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“Carla Peterson’s Black Gotham
presents the best, most detailed portrait
of New York City’s nineteenth-century
black elite. Using her own search for
her family roots as a thread to pull the
reader through the narrative, Peterson
provides insight into the work lives,
political roles, and personal lives of
this small but highly influential group of
black New Yorkers.”—Leslie M. Harris,
Emory University
February History
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“Very readable and engaging.”—Nancy
Knowlton, Sant Chair for Marine
Science, National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution
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“[In this] groundbreaking group
biography, the prolific, best-selling,
and commanding Weber tells the
dramatic stories of [the] Bauhaus
stars. . . . A grand synthesis
of biography, art history, and
interpretation, Weber’s dazzlingly
detailed suite of Bauhaus lives
greatly enriches our understanding of
modernity and art.”—Booklist (starred)
February Art/Biography
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“Wonderful insight into the lives
of a field-biology couple and a
great read!”—Margaret Lowman,
author of Life in the Treetops and
co-author of It’s a Jungle Up There
March Nature
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Your New Yorker piece about this trial created quite a sensation.
Why do you suppose people are so passionate about this
particular story?
The story has a deep mythic structure. It evokes Greek tragedy—
thus its title. It is also a piece of reporting and a critique of our
court system. I think readers were shocked by the injustices that
my account of the trial brought into view.
What was it like to inhabit the world of this trial for so many
months?
It was an extraordinary experience. It was one of the most
absorbing experiences of my life as a journalist. It was like being
part of a theater troupe that is performing a play with a long run.
The analogy isn’t an idle one—there is a great deal of theater in
every trial. This one had particularly strong performances from
its leading actors.
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“Iphigenia in Forest Hills is another
dazzling triumph from Janet Malcolm.
Here, as always, Malcolm’s work
inspires the best kind of disquiet
in a reader—the obligation to
think.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author
of The Nine: Inside the Secret
World of the Supreme Court
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“Jerome Charyn is one of the most
important writers in American literature
and one of only three now writing
whose work makes me truly happy
to be a reader.”—Michael Chabon
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Holy Bones, Holy Dust Charles Freeman is a specialist on
the ancient world and its legacy. He has
How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe worked on archaeological digs on the con-
Charles Freeman tinents surrounding the Mediterranean
and develops study tour programs in
A richly textured history spanning a thousand Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Freeman is
years of holy relics across Europe Historical Consultant to the prestigious
Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such Blue Guides series and the author of
as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the numerous books, including the bestseller
The Closing of the Western Mind and,
Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to
most recently, A New History of Early
bring the believer closer to the saint, who might intercede with God
Christianity. He lives in the UK.
on his or her behalf. In the first comprehensive history in English
of the rise of relic cults, Charles Freeman takes readers on a vivid,
fast-paced journey from Constantinople to the northern Isles of
Scotland over the course of a millennium.
In Holy Bones, Holy Dust, Freeman illustrates that the pervasive-
ness and variety of relics answered very specific needs of ordinary
people across a darkened Europe under threat of political upheavals,
disease, and hellfire. But relics were not only venerated—they were
traded, collected, lost, stolen, duplicated, and destroyed. They were
bargaining chips, good business and good propaganda, politically
appropriated across Europe, and even used to wield military power.
Freeman examines an expansive array of relics, showing how the
mania for these objects deepens our understanding of the medieval
world and why these relics continue to capture our imagination.
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©KurtLauerPhotography
“Letusstartwithacharacter,themaincharacter:HoldenCaulfield.Wesketchhishead:asimplecircle,
nose,andeye.Heissullen,soweaddtheappropriatelydirectedeyebrow....Toreflectthebook,
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“The goal of this book is to fuse
elements of both writing and
drawing into another form altogether:
cartooning. We will use pictures
as words and words as pictures. If
you follow the advice presented
herein, you will begin to see
the world through the eyes of a
cartoonist.”—from the Introduction
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“No matter where [Richard Selzer]
takes us, we follow, because he has
the storyteller’s gift.”—New Yorker
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“A rich, far-reaching, gripping
history . . . a pithy and sharp little
study that is more than just an analysis
of this one icon but a larger reflection
on the movies in Los Angeles and
the implications of that for the place
of the movies in our lives.”—Dana
Polan, New York University
Hollywood’s famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters Leo Braudy is among America’s
set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms leading cultural historians and film critics.
over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so His most recent book, From Chivalry to
many who see its image, the sign represents the earthly home of that Terrorism, was named Best of the Best
otherwise ethereal world of fame, stardom, and celebrity—the goal by the Los Angeles Times and a Notable
of American and worldwide aspiration to be in the limelight, to be, Book of the Year by the New York Times.
like the Hollywood sign itself, instantly recognizable. Among his previous books, The Frenzy
of Renown: Fame and Its History was
How an advertisement erected in 1923, touting the real estate devel- a finalist for the National Book Critics
opment Hollywoodland, took on a life of its own is a story worthy Circle Award and Jean Renoir: The World
of the entertainment world that is its focus. Leo Braudy traces the of His Films was a finalist for the National
remarkable history of this distinctly American landmark, which has Book Award. Braudy’s writing has
been saved over the years by a disparate group of fans and support- appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s,
ers, among them Alice Cooper and Hugh Hefner, who spearheaded American Film, and Partisan Review.
its reconstruction in the 1970s. He also uses the sign’s history to He is University Professor and Leo S.
offer an intriguing look at the rise of the movie business from its Bing Chair in English and American
earliest, silent days through the development of the studio system Literature at the University of Southern
that helped define modern Hollywood. Mixing social history, urban California. He lives in Los Angeles.
studies, literature, and film, along with forays into such topics as
the lure of Hollywood for utopian communities and the develop-
ment of domestic architecture in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Sign
is a fascinating account of how a temporary structure has become a
permanent icon of American culture.
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Why does Hank Greenberg remain so important in American
Jewish history?
In the 1930s, at a time when there was so much anti-Semitism
in America that Jews hesitated to be too conspicuous, here was
a Jewish superstar who seemed fearless, who faced relentless
anti-Semitism and never backed away. But in the longer view of
history, Hank Greenberg was a man who stood against not only
anti-Semitism but racism and bigotry in general, and did so with
remarkable grace. His refusal to ever use prejudice as an excuse
and his ability to always keep his dignity stand as an important
chapter in the history of the fight against bigotry in America,
one that can inspire not only Jews but all victims of hatred and
discrimination.
How much of his decision not to play ball on Yom Kippur, 1934,
was informed by religious faith?
He had no religious faith, was completely secular. When his team
Sylvia Plachy
How much did Detroit figure into his experience and his legend?
Had he played in New York his story might have been different.
But he was in Detroit, a city with a small tightly knit Jewish
community and a general public with a great deal of anti-Semitic
feeling. In the years he was playing, two of the most notorious anti-
Semites in the country, Father Coughlin and Henry Ford, were
both spewing hate in Detroit.
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H ank Greenberg ◆◆ Jewish Lives
Jewish Lives is a major series of interpretive
The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One biography that explores the breadth and
Mark Kurlansky complexity of Jewish experience from
antiquity through the present.
The remarkable life story of the first Jewish
superstar athlete, by New York Times
best-selling author Mark Kurlansky
One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves
certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights
in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg’s swing. His calmly Mark Kurlansky is most recently
poised body seemed to have some special set of springs with a trigger the author of The Eastern Stars: How
release that snapped his arms and swept the bat through the air with Baseball Changed the Dominican Town
of San Pedro de Macorís. Kurlansky has
the clean speed and strength of a propeller. But what is even more
written, edited, or contributed to twenty
extraordinary than his grace and power is that in Detroit of 1934,
books, which have been translated into
his swing—or its absence—became entwined with American Jewish
twenty-five languages and won numerous
history. Though Hank Greenberg was one of the first players to chal- prizes. His previous books Cod, Salt, 1968,
lenge Babe Ruth’s single-season record of sixty home runs, it was and The Food of a Younger Land were all
the game Greenberg did not play for which he is best remembered. New York Times best-sellers.
With his decision to sit out a 1934 game between his Tigers and the
New York Yankees because it fell on Yom Kippur, Hank Greenberg
became a hero to Jews throughout America. Yet, as Kurlansky writes,
he was the quintessential secular Jew, and to celebrate him for his
loyalty to religious observance is to ignore who this man was.
In Hank Greenberg Mark Kurlansky explores the truth behind the
slugger’s legend: his Bronx boyhood in Crotona Park East, his spec-
tacular discipline as an aspiring ballplayer, the complexity of his
decision not to play on Yom Kippur, and the cultural context of viru-
lent anti-Semitism in which his career played out.
What Kurlansky discovers is a man of immense dignity and restraint
with a passion for sport who became a great reader of history—a
man, too, who was an inspiration to the young Jackie Robinson who
said, “Class tells. It sticks out all over Mr. Greenberg.”
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“Lane’s stimulating analysis asks
whether acknowledging how science,
religion, and society have produced
a growing chasm between faith and
doubt, and even destroyed belief,
can offer a way forward.”—Keith
Thomson, author of Before Darwin
and The Young Charles Darwin
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“An elegant, thought-provoking synthesis
of the current state of knowledge and
ideas about one of the most celebrated
and controversial composers of the
twentieth century. It is a delight to
read, and reread.”—Laurel E. Fay,
author of Shostakovich: A Life
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Solomon ◆◆ Jewish Lives
Jewish Lives is a major series of interpretive
The Lure of Wisdom biography that explores the breadth and
Steven Weitzman complexity of Jewish experience from
antiquity through the present.
An intriguing and unconventional biography
about one of the Bible’s most elusive figures
Tradition has it that King Solomon knew everything there was to
know—the mysteries of nature, of love, of God himself—but what
do we know of him? Esteemed biblical scholar Steven Weitzman
reintroduces readers to Solomon’s story and its surprising influence Steven Weitzman is the Daniel
in shaping Western culture, and he also examines what Solomon’s E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture
life, wisdom, and writings have come to mean for Jews, Christians, and Religion at Stanford University.
and Muslims over the past two thousand years. He was awarded the Gustave O. Arlt
Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in
Weitzman’s Solomon is populated by a colorful cast of ambitious the Humanities for his first book, Song
characters—Byzantine emperors, explorers, rabbis, saints, scientists, and Story in Biblical Narrative, and has
poets, archaeologists, trial judges, reggae singers, and moviemakers received fellowships from the American
among them—whose common goal is to unearth the truth about Council of Learned Societies and the
Solomon’s life and wisdom. Filled with the Solomonic texts of the Yad-Hadiv Foundation. His other books
Bible, along with lesser-known magical texts and other writings, this include Surviving Sacrilege and The Jews:
book challenges both religious and secular assumptions. Even as it A History.
seeks to tell the story of ancient Israel’s greatest ruler, this insightful
book is also a meditation on the Solomonic desire to know all of
life’s secrets, and on the role of this desire in world history.
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Ex Libris
The Art of Bookplates
Martin Hopkinson
A handsome celebration of the 500-year
history of bookplates and the generations
of artists who have created them
Endlessly diverse and appealing, bookplates (also called ex libris,
Latin for “from the books of”) are small decorative labels to be pasted
inside a book’s cover to express personal ownership. Originating in
their modern printed form in 16th-century Germany, where books
were highly valuable and treasured, bookplates became an art form
practiced by artists across Europe and beyond. This book traces
the fascinating evolution of bookplate design over time and across
national boundaries, showcasing 100 key examples of ex libris art. Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933), Design for a bookplate for
Frederic Leighton. 1894. Black ink and wash, 16.4 x 12.3 cm.
In the early 1500s, Albrecht Dürer and other German engravers and
printmakers began to create highly decorative bookplates, often fea- Martin Hopkinson, formerly
turing armorial devices and coats of arms for wealthy individuals Curator of Prints at the Hunterian Art
and institutions. As the fashion for ornamental bookplates spread, Gallery, University of Glasgow, is an art
distinctive national styles evolved. Nearly every conceivable design critic and writer.
element—from cupids to scientific instruments, portraits, and
landscapes—served to decorate personal bookplates. This volume
explores the various sources of ex libris inspiration, including designs
by Josiah Wedgewood, Thomas Sheraton, George Heppelwhite,
and Edward Burne-Jones, as seen in the books of Frederic Leighton,
Calvin Coolidge, and many others. Book lovers and art enthusiasts
alike will delight in this treasury of bookplate art and lore.
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Praise for Bosworth’s Mussolini:
“Riveting . . . A fascinating, and timely,
study of the banality of evil and the
dangers of absolute power.”—Choice
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“ As Jones accumulates his evidence,
the vision of the relatedness of
all life becomes more and more
breathtaking. I have never read
a book that made me gasp with
amazement so often.”—The Times
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“Pells has written a capacious, original,
even compelling book . . . there is
nothing like this in print.”—Daniel
Horowitz, Smith College
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“This is the first full-length treatment
of the life of Edward Bancroft. It
corrects a great many mistakes
and misinterpretations, and for that
reason is a valuable contribution to
the historical record. In particular,
the account of Bancroft’s work as
a spy in Paris is terrific; I enjoyed
it a great deal.”—Alan Houston,
author of Benjamin Franklin and
the Politics of Improvement
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Boredom Peter Toohey is a professor in the
Department of Greek and Roman Studies
A Lively History at the University of Calgary. His previous
Peter Toohey books include Melancholy, Love and
Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient
A rich and stimulating exploration of one Literature. He lives in Calgary, Canada.
of our most maligned emotions and how
it might actually help us flourish
In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey
dispels the myth that it’s simply a childish emotion or an existential
malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre’s nausea. He shows how boredom is, in
fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an
essential part of the human experience.
This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom—what
it is and what it isn’t, its uses and its dangers—spans more than 3,000
years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological
and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific
investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian
aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cocka-
toos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey
also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and
highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a
stimulus for art and literature.
Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by
humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in
today’s world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone
interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.
