from the history of its speakers and that language is embedded in a social context. What is more, linguistic history is rescued from the dusty libraries of philology and comes beautifully alive in the book when it is paired with stories of everyday life and material culture." -- Kerstin Hoge, University of Oxford * Times Literary Supplement, on Sanders's "German: Biography of a Language" *“An approachable overview of the evolution of the German language and a history of its speakers.” * eLanguage, on Sanders's "German: Biography of a Language" *“This is a book remarkable in numerous respects; remarkable not only because of the vast time frame of some 6,000 years selected for this ‘narrative,’ and not only because of the skillful and pervasively interesting manner in which the abundance of pertinent data is handled, but also because of the certainly unusual, yet all the same refreshingly captivating style which Sanders employs.” * German Politics and Society, on Sanders's "German: Biography of a Language" *"For linguists and nonlinguists alike, The Languages of Scandinavia: Seven Sisters of the North...presents an engaging overview of language development, contact, and change in Scandinavian languages." -- Lara Schwarz * Journal of Germanic Linguistics *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction • Dead Man Talking 1 • Prologue to History 2 • Gemini, the Twins: Faroese and Icelandic 3 • East Is East: Heralding the Birth of Danish and Swedish 4 • The Ties That Bind: Finnish Is Visited by Swedish 5 • The Black Death Comes for Norwegian: Danish Makes a House Call 6 • Faroese Emerges 7 • Sámi, Language of the Far North: Encounters with Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish Epilogue • The Seven Sisters Now and in the Future Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisWas Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here delves into Hobbes's critique of the classical tradition, making this oft-neglected aspect of the philosopher's thought the basis of a new, comprehensive interpretation of his political philosophy. In Hobbes's Kingdom of Light, Stauffer argues that Hobbes was engaged in a struggle on multiple fronts against forces, both philosophic and religious, that he thought had long distorted philosophy and destroyed the prospects of a lasting peace in politics. By exploring the twists and turns of Hobbes's arguments, not only in his famous Leviathan but throughout his corpus, Stauffer uncovers the details of Hobbes's critique of an older outlook, rooted in classical philosophy and Christian theology, and reveals the complexity of Hobbes's war againTrade Review“A brilliant and sustained reflection on Hobbes’s philosophic, theological, and political-philosophic attempt to dispel the ‘Kingdom of Darkness.’ Stauffer clarifies and assesses the arguments that led Hobbes to his extraordinary and highly influential attempt to establish human society on a radically new, ‘enlightened,’ secular basis. This is a vitally important book, not only for those who wish to understand the true relation between Hobbes’s natural science and his political science but for anyone who wishes to understand the modern world.” -- Timothy Burns, Baylor University“The book's provocative and welcome conceit is that when we study the endlessly fascinating intricacies of Hobbes's seventeenth-century arguments, we are doing more than diving into a particular historical moment or following the back and forth of a particular language game; we are evaluating the justifications for our way of life.” -- Bryan Garsten * The Review of Politics *“Stauffer offers a brilliant and controversial esoteric interpretation of Hobbes’s attack on religion, and relates it to Hobbes’s metaphysics, natural philosophy, and politics/ethics. . . . Stauffer’s book should be read by Hobbes scholars and by early modern specialists more generally, as well as anyone interested in history of philosophy in relation to metaphysics, religion, science, politics and ethics.” -- Adrian Blau * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *"For scholars of Hobbes looking for a serious argument that he is best seen as the patron saint of secular enlightenment, this is the book to read." * Hobbes Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editions and AbbreviationsIntroduction Chapter One. “Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy” Chapter Two. Hobbes’s Natural Philosophy Chapter Three. Religion and Theology I: “Of Religion” Chapter Four. Religion and Theology II: Hobbes’s Natural Theology Chapter Five. Religion and Theology III: Hobbes’s Confrontation with the Bible Chapter Six. Hobbes’s Political Philosophy I: Man and Morality Chapter Seven. Hobbes’s Political Philosophy II: The Hobbesian CommonwealthAppendix. The Engraved Title Page of Leviathan Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The result of more than a decade of research, Darfur Allegory provides a detailed analysis of the region’s multiple causes of social disruption and violence and the world’s inaccurate comprehension of them. Sudanese anthropologist Abusharaf. . .examines the interwoven ethnographic, historical, economic, and political realities that constitute the lived experiences of the Darfuri. Conducted in the Sudan, among the Sudanese community in Qatar and with emigres in Israel and the US, her fieldwork challenges and redefines accepted theoretical models and explores the alternative explanations of the destructions of Darfuri society through the (often unheard) voices of the Darfuri themselves, using original translations from both Fur and Arabic." * Choice *"An anthropologist’s critique of the pseudoscientific notions of race and ethnicity that have been adopted by the media to explain the Darfur civil war." * The Bookseller *“In this book, Abusharaf’s astute critical faculties are on full display. She uses a distinctive blend of incisive theory, political acuity, and personal narrative to challenge widely held presuppositions about this long-running conflict. Darfur Allegory once more affirms Abusharaf’s standing as one of Africa’s leading diasporic minds.” * Grant Farred, Cornell University *“By including verbatim Fur testimonials and Arabic texts translated and analyzed here for the first time, Darfur Allegory corrects and complicates the international press’s coverage of the conflict. Thanks to Abusharaf’s wisdom and courage in not oversimplifying, we see the complexities in the disputing parties’ positions and gain a surer footing to bring this heart-rending conflict to a peaceful solution.” * Steven C. Caton, Harvard University *“Full of innovative findings, Darfur Allegory is a masterful work for anyone eager to learn crucial lessons about the impact of intersecting levels of violence. Abusharaf successfully lays the foundation for reconsidering Darfur.” * Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPrelude: Unmuting Darfuri Voices Chapter 1: Encountering Darfur and Its Troubles Chapter 2: Producing Knowledge, Historicizing Racial Categories Chapter 3: Some Views from the Sudan Chapter 4. Qatar Notes Chapter 5. “All Dust and Panic”: Sinai Desert-scape Chapter 6. Darfur’s Jam for Justice in America Postscript: Darfur the Rhizome Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The result of more than a decade of research, Darfur Allegory provides a detailed analysis of the region’s multiple causes of social disruption and violence and the world’s inaccurate comprehension of them. Sudanese anthropologist Abusharaf. . .examines the interwoven ethnographic, historical, economic, and political realities that constitute the lived experiences of the Darfuri. Conducted in the Sudan, among the Sudanese community in Qatar and with emigres in Israel and the US, her fieldwork challenges and redefines accepted theoretical models and explores the alternative explanations of the destructions of Darfuri society through the (often unheard) voices of the Darfuri themselves, using original translations from both Fur and Arabic." * Choice *"An anthropologist’s critique of the pseudoscientific notions of race and ethnicity that have been adopted by the media to explain the Darfur civil war." * The Bookseller *“In this book, Abusharaf’s astute critical faculties are on full display. She uses a distinctive blend of incisive theory, political acuity, and personal narrative to challenge widely held presuppositions about this long-running conflict. Darfur Allegory once more affirms Abusharaf’s standing as one of Africa’s leading diasporic minds.” * Grant Farred, Cornell University *“By including verbatim Fur testimonials and Arabic texts translated and analyzed here for the first time, Darfur Allegory corrects and complicates the international press’s coverage of the conflict. Thanks to Abusharaf’s wisdom and courage in not oversimplifying, we see the complexities in the disputing parties’ positions and gain a surer footing to bring this heart-rending conflict to a peaceful solution.” * Steven C. Caton, Harvard University *“Full of innovative findings, Darfur Allegory is a masterful work for anyone eager to learn crucial lessons about the impact of intersecting levels of violence. Abusharaf successfully lays the foundation for reconsidering Darfur.” * Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPrelude: Unmuting Darfuri Voices Chapter 1: Encountering Darfur and Its Troubles Chapter 2: Producing Knowledge, Historicizing Racial Categories Chapter 3: Some Views from the Sudan Chapter 4. Qatar Notes Chapter 5. “All Dust and Panic”: Sinai Desert-scape Chapter 6. Darfur’s Jam for Justice in America Postscript: Darfur the Rhizome Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTimed for the 200th anniversary of John Keats's death, these intimate essays show why we love Keats still, and why his odes continue to speak powerfully to our own desires.Trade Review"This book claims to be 'about' Keats's odes. And it is. But it is also about beauty and sadness and love and revolution and how the odes can help us to better understand these things. It is nothing short of a perfect book, one that understands how poetry can transform one's life. Nersessian is on track to be the Harold Bloom of her generation, but a Bloom with politics."--Juliana Spahr "This is an intense, often dazzling, original, illuminating, idiosyncratic, but also welcoming and welcome book. Offering trenchant, astute, often polemical and sometimes breathtaking readings of Keats's Odes--and simultaneously of love, politics, worldmaking, and self--Nersessian has written a propelled, impelled, impassioned work, truly in Keats's spirit."--Maureen N. McLane "In a tour-de-force series of revisionary readings, Nersessian makes Keats's odes new in A Lover's Discourse; and by the end of this exhilarating book, a new poet emerges into historical and psychological focus as well, neither aesthete nor insurgent, but someone who discovers the radicalism immanent in literary style. On yet another level, Keats's Odes is a discourse on love as interpretive practice. Demanding, generous, precise, utopian, and unfailingly brilliant, Nersessian reinvents reading itself as a form of critical intimacy for our broken times. 'If love is anything not laid waste by this world it is free, ' writes this reader. 'Mine is.'"--Srikanth ReddyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1   Ode to a Nightingale 2   Ode on a Grecian Urn 3   Ode on Indolence 4   Ode on Melancholy 5  Ode to Psyche 6  To Autumn Postscript: Sleep and Poetry Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes stories and insights into how guitars are made, where the much-cherished guitar timbers ultimately come from, and the people and skills that craft those timbers along the way.Trade Review"The Guitar has everything necessary to become a classic in more than one discipline... of interest to those who want to know what a continuous hunger for six strings demands from nature and how it promotes certain supply chains worldwide." * popcultureshelf.com *“How old is a guitar? Did its life begin in the hands of the player, in the workshop or the factory, in the sourcing of its wood, or in the forests from which it came, with their majestic, centuries-old trees? In an exhilarating round-the-world journey, Gibson and Warren follow the trail of this most eloquent of instruments to its arboreal roots. Full of colorful characters, it’s a story that will keep you on edge of your seat.” -- Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen“The book integrates cultural practices and environmental issues of profound importance. It will have a vast appeal to those who, like myself, buy, use, and love guitars. Beautifully written, jargon-free, clear, and vivid. Brilliant!” -- Doug Harper, Duquesne University“At a time when our world faces increasing global crises, Gibson and Warren trace guitars back to their trees to offer the first sustained example of how to rethink commodity chains as chains of care. Through rich, multisited ethnographic research, they show how people across the Global North and Global South attempt to sustain each other and their skilled handcraft industry by caring for the trees and the forests, by caring for one another along with everyone in the chain, and by caring for trees they will never, as individuals, live to see become guitars—in order that someone else someday can. Richly researched and compellingly crafted, this book stands as a model for the creative soul of geographical scholarship.” -- Dydia DeLyser, California State University, Fullerton“Every guitar maker, and player, should read it.” -- Miles Jackson, CEO of Cole Clark"How old is a guitar? Did its life begin in the hands of the player, in the workshop or the factory, in the sourcing of its wood, or in the forests from which it came with their majestic, centuries-old trees? In an exhilarating, round-the-world journey, Gibson and Warren follow the trail of this most eloquent of instruments to its arboreal roots. Full of colourful characters, it’s a story that will keep you on edge of your seat.” -- Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen“At a time when our world faces increasing global crises Gibson and Warren trace guitars back to their trees to offer the first sustained example of how to rethink commodity chains as chains of care. Through rich, multi-sited ethnographic research Gibson and Warren show how people across the Global North and Global South attempt to sustain each other and their skilled handcraft industry by caring for the trees and the forests, by caring for one other along with everyone in the chain, and by caring for trees they will never, as individuals, live to see become guitars—in order that someone else someday can. Richly researched and compellingly crafted, this book stands as a model for the creative soul of geographical scholarship.” -- Dydia DeLyser, California State University, Fullerton“The book integrates cultural practices and environmental issues of profound importance. It will have a vast appeal to those who, like myself, buy, use, and love guitars. Beautifully written, jargon-free, clear, and vivid. Brilliant!” -- Doug Harper, Duquesne University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What emerges from Vogler’s detailed study of the various materials related to these two legal classification systems is an impressive constructionist story about how law and psychology, medicine, and science operate together to create, reify, and maintain systems of sexual classification. . . . This book makes important contributions to the sociology of scientific and social-scientific knowledge and the sociology of legal knowledge generally by charting the divergence of these two quite distinct legal and scientific classifications of sexuality. For this reason, among others, Sorting Sexuality deserves a very broad readership." * Law & Society Review *"[A] complex, captivating exploration of sexual identity and the law. . . . This is a truly fascinating and eye-opening book, richly researched and engaging. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"In this landmark study, Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification, Stefan Vogler asks how the American state 'sees' sexuality on its subjects and how the boundaries of citizenship are predicated on intersecting schematics of sexuality and risk . . . This is an excellent and innovative book that complicates some of our commonsense ideas about sexual identity. It should be of interest to scholars working in a variety of subfields, including gender and sexuality, violence prevention, law and society, migration, and science and technology studies." * American Journal of Sociology *"This is a study of state classification of LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the US and sexual offenders being evaluated for carceral placement—two situations where state actors must determine individuals’ sexualities. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed—one a punitive assessment, the other a protective one—they present the same question. Vogler finds that different legal arenas take dramatically different approaches to classifying sexuality and use those classifications to legitimate different forms of social control. He concludes that the science of sexuality is far more central to state power than we realize." * Law & Social Inquiry *"Sorting Sexualities is a wonderful big-picture book, superbly researched and subtly theorized. It is an original and timely contribution to legal studies, social studies of science, and sexuality studies. We have many good monographs on the legal regulation of a single sexual minority at a point in time. But by comparing and contrasting what counts as legal evidence for different purposes, Vogler's ambitious study shows that both the law and the science of sexuality are highly fragmented." -- Mariana Valverde, University of Toronto"This is brilliant stuff. The book is helpful in thinking through the way the state views categories, knowledge, and classificatory systems. It is satisfying in the best ways: I’ve read it twice and want to return to it—I continue to want to think about it. It is an excellent piece of scholarship that makes novel claims regarding state power, sexuality, identity, and expertise—and will push scholarship in those areas forward. Absolutely fascinating." -- Renée Cramer, Drake University"A fantastic achievement. Virtually unparalleled in scope, evidence, and analytic precision, Vogler has cut through the scientific and legal discourse surrounding two confounding subjects of the twenty-first century: the LGBTQ asylee and the sex offender. Unafraid to make dangerous comparisons or ask disquieting questions about the production of sexual natures, Vogler has exposed a vast network of social actors, technologies, knowledge-production practices, and subject-producing institutions that have broad implications for how sexualities are made and remade across registers of society. This book will be a classic of STS, queer, and critical legal studies." -- Patrick R. Grzanka, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1: Kissing Cousins: Queerness, Crime, and the Politics of Knowing 2: Seeing Sexuality Like a State 3: Forensic Psychology, Complicit Expertise, and the Legitimation of Law 4: Insurgent Expertise and the Hybrid Network of LGBTQ Asylum 5: Asylum Seekers and Signs of Queerness 6: Sex Offenders and the Detection of Deviance 7: Queer Subjects and the Construction of Risky Countries 8: Sexual Predators and the Constitution of Dangerous Individuals Conclusion: Sexuality, Science, and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Static-99R Coding Form Appendix 2: Methodology Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this volume, Waterfield provides a translation of the extant works of Epictetus, an accessible introduction, and helpful historical, scholarly notes. . . . Waterfield provides essential philosophical ideas (for example, one should focus on what is in one's full control and let go of what is not), a condensed list of Stoic exercises, and specific references to Epictetus's works. