Weekly Book List, March 10, 2017

ANTHROPOLOGY

Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts by Sonia N. Das (Oxford University Press; 269 pages; $99 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). A work in linguistic anthropology that examines how Tamil-speaking migrants from India and Sri Lanka living in Montreal negotiate the politics of French, English, and Tamil variants.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil edited by Scott R. Hutson (University Press of Colorado; 376 pages; $75). Research on a Classic Period Maya city in Mexico’s Yucatan region that was centered on short- and long-distance trade rather than political ritual.

The Bronze Age Towers at Bat, Sultanate of Oman: Research by the Bat Archaeological Project, 2007-12 edited by Christopher P. Thornton, Charlotte M. Cable, and Gregory L. Possehl (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; 330 pages; $69.95). Reports on excavations and GIS-aided surveys of the Omani site centered on the construction and function of non-mortuary, circular monuments made of mudbrick or stone.

The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan by Mark Z. Christensen (University of Texas Press; 321 pages; $55). First English translation, and study, of recently discovered Yucatan Maya-authored Christian manuscripts from colonial Mexico that were used to evangelize the local population.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Agnes Martin: “Night Sea” by Suzanne Hudson (AfterAll Books, distributed by MIT Press; 100 pages; $19.95). A study of Night Sea, a 1963 blue-and-gold grid painting by the Canadian-born American abstract artist and described here as the last of Martin’s process-based works.

Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774--1839 by Elisabeth A. Fraser (Penn State University Press; 298 pages; $89.95). Focuses on images produced in France in a study of paintings, illustrated travelogues, and other works that reflect Europe’s cross-cultural exchange.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard by Guy de la Bedoyere (Yale University Press; 335 pages; $35). Traces the history of the guard from its founding by Augustus around 27 BC to its permanent dissolution by Constantine around AD 312.

COMMUNICATION

Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies by Sean Cubitt (Duke University Press; 243 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Examines the environmental and human impact of the manufacture, use, and disposal of digital devices.

Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality by Meryl Alper (MIT Press; 270 pages; $75 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines how class and other structural factors shape empowerment through technology; discusses children with autism, cerebral palsy, and other disabilities and their use of the Apple iPad and app Proloquo2Go, which converts icons and text into synthetic speech.

Smartland Korea: Mobile Communication, Culture, and Society by Dal Yong Jin (University of Michigan Press; 238 pages; $70 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines the economy and culture of smart phones in South Korea, with a focus on young Koreans’ engagement with their devices and apps.

DANCE

Dance and Gender: An Evidence-Based Approach edited by Wendy Oliver and Doug Risner (University Press of Florida; 212 pages; $84.95). Writings by scholars in the United States, Australia, and Canada on how gender affects the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, and others in the dance world in three realms: concert dance, the studio, and higher education.

ECONOMICS

Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally (Columbia University Press; 315 pages; $35). Offers a historical perspective on oil prices’ tendency toward volatility, the efforts of OPEC and others to stabilize prices, and the likelihood that today’s market will remain volatile.

Social Economics: Current and Emerging Avenues edited by Joan Costa-Font and Mario Macis (MIT Press; 332 pages; $35). Research in a growing field of economics that emphasizes group-level influences on individual behavior.

EDUCATION

Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning: A Comparative Perspective by Goedele A.M. De Clerck (Gallaudet University Press; 276 pages; $85). Draws on fieldwork in Flanders, Uganda, Cameroon, and Washington, D.C. to offer an anthropological perspective on deaf education and flourishing.

The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States edited by Frederick M. Hess and Max Eden (Harvard Education Press; 250 pages; $62 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings by scholars and others on ESSA and what the act, signed into law in December 2015, means for states and districts.

Performance-Based Pay for Educators: Assessing the Evidence by Jennifer King Rice and Betty Malen (Teachers College Press; 196 pages; $98 hardcover, $43.95 paperback). Evaluates a pay-for-performance program in Maryland’s Prince George’s County that at its peak involved 42 schools before the federal grant ran out.

US Latinization: Education and the New Latino South edited by Spencer Salas and Pedro R. Portes (State University of New York Press; 289 pages; $90). Writings on the educational implications of the growth of the Latino population, with a focus on the South; topics include parental and family engagement.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Messages From Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour by Ilkka Hanski (University of Chicago Press; 253 pages; $100 hardcover, $32.50 paperback). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a discussion of biodiversity in terms of six islands of past fieldwork by the author: Borneo, Madagascar, Greenland, Haminanluoto (Baltic Sea, off of Finland), La Gomera (Canary Islands), and the Aland Islands (Finland).

