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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a fascinating and entirely original piece of work. I know of no work in the field that deals in such depth with how critically important music from the home country is to the lives of migrant workers from the Middle East. Ciucci offers us a detailed and fascinating investigation of the multiple ways in which this musical tradition carries meaning for these migrants.” -- Ted Swedenburg, author of Memories of Revolt: The 1936-39 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past“Voicing the Rural is more than a book about North African migration to Europe. With one foot firmly in the vast, phosphate-rich plains region of central Morocco and the other planted in the “urbanized countryside” of central Italy, Alessandra Ciucci vividly explores how Moroccan migrant men use earthy fragments of sung colloquial poetry to open paths between the rural lives they have left in North Africa and the other kinds of rural lives they are creating in Europe.” -- Jonathan Glasser, author of The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa"By maintaining geography, nationalism, race, gender, class, labor exploitation, culture preservation, and loss of the music and voice traditions of the Moroccan old country within the frame, Ciucci paves a new way of understanding the anthropology of work as a distinct realm of scholarship. The book’s social and linguistic perspectives on the psychology of trauma and the persistent musical habits inherent to migration are novel lenses through which one can view agrarian labor anthropologically. Indeed, Ciucci describes for anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and migrant laborers a way to, together, hold knowledge and build understanding across cultures." * Society for the Anthropology of Work *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Names and Transliteration Introduction 1 The Engendering and the Othering of l-ʿarubi and l-ʿarubiya in Morocco 2 The Voyage: Voicing l-ʿarubiya in the Crossing 3 Spectral Guests, Marocchini, and “Real Men” 4 Longing (ḥnin), Intimacy (rasi rasək), and Belonging (intima): Voicing l-ʿarubiya Conclusion: Returns Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A well-written, compelling, dynamic narrative that broadens and complicates readers’ understanding of the contributing causes and impacts of maternal mortality. . . . Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Partial Stories offers a new narrative about maternal death in Africa by undermining ‘the notion that any of the single stories we already think we know is definitive.’ . . . The care Wendland put into thinking about how to tell the stories she shares is evident throughout.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“I really enjoyed reading this book. . . . It’s a book that, to me, speaks to the reader’s humanity at least as much as it speaks to their intellect.” * New Books Network *"Written by an ethnographer and obstetrician, this wide-ranging and comprehensive book offers a much more nuanced picture of maternal deaths and maternal health than much of the literature on critical global health can do—and it does so out of a commitment and an expertise, yet also a humility and curiosity that is often lacking in critical global health scholarship. It fills an important gap." -- Ruth Jane Prince, University of Oslo"At last maternal mortality, that raging topic in obstetric, global health, and epidemiology circles, receives the sophisticated, complex, qualitative, and nuanced treatment it has long deserved. By emphasizing partialities and sharing stories, this anthropology offers up an important set of diagnostics about why so many poor, black, African women still die in pregnancy and childbirth, and how these death scenes unfold and what they conceal." -- Nancy Rose Hunt, author of A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the CongoTable of ContentsIntroductionBonnex Kaunda: “There are too many goings-on these days.” 1 Dangerous ModernitiesAgnesi Kunjirima: “You can make your pregnancy safe.” 2 Knowing BodiesLillian Siska: “I help them right here at home.” 3 Ambivalent TechnologiesChimwemwe Bruce: “Changes, yes, but no development.” 4 Abundant ScarcityRhoda Nantongwe: “By the time she comes to the hospital, it is too late.” 5 Countless AccountingsDyna Ng’ong’ola and Kettie Pensulo: “Women in this community are very much concerned.” 6 Fragile Authority Conclusion Glossary of Chichewa Terms Key People and Places Abbreviations Acknowledgments References Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement links several cohorts of twentieth-century utopian radicals who worked to build a world they envisioned in the midst of one they lamented. . . Wolcott demonstrates a coherence of vision across civil rights efforts where historians have more often seen fracture and rupture... It is a history of coherent, deeply rooted and ideologically cohesive dissent - and a plea for its continuation." * The Journal of Southern History *“In this beautifully written, deeply researched, and groundbreaking study of black utopian activist movements, Wolcott recovers the forgotten histories that inspired the Civil Rights Movement. She gives extraordinary texture to the work of utopia on the ground and shows how utopia isn’t just a good theory, but a real, attainable, and necessary practice that can energize all those who care about the future and repairing our world. This astonishing book will forever change how we think about utopia and the struggle for democracy, both in the United States and across the globe.” * Alex Zamalin, author of Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism *“I could not stop reading this fascinating, surprising, and inspiring book. Sweeping in scope while still richly detailed, Living in the Future deserves to become a foundational text in our understanding of the long Civil Rights Movement. While famous figures like Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerge in a new light, these pages are full of lesser-known activists who dreamed of a better world and then fought to build it. Their stories are rich and moving—and full of lessons for all those who wish to achieve peace and justice in our world today.” * Nico Slate, author of The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover *"Wolcott effectively pulls previously siloed fields of study together by consulting an array of primary sources, researching in archives that house the records of the labor movement, Black culture, and both urban and rural histories. . . . As Living in the Future proves, utopianism had a major impact on the civil rights movement because activists had learned from and trained each other for decades before the 1950s." * H-Nationalism *"Wolcott’s juxtaposition of labor and religious histories with well-known civil rights activists... will encourage historians in all these fields to be in more direct conversation with one another. As Living in the Future proves, utopianism had a major impact on the civil rights movement because activists had learned from and trained each other for decades before the 1950s." * H-Net Reviews *"It is generally acknowledged that the 'classical' civil rights movement—the protest movement that began with the Montgomery bus boycott and faded away after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.—drew considerable strength from pre-existing ideas and organizations. . . . But the origin story that has found most favor among historians finds the roots of the 'classical' movement in the left-wing activism of the New Deal era, with the Communist Party and the Congress of Industrial Organizations leading the way. . . . This elegantly written study offers a different perspective. In emphasizing the importance of the Marxist-influenced Left, Victoria Wolcott contends, too many historians have overlooked or belittled the significance of 'utopian socialists and radical pacifists' . . . The conclusions of this splendid study are persuasive. The radical nonviolence that guided the civil rights movement 'grew out of relatively small groups of activists committed to utopian interracialism.' And far from being a milquetoast ideology that posed no challenge to the capitalist order, the utopianism espoused by these groups, and bequeathed to the civil rights movement, sought both racial equality and economic justice." * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Table, and Map Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Workers Chapter 2 The Cooperators Chapter 3 The Divinites Chapter 4 The Fellowshippers Chapter 5 The Pacifists Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What broader lessons does Sound Writing hold? As I have said, Wilke counters familiar stories about the disruptiveness of modernisms with an account of continuity, showing how sound poets looked back to Romanticism, amongst other things. But the passion of his study is perhaps to show that one needn’t choose between the two, because rupture and continuity are united by a dialectic." * American Literary History *"Along with studying 'multiple avant-garde strategies for reducing poetry to its most elemental conditions in vocal sound production,' Wilke also carefully explores scientific approaches to the production of vocal sound in order to demonstrate how poets 'appropriat[ed] scientific-experimental concepts and techniques.'" * Modern Philology *"A singular achievement for German studies and literary studies at large, Wilke’s important work also makes meaningful and original interventions in Media Studies, Art history, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, and history of science and technology." * Germanic Review *"The book is an important addition to other studies developed at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung that engage with science and literature and is of relevance to cultural studies, sound studies, modernist, and avant-garde studies alike." * German Quarterly *“This excellently researched and lucidly written study will make a substantive contribution to modern literary studies. Through wonderful formulations and analyses, Wilke illuminates fascinating technical innovations in sound writing and links them to poetic engagement and practices. This is in every respect a delightful and important contribution to modern literary and cultural studies.” -- Johanna Drucker, author of Inventing the Alphabet“Sound Writing presents a new understanding of what is often called the ‘nonsense poetry’ of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and its intellectual background, as well as its echoes in later avant-gardes. In telling this story, Wilke draws on underexplored sources and draws out new causal lines. With Language Poetry, translingualism, collage, conceptual writing, and artificial intelligence on our minds, the topic of the book cannot be ignored, and Wilke’s contribution is sure to be widely read and discussed.” -- Haun Saussy, author of Are We Comparing Yet?Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Voice Figures: Visible Sound and the Poetics of Articulation (1787–1965) Oaoa, or The Eidophonetic Poem Vibrating Disks and Primary Letters Photographing Speech 2. Toward a Science of Verse: Speech Movements, Graphic Inscription, and the Study of Poetry (1871–1915) Writing of the Mouth “The Art of Reading Curves” Symbolic Sounds 3. Mama—Papa—Dada: Poetic Expression at the Threshold of Language (1916–1947) Remaking Verse in the Vocal Tract From Babble to Gesture to Word (and Back) E dada: Reading Graphic Articulations Birdsong in Translation 4. Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations: Experimental Modernism in a Technical Age (1947–1967) “Visible Speech” between Body and Bits Rearticulating Poetic Experimentation Beyond Lineality, or The Expansion of Writing Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"McCrary casts this complex subject in a new light. Readers will gain valuable insights into the politics of religion in America." * Publisher's Weekly *"McCrary argues that the American legal system has impoverished our idea of religion by equating it with 'sincerely held belief.' In so doing, it has stripped religion of its communal elements. . . This is an essential text for understanding the current struggles over religious freedom." * The Christian Century *"Comprehensive, thought-provoking . . . We should take note of McCrary’s call to interrogate this current legal framework and deconstruct, or at the very least, reexamine, our understanding of religious freedom." * Church & State Magazine / Americans United *"A detailed, but entertaining critical introduction to religion and the First Amendment in the United States . . . highly recommended." * Nova Religio *“Clear and compelling . . . this book is important reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the problems of religious freedom . . . a fascinating contribution to scholarship on secularism in the United States.” * American Religion *"Such an interesting book. A book that really is hard to characterize. It's about religion and law in the US. It's about the history of the sincerity test. It's about secularism and what it means or doesn't mean to be a secular person in what is supposed to be a secular country." * Straight White American Jesus *"A clever, well-crafted account of American secularism, religion, and sincerity. . . McCrary’s writing is a delight to read (as are his many 'sincere' footnotes), and students and scholars from a range of disciplines will find this book to be a highly engaging text, one that is challenging in the best of ways." * Reading Religion *"A sweeping, fascinating and engaging account of how American secularism created the ‘character of the sincere believer’ and cast ‘sincerely held religious belief’ as constitutive of religion in law and the standard by which certain practices are rejected ‘as not truly religious.’ . . . The book may well become indispensable. . . A rich, engrossing, fresh and enlivening addition to the field.” * Journal for the Academic Study of Religion *"Scholars of church and state likely will find the [history of the sincerity test] compelling, as it works through the details of specific court cases to show how 'the sincere believer is an identity, a protected class whose rights are to be secured and defended.'" * Journal of Church and State *"Charles McCrary’s brilliant Sincerely Held shows the declining fortunes of truth and the steadily appreciating value of sincerity to be sides of a single American coin. As the acceptable face of religion under secular law, sincerity severs belief from veracity, hedges it with protections, and exempts it from democratic accountability. McCrary’s genealogy of sincerity moves deftly among con artists, purveyors and suppressors of vice, war resisters, and conscientious objectors to secular law to show sincerely held belief to be a technology of racial governance and an engine of state violence. Remarkably, he excavates from the same history the radical possibility that sincerely held belief might yet be summoned to advance good-faith engagement across differences rather than shut it down. A book of uncommon intelligence, daring, grace, and verve, Sincerely Held is cultural criticism a secular age deserves." -- Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University"Anyone interested in the politics of U.S. religion must grab a copy of Sincerely Held. Over eight chapters populated with con artists, credulous dupes, earnest petitioners, conscientious objectors, indignant inmates, principled paper-pushers, and discriminating judges, McCrary sketches the multifaceted and mercurial figure of the true believer. And just as the legal category of sincerely held belief imagines a world of external guises and hidden truths, McCrary skillfully balances his main text with illuminating discursive footnotes that both perform and subvert the practices of disclosure he so ably describes. Others have written convincingly about the form of secularism, but McCrary captures its irregularly beating heart." -- Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania"McCrary’s incisive study of secularism and the secular brings to life the paradoxes of religion and law in the U.S. His colorful characters come from literature, legal proceedings, and even bureaucratic forms to illuminate how sincerity became a legal category and what that means for law’s imagination of religion." -- Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, BloomingtonThis is a riveting cultural history of that strange and peculiarly American character: the “sincere religious believer.” Indeed, one of the many strengths of this fascinating and utterly persuasive book, is the way Charles McCrary defamiliarizes the secular obviousness of both “sincere believers” and “sincerely held religious beliefs.” Braiding together 19th-century worries over con-men and charlatans with a series of 20th-century legal cases that sought to distinguish the religious from the not-religious, McCrary demonstrates the secular state’s increasing reliance on sincerity—ascertaining it, measuring it—as a way to sort true from false (including the religiously false). In so doing, McCrary reveals religious sincerity’s crucial role in both secular governance and racial formation. At a time when sincerely held religious beliefs are increasingly invoked by Christian conservatives to justify limits on women’s reproductive freedom and LGBTQ+ equality, Sincerely Held is bracing and urgent reading. -- Ann Pellegrini, New York University

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Book SynopsisA critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy. In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn's portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment. The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning, with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority, derived from the golden age of the classical tradition, shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to the quantitative positivism of big data, statistical reasoning, and presumably neutral abstraction, which often dismiss humanist subjectivity, legitimize self-sufficiency, and promote a fresh brand of academic complacency. In acknowledging the reduced Trade Review"With a fast-paced text in thirteen pithy chapters, brief endnotes, and an index nominum, John T. Hamilton’s Complacency will inspire classicists to reconsider their attitude towards their work and the place of their field in academia." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *“Hamilton has given us an extended essay on the theme of complacency, taking as his starting-point an opinion piece from 2009 by the philosopher Simon Blackburn, which characterizes it as one of the deadly ‘sins’ of the academy. He draws on etymology and wordplay to explore the imagery and resonances of complacency in different historical contexts from antiquity to the present, not simply in its familiar associations of (self-)satisfaction, but, strikingly, in the imagery of ‘flatness’ that Hamilton explores in novel and thought-provoking ways. Readers will be diverted and challenged in turn, and all should come away with fresh perspectives on this topic.” -- Duncan Kennedy, University of Bristol“Hamilton’s investigation of ambivalence in the long conceptual history of complacency sparkles. This nimble critique targets the blindnesses of classicism—justifying empire, flattening difference through universalism, any form of domination promising ease—wherever they are found, in science, business, higher education, or the discipline of classics itself. The solution is nevertheless ancient: to search, relentlessly and with love, for understanding and self-knowledge in all their contingent particularity.” -- Michèle Lowrie, The University of Chicago“This beautiful book details a vision for the future of the humanities. It is not a plan, but a call to avoid the easy route, to stay attentive, to keep our eyes and ears open. This is a vital message from one of today’s most important voices.” -- Sean Gurd, The University of Texas at Austin"This is a tract for the times, addressing the identity crisis in our subject with a stirring call to philological arms ... A challenging, exhilarating and thought-provoking little book which wears its heart on its philological sleeve and pulls no punches either in argument or in style." * Classics for All *Table of ContentsThe Wolf on the Plain Sin in the Academy Colonial Planning Propositional Surfaces Classical Platforms Philology as Ancilla Facultatum Philological Investigations Pleasingly FlatPlatea The War on Complacency The Golden Age Institutions The Humanities Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-produced volume succeeds in its stated goal of emphasizing the complexity of cultural exchange in the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean. It also admirably fulfills the aim of drawing attention to often-overlooked regions: as a reader who works largely in the Aegean and was trained in a Classics department, I found the discussions of Egypt, the Black Sea, and Phrygia particularly valuable." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *"This is an interesting volume with engaging discussions on various modes of connectivity. The chapters are well written, supported by some good illustrative material, and effectively address the four themes set out in the introductory chapter, leaving the best to last." * Antiquity *“This volume is essential reading for anyone studying ancient Mediterranean societies and their development. It is an important and timely manifestation of new thinking and innovative approaches to the complex world of the early first millennium BCE and its cross-cultural connections.” -- Lin Foxhall, Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool“The Connected Iron Age is a solid and worthwhile collection that brings an original focus on the East Mediterranean to the burgeoning literature on connectivity.” -- Peter van Dommelen, Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology, Brown University“This volume is an up-to-date synthesis of interregional networks during the early first millennium in the Mediterranean from Iberia in the west to the Levantine coast and the Black Sea in the east. It explores a range of recent theoretical approaches regarding economic, social, and cultural connectivity and offers new and vigorous directions to the study of Mediterranean interactions and cultural contacts of the period.” -- Irene Lemos, University of OxfordTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Chapter 1 Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age James F. Osborne and Jonathan M. Hall Chapter 2 Phoenicians and the Iron Age Mediterranean: A Response to Phoenicoskepticism Carolina López-Ruiz Chapter 3 Mediterranean Interconnections beyond the City: Rural Consumption and Trade in Archaic Cyprus Catherine Kearns Chapter 4 Connectivity, Style, and Decorated Metal Bowls in the Iron Age Mediterranean Marian H. Feldman Chapter 5 Close Encounters of the Lasting Kind: Greeks, Phoenicians, and Others in the Iron Age Mediterranean Sarah P. Morris Chapter 6 The Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the Early First Millennium BCE: Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, and Lydians Susan Sherratt Chapter 7 Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, Trojans, and Other Creatures in the Aegean: Connections, Interactions, Misconceptions John K. Papadopoulos Chapter 8 Anatolia, the Aegean, and the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Material Connections Ann C. Gunter Chapter 9 Egypt and the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age Brian Muhs Chapter 10 Globalizing the Mediterranean’s Iron Age Tamar Hodos Chapter 11 Six Provocations in Search of a Pretext Michael Dietler Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA policy-focused approach to understanding the role of interest groups in US municipal governments. Local politics in the United States once seemed tranquil compared to the divisiveness and dysfunction of the country's national politics. Those days have passed. As multiple wide-ranging crises have thrust America's local governments into the spotlight, they have also exposed policy failures and systemic problems that have mounted for years. While issues such as policing and the cost of housing are debated nationally, much of the policymaking surrounding these issues occurs locally. In Local Interests, Sarah F. Anzia explores how local governmentsand the interest groups that try to influence themcreate the policies that drive the national conversation: policing, economic development, housing, and challenges of taxing and spending. Anzia examines local interest groups in terms of the specific policies they pursue, including how these groups get active in politics and what impact they hTrade Review"This innovative book studies the influence of interest groups on the workings of city governments in the US....This book is a needed corrective to studies on political interest groups and reinforces the importance of local elections to the national electoral process." * Choice *"Anzia convincingly and provocatively shows that local governments are a better arena to study interest groups than federal ones...this is a highly innovative and impactful must-read." * Mobilization *"Do interest groups promote democracy by representing the views of their constituents before government, or do they distort democracy because such representation is skewed in favor of those with great resources? In her important and ambitious new book, Anzia addresses this question squarely, offering a new approach to measuring the impact of interest groups....Local Interests is a resolutely statistical work, as Anzia harnesses the power of her large database to map out the interaction between lobbies and city governments." * Perspectives on Politics *"Local Interests enters a realm of politics that, while dynamic and contested, operates differently from the partisan and ideological frames that are second nature to most Americans. By unveiling the distinctive character of local political life and the interest groups that shape it, Anzia has made a major contribution." * City Journal *"Local Interests shows that there is a gold mine of promising interest group research to be had that focuses on America’s cities and counties....Local Interests lends academic rigor to this common knowledge and pushes forward a promising new school of thought centered on interest groups among public policy researchers." * Interest Groups & Advocacy *"An incredibly important, field changing book. Anzia offers a completely novel description of what goes on in modern city politics. She effectively counters the (persistent) belief that local government activity is apolitical, custodial, or issueless by showing that groups have identifiable interests in local policy outcomes, and that they actively work to achieve those goals. Anzia is a gifted writer and an even more gifted thinker; she offers deep insights in every chapter." -- Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced"Local Interests will be the definitive account of interest group influence in local government. The book is