ANTHROPOLOGY
Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis edited by Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley (University of Arizona Press; 348 pages; $65). Writings on American Indian, Aboriginal, and other societies in which relatives of different generations are called by the same terms.
Gender and Sustainability: Lessons From Asia and Latin America edited by Maria Luz Cruz-Torres and Pamela McElwee (University of Arizona Press; 253 pages; $50). Case studies include the role of gender in sustainable fishing in the Philippines, and environmentalism and gender in Ecuador.
Maya Exodus: Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas by Heidi Moksnes (University of Oklahoma Press; 339 pages; $26.95). Examines the activism of Catholic Mayas in the municipality of Chenalho, particularly after 45 members of their political organization were massacred by paramilitary forces for sympathizing with the Zapatistas.
Performing Place, Practising Memories: Aboriginal Australians, Hippies, and the State by Rosita Henry (Berghahn Books; 275 pages; $75). Focuses on Kuranda, North Queensland, in a study of relations between local Aborigines and a wave of hippie newcomers who settled in rural towns in the 1970s.
Sowing Change: The Making of Havana’s Urban Agriculture by Adriana Premat (Vanderbilt University Press; 216 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). A study of small-scale farming, and household self-provisioning, in the Cuban capital.
The Village Is Like a Wheel: Rethinking Cargos, Family, and Ethnicity in Highland Mexico by Roger Magazine (University of Arizona Press; 153 pages; $45). Explores the significance of interdependence in Tepetlaoxtoc, a village in the Texcoco region of the state of Mexico.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology edited by Steve Wolverton and R. Lee Lyman (University of Arizona Press; 241 pages; $55). Writings on the application of zooarchaeological research to present-day issues of conservation biology and wildlife management; case studies include prehistoric lessons in marine shellfish exploitation.
Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology edited by Maxine Oland, Siobhan M. Hart, and Liam Frink (University of Arizona Press; 312 pages; $55). Essays on Africa, Australia, and the Americas; topics include material continuity and change in West Africa.
Mesoamerican Memory: Enduring Systems of Remembrance edited by Amos Megged and Stepanie Wood (University of Oklahoma Press; 320 pages; $55). Research that emphasizes continuity in Nahua, Maya, and other cultures since the pre-Columbian period.
Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600 by Meghan C.L. Howey (University of Oklahoma Press; 220 pages; $45). Focuses on sites in Michigan in a study of earthen works as gathering places for ritual and social interaction.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism by Aleksandra Shatskikh, translated by Marian Schwartz (Yale University Press; 368 pages; $35). Explores the Russian avant-garde and the Suprematist movement through a study of Kazimir Malevich’s 1915 masterwork.
John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage by Andres Mario Zervigon (University of Chicago Press; 309 pages; $65). A study of a German artist, born Helmut Herzfeld, who pioneered a form of photomontage that spread as a political art form in the Weimar era.
Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art From Chicago to Cairo by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle (University of Illinois Press; 211 pages; $32.95). Documents how postcards reinforced stereotypes that divided the state.
BUSINESS
Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience by Kenneth E. Goodpaster and others (Cambridge University Press; 562 pages; $125 hardcover, $49 paperback). A study of corporate power and business behavior since the mid-18th century that traces evolving notions of corporate responsibility.
Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth by Yossi Sheffi (MIT Press; 356 pages; $29.95). Examines the phenomenon of geographically concentrated sets of logistics-related businesses; considers why Memphis, Singapore, Rotterdam, and other sites succeed in being such hubs, while other places fail.
Public Capitalism: The Political Authority of Corporate Executives by Christopher McMahon (University of Pennsylvania Press; 208 pages; $39.95). Describes corporate executives as a kind of public official, who can be asked to work toward social goods as well as profit.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Caesar in the USA by Maria Wyke (University of California Press; 344 pages; $39.95). Explores Julius Caesar’s representation in American culture, particularly at times of political crisis.
The Mind of Thucydides by Jacqueline de Romilly, translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, edited by Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell University Press; 216 pages; $35). First English translation of a 1956 French work said to have transformed scholarship on the ancient Greek historian.
COMMUNICATION
Culture, Social Class, and Race in Public Relations: Perspectives and Applications edited by Damion Waymer (Lexington Books; 253 pages; $75). Essays on such topics as the corporation as middle-class person.