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A dvocacy John Daly has published more than
100 scholarly articles, produced five
Championing Ideas and Influencing Others books, and made numerous conference
John Daly presentations. He has served as editor of
two academic journals and is the presi-
Lots of people have good ideas, but very few are dent of the National Communication
ever enacted. What steps can you take to ensure Association, as well as the president
that your own good ideas are realized? of the Council of Communication
Associations. He has been on the Board of
When a group of people gather together to generate ideas for solving
Directors of the International Customer
a problem or achieving a goal, sometimes the best ideas are passed
Service Association and the International
over. Worse, a problematic suggestion with far less likelihood of suc-
Communication Association. Daly has
cess may be selected instead. Why would a group dismiss an option worked with more than 300 companies
that would be more effective? Leadership and communications and public agencies worldwide on topics
expert John Daly has a straightforward answer: it wasn’t sold to them related to communication, influence, and
as well. If the best idea is yours, how can you increase the chances customer loyalty. In recent years, he has
that it gains the support of the group? In Advocacy: Championing worked with corporate entities such as
Ideas and Influencing Others, Daly explains in full detail how to American Airlines, IBM, Marriott, Merck,
transform ideas into practice. and Merrill Lynch, as well as govern-
mental units such as the White House,
To be successful, leaders in every type of organization must find
Department of the Army, Department of
practical and action-oriented ways to market their ideas and achieve the Interior, and many others.
buy-in from the members of the group. Daly offers a comprehensive
action guide that explains how to shape opinion, inspire action, and
achieve results. Drawing on current research in the fields of persua-
sion, power relations, and behavior change, he discusses the complex
factors involved in selling an idea—the context of the communica-
tion, the type of message being promoted, the nature and interests
of the audience, the emotional tenor of the issues at stake, and much
more. For the businessperson, politician, or any other member of a
group who seeks the satisfaction of having his or her own idea take
shape and become reality, this book is an essential guide.
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In this book you describe influence as your “lifelong” “obsessive
concern.” Why do you think that influence has been such an
important topic for you?
I began as a very small child endlessly to read poetry. I started
with Yiddish, particularly Moshe Leib Halpern, but then went
on to Blake, Hart Crane, Stevens, Shakespeare, Milton, and Walt
Whitman. Because I had a shocking reading rate and amazing
powers of memory it was natural for me to begin wondering about
the relation between the poets I loved.
Is it true, as you write here, that you have never attempted to write
poetry? And, if so, why?
I have translated a few poems, mostly from the Yiddish, but never
published them. I have never written a poem of my own in any
language. Partly I think it is a primordial fear that I would cross
a threshold guarded by hungry daimons who would devour me.
More realistically, anything I wrote would be 50 percent Wallace
Stevens, 50 percent Hart Crane.
One of the themes that runs throughout this book is the inseparability
of literature and life. This is suggested by the subtitle, Literature as a
Way of Life, and made explicit in your statement “Literature for me is not
merely the best part of life; it is itself the form of life, which has no other
form.” What does this mean for you, as a person and a critic?
I am made desolate by all formalist or historicist attempts to sever
literature from life. Why would we read at all if we did not seek
the blessing of more life into a time without boundaries? Had I
never read Shakespeare, in particular, I would comprehend even
less of both the sadness and splendor of life than I do now. I gave
up on the academy’s betrayal of the true use of literary study more
than forty years ago. Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Proust matter
most because properly apprehended they help form our sense of
one another.
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The A natomy of Influence Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor
of the Humanities and English at Yale
Literature as a Way of Life University, is the world-renowned author
Harold Bloom of thirty-eight books. His publications
include his New York Times best sellers
Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The
“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it,” writes Harold Bloom Invention of the Human, and The Book
in The Anatomy of Influence, “is in the first place literary, that is to of J, as well as his pioneering studies A
say, personal and passionate.” Visionary Company and The Anxiety of
Influence. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow,
For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowl- a member of the Academy of Arts and
edge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most Letters, and the recipient of many awards
comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us and honorary degrees.
through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics
who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result
is “a critical self-portrait,” a sustained meditation on a life lived with
and through the great works of the Western canon: Why has influ-
ence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers
found me and not others? What is the end of a literary life?
Featuring extended analyses of Bloom’s most cherished poets—
Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane—as well as inspired appreciations
of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, The
Anatomy of Influence adapts Bloom’s classic work The Anxiety of
Influence to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and
why it matters. Each chapter maps startling new literary connec-
tions that suddenly seem inevitable once Bloom has shown us how
to listen and to read. A fierce and intimate appreciation of the art
of literature on a scale that the author will not again attempt, The
Anatomy of Influence follows the sublime works it studies, inspiring
the reader with a sense of something ever more about to be.
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“In contrast with many of the oracles of
science, Abrams and Primack argue
for an interpretation of contemporary
cosmology suggestive of human
significance in a universe filled with
meaning. They do so for the edification
of a general audience, with elegant
prose, provocative images, and
stunning online animations.”—William
Grassie, Metanexus Institute
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“Through a sharp focus on a number of
key episodes, Philip Bell’s lucid and
fascinating analysis is able to highlight
the uncertainties of the Second World
War, and show that its outcome was
at many points less predictable than
we often presume.”—Ian Kershaw
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What led you to write a book about the veil?
I didn’t set out to write a book about the veil, but rather to
understand how Islam was making rapid gains internationally,
including in the West, from the late 1990s on. The reappearance
of the veil signaled to me the resurgence of Islamism. Even
in Muslim-majority societies the sudden spread of veiling
astounded and baffled many and sent scholars scrambling. How
did the Islamic Resurgence encourage women to voluntarily
adopt the veil, or hijab? What did the veil’s return mean for
contemporary Islam and for Islam in the West? Feeling that
no compelling explanation for this phenomenon had yet been
offered, I embarked on this project.
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“This is an important book. Leila
Ahmed takes a subject that arouses
great emotion, among Muslims and
non-Muslims alike, shows how the
resurgence of veiling has come
about, and explains with great clarity
what it means. Ahmed’s learned and
engaging argument should make
all readers examine their prejudices.
This book is a valuable and much
needed introduction to major trends in
the modern Muslim world and leads to
some novel and surprising conclusions.
It should be required reading for
journalists, educationalists, politicians
and religious leaders.”—Karen
Armstrong, historian of religion and
author of The Case for God
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Captain Cook Frank McLynn is a highly regarded
historian specializing in biographies and
Master of the Seas military history. He has written more
Frank McLynn than twenty books, including Richard
and John: Kings at War, Napoleon, and
A vivid reappraisal of the legendary Captain Cook, Marcus Aurelius: A Life. He lives in Surrey,
from bestselling biographer Frank McLynn England.
The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century,
with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe.
Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer
Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy.
Recent writers have viewed Cook largely through the lens of colo-
nial exploitation, regarding him as a villain and overlooking an
important aspect of his identity: his nautical skills. In this authentic,
engrossing biography, Frank McLynn reveals Cook’s place in his-
tory as a brave and brilliant seaman. He shows how the Captain’s
life was one of struggle—with himself, with institutions, with the
environment, with the desire to be remembered—and also one of
great success.
In Captain Cook, McLynn re-creates the voyages that took the
famous navigator from his native England to the outer reaches
of the Pacific Ocean. Ultimately, Cook, who began his career as
a deckhand, transcended his humble beginnings and triumphed
through good fortune, courage, and talent. Although Cook died in
a senseless, avoidable conflict with the people of Hawaii, McLynn
illustrates that to the men with whom he served, Cook was master of
the seas and nothing less than a titan.
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R eclaiming Our Health ◆◆ Yale University Press Health & Wellness
April Health
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Why was Marx right?
Marx was wrong on a number of counts. But he foresaw
that capitalism would become a global system, and that its
inequalities would deepen intolerably. Today, millions live on
less than a dollar a day while others feed caviar to their poodles.
Marx saw that the capitalist system has amassed enough wealth
to make poverty and inequality things of the past.
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Why M arx Was R ight Terry Eagleton is currently
Bailrigg Professor of English Literature
Terry Eagleton at the University of Lancaster, England,
One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation and Professor of Cultural Theory at the
forcefully argues against Marx’s irrelevancy National University of Ireland, Galway.
He lives in Dublin.
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue
with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking
ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to
political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that
it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates
in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx’s own thought these
assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken
to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent
and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton’s familiar
wit, humor, and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the
confines of academia.
April Philosophy/Economics
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“Levant is Mansel’s best book yet!”
—Simon Sebag Montefiore
April History
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36 General Interest
“No collection like this one exists. . . .
This volume considers an alternative
vision of the United States from
colonial Pennsylvania to Michael
Pollan. Every document hits its
mark . . . I look forward to this
book.”—Steven Stoll, author of Larding
the Lean Earth: Soil and Society
in Nineteenth-Century America
April Nature/Essays
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C. S. Lewis’s L ost A eneid A. T. Reyes, who studied classics at
Harvard and Oxford, helped Walter
Arms and the Exile Hooper with the classical references in
Edited by A. T. Reyes Lewis’s Letters. He teaches Greek and
Latin at Groton School, Massachusetts.
An extraordinary literary discovery: a partial
translation of the Aeneid by C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) is best remembered as a literary critic, essay-
ist, theologian, and novelist, and his famed tales The Chronicles of
Narnia and The Screwtape Letters have been read by millions. Now,
A. T. Reyes reveals a different side of this diverse man of letters:
translator.
Reyes introduces the surviving fragments of Lewis’s translation of
Virgil’s epic poem, which were rescued from a bonfire. They are
presented in parallel with the Latin text, and are accompanied by
synopses of missing sections, and an informative glossary, making
them accessible to the general reader. Writes Lewis in A Preface to
Paradise Lost, “Virgil uses something more subtle than mere length
of time . . . . It is this which gives the reader of the Aeneid the sense
of having lived through so much. No man who has read it with
full perception remains an adolescent.” Lewis’s admiration for the
Aeneid, written in the 1st century BC and unfolding the adventures
of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy and became the ancestor of
the Romans, is evident in his remarkably lyrical translation.
C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid is part detective story, as Reyes recounts
the dramatic rescue of the fragments and his efforts to collect and
organize them, and part illuminating look at a lesser-known and
intriguing aspect of Lewis’s work.
April Classics
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38 General Interest
“Books on Tibet tend toward one of two
extremes, either over-simplifying the
region’s complex history or plunging
the reader into a tangle of foreign
names and relations. Van Schaik cuts
an elegant path between these poles,
bringing crucial figures of history to life,
and combining detailed research with
compelling storytelling.”—Jacob Dalton,
University of California, Berkeley
General Interest 39
R adial Symmetry ◆◆ Yale Series of Younger Poets
Katherine Larson
Katherine Larson is the recipient
Foreword by Louise Glück
of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and
Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Union League Civic and Arts Foundation
Poets Competition. With Radial Symmetry, she has created a tran- Poetry Prize. She lives in Arizona.
scendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that
separate scientific inquiry from empathic knowledge, astute obser-
vation from sublime witness. Larson’s inventive lyrics lead the reader
through vertiginous landscapes—geographical, phenomenological,
psychological—while always remaining attendant to the speaker’s
own fragile, creaturely self. An experienced research scientist and
field ecologist, Larson dazzles with these sensuous and sophisti-
cated poems, grappling with the powers of poetic imagination as
well as the frightful realization of the human capacity for ecological
destruction. The result is a profoundly moving collection: eloquent
in its lament and celebration.
Metamorphosis
[excerpt]
We dredge the stream with soup strainers
and separate dragonfly and damselfly nymphs—
their eyes like inky bulbs, jaws snapping
at the light as if the world was full of
tiny traps, each hairpin mechanism
tripped for transformation. Such a ricochet
of appetites insisting life, life, life against
the watery dark, the tuberous reeds.
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“I consider John Lukacs one of
the outstanding historians of
the generation and, indeed, of
our time.”—Jacques Barzun
April History
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“YouseeyouarethemostpreciousthingI
haveeverknown—Icouldn’tseemtosee
myselflivingwithoutit....Allmylove
goestoyou—Andthekissthatismylife.”
—O’Keeffe to Stieglitz, September 3, 1926
Top to bottom:
Second page of a letter by
Alfred Stieglitz dated
November 4, 1916.
Anonymous,
“Elevenyearshavepassed
Portrait of
Georgia O’Keeffe
by.—Iseeallitsphases—all
and Alfred Stieglitz
Kissing at Lake
thedays&hours&moments
George, 1929.
Black-and-white ofecstasy&pain—the
photographic print.
11.5 x 9 cm on mount. growth—ofsomethingvery
Claudia O’Keeffe,
Georgia O’Keeffe in
exceptional&verybeautiful
Canyon, Texas, 1917.
Black-and-white betweenus....”—Stieglitz to
photograph.
2 15 ⁄16 x 3 15 ⁄16 in. O’Keeffe, June 8, 1929
Paul Strand,
Portrait of Stieglitz
with Camera, 1929.
Black-and-white
photographic print.
4 3 ⁄4 x 3 9 ⁄16 in.
Copyright © Aperture All images courtesy of the Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keeffe
Foundation, Inc., Archive, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare
Paul Strand Archive. Book and Manuscript Library
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Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural David Yaffe is assistant professor of
history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most English at Syracuse University and the
important people of the twentieth century. For nearly fifty years the author of Fascinating Rhythm: Reading
singer-songwriter has crafted his unique brand of music, from his Jazz in American Writing and Reckless
1962 self-titled debut album to 2009’s #1 hit Together Through Life, Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell.
appealing to everyone from baby boomers to the twenty-somethings He is a music critic for the Nation and
who storm the stage at his concerts. has written articles for the Cambridge
Companion to Bob Dylan, the New York
In Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, literary scholar and music Times, Bookforum, New York Magazine,
critic David Yaffe considers Dylan from four perspectives: his com- Slate, and other publications.
plicated relationship to blackness (including his involvement in the
civil rights movement and a secret marriage with a black backup
singer), the underrated influence of his singing style, his fascinating
image in films, and his controversial songwriting methods that have
led to charges of plagiarism. Each chapter travels from the 1960s
to the present, offering a historical perspective on the many facets
of Dylan’s life and career, exploring the mystery that surrounds the
enigmatic singer and revealing the complete unknown Dylan.
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To Do
A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays
Gertrude Stein
With illustrations by Giselle Potter
and an introduction by Timothy Young
The first ever illustrated edition of avant-garde
writer Gertrude Stein’s whimsical children’s book
“Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and
all the same they have in a way to have a birthday,” muses Gertrude
Stein in To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays. Written in
1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children’s book The World
Is Round, published the previous year, To Do is a fanciful journey
through the alphabet. Each letter is represented by four names
(including Gertrude for “G”) and features a short story told in verse. Images © Giselle Potter
“[This is] a birthday book I would have liked as a child,” said Stein
of To Do. Published in association with the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Publishers rejected the manuscript as too complex for children, and
it remained unpublished during Stein’s lifetime. A text-only version
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was
issued from Yale University Press in 1957. Now, more than seventy
at the forefront of the development of
years after Stein penned the story, To Do is appearing with illustra-
modern art and literature. Her archive is
tions, realizing the author’s original concept for the book. Giselle housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and
Potter’s witty and stylish illustrations provide a perfect comple- Manuscript Library at Yale University.
ment to Stein’s uniquely whimsical world of words, creating a truly Giselle Potter has worked for the
delightful, often hilarious book that adults and children alike can New Yorker and has illustrated more than
appreciate and love. twenty children’s books. Timothy
Young is curator of modern books and
manuscripts at the Beinecke.
