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University of Chicago Press Books: New books http://www.press.uchicago.edu/rss/newbooks.xml The latest scholarly and general books from the University of Chicago Press. en-us erg@press.uchicago.edu 72 Windows of St. Jan's Church in Gouda http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=405740 R.A. Bosch <br><br><DIV><P>St. Jan’s Church in Gouda is one of the few churches in the world today that still retains stained glass in all its windows. Of the seventy-two windows on display throughout the gothic church, sixty-one date back to the sixteenth century. In this gorgeous volume, R. A. Bosch provides full-page reproductions of each of the seventy-two windows as well as several high-resolution images of the windows in detail. Accompanying each image is a comprehensive explanation of the themes and historical contexts depicted in each window.    </P></DIV><br></div> Accident Prone http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=367572 John C. Burnham <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines—death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example—developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, <I>Accident Prone </I>offers a unique history of technology focused not on innovations but on their unintended consequences. <BR /></P><P>Here, John C. Burnham shows that as the machine era progressed, the physical and economic impact of accidents coevolved with the rise of the insurance industry and trends in twentieth-century psychology. After World War I, psychologists determined that some people are more accident prone than others. This designation signaled a shift in social strategy toward minimizing accidents by diverting particular people away from dangerous environments. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, the idea of accident proneness gradually declined, and engineers developed new technologies to protect all people, thereby introducing a hidden, but radical, egalitarianism.<BR /></P><P>            Lying at the intersection of the history of technology, the history of medicine and psychology, and environmental history, <I>Accident Prone</I> is an ambitious intellectual analysis of the birth, growth, and decline of an idea that will interest anyone who wishes to understand how Western societies have grappled with the human costs of modern life. </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> AMS Weather Book http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=228411 Jack Williams <br><br><DIV><DIV><DIV><P>America has some of the most varied and dynamic weather in the world. Every year, the Gulf Coast is battered by hurricanes, the Great Plains are ravaged by tornados, the Midwest is pummeled by blizzards, and the temperature in the Southwest reaches a sweltering 120 degrees. Extreme weather can be a matter of life and death, but even when it is pleasant—72 degrees and sunny—weather is still central to the lives of all Americans. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a topic of greater collective interest. Whether we want to know if we should close the storm shutters or just carry an umbrella to work, we turn to forecasts. But few of us really understand the science behind them.</P><P> </P><P>All that changes with <I>The AMS Weather Book</I>. The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to our weather and our atmosphere, it is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand how hurricanes form, why tornados twirl, or even why the sky is cerulean blue. Written by esteemed science journalist and former <I>USA Today</I> weather editor Jack Williams, <EM>The AMS Weather Book, </EM>copublished with the American Meteorological Society, covers everything from daily weather patterns, air pollution, and global warming to the stories of people coping with severe weather and those who devote their lives to understanding the atmosphere, oceans, and climate. Words alone, of course, are not adequate to explain many meteorological concepts, so <I>The AMS Weather Book</I> is filled with engaging full-color graphics that explain such concepts as why winds blow in a particular direction, how Doppler weather radar works, what happens inside hurricanes, how clouds create wind and snow, and what’s really affecting the earth’s climate.</P><P> </P><P>For Weather Channel junkies, amateur meteorologists, and storm chasers alike, <I>The AMS Weather Book</I> is an invaluable tool for anyone who wants to better understand how weather works and how it affects our lives. </P><P> </P></DIV></DIV></DIV><br></div> Art in a City Revisited http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=226822 Edited by Bryan Biggs <br><br><DIV><DIV>Building on the groundbreaking book <I>Art in a City </I>by John Willet, which first surveyed the history of visual arts in Liverpool, this engaging follow-up explores contemporary Liverpudlian art by looking at it from alternative perspectives. Exploring and challenging the claim that Liverpool is Britain’s second city for art, <I>Art in a City Revisited</I> surveys key institutional players such as the Bluecoat and the Walker Gallery, as well as the Tate Liverpool, FACT, and the Liverpool Biennial. A volume with rich discussion on the nature of artistic patronage, the changing role of public art, and the social and community role of the artist—including contributions from Sean Cubitt and Mary Jane Jacob—this book is a major consideration of the role art plays in city regeneration and the future of Liverpool as a center of creative industry.</DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><br></div> Arthur of the French http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1313367 Edited by Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt <br><br><DIV><P>This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Principally focused on the production, dissemination, and evolution of Arthurian material from the twelfth to fifth centuries, this volume covers writing in both verse and prose, and addresses such classics as the Tristan legend, the <I>Vulgate Cycle</I>, and the Grail Continuations.</P></DIV><br></div> Articles of Faith http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1451719 Photographs by Dave Jordano <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>In this era of suburban mega-churches and televised Sunday morning services, it is easy to forget that many Americans worship in small, community churches whose sanctuaries are often repurposed commercial spaces. In <I>Articles of Faith</I>, photographer Dave Jordano documents the at once humble and dynamic storefront churches of Chicago’s African American neighborhoods. These churches, which dot the south and west sides of the city, are truly community churches—individualized and idiosyncratic, they cater to the specific needs and wants of their members.</P><P>For the last five years, Jordano has spent his weekends traveling to different churches in the city, getting to know their pastors and parishioners. And this attention to personal detail is highly evident in his exquisite photographs that capture the identity and personalities of each church, from the hand-lettered signs to the icons. His interior images of the sacred spaces illustrate how the congregants create a comforting environment of affirmation, hope, and family for members who often live in neighborhoods marked by high crime and troubled homes. Infused in the space of these makeshift churches is also a sense of history that traces back to a time in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when one of the only forms of open expression available to African Americans was religious practice.</P><P>These powerful and reverent images illuminate a vital component of urban life for many African Americans and speak to the links between the past and present African American experience.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Augustine: The Confessions http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=309774 Gillian Clark <br><br><DIV><DIV>The Confessions, written at the close of the fourth century CE, is a highly significant text in the history of European culture. Augustine explains just how and why he came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely secular existence to follow a life of prayer and study, leading to a true comprehension of God and the Bible.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>The avowed approach of this introductory book is to 'historicise' - to set Augustine's own experiences of religion, philosophy and Christian faith against the long-standing political, cultural and religious traditions of the classical world. Late antiquity saw the transformation of the classical heritage and its transmission by Christian authors. Augustine's ideas about how texts may be presented and read, how people respond to written and spoken language, find resonance in recent critical theory.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>The world in which Augustine lived, the structure, style and purpose of the Confessions, and the problems of rhetoric and truth posed by its author's personal search for himself are all scrutinised in this account. The volume also offers a useful guide to further reading.</DIV></DIV><br></div> Barbara Crane http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=2005894 Essays by John Rohrbach and Abigail Foerstner <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Barbara Crane’s subjects are commonplace: a piece of driftwood, a cluster of wild mushrooms, a crowd of commuters rushing for the train. The resulting photographs, however, are far from ordinary. They are imaginative, peculiar, jarring, and, like their creator, defy easy explanation. </P><P> </P><P> For more than sixty years, Crane has forged her own path as a photographer. Lacking a darkroom, she began using Polaroid materials. Lacking suitable models, she paid her children to pose. <I>Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision</I> celebrates this Chicagoan’s wide-ranging art with a gorgeous collection of more than 250 color and black and white photographs. </P><P> </P><P>“Once I developed my first role of film in 1948,” Crane notes, “nothing else mattered.” Spanning the breadth of her career, from early studies of the human form to long narrow landscapes evoking Asian scrolls; from silver gelatin and platinum prints to present-day digital works, it is by far the largest and most definitive overview of her work to date. Replete with a critical analysis by John Rohrbach and a biographical essay by Abigail Foerstner, it will delight and challenge anyone interested in contemporary photography. </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Beauty and the Beast http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=406012 Elisabetta Girelli <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Scholarly interest in issues of national identity and representation has been increasing for years, and cinema is a major resource for that work, as it allows for cross-cultural dialogue and the portrayal of different layers of representation and cultural stereotypes. <I>Beauty and the Beast </I>takes a look at the depictions of Italy and the Italians in British cinema. </P><P>Elisabetta Girelli draws upon cultural and social history to assess the ongoing representation of “Italianness” in British film, and its crucial role in defining and challenging British national identity. Girelli provides an original survey of archival material such as World War II footage, and an analysis of significant British films like <I>Summer Madness </I>and <I>A Room With A View</I>. Drawing on British literary and filmic tradition to analyze the rise of specific images of the Italian other, <I>Beauty and the Beast</I> is a noteworthy and unique contribution to film and cultural studies. </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Behind the Development Banks http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=385041 Sarah Babb <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) carry out their mission to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth based on the advice of professional economists. But as Sarah Babb argues in <I>Behind the Development Banks</I>, these organizations have also been indelibly shaped by Washington politics—particularly by the legislative branch and its power of the purse.