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Kodansha ................................................................................................119
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Index ......................................................................................................136
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A riveting narrative of the n April 14, 1860, the day Fort Sumter fell to Confederate forces,
first days of the Civil War, O Washington, D.C. was ripe for invasion. Located 60 miles south of
the Mason-Dixon Line, the nation’s capital was virtually surrounded by
when the fate of the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. Only a few hundred soldiers
Washington—and indeed were stationed in the city, and a rebel army rumored at 20,000 men lay
of the entire Union— just across the Potomac River. The south echoed with cries of “On to
dangled by a Washington!” Jefferson Davis boasted that the federal capital would fall
slender thread by the beginning of May, not two weeks away.
In The Siege of Washington, John and Charles Lockwood offer a
heart-pounding, minute-by-minute account of the twelve days when the
fate of the Union hung in the balance. The fall of Washington would
have been a disaster: it would have crippled the federal government, left
the remaining Northern states in disarray, and almost certainly triggered
the secession of Maryland. Indeed, it would likely have ended the fight
to preserve the Union before it had begun in earnest.
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A fascinating history of quantum theory, modern
science’s most successful and bizarre idea, focusing
on a series of forty dramatic turning points
THE QUANTUM STORY

A History in 40 Moments
JIM BAGGOTT
tterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is

U quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe
ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century
technology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it has
completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at its
most fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not
shocked by the theory has not understood it. The American physicist
Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it.
The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-
changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how,
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the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949, A Beginner’s Guide to Reality, and Beyond Measure:
Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, among other books.
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The first major biography of Bismarck in thirty years
BISMARCK
A Life
JONATHAN STEINBERG
tto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than any-

O body in the nineteenth century—except for Napoleon. He uni-
fied—and indeed, created—the country at the center of two world wars
that would transform the world.
This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman who
unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless
about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contempo-
rary writings, allowing Bismarck’s friends and foes to tell the story. What
rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with
the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a
convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized
schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer
ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times.
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As one contemporary noted: “the Bismarck regime was a constant orgy
of scorn and abuse of mankind, collectively and individually.”
In this comprehensive and expansive biography—a brilliant study in
power—Jonathan Steinberg brings Bismarck to life, revealing the stark
contrast between the “Iron Chancellor’s” unmatched political skills and
his profoundly flawed human character.
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German Battle Fleet and All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 to 1943.
A fascinating look at the powerful interactions between
the world’s atmosphere and oceans, revealing how they
profoundly influence life on earth
THE DANCE OF AIR AND SEA

How Oceans, Weather, and Life Link Together
ARNOLD H. TAYLOR
ow can tiny plankton in the sea just off Western Europe be affect-
H ed by changes in the Gulf Stream four thousand miles away, on the
other side of the North Atlantic Ocean? How can a slight rise in the tem-
perature of the surface of the Pacific Ocean have a devastating impact on
amphibian life in Costa Rica? How can the temperature of the equator-
ial Pacific Ocean help predict the yields of maize far away in Zimbabwe?
In The Dance of Air and Sea, oceanographer Arnold Taylor illumi-
nates the extraordinarily vast and powerful forces driving the world’s
ecosphere, revealing the astonishing ways that the atmosphere and
oceans interact, and showing how ecosystems in water and on land
respond to changes in weather. Ranging through the fields of oceanog-
raphy, meteorology, and ecology, Taylor sheds light on the immense vari- APRIL 2011
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dance of sea and air, Taylor conveys the enormous power of these
forces—for instance, the Gulf Stream carries as heat the energy of about
20 million power stations—and he tells colorful stories of the many sci-
entists working in this field, such as the two researchers who used the
records of an annual gambling pool in Alaska (the Nenana Ice Classic)
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standing these forces will enhance our ability to tackle global warming.
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A fresh translation of a national bestseller—a major
rethinking of the nature of economics and a stunning
tour de force of intellectual inquiry
ECONOMICS OF GOOD
AND EVIL
The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to
Wall Street
TOMAS SEDLACEK
omas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have.
T Named one of the “young guns” and one of the “five hot minds in
economics” by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National
Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved
bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost
heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil.
In Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field,
challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a
science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it’s actually a MAY 2011
cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within phi- Economics
losophy—Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations,
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story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us.”
Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative stan-
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beliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying eco-
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gence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the con-
sumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic
questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we do
ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good?
Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathemat-
ical models of human behavior, Sedlacek’s groundbreaking work promis-
es to change the way we calculate economic value.
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lar columnist and popular radio and TV commentator.
A gripping account of one lexander the Great conquered an enormous empire—stretching
of the great forgotten wars A from Greece to the Indian subcontinent—and his death triggered
forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled
of history, revealing how with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic mar-
Alexander the Great’s vast riages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield
empire was torn asunder after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the women,
in the years after his death such as Alexander’s mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces
and pavilions.
The story of one of the great forgotten wars of history, Dividing the
Spoils serves up a fast-paced narrative that captures this turbulent time as
it revives the memory of the Successors of Alexander and their great war
over his empire. The Successors, Robin Waterfield shows, were no mere
plunderers. Indeed, Alexander left things in great disarray at the time of
his death, with no guaranteed succession, no administration in place
suitable for such a large realm, and huge untamed areas both bordering
and within his empire. It was the Successors—battle-tested companions
of Alexander such as Ptolemy, Perdiccas, Seleucus, and Antigonus the
One-Eyed—who consolidated Alexander’s gains. Their competing
ambitions, however, eventually led to the break-up of the empire. To tell
their story in full, Waterfield draws upon a wide range of historical mate-
rials, providing the first account that makes complete sense of this high-
ly complex period.
Astonishingly, this period of brutal, cynical warfare was also charac-
terized by brilliant cultural achievements, especially in the fields of phi-
losophy, literature, and art. A new world emerged from the dust and
haze of battle, and, in addition to chronicling political and military
events, Waterfield provides ample discussion of the amazing cultural
flowering of the early Hellenistic Age.
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Persia, and the End of the Golden Age, and Athens: A
History, From Ancient Ideal to Modern City. He lives in
the far south of Greece on a small olive farm.
A bold challenge to conventional wisdom about the onset
of the Civil War, by one of the leading historians of
the period
THE DOGS OF WAR

1861
EMORY M. THOMAS
n 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon

I would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our
nation’s worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more
than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory
M. Thomas points out in this stimulating and provocative book, once
the dogs of war are unleashed, it is almost impossible to rein them in.
In The Dogs of War, Thomas highlights the delusions that dominat-
ed each side’s thinking. Lincoln believed that most Southerners loved the
Union, and would be dragged unwillingly into secession by the planter
class. Jefferson Davis could not quite believe that Northern resolve
would survive the first battle. Once the Yankees witnessed Southern
determination, he hoped, they would acknowledge Confederate inde- MAY 2011
pendence. These two leaders, in turn, reflected widely held myths. American History
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Emory M. Thomas’s books demonstrate a breathtaking range of
major Civil War scholarship, from The Confederacy as a Revolutionary
Experience and the landmark The Confederate Nation, to definitive
biographies of Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart. In The Dogs of War, he
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DONALD STOKER
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A bestselling science writer and world renowned chemist
tackles the great questions of existence, in a provocative
addition to the ongoing debate over religion and science
ON BEING
A Scientist’s Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
PETER ATKINS
eter Atkins is the shining exception to the rule that scientists make
P poor writers. A Fellow at Oxford and a leading chemist, he has won
admiration for his precise, lucid, and yet rigorous explanations of sci-
ence. Now he turns to the greatest—and most controversial—questions
of human existence. Can the scientific method tell us anything of value
about birth, death, the origin of reality—and its end? Are these questions
best left to faith?
In On Being, Atkins makes a provocative contribution to the great
debate between religion and science. Atkins makes his position clear
from the very first sentence: “The scientific method can shed light on
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that “the substrate of existence is nothing at all.” The total electrical
charge of the universe, among other things, must be nothing—zero—he
writes, or else the universe would have blasted itself apart. “Charge was
not created at the creation: electrical Nothing separated into equal and
opposite charges.” He explores breathtaking questions—asking the pur-
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Laws That Drive the Universe, among other works.
A brilliantly insightful, engagingly written analysis of
Truman Capote and his catastrophically self-destructive
final book, Answered Prayers
TINY TERROR
Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers
WILLIAM TODD SCHULTZ
ruman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of
T his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other
Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel In
Cold Blood. What has received comparatively little attention, however, is
Capote’s last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skewering
of cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his “swans.”
When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined social-
ly, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled—disgraced, depressed, and all but
friendless.
In Tiny Terror, a new volume in Oxford’s Inner Lives series, William
Todd Schultz sheds light on the life and works of Capote and answers
the perplexing mystery—why did Capote write a book that would MAY 2011
destroy him? Drawing on an arsenal of psychological techniques, Schultz Biography/Psychology
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agreeable destroyer, emotionally bulletproof, nasty, and bent on revenge.
Schultz shows how Capote would strike out when he felt hurt or taken
for granted, engaging in caustic feuds with Gore Vidal, Tennessee
Williams, and many other writers. And Schultz reveals how this tenden-
cy fed into Answered Prayers, an exceedingly corrosive and thinly dis-
guised roman a clef that trashed his high-society friends.
What emerges by the end of this book is a cogent, immensely
insightful portrait of an artist on the edge, brilliantly but self-destruc-
tively biting the jet-set hands that fed him. Anyone interested in the
inner life of one of America’s most fascinating literary personalities will
find this book a revelation.
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in 2005.
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The true story of how countless Nazi war criminals
escaped their fate at the end of World War II
NAZIS ON THE RUN

How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice
GERALD STEINACHER
fter World War II, rumors circulated that a secret organization

A named “Odessa” had smuggled Nazi war criminals out of Europe, a
rumor further fueled by the wildly popular novel The Odessa File. But
“Odessa” was nothing more than a myth. Now, in Nazis on the Run, his-
torian Gerald Steinacher provides the true story of how the Nazis
escaped their fate.
Steinacher not only reveals how Nazi war criminals escaped from jus-
tice at the end of the Second World War, fleeing through the Tyrolean
Alps to Italian seaports, but he also highlights the key roles played by the
Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers. The
book takes a hard look at the International Committee of the Red Cross,
proving that identification papers issued by the Red Cross made it pos-
sible for thousands of Nazis, war criminals, and collaborators—includ- MAY 2011
ing Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengale—to slip through the hands of World History
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a “ratline” from Germany to Italy and also reveals that many figures in
the Catholic Church—sometimes knowingly, other times unwittingly—
were involved in large-scale Nazi smuggling, often driven by the fear of
an imminent communist takeover of Italy. Finally, the book documents
how the Counter Intelligence Corps (the predecessor to the CIA)
recruited former SS men to advise U.S. intelligence agencies and smug-
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story of justice denied.
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A riveting, authoritative n the sixty-plus years of the Jewish state’s existence, Israeli govern-
look at Israel’s history of I ments have exhausted almost every option in defending their country
against terror attacks. Israel has survived and even thrived—but both its
counterterrorism—a citizens and its Arab neighbors have paid dearly.
sometimes brilliant, yet In A High Price, Daniel Byman breaks down the dual myths of Israeli
often flawed record that omnipotence and—conversely—ineptitude in fighting terror, offering
holds valuable lessons for instead a nuanced, definitive historical account of the state’s bold but
all countries often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. The product of painstaking
research and countless interviews, the book chronicles different periods
of Israeli counterterrorism. Beginning with the violent border disputes
that emerged after Israel’s founding in 1948, Byman charts the rise of
Yasir Arafat’s Fatah and leftist groups such as the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine—organizations that ushered in the era of inter-
national terrorism epitomized by the 1972 hostage-taking at the Munich
Olympics. Byman follows how Israel fought these groups and new ones,
such as Hamas, in the decades that follow, with particular attention to
the grinding and painful struggle during the second intifada. Israel’s
debacles in Lebanon against groups like the Lebanese Hezbollah are also
examined in-depth, as is the country’s problematic response to Jewish
terrorist groups that have struck at Arabs and Israelis seeking peace.
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terrorism today.
Daniel Byman is Professor in the School of Foreign

Service at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at
the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings
Institution. He has served on the 9/11 Commission staff
and as an analyst with the U.S. government.
Two biblical scholars look at what the Bible actually says
about such heated issues as gay rights, abortion, and
capital punishment
THE BIBLE NOW

RICHARD ELLIOTT FRIEDMAN and
SHAWNA DOLANSKY
or millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on impor-