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Waterfield’s clear, readable translation brings out Epictetus’ humour and conversational tone as well as his philosophical vision." * London Review of Books *"A scrupulously rendered faithful rendition of both the substance and tone of the original. . . . I am grateful for this new edition of Epictetus, not only for its deft literary style but for Waterfield’s erudite and helpful annotations. It is a privilege to have the works of this great thinker offered to us with such excellence." -- Richard Smoley * Parabola *“This is an excellent book, well-produced and presented... a stimulating work of scholarship.” * Classics for All *"It is a privilege to have the works of this great thinker offered to us with such excellence." * Parabola *“This new translation of Epictetus by Waterfield is very welcome indeed. Both the translation and the notes help to make Epictetus more accessible than ever. Especially valuable is the introduction, which expertly situates Epictetus’s thought within wider Stoic philosophy and touches on many of the key debates in recent scholarship.” -- John Sellars, author of The Pocket Epicurean“This is now the best English translation of Epictetus available. Idiomatic yet accurate, it captures Epictetus’s voice in all its moods: direct and personal, often brusque and challenging, sometimes ironic, sometimes humorous. The introduction and notes are a reliable and up-to-date guide to the most influential Stoic in today’s world.” -- Brad Inwood, author of Ethics after Aristotle“Waterfield is a gifted writer and a superb classicist whose translation makes Epictetus come alive on the page. His introduction, at once scholarly and highly accessible, sheds new light on the texts and philosophy of this famous Stoic popularizer. Epictetus’s ‘live talks,’ preserved by Arrian, mix street preacher with acerbic comic. This edition of the complete works of Epictetus will be prized by all interested in delving into Stoic philosophy. We couldn’t ask for a better guide than Waterfield.” -- Nancy Sherman, author of Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern ResilienceTable of ContentsPreface Note on the Translation IntroductionHandbook Discourses Preface 1.1: What is and is not up to us 1.2: How to preserve conformity with one’s role in every situation 1.3: How one may proceed from the fact that God is the father of humankind to its consequences 1.4: On progress 1.5: Against the Academics 1.6: On providence 1.7: On the use of changing arguments, hypothetical arguments, and the like 1.8: That our faculties are not without danger for uneducated people 1.9: How one may proceed from the fact of our kinship with God to its consequences 1.10: To those who are intent on advancement at Rome 1.11: On family affection 1.12: On contentment 1.13: How to do whatever we do in a way that pleases the gods 1.14: That the Deity watches over us all 1.15: The prospect held out by philosophy 1.16: On providence 1.17: On the indispensability of logic 1.18: That one should not get angry with people for their mistakes 1.19: The proper attitude to have toward tyrants 1.20: On reason and its ability to examine itself 1.21: To those who want to be admired 1.22: On preconceptions 1.23: Against Epicurus 1.24: How to combat difficult circumstances 1.25: The same topic 1.26: What is the law of life? 1.27: How many ways are there for impressions to arise, and what resources should we have ensured that we have at hand to help us with them? 1.28: That we ought not to get angry with people, and what is trivial or important in human life 1.29: On self-possession 1.30: What we should have at hand in difficult circumstances 2.1: That confidence and caution are not incompatible 2.2: On tranquility 2.3: To those who recommend people to philosophers 2.4: To a man who had once been caught in adultery 2.5: How are greatness of mind and carefulness compatible? 2.6: On indifference 2.7: The correct way to go about divination 2.8: The essence of goodness 2.9: That despite our inability to fulfill our potential as human beings, we assume the mantle of philosophy as well 2.10: How the names that a person bears reveal what behavior is appropriate for him 2.11: The starting point of philosophy 2.12: On argument 2.13: On anxiety 2.14: To Naso 2.15: To those who cling obstinately to certain of their decisions 2.16: That in practice we fail to apply our judgments about what is good and bad 2.17: How to apply preconceptions to particular cases 2.18: How to combat impressions 2.19: To those who take up philosophy just to enhance their conversation 2.20: Against the Epicureans and Academics 2.21: On inconsistency 2.22: On friendship 2.23: On rhetoric 2.24: To someone who Epictetus thought did not have what it takes 2.25: On the indispensability of logic 2.26: What is it that makes a mistake a mistake? 3.1: On personal adornment 3.2: The training a person needs if he is to progress, and that we neglect what is most important 3.3: What the material is that a good person works with, and what the primary orientation of one’s training should be 3.4: To someone who expressed immoderate support in the theater 3.5: To those who quit school because of illness 3.6: A miscellany 3.7: To the Corrector responsible for the free Greek cities, who was an Epicurean 3.8: How we should train ourselves to deal with impressions 3.9: To an orator who was on his way to Rome for a lawsuit 3.10: How to bear illness 3.11: A miscellany 3.12: On training 3.13: What loneliness is and the kind of person who is lonely 3.14: A miscellany 3.15: That we should approach everything with circumspection 3.16: That venturing into company requires caution 3.17: On providence 3.18: That there is no need for news to worry us 3.19: How a non-philosopher’s stance differs from that of a philosopher 3.20: That it is possible to turn every external circumstance to good account 3.21: To people who too readily set out to become lecturers 3.22: On Cynicism 3.23: To those who give readings and lectures just to be admired 3.24: On the necessity of not being attached to things that are not up to us 3.25: To those who fail to see their projects through to completion 3.26: To those who fear destitution 4.1: On freedom 4.2: On social intercourse 4.3: What should be exchanged for what 4.4: To those who are intent on living a quiet life 4.5: Against those who are pugnacious and fierce 4.6: To those who find the pity of others distressful 4.7: On freedom from fear 4.8: To those who rush to assume the guise of philosophers 4.9: To someone who had lapsed into shamelessness 4.10: What we should treat as unimportant and what should matter to us 4.11: On cleanliness 4.12: On paying attention 4.13: On those who too readily share personal information Fragments Notes Textual Notes Recommended Reading Index

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Book SynopsisIn the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors. In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itselfdebates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life in the twentieth century and disputes about police power that continue today.Trade Review"Lvovsky has written an important history of antigay policing in the US between 1930 and 1970. . . . Lvovsky dives into municipal archives, court records, and psychological literature to interrogate queer tropes, taking care to guide readers through this narrative. . . . Lvovsky deftly handles these topics with nuance and compassion. Those studying law, history, gender and sexuality, and political science will benefit from her work in terms of understanding queer life in the 20th century, the professionalization of policing, and how the two intersected to shape (mis)understandings about the other. This is a necessary title for all libraries at all levels. . . . Essential." * Choice *"Anna Lvovsky’s Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall offers an exciting, novel contribution to the fast-growing field of police history in the United States. . . . Vice Patrol reshapes our understanding of the state’s regulation of gay life, and it complicates long-held assumptions about the relationship between police knowledge and police power." * American Journal of Legal History *"With precise details and careful analysis, Vice Patrol tells a fascinating story about how the policing of homosexuality from the 1940s to the 1960s was far more contradictory and contested than we might think, and how courts of law played a crucial role in the emerging understanding and visibility of LGBT life." * The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *"In Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall, Anna Lvovsky examines with both precision and breadth a time period during which litigants in queer society encountered considerably greater difficulty in the justice system... This important book casts new light on the legal intricacies and political realities of anti-gay legislation several generations before courts began looking with disfavor on laws stigmatizing or even criminalizing members of the queer community." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Lvovsky chronicles the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life in the US from the1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. She finds that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the LGBTQ community’s civil liberties, and that continue to be relevant today." * Law & Social Inquiry *"In her stunning new book, Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky argues that, in the United States, the criminal justice system was disjointed on the subject of homosexuality and how it should be policed. . . In an elegantly written examination of state liquor boards, courts and police, Lvovsky demonstrates that individual agents and agencies of the criminal justice system, alongside same-sex desiring people and ‘experts’, shaped and reshaped the public and legal concept of the ‘homosexual.'" * Journal of Urban History *"In this sophisticated and original work, Anna Lvovsky interrogates the policing of queer sexual and cultural expression in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. . . This textured and innovative study will interest legal and urban historians and scholars of gender and sexuality in the United States." * Journal of American History *"In Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, Anna Lvovsky tackles a topic—the history of police abuses of queer people and spaces—that historians have long documented and gives it an impressive new spin. Histories of LGBTQ experience in particular cities, for example, always include significant attention to these anti-LGBTQ policing practices. Lvovsky, however, turns this topic on its head by approaching the issue from the perspective of the state regulatory, police, and judicial systems. . . . Lvovsky has produced a work of impressive and fascinating scholarship. . ." * Contemporary Sociology *"Vice Patrol offers powerful lessons for today’s civil rights battles, both in the courts and online. The book uses a case study of state enforcement of anti-vice laws against gay people to tell a larger story about an epistemological struggle over facts and knowledge, as well as the limits, if any, they place on power." * Michigan Law Review *"Visibility is the clarion call of LGBT politics, but Vice Patrol scrambles the signal. Lvovsky takes familiar moments of gay visibility as her starting point, showing how media attention hardened stereotypes about gay culture. Those stereotypes had a curious afterlife in the legal system, leading to 'epistemic gaps' between enforcement institutions. . . . By elaborating on this process, Lvovsky reveals the 'regulatory underside' to gay cultural visibility. . . [and] brings new insight to a question that has puzzled scholars across several fields: Why and how does cultural representation lead to increased state repression?" * The University of Chicago Law Review *"Lvovsky’s sophisticated approach paints a complex portrait of the state apparatus aimed at regulating queer spaces . . . [Vice Patrol is] a crucial contribution to the scholarly literatures on LGBT communities and policing more generally. I expect it will be useful in part or in whole in courses for instructors in a wide range of disciplines, including history; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; criminology; and sociology." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Lvovsky has done incredible detective work to take us deep inside the machinery of antigay policing during its peak years. Focusing on three distinct sites—the regulation of gay bars by state liquor agencies, the work of plainclothes decoys, and the policing of public restrooms through ‘peepholes’—Lvovsky shows that a legal system we assumed to be monolithically repressive was in fact internally divided about these practices. This subtle and smart book not only illuminates the boundaries around sexual difference but criminal justice as well. Revelatory in every sense of the word.” -- Margot Canaday, Princeton University"Lvovsky takes the vice patrolman—the villain who lurks at the edges of virtually every work of the queer communities that flourished in twentieth-century U.S. cities—and insistently pulls him into the spotlight. Vice Patrol is ambitious, meticulously researched, exceptionally well-conceived, and startlingly original. It deserves a wide readership among historians of law and legal history, LGBTQ history, urban history, and the history of policing and punishment. It is, in fact, a tour de force that will be read and reread by every scholar in the field and will lead us to ask new questions of our sources in the years to come." -- Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University“Lvovsky has written a splendid, insightful history of anti-gay policing in mid-twentieth century America. Vice Patrol shows how investigatory tactics evolved and how they prompted and were in turn shaped by debates about the nature and prevalence of same-sex desire, the appropriate limits on law enforcement, and the kinds of authority and expertise that should matter in answering those questions. It's a gripping read, combining rich, ground-level detail with sober assessments of what those decades-old struggles signified and what lessons they hold for us today.” -- David Sklansky, Stanford Law School“’The 'police’ and ‘the gay community’ are often portrayed as monolithic entities. In Vice Patrol, Lvovsky shows how each entity revealed the extraordinary diversity of the other through their interactions in the pre-Stonewall United States. This is the debut of an important new scholar, who can etch a legal world in scrimshaw with strokes that are both bold and sure.” -- Kenji Yoshino, New York University School of LawTable of ContentsList of Illustrations INTRODUCTION ONE / When Anyone Can Tell TWO / Expert Witnesses on Trial THREE / Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice FOUR / The Rise of Ethnographic Policing FIVE / Peepholes and Perverts SIX / The Popular Press and the Gay World EPILOGUE Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTeachersof literature make judgments about value.Theytelltheirstudentswhichworks are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange,orinsightfuland thus,whichare more worthy oftime and attention than others. Yetthe field of literary studieshaslargely disavowed judgments of artistic value on the grounds that they are inevitablyrootedin prejudice or entangled in problems of social status.For several decades now, professors havecalledtheirwork value-neutral,simplya means for students to gain cultural, political, or historical knowledge. ?Michael W. Clune's provocative book challenges these objections to judgment and offers a positive account of literary studies as an institution of aesthetic education.It is impossible, Clune argues, toseparatejudgments about literary value from the practices of interpretation and analysis that constitute any viable model of literary expertise.Clune envisions a progressive politics freed from the strictures of dogmatic equality and enlivened by education in aesthetic judgment,transcendingconsumer culture and market preferences.Drawing on psychological and philosophical theories ofknowledge andperception,Cluneadvocates forthe cultivation of whatJohnKeats called negative capability, the capacity to place existing criteria in doubtand to discover new concepts and new values in artworks.Moving from theory to practice, Clune takes up works byKeats,Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Bernhard, showing how close readingthe profession's traditional key skillharnesses judgment to open new modes of perception.Trade Review"Clune's A Defense of Judgment [attempts] to revivify a version of what Northrop Frye called 'literary experience' as the basis on which judgments of value can be made. His timing is propitious: the scholarly landscape is more favorable to the aesthetic than it has been in decades. . . . In a way that much academic criticism is not, [A Defense of Judgment] is refreshingly alive to the necessity of helping people learn how to appreciate works of art." -- V. Joshua Adams * Chicago Review *"We need to admit—embrace—that our role as literary critics, and educators, is to provide expert judgment; Clune argues that it’s what most of us are already doing anyway." -- Kasia Bartoszynska * Critical Inquiry * “What makes A Defense of Judgment surprising and sometimes even thrilling is how Clune relates his critique to a progressive, anti-capitalist politics.” -- Nate Klug * Commonweal *“This work should be taken