</P><P>            Tracing American influence on MDBs over three decades, this volume assesses increased congressional activism and the perpetual “selling” of banks to Congress by the executive branch. Babb contends that congressional reluctance to fund the MDBs has enhanced the influence of the United States on them by making credible America’s threat to abandon the banks if its policy preferences are not followed. At a time when the United States’ role in world affairs is being closely scrutinized, <I>Behind the Development Banks </I>will be necessary reading for anyone interested in how American politics helps determine the fate of developing countries.</P><P> </P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Beyond the Miracle http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=16204 Allister Sparks <br><br><DIV>In <I>Beyond the Miracle</I>, a distinguished South African journalist provides a wide-ranging and unflinching account of the first nine years of democratic government in South Africa. Covering both the new regime's proud achievements and its disappointing failures, Allister Sparks looks to South Africa's future, asking whether it can overcome its history and current global trends to create a truly nonracial, multicultural, and multiparty democracy.<BR /><BR />Sparks sees South Africa as facing many of the same challenges as the rest of the world, especially a widening gap between rich and poor, exacerbated by the forces of globalization. While the transition government has done much to establish democracy and racial equality in a short time, as well as bring basic services such as clean water to millions who did not have them before, many blacks feel it has not done enough to redress the continuing imbalance of wealth in the country. Many whites, meanwhile, feel disempowered and confused about what role they have to play as a racial minority in a country they used to rule and regard as theirs by divine right. Sparks also covers other burning issues, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, high crime rates, the diamond wars, the Congo conflict, and the Zimbabwean land crisis.<BR /><BR />Writing vividly and often quite movingly, Sparks draws on his decades of journalistic experience and his recent insider access to key figures in the liberation government to take stock of where South Africa has been, where it's going, and why the rest of the world should not turn away from this country where the First and Third Worlds meet. As Sparks persuasively argues, the success of Mandela's vision of a peaceful "rainbow nation" is crucial not just for the salvation of Africa, but also for the world. <BR /><BR /><DIV>“Sparks, a grandfather of South African journalism, has fired one of the first volleys in the 10-year assessment. . . . It is an even-handed work, almost encyclopedic in its breadth. Sparks traverses all the important political terrain.”—<EM>Mail & Guardian <BR /><BR /></EM>“It is as good a guide to the new South Africa as any.”—<EM>Economist<BR /><BR /></EM></DIV></DIV><br></div> Black 1919 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1276329 Jacqueline Jenkinson <br><br><DIV><P>During the 1919 port riots—in Glasgow, London, Liverpool, and Cardiff, among other cities—crowds of working-class whites targeted black workers, their families, their businesses, and their property. These riots were a manifestation of global unrest that affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe, and North American during and after the wake of the economic struggles engendered by World War I. This volume reconsiders the economic and social causes of the riots and their impact on Britain’s relationship with its empire and its colonial subjects, especially the effects of repatriation and the longer-term consequences for the black British workers and their families.</P></DIV><br></div> Black Men Can't Shoot http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=398907 Scott N. Brooks <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>The myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it’s usually only talked about when a sports commentator or celebrity embarrasses himself by bringing it up in public. Those gaffes are swiftly decried as racist, but apart from their link to the long history of ugly racial stereotypes about black people—especially men—they are also harmful because they obscure very real, hard-fought accomplishments. As <I>Black Men Can’t Shoot</I> demonstrates, such successes on the basketball court don’t just happen because of natural gifts—instead, they grow out of the long, tough, and unpredictable process of becoming a known player.</P><P>Scott N. Brooks spent four years coaching summer league basketball in Philadelphia. And what he saw, heard, and felt working with the young black men on his team tells us much about how some kids are able to make the extraordinary journey from the ghetto to the NCAA. To show how good players make the transition to greatness, Brooks tells the story of two young men, Jermaine and Ray, following them through their high school years and chronicling their breakthroughs and frustrations on the court as well as their troubles at home. We witness them negotiating the pitfalls of forging a career and a path out of poverty, we see their triumphs and setbacks, and we hear from the network of people—their families, the neighborhood elders, and Coach Brooks himself—invested in their fates.</P><I><P>Black Men Can’t Shoot</I> has all the hallmarks of a classic sports book, with a climactic championship game and a suspenseful ending as we wait to find out if Jermaine and Ray will be recruited. Brooks’s moving coming-of-age story counters the belief that basketball only exploits kids and lures them into following empty dreams—and shows us that by playing ball, some of these young black men have already begun their education even before they get to college.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> British Working Class in the Twentieth Century http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1314712 John Kirk <br><br><DIV><P><I>The Full Monty, Billy Elliot, </I>and <I>Brassed Off</I> are among recent iconic working-class British films that have found huge worldwide success. Challenging suggestions that class is no longer relevant for literary or cultural analysis, this volume examines the lives and experiences of the working-class people portrayed in these films and in works of contemporary writing from authors like Jeanette Winterson and Pat Parker in order to assess how working-class lives have changed over the past century—and how these changes have been depicted and explored in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts and films.</P></DIV><br></div> Chalcedon in Context http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=408098 Edited by Richard Price and Mary Whitby <br><br><DIV><P>The Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a defining moment in the Christological controversies that tore apart the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth centuries, as theological division, political rivalry, and sectarian violence produced a schism that persists to this day between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches. The Acts of the Councils are one of the largest collections of source materials relating to the Church of Late Antiquity and its state relations, and this volume builds upon the acclaimed translation of the Council of Chalcedon of 451, ultimately informing historians on how to approach manifold aspects of these documents.</P></DIV><br></div> Climate Strategy http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=276857 The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) <br><br><DIV><DIV>According to the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, current global changes in climate are 90-95% likely to have been caused, at least in part, by human activity. This challenging analysis of the current global climate struggle suggests three courses of necessary action for solving the climate problem and demonstrates their viability: adaptation to the changed climate, selection of worldwide strategies for mitigation until 2050, and an internationally coordinated effort to implement these policies. A highly readable and accessible addition to climate strategy and policy, this volume provides a refreshingly innovative look at current global climate initiatives.</DIV></DIV><br></div> Communication Skills http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1303407 Richard Ellis <br><br><DIV><P>The ability to communicate effectively in written and oral presentation is essential for anyone seeking a successful career. In the course of their work, professionals will need to produce reports, perform well in interviews, give presentations, and chair meetings, as well as deal with the daily barrage of e-mails and phone calls. In <I>Communication Skills</I>, Richard Ellis offers essential reading for any ambitious professional. This book<I> </I>offers both practical exercises and realistic guidance. The effectiveness, as opposed to the efficiency of e-mail and PowerPoint, is discussed.  Drawing from his experience as a communications consultant, Ellis provides strategies for enhanced interpersonal, group and organizational communication. </P></DIV><br></div> Conflicts of Care http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=407156 Helen Kohlen <br><br><DIV><P>Since the 1980s, increasing numbers of hospitals in the United States have formed internal ethics committees to help doctors and other health care professionals deal with complicated ethical questions, especially those regarding the end of a life. But it is only in recent years that German hospitals have followed suit. In <I>Conflicts of Care</I>, Helen Kohlen offers the first comprehensive look at the origin and function of these committees in German hospitals. Using a mix of archival research, participant observation, and interviews, Kohlen explores the debates that surrounded their formation and the functions they have taken on since their creation.</P></DIV><br></div> Cultural Values of Europe http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=305017 Edited by Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt <br><br><DIV><DIV>In this age of globalization and dissolving borders of national identity, questions about the nature of cultural values and symbolic structures abound, especially for newly integrated communities of political and social power like the European Union. In this international best seller, published for the first time in English, a group of highly acclaimed thinkers and social theorists examine the most important innovations and culturally vital traditions of Europe in order to produce an image of contemporary European self-understanding. Answering important questions on the nature of cultural identity in Europe and whether or not specifically European values exist, these leading European scholars approach topic through both specific cultural traditions (“Athens and Jerusalem”) and the values that they are founded upon (“freedom”). Edited by renowned scholar and University of Chicago professor Hans Joas, the volume features distinguished contributors such as Orlando Patterson, Mark Mazower, and Wolfgang Schluchter, among others, generating an impressively innovative and incisive cultural commentary that is not to be missed by any student of European history, society, and culture.