College of Arts & Sciences

“Brisk, honed, graven as talismans, but somehow fluent and sensual, always carried by a most subtle sprezzatura—Gail Hanlon’s poems offer so much of what I want from poetry: one person’s brave whistling in the dark, a song that mystery can’t help but envy and give an answer to.” — David Rivard, author of Some of You Will Know

"Deborah Carr provides a timely update on the national portrait of older adults in the United States and concisely debunks many misconceptions about old age. This book demonstrates how a scholar's work can significantly move the field forward." – I-Fen Lin, Professor of Sociology, Bowling Green State University

“Petrus Liu’s scholarship on the geopolitical material conditions of queer theorizing is unparalleled. In this magisterial book, he dispenses with endless rumination on the liberal subject, instead training our attention on the relationship between a queer theory that functions as American area studies and the Cold War and its ongoing realities. He profoundly reorganizes what queer theory was, is, or could be, while illuminating queer horizons of struggle that are intimately, not peripherally or derivatively, interlaced with internationalist anticapitalist movements. A tour de force!” — Jasbir K. Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

"Deeana Copeland Klepper's new book introduces us to the learned Augustinian, Albert of Diessen, who distilled the whole Christian tradition into a practical manual for parish priests in late fourteenth-century Bavaria. Albert delivered practical advice on issues that parishioners really cared about: the power of the sacraments to save, the treatment of Jews, the presence of diabolical magic all around them, and the imminence of the End of Time. Klepper's scholarship and wit match the richness and humanity of her subject matter. A must-read for anyone interested in lived religion." – Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London, author of Cities of Strangers

"Provocatively and engagingly, this volume provides compelling ethnographic evidence of the changes marriage is undergoing around the world. The impact of these changes raises profound questions, not only about the future of marriage itself, but which, as these essays show, go to the heart of gender relations and their intersection with politics, economics and religion." —Janet Carsten, co-editor of Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense

“Goldkorn is a man of unflagging ardor and thwarted dreams, and his creator is a gutsy and gifted writer who reminds us that comedy is just the flip side of tragedy…a master satirist.” — Booklist

"This textbook provides an excellent introduction to contemporary methods and models in deep learning. I expect this book to become a key resource in data science education for students and researchers." -Nakul Verma, Lecturer of Computer Science, Columbia University

"Truly the voice of the Jersey Shore." - Bruce Springsteen

John Straub has written an excellent textbook for undergraduates who have taken Calculus II and want to major in chemistry, biology, or physics. I used this wonderful book as the primary text in the one-semester course “Math for Chemistry” we teach at NYU. Because the book covers many math topics important for scientific applications, it allows instructors to select and include as many areas as needed and as time permits. The figures and problems help illustrate and expand upon key concepts. It is evident that the author has poured much love and craft into this beautiful book.
-Tamar Schlick, New York University

"Compiled by editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz and Sunil Sharma, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women showcases writings from 45 Muslim women ― acquired through an extensive selection of writings in 10 languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Punjabi, Indonesian, English and others. . . . What emerges is a group of women writers who were not afraid to voice their thoughts in the presence of authority figures and unfavourable circumstances. Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women Writers is an enduring testament to just a few of the countless fascinating stories documented by women travellers throughout the ages."―Fehmida Zakeer, The National News

"A Better Ape will transform evolutionary approaches to human morality and to human cultural evolution. With elegant, often stirring prose, and rigorous, scientifically-informed arguments, Kumar and Campbell not only illuminate the origins of human morality but also show how morality has driven human evolution." -- Allen Buchanan, Laureate Professor of Philosophy, The University of Arizona

"With this brave and moving book, Takeo Rivera takes a deep dive into the affect streams of melancholy that haunt, taunt, push and reproduce racialized masculinities. With brief personal interludes, as well as innovative means to take up such topics as Asian American political indebtedness to the Black radical tradition, the author skillfully tracks the uses and abuses of masochism in Asian American drama, film, and digital arts. Does minority masochism fuel or hinder toxic masculinities, anti-Blackness, anti-Asianness, and misogyny? The author is skilled at teasing out the complexities in this and other questions through his excellent examples." -- Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

“A much-needed and clear translation” —Amir-Hussein Radjy, The New York Times

"In this brilliant study of constellations and culture, Michael Mendillo, professor of astronomy at Boston University, reveals that the canopy of stars has been an ideologically contested space from the beginning, ensuring that the next time you look up, the sky will look completely different to you." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A must-read book that has valuable information for just about everybody…If you don’t save more than the price of this book, there is something seriously wrong with you.”―Forbes

“Fact-filled, wisdom-filled, Money Magic is quite probably the best financial advice book ever written.  You can read it for Laurence Kotlikoff’s sage advice, which tells how to manage your finances for a happier, better life.  You can also read it for fun: there is a laugh on almost every page.  You should read it for both.” ―George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001 and co-author of Phishing for Phools

"Robert E.B. Lucas has masterfully put together the considerable body of literature available on rural to urban migration in the developing world and then adds fresh insights from his own analysis of quantitative data sources that have not previously been analyzed in these ways. The book goes beyond ambitious; it is encyclopedic in scope but, unlike most encyclopedias, has a single voice from a gifted researcher and author. It will make a major contribution to our understanding of internal migration." --Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration, Georgetown University

"Saints and Sinners impressionistically reveals the connections of art, astronomy, and religion in Western culture to illuminate the age-old quest for celestial-terrestrial connections.” - Roberta J.M. Olson, author of Giotto’s Portrait of Halley’s Comet and Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe

"Meticulous, comprehensive, and intelligent, this marvelous book is a must-read for everyone interested in lived religion. Ammerman’s alertness to case studies is matched by her alertness to the expansive repertoire of methods that animate this body of work." - David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School

"Building on research showing that mass incarceration both reflects and perpetuates racial and social inequality, Punishing Places shows that the carceral state causes harm not only - or even predominantly - in large urban areas, but also in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas across the United States. The original and important analyses presented in this book demand that we shift our gaze, to recognize and explore how mass incarceration matters in the lives of the dispossessed - especially for those who live in places far from the urban centers that have a grip on our collective imagination."—Katherine Beckett, Chair and Professor, Law, Societies & Justice Department​ and Professor of Sociology, University of Washington

"Hansen and Weinstock have collected (a lucky) thirteen new essays exploring the Devil’s cinematic avatars, from his earliest appearances in the films of George Méliès to the deliciously-living Black Phillip in The Witch (2015). Including discussions of generically-diverse films like Faust (1926), Prince of Darkness (1987), and The Passion of the Christ (2004), this volume will be of interest to theologians and film scholars alike." – Harry M. Benshoff, Professor of Media Arts, University of North Texas

“I am extremely excited to see this book. Debates about language—words like ‘woman’ and ‘racism’—have been absolutely central to vital political issues for some time. They have also been weaponised, used to argue that important issues are “just about language.” This book takes these debates seriously—both politically and linguistically. It is wonderfully wide-ranging, deeply grounded in both intersectional theory and analytic philosophy of language. We’ve been needing a book like this for a long time!” —Jennifer Saul, University of Waterloo, Canada.

“This book presents a novel and sophisticated metasemantic theory of how words acquire their meanings, and applies the theory to highly politically controversial terms.  Anderson's account provides a radically new and illuminating perspective on disputes that inhabit the borderlands between the straightforwardly factual and merely verbal differences.  The book will be of great interest to those working on metasemantics as well as political philosophers.” ―Cory Juhl, University of Texas at Austin, USA

A presentation of Wittgenstein's corpus of remarks on mathematics defending 'aspect realism' and making connections with Gödel and Turing.

“Ha Jin, author of the National Book Award winning Waiting (1999) and the brilliant A Map of Betrayal (2014), writes novels defined by profound thoughtfulness and quiet, unshowy grace. His unadorned prose; cool, hypnotic style; and nuanced, compassionate portraits of characters seeking freedom and fulfillment while running up against bureaucratic, political, and personal obstacles have won him a deservedly admiring readership. His latest novel, A Song Everlasting, marshals many of these winning features in the service of a deeply moving portrait of an artist as an immigrant in a new land." – The Boston Globe

"The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall is a thrilling roller-coaster ride of an anthology. Just when you think you have mastered the pitch and roll of one emotional extreme, you find yourself careening around a bend into a different extreme. And Pinsky's individual selections are at once deft and surprising: a Renaissance Old Master like Fulke Greville sits cheek-by-jowl with poets like Keetje Kuipers and Katie Willingham, born within hailing distance of the present. The collection is a perfect introduction to poetry's enduring power to explore the utmost bounds of our experience." -Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Tyrant

"This is a swift, efficient approach to James's oeuvre, perfect for students and general readers."