seriously by anyone who thinks that criticism matters, whether it’s conducted in an online forum, a publication, or in a classroom.” -- Brice Ezell * PopMatters *"Clune’s A Defense of Judgment is a forceful polemic calling for English professors to defend themselves as experts. . . . Clune’s theory of literary appreciation does justice to the specificity of literary experience." -- Patrick Fessenbecker * Public Books *"An ambitious attempt to justify the work of judging 'value' in humanistic study. Clune’s frame of reference is specific—he writes as a scholar of literature—but his arguments have broad implications for the humanities." -- Matthew Mutter * Hedgehog Review *"Clune argues that everyone can learn how to make better artistic judgments—judgments typically based on one's own aesthetics, class, biases, education, and background. . . . Clune wants to convince the reader that making up one's mind about the worth of a play, a painting, or a book requires understanding the country in which one lives, for example, a country dived by race, class, and religion—not one nation under God, but many different peoples. Since people bring to art their own personal and collective histories, education is needed; people come from their own artistic country and thus need to learn how to see and hear well to make good judgments." * Choice *“A Defense of Judgment is a characteristically brilliant, strongly argued, intellectually accessible attempt to provide a template for rethinking the role of value judgments in teaching and writing (and thinking) about literature, and by implication the arts generally. Clune’s discussion is continually illuminating, as are the exemplary readings he offers of works by Dickinson, Brooks, and Thomas Bernhard.” * Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University *“A Defense of Judgment mounts a lucid and compelling argument for the centrality of judgment, and a polemical critique of the disciplinary pieties that assume questions of value can be bracketed off from our core business of engaging critically with texts. Clune takes on the difficult theoretical and political consequences of defending a practice of judgment grounded in expertise, in particular by developing a rigorous critique of the principle of equality.” * John Frow, University of Sydney *“Clune’s scholarship is positively entertaining. He never fails to produce surprises, particularly as he discovers connections between the question of aesthetic judgment and a constellation of seemingly far-flung topics, including neoclassical economic theories, contemporary philosophy, poetry and death, and contemporary race relations. A Defense of Judgment is remarkable for its acuity and its clarity. It takes on a question central to the future of literary studies and offers a forceful and persuasive answer, one that is likely to spark a lot of debate and almost certainly some controversy.” * Timothy Aubry, Baruch College, City University of New York *"Why study literature? What do humanities professors teach? In taking on these and other topics, A Defense of Judgment presents the clearest and most forceful account of literary studies that has yet to emerge from our moment of constant disciplinary self-reflection, justification, and reinvention. It's exhilarating to be in Clune's intellectual company. Even if you disagree (and many readers will disagree), you will find your thinking sharpened by engaging with his argument." * Genre *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. The Theory of Judgment 1. Judgment and Equality 2. Judgment and Commercial Culture 3. Judgment and Expertise I: Attention and Incorporation 4. Judgment and Expertise II: Concepts and Criteria Part 2. The Practice of Judgment 5. How Poems Know What It’s Like to Die 6. Bernhard’s Way 7. Race Makes Class Visible Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisParker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself - and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Slayground turns the hunter into prey, as Parker gets trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters.Trade Review"Parker... lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark's noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells.... In a complex world he makes things simple." - William Grimes, New York Times "Richard Stark's Parker novels... are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time." - John Banville, Bookforum "The Parkers read with the speed of pulp while unfolding with an almost Nabokovian wit and flair." - Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times "Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag." - Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "Whatever Stark writes, I read." - Elmore Leonard"

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Book SynopsisParker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself - and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Slayground turns the hunter into prey, as Parker gets trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters.Trade Review"Parker... lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark's noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells.... In a complex world he makes things simple." - William Grimes, New York Times "Richard Stark's Parker novels... are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time." - John Banville, Bookforum "The Parkers read with the speed of pulp while unfolding with an almost Nabokovian wit and flair." - Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times "Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag." - Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "Whatever Stark writes, I read." - Elmore Leonard"

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Book SynopsisKnocking over a lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masks - some prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels. Backflash followed soon after, and it found Parker checking out the scene on a Hudson River gambling boat.Trade Review"Parker has not lost his touch - or his nerve." (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times) "Parker at his best.... If you haven't read Stark, Backflash is the place to start your PhD in crime." (Stephen King) "Whatever Stark writes, I read." (Elmore Leonard)"

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Book SynopsisParker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speed-boats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast.Trade Review"Parker... lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark's noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells.... In a complex world he makes things simple." - William Grimes, New York Times "Whatever Stark writes, I read. He's a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude." - Elmore Leonard "Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust - these are the books you'll want on that desert island." - Lawrence Block "The Parkers read with the speed of pulp while unfolding with an almost Nabokovian wit and flair." - Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times "Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag." - Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“For journalism students and other aspiring writers of nonfiction, it’s a treasure trove of inside advice, woven around 24 articles written during the 23 years she has been on the staff of the Tampa Bay Times. For anyone who loves the craft of writing and the magic of story, the anthology is a feast.” * Tampa Bay Times *"Tampa Bay Times reporter DeGregory debuts with a perceptive collection of 24 of her most popular pieces for the Times, each enhanced with commentary and annotations explaining how she reported them. . . . The entries testify to the rich panorama of human experience and the writing guidance is a boon. Aspiring journalists will want to check this out. " * Publishers Weekly *“I have been studying (and teaching) DeGregory’s stories for years. There is no one like her. In addition to being a showcase of her best work, this book is full of practical advice about how she’s able to pull off what seems impossible, over and over.” * Christopher Goffard, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times *“DeGregory performs magic in this beautiful, heartfelt book of stories—and then teaches you how she did it. This is a book for anyone who loves reading, writing, or both.” * Mike Wilson, deputy sports editor for the New York Times *“I was barely a third of the way through ‘The Girl in the Window’ and Other True Tales and ready to swear on my stack of AP Stylebooks that I had never read a better collection of great journalism. And that’s only half of what this anthology by Tampa Bay Times writer Lane DeGregory is. The other half comprises annotations alongside each story by the Pulitzer winner (for the title story) about the insights, decisions, roadblocks, asides, and changes in direction that occurred to her along the way. . . . While it’s great reading for reporters and writers . . . it would be interesting to anyone who wants a view of what ‘the media’—when it means ‘journalism’—is doing.” * Press Club of Southwest Florida *Table of ContentsForeword by Beth Macy Introduction Part 1. Short Stories 1. Talk to Strangers Diving Headlong into Sunny Eden: A Young Couple Flees Winter 2. Get a Life Zeke the Labrador: An Intuitive Dog Saves His Owner 3. Explore Rituals Finding the Right Words: A Boy Buys His First Valentine Spotlight: Finding Ideas 4. Wonder, Who Would Ever? Meet the “THE” Guy: Flag-Bearer of the Rodeo 5. Establish Intimacy A Brothers’ Bond: Autism Ties Twins Together 6. Don’t Judge The Truth Is Flexible: Learning How to Panhandle from the Pros 7. CAST Around Gone in a Flash: A Garbage Truck Driver Walks into a Bar 8. Unravel the Mystery A Message from Roger: Long Ago, a Boy Put a Note in a Bottle 9. Carve Out the Elephant Davion’s Prayer: A Teenage Orphan Goes to Church to Find a Family Part 2. On Assignment 10. Explore News Briefs The Saint and the Sacrifice: She Was Devoted to Her Sister but Wanted Her Life Back 11. Ignore Important People Stormy Daniels: The President’s Porn Star 12. Find a Guide Pulse Nightclub: Aftermath of the Orlando Shooting Tests a Young Man’s Courage 13. Listen to the Quiet The Storm Chaser: Riding out a Hurricane with the Weatherman 14. Wait for It Fast-Forward: IndyCar Champion’s Widow Faces a Dilemma with Their Young Sons Spotlight: Reporting 15. Go Back The Long Fall of Phoebe Jonchuck: Her Dad Threw Her off a Bridge into Tampa Bay 16. Find the Helpers Twelve Hours in an Intensive Care Unit: During the Pandemic Part 3. Narratives 17. Make a Difference The Girl in the Window: Can Love and a New Family Save a Feral Child? 18. Inhabit Their Heads Every Day Is Payday: His First Real Check 19. Braid Narratives The Last House in Rosewood: No One Asked the Owner about Her Story Spotlight: Writing and Editing 20. Follow the Story A Walk in the Woods: Miss Teen America Finds Freedom, for a Day 21. Find the Bruise on the Apple The Old Daredevil: Evel Knievel Comes Back to Earth 22. Use Their Voices The Swan Project: For Troubled Girls, Etiquette Classes Open Another World 23. Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Mr. Newton: A 99-Year-Old Man Still Sweeps a Seafood Factory 24. Get Personal I Brake for Bobo: A Boy Loses His Stuffed ElephantAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBig catstigers, leopards, and lionsthat make prey of humans are commonly known as man-eaters. Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become crooked. Building upon fifteen years of research in India, this groundbreaking work moves beyond both colonial and conservationist accounts to place crooked cats at the center of the question of how we are to comprehend a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans, with the ecological collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet, uncertainty over the precise cause of crookedness persists. Crooked Cats explores in vivid detail the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain knowledge to offer startling new insights into both the governance of nonhuman animals and their intimate entanglements with humans. Through creative ethnographic storytelling, Crooked Cats illuminates the Anthropocene in three critical waTrade Review“In this captivating book, Mathur offers a sensitive examination of ordinary ethical struggle with cruelties and injustices spawned by human domination of the earth. She writes gripping stories of big cats, mostly from within the villages and towns of Himalayan north India, to bridge the different ways in which the global climate crisis has been imagined, understood, and explained. This is precisely the bridge that must be crossed to reach solutions that are locally meaningful and globally just.” * K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University *“At a time when scholarship is highlighting the phenomenon of extinction, Mathur offers an important intervention that redirects attention from this accelerating absence by focusing instead on imaginatively constituted interactions between humans and animals under threat. Introducing many innovative, intriguing, and witty concepts, Crooked Cats is a distinctive contribution to the ongoing and ever-evolving conversation about human-animal conflict and coexistence.” * Kath Weston, University of Virginia *"While Mathur focuses on personal experience of an unusual occurrence, her persuasive arguments, with supporting resources and notes, successfully connect the observed phenomena to issues of interest to many... Highly recommended." * Choice *"Nayanika Mathur’s Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene is a hard-hitting argument by a political scientist about the cultural (both human and leopard) and institutional ways in which big cats, particularly leopards, cohabit with humans in India. The book is a fascinating look at the political ecology of human-eating big cats and the responses of humans from the relatively powerless to the more powerful as mediated through governmental bureaucracy." * Oryx *Table of ContentsPrologue: Of Two Reigns of Terror Introduction: The Beastly Tale of the Leopard of Gopeshwar 1. Crooked Becomings 2. Murderous Looks 3. The Cute Killer 4. A Petition to Kill 5. The Leopard of Rudraprayag versus Shere Khan 6. Big Cats in the City 7. Entrapment 8. Three Beastly Tales to Conclude Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime's soft extermination let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to resist. Hoarding food with the help of the local population, the staff not only worked to keep patients alive but began to rethink the practical and theoretical bases of psychiatric care. The movement that began at Saint-Alban came to be known as institutional psychotherapy and would go on to have a profound influence on postwar French thought. In Disalienation, Camille Robcis grapples with the historical, intellectual, and psychiatric meaning of the ethics articulated at Saint-Alban by exploring the movement's key thinkers, including François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, Félix Guattari, and Michel Foucault. Anchored in the history of one hospital, Robcis's study draws on a wide geographic contextrevolutionaryTrade Review“The central journey charted here is the rise and fall of ‘institutional psychotherapy’ – a model of psychiatric treatment developed by Francois Tosquelles, a psychiatrist who fled from Catalonia to Vichy France... In composing this narrative arc, Robcis feels in total command of her archival material. But what stands out is her articulation of the mediums and agencies that served to propel concepts in unison, while others were overshadowed and eclipsed. As a non-specialist, I was swept along by her ability to make clear, nuanced argument amid richly-textured contexts. The last chapter presents a thrilling account of how Foucault made parts of his own history disappear (though downplaying the extent to which he was once entangled amongst Saint Alban’s ideas-figures). Photographs and illustrations add to the sense of ideas being made manifest in material form – through architecture, posters, letters and artworks – as well as embodied by doctors and patients through their densely-woven (dis)associations... This dynamic approach marks this book out from others that take a more detached stance on what ‘French Theory’ is and how it can be understood – it is far more relational, playful and in sync with the spirit of her protagonists (and less ‘French’ too).” * Polyphony *"[A] brilliant new book. . . . What is perhaps most effective about Robcis’s approach to the topic is he rdemonstration of the importance of historical context and contingency: she is not only a keen interpreter of difficult concepts, but also an outstanding historian." * Psychoanalysis and History *"As Camille Robcis shows in her brilliant study of mid-twentieth century radical psychiatry, some of the most incisive critiques of the profession emerged from within its ranks during and after the war. Men like François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, Felix Guattari and Jean Oury sought to remake psychiatry in such a way as to challenge the very hierarchies that the discipline had long supported. . . . One of the great strengths of Robcis’ argument is her insistence that radical psychiatry was as much about politics as the psyche—an argument that would have appealed to radical psychotherapists themselves." * Social History of Medicine *"Totally fascinating." -- J. J. Mull * New Books in Psychoanalysis *"An intricate exploration of the political and theoretical dimensions of institutional psychotherapy, the reform movement that began at Saint-Alban; and of the intellectual legacies of its adherents. These include several major 20th-century thinkers whose well-known philosophical works, Robcis argues, owe more to their backgrounds in psychiatry than many of their contemporary readers may realize." * Counterpoint *“Robcis offers a very subtle and refined depiction of the postwar interweaving of psychiatry and politics. She tells a fascinating history of conceptual transfers, borrowings, and adaptations between the two spheres. . . . This highly stimulating book will appeal to a very large audience—and not only to historians of psychiatry. While the spirit of the time is now more inclined toward psychiatric ‘deinstitutionalization,’ this volume also offers inspiring thoughts on the role of the hospital as a ‘laboratory of political invention.’” * Isis *“A novel contribution to the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy . . . Disalienation is also an exciting piece of intellectual history. It offers incisive re-readings of key proponents of ‘French theory’ such as Felix Guattari, Frantz Fanon, and