</DIV></DIV><br></div> Democracy Needs Dispute http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=407126 Edited by Cornelia Brüll, Monika Mokre, and Markus Pausch <br><br><DIV><P>In 2005 hopes for closer European integration were dealt a potentially fatal blow when French and Dutch voters rejected the proposed new European Union constitution. Going beyond the instant analysis of journalists, which placed blame for the failed vote on the two nations’ internal politics, <I>Democracy Needs Dispute</I> examines a collection of media accounts of European policy debates to argue that the problem with the EU is its relative lack of vibrant political conflict. <I>Democracy Needs Dispute</I> offers both up-to-date analysis and a rich theoretical understanding of the problems facing further efforts at European integration.</P></DIV><br></div> Disordered Police State http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=367567 Andre Wakefield <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, <I>The Disordered Police State</I> focuses on the cameral sciences—a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed to train state officials—and in so doing offers a new vision of science and practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Andre Wakefield shows that the cameral sciences were at once natural, technological, and economic disciplines, but, more important, they also were <I>strategic</I> sciences, designed to procure patronage for their authors and good publicity for the German principalities in which they lived and worked. Cameralism, then, was the public face of the prince's most secret affairs; as such, it was an essentially dishonest enterprise. </P><P>In an entertaining series of case studies on mining, textiles, forestry, and universities, Wakefield portrays cameralists in their own gritty terms. The result is a revolutionary new understanding about how the sciences created and maintained an image of the well-ordered police state in early modern Germany. In raising doubts about the status of these German sciences of the state, Wakefield ultimately questions many of our accepted narratives about science, culture, and society in early modern Europe. </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Drawing -- The Purpose http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=327657 Edited by Leo Duff and Phil Sawdon <br><br><DIV><DIV>To clear their minds and organize their ideas, artists will often start projects by drawing sketches. <I>Drawing </I>asks why artists and designers use drawing in that way to kick-start their creative thinking, considering the application of drawing and its various uses across disciplines. From the interdisciplinary perspectives of archaeology, jewelry design, illustration, and landscape architecture, this innovative volume highlights how drawing is used in the professional world. With examples from both contemporary and historical contexts, <I>Drawing </I>will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars seeking a rationale for why we draw. </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><br></div> Eisteddfod http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=277415 Cath Filmer-Davies <br><br><DIV><DIV>This volume recounts the fascinating history and thrilling contemporary celebrations of one of the most well-known aspects of Welsh cultural life: the Eisteddfod (eye-steth-vod). This festival of literature, music, and performance—in celebration of Welsh language and culture—dates back to the earliest history of the Celtic bards. Deteriorating to a tavern festival that cleverly punned on the meaning of the word (<I>Eistedd, </I>“to sit”) in medieval and Renaissance times, the Eisteddfod became fully reinvigorated in the years it spent under the imaginative and creative hands of the Welsh Romantic visionary Iolo Morganwg, as well as his later supporters and devotees. <I>The Eisteddfod</I> traces the evolution of this ebullient festival from the nineteenth century to the present—providing a virtual tour of the sites and various features of the festival, as well as the fascinating journey the celebration has taken from Wales to global sites as farflung as Patagonia, Australia, Washington, D.C., and Malad City, Idaho. Competitions in poetry and prose translation, song and dance, photography, and video, as well as more traditional performing arts and acting events, make the Eisteddfod a fascinating index of the Welsh diaspora—and <I>The Eisteddfod </I> captures this jubilant folk festival in all its remarkable incantations, histories, and thrilling traditions.</DIV></DIV><br></div> Elizabeth I http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=304860 Elizabeth I <br><br><DIV><DIV>England’s Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and Oxford. But the supreme proof of her mastery of other tongues is the sizable body of translations she made over the course of her lifetime. This two-volume set is the first complete collection of Elizabeth’s translations from and into Latin, French, and Italian. <BR />            Presenting original and modernized spellings in a facing-page format, these two volumes will answer the call to make all of Elizabeth’s writings available. They include her renderings of epistles of Cicero and Seneca, religious writings of John Calvin and Marguerite de Navarre, and Horace’s <I>Ars poetica</I>, as well as Elizabeth’s Latin <I>Sententiae</I> drawn from diverse sources, on the responsibilities of sovereign rule and her own perspectives on the monarchy.  Editors Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel offer introduction to each of the translated selections, describing the source text, its cultural significance, and the historical context in which Elizabeth translated it. Their annotations identify obscure meanings, biblical and classical references, and Elizabeth’s actual or apparent deviations from her sources.  <BR />            The translations collected here trace Elizabeth’s steady progression from youthful evangelical piety to more mature reflections on morality, royal responsibility, public and private forms of grief, and the right way to rule.  <I>Elizabeth I: Translations </I>is the queen’s personal legacy, an example of the very best that a humanist education can bring to the conduct of sovereign rule. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><br></div> Elizabeth I http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=306469 Elizabeth I <br><br><DIV><DIV>England’s Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and Oxford. But the supreme proof of her mastery of other tongues is the sizable body of translations she made over the course of her lifetime. This two-volume set is the first complete collection of Elizabeth’s translations from and into Latin, French, and Italian. <BR />            Presenting original and modernized spellings in a facing-page format, these two volumes will answer the call to make all of Elizabeth’s writings available. They include her renderings of epistles of Cicero and Seneca, religious writings of John Calvin and Marguerite de Navarre, and Horace’s <I>Ars poetica</I>, as well as Elizabeth’s Latin <I>Sententiae</I> drawn from diverse sources, on the responsibilities of sovereign rule and her own perspectives on the monarchy.  Editors Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel offer introduction to each of the translated selections, describing the source text, its cultural significance, and the historical context in which Elizabeth translated it. Their annotations identify obscure meanings, biblical and classical references, and Elizabeth’s actual or apparent deviations from her sources.  <BR />            The translations collected here trace Elizabeth’s steady progression from youthful evangelical piety to more mature reflections on morality, royal responsibility, public and private forms of grief, and the right way to rule.  <I>Elizabeth I: Translations </I>is the queen’s personal legacy, an example of the very best that a humanist education can bring to the conduct of sovereign rule. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><br></div> Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=408114 Mary S. Gossy <br><br><DIV><P>Literature gives access to the verge, to the place where the full terror of falling is felt even as both feet remain on the ground. <I>Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown</I> offers instruction to readers who want to know and feel their way beyond disciplinary conventions toward new understandings of how and why both empires and texts shiver and fall. In these highly original and engaging essays in contemporary Hispanic Studies, readers will encounter a treasure trove of writers—from Freud and Joyce to Gertrude Stein and Monty Python—who have written about empire, panic, and pain, with allusions to Spain and all things Spanish.</P></DIV><br></div> Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=318189 María de Zayas y Sotomayor <br><br><DIV><DIV>At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes.  But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. <I>Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion </I>gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics—gender equality and domestic violence—written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, <I>Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion </I>will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><br></div> Fighting Like a Community http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=377279 Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>The indigenous population of the Ecuadorian Andes made substantial political gains during the 1990s in the wake of a dynamic wave of local activism. The movement renegotiated land development laws, elected indigenous candidates to national office, and successfully fought for the constitutional redefinition of Ecuador as a nation of many cultures. <I>Fighting Like a Community</I> argues that these remarkable achievements paradoxically grew out of the deep differences—in language, class, education, and location—that began to divide native society in the 1960s.</P><P>            Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld explores these differences and the conflicts they engendered in a variety of communities. From protestors confronting the military during a national strike to a migrant family fighting to get a relative released from prison, Colloredo-Mansfeld recounts dramatic events and private struggles alike to demonstrate how indigenous power in Ecuador is energized by disagreements over values and priorities, eloquently contending that the plurality of Andean communities, not their unity, has been the key to their political success.