- Publisher's Weekly

"The importance of apocalyptic thought in medieval China has long been downplayed in Anglophone scholarship, so it is a great pleasure to have at last a book based firmly on the key surviving sources to redress this imbalance. April Hughes’ work is the first study to pull all of the materials together and put them and the political regimes and rebel movements that took cognizance of such beliefs in a helpful chronological sequence. It is original, sound, and important." - T. H. Barrett, SOAS, University of London

"It's a blisteringly funny, fictional farce using the film's famous production woes as the backdrop for a bawdy espionage adventure boasting an all-star cast of world leaders and movie-industry icons, with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance." – Sean Burns, WBUR The ARTery

"Weaves history and real life characters seamlessly into the fabric of fiction with a typical tight focus on the evils of the Holocaust and its repercussions across time." -Tom Meek, The Patriot Ledger 

"Stupendous doesn't even begin to describe the extraordinary power and exhilarating beauty of Floating in a Most Peculiar Way. Here is a memoir that blazes like a star and rhymes like Paul Beatty at his best. Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer with all the gifts and then some." – Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and of This Is How You Lose Her

"Cynthia Becker's anthropological and artistic approaches fill many gaps in the history of Gnawa music and culture in Moroccan society. She explains lucidly how Gnawa music has been appropriated by mainstream culture and how it fits the global logic of race-making and the historical anti-blackness ideology. The most important part of this book is the epistemic agency of the Gnawa people through the narrative of songs, dance, and trance. In this regard it contributes to the epistemology of resistance." —Chouki El Hamel, author of Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam

‘In this powerful and subtle book, Rachel Brulé combs through an array of micro-level data for clues regarding the causes of and obstacles to gender inequality in India. One of her most stunning findings is that femicide actually increases when gender-equal inheritance laws are enforced – unless families are freed from the expectation that a daughter's property is forfeited to in-laws upon marriage. This book is a triumph of social science and a model for empirical scholarship on gender.' -Frances McCall Rosenbluth - Yale University, Connecticut

“The purpose of life is to know, speak, and be useful to one another, a wise Senegalese imam tells us, and the compelling essays of this volume are offered in just such generous spirit. That God is multilingual and Islam polycentric are blessings extending to us all, as we gratefully learn through the voices of thirty-plus scholars, the majority from sub-Saharan Africa which is, after all, home to over one sixth of the world’s Muslims.” – Allen F. Roberts, Distinguished Professor of World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

"Spectres of Antiquity will be essential reading to all who are interested in the origins of the Gothic or to the history of classical reception in the eighteen and early nineteenth centuries.... Stylishly written and full of fascinating insight, Uden's book provides a vivifying archeology of the origins of the Gothic, illuminating the classical presences therein." - Eighteenth-Century Studies

"An original, timely work of first-rate scholarship, impressive in scope, which examines one by one the principal manifestations of the twentieth-century interest in the Shakers, which have never before been explicated in this depth and with such rigorous interpretation." —Robert P. Emlen, author of Shaker Village Views

“Reading Sigrid Nunez’s absorbing new novel is somewhat akin to having a long conversation with someone who is telling you something very important, but is telling it in a very quiet voice. You have to really pay attention. Be assured, however, that the experience will be worth it. You will emerge calmer, meditative, more thoughtful, as if you have benefited from an excellent literary massage of sorts.” —The New York Times Book Review

“This is an incredibly important subject overall and the component parts are each significant contributions to their respective fields. While there is no shortage of work on the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, this is among the more integrative works that deal with not exclusively the perpetration of the Holocaust per se but also the responses of victims, and reveals the human cost of this dispossession.” – Michael Berkowitz, University College London

"Dispossession approaches Nazism from a perspective rarely studied: how the government, businesses, and individuals robbed Jews not only of their social and political standing, but of their livelihoods and property. This valuable collection addresses a wide spectrum of dispossession, from confiscatory taxation of Jewish incomes and property to deceiving elderly Jews into signing away their last assets for a supposed 'retirement' home—in a concentration camp. This book is an indispensable resource for understanding how Nazi Germany stole whatever resources remained to Jews before murdering them."
—Marion Kaplan, author of Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany and Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal.

“If unilateralism is so tempting and so effective, Christenson and Kriner ask, why is it so rare? The key dynamics, they show, are less in other branches of government but in politics and public opinion. Christenson and Kriner unify strands of presidency research that have been treated by too many as competitors and even as opposites, and the book will make a crucial contribution.” – Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College

"Illuminating and richly detailed, this fascinating history shows readers that worlds are not lost; tendrils of what has gone before intertwine with, fashion, and forever mark the hybrid societies of today." – Historical Novel Society

"This book is a tour de force – it’s the best phenomenological treatment of the selected topics I’ve ever read." -Søren Overgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“With sharp analytical insight and riveting evidence, Ashley Mears takes us backstage into the glamorous global world of parties and nightclubs. Behind the flowing bottles of Dom Pérignon and other displays of extreme wealth, Mears reveals an intricate social web connecting enterprising party promoters, rich clients, and beautiful women. Updating Veblen for the twenty-first century, Very Important People makes crucial contributions to our understanding of consumption and more broadly to economic sociology.” – Viviana A. Zelizer, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy

"This pioneering book offers a riveting account of women who have achieved political power across a range of Muslim majority cultures and down the centuries. Today the issue of women and power is a highly contested one in Muslim majority countries - as indeed elsewhere. Offering a sustained, reasoned and well-grounded overview and analysis of the topic and its underpinnings, this book constitutes an invaluable resource." -Leila Ahmed, Harvard University, Massachusetts

"This book is an original and substantial contribution to the study of Daniel Defoe, seventeenth and eighteenth-century literary history, the nature of intellectual thought and polemic attack in the period, and the history and theory of the novel form itself. Prince’s implicit idea―a new and truly formative analysis of the non-doctrinal narrative mind―is really path breaking." ―Michael Seidel, Columbia University, author of Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel

"This book is an original and substantial contribution to the study of Daniel Defoe, seventeenth and eighteenth-century literary history, the nature of intellectual thought and polemic attack in the period, and the history and theory of the novel form itself. Prince’s implicit idea―a new and truly formative analysis of the non-doctrinal narrative mind―is really path breaking." – Michael Seidel, Columbia University, author of Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel

“Making Strange is a critical and heavily researched investigation into pioneering photobooks. Its focus on France, rather than the usual suspects of Germany, North America, and Japan, is one of its most important contributions.” – Andrés Mario Zervigón, Rutgers University

“Mizruchi’s collection brings together leading scholars in book and reading history, and digital humanities, with front-line scholars in library and information sciences to provide a unique combination of academic and curatorial expertise. I don’t know of any book that offers such a convincing combination of specialties--let alone a book that will be so readable across many categories of intellectual life. The book is beautifully conceived, interleaving through the essays its topics of print and digital, libraries and visual or other non-text archives, and overlapping professional agendas among academics, librarians, and digital specialists.”
― Prof. Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University

“This is an exciting book, one that many of us in humanities research (and book history) have been hoping to see. This collection persuasively explores the issues of digitized knowledge, access, and preservation in the widest scope, across nations as well as disciplines, libraries as well as academic departments.  It offers a richly multinational and cross-cultural perspective on these issues by exploring them across borders and continents.  Mizruchi’s collection brings together leading scholars in book and reading history, and digital humanities, with front-line scholars in library and information sciences to provide a unique combination of academic and curatorial expertise.  I don’t know of any book that offers such a convincing combination of specialties--let alone a book that will be so readable across many categories of intellectual life. The book is beautifully conceived, interleaving through the essays its topics of print and digital, libraries and visual or other non-text archives, and overlapping professional agendas among academics, librarians, and digital specialists.”
― Prof Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

"This book describes a remarkable collection of basic and advanced tools for the analysis of discrete-time dynamical systems, both deterministic and stochastic, that have been usefully applied to the study of economic dynamic models."

- Mathematical Reviews

"Planting the Seeds of Research is a timely and provocative analysis of the role of the agricultural sector in America's modern economic development and of the part played by the US government in promoting that sector. By deftly combining agricultural history, political history and administrative history, Ferleger provides readers with a new appreciation of the ways in which the public and private sectors worked together to make American agriculture the most productive in the world." – Peter A. Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Austin makes a vital contribution to the history of race, youth, and urban studies by creatively mining the original interviews gathered by early social scientists E. Franklin Frazier and William Henry Jones and their assistants. Her book both reveals new dimensions of African American history and offers a generative method for interpreting the raw data of early twentieth century social science. An excellent, insightful, and engaging book." – Corinne T. Field, University of Virginia

“This is an unusually interesting volume. Part conventional Festschrift for Fredrik Barth (one of the most significant and influential anthropologists, also one of the most original and distinctive, of the second half of the twentieth century), but also part record and outcome of Barth’s specific influence in China and makes for a very distinctive volume.” – James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge

"Regardless of its ambiguity, the cumulative effect of Ibrahim’s rigidly factual narrative becomes mesmerizing, and his portrait of pissy taxi drivers and waiters and theater attendants, belligerent drunks, fatigued students with distant husbands in the military, and the merely beleaguered of all ages has a weird power that comes out unexpectedly, in the smallest of observations. Riding the bus, the narrator sits “across from a woman holding a dog to her chest. A round, rosy face with prominent cheekbones. Big mouth, blue eyes. Her face framed by wild locks of curly hair. Her features pulled forward in a pout like a spoilt child. The dog’s tiny head, looking around intelligently in all directions. Her shy-looking companion. She put her head on his shoulder and said she was tired.” Written and published at the very moment Egypt was entering the Arab Spring, Ice is a curious missive from a partly real, partly imagined past to a generation awakening to hope and upheaval—as well as the possibility of dashed illusions." – Eric Banks, 4columns.org

“The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall is a thrilling roller-coaster ride of an anthology. Just when you think you have mastered the pitch and roll of one emotional extreme, you find yourself careening around a bend into a different extreme. And Pinsky’s individual selections are at once deft and surprising: a Renaissance Old Master like Fulke Greville sits cheek-by-jowl with poets like Keetje Kuipers and Katie Willingham, born within hailing distance of the present. The collection is a perfect introduction to poetry’s enduring power to explore the utmost bounds of our experience.” - Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Tyrant

"...a work of remarkable scope that integrates physics with the history and philosophy of science without being superficial in any of these diverse disciplines. It surely stands alone as a unique intellectual undertaking...an informative and rewarding intellectual experience." -James T. Cushing, Physics Today

"Tapping into an anxiety felt by anyone working in literary studies today, Overwhelmed articulates the fraught relationship between literature and information with humor and panache. Persuasive and compelling, this is the rare book that will appeal to both literary and digital tribes." ―Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London

"While adopting an intercultural approach, the authors of Learning Chinese Language and Culture have presented an informative, well-organized, and delightful sourcebook on Chinese culture. This textbook promotes cultural awareness and, at the same time, builds linguistic competence. It is a supreme example of how to integrate culture in the process of language learning." – Hsiao-wei Wang, University of Toronto