original and sound, assessing the relationships between the strength of business, labor, and other groups and public policy choices—from hot topics like police body cameras to less salient but critical areas like business tax incentives." -- Matt Grossmann, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Interest Groups and Public Policy in US Local Government Chapter 2. The Policy-Focused Approach to Studying Interest Groups Chapter 3. How Active Are Interest Groups in Local Politics? Chapter 4. What Kinds of Interest Groups Are Most Active? Chapter 5. Political Parties in Local Politics Chapter 6. Influence: Issues, Approach, and Expectations Chapter 7. Business and Growth Chapter 8. Unions, Public Safety, and Local Government Spending Chapter 9. Interest Group Influence in Local Elections Chapter 10. Local Interests and Power Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. The contributors to this collection focus on what happens to knowledge and know-how at national borders. Rather than treating it as flowing like currents across them, or diffusing out from center to periphery, they stress the human intervention that shapes how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and repurposed in transnational transactions to serve diverse interests, constraints, and environments. The chapters consider both what knowledge travels and how it travels across borders of varying permeability that impede or facilitate its movement. They look closely at a variety of platforms and objects of knowledge, from tangible commoditieslike hybrid wheat seeds, penicillin, Robusta coffee, naval weaponry, seed banks, satellites and high-performance computersto the more conceptual apparatuses of plant phenotype data and statistics. Moreover, this volume decenters the Global North, tracking how knowledge movesTrade Review“Over the past decade, Krige has positioned himself as one of the foremost scholars investigating the seemingly simple yet, in truth, incredibly intricate and complicated issue of how and why knowledge moves around. Whereas his previous work focused on the power, utility and impact of scientific networks during the twentieth century, particularly in the nuclear field, Krige has now moved into the even broader field of knowledge mobility itself. . . . Similar to its predecessor, [Knowledge Flows in a Global Age] once again challenges us to rethink our taken-for-granted assumptions of how and why knowledge moves around, and what factors prevent it from doing so (or, more directly, what factors may deny the designation of knowledge in the first place). It is, for this reason, a richly stimulating collection the significance of which, true to its transnational outlook, transgresses standard disciplinary assumptions, disrupts interpretive frameworks and asks us to reconsider our own roles as academics in these processes.” * Annals of Science *“The volume shows clearly that the very idea of ‘progress’ is wrought with tension, where some actors are constricted by the liberal contractual framework and are expected to generate profits, while others seek to establish asymmetric relations in the contest for the military and technoscientific superiority. Knowledge Flows in a Global Age reads as a compendium of the complexities of transnational knowledge transfer questioning the notion of effortless globalization. It does important work that will certainly be useful for a wide range of scholarship.” * H-Diplo *"Krige and his collaborators have assembled a powerful array of studies that reconfigure conventional narratives about how knowledge flows. Divided among historical case studies related in some way or another to national and economic security, on the one hand, and agricultural exchanges, on the other, the volume avoids the usual binaries of Global North and Global South—or of guns and butter—emphasizing the efforts to block, shape, or redirect the flow of knowledge. The cast of characters and the variety of regions is massively expanded, to excellent effect." -- Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University“For too long, ‘global’ histories of science have envisioned an antiquated hydraulic mechanism, pumping out authorized knowledge from northern laboratories to southern deserts. At last, this book reveals instead the densely and intricately reticulated worldwide networks transmitting the concepts and practices of modern science. Abandoning the imperial optic for such multi-sited transnational perspectives makes global science look truly different and far more compelling." -- Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney"An excellent, absorbing, and refreshingly revisionist collection of cutting-edge studies by eminent scholars in the transnational history of modern science and technology, organized and edited by a pioneer in the field. Integrating enlightening empirical examinations with penetrating analyses, the volume illuminates brilliantly forces that both propelled and blocked knowledge flow across national borders." -- Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Writing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age John Krige Chapter 1 Knowledge, State Power, and the Invention of International Science Jessica Wang Part I: Regulating Transnational Knowledge Flows Chapter 2 Harnessing Invention: The British Admiralty and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the World War I Era Katherine C. Epstein Chapter 3 Culture Diplomacy: Penicillin and the Problem of Anglo-American Knowledge Sharing in World War II Michael A. Falcone Chapter 4 Dangerous Calculations: The Origins of the US High-Performance Computer Export Safeguards Regime, 1968–1974 Mario Daniels Chapter 5 Regulating the Transnational Flow of Intangible Knowledge of Space Launchers between the United States and China in the Clinton Era John Krige Part II: Facilitating Transnational Knowledge Flows Chapter 6 Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Mexican Seeds and the Narratives of the Green Revolution Gabriela Soto Laveaga Chapter 7 Moving Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961 Maria Gago Chapter 8 Statistics and Emancipation from New Deal America to Guerrilla Warfare in Guinea-Bissau Tiago Saraiva Chapter 9 Security versus Sovereignty in a Palestinian Seed Bank Courtney Fullilove Chapter 10 How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic Economy Sabina Leonelli Conclusion Decentering the Global North John Krige Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Doss’s clear and cogent prose, accented by crisp illustrations of key works and supported by extensive research, make this distinctly focused and illuminating study an essential choice for art history collections." -- Carolyn Mulac * Booklist *"Spiritual Moderns bravely retells the story of modern art, fraught as it may be, with a more honest look at how religion shaped it. . . . Through a series of four case studies, along with an intro and conclusion, Doss exposes how earlier historians of modern art have downplayed religion as a key ingredient in some of modern art’s most heralded breakthroughs. . . . [Doss's] strength as a historian shines bright." * Hyperallergic *Named one of The Best Art Books of 2023 * Hyperallergic *"Doss reclaims American modernism’s religious element...Spiritual Moderns casts new light on the history of American art." -- William J. Schultz * Christian Century *“Doss successfully demonstrates that the story of American modernism is not as secular as it is often presumed to be, and shows without telling that art criticism and history that disregard religion are necessarily shallower than a discourse open to religious thinking and concerns.” * The Brooklyn Rail *"Spiritual Moderns investigates how four 20th-century American modernist artists integrated their non-mainstream religious beliefs and commitments into their work. . . . Doss provides artist bios and helpful descriptions of the main characteristics and practices of their religious traditions. . . . The book presents convincing cultural history that brings religious influences forward. . . Recommended." * Choice *"Erika Doss presents a convincing challenge to the prevailing omission of religion in the story of twentieth-century modernist art in the United States. . . . an exemplary model." * Panorama *“Through detailed accounts of the life and work of four twentieth-century American artists, Doss works to unseat the notion that modern art and religion, or spirituality more generally, are incompatible and separate. She compellingly demonstrates how the significance of religion and spirituality in artistic practice has been suppressed and disavowed, or, alternatively, has contributed to an artist’s lesser status within the art-historical literature. In each thoroughly researched and lucidly written chapter, she illuminates the importance of religion and spirituality for these artists and in so doing deepens our understanding of their work.” -- Rachael Z. DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art, Princeton University“Spiritual Moderns is an apt extension of Doss’s rigorous art-historical scholarship, and there is a great need for this study. As Doss persuasively argues, it is time that the field of modern American art history recognized the singular importance of religion and spirituality within the production and reception of twentieth-century American art. The canonical figures Doss considers engaged deeply with their respective religious traditions while challenging conventional orthodoxies and crafting unique images of transcendence. Doss offers a compelling revisionist account of modern American art history and the cultural work that religion and spirituality performed, historically and aesthetically.” -- Marcia Brennan, Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Humanities, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures Chapter 1. Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion Chapter 2. Joseph Cornell and Christian Science: “White Magic” Modernism and the Metaphysics of Ephemera Chapter 3. Mark Tobey and Bahá’í: “White Writing” and Spiritual Calligraphy Chapter 4. Agnes Pelton and Occulture: Spiritual Seeking and Visionary Modernism Chapter 5. Andy Warhol and Catholicism: Pop Art’s “Spiritual Side” Chapter 6. Spiritual Moderns: Culture War Controversies and Enduring Themes Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the trade regime struggles with trade wars and Europe confronts exit and rebellion among members, Peritz offers an insightful look at the politics of compliance. Careful analysis of legal rulings and policy reforms by the World Trade Organization and European Court of Justice reveals how domestic politics shapes outcomes. Both those who believe in the power of international law and those skeptical of its promises will find that the theory and evidence of this compelling new book offer fresh perspectives." -- Christina Davis, Harvard University“Peritz’s insightful and rigorous work provides both good and bad news for those who support the use of international courts to promote economic liberalization. She shows, through the examination of both policy and economic outcomes, that reluctant governments often do change policies in the face of adverse decisions from the WTO or the ECJ. However, she also shows that these policy changes are at times blocked by domestic veto players, who are able to lock in favored policies that violate international commitments. Her work provides additional understanding of the backlash against legalization, and provides concrete suggestions for a path forwards.” -- Lisa Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison“International economic integration is increasingly on the ropes. How do domestic politics and international courts impose limits on international cooperation? On that question, Peritz’s Delivering on Promises delivers.” -- Chad P. Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics“At a time when international institutions are under siege, Delivering on Promises provides compelling new evidence that they matter. Through careful empirical analysis, Peritz demonstrates that international courts can induce governments to follow even rules they clearly wish to break. How successfully they do this, however, depends on systematic and observable features of domestic politics. Engaging and meticulously researched, Delivering on Promises sheds new light on how domestic and international pressures interact to shape the rules of the global political economy.” -- Daniel Yuichi Kono, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsChapter 1 International Adjudication, Stakeholders, and Domestic Divisions Chapter 2 A Theory of International Courts, Compliance, and Domestic Veto Players Chapter 3 The Design and Operation of Two International Courts Chapter 4 Policy Compliance in WTO Disputes Chapter 5 Trade Cooperation in WTO Disputes Chapter 6 The ECJ and Domestic Constraints on the Single Market Chapter 7 Reshaping International Economic Courts Acknowledgments A1 Appendix for Chapter 4 A2 Appendix for Chapter 5 A3 Appendix for Chapter 6 Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is a sophisticated and detailed account of the social aspects of African migrants’ lives in precarious contexts. The stories of the different protagonists enable us to look anew at the meaning of kinship and its importance for personhood and social identity formation in contemporary Europe. They advance our understanding of the usefulness of theories on kinship, the family and friendship in the context of migration. As such, the book is a very valuable resource for students, researchers, and policymakers who are interested to learn about migration, kinship and social inequality." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“In this sophisticated, original, and wonderfully detailed ethnography of migrants’ lives, Andrikopoulos shows how the creative possibilities of kinship provide a highly flexible resource for migrants to ‘craft’ documented selves and settle in Europe. In so doing, he illuminates both the expansive and generative possibilities of kinship and its continued pertinence as a means of resisting state efforts to control migration and citizenship.” * Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh *“A lively account of how undocumented migrants in Amsterdam use kinship as they seek to establish themselves in the context of the Dutch state’s efforts to control immigration and increasing migrant precarity. With its detailed narratives, fresh perspectives, and important research, Argonauts of West Africa will be of interest to scholars of Africa, Europe, and migration—and, of course, kinship.” * Jennifer Cole, coeditor of Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration *“This is a fascinating ethnography of West African nimble-footedness. It explores and explains ties and thirsts that defy the European logic and practice of containment of mobility and the incompleteness that fuels it.” * Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town *Table of Contents1 Navigating Kinship 2 Unauthorized Identity Craft 3 “Working with My Sister’s Papers” 4 Dying Relations? 5 Marriage, Love, and Inequality Conclusion Unpredictable Dynamics of Kinship Acknowledgments Appendix: Trust and Ethics Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSeasoned designer Debbie Berne presents an accessible introduction to book design for authors, editors, and other book people. Design is central to the appeal, messaging, and usefulness of books, but to most readers, it's mysterious or even invisible. Through interiors as well as covers, designers provide structure and information that shape the meaning and experience of books. In The Design of Books, Debbie Berne shines a light on the conventions and processes of her profession, revealing both the aesthetic and market-driven decisions designers consider to make books readable and beautiful. In clear, unstuffy language, Berne reveals how books are put together, with discussions of production considerations, typography and fonts, page layouts, use of images and color, special issues for ebooks, and the very face of each book: the cover. The Design of Books speaks to readers and directly to books' creatorsauthors, editors, and other publishing professionalshelping them to become more informed partners in the design of their projects. Berne lays out the practical steps at each stage of the design process, providing insight into who does what when and offering advice for authors on how to be effective advocates for their ideas while also letting go and trusting their manuscripts with teams of professionals. She includes guidance as well for self-publishing authors, including where to find a designer, what to expect from that relationship, and how to art direct your own book. Throughout, Berne teaches how understanding the whats, hows, and whys of book design heightens our appreciation of these cherished objects and helps everyone involved in the process to create more functional, desirable, and wonderful books.

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Book SynopsisA unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent explosion in studies of race science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but most have focused either on Europe or on North America and Australia. In this stirring history, Projit Bihari Mukharji illustrates how India appropriated and repurposed race science to its own ends and argues that these appropriations need to be understood within the national and regional contexts of postcolonial nation-makingnot merely as footnotes to a Western history of normal science. The book comprises seven factual chapters operating at distinct levelsconceptual, practical, and cosmologicaland eight fictive interchapters, a series of epistolary exchanges between the Bengali author Hemendrakumar Ray (18881963) and the protagonist of his dystopian science fiction novel about race, race science, racial improvement, and dehumanization. In this way, Mukharji fills Trade Review“Brown Skins, White Coats offers a richly detailed, gripping, and largely overlooked history of the mobilization of racial thinking and of race science in anticolonial movements and postcolonial nationalisms. . . . The thrill of this magnificent book rests in details that are impossible to replicate here. I invite historians of the human sciences to enjoy firsthand this most recent work of one of the most imaginative historians of medicine of South Asia. Besides reminding us of the continued investment in race science in the present, in India, and elsewhere, this book paves the way for scholarly inquiries into non-European histories of whiteness, South Asian contributions to the universe of twentieth-century race science, and the multiple roots of South Asian racism. A stern reminder of the racial thinking that pervaded scientific and social scientific disciplines in India in the twentieth century, this work is essential reading for scholars of colonial and postcolonial South Asia across the disciplines.” * Social History of Medicine *“Fruitfully achieving the difficult balance between a high level of historical detail, a synoptic overview, and theoretical advancements, the book takes the reader on an analytical journey that follows key science-actors and their racializing practices . . . One of the key contributions of Brown Skins, White Coats, both to postco­lonial studies and to studies of science, lies in how it further pushes the debate on race beyond the hegemonic binaries white/Black and colonizer/colonized, by diving into the muddy, brown, and at times turbulent waters of Indian scientists’ engagements with racialization also in post-independence times.” * Journal of the History of Biology *“A remarkable methodological novelty of this book are the two sets of narratives: besides the historical chapters, Mukharji inserts ‘interchapters’ that constitute literary reflections on human morality, ethical limits of scientific progress and the boundaries between the rational and the supernatural. In crafting the interchapters, Mukharji draws from Bengali writer Hemendrakumar Ray’s literary oeuvre who was contemporaneous with Indian seroanthropologists. The interchapters substantiate Mukharji’s commendable attempt to expand what social context of historical actors entail, in this case, of the seroanthropologists. . . . Overall, this book is a formidable analysis of the practice of race science as a modern and ‘normal’ science in India. It offers important insights into the tension between science’s reliance on social ideas and practices, and its increasing alienation from the social, cultural layered narratives of identities, community relations and life-worlds.” * H-Soz-Kult *“Race science enjoyed a prestigious place in Indian academic life in the twentieth century. Mukharji’s book is a startling revelation of how leading Indian anthropologists and statisticians used serological techniques to study caste. This is the forgotten story of Indian eugenics in the service of national development.” -- Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University“Mukharji’s Brown Skins, White Coats is a brilliant book, absorbing to read and brimming with lyrical insight about the vexed history of global racial science, identity, nationalism, and alienation. The book offers a masterful, often poetic journey into the ever-shifting practices of racial scientists striving relentlessly to weave notions of skin, blood, caste, tissues, disease, and belief into a potent yet illusory science of Indian identity, whiteness, and biologized difference. A captivating, pathbreaking new work in race studies and science studies.” -- Keith Wailoo, Princeton University“Brown Skins, White Coats is the most innovative and engaging book I have read on the fraught relationship between race and genetics. Combining rigorous historical research with compelling fictional interludes, Mukharji recalls India’s forgotten history of seroanthropology, a form of race science that links colonial anthropometry to contemporary genomics. A must-read for area studies and history of science alike, Mukharji’s book skillfully shows how the underappreciated contributions of Indian scientists to global human genetics also reinforced essentialist and often discriminatory narratives of racial difference within South Asia.” -- Elise K. Burton, University of TorontoTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Parable of Brownness An Advertisement for White Coats Acknowledgments Introduction Interchapter: Letter 1 1: Seroanthropological Races Interchapter: Letter 2 2: Mendelizing Religion Interchapter: Letter 3 3: A Taste for Race Interchapter: Letter 4 4: Medicalizing Race Interchapter: Letter 5 5: Blood Multiple Interchapter: Letter 6 6: Refusing Race Interchapter: Letter 7 7: Racing the Future Interchapter: Letter 8 Conclusion Notes Sources for Interchapters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A most welcome contribution to a steadily developing area of research. Written with great clarity and precision, Voices That Matter will be an instant addition to reading lists on gender in the Middle East, ethnography, sociolinguistics, and ethnomusicology.” * Christine Robins, University of Exeter *“Voices That Matter offers an invaluable contribution to anthropological scholarship on voice and to conversations in related fields of music, media, and sound studies. It is also powerfully written, and its arguments take shape in carefully composed and evocative ethnographic writing. This truly is accomplished and compelling work.” * Daniel Fisher, University of California, Berkeley *Table of ContentsNote on Language, Naming, and Musical Notation Introduction 1 The Potency of Vocal Form 2 Vocal Services 3 Voice, Self, and Pain 4 Claiming Voice 5 Making Voices Matter Conclusion: Resonance and Its Limits Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this fascinating porthole into English pregnancy culture in the 16th to 18th centuries, cherubic representations of fetuses in transparent wombs greet bewildered readers . . . . By recasting birth figures as evolving feminist iconography, Whiteley places these artifacts in the context of contemporary debates over reproductive rights." * Scientific American *“During this early-modern period, female midwives delivered most babies. Whiteley convincingly argues that the profusion of midwifery manuals at this time (with drawings mainly by men), ‘triggered a change in how midwives both thought about and treated the laboring body.’ Even though birth figures were sometimes used to exert ‘masculine authority’ over women’s practice, they also helped midwives to ‘envision the body, and particularly the position of the fetus, in a newly concrete way.’ . . . Now as then, the birth figure remains powerful . . . . It empowers, but it can be misused. It is revealing, but also mysterious—a tiny cosmos, in utero.” * Nature *“Whiteley’s Birth Figures considers the images of fetal positioning that were included in printed midwifery manuals and helped midwives visualize the presentation of the fetus, whether it was cephalic (ideal) or breech (not good) or impacted (very bad), in order that they might better prepare for a complex birth. These images become an occasion for an intricate meditation: on the nature of the womb, and the unseen; on the representation in static images of dynamic process and bodily transformation; on the contingent and shifting boundary between interior and exterior, nature and history.” * London Review of Books *“Provides important insights into early modern body knowledge as well as the relationship between women and men in the field of obstetrics in England.” * Sehepunkte *“With Birth Figures, Whiteley adds much to our historical understanding of pregnancy and childbirth. Moving beyond old historical narratives of the conflict between male midwives—with their instruments and interventionist approach—and traditional female midwives, who assisted in the natural process of birth, Whiteley presents a more complex and nuanced story of shifting understandings among both men and women and new skill sets required of both male and female birth attendants. The book also adds to the growing literature on the relationship between art and science and the creation of 'visual languages' to convey knowledge of different subjects.” -- Kathleen Crowther, University of Oklahoma“The history of midwifery is transformed by this first sustained analysis of printed drawings showing birth presentations in pregnant wombs. Recovering midwives’ pictorial practice while putting anatomy in its place, Whiteley reconstructs how copying drove innovation and viewers made meanings. Her appealing book thus extends reproductive, gender, and visual studies, as well as histories of art, medicine, and the body.” -- Nick Hopwood, University of Cambridge"Whiteley’s work, at the intersection of medical and art history, beautifully illuminates the multiple meanings of images of unborn children in early modern Europe. She offers fresh, sophisticated, and nuanced interpretations of images that have puzzled me for years!" -- Mary E. Fissell, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Terminology Introduction: Picturing Pregnancy Part I: Early Printed Birth Figures (1540–1672) Chapter 1: Using Images in