How the Market Is Changing China’s News: The Case of Xinhua News Agency by Xin Xin (Lexington Books; 161 pages; $60). Topics include how the global marketing of China’s government-controlled news agency has affected its journalistic practice.
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio (Lexington Books; 245 pages; $75). Essays on television, film, the Internet, and other media, including Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, and Mad Men.
Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938-1946 by Mordecai Lee (Louisiana State University Press; 304 pages; $39.95). Discusses a former reporter who directed the Division of Information in the Executive Office of the President, promoting the New Deal, FDR’s re-election, and eventually the war.
CULTURAL STUDIES
Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Cvetkovich (Duke University Press; 278 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a meditation on depression as the lived experience of neoliberal capitalism.
ECONOMICS
Constructing China’s Capitalism: Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries by Daniel Buck (Palgrave Macmillan; 267 pages; $85). Draws on fieldwork in Shanghai’s rural hinterland in a study of the decline of township- and village-owned enterprises.
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation, and the State by William H. Janeway (Cambridge University Press; 329 pages; $34.99). Combines academic and practitioner perspectives in a study of financial bubbles as a productive vehicle for mobilizing capital.
EDUCATION
Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success by Scott Seider (Harvard Education Press; 286 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A study of Boston Prep, Roxbury Prep, and Pacific Rim, three public charter schools in the Boston area that have made character development a central part of their mission.
Gentrification and Schools: The Process of Integration When Whites Reverse Flight by Jennifer Burns Stillman (Palgrave Macmillan; 200 pages; $85). A study of the school-choice process for “gentry parents” that draws on interviews in three neighborhoods in New York.
High Schools, Race, and America’s Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community by Lawrence Blum (Harvard Education Press; 262 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Documents student responses to a class on race and racism taught at an ethically, racially, and economically diverse high school in Cambridge, Mass.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Climate Change in California: Risk and Response by Fredrich Kahrl and David Roland-Holst (University of California Press; 156 pages; $29.95). A study of the economic and other impacts of climate change in the state.
Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science by Rebecca Lave (University of Georgia Press; 184 pages; $59.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Describes how the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization of knowledge has affected stream restoration policies in the United States; focuses on how Dave Rosgen, a private consultant, has had his model adapted by federal agencies despite opposition from academic scientists.
The Global Farms Race: Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, and the Scramble for Food Security by Michael Kugelman and Susan L. Levenstein (Island Press; 237 pages; $50 hardcover, $25 paperback). Research on the environmental, economic, and social effects of corporations and governments that together have bought or leased 230 million hectares in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the former East Bloc in the first decade of the 21st century.
FILM STUDIES
Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism by Stephen M. Norris (Indiana University Press; 336 pages; $90 hardcover, $35 paperback). Describes how the post-Soviet film industry applied Hollywood techniques to Russian historical epics.
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective edited by Jean-Pierre Boule and Ursula Tidd (Berghahn Books; 188 pages; $70). Essays that draw on The Second Sex, Old Age, and other works by the French thinker to examine films by such directors as Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Sam Mendes, Sally Potter, and Lucille Hadzihalilovic.
Lew Ayres: Hollywood’s Conscientious Objector by Lesley L. Coffin (University Press of Mississippi; 224 pages; $35). A biography of the American actor and pacifist (1908-96) whose fame came first with the lead role in All Quiet on the Western Front and who later served as a noncombat medic in conscientious objection to World War II.
Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies by William D. Romanowski (Oxford University Press; 298 pages; $29.95). Draws on untapped sources in a study of mainline Protestant efforts to influence Hollywood without advocating formal censorship; also discusses evangelical perspectives.
“Smoke Signals": Native Cinema Rising by Joanna Hearne (University of Nebraska Press; 280 pages; $30). Discusses the 1998 film Smoke Signals, based on stories by Sherman Alexie, as a landmark in American Indian filmmaking.
Specters of War: Hollywood’s Engagement With Military Conflict by Elisabeth Bronfen (Rutgers University Press; 288 pages; $75 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Explores cinema’s role in the creation of American national narratives of war in the 20th century.
FOLKLORE
Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind by John Miles Foley (University of Illinois Press; 344 pages; $95). Uses an experimental format to draw parallels between the two “technologies.”
HISTORY
Across God’s Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 by Anne M. Butler (University of North Carolina Press; 424 pages; $45). Explores the work and unconventional monastic lives of nuns in the frontier and later West.
Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the making of Modern Bulgaria by Mary C. Neuburger (Cornell University Press; 320 pages; $39.95). Explores the cultural, economic, and political significance of the tobacco trade in Ottoman and Communist Bulgaria, which by the late 1960s was the world’s leading exporter of the product.
Binding Earth and Heaven: Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism by Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd (Penn State University Press; 184 pages; $54.95). Examines how the Mormon practice of patriarchal blessings helped maintain loyalty to the church at a time of persecution.
Curbing Campaign Cash: Henry Ford, Truman Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform by Paula Baker (University Press of Kansas; 192 pages; $29.95). Discusses the 1918 Michigan race for the U.S. Senate in which Newberry’s spending against Ford in the primaries led to a conviction under federal law that was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court in a landmark ruling on campaign finance.
Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action: Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro by Spoma Jovanovic (University of Arkansas Press; 285 pages; $34.95). Describes how Greensboro, N.C., residents, inspired by South Africa, initiated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission 25 years after the killings of five protest marchers by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members in 1979.
Edward Hunter Snow: Pioneer, Educator, Statesman by Thomas G. Alexander (Arthur H. Clarke/University of Oklahoma Press; 392 pages; $34.95). A biography of the Utah-born Mormon leader (1865-1932).
Encountering China: Early Modern European Responses edited by Rachana Sachdev and Qingjun Li (Bucknell University Press; 220 pages; $34.95). Topics include the construction of women in early modern European travel narratives.
Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law by Loren Schweninger (University of North Carolina Press; 236 pages; $49.95). Analyzes antebellum records of divorce, separation, and alimony cases from every Southern state.
The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War by David S. Cecelski (University of North Carolina Press; 326 pages; $30). Traces the life of a rebel slave, radical abolitionist, and Union spy (1837-70), who became of the first black men elected to the North Carolina legislature.
Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson by Joshua D. Rothman (University of Georgia Press; 440 pages; $29.95). Discusses slavery, financial speculation, and violence in the cotton boom that marked 1830s Mississippi.
Hitler’s Plans for Global Domination: Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims by Jochen Thies (Berghahn Books; 205 pages; $39.95). Topics include how Hitler’s vision of world domination were reflected in his architectural planning.
The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue: Voices and Images From Sherman Institute edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, and Lorene Sisquoc (Oregon State University Press; 224 pages; $24.95). Documents life at a boarding school in Riverside, Calif., founded by the federal government in 1902.
Lincoln’s Forgotten Friend, Leonard Swett by Robert S. Eckley (Southern Illinois University Press; 336 pages; $34.95). Traces the life of Leonard Swett (1825-89), a fellow and younger lawyer befriended by Lincoln who went on to be a trusted advisor to the politician and president.
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America by Jennifer L. Anderson (Harvard University Press; 398 pages; $35). Discusses slave labor, environmental exploitation, and other aspects of the back story of the demand for the imported lustrous wood.
Making Modern Love: Sexual Narratives and Identities in Interwar Britain by Lisa Z. Sigel (Temple University Press; 288 pages; $79.50 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Explores the diversity of interwar sexuality through a study of letters and popular media, including self-help books and fetish magazines.
The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkins Bates (University of North Carolina Press; 352 pages; $45). Describes how black newcomers to Detroit, hired by Henry Ford in the 1920s, eventually came to play a crucial role in the United Auto Workers’ challenge to the company.
Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic by Thomas A. Chambers (Cornell University Press; 232 pages; $29.95). Explores the rise of battlefield tourism in the 1820s onward.
Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism by David R. Swartz (University of Pennsylvania Press; 376 pages; $47.50). Traces the rise, decline, and legacy of a diverse movement of evangelical progressives that flourished in the 1960s and 70s.
New Jersey: A History of the Garden State edited by Maxine N. Lurie and Richard Veit (Rutgers University Press; 319 pages; $27.95). Writings on New Jersey from the pre-colonial and Colonial period to the present.
“A Punishment on the Nation": An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War edited by Brian Craig Miller (Kent State University Press; 240 pages; $45). Edition of nearly 200 letters written home by a native New Englander in Iowa who served with the 27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry and saw the war as God’s punishment for slavery.
The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-1962 by Benjamin T. Smith (University of New Mexico Press; 432 pages; $34.95). An ethnohistorical study that analyzes the tradition of conservative politics among Mixtec’s peasantry.