"While adopting an intercultural approach, the authors of Learning Chinese Language and Culture have presented an informative, well-organized, and delightful sourcebook on Chinese culture. This textbook promotes cultural awareness and, at the same time, builds linguistic competence. It is a supreme example of how to integrate culture in the process of language learning." – Hsiao-wei Wang, University of Toronto

"With stunning analytic precision, intellectual grace, and captivating ethnography, Ayşe Parla takes on key debates about precarity and hope. If the migrant is the quintessential figure of our anxious times, this magnificent book is the essential guide to thinking more politically and profoundly about her predicament." – Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University

Honorable Mention: 2020 Book Prize in Critical Anthropology – Association of Political and Legal Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association

“Allegra Goodman and Michael Prince offer a fresh approach to the time-honored genre of the writing handbook. They have dispensed with musty clichés in favor of a conversational tone, and they use visuals that feel accessible and relatable. Illustrations representing a diverse array of students, each facing different writing challenges, feel almost like those of a graphic novel and are certain to engage today’s students.” – Natalie J. Friedman, Barnard College

“Allegra Goodman and Michael Prince offer a fresh approach to the time-honored genre of the writing handbook. They have dispensed with musty clichés in favor of a conversational tone, and they use visuals that feel accessible and relatable. Illustrations representing a diverse array of students, each facing different writing challenges, feel almost like those of a graphic novel and are certain to engage today’s students.” ― Natalie J. Friedman, Barnard College

"The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage is a first-rate, thoroughly researched work that opens a new area of inquiry in the field. It reveals how the visual archive of the revolution has been locally and globally used and abused to either ascertain or contest the significance of the revolution in differing contexts and periods by delving into the ideological complexities, even paradoxes, of cultural production." -- Zuzana M. Pick, author of Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution: Cinema and the Archive

"In this extraordinary book, Sophie Seita has mapped the postwar poetry avant-garde with all its complexities and contradictions. It's extraordinarily well laid out and true to the experiences of those of us who found a space there. As she recounts it, genres blend and schools contend as needed, and the result is a world of poets and artists arguing with the inherited past and drawing from a newly awakened past and present. I remain in awe at what she has accomplished: it's closer to the truth of our times than I would ever have expected." – Jerome Rothenberg, author of Eye of Witness

"Seita challenges the notion that there exists a formula for what can be called avant-garde. Instead, she presents the category as fluid, broad-minded, and sometimes contradictory. Provisional Avant-Gardes is important as a study of the impact of little magazines on art, literature, and politics, on their changing aesthetics, and on how print communities are created, then and now."–Deepa Bhasthi, Hyperallergic

"Lida Maxell's Insurgent Truth is an extraordinary book, and timely, because it creatively and thoughtfully uses the example of Chelsea Manning to re-imagine 'the politics of truth.'" —George Shulman, author of American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture

“This book trains Liah Greenfeld’s probing lens specifically on the history of nationalism. The case studies are explained in such a way that one can clearly understand the development of the different forms of nationalism. This concise account ties nationalism to the modern passion for equality, completely unfamiliar to the old world, and shows not only its impact on our political, economic, and social lives but more importantly how it affects our existential reality, particularly in the age of globalization. The book is a must read for all interested in coming to grips with the central phenomenon of our time.”—Oliver Benoit, Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. George’s University

“Makes a significant new scholarly contribution to historical archaeologies of exchange by foregrounding intimate and alternative economic systems and the connections they inspire without distancing them from the processes of capitalism and globalization in which they operated.”―Krysta Ryzewski, coeditor of Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action

“Cazenave’s immense work of scholarship and reflection offers an intimate and exacting account of the way Lanzmann’s approach to the project shifted and changed over the years of its creation. Never before has there been a more insightful study of the evolution of his thinking. I believe that any scholar who has worked on this film will agree.” ― Stuart Liebman, editor of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Key Essays

“Hagen and Yang offer a thoughtful overview of the state of scientific research on threats to eyewitness reliability, the weaknesses of traditional legal safeguards designed to reduce erroneous convictions in eyewitness cases, and the manner in which expert psychological testimony can help reduce those errors. The authors cleverly reconsider the facts of leading Supreme Court eyewitness cases to demonstrate how attention to scientific research would have enriched the Court's analysis and decision making - a treat for lawyers and judges as well as researchers.” -Steven Penrod, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

“Hagen and Yang offer a thoughtful overview of the state of scientific research on threats to eyewitness reliability, the weaknesses of traditional legal safeguards designed to reduce erroneous convictions in eyewitness cases, and the manner in which expert psychological testimony can help reduce those errors. The authors cleverly reconsider the facts of leading Supreme Court eyewitness cases to demonstrate how attention to scientific research would have enriched the Court's analysis and decision making - a treat for lawyers and judges as well as researchers.” – Steven Penrod, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

"The book is an excellent source if one wishes to know anything about the religious and supernatural commitments and motivations of scientists over the course of the last 2,500 years. It deserves also to be noted that there is an impressive consistency in style throughout, with some of the authors even drawing parallels between their own arguments and those found in other chapters." – Tiddy Smith, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"Peter Harrison and Jon H. Roberts provide a highly compelling alternative history of the sciences and their relation to naturalism that will be of direct relevance to contemporary philosophical arguments about the nature of scientific explanation and the enduring importance of religious belief." — Jamie Boulding, University of Leeds, Religious Studies

"This book establishes the ‘new geographies of knowledge and power’ that transformed British culture, and those that eighteenth-century explorers encountered, read, and misread. Eighteenth-century specialists, those interested in British cultural history, and literature on voyaging and colonization will appreciate Curious Encounters." - Richard C. Taylor, Department of English, East Carolina University

"Greenberg unravels our understanding of the notion of 'at-risk youth' and reveals the unexpected consequences of programs meant to transform vulnerable young people. On the other side of the youth control complex is a fleet of agencies and nonprofits striving to prevent harm. Greenberg shows how, despite their best intentions, attempts to transform the lives of marginalized youth fall apart in a cascade of short-term programs, public health data, and market-driven evidence. Greenberg presents an alternative way of thinking about the ways policy shapes the lives of vulnerable young people. Brilliant and deeply human, this book should be read by everyone working to change the lives of young people."  —Victor Rios, author of Human Targets

“Comprehensive, cogent, and carefully researched, Golden Years? provides a window onto the realities, risks, and disparities confronting the burgeoning numbers moving to and through life after age sixty-five. But Deborah Carr also showcases possibilities—ways governments, communities, and families can rewrite the scripts of later adulthood in ways that promote greater equality and life quality. This book is must reading for understanding both aging and our aging society—for individuals, family members, students, scholars, and policy makers. An instant classic!” —Phyllis Moen, director, Life Course Center and McKnight Endowed Presidential Chair in Sociology, University of Minnesota

“Seligman and Weller use the seemingly simple question ‘What counts as the same?’ to take us into a deep examination of the interrelationship between culture and the human mind. Their analysis of memory, mimesis, and metaphor as distinctly different and essential processes is most convincing. The breadth of examples points to the remarkable erudition of these two authors. A tour de force that is an important read for scholars across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences.” — Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

"In this imaginative, wide-ranging work, Nina Silber masterfully guides us through essays, novels, plays, and films to reveal how creative artists and public figures across the political spectrum sought to fashion a usable past. The result is an eye-opening work that not only deepens our knowledge of the Civil War in American memory but also breaks new ground in our understanding of New Deal America." – Louis P. Masur, author of Lincoln's Last Speech

Rural Modernity in Britain doesn’t merely fill a notable gap in studies of "modernism" and "modernity"―it provides a new template for understanding these terms in reference to Britain. Charting diverse, regionally inflected responses to modernity, the volume moves beyond the model of a single "countryside" as the locus of nostalgia or the weekend fantasies of modern urban dwellers to render the "rural" complex and vital." – Debra Rae Cohen, University of South Carolina

“Modern Kyoto is a stellar work of research and an important contribution to a number of fields, including Japanese history, architecture, and urbanism. I know of no other English-language work that addresses Kyoto urbanism and its relationship to imperial presentation in the modern era. It is sui generis and has no comparands.” — Yukio Lippit, Harvard University

“For too long pundits have dismissed the ‘silent majority’ who voted for Nixon, Reagan, and Trump as old, white malcontents. This remarkable book puts that condescending myth to rest. Blumenthal describes how conservatives organized young voters to support policies of law and order, Christian evangelism, and foreign policy interventionism in the shadow of 1968. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the arc of contemporary politics and changing the future course of American society.” — Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office

“The magician from Messkirch at the height of his early pedagogical powers, spellbindingly deconstructing the history of Western metaphysics and reconstructing Kant’s first Critique, the most important philosophical work since Plato’s Republic. Long quietly influential on both Heidegger and Kant scholarship, Heidegger’s fascinating work is finally available in a clear and compelling English translation that does justice to the original, thanks to the meticulous efforts of Reid and Crowe.” — Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico

“The sorceress Sealey...serves up an impossible cento that punches the daylight from your chest. Nothing ordinary here. But beast? Yeah, that’s it. This thing has teeth.” - Patricia Smith

"The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod is a fantastic volume, with chapters all written by accomplished international scholars; a volume that bespeaks the wide range of Hesiodic scholarship and reception from antiquity to today. Consequently, it is an indispensable work of reference relevant to anyone who
is interested in Hesiod. Besides, it should also be part of every Homerist's library." - Silvio Bär, University of Oslo , Classical Journal-Online

"[There] is no shortage of analysis relating to the Punt expeditions, much of which is likely to become the new 'standard' account of these voyages and of the huge logistical and ideological undertaking they represented. The volume will therefore be of immense value to scholars and students of ancient Egypt, and of ancient seafaring more generally." - Julian Whitewright, University of Southampton, in: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