F tant social and political questions, and rightly so. But many use the
Bible simply as a weapon to wield against opponents in a variety of
debates—without knowing what the Bible actually says about the issue
in question.
In The Bible Now, two respected biblical scholars, Richard Elliott
Friedman and Shawna Dolansky, tell us carefully what the Hebrew Bible
says or does not say about a wide range of issues—including homosexu-
ality, abortion, women’s status, capital punishment, and the environ-
ment. In fascinating passages that shed new light on some of today’s
most passionate disputes, the authors reveal how the Bible is frequently
misunderstood, misquoted, mistranslated, and misused. For instance, JUNE 2011
those who quote the Bible in condemning homosexuality often cite the Religion/Current Events
story of Sodom, and those who favor homosexuality point to David’s 224 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
lament over the death of Jonathan. But as the authors show, neither pas-
sage is clearly about homosexuality, and these texts do not offer solid 978-0-19-531163-1
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homosexuality is not prohibited—only male homosexuality. And on the
subject of abortion, the Bible is practically silent, with one extraordinary
exception.
The Bible has inspired people to do great good but has also been
used by people to do great harm, so it is vitally important for us to pay
attention to it—and to get it right. The Bible Now shows us how we
can—and cannot—use this ancient source of wisdom to address our
most current and pressing issues.
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of Georgia and Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University
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Sacred Literature.
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An inspiring account of New Orleans musicians working
to revive their city in the wake of Katrina
NEW ATLANTIS
Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans
JOHN SWENSON
t its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and
A inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural
boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That’s the central question posed
in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson’s beautifully detailed account of
the musical artists working to save America’s most colorful and troubled
metropolis: New Orleans.
The city has been threatened with extinction many times during its
three-hundred-plus-year history by fire, pestilence, crime, flood, and oil
spills. Working for little money and in spite of having lost their own
homes and possessions to Katrina, New Orleans’s most gifted musi-
cians—including such figures as Dr. John, the Neville Brothers,
“Trombone Shorty,” and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux—are fighting back
against a tidal wave of problems: the depletion of the wetlands south of JUNE 2011
the city (which are disappearing at the rate of one acre every hour), the Music
violence that has made New Orleans the murder capitol of the U.S., the 336 pp., 50 photographs, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
waning tourism industry, and above all the continuing calamity in the
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wake of Hurricane Katrina (or, as it is known in New Orleans, the
“Federal Flood”). Indeed, most of the neighborhoods that nurtured the
indigenous music of New Orleans were destroyed in the flood, and many
of the elder statesmen have died or been incapacitated since then, but the
musicians profiled here have stepped up to fill their roles. New Atlantis
is their story.
Packed with indelible portraits of individual artists, informed by
Swenson’s encyclopedic knowledge of the city’s unique and varied music
scene—which includes jazz, R&B, brass band, rock, and hip hop—New
Atlantis is a stirring chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the culture
that gives New Orleans its grace and magic.
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Review in 2008.
A fascinating account of one of the great triggers of
violent behavior—offloading suffering by passing it on
to others
PAYBACK
Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge
DAVID P. BARASH and JUDITH EVE LIPTON
rom the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker who
F feels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain
and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the origi-
nal stress. The bullied child may kick her puppy, the stifled worker yells
at his children: Payback can be directed anywhere, sometimes at inani-
mate things, animals, or other people. In Payback, the husband-and wife
team of evolutionary biologist David Barash and psychiatrist Judith
Lipton offer an illuminating look at this phenomenon, showing how it
has evolved, why it occurs, and what we can do about it.
Retaliation and revenge are well known to most people. We all know
what it is like to want to get even, get justice, or take revenge.
What is new in this book is an extended discussion of redirected aggres- JUNE 2011
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other main forms of payback—haunts our criminal courts, our streets,
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nastiest and seemingly inexplicable things that otherwise decent people
do, from road rage to yelling at a crying baby. And it exists across bound-
aries of every kind—culture, time, geography, and even species. Indeed,
it’s not just a human phenomenon. Passing pain to others can be seen in
birds and horses, fish and primates—in virtually all vertebrates. It turns
out that there is robust neurobiological hardware and software promot-
ing redirected aggression, as well as evolutionary underpinnings.
Payback may be natural, the authors conclude, but we are capable of
rising above it, without sacrificing self-esteem and social status. They
show how the various human responses to pain and suffering can be
managed—mindfully, carefully, and humanely.
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human behavior, especially women’s issues.
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An engaging alternative to Mortimer Adler’s classic
How to Read a Book argues that whim should guide our
reading and delight should be our goal
THE PLEASURES OF READING

IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION
ALAN JACOBS
n recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about

I the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading
enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way.
In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers,
reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted read-
ers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers.
Oprah’s Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey
reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs’s inter-
actions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, sug-
gest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are
reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion
and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that read-
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ing is, first and foremost, good for you—the intellectual equivalent of Literary Criticism
eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, 224 pp., 51⁄2 x 81⁄4
Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at 978-0-19-974749-8
whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it $19.95(02), hardback
be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to
the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler’s classic How to Read
a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irrev-
erent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of
approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores
everything from the invention of silent reading to reading responsively,
rereading, and reading on electronic devices.
Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The
Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers,
whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to
recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.
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and a Theology of Reading. His literary and cultural criticism has appeared in the
Boston Globe, The American Scholar, and the Oxford American.
A wide-ranging account of the notorious massacre in
Sharpeville, an event that sparked the start of armed
resistance to Apartheid
SHARPEVILLE
A Massacre and Its Consequences
TOM LODGE
n March 21, 1960, a line of 150 white policemen fired 1,344

O rounds into a crowd of several thousand people assembled outside
a police station, protesting against the Apartheid regime’s racist “pass”
laws. The gunfire left in its wake sixty-seven dead and one hundred and
eighty-six wounded. Most of the people who were killed were shot in the
back, hit while running away.
The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, marked
the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide
condemnation of South Africa’s Apartheid policies. In Sharpeville, Tom
Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the
social and political background to the events of March 1960 as well as
the long-term consequences of the shootings. Lodge offers a gripping JULY 2011
account of the Massacre itself as well as the wider events that accompa- World History
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quences of these events. He explores how the Sharpeville events affect-
ed the perceptions of black and white political leadership in South Africa
as well as South Africa’s relationship with the rest of the world, and he
describes the development of an international “Anti-Apartheid” move-
ment in the wake of the shootings.
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Mandela: A Critical Life
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A provocative argument—based on vast research,
including the militants’ own statements—that Islamist
terrorism is a marginal and declining phenomenon
THE MISSING MARTYRS

Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
CHARLES KURZMAN
hy are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion

W Muslims in the world—many of whom supposedly hate the West
and ardently desire martyrdom—why don’t we see terrorist attacks every
day? Where are the missing martyrs?
In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on
Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly
marginal in the Muslim world. Charles Kurzman draws on government
sources, public opinion surveys, election results, and in-depth interviews
with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world. He finds that
young Muslims are indeed angry with what they see as imperialism—
and especially at Western support for local dictatorships. But revolu-
tionary Islamists have failed to reach them, as can be seen from the ter- JULY 2011
rorists’ own websites and publications, which constantly bemoan the Current Events
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to wreak unspeakable havoc. But that very fact underscores his point. As $24.95(02), hardback
easy as terrorism is to commit, few Muslims turn to violence. Out of
140,000 murders in the United States since 9/11, Islamist terrorists have
killed at most three dozen people. Of the 150,000 people who die each
day, worldwide, Islamist militants account for fewer than fifty fatali-
ties—and only ten per day outside of the hotspots of Afghanistan, Iraq, ALSO AVAILABLE
and Pakistan. The real bulwark against Islamist violence, Kurzman finds, The Future of Islam
is Muslims themselves, who reject both the goals of the terrorists and JOHN L. ESPOSITO
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among Muslims.
Incisive and authoritative, The Missing Martyrs provides much-need-
ed corrective to deep-seated and destructive misconceptions about
Muslims and the Islamic world. The threat of Islamist terrorism is real,
Kurzman shows, but its dimensions are, so far, tightly confined.
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in Iran.
An intoxicatingly informative history of our love—and
hate—affair with drinking establishments
AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR

A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and
Grog Shops
CHRISTINE SISMONDO
hen George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in

W New York’s Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his
defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte
in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accom-
plices to carry out a certain assassination, they gathered in Surratt Tavern.
In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the rich
and fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always central
to American life. She traces the tavern from England to New England,
showing how even the Puritans valued “a good Beere.” With fast-paced
narration and lively characters, she carries the story through the twenti-
eth century and beyond, from repeated struggles over licensing to
Sunday liquor sales, from the Whiskey Rebellion to the temperance JULY 2011
movement, from attempts to ban “treating” to Prohibition and repeal. American History
As the cockpit of organized crime, politics, and everyday social life, the 320 pp., 19 b/w illus., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
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passed, a rider excluded bars from applying for aid or tax breaks on the
grounds that they contributed nothing to the community. Sismondo
proves otherwise: the bar has contributed everything to the American story.
In this heady cocktail of agile prose and telling anecdotes, Sismondo
offers a resounding toast to taprooms, taverns, saloons, speakeasies, and
the local hangout where everybody knows your name.
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A new edition of the best single source of quick informa-
tion on Islam, written by one of America’s leading
authorities on the topic
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO

KNOW ABOUT ISLAM
Second Edition
JOHN L. ESPOSITO
ince the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an over-
S whelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events—
the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, debates
throughout Europe over Islamic dress—have raised new questions in the
minds of policymakers and the general public. This newly updated edi-
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al jihad, Islamic reform, and a clash of civilizations.
In this revision and expansion of his highly popular guide, John L.
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Esposito presents in question-and-answer format the information that
most people want to know about Islam. He provides succinct, accessible, Current Events
sensitive, and even-handed answers to questions that range from the gen- 288 pp., 51⁄2 x 81⁄2
eral—What do Muslims believe and why? and Who was Muhammad?— 978-0-19-979413-3
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talism and democracy? How do Muslims view Judaism and Christianity? previous edition:
Are women second-class citizens in Islam? What is jihad? Does the 978-0-19-515713-0
Quran condone terrorism? What does Islam say about homosexuality,
birth control, abortion, and slavery? Organizing the book in brief ques-
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Islamophobia
Oxford History of Islam, and author of The Future of Islam and many
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other acclaimed works, John L. Esposito is one of America’s leading
authorities on Islam. This brief and readable book remains the first place
to look for up-to-date information on the faith, customs, and political
beliefs of the 1.5 billion people who call themselves Muslims.
Praise for the first edition:

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bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of
Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
An unflinching investigation into how the US fights its
wars and why Americans care so little about the
enormous civilian casualties we inflict on our adversaries
THE DEATHS OF OTHERS

The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars
JOHN TIRMAN
mericans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops

A killed in battle—100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World
War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq;
over 1,000 in Afghanistan—and rightly so. But why are we so indiffer-
ent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by
those we fight and those we fight for?
This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman
answers in The Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million people
died in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians.
And yet Americans devote little attention to these deaths. Other coun-
tries, however, do pay attention, and Tirman argues that if we want to
understand why there is so much anti-Americanism around the world, JULY 2011
the first place to look is how we conduct war. We understandably strive American History
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used our weapons intentionally to kill large numbers of civilians and ter-
rorize our adversaries into surrender. Americans, however, are mostly
ignorant of these facts, believing that American wars are essentially just,
necessary, and “good.” Tirman investigates the history of casualties
caused by American forces in order to explain why America remains so
unpopular and why US armed forces operate the way they do.
Trenchant and passionate, The Deaths of Others forces readers to con-
sider the tragic consequences of American military action not just for
Americans, but especially for those we fight.
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America Is Screwing Up the World.
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The first comprehensive history of George W. Bush’s
response to 9/11—his War on Terror, conflict in
Afghanistan, and war in Iraq—providing a vivid account
of his administration’s policies
BUSH’S WARS
TERRY H. ANDERSON
rom journalistic accounts like Fiasco and Imperial Life in the Emerald
F City to insider memoirs like Jawbreaker and Three Cups of Tea, the
books about America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could fill a library.
But each explores a narrow slice of a whole: two wars launched by a sin-
gle president as part of a single foreign policy. Now noted historian Terry
H. Anderson examines them together, in a single comprehensive overview.
Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President
George W. Bush told advisor Karl Rove, “I am here for a reason, and this
is how we’re going to be judged.” Anderson provides this judgment in
this sweeping, authoritative account of Bush’s War on Terror and his
twin interventions. He begins with historical surveys of Iraq and
Afghanistan—known respectively as “the improbable country” and “the JULY 2011
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Afghanistan and the siege of Tora Bora, the “Axis of Evil” speech, the
invasion of Iraq and capture of Baghdad, and the eruption of insurgency
in Iraq. He ranges from RPGs slamming into Abrams tanks to cabinet
meetings, vividly portraying both soldiers in the field and such policy-
makers as Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. Anderson describes the
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the prosecution of the wars in the first years of Barack Obama’s presidency. 978-0-19-518245-3, $19.95(01), paperback
Carefully researched and briskly narrated, Bush’s Wars provides the The Movement and the Sixties
single-volume balanced history that we have long awaited. 978-0-19-510457-8, $24.95(01), paperback
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An absorbing biography that charts the rise of a
legendary Delta bluesman, his surprising rediscovery, and
his lasting influence
PREACHIN’ THE BLUES