Nature’s Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World by Larry A. Nielsen (Island Press; 255 pages; $28). Offers biographical accounts of John Muir, Ding Darling, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., Wangari Maathai, and Gro Harlem Brundtland.

FILM STUDIES

Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary by Jennifer Malkowski (Duke University Press; 254 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Explores ethics, aesthetics, circulation, and reception in a study of documentary death footage, including Silverlake Life and other films about the terminally ill, a documentary made from video surveillance of Golden Gate Bridge suicides; and youtube clips of police killings.

Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies by Marsha Gordon (Oxford University Press; 314 pages; $99 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on previously untapped archival materials in a study of the American director’s work in war movies from The Steel Helmet (1951) to The Big Red One (1980); topics include his unrealized Vietnam-era screenplay The Rifle.

Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary by Nicholas de Villiers (University of Minnesota Press; 268 pages; $120 hardcover, $30 paperback). Examines ethical and other aspects of ethnographic documentaries on sex workers since the 1960s, with a focus on films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wiktor Grodecki, Shohini Ghosh, Cui Zi’en, and Hideaki Anno.

GAME STUDIES

Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America by Michael Z. Newman (MIT Press; 252 pages; $29.95). Traces the early years of video games, beginning with Pong, and examines how the new medium became linked to a specific gender, age, and class.

GEOGRAPHY

No Home in a Homeland: Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North by Julia Christensen (University of British Columbia Press; 298 pages; US$85). Focuses on the cities of Yellowknife and Inuvik.

HISTORY

America’s Sailors in the Great War: Seas, Skies, and Submarines by Lisle A. Rose (University of Missouri Press; 328 pages; $36.95). Pays particular attention to U.S. sailors and vessels involved in convoy escort and submarine hunting.

The Antiquary: John Aubrey’s Historical Scholarship by Kelsey Jackson Williams (Oxford University Press; 191 pages; $100). A study of the 17th-century English antiquary and natural philosopher that sets his work in a wider European context.

Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity by Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas (New York University Press; 384 pages; $35). Describes the pathologizing of both race and racism, beginning in the mid-19th century with the attribution of certain qualities to Jews, blacks, the Irish, and American Indians, and later the attribution of madness to racists.

Big Bosses: A Working Girl’s Memoir of Jazz Age America by Althea McDowell Altemus, edited by Robin F. Bachin (University of Chicago Press; 220 pages; $45 hardcover, $15 paperback). Annotated edition, with afterword, of the memoir of a woman who as a young divorcee and single mother in 1917 began years of work as a secretary for prominent employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York.

Christianity and Race in the American South: A History by Paul Harvey (University of Chicago Press; 260 pages; $40). Covers the late 16th century to the present.

Colin Jordan and Britain’s Neo-Nazi Movement: Hitler’s Echo by Paul Jackson (Bloomsbury Academic; 293 pages; $114). Draws on previously unpublished sources in a study of the British fascist (1923-2009), including his transnational relationships with American and other neo-Nazis and his legacy for the extreme right.

Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico by Horacio Legras (University of Texas Press; 236 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses festivals, biographies, murals, ethnographic discourse, and other phenomena in a study of cultural change in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.

Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession, and Fantasy by Ronald H. Fritze (Reaktion Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 444 pages; $35). Explores a cultural fascination with ancient Egypt over the past 3,000 years beginning with Greek and Roman commentators in the classical era.

Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Black Middle Class in Hartford by Barbara J. Beeching (State University of New York Press; 270 pages; $90). Draws on more than 200 letters from the 1860s in a study of three African-Americans with ties to the Connecticut city---Rebecca Primus, a schoolteacher on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, her brother Nelson Primus, an artist in Boston, and Addie Brown, a friend of Rebecca’s working as a domestic in Hartford.

Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic by James P. Cousins (University Press of Kentucky; 297 pages; $50). A biography of the urban New Englander (1781-1827) who relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, and became the president of the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains.

In Essentials, Unity: An Economic History of the Grange Movement by Jenny Bourne (Ohio University Press; 144 pages; $55 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). A study of the Patrons of Husbandry or Grange movement, an agricultural society founded in 1867 and known for its struggle against railroad monopolies, as well as other reform issues; focuses on its founder, Oliver Kelley, and his home organization in Minnesota.