“Stefan Hofmann and Stacey Doan have done a fantastic job of synthesizing contemporary understanding of emotions, elegantly weaving together research findings from cognitive, affective, social and developmental psychology with clinical science.  The Social Foundations of Emotion is broad and fresh, and will be a valuable resource for academics and clinicians, and also for lay people who explore this important topic.” — Joseph LeDoux, author of Anxious, Synaptic Self, and The Emotional Brain

"This is a well-written book in which a novel and insightful theory of moral progress is developed. The analysis is rich and the research on which it rests is extensive. This will be of interest to students and researchers concerned with the interface of ethics and evolution, philosophy of biology, evolutionary psychology, and the importance of moral progress." -- R. Paul Thompson, The Quarterly Review of Biology

“A lovely explanation of one of the most fundamental ideas in science, adaptation by natural selection. This book is a delightful contribution to the pressing challenge of enhancing scientific literacy at all ages.” — Steven Pinker, author of “How the Mind Works”

“Abigail Gillman’s work is a major scholarly achievement, indeed probably the most comprehensive study to date of the 170-year tradition of Jewish Bible translations into German. Gillman’s history is at the same time an important contribution to our understanding of the unique German-Jewish encounter in modernity, that is, of the philosophical, literary, cultural, and linguistic junction that brought to the world the likes of Moses Mendelssohn, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Else Lasker-Schüler, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Nelly Sachs, and Paul Celan, to name only a few luminaries. I am hard pressed to think of another book that brings together such a thorough consideration of Biblical translation across languages and cultures.” — Amir Eshel, Stanford University

“This is that rare book that is historically rooted and complex, yet strikingly contemporary. The issues of hunger and malnutrition continue to be on the agenda of policy makers and society at large in twenty-first-century India. Siegel gives this a complex history and background. Imperial administrators and nationalists, concerned social activists and scholars saw this in different, often contradictory ways. Yet the multiple lenses for viewing hunger, dearth, and public action in the middle of the last century can help with insights into our own times. This is a fine book, one not to be missed.” — Mahesh Rangarajan, Ashoka University, India

“This powerful and important book shows that – despite their reputation – Americans want their government to do more to help the least well off. With new evidence and rigorous analysis, Piston shows that most Americans believe the poor have less than they deserve, the rich have more than they deserve, and the appearance of public opposition to progressive economic policies stems from a lack of understanding of who benefits not an opposition to downward redistribution.” — Martin I. Gilens, Princeton University, New Jersey

“David Mayers turns his considered and expert gaze from the United States’s wartime exploits and dilemmas to what followed in the postwar world. Importantly the author skilfully crafts his account of the burgeoning Cold War before that conflict and paradigm became ‘set in stone’. In other words, Mayers’ text contributes to the literature on the origins of the Cold War, without it dominating a narrative looking at the United States and the postwar world where there were alternatives. The breadth of the research, and Mayers’ careful attention to detail make this a most valuable contribution to the canon.” — Simon Rofe, SOAS University of London

“Gavin Benke takes us on an adventurous journey into the complex network of gas pipelines and cash channels that gave shape to the Enron empire. He does not shy away from the complex financial systems that made Enron so profitable, and digs deep into the SPEs and other financial creations that made Enron tick. Risk and Ruinis extremely important, given the financial storms that loom ahead.” — Bartow Elmore, author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism

“Verso has published an elegant little book of essays by four academics who endeavored not only to unpack the phrase but also to find interpretations that can inform and inspire resistance to the current worldwide assault on human rights.”—Masha Gessen, New Yorker

“Process-Based CBT represents an important advancement in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). It admirably describes how to target relevant and largely transdiagnostic processes to promote healthy growth and development. Treatment manuals, developed for research trials for specific DSM disorders, are often quite limiting, in a way that can impede their effectiveness, especially when there are comorbidities. Learning about the core processes presented in this book will enrich students, practitioners, educators, and researchers.” — Judith S. Beck, PhD, president of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and clinical professor of psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania

“Griswold’s book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the relation between Rousseau and Smith. Its sensitive reading of the relevant texts uncovers a wealth of fascinating connections between them on a variety of unexpected topics, including pity and sympathy, selfhood, narcissism, genealogy, and the relation between freedom and politics.” — Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College, USA

“Remaking Black Power is an indispensable triumph. Painstakingly researched, artfully organized, crisply argued, utterly insightful, Ashley Farmer has remade Black Power scholarship like the black women she chronicles. This book unveils and dissects what has been hidden from the Black Power–era for far too long: the black woman as theorist.” — Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning

“In addressing the two problems of comorbidity and transdiagnostic symptoms, David Barlow and his colleagues have developed a treatment program with wide applicability in everyday clinical practice–important for all mental health professionals.” — Richard J. McNally, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Harvard University

“A truly important book. This new approach to the treatment of the emotion-based disorders specifies in a lucid and accessible way a coherent group of strategies and procedures for addressing the processes that maintain these disorders. Strongly recommended.” — Christopher G. Fairburn, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

“Ardoin provides an in-depth view of the current state of secondary school systems in rural communities, including especially alarming information on how this system affects the students themselves and places strain on rural high school guidance counselors. Rurality and geographic location as identifiers of underserved students are not yet common among academic literature, yet as shown, they greatly affect the ability and aspirations towards higher education of rural students. Rural students nationally will greatly benefit if readers implement the advice proposed in this book.” — Karen M. Ganss, Southern Utah University

“Offering a creative and convincing new picture of Christianity in Egypt in late antiquity, this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars in religion, anthropology, and sociology. Every page testifies to David Frankfurter’s deep knowledge of an exceptionally wide range of ancient texts and artifacts. And his writing is so engaging and vivid that he makes the religious practices come alive. This will be a very influential book.” — AnneMarie Luijendijk, Princeton University

“A celebration and deeply learned account of Persian poetry in Mughal India, this book traces how the idea of Hindustan in the Iranian imagination encountered the actuality of the place and ultimately transformed the literary and aesthetic landscape of the subcontinent. Mughal Arcadia is attractively written, with enthusiasm and erudition, and will delight anyone interested in the magnificent Indo-Persian culture it commemorates.” — Dick Davis, translator of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

“A delicious satire. . . . One of the most unsettling books about the moral dimensions of modern journalism.” — The Washington Post

“I think of Kirchwey as one of the true formal masters of American poetry, brilliant and supple in his craftsmanship in the tradition of Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, and James Merrill. This is a magical volume of poems that asks us to consider what the poet calls ‘stumbling blocks,’ those many physical, temporal, and spiritual interruptions to our passage through a landscape and a life.” — David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems?

“Strikingly original and marvelously written, Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self  not only solves the riddle of Dostoevsky’s conception of the self, but also provides a wealth of new insights into his works. Corrigan’s study is likely to become an event in the field. What is more, it has the potential to be read beyond the circle of Dostoevsky scholars: students and general readers will find the book accessible, provoking, and inspiring. This is a major achievement in Dostoevsky scholarship.”  — Irina Paperno, author of Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky’s Russia and “Who, What Am I?”: Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self

“Bonnie Costello has long been one of our finest readers of modern poetry, and The Plural of Us is her richest, finest book–at once stalwartly focused and provocatively wide-ranging. To read The Plural of Us is to sense a lifetime of thinking and feeling brought to bear on some of the most fundamental aspects of lyric poetry.” — James Longenbach, author of The Virtues of Poetry

“From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men is a brilliant account of the uneven emergence of the modern subject in Korean literary fiction, immersing us in the historical circumstances of colonialism, censorship, and the transition to modernity that shaped authors and readers alike in early colonial Korea… Written in beautiful, measured prose, this book apprises us of the costs of longing for individuality, modernity, and civilization. A work of comparative literature at its finest.” — Ruth Barraclough, Australian National University.

“The book provides, probably for the first time, not only all the elements necessary for assessing the full importance of Turing’s legacy but also fundamental lines of thought for connecting his work with new research perspectives. It will be an indispensable reference for understanding and developing all the concepts and ideas introduced by Turing.” – Jean-Marc Ginoux, Isis, Vol. 110 (4), 2019

“Research shows that this brilliant book can help even young children understand evolution by natural selection. Teaching children about evolution when they’re young ensures that they’ll really ‘get it’ when they’re older. Nothing in science education could possibly be more important than helping children to understand the ideas at the heart of all of biology.”  — Alison Gopnik, The Scientist in the Crib

“We’d all be better off if we could forecast the future state of complex systems such as the weather, our health, and the stock market. Dietze shows us how to approach forecasting using models based on large datasets and how to make the results easy to digest. This book is certain to be a benchmark in the science of ecological forecasting for decades to come.” — William H. Schlesinger, president emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

“An excellent guide to the main approaches and issues of social science research design. It offers a clear guide through the thicket of terms and concepts with effective use of examples. A valuable work for students of any level.” — Kenneth Benoit, London School of Economics and Political Science

“This is the most readable and lucid account I have seen on long-range dependence and self-similarity. Pipiras and Taqqu present a time-series-centric view of this subject that should appeal to both practitioners and researchers in stochastic processes and statistics. I was especially enamored by the insightful comments on the history of the subject that conclude each chapter. This alone is worth the price of the book!” — Richard Davis, Columbia University

“Heywood has written a complete and focused account of Queen Njinga…Njinga of Angola seamlessly knits together the complete set of sources on the Queen, which include missionary accounts, letters, colonial records, previous histories of Angola and Dutch West India Company records…Heywood has cleared away the noise of [the] mostly fantastical accounts and assembled as straight a biography as is possible. Indeed, Njinga of Angola, which took nine years of research, sets out to replace interpretation and sensationalism with facts…Heywood preserves all of the complexity of Njinga and her politics in a book that provides the most complete and foundational history of Queen Njinga.” — Delinda J. Collier, Times New Literary Supplement