The Life and Times of Son House
DANIEL BEAUMONT
s a young Baptist preacher in the Mississippi Delta, Eddie “Son”

A House scorned “sinful” music, until one night in 1927, when the
haunting sound of a bottleneck guitar forever changed his life. House
began singing and playing guitar and, within a few short years, he
became a blues legend. In this first full-length biography of Son House,
Daniel Beaumont traces a life and career that were marked not only by
musical greatness but also by violence, alcoholism, two marriages, two
decades in obscurity, and, finally, a surprising comeback that brought his
remarkable music to a new generation.
In Beaumont’s absorbing narrative, we follow House’s journey from
rural pulpits to labor farms to smoky juke joints. Shortly after taking up
the blues, House was briefly imprisoned for killing a man, reportedly in JULY 2011
self-defense. Following his release in 1930, his friend and fellow musi- Music
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important influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. In 1941-
42, he recorded for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress, only to
quit music and move to Rochester, New York in 1943. Tracked down by
three young blues fans in the mid-sixties, entrenched in the period’s
“folk music revival,” House resumed recording, toured America and
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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction
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Preachin’ the Blues brims with insights into the social forces and pri- 978-0-19-539893-9, $11.95(03), paperback
vate demons that drove Son House, and its analysis of the “folk revival”
that led to his rediscovery is the most nuanced yet written. More than
just an account of one artist’s life, the book offers a fresh perspective on
how the blues influenced American culture and spread throughout
the world.
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Joe Beard.
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A vividly written epic that connects 18th-century London
street crime, the American Revolution, the slave trade,
and the founding of Australia
A MERCILESS PLACE
The Fate of Britain’s Convicts after the American
Revolution
EMMA CHRISTOPHER
ince Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has
S burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger
story is even more dramatic—the saga of forgotten men and women
scattered to the farthest corners of the British empire, driven by the
winds of the American Revolution and the currents of the African slave
trade. In A Merciless Place, Emma Christopher brilliantly captures this
previously unknown story of poverty, punishment, and transportation.
The story begins with the American War of Independence, until
which many British convicts were shipped across the Atlantic. The
Revolution interrupted this flow and inspired two entrepreneurs to orga-
nize the criminals into military units to fight for the crown. The felon JULY 2011
soldiers went to West Africa’s slave-trading posts just as the war ended; World History
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convicts. The move was a disaster. Christopher writes that “before the 978-0-19-978255-0
scheme was abandoned, it would have run the gamut of piracy, treach- $27.95(02), hardback
ery, mutiny, starvation, poisonings, allegations of white women forced to
prostitute themselves to African men, and not least several cases of mur-
der.” To end the scandal, the British government chose a new destina-
tion, as far away as possible: Australia.
Christopher here captures the gritty lives of Britain’s convicts: vic-
tims of London’s underworld, rife with brutal crime and sometimes even
more brutal punishments. Equally fascinating are the portraits of Fante
people of West Africa, forced to undergo dramatic changes in their role
as intermediaries with Europeans in the slave trade. Here, too, are the
aboriginal Australians, coping with the transformation of their native
land. They all inhabit A Merciless Place: a tour de force and historical nar-
rative at its finest.
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Huntington Library and a Gilder Lehrman Fellow at Yale University.
Almost two decades after NAFTA a leading expert
proposes a new North American agenda to make the
continent more competitive with Europe and Asia
THE NORTH AMERICAN IDEA

A Vision of a Continental Future
ROBERT A. PASTOR
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ACCIDENTAL
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A literary journey through Paris via its famed Métro in 22
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PARIS METRO TALES

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One of the world’s foremost experts on Cyprus offers a
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THE CYPRUS PROBLEM

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“A gripping tale well told of the man and his times—and
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DILLINGER’S WILD RIDE

The Year That Made America’s Public Enemy Number One
ELLIOTT J. GORN
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THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF THE CIVIL WAR
WILLIAM L. BARNEY
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A Very Short Introduction
STEPHEN ERIC BRONNER
riticalTheory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School,
C the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose—and,
if at all possible, cure—the ills of society, particularly fascism and capital-
ism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading rep-
resentatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and Ernst
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GENIUS
ANDREW ROBINSON
enius is the name we give to a quality of work that transcends fash-
G ion, celebrity, fame, and reputation. Somehow, genius abolishes
both the time and the place of its origin. Shakespeare’s plays and Mozart’s
melodies and harmonies continue to move people in languages and cul-
tures far removed from their native England and Austria. Similarly,
Darwin’s ideas are still required reading for every working biologist; they
continue to generate fresh thinking and experiments around the world.
The first concise study of genius in both the arts and the sciences, this
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PENTECOSTALISM
WILLIAM K. KAY
In this Very Short Introduction, William K. Kay outlines the origins and
growth of Pentecostalism, looking not only at the theological aspects of
the movement, but also at the sociological influences of its political and
humanitarian viewpoints. He shows that its history goes back to
Methodism and, before that, to earlier revival movements, while its the-
ology includes elements of holiness teaching and Adventism in a unique
pattern focused upon Jesus. Kay discusses how Pentecostalism was MARCH 2011
joined in the 1960s by a new religious wave, the “charismatic move- Religion
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HUMANISM
STEPHEN LAW
People of faith often argue that without God, there can be no morality;
that without religion, our lives are meaningless. In this Very Short
Introduction, philosopher Stephen Law explains why these claims are false
and why humanism—though a rejection of religion—nevertheless pro-
vides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives. Indeed, Law shows
that humanism is a quite positive alternative to religion, one that allows us
to enjoy meaningful, purposeful, and good lives without religion. And far MARCH 2011
from embracing moral nihilism, humanists are often deeply committed Philosophy
people, to be found at the forefront of many important ethical campaigns. 144 pp., 15 b/w halftones, 43⁄8 x 63⁄4
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LATE ANTIQUITY
GILLIAN CLARK
In this vibrant and compact introduction, Gillian Clark reveals that late
antiquity was a period of great transformation. Late antiquity saw
Roman law codified, Christian creeds formulated, the Talmud compiled,
and the Qur’an composed. If the Goths sacked the city of Rome, the
Vandals built churches in Africa and Attila the Hun received an embassy
from Constantinople. Anthony of Egypt and Simeon Stylites offered
spectacular new models of holiness, while Augustine and Basil and APRIL 2011
Benedict devised rules for monastic communities. Late antique artists Ancient History
produced the mosaics of Ravenna and the first dome of Hagia Sophia. 144 pp., 15 b/w halftones, 43⁄8 x 63⁄4
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EARLY MUSIC
THOMAS FORREST KELLY
rom Gregorian chant to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti, the music of
F the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful
and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this
Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a com-
pact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the many
attempts over the last two centuries to revive it. Kelly shows that the
early-music revival has long been grounded in the idea of spontaneity, of
excitement, and of recapturing experiences otherwise lost to us—either
the rediscovery of little-known repertories or the recovery of lost per-
forming styles, with the conviction that, with the right performance, the APRIL 2011
music will come to life anew. Blending musical and social history, he Music
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desirability of period instruments, and the relationship of mainstream
opera companies and symphony orchestras to music that they often
ignore, or play in modern fashion.
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BEAUTY
ROGER SCRUTON
eauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhila-
B rating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited
variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short
Introduction, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the con-
cept of beauty, asking what makes an object—either in art, in nature, or
the human form—beautiful, and examining how we can compare dif-
fering judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our
tastes vary so widely. Is there a right judgment to be made about beau-
ty? Is it right to say there is more beauty in a classical temple than a con-
crete office block, more in a Rembrandt than in an Andy Warhol M AY 2 0 1 1
Campbell Soup Can? Forthright and thought-provoking, and as acces- Philosophy
sible as it is intellectually rigorous, this introduction to the philosophy 184 pp., 20 b/w photographs, 43⁄8 x 63⁄4
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objects that fill our lives.
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ORGANIZATIONS
MARY JO HATCH
Organizations are everywhere, but we rarely give much thought to where
they came from and what they might become in the future. How and why
do they have so much influence over us? How do they contribute to and
detract from the meaningfulness of our lives, and how might we improve
them so they better serve our needs and desires? This Very Short
Introduction addresses all of these questions and many more. Drawing on
examples from the animal kingdom as well as from business, government,
and other formal organizations, Mary Jo Hatch provides a lively and
thought-provoking introduction to the process of organization.
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CANCER
NICK JAMES
Every year 10 million people are diagnosed with cancer, around 80% of
whom are destined to die from it. This Very Short Introduction explores
the disease underlying these figures, starting with the basic facts before
describing the bigger picture of the economics and politics of cancer
care. Nick James, founder of the CancerHelp website, examines the
trends in diagnosis and the constant improvements in treatment that
result in better cure rates and increased quality and quantity of life for
cancer patients. The book also considers issues surrounding expensive
drug development and highlights what can be done to reduce the risk of
developing cancer.
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Medicine
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MUHAMMAD
JONATHAN A. C. BROWN
s the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers,
A Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures
in world history. But learning about his life and understanding his impor-
tance has always proven difficult, as our only source of knowledge comes
from the biography of him written by his followers, the reliability of
which has been questioned by Western scholars. This Very Short
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Muhammad’s life and its importance, providing both Muslim and
Western historical perspectives. It explains the prominent roles that
Muhammad’s persona has played in the Islamic world throughout histo- M AY 2 0 1 1
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AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
DAVID A. GERBER
thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and
A the motivations and experiences of the migrants themselves, this
book offers a compact but wide-ranging look at one of America’s persis-
tent hot-button issues. Historian David Gerber begins by examining the
many legal efforts to curb immigration and to define who is and is not
an American, ranging from the Naturalization Law of 1795 to the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which opened the door to
millions of newcomers, the vast majority from Asia and Latin America.
The book also looks at immigration from the perspective of the
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racial and ethnic groups.
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SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such stunning discov-
eries about the natural world that the period has been called the
“Scientific Revolution.” In this Very Short Introduction Lawrence M.
Principe explores the exciting developments in the sciences of the stars
(astronomy, astrology, and cosmology), the sciences of earth (geography,
geology, hydraulics, pneumatics), the sciences of matter and motion
(alchemy, chemistry, kinematics, physics), the sciences of life (medicine, JUNE 2011
anatomy, biology, zoology), and much more. The story is told from the History of Science
perspective of the historical characters themselves—Copernicus, Galileo, 144 pp., 15 b/w halftones, 43⁄8 x 63⁄4
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PAGANISM
OWEN DAVIES
Written in a concise and lively style, this Very Short Introduction explores
the meaning of the words “pagan” and “paganism” from the ancient
world through to the present day. Owen Davies looks at paganism large-
ly through the eyes of the Christian world, describing how, over the cen-
turies, notions and representations of paganism were shaped by religious
conflict, power struggles, colonialism, and scholarship. Although the
emphasis is on the experience of paganism in Europe, Davies also dis- J U LY 2 0 1 1
cusses how the idea of paganism spread around the globe as Europe Religion
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NUCLEAR POWER
MAXWELL IRVINE
With the world desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon
gases—a desire compounded by the sky-rocketing cost of fossil fuels—
nuclear power is back on the agenda. In this Very Short Introduction,
Maxwell Irvine provides an informative and balanced overview of the entire
subject. After a concise history of nuclear physics and of the nuclear power
industry, Irvine discusses the nature of nuclear energy and the various
aspects of public concern, including the safety risks, the cost of its develop- J U LY 2 0 1 1
ment, and the problems of waste disposal. The book looks specifically at Technology
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SCIENCE FICTION
DAVID SEED
In this Very Short Introduction, David Seed doesn’t offer a history of science
fiction, but instead attempts to tie examples of science fiction to different
historical moments, in order to demonstrate how science fiction has evolved
over time, especially its emergence as a popular genre in the 20th century.
Seed looks not only at literature, but also at drama and poetry, as well as
film. Examining recurrent themes in science fiction, he looks at voyages
into space, the concept of the alien, the role of technology in science fic- AUGUST 2011
tion, and its relation to time—in the past, present, and future. Literature
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CONSCIENCE
PAUL STROHM
From Cicero and Augustine through the middle ages and into the
Reformation, this Very Short Introduction considers conscience as a mat-
ter of human rights and obligations, as well as an important issue in con-
temporary politics. Written by Paul Strohm, an eminent authority in the
field and an engaging writer, this compact book provides a thought-pro-
voking introduction to a compelling topic. Arranged chronologically to
focus on a series of important moments in the history of conscience, the AUGUST 2011
volume explores a wide variety of texts and events, providing a concise Philosophy
introduction to the evolution of ideas and debates about conscience. 144 pp., 15 b/w halftones, 43⁄8 x 63⁄4
978-0-19-956969-4
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HERODOTUS
JENNIFER T. ROBERTS
Hailed by Cicero as “the father of history,” Herodotus was both a critical
thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveler who was both tourist and
anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in
words, in particular, the wars between Greece and Persia. This Very Short
Introduction introduces readers to what little is known of Herodotus’s life
and discusses all aspects of his work, including his travels; his interest in
seeing the world and learning about non-Greek civilizations; the recur- AUGUST 2011
ring themes of his work; his beliefs in dreams, oracles, and omens; and Classical Studies
his account of the battles of the Persian Wars. 144 pp., 15 b/w halftones, 43⁄8 x 63⁄4
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RISK
BARUCH FISCHHOFF and JOHN KADVANY
e find risk everywhere—from genetically modified crops, medical
W malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online preda-
tors, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts
and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch
Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities
to illuminate both the similarities and differences of various kinds of
risk. Using conceptual frameworks such as decision theory and behav-
ioral decision research, they examine the science and practice of creating
measures of risk and look at how scientists apply probability by com-
bining historical records, scientific theories, and expert judgment. J U LY 2 0 1 1
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TREASURE ISLAND
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Edited by PETER HUNT
Robert Louis Stevenson reinvented the adventure genre with Treasure
Island, a boys’ story that appeals just as much to adults, and whose moral
ambiguities turned the Victorian universe on its head. This edition
celebrates the ultimate book of pirates and high adventure, and also
examines how this tale of greed, murder, treachery, and evil has acquired MARCH 2011
its classic status. The book features an informative introduction and Children’s Literature
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MOLL FLANDERS
New Edition
DANIEL DEFOE
Edited by G. A. STARR
Introduction and Notes by LINDA BREE
A tour-de-force of writing by Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary novel
tells the vivid and racy tale of a woman’s experience in the seamy side
of life in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England and
America. First published in 1722, and one of the earliest novels in the APRIL 2011
English language, its account of opportunism, endurance, and survival Literature
speaks as strongly to us today as it did to its original readers. This new 416 pp., 3 maps, 51⁄8 x 73⁄4
edition offers a critically edited text, a wide-ranging introduction 978-0-19-280535-5
and comprehensive notes by Linda Bree. $10.95(11), paperback
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DRACULA
New Edition
BRAM STOKER
Edited by ROGER LUCKHURST
Here is a new edition of one of the great horror stories in English lit-
erature, the novel that launched an armada of vampire tales in film,
television, graphic novels, cartoons, and teen fiction, including the
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part of the novel. $9.95(11), paperback
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THE GOSPELS
Authorized King James Version
Edited by W. R. OWENS
esus Christ is the central figure in Western culture, and one of the
J most influential in all human history. Almost everything we know
about him is contained in four narratives of his life, death, and resurrec-
tion—the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This unique edi-
tion of the Gospels, in the Authorized King James version, provides
readers with all the information they could need to appreciate the theo-
logical importance and literary and cultural significance of these great
writings. The volume features an illuminating introduction by W. R.
Owens, who guides the reader through the four Gospels in turn, high-
lighting how each offers its own distinctive and memorable portrait of M AY 2 0 1 1
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and places, a chronology of the life of Jesus alongside historical events,
and a map of Palestine in the time of Jesus.
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SELECTED POEMS
With Parallel German Text
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Edited by ROBERT VILAIN
Translated by SUSAN RANSON and MARIELLE SUTHERLAND
ilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the
R great twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of
Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, he constantly
probed the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving
from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of express-
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Each chapter of Point Made focuses on a typically tough challenge,
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examples of how prominent attorneys have resolved that challenge in
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engaging titles—“Brass Tacks,” “Talk to Yourself,” “Russian Doll”—
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SOCIAL WORK TREATMENT
Interlocking Theoretical Approaches
Fifth Edition
Edited by FRANCIS J. TURNER
irst published in 1974, Social Work Treatment remains the most
F popular and trusted compendium of theories available to social work
students and practitioners. It explores the full range of theoretical
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from psychoanalysis to crisis intervention.
This treasure trove of practice knowledge equips professionals with a
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FRICTION
How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us
CLARK McCAULEY and SOPHIA MOSKALENKO
his accessible book identifies twelve mechanisms of political
T radicalization that can move individuals, groups, and the masses
to increased sympathy and support for political violence. Terrorism is
an extreme form of radicalization, and the book describes pathways to
terrorism to demonstrate the twelve mechanisms at work.
Written by two psychologists who are acknowledged radicalization
experts and consultants to the Department of Homeland Security,
Friction draws heavily on case histories. The case material is wide-rang-
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radical Islam encouraged by the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. MARCH 2011
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DEATH OR LIBERTY
African Americans and Revolutionary America
DOUGLAS R. EGERTON
n Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of
I African American history stretching from Britain’s 1763 victory in the
Seven Years’ War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as
president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with
antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the
Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South
Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the
households of Boston’s elite. More important, he recaptures the drama
of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the young
nation fulfill its republican slogans. Although this struggle often MARCH 2011
unfolded in the corridors of power, Egerton pays special attention to American History
what black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his 352 pp., 15 halftones, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
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liberty—if never equality—only in northern states. Egerton concludes Hardback ISBN: 978-0-19-530669-9
that despite the real possibility of peaceful, if gradual, emancipation, the
Founders ultimately lacked the courage to end slavery.
Douglas R. Egerton is Joseph C. Georg Professor of History at Le Moyne College.