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“Ilan Pappé is Israel’s bravest,
most principled, most incisive
historian.”—John Pilger
May Current Events/History
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General Interest 47
There are many books about Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton.
Why write another one?
Like my other books, Empire of Ice attempts to say something
new about a familiar topic. Most books about Scott and
Amundsen focus on their race to the South Pole. Shackleton
is most famous for his Endurance voyage. Empire of Ice deals
with the remarkable scientific research Scott and Shackleton
conducted in Antarctica. So much more happened on their
expeditions than simply a race to the pole. These other stories,
especially the ones about science, are at least as gripping as the
ones about reaching the pole.
Courtesy of Edward J. Larson
48 General Interest
“Larson’s beautifully written narrative
takes in the triumph and tragedy of
the polar expeditions, and sheds new
light on the scientific culture of the age.
Entertaining, informative, and based
on impeccable research, this book
is a wonderful achievement.”—Peter
Harrison, University of Oxford
May History
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General Interest 49
The Spirit of Zoroastrianism ◆◆ The Spirit of . . .
May Religion
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Southern A frica Stephen Chan is Professor of
International Relations at the School of
Old Treacheries and New Deceits Oriental and African Studies, University
Stephen Chan of London. He writes regularly for
Prospect magazine and the New
An important assessment of the current Statesman. His many publications include
political climate in Africa’s most important Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and
region and its far-reaching implications Violence. Chan was recently awarded an
OBE for his work in Africa.
In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the politi-
cal landscape of southern Africa, examining how it’s poised to
change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to
be across the continent. He focuses on three countries in particular:
South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, all of which have remained
interconnected since the end of colonial rule and the overthrow
of apartheid.
One of the key themes in the book is the relationship between South
Africa and Zimbabwe, and Chan sheds new light on the shared
intellectual capacities and interests of the two countries’ respective
presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. Along the way, the per-
sonalities and abilities of key players, such as Morgan Tsvangirai, the
prime minister of Zimbabwe, and former South African president
Thabo Mbeki, emerge in honest and sometimes surprising detail.
In Southern Africa, Chan draws on three decades of experience to
provide the definitive inside guide to this complex region and offer
insight on how the near future is likely to be a litmus test not just for
this trio of countries but for all of Africa.
May Politics/History
Cloth 978-0-300-15405-4 $30.00
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General Interest 51
“Kemal hasn’t just been a chronicler
or an embodiment of change; he
has been an instigator of it. Along
with Nâzim Hikmet, Turkey’s most
beloved poet, he has done for
Turkish what Twain did for American
English, or Pushkin for Russian:
reinvigorate the written language by
infusing it with the colloquial.”—Marc
Edward Hoffman, The Nation
The Wind from the Plain Trilogy ◆◆ The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Yashar Kemal
Yashar Kemal was born in Adana,
Acclaimed Turkish novelist Yashar Kemal Turkey, in 1922. He is the son of Kurdish
uses his powerful skills as a storyteller to landowners who fled eastern Anatolia in
conjure a vanishing way of life 1915. Much of Kemal’s writing is inspired
by the folklore of Anatolia and draws on
In rich, lyrical prose, Yashar Kemal’s epic of rural Turkey portrays a its well-known tales and figures. His first
country and a people uneasily poised between tradition and moder- novel, Memed, My Hawk, was published
nity, between East and West. Each novel follows his protagonists in 1955 and won the Varlik Prize for best
as they struggle to survive in this changing world without losing novel of the year. Kemal’s other books
the traditions and values that define them as a people. Their daily include Salman the Solitary, Seagull,
exertions draw us into a vibrant culture that is rarely represented for and They Burn the Thistles. He lives
Western readers but which evokes universal themes of family, work, in Istanbul.
suffering, and mortality.
Long considered a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature,
Kemal has created in his depiction of Cukurova what William
Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez envisioned in their dream-
worlds of Yoknapatawpha County and Macondo. A student of oral
tradition as well as of Cervantes, Stendhal, and Chekhov, Kemal
creates legends born of his own experience. Through Thilda
Kemal’s skilled translation, the titles that compose this trilogy—The
Wind from the Plain; Iron Earth, Copper Sky; and The Undying
Grass—will now reach an English-language audience in one com-
prehensive edition for the first time.
May Literature
Three-volume set: paperback with slipcase 978-0-300-17039-9 $25.00
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“We now know how to think rationally
about our uncertain world. This
book describes in vivid prose,
accessible to the lay person, the
development of Bayes’ rule over
more than two hundred years
from an idea to its widespread
acceptance in practice.”—Dennis
Lindley, University College London
May Mathematics/History
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Nothing to Hide A lso by Daniel J. Solove:
The Future of Reputation
The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
Daniel J. Solove Paper 978-0-300-14422-2 $17.00 sc
“If you’ve got nothing to hide,” many people say, “you shouldn’t worry Daniel J. Solove is John Marshall
about government surveillance.” Others argue that we must sacri- Harlan Research Professor of Law,
fice privacy for security. These arguments fuel an ongoing debate George Washington University Law
over the rights of the few and the rights of the many. But as Daniel School. He is the author of several books
J. Solove argues in this important book, these arguments and many about information privacy. He blogs at
others are flawed. They are based on mistaken views about what it Concurring Opinions on issues of law,
means to protect privacy and the costs and benefits of doing so. The culture, and current events, and he lives
debate between privacy and security has been framed incorrectly in Washington, D.C.
as a zero-sum game in which we are forced to choose between one
value and the other. Why can’t we have both?
In this concise and accessible book, Solove exposes the fallacies of
many pro-security arguments that have skewed law and policy to
favor security at the expense of privacy. Protecting privacy isn’t fatal
to security measures; it merely involves adequate oversight and regu-
lation. Solove traces the history of the privacy-security debate from
the Revolution to the present day. He explains how the law protects
privacy and examines concerns with new technologies. He then
points out the failings of our current system and offers specific rem-
edies. Nothing to Hide makes a powerful and compelling case for
reaching a better balance between privacy and security and reveals
why doing so is essential to protect our freedom and democracy.
June Current Events/Law
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“For those of us enmeshed in symbolic
consciousness, this is just the story we
need to hear, loud and clear. It helps
us understand how we happened
to be here, and, more important,
why.”—Bill McKibben, author of
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough
New Planet and The End of Nature
June Science/Cosmology/Religion
Cloth 978-0-300-17190-7 $25.00
192 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 World
General Interest 55
“An exceptionally well-crafted and
intriguing history of milk’s career
in human societies over the last
three thousand years.”—Frank
Trentmann, author of Free Trade
Nation: Commerce, Consumption
and Civil Society in Modern Britain
56 General Interest
A fghanistan Tim Bird is a lecturer at the Joint
Services Command and Staff College
How the West Lost Its Way and the Defence Studies Department,
Tim Bird and Alex Marshall King’s College, London. He lives in
southern England. Alex Marshall
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the is Lecturer in History in the War Studies
intervention in Afghanistan, a major assessment Department of the University of Glasgow.
of strategy in this most unstable of nations He lives in Glasgow.
In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial
aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more demo-
cratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved.
However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing years has proven
much more difficult. Despite billions of dollars in aid and military
expenditure, Afghanistan remains a nation riddled with warlords,
the world’s major heroin producer, and the site of a seemingly end-
less conflict between Islamist militants and NATO forces.
In this timely and important book, Tim Bird and Alex Marshall
offer a panoramic view of international involvement in Afghanistan
from 2001 to 2011. Tackling the subject matter as a whole, Bird
and Marshall weave together analysis of military strategy, regional
context, aid policy, the Afghan government, and the many disagree-
ments between and within the Western powers involved in the
intervention. Given the complicating factors of the heroin trade,
unwelcoming terrain, and precarious relations with Pakistan, the
authors acknowledge the ways in which Afghanistan has presented
unique challenges for its foreign invaders. Ultimately, however,
they argue that the international community has failed in its self-
imposed effort to solve Afghanistan’s problems and that there are
broader lessons to be learned from their struggle, particularly in
terms of counterinsurgency and the ever-complicated work of
“nation-building.” The overarching feature of the intervention, they
argue, has been an absence of strategic clarity and coherence.
June Current Events/History
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General Interest 57
L ove Simon May is College Research
Fellow in Philosophy at Birkbeck College,
A Secret History University of London, and an expert
Simon May on ethics, German idealism, and the
history of modern philosophy. He lives
An illuminating exploration of how love has been shaped, in London.
idolized, and misconstrued by the West over three
millennia, and how we might differently conceive it
Love—unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally
accepting—is worshipped today as the West’s only universal religion.
To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this path-
breaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does
just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing
how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.
Tracing over 2,500 years of human thought and history, May shows
how our ideal of love developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins
alongside Christianity until, during the last two centuries, “God is
love” became “love is God”—so hubristic, so escapist, so untruthful
to the real nature of love, that it has booby-trapped relationships
everywhere with deluded expectations. Brilliantly, May explores the
very different philosophers and writers, both skeptics and believers,
who dared to think differently: from Aristotle’s perfect friendship
and Ovid’s celebration of sex and “the chase,” to Rousseau’s per-
sonal authenticity, Nietzsche’s affirmation, Freud’s concepts of loss
and mourning, and boredom in Proust. Against our belief that love
is an all-powerful solution to finding meaning, security, and happi-
ness in life, May reveals with great clarity what love actually is: the
intense desire for someone whom we believe can ground and affirm
our very existence. The feeling that “makes the world go round”
turns out to be a harbinger of home—and in that sense, of the sacred.
June History/Psychology/Philosophy
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Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin ◆◆ Yale University Press Health & Wellness
June Health
Paper 978-0-300-17100-6 $22.00
Cloth 978-0-300-14036-1 $40.00tx Also available as an eBook.
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General Interest 59
“The extraordinary journals of Alfred
Kazin . . . almost certainly rank
with [Edmund] Wilson’s as the most
important document of their kind in
twentieth-century American literature.”
—Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
60 Scholarly Titles
The Dance Claimed Me Peggy Schwartz is former
director of the Dance Program at the
A Biography of Pearl Primus University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Peggy Schwartz and Murray M. Schwartz Murray M. Schwartz is former
Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the
The first full-scale biography of the seminal University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
dancer, anthropologist, and educator He teaches literature at Emerson College.
Pearl Primus (1919–1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943
with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest
into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and
Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an inti-
mate perspective on her life and explore her influences on American
culture, dance, and education. They trace Primus’s path from her
childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influ-
ential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance
Group (whose motto was “Dance is a weapon”), and a pioneer in
dance anthropology.
Primus traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Israel,
the Caribbean, and Africa, and she played an important role in
presenting authentic African dance to American audiences. She
engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives,
marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and
challenging black intellectuals who opposed the “primitive” in her
choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race tours in the
South triggered an FBI investigation, even as she was celebrated by
dance critics and contemporaries like Langston Hughes.
For The Dance Claimed Me, the Schwartzes interviewed more than
a hundred of Primus’s family members, friends, and fellow artists,
as well as other individuals to create a vivid portrayal of a life filled
with passion, drama, fearlessness, and brilliance.
May Biography/Dance
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What’s Next? David Hale is the founder of David
Hale Global Economics and a renowned
Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy global economist. Lyric Hughes
Edited by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale Hale is a writer and frequent commen-
tator on the Chinese economy. They live
Top economic experts look closely at the near Chicago, Illinois.
major economies of the world and predict how
each will fare over the next several years
The world spins in economic turmoil, and who can tell what will
happen next? Cold numbers and simple statistical projections don’t
take into account social, financial, or political factors that can dra-
matically alter the economic course of a nation or a region. In this
unique book, more than twenty leading economists and experts
render thorough, rigorously researched prognoses for the world’s
major economies over the next five years. Factoring in such varied
issues as the price of oil, the strength of the U.S. dollar, geopolitics,
tax policies, and new developments in investment decision making,
the contributors ground their predictions in the realities of current
events, political conditions, and the health of financial institutions
in each national economy.
The most comprehensive volume on the global economy available
today, this book presents up-to-date research on Russia, Australia,
Europe, sub-Saharan and South Africa, the major Asian economies,
North America, and the largest economies of Latin America. With
unsurpassed expertise, the authors explain what’s going on in indi-
vidual countries, how important current global issues will impact
them, and what economic scenarios they most likely will face in
upcoming years.
March Economics
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62 Scholarly Titles
Just Words
Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the
Failure of Public Conversation in America
Alan Ackerman
In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary
McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote
was a lie, “including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” Hellman immediately filed a libel suit,
charging that McCarthy’s comment was not a legitimate conversation on
public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a
many-faceted examination of Hellman’s infamous suit and explores what
it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and
restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public
in America.
Alan Ackerman is associate professor of English, University of Toronto, where he “A fascinating and highly original
specializes in modern drama and American literature. He lives in Toronto, Canada. contribution that will interest anyone
who cares about media, as
well as cultural and intellectual
history.”—Susan Jacoby
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George II
King and Elector
Andrew C. Thompson
Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain’s George II is a largely forgot-
ten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood.
This landmark biography uncovers extensive new evidence in British and
German archives, making possible the most complete and accurate assess-
ment of this thirty-three-year reign. Andrew C. Thompson paints a richly
detailed portrait of the many-faceted monarch in his public as well as his
private life.
Born in Hanover in 1683, George Augustus first came to London in 1714 as
the new Prince of Wales. He assumed the throne in 1727, held it until his
death in 1760, and has the distinction of being Britain’s last foreign-born
king and the last king to lead an army in battle. With George’s story at its
◆◆ The English Monarchs Series
heart, the book reconstructs his thoughts and actions through a careful
reading of the letters and papers of those around him. Thompson explores
Andrew C. Thompson is fellow and
the previously underappreciated roles George played in the political pro- director of studies in history, Queens’ College,
cesses of Britain, especially in foreign policy, and as a patron of the arts. He Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
also charts the intricacies of the king’s complicated relationships and reas-
sesses the lasting impact of his frequent return trips to Hanover. George II
emerges from these pages as an independent and cosmopolitan figure of
undeniable historical fascination.
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Christopher Allmand was Professor of Medieval This sweepingly majestic book is based on the full range of primary
History at the University of Liverpool. Among his publica- sources and sets the reign in its full European context. Christopher
tions is The Hundred Years War: England and France at Allmand shows that Henry V not only united the country in war
War, c.1300–c.1450. but also provided domestic security, solid government, and a much-
needed sense of national pride. The book includes an updated
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Henry VIII Henry VIII’s forceful personality dominated his age and continues to
J. J. Scarisbrick fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments
of such magnitude—in politics, foreign relations, religion, and soci-
“It is the magisterial quality of J. J. Scarisbrick’s ety—that have so radically affected succeeding generations. Above all
work that has enabled it to hold the field for so the English Reformation and the break with Rome are still felt more
long.”—Steve Gunn, Times Literary Supplement than four centuries on.