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> French Crime Fiction http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1313908 Edited by Clare Gorrara <br><br><DIV><P>This volume explores the development of crime fiction as a genre in French literary culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, paying particular attention to the distinctive features of this French-language tradition. Grounded in the study of novels by Francophone writers, such as Georges Simenon and Léo Malet, <I>French Crime Fiction</I> examines both period and movement-specific work, engaging each in broader debates about the larger contributions of crime fiction to contemporary French and European culture, making this an accessible volume for both the scholar and the interested reader.</P></DIV><br></div> Gargoyles of Notre-Dame http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=231062 Michael Camille <br><br><DIV><DIV>Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters, <I>The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame</I> argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth-century cathedral into a modern monument. <BR /><BR />Michael Camille begins his long-awaited study by recounting architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s ambitious restoration of the structure from 1843 to 1864, when the gargoyles were designed, sculpted by the little-known Victor Pyanet, and installed. These gargoyles, Camille contends, were not mere avatars of the Middle Ages, but rather fresh creations—symbolizing an imagined past—whose modernity lay precisely in their nostalgia. He goes on to map the critical reception and many-layered afterlives of these chimeras, notably in the works of such artists and writers as Charles Méryon, Victor Hugo, and photographer Henri Le Secq. Tracing their eventual evolution into icons of high kitsch, Camille ultimately locates the gargoyles’ place in the twentieth-century imagination, exploring interpretations by everyone from Winslow Homer to the Walt Disney Company.<BR /><BR />Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred images of its monumental yet whimsical subjects, <I>The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame</I> is a must-read for historians of art and architecture and anyone whose imagination has been sparked by the lovable monsters gazing out over Paris from one of the world’s most renowned vantage points.</DIV></DIV><br></div> General History of Quadrupeds http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1600064 Thomas Bewick <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>In the late eighteenth century, the British took greater interest than ever before in observing and recording all aspects of the natural world. Travelers and colonists returning from far-flung lands provided dazzling accounts of such exotic creatures as elephants, baboons, and kangaroos. The engraver Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) harnessed this newfound interest by assembling the most comprehensive illustrated guide to nature of his day.</P><P><I>A General History of Quadrupeds</I>, first published in 1790, showcases Bewick’s groundbreaking engraving techniques that allowed text and images to be published on the same page. From anteaters to zebras, armadillos to wolverines, this delightful volume features engravings of over four hundred animals alongside descriptions of their characteristics as scientifically understood at the time. <I>Quadrupeds </I>reaffirms Bewick’s place in history as an incomparable illustrator, one whose influence on natural history and book printing still endures today. </P><P> </P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Giinaquq--Like a Face http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1195126 Edited by Sven D. Haakanson, Jr. and Amy F. Steffian <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been an essential tool for communicating with the spirit world and have played an important role in dances and hunting festivities for centuries. <I>Giinaquq—Like a Face</I> presents thirty-three full-color images of these fantastic and eye-catching masks, which have been preserved for more than a century as part of the Pinart Collection in a small French museum. </P><P>            These masks, collected in 1871 by a young French scholar of indigenous cultures, are presented for the first time in their complete cultural context, celebrating the rich history of the Alutiiq people and their artistic traditions. In addition to the stunning photographs, <I>Giinaquq—Like a Face</I> includes an informative text in three languages—English, Alutiiq, and French—in order to provide a cross-cultural understanding of the masks’ traditional meaning and use.</P><P>            This captivating and revealing book will be an essential resource for anyone interested in indigenous art and culture.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Haunting Presences http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1313601 Edited by Kate Griffiths and David Evans <br><br><DIV><P>In response to the current critical fascination with phantoms and haunting, this volume explores and assesses the twentieth century’s pursuit of the ghost in relation to notions of identity, authorship, and memory. Tracing the changing form of the haunting in a variety of French media, <I>Haunting Presences</I> considers the role of both the past and textual memory in different periods and genres. Accompanied by a substantial introduction that  explains the volume’s insight into the evolution and history of the ghost as an artistic presence, this imaginative collection is a must for anyone with an interest in French culture and ghostly fascinations.</P></DIV><br></div> Henry VIII http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=2007105 Edited by Susan Doran and David Starkey <br><br><DIV><DIV><P> </P><P>The year 2009 marks the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne, and to celebrate this momentous occasion, leading Tudor scholars David Starkey and Susan Doran examine the extraordinary transformations—personal and political, intellectual and religious, literary, aesthetic, and linguistic—that took place during Henry’s reign. </P><P> </P><P>Drawing on the British Library’s unparalleled collections, <I>Henry VIII</I> explores the motives and beliefs that spurred Henry’s actions, masterfully telling the story of his reign. This refreshing approach reaches beyond the myths and stereotypes surrounding this monumental historical figure and encourages readers to reassess their perceptions of the great Tudor monarch who still manages to cast a spell over our imaginations. </P><P> </P><P>Richly illustrated with color images from the accompanying exhibition at the British Library—including many of Henry’s own annotated volumes—and including contributions from notable scholars such as Eamon Duffy and James Carley, this volume presents an unsurpassed firsthand outline of the revolutionary changes in ideas that took place during Henry’s reign—and above all, in his own mind.</P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Human Career http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=321738 Richard G. Klein <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Since its publication in 1989, <I>The Human Career</I> has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein’s innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over the past ten years have significantly refined our knowledge of human evolution.</P><P>Klein chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archaeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, <I>The Human Career</I> demonstrates that human morphology and behavior evolved together. Throughout the book, Klein presents evidence for alternative points of view, but does not hesitate to make his own position clear.</P><P>In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution, <I>The Human Career</I> details the kinds of data that support it. For the third edition, Klein has added numerous tables and a fresh citation system designed to enhance readability, especially for students. He has also included more than fifty new illustrations to help lay readers grasp the fossils, artifacts, and other discoveries on which specialists rely. With abundant references and hundreds of images, charts, and diagrams, this new edition is unparalleled in its usefulness for teaching human evolution.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Inspiring Writing in Art and Design http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1284902 Pat Francis <br><br><DIV><P>When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually, they lack confidence working with words. <I>Inspiring Writing in Art and Design</I> is a practical aid for those students who are disheartened or overwhelmed by having to write. Pat Francis provides short writing exercises and creative writing techniques for tutors to use and which will help art and design students develop their ability to verbally articulate the concepts and aesthetics behind their art. Using Francis’s examples, students will build confidence and skills that can help them succeed in presenting their work and themselves in, and beyond, the studio world. </P></DIV><br></div> International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=398088 Edited by Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>            Quantitative measures of international exchange have historically focused on trade in tangible products or capital. However, services have recently become a larger portion of developed economies and international trade, and will only increase in the future. In <I>International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization</I>, Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter examine new and emerging patterns of trade, especially the growing importance of transactions involving services or intangible assets such as intellectual property.</P><P>            A distinguished team of contributors analyzes the challenges involved in measuring trade in intangibles, the comparative advantages enjoyed by United States service industries, and the heightened international competition for jobs, capital investment, economic growth, and tax revenue that results from trade in services. This comprehensive volume will be necessary reading for scholars seeking to understand the rapidly changing global economy. </P><P> </P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Life Course Reader http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=407140 Edited by Walter R. Heinz, Ansgar Weymann, and Johannes Huinik <br><br><DIV><P>The course of human lives in Western society is inescapably shaped by political, cultural, and economic factors. Changes in these spheres inevitably lead to changes in our conceptions of everything from childhood and adulthood to family structures and living arrangements. The nineteen articles collected in <I>The Life Course Reader</I> offer a range of both theoretical and empirical studies of changing conceptions of the life course. Drawing on data from North America and Europe, the <I>Reader</I> will be indispensable for anyone studying human development and the twenty-first century family.</P></DIV><br></div> Lineages of Despotism and Development http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=362055 Matthew Lange <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Traditionally, social scientists have assumed that past imperialism hinders the future development prospects of colonized nations. Challenging this widespread belief, Matthew Lange argues in <I>Lineages of Despotism and Development</I> that countries once under direct British imperial control have developed more successfully than those that were ruled indirectly.