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TRI-FAITH AMERICA
How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its
Protestant Promise
KEVIN M. SCHULTZ
resident Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942—the
P United States was “a Protestant country,” he said, “and the Catholics
and Jews are here under sufferance.” In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultz
explains how the United States left behind this idea that it was “a
Protestant nation” and embraced the notion that Protestants, Catholics,
and Jews were “Americans all.” Schultz describes how the tri-faith idea
surfaced after World War I, promoted by public relations campaigns,
interfaith organizations, and the government to the extent that by the end
of World War II, the idea was becoming widely accepted—particularly in APRIL 2011
the armed forces, fraternities, neighborhoods, social organizations, and American History/Religion
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America. Equally important, Schultz shows how Catholics and Jews in
the post-World War II era used tri-faith rhetoric to challenge the nation’s
established moral authority. Indeed, as Americans began vigorously
debating the merits of pluralism, they initiated a social and political
climate that would pave the way toward the civil rights movement.
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CREATING THEIR OWN IMAGE
The History of African-American Women Artists
LISA E. FARRINGTON
ailed as “a captivating and thorough study of a long-ignored aspect
H of America’s art history” (CHOICE), Creating Their Own Image
offers the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists,
spanning from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance and the tumultuous
civil rights era, right up to the present day. Lavishly illustrated
throughout with color illustrations, this magnificent volume richly details
hundreds of important works—including some images never before
published—to present a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in its
scope and ambition. Weaving together an expansive collection of
artists, styles, and periods, Lisa Farrington argues that for centuries APRIL 2011
African-American women artists have created an alternative vision of how Art History
women of color can, are, and might be represented in American culture. 368 pp., 81 halftones, 172 color images,
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CLOTHED IN ROBES OF
SOVEREIGNTY
The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors
BENJAMIN H. IRVIN
fter the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776,
A thereby severing political relations with Great Britain, it began to
fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the
sovereignty of the infant republic. Congress, for example, created an
emblematic great seal, celebrated anniversaries of U.S. independence, and
implemented robust diplomatic protocols for the reception of foreign
ministers. Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts,
festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its
political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify APRIL 2011
the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. American History
Congress, however, could not simply impose its creations upon a quiescent 384 pp., 34 halftones, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
public. In fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the “people out of 978-0-19-973199-2
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Philadelphia as well as women, loyalists, Native Americans and other
persons not represented in Congress—vigorously contested the trappings
of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.
Benjamin H. Irvin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona RIGHTS

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A fascinating account of the presidential election that
changed American politics forever
THE BIRTH OF MODERN

POLITICS
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election
of 1828
LYNN HUDSON PARSONS
he 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew

T Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed
as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest
in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern frontiersman,
trumpeted by his supporters as a genuine man of the people, soundly
defeated a New England “aristocrat” whose education and political résumé
were as impressive as any ever seen in American public life. It was, many
historians have argued, the country’s first truly democratic
presidential election. It was also the election that opened a Pandora’s box
of campaign tactics, including coordinated media, get-out-the-vote efforts,
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fund-raising, organized rallies, opinion polling, campaign paraphernalia,
American History
ethnic voting blocs, “opposition research,” and smear tactics.
288 pp., 30 halftones, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
In The Birth of Modern Politics, Parsons shows that the Adams-Jackson
contest also began a national debate that is eerily contemporary, 978-0-19-975424-3
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community action for the common good against those who believed the
common good was best served by giving individuals as much freedom as
possible to promote their own interests. The book offers fresh and
illuminating portraits of both Adams and Jackson and reveals how, despite
their vastly different backgrounds, they had started out with many of the
same values, admired one another, and had often been allies in common
causes. But by 1828, caught up in a shifting political landscape, they were
plunged into a competition that separated them decisively from the
Founding Fathers’ era and ushered in a style of politics that is still with
us today.
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American Society.
THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family
KATHLEEN GERSON
he vast changes in family life—the rise of single, same-sex, and
T two-paycheck parents—have often been blamed for declining
morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research
with the children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals
that it is not a lack of “family values,” but rigid social and economic
forces that make it difficult to live out those values. Indeed, today’s
social and economic realities remain based on traditional—and now
obsolete—distinctions between breadwinning and caretaking. In this
equity vacuum, men and women develop conflicting strategies. With
compassion for all perspectives, Gerson argues that these approaches APRIL 2011
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that benefits families, encourages a thriving economy, and helps
women and men integrate love and work.
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BARBARIANS AND BROTHERS

Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865
WAYNE E. LEE
he most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies
T and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally
outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In Barbarians
and Brothers, historian Wayne Lee presents a searching exploration of early
modern English and American warfare, looking at such conflicts as the
sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War, the colonial
Anglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American Civil
War. Lee discusses these conflicts through compelling campaign
narratives, exploring the lives and fears of soldiers as well as the strategies
of their commanders, while showing how their collective choices APRIL 2011
determined the nature of wartime violence. In the end, the repeated Military History
experience of wars with barbarians or brothers created an American 336 pp., 16 halftones, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
culture of war that demands absolute solutions: enemies are either to be 978-0-19-973791-8
incorporated or rejected, included or excluded. And that determination $34.95(01), hardback
plays a major role in defining the violence used against them. Even
within such absolute goals, however, Lee points to the ways that war
continued to be defined by both violence and restraint.
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A highly original account of gentrification in New York
City, filled with insightful portraits of key neighborhoods
and how they are changing on the ground
NAKED CITY
The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
SHARON ZUKIN
s cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what

A they regard as “authentic” urban life: aging buildings, art galleries,
small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky
ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place’s
authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs
and exurbs.
But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive
demand for authenticity—evident in escalating real estate prices,
expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes—has helped
drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic
aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this
economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas— APRIL 2011
Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and Urban Studies
the city’s community gardens—and travels to both the city’s first IKEA 312 pp., 19 b/w illus., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
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1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs,
Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues
that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness
has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values
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THE BEAUTIFUL INVISIBLE
Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics
GIOVANNI VIGNALE
hallenging the image of physics as dry and dusty, The Beautiful
C Invisible shows that this highly abstract science is in fact teeming
with beautiful concepts, and the task of imagining them demands
profound creativity, just as creative as the work of poets or magical
realist novelists such as Borges and Musil. “A good scientific theory is
like a symbolic tale, an allegory of reality,” writes Giovanni Vignale, as
he uncovers the unexpected links between theoretical physics and
artistic creativity. In engaging and at times poetic prose, and with ample
quotations from many of the writers he admires, Vignale presents his
own unorthodox accounts of fundamental theoretical concepts such as APRIL 2011
Newtonian mechanics, superconductivity, and Einstein’s theory of Science
relativity, illuminating their profound implications. Throughout, the 320 pp., 15 b/w pictures and line drawings,
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HOW LITERATURE WORKS

50 Key Concepts
JOHN SUTHERLAND
minefield of ambiguous concepts, leaden prose, and circular
A definitions await anyone who wishes to tackle the terms used to
describe literature. Indeed, words like hermeneutics, heteroglossia, and
mimesis more often impede than enhance one’s appreciation of a great
literary work. Cutting through the cant, How Literature Works offers a
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A compelling account of a notorious murder in the
“Magic City” of Birmingham—a gripping story of love,
prejudice and violence in the age of Jim Crow
RISING ROAD
A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
SHARON DAVIES
t was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August
I 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named
Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in
broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer’s motive?
The priest had married Stephenson’s eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to
Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic.
Sharon Davies’s Rising Road resurrects the murder of Father Coyle
and the trial of his killer. As Davies reveals with novelistic richness,
Stephenson’s crime laid bare the most potent bigotries of the age: a
hatred not only of blacks, but of Catholics and “foreigners” as well. In
one of the case’s most unexpected turns, the minister hired future
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to lead his defense. Though APRIL 2011
regarded later in life as a civil rights champion, in 1921 Black was just American History
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A provocative and beautifully illustrated exploration of
the relationship between gay life and art
ART AND HOMOSEXUALITY