Michel Foucault, paying attention to their often-obscured medical lives. . . . The chapter on Foucault is nothing short of breathtaking.” * American Historical Review *“Disalienation cuts a fresh and original path through the tangled history of French theory. Readers of Robcis’s first book, The Law of Kinship, will know her extraordinary ability to assemble new contexts for canonical works, and this is again on full display in Disalienation. Following the thread of institutional psychotherapy and mobilizing a rich array of archival documents, Robcis brings renowned thinkers into dialogue with more obscure institutional ones and offers new readings of Fanon, Guattari, and Foucault. The story Disalienation pursues is harrowing and bears witness to the traumas of war, fascism, resistance, encampment, and empire. It is, moreover, told by Robcis with great skill and elegance, moving seamlessly between periphery and metropole, institution and thinker. As such, Disalienation will appeal to lay readers and specialists alike and will perhaps call to mind classic histories of the European psyche by Carl Schorske, Jan Goldstein, and Debora Silverman.” * Journal of Modern History *"Adopting an intellectual history perspective, Camille Robcis’ objective is to understand institutional psychotherapy as a laboratory for elaborating and testing a ‘politics of madness’, drawing together ideas from psychiatry, philosophy, and politics between 1945 and 1975." * Metascience *"Fascism and collaboration with it are not just political choices: they also demand a particular state of mind. In this study of institutional psychotherapy in postwar France, Robcis presents us a gripping and wide-ranging analysis of authoritarianism’s entanglements with histories of colonialism and violence. Configuring institutional psychotherapy as a form of political theory, Robcis deterritorializes psychoanalysis. In the process, she brings together the psychic and the political, the asylum and the colony, and the mother and the motherland." -- David L. Eng, coauthor of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans"This is a superb history of how the theory and praxis of institutional psychotherapy inflects the work of French thinkers. Robcis reframes the intellectual history of a strain of French theory by explaining not only the influence of institutional therapy and antipsychiatry on the works of diverse thinkers, but also the deep political and affective commitments that infuse and shape them. It is an insightful account of the constellation out of which emerged some of the most consequential ideas in late-twentieth-century French thought. An impressive achievement." -- Carolyn J. Dean, author of The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide"As Robcis re-creates the imaginative and practical contexts in which a profound revolution in psychiatric care was implemented at the nexus of antifascism, Surrealism, resistance to Nazi occupation, and decolonial insurgency, she models a marvelously fresh approach to intellectual history, with genuinely new takes on such iconic figures as Fanon, Foucault, and Guattari. Disalienation clarifies, from myriad vantages, the constant inextricability of psychic and political processes." -- Dagmar Herzog, author of Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe"Disalienation is a rich, ambitious, and sophisticated account of the intellectual history and political implications of institutional psychotherapy (IP)." -- Richard Bates * H-France Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Politics of Madness 1—François Tosquelles, Saint-Alban, and the Invention of Institutional Psychotherapy 2—Frantz Fanon, the Pathologies of Freedom, and the Decolonization of Institutional Psychotherapy 3—Félix Guattari, La Borde, and the Search for Anti-oedipal Politics 4—Michel Foucault, Psychiatry, Antipsychiatry, and Power Epilogue: The Hospital as a Laboratory of Political Invention Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This elegantly written report from an ethnographic field study is a rich witness to a US landscape and the spiritual seekers who developed a visceral connection to the region’s 'energies'. . . . At once strikingly empathic and analytic, Crockford employs theories from religious studies, critical theory, and political science to explain behaviors of those who have little control over corporate or governmental policies that determine their existence." * Choice *"Crockford’s Ripples of the Universe is an excellent introduction to New Age ‘spirituality’ as it is practiced ‘on the ground’ in 21st-century America. I predict the book will be widely read, especially by students of new religious movements, sociology of religion in the United States, and critical cultural studies. Engagingly written, methodologically clear, and well-illustrated, Ripples of the Universe will also be an ideal text for graduate seminars on these topics." * Religion *"A valuable work . . . sensitive and multi-dimensional. The book illuminates how many people have given up the normal life of jobs and family to become, in effect, renunciates and even mendicants, struggling to survive in a society that grants them no recognition." * Reading Religion *"Ripples of the Universe makes a solid contribution to the study of contemporary spiritualities and is highly recommended for scholars of religion, sociology, anthropology and American culture." * Journal for the Academic Study of Religion *"This thought-provoking and profound study paints a fascinating picture of spirituality in Sedona. It explores a microcosm of larger US society, replicating the same issues, conflicts, and insecurities, and making spiritually framed attempts to address them. This book is extremely valuable for scholars interested in (alternative) spirituality and religion in the contemporary US." * Religious Studies Review *“This emotionally sensitive, beautifully written book shows how ethnography can reshape our understanding of ourselves. Crockford describes how spirituality offers hope of new resources and a new way of life in the context of contemporary economic arrangements, and how precarious such hopes can be. She casts an original, clear light on the everyday experience of a remarkable cast of people, displaying both compassion and objectivity; this is a small masterpiece.” -- Timothy Jenkins, University of Cambridge“In this lucid, engaging, and comprehensive analysis of Sedona’s metaphysical spiritualists, Crockford thoroughly unpacks the cosmology, millenarian beliefs, and cultural resonances of this key center of what used to be called ‘New Age spirituality.’ Crockford shows how Sedona’s metaphysicians rework race, class, kinship, health, neoliberal economics, and notions of purity, indigeneity, government corruption, and utopian aspiration in their efforts to create a value-driven spirituality that is as individual as it is emblematic of the ‘postsecular’ condition. A wonderful book!” -- Adrian J. Ivakhiv, University of Vermont“Not only is this book a deep ethnographic dive into the metaphysical/theosophical/new thought/new age/extraterrestrial spirituality and conspiracy theory milieu of Sedona, it is also an astute critical description of major thought currents in America today and their histories. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to learn more about American culture, spirituality, and even politics.” -- Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University New Orleans"This is a fascinating interpretation of seekers and seekership at an iconic American site for post-New Age spirituality, focusing on key themes of nature, diet, identity, conspiracy and revelation. The author combines empathetic ethnography with shrewd analysis of the erosion of the middle ground between the local and the cosmic - society, in other words - that's inadvertently fostered in pursuit of the 'spiritual path'. This is an innovative and timely study which raises resonant questions about the impact of a hitherto minority worldview on mainstream American culture - and beyond." -- Steven J. Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh"Crockford is able to convince the reader that her participant–observer strategy works. There is an intimacy to her research that, not surprisingly, provides an added interpretive dimension not typically found in the social science literature on contemporary New Age and alternative spiritual movements." * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Everything Is Energy 1 The Rocks Were Screaming at Me: Agency, Nature, and Space 2 21st December 2012: “This Is My Story, Not Yours” 3 Awakened Aliens: Crafting the Self on the Spiritual Path 4 To Your Highest Vibration: Hierarchies of Food, Boundaries of the Self 5 What Is Wrong with America? Conspiracy Theories as Counter-Narrative Conclusion: All Energy Vibrates at a Certain Frequency Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This elegantly written report from an ethnographic field study is a rich witness to a US landscape and the spiritual seekers who developed a visceral connection to the region’s 'energies'. . . . At once strikingly empathic and analytic, Crockford employs theories from religious studies, critical theory, and political science to explain behaviors of those who have little control over corporate or governmental policies that determine their existence." * Choice *"Crockford’s Ripples of the Universe is an excellent introduction to New Age ‘spirituality’ as it is practiced ‘on the ground’ in 21st-century America. I predict the book will be widely read, especially by students of new religious movements, sociology of religion in the United States, and critical cultural studies. Engagingly written, methodologically clear, and well-illustrated, Ripples of the Universe will also be an ideal text for graduate seminars on these topics." * Religion *"A valuable work . . . sensitive and multi-dimensional. The book illuminates how many people have given up the normal life of jobs and family to become, in effect, renunciates and even mendicants, struggling to survive in a society that grants them no recognition." * Reading Religion *"Ripples of the Universe makes a solid contribution to the study of contemporary spiritualities and is highly recommended for scholars of religion, sociology, anthropology and American culture." * Journal for the Academic Study of Religion *"This thought-provoking and profound study paints a fascinating picture of spirituality in Sedona. It explores a microcosm of larger US society, replicating the same issues, conflicts, and insecurities, and making spiritually framed attempts to address them. This book is extremely valuable for scholars interested in (alternative) spirituality and religion in the contemporary US." * Religious Studies Review *“This emotionally sensitive, beautifully written book shows how ethnography can reshape our understanding of ourselves. Crockford describes how spirituality offers hope of new resources and a new way of life in the context of contemporary economic arrangements, and how precarious such hopes can be. She casts an original, clear light on the everyday experience of a remarkable cast of people, displaying both compassion and objectivity; this is a small masterpiece.” -- Timothy Jenkins, University of Cambridge“In this lucid, engaging, and comprehensive analysis of Sedona’s metaphysical spiritualists, Crockford thoroughly unpacks the cosmology, millenarian beliefs, and cultural resonances of this key center of what used to be called ‘New Age spirituality.’ Crockford shows how Sedona’s metaphysicians rework race, class, kinship, health, neoliberal economics, and notions of purity, indigeneity, government corruption, and utopian aspiration in their efforts to create a value-driven spirituality that is as individual as it is emblematic of the ‘postsecular’ condition. A wonderful book!” -- Adrian J. Ivakhiv, University of Vermont“Not only is this book a deep ethnographic dive into the metaphysical/theosophical/new thought/new age/extraterrestrial spirituality and conspiracy theory milieu of Sedona, it is also an astute critical description of major thought currents in America today and their histories. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to learn more about American culture, spirituality, and even politics.” -- Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University New Orleans"This is a fascinating interpretation of seekers and seekership at an iconic American site for post-New Age spirituality, focusing on key themes of nature, diet, identity, conspiracy and revelation. The author combines empathetic ethnography with shrewd analysis of the erosion of the middle ground between the local and the cosmic - society, in other words - that's inadvertently fostered in pursuit of the 'spiritual path'. This is an innovative and timely study which raises resonant questions about the impact of a hitherto minority worldview on mainstream American culture - and beyond." -- Steven J. Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh"Crockford is able to convince the reader that her participant–observer strategy works. There is an intimacy to her research that, not surprisingly, provides an added interpretive dimension not typically found in the social science literature on contemporary New Age and alternative spiritual movements." * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Everything Is Energy 1 The Rocks Were Screaming at Me: Agency, Nature, and Space 2 21st December 2012: “This Is My Story, Not Yours” 3 Awakened Aliens: Crafting the Self on the Spiritual Path 4 To Your Highest Vibration: Hierarchies of Food, Boundaries of the Self 5 What Is Wrong with America? Conspiracy Theories as Counter-Narrative Conclusion: All Energy Vibrates at a Certain Frequency Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities. In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, the moral capacity to draw conclusions alone and with others, and letting one's own judgments be answerable to the potentially contrasting judgments of others. Thinking, for Rodowick, is an art we practice with and learn from each other on a daily basis. In taking this approach, Rodowick follows the lead of Hannah Arendt, who made judgment the cornerstone of her conception of community. What is important for Rodowick, as for Arendt, is the cultivation of free relations, in which we allow our judgments to be affected and transformed by those of others, creating an ever-widening fabric ofTrade Review"In An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities, D.N. Rodowick draws on Hannah Arendt’s writings on judgment to make the case for a philosophy of the humanities grounded in self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. This innovative and plausible thesis of an education in judgment as the unifying element of the humanities will likely trigger fruitful debate." * LSE Review of Books *“Arendt’s reflections on judgment, thinking, moral action, and political courage show that she was not a system builder and was not interested in offering axioms by which to rearrange the world. Yet in following her train of thought, we experience the illuminating force of her insights.” * New York Review of Books *“A fresh look at Arendt’s philosophy on thinking and judgment [applied] to the current ‘crisis’ in the humanities.” * Choice *“The question of the value of education and research in the humanities is a perennial topic of academic debate . . . Few thinkers have done more to bring clarity to these debates than [Rodowick]." * The Review of Politics *"Convincing and illuminating. [Rodowick's] defense of the political importance of an education in the humanities is a beautifully written and insightful attestation to the lasting political relevance and remarkable fecundity of Hannah Arendt’s legacy." * Theory and Research in Education *"Rodowick seeks to show that Arendt’s analysis of judgment is not only a highly original but also a plausible reading of Kant, which goes against the dominant view in scholarship that Arendt committed quite a radical interpretative violence on Kant’s writings. This is not simply a question about the 'correct' interpretation of Kant but about the connections between thinking, which is an activity done in solitude and is essentially a dialogue of the 'two-in-one' within the self; judgment, which involves 'visiting' in our imagination the standpoints from which others see the world; and deliberation and action in the public sphere, which is done with others. . . . What emerges from this reading is a broader project Arendt was engaged with: the attempt to offer an alternative potential relationship between philosophy and politics." * German Studies Review *“In this elegantly crafted book, Rodowick offers a powerful defense of humanistic education. These pages resound both with Rodowick’s own voice and with the voice of his constant interlocutor, Hannah Arendt, as he works out, in spirited agreement and thoughtful disagreement with her, a philosophically rich account (which is also a model) of the conversations on which the human faculty of judgment depends.” * Patchen Markell, Cornell University *“An Education in Judgment is a challenging and substantial contribution to Arendt scholarship and a major new work of critical self-reflection on the humanities by one of the field’s leading proponents. Rodowick offers an illuminating reexamination of a cluster of texts written in the last decade of Arendt’s life, illustrating their interconnectedness, probing their difficulties, and arguing for their compelling contemporary relevance.” * Thomas Bartscherer, Bard College *“For readers familiar with now longstanding laments about the ‘crisis of the humanities’, An Education in Judgment is a breath of fresh air. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's evocative writings on aesthetics and politics, Rodowick brilliantly charts a new way forward on well-travelled terrain. The fate of the humanities lies not in shoring up what is left of the canon but in developing wholly quotidian practices of critical thinking and judging. Rooted in the ordinary capacities of all citizens, the humanities become a world-building activity that takes account of plurality and different perspectives on a common world. Recognizing with Arendt the crucial importance of publicity, this book breaks free of narrow academic debates and offers a public vision of the humanities as an imaginative space for creating a new genre of the human, not as telos but as open-ended future.” * Linda M. G. Zerilli, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface I The Art of Thinking II Judgment and Culture III Culture and Curation IV The World-Observer V Politics and Philosophy, or Restoring a Common World VI An as Yet Undetermined Animal Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Krause has written a powerful, illuminating argument about how the social sciences should work. It is a worthy successor to Max Weber's Science as a Vocation.” -- Richard Sennett, Urban Initiatives, United Nations Habitat“Model Cases is an ambitious and compelling contribution to our understanding of the practice of scholarship, whose inner logic Krause perceptively dissects across different disciplines and methodologies. Her account of how scholars relate to the objects they study offers foundational insights into how we argue and perform research within the humanities." -- Carlos Spoerhase, professor of German literature, Bielefeld University"If the book didn’t already have a subtitle, On Canonical Research Objects and Sites, Monika Krause could have titled it Model Cases: On the Metaphysics of the Syllabus. Her fascinating book is an examination–even a deconstructive analysis–of the two- or three-page document traditionally handed out in the first class on a university program but now usually posted on class management systems like Blackboard." * University World News *"What do we as scholars look at when we do research? That is the simple but effective question that underlies Monika Krause’s highly instructive new book, Model Cases... It is a book that makes us think about the collective research patterns that we are a part of." * LSE Review of Books *"Model Cases would be excellent for a graduate seminar on the philosophy, theory, or methodology of a number of social science disciplines." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Material Research Objects and Privileged Material Research Objects 2. How Material Research Objects Are Selected 3. Model Cases and the Dream of Collective Methods 4. How Subfield Categories Shape Knowledge 5. The Schemas of Social Theory 6. The Model Cases of Global Knowledge Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.Trade Review"The letters’ intimate voice, their accessibility, and their focus on everyday challenges make the letters relevant for readers of all ages and academic levels. In addition, explanatory notes at the end of the book add depth and offer clarification for readers unfamiliar with Seneca or Stoic philosophy. A good representative sample of Seneca’s letters, Fifty Letters is an approachable text and a good introduction to Roman Stoicism. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"In 2015 Chicago did the great service of publishing G. and L.’s magisterial translation and commentary on all 124 surviving letters to Lucilius (Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius)... With this volume, G. and L. have now produced a very reasonably priced soft covered selection of slightly under half of the full corpus of Letters to Lucilius." * Classics for All *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Margaret Graver and A. A. Long Fifty Letters 1 Taking charge of your time 2 A beneficial reading program 3 Trusting one’s friends 6 Intimacy within friendship 7 Avoiding the crowd 8 Writing as a form of service 9 Friendship and self-sufficiency 11 Blushing 12 Visiting a childhood home 14 Safety in a dangerous world 15 Exercises for the body and the voice 16 Daily study and practice 18 The Saturnalia festival 20 Consistency 21 How reading can make you famous 23 Real joy is a serious matter 30 An Epicurean on his deathbed 31 Our mind’s godlike potential 33 The use of philosophical maxims 38 Fewer words achieve more 40 Oratory and the philosopher 41 God dwells within us 46 A book by Lucilius 47 The evils of slavery 49 Remembering old times 53 A bad experience at sea 54 A near-fatal asthma attack 56 Noisy lodgings above a bathhouse 57 A dark tunnel 58 A conversation about Plato 63 Consolation for the death of a friend 65 Some analyses of causation 70 Ending one’s own life 75 What it means to make progress 76 Only the honorable is good 79 A trip around Sicily brings thoughts of glory 83 Heavy drinking 84 The writer’s craft 86 The rustic villa of Scipio Africanus 90 The beginnings of civilization 91 A terrible fire at Lyon 97 A trial in the time of Cicero 104 Why travel cannot set you free 108 Vegetarianism and the use of literature 112 A difficult pupil 113 Is a virtue an animate creature? 116 The Stoic view of emotion 121 Self-awareness in animate creatures 123 Resisting external influences 124 The criterion for the human good Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Balakian understands the bewildered music of our times, and No Sign, more than any other contemporary book of poetry, teaches us about the properties of time; we are inside the speech that is addressing time and opposing it, witnessing it, and walking two steps ahead. This 'time-sense' is explored with depth in the brilliant title poem. Balakian is able to praise the world though he knows its 'bitter history.' And praise he does! The lyricism here is of utter beauty. No Sign is a splendid, necessary book." -- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic "Balakian has been writing intellectually challenging poems of 'bright unbearable reality' that are part of an ongoing conversation in American poetry for some time. They have the horizontal continuum of history, like Walcott and Heaney, but they also have verticality which arrests time and connects with the demonic and divine. He masterfully does the thing nobody else does which is to derange history into poetry, to make poetry painting, to make painting culture, to make culture living, and with a historical depth that finds the right experience in language." -- Bruce Smith, author of Spill "In No Sign, Balakian embraces the claims of immediacy as well as the encompassing historical perspective. His images and sharp syncopations locate the pulse of our times and give it a prophetic reverberation. Here is a voice of witness which also makes room for an irrepressible sensory imagination." -- Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet AgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix ONE History, Bitterness Tung Lai Shun Ode to the Douduk Waiting for a Number Summer Ode Yellow Lilies Outside Arshile Gorky's Studio Revenant Love Watching the Tulips Die Purple Irises Shadow Grid Grasses of Unknowing How Much I Love You TWO Eggplant Quince Bulgur Pomegranate Matza Fig Walnut Apricot Grape Leaves Tomatoes Okra Zucchini THREE No Sign FOUR Stalled in Traffic Head of Anahit/British Museum Coming to Istanbul Leaving the Big City Walking the Ruined City Notes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sociological research and theories on creativity assume that creativity is based on collective processes, social evaluations and judgments, and the result of social networks, interactions, and shared beliefs. Hannah Wohl’s book Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged addresses this sociological assumption by providing in-depth insights that she has gathered from a long-term ethnography within the contemporary art world in New York." * American Journal of Sociology *"Wohl's intriguing book explores the mystery of creativity, the whatever-it-is that informs artists’ visions as they shape successful and moving works of art and finds its explanation in the shared and socially supported understanding of the idea of creative vision. An original and profound contribution to the sociology of art." -- Howard S. Becker"Bound by Creativity escorts us into a world of radical uncertainty--the contemporary art market in New York City. Wohl brings us with her as she witnesses artists engaging with their publics, explaining their worth, and struggling against misinterpretations, or worse. What should count and why? And what to do when the counting goes wrong? These questions animate the creative process where genius emerges or fails to emerge. Artists, art critics, humanists, and social scientists will long debate this book and its findings. And those who care only about the creative process, no matter its field of application, will benefit from the clarity with which that process is described and acted upon. Powerful and evocative, this work shows how creative genius is generated and why it sometimes survives assaults on its worth." -- Frederick F. Wherry, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction: Aesthetic Judgment in the Contemporary Art World 2 The Eccentric Artist: Negotiating Creative Autonomy in the Art World 3 Experimentation and Emotion: Developing Distinctive Creative Visions 4 Interpretive Guides: Exhibiting Work and Shaping Meaning 5 Eyes and Ears: Collecting Work and Maintaining Connoisseurship 6 Producing Creative Visions: Presenting Evolving Trajectories over Careers 7 Conclusion: Aesthetic Judgment in the Creative Process Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gorton and Tallman’s historical details of the panics of the 1800s for the New York banks at the epicenter of the financial system are unequaled, based on my research. The authors have taken stories from the contemporary New York press and employed available financial data from bank reports to develop a narrative and accompanying tables that bring to life the panics of that era. These details alone make the book worthy of a place on any financial historian’s bookshelf." * Regulation: The Cato Review of Business and Government *“A vital addition to crisis literature because it compares what happened in 2008 to the ways in which US bankers dealt with panics on their own in the years before there was a Fed. . . . With illustration, analysis, and nuance on every page, Fighting Financial Crises is one hundred and fifty years better than Lombard Street." * Economic Principals *"Because crises are inevitable, it is important to understand why they occur and how to respond to them. The authors are leading authorities on the history and economics of financial crises, and thus well worth listening to. . . . Gorton and Tallman provide a clear and succinct description of the crisis, and show how fundamentally it was like the banking panics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many books and papers have been written about financial crises, but comparatively few focus on how to fight crises. . . . Their book provides many insights and lessons about the nature of financial crises and how authorities should respond to them. Economists and financial market participants will find the book informative, and it should be mandatory reading for regulators and policymakers charged with oversight of the financial system." * Business Economics *"A copy of this book should at least be on the shelves of all economists at all central banks." * Economic History Association *“Financial crises are complex economic and political events, and a historical perspective is essential. In this book, two of our best financial historians distill the key lessons for policy makers and practitioners from the US banking crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their accounts of the crises are engaging and their analyses are insightful and persuasive.” -- Ben S. Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve“Those who do not study history are more likely to repeat earlier errors, particularly so in the case of financial crises. Gorton and Tallman have painstakingly recorded how US financial crises unfolded and then dissipated between 1873 and 1914, and then distilled general lessons for handling current and future crises. Besides conforming to Bagehot’s rule, they emphasize the importance of managing information in order to avoid contagion from the bank perceived as weakest, to the next weakest, and on until the whole edifice systematically collapses. Excellent history and shrewd analysis.” -- Charles A. E. Goodhart, London School of Economics“History matters, including financial history. During the recent crisis, those of us then running the Bank of England introduced a course on the history of crises for our core staff. Although I don’t agree with every one of its conclusions and prescriptions, I dearly wish we had had this book to hand then! Policy makers need more books like it, and to follow the example of Gordon and Tallman in taking insights from the past seriously.” -- Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of EnglandTable of ContentsPreface 1 Fighting Financial Crises: Learning from the Past 2 The New York Clearing House Association 3 The Start of a Panic 4 What the New York Clearing House Did during National Banking Era Panics 5 Information Production and Suppression and Emergency Liquidity 6 “Too Big to Fail” before the Fed 7 Certified Checks and the Currency Premium 8 The Change in Depositors’ Beliefs during Suspension 9 Aftermath 10 What Ends a Financial Crisis? Historical Reminders 11 Modern Crises: Perspectives from History 12 Guiding Principles for Fighting Crises Appendixes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Storm has produced an ambitious, truly thought-provoking and innovative project, to be sure. . . . Storm always writes as clearly as possible given the undeniably complex subject matter; nowhere will readers find the sort of purposefully obscure prose for which philosophers such as Derrida were famous for." -- Craig Martin * History of Religions *"This reviewer was particularly fascinated by Josephson-Storm's description of the reading of the book as a kind of therapeutic activity for the disintegrated postmodern philosopher. This is a valuable book for those engaged in research about postmodern critiques of theory. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"[Metamodernism] book is awfully good, and you should read it. . . . this book has a ton to offer anyone who’s interested in the future of how we think." -- Eric Hayot * American Literary History Online *"The times they are indeed a-changin’, to reiterate Bob Dylan’s revolutionary lyric. Theory now, which [Metamodernism] admirably represent[s], is overripe with normativity questions that require explicit treatment." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"I hope this book is widely read and taken seriously, because it offers a future for human sciences scholars that most of us have not been able to imagine for ourselves. It is highly recommended." -- Carole M. Cusack * Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review *"Well-written and with sympathy for the reader . . . sensitive to critique concerning race, class, gender, and privilege in academia, taking seriously the aims of such criticism all the while holding them to strict academic scrutiny. . . . Metamodernism is a daring attempt to counter ethical nihilism and epistemological paralysis troubling academic research and cultural institutions. For students, scholars, or activists versed in postmodernism or social justice seeking to consider the ethical, moral, and methodological questions raised by their projects, Storm’s study offers an exciting point of departure." -- Miriam Hamburger * Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft *"Storm writes with verve and passion. His technical arguments are laid out with fluidity and clarity. Wide-ranging erudition is on display. The copious chapter notes make interesting reading in themselves. Metamodernism makes an important contribution for theorists of every stripe, and indeed for all who seek an antidote to postmodernism’s funhouse mirrors." * Philosophy Now *"Rather than exploring the genealogies of religious ideas (as in his two prior books), here [Storm] provides a serious and brilliant effort to chart a course between classical essentialism and postmodern skepticism—one simultaneously acknowledging both the limits of knowledge and the objective reality of the phenomena described by social theory. Since reading it, I find myself frequently drawing on its insights in a whole variety of different contexts—and you will too." -- John Ehrett * Patheos *"Metamodernism is a powerhouse intervention in theorizing in the human sciences. The ambition of the book, summarily, is to draw dialectically on postmodern critiques of philosophical assumptions about the world and how we know it and to forge a higher-order position that assimilates those negations into a new, richer system." -- Kevin Schilbrack * Religious Studies Review (Symposium) *"I experienced Metamodernism as a breath of fresh air blowing through a room filled with cobwebs, phantoms, and dusty furniture. It opens windows that let new light come in and give us a glimpse of distant horizons and possible new futures for the study of religion, the humanities, and even humanity as such." -- Wouter J. Hanegraaff * Religious Studies Review (Symposium) *"Metamodernism is an epistemological tour de force." -- Onsi A. Kamel and Rhys Laverty * Ad Fontes *"It is hard to know which is more astonishing, the ambition of the book or the seemingly infinite resources Storm effortlessly draws on to tackle the task he has set for himself. It is rare to find a scholar with such competence and internal freedom, able to bring long-held notions into the light, not necessarily just to expose hidden flaws but, more positively, to reconsider things in a fundamental way and to retain only what is genuinely worthwhile." -- D. C. Schindler * Ad Fontes (Symposium) *"In a world of endless academic compartmentalization, it is refreshing to encounter a monograph that actually says something big (indeed, several such things!). Still more impressive is that the book does not sacrifice the specific for the general. . . . The virtues of this book are many. To read it is an education in itself, and each of Storm’s general judgments strikes this particular reader as full of precisely the kind of wisdom, creativity, concreteness, and (most preciously) openness of soul that wins through magnanimous persuasion." -- Joseph Minich * Ad Fontes (symposium) *"Not only is the book, in his own words, difficult to summarize, Storm has decided to take on a rather sizable chunk of current modern and postmodern theory, and the result is intricate, inspiring, infuriating, and absolutely worthwhile. . . . Storm has proven himself one of the best-read scholars working in the humanities today. Nor is he simply a capable scholar—he has something to say." -- Derrick Peterson * Ad Fontes (symposium) *"Metamodernism is a grand, spiralling work that rightly deserves the attention that it has been getting. Perhaps, with time, we will hold it among a handful of theoretical works that serve as touchpoints for scholars of a certain generation? Whatever the future of Metamodernism may be, this is Storm’s ambition – nothing less than a revolution in how we go about conducting our work in the human sciences." -- Matt Sheedy * Religion & Theology *"At the heart of Storm’s argument is his account of social kinds. Given the place from which we are responding, the implication of doing theology through the notion of social kinds as part of the broader research programme of the humanities seems to be of particular interest. . . . The movement