In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs by Stephen M. Ward (University of North Carolina Press; 433 pages; $39.95). A dual biography of a Detroit-based radical couple active in what became the black power movement---James Boggs, an Alabama-born African-American who became an auto worker and unionist in Detroit, and Grace Lee, a Chinese-American scholar.

The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews by Maurice Samuels (University of Chicago Press; 241 pages; $45). Documents how ideas of the Jews in the French political imagination over history have shaped different theories and implementation of French universalism.

The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I by Lynn Dumenil (University of North Carolina Press; 340 pages; $39.95). Examines women’s experience of the war in terms of mobilization, industrial labor, overseas service, protest, and popular culture.

The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color by Hank Trent (Louisiana State University Press; 224 pages; $38). Traces the life of a slave dealer in Richmond, Va., who led a double life with his mixed-race family in Salem, Mass., loyal to a free-black wife whose extended family were involved in the abolitionist movement.

Sesqui! Greed, Graft, and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926 by Thomas H. Keels (Temple University Press; 400 pages; $40). Traces the history and failure of an international exposition held in South Philadelphia to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Subaltern History edited by Odile Moreau and Stuart Schaar (University of Texas Press; 219 pages; $55). Writings on 11 nonconformists in Middle Eastern history, including Nazli Hanem, Kmar Bayya, and Khiriya bin Ayyad, three reform-minded women of the Ottoman-era Arab elite.

A Third Term for FDR: The Election of 1940 by John Jeffries (University Press of Kansas; 264 pages; $34.95). Topics include the president’s procrastination over whether to run again, and how domestic rather than foreign concerns influenced his decision.

Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory by Brent M. Rogers (University of Nebraska Press; 383 pages; $65 hardcover, $32 paperback). Sets the “Mormon question” and the contested governance of the Utah Territory in the wider context of the antebellum sectional divide and debates over popular sovereignty.

We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller (Duke University Press; 381 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Focuses on the Restoration War that followed Spain’s reoccupation and annexation of the Dominican Republic in 1861.

Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948 by Christopher Knowles (Bloomsbury Academic; 278 pages; $114). Offers a collective biography of 12 military and civilian officials who worked in the British zone of occupation.

LAW

Everyday Law in Russia by Kathryn Hendley (Cornell University Press; 304 pages; $45). Draws on focus groups, as well as observations of new justice-of-the-peace courts, in a study of how ordinary Russians view and experience the legal system.

The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity by Patricia Illingsworth and Wendy E. Parmet (New York University Press; 295 pages; $45). Topics include how the interests of host societies are best safeguarded by extending basic health care to immigrants.

In Praise of Litigation by Alexandra Lahav (Oxford University Press; 214 pages; $29.95). Defends litigation as a social good and a critical aspect of American democracy; draws on legal-process theory and theories of deliberative democracy.

LITERATURE

The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France by Andrew J. Counter (Oxford University Press; 274 pages; $95). Draws on literary and other realms in a study of competing ideas of love, sex, and marriage during the Bourbon Restoration (1815-30).

Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction by Nathaniel Isaacson (Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 259 pages; $80 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Discusses Lu Xun, Xu Nianci, Lao She, and other authors in a study of the genre in the late Qing and Republic periods.

Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday by Nick Shepley (Oxford University Press; 195 pages; $95). Discusses the British author as essential to the development of the novel between 1920 and 1950; disputes, among other things, characterizations of Green’s final novels, Doting and Nothing, as indulgent self-parodies.

J. M. Coetzee’s “The Childhood of Jesus": The Ethics of Ideas and Things edited by Jennifer Rutherford and Anthony Uhlmann (Bloomsbury Academic; 214 pages; $110). Essays on ethical, stylistic, intertextual, sociopolitical, philosophical, and philological aspects of the South African writer’s enigmatic 2013 novel.

Lateness and Modern European Literature by Ben Hutchinson (Oxford University Press; 392 pages; $100). Examines European literature since the late Romantic era that defines itself as belated; authors discussed include Charles Baudelaire, Karl Immerman, Paul Valery, and Theodor Adorno.

Left Out: The Forgotten Tradition of Radical Publishing for Children in Britain, 1910-1949 by Kimberley Reynolds (Oxford University Press; 255 pages; $60). Topics include representations of the Soviet Union in British radical children’s literature, notions of the transformative power of landscape, and avant-garde and modernist works.

Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg (University of Massachusetts Press; 392 pages; $90 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Draws on interviews, Wilbur’s previously unpublished journals, and other materials to trace the life of the American poet and critic (b. 1921).

Media Laboratories: Late Modernist Authorship in South America by Sarah Ann Wells (Northwestern University Press; 256 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on authors and varied genres from Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, including Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernandez.

The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment by Henry Ansgar Kelly (University of Pennsylvania Press; 349 pages; $69.95). A revisionist study of two English translations (from Latin) of the Old and New Testaments---one highly literal, one stylized and less Latinate---produced during the last quarter of the 14th century; challenges assumptions of the projects’ ties to the Wycliffite and Lollard movements.

Modern Arabic Poetry: Revolution and Conflict by Waed Athamneh (University of Notre Dame Press; 324 pages; $60). Focuses on the Iraqi poet Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (1926--99), the Egyptian A·∏•mad Abd al-Mu’ti ·∏§ijazi (b. 1935), and the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish (1941--2008),

Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity edited by David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, and Rebecca Roach (Oxford University Press; 315 pages; $95). Essays on the “geographies” of modernism in the late 19th and 20th centuries; topics include Joyce, Pound, Bowles, and Gibraltar.

No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt by Andreas Hofele (Oxford University Press; 329 pages; $90). Examines the German political right’s engagement with Shakespeare since the late 19th century; topics include Schmitt’s obsession with Othello as revealed in largely unpublished diaries from the 1920s.

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s “Phrase": Infancy, Survival by Christopher Fynsk (State University of New York Press; 110 pages; $70). A study of Phrase, a book of poems and theoretical reflections by the French writer and philosopher; topics include links to Georges Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe’s discussion of infancy.

Placing John Haines by James Perrin Warren (University of Alaska Press; 218 pages; $34.95). A study of the American poet (1924-2011) that explores how his post-World War II decades homesteading in Alaska shaped his work, as well as his later itinerant life as an “artistic journeyman.”

Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryuhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan by Matthew Fraleigh (Harvard University Press; 486 pages; $65). A study of the Japanese Confucian scholar, journalist, satirist, and world traveler (1837-84); examines how Ryuhoku drew on the Six Dynasties poet Tao Yuanming and others in the Sinitic tradition.

Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire From Wyatt to Shakespeare by Danila Sokolov (Duquesne University Press; 350 pages; $70). Explores what is termed the medieval essence of Renaissance selfhood through a study of poetry by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Drayton, and Shakespeare.

Selected Poems and Prose by Guittone d’Arezzo, translated by Antonello Borra (University of Toronto Press; 256 pages; US$60). Facing Italian-English edition of poems and letters by the 13th-century writer that represent both phrases of his career, as a secular love poet, and later religious poet.

Serials to Graphic Novels: The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book by Catherine J. Golden (University Press of Florida; 298 pages; $84.95). Examines works from the original illustrated Pickwick Papers to neo-Victorian graphic novels like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

With Wandering Steps: Generative Ambiguity in Milton’s Poetics edited by Mary C. Fenton and Louis Schwartz (Duquesne University Press; 244 pages; $70). Essays on wandering, forking, choice, and irresolution in the English poet’s work that create generative tensions, even as they ultimately move toward unity.

MUSIC

Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics by Jean R. Freedman (University of Illinois Press; 408 pages; $29.95). Traces the life of the American folk singer and activist (b. 1935), who has spent much of her career in Britain.

Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures edited by Graham St John (Bloomsbury Academic; 254 pages; $120). New and previously published writings on EDM festivals and events around the world.

PHILOSOPHY

Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch edited by Roger Berkowitz and Ian Storey (Fordham University Press; 224 pages; $110 hardcover, $32 paperback). Essays on the philosopher’s recently published “thought diary.”

Autarchies: The Invention of Selfishness by David Ashford (Bloomsbury Academic; 182 pages; $88 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Focuses on Parisian Dadaists, Dora Marsden, Wyndham Lewis, and Ayn Rand in a discussion of a “selfish streak” in modernism influenced by a relatively obscure 19th-century German philosopher Max Stirner and his 1844 book, The Ego and His Own.

Ethics and the Problem of Evil edited by James P. Sterba (Indiana University Press; 182 pages; $80 hardcover, $30 paperback). Writings that explore the problem of evil from such perspectives as Kantian thought, the virtue theory of St. Thomas Aquinas’s, the Pauline Principle, and the doctrine of double effect.