A History of Ideas
CHRISTOPHER REED
avishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color images

L that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to
contemporary America, Christopher Reed’s arresting book reveals the
deep linkages between art and homosexuality as we understand
those terms.
This is the first book to fully explore the interdependence between
the identity of the artist and the homosexual. It offers a bold,
globe-spanning narrative that draws on artwork from all the important
periods in the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and
contemporary, with special focus on the modern period. It was in the
nineteenth century that the identities of the avant-garde artist and the
homosexual took shape, and almost as quickly overlapped.
The figures involved—Ingres, Courbet, Wilde, Whitman—are among M AY 2 0 1 1
that era’s most iconic artists. The development of twentieth-century Art
art—exemplified in the work of figures like Gertrude Stein, Jasper 352 pp., 178 b/w and color illus., 7 x 10
Johns, David Hockney, and David Wojnarowicz—this book argues is
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simply not understandable apart from the concurrent development of
ideas about sexual identity. This highly readable volume challenges the
ideas of many prominent art critics and punctures the platitudes sur-
rounding discussions of both art and sexuality. The book discusses what
it means to be an insider and outsider, how sexuality came to define one’s
fundamental humanity, and what people risk (and gain) in rejecting
economic and social conformity.
Reed shows that many of the core ideas that define modern thought
more generally are nearly indecipherable without an understanding of
this pairing. The debates that have surrounded artists and homosexuals in
effect capture the dramatic history of the evolution of the modern mind.
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Art prize.
One of the world’s leading authorities offers a penetrating
look at the nature of power in the twenty-first century
COMMUNICATION POWER
MANUEL CASTELLS
ailed by The Financial Times as “the most prominent and

H influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications
and network age,” Manuel Castells here offers a ground-breaking
account of the modern communication revolution, a dramatic transfor-
mation of technology—and of the signals we receive—that is changing
the way we feel, think, and behave. And that, writes Castells, is creating
a revolution in power.
With his landmark trilogy, The Information Age, Castells offered one
of the first comprehensive analyses of how the Internet was creating
a networked society. Now he draws on neuroscience, cognitive
psychology, and case histories from around the world to explore the
psychology of decision making in the new communications
environment, highlighting the rise of communication power. He ranges
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the Internet in the Obama presidential campaign, and media control
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and blogging have given rise to a new communication system, mass
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The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the
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He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Internet Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the author of twenty-two books,
including the three-volume The Information Age.
A PERFECT MORAL STORM
The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
STEPHEN M. GARDINER
limate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity,
C but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In
The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our
dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new
light, considering it as an ethical failure. Gardiner clarifies the moral
situation, identifying the temptations (or “storms”) that make us
vulnerable to a certain kind of corruption. First, the world’s most
affluent nations are tempted to pass on the cost of climate change to the
poorer and weaker citizens of the world. Second, the present generation
is tempted to pass the problem on to future generations. Third, our poor M AY 2 0 1 1
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of our institutions, our leaders, and ourselves.
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NO SURE VICTORY
Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the
Vietnam War
GREGORY A. DADDIS
t is commonly thought that the U.S. Army in Vietnam, thrust into a
I war in which territory occupied was meaningless, depended on body
counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army
officer and historian Gregory A. Daddis uncovers the truth behind
this gross simplification of the historical record. Daddis shows that,
confronted by an unfamiliar enemy and an even more unfamiliar form of
warfare, the U.S. Army adopted a massive, and eventually unmanageable,
system of measurements and formulas to track the progress of military
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armed conflict.
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“A consistently provocative case for the innate connection
between science and art.”—Scientific American
THE ARTFUL UNIVERSE

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JOHN BARROW
ur love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions

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WHO NEEDS CLASSICAL MUSIC?
Cultural Choice and Musical Value
JULIAN JOHNSON
raised in The Economist as “heartfelt and finely reasoned. . .wise,
P perceptive and inspiring,” Who Needs Classical Music? offers a fresh
and balanced defense of the value of classical music in contemporary
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RAVISHED BY BEAUTY
The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality
BELDEN C. LANE
elden Lane weaves autobiographical essays that illuminate his own
B experience of nature into a “green theology” drawn from the
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“Everything you might like to know about numbers and
the brain, as filtered through the lively and engaging
brain of Stanislas Dehaene.”—Discover Magazine
THE NUMBER SENSE

How the Mind Creates Mathematics
Revised and Expanded Edition
STANISLAS DEHAENE
ur understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical

O calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been
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THE GLOBAL LINCOLN
Edited by RICHARD CARWARDINE and JAY SEXTON
ore than any other American historical figure, Abraham Lincoln
M towers over the global landscape, a leader who spoke—and contin-
ues to speak—to people around the world. The Global Lincoln tells the
unknown and remarkable story of this great president’s worldwide legacy.
Edited by acclaimed Lincoln biographer Richard Carwardine and Jay
Sexton, this fascinating volume brings together leading historians from
around the globe—including such writers as Harold Holzer, Kenneth O.
Morgan, and David W. Blight—to explore the image and influence of
Lincoln in places ranging from Germany to Japan, India to Ireland, Africa
and Argentina to the American South. The contributors show that the
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LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD

FLORA THOMPSON
Introduction by PHILLIP MALLETT
he inspiration for a popular television series that aired on PBS in
T 2009, Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson’s classic evocation
of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The
trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells the
story of Thompson’s childhood and youth during the 1880s in Lark
Rise—in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she was
born. Through the eyes of Laura, the author’s fictional counterpart,
Thompson describes the cottages, characters, and way of life of the
agricultural laborers and their families with whom she grew up—
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story-telling are described in fond and vivid detail. This new edition of Literature
the trilogy, the only hardback edition in print, boasts an attractive 592 pp., 30 wood-engravings, 53⁄8 x 81⁄2
format complete with ribbon marker and the original wood-engravings
by Julie Neild. The edition includes a new introduction by Phillip
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popularity, plus a useful select bibliography and a chronology of Flora
Thompson’s life and publications.
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MARTYRS AND MURDERERS
The Guise Family and the Making of Europe
STUART CARROLL
ailed as “entertaining” and “nuanced” by The Economist, Martyrs
H and Murderers tells the story of three generations of treacherous,
bloodthirsty power-brokers. One of the richest and most powerful
families in sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise played a pivotal
role in the history of Europe. Among the staunchest opponents of the
Reformation, they whipped up religious bigotry throughout France.
They overthrew the king, ruled Scotland for nearly 20 years through
Mary Queen of Scots, plotted to invade England and overthrow
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BREEDING
The Human History of Heredity, Race, and Sex
JOHN WALLER
n Breeding, John Waller offers an intriguing look at human heredity
I and the often troubling conclusions different societies have drawn
about it. The questions heredity provokes are legion. If characteristics are
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The crowning volume in Maury Klein’s definitive history
of the Union Pacific railroad
UNION PACIFIC
The Reconfiguration: America’s Greatest Railroad from
1969 to the Present
MAURY KLEIN
raised by the Chicago Tribune as “thoroughly and compellingly

P detailed history,” Volumes I and II of Maury Klein’s monumental
history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969.
Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific—
the oldest, largest, and most successful railroad of modern times—fully
up to date.
The book follows the trajectory of an icon of the industrial age
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Acclaimed Yeats biographer Roy Foster explores the
traditions and literary predecessors that influenced
Ireland’s greatest poet
WORDS ALONE
Yeats and His Inheritances
ROY FOSTER
oy Foster’s two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New

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So dramatic and revolutionary was Yeats’ impact on Irish literature
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literary predecessors during his own apprenticeship, particularly in the
construction of his path-breaking early work. T. S. Eliot famously
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HEAVEN IN THE AMERICAN
IMAGINATION
GARY SCOTT SMITH
oes heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in?
D Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and
many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other
topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. In this book,
Gary Scott Smith looks at heaven through an American lens, tracing the
history of heaven in the American imagination from the Puritans to the
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CHANGED FOR GOOD

A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
STACY WOLF
rom Maria in “West Side Story” to Tracy Turnblatt in “Hairspray”
F and Elphaba in “Wicked,” female characters in Broadway musicals
have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this
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HABITS OF CHANGE
An Oral History of American Nuns
CAROLE GARIBALDI ROGERS
collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits
A of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the
past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing
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PHILOSOPHERS
Photographs by STEVE PYKE
teve Pyke, a photographer whose work is a regular feature of The
S New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is known for his stunning portraits of
prominent authors, artists, actors, and intellectuals. In this riveting
collection, which he has been working on for twenty-five years, Pyke
presents 100 black-and-white portraits of contemporary philosophers,
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HEAVEN ON EARTH
The Varieties of the Millennial Experience
RICHARD LANDES
illennialists through the ages have looked forward to the apocalyptic
M moment that will radically transform society into heaven on earth.
They have promised both the impending annihilation to the forces of evil
and the advent of a perfect society. And all their promises have invariably
failed. We tend, therefore, to dismiss these prophets of doom and salvation
as crackpots and madmen, and not surprisingly historians of our secular era
have tended to underestimate their impact on our modern world. Now,
Richard Landes offers a lucid and ground-breaking analysis of this widely
misunderstood phenomenon. This long-awaited study shows that many
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AMERICA’S CHURCH
The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the
Nation’s Capital
THOMAS A. TWEED
he National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved,
T blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a
“dazzling jewel” and dismissed as a “towering Byzantine beach ball.” In this
intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is
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N AT U R E ’ S PAT T E R N S : A TA P E S T R Y I N T H R E E PA R T S
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One of America’s most stylish essayists turns his
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Aphorisms, Dueling, the Night, and the 1960s
EXCEPT WHEN I WRITE

Reflections of a Recovering Critic
ARTHUR KRYSTAL
riting of Arthur Krystal’s Agitations Morris Dickstein noted that,

W “Whether he is writing literary essays that wear their learning
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SIBLINGS
Brothers and Sisters in American History
C. DALLETT HEMPHILL
ased on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular
B literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of
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FIGHTING CHANCE
The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in
Reconstruction America
FAYE E. DUDDEN
he advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter
T falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady
Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right
to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come
to this? In a lively narrative of insider politics, betrayal, deception, and
personal conflict, Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this question
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their long-held commitment to black rights and their invaluable
friendship and alliance with Frederick Douglass. Based on extensive
research, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women’s history and
to 19th-century political history.
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A social and cultural history of the mobilization for
World War II, when the central focus of government
shifted from welfare to warfare
WARFARE STATE
World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government
JAMES T. SPARROW
lthough common wisdom and much scholarship assume that

A “big government” gained its foothold in the United States under the
auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was
World War II that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal
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Deal’s welfare programs.
Warfare State shows how the federal government, in the course of
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the legitimacy of the state in wartime.
World War II forged a new bond between citizens, nation, and
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BENEATH THE AMERICAN
RENAISSANCE
The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
DAVID S. REYNOLDS
ailed in The New York Times Book Review as “impressively informed
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RENÉ BLUM AND THE

BALLETS RUSSES
In Search of a Lost Life
JUDITH CHAZIN-BENNAHUM
his pathfinding biography of a fascinating cultural hero, René Blum
T and the Ballets Russes uncovers the enigmatic and brilliant writer and
producer whose life ended in the Holocaust. Brother of Léon Blum, the
first socialist prime minister of France, René Blum was a passionate and
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The complex, untold story of Jews in black baseball and
how they helped integrate the sport
OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Jews and Black Baseball
REBECCA T. ALPERT
ere is an eye-opening look at one of baseball’s most intriguing and

H little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews
and black baseball in Jim Crow America.
In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports
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baseball’s segregation. In fact, the campaign to convince manager Branch
Rickey to integrate the Brooklyn Dodgers was initiated by Daily Worker
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A sobering look at America’s obsession with physical
beauty and the toll this obsession takes particularly
on women
THE BEAUTY BIAS

The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
DEBORAH L. RHODE
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A timely, scathing critique of the expanded role of
administrators at U.S. universities—and their
manipulative efforts to bureaucratize academic life
THE FALL OF THE FACULTY

The Rise of the All-Administrative University and
Why It Matters
BENJAMIN GINSBERG
s recently as the 1970s, America’s universities were mainly led by fac-

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administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics.
By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration
gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to
bolster their power over the faculty. Ginsberg also shows that
eliminating the tenure system, which some misguided critics see as a way
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MEXICO IN WORLD HISTORY
WILLIAM H. BEEZLEY
rawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent
D studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley
provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story
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THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE

ORIGINS OF INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
JENNY S. MARTINEZ
s Jenny Martinez shows in this groundbreaking new book, the
A international human rights law that we know today is not solely a
post-World War II development, as most scholars claim, but rather has
roots in one of the nineteenth century’s central moral causes: the
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The courts, which were created by treaties and based in the Caribbean,
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Jenny S. Martinez is Professor of Law and Justin M. Roach, Jr., Faculty Scholar at RIGHTS
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RADIOACTIVITY
A History of a Mysterious Science
MARJORIE MALLEY
adioactivity burst into the world without warning. No precursors
R foreshadowed it, and nothing in nineteenth century physics could
have predicted it. In this vividly written and informative volume,
Marjorie Malley presents a full history of radioactivity, the first book of
this scope to focus exclusively on this once mysterious phenomenon.
Malley captures the puzzlement and suspense of radioactivity’s pioneers,
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HERE BE DRAGONS
How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized
Our Views of Life and Earth
DENNIS McCARTHY
hy do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only in
W the Antarctic? Why are marsupials found only in Australia and
South America? In a book that Science News called “fascinating and
revelatory,” Dennis McCarthy tells a story that encompasses two great,
insightful theories that together explain the strange patterns of life across
the world—evolution and plate tectonics. We find animals and plants
where we do because, over time, the continents have moved, separating
and uniting in a long, slow dance; because sea levels have risen, cutting
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THE SPIRITUAL-INDUSTRIAL
COMPLEX
America’s Religious Battle against Communism in the Early
Cold War
JONATHAN P. HERZOG
n his farewell address, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation of
I the perils of the military-industrial complex, but Eisenhower had
spent his presidency contributing to another, lesser known, Cold War
collaboration: the spiritual-industrial complex. This fascinating volume
argues that American leaders in the early Cold War considered the
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IN THE SHADOW OF THE GENERAL

Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle
SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH
n contemporary France, Charles de Gaulle has become a figure of
I legend, consistently acclaimed as the nation’s pre-eminent “historical”
figure. But paradoxes abound. For one, his personal popularity sits oddly
with his social origins and professional background. Neither the
nobility, nor the Catholic Church, nor the Army is particularly
well-regarded in France today, as they are seen to represent antiquated
traditions and values. So why, then, do the French nonetheless identify
with, celebrate, and even revere this austere and devout nobleman, who
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An exhilarating political thriller that will mesmerize
readers with its likable characters, unforgettable
dialogue, and riveting plot
REMOTE CONTROL
KoTaRo IsaKa
Translated by sTEPhEn snYdER
asaharu aoyagi, a former delivery-truck driver in the city of

M sendai, is unemployed. Two years ago he achieved brief notoriety
for rescuing a local actress from a robbery attempt while making a deliv-
ery to her apartment. now he is back in the spotlight—this time as the
main suspect in the assassination of a newly elected prime minster who
had come to sendai for a hometown victory parade.
set in a near-future Japan modeled on the United states, Remote
Control follows aoyagi on a forty-eight-hour chase, in a dramatic
retelling of the Kennedy killing with aoyagi in the role of a framed Lee
harvey oswald. a massive manhunt is underway. as aoyagi runs, he
must negotiate trigger-happy law enforcement and security Pods set up
throughout the city to monitor cell-phone and email transmissions and MARCH 2011
keep a photo record of street traffic. Can he discover why he has been Mysteries
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before the conspirators take him out?
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Isaka’s style and worldview are such that he is often compared to
haruki Murakami; but he defies an easy label as a writer, with a voice, a
sense of humor, and an imagination that are truly unique. now, with
this excellent translation by stephen snyder, readers everywhere can
enjoy one of Japan’s finest literary talents.
• Winner of the Shugoro Yamamoto Prize and

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Coin Locker Babies, and Yoko ogawa’s The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the
Professor, and Hotel Iris. he teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College in
Vermont.
120 KODANSHA
A collection of thrilling samurai tales tracing the history
of seppuku from ancient times to the twentieth century
SEPPUKU
A History of Samurai Suicide
andREW RanKIn
he history of seppuku—Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stom-

T ach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri—spans a millennium, and
came to be favored by samurai as an honorable form of death. here, for
the first time in English, is a book that charts the history of seppuku
from ancient times to the twentieth century through a collection of
swashbuckling tales from history and literature. author andrew Rankin
takes us from the first recorded incident of seppuku, by the goddess
aomi in the eighth century, through the “golden age” of seppuku in the
sixteenth century that includes the suicides of shibata Katsuie, sen no
Rikyū and Toyotomi hidetsugu, up to the seppuku of General nogi
Maresuke in 1912.
drawing on never-before-translated medieval war tales, samurai clan
documents, and execution handbooks, Rankin also provides a fascinat- M AY 2 0 1 1
ing look at the seppuku ritual itself, explaining the correct protocol and Martial Arts
etiquette for seppuku, different stomach-cutting procedures, types of 256 pp., 10 b/w plates, 51⁄4 x 71⁄2
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at the seppuku ceremony. The book ends with a collection of quotations
from authors and commentators down through the centuries, summing
up both the Japanese attitude toward seppuku and foreigners’ reactions:
“as for when to die, make sure you are one step ahead of everyone
else. never pull back from the brink. But be aware that there are times
when you should die, and times when you should not. die at the right
moment, and you will be a hero. die at the wrong moment, and you will
die like a dog.”—Izawa nagahide, The Warrior’s Code, 1725
“We all thought, ‘These guys are some kind of nutcakes.’”—Jim
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Andrew Rankin is a Japan scholar studying for his Ph.d. on Yukio Mishima at
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attended Tokyo University. Rankin worked as a translator at the national
Institute of Japanese Literature in Tokyo; his work includes Snakelust by Kenji
nakagami, published by KI in 1998.
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Master chef Kikuo Shimizu shares his own experiences
and artistry to reveal the beauty, techniques, and
philosophy of traditional Tokyo-style sushi
EDOMAE SUSHI
Art, Tradition, Simplicity
KIKUo shIMIZU
Photographs by aKIRa saITo
domae” means “in front of Edo,” the old name of Japan’s capital
“E city. In nineteenth-century Edo, which was as busy and bustling
as today’s Tokyo, workers in search of quick, nutritious meals favored
sushi made from freshly-caught fish and vinegar-seasoned rice. over the
years, Edomae sushi became increasingly well-respected—no longer
considered just inexpensive “fast” food, but, rather, a unique and high-
ly-esteemed cuisine. Today, there are few written records about true
Edomae sushi, but its technique and soul have been passed down from
chef to chef, maintaining its tradition as it evolved through the decades.
now, Kikuo shimizu, a master chef and owner of Kikuyoshi, a tiny but
revered Tokyo restaurant, reveals how authentic Edomae sushi is made. JUNE 2011
Chef shimizu introduces about thirty different varieties of fish, and Cooking
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fish in vinegar to enhance its fattiness, and marinating lean fish in
kombu kelp to heighten its umami, to scoring the surface of a piece of
fish to fit along the arch of the rice nugget, forming a “single existence”
from the two ingredients. he also includes some basic recipes and
preparation methods.
The essential accompaniments of sushi—wasabi, nori, and rice—
are explained in detail, including how and when they are grown and
harvested, and how best to prepare them for each season.
The author explores the history of Edomae sushi and writes, from
personal experience, about the life and training of a traditional Japanese
sushi artist. he shares his insights into the attitude and philosophy of
Edomae sushi, a tradition based on simplicity, beauty, and excellence.
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Fujimoto, the legendary “sushi emperor.” In 1971, he opened his own restaurant in
the city’s akasaka neighborhood. shimizu is famous for shunning media attention;
until this book, the only way to experience his sushi was to try to get a reservation
at his nine-seat counter.
122 KODANSHA
The manga edition of a reader favorite—a poignant,
hard-hitting, real-life story of struggle and redemption
YAKUZA MOON
The True Story of a Gangster’s Daughter
The Manga Edition
shoKo TEndo
adapted by sEan MIChaEL WILson
Illustrated by MIChIRU MoRIKaWa
n this lively and inspiring adaptation by a rising star in the manga world,
I and with illustrations by a leading artist, shoko Tendo’s powerful story
has been recreated. Yakuza Moon is a heartrending and eye-opening
account of her experiences growing up in Japan’s gangster society.
Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, shoko Tendo lived her
early years in luxury. But labeled “the yakuza kid,” she was the victim
both of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at
school, and of her father’s drunken rages at home. Then the family fell
into debt, and Tendo fell in with the wrong crowd. By the age of fifteen
she was a gang member; by the age of eighteen, a drug addict; and in her J U LY 2 0 1 1
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Michiru Morikawa, an artist and illustrator, won the prestigious International
Manga and anime award in the U.K., and the prize for Best new Manga artist
from Kodansha in Tokyo.

Simple, healthy, and delicious vegetable sushi from
Japan’s most popular vegetarian blogger
THE VEGETABLE SUSHI

COOKBOOK
IZUMI shoJI
Photographs by noRIKo YaMaGUChI
he Vegetable Sushi Cookbook is the brainchild of Izumi shoji, a

T hugely popular blogger in Japan, who shares her expertise in turn-
ing a wide variety of vegetables into delicious and healthy sushi meals.
Each recipe has been chosen for its nutritious ingredients and delightful
taste, and is easy to make with basic cooking skills and no special tools.
shoji offers alternatives for any ingredients that might be difficult to find
in some areas.
The author covers the entire range of sushi dishes, from nigiri-zushi
(the familiar fish-atop-rice style) to maki-zushi (rolled sushi), and chi-
rashi-zushi (scattered sushi), including the oshi-zushi style popular in the
osaka area. also explained, in detail with many photographs, are the
various styles of preparing the vegetables for use in sushi dishes, from AUGUST 2011
grilling to steaming and frying. Each dish is photographed in full color. Cooking
There are additional chapters on making sushi bento, the lunch box 112 pp., 96 pp. in full-color,
100 color photos, 71⁄2 x 97⁄8
craze that’s sweeping the country; and on preparing festive vegetable
sushi for parties. 978-4-7700-3150-1
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Izumi Shoji is a Tokyo resident and mother, who turned her interest in vegetarian
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made an impact on the blogosphere (and now averages 60,000 unique users daily).
shoji’s first book, featuring recipes from her blog, was released in March 2008, and
sold over 70,000 copies in Japan. The Vegetable Sushi Cookbook is her fifteenth book
and her first in English.
124 KODANSHA
FELT FRIENDS FROM JAPAN
86 Super-cute Toys and Accessories to Make Yourself
naoMI TaBaTha
elt Friends from Japan is a treasure trove of delightful felt projects—
F 86 in all—including not just adorable soft toys, but also coin purs-
es, bags, cell phone holders, badges, and flowers. author naomi Tabatha
has gone for a retro feel, capturing the style she remembers from her
childhood in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s.
Every project features beautiful, full-color photographs, clear step-
by-step instructions, and cut-out patterns; and an explanatory section
covers the basic stitches and techniques used. Everything is hand-sewn
and requires just felt and a needle-and-thread. simple enough for
crafters ranging in age from about 10 years old to adult, the book is sure MARCH 2011
to please anyone who loves creating cute things from felt. Crafts/Hobbies
64 pp., 32 pp. in full-color, 71⁄2 x 101⁄8
978-4-7700-3141-9
after working for several toy manufacturers, Naomi Tabatha began freelancing
as a 3d figure illustrator. her original stuffed toys have graced countless magazine,
book, and Cd covers. she also creates baby goods and writes columns for Japanese
women’s magazines. her love of making things by hand is part of her eco-friendly
lifestyle.
WHAT’S WHAT IN JAPANESE

RESTAURANTS
A Guide to Ordering, Eating, and Enjoying
Third Edition, Revised and Updated
RoBB saTTERWhITE
n this completely revised edition of a long-time favorite, Robb
I satterwhite offers readers an insider’s tour of the vibrant and con-
stantly-changing contemporary restaurant scene in Japan. Included are
many favorite features, completely updated, such as an explanation of
different kinds of restaurants, how to read menus (with examples),
phrases for ordering, and a glossary and food vocabulary. Many new fea-
tures have been added as well: an overview of the changing restaurant
scene; sections on fish, Japanese beef, and premium pork brands; APRIL 2011
expanded sections on different types of restaurants and kinds of foods; Travel/Food
and Japanese beverages. satterwhite also explains various cooking styles 256 pp., 40 b/w photos, 51⁄4 x 71⁄2
and ingredients, and offers insights into culinary traditions, history, and 978-4-7700-3144-0
the finer points of food preparation. $16.95(03), paperback
Robb Satterwhite is the author of three books on Japanese food. his website
Bento.com, a guide to Japanese restaurants and Japanese food, gets around one
million page views per month (approximately 500,000 unique users). The website
itself has over 8,000 pages and covers close to 2,000 restaurants in the Tokyo area.
The website has been mentioned in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time
Magazine, and many other publications.