Midwifery Practice Chapter 2: Pluralistic Images and the Early Modern Body Part II: Birth Figures as Agents of Change (1672–1751) Chapter 3: Visual Experiments Chapter 4: Visualizing Touch and Defining a Professional Persona Part III: The Birth Figure Persists (1751–1774) Chapter 5: Challenging the Hunterian Hegemony Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at how incarcerated people, health professionals, and others behind and beyond bars came together to problem-solve incarceration. Raising the Living Dead is a history of Puerto Rico's carceral rehabilitation system that brings to life the interactions of incarcerated people, their wider social networks, and health care professionals. Alberto Ortiz Díaz describes the ways that multiple communities of care came together both inside and outside of prisons to imagine and enact solution-oriented cultures of rehabilitation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Scientific and humanistic approaches to well-being were deliberately fused to raise the living dead, an expression that reemerged in the modern Caribbean to refer to prisoners. These reform groups sought to raise incarcerated people physically, mentally, socially, spiritually, and civically. The book is based on deep, original archival research into the Oso Blanco (White Bear) penitentiary in Puerto Rico, yet it situates its study within Puerto Rico's broader carceral archipelago and other Caribbean prisons. The agents of this history include not only physical health professionals, but also psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, spiritual and religious practitioners, and, of course, the prisoners and their families. By following all these groups and emphasizing the interpersonal exercise of power, Ortiz Díaz tells a story that goes beyond debates about structural and social control. The book addresses key issues in the history of prisons and the histories of medicine and belief, including how prisoners' different racial, class, and cultural identities shaped their incarceration and how professionals living in a colonial society dealt with the challenge of rehabilitating prisoners for citizenship. Raising the Living Dead is not just about convicts, their immediate interlocutors, and their contexts, however, but about how together these open a window into the history of social uplift projects within the (neo)colonial societies of the Caribbean. There is no book like this in Caribbean historiography; few examine these themes in the larger literature on the history of prisons.Trade Review“Humanizing and nuanced . . . [Ortiz’s] overarching approach, centered on human action, agency and (self-)determination, will inspire many with its obvious relevance to the present and future of mass incarceration. In this vital and public-facing conversation, Ortiz’s voice and scholarship will undoubtedly be not only welcome, but essential.” * Social History of Medicine *“Raising the Living Dead makes an excellent case for a new wave of scholarship on the history of crime and punishment. It builds on the existing literature then applies an innovative multiperspectival approach grounded in theory and rich primary sources.” -- Julia E. Rodriguez, University of New Hampshire“This is at once a deeply personal project for the author and a penetrating and nuanced analysis of prison reform and rehabilitation policies in a society caught in between—between imperial projects (declining Spain and rising US), between cultures (Spanish and Anglo-American), between races (‘white’ to ‘black’), and between carceral systems (dungeon to rehabilitative institution). By diving into a rich trove of individual and institutional records, Ortiz Díaz has produced a multifaceted understanding of efforts to change the way punishment worked in Puerto Rico in the second quarter of the twentieth century.” -- Thomas Holloway, University of California, Davis“Through meticulous archival research, Ortiz Díaz has rediscovered a surprising and overlooked era of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Defying the stereotype of the exclusively passive or resistant colonial subject, inmates were active participants in the rehabilitation of their bodies, minds, and social identities. Raising the Living Dead constitutes an important and innovative contribution to the new and vibrant field of international prison history.” -- Mary Gibson, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward a Holistic History of Incarceration 1 Under a Microscope: Convict Bodies and Prison Biomedicine 2 To Classify and Treat: Correctional Psychology and Psychiatry 3 Interactional Care: Social Workers, Parole Officers, and Social Rehabilitation 4 More Than Flesh: Sacred Knowledge and Experiential Healing 5 In Pursuit of Awakening: Carceral Therapeutic Humanities 6 Health Activism: Executive Clemency on the Mona Passage Conclusion: A Rehabilitative Dream Turned Punitive Nightmare Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Because of his pivotal role in creating modern gay literature, Denneny has perhaps done more than any other single individual to actually create contemporary gay literary culture. On Christopher Street shows that there was a first-rate intellect behind his more familiar role as publisher and editor. While this volume is an important window on the recent past, it also demonstrates the extent to which one man’s lively and humane intellect influenced the creation of contemporary gay culture.” * David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution *“On Christopher Street offers a remarkable glimpse into the first decades after the Stonewall Riots, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a new culture in formation. A valuable and thoughtful account of a foundational moment in American cultural history.” * David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare *“There simply is no other person in the LGBT community who has been as pivotal for LGBT publishing, from newspapers and magazines to books. This important book is a testament to the history of our community.” * Mark Segal, founder and publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and author of And Then I Danced *"Michael Denneny’s memoir-in-essays On Christopher Street illuminates various aspects of gay life in the past half-century. . . . The book’s primary focus is the state of the burgeoning gay literary scene and its public and critical reception. In preserving articles as they appeared at the time, the book revives the atmosphere, hopes, fears, ambitions, and challenges of the nascent community, as experienced by Denneny as a gay man living and working in New York. It also exposes the flawed, underdeveloped personal perspectives that Denneny spent subsequent years grappling with and refining." * Foreword *"As a founder and editor of the wildly influential literary journal Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin’s Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authors—many for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editions—propelling queer voices into the mainstream cultural conversation. . . . On Christopher Street revisits that heady period to map out the cultural forces, geographies, and storylines of LGBTQ in those decades. Through 41 micro-chapters, Denneny draws on his journal writings, articles, interviews, and more from the 1970s and ’80s to put us there in this formative and also tragic time." * Queer Forty *"As the queer community has survived countless attempts at suppression and elimination, this book offers not only a historical account of the political environment of the 1970s-80s. It also showcases tried and true forms of activism and rhetoric, ones that have kept and continue to make our survival possible." * Out in Jersey *"If you love reading about gay life, you owe a debt to Michael Denneny." * Passport *Table of ContentsPreface: Becoming Real Part 1: Morning in Gay America (1970–1980)Christopher Street Magazine Dead Souls at The New Yorker: A Puzzling Case Lovers: The Story of Two Men “Everything Is Only Ten Years Old”: A Conversation with Felice Picano Decent Passions: Real Stories about Love Blue Moves: Conversation with a Male Porn Dancer Part 2: Beginning to Count Ourselves (1980–1983) Archeologist of the Present: Michel Foucault in New York City Gay Politics and Its Premises: Sixteen Propositions Sixteen Propositions: An Exchange Scaring the Horses; or the Question of Gay Identity Who Are We? What Do We Want? How Best Might We Get it? Part 3: The State of the Tribe (1983–1987) Gay Pride and Survival in the Eighties The State of Gay Criticism Oedipus Revised: David Leavitt’s The Lost Language of Cranes Paragraph 175, or How Dark Can It Get? A Culture in a Crucible Part 4: Workaday Publishing, or Hegel’s Ernst (1985–1988) Further Down the Road The Universal Voice of Gay Writers A Conversation with Allen Barnett How to Review a Gay Novel Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other Self-Defeating Strategies Editing Fiction and the Question of “Political Correctness” Part 5: On the Raft of the Medusa (1988–1990) The Death of a Generation An Intellectual Ambush A Quilt of Many Colors Preaching to the Choir The Present Moment A Letter to Ed White Part 6: In the Gathering Darkness an Age of Heroes (1991–1996) Eulogy for Allen Barnett Honoring Richard Rouillard Eulogy for Randy Shilts Necessary Bread: Gay Writing Comes of Age Stonewall: From Event to Idea Three Takes on John Preston Food for Life: A Dinner Party in Two Hours Turning . . . Turning: The Boys in the Band A Mouthful of Air: The Case of Larry Kramer Key West Seminar Part 7: Reconsiderations (1996–2014) Hymn to the Gym AIDS Books: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going Affectionate Men Last Letter to Paul Monette Afterword: Looking Back Appendix A: Out Magazine Appendix B: A Few Words about Christopher Street’s Finances Appendix C: The Stonewall Inn Editions Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“[Dream Street] is Smith’s attempt to record the paradoxes of city life in America—the clutch of industry, the dogged persistence of both community and loneliness, the forces of love, hate, growth and decay. Not even the venerated master of photojournalists could quite pull this off, but Smith’s obsessiveness was harnessed to an enormous talent, and he wasn’t far from the mark when he wrote that [this work] would ‘create history.’" -- Vicki Goldberg * The New York Times, on the original edition *“Inspired by Joyce and Faulkner, Smith envisioned a symphonic, multilayered photo essay portraying the entire city; his failure to complete it haunted him for the rest of his life. Here are more than a hundred and fifty of his nourish and oddly poignant images: gleaming railyards at night; buildings wrapped in clouds of industrial smoke; the face of a steelworker, the Bessemer fires reflected in his safety goggles.” * New Yorker, on the original edition *“These images are about the life that never gets into headlines. When a young teenage girl waits alone by a gleaming black car, she embodies innocence . . . and loss. When men of all ages from sixteen to sixty stand in silhouette along the lit-up counter of a takeout stand, you see a story of age, and ambition denied, a side of the 1950’s that rarely shows up on nostalgia channels. . . . Smith’s Pittsburgh photographs show how much we still resemble those citizens in the summer of 1955. And in his majestic inability to admit defeat we can see how dangerous that confidence could be to a man who saw its limits, and refused to give in.” -- Mary Panzer * Chicago Tribune, on the original edition *“Smith imagined a visual collage to rival Finnegan’s Wake in scope and intensity. His astonishing ambition was . . . his Faustian pact with the city . . . . There are no touching displays of picturesque individuality, just a city aesthetically dissected; an effort to ‘get to the guts of the matter and show the bastards as they are.’” * TIME OUT London, on the original edition *“Smith’s presence haunts this book, even a quarter century after his death.” * Washington City Paper, on the original edition *“Every picture tells a story—but put them all together and you might get Finnegans Wake. In the grand canyons of Pittsburgh, monolithic steel mills overshadow humble spires; hillsides scored with 500-step staircases plunge down to inky pitmouths. By day, the steelworkers hover like ghosts, silhouetted in the furnace flames. By night, the moon shines down Stygian rivers, as the shining railroad snakes away into blackest suburbs. More Dante than Joyce, this is a magnificent vision of light and dark.” * Evening Standard, on the original edition *“Dream Street is a diffuse portrait of a community that still led the world in steel production while grappling with the challenge of making the air breathable. It’s also a time machine that takes those who weren’t alive or around during those years to the moment the soul of modern Pittsburgh was forged. Much like its creator, [Dream Street] is without sentiment. It is clear-eyed, despite the smoke of the coke works, and devoid of pretense. It is full of revelation and surprises. It inspires in a way that only great art—and great themes—are capable of inspiring.” * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on the original edition *“These dark-toned photographs are dense with meaning. And in [Dream Street] they are given the space to do it. Smith’s best pictures are complete, complicated worlds. The bigness, in every sense, of Smith’s pictures was also the bigness of Pittsburgh.” -- Sarah Boxer * The New York Times, on the original edition *“The range of this project lies not only in its subjects and