</P><P>            Combining statistical analysis with in-depth case studies of former British colonies, this volume argues that direct rule promoted cogent and coherent states with high levels of bureaucratization and inclusiveness, which contributed to implementing development policy during late colonialism and independence. On the other hand, Lange finds that indirect British rule created patrimonial, weak states that preyed on their own populations. Firmly grounded in the tradition of comparative-historical analysis while offering fresh insight into the colonial roots of uneven development, <I>Lineages of Despotism and Development </I>will interest economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike.</P><P> </P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 7) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=405411 Edited by Giacomo Bonanno, Wiebe van der Hoek, and Michael Wooldridge <br><br><DIV><P>This volume is a collects papers originally presented at the 7th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT), held at the University of Liverpool in July 2006. LOFT is a key venue for presenting research at the intersection of logic, economics, and computer science, and this collection gives a lively and wide-ranging view of an exciting and rapidly growing area.</P></DIV><br></div> Love in Africa http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=397058 Edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life—a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS.</P><P>            <I>Love in Africa</I> seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it. In a substantive introduction and eight essays that examine a variety of countries and range in time from the 1930s to the present, the contributors collectively argue for the importance of paying attention to the many different cultural and historical strands that constitute love in Africa. Covering such diverse topics as the reception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Zanzibar, the effects of a Mexican telenovela on young people’s ideas about courtship in Niger, the models of romance promoted by South African and Kenyan magazines, and the complex relationship between love and money in Madagascar and South Africa, <I>Love in Africa</I> is a vivid and compelling look at love’s role in African society.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Major Themes of the Qur'an http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=409968 Fazlur Rahman <br><br><DIV><DIV><DIV><P><I>Major Themes of the Qur’an</I> is Fazlur Rahman’s introduction to one of the richest texts in the history of religious thought. In this classic work, Rahman unravels the Qur’an’s complexities on themes such as God, society, revelation, and prophecy with the deep attachment of a Muslim educated in Islamic schools and the clarity of a scholar who taught for decades in the West.</P><P> </P><P>“Generations of scholars have profited from [Rahman’s] pioneering scholarly work by taking the questions he raised and the directions he outlined to new destinations.”--Ebrahim Moosa, from his new foreword</P><P> </P><P>“The religious future of Islam and the future of interfaith relationship . . . will be livelier and saner for the sort of Quranic centrality which <I>Major Themes of the Qur’an</I> exemplifies and serves.”--Kenneth Cragg, <I>Middle East</I><I> Journal</I></P><P> </P><P>“There shines through [a] rare combination of balanced scholarly judgment and profound personal commitment. . . . [Rahman is] eager to open up the mysteries of the Qur’an to a shrinking world sorely in need of both moral regeneration and better mutual understanding.”--Patrick D. Gaffney, <I>Journal of Religion</I></P><P> </P><P>“I can’t think of any book more important, still, than <I>Major Themes of the Qur’an</I>.”--Michael Sells, author of <I>Approaching the Qur’an</I></P></DIV></DIV></DIV><br></div> Maternal Effects in Mammals http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=337408 Edited by Dario Maestripieri and Jill M. Mateo <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Evolutionary maternal effects occur whenever a mother’s phenotypic traits directly affect her offspring’s phenotype, independent of the offspring’s genotype. Some of the phenotypic traits that result in maternal effects have a genetic basis, whereas others are environmentally determined. For example, the size of a litter produced by a mammalian mother—a trait with a strong genetic basis—can affect the growth rate of her offspring, while a mother’s dominance rank—an environmentally determined trait—can affect the dominance rank of her offspring. </P><P>            The first volume published on the subject in more than a decade, <I>Maternal Effects in Mammals</I> reflects advances in genomic, ecological, and behavioral research, as well new understandings of the evolutionary interplay between mothers and their offspring. Dario Maestripieri and Jill M. Mateo bring together a learned group of contributors to synthesize the vast literature on a range of species, highlight evolutionary processes that were previously overlooked, and propose new avenues of research. <I>Maternal Effects in Mammals</I> will serve as the most comprehensive compendium on and stimulus for interdisciplinary treatments of mammalian maternal effects.</P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=346016 Catherina Regina von Greiffenberg <br><br><DIV><DIV><P> </P><P>Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking world. Privileged by her social station and education, she published a large body of religious writings under her own name to a reception unequaled by any other German woman during her lifetime. But once the popularity of devotional writings as a genre waned, Catharina’s works went largely unread until scholars devoted renewed attention to them in the twentieth century.</P><P>            For this volume, Lynne Tatlock translates for the first time into English three of the thirty-six meditations, restoring Catharina to her rightful place in print. These meditations foreground women in the life of Jesus Christ—including accounts of women at the Incarnation and the Tomb—and in Scripture in general. Tatlock’s selections give the modern reader a sense of the structure and nature of Catharina’s devotional writings, highlighting the alternative they offer to the male-centered view of early modern literary and cultural production during her day, and redefining the role of women in Christian history. </P><P> </P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Meeting the "Other" http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=405746 Rieki Crins <br><br><DIV><P>Nestled amid the eastern end of the Himalayas is the peaceful and democratic nation of Bhutan—an isolated country that has remained for centuries a mystery to outsiders. With <I>Meeting the “Other,</I>” cultural anthropologist Rieki Crins recounts her fifteen-year sojourn in one of Bhutan’s most remote villages and unveils a deeply spiritual culture that defines “sustainability” as an experience where life is lived in the present and where gender is conceived of as part and parcel of the cosmos.</P></DIV><br></div> Migration and Irregular Work in Austria http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=405443 Michael Jandl, Christina Hollomey, Sandra Gendera, Anna Stepien, and Veronika Bilger <br><br><DIV><P><I>Migration and Irregular Work in Austria </I>offers a fresh new perspective on irregular migrant work by making use of in-depth interviews with migrants themselves. The authors challenge our ability to divide the world of foreign employment into legal and illegal work, and instead evaluate the new manifestations of “irregular migrant work” that have evolved in the wake of EU expansion. Arguing that this work is based on both supply and demand—and thus deeply ingrained in the structure of our advanced economies—this volume should fill a large gap in migration and labor market research.</P></DIV><br></div> Modes of Spectating http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=406657 Edited by Alison Oddey and Christine White <br><br><DIV><P><I>Modes of Spectating</I> investigates the questions posed by new artistic and technological mediums on the viewer experience. These new visual tools influence not only <I>how</I> spectators view, but also how <I>what</I> they view determines what artists create. Alison Oddey and Christine White analyze how gaming and televisual media and entertainment are used by young people, and the resulting psychological challenges of understanding how viewers navigate these virtual worlds and surroundings. This multidisciplinary approach brings together ideas and examples from gaming art, photography, sculpture, and performance; it will be a valuable text for scholars of both media and art.</P></DIV><br></div> Murder by Accident http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=385663 Jody Enders <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable—even forbidden—for students of literature to talk about an author’s intentions for a given work. In <I>Murder by Accident</I>, Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater. </P><P>Drawing on four fascinating medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, Enders contends that the marginalization of intention in critical discourse is a mirror for the marginalization—and misunderstanding—of theater.<I> Murder by Accident</I> revisits the legal, moral, ethical, and aesthetic limits of the living arts of the past, pairing them with examples from the present, whether they be reality television, snuff films, the “accidental” live broadcast of a suicide on a Los Angeles freeway, or an actor who jokingly fired a stage revolver at his temple, causing his eventual death. This book will force scholars and students to rethink their assumptions about theory, intention, and performance, both past and present.</P><P> </P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Netherlands in a Nutshell http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1386326 Edited by Frits van Oostrom <br><br><DIV><P>Many think they know the legends behind tulipmania and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history should be passed on to future generations? This overview of historical highlights, assembled by a number of specialists in consultation with the Dutch general public, provides a thought-provoking and timely answer. The democratic process behind the volume is reminiscent of the way in which the Netherlands has excelled for centuries at collective craftsmanship, and says as much about the Netherlands as does the outcome of the opinions voiced. <I>The Netherlands in a Nutshell </I>offers a mine of information for visitors to the Netherlands, and should appeal to anyone interested in the history of this fascinating and multi-faceted land in the heart of Europe.