JAPANESE FOR ALL OCCASIONS
Mastering Speech Styles from Casual to Honorific
TaEKo KaMIYa
n Japanese, register—the way you change your words depending on
I who you are speaking to—plays a key role. Japanese for All Occasions
is a much-needed introduction to this bewildering aspect of the lan-
guage, aimed at intermediate students and above. Through 57 dialogues,
veteran teacher Taeko Kamiya shows learners how the Japanese change
their way of speaking according to the social setting or their relationship
with the listener, with examples ranging from casual to superpolite.
Chapters are ordered by function and present three similar dialogues
that show contrasting styles of speech. detailed notes explain the gram-
mar or usage at work in the dialogues, and quizzes at the end of each APRIL 2011
chapter allow learners to test their understanding. Best of all, the book Language Learning
comes with a free Cd containing all the dialogues, narrated by profes- 200 pp., 51⁄4 x 71⁄2
sional Japanese actors. 978-4-7700-3151-8
Taeko Kamiya (1925—2005) was an internationally-known author, teacher, and 1 CD attached
philanthropist who received Masters degrees from the University of san Francisco
in education and from Monterey Institute of International studies in linguistics.
she taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the defense Language Institute in
Monterey, California, before turning to writing books about the Japanese language.
among her many publications are The Handbook of Japanese Verbs, The Handbook
of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs, and Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective
Communication, from Kodansha International.
THE NEW KIMONO

From Vintage Style to Everyday Chic
ThE EdIToRs oF NANAO MaGaZInE
ecently, young women in Japan have taken to the idea of wearing
R kimono as everyday fashion, delighting in scouring secondhand
kimono stores and their mothers’ closets for vintage pieces to bring their
own wardrobes up to date. a testament to this trend is the success of
Nanao, a quarterly magazine aimed at this younger market, and filled
with stylish spreads and tips on dressing, finding great but inexpensive
pieces, and customizing, accessorizing, and caring for these traditional
garments. The New Kimono presents, in book form, a selection of the
best articles from Nanao. an appendix provides clear, step-by-step guide-
lines for putting on kimono, kimono underwear, yukata, and obi. a M AY 2 0 1 1
glossary of kimono terms and a shop guide is also included. Beautiful Fashion
photographs combine with practical hints, making this book indispens- 128 pp., 96 pp. in full-color, 71⁄2 x 97⁄8
able for kimono lovers, as well as anyone with an interest in fashion, 978-4-7700-3148-8
Japanese popular culture, or textiles and design. $24.95(03), paperback
Nanao Magazine is a quarterly publication, established in 2004, with a circulation of

50,000. In addition to the four yearly issues, there are two special extra issues a year.
126 KODANSHA
FOUR SEASONS OF MT. FUJI
Edited by Kodansha InTERnaTIonaL
Photographs by YUKIo ohYaMa and
shIGEKI YaMashITa
t. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, adored as a religious object,
M and loved by people in Japan from ancient days for its ever-chang-
ing appearance, transformed from day to night and season to season, yet
always breathtaking. This book features forty images of the mountain
taken by two professional photographers who have devoted many years to
capturing its beauty on film. In addition to the photographs, there are
images of Mt. Fuji in art and crafts, which emphasize the importance of
the mountain to many aspects of Japanese culture. Back matter includes a
history of Mt. Fuji, popular climbing routes to the top, spots offering the M AY 2 0 1 1
best views, and maps for locating accommodations. Travel
104 pp., 96 pp. in full-color, 71⁄2 x 97⁄8
978-4-7700-3143-3
Yukio Ohyama began his professional career in 1972 by specializing in photograph-

ing steam locomotives. In 1976, he began taking photos of Mt. Fuji; and in 1990,
he built his own domed house at the foot of the mountain. he is considered one
of Japan’s foremost photographers of Mt. Fuji. Shigeki Yamashita established a
public relations photo agency in 1987. In 1996, he began focusing on nature and
scenery. In the same year, he spent 100 days camping out in a car and shooting the
different faces of Mt. Fuji.
SHINTO SHRINES
A Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan’s Ancient Religion
JosEPh CaLI
With John doUGILL
ith over 125 black-and-white photos, fifty illustrations, and maps,
W this guidebook showcases sixty-six major shinto shrines, many of
which are World heritage sites or national Treasures.
The authors introduce fascinating aspects of this ancient shamanistic
religion: the history of shintoism and its fundamental tenets; its rela-
tionship to Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other Eastern belief
systems; customs and rites; pilgrimages and recommended routes; and
types of festivals. The Guide portion of the book is organized by region
of the country. For each shrine, there is a comprehensive entry high- JUNE 2011
lighting important spiritual features, physical features (architecture, Travel
design, and art), associated festivals, and enshrined gods. The authors 240 pp., 125 b/w photos, 50 illus., maps,
also note the prayers offered, and the best times for travelers to visit. glossary, index, 51⁄4 x 71⁄2
978-4-7700-3139-6
a native new Yorker, Joseph Cali has lived in Japan for over 30 years. he has $22.00(03), paperback
written several books, including The New Zen Garden, also from Kodansha
International. By day, Cali works as a graphic designer, illustrator, and interior
designer. John Dougill is a professor of cultural studies at Ryukoku University in
Kyoto. he is the author of Kyoto: A Cultural History (2006) and the editor of the
journal Japanese Religions. he spent his most recent sabbatical studying the roots of
shintoism, and serves on a committee looking to build a shinto shrine in the
United Kingdom.

THE ESSENCE OF BUDO
The Secret Teachings of the Grandmaster
MasaaKI haTsUMI
udo is the spiritual way of the martial arts that all practitioners must
B follow if they are to be true martial artists. In this book, Masaaki
hatsumi explores the very essence of Budo, and demonstrates an array
of important techniques relating to this essence, explaining how Budo
transcends any one combat technique and is at the core of all the many
martial arts developed in Japan. The author also reveals secret techniques
and the hidden principles of the martial arts, and elucidates the words
of his master, Toshitsugu Takamatsu, on Budo and life.
J U LY 2 0 1 1
Martial Arts
208 pp., 16 pp. in full-color, 20 color
photos, 380 b/w photos, 71⁄2 x 101⁄4
978-4-7700-3107-5
after progressing through various martial arts, Masaaki Hatsumi became the 34th
Grandmaster of Togakure-ryū ninjutsu and eight other arts, which he unified into
the Bujinkan system. hatsumi has taught thousands of students and instructed law
enforcement agencies all over the world, receiving numerous accolades from politi-
cians and spiritual leaders of many nationalities. he is also the author of numerous
books and dVds on ninjutsu and budo.
AIKIDO
My Spiritual Journey
GoZo shIoda
afterword by YasUhIsa shIoda
n this first full autobiographical work, legendary aikido grandmaster
I Gozo shiodo tells of his exciting life. Born in Tokyo in 1915, shioda
excelled as a student of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. after
attaining a ninth-rank black belt, he founded the Yoshinkan school of
aikido; and in 1988, shioda was awarded the title of aikido Master by
the International Martial arts Federation. over the course of his dis-
tinguished career, he was chief instructor for the Tokyo Metropolitan
Police, the air self-defense Force, the Japanese national Railways, and a
number of leading Japanese universities. In Aikido: My Spiritual Journey, J U LY 2 0 1 1
shioda relates moving, personal anecdotes about Ueshiba, and imparts Martial Arts
what he learned from his mentor. he also offers a concise overview of 288 pp., 20 b/w photos, 6 x 9
the key elements of aikido. 978-4-7700-3149-5
Gozo Shioda died in 1994.Yasuhisa Shioda trained under his father, and has
worked to promote aikido, teaching university students, police, and business
groups. In 1984, he went to Great Britain, where he taught aikido for three years,
laying a foundation for the development of aikido in that country. In 2007,
he became a grandmaster and the president of Yoshinkan aikido.
128 KODANSHA
ALL THE EMPEROR’S MEN
Kurosawa’s Pearl Harbor
hIRoshI TasoGaWa
n april 1967, with much fanfare, 20th Century Fox and Kurosawa
I Productions announced that the legendary akira Kurosawa would be
the director and script editor for the Japanese sequences of Tora, Tora,
Tora!, a movie about Japan’s attack on Pearl harbor. In december 1968,
three weeks into filming, Kurosawa was dismissed. What is the truth
behind this humiliating dismissal— and what would Kurosawa’s version
of the film have been? These are the questions that journalist hiroshi
Tasogawa addresses in All the Emperor’s Men.
after careful research, Tasogawa concluded that the incident was not
the result of a conspiracy or malice on the part of hollywood, as has JUNE 2011
been suggested. In fact, Kurosawa himself was, in no small part, respon- Film Studies
sible for his own fate, misunderstanding both the studio’s concept for the 384 pp., b/w photos, 6 x 9
movie and his own role in the production. 978-4-7700-3138-9
Hiroshi Tasogawa was a reporter for nhK, Japan’s public broadcasting

corporation. he was also an associated Press reporter and a professor at Tokai
University. The Japanese edition of All the Emperor’s Men received four awards.
FURNITURE WITH SOUL

Master Woodworkers and Their Craft
daVId saVaGE
n Furniture with Soul, author david savage explores the philosophies,
I careers, and pivotal moments of struggle and inspiration for today’s
most talented and influential woodworkers, including John Cederquist,
Tom hucker, Michael hurwitz, Peter danko, Judy Kensley McKie, and
others. he traveled throughout the U.s. and Britain to interview these
renowned artists. In the book, he reveals their thinking, creative
processes, and rise to prominence. he takes the reader into their work-
shops and their hearts as he seeks to illuminate the soul of the artists’
work, and the influences and experiences that shaped them.
J U LY 2 0 1 1
Art
232 pp., 96 pp. in full-color, b/w photos,
sketches, 9 x 12
978-4-7700-3121-1
a designer and furniture maker for over 35 years, David Savage is one the world’s
most highly regarded furniture makers. his work is sought after by collectors and
lovers of handcrafts throughout the world. he has published over fifty articles for
american, British, and European magazines. savage will be hosting a 6-part BBC
series on woodworking in early 2011.

An indispensable companion to the popular Japanese in
MangaLand series
JAPANESE IN MANGALAND
Workbook 2
MaRC BERnaBE
art by KEn nIIMURa
he Japanese in MangaLand series has been embraced by Japanese

T teachers and learners everywhere for its innovative and entertaining
blend of solid language instruction and pop culture. now comes the
Japanese in MangaLand Workbook 2, the perfect way for students who
have moved beyond the basics to practice and assimilate what they’ve
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INDEX
A Beezley, William H., 116 Concise Oxford English Dictionary,
34
Emperor’s New Mind, The, 58
Beneath the American Renaissance, Esposito, John L., 23
Aarts, Bas, 36
112 Conscience: VSI, 65 Essence of Budo, The, 128
Abraham Lincoln and the Second
Bernabe, Marc, 130 Courant, Richard, 58 Eustace Diamonds, The, 70
American Revolution, 31
Bible Now, The, 16 Creating Their Own Image, 86 Except When I Write, 109
Accidental Guerrilla, The, 44
Binmore, Ken, 58 Critical Theory, 59 Executive Unbound, The, 80
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
The, 76 Birth of Modern Politics, The, 87 Cropper, William H., 58 Exercise for Mood and Anxiety, 57
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The, 76 Bismarck, 5 Crossroads of Freedom, 31 Extended Phenotype, The, 58
After Prostate Cancer, 55 Black Beauty, 76 Cyprus Problem, The, 52
Age of Extremes, An, 77 Boritt, Gabor S., 32
Branches, 108
Aikido, 128 F
Alcott, Louisa May, 76 Breeding, 99 D Fall of the Faculty, The, 115
All the Emperor’s Men, 129 Bronner, Stephen Eric, 59 Daddis, Gregory A., 94 Farmer, David, 72
All the People, 77 Brown, Jonathan A.C., 63 Dance of Air and Sea, The, 6 Farrington, Lisa E., 86
Alpert, Rebecca T., 113 Bruera, Eduardo, 104 Davies, Owen, 64 Felt Friends from Japan, 125
America Walks into a Bar, 22 Burgess, Lauren Cook, 32 Davies, Sharon, 91 Fighting Chance, 110
America’s Church, 106 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 69, Dawkins, Richard, 58 First Americans, The, 77
76
American Immigration: VSI, 63 Death or Liberty, 85 Fischhoff, Baruch, 66
Burns, Elizabeth, 104
Anderson, Terry, 25 Deaths of Others, The, 24 Flow, 108
Bush’s Wars, 25
Angels of Mercy, 134 Defoe, Daniel, 67 For Cause and Comrades, 31
Butt, John, 37
Anne of Avonlea, 76 Dehaene, Stanislas, 97 Forum and the Tower, The, 30
Byman, Daniel, 14
Anne of Green Gables, 76 Desjardin, Thomas A., 31 Foster, Roy, 101
Aristotle, 71 Dickens, Charles, 76 Four Seasons of Mt. Fuji, 127
Art and Homosexuality, 92 Dictionary of Marketing, A, 73 Frankenstein, 71, 76
Artful Universe Expanded, The, 95 C Dictionary of Media and Freehling, William W., 31
As Bad as They Say?, 132 Cali, Joseph, 127 Communication, A, 72
Friction, 84
Atkins, Peter, 11 Cancer: VSI, 62 Dillinger’s Wild Ride, 54
Friedman, Richard Elliott, 16
Augustine, Saint, 71 Canterbury Tales, The, 71 Dividing the Spoils, 8
From Battlefields Rising, 32
Austen, Jane, 71, 76 Carroll, Stuart, 99 Dogs of War, The, 10
From Colonies to Country, 77
Carwardine, Richard, 98 Doyle, Arthur Conan, 76
From Colony to Superpower, 40
Castells, Manuel, 93 Doyle, Charles, 73
Fuller, Randall, 32
B CDC Health Information for
International Travel 2012, 103
Dracula, 67
Furniture with Soul, 129
Drawn with the Sword, 31
Baggott, Jim, 4
Chadwick, Henry, 71 Draznin, Boris, 104
Ball, Philip, 108
Chandler, Daniel, 72 Drugs and Drug Policy, 53
Barash, David P., 18
Changed for Good, 102 Dudden, Faye E., 110
G
Barbarians and Brothers, 88 Game Theory: VSI, 58
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 71 Durrell, Martin, 38
Barney, William L., 56 Gardiner, Stephen M., 94
Chazin-Bennahum, Judith, 112
Barrow, John, 95 Garner’s Dictionary of Legal
Christopher, Emma, 27
Battle Cry of Freedom, 31 Usage, 107
Clark, Gillian, 60
Baum, L. Frank, 76 E Garner, Bryan, 107
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty, 86
Beaumont, Daniel, 26 Early Music: VSI, 61 Gaskell, Elizabeth, 70
Communication Power, 93
Beautiful Invisible, The, 90 Economics of Good and Evil, 7 Genius for Deception, A, 81
Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Beauty Bias, The, 114 Edomae Sushi, 122 Genius: VSI, 59
Quotations, 73
Beauty: VSI, 61 Egerton, Douglas R., 85 George, Alexander, 42
136 INDEX
INDEX
Gerber, David A., 63