themes, but also its pictorial and compositional variety, and its strategies and ploys. In other words, Smith used every device and trick he knew, and he knew a lot. The Pittsburgh project found Smith at the height of his abilities, which he brought to bear with vast ambition. Aiming to capture such a cross-section of society, neighborhoods, cityscapes, moods, and feelings, it remains unrivaled in this breadth and depth of its scope. Fifty years later, it jumps out at us, and the nostalgia suffusing [the book] is not just for the past depicted and our assumptions about it . . . but also for a time when a photographer could be so engaged with the real world, and yet so introspective about Americanness, and so secure in the belief that images would elevate the viewer. What Smith accomplished here is shaped not only by his personal ambition, but also by photographers’ ambitions for photography, and Americans’ ambitions for America.” * Photo Review, on the original edition *“This epic portrait of Pittsburgh has become legendary in the history of photography. . . . Viewed together in this compelling, commanding publication, Smith’s photographs present energetic images of hope and despair, rebuilding and decay, poverty and affluence, and solitude and togetherness. . . . These images of mid-century, post-war Pittsburgh powerfully resonate with America today.” * B&W: Black & White Magazine for Collectors of Fine Photography, on the original edition *“Dream Street stands as a final reminder of the power of Smith’s poetic vision.” * The Cleveland Plain Dealer, on the original edition *“The Pittsburgh photographs were Smith’s after-LIFE magnum opus, and with them he produced a darkly urban vision, less out of a magazine than out of film noir . . . the paradoxes of a city churning toward progress and leaving vast segments of its population in squalor [are] metaphors for Smith’s state of mind. . . . What Smith was after was not a series of punchy vignettes but a sprawling epic in the manner of his favorite music: Beethoven’s late string quartets and the rhapsodic improvisations of John Coltrane.” * Los Angeles Times, on the original edition *“Dream Street allows us to assess Smith’s greatest achievement; an extensive, complex, and utterly engaging photo-essay, each element of which has genuine bite. From the skyline to the assembly line, steel workers to city council members, and men on the picket line to children at play, Smith captures the ambitions and inequities of an American city at mid-century with extraordinary deftness and wit.” -- Vincent Aletti * The Village Voice, on the original edition *"For Smith, Dream Street was an artistic obsession. For Stephenson it appears to have been a labor of love. Perhaps much the same thing. Every reader will have his or her own favorite images in Dream Street." -- Michael Patrick Pearson * NYJB *Table of ContentsForeword by Ross Gay “W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh” by Sam Stephenson Photographs “‘Man-Breaking City’: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh” by Alan Trachtenberg W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Layout for Photography Annual1959 Notes to Photographs Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Our statistical texts—and often our teaching—ignore the craft that makes quantitative evidence useful for policy makers. In Statistics for Public Policy, Weber draws on his own experience to address the nitty-gritty issues that advisors confront in honestly and effectively interpreting and presenting evidence.” -- David L. Weimer | University of Wisconsin-Madison“The best public policy advisers know how to blend statistical knowledge with an understanding of the context of issues. Weber uses his experience as a White House economist to explain how analysts can make sense of messy real-world data and maintain their credibility even if their numbers turn out to be wrong. Accessible and engaging, Statistics for Public Policy presents practical tips to improve the use of statistics and data in the policy world.” -- Eric M. Patashnik | coauthor of "A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving"“An easily digestible and humorous must-read, Statistics for Public Policy takes a fairly dry subject—but one of utmost importance—and infuses it with real world examples that bring statistics alive for the reader. As someone on the receiving end of many a policy memo, I can say with certainty that every would-be wonk could benefit from this book." -- DJ Nordquist | former Chief of Staff, White House Council of Economic AdvisersTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Big Picture 2. Know Your Sample and Data 3. Know Simple Statistics and Their Power 4. Know What It Means to Account for Potholes 5. Know Large from Small and Explain the Difference 6. Think Hard about Causality 7. Show That You’ve Been to Table School 8. Know How to Be Mostly Right (or at Least Respectfully Wrong) 9. Fail the Test? A Case Study in Using Statistics for Policy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Within the vast scholarship on the atomic bombs the book stands out for its highly original depiction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as ‘ground zero’ for the articulation of the concept of trauma, which is applied so widely today. Historians of Japan, medicine and science and technology studies are likely to find it an enlightening and even moving read.” * British Journal for the History of Science *“This book presents an insightful and persuasive analysis of Japanese psychiatry and the troubled experiences of atom bomb survivors. . . . Zwigenberg provides important evidence to understand why so many people, who had endured unimaginable suffering, were neglected in the post-war period.” * The Psychologist *“Nuclear Minds is a penetrating investigation into how the postwar Japanese psychological and psychiatric establishment encountered the psychic effects of nuclear trauma, exposing a long journey toward an understanding of how political trauma and war deeply effect individuals within their collective society—here, Zwigenberg offers a necessary reflection and examination extremely resonant with current events today.” * History: Reviews of New Books *“After Hiroshima in 1945, the psychological effect of the bomb was, astonishingly, explained away as if caused by anything but the bomb. Science’s obsession with objectivity and universality, compounded by the Cold War realignment of geopolitical powers, made individual suffering of hibakusha utterly invisible. In a clear and compelling analysis, and with appealingly open prose, Zwigenberg strikingly juxtaposes and makes tangible a global web of psychological knowledge, science politics, and survivor activism before the advent of post-traumatic stress disorder.” -- Naoko Wake, Michigan State University“A profound and illuminating journey into the psychological subjectivism experienced by the hibakusha under the Cold War psychiatric gaze. Zwigenberg shows how analyses of surviving nuclear attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were embedded into existing psychological frameworks of militarized emotional harm and yet disrupted them. We see the hibakusha abandoned as suffering individuals even as their wounds were being collectively codified to prepare the world for a dystopic future.” -- Robert A. Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute and Hiroshima City UniversityTable of ContentsNote on Language Introduction Part 1. Bombing Minds Chapter 1. American Psychological Sciences and the Road to Hiroshima and Nagasaki Chapter 2. Bombing “the Japanese Mind”: Alexander Leighton’s Hiroshima Chapter 3. Healing a Sick World: The Nuclear Age on the Analyst’s Couch Chapter 4. Nuclear Trauma and Panic in the United States Part 2. Researching Minds, Healing Minds Chapter 5. Y. Scott Matsumoto, the ABCC, and A-Bomb Social Work Chapter 6. Konuma Masuho and the Psychiatry of the Bomb Chapter 7. Kubo Yoshitoshi and the Psychology of Peace Chapter 8. Social Workers, Nuclear Sociology, and the Road to PTSD Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In these exceptionally complex, wide-ranging lectures written for a 1975–76 course, Derrida takes very seriously Nietzsche's warning to 'beware . . . saying that death is opposed to life' . . . . Essential." * Choice *"Translated . . . with unparalleled grace and rigor.” * Philosophy Today *"One of Derrida’s most challenging and urgently relevant seminars.” * Style *"Daring and wide-ranging.” * Research in Phenomenology *“Derrida’s 1975-76 seminar, Life Death, is surely one of his greatest achievements. It begins with a deconstructive reading of François Jacob’s Logic of the Living, advancing to a critique of scientific ‘models’ in general. It then takes up Nietzsche’s notions of life and the living in terms of both biography and biology. Finally, it reads Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle in an exciting and challenging way. The translation by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas is reliable and eminently readable.” -- David Farrell Krell, author of The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter“This is a splendid translation of one of Derrida’s most challenging seminars, one that relates, in unprecedented ways, the vocabulary and concepts of historical and contemporary biology and genetics with selected and relevant works of Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Freud.” -- Dawne McCance, author of The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La Vie la Mort"This one is lucid and rich, with sparing translators’ interventions . . . to see even republished material within its original scene is exciting. So too proves the book as a whole." * The Heythrop Journal *Table of ContentsForeword to the English Edition General Introduction to the French Edition Editorial Note Translators’ Note First Session: Programs Second Session: Logic of the Living (She the Living) Third Session: Transition (Oedipus’s Faux Pas) Fourth Session: The Logic of the Supplement: The Supplement of the Other, of Death, of Meaning, of Life Fifth Session: The Indefatigable Sixth Session: The “Limping” Model: The Story of the Colossus Seventh Session Eighth Session: Cause (“Nietzsche”) Ninth Session: Of Interpretation Tenth Session: Thinking the Division of Labor—and the Contagion of the Proper Name Eleventh Session: The Escalade—of the Devil in Person Twelfth Session: Freud’s Leg(acies) Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, Prosthesis Fourteenth Session: Tightenings Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This thoughtful and broad-ranging critique of the post-financial crisis consensus on macroeconomic policy is worth reading for anyone interested in monetary policy. . . . Some may wonder why anyone today would write (or read) a book raking over the [2008] financial crisis, when the world has moved on to dealing with the pandemic, war in Europe, and how to manage economic policy in an era of wild political see-saws. In fact, Sumner’s book is of great significance to our current crises, and his challenge to conventional wisdom is bracing." -- Kenneth Rogoff * Times Literary Supplement *"Were I still teaching monetary economics, I wouldn't hesitate to assign it, not as a textbook, but as the testament of one of today's most original monetary economists. For The Money Illusion is capable of teaching them something no textbook ever will, namely, the importance of thinking for oneself." -- George Selgin * Barron's *"[An] illuminating journey of our macroeconomic past, and the shrouded role that monetary mismatches played in past recessions. . . . It's the kind of book where you learn something on every single page—often several astonishing things." * Frontier Post *"The leading authority on market monetarism re-evaluates the 2008 Recession, rejecting the consensus on the origins of the crisis, and narrows it down to a single cause: allowing the nominal GDP to plummet." * Bookseller (UK) *"As the world’s leading 'market monetarist,' Sumner has forced economists and policymakers to rethink their approach to monetary policy, particularly since the Great Recession of 2008–9. This long-awaited book is clearly and effectively written and brings Sumner's unique and valuable perspective into full view." -- Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College"Sumner summarizes, clearly and concisely, lessons drawn from a lifetime of studying both monetary theory and economic history. He skillfully shows how his market monetarist framework helps us understand what went wrong in 2008 and what it will take to bring growth and stability back to the US economy." -- Peter Ireland, Boston College"Sumner has assembled all of his ideas and commentary since the beginning of the Great Recession regarding monetary policy, encompassing his writing in journals, books, blogs, and policy papers. Given that Sumner is basically the standard bearer of the market monetarists, this is a welcome task. His systematic application of market monetarism to the Great Recession constitutes a valuable contribution and will probably be used as a reference by many. The virtue of the book is that it is accessible to all." -- Vincent Geloso, King's University College"Sumner uses his well-honed blogging skills to explain, for both amateur and professional economists, the 'market monetarist' perspective. The high point is his historical analysis of monetary policy, in the United States and elsewhere, during the 2008 Great Recession. Sumner's thesis directly contradicts the prevailing view that central banks simply lacked the power to offset the overwhelming force of a massive financial shock, and I think his analysis will eventually prove convincing." -- Nick Rowe, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Real Problem Was Nominal Part I. The Value of Money Chapter 1. Cognitive Illusions in Economics Chapter 2. The Value of Money and Money Illusion Chapter 3. What Determines the Value of Money? Chapter 4. The Quantity Theory of Money and the Great Inflation Chapter 5. Money at the Extremes: Hyperinflation and Deflation Chapter 6. It’s (Almost) All about Expectations Part II. The Dance of the Dollar Chapter 7. The Great Depression and the AS-AD Model Chapter 8. One Derivative beyond Hume Chapter 9. Rational Expectations and Efficient Markets Part III. Never Reason from a Price Change Chapter 10. The Musical-Chairs Model Chapter 11. What Is Monetary Policy? Chapter 12. Nominal and Real Exchange Rates Part IV. How to Think about Macroeconomics Chapter 13. The Path to Market Monetarism Chapter 14. I See Dead Patterns Chapter 15. Good Economists Don’t Forecast, They Infer Market Forecasts Chapter 16. The Secret History of Monetary Policy Part V. The Great Recession Chapter 17. Fed Policy in 2008: A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis? Chapter 18. A Confession of Contractionary Effect Chapter 19. Schadenfreude on the Titanic Chapter 20. Alternative Explanations of the Great Recession Part VI. What Does It All Mean? Chapter 21. Policy Implications of Market Monetarism Chapter 22. Why Should You Believe in Market Monetarism? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history of Germans' attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution. For German philosophers at the turn of the nineteenth century, beautiful works of art acted as beacons of freedom, instruments of progress that could model and stimulate the moral autonomy of their beholders. Amid the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Germans struggled to uphold these ideals as they contended with the destruction of art collections, looting, and questions about cultural property. As artworks fell prey to the violence they were supposed to transcend, some began to wonder how art could deliver liberation if it could also quickly become a spoil of war. Alice Goff considers a variety of worksincluding forty porphyry columns from the tomb of Charlemagne, the Quadriga from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Laocoön group from Rome, a medieval bronze reliquary from Goslar, a Last Judgment from Danzig, and the mummified body of an official from the Rhenish hamlet of Sinzigfollowing tTrade Review"For idealists such as Hegel, beauty was meant to transcend politics—so what happened when, as often in the Napoleonic era, works of art became spoils of war? Goff takes up the question with a close study of objects including the Laocoön Group." * Apollo "Off the Shelf" column *“Goff’s engaging book delves into the cultural politics of revolutionary-era France and the German states conquered, then lost, by Napoleon—a pivotal, electric moment in which art and its meanings were up for grabs. An astute reader of images as well as texts, Goff makes a distinctive contribution with her insistence on keeping art, aesthetics, political engagement, and institutional histories firmly intertwined and in conflict.” -- Susan A. Crane, University of Arizona “Goff’s fine book is a deeply researched and elegantly written analysis of a significant chapter in the long and complex history of art’s role in German culture and politics.” -- James Sheehan, professor emeritus, Stanford University“The God behind the Marble provides a treasure chest of famous and little-known scholars, statesmen, and artists in the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The French fought, conquered, and grabbed as much art as they could from the cities, courts, and monasteries in the territories they conquered, then transported it back to Paris. The Germans called this the Kunstraub and pushed back. This is a book that takes seriously both the material and the political aspects of art objects. Goff provides a compelling portrait of what is at stake in confiscating art and trying to protect it in its original spaces.” -- Celia Applegate, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Vanderbilt University"This groundbreaking and extraordinarily timely study is an object lesson in what happens if we recognize the dynamic nature of institutions that seem so stable, if we read the historical record for the passions and aspirations of individuals attempting to understand and organize the meaning of art objects. From noble patrons to imperial plunderers, from museum visitors to curators and museum guards, from philosophers to architects: the turn of the nineteenth century saw a number of vital and mutually shaping responses to what art could be. We are still living in the aftermath of an unresolved process that Goff illustrates in a number of richly developed case studies, sensitive at once to historical context, the history of ideas, and the experience of individuals attempting to understand the relationship between material objects, display, and the feelings and ideas those objects and forms of display are based on and shape." -- Jonah Siegel, author of "Overlooking Damage: Art, Display and Loss in Times of Crisis"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 To the Vandals They Are Stone 2 A Brilliant Place 3 The State of the Supplicant 4 Uncertain Saints 5 Stepping onto the Pedestal 6 Hegel’s Neighbor Coda Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely intervention into the current debates on post-truth and Foucault’s significance for them. Lorenzini argues, again compellingly, that we need to steer clear of the false dilemma of either conceding that truth is only an effect of power, or strenuously defend the value of absolute truth against fake news and alternative facts. Foucault’s rejection of the Truth—truth understood as timeless and absolute—does not amount to a rejection of truth altogether. Rather, Foucault’s history of truth should be understood precisely as an attempt to criticize the claim that such an understanding of truth is necessary to stop our critical theories and practices from dissolving into relativism." -- Johanna Oksala * Critical Inquiry *"Lorenzini has established himself as the most brilliant interpreter of the work of Michel Foucault in his generation. Yet, even beyond this distinction, he has learned, as few people have, to use Foucault's work and perspective to approach topics that Foucault himself never discussed. Moreover, in his extraordinary genealogy of truth, presented in this book, Lorenzini brings together Foucault's writings with those of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell, among others, to give us a remarkable new way to think about some of the central issues concerning the idea of truth. Anyone who believes that analytic philosophy and continental philosophy cannot speak to one another can read this book as a superb example of how these two traditions of philosophy can mutually contribute, when read together, to the understanding of fundamental philosophical problems. If Lorenzini is the future of philosophy, philosophy is in excellent hands." -- Arnold I. Davidson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"In this urgent study, Lorenzini offers a powerful corrective to stubborn criticism of Foucault as a postmodern architect of the post-truth age. With stunning command of Foucault’s corpus, Lorenzini reconstructs Foucault’s history of truth as a political epistemology for our troubled times. This extraordinary book reshapes how we should understand—and resist—lying, disinformation, and other forms of political untruth." -- Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Syracuse University"This groundbreaking book refutes the dominant view of Foucault as a relativist and elevates the debate about his notion of truth to a new philosophical level. With exceptional clarity, Lorenzini develops an ethics and politics of truth-telling that is essential reading for everyone who seeks to take responsibility for their claims about the truth—in both theory and practice.” -- Martin Hägglund, Yale University“In this brilliant and provocative book, Lorenzini upends the conventional way that critics read Foucault as a precursor to our post-truth society. Through a meticulous reading of the Collège de France lectures, Lorenzini masterfully shows how Foucault’s lifelong passion for truth and truth-telling culminates in a powerful theory of truth as a political and ethical practice. A veritable tour de force.” -- Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Writing the History of Truth A History of Truth That Does Not Rely on “the Truth” Toward an Ethics and Politics of Truth-Telling The Force of Words and the Force of Truth 1. Truth-Event “A Little History of Truth in General” The Emergence of the Alethurgic Subject Confessional Sciences 2. Regimes of Truth Truth Obligations? Games and Regimes of Truth A Critical (An)archaeology Language Games and Games of Truth The Value of Truth Regimes of Truth and Spirituality 3. Truth as Force Cavell, Austin, and the PerlocutionaryParrhesia as Speech Act Unpredictability, Freedom, and Criticism Risk and Courage Transparency, or Parrhesia and Rhetoric 4. Dramatics of Truth Alethurgy Sincerity, Authenticity, Confession Putting the Truth to the Test of Life 5. Critique and Possibilizing Genealogy Beyond the Vindicatory-Subversive Dichotomy Foucault, Habermas, and the Question of Normativity The Genealogy of Critique Genealogy and We-Making Conclusion: Rethinking Critique Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With unabashed frankness and unrelenting truth-telling, Corrigan offers much-needed clarity to the ongoing attempts to account for enduring racism and religious hatred that too often portray the coexistence of Christianity and racism as an unfortunate contradiction or oversimplify the relationship between ideology and violence. A game-changing study." -- Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech“Corrigan draws on a lifetime of research and writing about religion, race, and violence to offer insights where others have shrugged with befuddlement. White racial anxiety, he argues, is a feeling produced by the unsuccessful labor of forgetting the violence inherent to chattel slavery and Native dispossession. The result is a charged meditation on religious whiteness in the United States.” -- Jennifer Graber, University of Texas at Austin“Corrigan offers a nuanced look at America’s sorry history of racism, violence, and trauma from the colonial era to January 6 and beyond, taking on American Christianity’s proclivity for forgetting our society’s traumatic past. This is a wise and important book with the potential to reshape our national discourse." -- Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College“Through a sweeping critical review of interdisciplinary work on emotions, trauma, memory, and history, Corrigan carefully assembles a way to understand the intergenerational transmission of trauma among both victims and perpetrators of collective violence. A remarkable and courageous book.” -- William M. Reddy, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bad Memories Chapter 1: Colonial Legacies Chapter 2: Trauma Chapter 3: Emotion Chapter 4: Forgetting and Remembering Chapter 5: Anxiety, Erasure, and Affect Chapter 6: Race, Religion, and Nation Conclusion: The Feeling of Forgetting Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life. In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association, Louis Wirth, argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological research. Now, seventy-five years later, the sociology of housing has still not developed as a distinct subfield, leaving efforts to understand housing's place in society to other disciplines, such as economics and urban planning. With this volume, the editors and contributors solidify the importance of housing studies within the discipline of sociology by tackling topics like racial segregation, housing instability, the supply of affordable housing, and the process of eviction. In doing so, they showcase the very best traditions of sociology: they draw on diverse methodologies, present unique field sites and data sources, and foreground a range of theoretical approaches to elucidate the relationships between contemporary housing, public policy, and key social outcomes. The STrade Review“In The Sociology of Housing, McCabe and Rosen push housing research from the background to the foreground of so many core sociological questions about how we structure society and interact with one another. This volume offers an expert syllabus on housing for academics, students, and practitioners. There is no book like it, and it will stand as the reference tool for decades to come.” -- Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University“The Sociology of Housing addresses an important topic: how housing is created and, in turn, influences and shapes our lives. Much has been written about the economics and financing of housing. But the multifaceted social influences of housing on society have long been overlooked. With contributions from leading scholars, this volume will make an important contribution to our understanding of how housing is interwoven into our lives.” -- Lance Freeman, James W. Effron University Professor of City and Regional Planning & Sociology, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction. How Homes Shape Our Social Lives Brian J. McCabe, Georgetown University; Eva Rosen, Georgetown University Part I: Mechanisms of Housing Inequality 1. Housing as