“In a sweeping narrative that ranges from the Middle Ages through World War II, Cathal Nolan dismantles an illusion that has persistently distorted our understanding of armed conflict – that of the decisive battle engineered by the genius general. But the importance of this brilliantly provocative book is not merely historical. Its conclusions apply directly to war and military policy in the present day.” — Andrew J. Bacevich, author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History

“It is a cause for celebration to have Jolles’s classic Simple Forms in English … a great book, always stimulating, and exhilarating in its speculative leaps, its shrewd insights, its wilder guesses.” — Fredric Jameson, from the Foreword

“Human in Death offers a sustained and subtle inquiry into J. D. Robb’s In Death books as novels of ideas―texts which invite their readers to think about love, desire, and romantic relationships. Kecia Ali demonstrates that these are thoughtful books, part of a genre that deserves and rewards our serious attention. This is a groundbreaking contribution to the study of mass-market fiction, the ethics of reading, and the emerging field of popular romance studies.”  — Eric Murphy Selinger, President, International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

“By mining an extraordinarily rich treasure trove of unpublished diaries, Peri moves beyond relating what happened during the blockade and instead explains how Leningraders made sense of it. Sophisticated, nuanced, and extremely well written, The War Within is a major contribution to our understanding of the mentality of Leningrad’s civilians during the blockade and the role that diaries played in Soviet history.” — Richard Bidlack, coauthor of The Leningrad Blockade, 1941–1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives

“Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor is a major contribution to research and fills a gap in Levi studies. Nancy Harrowitz’s meaningful and original interaction with the texts opens up new areas of discussion and contemplation.” — Elizabeth Scheiber, Professor of French and Italian, Rider University

“No one knows what the future of neuroscience will bring, but it seems certain that ever increasing amounts of complex data will be one of its hallmarks. Kramer and Eden address an important need by offering an accessible, systematic hands-on approach to data analysis. This unique and invaluable book will be greatly appreciated by everyone who faces the tough analytic challenges of modern neuroscience.” — Olaf Sporns, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University; author of  Networks of the Brain and  Discovering the Human Connectome

“There is no more consistently brilliant thinker on nationalism than Liah Greenfeld. This book will undoubtedly be a ”must read” for both scholars and students of the subject.” — Jonathan Eastwood, Washington and Lee University

“Combining original fieldwork on Quechua with a cutting-edge command of argument structure, Myler has produced an innovative account of possession that highlights and resolves an intriguing contradiction in its crosslinguistic character. His balance of clean theory and powerful typology will have scholars returning to this work for years to come.” — Daniel Harbour, Professor of the Cognitive Science of Language, Queen Mary University of London; author of Impossible Persons

“A revolution is coming in social theory, and here is one of its prophets. Julian Go’s scholarly and vigorous argument shows why the global-North hegemony in social science can’t survive. Even better, he shows how the bases of social science can change, with an epistemology that is realist without being dogmatic, multiple without being fragmented. Everyone concerned with the future of social thought will learn from this book.” — Raewyn Connell, author of Southern Theory and Gender in World Perspective

“Resonant . . . stunning . . . These poems, with their careful word choices and refined music, demand multiple readings and reveal more each time. The collection, like two dying friends in one piece, leave “A shape distinct and present in the mind.”” — Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post

“The premise of this excellent book – that globalisation has spread the idea of the nation-state – is both accurate and a necessary corrective to naive ideas suggesting that states and nations no longer count in world affairs. The papers are superb, and they cover the whole world. A necessary volume.” — John A Hall, McGill University

“What drew Western writers to an arcane, highly stylized form of Japanese court theater? As a scholar, Carrie J. Preston answers this question by way of the archive, unearthing a global network of dancers and writers. But she also pursues this question as a student, subjecting herself to the rigors of noh training. The result is an unusual blend of both approaches, a magisterial study in cultural history that is also a compelling story of teaching and learning.” — Martin Puchner, Harvard University

“Innovative and engaging. A valuable collection of essays on the rich and broad topic of Enlightenment material cultures.” — Catherine Packham, University of Sussex, UK

“This book is the last word on congressional investigations of the presidency. With rich case studies extending back most of a century, Kriner and Schickler show beyond doubt that major probes have swerved U.S. politics and policymaking, particularly when the media world is paying attention.” — David R. Mayhew, Yale University

“With admirably thorough research, Rosella Cappella Zielinski teaches us much about a critical yet remarkably underresearched topic―how governments pay for war. This masterful book deserves to be on the shelf of anyone interested in the nexus of international relations and international political economy.” — Benjamin J. Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Geography of Money

“Fallou Ngom lifts us a giant step toward decolonizing what ‘literacy’ can mean, while giving writing in Wolof, the dominant language of Senegal, its rightful place among Muslim literatures of the world. ‘Ajami is the modification of Arabic script to accommodate local languages, and for centuries it has been used to communicate people’s own senses of purpose, place, and divine province, as it does for Murids and other Senegalese Sufis. Ngom’s evocative pages make abundantly clear what has been lost to most Africanist scholars who have ignored the richly self-reflexive resources of ‘Ajami.” — Allen F. Roberts, Professor of World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

“This book is essential reading for any non-economist who wants to understand how markets shape our world, including transformational marketplaces like Amazon, Airbnb, and eBay.” — Reid Hoffman, chairman of LinkedIn

“[The author] succeeds in producing a book that can serve as a university-level textbook or a source of information for anyone interested in knowing the background for breaking news…Excellent maps, photos and boxes defining pivotal groups, places, phenomena and events, from Sufism, Janissaries and the Mamluks to the Alawi, Jerusalem and Hamas, supplement and enrich the text…The emphasis is not on single events but on the interaction between the governors and the governed over time― the stuff of which history is made. ” — Sally Bland, The Jordan Times

“This fascinating book offers us new insights into the old question of ‘forerunners of the Reformation.’ By examining the afterlife of Jan Hus in Hussite, Lutheran and Catholic polemics, Phillip Haberkern brilliantly shows the range of ways in which an earlier form of dissent could be reinterpreted by its followers, its successors and its critics. This book is both deeply scholarly and very readable.” — Euan Cameron, author of The European Reformation

“The voluminous literature on democratization in Latin America has given relatively little attention to presidential campaigns, despite their centrality to the democratic process in the region. Taylor Boas addresses that shortcoming in this impressive book. His analysis provides new insights into the strategic behavior of presidential candidates, party organizations, and professional campaign managers and consultants, and it demonstrates how these actors craft technocratic, populist, personalist, and programmatic appeals to voters. This book is a major contribution to the scholarship on democratic representation in contemporary Latin America.” — Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University

“This lengthy and detailed study takes its place as the most extensive examination to date of the interplay of tragic and comic drama in fifth-century Athens. (…) Nelson’s prose flows rather well and she comes across as engaging and involved in the material and ideas. In a number of places a reader can sense the voice of an experienced teacher unpacking a complex text for her students. She has taken pains to make the volume accessible for non-specialists and motivated students, offering passages in translation (mostly without the original Greek), providing ample background and support (e.g., the glossary and synopses), and glossing technical terms so that the book is relatively light on jargon.” — Wilfred E. Major, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.02.15

“This outstanding volume covers diverse areas related to emotions in therapy, including biology and neuroscience, social and personality psychology, motivation, and recent mindfulness meditation strategies. The author also gives concrete recommendations and tools for targeting emotions in clinical practice.” — Aaron T. Beck, MD, University Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical School

“The authors have the courage as well as the philosophical skills to challenge the sentimentalities designed to help us all to just ‘get along.’ Instead, they draw on their pedagogical experience to provide an account of how difference can be lived. This fascinating book has the potential to change the discussion about how we might live at peace without the peace achieved occluding our rightly lasting differences.”  — Stanley Hauerwas, Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University

“To his credit, Professor Samons resolutely refuses to view Pericles with rose-colored glasses. Instead, he shatters the illusions entertained by his predecessors, emphasizing the degree to which the radical democracy in Athens fostered and was fostered by a brutal, ruthless, exploitative imperialism and exhibited a suicidal ambition for further expansion that, thanks in part to the vision of undying glory and grandeur deliberately projected by Pericles, knew no bounds.”  — Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College

"[T]his book is an excellent introduction to the philosophical issues concerning the emergent media. The breadth of philosophical scope and the variety of philosophical positions applied to the issues make it particularly valuable. It opens numerous paths to further development of genuinely philosophical approaches to the media from a varied menu of approaches that utilize most contemporary philosophical schools...the work is excellent in offering ideas for further development and application." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

“Thought-provoking and engaging, Beyond the Walls provides new and relevant theoretical perspectives and specific case studies for archaeologists conducting research related to household archaeology. Essential for both students and professionals.” — Mark D. Groover, author of The Archaeology of North American Farmsteads

“This is a wonderfully rich collection of primary source readings, intelligently selected and usefully organized. This updated edition is indispensable for undergraduate courses in American intellectual or cultural history, a stimulating supplement to any undergraduate course about the United States, and required reading for graduate students.”  — Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University

“This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory.” — James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University

“An outstanding archaeological synthesis and an interpretive innovation like none other in recent years. Rather than playing it safe by keeping materiality and religion at arms’ length, he illuminates through painstaking research and insightful analysis how the ‘cultural logic guiding human action’ of Mesoamerican urbanization is permeated by religious practices and ideas. Carballo gives new life to knowledge of Mexico’s ancient cities.” — Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University

“This reader includes substantial selections from representative works of major nineteenth-century philosophers, drawn from respected scholarly translations, and introduced – in readable yet also well-informed and serious discussions – by eminent scholars such as Sebastian Gardner and Robert Stern. It will be very useful for classes in nineteenth-century philosophy, particularly surveys or those focusing on post-Kantian idealism.” — Rachel Zuckert, Northwestern University