◆◆ The English Monarchs Series
First published in 1968, J. J. Scarisbrick’s Henry VIII remains the
J. J. Scarisbrick is Emeritus Professor of History at standard account, a thorough exploration of the documentary
the University of Bristol. sources, stylishly written and highly readable. In an updated foreword,
Professor Scarisbrick takes stock of subsequent research and places
his classic account within the context of recent publications.
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Æthelstan
The First King of England
Sarah Foot
The powerful and innovative King Æthelstan reigned only briefly (924–
939), yet his achievements during those eventful fifteen years changed
the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most
notably at Brunanburh), forged unprecedented political connections across
Europe, and succeeded in creating the first unified kingdom of the English.
To claim for him the title of “first English monarch” is no exaggeration.
In this nuanced portrait of Æthelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account
of the king ever written. She traces his life through the various spheres in
which he lived and worked, beginning with the intimate context of his
family, then extending outward to his unusual multiethnic royal court, the
Church and his kingdom, the wars he conducted, and finally his death and
◆◆ The English Monarchs Series
legacy. Foot describes a sophisticated man who was not only a great military
leader but also a worthy king. He governed brilliantly, developed creative
Sarah Foot is Regius Professor of
ways to project his image as a ruler, and devised strategic marriage treaties Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church,
and gift exchanges to cement alliances with the leading royal and ducal Oxford, and a foremost scholar of tenth-
houses of Europe. Æthelstan’s legacy, seen in the new light of this master- century history. She lives in Oxford, UK.
ful biography, is inextricably connected to the very forging of England and
early English identity.
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R ichard III In this absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross
Charles Ross assesses King Richard III within the context of his violent age and
explores the critical questions of the reign: why and how Richard
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Plantagenet usurped the throne; the belief that he ordered the mur-
der of “the Princes in the Tower”; the events leading to the battle
Charles Ross was Professor of Medieval History of Bosworth in 1485; and the death of the Yorkist dynasty with
at the University of Bristol until his death in 1986. His
Richard himself.
previous books include the biography Edward IV in the
English Monarchs series. “A fascinating study on a perennially fascinating topic . . . the base
against which will be measured any future research.”—Times Higher
Education Supplement
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Edward the Confessor Frank Barlow’s magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and
Frank Barlow now reissued with new material, an updated bibliography and a fresh
introduction, rescues the king from contemporary myth and subse-
◆◆ The English Monarchs Series
quent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly
legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish
Frank Barlow was Emeritus Professor of History at monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with
the University of Exeter until his death in 2009.
deep insight and great historical understanding.
“Professor Barlow has constructed a remarkable book . . . deploying
all the resources of formidable scholarship, he has recovered the real
Edward.”—Spectator
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The English A ristocracy, 1070–1272
A Social Transformation
David Crouch
William the Conqueror’s victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of
major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreak-
ing book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English
aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an
original explanation of medieval society—one that no longer employs tra-
ditional “feudal” or “bastard feudal” models—Crouch argues that society
remade itself around the emerging principle of nobility in the generations
on either side of 1200, marking the beginning of the ancien régime.
The book describes the transformation in aristocrats’ expectations, conduct,
piety, and status; in expressions of social domination; and in the relationship
with the monarchy. Synchronizing English social history with non-Eng-
lish scholarship, Crouch places England’s experience of change within a
broader European transformation and highlights England’s important role
in the process. With his accustomed skill, Crouch redefines a fascinating
era and the noble class that emerged from it.
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The A ncient Oracles
Making the Gods Speak
Richard Stoneman
For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted
oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and
wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and
focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropologi-
cal aspects of oracular consultation. It also examines how Greek oracles’
practices were distinctive compared to those of their neighbors, especially
in Egypt, Babylon, and Israel.
Richard Stoneman weaves a fascinating historical tapestry, taking into
account the different kinds of oracles (healers, advisors, prophets, and oth-
ers), their most important sanctuaries, debates about them among ancient
thinkers, and Christian attacks on them. Delving into the reasons behind
the oracles’ enduring position at the heart of Greek culture, Stoneman
offers fresh insights into pagan religious practice and the history of Greek
intellectual and spiritual life.
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Mrs. M attingly ’s Miracle
The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure
That Shocked Washington City
Nancy Lusignan Schultz
In 1824 in Washington, D.C., Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city’s
mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps
even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sickbed free
from agonizing pain and able to enjoy an additional thirty-one years of
life. The Mattingly miracle purportedly came through the intervention
of a charismatic German cleric, Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, who was
credited already with hundreds of cures across Europe and Great Britain.
Though nearly forgotten today, Mattingly’s astonishing healing became a
polarizing event. It heralded a rising tide of anti-Catholicism in the United
States that would culminate in violence over the next two decades.
“Nancy Schultz has written a fascinating
Nancy L. Schultz deftly weaves analysis of this episode in American social narrative highlighting the historical,
and religious history together with the astonishing personal stories of both religious and social dimensions of
Ann Mattingly and the healer Prince Hohenlohe, around whom a cult was miraculous cures of Ann Mattingly. This
arising in Europe. Schultz’s riveting book brings to light an early episode in is a first-rate original work of sound
the ongoing battle between faith and reason in the United States. scholarship.”—Christopher Kauffman,
Catholic University of America
Nancy Lusignan Schultz is chairperson and professor of English, Salem
State University, Salem, MA. She is the author of three previous books, including Fire
& Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834. She lives in Swampscott, MA.
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Metaphors for
Environmental Sustainability
Redefining Our Relationship with Nature
Brendon Larson
Scientists turn to metaphors to formulate and explain scientific concepts,
but an ill-considered metaphor can lead to social misunderstandings and
counterproductive policies, Brendon Larson observes in this stimulating
book. He explores how metaphors can entangle scientific facts with social
values and warns that, particularly in the environmental realm, incautious
metaphors can reinforce prevailing values that are inconsistent with desir-
able sustainability outcomes.
Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability draws on four case stud-
ies—two from nineteenth-century evolutionary science, and two from
contemporary biodiversity science—to reveal how metaphors may shape
the possibility of sustainability. Arguing that scientists must assume greater
responsibility for their metaphors, and that the rest of us must become more
critically aware of them, the author urges more critical reflection on the
social dimensions and implications of metaphors while offering practical
suggestions for choosing among alternative scientific metaphors.
The late Jeff Watson was director of operations in Scottish Natural Heritage
and a world authority on the conservation of the golden eagle. He was a leader in
Scotland’s internationally important Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of
Conservation programs and a proponent of major legislation that set new conservation
standards across Europe.
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New England Wild Flower Arthur Haines is research botanist,
New England Wild Flower Society, and
Society ’s Flora Novae A ngliae curator, Delta Institute of Natural History
A Manual for the Identification of Native and Herbarium. He lives in Bowdoin, ME.
Naturalized Vascular Plants of New England Elizabeth Farnsworth is senior
research ecologist, New England Wild
Arthur Haines Flower Society, and a widely published
Illustrated by Elizabeth Farnsworth and Gordon Morrison scientific illustrator and writer. She
An indispensable, fully updated guide for lives in Royalston, MA. Gordon
Morrison is a prize-winning freelance
everyone interested in identifying, studying, or
artist, writer, and naturalist and illustrator
conserving the flora of New England of many children’s books and natural
This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear history guides, including Bald Eagle,
information for identifying New England’s remarkable array of Pond, Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, and
tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully A Field Guide to Eastern Forests. He lives
researched entries on some 3,500 native and nonnative species, the in Royalston, MA. New England
book is the first in decades to provide a complete and correct botani- Wild Flower Society, based in
Framingham, MA, is the oldest plant con-
cal reference for the region’s noncultivated plants. The volume
servation organization in North America.
includes many new species not documented in New England before,
while also excluding many species that have erroneously appeared
in earlier manuals.
Focusing on the taxonomy and distribution of New England plants,
the manual is largely dedicated to identification keys and to species
entries that provide scientific name, origin, regional conservation
ranking, common name, synonyms, distribution, ecology, and other
miscellaneous items of interest. Nearly one-third of the entries are
accompanied by helpful black-and-white line illustrations.
Additional special features:
• Precise distribution information, accurate to the state level
• Details on unusual plant groups not included in other sources
• Reliable and versatile keys for identification
• Tips on recognizing hybrid plants in the field
• A companion interactive teaching Web site (under development)
• Comprehensive glossary
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Stravinsky ’s Ballets
Charles M. Joseph
Igor Stravinsky, a towering composer of the twentieth century, was closely
linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes—The
Firebird, Petrouchka, and The Rite of Spring—put him on the international
map and propelled both ballet and music into the modern age. Even so,
these brilliant pieces were but a prelude to Stravinsky’s lifelong exploration
of dance and dance idioms, as Charles M. Joseph convincingly demon-
strates in this penetrating survey of all of the composer’s ballet music.
Joseph provides superb analyses of each of Stravinsky’s ballet pieces, exam-
ining the composer’s own drafts, notes, and sketches to discover how
he conceived of and developed each work. The book also explores how
Stravinsky’s unorthodox new music energized colleagues, among them
George Balanchine, and attracted a glittering array of artists including
Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinski, Picasso, and Jean Cocteau. Joseph cre- ◆◆ Yale Music Masterworks
ates an intense, intimate portrait of Stravinsky and offers a fresh perspective
on the musical revolutionary who changed the definition of music made
for dance.
Charles M. Joseph is professor emeritus of music and the former dean and vice
president of academic affairs, Skidmore College. He is the author of two previous
books published by Yale University Press, Stravinsky and Balanchine, the winner
of an ASCAP Award in Biography, and Stravinsky Inside Out. He lives in Saratoga
Springs, NY.
Gary Saul Morson is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities,
Professor of Slavic Languages, Northwestern University. He is an award-winning
author of eight previous books. He lives in Evanston, IL.
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R ichard Strauss
A Musical Life
Raymond Holden
Renowned today as the gifted composer of a string of masterworks, Richard
Strauss (1864–1949) is less often remembered for his achievement as a major
conductor. Yet he held important conducting posts in Munich, Berlin, and
Vienna and influenced generations of younger conductors. This important
book is the first to consider Strauss’s career as a conductor and place it in
relation to his life as a composer.
With unique access to extensive materials in the Strauss family’s private
archives, Raymond Holden corrects misconceptions about Strauss and
discusses the musician’s understanding of composing and conducting as
intertwined processes. Holden throws new light on Strauss’s relationships,
on his disputed role during the Third Reich, and particularly on his perfor-
mance practices and principles.
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Modernism
Michael Levenson
In this wide-ranging and original account of Modernism, Michael
Levenson draws on more than twenty years of research and a career-long
fascination with the movement, its participants, and the period during
which it thrived. Seeking a more subtle understanding of the relations
between the period’s texts and contexts, he provides not only an excellent
survey but also a significant reassessment of Modernism itself.
Spanning many decades, illuminating individual achievements and locat-
ing them within the intersecting histories of experiment (Symbolism to
Surrealism, Naturalism to Expressionism, Futurism to Dadaism), the book
places the transformations of culture alongside the agitations of modernity
(war, revolution, feminism, psychoanalysis). In this perspective, Modernism
must be understood more broadly than simply in terms of its provocative
works, experimental forms, and singular careers. Rather, as Levenson dem-
onstrates, Modernism should be viewed as the emergence of an adversary
culture of the New that depended on audiences as well as artists, enemies
as well as supporters.
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The Judge
A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune
James Mellon
Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon
greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the
nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city’s most impor-
tant business leaders, and he laid the foundation for a family that would
contribute considerably to the city’s growth and welfare for much of the
next hundred years, becoming one of the world’s most recognizable names
in industry, innovation, and philanthropy. Through his in-depth examina-
tion of the extensive Mellon family archives, in The Judge James Mellon—a
direct descendent of Thomas Mellon—has fashioned an incisive portrait
of the elder Mellon that presents the man in full. Offering a singular and
insightful characterization of the Scotch-Irish value system that governed
the patriarch’s work and life, James Mellon captures the judge’s complexi-
ties and contradictions, revealing him as a truly human figure.
Among the recent biographies of Pittsburgh’s famous businessmen, The
Judge stands apart from the pack because of the author’s unique perspective
and his objective and scholarly approach to his subject.
James Mellon is the author of African Hunter and The Face of Lincoln; he is
coeditor of Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember. He lives in New York City.
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Contesting Democracy
Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
Jan-Werner Müller
This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-
century Europe, both West and East, to appear since the end of the Cold
War. Skillfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-
Werner Müller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological
extremes before 1945 and the liberalization of West European politics after
the Second World War. He also offers vivid portraits of famous as well as
unjustly forgotten political thinkers and the movements and institutions
they inspired.
Müller pays particular attention to ideas advanced to justify fascism and
how they relate to the special kind of liberal democracy that was created
in postwar Western Europe. He also explains the impact of the 1960s and
A lso by Jan-Werner Müller:
neoliberalism, ending with a critical assessment of today’s self-consciously Another Country
post-ideological age. German Intellectuals, Unification, and
National Identity
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books include A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought and A Dangerous Mind
Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification, and National Identity, both Carl Schmitt in Post-War European
published by Yale University Press. Thought
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The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan
Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash
Gerard N. Magliocca
Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential
elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political fig-
ure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard N. Magliocca explores
how Bryan’s effort to reach the White House energized conservatives across
the nation and caused a transformation in constitutional law.
Responding negatively to the Populist agenda, the Supreme Court estab-
lished a host of new constitutional principles during the 1890s. Many of
them proved long-lasting and highly consequential, including the “separate
but equal” doctrine supporting racial segregation, the authorization of the
use of force against striking workers, and the creation of the liberty of con-
tract. The judicial backlash of the 1890s—the most powerful the United
States has ever experienced—illustrates vividly the risks of seeking funda-
mental social change. Magliocca concludes by examining the lessons of
the Populist experience for advocates of change in our own divisive times.
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The Strawberry Hill Press
and its P rinting House
Stephen Clarke
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most cel-
ebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of
the books, pamphlets, and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of
the Press draws on a remarkable array of surviving images of the Printing
House, many of them newly discovered and previously unstudied.
But more than that, this book provides an original and sustained analysis
of Walpole’s extraordinary literary endeavor, and of the complex variety of
purposes that the Press fulfilled. The volume not only assesses all known
images to discover what they can tell us about Walpole’s Press, but also
reveals that, quite unexpectedly, a large part of Walpole’s Printing House
survives to this day.
Distributed for the Lewis Walpole Library
Stephen Clarke is a London lawyer and independent scholar, and a Fellow of
the Society of Antiquaries. He has written extensively on Samuel Johnson, William
Beckford, and Horace Walpole. He lives near London.