Capital: US Policy, Homeownership, and the Racial Wealth Gap Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, University of Albany 2. Latino Homeownership: Opportunities and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century Allen Hyde, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary J. Fischer, University of Connecticut 3. Latinos’ Housing Inequality: Local Historical Context and the Relational Formation of Segregation María G. Rendón, University of California, Irvine; Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Michigan State University; Maya Parvati Kulkarni, University of California, Irvine 4. The Renaissance Comes to the Projects: Public Housing Policy, Race, and Urban Redevelopment in Baltimore Peter Rosenblatt, Loyola University Chicago 5. Unsettling Native Land: Indigenous Perspectives on Housing Jennifer Darrah-Okike, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Lorinda Riley, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Philip M. E. Garboden, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Nathalie Rita, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 6. Affordable Housing Is Public Health: How Landlords Struggle to Contain America’s Lead Poisoning Crisis Matthew H. McLeskey, SUNY Oswego 7. Audit Studies of Housing Discrimination: Established, Emerging, and Future Research S. Michael Gaddis, University of California, Los Angeles; Nicholas V. DiRago, University of California, Los Angeles Part II: Housing Insecurity and Instability 8. Centering the Institutional Life of Eviction Kyle Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael C. Lens, University of California, Los Angeles 9. Manufactured Housing in the US: A Critical Affordable Housing Infrastructure Esther Sullivan, University of Colorado, Denver 10. Shared Housing and Housing Instability Hope Harvey, University of Kentucky; Kristin L. Perkins, Georgetown University 11. Informal Housing in the US: Variation and Inequality among Squatters in Detroit Claire Herbert, University of Oregon 12. Housing Deprivation: Homelessness and the Reproduction of Poverty Chris Herring, Harvard University Part III: Housing Markets and Housing Supply 13. Housing Supply as a Social Process Joe LaBriola, Brown University 14. Housing Market Intermediaries Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of New Mexico; Robin Bartram, Tulane University; Max Besbris, University of Wisconsin–Madison 15. Housing in the Context of Neighborhood Decline Sharon Cornelissen, Harvard University; Christine Jang-Trettien, Princeton University 16. Learning from Short-Term Rentals’ “Disruptions” Krista E. Paulsen, Boise State University 17. Moving Beyond “Good Landlord, Bad Landlord”: A Theoretical Investigation of Exploitation in Housing Philip M. E. Garboden, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 18. How We Pay to House Each Other Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego Part IV: Housing, Racial Segregation, and Inequality 19. The Future of Segregation Studies: Questions, Challenges, and Opportunities Jacob William Faber, New York University 20. Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Residential Mobility among Housing Choice Voucher Holders Erin Carll, University of Washington; Hannah Lee, University of Washington; Chris Hess, Kennesaw State University; Kyle Crowder, University of Washington 21. All in the Family: Social Connections and the Cycle of Segregation Maximilian Cuddy, University of Illinois, Chicago; Amy Spring, Georgia State University; Maria Krysan, University of Illinois, Chicago; Kyle Crowder, University of Washington 22. Policing, Property, and the Production of Racial Segregation Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois, Chicago 23. Criminal Justice Contact and Housing Inequality Brielle Bryan, Rice University; Temi Alao, University of Florida 24. The Housing Divide in the Global South Marco Garrido, University of Chicago Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“‘Intelligence histories are curious things,’ writes Graziano, and his brilliant, highly original book is no exception. In colorful detail and with sharp insight, Graziano shows how the US intelligence community waged the Cold War with innovative but misleading academic theories about world religions. This superb book is a must-read for scholars of American religion and foreign relations alike.” * Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy *“US intelligence agents in the Cold War thought they knew what religion was, how it worked, and how to manipulate it for national security goals. But their methods were grounded in an American religious exceptionalism that often left them flat-footed and unprepared. In this engaging and deftly written book, Graziano illuminates the fallibility of expertise, the role of religious studies in the security state, and the changing place of religion in American life.” * Tisa Wenger, author of Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal *“Fascinating. . . The story that emerges shows how dangerous religion can be when it is weaponized by powerful people who don’t truly understand it.” * The Christian Century *"Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors notes how this close-knit relationship between psychology, theology and espionage in the US dates back to 1942: when President Franklin Roosevelt formed the Office of Strategic Services. . . . Its blind spot was an assumption religion could be used to unify one global culture with a single value system. Graziano says this messianic idea fits well with American exceptionalism: a delusional belief the US is an empire of liberty that has a moral responsibility to export democracy and freedom." * The Independent *"[A] sophisticated, fascinating and well-written application of scholarship to practical matters of state." * Survival *“Fascinating. . . The story that emerges shows how dangerous religion can be when it is weaponized by powerful people who don’t truly understand it.” * The Christian Century *"Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors provides a compelling and important glimpse into the intelligence community and its use of religion during war-time eras... Graziano guides the reader through a brief history of the interactions that the intelligence community had with various religions, notably those that they perceived to be either threatening or useful to their specific war-time agendas." * Reading Religion *"Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors raises a vital question in both academic and intelligence circles: what exactly is religion? ... By showing the limitations of the religious approach in intelligence, Graziano provides a caution to scholars of religion." * American Religion *"Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors creatively pairs American intelligence services with the academic study of religion, in order to show how these disparate worlds reinforced one another’s static understandings of religion. Graziano deftly narrates how the twentieth-century imagining of “religion”—by scholars and CIA agents alike—blinded both groups to historical and political realities." * Journal of Church and State *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Charting the Wilderness 1 American Spies and American Catholics 2 Refining the Religious Approach 3 The Great Jihad of Freedom 4 On Caring What It Is 5 Baptizing Vietnam 6 Counterinsurgency and the Study of World Religions 7 Iran and Revolutionary Thinking Conclusion: A New Wilderness Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Cartographer Berman’s comprehensive debut succinctly recounts the histories of 23 public mass transit systems built by American cities in the 20th century. . . . For each city, Berman provides his own exquisitely illustrated maps of past, existing, and proposed transit systems. The result is a valuable resource for transit enthusiasts." * Publishers Weekly *“Effectively illustrated with past and current system maps, this collection offers fresh insights into how large cities can—or don’t—work.” * Booklist, starred review *"In addition to commenting on contemporary situations, Berman’s book is also a rewarding look into the history that informs our contemporary transit mess. For instance, he does an apt job of retelling the oft-told defeat of Los Angeles’s streetcar system by freeway – including a strange moment in which an LA monorail almost took hold. This retelling makes for the perfect prologue to Berman’s discussion of LA’s decades-long pursuit of a viable light rail system, which continues to this day." * The Guardian *“If your daily life, too, is governed by the whims of your local subway, this book is for you. Cartographer Jake Berman uncovers the ghosts of bygone transit systems and incomplete transportation plans of 23 cities across North America. The maps appear alongside explanations of the systemic inequities that permanently altered the transportation systems we still use today. Also, you may finally get an answer as to why your subway is consistently 20 minutes late.” * Hyperallergic *"Using meticulous archival research, the cartographer and artist has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering 23 North American metropolises." * Globe and Mail *“Berman’s lively history of American subway debates takes us beyond the usual nostalgia of so much writing on the topic. It helps us to see how our ancestors’ values and motivations created the infrastructure we have and gives us the courage to make better choices now.” * Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit *“Berman’s comprehensive research and accessible writing style make for easy reading, and his complementary text greatly assists the reader in comprehending each locale’s unique situation. It is as much a critique of the rise and fall of industrial cities as it is a history of failed transit schemes, for which it should become recommended reading for anyone interested in the effects of unbridled capitalism, corrupt politics, and big egos on North American daily life.” * Mark Ovenden, author of Underground Cities *“Berman’s many exceptional maps are provocations worth thousands of words each, conveying a history of relative transportation abundance in the U.S. There is no other book on public transportation like it.” * Steven Higashide, author of Better Buses, Better Cities *“A comprehensive and accessible history of a profoundly consequential and underexplored cultural event. It makes you wonder at what was lost.” * Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way *“Berman takes us on a whirlwind cartographic and textual tour of urban rail transit’s lost lines and unbuilt extensions. Time and again, American voters and political leaders rejected or abandoned plans to create big, fast, bold transit systems that could compete with automobiles. While we can’t go back and change history, Berman provides a clear vision of just how much was lost.” * Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of The Great American Transit Disaster *Table of ContentsIntroduction A Brief Primer on Transit and Urban Development 1 Atlanta: The City Too Busy to Hate 2 Boston: Urban Institutions, Megaprojects, and City Revival 3 Chicago: The Loop Elevated, Beloved Steel Eyesore 4 Cincinnati: A Short History of a Never-Used Subway 5 Cleveland: Transit and the Perils of Waterfront Redevelopment 6 Dallas: They Don’t Build Them Like They Used To 7 Detroit: The City-Suburban Rift and the Most Useless Transit System in the World 8 Houston: The City of Organic Growth 9 Los Angeles: 72 Suburbs in Search of a City 10 Miami: Overpromise, Underdeliver 11 Minneapolis–St. Paul: The Mob Takeover of Twin Cities Rapid Transit 12 Montreal: The Metro as Showcase Megaproject 13 New Orleans: How a Big City Grew into a Small Town 14 New York City: The Tortured History of the Second Avenue Subway 15 Philadelphia: How Not to Run a Railroad 16 Pittsburgh: How to Make Buses Work 17 Richmond: The First Streetcar System 18 Rochester: The Only City to Open a Subway, Then Close It 19 San Francisco: The View from Geary Street 20 Seattle: Consensus through Exhaustion 21 Toronto: Subway Line as Political Football 22 Vancouver: An Exceptional Elevated 23 Washington, DC: The Freeway Revolt and the Creation of Metro Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Further Reading List of Archives Used Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPermissions and Credits Acknowledgments Ralph Vaughan Williams: Man and Music—An IntroductionByron Adams and Daniel M. Grimley Vaughan Williams and CambridgeJulian Rushton Vaughan Williams and the Royal College of MusicErica Siegel Vaughan Williams’s “The Letter and the Spirit” (1920)Introduced and Annotated by Ceri Owen Modernist Image in Vaughan Williams’s JobPhilip Rupprecht “Finest of the Fine Arts”: Vaughan Williams and FilmAnnika Forkert Pilgrim in a New-Found-Land: Vaughan Williams in AmericaByron Adams Vaughan Williams’s Lecture on the St. Matthew Passion (1938)Introduced and Annotated by Eric Saylor Vaughan Williams’s Common GroundSarah Collins and Daniel M. Grimley Tracing a Biography: Michael Kennedy’s Correspondence Concerning The Works of Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIntroduced and Annotated by Daniel M. Grimley and Byron Adams “His own idiom”: Vaughan Williams’s Violin Sonata and the Development of His Melodic StyleO. W. Neighbour Critical Reception: Early Performances of the Symphony No. 9 in E MinorIntroduced and Annotated by Alain Frogley Goodness and Beauty: Philosophy, History, and Ralph Vaughan WilliamsLeon Botstein Index Notes on the Contributors

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