“Jay Atkinson has written a gripping account of the brutal struggles in seventeenth-century New England and Canada among British and French immigrants and various resident Native American tribes. He makes the shifting alliances comprehensible and conveys in vivid prose the desperate motives and aspirations of each group. This book portrays the sad and bloody shadow side of our perennial American Thanksgiving Day myth of happy camaraderie among European settlers and their native hosts. Anyone interested in the earliest origins of the United States will want to read this dreadful tale of greed, violence—and amazing courage on all sides.” —Lisa Alther, author of Blood Feud

“A fascinating project, one that places the Theogony into the environment of similar cosmological creation myths in the ancient Near East, then shows how Hesiod develops a distinctive vision of the way in which civilization and political order evolve out of chaos, a vision that continues to prove influential throughout antiquity and into the works of Milton. This is the book that will set the agenda in Hesiodic studies in the years to come.” — Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University

“Recapturing the Oval Office is a delightful book of high literary merit that will have an important impact on the historical profession. I envy the subtlety and forthrightness with which it demolishes shibboleths and sets forth a new agenda for the next generation.” — Elizabeth Cobbs, Hoover Institution and San Diego State University, author of American Umpire

“Sacred Rice is well thought-out and developed. It combines classic issues and themes in anthropology with an exploration of contemporary problems that will endure. Davidson shows the power of compelling story-telling to illustrate analytical abstractions. I would recommend this book to my colleagues.” — Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington

“The two-volume set is easy to navigate, with a thematic table of contents to help readers locate related topics and a detailed index with cross-referencing. Although the archaeology of food is a very specific topic, this encyclopedia is interdisciplinary in order to provide context and comprehensiveness. Therefore, it would serve as a great resource for college-age students in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, food studies, history, sociology, and other related disciplines.” — Booklist

“In this well-informed and rigorous work, the authors challenge the view of presidential universalism with their finding that presidents routinely allocate federal resources to benefit their partisan and electoral constituencies. The fact that chief executives skew policy to the demands of the electoral college encourages us to reconsider our views of the presidency and the manner in which we elect its occupants.”  — George Edwards, University of Oxford

“An important and excellent book, of equal interest to specialist readers and to those unfamiliar with the story of how Scottish, Irish, and American literature arose in the shadow of London’s literary power. Indebted to Bourdieu but working with a new method of his own, Rezek shows how it is still possible, in an oft visited landscape, to make extraordinary discoveries.” — Pascale Casanova, author of The World Republic of Letters

“Ha Jin has captured the painful, often humdrum essence of the hidden agent. . . . We see America through the eyes of a Chinese émigré, torn between an old loyalty and growing affection for the adopted land he is betraying.” — The New York Times Book Review

“Anthony Petro’s novel account of the role of American Christianity in the AIDS crisis moves beyond expected narratives of the rise of the right to encompass a diversity of religious responses across the ‘long 1980s.’ Illuminating and important.” — Margot Canaday, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University

“To understand the complete Brando…any future biographer will now have to take account of Mizruchi’s Brando as well―to somehow square the lover and the sensualist with the critical thinker.” — Julia M. Klein, Boston Globe

“This astute and wide-ranging collection captures multiple dimensions of French Jews’ reactions after World War II to a society that simultaneously had delivered 76,000 of them to death yet saved almost nine-tenths of those who had been born in France. Appearing at a time when the existence of a French Jewish community seems imperiled once more, this book is especially instructive.” — Peter Hayes, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor, Northwestern University

“This is one of the most important books written on Africa in the last ten years—indeed, in any ten years… A superb topic, handled here by an accomplished historian at the peak of his powers… Sparse, almost curt, it makes the case with blinding clarity…The past lives with us. The future is about adaptability, not progress.” — David M. Anderson, University of Warwick

“The Value of the Particular provides proper testimony to the career and influence of its honoree. The articles are of uniformly high quality and the authors of these essays freely dialogue with Katz and his scholarship in their own writings, thereby bearing direct witness to the impact his career has had upon modern scholarship in these diverse yet overlapping fields. The editors are to be congratulated for their superb work and we can all hope that Professor Katz continues his scholarly productivity for years to come.” — David Ellenson, Brandeis University and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, RRJ 20 (2017) 279-297.

“In this smart, exuberant, and often provocative set of essays, a renowned group of historians set themselves the task of making transnationalism work. I was struck by how often a transnational lens also required truly interdisciplinary approaches―artistic analysis, economics, cultural history, and international affairs are necessarily cohabiting here. For scholars, students, and teachers, this offers a capacious sense of possibility. It is a priceless collection.” — Melani McAlister, author of Epic Encounters

“The essays collected here are outstanding and bring to light some of the best scholarship on a topic in which new work is rapidly emerging and fundamentally changing. The research is excellent—the book is full of archival finds from all over the country—and the analyses are stimulating, often sparkling.” — Paul Harvey, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

“Against Self-Reliance is a remarkably original book and an impassioned critique of liberalism. Howell makes a compelling argument that imitation and emulation occupied a central place in the emergence of the United States. This alternative story has, he suggests, important implications for the way we view our world. His analysis crackles with urgency.” — Catherine Kelly, University of Oklahoma

“[A] can’t-miss guide to the system. . . . Clear enough for even the most intimidated reader, with a concluding cheat sheet helpfully summing up the book’s suggestions. The authors’ palpable fervor to help readers get back what they’ve paid will energize readers to claim what is rightfully theirs.” — Publishers Weekly

“This volume is timely and will be a valued addition to the libraries of professional archaeobotanists, students learning the intricacies of archaeobotanical analyses, and archaeologists who want an up-to-date reference of the methods and applications of archaeobotany.” — C. Margaret Scarry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Jennifer Hochschild and Katherine Einstein have tackled an underexamined but extremely important subject and with good analysis show that a certain degree of cognitive grasp is needed for a voter-based political system to survive and flourish.” — David R. Mayhew, Yale University

“Kathryn Bard’s thorough and very up to date revision of her excellent Introduction assimilates impressively the continuing flood of research in Egyptian archaeology and of new discoveries. Reworked major chapters highlight issues that are important for the archaeology of all early states.” – John Baines, Oxford University

“An original and significant work that demonstrates the different, and evolving, ways in which Londoners understood the nature of death and prepared themselves for it, and for what was to come afterwards.” — Caroline Barron, University of London

“A rich, insightful, cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most significant periods in U.S. immigration history – our own. The collection offers a cohesive yet remarkably varied treatment of the challenges faced and the lives carved out by ‘new’ immigrants, and of the mark that recent immigration has made, from Boston to Atlanta to Southern California. A truly excellent anthology.” — Matthew Frye Jacobson, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies & History and Professor of African American Studies, Yale University

“Catherine Connell’s study of gay and lesbian teachers in California and Texas gives the lie to the idea that the closet is no longer relevant in American culture… School’s Out vividly documents the difficulties [teachers] face in reconciling gay pride and professionalism.” — Arlene Stein, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

"Uden's wide-ranging study situates Juvenal's satires squarely in the context of a multicultural second-century world, in which firm boundaries between identities were hard to uphold, and he watches the ironies of Juvenal's xenophobia unfold." - The Times Literary Supplement

"Law of Desire contains some very interesting, often heartbreaking, life stories of women. . . . It is the first of its kind to deal with a taboo issue which, despite its social and political importance, has been neglected and overlooked by a wide range of political opinion in Iran." ― Feminist Review

“Ali takes an innovative approach to a biography of Muhammad, comparing the various accounts of his life in what is probably the only book to do so comprehensively. She concludes that, as sensibilities evolved in the time since Muhammad’s life, the biographies of the prophet expanded or even altered in keeping with prevailing mores.” — Publishers Weekly

“If I were running a national education system…this book would be a precise tool in navigating some reefs of sectarian difference. For a foreign office education attaché, it would certainly assist in evading many cultural faux pas across a curiously wide range of diplomatic postings. For university religious studies professors and education systems/policy researchers, this is a mustread.” — International Journal of Christianity and Education

“We need more publications like this if we are to move forward in our understanding of the Mesoamerican past, its layering of landscapes, and the variable and ever-changing nature of its material culture. The often unsuspected worlds that such an approach reveals are an advance not only for Mesoamerican Studies but for archaeology in general.” — Nicholas J. Saunders, University of Bristol

"This book offers an invaluable service to the profession. No longer do students need multiple textbooks for graduate courses in macroeconomics. It is a much-needed graduate book that combines theory and application, both computational and empirical. The analysis is rigorous, yet highly accessible."―Vincenzo Quadrini, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

“African & American gives a valuable and much-needed voice to the African immigrant experience in America. Focusing on the divide between what it means to be an African and an American, Halter and Johnson reveal the historical complexity around these terms and how newcomers grapple with this reality in the contemporary world.” — Zain Abdullah, author of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem

“Winn is an ace at picking up on subtleties in the period’s music and poetry, giving readers a feel for the political and religious turmoil that infected Anne’s court… His writing and commentary, along with the musical samples found on the accompanying website, bring the queen’s history to life.” — Publishers Weekly

“This book presents contemporary mathematical and statistical methods of networks analysis and their implementation in R, written by the experts in this field … . The monograph presents an excellent description of a wide span of operations possible on networks, and is very useful for researchers and students.” — Stan Lipovetsky, Technometrics, Vol. 57 (2), May, 2015

“I like the idea of mental synthesis very much…I quite agree that language evolved in a way that facilitates synthesis and transmission of the synthesized mental image…I don’t think there can be much doubt, purely conceptually, that language was a late arrival. Whatever mutation provided the key to it would have had no selectional advantage at all, and would have just been a useless “organ,” if it could not have linked up to pre-existing thought systems.” — Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, MIT