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Edmund Husserl’s Freiburg Years
1916–1938
J. N. Mohanty
In his award-winning book The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical
Development, J. N. Mohanty charted Husserl’s philosophical development
from the young man’s earliest studies—informed by his work as a mathema-
tician—to the publication of his Ideas in 1913. In this welcome new volume,
the author takes up the final decades of Husserl’s life, addressing the work
of his Freiburg period, from 1916 until his death in 1938.
As in his earlier work, Mohanty here offers close readings of Husserl’s main
texts accompanied by accurate summaries, informative commentaries, and
original analyses. This book, along with its companion volume, completes
the most up-to-date, well-informed, and comprehensive account ever writ-
ten on Husserl’s phenomenological philosophy and its development.
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Information and Exclusion
Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Nearly all communities are exclusive in some way. When race or wealth
is the basis of exclusion, the homogeneity of a neighborhood, workplace,
or congregation is controversial. In other instances, as with an artist’s
colony or a French language book club, exclusivity is tolerable or even
laudable. In this engaging book, Lior Strahilevitz introduces a new theory
for understanding how exclusivity is created and maintained in residential,
workplace, and social settings, one that emphasizes information’s role in
facilitating exclusion.
The book provides many colorful examples to show how lawmakers
frequently misunderstand the subtle mechanics of exclusion, leaving
enormous loopholes in the law. Strahilevitz focuses particular attention
on today’s changing dynamics of exclusion and discusses how technology
presents new opportunities for governments to stamp out the most offensive
exclusionary behaviors.
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Neo -Babylonian Letters and ◆◆ Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts
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A rabic for Life A lso by Bassam K. Frangieh:
Bassam K. Frangieh Anthology of Arabic Literature,
Culture, and Thought from
Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Pre-Islamic Times to the Present
Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and Hardcover with Audio CD
978-0-300-10493-6 $73.00 t x
dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic
for Life is not specifically focused on either grammar or proficiency. Instead,
Bassam Frangieh is professor of Arabic
it offers a balanced methodology that combines these goals. Frangieh has at Pomona College. He previously taught at
created a book that is full of energy and excitement about Arabic language Georgetown, Yale, and the Foreign Service
and culture, and it effectively transmits that excitement to students. Arabic Institute. He is the author of Anthology of
for Life offers a dynamic and multidimensional view of the Arab world that Arabic Literature, Culture, and Thought from
incorporates language with Arabic culture and intellectual thought. Pre-Islamic Times to the Present, published by
Yale University Press.
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80 Language Texts
“Edith Grossman, the Glenn Gould of
translators, has written a superb book
on the art of the literary translation.
Even Walter Benjamin is surpassed
by her insights into her task, which
she rightly sees as imaginatively
independent. This should become
a classic text.”—Harold Bloom
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Potato
A History of the Propitious Esculent
John Reader
The potato—humble, lumpy, bland, familiar—is a decidedly unglamorous
staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader’s narrative on the role of the
potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remark-
able tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as
the world’s fourth largest food crop, the potato has played a starring—or at
least supporting—role in many chapters of human history. It may be “just”
a humble vegetable, Reader shows, yet the history of the potato has been
anything but dull.
“Reader takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey. . . . What we get . . . is a history
of the world from the potato’s point of view.”—Willa Murphy, Irish Times
“John Reader’s superb history traces the potato’s rise from mistaken iden- “[This] accessible account embraces
tity to the basic food now cultivated in 149 countries.”—Robert Collins, the latest scholarship and addresses
Sunday Times the failings of previous works on the
subject. Indeed the book, like
John Reader is a writer and photojournalist who holds an honorary research the tuber it describes, fills a void:
fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. He lives the spud now has the biography
in Surrey, UK. it deserves.”—Economist
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April Philosophy/Literature
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April Economics
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True Friendship
Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert
Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound
Christopher Ricks
True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-
century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the
lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra
Pound. The critical attention then finds itself reciprocated. Hill, Hecht,
and Lowell are among the most generously alert and discriminating readers,
as is borne out not only by their critical prose but (best of all) by their acts
of new creation, those poems of theirs that are thanks to Eliot and Pound.
“Ricks is probably the greatest living scholar and editor of modern English-
language poetry . . . a critic of unrivaled authority.”—Adam Kirsch, New
York Review of Books “The work is not only original and the
“True Friendship, . . . like all of Ricks’s books, is a book to be grateful for, scholarship provocative and sound,
partly because he is a critic so alert to what poems are alert to; and partly but one feels in the company of the
Circle of Philosophers, comforted
because, as always in his canny and mannered writing, so much is at stake
by this Virgilian guide who is not
and in play.”—Adam Phillips, London Review of Books
only knowledgeable, but—even
better—has such a refined sense of
Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of
the Editorial Institute at Boston University. Formerly professor of poetry at Oxford, he
humor, wit, and—most rare of gifts—a
was President of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers from 2007 to humanistic pathos that rings down
2008. He lives in Boston. the ages.”—Paul Mariani, University
Professor of English, Boston College
April Literary Studies/Poetry
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April Business
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272 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
May Philosophy/Design
Paper 978-0-300-17131-0 $16.00
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224 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 5 b/w + 8 color illus. World
May Biography/History/Religion
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June Nature/History
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June Religion/Philosophy
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176 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 World English
February History
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Brian Cowan holds the Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History
at McGill University. He lives in Montreal.
February History
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February History
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Toxic Bodies
Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
Nancy Langston
Hormone-disrupting chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) and the syn-
thetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) have penetrated into every aspect
of our bodies and ecosystems, yet the U.S. government has largely failed to
regulate them. Why? In this gripping exploration, Nancy Langston shows
that, since the 1940s, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the
use of hormone-disrupting chemicals, even when they are known to cause
cancer and disrupt sexual development. Langston argues that the precau-
tionary principle can better protect public health while fostering innovation.
“I’ve just finished reading Toxic Bodies and I have to commend Nancy
Langston on a superb and desperately needed new book. Wow! The story
(and stories) she tells are staggering and informative and written in an acces-
sible style. This is a landmark study in environmental health and safety. It’s “Like [Rachel] Carson, Langston uses
lively and even lyrical writing . . . to
also one of the finest combinations of the themes of gender, science, and
tell the story of the risks posed by
the environment that I’ve seen in quite some time.”—Professor Kent Curtis,
synthetic compounds currently found
Eckerd College in pesticides, pharmaceuticals and
plastics, such as BPA.”—Shawn
Nancy Langston, a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife
Doherty, The Capital Times
Ecology with a joint appointment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was president of the American Society for
Environmental History in 2007–9. She lives in Albany, WI.
February Law/Economics/Philosophy
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A nne Boleyn
Fatal Attractions
G. W. Bernard
In this groundbreaking biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of
one of England’s most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging foren-
sic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn’s
girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship
with Henry, and the authenticity of her evangelical sympathies.
He depicts Anne Boleyn as a captivating, intelligent, and highly sexual
woman whose attractions Henry resisted for years until marriage could
ensure legitimacy for their offspring. He shows that it was Henry, not Anne,
who developed the ideas that led to the break with Rome. And, most radi-
cally, he argues that the allegations of adultery that led to Anne’s execution
in the Tower could be close to the truth.
“Here at long last is a historian of great
“This bold new study of Anne Boleyn is provocative, but it is also shrewd skill and persuasive power . . . who
and thoughtful and eminently readable. Bernard’s book will certainly make cuts through the fog of speculation to
readers think again about what we really know about Henry VIII’s most con- get to the woman herself, in a book
troversial wife—and what we have merely become accustomed to believe whose accessible style will mean that
we know about her.”—Paul Hammer, University of Colorado at Boulder most readers, like this one, will devour
it in a single setting.”—Alexander
G. W. Bernard is professor of early modern history at the University of Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald
Southampton and editor of the English Historical Review. The author of The King’s
Reformation, Bernard lives in Southampton, UK.
February Biography
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March Philosophy/Biography
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Czechoslovakia
The State That Failed
Mary Heimann
The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small
nation that was sacrificed at Munich in 1938, betrayed to the Soviets in
1948, and which rebelled heroically against Soviet repression during the
Prague Spring of 1968. In this book, the most thoroughly researched and
accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, Mary Heimann
examines the realities behind these myths and shows how intolerant
nationalism and an unhelpful sense of victimhood led Czech and Slovak
authorities to discriminate against minorities, mount their own campaigns
against Jews and Gypsies, and pave the way for the Communist police state.
Well written, revisionist, and accessible, this groundbreaking book should
become the standard history of Czechoslovakia for years to come.
“Heimann offers a no-punches-pulled political history of Czechoslovakia’s “Heimann’s account is a polemic
that stimulates interest in a
whole trajectory.”—Foreign Affairs
country often ignored in the great
“For anyone with a serious interest in Czech history, this is an essential sweep of 20th century European
work.”—Frank Kuznik, Prague Post history.”—Stefan Wagstyl
March History
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April Music/History
Paper 978-0-300-17123-5 $23.00 sc
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Cosima Wagner
The Lady of Bayreuth
Oliver Hilmes
Translated by Stewart Spencer
In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating
and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner—illegitimate
daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bulow, then mis-
tress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner’s death in
1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization
of his works, assuming control of the Bayreuth Festival and transforming it
into a shrine to German nationalism. The High Priestess of the Wagnerian
cult, Cosima lived on for almost fifty years, crafting the image of Richard
Wagner through her organizational ability and ideological tenacity. The
first book to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, this
engaging biography explores the achievements of this remarkable and “Oliver Hilmes has written by far the
obsessive woman while illuminating a still-hidden chapter of European best biography of her . . . . His
cultural history. book is a model of scholarship and
also compellingly readable . . .
“This biography of Wagner’s wife offers a wonderfully clear-eyed look at A major achievement.”—Michael
the couple’s relationship and her fanatical tending of his flame.”—Sunday Tanner, BBC Music Magazine
Times (London)
Oliver Hilmes is the author of Cosima’s Kinder, a study of the Wagner dynasty,
and a best-selling biography of Alma Mahler. Stewart Spencer is an acclaimed
translator and editor (with Barry Millington) of Wagner in Performance.
April Biography
Paper 978-0-300-17090-0 $26.00 sc
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Pashas
Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World
James Mather
Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle
East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its
people. The pashas—merchants and travelers from Europe—discovered an
Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic, and diverse. Ranging across two
and a half centuries and through the great cities of Istanbul, Aleppo, and
Alexandria, James Mather tells the forgotten story of the men of the Levant
Company who sought their fortunes in the Ottoman Empire. Intriguing
and intimate, Pashas brings to life an extraordinary period in Britain’s
encounter with Islam and the wider world.
“Wonderful. . . . Mather excels at portraying the everyday life of the
Englishmen who joined the Levant Company. . . . The importance of
this excellent and balanced study cannot be underestimated.”—William “An arresting and timely addition
to the literature of Western-Islamic
Dalrymple, Observer
relationships. The Levant Company has
James Mather graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before
found a worthy historian at last.”—Colin
studying at Harvard as a Kennedy scholar. He now works as a commercial barrister Thubron, Shadow of the Silk Road
in London.
April History
Paper 978-0-300-17091-7 $23.00 sc
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Edward Zigler is Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University “This book will help those on both
and director emeritus of the Yale Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and sides of the aisle to frame and justify
Social Policy. He lives in North Haven, CT. Katherine Marsland is associate policy in this area and to better
professor of psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. Heather Lord understand the complexity of the
is a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in New York.
issues involved.”—Shannon Christian,
former associate commissioner, Child
Care Bureau, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
May History/Philosophy
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June Science
Paper 978-0-300-17152-5 $20.00 sc
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November
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February History
Paper 978-0-300-17241-6 $22.00 tx
Paper 978-0-300-02117-2 F’ 1977 Also available as an eBook.
260 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
February Art/Biography
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February Art
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February Art
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“I don’t know of an equal [private collection].” Published in association with the Peabody
—Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of Dutch Essex Museum
painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Golden accompanies the first major exhibition in the United States Frederik J. Duparc is the former
of one of the finest private collections of 17th-century Dutch and director of the Mauritshuis in The
Hague. Femke Diercks is junior
Flemish paintings in the world, assembled over the past two decades
curator of decorative arts and Reinier
by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. In this beautifully illustrated
Baarsen is keeper of the department
book, works by Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Frans Hals, and Jan
of sculpture and decorative arts, both at
Brueghel the Elder, among others, represent a wide range of sub- the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Loek
jects such as land and water, cityscapes and landmarks, still lifes, van Aalst, based in Breda, is a dealer
foreign travels, and burghers, peasants, and painters. In addition, and expert in 17th-century Dutch and
fine examples of furniture and decorative arts shed light on the Flemish furniture.
astounding range of this artistic period.
Known as the Golden Age, the 17th century was a time of unparal-
leled prosperity in the Netherlands, where the emerging merchant
class eagerly commissioned and collected paintings, furniture, and
other decorative arts. Essays by leading scholars address the con-
text of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting, and the history
and development of this unparalleled collection. The quality and
breadth of the Van Otterloos’ holdings illuminate one of the greatest
artistic and cultural chapters in European history.
February Art
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February Art
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February Architecture
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Cosmopolitan Routes
Houston Collects Latin American Art
Gilbert Vicario
Introduction by Mari Carmen Ramírez
Essay by Elizabeth Cerejido
Cosmopolitan Routes situates 20th-century Latin American art as an evolv-
ing discourse of individual impulses, universal themes, and shared ideas. It
further illustrates the parallels between works produced in Latin America
and the artistic movements that have come to define modern and contem-
porary art on a global level. Showcased in detail are nearly 100 masterworks Elias Crespin
Tetralineados Circular Azul, 2009
from Houston collections, ranging from early Modernist and postwar pieces Acrylic, wood, and computer
to contemporary creations by artists from Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Collection of Leslie and Brad Bucher
© Elias Crespin
and Mexico. From the Constructive Universalism of Uruguayan artist
Joaquín Torres-Garcia to the figurative and Surrealist work of artists such Exhibition Schedule:
as Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Pedro Friedeberg, a host of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
diverse movements are represented. All of the works demonstrate the depth 10/24/10–02/06/11
and quality of Latin American artistic expression as well as the spirit of Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts,
diversity and exploration involved in the quest for collecting art. Houston
Gilbert Vicario is head of the curatorial department at the Des Moines Art
Center. Mari Carmen Ramírez is Wortham Curator of Latin American
Art and Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas, and
Elizabeth Cerejido is Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art,
both at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
February Art
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Cartooning
Philosophy and Practice
Ivan Brunetti
From the editor of Yale’s Anthology of Graphic
Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, a smart
and charming guide to the art of cartooning
The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling—it is as much
a matter of writing as it is of drawing. In this book, noted cartoon-
ist and illustrator Ivan Brunetti presents fifteen distinct lessons on
the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through wittily written
passages on cartooning terminology, techniques, tools, and theory.