</P></DIV><br></div> New Perspectives on Games and Interaction http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=405381 Edited by Krzysztof Apt and Robert van Rooij <br><br><DIV><P>In 2007 at the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam, a colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction brought together researchers on games in logic, computer science, linguistics, and economics in order to clarify their uses of game theory and identify promising new directions for the field. This volume is a collection of papers presented at the colloquium, and it testifies to the growing importance of game theory as a tool that can capture concepts of strategy, interaction, argumentation, communication, and cooperation amid the disciplines. </P></DIV><br></div> Novel Violence http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=385622 Garrett Stewart <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In <I>Novel Violence</I>, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. </P><P>            Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguistic narratives collide with the stories that give them context, he makes a powerful case for the centrality of verbal conflict to the experience of reading Victorian novels. He also maps his finely wrought argument on the spectrum of influential theories of the novel—including those of Georg Lukács and Ian Watt—and tests it against Edgar Allan Poe’s antinovelistic techniques. In the process, Stewart shifts critical focus toward the grain of narrative and away from more abstract analyses of structure or cultural context, revealing how novels achieve their semantic and psychic effects and unearthing, in prose, something akin to poetry.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Original Rules of Golf http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1111425 Edited by the Bodleian Library <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>More than 25 million people in the United States alone play golf each year. A game born on the stark, wind-swept landscape of Scotland in the fifteenth century, golf has grown over the centuries into a global phenomenon. It is a sport not only enjoyed by professionals and the spectators of international tournaments, but one enthusiastically enjoyed by amateurs everywhere who socialize with friends and colleagues on their local courses. Yet despite golf’s widespread popularity, few of us truly know its rules, which have grown more complicated and confounding as the game has grown in popularity. Extremely simple by comparison, the very first rules of the game are presented here in a charming, collectible format.</P><P>            The first known rules of golf were drawn up in 1744 in Edinburgh for the world’s first open golf competition, hosted by the Gentleman Golfers of Edinburgh, who later became the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. Local golf clubs then adapted the Edinburgh rules for their own use—until 1897 when the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews assumed oversight of the rules, and published the first national set of golf rules. The original Edinburgh and St. Andrews rules are both reprinted here alongside delightful images of the game throughout the centuries. In addition, well-known golf writer Dale Concannon provides a thorough introduction that examines the history of the rules of golf from their first codification in Edinburgh to the present day.</P><P>             A must-have for anyone who delights in the spirit of the game, <I>The Original Rules of Golf</I> will find fans among golfers and armchair spectators everywhere.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Paleobiological Revolution http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=330285 Edited by David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science and conjuring images of fossil collectors and amateurs who dig up bones, paleontology was marginalized even by Darwin himself, who worried that incompleteness in the fossil record would be used against his theory of evolution. But with the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies.</P><P>This incredible ascendance of this once-maligned science to the vanguard of a field is chronicled in <I>The Paleobiological Revolution. </I>Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the seismic changes in the discipline. In so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse harness the energy of the past to call for further study of the conceptual development of modern paleobiology.<B></B></P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Photography and Literature http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=406236 François Brunet <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Aspiring writers are often admonished to “show, not tell,” an instruction that immediately speaks to the relationship between the written word and the visual world. It is a tenuous correspondence—both literature and art are striving toward the same goal of depiction, but the reality they portray is shaped by their chosen tools. As François Brunet argues in <I>Photography and Literature</I>, the advent of photography posed one of the greatest challenges to writers—here was an artistic medium that could almost instantly distill a scene or perspective. As Brunet shows, the result of this challenge has been a fantastic interplay between the two and between photographers and writers themselves.</P><P>            <I>Photography and Literature</I> assess the complete history of photography, and Brunet begins by examining how the invention of photography was shaped by written culture, both scientific and literary. As well, Brunet looks at the creation of the photo-book, the frequent personal discovery of photography by writers, and how photography and literature eventually began to trade tools and merge formats to create a new photo-textual genre. Highly illustrated, <I>Photography and Literature</I> reflects a photographer’s point of view, giving new attention to such works as the groundbreaking exploration of photography in <I>The Pencil of Nature </I>by William Henry Fox Talbot and Sophie Calle’s projects with Jean Baudrillard and Paul Auster.</P><P>            Essential for anyone interested in the intersection of the verbal and the visual, <I>Photography and Literature </I>provides a fascinating wealth of autobiography, manifesto, and fiction as well as a variety of images from the first daguerreotypes to the digital age.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Plague Writing in Early Modern England http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=355359 Ernest B. Gilman <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide range of responses to these epidemics—sermons, medical tracts, pious exhortations, satirical pamphlets, and political commentary—<I>Plague Writing in Early Modern England </I>brings to life the many and complex ways Londoners made sense of such unspeakable devastation.</P><P>Ernest B. Gilman argues that the plague writing of the period attempted unsuccessfully to rationalize the catastrophic and that its failure to account for the plague as an instrument of divine justice fundamentally threatened the core of Christian belief. Gilman also trains his critical eye on the works of Jonson, Donne, Pepys, and Defoe, which, he posits, can be more fully understood when put into the context of this century-long project to “write out” the plague. Ultimately, <I>Plague Writing in Early Modern England</I> is more than a compendium of artifacts of a bygone era; it holds up a distant mirror to reflect our own condition in the age of AIDS, super viruses, multidrug resistant tuberculosis, and the hovering threat of a global flu pandemic.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Plan for Chaos http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=408170 John Wyndham <br><br><DIV><P><I>Plan for Chaos</I> is a never-before published novel by post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer John Wyndham (1903–69), best known for his “cozy catastrophe” novel about a venomous class of fictional plants, <I>The Day of the Triffids. </I> Written simultaneously with that well-known volume, which has been in print continuously since its publication in 1951, <I>Plan for Chaos</I> makes a fascinating companion to the author’s most famous work and offers a new angle on a writer often considered the direct descendent of the legendary H.G. Wells and an influence on such innovators as Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood.</P></DIV><br></div> Plato's Philosophers http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=355331 Catherine H. Zuckert <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial <I>Plato’s Philosophers</I>, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. </P><P>To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live? </P><P>Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.</P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Policy Debates on Reprogenetics http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=407150 Svea Luise Herrmann <br><br><DIV><P><I>Policy Debates on Reprogenetics</I> takes an in-depth look at recent public policy debates over stem cell research and therapeutic cloning in Great Britain and Germany in order to determine the effect of such debates on the progress of scientific knowledge. Svea Luise Herrmann argues that debates about government policy do not tend to lead to more societal and political control over scientific research; rather, the discussions, when framed as questions of ethics, allow societies to air anxieties without retarding or challenging scientific progress. As our understanding of genetics continues to grow, this volume will be a useful resource for scientists and policy makers alike.</P></DIV><br></div> Political Spiritualities http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=346069 Ruth Marshall <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>After an explosion of conversions to Pentecostalism over the past three decades, tens of millions of Nigerians now claim that “Jesus is the answer.” But if Jesus is the answer, what is the question? What led to the movement’s dramatic rise and how can we make sense of its social and political significance? In this ambitiously interdisciplinary study, Ruth Marshall draws on years of fieldwork and grapples with a host of important thinkers—including Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin—to answer these questions.</P><P>            To account for the movement’s success, Marshall explores how Pentecostalism presents the experience of being born again as a chance for Nigerians to realize the promises of political and religious salvation made during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Her astute analysis of this religious trend sheds light on Nigeria’s contemporary politics, postcolonial statecraft, and the everyday struggles of ordinary citizens coping with poverty, corruption, and inequality. </P><P>Pentecostalism’s rise is truly global, and<I> Political Spiritualities</I> persuasively argues that Nigeria is a key case in this phenomenon while calling for new ways of thinking about the place of religion in contemporary politics.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1221338 Daniel Jackson <br><br><DIV><P>This groundbreaking volume sheds light on the complex realities of British politics prior to 1914, showing that from the start of the Third Home Rule Bill crisis, there was considerable popular interest in the Irish issue. Isolating this movement at the end of the long nineteenth century, where communal and confessional identities were just as powerful as class, and native hostility to Catholicism and Irish migration still prevailed, Daniel Jackson demonstrates the power of the enormous Home Rule protests in Britain. Through studying these massive demonstrations, the author captures the opinions of those made voiceless by history and explores how the Ulster question allowed Conservative politicians to gain popular enthusiasm and bridge the gap between elites and the masses.