of theology into the humanities in the wake of apartheid remains underdeveloped, and Storm’s theoretical intervention provides a basis from which to think through this." -- Silakhe Singata and Cobus van Wyngaard * Religion & Theology *"Metamodernism is an ambitious and far-reaching book. Storm seeks to integrate the humanities and the sciences into a synthetic system where constructivism and naturalism are given a stereophonic voice. In a theoretical tour de force, he charts a path forward to avoid the pitfalls, yet absorb the insights, of prominent theoretical and methodological strands that shaped the modern sciences and postmodern humanities. A challenging, intellectual manifesto, its depth of engagement in diverse subject areas is outstanding." -- Jury's citation * American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies *“It’s a long time since I’ve had such a vigorous—and rigorous—intellectual work-out! Metamodernism is not only an astute diagnosis of the confusions and contradictions of contemporary thought; it also offers compelling alternatives. Ambitious, lucid, and erudite, this is a book that demands to be read and argued over.” -- Rita Felski, author of The Limits of Critique“Storm’s previous book, The Myth of Disenchantment, was an extraordinary reevaluation of our understanding of modernity, a path-breaking achievement. His new work promises an equally thought-provoking revisioning of the tasks of theoretical work in the humanities—a new way of going beyond modernity.” -- Simon Glendinning, author of The Idea of Continental PhilosophyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Texts and Citations Opening 0.1-Into the Abyss: Postmodernism Unraveling 0.2-Overview of the Work Part I. Metarealism 1-How the Real World Became a Fable, or The Realities of Social Construction 1.1-Realism as Scientism 1.2-Varieties of Mind-Dependence 1.3-When Realism Becomes Antirealism and the Reverse 1.4-Apocalyptic Realism and the Human Sciences, or Real as Socially Constructed 1.5-Metarealism: Modes of the Real 1.6-Conclusion: Modes of Reality; Modes of Existence Part II. Process Social Ontology 2-Concepts in Disintegration & Strategies for Demolition 2.1-The End of Religion 2.2-The End of Art 2.3-Strategies for Demolition 2.3.1-Immanent Critique 2.3.2-Relativizing Critique 2.3.3-Ethical Critique 2.4-Family-Resemblance, Polythetic Concepts, and Other Category Errors 2.5-Conclusion: Legitimation Crisis 3-Process Social Ontology 3.1-A World in Motion 3.2-Natural Kinds 3.3-Process Social Kinds: A First Pass 3.4-Conclusion: Beyond Anti-Essentialism 4-Social Kinds 4.1-Homeostatic Property-Cluster Kinds 4.2-A Process-Cluster Account of Social Kinds 4.2.1-Socially Constructed 4.2.2-Dynamic Clusters of Powers 4.2.3-Causal Processes that Anchor Clusters 4.3-Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Kinds 4.4-Conclusion: Changing the Social World Part III. Hylosemiotics 5-Hylosemiotics: The Discourse of Things 5.1-Beyond the Linguistic Turn 5.2-A Minimal Metaontology 5.3-The Meanings of Meaning 5.4-The Lion’s Roar: A Brief Excursion on the Possibilities of Translation 5.5-A Hylosemiotics of Sign-Aspects 5.6-The Mind Turned Inside Out 5.7-Conclusion: A Light in the Abyss Part IV. Knowledge and Value 6-Zetetic Knowledge 6.1-Doubting Doubt 6.2-Knowledge without Certainty 6.3-Zetetic Abduction and Prediction: Inference Beyond Pattern Recognition 6.4-Conclusion: From Skeptical Dogmatism to Emancipatory Zeteticism 7-The Revaluation of Values 7.1-The Values of Postmodernism 7.2-The Value of Value-Free Social Science 7.3-Illusions of Fact and Value: Overcoming the Is-Ought Distinction 7.4-The Human Sciences as a Way of Life 7.5-Revolutionary Happiness: Critical Virtue Ethics 7.6-Conclusion 8-Conclusion: Becoming Metamodern Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book reveals the Victorians as you’ve never heard them before. Music, often associated in the nineteenth century with the emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic aspects of life, was also simultaneously the subject of science. Edward Gillin engagingly traces the traffic between concert halls, shops, laboratories, and lecture theaters that made it possible to think about sound scientifically. In doing so, he adds a new sense to our understanding of science in the making of the modern world.” -- Jim Secord, author of 'Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age'“Sound Authorities identifies a blank spot on the map of sound studies. Using the key term of ‘authority,’ Gillin places Britain in the history of nineteenth-century sound and music. Sound’s ephemerality, Gillin compellingly argues, prompted people to stake their claim in the discourse on sound. The complex question of who was entitled to speak of music as vibration and of sound as elevating the soul weaves into an elegantly written narrative. A must-read for those active in the fields of nineteenth-century sound and music studies.” -- Julia Kursell, University of Amsterdam“Sound Authorities is a carefully crafted, well-researched, and original work. Gillin convincingly argues that a close examination of sound as it moves through various spaces of nineteenth-century Britain offers new insight into scientific practice and scientific authority. This book is an important contribution to both sound studies and the history of science.” -- Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University"Gillin opens his study of sound in 19th-century Britain by observing that this was a time when 'to see was not, in itself, to know' (p. 18)—natural philosophy relied on the ear as well as the eye for empirical knowledge—and that musical and religious convictions could also be important in the scientific understanding of nature. . . The epilogue offers startling insights into sound in the early modern age. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: Sounds and Sweet Airs: Science, Sound, and Music in Britain, 1815–1914 Part I Experiments and Mathematics: The Making of Sound as a Scientific Object Chapter 1 The Laboratory of Harmony: The Transformation of Sound within British Science, 1815–46 Chapter 2 A Harmonious Universe: Herschel, Whewell, Somerville, and the Place of Sound in British Mathematics, 1830–70 Part II Contesting Knowledge: Mathematicians, Musicians, and Sound Measurements Chapter 3 The Problem of Pitch: Mathematical Authority and the Mid-Victorian Search for a Musical Standard Chapter 4 Accuracy and Audibility: Mathematics, Musical Consensus, and the Unreliability of Sound, 1835–81 Part III Materialism and Morality: Religious Authority and the Science of Sound Chapter 5 Musical Matter: Religious Authority, John Tyndall, and the Challenge of Materialism, 1859–1914 Epilogue: Musical Spiders and Sounds Scientific in the Modern Age Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPlant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray machines, chromosome-altering chemicals, and radioactive elements. Contemporary reports celebrated these mutation-inducing methods as ways of generating variation in plants on demand. Speeding up evolution, they imagined, would allow breeders to genetically engineer crops and flowers to order. Creating a new food crop or garden flower would soon be as straightforward as innovating any other modern industrial product. In Evolution Made to Order, Helen Anne Curry traces the history of America's pursuit of tools that could intervene in evolution. An immersive journey through the scientific and social worlds of midcentury genetics and plant breeding and a compelling exploration of American cultures of innovation, Evolution Made to Order provides vital historical context for current worldwide ethical and policTrade Review"A fascinating foray into a mutated cornucopia of agricultural and horticultural products and the tools that made them. Such varied and important insights into the history of biological innovation and its many aspirations seem as relevant as ever in our ongoing search for new tools to reshape living things to our goals, needs, and desires—and to envision life as it could be." * Science *"In this fascinating, well-researched history of genetic innovation, Curry explores the hype, intensive investigation, and, ultimately, the disappointment accompanying the application of new technologies offering the promise of human control over plant evolution to breed superior agricultural and horticultural crops in the early to mid-20th century. The utilization of these tools for plant breeding is placed in the broader context of innovations in the electromechanical, chemical, and nuclear industries and the desire to control living organisms in a manner similar to any other industrial product. Certain historical events, such as America’s entry into World War II and the subsequent desire for national self-sufficiency that developed, helped fuel the hope that these technologies could deliver the necessary genetic advances, despite the available evidence to the contrary. Fascinating and entertaining throughout, this historical account of genetic technological innovation helps provide context for discussion over current, and by every measure much more successful, genetic engineering technologies utilized for plant improvement and the societal, ethical, and ecological questions surrounding them. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Curry’s book is a clearly written and original history charting the activities of Americans who developed tools designed to manipulate genes and chromosomes in the early to mid-twentieth century. She focuses on three technologies: use of X-rays, chemical manipulation, and gamma radiation. These stories illustrate how readily scientists and the American public exploited new technologies as they became available, always with the hope of speeding up and controlling evolution." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *"In her book Evolution Made to Order, Curry elucidates three major innovations in American plant breeding techniques during the 20th century—the use of X-rays, colchicine, and radioisotopes to bring about mutations and speed up evolution. Along the way, she introduces us to important plant breeders and scientists, including Albert Blakeslee, David Burpee, Bernard Nebel, Mable Ruttle, Arnold Sparrow, Lewis Stadler, Ralph Singleton, and others who strove to feed the world." * Quarterly Review of Biology *"Curry’s clear and appealing writing, and her layered analysis, make this a wonderful and important book." * Annals of Science *"Curry’s history is well researched, well written, clear, and subtle.... She does us a service by taking 'failures' seriously. The bias toward studying successes blinds us to the alternative paths that seemed just as realistic, in their time and place, as the eventual successes. We need more studies of scientific and technological dead ends if we are to gain a full understanding of the ways scientists and engineers tried to change the world at any given time." * Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences *"Curry identifies several cross-cutting themes that strengthen her argument for a shared technological and industrial vision. . . . Throughout the book Curry raises key questions and builds important arguments, to which she returns in a suggestive Epilogue, about the overarching industrial values (to which I would add corporate values) that dominated the context of doing science in the twentieth century. She demonstrates the very real overlap of scientific, commercial, and industrial practices, and what might be called an obsession with prediction and control extending from the management of industrial processes to the management of life." * Journal of the History of Biology *"Providing compelling perspectives on consumerism, marketing, and the everyday roles of technology and science in the United States in the twentieth century, [Curry's] study tracks efforts to produce mutations in plants. . . . As a study of the marketing of scientific promise, this book is filled with rich details and wonderful illustrations of the exuberance." * Journal of American History *"Informative, engaging, and entertaining. This book will already be familiar to historians of technology and science with an interest in agriculture—who will be repaid by a return to the volume and its evergreen themes. Generalists and specialists in other areas should take note of this fine model of scholarship with broad relevance. It also deserves the attention of readers with wider interests in technology, amateur and professional science, and science and technology policy. This is exactly the kind of well-reasoned and clearly written analysis that one hopes policymakers or anyone seeking to employ technology should be reading in producing solutions to the problems of food in the future. . . . This volume remains relevant and timely at least in part because of its richness—which this review can hardly capture—of analysis and exposition in thinking about plants and their co-evolved humans." * Technology and Culture *“Curry recovers a neglected history of biotechnology with verve and vivid detail. Decades before recombinant DNA, eager breeders and horticulturalists exploited mutant-generating techniques from chemistry and nuclear energy to improve crops and ornamental plants. As she shows, GMOs are only the latest chapter of ‘evolution to order’ in agriculture.” * Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University *“This well-written book is in part a contribution to the history of plant breeding. But more than that, it is a study of ‘technological utopianism’: the fervent belief that new methods of inducing mutation could transform breeding and thus boost the agricultural economy. Of particular interest is Curry’s demonstration that although the new technology was a failure from the breeders’ point of view, it nonetheless retained widespread support from a range of extrascientific organizations—seed companies, industrial firms, government agencies—who perceived it as a solution to their own quite different problems.” * Jonathan Harwood, Kings College London *“Early and mid-twentieth-century geneticists and plant breeders dreamed of finding ways to speed up evolution. Evolution Made to Order uses a diverse set of sources, ranging from archives and newspapers to seed catalogs, to explore how and why American researchers hoped to use radiation to produce new commercial plant varieties. Curry’s innovative approach to the history of biotechnology deserves a wide audience among historians of science, technology, and medicine.” * Audra Wolfe, author of Competing with the Soviets *“Curry offers a fascinating historical journey through the American scientific and social worlds of induced-mutation work. Through extensive research, she convincingly establishes that biologists’ obsession with plant mutation breeding did not begin with molecular biology and recombinant DNA but, rather, with the tools of chemical mutagenesis and radiobiology. Her lively account resurrects unknown actors, important institutional contexts, and forgotten cultural fads, and her thoughtful consideration of the successes and failures of their collective scientific endeavors provides some much-needed historical context for current ethical and policy debates over genetic engineering. Evolution Made to Order is a narrative account that is both accessible and scholarly. It makes an important contribution to the historiographies of biology and technology, and treats with appropriate parity the roles of its scientific and amateur historical actors. It is, in a word, brilliant.” * Karen Rader, Virginia Commonwealth University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Evolution by X-ray: The Industrialization of Biological Innovation 1 Mutation Theories 2 An Unsolved Problem 3 Speeding Up Evolution 4 X-rays in the Lab and Field 5 Industrial Evolution Part 2 Tinkering with Chromosomes: Colchicine in the Lab and Garden 6 Artificial Tetraploidy 7 Evolution to Order 8 Better Evolution through Chemistry 9 Tinkering Technologists 10 The Flower Manufacturers Part 3 Atoms for Agriculture: Evolution in a Large Technological System 11 Radiation Revisited 12 Mutation Politics 13 An Atomic-Age Experiment Station 14 Atomic Gardens 15 The Peaceful Atom in Global Agriculture Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBy the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did rights come to justify such measures? InOn the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of rights we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal DeclarationTrade Review"A superb, erudite piece of intellectual excavation. . . . Edelstein’s skill as an intellectual historian lies especially in his ability to situate ideas in their broadest cultural and political setting." * New York Review of Books *"Provocative and timely." * Times Higher Education *"Edelstein explores how natural rights translated into human rights in his sweeping survey, which canvasses the archaeology of human rights from the Wars of Religion through the Age of Revolution to 1948. [He] provides a helpful new framework for understanding the evolution of human rights in Western society. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *“Rarely has an existing debate been as authoritatively and breathtakingly taken to a new plane as in Edelstein’s sophisticated new story of how ‘rights’ entered European and transatlantic politics in the age of revolution. Clear, erudite, and urbane, Edelstein has shown once again why he is so highly regarded a historian of the eighteenth century’s place in Western intellectual history.” * Samuel Moyn, Yale University *“The Spirit of Rights is an erudite, wide-ranging, and powerful reevaluation of the history of human rights in the West. Rather than viewing either (or both) the U.S. Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of Man as constituting a foundational moment of political modernity, Edelstein sees them as marking a moment in a lively and contentious conversation over rights that can be traced back to the sixteenth century and then through to our own day. The consequent expansion of the historical canvas on which rights have been inscribed explodes conventional teleologies. Written with verve and conviction, The Spirit of Rights is a tour de force: compelling, brilliant, and excitingly thought-provoking.” * Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London *"The author shows tremendous erudition both in relation to the sources and to the relevant literature. The argumentation is impressively clear and the presentation is extremely legible." * Historische Zeitschrift (translated from German) *Table of ContentsI How to Think about Rights in Early Modern Europe 1. Introduction 2. Tectonic Shifts and Tectonic Plates: Two Models for the Transformation of Culture 3. A Revolution in Natural Law? From Objective to Subjective Right (and Back Again) 4. Rights and Sovereignty: Beyond the State 5. Inalienability vs. the Alienation of Rights 6. Roman Law, the Lex Regia, and the Genealogy of Rights Regimes 7. Writing Intellectual History in a Digital Age Part I: Early Modern Rights Regimes II When Did Rights Become “Rights”? From the Wars of Religion to the Dawn of Enlightenment 1. Monarchomachs and Tyrannicides: Natural Rights in the French Wars of Religion 2. English Liberties and Natural Rights: Leveller Arguments in the English Civil War 3. Abridging Natural Rights: Hobbes and the High Church Divines 4. Entrust, but Verify? The Transfer Regime from Spinoza to Locke5. Into the Enlightenment: “Cato” and Hutcheson III From Liberalism to Liberty: Natural Rights in the French Enlightenment 1. Sources for Natural Law Theory in France, 1700–1750 2. Physiocracy and the Dangerous Ignorance of Natural Rights 3. Natural Rights Talk in the Late Enlightenment: The Philosophes Carry the Torch 4. The (Meek) Conservative Reaction 5. Resisting Despotism: National Rights and Constitutionalism Part II: Social Naturalism in Early Modern France IV The Laws of Nature in Neo-Stoicism and Science 1. The Many Receptions of Stoicism 2. Laws of the Natural World: The New Science V Roman Law and Order: From Free-Market Ideology to Abolitionism 1. The Jansenist Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Jean Domat, the Natural Order, and the Origins of Free-Market Ideology 2. “All Men Are Originally Born Free”: Slavery, Empathy, and the Extension of Human Rights 3. Conclusion Part III: Rights and Revolutions VI Natural Constitutionalism and American Rights 1. Boston, Locke, and Natural Rights (1715–64) 2. Blackstone and English Common Law 3. Natural Rights and Revolution 4. Declaring Rights: From Natural Law Back to English Common Law VII From Nature to Nation: French Revolutionary Rights 1. Whose Rights Are They, Anyway? Rights Talk in the Cahiers de Doléances 2. Debating Rights at the National Assembly 3. The Legal Spirit of the French Declaration of Rights 4. The Revenge of National Rights 5. Conclusion VIII Conclusion: A Stand-in for the Universal Declaration: 1789–1948 1. The Catholic Church, Natural Law, and Human Rights 2. From National Constitutions to an International Declaration 3. The Archaeology of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEngages with one of the oldest philosophical problems—the relationship between thought and being—and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle.Trade Review"This book will be useful to specialists working at the intersection of epistemology and metaphysics. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." * Choice *“With characteristic clarity and breadth, Rockmore traces the history of the great struggle between idealism and realism from its origins in Parmenides onwards and his fateful claim that thought and being are the same. The reader cannot fail to be gripped by the debates laid out for us here and impressed by the erudition on display.” * Robert A. Stern, University of Sheffield *“Rockmore offers a thought-provoking thesis based on the Parmenidean roots of the philosophical enterprise. The ‘Dream of Philosophy’ boils down to two options: the Sisyphean pursuit of the real per se and a more promising alternative of constructivism and idealism. Constructivism no longer serves as the bogeyman of epistemology. Rockmore presents a convincing vindication, moving it from the philosophical fringe to the center. Elegantly and lucidly written, After Parmenides is highly recommended for philosophers and scholars across the humanities and the social sciences.” * Josef Mitterer, University of Klagenfurt, Austria *"The overall aim of Rockmore’s book, announced on the first page, is to defend 'epistemic constructivism.' . . . as alternative to what Rockmore calls the 'standard approach,' [that] . . . remains “dominant” in Western philosophy since Parmenides, in whose claims he suggests it originates. If Parmenides’ original claims . . . could be vindicated, 'this would at long last demonstrate the approach to cognition as knowing the real.' But, Rockmore argues, they cannot, leaving us with the only alternatives that he sees as remaining: either an overarching skepticism, to be rejected, or the constructivist alternative he favors." * Review of Metaphysics *

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Book SynopsisInspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.Trade Review"As Katie Kadue points out in Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton, a wonderful book on early modern writers and the kitchen arts, Eve’s independent forays into drying and preserving the fruits of Eden yield a counterintuitive understanding of perfection itself, not as a fixed state from which one must not swerve but as a dynamic process of trial, innocent error, and gradual improvement." -- Catherine Nicholson * New York Review of Books *"Kadue's analyses of Milton’s metaphors unveil a domestic analogy that has always coexisted with the grandeur of the imagined Miltonic library of vital books and discerning readers. This is one of the many local readings in Domestic Georgic that illuminate overlooked aspects of household work in familiar sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts. Now that I see the link between the library and the kitchen storeroom in Milton’s tract, I cannot unsee it, and I experienced this delightful sensation many times while reading this book. Kadue’s style, casual but erudite, also makes this book an unusually engaging read." * Modern Language Quarterly *In an elegantly organized and beautifully written book of five chapters plus an introduction and conclusion, Kadue ranges confidently across time, terrain, and language, moving from Rabelais (in the mid-sixteenth century) to Milton in the mid- and late seventeenth century and concluding with a discussion of two poems by women, one eighteenth century and one twenty-first century. Balancing a sharp eye for detail against a robust overarching argument, she offers both new insights into familiar authors and works and a new rubric one might use to discuss other texts and authors as well. * Genre *"Katie Kadue’s book makes an important contribution, defining domestic georgic, and how selected authors from Rabelais to Milton labor to preserve a kind of poetic housekeeping or daily literary chores." * Renaissance and Reformation *“This is a book of luminous intelligence. At once impeccably erudite and highly readable, textually focused and imaginatively wide-ranging, it opens up new ways of understanding not only the early modern texts that are central to Kadue’s argument, but any form of writing where labor is distributed, symbolically or literally, across a gender divide.” * Terence Cave, St John’s College, University of Oxford *“Where earlier feminist scholars have shown that women’s domestic labor facilitated men’s literary work, here Kadue argues that the method of men’s literary work itself drew on women’s domestic labor. Kadue shows how practices of pickling, fermenting, and preserving make up a surprising pantry of skilled literary techniques. This is work that gives us a recipe to reread the Renaissance.” * Katherine Ibbett, Trinity College, University of Oxford *“Kadue teaches her reader to pay attention to metaphors of pickling, maceration, sweeping, tinkering, mending; to quiet the din of warfare and the choir of resurrection, and listen to the burble of cookery and of the hungry body, in their daily rivalry with time. . . . Domestic Georgic will teach scholars and students alike to read in a different register, and its pages are lucid, lively, and shrewd, at once sophisticated and unpretentious.” * Jeff Dolven, Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Private Labors of Public Men 1: Rabelais in a Pickle: Fixing Flux in Le Quart Livre 2: Spenser’s Secret Recipes: Life Support in The Faerie Queene 3: Correcting Montaigne: Agitation and Care in the Essais 4: Marvell in the Meantime: Preserving Patriarchy in Upon Appleton House 5: Milton’s Storehouses: Tempering Futures in Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regain’d Conclusion: A Woman’s Work Is Never Done Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDogopolis suggests a surprising source of urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships.Trade Review"Dogopolis is a beautifully presented book with an evocative historical voice and great confidence and flair. It is also a lot of fun to read. Pearson offers a treasure trove of details about the shared lives of humans and dogs across three rapidly urbanizing cities that epitomized urban modernity, and deals with themes at the heart of urban history in his examination of the public and private spaces; class, gender, and race relationships; and public health and disease."-- "Neil Pemberton, Manchester University"Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Straying 2 Biting 3 Suffering 4 Thinking 5 Defecating Coda Acknowledgments Appendix: Reflections on Animals, History, and Emotions Chronology Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is well researched and lucid and includes thoughtful commentary on the nexus between colonial institutions, contemporary political and economic pressures, and the underinvestment in India’s current legal infrastructure. Recommended." * Choice *"This book is an excellent work that attempts to grasp the interaction between laws and the economy in India. It outlines not only how certain laws have affected India's path of development, but also how certain laws were introduced and amended in response to a changing political and economic environment. This book provides a robust economic history of India written from the viewpoint of institutional changes." * The Developing Economies *"Roy and Swamy argue that legal evolution in independent India has been shaped by three factors: the desire to reduce inequality and poverty; the suspicion that market activity—both domestic and international—can be detrimental to these goals; and the strengthening of Indian democracy over time, giving voice to a growing faction of society, including the poor. Weaving the story of India’s heralded economic transformation with its social and political history, they conclude that inadequate legal infrastructure has been a key impediment to the country’s economic growth." * Law & Social Inquiry *"A great overview of post-independence legal developments in India, and their effects on economic activity. It should be required reading for anyone interested in India’s recent economic history." * EH.net *"This book's conclusions are sobering and important. Immensely readable, clear-headed, and compelling, it is a wide-ranging account of the economic shortcomings (mostly) of Indian statute and case law, and also of the mixed impact of democracy." -- Peter Robb, SOAS University of London, author of Agrarian Development in Colonial India: the British and Bihar"Many works have studied the impact imperial institutions had on the economies and legal systems of ex-colonies, but the analysis is usually carried out at the level of aggregate outcomes. Rarely, though, do we get to see how these relationships survived the political change at independence, nor how they persist in postindependence politics. With this book we do, and the connections—among politics, the legal system, the legacy of colonial institutions, and economic endowments and outcomes—all become clear in vivid detail. Roy and Swamy manage to do all that, yet they never lose sight of the big picture—a real achievement." -- Philip T. Hoffman, California Institute of Technology"Roy and Swamy succinctly capture the effects of the lag between policy change and changes in the relevant Indian law since colonial times. Their book provides a contrasting historiography of how the persistence of primacy to social and political stability factors led to conservative legislations in the spheres of land, property, and credit, as opposed to a more proactive stance in commerce since the times of the British Raj. It subtly captures how the framing of property rights around religion brought about conflicts between equality and freedom and led to our current struggles to attain caste and gender equality in matters of property. They offer fascinating analysis of the consequences of unequal land reforms, the momentum of eminent domain issues during the liberalization years, and the changing trajectory of the Supreme Court." -- P. G. Babu, director, Madras Institute of Development StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Land Rights: Equity versus Transferability? Chapter 3. Rural Credit: Overreliance on Law Chapter 4. Democratic Rights and the Limits of Eminent Domain Chapter 5. Environmental Law: Judiciary Takes Center Stage Chapter 6. Law in a Labor-Surplus Economy Chapter 7. Politicians’ Burden? The Evolution of Company Law Chapter 8. Globalization with a Nationalist Face: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Intellectual Property Chapter 9. Property: Equity versus Religious Norms Chapter 10. Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us—even the math-averse—to understand and cope with grief.Trade Review"How the fractal nature of grief is both the key to understanding it and the doorway to moving through it is what mathematician Frame explores in his unusual book Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life. After twenty years of working with the visionary father of fractals and another twenty years of teaching fractal geometry at Yale, Frame draws on a lifetime of loss and a lifetime of delicate attention to the details of aliveness we call beauty to interleave memoir and mathematics in an uncommon tapestry of thought, twining Borges and quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology and Islamic art, music and multiverse theory. . . . Attentiveness to beauty is the instrument of transcendence—that essential facet of Frame’s geometry of grief and readjustment." -- Maria Popova * The Marginalian *"Frame has written a poignant and beautiful book. . . . Treat yourself to the wisdom of this sweet, gentle soul." -- Steven Strogatz * @stevenstrogatz *"Frame's new book, Geometry of Grief, suggests that thinking about fractals—and thinking geometrically, in general—can help us process life's most difficult moments... Zooming out instead of in, we might see our individual griefs as small versions of other tragedies in the world. Maybe, Frame says, thinking of grief as a fractal can inspire empathy and lead us to channel our sadness into helping others." * Boston Globe *"This brief, intriguing personal meditation is inspired by mathematician Michael Frame’s lifelong love of geometry — including 20 years’ collaboration with fractal geometer Benoit Mandelbrot — and the childhood loss of his aunt, who set him on his career path. He writes: 'Grief informs geometry and geometry informs grief.' How so? His epiphany on first understanding any beautiful mathematical idea is always tinged with sadness, because it is unrepeatable. With quirky illustrations, he integrates the lives of his Mom and Dad." * Nature *"The word fractal, from the Latin fractus meaning 'broken glass,' was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot, who brought mathematics closer to nature by showing that iterating a simple geometric pattern can result in complex, rough-edged, and beautiful shapes. In Geometry of Grief, Frame, a former colleague of Mandelbrot’s at Yale, aims to unite maths with our lived experience still further by showing how fractals both inform and can help us cope with the experience of irreversible loss. . . . Ambitious and moving.” * Times Literary Supplement *"Frame has written a wonderful memoir. Combining his passion for mathematics and his mastery of the geometry of fractals, in this text he seeks to educate, encourage, and inspire readers in a personal way. Identifying grief as irreversible, Frame makes surprising connections to foundational mathematical concepts such as continuity and self-similarity. . . . Here, he elucidates the foundational intertwining of science and grief in his own life through deeply and surprisingly personal stories from lived experience. Weaving together references from literature, art, popular culture, and mathematics, Frame clarifies the transcendence found through grief as a universal human experience. The text offers a wealth of resources for curious readers and is a must have for the bookshelf of any mathematics teacher who wants to inspire curiosity in students or relate with empathy to a student suffering loss. This book will be a wonderful addition to any advanced or graduate-level seminar, and preprofessionals in mathematics education will certainly benefit from exploring the book's diverse fields of discourse. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Frame writes: ‘Times folds up. So many ghosts crowd into my head. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, dear friends, students… And far too many cats.’ Live long enough oneself and one realizes that half or more of one’s friends and relatives have departed the planet, ‘summoned,’ as the poet Robert Southey had it, ‘on the grand tour of the universe,’ before one. One lives with it, saddened yet grateful oneself still to be in the game. Yet some holes never successfully fill up." * Commentary *“With poignancy and audacity, Frame builds an unexpected bridge between mathematical beauty and human sorrow, illuminating both.” -- Francis Su, author of "Mathematics for Human Flourishing"“I expected to enjoy the experience of thinking in fresh ways with Frame about grief—and encountering his love of cats, really of all nature, made manifest on the page. What blew me away were the exciting new connections among love, grief, beauty, and resilience that flowered in my mind as I read. Immersed in Frame’s world of geometry, including fractals, and its applications to real-world emotions, I sometimes felt afloat in a mysterious, and always inviting, dream. It’s a beautiful place for all of us to spend time.” -- Barbara J. King, author of "How Animals Grieve"“With concision and compassion, Frame shows how a mathematical mind makes sense of a grieving heart. The result is a peculiar, wise, and beautiful book.” -- Ben Orlin, author of "Math with Bad Drawings" and "Change Is the Only Constant"“A unique, meaningful, and moving work that connects the irreversibility of loss that comes with grief and the irreversibility of first deeply understanding something—particularly something mathematical.” -- Susan Jane Colley, Oberlin College, editor of "American Mathematical Monthly"“Captured perfectly an experience that I've long tried to put into words but couldn't—the nostalgic sense that comes immediately after a discovery. It's astonishing how so many important ideas come to us in an almost dream-like state, fully formed and with a hazy beauty that somehow falls away when we more fully work out to implications of that idea and put it into words and onto paper; the whole process makes the idea more real but somehow less charming." -- Christina Stankey, medical student and former student of Michael Frame“Frame believes everyone can fall in love with math if it’s presented with empathy and humor and clarity and context. He portrays math as math-lovers know it: a beautiful garden, a place of curiosity and delight, a tribute to human creativity and the wonders of nature.” -- Steven Strogatz, from the foreword to "Fractal Worlds"Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Geometry 2 Grief 3 Beauty 4 Story 5 Fractal 6 Beyond Appendix: More Math Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“With Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes gifts us a book that moves between archive and ethnography with imagination and care to profoundly reshape our understanding of the sonic, spiritual, and social worlds of the Soviet underground. Karnes is an accomplished storyteller who inhabits—and brings us into—the fecund, anxious scenes of Baltic musical life in the late 1970s that have had an outsized impact over the past five decades. Sounds Beyond locates the intonations of that time squarely in the lives of Arvo and Nora Pärt, Hardijs Lediņš, Gidon Kremer, Andres Mustonen, Alexei Lubimov, and many others to forever alter our hearing of their music and knowledge of artistic networks in the Soviet underground.” * Jeffers Engelhardt, Amherst College *“This remarkable book presents a compelling account of collaboration, experimentation, and ingenuity at the margins of Soviet musical life. Through painstaking scholarship and profound empathy, Karnes makes the sounds of the Soviet underground come alive.” * Lisa Jakelski, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester *“In this sensitive, richly detailed portrait of the 1970s Soviet contexts for Arvo Pärt’s early tintinnabuli music, Karnes provides a fascinating glimpse of a lost time and place. Covering an eclectic range of genres and styles, from progressive rock to liturgical music (and beyond), Karnes’s book fundamentally alters our hearing of Pärt’s compositions and vastly expands our understanding of the subcultures in which they first flourished.” * Peter J. Schmelz, Arizona State University *"In the crowded field of Pärt studies, Kevin Karnes cleverly limits his scope in Sounds Beyond to the years 1976-78. . . . For Pärt fans or music theorists, the revelations that Karnes gleans from Pärt's compositional diaries will be the highlight here." -- Matthew Blackwell * The Wire *“Karnes shows the extent to which the experimental scenes of the USSR and the West were in dialogue and shared a number of common goals, despite the ironclad isolation to which the socialist regime kept the Soviet population... Crucially, the book situates Pärt just at the moment when he abandons his retirement from composition – the result of his disenchantment with serialism – and creates his characteristic tintinnabuli style.” * minimalismore *"Karnes’s attentive text is vital to the studies of Arvo Pärt, his contemporaries, and Soviet music and culture in the 1970s." * Notes *"Karnes is an engaging writer, and Sounds Beyond reads almost like a novel—people and their motivations come to life and events unfold in a surprisingly suspenseful manner. This is an enjoyable and enriching book for all those interested in late socialist music, art, and culture." -- Maria Cizmic * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsNote on Translations, Transliteration, and Pronunciation Note on Recordings List of Musical Examples and Figures 1. Spaces Beyond: An Introduction 2. A Beginning: The Riga Polytechnic Disco, 1974–76 3. Tintinnabuli and the Sacred 4. Ritual Moments: The RPI Festivals, 1976–77 5. Tallinn 1978 6. Aftersounds: Bolderāja, Sergiyev Posad, and a Train to Brest-Litovsk Acknowledgments Appendix: Key Premieres and Early Performances of Pärt’s Tintinnabuli-Style Works, 1976–78 Notes Sources Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"West’s learned, innovative study offers a cultural anthropology of the Elizabethan stage—of the language in play texts and contemporaneous discussions of theater. West does not provide extended readings of individual plays, though he comments briefly on many. Rather, he focuses on the intertwining of confusions and conclusions—a favorite rhyme of the playwrights—in a theater where 'performances' embodied 'provocations toward meaning rather than representations of a meaning.' . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"West shows that playing, players, and playgoers were likened to a great many things, and it is in detailing these surprising affinities that he constructs a richly revealing account of the commercial theater as a social and embodied practice through the last quarter of the sixteenth century . . . Ingenious in its methodology and invaluable in its contribution, Common Understandings is a provocation to scholars of the early modern English theater and beyond: the book invites us not only to reconsider what counts as evidence of playing, but to recast our familiar stories about it in new light." * Modern Philology *“This exhilarating book reveals, in vivid detail, what early modern theater was like as an experience. By investigating not playing itself, but metaphors about it, West shows how theater was viewed at the time—as a place of fear or wonder, described in terms of chaos, fighting, being in a siege, eating, dancing. Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion enables us to understand, as never before, the edginess, thrill, and danger of plays and performance in the time of Shakespeare.” -- Tiffany Stern, author of Documents of Performance in Early Modern England“A dazzling account of how early modern playgoers experienced theater in the decades between 1575 and 1610, Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion links theatrical knowing and feeling to shared corporeal events and bodily sensations. Theoretically rich and brimming with telling examples, West’s book shows how the habitus of early modern playgoing was created by collective acts as simple as eating, drinking, and remembering within the bounded space of the theater.” -- Jean E. Howard, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on Textual and Other Performances Introduction There Is Not Agreement of Opinion All the World’s a Stage Every Like Is Not the Same 1: Playing Merely Players What Learn You By That? But Mark This Show 2: Occupatio An Excellent Good Word Before It Was Ill Sorted Looking Well to Borders So Curious in New Fangles 3: Understanders Deep in Understanding Plain and Easy to Be Understanden All Readers to Be Understanders Feelingly Perceive 4: Confusion Nothing but Confusion and Errors Babylonical Confusion What More Fitter Occasion? Diverse Men of Diverse Minds Commons Knowledge Interlude. Playing, Thinking 5: Supposes Valedictions to Sense Brokers of Another’s Wit A Stalking-Stamping Player Authors of All the Content 6: Eating Between Meals Some Hungry Scenes Playing with Food 7: Non Plus I’ll Have a Challenge, Too Fencers, Bearwards, Common Players Non Plus Trying Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Sing and Sing On tells the powerful story of the role musicians have played in safeguarding Ethiopian identity and growing its cultural influence in the decades since the revolution. This is a compelling story that deserves to be told.” -- Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye“Shelemay’s deeply researched and sensitive survey of Ethiopia’s ‘sentinel musicians’ reveals the power and presence of music across time and space by profiling activist artists over continents and decades. This is a major contribution to mobility and diaspora studies as well as an eloquent guide to how resilient musicians can shape a scattered society through sound and purpose.” -- Mark Slobin, author of Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction“When a senior ethnomusicologist writes about work that has extended over the course of a whole career, it is a gift since ethnography doesn’t often offer such historical depth. When this work has been in both a homeland and a diaspora with citizens of a country/region that has been particularly under duress, it is an even greater gift since it enables us to see how the role of musical performance responds and shapes social conditions across difficult times and multiple places.” -- Beverley Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Django Generations offers a profound analysis of how Manouche Romanies navigate French denials of race and racism through what Siv B. Lie calls ‘ambivalent essentialism’—the set of incompatible qualities ascribed by and to this ethnicized and racialized group whose most famous ancestor is the guitarist Django Reinhardt. Drawing on deep ethnographic and historical research, Lie brilliantly develops a semiotic framework that both explicates the development and negotiation of local identities in jazz manouche and their connection to much broader processes of managing marginalization and the exigencies of capitalism.”” -- Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Harvard University“A necessary addition for ethnomusicologists and scholars of Romani music, Django Generations is aptly named because it gives voice to groups of Romani musicians who are forging contemporary identities in modern contexts while acknowledging past histories and cultural roots.” -- Adriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh“In this book, Siv B. Lie explores the paradoxes of jazz manouche’s history and its relationship to the Manouche community without taking sides in the complex debates between musicians, institutions, and the industry. Django Generations is a work of considerable intellectual sophistication.” -- Andy Fry, King’s College LondonTable of ContentsNotes on Terminology List of Figures Introduction Chapter One: Making Jazz Manouche Chapter Two: Cultural Activism’s Living Legacies Chapter Three: Generic Ontologies and the Stakes of Refusal Chapter Four: The Sound of Feeling Chapter Five: Heritage Stories Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: List of Formal Interviews Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Get in the Game is a playful and welcoming introduction to the interplay between sports and math. Assuming no math and using only a coin and a die, Chartier artfully illustrates why sports analytics matter through the simplest of questions: how do we measure greatness? This is a must-read for anyone curious about the analytical side of sport.” -- John Urschel, former NFL offensive lineman, Institute for Advanced Study, and coauthor of "Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football"“I’ve always wished I could keep a miniature Tim Chartier on my shoulder while I’m watching sports: a brilliant, enthusiastic, friendly expert eager to share his insights about the games. With this book, you’ve got the next best thing.” -- Ben Orlin, author of "Math Games with Bad Drawings"“A fun, important book that will draw a lot of sports fans into analytics and mathematics. Lively and informative.” -- Roland B. Minton, author of "Sports Math: An Introductory Course in the Mathematics of Sports Science and Sports Analytics"“Fun and full of puzzles and brainteasers in a mashup of mathematics. . . . Magic.” -- Robert Schaefer * New York Journal of Books, on "Math Bytes" *Table of Contents1 Unforgettably Unbelievable 2 Shoot 3’s Like Steph Curry 3 Dicey Hitting Streak 4 Racking Up the Wins 5 Unbreakable Tennis 6 Improbable NFL Playoff 7 FIFA Octopus Oracle 8 Super-sized Super Bowl TD 9 Scoring Confidence 10 Tiger’s Consistency 11 Moneyball Analytics 12 Race Usain Bolt 13 Get in the Game Acknowledgments Further Reading Personal Training—Answers

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Decay and Afterlife is a brilliant study that offers a veritable contribution to the library on ruins, ruination, debris, and decay. Through a series of deep readings on ruins-related texts from several European literary traditions, Prica makes a case that ruins manifest a textuality that productively troubles chronologies, histories, and meaning making. Ruins, we learn, are double-edged: they both invite and undo efforts to make sense of them.” -- Helmut Puff, University of Michigan“Decay and Afterlife is a highly original book that combines extraordinary historical scope and textual diversity with analytical perspicacity. Prica covers the cultural, literary, and philosophical history of ruins from the high middle ages to the twentieth century, and the advantages of this impressive longitudinal perspective are apparent. Prica’s analyses of the modern theorizations of ruins and time’s passing are characterized by an uncommon historical depth, and her readings of premodern encounters are informed by theoretical sophistication.” -- Christopher Wild, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction I Foundations 1 Among Ruins: Martin Heidegger and Sigmund Freud 2 Afterlife: Hans Blumenberg and Walter Benjamin II The Propitious Moment 3 Petrarch and the View of Rome 4 Poliphilo and the Dream of Ruins III Living On 5 Ferdinand Gregorovius, Hildebert of Lavardin, and the Rupture of Continuity 6 Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Martin Opitz, and the Overcoming of Vanity IV The Battleground of Time 7 Johann Jacob Breitinger, Andreas Gryphius, and the Reconsideration of Allegory 8 Thomas Burnet, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the Realignment of Discourses V Futures and Ruins 9 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Georg Simmel, and the Provisionality of Forms Epilogue Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA deep dive into the history and philosophy of isonomy, a system of equal rights for all, as an alternative to the concept of democracy.Trade Review“Stourzh revives the half-forgotten word ‘isonomy’ as rival to ‘democracy’ from its start in Herodotus, its development through regimes with ‘gradations’ of hierarchy, and its modern flowering in ‘equalizations’ and ‘democracy with adjectives.’ In brief compass he supplies a wonderful variety of thoughtful descriptions from the many sources of his remarkable learning.” -- Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University“The eminent historian Gerald Stourzh has drawn on a lifetime of engagement in the development of law, constitutions, and citizens’ rights in Austria, the United States, and internationally to offer this learned essay on the concept of equality before the law, what the ancient Greeks were first to call isonomy. Writing with wisdom, directness, and strong conviction, Stourzh deftly traces the evolution of isonomy over the centuries and assesses its realization and vulnerabilities in the contemporary world.” -- Gary B. Cohen, University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Isonomy in Greek Antiquity 2 Gradations: Hierarchy in This World and the Other World 3 Equalizations: Ways toward Modern Isonomy in America and in France 4 Democracy with Adjectives 5 The Six Components of Modern Isonomy General Legal Capacity: From Slavery to Freedom Equality before the Law The Liberation of Peasants Tolerance and Equalization of Religious Groups Jewish Emancipation and Renewed Deprivation of Rights On the Equal Rights of Women Indigenous Persons Citizens and Foreigners Positive Discrimination (Affirmative Action) The Evolution of Fundamental Rights The Protection of Fundamental Rights as Part of Constitutional Justice The Internationalization of Fundamental Rights as Human Rights Democracy Conclusion: The Two Focal Points of Modern Isonomy Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisWe need to go back to the beginning of the idea of "public opinion" and a mass public to understand what the American public has become. Trade Review"Herbst explores the forces that shape the amorphous thing known as “public opinion,” concerning herself with its quality more than its specific content." * Foreign Affairs *"In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst, an eminent thought leader on public opinion in American democracy, helps us grapple with these tensions by taking us back to the formidable shaping of public opinion in the 1930s and the trappings that have followed us since...A Troubled Birth is a must‐read for anyone grappling with ideas of the American 'public' and how to assess public opinion in the face of so many social, technological, and political changes. Herbst masterfully weaves history with contemporary reality, encouraging her array of readers to reevaluate their own biases by looking at where they originated." * Political Science Quarterly *"Susan Herbst’s A Troubled Birth is an engaging and original analysis of American public opinion in the 1930s. This is not a book about the content of public opinion. Rather, it examines how a particular vision of the American public came into being during this turbulent and pivotal decade." * Perspectives on Politics *“Anyone looking to understand how US democracy ended up in its current troubled state of affairs will benefit from reading A Troubled Birth. Herbst has long been teaching us to reconsider what we mean by public opinion better than anyone, and she’s done it again masterfully here.” -- Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison“In this engaging and wide-ranging book, Herbst emphasizes the importance of broader cultural history in showing that the advent of scientific polling and pollsters in the 1930s did not merely offer a way to measure public opinion for the pursuit of American democracy.  For better or ill, they along with the mass media (radio and newspapers), economic crisis (and how individuals cope with it), President Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership and communication style, political divisions (including on race and immigration), debates in the academic world, entertainment and early “infotainment,” and other visible developments in the United States (and worldwide), that have their counterparts today, turned public opinion which had been relatively amorphous concept into a tangible, multifaceted, and contentious one. This is an illuminating and impressive work.” -- Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Birth of a Public 2 President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist 3 Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship 4 A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World’s Fair 5 Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly 6 Interlude: A Depression Needn’t Be So Depressing 7 Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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