Supplemented by Brunetti’s own illustrations, prepared specially for
this book, these lessons move the reader from spontaneous drawings
to single-panel strips and complicated multipage stories. The evolution of a cartoon, from single panel to more
complex layout.
Through simple, creative exercises and assignments, Brunetti offers
an unintimidating approach to a complex art form. He looks at the Ivan Brunetti has published several
rhythms of storytelling, the challenges of character design, and graphic novels and taught courses on
the formal elements of comics while composing pages in his own editorial illustration and comics at the
iconic style and experimenting with a variety of tools, media, and University of Chicago and Columbia
approaches. By following the author’s sophisticated and engaging College Chicago. His drawings have
perspective on the art of cartooning, aspiring cartoonists of all ages appeared in the New Yorker, the New
will hone their craft, create their personal style, and discover their York Times Magazine, and McSweeney’s,
own visual language. among other publications, and he served
as editor for Yale University Press’s two-
volume Anthology of Graphic Fiction,
Cartoons, and True Stories.
March Art/Fashion
Cloth 978-0-300-16958-4 $50.00
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Mari Carmen Ramírez is Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and direc-
tor of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston. Héctor Olea is an independent scholar and curator specializing
in Latin American modern and contemporary art.
March Art
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Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, gender,
language, and sexual identity. Scott Rothkopf is curator at the Whitney
Museum of American Art.
March Art
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Glenn Ligon
AMERICA
Scott Rothkopf
Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg
With essays by Hilton Als, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya
Hartman, Bennett Simpson, and Franklin Sirmans, and
a conversation between Ligon and Thelma Golden
The first comprehensive presentation of a
pioneering contemporary American artist,
whose works range from text-based paintings to
sculptural installations to neon wall reliefs
American artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his land-
mark body of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which
appropriate the writings of African-American authors such as James Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Am a Man), 1988. Oil and enamel on
Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston. In subsequent canvas, 40 x 25 in. (101.6 x 63.5 cm). Collection of the artist.
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, created in close collaboration with the Distributed for the Whitney Museum of
artist, is the first in-depth presentation of his art, including paint- American Art
ings, photography, sculptural installations, prints, and drawings.
Essays by high-profile contributors explore Ligon’s working methods Scott Rothkopf is curator and Adam
and related topics such as literature and democracy, slave narratives, D. Weinberg is Alice Pratt Brown
Director, both at the Whitney Museum of
music, comedy, race, and sexuality, all of which situate the artist
American Art. Hilton Als is a staff writer
within a broader cultural context and greatly advance the under- for the New Yorker. Okwui Enwezor
standing and renown of this pioneering American artist. was dean of the San Francisco Art Institute.
Thelma Golden is director and chief
curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Saidiya Hartman is a professor at
Columbia University. Bennett Simpson
is associate curator at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Franklin
March Art Sirmans is curator at the Los Angeles
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272 pp. 10 x 9 1⁄2 230 color illus. World
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March Art
Hardcover with Slipcase 978-0-300-17108-2 $75.00
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Stieglitz
A Legacy of Light
Katherine Hoffman
In Stieglitz: A Beginning Light, Katherine Hoffman presented an account
of the early years of the career of Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and of his
European roots. Now, she offers a compelling portrait of his life and art
from 1915 to 1946, focusing on his American works, issues of identity, and
the rise of modernism in America.
Hoffman explores Stieglitz’s roles as photographer, editor, writer, and gal-
lery director; how they intersected with his personal life—including his
marriage to artist Georgia O’Keeffe—and his place in the cultural milieu
of the 20th century. Excerpts from previously unpublished correspondence
between Stieglitz and O’Keeffe reveal the fervor and complexity of their
relationship as well as his passion for photography and modern art and his
ongoing struggle to have photography recognized as an established artistic Also by Katherine Hoffman:
medium. These letters, along with his work as an editor and writer of short Stieglitz
A Beginning Light
articles, illuminate Stieglitz’s literary side, thus giving a new perspective on
Cloth 978-0-300-10239-0 $39.00sc
his total oeuvre.
Generously illustrated with 300 images, this intriguing, beautifully written
book separates the photographer’s true personality from the myths sur-
rounding him and highlights his lasting legacy: the works he left behind.
Katherine Hoffman is Professor of Fine Arts, St. Anselm College, and the
author of several previous books, including two on Georgia O’Keeffe.
In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Michael Fried is J. R. Herbert
Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists—video artist Boone Professor of Humanities and the
and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph History of Art, Johns Hopkins University.
Marioni, and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon. His many books of art criticism, art his-
He shows how their respective projects are best understood as engag- tory, literary criticism, and poetry include
ing in a variety of ways with some of the core themes and issues Absorption and Theatricality; Realism,
associated with high modernism, and indeed with its prehistory Writing, Disfiguration; Courbet’s Realism;
in French painting and art criticism from Diderot on. Four Honest and Art and Objecthood.
Outlaws thus continues the author’s exploration of the critical and
philosophical territory opened up by his earlier book, the magiste-
rial Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. It presents a
vision of the most important contemporary art as not only not repu-
diating modernism in the name of postmodernism in any of the
latter’s many forms and manifestations, but also actually as commit-
ted to dialectically renewing certain crucial qualities and values that
modernism and premodernism brought to the fore, above all those
of presentness and anti-theatricality.
Four Honest Outlaws takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song,
“To live outside the law you must be honest,” meaning in this case
that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path
to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary
norms and expectations of the contemporary art world. Filled with
stunning images throughout and accompanied by a DVD illustrat-
ing works by Sala and Gordon discussed in its pages, Four Honest
Outlaws is sure to provoke controversy even as it makes a dramatic
bid to further transform the terms in which the art of the present
should be understood.
April Art
Hardcover with DVD 978-0-300-17053-5 $45.00
224 pp. 6 3⁄4 x 9 9 b/w + 70 color illus. World
April Art
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New in paper
R enaissance Faces
Van Eyck to Titian
Lorne Campbell, Miguel Falomir,
Jennifer Fletcher, and Luke Syson
This lavishly illustrated book explores the development of portrait painting
in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre
first flourished. While both regions developed distinct styles and techniques,
each was also influenced by the other. Four renowned scholars consider the
relationship between artists of the north and south to illuminate the notion
of likeness. The authors offer new research on some of the greatest por-
traitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas
Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein, and Titian.
This book is rich in information about portrait types, styles, techniques, ico- Published by the National Gallery
nographies, the function of portraits, and the connections among painting, Company/Distributed by Yale University
sculpture, and portrait medals. Further, the volume features fascinating Press
accounts of the relationships of patrons, artists, and sitters, as well as the
process of making portraits. The authors also investigate complex notions Lorne Campbell is Beaumont Senior
of beauty, spiritual belief, and the portrait as a mirror of the soul. Research Curator and Luke Syson is
Curator of Italian Paintings 1460–1500 at
the National Gallery, London. Miguel
Falomir is Head Curator of Italian
Renaissance Painting at the Museo Nacional
del Prado. Jennifer Fletcher
May Art was formerly Senior Lecturer at the
Paper 978-1-85709-407-7 $40.00 Courtauld Institute, London.
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April Art
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A n A merican Experiment
George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters
David Peters Corbett
With contributions by Katherine Bourguignon
and Christopher Riopelle
In the first decades of the 20th century, George Bellows and other painters
of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, cre-
ated images of the city from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri’s
insistence that artists should make “pictures from life,” the Ashcanners
renounced the polished academic style taught in art schools of the time.
Instead they practiced a more urgent manner working with bold, highly satu-
rated color, seeking to catch the ebb and flow of life in urban America. Some
of them, particularly Bellows, also produced vivid landscapes and portraits.
This book introduces the artists of the Ashcan School and the key charac-
teristics and themes of their work. Detailed commentaries are provided for Exhibition Schedule:
twelve significant paintings by George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert The National Gallery, London
03/03/11–05/30/11
Henri, George Luks, and John Sloan, ranging from depictions of the metro-
politan throng to Bellows’s vivid seascapes. In their visual contemplation of Published by National Gallery Company/
early-20th-century America, these artists offer deep insights into the nature Distributed by Yale University Press
of ordinary life not only in their time but also in our own.
May Memoir/Biography/Art
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136 Art & Architecture Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
To Do
A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays
Gertrude Stein
With illustrations by Giselle Potter
and an introduction by Timothy Young
The first ever illustrated edition of avant-garde
writer Gertrude Stein’s whimsical children’s book
“Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and
all the same they have in a way to have a birthday,” muses Gertrude
Stein in To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays. Written in
1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children’s book The World
Is Round, published the previous year, To Do is a fanciful journey
through the alphabet. Each letter is represented by four names
(including Gertrude for “G”) and features a short story told in verse. Images © Giselle Potter
“[This is] a birthday book I would have liked as a child,” said Stein
of To Do. Published in association with the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Publishers rejected the manuscript as too complex for children, and
it remained unpublished during Stein’s lifetime. A text-only version
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was
issued from Yale University Press in 1957. Now, more than seventy
at the forefront of the development of
years after Stein penned the story, To Do is appearing with illustra-
modern art and literature. Her archive is
tions, realizing the author’s original concept for the book. Giselle housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and
Potter’s witty and stylish illustrations provide a perfect comple- Manuscript Library at Yale University.
ment to Stein’s uniquely whimsical world of words, creating a truly Giselle Potter has worked for the
delightful, often hilarious book that adults and children alike can New Yorker and has illustrated more than
appreciate and love. twenty children’s books. Timothy
Young is curator of modern books and
manuscripts at the Beinecke.
May Literature/Art
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The Steins Collect Exhibition Schedule:
San Francisco Museum
Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde of Modern Art
Edited by Janet Bishop, 05/21/11–09/06/11
Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow Grand Palais, Paris
10/03/11–01/20/12
Essays by Isabel Alfandary, Janet Bishop, Emily Braun, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edward Burns, Cécile Debray, Claudine Grammont, Martha Lucy, 02/21/12–06/03/12
Carrie Pilto, Rebecca Rabinow, Hélène Klein, and Gary Tinterow
Published in association with the San
A fascinating, in-depth exploration of the groundbreaking Francisco Museum of Modern Art
art collections of Gertrude Stein and her family
As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, Janet Bishop is curator of paint-
her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife Sarah were ing and sculpture at the San Francisco
absolutely pivotal in shaping the city’s vibrant cultural life in the Museum of Modern Art. Cécile
early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening salons at which Debray is curator of historical col-
the brightest artists, writers, musicians, and collectors convened to lections at the Museé National d’Art
discuss the latest developments. They aggressively promoted and Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Rebecca Rabinow is associate
collected emerging painters and sculptors, particularly their close
curator of 19th-century, modern, and
friends Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. And along the way they
contemporary art at The Metropolitan
developed unparalleled holdings in modernist work by such figures
Museum of Art, New York.
as Paul Cézanne, Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Pierre-Auguste
Renoir. Lavishly produced and featuring more than 600 images, The
Steins Collect is the first comprehensive exploration of the Steins’
extraordinary collections and their enduring cultural influence.
The book explores the Steins’ impact on art-making and collecting
practices in Europe and the United States; the intense sibling rival-
ries that developed around key artists and ideas; the roots of Leo’s
aesthetic theories in the thought of William James and Bernard
Berenson; Sarah and Michael’s role in founding the Académie
Matisse; Gertrude’s complex relationship with Picasso and their
artistic influence on each other; Le Corbusier’s radical villa design
for the family; and much more. The Steins Collect not only reveals
the artistic prescience of this innovative family and their important
patronage, but also traces how they created a new international stan-
dard of taste for modern art.
May Art
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May
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April Art/Health
PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-17117-4 $18.00
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May Art
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Collecting Modern
Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Since 1876
Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded in 1876, after its home
city hosted the Centennial, with the primary goal of acquiring important
examples of contemporary design and decorative arts. Collecting Modern
explores for the first time the development and significance of this extraor-
dinary collection, making unprecedented use of the Museum’s archival
resources, much of which has never been published. This overview reveals
changing attitudes toward collecting over time, as Philadelphia (historically
a conservative city) and its flagship museum were confronted with the dra-
matic aesthetic shifts heralded by modernism.
From being the largest institutional collector of Tiffany glass in the late
19th and early 20th centuries, to coaxing Florence Knoll Bassett out of
Published in association with the
retirement in 2005 to design her own exhibition, the Museum has made
Philadelphia Museum of Art
a unique contribution to the history of design through its collections and
programs. Providing a thoughtful analysis of the Museum’s history as a
steward of contemporary decorative arts, this beautiful publication is a vital
reference for anyone interested in the history of museums, decorative arts,
and design.
June Art
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272 pp. 10 3⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 48 b/w + 251 color illus. World
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen is assistant professor of architecture at Yale University, Winner of the Sir Banister
and the author of Achtung Architecture! Donald Albrecht is an independent Fletcher Award for 2007
curator and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New
York. His books include The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention. “The definitive portrait of the man and
Mark Coir is the director of Archives of Cranbrook Educational Community in his work.”—Civil Engineering
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor of art history
at Yale University. Reinhold Martin is associate professor at the Graduate “An indispensable study of an indis-
School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University. Will pensable architect and a bravura
Miller is chairman and CEO of Irwin Financial Corporation in Columbus, performance by Yale University
Indiana. Vincent Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at
Press. . . . Essential.”—Choice
Yale University.
May Architecture
Paper 978-0-300-12237-4 $50.00
Cloth 978-0-300-11282-5 F’ 06 $65.00
464 pp. 9 x 11 3⁄4 321 b/w + 125 color illus. World
Karen Levitov is associate curator at The Jewish Museum and author of Camille
Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country (Yale).
May Art
Paper over Board 978-0-300-17021-4 $20.00
72 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 10 1⁄2 18 b/w + 62 color illus. World
May Art
Cloth 978-0-300-15516-7 $45.00
176 pp. 8 x 10 20 b/w + 70 color illus. World
British Painting:
16th–19 th Centuries
State Hermitage Museum Catalogue
Elizaveta Renne
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a relatively small
but choice collection of 16th- to 19th-century British paintings, among
them Thomas Gainsborough’s vibrant Portrait of a Lady in Blue (c. 1770)
and his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds’ vast Infant Hercules Strangling the
Serpents (c. 1786), commissioned by the Russian Empress Catherine II
and symbolizing a young Russia’s growing strength. 135 paintings—works
by artists from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales—are presented in
this comprehensive catalogue. Also included are portraits from the famed
War Gallery created by English painter George Dawe, who was awarded a
prestigious commission to produce more than 300 images of Russian gen-
erals for the Gallery of 1812 in the historic Winter Palace, now part of the Published in association with the State
museum complex. Hermitage Museum and the Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art
Elizaveta Renne is curator of British Paintings at the State Hermitage Museum,
St Petersburg, Russia.