</P></DIV><br></div> Por Convención Ferrer http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1220978 David Jacques <br><br><DIV><P>From 1910 to 1918, on October 13 of each year, <I>Por Convención Ferrer </I>provided a forum in Liverpool for anyone to propose any subject of their choosing “for free and open discussion.” Named after the executed Spanish educationalist Francisco Ferrer y Guardia, the event often involved the contributions of a small though significant network of Anarchist activists.<I> </I>This volume uses text and images by the artist David Jacques in order to bring the <I>Por Convención Ferrer </I>conferences into the present—beginning with a concocted archive and ranging from a series of mementoes in the form of pennants to a multivocal juxtaposition of storylines informed by time travel—in order to highlight the work and activities of this highly influential group of political activists. </P></DIV><br></div> Postcards from Utopia http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1111575 Edited by the Bodleian Library <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Politicians are famous for making extravagant campaign promises. But there are few promises as powerful—or as idealistically utopian—as those put forth by state-sponsored propaganda. Collected here are colorful images of political ideology created and disseminated by the political regimes of Europe, the Soviet Union, and China from the 1920s through the ‘70s.</P><P>            State leaders of the twentieth century were highly conscious of the need to present a unified national image during a time of serious political transition in Europe, and state-sanctioned art performed a key function in an attempt to consolidate a country behind an idea. These spectacular images provide a rare opportunity to witness how abstract political ideas were rendered as visual picture for a mass audience. Fifty compelling postcards, held in the collection of the Bodleian Library, from the former Soviet Union, China, Germany, Italy, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Albania, reveal that despite national differences there are surprising similarities in political expression and the idealized images presented by each government. An introduction that contextualizes the images within a broader understanding of the ideologies and political powers of the time is provided by European historian, Andrew Roberts.</P><P>            Taken together, the images in <I>Postcards from Utopia</I> offer a striking look at the art of power and its mythical representation at a time of great political upheaval and experiment.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Postcards of Lost Royals http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1111513 Edited by the Bodleian Library <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>This enchanting, unique collection of postcards recovers an old world swept away and forgotten over the decades. The lost royals captured here have not been misplaced or gone missing—what has been lost is the very foundation of their royalty. Collected here are royal figures from around the world who lost their titles and were displaced as a result of World War I and other early twentieth-century political movements.</P><P>            The royal houses of Europe, Africa, and Asia once ruled a continent and held dominions beyond the seas. Today, just ten monarchs still reign in Europe, and those with only limited powers. Captured in these distinctive postcards held in the collection of the Bodleian Library are these lost emperors, kings and queens, czars and czarinas, princes and princess, and grand dukes and duchesses, who were left behind by the sweep of history. Featuring monarchs from the Balkans to the Iberian Peninsula, from Ethiopia to Korea, these portraits include members of the Russian imperial family, and royals from Romania, Bulgaria, and Germany, among others. But this is more than just a picture book; it provides a narrative snapshot of world history—alongside each postcard is an intriguing mini-biography of the pictured royal that provides a gripping account of his or her story.</P><P>            Reminiscent of a forgotten era of glamour, grace, and regal power, <I>Postcards of Lost Royals</I> brings history to life and distills the essence of a long-vanished world of royalty.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Posthuman Condition http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=248394 Robert Pepperell <br><br><DIV><DIV><I>"Where humanists saw themselves as distinct beings in an antagonistic relationship with their surroundings, posthumans regard their own being as embodied in an extended technological world."<BR /><BR /></I>Synthetic creativity, organic computers, genetic modification, intelligent machines--such ideas are deeply challenging to many of our traditional assumptions about human uniqueness and superiority. But, ironically, it is our very capacity for technological invention that has secured us so dominant a position in the world which may lead ultimately to (as some have put it) 'The End of Man'. If we are really capable of creating entities that exceed our own skills and intellect then the consequences for humanity are almost inconceivable. Nevertheless, we must now face up to the possibility that attributes like intelligence and consciousness may be synthesised in non-human entities--perhaps within our lifetime. Would such entities have human-like emotions; would they have a sense of their own being?<BR /><I><BR />The Posthuman Condition</I> argues that such questions are difficult to tackle given the concepts of human existence that we have inherited from humanism, many of which can no longer be sustained. New theories about nature and the operation of the universe arising from sophisticated computer modelling are starting to demonstrate the profound interconnections between all things in reality where previously we had seen only separations. This has implications for traditional views of the human condition, consciousness, the way we look at art, and for some of the oldest problems in philosophy.<BR /><BR />First published in the 1990s, this important text has been completely revised by the author with the addition of new sections and illustrations.<BR /><BR />For further information see: www.post-human.net</DIV></DIV><br></div> Private Places http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=167786 Brad Temkin <br><br><DIV>"A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man." Thousands of Chicagoans have taken Ralph Waldo Emerson's words to heart, and they have shared their "beautiful abodes" with photographer Brad Temkin. His<I> Private Places</I> offers an intimate glimpse into the personal gardens of Chicago residents, exploring how they carved out these quiet spaces of flora and greenery in the cityscape of concrete and brick. <BR /><BR />Temkin's camera lens captures the lushness and vibrancy of these backyard gardens, roving over the diverse natural and artificial elements contained in each. His images chronicle how gardens are safe havens for these city dwellers, places where they can read, meditate, relax, and enjoy the experience of working with the soil and its fruits. Temkin notes, "The small gardens have bits and pieces of the person who owns them; found objects that are dear to them, keepsakes, statues, and personal items that reveal the person behind it."<BR /><BR />The motto of the city of Chicago is "Urbs in horto," a Latin phrase meaning "city in a garden." Temkin's compelling photographs reveal the flip side of the motto—"garden in a city"—as<I> Private Places</I> unearths the richly sensual world of the natural tucked away behind the clustered town houses and brick edifices of Chicago's residential neighborhoods.</DIV><br></div> Rattleskull Genius http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1312986 Edited by Geraint H. Jenkins <br><br><DIV><P>An industrious academic and charmingly eccentric Romantic poet and forger, Iolo Morganwg (1747-1846) left behind a floor-to-ceiling stack of unpublished manuscripts in his small Welsh cottage. <I>A Rattleskull Genius</I>, based on that trove of unpublished material now held at the National Library of Wales, provides both a celebration and a critical reassessment of the author and his contributions to Welsh cultural tradition.</P></DIV><br></div> Recent Mammals of Alaska http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1195312 Stephen O. MacDonald and Joseph A. Cook <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehensive guide to all of Alaska’s mammals, big and small, endearing and ferocious. </P><P>            Through extensive fieldwork and research the authors have produced a unique and authoritative reference. Detailed entries for each species include distribution and taxonomic information, status, habitat, and fossil history. Appendices include quick reference listings of mammal distribution by region, specimen locations, conservation status, and the incidence of Pleistocene mammals. The guide is generously illustrated with line drawings by Alaskan artist W. D. Berry and includes several maps indicating populations and locations of species. </P><P><I>Mammals of Alaska</I> will be an accessible, easy to use source for scholars and hobbyists alike. </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Sacred Heart of Jesus http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=325737 David Morgan <br><br><DIV><P>From its origins in the mid-seventeenth century visions of the French nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–90) to its continuing employment in worship today, the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial. Vigorously promoted by Jesuit spiritual directors, embroiled in the controversies of Jansenist writers, closely associated with Royalist political causes in France, and taken around the world by Sister Sophie Barat in the nineteenth century, the Devotion’s practices took on the shape of its evolving visual culture and iconography. This volume traces the unfolding visual biography of the sacred heart and shows how imagery documents the Devotion’s remarkable evolution.</P></DIV><br></div> Secret Science http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=334254 María M. Portuondo <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known.</P><P>As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies. Cosmography was thus a secret science, but despite the limited dissemination of this body of knowledge, royal cosmographers applied alternative epistemologies and new methodologies that changed the discipline, and, in the process, how Europeans understood the natural world. </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1313075 Edited by Erich Poppe and Regine Reck <br><br><DIV><P>This volume provides edited selections, together with an introduction, notes, and glossary, from the lengthy and entertaining thirteenth-century Welsh epic, <I>Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn. </I>A hugely popular tale, <I>Ystorya Bown</I> is drawn from the Anglo-Norman epic <I>Geste de Boeve de Haumtone</I> (which was itself translated not only into Welsh, but also Middle English, Old Norse, and Early Modern Irish), and it relays a story of heroic Christian fortitude that offers contemporary readers fascinating insights into its cultural transmission and the worldview of its audiences. </P></DIV><br></div> Slaves to Sweetness http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=408127 Carl Plasa <br><br><DIV><P>Literary and sociological studies have long been fascinated by the seemingly innocuous substance of sugar, not least because of its direct link with the histories of slavery in the New World. Unlike previous texts, <I>Slaves to Sweetness</I> examines not only traditional, classic studies on the history of sugar, but also explores the previously ignored work produced by expatriate Caribbean authors from the 1980s onward. As a result, this volume provides the most comprehensive account to date of the historical transformations undergone by our representations of sugar, making it a rich resource for scholars in numerous fields.