“Each chapter of this book documents alarming change: the flowering of the pink lady’s slipper orchid has begun three weeks earlier; wild apple blossoms have advanced by two to four weeks; wood sorrel by six weeks. . . . [Walden Warming] show[s] compellingly how a place and its ecosystems can alter dramatically in the face of climate change.” — Jules Pretty, University of Essex Times Higher Education Supplement

“Out of this world! Written with elegance and erudition, Henchman’s The Starry Sky Within extends the reach of literature to the cosmos, where it reflects new truths and fresh insights.” — Karen Chase, Linden Kent Memorial Professor, University of Virginia

“An outstanding revision. Each chapter is well organized, and includes a comprehensive range of information. This handbook is a helpful resource for keeping mental health professionals and students up to date on the latest research and advances in evidence-based treatments for commonly encountered psychological disorders.” — Journal of Psychiatric Practice

“This is an outstanding book, that fills a real need. Assuming no background in statistics, it covers the data analysis methods neuroscientists need to know, from standard material like hypothesis tests, to specialized methods that have recently found use in our field. It has the detail and insight needed for those developing their own statistical methods. And for the working neurobiologist it has plenty of practical tricks, tips, and examples, coming straight from the experts. This book is a must for anyone serious about quantitative analysis in neuroscience.” — Kenneth D. Harris, Professor of Quantitative Neuroscience, University College London

“The authors, renowned medical specialists in the area of emotional health and psychology, present a systematic approach to help readers learn and integrate relevant tension-reduction techniques into their lives… Offering more than a variety of tips for random usage, this book will be appreciated by readers for providing structure within which transformation can take place.” — Library Journal

“[B]y examining the formation of credit card markets in eight postcommunist countries, Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva show how [many factors] played a role in fashioning these markets, albeit in different ways in different countries. And in doing so I place it among other wonderful books about market formation . . . [T]here is much to learn here about how credit markets and the rules and practices that generate them are constructed. These are lessons that should be of interest not just to sociologists but economists too.” — John L. Campbell, American Journal of Sociology

“Hofmann and Weinberger have done a marvelous job of enticing chapter authors who know both science and practice to contribute. The result is a volume that demonstrates that art and science are not incompatible, as many claim. Indeed, the reader will see how each plays off the other and how the two epistemologies can work toward what we all desire: better outcomes for patients.”  — Bruce E. Wampold, Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

“Gene Andrew Jarrett reintroduces to us voices that we do not often hear in anthologies.  Works by Harryette Mullen, Suzan-Lori Parks, Walter Mosely, and Percival Everett, among others, glow and sing here, and complete the broad mosaic that Professor Jarrett so successfully reconstructs of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature by people of African descent.” — Nathan L Grant, African American Review

“Expansive, instructive, fascinating and surprising, this magnificent anthology is pieced together with superb editorial judgment and offers insights on every page. Here is a rich, many-voiced literary tradition unfolding across the centuries in all its exhilarating diversity and unmatched power. Certain to become seminal and essential, this is a treasure that belongs on all our bookshelves.” — Zoe Trodd, University of Nottingham

“It’s the beautiful simple dignity of the writing, whether speaking of its conditions and occasions of sorrow or of happiness, with such respect for what we are as fellow human beings. The elegance of the poem is a consequence of her skill at writing beautiful lines; it is also a moral elegance, composing beautiful lines in beautiful stanzas about how we are on this “poor earth,” living our lives. These poems know how it is.” — David Ferry

”Like the best dystopian offerings, The Tales is composed of the actual, complicated by the intellectual, and amplified by the whimsical: think Anne Carson meets The Canterbury Tales.” — Sina Queyras

“Deeply learned and intellectually adventurous, Classical World Literatures sets a new standard for comparative study in a global perspective. In her fourfold account of Japanese and Roman relations to the older ‘reference cultures’ of China and Greece, Wiebke Denecke develops a series of fascinating, revealing comparisons and offers as well a probing essay in method, raising fundamental questions concerning the challenges and opportunities involved in the study of incommensurable cultures. East Asianists, Classicists, and comparatists of many varieties will see their field differently after reading this strikingly original book.” — David Damrosch, Harvard University

“Focusing on the issue of foreseeable systemic collateral damage that most Just War theorists neglect, Crawford combines organization theory and moral theory to develop a perceptive and promising account of military organizations as imperfect moral agents.” — Henry Shue, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford; and Fellow Emeritus, Merton College, Oxford

“Anthony Wallace’s stories resonate with a strong narrative voice. They are melancholy stories whose oral nature juxtaposes adjectives and metaphors to create a haunting imagery. . . . Even with their somberness, it’s difficult to read these stories and not be caught into the storyteller’s spell. . . .In the midst of these stories of potential futility, it is Wallace’s crafting and use of beautiful language to balance emotions and complex levels of development that keeps the reader from also losing hope. Long after finishing the collection, these stories sit and haunt the thoughts of the reader, reliving that sense of ‘maybe this time’ that lives in us all.” — North American Review

“This is an excellent book on centrally important – but often neglected – aspects of Hobbes’ political and moral theories. It is powerfully argued and lucidly expressed. Written with verve and humor, it is great fun to read, and deserves a wide audience.” — Johann Sommerville, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Scorching… heartbreaking… Bacevich dismantles the warrior myth we civilians and politicians so enjoy worshiping from afar, and replaces that idol with flesh and blood, vulnerable humans, who deserve better than the profligate, wasteful way in which we treat them.” — Rachel Maddow, the New York Times Book Review

“[An] illuminating collection of 24 academic essays… [and a] valuable look back on Wiesel’s heroic authorial career.” — Publishers Weekly

“The editors have assembled an impressive array of some of the foremost experts in the field of anxiety disorders. This text provides a contemporary perspective of cognitive-behavioral treatment that combines research findings with clinical perspicacity. Each chapter is written in a clear and concise fashion and offers concrete clinical examples, yielding excellent hands on application. This book belongs in the library of any serious researcher or practitioner who works with anxiety disorders.  I highly recommend it.” — Frank M. Dattilio, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

“What most distinguishes Greenfeld’s model of the mind from so much else in the field is that she brings together biological and cultural approaches to mental illness inclusively rather than exclusively, in a way that enlarges rather than diminishes both. While accepting the biological reality of major mental illnesses, her analysis is focused not simply on the brain, in a reductive sense, but on the mind as a product of experience and learning as well as biology. Likewise, she applies cultural concepts to psychiatry not in the reductive, purely social-constructionist manner of Laing, Foucault, and Szasz, but so as to foster understanding of cultural and historical variations in the incidence and expression of mental illness that biology alone cannot explain.” — Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D., Harvard Medical School

“This is an excellent anthology. Steven Katz has long argued that mysticism is not invariant, but is shaped by the concepts, doctrines, and practices of particular religious traditions. This volume provides material for responsible comparative study. Scholars of each tradition have selected texts, written informative introductions, and noted the provenance of each work. The selections are longer than usual and thus provide more context. I recommend it highly.” — Wayne Proudfoot, Professor of Religion, Columbia University

“In their tremendous PoemJazz collaboration, Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood establish a wholly simpatico artistic partnership. On every track, Hobgood improvised every note in the studio, concurrent with Pinskyʼs readings. Pinsky proves himself an equally adept improviser. His are not dramatic interpretations of the poems but musical ones, the focus on cadence and harmony with Hobgood.” — Christopher Louden, Jazz Times

“This slim book is free of academic jargon and instead exudes authenticity and positivity. The women’s stories about their own histories and current circumstances are handled capably by the authors who acknowledge the interesting dynamics that play out as they interview women whose own fathers rarely let them leave the house or attend secondary school. High school and undergraduate students interested in Latin American politics and women’s studies will especially find this intriguing and informative.” — Jennifer Stout, Library Journal

“The historical, regional, and ethnographic scope of this volume is breath-taking. By approaching their topic through speech, disguise, body expression, or material articulation, contributors invite a wide readership across all kinds of fields to engage with a timely topic in new, refreshing and penetrating ways. Frank Korom has edited a landmark publication that will inspire experts and interested laypersons for years to come.” — Andre Gingrich, Austrian Academy of Sciences

“[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research.” — Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University

“It is a heartbreaking story, but the author’s skill and eloquence make it unforgettable.” — Library Journal

“The volume covers a wide range of topics, temporalities and geographical extents, from Austrian fifteenth century pocket sundials to the modern ruins of the AIR studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. … This volume is also a useful addition to the corpora of movement studies in archaeology in that it extends the reach of this research to the recent past. … it is a well-produced volume with a good number of quality illustrations. It will serve the interests of historical archaeologists well…” — Alice J. Rogers, Archaeological Review from Cambridge

“An intense poetic hovering over a situation of prolonged expectation….The poems in SO SPOKE PENELOPE are simply amazing, whether in the form of an apostrophe to the absent Odysseus or to the Gods, whether in a narrative past-tense mode or in the immediacy of the lived present, whether in the staccato of monosyllables or in the exuberance of unusual compounds, whether they employ Greek-feeling pentameter lines, alliteration, or anaphora. This poetic cycle shows that the whole range of human experience is contained in Penelope of Ithaca.” — Werner Sollors

“Despite the many shelves of books published on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s diplomacy, no study has thus far examined FDR’s ambassadors with the extensive research, discerning analysis, and global perspective displayed in David Mayers’ significant new book. Readers will find incisive portraits and new evidence about the famous and the not so well-known diplomats who tried to carry out FDR’s policies. Mayers demonstrates that while Roosevelt largely ignored the state department, he did pay attention to the reports sent by many of his ambassadors. This book is essential for understanding U.S. foreign relations in the era of Franklin Roosevelt.” — Frank Costigliola, author of Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

“Writing beautifully and at times eloquently, Martin explores the subtleties of the paradoxes of growing old with a deft hand. . . . [He] considerably broadens our understanding of aging in the past.” — Renaissance Quarterly