May Art
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464 pp. 9 5⁄8 x 11 1⁄4 650 color illus. World
David Franklin is Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of
Canada. Sebastian Schütze is Professor of the History of Art at the University
of Vienna.
June Art
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224 pp. 9 x 11 150 color illus. World
June Art
Cloth 978-0-300-16971-3 $30.00
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M aine Moderns
Art in Seguinland, 1900–1940
Libby Bischof and Susan Danly
Between 1900 and 1940, a group of modernist artists gathered regularly on
the coast of Maine in a region then known as Seguinland. For photogra-
pher Paul Strand, painter Marsden Hartley, sculptor Gaston Lachaise, and
others, it was a way to escape market-driven, competitive, and divisive New
York City, and celebrate a new kind of American Modernism.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Libby Bischof and Susan Danly explore Marsden Hartley, Surf on Reef, 1937–38.
Oil on board. 9 7⁄8 x 14 1⁄8 in.
the state’s important place in the history of modern art and show how sum- Portland Museum of Art.
Bequest of Elizabeth B. Noyce (1996.38.18).
mers in Seguinland inspired a new classicism that merged the antique with
the modern. They also shed light on how the various artists’ experiences in Exhibition Schedule:
the refreshing atmosphere on the Maine coast cemented their friendships, Portland Museum of Art, Maine
shaped their individual styles, and fostered their understanding of what it 06/04/11–09/11/11
meant to be a modern artist.
Published in association with the Portland
Museum of Art, Maine
Libby Bischof is an assistant professor of history at the University of
Southern Maine. Susan Danly is curator of graphics, photography, and contem-
porary art at the Portland Museum of Art and the author of Georgia O’Keeffe and the
Camera: The Art of Identity (Yale).
June Art
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176 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 10 1⁄4 46 b/w + 46 color illus. World
June Art
Cloth 978-0-300-14993-7 $40.00
128 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 9 b/w + 75 color illus. World
June Art
Cloth 978-0-300-16957-7 $65.00
256 pp. 10 x 12 20 b/w + 130 color illus. World
July Art
Cloth 978-0-300-16609-5 $50.00
160 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄2 160 color illus. World
June Art
Cloth 978-0-300-17110-5 $65.00
352 pp. 9 x 11 250 color illus. World
June Photography/Art
HC–Set with Slipcase 978-0-300-14137-5 $250.00
589 pp. 9 3⁄4 x 11 3⁄4
197 tritones (vol. 1); 197 tritones (vol. 2); 75 tritones (vol. 3) World
Lyonel Feininger
At the Edge of the World
Edited by Barbara Haskell
With contributions by John Carlin, Bryan Gilliam,
Ulrich Luckhardt, and Sasha Nicholas
An exciting new look at a pioneering modern artist, who
has often been overlooked by American audiences
Recognized for his remarkable synthesis of Expressionist and Cubist
techniques, Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) has long been considered
a leading modern artist in Germany. In his native United States, he
is less well known. This comprehensive survey, which examines the
artist’s broad-ranging interests and influences including his involve-
ment in German Expressionism and the Bauhaus, will reintroduce
his art to American audiences. Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), In a Village Near Paris (Street
in Paris, Pink Sky), 1909. Oil on canvas, 39 3⁄4 x 32 in.
Generously illustrated, this publication features works from through- (101 x 81.3 cm). University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City;
gift of Owen and Leone Elliott 1968.15
out Feininger’s diverse career, including his turn-of-the-century
satirical illustrations and comics, his carnivalesque Expressionist Exhibition Schedule:
compositions and crystalline architectural scenes, his whimsical vil- Whitney Museum of American Art
lage of hand-carved wooden figures, and his late oils of New York June–October 2011
City. The main essay discusses the full breadth of Feininger’s career, Published in association with the Whitney
tracing his relationship with groups and institutions that defined the Museum of American Art
development of modern art, including Cubism, the Blaue Reiter, the
Blue Four, the Bauhaus, and Black Mountain College. Additional Barbara Haskell is curator at the
essays focus on facets of Feininger’s work including his comics, his Whitney Museum of American Art, New
photographs, his musical compositions and their relationship to his York. John Carlin is an independent
visual art, and his reputation in Germany. writer and curator, as well as the president and
CEO of Funny Garbage. Bryan Gilliam
is Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities at
Duke University. Ulrich Luckhardt
is curator at the Hamburger Kunsthalle,
Germany. Sasha Nicholas is senior
curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York.
December Art
Cloth 978-0-300-17158-7 $25.00
80 pp. 8 3⁄4 x 10 1⁄4 70 color illus. World
Recently released
Vija Celmins
Television and Disaster, 1964–1966
Franklin Sirmans and Michelle White
American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for
her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. Vija Celmins: Television
and Disaster, 1964–1966 looks closely at Celmins’s early work, which is
deeply engaged with the Pop Art scene of 1960s Los Angeles. The authors
argue convincingly for a better understanding of this body of work, which
is not well known by contemporary audiences, both within Celmins’s over-
all career, and as part of the complicated historical context in which she
was working.
The book illustrates Celmins’s work from the mid-1960s. These paintings
and sculptures of war planes, smoking guns, and other representations of
Exhibition Schedule:
death and disaster were informed by images found in books and magazines. The Menil Collection
Also reflecting the moment when print began to give way to television, as 11/19/10–2/20/11
well as the impact of the first televised war, they are creative interpretations Los Angeles County Museum of Art
of a world destabilized by the turmoil of war and domestic political conflicts. 03/13/11–06/05/11
Franklin Sirmans is Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Distributed for The Menil Collection
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Michelle White is Associate Curator at the Menil Collection.
January Art/Media
Paper over Board 978-0-300-16612-5 $21.95
64 pp. 6 x 9 36 color illus. World
Barry Rosen is a curatorial consultant in New York City. Björn Roth is an art-
ist and Dieter Roth’s son. Andrea Büttner is an art historian based in London.
Paul McCarthy is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.
November Art
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150 pp. 8 3⁄4 x 10 1⁄2 26 b/w + 90 color illus. World
February Art
Cloth 978-0-300-16725-2 $45.00 sc
240 pp. 6 x 8 1⁄4 60 b/w + 100 color illus. World
February Art
Cloth 978-0-300-12161-2 $70.00 sc
304 pp. 9 x 11 95 b/w + 105 color illus. World
Guitar Heroes
Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York
Jayson Kerr Dobney
In the Italian-American communities in the New York area a remarkable
tradition of stringed instrument making has existed since the 19th century,
with local craftsmen building traditional violins, mandolins, and guitars
as well as American instruments such as banjos and archtop mandolins
and guitars. Since the 1930s New York City has been a center for archtop
guitar manufacturing, and the guitars of three makers—John D’Angelico
(1905–1964), James D’Aquisto (1935–1995), and John Monteleone
(b. 1947)—stand out for their quality of sound and design. The work of
these three legendary artisans is firmly rooted in the long history of Italian,
particularly Neapolitan, stringed instrument making. By examining their
archtop guitars against the backdrop of the extensive collection of Italian
and Italian-American stringed instruments in the Metropolitan Museum,
Exhibition Schedule:
Guitar Heroes traces the transformation of a centuries-old craft to meet the The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ever-changing demands of musicians and markets. 02/09/11–07/04/11
Jayson Kerr Dobney is Associate Curator and Administrator in the Department Published in association with
of Musical Instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carmen Giménez is the Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of 20th-Century Art
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. David Breslin is an
independent scholar based in Williamstown, MA. Michael Agee is chief photog-
rapher at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
February Art
Paper 978-0-300-16983-6 $14.95sc
48 pp. 9 1⁄4 x 9 32 color illus. World
February Architecture
Cloth 978-0-300-17037-5 $50.00 sc
248 pp. 8 x 10 200 b/w + 100 color illus. World
February Art
PB-with Flaps 978-1-85709-497-8 $18.00 sc
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R ebecca Salter
Into the Light of Things
Edited by Gillian Forrester
With essays by Achim Borchardt-Hume,
Richard Cork, and Sadako Ohki
Rebecca Salter (b. 1955) is a British abstract artist who lives and works
in London. After studying ceramics she spent six years in Kyoto, Japan.
There she started to make drawings and woodblock prints that combined
Western and Eastern traditions. On her return, Salter began painting on
canvas using acrylics. She still views her practice as “making an object”
rather than a surface. Although Salter’s work is studio-based, it reflects her
experience of drawing outdoors, and she arguably can be categorized as a
landscape artist.
Accompanying a major survey exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art,
this sumptuously illustrated book maps Salter’s career, situating her work Exhibition Schedule:
in relation to international abstraction, as well as investigating the impact Yale Center for British Art
02/03/2011–05/01/2011
of Japanese art, architecture, and aesthetics on her practice. Richard Cork
considers Salter’s redesign of the entrance of St George’s Hospital, London, Published in association with the Yale Center
which demonstrates both her engagement with Japanese concepts of space for British Art
and her belief in the therapeutic value of art.
Gillian Forrester is Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for
British Art, New Haven.
February Art
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280 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄4 200 color illus. World
Tomás Ó Carragáin lectures in the Department of Archaeology, University ◆◆ Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
College Cork. British Art
February Architecture
Cloth 978-0-300-15444-3 $100.00 sc
400 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄4 200 b/w + 100 color illus. World
Walter Crane
The Arts and Crafts, Painting, and Politics
Morna O’Neill
Walter Crane (1845–1915) was one of the most important, versatile, and
radical artists of the 19th century: a painter, decorator, designer, book illus-
trator, poet, author, teacher, art theorist, and socialist. Crane’s astonishingly
diverse body of work challenged the establishment, both artistically and
politically. In this original and carefully researched new study, Morna
O’Neill presents a fascinating portrait of an artist who used his talent and
energy to dismantle the traditional boundaries between fine art and decora-
tive art, between elite art and popular art, and between art and propaganda.
O’Neill reconsiders Crane’s politics and reintegrates it with his art, allowing
Crane to emerge in this book as a unique figure, an artist who translated
“art for art’s sake” into “art for all.”
◆◆ Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
Morna O’Neill is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at British Art
Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the author of the
exhibition catalogue Art and Labour’s Cause is One: Walter Crane and Manchester,
1880–1915 (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2008).
February Art
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February History/Art
Cloth 978-0-300-15195-4 $75.00 sc
244 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 90 b/w + 40 color illus. World
Undercurrents
Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art
Edited by Anik Fournier, Michelle Lim,
Amanda Parmer, and Robert Wuilfe
This timely and thought-provoking book features the works of
thirteen contemporary artists who explore the concept of ethical cohabita-
tion—negotiating differences within a shared environment—and the effects
of ecological transformations on individuals, politics, and economics.
In discerning essays, the authors discuss “junkspace” (structural design
and the debris of the current over-development of built environments) and
its role in the New York City landscape; how visual perspective enhances
social relationships created within the environment of Manhattan’s High
Line Park; artists in the Internet age and the evolution of aural art, and
how these modes of expression affect an individual’s perception of time
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of
and space; and the tradition of artistic depictions of tragedy and devastation.
American Art
February Art
Paper 978-0-300-16954-6 $16.95sc
148 pp. 5 1⁄4 x 8 1⁄4 44 b/w illus. World
Tara Hamling is a RCUK/Roberts Research Fellow in the Department of History, ◆◆ Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
University of Birmingham, and a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, where she is
British Art
currently based.
February History/Art
Cloth 978-0-300-16282-0 $75.00 sc
256 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 80 b/w + 40 color illus. World
February History/Architecture
Cloth 978-0-300-16726-9 $100.00 tx
480 pp. 8 3⁄4 x 10 1⁄2 55 b/w + 250 color illus. World
Peter Inskip and Stephen Gee are with the London-based firm Peter Inskip +
Peter Jenkins Architects.
February Architecture
Cloth 978-0-300-17164-8 $50.00 sc
196 pp. 11 x 8 1⁄2 10 b/w + 250 color illus. World
Marcia B. Hall is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Tyler School
of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, and a specialist in Italian Renaissance art.
March Art
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352 pp. 9 x 11 30 b/w + 200 color illus. World
March Architecture/History
Cloth 978-0-300-11058-6 $75.00 sc
480 pp. 100 b/w + 250 color illus. World
The Eighteenth-Century
Church in Britain
Terry Friedman
This ambitious and generously illustrated study is an in-depth account of
the architectural character of a vast range of eighteenth-century ecclesiasti-
cal buildings, including the Anglican parish churches, medieval cathedrals
repaired and modified during the period, and Dissenting and Catholic cha-
pels and mausoleums. The first substantial study of the subject to appear
in over half a century, Terry Friedman’s work explores not only the physi-
cal aspects of these buildings but church-going activities of Britons from
the cradle to the grave. In addition, fully documented, chronologically
sequenced design and construction histories of 272 key ecclesiastical build-
ings are presented on an accompanying CD-ROM.
Terry Friedman is one of the leading historians of eighteenth-century British ◆◆ Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
architecture and the author of James Gibbs (1984) and The Georgian Parish Church:
British Art
Monuments to Posterity (2004).
March Architecture
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656 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 10 1⁄2 520 b/w + 185 color illus. World
Richard Fawcett is a professor in the School of Art History at the University of ◆◆ Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
St. Andrews and a principal inspector with Historic Scotland. He is a noted authority
British Art
on medieval Scottish architecture and the author of Scottish Architecture from the
Accession of the Stewarts to the Reformation and other works.
March Architecture
Cloth 978-0-300-17049-8 $100.00 sc
432 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 300 b/w + 100 color illus. World
April Art
Hardcover with DVD 978-1-85709-510-4 $25.00 sc
80 pp. 7 x 7 1⁄2 11 b/w + 34 color illus. World
March Art
Cloth 978-0-300-17024-5 $35.00 sc
160 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 120 color illus. World
April Art
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March Art
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April Art
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April Art/Religion
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Translating Truth
Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge
in Late Medieval France and England
Aden Kumler
Translating Truth is a novel and compelling account of how illuminated
vernacular manuscripts transformed conceptions of Christian excellence
in the later Middle Ages. Following the Fourth Lateran Council (1215),
which legislated a broad pastoral outreach to the laity, new forms of reli-
gious instruction played a decisive role in the lives of Christians throughout
Europe. For royal and aristocratic laypeople, luxury manuscripts of spiritual
instruction made sacred truths and religious knowledge accessible—and
authorizing—as never before.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Aden Kumler examines how manu-
script paintings collaborated and, at times, competed with texts as they
translated the rudiments of Christian belief as well as complex theological
teachings to new audiences on both sides of the English Channel. In the
illuminations in these books, Kumler argues, elite laypeople were offered
an ambitious vision of spiritual excellence and a greater role in the pursuit
of their salvation.