Slaves for Hire: Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia by John J. Zaborney (Louisiana State University Press; 224 pages; $42.50). Describes how the practice of Virginia slave owners’ renting out their human property bolstered the institution of slavery in the commonwealth.
Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980 by Michael Szporer (Lexington Books; 344 pages; $80). Draws on interviews with founders and activists of the Solidarity movement.
Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades by Myra Miranda Bom (Palgrave Macmillan; 230 pages; $85). Focuses on the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
William Harvey: A Life in Circulation by Thomas Wright (Oxford University Press; 264 pages; $29.95). A biography of the English physician whose revolutionary theory of blood circulation, published in 1628, overthrew previous understandings of anatomy and physiology.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Discord: The Story of Noise by Mike Goldsmith (Oxford University Press; 317 pages; $29.95). A study of the science and social history of noise.
The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory: A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature by Michael J. Lannoo (University of Iowa Press; 112 pages; $19). Traces the history of a permanent biological field station founded on the shore of Lake Okoboji in 1909.
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis edited by Roger Berkowitz and Taun N. Toay (Fordham University Press; 217 pages; $75 hardcover, $26 paperback). Draws on such thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Adam Smith.
LINGUISTICS
Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and the Composition of the Left Periphery by Liliane Haegeman (Oxford University Press; 316 pages; $99 hardcover, $49.95 paperback). Focuses on the restricted distribution of main-clause phenomena in English, with comparative discussion of Romance languages.
LITERATURE
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countee Cullen by Charles Molesworth (University of Chicago Press; 288 pages; $30). Draws on previously unpublished correspondence in a critical biography of the Harlem Renaissance poet (1903-46).
Andrew Marvell’s Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between by Joan Faust (University of Delaware Press; 235 pages; $75). Draws on the anthropologist Victor Turner’s theories of the liminal in a study of the 17th-century poet.
Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America by Jason Berger (University of Minnesota Press; 338 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Draws on Slavoj Zizek’s Lacanian concept of fantasy in a study focusing on works by Herman Melville and James Fenimore Cooper.
The Complicity of Friends: How George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret by Martin N. Raitiere (Bucknell University Press; 383 pages; $95). Argues that Spencer had a partial form of epilepsy, which he hid from the public, but spoke of to Eliot, her lover Lewes, and later a neurologist named Hughlings-Jackson; finds that while the two men kept the secret, Eliot revealed it in her writing in a literary revenge for Spencer spurning her advances years earlier.
East Is West and West Is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters Between Asia and America by Karen Kuo (Temple University Press; 237 pages; $74.50 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Analyzes Younghill Kang’s novel East Goes West, Baroness Ishimoto’s memoir Facing Both Ways, the 1930 film East Is West, and Frank Capra’s 1937 Lost Horizon and its 1973 remake.
Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane by Gerald Sorin (Indiana University Press; 472 pages; $40). A biography of the prolific American writer and one-time Communist (1914-2003), whose best-known work was the best-seller Spartacus.
Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature by Juliana Chang (University of Minnesota Press; 241 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Applies Lacanian theory in a study of Fae Myenne’s Ng’s Bone, Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son, Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, and Suki Kim’s The Interpreter.
The Patience of Pearl: Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran by Daniel B. Shea (University of Missouri Press; 296 pages; $60). A study of a St. Louis housewife (1883-1937) who wrote well-received fiction and poetry via, she claimed, the spirit of Patience Worth, a 17th-century Puritan communicating through a Ouija board.
Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria by Alison Rice (University of Virginia Press; 256 pages; $55 hardcover, $24.50 paperback). Analyzes autobiographical writings by seven authors, including Maissa Bey, Helene Cixous, Assia Djebar, and Malika Mokeddem.
Quirks of the Quantum: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction by Samuel Chase Coale (University of Virginia Press; 240 pages; $55 hardcover, $24.50 paperback). Considers how models and metaphors of quantum theory have influenced such novels as DeLillo’s Underworld, Didion’s Democracy, and Pynchon’s Against the Day.
Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation edited by Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons (University of Iowa Press; 296 pages; $45). Essays on the American poet Robert Duncan, both in terms of who he influenced and who and what he was influenced by.
Roth and Celebrity edited by Aimee Pozorski (Lexington Books; 191 pages; $60). Pays particular attention to the relationship between Philip Roth’s own celebrity status as a writer and the representation of celebrity in his work.