Ponderings VII--XI: Black Notebooks 1938--1939 by Martin Heidegger, translated by Richard Rojcewicz (Indiana University Press; 366 pages; $60). Second book in a translation of five notebooks kept by Heidegger between 1931 and 1938 that shed light on his philosophical development as well as his relationship to Nazism.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Politics of Immigration: Partisanship, Demographic Change, and American National Identity by Tom K. Wong (Oxford University Press; 283 pages; $99 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Pays particular attention to the electoral incentives that have led members of Congress to support or oppose immigration reform.

The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class: Myths, Realities and Critical Engagements edited by Henning Melber (Zed Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 219 pages; $95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Writings by scholars in economics, political science, anthropology, and development; combines theoretical perspectives on the nature and role of Africa’s middle classes with case studies from Kenya, Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania.

War and the Art of Governance: Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory by Nadia Schadlow (Georgetown University Press; 344 pages; $64.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Draws on 15 cases of U.S. military intervention since the Mexican War.

POPULAR CULTURE

Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon by Ian Gordon (Rutgers University Press; 210 pages; $95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Explores the superhero’s varied forms of since his birth in the comics in 1938 and the process through which he became an icon.

RELIGION

God in Captivity: The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Tanya Erzen (Beacon Press; 222 pages; $26.95). Documents both positive and problematic aspects of Christian prison ministries; draws on interviews with men and women in institutions in Louisiana, Ohio, Texas, California, and New York.

Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms by Renie S. Choy (Oxford University Press; 234 pages; $95). Focuses on Benedict of Aniane and in a study of the ascetic ideal underlying intercessory prayer in Carolingian monasticism.

A. J. Appasamy and his Reading of Ramanuja: A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment by Brian Philip Dunn (Oxford University Press; 315 pages; $95). A study of the Indian Christian theologian (1891-1975) and his bhakti or devotional approach to scholarship that brought the Gospel of John into dialogue with the medieval Hindu philosopher Ramanuja.

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love: The Short Text and the Long Text edited by Barry Windeatt (Oxford University Press; 376 pages; $160). Scholarly edition of both the shorter and longer versions of the revelations of the English mystic (1342-circa 1416); attempts to present her text in a Middle English closest to her own, given that the longer version of her work only survives in manuscripts copied centuries after her death.

Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity edited by Michael Fagenblat (Indiana University Press; 380 pages; $90 hardcover, $40 paperback). Essays on such topics as secrecy, apophasis, and atheistic faith in the teachings of Rav Kook, and negative theology and ideas of the “hidden God” in Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem.

SOCIAL WORK

Home Safe Home: Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence by Hilary Botein and Andrea Hetling (Rutgers University Press; 174 pages; $80 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Includes case studies of projects in the Bronx, New York, and in central Connecticut.

SOCIOLOGY

Marxist Thought and the City by Henri Lefebvre, translated by Robert Bononno (University of Minnesota Press; 158 pages; $70 hardcover, $20 paperback). First English translation of the 1972 book by the French philosopher and sociologist; draws on references to the city from throughout the works of Marx and Engels.

Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm by Terry Williams (Columbia University Press; 254 pages; $30). Uses the writings of American teenagers from a wide variety of backgrounds to explore the phenomenon of self-harm and contemplated, attempted, and actualized youth suicide.

The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention by Abigail T. Brooks (New York University Press; 278 pages; $89 hardcover, $28 paperback). Draws on 44 in-depth interviews with women ages 44 to 76 who use, refuse, or are undecided about surgical and other anti-aging interventions.

THEATER

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center by Paul Menzer (Bloomsbury Academic; 252 pages; $24.95). Discusses a playhouse in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley that is a reconstruction of London’s Blackfriars theater (closed in the 1640s) and houses the American Shakespeare Center.

URBAN STUDIES

Learning from Bogota: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space by Rachel Berney (University of Texas Press; 174 pages; $40). A study of the Colombian capital’s cultural, social, and physical transformation in the 1990s and early 2000s under the mayoral administrations of two intellectuals turned politicians Antanas Mockus Sivickas and Enrique Penalosa Londono.

Neoliberal Chicago edited by Larry Bennett, Roberta Garner, and Euan Hague (University of Illinois Press; 293 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). Writings on neoliberal politics and policy in the city over the past 25 years, under Mayor Richard M. Daley (1989-2011) and accelerated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel (2011-).