</P></DIV><br></div> SpecLab http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=353566 Johanna Drucker <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia’s SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In <I>SpecLab </I>she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge.</P><P>            Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists’ Books Online to the as yet unrealized ’Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, <I>SpecLab</I> functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker’s contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Statistics and Reality http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=405427 Edited by Heinz Fassmann, Ursula Reeger, and Wiebke Sievers <br><br><DIV><P>In the past decade, there has been a trend towards the global “harmonization” of migration statistics, largely inspired by international bodies and organizations that require comparative data. This volume provides an accessible account of the history of migration measurement in Europe and analyzes the current conceptualizations of migration and data-gathering procedures across twelve European countries. Based on this analysis, the authors provide critical insight into the migrant stocks and flows in their own countries and comment on recent trends in migration scholarship, such as the feminization of migration or the diversification of migrant’s origins. </P></DIV><br></div> Time After http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=405795 Doug Fogelson <br><br><DIV><P>Recent work in the visual arts has often investigated the opposition between natural and constructed worlds. In <I>The Time After</I>, which references the process of photography as well as the future fate of our planet, fine arts photographer Doug Fogelson uses an iconoclastic multiple exposure technique in order to depict our collective surroundings, producing imagery that reflects our own alien experience of nature, as well as the distanced perspective of the viewer. This volume collects over 160 of Fogelson’s spectacular images and pairs them with speculative and poetic essays by Derrick Jensen, Eiren Caffall, and Bridgette R. McCullough. Sharply contrasting built (or processed) scenes with rich natural images, the design of these photographs speaks to both our changing understanding of our role in the environment and the increasingly prominent place of activism in contemporary art practice.</P></DIV><br></div> Tracing Traces from Present to Past http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=1386686 Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers <br><br><DIV><P>This comprehensive volume analyzes shell implements, as well as flint and stone tools, from the pre-Columbian sites of Anse à la Gourde and Morel, Guadeloupe, drawing on archaeological, ethnographical, ethnohistorical and experimental data. The results of a functional analysis of all artifact categories are presented, as well as a reconstruction of the technological system in the pre-Columbian period. Lammers-Keijsers also demonstrates the value of this integral approach in shedding light on the choices made in past tool use and the future study of different raw materials.<B></B></P></DIV><br></div> Travels in the History of Architecture http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=406369 Robert Harbison <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Mies van der Rohe, master of modern architecture, declared that “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.” In <I>Travels in the History of Architecture</I>, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison takes a closer look at these bricks, providing an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. </P><P><I>Travels in the History of Architecture</I> beings its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of architecture through the present day. Each chapter of this dynamic and approachable volume focuses on a movement in architectural history, including Byzantine, Baroque, Mannerism, Historicism, Functionalism, and Deconstruction. Unique to this work is Harbison’s wide-ranging approach, which draws on references and examples outside of architecture—from literature, art, sculpture, and history—to further illustrate and contextualize the themes and ideas of each period. For example, the travel writing of Pausanias illustrates the monuments of ancient Greece,  a poem in praise of marble decoration reveals how the builders of the cathedral of Hagia Sophia viewed their creation, and a French rococo painting speaks to the meaning behind the design of the English landscape garden.</P><P>Original, yet authoritative, <I>Travels in the History of Architecture</I> will be in an indispensable guide for everyone curious to know more about the world’s most famous structures, as well as for students of art and architectural history seeking a definitive introduction.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Twenty Minutes in Manhattan http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=406430 Michael Sorkin <br><br><DIV><DIV><P><I>The walk from my apartment in Greenwich Village to my studio in Tribeca takes about twenty minutes, depending upon the route and whether I stop for a coffee and the </I>Times. <I>Invariably, though, it begins with a trip down the stairs</I>.</P><P>And so sets out architecture critic Michael Sorkin on his daily walk from his home in a Manhattan old-law-style tenement building. Sorkin has followed the same path for over fifteen years, a route that has allowed him to observe the startling transformations in New York during this period of great change. <I>Twenty Minutes in Manhattan</I> is his personal, anecdotal account of his casual encounters with the physical space and social dimensions of this unparalleled city.</P><P>            From the social gathering place of the city stoop to Washington Square Park, Sorkin’s walk takes the reader on a wry, humorous journey past local characters, neighborhood stores and bodegas, landmark buildings, and overlooked streets. His perambulations offer him—and the reader—opportunities to not only engage with his surroundings but to consider a wide range of issues that fascinate Sorkin as an architect, urbanist, and New Yorker. Whether he is despairing at street garbage or marveling at elevator etiquette, <I>Twenty Minutes in Manhattan </I>offers a testing ground for his ideas of how the city can be newly imagined and designed, addressing such issues as the crisis of the environment, free expression and public space, historic preservation, and the future of the neighborhood as a concept.</P><P>            Inspired by Sorkin’s close, attentive relationship to his beloved city, <I>Twenty Minutes in Manhattan</I> is in the end a valentine to the idea of the city that ultimately offers a practical set of solutions that are relevant to not only the preservation and improvement of New York but to urban environments everywhere.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Unlimited Intimacy http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=370166 Tim Dean <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>Barebacking—when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex—has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for <I>Unlimited Intimacy</I>, Tim Dean’s riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it.</P><P>Audacious and undeniably provocative, Dean’s profoundly reflective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the twenty-first century. Dean’s extensive research into the subculture provides a tour of the scene’s bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an explicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and documents his own personal experiences in the culture. But ultimately, it is HIV that animates the controversy around barebacking, and <I>Unlimited Intimacy</I> explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus—especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intimacy without limits—one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite literal—barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works.</P><P>Written with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, <I>Unlimited Intimacy</I> will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior.</P></DIV></DIV><br></div> We Europeans? http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=327628 William Uricchio <br><br><DIV><DIV><I>We Europeans?</I> explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault lines and fissures of the shifting ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations, and languages that make up contemporary Europe. Addressing topics such as film, television, public monuments, and the press, an international group of contributors reveal how European identity is shaped as the continent administratively consolidates. In essays that explore cultural homogenization, longed-for identities, and the fears surrounding transnational media, this volume uncovers the intricate interactions of history and memory as they inform the European present. </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><br></div> Women's Rights? http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=325776 Masae Kato <br><br><DIV><DIV>This volume explores the concept of Japanese reproductive rights and liberties in light of recent developments in disability studies. Masae Kato asks important questions about what constitutes personhood and how, in the twenty-first century, we come to understand eugenic abortion and other bioethical arguments. Tracing the origin and influence of the concept of a "right," the author places the term in local social and historical contexts in order to determine that it still carries overtones of Anglo-American philosophy, rather than universal truth. Digging deeply into Japanese debates on selective abortion, <I>Women's Right?</I> discusses how this charged term can be both de-Westernized and de-masculinized, especially in its appropriations by the Japanese women's movement and disability scholars.</DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><br></div> World in One School http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=336692 Jack Dunne and Peter Richmond <br><br><DIV><DIV><I>The World in One School</I> explores the global influence of Britain’s oldest university school of architecture in both word and image. The home of the “Liverpool Manner” style—developed under the leadership of Sir Charles Reilly and honed by architects like Herbert Rowse and Charles Dod—the Liverpool School of Architecture hosted students from all corners of the world and sent its graduates to placements in international practice. Tracing the School’s history—from its origins through the influence of America in the interwar years to a strong Modernist presence influenced by Edwin Maxwell Fry’s and George Checkley’s inspirations, this remarkable story of a School with five Royal Gold Medalists for architecture is a fascinating study of the transatlantic trends that shape education and practice in architecture and design.<BR /> </DIV></DIV><br></div>