“Turkey is a country of contradictions, and very few authors have managed to paint so complex a picture of it as White. It is a nation where the secular elite has dogmatically made war on all things Islamic, yet this same elite embraces a Turkish nationalism rooted in the Islamic religion. This is a well-written, engaging, and smart book about contemporary Turkey, one that will be widely read and discussed.” — Henri J. Barkey, Lehigh University

“Keith Vincent creatively illuminates the narrative structures, reading practices, and cultural assumptions through which key Japanese texts from the first half of the twentieth century articulate the close proximity of historical and developmental understandings of male-male desire to modern formulations of homosociality. Meticulously researched and rigorously argued, Two-Timing Modernity is a most welcome contribution to the field.” — James Reichert, Stanford University

“As in his previous books, Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism and Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, Professor Klawans displays his enviable skill in absorbing, digesting, and presenting with clarity a vast amount of material on a complicated subject: the theologies of ancient Judaism. Perhaps only a scholar who has already demonstrated his expertise in the area of Jewish law and observance could treat with complete credibility the tricky and touchy topic of ‘theology’ in ancient Judaism. His achievement is all the more admirable because he focuses upon that protean Talleyrand of first-century Judaism, Josephus.” — John P. Meier, William K. Warren Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame

“Tian Yu’s book is a penetrating treatment of the physics involved, but with many philosophical asides, that he alone can produce effortlessly. I have enjoyed reading it enormously.” — Michael Redhead, Professor Emeritus,University of Cambridge, FBA

“Subtle and powerful.” — The New York Times Book Review

“John Thornton captures the moment Africa, Europe and the Americas came together and the new world that was created. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 will be a foundation stone in the study of the Atlantic, simultaneously an entry point for novices, a reference for established scholars, and a guide for future studies. An extraordinary achievement.” — Ira Berlin, University of Maryland“Finally we have an Atlantic history in which the peoples and cultures of the three continents are given equal weight, and in which Africans, Native Americans and Europeans are all important actors in and creators of this history. The integration of primary sources, current scholarship, and new interpretations makes Thornton’s book essential reading for scholars, students and the general public.” — Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University

“Both in the complexity of his work and its relevance to the crisis of his time Weber finds in Kalberg a commentator who is equal to the task of demonstrating how only an equivalent project could match up to the demands that the current global crisis makes on social science.” — Martin Albrow, University of Wales, UK

“William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters is rammed with life. It has more than promise. A kind of elegiac intensity, remarkable for so young a man, pervades its harmonies.” – Harold Bloom

"Hegel's Critique of Kant amply rewards the patience of those who have been eagerly awaiting a book-length treatment of the position Sally Sedgwick has been developing over a number of years through her engagement with classical German philosophy. The book offers an original thesis with characteristic clarity, fine conceptual articulation and an expository style that combines the virtues of immanent interpretations with those of reconstructive ones. Careful reading of the primary texts is put to the service of showing what is true in our philosophical past."--Katerina Deligiorgi, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

“Looking from the outside, Williams often sees more than we do from the inside. The American art historian analyzes the German art scene from the seventies and eighties—how it found its language of images and signs, its irony, its sarcasm, in repression and confrontation. Illuminating.” —Tagesspiegel

“Why do the wealthy countries with the strongest business communities have the most generous social welfare systems and the least inequality? Using rich historical analysis coupled with sophisticated statistical studies, Martin and Swank offer a fresh and compelling answer. They show that business interests are shaped by the structure of democratic governance. This marvelous book challenges our most fundamental ideas about where group interests come from, and it has important, and unsettling, implications for the future of equality and democracy.” — Frank Dobbin, Harvard University

“In these pages Stephen Prothero has brilliantly captured the American spirit-a spirit that has always seen us through hours of division and disagreement. With Prothero’s expert analysis, these texts should spark civil conversation, informed debate, and intelligent discussion.” — Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion.

“Merry White’s book is vital reading for anyone interested in culture and coffee, which has a surprising and surprisingly long history in Japan. Tracing the evolving role of the country’s cafes, and taking us on armchair visits to some of the best, White makes us want to board a plane immediately to sample a cup brewed with ‘kodawari,’ a passion bordering on obsession.” — Devra First, The Boston Globe

“Each chapter provides a clear, scholarly review of the research on medications and even the use of dietary supplements in combination with CBT, or alone. This unique volume will become the standard reference for anyone seriously interested in the important question of whether combination treatments are helpful and – if they are or are not – why this is the case. A major contribution to the field, I think that all researchers and informed clinicians will want to read this book.” — Robert L. Leahy, Clinical Professor of Psychology, Weill-Cornell University Medical School and Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy

“Two distinguished scholars have invited scholars of comparable distinction to contribute essays that discuss the history of forgiveness (or what might mistakenly be taken as forgiveness if we hastily project contemporary understandings) from ancient Greece and Rome, through medieval Judaism, and concluding with Aquinas. This book confirms L. P. Hartley’s famous remark that ‘the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ and reveals this foreign country as a fascinating place from which all who are interested in forgiveness can learn a great deal.” — Jeffrie G. Murphy, Arizona State University

“Uncertain Chances is an adventurous, learned, and powerfully argued inquiry into the manifold ways in which the ideas of chance, indeterminacy, and probability energized the thinking of the most prominent authors of the antebellum era. Over and again well-known texts and authors appear in a surprising new light.” — Eric Sundquist, Johns Hopkins University

“A timely and important volume that ought to be essential reading for students and scholars alike. The Shoah did not begin with concentration camps and trains. It began with words and ideas. The lies of the Protocols played a key role in marginalizing and dehumanizing European Jewry, paving the way for their brutal extermination. Remarkably, in the contemporary context, the Protocols are once again becoming widely used as effective propaganda, especially throughout much of the Middle East…This text provides an interdisciplinary, high caliber, scholarly analysis of a subject matter that is under-studied and of profound importance. “ — Charles Asher Small, Former Executive Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism

“Julian Go’s book is, simply, in a different league from almost all previous work in the field. Combining close historical analysis with conceptual rigor, joining the skills and strengths of the historian with those of the social scientist, this is a project of striking originality.” — Stephen Howe, University of Bristol

“Litvin succeeds in describing the Arab Hamlet as a political and sociological phenomenon, without ever losing her grasp on the aesthetic. She is also refreshingly free from literary theory orthodoxies. . . . Rather, in engaging and lucid prose, she tells a story, and it is a compelling one.” — The Oxonian Review

“Lucidly written and solidly argued, Modernism’s Mythic Pose excavates a fascinating classicist-antimodernist genealogy of modernism. Preston’s impressive historical research interrupts the standard gendered dichotomy of antimodernism and avant-gardism and makes an important contribution to reconceiving transatlantic modernism.” — Laura Winkiel, author of Modernism, Race, and Manifestos

“This is an important book written by an impressive scholar. It tackles a complex subject with analytical subtlety, ambitious intellectual range, and a meticulous attention to empirical detail. It is written in a refreshingly engaging and lucid style that should make its many provocative and productive insights accessible to a wide audience.” — Michael Dietler, University of Chicago

“Millennial expressions are found throughout history and are all around us. As Richard Landes demonstrates, some have extremely serious consequences. This is an erudite and informative cross-cultural study of the characteristics and dynamics of the varieties of millennial movements. There is much to be learned from this volume. Particularly welcome are the treatments of the secular millennial thought of Marx, and the Communist millennial movement in Russia and its influence on German Nazi millennialism. Richard Landes’s insightful analysis of millennial phenomena constitutes a major contribution to the study of history and current events.” — Catherine Wessinger, Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor of the History of Religions, Loyola University New Orleans

“For those looking for an introduction to world philosophy, this is an excellent option…Lobel is to be thanked for providing us with a wonderful book that both instructs and inspires our own philosophical and spiritual journeys.” — Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, National Catholic Reporter

“Hofmann’s non-defensive and even-handed approach lends the book unprecedented breadth and depth, unbiased by allegiance to any proprietary model. His thoroughgoing commitment to science as the only legitimate guide to the growth of CBT makes this book the most powerful of its kind.” — Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews, 2012

“…Perception and Knowledge: A Phenomenological Account is highly complex, covering a daunting range of topics. It is extremely well organized, and careful conceptual distinctions abound. Hopp has given us an indispensible book.”  —George Lazaroiu, PhD, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

“Kibra”s research is theoretically sophisticated and right on target. Her well-designed interviews give the reader a vivid sense of the experience of being a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant.” — Karen Leonard, author of Locating Home: India’s Hyderabadis Abroad 20100824.

“[A] magnificent sweep of several fields…Those apt to gain most from Greenfeld’s remarkable tome are biological psychiatrists, legislators, and community leaders. Physicians, behavioral scientists, futurists, parents, and academicians will find the read exhilarating and useful. Cultural psychiatrists, ethnopsychiatric investigators, and psychiatric epidemiologists–those least apt to realize totally new understandings–will still find their comprehensions expanded in unanticipated ways.” — Joseph Westermeyer, American Journal of Psychiatry

“The objective of this book is to provide a detailed account of the combinatorial structures arising from the study of multiple stochastic integrals. … the presentation is very clear, with all the necessary proofs and examples. The authors clearly accomplish the three goals they list in the introduction (to provide a unified approach to the diagram method using set partition, to give a combinatorial analysis of multiple stochastic integrals in the most general setting, and to discuss chaotic limit theorems).” — Sergey V. Lototsky, Mathematical Reviews

Venice Incognito is the recipient of two national awards, the 2011 George Mosse Award, given by the American Historical Association, and the Oscar Kenshur Prize, given by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University.  The Mosse Award is awarded for the best book in Intellectual or Cultural History between 1500 and the present.  The Kenshur Prize is given to the best book in any field treating the eighteenth century.