I Leopold, Aldo, 58 Nuclear Power: VSI, 64
Gerson, Kathleen, 88 Liberty for All?, 77 Number Sense, The, 97
In the Shadow of the General, 118
Gettysburg Nobody Knows, The, 32 Lincoln and His Admirals, 32
Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn,
Ginsberg, Benjamin, 115 The, 82 Lincoln: VSI, 32
Gioia, Ted, 51 Irvin, Benjamin H., 86 Little Women, 76 O
Glendon, Mary Ann, 30 Irvine, Maxwell, 64 Living with Bipolar Disorder, 46 Ohyama, Yukio, 127
Global Lincoln, The, 98 Isaka, Kotaro, 120 Lockwood, John, 2 Oliver Twist, 76
Gorn, Elliott J., 54 Lodge, Tom, 20 On Being, 11
Gospels, The, 68 Lynn, Joanne, 50 Organizations: VSI, 62
Grahame, Kenneth, 76 J Osman, Suleiman, 82
Grand Design, The, 32 Jacobs, Alan, 19 Otto, Michael, 46, 57
Great Physicists, 58 James, Nick, 62 M Out of Left Field, 113
Guberman, Ross, 83 Japanese for All Occasions, 126 Making Thirteen Colonies, 77 Owens, W.R., 68
Guelzo, Allen C., 32 Japanese in MangaLand, 130 Malley, Marjorie, 117 Oxford American Handbooks of
Martinez, Jenny S., 116 Medicine, 104
Johnson, Julian, 96
Martyrs and Murderers, 99 Oxford Dictionaries, 34
Jones, Allen, 135
H Jungle Book, The, 76 Mayer, Janet, 132 Oxford Dictionary of Saints, The,
72
Habits of Change, 105 McCarthy, Dennis, 117
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil
Hakim, Joy, 77 McCauley, Clark, 84 War, The, 56
Haleem, M. A. S. Abdel, 71 K McPherson, James M., 31 Oxford Modern English Grammar,
Hammer’s German Grammar and Kamiya, Taeko, 126 Melman, Arnold, 55 36
Usage, 38 Merciless Place, A, 27 Oxford Shakespeare, The, 71
Kay, William K., 60
Handbook for Mortals, 50 Mexico in World History, 116
Kelly, Thomas Forrest, 61
Hatch, Mary Jo, 62 Missing Martyrs, The, 21
Ker-Lindsay, James, 52
Hatsumi, Masaaki, 128
Kidnapped, 76 Moll Flanders, 67 P
Hazareesingh, Sudhir, 118 Montgomery, L. M., 76 Paganism: VSI, 64
Kilcullen, David, 44
Heaven in the American Morikawa, Michiru, 123 Paris Metro Tales, 47
Imagination, 102 Kipling, Rudyard, 76
Kleiman, Mark A.R., 53 Muhammad: VSI, 63 Parsons, Lynn Hudson, 87
Heaven on Earth, 106
Klein, Maury, 100 Party Shoes, 76
Heidi, 76
Kodansha International, 127 Passion for Nature, A, 48
Hemphill, C. Dallett, 110
Here Be Dragons, 117 Krystal, Arthur, 109 N Pastor, Robert, 28
Kurzman, Charles, 21 Naked City, 89 Payback, 18
Herodotus, 71
Nanao Magazine, 126 Penrose, Roger, 58
Herodotus: VSI, 65
Nazis on the Run, 13 Pentecostalism: VSI, 60
Herring, George C., 40
Herzog, Jonathan P., 118 L New Atlantis, 17 Perfect Moral Storm, A, 94
Laird, Martin, 29 New Kimono, The, 126 Philosophers, 105

High Price, A, 14
Landes, Richard, 106 New Nation, The, 77 Pleasures of Reading in an Age of
Histories, The, 71 Distraction, The, 19
Lane, Belden C., 96 New Reference Grammar of
History of Jazz, The, 51 Point Made, 83
Modern Spanish, A, 37
Hodgson Burnett, Frances, 76 Lark Rise to Candleford, 98
Nicomachean Ethics, The, 71 Polkinghorne, John, 58
Horace, 69 Last Indian War, The, 43
Nieves, Marysol, 133 Posner, Eric A., 80
Horton, James Oliver, 32 Late Antiquity: VSI, 60
Niimura, Ken, 130 Pountain, Christopher, 38
How Literature Works, 90 Law, Stephen, 60
No Sure Victory, 94 Practicing German Grammar, 38
Humanism: VSI, 60 Lee, Wayne E., 88
North American Idea, The, 28 Practicing Spanish Grammar, 38

INDEX
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 67, 76

Preachin’ the Blues, 26 Savage, David, 129
W
Pride and Prejudice, 76 Schultz, Kevin M., 85 Stoker, Bram, 67
Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta, 32
Prime Minister, The, 70 Schultz, William Todd, 12 Stoker, Donald, 32
Waller, John, 99
Principe, Lawrence M., 64 Science Fiction: VSI, 65 Streatfeild, Noel, 76
War, Peace, and All That Jazz, 77
Pyke, Steve S., 105 Scientific Revolution: VSI, 64 Strohm, Paul, 65
War, Terrible War, 77
Scott, Walter, 69 Sunlit Absence, A, 29
Warfare State, 111
Scruton, Roger, 61 Sutherland, John, 90
Waterfield, Robin, 8, 71
Q Secret Garden, The, 69, 76 Swenson, John, 17
West, Elliott, 43
Quantum Story, The, 4 Sedlacek, Tomas, 7 Symonds, Craig, 32
Quantum Theory: VSI, 58 Seed, David, 65 about Islam, 23
Qur’an, The, 71 Selected Poems (Rilke), 68 What Is Mathematics?, 58
Selfish Gene, The, 58 T What Should I Do?, 42
Sense and Sensibility, 71 Tabatha, Naomi, 125 What’s What in Japanese
Restaurants, 125
R Seppuku, 121 Taking AIM!, 133
Who Needs Classical Music?, 96
Radioactivity, 117 Seraile, William, 134 Tasogawa, Hiroshi, 129
Sewell, Anna, 76 Taylor, Arnold H., 6 Wilson, Sean Michael, 123
Rankin, Andrew, 121
Shakespeare, William, 71 Tendo, Shoko, 123 Wind in the Willows, The, 76
Rankin, Nicholas, 81
Shapes, 108 Teng, Wen-Hua, 37 Wolf, Stacy, 102
Rat That Got Away, The, 135
Sharpeville, 20 This Mighty Scourge, 31 Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The, 76
Ratcliffe, Susan, 73
Shelley, Mary, 71, 76 Thomas, Emory M., 10 Words Alone, 101
Ravished by Beauty, 96
Shimizu, Kikuo, 122 Thompson, Flora, 98 Worster, Donald, 48
Reconstructing America, 77
Shinto Shrines, 127 Tiny Terror, 12 Wright, David, 71
Redgauntlet, 69
Reed, Christopher, 92 Shioda, Gozo, 128 Tirman, John, 24
Remote Control, 120 Shioda, Yasuhisa, 128 Treasure Island, 67, 76
Rene Blum and The Ballets Russes, Shoji, Izumi, 124 Tri-Faith America, 85 Y
112 Siblings, 110 Trollope, Anthony, 70 Yakuza Moon, 123
Reynolds, David S., 112 Siege of Washington, The, 2 Turner, Francis J., 84 Yamaguchi, Noriko, 124
Rhode, Deborah L., 114 Sismondo, Christine, 22 Twain, Mark, 76 Yamashita, Shigeki, 127
Richard II, 71 Slave Trade and the Origins of Intl Tweed, Thomas A., 106 YUFA!, 37
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 68 Human Rights Law, The, 116
Rising Road, 91 Slavery and the Making of
America, 32
Risk: VSI, 66
Smith, Gary Scott, 102 U Z
Roberts, Jennifer T., 65 Uncommon Soldier, An, 32 Zukin, Sharon, 89
Snyder, Stephen, 120
Robinson, Andrew, 59 Unfinished Revolution, The, 88
Social Work Treatment, 84
Rogers, Carole Garibaldi, 105 Union Pacific, 100
South Vs. The South, The, 31
Ruth, 70
Sparrow, James T., 111
Spiritual-Industrial Complex, The,
118 V
S Spyri, Johanna, 76 Vegetable Sushi Cookbook, The,
Saito, Akira, 122 St. Augustine’s Confessions, 71 124
Sand County Almanac, A, 58 Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine, Vignale, Giovanni, 90
Satires and Epistles, 69 31
Satterwhite, Robb, 125 Steinacher, Gerald, 13
Steinberg, Jonathan, 5
138 INDEX
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S P R I N G

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

On April 15, Lincoln quickly issued an emergency proclamation

THE QUANTUM STORY

tterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is

tto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than any-

THE DANCE OF AIR AND SEA

THE DOGS OF WAR

n 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon

NAZIS ON THE RUN

fter World War II, rumors circulated that a secret organization

Gerald Steinacher is currently a Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Fellow at the RIGHTS

Daniel Byman is Professor in the School of Foreign

THE BIBLE NOW

or millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on impor-

THE PLEASURES OF READING

n recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about

n March 21, 1960, a line of 150 white policemen fired 1,344

THE MISSING MARTYRS

hy are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion

AMERICA WALKS INTO A BAR

hen George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in

Christine Sismondo is a writer and lecturer in Humanities at York University in RIGHTS

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO

Praise for the first edition:

THE DEATHS OF OTHERS

mericans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops

PREACHIN’ THE BLUES

s a young Baptist preacher in the Mississippi Delta, Eddie “Son”

THE NORTH AMERICAN IDEA

“ he practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts,” writes

THE FORUM AND THE TOWER

BATTLE CRY OF CROSSROADS OF

FOR CAUSE AND THIS MIGHTY

ABRAHAM LINCOLN DRAWN WITH

THE SOUTH VS. STAND FIRM YE BOYS

LINCOLN AND HIS THE GRAND DESIGN

LINCOLN THE GETTYSBURG

SLAVERY AND THE AN UNCOMMON

Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Key Features of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

OXFORD MODERN ENGLISH

ritten by Bas Aarts, one of Britain’s leading grammatologists,

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics at University College London and

A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF

John Butt is Emeritus Professor of Modern Hispanic Studies, King’s College,

PRACTICING SPANISH GRAMMAR

HAMMER’S GERMAN GRAMMAR

PRACTICING GERMAN GRAMMAR

“This latest entry in the outstanding Oxford History of the

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

THE LAST INDIAN WAR

his volume in Oxford’s acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an

“The Accidental Guerrilla is a master class in counterinsurgency

LIVING WITH BIPOLAR

rawing on research documenting the strength of combining drug

PARIS METRO TALES

ollowing Helen Constantine’s highly successful Paris Tales, Paris Metro

HANDBOOK FOR MORTALS

“A clear guide and a steadying hand for those with a life-threaten-

THE HISTORY OF JAZZ

ed Gioia’s History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic—

THE CYPRUS PROBLEM

or nearly 60 years—from its uprising against British rule in the