Satan’s Poetry: Fallenness and Poetic Tradition in “Paradise Lost” by Danielle A. St. Hilaire (Duquesne University Press; 246 pages; $58). Examines Satan in Milton’s poem as a generative force whose creation, though negative, exists positively in dialectical relation to God’s creation.
Shakespeare and the Apocalypse: Visions of Doom From Early Modern Tragedy to Popular Culture by R.M. Christofides (Continuum; 216 pages; $110). Focuses on the role of the Apocalypse in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear.
The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena by Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Notre Dame Press; 392 pages; $32). A study of Sienese women poets, with a focus on Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi.
“That the People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy by Arnold Krupat (Cornell University Press; 256 pages; $45). Explores both oral and written elegaic “texts,” from the Tlingit memorial ritual known as koo’eex to writings by such authors as N. Scott Momaday and Gerald Vizenor.
Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms edited by Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill (Wayne State University Press; 358 pages; $29.95). Essays on such topics as lesbian eroticism and female empowerment in the fairy tale of “Snow White and Rose Red.”
Uses of Austen: Jane’s Afterlives edited by Gillian Dow and Clare Hanson (Palgrave Macmillan; 243 pages; $85). Topics include global translations of Austen, and the Bollywood cinematic adaptation entitled Bride and Prejudice.
MUSIC
The Creative Process in Music From Mozart to Kurtag by William Kinderman (University of Illinois Press; 256 pages; $65). Draws on original drafts and other sources in a study ofthe stages of composition.
Not Without Madness: Perspectives on Opera by Fabrizio Della Seta, translated by Mark Weir (University of Chicago Press; 303 pages; $55). Includes previously untranslated essays on 18th- and 19th-century opera, with a focus on Verdi.
PHILOSOPHY
The Early Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being, and Language by Scott M. Campbell (Fordham University Press; 294 pages; $75 hardcover, $28 paperback). Focuses on the years 1919 to 1927.
George Santayana’s Philosophy of Religion: His Roman Catholic Influences and Phenomenology by Edward W. Lovely (Lexington Books; 240 pages; $70). Topics include the phenomenology of the Spanish-born American philosopher in relation to that of Husserl, James, Peirce, and Whitehead.
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw by Yechiel Michael Barilan (MIT Press; 349 pages; $36). Combines intellectual history and applied ethics to develop a philosophy of human dignity and human rights; includes discussion of such bioethical issues as cloning, end of life care, torture, and the human organ market.
The Liberatory Thought of Martin Luther King Jr.: Critical Essays on the Philosopher King edited by Robert E. Birt (Lexington Books; 372 pages; $85). Topics include the civil-rights leader as liberation theologian and existential philosopher.
Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental by John Sallis (Indiana University Press; 286 pages; $80 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.
On the Nature of Genocidal Intent by Jason J. Campbell (Lexington Books; 160 pages; $65). Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and manifestation of genocidal intent, including the systematic development of a strategy.
Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discourse, and Argument edited by Ricca Edmondson and Karlheinz Hulser (Lexington Books; 308 pages; $80). Essays on such topics as the place of reason in Adam Smith’s theory of moral sentiments, and John Rawls’s transcendental-political reflections.
The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry by John Dewey, edited by Melvin L. Rogers (Penn State University Press; 200 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $20.95 paperback). Scholarly edition of the American philosopher’s 1927 work.
States of Nature: Animality and the Polis by Christopher La Barbera (Peter Lang Publishing; 123 pages; $68.95). Applies an approach termed “vital ethics” to issues of human-animal relations.
Teaching in an Age of Ideology edited by John von Heyking and Lee Trepanier (Lexington Books; 256 pages; $70). Writings on the political philosopher as teacher, including Husserl, Arendt, Aron, Lonergan, Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Stanley Rosen.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
African Democracy and Development: Challenges for Post-Conflict African Nations edited by Cassandra R. Veney and Dick Simpson (Lexington Books; 306 pages; $80). Focuses on Rwanda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons: A Comprehensive Approach for International Security edited by Scott Jasper (Georgetown University Press; 260 pages; $29.95). Writings on security issues in the global maritime, air, space, and cyberspace commons.
From Civilians to Soldiers and From Soldiers to Civilians: Mobilization and Demobilization in Sudan by Saskia Baas (Amsterdam University Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 240 pages; $59.95). Draws on interviews with current and former combatants.
Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate Through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns by Lisa Garcia Bedolla and Melissa R. Michelson (Yale University Press; 304 pages; $35). Uses experimental data and qualitative observation to develop a “social cognition” model to evaluate the effectiveness of different voter-mobilization methods.
Money, Corruption, and Political Competition in Established and Emerging Democracies edited by Jonathan Mendilow (Lexington Books; 211 pages; $65). Includes country case studies of corruption and political finance in Bangladesh, Spain, Zimbabwe, and the Philippines.
The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire edited by Jeffery R. Webber and Barry Carr (Rowman & Littlefield; 395 pages; $95 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Combines theoretical essays with country studies of the new left in Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa edited by Devon Curtis and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa (Ohio University Press; 360 pages; $32.95). Topics include African and international institutions involved in peacebuilding on the continent, and the on-the-ground contexts of such settings as Somalia, Sudan, and Sierra Leone.
The Power of American Governors: Winning on Budgets and Losing on Policy by Thad Kousser and Justin H. Phillips (Cambridge University Press; 296 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Links the policy problems of governors to the very different dynamics of budget negotiations and legislative work; data include an analysis of 1,000 proposals from State of the State addresses.
Taking Liberties: A Critical Examination of Libertarian Paternalism by Riccardo Rebonato (Palgrave Macmillan; 293 pages; $45). Focuses on the justifications put forth by Cass Sunstein, Richard Thaler, and others called “libertarian paternalists” for their methods of influencing public behavior.
RELIGION
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken (Yale University Press; 388 pages; $35). Traces the evolution and spread of Christianity in the first thousand years after Christ from the Latin West to China and India.
Hermeneutics and the Church: In Dialogue with Augustine by James A. Andrews (University of Notre Dame Press; 320 pages; $35). Sets St. Augustine’s De doctrina christiana in dialogue with contemporary theological hermeneutics, in particular the work of Werner Jeanrond and Stephen Fowl.
The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy by Aristotle Papanikolaou (University of Notre Dame Press; 248 pages; $27). Defends the compatibility of an Orthodox Christian worldview and liberal democracy.
Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude by Joerg Rieger and Kwok Pui-lan (Rowman & Littlefield; 155 pages; $39). Proposes a public theology of the multitude in tune with the social objectives of the Occupy movements.
The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony (Cambridge University Press; 379 pages; $75 hardcover, $24.99 paperback). A critique of the reason-revelation dichotomy that has been used to interpret the Hebrew Bible.
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event by Carl Raschke (University of Virginia Press; 248 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.50 paperback). Focuses on the influences of Derrida, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek.
Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity by Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller (Oxford University Press; 245 pages; $99 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include Greek myth, Jewish exegesis, and Confucian thought.
RHETORIC
The Insistent Call: Rhetorical Moments in Black Anticolonialism, 1929-1937 by Aric Putnam (University of Massachusetts Press; 168 pages; $80 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Explores a shift in African-Americans’ views of Africa as reflected in the rhetoric of black newspapers, literature, and political pamphlets.
SEMIOTICS
Semiotics of Drink and Drinking by Paul Manning (Continuum; 245 pages; $140 hardcover, $44.95 paperback). Explores the materiality and social meaning of drinks, including alcohol, coffee, soda, and water.
SOCIOLOGY
Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands edited by John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang, and Thomas Owusu (Lexington Books; 326 pages; $80). Focuses on the African immigrant experience in North America.
Strategies for Social Change edited by Gregory M. Maney and others (University of Minnesota Press; 318 pages; $82.50 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Writings on the strategies of social movements; case studies include ideology, strategic differences, and coalition dynamics in the Northern Ireland civil-rights movement.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women’s Movements: Strategic Sisterhood by Line Nyhagen Predelli and Beatrice Halsaa (Palgrave Macmillan; 335 pages; $90). Analyzes relations between ethnic majority and minority women’s movements in Britain, Norway, and Spain.
The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading edited by Megan Sweeney (University of Illinois Press; 273 pages; $85 hardcover, $25 paperback). Based on indepth interviews with 11 women incarcerated in North Carolina and Ohio, who discuss their reading experiences while in prison.
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women’s Health by Tasha N. Dubriwny (Rutgers University Press; 237 pages; $72 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Explores the media representation of postpartum depression and breast and ovarian cancer.
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