July Art/Religion
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288 pp. 8 x 10 21 b/w + 63 color illus. World
March Art
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April Art/Photography
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April Art
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320 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄4 100 b/w + 50 color illus. World
June Art
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528 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄4 400 color illus. World
April Architecture
Cloth 978-0-300-17051-1 $75.00 sc
320 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 120 b/w + 80 color illus. World
Pastel Portraits
Images of 18th-Century Europe
Katharine Baetjer and Marjorie Shelley
Brightly hued, highly finished, and relatively large in scale, pastels in the
18th century were regarded as a type of painting and displayed like oils. The
powdery, vibrant crayons are particularly suited to capturing the skin tones
and evanescent expressions that characterize the most lifelike portraits.
Pastels cannot be permanently displayed because they are susceptible to
fading, and they rarely travel. Until now, there has never been an exhibition
in the U.S. devoted to these intriguing and important works. Pastel Portraits,
the companion book to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, presents
over 40 exquisite works by French, Italian, English, Swiss, and American
artists. It offers a technical discussion of the materials and explains why pas-
tels achieved widespread popularity in the 1700s and how the fabrication of
this medium intersected with Enlightenment thinking. Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Katharine Baetjer is Curator, European Paintings, and Marjorie 05/17/11–08/14/11
Shelley is Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Paper Conservation, both at
Published in association with
the Metropolitan Museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May Art
Paper 978-0-300-16981-2 $14.95sc
56 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 75 color illus.
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Index 175
Cook, Alfred Kazin’s Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Elliott, Bye-Bye Kitty!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Corbett, An American Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Encountering Genius, Hinton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Corbett, Boyhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 English Aristocracy, 1070–1272, The, Crouch. . . . . . . . . . . 66
Cosima Wagner, Hilmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 English Castle, The, Goodall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Cosmopolitan Routes, Vicario. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Cottages and Villas, Galinou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Europe Between the Oceans, Cunliffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Ex Libris, Hopkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 125
Cowling, Picasso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Farndon, Atlas of Oceans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Crawford, A Windfall of Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Fawcett, The Architecture of the
Scottish Medieval Church, 1100–1560 . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Crouch, The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272 . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Faye, Heidegger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Crowley, Imperial Landscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Field, A Great Leap Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Crystal, A Little Book of Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Fine, Romare Bearden, American Modernist . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Cunliffe, Europe Between the Oceans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Fischer, Gustav Mahler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Czechoslovakia, Heimann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Foot, Æthelstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Dabrowski, Richard Serra Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Forgotten Palestinians, The, Pappé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Dalton, The Taming of the Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Forrester, Rebecca Salter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Daly, Advocacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Foul Bodies, Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Dance Claimed Me, The, Schwartz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Four Honest Outlaws, Fried. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Darwin Archipelago, The, Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Fournier, Undercurrents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
David Smith Invents, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Frahm, Neo-Babylonian Letters and
De Haven, Our Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Contracts from the Eanna Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Deadly Dinner Party, The, Edlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Frangieh, Arabic for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Decorating the ’Godly’ Household, Hamling . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Frank, David Smith Invents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Design and Truth, Grudin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Franklin, Caravaggio and His Circle in Rome . . . . . . . . . . 144
Devotion by Design, Nethersole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Freeman, A New History of Early Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . 85
DeWitt, Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Freeman, Holy Bones, Holy Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Diary, Selzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Fried, Four Honest Outlaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Diba, Turkmen Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Friedman, The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain . . . . . . 161
Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Rosen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Friel, The Lomborg Deception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Dissertation on Predestination and Grace, Leibniz. . . . . . . . . 77
Future of History, The, Lukacs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dobney, Guitar Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Galinou, Cottages and Villas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Dog Days, Raven Nights, Marzluff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Gann, No Such Thing as Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Duffy, Marking the Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Gelernter, Judaism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Dunlevy, Pomp and Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Genius of Renoir, The, House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Duparc, Golden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
George II, Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Dykstra-Pruim, Schreiben lernen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
George Inness in Italy, Mitchell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Eagleton, On Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Getsy, Rodin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34–35
Ghose, Public Notice 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Edlow, The Deadly Dinner Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Gifts of the Sultan, Komaroff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Edmund Husserl’s Freiburg Years, Mohanty. . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Gillette, Local Redistribution and Local Democracy . . . . . . . 78
Edward Bancroft, Schaeper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Gimenez, Juan Muñoz at the Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Edward the Confessor, Barlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Glass, Objects of Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Eero Saarinen, Pelkonen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Glenn Ligon, Rothkopf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Egerton, Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Goldberger, Why Architecture Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain, The, Friedman . . . . . . 161
Golden Eagle, The, Watson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
176 Index
Golden, Duparc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Independent Eye, The, Trumble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Goodall, The English Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Information and Exclusion, Strahilevitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Gordon, Calvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Inglis, Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France . . . . . . . . . 164
Gordon, The Italian Paintings Before 1400 . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Innovation and the State, Breznitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Gourdine, Reclaiming Our Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Inskip, Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art . . . . 160
Grand Strategies, Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Iphigenia in Forest Hills, Malcolm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7
Great Leap Forward, A, Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Islamization from Below, Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Greenough, My Faraway One . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42–43, 136 Italian Paintings Before 1400, The, Gordon. . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Grossman, Why Translation Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Jablonsky, War by Land, Sea, and Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Grudin, Design and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France, Inglis . . . . . . . . . 164
Guitar Heroes, Dobney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Jennings, The Christian Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Gustav Mahler, Fischer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Jeon, Korean Buncheong Ceramics
from the Leeum Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Hagenstein, American Georgics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jim Nutt, Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Haines, New England Wildflower Society’s
Flora Novae Angliae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Joe DiMaggio, Charyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Hale, What’s Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Johan Zoffany, R.A., Webster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Hall, The Sacred Image in the Age of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 John Henry Newman, Turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Halverson, An Entirely Synthetic Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 John Marin, Balken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Hamling, Decorating the ’Godly’ Household . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Jones, The Darwin Archipelago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah, The, Harris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Jones, Van Eyck to Gossaert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Hank Greenberg, Kurlansky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–15 Joseph, Stravinsky’s Ballets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Harris, The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Journey of the Universe, Swimme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Haskell, Lyonel Feininger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Juan Muñoz at the Clark, Gimenez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin, Reddy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Judaism, Gelernter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Health for Sale, Helfand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Judge, The, Mellon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Heidegger, Faye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Judith Neisser Collection, Rondeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Heimann, Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Julian of Norwich, Theologian, Turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Helfand, Health for Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Just Words, Ackerman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Henry V, Allmand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Kabbalah in Italy, 1280–510, Idel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Henry VIII, Scarisbrick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Kadish, The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland . . . . . . . . . 168
Hiesinger, Collecting Modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Kahng, Picasso and Braque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Hill, Grand Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Kaledin, Tocqueville and His America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Hilmes, Cosima Wagner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence, Smithgall . . . . . . . 144
Hinton, Encountering Genius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Karsh, Palestine Betrayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Hoffman, Stieglitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Kemal, The Wind from the Plain Trilogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode, Egerton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Kevin Roche, Pelkonen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Holden, Richard Strauss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Kharibian, Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Hollywood Sign, The, Braudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 King, Losing Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Holy Bones, Holy Dust, Freeman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Kings, Queens, and Courtiers, Wolff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Hopkinson, Ex Libris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 125 Komaroff, Gifts of the Sultan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
House, The Genius of Renoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the
Leeum Collection, Jeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Kumler, Translating Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Idel, Kabbalah in Italy, 1280–1510 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Kurlansky, Hank Greenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–15
Immortality and the Law, Madoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Lane, The Age of Doubt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Imperial Landscapes, Crowley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Langston, Toxic Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Index 177
Larson, An Empire of Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48–49 Miller, Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Larson, Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability . . . . . . . . 69 Mitchell, George Inness in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Larson, Radial Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Modernism, Levenson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Legacy of the Second World War, The, Lukacs . . . . . . . . . . 84 Modernist America, Pells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Legacy, Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Mohanty, Edmund Husserl’s Freiburg Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Leibniz, Dissertation on Predestination and Grace . . . . . . . . 77 Morson, The Words of Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Leo Strauss, Tanguay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Mrs. Mattingly’s Miracle, Schultz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Lesser, Music for Silenced Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Müller, Contesting Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Levant, Mansel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Music for Silenced Voices, Lesser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Levenson, Modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 My Faraway One, Greenough. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42–43, 136
Levitov, Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters . . . . . . . 142 Nash, The Liberty Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Liberty Bell, The, Nash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Nemerov, To Make a World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Ligon, Yourself in the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Neo-Babylonian Letters and Contracts from the
Eanna Archive, Frahm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Little Book of Language, A, Crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Nethersole, Devotion by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Local Redistribution and Local Democracy, Gillette. . . . . . . . 78
New England Wildflower Society’s
Lomborg Deception, The, Friel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Flora Novae Angliae, Haines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Losing Control, King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
New History of Early Christianity, A, Freeman. . . . . . . . . . . 85
Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art, Inskip. . . . . 160
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Love, May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
No Such Thing as Silence, Gann. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Lukacs, The Future of History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Nothing to Hide, Solove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Lukacs, The Legacy of the Second World War . . . . . . . . . . 84
Ó Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland . . . . . . . 157
Lyonel Feininger, Haskell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
O’Neill, Walter Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Madoff, Immortality and the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Objects of Exchange, Glass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Magliocca, The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan . . . . . . . 75
Old Javanese Gold, Miksic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Maine Moderns, Bischof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
On Evil, Eagleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Malcolm, Iphigenia in Forest Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7
Our Hero, De Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Manguel, A Reader on Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Palestine Betrayed, Karsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Mansel, Levant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Pappé, The Forgotten Palestinians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Marking the Hours, Duffy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Paradoxical Life, Wagner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Marzluff, Dog Days, Raven Nights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pashas, Mather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Mather, Pashas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Pastel Portraits, Baetjer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Mathur, The Migrant’s Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Pelkonen, Eero Saarinen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Matlock, Superpower Illusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Pelkonen, Kevin Roche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
May, Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Pells, Modernist America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Penny, A Closer Look:
McKenzie, The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
300 B.C.–A.D. 700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Peterson, Black Gotham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
McLynn, Captain Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Peterson, Islamization from Below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Meaning of Property, The, Purdy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Picasso and Braque, Kahng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Medieval Haggadah, The, Epstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Picasso, Cowling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Mellon, The Judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Pincus, 1688 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability, Larson . . . . . . . . 69
Pomp and Poverty, Dunlevy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Migrant’s Time, The, Mathur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Potato, Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Miksic, Old Javanese Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Prison and the American Imagination, The, Smith . . . . . . . . 111
Milk, Valenze. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Public Notice 3, Ghose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
178
Purdy, The Meaning of Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Slater, Charles Dickens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Puritan Origins of the American Self, The, Bercovitch . . . . . 116 Smith, The Prison and the American Imagination . . . . . . . . 111
Quiet Revolution, A, Ahmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30–31 Smithgall, Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence . . . . . . . 144
Radial Symmetry, Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Social Life of Coffee, The, Cowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Ramírez, Carlos Cruz-Diez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Solomon, Weitzman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Reader on Reading, A, Manguel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Solove, Nothing to Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Reader, Potato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Southern Africa, Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Rebecca Salter, Forrester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Spirit of Zoroastrianism, The, Skjærvø . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Reclaiming Our Health, Gourdine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Stein, To Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 137
Reddy, Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Steins Collect, The, Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, DeWitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Stieglitz, Hoffman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Renaissance Faces, Campbell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Stoneman, The Ancient Oracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Renne, British Painting: Strahilevitz, Information and Exclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
16th–19th Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Stravinsky’s Ballets, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Rewald, Rooms with a View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Strawberry Hill Press and its Printing House, The, Clarke . . . . 76
Reyes, C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Suk, At Home in the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Richard III, Ross. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Superpower Illusions, Matlock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Richard Serra Drawing, Dabrowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Swimme, Journey of the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Richard Strauss, Holden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Synagogues of Britain and Ireland, The, Kadish . . . . . . . . . 168
Ricks, True Friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Taming of the Demons, The, Dalton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Robert Adams, Adams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Tanguay, Leo Strauss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Roberto Capucci, Blum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Taylor, Sixty to Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Robinson, Absence of Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Theory That Would Not Die, The, McGrayne . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Rodin, Getsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Thompson, George II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Romare Bearden, American Modernist, Fine. . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Tibet, van Schaik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Rondeau, Judith Neisser Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
To Do, Stein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 137
Rooms with a View, Rewald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
To Make a World, Nemerov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Rosen, Dieter Roth, Björn Roth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Tocqueville and His America, Kaledin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Rosenfeld’s Lives, Zipperstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Toohey, Boredom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Ross, Richard III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Toxic Bodies, Langston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Rothkopf, Glenn Ligon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Tragedy of Child Care in America, The, Zigler. . . . . . . . . . 111
Run of the Red Queen, Breznitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan, The, Magliocca. . . . . . . 75
Sacred Image in the Age of Art, The, Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Translating Truth, Kumler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Scarisbrick, Henry VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
True Friendship, Ricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Schaeper, Edward Bancroft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Trumble, The Independent Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Schmidt, Altered and Adorned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Turkmen Silver, Diba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Schoenbrod, Breaking the Logjam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Turner, John Henry Newman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Schreiben lernen, Dykstra-Pruim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Turner, Julian of Norwich, Theologian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Schultz, Mrs. Mattingly’s Miracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War, Bell. . . . . . 29
Schwartz, The Dance Claimed Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Undercurrents, Fournier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Selzer, Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Upside Down, Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Sirmans, Vija Celmins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Valenze, Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sixty to Zero, Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Van Eyck to Gossaert, Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Skjærvø, The Spirit of Zoroastrianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
van Schaik, Tibet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Slade, Bom dia, Brasil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Venice, Kharibian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Index 179
Vicario, Cosmopolitan Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Vija Celmins, Sirmans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Wagner, Paradoxical Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Walter Crane, O’Neill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
War by Land, Sea, and Air, Jablonsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Warren, Jim Nutt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Watson, The Golden Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Webb, Ancestors of the Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Weber, The Bauhaus Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 118
Webster, Johan Zoffany, R.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Weitzman, Solomon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
What’s Next?, Hale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Whispering City, Bosworth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Why Architecture Matters, Goldberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Why Marx Was Right, Eagleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34–35
Why Translation Matters, Grossman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Wiggins, Bridget Riley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Wind from the Plain Trilogy, The, Kemal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Windfall of Musicians, A, Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Witkovsky, Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . 148
Wolff, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam,
Berlekamp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Words of Others, The, Morson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Yaffe, Bob Dylan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Yourself in the World, Ligon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Zigler, The Tragedy of Child Care in America . . . . . . . . . . 111
Zipperstein, Rosenfeld’s Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
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